This little book is a classic. It deals with pain in its necessary, beneficial aspect. Hinton addressed it to the sorrowful, to whom it assuredly brings comfort, but it will prove interesting and helpful to all thinking men and women. It shows how pain, if it could be recognized as development, and in a sense as joy, would be as much welcomed as pleasure is now. We are afraid of both, instead of recognizing them as two parts of the development of the soul; neither is good alone, but as a completion the one of the other.
THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF A PLAY. By Louis Shipman. Illustrated in colors and in black and white.
$1.50 net.
Perhaps you remember Henry Miller in “D’Arcy of the Guards.” Its author, Louis Shipman, has written this unique book about “D’Arcy,” in which he tells exactly what happened to the play from the very first moment the manuscript left his hands. Letters, contracts, telegrams, etc., are all given in full, and there are many interesting illustrations, both in color and in black and white. “The True Adventures of a Play” will prove of almost inestimable value to all those who practise or hope to practise the art of playwriting; and it abounds, furthermore, in bits of fine criticism of the contemporary theatre.
NOVA HIBERNIA. By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters.”
$1.50 net.
A book of delightful and informing essays about Irishmen and letters by an Irishman. Some of the chapters are “Yeats and Synge,” “Thomas Moore,” “Sheridan,” “Irish Balladry,” etc., etc.
AT THE SIGN OF THE VAN. By Michael Monahan, author of “Adventures in Life and Letters,” etc.
$2.00 net.
Michael Monohan, founder of that fascinating little magazine, “The Papyrus,” is one of the most brilliant of present-day American critics. He has abundant sympathy, insight, critical acumen, and, above all, real flavor. His essays are all his own. And into this Volume he has put much of his own life story. Then there is a remarkable chapter on “Sex in the Playhouse,” besides papers on Roosevelt, O. Henry, Carlyle, Renan, Tolstoy, and Arthur Brisbane, to mention but a few. “At the Sign of the Van” is really a second, larger, and even finer book than “Adventures in Life and Letters.”