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WILMETTE LIFE . October 22, 1926 · DID YOU KN0\\1'- What's Newand Goodto Read? Six new books, any one of which might easily become a best seller! Take for example this rich-ton~ novel of the Iltinois of a hundred years ago- The Chariot of Fire ·By Bernard de Voto Macmillan · · . . · . . · . . · · . S z. 5o This is the story of a riverman who was the village drunkard until his conversion-after which he was hailed as a prophet of a new faith, a seer of V"isions, and one who receives revelations. Mr. de Voto's pictures are unsparing in realism, showing the rise of the new religion with its hysteria,· its exaltation and its final tragedy. Oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iO Tizat uShowboat" bv Edna Fer/Jcr was selected by ihe Book-ofthe M o11th club as 1'ts September l>ook? That a uew collection of Bernard Shaw's p!a,·s was Pnblislzcd October 20-uTrallslatioHs mzd Tomfooleries?" That tire fifth ammal award of the Jolm N ewber·v medal went to Arthur C1·isman for his book of Clzi11ne stories, {(Shen of the Sea?" That Jolm A1asefield is scheduled to arri·ve this week in New York where he will give six readings of his poerns mtd plaw during tlze fall term at The Tc7.(' Scltool for Social Research f Perhaps those of us who knew Joseph Conrad only through his works will be happier in keeping at this dis tance. In the little volume by his wife entitled "] oseph Conrad as I knew Him," it is a very different Conrad revealed. A Conrad irrascible though lovable, difficult as he was brilliant, , one who may not help us to preserve the picture of the Conrad we knew. r11111111u 11 ~®Wll®W~ @~ NEW BOOKS FICTIOX Darwing· Floor .......... .Toll11 Bllch<tll An Old :\Tan's Folly ........ Floyd Drll ::\I(}th<·r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maxim Gm·ky .\ng·t·l .. ... . . .. . .. . . D11 Bose JlrJncanl (;o)dt>n JhllH't·r ... . . ... . .. :,CJI?'il lJillllf' ~mith EYt ·rlasting- .. . .. Dill1ryb Pcwt'isll World of \\.illiam Clis~ o ld .. JJ. G. ll'ells Hl·:n·,·n Tr·t·t ·s . . ..... .. . . . Star!; l·ouny N®~ · JB3©©!1K~ "CusronY Cnn.nnex"-Everett Young. "Custoch· Children" is a very brilliant noHI. \Ve choose the word brilliant perhaps partly because tl1c book deals with glittering- thinl!s. wealth, society,. pomp, display. But ~f r. EYerctt Young, it's author, makes it very clear to u:-; that these things ha\·e only outward glitter, that within they are a dark hollow sham. Like the kind of maca roon-we believe it is-alluring on th<' outside which when \'Ott bite into it fall:-; into a iew miserable crumbling flakes c·f beaten egg-. For seldom has an author paintecl societ\· as darkh- a..; 1fr. Young does, yet lie docs it· entirely convincingly . But we can comfort ourselves that he has taken only one layer of society, the "ultra-smart" set, the "perpetual motion ac..ldicts" as he aptly characterizes them . As the title indicates "Custody Children" h a novel oi diYorcc, though it is one of those novels ·which starts out to he a hook "·ith a theme and surprise:- itscli hy ending up a \rork oi art. It n:1nincb me , and ~uch a comparison means much to me, of Edith \\. barton's "Ilousc of :\firth ." In both there is thl· character oi the woman who gnps your emotions yet whom you nJust see trodden on, defeated, h)' a world which she can neither rcn oun n· or s uhd ue. l llllllllrlllll111111 11111 11111111 1 11 111 - ~ XoX-FfCTlOX X·mnal c'ltilll and Primary Edu eatiun .. . . .... . .......... . . . .. . . . .1. [;. a( .~ r ll Pr·imary ~chuol .. . . . . ..... i l. E. JII001' C SC't"tH·wrig-ht . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 dl'C ~mit II Short Pia Ys frolll Aml·!'i('an Historv .. . . ..... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0. !tf. j~rir r On tht· Strt·am of Tra n ·l . ... ./. l\· . 1l all Italian Litt·raturt- .. . ... .r. A. SJ/IIIUnds 1 >ialog-UPH of Plato ( 'ol'ktail ContitH·ntalt· . . n,·ucc R cuuoltls Lure· of Fn·nC'h Chateaux . F. Jl. Gistlill[l Xt·w Eng·Jand in the R 0publi ......... . . . .. .. . . ... . ... . ...... J. T . A.11dr(·lc8 A Business Man Should Read 1. Several newspapers: thus he stu- Angel By DuBose Heyward Doran ..··....... , , · , , S:z..oo Another story, like Porgy, posed against a North Carolina mountain background: a vivid, intense and vigorous blending of action and atmosphere. Lord Raingo By Arnold Bennett Doran ·....·....