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Show NEWS OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS In tho modern hotel led him to trace th atory of lta rise from the plctureaque hoatelry of bygone day. HI flrat-hand acquaintance with hotel waa obtained when he waa -"advance man" for a clrcua and varloua Broadway play on tour. HI book will deal Intimately with every phase of hotel life from the oldest inn to th new Waldorf-Aatoria. Waldorf-Aatoria. Rena Fulop-Miller, author of "Th Mind and Feca of Bolshevism," haa juat arrived In New Yerk. Herr Fulop-Miller I well known in th ' country for hi mtrfl study f aoviet Russia, which Alfred Al-fred A. Knopf published tw years ago. Page, Boston, announce for publication pub-lication June 1 a unique Lincoln book, "Abraham Lincoln Traveled Thia Way: Tha Log Book of a Pilgrim Pil-grim to th Lincoln Country," by Fred, L. Holme. Th book la highly Indoraed by Glenn Frank, president of the Unlveralty of Wla-consln, Wla-consln, himself a lover of Lincoln. Ha contributes an Interesting foreword to th book, which he recommends to all Americans "that they, too. may feel the deep thrill ol hero worship for the great emancipator, emanci-pator, whom Mr. Holmea haa made not a dim figure In a text book, but a living aourca of spiritual nutriment." nutri-ment." General William Mitchell, author f "Skywayei a Book en Modern Aeronautic, which Lippmcett haa juat publiahed, yt "Th trouble bout aviation in the United Statea i ther i no department af aeronautic. aero-nautic. Aviatien la a political foetboll an tha ana hand and an instrumsnt of stock speculation n th ether. Aeronautic in th United Unit-ed State at present is in the elough of deepond. Its principal attribute i bunk." Sven Elveatad, who haa been called th Edgar Allan Poo of Scandinavia, Scan-dinavia, ta at laat about to be pre-aented pre-aented to the American public by Alfred A. Knopf. Elveatad haa a great reputation on tho continent aa a mystery story writer. Several of his mystery atorlea hava aold half a million copies in Sweden and most of there have been published in German and other European languages. lan-guages. 1 Far what claaa f reader did Odell 8hepard write hi "Lore f th Unicorn," Uni-corn," just published by Houghton-Mifflin Houghton-Mifflin company t Thl qutin ha been aaked many time by librarian, book aalmn and el lee tore. Wherea th book I addrasead to th general reader, it I no lass true that th author paye a compliment aa well to th physician, tha hit-terian, hit-terian, th bibliographer, tha biologist biolo-gist and the student sf heraldry, folk tor and mprtiv religion. Although th pursuit of th unicorn legend haa been an of Profr Shepard 'a faverit hobbie far many year, he did not realise until he actually et t work aaeembling material ma-terial that tha quest would take him figuratively peeking ta ancient Persia, India, Thibet, Abyeeinla, South Africa and Iceland. Now that the teak haa been -completed, it hi conclusion that "ef all the ehapee that haunt thought' wilder, neee' the unieern I th meet beautiful beau-tiful and mysterious' . Bruce Graeme, whose detective story. Through tha Eyes of the Judge,' Llppincott recently published, pub-lished, has retired to his villa on tb Riviera to writ hia new book. Sialey Huddleston, author af "What's Right with America," (Lip-pincott) (Lip-pincott) dictates hi book from note he cempoaea and illuatrate with little eketchee in th margin. -These .ketches," aaya Mr. Huddlee. ton, "are unepeekably bad and are carefully collected and burned. "Flight Without End' (Doubleday, Deran), th book which haa created euch a atlr throughout Europe, IB the flret of Joseph Roth novel to bo tranalated Into English. Roth, one of tbe foremost of the younger German wrltera. telle Ol story of a generation of men deetroyed by the war, even though they escaped lta shells. Tunda. who . otood In th city of Pari in Auguat. 12. with "no buain, no love, no deeir, no I hope, no ambition, and not ven ego-i ego-i tlam," waa on of them. Captured by th Ruaaiana early In th war and sent far north to Siberia, b escaped and found refuge on a lonely farm near the Chinese border. Authere vary greatly In their b-havler b-havler abeait pree'a. Some, having written, oorrected and maild th manuaeript, never ear t hear f their offspring again until it ha been properly dieciplined and put between covers. B. M. Bower, Francia Seeding and E. Phillip Oppenheim eeldom see their proof. Ramarqu did not aae the preefa f th American aditien ef "All Quiet n th Wee tern Front." Other author yearn over avery phase of the book' development see It in galley, page and caat proof, and rewrite It all. over the margins These aay they never can tell how a thing will aound until they have seen It In print, which probably annoy an-noy aome publishers. Professor Lewie Fiaget Shank read and oorrected (but did not rewrite) re-write) hia "Baudelaire! Flesh and Spirit," in avery euooeesive stage-Major stage-Major A. Hamilton Oibba and Jeannette Phillip Qibb aailad far Europe thi winter only after they had corrected the final reefs ( their forthcoming novels, "Chances" (hia) and "French Leave" (hers). But If they don't poaltlvely hate reading proof even If they enjoy It authors as a rule ara not good proofreaders naturally. Can a mother's tender car cease toward tha chUd aha bare? And proofreading proof-reading demands a stern repression ot all Indulgent maternal feeling. Dorothy Ogburn, author ef "Ra-Ta-Plan I" ia an exception. 