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28 30 WILMETTE LIFE June 24, 1927 BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Books You'll want to read .·· and OWN! Wild Goslings William Rose Benet Doran . . . . . . . . . . · . . . . . . $2.50 DID YOU KNOWThat "Susan Shane" by Roger Burlingame has been published m Enqland? That tu:o hooks on the life of Lindbergh have appeared at the bookstores and a third is promi.~ed for the near future? That William Dana Or~· utt. au th or of "In the Quest of the Per fect Book ·' has been in Europe gathering material for a companion oolume which will be entitlrd "The K.inqdom of Books?" That a qroup of professors of the Unir.:ersity of Chicaqo are plan ninq to u:ritt.? a history of Chicaqo for the centennial celrbration whfch l(.-'ill be held in r 9 3 3? S la·n\'ood :\nder:-on . an author himself, ielt qualified to give some excellent advice on "how to converse with authors" in the June Vani ty Fair. '·In general it is· a bad thing to spea k at any great length of an author's \\·o.-k unh>.;;.:; YJll have read a littlr (li it. He will almost always f<ltch n.u." and iurther. "lf YOU \Yant to win hi:-; cnti!·c gratitude-, not to say ien·cnt dcYotion, atHl ha\'e an opportu1.1t~· tn look 111to om of ~tis books yuu might commit one :,cntc ncc to tllC"mory." ~®Wll® ~~ @~ - ~ p:l:e~bo:r: a:: :e~oi~:::ces 0 'But Yester~ay' Maud Diver Dodd, Mead 8 Company .. $2.50 I ~nxnnn:u:ZnXXX:rnxxxu Rogues and Vagabonds Compton Mackenzie Doran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $:2.00 Kit O'Brien Edgar Lee Masters Boni 8 Liveright .. , ..... $2.50 Beautiful and Rare Books Suitable for Gifts of Every Kind Eleanor of Aquitaine Charles B. Read Druid Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 Standard Poets in hand -tooled Morocco, $6.50 to $17.50. Art of Bakst by Svietlow. Many gorgeous reproductions of costumes and scenery by this celebrated Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20 I Think I Remrmber Magdalen King-Hall, the uCleone Knox" who wrote "The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion." Appleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.00 Private Life of Marie Antoinette beautifully bound by Brentano $8.5o. The Immortal Marriage Gertrude Atherton Boni 8 Liveright . . . . . . . . $1.50 Lrd. and Autographed edition of Sandburg's Life of Lincoln Fear The Autobiography Edwards MacMillan of James $95· Maioli, Chenevari by Hobson with .beautiful repro.: ductions of celebrated bindings by great craftsmen-ltd. edition. S2o. John Rathbone Oliver ... . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50 Lost Ecstasy Mary Roberts Rinehart Doran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sz.oo Dark of the Moon Sarah Teasdale, ltd. and autographed edition . . . . . . · . . . $6 Giants in the Earth 0. E. Rolvaag Harper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 Also all new and current fiction, etc. Lord's Book Shop-Just Inside the West Davis Street Door thought or sensation that cannot he , reincarnated in as great or greater intensity in print. Human experience The pursuit tli Jltlrt' kno\\'le<lg-e h a is intensified by the perusal of boob. 1uxury seldom accorded to anyone in good or had,' SJ that \\'e rl'lh·e our this age of utilitarianism. \V e arc all grief and joy, ambition s and dream :- . so husy )\·ith things which are good, in the read in~ of chronicles of ot hn not necessarily in themselves. hut good Jives. Through all this exprcssioni:-- 111 for something that we have little there has remained one inarticulatl'. chance to pausl' im those abstractions the negro. The numerous anthologi.l':-> which beckon sometimes, though per- of negro poetry publi s hed in the pa~t. haps feebly, irom the shadows. have been a striving for expression. Pther than (:xprcssi on in it self, ttntil But Profe~..,or John Livingston no\\' that Jamrc; \Veldon Tohnsnn 11; 1 ~ Lo\\'es found one of the se shades any- writttn "God's Trombones.·" The book thing but a fcthle heckoner. As he is exceptional in that it does not rl' sort to negro dialect hut in pure (qual ~ays in hi s prl· iact · .. A gli t tcring eye ified) EJ1g!i~h Yi. ualizes t1lat mo't and a skinny hand and a long· gray ephemeral abstract, the negro S!Jirit . heard could not han' donl' m ore sum- I first read "Go Down Death,' ' onl' oi mary execution. nor ior that matter. the seven serntons in the Yolumc, in the American ~lercun· and ll c"t\ ' 1..· ~o uld the \\"vddintr-Cul'"t hinbt·li han· awaited the ho J k fn·Ilng that tiJi ., been. at the outsl..'t. a more relnrtant poem must surely he thr strawh('rric-. auditor." .\net the thing which heck- nn the top oi thl' hox. But it wa..;n't: oncd was the vi :don () f th e poetir ii an.'