LIST IN BELLES-LETTRES
Published by
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
THE AWAKENING OF SPRING. By Frank Wedekind. A tragedy of childhood dealing with the sex question in its relationship to the education of children. Fifth edition. Cloth, gilt top, deckle edge, $1.25 net. By mail, $1.35. "Here is a play which on its production caused a sensation in Germany, and can without exaggeration be described as remarkable. These studies of adolescence are as impressive as they are unique."—The Athenæum, London.
THE CREDITOR. By August Strindberg. Translated from the Swedish by Francis J. Ziegler. A psychological study of the divorce question by one of the greatest Scandinavian dramatists. Cloth, 75 cents net; postage, 8 cents. "Fordringsägare" was produced for the first time in 1889, when it was given at Copenhagen as a substitute for "Fröken Julie," the performance of which was forbidden by the censor. Four years later Berlin audiences made its acquaintance, since when it has remained the most popular of Strindberg's plays in Germany.
TWO DEATHS IN THE BRONX. By Donald Evans. Ebony grey boards, antique wove paper. $1.00 net. Mr. Evans has again sounded a new note in poetry, and possibly an important one. The modernism, mistakenly called Futurism, that in the "Sonnets from the Patagonian" sometimes merely amazed, in the present instance, stimulates and satisfies. The volume is a series of pitiless photographs of profligate men and women who fritter away life, seeking new pleasures, new sensations. It is a gallery of incurable poseurs. Mr. Evans's method of approach is irony, and each poem is a vial of acid.
A DILEMMA. By Leonidas Andreiyeff. Translated from the Russian by John Cournos. Cloth, 75 cents net; postage, 7 cents. A remarkable analysis of mental subtleties as experienced by a man who is uncertain as to whether or not he is insane. A story that is Poe-like in its intensity and full of
