the "Study of the Last Things,"" of which the reckoning of 3,996 years from the creation of Adam to the birth of Christ is a specimen. Friendly Year (The): Chosen and Arranged from the Works of Henry van Dyke. By George Sidney Webster. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 4X7 in. 185 pages. $1.25.

This volume is very felicitous, not only in its contents, but in its arrangement. The selections from Dr. van Dyke's prose and verse have been made with sympathetic intelligence; they are printed in broad column, but on a much broader page, and with side-titles which are keys to the contents of the paragraphs. The author of "The Foot-Path to Peace" is singularly happy in his gift of putting wise thoughts into brief and telling sentences. The range of his interests, the ripeness of his wisdom, and the poetic quality of his insight are disclosed in this volume, which is very tastefully made.

Gay Lord Quex (The): A Comedy in Four Acts.

By Arthur W. Pinero. R. H. Russell, New York. 52x8 in. 186 pages. $1.25. Indisputably clever, and put together for theater use with deft skill. Equally indisputably, Mr. Pinero's view of society is dishearteningly pessimistic, and his treatment of the vice of sensuality flippant and dangerous.

Glimpses of Three Nations. By G. W. Stee

vens. Edited by Vernon Blackburn. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 295 pages. $1.50. Mr. Steevens had long intended to write a book about London. The chapters on London in this book, originally printed in the London "Daily Mail," were really thumb-nail sketches preparatory to such a book. To them are added light, sharply impressionistic pictures of phases of life in France and Germany. In peace as in war, Mr. Steevens was an alert observer and a brilliant word-painter. These sketches, slight as they are, merit preservation in book form. Mrs. Steevens writes a brief preface.

God, the King, My Brother. By Mary F. Nixon. L. C. Page & Co., Boston., 57x1 in. 296 pages. $1.25.

Heath's Home and School Classics.

"Six

Nursery Classics;" "The Wonderful Chair" Ruskin's "King of the Golden River;" "Eyes and No Eyes;" Lamb's "Adventures of Ulysses;" "The Story of a Short Life;""A Midsummer-Night's Dream;""Gulliver's Travels," Part I, and II. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. Paper bound. 10c. and 15c. each.

Heroines of the Bible in Art. By Clara Er

skine Clement. Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 361 pages. $2. From the desirable books of reference on painting and sculpture already compiled by Mrs. Clement, we have a right to expect the same excellence in her latest work, nor are we disappointed. Eve, beginning the Bible heroines, is followed by Sarah, Hagar, Rebecca, Rachel, etc. Each subject has received varied portrayal in painting. For instance, Rachel's life has been pictured in the works of Raphael, Palma Vecchio, Giordano, Rubens, Appiani, and Cignaroli. These representations are described and compared. The illustration of the present volume is good as far as it goes. but is deplorably inadequate. In the second edition this should be remedied, and the page

of description of David moved from its interruption of the Moses story back to its own place.

History of Political Parties in the United States (A). By J. P. Gordy, Ph.D. (Second Edition, Thoroughly Revised.) In 4 vols. Vol. I. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 598 pages. $1.75. In this, the second edition of his work, Professor Gordy abundantly justifies the view expressed in his preface, that the political philosophy of Hamilton was held by only a small minority of the Federalist party, and that the great body of Federalists differed but little with the democratic views championed by Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin. The complete collapse of Federalism, so soon after its first defeat, can be explained only on this basis, and only on this basis can we account for the Federalism of New England, which was so strongly democratic prior to and during the Revolutionary War. The Federalist leaders, by reason of their ability, scholarship, and social prestige, were able to direct the policy of their party, but Hamilton probably mistook the temper of the common people of all parties and all sections when he claimed that public opinion was steadily progressing away from the democratic ideals of the Revolution. In his own influential circle there was doubtless " progress" of this sort, but the rank and file of the Federalists remained fundamentally democratic in faith and feeling. How to Succeed. By Austin Bierbower. R. F.

Fenno & Co., New York. 4x7 in. 225 pages. $1. In and Around the Grand Canyon. By George Wharton James. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5X8 in. 341 pages. $3.

Ten years' repeated visits to the superb scenery of the Grand Canyon have provided Mr. history, with the most complete appreciation James with most intimate knowledge of local of the natural wonders of the country, and with varied and extensive pictorial material. The subject has never been so fully and richly treated as in this volume.

