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WILMETTE LIFE October 12, 1928 Esther Gould,s Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS fUVNTAIN SQVAR[. · LVANSTON Telephones: er···...,.,... Wilmette 3711 Spanish Summer Georg. Craig SteWtJrt Of particular interest to Evanston people is this charming little book by a well-known Evanstonian. Of it the author himself _ says: "-a stria of impressions - sketches made from jottings in the notebook of one happy traveller who still bears the song of nightingales in the Alhambra · tardens--and the shrill voices of children. singing in the streets the inimitable flamenco -who walks again the Sierpes whert once Cervantes walked. and who sees. even across American prairies.-'a straggling road in Spain-·up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain'." The limited first edition, exquisitely illustrated with original copper etchings by Jun June Myall, is Ss. The frontispiece is signed by the artist. Published by The Morehouse Publishing Company. "" That there is nothing new under the sun is born.e in upon a reluctant world by the reading of Gilbert Seldes' "The Stammering Century." Prohibition free love, interest in pseudoscie~ce, diet fads, ·even Judge Lindsay's companionate marriage were all tried out by our old-fashioned forebears. Aldous Huxley's book, " Point Counter Point," published October 11, is said to be ·the most ambitious work of this not unambitious author. The plan of the book is, true to the indication of its title, like that of a symphony, the characters representing the instruments of an orchestra, their careers weaving and interweaving as themes in counter point. QUERY: WHAT JINGLES? By Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Jingling in the Wind" The VIking J>ress The Hunger Fighters Paul d· Kruif--t~uthor of The Microbe H untttl Harcourt Brace t!1 Co. · ... $3.00 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, author of the two-year-ago sensation, "The Time of Man," has written a new book called by the enigmatical title, "Jingling in the Wind." Yet to be truthful the title is no more enigmatical than the subject matter. It is one of those books of which the meaning hovers over the words as smoke over a bonfire of leaves, dependent and yet separate from the source of its being. .. Miss Robert's stvle has always had this strange quality akin to smoke- due perhaps more than to any one thing to a peculiarity of phrasing-it has been one of the attractions as well as, to be Masks in a Pageant Willitzm Allen White Macmillan ......·...... Ss.oo The Hogarth Essays Eleven of the essays published in England at the Hogarth Press by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Doubleday. Doran a Co.... $J.OO The Queen's Husband Robert E. Sherwood--t~uthor of .,The R011d to ·Rome., Scribner's .............. $2.00 The New Russia Henry Holt Soothes and Refreshes Dorothy Thomp1on a Co..... $J.OO 0 0 0 Politicians and the War 1914-1916 Rt. H on. Lord Beaoerbrook. Doubleday, Doran t!1 Co.... Ss.oo Motorists' Eyes Eyes strained by hours at tht wheel and irritated by exposure to sun, wind and dust are instantly relieved by Murine. It soothes away the tired, burning -feeling: clears up the bloodshot condition. Carry it with you on motor trips to refrab and protect your eyes. Also keep a bottle of Murin~ in your locker at the country club for use after golf, tennis, swimming and other sports. A month's supply of this beneficial lotion costs but 6oc. Try .it! Wntc JlurirN Co., CIJic·fO· f« FRBJ kol· Oft Ev· &.at, flfHI E,. The Open Conspiracy H. G. Well· The book of which Mr. Wells aays: "This is my religioahere are my directive aims and tbt criteria of all I do." Doubleday, Doran · a Co... Sl.OO 0 Our Inheritance Staltfl &ldwin Prime Miaistu of the British Empire. Doubleday, Doran Co.... $2.50 a Voltaire Gmius of Mockery. . . . . . . truly as those women must have thrilled who drove the long country miles to that first courageous outrageous meeting. Every woman should enjoy this book and every woman should be moved by it realizing for sure, sometimes one of the irritations the first time, perhaps, how much was of her style. done and sacrificed to procure her Many people reading this book, ex- freedom. pecting something which could be parsed, something containing subject, A TRUE SAGA OF ~HE WEST verb and predicate, ·will put it down with "Well, but what does she Owen \Vister's new volume of mean?" It would be difficult to an- stories, "When West Was West," swer that question except with the brings this comment from the Atlantic : answer for which in our early years "Here at last is the true Saga of the our teachers flunked ·us, "We know \Vest that was. . . . These extrabut we can't explain." ordinary vivid characters of Wister'sYet I think that by this book _ Miss cowboys, exiled gentlemen and unacRoberts has proved herself more countablcs, women of vivid life and thoroughly an artist than by either of sometimes of still more vivid death , her other two. It is a light, airy, Indians, Mexicans, officers of the old fantastic satire on life which shows a Army posts, with their ladies (may better mastery of technique than she God rest their tongues !)