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"A careful statistical account of Siberia's natural wealth."- St. Louis Globe Democrat. "The Compared with Dr. Nansen's prewar book. maps and illustrations make this important volume still more attractive."N. Y. Herald. "Siberia's Untouched Treasure" by Fairfax Channing G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers, NEW YORK Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers THE CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN LOYD DELL, who has just sailed for shores, is busily at work completing a volume of short stories. He has a house for the summer on Hampstead Heath, with a garden. It is expected his young son will find English soil as excellent to play upon as American. HERVEY ALLEN was a close friend of Miss Lowell's and a poet whose work she admired. His "Earth Moods" (Harper), recently published, is a fine book. His Life of Poe, which is well under way, is said to be a most unusual biography. DAVID MORTON, the sonneteer, has this year been teaching at Amherst. He is said to find college teaching quite as congenial as high school, but we suspect that he occasionally misses the wilds of the New Jersey country. If we were to paraphrase ARTHUR MASON, who has gone on a visit to his native Ireland, we should say: Just about now the fairies are talking to Arthur Mason. Real Irish fairies, too, dripping from their own foamy runnels between Irish rocks; red capped amid the greasy darkness of the bogs; perched high in the blooming haws. For Arthur Mason is one of the fortunate ones to whom it is given to revisit the home of their youth with still-illusioned eyes. For him the braes are as wide as they ever were, and the burns as deep, and the bogs as mystifying, and_the mossy burying grounds as speaking of the Banshee, and the reason of this is that in his youth part of the sheet was written in invisible ink; he could only read of adventure, and his light feet spurned the mosses and the flowers, and his ears did not hear the wee ones talk. Now, in his maturity he returns with the hidden words laid bare. More than that, he can speak with those gentle little ones, and he can pause at the graveyard to shout sarcasms to the hateful Banshee. DORIS AND SAMUEL WEBSTER, husband and wife, spend their summers on an abandoned farm in Connecticut which they assure us becomes more abandoned each year. Mr. Webster is the son of Annie Moffett Webster (daughter of Mark Twain's sister Pamela) who lived in the same house with her grandmother, Jane Clemens, for twentyfive years. During his river days Mark Twain, then a young man in his early twenties, also lived in the Moffett home in St. Louis. Mr. Webster's father, Charles L. Webster, was president of Charles L. Webster and Company, publishers of many of Mark Twain's books, and his sister was the late Jean Webster, author of "Daddy Long Legs", etc. Doris Webb Webster is joint author with her husband of "Uncle James' Shoes", a novel (Century). CECIL ROBERTS, the young English novelist, has lectured here this year with great success and is to return again next season. He is at work now on an autobiography, and his novel, "The Love Rack" (Stokes), will appear in the autumn. HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, librarian of Brown University, is at present on a leave of absence which has taken him traveling around the borders of the country, and as far as Alaska. He is an author and poet. His "Hesperia", an American national poem in two volumes, has been published at intervals, the last and final volume appearing in 1924 (Marshall Jones). JOSEPH COLLINS is playing a great deal of golf these days and completing "The Doctor Looks at Biography" for autumn publication (Doran). ARNOLD PATRICK has gone to Europe. JULIAN HAWTHORNE writes us that he has been busy for the past year on two books, one a novel of sixty thousand words, the other a collection of short biographical sketches of well known figures of the past seventy years, whom he has personally known. The sketches have been printed serially and, somewhat to his surprise, have interested many people. CASTNER BROW XVIII THE CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN DER is a newspaper man and a writer of advertising. JOHN J. GUNTHER was well known in Chicago before he went to Europe. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago he took an active part in the literary life of the metropolis and contributed to various of its literary reviews. FRANK WEITENKAMPF is curator of prints at the New York Public Library, and the author of many books. A new edition of his "American Graphic Art" was published in 1924, and his "How to Appreciate Prints" is in its third edition and eleventh printing. LOUIS BROMFIELD has just finished his novel, and is at work revising his play. He hopes when all of these duties have been accomplished to sail, along with all other American authors, for Europe. IRWIN EDMAN, of Columbia University, is to go abroad next year for study and the composition of several volumes of philosophical content. His "Richard Kane", which has been appearing in "The Century", is to be published this autumn. CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER has for the last five years been minister of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York. He is now resigning that post to take up his duties as executive secretary of Antioch College. EVA V. B. HANSL of Summit, New Jersey, has been much interested in the parent education movement. Her articles and reviews on various subjects relating to that theme have appeared in THE BOOKMAN. GERALD HEWES CARSON is as hard headed a young writer as we know. He works steadily at his daytime advertising job and turns out excellent essays and criticism at night. This may be due partly to the steadying influence of his charming wife. HERBERT S. GORMAN is about to go to Europe. He is engaged on a biographical volume which ought to prove his finest production so far. DUBOSE HEYWARD is at the Peterboro Colony with his wife Dorothy, writing a new novel to follow "Porgy". Selections from "Porgy" are to appear both in "The Forum" and THE BOOKMAN. MICHAEL JOSEPH writes that his new book on the writing craft will be published presently. "The well-made book costs no more" Speed-with accuracy Between typesetting and lock-up comes a very important feature of our complete service-proof reading. An important operation where accuracy and speed come to the fore. We take the manuscript and deliver the bound volume. Every step of production is under one roof and one management; every contact with one responsible house. J.J. Little & Ives Company 425-435 East 24th Street, New York The Plant Complete TYPESETTING:: ELECTROTYPING:: PRINTING:: BINDING:: EDITORIAL SERVICE Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers THE MONTH ON MURRAY HILL The purpose of this section of THE BOOKMAN is to acquaint readers with the publishing activities of George H. Doran Company and their authors. Out that way came SEIBERT OF THE ISLAND a while ago; and by the time this number of THE BOOKMAN appears, SEIBERT will have been dressed in a blue-green sea-fight by Cory Kilvert and sent out on its mission in life. It is a mighty tale of adventure, written by Gordon Young. One takes a risk in speaking so of the work of an author not yet well-recognized; but in its swing from a sailors' lodging-house in San Francisco, across the South Pacific in a stolen ship to that island under the sky, there is every element which goes to make up romance. 2 ELINOR WYLIE One would like to say, if you like Conrad you will like Gordon Young. But to make a claim and a comparison so ambitious is tantamount to saying: This is a story similar to some of Conrad's; I wish it were as good! So I must content myself with stating that SEIBERT is better plotted than most of Conrad, and written almost as well. Whose new novel, THE VENETIAN But it becomes quite silly A while ago I wrote Gordon Young that I knew him in "Adventure", and that of the two magazines I could read willingly, "Engineering and Mining Journal-Press" was the other. And I slipped one of his own paragraphs out of SEIBERT OF THE ISLAND and flung it at him as if to say, why have you kept secret such skill as this? Few adventure stories have in their swift movement leisure for writing: "With the same air of calm destructiveness he drew back a gloved fist and smote the mirror. Many cracks instantly converged on the silver surface, as if a small THE BOOKMAN Advertiser XIX |