Books: Good Books: May 19, 1924

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

PIERRE LOTI—NOTES OF MY YOUTH—Assembled by his son—Doubleday ($2.00). Letters and fragments from the diary of that exotic romancer who caused French eyebrows to lift as high as Oscar Wilde lifted English ones. His son seems to have done him a questionable kindness in publishing them; they expose him somewhat ruthlessly. Among the most interesting are some letters from his sister, who understood him, saw through him and told him so. Their...

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