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'38 WILMETTE LIFE April 8. 1927 I· NIEWE§Jr JB30XQ)~ ~JD) Iffi(Q)(())K Iru&Vlll&W§ DID YOU KNOWThat the winner of the Dantf' prize of $1 ,ooo donated by John S. Leahq of St. Louis is Mis'> Katherine Breqy? IRevnewz of Ne~ JB<O>(Q)k~ I of .BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University 1024 Wilmette 3 700 Rogers Park 112 2 Jrut inside the West Davia Street Door Revolt in the Desert By T. E. Lawrence - is today's Most Talked-of-Book · Doran ...........·....· $3.00 Main Street and Wall Street . William Z. Ripley Littlt Brown ~ Co. . ..... S 2.. 5o · Twilight Count EdoUGrd von Keyserling Macaulay .............. $_ 2..50 When Is Always? Coningaby Dawson Cosmopolitan ........... $2..00 The Red Pavilion John Gunther Harper's ............... S 1.oo As It Was H. T . Harper ~ Bros. . ........ $1. 5o The King's Henchman Edna St. Vincent Millay Harptr's ·...··......... $1.00 Everything and Anything Dorothy Aldis Minton, Balch t!S Co. . .... S 2..oo French Deckle-Edged Correapondence Carda in dtlicious colorings: Shantung, Sistint Blot, Driftwood and Sea Spray. S 1.1 o for ::14 cards and tDVtlopts. Deauville Carda, $1.50 lmporttd from Franc t. Whitt cards and tnnlopts of an intriguing rippltd ttxturt, tbt tnvtlopts lintd with black and gold blocks. · "Falling Seeds"-Elisabeth Cohh Chapman. "Falling Seed s." ""ho se title seems to ha\'e nothing perceptible to do with the ~ tnq· anti wlrose paper cover c h a r min g: farmer s and farmerettes That ' ' Revolt in the Desert " bq makes one f<'ar th e right one was mis T . E. Lawrence is reall!J an abridqe·. laid m packing. is the story of Sara ment of "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom " of which onl!J eiqht Spain. Sara is tired of Ou::J.na . r. corcopies tt.'erc published in TQI9? gia, where she has always lived in the ~mod old tradition of her family. So '[ hac' Susan La Follette . a niece sh<'. with a fair amount of urgint! from of Robert La Follette. Sr.. has her elders accepts the offer of WitHam wr itten a book on feminism Henrv Haskell TV. to become Mrs. " Concernino \Vomen." which the Hask~ll and go tn New York to live. Bookman .~a!JS is th1.· · he.H of it.\ Thf> lure of a hi"· cit\' is in her blood hind? and with a mattcr-nf-fact cheerfulness she leaves her childhood sweetheart, her old friends and her home. But when she reac es Nt·w York she finds A ne\Y que . tion book is now ready. that she has only exchanged one little This is fortunate since all the east- circle. 0ne set of rules. and 0ne ·' "t A~~F. WHIT:.\1.\l'K . ern half of the U. S. has answered of traditions for another. And anothall the old ones. This 'vas compiled er that she does not like quite as well. TheySayby a former fellow citizen of ours, Everything in Sara that is rebellious Harry Hansen, and F. P. A. One of begins to rebel. Then there is a long "East Side, West Side"Felix Riesenberg . the questions which tlwy propound to process of taming. It is a sad process, "It tells more about New York their gaping public is, "What quaint to sec anyone broken to the harness than any twenty deliberately informcustom prevails among visitors to gives one a · sense of one's own capative volumes dealing with th<' enRome who wish to return?" Answer, tivitv. So in the end when s·hc has virons of Manhattan. Nor should "They huy a return ticket." 