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WINNETKA TALK September 3, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON New Books Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather Alfred A. Knopf | The Crooked Stick Pauline Stiles | Elmer Davis Gideon Inez Haynes Irwin Harper ¥ Brothers Rowforest Anthony Pryde Dodd, Mead 8 Co. .......... $2 The Grandmothers Glenway Wescott Harper ¥ Brothers Anabel at Sea Samuel Merwin Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co...... $2 Death of a Young Man W. L. River Simon © Schuster The Thunderer E. Barrington Dodd, Mead 8 Co. ....... $2.50 Now East, Now West Trader Horn Horn and Lewis Simon © Schuster .......... $4 Jesus: A New Biography Shirley Jackson Case University of Chicago Press. ...$3 What CAN a Man Believe Bruce Barton Bobbs Merrill ........... $2.50 . LORD'S BOOK SHOP First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW THAT-- Commander Richard E. Byrd has signed a contract with G. P. Putnam's Sons to write the story of his life and adventures, includ- ing in it not only the stories of his arctic and trans-Atlantic flights, but also something of his plans for the proposed South Pole flight? Victoria Sackville West has been announced as the winner of the Hawthornden poetry prize for 1927 with her long poem, "The Land"? "The Private Notebook of Hans Christian Anderson" has been translated by Carl Lorain Withers and is published in English for the first time in the Forum for Septem- ber? The new Playhouse, opening September 3, hopes to become a headquarters for writers and other literary persons after the manner of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse in New York, by operating as a little cinema playhouse, and is showing "Potemkin" as its opening attrac- tion? Frank Harris is going to write at least one more volume to add to his autobiography, "My Life?" The New York Times of last Sunday has a heated article on "Standardizing the Human Soul," wherein T. R. Ybarra reviews two books by Rene Fulop-Miller, a German critic, who sees Russia exceeding America in uni- formity. We had always suffered under the misapprehension that creation, aided and abetted by the famous clause in the Constitution of these United (?) States, had settled that controversy long ago. New and Entertzining FICTION THE GRANDMOTHERS (new Harper Prize book) Glenway Wescott THE THUNDERER E. Barrington ........ "3250 NOW EAST NOW WEST Susan Ertz. ..L. ivieviers ZELDA MARSH Charles G. Norris THE BACCHANTE Robert Hichens .......... THE SPREADING DAWN Basil King Biography, Travel, etc. DISRAELI D. L. Murry AKHNATON Dimitri Merezhkovsky....$2.50 WHAT CAN A MAN BELIEVE Bruce Bart $2.50 EDNA ST. new uniform leather edition (4 vols.) new Golf Book Bobby Jones cesses venue cesses THIS TO THAT Shelby Little New and fascinating game book by wife of R. H. L. $1.50 Subscriptions taken for all magazines Chandlers 630 Davis Street Downtown Evanston Phone University 123 Dreiser Publishes New Re-edit of "The Financier" "THE FINANCIER." Theodore Dreiser. Once more Theodore Dreiser makes his "drive'--the immense energy dis- played makes no other word so appro- priate--upon the existing world. In "The Financier," which is a revised and perfected version of the book written fifteen years ago, Mr. Dreiser has taken the world of politics and finance in the Philadelphia of fifty years back. Whether Mr. Dreiser purposely took this setting to avoid controversy or not, it was a clever move. Particularly as the situation has repeated itself more than once in the country within the last decade. Frank Cowperwood is a brilliant figure of a man. With his usual skill Dreiser builds him up before our eyes, not asking us to believe any- thing more than we can see--his de- velopment step by step from a clever boy with a flair for business, to the promising young commission merchant and the clever opportunist and finan- cier. The best part of the book is the. spirit of the financial world which the author is able to get across. So ably does he do it that when Cowperwood really oversteps the bounds of straight dealing we cannot help sympathizing with him. Then as in "An Amer- ican Tragedy" we are drawn through the long toils of a trial. Dreiser seems to roll about on his tongue the weari- By some details of the trial, excellent scope for his relentlessly realistic style. Yet except for the effect on Cow- perwood's character of his denounce- ment, the main interest of the story was over at the beginning of the trial. The upbuilding of a fortune, the op- portunities seen and taken and finally the slight shading which separates legal and illegal practice, these are thrown upward with the power of Dreiser's skill as the, steel framework of a skyscraper is thrown into the sky. It is a big book, "The Financier," perhaps in the forefront of those which have pictured the business world. . --EsraEr GouLp. New Books for Autumn A long and interesting list of books is offered by the publishers for the fall. H. G. Wells is to have a new novel of modern life, "Meanwhile"; Willa Cather's long looked for novel of the days of Kit Carson, "Death Comes to the Archbishop"; William J. Locke has a novel of England, "The Kingdom of Theophilus"; Jo- sephine Dascom Bacon has the first novel of full-length that she has pub- lished in ten years, "Counterpoint"; Hugh Walpole is returning to one of his most successful characters in "Jeremy at Crale"; Floyd Dell will make another snatch at waning pop- ularity in "An Unmarried Father"; Elizabeth Madox Roberts, who set the critics by their ears last fall, has her second novel "Green Pastures"; Nathalie Sedgewick Colby, one of the discoveries of the Spring will make a reappearance in "Black Stream." Illinois ranks third in the manufac- ture of house furnishings, not classified under special headings. Forty-nine plants employ more than 1,300 persons. Salaries and wages total about $1,750,- 000; value of products, $8,725,000 year- ly. New York and Massachusetts lead. Pot Shots at Pot Boilers E have always enjoyed Stendhal's WwW analytical enlarging of romantic themes, but we suspect him of being either over-optimistic or sardonic in beginning his essay, "On Love," which has just been translated into English, when he says, "I am trying to ac- count for that passion all of whose developments are inherently beautiful." Which reminds us emphatically of what the old lady said when she kissed the cow. a UST as "A Good Woman" is pri- J marily a story of effects, so 1s "The Grandmothers," by Glenway Wescott, a narration of causes. Mr. Wescott has written a story of the childhood of Wisconsin and incorpor- ated in it a history of America that is superior to anything of its type that we have ever read. He has the in- sight that Lewis lacks and if you have despaired over the Lewis mouthings, you will find "The Grandmothers" a satisfying purge for your emotions. The book is beautifully written and throughout the volume there are cas- ual sentences that reach the profound depths of philosophy. The one we do not ever expect to forget is, "Some believed that they would become so happy that they would dare to remem- ber their grief." HE friends of that most suave and T ingratiating individual, "Wild- cat," will be interested in his latest pursuit of Lady Luck as chronicled in "Fo' Meals a Day," by High Wiley. Wildcat's chaotic scramblings have been a deservedly popular item of cur- rent short fiction for some time and, whether one is an admirer of stories of the negro or not, there is some- thing vastly appealing about this naive personality and his amazing companions. NOTHER of those "only-a-year- to-live" books has appeared in the guise of "Death of a Young Man," by W. L. River, and proves its claim to uniqueness by actually killing off the main character. The author, through his hero, views the world with complete objectivity and we agree with him in his belief that such reasoning leads to madness, and so to suicide. Mr. River has avoided the sentimental with a vengeance, and the result is an interesting idea written out of too analytical an intelligence. The book is a metaphorical dog chas- ing his metaphorical tail. NUMBER of "eminent authors," those most vehement people, have united in protest against Bos- ton's recent action in banning Jim Tul- ley's "Circus Parade." In a formal statement they prophesy that "if Bos- ton's policy of censorship is allowed, and other communities follow its ex- ample, serious writing about American life is doomed." Bless their corru- gated brows, we think they really haven't any cause to worry. (And the gorgeous part of it is the fact that Fannie Hurst and Rupert Hughes are among the outstanding individuals of those present.) BB.