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WINNETKA TALK June 11, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 B-O-O-K The Road to the Temple Susan Glaspell Frederick A. Stokes Co. $3.00 Mother India Katherine Mayo Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. $3.75 Chains Lesser Novels and Stories by Theodore Dreiser Boni ¥ Liveright $2.50 Fear The autobiography of James Ed- wards. John Rathbone Oliver Macmillan $2.50 There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia Will Rogers Charles 8 Albert Boni $1.75 The Glorious Adventure Richard Halliburton Bobbs-Merrill $5.00 The Bridge to France Edward N. Hurley Lippincott $5.00 Contract Bridge Milton C. Work Winston $1.50 Lenz on Contract Bridge Simon # Schuster $1.50 Eleanor of Aquitaine Charles B. Reed Druid Press $2.50 Stationery or Correspondence Cards. Tinted Highland Linen with Bril- liantly-colored envelope linings $1 box. Lord's--Books, Stationery, Gifts First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door | NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Just Paragraphs Boni & Liveright, publishers of "Poorhouse Sweeney," the sensational --in its effect rather than its intent-- account of life in a country poorhouse have been widely accused of trying to put over a hoax on the public, the un- offending public which has been docile for long is becoming suspicious. But this time their suspicions are cruelly unjust, it seems, for the publishers have come forward with a well sub- stantiated official statement of its au- thenticity. G. D. Eaton, author of "Backfur- row," announces that he is going to edit a new monthly magazine called "Plain Talk," the first number to ap- pear in the fall. Those who like dy- namite are warned to watch the news- stands. It depends on how we get our dynamite whether or not we like it. On When your steamer sails, here is book you want On the Slope of Montmarte By William Wallace Irwin The gay, irresistible flavor of the famous Paris quarter pervades these whimsical sketches. Delightfully bound and illustrated it makes a charming gift book. Stokes $2.00 , a The Great War Novel "AW HELL" By Clarke Venable 'Not Profanity, but Philosophy' Keith Preston in The Chicago Daily News Love, for country and a girl, carried Jep Brice through. It will carry you through this poignant story of highest hazard, valor and romance. of Your Bookseller--$2.00 | Reviews of | New Books - "Pot Shots at Pot Boilers "THE ALLINGHAMS"--May Sinclair. If May Sinclair can write a book like "The Allinghams" then anything is possible. When the witty, keen, subtle author of "Anne Severn" or "Mr. Waddington of Wyck" descends to such banalities as this, we can only throw up our hands and murmur weakly, "What next?" It is a book which might be a child's idea of a novel. First each character is described in terms of "light blue " "sweet firm mouth," "pale pink eyes, cheeks," "slender and handsome." Six or eight perfectly faultless puppets. Then they engage in conversation, and more conversation, and still more con- versation. By page twenty-six, if not before, one becomes a little adled by such streams of banal conversation and wonders when they will take a rest. One looks ahead, there is no rest. They go on forever, even to the last page. Taking a paragraph at random, the family is sitting about carping be- cause the daughter has just expressed the novel situation of going out to Canada if her fiance goes, "'Mv un- happiness and your mother's doesn't count?' 'Not against Richard. I'm sorry. It's like that. "The devil it is. 'But vou like Richard?' 'Yes, I like him well enough.' 'You know Daddy, he's the one man in the world. There isn't anybody else you'd like to see me marry." 'T own all that. TI own he's the one man. But he isn't going to carry you off to that God-forsaken country if I can stop it" 'But I've told you you can't stop it." 'You wouldn't go against my express wish- es, Mollie?' 'I'm afraid I would.' "You're not the little girl I thought vou were.'" Tt would take pages to do it justice, one can't do it in a mere quotation that is typical. A lot of puppets sitting about expressing inane opinions at each other whenever their string is pulled. What has happened to May Sinclair is the question? --EsraER GouLp. Surprise of one. XXX EE xx x x x x A A A A A A A A A I A A A I XX XXX 2X2 XXXII Here's a chance to obtain five books for the price Books are wrapped in a package. You choose a package knowing that you will get good, recent fiction but not what the titles will be. FIVE BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE 52 Come in and get a surprise package today. Th books are excellent for summer dine oe u Chandlers = Chandlers >= Package ER EI A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A I A A A A I A AR IAA AAA RAIA IIIA AAIRI III ZI IAI III ZIIIIIIIIIIEX -- There is no doubt that the average divinity has a firm belief in the efficacy of repetition and the propagator of the one time famous "Simon Called Peter" has evidently carried this be- lief into his literary endeavors. "Ann Decides" by Robert Keable, is so near- ly a duplicate of his former work that it will only be readable to those who enjoy reading best sellers a second time ....I have always preferred that my friends list my numerous flaws, rather than either of my virtues, to the sundry persons to whom I shall eventually be introduced. All of which is apropos my reactions to "Mr. For- tune's Maggot," by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The volume is essentially readable and well constructed, so that I am under the impression that I ex- pected too much from the advance notice§: of friends who were inclined to be rather delirious over the laugh provoking powers of the book. My failing for Donald Ogden Stewartish humor may have dulled my finer sen- sibilities but I find Mr. Fortune's per- verse impulse (explained) rather too English. The much advertised sense of the ridiculous is discernible but in the lexicon of my preferences ludi- crous is the more synonomous with humor . . . . I have just finished read- ing Samuel Butler's "Counsels of Im- perfection," that most concise and comprehensive statement of modern thought, and find in my mind the wish for a constructionist to counteract these rabid Menckenese . ... "Pleas- ed to Meet You" proves to be a most engaging brief for the normalcy of in- sanity wherein Christopher Morley thumbs a most impertinent nose at the American tendency to meddle with foreign politics. Such a large majority of contemporary authors feel that thev have a "mission" and with corrugated brows and a noble light in their colle~- tive eve, seek to educate and uplift and disillusion that poor worm, the average American. After the mental galumphing of these literary clod- hoppers, Mr. Morley, that sophisticat- ed Peter Pan, is as a breeze from the sea. It is a pleasure to come in con- tact with an author who annihilates his enemy so cheerfully .... It has recently come to my attention that Dr. George A. Dorsey, the author of "Why We Behave Like Human Beings," was at one time an instructor in various majors, the librarian, and the man who said the blessing at a girl's college. Add Origin of the Species--I have a mental picture of the growing bewil- derment that resulted in the weighty treatise explaining why we behave like human beings . . .. If you enjoy A. A. Milne, I suggest that you borrow, or if necessary, buy a copy of "Every- thing and Anything" by Dorothy Al- dis. It is a volume of charmingly written children's verse that shows a great deal of promise in the author . . .. "Your Cuckoo Sings by Kind" by Valentine Dobree is a typical Knopf publication, very well written, clever terminology, and with a keen insight into child psychology. However--my best enemy or my worst friend would never accuse me of being conservative but, whether it was the matter or the manner of some incidents related, vari- ous passages of the book left me dis- gusted. There still remains a few real- ities which would be better left un- honored and unsung. B. B. |