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The New Books ^f w Juvenile BOOKS TO KEEP /4 A^ BOOKS TO BUy {Conliniied from freceding fagf) to enjoy; e^sy to carry away in one's Av BOOKS TO READ BEAR THIS LABEL A ineniory. Mr. Farrar acknowledges his chief indebtedness to Johnny-Junip-Up him­ W self, "at whose specific request most of the '^Fine Criticism and Commentary on Life A later poems were written; in fact I might almost say, dictated by him. 'I want,' he w will say, 'a poem about the moon.' 'What A about the moon?' 'How it talks to me at NOVELS AND NOVELISTS night.' " w By KATHERINE MANSFIELD Add a child reading, and the charmed A circle is complete. w Edited by J. Middleton Murry This collection of critical essays about her contemporaries were written for The Athenaeum during the last RACING YACHTS DONE IN CORK years of Katherine Mansfield's life and are considered by many to be her most brilliant work. V. Sackville-Wesi A MODELS. By PETER ADAMS. Illustrated says of this book, "It is a fine criticism and commentary on life from every point of view. It is a book to read, to by MADELAINE KROLL. Dutton. lyjo. w bay and to keep." 534" x 8^", 326 pp. $3.50 A $1.25. Tacitly acknowledging that the making w Two Special Editions of ship models is an art beyond the capabili­ A ties of the average young or old person,. in which the result is highly artistic Peter Adams has given his readers an op­ w portunity to work in cork. This is a re­ ' AAft- KNOPF is to be congratulated upon his choice of artists of line-drawing for the embellishment fractory substance to work as everv one /"I of both these boofcs. In each case the result is highly artistic with no intrusion upon the fine prose. A knows who has been obliged by adversity There is practically no other publisher in this country who could have achieved such perfectly right to whittle a big cork down to the size of book-making."—The Saturday Review of Literature. w a small bottle neck. What, therefore, could A be better adapted to developing the imagina­ STORIES BY THE THREE tion of a youngster than to give him a hand­ w ful of corks, a box of matches, a paper of KATHERINE MANSFIELD BLACK PENNYS A pins, a spool of thread, and instructions to make miniatures of racing yachts? The w A selection by By JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER present reviewer asked his small son to make iK J. MIDDLETON MURRY Illustrated by David Hendriclcson A first a model of the original America and then a model of Enterprise, restricting his The twelve best stories of this engaging author, in­ Printed by the Plimpton Press in Monotype Basker­ w cluding such favorites as Prelude, Life of Ma Parker ville on Borzoi toned wove paper, with eight full activities in the experiment to hull for™ ' and Bliss, in a beautiful de luxe edition designed by page illustrations and over fifty decorations. Bound A alone. But the boy is too young. When Elmer Adier, with twelve illustrations in black and in imported linen. VA" x 9'/t", 334 pp., $5.00 lie had finished, America and Enterfrise, w white by Zhenya Gay. Set in Monotype Baskerville Also 1 70 copies on imported Rives paper, bound so antipodealiy different in actuality, looked and printed on Borzoi toned laid paper, and bound in hand stained flexible animal parchment, stamped A like nothing more nor less than twin pieces in brown natural finish cloth. in gold, signed by the author and artist. of mutilated cork. There was also a muti­ 8'/^"x11'^", boxed, $25.00 75^" X 1054",215 pp., $5.00 lated thumb. A Nevertheless, the brief history of the Essays by the ^Inimitable Max classic America's Cup which connects the w amusing illustrations and the sober instruc­ A tions of this little volume is clearly told. At a time when the air still echoes to the AROUND THEATRES latest defence of the trophy the book w^ill By MAX BEERBOHM A be liked by readers of nautical bent. w The brilliant papers which Max wrote for the London Saturday Review when he succeeded Shaw as dramatic critic reveal an aspect of his genius long hidden in dusty files and an out of print English edition. His new ETIQUETTE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. (^ preface for this American ecfition makes it a gerraine collector's "first." A By MARY GRAHAM BONNER. McLaugh­ " 2volumes, 544"x 8^", 762 pp., boxed, $7.50 lin. 1930. $1. I I The advice in this naive and innocent little book is to be taken as it were at w By the Author of Miss Lulu Bett second-hand, being offered