The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-17

M rage 10 VI CoPtoiH NiNlAVi .
~ Daughter" you read that lin
her comfortable home Miss Archer
dreamed through the cold goodness
Of her tWenties.'
And in the same paragraph, you
will be startled to read-"Then sud-
denly without word of warning,
without rousing the slightest suspi-
cion in Bowport or in the mind of
the kind father Miss Martha Arch
er not only kicked up her heels but
she jumped the fence of propriety
and vanished down the primrose
path
And then this-"One day she was
an old maid whose perfection scared
off every man who came near her
The next she was sailing away with
one Of the devils seed, to find a
parson to tie the knot"
Now, I believe you know a great
deal about Martha, the heroine" Of
Margaret Deland's new novel, Cap
tain Archer's Daughter" published
by Harper e. Brothers, and sells for
$3.50
Here is a story of Captain Archer,
who made his home in Bowport, on
the New England coast, and Of his
daughter Martha, who was too
carefully" reared by her mother
when very young.
Martha had one successful rebel
lion when very young. She hurled
hymn book at very Straitlaced
minister while he was preaching
But the scandal that act created
In no way compared to the fuss
kicked up when Martha ran away
with sea captain, Isadore Davis.
Davis was able to make many
women feel the scorch of the blue
fire. of his eyes. AS the author
describes him-"this handsome man
was not only as elemental as a
flame. he was as vulgar as honest
earth"
And this man made Martha love
as she never dreamed of love;
forced her to terrible suffering and
then compelled her to return to
Bowport with her son, Young Cap,
and became a chaste icicle.
And does young Cap inherit the
'blue fire" of his father7
Read Captain Archers Daugh-
ter" 1t is beautifully and honestly
written.
Those who are interested in books
concerning Abraham Lincoln will be
interested in What Lincoln Read"
recently published by the Pioneer
Publishing Company at Washing
ton, D. G. This book connects Lin
coins life story with his studies and
reading 1t sells for SIS.
What are they reading in New
Y-.k? Brentano's lists the follow
ing "A Modern Hero" by Louis
Bromfeld: Summer Holiday" by
Sheila Kaye Smith; "Undertow,"
by A. Hamilton Gibbs; The Black
Swan" by Rafael Sabatini; state
Fair" by Phil Stong. and The An
swering Glory" by R. c, Hutchin-
son.
n
Two books of first Importance on
the fall list of Houghton Mifflin
Company include: "Severidge and
the Progressive Era" by Claude G.
Bowers, and Earth Horizon" by
Mary Austin. The Bowers book
which follows the authors The
Tragic Era" is based upon the ca
reer of the late Albert j. Bever-
idge, and is, in its essence, a polit-
ical history of the United States
from the Spanish war to the years
following the World war Earth
Horizon" is Mrs. Austins long
awaited biography. 1t is written
with that exhsarating tonic which
only struggle, achievement and a
sense of humor can bring,
NovehSts to appear this summer
and fall on the Houghton Mifflin
list for the first time include Janet
Fairbank, Dorothy Speare, j. p. Nc
Evoy. Radcliffe Hall and Jonathan
Leonard. The same firm will also
publish new novels by wallace Ir-
win. John Buchan, Sophia Cleugh
Henrietta Leslie, Roland Pertwee.
Beatrice Grimshaw, Katharine New
lin Burt and William Macleod
Raine.
DESIGNS for jackets of three
IL books which Lippincott will
publish in the early autumn have
been made by Alexey Brodovitch.
youthful Russian who is already
famous as one Of the leading post
er artists of France. In 1925 at
the Exhibition Internationa des
Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Mr.. Brod-
ovitch won highest honors: the
Grand Prix for textile design and
embroidery, the Grand Prix for
jewelry and silverware design. two
silver medals and honors for archi-
lecture. The three jackets are for
High Low Washington" by 80 80:
THE Perils and Fortune Of the
Duke of Osuna," by Antonio
Marichalar. and "Fuller's Earth" by
Carolyn Wells.