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“ Of the many notable women of the nineteenth century, few did work of such lasting importance as Mary Lyon, through whose influence the movement for the higher education of women was begun. As the founder of Mount Holyoke College, the story of her life and the force of her personality are already traditionally known to thousands of college women throughout the United States, but the world at large, which knows her chiefly as a celebrated name, will for the first time learn from Miss Gilchrist's admirable biography of her great personal magnetism and charm. ”

“ Peculiar interest, therefore, attaches to this brilliant play by a man who occupies a post of the first importance in promoting the improvement of the American stage.
"Husband" is a powerful embodiment in dramatic form of a typical American situation,—an overworked, harassed man—a wife feverishly desirous of social success and pleasure. How the short story works out must be left for the reader to discover. It is enough to say that it goes from scene to scene with ever-increasing intensity of interest, and that the conclusion is a strong, optimistic one, big with meaning for American readers. ”

“ Since Barrie's "When a Man's Single," readers have not been introduced to so canny a young man, or one so altogether likable and human. His extraordinary proposal alone is a chapter that will make Ian Hay famous, but in all his doings he is a hero that will delight the reader's heart, and long be remembered as "The Right Stuff." ”

“ The charm and the real fun lie in the constant surprises and whimsies of the twin sisters, in their irrepressible young brother,—a peer of that infant prodigy, The Admirable Tinker,—whose slang is infectious and novel, and above all in the character and doings of Robin the hero. ”

“ How a well-poised young woman just about to sail for her fourteenth summer in Europe was hurried from the steamer by a strange young man, how she went with him to the mountains of Pennsylvania, and, chaperoned by her competent French maid, camped out in the woods for three idyllic weeks, saved a diverting little boy from designing persons, and entered upon a happy love affair, is told in this unique and charming story. ”

“ The aim of this book is to furnish simple and accurate instructions for the conduct of "Every-Day Business,"—such business as inevitably falls to the lot of thousands of American women, both married and single. ”

“ He shows an unexpected variety and complexity of forces, and proves the superficiality and fallacious character of much of current discussion. The duties on wool are shown to be of little real importance in the growth of the industry. Incidentally the book also presents a history of the woolen manufacture, touches on many points in the history of American agriculture, and throws light upon a number of the broader problems in the economic history of the United States. It should appeal to those interested in our country's industrial history as well as to those interested in the tariff question. ”

“ International marriage novels have been many of late, even as the number of American girls marrying abroad has increased, but this one is strikingly different from the type that has become almost hackneyed. The heroine, a beautiful girl, the daughter of a New York multi-millionaire, marries a French Duke, and goes to live with him in the ancestral château. ”

“ We find the first presentation of the British legislation, Indian policy and boundary, and American territorial and social evolution in the South-west. In the appendix are for the first time made available the Pardo Narratives of exploration and rare biography. The new illustrations, too, are a distinct feature. Many are of unpublished maps from European archives, and show the gradual emergence of the states at the expense of the Indian nations, and places and relics pictured are of general interest. ”

“ Lovers of travel and sporting adventure will find Mr. Grew's book a mine of good reading. He has been an enthusiastic sportsman, and has hunted game of all sorts in nearly every part of the world, including Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, Northern Hindustan, New Zealand, Kashmir, and China. ”

“ The story of his life and work is unique in the rich literature dealing with the subject of the American Indian. He tells of many thrilling episodes in Indian history, including for the first time the Indian side of the story of the Custer tragedy at Little Big Horn, and the story of Chief Joseph's famous retreat with his Nez Perces. ”

“ It is a compact and well-arranged manual, giving instructions so clearly and entertainingly that the reader, given the opportunity for practice, can scarcely fail to acquire the art of swimming in all its branches in a short space of time. A particularly useful section of the book is that which presents the best method for teaching very small children to swim. The rapid increase in swimming instruction in public and private schools has been a notable feature of the last few years. ”

“ In the history of philosophy there have been few more notable phenomena than the rapidity with which the school of thought known as Pragmatism has gained ground among careful thinkers in the last few years, and, unlike many schools of thought, it has, as expounded by the brilliant pen of William James and other leaders, contrived to interest many readers not ordinarily attracted by philosophical subjects. ”

“ The ways of children, their moods and manners, have never been more vividly and seductively portrayed. There is a zest in the account of household happenings that wins the reader at once, but the book is much more than a story about children. The love affairs of "Aunt Woggles" and her own charming personality will become permanent memories.
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MRS. WEMYSS
This is the author's first full-sized novel. She is an Englishwoman, one of a family of fourteen children, and she married an officer in the English army. "The Professional Aunt" will make her many friends on both sides of the sea. ”

