The Literary Guild has selected as its choice for April "Round Up" by Ring W. Lardner. The book will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons on April 5. "Round Up" is the only collection of short stories ever presented by the Guild and it is the first by Mr. Lardner in three years.

St. John Ervine provides a quotation for the title page of Sewell Stokes' new book of interviews "Pilloried!" to the effect that "every man in this country should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind."

Accepting this as gospel, Mr. Stokes has told the irreverent truth about E. Phillips Oppenheim, Sinclair Lewis, Fanny Ward, Susan Ertz, and other celebrities of the moment in "Pilloried!"

The love letters of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Prime Minister to Queen Victoria are at length to be fully published.

The letters, which will be published by D. Appleton and Company in this country sometime next fall, represent one of the most curious and romantic episodes in history. They are addressed to two sisters, Anne, Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Bradford.

A book by Dean W. R. Inge which has been published in England under the title. "Assessments and Anticipations" (Cassell) will be published some time in April in this country by Harpers under the title, "Labels and Libels." It was Harpers who changed the title.

Florenz Ziegfeld has written the preface to "Secrets of Charm", by Josephine Huddleston, which Putnam's have published this week. The book is having its premiere at the first annual National Beauty Show which is being held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, March 27 April 3, where Miss Huddleston is Official Mistress of Ceremonies for the week.

"The Litany of Washington Street," ("the song and poetry street of every United States town"), is full of provocative patriotism spiced with humor.