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to the pres.nt day . Edit d by THOMAS CRAVEN This Voumcontaining 144 of the world'm gre..., ,.1aintings. reproduced In their Original c.oor, representsaua unprecedented Écliievement in the history of book printing. $10 1724 Orringlfon AMe. 1i l Gro.0227 i ~bIUI~r .80 oue. Ansor This? How uuuch can yôoi say in a three-minue telephone con. d. About 500 words? average from 250 to 350. wordB in the three-minute; period. Isn't there some one you wou14 flike to eaU now? Queen of Englanci,andi paici ior:ner ambition on the exec'utioner's.block is important, because it changed the course of events;. but more impor- tant, is.the character ôof Anne her- self. For that reason this story -of historiec.al facts is such a good novel. Everyone know s the glamomous tale of Henry the Eighth's second wife, but her story bears repéating in' the light of Francis Hackett's .symiathy and underq.tanding. (A few vears aeo, his book "'Henry, the-Eîghth" illuffi- nated the whole neriod>. The. scene is a very, merry England, with wars raging on the continent to which th~e British sent vicked troovs,, but not .very much else. But this war did not ston thé course of London life, env more than 1ater the Napoleonic wars stonped the course of soclety as it is pii4iured in that other NoIgraphy re- cently reviewed in these paces, "'Lord Mebourne." Henry, a bril- ant, attractive, powerful fellow, a fine athiete, and an excellent student, ruled his people wlth craftiness and canniness, and worked for their alli- ance with the powers whlch would give them commerce, and lend them prestige, even as today. His was an £ngland eager to obey, with the first pres, :ence of that lmperialism which was to make her into a great world Into it, then, walkecl lovely Anne ]Boleyn, a beautiful and sensitive wornan, but so sharp in the crooked game of politics that she could out- match lier peers, a sly, dishonest ~,olitician, determined to become Queen of England, Wolsey, the churchman and statesman, bent on becoming Pope, Thomas Crom-well, Irma Kadie Petru (Mrs. Frankc L. Petru), 1140 Michigan avenue, Wilnette, .is the author of the article "Amerlea on the Move" which appears in the September Relating to "moving day," it gives the housewife many point- ers on. houY to 7ove,,quickly and easily. Mrs. Petru attended the University of Illinois where she was graduated in dietetics, and while stili in college began writing articles on home eco- nomics for newspapers and trade papers. She also served as woman' s editor and home econornics editor of ters,. Irma Lee, 4%k years old, and Patricia, 17 months. Mrs. Petru lias lived in Wilmette the last tour years. She flnds that the writing of articles for publications is an occupation which can be sandwiched in between, the duties o! wife and mother very niceïy, and still carnies on her work whenever time permits. The writing which she does now, .is principally of a scientiflc nature, con- Country Lawur-The Stor y of Myj Fat her By Bellamy Partridge. Whittlesey House Last year a country physician made a substantial contribution to modernm autobiography when - «A Horse, and. Buggy Doctor" was pub- Ilshed. 'This surner Bellamy Part- ridge presented "Country -Lawyer," a biography of his father,,SamuelS-. Partridee,mwho began practicing law in Phelps,. N.Y. a town of 1,500. about 1860. Hardly as gripping. as, intense and as personal as "~A Horse and Buggy Docto r," Mr. Partridge'p hook does give an autheritie and entertaining picture of, life in a smnall New York town, and lets the laymnan in on the ground floor of legal practice in the ear.ly days. Family Quarrels Law suits, Wills, real estate deeds were ail bound up with the private life of the natives and involved. nu- merous juicy famnily quarrels. Often called upon,. was the village lawyer, to represent such colorful personali- tiés as an arsonist, a horse thief, an errant husband, a town drunk. Inter- est was. heightened and incidents made ail the more dramatic by the fact that every one in town knew every one else. Privacy was at a premiurn, and at one time Mr. Part- ridge gave up hisoffice lease because an iron stairway on the outside of the building, leading to his second floor consultation roomn, afforded his cli- ents unwelcomêe nublicity. ,pluureno au&vsno zw ItuLr cars, the populus was in need of distraction, and diversion. Wholè families wcnt to law about wulls and fought for years, until most of the litigants died and the estates were eaten up in lawyers' fees. Civic 8pirited Hlowever, Sarnuel.Partridge's inter- ests were not .entirely related tolits >private practice. Hie fostered a cam- paign for a town water system-a campaign whiéh came to a success- ýsr wnicn aeVeiopea4 nul and, dram bd of English Lg a wae la, and' ig, proj for the days to corne, h, Anne's daughter, min, Mary Queen of ýated the Spanish Ar- ther coitry to stag- Dfls.