Word: seltzers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Seltzer, publisher of A Young Girl's Diary and Casanova's Homecoming, was indicted by the Supreme Court Grand Jury (New York) for publication of obscene matter...
ANNETTE AND BENNETT-Gilbert Canaan.-Seltzer ($2.00). A novel complete in itself as far as the plot goes but also forming part of "the Lawrie Saga"- a literary sextet the composition of which has occupied Mr. Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities...
...somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals whose amatory affairs are as tangled as a pile of jackstraws−burbles about Art−neuroses and inhibitions−take-offs on prominent Village characters, et cetera, et cetera. All well enough done−with tact, occasional...
...GENTLEMEN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES?I. A. Bunin?Seltzer ($1.50). The title story of this volume (translated from the Russian) relates the grim history of an American millionaire who has made his money and in company with his wife and daughter travels expensively all over the south of Europe. He has the best of service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried...