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.\0 WILMETTE LIFE August 13, 1926 NEWEST BOOKS A . N D BOOK REV/Ell'S THE SILVER SPOON Fountain Square Evanston Phone Wilmette 600 twice dailv to the :\orth Shore Phone in your hook ordrr:". Deli\'(·rie~ · 1 Book Suggestions TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERT A Charles M. Doughty With a Preface by Thomas E. Lawrence Boni and Liveright S1o.oo THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO Manuel Komrotf Boni and Liveright $3.50 MEN AND HORSES Ross Sat1ter Tbe Century Co. SJ.OO WALLS OF GLASS Larry Barretto Little, Brown and Co. $1..00 By Jolm Galsworthy. Galswortln- has written another of his well executed novels which take their places so closely fitted together in "The Forsyte Saga." In this, "The Sih·er Spoon," \fichael and his wife Fleur. who figured largely in "The \'hitc ~Ion key" are carried on ~hr~ugh some troubled months of thetr hYes. And troubled by such a petty thinga slander suit br ought hy a young woman of the most emancipated "set" ag-ainst Fleur for the retaliation Fleur made when attacked maliciou sly by this Young woman. \I~. Gals"·orthy has chosen this petty thing. not from lack of capacity to think of something else, but from de : ; ig11. Because it:' yery · pettiness SYmholizcs the. childish pettiness of an age \Yhich kno'·~ng no \\'Orthy outlet for its energy. because believing in nothing worthy it can think of nothing \Yortln·. strikes out aimless objects \\·ith ·the vindictiveness of a spoiled child. Spoiled child is the· Yery suggestion made ln· the title, the very crux of the situation as regard s the actions of Fleur and the · others of her circle. ).fichael with his wistful honesty, while he is not spoiled himself. yet is a product of l1i s age in that he docs not know more than the,· what he or it wants. Hi s championship of the impractical "Foggartism," a scheme to cart most of England's children to the colonies, i5 a satire on the world . \Yithout a previol.1s knowledge of the characters of "The Silver Spoon" we doubt " ·hethcr it would seem to one a complete nm·cl. - Esther Gould ~fr . Brief Reviews of New Books I Library News fHE VALLEY OF THE KINGS Marmaduke Pickthall Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 Edison !\Iarshall has written anot h er storv of Alaska. It deals with anothtr those remarkable shipwrecks in which a child of seyen ts the so1e survivor. of To Lhasa in Disgulse JicGor'en~ (:limpst!s of Japa,n and Formosa F?'<lll('k VIRGI='l' SP."Ix-JValdo Frank. :\lystt·riou s Tapan Sf1·cct This philosopher, artist and ;,oet Hy Camel nnd Car to.... Polcrll paints word pictures which arc mo ·t Grass Coow ;· colorful and also endeayors to in- Thing!-> St·t-'11 in Palestine (;orJrl,-ich-P,·( ( ,. .tcrpret the ccul of the country and its Across Sibt·ria .-'done L ee people. 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