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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Apr 1928, p. 38

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Esther Go·ltfs Book Cor·sr JUST PARAGRAPHS Frances Newman's eagerly awaited novel "Dead Lovers are Fa i t h f u 1 Lovers" has just been published. Miss Newman's ~partment was robbed recently and the negro robber being caught confessed that his loot was seventeen cents and that his ·name was Henry For$!. Maxwell Bodenheim, with the famous corn-cob pipe which has been his joy and his friends' despair for at least seventeen years, was in Chicago last week. His new novel "Georgie · May" which is just out he considers the· best work he has ever done. her brilliant intellect made her the And such is fame ! Edward Garnett, ruling power of Paris. When she was the English writer who edited " Letters not yet thirty her tiny salon drew the From J o$eph Conrad," w~ich h~s just brightest liflhts from the. more estab- been published, wrote to has pubhshers, lished salons of. Madame du Deffand the Bobbs-Merrill company, concernand Madame Geoffrin. For twelve ing an article he had read recently in years she was occupied with the · things an American periodical. The article of th~ mind then suddenly she was appeared in the Bookman and Mr. stricken with the things of the heart. Garnett called attention to the young From that time on her life was not Indiana writer, as he thought, and that of a philosopher but of a bar- what he had written about the Klan in rassed lover. Indiana. ·"You had better look out for This volume concerning Julie is in- him," wrote Mr. Garnett, "he should be teresting not only, by any means, for on your list. It would be a shame if its light on her character alone but you don't get him. His name," conas a picture of. that brilliant, fascin- tinued Mr. Garnett, "is, I think, ating, to us fantastic age, when phil- Nicholson." osophers were more sought after by The writer Mr. Garnett referred to society than oil magnates, when one is none other than Meredith Nicholson, might truly say, "I think, therefore whose new novel Dobbs-Merrill is to 1bring out early in July. "And to I am." think.," said Mr. Nicholson sadly, "that "HELEN AND FELICIA" after writing thirty books I should be discovered by the discoverer of Joseph By E. B. C. Joaea Conrad!" ·HeDI'J' Holt A Co. Dr. David Starr Jorclan, whose book, "Helen and Felicia" is one of those "The Higher Foolishness," was recentsad results which we must expect to ly published, coined three words in the have follow the interest in psychologi- process of writing the book-sciosophy, cal fiction. E. B. C. Jones has written quacktitioner and pluviculture. A some good books which like the newspaper reporter maintained that "Wedgewood Medallion" and "Quiet the words could not be rhymed. Some Interior" had a delicate touch and real one has proved that · they can be charm. But she has-in English par- rhymed and the three stanzas of his lance since she is English-come a poem end respectively thus: cropper this time. She has tried to ... No shadow of a doubt you see, lead the way through the subtlest of That one may rhyme sciosophy. the subtle reactions of a large number . . . And rave at mercernary vulture, of characters and has become so inWho seeks to thrive. on pluviculture. volved that she and the reader too, ara ... We can't refrain from wishin' her, hopelessly lost. Escape from this quacktitioner ! It· is difficult to say whether if "Helen and Felicia" were not the title Paul Wilstach, the sprightly globeof the volume and therefore a little trotter and no less sprightly biographer hilltop sticking up you would in the of the Revolutionary Fathers, recently first half of the book have any idea sailed for Italy to finish a new book which of ~ large · and dete~minedly to be entitled "An Italian Holiday." analyzed family you were supposed Mr. Wilstach is the author of Islands to ~e particularly interested in. For of the Mediterranean" and "Along the . the sad truth is that you are not in- Pyrenees." terested in any of them. Helen's and Felicia's devotion to each other seems "La Fayette," by Henry Dwight not a little hysterical and you find Sedgwick, author of "Cortes the Conyourself constantly expecting some- queror. thin~ to come of it but nothing does. "American Travel Charts and Travel In fact the book is full of incidents Chats," by Frederick L. Collins. Where which just don't come off. to go and how much it costs in thirty In the end the point of the book ~s American cities. that blood is stronger in this case than 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the marriage tie and Helen rises abovf' can't very well go 011 sharing Helen's her sister's infidelity with her husband wealth as well as her husband. And frankly confessed by the sister. Helen you are left realizing that for all the takes Felicia's arm and thev all go in pages of analyzing you don't know the happily to a three-sided·, -dinner to- characters, they are not real or you gether. But this doesn t seem to would be able to project them forward solve anything. You have no idea and give them the futures which they ;.:~=·h=a=t=F=e=li=c=ia=w=il=l=d::o;:;;;;;in;:;;;;;th::e;:;;;;;f::ut::u::r;;;;e;;;;.=sh;:-e. should ha_v_e._ _ _ _ _ __ u~ wu..u. 11!4 J1ll ~. . . . ParkiiZZ Time for GARDENS! Fiat of all, there is the cbarmia1 ·ria of little aarcltn boob edited by Jln. Fnrxil ICing MIND AND HEART "JULIE DE LESPINASSE" E. P. Dattoa A Co. A n y o n e might well have been pleased to be the discoverer of new material on the life of that renowned yet little known character Julie de Lespinasse. This has been the good fortune of the Marquis de Segur and he has embodied the very illuminating material which he has found, both in the letters of Julie and in her family archives, in this interesting story of her life. The publication of these letters in an abridged form set by the ears the world of 1811, thirty years after their author's death. Now more than a century later they are still as full of charm, life, and the fire of a glowing personality as they were then. These letters in their unabridged form are soon to be published in France. Julie de Lespinasse was one of the great lovers, the great intellects of her time. Poor, without m1me and without beauty, her magic charm and The Little Garden, NnCit ICing . br/ Jln. F . 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Many persons use Murine each night and morning to keep their eyes always clear and bright., A month's supply of this longtrusted lotion costs but 6oc. The Flower Garden Day by Day Jln. Franc;, King A daily aaiclt ia 1anltain1.. Stoka · ··...····.· . ·.·· Sa.so The Btginner's Garden Jln. FNIKia ·l(jng Scribner's ·.···......... S:&.oo OPEN GOLF SEASON Northwestern's golf team which defeated Marquette at Milwaukee last By HiWar Dise6ua Saturday 13 to 4 will open the conference season at Evanston this SaturWith a beauUful Swedish YIU.. u a background this sequel to ..The day with Purdue. Dick Pierce, a lllnlllter'B Daughter," canies on the sophomore, shot ~ 74 against Marstory of Sara Alella, her children and grandchildren. Northern mystlcl811l quette for low score, while Seymour Dexter, also a sophomore followed and a lltrontt belief In the supernatural Is felt throughout the book. him with a 76. McKay, captain of the E. P. Dattoa A Co. New York team, shot a 77. Konny Savikus is the other member of the team. The "=;~;;;~~~;;;;;;~~;;;;;;;=; Purdue match will be played on the rr - Wilmette golf course. Fraacia NeWJDaD'a aew DOYel THE SON Anti il JOI/rt inltnatt4 in ,.,.,,, fiOU"U ..,, to"' the two tlllitiJtful motllla, ubi1Jit,4 ., tw Chi· GlfO a NfW Yorl G·dm &,_, bv Jln. lobn Lind, which · aow on 4ut*v in our Bool Dead Lovers .... Faithful Lovers This even more than "The Hard Boiled Virgin" .r eaders will agree deserves the verdict of James Branch Cabell, "brilliant, candid, civilized and profound." CHANDLER'S /or ,,.,.,,. Fint Floor luat ,,.,. th ,,., 0.11ia lJRIIVL f!JR "(OUR l BOOKS The moat. complete ~ atock ou the Nortb &bore Str·t Door .EYES

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