1937 WINGS MAGAZINE THE LITERARY GUILD MAGAZINE OCTOBER VOL 11 NO 10
Mostly advertising of books. Stories are short teasers about a book. 2nd half of “magazine” is mostly book ads: “NEW BOOKS WORTH YOUR
ATTENTION,” “THE GUILD ALSO RECOMMENDS,” “GUILD SELECTIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS AT THE SPECIAL $2.00 RATE.”
5” X 7 ½” 16 pages
Used slightly, near new. Upper right corner small bend.
On the cover
PLANTING POTATOES
From a painting by Marshall Brown
The October Selection
FAMINE
By Liam O’Flaherty
A FARM IN COUNTY DOWN
LIAM O’FLAHERTY’S
FAMINE
Introduced by John Beecroft
AN IRISH VILLAGE
What English Reviewers Said About “Famine”
WHY AND HOW I WROTE “FAMINE”
By Liam O’Flaherty
“The Great Famine that devastated Ireland in the forties of the last century, killing one eighth of the population and sending another one fourth into exile…”
A Note About Liam O’Flaherty
A SCENE FROM “MAN OF ARAN”
Scenes from “The Informer”
NEW BOOKS WORTH YOUR ATTENTION
ORDEAL IN ENGLAND By Philip Gibbs
MUSEUM By James L. Phelan
EUROPE IN ARMS By Liddel Hart
WHIRLPOOL By David Lamson
THE SOD-HOUSE FRONTIER: 1854 – 1889 By Everett Dick
40,000 AGAINST THE ARTIC By H. P. Smolka
THE BRIEF HOUR OF FRANCOIS VILLON By John Erskine
THE GUILD ALSO RECOMMENDS
SONG ON YOUR BUGLES By Eric Knight
THE SAGA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY By Dixon Wecter
BACKGROUND TO DANGER By Eric Ambler
GREAT MOTHER FOREST By Commander Attilio Gatti
YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING By Kathleen Norris
THE SMUGGLER’S SLOOP By Robb White, III
THE GATE OF HAPPY SPARROWS By Daniele Vare
HE SWUNG AND HE MISSED By Eugene O’Brien
THE SONG OF THE WORLD By Jean Giono
MACA W. By Peggy von der Goltz
THE BOOK OF MARVELS By Richard Halliburton
PLACE IN THE CITY By Howard Fast
EVE’S DOCTOR By Signe Toksvig
MARRIAGE By Leon Blum
THE MAKING OF A HERO By Nicholas Ostrovski ( Translated by Alec Brown )
CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN By Jerome Dreifuss
STRICTLY FORM HUNGER By S. J. Perelman
RALSTON’S RING By G. D. Lyman
LIFE WITH MOTHER By Clarence Day
LENA By Roger Vercel
FOOLISH GIANT By Robert Westerby
SINGLE TO SPAIN By Keith Scott Watson
RECAPTURE THE MOON By Sylvia Thompson
THESE LOW GROUNDS By Walters Edward Turbin
NEW MYSTERIES:
THEY FOUND HIM DEAD By Georgette Heyer
MURDER A LA RICHELIEU By Anita Blackman
Books for Young Readers
The Junior Literary Guild Selections for October
HANS CHRISTIAN OF ELSINORE By Eva M. Kristofferser
BAREFFOOT DAYS By Anna Rose Wright
TREASURE TRAILS IN ART By Anna Curtis Chandler
THE EARTH CHANGES By Jannette Lucas and Helene Carter
GUILD SELECTIONS AAILABLE TO MEMBERS AT THE SPECIAL $2.00 RATE
THE WORLD AND MAN By Forest Ray Moulton
ONE LIFE, ONE KOPEK By Walter Duranty
AMERICAN DREAM By Michael Foster
BEFORE I FORGET By Burton Rascoe
THE LAURELS ARE CUT DOWN By Archie Binns
AWAY FROM IT ALL By Cedric Belfrage
THE DU MAURIERS By Daphne du Maurier
THEATER By W. Somerset Maugham
KING EDWARD III By Hector Bolitho
I FOUND NO PEACE By Webb Miller
THE HUNDRED YEARS By Philip Guedalla
THE BRIDAL CANOPY By S. J. Agnon
JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. By James Boswell
A PRAYER FOR MY SON By Hugh Walpole
SAINT JOAN OF ARC By V. Sackville-West
THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES By Conan Doyle