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WIENNETKA TALK October 1, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Tel. University 1024 Wil. 3700 The American Caravan A Yearbook of American Literature-- Edited by Van Wyck Brooks, Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mum- ford, Paul Rosenfeld. Macaulay More Contemporary Americans Percy Holmes Boynton University of Chicago Press $2.50 A History of the Ancient World M. Rostovtzeff © Volume II--Rome. Oxford University Press ...$5.00 The Kingdom of Books William Dana Orcutt Little, Brown and Company $5.00 FICTION Now East, Now West Susan Ertz BPPIIOR a 3iv vse svn $2.00 The Mind of a Minx Berta Ruck Dodd, Mead ¥ Company ..S$2.00 The Happy Pilgrimage Corra Harris Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ..$3.00 Bugles in the Night Barry Benefield The Century Company ....$2.00 POETRY Chosen Poems Henry Van Dyke Scribner's Capricious Winds Helen Birch Bartlett Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ..$2.00 Ballads for Sale Amy Lowell Houghton, Mifflin ¥ Co. ..$2.25 LORD'S BOOK SHOP First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door NEW EST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | DID YOU KNOW THAT-- The Forsyte Saga, those excellent || chronicles of the Forsyte family by || John Galsworthy, has another addition in "The End of a Forsyte," the book which Mr. Galsworthy has just com- pleted? "An Unmarried Father" is the title of Floyd Dell's latest effort to recover a waning popularity? A new one-volume edition of the works of William Blake will be pub- lished to commemorate the centenary of his death? "My Heart and My Flesh" is the new title of the latest book by Eliza- beth Madox Roberts, author of "The Time of Man?" D. H. Lawrence who has just pub- lished "Mornings in Mexico" is ex pected to exhibit a number of paintings in New York in the near future, ac- cording to his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf? ATTIRE RRR d Interesting Books Ready For You SOMETHING ABOUT EVE 5 = « z z 1 NN James Branch Cabell ..... $2.50 COUNT LUCKNER, THE SEA DEVIL Lowell Thomas ........... $2.50 CANNIBAL NIGHTS Capt. H. E. Raabe........ $3.00 ANATOL FRANCE, THE PARISIAN Herbert Leslie Stewart ...$3.00 GREAT STORIES OF ALL NATIONS Lieber and Williams The Children Have Discovered Their Book Nook and are invited to bring their friends with them to story hour at four-fifteen every day. Six Fine New Books BOOK OF BRAVERY 1 OMier ais ivi guile nti $3.50 EVERYTHING AND ANY- THING Dorothy Aldis ....o.o..v.n $2.00 BARBERRY GATE Jane Abbot iva vine as $1.75 FOR THE GLORY OF FRANCE Everett McNeil .......... $2.00 WHISPERING ISLES Royal. zSnell. oavi ee. vii $1.00 IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY Edwin Sabin .............. $1.75 Subscriptions Taken for All Magazines NN NNN INNA AN NNSA SSSESASEAAAANANEESESISISENEANESESESESISNANANNNA NN 630 DAVIS STREET Downtown Evanston Phone University 123 > LJ - 0 PY NA SUNN OE NON NNN NSN SN NNN NE, NEN NN NNN A NNN NN NN NSS NNN (3 EN NAR A NAS AN » "Dusty Answer' First Novel of Rare Charm and Distinction "PUSTY ™A NSWER," : Lehmann, published by Co., New York. by Rosamund Henry Holt & There have been so many first novels hailed with rapture from coast to coast as "great" that have proved, upon pe- rusal, mediocre beyond redemption. Because of our resulting antipathy for these phenomenons, we have shunned these younger prodigies until an un- qualified recommendation by a dis- criminating friend led us to "Dusty Answer," by Rosamund Lehmann. In "Dusty Answer" Miss Lehmann has analyzed "post-war" England with a clarity that is both perceptive and understanding. Perhaps "analysis" is too cold a word to describe Miss Leh- mann's writing as every first novel is, to some extent, autobiographical, and if the heroine is a reflection of this young Englishwoman's mentality she is to be commended and admired for her perspicacity. "Dusty Answer" concerns itself with the story of Judith Earle, an only child who expends her emotional life on the young people next door: Char- lie, who is beautiful; Martin, who is stolid; Julian, who composes music; Roddy, who is something of an artist; and Mariella, the virginal. The por- tion of the book devoted to her asso- ciation with these persons as a child, shows a quiet understanding of child psychology and a realization of the stark and terrible aloneness, mental and spiritual, of the child who has neither brother nor sister. The tumult and chaos of adolescence is magnified by her association with these young dissatisfieds who voice and live their doubt as to the ultimate good of the One Increasing Purpose. She lives emotionally--"I might not be able to help feeling hurt . . . . I never could feel wronged"--and she carries this tendency to her friendship with Jennifer Baird in Cambridge. Her emotional suffering through the two people she loves--Jennifer, who is "post-war" with a dark lady named Geraldine Manners, and Roddy, who is "post-war" with a young man named Anthony Baird--does not have the power to disillusion her. It is only after Roddy has casually seduced her and Jennifer has made the ultimate desertion that she finds some measure of peace: "She was rid at last of the weakness, the futile obsession of de- pendence on other people. She had nobody now except herself and that was best." The theme of "Dusty Answer" is concisely given by Mariella in her final letter to Julian, poignant in feel- ing if somewhat misspelled: "The waste, I cant bear it! If only all the people with unwanted love could hand it on to the people whod die for it and there were none of these gastly gaps--" And while this in itself can- not support weighty ponderings, no- body has ever criticized Shakespear for his sonnets. Alfred Noyes describes the book as the kind of a novel Keats might have written if Keats were alive (which is generous) and says that it holds the promise of a future of which English literature may one day be proud (which is conservative). "Bats in the Belfry" is the singularly appropriate title of the collected non- sense poems of L. de Giberne Sieve- king which Bretano's will publish about the middle of October. The hook will be illustrated by John Nash. Pot Shots at Pot Boilers IP "Something About Eve," his latest publication, James Branch Cabell is again following the gleam into far countries of fantasy. The exotic Cabell, vicarious exponent of the seven sins and ribald preacher of naive immoral- ity, does not as artlessly caper in his latest chronicle as he did in "Jurgen," nor is it as well written as his very excellent "Figures of the Earth," but Cabell is never to be dismissed lightly by any who seek the road where Beauty has lately passed, leaving her shadow. He may not have the divine fire of immortality but his light is beyond the purloins of Edison and his dare to madness is unique among con- temporary authors. WE are puzzled by Elmer Davis' ! description, in "Strange Woman," of the opera singer, Dagmar Dahl, when he says she has no rival but Garden (sic) since Farrar's retirement. We suspect the sardonic Mr. Davis and render him our deep appreciation with a secret relief that we are, and always expect to remain, beneath his notice. OTHING grieves us so poignantly, nor irritates us so deeply, nor mystifies us so profoundly, as the in- creasing enlistment of American au- thors in the ranks (exactly) of that most deadly specie, lecturers. The latest list that confronts us contains the names Bromfield, Durant, Browne, Hansen, Farrar, Guiterman, Weaver and McFee. If they must pot-boil we do most earnestly wish that they would find some substitute for our public futility's "You Can Do It Better With Gas!" N headlining the review of "Ballads for Sale" the New York Times broadly remarks, "Amy Lowell's Last Volume of Posthumous Verse." With- out wishing to appear irreverent we would like to know what connection Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had with this unique performance (if any). N an article on "Land of the Pil- grim's Pride," the Nathan's latest entertainment, R. I. Duffus most lucid- ly describes "American Mercury" culture as enabling "the mob to feel itself superior to the mob, and if this is not democracy, what is?" ECAUSE of his renown in and about Chicago, the biography of Bishop Samuel Fallows, "Everybody's Bishop," will undoubtedly be of interest to the north shore. Bishop Fallows' daughter, Alice Katherine Fallows, who is the author of the biography, has made her subject so vivid that his personali- ty fairly leaps out at the reader from every page. The narrative runs along graphically. filled with anecdotes, word pictures of scenes and incidents, and with vivid characterization. Miss Fallows brings a forceful and incisive phraseology to her work that is ex- cellent. E have discovered where the little "magazines that die to make verse free" go after death. All of their ghosts are in "The American Caravan," a volume of miscellany, from unpub- lished works of American authors, that its sponsors assert is a symposium of the worth-while tendencies of Ameri- can literature. The perusal of this classic left us with a silent prayer that the left wing of American exhibition- ists will eventually have something to exhibi B. 4