NEW BOOKS OF IMPORTANCELETTERS FROM A LIVING DEAD MAN.Written down by Elsa Barker.$1.25net.If you are at all interested in the problem of a Future Life, you cannot afford to overlook this book. These letters, dictated to Mrs. Barker by the spirit of a departed friend, are undoubtedly the most remarkable contribution to “psychic” literature of recent years. The volume, with its tone of optimism, its minute, intimate account of life beyond the grave, is certain to be widely discussed, and those who do not read it place themselves at a certain disadvantage. Elsa Barker has given her absolute assurance that the book is in no way “faked.”SONGS OF THE DEAD END.By Patrick MacGill, author of “Songs of a Navvy,” etc.$1.25net.The majority of these “songs” deal with the lives of the working man, the day laborer who builds our houses and our railroads, works in the mine and the ditch. The author has lived this life and writes of it with power and feeling. He has grasped the wider meaning of it all, made plain the essential nobility of labor, the heroism and idealism of many of these men. In short, he has done in verse for the working man what Constant Meunier did in bronze.JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.By Van Wick Brooks, author of “The Wine of the Puritans.” Frontispiece.$1.50net.One of the more important biographies of the year, and yet it is more than a mere biography, for Mr. Brooks attempts to place Symonds in relation to the literary world of his own day and of the present. He builds up a clear picture of Symonds’ life, from early days to the end. His book is uncrowded but not deficient, clear and unsluggish but not too rapid. In short, it is itself literature.THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.By James Hinton, author of “Life in Nature,” “The Place of the Physician,” etc., etc.$1.00net.This little book is a classic. It deals with pain in its necessary, beneficial aspect. Hinton addressed it to the sorrowful, to whom it assuredly brings comfort, but it will prove interesting and helpful to all thinking men and women. It shows how pain, if it could be recognized as development, and in a sense as joy, would be as much welcomed as pleasure is now. We are afraid of both, instead of recognizing them as two parts of the development of the soul; neither is good alone, but as a completion the one of the other.THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF A PLAY.By Louis Shipman. Illustrated in colors and in black and white.$1.50net.Perhaps you remember Henry Miller in “D’Arcy of the Guards.” Its author, Louis Shipman, has written this unique book about “D’Arcy,” in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very first moment the manuscript left his hands. Letters, contracts, telegrams, etc., are all given in full, and there are many interesting illustrations, both in color and in black and white. “The True Adventures of a Play” will prove of almost inestimable value to all those who practise or hope to practise the art of playwriting; and it abounds, furthermore, in bits of fine criticism of the contemporary theatre.NOVA HIBERNIA.By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters.”$1.50net.A book of delightful and informing essays about Irishmen and letters by an Irishman. Some of the chapters are “Yeats and Synge,” “Thomas Moore,” “Sheridan,” “Irish Balladry,” etc., etc.AT THE SIGN OF THE VAN.By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters,” etc.$2.00net.Michael Monohan, founder of that fascinating little magazine, “The Papyrus,” is one of the most brilliant of present-day American critics. He has abundant sympathy, insight, critical acumen, and, above all, real flavor. His essays are all his own. And into this Volume he has put much of his own life story. Then there is a remarkable chapter on “Sex in the Playhouse,” besides papers on Roosevelt, O. Henry, Carlyle, Renan, Tolstoy, and Arthur Brisbane, to mention but a few. “At the Sign of the Van” is really a second, larger, and even finer book than “Adventures in Life and Letters.”For Sale at all Book Shops or from the PublisherMITCHELL KENNERLEY,Publisher32 West Fifty-Eighth Street, New York
NEW BOOKS OF IMPORTANCE
LETTERS FROM A LIVING DEAD MAN.Written down by Elsa Barker.
$1.25net.
If you are at all interested in the problem of a Future Life, you cannot afford to overlook this book. These letters, dictated to Mrs. Barker by the spirit of a departed friend, are undoubtedly the most remarkable contribution to “psychic” literature of recent years. The volume, with its tone of optimism, its minute, intimate account of life beyond the grave, is certain to be widely discussed, and those who do not read it place themselves at a certain disadvantage. Elsa Barker has given her absolute assurance that the book is in no way “faked.”
SONGS OF THE DEAD END.By Patrick MacGill, author of “Songs of a Navvy,” etc.
$1.25net.
The majority of these “songs” deal with the lives of the working man, the day laborer who builds our houses and our railroads, works in the mine and the ditch. The author has lived this life and writes of it with power and feeling. He has grasped the wider meaning of it all, made plain the essential nobility of labor, the heroism and idealism of many of these men. In short, he has done in verse for the working man what Constant Meunier did in bronze.
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.By Van Wick Brooks, author of “The Wine of the Puritans.” Frontispiece.
$1.50net.
One of the more important biographies of the year, and yet it is more than a mere biography, for Mr. Brooks attempts to place Symonds in relation to the literary world of his own day and of the present. He builds up a clear picture of Symonds’ life, from early days to the end. His book is uncrowded but not deficient, clear and unsluggish but not too rapid. In short, it is itself literature.
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.By James Hinton, author of “Life in Nature,” “The Place of the Physician,” etc., etc.
$1.00net.
This little book is a classic. It deals with pain in its necessary, beneficial aspect. Hinton addressed it to the sorrowful, to whom it assuredly brings comfort, but it will prove interesting and helpful to all thinking men and women. It shows how pain, if it could be recognized as development, and in a sense as joy, would be as much welcomed as pleasure is now. We are afraid of both, instead of recognizing them as two parts of the development of the soul; neither is good alone, but as a completion the one of the other.
THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF A PLAY.By Louis Shipman. Illustrated in colors and in black and white.
$1.50net.
Perhaps you remember Henry Miller in “D’Arcy of the Guards.” Its author, Louis Shipman, has written this unique book about “D’Arcy,” in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very first moment the manuscript left his hands. Letters, contracts, telegrams, etc., are all given in full, and there are many interesting illustrations, both in color and in black and white. “The True Adventures of a Play” will prove of almost inestimable value to all those who practise or hope to practise the art of playwriting; and it abounds, furthermore, in bits of fine criticism of the contemporary theatre.
NOVA HIBERNIA.By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters.”
$1.50net.
A book of delightful and informing essays about Irishmen and letters by an Irishman. Some of the chapters are “Yeats and Synge,” “Thomas Moore,” “Sheridan,” “Irish Balladry,” etc., etc.
AT THE SIGN OF THE VAN.By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters,” etc.
$2.00net.
Michael Monohan, founder of that fascinating little magazine, “The Papyrus,” is one of the most brilliant of present-day American critics. He has abundant sympathy, insight, critical acumen, and, above all, real flavor. His essays are all his own. And into this Volume he has put much of his own life story. Then there is a remarkable chapter on “Sex in the Playhouse,” besides papers on Roosevelt, O. Henry, Carlyle, Renan, Tolstoy, and Arthur Brisbane, to mention but a few. “At the Sign of the Van” is really a second, larger, and even finer book than “Adventures in Life and Letters.”
For Sale at all Book Shops or from the Publisher
MITCHELL KENNERLEY,Publisher32 West Fifty-Eighth Street, New York