Show II I WITH ii TIlE tIE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS i II Paul Ayras Rockwell who was one of the first Americans to volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer in the foreign legion in August 1914 and who later served in that picturesque organization as itS a captain captain cap cap- tam tain during the guerrilla warfare against Abd el and the Rif Rif- fians is isnow now in this country making arrangements with Houghton Mifflin Mifflin Miff- Miff lin un company for the publication of the book which will tell the truth about the legion It is to be entitled American Fighters in the Foreign Legion and i is is scheduled for publication publication publication pub pub- pub pub- In the early fall The IThe book in lIin 1914 when was begun ho says I 1 first began to keep my war diary and arid since then I have checked it up with the official records of the French war ministry and the records records rec at Sidi Abbas Algeria the headquarters of the legion It It is is a source of keen regret to Captain Rockwell that the legion has been so grossly misrepresented in recent fiction and his book is designed to offset erroneous impressions Annie Annil Fellows Johnston author of or the famous Little Colonel books is vacationing in Pro Provincetown on the tho tip till end of or Cape Capo Cod far awa away from her hel homo home in Pewee Valley Ky the land of the tho Little Colo Colonel el Is the setting by the way of Mrs Johnstons Johnston's GeOl Georgina lna books hooks books Georgina of ot th the Rainbow and Service Stars now published by Page Boston in for format or- or mat uniform with the Little Colonel series Katherine Mansfields Mansfield's brilliant story The Tho Aloe is being issued in ina a limited edition by Alfred O. O At the same time the house The Old of Knopf is t Book bv by Dorothy Hartley with an introduction by George Georg-e This is a medieval anthology of the choi choicest bits of art and literature of old The Old Book is also arso alson n a limited edition Genet the time Paris correspondent of tl the tho New Yorker speaks with pride of the swimming matches at the new Molitor pool at pre presided ld- ld ed Cd over Pl b by Johnny Johnn 1 His His- new book hook is entitled Swimming S the American Crawl and It is 18 probable that Johnny is teaching the French Frencha a a. few tew things about the water that they the never knew w before After Arter paring pay par to tho the American ing in- his compliment swimmer r. r Genet goes on to sa say Tho The Molitor is something new again smart mart almost suburban with bright umbrellas cocktail tables and perfect for Cor lockers and drinks It Is 15 becoming at sundown sundown sun fun down tho the latest latet i l rendezvous for Cor the time younger set The rho ne new book b by Robert W. W Chambers JH Is an authentic historical romance which brilliantly continues the authors author's plan of or depleting In a series of pf novels the the- most striking periods In American history This book The Time I Rake amid the Hus covers the war of or 1812 hut but does not confine itself exclusively exclusively to the thc events c around New Nen Orleans Its Ita richly background background back back- back back- ground round Includes within its It s scope cope ope i scenes shifting from the gay say court of ot the English Prince Regent to the decks of an American privateer and from Crom the studied battleground of or or organized organized 01 or- or warfare to fo the rough and tumble of or Indian uprisings At the same time there Is unfolded the absorbing love story of or t the young American merican blade Joshua Brooke and the patriot pan girl Naia There appears to to be one writer at atlea lea least t who Is able to resurrect the magic of or the words historical ro romance ro- ro mance mance And this writer Is Robert RobertV W. W Chambers Harcourt Brace 4 5 Co have just received the first three chapters of W W. B. B Seabrook's Seabrooks booK Seabrook book on his recent trip to Africa For vividness smoothness of writing and sheer terror he has far surpassed his hil two earlier books Adventures in Arabia Arabia Arabia Ara Ara- bia and The Magic Island His experiences with Voodoo magic which he describes in the latter book pale into insignificance when compared with his tales of the jungle and cannibals of Liberia and the jungles back of the African gold coast The African an book will be e published in April 1931 Putnam's announces for fall fait publication pub a a new book by