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52 WINNETKA TALK April 7, 1928 ANVNCE fe FOVNIAIN SOVARE - EVANSTON BOOKS New and Timely Telephones: University 1024 Wil. 3760 Rogers Park 1122 The Man Who Knew Coolidge Introducing Lowell Schmaltz friend of Babbitt, and construc- tive citizen. Sinclair Lewis Harcourt, Brace ¥ Company $2.00 Bad Girl A first novel, with its setting in New York. Vina Delmar Harcourt, Brace 8 Company $2.00 - Shoddy ; Dan Brummitt Willett, Clark and Colby The Royal Family A comady by George S. Kaufman ©¥ Edna Ferber Doubleday. Doran 8 Co. ..$2.00 The Island Within Ludwig Lewisohn ..$2.00 Harper Ashenden, or the British Agent W. Somerset Maugham Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. ..$2.50 Seaports in the Moon "A Story of Perennial Youth Vincent Starrett Doubleday, Doran % Co. ..$2.50 Meet Mr. Mulliner A highly entertaining series of incredible yarns. P. G. Wodehouse Doubleday, Doran $8 Co. ..$2.00 The Story of Ivy What Really Happened in the Lexton Murder Case. Marie Belloc Lownes Doubleday, Doran 8 Co. ..$2.00 The Old Dark House A mystery tale so enthralling that the publisher wagers you $2 you can't possibly stop read- ing at Page 158. J. B. Priestley Harper 8 Brothers ...... $2.00 Debonair G. B. Stern Alfred A. Knopf ......... $2.50 LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Door FORTHCOMING BOOKS Yarns of a Kentucky Admiral, by Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Reminiscences of the old sea dog who was with Dewey in Manila Bay; with Beatty at Scapa Flow and who commanded the Ameri- can Battle Squadron with the De Grand Fleet in the North ea. American Architecture--by Fiske Kimball. A survey and critique of American building from the tepee to the skyscraper. Mr. Kimball is Director of the Penn- sylvania at Philadelphia and formerly practised and taught architecture. Splendid Californians--by Sidney Herschel Small. A novel of the rancheros of the Bay of San Francisco in the early Nineteenth century, by the author of "Sword and Candle," "Both One," etc. Bird of Freedom--by Hugh Pen- dexter. A humorous novel of Nebraska in the '50's and '60's, by the author of "Harry Idaho," "Kings of the Missouri," "The Wife-Ship Woman," "Pay Grav- el" etc. HAVE YOU READ THESE? Brunner--My Wife, Poor Wretch. Dwight--Stamboul Nights. Marshall--That Island. Page--In Ole Virginia. Sabatini--Trampling of - the Lilies. Simpson--Cups, Wands and Swords. Steele--M eat. Werfel--Verdi. Wilder--Cabala. Brebner--Classics of the Western World. Some Outstanding Problems American Foreign Policy. Modern Insurance Tendencies. Gregory--Discovery. Long--Motor Camping. Crammer-Byng--Ruba'iyat of Hafiz. Buchan--Last Secrets. Clements--Stately Southerner. Crane--Yarns of a Windjammer. Oakley--Hill-Towns of the Pyre- nees. Firkins--Index to Plays. Goethe--Faust (in German) of CHANDLER'S for | BOOKS The most complete book stock on the North Shore CALAMITY JANE and The Lady Wildcat By Duncan Aikman Flappers aren't new! They lived in the age when Calamity Jane roared into Wyoming bar-rooms, shouting, "I'm Calamity Jane and this drink's on the house." Read this violent comic amaz- ing story of the "Lady Wild- cats" of the old wildest West. Illus. $3.00 HENRY HOLT & CO. Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS The third of May will see, we hope, the publication of Norman Douglas' novel, "In the Beginning," the first no- vel from his pen in nearly ten years. Those who have read any of his work, particularly "South Wind," are looking forward to its advent. There are limits even to American efficiency! The publishers of Captain del Castillo's "True Conquest of Mex- ico" are stumped by the amount of mail the Captain is receiving. Re- quests to know how he feels about prohibition, pacificism, bomb terrors, etc, pour in, but he has left no for- warding address. Having lived in the Sixteenth Century and been the com- panion-in-arms of Cortez, "He is im- mortal but out of reach, unfortunately, of the services of the press clipping bureaus." GENIUS OR TALENT? "HANGING JOHNNY" By Myrtle Johnston D. Appleton and Co. "A novel of genius" acclaims the London Spectator of "Hanging John- ny," by eighteen year old Myrtle Johnston. Yet