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·32 WILMETTE LIF~ November 12, 1926 NlEWJ&§ll IffiOOOCS AN[)) ~(Q)(Q)I[ ~EVll1EWS DID YOU KNOW I FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK THE BOY SCOUTS YEAR BOOK Edited by Franklin K. Matbiews ....... · ..... S2.5o THE NURSERY BOOK OF BIBLE STORIES Amy Steedman ........·· $1.5 o THE JOLLY KID BOOK Wilbur D. Nesbit THE TREASURE SHOP Edited by Cynthia Asquith $2..50 GRANNY GOOSE John Rae . . . . . . . . · · . · . $ 1 · 2. 5 ILLUSTRATED .BIBLE STORY BOOK Stories Retold by Seymour loveland ............ $2..00 TOMMY TUCKER ON A PLANTATION Dorothy Lyman Leetch ·... $ 1.25 GAY'S YEAR ON SUNSET ISLAND Mar&uerite Asp·inwall .·.· $1.7 5 THE AMERICAN TWINS OF THE REVOLUTION Lucy Fitch Perkins ...... $ 1. 7 5 DR. DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN Hugh Lofting .......... $2..50 THE BURGESS FLOWER BOOK FOR CHILDREN Thornton W. Burgess .... $J.OO THE RED FAIRY BOOK Andrew Lang .......... $J.50 THE FIRELIGHT FAIRY BOOK Henry B. Best on ........ $2. 5o THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER C. M. Sublette .......... $2.00 FOR THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Bailey-Lewis ...··...... $1.7 5 WINNIE-THE-POOH A. A. Milne .....·...... $2.oo NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET Walter de Ia Mare and Others $2.50 LITTLE PRINCESS NINA L. A. Ch.uskaya . . · . · .. $ _ 1. 7 5 MARTHA THE SEVENTH Jant Abbott ............ $1.75 Alltn French . -.·........ s~.oo Lotd,t--Dilvia Sttttt EntttltKt THE STORY OF ROLF Sabatini, like the poor, is always with us. Inept, however, is this simile, since, consideri~g his enormous t>opu larity, Mr. ·Sabatini can resemble the poor in no other way. "Balladon" is a good story, a s g-ood it seems to me, as anything I have read of Mr. Sabatini's, even including the great "Captai-n Blood." It has the zest, the color, the convincing vigor which make Mr. Sabatini's stories the NON-FICTION brst of their kind . Richmond-Adolescent Girl. "Bcllarion" is a story of Italy in the Phillips-Readings in M on c y and glamorous days of the Renaissance. Banking. Breckenridge-Family \\'dfarc the davs when it was possible even more than in our own great \\'ild Work. That Boui and Livcrighl an'.Vest for "men to be men," or evenBarry-In a Gar_den. nounce a pr£=c of five htmdrcd dolas the - Princess VaJera says of Rel Rostand-Chantecleer. lars for the best essay on a queslarion-to be "half ~od, half beas t." Hassanein-Lost Oases. tion Pertai11ing to Theodore DrcisThatcher-Source Book of .Mediae- Bellarion was a youth, a foundling. er's "American Tragedy!" val History. who, issuing from the convent of his Tout-Empire and the Papacy. childish years, became involved in October "Book of the }l'f.onth" Markham-California. many things-plots and wars, intrigues Bradford-Darwin. and escapes. Through these we go "The Time of Man" Johnston-Story of My Life. breathlessly, yet always with the com -Elizabeth Madox Roberts. fortable assurance that all's well since This, Miss Robert's first novel, is it will end well for Bellarion. the poignant, . beautifully written biography of Ellen, of the simple elemen· tal people of the upper South. Ellen's "INTO 'rHF. Vom"-FI~rence Cowverse. "A Bouquet from France" by Willonging for "all the learnen in the fred Thqrley is an in_ teresting antholo"Into the Void" is a new type of world . . . to find answers to all the. gy which contains one hundred French mystery story. No blood and thunder questions you.'d ever ask and why it is poems and their English trans Ia tions, m u r cl c r business about this-Miss so .. ." is mad~ intensely vivid and pa- which are given on opposite pages. Florence Converse, frequent contributhetic. All her "enduren" life she tor to and member of the editorial struggles against "wanting things and We wonder if such a prolific family board of the Atl_!lntic Monthly, has then having things and then wanting of writers as the Gibb's ever existed taken the fourth dimension as her . and it goes on and on . . . . and before. The latest member to try his field of operation. then you're old. And what did you hand at writing is Mrs. A. H. Hamilton There is a colJcge bookshqp and a ever have that was enough? And what Gibbs who has written "Portia Marpoet reading his verses to a select and was it ~or anyway?" There is no plot, ries," a novel of merit. temperate audien~e on a certain evebut Mtss Roberts has written with ning. The last of the verses has to such instinctive knowledge and feeling \Valt Whitman's poem "The Sleepthat the reader