not to the nurs­ # A ery direct, but to "mothers, governesses, and teachers," to be applied by them to the con­ w BRIDAL POND duct of their charges. All of it is kind, 1^ By ZONA GALE A some of it traditional—like the idea that a child's belief in Santa Glaus makes for w Everyone who has enjoyed Miss Lulu Bett and Faint Perfume will find that in this book Miss Gale's highly great happiness, or that "a little abuse to­ ^ individual talents have a greater maturity, a more polished form than ever before. In the lives of ordinary men A ward the pavement or stone or other in­ and women, she has found the most intense drama, making these stories in many ways among the finest writing animate object that has caused the hurt she has ever done. ^W x IH". 261 pp., $2.50 w will ease it considerably"—we always did A think it eased it for the nurse. Some of A Distinguished Borzoi Limited Edition it temporizes, as in "Don't make children kiss visitors if it can be avoided," or "If A cereal is not a popular dish, allow it to be improved by brown sugar"; some is a ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN counsel of perfection without the machinery By WILLIAM COBBETT by which it is to be applied, as "Evenings A should be very peaceful and serene and hap­ Caricatures by James Gillray. Edited, with a Preface, by Earl E. Fisk py and cosy and quiet," or "Don't allow your children to think difference in others Printed by the Curwen Press in Monotype Baskerville on Van Gelder all-rag paper, with eight Full page illus­ A trations reproduced in Collotype and hand colored. Bound in cream buckram. Only 47? are available for is odd." Sometimes it clings to the obvi­ America. 7|^" x 10", 230 pp., $15.00 ous, as "Do not think your children are W 'cute' because they crawl over the lap of A some fellow traveler." None of the sug­ Delightful and Entertaining Americana gestions will seem startlingly new to most w mothers, and advanced students of child A psychology, too busy with observing young THE AMERICAN HOTEL conduct to look out for young manners, may wonder what the book is for. But is An Anecdotal History A it is always sympathetic with children, and its recommendations though not without By JEFFERSON WILLIAMSON consideration for mothers, are elastic enough to leave breathing space for the ego. 1^ This unique chronicle of the development of the American hotel, from the post-Revolutionary inns down to A the sky-scraper palaces of New York, will be of great interest to all students of Americana as well as to those who simply enjoy a picturesque and well told story. Because the hotel has always been an integral part of American life, in tracing its history, Mr. Williamson also traces the political and social changes of the country, A Murder Will Out A. revealing a wealth of anecdote and information. Illustrated, 5^" x 8^ ", 344 pp., $3.50 w By ROBERT INNES CENTER A p* ACH new book that comes from the "^ pen of Anthony Gilbert shows a decided w YE OLDE FIRE LADDIES improvement. "The Mystery of the Open A Window" (Dodd, Mead) was superior to By HERBERT ASBURY his first two books, "The Murder of Mrs. w The author of The Gangs of New York has here written the story of those red-shirted brawlers and their Davenport" (Dial) and "Death at Four "en-jines", who for so many years provided amusement as well as protection for the citizens of Manhattan. • Corners" (Dial), and now his latest, "The ^ Mr. Asbury has, while delving into the history of the volunteer firemen, discovered some valuable and most A Night of the Fog" (Dodd, Mead: $2.), is entertaining material about the early days of New York. Illustrated, 5H" x 8^ ", 213 pp., $3.50 the best of all. It is a curious fact, however, w that in each book he manages to violate one i. A of the cardinal rules of good detective At the Better Bookshops novels. To the meticulous detective story w reader this violation will seem unfair and ^ ALFRED A* KNOPF-PUBLISHER • NEW YORK A annoying. But it seems to me that the rest of the story is so well handled that Mr. w Gilbert makes up for this one error. A iv The remote, bleak house of Jasper Hil- {Continued on fage 379) PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, NOVEMBER 22, 19: 375

BOOKS 10 BUY BOOKS TO KEEP The Reader's Guide BOOKS TO READ BEAR THIS LABEL By MAV LAMBERION BECKER A LIFE OF Inquiries in regard to the selection of books ;ind questions of like nature should be addressed '^THE INCOMPARABLE COSIMA^' to MRS. BECKER C/O T/ie SaturJay Kc-vie-zv.

