Suggestions

Good-bye, Mr. Chips, by James Hilton. This is one of the few recent books that must be read. It is a charming reminiscence of an old English schoolmaster. The story is sentimental, but in a nice way. You may be reminded of Galsworthy's old Jolyon.

Brazilian Adventure, by Peter Fleming. A travel book that is different by being strictly truthful throughout. It tells of one of the innumerable searches for Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso of Brazil. Interesting comments on the life of the piranha (man-eating fish), homo sapiens under adverse conditions, etc. Amusing and interesting.

The Sea and the Jungle, by H. M. Tomlinson. Available in the ModernLibrary at $.95 and should be in every man's collection of books. First published in 1912 it has surely by now become a modern classic of travel. It tells in sensitive prose of a trip across the Atlantic in a tramp steamer, "and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonion Falls."

An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain XlXth Century Pamphlets, by John Carter and Graham Pollard. Published by Scribners in New York this book caused a senation in the bibliographical world (and there is a considerable one) because it showed that many nineteenth century pamphlets of such writers as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, etc., were clever forgeries. The way the authors detected and ran to earth these almost incredible fakes reads like a fine detective story. The forger has evidently fooled such a famous bibliophile as Thomas J. Wise.

Shadow on the Wall, by H. C. Bailey. This is the first full length novel of Reginald Fortune (who always reminds me of George Frost). It is one of the best of recent crime yarns.