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WINNETKA TALK February 18, 1928 Telephone for Your Books: University 1024 Wil. 3700 Rogers Park 1122 ; Apples and Madonnas Emotional expression in mod- ern art--described as the "first really human book on modern art." Beautifully illustrated. C. J. Bulliet The Great American Band- Wagon A Study of Exaggerations. An accurate and living caricature of contemporary life in the United States. Chosen by the Literary Guild as its February book. Chatles Merz The Old Nick The story of a father--who by being a companion to his three sons--really helped them learn to live their lives! A book for - fathers to learn from. F. W. Bronson Doubleday, Doran 8 Co... .$2.50 My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions An Anthology of Jollification Songs, revived by Frank Shay, and uproariously illustrated by John Held, Jr., and (as he says himself) very nicely, too. Macaulay Whitman's Leaves of Grass An attractive little volume for Whitman lovers who like their Walt in compact, easily-port- able form. Edited by Emory Holloway. Country Life Press ....... $1.25 Better Angels Richard Henry Little's book of hitherto unpublished material about Lincoln. Introduction by Carl Sandburg Milton, Balch 6 Co. ...... $1.00 Rasputin A history of this famous and powerful monk of the Nicholas' reign. Prince Felix Youssoupoff The Dial Press A Son of Mother India Answers An effective answer to Kath- erine Mayo's indictment of India--by a man who is cer- tainly equipped to write it. Dhan Gopal Mukerji Dutton LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Entrance Baker Brownell Volume Listed With Forty Best "The New Universe," by Baker Brownell, professor of contemporary thought in the Medill School of Jour- nalism, Northwestern university, has been selected by the. American Li- brary association as one of the forty notable books of 1926. The library association was request- ed by the institute of intellectual co- operation of the League of Nations to select forty books published in the United States which it considered worthy of inclusion in a world list of notable books. It was stipulated that the works chosen should deal with an important subject in an original man- ner and be capable of being read by a person of average culture. Books were selected under the gen- eral heads of history, social science, religion, philosophy and psychology, biography, natural and applied sci- ence and belles lettres and art. HEAR MISS BAKER Miss Edna Dean Baker, president of the National Kindergarten and Ele- mentary college, recently addressed the Primary Council of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Illinois has 7,500 churches of all faiths. They have actual membership of more than 1,000,000 and adherents numbering more than 4,000,000. EDEN By Mary Sheehan "Mr. Sheehan has produced a story of such poetry, insight and charm that his version seems both more real and more beautiful than any of the others. His is no superfi- cial satire, but a dramatic tale told with a delicate humor and fine irony."--The Independent. $2.00 E. P. Dutton & Co. BOOKS of the MINUTE Disraeli: oan von. 0 $3.00 Andre Maurois Ambition ei. os asa $2.50 Arthur Train Red Rust... ouiviins $2.50 Man of Learning Nelson Antrin Crawford Last Post Ford Madox Ford In the Children's Room Child's History of the World Seine oh TL ae $3.50 Hillyer The Jolly Old Whistle . . $2.00 Herschel Williams Chandler's Fountain Square Evanston Univ. 123 630 Davis St. Esther Gould's Book Corner Just Paragraphs The prospective publishers of Mar- got Asquith's first novel, "Octavia," proudly announce that fifty thousand dollars, and of course royalties, are being paid for the English and Ameri- can rights. It only makes us wonder why Margot has allowed herself to be so hard up all these years instead of doing this long ago. WHAT A WOMAN "THE SEVEN STRINGS OF THE LYRE" By Elizabeth Schermerhorn Houghton Mifflin Co. "What a woman," sighed Balzac, when, in the wee small hours of the night he left George Sand sitting in short black coat, red trousers, gold slippers, meditatively puffing at her long pipe. "What a woman. Her male is hard to find. She is great, generous, chaste, manly qualities all these. But she hasnt a particle of coquetry." And again, thinking