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I | WINNETKA TALK October 8, 1927 _ || NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Tel. University 1024 Wil. 3760 Rogers Park 1122 NON-FICTION A Book of American Literature Franklyn B. Snyder and Edward D. Snyder Macmillan Company .... The Story of Music An Historical Sketch of the Changes in Musical Form. Paul Bekker W .W. Norton 8 Co., Inc., $3.50 .$4.00 America Hendrik Van Loon Boni © Liveright ........ $5.00 Ladies Third Six Weeks in Europe on Six Hundred Dollars Mary Lena Wilson The Light of Experience Sir Francis Younghusband Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co... .$4.00 FICTION The Romantic Lady (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Life Story of an Imagination Vivian Burnett Charles Scribner's Sons . .. Alas, Poor Yorick Alfred H. Bill Little, Brown 8 Co. ......$2.50 Alison Blair Gertrude Crownfield Cr ree nee VS 2.00 .$3.50 Dutton The Counterfeiters Andre Gide Alfred A. Knopf ........$2.50 Growth Short Stories by Booth Tarkington Doubleday Page 8 Co. ....$2.50 The Dancing Silhouette Natalie Sumner Lincoln Appleton .....:.s vives +82:00 LORD'S--BOOKS First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door Famed Author, Adventurer, | Republican Marriage Guest of North Shore Folk 7,¢)igyin g Title of Viola Irene Cooper, author and ad- | venturer, is a guest of Miss Bessie Birong, B. Birong Wilmette residents on | her return to New York after an ab- sence of one year, with a recently completed manuscript "Windjamming | to Figi" which will appear as an early spring publication. Miss Cooper and Miss Jean Schoen of St. Louis were signed as midship- maids on the crew list of "the three masted barque "Bougainville" in Sep- tember, 1926, for the farewell cruise of that ancient hooker to the South Sea Islands, where, in remote New Cale- donia, she was to be converted into a barge for storing copra and other tropical products. Miss Cooper and Miss Schoen were entranced by the romantic history of the 63 year old barque, called on her captain, pleaded with him and the ship's agent, and at last cabled the new owner in Bordeaux, France, for permission to voyage on the farewell cruise of the ship. Their prolonged efforts were at last rewarded and on September 20, 1926, when the barque had loaded lumber and fish in Van- couver, B. C. she set sail with two happy midshipmaids in a crew of nine- teen Frenchmen and two natives of the New Hebrides. During her long absence in the South Seas, Miss Cooper spent more than six months on board various ships. Her plans are now the publication of her book of adventure, "Windjamming to Fiji," after which she hopes te satisfy her nostalgia, returning to the coral seas for the sequel. Ah A A A . eTovT HS New Fiction Kitty Warwick Deeping, author of Sorrell & Son. .$2.50 Right Off the Map C. E. Montague.....$2.50 The Casement . Frank Swinnerton...$2.50 Sister, War Diary of a urse Helen Dore Boylston. ... x : Caste » Cosmo Hamilton. ...$2.00 is Married Life . Helen Rowland ....$2.00 k BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. ¥ ¥ A 4 4 ; . A 2 % 4 % k 3 The World's Lure, Fair Women, Their Lives, Their Power and Their Fates Alexander von Cleickes : .$3.00 Pleasant Days i in Spain Yancy Cox:MeCormuck, CHILDREN'S BOOKS for EVERY AGE Subreriptions Take Taken for Chandler' s 630 Davis Street Phone University 123 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. | | | New Swabacker Book "Republican Marriage," is the in- triguing title of the new novel from the pen of L. J. Swabacker, the gifted author whose first book, "Letters to My Daughter," has received such na- tionwide discussion since its publication early in the year, and which recently went into its third edition. Mr. Swabacker, always a profound reader and student of history, has chosen the French Revolution as a basis for his first novel, and so famil- iar is he with the life and thought of the French people of that period that a most gripping and skillful blending of fact and fiction results. Many well known historical person- ages, including Marie Antoinette, Dan- ton, Robespierre and carrier are in- troduced as a background for Mr. Swa- backer's thrilling story, and are fascinatingly and realistically portray- ed. However, almost more interesting to local readers of "Republican Mar- riage" is the knowledge that the two heroines have been drawn from two women now living on the North Shore. So clever and convincing are these characterizations that they will un- doubtedly