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36 WILMETTE LIFE April 1, 1927 DID YOU KNOW- FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones · Untversity 1024 Wilmette 3 700 Rogers Park 11 2 2 An interesting NEW list of GOOD books. The Old Countess Anne Douglas Sedgwick Houghton Miffiin Co~ .... $2 .5~ That Jac4 Black, the author of "1:"ou Can't Win," is supervising crrme scenes for .the famous play ~ ers-Lasky corporation? That th~ James Tait Memorial prize for 1926 has been awarded in England to Geoffry Scott for his book "The Portrait. of Zelide?" That a former member of Par~ liament will publish soon a book describing the civilization and re ~ lations of other nations to the United States under the significant title, "Freedom Falters?" · That "An Experiment With Time" by J. W. Dunne is an account of investigations and conclusions made by the author following a series of dreams which he had? ~<ewii<e~~ (0)~ M ~ ~ Iffi <m (Q) UK ~ "The Old Countess"-Annc Douglas Sedgewick. Fantastic, eerie, threatening as . the sky just before a storm, is this book of Anne Douglas Sedgcwick's "The Old Countess." From the moment that Dick Graham looks up from his canvas and sees the old "·oman standing there, watching him with her great owl-like eyes, there is a restive feeling of suspense in the air. Graham feels it and it frightens him so that he almost wants to run away, and Jill his wife feels it, though she is not given to temperament'al forebodings. But they stay in pitc of these warnings, in the little French town, and G,raham starts to paint the old lady's portrait. - ."The Column"-Davis. Column contributing may be a secret vice or· an indoor sport, in any case it seems to he a mark of superiority to make a "Line o"fype," "Hit or Miss,' ' or what you will. Many feel that it is a gift .rather than an acquisition. but after reading "The Column" by Dads, one is cheered into believing that it onlv takes common sense. This is a delig-htfully written little book. and the reader wonders whether the author conducts a column . NEW BOOKS ] anzow-Library \Vithout \Valls. Davis-Column. Durant-Story of Philosophy. Richardson-Pa.r enthood and the Newcr Psychology. ~~ I I ·· . Four 0' clock Mary Borden Doubleday Page ~ Co. . . . . $2.50 Liliecrona' s Home Selma Lagerlof E. P. Dutton ~ Co . . . . . . $2.00 All at Sea Carolyn Wells Lippincott ..... : ....... $2. oo Lawrence that legendary figure_ , leader of the Arab revolt against Turkey, has written the story of his adventures in "Revolt in the Desert.!' This is an abridgement of ·t he longer book "Seven Pillars of \iVisdom" which having been published in editions of fiv e a~1d ten volumes respectively is almost a· legend itself. Lawrence's story is amazing, more like that of an Ali Baba than a twentieth century British officer. At present because of his disappointment over the results of the wa.r Lawrence is serving under an assumed name as a private in the British army. Singing Soldiers John J. Niles Charles Scribnees ~ Sons .. $3.00 Jeremy Takes a Hand Cornelia Kane Rathbone Appleton .............. $~.oo The Red Pavilion John Gunther · Harper ~ BrQthers ....... $2.00 Ann Decides Robert Keable Putnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.oo The Pacer Viola Paradise Dutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2. oo Jill E. M. Delafield Harper ~ Brothers ....... $2.00 * * French Tint Stationery $1.00 to $3.00 Mauve, buff, gray and white-lined !nvelqpes. Plume Pens to match the linings, $1.50 and S3.50. Sociology Chase-Tragedy of Waste. Sayles-Problem Child in School. ).forrison- Practice of Teaching in t h l' Secondarv Schools. Then one day Marthe Luderac re- \Vright-H~\\'kers and Walker s turns. As a character