Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited by Alfred M. Hitchcock, M.A. (Pocket English Classics.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 4X5 in. 480 pages. 25c.

Jack of all Trades, The.

By D. C. Beard. Illustrated, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x7% in. 295 pages. $2.

Mr. Beard is a good deal of a boy himself, as all who know him realize. He has the boy's enthusiasm, the boy's love of outdoor sports, and the boy's desire to make some new thing. He is also an artist, and has a lively sense of fun. This book is a capital one to give any boy for a present at Christmas, on a birthday, or, indeed, at any time. It tells how to make tree-top club-houses, boys' house-boats, switchbacks, home-made circuses, panoramas, and dozens of other things. The directions are clear, and the figures and pictures add to the clearness.

Judgment in Literature. By W. Basil Wors

fold. (The Temple Primers.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 334X6 in. 98 pages. 40c. The basis of this valuable volume seems to be formed by Victor Cousin's Lectures, "Du Vrai, du Beau, et du Bon," published half a century ago (and still untranslated), and Lessing's Laokoon," published a century and a half ago, together with a background of Plato and Aristotle. It is not only a primer, as should be every book in this Temple Primer Series; it is really a vade mecum to those who would rightly appreciate and interpret the value of works of literature. After instructing his readers as to the rank of poetry as an art, compared with other arts, Mr. Worsfold discusses ancient, modern, and contemporary criticism. To non-Aristotelian scholars a peculiarly helpful distinction is Mr. Worsfold's, founded upon the grand old Greek's, of mere works of literature from works of creative literature, the latter always distinguished by the predominant aspects of truth, symmetry, and idealization.

Kelea: The Surf Rider. By Alex. Stevenson Twombly. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York. 5x73 in. 402 pages. $1.50.

Dr. Twombly's long visit in Hawaii, his great interest in the country, and his fresh and keen feeling for the characteristic aspect of its old life, have borne fruit in this romance, which, in the form of imaginative fiction, brings before the imagination the customs, modes of thought and of expression, the temperament and the semi-tropical charm, of the existence once led by the natives in Hawaii. Dr. Twombly has keen appreciation of the beauty of nature in all its forms. "Kelea" is not

only illustrated by a number of well-chosen and well-printed reproductions of photographs, but it has behind it a background of natural scenery which is skillfully suggested when it is not minutely described. Dr. Twombly is not by nature a writer of fiction; he does not pretend to be; but he has succeeded in making an interesting tale illustrative of Hawaiian life.

Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888. Collected and Arranged by George W. E. Russell. The Macmillan Co., New York. 44X71⁄2 in. 442 pages. $2.25.

This is a thoroughly satisfying one-volume

edition of a book which has permanent importance in English literary values, and which was long since reviewed at length by The Outlook.

Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. (The Temple Classics. Edited by Israel Gollancz, M.A.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 4x6 in. 304 pages. 50c.

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Life of Christ as Represented in Art. Frederick W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York. 52x81⁄2 in. 507 pages. $3.50.

A reprint of the edition of 1894.

Life of Lives, The. By F. W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 52X81⁄2 in. 444 pages. $2.50.

This valuable work may be regarded as supplementary to Dean Farrar's widely popular "Life of Christ." To quote his own statement: "It deals with questions of high importance which the Gospels suggest, and aims at deepening the faith and brightening the hope in Christ of all who read it honestly." Its forty-three chapters present a large variety of topics, among them the unique supremacy of Jesus, the form and substance of his teaching, his miracles, the Atonement, the Resurrection. As to this last, we deem it a gratuitous surrender of the impregnable grounds of faith to say that an isolated historical event long remotethe resurrection of Jesus-is "the only pledge of man's immortality." Equally inept is it to class Channing and Martineau as "skeptics." Dean Farrar shows a peculiar blend of traditionalism and liberalism, the broad and the narrow, but with a forward rather than backward look. The volume is characterized by those fruits of a varied and generous culture which have so long attracted many readers. Little Bible, The. By J. W. Mackail. Double

day & McClure Co., New York. 4×7% in. 288 pages. $1.

This latest addition to volumes of Bible stories for children contains two hundred short-some very short-chapters. They are drawn from the Old Testament and its Apocrypha, with occasional supplements from other sources. The language is modern and simplified for juvenile readers with good literary judgment. There is no attempt at moralizing; the stories are simply told, and left to make their own impression.

Little Girl in Old Washington, A. By Amanda M. Douglas. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5×73⁄4 in. 319 pages. $1.50.

The many young people-and not a few old impressions of "A Little Girl in Old Boston" folks who have enjoyed the experiences and

and in "Old New York" and in "Old Phila

delphia" will be greatly entertained by her observations in "Old Washington." The romance describes the Washington of Madison's day.

Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings. Edited by Mrs. Margaret J. Frick. The Macmillan Co., New York. (Pocket English Classics.) 4x584 in. 224 pages. 25c.

Meditations of the Heart. Collected, Adapted, and Composed by Annie Josephine Levi. Introduction by the Rev. Dr. Gustav Gottheil. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 6x4 in. 166 pages. $1.25. This little volume, primarily designed, as Miss Levi tells us, for her own race, is a collection

of religious meditations drawn from many sources, both Jewish and Christian, but almost exclusively from men and women of the liberal or radical temper. It is interesting to find within so small a compass so varied an expression of religious feeling, of dependence on divine help, of aspiration and longing. This most recent collection of religious meditation drawn largely from radical sources shows how perennial are the springs from which the religious nature is fed.

Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott. By J. G. Lockhart. (In Five Vols.) The Macmillan Co., New York. Vols. I. and II. 5×9 in. $1.50 each. The addition of this admirable biography to the Library of English Classics brings within the compass of people of moderate means, who love the best things, one of the most entertaining biographies in the English language. It will be put in five substantial volumes, which, although somewhat large, are not heavy, and are printed from clear type.

Memoirs of the Countess Potocka.

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tion by Lionel Strachey. Edited by Casimir Stryienski. Illustrated. Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. 54x6 in. 253 pages. $3.50. Here is a work more valuable for what it says of other people than for what it reveals concerning its subject-character, clever and charming woman of the world as she is. The book is a not inconsiderable contribution to the rather alarmingly large number of works concerning Napoleon and his court. The portraits of Napoleon and of Talleyrand seem almost as lifelike as those drawn by Balzac in "Une Ténébreuse Affaire" and in his other novels of political life. Like all good Poles, the Countess Potocka writes vivaciously, picturesquely, incisively, and her book is abundantly well worth reading. We are surprised to discover that such a work should lack an index; the book's value, however, is greatly enhanced by the large number of well-executed portraits, views, and facsimiles.

Mountain Maid, The, and Other Poems of New Hampshire. By Edna Dean Proctor. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 528 in. 60 pages. $1.

This book is a pleasant souvenir, so far as New Hampshire sons and daughters are concerned, of that praiseworthy custom inaugurated by Governor Rollins. The poems are, therefore, appropriately dedicated to him. In many a spontaneous yet deftly constructed rhyme, the talented author sings to us of Portsmouth and Kearsarge, of the Merrimack and the Contoocook, of Monadnock and Moosilauk.

Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume XIII. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander. Volume XVIII. Stories IV. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 512x81⁄2 in. 339 and 302 pages.

Nubia of Saracenesco. By Richard Voss. Translated from the German by Hettie E. Miller. The Saalfield Publishing Co., New York. 4×634 in. 152 pages.

Oliver Cromwell. By Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 512x82 in. 260 pages. $2.

This volume has the literary characteristics of its origin as a series of magazine articles. It

is popular rather than scientific, deals with its subject in broad lines rather than with nice discriminations, is valuable to the general reader rather than to the historical student. The general picture of the conditions in England when Cromwell came to the front, as given in the first chapter, is admirable. The descriptions of the battles are exceedingly clear and historically dramatic without being ghastly. The writer's sympathies are wholly with Cromwell; and he seems to us more ready to find excuses in the character and conditions of the times for Cromwell's violation of the essential principles of liberty than for the vacillating and unrighteous kingcraft of Charles I. If the one is to be measured by the ethical standards of the time, the other should be also. The book is excellent in type and paper, and is accompanied by valuable portraits.

Outdoor Handy Book, The. By D. C. Beard. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5X74 in. 496 pages. $2.

This is a new edition of Mr. Beard's wellknown "American Boys' Book of Sports," published with revision under a new name. The qualities peculiar to Mr. Beard are mentioned in our note about his "The Jack of all Trades" in another column. In the present work he has a larger field. There is no better compendium of sports and games for boys than this.

Out with Garibaldi. By G. A. Henty. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5×7%

in. 346 pages. $1.50.

Those who have enjoyed and profited by the soberer and "grown up " histories of Orsi and Bolton King and the Countess Cesaresco have undoubtedly wished that a story for children might be written about the liberation of Italy, or at least the most picturesque events in connection with that liberation. It seems to us that of those events the one fullest of dramatic episode is the invasion of the two Sicilies by Garibaldi. His forces numbered about one thousand irregulars, who were to meet about a hundred and twenty thousand well-armed soldiers, yet a victory was won even greater than that of Cortez in Mexico, since the Garibaldians were both ill armed and without artillery.

Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino. By George C. Williamson, Litt.D. (The Great Masters in Painting and Sculpture. Edited by G. C. Williamson.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x8 in. 160 pages. $1.75.

This is an addition to a series of volumes on the Old Masters which have been well received. In proportion and perspective the work, like those which have preceded it, is worthy of praise. There are many half-tone reproductions of Perugino's paintings, and a full catalogue of his works.

Quisanté. By Anthony Hope. Frederick A.

Stokes Co., New York. 5x7 in. 376 pages. $1.50. Anthony Hope has abundantly demonstrated his skill as a story-teller, both in the invention of situations and in clear-cut and rather brilliant sketching of character. In this novel he enters an entirely new field. "Quisanté " is a novel of English political life, and contains a character-study of unusual insight and skill.

In Alexander Quisanté a problem is presented requiring the closest insight into a complex personality, and the greatest skill in presenting that personality so as to make its weakness clear without exposing it to contempt. Anthony Hope makes his readers feel the power of Quisanté at the same time that he makes them recognize, as clearly as did the wife, the vein of meanness which runs through the man's nature. The novel is in many respects a painful one, but it shows genuine skill, not only in construction, but in characterization.

Religion of Democracy, The. By Charles Ferguson. D. P. Elder & Morgan Shepard, San Francisco. 5x7% in. 160 pages.

One cannot read this book for three minutes without finding that the writer has something to say that is worth hearing, and knows how to say it with point. It is a book, however, which requires the reader, if he would comprehend the writer, to sympathize with his ethical passion, his enthusiasm for humanity. As a vision of what might be and ought to be it is inspiring; but it is quite in the air, and we are left to ponder and wonder how to get on and up to it. We are not in such utter despair of all existing churches as Mr. Ferguson; we see signs that some are moving toward his ideals. His epigrammatic style abounds in quotable sentences, eg, "Holy Scripture, when the devil reads it, is devilish." His thought sparkles and effervesces throughout. As to the central truth of it there can be no doubt that only in a religious democracy can the ideals of Christianity be realized.

Sam Houston. By Sarah Barnwell Elliott.

(The Beacon Biographies. Edited by M. A. De Wolle Howe.) Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 334x534 in. 149 pages. 75c.

The battle for territorial expansion, now being fought as vigorously in 1900 as in 1803, 1819, and 1845, recalls such expansionists as Jefferson, Jackson, and, even more picturesque than either, Sam Houston. The last-named realized the dream for which La Salle had been murdered, Sevier suspected, and Burr ruined. As Miss Elliott says in her interesting biography, Houston was willing to fight the devil with fire; he was a man who worked warily with whatever material came to hand; he understood perfectly the people whom he would lead, and he led them successfully until they, in their rasher judgment, demanded to be led into secession. The author's touch in the description of all this is almost staccato-like; and it may be added that Houston's adventurous thirty years in Texas lend themselves better to the particularly compact treatment necessarily characteristic of all the little volumes of the Beacon Series, than do the lives of men of less spirited and stirring action. Source-Book of English History. By Guy Carleton Lee, Ph.D. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 609 pages. $2.

This is similar to Professor Hart's "SourceBook of American History," published two years ago, but is much larger. Such a book is of great value in its collection of the original material, both documentary and illustrative, which forms the historian's groundwork. This value, which any reader will appreciate, is

enhanced for the student by copious bibliographies in aid of research. The period covered extends from the earliest historical notice of Britain to the treaty made with the Boers in 1881. Sections of special interest to American readers are the hundred years' struggle against the Stuart kings for constitutional government, and the rise of Protestantism with its subsequent reaction in the century preceding. In including the great documents which form the framework of national development-Magna Charta, for instance, and the Bill of Rights-Dr. Lee departs from the method of Professor Hart. Such a book is an important acquisition for the book-buyer whose rule is "not many but much."

Stonewall Jackson. By Carl Hovey. (The

Beacon Biographies. Edited by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.) Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 334×54 in. 131 pages. 75c.

Stonewall Jackson was one of the heroes of the Civil War from every point of view-a man cast in the heroic mold, framed by nature for great deeds, and with a force of character entirely adequate to his remarkable military instinct, intelligence, and his passionate devotion to his cause. There was no more conscientious and deeply religious leader on either side of the great war. As a man of action his life will bear the condensation involved in this very brief biography without great loss. The story is well told; it is clear, graphic, and sympathetic. It ought to be widely read, especially by Northern readers. Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899.

By Frederick A. Cook, M.D. Illustrated. Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. 6x9 in. 478 pages. $5.

