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92 WINNETKA TALK March 3, 1928 Telephone for your BOOKS University 1024 Wil Rogers Park 1122 Wintersmoon Hugh Walpole A romance of modern London society that will need no recommendation to people who know Walpole. Doubleday, Doran .......$2.00 The Best Poems of 1927 Edited by L. A. G. Strong A collection including poems by AE, Conrad Aiken, Hilaire Belloc, Stephen Vincent Benet, Countee Cullen, A. E. Coppard, Edward Davison, Arthur Guiterman, Elinor Wy- lie, Sara Teasdale, and others. Dodd, Mead 8 Co. '......$2.00 The Keys of Heaven Barbara Young A first volume of verse by a poet of unusual beauty and power. Fleming H. Revell ..... ..82.00 The Years Between Paul Feval and M. Lassez Thirteen years after The Three Musketeers we see D'Artagnan steering a hazard- ous course between Richelieu on the verge of political col- lapse, the wily Mazarin, and the persecuted queen. Passion, suspense and danger surround the mysterious Cavalier Tan- crede, D'artagnan and the poet swordsman Cyrano de Ber- gerac. A pair of books for people who enjoyed Dumas: The Mysterious Cavalier Martyr to the Queen Longmans, Green 8 Co., 2 vols. HL EE eT a ee $5.00 Spinet to Saxaphone A dramatic musical in five | chords. Isabelle J. Meaker Samuel. French ............ 50¢ Reputations Ten Years After Another series of military studies from the Great War. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart Little, Brown % Co. ......$3.00 Baghdad and Points East Among the wonder cities of the Eastern world where his- tory reaches back and is lost in legend. Robert J. Casey J.-H. Sears Co.......... The Golden Bubble Courtney Ryley Cooper Little, Brown 8 Co. . Anne Belinda A Fascinating Mystery Story. Patricia Wentworth Lippincott «....82.00 ...%5.00 ss v..32.00 sss sean | and. pleasant shock of surprise. Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS : "Deluge," a book to be published in March, is being prepared for American publication by a man named Flood. The author, an Englishman, S. Fowler Wright, having waited until he was fifty-three before writing his first novel was persuaded by helpful friends that no publisher would accept it, and so published it at his own expense. England, to prove the friends wrong, acclaimed it as the best book of ro- mance of the future since Wells; now America awaits it. : Professor Michaud, a Frenchman who after twenty years' residence with us has ventured to write on the American novel, says "Their (modern authors') novels constitute a vast satire of present-day American civil- ization, a defense of the rights of man against the pressure of obsolete ideals and traditions . .... More faith and conviction have been spent in literary production than in the pulpits of the churches." An Adventurer's Child "THE LAND OF GREEN GINGER" By Winifred Holtby Robert McBride & Co. Winifred Holtby's "The Land of Green Ginger" is one of those books which gives you a remarkably rare Pick- ing it up without knowing anything about the author, unenlightened by EDEN: By Murray Sheehan Nat Ferber, New York American: "Sheehan is 'a poet who 'writes beautiful prose. If you enjoyed 'Adam and Eve' you may find greater delight in 'Eden. I did." E. P. Dutton & Co, N. Y. $2.00 {ULL LLL LETTE LL L777 Well over 100,000 Copies Sold DUSTY ANSWER The outstanding fiction success by Rosamond Lehman If you have not read it don't wait another day. Henry Holt & Co. LLL LLL LLL CLL LLL dll liddd $2.00 | E7777 znd iii, LLL LLL LILLE LET 7 27 777 rd ZT 7d 777072, Mary Boyle O'Reilly one of the most colorful of modern person- alities, has written The Black Fan a story of romance and adventure against a back- ground of court intrigue that led up to the World War $1.25 Chicago Reilly 8 Lee New York its very enigmatic title, you find your- self suddenly sitting straighter, then flipping over to the back cover asking yourself and the non-informative pub- lisher, "Who is this Winifred Holtby anyway?" You find yourself smiling at the aptness of a phrase or mark- ing a passage for re-reading. Such a passage is this one, descriptive of South Africa: "She saw the parched and twisted valleys where the baboons walked in colonies. She saw the bushes of prickly pear crouched in fantastic attitudes She saw the cool, transparent cup of the evening sky warmed at the rim by burning hills, and the goats, with bearded, provocative faces mocking her: from their grim banquet of thorns." We liked that about the goats especially, and so did- the author herself evident- ly, for she repeated it word for word at the end. The story is that of Joanna, whose mother went out to South Africa with her missionary husband and died there leaving an infant daughter, an "adven- turer's child." Joanna's