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...pulpit of Newark's Second Presbyterian Church to go into politics, Dr. Clee had organized two of the largest adult Bible classes in the U. S. He became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely on how strongly Messrs. Hoffman...
ROBINSON OF ENGLAND-John Drink-water-Macmillan ($2.50). Thoroughly dull English novel, an innocuous tale of three children who spend their winter holiday discussing English history with their writer-uncle; the last Drinkwater completed before his death in March...
...MAKING OF A SCIENTIST-Raymond L. Ditmars-Macmillan ($2.75). The Curator of Mammals and Reptiles at the New York Zoological Park writes informatively, amusingly of his adventures with the animals. Copiously illustrated...
...VICTORIA-Vaughan Wilkins -Macmillan...
...predictors of best-sellers are about on a par with those obstetricians who attempt to predetermine the sex of their clients' babies. Because Anthony Adverse and Gone With the Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that...