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Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
RUSSIA AND PEACE - By Fridtjof Nansen-Macmillan ($2.00). Certainly since the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905, Fridtjof Nansen has been much in the public eye.* On his errands of mercy to Russia, he has had the opportunity to view and review the conditions under which that unhappy country has been existing for the past few years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each...
WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...
This book has just been, published by the Macmillan Co. It is called "La Dame de Sainte Hermine," and its author is Grace King...
...American Revolution: by Charles H. Mcllwaine, Ph. D., Professor of History and Government in Harvard University. New York: The Macmillan...