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36 L WINNETKA TALK NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | April 16, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Just inside the West Davis Street Door The Crucifixion in Our Street George Stewart Doran $1.35 Some United States Irvin S. Cobb Doran $2.50 The Golden Day Lewis Mumford Boni 8 Liveright $2.50 Letters of George Gissing Edited by Algernon and Ellen Gissing Houghton Mifflin Co. $6.00 Revolt in the Desert T. E. Lawrence Doran $3.00 The Mortover Grange Affair J. 8. Fletcher Alfred A. Knopf $2.00 Clad in Purple Mist Catherine Dodd Doran $2.50 The Allinghams May Sinclair Macmillan $2.50 Theodore Roosevelt: Hero to His Valet James E. Amos John Day $2.00 The Interloper E. Phillips Oppenheim Little, Brown and Co. The New Universe Baker Brownell D. Van Nostrand Co. The Medicine Man E. C. Dudley, M. D., Ph. D. J. H. Sears ¥ Co. $3.50 $2.00 $4.00 Eaton, Crane ¥ Pike Stationery or Correspondence Cards, with plain or lined envelopes, in good variety, $1 a box. With each purchase is given a 150-page booklet on the Etiquette of Letter Writing. Lord's Book Shop DID YOU KNOW-- That the "Book of the Month" for May which will be sent to sub- scribers is "The Revolt in the Desert" by T. E. Lawrence? That "Congai" by Harry Her- vey is to be dramatized and pre- sented on the stage next fall? That Zona Gale will deliver next week's lecture of the Contemporary Thought series given Wednesday afternoons at Northwestern univer- sity? That Arnold Bennett's attack on Thackeray in The Evening Stand- ard (London) for his treatment of the sex problem provoked a caustic reply from one of its readers, A. G. Gardner? The subject of Zona Gale's lecture which she will give at Northwestern university Wednesday, April 20, is "The New Literature." These are busy days in the Asquith family. Lord Oxford and Asquith (Herbert Asquith) is writing another volume of memoirs; Lady Oxford (Margot Asquith) has recently com- pleted a novel and her first volume of essays; Princess Bibesco, their daughter, is busily writing plays and a novel; and Cyril Asquith, their son, has written a book on trade union law. Lord Oxford and Asquith's new memoirs will be brought out in this country by Little, Brown & Co. who published his "Fifty Years of British Parliament." --New York Times Suggestions for Easter Reading Quest of the Perfect Book William Dana 0) rcutt ESA RTT $5.00 Man Nobody Knows Bruce Barton ...... $2.50 Book Nobody Knows Bruce Barton ...... This Believing World Lewis Browne ...... $3.50 Greatest Book in the World A. Edward Newton. .$4.00 Dawn, Novel of the Time of Christ Irving Bacheller ....$2.50 FOR CHILDREN Saturday's Children Helen Coale Crew ..$2.00 Everything and Anything Dorothy Aldous ....$2.00 Yesterday and Today, (Verse for Children) Louis Untermeyer.. $2.50 Favorite Bible Stories Retold by A. G. Krottjer er eee Hd a, $1.25 A full line of Bibles, Prayer Books, and Hymnals, etc. Subscriptions Taken for All Magazines Chandler's 630 DAVIS STREET University 123 { goal] Reviews of New Books "THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS"-- Struthers Burt. Struthers Burt in "The Delectable Mountains" has achieved something extremely good. He has even gone beyond the promise he gave in "The, Interpreter's House," in insight, in wisdom and subtlety. Contrary to most good novels the interest is centered more firmly in the wide problems which the book sug- gests than within the strict limits of the characters' own problems. Mer- cedes Garcia and Stephen Londreth are only part of the queer disturbing deluded world of which Struthers Burt particularly in the person of the professor, Vizatelly, is aware. Usual- ly we are shy of "preaching," we run if anyone puts on a wide abstract air, pulls down his waistcoat and clearing his throat, begins. But not so with Vizatelly, for as the Mayor of New York is said to have said to the Queen, he "says a mouthful." Mercedes Garcia, otherwise Mer- cedes Wiggins, is what would be known out of a book as a "Follies" girl. Stephen Londreth is the son of a wealthy, conservative old Philadel- phia family which has never done any- thing worth doing in its long history. Stephen lives in Wyoming on a ranch and is doing a number of worth while things. On a short visit to New York he meets and marries Mercedes Garcia. He does it on impulse, but on an im- pulse which tells him that they can be happy together. They go to Wy- oming and are happy for a short time but blindness .on Stephen's part and a fierce and inarticulate pride on the part of Mercedes drives the latter back to New York. Here she learns a good deal about the shallowness of her old life and the insincerity of the sort of friendship she has been satisfied with before. Stephen, too, begins to be a wiser man, and when Mercedes finds that she is going to have Stephen's child there is a crum- bling of artificial barriers and we MIRRORS of the YEAR Edited by Grant Overton In which such high authorities as Harry Hansen, Mark Sullivan, Clarence Darrow, and the like tell us all what we ought to know or have known about the year just past. It covers many important fields among them those of crime, politics, and sport. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $4.00 The haunting story of lovely, lonely Juanita THE SEA GULL By KATHLEEN NORRIS Doubleday, Page & Co. ~~ $2.00 Just Paragraphs John Langdon-Davies who has re- cently been in Chicago on a lecture tour, rather pricks the lovely bubble of new-fangled education. In a re- view of three educational books in the N. Y. Herald Tribune, he says, "The real trouble about education is that the human parent does mot die di- rectly the child is physically mature Ss The civilized adult not only does not die but it constructs an en- vironment which is poisonous beyond belief for its young; put adults and children together in the same place and one or the other will fade away; hence the discovery and popularity of Education, which is nothing more than a means of protecting the vested in- terests, the adults, against their off- spring." Mr. Langdon-Davies will be popular from now on in educational circles, won't he? James Boyd, author of "Drums" which critics joined in acclaiming aa a great historical novel, will publish on May 2nd a new novel, "Marching On," a story of the Civil War period. Romaine Rolland is already at work on the last volume of "The Enchanted Soul" series, having published within the last month the third--"Mother and Son." "Artistic Ideals" -- Daniel Gregory Mason. Professor Daniel Gregory Mason, head of the department of music at Columbia university, is, in a differ- ent form but with the same intent as Struthers Burt, a voice crying in the wilderness of America for the un- known things--Ileisure, and "enriching day-dreams," and in art, spontaneity, independence, universality, originali- ty, and a striving for quality rather than mass production. Tt is a refreshing set of essays fill- ed with things so true that no one has had time to say them, since Em- erson. Professor Mason quotes at the beginning of his volume that philoso- pher's words, "Real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our lives are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the way- side as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says "Thus hast thou done, but it was better thus." If that could be flashed back at us from our electric signboards instead of "I'd walk a mile for a Camel" how much hope there would be for Ameri- ca! know that they will find happiness after all. We are not so sure of the happy | outcome of the problems of the world Mr. Burt has posed but we are sure that he has done a service to us in posing them. --EsraER GOULD. Publication April 15 The New Medical - Follies By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN A new collection of papers on the exploiters of the public who travel the borderland of medicine by the author of the important "Medical Follies." Among the new subjects are "The Cult of Beauty," "Bread and the Dietary Fads," etc. Boni & Liveright $2.00 a