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Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief Title changed from The Book Digest of Best Sellers following merger with Books in Brief.

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v3, #17, June 1938] ed. Joseph H. White & Ray Martan (25¢, 132pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Farewell, ’Toinette · Bertita Harding · ex 1938 23 · The Truth About Childbirth · Anthony M. Ludovici · ex 1938 30 · One Man’s Opinion · Fiorello H. LaGuardia · ms 31 · I Lost My Girlish Laughter · Jane Allen · ex Random House, May 1938 45 · Victorians and Trail Blazers: Gilbert and Sullivan · Isaac Goldberg · ex from The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, 1928 46 · Plot and Counterplot in Central Europe · M. W. Fodor · ex 1937 66 · “Come and Get It!” · C. C. & S. M. Furnas · ex from Man, Bread, and Destiny, 1937 68 · The Doctor Looks at Murder · M. Edward Marten, M.D.; as told to Norman Cross · ex 1937 81 · Little Facts About Big Men: Guglielmo Marconi · Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. · ex from Marconi: The Man and His Wireless, 1937 82 · Portrait of a Spy · William J. Makin · ex from Brigade of Spies, 1937 86 · Bowleg Bill, the Sea-Loving Cowboy, or Ship Ahoy & Let ’Er Buck! · Jeremiah Digges · ex 1938 101 · Robbery by Mail · Karl Baarslag · ex 1938 106 · Your City Garden · Margaret McKenny & E. L. D. Seymour · ex 1937 110 · Savage Symphony: A Personal Record of the Third Reich · Eva Lips · ex 1938 129 · Announcing the new Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief · The Editor · ed

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v3, #18, July 1938] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Glass Houses · Carleton Beals · ex 1938 24 · Money Talks · Albert Ulmann · ex 1938 25 · Master Kung: The Story of Confucius · Carl Crow · ex 1937 39 · Breakfast with Destiny · M. D. C. Crawford · ex from The Conquest of Culture, 1938 42 · Grassroot Jungles · Edwin Way Teale · ex 1937 48 · Reviewer’s Holiday · Joseph Jastrow · ex from The Betrayal of Intelligence, 1938 50 · In Memoriam · Hubert Herring · ex from And So to War, 1938 52 · Listen Little Girl Before You Come to New York · Munro Leaf · ex 1938 67 · Men, Women and Tenors · Frances Alda · ex 1937 73 · The Maddest Collector I Have Known · J. H. Duveen · ex from Secrets of an Art Dealer, 1938 79 · “The Great American Novel—” · Clyde Brion Davis · ex 1938

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #19, August 1938] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · We Too Are the People · Louise V. Armstrong · ex 1938 25 · I Lunch with the President · Vernon Bartlett · ex from Intermission in Europe, 1938 27 · Youth and Sex · Dorothy Dunbar Bromley & Florence Haxton Britten · ex 1938 42 · Drug Store · Edwin Valentine Mitchell · ex from American Village, 1938 44 · August · Donald Culross Peattie · ex from An Almanac for Moderns, 1935 50 · Dictators’ Private Lives · John Gunther · ex from Inside Europe, 1936 · Dictators’ Private Lives · G. Ward Price · ex from I Know These Dictators, 1937 53 · Wedding in the Black Forest · Helen Follett · ex from Third Class Ticket to Heaven, 1938 68 · On Coming Home from a Stag Dinner · Dr. Ralph Y. Hopton & Anne Balliol · ex from Bad Manners, 1934 69 · Who Called That Lady a Skipper? · Marion R. Hart · ex 1938 79 · My Austria · Kurt Schuschnigg · ex 1938 97 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #20, September 1938] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Young Man with a Horn · Dorothy Baker · ex 1938 23 · Death of an Empress · James Kemble · ex from Idols and Invalids, 1936 24 · Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Badman · Romlyn Barry · ar Ithaca Journal News 26 · Why Men Are Fired · Loire Brophy · ex from Men Must Work, 1938 29 · Fifty Years a Country Doctor · William N. Macartney, M.D. · ex 1938 49 · Drive Cheaply · Ray Giles · ex from How to Beat the High Cost of Living, 1937 50 · Is Poison Gas Inhuman? Pro and Con · Various · ex Breathe Freely! ed. James Kendall, Appleton Century, 1938 52 · The King Could Do No Right! · Edward Shanks · ex 1938 58 · Enchanted Vagabonds · Dana Lamb & June Cleveland · ex 1938 72 · He Did Not Die at Meyerling · “R” & Henry W. Lanie · ex from Autobiography of “R,” a Habsburg Prince, 1937 80 · Edison’s Open Door · Alfred O. Tate · ex 1938 87 · Television · Frank Waldrop & Joseph Borkin · ex 1938 97 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #21, October 1938] (25¢, 68pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Refugees: Anarchy or Organization? · Dorothy Thompson · ex 1938 12 · Thoughts at Sixty-Five · William Allen White · ex from Forty Years on Main Street, 1937 13 · Kindling · Nevil Shute · ex 1938 31 · Scapegoats of Jazz · H. W. Schwartz · ex from The Story of Musical Instruments, 1938 33 · Bachelors and Near Bachelors · Henry Buxton · ex from Assignment Down East, 1938 39 · The Culture of Cities · Lewis Mumford · ex from Challenging Essays in Modern Thought, 1933 55 · Dying for “Dear Old—” · Heywood Broun · ex 1938 56 · Backstage with Actors · Helen Ormsbee · ex 1938 65 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #22, November 1938] (25¢, 68pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Dynasty of Death · Taylor Caldwell · ex 1938 23 · With Malice Toward Some · Margaret Halsey · ex 1938 33 · Van Loon Prounounced Van Loan · [uncredited] · bg [Ref. Hendrik Willem Van Loon] 34 · What’s Bothering the U.S.A. · Thomas Alexander Boggs · ex from Where Does America Go from Here?, 1938 36 · Across the Frontiers · Sir Philip Gibbs · ex 1938 50 · Health & Hooey · W. W. Bauer, M.D. · ex from Health, Hygiene and Hooey, 1938 51 · Divorce if You Must · Frances Slade · ex 1938 58 · Submarine: The Autobiography of Simon Lake · Simon Lake; as told to Herbert Corey · ex 1938 65 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #23, December 1938] (25¢, 84pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · And Tell of Time · Laura Krey · ex 1938 23 · My Sister Eileen · Ruth McKenney · ex 1938 31 · Charles Laughton and I · Elsa Lanchester · ex 1938 42 · Christmas Traditions · Alfred Carl Hottes · ex from Christmas Facts and Fancies, 1937 44 · Home for Christmas · Lloyd C. Douglas · ss Cosmopolitan January 1936 51 · George VI · Seymour Berkson · ex 1938 58 · I Broadcast the Crisis · H. V. Kaltenborn · ex 1938 76 · The Executioner · Leo W. Sheridan · ex from I Killed for the Law, 1938 81 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v4, #24, January 1939] (25¢, 84pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · The Joyful Delaneys · Hugh Walpole · ex 1938 22 · The Common Cold · Ogden Nash · pm The Saturday Evening Post June 1 1935; collected in I’m a Stranger Here Myself, 1939. 24 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923; collected in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938. 