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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Oct 1928, p. 40

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WILMETTE LIFE Oct9~er 5, 1928 "-----------------:---------------.....1 JUST PARAGRAPHS Esther Gould's Book Corner Telepbona: er·· ....,.,.. WO..tte .S.,.. A Brilliant List of Books This Week! The Women at the Pump Knut H am1un Alfred A. Knopf ...... SJ.OO Anyone looking over the lists of books which are to be published in the next three months might be tempted to cover his eyes and run, crying "No thank you we already have a book." But we have lived through other seasons as prolific and it is probable that we will get through this one. Amon· g the interesting ones just off the presses Senator Beveridge's "Life of Lincoln" ranks high. It is written not in the sketchy method of the popular fictional biographer but as the New York Times says "Beveridge's way was to get all the facts, sift them and present them, in the conviction that the character would emerge of itself. It did." As proof again that the really great and flaming personalities of the world never grow old, Ra<;:hcl Annand Taylor has written a brilliant biography of "Leonardo the Florentine." In her pages the great colorful age. and its greatest genius come to life agam. HERE WE ARE porter for the ..Courier." He came as most young inen of his kind would' come-for excitement for opportunitJ, for ne';V experience. He got them, to a certam extent, all. Excitement in hie; love affair begun with no delay with the green eyed girl across the hall, in the bootleg war in which he becomes involved; opportunity in the chances offered by the city papers of which he · has not at the end of the book taken advantage; new e·x periences at every turn in the bewildering pageant of city life. Marry sees it all as a pageant passing against the background of the little Iowa town, the · Dorset porch, the "Courier" office early in the morning. The story is as broken as a cloisonne . vase by the time you can get to it, but there is a jazzing zesture, youthful quality which makes ·it good of its kind. BY AN INDIAN "LONG LANCE" story, of buffalo hunts, the .exploits of medicine pten, wars and the ··q ueer wild tribal dances in which he has taken part many times. It is all part of au almost forgotten time, yet would yoa believe that many of the most famous chiefs still live, that only a little over twenty years ago these Indians saw their first whi~e men. . It is like a speeded up mov1e, but 1t IS true. This is a book to .be read for it is one of the few that we will ever have from one of the Indians who lived in that famous, glamorous time. Essays Launch Career of Charles S. B. rooks ~~Roads to the North," will be pub- Charles S. Brooks, whose new book, "D IVERSEY" Gpyfford of W tare Jellery Famol Littlt, Brown ...· .. .. $2.50 By ~lacKlnlny Kantor Coward·1IcCann Moses Loui1 Unttrmeyet Harcourt, Brace Co... S2.oo a Beneath Tropic Seas William Bttbt G. P. Putnam's Sons .. S3.50 Again v\l·e figure in fiction. Mc-Kin lay Kantor's story "Diversey" is, as might be suspected from its title about Chicago. It is one of those tales told in short barks, somewhat like a series of movie inserts. Guns, lights, toots, wild women whirl by so gloriously and incessantly that one is moved to go in to our city and have another look. There must be a lot we missed the last time. Marry ] avlyn came to Chicago from an Iowa town where he had been re- Robespierre, 1758-1794 Putnam H ilaitt Belloc ............ Ss.oo Rising Wind V irginU. Moore Dutton ..···......... $2.50 Money for Nothing P. G. W odthorue DoubledM, Doran ..... $2.00 Soothes and Refreshes Gay Ruth Pine Furniu Harcourt, Brace a Co.... S2.oo The Front Page Ben H teht and Chtlrl11 M t~cArthru Covici-Friede ·······.·. S2.oo Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at tbt wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instantly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling: Iclears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trips to refrah and protect your eyes. Also ketp a bottle of Muri~ in your locker at the country club for use after 1olf, tennis, swimming and other sports. A month's ~upply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! Wrirt Jlurine Co ·· ChitllfO. ftw FREB One evening in the dining room of the fabulously lov:ely hotel at Lake Louise I looked up to see an unusually striking man in evening clothes walk. ing with great dignity down the length of the room. Immediately there was a murmur, originating in thin air as those murmurs always do, "That's a full-blooded Indian