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I WINNETKA TALK June 4, 1927 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Pulls MRE BI LC ie SE 5 OT BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 B-O-O-K 1 Think 1 Remember Magdalen King-Hall Cleone Knox The Author of "The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion" Appleton $2.00 "Aw Hell" Clarke Venabl. Reilly 8 Lee $2.00 The Beadle Pauline Smith Doran $2.50 The Glorious Adventure Richard Halliburton Bobbs-Merrill $5.00 Nocturne Militaire Elliott White Springs Doran $2.50 TRAVEL BOOKS Venice Pompeo Molmenti Medici Society A Satchel Guide to Europe Rolfe ¥ Crockett Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. $2.50 $5.00 The Complete Pocket Guide to Europe C. 8 T. L. Stedman Robert M. McBride 8 Co. $3.50 Planning a Trip Abroad Edward Hungerford Robert M. McBride 8 Co. $1.75 All About Going Abroad Harry A. Franck Brentano's THE BOOKSHCP has a great many kinds of maga- zines; often kinds you can get nowhere else. And we take sub- scriptions to any magazines at all! STATIONERY -- both imported and fine domestic qualities, in great variety. Lord's--Books, Stationery, Gifts First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door $1.00 DID YOU KNOW--- That a Chicago girl, Viola Para- dise (not a nom de plume), is the author of a new novel, "The Pacer?" That the London Times Literary Supplement is to have a supple- ment in turn on book production? That two surprisingly good first novels published recently are: "Shadows Waiting"' by Eleanor Carroll Chilton, and "The Beadle" by Pauline Smith? That "Revelry'"' by Samuel Hop- kins Adams is to be found in the list of the most popular books com- piled by the American Library as- sociation having come from twelfth to eighth place in the last two months? Pot Shots st | | Pot Boiler | The irrepressible Gilbert Keith Ches- terton has a new book before the pub- lic, "The Outline of Sanity," and I find it of the same gleeful material that al- ways makes him a joy forever. If you are one of the fortunate few who en- joy watching Chesterton refuting his own irrefutable arguments you will enjoy this latest work wherein he waxes eloquent in a repudiation of both capitalism and socialism. The Quixotic Chesterton, when not taken seriously, will always prove a refresh- | ing thought stimulant . .. The apathy of Nona, which is described in "Twi- light Sleep," the latest graph of the very discerning Edith Wharton, must Among the first editions which were owned by Major Whittal and sold re- cently were a number of books by contemporary authors. Among them were "A Shropshire Lad" by A. E. Houseman which brought $320; "The Purple Land that England Lost" by W. H. Hudson, $360; Masefield's "Salt Water Ballads," $250; and Thomas Hardy's "Dynast" was sold for $2,200. New Books Will Interest You Fiction We are introducing for sum- mer and vacation reading a new edition of good and popular fiction titles in fine bindings at the very low price of $1.00 each The Cathedral Hugh Walpole The Professor's Housé Willa Cather The Green Bay Tree Louis Bromfield The Perennial Bachelor Anne Parrish Interpreter's House Struthers Burt Barren Ground Ellen Glasgow The Divine Lady E. Barrington The Mother's Recompense Edith Wharton $1.00 each Miscellaneous Springs of Human Action (A Psychological Study) Mehran K. Thomson. ...$3.00 Marcel Proust Leon Pierre-Quint Tristram Edwin Arlington Robinson $1.50 Magazines 630 DAVIS STREET University 123 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIIXIIIXIIIIS surely be the mirror in which Mre. Wharton sees her own reactions. Even the most vehement of the "Ask Me Another" school of authors must in- evitably sense the futility of their vehemence, if nothing else . . . Willis Ellis complains of the lack of detail and the conventionality of "Washing- ton," a biography of the Coolidge nemesis, by J. D. Sawyer. Mr. Ellis must be very naive if he fails to realize that the two faults he names must, of necessity, be synonomous ... One of the important items in the litany of the average man is that over-cheerful pest who, in the midst of your luxur- ious grumbling, brightly remarks, "Oh, but think of the terrible things that happen to some people." and cheer- fully proceeds to list all the ills from Pandora's box--including Hope. My