The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-05

the Cor1hill Company.
has done for the French: makes
their place in the European mosaic
startlingly clear.
THE warmth with which the crit
les have received "Neils Lynne"
emphasizes the debt American
readers owe to few outstanding
translators who by the excellence,
sympathy and literary quality of
their work hace introduced mas.
terpieces, of foreign literature to
English readers.
One Of the most prominent of
these is Hanna Astrup Larsen,
the translator of "Neils Lynne"
Edmund Gosse. by his translation
Of "Syren Voices" introduced Jens
Peter Jacobsen to the English lit
terati. but 1t remained for Miss Lar
sen and the American Scandina.
Wan Foundation to make available
to Americans Jacobsen's two mas
terpieces, "Neils Lynne" and
Marie Grubbe."
Both of these Miss Larsen trans
lated for publication by the Amer.
lean Scandinavian Foundation, and
1t was through her interest that
Doubleday. Page & Co. undertook
to issue a popular edition of
"Neils Lynne" AS editor of the
American Foundation Review and
editorial secretary of the founda.
ton. she has introduced many
Scandinavian classics to America.
THIS months publications of
Small. Maynard & Co. in
clude THE Witch Man," a novel
OF the Virginia mountains. by Mar
garet Belle Houston; THE Angel
OF Terror" by Edgar wallace:
The Future of the Novel, q, edited
by Meredith Starr. whfch gives
the opinion Of the leading English
novelists on the future of their art.
and Success" by Lord Beaver
brook.
A MoNG the books which are
now on the presses of Double.
day. Page & Co.. are THE Legend
OF Eulenspiegel and Lammie Coed
Yak" the famous old Flemish prose
epic of Charles De Coster, printed
and bound according to a formal
designed by Claud Lovat Frazer.
Others are Selma Lagerlofs
The outcast," "A Survey-Fifty-
one Cartoons" by Max Beerbohm;
a collection Of o. Henry's hitherto
unpublished letters. and MY Child.
hood" by John Burroughs.
The leading books Of fiction from
this house will be Booth Tarking.
tons Gentle Julia" William Nc
Fees Command" Alfred onivant's
One Woman" and 1.-THE Love
OF Lucretia Lombard" by Kath-
leen Norris.
THE Neighborhood Playhouse, in
New York city. is preparing to
stage dramatic versions of two of
Leonard Merrick's short stories,
each as a one-act play. The stories
are The Cafe Of the Broken
Heart" and THE Suicides In the
Rue Sombre," both of them In that
gay volume. an antidote t to the
blues II one was made, "a Chair
on the Boulevard" 1t was brought
out last year by the buttons in
their uniform edition of Merrick's
work, In which they promise for
spring publication another volume,
"One Mans View" with an intro
duction by Granville Barker.
HOUGHToN MIFFLIN CON-
PANY announce for publication
this month the following books:
The Life of Clara Barton" by
VIM. e. Barton, in two volumes;
How to Get the Job You Want"
by William s. Fletcher; Sweet
Waters" a novel of Constantinople,
by the Hon. Harold Nicolson; "Pur-
pie Springs" by Nellie l.. Nc
Chung. a popular Canadian author:
shakespeare" play by two young
English dramatists, H. f. Rubin
stein and Clifford Bax; Trad.
ton and Progress" a new book of
collected papers by Gilbert MUIR
ray; Manual Of the Trees of North
America" by Charles Sprague Sar-
gent, a new and enlarged edition
OF this standard work; Heroes of
Progress" the stories of great
Americans of the past for children,
and 1.-THE Marine Campaign" by
"ol II IN NxyI