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WINNETKA TALK December 29, 1928 FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephones GREENLEAF 7000 WILMETTE 3700 WINNETKA 520 ROGERS PARK 1122 Our After- Christmas Cleanup of Books that didn't quite survive the Christmas Rush. Some of them have jackets torn. Some show evidences of hav- ing been handled. Some are even slightly soiled! But we have therefore reduced $2 Books to $1.60 $2.50 Books to $2 Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS For the many enthusiasts of Anatole France, Dodd Mead has brought out what will probably be the last in the long series of his work. It is "The Unrisen Dawn" a collection of the speeches and addresses made by that eccentric genius during a considerable period of time. "The Magic Mountain" probably the masterpiece of the great German nov- elist, Thomas Mann, has been reissued by Alfred Knopf, in a small one vol- ume edition. It will give an oppor- tunity to many of those who have never had a chance to obtain this work to do so more conveniently and reason- ably. GIFT BOOKS There is always a call at this time of year for small books, books which though a little more than a Christ- mas card are yet a good deal less than a present. Among these one of the most promising is "Love" by Wil- liam Lyons Phelps, a companion to the "Happiness" volume which he pub- lished last year. It is attractively bound and contains a very clear and pleasing little essay on the function of love in human life. Another of these Christmas books is "Even Unto Bethlehem" by the writer who has so often entered into the spirit of the Holy Land, Henry Van Dyke. It, too, is charmingly gotten up and its story is the Christmas story itself. A little more pretentious and com- prehensive is "A Christmas Book" compiled by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and G. C. Heseltine. It is truly a de- lightful creation, verses, songs, stories of Christmas "freely ranging the ages AA A I I II III II IIIIIIIIXX NEW HARPER BOOKS MONEY OF HER OWN by Margaret Culkin Banning Should a husband live on his wife's money? Here is an engrossing novel of marital difficulties. $2.00 LEONARDO, THE FLOREN- TINE by Rachel Annand Taylor "Don't let anything keep you from enjoying this remarkably fine book which is a long delight to read and an honor to own. It leaves you with the exalted feeling of having been in intimate personal contact with one of the few master minds of our race."--Dorothy Canfield. Illustrated $6.00 FOUR DUCKS ON A POND by Ruth Sawyer Having escaped the farm with all its dark drudgery and spiritual barrenness, Tad falls in love and is drawn, unwillingly, back to the soil once more. $2.00 TOWERS ALONG THE GRASS by Ellen Du Poise Taylor This is a strange and subtle piece of writing, an imaginative and many-faceted novel that will eatch the fancy of those who appreciate deft sophistication. $2.50 HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers P0000 00000000000000000 0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000004 PROC 0000000000000000000000000 900000000000 000000000000000000000000000 4 AAAAAAZI AZ I III IITIIIIXIII from St. Hilary of Poitiers to Mr. Pooter, nay from the Saturnalia of Martial's Rome to the more ladylike revellings of post-war London--all mixed up jovially like a Christmas pudding." The author's hope is that they have not fallen too hopelessly short of their devout desire to exclude the banal, the hackneyed, the false and the sentimental." They have not. They have created a treasure house on the contrary, of the unusual, the odd, the genuine and the sincere, something to keep on one's shelves and enjoy. WHO WAS CASPAR HAUSER? "Caspar Hauser" By Jacob Wassermann Horace Liveright No one could have chosen a stranger or more alluring subject for a novel than did Jacob Wassermann for this "Caspar Hauser." It seems that in the year 1828 there wandered into Nuren- berg an uncouth figure, dressed as a peasant, a boy seemingly about seven- teen but so undeveloped mentally that he could only speak a few broken words. When he could not make him- self understood someone offered him a piece of paper and on it he pain- fully formed the letters "Caspar Hau- ser." This then, he was called. As time went on it became clear that this boy was no ordinary defective but a person of acute mind and supersensi- tive sensibilities who because of a life- long imprisonment in an underground dungeon--so much could be gathered from Caspar's memories--had never de- veloped normally. Many people, in fact, most of the thinking people of his country and even of other countries became interested in his case. Some thought he was an imposter, imposing, for it would be hard to say what object such a difficult role upon himself, many thought he was the Crown Prince of Baden done away with for reasons of state. But who had kept him impris- oned so long instead of killing him? And who had set him free? His chief champion, then Caspar himself, were murdered. Who was powerful enough to carry through without slip such a bold scheme? Could more baffling questions be im- posed by many of the incidents of his- tory? It was this story that Wasser- mann takes for his book, making of Caspar Hauser more than a human fig- ure, making him a symbol of man un- defiled, unspoiled by the contacts of the world and contrasting with him the figures of civilization. Wassermann's books are always powerful, he uses words as if they were metal, forging them strongly. This book is no excep- tion, It is a tremendously interes ing piece of work. CARICATURES AUTHORS Seven Liveright authors are singled out for caricature in John Riddell's collection of twenty parodies of prom- inent writers, entitled "Meaning No Offense." They are Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Hoffenstein, Theodore Dreiser, Ben B. Lindsey, Frances Newman, Dorothy Parker and Hendrik Willem Van Loon. THE RACKETEERS Since John O'Connor turned the spotlight on the 1928 version of the "con" man in his best selling book, "Broadway Racketeers," published by Horace Liveright, Edgar Leslie and Jimmy Monaco have written a song called "My Broadway Racketeer." 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