129.
1925
Jan. 14
The Mother’s Recompense
Edith Wharton
Novel. Serial – Pictorial Review
Wilmington
Jan. 15
Simon Called Peter
Robert Keable
E. P. Dutton
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
Jan. 19
The Soul of the City: An Urban Anthology
Compiled by Garland Greever and Joseph Bachelor
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Poems
Wilm. Del.
Jan. 26
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Joseph Conrad
Doubleday-Page –
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
130.
Feb. 1
So Big
Edna Ferber
Doubleday-Page
Novel
Wilmington, Del.
Feb. 4
Green Thursday
Julia Peterkin
Alfred A. Knopf
Short Stories – Negro Peasant – like Russian stories.
Wilm. Del.
Feb. 11
Sara Crewe
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Putnam’s Sons
Child’s Novelette
Marshallton, Del.
Feb. 17
Recompense
Robert Keable
E. P. Dutton
Novel
Wilm. Del.
131.
Feb. 19
A Parody Outline on History
Daniel Ogden Stewart
Satirical Narrative
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Feb. 27
Jeremy & Hamlet
Hugh Walpole
Geo. H. Doran
Novelette
Wilmington, Del.
March 1
Oh, Doctor!
Harry Leon Wilson
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Novel
Wilm. Del.
March 3
The Black Eyed Puppy
Katherine Pyle
Scribner’s
Dog Story
Marshallton, Del.
132.
March 20
The Quaint Companions
Leonard Merrick
E. P. Dutton Co.
Novel of Miscegenation in England. Roland Hayes evidently the prototype.
Wilm. Del.
March 21
Soundings
Arthur Hamilton Gibbs
Serial Novel in The Forum
On train between W’ton and Baltimore[i]
March 25
God’s Stepchildren
Sara[h] Gertrude Millin
Boni & Liveright
Another Negro Story all about South Africa’s miscegenation problem – Hottentots and missionaries.
W’ton. Del.
March 29
Julie Cane
Harvey O’Higgins
Harper & Brothers
Freud novelized
W’ton, Del.
133.
April 3
Mary Rose
J. M. Barrie
Drama. Weird, fanciful propounding of the question – should one return?
Chas. Scribner’s
W’ton. Del.
April 21
The Jordans
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Novel – South African (white)
Boni & Liveright
W’ton. Del.
April 28
Children of Chance
Anthony Carlyle
Novel
Houghton Mifflin Co.
W’ton. Del.
May 18
My Lady’s Garter
Jacques Futrelle
Detective Novel
A. L. Burt Co.
Wilm. Del.
134.
May 17
The Step on the Stair
Anna Katherine Green
Detective Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
May 21
The Orange Divan
Valentine Williams
Detective Novel
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Marshallton, Del.
May 27
Rippling Ruby
J. S. Fletcher
Detective Novel
Putnam Sons.
Marshallton, Del.
May 31
3 Plays [ii]
Granny Maumee
The Rider of Dreams
Simon The Cyrenian
Ridgely Torrence
Drama
Macmillan Co.
Wilmington
135.
May 31
The Lighted Way
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 4
The Crystal Stopper
Maurice Le Blanc
Detective Novel – Arsene Lupin Series
Caldwell & Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 6
Mrs. Paramor
Louis Joseph Vance
E. P. Dutton & Co.
Novel
Wilm. Del.
June 9
The Child: His Nature and His Needs
Edited by M. V. O’Shea
Survey of present day knowledge concerning child nature.
The Children’s Foundation
Wilm. Del.
136.
June 12
Aces: A Collection to Short Stories
Compiled by the Community Workers of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind
Dorothy Canfield, Octavus Roy Cohen, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, Bruno Lessing, Kathleen Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Benjamin R. Sher, G. B. Stern, Thyra Samter Winslow, Israel Zangwill
Wilm. Del.
June 13
Mistress Wilding
Rafael Sabatini
Novel
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 13
The Inevitable Millionaires
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Novel
Little, Brown & Co.
Wilm. Del.
137.
June 14
One Act Plays
Christopher Morley
Collection of 6 one act plays
Drama
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 19
The Little Warrior
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Novel
A. L. Burt Co.
Wilm. Del.
June 19
The King vs. Wargrave
J. S. Fletcher
Novel
Alfred A. Knopf
Wilm. Del.
June 28
Half a Rogue
Harold MacGrath
Novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilm. Del.
138.
June 30
The House Without a Key
Earle Derr Biggars
Novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 3
Empty Hands
Arthur Stringer
Novel
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
Wilm. Del.
July 8
Dust of New York
Konrad Bercovici
Short Stories
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
July 9
Charis Sees it Through
Margaret Widdemer
Novel
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Wilm. Del.
139.
July 10
The Crystal Cup
Gertrude Atherton
Novel
Serial Pictorial Review
Wilm. Del.
