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WINNETKA TALK May 15, 1926 C Fountain Square Evanston Phone University 1024 Book Suggestions THE DECLINE OF THE WEST By Oswald Spengler Knopf $6.00 LEAVES FROM A WAR DIARY By Major General James G. Harbord Dodd, Mead $5.00 PERSONALITIES REMINIS- CENCES OF THE WAR By Major-General Robrt Lee Bullard Doubleday, Page ¥ Co. $5.00 MY RHINELAND JOURNAL By General Henry T. Allen Houghton Mifflin $6.00 HIS MAJESTY THE KING By Cesmo Hamilton Doubleday, Page ¥ Co. $2.00 O GENTEEL LADY! By Esther Forbes Houghton Mifflin $2.00 THE PARIS THAT'S NOT IN THE GUIDE BOOK By Basil Woon Brentano's THE SUNKEN GARDEN By Nathalia Crane Seltzer $2.00 Best Sellers of the Week FICTION $2.00 MASTERSON By Gilbert Frankau Harper $2.00 GENTLEMEN PRE FER BLONDES By Anita Loos Boni © Liveright $1.75 THE SILVER STALLION By James Branch Cabell McBride $2.50 HANGMAN'S HOUSE By Donn Byrne Century Co. $2.50 SNOWSHOE AL'S BEDTIME STORIES The Contributors Guild $1.50 WHIPPED CREAM By Geoffrey Moss Doran $2.00 NON-FICTION THE MAUVE DECADE By Thomas Beer Knopf $3.50 THE DECLINE OF THE WEST By Oswald Spengler Knopf $6.00 SO YOURE GOING TO ENGLAND By Clara E. Laughlin Houghton Mifflin At the Public Library THREE KINGDOMS By Storm Jameson Knopf $2.50 Little, Brown $2.00 GROWING UP WITH A CITY By Louise de Koven Bowen $3.00 Macmillan $2.00 MY EDUCATION AND MY RELIGION By G. A. Gordon Houghton Mifflin $4.00 Book Section--First Floor NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS SHAKESPEARE Others abide our questions. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loft- iest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spates | but the cloudy border of his ase To the foil'd searching of mortality; And thou, who did the stars and sun- beams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, Self-hon- our'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. --MATTHEW ARNOLD. GREELEY P. T. A. MEETS On Monday, May 17, at 3:30 o'clock, at Greeley school, will be a Parent- Teacher meeting of the entire school, at which time Mrs. Frances Murray will talk about the social side of the work at Greeley. The Children's or- chestra will play. O GENTEEL LADY! By Esther Forbes The Boston Herald calls this su- perb novel of the 1850's "one of the joys of the year." Houghton Mifflin Co. $2.00 Oppenheim at His Best THE GOLDEN BEAST By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM "It is one of the very best of his long stories.""--The Boston Transcript. $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO Publishers, Boston ad Library Notes E. M. Delafield is a clever and dis- cerning author. She has a penchant for poseurs and her books are full of subtle character delineations. "The Heel of Achilles" is an earlier novel, but is fully as fascinating, if not more so, than "Mrs. Harter" or "The Chip and the Block." Mazo De La Roche has brought out "Delight," a quaint novel of eastern Canada. "Afternoon," by Susan Ertz, is a pleasant novel of the love affairs of a father and two twin daughters. De- lightful style as well as delightful characters. "Amaranth Club," by J. is a detective story. Robert Herrick has steeped so long in the university atmosphere that one wonders if his new novel, "Chimes," is'nt a bit autobiographic. One is positive that the setting is the Uni- versity of Chicago. "Lolly Willows," by Warner, is a beautiful book, simply and charmingly written, with most insinuating wit and situation. "Feline in the best sense." Other books: "Pig Iron," by Charles Norris; "Bridal Wreath," by Sigrid Undset; "Wild Pasture," by Marie E. Gilchrist; "British Isles and the Baltic States," by Carpenter. PRESENT "SNOW WHITE" The fairy play, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," will be presented by the Girl Scouts of Winnetka, Troop No. 1, May 2, at 8 o'clock, in the Win- netka Woman's club. Tickets are ob- tainable by calling Winnetka 990. S. Fletcher, --p-- John Vander Vries, 968 Pine street, left Friday, May 7, for Washington, D. C., where he will attend the annual convention of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce association. He will return in ten days. THE QUEERNESS OF CELIA By AMELIE RIVES (Princess Troubetzkoy) A distinctly individual story. Tells of a penniless orphan who becomes the ward of a rich New Yorker and enters the world of theatres, music and society. Publication: May 6 Net $2.00 FREDERICK A. STOKES, N.Y. Poe Ol O Rn OS OEE CE OE Meer Up On The Latest and Best Books! o The week's Best Sellers can always be got at n Winnetka's Only Book Shop. And not only 5) the latest but also the best books of all time. Also, books that young people . . fine line of bridge cards, favors, tallies, and 0 1 0 prizes. The Book Shop Winnetka 1101 WINNETKA Ca nt pe or . We have a 724 Elm Street OER 0 E----J 0X0 L Are You Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or His- tory? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD c/o your local paper. A DISTINGUISHED FIRST NOVEL "O GENTEEL LADY" By Esther Forbes. Houghton Mifflin Co. In "O Genteel Lady" Esther Forbes has written more than a first novel She has written an exceedingly finish- ed work, full of keen observation and subtle feeling for, life. It is a story of the 1850's and might therefore be one of those books in which the background, instead of knowing its place, takes the center of the stage and shoves the characters into the corners. But it avoids this common error and we have the de- light of that older, quainter day with- out sacrificing the individuality of the people. Lanice Bardeen leaves Amherst to seek a career in Boston, because Mam- ma has eloped to Italy with one of the young gentlemen from the college, and Amherst, become a hotbed of gossip, is intolerable for her daughter. We like Lanice from the moment we see her in the cold little train wobbling its way to Boston, "She looked down and saw the points of her bronze slip- pers resting side by side upon the dirty floor exactly as a lady's shoes should rest, and smiled a lingering secret smile. Exactly as a lady's shoes should rest . . . . No one would guess that they were empty and that her feet were drawn up under her warm body." It is this conflict between conver- tion and humanity which makes Lanice human and interesting and modern, yet because of the difference in the con- ventions, decidedly of the period of the 1850's. Lanice finds interesting work in Boston with a firm of publishers and discovers that rather than a painter she will be a writer. She has a de- vastating romance with dashing Cap- tain Anthony Jones, she goes abroad at Mamma"s death and meets the young student who is dying in Italy, tries to see Jones again and fails, does some excellent writing, and returns. In Italy Miss Forbes catches the very spirit of that somehow enervating sun- light, and in the youth who is dying but is quite content to die because he has loved life so well, she sums up that civilization which is wistful yet ful- filled. The entire book is marked by this fine perception which makes it un- necessary to say that we hope for good things from Miss Forbes in the future since she has already attained. Mrs. Earl Pierce of Provident ave- nue has returned from LaFayette, Ind, where she spent the week-end visiting her mother. In its 24th edition the day after publication PIG IRON Charles G. Norris's new novel--$2.00 E. P. Dutton 8 Co., N. Y. in