formance might not have gained in force and effect, without losing anything essential, through the practice of a somewhat greater economy, or exclusiveness, of detail. But its lack of swift dramatic action is atoned for by the extraordinary richness and saliency of its portraiture. Unless by putting down the book half read, there is no getting away from the reality of Ellen Tolliver, musical genius and essential woman; from those strange hybrid airstocrats of Gotham, the Callendars; from luckless Clarence; above all, from the sardonic presence of old Gramp, "The Everlasting," with his apple and his volume of Gibbon. Biography ONE MAN'S LIFE. An Autobiography. By Herbert Quick. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $5. Mr. The modest title does not belie the mood of this autobiography of a successful novelist who grew up on the Iowa prairie, plowed, sowed, and reaped on his father's farm, until at sixteen he was qualified to teach in a country school. 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