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1904 _Broke of Covenden_
1906 _Henry Northcote_
1907 _William Jordan, Junior_
1909 _Araminta_ [republished 1923]
1910 _Fortune_
1910 _Mrs. Fitz_
_Lady Barbarity_
_Anne Feversham_
1912 _The Principal Girl_
1914 _An Affair of State_
1915 _The Great Age_
1916 _The Sailor_
1917 _The Coming_
1918 _Mary Plantagenet_
_The Time Spirit_
1919 _The Undefeated_
In England: _Love Lane_
1920 _The Adventurous Lady_
1922 _The Council of Seven_
1923 _The Van Roon_
1924 _There Is a Tide_

SOURCES ON J. C. SNAITH

Excellent descriptive notes on many of Mr. Snaith’s novels will be found on page 155 _et seq._ of R. Brimley Johnson’s _Some Contemporary Novelists_ (Men), published by Leonard Parsons, London.

An appreciative review of _The Sailor_ forms a short chapter in S. P. B. Mais’s _Some Modern Authors_ (Dodd, Mead & Company). See page 133 _et seq._

“J. C. Snaith,” by W. M. Parker, in The Bookman (London) for April, 1922.

BOOKS BY GEORGE GIBBS

1900 _Pike and Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy_
1901 _In Search of Mademoiselle_
1903 _American Sea Fights._ Portfolio of colored drawings
1905 _The Love of Monsieur_
1907 _The Medusa Emerald_
1909 _Tony’s Wife_
1911 _The Bolted Door_
1911 _The Forbidden Way_
1912 _The Maker of Opportunities_
1913 _The Silent Battle_
1913 _Madcap_
1914 _The Flaming Sword_
1915 _The Yellow Dove_
1916 _Paradise Garden_
1917 _The Secret Witness_
1918 _The Golden Bough_
1919 _The Black Stone_
1920 _The Splendid Outcast_
1921 _The Vagrant Duke_
1921 _Youth Triumphant_
1922 _The House of Mohun_
1923 _Fires of Ambition_
1924 _Sackcloth and Scarlet_

SOURCES ON GEORGE GIBBS

“Illustrates His Own Books” (article and interview), The Sun, New York, 18 February 1911.

“George Gibbs on His Work.” Interview by Francis Hill in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Date uncertain: 1912 or 1913.

“George Gibbs, a Novelist, and His Ideas.” Interview by Theodocia F. Walton in the Philadelphia Press, 21 March 1920.

_Who’s Who in America._

NOTE: George Gibbs’s prowess as a painter in oils deserves a special note. He has painted some splendid nudes which have been widely exhibited, in particular one called “The Gold Screen” which has been at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts, the St. Louis Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and other exhibitions. He has done some striking marines which have been shown at the Pennsylvania Academy and the Corcoran Gallery and are now (April, 1924) on view in Baltimore. He has become a portrait painter much in demand with more commissions offered him than he cares to accept.

In painting as in fiction his effort has been to achieve a steady progression into more serious and more ambitious work; and the difference between some early illustration of his and “The Gold Screen” is scarcely greater than between his first few novels and such work as _The House of Mohun_ or _Sackcloth and Scarlet_.

24. Mary Johnston’s Adventure

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There lives in the city of New York a large, blond man who knows many authors and editors and publishers and who goes between them. That is his business, and yet, in spite of this dreadful occupation he is a merry man with a childlike countenance and a cheerful and carefree manner. Insouciant words bubble from his lips while his head rolls round on his shoulders; his invariable air is one of entire helplessness even in propitious circumstances; his tone is a tone of gay despair. His attitude toward all authors is fatherly and tender, and so is his attitude toward editors and publishers; he as much as admits that literature is a deplorable affair all around, and his expressive eye and accent say: “Courage! We shall yet make the best of this situation. You, who are about to buy, salute us.” At times a strange gleam comes into his face and on more than one such occasion I have heard him murmur that some day he will turn publisher and bring out two books which were published, indeed, but not read. And one of those books is _Michael Forth_, by Mary Johnston.

Miss Johnston was read before the publication of _Michael Forth_ and she has been read since. Her best work of one kind lies before it; her best work of another and more significant kind has followed it. _Michael Forth_ is simply a chrysalis, escaping notice, from which was to come, in place of the writer of superb historical romances like _To Have and To Hold_ and historical novels like _The Long Roll_ and _Cease Firing_, an author as strange as William Blake, a woman whose proper company in American literature is Emily Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Margaret Fuller and Melville.

“She is a mystic bent upon the expressive embodiment of what eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard until she saw and heard it,” concludes an anonymous writer.[99] The account of Mary Johnston’s adventure given by this writer is as unsatisfactory as secondhand versions of a mystical experience must necessarily be. Miss Johnston may or may not write the story; Emerson said that “the highest cannot be spoken,” and, most certainly, it cannot with adequacy be written. Miss Johnston has made some attempt to put her adventure on paper, but the result so far discourages her. In what follows I am merely trying to convey the quality of her strange experience. I have not her sanction for what I say; I had rather not make the trial. But there is really no escape. If we are to understand the growth of the writer we must have some notion of the thing that befell.

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The child was not strong, and her Scots grandmother first, an aunt afterward, taught her. She grew up in the village of Buchanan, Botetourt County, Virginia, still in the 1870’s a place of canalboats and the stagecoach. Major John William Johnston was a Confederate veteran, a lawyer and ex-member of the Virginia Legislature. Naturally the house was not without books. Mary Johnston found the histories particularly engrossing. Then the family moved to Birmingham, Alabama, and this daughter was sent to school at Atlanta. She was then sixteen. In a few months her health compelled her to return home where, a year later, her mother died. As she was the eldest of several children the direction of the household fell to her. She suffered intermittently from illness for many years. In her twenties and while living in a New York apartment she began a romance of colonial Virginia in the seventeenth century, writing much of it in a quiet corner of Central Park, so as to be outdoors. She had been writing short stories which editors sent back to her and which she burned on the first rejection. It is said that the late Walter H. Page, at the time with Houghton Mifflin Company, discovered her.[100] The historical romance, _Prisoners of Hope_ (1898) became her first book and was successful; her second novel, _To Have and To Hold_ (1900) was a record-making best seller and had literary merits most exceptional in the flood of historical fiction then running. Miss Johnston traveled considerably in Europe in quest of better health. After the death of her father she lived for some time at 110 East Franklin Street, Richmond. Then she built a home, “Three Hills,” near Warm Springs, Virginia, where she has lived since. Knowing that her Civil War novels, _The Long Roll_ and _Cease Firing_, owe much to Major Johnston’s analyses and recollections, some Southerners have said that Mary Johnston’s father was at least equally responsible with her for the splendid performance in her earlier novels. They quite misunderstand the nature of the inspiration he undoubtedly gave her. Of direct help—which is what these people really have in mind—he gave much, as she has acknowledged; it was, however, unimportant. Direct help can as well be got from books. If today you tell Miss Johnston how well you liked such a novel of hers as _Lewis Rand_ (1908), she will probably respond: “Of course you realize that the picture of those times is idealized.” In other words, although hers is one of those natures which must seek the ideal, possess and be possessed by it, the conception of the ideal has completely changed. Where once she found it in the bright glints of an earlier American day, now she finds it in our day and every day, past or present or to be—the pure silver of the human spirit that runs in a deep if irregular vein through the worn old rock of human destiny.

