The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

A ------ ue Yi December 3, 1927 WINNETKA TALK 59 These Are New Books Worthy Your Interest Another contribution to monumental biographies is "Woodrow Wilson; Life and Letters," by Ray Stannard Baker. He was personally selected by the President as one most fitted to write it. Five tons of letters and records went into the making of the four vol- umes and, although written by a friend and admirer, the work avoids superla- tives. According to Morris Longstreth the Mounted Police of the movies are myths. No one will complain that nerve-racking man-hunts, hear-breadth escapes, death struggles with the North or any other trappings of romance are slighted in his book "The Silent Force, a History of the Canadian Mounted Police." Elizabeth Madox Roberts' new novel "My Heart and Flesh" is a tragic story of the Kentucky hills. A pleasant little essay called "Hap- piness," by William Lyon Phelps, has just been published. "The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts." An amusing and very human book is the anonymous "Confessions of an Author's Wife." Collectors of Mississippiana = have another item to add. This is the well- written book by Lyle Saxon, called "Father Mississippi." A vigorous and stirring book is Con- nolly's "Book of Gloucester Fisher- man." "The American Songbag," by Carl Sandburg, is at last published. It has been a labor of love, the author hav- ing spent years and precious time in collecting these American folk-songs. THE GREAT WHITE WAY "New York Nights" By Stephen Graham George H. Doran & Co. Of course it depends on what you think a book entitled "New York Nights" should be whether or not you will like this one of Stephen Gra- ham's. But I for one, have a pre- conceived notion based perhaps un- justly on a cherished book about Lon- don called "The London Perambula- tor." That book for some reason--partly because I knew that Mr. Graham had also written a book about London, therefore this book must be some- think like my cherished one--anyway that book sent me to this one with a high sense of expectation, of excite- ment. A sense which was sadly un- fulfilled. Mr. Graham has gone somehow stifly not graciously about his bus- Have you seen The Pictorial Mappe of Northwestern University? It is most attractive and very gaily colored. On Sale CHANDLER'S in Evanston For Information 1033 ELMwWOOD AVE. WILMETTE 1647 iness of exploring New York at night. Notebook in hand he has knocked at the doors of speakeasies and sat in the outer room of the po- lice court. When a woman at a se- questered night club asked him what he was doing he answered "snooping round." The phrase unhappily stuck in our mind, we felt it more descrip- tive than we wished. In other words Mr. Graham though he went through the motions failed in the spirit of his task, makes us instead of saying "Ah" at the beauty and mystery of a city at night say "Hm" and wonder how those people stand it to stay up so late at night. Franklin county leads Illinois coun- ties in the output of coal during 1926, producing 15,678,213 tons. North Shore Garden Service VALLEY VIEW FARM--Waukegan Road--GLENVIEW Building and Construction of HOME GARDENS TENNIS COURTS FLAGSTONE SIDEWALKS Black Soil $7.00 truckload delivered. PARKS GOLF COURSES Telephone GLENVIEW 141-J PLAYGROUNDS DRIVEWAYS, ETC. 2 PutsThis Lifetime Gift UnderYouRr ChildsTree «YUESTION FEVER"--that healthy visitation of child- hood--needn't bother anybody now! Compton's not only an- swers each question, but is written in a new way which leads your child, wide-eyed, through all fields of knowledge. «, in Why has Compton's become-- in five years--the largest-sell- ing encyclopedia alphabetically arranged for children? Because it is (1) Alphabetically Ar- ranged ; your child can find any subject quickly and easily; (2) Pictured Truly; 8,000 of the world's finest actual photo- graphs; (3) Explained Clearly; he can understand it without help; (4) Written as fascinat- ingly as a story book. LOA oe ire 15 4 Ne IRN] 3 \ BE \ 1 An entirely new meaning has been given to that word, En- cyclopedia. Through pictures that tell things, through words that picture things, a new breath of inspiration has blown through the whole field of knowledge--leaving a clear, true, astonishing path ready for the mind of a child. You have heard about Comp- ton's many times. Your child's teacher can tell you how she can instantly pick a Compton child. Your librarian can tell you the most popular encyclo- pedia for children. The fact you want NOW is how easy it is to put Compton's under YOUR child's Christmas tree! EEE EE EEE EEE EE EEE SSE 'Here itis in COMPTON'S - No Need to Bother Dappy!" Coupon will bring you full details of how, if you act at once, only $3.50 as first payment brings this lifetime gift. Reason- able balance in small monthly payments you will never miss. FREE TO PARENTS --a copy of a fas- cinating informa- tion-g ame, The Questionario. Mail coupon at once for YOUR copy. No \ cost or obligation. F. E. Compton & Company, Dept. 15, Compton Building, 1000 North Dear- SR born Street, Chi- cago. (Phone: Superior 8270.) | 1 1 ] ] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1] 1 |] |] 1 ] ] 1 1 1 ] 1 1 : fe) . E. Compton & Company, Dept, 15, Compton Building, 1000 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please send me at once--without cost or obligation--The Questionario Game and full facts about Xmas offer Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. NAG es ca eis v ese CL EE ES SC City suv aeevnns in. State .....snnsisne. Ze