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Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has earned its author an estimated $3,120,000 in royalties. Some $3,000,000 has come from Germany, where the volume is a "must" for every bookshelf, but there have also been respectable sales among Palestine Arabs, in Italy and Rebel Spain and small sales in Scandinavia, Britain...
...late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf, now a "must" on every German bookshelf...
Added incentives are the writing of passing spring fancies in the Vagabond, sneers at Loretta Young in the Moviegoer, reviews of the latest books, hot off the presses, in the Bookshelf, and informal examinations of college in the Crime, as well as other special features. Altogether, for training in critical investigation and varied writing the editorial board offers unparalleled opportunities...
...seventy-two, has electrified the literary world. In feature reviews in the New York Times, Herald-Tribune, the New Yorker and Time, his book The Last Puritan, was fervently acclaimed as one of the greatest accomplishments of the contemporary era. For a fuller and more authoritative criticism than the Bookshelf can possibly provide the reader is referred to these reviews,--especially to Ellen Glasgow's-in the Herald-Tribune...
...splendid delineation of life and character is a purpose of novel-making (and the Editor of the Bookshelf is not going to say it is the purpose) Santayana's effort has succeeded completely. It is the greatest American book, in the reviewer's opinion, since The Education of Henry Adams, and perhaps the greatest American novel since Mark Twain and Henry James...