Books: Good Books: Oct. 8, 1923

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

THE LONE WOLF RETURNS—Louis Joseph Vance—Dutton ($2.00).Michael Lanyard, super-gentleman and super-crook, has faultless evening clothes unruffled by a life of practically continuous crime. Opera-hat in one hand, revolver in the other, spurred on, as the jacket says, by the love of a good woman, he wages horrendous warfare for 367 pages against the underworld henchmen of the bootlegger King of New York. Needless to say the finale finds him triumphant.

THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS—E. M....

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