THE CREAM.

There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The

following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at tne express invitation of TIME'S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good.

They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be. descriptively reported in TIME text.

Reading these books you will partake ot the cream of this season's literature.

Fiction

LISTEN, MOON!--Leonard Cline--Viking Press ($2.) Professor into pirate.

THE CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW-- Lord Dusany--Putnam ($2). Poetic alchemy in mediaeval Spain.

HER SON'S WIFE--Dorothy Canfield--Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch.

SHOW BOAT--E dna Ferber -- Doubleday, Page ($2). New Orleans to Chicago, a panorama in color and folkways.

A MANIFEST DESTINY--Arthur D. Howden Smith--Brentano's ($2.50). General Walker, filibuster, versus Commodore Vanderbilt, pirate..

JARNEGAN--Jim Tully--A. & C. Boni ($2). Hollywood--leaf, twig, branch and roots.

THE CASE OF MR. CRUMP--Ludwig Lewisohn--Harper ($2). A mismated musician.

THE TIME OF MAN--Elizabeth Madox Roberts--Viking Press ($2.50). Kentucky's primitive, hardy sharecroppers.

THE ROMANTIC COMEDIAN s--Ellen Glasgow -- Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Satirizes an anachronism of trans-Potomac chivalry.

THE PAINTED ROOM -- Margaret Wilson--Harper ($2). A second generation of the Kenworthys, in need of tolerance.

PERELLA -- W. J. Locke-- Dodd, Mead ($2). Young artists married to their elders, in Florence.

CREWE TRAIN--Rose Macaulay--Boni & Liveright ($2.50). An English girl "rescued" from her Spanish stepmother.

SHORT TURNS--Barry Benefield --Century ($2). Annals of the inarticulate.

MY SON JOHN--E. B. Dewing--Minton Balch ($2). The progress of an incautious genius, originally traced.

Humor, Essays

WINNOWED WISDOM -- Stephen Leacock--Dodd, Mead ($2). A comprehensive Leaconcoction.

Biography

MOHAMMED--R. F. Dibble--Viking Press ($3). The ruses, power, loves, teachings of a flesh-and-blood prophet.

BILL NYE: HIS OWN LIFE STORY --Frank Wilson Nye -- Century ($4). With illustrations by fellow cartoonists.

JOAN OF ARC--Joseph Delteil--Minton, Balch ($2.50). A modern view of the ageless Maid.

THE GREAT AMERICAN ASS--Anonymous--Brentano's ($3.50.) An "Education of Henry Adams" from a Western angle.

THE BOOK WITHOUT A NAME--Anonymous -- Brentano's ($2.50). Journal of an unmarried English lady (18th Century), addressed to her natural son.

Science, Travel, Arts

ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN --Roy Chapman Andrews--Putnam ($6). "Asia is the mother of the continents!"

TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA--Charles M. Doughty--Boni & Liveright ($10). A whole civilization thoroughly experienced.

WHITE WATERS AND BLACK --Gordon MacCreagh--Century ($5). Serious-minded Amazon exploration boldly chronicled.

THE NEW NATURAL HISTORY--. Prof. J. Arthur Thomson--Putnam (3 vols. $18). Aims at scientific security, popular terms.

THE HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY --. Ethel Davis Seal--Century ($2.50). How to furnish one.

THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LIFE-- Jerome Dowd -- Century ($5). A synthesis in perspective.

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