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WINNETKA TALK January 29, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 A LIST FOR BOOKLOVERS The Copeland Reader --an anthology of English poetry and prose by . Charles Townsend Copeland Scribner's $10.00 Wine, Women and War Anonymous J. H. Sears 8 Co., Inc. $2.50 Napoleon Emil Ludwig Boni 8 Liveright $3.00 Islands of the Mediterranean Paul Wilstach Bobbs-Merrill $4.00 New York, Not So Little and Not So Old Sarah M. Lockwood Illustrated by llonka Karasz Doubleday Page % Co. $3.00 Edgar Allan Poe, the Man By Mary E. Phillips 2 volumes Winston $10.00 Two Vagabonds in Sweden and Lapland Jan and Cora Gordon Dodd Mead 8 Co. $5.00 The Heart of Emerson's Journals Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. $3.00 In Barbary E. Alexander Powell Century Co. $4.00 Touraine and Its Chateaux Rome Henry de Braye Gabriel Faure Two Volumes from the Picture Guides Series The Medici Society, each $2.50 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That "Spell Land" by Sheila Kaye Smith, published recently was written in 1910? That Shaw and Arnold Bennett are among the authors whose let- ters were advertised for sale at which they were very much in- censed? That "The Memoirs of God," which was written by Papini sev- eral years before "The Life of Christ" is now being issued in this country? That another symposium has been published of the religious be- liefs of outstanding men which is called "Twelve Modern Disciples?" Jack Black's story, "You Can't Win," was used as a lead by Julia Collier Harris wife of the editor of the En- quirer Sun, of Columbus, Georgia, in a stirring article in that paper recently in which she urged that the Juvenile court of Columbus should not be crip- pled by the withdrawal of the city's usual appropriation. GARRICK THEATRE CHICAGO Randolph St. near Clark The Motion Pleture Triumph of the Age. WM. FOX presents WHAT PRICE GLORY Twice Daily, 2:15 and 8:15 TRIBUNE "One of the Funniest Pictures ever Filmed. Best War Picture ever Made. AMERICAN "Rocks Garrick with Laughs and Cheers. Greater than the Play. JOURNAL "Magnificent." Reviews of New Books "THE SUN IN SPLENDOUR"--Thomas Burke. Thomas Burke, writer of short stories, has turned to novels. But in "The Sun in Splendour" he has achieved a novel which is rather like a collection of short stories. Contrary to the usual modern novel he makes us carry along with us a number of characters quite largely separate from each other, one of whom we take a certain distance, drop, and run back for one of the others. It is like the progress of a single man pushing six or seven wheelbarrows up the road, taking one a short way, stopping and running back to bring up another. This used to be a common method of novel writing, this broad diffuse method, and would have received less comment than from us for whom the novel runs a single straight course. But the older novel writers, while they carried along many characters often wove them very strongly together. This Mr. Burke has failed sufficiently to do. Connie Giltspur is first seen stand- ing in the pouring rain outside the portals of "The Sun in Splendour" pub, listening to the strains of Mozart and Beethoven which are drifting down from the little upstairs room. Watch- ing her is the horrible old woman with whom - she lives and whose cruelty Mr. Burke relates with a true Dick- ensian flavour. It is one of the un- finished threads of the book that neither Conni¢ nor "Auntie" is finish- ed off to our satisfaction. But upstairs in the pub is Christ- opher Scollard, player of the second violin in the quartette which his father gathers together twice a week --and which is the nicest part of the book--Christopher in whose soul the struggle of Art versus Mammon is to be waged. A number of people speak at length on the merits of the con- testants yet they convince us as little as they do Chris. Then comes along something which speaks more loudly than words and which has won over to Mammon many who have the spark --an almost unsought commercial suc- cess. The book has atmosphere, Mr. Burke proved he knew the secret of that in "Limehouse Nights," but it lacks cohesion. Just Paragraphs Whether or not we are declining -- the White Race, that is,--seems to be at present the most agitating question to the literary and philosophical men of our time. They seem unable to do as we would be willing to, wait and see, but must continue to guess about it. The latest of the guessers is a Frenchman, Maurice Muret, who though he says yes to the decline in his "Twilight of the White Races" tells us that he thinks it will be a long pro- cess, that we won't be snuffed out over night. Best selling fiction a week ago in New York was reported as follows, "Galahad," by Erskine, "Revelry" by Adams, "Cherry Square" by Richmond, "Under the Tonto Rim" by Zane Grey, "Sorrell and Son," Deeping, and "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber. Books of Travel Mr. and Mrs. Haddoek in Paris, France By Donald Ogden Stewart. The hilarious adventures of the Had- dock family in the French capital, Much wisdom mixed with its fun. Motor Cruising In France By Leslie Richardson. Relating the odyssey of a small motor boat along the coast of Brittany and through France to the Mediterranean. Two Vagabonds in Sweden By Jan Gordon and Cora Gordon. An entertaining account of two vag- abonds' adventures in Sweden and Lap- land. The Road Round Ireland By Padraic Colum. Interpreting a rugged, picturesque coun- try through typical characters, local cus- toms and poetry. Forgotten Shrines of Spain By Mildred Stapley Byne. A book that throws Spain open like a great museum to the art-lovers of the world. Spain By George Wharton Edwards. Spanish culture, art and literature col- orfully described in word and picture. Siellian Noon By Louis Golding. A witty, poetical and observant tour of Sicily. On the Trall of the Unknown By G. S. Dyott. The record of an amazing trip through the hinterlands of Ecuador and Brazil. The Fire of Desert Folk By Ferdinand Ossendowski. A vivid, colorful tale of travel in North Africa, chiefly in Morocco. Caravans and Cannibals wt Mary Hastings Bradley, A novelist's story of her trip into the wilds of Africa with her husband and daughter. Appleton, East of Slam By Harry A. Franck. A wanderer's adventures through an- cient and mystic Indo-China. East of the Sun and West of the Moon By Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. The story of a notable journey to the heart of Asia written with true Roosevelt zest. A Novelist's Tour of the World By Vicente Blasco Ibanez. A varied panorama of strange people, places and things seen in a trip around the world. On the Stream of Travel By James Norman Hall. A philosophic travel book that takes the reader from the South Sea Islands to Iceland. Jesting Pilate By Aldous Huxley. The diary of an English writer's around-the-world journey. "Poe's Brother," a volume contain- ing the poems and stories by William Henry Leonard Poe, brother of Edgar A. Poe, is title of a new work by Prof. Thomas O. Mabbott of Northwestern university, just issued by Doran. It is an illustration edition limited to 1,000 copies. Another popular edition is ex- pected to be issued later in the year. Prof. Mabbott will publish soon his recently announced edition of stories by Walt Whitman hitherto unknown. This is to have an initial limited edi- tion followed by a popular one. "Doomsday" is the title of the new novel by Warwick Deeping to be pub- lished February 4 by Knopf. His "Sor- rell and Son," although published near- ly a year ago, continues to climb in the best-seller list and has gone into its 17th edition--apparently one of the most solidly successful books in years. The first copy of the limited edition of Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln" to appear at a rare book auction was sold for $52.50 at the American Gal- leries in New York City. ss taieL, Xho