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J2 . WILM ·ETTE LIFE ·· May 13,. 1927 [ NJEWI&§lr Iffi(Q)(Q)~ ANJD) DID YOU KNOW- Iffi(Q)(Q)ll{ ~[\Vlll&W§ "EARS TO HEAR" I BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones Un1versity 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Runaway Days Samuel Scoville, Jr. Harcourt. Brace a Co. $ 2.. 5o Mysteries Knut Hamsun Alfrtd A. Knopf ........ $2 .50 The Way of Romance Vivian Gilbert Applnon . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 The MaS!ic Mountain Thoma Mann ( :t Volumes) Alfrtd A. Knopf ........ $6.oo Young Men in Love Michael Arlen Doran ·...·..........· $2..50 Pharisees and Publicans E. F. Benson Doran ·............... $2.00 Oil! (A Novel) Albut a Charles Boni Upton Sinclair The Main Stream Stwut Sherman Charles Scribner's Sons .... $1. 5o Re-Forging America Lothrop Stoddard Ch.ules Scribnu·s Sons .... $3.00 Rogues and Vagabonds Com~tton Mackenzie Doran ·............... $2.00 Sack and Sugar Mr1. Alfrttl Sidgwick Donbltday, Page t4 Co..... $1.00 An American Saga Carl Chrutian Jemen Little, Brown a Co...·... $1.50 Billet Francaise $1.25 Delicately tinted note paperwith envelope and paper for message, in one piece. In compose orchid, bl·e. gray, and green--or pore white. Lotd't-Fir~t Floor Jrut inside the West Davis Street Door "In no way do people differ more in what they do with their ear ~ . "l\~R. FORTrNE'S MAGGOT"- By A few of. us use them to hear with. S~·Jna '~OWHSE>ncl 'Varner. If Sylvia Townsend Vlarner gained Most of us, I am afraid, like a certain That John Buchan , novelist:· has been nominated for Parliament to a prominent position for herself in animal, only wag them. Hardly an~· represent the Scottish University? the literary world with ." Lolly 'iVil- of us really 'take in' more than a lowe s" she has materially strengthened fraction of the interesting or beautiful it-"dug in," · so to speak-with "Mr. That The Famous Plaqers which Fortune's Maggot." Her sense of the experiences that constantly presrnt abandoned the idea of fi.lminq "Sorridiculous notable in her first book is themselves for admittance at the pnr rell and Son" have sold the film 1 given rollicking free play here, until tats of our rars." riqhts to Herbert Brenon? Mr. Fortune becomes one of those In this \\'ay do~s · Daniel Grrgnr\· characters who is a constant sot1rce of . . " · · That Edwin Balmer, an Et-'ansjoy in times of trouble. I ~f~~on mt roduc.c Ius E~,n to Hear. a ron author, has been made editor of Of . course Mr. Fortune really did gmcle for mus1c lovers. one of th,· the Red Book recently? more than his share. But he never booklets in the Reading with a rt:r :__________________......; I became cross about it, that is one of pose seri~s issued ~h~· thr Atn<·ril·a · 1 . . his endea~ring tr~its. Mr. Fortune's \\ c thmk that the nPxt new and "maggot, in other words "perverse Library association. P?tmlar game will consist. of trying to fancy," ~as to turn from the well He continues "Seeing and hearin).:' p1ck out the famou~ movrc people and populated center of St. Fabien toward arc acti,·e proccs~es not passive statt·~ conteml~,orary ,folk ~n D,~n R~an's fin~ that . unspoiled tropical!y luxurial!t Listening is not an occupation for th .· novrl. Angel s Fltght, whtch Bom paracltse of Fanua a ltttlc volcamc · · and Tin· right are publishing in Au I · 1 1 · tl p ·fi' Tl ·t·J · t laz,· or dull; tt requ1res a keen and · · , . . . - ts anc m 1c act c. 11 1er agams t t II' . · tl . ; 1 1 m e tgence. hu t 111 g u"t · · supenors · · co1 cc C(· H .n. . D~n lhan . . dunng the tlurtv . - a 11 tl1e b es t a d v1cc of 1 11s m · 1 · 1 · 1 1 1 seven years of his life has been tl t · h h · . h f 1 ex taustl\'e ( e 1g 1ts 1t )nngs we a r·· 11 ~mong · oth~r things new'spaper man' le .r ltftrc 1 · e JOttlrneHycc' lCrke e IOUl~(t repaid a thousand fold ior all t h· · , , peace or 11s sou . e ma es a mo., 1 ff t 1 t k .. profcs~ional ·dancer,. vaudeville act.or, immediately a cotwe.rt, a beautiful e or we laYe o ma e. fir~t heutenant of .1nfantr~, ~nd tttle agile youth wh.o comes to him of hi.; ~ational n1t1sic ,,·eek was ~fa,· 1-i . wnln for the lllO\'It'~. Th1s IS a clue own free will and live s with him. Mr . and in crlehration oi it. musician:-. to unscrambling many of the impor-1 Fortune feels that this soul of Lueli critics and educators compiled a li~t oi tant personages thinly disguised in this is a gift from God and tries therefore. hook~ recomm~ncled .to quicken. the novel. to . c all him "Theodore." The boy has anragr persons