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SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
SIEGE-Samuel Hopkins Adams- Boni & Liveright ($2.00). What happens when a woman of the old type, representing authority and tradition, comes in contact with the new woman, straightforward, honest to her own standards, but determined to be controlled by the standards of no one else? Augusta Ruyland is the woman of the old type. She is the head of the Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having...
...Horace Liveright, publisher: "Rabbi Samuel Schulman of the Temple Beth-El, Manhattan, devoted an entire sermon to 'A Nasty Book.' Rabbi Schulman refuses to name this 'stinking, tingling book' which is 'making enough money for its author and publisher as it is.' But it was recognized instantly by the congregation, which crowded around the rabbi after the sermon and joined in attacking it as Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* [reviewed in TIME, Jan. 14]. Mention in the book of East Side gangs, politicians and houses of prostitution caused Rabbi Schulman to say that...
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John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.: "In my book, The Personal Relation in Industry, recently published by Boni & Liveright, I speak as follows of my father: 'Criticized, maligned and condemned these many years ... he holds in his heart nothing but good will toward every...