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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 9 Oct 1926, p. 33

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WINNETKA TALK October 9, 1926 -- 1 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | Popular Books (September Bookman) DID YOU KNOW-- That Count Berchtold, who was Reviews of Austrian minister of war in 1914, FICTION-- is writing his memoirs which New Books 1. The Private Life of Helen of BOOK LOVERS! should prove very interesting? TYOY tinting aitindesie sensi Erskine . Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ....Loos . An American Tragedy ...... Dreiser . The Blue Window .......... Bailey "Sw : "» » J : . weepings" hy Lester Cohen,'is an . The Hounds of Spring ..Thompson If you haven't read these-- 2 4 , ' 5 uncommon book written in an uncom-| ¢ Wild Geese ............... Ostenso 2 . 8 9 they're ready for you here! And our discriminatingly-assembled collection of books includes not only these newer things, but the standard older books one needs in a really satisfying library. That "The Bookman" is offering ten prizes for the best papers on the subject "My Book Chum" written by children? That Hendrik Willem Van Loon has just sailed for Europe to do "SweEPINGS --Lester Cohen. monly fine way. It is a story of Chi-| 7, Mantrap ..........ivcvvnvnes Lewis cago, almost an epic of the growth of | 8. Hangman's House .......... Byrne research work in connection with a the citv. and ticularly of th . The Silver Spoon ...... Galsworthy book which he will publish in the || pon "oo SITE PEE Oar | 10. After Noon .................. Erts spring on Rembrandt? S " g 11. The Perennial Bachelor ....Parrish gain store. 12. The Black Flemings ...,.... Norris Daniel and Thane Pardway planned GENERAI-- "The Bazaar" while Chicago's ruins | 1. Why We Behave Like Human were still smoking, and what showed BRIDES ois vie avons svrieviin des Dorsey The Human Adventure Harper $ Bros. $10 being two volumes: "The Con- JOINS STACEY STAFF quest of Civilization" by Profes- J. W. Panushka has recently joined | greater courage they bought the land | 2. The Man Nobody Knows ...Barton sor James H. 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Grey : ; . university, held the first luncheon of |twists them about with the fate of its |10. The Revolt of Modern Practical Auction Bridge this year at the College club in Chica- | characters as too few stories are able Youth :.%v.. an Lindsey and Evans By Wynn Ferguson go last Saturday. Mrs. William Hayt|to do. It is a first novel, written [11. The Fruit of the Family g Doran $2.00 of Wilmette, Mrs. John Hill, formerly | without flourishes, interestingly, in a Tree ..iiv civesnssvnovers Wiggam of the village, and Miss Anne Whit- | concise swift moving manner which {12. The Travel Diary of a J mack of Wilmette, are among the north | seems often to be conversational. Philosopher iss «isso diss Keyserling shore alumnae of this college. --EsraER GouLp Just Paragraphs Rent the Newest Books New Trier Grad Given po adzaie Colum's Fook, "The oad . oun reland," which was publish- The White Devil's M FICTION. 'AND NON-FICTION Part in New York Play ed September 28, contains character e ite Devil's Mate from Charles Fleischman, a resident of [sketches of Irish patriots and writers By Lewis Stanton The Book Nook Kenilworth and a graduate of New |and is illustrated by the new school of Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. $2.50 809 Oak St. Trier High school in the class of 1926, | Irish painters. People who like The Ossen- / - has been given a part in a play called : dowski kind of book will certain- "Periphery," which opened the first of Two new volumes of poems will be lv enjoy "The White Devil's the month in New York, it was learn- published this fall which are worthy Mate." We recommend it to ed this week. The play is expected to [of mention--'Dark of the Moon" by anybody, in fact, who likes to reach Chicago about the first of the |Sara Teasdale and "Eve Walks in Her be completely absorbed by a coming year. Fleischman is playing | Garden" by Louise Ayres Garnett. The An understandingly-written, easily-understood explanation of bridge that is as good for ex- perts as it is for beginners. LUT) book! SHOW BOAT under the name of Charles Rainsforgs. He was very prominent in New Trier dramatics, taking a leading part in "The New Lady Bantock," as well as minor parts in "Alice in Wonderland" latter book is of special interest to people on the north shore. Hn Thomas Hardy's new book of poems, "Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs 4 A New Novel by the 1uthor of R "SO BIG" and "The Road to Yesterday." He be- and Trifles" is described by the "Book- man," as "portraits of men and women . € : . EDNA FERBER longed pie. Dramatic, Jrrench rand as ye 4 enough in thenselves and : y ive for us by the wizardry oO e seer A glorious romunes -- the North Shore Plavers and ool who has discovered where the lines of in the heart of America | Parts in both Winnetka and Evanston. feeling Tie deepest" FEED the BRUTE By Margery Swift and Christine T. 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