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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 13 1925 ii oy Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. AN UNUSUALLY FINE NOVEL "BARREN GROUND" By Ellen Glasgow Doubleday Page & Co. Once in a while someone in England, seldom in this country, is compared to Thomas Hardy. It becomes a matter of classification rather than personal comparison. Recently, Sheila Kaye- Smith in her "The George and the Crown" achieved the distinction, surely Ellen Glasgow of our country as richly deserves it. "Barren Ground" is the sort of book that one finds only once in a long time, a book that might have taken a life- time to write--one that seems more lived than written. Life, to Dorinda Oakley, as it was to "Tess", is an inscrutable forte which pushes her on into situations which are not ef her own making, which are not even remotely related to her character. Yet Dorinda has more control over her inner life than Tess had, in spite of everything in the world which seems against her, she finally wrings victory out of defeat. "A Girl in an orange-colored shawl stood at the window of Pedlar's store and looked, through the falling snow, at the deserted road. Though she watched there without moving, her atti- tude, in its stillness, gave an impression of arrested flight, as if she were run- ning toward life. Bare, starved, deso- late, the country closed in about her." Dorinda's mind had always been full of dreams, always reaching out for something which she felt was happi- ness, something which would give a meaning to life. At 20 she finds that love is that fulfillment and her whole nature goes out to it. Then as if a cup of cold water had been struck from the lips of a thirsty traveller her cup of romance is struck to the ground. And she is left a woman of infinite possi- bilities to live a life of emptiness-- empty except for one memory. Yet out of the soil, out of the "barren ground" of rural Virginia she wrests her vic- tory. There is a tremendous unity, force in the book. It is a new sort of "southern novel." The gallant colonels tossing off their whiskey, and descending the broad steps of the an- cestral mansion to mount their simplicity, thoroughbreds seem a bit "thin" in retrospect. They are blown away like paper dolls before the breath of reality which prevades "Barren Ground." AGAIN THERE IS MICHAEL ARLEN "MAYFAIR" By Michael Arlen. Geo. H. Doran. Surely no one else has the faith in human nature that has Michael Arlen. For no one else would believe that hu- man nature could see itself exposed with all the irony with which he has exposed it and yet live. And surely no one else has the faith in Michael Arlen that has Michael Arlen. For no one else would believe that he could write a book as entertaining as "These Charming People" and then write a sequel and have it just as entertaining. And he has done it. "Mayfair" is a collection of short in- consequentials as unforgetable as those earlier ones we have mentioned. Most of the characters are new--they have to be as most of them are left dead in the end and Mr. Arlen hates to kill A Novel of Wanderlust ETHAN Cosmopolitan Book Corporation old friends. But here and there a familiar face--that of Hilary or George Talyron--peers through the printed page at us and is gone. Enough so that we know we are among friends. And London is the same. That ILon- don in which young men with silk hats tipped slightly over one eye have noth- ing better to do than walk in Green Park and talk interesting generalities or perhaps step into their clubs for a hand at cards. And Michael Arlen has not forgotten how to turn a phrase--even at times to turn it inside out: '"T'he world was very dark. He looked upon the sea and found it odd, and he looked upon the land and did not find it at all." That there is not much that Michael Arlen misses or forgets is proven by such figures of speech as "Now have a look at that house we passed. Don't stare as though you were an American tailor looking at the Prince of Wales. Casually. The corner one." FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones: University 1024 -- Wilmette 600 Suggestions for the Week: "THE SMITHS" By Janet A. Fairbank Bobbs Merrill .......0i0, cu $2.00 "THE STEAMER BOOK" By Edwin Valentine Mitchell Dodd Meade & Co. '........ $5.00 "BRIGHAM YOUNG" By M. R. Werner Harcourt Brace ............ $5.00 VACATION READING A large group of popular fic- tion--very desirable for vacation reading--has been greatly re- duced. Priced now at 35c¢ each or 3 for $1.00. First Floor--Davis St. South "Mayfair," by Michael Arlen. Wharton. smith," by Sinclair Lewis. borg. Winnetka 1101 BEST SELLERS "A Mother's Recompense," by Edith "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Barren Ground," by Ellen Glasgow. "Sea Horses," by Francis Brett Young. Italy!" by Clara E. Laughlin. "Troubadour," by Alfred Kreym- "Travel Diary of a Philosopher," by Carl Count Keyserling. Travel Books--Bridge Scores and Favors--Place Cards and Cards of Congratulation THE BOOK STORE WINNETKA "Arrow- "So You're Going to 724 Elm St. 'Two-Fisted Men ACH telephone is connected UR obligation as a public utility requires that wemake every effort to furnish service to all who ap- ply. In doing this we constantly add to the value of our service to the central ful adjustment. to old subscribers by extending theirrange of communication. Cost levels to-day arc much higher than in the past and result in more expensive plant construction, thus in- creasing our average capital investment per telephone, upon which a fair return in interest and divi- dends must be earned. One Policy - think in terms of office by two tiny wires. These wires are a part of a system of cables, coils and other delicate apparatus, which must be kept in care- The job of building and main- taining this equipment 1s done by two-fisted men--men who never failing service. When they come into your home or your office, you find them anxious to do their work quickly, efliciently, courteously and neatly. BELL SYSTEM One System - ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY Universal Service But after all is said we have only said again that Michael Arlen is still Michael Arlen. Stolen Idols The strange adventures of Geoffrey Ballaston, following his theft of a famous Chinese idol with whose HAS ACTED ALL OVER WORLD Cesare Gravina, who plays an im- portant character role in "I'he Charm- |} 1 A ; OF er," Pola Negri's latest picture, has Joma ac Open ie, Yestozre s acted on the stage in every country allen tortunes of is house. in the world during his 60 years. He By has acted from Hammerfast, Norway, E. 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