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WINNETKA TALK October 23, 1926 What's New-- and Good-- to Read? Six new books, any one of which might easily become a best seller! Take for example this rich-toned novel of the Illinois of a hundred ears ago-- : he Chariot of Fire By Bernard de Voto Macmillan. ...... <a « was $2.50 This is the story of a riverman who was the village drunkard until his conversion--after which he was hailed as a prophet of a new faith, a seer of visions, and one who receives revelations. Mr. de Voto's pictures are un- sparing in realism, showing the rise of the new religion with its hysteria, its exaltation and its final tragedy. Angel By DuBose Heyward "ese uan deve ...82.00 Another story, like Porgy, posed against a North Carolina moun- tain background: a vivid, intense and vigorous blending of action and atmosphere. Lord Raingo By Arnold Bennett _A richly documented portrait of a human, erring, wise, foolish Englishman--says the cover of Lord Raingo--and compares it + favorably with Bennett's master- piece, "The Old Wives Tale." A Musician and His Wife By Mrs. Reginald de Koven Harper 8 Brothers ....... $5.00 In these fascinating memoirs are revealed some of the best and most interesting aspects of the life of cultured Americans in the eighteen seventies, eigh- ties and nineties. Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin By Anthony M. Ludovici J. B. Lippincott 8 Com- pany A portrait of the great sculptor at the most interesting period of his career--and a searching' criti- cism of his work and aims. Do You Know Our Charming Stationery Department? Beautifully displayed here are wide varieties of the kind of sta- tionery well-bred people like to use--with envelopes of inter- esting shapes--papers of unusual and pleasant texture--distinctive envelope linings--when the en- velopes are not plain--and above all, standard qualities. NOW-- not tomorrow--nor next week-- But NOW--have your Christmas cards engraved here--at Lord's. First Floor--Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | DID YOU KNOW-- That "Showboat" by Edna Fer- ber was selected by the Book-of- the Month club as its September book? That a new collection of Bernard Shaw's plays was published Oc- tober 20--""Translations and Tom- fooleries?" That the fifth annual award of the John Newbery medal went to Arthur Crisman for his book of Chinese stories, "Shen of the Sea?" That John Masefield is scheduled te arrive this week in New York where he will give six readings of his poems and plays during the fall term at The New School for So- cial Research? Perhaps those of us who knew Jo- seph Conrad only through his works will be happier in keeping at this dis- tance. In the little volume by his wife entitled "Joseph Conrad as I knew Him," it is a very different Conrad revealed. A Conrad irrascible though lovable, difficult as he was brilliant, one who may not help us to preserve the picture of the Conrad we knew. It Happened in Peking By Louise Jordan Miln A delightful romance of China dur- ing the Boxer Rebellion, by the author of "Mr. Wu." N.Y. BELLARION | Rafael Sabatini "The 'Modern Dumas' outdoes his master. A whale of a good story. Among the best, if not the best, of all the stories that _ Sabatini has ever writ- 0% © ten."--Chicago Post. "A perfect Sabatini."-- Boston Transcript. Houghton, Mifflin Co. | YOU'LL GET THE BEST! Choose your holiday cards now and you'll get the best! Our assort- ment is complete. Come in now and get just the cards you want. Have vou read the following best sellers? Durant's Story of Philosophy-- Browne's This Believing World. . "Elizabeth's" Introduetion to Sally --Dorothy Canfield's Her Son's Wife--Gibbs® Labels, We have some choice French prints; also a supply very attrac- tive bridge tallies and score cards. The Bool Shop Winn. 1101 724 Elm St. WINNETKA A Business Man Should Read 1. Several newspapers; thus he stu- dies history while it is being made. 2. Several newspapers; thus he learns how business is going. 3. Several newspapers; thus he learns his own town. 4. The Saturday Evening Post; thus he gets good stories, novels and a view of business, law, politics and govern- ment different from that which most of the newspapers give him. 5. The Literary Digest; thus he gets both sides of the day's questions, and explores the world. 6. The best novels as they appear; (the best are the ones he most enjoys). 7. A good, small book on something he is interested in, by a Man who Knows. Articles in the world's great magazines can take the place of small books. 8. The best journals of his own call- ing. 9. Everything else. --The Bookman Rent the Newest Books FICTION AND NON-FICTION from The Book Nook 809 Oak St. George Washington THE IMAGE AND THE MAN By W. E. Woodward This is one of the important bi- ographies of the season. Do not fail to read it for from its pages emerges at last the real, the human George Washington. Boni & Liveright i ,,S oo. $4.00 | Where There Are Children Dare There Be Divorce? Custody Children By Everett Young Not the ordinary "brilliant society novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring su- premely what happens to Clodi Dil- lon. j Henry Holt & Co. ie" THE GOLDEN BEAST By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM $2.50 "It is one of the wery best of his long stories.""--The Boston Transcript. $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO Publishers, Boston Reviews of New Books "Cusropy CHILDREN"--Euverett Young. "Custody Children" is a very brilliant novel. We choose the word brilliant perhaps partly because the book deals with glittering things, wealth, society, pomp, display. But Mr. Everett Young, it's author, makes it very clear to us that these things have only outward glitter, that within they are a dark hollow sham. Like the kind of maca- roon--we believe it is--alluring on the outside which when you bite into it falls into a few miserable crumbling flakes of beaten egg. For seldom has an author painted society as darkly as Mr. Young does, yet he does it entirely convincingly. But we can comfort ourselves that he has taken only one layer of society, the "ultra-smart" set, the "perpetual motion addicts" as he aptly character- izes them. As the title indicates "Cus- tody Children" is a novel of divorce, though it is one of those novels which starts out to be a book with a theme and surprises itself by ending up a work of art. It reminds me, and such a compari- son means much to me, of Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth." In both there is the character of the woman who grips your emotions yet whom you must see trodden on, defeated, by a world which she can neither re- nounce or subdue. BUI nm "Trg UNEARTHLY'--Robert Hichens. In "The Unearthly" Robert Hichens has attempted a very difficult thing. He has taken as his subject, the most subtle one possible, the incredible mental or spiritual power of a man. A power such as that belonging to Peter Kharkoff cannot in literature any more than it could in life be de- scribed. It would have to be felt. So Mr. Hichens does the most plausible thing, tries to describe it through its effects on other people. But it is dif- ficult to do this without making the people appear to us ridiculous as peo- ple would be obeying an unseen sig- nal, dancing to an unheard tune. Mr. Hichens hasn't quite distilled the essence of his subject and conveyed it to us. It is lost somewhere in his bewildering and pleasing fertility of speech. "The Unearthly" is a book which will appeal most to those who mind. --Esraer Gourp LUTTE "Wrre Eastern Eves"--Ernest Poole. A Russian scientist who has been through the tragedy of the revolution, comes to a prosperous New England home to assist an American astrono- mer in his researches. He sees Ameri- can family life with Eastern eyes, and Mr. Poole gives us both the Russian's impressions of the emotional crises in the Dana household, and the real in- wardness of events. It is the astrono- mer's wife from whose special view- point the story is told, and it is her attitude of loyalty and reticence in a difficult martial situation that most amazes the Russian observer. 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