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WILMETTE LIFE January 7, 1927 .. Iffi (0) (Q) IlK ~ ... SOME GOOD NOVELS OF 1926 CHARACTER STUDIES Bennett-:-Lord Raingo Bromfield-Early Autumn Canfield- Her Son's Wife Cathcr- 1\{y Mortal Enemy . Coalfleet-Hare and the Torto1 sc Delafield-Chip and the Block Gale- Preface to a Life O'Higgin-Clara Harron Sinclair- Far End Singmastcr- Keller 's ~nn a Rut h Stern- Deputy was Kmg \\.a! pole- Harmer John Y o utH ~- \\'illialll DID YOU KNOW- ~ceviiew~ (Q)f · FOU~~TAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones That Fultotl Oursler, author of o(Step-Clrild of the M OOIZ," Pl4blislzcd his fit·st novel himself 'l(/lzen lrr was 11 :-,·cars old? That "Couradia, a Map Locatiny !he Scenes of Various Books by Jnscplr Co11rad" has been publishl'd ?.l·hiclz is most iutcrl'sliug a11d il!1tmiualill.rJ to readers of Conrad's Roger.s Park 1122 University 1024 Wilmette 3 700 Tomorrow Morning Anne Parrish Harpers $2.00 So You're Going to Italy So You're Going to England So Yon' re Going to Paris Three instructive and interesting .travel books by Clara E. Laughlin. Houghton Mifflin Co. Leather Binding Cloth Binding More Ports More Happy Places Cornelia Stratton Parker Boni and Livtright $3.50 The Road Around Ireland Padraic Colum Macmillan The Complete Pocket Guide to Europe E. C. ~ T. L. Stedman New Edition Robert M. McBride 8 Co. Cathedral Churches of England Helen Marshall Pratt Duffield $4.00 A Satchel Guide to Europe Rolfe 8 Crockett Revised Edition Houghton Mifflin Co. · Ltatbtr Binding Cloth Binding "The Best· British Short Stories of 1926"-Edited by. Edward J. O'B.rien. For those who arc tired of the ~ood tailor made stories of our Amencan magazines, all-or mo st of them ma~e care fullv to the public's mea sure, thts /1nnksf book of British short stori es will come That flit' Penn Publishi11g comas a surp.risc and pleasure. . pany has mwounccd a contest for There arc name s on the li st \duch phlj' manuscripts. prbrs totaling in themselve s are a gua~antce, St ella $2,000? Bens o n, De Ia Mare. Aldous Huxl ey, D. H. La"· rence. J.D. Bcr c~ ford, That Vcru 1-J ut cllillsOII, the sisThere arc other co ntributor s wh o ~tODI·: R~ THE~l E~ trr oj .·1. S. AI. H rtfchinso11 is the aren't so ,,·ell kno\\"n or ·ar e pcrl.;ap s Ot:t:ping-So rrc11 and Son aul/ror of a IIC'W 1W'i 'l'/ "Tilt ])ar/: not kn o wn at all. \\·ho hav e done as Oreise r- American Tragedy Frriglrt ?" Calsworthy- Silver Spoo n well. There is a fanciful tou ch, an Clll - · I a111 eson - Thrce Kingdom s . phasi ~ on atmosphere in these stori.c s, \\\·11:;- \\"o rld of \Villia111 l'li :-.:;.ol d apparent in nearly ~~I ~f them, wl11c_h A0:D AFTER I would never "get hy wtth the Amen - \\.AR Gibb s-Labels Here is a man that almost anyone can magazine read er. For in stance. (~ihhs-L'nchangin ~ Uuest can pity, Dr. ]. C. H. Beaumont, who Stella Bens o n ha s written a lo vely ~f acKcnzie- Fairy \.old has just completed his nine hundredth thing on the awakening of a god, "one trip across the Atlantic. Anyone that of the old gods" who used to make · ~ason-Chevron s has done that should be entitled to mount aim. "Mountains are like bells, A~1ERICAN SCE:t'-JE, PAST write a book about it, or do anything thev are tuned like bells. You'd know A~D PRESE~T else he pleases. Dr. Beaumont has what I mean if you'd made them. Ferber-Show Boat written the book, it is "Ships and Peo- When a mountain is well made, even Forhes-0 Genteel Lady ple" and tells of his experiences in an incurably imperfect mortal ear can Gla sgow- Romantic C'omt:dian s thirty years of ship d'Octoring-not htar the bell note sometimes, especialH envarci-Angel doctoring ships, that is, hut passenger:-;. tv when it ring s to the touch of the last M~cKa\· c-Tall Tale s of the K {· ~ . ~a" of the sun. tucky- Mountain s At the coming meeting of the Ameri;l'homa·s Burke has a delici ous s tory Robert s- Time of Man can ]iistorica1 Association, in Roches- ahout the Chinaman who sang so Stribling-Ted tallow ter, Nl'w York. Hamlin Garland will heartrendingly of his lo\"C for China Suckow-To wa Interior. · give a toast to the Trail 1\.f akers of the that at last. the kindly English folk Middle Border-that is. tl1e men who who had listened to his ~iin~ing rai sed BCSir\ESS . Burlingame - Susan Sh a n e W('re the tr~!il makers in the histon· of a fund to send him back home . At Norris-Pig Iron the ~1is s issippi Valley. the las t wl~en e\'erything \\·as ready, th<' poor little Chinaman went next FANCIFUL, LIGHT A:t\D ~f any people v.