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16 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1923 Hie === Reading Lam A LITERARY GUIDE, TO THE NEWEST HOOKS. OF "THE MONTH Middle-Western City Life Again "BEING RESPECTABLE" By Grace H. Flandrau Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co. Deborah, flapper daughter of wealthy old Darius Carpenter, scoffs at the endless round of gossipy par- ties which enthrall her Babbittized half-brother Charles and her Mrs. Grundyized half-sister Louisa. Denied a real education and repressed by a loving family which exalts being respectable, Deborah, who chafes un- der the double handicap of lacking a conforming mind and a pretty face, sets about to woo and win Steven O'Conell, a radically-inclined self- centered youngster. But she encounters complications. Steven, as the luck of a realistic novel's heroine would have it, catch- es a glimpse of Valeria Winship, whose lily-white skin and trim ankles have already brought about a pathetic break between impression- able Charles Carpenter and his prim, faithful wife Suzanne. To complicate matters further, Philip Denby, hen- pecked almost beyond recognition by his oppresively proper wife Louisa, strikes up an intimacy with a wo- man of the masses. As an analytical story emphasiz- ing the sordidness and emptiness of high-society life in a middle-western city, this book is a little masterpiece. While the author's method, based on ample recent precedent, is to pile drab detail upon detail to stress her theme, this unfolding of the catalogue of life's pettinesses it not obtrusive, and the characters are not projected as caricatures. The tale is told with a light, sure touch, and it is remark- ably interesting. H. Beach Carpenter. "THE POINTED TOWER" By Vance Thompson. 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