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rr § i E | | WINNETKA FALK February 5, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 HAVE YOU READ-- ? Revelry By Samuel Hopkins Adams Boni 8 Liveright $2.00 War Birds Diary of an Unknown Aviator Doran $3.50 Along the Road By Aldous Huxley Doran $2.00 Sweepings By Lester Cohen Boni ¥ Liveright $2.50 Go She Must David Garnett Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 Poets and Their Art - Harriet Monroe Macmillan $2.50 The Book of Marriage Count Hermann Keyserling Macmillan $5.00 Skazki Tales and Legends of Old Russia By Ida Zeitlin Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen Doran $5.00 Benjamin Franklin Phillips Russell Brentano's $5.00 STATIONERY of Unusual Grace and Distinction Crane's Trocadero Notes, with bands that match the brilliant en- velope linings, $2. Crane's Trocadero, 24 sheets, 24 envelopes, tints, $2. Lord's--First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That a posthumous novel by W. L. George entitled, "Children of the Morning" will be published this month? That "Mirrors of the Years," a book which reviews leading fig- ures, trends and events of the past year, will be issued this spring? That the Vie Femina Heureuse prize for the outstanding ' English novel of the year has been awarded to Miss Radclyffe Hall's "'Adam's Breed? That sixteen members of the University of Chicago faculty, each one an authority in his department, have collaborated in producing ad Nature of the World and of an i" Just Paragraphs In its Japanese translation Sara Teasdale's latest volume of poems "Dark of the Moon," will form an in- teresting contrast to the book as it is know here. The poems will, of course, follow the Oriental fashion and begin at what we should call the end of the book. The lines will run vertically instead of horizontally, and will read from right to left, up the page, instead of from left to right, downwards. An article in the current issue of the B ookman, dated London, Dec. 1. paints the publishing business in Eng- land as being in a very bad way, gen- erally speaking: "Well known pub- lishing names are disappearing on every hand. Some of the best known names, in fact, are already gone." The writer accounts for it partly because "the books of the season have been disappointingly unsuccessful." Thomas Burke : Down in the slums where mingle Chinamen, foreigners and the scum of the white race, near the docks of the East End of London, Thomas Burke struggled for existence as a child At sixteen he sold his first novel but it was the picturization of "Broken Blossoms," the first story of "Lime- house Nights" that brought fame to him, : _ With this background in his life it is not surprising that he gives so much color to the setting of his tales and so, much vitality to his characters. His novels, of which "The Sun in Splen- dor" is his latest and his short stories give promise of greater achievements in the future, by this comparatively young author, Thomas Burke being still in his "thirties." Echo Answers By Elswyth Thane author of "Riders of the Wind" Life offered to turn back the clock! Give him romance again! And An- thony Stuart did't know whether to laugh or sigh! Frederick A. Stokes Co. N.Y: Reviews of New Books "MORE - PORTS MORE HAPPY PLACES"--Cornelia Stratton Parker Mrs. Cornelia Stratton Parker arouses first of all our envy. What could be a more painless way of earn- ing one's living than traveling around Europe and keeping a diary and then publishing the diary? Even if--per- haps even if--it involved climbing the Matterhorn? Anyway, if we were do- ing it we are sure we could find some- thing else which sounded as daring but was a little more nearly on firm ground than the Matterhorn. What Mrs. Parker does is practic- ally publish her diary. Her account & chatty, intimate, immediate. If you ike that sort of thing vou will like it. Personally I don't. It is a little too facetious. "If the years come and go and Fate stands between me and Poitiers and Amiens. and I find myself over eighty, I shall have saved enough to buy a little motor to fit on my Albatross (bicycle). And the Lord will reward me for my thrift and my devotion to a High Ideal by sending a summer of little rain. Which He did not see fit to send the summer of 1924. He was testing us. Anyone could enthuse wer a bicycle and a Norman tower