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32 WILMETTE LIFE -~ebruary 4, 1927 nlD YOP KXOW- FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON posthumous novel by \\ '. L. Georqe entitled. "Children of the Morning " will be published this month? r1 That ~~wii~ww~ N® \\M @f 18 (Q) <0) Jk ~ IPlill~nn~lln®cdl JR®~®IIDttlly (Extracts from Publishers Comments) "Skin~Deep"-Naomi Royde-Smith A clever, hilarious satire pricks the skin~deep beauty of Mayfair. Telephones .. University 1024 Wilmette 3 7 00 Rogers Park 1 12 2 That "Mirrors of the Years," a book which reoieu:s leading figures, trends and events of the past year, will be issued this spring? That the Vie Femina Heureuse prize for the outstanding English nouel of the year has been awardet! to Miss Radclyffe Hall 's " Adam's Breed? That sixteen members of the Uniuersity of Chicago faculty, each one an authority in his department, haoe collaborated in producinq "The Nature of the World and oi. . Man? " HAVE YOU READ- ,. --------------Revelry By Samuel Hopkins Adams Boni ~ Liveright $2.oo Another fi.rst noYel to stir the critics is "Green Forest" by Na.thalie Sedg~ ,,·ick Colby. "Brilliant/' "flawlessly· drawn types," "unforgettably" are some of the hackneyed but heartfelt phrases I the 1\. Y. Times u es in its praise. War Birds Diary of an U nknou.:n Aviator Doran Along the Road By Aldous Huxley Doran ). $2.00 Sweepings By Lester Cohen Bani ~ Liv.eright $2.50 Go She Must David Garnett Alfred A. Knopf Poets and Their Art Harriet Monroe Macmillan The Book of Marriage Count Hermann Keyserling MacmiJlan Ss.oo Skazki Tales and Legends of Old Russia By Ida Zeitlin Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen "Twilight" 1 "MORE PORTS M 0 R E HAPPY 1 -Count Edouard yon Keyserlin g PL4CES"-Cornf'li::t Stratton Parker / A powerful novGl . of . the clashing Mrs. . Cor!lelia Stratton Parker · gende~~Ktions, , including "Harmony " arouses first of all our envy. What an ersta . could be a more painless way of. earn- " , · · G'bb ing one's living than traveling around You~g Anarchy -Phdtp I . . s . Europe and ke~ping a diary and then As 111 no previOUS novel Phthp Gtbbs nuhlishing the diary? Even if-per~ I ha s ca~ght the .s ense of .movement · haps even if- it involved climbing the and cn_scs that charactenze~ young :rvfatterhorn? Anyway. if we were dopeople 111 the throes of new tdea s. ing it we are sure we could find something e~c which sounded as daring "The Kev Above the Door" · -Maurice Walsh but \Va S a little more nearly on firm A cloud-dappled, wind S\\'ept Jove ground than the ~fatterhorn. . torv of the Grampian Hills in ScotWhat Mrs. Parker docs is practiclana". ally publish her diary. Her account is chatty, intimate, immediate. Tf you "The Paintctl City" like that sort of thing von will like . -~ary Badger \Vi1 sor: it. Personally I don't~ ·It is a littlr Startling stories of \Vashington life. too facetious. "If the Years c01i1e and "The \Vind of C9mplication" 1!0 and Fate stands h~tween me and Poitiers and Amiens. . . and T find -Susan F.nz myself over eighty, I shall l1ave sa\'ed Here is humor and whimsical origi~ enough to buy a little motor to fit on nality, romance and my ste ry . (D:: my Albatross (bicycle). And the I the author of ":\iter Noon.l') Lord will reward me for mv thrift and my devotion to a High ·Ideal . I "l'l 1 , " G ·1 b· hv sending a summer of little I l C. vp-gr_ac1 c - JCOrge IJ ~ rain. Which He dicl not sec fit to I Thts ~owerfl~fl no Ycl of con.tempor~r~· send the summcr of 1924. He wa s Amencan 1 c. 1 1as t 1 1c 1~1t cres tm l= testing us. Anyone could enthuse tlwme of showmg \\'hat huslnL·s:: doe~ ,·er a bicycle and a Norman tower in to a " ·oman. sunshine. Only those "·ithin whose , -------bosoms g-low the True Flame ca n : .n. ID) ~ ~ @'~@ ffi) 1L ~ burn to convert the \\'Orld to hirn:les j lill~~ ~ C9.!>lf@ fQ) il @wl.ili&S and Norman tmvcrs when it rained I An article in the current i ~sue oi the twenty-five .days out of thirty-fiYe." B 0 0 k 111 a 11 , da ted Londo n, Dec. 1., Yet in spite of thi s method \\'hirh paints the puhli. hing bu sine ss in Eng-borders faintly on the description one land as being in a \'cry batl way, gcJ:dccaying gentlewoman would giYc to erally .speaking : "\V ell knO\\·n puba club of her kind, you find vour::;elf li shi ng name s are disappearing ofl wishing to do the se things that thr eYcry hand. Some of the be t known author describes. As much in spite name s, in fact, arc already gone." The of her having told you abottt them a.;; ,,niter accounts for it partly bccauc: e ~)ecause o.f ir, you find yourself long - "the book s of the cason haYe h('er. mg to cl!mb s,,-iss Alps and bicycle disappointingly un succe ssful." ~hrough Normand~·. Of course that 1S principally becau se vott wanted to Emil Lttcl\\'ig in his new powe:riul all the time and the b;ok need t;e n·e ston· oi "1\'apokon" ralls him both merely as a r('mindcr. pro1;hc t and grnius . It seems . trange -- E~·rnt·:R Cot ·I.n. ' for a German to present such · a sym, pathetic picture of Franc's war-lord . .. G 1 1 11 JJ 1 1 ,. 1 Doran Ss.oo Echo Answers Life offered to turn back the clock! Give him romance again! And An~ thony Stuart clict't know whether to laugh or sigh! Frederick A. Stokes Co. Benjamin Franklin Philli,n Russell Brentano's Ss.oo In its Japane se translation Sar:t Teasdale's latc :; t Yolumc of poems "Dark of the : Moon," will for.m an in~ tercsting contrast to the book as it i~ kno\\' here. The poems will, of course . follow the Oricn tal fashion and begin at \\'hat we should call the end of th e book. The lines will run verticallY instead of horizon tally, and will rea~l from right to left, np the page, in . tead of from left to right, downwards. Thomas Burke Down in the slums where mingl Chinamen, foreigners and the scum 0f the white race. ncar the docks of the East End of London, Thomas Burke struggled for existence as a child At sixteen he sold his first novel b'lt it was the p.icturization of "Brokc1. Blossoms," the first torv of "Lim(' hou sc Nights" th'"~t brought famL' :1"1 him. \Vith this background in his life it is not surprising that he gives so muc 1' color to the setting of his tales and t;n much vitality to his characters. Hi s novels, of which "The Sun in Splendor'-' is his latest and his short stories g-ive promise of greater achievement s in the future, by this comparatiYel~· young author, Thomas Burke hein:.r st ill in his "thirties." . STATIONERY of Unusual Grace · and Distinction N.Y. 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