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TRODDEN GOLD—Howard Vincent O'Brien—Little, Brown ($2.00). Mr. O'Brien has an unaccountable grudge against money. On almost every page he takes a nasty crack at it. The story is of two girls, one of whom married a man who quickly became rich. The other married a chemist to whom Science was all and Mammon a despicable deity. A penetrating study of the problem of money and why not to want it.
A BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT—Harry L. Foster—Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated.
PICTURE FRAMES—Thyra Samter Winslow—Knopf ($2.50). This is a volume of short stories told with a complete command of detail. The best is called A Cycle of Manhattan. It tells how and by what gradual stages the Rosenheimers became the A. Lincoln Rosses, migrating from rooms over a Macdougal Street stable to Riverside Drive, Park Avenue, the East Sixties, and finally back again to the Macdougal Street rooms.
A HANDBOOK OF COOKERY FOR A SMALL HOUSE—Jessie Conrad (With a preface by Joseph Conrad)—Doubleday ($1.75). Joseph Conrad offers himself "modestly and gratefully as a Living Example" of his wife's art. Her style, lacking the richer beauties of his, has a toothsome directness. The following excerpt is characteristic: "The best plan is to soak the head in a bowl of cold water and a little salt all night, previously removing the brains." The quotation is from a fanciful essay entitled "Calf's Head."
* His Children's Children — Arthur Train—Scribner's ($2.00).