mus1cal pcrceptJ( ~ 'l". no ohjection and they live together in j The \Vilmcttc Public library has the Since it has been found nccessarv to joyful comradeship until the day it j following hook~ on the list: publish "The Mad Professor" by Her- turns out that Lueli is worshipping T{rf'hbit·l-How to Li~ten to ~lusk. mann Sudennann in two volumes, its his own god in private not far away . Faulknt·r-"'l~at "'·' Hear in :\f~si<'. publication will not take place until Mr Fortune is terribly hurt and tric!' HendPrson- " llnt Ts 0ood l\fu~rr':' · ., . Downf's- T..ur<> of 1TUS1<'. the fall. to destroy Luelt s god, but m the end SC'holPs- -Li:-;t <·twr·~ nuid(· to Radio 1Turestores it to him and destroys instead I l'i<'. . . . his own Then he realizes that of·- Elson- H·story ·or ..-\mertran ?.~uf;t<' . · . : . Spa.N·~t-f'ommons(·nse of Mus1<'. causr he 1s destroymg the very peace Grovf's-J>i<'tionnry of ~fu:-;i·· an<l ~rm-iNew and Interesting that he loves he must go away. rians. Books for Your Library I These two characters are masterinl l\fason-~r:lwstral Tnstrunknts. and delicate creations, and the hook fn addltl.on to these h<;oks "'~ ha \' \' is a beautiful artistic whole. the Jollowtng that arc mtcrcst111~ :n -Es·rH.I·:R Go ·w. mus1c ln\'ers. 1 !\[ason-Contf'mJHJrary Compos.·r~. The Madonna of the Sleeping .:·._ ,_.,_,_,,_..,_,_,_u_.,_,_,_ ~ra.son-Ears to Hear. Car. - Mason-From Song to Symphony. Maurice De Kobra ...... $2.50 J Critics unite in praisia~: · ~- Mason-Guide to Music. -~ Mason-Short Studies of r:rt'at -:\Ta~l· · t·I! The Immortal Marriage Gertrude Atherton ...... $2.50 The ROAD to the i J{J!~\~~r:i--nook of Opera. The Sombre Flame ! Ordway- OpE'ra Book. T EM PL E 1 Rous-Vi<'trola Hook of Opera. Samuel Rogers . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 ::: Watkins- First Aid to 0p<'ra Goer~. Chains Susan Glaspell's Dir)dn~on -Slu<ly of f.·~H· History of :'.InTheodore Dreiscr . . . . . . $2.50 kindling biography of Songs TranslatThe Lonely Ship George Cram Cook. i Nl Storm Jameson . . . . . . . . $2.50 ! .Tohn.son-eook of American Spirituals. The Sorrows of Elsie . Harry Hansen says, "It has been S<'a.rborou·g·h-On thP Trail of the Nt> g·ro Andre Savignon .......... $2.00 lo t' · book Folksong. '= a 1 1 ong, ng lmc smce any i Ot>sterle·-'Vell Known Piano 1\Iusi<'. Young Men in Love · -~ has stirred me so profoundly." ! Anthology of Amerknn Song. Michael Arlen .......·.. $2.50 · k A . S k C $J OO i :\fuskians--Biographies. F de i re nc: · to ea o. . ! Key-Caruso. ! i Strachey-Nie·htingale (Chopin). I·:··-~-~~"-"_'_"_n_ 1 _'_"_'-··!· Damrosch-1\Iy M :usical LifE'. Finck-nrieg and His )fusic. . The Rise of American Rolland-Handel. Civilization (2 Vols.) Gilman-1\facDowell. Charles A. Beard Hl'rwy-Rai nt-Sa.en. 3rd Large Printing Mary R. Beard . . · . . . . . $12.50 Runaway Days "'I'he. Golden b}· LdewisdMut llSamuel Scoville, Jr. . ... $2.50 ! fon 1 w!IJ appear m 11g1an un er t 1 11.' Ii Gf>orge Eliot and Her Times ! imprint of The Oxford University Elizabeth S. Haldane .... $3.50 Polonaise (Life of Chopin) Guy De Pourtales ........ 3.00 i Anne Douglas Sedgwick First Crossing of the Polar Sea ! "We can't keep out of little hells el Ronald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth ...... $5.00 that Practical Furniture De'Corations (2 vol.) Shapland, each .......... $5.00 By R. E. Pinkerton ! "Swift and beautiful. Surely one R 0 man c e! Adventure! Subscriptions Taken for All i of the best novels of the Spring." d · · 1 -Esther Forbes Ill the no( k ReRugge charactenzatiOnS · : -: Magazine· All those appealing qual-= I · view. ities for a novel which the i author displayed so well in a: Houghton Mifflin ! "The Test of Donald Nor:: -......--13 ..0 ..D,..AAVtiiiSIIIIIS·T·R.. £.,ET If i ton." Net $2.00. . ! $2.50 at all bookstores i 'II y & 1..ee- New y or k , ,Univeraity 123 i I 1 Ch' acago- R ea That a new form of a question and answer book will be issued May r 5 by Bani Liveriqht of which Samuel Adams is the author? ]Reviews of W iill1Iiiil<e1ttt® ILii1ID1r ~1ry IBccka ===--......:o:=o:::::a-====---=--====- I than I ---------------------Fiction .. ) 1 Il l 1 I 1 I i St~;,<'~g·ways-Rchubf'rt's I Miscellaneous . I I ~_,_,,_,,_,, __,_,_.,_,_, ,_,_' ...... .... THE QL .D ! 1 1 ~ayE" I· COUNTESS I I ?~v~sss~. z~~i, '<lr~~e {):.~.~~ .I I ! II 't :r::_ ___ __.,. I ~;i:;~~·,~~~~~· ,.. ' s I I Co. ------------------------------ ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;=;;;:.,;;;;;;;,1 : ···-~--·-~--~-·-·)--(-1)- .. II I I I .! I 1 I ·:·~---·-·-<-.·----1)-·-1····