THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF

Rafael Sabatini three years ago was all but unknown in America. Since then, with the publication of "Scaramouche", half a million copies of his books have been sold: As witness of his great popularity Houghton Mifflin Company are to issue a uniform collected edition of his works in thirteen volumes of short stories based on historical themes, and two important works of history. Sabatini's latest book, "Mistress Wilding", is a colorful romance of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. A review of this new Sabatini novel will, we hope, appear in the CRIMSON Book shelf shortly.

The Century Co. received recently a cable from the English publisher of Gilbert Frankau's latest novel, "Gerald Cranston's Lady" (published here on Febbruary 20), announcing that 40,000 copies had been sold--this number establishing a record average of over a thousand copies a day. Mr. Frankau is said to move up, by what can only be described as an outburst of popular favor, to the very top of the small list of a half-dozen writers of best-sellers in Great Britain.

A new uniform edition of Matthew Arnold's work, in twelve volumes, has just been brought out by. The Macmillan Company. The six volumes of essays include the famous "Essays in Criticism," "Culture and Anarchy," etc., there are three volumes of poetry, and the remaining volumes are "Discourses in America," "Literture and Dogma," and "God and the Bible." The volumes can all be bought separately.