For she is like silver herself, like old silver choicely patterned. The small, oval face and pointed chin are serene in expression beneath a fine forehead and crisp hair with a great deal of its blackness still in it. Her manner is reposeful, friendly, unaffected and sympathetic. She talks readily about anything and everything but you have a feeling that she is also, at moments, somewhere else—this quite without any sacrifice or lessening of her hereness and attentiveness. I now come to the personal experience which, to be intelligible to most of us, must be put in a crude and simple kind of paraphrase.

If one has suffered much from illness and pain, one is very likely to have occasional moments in which one returns to life newly-washed, like the world in trembling freshness and sunlight on a morning after storm. If one stands on a Virginia hill, or a hill anywhere, one may sometimes have a distinct awareness that the length and breadth and depth round about and below are only a kind of length and breadth and descent to a creature measuring them with his legs; even the eye seems to declare that genuine dimensions are elsewhere. Stand on the hill one day, return to it one, five or ten years afterward, standing in the same place. It is quite possible that nothing has changed in the scene about you. A certain time has passed, but you, to yourself, haven’t changed. You have grown a little older, but the essential _you_ is not anybody else. Suddenly you realize that time is not a dimension, either, any more than the length and breadth round about or the drop to the valley below; and that as long as you are _you_ and no one else, the day, the year or the century would make no genuine difference. The only distance or direction lies between the unchanging _you_ and somebody else. You are really no farther from Balboa discovering the Pacific from a Panama summit than if you were standing beside him now sharing the discovery; the direction is from your spirit to his, from his to yours, and the distance is neither lessened nor increased by race, nationality, religion, leagues or centuries.

That is, instead of merely acquiring the notion of the fourth dimension of mathematics, you have come to see that all the so-called dimensions, length, breadth, height, time and imaginable others are merely conveniences of earthly existence, or necessities of earthly existence, like eating and breathing.

As you stand on the hill, you are alone and yet not alone. The physical _you_ is alone, as always; but the unchanging _you_ is one of a company whom you can identify only to the extent of what you may have read or heard about them. In the company will be Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc, Spinoza, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cardinal Newman, William Blake, Walt Whitman—to mention a few of various times and countries—as well as countless others.

Then will follow the strangest part of the experience and the part most difficult to put in words. It is, however, something of which some intimation comes even to the humblest pair of lovers, just as it is the passionate fulfillment of the great, the immortal lovers of legend.

There is a feeling so intense that it can find coherent expression only in poetry which holds it securely in the rigid mold of metre and rhyme; there is another feeling, or degree of feeling either more intense or more delicate which can communicate itself only in a language of cunningly-related sounds which we call music. And there is even a pitch of feeling greater than these, higher and very tranquil and most piercing in its intensity and loveliness. This feeling has only one expression—love. The object of that love is immaterial to it. That object may be, outwardly, the body of the beloved. It may be a person or an idea. It may be anything. The effects of this feeling are almost infinitely various. You will find some of them described in William James’s _Varieties of Religious Experience_. The feeling itself is a religious feeling but it may not expend itself on a religious object. The feeling made Francis of Assisi the Clown of God. It brought visions to Joan of Arc and put her at the head of a victorious army. Under its influence Beethoven wrote symphonies, Blake made pictures, and Whitman wrote _Leaves of Grass_. Sometimes, when the effects are tranquil, we say that the Lover has found peace—to which has sometimes been added a phrase of further description, “the peace that passeth understanding.”

Nearly all these aspects of a continuous human experience came to Mary Johnston. There was the not unusual preliminary circumstance of invalidism. There was the loss of a father, much-loved. There were the Virginia hills she walked upon and there was frequent solitude. The sense of passing the boundaries of time and space was facilitated by two things: first, her devotion to history, and second, her strongly-developed novelist’s imagination. Shortly after she was forty, therefore, she came to a day when, for an hour or part of an hour, she had access to a state of knowledge, of sympathy, of understanding which is so sane that it infuses its sanity into every act of living and so joyous that those to whom the experience is vouchsafed can throw aside every lesser joy. After that first experience Mary Johnston waited for it to renew itself, and gradually what had come as a miracle remained as a human faculty; so that since then she has acquired the apparent power or privilege of leaning out from the gold bar of Heaven, of letting earth slip without loosing herself from earth. You know how your mind will pass behind the stars while your feet yet continue to tread firm soil as you go on walking. That is a feeble likeness to the thing.

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It was bound to affect her writing, and perhaps the first traces of it are in _The Witch_ (1914), but it was clearly apparent in _Foes_ (1918), where, as I have said before this, “upthrusting through the surface of a stirring historical adventure, we had the evidence of the author’s breathless personal adventure.” It is one thing to be by temperament a mystic; quite another to become, as Miss Johnston had now become, a mystic by the witness of some inner illumination. In some cases the change has brought with it a proselyting spirit of great fervor; in Miss Johnston’s there was a complete absence of any such missionary zeal. All the same she could not go on writing novels in which the picture of some bygone time was idealized simply for the sake of a charming picture. _Foes_ has been correctly described as “a dramatic story of eighteenth century Scotland with a lasting feud, a long chase, and a crescendo of hatred and peril.” But it is also a story of sublime forgiveness, as much so as John Masefield’s _The Everlasting Mercy_. In _Michael Forth_ (1919) and _Sweet Rocket_ (1920) there was, as in certain novels of Herman Melville’s, notably _Pierre_, more transcendentalism than story. It was inevitable that she should be inarticulate for a while, but it was only for a while. For in 1922 appeared her story, _Silver Cross_, a tale of England in the time of Henry VII. and of two rival religious establishments. _Silver Cross_ was both beautiful and intelligible. For the prose style I like best Stewart Edward White’s word, “stippling.” It has also been said of what was to be her mode of utterance for a book or two: “Written in a clipped sort of prose stripped of ‘a’ and ‘an’ and ‘the’ and other particles as well as articles, the text is a highly mannered English replete with cadenced sentences and animated by nervous rhythms. The very diction bears poetic surcharges, and the whole effect on the reader is to distill in his soul a delicate enchantment or else to exasperate him to death.”[101] The core of the tale is irony, irony directed at religious bigotry and religious intolerance; it lies there at the base of the flower and from it the reader may make his own bitter honey. Or, if he have no stomach for that, he may take his satisfaction and pleasure in the rich sound of ecclesiastical trumpets, the green England, the pageant of a simple world unrolled before him.

