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...HOPE OF HAPPINESS?Meredith Nicholson?Scribner ($2.00). Bruce Storrs, young architect, World War veteran, was faced with an extraordinary problem. His widowed mother, dying, confided to him that John Storrs had not been his father, and begged him, when he was left alone, to seek out and watch over his real father, Franklin Mills, the dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell...
...habit of preferring the good old times to the bad ones is so ingrained in human nature that it is customarily and justly discounted as proving nothing. But the comparison which Mr. Bronk makes in the November issue of Scribner's Magazine of the old and new standards of education is worthy of consideration. It cannot prove that the present day curriculum is all wrong in the light of the curriculum of the eighties or nineties, for that would be like judging a Victorian by our present ethical code. According to the lights of this age, education in general...
...REMBRANDT AND HIS SCHOOL - John Charles Van Dyke-Scribner ($12.00)-Limited edition, 1,200 copies, 187 illustrations...
CAPTURES - John Galsworthy- Scribner ($2.00). Sixteen short stories, well above the average. In Late-299, the tale of an ex-convict who refused to be pitied, Mr. Galsworthy again displays his hatred of the prison system already attacked in Justice. Had a Horse is an amusing sketch of an English bookie who, after years of making a quietly shady living by betting on horses he never saw, comes by accident into the ownership of a real race horse, and blown with pride of possession, deliberately does himself out of a considerable bit of dishonest money for the pleasure of seeing...
...FRONT?Edith Wbarton? Scribner...