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Ma % 12 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925. Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or . History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. N A PUBLISHING FIRM COMES OF AGE In commemoration of the conclu- sion of its first hundred years as a publishing house D. Appleton and Company has brought out a slender volume, "Portrait of a- Publisher and The First Hundred - Yéars of the House of Appleton," written by Grant Overton. It is beautifully bound and beauti- fully printed on heavy paper with a gloss finish and is in itself a monu- ment to the progress that has been made in the art of publishing, since Appleton's first book appeared. It was a volume three inches square, which looked as if it were so sure it was going to be a failure that it had shrunk to half its normal size. In content, the book is a monument to a man who lived through the diffi- cult years of the change in publishing from a personal venture to an im- mensé business enterprise, who "dis- covered" "Alice in Wonderland," was the intimate friend of Spencer, and Huxley, Bryant, Dana and many more. It is also a monument to a great busi- ness which like most great businesses carried on fearlessly has more of ro- mance in it than most "romance." A CHICAGOAN SPEAKS OF LITERATURE "SOME CONTEMPORARY AMER- ICANS" By Percy H. Boynton The University of Chicago Press Professor Percy H. Boynton, of the University of Chicago has written an interesting series of essays on those much discussed, maligned; maltreated individuals "Some Contemporary Americans." Professor Boynton writes with a sort of measured charm, a dry slightly sarcastic humor, a tempered enthusiasm, all of which give us the idence f p which we are uncon- 161 Vib oh. thhevtprofessorial" 1 ew. n_ picking out the subjects for his sessays Mr. Bynton has not followed iany stated plan. Though he has na- 'turally gravitated toward the out- standing figures in various fields, as Mr. Cabell" "because "He 'is "the most aggressive and most. talked of romantic novelist in the country, just as Mr. Dreiser must needs have a hearing be- cause he i§ the most releittless realist." 'Edwin Arlington Rébinson,-: Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg for the: "Voice of.Chicago," followed by the less poetic and more conscious Amy Lowell are the rep- resentatives of the poets. . u Among the novelists Edith Whar- ton, the "dispassionate intellectual," is followed by Booth Tarkington, the writer of best sellers which are for- (tunately more than best sellers, Dreiser 'and Cabell ;whose 'enemies have been 'their best friends, and Willa Cather 'who in Mr, Boynton's. opinion loses "her footing whenever she turns away from the "Pioneers O Pioneers" ground. The short story, America's literary daily bread is quite separate from the 'work of the novelists, those "incor- 'rigible penmen who are more inter- about America and they think in- finitely more about it." Interesting in the light of the short story and inagazine vogue. a ' = "Boston and Bohemia," the drama, "Pessimism and the Personal Code" are other chapters which, though they do not mount the.soap box and lay down the law, unfald an interest- ing viewpoint. A NEARLY GOOD NOVEL "WILD MARRIAGE" By B. H. Lehman. Harper & Brothers. . This title "Wild Marriage" is de- cidedly misleading. There is little in the book that is wild and little that is marriage. Elam Dunster's mother uses the phrase in her talk with Elam when she is trying subtly and without is ool forer compulsion to dissuade him from run- ning off with Madeleine Colquhom. And Elam's mother ought to know what this particular thing which she refers to as "Wild Marriage" is, be- cause she ran away from Elam's father when her child was three years old and went to Europe to live with a man of wealth--whom in addition she seemed to love. The spirit of that father which made him refuse to di- vorce his wife is the spirit which the author embodies as the spirit of Har- vard. In spite of this unusual past Elam, sophisticated and observant beyond his years, comes to study at Harvard and spend a year with his father. He has a mind which, like so many minds in fiction, at least, today, is searching for some meaning to the enigma which is his life. He soon realizes that he will not find it in what he characterizes as "the Dunster's Cam- bridge"--a thing which he avows ceased to exist two generations ago. He tries to find it in other things and does a good deal of thinking which gets him--and, alas, us--no- where. There is a confusion, an un- reality, in the presentation of the train By ROSE WILDER LANE HE WAS A MAN --The kind of man that Hamlet meant when he said "Take him for all in all [ shall not look upon his like again." Harper and Bros., Publishers By the author of The Covered Wagon THE SHIP OF SOULS by EMERSON HOUGH A vigorous, enthralling novel of life, adventure and love in the far North. The scene is a fur trading station--the characters, the pion- eers of today. $2.00 For sale at all booksellers. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 35 West 32d St., New York THE OWL'S HOUSE By GROSBIE CARSTIN It is a, tale for those who love ro- mance--and well written romance. It has all the elements--smuggling, ing, lovemaking--and put together with such zest. and skill that unlike most adventure stories it becomes literature. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York wrecking, gypsying, pirating, fight- J A New Novel by the author of THE BROAD HIGHWAY THE. LORING MYSTERY By JEFFERY FARNOL A delightful cloak - and - sword romance with a murder mystery that, defies solution until "the final pages are reached. .$2.00 wherever books are sold LITTLE BROWN & CO. 'Publishers Boston When We Were Very Young " Verses by 'A. A. MILNE With over 130 drawings by E. H. SHEPARD" As charming as the verses of Eugene Field. PRICE $2.00 E.P.DUTTON & COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK ~-- ing. books We call your attention to a that we AL STATIONERY AND ENGRAVING SEE ET EE In New Tom Swift Books. "When We Were Young," by Milne. POPULAR BOOKS You will find in the Book Store many books that you will enjoy read- have just received. Easter Cards and Easter Gift Books? A. A. "The Scarlet Cockerel," by Sublette. "Ss 3 ; ic " SE ord SIRReTALy Americans, 724 ELM STREET "wild Marriage," by Lehman, Tel. Winnetka 1101 number of Nature and Gardening Have you seen our attractive The Book Store Alice McAlister Skinner NAAN NNN NN NN NRE SRR EE NE NS NER NNN NN NN NA NN NNN NN NN NN A AN NNN ANT NTN NN NNN NTN NNN NNN NANANANNANANNNANNNN NY of thought which keeps us from quite grasping the point. . But at last he reaches one clear con- clusion--that as long as one views life in terms of situations it is intensely amusing, as soon as one cares what affect these situation have on people, it is otherwise. So he tries to solve his nroblem by changing situations to con- form with what pity dictates, but his Saves him--for what we know as little as does he. A BIT TWISTED Things are sometimes topsy-turvy in the motion picture business--or so, at least, Betty Compson has dis- covered. ¥ Miss Compson is starred in the new Paramount production, "New Lives for Old." The story transpires during the World War. There are uniforms averywhere. In one morning, sitting on the set, Miss Compson discovered the follow- ing: Eleven Americans in French forms. uni- mother saves him from this mistake. | Three Italians in Canadian uni- forms. Two Swedes and seven Englishmen in Belgian uniforms. Two Belgians in Italian uniforms. And three Canadians, including Wallace MacDonald, featured player, in American uniforms. Theodore Kosloff, a Russian, wears a French uniform. So does Sheldon Lewis, an American of English descent. Miss Compson herself appears as a French: dancer--and she was born in Utah. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fact that the man who acted as tech- nical adlvisor on the various uniforms was R. A. Blaydon, a Canadian cap- tain during the war, twice wounded, and authority on bayonet fighting-- and he was working®as a property man and wore no uniform at alll 1642 Orrington Ave. F. I. B. 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