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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 17 Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. A Novel of One Day "MRS. DALLOWAY" By Virginia Woolf Harcourt Brace & Co. Virginia Woolf has written an entire novel about one day. Imagine the facial expression of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries if they had been told that such a thing was possi- ble. Writers of romance, of intrigue and adventure unfolding during the first 25 years of the hero's life, how could they visualize such an innova- tion! But Virginia Woolf, admirer of Marcel Proust snd James Joyce, has done it, and done it admirably, Mrs. Woolf has evidently aimed to give and has given a cross section in this one day of the lives of a number of characters, some of them entirely unrelated to each other. She has taken each moment of the day, one has to, to make a novel out of 14 hours. We hear Big Ben strike his solemn tones, sometimes we feel that we almost hear him tick off the minutes. And we pass quite naturally and without visible transition from Mrs. Dalloway as she sits in her luxurious sitting room, taking a stitch in the eve- ning dress which she will wear at her party that evening, to Septimus War- ren Smith who sits in Green Park and whose only connection with Mrs. Dallo- way is that he is alive and in London at the moment when Mrs. Dalloway is her stitching her gown. It is a rather exciting process this one of pulling each moment apart to see what it's made of. We take a moment as if it were a flower, we note its texture and its color, sometimes with a vivisectionist's zeal we tear it apart and leave nothing but wisp-like shreds on the grass, sometimes we hold it far off, then close to us, and put it in a vase io keep. "'For you should see the Milan gar- dens,' she said aloud. But to whom? There was nobody. Her words faded. So a rocket fades. Its sparks, having grazed their way in the night, surrender to it, dark descends, pours over the out- lines of houses and towers; bleak hill- sides soften and fall in. But though they are gone, the night is full of them; robbed of colour, blank of windows, they exist more ponderously. . . . . i Mrs. Woolf's style is broken, chop- py, phrases that are rapped out as if by a telegraph instrument. She has attempted something rather daring in this her latest book, and has achieved something very interesting. A New Edition of A Good Book "THE DANCE OF LIFE" By Havelock Ellis Houghton Mifflin Co. . The publishers of the very interest- ing "Dance of Life" by Havelock Ellis have brought it out in a popular edition. The title of the book, alluring and vet slightly misleading, comes from the words of Blake, "I doubt not yet to make a figure in the great Dance of Life that shall amuse the spectators in the sky." Mr. Ellis not only considers the dance as the most fundamental of the arts, being "at the beginning of art and also at the end" but he takes it as a symbol or expression of the rhythm of all life. The rhythm of the stars as they move in their courses, or of the waves breaking on the shore. In an ascending scale the author has arranged his chapters on the arts: of Dancing, of Thinking, of Writing, of Religion, and of Morals. In a manner which is slightly uneven, which some- times dips into rather deep philosophy, sometimes chats along about men and their deeds, he develops his theme. The A Novel of Wanderlust book is loosely put together often di- gressing for pages from the point in hand. However, the underlying plan is to show everything as an art, art of which dancing is the most perfect direct expression, and of which living is the final and ultimate goal. Thus he shows that science and art, science and re- ligion, science and mysticism, are not opposed but spring really from the same root. And that root is in the creative impulse. A mind as rich in knowledge as that of Mr. Ellis, cannot help striking sparks from any subject over which it passes. There are interesting ideas on numerous personalities as varied as Napoleon, l.eonardo da Vinci, or Ein- stein, there are glimpses of many phil- osophies and many civilizations. As a book to stimulate thought "The Dance of Life" is not often equalled, SEE COMMUTERS AS RAIL 'GOAT Pay Burden for Excursien- ist, Hill Declares The 8,000 tourists who last Sunday took advantage of the extremely low excursion rates offered by one great railroad in a recent announcement are seen by Fred W. Hill of Glencoe, chairman of the Chicago Commuters' association, as the reason for the 20 per cent increase in commutation fares asked by that read and others operat- ing suburban trains'in the Chicago dis- trict. In order to combat the competi- tion of motor bus and private automo- bile operation the railroads have re- turned to the plan of offering Sunday excursions which was abandoned sev- eral years ago, and in a number of in- stances reductions of two-thirds the regular fare have been made. "These drastic reductions for the tourist tell where the shoe really pinches," said Mr; Hill in discussing organization plans this week at the headquarters of the commuters' asso- ciation in the Marquette building. "For example, the round-trip fare for Sunday excursionists from Milwaukee to Chicago is $2 as compared with the regular fare of $5.14; from Madison, Wis., to Chicago, 2.75, regular fare $9.36. This obviously is a loss which must be made up in some other line of service. The commuter is the goat. He has to use. the rail transportation or move back to the city. The carriers see in him insurance against any operating losses in- other lines, and his rate can. be indefinitely increased. "Commuters, whether they live north, south or west, have common in- terests which are growing more im- FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones: University 1024 -- Wilmette 600 Book Service Suggestion for the week: "THE POLYGLOTS" By W. Gerhardi Duffield p-adic hie 00 8 $2.50 "ETHAN QUEST" By Harry Hervey Cosmopolitan s vv sense $2.00 "THE POCR KING'S DAUGHTER" By Aline Kilmer Doran =. hisses svi eerie $1.25 First Floor a dead wire if you don't. "Mayfair," by Michael Arlen. "The Mother's Recompense," "The Constant Nymph," by "The Great Gatsby," by F Scott by Winnetka 1101 You'll Be Shocked!!-- if you read Watson's popular account of "Behaviorism," and How are you on the "Best Sellers"? "The Smiths," by Janet Fairbank. Margaret Kennedy "The Crazy Fool," by Donald Ogden Stewart "Anatole France, Himself," by Jean Jacques Brousson "Brigham Young," by M. R. Werner. "Travel Diary of a Philosopher," by Carl Count Keyserling. THE BOOK STORE WINNETKA Edith Wharton Fitzgerald. 724 Elm St. portant every day. More than 15,000,- 000 people in the United States are suburbanites, according to Prof Wil- liam I. Bailey of Northwestern uni- versity, and already there are a dozen American cities where the suburbs have outgrown the city. In our own district the suburbs are growing three times as fast as Chicago. "The fight is too big to be handled alone by the corporation counsel's of- fice of the City of Chicago. As com- muters we must express our unanimous opposition to fare increases and help finance the investigation of the car- riers' claims." Utilities Company Gives Away Excellent Road Maps are being distributed free by the Pub- lic Service company of Northern Illi- nois in this and other - communities in the territory it serves. The map, which for convenience, is folded, opens to tull size. All routes are numbered and concrete, gravel, oiled and dirt roads are designated as such. Solid lines denote completed pavements and broken lines those un- der construction. It was prepared by the Chicago Motor club and is said to be one of the latest and best road maps to appear. The company has had thousands of these maps printed and they are be- ing sent to hotels, garages, service stations, chambers of commerce and company offices for distribution to local and visiting motorists. Stolen Idols The strange adventures of Geoffrey Ballaston, following his theft of a idol he hoped to famous Chinese with whose jewels restore the fallen fortunes of his house. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM $2.00 at all Booksellers Little, Brown & Co., Boston Excellent road maps, clearly show- ing the existing highways in Illinois, Read All the Want Ads Publishers Large Highland Park Lots Size 50 x 146 Feet as low as $1500 | "At The Station" Homesites Highland Park Gardens On New North Shore Line Now Under Construction (pCR IZLD ROAD STATION- HIGHLAND PARK |) 1 ul BY MA WINTERS. 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