Arthur Wei Wei- gall ent entitled Nero the Nero the Singing Emperor of Rome Arthur is already known to the thousands who have read any anyone one or all of his other books The books The Life and Times of Cleopatra The Glory of the Pharaohs The Paganism in Our Christianity and The Life and Times of as Akhnaton Akhnaton as as an historian historian historian ian of the first water and vivid re- re cr creator of other times and people In Reconstructing Ung India Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Thompson gives the history of or Indian agitation for or self govern ment culminating in the present revolt u under der Gandhi an analysis Is of or Indias India's problem and offers a solutIon solution solution tion for its problems Mr Ir Thompson Thomp Thomp- son author of Night Falls on on Siva's Hills These Those Men Ien lh Thy Friends has lived for tor man many years ears earsIn in India and has made a ruthless and scientific of or the whole situation without the least re regard either for Cor British pride or ol nationalist sensitiveness and andi resentment of oC criticism Mr Ir Thompson Is at nt present lecturer lecture In Bengali at Oxford and for or the last year ear has been guest professor at Vassar Vassal Reconstructing md India ia Is announced for publication by the Dial Pie Press For the first time in twenty years year i Anne Douglas Sedgwick author o oThe of I The Little French Girl The Old Countess Dark Hester and a dozen other other favorites is coming t to America Although Miss Sedgwick has not announced her plans it i is known that she intends to spent spend some weeks on the north shore o of Massachusetts Miss Miu Sedgwick's Sedgwick publishers Houghton Mifflin company company com com- pany announce that her next novel Philippa is a last minute add addition addition addi- addi tion to their fall list and will in al all all probability appear in October Of Ot particular interest to authors and journalists who plan to travel ii In Russia this summer i is he a sentence In William Henry Chamberlin's book Soviet Russia Due to the tIme rarity and difficulty of or obtain obtaining Ins certain western products In Jn Russia the theSe e eare are are of or tremendous value there For Instance Mr 11 Cham erlln writes There is no surer target for the lie attentions of or the street waifs wals and other pickpockets of or Moscow Mosco than a n afountain afountain fountain pen worn in the outside coat pocket locket Jim Hanvey Hanve the fat good natured detective who cleverly solved The TheMay May fay fa Day 1 now appears in another stOl story by Octavus nO Roy Cohen Tho Backstage l I Mystery Appleton Here Is the problem as to who killed Wylle Wylie Thornton the tho matinee idol or of z a L middle sized southern cit city Hanvey of ot course cn c eventually gets his man But Hanvey is unorthodox Readers will be delighted by his hia shambling and amid unconventional m methods and by b this m mystery which Is distinctly an unusual contribution to the annals of ot the detection of crime Harcourt Brace Co will publish publish pub pub- lish fish next winter a book of stories b by George Milburn Some of them have hilve been app appearing in Time The American Amer Amar ican Mercury under the title of Tales From Oklahoma stories stones of Old Man Seagrove who made tho the best but apricot brandy in in the county of Mrs King the contortionists contortionist's contortion contortion- wife of Shorty Fletcher and the Baptists' Baptists Christmas tree of Bill Hartshorn who even when he was was sent to jail huh had s such suh M a hard huh time his Iia a sentences ss Sinclair LewIs LewIs' Babbitt which has been translated into almost every e civilized ci tongue except French has hats just appeared In Jn a French version with an introduction by Paul Pan Morand It is tIme the literary event of ot the present Paris season Lewis o of all living American au authors authors authors au- au thors with the possible exception of or Upton Sinclair Is probably the most widely read in continental Europe Eu Eu- rope lope today 1 It is said that Joseph Shaw edi erli editor tor of Black Mask a mystery magazine maga zine zinc decided recently that he lie would show his hi contributors how to write the perfect mystery story His story turned out to be so 10 extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary that it was immediately accepted ac- ac for publication by Alfred A. A Knopf who is a about to issue it under under un un- un- un der tier the title Derelict 1 |