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The Midlander (1924)
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  1. [+]
    The Midlander (Review)
    William R. Langfeld
    The Midlander, by Booth Tarkington
    1. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    The Forum, May 1924, p. 702
  2. [+]
    Mr. Bok and World Peace (3 Reviews)
    C.V.D.
    The Midlander, by Booth Tarkington
    1. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    2. The Sun Field by Heywood Broun
    3. Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
    The Century Magazine, March 1924, pp. 799-800
  3. The Book Table
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    A Few Novels (4 Reviews)
    R.D. Townsend
    The Midlander, by Booth Tarkington
    1. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    2. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
    3. Jennifer Lorn by Elinor Wylie
    4. Vindication by Stephen McKenna
    The Outlook, January 30, 1924, p. 192
  4. [+]
    The Editor Recommends--- (5 Reviews)
    J.F.
    Our American Theatre, by Oliver M. Sayler
    1. Our American Theatre by Oliver M. Sayler
    2. Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor by Henry Holt
    3. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    4. Here You Have Me! by Robert Roe
    5. Sonnets of the Cross by Thomas S. Jones
    The Bookman, February 1924, pp. 678-679
  5. [+]
    Recent Fiction (7 Reviews)
    R.M.L.
    A Cure of Souls, by May Sinclair
    1. A Cure of Souls by May Sinclair
    2. A Simple Story by Charles-Louis Philippe
    3. The Pitiful Wife by Storm Jameson
    4. The Golden Cocoon by Ruth Cross
    5. The Hoarding by John Owen
    6. Satan's Bushel by Garet Garrett
    7. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    The New Republic, April 30, 1924, p. 266
  6. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (62 Reviews)
    Siege, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    1. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    2. The Savage by Mikhail Artzybasheff
    3. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    4. The Great House in the Park by Anna Robeson Burr
    5. The Divine Lady by E. Barrington
    6. The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield
    7. The Interpreter's House by Struthers Burt
    8. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
    9. The Lunatic Still at Large by J. Storer Clouston
    10. An Island Chronicle by William G. Cummings
    11. The Mystery of the Third Parrot by Marvin Dana
    12. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    13. The Pipers of the Market Place by Richard Dehan
    14. The Black Hood by Thomas Dixon
    15. Pink Sugar by O. Douglas
    16. Cattle by Winnifred Eaton (Onota Watonna)
    17. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    18. So Big by Edna Ferber
    19. A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett
    20. Deep Meadows by Margaret R. Larminie
    21. Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs
    22. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    23. The London Adventures of Mr. Collin by Frank Heller
    24. Re-Creations by Grace Livingston Hill
    25. The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
    26. The Golden Ladder by Rupert Hughes
    27. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    28. Recompense by Robert Keable
    29. The Philosopher's Stone by J. Anker Larsen
    30. Broken Bridges by Madeline Linford
    31. Tongues of Flame by Peter Clark Macfarlane
    32. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    33. The Education of Anthony Dare by Archibald Marshall
    34. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    35. High Fires by Marjorie Barkley McClure
    36. Pandora Lifts the Lid by Christopher Morley and Don Marquis
    37. The Callahans and the Murphys by Kathleen Norris
    38. The Wrath to Come by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    39. Imperturbe by Elliot H. Paul
    40. The Barbarian Lover by Margaret Pedler
    41. The Avalanche by Ernest Poole
    42. Atavar by Arthur B. Reeve
    43. Shadows That Pass by Otto Rung
    44. Andorra by Isabelle Sandy
    45. The Test of Donald Norton by Robert Eugene Pinkerton
    46. Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini
    47. Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
    48. The Richest Man by Edward Shanks
    49. The Gray Beginning by Edward Shenton
    50. Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms by Harriet Lummis Smith
    51. A City Out of the Sea by Alfred B. Stanford
    52. Empty Hands by Arthur Stringer
    53. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    54. Quinney's Adventures by Horace Annesley Vachell