Intermediate Arithmetic. By William J. Milne, Ph.D., LL.D. The American Book Co., New York. 5X7 in. 219 pages. 30c.

International Law. By F. E. Smith, B.C. L. (The Temple Primers.) The Macmillan Co., New York 4x6 in. 184 pages. 40c.

In the Days of Jefferson. By Hezekiah Butterworth. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 512x8 in. 284 pages. $1.50.

In this, one of the Liberty Series of historic fiction, Mr. Butterworth deals with the ideal side of Thomas Jefferson. The picture he draws is a lovable one, revealing the eclectic many-sidedness and breadth of sympathies of the hero. In his early days in the Virginia forests we see Jefferson fraternizing with the Indian Ontasette and with the unknown stranger and Moslem Selim, on the one side, and with the idealist Dabney Carr on the other. Patrick Henry and many other men of note figure in this delightful story of the Father of American Democracy.

Italian Cities. By Edwin Howland Blashfield

and Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 2 vols. 5x7 in. $2. Reserved for later notice.

Aftermath. By (New and Revised New York. 54x8

Jacinta, and Other Verses. By Howard V. Sutherland. Doxey's, At the Sign of the Lark, New York. 4x6 in. 70 pages. Kentucky Cardinal (A) and James Lane Allen. Illustrated. Edition.) The Macmillan Co., in. 276 pages. $2.50. These two charming stories, in which Mr. Allen is at his best, and which are permanent additions to our literature, are issued in a single handsome volume, well printed, with sympathetic illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and a highly decorated border. The value of this form of these two works lies in an introduction which Mr. Allen has prepared, and which has a delightful note of autobiography running through it. Without a touch of egotism, and in a style worthy of "The Kentucky Cardinal," Mr. Allen sketches the birth of observation and the unfolding of imagination in his childhood. The introduction is a bit of charming literature.

A. L.

Kentucky Frontier (The). By James Otis. Illustrated. (The Young Patriot Series.) Burt, New York. 5x711⁄2 in. 266 pages. $1. This volume in the "Young Patriot" series tells of the experiences of "Poor Simon Kenton," the old hero who suffered so much injustice and neglect in the early days of pioneer life. The story is full of that sort of interest which quickens the sympathies while giving a good deal of information as to the practical conditions of early national life.

Life of Edward Fitz-Gerald.

The

By John Glyde. Introduction by Edward Clodd. Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago. 5x8 in. 359 pages. $2. A compact biography of the translator of Omar Khayyám, notable neither for insight nor charm of style, somewhat slight in its texture, but interesting in spite of its defects, because it deals with a man of pronounced individuality of mind and character. biographer had very little material to draw upon, for Fitz-Gerald was a recluse who hid himself from the world and left as few traces of his personality as possible-these traces mainly in the memory of his friends. The biographer has succeeded, however, in getting enough material to sketch a clear and deeply interesting portrait; and his book will be valued, not so much for itself as for that which it reveals concerning one of the most interesting of modern men.

Life of Mrs. Booth. By W. T. Stead.

The

Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 5x734 in. 256 pages. $1.25.

This is not a biography, but a sketch of life and character. Many who would never read Mr. Booth Tucker's voluminous work will learn from this to admire one of the grandest

women of our time, a woman whose limitations in some lines augmented her force in her chosen line, and gained for her the blessing invoked upon Rebekah as "the mother of millions." No one can read this sketch, which Mr. Stead has done con amore, without the thrill that comes of seeing what one devoted and heroic soul can do.

Life of St. John (A): For the Young. By George Ludington Weed. Illustrated. George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia. 484×7 in. 259 pages. 75c.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship. By W. D. Howells. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 512x8 in. 288 pages. $2.50. A delightful book of literary reminiscences which will receive fuller attention.

Little Folks' Illustrated Annual. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 6x9 in. 384 pages. $1.25. Love Among the Artists. By George Bernard Shaw. Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago. 434x7 in. 443 pages.

We find in this story that peculiar mingling of man-of-the-world cleverness and the goodhumored cynicism of a detached looker-on which gives its note of distinction to the work of this author. The characters are all out of the common trend. They affect us as the possessors of highly stimulated brains rather than of healthy blood and good digestions. Some of them are obviously cold-blooded, and some have been too long in training as poseurs to risk saying what they are. The author's cleverness is subtle, suggestive, never open. He plays with his puppets, and leaves the reader to do his own guessing. There is no definite plot, and, so far as the story reveals artistic temperament, and especially that elumotive, it is to show that people possessed of sive quality we call genius, would do better to

remain unmarried, and so have no rival between them and art.

