TAPER LIGHTS By Ellen Burns Sherman CONTENTS. 12mo. $1.25 The Salt Lake of Literature.-The Difference 'Twixt Word and Word.-Nature's Games of Hide and Seek.-Just a Few of the Reasons Why Love Grows Cold.-Ethical Balances.Several Words to the Wise.-Between the Lines. -Nature's Economies.-What's in an Eye.-The Devil's Fancy-Work.-The Lifting of Veils in Literature. "A marvelously brilliant collection of subtle and fascinating essays."-Boston Transcript. ... The "The first satisfactory stopping-place is the last page. A second and even a third reading is pretty likely to end at the same place. first thing about Miss Sherman's work of which one is sure is that it has a style-not merely sufficient to convey the ideas, but original, brilliant and charming enough to give them the stamp of permanent literature. It is the sort of style that is a satisfaction in itself, now clean-cut and terse, going swiftly and trenchantly to the mark, now richly allusive and elusive, poetically fanciful, illuminated with pungent anecdote, savored with Attic salt, and abounding in memorably delightful euphemisms."—Springfield Republican. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK |