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wltr CROSS W( Yorker LE BSCK N.. 21I ICHANDLER'S I Foentain Square Evanston. Step up with the New Fali Books To Buy or T. Rent 1724 Orr"gton Avenue Evanston Orrlng#<.n Hott-I Bidg. SOOTHES ~YESAPTER' OUTDOOR SPORTS N'ES IL book, what the story is ail about. It is a mysterious title tbat "gets you." And from the sheer hiscious sounding of tbe words one will want to rush to the book store or the h- brary and get it to Jearn the contents In short, it is about- Greek niYth- ology; the gods and goddesses are woveninto one tale, which concernis Demeter and ber daugliter, Perse- phon e, who was stolen by Vulcan. Tbe tale is bighly. interesting and many of the ýmythical names are, cleverly introduced into the story. The book gives .the older folks a splendid opportunity to brush up on their knowledge, of the Greek and Roman mythical characters, and the Young folks will enïjoy learn.ing.,about them. The author, who in private life is Mrs. Myron T. Harsiaw of. 535 WVil- low road, Winnetka, ias.beeti a res4i- dent of. the. village for 'seventeen years, and lihas beeii a teacher, prin-7 cipal and supervisor in 1 the Wininetka schools. The book lia. proved veryý popular an'd helpful to theeh ildren in tbe fifth grades of the Winnetka schools, so says Carleton Washhurne in bis foreword. Mrs. Harshaw's tale is based on the.biest source mia- tenial and so is accurate in'detail. The plot of the tale is as follows: as Zeus was walkiiig aniiong the clouds one day and was peering down on the earth lie suddeaîly be- lield a strange siglit: "The eartlî which but a few. days before had seenied ready to burst into freshi bloom was a duli and sodden b)roN-ii Not a stalk of grain, not a biade of grass, and pot a flower could lie see." From on high Zeus couid hîear the 'cry of inortals, "We hunger! Vie grieve !" He set out without delay to-lean -te cue ftbis-kref. TJ sent bis niesseuîger, Hermes, to suni- mon each god and goddess 1to lus (Zeus") palace. Thus the council of thegods is fornîed.. The.decision of the gods is a, part of thée story tluat cornes:at the close. The book is liandsomely bound ini bro-wn cloth witli gold lettering. The Mountain Valley ..Minerai Water. 70Zi Madlson Avenue Greenleaf 47-7 Evanston. 111. "There will always . be new writers on angling, and they will always be gosince it is almost beyond the power of anyone wbo wishes to writé about it at ail to write badly about this sport,. whicb is more properly called, a vocation." So. writes Mr. Guy Pollock, wbo contributes a fore- word to this-handsome volume ini memory of its original editor, ýH. T. Sheringham, wbose death in Decem- ber, 1930, lef t the compfletion of the book to Mr. Moore. There- are timfes .wben any truc angler woiuld blindly endorse th is statement-those moments in the dul winter season when anydiscussion of the sacred, art. however hackneyed, becom es a welcome, relief to the peculiarly, acute form of ;nostalgia from which lie regularly suffers. None-the-leas there is in angling literature aselsewbere a sharp dis- tinction between the-good and the mediocre. .One may accept the, Iess c ritically Mr. Pollock's -sporting ges- ftre to bis fellow craftsmen of pen and fly-rod because~ the book lie thus introduces belongs distinctly to the aristocracy in its field in both niatter and form.> Its contributors. include Hcnry, Van Dyke, G. E. M. Skues,-Éerris Gýreen- siet, Knut Dahi, W. L. -Calderwood, Arthur Ransorne, and some nin e others, and the book ranges over the fish, the stream, the tackle, and the teehniqtte--i-niost of the couintries 'of the eartb where the art is pursued. No angler can fail to einjoy these gracefuL and informing essays, and even the angler's wif e will like theni, illustrations, donc ini black and white, were drawni by Nicolas Kaissaroif, a also a Russian, and an. internationally famous artist.. And just for a bit of information on the side, -Bilibin was considered the greatest ilhistrator 1*11 Russia. Kaissaroff's illustrations iii the "Council of the Gods" are per- fect gems. He lias been ini America for about six years, and is working- now in.Chicago-Vera McDermid. Ladies' Lunch, Bridie or Dinner Parties PartienIarIy solictd Closed Sandays and Holidays Telèphone Central 74,79 and his uaily lite rc, rveaa~i £81in . letters and diary of Larry Foster, a student during 1924-25 at Lafayette college, Easton, Penn. Larry was one of the naost popular boys on the campus. He excelled in scbolarship as well as. leadership.- He took -an active part inalmost ail th e campus activities, and was elected cbairmffan of nearly ail the social committees. His *major interest, bowever, was de- bating. His charming personality,. whicli was humor ous,. serious, and, enthusi- astic, is. aIl brougit out in the let- ter lie wrote, to bis family and to his "girl". wlî,ile lie was in ýcollege and later on a Western ranch. At the end of bi.s sopliomore year lie spent the summner on Sundown. ranch in Arizona, and-while, there, just a f ew days ,before lie was to return to bis home, in Ridgewood, N. J., lie was killed. Tbere's no doul>t but ýwhat America lest a youtb who would have become a.great leader in any profes- sion that lie would bave chosen te plirsue. In the chapter on lis plîilosopiy lie writes: "I ncan to domy utmost to, mnake the Christian way of life tlie ONLY life. Incidentaily if .1 can prove that thc nuatter oôf being a Christian is not a m*ollycoddle ýidea, but a redblooded, two-fisted, daning F.crap from stânt to finish, I' shall feelý that I-have accomplistied a lot to- weiard the ultîmate goal." 1 can't recommeîîd this book too highlv. You ivilw and snile at the wistfulness and hunior of it ail. Vou wilI read it and pass it on to flhc next person, wlio will read it and pass it on. "Every niother and father should read this book-" is written read it first because Larry'sý sports- manship, his ideals, -and cnthusia-smn for living are.inspirations to Youtli. Larry, dreadcd conventîonahitv .in"- so-far as it' would lead te 'standard- ization. Above aIl, lie wanted men aind woincn to assert their,.personali- tics, to have the. courage of their convictions. and to snlap'their, fingers- at conformity and conventionî. He writes: "Lincoln did it wlien hée pledged hirnself to the defense of the union; Roosevelt did it ini bis Civil Service Reforni program.; Wil- ror L~ ineseoa time the li J[hn ±New- l)erry Medal lias been awarded to a woman. Elizabeth Coatswortli is the recipient of this honor for "The Cat Whio Vent to Heaven," her chiu- drcn's book which -is thus acclaimedý the finest juvenile of the past year. Rachel, Field received tbe award in à 1930 for Hitty.