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...latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday Page and Co., was head of Hearst's International Library at the age of 27. Their publishing program includes a juvenile department headed by the daughter of picturesque Dr. Mabel Ulrich, Minnesota physician, college lecturer on sex, and successful bookshop proprietor. The young publishers' big catch is a volume of Thornton Wilder's drama collected over a period of twelve years. The final sheets were sent piecemeal, handwritten on yellow foolscap, from Gene Tunney's training camp...
...appropriately, this book on "Old Boston Taverns" issued by Butterfield's Bookshop on Bromfield street, has come to our attention. From its many illustrations and anecdotes, you can learn of long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns...
...matter that excells the pamphlets of former centuries only in that it is better bound and more expensive. Uneasy under the searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water...
...time to writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...
Ezra Pound: "Personae, Exultations, Canzoni, Ripostes," 2 vols., London (1913), Elkin Mathew; "Des Imagistes"--Published by Albert and Charles Boni as a number of the "Glebe", a publication edited by Alfred Kreymborg (1914); "Des Imagistes"--Published by the Poetry Bookshop, London (1914); "Personal" London (1916), Elkin Mathew; "Lustra," Privato Edition; New York (1917); "Umbra; The early poems of Ezra Pound," London (1920); "Physique de I'Amour," by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, London (1921); 'Sixteen Cantos of Ezra Pound," Paris (1926), Three Mountains Press. "Oatholic Anthology," selected and edited by Ezra Pound, London (1915), Elkin Mathew...