BOOKS RECEIVED

TRADER HORN, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: taken down and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. Foreword by John Galsworthy. The Literary Guild of America, New York. This is a volume of memories of a trader's life in central Africa, reeking with atmosphere. The main figure of the story is a real figure; and the subordinate characters are also real. To avoid publicity of offense surnames have been changed.

THE BIG SHOW by McCready Huston. Scribner's, New York, $2. This is a novel of a man whose boyhood was spent with a circus and whose manhood was passed in the contemplation of circuses of many kinds, including his own life. His viewpoint sets him both in and out of the events he witnessed and gives the author a chance thus, to portray a character with unusual completeness.