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il-· WILMETTE LIFE February 22. 1929 glad Mr. Walsh wrote the book. I hope ·every citizen reads it. Buffalo Bill is a subject on which I am hopelessly prejudiced for this reason : he' was a sham, pretense and a poseur." Esther Gould's Book' Corner FORTHCOMING BOOKS (Hobbs-Merrill Co.) ··rtAG OPERA," . by Harlan Ware and .Tames Prindle. A novel of tentshow life as it's lived in the corn-andwheat department of the U. S. "Pl~ES OF .TAALAM," by Daniel h a.se. This Holliston, Mass., young man is writing New England today. "Hardy Rye" in 1927 r<'ceived high praisf'. fOVNTAIN SQVARt · t:VANSTON Wilmette J700 $1 BOOKS On Life- Harry Kemp Revolt in the DuertT. E. Lawrence Supers ~nd SupermeflPhilip Guedalla The Green Bay TreeLouia Bromfield Edgu Allan PoeC. Alphonso Smith The Old Wives' Taleilrno/d Bennett Christina Alberta's FatherH. G. Wells Three Pilgrims and a TinkerM. Borden Explorers of the DawnM azo de La Roche Rough Justice- C. E. Montague Mr. Waddington of Wyck-May Sinclair Balisand-Jo3eph Hergesheimet Hangman's House- Donn Byrne A Passage to India- E. M. Forster Thunderstorm-G. B. Stern The Hounds of SpringSylvia Thompson Growth of the Soii- Knut Ham sun Tr~mping "T HE ()l'TPOST OF THE LOST," by nt>n. Davicl L. Brainard . An ac<:ollnt nf th e tragic Gref'ly f'Xped iti on to tlw A n·tics in thf' 'i\O's, takPn from C Pn. llr-ainard'~ diary, edited by Bessi Howland t wn James. I'VR KNOWN" and nt-ar-Prf'sidt>nts, by Char] (·S Willis Thompson. After 25 y E>a rs on tlH" Xew Yr11·1< Times, :M r . Thompson takes timf' off to t·emini~e(· about M(·Kinl<'y, I ~nmwvPit. Taft, Wilson. Harding ('ol)lidg( ·, Tra nn:t nn<l Bryan. ' "Pl~ES'fl>ENTS done. She has told a story of a hun·· drtd years ago, its scene laid in a remote farm country where superstition and legend were the law of the lanrl. lt is the story of Gideon Sarn and his sister Prue and how Gideon's greed for money and possessions ruined his life and very nearly ruined hers also, how she was condemned as a witch and rescued by the Weaver who loved her. It is a story which is not much in itself the charm of which lies in the telling. Mrs. Vvebb wrote in the quaint dialect of the country and filled her story with the old customs and legends. It can be truly said that she fulfilled her ambition to "conjure UjJ the past." AMERICA 'IS READING (Under this heading are lr:;ted Liveright books which because of continued popularity have, recently gone into .new ·: ditions.) . "Dreiser Looks at Russia," by Theodore Dreiser. Third printing. "Innocent Bystanding," by Frank Sullivan. Four-th printing. "On My Way," by Art Young. Second printing. "Poem.; in Praise of Practically ~othing," by Samuel Hoffenstein. Tenth printing. "Satyrcon of Petronus Arbiter." (Black and Gold Library.) Second printing. "Sister Carrie." by Theodore Dreiser. Eleventh printing. "Poems of Francois Villon." Trans lated by John L~pper. (Black and Gold Library.) Third printing. "When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba." by Basil Woon. Third printing. ,- ROBINSON'S NEWEST "Cave nder's House." a new narrative poem b_v . Edwin Arlington Rohinwn. is announced f11r sprin)S publications by Macmillan. :M r. Robin son ha·.; three times won the Pulitzer Prize. and has demon strated his amazing versatilit~· in such varied work as "Tristram," "The Man Who Died Twice," "Sonnrts," and "Van Zorn." "Tristram," which received the prize as the best volume of poetry puhli·.; hed in 1927, is now in its twenty -second printing, and the lar g-e a(h·ance orders for "Cavender's Hotts('" indicate the eagerness with which 11 r. l<ohins on's new poe m is awaited . . (Far Away and Long Ago) "PRECIOUS BANE" By Mary Webb VISITS ALMA MATER Robert ' Nathan. author of "The Bishop's \Vife," recently spent a week at his alma mater, Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. During the mornings he served as literarv adviser to vouthful aspirants who b~onght their lnanuscripts to him for expert criticism and discussion. Tn the afternoons he acted as instructor in fencing. a sport in which Nathan excels. The result of such a combination of literature and swonbmanship will no douht he a humper crop of hoo 1< reviewers in 1930. A new volume of Nathan's poems. entitled "The Cedar Box," will appear thi s spring. E. P. Dutton & Co. Th e death of :\farv \Vebh has ca used her publishers to reis sue this strange stor_\·. "Preciou s Bane" with the addition (li an introduction In· the Hon. Stan'lc\· Ba ldwin . The jntrnduc tion is rath~-r an appreciation of the books of Mary Webb which recon· struct a part of the past of the Eti.glish Shropshire country. As Mrs. \Vebh herself says in her for eward, " To conjure. even for a moment, the wistfulness which is the past is like trying to gather in one's arms the hyacinthine color of the distance." Yet it is this which she has ··' CONCERNING BUFFALO BILL $1 BOOKS The Matriarch-G. B. Stern Lonely Furrow-Maud Diver Glorious Apollo- E. Barrington Early Autumn-Louis Bromfield Mary Glenn-Sarah G. Millin Thunder on the LeftChriatopher Morley Astronomy for EverybodySimon Newcomb Confessions of a SportsmanRex Beach How to Live-Arnold Bennett Fathers of RevolutionPhilip Guedalla Tomorrow and T C'morrow-Henry Ford El!gene Man love Rhodes. who knows the \Vest and writes of it as welt as any one Jiyin,g t oday , is the lat est to add his opinion on the Buffalo Rill cont rovcrsy. started hv Gen. Charles King who objected to kichard Walsh's WORK ON A NEW BOOK biography, "The Making of Ruffalo Eden and Cedar PauL who arc trausHill." Mr. }{hodes savs: "I hav e heard lating Sudermann's, "The Wife of Stefof (~cncral Ki1 r's prote st and I am fen Tromholt"' for the American edition, write the publisher, Horace Liveright, that they arc at work on the hoo~ in their winter retreat· in the Pyrenees. They are finding their task a fascinating one; the hook, thev write. is "a worthy crown to Sudermann's by Jane Johns career." The Girls Men Marry . For those interested in getting a husband! A book of practical information and amazing wisdom. COLLEGE ENTRANCE CHOICE To meet the requirements of the college entrance hoard which call for the reading of one first-class biography hy college preparatory students, the Columbia Grammar School of New York City has selected for its Senior class W. E. \Voodward's "Meet Gener;:d Grant." $1 BOOKS Progress and Poverty Henry George The Mason Bees-Henry Fabre Stephen Crane- Thomas Beer The Chaste Diana-E. 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