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WILMETTE LIFE February 11, 1927 FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON DID YOU KNOWThat The Youth's Companion is offering three prizes to young people between the ages of 1 5 and 2 o who submit the best short stories before April r 5? That over 2 5 ,o oo copies of Harry K. Thaw's recent book have been sold so far? · lReviie~s of New locks I :~~:::~e~~~k~:~n- "GREEN FOREST"-Nathalle Sedgwick Colby. Telephones UniYersity I 024 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 112 2 BOOK SUGGESTIONS , That the "Book .of the Month" for January is "The Heart of I Have This to Say Violtt Hunt Boni and Linrigbt Philoptna H tnry Kitchell Wtbattt Bot;.bs Murill $:1.00 Twilight Co.u nt Edouard Von Ktyaerling Macaulay $:1 · .50 Lord of . Himself Percy Marks The Century Co. $:2.00 Doomsday . Warwick Deepi~g · Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 :. Murder at Smutty Nose Edmund Pearson Doubleday Page B Co. SJ.o·o The Collecting of Antiques : , · Esther Singleton ~_Macmillan Co. !·.' $7.5() STATIONERY CRANE'S CORDLINEAR $J f 'Fint broken-lint stripes on folded ~:·sheets of ambtr, white, pearl or f·sapphire, Ennlopes with wide f . , .stripes ()( gold and black and ~: :~ :orange. .. $r.oo :· Boxed stationery. Flat or folded · ~ sheets. Correspondence cards. Col?; -ortd paptr or whitt. Lined or 1; plain envelopes. , . /' . For Valentine Notes-red bordtred cards and red lined ennlopts. Sr.oo a box. Abraham Lincola Bmrrsou 's 1ounwls," in urhich Barton-Life of Abraham Lincoln. Bliss Perry has condensed EmerPainstaking research and careful son's ten volumes 'into one? · tr~cing of elusive evidence has been done in interpreting Lincoln in the That the notes which Luther light of our present knowledge. A · Burbank made in connection with distinctive piece of work. his work, fogrth.cr . wiflr l'xcrrpts Charnwood-Abraham Lincoln. from his journal , containing de tails of his early life, will be pubAn English scholar has drawn upon · all sources and used them with a clear lished next month under the title, "The Harvest of the Years?" historical perspective, producing a remarkable study. Morse-Abraham Lincoln. A condensed but clear presentation, careful of facts and inviting confiEugene Field's realty definite hi .., ography seems to have been written by dence. Nicolay and Hay-Abraham Lincoln. his friend and contemporary Slason Thompson. Mr. Thompson gives not The standard a·u thoritative life of only a pict\Jre of Field but also of himLincoln by two men who knew and self and all the g,roup of literary men served Lincoln in an official capacity. who made up the staff of the Daily Sandburg- Abraham Lincoln (the ' Prairie years). News thirty or forty years ago. An extraordinary biographical work presenting and understanding study of Wealthy Mrs. Challoner. released six Lincoln throughout the first fifty-on~ Maurine \Vatkins, formerly a Tribune r e p o r t e .r and they say quite months ago by her husband's death years of his life. youthful, i~ the author of the play, into freedom to marrv David whon1 Schurz, Cl,l.rl-'" Abraham Lincoln." An excellent sketch of the character "Chicago," which shows the seamy side she should have married in the begin · of our neighboring metropolis and ning, is being ma,rshal1ed abroad h" and achievement of the great presiher selfish daughter in pursuit of th(· dent. might apply to any la.rge city. boy Tony who has "broken" the · . daughter's heart. There is nothing so George Waabington certain, at the first appearance of thf Irving-Life of George Washington . Not a conventional travel book. daughter there on dock, than that she "Such charming, faithful, true pi~ has no heart. At )east not one capable tures of the great hero as should of being broken by anything anyone carry knowledge of him, of the battles else might do. 1 he fought, of his large, self-denying, Then there · is Tony'..: l)Onderou s unswerving patriotism.......__ into every . .. "' · · household " mamma who ts tra1lmg the Challoners. · By Cornelia ·stratton· Parker una·bte to take her eyes from the large H~P"h~s-Georg-e Washington. ;. fortune which Tony is blindly threat Tnes to show Washington as a man A book which ···takes you ·to the ening to·1et' slip. There is · also A ram- and not as a god. It is confined to the p_l~ces it describes. A · companbaru. slippery Peruvian, . who is on the first thirty years of his life anci is a ion for travelers, a solace for ship in pursuit of that same fortune. serene, well-balanced but keenlv critithose .- who _ have' to stay at home .. The other characters, Miss Joy and cal study.~' ~ .BONI & LlVERIGHT $3.50 her .baby, the ship's doctor and the Lodge-George Washington. :; : "future president," though unrelated in Seeks to present Washington as he the beginning are drawn into the com- really was, a man capable of winmon current. But most important o.f ning the respect of all and the affec. : .... all though nev(it · appearing is David. tion of. many, rather than the prudish . d,reamy understanding David whom it cold at:td bloodless man of the cherr~ ~ hurt so to leave behind. · tree tradition. Written from abun~ "Green Forest" is well written. There dant knowledge, it embodies excellent By A~., v~ Te~paki is .a · slight confusion arising now and . iudg-ment and temper, and a stron~ then from the too .swift transition from desire to be accurate. ·:; The real spirit of Hawaii c~·ttght : Ot)e consciousn~ss to another, the char- Tb::tyer-George Washington. in a novel at . last r . Freedorri, ·.\. acters also .are too · firmly divided into A study w.hich shows Washington as :~h~ep and goats. Either .they unde,r- an outstandmg man, not only of his color, beauty I A care .. fr~e joy· ' stand atl things or nothing. This own, but of all time. ous girl, an English engineer and makes the book partake too much of \~oodward-George Washington. t~H· romance! satire on people when the true obirct tmage and the man. of ~he .satire, if.we understand it right"Mr. Woodward has written an imF. tA.. Stokes ,$%.00 . .. ~y, ts life. · fliensel,v readable book, in which he ."" · -EsTHER Gouu) has achieved vigor and vividness at the ~~~ - ~~-~~-~~~~·~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~occasional expense of accuracy . . ~ith ~: all its faults, it is the most stimulating ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ study of Washlngton in rebt~n to his times that has yet been written." 44 One of the most important novels thus far on the spring lists . is Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby'_ s "Green For,, est. It may be unconscious imitation of Virginia Wo<>1f on tht part of .M rs. Colby yet the simila.rity is sufficiently striking to be· impossible to ignore. The point of view. is the same, that intellectual, humorous, slightly ironical nne, also the method, that of presentinR' the story through the consciousness of various more or less unrelated persons, there is .at(io the pl:lcin~ of the story within strict time limits. as in M.rs. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway." This likeness is not .d erogatory to Mrs. Colhv'" work in the least for she has made the method her own. She hasn't tried to squeeze herself clumsily into an ill-fitting pair of shoes. The setting of "Green Fore ~ t" is a sea vovage. The characters are th "" voyag-e~s w~o find themselves thrown thus into intimate contact, and drawn in a rather sinister manner into each others' destinies. coln ?" ,.Did the Library buy the new books on Washington?" "What have you in the way of material on Lincoln for a patriotic speech?" The Wilmette Library has been answering these questions for some time and has now compiled a biograph_ y on these two men. · More Ports, More Happy Places I HULA ·- ·· Many Attractive Doll;l" D::~v Values-Monday and Tuesday ,,., ------------Lord'._Fint Floor I 111t I n.UU tiH W 11t Strlft Door. Ballard's Book Shop Village Theatre Bldg. 1150 Wilmette Avenue Phone Wil. 2566 ======~~~·=================================~! Davia There is not the least hope for the oeace of mind of any of us any more. Just as we had gotten far enough awav from the cross.. word puzzle comes the 9uestion ~raze. The Viking Press has JUSt pubhshed a book of questions to test our general knowledge. It is called "Ask Me Another" and aside from the questions the answers are. given in the ?ack and !it the head of each "quiz" 1s the ratmg according to points of one or more well known persons.