New Periodicals The following periodicals have recently been added to the list of those regularly received in the Periodical Room: Chimie & Industrie. Paris. Engineering Progress. Berlin. La Fonderie Moderne. Paris. New South Wales Industrial Gazette. Sydney. La Pratique Automobile & Aéronautique. Revue Générale des Matières Colorantes. Paris. Books Added to the Library April 1 to May 1, 1921 An r or b prefixed to the call number indicates that the book must be called for and used in the Reference or the Technology Room; j that it is especially suitable for children; and q that it is quarto size or larger. Aikman, Henry G. Fiction A291z Zell; a novel. Knopf. The effect of the parents' divorce upon their son's life. The sisters-in-law; a novel of our time. Stokes. Atherton, Mrs Gertrude Franklin (Horn). A868s A study of San Francisco society, beginning with the earthquake of 1906 and ending with the close of the world war. Audoux, Marguerite. Marie Claire's workshop; tr. by F. S. Flint. Seltzer. A914ma A simple, intimate picture of Marie Claire's life and fellow workers in the establishment of a Parisian dressmaker. Ayscough, John, (pseud. of Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew). Abbotscourt. Kenedy. A987a A charming story of English life, with the chief interest in the doings of a kindly but worldly dean, his Roman Catholic ward, and his son. Bacheller, Irving. The prodigal village; a Christmas tale. Bobbs. B127p A parable of the people of Bingville who forget for a time their old ideals in the rush for material gratification. Blanco-Fombona, Rufino. B534m The man of gold; authorized translation of the noted Venezuelan novel "El hombre de oro," by Isaac Goldberg. Brentano. (Brentano's Hispano-American series.) A satire on the political and social customs of Venezuela during the epoch of Castro, having for its main character a miser. Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. B5412e The enemies of women (Los enemigos de la mujer); tr. from the Spanish by Irving Brown. Dutton. A story of Monte Carlo. Bradley, Mrs Mary (Hastings). The innocent adventuress. Appleton. B6841 The experiences of a well-born Italian girl in the United States, and the misunderstandings which arise through the clash of the ideas of the Old World and the New. Brown, Alice. Homespun and gold. Macmillan. B783h0 Contents: The wedding ring.-Mary Felicia.-A homespun wizardry.-Red poppies. -Ann Eliza.-The return of father.-The deserters.-The house of the bride.-A`ques tion of wills.-A brush of paint.-The path of stars.-The widow's third.-White pebbles. Confessions.-Up on the mountain. Buckrose, J. E. (pseud. of Mrs. Annie Edith (Foster) Jameson). B857gi The girl in fancy dress. Doran. A wealthy girl is mistaken for a country cousin by a family of middle class snobs. She allows the mistake to go on, involving herself thereby in many complications. Cabell, James Branch. Domnei; a comedy of woman-worship. McBride. C112d A tale of a man's unswerving devotion to his lady in the days of medieval chivalry. Cheyney, Edward Gheen. C429s Scott Burton on the range. Appleton. The experiences of a young patrolman in one of our national forests. Cohen, Octavus Roy. Come seven. Dodd. C668co Contents: Without benefit of Virgie.-The fight that failed.-The quicker the dead.-Alley money.-Twinkle, twinkle, movie star.-The light bombastic toe.-Cocka-doodle-doo! Appeared in the "Saturday evening post." Humorous short stories dealing with problems of love, finance, politics, etc., among the colored aristocracy of Alabama. Corbett, Elizabeth F. Puritan and pagan [a novel]. Written in negro dialect. Holt. C811p Contrasts the lives, characters, and loves of two women, one a painter, the other an actress, living in bohemian New York. Dawson, Coningsby William. The little house. Lane. D33241 Appeared in "Good housekeeping," v.70, March-April 1920. A fairy tale told by an old house in London, where an American officer and a young English woman with her two children take refuge during an air raid. The time is during and after the European war. Dawson, William James. The Borrowdale tragedy [a novel]. Lane. D332b An account of a murder trial, with a study of the characters of the principals and of the events which led up to it. Delafield, E. M. (pseud. of Edmée Elizabeth Monica De la Pasture). Tension. Macmillan. D387t A story of life in an English university town, involving a character study of a "selfish and stupid woman itching for power." Farnol, Jeffery. The geste of Duke Jocelyn. Little. F2458 A