In the same year with _Silver Cross_ Miss Johnston’s _1492_ was published. The book is, of course, the story of Columbus, told with the accurate historical coloring and the poetic feeling one would expect of the author; but it uses a technical device which, while not novel, is deserving of attention from the analyst of fiction. This is the employment as narrator of the story of Jayme de Marchena, a fictional person, represented as a Jew who has been banished from Spain under the decree of exile promulgated by Ferdinand and Isabella. Miss Johnston makes of him a man of philosophical mind, an “obscure Spinoza” whose thoughts are a constant commentary on the voyage from Palos and the succeeding voyages. Thus, without distorting history or creating an imaginary portrait of the Genoese sailor and discoverer, the book (in form a novel) gives us one of the great events in human affairs in a perspective that neither history nor biography affords. Again what we have is the vision of one standing on a hilltop, alone and yet not alone—of one who is at the same instant standing in the night watches on the deck of a caravel and listening to the cry from the man on lookout....

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Slow turns the water by the green marshes,
In Virginia.
Overhead the sea fowl
Make silver flashes, cry harsh as peacocks.
Capes and islands stand,
Ocean thunders,
The light houses burn red and gold stars.
In Virginia
Run a hundred rivers.[102]

The fine opening of Miss Johnston’s poem might serve as an evocation, except in the detail of the lighthouses, for her novel, _Croatan_ (1923). The mere fact of her return to the Virginia of colonial days must have served to entice many readers to this book—who were held, I think, by the tale itself, once they had begun it. The legend of Raleigh’s lost colony of Roanoke and of a first white child born in Virginia, “Virginia Dare,” is skilfully utilized for a romance quite the most perfect Miss Johnston had imagined. The story of the three young people who grew up together in the forest—English girl, Spanish boy and Indian youth—is one of many overtones deftly sounded. Is Miss Johnston proclaiming a creed of racial tolerance and interracial understanding? Then the proclamation is made pianissimo and with muted strings, not with brass instruments. And the forest scenes—what delicious notes from oboes!

It is very natural to contrast Mary Johnston and Ellen Glasgow, both Virginians and both novelists of distinction as well as contemporaries. Their very agreeable personalities are, however, markedly different. Miss Glasgow is a product of her background and her time, as much so, for example, as Edith Wharton; Miss Johnston has a great deal more likeness to, let us say, Miss May Sinclair. Where Miss Glasgow tends to concern herself with Virginia of the last half century, Miss Johnston, from going back to the beginnings of her State, is quite as likely to plunge effortlessly forward into the farthest imaginable future. For a witness of what she can do in that direction one does well to read such a short story as “There Were No More People,”[103] dealing with the extinction of man and the slow emergence of “a creature who must be classed among _aves_. He was small, two-footed, feathered and winged.... Slowly, taking aeons to do it, he put out, in addition to his wings, rudimentary arms that grew, taking a vast number of generations to accomplish it, into true arm and hand. At the same time he began, very, very slowly, to heighten and broaden his skull. Man would have thought him—as he would have thought man—a strange looking creature.... It took time, but at last there dawned self-consciousness. The old vehicle for sensation, emotion, memory and thought that had been called man was gone. But sensation, emotion, memory and thought are eternals, and a new vehicle has been wrought. It is not a perfect vehicle. In much it betters man, but it is not perfect. The new Thinker resembles the old in that he knows selfishness and greed and uses violence.... It remains to be seen if he can outwear and lay aside all that and remain—as man could not remain.”

_Copyright, E. L. Mix._]

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Carl Van Doren’s words about Miss Johnston, in his _Contemporary American Novelists_, 1900-1920, that she brings to the legends and traditions of the Old Dominion no fresh interpretations, have been made obsolete by _Croatan_, and are, of course, so far as they are made applicable to legends in general, denied by her last half dozen novels. It is most true, though, that Miss Johnston is an historian and a scholar in her tastes. To the series of fifty volumes interlocking to form a complete American history, and published by the Yale University Press under the general title, _The Chronicles of America_, Miss Johnston contributed the volume on _Pioneers of the Old South_. The book deals with Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia as well, but Virginia is, of course, the principal subject. The period is 1607-1735 and Miss Johnston’s short account is an admirable piece of writing, concise, accurate, uncontroversial; alive with crisp human portraits and touched with poetry and imagination in its occasional descriptive passages.

Miss Johnston’s new novel, to be published late in 1924, under the title, _The Slave Ship_, is a story of the American slave trade in the eighteenth century. David Scott, a prisoner after the battle of Culloden, is sold into slavery on the American plantations. The cruelty with which he is treated hardens his conscience, so that when he escapes he goes without much hesitation or scruple into a slave ship and then into slave trading. The novel follows with intensity and compassion the career which takes him from this most abominable traffic to an understanding of what it means. The novel is, therefore, a story (like _Foes_) of one who journeyed on the road to Damascus. But I recall no story which pictures with more vividness and power the Middle Passage of infamous memory. _The Slave Ship_ is notable, too, for the greater suavity of Miss Johnston’s prose style; the “a’s,” “an’s,” and “the’s” are recovered and there are less tangible changes—all for the better.

“Nothing can be done but by being greater than the thing to be done” is a piece of wisdom uttered in Miss Johnston’s fable, “The Return of Magic.”[104] A writer is, or should be, capable of growth in two directions—as an artisan and as a source of emotion to be communicated in terms of beauty. The number who show growth in either fashion is not large; the number who grow both ways is very small. Five years ago I had occasion to survey the work of thirty-five American women novelists, three of whom have since died. One or two others have produced no new work in the period since. With the most liberal disposition toward the thirty or so others, it does not seem to me that more than a half dozen show growth either as writers or artists. Possibly three have produced work in these five years indicative of a mind enlarging as the hand serving it has grown more certain. Mary Johnston is one of the three.[105]

BOOKS BY MARY JOHNSTON

1898 _Prisoners of Hope._
In England: _The Old Dominion_
1900 _To Have and To Hold_
In England: _By Order of the Company_
1902 _Audrey_
1904 _Sir Mortimer_
1907 _The Goddess of Reason._ Poetic drama.
1908 _Lewis Rand_
1911 _The Long Roll_
1912 _Cease Firing_
1913 _Hagar_
1914 _The Witch_
1915 _The Fortunes of Garin_
1917 _The Wanderers_
1918 _Foes_
In England: _The Laird of Glenfernie_
1919 _Michael Forth_
1920 _Sweet Rocket_
1922 _Silver Cross_
1922 _1492_
In England: _Admiral of the Ocean-Sea_
1923 _Croatan_
1924 _The Slave Ship_

SOURCES ON MARY JOHNSTON

Besides those referred to in the text of the chapter and in footnotes, the following are suggested:

_The Women Who Make Our Novels_, by Grant Overton. Moffat, Yard, 1918, 1919, 1922; Dodd, Mead, 1924. There is a chapter on Miss Johnston.

