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WILMETTE LIFE June 22, 1928 I . . . _. . ._______ IUVNTAIN .SQVAftt · LVAN.\10N Uahwaity 1114 Esther Gould's Book Corner ~..:..._~------~-..,6 · I. .Librs~y . !lec~ives · · New Volum,es of . Varietllnterest and make them neither dwadling or The Wilmette Free Public library JUST PARACRAPHS ,.1 will give $25,000 to anyone who too_ clipped. One is inefle~tive,. the annmmces receipt of thirty-six new will kill him," screamed one of the other forced. Miss Parker u ne1ther. books for the use of Wilmette readers. delegates to the Baltimore convention, leveling his arm towards Bryan. But although there was always someone wanting him assassinated and always someone .defeating him, yet Bryan bobbed up again to fight another day. The ridiculous elements in the life of the Great Commoner, give spice to J. C. Long's book of his life. That was a new one, when S. S. Van Dine, much advertised mystery or detective story writer, made a distinction between the two. Instead of comfortably classing them together it seems that those who know analyze them, and i.f the appeal is to the emotions the story is a mystery, if to the pure intellect it is a detective. That explains why so many .high brows have of late been broadcasting the fact that they enjoyed detective-or was it mystery stories? Her verses step along in a sprightly way, like an old lady going market, but the old lady never gets rattled in the midst of traffic. Here is one of the kind at which she is brightest, "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning." "It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. ·Aha my little dear,' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day}" Quite a different mood is the one on "Bric-a-brac," beginning, "Little things that no one needs" and ending, "Those are made by lonely folk." Dorothy Parker gives high praise to Samuel Hoffenstein whose "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothiog" are somewhat more solid fare than her own. Mr. Hoffenstein essays into more than questions of mood, his subjects are social as well as personal. His also sharp wit is turned on roadside signs, noise, Fords, radios, in fact there is little obnoxious in this great America of ours that doesn't come in for its share of drubding. Then he can turn from purposeful spite to that sublime silliness which we maintain is the best antidote for nerves. "From coast to coast the railroads roam Yet every inch of rail . stays home." He can speak in much the same terms as Miss Parker herself, yet his tone is one of more maturity, a trifle more studied. They both make good reading, the kind it is very hard to put down. to R..-. ParkiiZZ wu..u. 1711 The list includes seven travel books, six biographies, eight non-fiction books, five s~ven-day books, and three books of fiction for rental. · Following is the complete list of new books: NEW BOOKS Patrons of Lord's may be glad know lhat the book clrpartllleat is pnpartd to se~d tbt new boob on to thtm this summrr, with no chafle for shipping. New Fiction ia Rental Collection case. . Biggers-Behind That Curtain ; Halne~olorado ; and "Ynn Dine--Benson Murder to Bergesheimer-Qulet Cities ; LarsenNorway's B~st Stories; Macaulay-Daisy and Daphne; Wast-Black Valley; anc:l Vacheil- l\fen Are So Selftsh. New Se-ven-Day Booka NoD-FictioD T h a y e r - :liewspaper Manag~ment; Bradforp-Llfe and 1 ; Nogales-Looting of ~icaragua ; Pear.son--..Murder at Smutty Nose; Blum-Old World Lace; Martin-Pictorial Golf; Chilton-Fire and Sleet and Candlelight ; and GardinerMany Furrows. Schoonmaker-Corne With Me Through France ; Digby-Ttgers, Gold and Witch Doctors; Hall-:-Timbuctoo (Personal record of life in the lonely and remote African city of Timbuctoo) ; Drury-Chicago in Seven Days (A guide book to the things that you have not seen) ; Saunders-Finding the Worthwhile in the Southwest; Muir-Yosemite; and Aroundsen-Our Polar Flight (Vivid story of Amundsen lost in Arctic ice fields). Pursuit Roait· Forbe· Macaulay ..············ S::t.oo Travel Boob GOOD VERSE "SUNSET GUN" By Dorothy Parker, and "Poems in Praiae of PracticaUy Nothina" By Samuel Hoffenatein Doni & Liveright Dorothy Parker is, as us.ual delightful. Wit, a clean edged sharp wit, cuttin:i here and sparing there but doing all with perfect neatness, sarcasm, satire, and here and there an unsuspected tenderness, are here in her secon<:f volume. "Sunset Gun," as they were in her first. It is not easy to make short verses Unforbidden Fruit W·rntt Ftlbutn Boni 8 Livtright .·...·.. 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"Trevy the River" is a book likely to be less understood than those because instead of dealing with a large and more or less normal group of English people, it deals with one character who is far from normal. · Trevy, born on a night of storm in a little mill besid,e the river of that name is christened thus by his mother. She had almost identified his father with the river which had finally taken his life. So Trevy grows up in his turn identifying himself with the river, finding peace and joy there when his is Doubleday, Doran 8 Co.... S::t.oo Oberland Dorothy Richardaon The tenth volume of the series originally called Pilgrimage. Alfred A. Knopf ·....... S::t.so Soothes and Refreshes little understood by any human companions. After his mother's death, a breaking of the only bond which held him, Trevy goes away and tries to find a place for himself somewhere else in the world. But he cannot, and one day in his wanderings he finds himself at the so urce of his beloved river. 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