February 1928 Issue, THE BOOKMAN

- Boston: A Contemporary Historical Novel
  Upton Sinclair
  , pp. 593-611
- Greek Gestures
  William Griffith
  , pp. 612-614
- On Some Unpublished Letters of George Meredith
  R.E. Gordon George
  , pp. 615-620
- On Being a Public Nuisance
  Kenneth Carl Walz
  , pp. 621-626
- Dead Men Under Buildings
  Charles Norman
  , p. 627
- Dean Swift and Vanessa
  Shane Leslie
  , pp. 628-634
- William Beebe
  Charles G. Shaw
  , pp. 635-636
- Mr. Woggelbaum Cooks an Opera
  Roy L. McCardell
  , pp. 637-638
- This Death
  Jennette Dowling
  , pp. 639-640
- Absurd Child
  Dorothy Belle Flanagan
  , p. 641
- The Dilemma of the American Jew
  Florence Kiper Frank
  , pp. 642-645
- News Story Contest: Prize Story for November
  W.A. Macdonald
  , pp. 646-648
  Harlem Says Bye Bey Honey to Florence Mills
- Positano
  Louis Untermeyer
  , p. 649
- 'Round and 'Round and 'Round
  Robert Benchley
  , pp. 650-651
- Ballads, Songs and Snatches
  Abbe Niles
  , pp. 652-655
- Anonymously
  John Farrar
  , pp. 656-660
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  A Bookman's Notes (5 Items) , p. 661
  1. The Modesty of Reporters, p. 661
  2. A Great Skeptic, p. 662
  3. Points of Accuracy, pp. 663-665
  4. Trivia and Momenta, p. 666
  5. A Wide-Awake Professor, pp. 667-669
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  Those Who Can, Criticize (3 Reviews)
  Burton Rascoe
  , pp. 670-676
  Leaves and Fruit, by Edmund Gosse
  1. Leaves and Fruit by Edmund Gosse
  2. Open House by J.B. Priestley
  3. Prejudices, Sixth Series by H.L. Mencken
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  George W. Bellows: His Lithography (Review)
  Rockwell Kent
  , p. 677
  George Bellows: His Lithographs, by Emma S. Bellows and George Bellows
  1. George Bellows: His Lithographs by Emma S. Bellows and George Bellows
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  The Eternal Triangle (3 Reviews)
  C.E. Ayres
  , pp. 678-680
  Idealism as a Philosophy, by R.F. Alfred Hoernle
  1. Idealism as a Philosophy by R.F. Alfred Hoernle
  2. Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  3. Inside Experience by Joseph K. Hart
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  The Hither of the Beyond (Review)
  Horace M. Kallen
  , pp. 681-683
  Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, by Alfred North Whitehead
  1. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect by Alfred North Whitehead
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  A Shelf of Recent Books (8 Reviews) , pp. 684-685
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    Musicians In tragedy and Comedy (5 Reviews)
    Axton Clark
    , pp. 684-685
    1. Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan
    2. The Unconscious Beethoven by Ernest Newman
    3. Letters of Richard Wagner by Wilhelm Altmann and Richard Wagner
    4. Modern Russian Composers by Leonid Sabaneev
    5. Pages from My Life by Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
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    The Chronic Sickness of British Coal (Review)
    Keith Hutchison
    , pp. 686-687
    1. The British Coal Dilemma by Isador Lubin and Helen Everett
  3. [+]
    The Search for George Sand (2 Reviews)
    Edna Kenton
    , pp. 688-689
    1. The Seven Strings of the Lyre by Elizabeth W. Schermerhorn
    2. George Sand: The Search for Love by Marie Jenney Howe
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    Octave (8 Reviews)
    John Hyde Preston
    , pp. 690-691
    1. Steep Ascent by Jean Starr Untermeyer
    2. The Land by V. Sackville-West
    3. Trinc by H. Phelps Putnam
    4. A World Too Old by Ramon Guthrie
    5. Beauty the Pilgrim by Gerald Gould
    6. Little Henrietta by Lizette Woodworth Reese
    7. Upper Night by Scudder Middleton
    8. The Bright Doom by John Hall Wheelock
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    Books of Social Protest (10 Reviews)
    Stanton A. Coblentz
    , pp. 692-693
    1. Daughter of the Revolution, and Other Stories by John Reed
    2. The Main Stem by William Edge
    3. An American Pilgrimage by Grace Scribner
    4. The ABC of Psychology by Vance Randolph
    5. The ABC of Art by John Haldane Blackie
    6. The Foundations of Modern Civilization by Harrison C. Thomas and William A. Hamm
    7. Company Unions by Robert W. Dunn
    8. Proudhon's Solution of the Social Problem by Henry Cohen and P.-J. Proudhon
    9. Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets by Roger N. Baldwin and Peter Kropotkin
    10. Equitable Society and How to Create It by Warren Edwin Brokaw
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    Farthest North (2 Reviews)
    Earl Hanson
    , pp. 694-695
    1. The Polar Regions and Their Problems
    2. The Polar Regions by R.N. Rudmose Brown
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    A Century of Love and Intrigue (8 Reviews)
    Florence H. Winterburn
    , pp. 696-697
    1. Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughters and Her Friends by Richard Aldington and Madame de Sevigne
    2. The Great Days of Versailles by G.F. Bradby
    3. The Private Life of the Marshal, the Duke of Richelieu by Louis F.A. Du Plessis Richelieu
    4. The Secret Memoirs of the Duchess D'Abrantes by Robert Chantemesse and Duchess d'Abrantes
    5. Three Stories by Mrs. Wilfred Jackson
    6. Napoleon and His Women Friends by Gertrude Kuntze-Dolton Aretz
    7. Napoleon in Captivity by Julian Park and Count Aliksandr Balmain
    8. The Woman of the Eighteenth Century by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncart
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    Words on Music (Review)
    B.H. Haggin
    , p. 698
    1. Fundamentals of Musical Art by Edward Dickinson
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  Social Institutions in the Animal Kingdom (3 Reviews)
  Alexander Wayrill
  , pp. 699-700
  The Social Life in the Animal World, by Friedrich Alverdes
  1. The Social Life in the Animal World by Friedrich Alverdes
  2. The Life of the White Ant by Maurice Maeterlinck
  3. Conditioned Reflexes by I.P. Pavlov
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  Africana (4 Reviews)
  Harry Potamkin
  , pp. 701-702
  Timbuctoo, by Leland Hall
  1. Timbuctoo by Leland Hall
  2. The Black Journey by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Auduin-Dubriel, ...
  3. The African Saga by Blaise Cendrars
  4. Gritny People by R. Emmet Kennedy
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  Beauty---In Books (3 Reviews)
  Florenz Ziegfeld
  , pp. 703-704
  Any Girl Can Be Good-Looking, by Hazel Rawson Cades
  1. Any Girl Can Be Good-Looking by Hazel Rawson Cades
  2. The Etiquette of Beauty by Dorothy Cocks
  3. Beauty and Truth by Lois Leeds and Hilda Kaji
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  The Universality of Nations (8 Reviews)
  Parker Tyler
  , pp. 705-706
  The Vanguard, by Arnold Bennett
  1. The Vanguard by Arnold Bennett
  2. City of Bread by Alexander Neweroff
  3. The Fifth Child by Klaus Mann
  4. The Bloody Poet by Desider Kostolanyi
  5. On the King's Couch by Octave Aubry
  6. Uncle Anghel by Panait Istrati
  7. Lily-Iron by Mary Biggs
  8. The Bullfighters by Henry de Montherlant
- The Bookman's Monthly Score, pp. 707-742
- In the Bookman Office
- Looking Ahead with the Publishers
- Frontispiece: Upton Sinclair
  George Hartman
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  Globe Trotting Through Books (12 Reviews)
  Elizabeth Stead Taber
  Through the Heel of Italy, by Katharine Hooker
  1. Through the Heel of Italy by Katharine Hooker
  2. Florence by Camille Mauclair
  3. Florence and Her Treasures by Herbert M. Vaughan
  4. Florence by John Charles Van Dyke
  5. Seeing Italy by Edward M. Newman
  6. In and About Paris by Sisley Huddleston