8b writes, "I limply adore reading proof l" She does it well, to, and it ia an inherited talent. "Ever ainoa I can remember my father haa edited th decisions ef the u-prom u-prom court of Georgia and of th court of appeala. I am accuatemed te eeeing proof lying around. I nly wiah I had learned H the proper littl marks when I had tha opportunity. Tper i not, I mm ur. a aingl book in ur library at home that haa not been cor. rested in the margin with penciled ap1, tr, little flourish meaning NEW YORK (AP) Three Henry Ford f th book buina ysungater, comparatively, In year and publishing xprino-t back with quiet grin, liBtanlng t comment com-ment and argument vokd by their launching !nt mas. Piu; tion of book that can be bought t drug etoree for 1 pic and, lik magasines, b rd and thrown Four publiahera are participating in the price cute, but an of tham. Cowerd-McGann, went down only t $1.50 and that solely for work of now or less known uthor, and Coward-McCann will H anly through regular book "tore. The ether thr, Doubleday, Doran Do-ran aV Co, Farrar A Rinehart, and Simon eV Sehuatar, acquired two supporters, even as aome of the elder houses xpr.seed miegivinga and predicted a price war. Arthur Brentan Jr, preeident of Brentano'a and until recently of the American Book Sellers' aaaoo-ation, aaaoo-ation, propheaied that by June 10 net four but nlnety-four pubheher would hava made drastic reduction. reduc-tion. , ' Nancy Barr Mavltya new murder mur-der mystery, "Th Other Bullet," en-other en-other Peter Piper tory, ha been chosen by the Crime club aa lta "book of tha month" for June. She 1 feeling very happy about that, but aha la prouder etlll of two letter let-ter of pralae ehe haa Just received from two real detectives one a captain of Inspectors of th Oakland, Oak-land, Cel.. pollc and tha other an Inspector for the Pullman company. Th ecenee of Hugh Wlpol full-blooded novel of the eighteenth century, "Rogue Merriea," which Doubleday, Doran hav juat pub liahed, ar laid in and around the glemoroua English lake ountry. From tim immemorial th Hernea men had boon drunken, robbing border freebooters. Yet an ad strain waa forever puehing up in every Herriee generation the strain ef th dramr, th romanticist, th rebel against fact. Such a on was Franci H series, shouted t by th pesssnt children, known to hav sold his woman at a public fair, ta have hilled hia wife with unkind-nose, unkind-nose, t hv drivn n f hi wn daughter from her home. He wee B-." Herriee ta all the world. a legend even in hia own lifetime, a I man whom no ana understood. H wife, silently and unhappily telaret. ing hia drinking, the country folk, his mistres.es none of them guessed the fierce longing for an unattainable ideal that aent Rogu Mem.e reeling and carousing through th wld. delete, and all th atner so i suspect it's in my blood t b Interacted In-teracted in auch things." "I do not want to go abroad." wrltea David Emerson, whoa first novel. "Regency Windows." waa publiahed May t by Little-Brown. Mr. Emereon, who ia In the English civil service. Uvea in Mancheetsr snd spends his vacations wslklng In out of tha way eomera of the British Isles. Hia first novel la as English In flavor aa a broiled kidney kid-ney on toast, or Bond street in June when gardenlaa may be bought on cornero for a shilling. "The Cook at Mauldeth House" (the town house of Lady Langley In "Regency Windows') "was French." wrltee Mr. Emerson, adding, with a sudden sud-den accession of John Bullishness, "ss befitted a houee where nobody ever did anything ta make them aungry," I Jefferson Williamson, noted editor and nowspeper man who recently died euddenly, had juat finished writing a book on th hlatory of American hotels which Alfred A. Knopf had accepted for publication early thl fall. Thia book, entitled "The American Hotel: An Anecdotal Anecdo-tal Hlatory." tm th result of many years' research. Mr. Wllllamaon waa editor of The Hotel Gaseite alx years, following many years of newspaper work on the Chicago Newa. New Tork Tribune and New Pork Evenlns Poet. 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