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WINNETKA TALK August 13, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON New! Barberry Bush Kathleen Norris Doubleday, Page 8 Co. ....$2.00 The Bacchante Robert Hichens Cosmopolitan « «+ vv cvvu1 $2.50 Silent Guests A. E. Forrest Pascal Covigi ve . - «ev vvis von $2.00 Witch Wood John Buchan Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ...$2.50 Miss Brown of XY O E. Phillips Oppenheim Little, Brown 8 Co. ...... $2.00 Meanwhile H. G. Wells Poran »s:0. Sad denfaiee $2.50 The "Canary" Murder Case 8. 8. Van Dine Scribner's. ose. ov. ies $2.00 Murder in the Maze J. J. Connington Little, Brown 8 Co. ...... $2.00 Trader Horn Simon © Schuster ........ $4.00 The Flower Show Denis Mackail Houghton, Mifflin 8 Co. ...$2.50 Elbert Hubbard of East Au- rora Felix Shay Wise Co. ............ $3.50 LORD'S BOOK SHOP Just Inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS DID YOU KNOW THAT-- Shelby Little, the wife of R. H. L., editor of the "Line o' Type," has just published a word-changing book entitled "This to That?" At this late date Wayne B. Wheel- er goes from wet to dry in the above mentioned book? Gosset and Dunlap are the publish- ers of a new dollar edition of out- standing books of recent date. Up to the present writing the edition in- cludes Bromfield's "The Green Bay Tree," Barrington's "Divine Lady," Cather's "Professor's House," Whar- ton's "Mother's Recompense," Wal- pole's "Cathedral," Burt's "Interpre- ter's House," Anderson's "Dark Laughter," Parrish's "Perennial Bach- elor," Glasgow's "Barren Ground," Hergesheimer's "Three Black Pen- nies," Swinnerton's "Elder Sister," Forbes' "O Genteel Lady," Stern's "Thunderstorm," Forster's "Passage to India," and Millin's "God's Step- children." With books of this type at the price of a round-trip ticket to the Loop it will undoubtedly prove advisable to risk causing the bankruptcy of Bala- ban and Katz by staying at home one evening a week for real enterrain- ment. Fiction Meanwhile H. GCG. Wells: iav.iia $2.50 A Good Woman Louis Bromfield .......... $2.50 Barberry Bush Kathleen Norris .......... $2.00 Wolf Song Harvey Fergusson ....... $2.50 The Ship Sails On Nordahl Grief ........... $2.50 The "Canary" Murder Case SS: Van'Dine iii adver $2.00 Children's Books The Boy Collector's Handbook A. Hyatt Verrill ......... $2.00 Eight Little Plays for Children Rose Fyleman ........... $1.25 Welcome Barbara Kathleen Cooney ........ $1.00 Miscellaneous By-Ways of the Tropic Sea Hermann Norden ........ $5.00 The Problem Child AS. Neill .......-.o000. $2.00 Balzac Rene Benjamin .......... $5.00 "WE" By Charles A. Lindbergh $2.50 Chandlers Downtown Evanston Phone University 123 Bacheller's "Dawn" New Story of Time of Christ "DAWN" by Irving Bacheller Irving Bacheller has written a very sweet and kindly story in "Dawn, a Lost Romance of the time of Christ," though it is .not a strong one. Had he grasped his materials with a firm- er hand we would have been drawn more intimately into that distant le- gendary age. As it is we hover near the gates but we do not go in. Mr. Bacheller has chosen to give a flavor of authenticity to his story by a "Foreword" in which he speaks of some ancient and interesting personal records of the time of Christ which were discovered in the last century. He does not say that his story is bas- ed on these but leads us to infer that perhaps it is. In any case, "Dawn" is the story of a woman of Colossae, Doris, by name, who was converted to the Christian faith and lived through the stirring days of Christ's ministry and the later days of the beginnings of the Christian church. It was this Doris of whom Christ said "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her" and it was al- so this woman who was instrumental in bringing about the conversion of Paul of Tarsus. : Then in the latter days of her life after these stirring events have pass- ed almost into legend, Doris of Co- lossae became a preacher or story- teller of the great things she had seen. She became known as "The Woman of the Great Memories." It is the record of her memories that we have here. There is much of in- cidental interest in the book, in the painting of the background of the times as well as a great deal that is appealing in the "romance" itself. --EsraER GouLD. Lindbergh's Genius Explained