The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-10

Among the recent publications
OF Harper 81 Brothers is Apart
nents to Let" It is q novel and
is written by Norah Hoult.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
IIOW would you like to 60 back
L i clad only in one suit of modern
pajamas, and live the life Of the
people" on the Island of Atlantis
$500 years before the birth ot
Christ
Don't take your toothbrush
your heavy coat or your headache
tablets, because you will not need
them.
The hunters in those days wore
absolutely nothing, summer or win
ter, No, 1 am not wild. Am Just
trying otell you the strange situa-
ton that one woman and two men
living in these times, experienced in
new novel.
am speaking Of Three &C
Back" written by j, Leslie Mitchell
and published by the Bobbs- Merrill
Company of this city. 1t sells for So
You meet Clair, writer of naughty
modern novels; Sir John Mullaghan
manufacturer Of cannons and other
weapons of war that have been
killing off the descendants of the
first people, and Dr. Keith St
Clair, head of the League of Mill
taristic Pacifists.
All are on board a giant airship
bound for the United States Sud-
denly there is submarine earth
quake Strange islands come out
of the water. The airship breaks
in pieces. And the three go hurl-
ing into space.
This space is $500 years before
the birth of Christ. Clair and
Keith are in sleeping garments and
Sir John is in dress suit
Then the strange old world. Just
imagine these three mod rms eating
roast horse, lion, deer chat isn't
bad), with their fingers.
They know that development of
the strange race of hunters and
what is to become of them It
sounds like playing with ghosts in
your ancestral grave yard,
You encounter the strange spec
tacle Of Clare. the modern, being
chosen as the winter mate of a
husky and fine hunter who lived
only thousands of years ago.
Won't spoil your romantic fun
Read It, 1t held me spellhound
Some of Mitchells attacks on 1.-The
brutality of modern civilization" are
priceless.
You are going to havea grand
time when you read Three Go
Back" When you start it, make no
engagements until you have reached
the last page.
A M informed that the Houghton
IA Mifflin Company has added
Radcliffe Hall, who jumped to per-
sonally unpleasant but financial and
literary fame by writing THE Well
of Loneliness This means that
they have taken over from the firm
of Jonathan Cape and Robert Bal
lou the American rights OF Miss
Halls latest, THE Master of the
House" l will tell you all about
this book soon,
Understand that the Pulitzer
history prize committee seriously
considered The Martial Spirit by
Walter Mills as a candidate Tor
that prize. AS I remarked in this
space l considered this book the
most enlightening indictment Of the
Spanish American war I have ever
read. This is r" 1T soap book.
"The Kennel Murder Case" by
& S. Van Dine, the sixth, last and
bv all odds the best of the Philo
Vance murder mysteries, will be
published on Friday the thirteenth,
January, 1888.
ST UNITS AND RENEWALS the
l. latest book by Rudyard Kip
ling. will soon be added to the Out
ward Bound edition of Kipling's
works which Charles Scribner's Sons
n,lblished in 1897. This edition, OF
which $50 copies are signed and
printed from special type on Japan
paper. has become so famous among
collectors and has so increased in
value that whenever new Kipling
book appears, owners of the sets
insist that the Scribners add the
new title to the Outward Bound edi-
ton. which. with Limits and Re-
newals," now consists of thirty-four
volumes. incidentally, Mr.. Kipling
had his photograph taken especially
for the outward Bound ~N'tion and
this photograph will appear in
Limits and Renewals"
Marcia Davenport's biography,
Mozart" which the Book of the
Month Club distributed as one of its
book dividends, has just been select
ed by the Chatauqua institution and
will be one of the three books pub
lished in the last twelve months to
be intensively studied by Chatauoua
members during the next twelve
months.
These Russians by William C.
White, which the Scribners pub
lished a year ago. has just appeared
In Germany under the title Thus
One Lives in Russia" An edition
of 10000 copies was sold out in the
first three weeks, the dele Publish
Ing Company Of Cologne, reports.