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42 WINNETKA TALK April 21, 1928 ------R -- Bs, AA = FOVNIAIN SQVARE- EVANSTON || | University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122-3 Telephone for your BOOKS A.E PF Major General Hunter Liggett An account of our expeditionary force in France: its leader, its preparations, its battles and its return. Dodd, Mead 6 Co. ...... $3.00 European Skyways Lowell Thomas The author of With Lawrence in Arabia tells of journeys 25,000 miles across Europe by air. Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co... .$5.00 P.S. by the author of Wine, Women and War J. H. Sears ¥ Co., Inc.....$2.50 The Key of Life Francis Brett Young The story of two clashing loves, and of the resultant sacrifice. Alfred A. Knopf Ladies in Hades The Story of Hell's Smart Set. Frederic Arnold Kummer J. H. Sears 8 Co. Welcome Home Alice Duer Miller A lively comedy of adventure in which a young man opened a door with a latchkey he hadn't used in four long years. Dodd," Mead-'8 Co.' 0. $2.00 A Girl Adoring Viola Meynell Heavy Laden Philip Wylie This story of a father and his daughter reflects with unusual clarity the breech between the new generation and the old. Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 a The Sun Hawk Robert W. Chambers The pomp and majesty of a great romance marches across the pages of this novel. APDIEtON, cc vit vos ivicv ine $2.00 The Coward Neal Wainwright Payson ¥ Clarke, Ltd. ....$2.50 LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Door Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Those who question what's in a name will be interested to know that we have recently had anthologies of detective stories by Mr. Wright and Mr. Wrong. Now there is a new one by Vincent Starrett "Fourteen Great Detective Stories," although oddly enough five of his selections were in- cluded by Mr. Wrong. Owen Johnson makes one of his characters hold forth on the subject of the fascination of the detective story, thus, "Admit at once that the whole art of a detec- tive story consists in the statement of the problem. Any one can do it. I can do it. The solution doesn't count. It is usually banal, it should be prohibited. What interests us is, can we guess it?" If we thought we "could do it" we would certainly try! The books which have been picked as possible best-sellers for London this spring are a new installment of "The Letters of Queen Victoria," which will fit in admirably with the battle between that gentleman and Gladstone, "Memoirs of Townshend of Kut," a diary kept by General Town- shend covering forty-five years, and "The Truth About Arabia," in which Harry St. J. Philby will try to coun- teract the version of Lawrence and Gertrude Bell on affairs Arabian. THE LOW DOWN ON WAR "SERGEANT EADIE" By Leonard Nason Doubleday-Doran Let only those start "Sergeant Eadie" who are interested in the de- 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 their eyes always clear and bright. A month's supply of this long- trusted lotion costs but 6oc. RINE EYES tails of a soldier's life in the War. Details, let us repeat, for Leonard Na- son's is a detailed style. Not the minute hair-raising search for detail of a Sinclair I.ewis but a nice calm jogging along from point to point as it "really happened." Personally we were interested in it because he gives a feeling of authenticity and authen- tic details of the War are interesting to us. There is the spirit of raillery, comradeship and constant "grousing" about the hardships of the army which men who were in it will probably especially enjoy. Mr. Nason is one of those who does not feel it necessary to make the War merely a background for a love story or something else: he feels that it is the story itself: So the early part of the book is taken up with a long ac- count of Sergeant Fadie's first days in the Army when he endears himself to us by the truly senseless proceed- ing of posing as a deserter because he has heard that deserters are sent at once overseas. He is sent, with an incident of the trip being the sinking of his ship by a submarine. This is told with great vividness. Arrived at the front where he has so longed to be Eadie finds that he has had enough of it in three minutes to last not only himself but three or four generations after him. But even that was not so bad as be- hind the lines. When his recall comes PREPARING FOR THE NAT- IONAL CONVENTIONS By Anne L. Whitmack Mark Sullivan. Our Times. Dashing journal of our political and social panorama for the second half decade of this century. Andre Siegfried. of age. Mr. Siegfried attacks the ethnic, economic, and political situations with Gallic directness, and ad- vances some. interesting opinions on their management and outcome. He is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, Paris. America comes Vv. L. Parrington. Main currents in American thought. A thoroly able and enlivening in- terpretation of American political, social and economic development as seen in the progression of Amer- ican letters from 1620 to 1860. C. E. Merriam. American party system. Altho designed as a textbook it will be of interest to anyone who desires an introduction to the study of the American party system. An admirable analysis, clear and fair- minded. C. A. Beard. American government and politics. Covers the actual practice as well as the theory of government and points out recent political ten- dencies. to go back to the front he says, "I'm going back to the front and damned --American Library association. glad of it. Boy, I need a rest." And we leave him thus, going back. If there is a lesson meant to be con- veyed by such books as this, then, it is--that War did not consist in the glamour of Paris, but in grinding bore- dom, cold food, no beds and being shot at by Germans. It is a salutory lesson. EDDIE FOY BACKSTAGE "CLOWNING THROUGH LIFE" By Eddie Foy and Alvin Harlow E. P. Dutton & Co. Eddie Foy was a genial spirit and this account of his "Clowning Through Life" reflects that spirit admirably. His wasn't an astonishingly remark- able life but it was a life which par- took of much of the history of the country. Born in New York in 1856 he knew the days of the public wells, of Barnum's Museum and the old As- tor House on Broadway. The death of his father from injur- ies received in the Civil War sent the Foy family out to Chicago where they were in the midst of the tragedy of the Chicago fire. Mr. Foy gives a thrilling account of it as he does a still more thrilling one of the fire years later at the Iroquois Theatre. There he was the hero of the occasion, coming out onto the stage surrounded by burning scenery to plead with and try to control the fear-maddened audi- An Illinois factory made the world's largest watt-hour electric meter. CHANDLER'S for BOOKS The most complete book stock on the North Shore Announce Field Museum Guide Tours Next Week "Wild Cats and Dogs" and "Palms" will be the subjects of the first of next week's guide-lecture tours at Field Museum of Natural History. They will be given Monday, April 22, at 11 a.m. and. 3 p. m. respectively. Subjects other days at the same hours are: Tuesday, "Deer of All Lands" and "Chinese Art"; Wednesday, "In- dians of the Pueblos" and "Iron, Coal and Petroleum"; Thursday, two gen- eral tours; and Friday, "Bird Mi- grants" and "Glassware and Pottery." These tours of museum exhibits under the guidance of staff lecturers are free. Parties assemble inside the north en- trance. Movies of China to be Shown at Field Museum Two free moving pictures for chil- dren, "China" and "Nature's Cathed- ral," will be given at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, this Satur- day morning, under the provisions of the James Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Fund. The pictures will run from 10 a. m. until noon continu- ously, and will be shown in the James Simpson theater of the museum. All children of Chicago and suburbs are invited. ence. He shows by his telling of the tragedy what a painful and lasting impression it made upon him. In the beginning of his career Mr. Foy went West and knew the wild West and knew the wild Dodge City and the far wilder Leadville of a lit- tle later date. Then San Francisco of the old days was the scene of his activities, then back east and finally to Broadway. The book is written chattily, honest- ly, with many of the behind the scenes little anecdotes which everyone loves. It has, too, that sense of vague futili- ty which such books have, as if the authors themselves wondered some- times as they wrote if setting all this down was going to make any great difference after all. 5