The Little Review Book Shop

The Little Review Bookshop is now open.

You may order any book you want from us and we have the facilities for delivering or mailing it to you at whatever time you specify.

You may come in and look over our stock and take your selections with you.

Some of the books you will want are these:

James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. $1.50

Nexo’s Pelle the Conqueror. Four volumes, $6.00

Gilbert Cannan’s Mendel. $1.50

Romain Rolland’s Jean Christophe. Three volumes, $5.00

D. H. Lawrence’s Prussian Officer and Twilight in Italy, $1.50 each.

Ethel Sidgwick’s Promise and Succession. Each $1.50

Ezra Pound’s Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska. $3.50

The Imagist Anthology, 1917. 75 cents

Verharen’s Love Poems, translated by F. S. Flint. $1.00

The Plays of Emile Verharen, translated by Flint, Arthur Symons, etc. $1.50

Willard Huntington Wright’s Modern Painting and The Creative Will. $2.50 and $1.50

Tagore’s Reminiscences and Personality. Each $1.50

The complete works of Anatole France. Per volume, $1.25

The Works of Henri Fabre. 6 volumes. Each $1.50

The Works of Mark Twain. 25 volumes, $25.00

Creative Intelligence, by John Dewey and others. $2.00

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems. $1.25

Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow Line. $1.35

Maurice Hewlett’s Thorgils. $1.35

Andreyev’s The Little Angel, The Crushed Flower, etc. $1.35 and $1.50

Kuprin’s A Slave Soul. $1.50

Tchekoff The Kiss, The Darling, The Duel, The Black Monk. Each $1.25

Gorky’s Confession and Twenty-Six Men and a Girl. $1.35

Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband. $1.50

Gogol’s Dead Souls, Taras Bulba, The Mantle. $1.40, $1.35.

Sologub’s The Sweet-Scented Name. $1.50

Artzibashef’s Sanine, The Millionaire, The Breaking-Point. Each $1.50

The Works of Freud and Jung.

Max Eastman’s Journalism versus Art, Understanding Germany. $1.00 and $1.25

John Cowper Powy’s Confessions, Suspended Judgments. $1.50 and $2.00

Paul Geraldy’s The War, Madame. 75 cents.

Amy Lowell’s Men, Women and Ghosts. $1.25

H. D.’s Sea Garden. 75 cents.

D. H. Lawrence’s Amores. $1.25

W. W. Gibson’s Livelihood. $1.25

The Stories of A. Neil Lyons. Each $1.25

Sherwood Anderson’s Windy McPherson’s Son. $1.40

I, Mary MacLane. $1.40

NOTE.—We have some interesting discussion for the Reader Critic this month, but owing to lack of space it will have to be held over until the next issue.

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“Hello Huck!”

Recall that golden day when you first read “Huck Finn”? How your mother said, “For goodness’ sake, stop laughing aloud over that book. You sound so silly.” But you couldn’t stop laughing.

Today when you read “Huckleberry Finn” you will not laugh so much. You will chuckle often, but you will also want to weep. The deep humanity of it—the pathos, that you never saw, as a boy, will appeal to you now. You were too busy laughing to notice the limpid purity of the master’s style.

MARK TWAIN

When Mark Twain first wrote “Huckleberry Finn” this land was swept with a gale of laughter. When he wrote “The Innocents Abroad” even Europe laughed at it itself.

But one day there appeared a new book from his pen, so spiritual, so true, so lofty that those who did not know him well were amazed. “Joan of Arc” was the work of a poet—a historian—a seer. Mark Twain was all of these. His was not the light laughter of a moment’s fun, but the whimsical humor that made the tragedy of life more bearable.

A Real American

Mark Twain was a steamboat pilot. He was a searcher for gold in the far West. He was a printer. He worked bitterly hard. All this without a glimmer of the great destiny that lay before him. Then, with the opening of the great wide West, his genius bloomed.

His fame spread through the nation. It flew to the ends of the earth, until his work was translated into strange tongues. From then on, the path of fame lay straight to the high places. At the height of his fame he lost all his money. He was heavily in debt, but though 60 years old, he started afresh and paid every cent. It was the last heroic touch that drew him close to the hearts of his countrymen.

The world has asked is there an American literature? Mark Twain is the answer. He is the heart, the spirit of America. From his poor and struggling boyhood to his glorious, splendid old age, he remained as simple, as democratic as the plainest of our forefathers.

He was, of all Americans, the most American. Free in soul, and dreaming of high things—brave in the face of trouble—and always ready to laugh. That was Mark Twain.

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This is Mark Twain’s own set. This is the set he wanted in the home of each of those who love him. Because he asked it, Harpers have worked to make a perfect set at a reduced price.

Before the war we had a contract price for paper, so we could sell this set of Mark Twain at half price.

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Your children want Mark Twain. You want him. Send this coupon today—now—while you are looking at it.

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Special Offer

JAMES JOYCE’S A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and a year’s subscription to The Little Review for $2.50.

We are happy to announce that through the courtesy of Mr. Huebsch we are able to make the following unusual offer, open to any one who sends in a subscription (or a renewal) to The Little Review:

Mr. Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the most important and beautiful piece of novel writing to be found in English today, retails for $1.50. The subscription price of The Little Review is $1.50. We will cut the latter to $1.00, for this special offer, and you may have the book and the subscription for $2.50. Or you may have Mr. Joyce’s Dubliners instead.

This is an offer you cannot afford to miss. Send your order at once to

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Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.

The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of The Little Review.

The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):

... There was likewise a common see-saw or teeter, a green house, ... ... There was likewise a common see-saw or teeter, a greenhouse, ...

... that time connected did no arrive on the instant, he considered ... ... that time connected did not arrive on the instant, he considered ...

... may be. When he hears a similar Baa he pricks his ears up, and ... ... may be). When he hears a similar Baa he pricks his ears up, and ...