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WIVES TO BURN and MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two excellent novelettes about death, India, a ship afire at sea. For the Somerset Maugham trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: June Murders | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

MAIGRET TRAVELS SOUTH - Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in May | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Horblit agreed to pay damages of $1 to each of the seven plaintiffs, including the Macmillan Company, Harper Brothers, Harcourt, Brace and Company, McGraw-Hill Company, Ginn and Company, Henry Holt and Company, and D. Van Nostrand Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horblit Will Stop Printing, Selling Notes Which Violate Copyrights on 13 Books | 5/16/1940 | See Source »

...modernist who sympathizes with the average man's horror of most modernistic building is Walter Dorwin Teague,an ace industrial designer who last week published a discursive, philosophical book (Design This Day-Harcourt Brace-$6) on the present and future of design. To Designer Teague the industrial Revolution has been the bloodiest revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bathroom Beautiful | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...CRAZY HUNTER - Kay Boyle - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The setting of these three short novels - with one excur sion to Capri - is nonbelligerent England. Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence. Another, The Bridegroom's Body, draws sinister parallels between human emotional patterns on an English estate and the serpentine behavior of mating swans. Finest and most ambitious story is the title-piece. The crazy hunter is a defective gelding. Over the issue of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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