"A land of enchantment--the enthrallment of the Everglades."--Book News Monthly.
"Pictures fraught with poetic beauty."--San Francisco Bulletin.
With all the humor and spontaneity of an individual Style
"Gracefully written, vivid in style and suggestion."--Chicago Record-Herald.
"Lively, thoroughly entertaining."--Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"Unusual dramatic grip; much brilliancy of dialogue."--Philadelphia North American.
If you like a bright, happy, quick-moving love story, spiced with individuality, sweetened with clean, wholesome humor, brisked with a dash of adventure that will make you sit up, toned with a love of nature and the big out-of-doors, refreshingly free from "problem," "sex"--99-925/1000 pure story--read "DIANE."
By HOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN. A fine new American novel, serious in intent but interestingly told and written with charm and distinction.
By FRANK HARRIS, author of "The Man Shakespeare," "The Bomb," "Montes the Matador," etc., etc.
There is nothing of the problem-novel about this newest book by Frank Harris. It is just a red-blooded gripping yarn, set in the time of Napoleon.
Selected by CHARLES VALE, author of "John Ward, M. D." Uniform with "The Lyric Year."
"Forum Stories" is a representative of American short stories, as was "The Lyric Year" of American poetry.
By LOUIS SHIPMAN. Illustrated in colors and in black and white.
Perhaps you remember Henry Miller in "D'Arcy of the Guards." Its author, Louis Shipman, has written this unique book about "D'Arcy," in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very first moment the manuscript left his hands. Letters, contracts, telegrams, etc., are all given in full, and there are many interesting illustrations, both in color and in black and white. "The True Adventures of a Play" will prove of almost inestimable value to all those who practice or hope to practice the art of playwriting.
A STUDY OF SURVIVALS AND TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
An important book in which are discussed such timely topics as "The Position of Women," "The Renewed Interest in the Drama," etc.
By EDWARD CARPENTER, author of "Towards Democracy," "Love's Coming of Age," etc.
A new and important book by a man whose writings command the attention of the civilized world.