BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB - March 1948 - April-May BOOK-DIVIDEND

Oct 13, 2026

Book-of-the-Month Club March 1948 editorial material introducing Winston Churchill’s forthcoming War Memoirs and explaining it will be the club selection for its publication month. It also presents April-May Book-Dividend offerings, including The Best of Clarence Day and a dual selection featuring The Great Mischief by Josephine Pinckney and Fire by George R. Stewart, with judge commentary and detailed summaries. The document includes promotional details such as retail pricing and illustrative credits.

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Book-of-the-Month Club - March 1948

Editorial overview and War Memoirs preview

April-May Book-Dividend

The Best of Clarence Day

Dual selection

The Great Mischief

Fire

Report on The Great Mischief

# BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUBNEW S MA RCH 1948 The reproduction on the front cover isSir Thomas Moreby HANs HoLBEINCourtesy of Frick Collection —Se inside of badk coucr for dcseriptionEDITORIAL BoARD ORTHE BO0K-Or-THE-MONTH cLUBDorothy CanfedClfton FadimanJohn P.MarquandChrstopher Morleyflenry Seidel Canby,ChaonuyCopyighe1948*Bok-or che-Month Chub,Jnc:+385 Madison Avenue·New York 17,NY OME TIME toward the middle of the year the long-awaited firstvolume of WINSTON CHURCHILL's War Memoirs will be pub-lished.Our five judges have read the first draft of the manuscript,and they unite in regarding it as one of the great books of our time,exciting and magnifcent historical writing.Mr.Churchill is atpresent putting the finishing touches on it.It will be the Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the month it is published. Photo ◎KARSH (Ottawa)from Faces of Destiny(Zif-Davis) April-May BOOK-DIVIDEND THEBest oF Clarence Day H With Previously Unpublished Illustrations by the Author IH Including,complete,LIFE WITH FATHER,LIFEWITH MoTHER,GoD AND MY FATHER,THIS SIMIAN WoRLD-and selections from THOUGHTS WITHOUT WoRDs.Thebook also includes drawings by CLARENCE DAY,neverbefore published,done by him for his Father stories. HA H RETAIL PRICE $3.75 HHHHH H FOR APRIL:A Dual Selection THE GREAT MISCHIEF,by Josephine Pinckney.A beautifully deft novel in which the heroine is "the mostseductive witch ever to appear in print,"and the hero asolitary dreaming druggist of Charleston-bookish,shy,and“oddly attractive and lovable,”who dabbles inwitches'brews and witchcraft.You quickly understandhow he comes to believe he is“ridden”by her.Our judgesall found the book comparable with Nathaniel Hawthorneat his best.You soon see,says Dorothy Canfield,that it is “more than lively romancing;it is a new guise in which to presentthe eternal search for the meaning of life,the meaning of what is.called Good and what is called Evil.” FIRE,by George R.Stewart.George Stewart picturesthe blind furies of a forest fire,as terrible as his STORM,a Book-of-the-Month which you may remember.As itrages,the lives of many men and women are involved:skilled foresters;paratroopers;city drunks;profane lum-bermen;the shy,efficient supervisor,who longed to becalled“Slim”;the girl lookout escaping from one lover,only to find another in the flames;the Ranger who lovedhis trees so much that he failed in his duty;and-most unforgettable of all-the frightened,bewildered animals driven fromtheir home.It is a tale,says John Marquand,"reminiscent of Conrad'sTYPHCON,a struggle of man against nature so close to universal ex-perience that it will have its own meaning for everyone who reads it.” THE GREAT MISCHIEF Dabbling in old tomes and witches'brews,Timothy Partridge comes to believe he is ridden by a witch—and what a witch! Her name:Sinkinda—and,of course,she is “kind of"”sin. A Report by Dorothy Canfield OU wOULD have said,“Im-possible!”,wouldn't you,ifyou had been asked whethera serious story about witch-craft,laid in the United States in our time,could be written success-fully?One of our most gifted American au-thors has done just that.In Great Mischiefshe has set wings to our imagination andtaken us on a fight into a realm far awayfrom the down-to-earth realism of contem-porary fiction.Her novel will be a lastingdelight to everyone who appreciates first-rateliterary quality. This tale of Charleston and of TimothyPartridge,the dreaming druggist who becamea sorcerer,begins in the late 18go's whenTimothy is thirty-six years old—bookish,shy,unmarried,solitary,so gentle that he is domi-nated by his older sister;so spirited and in-telligent that subconsciously he refuses tosee in this relationship the“duty”which isits label in conventional speech. He is,in spite of,perhaps because of,hispersonal eccentricity,oddly attractive andlovable,so that we warmly care what hap-pens to him.He is an educated,well-man-nered,well-connected Southern gentleman,and an

FAQs

What does the March 1948 editorial say about Winston Churchill’s War Memoirs?

It notes that the first volume is nearing publication and that the judges consider it outstanding historical writing. It will become the Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the month it is published.

Which titles are featured in the April-May Book-Dividend?

The document lists The Best of Clarence Day and a dual selection with The Great Mischief by Josephine Pinckney and Fire by George R. Stewart.

What is the central premise of The Great Mischief as described in the text?

The story follows Timothy Partridge, a bookish druggist who begins to believe he is ridden by a witch named Sinkinda, with the narrative tied to Charleston and to his earlier childhood influences.

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