HERMAN MELVILLE'S MOBY DICK COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED With a new introduction by Raymond Weaver IS NOW IN THE MODERN LIBRARY Other New Additions Include A NIGHT IN THE LUXEMBOURG By REMY DE GOURMONT OSCAR WILDE'S DE PROFUNDIS with a new introduction By FRANK HARRIS ZULEIKA DOBSON By MAX BEERBOHM MODERN LIBRARY 120 TITLES IN ALL-NO END OF FIRST RATE 95 Cents a Copy WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD MODERN LIBRARY 1 N CORPORATED did silence Melville-snuffed him out as a literary artist; and the Melville that survived for a quarter-century was (but for a single flare at the very end) a humdrum citizen, a small official, whose real life lay in the pursuit of an obscure and melancholy mysticism. Poe, Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville-their treasure has come down to us from that difficult source; and who can say with any assurance that other conditions would have produced better treasure or any treasure at all? SHORT TALKS WITH THE DEAD, AND OTHERS. By Hilaire Belloc. Harper & Try merely to "look into" this book of essays, and you will find yourself baffled. You will pause to read here and there, and there and here; you will turn the leaves backwards and forwards, and finally put the book down an hour or two afterwards, having read and enjoyed such essays as "The Good Poet and the Bad Poet," "Talk New York ing of Fakers," "Lord Rumbo and Lord Jumbo." "True Advertising," and "Talking of Epitaphs." In short, it is, as a book of essays ought to be, as irresistible as a dish of nuts. GEORGE MEREDITH. By J. B. Priestley. (English men of Letters-New Series.) The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.25. Critics and critics have written of Meredith's work; he was, in his day, as Joseph Conrad in ours, the critics' pet novelist, the writer they best loved to interpret and explain and appreciate and analyze. His own life was less known than that of any of the major authors of the Victorian reign. Perhaps the most important, certainly to us the most interesting, part of this small book is in the pages which tell of the events of his life, and show how different he was from the usual idea of him. WALT WHITMAN. By John Bailey. (English By an Englishman. The life of Whitman occupies 48 pages of this small book; the rest of the 214 pages are devoted to an intelligent and loving appreciation of the poet's work. It seems to us the best of the books about Whitman, with the single exception of the life by Bliss Perry. It will not satisfy the fanatics who demand extravagant praise for every word and syllable which Whitman ever wrote or spoke, as well as an exaltation of the man himself into a deity. Whitman wrote many lines In writing to the above advertiser please mention The which were dreadful nonsense, and Mr. Bailey is right in pointing out that fact. But no admirer of Whitman's poetry at its best can demand warmer praise or a juster estimate than his noblest passages receive in this excellent book. Travel THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. By Charles Downing Lay. Duffield & Co., New York. $1. This pæan in praise of New York and cities in general will be a source of intense comfort and reassurance to those who have built their homes in the cliff holes of modern city apartments and have fewer ladders of escape than they would like. A short draught of true country life suffices after months and years of continual stimulation and companionship. Numerous ingenious methods are suggested by which the plugging farmer may become urbanized and Mr. Lay, who is an optimist prosperous. by profession, sums up his delicious little book by saying: "It cannot be proven that a certain attitude of mind toward one thing or another in our environment is essential to well-being either physical or mental. 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