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NE:W ' JBIMJU The Wi1mett~ Litirary ·has . received the foUowing new books : F'lclioll lust Paragraphs T......_fortM NEW BOOKS ~·WI.JJII .............uz Ambition Artlnw TNin A story of ·New York society, the devious channels of the law, and of ideals in conflict. Charla Scribnu's Sons ··· ·· Sz.so Mtat . Wilbur D.nitl Sttet. A powerful novel in which Mr. Steele takes up the question of whether the world should be made safe for the weak at the expense of the strong. Harper 8 Brodwn ······.. $2.5~ Lucia in London B. F. Bmton One of the most delightful stories E. F. Benson has ever written; full of delicious English characters and subtle humor. Doabltcby. Doraa ······· Sz.so .__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___, A new ·novel of the prairies is announced for this month, "Migration" by David Grew. Mr. Grew is a native of Michigan who spent his boyhood in the farmlands of the Dakotas where his earliest impressions were "fear of and fascination for Indians, prairie fires and the wild animals of the plains." Eight thousand eight hundred ninetynine new books and new editions were published in the United States in 1927, an increase of 9 per cent over the previous year. Yet this number, contrary to the belief of those who think there are many more books published now than in the past, is only equal to the number published twenty years ago. It will be some years, the publishers believe, before they reach again the high levels of 1909-14. There are of course many more books being sold, in all parts of the country nearly all stores of varied departments report an increase in book sales even though everything else shows a decrease over last year. Another interesting development of the year has been the decrease in the importance of the bestseller ..dass. people are becoming more discriminating readers, not merely herded toward the few titles' which "everyone is reading.' I BEHOLD DIE ·FLAPPER "CLAIRE AMBLER" 87 Booth Tarkilldoa Doahleda7-Doraa lc Co. One grows extremely impatient with Mr. Tarkington during the first few chapters of his exposition of . thP American Rapper in the person of Claire Ambler. There are sentenc«-s too Painful to be lived through, such as this from one of her youthful "uitors, "Well. I mean there is. I don't mean it's only in the way yon ~ay what you say, there's more to it than that. Fr instance. when you sav som,.thin(.!. vou sav it in a wav that's got a kick in it, but I mean what you got to say's got a kick in it too. You see what I mean?" This goes on for a number of chapters aU of that part labelled ·'The Birth of Thought." It is a painful coming ~nto the worl~. one which we sometimes fear will never be accomplished. But in the second part, "Raona," Claire of twenty-one is stirred by emotions which have for an object something other than herself. Of course there are the usual irresistible flirtations but she is moved to feel for a wounded ex-soldier something dangerously like love. She is still further moved to go away when she is made to see that it is best for him, letting him think her still the lightheaded Rapper she appears and has always been. There is for the first time in the book, poignance jn that leave taking. In the last part of the book Claire is twenty-five. She has changed still more from the child of seventeen, has become so thoughful in fact that she is in danger of seeing too dearly through the vanities of the world around her, and developing into a cynical old maid. But her newly awakened common sense saves her from that, too, and she bids fair to make a fine and sensible wife. Whether or not you think Mr. Tarkington has said the last and truest word on the American Rapper you will be forced to admit he has nroved once more his competence and his versatility. and has made an entertainiJ1g story. ,· Deeding-House of Dr. Edwards. Beith-Right Stuff. . Cannon-Red Rust. Fuller-Alma. Galsworthy-Two Interludes. Kaye-Smith-Iron and Smoke. Kelly-Basquerie. :Masefield-Midnight Folk. Storm-Lady, What of Life? Suckow-Bonney Family. Winterich-Primer of Book Collecting. Adams-Astrology. Europe in 1927. · Aviation. Barber-Aeroplane Speaks. Art Faure-History of Art. Hagen-Art Epochs and Their Leaders. Literatan American Caravan. Hamilton-Pickwick. Galsworthy-Escape. Machen-London Adventure. Hiat01'7 Queimeii-Every Day Life in AngloSaxon Times. TraYel Kirtland-Finding the Worthwhile in the Orient. Rihbany-Syrian Chri:;t. Akely-ln Brightest Africa. Brennan-Wonders of the Dunes. Muir-Travels in Alaska. .B iopapla7 . Masson-Our American Humorists. Young-Medici. Maurois-Disraeli. Lamb-Genghis Khan. .... THE BEAUTY OF 111£ EAS.. of a Turkish harem. It is written in- Be Good to Yourself on.;n SWttt II·~ T h i s f a m o u s inspirational writer has produced here another book, a clue to whose theme is given by some of the chapter headings; "Economy Costs Too Much," "Where Does Your Energy Go," "Neglect Your Business but Not Your Boy," "Nature as a Joy Builder.". Crowtll · · . . · · · · · · · · · · · S 1. 75 A Fairy Ltapt Upon My Kntt . &. HoWt "Delicious fantasy . · · · irony . · · . graceful writing." Viking Prns ····..·.···· Sz.oo I IRON A SMOKE B,. SWia ICap-Smitla "'Iron and Smoke' will make still more secure Sheila KayeSmith's place in the front rank of English wom~n novelists. It is on a high level of literary artistry - a leisurely, competent human study." -The Boston lUI Herald. E. P. Dattaa lc C.. New York formally, not as an organized novel, but with scraps of a diary kept by "CONSTANTINOPLE" Loti and letters to and from his friends. Yet the effect is one of unity 87 Pierre . Loti and a rather 'touching presentation of Frederick A. Stokea Co. the life of the young Aziyade. "Constantinople," the first of the Doomed to be separated from the works of the great Frenchman, Pierre young Englishman whom she loves Loti, has just been published for the and for whom she bas risked everyfirst time in America. It will be in- thing, even her life, our sympathy teresting to anyone who cares for goes out to her rather than to the Loti's work, though it is far from young Loti who loads his letters with having the mastery which those later youthful cynicism and despair. We works have. long to suggest that he think less of "Constantinople," which in France the horrors of living his own life and !'Ppeared under the title of "Aziyade," · more of the heart of the lady which IS a story of the Orient which Loti he is about to break. Loti himself loved so well. In it he himself poses was only twenty-seven when he wrote as a young English naval officer who this tale and though it has a good has an impassioned affair with a lady many evidences of youth it is filled, too, with the exotic color and beauty of the East. Tbe Murdtr at Fleet Etk IJrttt YOIIIJf Lippincott .·..·········· Sz.oo Pictul'fs of tbt Floating World Amy Lowell's last collection of CHANDLER for BOOKS Library Circulation ,S Shows Material Gain poems. The moat complete bool atocl on the Noah &bon Hoaabton. Mi.in 8 Co··.· Sz. 2 5 Rtd Rust ComtiM 1.,., Canon Belongs to the tradition of models which have pictured the elements; struggle of man with earth and forest. Little,Brown 8 Co. . ..···· Sz.oo Well Over LORD'S-BOOKS A hedd·t 18 llena I'· 1\&N·Neud., 100,000 Copies Sold Book circulation at the Wilmette Public library for the month of January totaled 8,507 volumes, representing a gain of 2,400 books over the month of January 1927, when 6,098 books were loaned. Forty-six per cent of this circulation, or 3,995 books, were borrowed by the children while the remaining 4,512 were taken out by the adults. The total library registration is now 5,171 people, 124 new patrons having been regi~tered during the past month. There are now 13,606 books in th( library collection, of which 226 were added in January. ,. DUSTY ANSWER ................. If you have not read it don't wait another day. The outstanding fiction success by a.GWIING THROUGH LIE B,. Eddie FOJ' "A healthy, hearty, human record of thoroughly American experience, and as such a valuable document both for the history of the stage and of contemporary life · and manners." Gamaliel Bradford. ISJI E. P. Dwttaa A Co. New Y... 1,., ,,... ,,. 1V, o.;. &tn.t ,, . . ., BJJtrMG H-.y Holt lc C..