Word: mifflin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BEST SHORT STORIES: 1935-Edward J. O'Brien - Houghton Mifflin...
...YOUNG MEN-Oliver La Farge-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). For years the Indians of the Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They...
...LINCOLN LEGEND?Roy P. Easier ?Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An attempt to separate Lincoln the Man from Lincoln the Myth; interesting description of the growth and development of some of the tall tales of Lincoln's kindness...
BRIGHTON-Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton-Houghton Mifflin...
CICERO - G. C. Richards - Houghton Mifflin ($3). A prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...