    55. Deep in the Hearts of Men by Mary E. Waller
    56. The Dream by H.G. Wells
    57. Captains All by Albert Richard Wetjen
    58. Old New York by Edith Wharton
    59. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    60. Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
    61. Against the Tide by John Wycliffe
    62. Ancient Fires by I.A.R. Wylie
    The Bookman, August 1924, pp. 726-728
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    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (63 Reviews)
    Siege, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    1. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    2. Success by Leonie Aminoff
    3. Nightshade by Anonymous
    4. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    5. Fidelia by Edwin Balmer
    6. Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
    7. The Prisoner Who Sang by Johan Bojer
    8. Captain Shapely by Harold Brighouse
    9. The Interpreter's House by Struthers Burt
    10. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
    11. On the Lot and Off by George Randolph Chester
    12. Eve's Lover, and Other Stories by William Kingdon Clifford
    13. The Rover by Joseph Conrad
    14. Confusion by James Gould Cozzens
    15. I'll Show You the Town by Elmer H. Davis
    16. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    17. The Eleventh Virgin by Dorothy Day
    18. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    19. So Big by Edna Ferber
    20. Gerald Cranston's Lady by Gilbert Frankau
    21. The King of No Man's Land by Arthur O. Friel
    22. Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs
    23. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    24. Waste by Robert Herrick
    25. The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
    26. Mother of Gold by Emerson Hough
    27. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    28. Till A' the Seas Gang Dry by John Innes
    29. Recompense by Robert Keable
    30. Never the Twain Shall Meet by Peter B. Kyne
    31. A Perfect Day by Bohun Lynch
    32. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    33. Prunello by S.P.B. Mais
    34. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    35. The Cook and the Captain Bold by Arthur Mason
    36. Race by William McFee
    37. Vindication by Stephen McKenna
    38. Defeat by Geoffrey Moss
    39. Bread by Charles G. Norris
    40. Butterfly by Kathleen Norris
    41. The Callahans and the Murphys by Kathleen Norris
    42. The Best Short Stories of 1923 by Edward J. O'Brien
    43. The Wrath to Come by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    44. Sayonara by John Paris
    45. Lights Along the Ledges by Elisabeth Stancy Payne
    46. The Barbarian Lover by Margaret Pedler
    47. The Test of Donald Norton by Robert Eugene Pinkerton
    48. Desert Feud by William MacLeod Raine
    49. The Leap Year Girl by Berta Ruck
    50. Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
    51. A Cure of Souls by May Sinclair
    52. There Is a Tide by J.C. Snaith
    53. Empty Hands by Arthur Stringer
    54. Young Felix by Frank Swinnerton
    55. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    56. The Gay Ones by Charles Hanson Towne
    57. The Passion Flower by Edna Worthley Underwood
    58. The Traveller in the Fur Cloak by Stanley J. Weyman
    59. Oh, Doctor! by Harry Leon Wilson
    60. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    61. Pandora La Croix by Gene Wright
    62. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
    63. Ann's an Idiot by Pamela Wynne
    The Bookman, June 1924, pp. 454-456
  8. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (72 Reviews)
    Prize Stories of 1923,
    1. Prize Stories of 1923
    2. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    3. These Charming People by Michael Arlen
    4. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    5. Rapture by Richmond Brooks Barrett
    6. Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
    7. Visible and Invisible by E.F. Benson
    8. King Tommy by George A. Birmingham
    9. Mince Collop Close by George Blake
    10. The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield
    11. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
    12. Bright Lights by Robert Orr Chipperfield
    13. The Dear Pretender by Alice Ross Colver
    14. The Street of Many Arches by Joan Conquest and Gwen Lally
    15. The Rover by Joseph Conrad
    16. The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
    17. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    18. Triumph by Helen Marion Edginton
    19. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    20. So Big by Edna Ferber
    21. Prancing Nigger by Ronald Firbank
    22. Guilt by Henry James Forman