adventures are destined to be mostly those of the imagination, however, for she is early caught in the toils of the world. She marries when she is very young and in the stress of the war,.a young man who charms her chiefly by his capacity for nonsense. She learns later that his capacities have not included the ability to tell her that he.is a consumptive, an illness the war makes once more acute. So with two children who are of course threatened with a bad heritage, and an invalid husband Joanna takes up the struggle of life on a barren farm. Still she keeps, through all that follows, the land of her imagination; nothing can readily down her because she 1s an "adventurer's child." There is something splendid about the picture of Joanna dragged down by poverty and overwork, by the un- kindness and stupidity of people, yet never conquered. There lives in her mind bright as the flame on a secret altar the belief in the beautiful world she has never seen. In the end when everything seems to crash around her she is still not conquered, but goes off to find her dream. The book is excellently written, sometimes with that quality of detachment which speils true art. Truth or Fiction "THE BLACK FAN" By Mary Boyle O'Reilly Reilly & Lee "The Black Fan" by Mary Boyle O'Reilly is a story which leaves you conscious mainly of the enigma, is it fact or fiction? Yet the sad part of it is that like the fate of the Romanoffs and the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, it seems destined to re- main unsolved to the end. The pub- lishers on the jacket flirt with the CHANDLER'S for BOOKS The most complete book stock on the North Shore Critic Suggests These Books for Girls' Club Mr. Solle of Kroch's Bookstore sug- gested the following list for a girl's club that is very provocative for one's own reading. Marguerite Wilkinson--New Voices, Recommended because it contains most of the best poetry published since 1900. To be used not as a book for one eve- ning, but as a dessert after heavier books. In the course of the year it might be used three or four times for joy and inspiration. Fiction Willa Cather--My Antonia. The best American novel since 1900. Edith Wharton--FEthan Frome. The second best novel since 1900. These two books read for enjoy- ment are excellent: studied in detail for character, style, and American manners they offer much. As addi- tions to a personal library they deserve front page space. Mazo de la Roche--Explorers of the Dawn. A truly delightful adventure with three boys. Offered here for the psychology of children. Bran Stoker -- Dracula. Classic mystery story that will bear rereading. Offered here as entertainment. De Coster--Tyl Ulenspiegel. Flem- ish folk-tale that not to know is to miss one of the good things of life. Jane Austen--Pride and Prejudice. An elegant story, a delightful romance. Suggested as contrast or for compari- son with the modern girl. : Knut Hansun--Growth of the Soil. A masterpiece so simply written as to elude description. Laid in Norway, it offers a golden opportunity for pros and cons in comparison with "My Antonia." Biography Michael Pupin--From Immigrant to Inventor. An inspiring chronicle of one man's life and achievements. William James--Letters. Submitted with doubt, but not as to quality. To picture a character from letters does not always appeal, but to read letters full of character, fun, and pathos is worthy reading. : race S. Parker--An American Idyll. An heroic story, a thrilling ro- mance, an inspiring record. question, the book itself uses real names interspersed with those of fic- tion in that fourth dimensional way so dear to some authors. The story purports to be that of the events leading up to the Great War, those events culminating in the assassination of the Archduke of Aus- tria. It tells of a secret visit made by the Kaiser, "the Only One," as he was modestly called, to the Archduke, of a plan made to carve Europe be- tween them like a Christmas turkey and a secret agreement to that effect. Then followed the murder with the consent of the Emperor who feared his future heir. All very exciting but --Is it true or isn't it? Miss O'Reilly's life sounds like an even more thrilling tale than the one she has written--a war correspondent rushing over the continent of Europe in the wake of revolutions and trage- dies "she knows" her publishers says, "enough to blow up half of Europe if she were not wise enough to know the value of silence" We wish she had forgotten that value for a mo- ment. A SON OF MOTHER INDIA ANSWERS (10th Edition) By Dhan Gopal Mukerji "When Mukerji undertakes to criti- cize an American tourist's snap judgment of his country, he is worth hearing."--St. Louis Post- Dispatch. $1.50 E. P. Dutton & Co. New York