1917

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.

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