Two Unknown Phases of Life Made Known in Fiction
The Powers That Prey
By Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton
The authors of the ten closely related stories which make up this
volume have spent most of their lives studying the sociological
problems of tramp and criminal life. Mr. Flynt writes: "So far as I
am concerned, the book is the result of ten years of wandering with
tramps and two years spent with various police organizations." The
stories are a decided contribution to sociology, and yet, viewed as
stories, they have unusual interest because of their remarkable vigor
and their intense realism.
Fully Illustrated. Cloth. 12mo; 5-1/8 x 7-3/4. $1.25.
The Soul of the Street
By NORMAN DUNCAN
"The Soul of the Street" has a unity lacking in many volumes of short
stories. They deal with Syrians and Turks, queer folk with queer ways,
and Mr. Duncan has gotten at them with such sympathetic insight as only
the poetic heart and the story-teller's eye can possess. Character,
humor, poignant pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old
and new civilizations are expressed through the medium of a style
that has distinction, and strikes a note of rare personality.
Cloth. 12mo; 5-1/8 x 7-3/4. About $1.00.