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4 8 WINNETKA TALK February 19, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 BOOKS New--and interesting for other reasons! George Washington The Human Being and the Hero Rupert Hughes Morrow $4.00 Main Street and Wall Street William Z. Ripley Little, Brown 8 Co. $2.50 The Quest of the Quaint Virginia Robie Little, Brown 8 Co. $3.00 Cities of Sicily Edward Hutton Little, Brown Co. $3.50 Balkan Sketches An Artist's Wanderings in the Kingdom of the Serbs Lester G. Hornby Little, Brown 8 Co. $5.00 O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories of 1926 Chosen by the Society of Arts and Sciences Doubleday Page 8 Co. The Quest for Winter Sunshine E. Phillips Oppenheim $2.00 Little, Brown # Co. $3.00 The House Beautiful Gardening Manual Fletcher Steele Atlantic Monthly Press $4.00 Just In-- New Pound Papers Full stocks of the standard Eaton, Crane © Pike papers. Deckle Vellum, 85¢ Ib. Envelopes, 50c¢ package. Tweed, 75¢ package. Highland Linen, 75¢ 1b. Flat or Folded Sheets, Envelopes 25¢ «and 45c Ib. Envelopes, 25c¢ Kara Linen, 50c Ib. Envelopes, 25¢. Louisine, 45¢ Ib. Envelopes, 20c. Lord's--First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That after a lapse of about twenty years Stephen Graham is once more writing novels? That a new child novelist of promise, Peggy Temple, who is 13 years old, has appeared in Eng- land? That the author of "Rivers to Cross," Roland Pertwee, played the roles of portrait painter and actor successfully before he became a writer? That Irving Bachellor traveled to the Holy Land, accompanied by a professor of Greek and Hebrew to get material for the setting for his book which will be published this spring? Ida Tarbell's New Book Down in Connecticut, near her coun- try home, Ida Tarbell recently made the acquaintance of Henry Wing, who had been a trusted friend of President Lincoln. He told Miss Tarbell many of his adventures as a soldier in the Union army and as cub reporter for the New York Tribune, and in a little book called "A Reporter for Lincoln" Miss Tarbell retells the moving story of Wing's work as unofficial news car- rier for the President, how he came and went through the army lines, re- gardless of danger, and how the har- assed president depended on him for an intimate account of what the men of the rank and file were feeling and thinking. Miss Tarbell says: "The story treatment has altered no fact, stretched no point, added no artificial evidence to Henry Wing's own stirring accounts of his experiences or of his close relations with Abraham Lincoln." Just Paragraphs The necessity of nonsense is being recognized in the publishers' lists by a number of compilations of nonsens- ical verse, parodies and the like. The only book by a new writer in the group is Milt Gross's "Hiawatta, wit No Od- der Pomes." The last phrase the N. Y. Times suggests is fortunate since if there were any more as funny the reader would commit that time honor- ed feat of "dying laughing." On Feb. 11 the book in which a pro- fessor has made Wall Street sit up and take notice was issued. "Main Street and Wall Street" by Professor William Z. Ripley is written for the small in- vestor and is an expose of certain of the methods of big business. ECHO ANSWERS By Elswyth Thane author of "Riders of the Wind" Life offered to turn back the clock! Give him ro- mance again! And Anthony Stuart didn't know whether to say "yes" or "no."" What would you do? Frederick A. Stokes Co. N.Y, Reviews of New Books "GOODBYE, STRANGER" -- Stella Benson. Stella Benson is an incomparable slender satirist. She works not with wide sweeps, but thin pen strokes, each of which tells. When you finish you have no striking impression of the whole, merely the memory of the pleas- ure of the details. Clifford Cotton on the day after he and his bride, Daley, returned from their honeymoon, went out into the garden and had a strange experience which brought him back "a change- ling," queer, half fairy, half child. His wife, the pretty bewildered American girl who left her simple home where every feeling, thought and opinion was labelled plainly, like a collar advertise- ment, to marry an Englishman and come with him to China where he was to be a missionary, is lost in this sea of indistinctness. Bravely she tries to hang on to the old standards by ask- ing herself in any given situation "What would the Ridleys"--her best friends in California--"say about it?" And always they would say the dullest, most commonplace, most American thing! Miss Benson is merciless in her depiction of character. So merciless in fact that we laugh at rather than sympathize with any of them, Clifford who spends all his time trying to imi- tate a bank president and stop being a fairy, Daley with her yearning for a safe, good, cut and dried life and love for the victrola, scrawny Lena, whom Clifford thought wise, and the dreadful old Mother Cotton whose laugh was like the barking of a dog, "Hak! Hak!" but who when her son regains his manhood and ceases to be a fairy says, "But O--there are so many men, and--so--few--fairies." "THE HEART OF EMERSON"S JOURNALS"--Edited by Bliss Perry. One's chief emotions on reading "The Heart of Emerson's Journals" which Bliss Perry has edited, is regret that one has not the entire ten volumes of the Journals before him. It is difficult, as always, to be cut off with fragments. However, there is small likelihood that even having ten volumes before us we would get around to reading them so it is better to be grateful for this necessary and pleasing substitute. It is really a fascinating experience to watch through these fragments of his journal the growth of Emerson's mind. It is like walking through a funnel, beginning at the small end and advancing through an ever widening hall. First there are the youthful out- burst and resolutions, such as "I here make a resolution to make myself acquainted with the Greek language and antiquities and history" . . . from the Cambridge Junior, to "There are some men above grief and some men below it," from a seasoned thinker, the man of originality who went about gathering thoughts as a collector of herbs would garner herbs. Suddenly after a profound statement, you will come upon, "The only straight line in Nature that I remember is the spider swinging down from a twig." As original, as profound, and filled with a greater humility. Besides being a great thinker Em- erson was a great observer of his times. So in his journals we see the reflection of all that was passing in | Winnetka Library NEW BOOKS Adult Morton--I Am a Woman and a Jew. Dibble--Mohammed. Keyserling--The Book of Marriage. Hall--On the Stream of Travel. Ellis--Study of British Genius. Stephens--Collected Poems. Parker, Mrs. C. §.--More Ports, More Happy Places. Gosling--Travel Many Lands. Mothersole--Czechoslovakia. Newman--The Nature of the World and of Man. Quick--Mississippi Steamboatin'. and Adventure in Hewlett--The Letters of Maurice Hewlett. Drinkwater--Mr. Charles, King of England. Thorndike--Short History of Civiliza- tion. : Washburne, C. W.--New Schools in the Old World. Northend--American Glass. Nutting--The Clock Book, A.L. A. Reading With a Purpose Series Burke--The Sun in Splendour. Rinehart--More Tish. Stern--A Deputy Was King. Nason--Chevrons. Gibbs, P. H--Young Anarchy. Parrish--Tomorrow Morning. Tarkington--The Plutocrat. Gibbs, George--The Joyous Conspira- tor. Key-Smith--Spell Land. Grey, Zane--Under the Tonto Rim. Deeping--Doomsday. hee FErtz--The Wind of Complication. Garnet--Go She Must. Juvenile Moses--Another Treasury of Plays for Children. Patch--First Lessons in Nature Study. McCann--Ship Model Making. Macselfi--Pets for Boys and Girls. Boyle--Man Before History. Darrow--Thinkers and Doers. Plimpton--Your Workshop. Curtis--A Guide to the Trees. James--Smoky. Scott--In the Endless Sands. Crant--The Story of the Ship. Asquith--Pillicock Hill. Forbes--Mary and Marcia, Partners. Terhune--My Friend the Dog. A young English novelist, Francis Brett Young, who has been visiting in these parts was entertained recently by Mrs. Wililam Gold - Hibbard. 840 Willow road, Winnetka. Love is Enough is his text novel and his work is said to show great promise. those years, the beginning of the slav- ery agitation like a first distant peal of thunder, the Brook Farm experi- ment, the various interesting person- alities in or visiting Boston. Emerson gave to the world two great thoughts, the realization of the wealth man has within himself, and the beauty and wonder there is in the world around him. In his essays we have the finished flower of these thoughts, in his journals the roots ana first green shoots. It is a broadening intellectual and deepening spiritual ex- perience to read these extracts from his journals. ~ --Esraer GouLp FS '~a