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A Selected List of Important Fall Books

VOLTAIRE GENIUS OF MOCKERY

By Victor Thaddeus

Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty.   $5.00 NET

STIRABOUT

By David McCord

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For title to his newest book of essays, Mr. McCord goes to the old philosopher of "The Crock of Gold," and chooses as a motto on his title page that worthy's recurrent pliant, "there are lumps in it." The lumps in this literary Stirabout are various and many.   $2.50 NET

THIS BOOK-COLLECTING GAME

By A. Edward Newton

In This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knockouts," of the rewards and perils of the collectors life. With frontispiece in color and 133 illustrations in aquatone.   $5.00 NET

THE STORY OF ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY

By L. Adams Beck

A brilliant exposition for western minds of the lives and teachings of the philosophers of the East; their practical significance and their poetry; the amazing ramifications of their wisdom in science, art and the business of living.   $5.00 NET

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By Benito Mussolini

Mussolini has been a figure of mystery on the world stage. Yet of him we know little. What were his forebears like? What were the forces, the conditions of living, the secret fires of the man himself that made him II Duce, leader of Italy? Mussolini's s]tory is perhaps the most important public pronouncement by a world figure in many years.   $3.50 NET

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