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From the Advertising Writer's Diary H JUST ERBERT GORMAN was here to talk over the suppression of his novel by the Boston Watch and Ward So- ciety. Took the golden oppor- tunity to have him autograph my copy. Pretty good for a fellow to plop right into the Dreiser, Flaubert and Cabell class with his first novel. GOLD BY GOLD By Herbert S. Gorman. $2.50. UST before rushing off to catch a train for the week end trip, I followed the Chi- cago Daily News' advice about picking a Modern Library title and by golly it worked: “You can stand before a rack of these books, shut your eyes, and choose the right one every time." I did: I picked two good ones: THE CHILD OF PLEASURE by Gabriele d'An- nunzio, with an introduction by Ernest Boyd (it's the latest title) and two American boys instead of about Greek and Roman heroes. I was too busy getting amuse- ment when I read the book to appreciate fully what a really heroic life they had. WEBER AND FIELDS Their Tribulations, Tri- umphs and Their Associ- ates, by Felix Isman. $3.50. GREEN MANSIONS By W. H. Hudson. With an introduction by John Gals- worthy. Each, $0.95. AVE to work up the 4th PLA T'LL be a double opening I DLAYBOOKS are going good. Second editions on THE FIREBRAND and THE GUARDSMAN are in the works. Now have to rush out the jacket for an edition of O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS. PHAN ISLAND. Best sellers are tough on the advertising man. For relief I read over the scene between Mrs. Smith (the Queen Victoria of the South Seas) and the travelers. Started grinning; one of the salesmen, came in and razzed me about being the "hard worker" at B. & L. Of course, said I, with the sort of books B. & L. publish salesmen need only be order takers. ORPHAN ISLAND By Rose Macaulay. $2.00. THE FIREBRAND By Edwin Justus Mayer. $2.00. the day the comic opera, Man- dragola, for which he did the English book opens, the first bound copies of his autobiog- raphy, TROUBADOUR, come in. It's a big book. The reviewers who have been read- ing the galleys have been tell- ing who's in it and everybody's talking about it. TROUBADOUR An Autobiography by Alfred Kreymborg. $3.00. THE GUARDSMAN By Franz Molnar. $2.00. DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS By Eugene O'Neill. (Proba- ble price $1.75. who B come from the Clipping Bureau bring new big reviews on GOD'S STEPCHILDREN. Feels good to have a great novel given its due. Makes work easier for me too. GOD'S STEPCHILDREN By Sarah G. Millin. $2.00. change his mind should avoid is THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN IDEALISM. It puts the silencer on the notion that we are a race of money- grabbers and nothing but. Here in clear cold fact is the record of a continuous national ideal- ism that gives me thrills of pride. What a story it makes! THE HISTORY OF AMER- ICAN IDEALISM By Gustavus Myers. $3.00. GO OT a new angle on ad- vertising WEBER AND FIELDS. A historian wrote in saying that he had sent his chil- dren the book so that they could read about the struggles of these BONI & LIYERIGHT GOOD BOOKS 61 WEST 48TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. Digitized by Google