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ment store. Marks Brothers as the kand N4Votimig 0ofTCCtreswovefl. rn jrccins of stylish store wbere the creations of 3y thie spli4>iiigz heels of hurtling' "la- Vionnet, Chanel, and Patou are soid chipies: "for the ornamentation, prinaariiy,' of Nothing of noiontains, dloyen i twain Park avenue womaiihood.v" Old. Moses To make a path for ait ail steel train; Marks, head of the firmn, began bis busi- Nothieig of stars L eeping their place, ness career witb a cart on Hester street. Or inoon. with her zelnte rmcal face- Some of the buyers, floor managers, and Ilvseysti!i, neye'r ot-ru», salespeople .,f t1we ne w establishment W'hat carýes selle for sec onds spun? alsowored ~ithbu ii an carlier. Nothmng of st rang'er: .ade by side, Fourteentb 'street store. .Sharilng a brief, fantastic ride; The author ý rites with intimacv and Nothing. of tineltipig ice at the ,nouth sympathy of these people. She tells flot 0 r~n.rvrfoigsnh oniy ofthi present. lives and business Nothiig tof umiles ;of frosted downs, careers, but asootbi paste Nothiteg of bright kaleidoscopcd towns; ences and their relations %vjth ote r Notlzing -of ail.the, traiisien.t,scene people "after bours." Visiblv filuid, ritshing, between !ç ovls imlarin oriibave, been The stiff, 'pliz seats of a crow-dJa Novlssimla i foni ~ 1Ad the fi.rity of, the evening star. writtien aiso for entertainnient. Somre. of-these have been, very attractive. Th1.e I.eo7'e.1 arriu'c--ar.ri . ît, leave; autbor of "Sbrine ofi Fair Womcn a" s, TÎWll a rejoice. tikke ta grieve, bowever. too straigbtfor%%1ard and i sn- Ii hr sn pc nalm al cere to employ theý-fflittering artifices But teî i osac i iii ap and "bunian interest" material used in < ~»< b rntao ii er 1"Grand Hotel." "Sbrine of Fair Wom- 7't -eodtetf. ul er en" is neyer cbeap, but neither is it ever The west-boundmi/cc laves ai three; profo0und-in the sense tbat "The tom- TIi rest beioal 10 eternIitv'. pany" is profounid, for instance. After tbe first hundred pages, tbe novel be- cornes episodic and disjointed, losing Winnetkan Has Article its unity because tbe characters areinC retM gz e sbown apart from their connections mitb n urn aaie tbe department store. Mitchell Dawvson of Winnetka, ..wbo ic n'f i5itilJt5.I t-bniriiiflAVOStar th' . ,rhp A Balanced Ration f or a Week's Reading CONQUISTADOR. 'B-v Arcbibald MacLeisb. Houghiton Mifflin. A narrative poem cepicting the con- quest of Mexico -with veracity and vigorous beauty. ARABIA FELIX. By B e r t r a in Thomas. Scribniers. An explorer's clironicle of bis Pelle- tration of the great Arabian desert. HEAT LIGHTNING. By H1elenl Hull. Coward-McCaiin. A novel dealing wVitb the enitanigle- ments and1 reactions. of the memibers of a farnily circie bound.tôether 1w. pride and at odds in temperament., KIPLING'S LATE5T "Limits and Renewals," the atest Americau 3Mercurvl," bias an article in the June number of that magazine en- titled -The Fee Feed-Bag." A rap is taken at the fue systein in Americani law courts. In early America wben money was scarce it Wvas the practical thing to pay for justice by; the "piece," like any other cônimodity 'as and wvben it was needed. In colonial days many judges, even in the higher courts, were supported by fees instead of salaries. Nowv, however. this system bas be- come corrupt. and court officiais flot only receive salaries, but stupendous fees are coilected by receivers, trustees. masters ni chancery, states' attorneys. ' court clerks. public adniinistrators, etc. The article-throvvs a spotliigbt on the1 amount of fees coiilected by our publici administrators. Mr. Dawson, wbose home isat 5521 Elm street. is a member of the Illinois1 Bar and a graduate of the University.t of Chicago and of tbe University ofE Chicago L'aw scbool. .'It was a character. in one of Sarah. Orne Jewett's stories who once bc- moaned the growing sameniess. abolit her. "These days," she said, "young, folks is ail copy cats, 'fraid to, deatb they won't be ail just alike; as for tbe old folks, they pray for the ad- vantage, o' beini' a littie diffierent." Tt seems to me that the authors rep- resented in Mrs. Becker's collection .of New England tales ail sharedib tis feeling. They were eager to pre- Serve that New. England which, wilI neyer ret .urn, but which impressed it- self so indelihly upon the Amnerican life .anid 'literature of. a vast centurv. As in hier earlier collection of Gl den, Tales of the OId South." Mrs. -Secker bas culled he r material, fromn widely different sources to recreate a period and its peoî>l,-even n'is very aspect and climiate. Here are slv thrusts of humor;1 curions cils-. toms anIianners. ani the; spicy turn s of 1,hIrase tlîat- one lîcars so rarly now eveni in remnote villages and loncly places. Theseseventeen stories are as %7aried in style and the characters they por- tray as the jagged ciiffs of the Ilaine coast are froni the Berkshire H-ilis and the sandj dunes of the CP,>e. Yet when one basread then afl' there is a sense of re 'lationship between thieni.. Harriet. Beecher Stowes's "Thanks- giving at Oldtown" niakes admirable company for Dorethiv Canfield's "Old Man Wýarner," and L.ouisaM,\I. Al-, cott's ."Traniscendenita i \Ildoats-." NEW TRIER, a True Historv of tbis Township n i ,noleuni Cit s. Tbe students in the art departmnent at New Trie r High scbool under the direction of 'Miss Lillian Fitclî o Wiimette bave miade a. group of forty-two linoleumn block print: and have bad them bounid in afiinîited edition of 200 copies. A ve rse of four lhies describing tile picture. a1C- companies each, priit.. The prints are superbly (lotie and each .liears the initiais of the maker. Ouitstand- ing. sce nes and events in the history of New 'Trier tow nslîip. are given witb fine craftsmnanship, Clear ,cut lines, and, imaginative drawiing. ,A, modernistic print of oMa'Lad iigious ieaLiJionsana pryers v osr Month Club distributed as one of its f lI ci devout.. THE WHITE BIRD.. By Gertrude book dividends, has just been selected Bartlett. Macmillan. Dr. Robert by the Chatauqua Institution and will R YqUI: MATE 01 DREAMS and Other Norwood, in the Introduction to this be one of 'the three books pubiished S Poems. By Louis J. Stelilmanl. Copy- book of an American-boru Canadian in the last 12 montbs to be intei- Lq%ïýE S -right by the author, who bias also poet. calis, lier "ia genuine pre- sively studieci by Chautauqua mlem- writtenl "Port ' Gl. Raphaelite." ibers during the next 12 months.' Juana Foust, To b. reI.eted Jun. I17+h Chanudler'. Founfain Square Evmnston COIGAWAY? Let us h.lp plan your suIDRIOr reading. W. offe. yen a complet. book seliIng and rentai service ail1 the time. 1724 ORRINGTON' AVENUJE Orrhnw#on Iotel Bldg. ]EVANSTOTÇ * -' DI....