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Bearing the same title as the lectures, the book, published by the Macmillan Company, is subtitled "An Economic Theory About Our Golden Age." The theory is chiefly that American farmers made their profits, while they made them, from the increase in land values rather than from farming itself, but White deals with the culture and ideals of the West as much as with economic theory...
CAPTAIN ABBY AND CAPTAIN JOHN-.Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2.50). Mr. Coffin, who loves his native Maine, made this "story of a plain Yankee home that went to sea" out of "the bare bones of fine and brave and godly living." The bones: logs of the voyages of Maine Sea Captain John Pennell; three diaries minutely inscribed by his wife Abby; her letters to her mother. Compiler Coffin appropriately fleshes these bones in hearty, homey, dash-a-tear language...
...Nearest competitor: The New Poetry, edited by the late Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (Macmillan), 23,704 copies printed. Queerest: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, edited by the late William Butler Yeats (Oxford). Choicest: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (Faber & Faber...
HUDSON REJOINS THE HERD-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Convalescent Stephen Hudson drearily, dreamily tries to figure out why Millionaire Otto Steele shot him on second meeting. The fretful reader is apt to regret that it wasn't a clean killing...
MAUD-Edited by Richard Lee Strouf-Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...