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32 · WILMETTE LIFE · . July 22. 19.27 DID YOU KNOWThat Stephen Graham has completed "New York Nights" and de parted For ·Bulgaria where he expects to begin work on. his next novel? That prominent statesmen and literary lights figure tn "Men of Destiny" by Walter Lippman which will be published next · month? That the Bordin prize of the French Academy has been awarded for a book containing a biography of Shakespeare and a critical study of his writings by Glara Longworth de Chambrun? Recent Novel Written With Characteristic French Subtlety and Frankness "ARIANE"-Claude Anet. Pot Shots at Pot Boilers BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON I A Review List of Some Good Books The Harvest Moon J. S. Fletcher Doran $2.00 l' ash pnzes aggregating $1,000 are offered for the best poems on the ~uhject of Lindbergh and the Spirit oi St. Louis in a contest arranged by ~I itchcll Kennerly, president of the Anderson Galleries. The first pt'ize is <1' Terror Keep Edgar Wallace Doubleday, Page 8 Co . . . . $.1.00 The Small Bachelor P. G. Wodehouse Doran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 -~'5 , and there are t\~o ad4itiontl) . ~25() . dges w1'11 pnzes o t' -r , rae I1. 'I' IH.~ JU he ~Iitchell Kennerly, John Farrar and 00 Love Is Enough Two Volumes Francis Brett Young Alfred A. Knopf ........ $5.00 Christopher ~[o~ley. The \\'Jt11l111g poem, together w1th the hundred best poem~. \\'ill he puhlishl'd by the George 11. Doran Company. and a copy of the "'{)!· !) ,, . . ,,.1.11 I>" . .. Ill at') e< I t. ree t o ea c I1 con.. tll 1Hltor. Bernard Quesnay Andre M aurois Appleton .............. $2.00 Interesting New Fiction Upton Sindair ........... $2.50 The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabati~i The MalleUs E. H. Young ............ $2.00 The Sombre Flame Samuel Rogers ........... $2.50 Houghton Mifflin Co. . .. $2.50 Giants in the Earth 0. E. Rolvaag ............ $2.50 Roman Summer Ludwig Lewisohn The Mating Call Rex Beach ............... $2.00 $2.00 I Harpers But Yesterday Maud Dh·er ............. $2.50 Charles Lindbergh: His Life Dale V~n Every and Morris DeHaven Tracy Biography, Travel, etc. $2.00 Appleton . . . . . . . . . . · . . Bouquet G. B. Stern .............. $3.50 Marching On James Boyd The Mystery and Lure of Perfume C. J. S. Thompson ....... $3.50 Scribners Fire Under the Andes (American Pen Portraits) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4.00 ~rantic Atl~tic Basil \Voon .............. $2.50 People Around the Corner Thyra Samter Window Alfred A. Knopf ........ $2.50 Lotd'r-Book Shop-Just Inside the W eat Davis Street Door 630 Davis Street Downtown Evanston Phone University 123 ~XXXXXXIIXXXiXXXIXIIIIXXI HE distressing effects of the Bigger-and-Better movement can be Claude Anet has written in "Ariane" clearlv defined in the announcement that -Compton Mackenzie is workinga book whose theme as stated in t hP on a nov'el that will be as least six author's pr~face is "lm·ely ~nly." .'I'h.t· volumes long. Inasmuch as a novel. preface wh1ch-because of 1ts famtl~· in its highest conformation, is a narraself-congratulatory tone, so hard tc tion of development of action or charkeep out of prefaces-the book would acter. Mr. Mackenzie is of a certainty going to encounter difficulties in unhave been better without, goes on t~> earthing sufficient sustained natural say, "I was attracted by the idea that manifestations to develop anything but love is in itself a subject, perhaps the horedom in this sexpartite no,·el. subject par excellence, and that he1111111111111111 tween two higher beings the conflict E\VS comes to hand that \rith thl' when love unchains is sufficient tn publication of "Das Men c ken bring a dramatic intrt:est to life: I Buch." a Yolume of selections from therefore wrote this story to illustrat(' Hank's Yarious Prejudices, "German,· by a striking example tl;e idea I had is about to take up H. L. ~Icncken 1;1 formed of a drama of wl1ich l<we a ~crious way." Germany would. \\·as the all." 1 1 111111111111111 Tn Ariane. the witty beautiful pas- . ~ . . sionate Russian girl. the author had versat.lle C. Snatth_ ha~ u; la fit subject for this drama. Ariane. . l.t.·a:-hl'd hts · \'l,~lle sense ~! co!11ccl:-· a precocious child lived in the pro- 111 Ills nrw book. The Hoop. Tt ts t_hr vinces of Russia with her aunt, a \\'O- story of Esmeralda Topham Goo<!cl.lllcl. man who believed in taking ones I a .behemoth '{'enu.s \\'lth a prod1g1011..; pleasure where one found it. At sev- VOice and a halr-tng~e~ temper. A h<·0 k enteen Ariane was the most 0'1 ht of. h~lge hun~or contammg no t\\'o-fac('r~ after th t f t 'g wtt 1s suffic1ent proof that the dan 111 1 young woman . Ics are not oYer . ancI a g I a<1.sonw of tl . t e mas d eh ec 1 d . 