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OLIVER OCTOBER?George Barr McCutcheon?Dodd Mead ($2.00). Oliver October Baxter had his fortune told by a gipsy the day he was born. She promised him all the court-cards in old Miss Lachesis' desk?but said he would be hung before he was 30. The prophecy was fulfilled, and the ingenious manner of its working out forms the theme of a typical McCutcheon thriller...
...Henri Fabre, by his kinsman, the Abbé Augustin Fabre (Dodd Mead, $2.50); The Human Side of Fabre, by Percy F. Bicknell (Century, $2.50); This Earth of Ours, a children's geology by Fabre (Century...
...SINGING BONE? R. Austin Freeman?Dodd Mead ($1.75). Four short detective stories?the first three told from an unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...
...Changeling. Henry Miller will lend his suave charm to a comedy by Lee Wilson Dodd, based, as the name suggests, on the mutability of human identity. During Mr. Miller's Summer season in San Francisco, Blanche Bates and Ruth Chatterton were numbered among the cast. One, possibly both, will come to Broadway...
...equally prominent golf champion do not actually compose the treatises attributed to them in the public prints. But be these things as they very well may, Everett ("Deacon") Scott, of the New York Yankees, has entered the field of literature with a novel entitled Third Base Thatcher (Dodd, Mead...