5.
Jan. 2, 1917
Britz of Headquarters
Marcin Barber
Muffat, Yard & Co.
Detective Novel
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 4, 1917
The Second Coming
Frederic Arnold Kummer
Henry P. Janes
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Parable of the War.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 7, 1917
Grettir, The Outlaw
Icelandic Saga, done into modern English by S. Quiller-Couch[i]
Blackie & Sons, Edinburgh
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 7, 1917
Ms. Britling Sees it Through
H. G. Wells
Macmillan Co.
Psychological study of the English in the Great War – Disguised as a novel.
Wilm. Del.
6.
Jan. 9, 1917
When a Man’s a Man
Harold Bell Wright
The Book Supply Co.
Western novel – ranch life
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 18, 1917
Justice
John Galsworthy
Drama
Scribner
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 20, 1917
A Scrap of Paper
Arthur Somers Roche
Serial Novel Saturday Evening Post
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 27, 1917
The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan 30, 1917
The Conjure Woman
Cha. W. Chesnutt
Short Stories
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Wilm. Del.
7.
Feb. 3, 1917
The Freelands
John Galsworthy
Novel
Scribner’s
Wilmington Del.
Feb. 13, 1917
The Mark of the Beast
Reginald Wright Kauffman
Macaulay Co.
Novel of purpose on the lynching evil in the South
On the train from Harrisburg to Wilmington
Feb. 25, 1917
William Shakespeare
University Press
Drama
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 26, 1917
May Iverson’s Career
Elizabeth Jordan
Harper Bros.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
8.
March 1, 1917
Agatha Webb
Anna Katherine Green
Detective Novel
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Wilm. Del.
March 15, 1917
Rainbow’s End
Rex Beach
Harpers
Novel of Adventure
Wilm. Del.
March 17, 1917
Scenario Writing
Ernest N. Ross
Exposition
Penn Association
March 18, 1917
Out of the House of Bondage
Kelly Miller
Essays on the Negro Problem
Neale Pub. Co.
9.
April 22, 1917
Hagar Revelly
Daniel Carson Goodman
Novel (Very raw)
Pub. by Mitchell Kennerley
Wilmington
May 8, 1917
The Iron Stair
“Rita”[ii]
Novel
Putnam
Harrisburg, Pa.
May 10, 1917
The Bandbox
Louis Joseph Vance
Detective Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Harrisburg, Pa.
May 13, 1917
John Sherwood, Ironmaster
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
Novel
Century Co.
Harrisburg, Pa.
10.
May 19, 1917
Peter
Hopkinson Smith
Novel
Scribner
Wilmington, Del.
May 21, 1917
The Veiled Lady
F. Hopkinson Smith
Short Stories
Scribner
Wilmington, Del.
June 4, 1917
The First Hundred Thousand
Ian Hay
Narrator of the War
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
June 7, 1917
The Hungry Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
Short Stories of India
Macmillan
11.
June 22, 1917
The Wonderful Year
W. J. Locke
Novel
John Lane Co.
Wilmington
July 4, 1917
Aunt Amity’s Silver Wedding
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Century Co.
Dover, Del.
Short Stories
July 6, 1917
Moriah’s Morning
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Harper Bros.
Dover, Del.
Short Stories
July 14, 1917
The High School [Prize] Speaker
W. L. Snow [editor]
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Prose Poetry Selections
Dover, Del.
12.
July 17, 1917
Booker T. Washington
Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe
Doubleday Page & Co.
Biography
Dover, Del.
July 19, 1917
The Broken Gate
Emmerson Hough
Novel
Pictorial Review Serial
Dover, Del.
July 29, 1917
A Gallant Fight
Marion Harland[iii]
Novel
Lovell Co.
Dover, Del.
July 23, 1917
The High Heart
Basil King
Novel
Saturday Evening Post Serial
Dover, Del.
13.
July 23, 1917
[sic] Sonnetts of a Suffragette
Berton Braley
Poems
Brown & Howell Co.
Dover, Del.
July 26, 1917
The River’s Children
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Novelette
Century Co.
Dover, Del.
Aug. 29, 1917
The Beast of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Novel
A. L. Burt & Co.
Ocean City, N.J.
