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10 WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1924 Jl~JJnnltllimetJ "THE GREEN BAY TREE" By Louis Bromfield. Frederick A. Stoke· Co. DON'T FORGET TO hind the counters in the stores, and ""' MAIL EARL. y you are g iving a practical dem~nstra-t EARLY lllW t:on of the good will that Chnstmas 1 The Shop F..arly. Maii Early campaign inaugurated by Postmaster General K ew last year proved to be an unqualified success. It was a great benefit to the people and also enabled P:Ost office employees to deliver all the Chnstmas mail before noon on December 25. The Department again this year as~s the hearty cooperation of the publtc :n order that the record made last year rr.ay be equalled, if not excelled. Eaaier to Shop Early When you shop early and mail early your are helping the clerks in the post office to eat their dinners home and you are greatly benefiting yourselves. You have a great chance to secure a better selection of gifts from the stores, you have more time to wrap them securely and you are sure that they will arrive at their destination in time to be opened Christmas morning. You are also retime signifies. Acting Postmaster Gen· era!, John H . Bartlett requests that y~u refrain from using small envelopes · .n sending your Christmas ca:ds as t~ts very greatly retards ~he sortmg and dtstr .bution of the matls. Let all of . us pull together this year,. ~o our shoppm!f early and do our ma·lmg. early; l~t s make it a genuine old- fashiOned Chrtstmas celebration. . SHOP lieving the burdens on the clerks be-~ Et~ery Husband should read this book G l Here in "The Green Bay Trre" is a most rem arkable thing, a fir st novel whi ch is a fifth . It shows no usual ~m o unt of self restraint and lit erary pride for an author not to attempt to laun ch h is fir st four proge ny upon the world, but to wait until , after the f;ir st joy of creation is over, he can still say, "That is good." · But that res traint is re SJ>Onsible for th e instantaneous succe ss of Louis Bromfield's " fir st novel." And even now the oth er four will no t be tender ly relea sed from drydock and sent out to ride happily on the wave s of this stirring success. On the eontrary. one of them wa s carted ignominiously away the other day by the Salvation Army. For old paper. All thi s is an interesting phenomenon . And it typifi es the very sane and straight forward point of view which has made this hook memorable. Truly memorable since when you close it s covers you have a perfectly clear picture of a whole phase in the life of a family and of a part of our GQuntry. Cypress Hill was huilt and christened hy one John Shane when there was only country roundabout and he and his hride-to-he. a farmer's daughDIX IN NEW ONE ter rode their horses recklessly in "A Man Must Live" is the name of the the/ paddock. And Cypress Hill because of John Shane's brilliant and new Paramount Picture in which Richromantic career became known to the ard Dix has the part of a reporter. The people as "Shane's Castle ." And like story will be remembered as "Jungle an old feudal castle it stands through Law" and was written by I. A. R. Wylie. the coming years. symhol of its own - Paramount, it is said, spared no exers' silent resisting struggle against pense in the production of this novel phothe invasion of the steel mills. toplay which has for its theme the intriBut the mills come anyway, and gue and romance of a big newspaper. at the opening of the book they have "A Man Must Live" is coming to Mccompletely surrounded Cypress Hill Vickers. with a strangle hold. Each member of the Shane family Electric railways of the United enters the une<wal fight- Julia Shane States in 1923 carried five hundred the wife. dying triumphant, for an million more passengers than ever beenemy whom you ignore cannot defeat you. Irene one daughter, vainly fore in a single year-a total of more combating it with her imaginings, and than sixteen billion riders. finallv broken by them, Lily the other daughter, lazy, beautiful, never quite caring enough to either conquer or be conquered. · And the struggle against the · mills Reviewed or advertiaed here only typifies a deeper struggle-the ue lor tale at stru~tgle against life, the two daughters handica\)\)ed hy a lltrange he.. edity from their father, the mother' handicapped by his memory. 22 N. Mic:b.ipn Ave., Chlc:qo "The Green Bay Tree" is a book ··n. -"·· ,,_. ·firlt·llnl··l Cik·.... intensely real and exceedingly well s-et for ..,.a.llbta written. the word he stepped on the gas and aimed for one of the gaunt iron legs o f the elevated tra cks. Hi s aim . ~as good, be must ha,·e been pr~c.t·c!ng for he killed himself without JnJunng Mr. Berco\'ici, exce pt nervously, at all. If this appears in a story will you call it overdon e? Probably. Yet it wont be, nor is it that Muzio's "knees sagged underneath her, her eye s opened for a m<;>m~nt, and the~' saw her o wn hlood dnppmg from the da ~o::-cr in th e handf of Perez." Perez had lo\·ed her. In Havana. Roumania. ~1arseilles , by we find the se wanderers. And they are not alwa ys killing th e thing they A New Nowl by . love. There is Carlos ref usi ng a for tune which will brin g him the woman ~LeoaWU.O.. he loves because the bird he has for With a preface by Edna St. Vinsale will die in New York. ·· 'It is too Chicago's own great which every woman must cent Millay cold for him there . . .' Then suddenread to see why it has novel-a best seller tv he threw hi s head back, and , hand DISTRESSING DIALOGUES . excited her men friends. ing the money O\'er. to the buyers he all over the country By Nancy Boyd said 'I cannot sell tum to you, because Ac all boobeoru-$.Z.oo he will die there. Take your money Remember how you laughed at back.'" At boobto...., SZ these in "Va.nity Fair?" Mr. Bercovici write s with that finely measured English which is, alas, Dot~bfeday, Page & Co. most common to foreigner s. Yes, Harper & Brothers, Publisher& Mr. Edward J . O'Brien is to be congratulated on givin~ each of the se l~===============~===~=:;:::::;::::=~::==:..:...-----------=-------stories a "three star" ranking in his 1 · annual list. T~l of M of th So 'Big Edna Ferber ~~~~/ y Three ·Scho and t Mrs. "Dure Watt : At Dr. (m ost . DeMo J ten de! and ~ and A tende~ Flora ~ll good f:IJooks Kroch's Book Store .. ILIANA. STORIES OF A WANDERING RACE,. By ICoarad Bercoviei. Boai It Linri.ht. Konrad Bercoviei can well write "Stories of a Wandering Race." He is himself a wanderer, not only by reason of the gypsy blood in his veins' but · by inclination and interest. He is at this moment wandering over the United States of America studying and writing about the foreign quarters of other cities than New York, which he has in his earlier books pictured so vividly. Mr. Bercovici does not overdo things. He knows from his experience with these strange naive people whom we call foreigners and he calls brothers, that nothing is so overdone as life. One Sunday evening about eight months ago Mr. Bercovici was taxiing home with a lady of his acquaintance from a meeting in an east side negro church. The lady of his acquaintance was Miss Rebecca West. Arrived at he1 hotel Miss West alighted. As Mr. Bercovici settled himself in the taxi once more the driver turned and said pleasantly. "Now that the lady has p;otten out I am going to kill myself." Suiting the action to An authoritive hook about the animals of thf' circus menagerie By Courtney Ryley Cooper A new hook about the gilded jungle - the city of circus cages where the captive wild beasts spend their days. Here are tales of apes and monkeys, of lions and tigers and leopards and elephants-of animals that remembered, and men who for got. at all booksellera. PPY are the children in those homes where the sandman 1s a mmstrel too. A minstrel who carries them into dreamland on the soft wings of melody. The strong wings of character-enrichiug song and musical story. 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