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I|% TE ------_ WINNETKA TALK August 6, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON We by Charles A. Lindbergh Colonel Lindbergh's book has been awaited with much interest by many people who have wanted to know, from his own pen, the story of the flight that has made him one of the most famous men of our times. Published by Putnam ..... $2.50 A Good Woman Louis Bromfield Stokes... PAVERS $2.50 God and the Groceryman Harold Bell Wright Appleton ....... sisinieie un $2.00 The Fool H. C. Bailey Duties, ii vane on $2.50 Gentlemen March Roland Pertwee Houghton-Mifflin Carry On Sergeant Bruce Bairnsfather Bobbs-Merrill Young in the Nineties Una Hunt Scribner's E. F. Benson The Chevalier de Boufflers A Romance of the French Revolution : Nesta H. Webster Dutton: . «. «assis vans ...$5.00 The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes A. C le Doran =... .. cd Do] ...82.00 TIMELY STATIONERY NEWS Lyndhurst Club is a handsome large white paper and envelope of heavy quality-- the sort 2 man likes. Two quire boxes, $1.25. Vacation Letterettes are convenient for writing the vacation notes home. 5o0c¢ and 75¢. Lord's--Books and Stationery-- Just Inside the West Davis Street 4 Door. | NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS NEW BIOGRAPHIES The first two volumes of the new "Murray Hill Biography Series", pub- lished by the George H. Doran Com- pany, appeared July 15. They are "Life of Upton Sinclair", by Floyd Dell, and "Life of Hawthorne", by Herbert Gorman. Two other volumes, "Emerson", by Robert M. Gay, and "Robert Frost", by Gorham Munson, will appear later in the Fall New Fiction A Good Woman Louis Bromfield God and the Groceryman Harold Bell Wright ..... $2.00 Gentlemen March Roland Pertwee ......... $2.00 Barberry Bush Kathleen Norris ......... $2.00 Oil Upton Sinclair ........... $2.50 Travel, Biography, etc. Trader Horn The Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn. Ed. by Ethelreda Lewis. ..$4.00 Frantic Atlantic Basil Woon... ooo ivvae. $2.00 Down the Fairway (new Golf Book) Bobby Jones ....... i aed $2.50 Mecca of Art in Northern Raly [15.5 0.x. $10.00 Memoirs of Catherine the Great . Translated by Katharine AMBORY «sass rosersing $5.00 Librettos and Opera Books for Ravinia '"WE' ) By Charles A. Lindbergh The famous flyer's own story of his life and his Trans-Atlan- tic flight, together with his views on the future of Avia- tion. $2.50 Chandlers Downtown Evanston Phone University 123 Bromfield's "Good Woman" Brilliant, Clever, Complete The fourth and final panel of "Es- cape," by Louis Bromfield has arrived with a title too broadly sarcastic to be as ironic as Mr. Bromfield intended it to be. "A Good Woman" is better than "Early Autumn," Mr. Bromfield's Pulitzer prize winning novel, and not so excellent as "The Green Bay Tree." I did not have the opportunity of reading "Possessions" and so cannot compare it with this final volume. To close this series of books which comprise a very clear and vivid pic- ture of the trend of various phases of modern America, Mr. Bromfield has elected to place the scene of his narra- tive in the "bible belt" of the Middle West. He has chosen as a central figure one of those "good" women who succeed in making virtue odious, who rationalize their desires in terms of the Almighty, and who are most dan- gerous in that they succeed in believ- ing their own lies. As a living ex- ample of despicable self-righteousness this Emma Downes is what the over- advertised Elmer Gantry might have been, had he been placed in the hands of a writer who considered character delineation more important than sure-fire selling methods. The only thing that keeps her from being a great character is Mr. Bromfield's lack of greatness; that understanding that is necessary to see a character as a whole. He sees the effect, but not the cause. The minor characters are the strong- est claim that the book can lay to greatness. They win your sympathy and lose it with the same bewildering frequency that you encounter with people whom you know intimately in your every day life. There is a sense that the characters are greater than their creator, for even the biting sarcasm of Mr. Bromfield's drawing of the flat voiced, shallow little mis- sionary, Naomi, cannot destroy the reader's pang of pity for her complete futility. These secondary characters of the book are so well balanced that they become the living characters of the story and this fact leads the reader to believe that Mr. Bromfield is able to see much more clearly with a tele- scope than with a magnifying glass, and that while Mr. Bromfield's book is clever, it is brilliant and it is com- plete--life isn't. B. B. Pot Shots at Pot Boilers Ww" notice that our own inspired make-up man put the B. B. shot in the middle of the column, last week. Our personal opinion is that he feels that nobody ever reads as far as the bottom and, in a burst of kindness, he put our initials where there was a chance of somebody seeing them. HE generally accepted fact that 1 great minds find their deepest re- laxation in mystery stories, combined with our aversion to these Nick Carter affairs have always kept some slight tang of recognized inferiority to a mentality we might otherwise overrate to a disgusting extent. However we have found two recent books wherein the crime-solvers were not so insuffer- ably superior. One, "Sinners Go Secret- ly," by the mysterious Anthony Wynne, is a series of twelve mysteries done in the tabloid manner, retaining the best points of a longer novel with- out the excelsior padding of extrane- ous false clews. The second, "Terror Keep," by Edgar Wallace, endeared itself to us through the fact that the master mind of the volume loved so deeply that he became human enough to shave off his side whiskers. Lovely! ARCEL PREVOST has written a book that stands as a shining light against the dull background of the average summer publication. Perhaps we would not have been so greatly impressed if the volume had appeared in the Autumn but we like to feel that we are discerning under any circum- stances and not subject to the effect of relativity. (All of which gradiose phasing is but a poor camouflage for the fact that we are not so sure of ourselves this time.) "His Mistress and 1" is written in the first person singu- lar, as a story to be submitted to a professor of psychology and as such, contains practically no plot or action. But as a subtle analy- sis of the modus operandi of three sensitive people who understand their weaknesses and their strength, it is an amazing volume. The book contains none of the traditional Gallic lightness but all that is best of Gallic insight into the soul of this losing race of ours. To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever defined, so clearly and concisely the fact that once a perfect love loses the smallest mite of its faith, it can only be regained in perfection through renunciation. Sophie was thrice wise when she said, "I love you . . . because I'm leaving you," and left. B. B. Lulu 724 Elm Street Buy Books in Winnetka Fiction, Travel, Books and Games for Children Greeting Cards Successor to Alice McAllister Skinner Biography, Etc. King Winnetka 1101 hg n'y