Books: The Cream…

THE CREAM … ¶ There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME’S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory “blurbs” are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book’s mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶ Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season’s literature.

Science, History, Philosophy ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN Roy Chapman Andrews* — Putnam ($6). ” Asia is the mother of the continents! “

FALLODON PAPERS — Viscount Grey —Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Statesman’s recreations; with woodcuts.

THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN — by 16 members of the Faculty of the University of Chicago — University of Chicago Press ($4). For a knowledgeable concept of the cosmos.

THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LIFE — Jerome Dowd — Century ( $ 5 ). A synthesis in perspective.

THE PANCHATANTRA — Translated by Arthur W. Ryder — University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop.

WHITE WATERS AND BLACK — Gordon MacCreagh — Century ( $ 5 ). Serious-minded Amazon exploration boldly chronicled.

THE GANG — Frederic M. Thrasher — University of Chicago Press— ($3). A six-years’, first-hand study of 1,313 crime clubs.

MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN’ — Herbert and Edward Quick — Holt ($5). Vivid history of a colorful epoch.

Biography H. R. H., THE PRINCE OF WALES — Major F. E. Verney, M. C. — Doran ($3.50). The solid side of a socialarbiter.

DARWIN — Gamaliel Bradford — Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). The soul of a legend.

ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE — Hervey Allen — Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan Poe.

DEMOSTHENES — Georges Clemenceau — Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Spiritually, an autobiography.

MR. CHARLES, KING OF ENGLAND — John Drinkwater — Doran ($5). A merry monarch, disgracefully fascinating.

EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON’S CABINET — David F. Houston — Doubleday, Page (2 vols. $10). A business man reflects on Administration.

MARCABRUN — Ramon Guthrie — Doran ($2.50). A twelfth century troubadour and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

WINNIE-THE-POOH — A. A. Milne — Dutton ($2). Christopher Robin thought it was a boy, but it wasn’t.

BELLARION, THE FORTUNATE — Rafael Sabatini — Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mediaeval scholar into Renaissance warrior.

CORDELIA CHANTRELL — Meade Minnigerode — Putnam ($2). Belle of Richmond, toast of Charleston.

THE FACE OF SILENCE — Dhan Gopal Mukerji — Dutton ($2). Legend of a Calcutta convent, by a westernized Hindu.

THE HARD-BOILED VIRGIN — Frances Newman — Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself.

THE WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD — H. G. Wells — Doran (2 vols. $5). An intelligent 20th Century Briton recapitulates frankly.

LESS THAN KIN — Charles Caldwell Dobie — John Day ($2). The wine of a girl’s life pressed out in California.

MITYA’S LOVE — Ivan Bunin — Holt ($2). A Russian boy’s yearnings.

LORD RAINGO — Arnold Bennett — Doran ($2). Grown-up boys governing England.

ANGEL — Du Bose Heyward — Doran ($2). Southern hill girl.

FRATERNITY Row — L. & L. Montrose — Doran ($2). The state university reprimanded, petted, teased.

WEDLOCK — Jacob Wassermann — Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The collapse of marriage in a chaotic age.

SHOT TOWERS — John T. Mclntyre — Stokes ($2.50). Youngbloods, hackney tandems, wasp waists; like Dickens.

Verse, Humor

EAST WIND — Amy Lowell — Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). Her second posthumous volume; narrative poems of New England.

THE YOUNGER MARRIED SET — George S. Chappell — Houghton Mifflin ($1.75). In Suburbia; illustrated by Gluyas Williams.

¶ Should booksellers fail, the facilities of TIME’s book department are at its readers’ disposal to enlarge upon or order the above, or any other, books. Inclose cash or a check to the Book Editor, TIME the Newsmagazine, Penton Building, Cleveland, Ohio, making plain to whom you wish your purchases sent.

* Substantiator of Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne’s daring hypothesis that central Asia was the point of dispersal of mammalia. Born in Wisconsin 42 years ago, Dr. Andrews is a lifelong zoologist, an indefatigable explorer. Chinese ructions drove him from his fossil beds this year, to lecture in the U. S. on dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria and kindred marvels.