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WINNETKA TALK July 3, 1926 C Fountain Square Evanston Phone Wilmette 600 Deliveries twice daily to the North Shore. Phone in your book orders. Book Suggestions THE SILVER SPOON By John Galsworthy Scribner WINNOWED WISDOM By Stephen Leacock Dodd Meade BY THE CITY OF THE LONG SAND By Alice Tisdale Hobart $2.00 $2.00 Macmillan $3.50 LONDON By Sidney Dark With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell Macmillan $5.00 THE BOOK NOBODY KNOWS By Bruce Barton Bobbs-Merrill Co. NOMAD'S LAND By Mary Roberts Rhinehart Doran Co. $2.50 Best Sellers of the Week FICTION HANGMAN'S HOUSE $2.50 By Donn Byrne Century $2.50 COUNT BRUGA By Ben Hecht Boni 8 Liveright $2.00 SORRELL AND SON By Warwick Deeping Knopf $2.50 MANTRAP By Sinclair Lewis Harcourt, Brace $2.00 SNOW SHOE AL'S BEDTIME STORIES Milton Balch $1.50 NON-FICTION ARCTURUS ADVENTURE By William Beebe Putnam $6.00 OUR TIMES By Mark Sullivan Scribners $5.00 MAPE By Andre Maurois Appleton $2.50 At the Public Library CHIMES By Robert Herrick Macmillan AFTERNOON By Susan Ertz Appleton ABRAHAM LINCOLN By Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace $10.00 "SO YOU'RE GOING TO ENGLAND" By Clara E. Laughlin $2.00 $2.00 Houghton Mifflin $3.00 MEDICAL FOLLIES By Morris Fishbien Boni ¥ Liveright $2.00 NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS (Letters from a Librarian to a Girl in Montana.) Dear Marion: You want know the books that I expect to read this Summer? The weather has been so cold that it hardly seems possible that I should begin to consider the things I shall do on my vacation. When you ask me for my list I know that you intend to deprive me of "that superior feeling" by read- ing them before I do, and I am going to puncture your little bubble by telling you that I intend to re-read about as many old ones as new ones. In the first place there have been ever so many two-volume biographies that have come out, ones I ought to read rather thoroly. Many of them I have skimmed through--Life of Aaron Burr, Sir William Osler, Bar- ton's Life of Lincoln, Keats, Lord Grey, Sandburg's Lincoln and dozens more. But I really intend to reread Lord Grey because his Twenty-five years is pleasant and charming. If you have read it you recall his little story of the beech trees in Spring. Sandburg's prose fascinates me by its odd and unique phrasing as well as by its poetry of expression, and Late Summer Sailings to EUROPE July, August, SE tem are mon preferred by experi- enced travelers-- weather at its best-- the rush over, assur- ing better accommo- dations and service at hotels. Via the Lawrence from - Montreal or Quebec you have Only 4 Days Open Sea See Old French Can- adaand thesheltered St. Lawrence on the way at no extra cost. Book your passage on one of the fine, commodious Cabin class ships; lowTour- ist 3rd Cabin fares; also low 1st, 2nd, ~! 3rd class rates on the palatial Empress steamships.Frequent sailings to meet your vacation schedule. Further information from ip agents, or R. 8S. Elworthy, Steamship General Agent, 71 E. Jack- son Blvd., Telephone Wabash 1904, Chicago, IIL For Freight apply to W. A. Kit- termaster, Gen. Agt., Freight Dept.,, 940 The Rookery, Chicago, IIL anadian World's Greatest Travel System since I know that the Prairie Years has been such a work of love, I want to read it rather than dip into it. Sandburg is collecting the words and music of American folk-songs and ex- pects to bring it out in the next two or three years. His publishers have de- layed it because of the great abun- dance of Negro spirituals. The next book I expected to read was Skin for Skin by Llewelyn Powys. I rather dreaded doing it because of the peculiar quality of the style, but I was tremendously interested one night in the man as a personality, and I read it. In its place I think I shall read Elie Faure's History of Art--at least the first volume. There is a new book out, Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, that is expected to work some sort of revolu- tion in modern historical interpreta- tion. I heard of it some years ago in the German, and read extracts pub- lished in magazines, and was consumed with a desire to read in its entirety. Now that I see the size of the book 1 doubt very much whether I read it all, but even a little of this