herself and Frank, the Horse. It is quite wonderful that a grown-up person should have understood enough to write it down for her, this little girl who says: "It seemed to me that everything in the world was wrong, so I became Queen."

Omar Khayyam Calendar (The). The Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 1115 in. $1.50. On Account of Sarah. By Eyre Hussey. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 4x7 ín. 343 pages. 50c.

Orpheus: A Masque. By Mrs. Fields. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 6/8 in. 41 pages. 1. Reserved for notice later.

Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, D.D. James Pott & Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 124 pages. 75c. Of the rapidly increasing list of books on China, this is one of the smallest in size but one of the best in quality. The author is the President of St. John's (Episcopal) College, Shanghai. He has followed the excellent plan pursued by Chang-Chi-Tung in his book published a fortnight ago, in putting forth an analysis of the work before beginning the text-indeed, the two books are similar also in size, binding, paper, and print. Dr. Pott first considers the predisposing causes of present misery in China: (1) the poverty of the masses; (2) the official corruption; (3) and the innate spirit of exclusiveness. By a rapid historical survey, but one containing certain statements not popularly known, he points out the gradual breakup of the Chinese Empire after the war with Japan, specially noting the introduction of railways, the concessions to foreign syndicates, the subsidizing of China by foreign capital, the coup d'état of the Empress Dowager, and the uprising of the Boxers. The book should be in the hands of every student of Asiatic politics.

Pictures from Birdland. By M. & E. Detmold.

With Rhymes by E. B. S. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 72x10 in. $2. Pre-Raphaelite Ballads. By William Morris. Illustrations by D. M. O'Kane. The A. Wessels Co., New York. 534x8 in. 74 pages.

A group of Mr. Morris's ballads printed in a small and artistically made quarto, with illustrations and decorative borders in black and white, by D. M. O'Kane, and printed from oldfashioned type and from the original text. The general effect harmonizes with the verse. Princess's Story Book (The). Edited with an Introduction by George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. Illustrated by Helen Stratton. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 443 pages. $2. Would that all books were as light to the hand as is this! Would, too, that all books were as useful! This volume is a primal adjunct in the learning of history. It is a compilation of historical stories, collected from English romantic literature, and illustrating the reign of kings and queens. For instance, Bulwer tells us about Harold, Sir William Napier about William the Conqueror, Sir Walter Scott about Cœur de Lion, Froissart about Edward II. and III., and Charles Kingsley about Elizabeth. The stories are also useful as specimens of good literature.

and the discoveries in many other fields. Putnam's "Library of Standard Literature:" Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon. By Himself. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill D.C.L.. LL.D. Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Edited by John Churten Collins. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. $1.75 each.

These two volumes are the initial publications in Putnam's" Library of Standard Literature" -a selection of classics in a most convenient and dignified form, the volumes belonging to the type of substantial library books, not too large, but large enough to permit the use of a very clear type; printed on paper of excellent quality and of comfortable weight in the hand. Gibbon's Memoirs are edited by Dr. George B. Hill, who furnishes an interesting preface; while Tennyson's Early Poems are edited with a critical introduction, with commentaries, rotes, and various readings, and a bibliography, by John Churton Collins, thus making a book which will be of importance to the students of the Poet Laureate. In simplicity and excellence of book-making this new edition deserves honorable mention.

Quincy Adams Sawyer: A Story of New England Home Life. By Charles Felton Pidgin. The C. M Clark Publishing Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 586 pages. $1.50.

Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila. By General Charles King, U.S.V. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 42x712 in. 320 pages. $1.25. Reasons for Faith in Christianity, with Answers to Hypercriticism. By John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D. Eaton & Mains, New York. 5x7% in. 240 pages. $1.25.

We are constrained to say that this book, though written with some learning and sincere good intention, is likely to do more harm than good. It belongs to that class of the intended defenses of Christian doctrine which sets up a fictitious antagonism of faith to science that confirms ten skeptics where it converts one. Richard Yea and Nay. By Maurice Hewlett. The Macmillan Co., New York. 54x734 in. 410

Rubáiyát. A Reprint of the Fourth English Translation by Edward Fitzgerald and of an Address by the Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, given at a Dinner of the Omar Khayyám Club of London. (The Naishapur Edition.) The A. Wessels Co., New York. 4x64 in. 93 pages.

