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pages are numbered consecutively with the other pages of the book. Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and many other books published by Moxon are ex­ The Compleat CoUeftor. y; amples of the opposite extreme. Fastened THE KINGDOM into some copies of these books between the first two end-papers are lists of books pub­ OF ST. JAMES f\ RARE BOOKS • FIRST EDITIONS • FINE TYPOGRAPHY |? lished by Moxon, with dates printed at the By Miio M. Quaife v y top. These lists form no part of the book, A narrative of the Mormons giving which is complete and perfect whether they the almost incredible story of r% ^^^^^ Q are present or not. James Jesse Strang, Alpha and Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" Omega of theKingdom of St, James. f\ QonduEied by Carl Purington Rollins Gf Gilbert M. Troxell. p. shows both types of advertisement. The S4.00 ".•A/*Ji^w, cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.' text ends on page 14.. On the following page, which is not numbered, is a list headed THE TRUTH ABOUT "Lately were published, New Editions in o^x:^;x::s^;>c^x:^;x::^x:^;xn^x:^;>c^^ Octavo of the following Poems, By the GERONIMO Right Hon. Lord Byron." This advertise­ By Britton Davis T T is, apparently, becoming' a custom for and is, no doubt—provided his interests lie ment is a part of the book, for not only "Arichly human and racy account ^ book-dealers to place at the beginning in those directions, to the collector of Steigel does it form part of the single sheet of oflife among the Apaches and the of their catalogues prefatory notes concerned glass or Chinese porcelains. And similarly, sixteen pages on which the book is printed, Apache scouts. An enjoyable not necessarily with the contents of the the inventor of new "points" who reads his but it also contains the imprint, "London: record of a vanished era." catalogue itself, but with various aspects of books not for pleasure but for typographical New York Evening Post Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland collecting. Mr. Charles F. Heartman, for errors which he fondly hopes will appear Row, St. James's," at the foot of the page. $4.00 example, has at times expressed himself only in his copy, and in no other, is to be In some copies this leaf is followed by one TKe Book of frankly on the subject of some of his col­ regarded with equal suspicion and horror. or two additional leaves, advertising Mur­ leagues and the errors of their ways, and Printers make mistakes, and letters drop out, ray's publications, and printed on different CHRISTOPHER has more recently been calling attention to in spite of the most meticulous proof-read­ paper by another printer. The presence or items in his sales that have impressed him ing: a distinguished University press whose absence of these additional advertisements COLUMBUS as unusually important or interesting. The books are as nearly perfect as possible, once By Paul Claudel is quite immaterial, as the book is perfect latest catalogue—number 88—from N. J. mistook the author's correction of a footnote without them. Decorations by Jean Chariot in page-proofs for an additional sentence, The French Ambassador writes a Bartlett and Company, of Boston, com­ mences with a page headed, "1930 and the and serenely printed both the original and Advertisements which do not form part of profoundly moving drama.Through a book are valued by some collectors as con­ his vivid and engaging illustrations, First Edition Collector," which seems a rea­ the revised versions one after the other. It M. Chariot has brilliantly contribu­ sonable, intelligent statement of an unending is not a common custom for authors to in­ taining evidence of priority of issue. A first ted to anappreciationoftheplay. difficulty. "Where do we stand in 1930, sist upon the reprinting of every page that edition of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" is Limited autographed edition, we dealers in, and collectors of, the First may contain a typographical error of some often found with eight pages of Moxon's $10.00 Editions of American writers?" it asks, then sort—'they may correct misprints, or incor­ advertisements, dated "February, 1850," at Regular Eclition, $5.00 goes on, "For dealers and collectors have rect statements of fact, in a second edition, the beginning. The assumption is that ad­ witnessed in the last twelve months remark­ or issue, but the first issue of