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WINNETKA TALK April 2, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 An interesting NEW list of GOOD books. The Old Countess Anne Douglas Sedgwick Houghton Mifflin Co. ....$2.50 Four O'clock Mary Borden Doubleday Page 8 Co. ....$2.50 Liliecrona's Home Selma Lagerlof E. P. Dutton 8 Co. ..... $2.00 All at Sea Carolyn Wells Lippincott ....... easy $2.00 Singing Soldiers John J. Niles Charles Scribner's 8 Sons ..$3.00 Jeremy Takes a Hand Cornelia Kane Rathbone Appleton .............. $2.00 The Red Pavilion John Gunther Harper % Brothers ....... $2.00 Ann Decides Robert Keable Putnam: i050 Tem $2.00 The Pacer Viola Paradise Dutton, .-. -. Ig ea $2.00 Jill E. M. Delafield Harper ¥ Brothers ....... $2.00 x i French Tint Stationery $1.00 to $3.00 Mauve, buff, gray and white--lined :nvelopes. Plume Pens to match the linings, $1.50 and $3.50. Lord's--First Floor Just Inside the West Davis Street Door. NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW-- That Jack Black, the author of "You Can't Win," is supervising crime scenes for the famous play- ers-Lasky corporation? That the James Tait Memorial prize for 1926 has been awarded in England to Geoffry Scott for his book "The Portrait of Zelide?" = That a former member of Par- liament will publish soon a book describing the civilization and re- lations of other nations to the United States under the significant title, "Freedom Falters?" That "An Experiment With Time" by J. W. Dunne is an ac- count of investigations and conclu- sions made by the author follow- ing a series of dreams which he had? Lawrence that legendary figure, leader of the Arab revolt against Turkey, has written the story of his adventures in "Revolt in the Desert." This is an abridgement of the longer book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" which having been published in editions of five and ten volumes respectively is almost a legend itself. Lawrence's story is amazing, more like that of an Ali Baba than a twentieth century British officer. At present because of his disappointment over the results of the war Lawrence is serving under an assumed name as a private in the British army. The "American Year Book" for 1926 is just out. It is indispensable for everyone who wants to keep posted on events and changes in America in any line of activity--educational, political, commercial, scientific, literary, or ar- tistic. Fascism in Italy was eight years old on the 28th of March. For a real- istic, rapidly-readable resume of this regime, we recommend "Italy Under Mussolini," by William Bolitho. The Road to the Temple A kindling biography by Susan Glaspell of her husband George Cram Cook A moving story of the American who found his true home among the Shep- herds of Greece. $3.00 Frederick A. Stokes Co. Jus, The haunting story of lovely, lonely Juanita THE SEA GULL By KATHLEEN NORRIS Doubleday, Page & Co. ~~ $2.00 Reviews of New Books "The Old Countess"--Anne Douglas Sedgewick. Fantastic, eerie, threatening as the sky just before a storm, is this book of Anne Douglas Sedgewick's "The Old Countess." From the moment that Dick Graham looks up from his canvas and sees the old woman stand- ing there, watching him with her great owl-like eyes, there is a restive feeling of suspense in the air. Graham feels it and it frightens him so that he almost wants to run away, and Jill his wife feels it, though she is not given to temperamental forebod- ings. But they stay in spite of these warnings, in the little French "town, and Graham starts to paint the old lady's portrait. Then one day Marthe Luderac re- turns. As a character Marthe Luder- ac is a triumph of subtle portrayal. Quiet, grave, there is a shining spir- itual beauty about her which wins the love of all those who know her. This is the kind of character which we usually have to take on faith, believing that she is lovely because everybody says so. It is a tribute to Miss Sedge- wick that she makes us see it for our- selves, that she has, aside from her gift for portraying characters a gift for making us feel affection for them, and also believing in the affection which others feel. It is a not incon- siderable gift. Graham and Jill both feel this beauty and power in Marthe. Graham loves her as he has never loved his wife and Jill loves her enough to be willing to