Magic Moments. By Clifton Bingham. Illustration by Florence Hardy. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 10x11 in. 18 pages. $2.

Making of a Missionary (The): A Story of Mission Work in China. By Charlotte M. Yonge. Illustrated. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 5x7% in. 228 pages. $1.

Merry Folk: A Book for the Children's Playtime. Illustrated by C. Stuart Hardy. 11x91 in. 64 pages. $1.50.

More Fables. By George Ade.

Illustrated.

Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago. 41x7 in. 219 pages. $1.

Mr. Howells, speaking from his Easy Chair in "Harper's Magazine," brackets Mr. Ade with Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins, and other worthy realists. At least he is jolly and amusing, and is a scientific user of Chicago slang.

Mother Goose Cooked. By John H. Myrtle and Reginald Rigby. Illustrated. John Lane, New York. 6x9 in. 52 pages. 75c.

Nature Studies from Ruskin.

Chosen and

Arranged by Rose Porter. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 374 pages. $1.50.

In brief preface the author disclaims her object in making these selections to have been the popular one of giving readers a superficial knowledge of an author, and claims her purpose to have been quite the contrary-namely, to select such as would "serve as guide to the rich harvests about 'the universe of visible things which have no faculty of speech,' but which are ripe for gleaning in John Ruskin's complete works." The quotation is given because the author has so admirably worked out her plan. Let the average reader take up for the first time any one volume of Ruskin's complete works, and he is as likely as not to drop it ere he is led on to investigate further. The things that seize upon and hold average

attention are in Ruskin to be come upon in spots.

New Education Readers. Book One. By A. J. Demarest and William M. Van Sickle. Illustrated. The American Book Co., New York. 534×734 in. 144 pages. 35c. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman. By Josiah Flynt. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 4×7 in. 252 pages. $1.25.

In this volume the author supplements the observations of tramps' life he made from within when" tramping with tramps," by those which he made from without when employed on the special police force of a railway company. The exoteric view is less interesting than the esoteric, but nevertheless contains many glimpses revealing in a vivid way the modern characteristics of the ancient brotherhood of "sturdy beggars."

Path of Life (The). By George Hodges. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 5×7 in. 248 pages. $1.

Most of the twenty discourses in this volume follow the order of the Christian Year from Christmas to Whitsuntide. They exhibit" the Path of Life" along the highway of common things and experiences, and exhibit the clear insight, the plain speaking, the pointed appliIcation of Christian principle to the improvement of Christian practice, that are characteristic of the other publications of their author. Speaking upon the Social Epiphany," for instance, Dean Hodges puts it thus: "The Christian manifests Christ to the Gentiles when he is a democrat, not an aristocrat. An aristocrat is one who confines his interest to a very few people; a democrat is one who cares a great deal for a great many people-for the people."

Philip Winwood. Presented anew by Robert

Neilson Stephens. Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co.,
Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 404 pages. $1.50.

A new edition of a wholesome and deservedly popular novel of the Revolution.

Plain Instructions in Hypnotism and Mesmerism. By A. E. Carpenter. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 4x64 in. 112 pages. 75c.

Present-Day Problems of Christian Thought. By Randolph Harrison McKim, D.D. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 5×74 in. 317 pages. $1.50. Three-fourths of the chapters in this book are fairly classed under its title. As problems they touch theological interest only; the sociological is not considered. Their treatment is, on the whole, conservative, with some advances. It seems to us that the alternative which Jesus proposes in John xiv., 11, thoroughly disposes of the old claim, here repeated, that Christianity stands or falls with its miracles. The supernatural character of Christianity is not to be confounded with the miraculous. It seems to us, also, that if we are to be condemned as “rationalists" for accepting Christian truth simply on account of its reasonableness, theologians are harder masters than him who said, "If I speak the truth, why do ye not believe?"

