By Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton
The authors of the ten closely related stories which make up this volume have spent most of their lives studying the sociological problems of tramp and criminal life. Mr. Flynt writes: “So far as I am concerned, the book is the result of ten years of wandering with tramps and two years spent with various police organizations.” The stories are a decided contribution to sociology, and yet, viewed as stories, they have unusual interest because of their remarkable vigor and their intense realism.
Fully Illustrated. Cloth. 12mo; 5⅛ × 7¾. $1.25.
The Soul of the Street
By NORMAN DUNCAN
“The Soul of the Street” has a unity lacking in many volumes of short stories. They deal with Syrians and Turks, queer folk with queer ways, and Mr. Duncan has gotten at them with such sympathetic insight as only the poetic heart and the story-teller’s eye can possess. Character, humor, poignant pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old and new civilizations are expressed through the medium of a style that has distinction, and strikes a note of rare personality.
Cloth. 12mo; 5⅛ × 7¾. About $1.00.