Marthe LuderEarly American History. ac is a triumph of ?Ubtle portrayal. Art Quiet, grave, there is · a shining spiritual beauty about he,r which wins the Po\\'er-Smaller American Home. love of all those who know her. This Hubbell-Book of Little Houses. is the kind of character which '"'·e ~lartin-La Grammaire des Styles. usually have to take on faith, believing Sprague-How to de . ign G r c c t i n ~ that she is . lovely because everybody Cards. says so. It is a tribute to Miss Sedge- Glass-Sketching From Nature. wick that she makes us sec it for our- Spacth- \Vords and 'Music. selves, that she has, aside from her Literature gift for portraying characters a gift for making us feel affection for them, Dickin~ot.l - Outlinc of · Contctnpl·r;l r ~ and also believing in the affection Dra111a. The. ·"American Year Book" for 1926 \\·hich others feel. It is a not incnn - \ , . ilkinstln-Hadiant Tree . is just out. It is indispensable for . iderablc gift. I,i ndsay- Goi ng-to-the -Sun. e,·cryone \Yho wants to keep posted on Graham· and Jill both feel this IH·aut)· J lo\\·a r<l- Lucky Sam McCarver. eYents and changes in America in any and po\H'r in ).lartllc. Craham .Jon· :. 'l'ainL·- 1Ji story. of Engli ·h Literatu re. line of activity-educational, political, her as he has never . loved his w:fe ' Vol. 1. r n1nmcrrial. :- ricntific, literary, or ar- and Jill Joyes her enough to be "illi11g I Palgrayc- C1 >ldcn Trea sury . ti:'ti c. to give her husband up to her. But I Chesterton-Outline of Sanity. the old countess, \vho is herself a ~ymoncl s- Rcnais~ancc.: in Italy. lllarrclOth crea tion, and who th o u .~ h Fascism in Italy was eight years over eighty loves Graham with th e 1 Travel . old on the 28th of March. For a rea1 - passion of .youth, stands in the way. Chester-Travel ~f·Hlc.: Ea:-y in Europe. istic, rapidly-readable resume of thi<> The story Is worked out to a cn1 1:->i-. !· Shore-Kent. regime, we recommend · "Italy Und ~ r ent end. Golclring-~urthcrn Light and SouthMussolini," by William Bolitho. ern Shade. ).fiss Scrlgc\vick has hcen wntmg noycJs for many years and nc\·cr docs Owigh t-C < ttb t a ntinoplc. she disappoint us. "The Old Coun- Johnson.- :\c\\' Eugland and lt s Xcigh· bors. tes s" has her penetrating analysis of character. her brilliant style-with so Biography many amateur~ cluttering the pubPlutarch-Lives. lisher~· li sts it is restful as an orchesA kindling biography by tra after a brass band or a steam Holmes-Ralph \Valda Emerson. Boswell-Life of ] ohnson. Susan Glaspell r:alliope. Lodge-Alexander Hamilton. -EsTHER Gour.n. of her husband Ludwig-Napoleon. Gucdalla-Palmcrston. George Cram Cook · . , · . 1,a\\'rcncc-Sir Arthur Sullivan. A moving story of the American who Of .~axtm Go\~Y s w1dely hailed: no- Smith-Kate 'Dougla s Wiggin. found his true home among the Shep~ vel ~.ecadence . the N. Y . . Tanes Asquith-Fifty Y cars of Parliament. says : He has given us an mtoler-~ herds of Greece. ably lengthy narr~ti.ve that freque~tly History Frederick A. Stokes Co. $3.00 descends .to the. tnv,~al and rarely nses Modern Cambridge History-Rrnaisto a movmg he1ght. sance. Huddleston-France. Channing-History of the 'Cnited States, Vol. 6. ·' f The Road to the Temple .. Fiction Will Durant'·- The Sto17 of The haunting story of lovely, lonely Juanita Lord's-Fint Floor Jrut Imide the Weat Davia Street Door. 111tvso1>n I 'l7 Thousand th At AD Boobccwea-$5.00 SIMON AND SCHUSTBR, Inc. Publiabera 37 Wea": 57th ~tref't NewYorlc THE SEAGULL B~ ~AT11LEEN NORRIS Doubleday, Page&Co. $2.00 Burke-Sun in Splendour. Deeping-Doomsday. Delafield-] ill. Dostoyevsky-Honest Thief. Kel!and-Dancc Magic. Knib.hs-Sunny Mateel. Lewis-Elmer Gantry. 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