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THE RED CORD

By Thomas Grant Springer

Here is an Oriental "Main Street," or better still the .public square of a Chinese village, and So Wo Loie, with her tea rose cheeks, the forerunner of the modern feminist in her revolt against tradition and possession. Although bought and sold, she manages to find love and self expression.

THE GOAT

WITHOUT HORNS
By Beale Davis

$2.00

A beautiful white girl is branded in in-
fancy by a native nurse with a secret mark
of the Voodoo worshippers of Haiti. She
later learns that this mark is the sign that
she has been chosen to perform the human
sacrifice, named THE GOAT WITHOUT
HORNS. Her efforts to escape this fate and
to leave Haiti with her American lover is a
story of compelling power.

THE SWINGING
CARAVAN

By Achmed Abdullah

Author of "Shackled," etc.

$2.00

"No writer, not even the mighty Kipling
himself can paint a word picture of the East
with half the warmth and color of Achmed
Abdullah." In these stories, the characters
live and breathe as though of our world, yet
they move in a setting of Oriental splendor
and mysticism.
$2.00

THE PHILOSOPHY of
DISENCHANTMENT
By Edgar Saltus

A book largely devoted to a discussion of
the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Von
Hartmann, with a final brilliant essay on
"Is Life An Affliction?"

$2.00

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MARY MAGDALEN
By Edgar Saltus

Author of "Imperial Purple," etc.

The book opens with a remarkable description of Herod's court and Rome in Judea, and later tells of Judas' love for Mary and his jealousy of Jesus. But it is Mary's conversion rather than her sins that Saltus portrays with imaginative insight. $2.00

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Mr. Malevinsky, the foremost legal au-
thority in the theatrical world, has asked
himself the question-What Is A Play? The
book answers this question with a legalistic
and scientific formula, that is applicable to
novel, short story, the screen and drama
alike.
$5.00

FAIRYLAND AND
FOOTLIGHTS

By M. Jagendorf

These five plays for children are written by a man who not only writes plays but builds the stage settings, makes the scenes, designs the costumes and actually produces them. For children from ten to sixteen years of age.

$2.00

THE PERSONALITY
of WATER ANIMALS
By Royal Dixon and
Brayton Eddy

This book proves that water animals have a personality, and psycho-analyses them, one might say. It opens an entirely new field of speculation so far as our under water friends are concerned. Beautifully illustrated.

$2.50

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The author contends that man is far more stupid than the animals and proceeds to point out the ways in which both civilized and uncivilized man displays extreme stupidity.

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The Emigrants

By Johan Bojer

Y the author of "The Great Hunger." As the scene is chiefly in America, its appeal should be powerful here. A sensational success in Norway. Running as a serial in the famous Parisian magazine, The Revue des Deux Mondes. ($2.00)

The Chicken-Wagon Family

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By Barry Benefield

"An

NE of the most promising first novels we have had in years. unobtrusive work of art," says The Saturday Review. The Bookman says: "You must go back to Dickens to find humor and pathos so combined. ($2.00)

The Naked Man

By Vere Hutchinson

BEING enthusiastically reviewed in England. A starkly beautiful story

in the great tradition of Thomas Hardy. ($2.00)

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Channing Comes Through

By Charles Alden Seltzer

HE new Western by the old master of Westerns, and never has he put more action and color into a cow-country thriller. ($2.00)

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OZONOZONIZONCE

Century Autumn Non-Fiction

(Every title on our list will have been published by Oct. 1)

Roving Through Southern China

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By Harry A. Franck

DVENTURES and observations of this veteran traveler and passionate truth-teller in the rice-growing half of China. Companion volume to the author's "Wandering in Northern China." Nearly 200 illustrations. ($5.00)

The Map That Is Half Unrolled

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By E. Alexander Powell

HROUGH the steaming jungles of Equatorial Africa and up the west coast to Morocco. What the dark continent is today. Illus. ($3.50)

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Beyond Khyber Pass

By Lowell Thomas

"HIS is the man who wrote "With Lawrence in Arabia," now in its sixth printing. Hair-raising travel doings in little-known Afghanistan. Remarkable illustrations by Harry Chase. ($4.00)

On New Shores

By Konrad Bercovici

VIVID pages with the fascination of fiction on the foreign peoples who live in racial groups in America. Illustrated with line drawings by

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DETECTIVE STORIES
The Black Star... ..Johnston McCulley
Quality Bill's Girl. ...Charles W. Tyler
The House of Rogues.. Christopher B. Booth
The Brand of Silence..... Harrington Strong
Black Star's Campaign..Johnston McCulley
Who Killed William. Drew?

Harrington Strong
The Tracking of K. K........Douglas Grey
The Scarlet Scourge.....Johnston McCulley
The Kidnaping Syndicate

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Christopher B. Booth

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ADVEN

Ray Courtney

David Manning

Bull Hunter's Romance...David Manning

Hill-bred Barton's Code

Charles Wesley Sanders

The Spectacular Kid....Robert J. Horton

King Charlie's Riders.. David Manning.

Jim Curry's Test...

David Manning

Unwelcome Settlers..

.James Roberts

Whispering Canon......

James Roberts

Squatters at Dabchick Lake

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LOVE STORIES

Anne Against the World
Victor Thorne

The Husks of Life

Mary Douglas

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Her Desert Lover

Louisa Carter Lee

The Woman in Mauve
Georgette MacMillan
A Girl Against Odds
Marcia Montaigne

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THE SPIDER'S DEN

A Detedine Story
Johnston
McCulley

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Object: Adventure............ .Ray Courtney

ADVENTURE STORIES

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