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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923 11 Readin g Lamp A LITERARY GUIDE TO THE NEWEST HOOKS OF THE MONTH About Books and the Write Them One of the terrible meek "FHomely Lilla" By Robert Herrick. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company $2.00. Reviewed by John Clair Minot. Mr. Herrick is no longer consider- ed one of our radical and shocking novelists. Time and the changing public attitude have taken care of that. His first novel in half a dozen years is the story of a woman's re- volt after years of brave endurance and of almost unbelievable patience and charity. Lilla, who grew up on a Wyoming ranch and came to Chi- cago in early girlhood, after her father's death, was not as homely as the title of the book might lead you to expect. She was a very vital be- ing, utterly unlike her shallow, prud- ish and utterly selfish mother. The thing that strains the reader's credulity is that she should have mar- ried Gordon James, the principal of the school where she taught. He is the most unattractive figure and the most detestable husband we have met in fiction in many a day--cold as a fish, selfish and self-centered, and al- ways scheming something to further his own ambitions. Few women we believe would have stood it as long as Lilla did, especially after circum- stances had forced her to mother Valerie Libowski, her husband's mis- tress. When rebellion finally came, however, she did a thorough job of it, and went back to the open coun- try of the northwest for the happi- ness she felt that life still had in store for her. Mr. Herrick tells the story with consummate skill, and leaves out no touch or detail that will complete the picture of the weak man and of the strong woman who is groping in the dark for the big- gest and best things of life. Like Mother Like Daughter "The Seven Ages of Woman" By Compton Mackenzie. Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company $2.00. In this book, Compton Mackenzie presents seven different stages, sev- en crucial moments, in the life of one woman. There is Mary, the little girl watering her nasturtiums in the window box; Mary, in the tremu- lous joy of her first and only real love affair; Mary bending over the bed of her sick little boy; Mary, face to face with her son's wife; and Mary, old and alone, greeting her People Who little granddaughter. And through the whole book runs the idea of the gulf between the generations, of the older generation trying always to control the younger, trying vainly, too, to get close to youth, and youth, ever rebelling, and going its own way. Mary tries to interfere with her son's marriage, just as her grand- mother had done with her; and when she isn't successful, she casts off her son, just as her grandparents had cast off her father. And at the end of the book, when Mary welcomes the child of this dear son, it is with the same spirit, and with almost the same words as years before her grandmother welcomed her. Dorothy S. Phillips. H. 1. PHILLIPS BOOK Doubleday Page and Company have published a collection of stories written by H. I. Phillips, conductor of the colyum known in the New York Globe as "The Globe Trotter" and in many papers throughout the country as "The Once Over." Mr. Phillips has won wide recognition as a humorous writer in an exception- ally short space of time. His book, says Heywood Brown of the World, places him "in the front rank of American satirists." A First Book of Great Power "DRUIDA" by John T. Frederick Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. This is the first book of a man who has put himself in the front rank of our writers. The scene is laid in the Red Valley of the North. In Druida, her mother has express- ed her rebellion against her world and her longing for beauty, and Druida grows up, a child of beauty, untouched by her sordid surround- the other. To educate painlessly is an achievement worthwhile. Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward The late George Loane Tucker, di- rector of "The Miracle Man," wrote a letter to Mary Pickford asking her to marry him, little dreaming that SERVICE ) the letter would be received on the ) day she married Owen Moore. a ings. She is destined to bring dis- aster upon herself and her friends Are You a Member? k ki M t C but in spite of the relentless fate 0 e 0 or 0. which Pitsues Jer, the outlook is CHICAGO MOTOR CLUB hopeful and the book ends on a Established 1906 triumphant note. There are two 712-714-716 Elm Street J. G. STANTON Glencoe Branch Mgr. 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