· Otlt' uf thl· -,ernJOlh ha·.., a ll'< genius at w ork. the genius of Cnle- t.:"rl'attr powl'r than its neighbor:; it j., ridge which WOH' tho:'e fantastic hril- "Let \f y Peopk Go." .... Tho se oi \·ou liant tale s of "The .\ncient ~fariner" \\'i1 · are \'irtims nf either high . . c~;,Hll and "Kubla Khan." It i:-; to the making ur :\. E. F. Frt:nch will apprccia · ,. of the se h\'o that Proic . sor Lowe s ha s "France CJil Ten \\.(}rd s a Day" \Hitt·.::t confined himself. by J f. ~fcCarty - Lee and illtt--trat ed i>\' \\'here did Coleridge, a man \Yho .. had Pder :\rno, the rreator ui th(' clc.·lec~· nevcr been on the sea until after the able \\'hoo ps sisttr:-; in the !\ci.\· Yo rk writint:r oi "The .\ncient ?\fa riner" find cr. ~f r. ~f cCarty-Lce doc s not takl· the materia] for that incomparable yon through. the intricacies oi Frcnr li poem? 01)\·iou ... h· the raw tnaterial =-~· ntax nor lmpose upon you the ill nltlst ha.n' rome to him from outsi~le.I 111 ~ 11 H:r~hle . pr{·p: · ~ti?~l: with wl.Jirl' from th111gs he hl'ard or react. \Vtth that langu,tge 1" .tffltt:t<'<l. I fe gtn·this realization . Profes!'or Lowes has you a few utilitarian ,,·on!..; " ·ith g~:~ traccd the noet' s reading, picked 11 p ture:-- that make_ th~m sutticient unto the bits of tl1r elements here and there the day therecJT. T·.ven though yco 11 ,dtich " ·hen fused mad e ~reat pol'tr\'. do not .contemplate a trip abroad. t;t·· It is not the se elements thenbelvcs or book \\"Ill pron: an antusing COilliiH.'Ilt what would academiralh· he called thC' on French mannerisms . . . . In a Ill'\\ "sources" oi Coleridge's pnetn· in magazine. "The ~nwker:-~ Companion." which hr has hetn inU·re:o;ted htlt in published in Xc\\· York, there i..; a11 1he artual prnces:-- oi fminl!. the \'IOrk- article by ~fax Eastman 011 1 '\Vhat r. ings of ·the creative facultY . .\nrl he Bo1shevism-A First Hand Experi has written it not as a lear;1ccl trntise cnce." \\.hich ..,IJould he rxccllcnt pr.·fnr sclwlars onh·. but a o:; a romance in- paganda for the :\ n ti-C i ~arc t t e tc'resting to anyone who likes romanc ·1 League .. ·... "Lost Ecstasy" hy ~1ar ~· .-\s he himo;<'H puts it. "T am not sure. Roberts l\111 ehart. has the fault (Ji thv indrrd. that c'nc of the ·c hief sen·ice . hest of pot boiler:-. Tn the first oi t l:t· " ·hirh literan- scholarsl1ip can render hook ~Irs. Rinehart · has portran·d is not precisrly the attempt, at least, to nnly conventional two-dimrn si::m cl~ar "':tl,,, it' finds a\·ailahle (and interest- acters who fail cnn to attain the :1c i1~g if tha~ may he) hrYoncl the prr- tion of marioncttL·s . This first portilln c1nct ~ of 1ts own solemn troops. and of the hook is wholl\' \rithout virtut· ~ .. -r,,· -.:nrictic-,. .-\t all events. that is but in the latter part the actMs mir the adventurous l'Htcrprisr oi this vo1- ~culousl~· come tJ liic. and the ho·>k umc." An adventurous enterpri se, in- eventua lly lcaycs you with a sense oi deed. and one worthih· carried out. having- been in contact with a hunk - Es'I'Hr·: R Gnn.Tl. · ?f power. Altogether, "Lost Ec . ta~y' . It s Yery much lik e the little girl whr t · J 1 \xr 'fl l'< td a cur l in tltc mirldle of her fon · ap a111 o 111 ·v. 10mason author 1 ,. 1 "A. S'l 1 Tl · i" 1 of "Reel Pants" an 1 "F' - B ' . , .. 1.c~H · · · · · : 1ac owy 11rc, 1 h . · < Jx ~} oneb. E!Jzabeth Spngge, is an interest in ~s Jtltt ret,ur.n ecl from Ntcaragua account of the psvchological effect o \\ 1ere. 1e was .m commanc1 of the the kisses you r ~f . I 1 Amencan 11anncs H ·. · e usc. · · · · 10p illustrate a tlc . c .. l't' e tsf gToJing to you have . forgotten to remember "Th 1 · < " c ton o lOma s C 11' f D 'I I " I H 1 Rnvcl's "Throug-h the \Vh eat" whicl.l a mg C? an . . \ att lews >Y aro < will he publish~d in the fall Bell \Vnght. \\ore~ comes to us tha :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::..:::::::::::~ Mr. M aH hews, twenty years o Id c .than he was in the aforemention hook, appears a'!ain in "fiod and th Gro·c eryman," Mr. Wright's newc hook. This i' just in the nature of casual warning. . . . . There has bee an extraordinary and, to us, distre By Grace MacGQwan Cooke ing amount of wordy dissertations "The reader will be kept on the advisability of reading "wort while" books this summer in 1ieu edge until the last page."- our usual back-sliding to the lighte side of literature. In fear that thi St. Louis Glohe:-Democrat. tendency to , sobriety and austerit may be taken serious1y by readers large, we hasten to assure the publi that the present weather has had t· F. A. Stokea & Company such undermining effect on our mor·,, M®w lE©©k~ ~ of c THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK $2.00 B. B.