E GOLDEN SNAIL. By Victor MacClure. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $2. The Golden Snail is a restaurant ich progresses at a pace never known snails. The hero of the story, a xotic young artist named Percival mblebury, lives and paints in a back eet of Soho, "a street of ancient digy and modern squalor." His advenres in starting the Golden Snail on glorious upward career and subseent encounters with various editors, wnbrokers, restaurateurs, and actresses humorously told. Some of Percival's using acquaintances include Laverdet, prietor of the restaurant; MacIsaac, "Scoto-Transjordanic" money-lendand General Sir Blunto Blunderne, veteran of the Indian frontier, collects miniatures. Among other ngs this penniless artist rescues a lady distress, and proves finally to be an ally good painter and lover. E REGION CLOUD. By Percy Lubbock. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2.50. A delicately phrased appreciation of des of genius and art expression is e revealed through characters whose osing temperaments give them consted outlooks upon life. There is a y element, and a situation of tensity ich exists, morally speaking, but in the n one's interest is more intent upon at the author thinks and feels and how reveals himself in literary form than ction or incident. NTED FIRES. By Nellie L. McClung. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $2. There are elements of a large poputy in the plot and setting of this tale. if there is crudity here and there in telling, it is more than atoned for our liking for the cheerful, capable, hful Finnish maiden who comes to erica to make her way, and suffers vously through the selfishness and ocrisy of others. This is one of the les that calls for the "inartistic" but ifying happy ending. LOVE STORIES. By Twenty and Nine Authors. Edited by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson-Scott. D. 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DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. By Fred Jacob. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2. Mr. Jacob is a Canadian critic, athlete, and writer of plays. We believe that this is his first story. It tells of Ontario small-town life with sympathy and discernment. Especially praiseworthy is the rendering of boy character as seen in two half-brothers who are involved in the sometimes tragic but often humorous affairs of their elders. A book of promise is this, and also one of satisfactory performance. Essays and Criticism By of HORACE AND HIS ART OF ENJOYMENT. Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Professor Latin, Vassar College. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $3. A book on Horace by a woman must ipso facto intrigue us-i. e., us men, of course. But really, gentlemen, really, this is going too far! They have invaded our clubs and colleges, they have taken over our habits, they have driven us from every field that attracted them, but hitherto they have left us our Horace, the men's poet, as we deemed him. And now he too is reft from us. Quis desiderio modus? Præcipe lugubris cantus, Melpomene! O frabjous day! As a matter of fact, Miss Haight's book stands out from among the flock of recent books on Horace (the rest by men) as a swan among crows. For one thing, Miss Haight does not, like some of those gentlemen, try to enlist the services of Horace in the grand work of American uplift; she is free of that nauseating cant. She frankly faces the difficulty of reconciling the attribution to ANY BOOK PRINT Delivered at your door. We pay th postage. Standard authors, fine e tions, new books, all at biggest sa ings, Be sure to send postcard Clarkson's catalog. FREE Write for our great book alog. This catalog is a she course in literature and is so as by some of America's leading universit 300,000 book lovers buy from it. Free if you write se DAVID B. CLARKSON THE BOO BROKE 107 CLARKSON BLDG, CHICAGO, IL Horace of wholesome character with the The Pratt Teachers Agend evidences furnished by his writings (especially the Epodes and certain Odes) of somewhat large concessions in personal conduct to Our Lady of Cyprus and to Bacchus Bassareus. She effects the reconciliation charmingly; she is not mim-mouthed, though not abating of the discretion and delicacy proper to a wo man. One may justly, however, have a point of quarrel with Miss Haight. Not that F. H. SMITH CO. she is anywise lacking in appreciation of Founded 1873 Pittsburgh New York Smith Bldg., Washington, D.C. 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The Feast of the Hamadchas is an ancient ceremony, in which these religious fanatics dance and indulge in a mad orgy of self-mutilation. of Meknez catches at the imagination. But perhaps most of all the ruined city The Sultan Moulay Ismaël built it in an attempt to outrival Versailles, and the work was done at the urge of the lash by fifty-five thousand captives, many of them Christians, who found its walls their tomb. Meknez contained fifty palaces, marvelous gardens, and a stable three miles long, housing twelve hundred horses. Many-walled Fez is visited, and Sefrou with its Jewish quarter, where the sunlight never enters and the inhabitants are still locked in every night. Several other cities, including Marakech, are on the route, and with the eye of the colorist Mrs. Wharton has painted their beauty. It is beauty hand in hand with dirt and dilapidation. 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