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SUNSET GUN-Dorothy Parker-Boni & Liveright...
...TEMPTATION OF ANTHONY and Other Poems-Isidor Schneider-Boni & Liveright...
...Story of Jesus -Emil Ludwig-translated by Eden and Cedar Paul-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). Emil Ludwig of Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly...
BUT?GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES ?Anita Loos?Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Well, it seems that nothing makes a publisher become so sentimental in a financial way as the day he can call an authoress a best seller. I mean, a writer of the well-read books. I mean, he will give anything for more of my thoughts, because they seem to have intreeged the interest of people that pay for literature. And since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married...
DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS- Frances Newman-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Curiously enough this book is not tedious. The first half concerns itself with the gold negligees, white ribbons, and creamy laces a pre-war Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce...