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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925 pos Fog [orner Are You of Fiction, or History? ESTHER local paper. Interested in books Biography, Travel, For lists write to GOULD care your Converting Hottentots GOD'S STEPCHILDREN By Sarah G. Millin. Boni & Liveright "God's Stepchildren" is a very re- markable novel. The story covers a rather long span of time, the scene is laid in South Africa. The Reverend Andrew Flood, with whom after a few pages we be- come entirely familiar, is a tall bony man, with fervent blue eves set in large sockets, who when we first meet him is journeying to Africa to con- vert the Hottentots. He has felt the call to go to the farthest outpost of Christendom, and for that outpost, without much thought of his fitness to answer the call, he is bound. Poor Reverend Flood! He knows little of human nature his own or his would-be converts'. The Hottentots show themselves far more able to cope with the situation than he is. "Squats ting down like baboons in a semi-circle before him" they listen, their beady little eyes fixed mischievously upon him, to his earnest halting remaks about his God, then proceed to try to trip him up. For all the world, even to the delighted chucklings and the al- most malignant amusement of the gallery, like a class of small hoys baiting an unpopular teacher. At last the Reverend Flood makes "the only mistake he has not vet made, and in the same well meaning spirit that he has made the others. He mar- ries one of the Hottentots. He thinks by this act to show them that they are truly his brother, black children of his white God, not "Stepchildren" as one of them shrewdly suggests. At that the last vestige of his dignity or prestige is forfeited. Even his wife despises him. And now we are concerned with the lives of the unfortunate "coloured" SOUNDINGS BY A. HAMILTON GIBBS John Farrar, editor of The Book- man says: --" 'Soundings' is a love story so deeply conceived, so ably executed that it leaves the reader breathless. It is as striking from an emotional standpoint as any- thing I have read in years." $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO. | Publishers Boston Major Gilbert's Book The Romance of THE LAST CRUSADE By Major Vivian Gilbert This is the remarkable personal record of the campaign in the Holy Land when Allenby and his Tom- mies were fighting in the Bible scenes and using the Bible as guide book and book of military tactics. Every page is filled with memories of the old Bible stories. "Should appeal to every kind of reader.'-- N. Y. Evening Post. 2.00 For sale at all booksellers D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 35 West 32d St., New York A NOVEL not only of America but of the Middle-West. The story of a boy's struggle on a barren Michigan farm to make a life which would be endurable --the adjustments which make that life possible, and the philosophy he evolved. : BACKFURROW By G. D. Eaton. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York City When We Were Very Young Verses by A. A. MILNE With over 130 drawings by E. H. SHEPARD As charming as the verses of Eugene Field. PRICE $2.00 E.P.DUTTON & COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK and utterly despised family which he has founded. His daughter, Deborah, her son of the good looks and the burning ambition, his lovely daughter and finally her child. It is a stirring story which, having read, one cannot forget. Simply and truthfully told, without ever calling upon sentimentalism it shows the merciless working out of destiny. The 'oolishness of the fathers is visited upon the children even to the fourth generation, when Harry, the great grandchild of the Reverend Flood, realizes that he must make restitution. 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