romantic, mediæval tale of a duke who, disguised as a fool, woos a fair lady. The story is told partly in prose but largely in verse. Gibbs, George, b. 1870. The vagrant duke. Appleton. G364v A Russian grand duke, driven from his home by the Bolsheviki, comes to America to hunt work. As Peter Nichols he becomes forester for an American millionaire and is involved in a mystery which surrounds his employer and a lovely American girl. Haggard, Sir Henry Rider. She and Allan. Longmans. H141she The adventures of Allan Quatermain and the mysterious veiled woman, She or Ayesha. Hawes, Charles Boardman. H363m The mutineers; a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some 60 years ago. Atlantic Monthly Press. Irwin, Wallace. I28975 Seed of the sun. Doran. Appeared in the "Saturday evening post," v. 193, Oct. 2-Nov. 20, 1920. Deals with the Japanese situation in California from the anti-Japanese standpoint. Jameson, Storm. The happy highways. Century. J166h The story of four young students in London, of their revolt against convention and the old solutions of old problems, and of how they met the problem of the war, told in the first person by one of them. McFee, William. Captain Macedoine's daughter. Doubleday. M159ca A chief engineer of a British vessel tells his emotional experiences and philosophizes on love and romance. MacNamara, Brinsley. In clay and in bronze; a study in personality. Brentano. M2152i A biographical novel depicting the life of a young Irishman in Ireland and in America. He is constantly torn between love of the farm and of the sweetheart of his childhood, and vague literary and dramatic aspirations. Marshall, Edison. Strength of the pines. Little. M4164s A story of stirring adventure in the forests of the Oregon mountains, of a man born in the wilds but brought up in cities, of a beautiful woman, a blood-feud, and a giant grizzly. Murray, Amy. M976f Father Allan's island, with a foreword by Padraic Colum. Har court. A sketch of folk-songs, folklore, life, and customs on one of the Hebrides islands; and a character study of the very unusual priest of the parish. A bankrupt, suddenly becoming wealthy, proceeds to pay back old scores, good and Pedler, Mrs Margaret. The splendid folly. Doran. P364s The wooing and marriage of a beautiful singer and a successful dramatist, whose happiness is imperiled by a political secret of the husband's. Poole, Ernest. Blind; a story of these times. Macmillan. P795b An autobiographical novel closing with a picture of the unhappy days that came with the ending of the great war. Post, Melville Davisson. The sleuth of St. James's square. Appleton. P8483s A series of mysterious episodes in the career of the chief of the Investigation de partment of Scotland Yard. Rinehart, Mrs Mary E. (Roberts). R472tr The truce of God. Doran. A Christmas story of the middle ages. Rising, Lawrence. She who was Helena Cass. Doran. R494s A young writer solves the mystery of the strange disappearance of an American girl from an old Spanish inn. Rowland, Henry Cottrell. The peddler; a novel. Harper. R7963P A detective story in which a young American disguised as a peddler outwits a group of notorious European crooks. Shute, Henry Augustus. Brite and fair. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. S562b A continuation of "The real diary of a real boy," containing funny parts that "they didn't dass print" in the previous volumes. Singmaster, Elsie, afterward Mrs Lewars. Ellen Levis; a novel. Houghton. S617el A study of the character development of the granddaughter of a fanatic and her escape from a colony of Seven Day Baptists into the world. Strachey, Marjorie. Savitri, and other women. Putnam. Other women: $8942s The lay of the ash tree.-Yanka and her brothers.-Saint Iria.Vassilissa the wise.-Janet and Tamlin.-Libussa the prophetess.-Joukahainen's sister. -The bamboo-cutter's story.-The building of Skadar.-The courtship of Etain. "List of books used," p.173-175. The author says, A collection of stories from the folklore of different lands. "These stories are not meant for students of Folk-lore. Most of them are taken from translations and adaptations and I have had no scruples in further adapting and altering them myself.” A detective story involving superstitions of ancient Egypt and a mysterious "psycho-hybrid" or cat-woman. French Fiction Adès, Albert, & Josipovici, Albert. Le livre de Goha le Simple; préface de Octave Mirbeau. Spanish Fiction 843 A231 Mata Domínguez, Pedro. 863 M4678 Un grito en la noche; novela de amor y de dolor. |