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  1. [+]
    A Romantic Woman (Review)
    O Genteel Lady!, by Esther Forbes
    1. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    The Saturday Review, May 29, 1926, p. 823
  2. [+]
    Step Lively! (Review)
    Anne Cleeland
    O Genteel Lady!, by Esther Forbes
    1. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    The Forum, January 1927, pp. 160-166
  3. [+]
    Current Books (6 Reviews)
    Other Fiction
    1. Triumph by Leonie Aminoff
    2. The Enemy's Gates by Richmond Brooks Barrett
    3. Vainglory by Ronald Firbank
    4. Banzai! by John Paris
    5. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    6. It's Not Done by William C. Bullitt
    The Outlook, June 16, 1926, p. 256
  4. [+]
    Recent Fiction (7 Reviews)
    Banzai!, by John Paris
    1. Banzai! by John Paris
    2. Two or Three Graces by Aldous Huxley
    3. Odtaa by John Masefield
    4. The Fourth Queen by Isabel Paterson
    5. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    6. One Tree by A.M. Allen
    7. Spring Running by F.W. Bronson
    The New Republic, July 7, 1926, pp. 207-210
  5. [+]
    Short Cuts (13 Reviews)
    Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg, by Rebecca West and Carl Sandburg
    1. Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg by Rebecca West and Carl Sandburg
    2. Evolution and Religion in Education by Henry Fairfield Osborn
    3. A History of English Literature by Emile H. Legouis and Louis Cazamian
    4. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    5. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    6. Dry Martini by John Thomas
    7. The Dark Dawn by Martha Ostenso
    8. East Wind by Amy Lowell
    9. The Fight of a Book for the World by William Sloane Kennedy
    10. Candaules' Wife, and Other Old Stories by Emily James Putnam
    11. Havelock Ellis: A Biographical and Critical Survey by Isaac Goldberg
    12. The Spokesman's Secretary by Upton Sinclair
    13. Adventures in Editing by Charles Hanson Towne
    The Century Magazine, November 1926, p. 128
  6. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (50 Reviews)
    Juliet Is Twenty, by Jane Abbott
    1. Juliet Is Twenty by Jane Abbott
    2. Overheard by Ruby M. Ayres
    3. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    4. Walls of Glass by Larry Barretto
    5. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    6. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    7. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    8. The Incredulity of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
    9. Prose and Cons by Irvin S. Cobb
    10. The Tents of Jacob by Hyman Cohen
    11. They Had to See Paris by Homer Croy
    12. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    13. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    14. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    15. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
    16. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    17. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    18. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    19. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    20. Marchester Royal by J.S. Fletcher
    21. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    22. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    23. The Red Confessor by Nathan Gallizier
    24. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    25. The Unchanging Quest by Philip Gibbs
    26. Glass Houses by Eleanor Gizycka
    27. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
    28. Richard, Myrtle and I by Stephen Hudson
    29. The Old Home Town by Rupert Hughes
    30. Three Kingdoms by Storm Jameson
    31. Tom Fool by F. Tennyson Jesse
    32. The Great Valley by Mary Johnston
    33. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    34. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    35. The Wrong Letter by Walter S. Masterman
    36. Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley
    37. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    38. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    39. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    40. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    41. The Red Ledger by Frank L. Packard
    42. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    43. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    44. The Fulfilment of Daphne Bruno by Ernest Raymond
    45. The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
    46. Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling
    47. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    48. King of Dreams by G.R. Warmington
    49. The Wondering Moon by George Weston
    50. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    The Bookman, September 1926, pp. 89-90
  7. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (76 Reviews)
    The Crooked Lip, by Herbert Adams
    1. The Crooked Lip by Herbert Adams
    2. The Ninth Thermidor by Mark A. Aldanov
    3. The Cutters by Bess Streeter Aldrich
    4. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    5. The Lord of Labraz by Pio Baroja
    6. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    7. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    8. Susan Shane by Roger Burlingame
    9. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    10. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    11. Her Son's Wife by Dorothy Canfield
    12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
    13. Listen, Moon! by Leonard Cline
    14. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    15. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    16. An Old Man's Folly by Floyd Dell
    17. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    18. The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany
    19. The Testament of Dominic Burleigh by Godfrey Elton
    20. Red Earth by Jane England
    21. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    22. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    23. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    24. Hot Saturday by Harvey Fergusson
    25. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    26. Ways of Escape by Noel Forrest
    27. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    28. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    29. Labels by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    30. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    31. Code of Men by Homer King Gordon
    32. The Desert Thoroughbred by Jackson Gregory
    33. The Beckoning Glory by May Emery Hall
    34. Tampico by Joseph Hergesheimer
    35. The Unearthly by Robert S. Hichens
    36. The Golden Dancer by Cyril Hume
    37. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    38. The Great Valley by Mary Johnston
    39. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    40. Martha and Mary by J. Anker Larsen
