Books: ALERT READERS

—are not permitting the season to slip by without having read, or planned to read, books designated by the best current criticism as:

Significant

The Origin of the Next War—John Bakeless ($2.50). Bursting with quiet facts.

Havelock Ellis—Isaac Goldberg ($4). Biography and criticism of “the most civilized Englishman”—fulsome but sound.

Our Times: The Turn of the Century, 1900-1904—Mark Sullivan ($5). Yesterday catalogued with all its pomps and properties.

Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years—Carl Sandburg (2 vols., $10). The country lawyer by a poet of the cornlands—tremendously human.

Light and Pleasant

The High Adventure — Jeffery Farnol ($2). Another buoyant epic of the broad highway.

Simonetta Perkins—L. P. Hartley ($1.50). A Bostonienne tempted in Venice.

The Fourth Queen—Isabel Paterson ($2). Galleon-scuttling, bussing and swearing in the bawdy days of Queen Bess.

Nize Baby—Milt Gross ($2). Paroxysms in Ghettoese.

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