44 Here are bits of actual comment on this amazing book-from stenographer, debutante, artist, bride, divorcée, grandmother: "Don't see how she knows just what happened to me!" "Expresses all the inside feelings you have but can't put into words yourself." "It just struck home-I seemed to read myself on every page." "Hits the high spots of a girl's life all the way through." ""Pattern' ought to have a telling effect on marriage in general-it will help straighten out some of the tangles!" "Pre-eminently the woman's book of this generation." Ring Lardner retells the story of Bluebeard in WHAT OF IT? Brief burlesque plays-three of which have been called "funnier than anything he has ever donemad, wild, gorgeous nonsense”; comments on the manners and customs of the time; satirical fairytales; the narrative of Ring Lardner's recent trip to Europe, etc.— such are the varied and highly enjoyable contents of this book. "In it will be found his best magazine writing, fiction excluded, of the past three years. . . . Four different brands of humor, ranging from the lowest to the highest degrees of hokum burlesque, humorous fancy, sentimental conceit, and lunatic nonsense." - LAURENCE STALLINGS in the New York World. $1.75 CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK In writing to advertisers please mention SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE THE GREAT GATSBY LAURENCE STALLINGS in the New York World: "If you are interested in the American novel this is a book for your list.... "The Great Gatsby' is no spontaneous burst of erratic divertisement proffered with an insolent grace. It is a novel written with pace and fine attention. Above all, handling the most exaggerated social scheme in the New World, it never once overdoes the thing. . . . It is the first authentic book, from the civilized point of view, upon the scene it surveys." LLEWELLYN JONES in the Chicago Evening Post: "F. Scott Fitzgerald has got his second wind, and the people who were dolefully shaking their heads over him some time ago are going to be fooled. "The Great Gatsby' is written with all the brilliancy and beauty that we associate with youth and with a sense of spiritual values that is sincere and mature." WILLIAM ROSE BENET in the Saturday Review of Literature: "Certainly the best novel Scott has yet written. You can't lay it down, as they say, and the characters are all alive and convincing. Chapter II is masterly realism, and the last chapters of the story, involving such melodrama as you realize life involves . . . are most satisfyingly and ironically handled. There are passages through the book that stir one's admiration for Fitzgerald's remarkable natural facility as a concatenator of phrase. Certain felicities have not been achieved by taking thought-the words coruscate with the spontaneous spark." EDWIN CLARK in the New York Times Book Review: sen "Whimsical magic and simple pathos that is realized with economy and restraint sitive insight and keen psychological observation. A curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of to-day. It takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been essayed by Mr. Fitzgerald. He writes well-he always has-for he writes naturally, and his sense of form is becoming perfected." ISABEL PATERSON in Books, New York Herald Tribune: "Convincing testimony that Mr. Fitzgerald is an artist. . . . It is beautifully and delicately balanced. . . . An almost perfectly fulfilled intention. There is not one accidental phrase in it, nor yet one obvious or blatant line. . . . His virtuosity is amazing. He gets the exact tone, the note, the shade of the season and place he is working on; he is more contemporary than any newspaper." $2.00 at all bookstores CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK In writing to advertisers please mention SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE 45 daughter By Robert Grant "Robert Grant . . . is at the perfect maturity of his powers. This is especially noteworthy because the book has a distinct theme, or object of attack-American divorce. . . . To be both wise and gay about it, to find in it the substance of heart-easing mirth, is a feat for the major satirist. And this is the feat now performed in 'The Bishop's Granddaughter."-New York Sun. $2.00 Red Hair and Blue Sea By Stanley R. Osborn A thrilling romance of modern piracy in the South Seas, centring about the capture of Palmyra Tree, who craved adventure, from her family and her two suitors, and the long and thrilling flight from the brig, The Pigeon of Noah, and its cunning captain. 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DRUMS Fourth large printing. $2.50 "The finest novel of the American Revolution which has yet been written. Among past contenders for the honor we recall none that can seriously challenge the supremacy of 'Drums.' . . . The task, attempted by so many pens unequal to it, has apparently been accomplished with flawless and masterly skill. . . . When writing can exalt us as this did, we marvel and are filled with awe. . . . Its gift for evoking the life of that distant decade creates an illusion of reality such as we have never seen surpassed." -E. C. BECKWITH in The Literary Review. "The most impressive début in American fiction since Ernest Poole's appearance with 'The Har- 'Drums' is a novel nobody inter -SIDNEY WILLIAMS in the Philadelphia North American. "Mr. Boyd has pictured the growth of a national spirit, with its false steps and its true, in a style that enthralls and inspires. . . . 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