The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-15


And men and maidens once more stray
Besides the feathered grain.
But creatures that you sometimes slay a.
Will lie forever slain,
And mine are feet that cannot stay
While fddlers stopto ask for pay,
So speed me, love, upon my way!
shall not come again.
Copyright, 1919. AH rights reserved.
LIST OF my BEST BOOKS"
Under heaven and short of omniscience there
" is no such thing as selecting the best recent
books 1t never has been attempted by Books and
the Book World, and it never viii be. Personal
opinions are another matter and in this number we
present an assortment of such opinions which We at
least have found interesting and stimulating.
Of three lists presented heretofore, one was made
up of the choices of authors, one of those OF our
own staff book reporters the third Of publishers
ideas concerning their wares None of the three
purported to cover the field and point out every
thing good and with al three the selections were
explained by the people who made them.
} This fourth has been obtained by cutting up
Who's Who in America and the similar British
volume, mixing the names of the Who's in hat,
blindfold drawing twenty or thirty and addressing
to each Whom a request to say what book or books
had most interested Whom during the last twelve
month Not all the recipients complied. The first
name out of the hat was WOODROW WILSON, who
proved, when looked up, to be President OF the
United States A Mr.. TUMULTY wrote us that the
request would be laid before him at the earliest
opportunity. Too late, too late, he cannot enter
now-yet may we not conjecture that the book
which has interested the President most is the same
that was laid before BRocKDoRFF-RANTzAU at Yer
sailles-and that this is also true of BRoCKDoRFF
RANrzAUf (Not to mention Senator LoDeED
Getting down to the returns and leaving idle
speeuato;ls: the book interests of several contrbu-
tors to our symposium will be found to run true to
form The most celebrated living Cornen names
the greatest of bull-fghting novels. eve liked
Blood and Sand ourselves, admired it immoder-
ately, although we do not sing Escdmilto's solos
any more now that the windows are open and the
weather and the neighbors have grown so stufy.r
Being nothing if not aesthetic, Miss Farrar also
names Java Heed. A third of her choices, Vol
taire Is letters, seems less Characteristic.
Naturally Messrs. SPARGo and CHARLES EDWARD
RUSSELL join in liking In the Heart of Fool As
naturally Mr.. BURROUGHS selects an outdoor book,
and has praise for outdoor poet-but would you
have suspected him Of an interest In ANAToLE
tRANCEI MT MAURICE hANClS EdAN, WIN bHuCC
coming home from Denmark has commenced writ
ing in a delightfully."- humorous vein, likes
frances The Amethyst Ring, in spite of himself
It might astonish HENRY ADAMS that the one con-
tributor to name his retrospective third personal
soliloquy is an ever-so-popular novelist, GENE
SrRATToN PORTER. The -Four HOrsemen of the
Apocalypse is down, of course underscored by
Mrs. WATTS, novelist Mr.. CAss GILBERT, architect
opd NAzIuovI We sometimes wonder whether
this most discussed book of the year would not have
prospered as richly even without the remarkable
advertising campaign which it enjoyed. Mr..
MAURICE HEWLETT has the discernment to name a
novel by our fortnightly own HUGH WALPoLE,
wherein Miss FARRAR discerns with him. Mr.. JUS
tice HOLMES regrets that he is too busy for excur
sions into other fields"
For our next list, like as not-abeit the notion
is subject to change without notice-we shall cut
up the city directory, draw names and addresses,
and tell you what JOHN CASEY, teamster, Of 9s7