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WI L M E 1;~T E L I P E October 26, 1928 1 fUVNfAIN .sQVAR[, · t:VANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7001 Wilmette 3701 Rogers Park 1122 ~·---------------------------~'~t Esther Gould's Book Corner · Max Beerbohm Has a New One! He bas called it "A Variety of Things"-and Alfred A~ Knopf, the publishrr, describes it thus: "A collection of Essays and Stories in The lncompauble's own vein. It contains some notable additions to his gallery of imaginary portraits in prose; also a number of those fairy stories for the sophisticated which were so popular in the nineties. And there is an intutsting personal reminiscence of Aubrey Beardsley." $J.oo. .:JUST PARAGRAPHS · Rebecca West, Visiting Critic for the Herald Tribune. for the month, has arrived in New York. Mis·3 West admits for the benefit of .thoses who await in more or less despair the coming of her long promised novel that she ha·s three novels either completed or well under way. They will none of them be published until after the publication of her book of criticism uThe Strange Necessity.' Eminie Sach's biography of Victoria Woodhull Martin, uthe red-hot grandma of all the flapper's" is almost ready for publication. The truth about uRasputin, The Holy · Devil" is said to have been revealed at last in a book by that name by a German biographer, Fulop-Miller. Mussolini, another enigma of our inquiring age has chosen characteristically to do his own in "My Autobiography" to be published October 26. M us·solini is said to have stopped a newspaper contest on the subject of . the enigma of himself saying "It is absurd since I my: 3elf cannot enter an opinion." He has evidently thought better of it ai1d tried. EXCEPT UNCLE JOHNNIE "All Kneeling" By Ann Parrish Harper & Bros. "Humor, tragedy and pathos are acceptable, but not stories that are morbid or that leavt! the reader uncomfortable." So runs the delicatelv phrased slip of guidance to its con-tributors that a certain American magazine send·s out. We don't know just where it would class Ann Par- The Mountain St. John G. Ervine Macmillan ............. $2.00 The Horns of Ramadan Scribner's Arthur Train ·............ $2.00 My Brother Jonathan Franci1 Brett Young . Alfred A. Knopf ·...·..· $J.OO At the South Gate Grace S. Richmond Doubleday, Doran ~ Co·.. $1.00 Point Counter Point Aldoua Huxley Doubleday, Doran ·..·... $2.50 Cock's Feather Katherine Newlin Burt Houghton, MifBin ~ Co. . . $2.50 Theresa The Chronicle of a Woman's Life. Arthur Schnitzler Simon and Schuster ...... $2.50 Soothes and Refreshes Shaping Men and Women Essays on Literature and Life. Stuart Sherman Doubleday, Doran ~ Co... $2.50 Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at thf wheel and irritated by exposure to sun. wind and dust are instant· ly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning feeling clears up the bloodshot condition Carry it with you on motor trips to refresh and protect your eyes Also keep .a bottle of Murine in your locker at the country club for use after golf. tennis. swim· ming and other sports. A month·~ supply of this beneficial lotion costa. but 6oc. Try it! Wrirc Jlurirtt Co., Chi'PfO· lor FRBB iliey are re~ro~. li ~u ~ft the names of Teheran and Samarkand and· the secret3 of the east the value of which as Miss Bell says uno one understands better thah the Orirish'.s "All Kneeling" among these but we · should think it would adjudge ental" you will enjoy these sketches. that it leaves the reader uncomfortable. Nothing leaves one more unA SCHOLARY BOOK comfortable than to be presented with the evidence, perhapo3 the proof, that "Shelley His Life and Work" .... one lives in the mid~t of hypocrites with their following of dolts. By Walter Edwin Peck Houghton Mrfflin Co. For it is of this, if skill is able to convince you of anything, that Miss Parrish'·5 excellently drawn character There are always a few books of Christabel Caine and her adorers which .you meant to review but which does convince you. In fact the uni- get away from you during the season. versality with which Christabel is You store them up on your shelf, from able to take them all in is the weak- which they view you reproachfully or est point in the book. Only Uncle balefully according to their natures, Johnnie out of all the ramifications of until you take them down · and review relations in Germantown or out of