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WINNETKA TALK June 2, 1928 Gilg FOVNTAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON BOOKS Telephone for them if you like: University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Octavia Margot Asquith The story of a younger daugh- ter and of the three strangely different men who are concerned with her destiny. Stokes =o. Jot aL ann $2.50 The Fall of the Russian Empire Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J., Ph. D. The story of the last of the Romanovs and the coming of the Bolsheviki, written by a student who knows his subject. Little, Brown 8 Co. ..... $3.50 The Gobbler of God Percy MacKaye A story poem of Kentucky leg- | end, the Gobbler of God works the idiom of mountain speech into a cadence of strength and beauty. Longmans, Green 8 Co. .. $2.00 Soldier of the South War Letters of General George E. Pickett to His Wife Edited by Arthur Crew Inman Houghton Mifflin ........ $2.50 The Road to Buenos Aires Albert Londres Translated by Eric Sutton Macmillan Company $2.50 Tennis Helen Wills Simple and direct presentation of the principles of tennis by one of the greatest women play- ers of the world. Scribner ET PPS Embattled Borders E. Alexander Powell Here is a clear and well-informed exposition of the enormously complex conflict of national in- terests which is keeping Europe in a state of continuous tension. The Century Company ....$3.50 Rum, Romance and Rebellion Charles William Taussig Quite as pungent as its title. Minton Balch and Co. ....$4.00 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism Bernard Shaw "By this book I shall get at American men through Ameri- || can women. In America every male citizen is supposed to understand politics and econo- mics and finance. He is ashamed to expose the depths of his ignorance--but he has no ob- jection to my talking to his wife and if he should chance to overhear!!!!!1" Brentano's 5 aiid LLL $3.00 Esther Gould's Book Corner Book Notes JUST PARAGRAPHS The second book by the aged adven- turer, Alfred Aloysius Horn, has been chosen as the new book by the Liter- ary Guild. As Trader Horn was the Guild's own discovery we don't know whether this is a feeling of loyalty or whether the new book, a novel, "Har- old the Webbed or the Young Vik- ings," will prove to be as widely. fas- cinating as his first volume. The trade edition of the book will be published on June 8. : Ellen Glasgow in a very interesting article on the novel turns her brilliant mind and slightly caustic tongue to a comparison of the American and Rus- sian manner. She makes a new and well put criticism of the former, that we are afraid to treat of things of the spirit or "soul" as the Russians have it, that "Nothwithstanding our in- ordinate zeal for improving and re- forming the body, we continue to treat the soul as an impoverished female re- lation who is welcome only so long as she makes herself useful about the house. With the soul that loafs or star-gazes or is slow to lend a hand in our legitimate business of making over the world we have as little pa- tience as if it were both in fact and in theological fiction our deceased wife's sister." "STRANGE INTERLUDE" Bu Eugene O'Neill Boni & Liveright The country has been ringing with excitement over the Kugene O'Neill play "Strange Interlude." The play Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at the wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instant- ly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling; clears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trips to refresh and protect your eyes. | Also keep a bottle of Murine in your locker at the country club for use after golf, tennis, swim- ming and other sports. A month's supply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! Write Murine Co., Chicago, for FREE books on Eye Beauty and Eye Care IRIN EYES which causes you to come at five o'clock and take a rain-check so you can go out and get some dinner. New York and as much of the itinerant population as could get there has stood eagerly before the box office and waited as docilely as if it were Charlie Chaplin they were going to see. This means first that Eugene O'- Neill is the fashion and secondarily that Mr. O'Neill is our only great playwright and he has in this play done a tremendous thing. It has the length and scope of a novel, and it does what no play has ever done be- fore in just this way, it gives the thoughts as well as the words of the characters. It is a play of such com- plexity that even those who intend to see it would do well to read it first, and those who do not, and do not or- dinarily like to read "just a play," will find in it the ordinary depth and breadth of a novel. The "Strange In- terlude" of the title is life itself, the way it appears to the main character, Nina. After the stress of love and life are over she feels that it has all been only an interlude, a period of storm between the dreaming of hap- piness of her youth and the rest from life which comes with age. She says to the man who has always loved her, and who has been waiting for this time, "I want to go back to my fath- er's 'house where I dreamed of happi- ness in my youth before I fell in love with Gordon Shaw, and all this tang- led mess of love and hate and pain and birth began." It has the quality which is in all O'Neill's plays, a haunting sense of tragedy, the impos- sibility of finding what we expect in this world. A POT-BOILER "ASHENDEN OR THE BRITISH AGENT" By Somerset Maugham Doubleday Doran & Co. There is one thing about it when a good writer writes a pot-boiler--the pot-boiler is usually well written. So under the sharp regret that Somerset Maugham, author of "Of Human .| Bondage" and "Moon and Sixpence" wrote "Ashenden or the British Agent" there is a certain degree of gratitude that he did. For the fact makes it a good story. There is no particular plot to the book, it is simply some of the experiences of a man, perhaps Maugham himself, since he is a novel- ist and playwright of distinction who during the war was a member of the British Secret Service. At the beginning of the book it is casually suggested to this writer that with his profession as a screen he would be a valuable member of the secret service. He is not averse to the idea and is sent to Geneva in a position of responsibility. Then fol- lows an account of his experiences, none of them concerning him very particularly, but aN of them inter- esting. It is one .of those loosely CHANDLER'S for BOOKS T he most complete book stock on the North Shore Soon to be published is Arthur Stringer's new novel, "The Wolf Woman," a story of a Canadian girl, three-quarters wolf and one-quarter woman, who comes to New York pre- pared to tame it. "De Chinesche Papegaai" has just been published in Amsterdam. What! You've never heard of it? Well, trans- lated into American it means "The Chinese Parrot," and was written by Farl Derr Biggers. Biggers' new Charlie Chan novel, "Behind that Curtain," has just been published and is being read avidly by the Charlie Chan fans whose name is legion. Char- lie Chan is the delightful Chinese de- tective who solved the mysteries in three Biggers' books--'The House Without a Key," "The Chinese Parrot' and "Behind That Curtain." ] Judge Marcus Kavanagh, whose book, "The Criminal and His Allies," is being widely read and discussed, maintains that in no country except America is the law held in contempt. "One day, a year or so ago," writes the judge, "during a quarrel between a bookmaker and a horse-owner at the Windsor race-track the gambler swung his hand to a revolver in his hip- pocket. 'For God's sake, Jim, don't shoot!" cried a friend. 'Remember you are in Canada.' Jim didn't shoot." John Erskine has just returned from a three-months' lecture tour all over the United States. He was amazing- ly successful, and tremendously popu- lar, having been widely heralded by his three novels, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy," "Galahad," and "Adam and Eve." Professor Erskine is now working on his new book, a modern score which will endeavor to portray the American scene as he found it on his lecture tour. The only element ever to have been discovered by an American chemist is illinium, found by Professor Hopkins of the University of Illinois. An ac- count of its discovery is given in Floyd Darrow's book, "The Story of Chem- istry," recently published. Youthful Opinions Make Success of "River Gold" Grown-ups who believe that children have no critical ability will be inter- ested to know how they have reacted to Mary Paxton's book, "River Gold," recently published, which tells a pirat- ical tale of buried gold in Missouri. When one considers that Mary Pax- ton wrote the book for her son Pat (one of the heroes in the book) and her two small nephews, it is not sur- prising that "River Gold" pleases all children. Mrs. Paxton says that she went to her boys constantly for sug- gestions and advice and followed their ideas in every detail. It had to satis- fy Pat before it was published, and that, no doubt, is the reason for its success. The book is published by Bobbs-Merrill. knit, episodic books, but contrary to the general rule in such books, it holds our interest and makes good reading. THE DUTTON BOOK of the MONTH for April REEDS and MUD By V. BLASCO IBANEZ Here is an unconventional love story--a rugged novel of man's battle for a livelihood in a marshy island off the coast of Spain. $2.50