··· , , , Sz.oo A richly documented portrait of a human, erring, wise, foolisn Englishman-says the cover of Lord Raingo-and compares it favorably with Bennett's masterpiece, 41 The Old Wives Tale." A Musician and His Wife By M ts. Reginald de Koven Harper ~ Brothers .... , .. Ss.oo In these fascinating memoirs are revealed some of the best and most interesting aspects of the life of cultured Americans in the eighteen seventies, eighties and nineties. dies history while it 1s being m.:tde. 2. Several newspapers: thus he learns how busiitess is going. J. Senral nevrspapers: thus he learns his own town. 4. The Saturday Evening Post: thus he gets good stories, novels and a view of business, law, politics and government different from that \vhich most of the newspapers give him. r-;:;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~5. The Liter a ry Dig c s t ; thus hc gets 1 both sides of the day's questions. and l explores the world. By Louiae Jordan Miln 6.' The be~t novels a . they appear; A delightful romance of China dur(the hest arc the ones he most enjoys). . ing the Boxer Rebellion, by the 7. A good, small book on something author of "Mr. Wu." he is interested in, by a Man who ~S;;;;to;;;;k;;;;e;;;a;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;o;;;;;;;;;;;;;.;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;N;;;;.;;;;Y;;;;;;;;.!. , KnO\r:i. Articles 111 the world's great magazines can take the place of smali hooks. 8. The he~t journals of his own calling. 9. Enrything else. -The Bookman Henry Seidel Canby stated 111 the · Saturday Review of Literature," recently, in speaking of the news value of books, "Scarcely a week passes between August and December and between January and June, when there is not a full-length news-story of real importance and great interest 111 a just published book." -ESTHER GouLD "Trn: C:\£ ,\HT1TI.Y"- Rnl,trl !!irh.·ns . king It Happened ·n Pe· ! I BELLARION ' Rafael Sabatini · /"The 'J\1odern Dumas' o~tdoes 1 1 Personal Reminiscences Auguste Rodin " of By Anthony M. Ludovici J. B. Lippincott 8 Company ........·... , .. $3.00 A portrait of the great sculptor at the most interesting period of his career-and a searching criticism of his work and aims. ,y ihis master. A whale of a g.ood story. Among the best, if not the best, of all the stories that Sabatini has ever writ!'~ ten."-Chicago Post. ,·~ "A perfect Sabatini."Boston Transcript. George Washington !· THE I ! IMAGE AND THE MAN Houghton, ·M ifflin Co. - _l I I I By W. E. Woodward Do You Know 1 This is one of the important hi- 1 ographics of the season. Do not ' fail to read it for from its pages emerges at last the real, the human George · Washington. B~ni & - In "The Cnearthh·" RohPrt llirhen ~ has attempted a Ycry difficult thing. He ha~ tah·n as his subject, the most subtle one possible, the incredible mental or spiritual po,vcr of a man. A powrr such as that belonging to Peter Kharkoff cctt11wt 111 litcraturl' any more ·than it could in life br described. It would ha,·e to he felt. So Mr. Hichen~ docs the most plausible thing·, tries to describe it through it s effects on other people. Bttt it is dif ficult to do this without making tl1e people appear to us ridiculous as people would he obeying- an unseen Signal, dancing to an unheard tunc. 1Ir. Hichens hasn't quite distilled the essence of his subject and co1weye(l it to us. It is lost somewhere 1n his bewildering and plea:-.ing· fertility of ~peech. "The Unearthly" 1s a boo~ which will appeal most to those who I mind. -Esnn:n Got.:r.n 1 I ll1111111111111111111111111111111111111l I Our Charming Stationery Department? Beautifully displayed here are wide varirt;<'s of tl1e k;nJ ·of stationery well-bred people like to use-with envelopes of interesting shapes-papers of unusual and pleasant texture-distinctive envelope linings-when the envelopes are not plain-and above all, standard qualities. Liverigbt THE GOLDEN BEAST B, B. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM ·tt Ia oae of the fti"Y belt of hla $4.00 Where There Are Children Dare There Be Divorce? Custody Children By Everett Young Not the ordinary "brilliant society novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring supremely what happens to Clodi Dil·lon. longatoriet."-TJac "WITH EASTERN Evr.s"-Ernest Pool(. A Russian scientist who has been through the tragedy of the revolution, comes to a prosperous New England home to a ss ist an American astronomer .in his researches. He sees American· family life with Eastern eyes, and Mr. Poole gives us both the Russian's impressions of the emotional crises in the Dana household, and the real inwardn.ess of events. It is the astronomer's wife from whose special viewpoint the story is told, and it is her attitude of loyalty and reticence in a difficult martial situation that most amazes the Russian observer. NOWnot tomorrow-nor next weekBut NOW-have your Christmas cards engraved here-at Lord'i. 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