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= pre WINNETKA TALK November 3, 1928 odd ANULLNG Re FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 --and a new toll-free number for our Glencoe and Winnetka patrons-- Winnetka 526 Julia Peterkin's New Book-- Scarlet Sister Mary --by the author of Black April, ich many readers will recall as an outstanding novel! Bobbs-Merrill .......... $2.50 The Silver Thorn A Book of Stories. Hugh Walpole Doubleday, Doran ....... $2.50 Nothing is Sacred Josephine Herbst Coward-McCann, Inc. ....$2.00 Scarlet Heels Edith M. Stern Horace Liveright ........$2.50 Less Than Kind Samuel Rogers Payson ® Clarke, Ltd...... $2.50 All Aboard A Saga of the Romantic River. Irvin 8. Cobb Cosmopolitan .......... $2.00 Life and Death in Sing Sing Lewis E. Lawes Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, gives us, in this book, some ex- traordinary sidelights which ex- plode almost every popular no- tion about crime and criminals. Doubleday, Doran ....... $3.50 Orlando A Biography. Virginia Woolf Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. ....$3.00 This Book Collecting Game A charmingly illustrated volume. A. Edward Newton Little, Brown % Co. ...... $5.00 The Jealous Gods Gertrude Atherton Horace Liveright ........$2.50 Christmas Cards that express many personalities. Choose yours--here --EARLY! Lord's--Books and Stationery First Floor Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS It is impossible with the rush of Fall publications to give due notice to the favorite indoor-sport of the in- telligensia--dectective stories. How- ever, two of these which deserve at- tention as being better than most of their class, are "Blind Circle" by Maurice Renard and Albert Jean, a weird tale translated from the French, and a new Dr. Thorndike story "As a Thief in the Night" by R. Austin Freeman. A Hamilton Gibbs tells a good story. Just before he was to speak before a large assemblage he was standing in the audience near the en- trance to the stage, when an elderly woman of cultured appearance turned to him and said "Isn't it oppressive here? I came to hear Major Gibbs speak, but I don't think I'll wait, I've met him socially and know him well, would you stay if you were I?" "No madam," Major Gibbs replied gravely, "I would not." WHAT PRICE HUMANITY? "Point Counter Point" By Aldous Huxley Doubleday Doran Aldous Huxley has a profound be- lief in the futility of human progress. He classes men very near the ape and so eloquent is his pen, so keen his wit that we find ourselves almost see- ing him thus too. In this new book of his, "Point Counter Point," he gives his thesis its most sustained support for the book is more impressive in quantity as in quality than his form- er productions. It is rich, varied, fruity reading, as if this time in giv- ing his slice of life he had determined to make it fruit cake, even if instead MY STUDIO WINDOW By Marietta M. Andrews $5 Claude G. Bowers says: " 'My Studio Window' has the stuff of permanency . . . a social history of real fibre... > E. P. DUTTON & CO. (Inc) 286-302 Fourth Ave., N. Y. City It reads like a fairy tale Susan B. Anthony II The woman who changed the mind of a nation By RHETA CHILDE DORR No small undertaking for a school teacher of thirty-three to start out to change the minds of the entire | ruling class of men as to one of its most fundamental prejudices-- He position of women. Yet she did | { Frederick A. Stokes Co. $5.00 CASPAR HAUSER By Jacob Wassermann A new novel by the man who can- not write anything that is not sig- nificant. Taking the strange his- torical character, Caspar Hauser, as a symbol of man in his native state, the author weighs in the balance with him the modern world and finds it wanting. Horace Liveright, N. Y. AAI I II II II IIIA IAIIADN of wine he added wormwood for flavor, There are a great many characters in this book of Mr. Huxley's, charac- ters which appear and disappear an- swering or denying each other much as do the themes of a musical com- position. Yet it is not orderly. Though the characters appear clearly, it is true; their meanings are as abstruse and confused as modern music. In fact the effect of the book is not un- like that of modern music to the ear of the uninitiated, confusing, provoc- ative, strange. If we believed Mr. Huxley entirely, there would be little likelihood of our getting up tomorrow morning and combing our