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WINNETKA TALK September 29, 1928 Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 BOOKS Another Interesting List T his Week! A Little Clown Lost Barry Benefield "--a story that combines - - - most lovable human characters with unexpected and quaintly- turned situations - - -"' The Century Company » ..$2.00 Storming Heaven Ralph Fox The story of a thoughtful, un- tutored, daring American youth, making his way from Vladivo- stok to Moscow--to live, and fight and love. Harcourt, Brace 8 Co. ..$2.50 The Dark Island Charles Collins and Gene Markey "The glamour of the South Seas of today--sunken treasure, sav- ages civilized and uncivilized-- divers and undersea battles - - -"' --in short, color and action! Doubleday, Doran ..... $2.00 The Soul of the Bantu W. C. Willoughby Primitive religion and magic at work among our contemporary ancestors--the spiritualistic prac- tices of the Bantu tribes of Africa--communication with the dead through dreams, trance and divination. Doubleday, Doran. ..... $5.00 Abrabam Lincoln, 1809-1858 Albert J. Beveridge Two of the four volumes plan- ned by Mr. Beveridge, whose death interrupted the work. Houghton, Mifflin - Memories and Reflections, 1852-1927 The Earl of Oxford and Asquith Little, Brown % 'A Lantern in Her Hand J Bess Streeter Aldrich "--of a pioneer woman, her life on the prairie, and the cheer- ful courage and sturdy faith that were her companions." Appleton We Are Already Taking 'Orders for Christmas Cards "Those which are placed be- fore October 15th, are sub- ject to a ten per cent discount. . LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis "Street Door E Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS After a sizzling summer New York is just coming alive. Beginning to move itself and see if it is alive, that is. And before it has a chance to de- cide it finds itself beginning to be in- undated by its visiting authors. One of the first was D. B. Wyndham Lewis, author of "Francois Villon" for whom the prominent new publish- ing firm of Coward McCann gave a luncheon to the New York columnists --and one from Chicago. Robert Morse Lovett was the only other rep- resentative of the Open Spaces. Mr. Lewis proved to be a man of charm to say nothing of restraint, since he refrained from making a speech, though he had such a battery of pub- licity agents This in itself endeared him to his hearers and assured favorable notices. The only speech was made by Don- ald Ogden Stewart who dwelt on the importance of humor in American literature. Rebecca West, arriving the end of this month, to be visiting critic for the Herald Tribune in Oc- tober, will be the next important ar- rival. Frances Brett Young is com- ing a little later, not to lecture this time but to "get acquainted with the American people." A POETIC NOVEL "Day of Fortune" By Norman Matson The Century Co. "Anna Marie working barefoot. in the steep field stood erect to look down at the six-oared boat walking on the shining water of the fjord. Would it be her Ola?" There is some- thing in that quite simple opening Soothes rd Refreshes Motorists' Eves Eyes strained by hours at the wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instant- ly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling: clears up the bloodshot condition Carry it with-you on motor trips to refresh and protect your eyes. Also keep a bottle of Murine in your locker at the country club for use after golf, tennis, swim- ming and other sports. A 'month's| supply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try it! AK Write Murine Co., Chicago, for FREE - books on Eye Beauty and Eye Care ~~~ VJJJURINE MN EYES lined up before him. | that makes one take an interest in Norman Matson's "Day of Fortune." Perhaps it is its simplicity--one be- comes deadly tired of the bright and promising openings which, like a theme prepared for a Freshman Eng- lish course, come with studied care from most of our young novelists. Perhaps it is the touch of the foreign place, perhaps the visual imagination which by the simple words "walking on the shining water" puts the boat there before your eyes. It is these qualities--a simplicity which takes you very close to the characters and to the individual mo- ments of their lives, and an imagina- tion which picks things out of con- fusion and makes them actual as things you have seen--which distin- guish the book beyond most books. Added to these, too, are others, a delicate sense of humor, of pathos, of irony, and a poetic feeling. The