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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 8 Sep 1928, p. 47

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WINNETKA TALK September 8, 1928 FOVNIAIN SQVARE EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 New Books The Central Americans Arthur Ruhl Adventures and Impressions be- tween Mexico and Panama. Setibner's vein $3.00 The Master of Revels Richard Howells Watkins Doubleday Doran ...... $2.00 The Living Buddha Paul Morand Henry Holt 8 Company $2.50 All Kneeling Anne Parrish Harpers iid . . 5. . $2.50 A Little Clown Lost Barry Benefield Century Company ..... $2.00 The Top Kick Leonard H. Nason Doubleday Doran ..... $2.00 Destiny Bay Donn Byrne Little Brown % Co. ... .$2.50 While Rivers Run Maurice Walsh Stokes. ........ 25S $2.00 The Flutes of Shanghai Louise Jordan Miln Stokesy . ovens. $2.00 The Children Edith Wharton Appleton "i. iv ve. $2.50 The Splendid Renegade John Herries McCulloch A Tale of John Paul Jones Coward McCann ...... $2.00 The Peltzer Case Gerard Harry Scribners Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS One of the biggest items for some of us for the Fall publishing season is "Orlando, A Biography" by Virginia Woolf that most gifted of women writers. Lion Feuchtwanger--whose recent novel "Power" it is rumored has just been purchased by Hoover for his five inch shelf of books--has got the idea. He is bringing out this Fall "Pep," poems of America by one who has never been there. Having read the books of other visiting authors from overseas he thought he might as well save the boat fare. A FOREST IDYLL "BAMBI" By Felix Salten. Simon & Schuster. " "Masterpiece," "work of art," what- ever the words the critics will supply to this "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" by Felix Salten, they will not cover the whole. There is something in the book which defies a label, a quality as elusive as the deer which is its hero, a quality which one seldom finds in any book. Perhaps it is the quality of complete sincerity and simplicity, per- haps it is wisdom, whatever it is it makes one, when one comes to review it, approach it humbly. Bambi, young Prince of the forest, is only a little fawn when the story opens. Standing on his small weak legs he is just surveying the world and finding it wonderful and mysteri- ous and very exciting. His mother talks to him telling him of the happy wonderful things about which Bambi questions her endlessly, but now and then pausing, as if on the brink of a cliff, before some nameless frighten- ing thing. Bambi, too, pauses and wonders. But life is so thrilling that he does not wonder long, only goes on enjoy- ing the woods, and the meadow in the sunlight, making friends with the hare and the squirrel and becoming terribly excited when one day they come upon some of his young cousins. The cous- ins frisk and play together only stop- ping once to ask each other, "Do you know what danger is?" The others are silent then his girl cousin laughs and bounding away says "It's something to run away from." Then one day it becomes more tan- gible than that, great claps of thun- der, man-made thunder, tear through the forest and many of Bambi's friends fall. He loses track of his mother in the escape, and never sees her again. Bambi grows in stature and wisdom into maturity, learning the lesson of the old stag, his father, which was: "You must live alone, if you wanted Goodness Invites When your appetite goes lazy, and you peck and toy with food in- stead of eating it--try the Plaza. A clean, happy, wholesome environ- Plenty of room to eat in Foods, temptingly deli- ment. comfort. cious, to quicken a jaded and list- less appetite. Come for breakfast, luncheon or dinner. Plaza prices are economical. LIBRARY PLAZA CAFETERIA IN THE LIBRARY PLAZA HOTEL Orrington Avenue just South of Church Street Open 6 a. m. to 7:45 p. m. including Sundays Announce New Books on Way to the Publishers "Two Black Crows in the A. E. F.)" by Charles E. Mack--one-half of Moran and Mack. Two colored citi- zens of Tennessee go to war. It was just too bad. "This Side Idolatry," by C. E. Bech- hofer Roberts ("Ephesian"). A novel based on the life of Charles Dickens. Much research has gone into this amazing story of the 19th century novelist. "The Daughter of the Hawk," by C. S. Forester. A novel by the author of "Love Lies Dreaming." "The Instrument of Destiny," by J. D. Bradford. The first crime and mystery story by the psychological novelist. NEW BOOK ON BIBLE Walter E. Bundy, who holds the chair of English Bible at De Pauw university, has written a new book entitled, "The Religion of Jesus." Several years ago a book by him caused much adverse criticism and for a while it was expected that he would have to resign from the university faculty. Dr. Bundy"s new book, highly controversial in theme and treatment, is to be published in September. to preserve yourself, if you understood existence, if you wanted to attain wis- dom, you had to live alone." Because of the elusive quality of Bambi it defies the ordinary words of praise or comparison. It is a thing in itself, quite perfect, perhaps best de- scribed by the words of its publisher an "idyll of animal life." Felix Salten, one of the group of Viennese writers, has a forest lodge beside the Danube and from here he- has learned to know the wild life of which he writes. 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