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WILMETTE LIFE · May 14, 1926 NEWES, T BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS SHAKESPEARE Others abide our questions. Thou art free. \i\'t· ask and ask: Thou smilest and art sti ll , Out-topping knowledge . for the loft iest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares hut the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mo.rtality; And thou, who did the stars and sunbeams know, Sl'li-~chool'd. ~tlf - ~cann'd . our'tl, ~elf-secure, ~elf-hon- Library Notes E. 1[. Delafield is a clever and discerning author. She has a penchant for poseurs and her hooks arc full of suht lc character delineation . "The Heel of Achilles" is an earlier novel, hut is fully as fascinating, if not more so, than "Mrs. Harter" or "The Chip and the Block." ~:f azo De La Roche has brought out "Drlight,'" a C']llaint non! of ea tern Canada. "Afternoon." hy Su ~ ~:a Ertz, is a pleasant novel of the love affairs of a father and two twin daughters. Delightful style a~ well as delightful characters. "Amaranth Club." ll\· J. S. Fletcher, is a cletective story. . Rnhcrt Ilcrrirk ha ~ -.,teepcd so long in t1Je unin·r~ity atmosphere that one wonclcr~ if his ne\\' novel. "Chimes." is'nt a hit autobiographic. One is positive that the setting is the Uni1Yersity of Chicago. ' "Lollv \ViJlmy~:· J,,· \\'arner. ts a heautif~1l hook. simp];· and charming!~· written. with most insinuating wit and ~ituation . "Feline in the hest sense." Other hc 1oks: ·'Pig Iron." 1)\· Charles :\Mri~: "Bridal \Vreath." 1;y Sigrid Cndset: "\Vild Pasture." lw 'Marie E. Gikhri~t: "British Isle~ and the Baltic States." hy Carpenter. Are You Interested in bookr of Fiction, Biography, Travel,~' Histnry! For lists write to ESTHER Fountain Square Evanston , Phone University 1024 GOULD c/o your local paper. Book Suggestions THE DECLINE OF THE WEST By Oswald Spengler Knopf $6.oo LEAVES FROM A WAR DIARY By Major General James G. Harbord Dodd, Mead Ss.oo PERSONALITIES 8 REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR By Major-General Robrt Lee Bullard Doubleday, Page 8 Co. Ss.oo MY RHINELAND JOURNAL By General Henry T. Allen Houghton Miff lin $6.oo HIS MAJESTY THE KING By Cosmo Hamilton Doubleday, Page 8 Co. $2.00 0 GENTEEL LADY! By Esther Forbes Houghton Mifflin $2.00 THE PARIS THAT'S NOT IN THE GUIDE BOOK By Basil W oon Brentano's $2.00 THE SUNKEN GARDEN . By Nathalia Crane Seltzer $2.00 A DISTINGUISHED FIRST NOVEL "0 GENTEEL LADY" Jh Esther Forbes. lf(;ttghtnn MifAin Co. .Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. Better so! .\11 pain~ thl' imrnortal ~pirit mu st endure. All \\·caknc ss thrtt itnpair :- . all grids that bow. Find their sole >'oire in that \'ictorious brow. ~SHAKJo:sPI!Anf:. -·-------- - -llilton Ira 1otH'S, 153H Fore~t an·nut. n·turned to. her home recently frotll a strty of nearly seven weeks in Florida. ~[r. Jones, who is with the Chicago Ctlauta~qua circuit, will not be at home unttl about the first of July. :..tr~ . 0 GENTEEL LADY! By BNther l·'orheH Best Sellers of the Week FICTION MASTERSON By Gilbert Frankau Harper Sl.OO GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES By Anita Loos Boni 8 Liver.ight $ 1. 7 5 THE SILVER STALLION By James Branch Cabell McBride $2.50 HANGMAN'S HOUSE By Donn Byrne Century Co. $2.50 SNOWSHOE AL'S BEDTIME STORIES The Contributors Guild $I. 5o WHIPPED CREAM By Geoffrey Moss Doran $ 2.00 Th e Boston Herald calls th iH superb novel of the lSGO's "one of the joyH of the year." Houghton Mifflin Co~ $2.00 NON--FICTION THE MAUVE DECADE By Thomas Beer Knopf $3.50 THE DECLINE OF THE WEST By o~wald Spengler Knopf $6.oo SO YOU'RE GOING TO ENGLAND By Clara E. Laughlin Houghton Mifflin . $3 . 00 New Grosset & Dunlap Popular Fiction. Peacock Feathers.Temple Bailey The Mystery Lady~ Robert IV. Chambers The Eagle's Wing.B. M. Bower Daughter of the Sun, Jackson Gregory Treasure of the Bucoleon, A. D. Howden Smith Moran of Saddle Butte, Lynn Gunnuon Four Bells .... . Ra~ph D. Pain~ Fate and a Mario~lette, Han11a Rion The Beauty Prize. Geo. Weston The Black I·arrot ....... Hervey Hurulreds of orhn splendid books in our stock. In ··( ) Ccnteel l,a<h·" l·:~ther FCirlH " ha s \\Titten more th.an a fir~t nowl. She has written an exccedinglv flni~h ed work, full of keen ohs('n-ation ancl subtle feeling ior life. · Tt i" a ~tory oi the lRSO's and might therefore l> e one of those books m \\'hich the background. in stead of knowing its place. tak . ; the ccntt.:r (It the ~tagc and :-. hove ~ the charact<-r ~ i11t0 the corner~. flttt it avoid s thi c common rrror and \\·c ha\'(.: the de light of that older, quainter da~· wit hout sacrificing . the indiYiclualitv of tht· people. . Lanin Bardren h·aves Amher~t !1 · seek a career in Boston. hecause !\f am ma ha~ t:lopecl to Italv with one of the young gentlemen frot;l the college, and Amhcr~t. become a hotbed of go:-;~i,,. is intolerable for her daughter. \\'(' . like Lanier from the moment we '-<'l ' I her in the cold little train \\·ohhling MOTHERS HOLD MEETING ih ,,·ay to Boston. "She looked down ; and sa\\· the points oi hl'r bronze slip 'l · · . ·' ot 1 1cr~ nt gu· 1 s ,,.1 10 \n 11 QTa<1 uak 1 per~ 1. e-.ttng · · 1l ' bY -,tdc · .. · · s1< upon thf' ·1 · the \\. tltn<:ttc ·l.!'t antnl<H school:; I <1 - 1,. ft oor · <·xac 1 from . . 1r ,. a" a 1 ac 1 v ·s . . 1 lOl' " tl11s lunc will hnlcl a mcet1n~ at the I 1 ·11 t 1. ·1 1 ·1: · · · 1 1 tl · ft · t ., ~lOU c re ~ . anc smt e< a tngntllg . 1 a ,) '] f' , C·en 1 t ra 1 sc PI 100 f 11~ 1 a crnoon t. secret smt c. ·.xarth· a s a lad,· s ~hoe . . 1 o c .oc .;:. ans or t 1e grac ua ton l ' X·· · . . . should re~t . ... \n Olll' \\"(J ttld gue ...... l eruses \rtll be cltsr.ussed. All mothers tl t tl · t 1 t1 1 , of girls graduating this vear arc urged la wy \HTe emp Y an< Jat H'r t<:t·.t. I · were dra\\'n up under her warm boch· 1 to )e present. It ~~ thi :: ,:on flirt IH·t \Yetn cnn,·<·.,; t l(ln and htltnanit~ · \rllirh tnakp s I4anlre \1 r. :tnd :..1 r~. 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