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52 WILMETTE LIFE December 9, 1927 FARCE "STRANGE WOMAN" NEW BOOKS AT WILMETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY The following new book:; ha\'c been added to the collection of the \\"ilml'ttc Public libran·: Adams-Democracy. · :\ustin-\Vhl·n ~laitkind wa:; Young. Beer-Fair l~ewards. Fagusson-\Volf Song. Cnpp~lr<I-Adam and En· and Pi ·1ch ~lc. \ l.agt·rloi-Charlot tc I.o\\ l'll:-kold. ~arHl-- D('vil's Pool. :-'rarluH·oug-h-I 111 pat icnt ( ~ri:-clda . \\'il~on-Somt~whcr~ at Sea. \\'alpolc-Jer('tny at l'rak THE NATURE OF 1·HE ANIMAL ..A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN" By John Langdon-Davies The Viking Press \\'t· agt· "t'l'111 Robert McBride By Elmer Davia & Co. BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Teleph9ne for Your Booka: Univeraity 10Z4 Wil 3700 Roger· Park JIZZ Elmn Da,·is can write excruciating-~ l.r funny things. "Strange \\'oman," however instead of being hi~h comedy is light farce. 'I'hc setting of the farce is this: Dr. M crriam. a unin·rsity prtsi dc:nt i!l the small town of Emln1ry. has hy dint of great effort and trouhle hrou~ht a Chicago opera company to the towu for a two-day run. to han· in thi' particular matter of .. \\T 1 heings." It n~ight j that many of us . llnwl·n·r that may Nearly Everyone Gives BOOKS! George Sand By Marit J. Howe John Day . . . . · . . . . . . . . . Ss.oo Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg H.ucourr, Buct .......... $ J.oo Memoirs of Queen Hortense Arthur K. Briggs Cosmopoliun .......... $1 o.oo Story of Architecture Thomas E. Tallmadge W. W. Norton .......... $ 3· 50 The Spanish-American Frontier A. P. Whitaker Houghton, Mifflin . . . . . . . . $).so I .I Tlw luwn is upsi«ll· d0\\' 11 with Non-fiction exritt·mt·nt. But tht· demoraliza -1 \\'hite-- City :\lanagtr. tion ha~ i10t stopped with the town; it seems that. Dr. ~h.·rriam himself ~· ~dson-\Yild Animal... 1)l \'urth came so under tlu.~ thrall of the the- 1 America. ! nH·n and women ." atriral atmosphere last y<·ar in Chi- 1· llcu::.haw-Book of Bird:-. It is a hi~ton of tht· statu-.. r,j \ \ I I I l i ca~o that he had beronw the lover Fra~er - J lcrol·s oi the Air. t·n ht·ginning- \~·ith primitin titllt' . . and of the leading .woman ni t ht <·ompany Littldoh~1-llow to Enjoy Pi~·t mv~ . t:oing rl11\\"ll through tht· ri,·iliz:ttion~ Dagmar Dahl j Frank - Sah·oe:-.. . ,.j :\:--ia. f:J{ypt. (~n· t · ft : anti I~PII H' tltrou!..!h thr ~tiddl,· :\gn 111 11111cln11 His wife. Luq·. !war:- of thi!, the 1 Bt:t:kl.'r- :\d,·ettt urt· . . t'i l\ l'.ll!ill:.! . Phdp" .. fJappint·:- . . . tinH·..,· with an <"pilol.!l1t' Clll tht· inturt· of lll'r reception to the visitingI ni~ht Browning-Dran1a . . . It j, rl(·arh· an~ ~ intcn·qing-1~· ,nitt~n artists. 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