give her husband up to her. But the old countess, "who is herself a marvelous creation, and who though over eighty loves Graham with the passion of youth, stands in the way. The story is worked out to a consist- ent end. Miss Sedgewick has been writing novels for many years and never does she disappoint us. "The Old Coun- tess" has her penetrating analysis of character, her brilliant style--with so many amateurs cluttering the pub- lishers' lists it is restful as an orches- tra after a brass band or a steam Calliope. --EstHER GouLp. Of Maxim Gorky's widely hailed no- vel "Decadence" the N. Y. Times says: "He has given us an intoler- ably lengthy narrative that frequently descends to the trivial and rarely rises to a moving height." Will Durant' s--The Story of HILOSOP 127 *® Thousand At All Bookstores--$5.00 SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Inc. Publishers 37 Wes" 57th Street New York Winnetka Library The Winnetka Public Library has recently been the recipient of a very gracious gift from the Garden club of Winnetka and Mr. and Mrs. Langdon Pearse. The club added a number of books to the garden collection and gave a year's subscription to the "Horticulture" magazine and Mr. and Mrs. Pearse gave a three years' sub- scription to the "Flower Grower" mag- azine. We feel now, that, with Mr. Beebe's gift of garden books a few years ago, we have a very complete collection on horticulture. The people in the village are all in- terested in their gardens and the book and magazines, dealing with that subject, are in constant demand. But one does not need to be interested in a special garden, nor be seeking in- formation for its welfare, to find many of these books alluring, for the pic- tures of gardens and flowers are of sufficient" attraction. One book espe- cially, "Modern Gardens, British and Foreign," has the most delightful illus- trations and is sure to give pleasure to many. Other garden books in the library are: Barnes, P. T.--House Plants. Stout, Mrs. C. H--The Amateur"s Book of the Dahlia. Kruhm, Adolph--The Vegetable Garden. Hottes, A. C.--A Little Book of Annuals. Bailey, lL. H.--Cultivated Evergreens. Bailey, L. H.--Manual of Gardening. Bailey L. E.--Principles of Fruit-Growing. Bailey, L. H.--The Pruning Manual. Barnard, Charles--Talks about the Soil. Bennett, I. D.--Making of a Flower Gar- den. Bolte, J. W.--Back Yard Farmer. Bowles, BE. A.--My Garden in Spring. Bowles, EB. A.--My Garden in Summer. Brewster, K. L.--The Little Garden for Little Money. Brooks, S. W.--A Garden with House At- tached. Cloud, Dorothy--Culture of Perennials. Clutton-Brock, A.--Studies in Gardening. Corbett, L. C.--Garden Farming. . Croy, M. S.--Putnam's Garden Handbook. Dorner, H. B.--Window Gardening. Duncan, Frances--Home Vegetables and Small Fruits. Duncan, Frances--Joyous Art of Garden- ing. Egan, W. C.--Making a Garden of Peren- nials. Eley, Charles--Gardening for the 20th Century. Ely, H. R--Another Hardy Garden Book. Ely, H. R.--A Woman's Hardy Garden. Findlay, Hugh--Practical Gardening. Green, S. B.--Vegetable Gardening. jrubb & Guilford--The Potato. Harding, Mrs. E.--Peonies in the Little Garden. Holland, L.. B.--The Garden Bluebook. Hubbard & Kimball--Landscape Design. Hutcheson, M. B.--The Spirit of the Gar- den. Hall, Bolton--The Garden Yard. Hunn & Bailey--Amateur's Practical Gar- den Book. Hutchinson, F. K.--Our Country Home. Jekyll, Gertrude--Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden. Jonsson-Rose, N.--Lawns and Gardens. King, Mrs. F.--Chronicles of the Garden. King, Mrs. F.--The Little Garden. King, Mrs. F.--Pages from a Garden Note-book. King, Mrs. F.--Variety in the Little Gar- en. King, Mrs. F.--Well Considered Garden. Loyd, J. W.--Productive Vegetable Grow- ng. McFarland, J. H--The Rose in America. O'Brien, Constance--The Guild of the Garden Lovers. Ortloff, H. S.--A Garden Bluebook of An- nuals and Biennials. Peabody, H. C.--Outside the House Beau- ul. Phillpotts, Eden--My Garden. Powell, E. P.--The Country Home. Powell, E. P.--Orchard and Fruit Garden. Rexfod, E. E.--Four Seasons in the Gar- en. Robins, M. C.--The Rescue of an Old Place. Roberts, L. P.--The Farmstead. Roe, E. P.--The Home Acre. Rockwell, F. F.--Home Vegetable Garden- ing. Saint Maur, K. V.--Selfsupporting Home, Saylor, H. H.--Making a Rose Garden. Shelton, Louise--Continuous Bloom in America. FY