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WINNETKA TALK May 28, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 B-O-O-K Twilight Steep Edith Wharton Appleton Christ of the Indian Road E. Stanley Jones $2.50 The Abingdon Press $1.00 The Beadle Pauline Smith Doran $2.50 We Live But Once Rupert Hughes Harper and Brothers $2.00 The Story of a Wonder Man Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner Scribner's $1.75 First Crossing of the Polar Sea Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth Doran $5.00 The Glorious Adventure Richard Halliburton Bobbs Merrill $5.00 Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play Brander Matthews Scribner's $2.00 The Drums of Aulone Robert W. Chambers D. Appleton % Co. $2.00 The Tavern Knight Raphael Sabatini Houghton, Mifflin and Co. $2.50 ENGRAVING done with exquisite care. Special attention is now being given to Wedding and Commencement an- nouncements and invitations. Here are many new samples of engrav- ing and stock from which you may choose--with assurance of style correctness, service and ease. Lord's Stationery and Book Shop First Floor Just inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REV WS | DID YOU KNOW-- That A. Hamilton Gibbs and Mrs. Gibbs who spent the winter in Paris are expected to reach New York this month? That each of the two volume books, "The Peasants' by Reymont and 'The Growth of the Soil" by Hamsun, will be issued in one volume next month by Alfred A. Knopf? That T. E. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert" is the only English book to have its first translation in the Arabic language? That an effort has been made by Vicente Ibanez in his latest book, "At the Feet of Venus," to clear the name of Lucrezia Borgia of the stigma which has been attached to it? Just Paragraphs A life of Elenora Duse by the Brit- ish critic and dramatist, Arthur Sy- mons is something to look forward to among the late spring publications. Besides material on the career of the great actress, there will be episodes concerning D'Annunzio, Bernhardt and others. Another author to return from for- eign shores is Scott Fitzgerald who with his family arrived here recently from France. He is occupying an old mansion on the Delaware river where he will complete his new novel to be published next fall. AAR LA TIX IX XXX XIXXXXIXIXXIIALY, New Books That Will Interest You Fiction Tavern Night . R. Sabatini Noctaire Militairi Elliott White Spring ..... $2.50 The Early Worm Robert Bendly .......... $2.00 Bella Jean Giradoux ........... $2.50 Love Is Enough (2 vol.) Francis Brett Young ..... $5.00 Tomek the Sculptor Adelaide Eden Phillpotts Cannibal Nights Captain Raabe +....ci vn $3.00 Glorious Adventure Richard Halliburton .... Washington (2 vol.) John Dillaway Sawyer. ..$20.00 Kingdom of Happiness Jeddu Krishnamurti White Rooster (Poetry) George O'Neil My Word Arthur E. Morgan (President of Antioch College) Subscriptions Taken for All Magazines IIE EI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIIIZIIIIIIIIIIIZIIZI ZA A A A A A A A A A I I I I II III IIrIrIrIm III III IIIII II III IIx II II III III III III III II II IIIS 630 DAVIS STREET | Reviews of | 'New Books| "YOUNG MEN IN Arlen. LOVE"--Michael It is a slightly jaded and perhaps we might even say faded Mr. Arlen who makes his famous society bow in this latest gold-wrapped, maple ice- cream papered book, "Young Men in Love." Perhaps Mr. Arlen is tired out trying to spend the income derived from his other gold- (not solid) wrap- ped volumes which the public has de- voured so avariciously, or the box office receipts from his charming, well advertised, shocking play "The Green Hat." Whatever may be the cause, Mr. Arlen is tired. That much is cer- tain. And a tired author makes a tired reader. That too is certain. There are passages in which Mr. Arlen returns to his old vigorous, witty style but there are others--and more of them--when the machinery seems to creak a little. For example, "They did not kill conversation by expecting the truth from each other, nor did they kill the truth by expect- ing conversation from each other." One might add that they probably did kill each other by expecting anything at all from each other. Or, "Dreams of power were sweet to him. And what power was there to be gotten in South Africa but the power to leave it!" "CHAINS"--Theodore Dreiser. Perhaps with the name of Theodore Dreiser more than with any other in | American letters is connected the word "realism." Slowly, logically, merci- lessly, Mr. Dreiser