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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Feb 1929, p. 42

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W ·I LMETTE LIFE February 15, 1929 and some very out-of-taste pictures for the walls of the modest apartment. Lindsay withstands the pressure b~t gradually after a cc;mple of years. 1t is too much for hts pleasure-lovmg young wife. She returns to her 'family and ~ants to get a divorce. The rest of the book rather degenerates in interest, there are some decidedly futile characters drifting in and out of both their lives. But their young dream was the point 'to the book and its struggles with the sordid elements which are against all dreams. When that shatters the author seems to lose her grip. Their later coming together for one night is sordid and futile. Altogether although it is fair novel it is not one to get excited about. ·Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS One of the most looked forward to of the spring novels will be "Dark Hester" hy Anne Douglas Sedgewick, whose novels · are always an event . Other books of · interest will be "A Wild Bird," by Maud Diver, a continuation of some of the characters of "Lonely Furrow," and books by Roland Pertwee, Sahatini, Denis Mackail and others who write in the lighter vein. "The Untold Story" by "Mary De stl, which tells the rest of the ta.le of Isadora Duncan's stormy years, is a book which no one who read Isadora's own book will want to miss. It takes on ward her story from the time of going to Russia to her dramatic death. terribly run down because the "Old U n," as his pred~cessor was called, re.: fused to go out at night or go at all unless death was absolutely imminent. Therefore the villagers had taken to d<?ctori~g themselves and it was only wtth dtfficulty th.at. the new doctor could regain their confidence. He does gain .it by degrees of course and becomes more ·and more immersed in !heir w~lfare and well-being. It is an mteres!mg story, f~]] of a very simple humamty. There ts ·the love element, too, of course, how the doctor takes to himsel.f a \vife, very nearly loses her and. wms .her back again. Miss KayeSmtth wntes with charm and reserve. Wilmette 3700 a New Books Mary, Queen of Scots M argarett Kurlbaum-Sitbett translated by Mary Agne1 Hamilton Harcourt, Buce 8 Co. . . . . Ss.oo LAUDS BARTLETT BOOK Albert Payson Terhune writes his friend Capt. Bob Bartlett as follows regarding "The Log of Bob Bartlett," recently published by Putnams: "Your book arrived here yesterday morning, and I thought I would dip into it for five minutes before I went to work As a result, I fini shed it at about midnight, and didn't do a lick of work ali day. "Man, you can \vrite. You don't need to be told that the book is a mas terpiece; for you know that already. But it is more. It is Bob Bartlett talking,-and talking to me personally." YOUNG LOVE "Y outb Rides Out" OF SIMPLE PEOPLE "The Village Doctor" By Beatrice Kean St>ymour Alfred A. Knopf Believe It Or Not An Odyssey of Oddities Robert L. Ripley Amusingly illustrated and published by Simon 8 Schuuer .. $. 2 50 Dy 8hella Kaye-Smith E. P. Dutton & Co. The Greatest Adventure E. P. Dutton ........... s2 · 50 John Taine The ·Splendid Silence Alan Sullivan E. P. Dutton ........ . .. s 2 · 50 Victory Ricarda H uch Alfred A. Knopf ........ s3 . 00 Sheila Kaye-Smith write s in thi s new book of hers, "The Village Doctor" once more of the country that she knows so well. It is a country so primitive and unspoiled by "petrol oumns and motor-cars" that it might be Thomas Hardy's own. The time is fifty years ago, before "the farm ers had bro~<en their hearts and sent their sons to the Colonies and their daughters to the towns." She writes. in other words. of a dav so remote from our own that it migh-t be contemporaneous with Julius Caesar, but one which is restful, delightful, a pleasant foil f,)r our own whirling age. The village doctor is a man who for the sake of his health buy s a practice in a small country town. He find s it Books About Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg One-Volume Edition Harcourt, Brace 8 Co.