A noteworthy manifestation of the interest in the stage and its literature is the work, both in writing of plays and their performance, of the gifted band organized as the Wisconsin Dramatic Society. The three one-act plays in this volume are fruits of the movement. Having met with success in the theatre, they are now offered to the creative reader to whose imagination dramatic literature is a stimulus. SELF-CULTURE THROUGH THE VOCATION By EDWARD HOWARD GRIGGS 50 cents net; weight about 8 oz. This new book in the Art of Life Series deals with work as a way to culture and service. When the cry everywhere is vocational education, it is worth while to stop and ask, What of the education that is possible through the vocation itself? This question is studied in six chapters, with a lightness of touch that saves the teaching from didacticism and gives it universal human appeal. The book is a companion study to the author’s popular “The Use of the Margin.” Dr. Griggs is particularly satisfying in such brief, trenchant studies of deep problems of life, and the new book should be of special value to young people and to men and women longing to make each day yield its full return in culture and wisdom. THE DEATH OF A NOBODY By JULES ROMAINS $1.25 net; weight about 18 oz. An amazingly perfect production of incomparable restraint and power; it reveals with a quality enchaining the attention, the interwoven web of human revelations, romantic from their very prosaicness. The life of one in other’s minds—the “social consciousness” about which the sociologists have developed abstruse theories, is here portrayed explicitly, with a fascination no theory can have. The uniqueness of the book is suggested by the fact that the “Nobody” about whom the action revolves dies in the second chapter. Though fiction, it will supply convincing arguments to believers in life after death. It is not only a masterpiece of literary art, but might well be used as the concrete text of the mind of the crowd. Translated from the French by Desmond MacCarthy and Sydney Waterlow. All of these may be obtained from booksellers or from the publisher. Upon application to the latter, a list of interesting publications of 1914 may be obtained. B. W. HUEBSCH, 225 Fifth avenue, New York “BOOK CHRISTMAS” SUGGESTIONS The Pastor’s Wife By the Author of “Elizabeth and Her German Garden” A delicious and timely piece of satire on German and English ways by the Author of “Elizabeth and Her German Garden.” A story of an English girl who marries a German pastor, and of her laughable attempts to Germanize herself and Anglicize her children.