The only bock emerging from The Inner
Sanctum of Simon and Schuster in July is a
first novel by Alan B. Schultz, entitled
PRIVATE SECRETARY: The Story of Mary Linden.
The romance of Mary Linden is briskly told
by one who has, himself, beaten time in the
ranks of Big Business. It has the rach
appeal of youth and Love bobbing uncertain¬
Iy on the golden sea of American commercial
life. Thousands of office workers will
recognäze themselves in this bright yet
penetrating tale of a private secretary's
career of love and business, among the in¬
gredient parts of whose background are the
hägh-spirited telephone girl, the office
vamp, and the rush and clatter of business.
(82.50, July 18th.)
120 August will see the publication of an
important Schnitzler book. The perfection
of Arthur Schnitzler is here in LITTLE
NOVELS, a book of ten tales which possess
a grave and burnished beauty not to be
found, perhaps, even in Schnitzler's famous
novelettes. Most of these tales, employ¬
ing that gravely ironical manner which is
Schnitzler's very oun, deal wüch the rela¬
tions between men and women; one or two
touch startlingly on the supernatural and
the workängs of fate; and the finest of the
collection, a masterpiece among master¬
pieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of
the love between a blind man and his brother.
The majority of continental critics believe
Schnitzler's finest and most enduring work
to have been accomplished in the field of
1
the short story, and in tbese ten LITTLE
NOVELS the publishers feel that they are
offering to Schnitzler’s eager and growäng
American audience the perfect flower of the
genius of che Viennese master.
(82.50, August 15th.)
Marcet and Enanuel Haldeman-Julius have
written what is certain to be one of the
most controversial novels of the autumn. It
is entitled VIOLENCE and its action is laid
in the imaginary state of Texlarkana. It
starts with a fatal bullet-shot from the
revolver of the Rev. Phil Jordan, servant
of God — and squire of dames. He 18
blessed not only with eloquence, good Looks
and an ability to deceive himself, but also
with a fortunate pigmentation. His acquit¬
tal., by a jury of his (white) peers, stands
in dramatic contrast wüth the fate of a
mulatto boy who murders a young white gir1.
Back of this dramatization is a portrayal
of the life, at once barbaric and decadent,
of the tonn's middle and younger generation
whose passions ripen early.
In August Simon and Schuster are
sponsors to another first novel, LOVE
STCRY, by Thelma Noodhi11. It is a re¬
Lentless portrait of a mother whose
strange, almost hysterical convictions
Lead her to make of her daughter a care¬
fully sheltered ewe-Lamb, teaching her
that the flesh is impure and that a
woman’ s chief duty in life is to uphold
the claims of the spirit against onel's
baser desires. In an era of censorship,
this novel appears as a striking commen¬
tary on the actual consequences of
repression and ignorance. It is not a
new theme, but is here treated with such
force and such quiet effectiveness that
LOVE STORY is almost certain to be widely
and absorbedly read - particularly by
mothers and daughters
(82.50, August 15th)
They still go marching onl
What? The Cross Nord Puzzle Books, Sertes
13 is the latest and wi1l be issued in
August. Tne Cross Nord Puzzle Book sales
are rapidly im reasing, and Simon and
Schuster, the publishers, are soon ex¬
pecting a yearly total of close to
100,000 copies.
(81.35, August 15th.)
(Note: This is the first of a series
of three bulletins on the autumn books
of Simon and Schuster. The second vill
deal wüth the September and October
publications which are: THE MURDER IN
THE CLLDED CAGE, by Samuel Spewack;
PETER THE GREAT, by Stephen Graham;
DIXIE DUGAN: SHOW GLRL IN HOLLINOOD, by
Ar
J. P. Mckvoy; THR PSYCHOLOGY OF HAPPENESS,
— —
by Walter B. Pitkin; THIS UCLY CIVILIZA¬
TION, by Frank Barsodi; DON'T CALL ME
CLEVER, by Lawrence Drake. The third
bulletin will describe the November
publications; EFOICA: The Life of
Beethoven, by Samuel Chotzinoff; WWELVE
AGAINST THE GODS, by William Bolitho;
—
THE ERIFT OF CIVLLLZATTON, A Symposzun;
-AND COMPANY, a novel by Jean Richard
Bloch; THaY LOVE IT or PHANTOM FAME, by
Harry Reichenbach and David Freedman;
CROSS WORD PUZZLE BCOK Series 14, by
Burane111 et al; BELTEVE IT OR NOT!
Series 2, by Robert L. Ripley. Forth¬
coming bulletins may be had upon request.)
