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Auto Fun. Pictures and Comments from "Life." Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 84×7 in. 100 pages. $1, net. (Postage, 10c.) Bacon Cryptograms in Shakespeare, and Other Studies. By Isaac Hull Platt. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 124 pages. Banjo Talks. By Anne Virginia Culbertson. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 5x8 in. 171 pages. Beaufort Chums. By Edwin L. Sabin. Illustrated. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x74 in. 281 pages. $1.

Best Policy (The). By Elliott Flower. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 5x7%1⁄2 in. 268 pages. $1.50. This volume of short stories might have been written by a clever advertising agent for a life insurance company, provided he had some little ability as a story-teller. It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the art of soliciting business. Bible (The): A Missionary Book. By Robert F. Horton, M.A., D.D. The Pilgrim Press, Boston. 42x7% in. 192 pages. $1, net. Book of Psalms (A). By Owen R. Washburn. The Washburn Publishing Co., 129 W. 125th Street, New York. 52x9 in. 30 pages. Boy Captive in Canada (The). By Mary P. Wells Smith. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 4×7 in. $1.25. Boys Who Became Famous Men. By Harriet Pearl Skinner. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x7%1⁄2 in. 221 pages. $1.25. Boys, old and young, will find interest in these stories of Giotto, Gainsborough, and Canova; of Bach, Händel, and Chopin; of Byron and Coleridge.

Brass Bound Box (The). By Evelyn Raymond. Illustrated. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 325 pages. $1.25.

Business Philosophy.

By Benjamin F. Cobb. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 4x7 in. 292 pages. $1.20, net. Chapters of practical advice to young men in business life.

Captain Myles Standish. By Tudor Jenks.

The Century Co., New York. 5x7 in. 250 pages. $1.20, net.

A simple, straightforward story of the life of the Pilgrim soldier, who was a unique figure in the Plymouth colony. There is nothing to connect him with the religious belief or practices of the rest of the Pilgrims, but he was respected and loved by them, and held positions of trust in the community. Mr. Jenks's account gives an impression of accuracy and care, but it lacks picturesqueness and any romantic quality.

Catch Words of Cheer. New Series. Compiled by Sara A. Hubbard. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 42x8 in. 75c., net.

Cavalieri Moderni. By Fanny Zampini Salazar. Enrico Voghera, Rome, Italy. 4×72 in. 530 pages.

In reading this volume one is conscious of the author's high aim in revealing presentday social injustices so as to produce a horror of vice and the passion for virtue. The plot and characters invented and vivaciously portrayed by Countess Zampini Salazar are those which we might expect from

an author whose acquaintanceship with Roman society is so intimate. While the book affords a clear and vivid picture of contemporary manners among certain Italian classes, we could wish that, for the sake of foreign readers, there were more description of city and country. But this is hypercritical. Civics: Studies in American Citizenship.

By Waldo H. Sherman. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 328 pages. $1. An excellent text-book for the training of young men for citizenship. The second half of the book, entitled "Collegeville," gives an interesting plan for the political organization of a class or club. The group of boys are supposed to settle a township and work out for themselves the various steps in the political development of their community. Companionship of Books and Other Papers

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(The). By Frederic Rowland Marvin. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 320 pages. This is an entertaining pot pourri, taking its title from the first of some forty short chapters, subjoined to which is a collection of chips from a literary workshop." With a large anecdotical element and great variety of subject, it is distinctively a book for leisure moments, which may be opened at any page, for thoughts on the most diverse subjects, suited to various moods.

Days and Hours of Raphael (The). With
Key to the Hours. By Rachel A. La Fontaine.
Illustrated. The Grafton Press, New York. 6x9%
in. 49 pages.

Deep Sea's Toll (The). By James B. Con-
nolly. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York. 5×74 in. 315 pages. $1.50.
Reserved for later notice.

Democracy in the South Before the Civil War. By G. W. Dyer, M.A. Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Nashville, Tenn. 6×91⁄2 in. 90 pages. $1.

Demonism of the Ages, Spirit Obsessions so Common in Spiritism, Oriental and Occidental Occultism. By J. M. Peebles, M.D. (Third Edition.) The Peebles Medical Institute, Battle Creek, Michigan. 6x9 in. 383 pages.

Diary of a Bride (The). Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5×7%1⁄2 in. 159 pages. $1, net. Divine Comedy of Dante (The). Four Lectures. By Walter L. Sheldon. S. Burns Weston, Philadelphia. 4×71⁄2 in. 126 pages. 50c. Editorial Wild Oats. By Mark Twain. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 5×8% in. 85 pages. $1.

