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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922 Book Reviews By John Philip Morris HISTORY AND MR. BACHELLER. Long gone are the days since we have interpreted history from the 'standpoint that the sole governing motive in men was patriotism. Marx and a score of successors have shown how the economic is so often the pre- vailing motive and altho the true sexu- al history of the world is still to be ful ly and freely written, it is tacitly ad- mitted. Surely not more than once or twice in a man's whole life does he act from the melting white heat that absolute forgetfulness of self engenders. The writer of the histori- cal novel forgets all these things and clings to the romantic interpretation, and it is this method that Mr. Irving Bacheller has used in his new novel IN THE DAYS OF POOR RICHARD. Across a frail web of fiction move the famous figures. They go daunt- lessly towards their ends forgetful of bed and board. Love and lucre can- not sway them. They are all gigantic heroic, and unreal. . Mr. Bacheller prefaces that his nar- rative is built up from actual letters, records and clippings in the possession of a famous family. He has woven them about the person of his hero, one Jack Irons, a Tryon county lad, who with the assistance of Leather-stock- ing come alive again and rechristened Solomon Binkus, fights injuns, duels, the red coats and fate, all romantically. In the first chapter he rescues the heroine from a fate worse than death | at the hands of the redskins and then | pursues her across the revolution until her Tory father relents. Jack has the gift of ubiquitousness developed to a degree worthy of a modern reporter and nothing happens from the Boston tea party to the sur- render of Cornwallis but he is sure to be heroically present. Withal the book is interesting and has the usual Bacheller charm and flavor. It will have the welcome of the public that has followed him since the days of DRI AND I. For a hot afternoon a hammock, a pitcher of lemonade and a copy of THE SHORN LAMB by Emma Speed Sampson make an excellent combina- tion. It has just enough humor and just enough mystery to make you for- get the heat. It is the story of an orphan who adopts her Southern family and moving among hatreds, feuds and negro witches effects a Romeo and Juliet reconciliation among the Montagues and Capulets of Vir- ginia. --John Phillip Morris. Women's Club In 1747. A regularly organized women's club | existed in New York as early as 1747. | ' FIRST WORLD BANKER -- RE RR LR LR Lass | U. OF C. PRESS To be as rich as Croesus has ever been the dream of man in his desire for the good things of this world. About thirty gold coins issued by Croesus, the first great international banker, who lived in the sixth cen- tury B. C. have been found by Amer- ican archaeologists at Sardis," the ancient capital of Lydia, a province of Asia Minor, of which Croesus was king. The identity of Croesus, whose name is a synonym for wealth, has been given little thought. He was merely pigeon-holed in our thoughts along with King Midas at whose touch everything turned into gold. Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, and the prince with his magic carpet. By the turn of the spade, the pages the sixth century B. C., an age of great events and names famous for of history have been rolled back to all time. Croesus, a patron of arts and letters, whose business and executive ability brought him great wealth, his chief claim to fame, was conquered by Cyrus, the king of the Persians. By the gracious decree of this world sovereign, the Jews yere released from captivity in Chalda and allowed to return to their own land and re- build the temple in Jerusalem. About this same time lived Con- fucius in China and Buddha in India, whose systems of ethics and religion are great factors in the life of the East tcdav To this period also belong the names of Marathon and Salamis, the memorable victories of the Greeks over the invading Persians. "Within the space of a hundred glorious years Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were writing plays in Athens, Soc- rates and Plato were teaching phil- osophy, and Pericles and Phidias were realizing the best dreams of ad-- ministrators and artists." The gold coins which have been found in the ruins of Sardis are said to be the first of the kind ever made. They are of pure gold, and although they are more than two thousand years old they are of a lighter color than gold pieces fresh from the Am- erican mint. The Metropolitan Museum of New York may be fortunate enough to acquire fifteen of these "staters", as the coins are called. The only other "staters" of the coins known to be in existence are in the British Museum, and they are not in as good condition as those just discovered. Mr. Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago, and his son, Gordon McCormick, were members of the expedition, which made the discovery. The work was under the direction of Professor How- ard Crosby Butler, of Princeton. ee can always \ RRR RR SR RR SR RH RR RR SR AR th RR A RA hh th th th th th th th th th th Rh th th th hth th th th RRR thR th th hth th th th th th AR th SR th th AAR 'RICHARDSON'S GARAGE The one place where the automobile owner HH i 1] receive the Best of Service---the ; i 5 i] i if i i i kind that one would expect of a High Grade Garage. Phone Winnetka 25 or 841 The Best Garage in Winnetka ARO) RRR RRR hh th RR hh hhh th th th RRL th Lh th LR AR LR LR AR AR MR SRR AR RR Announcement is just made by the University of Chicago Press of the fol- lowing new books for July: Dcvelop- ment of Self-Government in India, by Cecil M. P. 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