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30 WILMETTE LIFE July 1, 19~7 t Tire Ronkma11) BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Easy -to .. Read BOOKS The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes A. Conan-Doyle Dor.1n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $2.00 NON FICTION The Story of Philo:-:;ophy- Durant Why ·w e Behaye Like Human Beings · -Dorsey Royal Road to Ron1ance-Halliburton Revolt of Modern Youth-Lindsey and Th~;a~~lieving \Vorld- Browne The Book Nobody Knowr.;-Barton The Man Nobod~ Knows-Barton NapoleonLudwig Desert- La wrenee Revolt In the War Birds-Anonymous · . 'I'he Book of :!\farriage-r.ount Keyserling The Christ of the indian Road- J otws FICTION Elmer Gantry- Lewis .-\n American Tragedy-DreiSt'l' Sorrell and Son-Deeping Doomsday-Deeping <Talahad-Erskine Private Life of Ht>len of Troy- Erskitw Plutocrat-Tarkington Revelry-Adams Tomorrow-Parish Beau Geste- \\·ren Sf>a Gull Norris Hhow Boat-Ferber Novel Is Argument Against Divorce and · · Pot Shots at Pot Bo.ilers Selfishness of Society A Vagabond Journey Around the World Harry A. Franck Century Co .·....·...... $5.00 &ardonic Tales Villiera De L'lsle Adam Alfred A. Knopf ........· $J.OO I 1 he Bookman Anthology of Verse Second Series Dor.1n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 Charles Lindbergh, His Life Dale Van Every and Morris De Haven Tracey Appleton ~1 Ow en societY I novel. · The people are people of qu·r own time and it is' in this that our interes t i;1 the story lies: The fact . " pro bl em nove I" means t1 1at . I S IS a less than that it is a sprightly, well 1 ld · h' · wntten s tory w tc 1 1 10 s your 111 terest. · · · · Jean an.d Kttty, cousms, botl~ cluldren of dn·orced parents are extled to a convent in Florence. There amid s trangers in thi - seemingly hostile . ~ altet~ country they are to each other sole friend and comforter. Then Kith· is taken awav and Jean is left mor~ ,] before. tm.serable than Years later Jean and Kitty are meet ing in the fasl1ionable world, Jean reserved and quietly charming, sobered In "The Last Salon," by Jeanne by her experience s of life, Kitty heart Maurice Pouquet and translated by less and daring, made sharp and bitter Lewi s Galantiere, the world has at by what she has had of life. There is last the whole story, or · probably as a man of course, Ted Larrabee also much as it will ever have, of the the child of diYorced parents. Jean amusin g and intriguing tale of Anatole and Ted have loved one atwther from France and his good geriius, Mme. Ar- childhood but their different ideas man, under whose inspiration and about life have driven them apart. tutelage, even, most of his writing was Jean ask s for something stable, some done. It is a book interesting from asurance that their marriage will not other points of view as well, since it end in disa s ter, Ted is too weak willed represents a picture of perhaps the last to be able to gh·e it and between them famous salon in Paris. ' is laughing,· unprincipled Kitty, ready to take Ted on any terms she can. Anne Douglas Sedgewick, author Of course there is shipwreck in of "The Old Countess," announces that which, on the variou s terms each has her hobby is birds and her "passion" made for him self or life has made ior her little ~og, a "Pom". him, the chance for happine,; s of each one is lost. The book is an argum e nt against divorce yes but it is no less an argument aiainst' wealth used lightly, against unprincipled freedom, agai.nst selfi shness, again s t everythingLost ·Ecstacy . which we understand bv "societ,·" in Mary Roberts Rinehart .. $2.00 its narro\\'est se n se. · · IJohnson In "Children of Divorce" has written a good "CHILDREN Johnson. OF DI\.ORCE "-Owen of For th e prize hair-s plitting stat ement the week we submit Percy A . l~ I ················ FICTION Giants in the Earth Marching On .......·...... $2.00 0. E. Rolvaag . . ..... . ... $2.50 James Boyd ............. $2.50 he Ghost of hemlock Lanyon Harold Bind loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2 . 00 ~mali Twilight Sleep Edith Wharton .. ........ $2.50 The Maaie Mountain (2 vola.) Thomas Mann ..... . ..... $6.00 Stokes Aw Hell! Clarke Venable .......... $2.00 1 he Doran Bachelor Pelham Grenville W ode house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 PLAYS-POETRY Broadway, a play P. Dunning .. .. .......... $2.00 Peop.e Around the Corner Thyra Samter Winslow Alfred A. Knopf ......... $2.50 Chicago, a play Maurine Watkins ........ $2.00 The Co.utant Wife, a play Fiddler's Farewell . W. Somerset Maugham ... $2.50 Distinctive Stationery for Monogramming French Maharadjah papers, with a lined foldo'!,er flap, and envelopes lined to match. · $2.25 a box. Cards to match, S 1.50 with envelopes. · Sultane Note Paper with lined ·envelopes, S 1. 