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Here are four volumes of short stories as rich in variety as one could wish for —treating of life as we should like it to be and as it is.

Miss Josephine Blumenfeld’s effects are generally only skin-deep; but she achieves happy results in a conventional movement of the typical happy magazine story.

Henry Lion Feuchtwanger, author of “Jew Siiss,” and victim of Nazi vandalism, provides us with eight sketches in “Little Tales,” some of which run to but a few hundred words.

They are a mixture of subtle satire, humor and worldliness, and embrace such differing episodes as a sidelight on Warren Hastings, an altitude record attempt, Polar exploration, and a bullfight.

Cleverly written, and very much to the point.

Ivan Bunin, Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in 1933, is cast in an entirely different mold from Feuchtwanger. His “Grammar Of Love”—ten tales written during the years 1912-1932—is, for the most part, a queerly glamorous, passionate affair.

Some of the stories left me quite indifferent, but the two longest—”A Simple Peasant” and “On The Great Road”—are well worth reading.

“Story in America”—an anthology representative of the best tales that appeared in the American magazine, “Story,” in the year 1933-34—will, I imagine, prove the most popular of this quartet.

Here are thirty-four very fine tales—some of them most masterly efforts, including one of Ivan Bunin’s mentioned above. E. C.

Bella Falk, wife of Joshua Falk born in Lemberg in the mid-six teenth century, became an authority on the Talmud and gave decisions in difficult cases.