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WINNETKA TALK November 13, 1926 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK THE BOY SCOUTS YEAR BOOK Edited by Franklin K. Mathiews THE NURSERY BOOK OF BIBLE STORIES Amy Steedman .......... $1.50 THE JOLLY KID BOOK Wilbur D. Nesbit $1.50 THE TREASURE SHOP Edited by Cynthia Asquith $2.50 GRANNY GOOSE John Rae vv devine snivnnre $1.25 ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY BOOK Stories Retold by Seymour Loveland . gee cova ves $2.00 TOMMY TUCKER ON A PLANTATION Dorothy Lyman Leetch ....8$1.25 GAY'S YEAR ON SUN- SET ISLAND Marguerite Aspinwall ..81.75 THE AMERICAN TWINS | OF THE REVOLU- 1 TION i Lucy Fitch Perkins ...... $1.75 | DR. DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN { Hugh Lofting .......... $2.50 THE BURGESS FLOWER | BOOK FOR CHILDREN Thornton W. Burgess ... { .$3.00 THE RED FAIRY BOOK Andrew Lang 8... ... cus $3.50 | THE FIRELIGHT FAIRY | BOOK i Henry B. Beston ........ $2.50 | THE BRIGHT FACE OF : DANGER : C. M.: Sublette... ....... $2.00 : FOR THE CHILDREN'S : HOUR Bailey-Lewis Ju. . "wuss $1.75 A WINNIE-THE-POOH 4 A. AMilne vile ev voi $2.00 § NUMBER FOUR JOY : STREET : Walter de la Mare and Others $2.50 : LITTLE PRINCESS NINA 3 L.-A.-Charskaya .... ...81.75 MARTHA THE SEVENTH Jane Abbott ............ $1.75 THE STORY OF ROLF Allen Prenclt' 0.00.0 50 $2.00 Lord's--Davis Street Entrance NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | DID YOU KNOW That Bruce Barton and W. C. Wren are among the half dosen or so writers who have achieved, in recent years, the distinction of having two concurrently popular books? That the Western Writer's asso- ciation came into existence follow- ing the meeting of writers of west- ern themes when they were the guests of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce at the Rodeo last Au- gust? That the "Wood Demon," a play by Anton Chekov, has been trans- lated from the Russian and will be published in England? That "Winnie-the-Pooh," A. A. Milne's new book, was issued in England in a first edition of 66,000 copies? That Bom: and Liveright an- nounce a prize of five hundred dol- lars for the best essay on a ques- tion pertaining to Theodore Dreis- er's "American Tragedy?" October "Book of the Month" "The Time of Man" --Elizabeth Madox Roberts. This, Miss Robert's first novel, is the poignant, beautifully written biog- raphy of Ellen, of the simple elemen- tal people of the upper South. Ellen's longing for "all the learnen in the world . . . to find answers to all the questions you'd ever ask and why it is so..." is made intensely vivid and pa- thetic. All her "enduren" life she struggles against "wanting things and then having things and then wanting . and it goes on and of. . .. and then you're old. And what did you ever have that was enough? And what was it for anyway?" There is no plot, but Miss. Roberts has written with such instinctive knowledge and feeling that the reader quickly falls under the spell of the story It is a first novel that should not be passed by. Jane Arnt The student of sociology will find "Negro Workaday Songs" by Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson of in- terest, being the songs of the negro today. Where There Are Children Dare There Be Divorce? Custody Children By Everett Young Not the ordinary "brilliant society novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring su- {ad what happens to Clodi Dil- lon. Henry Holt & Co. $2.50 Popular Books FICTION The Private Life of Helen of Troy --John Erskine The Silver Spoon--John Galsworthy | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes--Anita Loos An American Tragedy --Theodore Dreiser The Hounds of Spring --Sylvia Thompson Show Boat--Edna Ferber Beau Sabreur--Percival C. Wren The Blue Window--Temple Bailey Atfer Noon--Susan Ertz Mantrap--Sinclair Lewis Hangman's House--Donn Byrne Beau Geste--Percival C. Wren GENERAL Why We Behave Like Human Beings --G. A. Dorsey The Man Nobody Knows --Bruce Barton The Book Nobody Knows --Bruce Barton Abraham Lincoln--Carl Sandburg The Arcturus Adventure --William Beebe Our Times--Mark Sullivan The Mauve Decade--Thomas Beer The Story of Philosophy--Will Durant Intimate Papers of Colonel House --Charles Seymour Just Paragraphs "A Bouquet from France" by Wil- fred Thorley is an interesting antholo- gy which contains one hundred French poems and their English translations, which are given on opposite pages. We wonder if such a prolific family of writers as the Gibb's ever existed before. The latest member to try his hand at writing is Mrs. A. H. Hamilton Gibbs who has written "Portia Mar- ries," a novel of merit. Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleep- ers" is being printed in the original by Francois Bernouard, a French pub- lisher, who is famous for his de luxe editions. This is the first of one of a series of limited editions of works of American authors. You're not even safe if you've been comfortably dead for centuries, as Mr. John Erskine is going to continue to tell the world in general and in par- ticular about Sir Galahad, the victim of his forthcoming book. After deal- ing so adequately with Helen of Troy, what more could we ask than that he should tell us how Sir Galahad got that way? The career of "The Story of Phil- osophy" might give rise to many spec- ulations on the desire of materialistic America to be uplifted. Printed first in an edition of fifteen hundred copies --a commentary on the faith on the part of its publishers in this desire for uplift--it has now run through editions totalling forty-two thousand copies, and is still going strong. EAST WIND Amy Lowell "Seldom if ever has Miss Lowell so completely revealed her depth of human feeling and ' sympathy" (New York Times) as in these thir- 0 teen poems all dedicat- ed to New England life and character. $2.25. Houghton Mifflin Co. The season would not be com- plete without Doctor Dolittle's Caravan By Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle, who is'becoming as dear to children's hearts as any Alice who ever entered Wonder- land, journeys upon London with this marvelous circus troupe, and takes that city by storm with his fascinating bird orchestra. Stokes Illustrated, $2.50 Reviews of New Books "BELLARION"--Rafael Sabatini, Sabatini, like the poor, is always with us. Inept, however, is this simile, since, considering his enormous popu- larity, Mr. Sabatini can resemble the poor in no other way. "Ballarion" is a good story, as good it seems to me, as anything I have read of Mr. Sabatini's, even including the great "Captain Blood." It has the zest, the color, the convincing vigor which make Mr. Sabatini's stories the best of their kind. "Bellarion" is a story of Italy in the glamorous days of the Renaissance, the days when it was possible even more than in our® own great Wild West for "men to be men," or even-- as the Princess Valera says of Bel- larion--to be "half god, half beast." Bellarion was a youth, a foundling, who, issuing from the convent of his childish years, became involved in many things--plots and wars, intrigues and escapes. Through these we go breathlessly, yet always with the com- fortable assurance that all's well since it will end well for Bellarion. "Into THE Voin"--Florence Converse. "Into the Void" is a new type of mystery story. No blood and thunder murder business about this--Miss Florence Converse, frequent contribu- tor to and member of the editorial board of the Atlantic Monthly, has taken the fourth dimension as her field of operation. There is a college bookshop and a poet reading his verses to a select and temperate audience on a certain eve- ning. The last of the verses has to do with disappearance into the fourth dimension. Jokingly it is remarked that it might be fun, as well as a good "ad" for the bookshop to have him do it. So, promptly, it is found the next morning that not only he hut the manager of the bookshop has taken this advice. The plot is not breathless at all, but it is a rather amusing little variation on the usual mystery theme. "EARLY AuruMN"--Louis Bromfield. Louis Bromfield has done a good piece of work in "Early Autumn." | And this was no more than we ex- pected aftef reading "The Green Bay Tree" and more particularly "Posses- sion." Mr. Bromfield is an artist who gives to his work several unusual qualities in the literature of today, qualities such as poise and richness, and depth, and sophistication which is wisdom but never smartness. Mr. Bromfield, let us be thankful, is never smart. He thinks too seriously of his art and his world to be that. "Farly Autumn" turns from the world of the Shane family and "the Town" to the life of the Pentland family of Boston and Durham. The scope of this screen of American life is to be broad, broader than Mr. Galsworthy's "Forsythe Saga," for the Forsythes at least have clung quite closely to upper middle class London. " The book is well written, interesting. Mr. Bromfield has mastered the art of subtle suspense--it is always impossible "to stop just at this point because there is something very important coming just ahead. --Esraer GouLp