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...TRIUMPH OP YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child Witch | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...IMMORTAL MARRIAGE-Gertrude Atherton-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Pericles and Aspasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Cream | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...TRIUMPH OF YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Cream | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

MARCO MILLIONS-Eugene Neill-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Merchant Polo, mediaeval babbitt; published before produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Cream | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...BRIEN-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Cream | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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