Short Notices

THE VENTURE: AN ANNUAL OF ART AND LITERATURE. Edited
by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham. (John
Baillie.) Literary contents by G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy,
Mrs. Meynell, Miss Netta Syrett, Stephen Phillips and others;
woodcuts by C. H. Shannon, Charles S. Ricketts, Laurence
Housman, and others. A tasteful olla prodrida of literature and
art, appealing to the few and fit. Artistically gotten up.