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sw Eni ry ome So ART ¥ "as €1 power." 10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925 fons ool [orner Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. Moralizing a la Mode? "THE WHITE MONKEY" By John Galsworthy Charles Scribner's Sons As one waits for the Spring's "big books," and looks back on those of the Fall, one wonders why they have achieved the numbers of one hundred or one hundred and fifty thousand as has for instance, "The White Mon- key." Is it, in this case, because of Galsworthy's name on the cover or be- cause it is a good book, or both? Perhaps because one is a guarantee of the other. Mr. Galsworthy in "The White Monkey" is continuing the saga of the Forsyte family which was begun in "The Man of Property," continued in "In Chancery" and "To Let" and finally consolidated in "The Forsyte Saga" of recent renown. Mr. Gals- worthy in his earlier works was sus- pected, by some accused, of being a satirist. Now in answer, he is pro- claiming himself a moralist. But today's generation evidently does not mind being preached to, even quite obviously as Galsworthy is wont to do it. Is this an indication that they, too, are tired of the insol- uble unrest which has taken hold of them and are looking for an answer. Mr. Galsworthy does three out- standing things. He sets up a sym- bol of the modern day, the picture in the Chinese mode of a "white mon- key," who, holding in his paws a squeezed fruit, the rinds of which he has scattered on the floor, turns his head away, and with eyes which are the epitome, as Michael says, of the human tragedy, asks, what for? Mr. Galsworthy then goes on to say very sanely that this modern world is only a small part of the whole-- the foam on the crest of the wave. Again as Michael says, "We eman- dampening criticism on the ground of credibility. For supernatural means in Webster's dictionary "outside the laws of Nature." Outside the laws of Nature, also is Elinor Mordaunt's "Hodge" a pre- historic ape-man who is dug up by two children--alive! And he makes no end of trouble before he finally is persuaded to die. Yeats contributes a story "The Crucifixion of the Outcast" with a de- cidedly more morbid touch than is in most of his work. Thomas Burke has a story of kime- house, Masefield a delicious one about Davey Jones and the Devil. De la Mare and W. Somerset Maugham and others add their names to the illus- trious list. The collection is an in- teresting means of studying and com- paring the three and twenty authors. Just Published THE THUNDERING HERD St. Joseph News-Press: "'The Thundering Herd' is a book which should find a permanent place in American literature. It is the very best story that Zane Grey ever wrote." $2.00. By Zane Grey HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers. "Gad but these business girls make me weary! Little smartie trading tomboys! Walking fences all around the world jingling their pennies in their pockets and stick- ing out their tongues, » But-- NORA PAYS for being a trading tom-boy. Read Lucille Van Slyke's new novel Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York ted people have got into the habit hinking we're the world--well, we aréh't; we're an excrescence, small and noisy. We talk as if all the old val@les and prejudices had gone, but they've no more gone, really, you k , than the rows of villas and lit gray houses." And then as the third outstanding thing Mr. Galsworthy goes on to show that underneath the modern intellec- tual questionings and unrest there are the same qualities, the same funda- mentals which have saved humanity before and will save it again. As "old Mont" the Forsyte of the passing generation feels it, "'Grit and body in those old English boys, in spite of their funny ways! And there stirred in Soames a sort of atavistic will- A Collection of Ghosts "23 STORIES BY TWENTY AND THREE AUTHORS" D. Appleton & Co. Who would be thrilled by the super- natural or ghostly, let him read "23 Stories by Twenty and Three Authirs" which D. Appleton and Company has recently compiled. The stories have, many of them appeared before in col- lections of the authors' works, other- wise there could hardly be quite such a brilliant array. Edith Wharton starts us off with a story which is hardly up to Edith Wharton's mark. In it long-dead dogs not only appear at "Kerfol" once each year in statuesque attitudes, but they actually murder the man who has killed them. Now the- good old- fashioned ghost who relies on chain clankings and hollow moanings was somehow more credible. And more shivery too. However, having put on the rainhat of "supernatural" the au- thor can walk unhurt 'through any - _. severe Be sure to. read OUR Classified Page A sentimental comedy by "The Prince of Story-Tellers" THE INEVITABLE MILLIONAIRES By E. Phillips Oppenheim The Boston Transcript says: "It is one of the most light- FIREPROOF AUTO STORAGE! Announcing New Facilities In A New Evanston Building ERE is good news for automobile dealers, garage and car owners. Fire proof storage space is now conven- iently available at low rates at The North Shore Auto Storage warehouse at 1950 Ridge Boulevard, Evanston. This is a new, absolutely fire proof three story building, with elevator, C. 8 N. W. switch track, loading platform and concrete driveway. Dealers anticipating spring shipments can make arrangements for delivery direct to our warehouse. Garages crowded with dead storage can transfer cars to our building and convert space back to more valuable live storage. 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APPLETON AND COMPANY 35 West 32d St, New York CROSS WORD PUZZLERS Everyman's Library Edition of ROGET'S THESAURUS In two vols. clo., each 80 cents. WALKER'S RHYMING DICTIONARY New edition with 20,000 added words. $3.50. A DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS (Miniature Ref. Library). 70c. BENNETT'S COMPACT RHYMING DICTIONARY (Miniature Ref. Library). 70c. A DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS By I. O. Halliwell. $5.00. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY New York City VALENTINES We have just received a large assortment of very beautiful Valentines and Greeting Cards. These new 1925 designs and colorings are artistic and unusually attractive. the stock is full and fresh. We also are offering pure and delicious Valentine Candy and Salted Nuts. TT IHD Eaton, Crane & Pike Stationery. Artistic Engraving. WHET We sell the Best Books including those reviewed in Esther Gould's Book Corner. Make your selection early while The Book Store Alice McAlister Skinner 724 ELM STREET Tel. Winnetka 1101 Prophecy HERE were few who shared the faith of the pioneerswho undertook the development of the telephone. With an infant art to nourish constantly by new discovery and invention, and handicapped by scanty capital and public apathy, they held to their vision of a nation-wide service. Nearly two score years ago, when the telephones of the United States were fewer than those of the State of Illinois to-day, the business was organ- ized essentially like the Bell System of the present. That is: a central advisory staff, a central scientific organization devoted to development and re- search, a central department to promote progress in operating technique, a central source of supply of standardized material, local operating companies fa- miliar with local needs, and a national network of lines inter- connecting these companies. Telephone pioneers planned this organization structure, believing it necessary for eflicient and eco- nomical national service. The nation's experience has proved the clearness of their vision. ILLINO!S BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM Universal Service One Policy - One System - id. 3