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WILMETTE LIFE August 20, 19.26 New Books r-----------------~~0 to be up to the times it's really neccessary to know the merits oj the books listed below. Show Boat Edna Ferber Page IL_._w_E_w_E_§T_Iffi...,..(Q)_(Q)_OC_§_A_N_[))__ JE(Q)_o(Q)_ooc~~-E. _v_rriE_W_§ _ _I DID YOU KNOWThat Si1· Conan Doyle has tvritten a novel dealing with spi1·itualism., called uTile Lmul of MiRtt" lR®W.ll®W~ ©~ That the 1·eal name of Maurois tile autho1· of A1·iel is He1·zog! (He will publish 11is fi1'8t novel next S1J1'illg.) M®W ring ton. !ffi©©!1K~ P~RDITA "-E. Travel Books of America BarADULT Your United States Bennett Seeing the Middle W£>st Faris· Grand Canyon of the Col. River Van Dyke Finding the Worth While in Cal. Sawulertr Oregon the Picturesque Mttrphy Personality of Amer. Citl~s Hunget·forfl Oul' American Wonderlands Jam es Tales of Lonely Trails Grey Seeing the Sunny South Faris Your Washington and Mine Latimer We Explore the Great Lakes Waldrm~ Book of Chicago Shackleton Land of Journey's Ending Austin Loafing Down Long Island Towne Book of New York Rltackleton Adirondacks Longstreth Book of Philadelphia Sltackltto1t V?.catlon Tramps in New England Highlands Chamberlain We DiscovH New England H~le Maine Beautiful N1tttmg Skyline Promenades Atkinson Lake Superior Country LongstrPth Ambling Through Acadia Towne Tramping" Through Mexico Fra1~ck Beautiful Mexico Q?Luttt RoRmlng Through the \Vest Indies Franck California Koch Montana Jntlson Great Cities of thf· P. ~. So11thtrm:th Repre. Cities of th£> r. S. J1otchrk1st~ Top of th~ ContinE>nt } anl rnitf'd ~tat<'~ . . Allen Adventures of L'ncle Sam~ Sailors Pfary "THE EXQUISJT~ an That the August uMercm·y" has m·ticle cntitle(l "Chicano-an Obitum·y" which is a short liter~11'Y ldstm·y of that city! That Mm·tha Ostenso wrote "lVild Geese" 10ith no thought of a prize a?Hl only submitted the mmmscdpt becanse he1· j?·iends m·gell he1· to do so! $2.00 That A. .4. Milne, author of "When lVc lVere Ve1·y Young" tvill P1tblish a new book of poc~s next fall! The Corbin Necklace Henry Kitchell Webster Bobbs-Merrill $2.00 See America First Despite the fact that America has scenic wonders :which are unique, the number of travel books of importance which have been written about the western continent in · recent vears is small compared with the nur~1ber on foreign travel. "Mes· a Canon Pueblo" by Lummis give~ an excellent description and the historical background of ?u~ wonderful. southwest section and IS tllustrated wtth a hund:ed rare photographs. Other ,ou~standm~ book.s are Steph~n Graham s 'Trampmg w1th a Poet m the Rockies," "The Out Trail" by Mary Roberts Rhinehart and the travel books reviewed on this page. More .than a score of distinguished visitors to our shores have written an account of their travels here in the L'"nited States together with their impressions of us that are very interesting even if they are some,vhat superficial. Among that number we might mentioi1 Arnold Bennet ("Your Cnited States"), Gilbert Chesterton ("\Vhat I Saw in America") E. V. Lucas ("Roving East and \Vest") and \V. L. George ("Hail Columhia"). The Man They Hanged Robert W. Chambers Appleton Co. $2.00 E. Barrington of ~he extraordinarily versatile pen, which throws off a book on Buddhism one day, a tale of Japan the next, and a semi-historical novel or biography under a different nom de plume on the next, has found a fitting subject in "The Exquisite Perdita" Perdita, of the ~entimental age, sent.imental herself m the extreme O'ives her slightly sentimental biograph~r a chance t? drip honey on every page. . But .astde from the honey which at hmes 1s cloying, the story is good. It is interesting, it makes the chara~ ters, while they. are a little too good ?r bad to be quite real, at least amusmg, and it paints a vivid picture of thr extravagant, shallow life of that day in the late seventeen hundreds. -EsTHER GouLD 111111111111111111111111 "LET's Go To FwRIDA !"-Ralph H. Barbour. · A complete hook of information told in a chatty manner with bits of humor throughout that makes it very readable. 