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WiNNETKA TALK May 19, 1928 FOVNTAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 NEW BOOKS The Stream of History Geoffrey Parsons Scribner's... &. 1... $5.00 The Fortunate Wayfarer E. Phillips Oppenheim Little, Brown % Co. ..... $2.00 The Virgin Queene Harford Powel, Jr. Little, Brown 8 Co. ..... $2.00 The House of Sun-Goes- Down Bernard De Voto Macmillan... ©. - 0. $2.50 Rainbow Round My Shoulder Howard W. Odum Bobbsg-Merrill 5... ..... $3.00 In the Beginning Norman Douglas JohngDay 2-1... . $2.50 The Road to Heaven Thomas Beer Alfred A. Knopf: ......... $2.50 Pilgrims of the Impossible Coningsby Dawson Doubleday, Doran ....... $2.50 Quiet Cities Joseph Hergesheimer Knopf... a8 ia. vi $2.50 The 13th Lover Maurice Dekobra Payson @ Clarke, Ltd... ... $2.50 Lafayette Joseph Delteil Minton, Balch 8 Co....... $3.50 Catherine-Paris Princess Marthe Bibesco Harcourt, Brace 8 Co... ... $2.50 LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Esther Gould's Book Corner Amy Lowell Again JUST PARAGRAPHS Ernest Elmo Calkins, perhaps as famous for his articles on deafness which appeared in the Atlantic serv- eral years ago as for his distinguished work in advertising, has written a book "Business the Civilizer." In it he demonstrates what most of us would be amazed to know that with- out advertising our whole civilization would be impossible, the post would not come to our door, the automobile would not leave it. The first available copy of the spe- cial edition of Commander «Byrd's book "Skyward" was delivered in a novel manner. The head of the pub- lishing house took it to Miller Field, Staten Island, where it was handed over to the late Floyd Bennet, Byrd's pilot, who hopped off in The Bellanca for Detroit where he handed the copy to Edsel Ford. In each copy of this special edition is incorporated a bit of the fabric of the plane in which Byrd flew over the North Pole. Dorothy Speare will be at Chandler's Monday May 21st from 2-4 P. M. to Autograph Her Books Dorothy Speare, novelist, play- wright and opera star, who is appearing in the North Shore Festival will be in Chandler's Monday, May 21st, from 2 to 4 P. M. to autograph her books and meet the public. We cordially invite our patrons to meet her here in our store. Chandler's Fountain Square Univ. 123 630 Davis St. Door Again Eve "LADIES IN HADES" By Frederic Arnold Kummer J. H. Sears & Co. "Ladies in Hades, a story of Hell's Smart Set" by Frederic Arnold Kum- mer, is something else again. Witty, sophisticated, with a humour which is often broad enough to reach quite off the page, it yet manages to keep you amused by telling you of that over- worked character, our ancestor Eve. To be sure, her other recent biograph- ers have shown her in her familiar rural surroundings in which we are naturally tired of her by this time, while Mr. Kummer shows her in the abode, the inevitable consequence of her life, Hell. He opens, "Eve had been terribly bored with Hell for quite a while, she told her friends, which was perhaps only natural, since she had been there longer than anyone else." So this being the case Eve did what most women would do under the cir- cumstances, she founded a club. Her club was, as is also usual, made up of others as bored as herself, but as the sum of many boredoms has turned out to be not one big boredom, but a decreased boredom, they got on very well. The members of the club being the great artists in the only art which Eve thought was the sphere of wom- an, love, they decided to spend their evenings regaling each other with their experiences along that line. The result is a book exceedingly amusing, the humor broad as we have already said, and also sharp, some of the best points of which are the use of modern slang in its proper setting, as when Satan says "Not till this place freezes over." Milt Gross in Good Form "FAMOUS FIMMALES WITT ODDER EWENTS FROM HEESTORY" By Milt Gross Doubleday Doran & Co. Milt Gross's titles speak for them- selves. So do his illustrations. The picture of a lovely Eve reclining in the garden while the serpent wearing a flattened derby tries to sell her his wares from a huter's wagon marked "hepples" is enough to suggest the possibilities with which his subject is rife. And he makes the most of the possibilities. Mr. Gross has the distinction of having done practically the same thing a number of times without slipping backward, even with improvements. His vocabulary in "Famous Fimmales" is more varied and although he lacks the priceless background of the "Ap- pottamont house" of the Feitlebaums he makes up for it in other ways. If you have laughed with Milt Gross be- fore you will again on each page of "Famous Fimmales." Taken from an old legend current in England this book tells how a youth, Trevy, born on the banks of a tempestuous river, takes not only its name but its charac- teristics also. It is written in beau- tiful prose. Trevy, The River By Leslie Reid E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50 SELECTED POEMS OF AMY LOW- ELL. Ed. by John Livingston Lowes. An ingenious scheme in its arrange- ment is important attribute of this col- lection of the poems of the woman poet supreme among her contempo- raries of her own sex, and in some ways among those of the opposite sex, during a significant epoch in American poetry's development. Its editor has selected from her writ- ings under 650 titles contained in eleven published: volumes, poems that are representative of all her characterisite verse forms. From the softer, less ven- turesome rhymings of the earlier years of repressions by inhibitions or tradi- tions, Amy Lowell came through to a brittle brilliance and a bitter-sweet blend of phrase and word that have a peculiar niceness, fineness and loveliness in her poetic expression. Certain of us treasure and accept gratefully in its 650-title completeness every choice jewel of her creation and will be content with the possession of no less than the all of them; but so well-chosen is this collee- tion that it cannot fail to stimulate an appreciation of her rarety of her art and lead to the desire for acquaintance with more of it on the part of the reader who will venture a collection and pass by the single volume of verse. At its beginning the editor has grouped some of Miss Lowell's most beautiful SAILS FOR EUROPE W. B. Seabrook, author of "Adven- tures in Arabia," has just sailed for Europe. He will spend the next three months in Paris, returning in August for a cruise along the New England coast and Nova Scotia. Mr. Seabrook has just completed his book on Haiti, on which he has been working for over a year. It contains new and startling material on the voodoo religion. WORKS ON NEW BOOK Katherine Mayo, author of "Mother India," is still abroad engaged in col- lecting material for her next book, to be published by Harcourt, Brace and company in the fall. She will return to her home in Bedford Hills in July. FAVOR O'NEILL PLAY The Senior class at Columbia, in their annual ballot, chose Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" as the best play of the year. Theodore Dreis- er received the largest number of votes for favorite author. NEWEST READING CLUB The latest reading club is The Free Though Book of the Month club, and its first" selection is "Let Freedom Ring," by Arthur Garfield Hays, pub- fished by Boni and Liveright. Ancient Sweden "THE SON" By Hildur Dixelius E. P. Dutton & Co. In "The Son" Hildur Dixelius has written another of those sagas of the Scandinavian country, a sequel to her "The Minister's Daughter." The scene, as in that book, is laid in the smail barren villages of Sweden one hun- dred years ago. It has the simplicity which was inherent in the lives of those people, the simplicity and the mystic faith. Sara Alelia who figured in Mrs. Dixelius' earlier book now has a son, Erik Anton, who is the central figure of this one. As a little boy Erik An- ton is sent to a distant school and then to the university to fit himself for that only calling which seemed to their deeply religious natures entire- ly worthy. the ministry. This is the story of Erik Anton's education, his boyhood friendships, love, and the ac- complishing of his work. This is one of those books which move smoothly and sadly, too, in the stately and sad motion of life in that early time .in primitive barren lands.