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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Nov 1926, p. 34

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.. 34 November 5, 1926 DID YOU KNOW- FOUNTAIN SQUARE Book Suggestions MY MORTAL ENEMY W ilia Cather Alfred A. Knopf ·· ~ ·..... S2.5o · THE DARK DAWN Martha 01ttnao Dodd, Mud ~ Co·..···. S1.oo TRAIL-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE BORDER Hamlin Garland MacMillan ........·.... $1.50 1-.-------------..J --------------1 That authors of various countries are having a. three-d-ay international conference at Warsaw at which author's righls will be discussed! Thai Hilaire Belloc's new novel, I(The Emerald of Catharine the Great," which is a mystery story, will be published soon f That Dr. William Dorsty, author of . ((Why We Behave Like Htmuw Beings," has returned from Europe after a slay in England f That the title of A'me Parish's new novel is "Tomorrow Morning" at~d will be published next spring? ~ewii<ewz <O>f The followihg are annotations written by children of the public schools. More will be published in next week's issue. N teW. ·JECO>(Q)k® "The World of Williem Clissold" ,, I I Frederick Aschbacher, Grade 5, Howard School. "A Child's History of the World" is a very interesting book because it tells about the people from the beginning of the world until the present time in such a way that it is easily remembered. ~ -H. G. Wells. II j j Eleanor Culver, Grade 7, Central School. . I like the "Pearl Lagoon" because it describes how a pearl diver dives, the terror he has when he dives for the Mrs. Henry Riggs Rathbone of first time and how happy he is when Kenilworth gave a reading . of her he finds a pearl in an oyster. CAUSES AND CHAMPIONS M. A. De Wolle Howe Little, Brown ~ Co. . .·.· $4.00 poems Tuesday afternoon before the Royal Martm, . F . d f A . h C Jumor nen s o rt m t e rysta1 Grade 8, Central School. ballroom of the Blackstone hotel. I like "Tom Sawyer" because it is Harold Vinal of New York is at pres- a real boy's book full of exciting and . . . funny adventures. ent pubhshmg "Wmgs of Song," a collection of poems written by Mrs. Evelyn Youngquist, Grade 4, Byron Stolp School. Rathbone. I . · -- I A MAN COULD STAND UP-. A. a Ford Madox Ford C. Boni ........·. Sz.so EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt Charles Scribner'· Sons .·.. S3.50 ·j-wm7e;-.TQ;,~idF;;.-t THE CHARIOT OF 'FIRE Bernard De Voto Macmillan ....·.·..... · $2.50 I I By Helen Fuller ·Orton SUTTER'S GOLD Blaise Cendrats Translated from the French by Henry Longan Stuart Harper 8 Brothers ...... Sz.so ···------------·:· Shops of Distinction Discriminating children insist upon having their books t Stokes The kind of thing you used to love on the farm, made to live . again for your children. $1.· 1 November 11 is the date of the book party to which all children are invited. I 1 I like the book About Animals be'Causc it tells about Nature and Nature is very interesting and helps you in many of your studies. THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN By Sixteen Members of the Fac ulty of the University of Chicago University of Chicago Press $4.00 ·:.-·-·--------·--11) ' FALLODON I I PAPERS I I I Delight~t"":~·a~?':~ II reading It is nothing- new to say that Wells has done a bold thing. It is something newer to say that he has done it supremely· well. ·In his two volume novel, "The World of \\Tilliam Clis!'old," he has returneci to that brilliant, penetrating, constructive method of which at times he is undeniably a master. This "World of William · Clissold" is a novel in three di -. tinct parts. The first more or less incidental bqckground of Clissolds, the essentials of the historv of mankind. an· analysis of soriaiistn with particular attention to Karl Marx and Bol shevi sm, a mo st penetrating history of the development of advertising-, and in <: ight into the pcnver it docs and could exercise in the world. an anah·sis of the War and England after th~ \\'ar and num berles s other things. Then in VolumP Two, comes the story of William Clissold himself. A novel v..·ithin, not a novel but let us sav a library, a sympathetic, beauti fullv \\'ritten love story which makes us~s o insatiable are we in this life for romance- turn with regret on to the third part, a return to the social and economic analysis and reconstruc tion which i~ the larger part of thr book EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON'S CABINET 1913 to 1920 David F. Houston Doubleday Page bought at A WALDEN SHOP! May we send you our recommended Juvenile List? THE a Co . · . S1o.oo NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET A Medley of Prose and Verse for Girls and Boys. D. Appleton a Co . . . . . . . Sz .so WALDEN BOOK SHOPS 307 Plymouth Court 41 0 No. Michigan Ave. CHICAGO I i I I : t i and outdoor life. "Here is the ! real man t Literally, he speaks _ from the pages of the book ." - Cincinnati Trib- nne. $2.50 i 1 1 I Tt is useless to trv and summarize in a line or two the ~eatlv vast compre hensive program Mr. Wells has form ulated for a \Vorld Republic. We can only ~ay that his mind J!Oes broad and deep, that he \\'rite s with insi~ht ami sincerit\· r~nd emotion, and that for anYone \\'ho likes to follow an amaz ingly brilliant mind there is enioy ment waiting for him in "\\'illiam Clissold." I '· ~ l il)-·:·:~,:~~;;;: a~::-;~~.· _ "The World's Illusion." Houghton Mifflin Co. It is difficult to say what "Eliza·:··~,.._,,,...,.,~.._.··~t411t1..-.ct...,t·~,.._,,~·:· beth" was aiming at fn "Introduction to Salk." If she has been a little less ironicai \\'C should have · said· she was laughing only at her char~r.ters and not at us, but as it is we are left doubting just how her humor is divided between us. I I "Introduction to Satly"-Elizabeth. JOHN MARTIN'S BIG BOOK Number 10 Dodd, Mud a Co. . ..... Sz.so 1 I I f WEDLOCK By Jacob Wauermann Ludwig Lewisohn says: 11 lt is a book on Marriage of monumental power and shattering insight." I I -ESTHtR GoutD STATIONERY NEW FRENCH FOLD CARDS S 1. 1 5 and S 1.15 Heavy quality, deckle edged note cards whose colors are just a ~hade different: Anchor Shantung Sea Spray Sistine Blue Driftwood Abalone Grey ·Oriental \Vhite ~ntEGOLDEN BEAST .,ILPHILUPI ·Jt of ... .., ., ... ..........."_.,.. le OM 1 .:. I...._ Boai _ 4: Uyeriaht ,_ ______, 1 $%.51 1 _ 1 I I BALLARD'S BOOK SHOP is here to help you observe National Book Week. I 0(;~, Di~count on Xmas Greeting Cards until Nov. -I Oth. OPPENHEIM ... Where Tlaere Are Claildren Dare Tlaere Be Divorce? 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