their books is vertisements bearing a later date would in­ THE EVOLUTION able increases in prices, and at the same time ordinarily allowed to remain as it reaches dicate that the copy containing them be­ such wide variations in prices asked for them. It seems quite unnecessary, therefore, longed to a later issue. Too much weight OF WAR copies of the same book, that the sanest have to prattle about misprints as if writers were can easily be given to evidence of this na­ By Maurice R. Davie stopped at the beginning of this year to ask deliberately trying, by making as many is­ ture, as anybody who has seen the process "A really excellent new book ... themselves this question. . . . The unpar­ sues as possible of their books, to complicate of bookbinding will readily understand. Anextremelyvivid—though schol­ alleled demand for first editions of Ameri­ their bibliographies for the benefit of collec­ When a book is being prepared to be bound, arly and carefully documented— can writers in the original condition has had tors or permit their enthusiasm for their own the sheets of the required number of copies account of the general conditions are collected, and with them are distributed of warfare." three unfortunate results: one, the offering possessions to sweep them into the extremes New York Times by irresponsible dealers of "sophisticated" of "point"-hunting. It is high time that a number of the publisher's catalogues for insertion in the bound volumes. Perhaps the $4.00 and "made-up" copies to the too eager and some one, even the Bibliographical Society uncritical collector; two, the rush of certain of America, if it can detach itself long number of these catalogues fall short of the dealers to establish new bibliographical enough from its current craze for reference number of books to be bound, and the pub­ ANCIENT PAINTING "points" which have a basis less in the librarian check-lists to attend to other, lisher is asked for more. He may be able By Mary Hamilton Swindler bibliographer's soundness of judgment than slightly more important phases of its busi­ to furnish them, he may be content to have "The literature of fine art has been in his desire to create a new issue (for his ness, undertake the labor of creating more the volumes bound without any catalogues, enriched beyond estimate ... a particular benefit) ; three, the almost total definitive bibliographies of American au­ he may use old catalogues with an earlier masterly work for which many of thors, and of settling permanently the dis­ date, or, and this has sometimes happened, us will be ever grateful." disappearance from the market of the modest collector of lower priced "firsts." In this putes about dropped letters, wrong pagina­ he may use catalogues with a later date. Christian Science Monitor catalogue, we have, therefore; first, re­ tions, and omitted chapter headings that are Thus it is quite possible to find books pub­ Illustrated, $10.00 adjusted downward the prices of all books incessantly making book-collectors ridicul­ lished and issued in November or December here listed to what we regard as a fair and ous. The best and most intelligent dealers of any year containing catalogues dated YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS reasonable value; second, taken cognizance have done their part consistently and faith­ with the following year. of "points" of issue only as they have been fully, but there is no reason why they should Conclusive proof of the danger of draw­ NEW HAVEN • CONNECTICUT established by reliable bibliographers; third, be allowed to go on without help: after ing inferences from dates in Moxon's cata­ guaranteed . . . the correctness ... of each all, they are rather at the mercy of the logues is provided by two of his publica­ book here listed." idiotic demands of their customers, and can tions which we have examined. Two copies not afford always to be as independent as of Landor's "The Last Fruit Off an Old There is something rather extraordinary they desire. G. M. T. Tree," published by him in 1853, have at about such statements, especially when they the beginning "A List of Books recently come from such a source. It has, of course, The following note from the Elkin published by Edward Moxon" dated "De­ ALL OUR been known to sensible collectors for years Mathews catalogue, number 29, deserves to cember I, 1846," and Landor's "Imaginary that, in the absence of what Mr. George H. be quoted in full as it expresses a singularly