29 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 24

The Art of Success. By T. Sharper Knowlson. (F. Warne

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Knowlson has written a sensible little book, in which he answers, satisfactorily on the whole, various questions commonly asked about the difficulties and apparent anomalies in human life. On the question of "luck," for instance, he has something to say ; he discusses the maxim, " Honesty is the best policy"; he appreciates education ; he sets himself to answer the difficulty set forth in the query, Do not deserving men often. fail ? Merit must be marketable is the gist of his answer. Great merit, too, may coexist with some incapacitating defect. This is likely to be an instructive book, so far as books can instruct on such subjects.