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.. ··" WILME .T TE LIPE .. , OT'"""""·C ~- llaich 16. 1128 ·"" '~- ··'" ·- , .. ,_, ___o, .·. ·--"-"'·· ·- · .... · ~-~ .. ·-- . .. ~~ - --- 'I Esther Gould's Book Corner . ,I BW 8000 AT ·~ NEW BOOKS Telephone u.a·......_ ... WIL Jill ...........111 The Savour of Life Arnold Benn~tt Doubltday, Doran a Co... S2._5o Forever Free A novel about A b r a h a ni Lincoln by Honore Willsie Morrow. .. William Morrow a Co·.. S2._5o ' /, JUST PARAGRAPHS Mr. Struthers Burt's publishers hav~ ·just issued this cryptic paragraph: "Mr. and MI"S. Burt have moved into their new home at Southern Pines, N. C., alongside James Boyd, author of 'Marching On.' Scribner's will publish this spring a new book of stories 'They Could Not Sleep' and 'The Other Side,' a book of essays, both by Mr. Burt." Is it possible he does not like his new neighborhood? In the new edition of "Mirrors of the Year" the book designed to make you able to talk about the things of which you know nothing, Robert Emmet Sherwood makes a good hit in his chapter on American humor, "Now the satirists, comedians, clowns, gag-men. wise-crackers and other aU-around wits turn to 1928, conscious of the lamentable fact that, with the passing of the Model T. Ford they have lost the truest and most U3eful friend of all." That is an aspect we hadn't thought of and one which dwarfs the falling off of the second hand market: ual certainties ? Wasn't it, second, the closeknit organization of the families which gave form to life, each person being only a unit in a great important pattern. Even their names as "Jonsdatter" or John's Daughter, give · constant reminder of the responsibility they bore toward someone ehe. They were so serious, these people of the thirteenth century, so childlike, so cruel and yet often so wise l The love story of Olov and his foster-sister, Ingunn, is not a · happy one. Yet it is full of beauty, a beauty which is not more· in the style than in the very movement of the story itself. DIE OTHER SIDE "A SON OF .MOTHER INDIA ANSWERS" By Dhaa Copal Makerji E. P. Du'ttoa A Co. In "A Son of Mother India Answers," Dhan M ukerji gives his reply to Katherine Mayo's "Mother India." This latter book has provoked a lot of replies, from economists, scientists. medical men, poets. It is a book which carried a grave indictment of a whole nation of three hundred and twenty million people by a woman, a "tourist," who spent a few months in their country. Mr. Mukerji'·3 answer, slight as it is in bulk. has · a good deal of interest. In the first place it is made with an admirable restraint. The danger in such a case is that he might be tempted to indulge in satire, invective, bitterness, weakening his own case and strengthening that of his opponent. It is to his lasting . credit that he ha·s not. In his opening paragraphs ltlr. Mukerji deplores the use of the name "Mother India" which has for Hindus a symbolic meaning beyond that of a similar term used in · other countries. He feels that, considering the spirit of the work this is a needless lack of tact, even brutality. So also the dedication "To the peoples of India," those people about whom in her four hundred or so pages of text she ca" find only enough good things to fiJI six pages. Mr. Mukerji proceeds to question a number of Miss Mayo's figures, disproving some by quotation from reliable sources such as the census reports, showing some of her sources to be material gathered anywhere from forty to a hundred years ago, sometimes misrepr~sented to ·make it ap- ANCIENT NORWAY "THE AXE" By Si.rid Undaet Alfred A. Kaopf Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill's much-talkedof play. Called by critics "the finest, the profoundest drama of his entire career." Boni 8 Livuigbt ........ $2. so THE LIBRARY The Wilmette Public library has · received the following new books : Bill-Alas,. Poor Yorik l Davis-White Queen. Montague-Right off the Map. Munro-Unbearable Basington. Sandy-Wild Heart. Scudder-Disciple of a Saint. Steele-Meat. Walpole-Winter·smoon. Wilder-Cabala. Yonge-Unknown to History. Hodgson-Steel Square. Berenson-Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance· Berenson-North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. Bennett-Much Loved Books. Henley-Lyra Heroica. M<Y.sher-More Toasts. Dillon-Boy in the Wind. Michaud-American Novel of Today. Hardy-Dynasts. Belloc-Cruise of the Nona. Wilson-Ladies Third. Edwards-Alsace-Lorraine. Edwards-Holland Today. Seton-Chinese