    23. Gerald Cranston's Lady by Gilbert Frankau
    24. Stories from "The Midland" by John T. Frederick
    25. Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs
    26. Six Days by Elinor Glyn
    27. Seacoast of Bohemia by Louis Golding
    28. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    29. Without Gloves by James B. Hendryx
    30. The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
    31. Mother of Gold by Emerson Hough
    32. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    33. Down There: A Study in Satanism by Joris-Karl Huysmans
    34. The Pitiful Wife by Storm Jameson
    35. Christopher Columbus by Johannes V. Jensen
    36. Blue Blood by Owen Johnson
    37. The Lady of Pentlands by Elizabeth Jordan
    38. The Steadfast Heart by Clarence Budington Kelland
    39. The Happy Isles by Basil King
    40. Never the Twain Shall Meet by Peter B. Kyne
    41. Doomsland by Shane Leslie
    42. Doctor Nye of North Ostable by Joseph C. Lincoln
    43. John-no-Brawn by George Looms
    44. Here Comes the Sun! by Emilie Loring
    45. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    46. The Mystery Woman by Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry
    47. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    48. Hazard by Nancy Barr Mavity
    49. Vindication by Stephen McKenna
    50. Bull-Dog Drummond's Third Round by Herman Cyril McNeile
    51. Half Gods by Lynn Montross
    52. Bread by Charles G. Norris
    53. Butterfly by Kathleen Norris
    54. The Best Short Stories of 1923 by Edward J. O'Brien
    55. The Honourable Jim by Emmuska Orczy
    56. Old Misery by Hugh Pendexter
    57. Easy by Nina Wilcox Putnam
    58. Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
    59. The Inverted Pyramid by Bertrand W. Sinclair
    60. A Cure of Souls by May Sinclair
    61. Mrs. Phelps' Husband by Adriana Spadoni
    62. Coffins for Two by Vincent Starrett
    63. Empty Hands by Arthur Stringer
    64. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    65. The Education of Peter by John Wiley
    66. I, the King by Wayland Wells Williams
    67. Oh, Doctor! by Harry Leon Wilson
    68. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    69. Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
    70. A Poet's Youth by Margaret L. Woods
    71. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
    72. Ann's an Idiot by Pamela Wynne
    The Bookman, May 1924, pp. 335-337
  9. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (72 Reviews)
    Siege, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    1. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    2. For Love of a Sinner by Robert Gordon Anderson
    3. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    4. Sandoval by Thomas Beer
    5. The Gardens of Omar by Henry Bordeaux
    6. The Gaol by Paul Bourget
    7. The Interpreter's House by Struthers Burt
    8. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
    9. Apes and Angels by Richard Connell
    10. The Rover by Joseph Conrad
    11. The New Candide by John Cournos
    12. The Golden Cocoon by Ruth Cross
    13. The Saint of the Speedway by Ridgwell Cullum
    14. Wandering Stars by Clemence Dane
    15. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    16. New Friends in Old Chester by Margaret Deland
    17. Saint Magloire by Roland Dorgeles
    18. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    19. Mariflor by Concha Espina
    20. There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset
    21. So Big by Edna Ferber
    22. None So Blind by Albert Parker Fitch
    23. The Mazaroff Mystery by J.S. Fletcher
    24. Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs
    25. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    26. Undream'd of Shores by Frank Harris
    27. Fulfillment by Elizabeth Newport Hepburn
    28. Hetty Geybert by Georg Hermann
    29. Re-Creations by Grace Livingston Hill
    30. Mother of Gold by Emerson Hough
    31. Tony by Stephen Hudson
    32. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    33. The Pitiful Wife by Storm Jameson
    34. Recompense by Robert Keable
    35. La Dame de Sainte Hermine by Grace King
    36. Never the Twain Shall Meet by Peter B. Kyne
    37. How to Write Short Stories by Ring W. Lardner
    38. The Philosopher's Stone by J. Anker Larsen
    39. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    40. Tongues of Flame by Peter Clark Macfarlane
    41. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    42. Mirage by Edgar Lee Masters
    43. High Fires by Marjorie Barkley McClure
    44. Race by William McFee
    45. Pandora Lifts the Lid by Christopher Morley and Don Marquis
    46. The Comely Lass by Thomas Moult
    47. An Old-Fashioned Romance by Alma Newton
