The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02


Knopf, Inc, is the publisher and
it is the October choice of The
Book League Of America.
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BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
TODAY comes off the press a
Il book which should interest all
young girls as it is the true story
of the lives of ten outstanding
women.
"All True" is the name of the
book and the juvenile department
Of Brewer Warren and Putnam is
the publisher
The names Of the contributors,
which sounds like a blue book of
worth while women, includes Della
Akeley, Amelia Earhart, Rosita
Forbes, Marguerite Harrison, DR..
Marguerite Mead, Blair Niles, Marie
Peary, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Arm
inc Won Tempski and Barrett
Willoughby
The illustrations are confined to
the pictures of the contributors.
u
Have been asked to list some good
non-tiction reading. Would in
clude Washington Merry-Go-
Round;" "Merrily I Go To He'll"
by Lady Mary Cameron; Mans
Own Show: Civilization" by George
A. Dorsey; Leonard Wood" by
Herman Hagedorn; What Life
Should Mean To YOU" by Alfred
Adler, and Mexico" by Stuart
Chase. All of these are listed by
Brentano's as best non-fiction SELL
ers. So you see the list is up to the
minute.
Have you written your book re-
view yet and get a chance to own
a new book? Keep your reviews
around $50 words or less. I will
not be too severe upon the length
but keep to the idea of the thumb
nail review.
r. d. Barth, 4357 North Pennsyl-
Vania street, is the winner this week
and he will receive a new novel as
soon as he gets in touch with me.
Barth'S winning review of Som
erset Maugham's THE Moon and
SiXpence," is as follows.
The Moon and Sixpence," is story OF
Charles Strickland. an English broker, who
pursues closely career resembling that
OF Frenchman. In middle age he sud
denly abandons his business and family
Tor the study of art; painting in Paris
through years of cruel poverty, until OPP
portunity offers a voyage to the South
Seas Here he works on in solitude until
his horrible death from leprosy. in cot
tage whose walls he had covered with the
finest most mysterious paintings of his
genius.
The book Is chiefly a study of tempera-
ment. Strickland is an inarticulate man
who knows within himself exactly what
ha wants to do but who can not express
himself in any other medium than color
and line. Outwardly he is callous to an
almost flendiSh degree; utterly indiherent
to the claims of other people. ne rloes
them down snarling at those who help
him and contemptuous Of those VINO con-
denim him Inwardly he is hued Win
vast desire for beauty of a sort winch
has never been captured; this ideal ne
pursues to a more or less successful END
Vaughan has employed all of his great
intelligence and not a little OF MS ehar-
acteristic bitterness in the account Oh
this man dominated by terrible purpose.
Stanley NJ Rinehart Jr., presl-
dent of Farrar & Rinehart, Inc,
has announced the purchase OF
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation.
Farrar e. Rinehart will Immediately
take over Cosmopolitan Book Cor
porations current and future pub
locations.
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
was established in 1914 as Hearst S
International Library Company, Inc.
In 1919 the firm was given its pre-
sent name, and Harold G. Kinsey
was appointed general manager,
successfully promoting a few prom
inent and widely selling authors
such as James Oliver Curwood,
Peter B. Kyne, and Harry Leon
Wilson.
TWO Of the editors of The Book
League of America, DR.. Richard
BUlIOu anu LQMAA AllAA4S VII AeOOAAA-
son. are having volumes of verse
published this fall. THE Collected
Poems of Richard Burton" will be
published on October 81 by Bobbs-
Merrill. Mr.. Robinson's Matthias
At the Door" will be released on
September % by the Macmillan
Company.
The Book League of America has
Just received a letter from a Metho-
dist minister who says that he would
like to get in Touch with John Fort,
author of God in the Straw Pen, "
August choice of The Book League.
The minister states that the book
is long-merited revelation that
should go far to help in the spirit
ual rebirth of the church.
The following new books have
been added to the Business Branch
library, Ohio and Meridian streets:
The Century of the Reaper, Cyrus
Mccormick; Specially Salesman,
Casson; Practical Stock Forecasting,
Dunnigar; Soviet Foreign Trade
menace or Promise). Budish and
Shipman; Publishing and BookselI-
ing, Mumby, Fundamentals Of
Auditing, Sherwood.