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a8 WINNETKA TALK March 17, 1928 Cts AMALIE Re FOVNTAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON NEW BOOKS Telephone University 1024 Wil. 3700 Rogers Park 1122 The Savour of Life Arnold Bennett Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. ..$2.50 Forever Free A novel about Abraham Lincoln by. Honore Willsie Morrow. William Morrow Co. ..$2.50 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill's much- talked- of play. Called by critics "the finest, the profoundest drama of his entire career." Boni ® Liveright And So to Bed A comedy in three acts which begins where Mr. Pepy's diary leaves off. Henry Holt 8 Company ..$2.00 Dominance Madge Jenison, the author of "Sunwise Turn." Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. ..$2.00 Safari The Saga of the African Blue, by the famous traveler and adventurer, Martin Johnson. G. P. Putnam's Sons The Changing Road Harold MacGrath Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. ..$2.00 Water A Story of Adventure by Al- bert Payson Terhune. Harper 8 Bros, . 5... $2.00 Crusade. Donn Byrne Little, Brown Company $2.00 Many Kinds of Attractive New Stationery LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Entrance Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS Mr. Struthers Burt's publishers have just issued this cryptic paragraph: "Mr. and Mrs. Burt have moved into their new home at Southern Pines, N. C, alongside James Boyd, author of 'Marching On. Scribner's will publish this spring a new book of stories 'They Could Not Sleep' and 'The Other Side," a book of essays, both by Mr. Burt." Is it possible he does not like his new neighborhood? In the new edition of "Mirrors of the Year" the book designed to make you able to talk about the things of which you know nothing, Robert Emmet Sherwood makes a good hit in his chapter on American humor, "Now the satirists, comedians, clowns, gag-men, wise-crackers and other all-around wits turn to 1928, conscious of the lamentable fact that, with the passing of the Model T. Ford they have lost the truest and most useful friend of all." That is an aspect we hadn't thought of and one which dwarfs the falling off of the second hand market. ANCIENT NORWAY "THE. AXE" By Sigrid Undset Alfred A. Knopf In the past five years in America Sigrid Undset has been coming into the position to which her place in Norwegian letters entitles her. "Jen- ny" her first work published in this country found a certain number of ardent admirers, her next work, a tri- logy, "Kristan Lavransdatter," made Books Sold and Loaned LuLu KING 728 ELM ST., WINNETKA Phone Winn. 1101 2 x CHANDLER'S for BOOKS The most complete book stock on the North Shore it still more clear that here was a tal- ent of the first order. "The Axe," is the first book of a new trilogy, of which the second is already in trans- lation, This, like Miss Undset's other long work is a story of mediaeval Norway. What was it in the lives of those people of a distant day that gave them such dignity, solidity, form? Surely it is more than the distance. The move- ment of the story is like the measured swaying of their own heavy beautiful garments--satins, velvets, brocades, never the easy flirting to and fro of the modern flapper's abbreviated skirts. Wasn't it, first of all, their re- ligion, which anchored them to spirit- ual certainties? Wasn't it, second, the closeknit organization of the families which gave form to life, each person being only a unit in a great important pattern. Even their names as "Jons- stant reminder of the responsibility they bore toward someone else. were so serious, these people of the thirteenth century, so childlike, so cruel and yet often so wise! The love story of Olov and his foster-sister, Ingunn, is not a happy one. Yet it is full of beauty, a beauty which is not more in the style than in the very movement of the story itself. THE OTHER SIDE "A SON OF MOTHER INDIA ANSWERS" By Dhan Gopal Mukerji E. P. Dutton & Co. In "A Son of Mother India. An- swers," Dhan Mukerji gives his reply to Katherine Mayo's "Mother India." This latter book has provoked a lot of replies, from economists, scientists, medical men, poets. It is a book which carried a grave indictment of a whole nation of three hundred and twenty million people by a woman, a "tourist," who spent a few months in their country. Mr. Mukerji's answer, slight as it is in bulk, has a good deal of interest. In the first place it is made with an admirable restraint. The danger in such a case is that he might be tempt- ed to indulge in satire, invective, bit- terness, weakening his own case and strengthening that of his opponent. Tt is to his lasting credit that he haz not. In his opening paragraphs Mr Mukerji deplores the use of the name "Mother India" which has for Hindus "tact; even brutality. datter" or John's Daughter, give con-|as They |i THIS IS A NOVEL OF GREAT IMPORTANCE but NOT MAGNOLIA Edith Everett Taylor Out of the South comes a haunt- ing story of love and beauty. E. P. Dutton & Co., N. Y., $2.00 AN ARTIST IN THE FAMILY The splendid new novel by Sarah Gertrude Millin Here is the other side of "The Way of All Flesh," the parents' side, the side of the Unremark- able Majority. Its question is "How much should be conceded to the artistic temperament?" Boni & Liveright $2.50 HTS The Year's Big Biography! UNCLE JOE CANNON By L. White Busbey "Makes better reading than almost any biography since Boswell." N. Y. Times. Henry Holt & Co. Illus. $5.00 a symbolic meaning beyond that of a similar term used in other countries. He feels that, considering the spirit of the work this is a needless lack of So also the dedi- cation "To the peoples of India," those people about whom in her four hundred or so pages of text she can find only enough good things to fill six pages. Mr. Mukerji proceeds to question a number of Miss Mayo's figures, dis- proving some by quotation from reli- able sources such as the census re- ports, showing some of her sources to be material gathered anywhere from forty to a hundred years ago, some- times misrepresented to make it ap- pear new. Then Mr. Mukerji has given a great deal of space to denials by Ghandi and Tagore of the words imputed to them by Miss Mayo. All this, while it is not exhaustive, does throw a serious doubt on the authen- ticity of the book in question. In conclusion, Mr. Mukerji, rather futilely it seems to me, outlines--with a few jabs which he cannot resist such "eliminating from the book all the errors and half-truths thus reducing it to a quarter of its present size"'-- what Miss Mayo would have to do to make the book what he chooses to in- timate she must have meant it to be-- an aid to reform among the Indian people. Guy Terry Gives Account of Causes of World War The study class under the direction of Professor Guy Terry of Northwest- ern university is nearing its close for this season. Dr. Terry has given the class a thorough and comprehensive view of the political and economic situation in Europe from the period between the years 1870 and the be- ginning of the World war. He has said that the course has been scatter- ing, feeling that in the short hour of each session he hardly has had time to but touch upon the main points or issues, but the members of the class feel that they have gained a remark- ably clear picture of these aspects and now have a definite idea of the urge and irritations which were back of the conflict. The last meeting was held at the apartment of Mrs. Karl Korrady in the Orrington hotel, and Dr, Terry gave a brief resumé of the great current of feeling which preceded the war, of the direct inciaent of the murder of the Austrian arch duke which precipitated the war, of Ger- many's "blank check" letter to Austria which followed this strained situation with Serbia, and of the present atti- tude of the historians in regard to the causes and phases of the war as re- vealed through correspondence, arch- ives, and manuscripts which have re- cently been available. The next and last meeting for the vear will be next week Thursday at the home of Mrs. Edwin Hedrick, 304 Melrose avenue, Kenilworth. Mrs. Frank H. Seubold entertained sixteen members of the North Shore group of Chicago Women of Rotary at luncheon Wednesday, at her home, 921 Sheridan road. Announcing the Removal of the Book Nook A Circulating Library from 809 Oak Street, Winnetka to 724 ELM STREET RE