C From the Spring List of Longmans, Green and Co. A Novel Continuing The Three Musketeers THE YEARS By Paul Feval and Admirers of Dumas have for years speculated on what happened in the period between "The Three Musketeers" and its successor "Twenty Years After." In this novel the authors continue the adventures not only of D'Artagnan and his associates but of Cyrano de Bergerac. Two volumes, boxed. HUGO WAST $5.00 BLACK THE LETTERS OF QUEEN Second Series A selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence and Journal, Vol. III, 1879-1885. Edited by George Earle Buckle. With Illustrations. $9.00 THE By Percy MacKaye A narrative poem of the Kentucky mountains. A striking piece of work which will be the first of a series of five books by Mr. MacKaye presenting five aspects of Appalachian lore. $1.50 VALLEY The Royal Spanish Academy Prize Novel By HUGO WAST Hugo Wast is the most popular novelist of South America and has won several important prizes for his work; but heretofore his books have not been available to American readers. "Black Valley" is a novel of the Argentine hills and people, vivid in setting, rich in dramatic situations. The story of Gracian Palma and the two girls who silently battle for his love, is as colorful, as startling, as entertaining, as the best novels of Ibanez. $2.50 Russian Revolution THE LAND By Sergey Gussiev Translated by Nina Nikolaevna Selivanova This is the prose epic of Russia in the years between 1915 and 1920. It is Tolstoyan in its range and sympathy, in episode intense and dramatic. 440 $2.50 pages. LONGMANS, GREEN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS SINCE 1724 55 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. Merrill. $2.50). "Eden" (Dutton. $2.00) is Mr. Sheehan's new book. It is the life story of Cain. The fable is lovingly fashioned. Its plea for pagan joy in life and beauty grows so naturally out of its own simple loveliness of design that it is no more insistent than the truth which underlies an old Greek myth. Robert Nathan's "The Woodcutter's House" (Bobbs-Merrill. $2.00) has a glint of the same quality, with its little green god and the talks of horses and dogs and mice that are interwoven with the human story. If these stories make us think sometimes of James Stephens and Walter de la Mare, it is not becausewhatever their kinship in art-they are imitative. Nathan's fresh clean beauty of style is his own and quite one with the poetic story which it gives expression to. What a strange difference in the novels that are today dividing current favor! Fairy tales of poetic beauty like those just discussed, romantic poems like Donne Byrne's "Crusade" (Little, Brown. $2.00), phantasies like Elinor Wylie's "Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard" (Knopf. $2.50; just announced) and books of sheer fierce strength like "The Ugly Duchess" of Lion Feuchtwanger (Viking. $2.50) whose "Power" ($2.50) is still selling steadily. And yet quiet books of realistically treated life hold their own on the publishers' lists. There is Sheila Kaye-Smith's "Iron and Smoke" (Dutton. $2.50), which if not so powerful as "Joanna Godden," nor so full of beauty as parts of "The George and the Crown," is well among its author's best novels: and Sheila Kaye-Smith is definitely among the better British novelists. It is an entertaining story and its people live; as the people of so many novels do not. Viola Meynell's "A Girl Adoring" (Dutton. $2.50), a love story, quiet save for the passions of its heroes, is recalling to some minds that poem that Francis Thompson wrote to the baby Viola, whose parents had meant so much to him. And Hugh Walpole adds "Wintersmoon" (Doubleday, Doran. $2.00) to his studies of the English aristocracy; You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. in the tradition of "The Duchess of Wrexe." "Stuffed Peacocks" (Knopf. $2.00) isn't a novel-nor even "pure fiction," but I mention it here. Emily Clark is sophisticated and clever and her book is delicious to read-though the withers of anyone might smart in anticipatory pain at the thought of her satiric barbs turned his way. A delightful essay on Richmond introduces a group of character sketches which are sharp but certainly amusing. Would you like to buy a masterpiece (or at least two slivers of a masterpiece) for fifty cents and hold it till it becomes a costly first edition? Then try John Galsworthy's "Two Forsyte Interludes" (Scribners. $.50). When the second volume of "The Forsyte Saga" is printed, these with "The White Monkey," "The Silver Spoon" and the unpublished "Swan Song" will no doubt complete the Forsyte chronicles. From the spring lists here are some of the novels that Peter Quince awaits with curiosity: William McFee's "Pil-. You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. The Romanesque Lyric By Philip Schuyler Allen With Illustrative Verse Englished by The word Romanesque acquires even greater richness as applied to the verse whose fascinating development from Petronius to the Cambridge poets (50 to 1050) is here traced. And the verse renditions can be no more happily illustrated than by the following exquisite lyric: These are arrows that murder sleep Every hour the cold night through, Love all day is pain to me Hero of Roeny, where are you?. It came to me out of a foreign land, Stronger than all, my love for the dead; Bloom and color have fled for me, And O! my peace is filed! Speech was sweeter from him than song, (God's songs are sweeter, it may be!) But his lips were flame, and no braggart's lips, And he was slender to lie with me. Ah, why am I not as I was, a child, A timid child, still passionless? Age has me now, and I am paid For all my loving waywardness. Goary is my father. I Have all that Aidne has to yield; What are my people now to me? My heart is in Irluachair's field. Around the sides of Colman's Church They chant in Aidne stave on stave; They praise Dinertach's name-and he Is a spent flame and in his grace! Chaste Christ! What sorrow is like mine? My heart is weary and fate is strong; These are arrows that murder sleep Every hour the cold night long. GONGORISM in the Golden Age By Elisha K. Kane Decorations by the author To the admiring poetasters of his day he was the Swan of Codorva, the Homer of Spain, but to us, in these "dry and sober times," his boisterous exuberance, his flamboyance, his fantastic conceits, make Gongora the symbol of a debauched art and a dying literature-and give this movement his name. It is not enough to dismiss him and his school as mere "bad taste." That only leaves the whole question as obscure as some of his own farflung metaphors. For Gongorism represents something too definite in the cycle of art, and its manifestations are too rife today to be so lightly waved away. Mr. Kane analyzes the movement in poetry, drama, sculpture, architecture, and music, with cutting brilliance, and illustrates his book with sardonic appropriations. $2.50 America and French Culture By Howard Mumford Jones The vast amount of material has been so skillfully organized, assimilated, and condensed, the enormous scope of the book so well defined, this work will long stand as a model of comparative study. One critic has said that the chapters on the American background are the best statement that has yet been made on that phase of our culture. And its bibliographical and documentary richness, as well as its provocative point of view will give America and French Culture even further importance as more study is made of American literature and American cultural relationships. $5.00 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS You can order your books through the Virginia Quarterly Book Service. |