Conversations of Greeks and Romans" pub­ Sargent calls "a Supreme Court of Bibliog­ well-informed and intelligent point of view: lished also in 1853, has at the beginning a YESTERDAYf raphy," they must in many cases depend By H. M. TOMLIMSOH Notes for Collectors list dated "February, 1850." Collectors "This book is neither novel, upon the honesty and knowledge of certain who wish for more information about inset- nor history, nor journal. It dealers not only to supply the lacks in their ADVERTISEMENTS advertisements, will find it in Mr. Michael is a strange, thrilling, bril­ bibliographical information, but to assure As the presence or absence of advertise­ Sadleir's "TroUope: a Bibliography," pages liant vision, where the them that the books they buy are right in ments in books is a matter of some concern XII-XIV. writer has missed nothing." every respect. For any person carried away to collectors, we append a few notes upon In modern first editions it is equally rash —Boston Transcript $2.50 by emotion, or by visions of future profits, the subject, i^dvertisements may be part of to decide that the dates of advertisements 11th printing M who rushes out and proceeds to become in­ a book, or they may be only a publisher's determine priority of issue. Mr. Geoffrey volved in the purchase of made-up or faked catalogue, separately printed and often on k ^A HARPER'S ^m H. Wells, in his "Bibliography of H. G. first editions, it is difficult to feel the slight­ paper of a different sort, inserted at the be­ Wells," states that a first edition of "Kipps" est sympathy—he is as great a menace to ginning or end of the volume. A good, if should have eight numbered pages of pub­ the intellig-ent bookman, as he would be—- extreme, example of the former is provided lishers' advertisements dated 16/8/05, and by Scott's "Kenilworth" (1821). The text that a later issue of the first edition has of the third volume ends on page 348, and eight numbered pages of publishers' adver­ is followed by the words "The End" and tisements datedio/io/05. We have ex­ the imprint at the foot of the page. It amined a second edition of the book in Among the would be natural to suppose that nothing which the advertisements have the earlier more was needed to complete the book, but date. "NEW HUMANISTS" a perfect copy must contain the two leaves The conclusion we would draw from which follow, advertising "Works published these facts is that the evidence furnished by PAUL KLMER M<$RE by Archibald Constable and Co.," although inserted advertisements is always doubtful these two leaves are paginated separately and often misleading. They form no part $3.00 from the rest of the book. The reason they of the book, and unless they are dated very 3 50 are needed is that they form part of the col­ much later than the j'ear the book was pub­ 4 00 lation ; that is to say, they are printed on the lished, they can be safely ignored by col­ .3 00 same sheet of paper as the concluding por­ lectors. 4.00 tion of the text. The reader will discover this if he turns to page 337 (at which Auction Sales Calendar {These five volumes are in "The Greek Tradition" series) signature Y begins) and counts the leaves American Art Association Anderson Gal­ 3 50 onward. He will then see that the adver­ leries. March 31—April i: Books, manu­ {This is Volume 1 of the "New Shelburne Essays") tisements are Y 7 and Y 8, i.e. the last two scripts, colored views, drawings, etc., re­ leaves of signature Y. lating to the pioneer days of the Far West, LOUIS TRENCHARD MORE Southey's "Life of Nedson" (1813) is an­ particularly California. The most impor­ 3.50 other example. In the second volume the tant item is apparently the original manu­ text ends on page 275, and on its reverse script town journal and official account book GEORGE ROY ELLIOTT side (which is numbered) there appears a of San Francisco, in the handwriting of its first treasurer, William A. Leidesdorff, for 2.50 list headed "Lately were published the fol­ lowing Works by Robert Southey." This is October, 1847 to May 1848. There are All of the above works are published by the followed by four pages (numbered 277- also a series of early American almanacs 280) of books "Lately published by John dating from 1718 to 1796, largely published PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Murray." These four pages are the last in Boston; a narrative and excursion of the two leaves of signature T, the last of all King's troops under the command of Gen­ PRINCETON, NEIV JERSEY having the word "Finis" and the imprint at eral Gage, the 19th of April, 1775, printed the foot of the page. An interesting feature by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massa­ of this book is that all the advertisement chusetts, considered the rarest account of

