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3A RE nd 4 fea SAE Se JN WINNETKA TALK November 12, 1927 ---- M-------------- BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephone for Your Books: University 1024 Wil. 3700 Rogers Park 1122 ~ Father Mississippi Lyle Saxon Century Company........$5.00 Commodore Vanderbilt Arthur D. Howden-Smith Robert McBride 8 Co......$5.00 Frontier Ballads Charles J. Finger Doubleday, Page 8 Co.....$3.50 Michelangelo Romain Rolland Duffield 8 Company......$3.00 Bismarck Emil Ludwig Little, Brown. .is «+s ++ . $5.00 Up the Years from Blooms- bury George Arliss Little, "Brown .......... $4.00 Vestal Fire Compton Mackenzie Doran Company .........$2.00 Yellow Gentians and Blue Zona Gale D. Appleton 8 Co........$2.00 Tall Men James Stuart Montgomery Greenberg Publishing Co... .$2.00 Tokefield Papers Frank Swinnerton Doran e.veevinia.e se. sr. $2.50 Forlorn River Zane Grey Harper % Brothers. .......$2.00 CHRISTMAS CARDS BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED HERE May we urge you to let us have your orders now? Hundreds of designs to select from. Lord's--Books and Stationery Just Inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Just Paragraphs By Esther Gould The life of Mahlon Blaine, one of the best known illustrators in New York, reads like a fairy tale and may partly explain the weird and vivid note which is almost always present in his art. Running away to sea at fifteen he sailed into almost every port and on every ocean, taking part in mutinies and rebellions. His art he learned casually and, as an aside, the first use he made of it having been to copy the old Italian masters so accurately that after they had been aged in the engine room they brought an excellent price. Miss Mazo de la Roche's avowed ambition which is to spend the winters outside of Canada, is by way of being fulfilled. The $10,000 prize for her novel "Jalna" has thus far brought her to Boston and is to carry her on to Florida. LIFE IN ITS FUNDAMENTALS "My Heart and My Flesh," by Eliza- beth Madox Roberts. The Viking Press Elizabeth Madox Roberts, author of the widely and justly praised "Time of Man" has written her second novel, "My Heart and My Flesh." This, un- like so many second novels, shows no diminution of power though it does have a far less happy coincidence of manner and plot. In her first book the freshness, the unusualness, of the style expressed quite perfectly the strange unusual character of the child --a sort of dialect of the child's spirit. In this book the main character, Theo- dosia, is more one of us, and the DANGEROUS BUSINESS By EDWIN BALMER A fast-moving novel of men and women caugh in the craze of entertain- ing for business--with a tremendous climax. $2.00 DODD, MEAD rr ---- "One of the: most beautiful books I have read, and the truest." --Louis Bromfield. MOTHERS | BY GLENWAY WESCOTT An absorbing novel of American life. unusual character of the style seems less inevitable, even, alas, at times obscure and forced--an obscurity, it seems to me, coming from sentences weighted with words and having no definitely constructed framework be- hind them. The story of Theodosia is that of a girl born on the hilltop of aristocracy in the south, descending slowly step by step, into the valleys ifi which simplicity lies, close to' the heart of primitive people. It is a pitiful story. The child loving music, taught to play the "fiddle," brought up to believe that all of life lies before her fertilely, and discovering little by little that decay has set in and each avenue to fulfill- ment is closed: First there is the dis- covery of her father's profligate life, then the fact that the fortunes of the family have dwindled away, then the two men she has cared for or thought she cared for failed her. At last, penniless and ill she goes through the valley of despair. Then little by little she comes out on the other side and finds life in its funda- mentals in a little community of farm- ing people. With them and through them she learns to live again. THE PRESS WE LIVE BY "Ballyhoo, the Voice of the Press," by Silas Bent. Boni & Liveright. Silas Bent, veteran newspaper man, has done a service to mankind in his book, "Ballyhoo, the Voice of the Press." If we are to be led, bullied, ridden by a thing as colossal as the press today, if we are to unfold every morning with our coffee, a record of the world's worst happenings, if our knowledge of the world is to be filter- ed through this strange medium it is better that we should at least under- stand it. Mr. Bent is freed from the bond of silence on many subjects commonly imposed by economic necessity on newspaper men since he has, after twenty years' experience been for the last few years in free lance work. He is also given by this fact a perspective on the subject