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34 WINNETKA TALK May 29, 1926 Putnam C Fountain Square Evanston Phone University 1024 Deliveries twice daily to the North Shore. Phone in your book orders. Wilmette 600. Book Suggestions THE ARCTURUS ADVEN- TURE By William Beebe $6.00 THE DANCE OVER FIRE AND WATER By Elie Faure Harpers MAPE The World of Hlusion By the author of "'Ariel" Andre Maurois Appleton $3.00 $2.50 iA CASUAL COMMENTARY By Rose Macaulay Boni ¥ Liveright $2.00 TWO OR THREE GRACES By Aldous Huxley Doran $2.50 JORGENSEN By Tristram Tupper Lippincott THE NEST By Anne Douglas Sedgwick Houghton Mifflin $2.50 HIS MAJESTY, THE KING By Cosmo Hamilton Doubleday, Page $2.00 Best Sellers of the Week - FICTION THE SILVER STALLION By James Branch Cabell McBride $2.50 SNOWSHOE AL'S BEDTIME $2.00 STORIES Contributors Guild $1.50 CHIMES By Robert Herrick Macmillan $2.00 NON-FICTION THE MAUVE DECADE By Thomas Beer $3.50 OUR TIMES By Mark Sullivan Scribners $5.00 THE DECLINE OF THE WEST By Oswald Spengler Knopf At the Public Library SORREL AND SON By G. W. Deeping $6.00 Knopf $2.50 THREE KINGDOMS By Storm Jameson Knopf $2.50 OUR TIMES By Mark Sullivan Scribners $5.00 SKIN FOR SKIN By Llewelyn Powys Harcourt Brace $2.50 SO YOUR'E GOING TO ENGLAND! By Clara E. Laughlin Houghton Mifflin $3.00 k Section--First Floor pious Joh | DRAMA IN SCIENCE "MICROBE HUNTERS" By Paul De Kruif Harcourt Brace & Co. There are people of whom Paul de Kruif has proved himself to be one, who can make drama out of anything. So given a subject such as the discov- ery of microbes by the great scien- tists of the world, a subject with the possibility of being either dry or dra- matic, and he makes it as breathless as the onslaught and defense against a great army attacking civilization. The first man ever to see a microbe was an old Dutchman, Leeuwenhoek. Imagine his surprise when, peering through his home-made miscroscope, he saw a perfect myriad of little crea- tures swimming about in a drop of clear rainwater. He owned a dry- goods store and was janitor of the Town Hall, and he was the first to see the most insidious enemy of man. This was at a time 'when the Royal | Society of England of which Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton were mem- bers made the serious experiment to test a scientific theory, and recorded, "A circle was made with the powder of vnicorn's horn and a spider set in the middle of it, but it immediately ran out." That was science begin- ning to check up on superstition. This was the beginning of the suc- cession of great scientists who were often more than half players to the gallery and showmen, as Pasteur with his dramatic public experiments and bombastic statements. But their work was done, not in the light of the gap- ing public's eye, but alone in their choked and odorous laboratories, often in the small hours of the night. One of Farnol's Best Novels THE HIGH ADVENTURE By JEFFERY FARNOL A romantic tale of lusty ad- venture by the famous author of "The Broad Highway." $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Publishers, Boston M. de Kruif has translated for us a whole era of the human drama from the cold language of science to the most living of human speech. It may or may not be a compli- ment to present day literature, but it is becoming a fad in England to col- lect well-designed book covers with- out their contents. A London pub- lisher is offering them for sale for a few pence. H. M. Tomlinson whose books of travel have been of a unique charm, is writing his first novel, a story of adventure, to appear in the Fall J. C. Squire, in reviewing Unter- meyer's "Modern American Poetry," expresses the opinion that more in- teresting work in both prose and verse is being done in America today than at any time since the New Eng- land period. RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION "IF TODAY HAVE NO TOMORROW" By Olive Gilbreath E. P. Dutton & Co. Olive Gilbreath has written with power and skill, a book in which that society of Czarist Russia, with its gaiety, its decadence, its brilliance, which is usually only talked about, really lives. . "If Today Have No To- morrow" opens in the year 1917, when the first clouds of Revolution are breaking over that great indifferent country. Michael Acar, son of an old British family, which has for two centuries made its home in Russia, has been i shot at by one of the workers in his factories. The bullet which only grazes his shoulder, makes a deeper impression on his mind. For Michael is the victim of his English sense of . the seriousness and purposefulness of life, in its warring with the Russian, vivid unbalance between brilliance and melancholy. The clouds darken and Michael sends his young sister off to Eng- SO YOU'RE GOING TO ENGLAND! By Clara E. Laughlin A guide, philosopher and friend to all travellers, Clara Laughlin turns her attention to England in a new and charming volume. Cloth $3.00; Leather $4.00. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. | RE a a a tm Here Are t - "Hangman's House," by "Sorrel and Son," by G. favors and tallies. Winnetka 1101 he Best Sellers! Donn Byrne. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," by Anita I.oos. "The Silver Stallion," by James Branch Cabell. "Snowshoe Al's Bedtime Stories." 'W. Deeping. "Chimes," by Robert Herrick. NONFICTION "The Mauve Decade," by Thomas Beer. "Our Times," by Mark Sullivan. i | "The Decline of the West," by Oswald Spengler. i o You can get any of them at The Book Shop, the ONLY book store In Winnetka. Besides we have a full and desirable line of bridge cards, Some very beautiful French prints, also. The Book Shop 724 Elm Street WINNETKA Ef i -- land and stays behind in 'the great lonely house waiting, waiting, while he tries: to forget the disaster he sees ahead, and his brother Phillip who is fighting in Galicia, where he would be if the government had not considered him more valuable running his fac- tories, and Adrienne whom he loves, in England, and from whom he is separated by the impending crisis. Through Michael's eyes we watch it come, the deluge, uprooting everything, just from the sheer unreasoning desire to destroy. And all the time the so- ciety of which Michael is an almost unwilling part, goes on savagely gambling, drinking, listening to a gipsy's song while now and then a bul- let crashes through the window. It is a marvelous picture of the dance on the edge of the precipice which of course in the end claims them all While with the colossal indifference of Nature, the snow sifts down ceaselessly from the Russian sky A. L.A The year 1926 marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of the birth of the Ameri- can Library Association and in many respects the birth of the American li- brary movement. To signalize this year the Associa- tion will hold an anniversary con- ference in Atlantic City and Philadel- .phia during the week of October 4, 1926. Invitations have been sent to practically every country in the world, and many foreign delegates have signi- fied their desire to have a part in this occasion. The day of the birth of the Ameri- can Library Association, October 6, will be celebrated by a special meeting and a reception in Philadelphia. This reception will be held in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania, the same Society which served as host to the American Library Asso- ciation, when it was organized at the Centennial in 1876. That there are still 51 million people in the United States and Canada who do not have access to public libraries, is a fact recently brought to light by an investigation of library extension by the A. I. A. The fact indicates that the past fifty years of library progress still leave much to be done in the way of library development, and {future plans will accordingly be an even more important topic than past accomplish- ment at the A. L. A. jubilee confer- ence. Winnetka Man on Trip to Arrowhead Region Rush C. Butler of Locust road, Indian Hill, and Fred W. Sargent, president of the Chicago and North Western railroad, and a number of other officials of the road, left last Sunday for a week's trip through the Wisconsin lake country to Duluth and the Arrowhead region of Minnesota between the north shore of Lake Superior and the Canadian boundary. Residents of the Arrowhead country have invited the railroad men to see the forests and waters with the pur- pose, it is stated, of developing a large mid-continent summer playground, available to Chicago and the middle west. Mrs. Stanton Wilhite of 460 Win- netka avenue has been spending this week with friends in Columbia, Ohio. In its 24th edition the day after publication PIG IRON Charles G. Norris's new novel--$2.00 E. P. Dutton 8 Co., N. Y.