THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER Ossining, New York. His one child, Elizabeth Cobb Chapman, is also a short story writer whose work is now appearing in "Cosmopolitan" and other magazines. Mr. Cobb is the winner of the O. Henry award for the best short story published in 1922. This was "Snake Doctor", which appears in a collection by that title. REFERENCES: Our Short Story Writers. The Best Short Stories of 1917. Irvin S. Cobb: Storyteller. Grant Overton. OCTAVUS ROY COHEN Sunclouds. DODD, MEAD. 1924. Octavus Roy Cohen, also, was born in the south and served as a newspaper man. He comes from Charleston, South Carolina; was educated at a military academy; and went to Clemson College. He has been a civil engineer and a lawyer, in addition to his editorial work on the Birmingham "Ledger", the Charleston "News and Courier", the Bayonne "Times" and the Newark "Morning Star". Mr. Cohen is well known for his Negro stories. He is living now in Birmingham, Alabama. His stories appear in "Good Housekeeping", "The Red Book", and "Collier's", as well as "The Saturday Evening Post". XXV Potash and Perlmutter. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE. 1910. Montague Glass was born in Manchester, England, in 1877 and came to the United States in 1890. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and New York University. He is married and lives in New York. Mr. Glass has written numerous plays in collaboration with Jules Eckert Goodman and others, most of them based on the Hebrew characters he has so successfully developed since 1910. "Potash and Perlmutter" have even found their way into the movies. Mr. Glass has recently written for "Hearst's". REFERENCE: Why I am Forty-five. Montague Glass. AMERICAN MAGAZINE, March, 1923. Why Not Avoid The Risk? BEFORE investing your surplus funds, take the precaution against loss by seeking the expert and conservative advice of your local or investment banker who will gladly serve you. 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The "Census of Books Printed before the Year 1501 and Owned in America", made by the Bibliographical Society of America, was hardly issued before foreign catalogues began to arrive listing incunabula with the statement: "No copy owned in America, according to the Census." Yet the Bibliographical Society's list was hardly more than a tentative affair, its publication serving to bring to light hundreds of copies of hitherto unknown incunabula in American libraries. Furthermore, many of those whose names were listed in the Census have continued buying books printed before 1500, and a list made today would be a considerably larger volume than that issued in 1919. fulness of such a work depends greatly upon its relative completeness. It is therefore gratifying to collectors of these earliest printed books to know that arrangements are being made for a continuation of this important list, bringing it as nearly up to date as possible. The use Bibliographical works furnished one of the principal attractions for collectors at the sale of the remaining portion of the library of the late Beverly Chew at the Anderson Galleries in New York. The prices realized for these generally showed an advance over the published prices, and in the case of privately printed library catalogues soared to heights hitherto unreached. The Thomas J. Wise "Catalogue of the Ashley Library", of which four volumes were in the sale, went for $105, the purchasers agreeing to take the remaining two volumes "when as and if" issued at the publication price of three pounds three shillings each. The "Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry Wrenn", given to the University of Texas, brought $200, and the same price was paid for the fourteen volumes issued privately cataloguing portions of the library of William Andrews Clark. The catalogues of the various collections in the Widener Memorial Library of Harvard University brought prices from $15 to $35 each. The total of the 357 lots in this second Chew sale was $14,507.50. The prices not only show that the rare book market is in a healthy condition, but the competition for bibliographical works indicates an increasing number of collectors to whom such works are indispensable. Most book collectors like to obtain those books which are "printed for private circulation only" and which are not for sale. Usually such books are slight affairs, of varying merit, and issued in limited editions. Most of them, however, are handsome specimens of modern typography and occasionally one is a "first edition", being the first printing of some unpublished manuscript of a famous author which has come to light. 