weaves together the threads which make a pattern of life in which nothing is left out, no- thing is for the sake of sentimentality, exaggerated or depreciated for the same reason. In other words he is constantly and supremely the realist. In this collection of short stories called "Chains," he has shown under many titles and in many methods this unfailing realism. The first story of the volume, "Sanctuary," in its meagre straightforwardness of plot, is in the manner of "An American Tragedy." Madeleine, a child who "might have been conceded to be a flower of sorts," a simple, charming child, is the child of parents unbelievable to most of us outside of the lawcourts or lurid stories in the newspapers, people who live in the darkest drabness afforded by the tenements of our enlightened age. "Always about her there had been drunkenness, fighting, complain- ing, sickness or death; the police com- ing in and arresting one and anoth- er ..." and in this atmosphere Made- leine grew up. Or grew to an age at which she could go out and shift for herself. At that age 'she ventured into the world and it showed her what it The Man Behind the Mask By Grace MacGowan Cooke "The reader will be kept on edge until the last page."--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. $2.00. F. A. Stokes Company, New York Winnetka Library If you would rather tell about the season's most popular book than to be told about it, borrow at once from your public library a copy of T. E. Law- rence's "Revolt in the Desert." It is an account of a great adventure that had as its stakes not only the lives of thousands but great kingdoms of the East as well, and though it is a true narrative, it reads like a modern Arabian Nights tale. Another book, recently added to the public library, which you will want to read and recommend to your friends is Emil Ludwig's "The Last of the Kaisers." This narrative follows the life of Mr. Hohenzollen, late of Doorn, from birth to exile, and illumines his motives and actions as they have never been done before. Those who played golf or attended a football game with Dean Inge dur- ing his visit to Chicago, will be par- ticularly interested in his volume of es- says "Lay Thoughts of a Dean." As a preacher, golfer, lecturer, and essayist, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral has won a host of admirers in America, and this, his latest book, is being much dis- cussed. Tt is sprightly and informative and his arguments are always provoca- tive. We are so fortunate in Winnetka as to have artists of distinction and art- ists-in-the-making and those ho, while not artists themselves, are deeply in- terested in matters pertaining to art. For all these, there have been placed on the public library shelves Elsie Faure's four handsome volumes on "The History of Art"--one of the most interesting and readable histories on the subject that has ever appeared. In lighter vein, perhaps, is Alice Carrick's "Collector's Luck in Eng- land." This volume is written by a keen and experienced collector who has artistic discernment and can give useful hints for the guidance of others who share her enthusiasms. Fiction readers, who regard the novel as something more than a mere vehicle for amusement, will want to read "The Modern Novel" by Elizabeth Drew-- a frank exposition of what the various authors of fiction are seeking to achieve, how life and novels inter- act, and where mental stimulation may be found. Other books recently added to the public library are as follows: Ansundseslirst Crossing of the Polar ea. Fallows--Everybody"s Bishop, Samuel Fallows. Hume--Wives of Henry the Eighth. Bekker--The Story of Music. Overton--Mirrors of the Year. Eberlein -- The Practical Book of American Antiques. Lawrence--Revolt in the Desert. Cendrars--Sutter's Gold. Mirsky--Contemporary Russian Liter-- ature. Mukerji--The Face of Silence. Davis--FEurope Since Waterloo. Jensen--An American Saga. Ayres--Science of the False Messiah. Sadler--How You Can Keep Happy. Keyserling--The World in the Making. could do on another form of cruelty. Finally Madeleine, unbearably driven, finds sanctuary in the reformatory in which she had once been confined. In the next story the realism is just as apparent, just as terrifying though not as poignant and the plot is a more or less supernatural one. The title story of the book shows the insidious chains by which a sensuous middle aged man is bound to the tight grasp- ing lady who calls herself his wife. --Esraer Gourp.