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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 26 Mar 1927, p. 39

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| | i i i WINNETKA TALK March 26, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 BOOKS You May Enjoy The Sea Gull Kathleen Norris Doubleday, Page 8 Co. Black April Julia Peterkin Bobbs-Merrill $2.00 $2.50 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. $2.50 Jennifer John Palmer Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. Wilhelm Hohenzollern Emil Ludwig $2.00 Putnam The Cheerful Cherub Rebecca McCann Pascal Covici Love Is Enough Francis Brett Young Alfred A. Knopf 2 volumes $5.00 $2.00 $5.00 Daisy Mayme A Play by George Kelly Little, Brown % Co. $1.50 Caponsacchi A play built on the story of Browning's The Ring and the Book Arthur Goodrich and Rose A. Palmer Appleton $2.00 Collegiate Ripple Whiting 8 Cook's $1.50 A pound of paper and two pack- ages of envelopes. Heavy, vellum- quality paper in attractive shades of gray and tan, and white. Lord's--First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That "God and the Grocery- man" is the novel title of Harold Bell Wright's next book? That the winners of the Pulit- zer prize for the best biography are Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, the book being the story of their mother? That Walter Lippincott of the publishing company by that name passed away recently? That the third book of The Soul Enchanted series is being pub- lished in France this month? Just Paragraphs Our contention that "Tar, A Mid- west Childhood" by Sherwood Ander- son was more a collection of peaks in short story writing strung together with low places, has been justified by the fact that an incident from it has taken an O. Henry prize for a short story. How gratifying to have one's udgment backed up for once. Ring Lardner has been induced to write his autobiography- His "Story of a Wonder Man" tells how he in- troduced Jane Austin to Al Smith in Albany, how he attended the inaug- ural ball when it was held in Seattle and of his declining years in Great Neck. After having read it we will undoubtedly know a great deal about all biographies. Keep Your Library Alive and Interesting THE NEWEST FICTION | DAWN Irving Bacheller ....... $2.50 ARIANE . Clande Bnet ...-+<. vu $2.50 LOVE IS ENOUGH (2 vols.) Francis Brett Young....$5.00 ELMER GANTRY Sinclair Lewis ........ $2.50 SPRING'S BANJO Horatio Winslow ...... $2.00 TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY Dudley Carew ........ $2.00 TRAVEL -- BIOGRAPHY MISCELLANY RIVER THAMES, FROM SOURCE TO MOUTH RF. VN. Morley: 5. 5. $6.00 ORIENT EXPRESS John Dos Passon ...... $3.50 A METHODIST SAINT Herbert Asbury ........ $5.00 THE POILUS Joseph Delteil ........ $3.00 THE BABBITT WARREN C.. Bi: M. Joad 0. ois $2.50 MAIN STREET AND WALL STREET William Z. Ripley ..... $2.50 | Subscriptions Taken to All Magazines THE BOOK NOOK Chandlers] 630 DAVIS STREET | Phone University 123 Reviews of New Books "A WREATH OF CLOUD"--Lady Mura- saki. Translated by Arthur Waley. Again, by the publication of another volume of the Japanese classic, "The Tale of Genji," we are enabled to follow further the adventures of this charmed and charming man. This volume for reasons which it is not easy to determine seems more delightful than the other two. Perhaps it is that Genji grown to mature years and mel- lowed by his experiences, more readily wins our sympathy, perhaps that he and his friends have by familiarity be- come our friends, too, or perhaps sim- ply that we are more able to keep them and their intricate names and relation- ships straight in our limited Western minds. He builds a palace, spacious and charming, with delightful gardens, in which his various concubines are hous- ed in splendoug and with strict eye to equality. Genji has seen too well what jealousy can do. Here they live for the most part in peace and equanimity. It is really a remarkable thing, this novel written before the year 1020. It is modern in its outlook, exceedingly penetrating in its psychology; except for some quaintness of speech and a tendency to poetry which has never been a characteristic of Anglo Saxon races the characters might be living in any place at any time. None but the Japanese, however, would bewail the loss of friend and father thus, "Spring comes, and still the sweet birds warble as of old, but altered and bereft are they that sit beneath the blossoming tree." --EsraER GouLp. Will Durant' s-- The Story of HILOSOPH 127 *» Thousand At All Bookstores--$5.00 SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Inc. Publishers 37 Wes" 57th Street New York Popular Books (March Bookman) Fiction Ferber--Show Boat Galsworthy--The Silver Spoon Erskine--The Private Life of Helen of Troy Dreiser--An American Tragedy Glasgow--The Romantic Comedians Canfield--Her Son's Wife Wren--The Dark Dawn Deeping--Sorrell and Son Wren--Beau Sabreur Erskine--Galahad Norris--Hildegarde General Durant--The Story of Philosophy Dorsey--Why We Behave Like Human Beings Barton--The Book Nobody Knows Barton--The Man Nobody Knows Lindsey and Evans--The Revolt of Modern Youth Sandburg--Abraham Lincoln Browne--This Believing World Sullivan--Our Times deKruif--Microbe Hunters Halliburton--The Royal Road to Ro- mance > Beeebe--The Arcturus Adventure Beer--The Mauve Decade "Who Is Foster Johns?" "Who is Foster Johns?" will be the spring song of 1927. "The Victory Murder" is his first novel and he has taken a pseudonym because he is bet- ter known as editor, dramatist, profes- sional epicure, newspaper man. Is it George Chappell? Is it Alexander Woollcott? No. No. This is worse than finding that synonym to fill in the ten letter word. I'm against all noms de plume. I have never--well, hardly ever--used one. Charles Cald- well Dobie, who used to be an insur- ance man, is back in San Francisco, writing short stories. They are to be collected within the next few months. He is, as usual, represented in the "O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1926." (The Gossip Shop) The Bookman Among the books which Edna Dean Baker suggested in a recent talk as helpful for the parent who wishes to give his child the best in nature study, are "Nature Study and Life" by Wil- liam Hodges and "A Study of Animal Families in School" by Laura B. Gar- rett of the Bureau of Educational Experiment, New York City. THE KINGDOM of HAPPINESS By Jeddu Krishnamurti With an Introduction by Annie Besant The man acclaimed by millions as a spiritual leader gives his vision of a pathway of happiness. Boni and Liveright $1.50 Frederick A. StokesCo. $2.00 LOTUS of the DUSK By Dorothy Graham A novel of present day China in which Liane, daughter of the Russian and the Manchu races and Larry Dean, a young and debonair || American, move against the color- ful background of Manchu life.

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