The Photo-Play Journal (Jul 1919-Feb 1921)

■ra* The Public Approves Less than two years ago. the Modern Library of the World's. Best Books made its appearance with twelve titles. It was immediately recognized, to quote the Neu: York Times, "as filling a need that is not quite covered hy any other publication in the field just now." The Dial hastened to say "The moderns put their best foot forward in the Modern Library. There is scarcely a title that fails to awaken interest and the series is doubly welcome at this time." A week or so after the publication of the first titles, the Independent wrote: "The Modern Library is another step in the very right direction of putting good books into inexpensive form," and the clever Editor of the Chicago Daily Neics, in a long review, concluded "The Modern Library astonishes the cynical with the excellence of its choice of titles. You could stand before a stack of these books, shut your eyes and pick out the right one every time." Despite the unanimous enthusiasm of the foremost literacy critics, we regarded the Modern Library as an experiment. In fact, in publishing circles it was considered impossible to continue the sale of these a .tractive Hand Bound Limp Crof Heather books, printed in large clear type on good paper, at any price under One Dollar a volume. But the large number of intelligent book buyers, a much larger group than is popularly supposed by the parlor cynic, has not only made possible the continuation of this fine series at the low price of Seventy Cents a volume, but has enabled us to progressively make it a better and more comprehensive collection. There are now Sixty Pour titles in ' the series and from eight to twenty new ones are being added each Spring and Pall. And in mechanical excellence the books have been constantly improvedHorace Brodzky's interesting end pages and decorated title pages in the new volumes greatly add to the aesthetic enjoyment of these books. Many distinguished American and foreign authors have said that the Modern Library is one of the most stimulating factors in American intellectual life. Practically everybody who knows anything about good books owns a number of copies of the Modern Library and generally promises himself to own them all. One of the largest book stores in the country reports that more copies of the Modern Library are purchased for gifts than any other books now being issued. The sweep of world events has, of course, been a contributing influence to our success. Purposeful reading is taking the place of miscellaneous dabbling in literature, and the Modern Library is being almost daily recommended by notable educators as a representative library of modern thought. Many of our titles are being placed on college lists for supplementary.reading ; they are being continuously purchased by the A. L. A. for Government camps and schools and we venture to predict that before long a million copies of the Modern Library will be bought each year in the United States. The following list of titles (together wittitheJist of introductions written especially for the Modern Library) indicates that our use of the term "Modern" does not necessarily mean written within the last few years. Voltaire is certainly a modern of moderns, as are Samuel Butler, Francois Villon, Theophile Gautier and Francis Thompson. Many of the books in the Modern Library are not reprints, but are new books which cannot be found in any other edition. None of them can be had in any such convenient and attractive form. It would be difficult to find any other editions of any of these books at double the price. They can be purchased wherever books are sold or you can use the coupon at the bottom of the list of titles and get them from us. LIST OF TITLES Baudelaire Flowers »f Evil and Prose Poems Gertrude Atherton Rezansv Introduction by Win. Marion Reedy 72 De Maupassant Love and Other Stories Edited and t-ranslrted with introduction by Michael Mona'nzn 73 Best Glnst Stories introduction by Arthur B. Reeve 74 Complete Works of Ernest Dowson Introduction by Arthur Symons 75 W. L. George A Bed of Roses Introduction by Edgar Saltus ,76 E. and J. de Goncourt Renee Mauperin Introduction by Emile Zola 77 Leo Tolstoy Redemption and Other Plays 10 Oscar Wilde August Strindberg Kipling Stevenson H. G. Wells New preface by H. G. Henrik Ibsen Dorian Gray Married Soldiers Three Treasure Island The War in the Air Wells for this edition A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People Anatole France The Red Lily De Maupassant Mademoiselle Fifi, etc. Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra Introduction by Fran Foerstcr-Nietzsche Dostoyevsky Poor People Introduction by Thomas Seltzer Maeterlinck A Miracle of St. Antony, etc. Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism Introduction by T. B. Saunders Sain"-' D«tler The Way of All Flesh lith Diana of the Crossways iction by Arthur Symons An Unsocial Socialist Confessions of a Young Man uction by Floyd Dell The Mayor of Casterbridge ■Hon by loyce Kilmer Best Russian Short Stories Poems Beyond Good and Evil Villard Huntington Wright 21 Turgenev Fathers and Sons Introduction by Thomas Seltzer 22 Anatole France Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Introduction by Lafcadio Hearn 23 Swinburne Poems Introduction by Ernest Rhys 25 Wm. Dean Howells A Hazard of New Fortunes Introduction by Alexander Harvey 26 W. S. Gilbert The Mikado and Other Plays Introduction by Clarence Day, Jr. 27 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica 28 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 30 James Stephens Mary, Mary Introduction by Padraic Colum 31 Anton Chekhov Rothschild's Fiddle, Other Stories 32 Arthur Schnitzler Anatol and Other Plays Introduction by Ashley Dukes 33 Sudermann Dame Care 34 Lord Dunsany A Dreamer's Tales Introduction by Padraic Colum 35 G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday 36 Henrik Ibsen Hedela Gabler, Pillars of Society. The Master Builder Introduction by H. L. Mencken 37 Haeckel, Thomson, Weismann, etc. Evolution In Modern Thought Complete Poems Bertha Garlan Short Stories 38 Francis Thompson 39 Arthur Schnitzler 40 Balzac 41 The Art of Rodin 64 Black and White Reproductions Introduction by Louis Weinberg 42 The Art of Aubrey Beardsley 64 Black and White Reproductions Introduction by Arthur Symons 43 Lord Dunsany Book of Wonder 44 W. B. Yeats Irish Fairy and Folk Tales 45 Leonid Andreyev The Seven That Were Hanged and The Red Laugh Introduction by Thomas Seltzer 46 George Gissing Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Introduction by Paul Elmer More 47 Voltaire Candide Introduction by Philip Littell 48 Maxim Gorky Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories Introduction by G. K. Chesterton 49 Max Stirner The Ego And His Own 50 Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson Introduction by Francis Hackctt 51 Edward Carpenter Love's Coming of Age 52 August Strindberg Miss Julie and Other Plays 53 Theophile Gautier Mile, de Maupin. 54 Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The League of Youth 55 Woodrow Wilson Selected Addresses and Public Papers Compiled and Edited with Introduction by Albert Bushncll Hart 56 John Macy The Spirit of American Literature 57 De Maupassant Une Vie Introduction by Henry James 5S Francois Villon Poems Introduction by John Payne 59 Ellen Key, Havelock Ellis, G. Lowes Dickinson, etc. The Woman Question 60 Frank Norris McTeague Introduction by Henry S. Pancoast 61 Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose 62 Nietzsche Genealogy of Morals 63 Henry James Daisy Miller and An International Episode Introduction by W. Dean Howells 64 Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories 65 Gabriele D'Annunzie The Flame of Life 68 May Sinclair The Belfry 70c HAND BOUND IN LIMP CROFT LEATHER Per Volume— Postage 6c Extra Per Volume 70c ^ AMBITION, Book Dept. -: 422 Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa. ole Are Judged By The Boqks They Read"