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PHONR UNIVOR ýDAV Fmuiil Iu.R i bI~F~. 7210 O@ . The Hundred Years by Philip Guedalla cavalcade of world events Ernst. A compréensîvé studY of enn- stitutional, power, its checks. andi bal- ances, with the views of a leading liberal Iawyer on 1 the vital ,goverunta changes under discussion t"dY. We Can De! cml Americe 1W Major General Johnson Hagood. A sensational pronoumcemieft-O01- our ,nilitarY POlicy and our problemi of national defenue, by an officer whose candor bas stirred the nation. A Book of Pdmous Dois by Albert 1'ayson Terhune. A book full of dog- tore and dog-history. stories about heroic dogs from the tinie of Alcibiade$ and Alexander The Great, to the pres- ent. Jane 9Eyre:A Play by Helen jeromie. The adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's kww ~OUWt~ A dramngo! Sheila Kaye-SmitJi by Louise Costello.. "Rose Dec Prose," tht new Sheila ýKqye-Smith novel, was pub- lished by Harper & Brothers on Jan- uary 5. In this story Miss Kaye-Siih of ite United. States. The volIume 1 read, published'in- November,ý was froni the teii'th printing. How niany printings have been issued sitice Novemiber 1 do ntot lmow, but, evidence of the book's sustained popularity is the fact that it appears weelcly on best seller liats. .The fact amazes me, for r.he Flower. ing of New En gland is. not the type of literature one expects to find ini lists of best sellers. Tt is too scbolastie, to erudite, too brilliant to appeal to any- thing but cultivated tastes. American colleges and universities must have done a mùuch better job of elevating reading standards than is generally supposed, in order for The Flowening of New gn"- land to hold its own against frothy noircIs, mystery stories, and popularized one of the forein historians. comptes psychology of the sev, d century to the English South and the Hardyesque monner h1 ealier novels.» e",ln I1936" Is à T.rse Review of Years1 ,gnteenth Early American authors suëh as Long- Country fellow, Hawthorne, LoweIl, and others ofher have been passing through an eclipse of otheir merit similar te the eclipse which bas settled ,pon the school of Englisb painting. Mr, Brooks, by an extra- ordinary fusion of humer, learning, and beauty of language sweeps the sbadow News frein fifty years of Ameriran literature, * the years -roni'T85 to 1865. for the past 1 Noon by Ruby M. Ayres. A love and self-sacrifice and one who almost muissed a great hap- pising ail the news up ta janu- 937, the book fulfills the. func- f a bandy reference volume and ies as well a wealth of pithy wtfl nrveatn-L41u115 8.841 1L71wniic iehind thein parades a host of minor es and contemporaries. ushed into the canvas are master- trokes of detail and humor.. Mr. ks wnites, for _example,__of Dr. tion of 185. iu.r Nt t u rnIrper & lr based on thce yeently light on, the 'developlehit of the fiction list for the Christmaj ives and letters. This "Ring" pe and Wagner's rela- Great Laughter by Fannie es bum ho throw new tions with Liszt. best-selling book of fiction. t