be recognized by many of those who read the book. "Republican Marriage" reader with it through one dramatic episode after another, painting in masterly style the life and habits of pre-Revolutionary France, and then leaps into the heart of the bloody horror of the Revolution, itself, ending with the breathtaking and daring cli- max--a Republican Marriage--which gives the book its name. So great are the dramatic possibili- ties of this novel that already the mov- ing pictures have become interested, and we understand that very shortly it will be seen on the screen. Detective stories have been one of the greatest sources of relaxation among the great--and near great. Libraries have "often been asked for a good detective story, and here is an occasion to print a list ot those that have stood a reasonable amount of time. Belloc--Green Overcoat Brebner--Christopher Quarles Bridges--Greensea Island! Buchan--Mr. Standfast Buchan--Thirty Nine Steps Chesterton--Innocence of Father Brown Chesterton--Wisdom of Father Brown Christie--Murder of Roger Ackroyd Doyle--Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Gaboriau--Their People's Money Hawthorne--Marble Faun MacHarg--Indian Drum Mason--House of the Arrow N'cholson--House of a Thousand Candles Oemler--Woman Named Smith Ostrander---Above Suspicion Rinehart--Circular Staircase Rinehart--Man in Lower Ten Rinehart--Red Lamp Terhune--Amateur Inn Vance--Brass Bowl Vance--Black Bag Williams--Silver Forest Young--Cold Harbour Louis BROMFIELD has scored an- other big success with: "A Good Woman' The story of a woman who couldn't keep her hands off other people's lives. Frederick A. Stokes $2.50 | carries the Just Paragraphs By Esther Gould That there is one who believes in the saving power of Harold Bell Wright is proved by the following ad in a Kansas newspaper: "The person who stole a copy of Harold Bel Wright's 'God and the Groceryman' from our store Monday is not known. We don't know who you are and care less. We only ask that you read the book with the hope that it may re- form vou. If it does not, we suggest that the next time you are in our store you steel a Bible." Warner Fabian, author of "Flam- ing Youth, " has written a story of life. in girls' colleges which will ap- pear this Fall under the title "Un- forbidden Fruit." Mr. Fabian has probably a good reason this time to be thankful that he writes under a pseudonym. DOWN FROM MARS "A CHINAMAN'S OPINION OF US" By Hwuy-Ung Frederick A. Stokes Co If you have ever amused yourself wondering what a native of Mars if transported to our civilization would have to say about it, here is your chance to find out. "A Chinaman's Opinion of Us" has just as startling a point of view and is every bit as revealing as the opinion of the gentle- man from Mars. Hwuy-Ung, a young Chinese rad- ical, escaped from his own country at the time that the reactionary Em- press-Dowager seized the throne in 1899, and fled to Australia. There he went to live with a cousin and took up the life of the people about him. His remarkable reactions to that life he embodied from time to time in letters to a former teacher of his, and it is these which long afterward have been translated and published in book form. They are delightful. The man himself is revealed as a keen ob- server, a man of learning and wit and tolerance. Things which he looked up- on as unbelievable in the beginning he is willing to advocate as possible re- forms for his own country when he comes to understand them. He mentions first of all the things most noticeable to one of a placid Oriental race, the constant rush and hurry of western civilization. "The people in the streets of this city seem to be always in a hurry; they appear to be flying in all directions like hungry ghosts, seeking peace and rest . . . . They take no delight in contemplating what is around them. their eyes being always fixed on some- thing far away which they call hap- piness." His descriptions of baseball and football games are delicious and should be broadcasted over this sport-ridden nation. He touches on superstition, religion, business, "filial piety," and nearly everything that you can imagine. And he does it all so deftly, naively, wisely, that you cannot but be edified and greatly amused. A large Chicago candy factory, using one-fifth of the peanuts grown in the United States, consumes more than 2,250,000 cubic feet of manufactured gas monthly. Illinois ranks second among the states in the number of telephones, having 1,522,959 on January 1, 1927. pa TR a a rT