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38 WILMETTE· LIFE · M.ay 6, 1927 r~· --- ,_., I BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephone· Univer1ity 1024 Wilmette 3 700 Rogers Park 1122 Eleanor of Aquitaine CbtJtlt~ B. Reed Druid Press ·........... $2..50 DID YOU ~NOW- I That "The Green Hat" is to be dramatized m the movies and Norma Talmadge has been suggested for the part? That the Pulitzer prizes in the different fields of literature were an nounced last Monday by President Nicholas Murra!l Butler of Colum bia university? That "Marching, Men" b!l James Bo!ld, the a11thor of "Drums" will be the " Book of the Month " for May? Reviews of New Books "THE ROAD TO THE TEMPLE"-Susan Glaspell. . NE'W BOOKS Fiction By.rne-Brother Saul Gibbs-Upgrade Hull-Islanders Maxwell-Bevan York Rolland-Mother and Son Stone-Laughingest Lady Wassermann-Triumph of Youth Non-fiction Adams- So Much Velvet Seitz-Great Island Denis-Argentine Republic Krohn-In Borneo Jungles Stefansson-My Life with the Esk imos McClintock- Old. Indian Trails Beard-Rise of American Civilization Glaspell-Road to the Temple Jensen-American Saga Beveridge-) ohn Marshall Bishop-Theodore Roosevelt Ford-George Washington Lawrence-Revolt in the Desert Centennial History of Illinois. Children Pick Favorites The Youth's Com pan ion has been conducting au inquiry as to th~ favorite books of its young readers. Over a thousand child.ren responded to the Companion's request for information on this point. Among the girls it was found that Louisa M. Alcott's "Little \Vomen" headed the list, receiving 54 per cent more votes than the second 1~1ost popular title. Next in order came "Heidi," "Black Beauty," "Pollyanna" and the "Bobbsey Twins" series. The boys placed . "Treasure Island," first and "Tom Sawyer" second, followed by "Robinson Crusoe," "Robin Hood" and the "Tom Swift" series. Does this mean that the younger generation is more conservative than its elders or merely that its liberty of choice is more restricted? -New York Times Mirrors of the Year Edittd by Grant OaJttton Stokes ·...·........·.. $4.00 That Island DodcJ, Mead Archibald M an#Mll a Co........ $2.oo The Immortal Marriage Gtrttadt Atherton Bonia Livtrigbr ........ S:z.so Our Generation By One of Us The Century Company .... $1.50 The Triumph of Youth Jacob Wauerman Boni ~ New and Interesting Books for Your Library ······················ Lwerigbr ........ $2.00 Fiction Immortal Marriage Gertrude Atherton ...... $2.50 Young Men in Love . Mi-chel Arlen ............ $2.50 Mother Knows Best Edna Ferber ............ $2.50 Andy Brandt's Ark Edna Bryner ... · .......... $2.50 Rebel Bird Diana Patrick . ~ .......... $2.00 Magic Garden Gene Stratton-Porter .... SZ.OO Brother Saul Donn Byrne .. . . .. .. . · .. $2.50 An .Aid de Camp of Lee Pt~ptra of Colonel Charles Maraball Lirde. Brown a Co. . . . . . ·. S4.oo America Comes of Age Andre Siegfried Hucourt, Bract a Co. . ... $J.OO If the modern necessity for rushing everything into print is likely to produce many works of such sincerity and beauty . as Susan Glaspell's story of her husband, George Cram Cook, "The Road to the Temple," then we · are less to be condoled with for that modern tendencv than we had thought. George Cram Cook had a 1w a y s meant to write a book about himself, ~bout his troubled, s.eeking, triumphant and defeated journey through life, yet he died without that book having been written. At least not having been formed into what we should call a book, me·rely scattered here and there on bits of paper which were present at the moment and on which it was his habit to ]eave the thought which had just struck acr05s his mind. But these like li\·e coals from a scattered fire still glow with heat and life. For instance, "I step outside. Stars. The northeast wind rushes steady and pure and cold over the world. Autumn came an hou~ ago." Or "To do that which endures-to build a house, a bridge, a book that lasts-so only can one preserve one's past." To preserve his past was to this man enn v.