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on verando, I.bout or beach 1724 Orrington MAenu. *Gre. 0221 KEEP YC CHILDREN SAFE Let fi...liea,.te SWIMMING POOL 1700 Central St., Evanston, 111. Ph.. Gr«eoef 2004 fEDCE SUMR PaCmï .16 CSS LESSONS. $6.00.. Constenfly under expert supervision. C..,, Sanitery, Healthful SAFE. ~v ~ oe.~ *.w~sv AI.*e. ~ n ivj-at.~(Ii JamesC HllU, niUt oCktUl.a., was awarded the second priz.e of $1,OOO for his picture book for chidren, thr -Stage-Struck.Seal. These books WiIl be published by Henry Holt and'companly in. October. Out Of. the many other, promnising manuscripts received in the conitest,,Hlt' will also pnblish in the fait five cxcep- tional entries, "When Gunis Thundered at Tripoli,'! by Charles J Finger; '.'kipper .jack,"' by W. B. Garthwaite: "The Knitting Grasshopper," 1,y:Miriarn Teliner; "Chimfney Sweep Tower," by Rita Kissiin; and "-The Sirnging Belade," by Cenethe Thomas. 1The Ford foundatiori was established in 1934 to encour agie the production ofý better literature. for% children.ý The. an- nual cash prizes are awarded according to the selection'of wel-mknown anthor- ities on children's books.. Claire~ Lee Purdy firs'tbecanie initer- ested .in Mozart when she was a student at the University of Colorado, from which she was graduated in 1929. After leaving college she was an instructor in later toured with a marionette company. j. I1-health caused her to go to Tujunga, Cal., where she met Benson Wheeler. Miss WheeJer, though born in Min-j neapolis, spent most oif her life in Moose Jaw. Saskatchewan, where Rhe amontns' researchl on the comnposers career before writing a uine of their~ book. James Hull, winner of the second prize for The Stagestruick Seal, 'was grad- uateti from the University of California and attendeti Harvard for a year. At varions times lielias been a public re- lations counsel, stage manager, artist, and movie scenarist, He lias written one other book for chulciren, The Pett Elephant, publisheti in 1932.1 James, of ait U>knuwnci tury), James AI- Northwestern nniversity has written the first biography of a- man whose efforts miade possible the, success of, the colonial arms in the region beyond. the Aile-, ghenies and thus. protected the rear of the American armies. AÉs business .agent for the Continental Congress in New. Orleans, -lie financed himself the opérations of George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Territory and lw enlistinig the support of the. Spanish in Louisiana held'the Mississippi open -to the colonists. Professor James lias written a biog- raphy ofa patriot of the highest type,, and,, at the same, a reconstruction 'of. the social and. commercial life in New Orleans and, the -Illinois country. Mary Sbelley's Motber Mary W6llestonecraft ivas not only a woman '"ovely in lier person," intel- ligent, brave and unfortUnate; she was also one of the first champions of the rights of women and the mother of Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley, wife of theî poet. In This .Shining Woman (Apple- ton-Century), George Preedy, the fam- ons historical novelist, author of Geen- eral Crack, lias told in brilliant fashion the tragic tale of this rernarkabie- woman. In a s1irewd.. vivdlv ovic toucn of love, she. defied 'ler own mIles. It is Preedy's abiltY' to show rather than tell of this remnarkabie woman. Cane River Country Froni an early. reading of Lylej Saxon's Children of Strangers, sched- uled for publication by Hougliton Miff- lin cornpany on JnIy 6, Roark Bradford was nioveti to senti the following opinionj to the publis hers: "I likte the book: 1 lisiiers says that Alan Villiers, author of Cru ise of the Conrad, one of the latest and finest of travel and adventure stories, sailed June 10 for England where he wiII stop for a few weeks be- fore leaving for the Balt ic. Hie, expects to,visit some of the captains of the- famous grain race fleet in Baltic ports and will do considerable 'ph6tographJng of. the.Lamions square. rigged ships. More than sixty similar fuli-page photos of boats and foreign lands illus- trate thene book by>,,this sailing author, an advocate of motorless trans- portation on the high seas. ,T'rained as a sailorinJi the famous sailing grain fleets of Australia about,which he wrote bis previous book, ,Graût..Race,. Alan Villiers 41i 1934, at, the age of 32, pur- chased a -former Danish training ship and, took ber around .the. world with a crew of young cadets. The voyage con- sumed, several years,' tmeie nd touched at the, farflung ports oQf Rio, Cape Town, Seas roared, shoals threatened, andi niasts snapped, but the beautiful littie vessel negotiateti ail dangers, .only to corne to g1rief in safe New York harbor. .when she broke anchor and drifted against a sea wall. Sixty thousand miles were covered by ithe square-rigged ship-the last of the frigates to go around, the world. She haçl an old en- gine but 1it was nsed only once or twice in the entire voyage. 0f.-unusual intèrest is tlie author's -J .--a- iiuu lt V "Y Ille force of- nature. His feet are on* the ground (only figuratively speaking) as any good mariner's nmust be, and his style of writing reflects this keen m atter-of- fact viewpoint. With no purpie pas- sages, with nothing of the draniatic, the fanciful, or the exaggerated, AlanVil- tiers tells an entrancing, realistic story of life on the ocean under canvas sait. Highly recommended for men, yachts- men, amateur sailors, young boys, andi women bored with fiction aud biography. Mrs. la. .ilis chapters jeti to lier hlome in . C reading to al" J- iast Saturday. Lme , 812 a visitor lier sis- return. ls, Ohio,