The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

· WILMETTE LIFE September 28, 1928 her novels from being "slight." She has written a story, in her own delicately ironical way, of divorce, and more particularly what becomes of the children of parents who obtain a divorce. In Judy Wheater and her flock of little Wheaters and the "steps," as · they term the children of miscellaneous unions, Mrs. Wharton has painted a group actually as charming and fantastic and yet real as were the children of "The Constant Nymph." In Martin Boyne, the bachelor who meets the brood and temporarily throws in his lot with them, she has typified the intelligent, sympathetic and yet impotent voice of the world. Judy Wheater's one ambition is to keep her little brothers and sisters aJJ together and away from the Palace Hotel life which their parents lead. Martin faJls in love with them all, Judy too, alas, and for a short time they lead a sort of charmed life. Then reality intervenes, the children go to the fate that cruelty of their environment makes inevitable, and Martin goes back to his own life richer and yet sadder for the experience. For enjoyment and for profit one can recommend this book. Esther Gould's Book Corner that makes one take an interest in Norman Matson's "Day of Fortune." After a sizzling summer New York Perhaps it is its simplicity-one beis just coming alive. Beginning to . comes deadly tired of the bright and move itself and see if it is alive, that promising openings which, like a is. And before it has a chance to de- theme prepared for a Freshman Engcide it finds itself beginning to be in- lish course, come with studied care undated by its visiting authors. One from most of our young novelists. B. _Wyn~ha~ Perhaps it is the touch of the of ~he first was ~ewts, author of . Francms V 1 11_on foreign place, perhaps the visual ~or whom the pr~mment new pubhsh- imagination which by the sin,ple words mg firm of Coward McCann gav~ a "walking on the shining water" puts luncheon to the New Y_ork colummsts the boat there before your eyes. -and one from hCh1cago. It IS · th ese quat J't' · 1· ~,. L 1 th Robert 1es-a s1mp tct't y ·norse . ovett was t e on Y 0 er rep- which takes you very close to the rese1_1tattve of the Open Spaces. }..fr. characters and to the individual mod · · Lewts proved to be a man of charm ment of h · r to say nothing of restraint, since he tt. n 5 h' ht el~ ktvetsh,. an ant 1mfagma· d f k. h o w tc pte s mgs ou o conre f rame rom rna mg a speec ' fusion and makes th m t 1 though he had such a battery of pub- h' . e .ac ua. . as 1 . 't t 1· d 1 f h. t mgs you 1ave seen-wluch dtstmItct Y agen s me up )e ore t~. ut.sh tile b 00 k b This in itself endeared him to his g cyond most books. hearers and assured favorable notices. Ad?ed to these, too, are others, a ~rh e on 1 sense of · humor, y speec h was ma d e b y D on- dehcate · · of pathos, of aid Ogden Stewart who dwelt on the trony, am1 a poetic fcelmg. importance of humor in American . The book teJJs. the stor~ of Pet~r literature. Rebecca \Vest, arrivinfi Chezness. an_d h1s. Norweglan -f:\menthe end of this month, to be visiting can famtly m thetr progress 111 the critic for the Herald Tribune in Oc- ne.w world from. poverty and uncertober, will be the next important ar- taiQty to prospen~y and b_ack to J?OVrival. Frances Brett Young is com- crty and unc~rtamt~ agam. It 1s _a ing a little later, not to lecture this story told . m. sw1ft phot?grapl?IC time but to "get acquainted with the R.ash_es, fascmatmg yet sometimes IfAmerican people." ntatmg ~ecause we . want. always to · know a httle more. Peter ts a dreamA POETIC NOVEL er as were his father and his grandfather, able to give up the present for a dream, unable quite to cope "Day of Fortune" Uy Norman ~lntson with the present because of dreams. 'l'lle Century Co. Though the book is by an American author yet it is pervaded by that "Anna Marie working barefoot in sense of Fate, unfathomable, unquesthe steep field stood erect to look tioned, which is so much a part of down at the six-oared boat walking the spirt of the Scandinavian peoon the shining water of the fjord . ple. "There was an emptiness like a \Vould it be her Ola?" There is some- meaningless dusty sigh-like a yawn thing in that quite simple opening that never closed ... Life flowed over him, he went with the current of it and how he chanced to be there i~ Chicago in the dead of night he sometimes could not think." JUST PARAGRAPHS ·· I T elepbones: Cntealeaf 7111 Wilmette 37M p. BOOKS Another Interesting List This Week! .... I A Little Clown Lost