Ready September 15th A REALLY GREAT BIOGRAPHY COMMODORE VANDERBILT: An Epic of American Achievement By ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SMITH Here is Corneel, tooling up the Avenue behind his spanking bay trotters a glimpse of the grand old man in the heyday of his power. This and numer ous other illustrations drawn from contemporary sources fittingly complement a racy biography, tangy of those spacious times when a man had room enough to swing a cat and then some. Commodore Vanderbilt is more than the big biography of the fall. It is truly an epic of America's crude, tumultuous rise to power -a great book this season and for many future seasons. Watch out for it. Send in your request for a sample copy. Price $5.00. ROBERT M. MCBRIDE AND COMPANY 7 WEST 16th STREET NEW YORK MORE THAN 40,000 COPIES of Great SHORT STORIES of the World Have Been Sold in the United States and England GREAT SHORT NOVELS of the WORLD Edited, with an introduction and notes By BARRETT H. CLARK is a fitting companion volume to this great seller A Few Selling Points 1. The only single volume anthology in its field. 2. The worlds' greatest authors are represented. A few of them are: Apuleius, Malory, Voltaire, Mérimée, Pirandello, Turgenev, Reymont, Björnson, Galsworthy, James. 3. Before each short novel the editor has written a brief, biographical sketch of the author. 4. Before each national grouping is a short discussion of that country's place in world literature. 5. The Price. Regular edition, beautifully bound in buckram, printed on specially prepared thin paper, over 1000 pages, octavo, $5.00 net. Library edition, half morocco, boxed, net $10.00. 6. You can sell GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF THE WORLD, either alone or together with GREAT SHORT STORIES OF THE WORLD. We are preparing, for the holiday trade, a decorative box to include both volumes. Place your orders now. ROBERT M. MCBRIDE AND COMPANY 7 WEST 16th STREET -: -: NEW YORK TWO NOVELS YOU CAN SELL TO ALL WOMEN NOT TO MENTION THE MEN By JAMES BRANCH CABELL SOMETHING ABOUT EVE That a new Cabell novel will, automatically, become a best seller goes without saying. Why mention it then? Because SOMETHING ABOUT EVE is scheduled to be the greatest of Mr. Cabell's successes. Because its theme is universal and its wisdom, cloaked in pungent wit, is the concern of every man and every woman. Never has there been a greater interest in the work of James Branch Cabell. Autumn will see the publication not only of "Something About Eve," but of the first three volumes of the definitive "Storisende Edition" (already announced in the Publishers' Weekly) and of "The Cream of the Jest" illustrated by Franke C. Pape. This is a Cabell year and the wise bookseller will double or treble his usual sales. By ELMER DAVIS STRANGE When the author of "Friends of Mr. Sweeney" and "I'll Show You the Town" gets to writing about a woman of forty, things begin to pop. A woman of forty whose job is done: children raised, financial worries over, husband safely embarked upon a career. What next? She still looks young and feels younger; but in ten years she is going to be fifty. What is she going to do with those years? Elmer Davis has won fame for his keen, dangerously humorous satirization of American life and manners. Now he employs his full powers in attacking a problem faced by every as she pauses at the threshold of middle age. woman You can sell this book to all women of forty, all women who have been forty, all women who expect (not without misgivings) to attain that ripe age. And, as we have implied, men grow older too. ROBERT M. 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