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TENDER Is THE NIGHT- F. Scott Fitz-gerald-Scribner...
...GIRL BEFORE THE MAST - Betty Jacobsen - Scribner ($2). A Brooklyn stenographer tells of her trip on the Parma, winner of last year's grain race from Australia to England. No Cradle of the Deep, no Falmouth for Orders, either...
...King Charles I England has had its Poet Laureate, given him a pension and two hogsheads of Canary wine (or its monetary equivalent). Last week it became known that the U. S. also has a practicing poet on its payroll. His name is J. Alvin Kugelmass, onetime contributor to Scribner's and the American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed him to make poems...
BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE-Peter Fleming Scribner ($2.75). The tales of returned explorers range in tone all the way from the symphonies of Charles Montagu Doughty to the popular ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member...
...DRAGON MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner...