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Ee a ---- --- ha WINNETKA TALK September 22, 1928 FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 BOOKS that herald the autumn season The Fringe of the Moslem World Harry A. Franck A travel narrative covering Egypt, Palestine, Transjordania, Syria and the "new" Turkey-- lifting them out of their hitherto remote associations. Illustrated. The Century Company. .$4.00 A Book of Words Rudyard Kipling Being a selection of some thirty addresses and speeches delivered by Mr. Kipling between 1906 and 1927. Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. $3.00 When They Love Maurice Baring A story founded on a well- known poem by Robert Brown- ing, called "A Light Woman." Doubleday, Doran When the Turtles Sing and other Unusual Tales Con- cerning The Old Soak and Mr. Tim O'Meara. Don Marquis Doubleday, Doran # Co. $2.00 Kubrik the Outlaw Theodore Ackland Harper A tale of the goldfields of far eastern Siberia. Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. $2.00 Texas Man William Macleod Raine A swift and thrilling Western tale. Doubleday, Doran ¥ Co. $2.00 Alimony Faith Baldwin A cross-section of modern life which answers the question of whether alimony is a cure or a curse. Dodd, Mead ¥ Company $2.00 The Lady of Stainless Raiment Mathilde Eiker Doubleday, Doran % Co. $2.50 The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg Louis Bromfield Frederick A. Stokes .. LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Door ..82.50 Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS "Coming of Age in Samoa" is a book which the worried parents of the young and wild generation might do well to read. It is a brilliant study by Dr. Margaret Mead of the simple primitive civilization of that island with a view to discovering what part of us is human nature and what part is human nature plus the unnatural restraints of civilization. Hugh Walpole gives high praise to Rebecca West's new book of criticism, "The Strange Necessity," He says, "Whoever may be at the head of male English letters since Thomas Hardy's death, there is no doubt at all that Mrs. Woolf (Virginia Woolf) and Miss West divide the feminine honors be- tween them. It is not in fact an ex- aggeration to claim that 'The Strange Necessity' and Mrs. Woolf's 'Common Reader' are the two finest volumes of literary criticism written by women in the English language." A BOOK OF INTEREST "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg" By Louis Bromfield Frederick A. Stokes Co. Louis Bromfield has long been marked out as One of the Young Men to be Watched in American litera- ture. In his new book, "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg," he just- ifies once more that classification. It is a book to be read with great in- terest, a book of finely developed skill, though with less of his usual feeling. None of Mr. Bromfield's books have equalled in feeling his first, "The Green Bay Tree," or, best of all (each one to his taste) "Possession." None or us as did Lily or Ellen. In this book his characters are all presented exactly, with that devastat- ing clarity which is increasingly Mr. Bromfield's tool, but more or less deri- sively, too, as bugs impaled and held up on the point of a pin. Annie Spragg moves us perhaps most of all to pity. Yet we know very little about her--the story opens with her death, and even the pages that go back to deal with her directly do not take us very close to her. Daughter of an impostor prophet, sister of a fantas- tical preacher, she seems to have had as poor a break from this old world as would be possible, So we pity her, but remotely, as we would someone read about in the dim past, not warmly with the pity which makes us weep for some characters as we would scarcely do for ourselves. The other characters, from poor, bald, little Mr. Winnery to the wild Princess and her lovers, are interest- ing but we care nothing about them. This is not adverse criticism, it is fact. Mr. Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey" was of the same type of impersonal fiction, it was nothing against it. Mr. Bromfield has used, by the way, something of the same, and difficult method of Mr. Wilder, that of relating many incidents seemingly un- connected, but all converging at the point of the story. AMERICA PRODUCES A SAGA "John Brown's Body" By Stephen Vincent Benet Doubleday Doran In "John Brown's Body" Stephen Miss Harris Announces the opening of the seventh year of her Boys' Preparatory School also the Miss Harris Tutoring School for pupils desiring special instruction. Eastern trained faculty in both schools. Opening Day September 26th 2150 Lincoln Park West Private motor under personal supervision of an in- structor will leave Winnetka each morning for con- venience of north shore patrons. Vincent Benet has done a tremendous- Phone Diversey 6800 Seven New Biographies Coming Out This Fall Seven books in the field of biography "| will be published this fall by The Mac- of his characters has ever moved him millan company. "Lenin: Thirty Years of Russia" is written by a young Austrian, Valeriu Marcu, who met Lenin during the lat- ter's exile in Switzerland. It is a deep- ly absorbing account of the part Lenin played in the Russian Revolution and after, (Publication date, September 4.) "Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr." by Robert H. Fuller, recounts the career of a Vermont boy who began as a tin peddler and ended as a notorious gambler in Wall Street. (Publication date, October 2.) In "Masks in a Pageant," William Allen White dissects and displays the characters and records of eight Presi- dents and some other politicians, in- cluding Al Smith. It makes lively reading. "Schumann-Heink, the Last of the Titans" tells her own story to Mary Lawton, and it is packed full of amus- ing incidents and famous people. No novel of life at sea could be more thrilling than "John Cameron's Odys- sey," which he himself relates and which Andrew Farrell has written down. Cameron, a Scotch sea captain, tells with vigor and humor of his often perilous adventures on three oceans. The last European monarch of the old school--"Francis Joseph of Aus- tria"--is portrayed by Joseph Redlich, who was long a member of the Aus- trian Parliament, and in 1918 Minister of Finance of Austria. For sixty years the Emperor's was the deciding will throughout his wide realm, and Red- ich shows him as an Emperor indeed. "The Life of Thomas Hardy," by Florence Emily Hardy, his wife, con- tains not only the story of Hardy's career, but many of his opinions and observations, ly difficult thing--written a long nar- rative poem which doesn't drag, which is full of spirit and interest through every one of its three hundred and eighty some pages. It is a work of great scope and of great feeling. It was evidently Mr. Benet's purpose to embrace all of America in this work, America past and present, and partic- ularly, of course, America at the cru- cial time of the Civil War. It is this wide scope for which Mr. Benet should partciularly be praised, it took the eye of a visionary to see it and the brain of a poet to reduce it to something which others, too, could see. It, more than the excellent verse, the command of historical material, make the book memorable, worthy to live as I believe it will, In order to give this farflung picture of an age Mr. Benet has taken many figures from north and south, from east to west, the sons of southern gentlemen and raw-boned Yankee farmers, all marching off to a War: "North and South they assembled, one cry and the other cry, And both are ghosts to us now, old drums hung up on a wall, But they were the first hot wave of youth too--ready to die, And they went to war with an air, as if they went to a ball." Just Published A New and Greater BROMFIELD THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG By Louis Bromfield 50,000 Before Publication At your bookshop--$2.50 Frederick A. Stokes Co. N. Y, Publishers of the best-selling "Beau Ideal" and "Brook Evans"