Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Henri Barbusse's Light" the
new story in which the author OF
Under Fire" portrays the enlight-
enment and new vision which come
to French soldier while he fights
In the great war. which f. p. Dut-
ton Co. will publish at the end
OF this week, will have a very strik-
ing paper jacket designed by A. Dun
can Carse, who made the magma
tive and artistic cover for Blasco
lbanez's Mare Nostrum." published
by the buttons six week ago. Mr.
Carse is an English artist whose
! work is much admired in London.
During the war he served with the
camouflage division of the Royal
Engineers. He is now in the United
states and is having more requests
for work than he can fill. At pres
ent he is decorating Otto H. Kahn's
palatial new residence. near the Car
ncgie home, on upper Fifth Avenue,
New York City.
e. P. Dutton & Co. will publish
later in the season a volume by
Elisha NJ. Friedman on "Interna-
tional Commerce and Reconstruc-
ton" which will complete the trilogy
VI bOOhS III WHICH lie uSdlS WITH lle
problems civilization must face. now
that the war is over. The first,
which the buttons published last
winter. american Problems of Re-
construction, their Economic and
Financial Aspects" presented a sym
pos'um of views in which a score
or more of well known Americans
discussed urgent problems of the
reconstruction period and made sug-
gestions concerning how they should
be solved. 1t is now in its third
edition. The second, which the
buttons brought out last spring,
deals with Labor and Reconstruc-
tion in Europe" and gives concise
but comprehensive view of the pro-
grams of reconstruction mapped
out by European countries. Thus,
! having covered in the two former
I volumes the problems of the United
States and of Europe. the new work
dealing with reconstruction in inter
/ national relations will round out the
series.
The subtitle calls Wilfred Row
! land Childe's Dream English" "
| Just published by f. P. Dutton &
! Co, "A Fantastical Romance" 1t
might also be called "a lovely ro-
nance of love" for it is exquisitely
| beautiful in setting, in language, in
every feature. The story 1t tells OF
/ love and beauty is without flaw in
the loveliness of scenes and souls
| and is as simple and as dignified
as it is beautiful. 1t takes place in
some age-old time in England, just
when or where does not matter in
( the least. There are beautiful wo-
men. as good as they are beautiful,
fields and woods and hills of en-
trancing loveliness, noble old cities
! and alluring ancient little towns,
! men fine to look upon and good to
/ know. and. finally, growing out OF
all the beauty, love romance that
! in it's simplicity and goodness and
! faith is the symbol of all bridals. 1t
is a story to read when one wearles
of the ugliness, the dust and the
uproar of life. for in it's pages OF
beautiful magic are. rest and re-
freshment.
Early in October E. P. Dutton q
Co. will bring out an Authors Edi-
ton of Blasco Ibanez's two war
novels. The Four Horsemen or the
! Apocalypse" and Mare Nostrum,
/ which SO remarkably complement
each other. The former, as every
body knows, has swept the coun-
try since its publication little over
n year ago and has been brought
and read far beyond the sales OF
any other recent book in the United
States. 1t is selling now, its publish
ers say, in larger numbers than al
any previous time since its publica-
ton. Mare Nostrum,' published
six weeks ago, is now in its fortietf
edition.
E. p. Dutton & Co. are preparing
an American edition of j. K. Huys-
mans En- Route" which they
brought out last winter in an i'm
ported edition.
The sixth edition of salt,
Charles Norris's epic story of the
mis-education of an American boy
and his final regeneration of him.
self by his own efforts, Is reported
by z. p. Dutton & Co. Many critics
have found in it evidence thai
Charles Norris is only a little less
gifted in the sweep and strength
and visualizing power of his mag
ination than was his older brother
Frank Norris.