22.
Jan. 3, 1918
The Golden Triangle: Return of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Le Blanc
Detective Story (War Background)
A. L. Burt Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 7, 1918
The Three Things
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Novelette (The War)
“The Greatest Story the War Has Produced.”
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 8, 1918
The Deserter
Richard Harding Davis
(His Last Story)
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 11, 1918
Fifty-One Tales
Lord Dunsany
Little, Brown & Co.
Strange musings, rather than tales.
Wilm. Del.
23.
Jan. 12, 1918
The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days
Leonid Andreyev
Trans. from Russian by R. S. Townsend
A peculiarly heart-searching diary of the war in Russia
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 13, 1918
The Red Rugs of Tarsus
Helen Davenport Gibbons
A Woman’s Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909.
The Century Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 14, 1918
Paz and Pablo
Reader for Philippine Schools
World Book Co.
Wilm. Del.
24.
Jan. 23, 1918
Industrial Studies and Exercises
O. S. Reinold
Text Book in Industrial Education for Filipino Schools.
World Book Co.
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 29, 1918
Under the Blue Sky
Pierre F. du Pont[i]
Geo. W. Jacobs & Co.
Poems – Occasional Verse
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 30 1918
Mystery Tales
Compiled by Elva S. Smith
Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Co.
Collection of supernatural stories and poems.
Wilm. Del.
25.
Feb. 9, 1918
A Hilltop on the Marne
Letters written June 3 – Sept. 8, 1914
By Mildred Aldrich
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 15, 1918
The Firefly of France
Marion Polk Angellotti
Sat. Evening Post Serial
War Story
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 20, 1918
Undertow
Kathleen Norris
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 27, 1918
Poems
Richard Le Gallienne
The Bodley Head
Wilm. Del.
26.
Feb. 28, 1918
A Lover’s Diary
Gilbert Parker
Sonnet Sequence
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
Mch. 5, 1918
The Lyric Year
Edited by Ferdinand Earle
Lyrics of the Year 1912
Mitchell Kennerley
Wilm. Del.
Mch. 10, 1918
[X] The Firefly of France[ii]
Marion Polk Angellotti
Sat. Evening Post Serial
War Story
Wilm. Del.
Mch. 23, 1918
The Diva’s Ruby
F. Marion Crawford
Novel
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
27.
April 2, 1918
The Advance of the English Home
Wm. Lyon Phelps
Criticism
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
April 3, 1918
Love in Our Village
Orme Agnus
Short Stories of English Peasants
Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
April 4, 1918
Jan Oxber
Orme Agnus
Novel as above
Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
April 7, 1918
The Transactions of Lord Louis Lewis
Roland Pertwee
Short Stories with connecting thread
Dodd, Mead, & Co.
Wilm. Del.
28.
April 15, 1918
Lost Endeavour
John Masefield
Macmillan Co.
Romance of Adventure in early days of Virginia colony, 1690.
Wilm. Del.
November 1917
The Socialized Recitation
Charles [?] Whiting[iii]
Educational Text Book
Wilm. Del.
November 1917
Motivation of School Work
[H. B.] Wilson & [G. M.] Wilson
Educational Text Book
Wilm. Del.
May 1, 1917
Shot with Crimson
George Barr McCutcheon
Novel of German spies in America
Sat. Evening Post Serial
Wilmington, Del.
29.
April 22, 1918
Viviette
William J. Locke
Novelette
John Lane Co.
On Train from Hbg. [Harrisburg] Pa. to William
May 2, 1918
The Agony Column
Earl Derr Biggers
Novelette
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilmington, Del.
May 4, 1918
Woman
Vance Thompson
Clever, epigrammatic exposition of the whole sex-subject.
Century Co.
Wilmington, Del.
May 3
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Another “Tarzan!”
A. L. Burt Co.
Wilm. Del.
30.
May 5, 1918
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
David Graham Phillips
Century Co.
2 vols. Novel
Type of propaganda of the Socialists like the “Jungle”, “Woman Thou Gavest Me”, “House of Bondage.” Honor literally piled on honor. Ending good.
May 14, 1918
My Country: A Story of Today
Geo. Rothwell Brown
Small, Maynard, & Co.
German spy novel
Wilm. Del.
May 18, 1917[iv]
Merlin
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Macmillan
Poem, Arthurian Legend. Continuation of Tennyson’s Idylls. Ambitious, not thin.
Wilm. Del.
31.
May 22, 1918
The Blue-Eyed Manchu
Achmed Abdullah
Robert J. Shores Pub.
Anti-Asiatic propaganda in the form of a novel.
Wilm. Del.
July 4, 1918
Stamboul Nights
H. C. Dwight
Doubleday, Page, & Co.
Short Stories of the Bosphorus
Wilm. Del.
July 16, 1918
Magnificent Adventure
Emerson Hough
D. Appleton & Co.
“This being the story of the World’s Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a very Gallant Gentlman.”
Story of Lewis & Clark exploration of the Great Northwest.
32.
Aug. 6, 1918
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
A Fantasy
Washington D.C.
Aug. 9, 1918
American Women and the World War
Ida Clyde Clark
Appleton’s
Washington D.C.
Aug 9. 1918
Women War Workers
Gilbert Stone
T. Y. Crowell
Account of English Women in War Work.
Washington D.C.
Aug. 10, 1918
Re-Education: An Analysis of the Institutional System of the United States
Geo. E. Barton
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Washington D.C.
33.
Aug. 12, 1918
Our Part in the Great War
Arthur Gleason
Fred A. Stokes Co.
Washington D.C.
September 16, 1918
In the Days of the Guild
L. Lamprey
Children’s Stories of Medieval England
Fred A. Stokes Co.
Wilmington, Del.
October 14, 1918
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Novel
Elkton, Maryland
Nov. 4, 1918
The Enemy
Randolph and Lillian Chester
Temperance Novel
Novel
Wilmington, Delaware
34.
Nov. 6, 1918
Nobody’s Child (Sans Famille)
Translated from the French of Hector Malot by Florence Crew Jones
Cupples and Leon
Wilmington, Delaware
Nov. 7, 1917
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
Vachel Lindsay
Macmillan Company
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 10, 1918
The Negro in Art and Literature
B. G. Brawley
Exposition
Macmillan Co.
Wilmington, Del.
35.
Nov. 17, 1918
Travels with a Donkey
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel (Delicious)
Herbert B. Turner & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Nov. 23, 1918
The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Little, Brown & Co.
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
Dec. 1, 1918
Lucky Seven
John Taintor Foote
Short Stories
Wilmington, Del.
36.
Dec. 14, 1918
The Lifted Veil
Basil King
Novel
Harper Bros.
Wilmington, Del.
Dec. 15, 1918
Faulkner’s Folly
Carolyn Wells
Detective Novel
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Dec. 26, 1918
Ninety-Six Hour’s Leave
[Stephen] McKenna
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
1918 – 54
Fiction – 27
Essays & Travel – 9
Social Studies – 11
Poetry – 5
History – 2 / 54
Notes
[i] Phillip Francis du Pont de Nemours (1878-1928).
[ii] Crossed out by Dunbar-Nelson as a repeat entry.
[iii] Dunbar-Nelson was most likely referring to Walter C. Winston in this entry.
[iv] It is possible that Dunbar-Nelson recorded the wrong year for this entry. Judging from the other entries, 1918 is probably the correct year in which she read this title.