For imnediate release
July a 1929
Sanctum of Simon and Schuster in July is a
first novel by Alan B. Schultz, entitled
PRIVATE SECRETARY: The Story of Mary Linden.
The romance of Mary Linden is briskly told
by one who has, himself, beaten time in the
ranks of Big Business. It has the rach
appeal of youth and Love bobbing uncertain¬
Iy on the golden sea of American commercial
life. Thousands of office workers will
recognäze themselves in this bright yet
penetrating tale of a private secretary's
career of love and business, among the in¬
gredient parts of whose background are the
hägh-spirited telephone girl, the office
vamp, and the rush and clatter of business.
(82.50, July 18th.)
120 August will see the publication of an
important Schnitzler book. The perfection
of Arthur Schnitzler is here in LITTLE
NOVELS, a book of ten tales which possess
a grave and burnished beauty not to be
found, perhaps, even in Schnitzler's famous
novelettes. Most of these tales, employ¬
ing that gravely ironical manner which is
Schnitzler's very oun, deal wüch the rela¬
tions between men and women; one or two
touch startlingly on the supernatural and
the workängs of fate; and the finest of the
collection, a masterpiece among master¬
pieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of
the love between a blind man and his brother.
The majority of continental critics believe
Schnitzler's finest and most enduring work
to have been accomplished in the field of
1
the short story, and in tbese ten LITTLE
NOVELS the publishers feel that they are
offering to Schnitzler’s eager and growäng
American audience the perfect flower of the
genius of che Viennese master.
(82.50, August 15th.)
Marcet and Enanuel Haldeman-Julius have
written what is certain to be one of the
most controversial novels of the autumn. It
is entitled VIOLENCE and its action is laid
in the imaginary state of Texlarkana. It
starts with a fatal bullet-shot from the
revolver of the Rev. Phil Jordan, servant
of God — and squire of dames. He 18
blessed not only with eloquence, good Looks
and an ability to deceive himself, but also
with a fortunate pigmentation. His acquit¬
tal., by a jury of his (white) peers, stands
in dramatic contrast wüth the fate of a
mulatto boy who murders a young white gir1.
Back of this dramatization is a portrayal
of the life, at once barbaric and decadent,
of the tonn's middle and younger generation
whose passions ripen early.
In August Simon and Schuster are
sponsors to another first novel, LOVE
STCRY, by Thelma Noodhi11. It is a re¬
Lentless portrait of a mother whose
strange, almost hysterical convictions
Lead her to make of her daughter a care¬
fully sheltered ewe-Lamb, teaching her
that the flesh is impure and that a
woman’ s chief duty in life is to uphold
the claims of the spirit against onel's
baser desires. In an era of censorship,
this novel appears as a striking commen¬
tary on the actual consequences of
repression and ignorance. It is not a
new theme, but is here treated with such
force and such quiet effectiveness that
LOVE STORY is almost certain to be widely
and absorbedly read - particularly by
mothers and daughters
(82.50, August 15th)
They still go marching onl
What? The Cross Nord Puzzle Books, Sertes
13 is the latest and wi1l be issued in
August. Tne Cross Nord Puzzle Book sales
are rapidly im reasing, and Simon and
Schuster, the publishers, are soon ex¬
pecting a yearly total of close to
100,000 copies.
(81.35, August 15th.)
(Note: This is the first of a series
of three bulletins on the autumn books
of Simon and Schuster. The second vill
deal wüth the September and October
publications which are: THE MURDER IN
THE CLLDED CAGE, by Samuel Spewack;
PETER THE GREAT, by Stephen Graham;
DIXIE DUGAN: SHOW GLRL IN HOLLINOOD, by
Ar
J. P. Mckvoy; THR PSYCHOLOGY OF HAPPENESS,
— —
by Walter B. Pitkin; THIS UCLY CIVILIZA¬
TION, by Frank Barsodi; DON'T CALL ME
CLEVER, by Lawrence Drake. The third
bulletin will describe the November
publications; EFOICA: The Life of
Beethoven, by Samuel Chotzinoff; WWELVE
AGAINST THE GODS, by William Bolitho;
—
THE ERIFT OF CIVLLLZATTON, A Symposzun;
-AND COMPANY, a novel by Jean Richard
Bloch; THaY LOVE IT or PHANTOM FAME, by
Harry Reichenbach and David Freedman;
CROSS WORD PUZZLE BCOK Series 14, by
Burane111 et al; BELTEVE IT OR NOT!
Series 2, by Robert L. Ripley. Forth¬
coming bulletins may be had upon request.)
For imnediate release
July a 1929