“ The continued discussion following the passage of the recent tariff bill indicates that we are now at the beginning rather than the end of a period when public attention will more than ever centre upon this subject. In the history of our tariff no other schedule has attracted so much attention or been the cause of more controversy than that relating to wool and woolens. ”

“ In this group of essays upon some of her intellectual hobbies, Mrs. Wetmore's penetrating mind and vivacious style are seen to exceptional advantage. She writes upon topics that are very much alive—subjects of debate and discussion among cultivated people everywhere. A few of the topics treated are The Morals of the Modern Heroine, The Child in Literature, The Contemporary Poets, Strong Meat for the Masses (i.e., literary meat) , The Books of the Bourgeoisie, The Little Member (i.e., the tongue) , Upon Making the Most of Life, etc. ”

“ Few contemporary topics are so pressing, or attracting so much attention, as city sanitation to help the health of cities. Mr. Godfrey, well known for his work in popular science, has been making a study of these questions for many years, and by his papers in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere, has come to be an authority in the field. This book brings together the results of his studies, in a volume that will be of interest to every intelligent citizen, and of the highest usefulness to all engaged in welfare work. ”

“ The editor is well known as an ornithologist, being a full member of the American Ornithologists' Union, and he has had the advantage of an intimate acquaintance with Thoreau's Journal, of which he was associate editor with Mr. Bradford Torrey. The volume is attractively illustrated with photographs of live birds in their natural surroundings. ”

“ The author of this book is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, England, since 1905. He has made a special study of the Semitic Christianity that once flourished east of the Roman Empire, and believes that the rise of the Christian Church can be understood only in relation to the hopes and fears of the Jewish nation during the first century. ”

“ Brewster's manual will be particularly useful to teachers of swimming, while to those who for any reason cannot obtain expert instruction it will be invaluable, since it will make it possible to acquire correct swimming without the wasteful habits of muscular action found in those who acquire the art by the customary haphazard process. ”

“ Tucker gave the Dartmouth students addresses, or less formal talks, on themes like the Estimation of Power, the Distribution of Personal Power, the Morally Well-bred Man, Moral Maturity, and the Recovery of Personal Power. Several of the most suggestive and stimulating of these talks are now gathered for publication. The volume contains also a group of four addresses made at the opening of successive college years, on the general subject of the Moral Training of the College Man, taking up successively the training of the Gentleman, the Scholar, the Citizen, and the Altruist. ”

“ It aims first to give the reader a broad outlook beyond the limits of his own garden, taking the individual garden in its relation to the whole garden land of the community and to the great world garden itself. ”

“ He is a gentleman and a good fellow, and in the misunderstandings that arise the reader's sympathy is evenly divided between the lonely wife and the proud and unhappy young Duke. The development of the story is of absorbing interest, leading to an exciting and thoroughly satisfactory climax. ”

“ With illustrations from photographs. 12mo.
No one has written more poetically of our native birds than Thoreau, and some of his best writing was inspired by the songs and the flight of birds. The fourteen volumes of his Journal, which are sold only by subscription to the entire set of his Writings, contain a wealth of matter of the deepest interest to lovers of nature, and what he has to say of birds alone makes a good-sized volume in itself. ”

“ In this edition, Mr. Bruce Rogers has given it an embodiment of simple neo-classic charm which leaves little to be desired. The little book consists of 18 pages printed from type on a special quality of Italian hand-made paper and decorated with medallions of fauns and satyrs adapted from old engraved gems. The binding is of brilliant red paper on thin boards, stamped with a representation of a maze, also taken from an old gem. [Pg 20]
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“ It should prove helpful also to teachers and social workers who are making school gardens and encouraging improvement work, and should supply a need for some time felt by Improvement Societies and Home Garden Associations. ”

“ He is director of the Department of Christian Sociology in one of the leading schools for Christian workers, and as Superintendent of the Presbyterian department of Church and Labor, has done yeoman service in bringing the Church to an appreciation of the laboring man, and the laboring man to an appreciation of the Church. ”

“ Author of "Dragon's Blood," "The Siamese Cat," "Admiral's Light," etc. With 8 illustrations by G. C. Widney. 12mo, $1.20 net. Postage extra.
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From "THE TWISTED FOOT"
"Clean and wholesome danger,"—that is the phrase, borrowed from the book itself, that the editor of London Punch chose to describe the engrossing interest of "Dragon's Blood," Mr. Rideout's brilliant novel of last year. Still more applicable is it to his new story, "The Twisted Foot." This is an interesting, absorbing narrative of mystery and adventure in the Malay Islands. ”

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