October 1928 Issue, THE BOOKMAN

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- Alain-Fournier
  Havelock Ellis
  , pp. 129-136
- On Teaching English
  Atwood H. Townsend
  , pp. 137-144
- Three Poems
  Carl Sandburg
  , p. 145
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  The Reading of the Candidates (3 Items) , p. 146
  1. Herbert Hoover
    William Hard
    , p. 146
  2. Alfred E. Smith
    Henry Moskowitz
    , p. 147
  3. Norman Thomas
    Benjamin Stolberg
    , pp. 148-149
- American Writers and English Readers
  R. leClerc Phillips
  , pp. 150-155
- The Novelist's Use of History
  Wilson Follett
  , pp. 156-162
- A Cure for Critics
  Thomas Craven
  , pp. 163-168
- The Bridge of Don Gene's Nose
  Robert Benchley
  , pp. 169-170
- The Wisdom of Mrs. Trevanna
  C.E. Montague
  , pp. 171-181
  A Story
- The Crisis in the Modern State
  Harold J. Laski
  , pp. 182-187
- "The Dean"
  William Dean Howells
  , pp. 188-203
  Letters of William Dean Howells, IV
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  Statements of Belief II (14 Items) , p. 204
  1. --- by Conrad Aiken, p. 204
  2. --- by Sherwood Anderson, p. 204
  3. --- by Thomas Beer, p. 204
  4. --- by Witter Bynner, p. 205
  5. --- by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 205
  6. --- by John Erskine, p. 205
  7. --- by Zona Gale, p. 206
  8. --- by James Weldon Johnson, p. 206
  9. --- by Alfred Kreymborg, p. 206
  10. --- by H.L. Mencken, p. 206
  11. --- by Upton Sinclair, p. 207
  12. --- by Genevieve Taggard, p. 207
  13. --- by Irita Van Doren, p. 207
  14. --- by W.E. Woodward, p. 207
- Song in the Fall
  Mavis Clare Barnett
  , pp. 208-209
- In the Order of Their Appearance
  Ernest Boyd
  , pp. 210-212
- "Ballads, Songs and Snatches"
  Abbe Niles
  , pp. 213-215
- Correspondence, pp. 216-219
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  The Season's New Fiction (6 Reviews)
  Clifton P. Fadiman
  , pp. 220-223
  Good-Bye, Wisconsin, by Glenway Wescott
  1. Good-Bye, Wisconsin by Glenway Wescott
  2. Day of Fortune by Norman Matson
  3. Bright Metal by T.S. Stribling
  4. A Voyage to Pagany by William Carlos Williams
  5. The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Louis Bromfield
  6. Spider Boy by Carl Van Vechten
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  The Road to Athens (3 Reviews)
  Gilbert Seldes
  , pp. 224-227
  Living in the Twentieth Century, by Harry Elmer Barnes
  1. Living in the Twentieth Century by Harry Elmer Barnes
  2. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd
  3. Civilization by Clive Bell
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  Dostoevsky, and Lesser Men (5 Reviews)
  T.S. Matthews
  , pp. 228-231
  Dostoevsky: The Man and His Work, by Julius Meier-Graefe
  1. Dostoevsky: The Man and His Work by Julius Meier-Graefe
  2. Goethe: The History of a Man by Emil Ludwig
  3. Memories and Reflections, 1852-1927 by Lord Asquith, Earl Of Oxford and Asquith
  4. The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher by William McFee
  5. Life and Times of Pieter Stuyvesant by Hendrik W. Van Loon
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  Murder Will Out! (20 Reviews)
  Charles McMorris Purdy
  , pp. 232-235
  The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
  1. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
  2. The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
  3. Mystery at Lynden Sands by J.J. Connington
  4. The Missing Partners by Henry Wade
  5. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
  6. Death in the Dusk by Virgil Markham
  7. The Black House in Harley Street by J.S. Fletcher
  8. The Strange Case of "William" Cook by Richard Keverne
  9. The Quartz Eye by Henry Kitchell Webster
  10. The Secret of Mohawk Pond by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
  11. Hurrying Feet by Frederic F. Van de Water
  12. Scissors Cut Paper by Gerard Fairlie
  13. Sing Sing Nights by Harry Stephen Keeler
  14. The Man in the Dark by John Ferguson
  15. The Red Scar by Anthony Wynne
  16. The Seven Sisters by Jean Lilly
  17. The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey
  18. The Runagates Club by John Buchan
  19. The Six Proud Walkers by Francis Beeding
  20. Lafcadio's Adventures by Andre Gide
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  The Schools of Revolution (3 Reviews)
  Agnes deLima
  , pp. 236-238
  The Reorganization of Education in Prussia, by I.L. Kandel and Thomas Alexander
  1. The Reorganization of Education in Prussia by I.L. Kandel and Thomas Alexander
  2. New Schools of New Russia by Lucy L.W. Wilson
  3. The Diary of a Communist Schoolboy by Nikolai Ognyov
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  Ladies, Gunmen, Gods and War (7 Reviews)
  R. Ellsworth Larsson
  , pp. 239-242
  Strange Fugitive, by Morley Callaghan
  1. Strange Fugitive by Morley Callaghan
  2. Diversey by MacKinlay Kantor
  3. The Bitter End by John Brophy
  4. Cullum by E. Arnot Robertson
  5. Race by Mary Grace Ashton
  6. That Magic Fire by Sylvia Chatfield Bates
  7. Phoinix by Alan Sims
- The Bookman's Monthly Score, p. 243
- Boston: Chapter XVII
  Upton Sinclair
  , pp. 244-255
- News Story Contest: Prize Story for July
  Henry Justin Smith
  , pp. 256-274
- Frontispiece
  Jeannette C. Shirk
- In the Bookman Office
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  News of New Books (6 Reviews)
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    Philosophy and Psychology (5 Reviews)
    1. Europe by Hermann Keyserling
    2. Problems in Psychopathology by T.W. Mitchell
    3. Religious Conversion by Sante de Sanctis
    4. The Creative Intelligence and Modern Life by Francis John McConnell and Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, ...
    5. The Misbehaviorists by Harvey Wickham
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    Science (2 Reviews)
    1. The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century by Martha Ornstein
    2. Creation by Evolution by Frances Mason
  3. [+]
    Sociology (9 Reviews)
    1. Don't Tread on Me by Clement Wood, McAlister Coleman, and Arthur Garfield Hays, ...
    2. Pressure Politics by Peter H. Odegard
    3. The Psychology of Marxian Socialism by Henry de Man
    4. Marx, Lenin, and the Science of Revolution by Max Eastman
    5. The Building of Cultures by Roland B. Dixon
    6. An Introduction to the Study of Society by Frank Hamilton Hankins
    7. Political Behavior by Frank R. Kent
    8. The American Labor Year Book by Solon DeLeon and Nathan Fine
    9. America Seen Through German Eyes by Arthur Feiler
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    Biography (3 Reviews)
    1. The Windsor Beauties by Lewis Melville
    2. Carter Henry Harrison I by Claudius Osborne Johnson
    3. Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier by Allen Tate
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    History Education (4 Reviews)
    1. The Turning Point of the American Revolution by Hoffman Nickerson
    2. The Child and Society by Phyllis Blanchard
    3. Charles W. Eliot's Talks to Parents and Young People by Edward H. Cotton and Charles W. Eliot
    4. American Universities and Colleges by David Allan Robertson
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    Miscellaneous (3 Reviews)
    1. Condemned to Devil's Island by Blair Niles
    2. The Trial of Adelaide Bartlett by John Hall
    3. Trial of the Duchess of Kingston by Lewis Melville
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