THE CREAM ... ¶ There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME'S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶ Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season's literature.
Science, History, Philosophy ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN Roy Chapman Andrews* — Putnam ($6). " Asia is the mother of the continents! "
FALLODON PAPERS — Viscount Grey —Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Statesman's recreations; with woodcuts.
THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN — by 16 members of the Faculty of the University of Chicago — University of Chicago Press ($4). For a knowledgeable concept of the cosmos.
THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LIFE — Jerome Dowd — Century ( $ 5 ). A synthesis in perspective.
THE PANCHATANTRA — Translated by Arthur W. Ryder — University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop.
WHITE WATERS AND BLACK — Gordon MacCreagh — Century ( $ 5 ). Serious-minded Amazon exploration boldly chronicled.
THE GANG — Frederic M. Thrasher — University of Chicago Press— ($3). A six-years', first-hand study of 1,313 crime clubs.
MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' — Herbert and Edward Quick — Holt ($5). Vivid history of a colorful epoch.
Biography H. R. H., THE PRINCE OF WALES — Major F. E. Verney, M. C. — Doran ($3.50). The solid side of a socialarbiter.
DARWIN — Gamaliel Bradford — Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). The soul of a legend.
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE — Hervey Allen — Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan Poe.
DEMOSTHENES — Georges Clemenceau — Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Spiritually, an autobiography.
MR. CHARLES, KING OF ENGLAND — John Drinkwater — Doran ($5). A merry monarch, disgracefully fascinating.
EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON'S CABINET — David F. Houston — Doubleday, Page (2 vols. $10). A business man reflects on Administration.
MARCABRUN — Ramon Guthrie — Doran ($2.50). A twelfth century troubadour and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
WINNIE-THE-POOH — A. A. Milne — Dutton ($2). Christopher Robin thought it was a boy, but it wasn't.
BELLARION, THE FORTUNATE — Rafael Sabatini — Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mediaeval scholar into Renaissance warrior.
CORDELIA CHANTRELL — Meade Minnigerode — Putnam ($2). Belle of Richmond, toast of Charleston.
THE FACE OF SILENCE — Dhan Gopal Mukerji — Dutton ($2). Legend of a Calcutta convent, by a westernized Hindu.
THE HARD-BOILED VIRGIN — Frances Newman — Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself.
THE WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD — H. G. Wells — Doran (2 vols. $5). An intelligent 20th Century Briton recapitulates frankly.