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WINNETKA TALK November 20, 1926 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON BOOKS for Children HANSEL AND GRETEL By the brothers Grimm ...$5.00 ONCE UPON A TIME A Book of Old Time Fairy Tales THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Heath Robinson Edition THE TREASURE BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE Arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch ........ $2.50 GULLIVER"S TRAVELS Illustrated by R. G. Mossa . $2.50 MY FRIEND THE DOG Albert Payson Terhune ...$3.00 THE TWELVE DANC- ING PRINCESSES AND OTHER FAIRY TALES Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch THE SLEEPING BEAU- TY AND OTHER FAIRY TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCH Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch DERIC IN MESA VERDE ..$2.50 Deric Nusbaum ......... $1.75 JOSHUA BARNEY Ralph D. Paine ......... $4.00 THE YEAR'S BEST STORIES FOR BOYS Ralph Henry Barbour ....81.75 KIPLING'S BOY STORIES Rudyard Kipling ........ $1.25 BOYS AND GIRLS OF BOOKLAND Nora Archibald Smith. Illus- trated by Jessie Willcox Smith" .. icici eis $2.50 CHILD'S FIRST ALPHABET BOOK Illustrated in color ...... $1.25 BELOVED BELINDA Johnny Gruelle ......... $1.25 Have You Ordered Your Greeting Cards? Assortments of designs are still complete. Let us engrave them-- and give us enough time to do them really beautifully. Lord's--First Floor EST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS NEW DID YOU KNOW-- That James Audobon, author of "The Birds of America," will pub- lish his new book in the near fu- ture? That the author of "Then Came Spring," John Hargrave, makes portraits of his characters before he writes about them? That Knud Rasmussen will bring out a book next year entitled "Across Arctic America" in which he will give an account of his ex- | plorations? That the annual prize offered by the Poetry Society of South Car- olina has been awarded to Ruth Manning Saunders of Cornwall, England, for her poem, "The City?" That "A Study of British Genius," which was written by Havelock Ellis over twenty years ago, is being reprinted. Just Paragraphs Letters and writings of Lafcadio Hearn, hitherto unpublished in English, have been edited by Sanki Ichikawa of the University of Tokio and will be printed in Japan. A limited edition of 112,000 copies will be available for Amer- |] | ican book buyers. Stephen Graham is here on his sixth visit to America and the result of his trip probably will be a book on New York similar to "London Nights." Martha Ostenso's name means "eas- tern sea" in Norwegian and should be pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. The fall publishing season has about || | reached its fruition. Most of the en- ||| trants of the race are now entered ||| and it remains only to be seen which [J{of them will be those strong to whom {|| the race is given. William Bolitho, author of "Murder for Profit," writes from Vancluse, France, it is reported, "that he lives in complete solitude there and rears pea- cocks and white turkeys." "New Schools in the Old World" Carleton Washburne, author of "New Schools in the Old World," needs no introduction to people of the north shore and, in fact, is nationally known because of his work in connection with TIDES By Ada & Julian Street A surging novel of Chicago in the days of the World's Fair. Doubleday, Page & Co. $2.00 the development of the Winnetka sys- tem of education which has attracted the attention of educators all over the world. The book is the result of his studies of European schools and has been written in collaboration with Myron M. Stearns, whom he met on his return voyage. Twelve outstanding school systems, five which are in England, that have departed radically from the orthodox ways of teaching, are dis- cussed briefly--their history, methods and the results given. The accounts of Mr. Washburne's investigations are very readable and most interesting to the layman as well as to the teacher for the author has An important book! REVELRY By Samuel Hopkins Adams One of the big books of the year. A story of American pol- itics--the easy-going Prince of Good Fellows who became also President of the United States. Boni & Liveright $2.00 the happy faculty of seeming to take his readers with him on his pilgrimage {to these foreign institutions of learn- ing. Certainly, the United States has much to learn from conservative | Europe and as to progress methods of teaching, THE DANCING FLOOR JOHN BUCHAN A thrilling mysterious romance of the Greek islands. "A new book by John Buchan is always Shops of Distinction Discriminating children in- sist upon having their books bought at A WALDEN SHOP! May we send you our recommended Juvenile List? : THE WALDEN BOOK SHOPS 307 Plymouth Court 410 No. Michigan Ave. CHICAGO an event . . to be highly recommended." Cleve- \ land Topics. $2.50 Houghton Mifflin Co. 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- : a what happens to Clodi Dil- lon. Henry Holt & Co. $2.50 Reviews of New Books ton. savor. interesting and work. written spring cleaning. H My only criticism of it a literature today. She is a write interest and importance of th work. "My Mortal Enemy" I like less than most of Miss Cather's books. pared inevitably because of its theme and method of presentation with "A Lost Lady," it does not stand up well, for me, under the test. has reached here the summit of her striving for condensation, and I fear she has carried it too far. may be perfectly tempered steel, yet it is too fine a point, when it pricks us we do not feel it. The other criticism which is most obvious is that the interpreting char- acter instead of being one of vital in- terest as was Noel in "A Lost Lady," is an entirely commonplace person. Therefore everything she says loses in As I said before, however, this does not keep the book from being an important piece of Miss Cathe --EsTHER GOULD. "George Washington, the Image and the Man""--W. E. Woodward. W. E. Woodward has book on Washington which is like a good vigorous doesn't waver with his broom before the old cherished conceptions, unless they have a solid basis in fact out they go with the rest of the accumu- lated dust of the ages. a refreshing clarity and brightness, even if sometimes we are forced to sneeze during the process of cleaning. Mr. Woodward has made a careful and comprehensive study of Washing- ton and the life of colonial America before writing his book. Which gives it an air of perfect conviction, and makes for us a wide and interesting background with many facts which are not usually considered in a study of that period. For instance we have not most of us faced ¢he true status of our colonial ancestors: colonial American was a wiry farmer with an ignorant mind and a tough hide, living on an impassable road and existing on rough food, hard work and an urgent spirit of self reliance." There is a good deal that is inter- esting and provocative in the book and as a general study .of the time it is excellent. a story of the man is that the author does not seem really to like Washing- For an entirely just picture, isn' it necessary to have, not worship sure- ly, but honest liking? a e The result is "The average S t "My Mortal Enemy"--Willa Cather. Willa Cather is certainly one of the most interesting and significant figures in American becomes platitudinous. who is not content to sit down with the good old frame before her and fit in new contents, she is an experimen- ter, an originator. And if in the course of her experimenting there are books that we like less than others, this is natural, and it does not detract from This Tr L] Com- r While it EARLY AUTUMN By Louis Bromfield "By all odds Mr. Bromfield's best book and an important American novel as well."--Phila. Ledger. Stokes N.Y. ex !