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&g . WINNETKA TALK October 27, 1928 ' oedd- FOVNIAIN SQVARE - AM ULLNON Re EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Max Beerbohm Has a New One! He has called it '""A Variety of Things"--and Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher, describes it thus: "A collection of Essays and Stories in The Incomparable's own vein. It contains some notable additions to his gallery of imaginary por- traits in prose; also a number of those fairy stories for the sophisti- cated which were so popular in the nineties. And there is an in- teresting personal reminiscence of Aubrey Beardsley." $3.00. The Mountain 8t. John G. Ervine Macmillan The Horns of Ramadan Arthur Train Scribner's My Brother Jonathan Francis Brett Young Alfred A. Knopf ........ $3.00 At the South Gate Grace 8S. Richmond Doubleday, Doran % Co...$2.00 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley Doubleday, Doran Cock's Feather Katherine Newlin Burt Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ..$2.50 Theresa The Chronicle of a Woman's Life. Arthur Schnitzler Simon and Schuster Shaping Men and Women Essays on Literature and Life. Stuart Sherman Doubleday, Doran 8 Co...$2.50 Good Morning America 162 poems written by Carl Sandberg since 1922, when "Slabs of the Sunburnt West" was published. Harcourt, Brace 8 Co...... $3.00 Christmas Card Engraving Orders we receive before Novem- ber 1st are allowed a discount of 10%. Complete stocks NOW! Lord's--Books and Stationery Just Inside the West Davis Street Door Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Rebecca West, Visiting Critic for the Herald Tribune for the month, has arrived in New York. Miss West admits for the benefit of thoses who await in more or less despair the com- ing of her long promised novel that she has three novels either completed or well under way. They will none of them be published until after the publication of her book of criticism "The Strange Necessity.' Eminie Sach's biography of Victoria Woodhull Martin, "the red-hot grand- ma of all the flapper's" is almost ready for publication. The truth about "Rasputin, The Holy Devil" is said to have been revealed at last in a book by that name by a German bio- grapher, Fulop-Miller. Mussolini, an- other enigma of our inquiring age has chosen characteristically to do his own in "My Autobiography" to be pub- lished October 26. Mussolini is said to have stopped a newspaper contest on the subject of the enigma of him- self saying "It is absurd since I my- self cannot enter an opinion." He has evidently thought better of it amd tried. EXCEPT UNCLE JOHNNIE "All Kneeling" By Ann Parrish Harper & Bros. "Humor, tragedy and pathos are ac- ceptable, but not stories that are morbid or that leave the reader un- comfortable." So runs the delicately phrased slip of guidance to its con- tributors that a certain American magazine sends out. We don't know just where it would class Ann Par- rish's "All Kneeling" among these but we should think it would adjudge that it leaves the reader uncomfort- able. Nothing leaves one more un- comfortable than to be presented with the evidence, perhaps the proof, that one lives in the midst of hypocrites with their following of dolts. For it is of this, if skill is able to convince you of anything, that Miss Parrish's excellently drawn character of Christabel Caine and her adorers does convince you. In fact the uni- versality with which Christabel is able to take them all in is the weak- est point in the book. Only Uncle Johnnie out of all the ramifications of relations in Germantown or out of all the admiring throngs that Christa- bel meets when she goes to fashion- able watering places with her rich aunts, only Uncle Johnnie knows that she is a little fraud, a snob, a self-wor- shipper, a cheat. If this is possible, what is the use of virtue in a world that would just as soon have its sha- dow? It is most depressing. But we dont think it is possible. However, aside from these sad mor- al aspects of the theme one can sit back and enjoy the faithfulness with which the author impales her char- acter, the skill with which she paints to the life the pseudo-poet and aesthete. DELIGHTFUL SKETCHES "Persian Pictures" By Gertrude Bell Horace Liveright In a delightful format of grey and crushed grape this little book, the first Soothes and Refreshes Motorists' Eyes 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 /R iy L EYES Eyes strained by hours at the| JUST PUBLISHED A New and Greater BROMFIELD THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG By Louis Bromfield 50,000 Before Publication At your bookshop, $2.50 Frederick A. Stokes Co., N. Y. Publishers of the best-selling "Beau Ideal" and "Brook Evans" What the Critics Say of PIGSTIES WITH SPIRES By Georgina Garry $2.50 "Dutton's selection as their out- standing book of the month . . it seems to me it is very likely it will be the outstanding book for many months." --Tulsa Daily World. E. P. Dutton & Co. one to be written by the now famous Gertrude Bell, has been published. For those who have enthusiasm for the east, for delicately drawn word- pictures of romantic things "Persian Pictures" will be a happy discovery. Gertrude Bell who as truly as Law- rence won undying fame in Arabia during the War, did not want these pictures of her trip to Persia to be published at all. I have got all the fun out of them that I expect to have," and this was not affectation for when she was finally persuaded she only consented to have them come out anonymously, Now after her death when there is so much interest in her as a personality and in the east, it self, they are reissued. If you love the names of Teheran and Samar- kand and the secrets of the east the value of which as Miss Bell says "no one understands better than the Ori- ental" you will enjoy these sketches. A SCHOLARY BOOK "Shelley His Life and Work" By Walter Edwin Peck Houghton Mifflin Co. There are always a few books which you meant to review but which get away from you during the season. You store them up on your shelf, from which they view you reproachfully or balefully according to their natures, until you take them down and review them. Such a one was Walter Edwin Peck's two volume "Shelley His Life and Works" which for some months has been eyeing me sadly but with well merited reproach. On its appearance last winter this book was hailed by some of its review- ers as "the definitive life of Shelley = we might add "whatever that means. It is definitive, we suppose, In the sense that it is an exceedingly schol- arly and comprehensive piece of work, Mr. Peck has spared no pains in con- sulting, verifying and comparing all possible sources. ' But it is a work perhaps rather for scholars than for the general reader, not, we hasten to add, because it is Persian Pictures. By Gertrude Bell of Arabia "For those who occasionally relish a book of complete sin- cerity, taking one immeasurably far from all we know and under- stand, a book to be read quietly and with brooding, this will be a treasure." Christopher Morley. $3.00 YTYYIIIIXIXIXIXXIXXIXIIAAAALAL Horace Liveright TIXIXIXIXXXXIXIXIXIXIXIZIIIIZIZAX scholarly, that would be unjust to the general reader, but because when a work is scholarly to be of general ap- peal it must be something more, it must also paint a picture. In other words the author must be an artist as well as a scholar. It is here that Mr. Peck fails, he presents the material clearly and scientifically but he more or less leaves you to draw your own conclusions. In consequence, in spite of the vastly fewer number of pages and the far less volume of detail, we gained a clearer picture of Shelley, the man and the poet, from Maurois' "Ariel" than from Mr. Peck's "Life." ONLY 4 MORE DAYS to Purchase Christmas Carns at a 109 Discount Wednesday, October 31st is the Last Day LULU KING BOOKS GREETING CARDS 728 Elm St. Winn. 1101 rr Wow? 5 aah A vv vv vvvvvy