The Week-End Library Issue of 1930

The Week-End Library

The Week-End Library Issue of 1930 Legend Follow your NOSE to Pleasure Island or Be your own Beagle in THE WEEK-END PRESERVE 

Note: If you lose the scent or catch a cold, follow the numbers instead 

The legend says "Follow your nose to Pleasure Island..."



1. Montclaire: If life at times seems too binding let Somerset Maugham show you the value OF HUMAN BONDAGE 

2. Roslyn: Chris Morley stays here WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS 

3. Atlantic Ocean: YOUTH goes to sea with Joseph Conrad 

4. Country Life Press: Here H.G. Wells warms up his TIME MACHINE to navigate you through the centuries 

The little drawings that go along with the Time Machine are particularly interesting. I wonder who drew all of these illustrations.



5. Helen Keller at home. She will tell you about Mark Twain & herself 

6. Uncle Daniel Drew’s own story of HOW TO WORK UP A PANIC! He and Jay Gould & Jubilee Jim Fiske played bears in bulls’ clothing 

7. Sleepyhollow: Edna Ferber & OLD MAN MINICK like East 56th Street 

8. For a bizarre ½ hour Stephen Benet takes you to Carnegie Hall to see a symphony leader who conducts with his tail & becomes THE KING OF THE CATS 




9. Francis Noyes Hart comes from way down South. You’ll go up in the air with CONTACT, her story of love & war 

10. When you’re tired of market gossip turn to Arnold Bennett for the portrait of a big business man—MR. JACK COLLINS AGAINST FATE 

11. How about A PASSAGE TO BENARES with T.S. Stribling from Tennessee—a mystery 

12. Wall Street shyster promoters should take a tip from Edgar Wallace’s INVESTORS 

13. MANHASSET: Donald Ogden Steward likes Manhasset & the movies but he will tell you HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT 




14. Don Marquis liked it here until he went maritime & incited THE REVOLT OF THE OYSTER 

15. EASTHAMPTON: Much summer laughter here. Irvin Cobb at his best SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS 




16. BROOKLYN: Brooklyn at least can boast of WALT WHITMAN 

17. NEW HAVEN: No one ever knows where T.E. Lawrence is. But you’ll go with him in THE VERITABLE DESERT FIGHTING TO THE SEA 

18. NEW JERSEY: This way to the Santa Fe Trail & Billy the Kid’s THREE DAY’S BATTLE by Walter Noble Burns



19.  If you lose the scent or catch a cold, follow the numbers instead.  





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