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WINNETKA TALK April 14, 1928 FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122-3 Telephone for your BOOKS "The Shores of Romance George Gibbs Old New Orleans as it was dur- ing the War of 1812 is the scene of this brilliant romance. Appleton The Day After Tomorrow Philip Gibbs In which Mr. Gibbs takes up the question of what is going to happen to the world. Doubleday, Doran # Co... $2.50 Move Over E. Pettit Described on the cover as 'a novel of our better classes." d.. H. Sears 8 Co...'v. vv $2.50 They Could Not Sleep Struthers Burt A collection of short stories, widely varied in theme, from satire to mysticism. Scribner's... vs Luin $2.00 Daughters of Folly Cosmo Hamilton Putnam' «os cicitle's oo coo vie $2.00 Beauty and the Beast ; Kathleen Nozris Doubleday, Doran % Co... .$2.00 Reeds and Mud Vicente Blasco Ibanez This book, written early in Mr. Ibanez's career, is still one of his most popular novels in Spain 'and Spanish-speaking countries. 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The vow was kept and its result recorded in a book called "In Search of England." BEAUTY IN A NOVEL "STRANGERS AND LOVERS" By Edwin Granberry The Macaulay Co. In "Strangers and Lovers" Edwin Granberry has written an almost per- fect book. A book which makes you reach for adjectives advisedly, some of those adjectives which you keep on an upper shelf of your mind for spe- cial occasions and when you draw them out proudly, suddenly strike you as very inadequate. It is a book which, as a reviewer before me has said and which it is inevitable that one say again, must be compared with "The Time of Man," and it does not lose at all in the comparison. It is a book-- entirely belied by its sensational cover Clear up bloodshot eyes quickly and safely When eyes become blood shot from wind, dust, over-use, crying or lack of sleep, apply a few drops of harmless Murine. Soon they will be clear again and will feel refreshed and vigorous. Many persons use Murine each night and morning to keep theit eyes always clear and bright. A month's supply of this long- trusted lotion costs but 6oc. URINE; FoR Your EYES ; good enough to be better. and blurbs--of overpowering sincerity and simplicity. It is written beauti- fully from first to last, with a restraint which seems to come most naturally in dealing with stupendous, simple things. For the life of Millie Carver is filled with stupendous things -- loneliness, courage, fear, love, tragedy--all thrown into intense relief by the simplicity of their background. Like Ellen in "The Time of Man" Millie is the child of poor white trash in the south, living the life more of a wild animal than a child. But she is happy with the same unreasoning joy that makes the birds sing in the morning, and her life is filled with the beauty shed about her by her own spirit. She and Alec, who worked at the orange grove nearby, might al- ways have been happy, growing up and mating as naturally as the wild things they loved if it had not been for the evil in the world around them. This comes between them, making them suffer almost more than they can bear, but leaving them in the end to look for and perhaps find again their happiness. The restraint and beauty of the style cannot be shown alas, by short quotation; it would be too unjust to try. But the book is marked always by a classic simplicity. LIGHT AND AMUSING "A GIRL ADORING" By Viola Meynell E. P. Dutton & Co. "A Girl Adoring," by Viola Meynell is an amusing novel, and one that is The author is possessed of a good deal of sub- tlety which she uses to her advantage at times and then suddenly allows it to turn against her. She uses it to make exhaustive research into her characters which up to a point you find interesting and then all at once you see that she is going to carry it on to a place where you will be bored unutterably. For example with the brother Morley, we are interested in his foibles and little meannesses for a while and think, "Isn't he well drawn!" Then when the same thing is repeated we say, "This is interesting but we knew it before," and finally when we have been told about his Mrs. Merrill Lays Chicago Upheaval to Racial Adjustment "Current crime and political corrup- tion are results of Chicago racial ad- justment, and with its confusion of the day it is a wonder that we do as well as we do!" Mrs. Anthony French Merrill, lec- turing at the Evanston Country club Wednesday morning, April 4, under auspices of the Wells College club, expressed this conclusion of a state of events that is startling Chicago and the world at large. The age, she reminded, is one entire- ly different from those which America has known. There is unrest and flow and chaos and confusion, and. until the peoples of the various countries making up cosmopolitan Chicago have amalgamated or adjusted themselves, there is certain to be lawlessness and upheaval. Calls Morbid View Untrue She believes, however, that the doc- trine expounded by Spengler's "De- cline of the West," which pervades much of the current fiction and phil- osophy and would have life "one long crawl up a sewer," is unnatural and morbid and misleading, and therefore untrue. She cited Dreiser's "American Tragedy" as an illustration of this sort of writing--a book, she holds, "writ- ten by a man with no sense of values who sees life as a narrow bit of hide- ousness." Taking for the topic of her final and summarizing lecture of the Lenten ser- ies, which has interested a larger group of women than even her previ- ous popular courses, "The Cream After All," she concerned it with the results of reading and advice thereupon. One has a right, she affirmed, to one's own opinion and need take no other authority until convinced. The charm of life, she suggested, is its liquidness and debatable quality. There is always change, decay and advance, and we do not always know just what has made our progress. For Solid Virtues She made a strong plea for the re- taining of the solid substantialities like faith and trust and kindly, generous, unselfish living as opposed to the in- trospective, selfish primary consider- ation of self, and it is the task of those who hold with these rather "old-fash- ioned" qualities to spread their gospel through writing as well as through living. 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