-ill hr delighted to door and killed himself- there was AMUSING learn that a new novel from Anne nothing else to d o, he had never se en Arnim - lnt roduction to Sally Douglas Sedgc\\"ick ma~· he expected China and did not . \Yant to go ther e, DaYis-Friend s fJ f ~'! r. Sweeney next spring. The title of th e hook is hi s holll<: wa s in England and he lon~ d 1\athan- Ficldlcr in Barty to he "The Old Countess." it. he \\·a s as hi s neighbor said of him \\'arncr-L o lly \\'ill o w c.:. "nnlv a poe.t." ROMA1\TTC \Yalter D l' Ia ~f a rl'\ stnry "~fr: B\'rnc- Hangtllan's Hott :' <' A Kemp<·" i ... full oi atnw:-.phl're of his C~nvtr s c- I nto the Void One half of the $2.000 prize offered own particular eerie S(Jrt. De Ia Roche- Cordelia Chan trl'll by th(· Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Constance Hohnc. of whom f have FOR FATIIERS A~D SO~S Exposition ior the he st cho.r al work nev e r l>ci or e hca;d. co ntribute:-. a little Farnol- H igh Adventurt· submitted ha s hecn awarded to a can - :-.t o r~· only :-.eYcn pages Ion~. hut of ~al>:ttini-B e llarion tata entitled "Mirtil in Arcadia," for stark reali slll . TJ!ert· a~~ other s, all.of I Sinclair-\Yild \\. c ~ t \Yhich Louisl' AYres Garnett. a resident them worth rcacltng. l hn· mak e Ill - i \\'rl'n - Bca\1 Sahrt:llr · · a1 1 · o f l'..ranston \\",10 1s >rna<, wrote t 1 1e · tcrcst ing com pan iun reading to till' CLEVEH \\"ords and Henry Hadley the mu;ic. collection of Ameriral1 short storie s Cal>cli- Silvtr Stalli cJ JJ ~1 rs. Garnett is also a composer of which ha s also ju st hee n brought out . Er ;; kine - Galahad songs hcr:' elf. and h('r mu sical gift is -ESTHER Gon.n ~f acaula \·-Crc\H' Train evidenced hy the mt"loclious quality of · ~f augha;n - Casuarina Tn·t· he.r verse. A week ago la st W ednesday ·RebecFOHI ·: IGN l\;OVEI.~ I~ "Eve \Valks in I Ttr Garden" her new ca \~T est sailed home for Christma s Oil volume . of poems, brings this comment the Berengaria. with the parting re - TRA:\SLATIOK I Iam~un -Rosa from The Nation : "It is a \'Olume of mark that H. L. ~1encken was femi I fenriot - Aricie Brun utterly simple poetr~· . which for all its nine in the old fashioned sense, that delicacy covers deep ranges of emotion. urather than use his brain he exploits \'ARIO\...:SLY GOOD It passes from r~ythmic ballads to two his personality." 'vVe hear that ReKaye-Smith - Joanna (~odden ~br or three-line lyrics, from strong mov- becca will publish two novels next ried ing assertions of faith to fresh and vear and a hook of her magazine Putnam - Candaulc:-.' \Vife ,.., fanciful pictures: and in whatever the ~ rticles. \Vembriclge-Othn People's Daug hauthor touches is the quality of truth." -:.Saturday Rev. of Lit. tcrs \\'illiams - Silvcr Fore:-. t ." ' . .. . usesqui" Award , . } ·'" By the City of the Long Sand: A Tale of New China Alice Ti1dtde Hob«rt Macmillan w il :1 I --·--~~~~- ~ BALLARD'S BOOK SHOPtl and Rental Library d Lord'1-Fit1t Floor Juat lnlidt tht Wtat Strttt Door. Dt~vu l .I VILLAGE THEATRE BLDG. 115 0 Wilmette Ave. Phone Wil. 2566 "The River Flows," a new noYl'l 11~ F. L. Lucas, a young English critic. will appeal to rl·aders who arc mort: interested in brilliant writing, insight into character and real life among 1 people of intellect than in sensational 1 plot and romantic treatment It is the story of two men who love the same ,1 gi.rt. . Not until after Margaret marries Philip does she discover her love for David, and Mr.. Lucas tells the storv through David's letters and diaries. it is told with force and intensitv, without blinking the physical aspects, ~and without forgetting the moral ones. ' I ,..