The Bookman

You read some books, of course, because they excite the
interest of the cultured world and are discussed at dinner-
tables and in drawing rooms. Here are a few new books
that appear sure to create a stir, to become the subjects of
polite conversation or heated argument.

THE BIG NOVEL OF The Loring Mystery By Jeffery Farnol

THE SPRING

Soundings

By

A. Hamilton Gibbs

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The love story of a young
English girl brought up by
an artist father; bravely
outspoken on the prob-
lems of the younger gen-
eration, yet in the finest
sense reticent, substitut-
ing for the flavor of cock-
tails and jazz a flavor of
loyalty and out-of-doors;
written with sympathy,
understanding and
tained literary charm.
John Farrar, editor, The
Bookman, says: "Sound-
ings' is a love story so
deeply conceived, so ably
executed that it leaves the
reader breathless. It is as
striking from an
tional standpoint as any-
thing I have read in
years."

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A "cloak-and-sword" romance with a baffling murder mystery and a private detective, Jasper Shrig, who is as delightful a character as the famous Ancient of "The Broad Highway."

Drag By William Dudley Pelley

$2.00

The pathetic and yet humorous story of an ambitious but
soft-hearted young Vermonter whose life was almost wrecked
because he let his selfish relatives - mostly his "in-laws"
be a drag on him.

$2.00

John L. Sullivan: An Intimate Narrative

By R. F. Dibble

A fascinating biography of the most picturesquely strenuous of Americans, a national figure almost legendary for his enormous strength in the prize-ring, his unabashed opinions and vocabulary, and his rowdy and glorious career.

It is a Strange House

By Dana Burnet

$3.00

The revolt of an individualist against standardized society, religion and social laws told in an extraordinary play. With jacket in color by des Rosiers.

The New Barbarians

By Wilbur C. Abbott

$2.00

Shall Democracy, as defined by our history, stand in the United States, or shall "the new barbarians," hardly one generation removed from European serfdom-whether they call themselves socialists, anarchists or communists - be allowed to make it over? A vital book for thinking Americans. $2.50

The Indestructible Union

By William McDougall

What has made the American nation, what have been the
unifying and the disturbing influences, what are the rival
ideals to-day, and is the American nation indestructible? A
famous psychologist here interprets our nationalism through
the psychology of the American group mind. A provocative
book.
$2.50

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festations is as little used today as the armors and plumes which were its habiliments. Yet the chivalry of youth toward age and experience cannot pass without a notation of regret. When a New York paper finds the death of William Archer, the eminent English dramatic critic, an opportunity for flippant judgment of his importance, the occasion is one for annoyance. Whatever Archer's abilities were- and we happen to view them as considerable - the dignity in which his living presence was held would seem to require at his death a measure of respectful tribute, or a kindly silence. Anything else is inexcusable. Last year when Julia Marlowe appeared in New York City as Cymbeline, the cruelty which was evidenced in criticizing a woman whose gift to the American theatre is obvious, had little of either chivalry or kindness in it. Youth is remorseless and cruel, you answer. Not always, is the reply; a tolerant youth sometimes sows the

seeds for a respected old age. It is the most cruel youths who, in turn, find youth turned cruel to their middle age. Critical manners have mended somewhat in the last years, yet there is still a distance to be traveled. Can we not look for a revival of chivalry with the wane of the realistic novel? Does romance not presuppose some understanding of the ways of gentlemen and ladies?