    48. Bread by Charles G. Norris
    49. The Callahans and the Murphys by Kathleen Norris
    50. The Wrath to Come by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    51. The Shoreless Sea by Mollie Panter-Downes
    52. Jenny the Joyous by Cornelia Stratton Parker
    53. All to Seek by Diana Patrick
    54. Desert Feud by William MacLeod Raine
    55. The Fortunes of a Household by Herman Robbers
    56. Wine of Fury by Leigh Rogers
    57. Bardelys the Magnificent by Rafael Sabatini
    58. Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
    59. The Long Arm of Fantomas by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
    60. Red Sand by T.S. Stribling
    61. Empty Hands by Arthur Stringer
    62. Country People by Ruth Suckow
    63. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    64. Fraycar's Fist by Mary Heaton Vorse
    65. Gold by Jacob Wassermann
    66. The Dream by H.G. Wells
    67. Old New York by Edith Wharton
    68. Thrice Told Tales by Blanche Colton Williams
    69. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    70. Golf Without Tears by P.G. Wodehouse
    71. Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
    72. Ann's an Idiot by Pamela Wynne
    The Bookman, July 1924, pp. 585-587
  10. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (73 Reviews)
    Siege, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    1. Siege by Samuel Hopkins Adams
    2. Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton
    3. Judd and Judd by Nalbro Bartley
    4. Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
    5. The Fir and the Palm by Elizabeth Bibesco
    6. Crazy Man by Maxwell Bodenheim
    7. The Eagle's Wing by B.M. Bower
    8. The Heights by Marguerite Bryant
    9. A Gentleman in Pajamas by Charles Neville Buck
    10. You Too by Roger Burlingame
    11. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
    12. The Gaspards of Pine Croft. by Ralph Connor
    13. The Rover by Joseph Conrad
    14. Temper by Lawrence H. Conrad
    15. The Last Frontier by Courtney Ryley Cooper
    16. The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood
    17. Good Hunting by Norman Davey
    18. The Coast of Folly by Coningsby Dawson
    19. Henry Brocken by Walter de la Mare
    20. One Little Boy by Hugh de Selincourt
    21. Madame Claire by Susan Ertz
    22. Two Women by J. George Frederick
    23. Flaming Youth by Warner Fabian
    24. The Safety Pin by J.S. Fletcher
    25. Strait Is the Gate by Andre Gide
    26. The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
    27. The Blindness of Virtue by Cosmo Hamilton
    28. Children of the Age by Knut Hamsun
    29. Inner Darkness by Ethelda Daggett Hesser
    30. The Last Time by Robert Hichens
    31. The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
    32. Mother of Gold by Emerson Hough
    33. Lummox by Fannie Hurst
    34. The Steadfast Heart by Clarence Budington Kelland
    35. The Sea by Bernhard Kellermann
    36. The Happy Isles by Basil King
    37. Broken Butterflies by Henry Walsworth Kinney
    38. Never the Twain Shall Meet by Peter B. Kyne
    39. Doctor Nye of North Ostable by Joseph C. Lincoln
    40. The Lengthened Shadow by William J. Locke
    41. Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
    42. Moleskin Joe by Patrick MacGill
    43. Summertime by Denis Mackail
    44. The Parson's Progress by Compton Mackenzie
    45. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
    46. The Plastic Age by Percy Marks
    47. Vindication by Stephen McKenna
    48. Are Parents People? by Alice Duer Miller
    49. A Hind Let Loose by C.E. Montague
    50. Bread by Charles G. Norris
    51. Butterfly by Kathleen Norris
    52. Souls in Hell by John O'Neill
    53. Michael's Evil Deeds by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    54. Annihilation by Isabel Ostrander
    55. The Dark Swan by Ernest Pascal
    56. A Simple Story by Charles-Louis Philippe
    57. Cheat-the-Boys by Eden Phillpotts
    58. The White Flag by Gene Stratton-Porter
    59. The Book of Blanche by Dorothy Richardson
    60. Stairway of the Sun by Robert W. Ritchie
    61. Fortune's Fool by Rafael Sabatini
    62. Mock Majesty by E.W. Savi
    63. A Cure of Souls by May Sinclair
    64. The Garden of Peril by Cynthia Stockley
    65. The Midlander by Booth Tarkington
    66. Treve by Albert Payson Terhune
    67. The Long Walk of Samba Diouf by Jerome Tharaud and Jean Tharaud
    68. The Scarlet Iris by Vance Thompson
    69. The Furthest Fury by Carolyn Wells
    70. A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
    71. Oh, Doctor! by Harry Leon Wilson
    72. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
    73. The Mine with the Iron Door by Harold Bell Wright
    The Bookman, April 1924, pp. 207-209