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Napoleonic Sextette: NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE, THE RISE OF THE EMPIRE-Walter Geer- Brentano...
SHACKLED-Achmed Abdullah-Brentano ($2.00). "The burden of our ancient race is hard to bear," muttered Mustaffa Madani, the Shareef, descendant of the True Prophet. The day of the aristocrat had passed, the pride of Islam was quivering beneath the heel of the foreigner. But Mustaffa Madani would not make the concessions that might have brought him riches. So he hung on the edge of starvation, and wondered what was to become of his beautiful daughter when he had gone. Yet he would not forgive her when she married Hassan, the Dervish, who was "not of the lineage." Only when...
...JUANES?Marcel Prevost? Brentano ($2.00). Dedicated by its translator (Jenny Covan), for some inexplicable reason, to Miss Geraldine Farrar, this ultra-Gallic spectacle of feminine psychology concerns itself with the author's idea of post-War France. It advances the age limit commonly allotted to heroines; all four of these are 40 or more. But apparently that fact only makes their aim, when tilting at their windmills, a little more deadly. They proceed devastatingly on their way, and all young rivals of 20 or so are pushed out of the picture...
...story of Boxing-Trevor C. Wignall-Brentano...
PRANCING NIGGER-Ronald Firbank -Brentano ($2.00). With such a title, the reader knows what to expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which...