A small volume containing several of Mark Twain's earlier stories--extravagant tales of newspaper life.

Elektronentheorie (Die). By Prof. Dr. H.

Kayser. Edited by Arthur S. Wright. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 44x6%1⁄2 in. 37 pages. Emerson Calendar (An). Edited by Huntington Smith. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 117 pages. 50c., net. (Postage, 5c.) Egypt, Burma, and British Malaysia. By William Eleroy Curtis. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 52x9 in. 399 pages. $2, net. Reserved for later notice.

Fate of the Middle Classes. By Walter G.

Cooper. Consolidated Retail Booksellers, New York. 4×71⁄2 in. 200 pages. $1.25, net. A very suggestive little volume, with more of

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practical suggestion on the current industrial problem than one would expect from so unpretentious a book. Its keynote is the sentence, "We have the trust because the world needs it." Its solution of the problem is indicated in the following sentence: the following chapters I undertake to show how the trust is a necessary step towards the federation of industry and the eventual establishment of an industrial clearing-house, which will approximately adjust production to consumption and save the world the immense loss and incalculable suffering that is now caused by overproduction." The Outlook heartily agrees with the author's general positions, (1) that the remedy for industrial wars is to be found, not in industrial disorganization and the re-establishment of competition, but in a more thorough organization of industry and the development of co-operation; and (2) that this co-operation is to be secured, not by government ownership and administration of all industries, (ie., State Socialism), but by the promotion of a popular ownership of the implements of industry, and a share in the profits of industry among all who carry it on (ie., co-operation and profit-sharing). But it thinks that the author, in laying stress on the adjustment of production to consumption, so as to prevent over-production, loses sight of what is still more important, namely, such a distribution of wealth, through a process of profitsharing, as shall increase the demand. For the industrial problem is twofold: the regulation and often limitation of production, and the increase of purchasing capacity in the people, and so their power to use advantageously what is produced. And we should like to see the author set forth a little more fully his idea of class representation in government. How it would be advantageous, or even possible, in a community whose basic idea is no hereditary caste or class, we are unable to see. Despite these criticisms, we think this volume a real contribution to the thought of the day, because characterized by three qualities not too often found in combination in treatises on our industrial problems, namely, a careful study of existing conditions, a sane and non-partisan judgment respecting them, and something of prophetic vision regarding the tendency of industrial progress and the direction in which it should be guided.

Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Century.

Described by Archibald Forbes, George A. Henty,
Major Arthur Griffiths, and Other Well-known
Writers. Edited by Charles Welsh. Illustrated.
The A. Wessels Co., New York. 5×84 in. 414
pages. $1.25.

Forest Lovers (The). By Maurice Hewlett.

(Edition de Luxe.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 6x9 in. 384 pages. $3, net. The first volume of an édition de luxe of Mr. Hewlett's works, uniform with the special editions of Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold already issued by the same publishers; to be complete in ten octavo volumes, bound in substantial green cloth with a silk effect, printed from large type on an ample page,

and not too heavy for the hand. Mr. Hewett's work as a whole will be the subject of more extended comment a little later.

Fern Allies of North America North of Mexico (The). By Willard Nelson Clute. Illustrated. The Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 52x8 in. 278 pages.

A well-illustrated manual of the families of non-flowering plants, other than the ferns, found in North America north of Mexico.

Frederick the Great and the Seven Years'

War. Translated from the German of Ferdinand Schrader. By George P. Upton. (Life Stories for Young People Series.) Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5×63⁄4 in. 145 pages. 60c., net.

God's Choice of Men: A Study of Scripture. By William R. Richards. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5%×8%1⁄2 in. 231 pages. $1.50,

net.

This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a quiet courage of conviction. There is nothing of that polemical courage which defiantly takes up an unpopular theme from a military love of fighting. The theme is unpopular-the doctrine of election-but it is treated by one who believes in it and believes that he can commend it by rational treatment to rational men. We doubt whether he would have been regarded as orthodox by the Westminster divines; we are not even certain that he would be regarded as quite orthodox by Princeton Theological Seminary; and we are quite sure that his interpretation of election is not that of the Confession, nor that of Calvin's Institutes. So much, indeed, the author himself concedes in calling it frankly "a new-fashioned treatment of the old-fashioned doctrine of God's election of men," and in frankly acknowledging as "a most serious defect of our Westminster Confession of Faith" that it "did not show clearly what God elects men for." We do not, it is true, think that the Westminster Confession is justly amenable to this criticism. Its answer to the question what men are elected for is clear enough; the difficulty is that the answer is not true. It says: "Some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death." According to Dr. Richards, election is "election to service." We agree with Dr. Richards; that is, we think that on this point he is Scriptural and the Confession is not. However, his book is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have another characteristic-very clearcut portraiture of modern characters typified by Scriptural characters. Of this the sermon on Esau and Jacob affords a striking illustration in its portraiture of the American Esau, who is "a splendid fellow" whom everybody likes, and who "cuts a great figure in his class in college," but has "no staying power," because he is never willing

to "take any real trouble day after day" to realize the ideals that he talks about but never accomplishes. These sermons are worth reading by laymen for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive models.