“Silver Cross, by Mary Johnston.” Circular published by Little, Brown and Company, 1922.

Carl Brandt, Brandt & Kirkpatrick, 101 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.

FOOTNOTES

[1] _Unwritten History_, by Cosmo Hamilton. Page 3.

[2] _Adventures in Journalism_, by Philip Gibbs. Page 84. Harper.

[3] _Adventures in Journalism._ Page 113.

[4] _Adventures in Journalism._ Pages 245-246.

[5] “The Doomdorf Mystery” is the opening story in Mr. Post’s book, _Uncle Abner, Matter of Mysteries_ (1918).

[6] Aristotle in his _Poetics_.

[7] Walter Pater.

[8] The quotations from. Mr. Post are collated from the chapter on him in Blanche Colton Williams’s _Our Short Story Writers_ (Dodd Mead).

[9] See Gilbert Murray’s _Euripides and His Age_ in the Home University Library (Holt).

[10] Blanche Colton Williams in the chapter on Mr. Post in _Our Short Story Writers_.

[11] The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.

[12] Identified by a correspondent of the Boston Herald (18 October 1923) as Dago Frank, Lefty Louie, Whitey Lewis, Gyp the Blood—figures in the Becker case.

[13] “Tammany ruled through the corner saloon,” Farnol is quoted as saying, in an interview appearing in the New York Tribune, 19 October 1923. “Dear me, yes, we used to vote ever so many times. I always went out with my Hell’s Kitchen gang, and we voted for Tammany as often as we were told, changing our coats and going in time and time again. That was when we were voting against Jerome.

“I’ve surprised my American friends by saying I thought prohibition was a good thing. I’ve seen too much tragedy and sordidness, too many babies born of drunken parents. I used to love my cups as well as anybody, and I used to say that regeneration could not be forced on a drunkard by law, but now I think the law will help give him his start anyway.”

[14] Interview in Boston Herald, 18 October 1923.

[15] Interview in The Sun, New York, 21 October 1911, page 16.

[16] “‘B’gad, no!’ Yes, Mr. Farnol talks that way. He has had his characters do it for so long that it comes to him naturally and is in nowise an affectation.”—The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.

“Glasses are a part of his expressive equipment, as much as ‘dammit man’ is, and probably more so than a vest which seems to have acquired a habit of coming unbuttoned.”—Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.

[17] _R. L. Stevenson: A Critical Study_, by Frank Swinnerton. Pages 189, 190.

[18] The Book News Monthly, Philadelphia, November, 1915.

[19] A writer in the London Times, quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, 24 November 1915.

[20] “The Romance of Jeffery Farnol,” by J. P. Collins. The Bookman, New York, July, 1920.

[21] Quoted by Henry C. Shelley in his article, “Jeffery Farnol and ‘The Broad Highway,’” in The Independent, New York, 7 September 1911.

[22] Rudyard Kipling was 23 when _Plain Tales from the Hills_ was brought out in Calcutta; recognition came a few years later. Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote _This Side of Paradise_ at 23. William De Morgan was well past sixty when _Joseph Vance_ made its success.

[23] Interview in the Boston Sunday Globe, 28 May 1912 (London correspondence printed without a date line).

[24] _The Honourable Mr. Tawnish_ (1913).

[25] “A better selection than Mr. Farnol the Daily Mail could not have made,” said W. B. (“Bat”) Masterson, in The Morning Telegraph, New York, 24 July 1921. “Mr. Farnol’s narrative was not only interesting, but for the most part extremely thrilling. I would like to give the whole story as Mr. Farnol wrote it.” He does, however, quote the salient passages of Farnol’s story.

[26] Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.

[27] Interview in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.

[28] “An Attic Salt-Shaker,” by W. Orton Tewson in The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, 3 November 1923.

[29] Interviews in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20; in The New York Tribune, 19 October 1923; in The Boston Herald, 18 October 1923. _The Definite Object_ (1917) is laid in New York.

[30] Interview by Fay Stevenson in The Evening World, New York, 24 October 1923.

[31] “Jeffery Farnol at Home,” by Henry Keats, The Book News Monthly, September, 1911.

[32] Several of the prime favorites among authors of books for boys and girls are discussed in Chapter 14.

[33] See Chapter 2.

[34] See _On the Margin_, page 32, bottom, _et seq._ and page 150 _et seq._

[35] _On the Margin_, page 166 _et seq._

[36] See _Antic Hay_, page 8.

[37] See _Crome Yellow_, page 121 _et seq._

[38] See _When Winter Comes to Main Street_ (Grant Overton), page 34 _et seq._

[39] _Antic Hay_, page 305.

[40] Letter of Samuel Roth, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, 28 June 1922.

[41] _American Nights Entertainment_ (Grant Overton), pages 34 and 35.

[42] Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[43] Mr. Henry L. Mencken.

[44] The New Republic.

[45] Mr. John V. A. Weaver.

[46] The London Times, 3 May 1923.

[47] Literary news note in The Indianapolis Star, 20 March 1922.

[48] _Gods of Modern Grub Street_, by A. St. John Adcock. (Stokes.) Page 267.

[49] Interview in The Evening Post, New York, 1922 (3 March?)

[50] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself. Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.

[51] The New York Times, New York Herald, and The World, New York, 5 March 1922, reporting a Lotos Club dinner to Mr. Oppenheim.

[52] Page 266.

[53] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself. Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.

[54] In Boston Evening Transcript for 23 February 1922.

[55] “Mental Photo of E. Phillips Oppenheim,” in The New York American for 6 March 1922.

[56] “E. Philips Oppenheim,” by Himself, in Brentano’s Book Chat for April, 1921.

[57] “Fiction and Prophecy,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim, in The New York Times, Sunday book or magazine section (March, 1922?)

[58] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself, in Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.

[59] Dr. Hall married twice.

[60] “The Foremost Woman Novelist in Spain,” in The Boston Evening Transcript for 12 April 1924.

[61] Pages 153-154.

[62] “In a spirit of youthful independence, I had lopped off my father’s patronymic.”—_Unwritten History_, by Cosmo Hamilton, page 8. The father, Mr. Gibbs, had opposed Cosmo’s literary ambitions. See also the chapter on Philip Gibbs in this book.

[63] _Unwritten History_, by Cosmo Hamilton, page 89.

[64] As long ago as 1916, writing of Lucas’s work, Mr. Llewellyn Jones, literary editor of The Chicago Evening Post, said: “It sounds incredible, but Mr. Lucas has put his name—as author, editor or introducer—on about 108 titlepages.” See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer,” published at the time by George H. Doran Company, New York.

