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The Joyous Pretender A new book by a famous Evans- tonian, Louise Ayres Garnett, "A chronicle of life and love, sophisticated, yet naive as seen through the eyes of a boy and told in his own language." The Macmillan Company. . $2.00 Portage, Wisconsin and Other Essays Zona Gale Alfred A. Knopf........ $2.50 The 4th Musketeer The Life of Alexander Dumas "T. Lucas-Dubreton Coward-McCann ........ $3.00 The Angel That Troubled the Waters A notebook of dramatic meo- ments. Thornton Wilder Coward-McCann ........ $2.50 The Star-Spangled Manner Beverly Nichols Doubleday, Doran........ $2.50 Rasputin, the Holy Devil René Fulop-Miller The Viking Press. ....... $5.00 The Doctor Looks at Mar- riage and Medicine Joseph Collins Doubleday, Doran. ....... $3.00 Airways, Inc. John Dos Passos Macaulay ..... icin ivies $2.00 A Wonderful Collection of Successful Books Reprinted at $1.00 Order Christmas Cards Now Lord's--Books and Stationery Just Inside the West Davis St. Door Jug. 3 D < His friends, naturally irritated by this failure to deliver the goods, suggested a trip to the woods as likely to finish him, Instead of that he became inter- ested in writing and has been doing it ever since. We wonder if he has been living on his life insurance. SO THIS IS RASPUTIN ---- "Rasputin the Holy Devil" By Rene Fulop-Miller The Viking Press René Fulop-Miller, on his own and his publisher's statements has uncov- ered the "truth about Rasputin." If le has or we might say whether he has or not, he has said a mouthful. His information has been gathered entirely from documents, diaries, etc. so we might accept the statement that it is a true record, yet the amazing part of it is that it so closely follows the sort of rumor which Mr. Fulop-Miller seems to think he has denied. Instead of uncovering the "simple and lovable man" which the author thinks was a large part of Rasputin, it seems to us that his "truth" paints him more black- ly than ever as probably the supreme fraud and charlatan; an illiterate pet- ty, vituperative imposter. The picture of the reign of the last - 3 Just Published The Jealous Gods By Gertrude Atherton As successor to the Pericles of "The Immortal Marriage" Alci- biades, the maddest spirit of Athens, leaps upon the stage. Arrogant, intolerant, dissipated, yet the people of Athens heaped upon him the highest honors of the state. Mrs. Atherton has told his story in unforgettable terms, $2.50 Horace Liveright Doctor Dolittle in the Moon By Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle never fails to charm his ever-widening circle of readers. In his latest book his active efforts in the pursuit of science take him to the moon where he learns the language of the vegetables as he has those of the animals in the past. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.50 ERT TTT "If ever we can overcome sleep, presses will never stop when they start printing anything about Winnie - the - Pooh." -- Harry Hansen. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER By the Author of When We Were Very Young $2.00 E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 286-302 Fourth Ave. WT TTT their feet. When they became too ner- vous they called in such men as this Rasputin whose reputation for being a holy man, representative of God Himself, rested on his theory, which struck everyone as sound, that in order to repent one must sin, therefore come on and let's sin together. In this way Rasputin justified to these simple souls a life of the most complete debauchery that the world has probably ever tolerated. And more than tolerating, that world revered and worshipped its agent. If one won- dgrs at the cruelty of the Russian Re- volution let him read this book. For its illustrations alone the book would be extremely valuable. A CHARMING NOVEL "Rising Wind" By Virginia Moore "Rising Wind" by Virginia Moore is a charming book, modern in theme and feeling, but placed against a Civil War background in Virginia. Miss Moore hasn't exploited her background, she hasn't loaded her pages with old Southern gentlemen and devoted ne- groes she has painted it lightly and centered our interest in three very well drawn characters. They are Mary Patch and her father, between whom there is a unique understanding and love, and later Tom Carver whom Mary fears by loving she is cheating her father. The story is the conflict of these loves and the outcome. It is poetically and delightfully told with a feeling for nature which is unusual. There is op- portunity for a description of a battle in which Mary herself takes an em- promptu part and which is partly the means of uniting her with Tom once more. This is a book to be recom- mended to and enjoyed by anyone lik- ing a sensitively told story. COT The best gift book of the year for boys and girls is DRUMS by James Boyd With 17 color pages and 46 drawings by N. C. Wyeth Tris famous classic of the American Revolution, a favorite with younger readers since its publication, is now added to the Scribner §2.50 Illustrated Classics in a su- perb edition profusely illus- trated with N. C. Wyeth's best work. ¢ Atyourbookstore $2.50 SCRIBNERS |. 