justice. As we have already said, the narrative reaches its highest level in the volume that begins with Jackson, and perhaps in the pages dealing with the Webster-Hayne debate and the opposing ideals of the Constitution held by North and South. We do not think that President Wilson maintains the same level in dealing with the decade that preceded the Civil War, or with that great struggle, although his description of the Confed erate States and his account of reconstruction have many good features. From 1870 on the narrative suffers not merely from the normal difficulties that beset the contemporary historian, but from omissions that seem to us curiously arbitrary.

We must, in conclusion, expand some what upon the matter of these omissions, even at the risk of appearing ungracious. They are, of course, not due to carelessness or to laziness, and we must confess they puzzle us. To enumerate all that we have noted would be tedious, but we may add a few to those that have been cited. We find no mention of St. Clair's defeat, the Yazoo scandal, Hull's surrender of Detroit, the second Missouri Compromise, the Panama Congress, the Lecompton Constitution, the founding of the Mormon Church, Brooks's assault on Sumner, Grant's efforts to annex San Domingo, the career of "Boss" Tweed, the great Chicago fire, Speaker Reed's rulings, or the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans. We may add that, so far as we can discover, the Erie Canal, the laying of the Atlantic cable, the visits of Lafayette and Kossuth, the career of Dennis Kearney, are not mentioned. The fight of the Constitution and the Guerrière, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the murder of Lovejoy, the defeat of the Alabama, are looked for in vain.

As long a list could be made of the topics which, in our judgment, President Wilson has slighted--sometimes it would seem in order to make room for leisurely treatment of the topics that interest him. For example, the Great Awakening, the settlement of Tennessee and Kentucky,

the battle of New Orleans, Georgia's defi ance of John Quincy Adams in the matter of the Creeks, the nullification movement, the abolitionist agitation under Jackson and Van Buren, the part played by Webster in the Compromise of 1850, the conduct of Buchanan's Cabinet on the eve of the war, Lincoln's policy toward the Border States, are scarcely treated in a manner that will illuminate any reader. Nor will considerations of space account for these and numerous other weak passages in President Wilson's narrative. He must have had some guiding principle in his choice and manipulation of his abundant materials, but he has not explained it and we have not discovered it.

It is almost needless to say that a scholar like President Wilson is not likely to be guilty of many sins of commission, although it is equally obvious that they might easily escape an eye that has grown accustomed, since the first chapters, to be on the lookout for sins of omission. Besides some confusion in his treatment of the navigation laws, we have noticed a few trivial lapses. For example, John Adams and Jefferson are stated to have died on July 4, 1825, the correct date being of course 1826. The editor of Motley's correspondence appears as G. T. Curtis, whereas those delightful letters were edited by the better known George William Curtis. It is equally unimpor tant to observe that illustrations are sometimes found quite far away from the text they are intended to embellish, and that it is not uncommon to encounter the portrait of a man whose achievements are not thought worthy of a word of description. Such blemishes, and even many of the omissions we have noticed, might have been properly passed over in silence, had it been clear that President Wilson had successfully undertaken to write a philosophical account of our National development. The philosophical elements of his work are not, however, specially profound or novel; its descriptive merits are considerable; but its deficiencies as an orderly and inclusive narrative are, to say the least, perplexing.

Anthology of Russian Literature from the

Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Leo Wiener. In Two Parts. Part II. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 6x9 in. 500 pages. $3, net. This volume, Part II. of Professor Wiener's work, deals with the writers of the nineteenth century, and presents, therefore, selections from those poets and novelists whom the great reading public outside of Russia has in mind when it speaks of Russian literature; that is to say, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoï, Turgenev, Dostoevski. The selection from each author is prefaced by a brief biographical or critical note.

Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of

Richmond. By Joseph A. Altsheler. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 372 pages. $1.50. A story of Southern life during the war, written from a Northern point of view, which seeks to be fair, but may not be so accepted by all Southerners. The chapters dealing with the battle in the Wilderness are realistic. Most of the scenes are laid in Richmond. Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition, Including Practical Exercises in English. By Adams Sherman Hill. The American Book Co., New York. 5x7 in. 522 pages. $1.25.

British Political Portraits.

By Justin McCarthy. Illustrated. The Outlook Co., New York. 5x8 in. 331 pages. $1.50, net.

