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----~- --· - . . - - - - --------- u--.it7 tat . ~ ....... 3711 Ropn P_. IIZZ·S Teleplaoae for ,._. BOOKS , Tbt Shores of Romance Georgi Gibba Old New Orlrans as it was dariag the War of 1812 is the scme of this brilliant romance. Appleton ·············· S 2.oo The Day After Tomorrow Philip Gibbl Ia which Mr. Gibbs taka up tht qaution of what is going to happen to the world. Doabltclay. Doran t4 Co·.. $2.50 Move Over E. Ptttit Dncribed on tbt covtr as "a novel of oar betttr classes." J. H. Stan t4 Co··...·..· $2.50 Tlxy Could Not Sleep Stn~tber~ Bart A coU«tion of lhort storia. widely varied in thfme. from satire to . aysticism. Scribner's ········.···.. S2.oo Daughters of Folly Coamo Hamilton Pataaa ····........... $:&.00 Beauty and the Beast ICMblHn Norm · Doableclay, Doran t4 Co···. $2.00 RteclaandMud Tllia book. writtea eady ia Mr. lbaaa'a caner, ia ltiU oat of his · · popalar aoYela ia Spaia aacl Spaaish-spukin1 coaatria. h ia tbe O.noa book for April. E. P. Dattoa ··········· Sa. so V..,. -..o '"""'· New Stationery -Hanl'..-.-c z c I a 1 i Y t with Lonl'a. A aambtr of attractiYt U.. of ncelltat tatan aacl ...... Shms. caa aad taftlopea. Ask to · the· aU. and blurbs-of overpowering sincerity and simplicity. It is written beautifuUy from first to last, with a restraint which seems to come most naturillly in dealing with stupendous, simple things. For the life of Millie Carver is filled with stupendous things -loneliness, courage, fear, love, tragedy--all thrown into intense relief by the simplicity of their background. Like Ellen in "The Time of Man" Millie is the child of poor white trash in the south, living the life more of a wild animal than a child. But she is happy with the same unreasoning joy that makes the birds sing in the morning, and her life is filled with the beauty shed about her by her own spirit. She and Alec, who worked at the orange grove nearby, might always have been happy, growing up and mating as naturally as the wild things they loved if it had not been for the evil m the world around them. BEAUTY IN A NOVEL This comes between them, making them suffer almost more than they "STRANGERS AND LOVERS" can bear, but leaving them in the end to look for and perhaps find again their happiness. B, Edwia Gnmbe....,. The MacaalaJ Co. The restramt and beauty of the style cannot be shown alas, by short In "Strangers and Lovers" Edwin quotation ; it would be too unjust to Granberry has written an almost per- try. But the book is marked always fect book. A book which makes you by a classic simplicity. reach for adjectives advisedly, some of those adjeCtives which you keep on LIGHT AND AMUSING an upper shelf of your mind for special occasions a~d when you draw them out proudly, suddenly strike you as "A GIRL ADORING" very inadequate. It is a book which, as a reviewer before me has said and B, Viola Me,..ell which it is inevitable that one say E. P. Dattoa A Co. again, must be compared with "The Time of Man," and it does not lose at all in the comparison. It is a book- . "A Girl ~dorinJ," by Viola Meynell entirely belied by its sensational cover IS an amusmg novel, and one that is good enough to be better. The author is possessed of a good deal of subtlet~ which she uses to her advantage at t1mes and then suddenly allows it to turn against her. She uses it to make exhaustive· research into her characters which up to a point you find interesting and then all at once you see that she is going to carry it on to a place where you will be bored unutterably. For example with the brother Morley, we are interested in his foibles and little meannesses for a while and think, "Isn't he well drawn !" Then when the same thing is repeated we say, "This is interesting but we knew it before," and finally when · we have been told about his deep and selfish love of comfort for the fortieth time we cry "But what of it?, There is much in the book that ~trikes us in t~at way, as not very Important.. It 1s the s~ory of Claire, an attractive young g1rl who oddly enough is the least clearly drawn character in the book. Perhaps because s~e was harder to do, for the more intimately we know a character the When eyes become blood shot more w~ are struck by contradictions. from wind, dust, over-use, aying And Mtss Meynell, exhaustive as she or lack of sleep, apply a few drOp. is in searching her characters. likes ~f harmless Murine. Soon they them to run true to type. At