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THE BEST OF THE NEW BOOKS
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in a remarkably attractive new edition with all the original drawings at a much lower price. (Dodd, Mead & Co., $2.00 net.)

MEMORIES OF A PUBLISHER, by George Haven Putnam continues the author's reminiscences begun in his earlier book, Memories of My Youth. The book contains also some record of the undertakings of the Putnam Publishing House from 1872 as well as many glimpses of a number of the people of note, with whom the author came in contact. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $2.00 net.)

David McKay has issued a most attractive edition of Shakespeare's SONGS AND SONNETS illustrated by Charles Robinson; twelve of the illustrations are in full color and there are many others in black and white and tint. ($3.00 net.)

A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870, by Fred Lewis Pattee is a full length account of our literature during the period that can fairly be called contemporary. (The Century Co., #2.00 net.)

PARIS REBORN, by Herbert Adams Gibbons is an extended diary written in Paris during the first five months of the war, and reflecting freshly all the events and fluctuations of those exciting days. The illustrations by Lester G. Hornby are particularly well done and sympathetic. (Century Co., $2.00 net.)

MY CHILDHOOD, by Maxim Gorki is the life-story of the famous Russian novelist from his earliest memory to his seventeenth year. A human document of extraordinary beauty and power, explaining the genius and the national character of a great people. Illustrated. (Century Co., $2.00 net.)

THE NEW RUSSIA, by Alan Lethbridge shows us Russia from a new angle. The author has travelled thousands of miles through territory which hitherto has been unvisited by any but Russians. He describes sympathetically the real life of the Russian people and points out the enormous market for English-speaking enterprises which will spring up after the war. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $5.00 net.)

WHITE TIGER, by Henry M. Rideout is an exciting tale of picturesque adventure in the Dutch East Indies. (Duffield & Co., $1.00 net.)

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