Greatness in Literature and Other Papers. By W. P. Trent. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 248 pages. $1.20, net. Reserved for later notice.

Green Shay (The). By George Wasson. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 4×71⁄2 in. 305 pages. $1.50.

Reserved for later notice.

He and Hecuba.

By Baroness von Hutten. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 4×7 in. 299 pages. $1.50.

There is never any doubt as to the ability of this writer to hold her readers' attention or as to her power of bringing out her men and women into sharp definition. There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for this reason to like "Pam," with all its cleverness, will feel the same objection here. This story, too, is clumsily and hurriedly ended by wholesale slaughter. Herbert Brown. By O. B. Whitaker, M.A.

Donohue & Co., Chicago. 5×7% in. 314 pages. Heroes of Iceland. By Allen French. Illus

trated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 297 pages. $1.50.

An adaptation of Dasent's well-known translation of "The Story of Burnt Njal," with a new preface, introduction, and notes by Allen French; a very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.

Higher Criticism Cross-Examined (The).

By Frederick Davis Storey. The Griffith & Rowland Press, Philadelphia. 54x8 in. 262 pages. $1.25. (Postage, 10c.)

The author's point of view is indicated by his acceptance of the legendary narratives in the first portion of Genesis as historical, and by his belief that Jesus' references to them attest them to be such. The fundamental fallacy of this class of works is in a misconception of what "the supernatural" really is.

History of Political Theories (A): From

Luther to Montesquieu. By William Archibald Dunning. Ph.D., LL.D. The Macmillan Co., New York. 52X8 in. 459 pages. $2.50. Reserved for later notice.

His Version of It. By Paul Leicester Ford. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 52×9 in. 109 pages. $1.50.

This very pretty story is published as a Christmas book with a great deal of paper, print, and decoration.

Hobby Camp. By Frank H. Sweet. Illus

trated. The Pilgrim Press, Boston. 5x7%1⁄2 in. 308 pages. $1.

Home Life in France. By Miss Betham

Edwards. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5x9 in. 310 pages. $2.50, net. This title is a misnomer. Miss BethamEdwards describes other sides of life in

France than merely the home life. We learn about education, society, the army, officialdom, and we are the more vividly instructed because of the anecdotal character of the narrative. The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France, and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that country. Miss BethamEdwards writes with the intimate knowledge which might be expected from her-she is an "officer of public instruction" in France. Her book is a refutation of the idea, often expressed by the superficial traveler, that the domestic factor in French life is not its dominant quality.

House of Mirth (The). By Edith Wharton. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x8 in. 531 pages. $1.50.

This book, undoubtedly the most important work of fiction so far published this season, was discussed editorially in The Outlook last week.

Howdy, Honey, Howdy. By Paul Laurence Dunbar. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 51⁄2 84 in. $1.50, net.

How to Study Pictures. By Charles H. Caffin. Illustrated. The Century Co., New York. 52X8%1⁄2 in. 513 pages. $1.80, net.

Reserved for later notice.

Imperial Drug Trade (The). By Joshua Rowntree. Methuen & Co., London. 5×73⁄4 in. 304 pages.

Reserved for later notice.

"In the Heights." By Richard Watson Gilder. The Century Co., New York. 4×7 in. 95 pages. $1, net. (Postage, 5c.) Reserved for later notice.

Indian Dispossessed (The). By Seth K. Humphrey. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 3x8 in. 298 pages. $1.50, net. We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. We fear it will render disservice. All that he says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth. From reading this volume one would suppose that the United States Government had done nothing but rob and plunder the Indians, or at best be silently accessory to their being robbed. Without having read this book absolutely through, we do not think the author gives any account of what the Government has done for the protection, the civilization, and the education of the Indians; and we are quite certain that he has given no adequate account of either public or private beneficence toward them. The only remedy he has to suggest for the wrongs that do exist is this: "The prime requisite for the advancement of the public good is to instill in the public mind a deep, persistent distrust of the National Congress." Distrust may be natural; it may be necessary; but mere distrust is no remedy for anything. The simple truth is that barbarism cannot exist permanently surrounded by civilization. How to hold the cruder forces of civilization in check while the Indian is learning is the political Indian problem. How to teach the Indian to accept modern civilization is the

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Inner Life (The). By J. R. Miller, D.D. Illustrated. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 32 pages. 50c, net. (Postage, 5c.) In the Secret of His Presence: Helps for the Inner Life When Alone with God. By the Rev. G. H. Knight. A. C. Armstrong & Son, New York. 5x8 in. 230 pages. $1.25.

