NOTABLE NEW BOOKSWINTERING HAY. By John Trevena.$1.35 netA big and powerful story of a man’s struggle to escape the consequences of an early sin, a sin whose causes have their roots deep in his own nature. From Dartmoor he comes to London (whose underworld Trevena depicts with a realism that savors of Dostoievsky) and finally expiates his fault, but not until he has drained the cup of suffering to the dregs and altered not only his own life but also the lives of those he loves.SLEEPING WATERS. By John Trevena.$1.35 netThere is an old Dartmoor legend about the waters of Nymphala, which bring forgetfulness to whoever drinks of them. A young priest comes to this spring, drinks and encounters, under romantic circumstances, Petronel, spirit of the moor. An unusual and very beautiful love story springs from this meeting, which ends in an unexpected but logical and wholly satisfying manner.ALTOGETHER JANE. By Herself.$1.35 netThis is not a “literary” book. It is just the straight-forward, unadorned story of a fine, big-hearted woman. Jane gives an intimate picture of the life that is lived by most women the world over, and you will follow her narrative with breathless interest. It will impress you always with its humor, its kindliness, but, above all, with its essential truth.LIFE’S LURE: A NOVEL. By John G. Neihardt.$1.25 netA brisk and vigorous story of life in a Western mining camp. Mr. Neihardt shows you men (and women) stripped of the frills and trivialities of our civilization and reduced to their more fundamental and primitive selves. Always the lure of life, the mere desire above all else to live dominates them.A big-hearted book this, rich with pathos and with humor, with homely good nature no less than with hideously cruel realism. You will not quickly forget Sam Drake, torn with hunger, crawling on his hands and knees back to camp: nor great-hearted Ma Wooliver and Pete: nor poor little Punkins (who should never have left the folks at Johnson Corner), dreaming everlastingly of nuggets such as no man ever found. Mr. Neihardt knows such people as these; he knows our Western country, and “Life’s Lure” rings true from cover to cover.ORTHODOXY: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Nina Wilcox Putnam.$ .60 netDo you always say what you really think? Of course you don’t; no one does. Only consider—you meet a stranger—“How do you do?” you say, “I’m so glad to meet you.” But are you? More often than otherwise you are not. Mrs. Putnam has exposed in a satiric, though not too bitter spirit this most common of all of our little hypocrisies. In “Orthodoxy” her people say exactly what in their hearts of hearts they are thinking, though they act as we all do. The result is—to say the least—startling.FATHER RALPH: A NOVEL. By Gerald O’Donovan.$1.40 netThis novel of present-day Ireland enjoyed an immense success when it appeared in London something over a year ago. Mr. O’Donovan writes delightfully and possesses a style of real distinction. “Father Ralph” presents a faithful picture of the life of the Irish people of today—particularly of their religious life, which is analyzed with shrewdness, insight and humor. But the book has, first of all, those enduring qualities that characterize all good fiction.DRIFT AND MASTERY: AN ATTEMPT TO DIAGNOSE THE CURRENT UNREST. By Walter Lippmann.$1.50 netThis is a book at once comprehensive, shrewd, vigorous, searching, and interesting—with always a saving humor. In the course of sixteen chapters Mr. Lippmann discusses practically all the more important problems of our political, social, and economic life, and the factors that have brought about that curious unrest everywhere so noticeable.But Mr. Lippmann is a great deal more than a brilliant iconoclast—he deals not only with the signs and causes of the present unrest, but with the order which is emerging from it.THE LITTLE KING: A ONE ACT PLAY IN VERSE. By Witter Bynner.$ .60 netNo poet, subtle in sympathy and delicate of touch, ever created a more affecting situation than that portrayed in this pathetic and simple tale of Marie Antoinette’s child. Abandoned to dissolute keepers, The Little King, as he listens to his Mother’s footsteps overhead, finds solace only in the canary around whose tiny throat he has wound an ironical red patriotic ribbon. Instinctive feeling for the essential dignity of royalty prevents his accepting escape at the cost of another’s freedom, and as the curtain falls the last glimmer of light is blotted from his cell and he is left in lonely darkness. Such is the substance of Mr. Bynner’s new play. It is written in his usual beautiful and plastic verse.LOVE-ACRE: AN IDYL IN TWO WORLDS. By Mrs. Havelock Ellis.$1.25 netThis tender and touching story is the latest work of that gifted Englishwoman, Mrs. Havelock Ellis. Set in the Cornwall she knows so well, it abounds in characters and scenes that no reader can easily forget.THE GYPSY TRAIL: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR CAMPERS. Selected by Mary D. Hopkins and Pauline Goldmark.$1.25 netThe selection includes past and present: English authors, and American, loom most largely; but there are German, French, and Latin extracts. A rarely delightful little book.MITCHELL KENNERLEY, PUBLISHER32 WEST FIFTY-EIGHTH STREET NEW YORK
NOTABLE NEW BOOKS
WINTERING HAY. By John Trevena.
