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In London he lectured on "Scenery for Little Theatres", with lantern slides, a talk which he has given for the last three years at the Columbia Summer School, and which he will give at the 1925 Drama League Convention. He has spoken on the theatre in a score of leading American cities. His "List of Music for Pageants and Plays" has just been published. His "Living Stage" reviews of New York plays regularly appear in the Wilmington (Del.) "Every Evening" and Cleveland "Topics", also at times in the Springfield "Republican", and other papers. He has also contributed to "The Forum", "The Theatre", "Drama", and other periodicals. KWEI CHEN has published his translations of various poems from his native tongue in the American magazines. He is living at present in Lincoln, at the University of Nebraska. DAVID LAWRENCE is president of the Consolidated Press Association, a leased wire service supplying newspapers from coast to coast. He recently wrote "The True Story of Woodrow Wilson", which was designed as an impartial interpretation of Woodrow Wilson's life. Mr. Lawrence watched Woodrow Wilson at close range for more than eighteen years and has personally heard most of the speeches collected in the volumes which he reviews. JOSEPH COLLINS has spent most of the winter in the south. His reviews and articles continue to appear in many of the magazines. His volume, "The Doctor Looks at Biography", will appear in the autumn as one of the "Modern Readers' Bookshelf" series. ANNE CARROLL MOORE, together with her Nicholas, has returned from a speaking trip through the west and is at work on a new book. Her department "The Three Owls", in "Books", the review section of the New York "Herald-Tribune", is one of the few weekly pages devoted exclusively to chil(Continued on third page following) Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER (Contributors' Column) dren's books. ARNOLD PATRICK has been much embarrassed by letters which claim that he puts too much stress on success in writing as opposed to art. He wishes to point out that it is of success he is writing, in terms of large sales, too. Perhaps some day, when he migrates to New York from his Vermont hills, he will write a series on success in terms of art only it is so much more difficult to define. ELIZABETH J. COATSWORTH writes from California that she has missed the snow of eastern winters. She is a native of New England who has published two volumes of poetry, the last titled "Atlas and Beyond". LOUIS BROMFIELD, long the publicity and advertising manager of Putnam's, is retiring from that position to devote all of his time to the writing of novels and plays, and to traveling. LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL is a young poet whose work first appeared in "The Measure". ISABEL PATERSON still gossips away in her column on the New York Home "Herald-Tribune" and works at night on a novel to follow her beautifully written "Singing Season". GERALD HEWES CARSON has bought a house in the country and promises us some bucolic information as soon as he becomes sufficiently acclimated. ROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAY set out to be a painter and illustrator, and was a protégé of John H. Twachtman. He has now retired to the country near New York City, has corrected proofs on his new volume, "Literary Lanes", and is actually thinking of writing a novel. ERNEST BOYD, having survived the attack made on him by the "young æsthetes", is going ahead with various writing plans. He is editing a series of modern writers for one publisher, and writing books for several others, the latest of which is "Studies from Ten Literatures". CHARLES R. WALKER, an associate editor of "The Independent", plans soon to sail for Europe, to write on a sort of semi-autobiography, semi-novel during the summer months. MICHAEL JOSEPH, of the Curtis Brown offices in London, is a brilliant and wideawake gentleman who has an opportunity to see much of the literature of the world as it passes over his desk. : : Philadelphia The Writer's Monthly Edited by J. BERG ESENWEIN ACH issue contains one hun dred brimming pages of helpful articles, pithy editorials and vital aids to writers, including the latest news of the manuscript market, prize contests, etc. A tool no writer can Homer Croy, author of "West of the Water Frank Gilman Jopp, editor of the Western Truck Sample copy free - Write today Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers In this section the readers of THE BOOKMAN will find the latest announcements of reliable dealers in Rare Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints. It will be well to look over this section carefully each month, for the advertisements will be frequently changed, and items of interest to collectors will be offered here. All these dealers invite correspondence. BOOK collectors who are not members of the great book clubs follow with interest the activities of those in such organizations, and while club publications are usually limited to club members or at most with only a few copies to spare- there is always an active demand for book club publications when they come into the market through auctions or otherwise. Like the productions of the private presses, they almost invariably reach a premium, for the simple reason that there are not enough copies to go around and books, like other commodities, obey the law of supply and demand. Once in a while a club book is picked up at less than the price at which it was issued to members, but so rarely that the purchaser may consider himself in great luck. 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It is not because of its potential commercial value, but because the book to be issued is of the same class, that the volume announced by the Boston Club of Odd Volumes, on "William Blake's Milton, A Poem", attracts the attention of book collectors. At a sale at Sotheby's in London, December 11, 1923, a member of the club purchased, for £3,400, a unique copy of "Milton, A Poem" by William Blake, bound up with a copy of "The Book of Thel". The only other known copies of this work are in the Henry E. Huntington, British Museum, and New York Public Libraries. The Huntington (Hoe) and British Museum copies are identical, each having forty five leaves. The New York Public Library has forty nine leaves. The Club of Odd Volumes copy has fifty leaves, including the unique No. 9, "Palambron with the fiery harrow in morning returning", one of Blake's powerful conceptions. There are so many interesting points about this work that the owner has generously allowed the club to use it as the basis of the forthcoming book, which is to be written by S. Foster Damon of Harvard, author of "William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols", published last year. FOREIGN BOOKSELLERS THAT BOOK YOU WANT We have over 1,000,000 (Second-hand and New) on every conceivable subject in stock. Also Rare Books and Sets of Authors. Catalogues free. Mention requirements. Commissions executed. FOYLES, 121-125 Charing Cross Road, London, England Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers AMONG THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS THIS HIS column aims to point out those new books bearing upon religion which should merit the attention of various groups of people, either because the author is a man of standing with a following or because the book seems to meet some special human need. It is an informative rather than a critical column, except that no books are mentioned here which do not pass muster as offering profitable reading hours to some section of a widely constituted reading public. There are many who profoundly disagree with utterances of the Reverend John Roach Straton, D.D., author of a number of books and pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of New York, but there is a host of adherents to Dr. Straton's viewpoints which will welcome HE Lion* roars both "Tgently and wisely, and through his authori- *The Lion in His Den warmly the collection of sermons brought out under the title of "The Old Gospel at the Heart of the Metropolis" (Doran). These "sermons are typical of the solidity and strength of the messages of this eminent exponent of fundamental religion". To keep the number of new books within readable range publishers might insist that manuscripts to merit publication should first be interesting pieces of writing; second, that the treatment be consistent. Father Gillis (James M. Gillis, S. P.) has written a book called "False Prophets" (Macmillan) which would pass these restrictions. You do not have to agree with the author in his handling of Shaw, Wells, Freud, Conan Doyle, and others, or with his deductions that these men are "false prophets offering worthless substitutes for religion", to be quite unusually entertained. The chances are that your serious thought will be stirred as well. is a final chapter on "Back to Christ Chaos". There or "Science and Religion" (Scribner) by J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., LL.D., professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen, contains the six Morse Foundation lectures delivered in Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1924. Dr. Morse states that the lectures are published almost precisely as they were spoken and adds, “That may explain a certain insistence of style which seemed natural at the time. They are not meant for the learned, but rather for those who are learning." The author aims to show that "modern scientific formulation in terms of the Lowest Common Denominators cannot be regarded as antithetic to religious interpretation in terms of the Greatest Common Measure", or as the jacket of the book puts it, "The scientific account of nature is essentially in agreement with the religious vision." 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