In the long list of Mrs. Atherton’s books with which this chapter concludes it would be desirable, but it is hardly possible, to follow the example of guidebooks and star and doublestar her more important novels. It is impracticable because any such designations would have to be those of a single taste or of a coterie of tastes. _Patience Sparhawk_, the dramatized biography of Alexander Hamilton called _The Conqueror_, and possibly her recent novel of a German revolution, or the revolt of the German women under the leadership of Gisela Niebuhr, would be marked with the double star; certainly _The Conqueror_ would. The present writer would singlestar _Senator North_ and the novels of early California--_The Doomswoman_, _Rezanov_, _The Splendid Idle Forties_ and _The Californians_. Of _The Living Present_ we must speak to call attention to the final paper in the book’s second part, a tribute to four New York women, of whom one is Honoré Willsie, the subject of a later chapter in this book. _The Living Present_ is not a novel. The first half is concerned with French women in war time, the fruit of Mrs. Atherton’s observations and experience in war work; the second half has the general title _Feminism in Peace and War_. _Perch of the Devil_ must be doublestarred, so probably must _Ancestors_ and _Tower of Ivory_. Such books as _Rulers of Kings_ and _The Travelling Thirds_ are least important. _Mrs. Balfame_, as a capital mystery story, the result doubtless of Mrs. Atherton’s attendance at a celebrated murder trial in the interests of a New York newspaper, must be single starred in any list. _The Valiant Runaways_, long out of print, has been republished this fall (1918). It is a story for boys, of Spanish California, with an encounter with a savage bear, a rescue from a dangerous river, capture by Indians and an escape on wild mustangs capped by a revolutionary battle! The performance may be considered a final reminder of Mrs. Atherton’s versatility. No one has ever found fault with her for not being versatile! BOOKS BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON