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 HOMO SAPIENS, by Stanislaw Przybyszewski is a very modern love-story —it might be called the love-story of a super-man. And yet, as in most Slavic fiction, there is very much more to Homo Sapiens than just the story. (Alfred A. Knopf, $1.50 net.)

GOD'S MAN, by George Bronson-Howard is a drama of life to-day in America, with scenes set in New York City and on Long Island. It is an absorbing chronicle, stirring and dramatic. (Bobbs-Merrill Co., $1.40 net.)

William Stanley Braithwaite's ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE AND YEAR BOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY has become a recognized and valuable literary institution. The volume for 1915 has just been issued and shows throughout Mr. Braithwaite's fine discrimination and exact literary judgment. It is a volume that should be owned by every lover of American poetry. (Gomme and Marshall, $1.50 net.)

HEART OF EUROPE, by Ralph Adams Cram is an eloquent history of northern France, Belgium and Flanders, written as only a man could write who was saturated with knowledge of its art and beauty and knew how to estimate the loss to the world by its devastation. (Scribner's, $2.50 net.)

THE SPELL OF FLANDERS, by Edward Neville Vose is the story of a Twentieth Century Pilgrimage in a Sixteenth Century Land, just before the outbreak of the great War. Capitally illustrated. (The Page Co., $2.50 net.)

THE SPELL OF BELGIUM, by Isabel Anderson is written in an entertaining style and few readers will be able to turn its pages without experiencing in some degree the enthusiasm of its author. The illustrations are excellent. (The Page Co., $2.50 net.)

WILD BIRD GUESTS AND HOW TO ENTERTAIN THEM, by Ernest Harold Baynes, is a book that will appeal to every friend of American wild birds. Excellently illustrated and with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $2.00 net.)

THE COLOUR OF PARIS, these historic, personal and local descriptions by the members of the Academy Goncourt have been beautifully illustrated in color by the Japanese artist, Yoshio Markino. It is a book that will be treasured by those who love Paris. (Dodd, Mead and Co., $3.00 net.)

Washington Irving's KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY OF NEW YORK with Maxfield Parish's illustrations is now offered