FICTION: New Publishers

THE MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON—James Branch Cabell—The John Day Co. ($6). Of good publishing there cannot be too much, and the present volume introduces a new house under an old name.* Chief among the tokens that this will be a house of distinction is its announcement that its public offerings will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies),...

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