Books: Good Books: Apr. 14, 1924

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

MIRAGE—Edgar Lee Masters—Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on—the helpless victim of a mirage—by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon...

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