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rt RTI December 5, 1925 WINNETKA TALK 31 ots Fool [omer Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, oo His- tory? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD c/o your local paper. HISTORY THROUGH GLASSES "ENCHANTERS OF MEN" By Ethel Colburn Mayne G. P. Putnam's Sons To look at history through person- alities is like looking through opera glasses at a stage. The entire stage is not visible at once but the part on which the glasses are fixed is ex- traordinary clear. In Ethel Colburn Mayne's fascinating volume "Enchant- ers of Men," we turn the glasses on the Renaissance, the France of Louis XIV and of the Revolution, the Eng- land of Dickens and Swinburne. And for such short swift glimpses as these must be, the effect is remarkably vivid. Who can ever forget the reply of Diane de Poitiers when she was or- dered to leave her palace and Paris where she had reigned as Queen for so many years, "Le roi est mort?" Queen one day and a driven exile the next was the dramatic fate of these women who played for the highest stakes. The author has performed the dif- ficult feat of making this a scholarly work, in which she has sifted down the most important points of history, and yet not in any way losing the under- standing and the spirit of the whole. ITALIAN REALISM "THE OUTCAST" By Luigi Pirandello E. P. Dutton "The Outcast," by Luigi Pirandello, perhaps the foremost Italian play- wright, the author of, among other plays, "Six Characters in Search of an Author," is a stirringly realistic novel. Strikingly dramatic, it has every element of contrast and suspense of unity and continuity which a play would demand. The method is one of swift clean strokes, not the tortuous windings of our Sinclair Lewis type of realism. The scene is laid in a small Italian town." Rocco Pentagora, accusing his wife of unfaithfulness, casts her out of his house. His evidence is a letter The American Twins of 1812 LUCY FITCH PERKINS The adventures of Jonathan and Phoebe make the most exciting book of all the Famous Twin Series. Illustrated, $1.75 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. When We Were Very Young Delicious verses of Childhood by A. A. MILNE With fascinating drawings by E. H. SHEPARD Price $2.00, Gift edition $3.00 E. P. Dutton & Co. New York from a wealthy man of the town, which though it is formal in tone uses the informal "tu" That is enough. Primitive, violent, unprinci- pled, Rocco accuses her and rushes to his own home. Marta, bewildered by the injustice and cruelty of her husband's action, goes to her parents also. Tacitly the world, even her own family, takes up her husband's charge. Her father shuts himself up in a room and re- fuses to come out, until months later he finally dies of rage. Marta is pub- licly insulted. Each time she tries to raise herself by slow tortuous ef- fort out of the mire there is someone ready to push her back. It is a human version of Katherine Mansfield's unforgettable story, "The Fly." "He plunged his pen back into the ink, leaned his thick wrist on the blotting paper, and as the fly tried its wings, down came a great heavy blot. What would it make of that? What indeed?" It made what Marta made, what everyone would make of it in the end, it succumbed to the ink. And when after long months her husband offers to take her back, Marta's cry has the poignance of all the bitterly oppressed, "Justice--reparation. Do you believe there can be such a thing? Who is going to take away from us the memory of all we have suffered?" A NOVEL OF YOUTH "Q UE ST" By Katharine Newlin Burt Houghton Mifflin Co. "Quest" is an interesting story of two youths in their search for God, one of whom approaches in a spirit of fear, the other in the white heat of ecstacy. Little John's first immediate exper- jence with God was on a day, when, after a harsh punishment from his father, he had been shut in a dark room for repentance, the parrot of his just arrived Aunt Tabby intones from a corner, "I am the Lord thy God. I am a jealous God." Poor Little John, terrified, believes him, and never quite ceases to do so. Nicholas after a less harsh punish- ment, wakes up from a wonderful dream and sees a star shining through his window. He feels himself to be SINCLAIR LEWIS ARROWSMITH "One of the best novels ever written in America." --H. L. Mencken. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York $2.00 Just Publishea : the first novel in three rs hy the author of F WINTER COMES ONE INCREASING PURPOSE ASM.H oon INSON VR a all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY enveloped by a beautiful comforting presence. Little John grows up timid and un- assertive, Nicholas gay and lovable, yet always slightly remote. And each one continues his search for God with truly remarkable zeal. One it leads into the Valley of the Shadow, one up to the lonely mountain peaks. Sometimes the story dips slightly toward the melodramatic, at other times it is remarkably good depiction of a group of characters living a very real life. Find Another Uplift Use For American Newspapers When your car gets stuck in the mud and the rear wheels merely spin | | | "Anderson has created a masterpiece" | Laurence Stallings--N. Y. World dark laughter by Sherwood Anderson 4th big printing | Everywhere, $2.50 Boni & Liveright | | | N. Y. around and your friends advise you to call for help, get a bunch of news- papers, slip them under the rear wheels, turn on the juice and see the car come out of the mire. Newspapers are great uplifters. When your busi- ness get into a rut, the newspapers will help you out if you use the ad- vertising columns. Great is the power of the press.--Borrowed. Christmas Gift Pooks (Biographies from $2. to $5.) THE LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE TO WOODROW WILSON. By Burton J. Hendrick. The 3rd, final volume, of the famous "Page Let- ters". $5.00 PERSONALITIES & REMINIS- CENCES OF THE WAR. By Maj. General Robert Lee Bullard. .....our first "true war story" by a great field com- mander. THE ROMANTIC '90's. A delightful autobiography by Richard LeGallienne. $2.50 THE LITTLE CHRONICLE OF MAGDALENA BACH. By Esther Meynell. For music lovers it cannot be equalled. $2.00 At Bookstores Everywhere Doubleday, Page & Co. 2R 350 YEARS THE STANDARD OF QUALITY ~~ A YOWMAN Dairy Company IRY COMPAN Eggs must be as superior in quality and freshness as Bowman's Milk. Our customers demand it. Therefore, only the finest fresh eggs in the land can be sold in Bowman Dairy Com- pany cartons. To maintain our highest ouality and freshness we you direct. They cannot be se- cured anv other wav. Hence, when you buy your eggs this convenient way. you are sure they are fresh. sputation for deliver Bowman Eggs to s J