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. er « wr Wale 42 WINNETKA TALK December 1, 1928 oedd- ALON Re FOVNTAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Winnetka 520 Rogers Park 1122 Lily Christine The Story of a Good Woman. Michael Arlen Doubleday, Doran ....... $2.50 A Brood of Ducklings Frank Swinnerton Doubleday, Doran ....... $2.50 Persian Pictures Gertrude Bell of Arabia Horace Liveright......... $3.00 The Downfall of Temleham Marius Barbeau Illustrated in color Macmillan... .. 000 3 $4.00 The Flutes of Shanghai Louise Jordan Miln Stokes N.C. Shove. $2.00 And by a Famous Evanstonian The Joyous Pretender Louise Ayres Garnett Macmillan" .-. 05500 00 oe, $2.00 Elizabeth and Essex Lytton Strachey Minton Balch .......... $3.75 More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions Frank Shay Gloriously illuminated by John Held, Jr. Whither Mankind A panorama of Modern Civil- ization edited by Charles A. Beard. Longmans, Green Company «+. ivi $3.00 The Crime of Dr. Garine Boris Sokoloff Introduction by Theodore Dreiser Covici-Priede ivi. vv $2.50 Lord's--First Floor Just inside the West Davis Street Door Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS "Whitehead's Duplicate Auction Bridge" has just been published in time for the holidays. It includes du- plicate contract bridge, and gives the very latest on rules, scoring, arrang- ing of tournaments, etc. Edward J. O Brien's "Best Short Stories of 1928," just out, includes excellent contributions of Fanny Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, Katharine Brush, Irvin S. Cobb, and a story of Louis Bromfield's, "The Cat that Lived at the Ritz" thought by some to be the best thing that Mr. Bromfield ever wrote, though the short story is certainly not the field in which he is best known. TOO LEAN "Lean Twilight" By Edward Shenton Charles Seribner's Sons "Lean Twilight" by Edward Shen- ton is, alas, lean in more ways than one. Attractively gotten up by its | publisher, neat in its proportions it rather allures one, but the contents fail to carry on. It lacks vitality. It is the story of a girl disillu- sioned or perhaps, rather, disappointed in her first idealistic love, who be- comes in her effort to conquer the COME CHRISTMAS By Eleanor. Farjeon Author of 'Italian Peepshow" A gay little book of new Christmas poems full of the Christmas spirit. A book old and young will enjoy. Copiously illustrated by Rachael Field. $1.75 Frederick A. Stokes Co. | : Have you read these i NEW BOOKS by two prominent CHICAGO AUTHORS A BRILLIANT NOVEL FALL FLIGHT by ELEANOR GIZYCKA "A vividly alluring novel. The y story of a terribly lonely girl who develops into a great beauty and falls completely in love with a des- picable Russian Prince."--Fanny Butcher in the Chicago Tribune. $2.00 DELIGHTFUL VERSE Here, There and Bverywhere DOROTHY ALDIS More enchantingly fresh inter- pretations of children by the popular author of EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING Each illustrated $2.00 The two in boliday box $4.00 MINTON BALCH & CO. hurt of it increasingly hardened and shrunken in her inner self, though outwardly she attains success in the form of a rich marriage, position, friends. A good enough plot but it fails to strike the necessary spark, or it did with me. Unfortunately for the poor novelist probably sometimes the lack is in the reviewer himself, the mood, the moment. However the lack was there. Mr. Shenton's style borders first on the poetic becoming decidedly wordly, then it shrinks to positive tele- graphic proportions. STATESMAN PAR EXCELLENCE "The Intimate Papers of Col House" Arranged by Charles Seymour Houghton Mifflin Co. In these last two volumes of the "Intimate Papers of Colonel House" is told the fascinating and remark- able story of what went on in our country in the realm of high diplo- macy during those all important years of our participation in the War and the making of peace. Once more one is amazed at the extent to which Colonel House took part in those events. Nothing was done in Wash- ington in which, either from New York or from his summer home in Massachusetts, this super-ambassa- dor had not had a hand. He sug- ing of his influence, often it was to the country's loss. But there was never any definite break between these two who as House so truly said, had "minds which ran parallel." Freed as House was by his lack of official position from the details of actual administration, he was able to keep his mind clear for the long view. Statesmen abroad as well as officials at home recognized his unique posi- By the Author of the Famous Novel THE GREAT HUNGER THE NEW TEMPLE By JOHAN BOJER A powerful, soul-stirring story by a great figure in world literature. $2.50 THE CENTURY CO. NERY The best gift book of the year for boys and girls is DRUMS by James Boyd With 17 color pages and 46 drawings by N. C. Wyeth Tris famous classic of the American Revolution, a favorite with younger readers since its publication, is now added to the Scribner $2.50 Hlustrated Classics in a su- perb edition profusely illus- trated with Wyeth's best work. ¢ Atyourbookstore $2.50 SCRIBNERS tion and so came to him with every imaginable project, knowing that if he wished he could put it through to the president in far less time than would be taken by the ordinary chan- nels. All this gave him a life of such astonishing significance, importance, and infinite variety as to make it a sort of statesman's dream. It was House who suggested the "debate" between leading papers in America and Germany on the aims of the War which might if it had been carried through have led to great things. But this was one case where the Colonel's project was not adopted. It was House that the country had to thank for the fact that when the Peace Conference did come its states- men went to it well informed on mat- ters of earlier foreign diplomacy. Toward the end of House's relations with the President there was a lessen- gested, planned, advised, toned up or toned down with a shrewdness which does seem to have been almost in- fallible as it was untiring. IT GOT IT "The Father" By Katharine Holland Brown John Day Co. Probably many a young aspirant for literary fame and the not too fre- quent fruits thereof, will sit up all night over this book, "The Father," by Katharine Holland Brown, trying to decide wherein and why it was the recipient of the largest prize ever given for a work of fiction. Probably next year there will be a flock of con- test novels dealing with the troubled era just before the Civil war. But no particular era will insure the prize. "The Father" got it because it is a good story. Rather old-fash- ioned to be able to be described like that, but nevertheless true. It has a plot which moves along, it has plenty of normal human interest, it has a murder trial of the hero at which the heroine testifies to save him, it has mob burnings of the father's print- ing press. In other words it will ap- peal to anyone who likes a story for the story's sake and who incidentally will be interested in the background of Tllinois in the pre-Civil war days. IE EE ME OE EN Wm mW | WN OEE OEE EE OWN BN AE WE A WR WW | 1, The Dutton Mystery for n December a J THE MURDERS 1 i IN SURREY WOOD ny th by John Arnold Y i $2.00 . NE. P. DUTTON CO. Inc. 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