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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Feb 1928, p. 41

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Book& of the H011r B~ Eatlter Go.W New York is still the same energetically dazzling city. - Ford Madox Ford is still insisting that 'New York is not America"-a statement that meets with no contradiction since no one is conscious of havmg ever said that it was-and still giving farewell parties and then turning up the next week. Isa Glenn is serving tea charmingly and declaring that cooking is the proper avocation of a writer-cooking without a recipe that is-since "there are no ·words in it" and backing up her theory with Elinor Wylie's experience. Louis Bromfield is preparing to sail precipitously for France where a modest little apartment with six bedrooms will help to recoup an America-riddled fortune. And everyone is saying that he is awfully tired of "wondering what a certain old trader thinks when the postman brings him l!is morning check for $5,000." This last is undoubtedly only jealousy, however. · Disraeli Andre MIIUrou Appleton ·············· S).oo The Blessing of .Pan Lord Dunltlnfl Putnam ···.··.········ S :z.oo The Clock Strikes Two H mrg Kitchell Wewter Bobbs-Merrill ··········· S:z.oo DIE END OF IT "SOUTHERN CHARM" By laa Glenn Alfred A. Kllopf The Curse of the Tarnifs Count Edowud von Kev~«ling Macauby ·············· S:z.so Southern Charm I· Gltnn Alfred A. Knopf ······.· S:z.so Peggy by Request Etbtl M. Dell Putnam ..············· S:z.oo Counterpoint lcnephine D111hm &con John Day ······...····· S:z.so The Lie Helen R. M11rtin Dodd, Mead t1 Co······. $2.00 Pictorial Golf H. B. M ~~rtin Dodd, Mead t1 Co······· $2.00 Children of the Fog Htulen Gu11t Putnam ··.············ $2.00 Ct~rtMl The Light Beyond E. Phillip· Oppenheim Little, Brown g Co. ~ ····· $2.00 It is the new tradition in southern books to break up the old tradition which earlier southern books have so painstakingly built up. It is a good sign and shows as all revolutions .do ~how, new blood. Miss Isa Glenn is coming to the fore as one of the most able of these revolutionists. In her new book, "Southern Charm," she has made the ·most devastating case for the far-famed charm o~ southern womanhood. Following .the new dramatic method of novel-writing which plunges the reader directly into an important moment and from that vantage point allows him to look back into the past and forward into the future, Miss Glenn gives us a crowded twenty-four hours of a charming southern woman's life. Mrs. Haber. sham brought up her two daughters in what was to her the most approved style. She taught them that to be pretty and innocent and charming w.as everything since their only possible careers in life would consist in by this method keeping the She upper hand over some man. taught them this and nothing else. So years before, Laura, the wayward daughter, who had not "gotten . her figure down" as had her older Sister. Alice May, and therefore could not expect to be attractive to men, had gone astray and had an illegitimate child. Her mother leaving her in Romr where this regretable incident hacl happened announces to her relations that she has died of the fever. Twenty years later in New York City Mrs. Habersham and the docile daughter, A~ice May, ru.n acr?ss Laura. They have a dramatiC meetmg in which . without illusions they look at each other and themselves. Then, the shock over, they each go back to their way of life, but slightly changed. B~ Ala-. L WWt.ack The Wilmette Public library has added two books to its collection, that your mouth waters to read, and your heart aches to try, for they are on Frer ch cooking! Claire de Pratz. in "Frencb Home Cooking," has selected for the most part family recipes, characteristic dishes from all sections of the country, the warm south, the northern coast, the cities, and the homes of the peasants . . . Many of her recipes have been used for generations . . . and have been copied from small hand-written cook-books handed down as precious heirlooms in French families, and lent only as a ·g reat personal favor, with fervent admonitions for their safekeeping~ This is the cook-book of the something different