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Leading Authors on the Fall List

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ARK TWAIN, America's most beloved author, her greatest humorist, and one of her few great philosophers, comes magically back to us this fall in his long-awaited autobiography, which he dictated at intervals over a long period of years, and left with the solemn injunction that it should not be published until long after his death. "I am speaking from the grave," he wrote in the preface of this extraordinary manuscript, and threw aside reserve. The result is perhaps the most interesting and important autobiography of the twentieth century, an inexhaustible mine of anecdote, reminiscence and philosophy which mirrors the heart and mind of the man whom Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature."

GAMALIEL BRADFORD, author of "Bare Souls,"

holds a unique place among American authors. In the field of brief biographical portraiture he stands alone, with few rivals and no equals. "He re-introduces into modern literature a method of biography that is sincere, analytical, uncompromising and yet_sympathetic," William Lyon Phelps writes of him. In his new book the author of "Damaged Souls" portrays with his accustomed brilliance eight of the most mysteriously fascinating personalities of European letters. His subjects include Keats, Voltaire, Flaubert, and Thomas Gray. Under his magic touch they spring to life as human beings like ourselves; not always flawless in character, but always interesting.

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E. WOODWARD, author of "Lottery," is "a new novelist for intelligent people to keep up with," as The Nation declared when his first brilliant novel, "Bunk," appeared last year. "Lottery" is keener and more hilarious even than "Bunk," and more absorbing as a story. It is a satire on the career of a modern business man for whom other people made a million dollars before he was thirty. It is a fresh and gay painting of American life, by a man who writes from the "inside" of the financial and advertising world, and whose pen is dipped in wit, in joyousness, and in pity.

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ARVEY O'HIGGINS, long distinguished as psychologist, author of some of the most successful modern plays and of two remarkable volumes of short stories, has now written in "Julie Cane," his first full-length novel, a book which critics and public have been awaiting for many years. It is the story of the daughter of a shabby eccentric little country grocer, who made her own way and made a success of it-and of her extraordinary father. If H. G. Wells' Mr. Polly was a favorite of yours, you will find here a kindred soul. "Julie Cane" is inevitably one of the outstanding novels of a brilliant season.

HENRY HOLT & COMPANY, New York

Straus, Riddell, Ward and Rolland

RALPH STRAUS confesses to a deep envy of

Appleby Magnus, that gargantuan, Falstaffian, highly lovable character whom he has created in "The Unseemly Adventure"; for-Mr. Straus writes"He has all those desirable qualities which I know that I lack myself. And I feel very strongly that he ought to be allowed to get drunk whenever he chooses-even in America. Indeed, I would go further and say that when he does visit America, he will get extraordinarily drunk, but nothing will be done, and not even your police will be shocked."

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LORENCE RIDDELL says that she wrote "Kenya Mist" in response to a persistent question in her own mind, "If motherhood is the reason for a woman's creation, why are so many prevented from fulfilling their destiny?" "Suddenly I wondered," she goes on to say, "what would happen if a woman should resolve to fulfill the purpose of her creation, oblivious of all barriers of convention which lay before her? Kenya Mist tells the story of such a fearless woman. Was she right or wrong?"