-all live and has had before, better understand- move and have their being. They eat ing of herself and her world and of and drink and sleep, gamble and shoot, love and hate. So they were. So was what she meant to say. It is the story of Jeremy, Rain- the · West. Nowhere ha·3 Wister pret Maker, for the world has advanced to tified or sentimentalized them or the the point where rain is controlled by life they led .... Quite a book! It bescience, and his life, first quietly at longs, I should say, on the shelf with home giving the farmers of Jas~)ll 'Life on the Mississippi,' where it can County their allotted supply of r~m. be reached and browsed about in and then later on his trip to the capttol re-read from time to time." and his triumph there where he is acclaimed the greatest rain-maker of A ROMANTIC CAREER the world, and his love for Tulip, the The real charm of "A Common one time romantic, now cynical maid- Cheat," by Sophia Cleugh, lies not so en. There is no more story than that much in the romance of Charlotte but it holds you, or it held me, to the .Manisty and the way in which despite last word. her cheating she gets what she want s most, as in the humor and worldly A GREAT LEADER wisdom with which the story is told. It is full of mirth-provoking comments "Susan B. Anthony" upon life and equal cogent criticisms By Rheta Chllde Dorr of personalities .... Charlotte Manisty's J<'rederlck A. Stokes Co. is a tale of today, of the post-war world and an English girl who actually "Awake, Women, Awake!" As truly goes to Africa and who, in the last a Paul Revere as that other one who pages of the novel, rides off into a for the work of one night has been future as romantic and colorful as th e so widely celebrated, · Susan B. Anthony continued her tireless disheart- most romantic of readers can desire. Through it all runs a piquant pungent ening tremendous labor of waking the comment which is a constant delight. populace in the cause of another revolution, over a period of more than -Boston Evening Transcript. fifty years·. "The establishment of woman on her rightful throne is the NEW MASEFIELD BOOKS greatest of revolutions. It ,is no Two new books by John Masefield child's play. You and I know the arc to be published by Macmillan thi s conflict of the last twenty years, the fall. ridicule, the persecution, denunciation~ One is "Midsummer Night," a . . . There is no other (revolution) volume of poems based on · some of the like it, never was and never will be." less familiar of the Arthurian legends. It was a revolution, and Susan B. In his versions, Masefield blends a Anthony was its Paul Revere and its fresh concept with characterization: Washington. Every woman holding that is warm with reality. The poems property today, holding a position for swing to a rhythm which is at once which the wages are her own, enter- light and deeply moving. ing into any legal contract, receiving The other is a volume called "Oxany measure of education owes a debt ford Recitations" in which Mr. Maseto this woman who gave her life in field has put together, with a most that cause. interesting introdt,Jction, some repre. In this book, "Susan B. Anthony, sentative pieces used at the contests the vVoman Who Changed the Mind in verse-speaking which are held in of a Nation," Rheta Childe Dorr ha·s Oxford every summer, and which given us the first workable, one might bring entrants from all over Great say, story of the struggle and bio- Britain. graphy of its leader. The monumental history of Woman Suffrage and the WORTH BROODING OVER early little less monumental biography St. John Ervine's new book, "The of Miss Anthony herself, are not books Mountain," ($2.00) is a collection of to which most of us have access or short stories and sketches all of which are likely to be dra:wn. But here is are remarkable for sympathetic undera book which gives the essential facts standing of men and women. No effort of the great drama, which makes it is made to achieve dramatic effect. It living and vital, makes you thrill as is not in the lightning-like illumination of crisis that the characters are revealed, but rather in a steady, mellow glow of sympathy. . . It is a book worth brooding over.-John Neihradt of in The St. Louis Post Dispatch. a · THE FLUTES SHANGHAI Victor Tbtuldew Brtntano's ······....... Ss.oo By Louise Jordan Miln The author of "Mr. Wu" once more presents the old Chinagorgeous, quaint, exotic _ as a background for a love story of a beautiful Chinese girl and her English rival. BRILLIANT BIOGRAPHY C·· LORD'8-BOOKS lrat lntib tiH Wilt D.uil ,,., Dow lJRIIVL .(.OR youR EYES In "Lenin: Thirty Years of Russia," by Valeriu Marcu, so much of the man himself, and of the whole epoch through which he bored single-mindedly toward his goal, is brought back and flung, brilliantly, wittily, and with a rare sense of color and shading, on Frederick A. Stok.. Co. the canvas, that the picture is of out~iliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii$Z~.II==iiiiiaiiliiiiiii~ll standing importance.-New York Her· ald Tribune.