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OBERLIN'S THREE STAGES- Jacob Wassermann - Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In the first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene...
MANTRAP?Sinclair Lewis?Harcourt, Brace ($2). For the moment laying aside the loaded knouts with which he has scourged Main Street, Babbitt and the medical profession, Castigator Lewis now swings a cutting quirt upon upholders of "the most blatant of all American myths," namely, Roughing It Like a He-Man in the North Woods. The chief culprit is round, thick, heartily self-satisfied E. Wesson Woodbury, village fatboy grown up to hosiery sales-manager, who backslaps his tired little lawyer-friend Ralph Prescott into taking a canoe trip to Mantrap Landing, upper Canada, and then bully-rags...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...
...DONE?William C. Bullitt?Harcourt Bract...
MICROBE HUNTERS?Paul de Kruif?Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Dr. Kruif takes a dozen bacteriologists and from a thorough knowledge of their contributions (and with perhaps as thorough knowledge of the buying public) creates of all scientists a composite dervish, solitary, crotchety, whirling now at this experiment, now at that test tube, at this insect, at that spectator...