5o. These papers may he h,ad in a variety of exquisite tints. (Pulitzer Prize) Lecmora Speyer .......... $2.00 Tristram Edwin Arlington Robinson .... .......................... $1.50 The White Rooster George O'Neil ........... $2.00 Memoin of Catherine the Great Translated by Katharine Anthony .............. : .. $5.00 Lord's- Stationery 11nd Book· Firat Floor Hutchison's s tatement in an arti cle debating the respective values of romanticism and reali ~ m, wherein h e a sserts that a romantic attitude of th e mind and romanticism are not one and th e ·same thing. Neither are hydrog e n and oxyg en the same thing, but co m bined in stated proportions th ey a re water. As a rabid reader of anythin g that come s within the reach of our d 'd d h 1ave ect e t at avaricious grasp, we 1 there are onl v two basic types o f ·lite rature, i.e., the romantic or abst~a ct · · d 1 l' t' mtroverttve an t le rea l S IC or co n crete extrovertive. In the la st analy sis romanticism is the romantic mind ' · d b eyon d th e pom · t 0 f sa t'at 'o 11 1 1 carne and classicism and modernism are simply forms of expres sion of th e tw o fundam ental s . . .. Of the vast num ber of famous and infamous men in public life in the United States today. there is onlv one man who is typicallr American. ~,·ho is a fulfillment of th e American tradition and who d oes n o t as pire to cosmopolit<inism. ( Of cour ~e . if you want to insist on Senator Bore r. hut I hate to admit it.) Will Rog ers looks, speak s, and thinks in the Ameri can tradition without ever descendin g to lottd voic ed "100% Americanism ." The mav or of Beverlv Hills ha s cYi dentally . been subcon~ciously affe ct eel hy his neighbor, Hollywood, for he ha ~ named his late st book, "There's Xot a Bathing Suit in Russia , an~ Oth ~ r 1 Bare Fact ~ ." when the bathm.g smt element actually appears onl y 111 ,<?ne short paragraph of the volume. 1 he hook is a continuation of his "Lette.r s of a Self Made Diplomat" and is a co mpendium · of pithy an? hum~r?n s comments anent the foretgn pohtt~al situation. Mr. Rogers has embodtecl more logic and sound rea son in thi s "humorous" hook than is contained in Scenes in Paris the usual weighty political tome . . . . "0~ THB SLOPE OF MONTMAH.- The clav feet of another eighth · grade 'I'RE"- \.n lliam ·wallace Irwin. hi story ·idol have been ent e rtainingly Those who arc "going to Paris" ha \'C exposed in "Marco Million s" hy Eu been deluged of late years with litera- gene O'Neill. It is an ironic study of ture on '"hat to do when they got human futilities that will he appreciat there and how to do it. Some of thi s NI bv those of You v.-ho enjoyed "The information has b een useful, some · of it Begiar on Hor ~eba c k." The · drama is merely entertaining. It is hard to say a pe.rfcct portrait of one of those in into which clas s "On the Slope of effectual individual s who learn thr Montmartre" would fall. context but not the wi sdom of thing ~ Probably Mr. \Villiam Irwin, on e o f ·t nd who lust s without ever realizing the American war expatriates who lik - love. O'Neil has woven a drama of ed the state so well that he continu ed barbaric heautv and sardonic brillianc<' :t inde finitely by living in Paris, amus- :1nd if his genius were not so taken ed him self a good deal in ·w riting the for granted it would unclouhtedly rais e book. It sound s a s if he had. It a furore amoncr the critics and reading would be fun to sit down and "·rite public . . . . Harking back to our sketches ab o ut th e butcher, the bakl r statement of last week regardingand th e r es t o f o ne's tormentors- 1he current propaganda for remainingsublimate your all -year-round anger , unon the higher altitudes of litrraturr and get hack at them in such a way mav we. in spite (literally) Ol YOUr that the\· couldn't retaliate- for the v ' uperiority to the effervesc-ent. recomcouldn't ·read English. · mend a hook for your week-end gue~t Mr. Ir\\'in ha s made an attractive whose departure from town presuplittle book of word etchings, giving nose s a need for relaxation . Tt 1:; character sketche s. glimpses of scenes "TJ,e Honorable Picnic" bv Thomas which have the ring of romance for Raucat and translated lH; Leonard those \\'ho have or have not been in Cline. Out of the vast difference heParis-"Our Flower-Girl," "Our Coal- tween the Occidental and Oriental man," "Our Butcher," all those who viewpoint the author has constructe(! make · the dailv round romantic in a ~ consistentlv and irresistablv funnY foreign city. · -EsrHtR GouLD. tale that is set forth with origin::tl <~nrl clever humor. B. B. George Jean Nathan's next book !s to be called "Land of the Pilgrim's E. P. Dutton & Co .. are beg-inninrr Pride." \\.hether Mr. Nathan has the publication of a new series of discovered anything of which, in his hooks designed to afford a ful!Pr · ::>pinion, the Pilgrims have a right to knowledge of the general ideas tt"l"l'l be proud remains to be seen. The which human progress depends. 'rl,p book will be published in September first volume of the series is "Prc 1 1i~ by Alfred A. Knopf. toric Man," by Keith Henderson. -New York Times -New York Times ' ·.