Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-12
YOUNGER GENERATION
RUNS TO SERIOUSNESS
Dancers in the Dark to Be Published Soon, It Is Pre-
dicted-Wll Be One of Years
Best Sellers

ncld's last book, '.The Heel of
Achilles. are going to feel an i'm
mediate thrill In the realization that
n now Delahcld book Is being pub
iished this very week. "Humbug"
ms APPLY as The Heel OF Achilles'.
represents the character Of Miss
oelahcld's observations Of life. She
has q ruthless way OF exposing
Nhumbug' Of thought or action or
emotion, which Is giving her IL GER
tain place even among the brilliant
rresent-day novellsts OF England.
Moreover. few novel writer's have
shown 30 psrsistent ard continuous
growth as has marked her progress
from novel TO novch II 1t can only
continue! Meanwhile Il is natura, Ia
look forward 10 'Iiumbug."
These arc days when literature
may be appreciated by producers OF
The silent drama. but IL is seldom re-
spected Ly them. Viola Brothers
ahore' whose story, Heritage" is the
titic story Of her volume OF collect
cd short storlcs, reports that she
mas ocen asked to rearrange "Heri-
tnec' Il bit to make 1t filter for the
screen 1t viii only be necessary. gje
~ toid, to change Uncle Philip into
an aunt and let Aunt Philip" live
instead of dying in the end. or
course, at present IL IL "a big short
story. which naturally makes ineyi-
'abie appeal TO the movie people.
win their genuine need of good story
material. INDEMNIFY we should hat o
TO sec It spoiled as so much fiction IL
spoiled hrtistically. in order TO make
}; III another medium.
The uniform cdition--The Cara
Edition--of the works oc George
Moore. Is one OF the largest and most
interesting OF recent publishing ven-
lures. 1t is going TO be no easy task.
wc arc told. for the publishers. be-
cause the author belongs 20 the
small immortal group OF those who
continually revise. Modern Paint
ing" and "Celibates.'' for instance.
have teen entirely rewritten. This
is claimeh to be the nrst uniform.
Incorporated edition OF all the books
which Mr.. Moore wishes to perpct-
uate. Mr. LiverIgnt, who has Just
returned from England. where he
has seen many well known Irish and
English authors. announces that the
Moore BOOKS are really coming this
spring: Although the Cara Edition
IL necessarily expensive. il is an
axiom that expense has never de-
tered the success OF books which
the public really wanted to possess.
The Cara Edition contains num-
Der OF George Moorc's books, which
have been exceedingly difficult to OBJ
tain In recent years.
Speaking Of high prices OF hooks.
Constance Lindsay Skinner. one Of
The editors of the Yale University
Press Chronicles OF History, relates
that all during the war years and
SINCE then the Chronicles sold re-
marhably well. in spite OF the fact
that the cost OF the set is so high
and the set could not be broken.
Moreover. they sold TO many. many
private individuals as well rs TO
libraries and colleges. SO many col
,cgcs have adopted these books as
textbooks that Miss Simmer finds Il
a bigger honor than having a play
produced on Broadway, that two %.
her own books should be studied in
colleges when she herself Is not a
college woman
(CopyriGht 1927