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hoc Ney WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1924 "THE GREEN BAY TREE" By Louis Bromfield. Stokes Co. Frederick A. ~ Here in "The Green Bay Tree" is a most remarkable thing, a first novel which is a fifth. It shows no usual amount of self restraint and literary pride for an author not to attempt to launch his first four progeny upon the world, but to wait until, after the first joy of creation is over, he can still say, "That is good." But that restraint is responsible for the instantaneous success of Louis Bromfield's "first novel." And even now the other four will not be tender- ly released from drydock and sent out to ride happily on the waves of this stirring success. On the contrary, one of them was carted ignominiousiy away the other day by the Salvation Army. For old paper. « All this is an interesting phenome- non. And it typifies the very sane and straight forward point of view which has made this book memorable. Truly memorable since when you close its covers you have a perfectly clear picture of a whole phase in the life of a family and of a part of our country. Cypress Hill was built and christen- ed by one John Shane when there was only country roundabout and he and his bride-to-be, a farmer's daugh- ter, rode their horses recklessly in the paddock. And Cypress Hill be- cause of John Shane's brilliant and romantic career became known to the people as "Shane's Castle" And like an old feudal castle it stands through the coming years, symbol of its own- ers' silent resisting struggle against the invasion of the steel mills. * But the mills come anyway, and at the opening of the book they have completely surrounded Cypress Hill with a strangle hold. Each member of the Shane family enters the unequal fight--Julia Shane the wife, dying triumphant, for an enemy whom you ignore cannot de- feat you, Irene one daughter, vainly combating it with her imaginings, and finally 'broken by them, Lily the other daughter, lazy, beautiful, never quite caring enough to either conquer or be conquered. And the struggle against the mills only typifies a deeper struggle--the struggle against life, the two daugh- ters handicapped by a strange hered- ity from their father, the mother handicapped by his memory. . "The Green Bay Tree" is a book intensely real and exceedingly well written. "ILIANA, STORIES OF A WAN- DERING RACE" By Konrad Bercovici. Boni & Liveright. Konrad Bercovici can well write "Stories of a Wandering Race." He is himself a wanderer, not only by | reason of the gypsy blood in his veins | but by inclination and interest. He is at this moment wandering over the United States of America studying and writing about the foreign quar- ters of other cities than New York, which he has in his earlier books pic- tured so vividly. Mr. Bercovici does not overdo things. He knows from his experi- ence with these strange naive people whom we call foreigners and he calls brothers, that nothing is so overdone as life. One Sunday evening about eight months ago Mr. Bercovici was taxiing home with a lady of his ac- quaintance from a meeting in an east side negro church. The lady of his 'acquaintance was Miss Rebecca West. Arrived at hei hotel Miss West alighted. As Mr. Bercovici settled himself in the taxi once more the driver turned and said pleasantly, "Now that the lady has gotten out I am going to kill myself." 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His aim was good, be must have been practicing for he killed himself without injuring Mr. Bercovici, except nervously, at all. If this appears in a story will you call it overdone? Probably. Yet it wont be, nor is it 'that Muzio's "knees sagged underneath her, her eyes opened for a moment, and they saw her own blood dripping from the dagger in the hands of Perez." Perez had loved her. In Havana, Roumania, Marseilles, we find these wanderers. And they are not always killing the thing they love. There is Carlos refusing a for- tune which will bring him the woman he loves because the bird he has for sale will die in New York. "'It is too cold for him there ... Then sudden- ly he threw his head back, and, hand- (ing the money over to the buyers he said 'I cannot sell him to you, because he will die there. Take your money back." Mr. Bercovici writes with that fine- ly measured English which is, alas, most common to foreigners. Yes, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien is to be con- gratulated on giving each of these stories a 'three star" ranking in his annual list. DIX IN NEW ONE "A Man Must Live" is the name of the new Paramount Picture in which Rich- ard Dix has the part of a reporter. The story will be remembered as "Jungle, Law" and was written by I. A. R. Wylie. Paramount, it is said, spared no ex- pense in the production of this novel pho- toplay which has for its theme the intri- gue and romance of a big newspaper. "A Man Must Live" is coming to Mec- Vickers. Electric railways of the United States in 1923 carried five hundred million more passengers than ever be- fore in a single year--a total of more than sixteen billion riders. eAll Good 'Books Reviewed or advertised here are for sale at Kroch's Book Store 22 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago "The meeting place of intellectual Chicago" Send for special lists There is a ruthless tearing aside of the veils from human life in this "The Uncertain Feast," by Solita Solano. 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