BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS.
The Publishers' Christmas Lists have conic to hand. They are full of good things. Many more, indeed, than most of us will ever have time to read, much less money to pay for. Present favourites among contemporary novels are All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Jame Branch Cabell's The Way of Ecben, Phyllis Bottome's Windle- straws, Jacob Wassermann's The Maurizius Case, Hugh Walpole's Hans Frost, and Susan Glaspell's Fugitive's Return. Ex-Governor " Al " Smith's Up to Now, which has a Dicken- sian flavour, and Claude G. Bower's The Tragic Era, despite— or perhaps because of—its clear propensity to give Whig dogs the worst of it, are colourful, racy depictions of American events, politics and characters. Eddington's Science and the Unseen World, Sir James Jeans' The Universe Around Us, and John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty are among other " best sellers " in the non-fiction list. An unusual and en- grossing work is Lynd Ward's God's Man, a tremendously moving novel without the burden of words, for it is all told in woodcuts. God's Man is a book that is worth keeping.
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