genius is such an ephemeral thing, who can catch the authentic note of it at close range? Isn't it only, ironically enough, when we hear it across the years, even across the ages that we can be sure that it is there? But "Hanging John- ny" is certainly a novel of talent, ex- traordinary talent and skill for a girl of eighteen. She has done without a single flaw in technique what she started out to do. What she started out to do was this, to tell the story of "Hanging Johnny," an Irish executioner with the ascetic face of a poet, a timid sensitive, su- perstitious, ignorant man. A queer man for an executioner. But Fate had made him follow in the steps of his own father and once having gone into the gruesome work a strong and aw- ful fascination holds him to it. We see how, in the end, his own son raised on the stories of his father cannot re- sist telling, may follow in his footsteps, too. "Shall I get your ropes and strops, daddy? I wish you'd take me All the Latest Books Sold and Loaned LULU KING 728 ELM ST., WINNETKA Phone Winn. 1101 DAISY .-« DAPHNE By Rose Macaulay Miss Macaulay's best novel since "Potterism"! Its brilliant shrewd humor, its novelty, its delicacy, will assure it as enthusiastic a reception as that earlier book. Boni & Liveright $2.50 with you. I'd like to see someone hanged." This is a story of forces which are stronger than man or woman, forces of passion and fanaticism and fear which sway these ignorant sensitive people as easily bent aspens are swayed in the wind. They create the forces, themselves, and then flee from them to destruction. It is a queer story, simply and tell- ingly written, If it lacks anything it is emotional depth. There are no striking attributes of style nor is there a single passage over-written or a sin- gle unnecessary word. When Miss Johnston wishes to say something she says it with a directness and effect which recall Willa Cather, for instance, "Then the familiar musty leathery smell of the shop--such a little thing as that--gave her courage in face of this thing she could not understand.' So much effort might have been wasted to achieve less effect. THOSE WERE THE DAYS "KIT CARSON" By Stanley Vestal Houghton Mifflin Co. In the recent deluge of Western stories which has followed our re-dis- covery of American frontier life, Kit Carson, one of the most famous, per- haps the most famous of those front- iersmen, has escaped capture. But now Stanley Vestal has done it in "Kit Carson, Happy Warrior of the Old West." Mr. Vestal's book is well written though not strikingly so. He has knowledge of his subject and sympa- thy for the old West but he has not been blessed by a more than ordinary gift of expression. Yet for those who love or know the West, the statement of fact is enough, one's own imagina- tion supplies the overtones of thrills and adventure. One loves the names of the places and to reconstruct the life of those fearless fighting trappers and mountain men blazing their trail across the great. wilderness. As Mr. Vestal says, Carson's "endless journeys through the wilderness make the fabled Mediterranean wanderings of Odys- seus seem week-end excursions of a stay-at-home." Kit Carson was a shy diffident man, perhaps no one even among his com- panions knew him well, perhaps that is why at the end of this volume we do not know him well either. We know a great deal about him but we do not know him. Mr. Vestal has brought out many interesting facts, such as that the prac- tice of scalping was originated by white men, for heads, on which there was a price, were too difficult to carry. He goes on to say that probably more Indians were scalped by Whites than Whites by Indians. He also tells how the coming of the silk hat into fashion spoiled the beaver trade and planted in the trappers' mind that hatred of the "topper" which he then passed on to real He-Men for all times. It is an interesting book, one which it is worth while reading. = THE DREADFUL NIGHT | By Ben Ames Williams "Though read in broad day- light, in the midst of a noisy society, the creeping dread of that horrifying night sent cold ripples up and down my usually tractable spine." -- Bruce Gould, E. P. Dutton & Co. EE -- N. Y. Evening Post. N.Y.