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WILMETTE LIFE May 18, 1928 I .... fOVNJJ\lN .sQVARf, · l:VANSTON UDi·enitJ llz.t Wilmette 3711 Ro1er1 Park llZZ _~__E_s_te_r___ G_o_u_ld_'s_B_o_o_k_c.,j.,o_r_n_e_r---~~~ .A my Lowell Again JUST PARAGRAPHS I Again Eve "LADIES IN HADES" By Frederic Arnold Kummer J. H. Seara & Co. "Ladies in Hades, a story of Hell's Smart Set" by Frederic Arnold Kummer, is something else again. ·Witty, sophisticated, with a humour which is often broad enough to reach quite off the page, it yet manages to keep you amused by telling you of that overworked character, our ancestor Eve. To be sure, her other recent biographers have shown her in her familiar rural surroundings in which we are naturally tired of her by this time, while Mr. Kummer shows her in the abode, the inevitable consequence of her life, Hell. He opens, "Eve had been terribly bored with Hell for quite a while, she told her friends, which was perhaps only natural. since she had been there longer than anyoneelse." So this being the case Eve did what most women would do under the circumstances, she founded a club. Her club was, as is also usual. made up of others as bored as herself, but as the sum of many boredoms has turned out to be not one big boredom. l>ut a decreased boredom, they got on very well. The members of the club being the ~reat artists in the only art which Eve thought was the sphere of woman, love, they decided to spend their evenings regaling each other with their experiences along that line. The result is a book exceedingly amusing, the humor broad as we have already said. and also sharp. some of the best points of which are the use of modern slang in its nroner setting, as when Satan says "Not -till this place freezes over." NEW BO·O KS The Stream of History GeoHrey Parsons Scribner's ... . . . ...... . . Ss.oo The Fortunate Wayfarer E. Phillips Oppenheim Little, Brown ~ Co. . .. .. $2.00 --------------------------------- Ernest Elmo Calkins, perhaps as famous for his articles on deafness which appeared in the Atlantic serveral years ago as for his distinguished work in advertising, has written a book "Business the Civilizer." In it he demonstrates what most of us would be amazed to know that without advertising -our whole civilization would be impossible, the post would not come to our door, the automobile would not leave it. The first available copy of the special edition of Commander Byrd's book "Skyward" was delivered in a novel manner. The head of the publishing house took it to Miller Field, Staten Island, where it was handed over to the late Floyd Bennet, Byrd's 'pilot, who hopped off in The Bellanca for Detroit where he handed the copy to Edsel Ford. In each copy of this special edition is incorporated a bit of the fabric of the plane in which Byrd flew over the North Pole. ELL. Ed. by John Livingston Lowes. An ingenious scheme in its arrangement is important attribute of this collection of the poems of the woman · poet su'p reme among her co!ltemporaries of her own sex, and m some ways among those of the opposite sex, during a significant epoch in American poetry's development. Its editor has selected from her writings under 650 titles contained In eleven published volumes, poems that are representative of all her charaoterlsltc verse forms. From the softer, less venturesome rhymings of the earlier yean of repressions by Inhibitions or traditions, Amy Lowell came through to a brittle brilliance and a bitter-sweet blend of phrase and word that have a peculiar niceness, fineness and Jovellnea in her poetic expression. Certain of us treasure and accept gratefully in Ita 650-tltle completeness every choice jewel of her creation and wlll be content with the possession of no less than the all of them ; but so well-chosen ls this collection that it cannot fail to stimulate an appreciation of her rarety of her art and lead to the desire for acquaintance with more of it on the part of the reader who will venture a collection and pau by the single volume of verse. At its beginning the editor has grouped some of Miss Lowell's most