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WINNETKA TALK October 16, 1926 - Books--Books BOOKS A happy week for booklovers, this--with such a list to choose from. m-- In Quest of the Perfect Book By William Dana Orcutt Little, Brown ¥ Co. $5.00 It would seem to us that the author had ended one's quest in this very book--for it has achieved a physical perfection of design and finish that is utterly satisfying. It is described as "the Reminiscences and Reflec- tions of a Bookman...." and the author as an "architect of books." He has evidently studied books and their making, type, paper, the harmonizing of make-up and subject matter, with loving and patient thoroughness. Thais By Anatole France Jobn Lane, The Bodney Head, Ltd. $5.00 Another of that exquisite style in which some. of Cabell"s and many of France's books have been published. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape. -- It Happened in Peking By Louise Jordan Miln Stokes $2.00 The action in this delightful ro- mance takes place during the Boxer rebellion, with the ancient city of Peking as a background. Page Mr. Tutt By Arthur Train Scribner's $2.00 Dear to the hearts of most of the Saturday Evening Posts circulation, this new book about the Tutts should have a royal welcome. Nine easy-to-read stories about how they overcome legal trickery by trickery just a little more legal! The Collected Parodies of Louis Untermeyer Harcourt, Brace $2.75 The main features of this clever book are his Mother: Goose rhymes as they might have been written by modern poets today-- the odes of Horace as they might have been written by various other poets, earlier and modern and "Heavens" of which James Branch Cabell said once "It seems to me for sheer damnable cleverness without any parallel." People of modern tastes in writ- ing will want this book. Introduction to Sally By "Elizabeth" Doubleday Page $2.50 We'd like to see the person who could read one page of this de- licious book without wanting it! Sally is modestly described as the most beautiful girl in the world, and her incredible ad- ventures are told with a naive gayety that has, however, an un- mistakable flavor of mischief. A perfect book to give to some- body who needs to laugh! NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That a new publishing house be- gan its career September 15--Wil- 'liam Morrow and company? That the ex-crown prince Wil- helm of Germany has written a book in which he places the blame of the war on the shoulders of na- tions other than Germany? That the author of Mohammed, R. F. Dibble, is in Europe prepar- ing a book on Martin Luther? That Theodore Dreiser returns to this country in November for the dramatization of "An Ameri- Tragedy?" OW BOAT A New Novel by the 1uthor of «"S0 BIG" EDNA FERBER A glorious romance -- in the heart of Americe S 5 Doubleday, Page & Co. Subscriptions Magazines § N taken in our book department Book Department First Floor Chandler's FOUNTAIN SQUARE--EVANSTON Reviews of New Books "Tar Daxcine Froor"--John Buchan. Do you love mystery? Not the kind that has to do with a spot of blood on the floor, but the kind that deals with the Greek Islands, with the mysterious religious rites of forgotten centuries, with the doomed house of Plakos and its lovely daughter. Vernon Milburne has had for many years a dream, recurring on a certain night of spring, a dream about which he only knows that each year some- thing comes nearer him. So strong is the hold of the dream that Vernon con- secrates himself to its cause and only holds himself in readiness for its ful- fillment whatever it may be. Now in life, such a course would end in a "flop" of one's hopes, but not so under Mr. John Buchan's skillful pen. There it blossoms into a breathlessly thrilling tale of remote islands, surly peasants and an old pagan rite con- secrated in the Valley of the "Dancing Floor." ALL DET "SAviours oF Socrery"'--Stephen Mec- Kenna. Stephen McKenna who has before been successful in writing trilogies or works of more than one volume has resumed this former habit in "Saviours of Society" which is the first part of "The Realists." Mr. McKenna, who has been going steadily downward in the quality though not in the quantity of his pro- duction of late years, has in "Saviours of Society" made an attempt to grasp at something more vigorous. There is a fairly good plot and it is worked out with a good deal of skill though a rather too great wordiness. The title "The Realists," comes from the fact that Mr. McKenna feels that since the War a new type of politician has come into being in England, one who instead of dealing in the old reticences and insincerities of politics looks facts squarely in the face and deals in real- ism. --Esraer Gourp A literary event The publication of Early Autumn By Louis Bromfield author of "The Green Bay Tree" and "Possession." The third "panel" in the screen of American life, "Early Autumn" is a story of New England where the struggle is between the reach- ing out for the present and the clinging to the past. Stokes $2.00 One of Farnol's Best Novels | | THE HIGH | ADVENTURE By JEFFERY FARNOL A romantic tale of lusty adventure by the famous author of "The Highway." $2.00 at all Bookselleis Broad LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Publishers, Boston Just Paragraphs "The Queen of Sheba" by J. C. Mardus, which has been translated from the Arabic into the French and from the French into English, is de- scribed as "richly oriental and story and setting blend in as lovely a poem as can be found in our language." Im What fun it would be if we could have from every author a little prog- nostication as to what he thinks his characters are going to find next. Such a word Larry Barretto, author of "Walls of Glass" wrote to a friend who thought his novel had ended too cheerfully, "Don't think the end too golden . . . You don't find Romance by putting out to sea, and a conscience like Sophy's won't be left at home. I imagine that she found disillusion- ment just over the sky-line. On that account I felt very sorry for Sophy." --EsraER GOULD Rin Plato's "American Republic" is the next book to appear in the interest- ing "Today and Tomorrow" series. It is said to have some interesting com- ments on the woman's club, the lun- cheon club, and even prohibition. THI Since we have discovered that presi- dents and other important people read detective stories with keenest relish, we have followed in their example with commendable haste. We have discov- ered, however, that many detective stories are not as good as they should be, but that "Into the Void" by Flor- ence Converse is an unusually fine one. The plot is clever, the characters charming and it is delightfully well written. It is a real find. AnNE L. WHITMACK nnn Lewis Browne, author of "This Be- lieving World" which has just been published, is now in Russia studying the religious development under Com- munist rule. Rm Ring Lardner, who in the old days used to be known as Chicago's base- ball humorist, is developing a strain of grim realism which will soon make Théodore Dreiser sound like a comic sheet. But in art Mr. Lardner has traveled a long way since the days when he used to make us wonder whether it was worth while turning over to page 102 for his column. --EstraER GOULD nung The Czecho-Slovakian rights to "Dark Laughter" have just been sold and there is an insistent rumor that the book will be dramatized in the near future. DOROTHY CANFIELD'S New Novel HER SON'S WIFE "A Masterpiece" --Wm. Lyon Phelps HARCOURT BRACE & CO. $2.00 Custody Children Where There Are Children Dare There Be Divorce? By Everett Young Not the ordinary "brilliant so- ciety novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring supremely what happens to Clodi Dillon. Henry Holt & Co. $2.50