Sept. 1, 1917
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Novel
A. L. Burt & Co.
Ocean City, N.J.
14.
Sept. 1, 1917
A Good Samaritan
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Novelette
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Atlantic City, N.J.
Sept. 6, 1917
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Novel
[Robert] McBride & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Sept. 3, 1917
The Return of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A. L. Burt & Co.
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
Sept. 7, 1917
The Son of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A. L. Burt & Co.
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
15.
Sept. 8, 1917
The Hand of the Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Novel
[Robert] McBride & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Sept. 9, 1917
The Red Planet
W. J. Locke
Novel
John Lane Co.
Wilmington, Del.
“A romance of the war, but not about the war.”
Sept. 12, 1917
Sinbad
Percy Mackaye
Houghton Mifflin & Co.
Masque
“A Lyric Phantasy”
Wilmington, Del.
16.
Sept. 19, 1917
His Own Country
Paul Kester
Novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
A striking presentation of the race problem, with a suggestion for a solution.
Sept. 23, 1917
Beyond
John Galsworthy
Novel
Scribner
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 1, 1917
Salamán and Absál
Jámí
Trans. by Prof. Cowell and Edward Fitzgerald
Persian Mystery Poem
Wilm. Del.
17.
Oct. 8, 1917
The Cinema Murder
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mystery Story
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 10, 1917
The Soul of a Bishop
H. G. Wells
Psychological study of the effect of the war on modern Christianity (novel?)
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 14, 1917
The War God
Israel Zangwill
Drama. Tragedy in Five Acts
Macmillan Co,
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 15, 1917
The Winter Feast
Charles Rann Kennedy
Drama. Tragedy in Five Acts
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
18.
Oct. 16, 1917
Lyrics and Dramas
(Dramas) Nero’s Mother
The Adversary
The King
Stephen Phillips
Once Act Tragedies
John Lane Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 18, 1917
The Melting Pot
Israel Zangwill
Drama (4 acts)
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 25, 1917
The Passion Play of Oberammaergau
Trans. by Montrose Moses
Mystery Play
Duffield & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 28, 1917
The Adventures of Jimmy Dale [iv]
Frank Proctor
Detective Novel
Geo [George] H. Doran & Co.
Wilm. Del.
19.
Oct. 29, 1917
The World and Thomas Kelley
Arthur Train
Novel
Saturday Evening Post Serial
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 1, 1917
The Dwelling Place of Light
Winston Churchill
Novel
The Macmillan Company
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 7, 1917
Seven Short Plays
Lady Augusta Gregory
Dramas
Dublin, Manusel & Co.
Boston, John W. Luce & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 7, 1917
Mary Goes First
Henry Arthur Jones
Comedy of Manners
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
20.
Nov. 12, ‘17
Plays
John Galsworthy
The Eldest Son
The Little Dream
Justice
Drama
Scribner’s
Wilm. Del.
Nov. 23
The Sturdy Oak
Composite
A Suffrage Novel by 14 authors
Samuel Merwin Mary Heaton Vorse
Harry Leon Wilson Alice Duer Miller
Fannie Hurst Ethel Watts Mumford
Dorothy Canfield Marjorie Benton Cooke
Kathleen Norris William Allen White
Henry Kitchell Webster Mary Austin
Anne O’Hagan Leroy Scott
Serial in Colliers Weekly
Wilmington, Del.
21.
Dec. 2, 1917
Over the Top
Arthur Guy Empey
Actual Narrator of the War. “By one who went.”
Putnam
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 22, 1917
A Diversity of Creatures
Rudyard Kipling
Short Stories
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 23, 1917
Towards the Goal
Mrs. Humphrey [Humphry] Ward
Narrator of a visit to the French firing line.
Scribner’s
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 26, 1917
Christine
Alice Cholmondeley
Letters (Narrative) Germany at the outbreak of the War.
Scribner’s
Slieghton Farm, Darlington, Pa.
1917
65 Books
Notes
[i] Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), but likely the S. Baring-Gould edition.
[ii] English novelist, Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys (1850-1938).
[iii] A penname for Mary Virginia Terhune.
[iv] The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard.