[65] See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer,” published in 1916, the excerpt being taken from Mr. Llewellyn Jones’s article therein.

[66] “The metal bar, cold or lukewarm, will do anywhere, but heat it to melting-point and you must confine it within the rigid limits of the mold or see it at length but an amorphous splash at your feet.” This vivid metaphor of Mr. Pritchard’s is surely one of the most inspired explanations and justifications of poetic form ever set down. It can hardly be cited except by the supporters of traditional verse forms, as in a preceding sentence of his eloquent passage Mr. Pritchard speaks of “rime” and “metre” as well as of rhythm.

[67] _Books and Persons_, page 153. The notice first appeared in The New Age, London, 7 October 1909.

[68] See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer.”

[69] “Of Slang—English and American,” in _Cloud and Silver_.

[70] “The True Wizard of the North,” in _Adventures and Enthusiasms_.

[71] “Thackeray’s Schoolfellow,” in _Adventures and Enthusiasms_.

[72] In _Adventures and Enthusiasms_.

[73] _Men and Books and Cities_, by Robert Cortes Holliday, pages 196-197.

[74] See also “Stories and Humorists,” in _Roving East and Roving West_, page 136 _et seq._, and also “Chicago,” in the same volume. Mr. Holliday’s full account is in _Men and Books and Cities_, pages 196-203, inclusive, and also page 206.

[75] _Books and Persons_, pages 153-154. First appeared as a notice of Mr. Lucas’s _One Day and Another_ in The New Age, London, 7 October 1909.

[76] A writer in John o’ London’s Weekly, London. Reprinted in the Boston Evening Transcript of 3 March 1923.

[77] Article by Anne Carroll Moore in The Bookman for November, 1918. Reprinted in her _Roads to Childhood_.

[78] See Chapter 12 for an account of _Clyde Fitch and His Letters_, by Mr. Moses and Miss Gerson.

[79] See Chapter 11.

[80] See Chapter 12.

[81] Yes, in _These Charming People_; but it is a remarkable coincidence that the identical _mot_ appeared conspicuously in Donald Ogden Stewart’s _Perfect Behavior_, published in America in autumn, 1922. (_These Charming People_ appeared in England in early summer, 1923.)

[82] See Chapter 14.

[83] “Animals Love, Hate and Become Angry, Just Like Human Beings, Says Expert.” Interview by Jane Dixon in The Evening Telegram, New York, 23 January 1922.

[84] W. T. Hornaday, curator of the New York Zoölogical Gardens, is quoted in _Lions ’n’ Tigers ’n’ Everything_ as saying: “Casey was a mystery. I am frank to say that I could not put my finger on his exact classification. Of course, he was an ape. But just what kind—that is the question.”

[85] “He’d Make a Man of a Monkey—and in Four Generations.” Feature article in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 7 May 1922.

[86] See the chapter on Mrs. Wharton either in _Authors of the Day_ or _American Nights Entertainment_ (both Grant Overton).

[87] The quotations are from the first two pages of _The Old Maid_.

[88] _The Age of Innocence._

[89] In _New Year’s Day_.

[90] “I admit most fully that I myself proceeded with Lord Carson to great lengths—and would even have proceeded to greater—in order to prevent the forcible inclusion of the Northern provinces in a Parliament sitting at Dublin.”—The Earl of Birkenhead in _America Revisited_ (1924) page 40.

[91] _Where Are We Going?_ (1923), by the Right Hon. David Lloyd George.

[92] _The Genesis of the War_ (1923), by the Right Hon. Herbert H. Asquith.

[93] See Chapters 1 and 11.

[94] See Chapter 12.

[95] Quoted from the article, “Progress of Frank L. Packard,” in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for 3 February 1923.

[96] See article, “Progress of Frank L. Packard,” in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for 3 February 1923.

[97] _The Adventures of Jimmie Dale_, page 20.

[98] “The Story—The Precious Corner Stone,” by Frank L. Packard in The Photodramatist for November (1923?)

[99] “The Literary Spotlight: Mary Johnston,” in The Bookman for July, 1922. Reprinted in _The Literary Spotlight_ (book published 1924).

[100] “What You Should Know About American Authors: Mary Johnston,” in the New York Herald for 21 June 1922 (book section).

[101] See “The Literary Spotlight: Mary Johnston” in The Bookman for July, 1922. Reprinted in _The Literary Spotlight_ (book published 1924).

[102] Opening lines of “Virginiana,” by Mary Johnston, in The Reviewer for February, 1922.

[103] In The Reviewer. Reprinted in The World Tomorrow for February, 1924.

[104] In The Reviewer for April, 1922.

[105] It must be premised that “growth” in an artist is a term upon which agreement as to definition is probably impossible. Nevertheless it is loosely used by all of us to denote a certain progression in the work of such a writer as Henry James or Thomas Hardy. It may or may not, I suspect, mean greater or more enduring work, but it almost invariably must mean work of a more marked idiosyncrasy, more stamped with the personality of the author, and probably written with a noticeable idiom of style. Subject is hardly a safe test.

INDEX OF PRICES

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ADDINGTON, SARAH,
_Round the Year in Pudding Lane_, $2.00

ADLER, FELIX,
_The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal_, $1.50

ALCOTT, LOUISA M.,
_Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys_, $1.50
_Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy_, $1.50

ALEXANDER, ELIZABETH,
_Rôles_, $2.00

ALLEN, LUCY G.,
_Choice Recipes for Clever Cooks_, $2.00
_Table Service_, $1.75

ALTSHELER, JOSEPH A.,
_Apache Gold_, $1.75
_Border Watch, The_, $1.75
_Candidate, The_, $1.75
_Eyes of the Woods, The_, $1.75
_Forest Runners, The_, $1.75
_Forest of Swords, The_, $1.75
_Free Rangers, The_, $1.75
_Great Sioux Trail, The_, $1.75
_Guns of Bull Run, The_, $1.75
_Guns of Europe, The_, $1.75
_Guns of Shiloh, The_, $1.75
_Herald of the West, A_, $1.75
_Hosts of the Air, The_, $1.75
_Hunters of the Hills, The_, $1.75
_In Circling Camps_, $1.75
_Keepers of the Trail, The_, $1.75
_Last of the Chiefs, The_, $1.75
_Last Rebel, The_, $1.75
_Lords of the Wild, The_, $1.75
_Lost Hunters, The_, $1.75
_Masters of the Peaks, The_, $1.75
_My Captive_, $1.75
_Quest of the Four, The_, $1.75
_Riflemen of the Ohio, The_, $1.75
_Rock of Chickamauga, The_, $1.75
_Rulers of the Lakes, The_, $1.75
_Scouts of Stonewall, The_, $1.75
_Scouts of the Valley, The_, $1.75
_Shades of the Wilderness, The_, $1.75
_Shadow of the North, The_, $1.75
_Soldier of Manhattan, A_, $1.75
_Star of Gettysburg, The_, $1.75
_Sun of Saratoga, The_, $1.75
_Sun of Quebec, The_, $1.75
_Sword of Antietam, The_, $1.75
_Texan Scouts, The_, $1.75
_Texan Star, The_, $1.75
_Texan Triumph, The_, $1.75
_Tree of Appomattox, The_, $1.75
_Young Traders_, The, $1.75