Prima Donnas and Soubrettes of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in America. By Lewis C. Strang. Illustrated. (Stage Lover's Series.) L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 4X7 in. 269 pages. $1.50, Lillian Russell, Alice Neilson, Madge Lossing,

Della Fox, Marie Tempest, and several other equally well known singers and soubrettes are here sketched. The author pictures their personality, and seeks to explain why their talents take the turn that give them a distinctive niche in their calling. Their personal lives are touched on lightly, and the tone of criticism is mild. It is of a quality similar to, but strikes a rather higher note than, that of the Sunday newspapers concerning these popular stage favorites.

Problem of Asia (The) and Its Effects upon International Policies. By A. T. Mahan, D.Ĉ.L., LL.D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 233 pages. $2.

Reserved for later notice.

Quicksand. By Hervey White. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 328 pages. $1.50. As a literary craftsman the author of this novel betrays marked ability, also an intimacy with the weakness of the human heart which is, to say the least, unusual. It is evidently intended to be a novel with a purpose; many readers will dub it a problem novel. It presents an unmerciful study of the life-history of a whole family of the farming class of New Englandpresumably of a date somewhat remote from the present-brought up in commonplace environment and stultified by a pitiful religious outlook. The mother dominates the whole

family, husband included. In order to hide the result of an erring, ignorant young daughter's act, and baffle her neighbors, the woman sacrifices the rest of her family and crushes their natural affections; and, while dragooning them into her own conceptions of religion, lives a lie which maims them all and ends in ruin. In picturing the blind self-will of the mother, the interrelations of the whole family, and the reactions upon one another of their unnaturally repressed lives, the author works out a psychological study as powerful as it is repellent. The situations are handled without gloves. A story of unquestioned power, it is not a pleasant one to read.

Reformation (The). By Williston Walker.

(Ten Epochs of Church History. Edited by John Fulton, D.D., LL.D.) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. IX. 5×74 in. 487 pages. $2. This is one of the best volumes in its series.

Judicious discrimination guides the selection

made from the storehouse of material; and the stages and turning-points of the movement, together with its leaders and men of mark, are clearly and appreciatingly treated. Reuben James: A Hero of the Forecastle. By

Cyrus Townsend Brady. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 51×8 in. 158 pages. $1. No story, perhaps, in the Young Hero Series will prove more pleasing to boy readers than this, which pictures the bravery of a common sailor and his devotion to the great naval hero, Commodore Stephen Decatur. It is a story of high-hearted courage, and heartily told. Mr. Brady's knowledge of sea tactics and sea vernacular leaves nothing to be desired in its graphic picturing. The story is thoroughly sound and manly.

Rita. By Laura E. Richards. Illustrated. Dana Estes & Co., Boston. 4×7 in. 246 pages. $1.25.

Roger Ludlow: The Colonial Lawmaker. By John M. Taylor. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 6x8 in. 166 pages. $1.50.

Roggie and Reggie Stories (The). By Gertrude Smith. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 7×8 in. 95 pages. $1.50.

Two little boys two years old cannot have very exciting adventures, but this book about Roggie and Reggie tells how they took the guinea-pigs to ride, and how they hunted for the lamb in the woods, and how they danced in the goldfish fountain.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated. Doxey's, At the Sign of the Lark, New York. 6×81⁄2

in.

Still another edition of Fitzgerald's immortal rendering of Omar's thoughts. Miss Lundborg's drawings and decorations seem to us too gloomy; Omar may have been a pessimist, but he was not melancholy, certainly not funereal.

Salammbo. Retold from the French of Gustave Flaubert. By Zenaïde A. Ragozin. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x8 in. 381 pages. $1.50.

Cleverly put together and free from the objections to all literal rendering of Flaubert's brilliant story.

Second Manual of Composition (A). By Edwin Herbert Lewis, Ph.D. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 579 pages. 90c.

Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron. Edited by Frederic Ives Carpenter, Ph.D. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 42x64 in. 412 pages. $1. Shakespeare in Art. By Sadakichi Hartman. Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 5×71⁄2 in. 371 pages. $2.

This volume belongs in the "Art Lover's Series," and presents the portraits of Shakespeare, together with a generous selection from the illustrative studies of Shakespeare's characters, the illustrations of the histories, comedies, and tragedies, the studies of Shakespearean themes in sculpture, portraits of actors who have identified themselves with Shakespearean characters, a bibliography, and an index. The text bears evidence of sympathetic and even enthusiastic study; the illustrations are very uneven in quality.