in "We" Perhaps there has never been pub- lished so scathing a denunciation ol the American tendency to screamer- journalism than Colonel Charles - A. Lindbergh's own story of his life and his epochal trans - Atlantic . flight. "We." It destroys entirely the "Lucky Lindy" and "the flying fool" of the frenzied dispatches of the correspond- ents and places in his stead a man who has a veritable genius for detail and practical foresight. Col. Lindbergh evidently has no imagination of the human interest variety as there is a dearth of any information regarding what might be considered personalities. His imagin- ation is entirely for the mechanical and this characteristic is evidenced in the purely autobiographic passages of the book. The lack of introspec- tiveness may prove a disappointment to a number of the 50,000 advance buyers who expected an "inside" story but it should quell any doubts as to the authenticity of its source. Any man who accomplished what Lind- bergh has done, would self-evident- ally be too busy to bother with his psychological reactions. Regardless of the apocryphal qual- ities of the book, there are some ele- ments of the book which could not be figments of imagination and the man is, as might be expected, a broth- er of the eagle. He is not a writer but he is a man, in the best sense of that much maligned word. Pot Shots at Pot Boilers OBERT BENCHLEY in his latest book, "The Early Worm," is as usual the polite humorist playing the shrewd fool of literary tradition. This astuteness is most clearly defined in the essay, "What College Did to Me," wherein he remarks: "My college edu- cation was no hap-hazard affair. My courses were all selected with a definite aim in view--no classes before 11 in the morning or after 2:30 in the afternoon, and nothing on Saturday at all." And it is generally true enough to make it the most delightful ridicule of the elec- tive system that we have ever encoun- tered. The illustrations by Gluyas Wil- liams raises a question in our mind as to whether Williams draws Benchley types, or Benchley writes about Wil- liams' types, they are so perfect a com- bination. [J] HAT most apt of the diagnosticians of the theater, George Jean Na- than, has as usual, found the perfect adjective for Maurine Watkin's play "Chicago." In the preface to the play which has just been published by Knopf, Mr. Nathan describes it as a caricature. We saw the play when we were in New York but had been baf- fled by the fact that it was neither satire, drama, comedy, farce nor like anything we have ever seen. We are under the impression that the play will make excellent reading. HERE is another of those expatri- ate novels now on sale; "The Gypsy," by W. B. Trites, bound in yel- low paper in the best Continental man- ner. There is one psychologically in- teresting passage in the story: the re- actions of the main character after he has allowed his gypsy paramour to poison his wife. The style of the book has an unreal and barbaric atmosphere hut we were inclined to weary of the long drawn-out peroration of tortured remorse and self-hatred. We wonder how many "authors" would be com- pelled to work for a living if it weren't for the "degenerate American artist" who lives abroad and the inhibitions of those of us who lack the artistic tem- perament on which to blame our major transgressions. OBERT O. BALLOU in an article on "God and the Groceryman," by Harold Bell Wright, says that if a man build a better mousetrap than his neighbor it is a matter of little im- portance, if any. But if he build any kind of a mousetrap and sells a million copies of it, it becomes a matter of significance. If he build the second and third exactly like the first, and name them "Monce Maze" and "The Mouse's Dilemma" and sells a million of each. it is evidence of eieantic abil- ity and method behind this phen- omenon. This in casral remark on the hardy perennial variety of Mr, Wright's popularity. We suvsne~t Mr. Ballou's sarcasm, but if he really wants an un- solvable nuzzle let him stndv the cir- culation figures of "True Stories" and the rest of the Bernarr MacFadden panacea. YF vou are a Cabell enthusiast and it 1 has <eemed an unconscionable time since "The Silver Stallion" anneared, we suooest that von explore the en- chanted realms of "The House-of-Lost- Identity," bv Donald Corey. B. B. a