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Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
...RENEWALS-Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown ($2.50). THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1919 - John Dos Passos - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington...
...books. Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling, the late Jack London, Herbert Hoover, the late great Theodore Roosevelt, May Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, the late Amy Lowell, Diego Rivera, Emma Goldman, Willa Gather...
...austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson Page, Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Stewart Edward White, Willa Cather, Harry Leon Wilson, Zane Grey...
...small but increasingly respectable group of U. S. historico-pastoral novelists (some of them: Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, T. S. Stribling. ''Maristan" Chapman), Author LeRoy MacLeod is not smallest or least respectable. The Years of Peace, his second novel, is quietly & fully written. Like any well-told story of the past, it seems truer than history...