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WINNETKA TALK May 7, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Eleanor of Aquitaine Charles B. Reed Druid Press... ccc $2.50 Mirrors of the Year Edited by Grant Overton Stokes... ... coded $4.00 That Island Archibald Marshall Dodd, Mead 8 Co. ....... $2.00 The Immortal Marriage Gertrude Atherton Boni ¥ Liveright ........ $2.50 Our Generation By One of Us The Century Company ....$1.50 The Triumph of Youth Jacob Wasserman Boni © Liweright ........ $2.00 An Aid de Camp of Lee Papers of Colonel Charles Marshall Little, Brown 8 Co. ...... $4.00 America Comes of Age Andre Siegfried Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. ....$3.00 Rhapsody Dream Novel By Arthur Schnitzler Simon © Schuster ........ $1.50 Bessarabia Charles Upson Clark Dodd, Mead 8 Co. ...... $3.50 The Arrow Pleased to Meet You Two Books by Christopher Morley Doubleday, Page ¥ Co. Each $1.50 Bernard Quesnay Andre Maurois Appleton More New Stationery Lovely imports--and many fine papers from the famed domestic houses. Lord's--First Floor Just inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS | DID YOU KNOW-- That "The Green Hat" is to be dramatized in the movies and Norma Talmadge has been suggested for the part? That the Pulitzer prizes in the different fields of literature were an- nounced last Monday by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum- bia university? That "Marching Men" by James Boyd, the author of "Drums" will be the "Book of the Month" for May? Children Pick Favorites The Youth's Companion has been conducting an inquiry as to the favor- ite books of its young readers. Over a thousand children responded to the Companion's request for information on this point. Among the girls it was found that Louisa M. Alcott's "Little Women" headed the list, receiving 54 per cent more votes than the second most popular title. Next in order came "Heidi," "Black Beauty," "Pollyanna" and the "Bobbsey Twins" series. The boys placed "Treasure Island" first and "Tom Sawyer" second, followed by "Robinson Crusoe," "Robin Hood" and the "Tom Swift" series. Does this mean that the younger generation is more conservative than its elders or merely that its liberty of choice is more restricted? --New York Times New and Interesting Books for Your Library Fiction Immortal Marriage Gertrude Atherton ...... $2.50 Young Men in Love Michel Arlen .......: For in 35.50 Mother Knows Best Edna Ferber ... a... 0 $2.50 Andy Brandt's Ark Edna Bryner ....... iv.0n $2.50 Rebel Bird Diana Patrick-........«s& $2.00 Magic Garden Gene Stratton-Porter .... Brother Saul Donn Byrne"... ios $2.50 Miscellaneous Harvest of the Years Luther Burbank with Wilbur Hall .o.ooovevr ns $4.00 Fire Under the Andes, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant $4 In China (French Academy Prize) Abel Bonnard ............ $5. Modern English Playwrights, John W. Cunliffe ........ $3 Marco Millions, (a play) James O'Neill ....covvenrs $2.00 Rise of American Civilization (2 vols.) Charles & Mary Beard. .$12.50 Full line of Nature and Garden Books : Subscriptions Taken for All Magazines ~ Chandlers 630 DAVIS STREET University 123 Reviews of New Books "THE ROAD TO THE TEMPLE"--Susan Glaspell. _ If the modern necessity for rush- ing everything into print is likely to produce many works of such sincer- ity and beauty as Susan Glaspell's story of her husband, George Cram Cook, "The Road to the Temple," then we are less to be condoled with for that modern tendency than we had thought. George Cram Cook had always meant to write a book about himself, about his troubled, seeking, trium- phant and defeated journey through life, yet he died without that book having been written. At least not having been formed into what we should call a book, merely scattered here and there on bits of paper which were present at the moment and on which it was his habit to leave the thought which had just struck across his mind. But these like live coals from a scattered fire still glow with heat and life. For instance, "I step outside. Stars. The northeast wind rushes steady and pure and cold over the world. Autumn came an hour ago." Or "To do that which endures--to build a house, a bridge, a book that lasts--so only can one preserve one's past." To preserve his past was to this man even when he was no more than a boy, a duty, a sacred trust. So many ages of living had gone 'to make this individual who was himself that he felt his responsibility as mani- fold. A queer humble conception in this age of sharp individualism and wanton use or misuse of life. This conception had so strong a hold upon this man that he lived for a long vista of time--lived for the limitless future and the long past. The differ- ence in point of view created by the conception made of him quite a differ- ent creature from ourselves, indifferent to the things which those who live for the ordinary span of years call success The Woman on the BALCONY By Rose Caylor The story of an unloved wife told with understanding and poignance. It will find a welcome with those who are tired of sentimental trivial- ity. It has for background the color and violence of Chicago. Boni & Liveright $2.00 "We can't keep out of little hells that other people are making." SPRING TIDES By R. E. Pinkerton Romance! Adventure! Rugged characterizations! All these appealing qual- ities for a novel which the | author displayed so well in "The Test of Donald Nor- ton." Net $2.00. Chicago-Reilly © Lee-New York Pulitzer Prizes Awarded The Pulitzer prizes for 1926 have been awarded as follows: NOVEL--"Early Autumn" by Louis Bromfield, prize, $1,000. PLAY--"In Abraham's Bosom" by Paul Green, prize, $1,000. POETRY--"Fiddler's Farewell" by Leonora Speyer, prize, $1,000. BIOGRAPHY--"Whitman" by Emory Halloway, prize, $1,000. HISTORY OF U. S.--"Pinckney's Treaty," by Samuel Flagg Bemis, prize, $2,000. JOURNALISM--Canton Daily News, prize, gold medal. The awarding of the Pulitzer prizes this week recalls Sinclair Lewis' spec- tacular refusal of the novel prize last year. Paul Green is an assistant professor of philosophy in the University of North Carolina. The medal was given to the Canton Daily News of Canton, Ohio "for the most interested and meritorious public service rendered by any American newspaper during the year." It will be remembered that the editor, Don R. Mellet, was assassinated in the fight which this paper made against the criminal element in that city. Edna Ferber's new book of short stories "Mother Knows Best" contains some entertaining writing by this young woman who is at het best in the short story. and happiness and fame. As his wife says, his life was one "of achievement which is most distinguished in its de- feats. He did not pause for success, he did not wait for it. He was on his way." And this sense of detachment, this aloofness from the things of the world gave to his life a spiritual quali- ty, and to us who read of it a sense of humility as when we look up and catch a gleaming glimpse of a shoeting star which started we know not where and is going we know not where, but is "on its way." "THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE" G. K. Chesterton. The scene of the story is laid at Seawood Abbey, country place of Lord 'Seawood, wealthy English mine own- er. The opening is the preparation for some private theatricals which are under way, in which a group of young people are going to dress up in medieval costume and go about spouting resounding phrases. It so happens that being disappointed at the last moment in one of their actors the librarian of Seawood Abbey is dragged out from his dim corner and put into the role of King Richard the Lion-Hearted. Now the librarian throws himself with such zeal into the role and plays it with such whole-heartedness that he makes the play more real than the life about him, not only for himself but for all the others. So when it comes time to change back from green forest suit to ordinary clothes he re- fuses to do so, saying that he feels more natural this way. Now this is an awfully good idea for a satire, in fact I find as I re- count the plot that unlike most books to which one cannot possibly do jus- tice in such an outline, in this case there has been more than justice done it. In other words the idea is much better than its execution. For the ex- ecution while it is witty and amusing at times, on the whole simply refuses to "come off." --EsraEr GouLp. | | 4