Mr. Justin McCarthy's latest volume may prove to be one of the most popular of his books, and that is saying not a little when one considers the number of people who are always quoting from "A History of Our Own Times." In this volume Mr. McCarthy does for present politics something of the kind of work which he has already done for past history. With illuminative phrase, giving us information not to be had elsewhere, he describes for us the most distinguished and powerful among English political leaders of the day-Lords Salisbury and Rosebery, Messrs. Balfour, Bryce, Chamberlain, Morley, Sir William Harcourt, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, and others. As might be expected, if any of these statesmen has pronounced himself for or against Irish Home Rule, the fact finds prominent place; and, indeed. so does the consideration of other interesting Irish matters. This is as it should be, however, for we have no critic of English politics as applied to Irish institutions at once more acute and more genial than is Mr. McCarthy. His long experience as a practical politician, as a writer and as an observer, in and out of Parliament, lend weight to his judgments. The charm of his style consists in its union of precision, clarity, color, atmosphere, and, crowning all, a delicate, some times staccato, touch of Celtic causticity and wit. No book better represents Mr. McCarthy than does the present volume-an original, vivacious, picturesque, and thoroughly

readable account of contemporaneous statesmen in the United Kingdom.

Comedy of Conscience (A).

By S. Weir

Mitchell, M.D. Illustrated. The Century Co., New
York. 4×7 in. 129 pages. $1.

A vivacious story in the comedy mood, with a light touch, but very well told.

Complete Pocket-Guide to Europe (The).

Edited by Edmund C. Stedman and Thomas L. Stedman. William R. Jenkins, New York, 3×5 in. 505 pages.

Eskimo Stories. By Mary E. Smith. Illustrated. The Rand & McNally Co., New York. 6×8 in. 189 pages.

Experiments on Animals. By Stephen Paget. (New and Revised Edition.) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. (The Science Series.) 58% in. 387 pages.

This book does not deal directly with the antivivisectionist. It is not a plea for vivisection, nor is it offered as an argument for or against anything. It is rather an admirably condensed history, beginning with the second century after Christ, of animal experimentation, and of the influence of these experiments upon our knowledge of physiology and the nature, prevention, and cure of disease. Whether or not all this vivisection has been a useless torture of helpless animals the reader reasonably open-minded it would appear, howis left wholly to himself to decide. To the ever, that had there been no animal experiments there would be no medical science. The book, though thoroughly scientific, is not too technical for general reading. It contains

a chapter entitled "An Act Relating to Experiments on Animals in Great Britain and Ireland," and a complete index.

Fundamental Problem in Monetary Science

(The). By Correa Moylan Walsh. The Macmillan Co., New York. 54X8 in. 383 pages. $1.50. Reserved for later notice.

Gates of Silence with Interludes of Song (The). By Robert Loveman. The Knickerbocker Press, New York. 4×7 in. 65 pages. Here is a poet who flings his doubts and his faiths at one as if he were impatient of the cautious, timid way in which men habitually deal with life and death.

Gold Wolf (The). By Max Pemberton. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 311 pages.

The "Gold Wolf" is the passion for speculation, the fever for financial supremacy; and Dudley Hatton, manipulator of stocks and bonds in the London market, when introduced to the reader, is a victim already hunted to the point of exhaustion. Up to and somewhat beyond the point where Dudley's wife dies, the book is one of power, and effective as a lesson for people who overwork; the last half of it is not so good as the beginning.

Homeland of the Bible (The): Travels and Studies in the Holy Land and Egypt. By Rev. J. P. Macphie, M.A. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 42x7 in. 313 pages. There is ever room for one more such book, long as the list of such already is. As John Bright said that he had known London for forty years and yet did not know it fully, so with the Holy Land. Forty books leave room for the forty-first, repeating things either before unmentioned, or observed from a different point of view. Mr. Macphie is a good observer and a good reporter from a field of perennially fresh interest, intent on drawing from the Land a better understanding of the Book and its lessons.

Horace Greeley. By William Alexander Linn. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 5×72 in. 267 pages. $1, net. (Postage, 10c.) A remarkably interesting life, recounted with an enthusiasm none the less warm because sanely discriminating. Mr. Greeley was perhaps the greatest of American journalists, in the sense of wielding the widest personal influence, and the account of his career is peculiarly attractive-though most sobering-in these days of impersonal metropolitan journalism, when, as has been said, the responsible heads of great papers back their money with their opinions, instead of, like Greeley, backing their opinions with their money. Some of the opinions which Mr. Greeley backed were fantastic isms, but his readiness to espouse them was one of the most attractive features of his character.

If Not the Saloon-What? The Point of View, and the Point of Contact. By James E. Freeman. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5x72 in. 117 pages. 50c., net.'

