Borzoi Reader Edited by Carl Van Doren Reviewed
A review compares Knopf's Borzoi Reader with Woollcott's Reader. It covers 450 000 words, 1 056 pages, five short novels, a full-length play, eleven essays, thirty nine poems, and a biography Stephen Crane by Thomas Beer with intro by Joseph Conrad. The volume gathers Nobel laureates and famous writers from the US England and abroad.
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Carl van Doren
Alfred A. Knopf
N. Y
Woollcott
Knopf
van Doren
England
Stephen Crane
Thomas Beer
Joseph Conrad
Iona Gale
Katherine Mansfield
D. H. Lawrence
Max Beerhohn
Arthur Machen
EK. M. Forster
Walter de la Mare
A. Kk. Coppard
Scribner's Letters Clarify Lena Geyer Are Purely Fictional
Publishers explain that Lena Geyer in Marcia Davenport's novel is a fictional composite. Readers ask for details about the character. Scribner's confirms no real person self-identifies as Lena Geyer.
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Charles Scribner
American thinker joins international cooperative studies institute
Horace M. Kallen, author of The Decline and Rise of the Consumer, has been elected to the Institut International dEtudes Co-Operatives. The institute admits no more than fifty members, and Kallen is the first American elected. The book is in its third large printing.
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Horace M. Kallen
Appleton- Century
Institut International d’Etudes
Institut
Dr. Kallen
Nason Family Holiday Visit Ties Evans ton and Eveleth Roots
Mr and Mrs Jack Nason of Evans ton spent Christmas with Mrs Nasons parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Gillett of Eveleth Minn Mr Nason is the son of the Frank Nasons of 733 Cummings Avenue Kenilworth
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Jack Nason
Evanston
This England Delights in Countryside Charms and Legends
Mary Ellen Chase surveys England’s West country including Devon Cornwall Wiltshire Somerset and Dorset. She praises cider cheese sheep fishing villages legends from Alfred to Arthur and Stonehenge while noting Homeric echoes in Cornwall and Hardy’s Greek memories. This England was published by Macmillan in November.
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Mary Ellen Chase
England
West Country
Devon
Cornwall
Wiltshire
Somerset
Dorset
Alfred
Arthur
Wiltshire Downs
Stonehenge
Miss Chase
Aegean
Patmos
Samos
Rhodes
Santoria
Odysseus
Hardy
Author Anna Louise Strong Returns via Spain with Manuscript
Anna Louise Strong writes Henry Holt & Co. that she is returning from Russia through Spain carrying a new Soviet constitution manuscript. Holt fears Fascists may seize it. the manuscript is slated for March publication.
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Anna Louise Strong
Henry Holt & Co
Russia
Spain
Holt
Miss Strong
Wake and Remember gains best seller listing in Minnesota village novel
James Gray’s Wake and Remember, set in a former logging town turned summer haunt, follows widowed lawyer Alexander Rankin as a new summer pattern emerges. Key figures include Deborah Price, Walter Price, Marta Nilsson, Oliver Cary, Crosby and David, with memories of Linda Rankin shaping the tense drama and rivalries among villagers.
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James Gray
Macmillan Company
New York
Minnesota
Alexander Rankin
Deborah Price
Rankin
Walter Price
Marta Nilsson
Crosby
David
Oliver Cary
Linda Rankin
Alec
Lakeland
Mr. Gray
Deborah
St. Paul
Economists Assess The New Deal In Objective Review
The editors of The Economist publish a twelve chapter analysis of Roosevelt’s first four years. The New Deal: An Analysis and Appraisal will be released January 2 by Alfred A. Knopf, examining unemployment housing budget social security agriculture planning banking and public utilities from a distant, nonpartisan perspective.
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Roosevelt
Economist
London Financial Journal
Alfred A. Knopf
Knopf
England Embraces Skiing with Lang Book Rights Sale
Arthur Barker buys English rights to Otto Lang's Downhill Skiing and Lang signs copies at Madison Square Garden Winter Sports show with Hannes Schneider. Lang then travels to Mt Rainier National Park to teach skiing for the rest of winter.
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England
Arthur Barker
Otto Lang
Holt
Madison Square Garden
Hannes Schneider
Lang
Mt. Rainier National Park
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W. H. Hudson
H. M. Tomlinson
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Carl van Vechten
Maurice Baring
Ernest Newman
H. I. Mencken
Bruce Lockhart
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