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WINNETKA TALK December 4, 1926 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON University 1024 Wilmette 600 => A The Book in the Role of Christmas Gift A WANDERER IN ROME E. V. Lucas THE WORLD'S BEST SHORT STORIES of 1926 Selected by 17 Famous Editors Doran $2.50 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY H. G. Wells : Macmillan. New Pictorial Edi- tion; Two Volumes. Set $15.00 JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON Claude G. Bowers Houghton, Mifflin Co. ..++35.00 OUR TIMES: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY Mark Sullivan Scribner's «ce. reer 5.00 THE COMEDIANS Louis Couperus Dotan. : sessions as neie ss $2.50 EDUCATION AND THE GOOD LIFE Bertrand Russell Boni © Liveright ........ $2.50 HARMER JOHN Hugh Walpole Doran +». ssa eveneee $2.00 MRS. MERIVALE Paul Kimball Clode + casa cov Tr $2.00 TRAIL-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE BORDER Hamlin Garland 3 Macmillan Ordering your Christmas Greeting Cards here assures you of excellent service and satisfaction. Lord's--West Davis Street Entrance NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | DID YOU KNOW-- That Louis Untermeyer has col- lected a volume of parodies which is most interesting and fairly com- plete? That the ten-cent thrillers of forty years ago, which boys read secretly are being acquired by book collectors? That Bernard Shaw is reputed to be the wealthiest literary crafts- man today? That "The Wind" by Dorothy Scarborough is to be produced in the movies with Lillian Gish tak- ing one of the leading characters? That thirty years were spent by William Dana Orcutt in his "quest of the perfect book?" It would seem that Ernest Heming- way, author of "The Sun Also Rises," would be competent to describe bull fights, having had three ribs broken himself in the aena. James Bone, author of the fascin- ating "London Perambulator," has done the same for Edinburgh. We hope he has done it as well. TIDES By Ada & Julian Street A surging novel of Chicago in the days of the World's Fair. Doubleday, Page & Co. $2.00 TAR A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD In the mood of the author's great book "A Story Teller's Story" it is one of the most understanding records ever written of a happy childhood. y At all bookstores, $3.00 Boni & Liveright N.Y. <> First Editions and Rare Books Write for our AUTUMN CATALOGUE--just off the press. THE WALDEN BOOK SHOPS 410 No. Michigan Ave. 307 Plymouth Court CHICAGO Popular Books (December Bookman) Fiction 1- Show Boat... iviicvys anv Ferber 2. The Silver Spoon ..... Galsworthy 3. The Private Life of Helen of Troy EER RTA hi a a Erskine 4. An American Tragedy .... Dreiser 5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes .. Loos 6. Beau Sabreur:....... 3... & Wren 7. The Blue Window ......... Bailey S. Bean Geste:.i.c 5 vvavinss Wren QO. Her Sons Wile........... Canfield 10. The Exquisite Perdita . Barrington 11. Sorgell and Son .. M70. Deeping 12. Wild Geese... «i. Ostenso General 1. Why We Behave Like Human Beings i... Ta lii8d Dorsey 2. The Man Nobody Knows .. Barton 3. The Story of Philosophy .. Durant 4, The Book Nobody Knows . Barton 5. Abraham Lincoln ....... Sandburg 6. The Mauve Decade ........ Beer 7. OurTimes ...o....... Sullivan 8. Arcturus Adventure ........ Beebe 9. Microbe Hunters ........ de Kruif 10. The Revolt of Modern Youth ..... oT Sones §8 RES | ..... Evans 11. Jefferson and Hamilton ... Bowers 12. The Royal Road to Romance ...... Halliburton Salads Discussed A unique book which should appeal to the housewife as well as to the caterer has come to our notice--the Edgewater Beach Hotel Salad Book. A foreword by the author, Arnold Shircliffe, Caterer and assistant mana- ger of the Edgewater Beach hotel, is illuminating on this subject and reci- pes which follow, over two hundred pages, range from those for persons who are on a diet to salads which would satisfy people of the most epi- curean tastes. Four color illustrations of sixteen different salads, which are : II actual photographs, accompany the ** | recipes and are wonderfully natural. SHERWOOD The de luxe binding, together with ANDERSON'S the attractive text and illustrations, latest book makes it a book which is a joy to read, as well as one which gives practical information on that most im- portant item on the menu--the salad. An immediate hit! - MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' By Herbert and Edward Quick Here is the story of a great smashing, splendid epoch in the building of America. Destined to become a classic. Fully Illustrated, 3.00 Henry Holt & Co. N. ¥. os ot American Twins of The Revolution Lucy Fitch Perkins Another delightful volume for children by the popular author of the Twin Series. Il lustrated. $1.75. Houghton Mifflin Co. Reviews of New Books "ON THE TRAIL OF MAN"--Roy Chap- man Andrews. Roy Chapman Andrews in his "On the Trail of Ancient Man," has writ- ten not scientifically but informally the story of his Central Asiatic Ex- pedition's work in Mongolia. It opens up a new world to the layman who, it is likely, will never have a chance to go travelling off into Gobi Desert where sand and camels and bandits are the only scenery, except for flam- ing cliffs and painted deserts and nameless snow capped peaks and var- ious wild animals tinknown elsewhere in the world. i Mr. Andrews feels all this part of the romance as well as the immense thrill of finding the first known din- osaur eggs and traces of a hitherto unknown tribe of man. This wander- ing life is one which he chose above all others, if he could not have fol- lowed it he says that in an office he thinks he "would have sickened and died" He makes us understand the fascination, and the necessity which have led him on. --Esraer GouLp. "Letters to My Daughter" "Ietters to My Daughter" is the latest addition to the books by Win- netka authors. Although published anonymously it is an open secret in Chicago and north shore literary cir- cles that the author is Leslie J. Swa- backer who has long been a resident in the village. While this is the first book that he has published, Mr. Swabacker is well known as a critic and book reviewer both under his own name and also under the pseudonym of John Philip Morris. Several years ago he found -time in the midst of his various activities to start the literary page of this paper and was its first editor, serving in this capacity for over a year. The "Letters" are a series of essays in the form of letters to be read by his daughter when she reaches the age of 18. They are neither the usual Polly- annaish platitudes nor are they the ordinary sort of instruction in physi- ology. Instead they cover all these subjects but are written from the viewpoint of a man of the world who desires his daughter to see and know things as they actually are. This being the case the book will be interesting reading to everyone, start- ling to many and anathema to a few. They have already created a great deal of discussion and the book will be one that is widely read and talked about this winter. In most cases indeed, we no longer need pity the poor author. Valentine Williams, whose novel "The Key Man" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin, has returned from London to Cannes for the winter, where he does most of his writing in a kiosk (whatever that is) perched on the edge of a cliff so close to the sea that if he splits an infinitive he says half of it would fall into the Medi- terranean. :