Journal III.
1. [Left-to-Right]
March 12
Cakes & Ale
Somerset Maugham
The much discussed novel which is supposed to lampoon Thomas Hardy.
Doubleday & Doran
Phila. Pa.
March 13
Jim & Mr. Eddy
Algernon Jackson
“Race” book about the Dr. & his wife and their trip through the South, Rather good.
Associated Publishers
Phila. Pa.
March 17
Reader, I Married Him
Anne Green
E. P. Dutton
A most amusing novel.
W’ton. Del.
[2.] [i]
March 18
The Law of Abundance
David D. Bush, D. D. [ii]
Pub. by same as Applied Psychology
Wilm. Del.
March 24
Angel Pavement
J. B. Priestley
Harper Bros.
A novel of Dickensian proportions.
Phila. Pa.
[3.]
Mch. 23
Numerology
Karen Adams
Laidlaw Bros.
Phila. Pa.
Mch. 31
Numerology Made Plain
Ariel Yvon Taylor
Laidlaw Bros.
Phila. Pa.
Apl. 9
Phillipa
Anne Douglass Sedgewick
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Novel
W’ton. Del.
[4.]
Apl. 10
Candide
Voltaire
Satire
Haldeman Blue Books
W’ton. Del.
Apl. 13
My Favorite Story
6 Authors [iii]
Ed. by Ray Long
Pub. by Cosmopolitan
Train bet. Royal Oak, Md. and Phila.
April 27
Prostitution in the Ancient World
Leo Markham [iv]
Little Blue Books
W’ton. Del.
[5.]
May 6
The Silence of Col. Bramble
André Maurois
War Narrative
Appleton –
Wilm. Del.
May 7
The Road to Canaan
Pernet Patterson
Short Stories of Negroes told by a white man.
Minton, Balch.
W’ton. Del.
May 11
I Like a Good Murder
Marcus Magill
Lippincott
Trashy murder mystery novel.
W’ton. Del.
[6.]
May 12
Gentlemen in Hades
Frederic Arnold Kummer
Novel –
Series Pub. Co.
Amusing companion to Ladies in Hades. Quite rotten in its subtle pornography.
W’ton. Del.
May 29
American Govt. & Citizenship
Edwin Du Bois Shurter
Lippincott & Co.
Text Book
Wash. D.C.
May 29
Makers of America
James Witt Sewell
Lippincott & Co.
Text –
Wash. D.C.
[7.]
May 29
Notable Events in the Making of America [v]
Benjamin D. Scott
Lippincott & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
May 29
Reading & Living
Howard Hill, Nellie E. Moore, Rollo Lyman
Scribner
Text
Wash. D.C.
May 29
The Treasure Chest of Literature
6th year – 2d Half.
Chas. Eichel, Edw. J. Kehoe, Ignus O. Hornstein
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
[8.]
May 31
A Little Flat in the Temple
Pamela Wynne[vi]
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Novel
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Makers of America
Jas. A Woodburn – Thos. F. Moran
Longmans, Green & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Westward Toward America
Marion G. Clark
Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Scribner
Text
Wash. D.C.
[9.]
June 1
The Story of Our Nation
Eugene C. Barker
Walter P. Webb
Row, Peterson & Co.
Text
Wash, D.C.
June 1
The Pathbreakers from River to Ocean
Grace Raymond Hebard
Univ. Pub. Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
The Making of Our Country
Smith Burnham
John C. Winston Co.
Text –
Wash. D.C.
[10.]
June 1
The Beginnings of the American People & Nation
Mary G. Kelty
Ginn & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Story of America and Great American
Henry Eldridge Bourne
Elbert J. Benton
D. C. Heath & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Stories of South America
E. C. Brooks
Johnson. Pub. Co.
Text
Wash D.C.
[11.]
June 1
Stories of Porto Rico
Elizabeth Kneipple Van Deusen
Silver, Burdett & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Stories of American Pioneers
Sarah Dow Heard
M. W. King
Winston Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Steer for New Shores
Susie M. Best
Beckley-cardy Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
[12.]
June 1
Pioneers of the Deep
Lila Gravatt
Mentzner, Bush & Co.
Text
Wash D.C.
June 1
Our Nation’s Heritage
American Book Co.
Reuben Post Halleck
Juliette Frantz
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Neighbors North and South
Walter Lefferts
Lippincott & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
[13.]
June 1
Adventuring in Young America
Edna McGuire
Claude Anderson Phillips
MacMillan Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Boys & Girls in American History
Albert F. Blaisdell
Little, Brown & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Building Our Country
Edna McGuire
Claude A. Phillips
Macmillan –
Text
Wash. D.C.
[14.]
June 1
Early Settlements in America
John A. Long
Row, Peterson & Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
For Freedom
Arthur Huff Fauset
Franklin Pub. Co.
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Stories of Later American History
Wilbur F. Gordy
Scribner’s
Text
Wash. D.C.
[15.]
June 1
Hero Stories for Children
Earl A. Collins
Lydia Hall
Macmillan Co.
Text –
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Hero Tales from History
Smith Burnham
Winston Co.
Text –
Wash. D.C.
June 1
Junior High School Literature Book II
Edited by Wm. H. Elson, Christine M. Keck, Mary H. Burris
Text –
Wash. D.C.
[16.]
June 1
Leaders in Making America
Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Chas. Scribner’s Sons
Text –
Wash. D.C.
June 2
History of California
Hubert H. Bancroft
San Francisco Hist. Co. Vol. 6
History
Wash. D.C.
June 2
America: The True History of Discovery
William Giles Nash
Grant Richards Ltd. London
History
Wash. D.C.
[17.]
June 2
The Freedman’s Book
Lydia Maria Child
Ticknor & Fields 1865
Historical Short Stories
Wash. D.C.
June 2
Christianity, Islam & the Negro Race
Edward W. Blyden
W. B. Whittingham & Co. – London
Philosophy –
Wash. D.C.
June 2
History of the Pacific States
Hubert Howe Bancroft
A. L. Bancroft & Co.
History
Wash. D.C.
[18.]
June 3
Sir Francis Drake’s Voyage Around the World
Henry Raup Wagner
John Howell California Pub. Co.
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 3
Dramatic Episodes in Congress and Parliament
Ethel Hedly Robson
Atlantic Monthly Press
Text
Wash. D.C.
June 3
The Negro in the New World
Sir Harry H. Johnston
Mithuen & Co. –London
History –
Wash. D.C.
[19.]
June 3
Leaflets from the Danish West Indies
Chas. Edwin Taylor
Wm. Dawson & Sons – London 1888
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 4
A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker
Martha E. Tyson
Maryland Historical Soc. 1854
Biography
Wash. D.C.
June 4
The History of the Maroons
R. C. Dallas
2 vols.
Longman & Reese. London 1803
History –
Wash. D.C.
[20.]
June 4
History Stories of Georgia
J. Harris Clappell
Silver Burdett & Co.
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 4
History of Georgia
T. S. Arthur
W. H. Carpenter
Lippincott & Co. – 1852
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 4
Georgia Historical Society Collection
2 vols.
History –
Wash. D.C.
[21.]
June 4
Historical Collections of Georgia
Rev. George White
Pudney & Russell. 1855
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 4
Georgia
Joel Chandler Harris
D. Appleton & Co.
Historical Stories
Wash. D.C.
June 5
The Negro in American History
John W. Cromwell
American Negro Academy
Wash. D.C.
History –
Wash. D.C.
[22.]
June 5
History of Brazil
Andrew Grant
Henry Colburn – London 1809
History –
Wash. D.C.
June 5
Men of Mark
William j. Simmons
Geo. M. Rewell & Co.
Cleveland.
Biography –
Wash. D.C.
June 5
Brazil
C. C. Andrews
D. Appleton & Co.
History –
Wash. D.C.
[24.]
June 5
Brazil of the Brazilians
Jas. C. Fletcher
D. P. Kidder
Little, Brown & Co.
History, Travel
Wash. D.C.
June 6
History of the United States
Edward Channing
Macmillan Co.
History
Wash. D.C.
June 6
Journal of Negro History
Vols. I to XV Inclusive
Associated Publishers –
Wash. D.C.
History –
Wash. D.C.
[25.]
June 7
The Lighted Way [vii]
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wash. D.C.
June 11
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Privately Printed France
Unexpurgated – Filthy and beautiful. Yet not filthy, unless you have that kind of a mind.
Novel
Wash. D.C.
June 20
The Slave Ship
Mary Johnston
Little, Brown & Co.
Hist. Novel
W’ton. Del
[26.]
July 9
Though This Be Madness
Robert Keable
Novel
Jacobson. Pub. Co. N.Y.
W’ton. Del.
July 11
The Purple Sickle Murders
Freeman Wills Crofts
Mystery Novel.
Harper’s
W’ton. Del.
July 16
Hudson River Bracketed
Edith Wharton
Novel –
D. Appleton & Co.
W’ton
[27.]
July 20
The Office Wife
Faith Baldwin
Movieized Novel or Novelized Movie
Grosset & Dunlap
W’ton. Del.
July 23
The Limestone Tree
Joseph Hergesheimer
Novel –
Alfred A. Knopf
Train bet. W’ton & Petersburg, Va.
July 24
The Road Back
Eric Maria Remarque
Novel – Sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front
Little, Brown & Co.
Train bet. Petersburg & Wash. D.C.
[28.]
July 25
The Medicine Girl
P. G. Wodehouse
Serial Novel – Collier’s Magazine
W’ton. Del.
Aug. 1
The Woman with White Eyes
Mary Borden
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Strangest of strange novels.
W’ton. Del.
Aug. 11
Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
Mystery Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
W’ton. Del.
[29.]
Aug. 16
The Edwardians
V. Sackville West
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Delicious satirical novel of manners.
Wil. Del.
Aug. 18
About the Murder of the Clergyman’s Mistress
Anthony Abbott
Mystery Novel
Covici, Freide
W’ton. Del.
Aug. 20
Murder of a Midget
Nathan Freeman Parker [viii]
E. P. Dutton
Novel
W’ton. Del.
[30.]
Aug. 26
The Crime Conductor
Phillip MacDonald
The Crime Club – Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Novel
Wil. Del.
Aug. 27
The Great Meadow
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The Viking Press
Novel of early Kentucky
Phila. Pa.
Aug. 23
Boners [ix]
A collection of Exam Answers of students
The Viking Press
“Green Pastures”
Princeton, N.J.
[31.]
Sept. 5
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
Alfred A. Knopf
Lively – That’s all. Historical novel – but not up to “Death Comes to the Archbishop.’
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 11
Murder for Profit
William Bolitho [Ryall]
Garden City Pub. Co.
Case Histories of Mass Murderers by a Super-reporter.
Phila. Pa.
Sept. 23
Finch’s Fortune
Third of Mazo de la Roche’s Saga of Jalna
Little, Brown & Co.
Novel
W’ton. Del.
[32.]
Sept. 25
Is Sex Necessary
[James] Thurber [&] [E. B.] White
Harper’s
Delightful satire on modern life.
Phila. Pa.
Sept. 26
The Little White Hag
Francis Beeding [x]
Little, Brown & Co.
Novel of adventure on the dope traffic.
Wash. D.C.
Oct.6
The Ten Commandments
Warwick Deeping
Alfred A. Knopf
Novel – Rarely beautiful
Wilm. Del.
1. [Right-to-Left]
Oct. 23
Blind Gods
E. B. Rich [xi]
Novel of Guinea
MS copy
Bermuda (Hamilton)
Oct. 24
Rabbi Burns
Aben Kandel
Novel. “One of those Jew books.”
On board S.S. Veendam between Bermuda and N.Y.
Oct. 25
Tristram
Edward Arlington
Poem – Blank verse
S.S. Veendam
[2.]
Oct. 25
The Stolen Budget
J. S. Fletcher
Hodder & Stoughton – London
Mystery Novel
S.S. Veendam
Oct. 28
The Man from Sing Sing
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Serial Novel – Collier’s Magazine
W’ton. Del.
Oct. 30
Four Handsome Negresses
R. Hernekin Baptist
Jonathon Cape & Harrison Smith
Novel. A Rarely Beautiful thing. Beginning of Portuguese slave trade.
W’ton. Del.
[3.]
Nov. 2
Mulatto Johnny
Alin Laubreaux
Novel – Kanaka – Back-to-the-blanket – Berserker stuff. [xii]
W’ton. Del.
Nov. 6
Slaves To-Day
George S. Schuyler
A Story of Liberia. Exposé of modern slavery in novel form.
Brewer, Warren & Putnam
W’ton. Del.
Nov. 11
And Life Goes On
Vicki Baum
Serial Novel. Cosmopolitan
W’ton. Del.
[4.]
Nov. 15
The Red Dancer of Moscow
H. L. Gates
Barse & Co.
Sloppy Russian novel
W’ton. Del.
Nov. 21
Murder in Room 700
Mary Hastings Bradley
Appleton & Co.
Mystery Novel
W’ton. Del.
Nov. 23
The Harp Weaver & Other Poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harper Bros.
W’ton. Del.
[5.]
Nov. 24
Few Figs from Thistles
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harper Bros.
Poems
W’ton.
Dec. 7
Chita
Lafcadio Hearn
Novel – re-read. (Last Isle)
Harper Bros.
W’ton.
Dec. 7
The Perfumed Garden
Trans. from the Arabic of the Shayk Nefzawi
Privately Printed.
Very much after Burton’s translation of the Arabian Nights.
[6.]
Dec. 8
Renascence & Other Poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harper Bros.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 9
The Arranways Mystery
Edgar Wallace
Novel. Serial Cosmopolitan
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 12
Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O’Neill
A Dramatic Trilogy
A play in 3 plays. Homecoming
The Hunted
The Haunted
Drama
Wilm. Del.
[7.]
Dec. 16
Casanova’s Memoirs
Edited by Joseph Monet
Drawings by Vicente Minnelli
N.Y. Privately Printed
Autobiography
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 20
Days of Grace [xiii]
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Pulitzer Prize Novel of 1930
Houghton Mifflin Co.
W’ton. Del.
Dec. 26
Private Memoirs of a Capt. of Dragoons [xiv]
Privately Printed
W’ton – Del.
[8.]
Recapitulation – 1931 [xv]
Poetry – 4
History – 33
Novels – 51
Short Stories – 3
Biography – 6
Essay –
Drama – 1
Travel – 1
Psychology – 2
Satire – 3
Text Books – 30
Philosophy – 1
Case Histories – 1
138
Notes
[i] Dunbar-Nelson ended her pagination efforts after the first page of this journal.
[ii] Likely refers to The Law of Abundance and to Have it Now (1928) by David V. Bush.
[iii] Fannie Hurst, Sir Phillip Gibbs, Ring W. Lardner, Somerset Maugham, Montague Glass, and Robert Hichens.
[iv] Probably Leo Markum, a prolific author in the Little Blue Books series.
[v] Citizenship Readers Book Seven (1930).
[vi] Pseudonym of Wilfrid Mary Watson Scott (1879-1959).
[vii] An unnoted re-reading by Dunbar-Nelson.
[viii] Dunbar-Nelson erroneously listed the author in this entry. The author of this book was actually Martin Joseph “Tom” Freeman.
[ix] Among the first illustrations for a published book from writer and cartoonist Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss 1904-1991).
[x] Collaborative pseudonym for Jon Leslie Palmer and Hilary Saint George Saunders.
[xi] Author’s name is not entirely legible in this entry; it could also be “E. B. Arch” or “E. B. Roche” depending upon how one deciphers the lettering.
[xii] “Kanaka” was a term that one used to describe an exploited Pacific Islander or native Hawaiian.
[xiii] Correct title is Years of Grace (1930).
[xiv] Possibly Garrison Games: Private Memoirs of an Officer of Dragoons (1905) authored anonymously and privately printed in a limited run.
[xv] Dunbar-Nelson’s count for this year, despite being unusually high, is slightly inaccurate. The sum is higher than the listed quantities by two, and it is likely to be higher than the listed entries by anywhere from eight to ten books.
