"Peter the Great," by Stephen Graham (Simon & Schuster) is very picturesque reading—the author scratches the westernizer of Rustin and finds a Tartar. "Queen Eliza~ beth," by Anthony (Knopf) is a close-up of Henry's Tittle girl, "La Fayette," by Brand Whitlock ' (Appleton) recom= mended without reservation, "The Tragic Era," by Claude G. Bowers (Houghton Miflin) is an account of events and personages of the construction Eva brought to life in dramatic manner, while "Lorenzo the Magnificent," by 'David Loth (Bren-biography that is. good "Emerson, the Wisest can," by Phillips Russell (Brentano) records the progress of fan intellectual pilgrim, "The Me credible Marquis," by' Herbert German (Farrar & Rinehart) nothing more nex less than the gay and life of Atexandre by Herbert Asbury. (Knopf) amusingly reports the caperings of a Tanatic, "Mrs. Eddy," by Edwin Franden Dakin (Seribner) reveals the home life of a rophetess, "Born to Be," by Taylor Gordon (Covici-Friede) is a smartly and racily told story of his life by the negro spiritual singer, with fine Mlustrations by Cobarrubia "The Theatre: Three Thousand years of Drama, "Acting and Siaecratt," by Sheldon Cheney (Longmans, Green) isa complete, scholarly, and immensely interesting History of the stage—a worthy Gdidition to anyone's library, A Russi Fare For those in search of fiction we remind you of "The Embexzlers,"" cly Valentine Katney (Dial Press).
which Russian literature returns to civilization with a gorgeous farce, "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway (Scribner), a Jove story surrounded by the war—fand modern writing at its best, "Look Homeward" Angel." by 'Thomas Wolfe (Seribner), a vigorously written tragedy of youth Jn'the New South, "The Sound and! the Bury." by' jam Faulkner {del (Cape & Smith), a study of madness Ju an aristocratic family of the Old South, told in the modern manner, "Ultima Thule," by Henry jandel Richardson (Norton), a novel of real importance, and "Sketch of a Sinner," by.
Frank Swinnerton' (Doubleday, Doran), another vivid figure in Mr. Swinnerton's gallery of girls, "The Way of Eeben," by James Branch Cabell" (McBride) is Mr. Gabell's farewell to mythology, with 'a revealing curtain speech by the author, "Homeplace," by Maristan Chapman (Viking Press) is a prose Dallad of life in the southern mountains, in "Borgia," by Zona Gale (Knopf) the author plunges into sinister psychology, in "Ex-Wife," by Ursula Parrott (Cape & Smith) a woman tells all, in "The Beautiful Years," by Henry Williamson (Dutton) a naturalist surveys the soul of a small boy, "Chen," by Colette (A. & Ca. Boni) is a wicked and excellently written story of a gigolo, in "Hans Frost," by Hugh Walpole (Doubleday, Doran) an_ elderly novelist revels against dinner-party fame, while "They Stooped to Folly," by Ellen Glasgow is irenic spoofing of three Fallen Ladies. Especially we ask you to take note of "Short as. any by "Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (Harper), for it rare achievement—a real and sympathetic study of a New Eng-Tand family.
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