Putnam patriot., 1923-06-15

year From few of the popular auth ors, together with descriptive notes i; the whole compiled from imagination
 Bertha" by Sinclair Lewis.-Four hundred pages of detail concerning the typical wife and her methods of conducting a home. Before her Mabel Sabre and Duley pale and retire. In- cidentally. an enormous expose of so- oial life in huge city. The one in the novel is called New Hattan Two months after publication, the book will have outsold "Babbitt," and sa- gacious women everywhere will re- cognize score of Berthas among their own aequaintanees. The play made from the novel will win the Pulitzer award.
 "The Gray Shadow" by Hugh Wal pole In which Jeremy's son marries the daughter of Henry Trenchard and Rachel Beaminsters Seddon's daugh- ter. They settle down in poiehester and are shocked at the news that ] FHlk Brandon and his wife are to re- i turn. Falk does not return, although one thinks he is going to up to the very last page. This is the whole plot.
 Any Other Name" by A. s. Nj Hutchinsnn.-the title is taken from a quotation from Shakespeare. It will outsell Bertha" Eight hundred ser mons will be preached or 1t in great CT New York alone. The first half of the book (that is. before the plot begins) will be conceded much the better part. A completely befuddled Hutchinson, four months later, will se. sail for parts unknown and never write another exclamation point
 Your Summer" by Villa Gather. Generally aceeded to be the greatest book of the year, except for the last few chapters where Harold leaves Nebraska and goes to New York. He finds beauty in the towering skyserap- CTS man made, that he could not find in brown prairies, God-made. The critics will call attention to Avenue A. to Flatbush, to Third avenue. and say 1t is much too idealistic
 Widowed Wives" by Sherwood Anderson.--This will never reach print. Government agents. watching Mr, Andersons house. will see him mail the manuscript, purioin it, and refuse to let it go through the mails.
 Incense" by Eliot Paul.-Minute description of three hundred and eigh- teen different kinds of odors in and around Boston. all of them obnoxious.
 "Hazy Auras," by Zona Gale.--lu one hundred short pages the super soul of grandfather, tied down by the Penny family, will call to the SUI per-soul of grandmother. tied down by the Button family. No one will be able to make out whether or not the super sanl ef the grandmother hears the call. Pulitzer prize before appearance.
 "The Tremendous Catastrophe, T The Enormous Deceit" and "Ths Perfectly Astounding Deception" all by F Phillips oppenheim.-ln which seven detectives. nine secret agents plotting the overthrow of England by Baluehistan. an' ten suspicious but innocent beauties will dine thirty times al the Savoy and forty times at the Carlton.
 Men of the World" by H C Weils.-The longest book of the year in which Mir Wells writes his recol leetions of the great men of ali times for two thousand years into the fn ture. Historians everywhere will cal his portrait of Adam greatly distort ed. particularly in the passages deal ing with Adams soeialistie tendenei es The book will sell for fifteen dol lars for the first three months, two fifty for the next three, and seventy five cents after that.
 "Wiggling Windows" by Dorothy Richardson. Read by six critics. Ter other copies will be sold. In it Mir jam goes shopping. but doesn't hnd anything she wants.
 Backward. Turn Backward. by Gertrude Atherton.-Conrad Mayer ly's great-aunt Dora is the first wo. mon in New York to avail herself of the new scientific possibilities Of re ceiving into herself the spirit ef some one who is dead Shv receives the spirit of Conrad's deceased fianeee and he falls in love with her. Pro nouneed indecent