any rate Claire in the midst of her varwill be clear again and will feel iously appreciative and attractive refreshed and vigorous. family lives through her youth and wins and i$ won by the man she loves. JUST PARAGilAPHS "Sawdust and Solitude" is the story of a woman who was educated for Grand Opera, ran away with a circus, made flapjacks in a second class restaurant, got into another circus, became the leading lion tamer, then went to Colorado and took up land. This is not fiction but a true story and it would be hard to say which of the lady's professions shows a greater amount of courage. A home-sick English soldier in Palestine took a vow that if he returned from the War he would "wander through the lanes of England a·tid little thatched villages of England and lie on English grass watching an English sky." Tlie vow was kept and its result recorded in a book called "In Search of England.'# Mr&. Merrill Lay& E&ther Go·ltf· Book Cor·er Chicago U'heaval to '-------~~-------~-· Racial Atlju&lmenl I up bloodshot eves ·qUickly and safely Clear "Current crime and. political corrup· tion are reatilta of Qic:ago racial ad· justment, and with its confusion of the day it is a wonder that we do as well as we dol" Mrs. Anthony French Merrill, lee· turing at the Evanston Country club Wednesday morning, April 4, under auspices of the Wells College club, expressed this conclusion of a state of events that is startling Chicago and the world at large. The age, she reminded, is one entirely different from those which America has known. There is unrest and flow and chaos and confusion, and until the peoples of the various countries making up cosmopol,tan Chicago have amalgamated or adjusted themselves, there is certain to be lawlessness and upheaval. Calla Morhid View Uatrae She believes, however, that the doctrine expour..ded by Spengler's "Decline of the West," which pervades much of the current fiction and philosophy and would have life "one long crawl up a sewer," is unnatural and morbid and misleading, and therefore untrue. She cited Dreiser's "American Tragedy" as an illustration of this sort of writing-a book, she · 'holds, "writ· ten by a man with no sense of values who sees life as a narrow bit of hideousness." Taking for the topl\! of her final and summarizing lecture of the Lenten series, which has inter.ested a large.r group of women than even her previous popular courses, "The Cream After All," she concerned it with the results of reading and advice thereupon. One has a right, she affirmed, to one's own opinion and need take no other authority until convinced. The charm of life, she suggested, is its liquidness and debatable quality. There is always change, decay and advance, and we do not always know just what has made our progress. For Solid Yam.. She made a strong plea for the retaining of the solid substantialities like faith and trust and · kindly, generous, unselfish living as opposed to the introspective, selfish primary consideration of self, and it is the task of those who hold with these rather "old-fash· ioned" qualities to spread their gospel through writing as well as through living. Whatever remains to enrich and enlarge life must be she said, "the cream, after all." Any book that makes the higher values of life seem worthless and impossible is time-lost reading. Reading must be meditative and reflective as well as an in-gathering of facts and entertainment, and every reader has the right to support his in· dividual taste and gratify it, according to whether he lives in a world of facts or fancy. Announcement that Mrs. Merrill will give another series of lectures under auspices of the club during the Lenten season next year, made at the close of her final address, was received with enthusiastic applause. I. F. D. The Chicago public library has the largest collection of memento of the Civil War. · Many persons use Murine each night and morning to keep their eyes always dear and bright. A month's supply of this longtrusted lotion costs but 6oc. CHANDLER'S for UJRD'I-IIUT 1LOOR 1_, 1..- th 1Vnt Dcvia StiNt Door IJRIJVL fORy'OUI EYES BOOKS Tbe ,.., atocl OIJ com,.,. 6ooA tbe Nonll Sbon W1th a beautiful 8we4Wa vlllap u a buqroa114 thla ~~equel to '-rile . .......,. Daaalater" C&l'rlea OD the atoJ7 of lara Alella, her children and crandchlldren. Northern m)"atlclml and a atroag beUet Ill the aapernatural Ia felt throuatloat the book. ,1.50 .7THE ......SON .,..... , E. P. o.tt-lt eo. rc.. Ya ·