$1.35 net
A big and powerful story of a man’s struggle to escape the consequences of an early sin, a sin whose causes have their roots deep in his own nature. From Dartmoor he comes to London (whose underworld Trevena depicts with a realism that savors of Dostoievsky) and finally expiates his fault, but not until he has drained the cup of suffering to the dregs and altered not only his own life but also the lives of those he loves.
SLEEPING WATERS. By John Trevena.
$1.35 net
There is an old Dartmoor legend about the waters of Nymphala, which bring forgetfulness to whoever drinks of them. A young priest comes to this spring, drinks and encounters, under romantic circumstances, Petronel, spirit of the moor. An unusual and very beautiful love story springs from this meeting, which ends in an unexpected but logical and wholly satisfying manner.
ALTOGETHER JANE. By Herself.
$1.35 net
This is not a “literary” book. It is just the straight-forward, unadorned story of a fine, big-hearted woman. Jane gives an intimate picture of the life that is lived by most women the world over, and you will follow her narrative with breathless interest. It will impress you always with its humor, its kindliness, but, above all, with its essential truth.
LIFE’S LURE: A NOVEL. By John G. Neihardt.
$1.25 net
A brisk and vigorous story of life in a Western mining camp. Mr. Neihardt shows you men (and women) stripped of the frills and trivialities of our civilization and reduced to their more fundamental and primitive selves. Always the lure of life, the mere desire above all else to live dominates them.
A big-hearted book this, rich with pathos and with humor, with homely good nature no less than with hideously cruel realism. You will not quickly forget Sam Drake, torn with hunger, crawling on his hands and knees back to camp: nor great-hearted Ma Wooliver and Pete: nor poor little Punkins (who should never have left the folks at Johnson Corner), dreaming everlastingly of nuggets such as no man ever found. Mr. Neihardt knows such people as these; he knows our Western country, and “Life’s Lure” rings true from cover to cover.
ORTHODOXY: A PLAY IN ONE ACT. By Nina Wilcox Putnam.
$ .60 net
Do you always say what you really think? Of course you don’t; no one does. Only consider—you meet a stranger—“How do you do?” you say, “I’m so glad to meet you.” But are you? More often than otherwise you are not. Mrs. Putnam has exposed in a satiric, though not too bitter spirit this most common of all of our little hypocrisies. In “Orthodoxy” her people say exactly what in their hearts of hearts they are thinking, though they act as we all do. The result is—to say the least—startling.
FATHER RALPH: A NOVEL. By Gerald O’Donovan.
$1.40 net
This novel of present-day Ireland enjoyed an immense success when it appeared in London something over a year ago. Mr. O’Donovan writes delightfully and possesses a style of real distinction. “Father Ralph” presents a faithful picture of the life of the Irish people of today—particularly of their religious life, which is analyzed with shrewdness, insight and humor. But the book has, first of all, those enduring qualities that characterize all good fiction.
DRIFT AND MASTERY: AN ATTEMPT TO DIAGNOSE THE CURRENT UNREST. By Walter Lippmann.
$1.50 net
This is a book at once comprehensive, shrewd, vigorous, searching, and interesting—with always a saving humor. In the course of sixteen chapters Mr. Lippmann discusses practically all the more important problems of our political, social, and economic life, and the factors that have brought about that curious unrest everywhere so noticeable.
But Mr. Lippmann is a great deal more than a brilliant iconoclast—he deals not only with the signs and causes of the present unrest, but with the order which is emerging from it.
THE LITTLE KING: A ONE ACT PLAY IN VERSE. By Witter Bynner.
$ .60 net
No poet, subtle in sympathy and delicate of touch, ever created a more affecting situation than that portrayed in this pathetic and simple tale of Marie Antoinette’s child. Abandoned to dissolute keepers, The Little King, as he listens to his Mother’s footsteps overhead, finds solace only in the canary around whose tiny throat he has wound an ironical red patriotic ribbon. Instinctive feeling for the essential dignity of royalty prevents his accepting escape at the cost of another’s freedom, and as the curtain falls the last glimmer of light is blotted from his cell and he is left in lonely darkness. Such is the substance of Mr. Bynner’s new play. It is written in his usual beautiful and plastic verse.
LOVE-ACRE: AN IDYL IN TWO WORLDS. By Mrs. Havelock Ellis.
$1.25 net
This tender and touching story is the latest work of that gifted Englishwoman, Mrs. Havelock Ellis. Set in the Cornwall she knows so well, it abounds in characters and scenes that no reader can easily forget.
THE GYPSY TRAIL: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR CAMPERS. Selected by Mary D. Hopkins and Pauline Goldmark.
$1.25 net
The selection includes past and present: English authors, and American, loom most largely; but there are German, French, and Latin extracts. A rarely delightful little book.
MITCHELL KENNERLEY, PUBLISHER32 WEST FIFTY-EIGHTH STREET NEW YORK