The gift of a good book implies a compliment to the intelligence of the recipient. Instead of giving books which you would resent having on your shelves, why not present these books whichyouwould like to own?TALES OF TWO COUNTRIESBy MAXIM GORKY$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.After a number of years, the potency of the great Russian’s pen is again exercised. This commanding volume of stories discloses varied aspects of the foremost living writer among those who attracted universal attention to modern Russian literature. The folk and psychology of Italy, to which country he retired in exile, supply the themes of thirteen of the twenty-two tales, the others are of Russian life. Gorky’s admirers will find in the collection a reaffirmation of the art which secured his high place among interpreters of life through fiction.DRAMATIC WORKS: Volume VBy GERHART HAUPTMANN$1.50 net; weight 22 oz.CONTAINS: “Schluck and Jau;” “And Pippa Dances;” “Charlemagne’s Hostage.”The second group of Hauptmann’s Symbolic and Legendary Dramas gains unity by a recognizable oneness of inspiration. The poet has become a seeker; he questions the nature and quality of various ultimate values; he abandons the field of the personal and individual life and “sends his soul into the infinite.” [A special circular, with contents of the preceding volumes, will be mailed upon request to the publisher.]WISCONSIN PLAYS$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.CONTAINS: “The Neighbors,” by Zona Gale; “In Hospital,” by Thomas H. Dickinson; “Glory of the Morning,” by William Ellery Leonard.A noteworthy manifestation of the interest in the stage and its literature is the work, both in writing of plays and their performance, of the gifted band organized as the Wisconsin Dramatic Society. The three one-act plays in this volume are fruits of the movement. Having met with success in the theatre, they are now offered to the creative reader to whose imagination dramatic literature is a stimulus.SELF-CULTURE THROUGH THE VOCATIONBy EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS50 cents net; weight about 8 oz.This new book in the Art of Life Series deals with work as a way to culture and service. When the cry everywhere is vocational education, it is worth while to stop and ask, What of the education that is possible through the vocation itself? This question is studied in six chapters, with a lightness of touch that saves the teaching from didacticism and gives it universal human appeal. The book is a companion study to the author’s popular “The Use of the Margin.” Dr. Griggs is particularly satisfying in such brief, trenchant studies of deep problems of life, and the new book should be of special value to young people and to men and women longing to make each day yield its full return in culture and wisdom.THE DEATH OF A NOBODYBy JULES ROMAINS$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.An amazingly perfect production of incomparable restraint and power; it reveals with a quality enchaining the attention, the interwoven web of human revelations, romantic from their very prosaicness. The life of one in other’s minds—the “social consciousness” about which the sociologists have developed abstruse theories, is here portrayed explicitly, with a fascination no theory can have. The uniqueness of the book is suggested by the fact that the “Nobody” about whom the action revolves dies in the second chapter. Though fiction, it will supply convincing arguments to believers in life after death. It is not only a masterpiece of literary art, but might well be used as the concrete text of the mind of the crowd. Translated from the French by Desmond MacCarthy and Sydney Waterlow.All of these may be obtained from booksellers or from the publisher. Upon application to the latter, a list of interesting publications of 1914 may be obtained.B. W. HUEBSCH, 225 Fifth avenue, New York
The gift of a good book implies a compliment to the intelligence of the recipient. Instead of giving books which you would resent having on your shelves, why not present these books whichyouwould like to own?
The gift of a good book implies a compliment to the intelligence of the recipient. Instead of giving books which you would resent having on your shelves, why not present these books whichyouwould like to own?
TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES
By MAXIM GORKY
$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.
After a number of years, the potency of the great Russian’s pen is again exercised. This commanding volume of stories discloses varied aspects of the foremost living writer among those who attracted universal attention to modern Russian literature. The folk and psychology of Italy, to which country he retired in exile, supply the themes of thirteen of the twenty-two tales, the others are of Russian life. Gorky’s admirers will find in the collection a reaffirmation of the art which secured his high place among interpreters of life through fiction.
DRAMATIC WORKS: Volume V
By GERHART HAUPTMANN
$1.50 net; weight 22 oz.
CONTAINS: “Schluck and Jau;” “And Pippa Dances;” “Charlemagne’s Hostage.”
The second group of Hauptmann’s Symbolic and Legendary Dramas gains unity by a recognizable oneness of inspiration. The poet has become a seeker; he questions the nature and quality of various ultimate values; he abandons the field of the personal and individual life and “sends his soul into the infinite.” [A special circular, with contents of the preceding volumes, will be mailed upon request to the publisher.]
WISCONSIN PLAYS
$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.
CONTAINS: “The Neighbors,” by Zona Gale; “In Hospital,” by Thomas H. Dickinson; “Glory of the Morning,” by William Ellery Leonard.
A noteworthy manifestation of the interest in the stage and its literature is the work, both in writing of plays and their performance, of the gifted band organized as the Wisconsin Dramatic Society. The three one-act plays in this volume are fruits of the movement. Having met with success in the theatre, they are now offered to the creative reader to whose imagination dramatic literature is a stimulus.
SELF-CULTURE THROUGH THE VOCATION
By EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS
50 cents net; weight about 8 oz.
This new book in the Art of Life Series deals with work as a way to culture and service. When the cry everywhere is vocational education, it is worth while to stop and ask, What of the education that is possible through the vocation itself? This question is studied in six chapters, with a lightness of touch that saves the teaching from didacticism and gives it universal human appeal. The book is a companion study to the author’s popular “The Use of the Margin.” Dr. Griggs is particularly satisfying in such brief, trenchant studies of deep problems of life, and the new book should be of special value to young people and to men and women longing to make each day yield its full return in culture and wisdom.
THE DEATH OF A NOBODY
By JULES ROMAINS
$1.25 net; weight about 18 oz.
An amazingly perfect production of incomparable restraint and power; it reveals with a quality enchaining the attention, the interwoven web of human revelations, romantic from their very prosaicness. The life of one in other’s minds—the “social consciousness” about which the sociologists have developed abstruse theories, is here portrayed explicitly, with a fascination no theory can have. The uniqueness of the book is suggested by the fact that the “Nobody” about whom the action revolves dies in the second chapter. Though fiction, it will supply convincing arguments to believers in life after death. It is not only a masterpiece of literary art, but might well be used as the concrete text of the mind of the crowd. Translated from the French by Desmond MacCarthy and Sydney Waterlow.
All of these may be obtained from booksellers or from the publisher. Upon application to the latter, a list of interesting publications of 1914 may be obtained.
B. W. HUEBSCH, 225 Fifth avenue, New York