Books: Good Books: Oct. 29, 1923

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:

THE EAGLE'S SHADOW — James Branch Cabell — McBride ($2.00). Mr. Cabell's first novel, long out of print, now republished in a new, revised edition with an introduction by Edwin Bjorkman. A light, urbane comedy, concerned with three wills, the power of money, a beautiful and vituperative heroine with numberless suitors, the disadvantages of proposing by mistake. The scene is laid in Virginia in the remote and fantastis days of Roosevelt's Presidency....

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