1 t'f nurac 1r own an s e pave wtt 1 1 e . f f · 1 1 . · . re 1e rom t 1e war cry 'T.et jO\' be un ~nd the a~ect10ns. of her ·admtrer-- · refined!" that is the apothe . i5 oi tllt' hke the . p01led rh1lcl that she was. 1 average ::;o-called humorous 110 ,·el. But when she goes to ~f osco'" t(· I u1 1 11lll 1111111 1 Istud~, she meet:-;. a man who is a more "TH E Talk of the Town" ha.;; 1'~" 1\\·ortl~y at:tagont~t ~t he: 0\Yn gam~: I , duce<l thr literary incarnation (li Then hegms the mrrcdess battle. "the lolll'"-!!llll·"t <rirl . · . . . in town" in (\'ll'tra . · ·· as t 1 1e aut 1wr terms tt. the battle he - 1nnt' (li thl' t\\'(1 principal il'minil ' l twren the sexes for supremacy. 1 character -- of this c ·nterta111111)! talt ' · Tt is a dramatic conception ;111d ~1. ! thC' Bnhl'mia oi Cr:~mmercy Park. Anet has carried it out \\'Orthilv. with \ IIJJJJII JJJII IIJ t a ~on~hinecl subtlet~· and fr~nk.ne"" ORDI NARILY thi~ column can finrl \d11c h \\'e would cxprc t to find 111 a hut nnr lrgitima1L' cxcu=-c· i or it " f · ).; culti,·atecl Frenchman. i=-trnce: thr cfelineation of the chat.. ~l· teristics nf a ne\\· publi-cation. its perfcctions and imperfections as q·c·n "T H r·; 1:\f~[ORT . \ L :\f.\ r:.n f.\r; I·:··. \\'hen lwld hrfore our some\\' hat lim itr<l l;t·rt nt<1~· .\ tlwrton. . comprehension. nut because we There i-; something to make one chancrd upon a ,·er~· excellent thrc·c ..;top anc' ponder in the quc·:-tion, what w;-tr 0ld hook that had been \rithdra\\'11 made C.ertrude Atherton choose t llt' from the \Yilmette lihran· nnh· one~ · =-tory of Aspa . ia and Prrides for lwr prr,·inu:-. to nur cliscorery. ·\\.t' a;·e " ith novrl? Tt isn't her type of stor~·. vour p·cntle ac(Juiescenrc. goin~· to there i..; scarceh' one of the wl'll bring this very clever yoh1111· · , , . · . · known novelists fron1 ;\·hom T should attention. It is "In\\·ard Ho ~·· h,· less han· expected th1s ston·. \Vhv ('hris.tophrr 1\[orl('y. a volume that nut ..;llOttld it appeal to the at;thor ~~ NietsclH's "Hnman-all-too-human.'· Thr ·'Bia('k Oxen" and "The Crystal Cup?" following quotation is by way oi beinga qualifying- round for the enjm·ahlr But since that questi0n is unsolv- peru sa 1 of the hook: able. "·e can turn to ti1e solvable one "Suppose someone tried to write your oi how she has treated it. Not at all biography. \Vhat nonsense! How a~ \\'e should have expected it to he much \\'Ottld he know? Would he knn"· treated. 'Mrs. Atherton is consistent what you thought when you looked inat least in her surprises. The Greeks to the mirror of a subway slot mathemselves with their beautiful and chine? How Nature rode you with an sonorou;; poetry have .accustomed us angry spur? How you fell on your to viewing the whole C.olden Age of knees at night?" and further "You will Athens on a lof ty leY<'! equal almost find few others to share beauty with to that of Olympus, from which it is you: and it cannot he borne alone." difficult to see it hronght down. \Ve Whi-ch explains this · particular para· r~111 imagine as eas ily hearing ahout graph. 111111111111111111 the breakfast egg of Zeus and Pallas Athene as that of Pericles and the 11THEIR pronouncements :;o assured. wonderful Aspasia. . vve thought perhaps .... But the,· \Ve . hear how Pericles fell in love were critics of literature, not of life ." with Aspasia, how he wooed and won Surely even a misbe2,'otten race such her and took her as his wife in de- as ourselves. ml1St appreciate some B. B. fiance of the law which he himself finite fallihility. had made. \Ve know their daily con11 1776 A Dav-ln·- Da\' Storr" which versations. and the sq uabbles ~f. the will he publisl~ed .by Stokes this sumchildren. mer is an attempt to ~ive a picture oi ln other \\'ords ~f rs. Atherton has the American Revolution as it apmade a ma ttcr-of-fact storv which peared to those living at the' time. might have been laid in mode~n times. Jonatl1an Ra"·son. Jr .. its author ha ~ she has not givrn a great or poetical done this hy :1 me of diarie ". t;uhlic conception of one of the most illus- papers. and prl\·atc letters of the tinJI·. trious love stories of the at, ~.J. It should be a ,·er~- intere s tin r~ a ·1d -EsTHER Gour.n. valuable work. T N THI·. J.. s . ·