This volume is of such importance in the history of exploration that we hope to treat it at some length at a later date. Dr. Cook accompanied the Belgian Antarctic expedition of 1898-1899, headed by Gerlache, occupying the positions of surgeon, anthropologist, and photographer. His book gives a complete and a distinctly readable account of the voyage of the Belgica, and of the attempt of this expedition to reach the extreme South. The vessel drifted hundreds of miles held fast in the ice, explored five hundred miles of coast heretofore unknown, and made some curious observations on the Fuegians and on several species of little-known animals. The scientific work accomplished by the expedition, particularly in the line of geography and cartography, was much greater than that contributed by most polar expeditions. The book is profusely illustrated by Dr. Cook's own photographs, the subjects of which were particularly well chosen, while the reproduction is entirely satisfactory; there are also a few colored prints, for which we do not greatly care.

Tolstoi A Man of Peace, by Alice B. Stockham, M.D.; and Tolstoi : The New Spirit, by H. Havelock Ellis. Illustrated. The Stockham Publishing Co., Chicago. 5x7 in. 140 pages. $1. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated. (New Edition.) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 388 pages. $1.25. A new edition of the best pirate story ever written; perhaps with the exception of Cooper's "Red Rover” and Scott's "Pirate," the

Marvin R. Vincent, D.D. Vol. IV. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 9×51⁄2 in. 624 pages. $4. These brief exegetical notes on the Greek text have the merit of clearness and pertinency, and are of value to all readers of the Greek Testament. They are accompanied by lists of commentaries and critical literature, together with a scholarly introduction to each book included in the volume. Professor Vincent agrees with those who attribute the Pastoral Epistles (Timothy and Titus) to an unknown second-century writer, who had some

Pauline material at hand as a nucleus. In an extended note on 2 Thessalonians i., 9, he interprets the phrase "eternal [literally, @onian] destruction" in agreement with the rapidly spreading opinion that the notion of endless punishment is foreign to the original expression.

With Buller in Natal. By G. A. Henty. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x71 in. 370 pages. $1.50.

The industrious Mr. Henty finds a capital subject for his pen in the Boer war. Naturally and properly, this story is intensely British, and its heroes are Johannesburg boys of English birth. The story is well told; and no doubt the boy readers will look forward with interest to Mr. Henty's further stories of the Boer war promised for next year.

1. Can you suggest any books from which one might gather material for a study of the nineteenth century in religion and ethics? 2. Will you also tell me if you know any simple, popular exposition of the theory of evolution suited to the needs of an unscientific audience? Of course I know the writings of Fiske and Drummond, but I hoped there was something more elementary and presupposing less scientific knowledge on the part of the reader, and I fail to find it. Has no author of text-books undertaken this work?

L. L. H.

1. See Tulloch's "Movements of Religious Thought in Britain in the Nineteenth Century" (Scribners), Bacon's "History of American Christianity" (Scribners), Leonard's "Missionary Annals of the Nineteenth Century (F. M. Barton, Cleveland), Dennis's "Christian Missions and Social Progress" (Revell), Scudder's "Social Ideals in English Letters" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), Bliss's "Encyclopædia of Social Reform" (Funk & Wagnalls), Sidgwick's "History of Ethics "--a technical account (Macmillan). 2. You can hardly have anything more elementary except by diluting the subject yourself. See Morris's" Man and his Ancestor" (Macmillan). Will you be good enough to mention some of the best sermons or volumes of sermons on practical, every-day subjects-subjects that concern the peohave been recently published? and in which the people are interested--that W. M.

Among the best recent volumes that occur to us are one by the Rev. F. E. Dewhurst, now of Chicago (the BowenMerrill Company, Indianapolis), and one by Dr. Greer, of New York (T. Whittaker, New York). Why are Universalists not accepted as active members of the Young Men's Christian Association? H. K. C.

We know of no sound reason for such exclusion. It dates from a period of bitter antagonism, and survives through the influence of traditional prejudice. The decay of the dogma of endless punishment apparent in orthodox churches ought to relieve Universalists of the prejudice which once attached to them for denying it. In your issue of June 30 last, in the article

The Edwards Commemoration," you speak of Edwards's experience of Christ's presence one day when he was in the woods, and of Henry Ward Beecher's having had a similar one. Will you kindly inform me where the accounts may be had of these two experiences, and greatly oblige F. V. T. Edwards's experience will be found in Dr. Allen's volume

"Jonathan Edwards "(Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston). Mr. Beecher's will be found in either of the two lives of Henry Ward Beecher, that by S. B. Halliday and Lyman Abbott, or that by Mrs. Beecher and her son. Kindly name the best commentary on each of the following books for a young and educated minister who wants what is abreast of the best thought and scholarship, yet not severely critical, but with something of the glow of George Adam Smith's "Isaiah-Psalms, John, Ephesians.

