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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TREASURE OF Ho-L. Adams Beck-Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Tucked in between covers of Chinese blue, with unruffled Chinese cranes strutting on them, is an absorbing tale of jade, dragons, chop suey, hidden shrines, legendary treasure, lotus flowers, all served up with an authentic Oriental flavor. It is the story of one John Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...STORM -CENTER ? Burton E. Stevenson?Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Almost anything is rather more than likely to happen in Algiers. In order to insure its vigorous occurrence, Mr. Stevenson takes at least two high-grade heroes, the same number of carefully selected villains, and projects them together among the sinister wilds of the Atlas mountains. An exchanged seat on a train, a mysterious warning, a veiled lady, a crazy archaeologist, a tangle of Moslem intrigue, all give infinite opportunity for slaughter, mystery, catastrophe. The two heroes are respectively Irish, and French; the villains are perfectly valid cinema sheiks. A capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...SAVINGS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH? Frederick Chamberlin?Dodd, Mead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...Changelings by Lee Wilson Dodd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...enemies. He is honest, fairminded, sincere. Also, he his a hard worker. At the present time he is moving into a new home which he has built for his wife and family on the outskirts of New Haven, near the home of his playwright brother-in-law, Lee Wilson Dodd. He commutes from New Haven to his office in New York City. It is said he has learned that he can write a short essay each week in just the two hours it takes him to travel from New Haven to New York. Who will say that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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