A NEW BOOK: Small Talk

UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS—Anonymous — Lippincott — ($4.50). Degrees of anonymity are as thick as the classic leaves that strewed the brooks in Vallombrosa. Some authors veil their names for a variety of excellent reasons, among which is, probably the most frequent, the desire to increase a book's circulation by preying on the public curiosity. Other authors have less excellent motives, and sometimes don the domino of anonymity solely for protection.

Certain critics, who shall also be name less for protection's sake, have heralded Uncensored Recollections as one of the greatest...

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