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...GREAT VALLEY?Mary Johnston???Little, Brown ($2). Here is one of the biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...
...SLAVE SHIP?Mary Johnston??? Little, Brown ($2.00). David Scott happened to be so born that he quite naturally fought for the Stuarts at Culloden. For that culpable error in prenatal judgment he was arrested and condemned to be shipped as a political slave to Barbados or Virginia. David Scott, however, was a lad of spirit, decided against the King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again...
...STORY OF MY LIFE?Sir Harry H. Johnston???Bobbe Merrill...
LITTLE LIFE STORIES?Sir Harry Johnston???Macmillan ($2.00). Sir Harry, explorer, scientist and novelist, has at last elected to stand on his own literary feet. And he is much more successful than when he chose simply to bask in the light of the illustrious?as in The Gay-Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter. He gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed...
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