hair or bothering to eat our breakfast egg, since we don't, we will do these things thinking with pleasure of the stimulation and the shock to smug- ness which Mr. Huxley so ably supplies. A FLIGHT TO CHICAGO "Fall Flight" By Eleanor Gizycka Minton Balch Chicago, even rich as it is in lit- erary luminaries, still has a special pride in its own. For that reason it looks forward a little more eagerly than to most novels to "Fall Flight" by Eleanor Gizycka. "Glass Houses" of a year or two ago did not disap- point that earlier expectation. Nor has this second book by Countess Gizycka any reason to do so either. It is a good story told in swift direct style of material which in itself is in- teresting. As the Countess Gizycka the author knew the pre-war aristocracy of Europe and more especially Russia in- timately., It is against this back- ground of court balls and jewels, in- trigues and infidelities that she has placed her story. Yet she does not depend too heavily on the interest of her background, Daisy Shawn of Chi- cago, later the Princess Slavnisky, is a truly authentic character and so are the others in the book, her parents, her refinedly cruel husband and his friends. It is a story of Daisy's in- fatuation for a man and her disillu- sionment at his none too reluctant hands. The flight is her flight away from all that which has hurt her so deeply back to the Chicago where she had played on Clark Street and which she understands. The best gift book of the year for boys and girls is DRUMS by James Boyd With 17 color pages and 46 drawings by N. C. Wyeth Tuis famous classic of the American Revolution, a favorite with younger readers since its publication, is now added to the Scribner $2.50 Illustrated Classics in a su- perb edition profusely illus- trated with N. C. Wyeth's best work. ¢ Atyourbookstore $2.50 SCRIBNERS THE SPIDER AND THE FLY "Towers Along The Grass" By Ellen DuPoise Taylor Harper & Brothers "Towers Along the Grass" by Ellen DuPoise Taylor, is a rather pathetic story although its pathos depends more or less on a rather fantastic conception of one of the characters. Bianca Wells, school teacher in a lit- tle country school in Dakota, fascin- ates Kate Lovett, one of her pupils much as a spider fascinates a fly. Though Bianca is more beautiful than any spider and more pale. But the role she is destined to play in the life of Kate is a spider-like role. One by one she steals from her unconsci- ously, as far as spider-like fascina- tion can be unconscious, her father her friend, her lover, leaving her at last desolate with the two towers of Bianca's building dominating her sky. Mrs. Taylor has a poetic style and although the touch of fantasy,--the connection of Bianca with the shade of Bianca Capello of four hundred years ago--makes her characters too remote for deep emotion yet her story is interesting. RAPID FIRE CONTRACT Rex Ingram, the director of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", etc., walked along the Boulevard des Anglais in Nice one day. Rex In- gram was looking for a good story. He bumped into Cosmo Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton said he had a manuscript. Two hours later, the contract was signed, and "THE THREE PAS- SIONS" scheduled as Ingram's first United Artists picture. This is Cosmo Hamilton's latest book and has just been published by Putnam. WORKS ON NEW BOOK William Beebe, scientist and author, has just left New York for several weeks in Bermuda. "Beneath Tropic Seas," Mr. Beebe's account of his adventures on the floor of the Bay of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has recently been published. Mr. Bee- be is now at work on a new book. NEW FREUD BOOK Horace Liveright is publishing Dr. Sigmund Frued's latest book, "The Future of An Illusion," in which he discusses the fate of religion, and con- siders whether man will ever be will- ing to permit science alone to explain the universe and reconcile him to its ruthlessness. REVIEW NEW BOOKS Many new books are being received at the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth and the number is expected to reach one hundred when Book Week is cele- brated soon. The new books are of various kinds and are for children of all ages from the second grade up. Christmas ards I have an unusually attrac- tive and distinctive assort- ment of Personal Greeting Cards LULU KING BOOKS GREETING CARDS 728 Elm St. Winn. 1101 TITY