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Neptune speaks

Frank Richardson Pierce

The story centers on an old shipbuilder who has retired to a beach shack and reflects on a last vessel he helped build, the Aleut, which was lost with all hands after striking a rock. Rumor and memory frame his belief that the sea hides its greatest tragedies, and the narrative turns to a night when Neptune himself is said to speak. That account describes a storm-lashed wreck, a fearful struggle among passengers and crew, and a captain trying to hold order as panic and mutiny rise aboard the stranded ship.

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Poems

Elizabeth Bibesco

This volume is a 1927 poetry collection by Elizabeth Bibesco, published in New York by George H. Doran Company and printed in Great Britain. The front matter also lists other books and plays by the author and dedicates the book to her beloved father.

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The confessions of a dancing girl

Anonymous

The book presents an autobiographical account of a girl born in Camden Town in 1887 who grows up amid poverty, family breakup, and repeated changes of guardians. She describes being passed among relatives, sent to a convent school with little education, and enduring beatings and neglect in several homes. After running away from her grandfather’s house, she is taken by a policeman to a police station and then to a workhouse, from which her grandmother later removes her.

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A history of the American people, Vol. 4 [of 5]

Woodrow Wilson

This volume of Woodrow Wilson’s history treats the rise of Andrew Jackson and the political transformation associated with his presidency. It describes how Jackson’s election and inauguration marked a sharp break from earlier national leadership, expanding popular influence while unsettling older political traditions. The discussion contrasts Jackson’s style of personal government with Jeffersonian democratic ideas and emphasizes the changing electorate and party conflict of the era.

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In the town

Douglas Goldring

This 1916 volume by Douglas Goldring was issued in London by Selwyn and Blount. It is a poetry collection that includes twenty verses printed for the first time, some pieces previously published in magazines, and the rest taken from an earlier book called Streets.

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A six-hour shift

William McFee

A shipboard narrator describes taking a six-hour night watch in the refrigerating room during wartime, aboard a vessel carrying frozen meat to the Armée d’Orient. The piece dwells on the rain, the machinery, the cat Thomas, and the routine of dressing, tea, and inspection, while showing how a year of unbroken service has worn the crew down. Its subject is the monotony of war work and the shared desire among officers and men to go home.

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A history of the American people, Vol. 5 [of 5]

Woodrow Wilson

This volume of Woodrow Wilson’s history turns to the closing phase of the Civil War and the first problems of Reconstruction. It examines Lincoln’s amnesty and restoration policy for the seceded states, Johnson’s succession, and the growing conflict with Congress over whether those states were to return at once or only after further guarantees, including the permanent freedom and education of formerly enslaved people.

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Space rays

Jr. John W. Campbell

Space rays follows Lt. Roger Lane and the crew of a patrol cruiser after their ship is overwhelmed by pirates armed with hand projectors and an overpowering space vessel. Stripped of weapons and sent adrift in a damaged escape ship, the men struggle toward Mars while facing low air and a crippled drive. The story also centers on Commander Morrison’s response and the arrival of Special-Captain Donald Barclay, who is known for carrying out difficult assignments.

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Mr. Mulliner speaking

P. G. Wodehouse

A frame narrative set in the Anglers' Rest introduces Mr. Mulliner, whose talkative storytelling leads into a tale about his nephew Archibald. Archibald, an unremarkable young man at the Drones Club, falls helplessly in love at first sight with Aurelia Cammarleigh after seeing her in Dover Street, and Mr. Mulliner explains the romance by sketching Archibald’s character and the unlikely force of his attraction.

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What the butler winked at

Eric Horne

This memoir presents Eric Horne’s account of more than fifty years in domestic service with British nobility and gentry. He reflects on changing country-house life, the decline of old aristocratic households after the war, and the shrinking place of servants in a faster, more unsettled society. The book is framed as a personal, unconventional record of those experiences, with names and places altered.

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I, the vampire

Henry Kuttner

Set in Hollywood, this horror story follows an assistant director at Summit Pictures during a party where a mysterious European performer, Chevalier Futaine, is being promoted as a vampire-like figure. The narrator also becomes concerned with the collapse of star Hess Deming after his wife Sandra’s recent death, which he believes was tied to a strange illness and her fear of fire. As rumors, publicity, grief, and unease gather around the film world, the narrator senses something sinister behind the glamour.

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It walks by night

Henry Kuttner

Henry Kuttner’s horror story is set in an ancient graveyard where villagers whisper of a creature that walks among the tombs, opens graves, and steals bodies. Johann, driven by fever and grief, goes there at night after learning that his wife Elsa has been buried in the cursed cemetery. There he meets his cousin Karl, and the two confront signs that Elsa’s grave has been violated and the coffin is empty.

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Silver Bird's flight

Gordon Stiles

Set at a Long Island flying field, the story follows Ray Folsom and his backer, Mrs. Jarvis Benham, as they prepare the Silver Bird for a nonstop flight from New York to Warsaw. Ray, a veteran pilot with wartime and mail-flying experience, sees the attempt as a chance to achieve long-sought fame, while Mrs. Benham is determined to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. Reporters, weather concerns, and the strain of takeoff frame the moment when the great machine finally gets airborne.

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Some town

Ray Humphreys

In Monte Vista, Sheriff Joe Cook tells his deputy Shorty McKay to spend less time at the telephone exchange with Belle Haynes and more time on official duties. Shorty is torn between his work, his worry for Belle, and the sheriff’s concern over an anonymous warning that gunmen may be planning trouble in town. Meanwhile, Cook hosts two Denver cattle buyers at the Red Spruce Hotel to discuss a large herd of white-faced cattle, while other train passengers, including a jewelry salesman, arrive in town.

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Democracy and leadership

Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt’s book examines democracy in relation to leadership, civilization, and the moral limits of power. Drawing on political, philosophical, and religious questions, it argues that economic and political issues cannot be separated from deeper concerns about human nature, authority, and the control of appetite. Rousseau is treated as a central figure in the rise of radical democracy and in the challenge he posed to civilization.

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