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Welcome NEW YORKER

Two New Yorkers

They started life on the East Side; the play instinct was strong in them. At ten they had their tryouts and they emerged those supreme lively artists—Weber and Fields. Here is their story, WEBER and FIELDS, Their Tribulations, Triumphs and Their Associates. (32 full page plates, $3.50) “The pick of the heap,” says the N. Y. Evening Post. “The public,” says F. F. V. in the N. Y. Tribune, “owes Mr. Isman a debt of gratitude.” Etc., Etc.

Who Is Sarah Gertrude Millin?

A great novel having come among us, GOD’S STEP-CHILDREN, there is considerable curiosity about the author, Mrs. Sarah Gertrude Millin. Mrs. Millinis the literary editor of The Cape Town Times, the most influential paper in South Africa. She has always been well known in England. She is a frequent contributor to the Adelphi, the literary monthly edited by J. Middleton Murry. She is keenly interested in contemporary affairs and in local African problems. She has written The Dark River and The Jordans both of which have won honor. GOD′S STEPCHILDREN, the strange, great, darkly beautiful novel, that has made her famous overnight, monopolises literary conversation everywhere. “Here,” says the N.Y. Times “is a classic of our own times.” $2.00.

Literary Lane Who′s Who

THE boys and girls down at Greenwich Village, and the boys and girls at the Algonquin are all guessing about Who's Who in Alfred Kreymborg's autobiography, TROUBADOUR. Covering, as it does, most of the important literary movements and contacts of our generation, and being a frank record, it has some delectable gossip, besides being a remarkable book in itself, one of the most unique self-records ever penned. Late February. $3.00.

“It Would Have Made Thomas Carlyle Laugh”

SO wrote Herbert Gorman in the Evening Post about Rose Macaulay’s new satire, ORPHAN ISLAND. Imagine Victorianism on a South Sea Island! That's the situation Rose Macaulay has invented to stimulate her satire. After reading it you will agree with Laurence Stallings, that “She must be the wittiest woman alive. Her every book is worth a half dozen of her contemporaries’ attempts to satirize the age.” $2.00

The Modern Library

WITH THE CHILD OF PLEASURE (the latest Modern Library title, Introduction by Ernest Boyd $0.95) d’Annunzio, established himself as the supreme artist of passion. Henry James wrote of it: “It is a tribute to the truth with which it is presented that we should scarce know where else to look for so complete and convincing an account of such adventures. Casanova is, of course, infinitely more copious, but his autobiography is cheap loose journalism compared with the directed, finely condensed irridescent epic of Count Andrea in THE CHILD OF PLEASURE.

Thunder for Demagogues

BACK in West Virginia an indignant legislator proposed to suppress us for publishing THESE UNITED STATES (Second Series). Being perverse, in matters like this, it encourages us all the more to shout from all the housetops that as literature, history, social interpretation, and discovery, THESE UNITED STATES is the finest book on our country that has yet appeared. Second and concluding volume just published. $3.00. 2 vols. $5.50.

Broadway Rises to Literature

WHETHER it is due to publishers becoming producers, or to the less commercial producers for organizing a literate audience, or to the movies for purging it by drawing away the lowbrow elements, Broadway is putting on better and better plays—plays that are actually literature. That is why they are being published. Two of the year’s best are, THE FIREBRAND by Edwin Justus Mayer ($2.00); and THE GUARDSMAN by Franz Molnar ($2.00.)

A Famous hat ITS name is Wilbur, an ordinary respectable felt hat, whom Hendrik Van Loon conducts through the other world. The hereafter has been done solemnly by Dante and facetiously by Mr. Bangs but never with such perfect and delicious satire as here. There are 52 full page, full color Van Loon illustrations. The Story of Wilbur The Hat. $3.50.