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WINNETKA TALK May 14, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE - EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Runaway Days Samuel Scoville, Jr. Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. .... $2.50 Mysteries Knut Hamsun Alfred A. Knopf ........ $2.50 The Way of Romance Vivian Gilbert Appletan -. .... 3... . $2.00 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann (2 Volumes) Alfred A. Knopf ........ $6.00 Young Men in Love Michael Arlen Poran 2... .04 civ us $2.50 Pharisees and Publicans E. F. Benson Poran 3.00 ch nT $2.00 Qil! (A Novel) Upton Sinclair Albert ¥ Charles Boni .... $2.50 The Main Stream Stuart Sherman Charles Scribner's Sons ....$2.50 Re-Forging America Lothrop Stoddard Charles Scribner's Sons ....$3.00 Rogues and Vagabonds Compton Mackenzie Sack and Sugar Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick Doubleday, Page 8 Co. ....$2.00 An American Saga Carl Christian Jensen Little, Brown $ Co. ...... $2.50 Billet Francaise $1.25 Delicately tinted note paper-- with envelope and paper for mes- sage, in one piece. In compose or- chid, blue, gray, and green--or pure white. Lord's--First Floor Just inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That a new form of a question and answer book will be issued May 15 by Boni Liveright of which Samuel Adams is the au- thor? That John Buchan, novelist, has been nominated for Parliament to represent the Scottish University? That The Famous Players which abandoned the idea of filming "'Sor- rell and Son' have sold the film rights to Herbert Brenon? That Edwin Balmer, an Evans- ton author, has been made editor of the Red Book recently? We think that the next new and popular game will consist of trying to pick out the famous movie people and contemporary folk in Don Ryan's fine novel, "Angel's Flight," which Boni and Liveright are publishing in Au- gust. Don Ryan, during the thirty- seven years of his life, has been, among other things, newspaper man, professional dancer, vaudeville actor, first lieutenant of infantry, and title writer for the movies. This is a clue to unscrambling many of the impor- tant personages thinly disguised in this novel. Since it has been found necessary to publish "The Mad Professor" by Her- mann Sudermann in two volumes, its publication will not take place until the fall. New and Interesting Books for Your Library Fiction The Madonna of the Sleeping gr. Maurice De Kobra ...... $2.50 The Immortal Marriage. Gertrude Atherton ...... $2.50 The Sombre Flame Samuel Rogers .......... $2.50 Chains Theodore Dreiser ...... $2.50 The Lonely Ship Storm Jameson ........ $2.50 The Sorrows of Elsie Andre Savignon .......... $2.00 Young Men in Love Michael Arlen .......... $2.50 The Rise of American Civilization (2 Vols.) Charles A. Beard Mary R. Beard ........ $12.50 Runaway Days Samuel! 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Mr. Fortune's "maggot," in other words "perverse fancy," was to turn from the well populated center of St. Fabien toward that unspoiled tropically luxuriant paradise of Fanua, a little volcanic island in the Pacific. Thither against all the best advice of his superiors in the church he journeyed, here he found peace for his soul. He makes almost immediately a convert, a beautiful agile youth who comes to him of his own free will and lives with him. Mr. Fortune feels that this soul of Lueli is a gift from God and tries therefore, to call him "Theodore." The boy has no objection and they live together in joyful comradeship until the day it turns out that Lueli is worshipping his own god in private not far away. Mr. Fortune is terribly hurt and tries to destroy Lueli's god, but in the end restores it to him and destroys instead his own. Then he realizes that be- cause he is destroying the very peace that he loves he must go away. These two characters are masterful and delicate creations, and the book is a beautiful artistic whole. --EsTaER GOULD. a %* Critics unite in praisiag: The ROAD to the TEMPLE Susan Glaspell's kindling biography of George Cram Cook. Harry Hansen says, "It has been a long, long time since any book has stirred me so profoundly." Frederick A. Stokes Co. $3.00 3rd Large Printing THE OLD COUNTESS Anne Douglas Sedgwick "Surpasses 'The Little French Girl" "--St. Louis Globe Demo- crat. "Swift and beautiful. Surely one of the best novels of the Spring." --Esther Forbes in the Bock Re- view. Houghton Mifflin Co. $2.50 at all bookstores Just Paragraphs Hugh Walpole in reviewing Olive Schreiner's posthumous novel, "From Man to Man" finds that in three quar- ters of the volume there is nothing of value for the modern reader, yet in that other quarter there is some- thing which ranks with true creation and marks the author as one "in the line of true artists, at the very times when she was herself least aware of it." Ezra Pound, American poet, has is- sued the following invitation, "I should be pleased to accept two mil- lion dollars for the foundation of a bearable and intelligent civilization, in some salubrious climate, preferably somewhere in Europe, with a nucleus of American inhabitants, selected from those who are untainted by the last three Presidential reigns." It is ru- mored that Mr. Pound is coming on a lecture tour to United States whether in the hope of meeting this benevolent capitalist or of making the two million himself we cannot say. Mrs. Atherton's new novel, "The Immortal Marriage," reconstructs the Periclesian Age, and the love story of the two (according to her) perfect lovers. Russell Crouse of the New York Eve- ning Post listed twelve novels as the worst that have ever been written meaning that the style is so absurd and the technique so peculiar that thev are literary curiosities of thes period. The author of "Slippy Magee," Maric Conway Oemler, has written a novel, published recently, which deals with the life of John Wesley. The portrait is a frank one but reverently handled and true to modern biographers gives proof that he was a human being. "EARS TO HEAR" "In no way do people differ more than in what they do with their ears. A few of us use them to hear with. Most of us, I am afraid, like a certain animal, only wag them. Hardly any of us really 'take in' more than a fraction of the interesting or beautiful! experiences that constantly present themselves for admittance at the por- tals of our ears." In this way does Daniel Gregory Mason introduce his "Ears to Hear, a guide for music lovers," one of the booklets in the Reading with a Pur- pose series issued by the American Library association. He continues "Seeing and hearing are active processes not passive states. Listening is not an occupation for the lazy or dull; it requires a keen and collected intelligence; but in the in- exhaustive delights it brings we are repaid a thousand fold for all the effort we have to make." National music week was May 1-7, and in celebration of it, musicians, critics and educators compiled a list of books recommended to quicken the average person's musical perceptions. --Anne Whitmack <> "We can't keep out of little hells that other people are making." SPRING TIDES By R. E. Pinkerton Romance! Adventure! Rugged characterizations! All those appealing qual- ities for a novel which the author displayed so well in "The Test of Donald Nor- | ton." Net $2.00. Chicago-Reilly & Lee-New York