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38 WILMETTE LIFE June 25, 1926· NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Fountain Squarf Evanston Phone University 1024 DeliYeries Phone twice daily ' to the North Shore in vour book orders. \Viimette 600. Book Suggestions THE FOURTH QUEEN By Isabel Paterson Boni ~ LiiJeright $1..00 EAST OF THE MANSION HOUSE By Thomas Burke Doran $1..00 THE HEART OF BLACK PAPUA By Merlin Moore Taylor McBride $J.OO TEEFTALLOW By T. S. Stribling Doubleday, Page $1..00 CO-ED By Olive Dune Hormel Scribners $1.. o o WHIPPED CREAM By Geoffrey Moss Doran $2.00 ONE LITTLE MAN By Christopher Ward Harpers $1..50 THE ACTOR IN ROOM 931 By Cyril Maude Sears $1.50 Best Sellers of the Week FICTION MANTRAP By Sinclair Lewis Harcourt, Brace $1.. o o IT'S NOT DONE By William C. Bullitt Harcourt, Brace $1.. o o THE SILVER STALLION By James Branch Cabell McBride $1..50 SNOWSHOE AL'S BEDTIME STORIES Contributors' Guild $ 1. 5o G. STAN LEY HALL ficient to start a fight. He has been G. Stanley Hall: A Biography of a accused of almost all the scientific Mind, by Lorine Pruette. (D. Ap- crimes, and a goodly number of unpleton & Co.) scientific ones as we11, he has been credited with almost every possible This book will be a complete revela- defect as a thinker and a man; and tion to those who have formed a con- he has been rapturously and idolacept of the man, G. Stanley Hall, from trously praised." In his religion he his writings. Those who have read "found his escape from the rigidity of but his "Adolescence" and "Senes- Puritan orthodoxv in an ecstatic accence," exhaustive in character and ceptance of the ·mystery and beauty technical, have one idea; those who and the far-reaching possibilities of have read "Life and Confessions of a the theory of evolution." Hall conPsychologist," have a more genial ceived evolution as always working view. Lorine Pruette turn s to the upward. light many facts which show him as The whole book reveals a sympathe Puritan, the pagan, the poet, the thetic, careful and understanding playboy and the pioneer in American study of a complex character by one psychology. who is also a psychologist and who His life wa5 one long struggle has written in a manner that is easv aganst odds. In this struggle it was reading. I wish that the author migl;t those Puritan and Spartanlike quali- have given a few pages to Hall's ideas ties and ruggedness of spirit which re- on the value of tests which are todav fused to let him favor or pamper him- thought by many of our educators self that enabled him to conquer and he a reliable index to a student's abilrise above the difficulties and trials ity and progress, but which Hall rewhich beset him at nearly every point. garded as practically of no value. The chapter on "The Conscious Pagan" -Chicago Evening Post. shows him in an antithetical aspect. V\T e glimpse him going swimming in a forbidden pool because it is forbidA CLASSIC OF TRAVEL den. He was a gourmet, liked new 'fhe epical work, Travel~: in "Arabia foods and new places where he could Deserta," written by Charles Montagu dine. "He was a glutton for sensation Doughty, is being published complete and any sensation was good that and unabridged in one volume, by brought him nearer to what he felt Boni and Liveright. in collaboration was the older soul of the race," but with Jon a than Cape, the English pub"his pagan episodes were in the last lishers. When the two volumes of this analysis purposeful." The "Cousin- classic of travel was published two ship to Peter \Vhiffie" gives somewhat years ago, it was hailed as an event Hall's method in that comparatively in the world of letters. Its price of new field he was exploring as well as $17.50 was <;me-third that of the cheapa short summarv of a few of his lee- est previous edition. The American tures. Some of the ideas expressed publishers found so large and so eager will be startling to many. Indeed, a public for this great work that four there are few men who arc viewed in successive and progressively larger imsuch varied ways. "In many compa- portations were exhausted. to and Little Women; Aldrich, S~ory of a Bad Boy; Anderson, Fairy Tales and Arabian Nights; Bennett, Master Skylark; Boutet de Monvel,· Joan of Arc; Canfield, Understood Betsy; Carroll Alice in Wonderland; Clemens, . Huckleberry Finn, Prince and the Pauper and Tom Sawyer; Colum,· f\dventures of Odysseus; Defoe, Robmson Crusoe; De La Ramee, D?g of Flanders; Dodge, Hans Brm~er ; . Grimm, Fairy Tales; Hale, Man Without a Country; Harris, Uncle ReJ?US; . Hawthorne, Tang-lewood Tales; Km~s ley, Water Babies; Kipling, Captams · Courageous, Jungle Book and Just So Stories; Lagerlof, \Vonderful adlventures of Nils; Lofting, Story of Dr. Doolittle: ~1 alory, Boy 's King Arthur; Mulock, Little Lame Prince; Nicolay, Boys' Life of Lincoln; Parkman, . Oregon Trail: Pyle, Men of 1ron and Merrv Adventures of Hobin Hood; Scott: Ivanhoe ·; Spyri, Heidi; Steven-· son Child's Ganien of Verses and · Tre'asure Island; Swift, Gulliver's Travels: \Viggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; \Vyss, Swiss