The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

(appearing between April I and June 30, 1931)

FICTION

¹The Road Back. By Erich Maria Remarque. The homecoming of the German veterans. A sequel to All Quiet. Little, Brown, $2.50.

Men Dislike Women. By Michael Arlen. A light novel about some engaging sophisticates. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

²Ambrose Holt and Family. By Susan Clasped. The story of an American who dared to get out of his rut. Stokes, $2.50.

³The Glass Key. By Dashiell Hammett. A mystery story out of the ordinary. Knopf, $2.00.

The Lively Lady. By Kenneth Roberts. A historical novel of the War of 1812. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

⁴Captain Blood Returns. By Rafael Sabatini. Pirates and adventure on the Spanish Main. Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.

The Pure in Heart. By Franz Werfel. A panoramic novel of Vienna in the twentieth century. Simon & Schuster, $3.00.

The Garden. By L. A. G. Strong. A story of the Dublin seacoast prior to 1914. Knopf, #2.50.

⁵From Day to Day. By Ferdynand Goetel. In unusual style, this is the story of a Polish novelist and his love for three women. Viking, $2.50.

⁶Flamenco. By Lady Eleanor Smith. Romance and gusto in this nineteenth-century narrative of England and the Continent. Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50.

⁷The Square Circle. By Denis Mackail. An agreeable English story of contemporary London. Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.

⁸Father. By Elizabeth. An English novel of father and daughter, tenderness and repulsion. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

The Road to Canaan. By Pernet Patterson. Negro stories of rare understanding. Minton, Balch, $2.00.

Many Thousands Gone. By John Peale Bishop. Virginia stories of the Civil War and after — one of them a prize winner. Scribners, $2.50.

The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens. By Lord Dunsany. The wonderful yarns of an old London Clubman. Putnam, $2.50.

BIOGRAPHY

⁹My Experiences in the World War. By General John J. Pershing. The Commander of the A. E. F. tells his side of the struggle. Stokes, 2 vols., $10.00.

Savage Messiah. By H. S. Ede. The pathetic story of the expressive years of a young French sculptor. Knopf, $5,00.

¹⁰Stalin. By Isaac Don Levine. The big and mysterious boss of Bolshevism revealed in sharp detail. Cosmopolitan, $3.50.

¹¹John Mistletoe. By Christopher Morley. The appreciative memoirs of Mistletoe’s (Morley’s) thirty-odd and optimistic years. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

¹²Flying Dutchman. By Anthony H. G. Fokker and Bruce Gould. Fokker’s career as pilot, inventor, aircraft designer. Holt, $3.00.

¹³Dawn. By Theodore Dreiser. An intimate, detailed record of the writer’s early youth, Liveright, $5.00.

The Grass Roof. By Younghill Kang. The autobiography of a young Korean and a passport to a new world. Scribners, $3.00.

Nelson, Man and Admiral. By Friedrich Kircheisen. The biography of a great sailor who was a most susceptible man. Duffield & Green, $3.75.

The White King of La Gonave. By Lieut. Faust in Wirkus and Taney Dudley. The mysteries of the Haitian society. Doubleday, Doran, $3.00.

Schliemann. By Emil Ludwig. A German merchant who made a fortune in America and a name in Troy. Little, Brown, $3.50.

The Caliph of Bagdad. By R. H. Davis and Arthur B. Maurice. The definitive biography of O. Henry by two of his associates. Appleton, $3.50.

¹⁴Men of Art. By Thomas Craven. A human history of the great painters. Simon & Schuster, $3.00.

Mère Marie of the Ursulines. By Agnes Repplier. A courageous nun in seventeenth-century France and Canada. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

James Fenimore Cooper. By Henry Walcott Boynton. The faithful portrait of a robust American and writer. Century, $5.00.

Sheridan. By E. M. Butler. He was dramatist, dandy, politician, drunkard. The biographer analyzes his rise and fall. Richard Smith, $4.00.

The Shadow of Henry Irving. By Henry Arthur Jones. The account of an actor-manager who once ruled the stage. Morrow, $2.00.

Memoirs of Prince Von Bülow: 1897-1903. Kaiser and Company at close hand. Little, Brown, $5.00.

Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company. By Andrew N. Lytle. He led with glamour the Confederate cavalry and later the Klan. Minton, Batch, $3.50.

GENERAL

¹⁵New Russia’s Primer. By M. Ilin. What young Communists are taught to believe. Houghton Mifflin, $2.00.

England’s Crisis. By André Siegfried. A French diagnosis of what England is suffering from. Harcourt, Brace, $3.00.

Vagabond’s Paradise. By Alfred Batson. The jungle, revolutions, bandits, and hospitality weathered by a wanderer in South America. Atlantic & Little, Brown, $2.50.

¹⁶Red Bread. By Maurice Hindus. The Russian peasants’ reaction to forcible ‘collectivization.’ Cape and Smith, $3.50.

¹⁷The Martial Spirit. By Walter Millis. What our Spanish War amounted to. Houghton Mifflin, $4.00.

¹⁸Green Hell. By Julian Duguid. Honesty and humor mark this record of South American exploration. Century, $4.00.

¹⁹Thunder over Europe. By E. Alexander Powell. Warnings of political storms in Europe. Ives Washburn, $3,00.

²⁰Married Love. By Dr. Marie Stopes. A forthright essay in an alien field. Putnam, $2.00.

Roaming American Highways. By John T. Paris. Good reading and good advice for travelers. Farrar & Rinehart, $3.00.

One Hundred Red Days. By Edgar Sisson. A personal chronicle of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yale University, $3.00.

Mexican Maze. By Carleton Beals. The picturesque notebook of an American at home in Mexico, Lippincott, $3.00.

POETRY

²¹Fatal Interview. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. The love sonnets of a skillful poet. Harpers, $2.00.

Death and Taxes. By Dorothy Parker. Barbed verses by a self-determined pessimist. Viking, $1.75.