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32 WILMETTE LIFE May 21, 1926 I Fountain Squan Evanston Phone University 1024 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK . REVIEWS LIBRARY NOTES . .,. ·---------------· Book Suggestions THE MAGNIFICENT IDLER The Srory of Walr Whitman By Cameron Rogers Doubleday, Page $1.50 THE LOG OF THE SUN A Reprint By William Beebe Henry Holt $5.00 LOVI:. IN GREENWICH VILLAGE By Floyd De 11 Doran S:~.oo ADAM'S BREED By Radcliffe Hall Doubleday, Page $1.50 THE OLD HOME TOWN By Ruprrt Hughes Harpers S:~.oo SECRET HARBOUR By Stewart Edward White Doubleday, Page S::t.oo THE NINTH THERMIDOR By M. A. Aldano. r Knopf $:1.50 THE LAND OF MIST By A. Conan Doyle Doran S2.oo THE CABALA By Thornton Niven Wilder Boni a Liverigbt $1.50 Best Sellers of the Week FICTION G E N T L E M E N PREFER BLONDES By .Anita Loos Boni 8 Liveright $ 1. 7 5 t\·s there have been many requests from the ho,·s for hooks on "How to make thinJ.{s .." there are no\\· several new hooks on handicraft in the Children's Room. There are some that should prove especially useful at this time of the vear, when the mothers are so htt"" witt~ their annual ~pring houseclcanit~g. and by following the suggestions in "The homr handv hook," b~· Collins, and "The practical book of homt· rPpairs." h~· Fraser. A boy could he of the greatest help in1 doing man\' of those little repairs that are so n~uch needed in a home. ~1r. Fraser's hook tells how to do evervthing that could he thought of, from ~tphol strring a chair to painting the house . Otl1rr hooks of t·1is sort arc "Carpentry for beginners," giving directions o rarrfnll~· and simp!~· that even the lit tle child coulrl make some of the thinC!s described. We also have three hooks h~· the ever popular Dan Beard- a new edition of "The American hoys' handy hook." "lrlrk nf all Trade!-," and "Do it ynurself," that' .will he especia ll~· in teresting tn boys planning an outdoor vacation. Other rectnt hooks arc: Alict' in Orrhrstralia. La Prade: /\lice goes to a symphony concert. and has many wonderful experiences with the instrument~ of the orchestra. American twin s of IR1 2. Perkins: story of Jona than. who is separated {rom his sister Ht thr death of his parents and who is a mid . hipman during thr "·ar of 1Rl2. BohhY of Clovcrfield Farm. Orton: u·Jic;; ·of t\'C'r\'(la,· life Pn a farm. for tl1r ~·o unger . children. Camping and woodcr.a ft. Kephart: r<.'v. and enl.eel., containing practical ~; uggr st ion s for conducting a camping part~·. Derrick ~trrling, Munroe: stor~· of a breaker in a Philadelphia coal mine. Jane, J o~eph and John, Bergengren: a book that will delight little children, telling of the flag, the policeman, the wind, thr· Red Cross nurse, etc. Attractive full page pictures in color. Little gre.at lady CamJ)hcll: story Jf little Belgian girl who has to leave her country dur ing its invasion in the Great War, and of her life with an English family. Pet~ for boys and girls, Macself; clear and simple information on the care of dogs, canaries, pigeon ., cats, rahhit s. etc. Quicksilver Sue, Richards; a summer's experiences of several country children and a badly brought up city girl. Silver Tarn. Adams; story of an American girl in England during the Great \Var. \Vhistling Rock. Brown: lon· da,·. a child (lf stn:n, sptnds a snmm~·r on an i:-.land off the roa~t of ~f a:ne. wher<' she ha s many delightful :1dventures. \\'hitt cnn (jucrors. ~t nnrot: :-.tory nf the cnnqnt::- t of \ftxiro'h)· Cortt·z. hoY WHEN AMERICA WAS VERY YOUNG "THE GREAT VALLEY" By Mary Johnston Little Brown & Co. a · THE NEST SNOWSHOE STORIES AL'S BEDTIME $ 1. 