35 · You Can Sleep Well · Edmund Jacobson, M.D. · ex 1939 42 · The Munich Pact, Pro and Con · Various · ms 44 · Such Sweet Compulsion: The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrar · Geraldine Farrar · ex 1938 61 · Ultra-Modern Art · Edith Rubel · pm from The Merry Muse, 1937 62 · Rationalizing the Irrational · Joseph J. White, Jr. · ar 65 · Nazi Germany: Its Women and Family Life · Clifford Kirkpatrick · ex 1938 76 · Eat Cheaply · Ray Giles · ex from How to the Beat the High Cost of Living, 1937 77 · The Rise and Fall of Hollywood Sex Appeal · Maurice Bardche & Robert Brasililach · ex from The History of Motion Pictures, 1938 80 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #25, February 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · The Education of an American · Mark Sullivan · ex 1938 23 · Daily—Except Sundays · Edward Streeter · ex 1938; illustrated by Gluyas Williams 36 · Tales of a Wayward Inn · Frank Case · ex 1938 50 · Lincoln Talks · Emanuel Hertz · ex 1939 52 · The Start of the Road · John Erskine · ex 1938 72 · Peace in Our Time—How? · Sisley Huddleston · ex 1938 73 · Man-Eating Man · Arthur Stanley Riggs · ex from The Romance of Human Progress, 1938 75 · A Parish in the Pines · Lois D. Hagen · ex 1938 83 · Enjoyment of Literature · John Cowper Powys · ex 1938 86 · College Football Last Stronghold of Hypocrisy · Paul Gallico · ex from Farewell to Sport, 1938 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #26, March 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · The Nazi Primer · Fritz Brennecke, et al.; translated by Harwood L. Childs · ex 1938 10 · The President’s Partner · Henry L. Stoddard · ex from It Costs to Be President, 1938 13 · How to Raise a Dog—In the City and Suburbs · James R. Kimmey & Ann Honeycutt · ex 1938 23 · The Chicken-Wagon Family · Barry Benefield · ex 1925 44 · Rumania’s Mme. Pompadour · Seymour Berkson · ex from Their Majesties!, 1938 50 · Mile-a-Minute · Lucius Beebe · ex from High Iron, a Book of Trains, 1938 52 · …A Young Man’s Fancy · Emerson Price · ex from Inn of That Journey, 1939 61 · We Saw It Happen—Washington, D.C. · Arthur Krock · ex 1938 68 · Man’s Hope · André Malraux · ex 1938 88 · Who Wants to Be President? · Henry L. Stoddard · ex from It Costs to Be President, 1938 89 · Marihuana · Robert P. Walton · ex 1938 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #27, April 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Frost Flower · Helen Hull · ex 1939 23 · On Good Taste · Princess Martha de Chambrun Ruspoli · ex from Revolution in Merchandise, 1939 30 · The North Wall · Reginald Arkell · pm More Green Fingers by Reginald Arkell, Herbert Jenkins, 1938 33 · Our Battle · Hendrik Willem van Loon · ex 1938 42 · Kaiser William II · Valentine Williams · ex from World of Action, 1938 46 · Charles Darwin · Geoffrey West · ex 1938 50 · Easter Traditions · Susan Tracy Rice · ex from Easter—Its History, Celebration, Significance as Related in Prose and Verse, 1916 52 · Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography · Margaret Sanger · ex 1938 71 · The Washington Cherry Trees · David Fairchild · ex from The World Was My Garden, 1938 74 · Invisible Stripes · Lewis E. Lawes · ex 1938 86 · Successful Christian Living · Harry Emerson Fosdick · ex 1937 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #28, May 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Salute to Freedom · Eric Lowe · ex 1938 23 · Under the Skin · Elizabeth Foreman Lewis · ex from Portraits from a Chinese Scroll, 1938 30 · Women Rate Second · Frank G. Menke · ex from Encyclopedia of Sports, 1939 32 · Through Embassay Eyes · Martha Dodd · ex 1939 48 · Chinatown Gertie’s Funeral · Charles E. Still · ex from Styles in Crime, 1938 50 · How It Began · Frank G. Menke · ex from Encyclopedia of Sports, 1939 52 · Safe Conduct · Margaret Fishback · ex 1938 65 · The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly August 1868 75 · Famous Bum Guesses · Neal O’Hara · ex from Take It from Me, 1939 76 · Mania · Lawrence M. Jayson · ex 1937 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #29, June 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Seasoned Timber · Dorothy Canfield · ex 1939 23 · Will-Power While You Wait · Joseph Ralph · ex from Self-Analysis Made Simple, 1939 25 · How to Think Straight · Robert H. Thouless · ex 1939 36 · The Wings of Orville · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker August 8 1931 39 · The Doctor Prescribes Music · Edward Podolsky, M.D. · ex 1939 45 · It’s Up to You, John Henry · Channing Pollock · ex from The Adventures of a Happy Man, 1939 50 · Why Wed in June · Gertrude Mott · ex from Bridal and Betrothal Customs, 1935 52 · Money to Burn · Horace Coon · ex 1938 58 · My Country ’Tis of Thee · Neal O’Hara · ex from Take It from Me, 1939 59 · The New Western Front · Stuart Chase · ex 1939 78 · Cards on the Table · Frank G. Menke · ex from Encyclopedia of Sports, 1939 79 · “Rheumatism” · Otto Meyer, M.D. · ex 1938 85 · The Kingdom of Swing · Benny Goodman & Irving Kolodin · ex 1939 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v5, #30, July 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · Our Family · Adet & Anor Lin · ex 1939 10 · Evolution Is Not Complete · Robert Henri · ex from The Art Spirit, 1923 11 · “Acid Condition” · Boris Sokoloff, M.D. · ex from Middle Age Is What You Make It, 1938 21 · How to Tell a Major Poet from a Minor Poet · E. B. White · ex from Quo Vadimus?, 1939 24 · Memos from Medicos · Neal O’Hara · ex from Take It from Me, 1939 25 · Disputed Passage · Lloyd C. Douglas · ex Houghton Mifflin, 1939 46 · What’s Wrong with American Husbands? · Marjorie D. Kern · ex from Getting Along Together, 1937 50 · The Glorious Fourth · Various · ms 52 · We Who Speak English · Charles Allen Lloyd · ex 1938 59 · Christ or Caesar · William Lyon Phelps · ex 1930 68 · The Greatest American Disaster · Fairfax Downey · ex from Disaster Fighters, 1938 70 · The Little Hours · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker August 19 1933; collected in Here Lies, 1939. 74 · César Ritz, Host to the World · Mary Louise Ritz · ex 1938 83 · Cast Out Your Devils · Alfred Uhler · ex 1938 89 · Paderewski · David Ewen · ex from Men and Women Who Make Music, 1939 91 · With My Own Eyes · John Mulholland · ex from Beware Familiar Spirits, 1938 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc

Book Digest Combined with Books in Brief [v6, #31, August 1939] (25¢, 100pp, digest) [] Details supplied by Denny Lien from a bound volume at the University of Minnesota. 3 · My Days of Strenth · Anne Walter Fearn, M.D. · ex 1939 24 · Grandmother’s Legacy · Romeyn Berry · ar American Agriculturist January 29 1938 27 · Information, Please! · Dan Goldenpaul · ex 1939 32 · How to Kill a Habit · Joseph Ralph · ex from Self-Analysis Made Simple, 1939 35 · Propaganda for War · H. C. Peterson · ex 1939 46 · Your Chance to Win · Horace C. Levinson, Ph.D. · ex 1939 49 · Word Magic · Elmer Wheeler · ex 1939 55 · The “Why” of Nervous Indigestions · Boris Sokoloff, M.D. · ex from Middle Age Is What You Make It, 1938 65 · Born of Battle · Fairfax Downey · ex from Disaster Fighters, 1939 67 · Could You Be Your Husband’s Second Wife? · Margaret Green Devereux · ex from Your Life as a Woman, 1938 75 · Styles in Speech · Charles Allen Lloyd · ex from We Who Speak English, 1938 77 · Honest Cop · Lowell M. Limpus · ex 1939 83 · A Week in Prison · J. G. Wilson, M.D. & M. J. Pescore, M.D. · ex from Problems in Prison Psychiatry, 1939 86 · Press Prattle · Neal O’Hara · ex from Take It from Me, 1939 87 · Your Chest Should Be Flat · S. A. Weisman, M.D. · ex 1938 91 · What Spies Get from Us · Edgar Wilmer Rowan · ex 1939 96 · What’s New in Books · [uncredited] · rc