book tells the story of Peter Chezness and his Norwegian-Ameri- can family in their progress in the new world from poverty and uncer- tainty to prosperity and back to pov- erty and uncertainty again. It is a story told in swift photographic flashes, fascinating yet sometimes ir- ritating because we want always to know a little more. Peter is a dream- er as were his father and his grand- father, able to give up the present for a dream, unable quite to cope with the present because of dreams. Though the book is by an American author yet it is pervaded by that sense of Fate, unfathomable, unques- tioned, which is so much a part of the spirt of the Scandinavian peo- ple. "There was an emptiness like a meaningless dusty sigh--like a yawn that never closed. . . Life flowed over him, he went with the current of it, and how he chanced to be there in Chicago in the dead of night he some- times could not think." MRS. WHARTON AT HER BEST "The Children" By Edith Wharton D. Appleton & Co. Edith Wharton has certainly made a "come-back" to her old power in her latest novel "The Children." With the perfect mastery of her art which makes even the slightest of her novels distinguished, she has combined the feeling which can certainly keep THE HANDSOME MAN By Margaret Turnbull After all, Sir Geordie's 'face was his fortune. But Lady Aggie, with her shrewd" " sense and "her canny humor, was de- termined to make the fortune a bankable one. Between the two they ~ did, -and- Margaret Turn- ' ~ bull is at her best in tell- ing the romantic, adven- turous tale. ww woAt.all booksellers. - REILLY & LEE Chicago New York her novels from being "slight." She has written a story, in her own deli- cately ironical way, of divorce, and more particularly what becomes of the children of parents who obtain a di- vorce. In Judy Wheater and her flock of little Wheaters and the "steps," as they term the children of miscellan- eous unions, Mrs. Wharton has painted a group actually as charming and fantastic and yet real as were the children of "The Constant Nymph." In Martin Boyne, the bach- elor who meets the brood and tem- porarily throws in his lot with them, she has typified the intelligent, sym- pathetic and yet impotent voice of the world. Judy Wheater's one ambition is to keep her little brothers and sisters all together and away from the Palace Hotel life which their parents lead. Martin falls in love with them all, Judy too, alas, and for a short time they lead a sort of charmed life. Then reality intervengs, the children go to the fate that cruelty of their environ- ment makes inevitable, and Martin goes back to his own life richer and yet sadder for the experience. For enjoyment and for profit one can recommend this book. EASY MONEY "Galatea" By Margaret Rivers Larminie Houghton Mifflin Co. "Galatea" by Margaret Rivers Lar- minie is one of those wish fulfillment stories, grown up fairy tales, dear to the heart of so many. It is a nice simple story of how Emmeline Wyn- ter at the instigation of her cousin Jack puts a one pound bet on a horse and sees it come riding back to her seventy thousand pounds. Of whose wish isn't that a fulfillment? So Emmeline puts herself into the hands of a good modiste--that's al- ways the first step--and comes out a transformed creature. Then gath- ering up dyspeptic Papa and a nice old gentleman neighbor who has some knowledge of the world, she turns her back on suburban London and sets out for parts unknown. Rather unfairly leaving Cousin Jack behind on the pier. Emmeline's adventures during the next month come on apace and are much what we might expect under the circumstances. She meets her share of kindness, treachery and pain. Only to find in the end and at great ex- pense what we knew in the beginning that it was really Cousin Jack all the time. So it looks as if with Papa nursing his dyspepsia in Switzerland, all might go well for Emmeline in England. Mrs. Larminie has some skill in the drawing of characters, which she exercises best in those of the minor - roles such as Papa and Emmy's eld- erly friend. About the main char- acters there is something sacharine sweet as if she were "Just so anxious that we would like them all." If there is anything that makes us wish for them an untimely and violent end, it is of course just that! Just Published A New and Greater BROMFIELD THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG y By Louis Bromfield 50,000 Before Publication At your bookshop--$2.50, Frederick A. Stokes Co., N. Y. Publishers of the best-selling "Beau Ideal" and "Brook Evans"