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32 WILMETTE LIFE May Zl, 1927 ..,. DID YOU KNO\VThat A . Hamilton Gibbs and Mr.~. Gibbs who spent the winter in Paris are expected to reach New York tf1is month.' Reviews of New Books "YOCNG Arlen. :\fEX TX LO\'E"-~Iicha< · l BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones Unaversity I 024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 That euch of the two volume books . .. The Peasants .. bll !~ell mont qnd .. The Growth of th~ Soil" by Hamsun, U)t1f be issued in one volume next month bll Alfred A. Knopf? That T. E. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Deser.t" is the onl~ English book to have its first translation in the Arabic language? That an effort has been made bt; Vicente Ibanez in his latest book. "At the Feet of Venus," to clear the name of Lucrezia Borgia of the stigma which has been attached to it? B-0-0-K Twilight Appleton S~ep E tl:.tb Wbarton Christ of the Indian Road E. Stanley Jones The Abingdon Press S I .oo A life of Elenora Dusc by the Brit ish critic and dramatist, Arthur Svmons is something to look forward to among the late spring publications. Besides material on the career of the great act res . . there will lw <'Pis odes conccming D'Annunzio. Bnnhardt and others. Another author to return fr o1n for shores is Sc ott Fitzgcrat'cl '"hv with his familY arrived herr rccentlv from France. -He is occupying an old mansion on th e D ela,yare river \\·here he will romplctr hi . ne\\· nm·rl to he publi shed next fall. "i " 'l The Beadle Pauline Smith Doran We Live But Once Rupert H uqhes Harper and Brothers $2.00 L.:;~;;:;;~~~~;;~;;:;;~~~~ ·x:xn:nnxxxxxx The Story of a Wonder Man Being the Autobiography of ~inq Lardner Scribner's $I · 75 New Books Will Interest ······················ First Crossing of the Polar Sea Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth Doran S;.oo Fiction Tavern Night R. Sabatini ... ..... . . . ... $2.50 Noctaire Militairi Elliott White Sprin. g . . ... $2.50 The Early Worm Rohert Bendly .... . . .. .. $2.00 Bella Jean Giradoux .... . ...... $2.50 Love Is Enough (2 vol.) Francis 'B rett Young .... . $5.00 Tomek the Sculptor Adelaide Eden Phitlpotts Cannibal Nights Captain Raabe .. . .... . .. $3.00 Glorious Adventure Richard Hatliburton .. .. $5.00 \Vashington (2 vol.) John Dillaway Sawyer .. . $20.00 The Glorious Adventure 'Richard Halliburton Ss.oo Bobbs Merrill Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play Brander Matthews Scribnrr's Sz.oo The Drums of Aulone Robert W. Chambers D. Appleton ~ Co. Sz.oo It is a s light]~· jaded and perhaps we might even say faded Mr. Arlen who makes his famous society how in this latest gold-wrapped, maple ic.-~ cream papered hook, "Young Men in Love." Perhaps ~fr. Arlen is tired out trying to spend the income derived from his other gold- (not solid) wrapped volume s which the public has devoured so a\·ariciously, or the box office receipts from his charming, well advertised. shocking play "The Green Hat." Whatever may be the cause, Mr. Arlen is tired. That much is certain. And a tired author makes a tired reader. That too is certain. "Young ~len in Love" is the storv of several men . most important among them Charle s Savile, the successful novcli~t. and Peter ~erie, the successful politician. and h<:tween thrm the young lady Venetia, who by the way is a proper addition to the ~?allen· of Venices and Irises. !\fr. Arlen i11ust have a well thunibed almanac and garden manual beside him when he is starting a new novel. Now these people arc much like those charming ones of Mayfai,r but they somehow lack the old dash. They are like champagne which has been poured out and left standing. They have color hut arc a little stale. Thev lack a certain wistful yearning fo-r something ideal which kept Mr. -Arlen's earlier characters from heing common . They were people walking through mud puddles hut with eye s turned upward to the stars. Now they have electric flashlights and are looking calculatingly at the mud. There are pa ssages in which tfr. Arlen returns to his old vigorous, witty style hut there arc others-and more of them-when the machinery seems to creak a little. For example, "They did not kilt conversation by expecting the truth from each other nor. did they kill the truth by expect~ ing conversation from each other." One might add that they probably did kill each other hy expecting anything at all from each other. Or, "Dreams of pO\ver were sweet to him. And what power \vas there to be gotten in South Africa hut the power to leave it!" Of course ~f.r. Arlen was a phenomenon which could not last, he could no more be a steady light than can a shooting star, but perhaps he will turn comet and have recurring years of brilliance. "CHA 1XS"-T·l1 Podorf' nrdser. NEW BOOKS Miscellaneous Austen-:\.lansfield Park Dumas-Count of Monte Cristo Lenanton-Mrs. Newdigate's \\ind o" · Russell-What I Believe Ogg-Economic Development oi .