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...brief summary articles in a "snappy" vein, and with astonishingly crude line drawings and maps. Hope for Re-Vue's surviving resided chiefly in its list of financial backers which included William Hale Harkness, President Thomas R. Coward of Coward-McCann, Inc., William Gilman Low III of Charles Scribner's Sons...
BREAD AND A SWORD-Evelyn Scott- Scribner...
...Scribner's, enlarged, redesigned and editorially revamped last October to reach a wider field, has increased its newsstand sales from 6,280 to 69,000 copies per month. Out for larger editorial bear, young Harlan Logan announced in Printers' Ink last week a stunt familiar to trade publications but radical for such a staid old publishing house as Charles Scribner's Sons. Beginning in June, Scribner's will deliver gratis for three months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months...
CRUISE OF THE CONRAD-Alan Villiers -Scribner ($3-75) Three years ago in Copenhagen as he stood watching the 52-year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon...
...GOOD AMERICANS-Jerome Bahr- Scribner ($2.50). Thirteen short stories in a Winesburg, Ohio framework, by a young writer whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...