chief, he is a college graduate and did distinguished service in the War. He is an author, too, he has a book which is going to be published." That was too much ! The entire dining-room gave itself uo to staring in child-like delight. But it did not perturb in the least the statelv fi~ure, walking as if through one of hts own forests, his fearless eyes straight ahead, his skin no darker than the sun had made other skins in the room, his features like an Indian carved in bronze. It woul<l be entertaining to be able to say that this Indian chief was Chief Buffalo Child Long Dance. author of the book "Long Lan~e." Unfortunately I have not the faintest idea. yet it might have been for the publisher's blurb on the cover coincides in all the particulars with that murmur. But I have forgotten the Inrlian name that I heard then. This book "Long Lance" is not a book of the world in which its author now lives, but a storv of the Indian world in which he lived years ago. Very simply and vet with a great deal of P'race and oolish he has told this By Chief Buffalo Child / Long · Lance Cosmopolltan Book Corp. lished on October 11 by Harcourt, Bace and company, first won his reputation by a series of books of essays. many of them dealing with England and in a style reminiscent of Charles Lamb. His .first travel book, "A Thread of English Road." dealt with the incidents of a ~ycling trip across southern England. Mr. Brooks lives in Cleveland and is responsible for the con struction and progress of the Cleve· land Little Theatre, one of the mo"t successful ventures of this sort in the country. His work is to be found from time to time in the leading magazine ". "Roads to the North," his new hook. deals with Mr. Brooks' adventures along the great Roman road to Scotland. He is one of those who believe that there is more pleasure and profit to be p-ained by a mile on foot or on a bicvcle than a hundred miles of tearing- through a country in an automobile. Incidentallv, Mr. Brooks was recenttv awarded the honorary deg-ree of D. Litt. b:v At1egheny Coltege, Meadville, Pennsylvania. POSTPONED TILL SPRING Harcourt Brace and company announce that the following books, originally scheduled for publication this fall. have been postponed till spring, 1929: "The Structure of the Novel," hv Edwin Muir: "Lvrical Poetrv from Blake to Hardy," by- H. J. C. Grierson; "Phases of Emrtish Poetry," bv Herbert Read: "The American Experiment," by Bernard Fay; "Middletown: A Studv in Contemporarv American Culture," bv Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd: ·"Tree Crops," bv J. Russell Smith: "Mediaeval Culture·: An Introrluction to Dante and His Times," hy Karl Vossler. THE COMING of the LORD . By Sarah Gertrude Millin On a greater canvas than any she has used before, Mrs. Millin tel1s another superb story of South Africa. Blending many themes together as in a fugue she achieves a swift tragis crescendo. Silas· Bradford's Boy l011ph C. Lincoln Appleton ........·... S2.oo LATEST IN TRANSPORTATION In "Beneath Trooic Seas" Willia111 Beebe's recorrt of the Haitian expedition for the New York Zoological society, the scientist observes a method of transoortation that would doubtle'ls end all the controversy over the sevencent fare: "There floaterl past an immense iellvfish overflowing- with small fish, all alive, all crowded into its interior. There must have been ~t least thrPe hunded and fiftv sm~n fi~h in the heart of this mig-hty jell" when it . was vibrating slowly along." "THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS" Onlv a few weeks before his death in Tahiti at the age of fortv. Robert Keable c om p I e t e d his last novel. "Thou~h This Be Madness." just ouhlished , by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the story of a man who rebels aP.'ainst the conventions and has been favorablv compared hv En'!'lish critics to his well-known "Simon Called Pt>t~r." BOOK ON LITERATURE Prof. Jark Crawford who has been for nineteen years on the English facultv at Yale, has written a book that will he of -'exceptional interest to those peoo1e concerned in honest personal reading. · ·. Horace Liverigh~ N. Y. TIM New Temple lohn Bojn The Century Company .· S2.50 Don't Miss A-Rafting on tiM Mississip' Chtul" Etlwutl R,.,ll The Ccatary Company ·· SJ.so BROOK EVANS By Suaaa GlaapeU Of which the New York Evening ~ost says: "A simple. direct beautifully powerful novel such · as you may ~appen on less t·han three or four times a year." 6ooA· on Bv· llt·rv ~ s,. c·· LORD'S-BOOICS Fint Flo« D.1il IJRIIVL r.o·You· EYES Frederick A. Stokea Co., N. Y.

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