    41. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    42. The Leper Ship by Isadore Lhevinne
    43. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    44. Fairy Gold by Compton Mackenzie
    45. The Loom of the Fool by Austin Macleod
    46. The Stooping Venus by Bruce Marshall
    47. Fraternity Row by Lynn Montross and Lois Montross
    48. The Glory of Egypt by Louis Moresby
    49. Pagan Mother by Arthur Mortimer
    50. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    51. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    52. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    53. The Celestial City by Baroness Orczy
    54. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    55. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    56. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    57. From Nine to Nine by Leo Perutz
    58. Circe's Island, and The Girl and the Faun by Eden Phillpotts
    59. The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke W. Pickthall
    60. Caleb Peaslee by Frank K. Rich
    61. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
    62. The Black Glove by J.G. Sarasin
    63. The Sun Woman by James Willard Schultz
    64. The Laughing Heart by Beatrice Sheepshanks
    65. Far End by May Sinclair
    66. Brawnyman by James Stevens
    67. Teeftallow by T.S. Stribling
    68. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    69. The Club of Masks by Allen Upward
    70. Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
    71. The Big House by Mildred Wasson
    72. Devices and Desires by Vera Wheatley
    73. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    74. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    75. The Mad Busman, and Other Stories by I.A.R. Wylie
    76. But in Our Lives by Francis Younghusband
    The Bookman, October 1926, pp. 219-221
  8. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (93 Reviews)
    The Veil of Glamour, by Clive Arden
    1. The Veil of Glamour by Clive Arden
    2. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    3. The Women of the Family by Margaret Culkin Banning
    4. Walls of Glass by Larry Barretto
    5. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    6. The Detective's Holiday by Charles Barry
    7. Her Mother's Daughter by Nalbro Bartley
    8. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    9. The Green Lacquer Pavilion by Helen Beauclerk
    10. Petenera's Daughter by Henry Bellamann
    11. Short Turns by Barry Benefield
    12. Lord Raingo by Arnold Bennett
    13. Almost Pagan by J.D. Beresford
    14. The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
    15. Sinister House by Charles G. Booth
    16. Mistress Nell Gwyn by Marjorie Bowen
    17. That Last Infirmity by Charles Brackett
    18. Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
    19. Tobey's First Case by Clara Louise Burnham
    20. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    21. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    22. The Man They Hanged by Robert W. Chambers
    23. The Lunatic in Charge by J. Storer Clouston
    24. Oklahoma by Courtney Ryley Cooper
    25. The Comedians by Louis Couperus
    26. The Beloved Rajah by A. Elsie Rundall Craig
    27. Dread Dwelling by Richmal Crompton
    28. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    29. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    30. My Son John by E.B. Dewing
    31. Less Than Kin by Charles Caldwell Dobie
    32. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    33. Our Doctors by Maurice Duplay
    34. Styrbiorn the Strong by E.R. Eddison
    35. Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim
    36. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    37. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    38. Summer Bachelors by Warner Fabian
    39. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    40. Daniel Quayne by J.S. Fletcher
    41. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    42. I Want to Be a Lady by Maximilian Foster
    43. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    44. Trail-Makers of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
    45. The West Wind by Crosbie Garstin
    46. Portia Marries by Jeannette Phillips Gibbs
    47. She Shall Have Music by Alyse Gregory
    48. Hilda Ware by L. Allen Harker
    49. The Triumphant Rider by Frances Forbes-Robertson Harrod
    50. Leif the Lucky by Clara Sharpe Hough
    51. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    52. The Blood of Kings by Reginald Wright Kauffman
    53. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    54. Tin Wedding by Margaret Leech
    55. Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
    56. The Big Mogul by Joseph C. Lincoln
    57. Perella by William J. Locke
    58. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    59. The Tenderfoots by Francis Lynde
    60. Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
    61. The Fortunes of Hugo by Denis Mackail
    62. The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
    63. The Entertaining Angel by Samuel Merwin
    64. The Dancer and the Friar by Eugene Metour
    65. Wayfarer by Kathleen Millay
    66. Cordelia Chantrell by Meade Minnigerode
    67. The Devil's Guard by Talbot Mundy
    68. Chevrons by Leonard H. Nason
    69. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    70. Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    71. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    72. Jig-Saw by Eden Phillpotts
    73. White Water by Robert E. Pinkerton
    74. John of Oregon by Daniel A. Poling
    75. The Unquenchable Flame by Arthur J. Rees
    76. The Secret that Was Kept by Elizabeth Robins
    77. Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini
    78. The Master of the Microbe by Robert W. Service
    79. A Manifest Destiny by Arthur D. Howden Smith
    80. The Bad Samaritan by Justin Sturm
    81. Dry Martini by John Thomas
    82. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    83. Jarnegan by Jim Tully
    84. The Left Lady by Margaret Turnbull
    85. Toro of the Little People by Leo Walmsley
    86. Harmer John by Hugh Walpole
    87. A Touch of Earth by Lella Warren
    88. The Corbin Necklace by Henry Kitchell Webster
    89. The World of William Clissold by H.G. Wells
    90. Gallant Lady by Margaret Widdemer
    91. The Painted Room by Margaret Wilson
    92. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    93. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    The Bookman, November 1926, pp. 345-348
  9. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (96 Reviews)
    Transatlantic Stories,
    1. Transatlantic Stories
    2. The Piper's Fee by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    3. Juve in the Dock by Marcel Allain
    4. One Tree by A.M. Allen
    5. Miss Tiverton Goes Out by Adelaide Champneys
    6. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    7. Glorious Apollo by E. Barrington
    8. Jacob's Well by Pierre Benoit
    9. Demigods by John Biggs, Jr.
    10. The Leading Lady by Geraldine Bonner
    11. The Stranger Within the Gates by C. Nina Boyle
    12. Glitter by Katharine Brush
    13. It's Not Done by William C. Bullitt
    14. Hangman's House by Donn Byrne
    15. The Silver Stallion by James B. Cabell
    16. The Pride of the Town by Dorothy Walworth Carman
    17. The Professor's House by Willa Cather
    18. Man Alone by George Agnew Chamberlain
    19. They Had to See Paris by Homer Croy
    20. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    21. A Man Under Authority by Ethel M. Dell
    22. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
    23. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    24. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    25. The High Adventure by Jeffery Farnol
    26. Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
    27. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    28. Masterson by Gilbert Frankau
    29. Treasure Royal by William Garrett
    30. Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    31. The Unchanging Quest by Philip Gibbs
    32. Glass Houses by Eleanor Gizycka
    33. Cuckoo by Douglas Goldring
    34. Heather Heretics by Marshall N. Goold
    35. The Vanishing American by Zane Grey
    36. Home Talent by Louise Closser Hale
    37. Simonetta Perkins by L.P. Hartley
    38. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Collin by Frank Heller
    39. Alison Vail by Elizabeth Newport Hepburn
    40. Adventure's Best Stories, 1926 by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman
    41. The Shoals of Honour by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
    42. The Order of the Octopus by Sydney Horler
    43. Appassionata by Fannie Hurst
    44. One Increasing Purpose by A.S.M. Hutchinson
    45. The Question Mark by Muriel Jaeger
    46. Three Kingdoms by Storm Jameson
    47. The Viaduct Murder by Ronald A. Knox
    48. Hill-Billy by Rose Wilder Lane
    49. The Love Nest, and Other Stories by Ring W. Lardner
    50. Proud Revelry by Amber Lee
    51. Cubwood by W.R. Sunderland Lewis
    52. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    53. The Three Students by Haldane Macfall
    54. Bittern Point by Virginia Macfadyen
    55. Odtaa by John Masefield
    56. The Final Count by H.C. McNeile
    57. Instruments of Darkness by Alice Duer Miller
    58. Rough Justice by C.E. Montague
    59. Hearts of Hickory by John Trotwood Moore
    60. Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley
    61. Whipped Cream by Geoffrey Moss
    62. The Crime at Vanderlynden's by R.H. Mottram
    63. The Secret Listeners of the East by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
    64. The Sacred Tree by Arthur Waley and Lady Murasaki
    65. Pig Iron by Charles G. Norris
    66. The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris
    67. West of Dodge by George W. Ogden
    68. The Golden Beast by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    69. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    70. The Sleeping Cat by Isabel Ostrander
    71. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
    72. The Fourth Queen by Isabel Paterson
    73. The Little Less by Aishie Pharall
    74. Turbott Wolfe by William Plomer
    75. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
    76. The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
    77. Wild Heart by Isabelle Sandy
    78. Plupy, Beany and Pewt: Contracters by Henry A. Shute
    79. Justice Walk by Constance Smedley
    80. What Is To Be by J.C. Snaith
    81. Urkey Island by Wilbur Daniel Steele
    82. That Fool of a Woman by Millicent Sutherland Bates
    83. Women by Booth Tarkington
    84. Treasure by Albert Payson Terhune
    85. Riders of the Wind by Elswyth Thane
    86. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    87. Mr. Bottleby Does Something by E. Temple Thurston
    88. The Blind Goddess by Arthur Train
    89. The Strange Countess by Edgar Wallace
    90. Secret Harbour by Stewart Edward White
    91. Flight by Walter Francis White
    92. The Cabala by Thornton Niven Wilder
    93. Sport of the Gods by Grove Wilson
    94. Cover Charge by Cornell Woolrich
    95. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    96. The Double Thirteen by Anthony Wynne
    The Bookman, June 1926, pp. 471-474
  10. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (96 Reviews)
    A Wild Goose of Limerick, by Achmed Abdullah
    1. A Wild Goose of Limerick by Achmed Abdullah
    2. The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen
    3. Desert: A Legend by Martin D. Armstrong
    4. The Blue Window by Temple Bailey
    5. Three Women by Faith Baldwin
    6. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
    7. The Two Sisters by H.E. Bates
    8. Padlocked by Rex Beach
    9. Mezzanine by E.F. Benson
    10. Singing Winds by Konrad Bercovici
    11. Highroads of Peril by Alfred H. Bill
    12. Return to Bondage by Barbara Blackburn
    13. Ann Lee's, and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen
    14. The Sun in Splendour by Thomas Burke
    15. The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    16. Her Son's Wife by Dorothy Canfield
    17. My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
    18. Sweepings by Lester Cohen
    19. The Black Hunter by James Oliver Curwood
    20. Ghost House by Foxhall Daingerfield
    21. Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
    22. A Brittle Heaven by Babette Deutsch
    23. The Proper Place by O. Douglas
    24. Galahad by John Erskine
    25. The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine
    26. After Noon by Susan Ertz
    27. Show Boat by Edna Ferber
    28. Mad Rapture by Elizabeth Irons Folsom
    29. Antennae by Hulbert Footner
    30. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
    31. Ways of Escape by Noel Forrest
    32. The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
    33. The Other Door by A Gentleman With A Duster
    34. Labels by A. Hamilton Gibbs
    35. The Elder Brother by Anthony Gibbs
    36. The Flame of Courage by George Gibbs
    37. The Romantic Comedians by Ellen Glasgow
    38. Backyard by Gloria Goddard
    39. Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
    40. The Cromer Street Chronicles by Norman Proctor Greig
    41. Marcabrun by Ramon Guthrie
    42. Half a Sovereign by Ian Hay
    43. Angel by DuBose Heyward
    44. False Face by Sydney Horler
    45. Mannequin by Fannie Hurst
    46. Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
    47. The Understanding Heart by Peter B. Kyne
    48. White Falcon by Harold Lamb
    49. The Big Mogul by Joseph C. Lincoln
    50. Perella by William J. Locke
    51. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
    52. The Black Angels by Maud Hart Lovelace
    53. The Quiet Lady by Agnes Mure Mackenzie
    54. The Allbrights by Archibald Marshall
    55. Mrs. Socrates by Fritz Mauthner
    56. The Price of Wisdom by Marjorie Barkley McClure
    57. Kindling and Ashes by George Barr McCutcheon
    58. Saviours of Society by Stephen McKenna
    59. The Colfax Book-Plate by Agnes Miller
    60. It Happened in Peking by Louise Jordan Miln
    61. Janet Thurso by Alexander Moray
    62. Indian Tales and Others by John G. Neihardt
    63. Hildegarde by Kathleen Norris
    64. The Spite of Heaven by Oliver Onions
    65. Harvey Garrard's Crime by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    66. Black Jack Davy by John M. Oskison
    67. Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso
    68. Stepchild of the Moon by Fulton Oursler
    69. A Daughter of Pan by Cornelia Stratton Parker
    70. Smith Everlasting by Dillwyn Parrish
    71. To-Morrow's Tangle by Margaret Pedler
    72. With Eastern Eyes by Ernest Poole
    73. Tish Plays the Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart
    74. Little Mrs. Manington by Cecil Roberts
    75. Devil-May-Care by Arthur Somers Roche
    76. The Pearl Thief by Berta Ruck
    77. Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini
    78. None But the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler
    79. Sabbatical Year by George Shively
    80. Before the Bombardment by Osbert Sitwell
    81. Snow and Steel by Girolamo Sommi-Picenardi
    82. The Bright Face of Danger by Clifford M. Sublette
    83. Iowa Interiors by Ruth Suckow
    84. Summer Storm by Frank Swinnerton
    85. The Hounds of Spring by Sylvia Thompson
    86. Page Mr. Tutt by Arthur Train
    87. The Ninth Wave by Carl Van Doren
    88. Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
    89. Here Are Lovers by Hilda Vaughan
    90. Tropic Death by Eric Walrond
    91. The Red-Haired Girl by Carolyn Wells
    92. Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
    93. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
    94. The Orphan Angel by Elinor Wylie
    95. Custody Children by Everett Young
    96. Heaven Trees by Stark Young
    The Bookman, December 1926, pp. 494-497