in sunshine. Only those within whose bosoms glow the True Flame can burn to convert the world to bicycles and Norman towers when it rained twenty-five days out of thirty-five." Yet in spite of this method which borders faintly on the description one decaying gentlewoman would give to a club of her kind, you find vourself wishing to do these things that the author describes. As much in spite of her having told you about them as because of it, you find yourself long- ing to climb Swiss Alps and bicycle through Normandy. Of course that is principally because you wanted to all the time and the book need serve merely as a reminder. "THE HIDDEN KINGDOM"--By Francis Beeding. Francis Beeding takes a large can- vas for his mystery stories. In "The Seven Sleepers" it was the starting of another European world war for which the game was played. Now the terrible Professor Kreutzemark, who seems to be in league with the devil himself, appears once more, this time in an endeavor to let loose the half savage hordes of Asia as conquer- ors of the world. For his ends the Professor is using an ancient prophecy, made in the time of Genghis Khan, that one day will come a deliverer who will bring forth the ruler of a Hidden Kingdom which is under the earth and lead that ruler to victory over the world. Mr. Beed- ing might have gotten the idea from that teller of true mystery stories, Ossendowski. Of course, the Professor knows the legend isn't true, but he is relying on the fact that the wild hordes of Asia believe it. And he is going to play the deliverer. This calls forth the gallantry of those three intrepid ad- venturers, the two Frenchmen and the one Englishman to whom, because of their activities against "The Seven Sleepers," the world should owe much. From the bull ring in Spain to the waste lands of Mongolia they are led on their chase, and our interest with Published Recently (Extracts from Publishers Comments) "Skin-Deep"--Naomi Royde-Smith A clever, hilarious satire pricks the skin-deep beauty of Mayfair. "Twilight" --Count Edouard von Keyserling A powerful novel of the clashing generations, including "Harmony" and "Kersta." "Young Anarchy"--Philip Gibbs As in no previous novel Philip Gibbs has caught the sense of movement and crises that characterizes young people in the throes of new ideas. "The Key Above the Door" --Maurice Walsh A cloud-dappled, wind swept love story of the Grampian Hills in Scot- land. "The Painted City" --Mary Badger Wilson Startling stories of Washington life. "The Wind of Complication" --Susan Ertz Here is humor and whimsical origi- nality, romance and mystery. (By the author of "After Noon.") "The Up-grade"--George Gibbs This powerful novel of contemporary American life has the interesting theme of showing what business does to a woman. T hey Say-- One of the best is the new book by Ernest Hemingway called "The Sun Also Rises," according to Heywood Broun, who says, "I think you will not find a novel more convincing in the use of the language as it is talked by people roundabout us." Harry Hansen is one of the champ- jons of Samuel Hopkins Adams' "Rev- elry," the sensational novel of Wash- ington political life which has roused such comment because of its reflections on the recent Harding administration. "It may be second-rate, it may be in poor taste' but "it certainly is worth reading," he asserts. Touchstone, writing for the New Yorker says that Zona Gale's "Preface to a Life' "will be far less widely un- derstood than her famous 'Miss Lulu Bett was, but it is, by all odds, the no- vel of the two." Laying claim to five pieces of head- gear, Frank Sullivan of the New York World writes that he doffs them all in allant_salute to Margaret Leech for oe written "Tin Wedding," a novel of modern marriage published recently by Boni and Liveright. Emil Ludwig in his new powerful story of "Napoleon" calls him both prophet and genius. It seems strange for a German to present such a sym- pathetic picture of Franc's war-lord. them. Mr. Beeding has the art of making his villain fiendish yet attrac- tive, for all the world, alas, has a sneaking admiration for the rogue who is as cool as he is bad and plays his part with a high hand. This is "just a mystery story" but if you are one of the hordes--numer- ous as those of Asia--who nevertheless likes a good one you will welcome "The Hidden Kingdom." --EsraEr GouLp.