July 14
Five One Act Comedies
Lawrence Langer
Stewart Kidd Co,
Drama
Wilm. Del.
July 14
The New Spoon River
Edgar Lee Masters
Poetry
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
July 16
Sam of the Suburbs [iii]
P. G. Wodehouse
Novel. Serial. Sat. Eveg .Post.
Wilm. Del.
140.
July 20
Martha
Percy Marks
Century Co.
Novel
Story of half breed Indian Girl – inevitable “back to the blanket” stuff [iv]
Greensboro, N.C.
July 21
The Twenty-Fourth of June
Grace S. Richmond
A. L. Burt & Co.
Novel
Greensboro, N.C.
July 29
The Magic Tale of Harvanger and Yolande
G. P. Baker
Medieval Narrative
Geo. H. Doran Co.
Greensboro, N. C.
Aug. 1
$1200 a Year
Edna Ferber & Newman Levy
Drama
Doubleday, Page & Co.
Greensboro, N. C.
Aug. 3
The Professor’s House
Willa Cather
Novel. Serial Collier’s Weekly
Wilmington, Delaware
141.
Aug. 5
The Guardsman
Franz [Ferenc] Molnár
Drama
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 6
Jean Hugenot
Stephen Vincent Benet
Novel
Henry Holt & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 7
Black Cameos
R. Emmet Kennedy
Short Stories of Louisiana in Gretna “across the river.”
A. C. Boni
Wilm. Del.
Aug. 13
Howard’s End
E. M. Forster
Novel
Alfred A. Knopf
Irritating book. Edith & Laura might have Margaret & Helen.
Marshallton, Del.
142.
Aug. 13
Humdrum House?
Maximilian Foster
Novel of Adventure
D. Appleton & Co.
Wilmington, Del.
Aug. 17
Richard
Marguerite Bryant
Novel
Exceedingly interesting story of an escaped convict whose father was a judge.
Duffield & Co.
W’ton, Del.
Aug. 18
The Three of Clubs
Valentine Williams
Novel
Secret Service European stuff.
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 4
The Best Poems of 1924
Selected by Thomas Moult
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Poetry
Wilm. Del.
143.
Sept. 10
The Coming of Amos
William J. Locke
Novel
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 20
The Five Great Philosophies of Life
William de Witt Hyde (Pres. Bowdoin College)
Philosophy
Macmillan Co.
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 21
Hare and the Tortoise
Pierre Coalfleet
Serial Novel – Forum
Wilm. Del.
Sept. 29
Fires of Ambition
George Gibbs
Appleton
Novel
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 5
White Fire
Louis Joseph Vance
Serial Novel. Collier’s
Wilm. Del.
144.
Oct. 8
The Singing Bone
R. Austin Freeman
Detective Short Stories
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Marshallton, Del.
Oct. 18
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Novel (Stunning! Gripping!)
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
Wilm. Del.
Oct. 30
The Beggar on Horseback
Geo. S. Kaufman & Marc Connelly
Drama
Boni & Liveright
Marshallton, Del.
Oct. 30
Wild Geese
Martha Ostenso
Serial Novel ($13,000 prize) Pictorial Review
Wilmington, Del.
145.
Nov. 9
The Well Dressed Woman
Anne Rittenhouse
Harper Bros.
Exposition
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 1
The Children Who Followed the Piper
Padriac Colman
Macmillan Co.
Fairy Story
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 7
The Complete Limerick Book
Langford Reed
Putman Co.
Poetry
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 10
The Plastic Age
Percy Marks
Century Co.
Novel of boys college life. Fine.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 12
Making Over Martha
Julie M. Lippman
Grosset & Dunlap
Novel
Wilm. Del.
146.
Dec. 13
The Book of Life
Robert Collier
Applied Psychology (7 small vols.)
Robt. Collier. Published.
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 17
Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O’Neill
Drama
Boni & Liveright
Wilm. Del.
Dec. 18
Feats of the Fiord
Harriet Martineau
Novel
L.C. Page & Co.
Marshallton, Del.
1925
73 Books Read [v]
Fiction – 47
History
Poetry – 4
Drama – 8
Children – 3
Short Stories – 5
Philosophy – 2
Satire – 1
Professional – 1
Unclass. – 1
[i] Dunbar-Nelson, it seems, uses “W’ton” as alternative abbreviation for Wilmington, Delaware.
[ii] The actual subtitle of this publication is Plays for a Negro Theater; the author himself, however, was not of African American descent.
[iii] The actual title is Sam in the Suburbs.
[iv] “Back to the blanket” is an antiquated expression that roughly refers to the return of an indigenous person or people to a homeland or reservation environment.
[v] Dunbar-Nelson’s count is off by one here. The correct sum would have been seventy-two books read.