that is inexpensive. The housewife will find suggestions for seasoning all combinations of food. "Colette's Best Recipes" by Marie Jacques is full of the ways a French cook uses in preparing food, li~tle ideas of bringing out flavor, of ussng small bits. The story interest impels one to read to the end, growing more and more hungry all the time. "Power" by Lion Feuchtwanger has been a sensation in England and America. Part of ·it is doubtless · due to the fascination of the horribleromance that was once clothed in rose and gold is now attired in dirt and reality. But, for the most part, it is due to his peopling the book with 'characters that live, grow and decay. We watch Jew Suss grow from a mean . servile man that we despise to a greatness that we finally respect. In his latest book "The Ugly Duchess," we pity the poor ugly young duchess with the mouth of an ape and are her champions while fate thwarts her attempts at compensation in the form of being a great ruler. Both books are of the riewer historical romance, full of color and drama, but lacking in the old-time sentiment. "Influencing Human Behavior," by H. A. Overstreet, was an absorbing book on how to get what we want from other people. His latest book, "Aboul Ourselves" provides us a means of understanding our moods that we mav have more interesting and · vital lives. "Girls Who Did," by Helen Ferris, answers for girls the question "What am I going to do?" It is made up of interviews of unusually successful American women, how they got their start and eventual eminence, and how one may follow in their footsteps. "My Crystal Ball," by Elizabeth Marbury, is a realty entertaining and stimulating book of reminiscences. We read of an endless procession of eelebrities, financiers, diplomats, officials, BoO Vitally Interesting EDEN- Murray Sheehan, Dutton .................. 11.11 A satirica~ humorous, picturesque noveL Original and unique. A FAIRY LEAPT UPON MY KNEE-Bea HoweViking · ······-···········-A fairy tale for grownups. THE BONNEY FAMILY -Ruth Suckow, Knopf .. sz.a Twenty years of family life. Written with skiDful insight. BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS RET-Wilder, A. &: C. Boni ...................... . . Absorbing story of life and death in Lima, South America. Reprinted six times since November. Non-Fidion: DISRAELI MauroisAppleton ................ $1.11 Just translated. Ia the liquid musical style of "Ariel" Sold 100,000 copies in Paris alone. THE REUGION OF THE SPIRIT-E. F. Tittle, Abingdon Press ......... tz,ll Studies in Faith and Life by the pastor of the ll. E. Church of Evanston. MUCH LOVED BOOKS] ames O'Doanen Benaett -Boni Liveright ......... $111 A wise presentation of books we all enjoy. From the columns of the Chicago Tribune. PICTORIAL MAPS.IJ.51 to Maps of Boston, New York and London. Child's Map of the Ancient World; Map of Adventure; Booklover's Map and Map of Northwestern Univer·sity. . ......................... ... et~Archy and mehitable" is the gem of Don Marquis' column collections. It relates the work of archy the coachroach, who could not use upper case letters and Mehitabel, the cat, "tonjours gai ... there's more than one dance in the old dame yet." The novtl thct ha c·ptivctlfl the coantrv: In The Chlldren's Own Room STORY OF THE SHIP- E. N. Hurley ............ $!.11 A u t h e n t i c information given on ancient .and modern ships. Beautifully iUus· trated by Gordon Grant. Purple Stains Hmrv V. Stev.n10n Minton, Balch g C~······ S:z.oo My Life The truly great autobiography of ISADORA DUNCAN "All the ·g reat autobiographies . . . seem made with artifice beside the tumultuous outpouring of this free spirit." Harry Hansen. BOlli A UY.IPt .......... $UI DUSTY ANSWER By Rosamond Lehmann A best seller everywhere! Christopher Morley said of it. "We have not had since· 'The Constant Nymph' a first novel of such brilliant cruel and tender beauty." Henry J:lolt 8 CO. $2.50 FLIP-FLOP LAJID-De Alton Valentine ......... .St.. A laughing colorful picture book. Just tum a page and Flip Flop a funny animal picture. LORD'S BOOKSHOP la~t Chandler' F_.... ....... Eftllltaa . · lnlitle the Wnt O.Vi· Strett Bntrlll'lce U.U..ID .,_. ...

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