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tWhen one picks up a book written *gardenlng by L. W. Ranisey, ont aésts happily confident that it wiIl be eay to understand and will contain real information. A pool, in a garden has somnething awe-inspiring about it, especially if tht host should assure his guest that lie had made ithimiself. The n one, is apt to lokupon'that host as. if be, vert a great big wondemful man. Andi tbis book shows ýhow to do it se that one may cause that admiring expres- sion to arise fromone's guests. This being a seaison of plan ning, we ,suggest'that the ovîer of the back yadgo te this book aud learn how to make ç xpensiycand inexpeusive Pools, what kind of fishes to buy, how to takgt tare of the. lily and other water plant -bulbs in winter and al there is te know -about a pool, so far as an amateur is concerned. Unbe drawings and p1otographs imake the authors' 'meauing clear. Specific instructions in mixing cement uLake success assured. Even if ont wexe net planning te make'a pooi it would bc fun to learu how fromn this *attractive bock. Here is fireside occu- *pation at least. THRIEE VIRGCINS 0F. HAWORTH. By Emilit and Georges Romieu. E. P. Dutton. (Reviewtd by Esther Gould) Surely no one could ask for a mort *ramatic or inspiriMg subject than that taken by, Emilie and Georges flomieu the French authors cf this1 book, 'Three Virgins of Haworth" With the lives of the three Broute sis- ters as a subject; draina and pathos1 and vivid humanity walk out of themi- selves andý take possession of cne's' pages., Much has been written about this family, which with one of. those nexplicabjIe flowerings -burst into blog-in the most unlikely. place, a barren country parsonage on the bamsb Yorkcshire meors. 1.1.I an excellent but imitative wor k rather than some bolder novel by a uew talent unlikcly te unite their opinions, or te be highly popular with tht pub- lic. Mr. Ltwisjohn, whc has translated tht bock, admits the comparison with Feuchtwa;nger and cdaims for "Afnbi- tien"I equal pcwfer aud interest. Certainly the peried and settiug -are well tmattd, 'and Guttmann shows hiuiself an adept at keeping. up a thread of narrative utiliig multitu- dinous historicae and se.mi-historical personages , ranging from tiht Great lElector cf Prunsiàiansd bis family to tht servants and inukeepers cf Pets- dam and B_çrlin. Yetiît 1may be noted that unlike. Feuchtwanger h lie as chos*n ne dominating figure amound which to build up his story, and bas consequently lest the principal means of holding tht reader~s attention. His book in tht end becomes a. kind of his*orical scenar witii a minor .and net very original love interest, a "Jtw Suss'" without Suss, an "Ugly Duch- tss' withoUt a Margarethe Maultasch. If eue wi§hes te study the conflicts, political and religious. cf tht time without readiug too many dull text bocks, there are worse ways .tlman in tht pages of Ilerr Guttmann's 3ovel, wbich mingles aIl tht confused cur- ents eventually leading to.the fouit- dation of modern Prussia in a suffi- ciefitiy attractive whole. A great histomical novel it is net, but it is often an admirable Picture of a scene unfortunaely neither so fautastic nor se picturesque as those chosen by Feuchtwanger for bis historical novels. ENGLAND IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By L. B. Namier. Macmilan. Dots Mm. Namier's volume bear the samie title in ngland? There, where our Revolution is net a dawing sub- ject, theme can be no tempctation te' capitalize its popularity. But "England. lin the Age of thé American Revolu- poration of Arnerica; Mr. Lescarboura was formerly managing editor of the Scientific American. Both have haçi long experience in radio, from Ats crude beginnig a qureof a cen- tury ago to its présent ýstatus as. Am- erica's sixth largest industry and they are eniinently qualified te write its first. complete popular history. The few technical portions of. the book, dealing-with, modulation and amplification, are simply and effective- ly handled,,and are necessary to au uÛderstan dinig of the problemswbich the -Young industry had to solve. The evol.ution of broadcasting from ,a mere stunt 'into an art with its own.tech- niJque is admirably told. The furtber evpluttion of this art into. a national institution; the disappearançe cf the weaklings, and the emergence, of tht great networks; tht coming of "spon- sored" programs; and the interven- tion of goverument in licensing broad- casters and aliocating wave-lengtbs, are relatçd interestingly and in detaiL I dealing' wth the rsocial implications of radio, the authors are on apparent- ly less, firm ground; tbey daim,. for example. that radio is incmeasing- the birth rate, by making hom ndmr riage, attractive to women. But before tht ceming of radio, people didn't sit up as late. We wonder. But they have left nothing unsaid, and their book, which is more than 350 pages long is readable and tirnely.. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN TRADE. By Grover G, Huebner and Roland L. Kramer. Appleton. FAMOUS FAMILlES 0F MASSA- CHUSETTS. By Mary Caroline Crawford. Little, Brown. 2. vols. THE SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK. By Harmy Paddock. Smnith. GREATER THOUGHTS 0F IM- MORTALITY. Comipiled by J Hilder. Smth. THE ROAD TO, CULTURE. By. Charles Gray Shaw.. Funk & Wag- nalls. EX-RACKETEER.. New,,York: Ru-' JJarlcwater-Du Bois. Princpiles of Labor Legisiation- Commons. Youth in the World of Men- Johnson. Hear With Your Eyes--Good. Art; of the Story-teller-Shedlock. Fifty Littie'Businiesses forWomen -Dodge. Freighters of F'ortune-Beasley. English Children's Costume Since 1775-Brooke. Enlglish Costume in- the Nineteenth Century-Brooke... Paul Bunyan-Shephard. Life of the Spider"~Fabre. Life of the Ant---Maet.erlinck. Bird Life-Chapman. Travels of Birds"-Chapman. Diesel Engine'Operation -Bushnell. Air Conquest-Davis. Skyways-Mitchell. Flying Gypsies-Sîbour. Flying the Arctic-Wilkins. Automobile Encyclopedia- Dyke. Exploring for Plants-Fairchild.. Groldfish Culture for Amateurs- Hodge. lIouswifery-Balderston. Plate Dinners for the Busy Wom- ap-ýClaire. Secret of the Successful Restaurant -Maç»ougall. Perfect Baby-Morton. Books-Duff us. Accounting-Finney. Social Secretary--Myers. FineAt American Artists-Narodny. Concert-goer's. Library of Descrip- tive Notes-Newmarch. Wagne'rian Romaces-Hall. Around the Worldý in Song-Jor- dan. Stories of Symphonic*usic-Gil-" man. Symphon ies and Their Meaning-- Goepp. Modern Russian Composers--Sab- afteev. Skis and Skiing-Jessup. amatists- ontis., in ives bunet Iratements et %-. Z).llwarmi, fY AsflIand avenue, sny almost forgotten chamacters. has returued.. to bis studies at tht id carrnes eut a close study of the University of Illinois. lations between Bute and New- tstît in 1742-3. Much cf the detail Willard Uttenreuther,_1844 Forest' ithe bock is new and useful, sud avenue, left last week for Los Ange- te American historian may well hôpe les, Cal., te make an extended visit at Mr. Namien will carryhisstudes. iih bis: .sisoteri Mrs. katherine Salmen. Seven Days' Di Wate rs, cf Stril Slane's Long s 'leu.ry Prize Great Oaks--w ,f Julia--Glenn., rkness--Gunnasoni., eots-O0ppeuheim. ;tories. Mains.