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...Bring me your first chapter in two weeks," said Tarkington. Roberts dashed home, in a week wrote Chapter I of Arundel. Tarkington thought it was fine. Soon, with $1,000 from Publisher Russell Doubleday (who showed "astounding trustfulness"), Roberts rushed off to the cold discomforts of an Italian "palace" where, by "sitting at a desk, facing a blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker...
...University of Chicago. In the past 25 years he has received hundreds of letters from twins, "supertwins," parents of twins, and women who want them. They ask him all sorts of questions, "some sensible, some rather silly." Last fortnight Professor Newman published a book on Multiple Human Births (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50) which ought to get him ahead of the questions for the next few years...
RUDYARD KIPLING-Edward Shanks-Doubleday, Doran...
WODEHOUSE ON GOLF - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Author Wodehouse, captured by the Germans, was reported still at Le Touquet. In this collection of reprints, some dating from 1910, Wodehouse's bland, bumbling golfers hook, slice and burble their way through 844 pages of fairway, rough and green...
...MIXTURE AS BEFORE - W. Somerset Maugham -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Ten stories, which he says will be his last, told with the elderly tartness and urbanity for which the author (last reported escaped from Paris to Gibraltar) is famed. All are infallibly readable, and if tricky, transparently...