An earnest plea for the establishment of substitutes which will seem desirable from the point of view of the men to be reached. Workmen are not more ecclesiastical than philanthropists, and there is no reason, says Mr. Freeman, why they should be attracted to ecclesiastical club-rooms. If, however, clubrooms are provided in which their social life may be free from constraint, the better part of them will prefer such club-rooms to the saloons. This proposition is first stated theoretically and then driven home by a concise account of the practical success of the Hollywood Inn, in Yonkers, New York. This organization recorded a membership of over six hundred men its first year, over eight hundred its second, and over a thousand its third, when it was compelled to find larger quarters. These were provided by the generosity of a single philanthropist, Mr. William F. Cochran, and though his gift has lifted the institution out of the class of those to be duplicated in every town, the members of the club, by their dues ($3 a year) and fees, still furnish half of the running expenses (seven thousand dollars out of fourteen thousand). It is an attractive club-house from every point of view, and the saloons have felt its influence. The author modestly believes that the success achieved is due entirely to the plan and not largely to the enthusiasm and tact of its administrator. The account of the Hollywood Inn is the kernel of the book, its best chapter, however, is the one

following, entitled " Co-ordination," which sets forth the religious motive for work outside the church to help men as distinguished from work within the church, or directly aimed for its upbuilding. In a few pages, which are eloquent despite the ponderous words used,

the author recalls the uninstitutional character of Christ's work, and urges that the divine character of the church must also be established by the service it renders-not seeking life of the community. its own life, else it will lose it, but seeking the

Irish Sketch Book (The). (Prose Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.) Edited by Walter Jerrold. The Macmillan Company, New York. 5x7 in. 415 pages. $1.

Italy: Handbook for Travellers. By Karl

Baedeker. (Fourteenth Revised Edition.) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 4x6 in. 444 pages. $1.80, net.

Jewish History: An Essay in the Philosophy of History. By S. M. Dubnow. The Jewish Pub lishing Society of America, Philadelphia. 5x7% in 184 pages.

Lays of Ancient Rome. By Thomas Babington Macaulay. (Temple Classics.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 4x6 in. 192 pages.

Lieutenant-Governor (The). By Guy Wetmore Carryl. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 269 pages. $1.50.

American politics and the complexities of capital and labor questions evidently offer attractive fields for our novelists. The special point of value in this work, as in a number of others recently published, lies in the fact that it sets people who would never read a serious treatise on these subjects to thinking about problems of State and municipal government, and ways that might harmonize the interests of the workingman and his employer. It is too much to expect of an author that he shall show a practical way out of the difficulties he pictures, but really Mr. Carryl leaves matters in a sad case. Alleghenia" (the fictitious name of a State) is saved only when a patriotic assassin shoots the Governor in order that the Lieutenant-Governor may protect the commonwealth and dispense justice!

Light of China (The): The Tâo Teh King of Lao Tsze; 604-504 B.C. By I. W. Heysinger, M.A., M.D. Research Publishing Co., Philadelphia. 5x71⁄2 in. 165 pages. $1.25.

Old and the New Renaissance (The): A Group of Studies in Art and Letters. By Edwin Wiley. Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Nashville, Tenn. 5x8 in. 256 pages. $1.20, net.

Reserved for later notice.

Other Room (The). By Lyman Abbott. The

Outlook Co., New York. 6x9 in. 120 pages. $1, net. A familiar presentation in eight chapters of the various aspects in which the life hereafter is illustrated and expounded in the New Testa ment, in literature, and in human experience. The title of the book, taken from the profound statement of Christ, In my Father's house are many dwelling-places; if it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a room for you?" suggests the point of view of the book, which was written, not for philosophical purposes nor as a contribution to theoretical discussion, but in the hope of clearing the way for the doubtful, consoling

the sorrowful, and helping those who are confused.

Pagan at the Shrine (The). By Paul Gwynne.

The Macmillan Co., New York. 5×73⁄4 in. 478 pages. $1.50, net.