C.

It is hard to find the above requirements combined, but perhaps the following will come near it: Barton's "The Psalms and their Story," Sears's "Fourth Gospel, the Heart of Christ," Dale's "Lectures on Ephesians." 1. Kindly tell me whether there are any States of the Union in which an oath is invalid unless administered over the Bible. 2. Where can I find collected into one volume the various mythological stories of the creation of the world? J.G.

1. None that we are aware of. A witness may be sworn in any way that is binding on his conscience. 2. Referred to our readers.

Kindly give me a list of the best books on the kindergarten in Sunday-school work.

E. W. T.

Get "The Kindergarten Sunday-School" (Pilgrim Press,
Boston) and The Blackboard in Sunday-School” (W.
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In what one of Shakespeare's plays may be
found the following quotation:

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it will follow, as the night the morn, Thou canst not be false to any man." A READER. Polonius, in "Hamlet" (Act I., Scene 3), says: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." Can any one tell me where the following lines can be found?

"Fair science sheds her lucid ray

O'er lands that long in darkness lay.
She visits fair Columbia,

And sets her sons among the stars."

This was written after the discoveries of Franklin regarding electricity. C. W. G.

What is Imperialism?

[For answer to this and the following letter see editorial entitled "The Basis of Government."]

To the Editors of The Outlook:

Will you permit a mystified reader of your editorials dealing with the political situation to ask for your definition of the word "imperialism"? Evidently you mean by it something very different from what is meant by intelligent anti-imperialists. One is constrained to believe that you and many others, who advocate what we understand is an imperial policy, mean, when you say "imperialism," simply cruelty, injustice, and a denial of any right to local self-government. A writer recently descanted on the merits of the fine roads which our Government is planning for Luzon, and exclaimed, in triumphant sarcasm," And this is imperialism!" He evidently had forgotten that the best roads ever built had been built by imperial Rome, and that imperialism or republicanism has nothing per se to do with good roads, good schools, or even with a certain degree of local self-government. The Empress of India permits certain. local self-government in India, and does many beneficent things for her subjects. The one thing that her imperial government does not do, does not promise to do, and never intends to do, is either to grant independence to India or equality of political rights with English subjects, as she does in her English colonies.

In your editorial on "A Policy of Emancipation," in your issue of September 22, you quote the list of civil rights which President McKinley has given the Filipinos-such a list as the imperial Kaiser or any civilized monarch might have easily given in a similar case-and then, with strange inconsequence, you say: "He who accuses the Administration of imperialism should be prepared to show either that the acts of the Government have been inconsistent with these directions, or that the directions are inconsistent with imperialism."

Has not England granted all these civil rights to India? But do you deny that

her government there is imperial? It is astounding to the anti-imperialist to hear these common personal and civil rights adduced as if they had anything to do with disproving imperialism. The question of imperialism is not a question of beneficent administration or assimilation. Imperial Russia has beneficently assimilated Tartars and granted self-government to the mirs. Imperialism is not a question of granting civil rights. It is a question of political rights, of political status. The anti-imperialist holds that any nation, whether it be cruel or kind, whether it be monarchy or republic, which buys or takes by conquest another people, and dominates them without any promise of granting them independence, or, as we did with Louisiana, explicitly guaranteeing future Statehood, has adopted an imperialist policy. This is what we are talking about when we talk of imperialism. Is it not time at this late day that advocates and opponents of the Administration's policy should understand once for all what they are talking about, and not work at cross purposes?

Boston, Mass.

LUCIA AMES MEAD.

The Power of the Keys To the Editors of The Outlook:

Will you be kind enough to reconcile the inclosed extract from one of Lyman Abbott's published sermons with the present attitude of The Outlook upon the Filipino issue?

There are not wanting Americans who would take the keys from the people and give them to the Anglo-Saxons. Ask the Chinaman, the Indian, and the Negro how this violation of the divine law works. Mankind is not fit for self-government. That is true. But mankind are better fitted to govern themselves than any portion of mankind, however selected, are fitted to govern any other portion of mankind. Democracy rests on the fundamental truth that man as man-not royal man, nor aristocratic man, nor priestly man, nor AngloSaxon man, but man as man-was made in the image of God, and to man as man are given the keys of political, as of natural, dominion. Whenever, wherever, and howsoever this divine order is violated, the result is always disastrous. . . .' Taken from a sermon on

"The Power