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WINNETKA TALK August 25, 1928 Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Books on Psychology and Child Training Influencing Human Behavior H. A. Overstreet W. W. Norton 8 Co. ..$3.00 Psychology of the Pre- School Child Baldwin and Stecher Appleton uii'viivvn $2.75 Cultivating the Child's Appetite Aldrich Macmillan vo vic vii $1.75 Psychological Care of the Infant and Child J. B. Watson By the author of Behaviorism W. W. Norton 8 Co. ..$2.00 Living With Our Children Lillian M. Gilbreth W. W. Norton 8 Co. ..$2.50 The Nervous Child H. C. Cameron Oxford Press New Books The Living Buddha Madeline Boyd Henry Holt o. .... $2.50 The Foolish Virgin Kathleen Norris Doubleday Doran ..... $2.00 Spider-Boy Carl Van Vechten Fred A. Knopf. ....... $2.50 The Book of Catherine Wells Short stories and poems written by Catherine Wells, the wife of H. G. Wells with an introduction by HL G. W. Doubleday Doran ..... $2.50 BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Entrance William Allen White in Volume About Presidents During the last week the papers have frequently devoted space to Wil- liam Allen White's statements with regard to one of the Presidential no- minees. You'll find what he thinks of past Presidents in his forthcoming book, "Masks in a Pageant," announced by Macmillan for September 4th. Mr. White has known eight Presidents per- sonally, and he gives his frank and satirical opinion of them in these char- acter sketches. He says of Harding: "The gods of the times created him out of red Ohio mud, putting him to dry against the fence of the Executive Mansion; when they breathed the breath of opportun- ity into his nostrils, he walked in-- Fate's tragic mannikin." His comments are wise as well as humorous : "McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding all rose to pow- er and left their names in history, while Bryan did chores around the hall of Fame, hoping for a niche there." W. B. Yeats, Poet, Will Quit Free State Senate W. B. Yeats, poet, dramatist and Nobel prize winner, will disappear from the Irish Free State Senate in September. He decided not to offer himself for re-election when his term of office expires as he has been or- dered by his doctor to spend his win- ters on the Italian Riviera in the fu- ture. He has been a regular attendant at the Senate sessions since the Free State was formed, and although he has not intervened in debates often, when he has done so, he has shown a remarkable grasp of affairs, and a keen political penetration. Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS It may not be recent news but it is nevertheless authentic that Samuel Pepys once wrote a very entertaining book. And, in the midst of what Fan- ny Butcher bewails as a particularly arid season, it is a pleasure to go to Mr. Pepys once more and learn that he and his wife took dinner with his cousin Tom where everything was very excellent "except the venison pie be- ing manifestly beef, which wasn't handsome." Which may perhaps go to show that it isn't the what to say but the how to say it that in the mod- erns is so often lacking. Louis Bromfield is slated for a novel to come out on September 13, "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg." We hope for Mr. Bromfield's sake as well as our own that it will come up to the advance publicity that it will undoubtedly call forth. Other authors on Stokes' list for the next month are Louise Jordon Miln and Hugh Lofting. NOT THAT TO US "THE ROAD TO HEAVEN" By Thomas Beer Alfred A. Knopf Thomas Beer is decidedly disap- pointing in "The Road to Heaven." After his suave and brilliant perform- ance in "The Mauve Decade" we had, it seemed, more to hope for than he has given. In fact this book is one of those which leaves you wondering why after all it was written. Its style, its content, its purpose, none of them seem adequate to excuse the writing of Afternoon and Evens Base vening MMA IAA A Sa Deerfield's Silver Jubilee under the auspices of Deerfield Chamber of Commerce Carhival Music Dancing Parade . and Races A 1929 Nash Sedan 400 Series will be given away AEA I SS Ch Sh Sh J oh J So Afternoon and Evening Ball SATURDAY - AUGUST 25 In Jewett Park -- Deerfield LET'S ALL GO! dididbisdidiididiodiatiitiidididiniiidddbathdbnsias i EW LN TT TTIW TOV oe, ihc a book. It is simply one of those be- fore which the author has said, "It is time to have a book," and rolling up his sleeves has fallen to. Mr. Beer evidently thought it rather a coup to have, instead of the usual country boy dreaming of an escape to the city, a city boy dreaming of escape to the country. Though Lamon Coe is only a city boy temporarily, only until he can get back to his native and beloved farm from which his irate papa has thrown him because of a compromising affair with a widow. So New York is dust and ashes in Lamon's mouth and he sprinkles "ain'ts" and "g's" generously about waiting for papa to die off and leave him the farm which is the "Heaven" that New York is the road to. In the city, "Lamon's experiences are not uplifting. He picks up a mistress whom papa would never have approval of and lives with a literary cousin who is unreal as belonging to Lamon's family tree. But he is necessary to bring in the literary background that Mr. Beer knows and might as well use. Well, to make a long--too long--book short, on one grand night the mistress burns to death, a former lover of hers cuts his throat and the cousin dies, and next day Lamon marries a girl from home and goes back to be taken in by papa. Oddly enough the homesickness of the boy is touching, it is the only touching part of the book. Is that because homesickness a more or less universal experience strikes a re- sponse even when poorly done? SUFFERINGS DELUXE "BEAU IDEAL" By Percival Christopher Wren Frederick A. Stokes If you like your hot weather straight --straighter that is than Chicago has been able to furnish lately--you may be interested in going once more into the African desert with Major Percival Christopher Wren in the third and avowedly last of what are now called "the Geste books." If this is the last we can only say that Major Wren was a bit incontinent in killing off two of his three heroes in the first one, other- wise they might have gone on forever like "the Rovers." But things being as they are and John Geste being the only one alive and he happily married it looks as if Major Wren might have to keep to his decision. "Beau Ideal" is full of those ges- tures of high and rather excessive sacrifice which the populace, being quite unwilling to do itself, so loves to have its fictional heroes do for it. All The New BOOKS Sold and Loaned LULU KING 728 Elm St. Winnetka Ph. Winn. 1101 |