TWELVE AGAINST THE GODS

By WILLIAM BOUTHO, Simon and Schuster.

Selecting a round dozen of the most glamorous characters in history, William Bolitho re-tells their careers in order to sketch an original theory of the adventurous life. He writes superbly. You will occasionally be jarred by the unusual in his style; and you may dissent violently from the reading he now and then gives to familiar history; but you cannot fail to be held by his daring imagination, his rich imagery, and the tumultuous sweep of his story-telling.

Department of Citizenship.