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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Nov 1928, p. 46

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WILME~TE : LIFE ~~------E_n_h~er_·_G_o_·_Lr_s~ · _B_o_ok __ c_o_r·_er __ · ----~~ Telephones: · JUST PARAGRAPHS of wine he added wormwood for It ia impossible with the rush of ftavor. Fall publications to arive due notace There are a great many characters to the favorite indoor~sport of the in· in this book of Mr. Huxley's, charactelligensia-dectective stories. How- ters which appear and disappear anever, two of these which deserve at- swering or denying each other much tention as being better than most of as do the themes of a musical comtheir class, are "Blind Circle" by PGsition. Yet it is·not orderly. Though Maurice Renard and Albert Jean, a the characters appear clearly, it is weird tale translated from the French, true ; their meanings are as abstruse and . a new Dr. Thorndike story "As and confused as modern music. In a Thief in the Night" by R. Austin· fact the effect of the book is not unF reeman. · like that of modern music to the t-ar A Hamilton Gibbs tells a good of the . uninitiated, confusing, provocstory. Just before he was to speak ative, 'strange. If we believed Mr. before a lar.ge aS'scmblage he was . Huxley entirely, there would be little standing in the audience near the en- likelihood of our getting up tomorrow trance to the stage, when an elderly morning and combing dur hair or woman of cultured appearance turned bothering to eat our breakfast egg, to him and said ..Isn't it oppressive since we don't, we will do these here? I came to hear Major Gibbs things thinking with pleasure of the speak., but I don't think I'll wait, I've stimulation and the . shock to smugmet him socially and know him well, ness which Mr. .Huxley so ably would you stay if you were I?" "No supplies. madam," Major Gibbs replied gravely, "I would not." A FLIGHT TO CHICAGO "Fall Fliaht" WHAT PRICE HUMANITY? THE · .......... .u.;.. n. era..· B~ SPIDE~ AND T~E FLY ea..·...,,.. wu..u. J7ll ___.a ..., toiJ.fne ·-'-" for ·· C't·r:oa ...t Wiaaetlra patrou-Wi-tb 511 Julia Peterkin's New BookScarlet Sister Mary --by tht aadlor of Black April. wbida ·any iudm will rteaU M aft 0Qtltaftcli81 ROYel f Bobbs·Mtrrill · · . · · · ·... S2. 5o '-Towers Along the Grass" by Ellen DuPoise Taylor, is a · rather pathetic story although. its pathos depends more or ·less on a rather fantastic conception of one of the characters. Bianca Wells, eschool teacher in a little country school in Dakota, fascinates Kate Lovett, one of her pupils much as a spider fascinates a fty. Though Bianca is more beautiful than any spider and more pale. But the role ·she is destined to play in the life of Kate is a spider-like role. One by one she steals from her unconsciously, as far as spider-like fascination can be unconscious, her father her friend, her lover, leaving her at last desolate with the two towers of Bianca's building dominating her sky. Mrs. Taylor has a poetic style and although the touch of fantasy,-the connection of Bianca with the shilde of Bianca Capello of four hundred years ago-makes h~r characters too remote for deep emotion yet her story is interesting. ··.,.... a BU.a J»deiH 'J'Qier ····n The Silver Thorn · A Book of Storia. H agb W.Ipole Doubltday. Doran ··.···· S 2. so ..Poiat c...ter Poiat" By Eleaaor Glsyeka Mlatoa Balell New Books More than thirty new books . have been received at the Wilmette Public libary within the last .week. The list includes sixteen new rental. books of the fiction type, three biographies, four general books, and eight travel books. The library has been receiving new books 'regularly each , week for sometime. Following is the most recent list: Rental Books "Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg," Bromfield ; "Happy Mountain," Chapman ; "Common Cheat," Cleugh ; "'Old Pybus," Deeping ; "In the Beginning," Douglas ; "Guytford of Weare," Farnol; "Storming Heaven," Fox; "French Wife," Graham ; "Island Within," Lewisohn ; "Flutes of Shanghai," Miln; "The Devil," Neumann; "Cavalier of Tenne~see," Nicholson ; "Search Relentless," Skinner ; "Homer in the Sagebrush," Stevens ; "Goodbye, Wl·s consin," Westaott; and "The Children," Wharton. Travel Books "Vanished Pomps ,,f Yesterday," Hamilton ; "Loiterer in London," Henderson ; "Motor Ramble Through France," Rtmington; "Loiterer ln .Paris," Henderson; "Russian and Nomad," Nelson; "New York Nights" Graham ; "Loiterer ln New York," Henderson; and "Waterways of Westward Wandering," Freeman. Blograplales "Victorian Americans by Gorman," Longfellow ; "The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas," Russell; and "Diaries" by Greville. General "Genesis of the World War," Barnes; "Old Universities in England," Mansbridge; "American Homes of Today," Patterson ; and "Taking the Literary Pulse," Collins. Nothing is Sacred loatpbint HtrbJt Coward-McCann, Inc.