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3 WINNETKA TALK March 19, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Have You Read These New Books? Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. $2.50 Divots P. G. Wodehouse Doran $2.50 Decadence Maxim Gorky McBride $2.50 Song of Life Fannie Hurst Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 East Side, West Side Felix Riesenberg Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. $2.50 The Silver Cord George Agnew Chamberlain Putnam $2.00 Angel Esquire Edgar Wallace Small, Maynard 8 Co. $2.00 The Pope of the Sea Vicente Blasco Ibanez E. P. Dutton $2.00 Far Above Rubies Heart Stories of Bible Women Agnes Sligh Turnbull Revell $2.00 All at Sea Carolyn Wells Lippincott $2.00 New French Fold Cards are now in! Deckle edge card, folded or flat, in delicate tints of Sistine Blue, Drift- wood, Oriental White, Anchor Grey, and Sea Spray. $1.10 and $1.25. 3 Main Floor--Sherman A A wind-swept, cloud-dappled . ° story of the Crampian Hills of ; : LJ Scotland. The book is freshly Lord's--First Floor : hs % conceived and has a passionate feel- Just Inside the West Davis ing for loch and hills, freedom Street Door. 630 DAVIS ST and the wilderness. Univ. 123 Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.00 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That the first book chosen by the editors of the Literary Guild is "Anthony Comstock" by Heywood Broun and Margaret Leech? That "The Keen Desire' by Frank B. Elser has been dramatized and will be produced in New York next fall? That Harry A. Franck, author of books of travel, is said to be at this time in the region of the Nile river, along the banks of which he has planned to. travel afoot? That Philip Guedella and Cal- veth Wells as well as Will Durant have been visiting Chicago very re- cently? Ann Douglas Sedgewick's impatient- ly awaited novel, "The Old Countess" will be published on March 31. This is Miss Sedgewick's first book since "The Little French Girl." Carl Sandburg of whom we like to think as the "Chicago poet" is in great demand as a lecturer in other parts of the country. From engagements last month in California he is jour- neying into the south and to the east coast in the next months. In ex- pressing his desire to meet Philip Guedalla, noted biographer, who was recently in Chicago he said, "I would like to just sit down with him and talk about the craft like two bootmak- ers. BOOKS Fiction Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis ...... $2.50 Go She Must David Garnett . ..... $2.50 Forever Free * (a novel of Abraham Lin-) coln) Honore W. Morrow Magic Garden Gene Stratton-Porter .$2.00 Children of Divorce ..$2.50 Owen Johnson ..... $2.00 Song of Life Fannie Hurst ....... $2.50 BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. Palmerston Philip Guedalla . .... $5.00 Wilhelm Hohenzollern Emil Ludwig ...... $5.00 Byzantine Portraits Charles Diehl ...... $5.00 The Latin Quarter Past and Present Jean Emile Bayard ..$4.50 In Borneo Jungles William O. Krohn ...$5.00 Rogues and Scoundrels Philip Sergeant . ..... $4.50 Subscriptions Taken for All Magazines. Reviews of New Books "SPELL LAND"--Sheila Kaye-Smith, The publishers of Sheila Kaye- Smith's work have seen fit to bring out another of her 'early books, "Spell Land." It is a story which as they have truly said in the preface shows the beginning of her style and her marked talent for character portrayal. "Spell Land" is a sombre story. It is that of a triangle, one of those most certain to come to destruction for it dates from childhood. Emily, her cou- sin Oliver, and her foster-cousin Claude play together from the time when the former two come to live near Claude's family farm, "Spell Land." Emily is a "good sport," and "true blue." Oliver breaks up most of their games with "O, I say, this is rotten." Claude is an imag- inative inarticulate child, wayward and yet with a good heart. After the childhood of the three we are carried swiftly over to their young man and womanhood. Oliver is work- ing in London, Emily is trying to fit into the uncongenial life of a gover- ness-nurse and Claude is helping his brothers on the farm. Then Emily, with discouragement as her chief mo- tive, marries Oliver, for though she loves Claude she thinks he does not love her in a way that would make him a good husband. oy Oliver of course turns out to be anything but a good husband and Emily leaves him, and she and Claude run away and try to solve the prob- lem which Hardy treated so superbly in "Jude." They cannot solve it and the story ends tragically. "Spell" Land" has the light delicate touch which Miss Kaye-Smith's earlier stories have, but it lacks much of her later sureness and clear characteriza- tion. It is an amazingly unmodern book; it might have been written fifty instead of fifteen years ago. "WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN, THE LAST OF THE KAISERS'--Emil Lud- WIE. The reading of the biography by Emil Ludwig, "Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the last of the Kaisers" is far from being a pleasant experience. It is an interesting speculation as to whether if it could have been written one hun- dred years "after the event" and we could have been living then it would have been pleasanter. The dishing up of history when it is still hot must necessarily have its dangers. And foremost of those are personal feeling, animosities, and rancour which inevi- tably cling to those who were sufferers from the people and events pictured. On the other hand if we are to ac- cept entirely Ludwig's view of the Kaiser we must of course admit that no story of his life could be very pleasant reading, any more than could The Key Above The Door By Maurice Walsh Just Paragraphs Mrs. Philip - Guedalla, who spent about ten days in Chicago while her husband, the noted biographer, was making a lecture circuit in nearby towns, was charmed with the city. She said "The nice part of it is that things are because they are, and not because they are trying to be like something else as is the case in New York." How embarrassing for two gentle- men to be meeting each other for the first time in a railway station when they have only seen caricatures of one another. Ralph Barton illustrator of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" went to meet Bohun Lynch, author of a "His- tory of Caricature" last summer in Paris this was their predicament. It was either a case of missing or insult- ing each other. They took the latter course. The library of the University of Chi- cago has purchased from Gabriel Wells of New York a volume containing fifty-two manuscript pages intermingl- ed with proofsheets of one of Balzac's earliest stories, "Le Secret des Rug- gieri." The proofs, of which there are seven sets, are covered with corrections and additions in Balzac's handwriting, showing that it was his habit to do much of his actual writing on proof- sheets, using the manuscript mainly as a point of departure. The chief donor of the manuscript is Miss Shirley Farr, a graduate of the University of Chi- cago. --New York Times They Say-- «pil Have a Fine Funeral" Pierre la Maziere "A book with a wistful and daring irony which I relished heartily." -- Romain Rolland. "Shadows Waiting" : --FEleanor Carroll Chilton "An amazing first novel. It is pro- found. Moving, exquisitely written." John Farrar, editor, Bookman. "William Hohenzollern"--Emi! Ludwig "It is a book to read, whatever else is read. Hardly one eminent novel in a hundred can hold a candle to it"-- The Observer, London. that of any weak, vain, deluded, selfish man. Ludwig states very truly in his pre- face that the drawback to a biography of this particular world figure is not that at this time we "know too little, but too much." This is true and it would be hard for anyone in the civil- ized world to forget that knowledge enough to write with an unprejudiced mind. Realizing this the biographer sets about it to construct his account entirely from the Emperor's own deeds and words together with the reports of those who stood in close relation to him and were friendly to him. This is fair indeed, but there is necessarily a great deal of interpretation of the words and deeds on the part of the author himself. Whether he is entirely authentic or not the Kaiser here presented is a poor creature, feeding his timid spirit on worn-out traditions and the facile flat- teries of those who surrounded him. --EsraEr GouLp. oi