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WINNETKA TALK October 2, 1926 I" NEW BOOKS The Book Without a Name (Anonymous) Brentano's $2.50 This is an eighteenth century journal of an unmarried English lady addressed to her natural son. The writer of this diary has the intellectual passion for freedom of Shelley, the spiritual affiliation with nature of Hudson and the command of a poetic prose that might well have been their joint gift to this kindred soul. Shot Towers John T.. McIntyre Stokes $2.50 This is a novel packed with good humor, good living, and cheerful circumstance. ASe-- Singing Winds Konrad Bercovici Doubleday Page § Co. $2.00 This book contains stories of gypsy life. The writer is him- self a Roumanian gypsy, and he writes with the richest of racial backgrounds. The Casuarina Tree W. Somerset Maugham Doran $2.00 As in "Rain" and other stories, in "The Trembling of a Leaf," Mrs. Maugham chooses an exotic background for painting memor- able portraits of men and women in the grip of overpowering emo- tions. Demosthenes Georges Clemenceau Houghton Mifflin Co. $2.50 OQutwardly a tense, vivid and ab- sorbingly interesting portrait of the great Athenian orator who strove to arouse his countrymen to the danger of foreign invasion. Inwardly --who knows ? --the spiritual autobiography ef the "Tiger" himself. A This Believing World Lewis Browne . Macmillan $3.50 A simple account of the great religions of mankind. Debts and Credits Rudyard Kipli Doubleday Page ¥ Co. $2.00 There are fourteen stories and eighteen poems in this new book by Kipling and all of them will rejoice the hearts of his followers. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That Edmund Dulac has de- signed the complete format of Helen Beauclerk's new novel, "The Green Lacquer Pavilion," and the book is said to be a rare treat for book lovers? That John Drinkwater is writ- ing a book on Charles the second? That Joseph Warren Beach, pro- fessor at the University of "Min- nesota, who is the author of "Meek Americans," has written another book which was released this month by the publishers-- "Outlook for American Prose?" That the Queen of Roumania has a long list of fairy tales to her credit? The September Bookman has pub- lished the preface to H. G. Wells' new book, "The World of William Clissold," in which he protests against the idea that his characters are projec- tions of himself. Hunn Waldo Frank's recent book, "Virgin Spain," has been very favorably re- viewed by South American newspapers and will be translated into Spanish im- mediately, a Madrid publishing house undertaking its publication. iod in the history of the rican continent richest incident and filled with the picturesque thrilling life of the pioneer. » .~ ® YOU WILL HEARTILY ENJOY James Oliver CURWOOD"'S FIRST HISTORICAL NOVEL 5: BLACK HUNTER Lustrated by Arthur E. Becher Price -- $2.00 {Wherever Books Are Sold) Reviews of New Books "ON THE STREAM OF TRAVEL"--James Norman Hall. James Norman Hall is one of those writers whose gift seems to lie in be- ing a peculiarly sensitive barometer to things about him, in recording the most delicate pressure of the atmos- phere which would not have been per- ceptible to us even had we been there. So his books of travel become not a poor and tasteless substitute for hav- ing done the thing ourselves, but a series of delightful adventures which we could enjoy in no other way. Mr. Hall is one of those fortunate men who may be sitting in Iceland in the morning, and if his fancy dictates be on his way to a tropic island by afternoon. We who have roots which must be dug up aad hacked off before we can so much as move a hundred miles from our place of residence, sit listening with a wondering and wor- shipful envy in our eyes. In his style touched with the most delicate humor he gives us the very essence of that universal thirst for ad- venture of which a railroad with its shining narrowing rails, or a freight train creaking and lumbering steadi- ly along is the veritable epitome. --EsraER Gourp. "Her Son's Wire"--Dorothy Canfield. How a seemingly ordinary woman reacts to the troubles which are heaped upon her and develops an un- usually, forceful personality thereby, is the theme of "Her Son's Wife." Her only son blasts his mother's hopes, which had all been centered upon him, by bringing home a wife who is com- mon, uncultured and utterly unfitted for the duties of wifehood and mother- hood. The problems which present themselves seem incapable of solution until, by means of a clever ruse, the mother makes it possible for her grand- daughter to grow up in a normal en- vironment, she is able to help her son attain a certain measure of success and at the close of the book gains a new understanding of her daughter-in- law. The excellent plot and splendid characterization overbalance the defi- ciencies in her technique of writing, making it a book well worth reading. THEE "West Winp""--Crosbie Garstin. The third and last book of a trilogy of novels of romance in which a dar- ing Cornish adventurer figures in fights, captures and imprisonment. It dates back to the time of Charles the fourth. 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 One of Farnol's Just Paragraphs -- Archibald Marshall, who delights the few rather than the many, has a novel ready for October, it is entitled "The Allbrights" and is written in the vein of the earlier stories. mm The principal thing that may be said of the fall publishing season is that "every author has a book." You may take your pick from the results. LLU The scene of Hugh Walpole's novel "Harmer John," which will be pub- lished in October, is laid in the city of Polchester, the scene of "The Cathe- dral." Out This Week (Extracts from publishers' ng "Here We Are Again" --Robert E. Sherwood Recollections of an old circus clown. Hig "Paris"--Sidney Dark Will appeal to both the man who loves Paris and the man who is long- ing to go. Henry Rushbury illus- trations. comments.) LUG} "An Old Man's Folly""--Floyd Dell Floyd Dell has caught in this novel the humor and the rare charm of a flesh and blood idealist. NUTTIN "Step-child of the Moon" --Fulton Oursler The story of a dreamer and what happens to him when he decides to confront reality. LUTTE "The Casuarina Tree" --W. Somerset Maugham LULU) "Debits and Credits" --Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling's first new book of fiction in a decade. nr "Forgotten Shrines of Spain" --M. S. Byne By an authority of Spanish art and history. nny "An Autobiography of Abraham Linc- oln"--Nat W. Stephenson Here is the real Lincoln. Published Recently (Extracts from publishers' LT "The World of William Clissold" --H. G. Wells H. G. Wells has written his master- piece. He creates in one rich char- acter portrait the twentieth century modern and his world--entire. NT "Summer Storm"--Frank Swinnerton ng "The Sun in Splendor" --Thomas Burke NTH | "Angel"--Du Bose Heyward LAL "Kyra Kyralina"--Panait Israte. The first appearance in English of a writer who has been heralded as being one of the most significant authors of our day. UH "Towa Interiors"--Ruth Suckow. These short stories with which she made her reputation have never been published before. . WEST WIND By Crosbie Garstin A stirring tale of love and adventure. De STOKES tu $2.00 comments.) BES