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Bibliography in America appears to be coming decidedly to the front these days, for not only is the Census of incunabula to be revised, but through the cooperation of the American Library Association, R. R. Bowker of "The Library Journal" and "The Publishers' Weekly", Joseph F. Sabin and the Sabin heirs, and other patrons, the monumental unfinished work known as "Sabin's Dictionary" is to be completed. The undertaking is to be financed by the Carnegie Foundation, which has given to the Bibliographical Society of America a publication fund of $7,500. Sabin's "Dictionary of Books Relating to America" was started in 1868 by Joseph Sabin, the New York bookseller, who proposed to list every book dealing with the history of this country. It was published in parts until 1892, having been carried through from "Pennsylvania" to "Smith" by Wilberforce Eames. Much of the remaining copy has been prepared, but no funds for publication have heretofore been available. Although the work is very incomplete, particularly in the earlier portions, and there are hundreds of titles to be added to those already published, it is the most important of its kind in existence and is almost a necessity to every collector of Americana. Drama Costuming a Play, Inter-Theatre Arts Handbook, by Elizabeth B. Grimball and Rhea Wells [Century]. Old English, A Play in Three Acts, by John Galsworthy [Scribner]. There Came To Women, A Drama in Four Acts, by Herbert Quick [Bobbs). The Valiant, A Play in One Act, by Holworthy Hall and Robert The Bright Island, by Arnold Bennett [Doran]. Weber and Fields, Their Tribulations, Triumphs and Their The Guardsman, A Comedy in Three Acts, by Franz Molnar, trans. by Grace I. Colbron and Hans Bartsch, acting version by Philip Moeller, foreword by Theresa Helburn [Liveright]. Essays and Literary Studies The Freeman Book, typical editorials, essays, critiques and other selections from the eight volumes of "The Freeman," 1920-1924 [Huebsch]. The Faith of a Liberal, by Nicholas Murray Butler [Scribner]. The Reforging of Russia, by Edwin Ware Hullinger [Dutton]. Sociology and Economics Labor Policy of the United States Steel Corporation, by Charles A. Gulick, Jr., Ph.D. [Columbia U.]. Woman's Share in Social Culture, by Anna Garlin Spencer, 2nd ed., enlarged [Lippincott Family Life Series]. Vocational Self-Guidance, Planning Your Life Work, by Douglas Fryer, Ph.D., with an introd. by Harry Dexter Kitson, Ph.D., and contributed chapters upon the business professions by leading specialists of New York City, and the business professions for women by Lorine Pruette, Ph.D. [Lippincott]. Industrial Society in England towards the End of the Eighteenth Century, by Witt Bowden [Macmillan]. Debate on Prohibition, by Clarence Darrow versus Rev. John Haynes Holmes, introd. by Hon. Royal S. Copeland [N. Y.: League for Public Discussion]. The Business of Life: Vol. I-Economics for Business Men; Vol. II-Idealism and the Ideal State, by Hugh W. Sanford (Oxford). History Modern Turkey, A Politico-Economic Interpretation, 1908-1923 Inclusive, with selected chapters by representative authorities, by Eliot Grinnell Mears, M.B.A., F.R.Econ.S. [Macmillan). Architecture, by Alfred Mansfield Brooks, introd. by Sir Reginald Blomfield Mythology, by Jane Ellen Harrison-Stoicism and Its Influence, by R. M. Wenley-Sappho and Her Influence, by David M. Robinson, Ph.D., LL.D.-Roman Private Life and Its Survivals, by Walton Brooks McDaniel, Ph.D.Platonism and Its Influence, by Alfred Edward Taylor [Marshall Jones Our Debt to Greece and Rome]. These United States, A Symposium, ed. by Ernest Gruening, Second Series [Liveright]. On the Road with Wellington, The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns, by August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann, ed. and trans. by Anthony M. Ludovici [Knopf]. The Naval Side of British History, by Geoffrey Callender, M.A., F.S.A. [Little]. Special Editions The Laughing Muse: The Mirthful Lyre: The Light Guitar, by Arthur Guiterman, 3 vols. boxed [Harper]. The Retrospect of François Villon, being a rendering into English verse of Huitains I to XLI of Le Testament and of the three ballades to which they lead, by George Heyer [Oxford]. Pierre and Jean, by Guy de Maupassant, ed. by Ernest Boyd [Knopf-The Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant]. The Misfortunes of Elphin and Crotchet Castle, by Thomas Love Peacock [Oxford-World's Classics]. The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [Oxford Omoo, by Herman Melville [Oxford-World's Classics]. Mérope, by Voltaire, ed. with introd., bibliography, notes and vocabulary by Thomas Edward Oliver, Ph.D. [CenturyModern Language Series]. In Praise of Folly, by Erasmus, ed. with an essay of appreciation by Horace Bridges [Covici]. Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers Essays and Literary Studies Adventures in Criticism, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, M.A. [Putnam]. The Collected Essays and Papers of George Saintsbury, 1875–1923, Vol. IV. [Dutton]. J. M. Barrie, A Study in Fairies and Mortals, by Patrick Braybrooke (Lippincott Flying Osip, Stories of New Russia, by Seifulina, Shishkov, Kasatkin, Kolosov, Pilnyak, Semenov, Ivanov, Zozulya, Arosev [International Pub.) Mammonart, An Essay in Economic Interpretation, by Upton Afterglow, Pastels of Greek Egypt, 69 B. C., by Mitchell S. Buck, Many Happy Returns of the Day! by Ellis Parker Butler [Houghton]. Sketches, by R. Peterson Brorup [Macon, Ga.: North and South Book Co.]. War and International Affairs Ten Years After: A Reminder, by Philip Gibbs [Doran]. The Excess of Pacifism, by Rev. Omer J. Chevrette, Š. T. D., Ph.D., U. J. D. [Stratford]. Gardens Spanish and Portuguese Gardens, by Rose Standish Nichols [Houghton). Gardens, A Note-book of Plans and Sketches, by J. C. N. Forestier, trans. by Helen Morgenthau Fox [Scribner]. Beautiful Gardens in America, by Louise Shelton, rev. ed. [Scribner]. Religion and Spiritism Knowledge and Virtue, the Hulsean Lectures for 1920-1921, by P. N. Waggett [Oxford). The Methodist Year Book, 1925, ed. by Oliver S. Baketel [Methodist Book Concern). Presbyterian Handbook, 1925, ed. by Henry Barraclough [Presbyterian Bd. of Pub.]. Church Leadership, by Charles Edward Burrell, D.D., LL.D. [Dorrance). Spiritism, Facts and Frauds, by Simon Augustine Blackmore, S. J., with an introd. by The Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D.D. [Benziger]. Christianity-Which Way! A Historical Study of Changes and Achievements in the Christian Church, by Rev. Charles Sparrow Nickerson, D.D. [Century]. Tales of King Solomon, by St. John D. Seymour, B.D., Litt.D., M.R.I.A. (Oxford). The Trinity of Religion, or Love, Divorce and Religion, by Yours Truly [Yours Truly). The Prayers of the Bible, selected and arranged by Virginia Woodward Cloud [Norman, Remington). Centenary Translation of the New Testament, published to signalize the completion of the first hundred years of work of the American Baptist Publication Society, trans. by Helen Barrett Montgomery, A.M., D.H.L., LL.D. [Amer. Baptist Pub. Soc.]. Discrimina Peregrinationis, by C. T. Harley Walker [Basil Blackwell]. Miscellaneous The Bookman's Glossary, A Compendium of Information Relating to the Production and Distribution of Books, by John A. Holden [Bowker). The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms, by Dr. Cantala [N. Y.: Botwen Print. Co.]. The Valley of Vision, by Lyndon Lindsley Skinner, foreword by Dr. Frank Crane [Oswego, N. Y.: Inspirational Lectures]. The Higher Consciousness, A Little Introduction to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness," by Henry S. Saunders [pub. by the author in Toronto]. Special Editions The Life of Henri Brulard, by Henry Beyle-Stendhal, trans. by Dangerous Acquaintances (Les Liaisons Dangereuses], by Choderlos de Laclos, trans. by Richard Aldington [Dutton - Broadway Translations]. Diary of Samuel Pepys, deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, M.A., from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepysian Library, Cambridge, with notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke, with an introd. by Guy N. Pocock, illus., 2 vols. [Dutton]. The Child of Pleasure, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, trans, by Georgina Harding, verses trans. by Arthur Symons, introd. by Ernest Boyd (Liveright — Modern Library]. PLOT: Lucetta Erkin; she returns it. Just before the war, Edwin Brand deeply At the front, because of his environment, which blurs ideals, he forms a liaison with a French girl of light character. At the war's end, Lucetta welcomes him back. Abashed, he feels it his duty to tell her the truth, though the confession may result in his losing her. He is dismayed to have her confess to a similar fault during his absence. He is about to suggest mutual forgiveness, when she says her fellow sinner is his former rival, the handsome Jack Morton. How will their relations be adjusted? Dr. Richard Burton PRIZES: It will be easy for you to finish this plot. Try it. 1st, $25.00; 2nd, $10.00; 3rd, $5.00. Send only one solution, not over 100 words. Don't copy plot. Write name, age (18 or over), address, and number of words plainly. Contest closes May 10th, 1925. No plots returned. A few minutes use of your imagination may win you the $25.00 cash prize. Anyway, it's good practice. Try. Show this plot to your friends. 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