Mr. Francis Stopford’s ideas on life and service are expressed in these essays for those on the threshold of life. They are addressed primarily to those who have yet to face the more serious problems of life, not the very young, but those entering on the responsibilities of parentage, or those who are to be counted on as being in charge of the succeeding generation. *** A full descriptive booklet of over forty volumes of the Readers’ Library, illustrated with portraits, can be had free on request. -------- An American Poet WALT MASON Horse Sense. Poems. By WALT MASON. With Prefatory Letter by JOHN MASEFIELD. Fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net; postage, 4d. Walt Mason’s verse has attracted a great deal of attention when it has appeared from time to time in the daily press. He has been described as the high priest of ‘horse sense,’ and this collection of his prose poems is calculated to reveal him particularly in the light of a practical man of vigorous mind, whose sense of values is sound and who expresses his views tersely and emphatically. He writes with singular facility, and has complete mastery of rhythm and rhyme. His range is from grave to gay, from wholehearted endorsement of some homely virtue to vigorous condemnation of cant, fraud, and shams of all kinds. Mr. John Masefield writes:--“I read Walt Mason with great delight. His poems have wonderful fun and kindliness, and I have enjoyed them the more for their having so strongly all the qualities I liked so much in my American friends when I was living in the United States. “I don’t know any book which has struck me as so genuine a voice of the American nature. “I am glad that his work is gaining a wider and wider recognition.” -------- South America as it is To-day ROGER W. BABSON The Future of South America. By ROGER W. BABSON. With 16 Illustrations and Two Maps. 407 pages. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. net; postage, 6d.