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32 WILMETTE LIFE . ] une 17, 1927 Librarian Goes Abroad ~[iss Anne L. Whitmack. librarian of the ~·ilmette Library will leave Sunday, June 19, for Toronto, Cana.da, where she will attend the convention of the American Librarian association. .Qn ] une 24 she will sail from Montreal for England, spending three weeks in that country. ~liss \Vhitma ck \Yill go to Paris where she will be the guest for a few days of ~Irs .. Law.ton Parker who was formerly a hbranan. ~f r. Parker is a well known artist of that city. ' ' = = = = = = = = = . Pot Shots at Pot Boilers I Everything iur good or evil, . bring . ; 'vith it a counter-balancing compensa tion and evcr)·thing includes the "modern" biographer. Those who write in ".:\IOTHER ..-\::-.J'D :->OX"-Homain Rolland. the Lytton Strachcy manner arc ju -! Romain Rolland, great idealist and as apt at unearthing the virtues rli· great realist, ha s written the third the vicious as the vices of the virtu part of his four Yolume novel "The ous. 1fary Agnes Best, in "Tholll:t" Soul Enchanted." In the first part Annette Riviere ,· of an upper middle Paine: Prophet and 11artyr of Declass family in France, is in tht throes mocracy," ha s gin~ n us a more ymp~ of finding her u \\ 11 indi\'icluality . and thetic portrait oi the man who w:1s trying to preserve it inviolate from described by Roosev~lt as a "filth~· the world. In the second volume this little atheist." Jf you take into consame Annette growli old er is facing sidcration the fact that the rabid the world \Yith her illegitimate son Fundamentalis-ts '.\·ere . the ovcrwhelmat.ter rcftt.:t'tJCY I11arrt·.-tge l)ccause of the · I' · 1· 1 t'l ing majority at the tune Jamc 1n-c , assumption of smug possession on the it is t'<t:-\ ' to understand that hy incur part of the man she loves. In this ring th~ir c.:ntnity throug-h open ddi · tl11.rd volttlllC, 1.11 111y O!)I.tli.Oll tl1e })est ance, PaittL· brPugllt upon lttmse 1 1 th ·: and mo st unuerstanding one of the vindicative rancor for which th at three, the son is older and he and his gentry is noted. Further addendum til mother are making their separate ad. his ill -re pute, \\'a:i the iact . that as :til ' ustments to the world-which js JUSt J expatriate Englishman, PalltC: becamv now plunged in \Var-and more fund- the victim of S\'Stematic libel fn J!ll amentally, to each other. England \\'hen h~ rose to be the i(lH·Therc are fe\\' no\'elists writing to- most anti-British propagandi~t oi hi-, day who have as 1leep an insight into time. Only a fool or a \'ery great man the human heart as Romain Rolland. dares to be irankly independent a11cl The subterranean pas~ages he treads outspoken in thought and a ,-tion .... arc intricate as the many actual pasThe perttsal oi biographies and t ht::r sageways which intersect each other auto form arc to me a duty to l>e l'I ltlll(ler tile ~'t't'\· of IJar1·.:. J>ttt t111likc "' " _, ) tim ·iasticallv duclged as oiten as po , those actual passages \Yhich have so sible and it; n·taliation, ii I w~n· L'Yvr honeyconlhcd the ca rth that the city itse!( has been in danger of falling, to be Fanny Butchered, I \\'Ottld ;tel mit that I " ·ou ld rather have writt l' Il ).I. l{ olland has ldt the earth quite "[ Think I R~lllcmber," by .?\1agdak lt sec url' . That i..; what makes him bo~h reali::,t and idealist. He talks of the King-Hall than any other hook th a~ earth as it is and yet goes under it to ever came o IT a press. It is a hila r I tl 'e depth s of feeling where people arc ious burlesque (Ji the po1nposity 1 ol- · irrational idealists following the light the autob iographic ;, of the great and · 111 · tl 1e1r · own sou 1~. ncar-great, just such a book as Rin g ·1 1 1. \\' I11c Lardner would han~ written in hi, Annette has al\\'a\'s followed s uch "Story of a \\'onder ~tan" if ht· a light because one~ having found it hadn't been compelled . tu write it un she cannot let it go. Her son, a head- a newspaper schedule . Variou -, trong, rather sulky adolescent, has rcvie\vers have rai sed indignant Y o ic v~ to find it for himself. And in a world to high heaven O\'CT the itka oi pn gone mad \Yith insincerity and hatred mitting any committee to choose a it js hard to find. Xo hater of war has book each month for their edificatiot '. eYer resented a more adequate argu- To paraphra ::>c Decatur's flag-\\'avin g, mcnt again::;t it than thi ·-the picture "~fy preference-may it ever IH· of a whole nation sick with its poison- right, hut my preference, right ·Jr ed fumes. It is more terrible than any wrong. " I heartily agree \Vith t llv picture of horrors at the iront, those sentiment but there are other factur , we expect and buoy ourselves up with, to he considered. If anv of the month the pictttrts of an exa lt ed nation work- ly book clubs feel the. need of \'indi ing at home. But ~I. Rolland destroy s cation