Agnes" that she stamped herself indelibly upon the season. FOR BOOK LOVERS Archibald Lowery Sessions Practical purposes served by stories of trade and commerce. Something more than entertainment.

Among the interesting new books are "The Common Lot," by Robert Herrick; "The Master Word," by L. H. Hammond; "The Plum Tree," by David Graham Phillips.

Spring has brought with it a multitude of gay volumes. American bookbinding has at last reached such a point that, whatever the nature of its contents, a novel may at least make an impression by its good clothes. Trade stories almost overcrowd this brilliant assemblage.

Of course, it is what might be expected of American commercialism, that our literature should open its doors to all phases of business and manufacture. Most of us feel particularly at home and in our element, as it were, when finding amusement for a leisure hour among mills or stock markets. And these tales, like the Rollo books, impart much valuable information to the uninitiated.