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28 WILMETTE LIFE July 2, 1926 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Fountain Square Evanston Phone Wilmette 600. Deliveries ·twice daily to the North Shore. Phone in your book orders. (Letters from a 'Librarian to a Girl in Montana.) Dear Marion : You want know the books that I exp·ect to read this Summer? The weather has been so cold that it hardly seems possible that I should begin to consider the things I shall do on my vacation. When you ask me for my list I know that you intend to deprive me of "that superior feeling" by reading them before I do, and I am going to puncture your little bubble by telling you that I intend to re-read about as many old ones as new ones. In the first place there have been ever so many two-volume biographies that have come out, ones I ought to read rather thoroly. Many of them I have skimmed through-Life of Aaron Burr. Sir William Osler, Barton's Life of Lincoln, Keats, Lord Grey, Sandburg's Lincoln and dozens more. But I really intend to reread Lord Grey because his Twenty-five· years is pleasant and charming. If you have read it you recall his little story of the beech trees in Spring. Sandburg's prose fascinates me by its odd and unique phrasing as well as by its poetry of expression, anJ since I know that the Prairie Years none of the these books that I ha,·c has been such a work of love, I want chosen satisfy, and then I shall read to read it rather than dip into it. Conrad ·Aiken, Bernard Shaw and Sandburg is collecting the words and Chesterton. Always, music of American folk-songs and expects to bring it out in the next two or Anne Willi s. three years. His publishers. have deAn Artist T alka of War layed it because of the great abundance of Negro spirituals. "THE DANCE OVER FIRE The next book I expected to read AND WATER" was Skin for Skin by Llewelyn Powys.l I rather dreaded doing it because of the peculiar quality of the style, but By Elie Faure I was tremendously interested one Harper &: Brothers night in the man as a personality, and Elie Faure, perhaps the most moY I read it. In its place I think I shall ing artist-critic or critic-artist, )i,·ing read Elie Faure's History of Art-at today, has written in "The Dance oYer least the first volume. Fire ~nd \.Vater" a treatise, thoug-h There is a new hook out, Oswald that is too dry a word, on war and Spengler's Decline of the West, that is art, their relations to each other. expected to work some sort of revoluHis central thought is that war in tion in modern historical interpreta- the past has he en the provoker of art, tion. I heard of it some years ago in that man in order to pour his person the German, and read extracts puh- ality or that of his race into perman lished in magazines, and was consumed cnt form must be first melted h,- thl· with a desire to read in its entirety. fires of conflict and passion. · Now that I see the size of the book I There is no history for a race. ;1 ~ doubt verv much whether I read it all, ~1r. Faun· points ottt. except tha t but even ·a little of this colossal study \\·hich remains committed to canvas. t n will be valuable. wood. or to stone. out oi which ari,t·, There are quantities of books that son 1e whole, :-;nme creatin· achit,·t·T should like to reread, but a librarian ment which can he taken in at a glanr v. never has much time for that. There Thi~ " ·hole ~fr . Faure characterizt·, arc always so many things coming out. a-; "~tde." It is onh· st\'IC \\'hich ck Rut at least this summer I shall tn fllle:> ~-i\'ilization:-. n~ rather any t·a r to recapture my early thrill over Gals·- ~ ticular ci\'ilizatintl. And " ·ar crt·att- worthy's Freclands, and my conscience or recreates qyle when Jiic ha~ 11 , , will be lightened if I reall~r read the !llore st\'lc, anc.l a~ an accompanimt·ni DiYine Comedy, instead of "hitting the or after;nath oi " ·ar CCllll('s a grrat (·u: hi!!h spots." break oi "~h· le·· t·r art. Tr;,r iJJl' Tt seems to me that I expect to conr hrillianth· thl'. hi-.tc·n· ,,j ci,·ilizat i· l!l a great many pages on my vacation. ~fr. F<tttre gin· ~ pn.:poncl<:rating 1., .; particularly when one considers that I dence that in tht· pa-;t ·. thi~ ha -. lH, .1 want to he outdoors a great deal, sim- true. .f\, to tht' illture . ht· drH·, · .. · nlv ,,·atrhitw a hif!h. blue skY \\'ith slowly drifting, piled, "·hite ·cloud..; . predict. T~c\'()luti(ln in rontra:-t !·· ,,·ar h r· .~;., Nevertheless my mood ma~· change ancl <·lit wht·n thl'rt' j ., ,t\ k "it1J 1111 1 1: ·· ··\\'hcm·\'lT a gn·at ~tagt· -, l'ttin g · .. FLAPPER ANNE come:; ,,·orn c1Ul. "ht·tH' \·er an an r :. · By Corra Harris faith clilllini:-hh and a tll ' \\ faith ' l ,.' Till" l'ternal restlessness of Youth to ri:-<' . hrilliantl~· portrayed hy the a-uthor "For thi-- n· ;h t·n." ht· rntJcluck-.. 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