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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...
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...
SIEGE-Samuel Hopkins Adams- Boni & Liveright ($2.00). What happens when a woman of the old type, representing authority and tradition, comes in contact with the new woman, straightforward, honest to her own standards, but determined to be controlled by the standards of no one else? Augusta Ruyland is the woman of the old type. She is the head of the Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having...
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...CRYSTAL BALL?Elisabeth Marbury?Boni...