Books: New Books: Aug. 11, 1924

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: SALLIE'S NEWSPAPER—Edwin Herbert Lewis—Hyman McGee ($2.00)— "I'd love to see everybody's name in the paper every day. . . . Suppose the telephone directory had a real news item after each name? Wouldn't that make a pretty good newspaper?" So Sallie, heiress, of a town near Chicago, directed a young, sensitive man to build the ideal newspaper. Love and Melodrama interferred. Eventually the young man went to the hospital and...

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