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As Russia, in spite of its tremendous concentration in self-analysis and philosophical speculation, is the infant of civilized nations, so necessarily is it the last home of a living folk-lore. The great ballads of the Slav, perfected and crystallized through the fine sieve of an oral tradition, begin in the thirteenth century (a period which marks the full fruition and practical completion of the folk-lore of other countries) and come down to the Turco-Russian War. The literature, music, and art of modern Russia are in great measure based upon these ballad cycles. Mr. Magnus in his book has attempted a digest and narrative account of the earlier balladry of Russia. He, wisely enough, outlines no theories, but contents himself with setting forth the legends as they are. The result is a bulk of stirring and heroic tales, occasionally interspersed with passages in verse which illustrate the ballad meters and methods of composition of this root literature of Russia. His work is to be applauded, although so simple in imagery are the tales it is to be desired that the ballads themselves eventually receive by complete translations the recognition that is their due.

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There is a fascination about antique shops, and Mr. Snaith makes good use of that setting to interest his reader in the recovery and restoration of the marvelously beautiful Van Roon painting. Its adventures in the hands of Uncle Si, the miserly dealer, his assistant the super-simple William, and his niece the super-clever June are exciting and duly end in love and prosperity. Not exactly Mr. Snaith's strongest work.

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George Borrow is indirectly responsible for this delightful book about the Gypsies. The author, as a college boy, one day picked up Borrow's "Gypsies of Spain" and became absorbed in it. He learned his Romany vocabulary, and later visited Spain and mingled with the Gypsies on terms of familiarity that Borrow himself might have envied. The pages are full of color, incident, and insight into the character and life of these strange people.

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This book is dedicated "with love and reverence to the Master K. H." The Master K. H., it seems, dwells at Shigatse in the Himalayas, where he has lived for many centuries and "is in line for the office of World Teacher when the present holder of that office vacates it for higher work and the sixth root race comes into being." The "initiated" may find something worth while in the farrago of high-sounding words that fill these 200-odd pages, but to the average Anglo-Saxon the book will be useful only as offering a mild form of amusement. LETTERS ON OCCULT MEDITATION.

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FORWARD TO YESTERDAY

BY J. C. LONG

HOSE who have been longing for the good old days may find them in Chillicothe, Missouri.

The high-speed living of the past forty years-building up centers of population around railway terminals, making dollars grow in the deserts, changing our ideas of distance-has had its definite advantages. It has brought us better clothes, more material comforts, a wider sophistication; but until recently there has been felt the loss of neighborliness, good fellowship, and independence that obtained in the days when commerce was over the turnpike.

In the early development of this country cities prospered which were located at the head of navigation or were situated on main highways, such as the Boston Post Road; but when steel rails began to span the continent population had to follow them or be left out of the tide of events. The very life of a town depended on its ability to connect with some big railway system. Hundreds of communities were necessarily unable to accomplish this ambition and dwindled away. The turnpike lost its significance. The rattling buggy and creaking farm wagon were unable to keep up with the swift pace of progress set by the roaring locomotive.

Near the beginning of the twentieth century, however, there came a new instrument into human affairs whose effect on the lives and happiness of the average man is just beginning to be realized. This instrument was the motor vehicle. Twenty years ago there were less than thirty thousand of these contraptions snorting around the country, scaring horses and increasing the use of vivid Vocabularies. To-day there are over ten million motor cars and trucks on the roads, or an average of one to every ten persons.

Sinclair Lewis in "Main Street" and "Babbitt" has indicated how intensively the automobile has permeated the conversation and the living of the average American citizen. Babbitt finds in his car an outlet for creative desires, a sense of release, a matter of pride. Others have discussed what the car and truck have meant to the farm population, or again how it has developed suburban life, or yet again its effect on the recreation and business possibilities of the individual.

But Chillicothe, Missouri, exemplifies in a striking way the effect of motor transport upon the town.

Chillicothe calls itself the "Highway City." It has in a sense returned to the old-time characteristics of the turnpike town. There are railways there, but the outstanding feature of its life and growth is its location on twenty-eight highways, eleven of which are National thoroughfares.

The growth of Chillicothe in the past twenty years has been not so much in terms of population as in the well-being

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of its individual citizens. Bank deposits in the city have increased from $2,860,000 in 1917 to $4,000,000 in 1921.

It is a city of complete material wellbeing, as with a population of 10,000 there are 2,000 homes owned by individual families. In the current year $2,000,000 is being spent in private building and public works projects, the largest amount that has ever been spent in one year for the development of the city. The growth of motor transportation has demanded the building of a new hotel and has stimulated the remodeling and building up of the main business streets of the city.

Among the developments of the last decade are a new court-house erected in 1914, a Federal building completed in 1916, and a modern theater constructed in 1920.

The town has 14 churches, 2 daily papers, 15 school buildings, 2 modern hospitals, and a municipally owned water and light plant.

Chillicothe is the home of 300 traveling salesmen, who find it a convenient location, as the city is on the highway between Chicago and Kansas City, between Omaha and St. Louis, and between Minneapolis on the north and the highIway to New Orleans on the south. Two through routes from coast to coast pass through the streets of Chillicothe which have twenty-five miles of paved surfaces.

Chillicothe, as an example of the small city of the new age, indicates how the advantages of urban life may be secured without its accompanying congestion and high rents. When the only means of swift modern transportation was the railway, it became necessary for the man who wanted city life to move into town and stay there, but to-day motor transport enables a man ten and twenty miles out of town to drive in for his shopping and entertainment without sacrificing the freedom and spaciousness of rural conditions.

We are, then, going forward into yesterday, a yesterday which saw a high degree of civilization in small groups of population, a yesterday of lower rents, with house and land for every family.

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