Barry Benefield "-a story that combines most lovable human characters with unexpected and quaintlyturned situations - - -" The Century Company .. $2.00 .' Storming Heaven Ralph Fox The story of a thoughtful, untutored, daring American youth. making his way from Vladivostok to Moscow- to live. and fight and lovt. Harcourt, Brace t1 Co. . . $2.50 EASY MONEY "Galatea" By Margaret Rivera Larminie Houghton Mimin Co. "Galatea" by ~fargaret Rivers Larminie is one of those wish fulfillment stories, grown up fairy tales, dear to the heart of so many. It is a nice simple story of how Emmeline Wynter at the instigation of her cousin Jack puts a one pound bet on a horse and sees it come riding back to her seventy thousand pounds. Of whose wish isn't that a fulfiJJment? So Emmeline puts herself into the hands of a good modiste-that's always the first step-and comes out a transformed creature. Then gathering up dyspeptic Papa and a nice old gentleman neighbor who has some knowledge of the world, she turns her back on suburban London and sets out for parts unknown. Rather unfairly leaving Cousin Jack behind· on the pier. Emmeline's adventures during the next month come on apace and are much what we might expect under the circuri1stances. She meets her share of kindness, treachery and pain. Only to find in the end and at great expense what we knew in the beginning that it was realJy Cousin Jack all the time. So it looks as if with Papa nursing his dyspepsia in Switzerland, all might go well for Emmeline in England. Mrs. Larminie has some ' skill in the drawing of characters, which she exercises best in those of the minor roles such as Papa and Emmy's elderly friend. About the main characters there is something sacharine sweet as if she were "Just so anxious that we would like them all." If ther~ is anything that makes us wish for them an untimely and violent end, it is of course just t~at! ... . The Dark Island Chatle~ Collin· and Gene Markey "The glamour of the South Sus of today-sunken treasure, sa .1ges civilized and uncivilizeddivers and undersea battles - - -" -in short, color and action ! Doubleday, Doran ..... $2.00 The Soul of the Bantu W. C. Willoughby Primitive religion and magic at work among our contemporary ancestors-the spiritualistic practices of the Bantu tribes of Africa--<ommunication with the dud through dreams, tunce and divination. Doubleday, Doran ...... $ 5. oo ' MRS. WHARTON AT. HER BEST "The Children" By Edith Wharton D. Appleton & Co. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 Albtrt J. &a·tridge Two of tbt four volumes planned by Mr. Bevtridge, whose dutb inrurupttd the work. Houghton, Miftlin ~ Company ......... $ ll. 50 Soothes and Refreshes Motorists' Eyes hours at dw wh el and irritated by exposure to su , wind and dust are instant~ ly relieved by Murine. It soothes tway the tired, burning feeling; Jears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trip~ co refresh and protect your eyes. .\lso keep a bottle of M uri"e in ,.our locker at the country club .:or use after golf, tennis, swimning and other sports. A month's uppl y of this beneficial lotion ·'sts but 6oc. Try itt Wru, Murrnr Co .. Chicago. for FREB boo~· Edith ·w harton has certainly made a ..come- back" to her old power in her latest novel .. The Children." With the perfect mastery of her art which makes even the slightest of her novels d~stinguished, sl;e has combined the feelmg which can certainly keep - THE HANDSOME MAN By Margaret Turnbull After all. Sir Geordie's face was his fortune. But Lady Aggie, with htr sht:ewd sense and her canny humor, was de· tumintd to make the fortune a bankable one. Between the two they did. and Margaret Turnbull is at her best in tell· ing .the romantic. advtn· turous tale. Memories and Reflections, 1852-1927 TIH Eul of Oxford and Aaquith little, Brown t1 Company ........ $1 o.oo Ey~strained by A Lantern in Her Hand &11 Sttttttr Aldrich "---of a pioneer woman, her lift on the prairie, and the cbttrful courage and sturdy faith that were htr companions." Appleton ·......... . . $2.00 We Are Already Taking Orders for Christmas Cards Those which are placed before · October 15th, are subject to a ten per cent discount. LORD'S-BOOKS J uat I naide the West Davis Just Published A New and Greater BROMFIELD THE STRANGE CASE OF on Evr &autv md Evr c.., Street Door lJRINL f.oiiYouR EYES At all bookaellera $2.GI MISS ANNIE SPRAGG By Louia Bromfield so,ooo Before Publication At your boobhop---$2.50 Prederlek A. Stokes Co., lf. Y. P·bllebere of &be 1tea&··W·· "Bea· Ideal" aad "Brook EYaaa" REILLY lc LEE Chicago New York