chief worry is that some day one of them will discover Theodore Dreiser, that supreme horror-monger. Mr. Dreiser's latest book, "Chains," is typically Dreiserian: a tendency to be- come wordy but remaining a powerful delineation of man's futilities and cow- ardices. "Chains" is a series of short novels and long stories with the sole triumphant note in the grinning irony and cynicism of "St. Columba and the River" . .. "The Dark Gentleman" is the Mr. Pimmish character in the very doggy book of the same name by G. B. Stern. In this very amusing tale of the promiscuous life and morals of dogs at large, Mr. Stern achieves a much-to-be-admired canine point of view and "The Dark Gentleman" is recommended to those of you who dragged at least one stray mongrel home in the days when you were very voung ... "We Live But Once," by Rupert Hughes, that perennial of the magazines, is perfectly titled--if you indulge in that type of thinking you may possibly like the book. Aldous Huxley has created the most engaging bores but Mr. Hughes seems to be cursed with the failing of making bores of interesting people--as a voung ladv whom I met recently cen- The Great War Novel "AW HELL By Clarke Venable 'Not Profanity, but Philosophy' ith Preston in The Chicago Daily News highest hazard, of Your Bookseller--$2.00 Reviews "AW HELL"--Clarke Venable, When the War ended and we as well as the men who had been in it began to see it as a colossal "sell" there began to come forth from all sides a literature of disillusionment. Bitterness, mockery, it seemed only by the very excess of these that the hurt pride of those who {felt they had been tricked into being idealistic and illusioned could be satisfied. So the clever among the bitter, those who could wield their bitterness best, let go a fusillade. They looked back on war as seen through the dis- illusionment of peace and pretended to, or did, forget that once they had marched away filled with a high desire to serve and if necessary to die. We forgot, too. But now we are far enough away to remember, and it is well that we should remember, and Clarke Venable in his startlingly named war book, "Aw Hell" helps us to do so. He re- calls the men, and there were hundreds of thousands of them, who answered the war cry valiantly in the spirit of the knights of old, of men called to protect something dearer to them than life itself. It was in this spirit that Jeptha Montgomery Brice left his peaceful Tennessee hills and tramped forty miles to the nearest recruiting sta- tion to "jine up." But because Jep had a heart which did alarming things on the slightest provocation he was refused. This made no difference to a boy of Jep's calibre, he had come to fight and fight he would. There is a long amusing struggle by which he tries to outwit the authorities, finally doing so and being accepted under the name of a man who had actually de- serted from the army. Jep goes to France. There "impres- sions pile upon impressions," and he saw war--its horror, its humor, its heroism, its futility. But he was not embittered, only saddened, as one is as surely, perhaps, by life if one views it with understanding. "Aw Hell" gives an all-round pic- ture of what war was to aspiring, simple hopeful men. It gives it vivid- tv, humanly, holding your interest from the first page to the last. --Esraer GourLn. America is becoming a more popular resort for her own authors. Struthers Burt has a country home at Southern Pines, N. C., near which James Boyd and a number of other literary people live. The Larry Barrettos after a year in Paris have settled near New York. tered her entire conversation on the undeniable handsomeness of George Jean Nathan . .. Keith Preston, as a writer for our revered contemporary, the Chicago Daily News, and as a resident of FEvanston, is necessarily conservative. However, this virtue creaks painfully when he suggests that Michael Arlen name his new Peruvian book "Pen and Inca." Mr. Arlen may, as the consensus of opinion seems to prove, be weary enough to retire to some shady tree for recuperation, in which case he could use the title "Un- derwood," but if he is still Mr. Arlen and acquiesces with the spirit of Mr. Preston's suggestion, he most certain- lv will name the new book "Elsie Smith" . . . Further deponent sayeth not... -» B. B. EN . ot a Ya PE.