¶ Eugene Witla is one of those strange personalities which occasionally spring up among the humdrum types of common life, an exotic flower in a vegetable garden. Brilliant, irregular, unstable, he attracts and repels in the book as in life. The story deals with his rise as an artist, and later as a business man. ¶ He is one of those powerful and yet fragile personalities to whom great success and great disaster almost inevitably come. His weakness lies in the insatiable hunger of his mind and body for the charm of feminine youth and beauty. His conquests form a series of fascinating episodes, gay with all the colors of love and art. ¶ Eugene is in search of the “Impossible She.” When he is at the height of his success, he finds her. He reaches out his arms to grasp her, and at that moment the whole structure of his life crumbles beneath him. Abysses open, at the bottom of which lie all but insanity. He struggles to save himself. At the end of the book—but read it. A STORY OF GENIUS, RESTLESS POWER AND CREATIVE ENERGY SEARCHING FOR LIFE’S SOLUTION _“The ‘Genius’ is a work of art to which Dreiser has risen from mere works of devoted craft.”—St. Louis Mirror._ _“Dreiser’s work reminds one at times of Zola, of Balzac and of Tolstoy.”—New York Times._ _“His study of this fine character in fiction (The ‘Genius’)—a strictly Twentieth Century product—is full of human interest and psychic significance.”—Philadelphia North American._ _“A separate and colossal effort.... Its people live, its lesson is all the more forceful for the author’s consistent refusal to pass it. Yes, Mr. Dreiser indubitably is an artist.”—Chicago Herald._ POETRY The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke _With a Critical Introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington. Photogravure Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.25 net._ “Among all who have been poets and died young it is hard to think of one, who both in life and death, has so typified the ideal radiance of youth and poetry.”—GILBERT MURRAY _in the Cambridge Magazine_. Poems By Gilbert K. Chesterton, _Author of “The Ballad of the White Horse,” etc. Cloth, $1.25 net._ This new collection of the poems of G. K. Chesterton covers a multitude of subjects—Love Poems, Religious Poems, Rhymes for the Times, etc., and his verse, no less than his prose, contains delicious humor and deep philosophy. ART Modern Painting Its Tendency and Meaning By Willard H. Wright