How or when Mr. Gwynne obtained his extraordinary knowledge of southern Spain is a question that the reader constantly asks himself, but the answer is, after all, immaterial. The interesting thing is that the author has that intimate knowledge and uses it for fictional purposes with brilliant vividness and effectiveness. He makes us as much at home among his Spanish villagers, fishermen, priests, serving-maids, and romantic señoritas, as Miss Jewett does with the people of a New England town. One feels that here is unquestionably the real thing. Nothing could possibly be more amusing or more human, for instance, than the accounts of the leisurely conclaves over neighborly affairs between the barber, schoolmaster, priest, and alcalde—each a type and an unconscious humorist. Equally amusing and racy is the talk of the Andalusian serving-maids with their young mistress. The story is truly rich in local color, in touches of witty characterization, and in the homely proverbial philosophy of the Spanish common people. The plot of the romance, on the other hand, is intensely tragical, at points almost distasteful, but unquestionably powerful. It deals with the expulsion and return of the Jesuits, and with the personal retribution of one of them who has sinned when a young man, has concealed his error, has risen to be a leader in the order, and finally suffers through the death of his illegitimate son. The book is quite out of the ordinary, and will certainly attract attention and discussion.

Pearl-Maiden (The): A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem. By H. Rider Haggard. Illustrated. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 5×73⁄4 in. 465 pages. $1.50.

The festival at which Herod Agrippa was stricken with the malady that killed him, the struggles between Jews and Romans resulting in the destruction of Jerusalem, the triumphal procession of Titus Cæsar through the streets of Rome in which thousands of captives walked-among them the "Pearl-Maiden "supply the historical background and atmosphere of this story of the love of a "noble Roman" and a Christian maiden. The life of the Essenes in their village makes, too, attractive chapters. There is not here that touch of realism which made wildest fiction read like truth in "She" and "King Solomon's Mines," but there are vigor, charm, and doubtless historical value in the pictures which Mr. Haggard draws of dramatic events and splendid pageants that will never lose interest and significance to a world yet shaken by their influence.

Political Parties and Party Problems in the United States. By James Albert Woodburn. (American Politics.) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 52x834 in. 314 pages. $2.

An exceptionally clear, interesting, and impartial history of American political parties, a lucid explanation of the workings of party machinery, and a strong statement of the

moral evils now debasing our political life, and the remedies which an awakened public conscience may apply. A thoroughly good book for the school and for the study.

Principles of Money (The). By J. Laurence
Laughlin. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
6x9 in. 550 pages. $3, net.
Reserved for later notice.

Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (The). By George Gissing. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 5x74 in. 298 pages. $1.50, net.

Proceedings of the Baptist Congress, 1902, at Boston. The New York Baptist Congress Publishing Co., New York. 222 pages, 30c. Current questions of social, theological, and religious interest are discussed in this volume, and the views of the conservative and of the progressive side are impartially presented, as, for instance, on the question of the necessity of baptism to church membership.

Putnam Place. By Grace Lathrop Collin. Harper & Bros., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 262 pages. $1.50. Delicate in charm and of placid quaintness. It does for a New England village exactly what Mrs. Banks's "Oldfield" did for a Southern town. There is little or no "dialect." The sketches are connected only by Roderick Taliaferro: A Story of Maximilian's the general local thread of interest.

Empire. By George Cram Cook. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x7 in. 482 pages. Lovers of stories of action will find here much that is thrilling and dramatic. The book distinctly rises above the level of the sensational novel. The ex-Confederate soldier who gives the romance its title is a character having individual force and traits. Moreover, the picture of life and war in Mexico just before the downfall of the ill-fated Maximilian abounds in interest and color. The episode of the bull-fight is alone enough to make the story worth reading. In short, the elements which insure popularity seem to be prominent in this romance, and it is not without good literary workmanship.

Short History of Coins and Currency (A): In Two Parts. By Lord Avebury, Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 42x7 in. 138 pages. 60c., net.

Reserved for later notice.

Social Cocka rice (A). By Frederick W. Eldridge. The Lothrop Publishing Co., Boston. 5×71⁄2 in. 412 pages. $1.50.

If the ways of the "four hundred " justify all the nonsensical books that are written about the means people adopt to force entrance into the charmed circle, these ways must be foolish indeed. One is inclined to credit the "iour hundred" with more sense. The book is rubbish; it is morbid and has no literary value. Southerners (The): A Story of the Civil War.

By Cyrus Townsend Brady. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x74 in. 408 pages. Mr. Brady announces in the preface to his novel, with a sincerity beyond question, his purpose to write with equal justice to the Blue and the Gray. His account of the battles of Chickamauga and Mobile Bay, especially of the hours with Farragut on his flagship during the last-mentioned struggle, may be of

enthralling interest to old soldiers on both sides and to others who like stirring war tales. A chapter of peculiar pathos is that describing the death of the boy Confederate in Fort Morgan.

Spoilsman (The). By Elliott Flower. L. C.

