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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Sep 1934, p. 54

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WILMETTE LIFE September 27, 1934 NOW IN INOVÈMBER, by Josephine Johnson. (Simon and Schuster)-A new young writer, 24-year-old Mis- sourlani, arrives upon the literary soenewith a book which -epitomizes through the story of one middlewest- crm farmn family the. crises throughý which thousands bave 'been. passing this drought-blighted year. Prose of sheer lyrical beauty, a cliarmn reniini- scent of Willa Catbe's M .11Y toiia and something of the sense of im- pending tragedv of Iitlan Fro me make the reading of this book a real ex- perience. Here is a first edition that may some day prove well worth own- ing. PUBLISHED THIS WEEK Robert'Nathan's new novel, Roai. i Ages-his first since "One More Spring, which was on best seller lists, for many weeks early last year-was published by Alfred A. Knopf on Sep- tember 24. The 1300K MARK rentai Iibrary oSeras for circulation Thtis Little World ,by Francis B. Young 1169 Wllmette Avenue Wilmette 1Mis ... Just Published THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY by Herbert Hoover ... 81.75 novel oflarge proportions. following the spread of a typical Amnerican fantily. 760 pages. $3.00. THE GORDIAN Booksbop and Rentai Library 415 Fourth Street wilmette 332 TYfPEMWRIERS eIn Cafled for and Deilverel Wahk omaaaaled am .24" OU NOrrlngton Ave. Gre. 214 1Evanston DOOKSOP IBAR cards StatJonery '.Mary Pefers" By, Mary Bilen C'hase..$2.50 A Superb A merican'Nove! 1724 Orrington Ave. Evanston Gre. 0221 Me W. BLUE RIBBON SURIES of 'the Iatest.books $1ÇÔS IlCOMMENT. on, BOOKS and' AUTHORSI Five New J veniles Alfred A. Knopf bhas publisbed' 5vt "juveniles" this season, ail of theii issued on September 24. Among thet is a novel for older boys and girli entitled King Richards La',q bý L. A. G. Strong, the noted -Englisl novelist, poet, and critic. The illus. trations are by Zhenya Gay. Vanci Randolph, whose stories of the Ozarký are well known, contributes a boys novel called 7TIi,.('(, pn h aq 11 j/( - Creek, witli illustrations Ilw H iwar( Simon. Emma L. Brock, author oi The l~,,a.< S'ri ali'l 7'1. 3lrc.To Ila-k:,t. i.s represeiited by a new picture book entitled Little Fat Gri-tcl,ii. for %-oulgtr chiîdren. Also for vounger children is a Frencht storv c:lled I. I iii Frci Boy. by Albert F.rlande, which lias illustrations by Doris Spiegel. Finally, there is a volume of Polish fairy tales. under the title of The' .ter lt'izard. witlt illuis- trations by Marya Werten. POP ULAR BOOK AT FAIR of th to BnknCtteKnthe E'aia- ofta rtb Bnknett Kinthibaria cbanted. island at the World's Fair, reports that Effie Power's col- lection of tales, Bag o' Talesç "is snatched up by every librarian who cornes in. Apparently, they have been waiting for just sucli a collection. I've put it in the hands of many parents and teachers already as the onie book that will carry them tbrough màny years of story-telling. I have been 'using it constantly rny- self for thie daily story-telIing in tlie Story Cove." KIPPY 0F THE CAVENDISH, by Flora Merrill. (Robert M. McBride & Co.) - Kippv ig a fighting little Highland terrier who saw service in the trenches and knewv a thousand celebreties, including, Edward VII, Teddy Roosevelt, Isadora Duncan, Sir Tliomas Lipton, Lord Kitchener and "jock" Whitney. For gossip he's a regular. Wincliell-bound. His adven- tures are related by Flora Merrili, wbose story of Katherine Cornell's cocker spaniel, FlItsh of rVimpole j St re t and Broadway, was a bit last faîl. BOOK HAS 183 PHOTOGRAPHS Among the features of Thre Roose- velt Omnibs-a book about Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, edited by Don 'Whar- ton, %wbicli will be published on October 25-is a collection of 183 photographs Df the President taken at various periods of bis life and in many different un- posed and informai situations. Mr. Wharton believes tbat this is the largest collection of photograplis about any president ever to be published in a single book. PRIZE WINNING NOVEL Brassbound, prize-winning novel in the Liberty magazine .$ 10,000 contest, is just ont. Written by Mary D. Bickel, sister-in-law of Fredric Mardi of the movies, who was indirectly re- sponsible for this, lier first literary attempt, the book was chiosen out of 6,000 first-novel manuscripts. Itris a drama of buman relationships with a court 'ocm background. (Coward-Mc- Catn, Imc). PREP SCHOOL LIFE Raîpli Henry Barbour writes'art al- together cliaracteristic story in The Scoring Play. There is a good mys- tery element, an attractive hero in Paul Knowles, the football season por- trayed is one of constant action, and an important change in a prep school's jmorale is sbown. IAlbert Dllhings Back A Glamorous Tale* efrom Month Abroad LOST HORIZON, by James Hilton n Mr. and. Mrs. Albert' W. Dilling, (William Morrow and company). i 545 Essex rod, Kenilwortb, 'and Ever since tbe deligbtful Good-bvy'. 