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...YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-Scribner...
...Emerson, TIME'S thanks; and thanks to the nine other advertisers (Babson's Statistical Organization; Doubleday, Doran & Co.-then Doubleday, Page; International Mercantile Marine; Western Electric; John Wanamaker; Durham Duplex; Allerton Club Residences; Alexander Hamilton Institute; Charles Scribner's Sons) who joined up the first year and have weathered a decade and a half with TIME...
MARK TWAIN-Edgar Lee Masters-Scribner ($2.75). Polemical biography that goes beyond Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain in picturing the humorist as a clown whose genius was warped by his refusal to challenge the ruling powers; written in an exasperated style that suggests Poet Masters would not have enjoyed Mark Twain even if he had written in another fashion...
...Novelist Thomas Wolfe dedicated his Of Time and the River to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins who launched him on his career. The dedication called "Max" Perkins "a great editor and a brave and honest man, who stuck to the author of this book through times of bitter hopelessness and doubt and would not let him give way to his own despair," included a hope that the work was worthy of the devotion of "a dauntless and unshaken friend," and closed with a confession that the book would never have been written without it. Last week Thomas Wolfe, announcing...
...Divorced last week from the book publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons was Scribner's Magazine. Harland Logan Associates Inc. henceforth will publish Scribner's. Charles Scribner's Sons retain controlling interest in the new corporation, which soon will bring out a digest of radio programs. When 33-year-old Harland Logan became editor-publisher of Scribner's 15 months ago he applied all he had learned as Conde Nast and Macfadden consultant, lifted Scribner's face, streamlined its figure. In 15 months Scribner's 40.000 subscribers trebled...