ARLEN, MICHAEL,
_The Green Hat_, $2.50
_These Charming People_, $2.50
“_Piracy_,” $2.50

ASQUITH, HERBERT HENRY,
_The Genesis of the War_, $6.00

BAKER, S. JOSEPHINE, M.D.,
_Healthy Babies_, $1.25
_Healthy Children_, $1.25
_Healthy Mothers_, $1.25

BALDERSTON, JOHN L.,
_A Morality Play for the Leisure Class_, 50c

BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES,
_Theism and Thought_, $4.00
_Theism and Humanism_, $1.75

BANNING, MARGARET CULKIN,
_A Handmaid of the Lord_, $2.00

BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY,
_The Fighting Scrub_, $1.75
_Follow the Ball_, $1.75

BARKER, GRANVILLE,
_Anatol_, $1.50
_Exemplary Theatre, The_, $2.00
_Madras House, The_, $1.50
_Marrying of Ann Leete, The_, $1.50
_Secret Life, The_, $1.50
_Three Short Plays: Rosco, Vote by Ballot, Farewell to the
Theatre_, $1.50
_Voysey Inheritance, The_, $1.50
_Waste_, $1.50

BARKER, LEWELLYS F., M.D., AND COLE, N. B., M.D.,
_Blood Pressure_, $1.25

BARNHAM, HENRY D.,
_The Khoja: Tales of Nasr-ed-Din_, $2.50

BARRETTO, LARRY,
_A Conqueror Passes_, $2.00

BARTLETT, JOHN,
_Familiar Quotations_, $4.50

BARRY, DAVID S.,
_Forty Years in Washington_, $3.50

BARRY, FLORENCE V.,
_A Century of Children’s Books_, $2.00

BEACH, LEWIS,
_Ann Vroome_, $1.50
_A Square Peg_, $1.50
_Goose Hangs High, The_, $1.50

BECK, JAMES M.,
_The Constitution of the United States: Yesterday, Today—Tomorrow?_
$3.00

BENNETT, ARNOLD,
_Elsie and the Child_, $2.50
_Riceyman Steps_, leather, $2.50; cloth, $2.00

BENSON, E. F.,
_David Blaize of King’s_, $2.00

BINYON, LAURENCE,
_Ayuli_, $1.50

BIRKENHEAD, EARL OF
_The Inner History of British Politics_, Vol. I, $6.00

BLOCK, ETTA,
_One-Act Plays from the Yiddish_, $2.00

BOWER, B. M.,
_The Bellehelen Mine_, $2.00

BOYD, ERNEST,
_The Contemporary Drama of Ireland_, $2.50

BRADLEY, ALICE,
_The Candy Cook Book_, $1.75

BRIDGES, ROY,
_Rat’s Castle_, $1.75

BRIMMER, F. E.,
_Autocamping_, $2.00

BRUETTE, W. A.,
_The Complete Dog Book_, $3.00

BUCK, CHARLES E.,
_The Business Letter-Writer’s Manual_, $3.00

BURGESS, THORNTON W.,
_Billy Mink_, $1.50
_Burgess Animal Book for Children, The_, $3.00
_Burgess Bird Book for Children, The_, $3.00
_Burgess Flower Book for Children_, $3.00

BURKE, THOMAS,
_The Wind and the Rain_, $2.00

BURROUGHS, JOHN, AND OTHERS,
_Birds of America_

CARROLL, DIXIE,
_Goin’ Fishin’_, $3.00
_Lake and Stream Game Fishing_, $3.00

CARTER, HOWARD, and A. C. MACE,
_The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen_, $5.00

CHAMBERS, MARY D.,
_One-Piece Dinners_, $2.00

CHANDLER, FRANK W.,
_The Contemporary Drama of France_, $2.50

CHAPMAN, FRANK M.,
_Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America_, $4.00
_What Bird Is That?_, $1.50

CHESTERTON, G. K., AND OTHERS,
_Number Two Joy Street_, $2.50

CHEYNEY, EDWARD G.,
_Scott Burton in the Blue Ridge_, $1.75

CHIPP, ELINOR,
_Many Waters_, $2.00

CLARK, BARRETT H.,
_How to Produce Amateur Plays_, $1.75
_Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors_, $3.00

CLARK, MARTHA HASKELL,
_The Home Road_, $1.25

CLEMENTS, COLIN CAMPBELL,
_Plays for a Folding Theatre_, $2.00
_Plays for Pagans_, $2.00

COBB, IRVIN S.,
_Goin’ on Fourteen_, $2.50
_Cobb’s America Guyed Books_: _Indiana_, _Kansas_, _Kentucky_,
_Maine_, _New York_, _North Carolina_, each 50 cents

CODY, LOUISA F., AND COOPER, COURTNEY RYLEY,
_Memories of Buffalo Bill_, $2.50

CONNOR, RALPH,
_Treading the Winepress_, $2.00

COOLIDGE, EMELYN L., M.D.,
_The Home Care of Sick Children_, $1.25

COOLIDGE, SUSAN,
_What Katy Did_, $1.75

COOPER, COURTNEY RYLEY,
_Cross Cut, The_, $2.00
_Last Frontier, The_, $2.00
_Lions ’n’ Tigers ’n’ Everything_, $2.00
_Under the Big Top_, $2.00
_White Desert, The_, $2.00

CRANE, STEPHEN,
_Red Badge of Courage, The_, $2.00

CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER, S. C.,
_The Life of Olive Schreiner_, $5.00

CURTIS, CAPT. PAUL A., JR.,
_The Outdoorsman’s Handbook_, $1.50

DARK, SIDNEY,
_The Book of England for Young People_, $2.50
_The Book of France for Young People_, $2.50
_The Book of Scotland for Young People_, $2.50

DAVENPORT, EVE, and MAUDE RADFORD WARREN,
_Mother Hubbard’s Wonderful Cupboard_, $2.50
_Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe_, $2.50
_Tales Told by the Gander_, $2.50

DAVIS, OWEN,
_Icebound_, $1.50
_The Detour_, $1.50

DE LA MARE, WALTER, AND OTHERS,
_Number Two Joy Street_, $2.50

DICKINSON, EMILY,
_The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson_, $3.50

