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...volume of his autobiography,* had to plow through 396 close-packed pages of memories, opinions, tributes to old friends, quotations from pious writers, fragments from, old diaries. But to balance these they could get 1) a good account of how The Art of Thinking, rejected by Harper, Harcourt Brace, Macmillan, Scribner, became a best-seller (total sales: more than 400,000 copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less than...
...SQUARE PEG - John Masefield-Macmillan...
...Macmillan...
...back on the biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles -not as many as the biggest pre-Depression total, but an increase of 25% over the year before. October, traditionally the big month of the fall publishing season, saw 1,023 new books published. Macmillan, largest U. S. publisher, also a major producer of textbooks, brought out 562 new titles last year, will have published 650 by the end of 1937. Harper published 230 in 1936, has scheduled 265 for 1937; Farrar & Rinehart, 130 compared with 115. Even the contrary house of Simon & Schuster, which...
...STORY OF LOWRY MAEX-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($1.90). Epic broth from the marrowless bones of prehistoric Irish people (transition from Bronze to Iron Age). Harmless, charming, faint...