Fiction: The Cream

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THE CREAM . ¶There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported in TIME text. ¶Reading these books you will partake of the cream of this season's literature.

MOTHER AND SON—Romain Rolland*—Holt ($2.50). Vol. Ill of The Soul Enchanted; the War by a pacifist.

FROM MAN TO MAN—Olive Schreiner—Harper ($2.50). Hailed posthumously in England; two sisters lives.

CHAINS—Theodore Dreiser—Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Lesser novels and stories by the American Tragedian.

THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE—G. K. Chesterton—Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A brief for romanticism in a reactionary age; a novel.

MATTOCK—James Stevens—Knopf ($2.50). Another chapter of the national epic.

KIT O'BRIEN—Edgar Lee Masters—Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll.

JILL—E.M. Delafield—Harper ($2). Life in looser London.

LOVE IS ENOUGH—Francis Brett Young—Knopf ($2.50). The popular author's "major work."

THE IMMORTAL MARRIAGE—Gertrude Atherton—Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Pericles and Aspasia.

DREAM'S END—Thorne Smith—McBride ($2). A Jekyll-Hyde in love.

BREAD AND FIRE—Charles R. Walker—Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). Intellectually honest novel of a Worker.

THE TRIUMPH OF YOUTH—Jacob Wassermann—Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany.

THE OLD COUNTESS—Anne Douglas Sedgwick—Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). And another little French girl.

Drama

MARCO MILLIONS—Eugene Neill—Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Merchant Polo, mediaeval babbitt; published before produced.

Non-Fiction

EIGHT O'CLOCK CHAPEL: A Retrospect of New England College Life of the Eighties—Cornelius H. Patton and Walter T. Field— Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). Undergraduates of the Dashing Decade.

ON SPECIAL MISSIONS—Charles Lucieto—McBride ($2.50). Semi-official chronicle of the War spies.

Biography

POLONAISE: The Life of Chopin—Guy de Pourtales—Holt ($3). A delicate young man of extreme refinement.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: A Hero to His Valet—James Amos—John Day ($2). Intimate information from the second butler.

Humor

THE EARLY WORM—Robert Benchley and Gluyas Williams—Holt ($2). The spice of Life.

¶ Should booksellers fail, the facilities of TIME's book department are at its readers' disposal to enlarge upon or order the above, or any other, books. Inclose cash or a check to the Book Editor, TIME the Newsmagazine, Penton Building, Cleveland, making plain to whom you wish your purchases sent. Postage extra.