There is no end to the new forms in which Omar Khayyam's famous poem appears to be demanded by the reading public. The Naishapur edition is a reprint from the fourth English translation, with the addition of an address delivered by Mr. Asquith in London on the occasion of the dinner of the Omar Khayyám Club, the address serving as a pref

ace.

leather, and furnished with illustrations.

Salvation from Sin. By Lyman Abbott.

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 30 pages. 35c.

Scruples. By Thomas Cobb. John Lane, New York. 5x74 in. 244 pages. $1.25. Miss Pauline Cathcart, a beautiful young woman with an unfortunate lack of humor and a plenitude of psychological twists and turns, which display themselves in a series of contradictory scruples in regard to a brace of rival lovers, gives name to this story. It is very clever in those rapier thrusts of conversational play which when prolonged become a trifle wearisome. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining story, and ends to the liking of all parties concerned.

Sign of the Seven Sins (The). By William Le Queux. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 5x7 in. 281 pages. $1.25.

Sister Carrie. By Theodore Dreiser. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 557 pages. $1.50.

Studies in God's Methods of Training Workers.

By Howard Agnew Johnston. International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association, New York. 5x8 in. 171 pages.

This book is supplementary to the "Cycle of Bible Study" for college students published by the Students' Department of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations. One of its admirable features is that it draws upon the treasures of Christian biography subsequent to the Biblical record. These have been too much neglected, and deserve to be used still more largely.

Studies of Animal Life. By Herbert E. Walter, A.B., A.M.; Worrallo Whitney, A.B., A.M., and F. Colby Lucas, S.B., S.M. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 106 pages. 50c.

Supernatural (The). By Lyman Abbott. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x71⁄4 in. 29 pages. 35c. Ted's Little Dear. By Harriet A. Cheever. Illustrated. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 103 pages. 50c.

The Mainwaring Affair. By A. Maynard Barbour. Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 5x7 in. 362 pages. $1.50.

Through the Year with Birds and Poets. Compiled by Sarah Williams. Introduction by Bradford Torrey, Illustrated. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 51x84 in. 323 pages. $2.

A well arranged and selected anthology for bird-lovers.

Urchins of the Sea. By Marie Overton Corbin and Charles Buxton Going. Drawings by F. I. Bennett. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 948 in. 71 pages. $1.25.

is not at all convincing or probable.

Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud. Edited by Madison C. Peters. Introduction by Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5x7 in. 169 pages. $1.

The bulky tomes of the Talmud, embodying the work of Jewish scholars for eight centuries, are an unknown continent to Christian readers. In collecting from it the sayings of the wise, which he has presented in this interesting book, Dr. Peters has done a desirable service both to Christians and to Jews.

Women of the Bible. By Eminent Divines. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers, New York. 53⁄4×9 This is a beautiful piece of book-making in in. 188 pages. $2. its binding, type, and arrangement. Twelve representatives of differing faiths, whose union is belief in the Bible as the Word of God, contribute each a chapter on one of the twelve best-known women of the Scriptures. Rabbi Gottheil writes of Sarah, and Cardinal Gibbons of the Virgin Mary. The chapters on Eve and on Rebekah are contributed by Mr. Chadwick and Dr. Abbott.

Women of the Renaissance (The): A Study of Feminism. By E. de Maulde la Clavière. Translated by George Herbert Ely. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 534x9 in. 510 pages. $3.50. This important work, which is described in its title as "A Study of Feminism," comes from the hand of an accomplished student of the Middle Ages and of the great period which followed. M. de Maulde has made a position in historical activity in France which may be described as unique. Fourteen years ago he founded the Société d'Histoire Diplomatique, a society which owes its activity to his energy and enthusiasm. He is also the founder of the International Congress of History, of which the first was held at The Hague two years ago. His studies of the Renaissance have already borne fruit in a book entitled "The Origins of the French Revolution at the Commencement of the XVI. Century," in his "History of Louis XII.," and in a work in three volumes entitled "Diplomacy in the Time of Machiavel." These and other works have prepared him for the difficult task of describing the character, the position, and the influence of women in the Renaissance. The book will receive further attention.

