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g o g g J & m ¥ ¥ k E faltering just a few steps ahead of the pro- vider. An old story in fact, but an unusal theme for the novelist. And no wonder. Set down in print it is a hideously selfish and revolting ex- e - L) - L L) o < - v‘ \ GILBE A J . ) Van Loon’s Newest Contribution Concerns Mankind,” ete. New York: Horace Live- at that, who is as relentless in pursuit as some hibit of the human. Here is a writer, a woman fierce and hungry animal with the scent of food in its nostrils. David Golder, a Jewish lad ‘moving forward and upward toward financial command is nothing so new. Just what this Rembrandt— “Maurice Guest’’ Comes mmu A il daily program of acquisitiveness does to the boy and man comes out with the slow and certain stamp of the years upon him. And the ks. out direct regard to the special form of his fundamental notions about life and its conduct f Autumn Boo tety o Back—Wide Var T m. P 3 % mn $5F igs I same is true of the wife and daughter—to want more and more and more. To be ever on the strain toward the gold hoard—that is what happens to them. And at the last, the bitter through the medium of Christianity. - in the world wants to be, it is not the man, depressing last, where all are just what no SELECTED PREJUDICES. By H. L. Mencken, HELEF umw m £8°% hnmmmmm 21188 iyl not David Golder, who is the most revolting of the family trio. The other two surpass him, New York: The Modern Library. Here is life. Here also is art, indubitably that. Books Received PIONEERS OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT. By- For at least he was a worker. They were loaf- ers and nothing more. Life covers itself, hides its deep cruelties and littlenesses. It has to. With art it is not se. Above all else must the artist select and ar- range, balance and harmonize the elements of his work till, finished and projected, it reveals truth, utter truth, in either its loveliness or in its hatefulness. A first novel. Maybe the last one. It commands respect and admiration for its through-and-through quality. OU are herewith notified that this is “a seléction of the best of H. L. Mencken's chapters on one or another of the outstanding frailties of the human. The farmer, the politic- ian, the believer on one hand and the skeptic on the other. Here the doctor and the scientist, the business man and the average man. Here, little book at hand on the reading table. Then, when you are almost gone under the wearying ways of a largely flat and platitudinous world, reach out for Henry Mencken and his restoring ‘Prejudices’. He pounds and thunders, and just about what you yourself would like to say but have not the insides to do it? Put this thin Pive Volumes of ‘Prejudices’.” A very conserva- tive “selection” covering about a dozen short others—martyrs and cynics and relations. You know what happens to each of these. You do, that is, if you know Henry Mencken. And who does not know this courageous man who says k 4 It is old diarist of that other day. An ancestor of his own, maybe, Maybe not. No matter. the intimacy that counts, and of that there is no lack. The run of events for the great painter himself is bitter and disastrous. Genius is bound to suffer, since a canny world demands Indianapolis: The Frederick D. Kershner. By Burris Jenkins, author of “Heroes of Bobbs-Merrill Co. AMERICAN RELIGION AS I SEE IT LIVED. politician—what he knows about I*m is worse. And the pacifist—well, Jet it go. But, you see, you don’t let it go. In the main, you agree— and are afraid to say it out. Instead ydu get a snarls and snaps, according to the size of his disgruntlement for the moment. The farmer— what he thinks of the farmer is a scandal. The Faith,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mere STRATEGY IN HANDLING PEOPLE. By Ewe Pierce & Library. :RP Edited by Ernest Rhys. New York Dutton & Co. FAUST. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ing T. Webb and John J. B. 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