5o By Anne Douglas Sedgwick notable collection of short reH·aling- the rlclicacy and finesse that .. characterized "The Little French Girl." Houghton Mifflin Co; $2.50 ~tories ,_ C.mtirbutors Guild · A THE SILVER STALLION By James Branch Cabell McBride $2.50 AFTER NOON By Susan Ertz Appleton $2.00 NIZE BABY By Milr Gross Doran In its 24th edition the day after publication $2.00 I c --- - - --- -..... NON-FICTION OUR TIMES By Mark Sullivan Scribners $ 5. <' o Charles G. Norris's new novel-$2.00 ~ PIG IRON Oppenheim ac ) PARIS THAT IS NOT IN THE GUIDE BOOK By Basil Woon E. P. Dutton & Co., N.Y. , -- Brentanos $1.00 At the Public Library SHOW BUSINESS By Thyra Samter Winslow Knopf S::t. 50 His Best THE GOLDEN BEAST THE HOUNDS OF SPRING By Sylvia Thompson Little, Brown $2.00 By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM "It is one of the very best of biJ long stories."-The Boston Transcript. $2.00 ac aU Boobelltrt INTIMATE PAPERS OF COLONEL HOUSE Houghton Mifflin $I o.oo JEFFERSON AND HAMIL TON By Claude Bowers · Houghton Mifflin $5.00 GROWING UP WITH A CITY By Louist de Koven Bowen Harpers $1.0.0 Book Stction-F it1t FloCJr LI'ITLE, BROWN & CO Publishen, BoatoD ~~an· T ol111~ton · ~ t~ame on a h('<'k covPr · ha~s become as definitive as a trademark. A trade mark of th(' "good olcl" historical i10vel, in which :1.gainst a background of well drawn fact fictitious characters do problematic;! things. It will he a relief to manv. this return to the day when s tor!e ~ rolled smoothly from begin ning t<· f·ttrl, frotll youth to old agl'. in stead of heing worried about hack ward ancl forward atHl shrcddt'd and torn as one's lwst shoe in the tl'C'th of a puppy. . . There is a point in these l11~toncal romances at which all of the char acter. sN·m to he clead:-all except one or two. let us say-hut heholcl if w1· follow the one or two long enoug-h we fine! the othrrs :tl!ain. They springBook for Mothers thr ear.th whrrr tht·y arc snr · Listed by N. K. 1:.. C. I from nosed to hr l\'in~. miraculou~l~· a'A Ji~t of hook 'tnd Ja son's men. :"'n< A 1 wr ser t h em rr . ~ ior .mothtr:' . · !t:acher~. comptled and d~:-.trthute<l dt!r - tttlitcd ancl hanpy. and lay the book mg Better Ho111C~ \Vctk by the :\a- down not hafflecl as ]J,· modern hnok " ·ntary or lif~. but quietly content. tonal Ki~Hlergartrn ancl . Elrt!H: colleg~·· n1cludes v,,Jume s \\'llJ(.·h .arl' I Elizabeth Selkirk's fam~h·. when ~ht · usr d 111 the C(lllfSC'i of . tml~·. parttrtt - wa s rlrvrn vc·ars olcl. dended to kan· · larly those: in thr cour~es for m o thr.r ~. Scotlancl an(l migrate to that Ya~t ~rw offered hy the .collrge. and the~· 111 - 1 \V0rl<l to \\'hirl1 their . on :\~:cl~ c '~ l.1 a:! clndr the fnllowmg : p·nne. int :1 a part he railed Vtrgtnta . Child Health . 'o thn· lean· . thr littl<· rhurch wl1rr<· Th(' lltalth of the RutJah(,\11 Chile! ! l nh n St·lkirk i~ critiri,ecl for nc .t 1 (Lura" l . F ood. H ca ltl1 and C.ro\\'th 1 hcinl.! in-;i.... tcnt. t·twugh 11pn11 Hell. ;tnd (Tlolt). 