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36. WIL' MET~E L :I.FB October 29, ·1926 DID YOU KNOW- Best Sermons 19 2 6 E4itttl btl Jonph Fort Ntwton Harcourt. Bract ~ Co..... ·· $2.50 A collection of twenty-five of the year's best sermons that should interest preacher and layman alike. Adventures in Editing Charl11 Hanson Towne D. Appleton ~ Co ·....·. $1.50 A most readable autobiography of the editing life of one of America's best known literary men, who from his knowledge and breadth has become a recognized authority on this subject. ,,,,,,~ That Good Book week origi11ated with the Boy Scout organization and perta.illcd to books su.ita.ble for Scoutsf Tlta.t Arthur B. Cllri.wzm1 , author ()f '(Shcu of the Sea / ' th e wim~-er of the ·"' C'wbcrry Pri:u, glea·11ed his stories from a Chin ese m·ocer who was his next door 11eighbor in Los A11gcles? Tha.t Carl Van Doren, whose 1~ovel has been. pnblished recentl)' is at work on a. book Mt A wcrica11 fanatic is111 ? That uCollectcd Poems" b:y .lames St ephens 'l.('ltich has been delayed on accouHf of the illttcss of the mtthor lws been 1·cleased 11:>' tlzc publishers? There will be one hundred and eight biographies and autobiographie s publi shed during this fall season. But never mind, it isn't as bad as it might b(·, for in 1925 five hundred and sixtyone were published. Of these, twenty four apptared on the lists of best sell er:'. seeming to shm.v that biographies .h an· an increasingly large place in the heart of the public. ~~wiice~~ @~ " H£AVf~N I Tat£s"--Stark Young. l I am a Woman and a Jew J. H. Sears Leah Morton ~ Co ..·....·. $1.50 I was enticed into reading Stark Young's "Heaven Trees" by the title and I was compelled to finish it by my curiosity about the McGhee family, its connections and its friends. Not that I had its ramifications perfectly in my mind-that was a minor matter compared to the things they thought and did. The book itself is made up of episodes concerning the family all slenderly put together on the cousin Ellen thread. We have aunt Martha who has married uncle George; the son-in-law of grandfather McGhee ("noblest man in northern Mississippi"), Georgia, "one of those wom1 en who was educated when she was born"; cousin EBen of Pittsford, Ver1 mont ; Miss Mary Cherry who had visited one long-suffering family after another for forty years; and the family, servants and pensioners. It is all very picturesque and pleasant, a hook to enjoy. N <e ~ ·lffi <0> (Q) lk\ ~ ' 'AxGf~L !"- Du Bose Heyward. A sincere, inspiring narration by a J ewess who {eels intensely the significance of racial characteristics. - - -- - - - - -··---- -··- Which Way Parnassus Percy Mark· Harcourt, Brace £1 Co. ..... $1.oo Here is a penetrating book on the American University by a man who knows it. He analyzes and discusses the problems in which our colleges are entangled, and occasionally suggests remedies. His criticisms are stimulating and pointed. NEXT WEEK Children's Books II DOROTHY CANFIELD'S ,., HER SON'S WIFE Maaterpiece"-Wm. Phelp·l New Novel The Dancing Floor John Buchan Houghton, Mifflin ~ Co ... . $2.50 This fine novel by Colonel Buchan is in the vein of "Greenmantle" and "The Three Hostages"-but in craftsmanship and subtlety it is a 'notch above even them. I "A Lyou l.fARCOURT BRACE lr CO. I'·" , DARWIN Gamaliel Bradford Other Books We Recommend: Poets and Their Art by Harriet Monroe The MacMillan Company .. $2 . 50 The life story of the gentle, tolerant, and lovable man who "made hell a laughing stock and heaven a dream," who shifted the attitude of science and overturned W the whole world of I&.. thought. $3.50. : Houghton, Mifflin Co. j Hildegarde by Kathleen Norris Doubleday, Page ~ Co ..... $2.00 FINE STATIONERY The really exceJient ·kinds of writing paper are here-in a splendid variety. Come in and choose yours ! I I S OWBOAT . A N1· NtPIIJ, tit 1utitr t/ uso BIG" . Last year DuBose Heyward wrott "Porgy," a fine and sympathetic and entirely new type of study of the southern negro. This year he has taken another well worn field and shown us new paths across it. It is the mountain pcopl~ of North CaroJin a of whom he writes in "Ang_eJ." Angel, when .the story opens, is <t