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52 WINNETKA TALK December 10, 1927 ee -- BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephone for Your Books: University 1024 Wil. 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Nearly Everyone Gives BOOKS! George Sand By Marie J. Howe John Day... ccc ou. vua $5.00 aa Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace .......... $3.00 Memoirs of Queen Hortense Arthur K. Briggs Cosmopolitan Story of Architecture Thomas E. Tallmadge W. W. Norton . ...vun... $3.50 The Spanish-American Frontier A. P. Whitaker Houghton, Mifflin ........ $3.50 Books and Bidders A. §. W. Rosenbach Little, Brown ...../. ..%. $5.00 Tolerance Hendrik Von Loon Boni, Liveright .......... $4.00 ~~ - og Vanguard Arnold Bennett NT Se EARLS SR $2.00 ® Adam and Eve John Erskine Bobbs, Merrill .......... $2.50 Dodd, Mead ............ $2.50 Kitty Warwick Deeping Alfred Knopf... 5. ........ $2.50 Silent Storms Ernest Poole MacMillan .......0 0h $2.50 Vagabonding Down the Andes Harry A. Franck Century Co... .... 7... $5.00 Bugles in the Night Barry Benefield Century Co. >... vi... ... $2.00 Books--First Floor LORD'S BOOKSHOP Just Inside the West Davis Street Door --. adhe NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REV WS NOVEL OR BIOGRAPHY "Death Comes for the Archbishop" By Willa Cather. Alfred A. Knopf I should like to borrow for Willa Cather's latest book the words that Rebecca West used for H. M. Tomlin- son's, "It is another tura in the spir- al of perfection." "Death Comes for the Archbishop' is a beautiful book. It has reserve, emotion, charm and fine writing. It is an unclassifiable book hovering between novel, bi- ography and historical monograph. But one does not ask to classify it, one reads it and is glad that it was written. As one is usually glad when reading anything by Miss Cather that it was written. It is the story of Bishop Jean Marie Latour, first Bishop of New Mexico. A story of faith, of hardship, of a great career. One wishes that there were still vast uncharted stretches of our country where men could go and do such work as that of Father La- tour then die as he did, in the shadow of his own cathedral, symbol of a great work done, conteat, at peace with past and future. There is some- thing sad and something epic in the simplicity of the book. If you have not already, read AMERICA By Hendrik Van Loon The Review of Reviews says "The Story of our country told in the inimitable manner made known through The Story of Mankind . . . . His best effort." Boni & Liveright $5.00 SPECIAL NOTICE Dorothy Aldis, author of "Every- thing and Anything,"' will be at Chandler's December 17, 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. She will read her poetry and autograph her books. Your presence would be greatly ap- preciated. CHANDLER'S FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON FARCE "STRANGE WOMAN" By Elmer Davis Robert McBride & Co. Elmer Davis can write excruciating- ly funny things. "Strange Woman," however instead of being high comedy is light farce. The setting of the farce is this : Dr. Merriam, a university presi- dent in the small town of Embury, has by dint of great effort and trouble brought a Chicago opera company to the town for a _ two-day run. The town is upside down with excitement. But the demoraliza- tion has not stopped with the town: it seems that Dr. Merriam himself came so under the thrall of the the- atrical atmosphere last year in Chi- cago that he had become the lover of the leading woman of the company, Dagmar Dahl. His wife, Lucy, hears of this the night of her reception to the visiting artists. Instead of enraging her it puts her in a queer state of exalta- tion, she is glad that they are "still people things can happen to." This reckless exaltation makes her so at- tractive that she is the belle of the evening, driving her 'own husband at the end to climb up the water spout to enter her window. He is seen, of course, but not recognized and an im- possibly ridiculous situation is the re- sult. For lively amusement and some clear truths in the manner of Erskine's Helen of Troy from Lucy's lips, the book is to be recommended. 0 ---- No More Worrying Christmas is a merry occasion, not a cause for worry about what to buy for whom, or how much to spend. Let me show you how easy it is to choose book gifts. I also have an unusual assortment of Christmas Cards and Christmas package designs. Lulu King BOOKS OPEN EVENINGS 728 ELM ST. WINNETKA PHONE WINN. 1101 He was a holy terror -- yet Q he never took a life! Read the whole story of this in- id career--the war's grea by the author. of With Lawrence in Arabia. COUNT LUCKNER hero depicted test knowledge to boys and girls in this THE NATURE OF THE ANIMAL "A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN" By John Langdon-Davies The Viking Press We seem to have in this particular age an exhaustless interest in the matter of "why we behave like human beings." It might lead us to suspect that many of us wonder if we do. However that may be, John Langdon- Davies, prominent English student and writer, who is lecturing in our part of the country at the moment, has writ- ten "A Short History of Women" de- signed to tell us "why we behave like men and women." It is a history of the status of wom- en beginning with primitive times and going down through the civilizations of Asia, Egypt, Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages to modern times with an epilogue on the future. It is clearly and interestingly written giving a great deal of data which one knows if one has ever studied sociology and a great deal more of a more pop- ular and picturesque nature. 2 "The final drama in this emotional emancipation (of women) is being enacted in our own times," says Mr. L.angdon-Davies in his epilogue on the future, and for the women of tomor- row he says further we must look to America and Russia. AN INTERESTING NOVEL "BLACK STREAM" By Nathalie Colby Harcourt Brace & Co. After "Green Forest" the very in- teresting first novel of Nathalie Col- by last spring we have been waiting to see what her second novel would be. "Black Stream" is a worthy suc- cessor to "Green Forest," in some ways a gain and in some ways a loss over that one. It has gained as sec- ond novels usually do in a greater mastery on the part of Mrs. Colby of her art. Her touch is firmer, swifter, more incisive. It has lost, in that this firmness has sometimes led her to carry her peculiar style too far, in trying to do it well, to overdo it. We are carried in "Black Stream" swiftly into the center of the lives of a little group of people. Our interest does not lag for a moment from the first page to the last. Dr. Farraday, though he is perhaps less charming than was Mrs. Challoner's doctor in "Green Forest" has our sympathy. He is a man longing to do research, with an important discovery he is try- ing to perfect, but chained to the wheel of a lucrative practice by his family's "social aspirations." Miss Mapes is his secretary who tries to stand be- tween him and the ravenous world. It doesn't sound very exciting or un- usual but it is both of those things because it is sympathetically and well done. Adventures inReading By May Lamberton Becker Mrs. Becker, who has made a fine art of reading, herself, passes on her fascinating book. She tells how and what to read and what is more makes you want to do it. | | Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.00