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WJLMETTE LIFE February 1. 192? Stanley Warburton's "An Avatar in . Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS more inflexion in every word spoken by Miss Katherine Cornell. So little can we escape walking sometimes in the imprint, especially if it be deep, of those who have gone before us. ·such path-following is not to be regretted in case the follower was going that way anyway and is not being turned aside. It seems reasonable to conclude from results that Mrs. Delafield was going that way and that in the construction of this really delightful story of London society, particularly in the character of "Vicky," the clearest and most interesting of the characters, the resemblance to Mrs. Wharton's early books is an asset rather than a liability. As a fact, then this ~es_emblance is not so importa~t as tt ts as a method of classification. Ellie, the victim of the attack of .first love from · which the rather too sweet title is taken, is a cousin of "Vicky" whom we have cited as the most interesting character of the book. Ellie is · rich, beautiful and sensitive, born to be hurt by the world. Vicky is p.oor, not beautifulbut able to make people think that she is-born to enjoy the world and make it enjoy her. This is the story of how both loved the same man a man who being "food for one wo~Id have been the other's poison." It is a good story, well written and entertaining. ADVENTURE IN THE EAST I I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~ What chance have the rest of us who have sometimes aspired to . play bridge? Wilbur C. Whitehead, who lias just published his "Contract Bridge Standards" announces that the human race doesn't need much sleep, that he never averages more than three hours a night. One ·might say, what price proficiency? It looks as if quite one of the sen~ sations of the season would be W. B. Seabrook's "The Magic Island," an account of the life and above all of the religion of that strange island of !\ayti. It is the same island of which John Vandercook wrote so well last year in his book "Black Majesty." A GOOD NOVEL "FIRST LOVE" Wilmette 3700 New Books The Great Horn Spoon A story of adVtnture that is duma and poetry as well. Eugene Wright Bobbs-Merrill ·....·.... $4.00 Mantis A novel . by Ethtlreda Lewi1, discovuer of T uder Horn and editor of his books. Simon a Schuster ......·. $2.50 By E. M. Delafield. Harper &: Brothers There is an early-Edith-Wharton tone to E. M. Delafield's "First Love" as surely as there is an Ethel Barry- Dialogues. and Monologues Humbert Wolfe Alfred A. Knopf ..... , .. $2.50 Vishnu Land" should supply excellent mat.erial · Therhe are . hahtr.btreadth escapes m p 1 enty, t e two w t e men trafficking in forbidden goods in and about India seem to spend a large proportion of their time fleeing des~ perate murderous mobs . of villag~rs, or floating hopelessly about in a small open boat on the face of trackless waters. That seems to be their idea . of fun. Whether or not this really remarkable account of harum scarum adventure in India is true is more or less of a: question. The author admits . to having changed the position of some · places, speaking with some feeling of a "term of ye~rs spent in prison" in India for displeasing the government which might take it into its head ·to be offended again if too exact information were given. This sounds real enough. The publishers call it an account based on experience,· though not an actual transcript of events. The point . of verity may not be important · to everyone but it is one that I like to have made perfectly clear. I want in other words to know whether I am reading fact or fiction. The character of the Hindu merchant who tried so hard, even to the point of his own undoing, to be loyal to the white men Mr. Warburton has been at some pains to describe. He has made him an appealing though not a very understandable character. There are, as can be seen, a number of dissatisfactions with the book yet as a tale of adventure it has its good points, too. 11 Eyelids ·of the Morn Wijnant Johnston Appleton .........·.... $2.00 The Tragedy of the ltalia Davide Guidici First complete account of Geneul Nobile's flight over the North Pole. Appleton ....... : . ..... $3.00 Pert' Marquette Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer. Explorer and Adventurer. Humanist and Missionary. Priest and Hero--the story of one of the great pioneers who laid the foundations of America. Agnes Repplier Doubleday, Doran ....... $3.00 ELECTROLA~ RADIOLA No. 9·18 When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba Ba1il Woon- who wrote The Frantic Atlantic. Horace Liveright ........ $2.00 $925 The finest and most beautiful Vic· trola combined with the marvelous RCA No. 64. It bas everything that any repro· ducing instrument can have-tone, volume, selectivity and distance, second to none. Eleven Tubes. · Cabinet design of early English, beautifully ·constructed of Walnut, Oak panels, inlaid with Hol1y wood and Ebony. BY A SYRIAN Jeaus the Son of Man" by Kahlil Gibran. Alfred A. Knopf "AN AVATAR IN VISHNU LAND" The subject above all others which will never grow old is this one "Jesus By Stanley Warburton. the Son of Man." But here in this book Charles Scribner's Sons. by Kahlil Gibran we have for the first For those who enjoy a good rous - time in twenty centuries, so say its mg tale of adventure this book of publishers, the writing of a countryman of Jesus, on that subject. Kahlil, a Syrian already well known for his other works, principally "The Prophet," is peculiarly well suited to write on this subject, by reason of his birth, his knowledge, and by the fact that he i:> a poet and an artist. He has written in simple Biblical prose a beautiful book, illustrated by his own very fine drawings."" It is a book difficult to review for it arouses emotions rather tha·n ideas. The ideas are old, perhaps that is it, but the emotion he brings to them is new. He tells the story of Jesus through the eyes and lips of many of his contemporaries, a fortunate method since it does not violate our sense of the inviolateness of Jesus, the man of mystery. Eves that have '1T" Moussorgsky Oacar von Riesemann Alfred A. Knopf ........ Ss.oo Andrew Jackson The Gentle .Savage David Kanner Brenuno's ·... .......... S 3· so· Co·oe·ietd Ter"u The Outermost House A Yur of Life on the Great Buch of Cape Cod. 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