New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
sunday News and Reviews of Books and Authors
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fathers new novel, Zone of Ours y
had sold $4,000 copies.
Gertrude Stein. who introduced "fu-
turlst' writing to America with her
Tender Buttons,p will have a new book
pubhshed this autumn. The title is
Geography and Plays" and Sherwood
Anderson has written u preface for it.
China's leading matinee idol is one
Mei Lan-fang, according to Miss Kate
buss, who is bringing out a volume
entitled Studies in the Chinese
Drama" Mr.. Lanfang plays femi-
nine parts, which in China, as in Eliza
bethan England, always are taken by
men.
party of prominent authors, shep-
herded by George Palmer Putnam, the
publisher, left New York last week for
a tour of the Northwest, with the
roundup at pendleton, Ore, as their
chief objective. They will also take in
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Salt Lake
City and the Yellowstone Park. The
narty includes Wallace Irwin, George s.
Chappell (better known as Captain
Walter Traprock), Charles Hanson
Towne, Hubbard Hutchinson, Walter
Trumbull' John Held and Ruth Hale.
Ijner speech recently recalled his first
meeting with Booth Harrington. Of
which he says: "All | could see at first
was pair of boots. They were red
boots and they had copper toes. After
getting an eyeful of the boots | then
looked at Booth He had on a little
! white dress" 1t should be added that
this memory dates back some time, to
whenever it was that Booth Tarking-
ton was about three years old,
Francis r. Bellamy, author of "1'he
Balance" and of "a Flash of Gold"
Gust published), first turned to the
stage as medium of self-expression.
with Give pins admission fee," he has
written plays and comic operas He
tried farming once, but quit it to come
to New York and gain success as a
writer of vaudeville sketches. Now
he has definitely turned to novel writ
ing Mr. Bellamy is a native of Roches-
ter, N. Y, and uses it, in a general
way, as background for his fiction.
A posthumous book by the late
Viscount Bryce will be brought out
early next year by Macmillan's. 1t is
called Memories of Travel" and in
! cludes impressions of many countries,
from the United States to Poland, Hun
gary, the Altai Mountains, Palestine,
the isles of the Pacific and the marsh
| of Suvorov.
May Sinclair has a new novel almost
completed, entitled anne Severn and
the Fieldings."
/ A special edition of Ibdnc1's "Blood
and Sand" is announced by buttons,
which will have sixteen full page illus
trations from "stills" taken from the
screen production, in which Rodolph
Valentino played the oullfghter hero.
General Denikin, of the white"
army of Russia, has written his mem
oirs, and they will be published in
America this fall. Denikin is not an
aristocrat by birth, but the son of a
peasant serf, though he rose to high
command in the Russian army,
The year-round book selling commit
tee has been formed by the National
Association of Publishers to help book
sellers in getting their wares before
the public. They plan a children s
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Zane Grey recently attended an i'm
pressive snake dance at the Hopi Indian
Reservation in Arizona, according to a
society note received from that region
by his publishers. The snake dance is
intended 30 propitiate the god of the
clouds and bring rain. A pleasant time
was had by all.
Hamlin Garland, in a letter from
London, declares ne sees no evidence of
the manners of the working classes. All
with whom he came in contact he found
most considerate and polite.
Irving Bror !, author of "Nights and
Days on the gypsy Trail" has followed
the gypsies all over the world and lived
with them as one of themselves. He
tramped through the Pyrenees afoot to
find the Spanish gypsies and knows the
Romany dialects theoroughly.
Thackeray called his "Vanity Fair" a
novel without a hero, but Mrs. kath-
Icen Norris's Certain People of I'M
portance" has neither hero nor heroine
in the usual sense Of the terms.
An author whose name is little known
in literary circles, though her readers
are numbered by millions, comes to
America this month. Miss Ruby Ayres
Gin private life, Mrs. Reginald William
{ Copock) is the most popular writer of
newspaper serial fiction in England,
where every newsstand placards her
as feature of current publications.
There are always one or more of her
romances running in the English pa
pers. This is her first visit to Amer
lea, and will synchronize with the seri-
alization of one of her stories in an
American magazine.
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"The Publishers Weekly" has begun
series of photographic check lists of
recent and contemporary American
authors for collectors and first edition
fans generally.