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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY-Julian Messner...
...case study of a bright young lawyer who chooses political success at the cost of his ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict...
...week the New York Daily News, with the biggest circulation in the U. S., popped out with a new serial-Evelyn Nesbit's Untold Story. Printed in daily installments, it was the text of a lurid book called Prodigal Days, by Evelyn Nesbit, published last month by Julian Messner...
Publisher Messner had been sold the idea by an energetic literary agent named Sanford Greenburger, whose other clients included the late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
PRODIGAL DAYS-Evelyn Nesbit-Messner ($2.50). The bone of contention between Harry K. Thaw and the late Stanford White tells all to the public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country...