Show Survey of Seasons Season's Best Books Books' Rev Reveals als Stride To Toward ard Perfection New Novelists Hailed as Coming Literary Literary Literary Liter Liter- ary Fi Firmament a ncr t tOt Of Ot the new nov novelists lists America has produced In hl the last few ew seasons we b the believe lie e tie the most Important to tob b Julia Elizabeth Madox Roberts Westcott Thornton Thornton Thornton Thorn Thorn- ton Wilder Ernest Hemingway ay am and Matie de la Ia no Roche he Wescott's Th The i Grandmothers Grandmothers' and Miss Rob Roberts Roberts' My y Heart am and Fl Flesh Flesh- compete strongly for first among the novels of 1927 1921 Certainly Certainly Certainly young OU g Wescott tt wrote a mighty fine story dOIy and so did id Miss Roberts though we cling to her first work The Tinie of or orlan Man lan as being one ono of or the contemporary classics The general selection se seems ms to favor o ona a. a 91 r the the other oth other r of these two books books' books B m n no to start any tny arguments our own taste leans toward l Mrs Pet Black April April This his Southern woman started with those fine darkey stories Green Thursdays ys Hei lIel Black April Is Isa a particularly excellent ex ex- ellent nove novel of n negro gro life She can write and one one of these thes days eve everyone everyone every every- 3 one one- will find It out sh not Hemingway a perhaps be listed listed with newcomers newcomers He had bad alreadY already been known for his sl short ort torIes stories before Men Ien Without Women Wo Wo- Von n men neit en appeared appeared just jutas justas as Louis Broin- Broin f i 4 author of The G Good od Woman had been en shouted shout d. d dover over before The am ot of Thornton Wilder is perhaps per per- 11 haps PS the least known in the Ion of or newcomers Wilder created attention on through abilities revealed 1 In Cabala abala This year he he madea made made- made madea a real e contribution to o contemporary literature with The Tire Bridge e in San Luis Rey We hear that in L LOndon LOn Lon London n- n don the ever eve zestful Arnold Ben Bennett Ben Ben- n nett toss tossed d his J. J Lat bat t in fri the and air and and said something about this book Dook beIng being be- be Ing ins the finest In A lI t generation or something like that We Ve dont don't care to go go quite that far Wilder Is iL a splendid artist of whom a great Ueal t I will b be heard Two 1927 volumes ol mes which gave u us more real than anything from froni the fiction mills were Trader Horn and Colonel Lawrences Lawrence's amazing l' l COld Revolt ou In tire the D Desert Des Des- s- s ert ext S Carl Sandburg was responsible e for foi a a. collection The Th American Sandbag which has in it ever everything everything every every- thing we like to sing And then George Bellows His Lithographs Is our ur idea of s something meriting the used over d word magnificent It has Irr JIT it a a a- biographical sketch by Thomas naos Beer who ihO is quite our finest biographer O Out t o of the welter of quick information in mation biography y and such which has c conic come me In quantities hitherto Unheard Un Unheard unheard Un- Un heard of f we select elect Our Times byMark byMark bYMark by My Mark Sullivan Pages Pases From Flom Iy Life Lifer b by Henry Ward Vard Beecher Beether by ly Paxton Hibben America by Willem Y Van Loon New York Nights by Stephen StephOn Ste Ste- lh phen phOn n Graham That Man dan Heine by Lewis Browne Gentleman Jo Johnny Burgoyne by F. F J. J Huddlestone Huddle Huddle- stone ge Gem Sand the Search I Ifor for Love by Marie Howe and Judge Lindseys Lindsey's much discussed CompanIonate Marriage Ed Edward ward J. J saves us us- ea each h year the trouble pf picking out the 1 best short stories' stories He reads all the I magazines and tells what was what In his annual Bet Best to Short Stories Storie o of 19 19 19 Of interest In connection with his selection for lor 1927 is the Jn inclusion lusio l of ofa ofa a tale Minstrels or of the Mist by Ben Lucien Bunnan Burnan Burman is g th the author of some popular popular- magazine serials Including Jungle Breath Ereath re th and and The Parrot Lady Ills His particular short story meter i Is the relating of ot t tales l s of th the Mississippi river iver folk tolk Burman tried for two y years ars before before be be- for fore he c could uld crash the magazines with writings of or which which- he hC felt personally personally per per- proud It was almost that t long after he ho had Written ritten it that he lie liesa sa say In in the Pl t lIe Re- the he story stob OBrien O'Brien selected as as' cne ens ot of 1927 most alluring NEA NEA Survey |