The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

TO detect and encourage young novelists is one of the chief concerns of any editor. In addition to native facility, a beginning author needs money to pay for tire freedom in which to write. By establishing their Fellowships (of $1000 each) Houghton Mifflin have extended to the best candidates a working programme with an endowment at the outset. These awards have helped to produce such promising first novels as Green Margins, by E. P. O’Donnell, Spanish Prelude, by Jenny Ballou, and currently Young Man with a Horn, by Dorothy Baker.

Mrs. Baker, who is in her early thirties, was born in Montana and educated at the University of California. She is keenly interested in the labor movement, and. as her book testifies, is very sensitive to a new element in our lively arts.