A. M. N., asks if any book lists the na)nes memorv of "The Beauty of the Purple" be­ COSIMA of cities, towns, and villages in tlie L nite.l cause it makes so clear a time seldom figur­ States in alfhabetical arrangement as a mat­ ing in fiction, though crammed with human ter of reference. "Every atlas I have seen,'" interest. she sa\s, "does not give the different cities WAGNER ami towns in alfhabetical order, and a booh W. f. H'., Wynnewood, Pa., saw a refer­ tiiat one could use in tJie same vsay that one ence on this page to "The Magic Fis/i- BY RICHARD COUNT DU MOULIN-ECKART boiie," he Charles Dickens, and set off at uses a dictionary would save me much time Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips in my work." once to add to the joys of a Dickens fancier CI work as \e! undiscovered. But the libra­ Introduction by ERNEST NEWMAN ' I 'HE book in question is the work of your rians at the Library Company of Philadel­ •*- Uncle Sam, none other than the "U, S. phia and the Mercantile are, she thinks, be- One of the most important biographies Official Post Office Guide," brought up, at •^iiinim; to believe that she dreamed it all: of the year of which the iVet*; York World this writing, to the autumn of 1930, by sup­ nobody can ^et on the track of such a book -. says, "Throws a vivid light on Cosima's plements every month except in July. It was it per/iaps a "Magic Wis/i-Bone," or earliest days, the courtship of Frana costs a dollar, with the supplements fifty ^vhat.' lents more, may be obtained from the Super­ Liszt and the Countess d'Agoult, Cosi­ HP HERE really is a "Magic Fishbone" by ma's life with Hans von Biilow, the first intendent of Documents at Washington, ami •*• the real Charles Dickens, to be obtained mav be depended upon to furnish any from Warne the publisher for one dollar traces of Wagner's domination over amount of that curious entertainment you and a half, and cheap at the price if, like her mind, her growing association with get from loading in chunks of information me, vou feel as if you were finding money Wagner . . . then the long period of for which you have no sort of use. To be when vou turn up an unexpected bit that he sure, this inquirer has a use for it, but what hope, despair, suffering and finally contributed to some magazine or annual. I triumph." The N. Y. Herald Tribune did it profit me to learn just now, as I did had, I am sure, a rise of temperature from upon refreshing my mind with this volume, sheer excitement when I found this summer, says, "The miracle is wrought before that there are no less than two Lambertons in the pocket edition of Dickens published our dazzled eyes ... of undeniable fas­ on our map, one in Minnesota and the other by the Oxford University Press, a whole cination, at least to those of us whom in Pennsylvania? Yet you would have series new to me of portraits and vignettes the Liszt-Wagner epic, with all that it tliought someone had left me a legacy. True on the order of "Sketches by Boz"—a w;ork students and devotees of the P. O. Guide can that in spite of being occasionally elbowed touches, is vividly and engrossingly tell vou names of towns that you just out of place by some other work soon slips alive." 2 volumes boxed (892pp.) wouldn't believe—and they will do so, too, back to its position at the center of my Illustrated, with 22 half-tones, $10.00 if given half a chance. Even now I hasten affection for this author's output. "The on, lest temptation prove too strong for my at the better bookshops space, and I begin to name settlements whose .Maffic Fishbone" is a fairv tale of a marvel- sponsors let themselves go. - .- lous bone that made wishes come true if ALFRED • A • KNOPF - PUBLISHER made at the proper time. H. It"., Salina, Kansas, has been referred Though this has nothing to do with it, to tne as "an authority on writers of his­ Warne publishes this year another little torical fiction, ancient and modern," and book that has given ine solid pleasure: "A desires me as such to let him know t/ie rela­ Roundabout Turn" a tale in verse by Rob­ tive merits of all historical novelists. ert Charles, which appeared in Punch with OME one has the wrong idea about ine. drawings by Leslie Brooke, and is now- S I couldn't write a book like "The Art given to very voung readers in book form. THE NEW and Practice of Historical Fiction," by Al­ It is but the story of a toad who spent the fred Tresidder Sheppard, just published by dav at a village fair in going round on the Humphrey Toulinin at twelve-and-six, and carrousel; you should see him wobbling AMERICAN the only way in which such a question could homo, groggv but glorious. It should not be properly answered is by such a book. be forgotten that Christopher Robin made Mr. Tresidder Sheppard's own novels are his first appearance in Punch. distinguished exainples of this difficult art C. B., on behalf of a group of young LITERATURE in its modern expression; I remember read­ people, asks for suggestions for books on the ing "Here Comes an Old Sailor" (Double- study of the Old Testament: as lilerature, By FRED LEWIS PAHEE day, Doran) straight through a long spell as history, and as religion. Author of "A History of American Literature Since 1870," efe. of bad weather that spoiled an ocean cross­ ing for everyone else on board, and then ''•p EADIXG the Bible," by William Lyon prolonging the pleasure by finding every •^ Phelps (Macmillan), is as inspiring A book of clearly