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WINNETKA TALK September 11, 1926 NEW BOOKS whose merits you should know. Far Above Rubies Agnes Sligh Turnbull Revell Heart stories of bible women, romances of far away days which makes fresh and vivid liter- ature. $2.00 Portia Marries Jeanette Phillips Gibbs Little Brown ¥ Co. The story of the marriage of Jane Thorndike, successful wo- man lawyer to Tommy Kent who loved her. $2.00 Jig Saw Eden Phillpotts Macmillan $2.00 A mystery story! A miser living alone in a room built like a safe, with walls and ceiling lined with steel plate is found dead on the floor with a dagger is his back! Short Turns Barry Benefield The Century Co. $2.00 Fourteen stories! A gorgeous variety representing the choicest of this fine artist's work. Far End May Sinclair Macmillan Christopher Vivart, novelist and his sister Cecily loved Far End, their home in the country, and when Hilda Courtney married Chris and came to live there, she oved it too. Then tragedy en- tered and Chris and Hilda grew to hate the place--but the rest we'll leave for you! $2.50 The Big Mogul Joseph C. Lincoln D. Appleton # Co. $2.00 He was the "Big Mogul" of the county. Real drama is here in the unfolding of the events which shake his secure position in the community. L ot Tal i ------------ NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS - The Best Sellers on "the North Shore | i Non-fiction | |1. "Royal Road to Romance" ...... | b. eniiivesrns. Richard Halliburton | 2. "Story of Philosophy" | Will Durant 3. "Arcturus Adventure" William Beebe 4. "Our Times, the Turn of a Cen- tary" .....o...... Mark Sullivan 5. "The Mauve Decade" Thomas Beers Although the novel is the most popu- lar form of literature, during the sum- mer months especially, yet there are a dozen or more recent history, phi- losophy and travel books that are en- jeying: a good sale on the north shore at this time. Of those listed as the best sellers, the "Story of Philosophy," wnique among the long list of histories pub- lished in recent years, seems to take first place. Other recent books that are gaining in popularity are "The Mi- crobe Hunters" by De Kruif, the bio- graphy of Henry Ford, which is very popular among men readers. "The Magnificent Idler" biography by Rogers and Barton's "The Man Nobody Knows" and "The Book Nobody Knows." "Nomad's Land" by Rinehart, "Yes, Lady Sahib" by Mrs. Seton. "Ro- salie Evans' Letters from Mexico," "Romance of the Boundaries" by Faris, "My New York" by Wright and "Four Years Beneath the Crescent" are fas- cinating books of travel. M.P.N. "Portia Marries" Mrs. Gibbs in her first novel, "Portia Marries," has written to develop a theme, not primarily to create a work of art. Her theme is the much dis- cussed combination of a woman's mar- riage and career. She Mas written convincingly, interestingly, showing how Jane Thorndike remained a suc- cessful lawyer while becoming also a charming wife and good mother. She has written with a good deal more force because with less bias than had Mr. Hutchinson in his poor attempt on the subject, "This Freedom," and she has written less lugubriously than Mr. Norris in his well-written "Bread." But of course Mrs. Gibbs proves no more than any such novel proves-- not that "women" can. do it, but that one woman, namely Jane Thorndike under her particular conditions did it. Oppenheim az 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, Bostou (Walt Whitman's |' Reviews of | New Books "The Durant. Story of Philosophy"--Will "The lives and opinions of the great- er philosophers" reads the title page and Will Durant has selected twenty men to which he would give this title. It may not read exactly like fiction as it.is advertised, but it has been made as interesting and to many it will be pre- ferred to the average novel of today. Will Durant has succeeded admirably in making this subject comprehensi- ble to the layman and it will undoubt- edly have a very wide sale not only to those who can buy books extrav- agantly but it will probably be found on the shelves of the lover of good books, who has limited means, beside Well's "Outline of History," "History of Mankind" and Papint's "Life of Christ." LULU BHT) "Our Times"--Mark Sullivan. Mark Sullivan reviews men, fash- ions and the events of the period from the late nineties up to the present time. Nearly two hundred illustrations pre- sent a paneramic view that will be en- lightening to the younger reader and of greatest interest to those who can remember back to the days when girls received $2.50 a week for labeling sam- ples and the 18-inch waist was the femi- nine ambition of the day. RUHR "The Mauve Decade"--Thomas Beers The author gives us one snapshot after another of life in the years from 1890 to 1900, most of his word pictures dealing with the morals of that day. This is another link in the chain of evidence which authors have furnished to convince us that the late nineties was not the Age of Innocence that the older generation would have us believe. LLL BTR Will Durant Will Durant was born in North Adams, Mass., in 1885-and received his education in Catholic schools. After his graduation from college he became librarian at Seton hall where his in- terest was first attracted to the writings of Darwin, Spencer, Spinoza and Ana- tole France with the result that he forsook his religion for socialism and was made an outcast by his family. After touring Europe he took graduate work at Columbia and taught both at that university and at the Labor Tem- ple where he became director. Four- teen of his later years have been spent in the preparation and the writing of "The Story of Philosophy." SHOT TOWERS By John T. McIntyre A good book well illustrated It is a story: packed with humour, color, courage. You will like it! Stokes Publishers Popular Books (August Bookman) FICTION 1. The Private Life of Helen of Troy.... John Erskine 2. An American Tragedy .. 3:00. Theodore Dreiser 3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. .Anita Loos 4, The Blue Window ....Temple Bailey 5. The Hounds of Spring: «ii eda Sylvia Thompson 6 WHd Geese .... 0... Martha Ostenso To After' NOOR i... vuieivins Susan Ertz 8. Hangman's House ...... Donn Byrne 9. Thunder on the Beth oui. Led. Christopher Morley 10. The Black Flemings 4. sive Kathleen Norris 11. Piz Tron'... vu Charles G. Norris 12. The Perennial : Bachelor. .%.. ii, Anne Parrish GENERAL 1. Why We Behave Like Human Beings ........ G. A. Dorsey 2. The Man Nobody Knows toidciiiviian 3. Abraham Lincoln .... Bruce Barton Carl Sandburg '4. Intimate Papers of Colonel House ....% Solon. Charles Seymour 5. Our Times Mark Sullivan 6. The Travel Diary of a Philosopher Count Keyserling 7. The Revolt of Modern Youth Lindsey and Evans 8. Twenty-five Years ... Viscount Grey of Fallodon 9. The Fruit of the Family Tree: .. i Albert Edward Wiggam 10. Life and Letters of Walter H. Page Buiton J. Hendrick 11. The Mauve Decade .... Thomas Beer 12. Ariel: The Life of Shelley Andre Maurois Just Paragraphs We have something to live for after all. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" is in the process of dramatiza- tion. It will be produced by Winthrop Ames and the part of Helen will be taken by Ethel Barrymore. AUT Joseph C. Lincoln has published a new novel, "The Big Mogul." It has been said that Mr. Lincoln is the one author in America whose public has steadily increased with every one of his books. LUT E. Barrington must neither sleep nor eat. While the ink on her very latest novel, "The Exquisite Perdita," is not vet dry, her publishers announce that they have received the manuscript of another, "The Laughing Queen," whose subject is Cleopatra, and that there is another one to come, "The Great Thunderer," dealing with Napo- leon. gtick. Then bis voice, "A #raitor bas been caught -- death to the traitor." Anne fnew it was David. 'Dear God ~~~," but read The BLACK HUNTER By James Oliver Curwood $2.00 Wherever Books Are Sold Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 4 ahd wd