For Spring Sales--- Check GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL MARGARET TURNBULL is worth an introduction to your best class of customers as a writer of high grade, clean, detective fiction. JULIET IS TWENTY By JANE ABBOTT Here is the novel Jane Abbott's readers have been waiting for A NEW NAME By GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL $2.00 Just the kind of love story Mrs. Hill tells best-the kind that MADAME JUDAS By MARGARET TURNBULL Something new for detective fans. The great sleuths in fiction THE BRONZE HAND $2.00 JULIET IS TWENTY JANE ABBOTT A NEW Grace Livingston Hill By CAROLYN WELLS The New "Fleming Stone" detective story. "As a mystery yarn it is gorgeous."-Brooklyn Eagle. $2.00 Post. By ANTHONY WYNNE, Author of "The Sign of Evil" "A supremely good detective yarn. Thrills enough to last the reader for a long time."-Chicago $2.00 UNDER TROPIC SKIES The new volume in the Uniform Edition of LOUIS BECKE'S famous South Sea tales. $2.00 By CAPTAIN HENRY TOKE MUNN $2.00 J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY-Philadelphia-London The Copp Clark Co., Limited, Trade Agents for Canada RIDER PRESS, NEW YORK These STOKES Books Will Sell! HONK! A Motor Romance By DORIS F. HALMAN For those who feel that irresistible spring urge to go somewhere-and who doesn't feel in vacation mood these days!-suggest this lively account of a motor trip through Europe by a party of young Americans. In it the author gives a new twist to stories of European travel, staging comedy and romance on a real background of French and Swiss villages, Spanish castles, the Riviera and a sky-blue Mediterranean. The ideal Bon Voyage gift! Jacket by Gluyas Williams. Publication: May 6. Net $2.00. THE QUEERNESS By AMELIE RIVES (Princess Troubetzkoy) The announcement of Amelie Rives' first novel since 1918 will be welcome news to those remembering the distinguished success of "The Quick or the Dead," "World's End," eta The new book tells of a penniless orphan who, becoming the ward of a rich New Yorker, enters a world of theatres, music and New York society. A distinctly individual story. Publication: May 6. Net $2.00. THE NEW COMMON SENSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD By MARION HARLAND. Revised by CHRISTINE T. HERRICK Marion Harland's world-famous "Common Sense in the Household" (sales over one million copies) brought fully up to date by her daughter. Beginning with gas and electrical cookery and the mechanical aids to housework, the book gives practical recipes for every food likely to be served, with special sections on canning, beverages and sickroom cookery, with table of calories and daily menus with calory values. Publication: April 22. Cloth, net $2.00. Kitchen Edition, with washable binding, net $2.50. THE DESK REFERENCE BOOK By WILLIAM DANA ORCUTT its A revised and greatly enlarged edition of "The Writer's Desk Book." Here's your chance for quantity sales! Take this book to the key man in each of your city's big business firms and recommend use as the standard guide for himself and his employes on all questions of punctuation, capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, faulty diction, letter-writing, etc. Tell him it's used as the final word in many printing and newspaper offices, large corporations and on the library tables of those who write anything from a letter to a book. Publication: April 22. Net $1.50. THE ANIMAL ETIQUETTE BOOK By HELEN C. LE CRON Amusing pictures and jingles telling about the animals and their shockingly bad habits, just like the faults of almost any boy or girl. In these quaint and funny rhymes all children will recognize the things they themselves do most often. With frontispiece, jacket and cover inlay in color and 24 full-page black-and-white pictures by Maurice Day. Publication: April 22. Net $1.50. THE WHIPPER-SNAPPER By CHARLES E. PARKER A rousing football story for boys by a veteran sports writer of the N. Y. World who has covered the Big Games for years. Aside from enjoying a story with real punch, boys will respond to the good sportsmanship on which the book is founded. Publication: May 6. Picture jacket in color. Net $1.50. Are you using the excellent promotion material issued by the National Association of Book Publishers? 443-4th Ave. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York The Publishers' Weekly, April 17, 1926. Vol. CIX. No. 16. Entered as second-class matter, June 1, 1879. at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 6-8 $5.50; Foreign, $6. R. R. Bowker Co.. 62 W. 45th St., New York. Subscription, Zones 1-5, $5; Zones DORAN BOOKS A. CONAN DOYLE THROUGHOUT a quarter century an enthusiastic reading public has added constantly to the fame of this great writer. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, author of The Lost World and many brilliantly successful novels, achieves in The Land of Mist a literary master-stroke, a novel of thrill and adventure in realms hitherto undreamed in fiction. Here you will find again Professor "We think that in THE MAGNIFICENT IDLER you may well have a second 'Ariel'." W. K. Stewart Co., Indianapolis "One of the most thrilling biographies I've ever read." Brick Row Book Shop, New Haven "Rogers has not only drawn Whitman re markably well, but his style and manner of treatment are worthy of reading not only by Whitman fans, but by the public at large for the pure enjoyment of seeing beautiful words and ideas depicted." Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc. San Francisco THE MAGNIFICENT IDLER, in addition to being a magnificent fiotional biography, is one of the most beautiful books ever published. It is handsomely bound in Holliston Extra Cloth and printed in 12-point Century Old Style type on Special Ticonderoga wove paper. Edward A. Wilson, illustrator of "Full and By" has done a gorgeous four-color jacket, as well as end papers, title page, and seven pages of drawings. Remember-Whitman is the most thrilling figure in American literaturethis masterly story of his extraordinary life will be the sensation of the year. |