·... Ss.oo Here is a story of youthful fir st love a_nd its pitfalls. One does not particularly admire the characters in thi book of Beatrice Kean Seymour's ··~· outh Rides Out." In fact the very mcest character in the book is the boy's father, referred to in this masterly opening sentence of the book: "If Naomi Borden was a stupid as her husband ca,me eventually to believe, at least he did not discover it until his passion for her was dead." But he dies soon. leaving his son to the tender me~cies of that stupid and early-Victona~ mother and his best friend, a vetennary surgeon in the town . But th e boy fares very well, his father has taught him to look at the world critically yet with enjoyment; and how to have the courage to follow his chosen profession that of a veterinary surgeon . So ~11 is going ~moothly until Lindsay, on a vacation m Europe, falls in love with Camilla, a very spoiled young lady. It is on both sides an impetuous headstron~, ~lin~ young love. Although ~he gtrl ts nch and he is poor, nothmg- can keep them from a speech· marriage. Then on the very day they get back from the honeymoon Camil!a's ri~h papa and mama start to get m thctr work. Of course son-in-law will come and take a position in the firm-which is making biscuits. Of course there must be a competent maid ANNA B. DODD DIES Mrs. Anna Bowman Dodd, author and journalist, died at her home in Paris January 29. Her most recent work was a volume "Talleyrand," and probably her best known book was "Three Normandy Inns." Her writings included travel volumes on France. England and Turkey. In recognition of her devotion and activity in the cause of France during the \Vorld War. she received the decoration of the Legion of Honor. WITCHCRAFT IN THE U. S. W. B. Seabrook, says that the Voodoo rr urder in York, Pa., is another proof that witchcra.ft still flourishes in the United States. He says witchcraft is at work not only in the jungles Clf Haiti, in the negro settlements of the south and in the "Pennsylvania Dutch" belt, but he has even seen it on Fifth avenue in New York City. Mr. Seabrook is the author of "The Magic: Island," published by Harcourt, Brace and company and selected by the Literary Guild for its January book. HIS HOBBIES The Perfect Tribute M UJ/ Raymond Shipman Andrews Chades Scribner's Sons .... S1.so Eves that have He Knew Lincoln Ida M. Tarbell Macmillan ............. $ 1 · 2 5 "IT" "IT" . . . that subtle something which attracts others . . . usuallY lies in the eyes. Don't be dis'couraged if your own eyes arr dull, lifeless and unattractive. A few drops of harmless Murine will brighten them up and cause them to radiate "IT." Thousands upon thousands of clever women use Murine daily and. thus keep their eyes always clear, bright and alluring. A month's supply of this longtrusted lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! THE LIONESS A ROMANCE OF THE RIFF MOUNTAINS By F erclinand A. Oasendowaki The story of a Mohammedan mountaineer, a fugitive from justice who hides in the Mohammedan underworld. J errard Tic kelt, whose novel "Y olan ., is published during February by Putnams, lists among his hobbies walking in a high wind over the Sussex Downs of England, ski-ing. gypsy music, and "The Saturday Evening Post." Delma W. Caldwell, son of Mr. H. W. Caldwell, 930 Linden avenue Wilmette, has been pledged to the 'Delta Upsi~on Fraternity at Marietta college. Manetta, Ohio. He is a member of the freshman class. The Delta Upsilon fraternity ha·3 been on the campus at Marietta college since 1870. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the College Player's club. The Courtst 1 Assigned Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Charlu Scribner's Sons ...... 75 c E. P. DUTTON & CO. $2.50 Better Angels Richard Henry Little Minton, Balch 8 Co. . . . . . $1.00 Abe Lincoln Grows Up Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace 8 Co . . . : . $2.50 LORD'S-BOOKS Jwt ln1ide tiM Wert Davu Stttet Door lJRIIVL f.OR'(OUR EYEs New York. Teaberry and Carmel Ice Cream Orders taken for fancy Ice Cream Moulds Snider..Cazel Drug Co. Wilmette

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