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WINNETKA TALK July 7, 1928 cra FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON University 1024 Rogers Park 1122 Wilmette 3700 BOOKS Java-Java Byron Steel, author of O Rare Ben Johnson Alfred A. Knopf 5... 2. 2 0 $2.50 Jerome, or the Latitude of Love Maurice Bedel A Goncourt Prize novel. Viking Press... «sve sives $2.00 Therese Francois Mauriac Translated from the French by Eric Sutton. Boni ¥ Liveright ........ $2.50 Bambi Felix Salten An idyll of animal life, trans- lated from the German by Whitaker Chambers. Simon ¥ Schuster ........ $2.50 The 15 Cells Stuart Martin Another of those exciting mys- teries that is sealed at the most exciting part of the story. And you CAN'T resist breaking the seal! Norway's Best Stories An introduction to Norwegian literature. One of the Scan- dinavian Classics series--and a companion volume to Sweden's Best Stories. Europe Count Hermann Keyserling Harcourt, Brace ¥ Co. ....$5.00 The Son of Man Emil Ludwig The Story of Jesus. Translated by Edensand Cedar Paul. Boni © Liveright ........ $3.00 LORD'S--BOOKS First Floor--Davis clipes Cal TIES CER RS i ne Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Smith College Library, Northamp- ton, Mass. Sounds of singing come faintly through the windows. Ele- vated songs such as "1920 does your mother know you're out?" and others similar with which older reuning classes favor their younger reuning sisters. Stillness within, where only a few days ago distracted seniors frantically turned the pages of refer- ence volumes and wondered why their families had insisted on a college edu- cation. And one sits, wondering also in a distracted manner why book re- viewing goes on forever. Class cos- tumes, words to the latest songs, sun- light on the unbelievable green of campus and on Paradise Pond, on rhododendrons and azaleas, seem so much more important. One sighs. A GOOD FIRST NOVEL "SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY" By Dawn Powell, Brentano's "She Walks in Beauty" by Dawn Powell is a good piece of work. A little more than the "polished second- rate" of so much of our fiction. It is a first novel and it suffers slight- ly from the looseness, the lack of de- cision of many first novels. But it is decidedly better than most. The setting of the book is partic- ularly good, a middle western town and the very queer boarding-house which "Aunt Jule," as she is univers- ally known, keeps there. Her two grandchildren, Linda and Dorrie, both suffer from the social blight of their position, a small town is of course merciless. Linda grows bitter under Soothes and Refreshes Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at the wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instant- ly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling; clears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trips to refresh and protect your eyes. Also keep a bottle of Murine in your locker at the country club for use after golf, tennis, swim- ming and other sports. A month's supply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! Write Murine Co., Chicago, for FREE books on Eye Beauty and Eye Care URINE For Your YES the blight but she combats it in her own stubborn way and is at last cos= ventionally triumphant. Dorrie is a poet, it is she who "walks in beauty." Her triumph is more exciting and more ephemeral. The weakness of the book is in its failure, with me at least, to gain my sympathy. Until the last half of the book I didn't know who to like, I was a spectator at a game not knowing which side I was rooting for. That comes from lack of decision, a com- mon first novel fault, and one which disappears with practice. Miss Pow- ell has a good future before her. FOR ONE'S FRIENDS "SHORT CIRCUITS" Sit Fhe Thom "By Stephen Leacock Dodd Mead & Co. Stephen Leacock, like our winters and the youth of today, isn't quite what he used to be. Humorists more definitely than other pursuers of the literary art reach their peak and fade. That is because there are fewer in- termediate gradations, they either hit the ball or they don't. In "Nonsense Novels" Leacock certainly hit the ball, his imagination ran riot; carried his reader BEL "Short Circuits" the type of humor is less riotous and, alas, less humorous. Yet they are pleasant little sketch- es of present day life, taking off our foibles in a neat manner. Joe Brown, Champion Pie-Eater, a "quiet unas- suming man of a stature in no way out of the common, and having a frank, offhand manner that puts one at once at one's ease" might be any one of our heroes, from a flagpole sitter to champion pugilist. The re- marks on the man who is supposed to make a speech at the banquet are peculiarly telling when they, as in my case at present, fit in with experience. In other words there is a good deal of fun in the book, it makes a good present to send with marked passages anonymously to one's friends. A GOOD BOOK "A MIRROR FOR WITCHES" By Esther Forbes Houghton Mifflin Co. Esther Forbes has done that rare and gratifying thing, write a second book as good as her first. She has accomplished this probably by doing that other rare thing--making her T ake BOOKS with you on your vacation. LULU KING Books Sold and Loaned 728 Elm Street, Winnetka Ph. Winn. 1101 second book different from her first. "O Genteel Lady" received such praise that Miss Forbes might have been tempted to try another of that preeminently charming quasi-serious style, but in "A Mirror for Witches" she has tackled sterner stuff. She has gone back to the days of the Sa- lem witches and has not only captured remarkably well the spirit of the age but its diction also, and its quaint prim- ness and severity of tone. Miss Forbes tells her story with her tongue imperceptibly inclined toward her cheek so that, even as we should probably see it in documents of that day, we see the judges and accusers as the evildoers and the witch herself as the innocent wronged. So her tale becomes not only a narrative but a subtle satire of that stern and self- righteous age. Bilby's Doll, born of witch parent- age in Brittany, was brought to the coasts of the New World by a foster- father who, having rescued her from the fire which consumed her parents, fell so under her spell that he loved her above all mortal things. Though she was always persecuted by his jealous wife, yet she grew up hap- pily enough for she spent most of her time in the woods and fields with him. Then gradually as the years go on strange things which happen in the community and cannot be explained in other ways come to be laid to the memory of witchcraft brought by Doll from those far off infantile years. So we see how to an imaginative child the picture of witchcraft always held up before herself comes to be be- lieved and she does at last accept the fact that she is a witch. Inexorably then move the wheels of justice, never pausing until they have ground be- tween them this poor guileless and lonely child. As we see the last of her in her miserable cell we are con- vinced that she is the most innocent one of them all. TO SUMMER ABROAD Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lutz and their daughter, Mary, of 460 Hawthorne lane, will sail from New York on July 15, on the Berengaria, for an extended trip abroad. They will tour England; France, Belgium, and Germany. One of the most interesting features of their trip will be the Olympic games in Amsterdam, which they will attend. The Lutz family will return from their sojourn in foreign climes in the fall. Mrs. William D. McAdams, 734 Lin- coln avenue, left on Monday, July 2, for Quebec, and sailed from there for Europe on July 4. Mrs. McAdams will visit France, Italy, and Switzer- land, and will return in about five weeks. ---- Mr. and Mrs. George Greenaway and family of Winnetka are spending their vacation in Canada, visiting rela- tives in London, Ontario. They left this week-end by automobile. ry Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Reach of 844 Prospect avenue left on Monday, July 2, for Norway and Sweden, where they will spend seven or eight weeks. --(-- Mr. and Mrs. Morton Maddox, 705 Oak street, returned home last week- end from a motor trip in the south. CHANDLER'S for BOOKS T he most complete book stock on the North Shore PES 2 Ka aie Somat ad oo Gael A y