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32 WILMETTE LIFE July 8, 1927 DID YOU KNOWI' Life in the Poorhouse Described by an Inmate "POORHOl~ ..'E Pot Shots at Pot Boilers BOOK SHOP FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Wool/ Harcourt, Bract ~ Company. $2.50 Pok o' Moonshine Albtrt Frederick Wit son Dodd, Mud ~ Comp.tny .. $2.00 The Sombre Flame Samuel Rogers Payson 8 Clarke Ltd. . ... S2. so Sun and Moon Vincent H. Gowen Little, Brown 8 Company .. $2.50 The Shining Hours Mary Meek Atkeson The Ctntury Company .... $~.5o Silver Cities of the Yucatan Gregory Mason Putnam ............. $3.50 Kernels of the Universe C. B. Bazzoni · Gtorgt H. Doran ........ $ 1. 2 5 Spread Eagle George S. Brooks and Walter B. Listtr Cbas. Scribner's Sons ...... $ 1. 7 5 Inventory Has Turned Up Quantities of Desirable Books which have been sharply reduced for clearance. You'll find some you wantcome tomorrow! Lortfa-Book Sbop-Ju·t ln1ide tht W tit Dt~&Jil Street Doot '·Poorhouse Sweeney" is a remarkThe phemonenal success of "'l'ra<.ler · able document. Imagine a man, of an Horn" written by A. A. Horn, an unintetligence of, say twelve years, in- known 72 year old South African, and mate of a county poorhouse, sitting · That the dictaphone which has down with a tablet and pencil to in- edited hy Ethelreda Lewis, is gomg to hitherto been associated with the scribe the story of his life. Such a stir the sluggish ambitions of a numbusin.ess world is used by authors thing never happened before or if it her of people who have always reatize(l as well? did surely it never found its way onto what an interesting story the history of That " The author of Power ," th~r · hpeubdlisrherDs' 1 .ists.l ' tt f their life would make. The recognized Leon Feuctwanger, has published o o e retser 1as wn en a ore . , a recent book which has enjoyed inword for Mr. Ed Sweeney's book-, fact that "truth is st,ran~er than fict10!1 . crea.~ing popularity in Germany? such an excellent poorhouse name that r:take s every n~an s hfe a potenttal no wonder the public rose up and hterary m~,st~rp1cc~ but ,so few of us That Marius Andre, in his autocalled "hoax" and the publishers had have the gtftte g1e us to sec ou~ biography of Christopher Colum to declare solemnly and insistently selv~s ~s others ~e~ u~ .. To many th1s bus. has painted him quite differ that it was genuine-and the fore-· reahzat.lOn of .th~tr .mctpt~n.t comedy of ent/l/ than the histories? worcl is in effect a review. He calls errors 1s tragtc m tt s futtltty but the y it "human. interesting and refreshing." ordina.rily. have sen~c .enough to sec It is all of these. Then he goes on that, 111 ltterature, 1t 1s not. so much · The John Day company is preparing- to explain that it is not great. No, it what you say as how you say tt ... Th e tn bring out in this country a series is very far from great. It is merely the Bacon-Shakespearian controversy oYer of books under the general title, "Not- ~han_tbling, complaining, quarreling, yet the. authorship of "Poorhouse Sweet~ey" able British Trials." Each volume will tromcally amusing story which might whtch was started hy eastern cnt 1cs tell the story of one trial, with chap- be given at your back door bv a man who a. sert the hook was written by ters giving the details of the crime for made unduly garrulous by a sandwich Dreiser and not by Ed. Sweeney who~e which the defendant was placed on and a glass of milk. But no it is more name appears on the tttle page. cannot trial,- followed by an extended report frank, more reYealing tht~.n 'that. One he ,·ery genuine. Mr. Drei~rr ser:' of the court proceedings. The first reveals more hv the written ,nml than reality and its intrin!'ic tragedy where six volumes of this series will be puh- the spoken ?n-e,. f?r ~n \\.'riting- c\'Cn as Nf r. Sweeney .s~es the -essential Jished in June. though one 1s 1mhcatmg 1t to others comedy of the trag1c real. ... Perhap" -New York Times. 1 it is fi~st of all ~o one's sdf. AJ{d thi:.; ~elf on~ of the most interesting de.batc:-. in revealing quality makes this book in - whtch everybody has at some tmle partensely human and painfully, heart - i ticipated, is the pro and con of ti w breaking) _ ,.. real. rcspecti\'c virtues oi the common (Oh. Michael Arlen recently turned aside There is much to he learn ed from · ~o ,·cry!) people as embodied in th e from our shores and went instead to Ed Sweeney of his world, a world as writing of such luminaries as Dr. Peru . lt i~ said that he re-wrote strange to mo::,t of us, as complete Frank Crane and Eddie Guest and tl1c "Young l\lcn in Love" ('ntirel.r. not beand self-contained as that oi Renais- "thinking minority" over which Menck ing satisfied with the first n·rsion. \\' e sance Italy. How typical uf human en and