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36 WILMETTE LIFE J tine 28, 1929 Comment on Current Books THE CLUNY PROBLEM. By A. Fieldit1 ' · Knopf. After a ball at a villa on the outskirts of the sleepy town of Cluny, famous for its monastic ruins, two English guests, one of them a famous financier, ar.e found locked jn one room, dead with pistols beside them. The swarm of detectives English and French, official and private, v.-ho de scend upon the scene are forced to re· ject the obvious conclusion of a duel; but though they unearth many strange goings on at the villa Porte Bonheur, and much of the secret past of the principals in the tragedy, it is not un.til inspector Pointer of Scotland Yard sums it up in the la.st chapter that the pieces in the puzzle fall together. This is an outstanding detective story, anrl is well worth reading. PIONEERS ALL! By Joseph Lewis French. Milton Bradley Company. As the chapter headings and the foreward indicate, this book for boys in the Bradley "Quality" series covers practically all the phases of American pioneering, from Lewis a_ n d Clark across the continent by land to Lindbergh across the ocean by air. The explorer is represented by Lewis and Clark; the pioneer by Daniel Boone; the trapper by Kit Carson; the mountaineer by Fremont; the river pilot by Mark Twain: the aviator by Lindbergh; an<:Y so on, not to omit, chapters upon the Wilderness Hunter, the Cowboy, the Prospector, the Lumberjack, the Sailor, the Engineer. Mr. French has compiled his stories mostly from standard chroniclesjourn~ls, biogr~hies, and narrativesupon the variou~ topic~. ------------~----------- Telephont for , Your Boolu Wilmette J700 BOOKS Angels and Earthly Creatures· Elinor Wylie Alfred A. Knopf ......... $2.50 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Siegfried Sassoon Coward.,McCann ........ $2.50 Dancing Beggars Eric Brett Young lippincott ............. $2.00 Love de Luxe Reginald Wright Kaufmann M¥auby ............. $2.00 The Black Camel Earl Derr Biggen Bobbs-Murill .......... $z.oo All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Little. Brown ~ Company. $2.50 Evangelical Cockroach Jack Woodford Louis Carrier ~ Company, $2.50 Ether and Me, or Just Relax Will Rogers Putnam .....·......... $1.00 soothina to to the literature. For the alertness of Skippy is tl}e most difficult art, brought off with casualness that amazes. And you can pick the book up anywhere and become highly amused. This is, ROUND ·up. By Ring Lardner. in verity, the good old mediaeval life we all knew when we ·were only a:; Charles Scribner's Sons. high as Skippy. This volume contains a number of new stories by Mr. Lardner interAMERICA . CHALLENGED. mingled with the best of those preCarr. Macmillan. viously published. We h:1vc thirtyfive stories or sketches in all, Jealing "America has been waiting for a with as heterogeneous, typical, and humanly understandable book on the interesting a mas s of present-day farm problem. Lewi'3 Carr has given it Americans as could be found in a sec- to us in "America Challenged," says tion of the bleachers at a ball game- Virgil Jordan., chief economist of the mechanics, suburban clerks, auto- National Industrial Conference Board. mobile salesmen, flirtatious girls, be- "On the one hand we have industry wildered old ·peop\e, a prize fighter, which can and does pay for common some golf caddie§, a sprinkling of pro- labor in its simplest terms the wage of fessional men and their wives. Not one $4.95 a day. On the other hand we of the stories is dull. They are all en.J have agriculture which i·:; able to pay tertaining, as 0. Henry is entertaining. for common labor in its simplest terms They are for the· most part clever. only twenty five cents a day." The Kow and again .some of them achiev\! farmer pays increased taxes, higher effects deeper and more permanent interest rates, and building costs, and than entertainment or cleverness. "The bigger prices for supplie':; in the face Golden Honeymoon," a story of two of decreased prices for his products. aged people at once very funny and The book not only describes the farvery pathetic, handles the humor and mer's plight but offers a practical and pathos with a superb restraint and sensible proposal for relieL truth. "Champion" is a cool study of human baseness which leaves the reader hot. "The Love Nest" is sweeping yet TIBERIUS CAESAR. By G. P. artful satire. These stories are literaBaker. Dodd, Mead, and Company. tun~ of no ordinary value. TwQ elements render a history of Tiberius a thing of perrenial interest : SKIPPY. By Percy Crusby. New the great conundrum of his character York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. and the political significance of his We have long followed Skippy in reign. Mr. Baker's book faces both Crosby's "strips" and in the pictures problems squarely, and presents with he has done in the past for Life. simplicity and directness the author's From the first it was evident that explanation of each. The accounts of Skippy was a cut above the average the German campaigns and policies are "comic." Though entirely preserving particularlY clear. The book is interhis own fascinating identity, a younger· esting reading and would appeal to any brother of Tom Sawyer began to and every type of reader. emerge.:._that is to say, a real boy, the peculi~r mixture of sagacity, nonCOLORED PAPER-There has been sense, nonchalance, melodrama, and a slavish devotion to white or cream burlesque that the Skippys of the paper which denied the typographer world really are. And how accurately one legitimate way of adding to the Crosby's swift pencil jotted him down! character of his book. · Mr. Roger's This wasnJ. mere cartooning or comic "Wedgewood Medallion" wa~ a notable drawing, this was living draughtsman- instance of colored paper used for a ship of inimitable and imperishable limited edition. There have been a youth. few other tentative attempts. Here is And now there is a novel all about another, Hervey Allen's "Sarah Simon, Skippy, by one who was once the Character Atlantean," issued by .leader of the "Liberty Boys" out on Doubleday, Doran, and printed by Long Island. where he stored up his Richard Ellis at the Georgian Press. memories of the original Skippy. He The paper is a light blue (somewhat has made a great , stride indeed, has too heavy to be quite right) which, Crosby, since his war book, "The with the Gallic type used, serves adRookie of the 13th Squad," composed mirably to get away from the inevitable of the comic strips ~e did for the white. It is an interestingly conceived American _ newspapers at the Front. and a well-executed book. Three hunThis is a far more enduring contribu- dred and eleven copies have been tion to the art of his period as well as . nrinted. l I l How's Your Bridge? Sidney Lenz and Robert G. Rendel Simon 8 Schuster ·. . .... $2.50 eyes . Swimming, motoring and other outdoor activities often cause even the strongest eyes to burn and become bloodshot. When this oecura, apply a few drops of 1 o o t h i n g, cooling MURINE. Almost instantly' the burning sensation will disappear, and before long your eyes will be clear and bright again. 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