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2 YT pe S------ XOTEER FFF TV OT BE WINNETKA TALK September 1, 1928 FOVNIAIN SQVARE - DVANSTON Telephone for your Books. Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 BOOKS The Life of George Rogers Clark James Alton James Professor James has consented to autograph copies of this, his latest book. University of Chicago Press A eA Te ee $2.50 Surrender J. C. Snaith Appleton =. .... di $2.00 Goethe The History of a Man Emil Ludwig Puateam 0 anes $5.00 | Where the Loon Calls Harry Sinclair Drago | Macauley | | FR Rn $2.00 Enter the Greek Anthony Gibbs Harper % Brothers ....$2.00 Blades George Barr McCutcheon Dodd, Mead ¥ Company $2.00 Though This Be Madness Robert Keable Putnam Seven Days Whipping John Biggs Jr. Scribners Five Deans Sidney Dark The five Deans of the Church of England were: Colet, Swift, Donne, Stanley, and Inge. Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. ..$2.50 Day of Fortune Norman Matson | | | | Century Co. -..... 5 $2.50 Show Girl J. P. McEvoy Simon and Schuster ...... $2.00 Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS A book by a deep sea diver looks as if it might be a real coup in the history of publishing--that is until someone gets one by a whale or a shark. This is a book promised for the Fall by Thomas Eadie who re- ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescuing his fellow diver in working to salvage the "S4." With a sort of touching faith the literarti of the country apprise their publishers and the literary departments of the papers of their whereabouts for the summer. It is as if they had an ever-springing hope that there might be a royalty check from the former or a philanthropist's check from one of the latter trying to find them. A NEW DEPARTURE "UTHER AND IGRAINE" By Warwick Deeping Alfred A. Knopf It is a great temptation, when an author well known for one type of thing turns to another, to compare the two, usually to the disparagement of the newer. But this, tempting as it is, is palpably unfair. If Warwick Deeping, author of the very popular "Doomsday" and "Sorrell and Son," wishes to try his hand at an historical novel this should be judged as an his- torical novel only. "Uther and Igraine" is an historical novel and of a period of which it is particularly hard to write convincing- ly. Mr. Deeping has done well in many respects but he has in large extent failed, as so many historical novelists do fail, in being convincing. To turn back to an age of barbarism and write of a time when life was held so lightly, loves were loved so fiercely, is to stretch our credulity to the breaking point. That it stretches the author's, too, is evidenced by the fact that his characters are seldom more than pup- pets taking part in acts for which his- tory pulls the strings. But what Mr. Deeping has done is to make a glorious tapestry. He has changed his style to one rich, posi- tively riotous in color, but with stiff straight lines like those old tapestries made in the ages before they dared Fallow themselves, in art, the inform- ality of curves. For instance, in de- scription of a struggle between two women, "Igraine despite her spirit was faint from loss of blood and all a-tremble." This rigidity and pomp- osity of style which though I might quote endlessly I could not illustrate properly away from the whole, is, while slightly tiresome, yet appropri- ate to the subject. Uther and Igraine were the father and mother of King Arthur of Britain. At the Plaza, eating is never a task to be done quickly, but a happy lull in the day's round--approached with pleasure and filled with keen enjoyment and better health. The very linger over your their goodness to the full. Eat at the Plaza tomorrow. Break- fast, luncheon or dinner. LIBRARY PLAZA CAFETERIA IN THE LIBRARY PLAZA HOTEL Orrington Avenue just Open 6 a. m. to 7:45 p. m. including Sundays environment of Plaza, quiet and unhurried, with facilities for seating hundreds of diners in comfort, invites you to A Happy Lull in the Day's Round the meals and enjoy South of Church Street Everyday Life in Japan Told by Mission Workers Did you know that the ricksha was originally a baby-buggy adapted by an American missionary to the needs of his invalid wife? "Unfathomed Japan" by Harold W. Foght and Alice Rob- bins Foght gives his bit of informa- tion and much more that is of very real interest. It is a lively chronicle of the daily adventures of an American and his wife in Japan, traveling not so much the beaten tourist paths as the less known byways, where the real heart of Japan is, where live its real makers --the tillers of the soil; the seekers after food in the sea; the small arti- sais and the homely sages. A LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY Plans are under way for a memorial to Thomas Hardy in his native Dorset- shire and his biography is to be pub- lished early this fall by Macmillan. The material for this book was gath- ered by his wife, Florence Emily Hardy, from his own words and diaries, and most of it was actually read and revised by him. Mr. Hardy's latest poems, made ready for publication shortly before his death, are also to appear shortly, under the title, "Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres." This is the story of the stormy years before they came together, when Uther, after having rescued the girl from a terrible death at the hands of barbarians, leaves her, thinking her a nun. She was only a novice but had not told him. Then follows a long period of woe for both of them, end- ing at last in a duel between Uther and the girl's husband. Merlin and sorcery enter into the story which is, on the whole, worth reading for the colorful picture it presents of that far off time. A PSYCHIC NOVEL "THE DOOR UNLATCHED" By Marie Cher Minton Balch & Co. Marie Cher is a talented author, an American, whose novel, "The Door Un- latched," as well as a collection of her essays, was first published in England. Miss Cher has taken as this first sub- ject for her talent a curious one, a story with great difficulties which she has handled skillfully. Roger Darrington, living in Paris and without any very decisive interest in life, becomes very much enamoured with the history of the French Revolu- tion, Living in rooms which played a part in those stirring days and creat- ing them over again for himself he suddenly finds his personality taken over by an alien one, a man who ac- tually did live a century and more ago and played a vital part in that great half lives, this strange Raoul taking drama. From that time on Roger only possession of him and putting him through these heart rending experi- ences at his pleasure. To add to his fantastic dilemma the child for whom he is tutor and her mother both fit into his dream. This places him in the unpleasant position of being whisked from reality to unreality in the presence of others and thereby sometimes losing his proper dignity. The story moves soberly and to an inevitable climax. The book is, as I have said, exceedingly well done, the style is easy and vivid. It may or may not be appealing to you as a story. To me it was not. I found myself re- gretting that Miss Cher, with so much at her command of literary talent and historical background, of knowledge of comtemporary Paris and contempor- ary human nature, should not have found different, perhaps more vital, use for them.