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Juggler's Kiss?Manuel Komroff? Boni & Liveright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Juggler's Kiss | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: San Luis | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Procrastinating non-applicants wondered how they might go about applying for their boni some day during the next five weeks. The simplest way would be to take the following steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Boni | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...costly complete translation or he can read them is the Latin or Greek. The latter is much to be desired, but often impossible, but either is better than to be led into believing that na incomparable literary masterpiece is such sour dishwater as the present offering of Messrs.. Boni and Live right...

Author: By Lucius BEEBE. G., | Title: Petronius 'Pot-House Odyssey Dulcified | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

CIRCUS PARADE?Jim Tully?A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Before he became a literary man, Jim Tully was, as everyone knows, a he-man who got slapped hard by life. His thick red hair was badly tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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