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED T-TF '^^ATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, MARCH 29, 1930 885 the battle of Cencord and Lexington; Ap.K o tlirciv.sf April 19—the Havemeyer This catalogue is excellent in every way. F. L. Doherty (3751, North Marshfield "Proceedings of a Board of General Officers, C'olirifioris DO- given to the Metropolitan Hollings Bookshop—Catalogue number Avenue, Chicago). Mimeographed List of held by order of His Excellency, General jM'u^riim. including Persian Art, Paintings, 165: Books from private presses, first edi­ First Editions of American Authors. A Washington," in regard to the trial of and a sr all "roup of antique musical in- tions, and other items of varied interest. simple, well arranged list. Major John Andre, the copy belonging pre­ sTunii-nt^, anti lapanese and Chinese Art. Good, but not as unusual as its predecessor. sumably to John Hanson, President of Con­ G. M. T. Ingpen and Stonehill (37, Museum Street, Selections from the Library of Philo C. gress; an original manuscript "Journal" of London). Catalogue number 15: English Calhoun, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, were a voyage around the Horn to California in Recent Dealers' Catalogues Books, 1550-1799. sold at the Plaza Art Galleries, New York 1849, apparently unpublished, kept by Maggs (34, Conduit Street, London). City, the evenings of March 20th and zist. Robert Ferrell, one of the company or­ Birrell and Garnett, Ltd. (30, Gerrard Catalogue 536: English Literature and His­ The collection was especially rich in works ganized near Troy, New York, to mine Strc,", London). Catalogue number 27: tory from the 15th to the i8th century— by American writers such as Louisa May gold; the suppressed edition of the narra­ Domestic Books of all ages. Cookery, Wine Part II (M-Z). 1237 items catalogued Alcott, Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, tive of the adventures of Nathaniel Fan­ and Beer, Dress, Manners, Games and with the care and excellence that always Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Melville, ning; a broadside relating to Maine, by His Spoits, Music, Dancing, Pictures (books on distinguishes the work of this firm. Mrs. Stowe, Thoreau, and Whittier. Excellency Jonathan Belcher, printed in engiaving, technical books on drawing and Maggs—Catalogue 537: Modern First painting, and biographical and critical Boston, 1732; C. C. Spaulding's "Annals Editions, Books on history, literature, biog­ Mr. George Parker Winship, Assistant worKs), Furniture, Architecture, Gardens. of the City of Kansas," Kansas City, 1858, raphy, and French Literature. Librarian of the Harvard College Library, A ihoroughly original and entertaining the first bound book printed in that city; Maggs—Catalogue 538: Autograph Let­ has sent the following note in connection piece of work, very well done. Wakefield's "History of the war between the ters and Historical Documents. These cata­ with the paragraph describing the Elkin United States and the Sac and Fox Nations Bowes and Bowes (i, Trinity Street, logues, illustrated with exceedingly good Mathews catalogue of "Byron and Byroni- of Indians," Jacksonville, Illinois, 1834.; Cambridge). Catalogue number 449; Mis­ facsimiles, are invariably interesting. ana," published in the issue for February Wyeth's "Oregon: or, a short history of a cellaneous books on archaeology and her­ D. Webster (Tunbridge Wells). Cata­ 15th: aldry, typography, folk lore, and allied sub­ long iourney from the Atlantic Ocean to logue 26: Books from several country "It may interest the 'Compleat Collector' the region of the Pacific," first edition, jects, libraries, including a selection from that to know that, of the 776 Byron items men­ privately printed, 1S33; a map showing Dobell (8, Bruton Street, London). of the Right Hon. Viscount Portman. An tioned in last week's 5'. R. L., 208 are now California as an island, done in Paris in Catalogue 92: English Literature. Quiet excellent example of the English provincial at Harvard. This is not quite all of that 1705; a map of Central California, con­ and dignified, without elaborate biblio­ dealers' catalogues—unpretending and in­ Catalogue which Harvard did not have al­ sidered to be the first detailed one drawn graphical descriptions. teresting. ready." G. M. T. from actual survey of the mining regions; Grafton and Company (51, Great Russell Meyers and Company (102, New Bond a map issued in New York in 1846 to pro­ Street, London). Catalogue number 82: Street, London). Catalogue 274: Books, mote a transcontinental railroad; and sev­ Miscellaneous and Out-of-the-way Books. Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Historical Farmington Book eral lithographs of California scenes. No subject, apparently, is omitted. The Documents, including Incunabula, early The American Art Association Anderson catalogue contains 2057 items. printed books, and colored plate books. This Shop Galleries announce the following sales Frank Hollings Bookshop (7, Great catalogue with its illustrations and its care­ Old Boo\s First Editions scheduled for April: April 2 through April Turnstile, London). Catalogue 164: One ful notes is of particular interest; it is ex­ CATALOGUES ISSUED 5—Early Italian furniture, rugs, tapestries, Hundred Choice Books, 1550-1928. 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It is almost 4 year since The Inner SaMSanttunt became a Review of Re­ views. The praises of tiie critics are not usually paraded in this department, even THE when they are irresistibly quotable, for PHOENIX the simple reason that your correspond­ NEST SEVENTEENTH ents naively prefer to spend their money on "the story behind the book," with the CENTURY true Inner Sanctum indiscretions. TXrHAT the world is coming to with now, so our conscience is clear. But that's ^ ' all the application of science and not talking about Emily Dickinson. As (^1^^ Rut-half the fun of being your commonsense to living that's going on a matter of fact now that we've got down By own boss lies in the fact that you can these days we simply can't imagine. In to it we're likely' to talk rather about Make the Rules, the other half in the fact the good old times if your mind was get­ critics than about Emily, for Miss Caper- G.N.Clark that you can Break Them. ting sluggish you merely went around the ton's notes are designed to show the mistakes corner to the nearest restaurant and dined the former can make. Well, perhaps we A summary account of ^^^ A book like Bottom Bogs by lavishly of fish food, knowing that you won't have to talk at all, for that's a matter EDWARD DAHLBERG is strong enough to were building bigger and better brains as which goes without saying. Didn't Byron western civilization in the upset most taboos, and it is therefore in order to set down a few of the tributes you ate. Or if in sauntering through a write seventeenth' century, not that have arrived, even since the acclaim huckleberry patch you inadvertently al­ Believe a woman or an efitafh, from WILLIAM BOLITHO , D . H . LAWRENCE , lowed yourself to be attacked by a rattler, Or any other thing that's false, before only in its political and eco­ E. M. FdRSTER, ARNOLD BENNETT and you wasted no time in lamentations but You trust in critics'? . . . nomic aspects, but touching the press of England: rushed to the nearest habitation and drank And that reminds us that we've been on the history of thought BOTTOM DOGS is a really astonishing two quarts of the Scotch that was to be had recreant to our duty. We haven't so much production. It is astonishing because for the asking. But now, what's the use? as mentioned the fact that Appleton has and the arts. it has all the nonchalance ofO, HENRY, First of all, you may get poison instead of published Maurois's "Byron." There's a coupled with a terrible convincingness good whisky, and even if you don't it's book you'll have to read if you want to Manchester Guardian. — "No .in squalid detail that I have never seen of no avail, for the belief that taking a keep up with the parlor conversation of one who is interested in the surpassed. swig will cure snake-bite seems to be your friends, for everyone else will be read­ period or the subject should —FRANK SWINNERTON. "symbolical magic based on the idea that ing it, and you'll be out in the cold if miss reading it. . . ." Never has such a subject been pre­ the whisky will produce the vision of snakes you can't say you, too, think it brilliant. sented with such thoroughness; never and that the vision will remove the effects No, no, of course, you're not the type of New Statesman.—^^A masterly has the American language been more of the bite." At least that's what Dr. person who passes judgment on books mere­ graphically or more picturesquely and delightful book. . . ." Morris Fishbein says. He says also that ly on the basis of what the ads say about employed; never has realism touched eating a lot of mackerel won't turn a moron a deeper, surer, firmer rock than this. them. . . . Times Literary Sufflement.— into an Einstein. So that's that, and we've RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH. My, but we are irresponsible. Or is that "Like a really good map it all got to be content to remain blessed with merely a euphemism for garrulous.? At at once satisfies and tantal­ For sheer told and objective- realism only the small amount of brains with which any rate, here we keep on straying away izes, spreads out before one BOTTOM DOGS is unapproached in our Providence supplied us in the beginning. At literature.—NEW YORK AMERICAN, from those comments made some thirty years the lie of the land, and gives least the mackerel can be grateful. We've ago on Emily Dickinson. That was the one a desire for explora­ culled the foregoing facts (not the senti­ period when the Literary World was saying tion." ments) from Dr. Fishbein's "Shattering /?r/?TV?hFvpn with acclaim of the flrst of her Poems: "We would commend this rnagnitude and with the prestige of a dis­ Health Superstitions" which Liveright has strange book to pitying and kindly regard," The Spectator.—"Mr. Clark's tinguished success in Englandj BOTTOM just published and from which you can get and the Denver Refublican was stating fascinating book points the DDOS is not selling as well as it should, enlightenment as to whether raw beef-steak "There is a curious New England idea that better way of writing his­ and your uninhibited and tactless cerre- heals a black eye, or whether cutting the spondents cannot escape the conviction it is a fine thing to have queer thoughts . . . tory." baby's hair will weaken the child, or that it is the fault of the American pub­ of this New England idea Miss Emily whether you'll get a wart if you touch a lic, rather than that of EDWARD DAHL­ Dickinson is the final flower which never $5.00 BERG or toad. . . . quite fruits in anything worth having." As —ESSANDESS. for Emily herself the reviewers were calling While we're on the subject of entertain­ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ing books we might as well mention "The her "orchid-like," a "strange flame-spirit," Stuffed Owl," an anthology of bad verse a "pale moth." What the woman and not 114 Fifth Avenue, New York selected and arranged by D. B. Wyndham the legend was like you should be able to Lewis and Charles Lee, with eight of the discover in "Emily Dickinson: Friend and BAEDEKER most mirth-provoking cartoons we've seen Neighbor," by MacGregor Jenkins, which in a long while. They're by Max Beer- Little, Brown is to issue. Mr. Jenkins as a bohm, and we defy anyone to gaze unsmil- child knew and loved "Miss Emily." . . . ingly at Max's picturization of Omar Khay­ We hear that the transcontinental de luxe THE yam underneath the bough with his in­ trains are carrying a mere scattering of amorata beside him singing in the wilder­ passengers. That's not because they are ness, or at Mr. Tennyson reading "In unpatronized, but because their clients are UNREALISTS Memoriam" to his sovereign, or Walt Whit­ either Hollywood made or to-be-made mil­ James, Ber^son, Santayana, man inciting the bird of freedom to soar. lionaires. There's a regular hierarchy, we Einstein, Bertrand Russell, We're going to borrow some of the car­ understand, with accommodations adjusted John Dewey, Alexander and toons some day without asking leave of to ranking. A producer travels in a private Whitehead either Mr. Beerbohm or Coward-McCann car, an Author With a Name in a drawing BAEDCKCR and reproduce them in The Saturday Re- room, a mere secretary in a section. But By Harvey Wickham " A syiionymfor'guide­ vieitt. . . . they all reach Bedlam. We wish we were Just as A. & C. Boni had issued a com­ with them instead of having to get our book' throughout the Harvey Wickham's latest book, world." plete edition of the works of Proust, news wildest excitement from watching white clad attendants appear on the roof of the "The Unrealists," completes —The Bookman. came of the death of the brilliant translator the trilogy begun by "The Mis- of "La Recherche du Temps Perdu." Mr. Harvard