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...interesting feature of the book market in Harvard Square is the apparent lack of activity in the dollar new fiction field. Although sales of cheap reprint editions continue to run high, the demand for novels is confined almost entirely to those which are in the two dollar and two-fifty class. In other words the announcement made last spring by certain publishers cutting their fiction, prices in half has had little effect on Cambridge buyers...
Beneath was a Chicago Tribune cartoon of July 1919 showing white bathers at a beach shaking their fists at Negro bathers on the other side of a lifeline. The caption: "The color line has reached the North." Boxed at the right was a reprint of an interview Senator Medill McCormick was supposed to have given to the since defunct Chicago Journal on the race riots...
...extra-curricula reading of Harvard men this fall is apparently governed by a desire to get caught up with the non-fiction leaders of the last few years that are now appearing once again at the book shops in low-price reprint editions. Booksellers around the Square report that sales of dollar reprints run at times as high as fifty to one of the original issue. The really noteworthy thing about this trend to yesterday's best-sellers is that, with the exception of the popularity of certain novels in the new Bonibooks series, the undergraduates' interest seems...
...books by Lawrence, "The Captain's Doll" and "The Lost Lady", and Huysmans' "Against the Grain" are the only fiction titles reported to be in great demand in reprint issues. This may indicate that so far as fiction is concerned college men prefer to keep up to the minute. Such a conclusion is backed up by the predominance of fiction in the following list of best-selling new books...
...last week's pamphlet, which was a reprint of three articles appearing last month in the pages of the Times, Dr. Thompson's attack on the inaccuracy of U. S. Indian information is directed at two books, three magazines and a pamphlet issued by the India Independence League of America. The books, which he describes as having "more than any others influenced American thought about India," are Eminent Asians by Josef Washington ("Upton Close") Hall, and India in Bondage by Dr. Jabez Sunderland.* The magazines: The New Republic, Fleet's Review (described as "a 'tabloid...