colossal study will be valuable. There are quantities of books that I should like to reread, but a librarian never has much time for that. There are always so many things coming out. But at least this summer I shall try to recapture my early thrill over Gals- worthy's Freelands, and my conscience will be lightened if I really read the Divine Comedy, instead of "hitting the high spots." It seems to me that I expect to cover a great many pages on my vacation, particularly when one considers that I want to be outdoors a great deal, sim- ply watching a high, blue sky with slowly drifting, piled, white clouds. Nevertheless my mood may change and FLAPPER ANNE By Corra Harris The eternal restlessness of youth brilliantly portrayed by the author of 'As A Woman Thinks.' HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. $2.00 DOUBLY A PRIZE NOVEL Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for ""the Best English Novel by a Woman" PRECIOUS BANE By MARY WEBB French Committee's Annual Prize for 'the Best Work of Fiction" $2.00 at all bookstores E.P. DUTTON & CO. NEW YORK Oppenheim at His Best THE GOLDEN BEAST By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM "It is one of the very best of his longstories.""--The Boston Transcript. $2.00 at all Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO Publishers, Boston BR a a a aaa none of the these books that I have chosen satisfy, and then I shall read Conrad Aiken, Bernard Shaw and Chesterton. Always, Anne Willis. An Artist Talks of War "THE DANCE OVER FIRE AND WATER" By Elie Faure Harper & Brothers Elie Faure, perhaps the most mov- ing artist-critic or critic-artist, living today, has written in "The Dance over Fire and Water" a treatise, though that is too dry a word, on war and art, their relations to each other. . His central thought is that war in the past has been the provoker of art, that man in order to pour his person- ality or that of his race into perman- ent form must be first melted by the fires of conflict and passion. There is no history for a race, as Mr. Faure points out, except that which remains committed to canvas, to wood, or to stone, out of which arises some whole, some creative achieve- ment which can be taken in at a glance. This whole Mr. Faure characterizes as "style." It is only style which de- fines civilizations, or rather any par- ticular civilization. And war creates or recreates style when life has no more style, and as an accompaniment or aftermath of war comes a great out- break of "style" or art. Tracing brilliantly the history of civilization Mr. Faure gives preponderating evi- dence that in the past this has been true. As to the future, he does not dict. PS aluiion in contrast to war breaks out when there is style without life, "Whenever a great stage-setting be- comes worn out, whenever an ancient faith diminishes and a new faith seeks S¢. « a this reason," he concludes, 'rev- olution and war seem to be up to now the most necessary factors of civiliza- reading Elie Faure it 1s not a matter of agreeing with his opinions or being convinced by his Hashing arguments, it is rather being incite His mind is a creative thought. re current, his arguments are not built by laying word on word as logici- ans do, but are thrown as the fope O the Hindu magician straight into t ne air, and up them, 1 you will, your thought can climb and disappear into the sky. RE te JUST PARAGRAPHS Sinclair Lewis' long awaited novel «Man-Trap" has appeared on the news stands. It is rather a "thriller, a ge parture in style from his other works. Louis Bromfield who is in Europe 1s completing his new novel Early iy tumn" which Stokes will publish hen, Perhaps Amy Lowell's Life of Keats™ will be recognized in Englan at last. At a meeting at Keats House Hampstead, in memory of Miss Lowe a letter from Middleton Murray was read which ghevactetion] jit-as.. "The ife of Keats." : i fing) the authors migrating to Turope are reported Fannie Hurst, Elinor Wylie, and her sister, Nancy vt. ' s HO ceton's graduating class con- ferred upon Sabatini this year, the dis- tinction of being its favorite fiction writer. Perhaps on the strength 0 'this, Mr. Sabatini is bringing out a new novel, "Bellarion" in the Fall. 41 Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Faroll, 7 Prospect avenue, will sail for Europe, July 5. bP i