Show 1 APRIL 9 1 I GREAT DA DAY I- I 11 r FOR T is 4 NEW AUTHOR J i Simon Pure writing In n tho J Bookman says sas that It Is a a. bad y yet first novels In England startling contrast to conditions or side of ot the Atlantic Never in lii f annals ot of American publishing hr has b been n such auch a fL year for first frt novels nover In tho the matter ot production and andI I matter of ot sales Quoting Quong tho the ex once nee of ot ono publisher tho for Doran company ha has published d cl dho ho hc last twelve months eleven cleven first cia els of ot unusual promise both lit litand litand litand and financial so several vera I of ot which at ar r ready being followed up by second cIs els J About a a. year rear ago The Tho I L Iio oo o Youth by Alec Waugh written tho the author sun still at public ech seh England startled tho the literary i I Iby by its ILc literary value and extra rd insight ht The publication of ot Vir Woolf's obUs first book Tho Voyaged established this pew new ew personality world of ot letters and went tar far t to Justifying the ways of ot tho way group of younger English h novelist th th i American reading public fIne Re Ite by James K E. Agate Er critic and revIewerS reviewer while a first J hardly of or the nature ot oJ oJitA Its itA style was so brilliant its Hs m mso so ao assured The Mask by Joh John nos about to be followed by Th The was the first of ot a trilogy setting settin the development of or John Comb Gomb immigrant and his this count country j Invincible Minnie b by bl J Sanxay Holding and Blind Mice C. C Ka Kay Scott while utterly be grouped together as the footsteps of ot the tho modern r rea rb school that Is establishing it Itsel sell American literature Ell Eli ot ot Downs by C. C M. M A l Peake e and andOver t tOver Over O 1 Elden by Thomas Moult c cot c cof of ot Voices may be grouped tog togi in somewhat the same way as rise e c pies of or the charmingly pastoral J Marrying by Margaret Margatet Culkin just followed by Halt HaIr Loa Loais is an interesting study of ot young ned ried life lite in the tho Middle West Vest Test of ot United States She Who Was Vas II 11 Cass by Lawrence Rising is a u Ut ur mystery stor story of ot a literary value has drawn much attention to the thor thoro The list is delightfully close clos The Custard Cup by Florence I ham barn Livingston a sunny roman the back yards of ot San an Francisco Considering this group roup as a a 1 v vand and the importance that has t achieved by Individual even in the short time that has hils ell eli since tho the publication of ot the bool boot becomes evident c that the first n nis is no negligible factor in the p PI pr day American publishing world J |