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It is written in the form of a dream story and has more appeal than the majority of Christmas stories. --TaE BookMAN MR. CHICK Lucy Fitch Perkins The author of the always popular Twin Series tells a new story for children about the strange adventures of Mr. hick who set out with his (« dog, Solomon, to see the world. Illustrated $2.00 Houghton Mifflin Co. TIDES By Ada & Julian Street A surging novel of Chicago in the days of the World's Fair. Doubleday, Page & Co. $2.00 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 Esther Gould's Christmas Suggestions In a season when even those who are supposed to know what is what, in books, are overwhelmed with their number and variety, how much more must the layman be wondering what those books should be that he was in- tending to give for Christmas. Here are a few suggestions which might be made: The first of these novels, or books in the lighter vein, would proba- bly appeal especially to men: "Early Autumn" in which Louis Brom- field tells a very competent story of New England. "Revelry" a story of political intrigue, a new departure for Samuel Hop- kins Adams. "Fallodon Papers," in which Viscount Grey tells of the things in life he has really cared for. "Harvey Gerrard's Crime," a new and good Oppenheim. "ILoord Raingo," Arnold Bennett's inter- esting story of English intrigue. Here are some more lighter books which would appeal more especially to women : "My Mortal Enemy," Willa Cather's delicate story of a woman's defeat. "Her Son's Wife," Dorothy Canfield, as competent as usual. "Tides," Ada and Julian Street tell a tale of old Chicago and later New York "The Dark Dawn," a dramatic story of the northwest farm country by Martha Ostenso "Angel," DuBose Heyward writes as sympathetically of the southern mountain people as of the negroes. "Galahad," another of John Erskine's inimitable stories. "Custody Children," an unusually feel- ing story of a woman in society, by Everett Young. "Wedlock," another powerful novel by Jacob Wassermann. "The Dancing Floor," a colorful ro- mance of the Greek Islands, by John Buchan. "Show Boat," enough said. "Bellarion," as good a Sabatini as "Captain Blood." An immediate hit! MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' By Herbert and Edward Quick Here is the story of a great splendid epoch in the Destined to smashing, building of America. become a classic. Fully Illustrated, $3.00 Henry Holt & Co. N.Y. Everybody is talking about The Hard-Boiled Virgin By Frances Newman It is serious without being sol- emn and gay and clever without being merely facetious. $2.50 Boni & Liveright N.Y. Reviews of New Books "Galahad"--John Erskine. Anyone who describes John Ers- kine's books with only the sparkling adjectives of "witty," "brilliant," "orig- inal," "Scintillating," and thinks he has said enough has made a mistake. True they are all those things but they are something more. In each case--in the character of Helen of Troy and Queen Guinevere--Mr. Erskine has taken a character whom we have supposed to be perhaps not exactly in the wrong-- but at least not so positively admirable as her contemporaries, and shown that she was the truly admirable one. That they, the ones who got the halos, were merely mediocre and therefore appre- ciated by a mediocre world while she was so unconvéntionally above the mediocre that the common herd never grasped the principles of her greatness. And in this later book, "Galahad," under all the verbal jousting in which his characters are as proficient, surely, as Launcelot ever was with the spear. Mr. Erskine puts into the mouth of Guinevere some truths which are pro- found, dreams at some time of every woman. As when she says, "I could love only one kind of man--the kind that makes a difference in the world, who builds something, who always goes on." And she adds with a deeper touch of sadness, "I once thought Arthur was that." Much could be said of the sauvity, the competence, the brilliance, of Mr. Erskine's style which would be true. But for me, its most charming feature, permeating it as the subtle profundity permeates the subject matter, is the delicate rhythm, a rhythm which is simple and complete, as in this sent- ence, "She did not raise her head when Elaine came in--perhaps because she came in so quietly." --Esraer GouLp. "The Romantic Comedians," a sophis- ticated novel by Ellen Glasgow. "It happened in Peking," Louis Jordan Miln is entertaining as usual about China "Sweepings," Lester Cohen writes a good novel of Chicago. "The Time of Man," a first novel by Elizabeth Madox Roberts hailed as one of the masterpieces of the year. That is a mere smattering of the season's good books. Some of the more serious things which men or wo- men would enjoy, are: "The Story of Philosophy," anyone who hasn't read it should read this important book by Will Durant. "The Human Adventure," Professor Breasted and James Harvey Rob- inson tell us the story of our lives. "A Victorian American," the first mo- dern life of Longfellow by Herbert Gorman. "George Washington, the Image and the Man," the first honest biogra-. phy of Washington. "Life and Letters of Joseph Conrad," by Jean Aubrey, a welcome book for any lover of Conrad. "On the Trail of Ancient Man," the story of Roy Chapman Andrew's famous expeditions into Central Asia.