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WILMETTE L·IFE April 5, 1929 ·Comment on Current Rooks "Litany of Washington St.," Here's a Travel Book That Vachel Lindsay's Latest Boy of Yours Will Demand Vachel Lindsay maintains that "Hobnails and Heather," ·by Clifton George Washington was a poet, writing Lisle, is the story of the first internot in in~ but in blood. Lindsay says national hike ever made by American boy scouts. In the summer of 1927 in his new "Litany of Washington Major Lisle and a group of scouts from Street": "I welcome all evidence to his troop walked through England and prove that Washington was not a France. They camped on the moors of reader of our best magazines, nor yet Devon, spent a day with Sir Robert one of the twelve apostles. I welcome Baden-Powell, pitched their tents in the all evidence that he was neither Daniel cathedral close at Canterbury, vi·3ited Webster, Noah Web5ter, nor the ob- the battlefields of France, missed by a scure author of that famous poem, 'The narrow margin being caught by the tide Star Spangled Banner,' Francis Scott on the treacherous sands of Mont St. Key. But let me add at once that 'The Michel. Star Spangled Banner' would not be This travel book for boys combines waving on Washington street nor any- the funny and exciting incidents of a where else, if it had not been for this camping trip with descriptions of £ammysterious and inaccessible mountain ous place·3 as the boys themselves saw th.em. It will give to other boys, as the of a man, George Washington." This "Litany of Wa-5hington Street," tnp gave that group of scouts a new he says to the historians, is a work of feeling of international under~tanding the i~agination, and yet on its pro- and friendship. Harcourt, Brace and vocative pages will be found not a few company are the publishers. startling truths, and keen ;-.nd humorous comments on certain of his con- Sinclair Lewis Leaves Off temporaries-Carl Sandburg, Harriet Acid Satire in "Dodsworth" Monroe, Edgar Lee Ma·sters, H. L. Sinclair Lewis has written about an Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Mary Pickford, and Rudyard Kipling, with inci- American he likes In "Dodsworth" Hardental sparkling references to Henry court, B~ace and cot?lpany publishers, Ford, John Dewey, Gamaliel Bradford Mr,. Lewts leaves behmd him thati acid and Thomas A. Edison. · satire for which his earlier novels are fa~10us, and strikes a deeper and more . "!he Li.tany of _Washington Street" ts JUS! bemg pubhshed by Macmillan. umversal n?t~. 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