Word: brentanos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Arthur Brentano Jr. of Manhattan, to be president of the American Booksellers Association; at their annual convention in Atlantic City...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...
...IMMORTAL NINON?Cecil Austin ?Brentano's ($3.50). Ninon de Lencloslos is now a half forgotten name. Unlike many women of less innate genius, she caused no kingdoms to change hands, married no prince, inspired no desperate armies to an improbable triumph. Her career was merely that of a successful courtesan; but because she secured for her lovers the most distinguished men of her age, because her wit and charm per- mitted her to become simultaneously a notably fashionable as well as a notoriously promiscuous figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept...
...usual with the more pretentious books published by Brentano's, "Julius Caesar" is an excellent piece of bookmaking. The illustrations by W.D. White should also be mentioned, especially the graphic one showing the murder of Caesar...
...book, The Problem of Lay-Analyses (Brentano, $2.50), Dr. Freud argues that psychoanalysis must be performed by especially trained therapeutists, that such treaters need not have medical qualifications, that they may be laymen. It is best for a patient to have separate physical and psychical examinations given by different people. In a second section of this book Dr. Freud gives an autobiographical study of himself. He is a candid and tolerant gentleman...