they can surely find it in thl' that pleasant illusion by showing the type o( advertisement that se lls hook-. utter moral degradation which was to the great American public or a~ eyerywhere. finders of the needle in the haystac k The boy at last comes through it of contemporary book issues . . and finds his O\vn soul-a soul fired Karel Capek has, in 11 Thc Absolute at to go forward, to break with the old Large," given his public a keen and outworn society, to find something biting satire on religion and its posbetter for the world. ..If one goes sible effect on a materialistic world i i alone it is because one is a pioneer. carried to its logical conclusion. Start Every advance that a single man ing with the thesis of religious faith. make s becomes the road of the whole M. Kapek finishes at a synthesis oi world." absurdity. His logic may be faulty. "11other and Son" is a fine book, but · in outlining it he reaches the nth M. Rolland raises it and carries it degree of irony. The mischievou s along on the swift current of his own mockery of some of the passages arc spirit. strongly reminiscent of Anatole -.EStH~R GoULD. France, with the tendency most ol{vious in the passages relating to patriotism. V cry few will agree with ~I. The John Day company announces Kapek (which partially explains hi s that it \-..·ill publish a series of stories fame) but this volume is so deservingcalled "Notable British Trials," stories of appreciation that it should be read of important British crimes and their . . . . If only 11 The Professors Like trials. Is it possible that they think Vodka," by Harold Loeb, had been as we do not know enough of crime al- clever as the title. After the tale is ready. started fairly in its course it is entertaining, as naive professors in comThe very real interest in war books pany with sophisticated ladies of the at the present time is shown not only world are always in all ways enterby the immediate success of such taining. . . . In headlining a .review books as "Aw Hell" and "Red Pants," of "The MalleUs," by E. H. Young~ but the fact that "Gun Fodder," the the very literate New York Times un earliest book of A. Hamilton Gibbs is blushingy remarks, "Spinsterhood as feeling a renewed demand. a Family Tradition." B. B. J Reviews of New Books BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON "FOR RECREATION, READ THE BEST" says the caption of an art.icle on summer reading in a r~c~nt tssue of The Nation. It says fuuber 41 · · · · · · the first thing to realize is that summer is an excellent season for reading, and to recognize that a great many persons do avail themselves of it." This article seems to be part of a campaign to establish the truth of a fact that should be obvious: that many people have leisure only in summer to read the better and more serious things for which wint~r gives them no time. And, too, that many people who go in for "light summer reading" arc those who probably do light reading at all seasons. So we, here at Lord's, make no change in our plan of choosing our weekly book list. If, for some re;son or another, they honestl y deserve re~ommending , we recommend them. The John Day company has had a prize" letter in its prize novel conte :; t. Jt is from a man who wishes to know if he may submit a no\'C~ l \\Titten bY his dead wife and if so should he e~1tcr it under his own name since the l<ich- i::; dead, and if so \1\'0ttld it be ent-ered under nm-els written hy a man or bv · a woman, and finally, if neither of ·these is feasible, how about entering it under the name of his present wife, who, however, it further dcYclops is not a novelist. Truly the man himself i..,, he has \\'OVen a plot there. 11 A book interesting at this season is the latest of 1frs. Francis King's "Little Garden Series," "Iris in the Garden." Book Specials for Vacation Reading Popular Books New Edition In this edition are some of the most popular books of the season. Tuey are excellently bound and printed. Take the ones you haven't read with you on your vacation. B-0-0-K Roman Summer Harper ~ Ludwig Lewisohn Brothers $2.00 The ~agic ~Aountain Thomas Mann 2 Interpreter's House Struthers Burt The Mother's Recompense $6.oo Edith Wharton Alfred A. Knopf, vols. The Eye in Attendance Valentine Williams Houghton, Miffiin The Cathedral Hugh Walpole $2.00 Professor's House Willa Cather Once in the Saddle Eugene Manlove Rhodes Houghton, Miffiin $2.00 $1.00 each Surprise Package Five books in a package ready wrapped. You pick a package and get five good titles for the price of one. We are making this offer to clear our shelves for fall stock. The Sombre Flame Samuel Rogers Payson 8 Clarke. Ltd. The Talk of the Town Lynn 8 Lois Montross Harper 8 Bros. $2.00 The Sixth Commandment Carolyn Wells Five for the Price of One $2.00 Doran Sl.OO Lord'· Book Shop-Just Inside the West Davis Street Door 130 DAVIS STREET Uai.enit7 IZ3