Wonder Stories from Herodotus. By G. H. Boden and W. Barrington d'Almeida. Decorated by H. Granville Fell. Harper & Bros., New York. 6×8 in. 163 pages. $2.50,

Six of the most interesting tales from the old

historian, beginning with the story of Arion and the Dolphin and ending with that of Polycrates of Samos. The writers have endeavored to present the tales in such a way as to interest young readers. The pictures are in color, and highly decorative.

Works of Lord Byron (The). Letters and Journals. Vol. IV. Edited by Rowland E. Prothero, M.A. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 54×84 in. 500 pages. $2.

Yankee Enchantments. By Charles Battell Loomis. Illustrated. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. 5x74 in. 329 pages. $1.25.

A volume made up of twenty fairy tales for children. In these tales Mr. Loomis has struck a humorous note peculiarly his own. Its engaging drollery almost defies analysis, yet the adult reader whose first impulse is to throw the book aside with a pooh-pooh of disdain may anon find himself led on till he feels his lips first pucker and then break into broad smiles. In these fairy tales are none of the paraphernalia of ancient fairy lore. They are up to the present hour in trolley-car, liquid-air, and automobile speed of motion, and amid all these modern wonders the fairy modes of bestowing old-time gifts and favors are as sprite

like and unexpected as are the play and surprises of human nature itself. Mr. Loomis is unmistakably American, as much in his way of looking at things as in his turns of phrase. Even his fairies work their spells in an opportunity-loving Yankee fashion.

Young and Old Puritans of Hatfield (The). By Mary P. Wells Smith. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 353 pages. $1.25. The story follows closely the historical accounts of the band of captives, most of them children, carried away by the Indians from Massachusetts to Canada at the close of King Philip's war, and of the two rescuers who followed them in the long, perilous journey through the wilderness. The picture of the party of Indians, braves and squaws and papooses and white captives, making their way through the snowy forests, living on the game that could be found, and, when that was scarce, often having nothing to eat but birchbark, is vivid and full of interest. The library of every boy and girl should contain at least one book of this kind, recounting the tale, that should never be forgotten, of the hardships and heroism of the early settlers of America.

Kindly suggest a list of books (four or five given in the order of importance), that will be helpfully suggestive in the preparation of a series of sermons: (1) Apologetic in character; (2) practical, bearing on daily life and conduct, for young people; (3) Christocentric or evangelistic, suggestive of Apostolic preaching. W. W. B.

1. Bruce's "Apologetics" (Scribners, $2.50); Storrs's "Divine Origin of Christianity" (Randolph Company, New York, $3.50); Spence's "Back to Christ" (McClurg, Chicago, $1); Horder's "Supreme Argument for Christianity" (Whittaker, New York, 50 cents). 2. Dole's" Religion of a Gentleman" (T. Y. Crowell, New York, $1); MacCunn's "Making of Character" (Macmillan Company, $1.25); Wells's "Sermons in Stones" (Doubleday & McClure Company, New York, $1); Munger's "On the Threshold" and "Lamps and Paths" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, $1 each). 3. Dr. L. A. Banks's Sermons, several volumes (Eaton & Mains, New York). 1. Please give briefly the strongest historical evidence against the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope. 2. At about what time and under what circumstances did Popery arise-that is, when and why did the Bishop of Rome become head of the Catholic Church? W. P. K.

1. The fact that the taking of interest on loans of money has been condemned by many Popes, Dr. White says seventeen. For a fuller statement see his "Warfare of Science with Theology," II., page 277 and following (D. Appleton & Co., New York). 2. The Papacy is the product of a long historical evolution, which in the course of centuries transformed the Bishop of Rome, who at first was accorded merely an honorary primacy among the bishops of the metropolitan churches of Alexandria, Antioch, and later of Constantinople and Jerusalem, into a temporal prince, and the autocrat of Western Christendom. See the Encyclopædia Britannica for a good digest of the history.

