Life — August 13, 1925 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Among the New Books The Polyglots. By William_Ger- hardi (Duffield). A sublimated Cook's tour of assorted nationalities flanked by something new in love stories—or at least in the recording of them. All surcharged with the humor and satire characteristic of the author. Serena Blandish, or The Diffi- culty of Getting Married. By a Lady of Quality (Doran). An hilari- ous exposition showing how near a young woman who stays to tea when she has been asked to luncheon can come to marrying a butler, Please don't miss this one. The Proud Old Name. By C. E. Scoggins (Bobbs-Merrill). Character stuff, in which the old gringo, drinking y with his auditor every fifth page, s how it all happened. Philosophy, mor, gunplay and romance. The Constant Nymph. By Mar- garet_ Kennedy (Doubleday, Page). This is still being sent as a bread-and- butter present after week-end visits. May Fair. By Michael Arlen (Doran). And so is this. Barber Shop Ballads. Edited by Sigmund Spaeth, illustrated by Ellison Hoover, foreword by Ring Lardner (Simon & Schuster). And after you get all through reading the text and looking at the pictures, you can re- move the two phonograph records from the flaps on the covers and hear the old favorites quartetted by experts. Mrs. Dalloway. By Virginia Woolf (Harcourt, Brace). A sample of the new fourth dimensional school, which | | shaving, leaves your skin inflamed NGRAM'S Therapeutic Shaving Cream is made particularly for you. It is more than a rapid beard softener—it prevents all after-shaving irritation and heals troublesome little cuts. It leaves your skin smooth, cool, invigor- ated and refreshed. Thousands of men have told us that it makes shaving a pleasure— no longer a job to be dreaded. If your druggist cannot supply you, send SOc. for the blue jar that contains six months of shaving comfort. Or send two cent stamp for sample. Frederick F. Ingram Co. Established 1885 1338 Tenth St., Detroit, Mich. Also Windsor, Canada Made Tp particularly for ao tender skins gets down on paper the things which most writers disregard entirely, but which are becoming for many of us, fed up on the pabulum which sells to the magazines and movies, the only things worth reading about. The Crazy Fool. By Donald Og- den Stewart (Albert & Charles Boni). The day’s work in an insane asylum, set down in a manner guaranteed to produce audible laughter. St. Mawr. By D. H. Lawrence (Knopf). Sex and psycopathy stand by while their leading exponent broad- casts a story about a horse, The House Without a Key. By Earl Derr Biggers (Bobbs-Merrill). A mystery romance in which the au- thor of “Seven Keys to Baldpate” tries to turn the trick again. Azrael, and Other Poems. By Robert Gilbert Welsh — (Appleton). Charles Hanson Towne edits and intro- duces some of the best verse of the late, heroic Bobby Welsh. Fightin’ Through. By Nellie Re- vell (Doran). The only book, except one, of the “Courage, brother!” school in which there is no bunk. The excep- tion is the same author's “Right Off the Chest.” Drums. By James Boyd (Scrib- ner). An extraordinarily fine novel of our Revolutionary period. Glorious Apollo. By E. Barring- ton (Dodd, Mcad). The best con- temporary writer on the eighteenth (my favorite) century follows “The Divine Lady” with an account of Lord Byron's amazing career. To be re- viewed later. In a Shantung Garden. By Louise Jordan Miln (Stokes). The well- known writer on China keeping her hand in, BLT. Coming eminine Number August 27, The Burlesque Number September 10. comicbooks.com