'I'll<' llealtln· Chile! from T\\·o p·o to thJ~ '"lid cn untn· '"ht· r~· 1110~1 tn Se,·c· 11 ( ~f cCarth~· ). Thl' Runabouts I people an· cli~~t·11kr~ of <.:n mr ktnrl at;d in th(' llntt~t· ni flealth. ll~·gien e of j th('r<' i~ r<~t·l11 for all. Th e~' travel 111 thl' Srlwol Child ('ferman). \Vhok - i :-t. ··o,·('n· rl \\'a!fotl. :,ff "'·c·r"the TIIu~ . ~u 11 1l. ('hii<IIH·n<l (Crc t\'t·s). From Tn - 1 R1CI1rc \f ou11 t;t lll ' .. P:t"t th <' c:o"·cltd f ('I ·1 11 1 ( ~ 1111'tl 1 l r 1' l pa··t ,,·Jwn· then· t" a In~· c:tl··n t·\'t"r ·. · ·tnr' ·· 10 . 11 R< 100)< ' · 'ct·c lllg , h:1ii daY or q,, into tlh· rc·a l " ildt -. 1 11 lt' · ;[1111 1 ~ ( 0~(.' . . . 11<' " s. The Newer Education , TlH'H' ;1 1ifr <·i prn . . t·t·rit ,. ;t \\ :11tr.ro\\'th and Education ('1\lerl. Thl' : th('m. Fli 7 ah<"th gro\\'..; up :tnd m<J.r . ; \'ecd~ ries Conan Durkr, a fitw \ ' lllttH.! m:tt ~ . Chilcl. Hi~ \'ature an<l 1Ti . (()'Shcal. The \"nrmal ?\find (Burn- ..,nn of the riche st man ni th:ll r()nn h:-~nl 1. ParcJ~thood and C'l_1il<~ .~atttrl' tr~·. Th <'n romrs thr \\·ar h(·.twut ~ ,(Baker l. ~even Ag-e..; ot ( l11ldhood I yr:1.nce and En;d:1nd. and. tlw 1· n ·tH. ·1; (( ahot l. Childhood (~feYncll), SttHh· tnr1te th e Tnrh;m ~ t :~ \'t(lknc(' ;11H. of Child Xaturr (ITarris~n). P~Hhoi- 1 tlH'rc i" suff<'ring- and tt rror . og~,. oi the Pre-Scho<d Child ( Bitld\\·in 1 \fi "" Tnhthton ha..; gi\'<'11 an intc·r and S!eclwr): Pre -Sc hool Child r.Gcs - I ,., t.in !..!' t~icture of_ tho . c t.im:·" . ;tnrl. in elll. Sugg('~tton~ of \f<,dern Sc 1rncc Ehzaheth ~ ht h.b maclt .t ~trrltng Concerni11g Education (\Yat~on. Ten- charartn. otH' nf thr true typr nf nings.·- ~fe,·e r. Tl 1omas). Shac.klcd pionrrr \\'Omrn. with courage, rcsonr u Yout h ( Y r.oman). Education ~~ oves fulne:-. . and vi~ion. Ahead (Smith), School ~1aster in a --------Creat City (Patri), Nursery School JUST PARAGRAPHS l·:ducation (Owen). Open Air Nur..;en· flnn nvrdr's latest 110\'el IIHa nc' "chool (Stevenson). :Kurserv Sclwc.d ,,11n's TToit"·" is r:Itrd hv thr '\'. Y. Experiment (John~on), . Kin.der~<trten Timrs ac;; hcinfY "bald melodrama" and :111 11 0],,·ions thrillt·r." \\'h v mtt"t the Method in the Church School (Baker), l)('ll \\'hich ·wrott" ··~ farr o Polo" tl: u..: Beginnings of Art in the Public School slin ? (Mathias), Spontaneous and SuperThornton :\i,·(·n \\'ildcr i..; hailrel. Vised Plav (Sics). Youth in Conflict "'; 1 11 th,... nublication of his fir~t nm·r1 (Van \Vater s), Our Enenn-. the Child "The Cahalia" as a "new Amrric:1n (Delima), Cot1cerning Pa;cnts (Svm- <;1\·list." His name · is rvcn mentioned posium), Creative Yottth (Mcams).· in thr samr breath with that of Pater Songs, Poems, Stories, etc. · ;~nd of s~ltus. Tf h<' keeps t:~ thi . . Here an<l Kow Storv Book high level he may he lone!~- in :\mcr (Mitchell), ChildrC'n's Literature ira . (Curry and Clippcnger). Songs for the Little Chi lei ·(Baker and Kohlsaat), TTi~t(lrv. Vicker~. Etudand in th e lat Every Child's Folk Songs and Games er midrllr a errs. ?\f arriot t. Engbnd (Bailey), Fairies and Chimnevs (Fvle- sinrr \Vatcrloo. Robert son. England man), \Vhen \Ve \Vcre Vcr.y Young tmdcr thr Hanovcrians. OssrtHl<')"·~ki. (Milne), A. B. C. Book (Picture Book) Frmn prrsidcnt to nrisnn. Rower s. Jef(Falls), \Vinnetka Graded Book List ferson and Hamilton. ~allcv, Narra(Washl?ttrn and Vogel), A School in ti,·cs 0f carlv Carolina. Callrndrr, :\'aAction (Symposium). School and Home val sicic of Bristish historv. Frerman. (Patri). Norman con(juest. M akce~. Russi a. f · ... ·' 1 1 l 1 .) .