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1 é0 WOeIEN Iiy Louisa M. Alcott Thsfaous book by iis fainous uto which i. now being shown in leding 'oi hses seil da othe hharts of childrenî. Alo nluded in a group at SUc eahare the following favorites bytesie author: Litle Men~ Oid Fashioned Girl Under the Lilaca Eight Cousins Rose in Bloom TRAVELING WI1TH THE BIRDS . . . ilustr'ated in color, ,with history of habits and s where to find thein........ DOG STORIES. Famous fav- orite tales by Albertý Payson Terhune ......... My Friend the Dog in whjch she shared, often enlivened and sometimes shocked the sensibili- ti es of a. nation. She wgs loved, even tbougb sbe was nfot always ap- proved, and she was neyer forgotten. Something of the same.fortbrigbt- ness and charm characterizes these reminiscences, chaîged as they, are with a, vigorous personality. As the daughter of a.President and.tbe wife of the Speaker of, the. House, Mrs. Longworth bas spent the greater part of forty-eight. years in,,Washington. Her crowded days at the center. of, political life and on various, trips abroad-brought ber into contact witb. niany of the world's most inteicsting people, and she writes of them witb a f rankness and a zest wbicb makes them seem very real.. The glimpses, which she gives us of ber father and of family and political life behind the ~sc4flts urng , the Roosevelt admini- istrations and tbroughout the five ad- ministrations which have since fol- lowed, are pungent and illuniinating., The book is like the picture gallery of an era, and it contains close-up portraits of personalities as diverse as William Jennings Bryan and the Kaiser. The author, Alice Roosevelt, "Princess Alice," bas been in ýthe public eye sitice bier childhood. An older generat ion cbuckled over ber girlbood escapades in. the sedate CapitoJ.: younger readers know ber as the wife and widow of~ Nich- olas Longworth, and a leader in Washington society. CHILDREN'S IOO KS for CHRISTMAS Brtug Uietho ilu , .ta e, eethe CHILD'S MODEL LIBRARY remarked, «Someone said it was due to our desire to see a pattern i existence, and wbile it was impossible to see it ini our own lives, we . cou Id sec, it when the woof of several gen- erations was woven over the warp of t ime." Miss Wbitmnack states that books about the five. families of Deal, Whiteoaks, Wang, Forsyte, and Rak- oni tz 'have been the most called for in: the Wilmette librarjy, but otbers run close. Aldrich-Loaftern In Rer Hiahd., Barries-Years of Frace. Bentley--Inhertalce. Beeesrd-ýOld People. Buck--Good Ealfth. Butler-Way of Ail Flesh. Couperus-Book of Small Souls. Dane-Babyofls. Darie-Broome. Stages. De là Roche-Jaila and Its Seq uels.. GaIsworthy-Forsyte Saga. Helsotrorn-Lacemaker Lekholm. Hui-The Islanders. Lagerlof-]Rlflg of the Lowenskolds. LewIs-The Invasion., macaulaY-Told by an Idiot. Mann-1Buddelbrooks. Marshal-The Eldest Son. O'Briefl-Without My Cloak. Rolyaag--Gl0lts In thie EartIi. Sackville-West-FallyHistory. Stern=Matrirch. Walpole-Rogue Herries. Wescott-The Grandmothers. BALLADS AND SONGS 0F NEW- FOUNDLAND. Colkcted by Eliza- bet.h Oreenleaf Marshall and Grace Yarrow Mansfield. Harvard Uni- versity Press. 1933. In Newfoundland ballad singing is stili anicans of entertaining a com- pany. Mrs. Greenleaf begpfl her :quest oC. songs wben she was teaching school there, under Wilfrid Grenfeli, in his summer Mission. Later she re- turned, accompanied by Mrs. Mans- ,ield to record the tunes, to resumne ber searcb. The two constituted the Vassar Folk-Lore expedition' and had the backing of the Vassar College Trustees. Nearly twe bundred.texts were brought together, among themn matty imports from Jreland and an unusual nuniber of sea songs. Lay readers will prefer the Intro- duction to the display of 'texts and, collection of lus short storles nas re- cently been published by tbe newly formed D. Appleton-Century Comi- pany. There are fline stories in thi~s book, at least four of Wbicb originally appeared in periodical form prior to. _The leading story in the bo ok, and the: one from whic h tbe collection de- rives its name is "The Island, of Youtb," a tale of* John Lynn, a de- scendant of Ponce, de. Leon. Lynn., like b is ancestor, is a soldier of for-' tune and yet of a romanitic and cbiv- alrous nature.. The story. tells of Lypnn's quest in the Caribbean for the founitain of eternal youth. and of his findingit hen he meets a girl from the states. As James Branch Cabeil said, of other Donn Byrne stories, this tale bas that "rare and unteachable wiz- ardry witbout wbich, oiie'wr ites onlyv. words." A n o t b e r. story, "Superdirigible. Gamma-I," which appeared in Scrib- ner's, August, 1916, deals wi.itii the, commander of an English airship on a, bombing fligbt. over Germa nv. His wife, son and ýdaughter bad been killed in a- German Zeppelin raid on, England, and as he looks down on the sleeping German villages witb their inhabitants unaware of the liv- ing deatb above tbem, the temptation to retaliate comes to bim. This story was included in Nella Bradley's four- volume "Masterpieces of Adventure."l The stories, witb possibly one ex.. ception, show Donn Byrne at his best. Irhey b~ave i tem what T. P. O'Con- nor, famous literary critic, said of al of Byrne's earlier works: "He has a wild -magic in bis prose." To quote Paul Mellon, wbose e5say on Donn Byrne won tbe Yale literary awa rd: ',He . (Donn Byrne) is like sunisbine afterrmumr iafier winter, a 1.still smalî voice .of caîm.' He appeals flot to tbe brain, already racked by many futile tbougbts, but to the heart- a sootbing, cooling balmn." Pounfain On Davis Street, ýEvansfon OPENS BOOK DEPARTMENT Nellie Melby of Evanston. bas opened an attractive book department at 517 Davis stireet, Evanston, the. formecr location of Tatman's.