Fifty Best American Short Stories picks published works
The July Literary Guild selection features Wilbur Daniel Steele’s The Yellow Cat as the first to introduce Edward J. O’Brien’s Fifty Best American Short Stories 1914 39. Other included pieces span Parker Heyward Faulkner Wolfe Steinbeck and more by Lardner La Farge Boyle Di Donato and Thompson.
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Wilbur Daniel Steele
Edward J. O’brien
Houghton Mifflin Company
King W. Lardner
DuBose Heyward
Oliver LaFarge
Dorothy Parker
Kay Boyle
William Faulkner
Brooklyn
Thomas Wolfe
Iron City
Lowell Thompson
Christ
Pietro di Donato
John Steinbeck
The
Literary Guild
California cities in new Hawthorne book by Appleton
Hildegarde Hawthorne releases Romantic Cities of California in Appleton Century’s Century City series. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam, Hawthorne a longtime California resident and admirer, has received nationwide praise for the work.
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Hildegarde Hawthorne
California
Appleton Century
E. H. Suydam
Angler Charles Goodspeed Publishes Angling in America
Angler Charles E. Goodspeed, dealer in rare books and collector of fishing literature, authored Angling in America. The volume was issued in a limited edition by Houghton Mifflin Company, also publishers of Mr. Goodspeed's Yankee Bookseller.
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Charles E. Goodspeed
America
Houghton Mifflin Company
Mr. Goodspeed
Watch for the Dawn by Stuart Cloete reviewed
Kenneth Horan hails Watch for the Dawn as a vivid exploration of Boer life and frontier struggle. The novel follows old Frederick defending his farm as British forces arrive, then Kaspar leads a new life among settlers, embodying courage, devotion, and resistance amid empire building.
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Stuart Cloete
Houghton-Mifflin
Charity
Africa
Kaspar
Old Frederick
Leighton Attacks Cities With Alarm Over Youthful Decay
The critic Leighton warns of aging yet youthful American cities led by Louisville near a century. Birmingham businesses counter with full page ads condemning his works. In Louisville a holiday ball features murals depicting the author’s ruinous image, including a fountain scene and deceased local figures.
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Leighton
Louisville
Birmingham
Chamber of Commerce
Seattle
Omaha
Shenandoah
George R. Leighton
Lincoln Steffens
American minister's wife finds life unfolds like a quilt
Anna French Johnson, a minister's wife now in Wisconsin, reflects on her 31 residences across eight states and her memoir The Making of a Minister's Wife. She compares life to a patchwork quilt created from dusty records and memories, noting both beauty and harshness shaping her story.
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Illinois
Tennessee
Nebraska
Indiana
Wisconsin
Texas
North Dakota
South Dakota
New Mexico
Anna French Johnson
Appleton- Century
Men Against Hitler exposes German anti Nazism network
Fritz Max Cahen recounts organized opposition to Nazism from inside Germany and among refugees. The book shows how a covert German Vanguard and allied activists smuggled news, built spy networks, and pressed for a united Hitler opposition despite Gestapo pressure.
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Fritz Max Cahen
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Connecticut
Germany
Greenwich
Munich
Goebbels
United States
Greenwich “Time
Wythe Williams
New York Times
London
Daily Mail
Mr. Williams
Cohen
Bobbs- Merrill
Hitler
Gestapo
Mr. Cohen
German Republic
Czechoslovakia
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