·hen he was no more than a boy, a dttty, a sacred trust. So many ages of living had gone to make this individual who was himself that he felt his responsibility as manifold. A queer humble conception m this age of sharp individualism and wanton use or misuse of life. This conception had so strong a hold upon this man that he lived for a long vista of time-lived for the limitles~ future and the long past. The difference in point of view created by the conception made of him quite a different creature from ourselves, indifferent to the things which those who live for the ordinary span of years call success Pulitzer Prizes Awarded The Pulitzer } )rizes for 1926 ha'·'-· been awarded as follo\-.~S : NOVEL-"Early Autumn" by Loui, B.romfield, prize, $1,000. PLAY-"In Abraham's Bosom" hy Paul Green, prize, $1,000. POETRY-"Fiddler's Farewell " b ~ Leonora Speyer, prize. $1,000. BIOGRAPHY-"Whitman" hy Enwr_, Halloway, prize, $1,000. · HISTORY OF U. S.-"Pincknt ' ·, Treaty," by Samuel Flagg Btn;i,. prize, $2,000. · JOURNALISM-Canton Daily Xe\\'--. prize, gold medal. The awarding of the Pulitzer prizl" this week recalls Sinclair Lewis' spec tacular refusal of the novel prize la "l year. Paul Green is an assistant prof e..,,, ·r of philosophy m the University ',j North Carolina. The medal was given to the Canton Daily News of Canton, Ohio "for thl' most interested and meritorious puhlir service rendered by any America !1 newspaper during the year." It will be .remembered that the editor, Don R. Mellet, was assassinated m the fight which this paper made again st : lJ,. criminal element in that city. Rhapsody Dream Novtl The Woman on the By Arthur Schnitzler Simon a Schuster ........ $ I. 50 BALCONY By Rose Caylor The story of an unloved wife told with understanding and poignance. It will find a welcome with those who are tired of sentimental triviality. It has for background the color and violence of Chicago . Bessarabia Upson Clark Dodd. Mead a Co. . . . . . . $J.so Chttrle~ Miscellaneous · Harvest of the Years Luther Burbank w· i th Wilbur Hall ............. $4.00 Fire Under the Andes. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant The Arrow Pleased to Meet The Ballard baok shop, formerly (Il l vVilmettc avenue. has moved to ir:.. new location, 112.? Central avenue. · You · . . . · · . . . · · · . ~ ·....··.·.·· $4.00 In China (French Academy Prize) Abel Bonnard ............ $5.00 Modern English Playwrights, John W. Cunliffe ........ $3.18 Marco Millions, (a play) James O'Neill .......···.. $2.00 Rise of American Civilization (2 vols.) . Charles & Mary Beard .. $12.50 Two Boolu by Christopher Doubleday. Page~ Co. Each $1.50 Morley Bernard Quesnay Andtt M aaroi1 Appleton ..........···. $1.00 Edna Ferber's new book of slw··t stories "Mother Knows Best" contain ~ , Boai & Liveriaht $2.00 ·some entertaining writing by thi ~ ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;-L! young woman who is at her he s t · in the short story. "We can't keep out of little hells that other people are making." More New Stationery Lovdy imports--and many fine papen from· dae famed domestic SPRING TIDES By R. E. Pinkerton R o m a n c e ! Adventure l Rugged characterizations l :\}1 these appealing qualtttes for a novel which the author displayed so well in "The Test of Donald Norton." Net $2.00. Chicago-Reilly 8 Lee-New York bouHS. Lortl'..-Fint Floor Full line of Nature and Garden Books Sub~eriptiona Talun for All Mag11zin11 lwt inlide tiR W eat D.cia 8tr11t Door and happiness and fame. As his· wife says, his life was one "of achievement which is most distinguished in its de feats. He did not pause for succes ~. he did not wait for it. He was on lu~ wav." And this sense of detachment. this aloofness from the things of the world gave to his life a spiritual quali ty, and to us who read of it a sense of. humility as when we look up ~nd catch a gleaming glimpse of a shootmgstar which started we know not where and is going we know not where, h~tt is "on its way." -EstHER Gon.D . . '