25 JANUARY 1902, Page 14

Notable Masters of Men. By Edwin A. Pratt. (A. Melrose.

3s. Gcl.) —This is intended, we presume, to serve two purposes : to collect the author's occasional papers and to furnish a prize- book for blys. It seems successful in both aspects, and the author mitigates the effect produced by the examples of millionaires by also allowing us to see the examples of such persons as Mr. Kavanagh, or Mr. Wren, the Army coach. Grown- up readers before passing on the prize will not dislike to refresh their memories with the papers on Edison, Birkbeck, Mason, Bessemer, and the like, and the author is even up to date as to Mr. Carnegie and Mr. George Cadbury. The volume contains a good deal of information as to how well-known successes in business have been made.