+HARDING+ It does to our great and near-great +WILSON+ what the "gentleman with a duster" +HUGHES+ did to eminent Englishmen in "The +HARVEY+ Mirrors of Downing Street." It tells +HOUSE+ painfully plain truths about the personalities +HOOVER+ of those in whose hands our +ROOT+ destinies lie or have lain. It is searching +LODGE+ in its analyses, and contains fourteen +BORAH+ discerning, piercing, sometimes +KNOX+ satirical, always brilliant, character +PENROSE+ studies. "And," says the _N.Y. Eve. +LANSING+ Post_, "it contains indiscretions delicious +BARUCH+ enough to satisfy the most +JOHNSON+ exacting." 14 portraits and 14 amusing caricatures by Cesare. _Chicago Daily News_: "We recommend it because it gives a startling and clear picture of Washington's fourteen great political figures--an unusual picture, quite different from anything we have had thus far in American critical writing. A chuckling expose of the good and bad in American politics ... succinct word pictures, penetrating anecdotes ... not vicious ... gently, with a charmingly unobtrusive sapiency, the mysterious pen has traced the ludicrous outlines of the nation's anointed.... The book should be read by all hands and all parties. It is not partisan ... the sort of education which may be acquired once in a lifetime." +G.P. Putnam's Sons+ +New York London+ * * * * * _By the Author of_ "The Mirrors of Downing Street" +THE GLASS OF FASHION+ SOME SOCIAL REFLECTIONS The Author prefers to remain anonymous He signs himself A GENTLEMAN WITH A DUSTER _With Portraits_ "The Gentleman with a Duster" who so mercilessly and brilliantly clarified the mirrors of Downing Street, now turns his attention to English Society--and what a drubbing it gets. Perhaps the sorriest victims to fall under his cleanser are Col. Repington and Margot Asquith. His name for the latter will surely stick--"The Grandmother of the Flapper." But society at large is not spared, and there can be no question as to the sincerity of the author. The _Spectator_, realizing this, says, "The book is not a piece of mere Grubb Street morality prepared by someone who thinks that this is the dish the public desires at the moment." _The Glass of Fashion_ is at times savagely ferocious, but it scintillates brilliancy throughout. +NEW YORK G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS LONDON+ * * * * * +Mrs. Gladstone+ +By Her Daughter Mary Gladstone Drew+ "Presents us with a most beautiful picture of William and Catherine Gladstone's life." "_A Gentleman with a Duster_." "The record this book gives us is from the pen of a loving daughter and one qualified for this labor of love from intimate personal knowledge." _New Haven Journal-Courier_. "The essence of mid-Victorianism at its very best."--_Newark Evening News_.