them. Such a one was Walter Edwin all the admiring throng5 that Christa- Peck's two volume "Shelley His Life bel meets when she goes to fashion- and Works" which for some months able watering places with her rich has been eyeing me sadly but with welt aunts, only Uncle ] ohnnie knows that merited reproach. she is a little fraud, a snob, a self-worOn its appearance last winter this 3hipper, a cheat. If this is po.ssible, book was hailed by some of its reviewwhat is the u· se of virtue in a world ers as "the definitive life of Shelley"that would just as soon have its sha- we might add "whatever that means." dow? It is most depressing. But we It is definitive, we suppose, in the dont think it i·3 possible. 5ense that it is an exceedingly schoiHowever, aside from these sad mor- 1Tly and comprehensive piece of work, al aspects of the theme one can sit Mr. Peck has spared no pains in conback and enjoy the faithfulness with ;ulting, verifying and comparing all which the author impales her char- possible sources. acter, the skill with which she paints But it is a work perhaps rather for to the life the po5eudo-poet and scholars than for the general reader, aesthete. not, we hasten to add, because it is "cholarly, that would be unjust to the ~eneral reader, but because when a DELIGHTFUL SKETCHES work is scholarly to be of general ap"Persian Pictures" peal it must be something more, it must also paint a picture. In other By Gertrude Bell words the author must be an artist as Horace Liveright well as a scholar. It is here that Mr. In a delightful format of grey and Peck fails, he presents the material crushed grape this little book, the first dearly and scientifically but he more one to be written by the now famou~ or less leaves you to draw your own Gertrude Bell, has been published ·:onclusions. In consequence, in spite For those who have enthusia·3m for of the vastly fewer number of pages the east, for delicately drawn word- and the far less volume of detail, we pictures of romantic things "Persian gained a clearer picture of Shelley, the man and the poet, from Maurois' Pictures" will be a happy discovery. Gertrude Bell who as truly as Law- "Ariel" than from Mr. Peck's "Life." Mr. Peck has gone too far in elimrence won undying fame in Arabia during the War, did not want these inating his personality from the book, picture'3 of her trip to Persia to be it was actually on page sixty-five of published at all. I have got all the the second volume that we noted the fun out . of them that I expect to first passage of persOI1al feet"ing for have," and this was not affectation for Shelley in which he had indulged. Up when she was finally persuaded she to that time we had found ourselves only consented to have them come out wondering why in such a coldly disinanonymou3ly. Now after her death terested manner he had gone to such when there is so much interest in her an immense amount of trouble. Shelas a personality and in the east, it ley is a character about whom we ourselves are likely to feel strongly, we would rather enter into his mind as we ~lid Keats in Amy Lowell's wonderful What the Critics Say of '>iography of him than stand outside PIGSTIES :n this calmly critical way. __ .. WITH SPIRES By Georgina Garry $2.50 "Dutton's selection as their outstanding book of the month .. it seems to me it is very likely it will be the outstanding book for many months." -Tulsa Daily World. E. P. Dutton & Co. Good Morning America 162 poems written by Carl Sandberg since 1912, when "Slabs of the Sunburnt West" was published. Harcourt. Brace ~ Co...... $J.oo W.RITES FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA Art Young, whose boo'< of reminis:ences, "On My Way," illustrated with tis own cartoons, will be published by ·-Iorace Liveright early in October, is vriting the article on Cartoons for the text edition of the Encyclopedia ~rittanica. The article will be illustrated by Mr. Young's own draw~ ngs and the work of other famous :artoonists of all countries. Christmas Card Engraving Orden we rtceive before Novembtr 1st are allowed a discount of ·.~%. Complete stocks NOW l Persian Pictures By Gertrude Bell of Arabia "For those who occasionally relish a book of complete sincerity, taking one immeasurably far from all we know and understand, a book to be read quietly and with brooding, this will be a treasure." Christopher Morley. 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