Club opposite our prison house. E,,er>tial title. Iron, the long behavourists" and continued in list: Scott-Moncrieff, who was only forty when Or sometimes it's the barber. . . . "The Impuritans." CrMt Britain »nd se.OO he died, was one of those rare persons whose Not everybody leads uneventful lives. Scotland __ work as translator is so supremely good as There was Mata Hart, for instance, the Together they form a connected series P,rl*.nd It. Environ.. S3.7» to earn the recognition that usually befalls true story of whose life Harpers have just of biographical sketches and criticisms, Switzerland * covering the work of the leaders of only original writing. Tlie distinction he issued. Major Coulson, who writes it, says modernistic thought in Science, Lit­ at all bookstores won in his field made his name widely that this most famous spy of the World War erature and Philosophy. In "The Un- CHARLES SCRIBKRSSOHS.HtwmK^ known, and the excellence of his renditions reduced the Second Bureau, the nerve center reah'sts" he unties the knot of Ein­ stein and Relativity for the benefit of might almost be said to have been the de­ of the French Army, to temporary impo­ everybody from the University Pro­ termining factor in the improved quality tence; corresponded with her espionage fessor to the man in the street. He of English translation so marked in recent chief on paper that bore the heading of represents the latest revolt from ma­ terialism, nambypambyism and ani­ BAEDEKER years. In addition to his admirable trans­ the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conducted malism. He champions humanism and lation of Proust's novel, a work which an intimate intrigue with the head of the common sense. presented the difficulties of an extraor­ War Department, and when finally brought $3.50 dinarily complicated style, he was the author to trial by an outraged family, invoked the America, England and France of a spirited rendering of the Chanson Ro­ aid of princes, ambassadors, and scholars. LINCOLN MACVEAGH THE DIAL PRESS - NEW YORK Acclaim land and of several of Stendhal's novels. A mere partial list of her lovers includes He was as successful in handling the stripped the French Minister of War, the Minister style of the latter as he had been with the of Foreign Affairs, the head of a Dutch elaborate intricacies of Proust. He was the Cabinet, and French officers, soldiers, and Tribute No. 1 authorized translator of Pirandello, having aviators by the score. Quite a charmer, we BYRON been an Italian scholar as well as a should say. , . . French. . . . The J^ew Biography bji But not much more captivating, it would Jules Claretie: Talking of Pirandello reminds us that seeem, than Harriette Wilson who preceded ANDRE MAUROIS the Italian playwright's new drama, "Come her by about a century and a half. That "It should live as Tu Mi Vuoi," has had its premiere in fair lady, whose beauty but not her morals seem to have been above reproach, was the long as the "M. Maurois' long ex­ Milan. From what we read of it, it seems to us to be in the true Pirandello tradition, beloved of some of the greatest noblemen pected life of Byron ex­ a study of personality, logical, compelling, of the England of her day. Her memoirs, Odyssey." ceeds expectations; it is and tragic. . . . which Minton, Balch have just published the most thorough piece And now comes Miss Mary Caferton of complete in one volume, read like the of work he has done." Little, Brown and suggests that instead of sprightliest of novels. A very Fanny Burney [THE Desmond McCarthy in the using notes from John O'London's Weekly might have been guiding her pen, though Saturday Review. we might insert something about Emily the author of "Evelina" could scarcely have Dickinson whose complete poems her firm brought her characters to speak with the PURPIiE publishes. We knew that Little, Brown daring impudence of this beauty whom Illustrated $5.00 at all Boolt- neither rank nor riches could temper to re­ sellers or from the Publtshers wouldn't like our citing the English peri­ odical and not mentioning the fact that the spect. . . . D. APPLETON AND COMPANY reason they brought it to our attention was We stand not on the order of our going. CI-OUD 3? West 32nd Street New York just to mention Patrick Hamilton's "The Adieu! Midnight Bell." Well, we've done that THE SUBSTITUTE PHOENICIAN. IE.P.SHII:L, i2.50 • VANGUARD • At Bookstorei

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