of her to himself, "Your idea of love is a sort of Heaven, full of noble senti- ments and spiritual flowers and exalted morality, where two creatures united into one angel, can fly on pure wings of rapture and poetry." This expresses a good deal of George Sand. Eccentric, erratic, sin- cere, idealistic, unsatisfied, she will remain for many years more as she has been in the past one of the really intriguing women of history. Elizabeth Schermerhorn has con- tributed a very valuable and above all readable story of this interesting wo- man, one which gives a particularly MUKERJI"S Challenging reply to Miss Mayo's Mother India which you cannot afford to miss. A SON OF MOTHER INDIA ANSWERS By Dhan Gopal Mukerji $1.50 E. P. Dutton & Co. ME, GANGSTER by Charles Francis Coe Now in its 2nd printing * A SUBTERRANEAN record of the rogues that wreck republics." -- ROBERT H. DAVIS. "CoE writes with great vigor and clear- ness and appears to have a wide and accurate knowledge of his people." -- ° HERBERT ASBURY in the New York Herald- Tribune. "HERE is the honest- to-goodness 'low-down' on the Ye of a gangster written in the gangster's own mixture of plain American speech and colorful underworld lingo. e result is an ex- citing look backstage into gang life in metropolitan cities." -- JOHN DRURY in the Chicago Daily News. E may experience an evening of in- tense thrills when reading this ob- sorbing tule of the underworld." -- Boston Transcript. "Iv these days of racy novels and frothy romances, it is refreshing to meet a "Boston Globe. book like this one." G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS New York London gow en) we) wn) we we mn) en wn wn) mn ww) mem) wm mn) mem) =) 2) SVE) SRV ER) SR RR VR Ve Ve) edd | {gn Qn mm on i on in {sn personal view. The material has been taken from Mme. Sand's own writings, letters, novels and prefaces. As she was one of the most frank and reveal- ing of writers the material has been abundant, it has been the office of the biographer to take it out and place it on a vivid background. THE SOIL AGAIN "RED RUST" By Cornelia James Cannon Little Brown & Co. As the life of America becomes in- creasingly concentrated in cities we turn with an ever keener delight, it seems, to the discovery in fiction of the more simplified kinds of living. We have discovered in the last few years that we have in our country a "New Sweden" which yields as stir- ring accounts of the lives of its settlers as Norway and Sweden themselves. Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth" was compared, and rightly, to "Growth of the Soil," Now Cornelia James Can- non's novel "Red Rust" will bring forth something of the same comparisons. These comparisons will be less just for, while "Red Rust" is a story of that pioneer country of Northern Minnesota, it is not dominated by that same overwhelmingly fatalistic feeling. The country and man's struggle with it, forms the background of the tra- gedy but the tragedy itself is made up of the human elements, elements which might have existed anywhere. It is the story of Matts Swenson, a poet and creator whose creation is a new kind of wheat. Matts lives the life of other farmers in his country but with a difference, the difference which is given to artists, to those whom the world calls queer. He feels the beauty of life, the magic of being able to do something to make it finer, to put his imprint on the face of the world. His tragedy comes not from the failure to do this but from the old one of marry- ing one woman and falling in love with another. Mrs. Cannon has told her story with a fitting simplicity, and an almost homely choice of words, yet guided by poetic feeling. The result is pleasant, restful in this age of virtuosity in literature. N. S. VASSAR CLUB Members of the North Shore Vas- sar club, mothers of present Vassar students and members of the governing board of the National Kindergarten and Elementary College, were guests of the college this Wednesday after- noon for the lecture given by Mrs. Margaret Gray Blanton of Vassar. A tea followed. "The people shown usare human and genial, even in their faults. Rebekka, or 'Bek' Winslow is a crea- * tion of whom any writer might legitimately be proud." $2.50 --New York Times 'A President Is Born The New Novel by Fannie Hurst