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30 WILMETTE LIFE September 24, 1926 No doubt you have read advance notices on these NEW BOOKS we list at~d now that thP.y are here you will want to appraise their content first hand. We are sure you will · have pleasant hours while doing it. The Romantic Comedians Ellm Glasgow Doubleday Page $2.50 Telling the story of the dangerous age the other way around and writing with delicious wit, the author of "Barren Ground" here gives us a brilliant picture of the sentimental tradition of Southern chivalry and the modes and morals of the new South. DID YOU KNOW- That Ernest Poole, whose new book was published September 1 is a Chicagomz r ' That Theodore Dreiser has beeK re·writiug uThe Fi1ta1tcier," published in 1912, which tnany promit~ent People consider his greatest book? That the author of ((Our Times" will pubHsh a new book soon, "The Life a1td Times of A1artlza Heppletlz'l.t'a.ite ?" That an autobiography of Vale"tiuo written by his manager, S. George Ullman, will be published hl October! ~®Wll®~~ @~ 111111111111111111111111111111 1 11111111 N®~ nigcrodc. IB3©cwlk~ NRH! BOOKS Biggers . . . . . . . "Chine se Parrot" Detective story . that ha s been well liked. "He r Son's \Vife " Canfield A \'Cry human story. Chesterton . . . "lncredulit\· of Father Brown'~ Exceptionall . ' · well told stories o£ unu sual crime s. Cohh ... Pros and Con s" S hort stories well done. Fcrhrr "Show Boat" Life on the ~1is s i ss ippi . Forre st . " \Yay s of Escape" ~faximating our ego in o ther people's Jiv es. Glasgow "Romant ic Comedians" Th: pursuit of Youth a nd its illustons. "Cnclerstanding Heart " KYne " Big :Mogul" Lincoln Cape Cod villagers and Cape Cod mann ers. Locke "Perella" L~· nn · "Stepd aught er of th e Prairie" Minnigrrode "Cordel'a Chantrcll" Sabatini "Bellarion" Brtter than many that have come out. \Vehst er "Corbin :-\ccklace" Drt ecti,·e story. \Viddcmer . "Gallant Lady" Such prohlrms may arise in one'!' lif e, hut onr could n e,·cr possibly have the . a me kind of ~ nding. \Vilson "Pai nted Room" Continues the K e n\\' orth\' s. 'Morley "Roi11atn- Stain" Charming essays of tra\'cl. · Durant Stor!· of Philmoph~··' Gnod : umman· with a.tl the fact. and 11 one n f · t h c. rl u s t . Go\\'cn . . "n utlin e Hi·;tnn· oi China" Drutsch ...... "Hone,- out nt the R nc k" (~ClOd poet r~· . · 1111 111 11 ;1111111111111111111111111111 I ·' I "CoRDELIA CHAXTRELI."-M fade Mill- Crewe Train Rou Macaulay Boni ~ Liuerigbt · $2.00 We go to Spain, in the company of a rebellious British parson, we see him starting . life anew with a Spanish peasant wife, over whose habits and fertility English ladies would have raised shocked eyes. We watch his little English girl grow up, and so the story goes. . ~ Out This Week llllllllb "The Red Haired·Girl"-Carolyn Wells. A new "Fleming Stone" detective story. Hllllllft "Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin"-Anthony Ludovoco. Clear and searching criticism of his works and aims. IIIII IIIt Rough Justice . C. E. Montague Doubled11y Page $2.. 5o This is the story of Molly and Auberon Garth who were born in the good old yellow 'nineties when "a choir of young poets were drinking themselves to death with great devotion." How they came to maturity, how they reacted to life, to war, to love and how thru it all, they remain simply .t hemselves, is the theme of this truly fine novel. " The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare" -trans. by Sir. George Arthur. An important contribution to the s tory of our times. dl llllll "Joseph Conrad As I Knew Him" -Jessie Conrad. Intimate memoirs of the great novelist by his wife. 1111111 111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 One can get so borrd with Jiving life and reading what purport s to he cross sec tion s of life that a reallv romantic novel is a bo on. M innigcrod e ha s all the little realistic touches. actual names. diaries, old letters and remembered conversation. but .th e se ntim ent th at surrounds the name of Charleston. th e high falutin' courtesies. and th e elegance that surrounds the old time belles and gallants is romantic . The story begins with the grandparents of the chief actors. The grandmother of Steeny and Cordelia Chantrell refuses the hand of the grandfather of Sally Penmarsh ancl he never forgave her. - In order to checkmate the Chantrells he plan s to marry Sally to Preston