“Indiscretions” of Lady Susan, by LADY SUSAN TOWNLEY. Entertaining and well-edged gossip by the wife of a diplomat who was stationed in many countries.
The Literary Spotlight, with an introduction by JOHN FARRAR. Personal portraits of contemporary American writers, first published in The Bookman, and anonymous to permit greater candour. Louis Untermeyer, Mary Johnston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Floyd Dell, Sinclair Lewis, Owen Johnson, Edna Ferber, Amy Lowell and others are included.
Unusual Biographies and Autobiographies.
Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman, by ROSWELL PAGE.
All in a Lifetime, by HENRY MORGENTHAU.
My Life and Work, by HENRY FORD in collaboration with SAMUEL CROWTHER.
My Boyhood, by JOHN BURROUGHS.
Lord Northcliffe: a Memoir, by MAX PEMBERTON.
Fourteen Years a Sailor, by JOHN KENLON. The Chief of the New York Fire Department in a naïve and pleasing account of his Irish boyhood.
The Life of an American Sailor: Admiral William Hemsley Emory, from his letters and memoirs edited by ADMIRAL ALBERT GLEAVES.