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WINNETKA TALK September 25, 1926 No doubt you have read ad- vance notices on these NEW BOOKS we list and now that they are here you will want to appraise their content first hand. We are sure you will have pleasant hours while doing it. The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow Doubleday Page $2.50 Telling the story of the danger- ous age the other way around and writing with delicious wit, the author of "Barren Ground" here gives us a brilliant picture of the sentimental tradition of Southern chivalry and the modes and morals of the new South. E-- Crewe Train Rose Macaulay Boni ¥ Liveright $2.00 We go to Spain, in the company of a rebellious British parson, we see him starting life anew with a Spanish peasant wife, over whose habits and fertility Eng- lish ladies would have raised shocked eyes. We watch his lit- tle English girl grow up, and so the story goes. Rough Justice C. E. Montague Doubleday Page $2.50 This is the story of Molly and Auberon Garth who were born in the good old yellow 'nineties when "a choir of young poets were drinking themselves to death with great devotion." How they came to maturity, how they reacted to life, to war, to love and how thru it all, they remain simply themselves, is the theme of this truly fine novel. Memoirs of Halide Edib The Century Co. $4.00 An autobiography of unusual in- terest. Not only is it the inti- mate life story 'of present day: Turkey's most © distinguished woman; it is also an inside story of recent Turkish politics and intrigues, containing much au- thentic information, which has never before been published. Tobey's First Case Clara Louise Burnham Houghton Mifflin In 'Toby's First Case' Clara Louise Burnham has taken a new theme and handled it with all her accustomed charm. The result is a novel that will please all her old admirers and also any .reader who enjoys a first- class mystery story. The Golden Dancer Cyril Hume $2.00 This is the story ot youth in quest 6f a dream. It is a song in praise of love and the laughter of comrades. In it is found the romance of Albert Wells, fac- tory-hand. NEWEST BOOKS AN D BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That unpublished material by the author of Alice in Wonderland will be published soon? That Theodore Dreiser has beew rewriting "The Financier," pub- lished in 1912, which many promi- nent people consider his greatest book? That the author of "Our Times" will publish a new book soon, "The Life and Times of Martha Hep- plethwaite #" That an autobiography of Valen- tino written by his manager, S. George Ullman, will be publish- ed in October? . $2.00" Out This Week (Extracts from publishers' LH "The Red Haired Girl"--Carolyn Wells. A new "Fleming Stone" detective story. notes) Wim "Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin""--Anthony Ludovoco. Clear and searching criticism of his works and aims. HIN "The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare" --trans. by Sir. George Arthur. An important contribution to the story of our times. LL "Joseph Conrad As I Knew Him" --Jessie Conrad. Intimate memoirs of the great nov- elist by his wife. HI RRR mn A CORRECTION Hamlin Garland's novel, "The Trail Makers of the Middle Border," will not he published until Oct. 19. The novelist married the sister of Lorado Taft. SHOW BOAT A New Novel by the Author of "SO BIG" EDNA FERBER A glorious romange -- in the heart of America 'By the distin- guished author of "The Garden of Allah" and "Bella Donna" ROBERT HICHENS $2.50 Gsinopoliian Book @poration Reviews of New Books "CorpELIA. CHANTRELL"--Meade Min- nigerode. One can get so bored with living life and reading what purports to be cross sections of life that a really romantic novel is a boon. Minnigerode has all the little realistic touches, actual names, diaries, old letters and remembered conversation, but the sentiment that surrounds the name of Charleston, the high falutin' courtesies, and the ele- gance that surrounds the old time belles and gallants is romantic: The story begins with the grandpar- ents of the chief actors. The grand- mother of Steeny and Cordelia Chan- trell refuses the hand of the grand- father of Sally Penmarsh and he never forgave her. In order to checkmate the Chantrells he plans to marry Sally to Preston Baimbridge altho she really loves Steeny. With the announcement of the engagement, Steeny loses the girl he loves and Cordelia the man. Cordelia refuses to accept the situation and dramatically prevents Sally's and Preston's marriage. Preston leaves Charleston and dees not return for years when the fact that he is a North- erner frustrates Cordelia's hopes. She becomes a celebrated spy and the story comes to an absorbing close. The structure of the book is unusual, the results are known long before the causes, but the results are so fascinat- ing that one is of necessity compelled to find out the reason why. For all who are bored or tired--the perfect book. --ANNA WHITMACK LTT "Saor Towers"--John T. Mclntyre. When Mrs. Carey's son, Tom Carey, came home after a year in the city, too ill to do more than say a few words in his delirium and then die, he spoke of some fine and wonderful thing he was leaving for his mother and his young son, Tad. . He could not give any real directions as to how they were to reach it, but he said enough to make Mrs. Carey determined that she would go and search for it. It is Mrs. Carey's search and the plots and counter plots circling round it which make up the main structure of the story, but the spirit of it is Mrs. Carey herself, little, indomitable, smil- ing, something of a Dickens character. The author writes with a wealth of in- cident and detail which makes it seem like turning into a quiet street after having been jostled along the busy thoroughfare of modern literature. --EsruaEer GouLp "His Best © THE GOLDEN BEAST ~ By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM "It is one of the very best of his long stories." --The Boston Transcript. $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO Publishers, Boston Ea i Foreign Notes Under the title of "War Memories" Dr. Benes, Foreign minister of Czecho- Slovakia, will publish his memoirs in English this fall. A revised third edition of J. J. Jus- serand's, "A Literary History of the English People" is being brought out. Helen Morgenthau Fox has translat- ed "The Dancing Girl of Shamakha and Other Asiatic Tales" by Count de Gobineau which they say are full of the color and glamor of the East. THI Pot Pourri Rudyard Kipling arouses controver- sy by declaring there are but twelve immortals among literary men since the beginning of time. Bernard Shaw celebrates his seventieth birthday by frank radio discussion of the short- comings of the British government. A schoolboy earns money for his educa- tion by the publication of his novels, et al. Two Greenwich Village restaur- ants vie with each other in providing fifty cent Poets' Platters for ragged . genius. H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is announced as being filmed "on a big scale." And a noted professor is engaged to instruct radio announcers in a more gentle handling of the English language. --The Bookman WHITH Published Recently (Extracts from publishers' nm "Heir To Kings""--Winifred Duke. Brilliant historical novel. TI "The Broken Trail"--Harold Bindloss. Action revolves about a bank rob- bery. notes) Te "The Romantic Comedians" --Ellen Glasgow She tells the story of the happiness hunters . . . with a wit and brilliance delightful to find. nim "Step-Child of the Moon" --Fulton Oursler The story of a new start--a new marriage--and what came out of this strange compact. me "Chevrons"--Leonard Nason. A remarkable novel of the American character and soul. (War book.) LLU "On the Trail of Ancient Man" --R. C. Andrews Accounts of the adventures and dis- coveries of expeditions to Mongolia. Ann "Tampico"'--Joseph Hergesheimer. Rather than being another master- piece by a man noted for his previous successes, we feel that "Tampico" pas- ses muster only through bearing the author's name. Of the story there appears to be little but vaguely centers about a number of character sketches from which interest is even deducted by repetition and the entire novel's tendency to read like a stock report on the oil market. But one could not venture a complete condemnation for we daresay there's many a Hergesheim- er devotee that would enjoy it. By the author of "Anne of Green Gables." THE BLUE CASTLE L. M. Montgomery A delightful romance of the Can- adian woods. $2.00 STOKES