Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irvin Cobb-bless his ugly old frontispiece-not only gave us many a laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...
Hunky was the Book-of-the-Month Club's July selection (see above). The Literary Guild's was The Wave. Acclaimed a work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing...
Editor Davis, though forced to neglect France, Italy, all of South America and Africa, nevertheless manages to collect in this book the opinions of 31 labor leaders from the rest of the world, 13 of them from the U. S. and Canada...
McCall's, third largest in size of woman's magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...
...miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...