Evening star., 1926-11-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

discontinued, and that henceforth all
the books published will be un-
abridged. This is a step in the right
direction, as the formal of these
| volumes is too beautiful to condone
| tampered masterpieces.
Another interesting series, pub
lished at 81, is the Star Dollar Titles.
put out by the Garden City Publish
| ing Company. Here one finds, in
| larger size than the Nelson books,
| works of more general nature, such
as Tumulty's Woodrow Wilson AS
| 1 Know Him" and Werner's com
paratively recent biography Of P. T.
| Barnum.
Here one also finds the omni-
present autobiography Of Benjamin
| Franklin, side by side with the late
Henry Krehbiels Book of Operas
and the anonymous Mirrors of
| Washington" If you want some
book that not very long ago was
published only in a 81 to S. edition.
| look up this list. 1t may be there.
X X X x
The Lambskin Library, published
by Doubleday, Page & Co., at 81. is
bound in imported English red leath'
er, and each volume, as such, is quite
as good as many for which we have
paid 81 and more.
Here one may find-not only Frank
Inns Autobiography" again-but
Conrad's great Lord JIM" Tarking-
tons Magnificent Ambersons," Nor
ley's Haunted BoOkshop," Harry
Leon Wilson's Bunker Bean." Helen
Keler's STORY of My Life" and
Booker T. Washington's "Up From
Slavery" BY the way. If you have
never read the latter. you owe 1t
to yourself to read it, especially
have your boy read it. He will never
whine about going to school again.
"Alice in Wonderland" is in this
series, too--it IS anuther that is IN
cluded in all Of them.
Within the past year. the com
plete works of two great authors
| have appeared on the market for ~
cents a volume, and may be pur-
chased book by book. as one pleases.
Scribner's puts out Stevenson in this
inexpensive but good form, ana
Doubleday, Page & Co. does the ike
| for o. Henry.
We have space left only for the
| consideration of three "old stand
bvs." the Everyman Library, publish =
| ed by J. NJ. Dent e. Co, In Londoh
and +. p. Dutton & Co., in New YORK
Burt's Home Library, published ny
the A. l.. Burt Co. and the Modern
Library, put out by the Mooerl'
| Library, Inc, New York.
| The Everyman books for many
wears held the inexpensive field al
| most without competition. and in
cluded many works often hard 70
| find in book shops. such as Gibbon
| decline and Fall of the roman
Empire" and various translations OF
great Greek and Roman authors, and
| so on.
| Burts Home Library is a sub
stantial series of sturdily bounc
books, generally in good sized type
| on OPAQUE paper. These sell Tor a
dollar apiece. In this library one
finds not only the standard noVeHsts
but many poets, essayists and others
who have helped write the world
real literature Personally, we have
always found these books very salts
factory, standing household knocks
we'll, not inconsiderable feature
after all. Recall how Wordsworth
! cut his books with a buttered knife!
The Modern Library, selling at ~
| or 95 cents per volume, lives up &c
it's title, with the inclusion of books
by "moderns of moderns." Here one
| finds Sherwood Anderson, James
Branch Cabell and Theodore Dresser
alongside Lewis Carrolrs "Alice In
Wonderland" Fabres Life of the
! Caterpillar and Blake's Poems.