Then, as though coming through a sieve, the snow descended in perpendicular flakes, straight down, equally dealt out, monotonous, noiseless, covering roofs, trees, and hedges, and all the land, as with an enormous covering of white feathers. The wedding was really at an end at last. True, they were to meet again at the tavern in the evening, “to wind up”; but for the present they decided to return home. Only the bridesmen and bridesmaids, with the band to lead them, drew up in the porch and sang in unison a short song, in which, declaring themselves the devoted servants of the wedded couple, they wished them good night—in the morning! It was then that Kuba laid his soul at the sacred feet of the Lord Jesus.... END OF PART I _Some recent American novels_ BALISAND _by Joseph Hergesheimer_ _author of_ THE THREE BLACK PENNYS, JAVA HEAD, _etc._ This is Mr. Hergesheimer’s first novel in some years; it will not disappoint his many thousands of admirers. The Virginia of Washington and Jefferson, the century-old struggle between politics and patriotism live again in the life, loves and death of Richard Bale of Balisand. $2.50 THE TATTOOED COUNTESS _by Carl Van Vechten_ _author of_ PETER WHIFFLE _and_ THE BLIND BOW-BOY. With The Tattooed Countess Van Vechten takes on a new importance as a novelist, for while this book is as amusing as anything that has come from his pen it is also a serious thoroughly original picture of American provincial life a generation ago. It deserves the attention of all who care for the American novel at its best. $2.50 SOUND AND FURY _by James Henle_ A first novel by a young American and a work of real distinction. The protagonist, a remarkably vivid character, is an instinctive individualist, the sort of man who must be a law unto himself. The inevitable conflict between such a man and the American mob spirit that will tolerate only conformity makes a novel of unusual significance. $2.50 THE ETERNAL HUNTRESS _by Rayner Seelig_ Woman, the eternal huntress, in her search for the father of those children which shall be her gift to posterity is the theme of this striking first novel by a young American. It would be difficult to name another novel of recent years that treats of the sex problems of the younger generation as frankly and withal as cleanly and vividly. $2.00 THE FIRE IN THE FLINT _by Walter F. White_