James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work.

By Ferris Greenslet. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7%1⁄2 in. 309 pages. $1.50, net.

Reserved for later notice.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Translated from the German of Ludwig Ziemssen. By George P. Upton. (Life Stories for Young People.) A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5x64 in. 133 pages. 60c.

Justice. By Charles Wagner. from the French by Mary Louise Clure, Phillips & Co., New York. pages. $1, net.

Reserved for later notice.

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Lady Dear: The Little Mistress of a Castle in Spain. By Millicent E. Mann. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5x8 in. 222 pages. $1, net.

Life that Counts (The). By Samuel Valentine Cole. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 124 pages. 75c., net.

Little Dauphin (The). Translated from the German of Franz Hoffmann. By George P. Upton. Illustrated. (Life Stories for Young People.) A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5×63⁄4 in. 150 pages. 60c.

Little Princess (A). By Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 6x9 in. 266 pages. $2. Mrs. Burnett in a delightful introduction explains that when she came to make a play out of" Sara Crewe " (which, by the way, was one of the prettiest books for children ever written), she found that a great many things had happened at Miss Minchin's school, where Sara lived, which she had not included in the story. So she put them into the play, and when she came to rewrite the story to get those things into it, she found that there were lots of things that hadn't even got into the play. So here is the whole story of Sara Crewe, nicer than it was at first and nicer than the play, because there's more of it, with a dozen beautiful colored pictures. Liquor Problem (The): A Summary of Investigations Conducted by the Committee of Fifty, 1893-1903. Prepared for the Committee by John S. Billings, Charles W. Eliot, Henry W. Farnam, Jacob L. Greene, and Francis G. Peabody. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7% in. 182 pages. $1, net. Reserved for later notice.

Lodgings in Town. By Arthur Henry. Illustrated. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 327 pages. $1.50. The same cheerful philosophy and happy acceptance of things as they are appears in this entertaining account of town experiences that attracted readers to the other books by

Mr. Henry. To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is his recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particularlike Nancy-and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter Street lodgings where she and her poet lived.

Loves of Great Composers (The). By Gustav Kobbé. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 176 pages. $1.50.

Lynette and the Congressman. By Mary Farley Sanborn. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 396 pages. $1.50.

Maria Theresa. Translated from the German of W. D. von Horn. By George P. Upton. Illustrated. (Life Stories for Young People Series.) A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 5×63⁄4 in. 141 pages. 60c.

Mary 'n' Mary. By Edith Francis Fester. Illustrated. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 4×7%2 in. 209 pages. $1.25.

Mayor of Troy (The). By A. T. QuillerCouch. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 344 pages. $1.50.

Reserved for later notice.

Merciful Unto Me a Sinner. By Elinor Dawson. Thompson & Thompson, Chicago. 4x7 in. 446 pages. $1.50.

Mr. Penwiper's Fairy Godmother. By Amy Woods. Illustrated. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 98 pages. 50c.

Mrs. Raffles. By John Kendrick Bangs. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 4×7 in. 180 pages. $1.25.

A parody of Mr. Hornung's stories of Raffles, the amateur cracksman, very badly done. Mohammed and the Rise of Islam. By

D. S. Margoliouth. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5×7 in. 481 pages. $1.35, net. While the biographies of Krehl, Grimme, Buhl, Sprenger, and Muir, the writings of Goldziher, Wellhausen, and Nöldeke, and recently published Arabic works, form the basis of this new life of Mohammed, it is distinguished by a bold originality that is certain to create discussion. Briefly, Mr. Margoliouth contends that, so far from being a religious fanatic, the Prophet was a remarkably clear-headed statesman who, perceiving the necessity for binding together the warring Arab tribes, and believing that this could be accomplished only through "the revelation of a divine code," conceived the idea of posing as a messenger from Allah, and succeeded in securing recognition by resorting to sundry tricks and devices with which we have been made familiar by latterday "mediums"-his so-called epileptic attacks being among the numerous artifices for the propagation of belief in his pretensions. Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the Prophet's sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value. To criti

cal study of the best authorities is added a thorough knowledge of Arabia and its people, and the reader can hardly fail to obtain an exact idea of the factors contributing to accelerate or retard the spread of the new faith, and of the remarkable series of events which transferred Mohammed "from his shop in Mecca to the throne of an empire which threatened to engulf the world." Mount Desert: A History. By George E.

