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....