marshaled facts and sound criticism, a literary history a little book as one is likely to find for a place mentioned in it, in the ship's atlas. of our times—1890 to 1930—a readable story of present-day Amer­ His new book (he is also a distinguished beginning, it is meant for anyone who does antiquarian and archeologist) evaluates tlie not realize what he is missing in not doing ican writers and their work. liistorical work of a number of novelists so. A short introductory work is L. W. of the past and present. Of these of the Wilde's "Literary Guide to the Bible" (Dou- Spirited -^ Informing ^w Judicious present I find the historical fiction of John bleday, Doran), and the Beacon Press pub­ Buchan especially trustworthv and stimulat­ lishes a little book on "The Bible as Liter­ "Dr. Pattee Includes everything, and wisely. He steers a reasonably straight ing, "Witch Wood" (Houghton Mifflin), ature"; "How the Bible Grew," by C. R. course through the difficult contemporary waters."—North American Review. for exainple; I trust the Romans, Greeks, D. Biggs, is one of the series on the Bible and Gauls of Naomi Mitchison not only in for schools published by the Oxford Univer­ "It is a voluminous, In-forming and spirited survey. The material is well as­ her earlier volumes but in "Black Sparta" sity Press; Part i, "The Law," has illustra­ similated, well arranged, and in the main reflected through judicious comment." and "Barbarian Stories" (Harcourt, Brace) ^ tions of parallel sources. Lewis Browne's —Springfield Republican. '^he Graphic Bible" (Macmillan) is illus­ I believe in the background as well as the "Recommended for Intelligent adults."—Columbus Citizen. characters in the fiction of Carola Oman, trated with the saitie sort of drawings that whether she is writing of Richard III in so distinguished his "This Believing World"; AT ALL BOOKSTORES—$3.50 "Crouchback" (Holt) or coming nearer Bowker publishes a "Picture Map of the hotne in "Miss Barrett's Elopement" (Holt) Holy Land" which I keep on my own wall; —but I prefer the latter because it gives for students of the New Testament there is THE CENTURY CO., 353 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK human shape and vivacity to all I have a large "Map of the Life of Christ," by read about the Brownings, being indeed Isabella Hunner (Day) ; both of these are as vivid as the Besier play. :n colors. All these are suitable for begin­ ners. For older students the choice is very If in some brighter sphere I should be set wide: I suggest S. R. Driver's "Introduction to write a historical novel I think I would to the Literature of the Old Testainent" not search out Sir Walter or Victor Hugo (Scribner), .M. J. Margolies's "Hebrew- FRANCIS DANA and ask his advice on how to set about it; Scriptures in the Making" (Jewish Publish­ I believe—having all Heaven at my dis­ ing Co.) ; "The Old Testarnent and After," posal—I would see if William Shakespeare by C. J. G. Montefiore (Macmillan), and A PURITAN DIPLOMAT couUI be induced to divulge the secret of "Dated Events of the Old Testament," by AT THE COURT OF how he wrote his historical plays and then W. J. Beecher (Harper), with "The Eng­ do my level best to use it in the composition lish Bible and Its Story," by J. Baikie (Lip- CATHERINE THE GREAT of prose romances that could produce in pincott). the reader the same sort of thrill. Some By of these plays I have been seeing in London H. M. H., Carrollton, Ga., asks for de­ William Penn Cresson latelv—"Richard HI" with Baliol Holli- scriptive, illustrated books on Hampton well,' "Henry IV" at the Old Vic—and as Court and Eton College, and for fiction Author of "Diplomatic Portraits" a result I have been plunging through others vAth scenes laid in these places. in print, breathless but happy. |R. CRESSON, formerly Secretary of The same inquirer asks where he may T) EING, as it were, on the spot, I laid the American Embassy in Russia, has obtain photographs of William Stearns '•-^ out two shillings on the pamphlet discovered in the unpublished Dana papers a veritable, mine of forgotten Davis and signed first editions of any of "Overseas Visitors' Edition of 'Hampton Court Illustrated,' " a guide to the palace diplomatic lore. Dana's long confidential correspondence with John his works. Macmillan tells me that there Adams (largely published for the first time) enables us to share with him were never any autographed editions of the and gardens with many excellent photo­ works of Dr. Davis, who died last year, graphs, coinpiled by Ernest Law from his in a strange adventure wherein he was called upon to cross swords with onlv personal inscribed copies to his friends j historical works, and sent his work on. some of the ablest diplomatists of Europe. It provides a bit of genuine a photograph of Dr. Davis, however, will This is published by G. Bell, York House, treasure for the lovers of American biography. Illustrated with interesting be sent to this inquirer or to anyone else Portugal St., London. Hilaire Belloc's contemporary prints. $5.00 who inay write for it to Macmillan, 60 "Wolsev" has been published within the Fifth Avenue. While all the historical month; Sterling-Taylor's "Cromwell" is novels of Dr. Davis were reliable as to at- published by Little, Brown. Pope's "Rape LINCOLN MAGVEAGH—THE DIAL PRESS—NEW YORK ni<-it;nhere nnd details. I retain the brightest {Continued on next pa^e)PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED