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WILMETTE LIFE May 11, 1928 .I Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS doned ~n unpardonil_ble pun-a soft.b oiled wi ·e. Evelyn Byrd Page, brought up to think that the ultimate in barbarism is to be in doubt as to the fact that the Virginia Pages are not of the same line as the Korth Carolina Pages, is a courtesan at heart. This even though "the bishop of Virginia and the rector of St. Paul's had given her the legal right to open her eyes and see her very light brown hair lying ~gainst Charlton Cunningham's very dark brown hair." She is submitted to us as the \'C~rv flower of southern womanhood, and ~ is of course a biting satire in the way that ~fiss Newman knows how to make them biting of such a flower. :\s one character in the book succinrth· states. the southerners eat rice and \;.orship their ancestors but she wishes theY would bind their women's fe('t instead of their brains. Evely1~ Page is a good wife to Charlton Cunningham in thl' waY that she has been taught men want· wives to be, but it does not pre\·ent her from preferring a dead husband to an unfaithful one. She has a chance to try them both. :Miss Xewman's hOllks arl' umloubtedly brilliant. and they nw~t hr l'lltertaining for those that~ like them. Personally we do r1ot. Their much flaunted "honesty" is principally a means of over-stepping the bounds oi good taste and their style. tortorous to a degree. would have to contain rich meat. to make it worth unwinding. For mstance, to take one of her simpler sentences, "The nicely tarnished gold frame of the wide mirror over her little white mantel made Isabel Ramsay feel again that she- would always be gnawed on in a town where that Ulirror was reduced to lengthen ·· ing a room in a little apartment which was one horizontal third of a mediatized stable." That ts nne of her simpler sentence~! Very Good, Very Bad VENTURE. By Max Eastman. & Charles Boni. Albert University 1024 Wilmette 3700 Rorera Park 1122 ·BOOKS Cambric Tea Rebecca Lowrie This book is company that iridescence of on the printed one of that fine bas prisoned the a child's memory page. Harper 8 Brothers ...... $2.00 The Mother Grazia Deledda The winner of the. 1927 Nobel Prizt for Literatun writes again about her nalivt Sardinia. The MacMillan Company .. $2.oo The descendents of the young lady who asked for the book by the Per .. sian poet called "The Scar'l et Boat" are not yet dead. :\. publisher recently had requests for "The ~hrimp Farm" and "\~/ays of a Skate." which after due research turned out to be for "The Stump Farm' ' and "\\'ays of Escape." Both of these manufactured titles open ne\\· ,·istas of interest, particularly is it intriguing to wonder what the ways oi a skate would really be! "Growing into Life" bY David Seabury, one of the best ktiown psn: hologists of our time is proclainted as the "Magna Charta of Youth" and a book which is invaluable for parents. In a world in which insanitY has increased thirty percent in the. past ten years and neuroses sixty percent it is tmportant that parents should know how to guide their children in the complexities of an eyer incrcasinglv complex world. This hook is said to be extreme-ly \·aluahlc in helping to do just this. Decorum Vanquished "DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS" By Frances Newman Boni & Liveright Max Eastman, exponent of socialism, has relieved his system of considerable spleen. In 'the beginning, he has something of a struggle to forget that he is not writing as exponent of poetry and .other gentle arts of the fielg of letters. He is unflatteringly explicit with his thoroughness of explanation and frequently gives his reader credit for the brains of a freshman . class in the high school-no more. He imposes his own literary knowledge upon ·the patient, long-suffering reader who bears along with the hope that eventually he will "come out of it." He does come out c,f it, and launches eyentually into first rate writing, profound of thought, intelligent of understanding, ironic of trend and harmlessly atheistic at times, somewhat too long a marshalling of socialistic principle and procedure of its foes and its disciples, but rich with philosophic bits that one keeps jotting down for remembrance. And he gets into the swing of an entertaining story spiced just enough with sex to make it lively. As a whole it falls into that queer category of a blend of the very good and the very bad. One would like ro sec it revised-weeded out, as it were. and smoothed a bit. Heavy Laden Philip Wylie This story of a father and his daughter reflects with unusual clarity the bruch between the new generation and the old. Alfred A. Knopf ......... $2 .50 Franc('s N cwman has scored another victory over decomm in her second novel "Dead Lovers are Faithful Lovers." This time- instead of doing it by .the story of a hard-boiled virgin it is by that-if we may h~ par- The General's Ring . Selma Lagetlof The story of the valiant old General Lowenskold, who was buried with all his finery-even the great ring which was the gift of King Charles XII. The ring was stolen before the tomb was sealed-and what happens thereafter makes the story. Doubleday Doran £1 Co. . . S2.oo A Mirror for Witches E1thet Forbe& The author of 0 Genteel Lady, one of the outstanding novels of 1926. . Houghton, MitBin c:.~ Co · · · s · 2.50 0 Clear up bloodshot eyes quickly and safely When eyes become blood shot from wind, dust, over-use, crying or lack of sleep, apply a few drops ::>f harmless Murine. Soon they will be clear again and will fee] refreshed and vigorous. 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Everything of our civilization is swept away by the rising of The Water Age the oceans and a sinking of the land so that the few survivors of the disast er are reduced to the coi1ditions "THE DELUGE" of the most primitive people. Their reactions and struggles and the first By S. Fowler Wright dawning of some idealism and order Cosmopolitan Book Corporation ~1r. Wright has made into a book a . The placiug of a no\·<·1 far in the good deal more interesting than Mr. tuturr or in some bizarre past has for \\'ells' recent sallies into .the futt1rr. the novelist its advantages and disadvantages . Among the former is the very real.one of being able to usc sit- New Trier Students t!attons ot almost any degree of startEnter Speaking Contestl lmgness. among the latter is the difXew Trier has been invited to enficulty of making such situation real ter contestants in the Beloit Interto the reader. S. 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