WORDS TO THE WISE -AND OTHERS By ELLEN BURNS SHERMAN 12mo. 301 pp. $1.50 Miss Sherman's "Taper Lights" was called by the Boston Transcript "a marvelously brilliant collection of subtle and fascinating essays," and highly praised by other high authorities. In this new volume Miss Sherman discusses The Root and Foliage of Style - When Steel Strikes Punk Our Kin and Others-Where the Veil is Thin At the End of the Rainbow Ruskin Serendipity-Modern LetterWriting, with various actual examples Our Comédie Humaine-The Slain that Are not Numbered-A Plea for the Naturalization of Ghosts. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY |