December 1924 Issue, THE BOOKMAN

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  The Point of View (9 Items) , p. 385
  1. A Woman and a Book, p. 385
  2. Americana, p. 386
  3. The Case for the First Edition, p. 386
  4. Explosion or Honest Expression, p. 387
  5. Are Old Ladies Forgotten?, p. 388
  6. Why Anthologies?, p. 388
  7. The "Purely Popular Author", p. 389
  8. Mark Twain Year, p. 390
  9. Galahad Again, pp. 390-391
- The Cage
  Dorothy Canfield
  , pp. 392-395
  A Story
- The Unpopular Editor of the Popular Magazine
  George Horace Lorimer
  , p. 396
- The City
  Witter Bynner
  , p. 397
- A Note on the English Novel
  Frank Swinnerton
  , pp. 398-402
- Autumn
  Sara Teasdale
  , p. 403
- Christmas in Graustark
  George Barr McCutcheon
  , pp. 404-408
- Semper Fidelis
  Thomas Boyd
  , pp. 409-411
- Archaeology
  Babette Deutsch
  , p. 412
- The Duchess Visits Her Home Town
  Henry B. Fuller
  , pp. 413-415
- Two Poems
  Nathalia Crane
  , p. 416
- People of Sparta
  H.D.
  , pp. 417-420
- The Log Roller's Hut
  Richardson Wright
  , pp. 421-422
- Sent with an Anonymous Bouquet
  Garreta Helen Busey
  , p. 423
- Getting Into Six Figures---I. Zane Grey
  Arnold Patrick
  , pp. 424-428
- Disillusion
  George Sterling
  , p. 429
- Thackeray's Diary
  John M. Patterson
  , pp. 430-437
- Is There an Easy Way to Write?
  Homer Croy
  , pp. 438-440
- The Conservative Literary Anarchist
  Grant Overton
  , pp. 441-445
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
  Don C. Seitz
  , pp. 446-448
- Hail Friend!
  Percy Marks
  , pp. 449-456
  A Story
- The Londoner
  Simon Pure
  , pp. 457-464
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  The Sketch Book (5 Items) , pp. 465-466
  1. Anatole France the Boy
    Thomas Moult
    , pp. 465-466
  2. Food In Fiction
    Edna Ferber
    , pp. 467-468
  3. Pity the Successful Author!
    James Montgomery Flagg
    , p. 469
  4. Stars of Romance
    Henry Beston
    , pp. 470-471
  5. A Literature of the Screen?
    Ralph Block
    , pp. 472-473
- Spilled Beans
  Robert Benchley
  , pp. 474-476
- Poems of Central Asia
  Achmed Abdullah
  , pp. 477-480
- Is the Costume Drama Dead?
  Stephen Vincent Benet
  , pp. 481-484
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  The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (70 Reviews) , pp. 485-487
  Shackled, by Achmed Abdullah
  1. Shackled by Achmed Abdullah
  2. A Naked King by Albert Ades
  3. The Golden Village by Joseph Anthony
  4. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
  5. These Charming People by Michael Arlen
  6. Gone Native by Asterisk
  7. The Fox's Paw by Ramon Perez de Ayala
  8. Peacock Feathers by Temple Bailey
  9. The Divine Lady by E. Barrington
  10. Pipers and a Dancer by Stella Benson
  11. The Motherless by Bengt Berg
  12. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
  13. R.F.D. No. 3 by Homer Croy
  14. The Gay Conspirators by Philip Curtiss
  15. A Gentleman of Courage by James Oliver Curwood
  16. The Beauty of the Purple by William Stearns Davis
  17. The Finger-Post by Mrs. Henry Dudeney
  18. The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
  19. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
  20. Nina by Susan Ertz
  21. Sailor's Wives by Warner Fabian
  22. Thomas the Lambkin, Gentleman of Fortune by Claude Farrere
  23. So Big by Edna Ferber
  24. Entranced by Grace Flandrau
  25. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  26. Chalk Face by Waldo Frank
  27. The Colour of Youth by V.H. Friedlaender
  28. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
  29. The Broken Bow by L. Allen Harker
  30. The Grand Duke's Finances by Frank Heller
  31. Balisand by Joseph Hergesheimer
  32. Re-Creations by Grace Livingston Hill
  33. Youth Wins by Muriel Hine
  34. The Oblate of St. Benedict by J.-K. Huysmans
  35. Queen Calafia by Vicente Blasco Ibanez
  36. Recompense by Robert Keable
  37. Marbacka by Selma Lagerlof
  38. How to Write Short Stories by Ring W. Lardner
  39. The Coming of Amos by William J. Locke
  40. The Old Men of the Sea by Compton Mackenzie
  41. The Little Girl, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
  42. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
  43. Anthony Dare's Progress by Archibald Marshall
  44. In a Shantung Garden by Louise Jordan Miln
  45. Paulus Fy: The History of an Esthete by Helene Mullins and Marie Gallegher
  46. Rose of the World by Kathleen Norris
  47. Julie Cane by Harvey O'Higgins
  48. The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  49. Viennese Medley by Edith O'Shaughnessy
  50. Semi-Attached by Anne Parrish
  51. Touchdowns by Lawrence Perry
  52. Treasure Trail by Roland Pertwee
  53. Walker of the Secret Service by Melville Davisson Post
  54. Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini
  55. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  56. The Roughneck by Robert W. Service
  57. Arnold Waterlow: A Life by May Sinclair
  58. Golden Ballast by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  59. The Sacrament of Silence by Noel Sylvestre
  60. The Tattooed Countess by Carl Van Vechten
  61. Deep in the Hearts of Men by Mary E. Waller
  62. The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole
  63. The Innocents by Henry Kitchell Webster
  64. The Apple of the Eye by Glenway Wescott
  65. Old New York by Edith Wharton
  66. The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock
  67. The Prowler by Hugh Wiley
  68. The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams
  69. Professor! How Could You? by Harry Leon Wilson
  70. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
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  The Editor Recommends--- (8 Reviews)
  J.F.
  , pp. 488-491
  Balisand, by Joseph Hergesheimer
  1. Balisand by Joseph Hergesheimer
  2. The Golden Village by Joseph Anthony
  3. "Gentlemen of the Jury" by Francis L. Wellman
  4. The New Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters
  5. Arnold Waterlow: A Life by May Sinclair
  6. Bare Souls by Gamaliel Bradford
  7. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
  8. Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore
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  Introspection and Retrospection (5 Reviews)
  Louis Bromfield
  , pp. 492-493
  1. A Story-Teller's Story by Sherwood Anderson
  2. Straws and Prayer-Books by James Branch Cabell
  3. Memories and Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Recollections of a Happy Life by Maurice Francis Egan
  5. Memoirs of an Editor by Edward P. Mitchell
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  Drawing from Fiction A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster (7 Reviews)
  Isabel Paterson
  , pp. 494-497
  1. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  2. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  3. Nina by Susan Ertz
  4. Entranced by Grace Flandrau
  5. Julie Cane by Harvey O'Higgins
  6. A Handmaid of the Lord by Margaret Culkin Banning
  7. The Triumph of Gallio by W.L. George
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  When the Heavens Are Dark Dead Reckonings in Fiction, by Dorothy Brewste... (Review)
  Raymond Weaver
  , pp. 498-499
  1. Dead Reckonings in Fiction by Dorothy Brewster and Angus Burrell
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  Race and Christianity Christianity and the Race Problem, by Joseph H... (Review)
  Henry Pratt Fairchild
  , p. 500
  1. Christianity and the Race Problem by Joseph H. Oldham
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  Is There Romance In Travel? Kanga Creek, by Havelock Ellis (7 Reviews)
  Sydney Greenbie
  , pp. 501-503
  1. Kanga Creek by Havelock Ellis
  2. Angkor the Magnificent by Helen Churchill Candee
  3. The Sea Gypsy by Edward A. Salisbury and Merian C. Cooper
  4. The River of Seven Stars by Arthur O. Friel
  5. The Pearl Lagoon by Charles Nordhoff
  6. Heirs of the Incas by Carroll K. Michener
  7. To Lhasa in Disguise by William Montgomery McGovern
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  In Brief Review (26 Reviews) , p. 504
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    Review Anatole France: The Man and His Work, by James... (Review) , p. 504
    1. Anatole France: The Man and His Work by James Lewis May
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    Review Conversations in Ebury Street, by George Moore (Review) , p. 504
    1. Conversations in Ebury Street by George Moore
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    Review Napoleon and Josephine, by Walter Geer (Review) , p. 504
    1. Napoleon and Josephine by Walter Geer
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    Review The Political Novel, by Morris Edmund Speare (Review) , p. 505
    1. The Political Novel by Morris Edmund Speare
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    Review Joshua Barney: A Forgotten Hero of Blue Water,... (Review) , p. 505
    1. Joshua Barney: A Forgotten Hero of Blue Water by Ralph D. Paine
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    Review Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teaching a... (Review) , p. 505
    1. Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teaching and His School by Fritz Wittels
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    Review Letters on the Short Story, the Drama, and Oth... (Review) , p. 506
    1. Letters on the Short Story, the Drama, and Other Literary Topics by Anton Chekhov and Louis S. Friedland
  8. [+]
    Review The Awakening of Italy, by Luigi Villari (Review) , p. 506
    1. The Awakening of Italy by Luigi Villari
  9. [+]
    Review The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor, by L. ... (Review) , p. 506
    1. The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor by L. Frank Tooker
  10. [+]
    Review A Human Boy's Diary, by Eden Phillpotts (Review) , p. 507
    1. A Human Boy's Diary by Eden Phillpotts
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    Review The Life and Death of Cleopatra, by Claude Ferval (Review) , p. 507
    1. The Life and Death of Cleopatra by Claude Ferval
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    Review The Modern Golfer, by Cyril J.H. Tolley (Review) , p. 507
    1. The Modern Golfer by Cyril J.H. Tolley
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    Review Leaves from the Golden Bough, by James Frazer ... (Review) , p. 507
    1. Leaves from the Golden Bough by James Frazer and Lady Frazer
  14. [+]
    Review America: The Great Adventure, by George Philip... (Review) , p. 507
    1. America: The Great Adventure by George Philip Krapp
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    Review The Groombridge Diary, by Dorothy V. White (Review) , p. 508
    1. The Groombridge Diary by Dorothy V. White
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    Review Those Europeans, by Sisley Huddleston (Review) , p. 508
    1. Those Europeans by Sisley Huddleston
  17. [+]
    Review Sixty Years of American Humor, by Joseph L. Fr... (Review) , p. 508
    1. Sixty Years of American Humor by Joseph L. French
  18. [+]
    Review The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to P... (Review) , p. 509
    1. The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to President Roosevelt by Lawrence F. Abbott and Archie Butt
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    Review Napoleon, by H.A.L. Fisher (Review) , p. 509
    1. Napoleon by H.A.L. Fisher
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    Review Figures in Modern Literature, by J.B. Priestley (Review) , p. 509
    1. Figures in Modern Literature by J.B. Priestley
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    2 Reviews Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, ... (2 Reviews) , p. 510
    1. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
    2. Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
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    Review The Common Sense of Lawn Tennis, by William T.... (Review) , p. 510
    1. The Common Sense of Lawn Tennis by William T. Tilden, 2nd
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    Review La Belle Pamela, by Lucy Emily Madeline Ellis ... (Review) , p. 510
    1. La Belle Pamela by Lucy Emily Madeline Ellis and Joseph Turquan
  24. [+]
    Review Twisted Tales, by Christopher Ward (Review) , p. 511
    1. Twisted Tales by Christopher Ward
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    Review Barrett Wendell and His Letters, by M.A. DeWol... (Review) , p. 511
    1. Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M.A. DeWolfe Howe and Barrett Wendell
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    Review The Best of Matthew Arnold's Prose, by D.C. So... (Review) , p. 511
    1. The Best of Matthew Arnold's Prose by D.C. Somervell and Matthew Arnold
- The Bookman's Monthly Score, p. 512
- Christmas Surprises
  Anne Carroll Moore
  , pp. 513-520
- In The Bookman's Mail, pp. 521-523
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  Foreign Notes and Comment (3 Items) , pp. 524-527
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    When Character Is Trumps (6 Reviews)
    Allen W. Porterfield
    , pp. 524-527
    1. Plays: Fourth Series by Jacinto Benavente
    2. Pallieter by Felix Timmermans
    3. The Glory of Don Ramiro by Enrique Rodriguez Larreta
    4. The Motherless by Bengt Berg
    5. Aksakov: Chronicles of a Russian Family by M.C. Beverley
    6. The Modern German Novel by Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer
  2. Notes from France
    Pierre de Lanux
    , p. 528
  3. Publishers' Teas, Paracelsus, Picture Books
    Ethel Talbot Scheffauer
    , pp. 529-531
- From a Hill Top
  David Morton
  , p. 532
- The Gossip Shop
  Dwight Taylor and Frank Hanley
  , pp. 533-544