Family Robinson. CHILDREN'S BOOKS "Roll Call of Honor" by QuillerCouch. Boys and girls who like biography-and judging from the · books that circulate. their numbers are increasing-will he glad to know that we have two most interesting new hooks . The "Roll Call of Honor" · comprises the lives of some men and' women who will alwars be an inspiration to the world~ A few of the names are Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Pasteur and David LivingstOT)e. "Life of Nelson" hv Southey. This . will delight not onl~; boys, hut girls who are interested in stirring adventures of the sea. Tt was written in 1813, eight years after the death of Nelson, "to furnish yom1g seamen with a simple narrative of the exploits of England's greatest navaf hero." "Fairv Green" bv Fd'e man. One of the very popular -hoo.k s of poetry at last winter's Ston--Hour was "Fairies and Chimnevs." h~· Rose F\·l'eman, ancf we hope y~u wiil like li~r new one ftuite as well. Doesn't thi's make ymr want to rca(1 the rest ·of the poemsfrom "Fairy Green?"' Singing-time "l .wake in the morni'ng- earlr And always, the very first thing. I poke out my heart and' I sit up in heel' And I sing and I' sing and' I sing." "Franconia Stories'r }),- Abbott. Dcli , g htful stories of hom-e life in ;\ew England in the midcnc part of tlle 10th century. The scene is a gl'cn in the vVhitc mountains. amr a FrenchCanadian ho~v, whom the chilclren al-· ways call Beechnut, i's one of the chief characters. "Boy and the Baron" by Knapp. How Karl the armorer took the "Sl1iningKnight'srr treasure from among- the osiers anrr what hefell afterwards: a talr of feu<rar ti.m es in Germanv and of the conquest of the· robber barons by Rud.olph of Hapshurg. "Italian Fain· Rook" hv MacDonnell'. A collection of thirtv-se-ven folk tales that the girls esncciall~r arc liking. One little girl said, when she brought the hook back. "I laughecT more over the stor~· of Vanlielfo tlic sirnpleton than anything I've read i'n a long timr !" "Three Little MiiTers" ln· Pierson. A ioll~· story of the happ,· 1fi11er familv, their home and schoof fife and the}r playmates. Mrs. Sr~m Dingee returned to her home in Wausau, Wis., tf1is week after spending a short time in \Vi1n1ette. She came on to attend the graduating of her daughter from Ferry f1aff. n_;;;:ie;;;:s;;;:t;;;:h;;;:e;;;::;:m;;;:e;;;:n;;;:t;;;:io;;;:n;;;::;:o;;;:f;;;:H;;;:!;;;:a;;;:Il;;;:' s;;;:n;;;:a;;;:n;;;:1;;;:e;;;:i;;;:s;;;:s;;;:u;;;:f::;r THE TRAIL OF GLORY Leroy Scott "The g-reatest sport novel I have ever read."-Wm. T. Tilden, 2nd. Houghton Mifflin Co. $2.00 DOUBLY A PRIZE NOVEL Frmina Vie HeureuH Prize JOt "lite Bat En,IW. NoHl 6g · Womma" NON-FICTION ARCTURUS ADVENTURE By William Beebe Putnam $6.oo OUR TIMES By Mark Sullivan Scribners $5.00 MAUVE DECADE By Thomas Beer Knopf PRECIOUS BANE By MARY WEBB French Committee '.s Annual Prize for "the Bat Wor~ oj Fiction·· E. P. D1JTI'ON & CO. NEW YORK Doughty thus describes that grim ·country whose secret he had sought with so great suffering: "The hulk of that huge peninsula lies within the earth's rainless belt. Under a perpetual grey more than hlue heaven the immense upland is seen cvervwhere as a parched and bald treele-ss land scape, which to unwonted eves seems to he nearly without herbage. Rain rarelY falls, and that is alwavs partial. Her drought a'n d barrenne-ss nourishes few wild creatures; on Man's pate heats all day a hlazing sun, and se ldom is there the relief of anv overshadowing cloud." Tn tlH' nomad life of the inhospitable desert Doughty found the onl~· human society he could accept. \Vhen he wrnt to the Arab peninsula he was driven hy the impulse to struggle his way hackward through time awav fwm the works of modern man; an~l he all hut died in the effort. In the pages of "Arabia Deserta" the societv of men among whom he could liv; live s a~ain. He has carried an en~ durimr image of a simple Semitic people whose hate was more real to him than a European's love . At the Public Library CHIMES By Robert Herrick Macmillan $2.00 SORRELL AND SON By Warwick Deeping Knopf $1..50 GROWING u ·p WITH A CITY By Louise de Koven Bowen Macmillan $1.. 5o 1EFFERSON AND HAMIL TON By C. G. Bowers l,ton Mifflin Ss.oo One of Farnol's Best Novels FORTY BOOKS Last winter the U. S. Bureau of Education published a list of 40 hooks which all children· should read hefore thcv arc lo. Tt has been widelv nrculatcd through the press, anit has heen much discussed. Have all the boys and !!iris of Wilmette who are graduating from the grade schools, and consequently passing from the children's shelves tn the aclult clepartmen t, react these hooks? Miss Bright, the children's librarian, l1~ collected the books. and sug-gests that the bovs and girls check this list as part of their vacation reading this summer so that when they enter Hil!h school thev will have read all of these famou-s books: Aesop, Fables; Alcott. Little Men THE HIGH ADVENTURE By JEFFERY FARNOL A · romantic tale of lusty adventure by the famous author of "The Broad Highway." $2. o o at all Bookseller~ LITTLE, BROWN ~ Publishers, Boston CO.