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- The English Novel: Part I, pp. 369-375
- Prayer for a New Mother, p. 376
- The Drift of the Current, pp. 377-382
- A Christmas Garland of Gift Books, pp. 383-385
- Sunday Dinner, pp. 386-390 A Story
- When Keats Discovered Homer, pp. 391-402
- Two Sonnets From Greece, p. 403
- The Embattled Humanists, pp. 404-410
- Allen's Christmas Trilogy and Its Meaning, pp. 411-415
- How I Made a Crime Wave, pp. 416-419
- Charles Dickens, Household Word, pp. 420-428
- Books in an Old House, pp. 429-433
- Four Caricatures, pp. 434-437
- The Devil Is Bored, pp. 438-440
- The Printed Word, pp. 441-444
- The History of Their Books: Booth Tarkington, pp. 445-448
- Richmond and Its Writers, pp. 449-453
- Classical and Modern, pp. 454-456
- "Ballads, Songs and Snatches , pp. 457-459
- [+]Front Line Fiction (4 Reviews) , pp. 460-463Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- The Way It Was with Them by Peadar O'Donnell
- Nightseed by H.A. Manhood
- Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- [+]Novels on the Table (6 Reviews) , pp. 464-466Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley
- Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
- Moses by Louis Untermeyer
- Brother and Brother by Dorothy Van Doren
- Scarlet Heels by Edith M. Stern
- The Grandson by Hildur Dixelius
- Harness by A. Hamilton Gibbs
- [+]The Degradation of Dogma (5 Reviews) , pp. 467-470Cotton Mather: Keeper of the Puritan Conscience, by Ralph Philip Boas and Louise Boas
- Cotton Mather: Keeper of the Puritan Conscience by Ralph Philip Boas and Louise Boas
- Evangelized America by Grover C. Loud
- Lorenzo Dow: The Bearer of the Word by Charles Coleman Sellers
- The Confusion of Tongues by Charles W. Ferguson
- John Wesley: A Portrait by Abram Lipsky
- [+]Poets and Poetasters (10 Reviews) , pp. 471-473The Tower, by William Butler Yeats
- The Tower by William Butler Yeats
- West-Running Brook by Robert Frost
- Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres by Thomas Hardy
- Time Importuned by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Legend of Quincibald by Leonard Bacon
- A Son of Earth by William Ellery Leonard
- The Lost Lyrist by Elizabeth Hollister Frost
- Travelling Standing Still by Genevieve Taggard
- Sweet Water and Bitter by Virginia Moore
- Mr. Pope and Other Poems by Allen Tate
- [+]Figures of History (6 Reviews) , pp. 474-476Charles James Fox, by John Drinkwater
- Charles James Fox by John Drinkwater
- James the Second by Hilaire Belloc
- Rasputin: The Holy Devil by Rene Fulop-Miller
- Meet General Grant by W.E. Woodward
- The Discoverer by Andre de Hevesy
- John Smith, Man of Adventure---Also Pocahontas by John Gould Fletcher
- [+]Flower of Old Japan (Review) , pp. 477-479Blue Trousers, by Shikibu Murasaki
- Blue Trousers by Shikibu Murasaki
- [+]Six European Novelists (6 Reviews) , pp. 480-482Cavalleria Rusticana, and Other Stories, by Giovanni Verga
- Cavalleria Rusticana, and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga
- Caspar Hauser by Jacob Wassermann
- Theresa by Arthur Schnitzler
- The New Temple by Johan Bojer
- The Women at the Pump by Knut Hamsun
- Trenck: The Love Story of a Favourite by Bruno Frank
- [+]A Shelf of Recent Books (6 Reviews) , p. 483
- [+]The Man Dickens (3 Reviews) , p. 483
- The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
- Charles Dickens: A Biography from New Sources by Ralph Straus
- This Side Idolatry by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts
- [+]Miss Millay in a Riper Mood (Review) , p. 484
- The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- [+]Beveridge's Lincoln (Review) , pp. 485-486
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 by Albert J. Beveridge
- [+]The World of Mr. Beerbohm (Review) , p. 487
- A Variety of Things by Max Beerbohm
- [+]A Clear Sight for Savoyards (Review) , p. 488
- The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan by Isaac Goldberg
- [+]Glimpses of Victorian America (Review) , pp. 489-490
- Memories of a Sculptor's Wife by Mary French
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- New Books for Children, pp. 491-493
- [+]Novices Among the Novelists (3 Reviews) , pp. 494-495Prelude to a Rope for Myer, by L. Steni
- Prelude to a Rope for Myer by L. Steni
- Black Sadie by T. Bowyer Campbell
- Heritage by Rose C. Feld
- The Bookman's Monthly Score, pp. 496-522
- [+]Notes on New Books (12 Reviews)
