TWENTY THREE AUTHORS Edith Wharton W. B. Yeats The e Marquess Curzon of Kedleston L. de Bra Elinor Mordaunt D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 35 W. 32d St., New York THIS IS AN APPLETON BOOK Four Notable Autumn Biographies ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY By JOHN A. STEUART No writer in English has been the subject of such adulation as Robert Louis Stevenson. In the absence of any completely accurate account of his life and career, he has been invested with a halo of saintly rectitude, without regard for the realities. The admiration for Stevenson approaches fanaticism among large numbers of people. They will violently object' to this critical biography, but the true student of literature, the reader who values historical truth above a glamorous illusion, will rightly judge it to be a frank but eminently fair account, warmly appreciative of a figure whose position in literature the truth cannot affect. More than any of our publications over a long period, these two volumes of unshackled biography seem likely to set all the tongues of criticism and controversy a-wagging. There will be many feature reviews of these volumes, and a lively demand for them should arise as soon as they are published. The date is November 8th..... With photogravure frontispieces. 2 volumes, boxed, $8.00. MEMORIES and ADVENTURES By Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE This fascinating autobiography by the creator of Sherlock Holmes is receiving full-page feature reviews in the leading critical literary publications, and should prove to be one of the outstanding autobiographies of the Autumn. Melville E. Stone, in The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post and The Philadelphia Public Ledger, says: "I have waited a long time for this book-and now I am not disappointed in it. Nothing that this brilliant writer has given us in the 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' is comparable with the fascination to be found in the simple, modest story of his own life." THE TRUTH AT LAST By Sir CHARLES HAWTREY Sir Charles Hawtrey, the famous English comedian, was best known in this country for his American tours in "A Message from Mars," and "The Man from Blankley's." and thousands of theatre-goers will welcome his delightfully self-revealing autobiography. The volume sparkles with vivacity and humor, and abounds in amusing anecdotes of actors, authors and racing men. As Hawtrey died before finishing the volume, W. Somerset Maugham has edited it and supplied an introduction. $5.00 $4.50 CLYDE FITCH AND HIS LETTERS Boston LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY Publishers The Publishers' Weekly, November 1, 1924. Vol. CVI. No. 18. Entered as second-class matter June 1, 1879. at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3. 1879. Subscription, Zones 1-5, $5; Zones 6-8, $5.50; Foreign, $6. R. R. Bowker Co., Publishers. 62 W. 45th St.. New York. End-papers from Donald Ogden Stewart's MR. AND MRS. HADDOCK ABROAD. Herb Roth is the illustrator. DONALD OGDEN STEWART Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad What The Great Newspapers are saying about The Great Book of the Year "All the commentary really needed has been furnished by Samuel M. Clemens himself speaking, as he says, from the grave -distilling an enriched and ennobled essence of himself in which his virtues and his faults are equally preserved and mellowed. An extraordinarily complete and rounded picture." Harper & Brothers, Publishers,|| D The New York Herald-Tribune: "A mighty picture of the spirit, the mind, the nature of a man. Mark Twain rises from the dead to stand before us more sympathetically, more nobly and more pathetically than he ever dared to show himself in life. One becomes for a little time the intimate of Mark Twain, and gains more thereby than can be derived from a fifty-foot shelf of other autobiographies. Here is a better memorial than any other of our great has left us. It is not a book. It is a strong, fine echo of himself." he New York Sun: "Mark Twain has revealed his own soul; he has been his own Boswell. We are admitted to the presence of the latest Mark Twain as rarely we have been admitted into the inner life of any man. It is a privilege, it is a joy. The book will live, the rest of his work is incomplete without it. Mark Twain is romance, American romance, and this book is a glorious added chapter.' The Boston Transcript: "Mark Twain-a very representative and very great American-has produced a very interesting and amusing book. Emerson said 'An autobiography should be a book of answers from the individual to the many questions of the time,' and every page has an answer, fierce or funny, to some question or other of the time.' The World's Work: "The book ranges at its own sweet will, always spontaneous and filled with enthusiasm. The words come to us as spoken words, utterly sincere and direct. It is as if his passing were a deception, for he is here, infinitely to be honored once again, and infinitely to be loved." 49 East 33rd St., New York, N. Y. |