Sister's Vocation and Other Girls' Stories.

By Josephine Dodge Daskam. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 4×7 in. 273 pages. $1.25. There is a charming quality about these stories. Rarely has the discomfort of the tiny studio apartments in which some New Yorkers try to live been more entertainingly and realistically portrayed than in "A Taste of Bohemia," and all the stories are bright and wholesome. Slavery of Our Times (The). By Leo Tolstoy.

Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 4×7 in. 186 pages. $1.25.

This little book will do positive good if the reading public is sufficiently satiated with the preaching it likes to be ready to listen to the preaching it needs. It would be easy in this notice to condemn the literalism with which Count Tolstoi applies Christ's command not to resist wrong by wrong, and easy to defend some of the economic teachings which the author arraigns, but such a review, however judicial, would not contain a tithe as much truth that men need to hear as do the injudi

cial utterances which might serve as texts. In previous generations, says Count Tolstoï, the public conscience has been awakened to the wrongfulness of conditions which still earlier generations had accepted as a matter of course, and a similar awakening is now essential for our own generation. The overlauded divisions of labor involve, he thinks, divisions of intelligence stupefying to the workers and establishing class relationships which are often as pitiless on the one side and as servile on the other as the old relationships under systems of serfdom and slavery. No recent essay is so well constituted to disturb the smug optimism which is to-day in the name of science doing so much to chill the hearts and benumb the consciences of well-intentioned people.

Slaves of Chance. By Ferrier Langworthy. Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 5x7%1⁄2 in. 346 pages. $1.50.

Slaves of Society (The). By The Man Who Heard Something. Harper & Bros., New York. 5x7 in. 253 pages. $1.25.

Songs and Song Writers. By Henry T. Finck. With Portraits. (The Music Lover's Library.) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5×7% in. 254 pages. $1.25.

Mr. Finck is the well-known critic of the New York "Evening Post," and those who read the excellent musical criticisms of that journal know that he possesses not only a thorough knowledge of music, but an unhackneyed and readable style. All his good qualities as a newspaper crític appear in this volume, and some others as well, which will be refreshing to those who know him only through the columns of the "Evening Post"-the ability, for instance, to express a dispassionate and partially appreciative opinion concerning Brahms. Mr. Finck's persistent and unvarying antipathy to Brahms has always seemed to us as narrow as the extravagant enthusiasm of the so-called Brahmsites, against whom he wages a not altogether unjust war. Mr. Finck's choice of Schubert, Franz, Grieg, and MacDowell as his favorite song-composers is one that will interest singers and song-writers. Souls in Pawn: A Story of New York Life. By Margaret Blake Robinson. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 308 pages. $1.25. Spanish Highways and Byways. By Katharine Lee Bates. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5X7 in. 448 pages. $2.25. Not at all of the ordinary run of books of travel. These chapters of observation and picturesque description touch a hundred points which no conventional tourist would notice. The richness and variety of topic may be judged by contrasting such chapter-titles as "The Funeral of Castelar" and "Choral Games of Spanish Children;" "The Yolk of the Spanish Egg" and "Passion Week in Seville" "The Lazy Spaniard" and "The Route of the Silver Fleets." In freshness and directness the book is immeasurably superior to nine out of ten books of travel. One can best compare it with the charming travel articles "H. H." (Helen Hunt Jackson) wrote years ago. The photographs illustrating the book are not of conventional Spanish scenes, but of matters closely connected with the text.

Speedwell. By Anna J. Grannis. Darling & Co., Keene, N. H. 44x6 in. 64 pages. 50c. Story of Nineteenth-Century Science (The). By Henry Smith Williams, M.D. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 52×8 in. 475 pages. $2.50. A thoroughly scientific and expert account of the advances made in the century just closed in medicine, astronomy, geology, biology, chemistry, meteorology, psychology, physics, etc. One could wish more about invention, mechanics, electricity, and kindred subjects, and we may advise that the reader supplement this volume with Flame, Electricity, and the Camera," of which we have heretofore spoken. Within its own field Dr. Williams's book is comprehensive and interpretative. The layman can understand it if he apply himself with reasonable diligence, and the specialist will find it suggestive of thought as well as an admirable review of ground gained.

Studies of the Man Paul. By Robert E. Speer. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 4x7 in. 303 pages. 75c.