Please mention the name, and where obtainable, with price, of book or books on The Doctrine of the Bible-of recent date, and in to-day's thought. H. B.

If

you mean the teaching of the Bible, see Bennett's "Theology of the Old Testament" (Whittaker, New York, 75 cents) and Gould's "Biblical Theology of the New Testament" (The Macmillan Company, New York, $1.25). If you mean teaching about the Bible, see J. P. Smyth's "How God Inspired the Bible," "How We Got Our Bible," "The Divine Library," "The Old Documents and the New Bible" (The Pilgrim Press, Boston, $1, 50 cents, 50 cents, and $1).

In The Outlook for November 3 I notice a request from F. C. D. for a systematized arrangement of the Book of Proverbs. Did you intentionally omit the admirable little work by Professor Kent entitled The Wise Men of Ancient Israel and their Proverbs" (Silver, Burdett & Co.)? I think so highly of the book that I cannot help speaking of it in this connection. L. B. L.

It was unintentionally omitted. Please give me the best books on the laws of heredity. S. C. S. See Galton's "Hereditary Genius "and"" Natural Inheritance" (Macmillan, New York, $2.50 and $2); Riddell's "A Child of Light" (Child of Light Publishing Company, Chicago, $2); Bradford's "Heredity and Christian Problems" (Macmillan, $1.50); McKim's "Heredity and Human Progress" (Putnams).

Can you tell me where I could rent a set of stereopticon slides illustrating the life of Christ, both D. from art and by views of Palestine?

Are there any books giving short prayers offered before meals-table blessings? If so, where could I get one? H.A. S.

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Last week France saw Mr. Kruger in France a renewal of the enthusiasm which General Boulanger once awakened. The venerable Boer President from the moment of his landing in France became not only the idol and hero of the emotional French, but even more an occasion for venting the hereditary anti-English feeling of the French people. So far, both civilians and soldiers have conducted themselves with praiseworthy restraint, abstaining from conduct liable to involve the present Ministry in difficulties. Fortunately for it, and for England too, the shouts of "Vive Kruger!" have drowned the cries of "A bas l'Angleterre!" (Down with England). However, the enthusiasm shown wherever Mr. Kruger has been in France does not count for much in comparison with the emphatic declarations of conservative French papers that France can now do nothing for the Boers. Mr. Kruger still asks for overt acts. He has announced that "We will never surrender. We will fight to the end." If the French had a readier sense of humor, such a declaration from a leader who has run away from the field of battle with his money in his bags would surely give rise to some grotesque cartoons; but just now the French are in no mood for the humorous side of their hero. He declares that ever since the Jameson raid of 1895-96 he had not only favored but demanded an arbitration tribunal for the settlement of all difficulties between England and the Transvaal, but the British Government had always refused it: this by way of argument for present mediation by France. But France can no more afford to mediate now than at any time during the war. Nor is the position of France in any wise affected by the recent Peace Conference at The Hague. The mediation and arbitration principles there agreed upon do not apply. In the current number of that

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attractive new magazine, "The Monthly Review," Professor de Martens (Privy Councilor to the Czar and a foremost figure at The Hague) has this to say: "The Peace Conference had nothing to do with the conflict between England and the Transvaal, and could have nothing to do with it unless the scope of the resolu tions had been essentially enlarged. The resolutions of an international conference are binding only on those Powers that have taken part in it. The Transvaal did not take any part in the deliberations of the Hague Conference." The fundamental question involved in the Boer war is whether the Transvaal was a sovereign State or, in some degree, a dependency. To have granted mediation or arbitration would have been for England practically to concede that the Transvaal was right on the question at issue.

