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LORD'S BOOKSHOP Just Inside the West Davis Street Door NEWEST BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Just Paragraphs By Esther Gould Professor William McDougall, in his new book "Character and the Con- duct of Life" has tried to give "an aid to men and women in acquiring a little more rapidly the wisdom that comes only through experience and through reflection upon human life." He says in his chapter on girls of the present day, "The beauty of woman is a tremendously powerful influence, and like all great forces, it may serve base or noble purposes. The mischief is that this great influence is given to the young females of the species at an age when they cannot understand its power and the gravity of the re- sponsibility that goes with it." A party of white men travelling in Siam had a shock recently when after having asked and received permission to photograph a group of shaven headed monks, one of the monks stepped forward and bowing politely said, "Now would you mind standing still while we take a snapshot of you?" 'Then producing a camera he took the picture and went away, say- ing, "You are very picturesque" while his yellow robed companions chuckled. THE NOBLE GAME OF WAR "RIGHT OFF THE MAP" By C. E. Montague Doubleday Page & Co. War small was threatened between the countries of Porto and Ria. What was the cause of the war? Bute, the multimillionaire, is the only one who could tell you that. There are certain gold fields on the borderline of the two countries which it is to his interest to have Ria own. So, by buy- ing fifty or more newspapers Bute has put the war machinery in motion. There is delightful irony here, the way the public mind is kindled and fanned to lively flame. "'I see what Bute wants. But how's he to get it, poor thing?' 'By making lots of other people want it too.' 'What other peo- ple?' 'Public opinion. The people, you know." 'Make them want it enough to turn out and fight for it? How can he make them?' 'O, by telling them they do already." There is really only one obstacle to Bute's plans and that is the news- paper man with a conscience, Burn- age. But Burnage also has a wife and she is bored with the status quo and thinks a war might wake things up. So by playing on Burnage's vani- ty she makes him betray himself and fall in with the war plans. The last barrier is down and the war is on. Mr. C. E. Montague, who has been writing cleverly for years, has "hit the ball" with this latest book, "Right Off the Map," largely because of the book's subject. He says so many things about war that lots of wus would love to have been able to say and he says them so much more bit- ingly. His wit is sharp and caustic but reserved. It is not quotable be- cause it does not rise to swift cli- maxes but runs along an even humor- ous tenor. The war begins, A picked group of men is sent up by a secret pass to surprise the enemy by flank attack. Willan, the only real soldier of the January Special Pp All Children Smile for Bernie Six Gainsboroughs 1623 ORRINGTON AVE. © Regular Price $12 For Limited Time Only BERNIE'S TEL. UNIVERSITY 8998 party, "could not square his own no- tions of war with this plan of sending a secret force to steal up on an en- emy, bugle in hand, and blowing for all it was worth." But they do all en- joy the buglers so. Of course the enemy is the one to administer the surprise and the army is cut to pieces. There are pages which are too real to be pleasant reading but as an argu- ment against war there have been few books, I think, as effective as this one. LOOKING BACKWARD "MUCH LOVED BOOKS" By James O'Donnell Bennett Boni & Liveright Very sensibly James O'Donnell Ben- nett has gathered together these short articles which appeared over a period of two years and more in the Chicago Tribune under the title "Best Sellers of the Ages." They were popular ar- ticles in the Tribune and now that they are gathered in book form under the title "Much Loved Books" they should be popular here. Not that these are exhaustive articles--his publishers hasten to absolve Mr. Ben- nett from any "dry as dust pedantry" --naturally, having been written for the daily paper so that he who runs for the train may read, they are short, snappy, to the point. Yet that is not all. They are also provocative. They lead you on to the books of which they are written, they are small doorways into exceedingly large rooms. 'It would not be difficult to guess what would be the first "best seller of the ages" of which Mr. Bennett would write--it is of course the Bible. He recounts a conversation with Rabbi Hirsch through which the Bible ceased to be for him a mysterious religious document and became "an ingratiating book, the eager, poignant, excited-- and often terribly exciting--record of man's fallibilities and aspirations, of his slow groping toward the light." Then there is "Treasure Island." and the poetry of Burns, "Faust," the "Arabian Nights," "Tom Jones" and the rest, making a very wonderful pro- cession before which you feel pro- foundly humble 'that you know and can appreciate so little. But you make a resolve to go on and thus Mr. Bennett does accomplish something of his purpose to recall to us these great books, and prove that they are not good because they are old but old because they are good. Herbert Hurd. son of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Hurd, 518 Sunset road, Winnetka, served as usher at the wedding of Ralph Whithill at Marinette, Wis. Mr. Hurd has returned to the Univesity of Illinois to resume his studies as a junior. BE Mrs. Frank Alexander of 1275 Scott avenue, entertained an Evanston bridge luncheon club at her home Friday of last week. CHANDLER'S for BOOKS The most complete book stock on the North Shore