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oY WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925 13 Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care. your local paper. AMERICA'S SUPER-MAN "A GOOD MAN" By George F. Hummel Boni & Liveright "A Good Man" is a study in present day life--a much more consistent, subtle and unexaggerated study than most of the books that profess to be such. Theodore F. Goodrich will be inev- itably set up beside Babbitt of whose brotherhood he decidedly is, although a more sophisticated member. Mr. Goodrich's profession is well suited to his talents and temperament, as "Pub- lic Relations Counsel" he has ample opportunity to use his positive genius for good {fellowship with high and low alike, his active penetrating brain, and his propensity which seems to be an instinct with him, for being "in the limelight." Whether it is thumb tacks or the great Roumanian loan that is to be "put across" Theodore Kings- bury Goodrich is the man to bring home to every right thinking citizen 12, fact that it is a "national necess- his is Mr. Goodrich, successful be- loved by everyone who knows him, the Perfect Husband of his wife, the Super-Chum of his children. But like a mushroom, Mr. Goodrich has an un- der side of a slightly different hue and texture from the upper. On the under side we find him a bluffing, weak, conceited creature, stumbling from one amorous adventure to an- other, deceiving not only his wife but the women he leads astray. Blatant as the description of him may sound Mr. Goodrich is extraor- dinarily convincing. With an unerring touch the author, without once over- stepping the bounds of probability brings out his character in every re- lation, even in that with his cook. It is at breakfast. "With his wife he discussed his appointments for the day--some of them. He asked her advice about how to handle Thompson. While she was giving it, he turned to the cook, who was serving Beatrice a second egg. 'Mary,' said he, 'Your muffins this morning are--well--they're perfect! Perhaps just a wee, tiny trifle more of sugar--' 'Beatrice' (his wife breaks in) "Will you please let your father talk? At the end of a page we have sat there at that breakfast table, heard them all vying with one another for their King's attention, then seen that same King step into the Pierce Arrow (which, purchased from a client who had unexpectedly gone to the wall had been obtained for a song,) and be rolled toward his grey upholstered office. As a piece of realistic, penetrating analysis "A Good Man" is very nearly flawless. WHEN SWORD BLADES WERE STILL SHARP "THE SCARLET COCKEREL" By C. M. Sublette The Atlantic Monthly Press. "The Scarlet Cockerel" had more courage than wisdom he wanted to fight the whole world in the shape of 16th century France, and because of this and the scarlet suit he wore he earned his nickname. Blaise de Breault was left on his father's death, a boy of ancient and honorable lineage but little fortune ex- cept for his courage, an aptness at sword play and a great zest for adven- ture. Journeying to Paris he meets an old comrade of his father's, Martin Belcastel, and the two strike up a deep and lasting friendship. France sud- denly becoming, because of certain enemies, an unpleasant place for the two adventurers, they decide to try their fortunes in the New World. A party of French Huguenots are about to sail and they go with them. So it is in the New World that the dramatic incidents of the story take place. They are the kind of incidents which make the fact that the story is written in the first person, the only | possible encouragement that the au- thor will "live to tell the tale." But he does live and years later he tells the tale with relish. There is plenty here to make one forget that city pavements are rad- iating heat. One may wander in search of game through the virgin forests of the Carolinas, or paddle for days up the broad rivers where the only sound is the song of the birds or the occasional cracking of a branch under the foot of a stag or bear or one may stop for weeks in the village of a friendly Indian tribe. The dramatic high lights of the book are the surprising of the French fort and the slaughter of most of its in- habitants by a group of Spaniards and the vengeance wreaked in their turn by the French and Indians with Blaise de Breault and Martin Bel- castel at their head. "The Scarlet Cockerel" won the Charles Boardman Hawes prize of- fered in memory of that author by the Atlantic Monthly Press. It is Mr. Sublette's first novel and is distinct- ly reminiscent of Dumas and the best type of historical romance novel. BUSINESS FOLK GO TO SCHOOL Open Secretaries' Classes at Northwestern U. Several hundred executives and sec- retaries of Chambers of Commerce in America and the old world are on the Northwestern university campus this week, in attendance at the fifth an- nual meeting of the school. Five years ago Dean Ralph E. Heilman, dean of Northwestern university School of Commerce; Robert B. Beach, then secretary of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and other men promi- nent in the work of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, or- ganized the first national school of trade executives and secretaries and saw it through to a successful close at Northwestern university. Each sum- mer, since then, the school has re-as- sembled, listened to lectures, taken special courses in public speaking, publicity, membership building, com- munity service and kindred subjects by experts in their lines, and has voted to return to Evanston the folowing sum- mer. This year's school closes Au- gust 1. Prominent teachers from North- western university and other institu- tions contribute the faculty lectures and direct the courses. Among the teachers this year are the following: Prof. C. M. Thompson, dean of the College of Commerce, University of Illinois; Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the University of Tennessee, who instead of talking about evolution will discuss "Economic Problems in Agri- culture"; Prof. Robert Riegel, pro- fessor of insurance from the Whar- ton School of Commerce, University of Pennsylvania; Prof. C. D. Hardy act- ing director of 'the School of Speech, Northwestern university; Prof. C. O. Ruggles, head of the department of business organization, Ohio State uni- versity; Walter F. Dodd, of the Chi- cago bar; Prof. Charles H. Judd, di- rector of the school of education, Uni- versity of Chicago; Prof. H. A. Finney, professor of accounting, Northwestern university ; Prof. Felix Held, professor of business English and secretary of the School of Commerce and Journal- ism, Ohio State university. Also the following prominent Cham- ber of Commerce officials: F. Roger Miller, chairman of the board of man- agers of the school, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Asheville, North Carolina; James A. McKibben, secretary, Boston Chamber of Com- merce; J. A. Gawthrop, secretary, Richmond, Va., Chamber of Com- merce; John Ihlder, manager, Civic Development Department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Hugh Lynch, assistant to the secretary of the Merchants' Association of New York; Clarence F. Holland, secretary of the chamber of Little Rock, Ark. and many others. 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