The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:
SOMEWHERE AT SEA—John Fleming Wihon—Dutton ($2.00). A salty, foam-flecked collection of short stories for those who love the sea—or Joseph Conrad—or both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthouses—though those are not absent—but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against...