Page & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 324 pages. $1.50. This Chicago story of "machine politics seems to show that it is harder for an honest man to be a successful politician or city official than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Many of the incidents related, the author says, are true, and the political methods described are taken from the actual experiences of men who have been servants of the public; he has used them "to demonstrate conditions that exist in some wards in all large cities." The book teaches its intended lesson with power. American voters should read it.

It has interest, too, as a love story.

Story of a Bird Lover (The). By William

Earl Dodge Scott. The Outlook Co., New York. 52x8 in. 372 pages. $1.50, net.

Readers of The Outlook will remember an interview-article about Mr. Scott and his "laboratory" of birds-six rooms in his own house used as a home for nearly five hundred live birds. As the Introductory Note to this book states, Mr. Scott has brought the life of birds nearer to the life of man, has established personal relationships with the whole bird kingdom. The book is not a scientific treatise nor a formal autobiography; it is a readable account of the observations, travel-experiences, and personal adventures of one who has been a bird lover and bird-student from boyhood.

Story of My Life (The). By Helen Keller. With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. By John Albert Macy. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 54×8 in. 441 pages.

Reserved for later notice.

Stumbling-Block (The). By Edwin Pugh. Illustrated. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York. 5×7% in. 313 pages. $1.50.

ness.

A love story of some originality and of good literary quality, wit, grace, pathos, and tenderIt ought to have been better named. Sunbonnet Babies' Primer (The). By Eulalie Osgood Grover. Illustrated by Bertha L. Corbett. Rand, McNally & Co., New York. 6x8 in. 110 pages. 40c.

Tioba and Other Tales. By Arthur Colton. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 231 pages. $1.25.

Eleven stories of good literary quality, delicate humor, and subtle comprehension of human nature are comprised in this volume. When one has read them, however, the question rises, Are they not sketches and studies rather than stories?

William Ellery Channing, Minister of Religion.

By John White Chadwick. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 463 pages. $1.75, net. From the time when, as a boy, he noted the inconsistency between the harsh preaching of the Calvinistic Puritans of his day and their cheerful demeanor, the dignity of human ature was the burden of Channing's thoughts;

and throughout his whole ministry the dignity of human nature was the burden of his preaching. It is with this message-that the soul of man is not a miserable, weak, worthless thing. but in the sight of God a great thing, instinct with God's own life-that William Ellery Channing will chiefly be remembered. Channing was a conservative, or evangelical, Unitarian; Mr. Chadwick, his biographer, is a radical Unitarian. All interpretations of Channing's religion, and specifically Channing's theology, which are to be found in this book ought to be read in the light of that fact. In this particular, Theodore Parker, whose life also Mr. Chadwick has ably written, was undoubtedly a more congenial subject, for Parker was an early representative of a school in Unitarianism that differs almost if not quite as much from those who may be called

Channing Unitarians" as it does from most men of "liberal evangelical" beliefs. Such classification, of course, is not definite, but it is suggested by the reading of this volume. Of Channing's character, on the other hand, Mr. Chadwick writes with an understanding that brings persuasion to his readers. The spirit of those among New England people who are best typified by the inhabitants of eastern Massachusetts is here well exemplified in both subject and author. It is hardly neces sary to say that Mr. Chadwick has written the story of this "Minister of Religion" with clarity and charm of style.

Wind in the Rosebush (The), and Other Stories of the Supernatural. By Mary E. Wilkins, Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 5x8 in. 27 pages. $1.50,

When Miss Wilkins's first ghost story appeared in a magazine, it attracted much attention as marking a new departure in the work of an exceedingly popular author. In themselves these tales are not equal to her stories of New England life, and they are not "creepy" enough to take high rank as ghost stories; but for fine character-drawing and as studies of human life and motive they are an enlargement of the debt American literature owed the writer before their appearance.

Winter India. By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. Illustrated. The Century Co., New York. 5x8 in. 400 pages. $2, net.

Miss Scidmore's former books on the East have had a wide reading. Here one finds the same qualities—ease of narrative style, a keen sense of the strange and picturesque, excellent descriptive powers. She went everywhere that tourists go, but she saw many things that tourists do not see. Calcutta at Christmas time, Delhi, Simla, the Taj Mahal, each has its own chapter; and it is to the author's credit that she throws so many new lights on topics often before treated. The book can be cordially commended for its entertaining qualities and because it gets away from conventional laudation. There are many pictures from photographs, and a notably handsome

cover.

When John Bull Comes A-Courtin' and Other

Poems. By Lucien V. Rule. The Caxton Pub lishing Co., Louisville, Ky. 5x8 in. 30 pages. 50c.