Books of the Week
WINES: THEIR SELECTION, CARE AND SERVICE — Julian Street—Knopf ($2). Useful information for bibbers, by one who has been at it for 30 years.
DAVID—Naomi Royde-Smith—Viking ($1.75). Psychological novelette about a wealthy mother and her worshipped son.
THE PARIS FRONT, 1914-1918—Michel Corday—Dutton ($5). Parisian war diary of a French bureaucrat.
ARTIST AMONG THE BANKERS—Will Dyson—Dutton ($2). Diatribe against the banking system by British Etcher-Cartoonist Will Dyson, with illustrations superior to text.
THE CROSS OF PEACE—Philip Gibbs— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Novel of a converted officer who works vainly for peace, finds love instead.
AT 33—Eva Le Gallienne—Longmans, Green ($3.50). Reminiscences of the founder-director of Manhattan’s Civic Repertory Theatre.
DAYS WITHOUT END—Eugene O’Neill—Random House ($2.50). O’Neill’s latest play, published simultaneously with the Manhattan opening.
CANNIBAL QUEST—Gordon Sinclair—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Canadian journalist on the loose in Mandalay, Bali, Baluchistan.
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