147.
1926
Jan. 17
Alan
E. F. Benson
Novel
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Wilmington
Jan. 21
Minick
Edna Ferber & Geo. S. Kaufmann
Drama
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilmington
Jan. 29
The Cellini Plaque
Harold McGrath
Novel
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm.
Jan. 30
The Dark Night
May Sinclair
Novelette
Free Verse
Macmillan Co.
Wilmington
Feb. 10
Orphan Island
Rose Macaulay
Novel
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
148.
1926
March 4
The Adventures of Wilbur the Hat [i]
Wilhelm Hendrik Van Loon
Satire – keenest kind.
Boni & Liveright
Wilmington
March 5
Ruint
Hatcher Hughes
Drama (Folk Drama – whatever that is)
Harper Bros.
Wilmington
March 6
Suspense
Joseph Conrad
Novel (Napoleonic)
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm.
March 9
Color
Cullen, Countee
Poems
Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
150. [ii]
1926
March 15
Mayfair
Michael Arlen
Short Stories
Geo. H. Doran
Wilm. Del.
March 16
One Increasing Purpose
A. M. Hutchinson
Little, Brown & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
March 31
Youth in Conflict
Miriam Van Waters, Ph.D.
Republic Pub. Co.
Study in Juvenile Delinquency
Wilm. Del.
April 2
The Perennial Bachelor
Anne Parrish
Novel (Prize winning Harpers $2000)
Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
151.
1926
April 7
The Education of Handicapped Children
J. E. Wallace, Ph.D.
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Text
Wilm. Del.
April 11
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
John Erskine
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Satirical Narrative (crack-a-jack)
April 11
The Odyssey of a Nice Girl
Ruth Suckow
Alfred A. Knopf
Mighty good novel without conflict. An Epic of a middle class girl’s life.
April 17
The Green Hat
Michael Arlen
Novel – (Horrific)
Geo. H. Doran
152.
May 4
Mantrap
Sinclair Lewis
Serial Novel in Collier’s Weekly
Wilm. Del.
May 25
Teeftallow
T. S. Stribling
Novel of Tennessee “hill people”
Doubleday, Page
Wilm. Del.
May 26
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
Uproarious narrative of a gold-digger.
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
May 26
Teaching in Rural Schools
Thomas Jackson Woofter
Text Book for Teachers.
Wilm. Del.
May 27
Mary Glen
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Novel of South African Life
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
153.
June 5
The Flame of Courage
Philip Gibbs
Serial Historical Romance of France and Quebec.
Pictorial Review
Wilm. Del.
June 16
Where There’s a Will
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Novel
Wilm. Del.
June 19
Craig’s Wife
George Kelly
Drama
Little, Brown & Co.
Pulitzer Prize Drama
On boat between Phila. & Wilm.
June 26
Mind in the Making
James Harvey Robinson
Psychology
Harper’s
Wilm. Del.
154.
June 27
Here and Beyond
Edith Wharton
Short Stories
D. Appleton & Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 13
Uprooted
Brand Whitlock
Novel (of expatriated Americans in France)
D. Appleton
Wilm. Del.
July 20
The Best Stories of 1925
Edited by Muriel Miller Humphrey
Small, Maynard & Co.
Short Stories
Wilm. Del.
July 24
Odtaa
John Masefield
Novel
Macmillan
Wilm. Del.
155.
July 24
One Thousand Best Books
A Variorum List
Compiled by Asa Don Dickinson
Reference
Doubleday, Page & Co.
July 29
The Slave Ship
Mary Johnston
Novel of the Slave Trade
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 4
The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne
W. J. Locke
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Novelette
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 5
Oh, Mr. Leacock!
C. K. Allen
Would be Satirical Essay.
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
156.
Aug. 10, 1926
Devil May Care
Arthur Somers Roche
Serial Novel in Collier’s Weekly
New Haven. Conn.
Aug. 12
A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
Novel
Alfred A. Knopf
Cohasset, Mass.
Aug. 15
Flaming Youth
Warner Fabian [iii]
Novel
Alfred A. Knopf
Cohasset, Mass.
Aug. 16
The Singing Mouse Stories
Emerson Hough
Fantastic Stories
Hurst & Co.
Cambridge, Mass.
157.
Aug. 22
Being Respectable
Grace H. Flandrau
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Novel – Babbit-type only more so[iv]
Summit, N.J.
Sept. 3
Stolen Idols
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mystery Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 3
Clara Barron
Harvey O’Higgins
Novel
Harper’s
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 9
Nigger Heaven
Carl Van Vechten [v]
The Harlem Novel – written by a white man
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
158.
Sept. 22, 1926
The Constant Nymph
Margaret Kennedy
Novel
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 25
Flight
Walter White
Novel (“Race”)
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 25
Mannequin
Fannie Hurst
Novel
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 28
The Invisible Woman
Herbert Quick
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilm. Del.
159.
Oct. 3, 1926
The Jade God
Alan Sullivan
Mystery Story
Century Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 7
Porgy
Du Bose Heyward
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Magnificent Story of a crippled Negro, rather than a novel.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 9
Show Boat
Edna Ferber
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 9
Stepping Out
Beatrice, Burton
Serial Novel (Trash) Every Evening [newspaper]
Wilm. Del. (Oct. 1)
160.
Oct. 31, 1926
Tropic Death
Eric Waldrond [vi]
West Indian Negro Tales splendidly and objectively told
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 16, 1926
Thunder in the Left
Christopher Morley
Fantasy
Doubleday & Page
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 19, 1926
Mental Defectives
Martin W. Barr
Text. Psychology
Blakiston’s & Sons
Washington D.C. (Re-reading)
Dec. 30, 1926
The Time of Man
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Viking Press
Novel (Wordsworthian)
Wilm. Del.
161.
1926
54 –
Fiction 36
History 0
Poetry 2
Drama 3
Psychology & Philosophy 2
Professional 3
Short Stories 5
Essays 1
Satire 1
Reference 1
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Notes
[i] The correct title for this book is The Story of Wilbur the Hat by Henrik Wilhem Van Loon.
[ii] Pagination skips page 149 in this section of the journal.
[iii] A pseudonym for author Samuel Hopkins Adams.
[iv] Most likely a reference to Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit (1922).
[v] An acquaintance and admirer of Dunbar-Nelson.
[vi] Eric Walrond.
