“A rural fantasia comparable to Synge’s ‘Playboy,’” introducing an interesting French-Swiss novelist.
THE GOOSE MAN. By Jacob Wassermann, author of “The World’s Illusion.” Translated by Allen W. Porterfield.
A novel which raises the question whether genius can ignore the common rules of humanity without self-destruction.
RUBÈ. By G. A. Borgese. Translated by Isaac Goldberg.
A novel which has had a sensational success in Italy, centering on the spiritual collapse since the War.
THE PATRIOTEER. By Heinrich Mann. Translated by Ernest Boyd.
A German “Main Street,” describing the career of a typical product of militarism, in school, university, business, and love.
MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY. Translated by Babette Deutsch and A. Yarmolinsky.
Covers the whole field of Russian verse since Pushkin, with the emphasis on contemporary poets.
LIFE OF CHRIST. By Giovanni Papini. Translated by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.