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WILMETTE LIFE. September 21, 1928 - · - - - _..:.._________________..,1 Esther Gould,s Book Corner Seven New Biographies Seven books in the field of biography Coming Out This Fall Telephones: Cnealeaf 7111 Wilmette n· BOOKS that herald the autumn season The Fringe of ·the Moslem World Harry A. Franck A travel narrative covering Egypt, Palestine, T ransjordania, Syria and the "new" Turkeylifting them out of their hitherto remote associations. Illustrated. The Century Company .· $4.00 A Book of Words Rudyud Kipling Being a selection of some thirty addresses and speeches delivered by Mr. Kipling between 1906 and 1927. Doubleday, Doran a Co. S3.oo When .They Love Maurice . &ring A story founded on a wellknown poem by Robert Browning, called "A Light Woman." Doubleday, Doran ·..·· $2. so When the Turtles Sing and other Unusual Tales Conceoaing The Old Soak and Mr. Tim O'Meara. Don Marquis Doubleday. Doran Co. S2.oo a Kubrik the Outlaw Theodore Aclt.bmd Harptr A tale of the goldfields of far eastern Siberia. Doubleday, Doran a Co. S2.oo Texas Man Willillm Macleod Raine A swift and ·thrilling Western tale. Doubleday, Doran a Co. S2.oo Alimony Faith &ldwin A cross-section of modem life which answers the question of . whethtr alimony is a cure or a COnt. Dodd, Mead a Company S1.oo The Lady of Stainless Raiment . Mathilde Eiker Doubleday, Doran ~ Co. $1.50 (. I JUST PARAGRAPHS · !of his characters has ever moved him millan company. "Coming of Age in Samoa" is a or us as did Lily or Ellen. · "Lenin : Thirty Years of Russia" is book which the worried·· parents of the In this book his characters are all written by a young Austr:ian, Valeriu young and wild generation might do presented exactly, with that devastat- Marcu, who met Lenin during the tatwell to read. It is a brilliant study ing clarity which is increasingly Mr. ter's exile 'in Switzerland. It is a deepr by Dr. Margaret Mead of the simple Bromfield's tool, but more or less deri- ly absorbing account of the part Lenin primitive civilization of that island sively, too, as bugs impaled and held played in the Russian Revolution and with a view to discovering what part up on the point of a pin. Annie after. (Publication date, Septe~ber 4.) of us is human nature and what part Spragg moves us perhaps most of all "Jubilee Jim: The Lite of Colonel is human nature ~us the unnatural to pity. Yet we know very little about James Fisk, Jr.," by Robert H. Fuller, restraints of civilization. her-the stQry opens with her death, recounts the career of a Vermont boy Hugh \Valpole gives high praise to and even the pages that go back to who began as a tin peddler and ended Rebecca West's new book of criticism, deal with her directly do not take us as a notorious gambler in Wall Street. "The Strange Necessity." He says, very close to her. Daughter of an (Publication date, October 2.) "Whoever may be at the head of male impostor prophet, sister of a fantas.- · In "Masks in a Pageant," William English letters since Thomas Hardy's tical preacher, she seems to have had Allen · White dissects and displays the death, there is no doubt at all that as poor a break from this old world as characters and records of eight PresiMrs. Woolf (Virginia Woolf) and Miss would be pos·sible. So we pity her, but dents and some other politicians, inWest divide the feminine honors be- remotely, as we would someone read eluding At Smith. It makes lively tween them. It is not in fact an ex- about in the dim past, not warmly reading. aggeration to claim that 'The Strange with the pity which makes us weep "Schumann-Heink, the Last of the Necessity' and Mrs. Woolf's 'Common for some characters as we would Titans" tells her own story to Mary Reader' are the two finest volumes of scarcely do for ourselves. Lawton, and it is packed full of amusliterary criticism written by. women in The other characters, from poor, ing incidents and famous people. the English language." bald, little- Mr. Winnery to the wild No novel of life at sea could be more Princess and her lovers, are interest- thrilling than "John Cameron's OdysA BOOK OF INTEREST ing but we care nothing about them.. sey," which he himself relates and -This is not adverse criti~sm, it is which Andrew Farrell has written ··The Strange Caae of Miaa fact. Mr. Wilder's "Bridge of San down. Cameron, a Scotch sea captain, ADDie Sprqg" Luis Rey" was of the same type of tells with vigor and humor of his often -impersonal fiction, it was nothing perilous adventures on three oceans. By Louis Bromfield against it. Mr. Bromfield has used, by The last European monar<;h of the Frederick A. Stokes Co. the way, something of the same, and old school-"Francis Joseph of Aus-difficult method of Mr. Wilder, that of tria"-is portrayed by Joseph Redlich, Louis Bromfield has long been relating many incidents seemingly un- who was long a member of the Ausmarked out as One of the Young Men connected, but all converging at the trian Parliament, and in 1918 Minister to be Watched in American litera-~ point of the story. · of Finance of Austria. For sixty years ture. In his new book, "The Strange the Emperor's was the deciding will Case of Miss Annie Spragg," he just- AMERICA PRODUCES A SAGA throughout his wide re~lm, and Redif1es once more that classification. It -ich shows him as an Emveror indeed. is a book to be read with ireat inuJohn Brown'· Body" "The Life of. Thomas H 'lrdy," by terest, a book of finely developed skill, -Florence Emily Hardy, his wife, con- . though with less of his usual feeling. By Stephen Vincent Be~ tains not only the story of Hardy's None of Mr. Bromfield's books have . Doubleday Doran """career, but many of his opinions and equalled · in feeling his first, "The observations. Green Bay Tree," or, best of all (each In "John Brown's Body" Stephen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - one to his taste) "Possession." None Vincent Benet has done a tremendously difficult thing-written a long narrative poem which doesn't drag, which is full of spirit and interest . through every one of its three hundred and eighty some pages. It is a work of great scope and of great feeling. It was evidently Mr. Benet's purpose to embrace all of America in this work; America past and present, and particularly, of course, America at the crucial time of the Civil War. It is this wide scope for which Mr. Benet shquld partciularly be praised, it took the eye of a visionary to see it and the brain of a poet to reduce it to somethi.n g which others, too, could see. It, more than the excellent verse, the command of historical material, make the hook memorable, worthy to live a·s I believe it will. In order to give this farflung picture of an age Mr. Benet has taken many figures from north and south, from east to west, the sons of southern gentlemen and raw-boned Yankee farmers, all marching off to a War : "North and South they assembled, one for pupils desiring special instruction. cry. and the other cry, Eastern trained faculty in both schools. And both are ghosts to us now, old drums hung up on a wall, But they were the first hot wave of youth too-ready to die, And they went to war with an air, as if they went to a ball." -------~-----~------------~ will~p~~~dili~bll~T~Ma~ Miss Harris A nnounces the opening of the seventh year of her also the. Niu Barris Tutoria1lebool Opening Day September. 26th 215 0 Lincoln Park West Phone Diversey 6800 { Private motor under personal supervision of an in-} ltroctor will leave Winnetka each mormng for conYenience of north shore patrons. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg Louir Bromfield Frederick A. Stokes .... $2.50 Just Published A New and Greater BROMF.IELD THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG By Loui· Bromfield so,ooo Before Publication At your book·hop-$2.50 Frederlek A. Stokea Co., N. Y. Publlahers of the best·aelllng ·'Bea· Ideal" and "Brook Evans" LORD'S-BOOKS Jrut I n·ide the West Davia Street Door