\I tH I ern Europe Terman-Hygiene of the Scho(> l ( ·h:ld Hol1ingworth-Gifted Children Welts-Project Curriculum Sedgwick-Short History oi ~cit·nct · Peters-Diet for Children Gilhreth-Home-makcr and Her Jul· Holt-Happy J3ahy Ripley-:-Main Street and \\"all ~t r nt Art and Literatu .. ~ Embury-Early American Churches Gardner- Art Through the Ages Hamlin - Enjoyment of Architectur.t· MatLer-History of Italian Paintin~ ~,f ~son -Orchestral Instruments Wflliam s - Game Trail~ 111 Rrit i~ h Columbia Eastman - EnjoYment oi Poetr~· M oses- Representatiq: Ont Act PL " ·, hy Continental Author s ~'[ cCullough-Modcrn E:-;say-., O'~rill-Great God Brown o·~ cill- 1f arco ~~ill ions Brownell-Victorian Pro :-- e ~r a:-.ter -. Lonsdale-Aren't We All History and Travel Gricrson - Things Seen in F.dinhur .~.d 1 Parker- Higln\'ays <1 nrl lh·\\'a,·-. 111 Surrev Palmer...::_Things S ec n ;1t the F m!li--' , Lakes \\'illiams- Piain Town :; () i Ttah· Domville - Fife - Th i n ~" ~n·11 111 Switzerland Edmonds- Peacock. ·and Pa god a-; RaYage- An Ameri can in th e :\f a k in:..: Den is- Spanish A Ita Cali i 1·rn ia Richman ~Cafif o rnia t·nder ~pai n an I ~r txic~ ~r asdit·ld - On the ~pan j..,IJ \fa in The Tavern Knight Raphael Sabatini Houghton, Mifftin and Co. $2.50 Kingdom of Happiness Jeddu Krishnamurti ..... $1.50 \Vhite Rooster (Poetry) George O'Neil .... . ...... $2.00 My Word Arthur E. Morgan ...... $2.00 (President of Antioch College) Perhaps with the name of Theodore Dreiser more than with any othe,r in American letters is connected the word "realism." Slowly, logically, merci- ENGRAVING done with exquisite care. Special attention is now being given to Wedding and Commencement announcements and invitations. Here art many new samples of engraving and stock from which you may choose---with assurance of style correctness, service and ease. The Man Behind the Mask By Grace MacGowan Cooke "The reader will be kept on. edge until the last page."-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. $2.00. Subscription. Taken lot All Magazine~ Lord' 1 Stationery and Book Shop Firat Floor Just inside the Welt Dwis Strett Door F. A. Stokes Company, New York · le ss !~· . ~[ r. Drei scr wea\'es t\lgt: t h··r the threads which make a pattern 1 1r life in "·hich nothing ic; left out, 111 1thing is for the sake of sentimcntali1 \·. exaggerated or depreciated for 11 iv same ,r eason. In other \mrds h r j , constantly and supremely the reali . t. In this collection of :-.hort storie .: called "Chains," he has sho\,·n ll!Hh·r manv titles and in mam· methods thi" unfai ling realism. The. first ston· oi the volume, "Sanctuary," in its me.agr~'> straightforwardness of plot, is in tlw manner of "An Amrrican Tragedy." Madeleine, a child who "might haH been conceded to he a flower of sorts." a sin)ple, charming child, is the child of pa,r ents unbelievable to most of uc; outside of the la\'\·courts or Juri(! stories in the newspapers, people who live in the darkest drabness afforded by the tenements of our enlightenrcl age. "Always about her there had been drunkenness, fighting, complain ing, sickness or death; the police coming in and arresting one and another ..." and in this atmosphe,r e Madeleine grew up. Or grew to an age at which she could go out and shift for herself. At that age she ventured into the world and it showed her what it could do on another form of crueJt,·. Finally Madeleine, unbearably dri\'e~l. finds sanctuary in the reformatory in which she had once been confined. In the next story the ,realism is just as apparent, just as terrifying though not as poignant and the plot is a more or less supernatural one. The title ·tor,y of the hook shows the insidious c·hains by which a sensuous middle ~ged man is bound to the tight g.r asping lady who calls herself his wife. -EsTHtR Gom.n.