13thirtwo cbildren' bave réturnert l r his peareéd in thie Atlantic' froma moth' trael n Euopelast spring, those who rèad it, have ~~~~~~~ Mr.Dilnggvea ades looking up older and less-known -French at thie International Anti- t1nsb amsHlo..otHn e Communist conference, at ivbicb C'0' 's a 1933 book whicli is just coi- ~there were present delegates f rom ing into its own place of recognition. seventeen different counitries. Mrsc. The storyis most unusual. During Dillinigs book. The' Red Net-zçvrk, a minor revolution in Baskull, a plane which is in its third- printing, ha.; carrying four passengers is stolen by f been reviewed favorably in England. att unknlown pilot. Instead of carry- Holland, Sweden, Germany, Switzer- ing theni, safely to their intended land, and Turkey. Wbule abroad the destination, lie takes them on a wild IDillings were entertained by several ride across India to a completely rmayors, governors, and many titled1 isolated spot in Tibet. Conway, wliose Ipeople. Mrs. Dilling is noix under ambitions and interests bave been the management of Ernest Briggs. ended by the war, and Mallinson, a inc., New York, and- sbe will give Younlger man, are in the Englisb liher patriotic talks in a number of diplornatic service. The others in the ecities this winter. This week she plane are Miss Brinklow, a mis- cspoke in Cleveland to about 600 -ionary, and Henry Barnard, an members of tlie Chamber of Com- American, escaping from. financial merce, and sbe also talked in Rock-1 difficulties under an assumed naine. ford. _________a The pilot becomes iii and makes aforced landing. Just before lie "HIGHLAND TWILIGHT" dies lie tells Conway of a lamaser), Ishbel Ross. autbor of Pr-omjelad.,! near by wbere tliey can get food Deck and M1arriage i Gotlmai, whos, and shelter, The party is picked up new novel. Hiqhland, Tv.ilight. to T,, by a Chinese leade~r who invites them oublislied b apr&Bohr n to the lamasery of Sliangri-Sa, wliere September 6, depicts life ini a typical they find central beating and modern sml'Scotch village. was horn i, plumbing. AIl this seems strange in Sutherlandsbire, fifty miles north () tdhs'mnatrbtsrne Inverness, capital of the Highlands of. things occur after Conway bas bis Scotland, a picturesque old town wberc irst interview witli the higli lama. Highlatid, chieftans still walk Éhe IThe ideal of the lamas is to keep streets ini their tartans and* vou can alive the best of wisdom and culture hear Gaelic spokenl. Her ownit ame is in a safe and isolated place in the Gaelic of 'Isab)el but slie says tbat midst of a mad world where ail that doesn't mean that site can speak one is fine and good seems threatened by word of the language. Highland Tun- var and destruction. The reactions Ii.qht is Miss Ross' third novel ini tbree of the four travelers when tlie plans years. of tlie lamas little by little un,'fold mnake tbe story. TVhe -glamorous tale lis s0 simply told that it seenis ALBERT EINSTEIN'S STORY credible.-Ann K. Wbitcliurch. of the world as lie sees it. Entitled, NEW NOVEL BY LINCOLN The World As I Sée It,. the book con- joseph C. Lincoln, wlio in the sînui- tains his sincere beliefs on such topics nmer lives at Chathiam along the sandy as war, peace, human justice and shiores of Cape Cod, lias just paid -a progress, Germany and the Jews. It, visit to New Bedford, with its man% presents bis pblosophy of if e-a traditions of slips and flishermien. Jfust moving plea for an ordered, reasoned sucli a salty atmosphere pervades 'Mr, existence-with a confession of deep Lincoîn's newv novel, Thte Peel Tra it. religions faith. And lie tells also, in which tthe author found time to aut.-) terms the layman cari understand, ex- grapli for numerons admirers in the actly wbat relativity means and what bookstore of H. S. Hutdhinson and he and other scientists have found out compan%. about the universe. The book will be publisbed September 25 by Covici- BEST SHORT STORIES Friede. .Edward JT O'Brien's 7.Jhe Weç COMEDY BY HUGH WALPOLE Captain Nicholas, Hugli Walpole's latest, is a modern comedy built around a thorougli, albeit charming, scoun- drel, wbo returns to England and bis contended family, only to create havoc and fearful tension in the household by the quirks of Lilsmalicious nature.. The book i$ theLiterary Guild selection for September. *HUMOROUS NOVEL Gene Markey, erstwhile Evans- toniiant, bas a new book coming from the press this *week entitled, "His Majiesty's Pajamas." Humorous, witty aind good fun, the book is the fantastic account of a"modern mon-. arch's retumn to power. THE, POUNDRY, by Albert Hal- per. (Viking)-The autbor of Union Square. uses a Chicago electrotype foundry as the background of bis sec- ond novel. With a good deal of pow- er, lie relates the every-day f actory events and off -duty incidents in the lives of workers' and bosses. .q>nericaki Short Stories. 1934, and The Best Britishr Short Stories, 1934, are jnst out, publisbed by Hougliton Mifflin Co. More than presenting the creai of the xear's short stories, these volumes reflect contemporary attitudes aMong English-speaking people, witli a feeling for the inner turmoil and in- security of if e at the moment. ".DODSWORTH" ON THE STAGE ýSinclair Lewis' Dodsworth lias been draniat ized by Sidney Howard, leading playwright. Besidés the text. of the dramfatization, the, book, published to- day by Harcourt Brace and Co., con- tains a discussion by Mr. Lewis and' Mr. Howard of the relationsbip of their respective arts in theory and practice. REMAINS BEST SELLER Harper & Brothers report that Lamzb ioi is iBoso-ii by Caroline Miller, the Pulitzer Prize novel, ex- hausted twenty-eight large printings by September 1 the anniversary of the publication of the novel, and has been heading the best seller Iist for .weeks. Il. Chandleris Founfain Square Evansfon Sepiember, 27, 1 1934 ýWILMETTE L.IFE

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