85.
1922
Jan. 13, 1922
Dangerous Ages
Rose Macaulay
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 12, 1922
Men of Affairs
Roland W. Pertwee
Serial. Sat Eveg. Post
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 20
The Colonization of North America
Herbert Eugene Bolton and Thos. Maitland Marshall
Macmillan – History
Wilm. Del.
86.
Jan. 21
Prisoner Spaniards in North America
William Henry Johnson
History
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 22
Spain in America
Edward Gaylord Browne
History
Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
March 20, 1922
White Shadows in the South Seas
Frederick O’Brien
Travel
The Century Co.
Wilmington, Del.
87.
March 27, 1922
Birthright
T. S. Stribling
Century Magazine Serial
Novel of the race question
Wilm. Del.
April 16, 1922
Mary Stuart
John Drinkwater
Drama
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Wilm. Del.
April 21, 1922
The Book of American Negro Poetry
Edited by James Weldon Johnson
Poems
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
New Haven, Connecticut
May 11, 1922
If Winter Comes
A. M. S. Hutchinson[i]
Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
88.
May 13, 1922
Merton of the Movies
Harry Leon Wilson
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
May 16, 1922
White and Black
H. A. Shands
“A novel of half a dozen families in a Texas cotton-raising community… inescapable picture of tangled human relations where two races live side by side.”
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Wilm. Del.
May 17, 1922
Miss Lulu Bett
Zona Gale
Chi. Daily News (Serial)
Wilm. Del.
89.
May 26
Why Die So Young
John B. Huber
Popular Medicine
Harper’s
Wilm. Del.
May 24, 1922
Souls for Sale
Rupert Hughes
Serial in Red Book
Novel of the movie colony in Hollywood
Wilm. Del.
April 20, 1922
The Old Maid
Edith Wharton
Serial Red Book
Novel
Wilm. Del.
90.
May 5, 1922
Goldie Green
Samuel Merwin
Serial Novel Sat. Evening Post
Wilm. Del.
June 1, 1922
The Number One Boy
John Tantor Foote
Serial Novelette. Sat. Evening Post
Wilm. Del.
June 17
Winesburg Ohio [ii]
Sherwood Anderson
Boni & Liveright
Short Stories
Wilm. Del.
June 24
Children of the Mist
George Madden Martin
D. Appleton & Co.
Short Stories of the Negro life told by a sympathetic Southern with woman.
Wilm. Del.
91.
June 26
Harlem Shadows
Claude McKay
Poems
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Wilm. Del.
June 28
J. Poindexter, Colored
Irving Cobb
Serial Novelette. Saturday Evening Post
Wilm. Del.
June 28
Gentle Julia
Booth Tarkington
Novel
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 4
Pan and the Twins
Eden Phillpotts
Rather didactic narrative of Rome in the early Christian Era.
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
92.
July 8
Heart the Woman
G. Gardner Sullivan
Photo Play with continuity
Drama
Palmer Corporation
Wilm. Del.
July 9
The Man Under Cover
Louis Victor Eytinge
Palmer Photoplay Corporation
Photo Play Synopsis
Wilm. Del.
July 9
Double Speed
J. Stewart Woodhouse
Palmer Photoplay Corporation
Photo Play Synopsis
Wilm. Del.
July 15
The Palmer Handbook of Scenario Construction
Frederick Palmer Vol. I
Palmer Photo Play Corporation
Text-Book
Trolly bet Phila. & Wilm.
93.
July 23
“I Have on Myself to Blame”
Elizabeth (Princess) Bibesco
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Short Stories – each about some love affair –
Wilm. Del.
July 24
Photo-Play Plot Encyclopedia
Frederick Palmer
Palmer Photo-Play Corporation
Encyclopedia of Plot Analysis of the 36 Situations
Wilm. Del.
July 25
Palmer Handbook of Scenario Construction Vol. II
Frederick Palmer
Palmer Photo Play Corporation
Text-book
Wilm. Del.
94.
July 25
Tension
E. M. Delafield
Novel
Macmillan Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Aug. 1
The Sheik
E. M. Hall
Sewall, Maynard & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 4
The Breaking Point
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Serial Novel McClure’s Magazine
Dover, Del.
Aug. 10
Anthology of Magazine Verse
William Stanley Braithwaite
Sewall, Maynard & Co.
Poetry
Wilmington, Del.
95.
Aug. 19
Success
Samuel Hopkins Adams
A striking novel of Journalism where Arthur Brisbane and Wm. Randolph Hearst are leading characters very thinly disguised.
Bobbs-Merril Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Aug. 29
The Bright Shawl
Joseph Hergesheimer
Serial Novel The Red Book
Wilmington, Del.
Sept. 7
“Q.”
Katherine Newlands [iii]
Serial Novel. Evening Public Ledger
Wilmington. Del.
96.
Sept. 12
The Deaves Affair
Hulbert Footner
Silly Mystery story with John D. Rockefeller a possible prototype.
Geo. H. Doran Co.
On train between N.Y. and Phila.
Sept. 22
Batouala
René Maran
Trans. from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer
Pub. by Thos. Seltzer
Novel of African life by an African which won the Prix Goncourt for 1922.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 24
A Son of the Sahara
Louise Gerard
The Macaulay Co.
Like The Sheik, only much better.
97.
Oct. 3, 1922
The Lost Ambassador
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Novel (Re-read)
On train between Lewes and Laurel, Del.
Oct. 7, 1922
Kimona [iv]
John Paris
(The novel was suppressed in Japan. Serial in Chicago Daily News.)
Wilmington, Del.
Oct. 21
The Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton
Novel
Appleton
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 15
Salome
Oscar Wilde
Drama
Little Leather Library
On train between Stamford & Norwich, Conn.
98.
Nov. 15
Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert
Poetry
Little Leather Library
On train between Stamford and Norwich, Conn.
Nov. 18
The Witch of Marchmont
Jeanette Walworth
Mystery Novel – Serial Chicago News.
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 23
A Girl of the Films
Rob Wagner
Novel of Hollywood
Serial Red Book
On train coming from Hartford, Conn.
Dec. 3
Nigger
Clement Wood
Novel
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
99.
Dec. 9
The Practice of Auto-Suggestion by the Method of Emile Coué
C. Harry Brooks
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 16
The Curse of the Door
Clara Morris Diggs
Race Novel – propaganda badly done.
Cornill Pub. Co.
Jersey City, N.J.
Dec. 23
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Novel
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Wilm. Del.
100.
Résumé 1922
52 Books Read
Novels – 31
Drama – 5
Text Books – 5
Travel – 1
Essays – 0
Histories – 3
Poetry – 4
Short Stories – 3
52
Notes
[i] The correct order for the initials is A. S. M., as in Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson. Dunbar-Nelson corrects the error in later entries.
[ii] Dunbar-Nelson notes here that upon finishing this title, she had read approximately nineteen books in twenty-five weeks, leaving her four books behind a personal schedule that she had set for herself—a schedule that she had not made explicit in the journal.
[iii] Katherine Newlin Burt.
[iv] Dunbar-Nelson misspelled the title in this entry, actually spelled Kimono. In addition, “John Paris” is the pen name of the author Frank Ashton-Gwatkin.