- [+]Essays and Criticism (3 Reviews)
- Modern English in the Making by George H. McKnight and Bert Emsley
- Matthew Arnold by Hugh Kingsmill
- The Outermost House by Henry Beston
- [+]History Law and Social Science (5 Reviews)
- Wage Arbitration by George Soule
- The Hammer and the Scythe by Anne O'Hare McCormick
- Prohibition, Legal and Illegal by Howard Lee McBain
- Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 by Nathan Fine
- Race and Civilization by Friedrich O. Hertz
- [+]Education (Review)
- College or Kindergarten? by C. Maxwell McConn
- [+]Medicine (Review)
- A Short History of Medicine by Charles J. Singer
- [+]Biography (4 Reviews)
- Hans Andersen, the Man by Elith P.P. Reumert
- Anthony Trollope by Hugh Walpole
- Lincoln: Emancipator of the Nation by Frederick Trevor Hill
- Prisoners All by Oskar Maria Graf
- [+]Travel (11 Reviews)
- Memories of Books and Places by J.A. Hammerton
- The Romance and Legend of the Riviera by Ysabel De Witte
- An Italian Holiday by Paul Wilstach
- Roads to the North by Charles S. Brooks
- Magic Ladakh by Martin Louis Alan Gompertz
- Round About Andorra by Bernard Newman
- Winged Sandals by Lucien Price
- Seeing Egypt and the Holy Land by E.M. Newman
- Things Seen in Madeira by Jessie Edith Hutcheon
- Unfathomed Japan by Harold W. Foght and Alice Robbins Fought
- Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell
- [+]Fiction (30 Reviews)
- "Pipe Down, Sailor" by Charles W. Whittemore
- The Vicar's Daughter by E.H. Young
- The Sons of Cain by James Warner Bellah
- Stone Desert by Hugo Wast
- Golden Rain by Owen. Rutter
- Strange Fruit by Phyllis Bottome
- The Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou by Charles Pettit
- Gotobedde Lane by Marian Bower
- Gyfford of Weare by Jeffery Farnol
- Angel Child by Grace Perkins
- When They Love by Maurice Baring
- Head in the Wind by Lesley Storm
- The Empress of Hearts by E. Barrington
- Lean Twilight by Edward Shenton
- Beggars Can Choose by Margaret Weymouth Jackson
- Cowboy by Ross Santee
- The Top Kick by Leonard H. Nason
- Fire of Spring by Dorothy Coursen
- Cock's Feather by Katharine Newlin Burt
- Things Were Different by Elisabeth Fagan
- Reubeni, Prince of the Jews by Max Brod
- The Bride's Progress by Harold Weston
- The Feathered Nest by Margaret Leech
- Towers Along the Grass by Ellen Du Pois Taylor
- The Jealous Gods by Gertrude Atherton
- Headlines by Mildred Gilman
- A Common Cheat by Sophia Cleugh
- Infidelity by Arthur Weigall
- Here Comes an Old Sailor by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard
- What Everybody Wanted by Elsie Singmaster
- [+]Books for Children (5 Reviews)
- A Hat-Tub Tale by Caroline Dwight Emerson
- The Treasure of Carcassonne by Albert Robida
- The Begging Deer, and Other Stories of Japanese Children by Dorothy Rowe
- The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
- The Fairy Shoemaker, and Other Fairy Poems by Boris Artzybasheff
- [+]Detective Fiction (28 Reviews)
- The Prisoner in the Opal by A.E.W. Mason
- The Man Who Laughed by Gerard Fairlie
- Murder by Evelyn Davies Johnson and Gretta Palmer
- Time Is a Gentleman by Charles Goff Thomson
- The Diamond Rose Mystery by Gertrude Knevels
- The Crimson Quest by Dennis Barr
- Blind Circle by Maurice Renard and Albert Jean
- The Instrument of Destiny by John D. Beresford
- American Ghost Stories by C. Armitage Harper
- Who Killed Gregory? by Eugene Jones
- The Shadow on the Left by Augustus Muir
- The Murder of Mrs. Davenport by Anthony Gilbert
- The New Gun Runners by Neil Gordon
- Murder Mansion by Herman Landon
- The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley
- Murder Will Out by George E. Minot
- The Secret Brotherhood by John G. Brandon
- The Door of Death by John Esteven
- The Swinging Shutter by C. Fraser-Simson
- The Enterprising Burglar by Hearnden Balfour
- Rogues Fall Out by Herbert Adams
- The Net Around Joan Ingilby by A. Fielding
- Werewolf by Charles Swen
- The Ship Carriage Mystery by Lyman Brock
- Not at Night! by Herbert Asbury
- Tiger Claws by Frank L. Packard
- The Wrist Mark by J.S. Fletcher
- Redwood and Gold by Jackson Gregory
- In the Bookman Office
- The Book Mart
- [+]Miscellaneous (3 Reviews)
- American Furniture and Decoration by Edward Stratton Holloway
- The First Hundred Million by E. Haldeman-Julius
- The Shuttle-Craft Book of American Hand-Weaving by Mary Meigs Atwater
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