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·32 WILMETTE William · Allen White ~ Volume About Presidents During the bst week the papers have frequently devoted space to Witliam Allen White's statements with regard to one of the Presidential nominees. You~ll find what he thinks of past Presidents in his fo.rthcoming book, "Masks ~n a Pageant," announced by Macmillan for Sept~mber 4th. Mr. White has known eight Presidents personally, and he gives his frank and satirical opir:tion of. them in these character s~etches. He . says of Harding: "The gods of the times create<! him out ·of red Ohio mud, putting him to dry against the fence of the Executive Mansion; when they breathed the breath of opportunity into his nostrils. he walked inFate's tragic mannikin." His comments are wise as well as humorous : "McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding all rose to power and left . their names in history, while Bryan did chores around the halt of Fame, h~ping for a niche there." I LIFE August 24, 1928 Esther Gould's Book Corner ' JUST ·PARAGRAPHS a book. It is simply one of those before which the author has said, "It is time to have a book," and rolling up his sleeves has fallen to. Mr. Beer evidently thought it rather a coup to have, instead of the ·usual country boy dreaming of an escape to the city, a city boy dreaming of escape to the country. Though Lamon Coe is only a city boy. temporarily, only until he can get back to his native and · beloved farm from which his 'irate papa has thrown him because of a compromising affair with a widow. So New York is dust and ashes in Lamon's mouth and he sprinkles "ain'ts·" and "g's" generously about waiting fbr papa to die off and leave him the farm which is the "Heaven" that New York is the road to. In the city, "Lamon's experiences are not uplifting. He picks up a mistress whom papa would never have approval of and lives with a literary cousin who is unreal as belonging to Lamon's family tree. But he is necessary to bring in the literary background that Mr. Beer knows and might as well use. Well, to make a long-too long-book 's hort, on one grand · night the mistress burns to death, a former lover of hers cuts his throat and the cousin dies, and next day Lamon marries a girl from home and goes back to be taken in by papa. Oddly enough the homesickness of the boy is touching, it is the only touching part of the book. Is that because homesickness a more or less universal experience strikes a response even when poorly done? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~· fWNfAIN SQVAR[, · r:v:ANSTON T elepbones: Greealeaf 7100 Wilmette 3710 Roaen Park 1122 Books on Psychology and Child Training Influencing Human Behavior H. A. Ovtr·tred W. W. Norton ~ Co. . . SJ.OO It may not be recent news but it is nevertheless authentic that Samuel Pepys oqce wrote a · very entertaining book. ~nd, in the midst of wh~t Fanny Butcher bewails as a particularly arid season, it is a pleasure to go to Mr. Pepys once more ~nd lear;t th~t he and his wife took dmner With his cousin Tom where everything was very excellent 41 except the venison pie being manifestly beef, which wasn't handsome." Which may perhaps · go to show that it isn't the what to say but the how to say it that in the moderns is so often lacking. Louis Bromfield is slated for a novel to come out on September 13, "The Strange Case of Miss Anuie Spragg." We hope for Mr. Bromfield's. sake as well as our own that it will come up to the advance publicity that it will ·undoubtedly call forth. Other authors on Stokes' list for the next month are Louise Jordon Miln and Hugh Lofting. W. B. Yeats, Poet, Will Quit Free State Senate W. B. Yeats, poet, dramatist and Nobel prize winner, will disappear from the Irish Free State Senate in September. He decided not to offer himself for re-election when his term of office expires as he-- has been ordered by his doctor to spend his winters on the Italian Riviera in the future. He has been a regular attendant at the Senate sessions since the Free State was formed, and although he has not iqtervened in debates often, when he has done so, he has shown a remarkable grasp of affairs, and a keen political penetration. NOT THAT TO US "THE ROAD TO HEAYEN" By Thomas Beer Alfred A. Knopf Thomas Beer 1s decidedly disappointing in l'The Road to Heaven.' After his suave and brilliant performance in "The Mauve Decade" we had. it seemed, more to hope for than he has given. In fact this book is one of those which leaves you wondering wh y after all it was written. Its style, its content, its purpose, none of them seem adequate to excuse the writing of Psychology ~f the PreSchool Child Appleton · ·.·· ~ ....... $2.75 &ldwin and Sttchtr Cultivating the Child's Appetite Macmillan ·······..·· s 1 , 75 SUFFERINGS DELUXE "BEAU IDEAL" By Percival Christopher Wren Frederick A. Stokes Aldtith Psychological Care of the Infant and Child · I. B. Wat10n By tht author of Behaviorism W. W. Norton ~ Co.·· S2.oo =:""'~"~'~"~"'!"~"'~'~'~"~"!"'~"~"~'~'~"~"!"~"'!"': "~"~' ~"~'~"~'~"~"~"~"!"'!"'~"~ "~"~":"~"~'~"~":"~'~"'!'"!'"~'!~"'"__ ~ ~ Living With Our Children Lillian M. Gilbttth W. W. Norton ~ Co. . . $2.50 The Nervous Child H. C. Oxford Press Ct~mtton ·..··... s ~. 75 New Books ·The Living Buddha M adtline Boyd Henry Holt ·..··.·... $2.50 T ·be Foolish Virgin X.thiHn N orri· Doubleday Doran ..... Sz.oo Spider..Boy Cui V m V ~thten Fred A. Knopf ..···.. $2.50 The Book of Catherine Wells I Short stories and potms written by Catherine Wells, the wife of H . . G. Wells with an introduction by H. G. W. Doubltday Doran ..·.. S2.50 BOOKS /rut ln.UU the Wnt Dwit SttHt Bntnna I! ·· the African desert Percival Christopher Wren with in Major the third and avowedly last of what are now called "the Geste books." If this is the last under the auspices of _ we can only say that Major Wren was a bit. incontinent in killing off two of his three heroes in the first one, otherwise they might have gone on forever like "the Rovers." But things being as they are and John Geste being the only one alive and he happily married it looks as if Major Wren might have to keep to his decision. "Beau Ideal" is full of those gestures of high and rather excessive sacrifice wliich the populace, being quite unwilling to do itself, so loves to have its fictional heroes do for it. I~ Otis Vanbrugh loins the French Foreign Legion and deliberately has himself sent 'to the Penal Battalion in search of John Geste, the husband of !I Isobel whom he loves. John Geste, in his turn, has gotten into this decidedly '§ uncomfortable battalion through his insistence on traveling from home and safety back to the . desert in search of the two buddies who had rescued him · ~. 400 Series and whom in ill health he himself h~ · I ~ had been forced to "abandon." So Major Wren having placed his two characters in this position has a chance to have them beaten, kicked about, starved, deserted, and all but ~ SATURDAY - AUGUST 25 cut in little pieces, from which th~re would have been no return. In any case the narrowness of their escape and their sufferings are all that can be desired. But in the end-though that would be giving it away and you never suspected it. 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