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10 Esther WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925 Gti oul forner Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. A NOVEL OF PRESENT DAY NEW YORK "THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE" By Edith Wharton D. Appleton & Co. A new novel by Edith Wharton is no small event in the publishing sea- son and many have been the book- store windows during the past 10 days, resplendent with the blue .or crimson gold flecked covers of "The Mother's Recompense." And it is no wonder that this is true for Mrs. Wharton has built for herself a repu- tation based on a high type of artis- try. Her books while they naturally vary in excellence, can be depended upon in some degree to excel. In "The Mother's Recompense" Mrs. Wharton again takes New York for her setting. But instead of old New York it is the present city which Kate Clephane sees after having been away from it for nearly 20 vears. "She looked down on Fifth Avenue. As it surged past, a huge lava-flow of inter- laced traffic, her tired bewildered eves seemed to see the buildings move with the vehicles, as a stationary train ap- pears to move to travellers on another line. She fancied that presently even the little Washington Square Arch would trot bv, heading the tide of sky-scrapers from the lower reaches " of the city . . . Kate Clephane ran away from New York and her husband and her three year old child because she was so tired of being hemmed in by stuffy conventional walls. She went with a man she didn't love and she soon found that this was not freedom either. Then through unbelievably dreary years she learns that freedom is not the absence of the things which she has left behind her. With "Chris" the young artist, a new life seems to be- gin, her first real life, but soon 1s gone leaving her in the darkness. It is this woman, shrewd, sophisti- cated, passionately regretful, that the morning Riviera sun reveals waken-' ing to a day of empty activity--like all her other days. But on this dav something different is to happen. A cable informs her that her unforgiv- ing mother-in-law is dead, a message from her daughter says "Come." She goes, back to the life from which she ran away so gladly, but she is a dif- ferent, a chastened woman. The story is the adjustment of these two, moth- er and daughter, and the mother's "recompense." It is done with Mrs. Wharton's usual he- perfection and ease of writing, but somehow we are remote from the char- acters. Mrs. Wharton is often praised for her artistic detachment from her work, but sometimes it seems as if she carried this to such an extreme that she didn't quite breathe into the char- acters warm enough life to make them live for us. MISS KAYE-SMITH AT HER BEST "THE GEORGE AND THE CROWN" By Sheila Kaye-Smith E. P. Dutton & Co. " '" & The "George and the Crown" {s up to Miss Kaye-Smith's rather high standard. The story of a Sussex village, with few characters, in whom a Fate stronger than themselves seems to be working out its ends, the book sug- gests a comparison with Thomas Hardy. It attains in places his stark simplicity but it does not maintain it as a whole. The village: of Bullockdean had two inns, the George and the Crown. They faced each other across the main street over which their signs creaked crisively to each other, in¥'tin~ly to passersby. The gentlefolk, sedate farmers and the like, went unswerv- ingly in to .the Crown, the rowdier elements went perhaps more swerv- ingly .in and out of the George. Each of the innkeepers had a son and they were fast friends, Ernley Munk with his motor bike and his college educa- tion, Dan Sheather with His honest face and ill fitting clothes. For months Ernley had been in love with Belle Shackford and in their stormy wooing Dan had been the go- between. But at last comes 'a quarrel which even Dan seems unable to patch up, so instead he tells Belle that he loves her. In desperation because she thinks that Ernley has turned to an- other woman she turns fo Dan. From the Crown to the George--twice in the book Belle is destined to make this change and both times for the love not of Dan but of Ernley. Honest, simple unquestioning Dan, HE WAS A MAN By Rose Wilder Lane - "Avery fine novel" wrote Wil- liam McFee. $2.50 $2.00 Harper and Brothers New York Publishers Since 1817 N.Y: SINCLAIR Everywhere LEWIS $2.00 ARROWSMITH "One of the best novels ever writ- ten in America."--H. L. Mencken. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York EE TT 1642 Orrington Ave. F. I. B. ART SHOP formerly Gairing Fine Arts Evanston Picture F: raming--Regilding--Canvas Repairing and Frames, Mirror Resilvering, Gifts and Greeting Cards . LE ETT TTT TA Phone Univ. 770 cAuthor of FEET OF CLAY How Linda McGrath, caught in the web of circumstance, finds herself matched against predatory men and arrogant women ; finds a love, a sorrow and a heartache; and by all of this is made a woman rare and lovable. $2 00 at all booksellers. LITTLE, BROWN & CO. PUBLISHERS, BOSTON whose only conceit seemed to be a de- sire some time to appear romantic or "interesting," a conceit which he re- linquished bravely in the end, the au- thor has drawn his life unerringly. He finds romance in a short idyllic. mar- riage on the rocky little island ef Sark and then in the end he is claimed by a life which is romance--the' life of the sea. » MOO! BA-A-A! QUACK! !' To be a successiul motion picture di- rector one must know how to bark, bleat, squawk, grunt, bray, moo and cackle! Such is the assertion of Sidney Ol- cott, Paramount producer, who di- rected Pola Negri in "The Charmer." For a Spanish street scene in "The Charmer," 34 assorted domestic animals and fowls were used. There were eight dogs, one lamb, one parrot, four donkeys, three pgs, one pair bullocks, eight goats and eight chickens. Directing these animals and prevent-|such as barking, bleating and grunting. ing them from fighting among themselves, | "The Charmer" is a story blending old according to Olcott, was a job fit for a| Spain with new America. Supporting menagerie keeper. He claims that to| Miss Negri in the cast are Robert Fra- accomplish it, he and his assistants had |zer, Wallace MacDonald, Trixie Firgan- to do all of the things above mentioned, | za, Cesare Gravina and Gertrude Astor. - LLL ZI ZZ 2 B27 ZZ 7 Ar a ZZ 2 a Za a 2 2 Za 222277 THE BOOK STORE All the Best and latest Popular Books Bridge Score Cards and Favors, Place Cards, Playing Cards 724 Elm Street WINNETKA LLL LAS SSSI YASS Winnetka 1101 LLL ada TT 7 dd dd Tr Tid 7 PITT 7 77 7 7 FE ld dd ddd 7 2 FF ee ~ Concrete Carden Furniture Sun-Dials Glazing Globes Bird Baths Seats Pedestals Vases and Artificial Stone Goods Now is the time to beautify your home grounds For catalogues and price list write [613 J Rudolph Hegener Co. 1545 East 61st Street Architectural Features Pergolas Garden Houses : Garden Furniture i Rose Arbors and Lattice Fences Chicago, Ill. 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