quickly falls under the ers" is being printed in the original do with disappea~ance into the fourth spell of the story It is a first novel by Francois Bernouard, a French pub- dimension. Jokingly it is remarked that it might be fun, as well as a good that should not_be passed by. lisher, who is famous for his de luxe "ad" for .t he bookshop to have him Jane Arnt editions. This is the first of one of a do it. So, promptly, it is found the series of limited editions of works of next morning that not only he hut the The student of sociology will .find American authors. manager of the bookshop has taken "Negro Workaday Songs" by Howard W. Odum and Guy B . .Johnson of inYou're not even safe if you've been this advice. The plot i~ not breathless at all, hut tercst, being the songs of the negro comfortably dead for centuries, as Mr. it is a rather amusing little variation t:::..o;d;a;y;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;,t J o ho Erskine is going to continue to rr t~ll the world in general and in par- on the usnal mystery theme. . , ttcular about Sir Galahad, the victim Where There Are Childrea · , of his forthcoming book. After deal((EARLY AuTt ; ~tN"-l..onis Bromfil'ld. Dare There Be Divorce? , ing so adequately with Helen of Troy, Louis Bromfield has done a good what more coulrl we ask than that he pirce of work in "Earlv Autumn ." should tell us how Sir Galahad got An(t this was no · morr t h<m we rxthat wav? -By Everett Young The career of "The Story of Phil- pectcd after reading "The Grern Bay Tree" and more particularly "PossesNot the ordinary "brilliant society f oso~hy" might give rise to many spec- sion." Mr. Bromfield is an artist who 1 ulattons on the ·desire of materialistic novel." It catches your emotions America to be uplifted. Printed first gives to his work several unusual and you find yourself caring suin an edition of fifteen hundred copies qualities in the iiterature of today, premely what happens to Clodi Dil- -a commentary on the faith on the qualities such as poise and richness, part of its publishers in this desire and depth, and sophistication which i lon. for uplift-it has . now run through w is 'd ·o m but never smartness. Mr. JHenry Holt & Co. $2.50 editions totalling forty-two thousand Bromfield, let us be thankful, is never smart. He thinks too seriously of his copies, and is still going strong. art and his world to be that. .:..-..---~·--------···· "Early Autumn" turns from the The season would not be comworld of the Shane family and "the plete without Town" to the life of the Pentland fat:nilY of Boston and Durham. The scope of this screen· of American life is to be broad, broader than Mr. · "Seldom if ever has Miss By Hugh Loftiag Galsworthy's "Forsythe Saga," for the Lowell so completely revealed Forsythes at least ha\'e clung quite her depth of human feeling and Doctor Dolittle, who is becoming closely to upper mt'ddle class London. sympathy" (New York as dear to children's hearts as any Alice who ever entered WonderThe book is well written, interesting. Times) as in these thirland, journeys upon London with M B fi teen poems all dedicatthis marvelous circus troupe, and r. rom eld has mastered the art of ed to New England life takes that city by storm with his · subtle suspense-it is always impossible and character. $225. fascinating bird orchestra. : to stop just at this point because there Houchtoa MifFiia Co. Stokea Jlluatratecl, $2.&e is something very important coming That Bruce Barton and W. C. Wren are antong tlze half dozen or so writers who have achieved, in recent years, .the distinction of having two concur1·ently popular books? That the Westent Writer's associati01t came into existence following the ·meeting of writers of western themes when they were the guests of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce at the Rodeo last August? That tlzc uwood Dcnwu," a pia)' by Auton Chekov, has been translated front thr Russian and ·will be published £n England! That (, Whmic-the-Pooh/' A. A. Milne's new book, was isstted in England £n a. first rdition of 66 000 copies? , I Wiillmme1t1t~ ILiilbJr!llfJ I. NEW BOOKS FICTIONBennett-Lord Raingo. Bramah-Kai Lung's Golden Hours. Bromfidd-Early Autumn. Cather-My Mortal Enemy. Dobie-Less Than Kin. Eiker-Mrs. Mason's Daughters. Kaye-Smith-Joanna Godden Married. Lard_ner-How to Write Short Stories. Norris-Hildegarde. Phillpotts-Jig-Saw Swinnerto11-Summer Storm. \Valpole-Harmer John. ~cewncew$ ·<O>f Nte ~ Iffi <0><0>k~ {(BELLARION"-Rafael Sabatini. 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