child, delighting in the beautiful pa geantry of the world she sees opening out around her, knowing nothing of that world in any aspect but the lonely mystic one which is her own, pitting. unconsciously, her pantheism again s t the narrow religious f~naticism of h<:' r father. Then the'r~ e nters Buck. young, strong. .and vital, and s weep ~ her out of her solitarv dream world into one in which she i ~ even le ss ablt' -ANNE WHITMACK to cope with thi1tgs as they are. 11111/111111111111111111111111111111 It is a good book, so sytnpatheti c all ~ Notice of a book party for children will be found on another page of this \\<·rittcn , that even the religious fanatic father remain s a very human bein~ . issue. with that dignity ..dlich attache s to th t· elemental struggle for life of l111 ma n F o r some rea so n unknown to us souls in a hostile world. biographie s of outlaws of society have been rather numerous of late. The llllllllllll/111111111/1111 11111 11 ·' Rise and Fall of Jessie James," the life of the bandit who terrorized peo" TH e Ro:-.r A:-.J 1'Ic c1oM EDI A:-.J::;"- J:/l(l1 P.le of Minnesota more than a genera- Glasgow. tiOn ago wa s published last spring, Last year in reading Ellen Glasgow·, followed by "The Saga of Billy the Kid." This youth had killed Mexican s "Barren Ground.' ' so auth e ntic a nd and twenty-one Americans up to the m ovin g was that stor y o f a wom a n·, time that he had reached that number !'i trugg lc with the exhausted soil of the south for a meagre living, that, I was of years of age. Recently Jack Black published hi s com ·inced that th e author had Ji ved autobiography, '·You Can't Win" thi s very struggle , th a t thi s wa:-; t he which reads like fi-ction in which l;e sto ry nea rc :-- t her hea rt. It was quit t: writes intimately of his thirty years a shock. th t ref ot;c. t() le a rn th at t ht as a crook, fifteen of which were spent neares t ~1 iss (~la s g o w ('\'C n com e: ..: t c· in prison. Then two authors have th e co untry is to driv e t hr ough it , th at written the lives of famous criminal s- she is a woman noted for her achi eve William Bolitho in "Murder for Profit" ments in society, rather than with th (' shows the causes and motives of pl ow. H er next nm·el. then 11 The R o prominent murderers of all nations and nl a uti c C o median ~ . " is in that oth er "The Book of Rogues" by Joseph L. manner, urban e, snphi sticateci, subtl e. French takes up the lives of notorious yet strangely cn o u~h it lack s th e \'t' r ~· scoundrels in history. quality of e ntir ely l'Ot1Vincing a u ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ thenticity, which wa s the most m11 sta ncling feature of th e fir s t. Louis Bromfield's This lJrobably :-.hows that Ell en Gla sEARLY AUTUMN gow is a very good no velist, a skill ed ] ohn Farrar says: "An importarti :; t. In anv ca se we a r e not likeh· ant bopk and an entertaining to make the ~nistake of believing th at one . . . It is the finest of she is Annabel. the attractive, unstable. Mr. Bromfield's three." selfi sh child of t\ventv -three wh o Stokes . $2.00 re stles s and dissatisfied. decides , , , , , ,· ·########################. stak e everything on monev and marrY old Judg e Honeywell, only. to find th a·t she has made a bad bargain. "The Romantic Comedians" i:- a cJevcr book, interesting from first t o One of Farno£"1 l~"t. the osychological study of a man almost old, craving the romance lw Best Novel· missed in his youth. tr; EDNA FERBER A &loriout romaace Ia the heart of Amerioa ADVENTURE By JEFFERY THE HIGH · FARNOL A romantic tale of lusty adventure by the famous author of uT h e B r o a d Highway." S 1. o o at all Booluelle. · - E sTHER Gol·Ln Where There Are Childrea Dare There Be Divorce? CHRISTMAS CARDS? If you haven't ordered yours yet, do it now, and give us plenty of ti!lle to do your engraving beautifully. Many, many lovely designs to choose from. Custody Children By Everett Youna Not the ordinary "brilliant society novel." It catches your emotions and you find yourself caring supremely what happens to Clodi Dillon. Holt A Co. LITTLE, BROWN & CO Lotd'1--Firat Floor Jcut in1Ult the Davi· Sttttt Doot Pub Iishtrs. Bostoal I IHenry $2.58