Suggestions

of Ages, by Robert Nathan.

The fantastic situation of the world's Jews enroute to exile in the Gobi desert deserves a more realistic and hard-bitten treatment. Nevertheless Mr. Nathan's fantasy is handled with the deftness of an artist, withal a second-rate one. What might have been an epic turns out to be a minor fairy tale with an undertone of subdued tragedy.

The Man on the Barge, by Max Miller.

A California newspaper man turns philosophical with fair, but not unusual results. Worth reading.

The Age of Confidence, by Henry S. Canby.

A rather charming sketch of the gingerbread age that has, alas (?), forever passed due to Henry Ford and the World War. For the generations who grew up in the early nineties.

Author Hunting, 1897-1925, by Grant Richards.

For those literary minded who like to read anecdotes about their favorite writers. Mr. Richards first published G. B. Shaw, A. E. Housman, and many other now famous writers.

The Later Wordsworth, by E. C. Batho.

The author shows that Wordsworth did not, after 1808, become as Browning called him, "a lost leader," but that on the contrary he kept his liberal point of view throughout his life. This is a valuable book for it is the only single volume that treats his later life in full. This book complements the excellent The Early Lifeof William Wordsworth, by Emile Legouis.

The Corpse in the Green Pajamas, by R. A. J. Walling.

Another Tolefree yarn and as good as Mr. Walling's other books. This is the best of several detective stories that I have recently read.