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...SPOON RIVER-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Spoon River Anthology was published, first serially, then in book form, just before the War. It consisted of compressed, ironic little dramas in verse-the biting epitaphs of the dead of Spoon River, the voices of the inarticulate suddenly articulate from the grave. It was variously welcomed, but always with interest, its powerful originality indisputable. The War is over, but people are still dying in Spoon River. The foreign born have come into their own. Spoon River has become "a ganglion for the monster brain Chicago." An addition has been made...
CHALK FACE-Waldo Frank-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). John Mark was a doctor and a genius, albeit a young one. He loved "Mildred, chaste as thought, Mildred, deep as discovery, Mildred, remote and imminent as truth!" Two things stood between him and Mildred-his parents' opposition to the match and a rival whom he had never seen. The rival was murdered under circumstances of which he was mysteriously conscious. Shortly thereafter, his parents were also assassinated. In both crimes, a strange figure with a white head was curiously implicated. John Mark began to feel that he himself was in some...
...BACK OF THE BOOK-Margaret Leech-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Vergie Stilson was 28 years of age and not unattractive. She pictured herself as "an author of brilliant subtlety,"until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved...
BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE? Sigmund Freud?Boni & Liveright...
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO?Sigmund Freud? Boni & Liveright...