This is both an instructive and a stimulating

little book. It limits itself to an inductive study of the facts in the life, development, and character of Paul, with terse and pointed comments thereon. It is a handy companionbook for any serious reading of the Acts and the Pauline Epistles, especially for younger readers.

Tale of the Little Twin Dragons (The). By S. Rosamond Praeger. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York. [x83⁄4 in. 58 pages. $1.50. Their Own Wedding. By Louise S. Hotchkiss. George H. Ellis, Boston. 434×7 in. 115 pages. 75c.

Thinking and Learning to Think. By Nathan C. Schaeffer, Ph.D., LL.D. (Lippincott's Educational Series.) J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 5x7 in. 351 pages. $1.25. This thoroughly practical volume does not undertake the scientific treatment of logic or psychology, but it appropriates the accepted results of these sciences in wise suggestions for the discipline of the power of thought. Dr. Schaeffer brings to his readers the experience of a director of public education for many years. His pages, portions of which have been frequently used in educational meetings, North and South, are enriched by illustrations drawn from reading in many fields, and observations in many schools of higher and lower grade. They abound in judicious criticisms and counsels for teachers, and carry an interest for all thoughtful readers. Unaccountable Man (The). By David James Burtell. D.D. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 5x7 in. 310 pages. $1.50. The title of this collection of twenty-nine sermons is that of the first of the series, which presents the thought that Jesus, if simply a man, is unaccountable. Dr. Burrell's preaching is not only strongly doctrinal, it is strongly practical also, clear, straightforward, and forceful. The sermon on "The Privilege of the Strong" is a noble specimen of it. It is questionable wisdom, however, to stake so much on so precarious foundations as to assert that "the Story of the Cross is on the same credible level as the story of the Serpent in the Wilderness." A valiant word, indeed,

but surely not discreet. The remarkable discourse on What Would Jesus Do?" raises the equally serious question whether Dr. Burrell fairly presents the fundamental distinction between Mosaism and Christianity. If the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus' answer to the question, "Which is the great commandment?" teach anything clearly, it is this: that Christianity goes beyond and above the Mosaic standard of law, and substitutes for imperfect precepts a perfect principle of action. It is impossible for the spirit of Christ to express itself perfectly in any code, so that the Moral Law, as written in the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount, can never be that ultimate standard which Dr. Burrell asserts it to be. There is also in his conception of the imitableness of Christ and ability to keep the moral law a note of doubt which is hardly conducive to the highest endeavors. All this is theologically orthodox according to the Westminster Confession, but ethically it is quite heretical.

Unto the Heights of Simplicity. By Johannes

Reimers. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 288 pages. $1.25.

Vanity! The Confessions of a Court Modiste.

By Rita." F. M. Buckles & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 282 pages. $1.25.

Very Young Man and the Angel Child (The).

By Elisa Armstrong. The Dodge Publishing Co.,
New York. 42x7 in. 239 pages.

Vesty of the Basins. By Sarah P. Mc Lean Greene. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 5x8 in. 271 pages. $2.

A new edition, handsomely illustrated, of a book replete with genuine fun and human sympathy, but often astonishingly crude from the literary standpoint.

War and Policy. By Spenser Wilkinson. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 443 pages. $3.50.

Although Mr. Spenser Wilkinson has long been a critic of English army methods, no one need think that his new book has to do only with that army. The scope of the present work ranges from Gustavus Adolphus to Von Moltke, from the Polish to the Boer wars. In the centuries intervening picturesque figures step across Mr. Wilkinson's stage-Goethe and Scharnhorst, the archdukes Charles and Albrecht, Nelson, and Osman Pasha. Both evolutions and revolutions in warfare are accomplished. To an American, however, of all Mr. Wilkinson's chapters those on our Civil War and its comparison with the Boer war are the most interesting.

Who Goes There? The Story of a Spy in the Civil War. By B. K. Benson. The Macmillan Co., New York. 573 in. 485 pages. $1.50, A novel (or, perhaps better, fictitious narrative, for the book lacks some of the qualifications of a novel) thoroughly worth reading, because it is a study of the Civil War as it appeared to a typically intelligent American soldier. The narrator brings close to the eye both hand-tohand fighting and the large strategy. Like many thousands of our private soldiers, he was something more than a military machine; he thought, observed, and knew the meaning of all that was done. The simple realism of