modern Russia, showing how the Muscovite thinks and feels. It also explains, why, with his heritage he must for many a year be unlike the happier sons of free lands in which the ruler is not called by a pet name but lives and dies for his people, being their free choice to be both their servant and the greatest among them. Even adults will find this small work a convenient compendium of Russian history, manners, and customs. The author's daughter, Mme. Nathalie de Bogory of New York has assisted in the production of the book. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. "The Whirligig of Time," by Wayland Wells Williams, is the story of two brothers and is written in the leisurely style which we associate with the English rather than the American novel. It is a study of the brotherly relation. We first meet James and Harry Wimbourne at their mother's Ideath bed, when James is twelve and Harry ten years old. Shortly after, on the death of their father, the boys are separated, Harry going to England for seven years and James to an American preparatory school and later to Yale. Harry returns to America and also attends Yale, but with a different temperament and different reactions to college life than James experienced. The brothers are inarticulate in their affection and their lives touch each other vitally only occasionally, but whenever the younger brother is in great need James always comes to his assistance and rescues him most nobly. Twice they fall in love with the same woman, and twice James withdraws in favor of Harry. James' marriage, the threatened ruin of his happiness and the successful working out of this problem form the most vital chapters in the novel. As a character study the book is remarkable. Frederick A. Stokes Company The title of Compton Mackenzie's "Mr. and Mrs. Pierce" announces it immediately as one of the studies of married life now so common, but its use of the financial element is original and so free from technicalities that nobody, even though as simple as the heroine, can find any difficulty in understanding it. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce are young, the proud owners of a remarkable baby, and a good income derived from the husband's clerical work for a paper firm with the Dickensian name of Pynchon, Fielding & Styce. They are well educated, out of debt, with no dependent kindred, a pretty suburban house and neighbors whom they have trained to keep outside their domain, by regularly extinguishing the lights in the living room. Into this Eden enters the serpent of financial ambition and prompts the wife to demand that her uncle and guardian shall immediately place her little fortune in her own possession, to the end that she may give it to her husband and transform him into a capitalist. Before she discovers the difficulties and dangers of being an earthen pot among the iron pots of the Pactolus, she encounters the genus scoundrel, species plausible, and comes very near losing husband, baby, home, self-respect and income. She has to appeal to her mother and to her sister's husband for assistance, and experiences all the delights of family disapproval and consequent lectures; but she gains self-knowledge, control and perception of what constitutes a real friend, and perfect understanding between herself and her husband. Mr. Mackenzie by no means exposes his plot to his reader until the last moment and it is best to imitate his example. 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