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WINNETKA TALK October 20, 1928 BOOKS of the Week The Friend of Jesus Ernest Sutherland Bates Simon © Schuster ........ $2.50 Army With Banners Ruth Comfort Mitchell Appleton 5: .. . i. ae, as $2.00 The Childermass Wyndham Lewis Covici-Friede ..........s $3.00 What Everybody Wanted Elsie Singmaster Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ..$2.00 The Vicar's Daughter E. H. Young Harcourt, Brace ¥ Co. ....$2.50 James the Second Hilare Belloc LIpPINCOtE «cov vas =v 50» $4.00 The Story of France from Julius Caesar to Na- polean 3. Paul Van Dyke Seribner'ss . 00 $3.50 Giant Killer Elmer Davis Joh" Day uv uviun aon $2.50 Roads to the North Charles S. Brooks Drawings by Julia McCune Flory. Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. ....$3.00 The Pinfold A Novel of the English Farm Country. J. S. Fletcher Doubleday, Doran # Co. ..$2.00 Christmas Cards Beautifully Engraved Here --and orders which reach us be- fore the 1st of November are en- titled to a discount of 10%. Lord's--Books and Stationery First Floor--Davis | Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Edith Wharton's "The Children" has been snapped up with more than their usual rapidity by the movies. Within a month of its publication the rights in- cluding those of "talking pictures" had been bought. Is it possible that the imminence of the talkies will put Mrs. Wharton on a par with Zane Grey in Hollywood ? When Arthur Ruhl, author of "The Central Americans," was asked by an interested peasant of that country if there were any revolutions in the United States and replied only one in a hundred years, the peasant thought it must be very quiet there. "No," said Mr. Ruhl hopefully, "We have ma- chinery." ENTERTAINING "Brook Evans" By Susan Glaspell Frederick A. Stokes Co. Susan Glaspell after a novel-less interval of thirteen years has written "Brook Evans," the story of a woman who loved too well. It is rather a con- ventional story but it is written with charm and facility. Naomi Kellogg and Joe Copeland love each other, but because his mother frowns on any attachment on the part of her son, they meet on summer nights down by the brook which runs through both of their farms. Joe Copeland is killed by a new haying machine and Naomi not without reason finds she is going to have Joe's child. There is the expected uproar under the family roof and, alas, the conventional figure of the church member, lustful but unsus- pected by any but the girl, comes for- Soothes and Refreshes Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at the wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instant- ly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling; clears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trips to refresh and protect your eyes. Also keep a bottle of Murine in your locker at the country club for use after golf, tennis, swim- ming and other sports. A month's supply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! Write Murine Co., Chicago, for FREE books on Eye Beauty and Eye Care JIURINE EYES ward and offers his protection and his good name. The family praise the Lord and shortly after Caleb Evans starts for his newly purchased ranch in Colorado with the wife of his choice unexpectedly his. Then begins a long life of tragedy for Naomi in which the only ray of happiness comes from the child named Brook. In Brook, who incidentally never gains our sympathy as does Naomi, is enacted the battle between her mother's ardent nature and her fos- ter father's priggish principles. The father wins for long enough to break Naomi's heart, but in the end Naomi or Brook's own nature carries the day. There is a wavering in the sympathy of the book which weakens it slightly, but it is, neverthless, good reading. A POET AND AN UNFORTUNATE "Francois Villon" By D. B. Wyndham Lewis Coward McCann Have you ever seen a stick-bug? A remarkable sight he is, just like an animated stick walking along. He even has eyes. It seems a true case of ani- mating and vivifying matter. It is something like this that has been per- formed on the character of Francois Villon, the revivified poet of the fif- teenth century. All that was left of Vii- lon's life history was housed in docu- ments dry and uninteresting as a stick, yet care and industry and devotion have given the stick legs and eyes and made it walk. * D. B. Wyndham Lewis is not the least of those who has performed this act of wizardy. He has done it charm- ingly, with zest and humour and with the priceless ingredient of the creative imagination. As he says, "I have traced Villon's footsteps in the banlieue and along the Loire, in what remains of the great Innocents Charnel (it is now a neat little, tidy little Bloomsbury Square), along the Rue St. Denis, the way of the condemned, out through the ghostly Porte St. Denis in the vanished ramparts to the gibbet of Montfaucon, the way he often went to see men hanged. . . In the Rue des Parchemin- iers I have lingered many a night, watching for the four companions to issue from the sign of the Chariot all drunk, and involve themselves in that row with Master Francois Ferebourg Another book by the author of "BEAU GESTE" to break all sales records! BEAU IDEAL By Percival C. Wren "The best of the three! It will have 'Wren' fans standing on their toes," says W. Orton Tewson. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.00 THE FEATHERED NEST By Margaret Leech With the talent which Miss Leech has in her earlier novels so finely displayed she tells the story of a mother's struggle to retain her hold over her grown sons! Horace Liveright $2.50 which all but hanged Villon for the second time in 1462. I know the fel- low, his habits and his haunts." This is true. Without indulging in hypothetical rhapsodies on what Villon probably did not think or do, Mr. Lewis has taken the dry documentary material, which is all there is, and made it walk, He has divided his book into several parts, so that he treats of the background of old Paris, the life of the poet, then his works in detail, each in a separate part. The book is in- teresting, written as Mr. Lewis says again, "Not for a rabble of pedants but for those dear souls who love high poetry and the unfortunate." Suggest Children's Book for Those 'Indoor Days Books designed especially for indoor days are the Pritchard Books. "Mother Goose Circus Parade," by Clarence F. Pritchard and W. C. White, illustrated by Stacy H. Wood, is a story book for very little children. The other three books by Clarence F. Pritchard with pictures by Stacy H. Wood, can be partly converted, through the medium of perforated pages, into moving pic- tures that will delight children without robbing them of the book itself. These books are called "Mother Goose Play Pictures," "Santa Claus Play Pictures" and "Mother Goose Moving Pictures." Published by Putnam in a large and brightly colored format, these books solve the gift problem for every child. LECTURES ON AVIATION Donald E. Keyhoe, author of "Flying With Lindbergh," the aviator who was Colonel Lindbergh's aide all during his goodwill tour of the United States, has been given leave by the Departa ment of Commerce so that he can lec- ture at high schools and universities throughout the west on "What Is Next in Aviation?" His lecture will be illus- trated by films on the development of aviation. "IVORY DOOR" COMING "The Ivory Door" by A. A. Milne will appear in book form in October (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) In his fore- word to this play, Milne admits that he expects it to be labeled as "whimsical" and he has no doubt it deserves the title. Nevertheless, he likes this play above all others, and finds it most reminiscent of "The Truth About Blayds," a play that, even though by Mr. Milne, 1s hardly whimsical. BUILDS HERO'S HOUSE George Agnew Chamberlain spent his summer remodeling a house on Allo- way's Creek. It is the hero's house described in Mr. Chamberlain's new book, "The Taken Child," an epic of the Grand Circuit. This romance of the trotting track is written for any human being who has ever thrilled to a win under the wire, for it is written in the language of the owner, trainer, driver and humble swipe. RAMA Ch ch Sh SAR Christmas Cards I have an unusually attractive and distinctive assortment. On all orders placed before November 1 I am offering a 109 Discount LULU KING BOOKS 728 Elm St. Winn. 1101 I I a SI a a ehhh Tu