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36 WILMETTE 'LIFE . March 11, 1927 .----------·------------------------------~-----------------------------------~------. lR<ewn·ce~~ (Q)~ JN ~ ~ IB3 (Q) (Q) Ik ~ FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 112 2 ··_\ '\\·onwn in i('Y Yach cll. l ·~xll··"-- Hol'll<' C Ann es- BOOKS Wilhelm Hohenzollern The Last of the Kaisers. Emil Ludwig Putnam The Fire of Desert Folk Ferdinand Ossendowski Dutton $J.OO Pheasant Jungles William Beebe Putnam Mr. Charles, King of England John Drinkwater Doran "A \~o1pan in · Exile"' by Horace Anne~ Vachcll ,is thl' st::>r~· of tlll l·:.u,glish woman who marries a California husines~nan and comes to the "great ·free \Vest" to 1'nake her hom e. ft 1s the story of this woman's rearLions tn her new environment, her lovalt v diYided between America and E;JgT;ncl, and her love for her husha1HI \\·ho she sometimes feels lo\·es Cali fornia more than he loves he.r. Lucy d'Aguilar, daughter of a proud English family marries Chester Cow lard who has made millions in a hane.s ter m America, and goes with him back to California. Here she is welcomed by the few representatives of eastern culture who have never bcfor.~ smiled upon her native Western husband. They are just building up a very tolerable societv for themselves wh~n the great quake and fire destr·)Y the citY. Mr. Vachell misses a good chanc~- he.re for !-iome dramatic writing ,:vhich he passes by with the pallid excuse "It has so often been described." How could anyone miss doing it again. sure that it had never been done so well as he was doing it? He g1ves a good picture of the cit~··s recovery, her colossal effort to build on the rums higger ancl hettLT things than were there before. -EsTHBR GouLD. DO YOU KNO\VThat it has he('n announced that tlw "hooh ol the month" for Murch Lt'i/1 LJe Elmer Ganl ry ~ That "Nigg er Hcar...'£·n" hy Carl \'an \'echten is prol.'inq to he 1.Jen.t ~ popular in London .~ ·. That :Earnest l{eminqtvatt's ·' The · Swt Also Ri'Ses" L~1 as fi~st..Jn a pop ularity vote · taken on recent boohs an?onq Yale students? That an 'Englishman 's tmpres sions of America are qiven bl.{ J. St. Loe Strachel.f in "American Sound inps ," which are accurate and with an absence of the usual caustic remarks to he found tn a hooh of this type? .'\ndn·\\· Jackson's birthday on the fifteenth of 'March ts not so \\'tll ].,:now'n as many of our other American heroes. 1Jut his li f 1s equal tn. i i not surpassing, more prominc11 t fi gures 1n interest. Tt ~~ nnly recently th~1t . hi~ period has o(·cupicd hi ~ torian s, hut it l1as hcC'n most producti\'e in. entertaining h ~ob. Ba s~ctt- Lif c of Andrew J acbon. Authoritati\'C and exhaustiYe \\·c.rk hasccl to a great extent on letters n <· a\'ailah!e to earlier biog-raphers. A Miscellany It ~lTlll~ ao.; ii l'\'t'n 1 ht· rn·ic\\'(:r sl10uld he allo\\'ecl now and then a chance to go wandering backward lll ~teacl of pushiHg forward a chance to pick up some of the tioocl things \\'hich for some reason were missed before. The past .week has held for this rev1ewer three of such chances. The first was Edith \Vharton 's "Age (If llllJOcence" which bv its vcrv title ante-dates our age. it ts a ~lelight because it ts so unmodern, and pictttres a New York so charmingly distant from the New York \\"e know. It pictures al o an age when duty and chivalry toward the out\Yard forms of 1 hings Ill particular, were nece ssan· <tnd cherished parts of any gentlema.1~. . , Jipped a\Yay. !\ext there fel! by chance into our path "Lollv \Villowes" bv SYlvia 'I'own'-encl \\·a;ner, a hook- quhc timeless 111 its setting hut actuallv not vet a ~·c ar o~d. This is a cleligl;tftd pirce of :-;ensitivr realistic prose \\'hich loses a good deal at the end In· an effort to he come phanta . y. · Then la st but not least \.\·as a redisce>very of \Villa Cather's masterI piece' "A Lost Lady." :\gain we disc- o,·ered, and ,,-e re O\'en\'helil1ed ll\' the discon·rv, how calmh- ~fiss CatlH:r annihilates all the so~callecl prob 1ems of technique by simplicity. Problems under ,,·hich so many arti~t:' go down hut \\·hirh shr simpl_ \- and surely soars above. Tile end achien'cl is snml'thing line :t1Hl cntnpktt· likt· g:1od :- culpture. -f.sTHI~ R Gour,n. r \ brilliant novel of Paris! Bo,\·c rs- Party Battle.s of th<' Jack son Period. Brilliant and fascinating- record ni a stormy time \\'ith excellent pen 1!1'-'tures of its leaders. A hook no ,,n,· should miss. ~vfacDonald-J acksonian Demnrrac\ . Sane and orderly present at ion <· · events of the eight years of r :trk son's presidency. Ogg-Reign of Andrew ] ac~ on·. Splendid hricf account. Sumner-Andrew Jackson . Able and critical treatment ui hi .: part in political and f111anciat. hi -.t<···· of the. Cnitccl State s. RANDOM GARDEN THOUGHTS ]·,ycry. ~-e ar \\·e hope we will haH :t better garcll'n than \\'l' ha,·e en·r h:td before, hut somehow ll\· the time ; \ 11gust arnre s \\·e sadly .realize tl~at " l '. haYe either attempted · thr impo~ s ihk. or that \\T don't knn\\' as much as \\ t· thought we did ahout fln\rer~ and t hci:· \Ya\'s. Our ambitions ~l\'C dccan 'l. '!\o.longcr cloc·s the goal of a horn gar dener-an r\'C'rlasting perennial gardL 11 lme us on. \\'e a.r' satisfied to ]w,·,· life. colnr and interest \\·hether tlw fln\\'crs arc annual or percnnial. 'r The Whispering .Gallery v By An Ex-Diplomat Boni ~ Liveright $3.oo Wilhelm Hohenzollern The Last of the Kaisers (,... Fifty Years of British Parliament The Earl of Oxford and Asquith Two Volumes· $8.oo Little, Brown ~ Co. By EMIL LUDWIG On The Trail of Ancient Man Roy -Chapman Andrews Putnam $6.oo It is, of course, much more interesting than any novel, and 'the translator's work is done with remarkable verve. "' Author of Napoleon · liuhbanl-llJi.rr)dtH: tinn to th e Study ,,i· Lan(bcape!De. ign. One of the very best guides. Pcahoch·-Outsidc the llnusc Bcautii \11. Tay·lor_:_-Comp ll'l c \.arden. . \·aluahlc lists of plants for ~ituations and climates. <liffcrt J~! The Magic Garden Gene Stratton Porter Doubleday, Page ~ Co. $2.00 · Elmer Gantry · By SINCLAIR LI;WIS THE LINGERIN(i $2.50 Will be the most discussed book of the year. A religious contraversial story. FAUN By Mabel Wood Martina In after-the-war Paris in which Russian princes drove taxi-cabs and p r i n c e s s e s were seamstresses of which Mrs. Martin writes so movingly. is Br<·"·ster- l.ittlc Garden for Lit tIc 1fnney. 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