'Another become a model wife we arc more one forget to add that Felix Riesen "What happened to Jean Paul Marat nearly depressed than we we.re hy her berg is intensely readable." when he was taking a bath?" And early t·rrant ways. -Saturday Review . ·just as you arc thinking of deadly dangers they ans\,·e.r "(1) the tele"The World Crisis""Zero"-Collinson Owen. phone rang. and (2) he lost the soap." Winston S. Churchhill. "Zfro" is hv Collinson 0\\·c n, an "A superb achievement in modern English journalist. war correspondent, historical literature . . . . It is far and noYelist. . This book, his publish-· mor<' compelling than fiction. ers tell u ~; , is his mMt serio11s rontri -Philadelphia Record . bution to novel writing. It is not astoni shingly serious, though it has "Black April"-Julia Peterkin . what \\'nttld he termed a theme. T·his "She writes with an amazing un theme is embodied in the words "To derstanding of the heart and mind of begin a new life, to he absolutely the negro." voursclf .at!ain. do what you please, -Carl. Sandburg. live ho"· you please. To start a~ain Chicago Daily !\cw ~. absoluteh· from Zero!" The Old Countess This to John Garth, distinguished "Revolt in the Desert"-T. E. Lawrl'nrt· Anne Douglas Sedgwick .. $::1.50 "Then we have the legend oi an novelist, seemed to emhody his ideal. The Sea Gull Odysseus. a Roland, a Drake or a Garth is unhappy "·ith his wife whom Lawrence .... and if it has vitalit,· Kathleen Norris ....... $2.00 he · suspects of loving another man. enough the legend persists foreve;·. Wild Money he is pigeon -holed in his work and '~his book of Lawrence's, it is po. Freeman Tilden ....·.. S::t.oo he longs to break away. · First he srble, may enjoy such perennial Spring's Banjo . achieves a vicarious freedom hy writlongevity." · Horatio Winslow ...... $2.00 ing under an assumed name, a novel -New York Time~ . Elmer Gantry completely his own, unfettered by ·what others think. Then there cot11es "Elnier Gantry"-Sinclair Le,\'is. Sinclair Lewis ......... $::~.50 a conYenient railwa\· accident in which "The greatest, most vital and most he is reported killed. pl'nctrating study in religious hvBut Matthe\\' Knowle. as Sara Spain pocrisy since Voltaire." · The Rebellious Puritan in "FallinP' · Seeds," only exchanges -N. Y. Evening Post. (tJ portrait ol Nathaniel Hawone set of fetters for another, for thorne) when he finds him self free the first "Ant hony Comstock"-Margaret Leech and Heywood Broun. Lloyd Morris ·......·. $4.00 thing he does is to hecomc involved "An epical picture of the la st Jean Paul Marat · in other entanglements. And after quarter of the nineteenth century some heart burning and searching he 1 · Gottschalk ···..··.... SJ.oo and its overlap into this." decides that he likes the old set best. My Journey to Lhasa So he goes hack to a mourning and "The Road to the Temple"Alexandra David-Nett ··· $4.00 ·remorseful wife and they all live hapSusan Glaspell. The World in the Making . "It has heen a long, long time pily ever after. -Esnn:l{ Gcn;u1. Herman Keyserling ...·. $2.50 srnce any book has stirred nH: so Soviet vs. Civilization profoundly." Augur .··...····..·. S r.so -Harry Hansen, New York \Vorlrl . That Henr!J Ford's book. " Mq Life and Work ." had to be expurgated because of its economic L'iews before it could be published rn Russia? I negro s.tories, it may be the characters or tt may be the environment but the exotic quality holds our atte~tion. Dn Bose Heyward publis·hed a beautiful hotlk in "Porgy," the story of a poor Charleston cripple. Van Vechten dramatically sketchl'rl the jazz-age negro in "Nigger Hea\'en. The culti\'ated negro is a problem that we have not faced fully, and we have not completely understood the primitive quality of the illiterate . Julia Peterkin's new novel, "Black April," is a vivid and ar.r esting stud,· of these elemental negroes in the rice marshes of South Carolina. The· men and women are so strong in those things that belong to the soil. TheY are akin to the peasants in Reymont;~ hooks in the strength of their living. and in spite of their doing the thing~ we condemn, we like them. 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