beautiful SELECTED POEMS OF AMY LOW- SAILS FOR EUROPE W. B. Seabr(,)ok, author of "Advenin Arabia," has just sailed for Europe. He will spend the next· three months in Paris, returning in August for a cruise along the New England coast and Nova Scotia. Mr. Seabrook has just completed his book on Haiti, on which he has been working for over a year. · It contains new and startling material on the voodoo religion. tun~·s The Virgin Queene Harford Powel, Jr. Little, . Brown ~ ,. Co . . .. . . $2.oo · The House of Sun-GoesDown Bernard De V oto Macmillan .... .. ..... . . $2.50 Dorothy Speare will be at WORKS ON NEW BOOK Katherine Mayo, author of "Mother India," is still abroad engaged in collecting material · for her next book, to be published by Harcourt, Brace and comoauy in the fall. She will return to home in Bedford Hilts in . July. Rainbow Round My Shoulder Howard W. Odum Bobbs-Merrill . .. .. . ... . . $3.00 Chandler's Monday May 21st from 2.-4 P. M. to Autograph Her her FAVOR O'NEILL PLAY The Senior class at Columbia, in their annual ballot, chose Eugene O'Neill's ustrange Interlude" as the best play of the year. Theodore Dreiser received the largest number of votes for favorite author. In the Beginning Norman Douglas John Day .. . .......... $2.50 Milt Gross in Good Form ··F AMOUS FIMMALES WITT ODDER EWENTS FROM HEESTORY" By Milt Grosa Doubleday Doran & Co. The Road to Heaven Thomas Beer Alfred A. Knopf ........ $2.50 NEWEST READING CLUB The latest reading club is The Free Though Book of the Month club, and its fi.rst selection is "Let Freedom Ring." by Arthur Garfield Hays, pubMilt Gross's titles speak for them- lished by Boni and Liveright. selves. So do his illustrations. The picture of a lovely Eve reclining in Ancient Sweden the garden while the serpent wearing a flattened derby tries to sell her his wares from a huter's wagon marked "THE SON" "hepoles" is enough to suggest the possibilities with which his subject is By Hildur Dixelius rife. And he makes the most of the E. P. Dutton & Co. possibilities. In "The Son" Hildur Dixelius 1.as Mr. Gross has the distinction of having done practically the same thing written another of ·those sagas of the a number of times without slipping Scandinavian country. a sequel to her h~ckward. even with improvements. "The Minister's Daughter." The scene. vocabulary in "Famous Fimmales" as in that book, is laid in the small 1s more varied and although' he lacks barren villages of Sweden one hunthe priceless backgrotJnd of the "Ap- dred years ago. It has the simplicity oottamo,n t house" of the Feitlebaums which was inherent in the lives of he makes up for it in other ways. If tho_se people, the simplicity and the vou have lau~hed with Milt Gross be- mystic faith. Sara Alelia who figured in Mrs. fore ~vou will again on each page of "Famous Firnmales." Dixelius' earlier book now has a son, Erik Anton, who is the central figure of this one. As a little boy Erik Anton is sent to a distant school and Taken from an old legend current in England this book tells how a .then to the university to fit himself youth, Trevy, born on the banks of for that only calling which seemed to a tempestuous river, takes not their deeply religious natures entireonly its name but Its characly worthy. the ministry. This is the teristics also. It is written In beautiful prose. story of Erik Anton's education. his boyhood friendships. love, and the acTrevy, River complishing of his work. This is one of those books which By Lealie Reid move smoothly and sadly. too, in the E. P. Dutton A Co. $2.50 stately and sad motion of life in that early time in primitive barren lands. Pilgrims of the Impossible Coningsby Dawson Doubleday, Doran ... . ... $2.5 o Quiet Cities Joseph Hergesheimer Knopf . . . .. ... ... . . . . . $2.50 Books Dorothy Speare, novelist, playwright and opera star, who is appearing in tht North Short Festival will be in Chandler's Monday, May 21st, from 2 to 4 P. M. to autograph htr books and mttt tht public. Wt cordially invite our patrons to mttt htr here in our store. 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