The Cream

THE CREAM . P:There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. P: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. P:Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season's literature.

MOTHER AND SON--Romain Rolland*--Holt ($2.50). Vol. Ill of The Soul Enchanted; the War by a pacifist.

FROM MAN TO MAN--Olive Schreiner--Harper ($2.50). Hailed posthumously in England; two sisters lives.

CHAINS--Theodore Dreiser--Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Lesser novels and stories by the American Tragedian.

THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE--G. K. Chesterton--Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A brief for romanticism in a reactionary age; a novel.

MATTOCK--James Stevens--Knopf ($2.50). Another chapter of the national epic.

KIT O'BRIEN--Edgar Lee Masters--Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll.

JILL--E.M. Delafield--Harper ($2). Life in looser London.

LOVE IS ENOUGH--Francis Brett Young--Knopf ($2.50). The popular author's "major work."

THE IMMORTAL MARRIAGE--Gertrude Atherton--Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Pericles and Aspasia.

DREAM'S END--Thorne Smith--McBride ($2). A Jekyll-Hyde in love.

BREAD AND FIRE--Charles R. Walker--Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). Intellectually honest novel of a Worker.

THE TRIUMPH OF YOUTH--Jacob Wassermann--Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany.

THE OLD COUNTESS--Anne Douglas Sedgwick--Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). And another little French girl.

Drama

MARCO MILLIONS--Eugene Neill--Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Merchant Polo, mediaeval babbitt; published before produced.

Non-Fiction

EIGHT O'CLOCK CHAPEL: A Retrospect of New England College Life of the Eighties--Cornelius H. Patton and Walter T. Field-- Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). Undergraduates of the Dashing Decade.

ON SPECIAL MISSIONS--Charles Lucieto--McBride ($2.50). Semi-official chronicle of the War spies.

Biography

POLONAISE: The Life of Chopin--Guy de Pourtales--Holt ($3). A delicate young man of extreme refinement.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: A Hero to His Valet--James Amos--John Day ($2). Intimate information from the second butler.

Humor

THE EARLY WORM--Robert Benchley and Gluyas Williams--Holt ($2). The spice of Life.

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*An intense idealist, Romain Rolland retired from gay Paris to austere seclusion when his early marriage ended disastrously. He compiled biographies of famous men, a history of opera, novels, plays, screeds on pacifism. In 1914 he appeared in Geneva to work for the Red Cross, to enrage "La Patrie" by excoriating "La Guerre" in open letters to other pacifists. Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother and Son.