The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

3 WINNETKA T WL January 8, 1927 re ------ -- -- ES ------------------ FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones Rogers Park 1122 University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Tomorrow Morning Anne Parrish Harpers $2.00 So You're Going to Italy So You're Going to England So You're Going to Paris Three instructive and interest- ing travel books by Clara E. Laughlin. Houghton Mifflin Co. Leather Binding $4.00 Cloth Binding $3.00 More Ports More Happy Places Cornelia Stratton Parker Boni and Liveright $3.50 The Road Around Ireland Padraic Colum Macmillan $4.00 The Complete Pocket Guide to Europe E.C. 8 T. L. Stedman New Edition Robert M. McBride ¥ Co. $3.00 Cathedral Churches of England Helen Marshall Pratt Duffield $4.00 . A Satchel Guide to Europe Rolfe 8 Crockett Revised Edition Houghton Mifflin Co. Leather Binding Cloth Binding $5.00 $4.00 By the City of the Long China Alice Tisdale Hobart Macmillan $3.50 Lord's--First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | Sand: A Tale of New DID YOU KNOW-- That Fulton Qursler, author of "Step-Child of the Moon," pub- lished his first novel himself when he was 11 years old? That "Conradia, a Map Locating the Scenes of Various Books by Joseph Conrad" has been published which is most interesting and il- luminating to readers of Conrad's books? That the Penn Publishing com- pany has announced a contest for play manuscripts, prizes totaling $2,000? * That Vera Hutchinson, the sis- ter of A. S. M. Hutchinson is the author of a new novel "The Dark Freight?" Just Paragraphs Here is a man that almost anyone can pity, Dr. J. C. H. Beaumont, who has just completed his nine hundredth trip across the Atlantic. Anyone that has done that should be entitled to write a book about it, or do anything else he pleases. Dr. Beaumont has written the book, it is "Ships and Peo- ple" and tells of his experiences in thirty years of ship doctoring--not doctoring ships, that is, but passengers. At the coming meeting of the Ameri- can Historical Association, in "Roches- ter, New York, Hamlin Garland will give a toast to the Trail Makers of the Middle Border--that is, the men who were the trail makers in the history of the Mississippi Valley. Many people will be delighted to learn that a new novel from Anne Douglas Sedgewick may be expected next spring. The title of the book is to be "The Old Countess." A "Sesqui" Award One half of the $2,000 prize offered by the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exposition for the best choral work submitted has been awarded to a can- tata entitled "Mirtil in Arcadia," for which Louise Ayres Garnett, a resident of Evanston who is abroad, wrote the words and Henry Hadley the music. Mrs. Garnett is also a composer of songs herself, and her musical gift is evidenced by the melodious quality of her verse. "Eve Walks in Her Garden" her new volume of poems, brings this comment from The Nation: "It is a volume of utterly simple poetry, which for all its delicacy covers deep ranges of emotion. It passes from rhythmic ballads to two or three-line lyrics, from strong mov- ing assertions of faith to fresh and fanciful pictures; and in whatever the author touches is the quality of truth." Reviews of New Books "The Best British Short Stories of 1926" --FEdited by Edward J. O'Brien. For those who are tired of the good tailor made stories of our American magazines, all--or most of them made carefully to the public's measure, this book of British short stories will come as a surprisé and pleasure. There are names on the list which in themselves are a guarantee, Stella Benson, De la Mare, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Beresford, There are other contributors aren't so well known or are perhaps not known at all. who have done as well. There is a fanciful touch, an em- phasis on atmosphere in these stories, apparent in nearly all of them, which would never "get by" with the Ameri- can magazine reader. For instance, Stella Benson has written a lovely thing on the awakening of a god, "one of the old gods" who used to make mountains. "Mountains are like bells, they are tuned like bells. You'd know what I mean if you'd made them. When a mountain is well made, even an incurably imperfect mortal ear can hear the bell note sometimes, especial- ly when it rings to the touch of the last ray of the sun. Thomas Burke has a delicious story about the Chinaman who sang so heartrendingly of his love for China that at last, the kindly English fo'k who had listened to his singing raised a fund to send him back home. At the last when everything was ready, the poor little Chinaman went next door and killed himself--there was nothing else to do, he had never seen China and did not want to go there, his home was in England and he loved it, he was as his neighbor said of him "only a poet." Walter De la Mare's story "Mr. Kempe" is full of atmosphere of his own particular eerie sort. Constance Holme, of whom I have never before heagd, contributes a little story only seven pages long, but of stark realism. There are others, all of them worth reading. They make in- teresting companion reading to the collection of American short stories which has also just been brought out. --EstaER GouLD A week ago last Wednesday Rebec- ca West sailed home for Christmas on the Berengaria, with the parting re- mark that H. I. Mencken was femi- nine in the old fashioned sense, that "rather than use his brain he exploits his personality." We hear that Re- becca will publish two novels next vear and a book of her magazine articles. 3 --Saturday Rev. of Lit. BALLARD and Rental Library VILLAGE THEATRE BLDG. | 1150 Wilmette Ave. BOOK SHOP Phone Wil. 2566 | { who | J A Selected List of Novels of 1926 CHARACTER STUDIES Bennett--Lord Raingo Bromfield--Early Autumn Canfield--Her Son's Wife Cather--My Mortal Enemy Coalfleet--Hare and the Tortoise Delafield--Chip and the Block Gale--Preface to a Life O'Higgin--Clara Barron Sinclair--Far End Singmaster--Keller's Anna Ruth Stern--Deputy was King. Walpole--Harmer John Young-- William MODERN THEMES Deeping--Sorrell and Son Dreiser--American Tragedy Galsworthy--Silver Spoon Jameson--Three Kingdoms Wells--World of William Clissold WAR AND AFTER Gibbs--Labels Gibbs--Unchanging Quest MacKenzie--Fairy Gold Nason--Chevrons AMERICAN SCENE, AND PRESENT Ferber--Show Boat Forbes--O Genteel Lady Glasgow--Romantic Comedians Heyward--Angel MacKaye--Tall Tales of the Ken- tucky Mountains Roberts--Time of Man Stribling--Teeftallow Suckow--Iowa Interiors BUSINESS Burlingame--Susan Shane Norris--Pig Iron FANCIFUL, LIGHT AND AMUSING Arnim--Introduction to Sally Davis--Friends of Mr. Sweeney Nathan--Fiddler in Barly Warner--Lolly Willowes ROMANTIC Byrne--Hangman's House Converse--Into the Void De la Roche--Cordelia Chantrell FOR FATHERS AND SONS Farnol--High Adventure Sabatini--Bellarion Sinclair-- Wild West Wren--Beau Sabreur CLEVER Cabell--Silver Stallion FErskine--Galahad Macaulay--Crewe Train Maugham--Casuarina Tree FOREIGN NOVELS IN TRANSLATION Hamsun--Rosa Henriot--Aricie Brun VARIOUSLY GOOD Kaye-Smith--Joanna Godden ried Putnam--Candaules' Wife Wembridge--Other People's Daugh- ters Williams--Silver Forest PAST Mar- "The River Flows," a new novel by F. L. Lucas, a young English critic, will appeal to readers who are more interested in brilliant writing, insight into character and real life among people of intellect than in sensational plot and romantic treatment. It is the story of two men who love the same girl. Not until after Margaret marries Philip does she discover her love for David, and Mr. Lucas tells the story through David's letters and diaries. It is told with force and intensity, without blinking the physical aspects, and with- out forgetting the moral ones.