1753 votes on the ten best books published since 1900 were polied by the Literary Digest International Book Review, and lo! the name of Wells led all the rest. Not only did his "Outline of History" receive more votes than any other book, but he stood first among the ten favorite authors. His "Outline of History" and sixteen of his other books put him at the top of the list for popularity.

Winston Churchill's novel, "The Crisis," and Owen Wister's story, "The Virginian," were two other of the ten favorite books, and among the authors who received many votes were Jack London, whose "Call of the Wild" appeared to be the favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book he was just beginning, "Leave It to Psmith." And people who must avoid cream and humor should be extremely careful not to read this new Wodehouse novel.

"The Passion Flower" of Edna Worthley Underwood, published by Hougaton, Mifflin Company, is the second volume of a new world trilogy of which the first. "The Penitent", was published in 1922. The scene of "The Penitent" is laid in Russia of a century ago, a period soothing as today with the ferment of new ideas. "The Passion Flower," like its predecessor, is also a story of Russia. In her last volume, the story will deal in part with America.

Vere Hutchinson's "Great Waters," previously announced by the Century Co. as on the way, is definitely to be published April 16, the publishers state. They remind us that the first novel of this young sister of A. S. M. Hutchinson, "Sea Wrack," received from American reviewers a remarkable "press," in which the word "powerful" outdistanced all other adjectives in number of times used. The new novel is described as a romance, and opens with the kidnaping of a young Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship," as does the author whose passion for the sea runs through her former book