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Had I the choice of any one book written by James Branch Cabeli, I sbould feel grateful to Mr. Macy for this collection, and' would select it over any one book, unless I were tempted by "Jurgen" o'r. "Cream of the Jest." One cannot help playing favorites wit.th ts author as soîe of bis books appeal more tban others. depending upon which phase .Of the author's Writingone prefçrs. The collection has te efect c f a volume of selected poetry. ýNearly every selection is: able to' stand by' itself and does flot need to be but- tressed by preface and ending.. In .somie instances one admires. the, sheer good story telling, in others, the musical 'uliy of the prose-poem, in still' others, the philoso phy of the passaâge. .Even "Something About, Eve" 'ýtakes on dignityr and the excerpts leave a different impression than the book as, a ýWhole did at the time. One felt, wbhen ",Something About Eve"il was published, that Cabell had stopped to conqmer Ïlie cmornôer, mid. Theré was something a little tôo broad about the satire that took it out of the class of "Jurgen." But the por-. trait of Nero is comical and one ad- mires again. The story quoted from "The Cer-n tain Hour," by the namne of uBaltha- a zar's Daughter" is one of, the mostn masterly' stories in the book. Few, c if, any, modern short story writersF i3yes that have nd izen .formver 10oecgone. From Sara Teasdale's new book, "<Stars To-Night:- Verses New and Oid for Boys and Girls," illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. (Just pub- lished.) would lose by studying the technique ofthat story. .However, Cabell is liked or not h the individual, and one cannot.argue another arounmd. though one tallks: the. night througgh if the other onie is de- termined that hie or she does net like Cabell. CINDERELLA'S DAUGHTER. By IJohn: Emskine. Bobbs-Merrill. - Our old friend, John Erskine, 'de- nies: that they lived- happily. ever after. So be' writes a series o:f'-"what-hap- pened-aftem" stories and. lets a little light in on the younger generation with shadows- by, the older genemation.9 There is. a lot of fun in these grqwn-up,. versions of oId fairy tales, versions flot for the nlursery, if one does not take theni too seriously. And yet one needa to look below the surface, for there is always a great dleal to bis stories. .One of the keenest students of bu- man nature. today is John Erskine,I and in these "fables" one sees mir- rored a great dealI of modern Amen- can.manners and ïhought. As usual, t] Prof. Erskine bas pmoduced some- bhing amusing but it will hardly be 0 asting.- --- ri MARYLAND'8 STORIED flOUSE b Still standing as splendid reininders di of the glorious past in wbich they f Played such an important -part are-c,9 te. storied bouses of old Marylandc io bappily described in Hmso ~Ie Cavaliers." n "H me o Katherine Scarborough -vividly re- .reates t.hevied life that bas passed je trough.them. We see the lords and cc adies of the manors of pre-Revolu- isi Ïonary days 'presiding over balîs, st iristocrats in elaborately curled >rukes," or dashing off to fox hunts ,n blooded mounts. To house aftem bouse we are taken nd learn of its construction,. of rare Loc<.--Booh and Stdiontrg JPint PjFloo..4gt I.t h Veut Do= Suawe$ 'po« BuVngtontg Dook Store Hamsun, portrays once more the uow as agreat move of western migration. He now as ais kindljerflot as harshly satirical RENTAI LIBRARY as he as bein in the past, bis story have "ripened.Ot folk-tales, retold mn very simple, Ian- guage for the joy of children-and for some of the rest of us who like our legends that way. These stories (in original form and longuage) aeý been told for centuries in grass huts, under, cocoanut palms, around lires on Coral beaches.:on many of ýthe' tropical islands that belontg to a great island country in the Pacific, Polv- nesia. Many -of the tales Miss Metz- gem has bad the good luck to. hear di- rectly f rom Hawaians; others she bas taken front recorded ýlegends,,some of which> appear in the publicaions of the Bishop Museumi, Honolulu. Her, sélections, have been fortunate -and ber manner of telling »he stories is effective, so that she bas made a jolly book -for 'children. qOOD-LE -UK, THE WANDERER. By Alice Alison Linde and Mar- garet Alison Johansen. Illustrated by Raymond Lufkin. Little, Brown. This is the story of the Eskimo: boy, Ood-Ie-uk, and his wanderings across Behring Strait, far into ýSiber- ia, and the returti to bis people after' thr ee years ofadventure. "An Eskimio,"' says the author,,"s ecially an Eskimo like Ood-le-uk of ýbat Arctic land where *Alaska juts out into the sea, called Behring Strait, above Onzebue Sound, must have n~o 'oom in bis heart for fear. In thoge barrens aman mst literally snatch bis dalJy meat from the jaws of death". Tlhe, story woven about hini is con- erned witb the enormous major movements of the polar 'world, the lng night, the terrific crash c f a neteor, the great sea bergs, towering ewt*ls ýof purestcrystal set into the. :balt, sea.' It is a picture of mysti-. mn as 'f elt by -a boy, and m akes tbe tory'-an unusual and thrilling record. BEST SELLER. By N. O. Von-