DICKINSON, THOMAS H.,
_The Contemporary Drama of England_, $2.50

DIXON, THOMAS,
_Black Hood, The_, $2.00
_Fall of a Nation, The_, $2.00
_Foolish Virgin, The_, $2.00
_Man in Gray, The_, $2.00
_Man of the People, A_, $1.75
_Sins of the Father, The_, $2.00
_Southerner, The_, $2.00
_Way of a Man, The_, $2.00

DODGE, DANIEL KILHAM,
_Abraham Lincoln, Master of Words_, $1.50

DONHAM, S. AGNES,
_Marketing and Housework Manual_, $2.00
_Spending the Family Income_, $1.75

DOYLE, A. CONAN,
_Memories and Adventures_, $4.50

DULAC, EDMUND (Illustrator),
_Tales from Hans Andersen_, $3.50
_Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book_, $3.75
_Shakespeare’s Comedy of “The Tempest_,” $3.50
_The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French_,
$3.50

EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS,
_Recollections of a Happy Life_, $5.00

ELLIOTT, MAUD HOWE,
_Three Generations_, $4.00

EMERSON, WILLIAM, R.P., M.D.,
_Nutrition and Growth in Children_, $2.50

ERSKINE, LAURIE YORKE,
_The Laughing Rider_, $1.75

ERTZ, SUSAN,
_Madame Clair_, $2.00
_Nina_, $2.00

ESPINA, CONCHA,
_The Red Beacon_, $2.00

FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS,
_Youth Points the Way_, $1.25

FARMER, FANNIE MERRITT,
_Boston Cooking School Cook Book, The_, $2.50
_Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent_, $2.50

FARNOL, JEFFERY,
_Amateur Gentleman, The_, $2.00
_Beltane, the Smith_, $2.00
_Black Bartlemy’s Treasure_, $2.00
_Broad Highway, The_, $2.00
_Definite Object, The_, $2.00
_Geste of Duke Jocelyn, The_, $2.00
_Great Britain at War_, $1.25
_Honourable Mr. Tawnish_, The, $1.25
_Martin Conisby’s Vengeance_, $2.00
_Our Admirable Betty_, $2.00
_Peregrine’s Progress_, $2.00
_Sir John Dering_, $2.00

FARRAR, JOHN,
_The Middle Twenties_, $1.50
_The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays for Children_, $1.50
_The Literary Spotlight_, $2.50

FERBER, MAURICE,
_Lord Byron, a Play_, 50c

FLAMMARION, CAMILLE,
_Haunted Houses_, $3.00

FOOTE, JOHN TAINTOR,
_A Wedding Gift_, $1.00
_Dumbbell of Brookfield_, $2.00
_Pocono Shot_, $1.25

FORDYCE, CLAUDE P.,
_Trail Craft_, $2.50

FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN,
_Humdrum House?_ $1.75

FOX, FANNIE FERBER,
_Fannie Fox’s Cook Book_, $2.50

FRENCH, ALLEN,
_The Story of Rolf and the Viking’s Bow_, $2.00

FRENCH, JOSEPH LEWIS,
_The Pioneer West: Narratives of the Western March of Empire_,
$2.50
_Sixty Years of American Humor: A Prose Anthology_, $2.50

FYLEMAN, ROSE,
_Forty Good-Night Tales_, $2.00
_Fairies and Chimneys_, $1.25
_Rose Fyleman’s Fairy Book_, $3.50
_The Rainbow Cat_, $2.00
_The Fairy Flute_, $1.25
_The Fairy Green_, $1.25

GAIGE, GRACE,
_Recitations_, $2.50

GALWAN, GHULAM RASSUL,
_Servants of Sahibs_, $2.50

GANOE, MAJOR W. A.,
_The History of the United States Army_, $5.00

GAZE, HAROLD,
_The Goblin’s Glen: A Story of Childhood’s Wonderland_, $2.00

GEISTER, EDNA,
_What Shall We Play_, $2.50
_The Fun Book_, $1.25
_Let’s Play_, $1.25
_It Is To Laugh_, $1.25

GIBBS, A. HAMILTON,
_Gun Fodder_, $2.50

GIBBS, GEORGE,
_Black Stone, The_, $2.00
_Fires of Ambition_, $2.00
_Golden Bough, The_, $2.00
_House of Mohun, The_, $2.00
_Madcap_, $2.00
_Maker of Opportunities, The_, $2.00
_Sackcloth and Scarlet_, $2.00
_Secret Witness, The_, $2.00
_Splendid Outcast, The_, $2.00
_Vagrant Duke, The_, $2.00
_Yellow Dove, The_, $2.00
_Youth Triumphant_, $2.00

GIBBS, PHILIP,
_Heirs Apparent_, $2.00
_Little Novels of Nowadays_, $2.00
_Middle of the Road_, The, $2.00

GOING, CHARLES BUXTON,
_David Wilmot, Free Soiler_, $6.00

GREGOR, ELMER RUSSELL, Stories, each $1.75
_Captain Jim Mason_,
_Jim Mason, Backwoodsman_,
_Jim Mason, Scout_,
_Running Fox_,
_Spotted Deer_,
_Three Sioux Scouts_,
_War Trail, The_,
_White Otter_,
_White Wolf, The_.

HALL, G. STANLEY,
_Adolescence_, $10.00
_Aspects of Child Life and Education_, $2.00
_Educational Problems_, $10.00
_Founders of Modern Psychology_, $3.00
_Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology_, $7.50
_Life and Confessions of a Psychologist_, $5.00
_Morale_, $3.00
_Recreations of a Psychologist_, $2.50
_Senescence: The Last Half of Life_, $5.00
_Youth_, $2.00

HAMILTON, COSMO,
_Another Scandal_, $2.00
_Blindness of Virtue, The_, $2.00
_Blue Room, The_, $2.00
_Door That Has No Key, The_, $2.00
_Four Plays: The New Poor, Scandal, The Silver Fox, The Mother
Woman_, $2.50
_His Friend and His Wife_, $2.00
_Miracle of Love, The_, $2.00
_Rustle of Silk, The_, $2.00
_Scandal_, $2.00
_Sins of the Children, The_, $2.00
_Unwritten History_, $4.00
_Who Cares_, $2.00

HAWTREY, CHARLES,
_The Truth at Last_, $5.00

HELLMAN, SAM,
_Low Bridge and Punk Pungs_, $1.25

HENDERSON, HELEN W.,
_A Loiterer in London_, $5.00
_A Loiterer in Paris_, $5.00
_A Loiterer in New England_, $5.00
_A Loiterer in New York_, $5.00

HENSHALL, JAMES A., M.D.,
_The Book of the Black Bass_, $4.50,
_Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes_, $3.00

HERBERT, A. P., AND OTHERS,
_Double Demon and Other One-Act Plays_, $2.00

HICHENS, ROBERT,
_After the Verdict_, $2.00
_Last Time, The_, $2.00

HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR,
_On the Trail of Grant and Lee_, $2.00
_On the Trail of Washington_, $2.50
_Washington, the Man of Action_, $6.00