not possessed by those so close to it that they cannot see the forest for the trees. Thus unusuallly well equipped, Mr. Bent reviews the whole subject of the press. It is a fascinating subject and he handles it with a spirit and a keeness which he learned in the press school. The building up of interest in certain subjects, such as sports, until the public completely won over to the prescribed diet thinks itself avid for more, the exploitation of personalities such as "Lindy," whose flight across the Atlantic was given bigger head- lines and far more space than the signing of the Armistice, the "human interest" humbug which allows private individuals like the Irving Berlins to be martyred by news-mongers long after they have ceased to be legitimate news, the incredible phenomenon of the picture tabloids and the type of muck they thrive on, these are only a few of the subjects on which Mr. Bent writes vividly and well. The Great Bear By Lester Cohen Author of "Sweepings" It is a portrait of Chicago and of an egotist, a conqueror in love and a conqueror in the never-ending battle of business. A strong bosk. Boni & Liveright $2.50 RARER IA Sh Sh a A treat for children and adults! Another Hugh Lofting Dr. Dolittle's Garden In which the doctor enters the world of insect life with his usual tact and sympathy and meets with his usual success. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.50 Sarett Brings Plea for Simple Life and Scores Jazz and Gin Lew Sarett, poet, recently of Ev- anston, more recently of the northern Wisconsin woods, appeared Tuesday, Nov. 1, before the aS club of Evanston. He brought to this gathering of his townfolk--for he refuses to relinquish his claim to Evanston as "home," al- though he has established his house- hold in Leona, Forest County, Wiscon- sin--the gospel of the simple life. He was heard by an audience that over- ran the auditorium into its gallery, by far the largest audience that has this season patronized a Woman's club program. The Sarett message was a plea for the disregard of the fatuous gains of an age of "jazz and gin"; a regard for the poetry that can permeate the life lived naturally and in simple, wholesome fash- ion, away from the dangers of a spiritual bankruptcy, the cynicism, iconoclasm and boredom inspired by the metropolitan battle and broil. "What is it all about? Where are they all going? What are they 'getting'?" he inquired as he painted the hectic city scenes before contrasting it with the peace and surroundings of the woods in the by-places beloved and familiar to him. Poems recreated with their fine poetic essence the appeal of the human and animal folk of the wild wood; he read them exquisitely. He brought his peaceful preachment to climax with his imitation of the creatures who are his neighbors in the woods. There was a friendly feeling in his lecture mood. It was that feeling of a friend come among his own again, ana to it these friends reached out with re- sponsive eagerness, paying him tribute of long, uninterrupted silences and of prolonged applause. When he had done, their insistent applause brough him back to the platform for a brief tribute to Mrs. Sarett, a former member of the Woman's club. Mrs. Robert Bruce Scott, chairman or the fine arts department, under the direc- soley) 'SIN WIY padnpojur 'qn oul tion of which Mr. Sarett appeared before W. Spofford, president of the club, opened the meeting. A tea followed the meeting in the auditorium. Various members of Mrs. Scott's department presided over the tea tables and assisted in the tea Pons I. F. D. Kappas Give Homecoming Tea 'Today After Game The active chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta at Northwestern university will entertain the alumnae chapter with a home-comnig tea this afternoon, fol- lowing the Northwestern-Indiana game. The alumnae will hold their monthly meeting next Wednesday at the chap- ter house on the Northwestern campus. A short business meeting will be fol- lowed by a demonstration of the Kel- vinator. The meeting will end with the serving of tea. Mrs. Bert Holmes of Evanston is president of the alumnae chapter. ATTEND CLUB OPENING Albert R. Gates, 264 Hawthorne ave- nue, Glencoe, is among other north shore and Chicago golfers, numbering 125, who are leaving this evening on a special train for Valapraiso, Fla., to be present at the formal opening of the new Chicago Country club course. The party, which is composed of mem- bers of the Chicago Country club and the El Quistador club, will return No- vember 18. Besides golf the men will enjoy boating and fishing at El Quis- tador. Other men in the group are Melvin Jones. Charles Smalley, J. W. Fulton, and A. C. Allen. Mrs. Myles Phillips of 1025 Michi- gan avenue, Wilmette, was hostess for the Woman's Catholic club of Wil- i mette Friday afternoon.