  7. A Londoner's Own London by Charles G. Harper
  8. London by George H. Cunningham
  9. Medieval London by Gordon Home
  10. Historic Streets of London by Lilliam Russan and Ashmore Russan
  11. Old London City by Lilliam Russan and Ashmore Russan
  12. Highlights of Manhattan by Will Irwin
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  Open-Mindedness and the Indians (2 Reviews)
  Mary Hunter
  The Indians of North America, by Edna Kenton
  1. The Indians of North America by Edna Kenton
  2. God's Drum, and Other Cycles from Indian Lore by Hartley Burr Alexander
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  Fiction Notes (8 Reviews)
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    Review Rebellion, by Mateel Howe Farnham (Review)
    1. Rebellion by Mateel Howe Farnham
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    Review Venture's End, by Karin Michaelis (Review)
    1. Venture's End by Karin Michaelis
  3. [+]
    Review Beyond the Bund, by Philip Kerby (Review)
    1. Beyond the Bund by Philip Kerby
  4. [+]
    Review Corunna Road, by G. Wyndham Haslett (Review)
    1. Corunna Road by G. Wyndham Haslett
  5. [+]
    Review The Deep End, by Patrick Miller (Review)
    1. The Deep End by Patrick Miller
  6. [+]
    Review The Gilded Caravan, by Alice Woods (Review)
    1. The Gilded Caravan by Alice Woods
  7. [+]
    Review The Quest of Youth, by Jeffery Farnol (Review)
    1. The Quest of Youth by Jeffery Farnol
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    Review The Shadow Eros, by Henry Chester Tracy (Review)
    1. The Shadow Eros by Henry Chester Tracy
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  In Brief Review (14 Reviews)
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    Review Industrial Art and the Museum, by Charles R. R... (Review)
    1. Industrial Art and the Museum by Charles R. Richards
  2. [+]
    Review Clairvoyance and Materialisation, by Gustave G... (Review)
    1. Clairvoyance and Materialisation by Gustave Geley
  3. [+]
    Review The Higher Spiritualism, by John C. Leonard (Review)
    1. The Higher Spiritualism by John C. Leonard
  4. [+]
    Review Poetry and Myth, by Frederick Clarke Prescott (Review)
    1. Poetry and Myth by Frederick Clarke Prescott
  5. [+]
    Review Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, 1... (Review)
    1. Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, 1879-1914 by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel
  6. [+]
    Review Science and Human Progress, by Oliver Lodge (Review)
    1. Science and Human Progress by Oliver Lodge
  7. [+]
    Review Oliver Cromwell: A Character Study, by John Dr... (Review)
    1. Oliver Cromwell: A Character Study by John Drinkwater
  8. [+]
    Review The Memoirs of Queen Hortense, by Jean Hanotea... (Review)
    1. The Memoirs of Queen Hortense by Jean Hanoteau and Queen Hortense
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    Review Umbria Santa, by Corrado Ricci (Review)
    1. Umbria Santa by Corrado Ricci
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    Review Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse, by Helen Dor... (Review)
    1. Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston
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    Review Conversation, by Olive Heseltine (Review)
    1. Conversation by Olive Heseltine
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    Review Recollections, Grave and Gay, by George Horton (Review)
    1. Recollections, Grave and Gay by George Horton
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    Review The New Medical Follies, by Morris Fishbein (Review)
    1. The New Medical Follies by Morris Fishbein
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    Review Dickens Days in Boston, by Edward F. Payne (Review)
    1. Dickens Days in Boston by Edward F. Payne
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