1931 (Continued)

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.

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