possible in Mr. Lucas's genial and expansive company.

His latest volume, Luck of the Year, reveals him at his best; or, if that be too much to say, it is a worthy sequel to its many delightful predecessors, Certainly it betrays no evidence of the failing hand. Here you will encounter a satire that never degenerates into spite, and a humor that never broadens into buffoonery. The temptation to quote is almost irresistible, but, for all that, must perforce be resisted. I will content myself with merely quoting the titles of two essays, both of which are in the author's most characteristic manner-Our First Authors' and 'A Formidable Woman.' If you fail to appreciate the mingled humor and whimsicality of these, then you are no true Lucas-lover. And that, I think, is a confession that should not lightly be made by any man.

Ghosts in Daylight, by Oliver Onions. London: Chapman and Hall, 1924. 7s. 6d.

[Observer]

SLIGHT, imaginative, often poetic, these sketches are a little thin, regarded as a book; but they are all well above popular magazine level, as indeed one expects from Mr. Oliver Onions. Pending another such novel as Peace in Our Time, they will keep his name before the public without adding enormously to its prestige. The last tale, which has a veritable ghost in it, the others are mostly ghosts by a stretch of metaphor and courtesy, has actually hit upon a new thrill, tremendously enhancing its horror. All the stories have the distinguished Onions touch; but the impression made by them is shadowy, as the title recognizes. Close the book, and you are conscious of little but a vague impression, except in the case of "The Woman in the Way,' which has a new idea in it. Mr. Oliver Onions is of all novelists one who should take his time and not be persuaded to rush into print with anything short of his always remarkable best.

Sunlight and Health, by C. W. Saleeby, M.D. London: Nisbet and Co., 1924.

['Sinapis' in the Empire Review]

SOME little time ago I called attention to a book by one of the pioneers of the cult of sunshine as a remedial agent, Dr. Rollier, of Leysin in Switzerland. The book was called Heliotherapy,

a title which accurately enough suggested the rather technical contents of a work addressed primarily to the medical profession, and was therefore above the heads of the ordinary reading public. This gap has now been filled by the publication of a book on the same subject, addressed to the laity by Dr. Saleeby, who is not only a master of lucid exposition, but an enthusiast on the subject of which he treats.

Dr. Saleeby was responsible for the translation of Dr. Rollier's book, from which he has very properly extracted such of the matter as was suitable to his present purpose. But he has done a great deal more than that. He has approached the whole subject from a thoroughly scientific standpoint, and has applied it, not only to human, but also to animal needs in such a manner as will surely interest and convince those who are wise enough to read and study his work. Dr. Saleeby has for many years been prominent among those who are laboring to abate the 'nuisance dangerous to health' which is presented by the smoke-laden canopy which overhangs our great cities, and he does not fail to emphasize the obstructive effect of these canopies in depriving the denizens of the cities of the beneficent, disease-preventing, and health-assuring influence of the sun's rays. The book is a thoroughly good one; it should be studied by every thinking person in these islands.

BOOKS MENTIONED

KAUFMANN, CARL MARIA. Amerika und Urchristentum. Munich: Delphin-Verlag, 1924.

NEW TRANSLATIONS

BARTHÉLÉMY, JOSEPH. The Government of France. Translated from the French by J. Bayard Morris. London: Allen and Unwin, 1924. BOULE, MARCELLIN. Fossil Men: Elements of Human Paleontology. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1924. 368.

FREUNDLICH, ERWIN. The Foundations of Ein

stein's Theory of Gravitation. Translated from the German by Henry L. Brose. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924. LARRETA, ENRIQUE. The Glory of Don Ramiro. London: Dent, 1924. 7s. 6d. NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH. The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Dr. Oscar Levy. New York: Knopf. Date to be announced.