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ee w WINNETKA TALK August 21, 1926 === ee -- New Books =) to be up to the times it's really neccessary to know the merits of the books listed below. Show Boat Edna Ferber Page $2.00 The Corbin Necklace Henry Kitchell Webster Bobbs-Merrill $2.00 The Man They Hanged Robert W. Chambers Appleton Co. $2.00 Fairy Gold Compton MacKenzie ; $2.00 Doran The Story Of Philosophy © Will Durant Simon & Schuster $5.00 Di:ry and Letters of Josephine Preston Peabody Edited by Christina Hokkinson Baker Houghton Mifflin $5.00 Martka and Mary J. Auker Larsen Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 The Exquisite Perdita E. Barrington Dodd Mead $2.50 Telephone Your Wants University 1024 Wilmette 600 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU ENOW-- That Sir Conan Doyle has writ- ten a novel dealing with spiritual- ism, called "The Land of Mist?" That the real mame of Maurois the author of Ariel is Herzog? (He will publish. his first novel next spring.) That the August "Mercury" has an article entitled '"Chicago--an Obituary" which is a short liter- ary history of that city? That Martha Ostenso wrote "Wild Geese" with no thought of a price and only submitted the manuscript because her friends urged her to do sof That A. A. Milne, author of "When We Were Very Young," will publish a new book of poems next fall? See America First Despite the fact that America has scenic wonders which are unique, the number of travel books of importance which have been written about the western continent in recent years is small compared with the number on foreign travel. "Mesa Canon Pueblo" by Lummis gives an excellent descrip- tion and the historical background of our wonderful southwest section and is illustrated with a hundred rare pho- tographs. Other outstanding books are Stephen Graham's "Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies," "The Out Trail" by Mary Roberts Rhinehart and the travel books reviewed on this page. More than a score of distin- guished visitors to our shores have written an account of their travels here in the United States together with their impressions of us that are very interesting even if they are somewhat superficial. Among that number we might mention Arnold Bennet ("Your United. States"), Gilbert Chesterton ("What I Saw in America") E..V. Lucas ("Roving East and West") and W. L. George ("Hail Columbia"). Tn Today, two new books will be placed on sale at the book stores-- "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber and Peter B. Kyne's book, "The Understanding Heart." Both books have been eager- ly awaited by readers who have en- joyed their previous novels. "Show Boat" will be reviewed next week. M. P. N. Edison Marshall has written anoth- er story of Alaska. It begins with another of those remarkable ship- wrecks in which a child of seven is the sole survivor, and passes on through a smooth course of fights with human and wild animals, an avalanche and a flight in a deserted country. One of Farnol's Best Novels THE HIGH ADVENTURE By JEFFERY FARNOL A romantic tale of lusty adventure by the famous author of "The Broad Highway." $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Publishers, Boston Reviews of New Books "Tag ExqQuisiTe Prrorra"--E. Bar- rington. E. Barrington of the extraordinarily versatile pen, which throws off a book on Buddhism one day, a tale of Japan the next, and a semi-historical novel or biography under a different nom de plume on the next, has found a tting subject in "The Exquisite Perdita." Perdita, of the sentimental age, senti- mental herself in the extreme, gives her slightly sentimental biographer a chance to drip honey on every page. Perdita instead of singing "breathes her soul to the moonlight like the nightingale," and instead of looking up she "unambushes her eyes." Which goes to show that if Perdita was as she is pictured and is now where they read current fiction she is rising up to call her semibiographer blessed. But aside from the honey which at times is cloying, the story is good. It is interesting, it makes the charac- ters, while they are a little too good or bad to be quite real, at least amus- ing, and it paints a vivid picture of the extravagant, shallow life of that day in the late seventeen hundreds. --EstaER GouLp LLL "Ler's Go 10 FrormaA!"--Ralph H. Barbour. A complete book of information told in a chatty manner with bits of humor throughout that makes it very read- able. LULUTTHHTT "ADIRONDACKS"--T. Morris streth. Longstreth describes trips taken through the Adirondacks and calls attention to points of interest in this region of "quiet lakes and haunting vistas that are unutterably satisfying to a man's soul" There is a map indicating routes and resorts that would be a practical guide for tourists. Tn "SKYLINE PROMENADES"--J. Brooks Atkinson. The author calls this book a "pot pourri" in his title and the description is very fitting. You will enjoy his account of excursions taken in the open, especially if vou are of a phil- osophical turn of mind. Tt would be an excellent book to read aloud. mn "Rouen Jusrtice"--Charles E. Monta- gue. A novel of decided merit which wil be appreciated by the reader who loves beautiful prose and a thoucht provoking theme, but we wonder if he would not make a better essayist than a novelist. Long- nnn "Casual, COMMENTARY'--Rose Me- Auley. Her comments are clever and cover a variety of topics, in which she ex- noses the frailities and foibles of man- kind. They are enjoyable if not taken in too large doses. LUT TTT "KELLER'S ANNA Rure"--Elsie Sing- master. Elsie Singmaster, with her usual ability to write a good novel tells the story of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl in which the characters are carefully drawn and true to life. UL T "MARTHA AND MARY"--/. Anker Lar- sen This novel won a prize of $14,000 offered for the best book by a Dane or Norwegian. It is a translation from the Danish. Library News Travel Books of America The Rockies Yester. and Today Cooper Indians of the Enchanted Desert Crane My New York Wright We Explore the Great Lakes Waldron The Book of Chicago Shackleton The Book of Washington Shackleton Maine Beautiful Nutting In Old New York Janvier Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland Carpenter Rocky Mountain National Park Mills New Orleans King The Book of National Parks Yard Yellowstone National Park Chittenden The Wonders of the Dunes Brennan Travels in Alaska Muir bmtnummnn New Books America's Greatest Dam West The Decline of the West Spengler The Revolt of Modern Youth Lindsey Vignettes of the Sea Riesenberg New England and the Republic Adams Arcturus Adventure Beebe How to Draw Cartoons Briggs Melodies and Memories Melba The Mauve Decade Beer Walt Whitman Bailey High Country i Cooper Ranching with Roosevelt Lang Nomad"s Land Rhinehart The Story of Philosophy Durant Mape Maurois The Silver Spoon Galsworthy Beau Sabreur Wren Padlocked Beach Sorrell and Son Deeping Heat Glen Dean and Jecinora Whitechurch The Birth of the Gods Merejkowski A Sporting Chance Cameron Home Talent Hale Child of the North Cullum The Silver Forest Williams O Genteel Lady Forbes The Exquisite Perdita Barrington --WINNETKA PUBLIC LIBRARY - Just Paragraphs Lord Dunsany's book, "The Charwo- man," published April 16, is a fantas- tic novel of the Golden Age of Spain. It will be eagerly welcomed by the many Dunsany followers. TORR Henry Ford has followed up his "My Life and Work" by another vol- ume written in collaboration with Samuel Crowther, "Today and Tomor- row." Duffus in a review of the book remarks, "The Ford Com- pany as he sees it, is no mere busi- ness enterprise. It is a crusade. It is an attempt to reorganize civilization. For those who like quiet ways and things as they are, Henry Ford is more of a threat than Lenin." A Two remarkable things have happen- ed. A Russian has written a book about Russia and a Tibetan one on Tibet. The former is by Maurice Hin- dus, and under the title "Broken Earth" it tells what so many of us have wanted to know, just what head- way Communism is making with the peasant in Russia. The other "A Ti- betan on Tibet" gives that almost un- known thing, a view of that myster- ious country and its customs, through the eyes of one of its own sons, Paul Sherap.