Baimhridge altho she really loves Steenv. With the announcement of the engagement. Steeny loses the girl he loves and Cordelia the man. Cordelia refuses to accept the situation and dramatically prevents Sally's and Preston's marriage. Pre ston leaves Charleston and does not return for years when the fact that he is a Northerner frustrates Cordelia's hopes. She becomes a celebrated spy and the story comes to an absorbing close . The structure of the hook is unus ual. the results are known long before the causes. but th e results arc so fascinating that one is of necessity compelled to find out thr rrason \\'11\'. For all who are bored or tired - the perfect book. -A~ ':'IA · A CORRECTION Hamlin Garland's novel, "The Trail Makers of the Middle Border," will not he publi shed until Oct. 19. The noveli st married the sister of Lorado Taft. \VHrntA CK I II II II II II Ill II II II II II II II I II II I II II~ "SHo'r ToWERS"-] olm T. }.[ c!Hf').·rc. Memoirs of Halide Edib \ The Cent~ry Co. $4.00 An autobiOgraphy of unusual interest. Not only is it the intimate life story of pre.sent day Turkey's most distinguished woman; it is also an inside story of recent -Turkish politics and intrigues, containing much authentic information, which has never before been published. OW BOAT A New Novel II, tht 1.~tthor o/ ... SO BIG'· EDNA FERBER A glorious romanee In the heart of Ameri~ Tobey's First Case Clara Louise Burnham Houghton Mifflin · S:z.oo In 'Toby's First Case' Clara Louise Burnham has ta~ new theme and handled it with all her accustomed, charm. The result is a novel that will please all her old admirers and also any .reader who enjoys a firstclass mystery story. I'!"' When Mrs. Carey's son, Tom Carey, ~ame home after a year in the city, t oo ttl to do more than say a few word s in his delirium and then· di e. he spoke of some fine and wonderful thing he \\'as leaving for his mother ancl his young son, Tad. He could not give anv real directions as to how thev were to reach it, but he said enough to make Mrs. Carey determined that she "'ould go and search for it. It is Mrs. Carey's search and the plots .and countcr plots circling round tt whtch make up the main structure of the story, Sut the spirit of it is1 Mrs. Carey herself, little, indomitable, smiling, something of a Dickens character. The author writes with a wealth of incident and detail which makes it seem like turning into a quiet street after having been jostled along the busy thoroughfare of modern literature. -Es'tHER Gour.n IF ©rr®n~Iril N.©li:®~ . Cnd l' r the title of "\\'ar ~f en1<1ri('..,·· Dr. Benes, Foreign n1ini:-ter of Czt·ch ~· Slovakia. \Yill publish his memoir:- in English this fall. A ·rev ise d third edition of l. T. 1n~ scrancl\ " t\ Literarv l [i qo;\' ·of· the Eng-lish People" is b ~i ng hrmight nut. Helen ~forgenthau F ox has tran . . Jat ed "The Dancing Girl of Shamakha and Other Asiatic Tales" bv C()unt de Gobincau wl1ich thev sa~- arr full of th e coklr and glamo~ of the Ea st. · 11 111111111111111~11111111111111 · Pot Pourri Rudyard Kipling .arouses controver~.Y hy declaring there arc but twelve TH& The Golden Dancer Cyril Hunie Doran $2.00 This is the sto~ vt youth in quest of a dream. It is a song in praise of love and the laughter of comrades. In it is found the romance of Albert Wells, factory-hand. UNEARTHLY 'By the distin-guished author of "The Garden of Allah" and "Bella Donna" Oppenhdm ac HuBuc THE GOLDEN BEAST B, · B. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM ·tt It one of dM ...., belt of bla long stories."-The Boston Tr.-mmi,c. RVB&IiT $2.50 L tmmortals among litrran- men sincr the beginning of time. I3ernarcl Shaw celebrates his seve ntieth hirthdav lw fran~ radio di sc ussi o n of the short-commgs of the British government . A s~hoolboy earns money for his educatton by the publication of his novels et at. .Two. Greenwich Village restaur~ ants v1e wtth each other in providing fift~ cent Poets' Platters for ragged gentus. H. G. Wells' "The vVar of the \V,?rlds" is announced as being filmed on_ a big scale." And a noted professor ts . engaged to instruct radio announcers 1!1 a more gentle handling of the English language. -The Bookman , By tl1e author of Anne of Green Gables." · HICHIM ~ Boek ,.... ;or&tiot .... · · UITLE, BROWN & CO ~------ ...... "'_.. THE BLUE CASTLE . J,, lU. J\Jontgom«'r:r ··\ deh~htful romance or' the Canadtan woods. STOKES $2.00 _,. J