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wr | % WINNETKA TALK December 3, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephone for Your Books: University 1024 Wil. 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Joseph Conrad-Life and Letters By G. Jean Aubry Doubleday, Page 8 Co., 2WOIS Le sa ee $10.00 Heavenly History Eleanor Follansbee Pascal Covici «..oovvvennn $2.50 The Celestial Railroad Nathaniel Hawthorne Houghton, Mifflin European Skyways Lowell Thomas Houghton, Mifflin Bismarck Emil Ludwig Little, Brown Henry Ward Beecher An American Portrait Paxton Hibben Shelley--His Life and Work Walter Edwin Peck Houghton, Mifflin The Gift in the Gauntlet Mes. Baillie Reynolds Doras. ...co vv cu venoms $2.00 Jalna Mazo de la Roche Little; Brown ..cvuviu os $2.00 Black Stream Nathalie Colby Harcoust, Brace ......... $2.50 archy and mebhitable By don marquis Doubleday, Page Co. ....$2.00 BOOKS--FIRST FLOOR LORD'S BOOKSHOP Just Inside the West Davis Street Door Faas NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Just Paragraphs ea TO The Nobel Prize has been awarded for the second time in its twenty-five years of history to a woman. Grazia Deledda, an Italian writer is the win- ner of the coveted honor, her chief work being "The Mother," a story of a remote and primitive village of peasants and shepherds, the kind of village in which she herself was born and spent her early life. Another Englishman has crossed the pond to look us over aad then to write a book about us. He is Doug- las Goldring and though his publish- ers all but promise that he won't mention Niagara Falls they did not dare do so much for prohibition. Mr. Van Loon First "AMERICA" By Hendrik Van Loon Boni & Liveright When you pick up a large lusty full- grown book like this of Hendrik Van Loon's on "America" you feel a more than usual keen desire to know just what it is like. It is all very well to take on puny companions unthought- fully--they can be laid aside readily enough in an hour. But it is quite another matter to find oneself entering into conversation with a great lusty being who could with a lift of the hand tip us over and who might choose to do so. Much has been said about taking books as companions but little, so far as we know, about the danger of taking up with these great husky volumes which may intimidate by sheer physi- cal bulk. One look at the illustrations, of which there are a profuse number, A PRIZE NOVEL "Rebellion" By Mateel Howe Farnham. Dodd Mead & Co. "The great prize novel" is the way the publishers try to make you feel that because Mateel Howe Farnham got ten thousand dollars--or was it more ?--in good hard cash for her novel, "Rebellion", it is therefore a "great" novel. It is a simple meth- od by which they so thoroughly ad- vertise the giving away of this large amount of money that the public has- tens eagerly to give it back to them. But "Rebellion" is certainly not a great novel. It just, in my opinion, squeaks under the wire of being a mediumly good one. Perhaps it is a good one for serialization, perhaps, the movies will like it, but those other two factors having to be considered, the novel-reading public has come out the small end. and we know that our companion has a humorous glint in his eye, in fact often he laughs, though not as aband- onedly as we might fear he would do. He has a sense of color, too, and a feeling for the dramatic. The latter does little to insure our safety, of course, as we may be to him a dra- matic incident ourselves. But on read- ing the first page we became reassured he has no other fish to fry. He--the volume--uader the guid- ance of Mr. Van Loon, is telling the story of America, the country about which we seem to have heard so much but know so little. It seems that back in the days of Columbus there was a shortage in the market of spices be- cause of the old trade routes to India being cut off. The situation was so acute there was much talk of finding a new route through which to bring the necessary goods. Columbus being a man of vision, started off to find the route. Years later when the new country had been discovered but no one knew what to do about it, it was the popularity of the tobacco plant which attraced settlers to it in spite of the terrible hardships to be endur- ed. So it becomes apparent that Mr. Van Loon is a follower of that hard- hearted doctrine known as "economic determinism." It also becomes appar- ent that Mr. Van Loon is well in- formed, but looks at things from a new and original angle, that he is satirical, that he likes to play the buf- foon. We are treated to his opinions on many subjects, including often royalty, and we can assure you that they--the opinions--are never dull. On the whole this history or story --did the word history come from "his story"--is a lively document from which much amusement and knowl- edge can certainly be gained. In a nation-wide competition for scheduled speed of electric railways, two lines operating in Illinois took first and second place, respectively. The governor of Illinois receives $12,- 000 per year, the second highest sal- ary received by state governors. The average for the nation is $6,400. CHANDLERS The most complete book stock on the North Shore He was a holy terror-- yet he never took Read the whole story of this in- trepid career--the war's greatest hero depicted by the author. of With Lawrence in Arabia. COUNT LUCKNER THE SEA DEVIL by Lowell Thomas $2.50 Doubleday, Page & Co. a life! Jean Untermeyer Scores With Volume of Poems Jean Starr Untermeyer has just issued a new collection of poems, "Steep Ascent," published by the Mac- Millan company. She is the author of "Dreams out of Darkness," and "Grow- ing Pains." Most of Mrs. Untermeyer's poems in "Steep Ascent" hold the desire of rising out of the chaos and troubled burden of life to peace and faith. The first poem, "One Kind of Humility," gives the keynote: "Shall we say heaven is not heaven Since golden stairs are rugged and uneven? Or that no light illuminates a star That swings in other regions than we are? Deny with soured breath enduring God Because we cling so rankly to the sod? No. Cleanse with weeping, feasting and with prayer, Praise God. Look forward. Mount the stair!" All her poems are written with the utmost simplicity, yet she achieves dis- tinctive effects and displays a genuine poetical imagination. Her rhythm is not always technically perfect, but she does express clearly what she wishes: to get across. There are some lovely descriptive poems, and others self-, revelatory, such as: They Say-- "They say I have a constant Heart, who know Not anything of how it turns and yields First here, first there; nor how in separate fields Tt runs to reap and then remains to SOW. How, with quick worship, it will bend and glow Before a line of song, an antique vase, Evening at sea; or in a well-loved face Seek and find all that Beauty can bestow. Yet they do well who name it with a name, For all its rash surrenders call it true. Though many lamps be lit, yet flame is flame; The sun can show the way, a can- dle, too. The tribute to each fragment is the same Service to all of Beauty--and her due." --Jane Arnt The Illinois State Journal, Spring- field, now in its 97th year, is the old- est newspaper in Illinois. A treat for children and adults! Another Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle's Garden In which the doctor enters the | world of insect life with his us- and a. ual tact sympathy and meets with his usual success. $2.50 Frederick A. Stokes Co.