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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1925 13 is no laying down of the book until : : the end, and it is a marvelously, cruelly g logical end. ..F. 5. B. ART SHOP E oT U. S. HAS formerly Gairing Fine Arts : The world's longest telephone cir- 1642 Orrington Ave. Evanston Phone Univ. 770 E cuit is between Chicago and Los = Angeles--2,000 miles. It would take A ; them live, but the plot is made up of [Seven days to make the round trip and House Cleaning Sale EH Are You Interested in books three persons, Kitty, Charles Town-|Wwould cost a minimum of $200. A 10- : E of Fiction, Biography, Travel, send and Kitty's husband, Walter Fane. | minute talk over the telephone between Certain Pictures, Mirrors, Wall and Swing Frames | or History? For lists write to The eternal triangle, you murmur, one | the two cities would cost about ten 7 t reduction El ESTHER GOULD care your of the old faithfuls in plots. But don't [ dollars. In many instances. the tele- Mottoes and Gifts at great re £ local paper. expect boredom from this one, it is|Phone call today takes the place of as long as they last. | quite new the seven-day trip. Nowhere but in IE ¥ America is any such service rendered. ; . THE MAN HAMLET MEANT "HE WAS A MAN" By Rose Wilder Lane, Harper & Bros. Frequently you hear about "out- standing novels of our time." Seldom you find one. The phrase on the front flap of a cover causes sometimes faint irritation, sometimes only amusement. Then when you find that, in the first 'rush of enthusiasm at least, the phrase is justified, you feel as if you must apologize to the cover. Such is the case with "He Was A Man." Tt is a .aovel which has epic qualities. It is an epic of young America in its physical, mental and spiritual development. It is an epic of youth, too, youth growing up to learn the values of life, trying to learn its reality. From Poland and Norway we have the epic of man struggling against nature, his environment. In America the struggle is the same ex- cept that the parts are differently cast. Parts taken by nature and man there are taken by economic society and man here. Man in his struggle for existence. But Gordon Blake was a genius. He demanded more than mere existence; he demanded a chance to think and know and realize the possibilities that were within him. Starting as a forlorn, underfed lit- tle newsboy he had a career which magazines .that cater to the masses like to picture as a "typical Amer- ican career." . Actually it was as un- usual as is the grim deathless deter- mination which prompted it. And we have the inside story of it all--not the bland smiling account of "How I Made a Million Dollars as a Writer" but the stark struggle that it was to be newsbhoy, oyster bed raider, seal fisher, sailor before the mast, student, hobo, prisoner, rising young journalist, Alaska gold seeker, war correspondent, Bohemian, Socialist. We see the fundamental social, eco- nomic, philosophic ideas of the world being torn out of hooks by this youth as precious ore is dragged from the rocks. The mental world, the sphere of knowledge by which he knew man will some time rule the world, is pres- ent to Gordon Blake as a world of fluttering spirits which are almost tangible, visible, in some moments. And when his immediate struggle for mental and physical existence is won this man with the seeking mind looks beyond that to the deeper struggle of man from the first brain- less cell which felt life, to his pres- ent state. "Now he saw man, the tiny figure so soft and defenseless that it perished at a touch of frost, was blinded by an uncaring ray of sun on snow, fell to pieces without its cus- tomary food, still rising upon its little legs and defying the gigantic imper- sonal forces of the universe." As background, San Francisco with its "water front" and its artist colony has the unusual chance to compete with Greenwich Village; and does it very creditably too. In the story of Gordon Blake sober maturity will probably exclaim "How he suffered"--youth can only sigh "How he lived!" A DIFFERENT STORY OF CHINA THE PAINTED VEIL By W. Somerset Maugham George H. Doran Company "« ... The painted veil which those who live call life." W. Somerset Maugham has done an extremely bold and very unusual piece of writing in "The Painted Veil"--not so much bold insubject matter, though Mr. Maugham is never timid--as in manner of treat- ment. He is much more a sculptor than a painter. He writes of life and death and faithlessness and makes them ruggedly real. This is the story of three characters. There are a number of minor ones and When Kitty's husband discovers her unfaithfulness, as he does on page oné, there are no melodramatic and hair raising passages but a calm statement that she may get a divorce and marry Townsend, her lover, if he will divorce his wife and marry her, or she will come with him, her husband, to a cholera-ridden city in a remote part of China. where he has offered to go and fight the plague. Townsend will not marry Kitty--her husband knew that already--so the alternative is J quietly and quickly carried out. It is a stirring and unreal situation --a frivolous, timid woman and her silent, enigmatical husband set down, almost the only white people in this fantastic, weary city where only death seems to live. Yet Mr. Maugham makes it an intensely real situation and logically he develops it, and his characters out of it--or it out of them. He keeps up breathless interest--there By Rose Wilder Lane HE WAS A MAN The year's outstanding novel. $2.00 Harper and Brothers Publishers Since 1817 New York N.Y Youth Calls to Youth LAST YEAR'S NEST By Dorothy A. Beckett Terrell A striking novel--of the older wom- an who marries a young man, who is just the age of her own charming daughter. There follows the in- evitable call of youth to youth. $2.00 For sale at all booksellers D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 35 West 32d St, New York 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 -- and get the stock. dried out. South on Ridge of Rosehill Nursery. 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