···. S2.oo Scarlet Heels Edith M. Sttrn Horace Livtrigbt .·.. .· ··. $2.50 Aldous Huxley has a profound belief in the futility of human progress. He classes men very near the ape and so eloquent is his pen, so keen ·hi~ wit that we find ourselves almost seeing him thus too. In this new book of his, "Point Counter Point," he gives his thesis its most sustained suppor·t· for the book is more impressive in quantity as in quality than his former productions. It is rich, varied. fruity reading, as if this time in giving his slice of life he had determined to make it fruit cake, even if instead By AleJo·· H·xle,. Do·bleclay Dora· Less Tha-i Kind Samrul Rogtn Payson a Clarke, Ltd .· : ... S2.5o MY STUDIO WINDOW By Marietta M. Andrew· $5 Claude G. Bowers says: "'My Studio · Window' has the stuff of permanency a social history of real fibre. . . " E. P. DUTTON & CO., (Inc.) 286-30% Fourth Ave., N. Y. City All Aboard A Saga of tht Romantic River. lrl]in S. Cobb CosmopoiiU.Jl ·.·.···... S2.oo Life and Death in Sing Sing Ltwi· E. Lccwi Warden Lawa, of Sing Sing. gives as, in this book, somt tx· traordinary sidelights which tx~lodt almost tvtry popular notion about crimt and criminals. Doubltday, Doran . . . . . . . $3.50 Chicago, even rich as it is in literary luminaries, still has a special pride in itS own. For that reason it looks forward a little more eagerly than to most novels to .. Fall Flight" by Eleanor Gizycka. ..Glass Houses" of a year O( two ago did not disappoint that earlier expectation. Nor has this sec;ons:l book by Countess Gizyc;ka any . rea~on to do so either. It is a good story told in swift direct style of material which · in itself is interesting. As the Countess Gizycka the author knew the pre-war aristocracy of Europe and more especially Russia intima~ely. It is against this background of court balls and jewels, intrigues and infidelities that she has rlaced her story. . Yet she does not depend too heavily on the interest of her background, Daisy Shawn of Chicago, . later the Princess Slavnisky, is a truly authentic character and so are the others in the book, her parents, her refinedly cruel husband and his friends. It is a story of Daisy's infatuation for a man and her disillusionment at hh none too reluctant hands. The flight is her flight away from all that which has hurt her so deeply back to ·the Chicago where she had plaved on Clark Street and which she understands. It reads Jlke ~ fairy tale Susan B. Anthony , The woman who. changed the mind of a nation By RHETA CHILDE DOilll No small undertaking for a school teacher of thirty-three to start out t o change the minds of the entire ruling class of men as to one of Its most fundamental prejudices-the position of women. Yet she did It! Orlando A Biography. V irginita Woolf Harcoun, Buct The best gift book of the year for boys and girls is a Co· . .·. SJ.oo This Book Collecting Game A charmingly illustrattd volume. A. Edwud .NtWton Linlt. Brown Frederick A. ·stokes C~. $5.81 DRUMS by James Boyd With 17 color pages and 46 drawings by NEW FREUD BOOK Horace Liveright is publishing Dr. Sigmund Frued's latest book, . "The Future of An Illusion," in which he discusses the fate of religion, and considers whether man .will ever be willing to permit science alone to explain the universe and reconcile him to its ruthlessness. WORKS ON NEW BOOK William Beebe; scienti3t and author, has just ,left New York for several weeks in Bermuda. "Beneath Tropic Seas," Mr. Beebe's account of his adventures on .~pe floor ·of the Bay of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has recently been published. Mr. Beebe is now at work on a new book. BUYS WIDC:OMBE MANOR Hor!lce Anne3ley Vachell and his brother recently bought Widcombe Manor, the house wherein Henry Fielding wrote part of "Tom Jones". More inspiration to Mr. Vachell! His new book, "The Actor," will be published soon. a Co. . . . . . . Ss.oo IXIXXIXXIXIXXIIIXIIIIIII The Jealous Gods' Gtrttrult .Athtrton Houct Livrright ...··.·· $2.50 Christmas Cards that rxprw many · ptnonalitits. CbOOH youn--btrt -EARLY! a,. Jacob wuaermaaa A new novel by the man who cannot write anything that is not significant. Taking the stran~e historical character. Caspar HauAer. as a symbol of man In his native state. the author weighs In the balance with hlm the modem world and finds It wantln~. CASPAR HAUSER N.C. 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