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i Fook Ww J "3 October 31, 1925 WINNETKA TALK 31 A STORY OF POWER "WILD GEESE" By Martha Ostenso Dodd Mead & Co. "Wild Geese" is a story of power. The power of Nature over men, the power of one's act over one's self, the power of one human being over others. Up in the stern relentless country of the Northwest there is little that softens or beautifies human nature. The struggle for existence is so cruel that men become numb to all other things than the unrelenting demands of the soil. Sowing, tending, praying that no terrible wind or frost will de- stroy the crop, reaping the meagre fruits in the fall, keeping alive during the winter by the sternest economy to start the hopeless cycle again in the spring. Caleb Gare, a son of this country, has absorbed its cruel and relentless power without any of the beauties which Nature even at its most ter- rifying has. Years ago, his wife, Amelia, had loved a man who died by being gored by a bull Several month later Amelia gave birth to his son. Calab Gare, who had loved Amelia and longed to win her, is ter- ribly embittered and decides to vent his passion for her in power. Marry- ing her he becomes a perfect demon of cruelty, refining his torment to the most subtle means. Amelia endures everything rather than have her son, Mark Jordan, who has been adopted by a mission, know the shadow across his parentage. It is Amelia's and Caleb's children who are the sacrifice. Martin, the oldest, who has never known any boy- hood, an old man with stooped should- ers and a broken spirit at twenty; Judith a girl as beautiful and unbrok- en as a youg colt, in whom the only spark of rebellion glows; Ellen who is growing blind from lack of the right glasses and who in a sniveling sort of way, enjoys her martyrdom, Charlie the youngest, an imp whom Caleb plays off against the others. For Judith, the trumpeting of the wild geese, the sound that seems "to hollow out the heavens," gives the challenge for freedom. And through her freedom is found. The book is written on a sustained SINCLAIR LEWIS ARROWSMITH "One of the best novels ever written in America." --H. L. Mencken. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York note of tragedy, as poignant as in a symphony can be the reiterated note of a violin. There is something epic in the relentless onward sweeping of the life, although the time covered by the story is only a few months. The feeling for Nature has the deep and primitive quality which marks the best of the Norwegians from whose race Martha Ostenso is sprung. "High above the soughing of the wind under the great eaves of the stone house, she heard the trailing clangor of the wild geese. Their cry smote upon the heart like the loneliness of the universe .. a mag- nificent seeking through solitude--an endless quest." THRILLS AND THRILLS "THE BLACK MAGICIAN" By R. T. M. Scott E. P. Dutton & Co. It takes no secret service work to announce that "The Black Magician" is a good mystery story. The creator of "Secret Service Smith" knows pretty well how to construct them. The story starts with the fact that several of the employes of Mr. Gray- son's large department store seem to have become mentally unbalanced, his secretary, at the sight of a five point- ed star with a red spot in the middle going literally insane. Coupled with this is the fact that Mrs. Grayson has lately been paying out large sums of money for which there is no ordi- nary explanation. This is what Mr. Smith has to start on. His first real clue is the dropping on his front steps of one of these stars, but with poisoned prongs on the back, so that the person who picks it up will die instantaneously. From that point on we are whirled through many scenes in each of which startling disclosures are made and Mr. Smith who makes the story more in- teresting by taking us into his con- fidence as we go along, faces horrible k Just Published b. 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The loss is on our side--of a certain amount of sleep. Kenilworth Folk Attend Homecoming at Illinois A number of Kenilworth folk journeyed to Champaign last Satur- day to see the Michigan-Illinois game. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Shattuck motored there Friday, returning Sunday. Mrs. James H. Prentiss, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ridgway, Miss Frances Weimer of Charleston, W. Va, who came to Kenilworth Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. James H. Prentiss of 201 Cumber- land avenue, and James Prentiss, Jr. left Saturday morning to attend the game. Alfred McDougal, Allan Bul- ley, John Keith, Douglas Flood, and Richmond Kanyon also went. y t+ THE BLACK MAGICIAN By R. T. M. SCOTT More thrilling adventures of "Se- cret Service Smith." A story with plenty of pep interspersed with Oriental Black Magic. E. P. Dutton & Co. New York | J THE RIM OF THE PRAIRIE By Bess Streeter Aldrich Author of "Mother Mason" There is still a place where life is wholesome, where romance is fragrant. 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