Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Jun 1939, p. 40

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etatlinery TifI IooKs. YOU lUT tHE BOOK S YOU RENTt 174 rringfon Avenu. Orrintgfon Hofet Bidg. . 0227 Whof's Suoat ln Social Stotlwory? iii Find the Answers in theeNi z1t V.,- v W=W SL * MI e * #fl 0 ub Cu tment6Y it is, for most of us, ah introduction to Asia. It is impossible to give more Uian a brief and feeble1 summary of the detailed and strikmng sections of this book, but they change. Asia from an unkniown quantity, intç a vast, inter- related group of countries, eaçh one struggling toward some definite end, and aIl. conflicting with each other. John Gunther sees this expanse .o country as a* collection offorces struggling toward the surface.for ex- istence, being pushed back agaîn, and again, just as islands are. lost i an oVerlapping sea. *Personaities, anecdotes, odd ob-' servations., Jokes,o)pinions, al go0to make up these vivid pictures of dif- ferent lands. They are personal but uinprejudiced. A British journalist *would have been busy spreading the -gospel 1of imtperiaMl i a hefra-vele about Asia, but John Gunther is busy assembling facts enough to show what Asia means. There is Japan, with her reverence for the Emperor, and her motive of expansionism - and here Pearl Bu<'s The Patriot cornes to mind - and there are Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kaishek, and what they stand for ini China, giving the country what. she has never had, a sense of nationalism, and there, "«Ina:de Europe" bv John Gt un- ther is fôtowed this month by "Inside Au:a," the résult of the author's travela ti the Orient. The past few - years "Inside Europe" has, be<rn the moat tvide- ly read Awêerfcari book on Euro- ~pean aç&fairs, ?4ritenby.jo~~ur- naliat. Èth _books' gltter with Portraeits of men and women ti the pubi e ee. N. S. Poets Listed In New Anthologies Ethel Miriam Pick (Mrs. Hugo Pick), 414 Linden avenue, Winnetka, is arnong the poets whose work is is for uusy modern womieii wflo must get consistently good meals in' a hurry. The bookç,, called Streamlined Cooking, written by Mrs. Irma ýRom- bauer of Joy of Cook:ng fame, tells with chatty informality, in a style that's easy to follow,. how to pre- pare meals, with umph!' in- thirty .minutes., The book is ideal for sumn- mer cookery, of ail kinds and i's'a boon -to the trailer w ife. Recipes take full advantage of the myriad varieties ofý canned and patkaged and frosted foods t.h a t grace the grocersl' shelves no>wadays., Becau se. the book urgently recom-. mends the usé of these. types of foods, c4nting and packaging. com- panies are taking a keen interest ini Streamlined Cooking. New York: Fair or No Fair, Mar- jorie Hillis's gay guide to Gotham for te ad~ey who, Plans to -isiit INew York alone and like it, is published by Bobbs-Merrill. The little book tells (as only Mari orie Hilis can tel it) what every woman nieeds to know about the perplexities of seeing New York on a budget - how much luggage? what clothes? good ho- tels? shops? restaurants? amuse- ments? As was proved by. Orchids on Your Budget, Miss Hillis (who used to be r K I N I U 3 1 1 1% J N K T % w cgt" 14% tp &, U JLI U a S VV I U .y.y * *Z y 1 C I L% * J L - . y ..uLs , i ... o .. 4 .,..., ---uc t% v t l c g u V L t i : U U L rfII I~ I ~ ~useless princes and their notions of to the magazine' "Unity," to the promoting ýtheir sales in luggage. patriotism, its dogs and its cows and editorial columns of the New -York elothing and so on, by arranging jutreceived. Corne .in and lot usih its childreri ail ill-cared for, some Suni and Chicago Tribune, and has special window displays., wui few of india's great men inspire the had poetry i "The Line Book of you tlhe new papers ... sparkling wIth people to become independent. Then 1938," and "Christmas Lyrics, of There is a Pope ini Mexico as well freshness ..iclr thal r luscious 'Uxere. is the Near and the Middle 1937." as one in Rome, J. H. Plènn dis- un O iB ai East, and Palestine, and flnally there In the Ralph Cheyney "Sonnet An- closes in his recent Mexico Marches. and thal invite Ieft.r-wrifing. Ail priced isthe influence of Hitler, and of Mus- thology" published by Henry Harri- The Pope of Mexico cails himself. of oly $, à ox.solini, as. strongly felt as though son, Miss Patrice Clough, 499 Drexel Eduardo 1 of the schismatic Mex- cfony 1 bl.they were bellowing forth from the avenue, Glencoe, is represented by a icàn National Orthodox Apostolic next room. Petrarchiari sonnet, "To, a Range Catholic church which broke away *Here, then, is, a grand book. Inside Horse." lier mother, Ruth Crary from Roman. Catholic .jurisdiction ini r U col eindex. . 4

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