The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

Grover Cleveland. By Allan Nevins. The thoroughly documented biography of an independent President. Dodd, Mead, $4.00.

Mary Lincoln. By Carl Sandburg. The retouched portrait of a much censored First Lady. Harcourt, Brace, $3.00.

Carson the Advocate. By Edward Murjoribanks, An English advocate and his famous trials. Macmillan, $3.00.

The Life of Andrew Carnegie. By Burton J. Hendrick. The well-studied career of a Scotchman who made and spent. Doubleday, Doran, 2 vols., #7.50.

John Quincy Adams. By Bennett Champ Clark. The statesmanship and politics by which this cultured Yankee rose to command. Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, $3.75.

Sir Walter Scott. By John Buchan. An anniversary biography of the great novelist by a countryman who knows and loves Scotland, Coward-McCann, $3.75.

By John T. Flynn. This study of an American financier is critical and closely informed. Harcourt, Brace, $3.50.

Memoirs of Prince von Bülow, Vol. IV. The readable partisan reminiscences of a German in high place. Little, Brown, $5.00.

Napoleon. By Hilaire Belloc. Napoleon’s rise and fall in the words of a fine stylist. Lippincott, $4.00.

Beveridge and the Progressive Era. By Claude G. Bowers. The admirable career of an Independent in the Roosevelt Era. Houghton Mifflin, $5.00.

Lances Down. By Richard Boleslavski. A war-weary Polish Lancer in Moscow of ’17. Bobbs-Merrill, $3.00.

A Guide through World Chaos. By G. D. H. Cole. Our economic salvation in practice and theory. Knopf, $3.75.

Men against Death. By Paul de Kruif. Dramatic pen pictures of scientists and doctors who risked everything to cure. Harcourt, Brace, $3.50.

Death in the Afternoon. By Ernest Hemingway. Bull fights in Spain, their history, their actors, and their brutality. Scribners, $3.50.

The March of Democracy. By James Truslow Adams. A household condensation of American history. Scribners, $3.50.

Bloody Years. By F. Yeats-Brown. The exciting war story of an English officer and spy. Viking, $2.75.

England under Queen Anne. Vol. II: Ramillies. By George Macaulay Trevelyan. The continuation of a great English canvas. Longmans, Green, $5.00.

Tiger Man. By Julian Duguid. The South American jungles and a hunter who eats tigers alive. Century, $3.00.

Education and the Modern World. By Bertrand Russell. A witty philosopher’s criticism of modern education. Norton, $2.50.

Mark Twain’s America. By Bernard DeVoto. A gusty book bringing to light the robust Americanism of our Southwest. Little, Brown, $4.00.

Careers in Advertising. Ed. by Alden James. A complete symposium of what advertising has to offer Macmillan. $5.00.

Nicodemus. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. Eleven character poems in Robinson’s best vein. Macmillan, $1.75.

Rip Tide. By William Rose Benet. A contemporary novel in verse. Duffield & Green, $2.50.

A Tale of Troy. By John Masefield. A short poetical play of Troy’s downfall. Macmillan, $1.50.

The Second Common Reader. By Virginia Woolf. Essays in English literature, critical and biographical. Harcourt, Brace, $3.00.

Sketches in Criticism. By Van Wyck Brooks. The collected papers of an American critic in the 1920’s. Dutton, $3.50.

Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Ed. by Aldous Huxley. The singularly alive letters of an impassioned novelist. Viking, $5.00.

Selected Essays. By T. S. Eliot. Critical evaluations of the past by an Anglo-American. Harcourt, $3.50.

Oxford Book of American Prose. Ed. by Mark Van Doren. Magnetic specimens of the best American prose from the seventeenth century to to-day. Oxford University, $3.50.

Flowering Wilderness. By John Galsworthy. A love story of contemporary England in which the Empire is pitted against the lover. Scribners, $2.50.

Peking Picnic. By Ann Bridge. A philosophic novel of Peking and the Legations, Atlantic Monthly and Little. Brown, $2.50.

Sons. By Pearl S, Buck. What civil war does to a wealthy Chinese family. John Day, $2.50.

Mutiny on the Bounty. By Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. A fine historical novel of the British Navy and the South Seas in Nelson’s day. Atlantic Monthly and little, Brown, $2.50.

Light in August. By William Faulkner. The pitiable cause and the violent effect of a Southern murder. Smith N Haas, $2.50.

Peter Ashley. By DuBose Heyward. When Charleston was romantic at the outset of the Civil War. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50.

The Gods Arrive. By Edith Wharton. The afflictions endured by a successful writer. Appleton, $2.50.

The Narrow Corner. By W. Somerset Maugham. A story of Malay and of a most destructive young woman. Doubleday, Doran, $2.50.

The Shadow Flies. By Rose Macaulay. A freethinking doctor and his stubborn daughter in a comedy of manners. Harpers, $2.50.

God’s Angry Man. By Leonard Ehrlich. John Brown is the protagonist of this highly praised historical novel. Simon & Schuster, $2.50.

Beyond Desire. By Sherwood Anderson. The moving story of Red Oliver, a worker in a Southern mill town. Liveright, $2.50.

Diana Stair. By Floyd Dell. An attractive woman rebels against the Boston of 1842. Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50.

Josephus. By Lion Feuchtwanger. A highly colored historical novel of Josephus, the Jew. Viking, $2.50.

The House under the Water. By Francis Brett Young. A dramatic novel of family conflicts. Harpers, $2.50.

Inheritance. By Phyllis Bentley. Four generations of an English mill-owning family. Macmillan. $2.50.