Lanterns. Butt-Letters of Archie Butt. Inness-Life and Letters of George Inness. . Howe-Barrett Wendell and Hts Letters. Funck-Brentano-Middle Ages. . Batiffol-Century of the Renats· sance. · Bouleriger-Seventeenth Century. pear new. Then Mr. Mukerji ~as given a great deal of space to demals by Ghandi and Tagore. of the words imputed to them by M1ss M~yo. All this, while it is not exhaustive, does throw a serious doubt on the authenticity of the book in question. In conclusion Mr. Mukerji, rather futilely it seem~ to me, outlines-with a few jabs which he cannot resist such as "eliminating from the book all the errors and half-truths thus reducing it to a quarter of its present size"what Miss Mayo would have to do to make the book what he chooses to intimate she must have meant it to bean aid to reform among the Indian people. And So to Bed A comedy in three acts which begins where Mr. Pepy's diary leaves off. Htnry Holt 8 Company ·· S2.oo Dominance Madge Jenison, the author of "Sunwise Turn." Doubltday, Doran \!1 Co. · · S2.oo Safari The Saga of the African Blue, by the famous traveler and adventurer, Martin Johnson. G. P. Putnam's Sons ·.···· Ss In the past five years in America Sigrid Undset has been coming into the position to which her place in Norwegian letters entitles her. "J enny" her first work published in this country found a certain number of ardent admirers, her next work, a trilogy, "Kri.stan Lavransdatter," mad~ it still more clear that here was a talent of the first order. "The Axe," is the first book of a new trilogy, of which the second is alreadv in translation. · This, like Miss Undset's other long work is a story of mediaeval Norway. What was it in the lives of those people of a dr.stant day that gave them such dignity, solidity, form? Surely it is more than the distance. The movement of the story is like the measured swaying of their own heavy beautiful garments-s a t i n s, velvets, brocades, never the easy flirting to and fro of the modern flapper's a b b rev i at e d skirts. Wasn't it, fir.st of all, their religion, which anchored them to spirit- Guy Terry Gives Account of Causes of World War The Cbaqging Road H·ol4 JI«Grt~tb Doubltday. Doran \!1 Co..· S2.oo 1 , Wattr A Story of Adventure by Albert Payson Terhune. Harptr 8 Bros·········.. S2.oo CHANDLER'S /or BOOKS T8 molt complete bool 1totlt on the North Shot· Crusade Donn lJvrM Little, Browa 8 tompany S2.oo Jl""" Kind· ol Altractiw NIW StatiOMI'fl AN ARTIST IN THE FAMILY The splendid new novel by Sarala G.. b ucle Millia Here is the other side of "The Way of All Flesh," the parents' side, the side of the Unremarkable Majority. Its question is "How much should be conceded to the artistic temperament ? " LOilD'S-BOOKS 1.., ,,.. ,,. \Vat o.,;. , . , BntNno . The · study class under the direction of Professor Guy Terry of Northwestern university is nearing its close for this season. Dr. Terry has given the cla·~s a thorough and comprehensive view of the political and economic situation in Europe from the period between the years 1870 and the beginning of the World war. He has said that the course has been scatterTHIS IS A NOVEL OF ing, feeling that in the short hour of GREAT IMPORTANCE each session he hardly has had time to IHd NOT but touch upon the main points or issues, but the membe.rs of the class MAGNOLIA feel that they have gained a remark Editla E·...tt Ta71or ably clear picture of these aspects aud now have a definite idea of the urJ,!e Out of the South comes a hauntand irritations which were back of the ing story of love and beauty. conflict. E. P. ·D uttoa A Co., N. Y., $Z.il The last meeting was held at the apartment of Mrs. Karl Korradv in the Orrington hotel, and Dr. Terry ~1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ gave a brief resume of the great current of feeling which preceded the war. of the direct incident of the murder of the Austrian arch duke which precioitated the war, of Ger many's "blank check" letter to Austria ~ ~ which fo11owed this strained ~ituation .with Serbia. and of the present atti ·~ L WJUt. 8~ tude of the historians in regard to the "Makts better reading than causes and phases of the war as re vealed through correspondence, arch h·es. and manuscripts which have re cently been available. The next and last meetin~ for the vear will be next week Thursday :.~t the hon,e of ¥rs. Edwin. Hedrick~ 304 · r,.. II 11111-·llllltlll.llilklllltl· ·lllllllllllllllll· · Vtlt·ose avenue, Kenilworth. I J::~i:hy! I I TM I I:=::::~-::m:: I