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36 WINNETKA TALK June 30, 1928 AN VULAKH fe FOVNIAIN SQVARE : EVANSTON Esther Gould's Book Corner NEW BOOKS Telephone and mail orders filled: Telephones: University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Short Circuits Stephen Leacock Dodd, Mead 8 Co. ...... $2.00 My Jeanne D'Arc Michael Monahan The Century Co. ..... ..: $3.00 Constantinople (Aziyade) Pierre Loti The first volume of a new uni- form edition. Frederick A. Stokes ...... $2.50 The Wolf Woman Arthur Stringer Bobbs-Merrill 8 Co. ...... $2.00 Sweden's Best Stories An introduction to modern Swedish fiction. Scandinavian Classics Edition. W. W. Norton Aesthetics of the Novel Van Meter Ames University of Chicago Press. $2.50 Caught! Homer Croy--author of West of the Water Tower. Harper © Brothers ....... $2.50 The Catastrophe Kerensky's own story of the Russian Revolution. Alexander F. Kerensky Appleton Confessions of a Negro Preacher The autobiography of a colored clergyman long prominently as- sociated with Chicago's colored populace. The Canterbury Press. .... $2.00 Maria Capponi Rene Schickele An Alsatian who has long en- joyed a considerable reputation in Central Europe. This is his first book to be translated into English. Alfred A. Knopf The Way of Sacrifice Fritz von Unruh Translated by C. A. Macartney Alfred A. Knopf ........ $2.50 Halves Harriett Henry Longmans, Green 8 Co... .$2.00 LORD'S--BOOKSHOP First Floor--Just Inside the West Davis Street Door JUST PARAGRAPHS Two books which should give an interesting opportunity for study and comparison are "Norway's Best Stor- ies" and "Sweden's Best Stories." Anyone who has been as, vague about | these two very different countries as we have, will be glad to read simul- taneously some of the literature of each. It is said by reviewers that the Norwegian stories have the crisp vig- orous qualities of the saga, while those of Sweden are colored by the bright poetic qualities of the lyric. Really, literature is becoming too arduous. The future publishers of the Bremen flyers' account of their trip come forth with the statement, "On May 23rd the Bremen flyers concluded their goodwill tour of the United States and for five days will go into retire- ment and finish their book "The Three Musketeers of the Air." They didn't dare say "write" instead of "finish" though that's what they meant. GOOD READING "SKYWARD" By Commander Richard E. Byrd G. P. Putnam's Sons Life for Commander Richard E. Byrd has been truly the great adven- ture. That is the first thing that forcibly strikes one on reading his new book "Skyward." Let anyone who doubts the opportunity, the strug- gle, the hazards and the rewards of aviation find here his proof. Com- mander Byrd writes with such sin- cerity and such conviction that those who have thought we were jogging along pretty well, we had better let aviation alone, will realize that that is what lots of people said about rail- roads one hundred short years ago. "Hurtling through the air at fifteen miles an hour" sounds like a joke to us now, but there will come a time when our demurrings at a hundred and fifteen will sound as funny. No, as Commander Byrd says, there is something in human progress which is bigger than the individual or his desires or safety, and when that spirit of progress in the concrete instance lays hold of a man he is as putty in its hands. So when his eighty-seven year told grandmother said to Byrd before his flight to the Pole, "Well what will you do with the North Pole when you get it?" although he couldn't explain it in words, yet he knew there was something he could do with it. Byrd's life has been a life of un- selfish devotion to the cause of avia- tion. If his book did not convince you of that it would just be one more book reat Jakes (il\ and + Sin eorgian'k {36,000 ISLANDS) Iv el A 1 5 rea = VISITING Mackinac Island Parxy Sd., Can. Detrsit Cleveland S---- with a full day at NIAGARA FALLS - Be CER RE TRERANNAMATAMNN IFFERENT from the Ordinary Vacation! A delight- ful trip of over 2000 miles combining rest, recreation, sightseeing . . . A thrilling experience! The Great Oil-Burning White Liners North American and South American In comfort and luxury are comparable to fine ocean liners. Staterooms and Parlors are all outside rooms with windows or port holes for perfect ventilation . . Comfortable beds . served. Music . . . Dancing . . . Entertainments s+ « Deck Games... ; Social Hostess to look after the enjoyment of Guests. Not a dull moment. . . Excellent Meals, daintily . Bridge Parties, with a Sailings from Chicago every Tues. and Sat., June Mn 30th to August 28th, incl. R. R. Tickets between Ill Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo will be honored for transit upon additional payment. Apply for Illustrated Pamphlet any Railway icket Office or Tourist Agency or write W. H. BLACK, Traffic Manager Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. 110 W. Adams St., Phone Ran. 2960 describing the spectacular. Since it does convince you it becomes a history of aviation, a record of the human effort and sacrifice that has been spent upon it, so that an aeroplane glimpsed from your sitting room window is not just a moving speck and a noise, but an achievement of the human mind and will and a promise of great things for the future. This is a splendid book fascinating reading for anyone. DESPISED AMERICA "THE OTHER SIDE" By Struthers Burt Charles Scribner's Sons What alchemy is necessary to turn one of the most finished, suave ana delightful of novelists into a slightly tiresome and almost peevish essayist? Whatever it is I fear it has been prac- ticed on Struthers Burt to make him the author of this book of essays or sketches, "The Other Side." It is unworthy of the man who wrote that most charming book of last spring "The Delectable Mountains." The title refers to the other side of the question, the side which seldom has the nerve or lung-power to raise its voice against the Mencken ballyhoo. That is well and good. We are anxious to hear someone speak up on that side. But somehow, unfortunately, we are not particularly interested in the way that Mr Burt speaks. He is just a little too reiterative, a little tedious. The major premise of the book is a good one. It is that America is getting a decidedly "raw deal" just now in the form of criticism both at home and abroad. Americans traveling in Eur- ope think it their duty to run down as vigorously as possible their own country in order to seem grown up and sophisticated. At home they do it because it is the form of noise, like jazz, most popular at the moment. As Mr. Burt makes clear, this sort of thing can be carried too far. As he says, "All you need to condemn a thing is to call it American." '"We have become a derogatory adjective." And the bad result of all this is, not that our feel- ings are hurt, but that it destroys any possibility of real international under- standing, it lays the foundation of hatreds and therefore the foundation of wars. We agree with all this, we hope more people will write to the same question, and we hope, without malice, that next time Mr. Burt will write a little more interestingly. THE GRAPHIC BIBLE Lewis Browne's new book, "The Graphic Bible," which the Macmillan company announced for publication in April, will not be ready until late Au- gust. The book is a survey of the Old and New Testaments presented geo- graphically as well as historically, and includes one hundred "animated maps" drawn by the author. 3 °, Going Away Presents gagement Gifts for: ( Showers BOOKS LULU KING * Books Sold and Loaned 728 Elm Street, Winnetka Ph. Winn. 1101