Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PORTS AND HAPPY PLACES-Cornelia Stratton Parker-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). In this whimsical, informal travelog of Europe, Mrs. Parker's happy touch flicks the dust off antiquity with ruthless ease. She has not even a bowing acquaintance with any standardized, ladylike itinerary. She and her two young sons and one small daughter "strolled" haphazardly through Europe, abiding in the most out-of-the-way, unusual places, and describing it all in the most out-of-the-way, unusual manner. They lived in a delicious, hand-painted medieval monastery, in a starched Swiss boarding house, in a "rummy little hotel...
DOWN THERE?J. K. Huysmans? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). A sizzling, sulphuric translation of La Bas?the uttermost in demonology. With its pseudo-scientific basis of historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
...REAL SARAH BERNHARDT WHOM HER AUDIENCES NEVER KNEW-Mme. Pierre Berton-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). This absorbing biography of an absorbing personality contains much dramatic material which Sarah purposely omitted from her memoirs. It is a frank and intimate picture of a woman of undoubted genius. And while its author is obviously an ardent admirer, she was also too close a friend not to recognize the many weaknesses, eccentricities and faults that go hand in hand with genius; these she has faithfully recounted. The London Times ranks this biography as "fit to stand, if not beside at least in the shadow...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...