The German Parliament

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If week before last was notable for the most remarkable speech yet made by a German Emperor in opening the Reichstag, or Parliament, last week was equally notable for the most vigorous criticisms yet made in that body on the monarch's policy. These criticisms came from the Radicals and from the Socialists, the spokesmen being, respectively, Herren Richter and Bebel. Herr Richter insisted that the Reichstag's rights ought to be more clearly defined and secured before the courts, in case of another breach of the Constitution by the Kaiser. He expressed his regret at such impulsive speeches as that of the Kaiser at Bremerhaven, and said that an understanding should first have been reached between the monarch and his Ministers, asserting that all that was objectionable would thus have been avoided. Count von Bülow, Imperial Chancellor, admitted that appropriations had been

made and troops sent without the Reichstag's consent; but, with regard to the Emperor's words, he protested that "the speech at Bremerhaven was extemporaneous, delivered at a time when it was assumed that all the Europeans in Peking had been murdered. It was natural, in such circumstances, that the Kaiser should have spoken as a soldier and not as a diplomat." After the Emperor's speech opening Parliament, Herr Bebel had demanded of the Chancellor a formal declaration as to whether German troops in China had received orders to spare no one, as the Kaiser had commanded at Wilhelmshaven. Not eliciting a reply, Herr Bebel read letters from German soldiers in which the writers asserted that every one, including women and children, had been slaughtered in a certain engagement near Tientsin. Count von Bülow was obliged again to review his master's speeches. The Wilhelmshaven address, he pointed out, was delivered immediately after the receipt of the news of Baron von Ketteler's murder. "It would be incomprehensible," the Chancellor asserted, "if so serious a crime did not make the Emperor's blood flow faster." This discussion indicates that William II. may be an instrument in the hands of Providence for democratizing, against his will, the German people and emboldening their representatives in the Reichstag.

China

Last week the representatives of the Powers at Peking agreed upon the terms of a preliminary treaty with China. It is believed that the main points are in substantial agreement with the principal items of the recent French note to the Powers. The agreement is not improbably due to the appeal sent earlier in the week to all the Powers by Secretary Hay. Suggestions had already been made that, unless a practical result were immediately reached at Peking, the seat of negotiations would better be removed to Washington or some European 'capital, and that negotiations would be better carried on by persons other than those whose personal experiences during the siege must bias their judgment and lead to the demand for terms harsher than China could fulfill. General Tung's forces in northwestern China apparently have the

Chinese Emperor practically at their mercy. Prince Tuan has left the Imperial Court at Singan to recruit for General Tung and to prepare a stronghold in case of an attack from the allies. The British Admiral Seymour is now visiting the Yangtse Viceroys at Nanking and Hankau, with the object of inducing them to consent to the presence of English troops in their dominions. The granting of this request would undoubtedly lead to a renewal of Russian demands in the north, and the partition of China might thus be brought one step nearer. Recent reports confirm the first rumors of wholesale and outrageous murder of non-combatants by Russian Cossacks. Coincident with the news of the grave illness which has attacked one who has been called the Peace Czar-an illness which has made necessary his temporary withdrawal from work-comes the announcement that, contrary to her promised policy, Russia now refuses to withdraw her troops from the province of Chili, or even to hand over the Tientsin-Niuchang railway to the allies. It is significant of probable change that the railway tickets are now printed, not in Chinese, but in Russian. At Chifu, Shanghai, Fuchau, and the other large treaty ports on the coast greater security to life and property is now assured, and many missionaries who have taken refuge there are impatient to be again at their work, despite the unsettled state of the interior.

Turkey and the United States

Last week the Porte definitely rejected the request for an exequatur for a United States Consul at Harpoot (Kharput). This refusal is regarded by the United States Legation at Constantinople as a violation of treaty rights. Consequently Dr. Norton, appointed by President McKinley to establish a consulate at Kharput, has been directed to proceed to his post. Dr. Norton has been in Constantinople for some months, awaiting his exequatur. The claim of the United States in his case is based upon a clause in the Turco-American Treaty of 1830 which reads: "The United States may appoint their citizens to be Consuls and Vice-Consuls at the commercial places in the dominions of the Sublime Porte where it shall be