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...those who like a cozy novel with a basically predictable outcome, there is Elizabeth Goudge's The Heart of the Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...
...LIKE SHADOWS (343 pp.)-Dorothy Charques - Coward-McCann...
...Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...
...could have bought in the open market for $50,000. What he bought was Green Dolphin Street, by Britain's lushly lyrical Elizabeth Goudge 13th City of Bells; The Castle on the Hill). It was already the September choice of the Literary Guild. Flushed with good fortune, Publishers Coward-McCann (who got a $25,000 pourboire from Mr. Mayer) promptly prepared to increase the $10,000 they had already earmarked for advertising a book that looked like a sure bestseller...
...WHAT'S MORE-David McCord -Coward-McCann...