The Washington herald., 1921-05-21
BOOKNOTES

she bowling Sreen, IN lhe new
York Evening Post, whose new
book. Tales from a Roll-Top
Desk" will be published this month
by Doubleday. Page & Co. and Don
Marquis, conductor of the Sun
Dial" in the New York Sun and
whose inimitsbIe The Old Soak.
will be published at the same time
by the same house. recently felt
the lure OF the films and went into
the movies" They played as ex-
tras in Elsie Ferguson's NEW pic
ture. "FoOtlights."
Among the spring publications Of
Z. P. Dutton and. Company will be
another volume in Montrose J.
Moses Representative American
Plays" When finished Mr.. Moses
selection of plays, representing the
entire development of the native
drama in the United States to the
present time, will consist of three
volumes, of which the first was
published by buttons two or three
years ago. The forthcoming sol
ume, however, will be the third and
will contain the important modern
plays. The second, TO be devoted
to the middle period in the dra-
matte production of the. country.
will be brought out at scme later
date.
What the author of Main Street
may say about the Middle West
carries weight and as his statement
that VILLA Sibert Gather is the
foremost citizen Of Nebraska is
causing considerable comment: He
says. she is greater than Gen. Per-
shing: she is incomparably greater
than William Jennings Bryan. She
is Nebraska's foremost citizen, be-
cause through her stories she has
made the outside world know Ne
braska as no one else has DONE
Mr.. Lewis insists that Miss Gather
is a greater author that he ever
dared hope to be, although her
novels have had no phenomenal
sale. In Omaha he extracted a
silent pledge from his large audi
ence that they would read her great
novels of the prairie. 20 Pioneers"
MY Antonia." The Song of the
Lark"
A book which will rival In Inn
portance The "reminiscences or
Tolstoy" by Maxim Gorky. is The
Note Books of Anton chekhov," an
nounced by B. W. Huebsch. The pub
fisher of the Gorky book. These
note books were kept by Chekhov
from 1882 to 1894, the year of mrs
death; they run the gaunt from
random jottings for plays and
novels to profound and beautiful
Passages of mediation. on life and
death. For the year covered these
note books served as the working
laboratory of Chekhoy's mind SIN
lister and humorous, ironic and
macabre. the book is a fascinating
miscellany of striking proverbs and
sayings, themes, motifs, compar-
able, in their way. 10 the note BOOK
left by Beethoven.
The Century Company reports
that the timelincss of Prof Walter
n. Pitkin's challenge to think or
fight" a way out of the japanese
situation is receiving full apprecia-
tion. A second printing of his re-
Gently published Must We Fight
Japan" has already been necessary
II isn't often that a first novel Is
sought and bought by the motion
picture people before publication
But such is the happy fate of "A
Thing Apart" by Lucy Stone Ter
rill. scheduled for. late spring by
Bobbs-Mcrrill. First proofs were
shown to King Vidor, who bought
the rights Immediately for produc-
tion within six months. Miss Ter
rill is a Californian.
The American edition of Filson
Young's book. with the Battle
Cruisers" will probably be called
with Beatty in the North Sea"
when il is published by Little,
Brown and Company early In Sep
tember. In this account of North
Sea warfare. as viewed by a mem
Der OF Sir David Beatty's stsn on
the Lion, a vivid picture is pre-
sented of the Dogger Bank battle.
throwing light on that engagement.
which has not hitherto been avail
able from either ofieisl or unof-
fetal sources.
A commercial school is to be es-
tablished at Shanghai. and will be
controlled Jointly by the Chimes