his alter ego, Nathan, are sn should have thought Mr. Arlen could nature is the incident of Swt.:encr lcav - ! loflttacious. Personally, we feel that if haYe done better the first time. ing the poorhouse in a huff hccausc it is possible for anything to be more the manager has sug-gested that he ludicrous than the hoobesie, that po swould have to do so if he wouldn't sihility finds expression in the postur" ·ork. "I told his nibs I was g-oing to ing- intelligentsia. T.he foregoing is hy hit the road. He said all right. I walk- way of heing a di,·ertissemcnt on our ed three miles along a hot dust\· road 1 reaction to "The Xext Age of Man'· \Yith the sweat running- out oi tl~c tops ' by Albert E. \Yiggman. in which of my shoes and never made a darn he expounds mightih- on the future of MISCELLANEOUS sale ... I was gone a few davs and in a race which has produced some fin· Silver Cities of Yucatan the meantime found out he h<~d no au- thousand worth while individuals out Gregory Mason . . . . . . . . $3.50 thority to tell me to hit the road." A I of the thirty hillion persons who han~ Rogues and Scoundrels . fee~le grasping at the shred nf pride l liYcd since the da\\·n of history eight Philip W. Sergeant ...... $4.50 or ten thousand ~· ears ag-o. Cheeringwh1ch would enable him to return. This. hook was written '"ith the I thought. eh wot? ~fr. Wiggman ha s Thomas Paine, Prophet and osten_s!ble purpose . of . improving the a well gr~unded reliance i_n the princi Martyr of Democracy ~omhttons 111 such mstttuttons by tell· pie of anstocracy and hts book is a Mary Agnes Best ........ $3.00 mg some of the abuses and ineffi- precept for bigger and better incli My Thirty Years of Friendships ciencies which are prevalent there. viduals and a heated remonstrance Salvatore Cortesi ........ $3.00 \V.heth.er or not. it c~n accomplish any- ag~inst mass production. The mental !ht1~g 111 that d1rectton except by the anstorracy of which he writes is bemdtrec.t method. of telling the world yond attainment at our present stag-t' about tt at~d hopmg that it in turn will of development hut if the race is eYer do somethmg, I do not know. educated beyond its "humanness" and T wiliaht Sleep The illustrations also by the author biological breeding· comes into normal Edith Wharton .......... $2.50 are as interesting and amusing. as the practice, we may circumvent the dehili content, and as .childishly crude. tation of that greatest leveller, Naturr. Giants in the Earth -EsTHF.R Gon.n. I Mr. Wiggman's supposition of the 0. E. Rolvaag .......... $2.50 ,, . . I ma nner of future race · suicide is as in ~ Marchina On . I l11s 1s truly the Golden Age oi gen!ous as it is i n t r i g u i 11 g. James Boyd ............. $2.50 hterature:-so f~r as the rewards go. While St)eaking of entertaining the H .. C. W1twer ts reported to have re- P e r e n n i a 1 week-ender - and cetved from a magazme $3,000 for a we find our friends inclined to S 4,000-word .traves.ty on "Ivanhoe" in a be most ve~.emcnt over this suhject since modern vem. S1r Walter Scott, who the casualties of the Fourth-! might A Nursery Story of Enaland wrote !he ~riginal novel "Ivanhoe" in mention "Rronx Ballads," a volume on ( ill~strated) somethmg hke 1.50,000 words, is reput- g-ay l!allads with music (?) by Rohert Elisabeth O'Neill ........ $3.00 ed to h~ve r~cetved only .$1,500 for it. A: Snnon. It is the best thing of its Mr: Wttwer s travesty ts one of a kmd T have C\'Cr seen, both as a satire Chee-Wee sene.s catle.d "Classics in Slang," to he. and pure fun. Tt is possible for yon Chee- 'Nee & Loki ( 6-·12 yrs.) published m the fall under that title to laugh at the ballads and then ·heMoon ................... $2.00 hy G. P. Putnam's Sons. cause you ar~ so clever, laugh at ;ourse}f for. findmg them funny. In litw thought but more of a The Canadian who amused himself wtth th1s same · taking a whack at the U. S. in "Where \\~ hat:shaJl- I -read-on-the-train proposiFreedom Falters" has revealed him- tion ts 1he "Week- End Library" which self as Laurence Lyon, grandson of a Doubleday Page & Co. have published Chief Justice of Canada. The book was for Y~>U.r conv~nience. It is a volume ~ublished anonymously and the revela- contanung a nght merry miscellanv in tion made later, perhaps explainable by the form of ·"The Constant Nymph,"' . . DAVIS STU&T one of the headings in the book Don Marquts, Ferber Tarkington U.n..~t7 ID "Murders in U. S. Double in Twenty~ Morley, Milne and F. P.' Adams. . . . ' fi\·e Years." -B. B. 1 1 That Chicago university awarded recently the Jolin Billings Fiske prize to Stanley Stewart Newman for his poems entitled "Songs for a Windy Day?" SWEENEY"-Ed RwC'clw~·. Opera Books and Librettos for Ravinia 1 Three Important New Novels · Child , Boo uggestiODSOD reo ks S