11111111111111111111111 Fcrlry Gold Compton MacKenzie Doran $2.00 "ADIRONDACKS"-T. slrrt/z. ,:Morris Long- Foreign T The Story Of Philosophy Will Durant Simon & Schuster Longstreth describes trips taken through the Adirondacks and calls attention to points of interest in this r~gion of "quiet · Jakes and haunting v1stas tha~ are u,t,mtterahly satisfying to a mans soul. There is a map indicating routes and resorts that would be a practical guide for tourists. \ 111111111111111111111 111 "SKYLIKE PRo~r~xAm:s"-J. Brooks $5.00 Atkinsou.. ~ourn 111 h~s tttle and ts very fittmg. You Th~, a.uth~r ~ails this hook a "pot M.P. N. Dh ry and Letters of Josephine Preston Peabody Edited by Christina Hokkinson Baker Houghton Mifflin $5.00 One of F arnol' s Best N ooels THE HIGH ADVENTURE By JEFFERY FARNOL A romantic tale of lusty adventure by the famous author of "T h e B r o a d Highway." $ 2. o o Martha and Mary ]. Auker Larsen A If red A. Knopf $2.50 Land of tlw Lc.ng ~ight D11 f'haillll 1.\'odr "RouGH ]usTicE"-Cirarlcs E. lvfonta- Our Littlt· ~orwf'gian cn usi~1 D11tch Days TlHll gllc. Ho~land Stor·i(·S Smith A novel of decided merit which HPJlan<l 1\llii(Jlll(!n he appreciated by the reader who ()nr Littlf' T ut('h r'm1sin .lfcJ.fat iiU~ loves l?eautifuJ prosr and a thoug-1lt \Yhr·n T \\·as a Roy in Rt·l. .Tollddln t'f' "·Jwn T \Yao..: a (;irl in Holland De r:nl(tt provokmg theme, but " ·e wonder if he ()nr I .itt!P S\\'iss row·iin lrntlr would not make a better cssavist than rolldk in Franct· JfcDo11nld a novelist. r: 1·111' \' i ··n· T'u rf n· \\·Jwn 1 \\-as a (:irl in Fran<'t' Bfllt"t 11111111111111 1 111111111· "CAesAr. CoM ~n:~r AR.Y"-Rosc M c111111111111111111111111 lllillllllllllllllllllll the description " ·ill enjov hi~ account of excursions taken it; the open,. especially if you arc of a philHo(lk of Ef1inburgh osophtcal turn of mind. It would he an f:t·rda in Swl·dc>n excellent book to read aloud. J{atrinka CHTLDRF.~ Around tht> 'Vurld . . . . Cal'Jif'lltn· Tn African Fort·Ht :tnd Jung-le Dn Cllailln In Fi{'ld and Pasture D11tton Tn th<> (;olden Bast GilJ.<WtL Japan, Kort> a and Formosa Tirt jf'HS RtorY of ~rarco Polo Brooks Trav<.·IN's V·tt(·rH.... · Jlf wills Two Years lwfon· tlw )fa~t D .atl<l \Yiwn T 'Yas a Roy in Jnclm S11W?frt 7.iJ:~zag Journ. in tlw Canwl roun. J,!l'rlllN Egypt · W 11c ~ l rr Boy In ~ (>rvia Danr~s l ·ndt·r · (; rH·l< Sk i<· s Drn gou11.u s \\·hpn T \Yas a Roy in f:n,t ·<'C D f'm f'l.nos Our LittlP lta !ian Cnu~in l\ atlr Rnf~wl in Ttnly .\fcfln;~old Thr1·(' (If ~alu f'lllf' Srt Rook of Lonclon .lfil lf11l Littl.- .TounwY to 'Yal,·s Tomli~1son London Jftllo·~ (;l'i( I'!Wtl rave z Jfcf)ollnltl JTasb ll wm at all Booksellerr LITfLE, BROWN & CO. The Exquisite Perdita Dodd Publishers. Bostol1 ~otice of a hook partY ancl 0tl1rr Her comments arc clever .and cmic r items of interest to children \Yill he a Yaricty of topics, in which she ~x found on another page of this issue . _poses the frailities and foibles of man\VrDrETTE Pnu.rc LmH . \HY kind. They are enjoyable if not takt.: n in too large doses. .4 IIIC}'. E. Barrington :Mead $2.50 Just Paragraphs The Latest Fiction Publication Date-.4ugust 20 "Show B.oat," by Edna Ferber. "\Yays of Escape," by Noel Forrest. "Nigger Heaven," by Carl Van Vechten. "The Cnderstanding Heart," by Peter B. Kyne. T clephotlc l'our Wa1~ts UHiversity 1024 Wilmette 600 Todav two new hooks will he 11htcl·d on sal~' at the hook stores- "Siww Boat" hv Edna FPrher and · Peter B. K\'nc's -hook. "The Cnclerstanding Heart." Both hook~ have hcrn ragerlv awaited bv readers who haYe enioyed their i)rcvious novels. "Sbow Boat" will he reviewed next week. 111111111111111111111111 1150 Wilmette Avenue BALLARD'S Wilmette BOOK SHOP RENTAL LIBRARY AND BRANCH Phone 2566 Linden Avenue Branch: Fleur-de-Lis Gift Shop, 4 2 6 Linden Avenue Two rrmarkahle things have happeneel. A Russian ha s written a hook ., hout Russi<\ an<l a Tibetan one on Tihet. The former is bv Maurice Hindus. and under the - title "Broken Earth" it tells what so manv of us have wanted to know. just what headway Communism is making with the peasant in Russia. The other "A Tibetan on Tibet" g-ives that almost unknown thing, a view of that mysterious countrv and its customs, through the eyes of one of its own sons, Paul Sherap.