Street. Edited by Samuel A. Eliot. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5%×8%1⁄2 in. 370 pages. $2.50, net.

The many visitors to Mount Desert will be interested in this well printed and illustrated volume.

Northerner (The). By Norah Davis. The Century Co., New York. 5×7% in. 324 pages. $1.50.

Reserved for later notice.

Northern Trails. By William J. Long. lustrated. Ginn & Co., Boston. 5×8 in. pages. $1.50, net.

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Old France in the New World. By James Douglas, LL.D. Illustrated. The Burrows Brothers Co., Cleveland. 5%×8%1⁄2 in. 597 pages. $2.50, net. (Postage, 21c.)

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Dr. Douglas's book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker's "In Old Quebec," Sir John Bourinot's "The Story of Canada," and the dozen volumes of Parkman's histories. Of Quebec in the seventeenth century we have a welcome detailed description which occupies most of the volume. Occupations for Little Fingers: A Manual

for Grade Teachers, Mothers, and Settlement Workers. By Elizabeth Sage and Anna M. Cooley, B.S. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x8 in. 154 pages. Philippine Islands (The). By Fred W. At

kinson. Illustrated. Ginn & Co., Boston. 51⁄2×8% in. 426 pages. $3, net.

The material for this book was gathered by the author when he was at the head of Public Education in the Philippine Islands. Its information is of the encyclopædic sort, conveyed clearly and pleasantly. About a quarter of the book is given to a brief summary of the geography and history of the islands. The rest of the book is devoted to an account of the people and of the conditions under which they live. The author's views of the character of the people and of the proper mode of government for them are in harmony with the present Administration. The book is illustrated with half-tone reproductions of photographs. No intelligent policy with regard to the Philippines can well be established and maintained unless the American people as a whole keep informed about the islands. The appearance of such a book as this, therefore, is to be welcomed, for it is the sort of popular presentation of the subject that the ordinary reader will find intelligible. It will prove serviceable for supplementary reading in schools or as a book of reference for school libraries.

Pole Baker. By Will N. Harben. Harper

& Bros., New York. 4×7 in. 357 pages. $1.50. Another story of northern Georgia. Mr.

Harben reproduces the life and humor of this region as racily in his way as Richard Malcolm Johnston did years ago in another fashion. "Pole Baker" is as original, amusing, and forceful as was his old friend Abner Daniel, of whom this author made a mild sort of Southern David Harum. There is a primitive simplicity about these Georgian tales that sometimes makes one smile a little in the wrong place; but there is honest, hearty, home-spun stuff in them all the same; and if they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly and forcibly moral in

intention.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. By William L. Riordon. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. 42x7 in. 183 pages.

Discourses of a veteran Tammany district leader, in which he discusses political subjects with utter frankness and great picturesqueness of language. "Practical politics" is portrayed from the inside by one of the most "practical" of politicians, a man who has become a millionaire by knowing how to take advantage of his opportunities and how to make opportunities to take advantage of. A prefatory note by Mr. Charles Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, indorsing Mr. Plunkitt, gives the book a semi-official character as an exposition of Tammany principles.

Poor and the Land (The). By H. Rider Haggard. Illustrated. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 157 pages. 75c.

This volume is a reprint, by permission of the British Government, of its "blue book " containing the report to Parliament by Mr. Rider Haggard of the results of the investigation which he had been commissioned last winter to make. The object of it was to ascertain whether the results were such as to warrant some undertaking like that of our Salvation Army colonies to transfer to various parts of the British Empire portions of the congested population in the cities of Great Britain. The report here given is as complete in all details as could be desired, both as to general statements and the particulars of individual experience related by the colonists and supported by affidavits. The Commissioner declares himself "extremely well satisfied." At Fort Romie, the California settlement, the settlers are now, at the end of four years, worth an average of some $2,000 per head above all debts and liabilities, and at Fort Amity, in Colorado, an average of over $1,000. The Salvation Army, however, is about $50,000 out of pocket, partly through a three years' drought previous to irrigation, partly through the initial cost of the estates purchased, unexpected expense to get rid of alkali in the soil, and high interest on borrowed capital, partly through undercalculation of the terms of repayment by the settlers. Notwithstanding such drawbacks, the success of the undertaking is pronounced to have been "very cheaply bought," and press reports that these settlements are financially a failure are stamped as "totally inaccurate." Sufficient

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