20 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 22

The Brazen Calf. By James L. Ford. (Dodd, Mead, and

Co.) —Mr. Ford thinks that there is some sense in worshipping a calf of gold—after all, it has a substantial value—but that the calf of brass is a very poor deity. Wealth is something; but what is fashion? The object of his scorn is the New York coterie known as the Four Hundred. The book comes from the other side of the Atlantic, and much of it is of local application ; still, mutato nomine, it is not without an application here.