The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

(appearing between July 1 and October 30, 1931

FICTION

*Shadows on the Rock. By Willa Cather. A calm, beautifully phrased story of old Quebec. Knopf, 32.50.

*Finch’s Fortune. By Mazo de la Roche. Finch, flower of the Whiteoaks, disposes of the Jalna fortune. Atlantic and Little, Brown, $2.50.

All Ye People. By Merle Colby. A picaresque novel of the roads to the West in 1840. Viking, $2.50.

John Henry. By Roark Bradford. A black Hercules in American overalls. Harpers, $2.50.

*Sparks Fly Upward. By Oliver La Large. The Indian and the Castilian in conflict in Central America, Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.

The Waves. By Virginia Woolf. The intellectual delineation of six English people who were friends. Harcourt, Brace, $2.50.

Susan Spray. By Sheila Kaye-Smith. A novel of a Sussex woman who had fervor, religious and otherwise. Harpers, $2.50.

*Hatter’s Castle. By A. J. Cronin. The fast-moving story of a Scotchman who tyrannized his world. Little, Brown, $2.50.

The Story of Julian. By Susan Ertz. A sensitive young Englishman at odds with his elders. Appleton, $32.50.

*Brothers in the West. By Robert Raynolds. This novel of the glamorous West won the Harper Prize. Harpers, $2.50.

All Passion Spent. By V. Sackville-West. The reminiscent and romantic story of an old lady. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

Black Daniel. By Honoré W. Morrow. The romance of Daniel Webster. Morrow, $2-50.

The Old Crowd. By William Fitzgerald, Jr. A sturdy New Hampshire novel. Longmans, Green, $2.00.

*Westward Passage. By Margaret Ayer Barnes. A divorced couple meet by chance on a hectic ocean voyage. Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.

Napoleon and the Cossacks. By General P. N. Krassnoff. A Russian narrative of 1812 in the Dumas tradition. Duffield & Green, $3.50.

The Appletons of Herne. By Archibald Marshall. Three generations of an English country family. Dodd, Mead, $2.50.

The Past Recaptured. By Marcel Proust. The final part of Remembrance of Things Past. A. & C. Boni, $2.50.

The Firemakers. By Rollo Walter Brown. A novel of individuality in the Ohio mining country. Coward-McCann, $2,50.

Red-Headed Woman. By Katharine Brush. A shrewd novel of a beauty who tried to win New York. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.00.

The Almond Tree. By Grace Zaring Stone. A daughter of to-day looks at Washington society. Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50.

The Silver Eagle. By W. R. Burnett. A Chicago racketeer climbs toward respectability. Dial Press, $2.00.

BIOGRAPHY

*Lyautey. By André Maurois. A French general who proved himself a great proconsul. Appleton, $3.00.

Charles of Europe. By D. B. Wyndham Lewis. The story of Emperor Charles V and his times. Coward-McCann, $5.00.

Dear Robert Emmet. By R. W. Postgate. Ireland’s romantic martyr. Vanguard, $3.50.

Bernard Shaw. By Frank Harris. A candid biography by a critical contemporary. Simon & Schuster, $5.00.

* Titles reported by booksellers as most in demand

My Northcliffe Diary. By Tom Clarke. A close-up of England’s greatest journalist. Cosmopolitan, $3.00.

*Leonard Wood. By Hermann Hagedorn. The partisan, half-tragic biography of an able and ambitious soldier. Harpers, $10.00.

Edward VII: Man and King. By H. E. Wortham. A colorful king and the uncle of Europe, on and off duty. Atlantic and Little, Brown, $5.00.

*Better Left Unsaid. By Daisy, Princess of Pless. An Englishwoman at the German Court. Dutton, $5.00.

Gun Notches. By Captain Thomas H. Rynning. The excitements of a cowboy-soldier and two-gun man generally. Stokes, $3.00.

The Great Physician. By Edith Gittings Reid. A biography of Sir William Osler, Prince of Physicians. Oxford Univ. Press, $3.50.

*Washington Merry-Go-Round. Anonymous. The gossip and ‘inside information’ about Washington personalities. Liveright, $3.00.

Fanny Kemble. By Dorothie Bobbe. The story of an English actress who came to live and criticize in the United States. Minton, Balch, $5.00.

Cranmer. By Hilaire Belloc. Archbishop and literary genius. Lippincott, $5.00.

GENERAL

*Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence. Edited by Christopher St. John. The letters between a lovely actress and a witty dramatist. Putnam, $5.00.

*The Epic of America. By James Truslow Adams. The forces and ambitions which have formed the American people. Atlantic and Little, Brown, $3.00.

*Mexico. By Stuart Chase. The neighboring America so few of us know. Macmillan, $3.00.

The Scientific Outlook. By Bertrand Russell. A philosopher cross-questions our modern scientific authorities. W. W. Norton, $3.00,

*Civilization: Man’s Own Show. By George A. Dorsey. An estimate of the civilization on which our world is based. Harpers, $35.00.

Strange Animals I Have Known. By Raymond L. Ditmars. Problems and personalities confronting a zoölogical curator. Brewer, Warren & Putnam, $3.50.

Forty-Niners. By Archer Butler Hulbert. The California Gold Rush in terms of flesh and blood. Atlantic and Little, Brown, $3.50.

A History of the Movies. By Benjamin B. Harrison. The emergence of Hollywood. Covici, Friede, $5.00.

The Insect Menace. By Dr. L. O. Howard. The ruthless warfare between insects and the human race. Century, $3.50.

The Story of the Huns. By Marcel Brion. What happened when the Hiung-Nu trekked to the Danube. McBride, $3.50.

Trails to Inmost Asia. By George N. Roerich. Five years of adventure and exploration in Mongolia and Tibet. Yale Univ., $7.50.

Philosophy and Civilization. By John Dewey. Philosophy’s connection with our social structure. Minton, Balch, $5.00.

POETRY

Minnie Maylow’s Story. By John Masefield. Narrative and dramatic poems by the Poet Laureate. Macmillan. $1.75.

Matthias at the Door. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. The portrait of a man who shut out the world. Macmillan, $1.75.