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THE THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT—Grant Overton—Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset—Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II—the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins—a rash debt undischarged—the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer's as the author's.
*THE STORY OF MY LIFE—Sir Harry H. Johnston—Bobbe Merrill ($5.00).