Word: harcourt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Prairie Years (2 vols.) *Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace ($10). *The Poetry Society's Prize was awarded also that year to Stephen Vincent Benet for Heavens and Earth...
MORE CHANGES, MORE CHANCES- H. W. Nevinson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). Memoirs of an English newspaper correspondent, who championed many an under dog with such adroit charm that he won the unstinted praise of so exacting an editor as the late H. W. Massingham...
MADE-TO-ORDER STORIES-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Mrs. Fisher's concoction made to the order and delight of her ten-year-old son. Illustrated...
BABER, OR THE LOST YEARS- Jacob Wassermann (Translated by Harry Hansen)-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The author of Gold and The World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman...