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...DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS- Maxwell Struthers Burt-Scribner ($2). That this novel was still possible in the U. S. is a matter for great thanksgiving. It is a book about the "great open spaces" by an enlightened man. A strong, silent rancher marries a virtuous Manhattan chorus girl, loses her for a while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead...
...COPELAND READER-Chosen and edited by Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard University-Scribner...
...GENESIS OF THE WORLD WAR - H. E. Barnes-Knopf ($4.00). 7 THE CHANGING EAST - J. A. Spender - Stokes ($3.00). 8 AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF CHINA - Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall -Appleton ($4.00). 9 India- Sir Valentine Chirol - Scribner's ($3.00). 10 Asia - Herbert H. Gowen - Little, Brown ($3.50). 11 THE WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that...
...forging rapidly into the financial leadership of Periodical Row, the "quality magazines", as Leon Whipple describes them in Survey Graphic, have been forced to reorganize and to adopt new taedes. The revolution has been on the whole successful from every point of view; the Atlantic Monthe Harper's and Scribner's have emerged from the fray with larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness of the magazines; no longer do they remain...
Needless to say I shall continue to read : Vogue, TIME, The Atlantic, Scribner's The Illustrated London News, Punch, Country Life and The Saturday Review...