44 WINNETKA TALK November 10, 1928 NOT SO GOOD i] Esther Gould's Book Corner "Costumes by Eros" $ Sh BY Cgarad Alken Ged J . JUST PARAGRAPHS Tsar and Tsarina of Russia is one of ey Ibier's Sous The "Memoirs of Prince Max of |the most pitiful things ever put into ae Jock of short stories by Conrad Baden" last Chancellor of Germany is |the boldness of print. Two children |}ken does not come up to the stand- Oar ARINC Re : : : ard set by his very unusual novel "Blue a book of great interest to the world. [holding hands and innocently and V ¥ A sie which in th k FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON |}| The memoirs cover the whole period | trustingly touching a match to a mam- oy Style w. ie Ren iat wor of the War, giving an almost hour by [moth barrel of dynamite while some- Nas po o! POR an 5 ne th By 58 hour narrative of the last days before | one sang nursery rhymes in the back- rr 5 Dries "Er ne decided] eH Telephones: the Armistice. ground could not touch for incredibil- Monae y+ TOS, hile pr Ne ; Greenleaf 7000 Charles Francis Coe, author of the |ity that life. Shut away from every- | 10st Of t I Stor es) while ing Pits . recently published "Swag" had an ex-|one in their "idyll" at their palace, |2r¢ ig ny } they s fF Th goo ' Wilmette 3700 perience in anti-climax. His doctors | they. spent their days in simple plea- |S PY OO eof i wo, Rogers Park 1122 gave him a verdict "ten days to live" | sures, nervously trying not to hear the "Your Obituary Well Witten" which Winnetka 520 vet on the eleventh he was still around. [sounds of the world cracking under the blurb informs : us are "infused with an enthralling beauty that puts them with the best that have ever been written of their type" have for us merely the intention, they meant to be enthrallingly beautiful but they aren't. They leave us cold. We hope that Mr. Aiken will prove his skill next time in a novel, "PROPAGANDA" How public opinion is molded to the benefit of business, politics, art, sci- ence and social movements is de- scribed by Edward I. Bernays' new book, "Propaganda," which Horace Liveright has announced for publica- tion on November 15. Mr. Bernays, who helped create the profession of Public Relations counsel, and acts in that capacity for some of America's largest corporations, foreign govern- ments, and other groups, talks frankly from the inside, in analyzing the uses of propaganda methods in modern life, His deductions are drawn from specific cases, from soap sculpture to Czecho- Slovakia. ENGLAND'S BEST SELLER "This Side Idolatry," by C. E. Bech- hofer Roberts, which has caused so much stir among the Dickensians of England and America, is now the best- selling book in England. Mills and Boon, the English publishers, report that the book has created the biggest sensation in their memory. An extra- ordinary amount of pro and con cri- ticism has been written of the book in America. Editorials, reviews, articles, etc, have either damned the novel heartily or praised it unstintingly. "MASKS IN A PAGEANT" The pageant is the pageant of poli- tics from Harrison to Coolidge, and the masks are the actors most repre- sentative of the changing show. Mr. White, however, does something bet- ter than merely present unrelated bio- graphies; he gives the show a plot, marches it from prologue to denoue- ment, makes an orderly procession of it. His book is a story with unity in it, the story of a historic rise and fall.- The New York Times. MESSAGE FROM LORD MORLEY Lord Morley's reasons for resigning - from the British Cabinet in August 1914 are now revealed in his "Memo- randum on Resignation," which he left to be published at his nephew's discre- tion. It was with deep anguish that he came to the decision to resign, but he never swerved from his conviction that his country should have kept out of the war. ERSKINE'S LATEST John Erskine has gone to Paris to work on a new novel, which will be all-American. His new book, "Penel- ope's Man," will be published this November. It is the story of Odys- seus. RECOMMENDED TO BISHOP Sylvia Townsend Warner, author of "Lolly Willowes," says of Robert Na- than's new novel: "The Bishop's Wife" should be in the hands of very bishop: even archbishops might be (slightly) the better for it."