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Book Reviews By John Philip Morris For those that would symbolize the Victorian female as a woman with a soul for lap dogs, whose highest am- bition was that her ankle should never be revealed to man and whose chief characteristics were fear and timidity, Emmie Verinder, the heroine of A SPINSTER OF THIS PARISH by W. B. Maxwell, will come as a shock and a revelation. | Outwardly, except for one terrible lapse Emmie conformed to the tribal taboos and traditions but under the rose and the poinsettia she was more free from fear than any Georgian flapper. She possessed the body of a beautiful girl, the mind of a man and the soul of a spirit and from the first glance she captured and to his dying day she held the love of Anthony Dyke, explorer, traveller, writer and man. Of course the fact that Anthony was already married, even though his | undivorceable wife was in an insane asylum, seemed an unsurmountable barrier to the Verinders and they did what was expected of them to an ex- tent to satisfy even Jurgen, and had Dyke been a true English gentleman he would have renounced his love with a heroic and thoroughly gentle- manly gesture, but he was a man only, and to him impossible was a beast of a word. So Emmie stepped square- ly forward forty years and went with him to Liverpool and to Buenos Ares and then treasure hunting into the heart of the Andes, Later they said farewell and she went home and lived down her lapse by forty years of cor- rect living as a correct old maid. It was not known to the world and so went unrebuked that Anthony was still her lover and that they lived together when he was in England and that she edited his books, managed his money and even visited the poor insane wife. When after the forty years and the war were over she could marry him was only simple justice and no one can begrude the Happy Ending. For after all the charm of the book lies not in the plot but in the beauti- ful way that Mr. Maxwell has drawn Emmie's beautiful character. The whole book is written in a soft minor key and to me seemed very close to IF WINTER COMES. Emmie Verinder and Mark Sabro, I can imagine no more perfect mar- r NAOT 507 a hooks.a-Bmmie alone has the understanding, and she sym- pathy that would have given Mark perfect happiness, for while she loved Arthony, he was just a big boy who never really grew up and Emmie"s feelings for him were more maternal than marital and Mark alone could have given her love in equal measure and an equal division of that happi- ness that passeth all understanding and to which so few of us even in books really attain. So, as you liked IF WINTER COM- ES I feel that you will like A SPINS- TER OF THIS PARISH. In THE CORTLANDTS OF WASH- INGTON SQUARE Janet A. Fairbank has written an historical novel tar above the average. Although Ann Byrne with her love affairs and lov- ing impetuosity provides much en- tertainment in herself, behind and be- WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1922 sides her we get interesting and in- timate glances of the Prince of Wales, Walt Whitman, William Cullen Bry- ant, Lincoln, Horace Greely, the events that led up to the civil war and that great, grim struggle itself. Mrs. Fairmank tells her story in a light, likeable fashion and holds the reader's amused and interested atten- tion. Ann is a real person and ai though a bit ubiquitous like most his torical characters. still when we read about the civil war we much prefer our heroine to be where the battles rage than to be sitting sewing in some distant and uninterested drawing room, The New York and Chicago of that day both come in for some interest ing descriptions and on the whole there has come to my desk this rall many far less entertaining and far more unworthy books than this tale of flashing swords and swelling hoop skirts. A Letter and a Reply Dear Mr. John Philip Morris: I must take exception to your review of BABBITT. | give thanks as some others do that men who can write as well as Sinclair Lewis takes his opportunity with courage and expresses with clar- ity, the straight facts about the little, smug, dishonest side of the human character. A mixture of fear and egotism holds us bound to many delusions. Our sense of values is very much "off key" when we face about to hear any prophet speak the truth. 'Twas ever thus. In the business world, the busy realtor-man can not have his feelings hurt, such as he are quite hard boiled. We little humans stretch the trivial personal stuff excessively. Mr. Lewis comes along with his wise insight to give us joy and amusement. | Yours truly, | Mrs. Victoria Beadwell. | Battle Over Color Choice Rages in Public Scholos | In the Skokie schools there is great excitement. Two rival factions of pupils are striving for the ascendancy. | Each side is trying to win over the| majority of the young voters. | The trouble is over the school col-| woman's good health and spirits ors. After much debate the field has! £ Dirks. been simmered down to a contest be-| tween orange and black and gray | and red. In spite of the popularity of the old standby, orange and black, the gray and red faction seems to be holding its own. The final vote will be taken next week at a general assembly. VILLAGE OF WINNETKA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. . GENERAL NUMBER 378093. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED that the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered the construction of a six (6) inch internal diameter cast iron water pipe, with water gate valve, valve vault, fire hydrant, connections to present water mains, and cast iron water .pipe fittings, including engineering and supervision during construction, in Birch Street from and connecting with the present water main in Winnetka Avenue, north to and connecting with the present water main at a point three hundred (300) feet south of the south line extended of Alles Road and twelve (12) feet west of the east line of Birch Street, all in the Village of Win- netka, County of Cook and State of TIlli- nois, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of Sinclair [Lewis Author of "MAIN STREET" * fountain EVAN Square I. STON | your vigor, endurance and good spirits. said Village, and the said Village having applied to the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, for an assessment of the cost of said improvement according to the benefits, and a special assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, General Number 378093, the final hearing thereon will be held on the thirtieth day of October, A. D. 1922, or as soon thereafter as the business of the said Court will permit. All persons de- siring may file objections in said Court before said day, and may appear on the hearing and make their defense. Said ordinance provides for the collection of said assessment in five (5) annual install- ments with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum (6%) per annum. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, October thirteenth, A. D. 1922. HARRY I. ORWIG, Person appointed by the President of the Board of IL.ocal Improvements of the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois (and such appointment ap- proved and confirmed by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois), to make said special assessment. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T31-2tc Would You Wear Steel Shoes? In ordinary shoes, a rigid strip of steel concealed between soles makes every arch stiff, inflexible, and cruelly heedless: of the flexibility of your own arch. In the Cantilever Shoe you find an arch flexible like your own. A flex- ible arch bends in harmony with every step you take. It curves up snugly, when you lace up Cantilevers, to provide precisely the degree of sup- port each one of your arches yearns for. 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