HILL, JANET MCKENZIE,
_Canning, Preserving and Jelly Making_, $1.75
_Cooking for Two: A Handbook for Young Housekeepers_, $2.25

HOLDEN, DR. GEORGE PARKER,
_Streamcraft: An Angling Manual_, $2.50

HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES,
_Literary Lanes and Other Byways_, $2.00
_Walking-Stick Papers_, $2.00

HOLMES, A.
_Controlled Power: A Study of Laziness and Achievement_, $1.75

HOLT, L. EMMETT, M. D.,
_The Care and Feeding of Children_, $1.25

HOUGH, EMERSON,
_Broken Gate, The_, $2.00
_Covered Wagon, The_, $2.00
_Girl at the Half-Way House, The_, $2.00
_Man Next Door, The_, $2.00
_Magnificent Adventure, The_, $2.00
_Mother of Gold_, $2.00
_North of 36_, $2.00
_Story of the Cowboy, The_, $2.00
_Way Out, The_, $2.00

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE,
_Echo de Paris_, $1.00

HUDDLESTON, SISLEY,
_Poincaré: The Man of the Ruhr_, $2.50

HUDSON, HOLLAND,
_Action_, 50 cents

HUDSON, WILLIAM JAY,
_Abbé Pierre_, illustrated gift edition, $3.00
_Abbé Pierre_, regular edition, $2.00

HULIT, LEONARD,
_Fishing with a Boy_, $2.00
_Salt Water Angler, The_, $3.50

HUXLEY, ALDOUS,
_Antic Hay_, $2.00
_On the Margin_, $2.00
_Young Archimedes and Other Sketches_, $2.00
_Crome Yellow_, leather, $2.50; cloth, $2.00
_Mortal Coils_, $2.00
_Leda and Other Poems_, $2.00
_Limbo_, $2.00

IWASAKI, Y. T., AND HUGHES, GLEN,
_Three Modern Japanese Plays_, $1.50

JACKS, L. P.,
_A Living Universe_, $1.00
_Religious Perplexities_, $1.00
_Realities and Shams_, $1.50
_The Lost Radiance of the Christian Religion_, 50 cents

JACKSON, HELEN HUNT,
_Nelly’s Silver Mine_, $2.00
_Ramona_, $2.00

JACQUES, MARIE,
_Colette’s Best Recipes: A Book of French Cookery_, $2.00

JERITZA, MARIA,
_Sunlight and Song_, $3.00

JEWETT, ELEANOR MYERS,
_Egyptian Tales of Magic_, $2.00

JOB, HERBERT K., AND OTHERS,
_Birds of America_, 3 vols., $17.50

JOHN, GWEN,
_The Prince_, $1.50

JOHNSON, OWEN,
_Blue Blood_, $1.75
_Prodigious Hickey, The_, $1.75
_Skippy Bedelle_, $1.75
_Tennessee Shad, The_, $1.75
_Varmint, The_, $1.75

JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD,
_Remembered Yesterdays_, $5.00

JOHNSTON, MARY,
_Croatan_, $2.00
_1492_, $2.00
_Silver Cross_, $2.00
_Slave Ship, The_, $2.00

JONES, HENRY ARTHUR,
_Representative Plays_, 4 Vols., $10.00

JORDAN, DAVID STARR,
_Fishes_, $7.50

KELLOGG, VERNON,
_Evolution_, $2.00

KELLY, GEORGE,
_The Show-Off, A Play_, $1.75

KENLON, JOHN,
_Fourteen Years a Sailor_, $2.00

KEYES, FRANCES PARKINSON,
_Letters From a Senator’s Wife_, $2.50

KING, BEULAH,
_Ruffs and Pompoms_, $2.50

KNEVELS, GERTRUDE,
_Dragon’s Glory_, 50 cents

KUMMER, FREDERIC ARNOLD,
_The First Days of Man_, $2.00
_The First Days of Knowledge_, $2.00

LAUT, AGNES C.,
_The Quenchless Light_

LAWRENCE, DAVID,
_The True Story of Woodrow Wilson_, $2.50

LEIGHTON, JOSEPH A.,
_Man and the Cosmos_, $4.50
_Religion and the Mind of Today_, $3.00

LINCOLN, JOSEPH,
_Cap’n Eri_, $2.00
_Rugged Water_, $2.00

LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER,
_The Thirteenth Letter_, $2.00

LITTLE THEATRE SHORT PLAYS SERIES,
_Ten titles_, each 50 cents

LODGE, SIR OLIVER,
_Making of Man_, $2.00

LUCAS, E. V.,
_Advisory Ben_, $2.00
_Little Wanderings Among the Great Masters_: _Michelangelo_,
_Leonardo da Vinci_, _Frans Hals_, _Murillo_, _Chardin_,
_Rembrandt_, each, $1.50
_Giving and Receiving_, $2.00
_Roving East and Roving West_, $2.00
_Adventures and Enthusiasms_, $2.00
_The Hausfrau Rampant_, $1.75
_Cloud and Silver_, $1.75
_Genevra’s Money_, $2.00
_Luck of the Year_, $2.00

LYND, ROBERT,
_The Blue Lion_, $2.50

LYTLE, HORACE,
_Breaking a Bird Dog_, $2.00

MACCLINTOCK, LANDER,
_The Contemporary Drama of Italy_, $2.50

MACLAY, EDGAR STANTON,
_A History of American Privateers_, $3.00

MACCURDY, GEORGE GRANT,
_Human Origins_, $10.00

MACKENZIE, COMPTON,
_The Altar Steps_, $2.50
_The Parson’s Progress_, $2.50
_The Heavenly Ladder_, $2.50

MACMILLEN, MARY,
_Pan and Pierrot_, 50 cents

MCCANN, ALFRED W.,
_The Science of Eating_, $3.00

MCCLELLAN, WALTER,
_The Delta Wife_, 50 cents

MCCLURE, MARJORIE BARKLEY,
_High Fires_, $2.00

MCGUIRE, J. A.,
_In the Alaska-Yukon Gamelands_, $2.50

MCKENNA, STEPHEN,
_By Intervention of Providence_, $2.50
_Tomorrow and Tomorrow_, $2.00

MCMILLEN, WHEELER,
_The Farming Fever_, $1.50

MARLOWE, MABEL,
_The Wiggly Weasel and Other Stories_, $1.25

MARQUIS, DON,
_Words and Thoughts_, 50 cents

MARQUIS, DON, and CHRISTOPHER MORLEY,
_Pandora Lifts the Lid_, $2.00

MARSH, CHARLES FIELDING,
_After Harvest_, $2.00

MARSHALL, BERNARD,
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