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Strange prophecies were made of them and strangely were they fulfilled, and in fulfilling them Wulnoth went across the seas and saw the woe of Alfred the King and his return to happiness and power. And Wulnoth himself Won his love Edgiva, and learned to know Who was the most powerful of all kings and to serve him joyfully, and Mr. Escott Inman writes the tale in beautiful English and it is printed with green page decorations, and a rubricated title, and colored frontispiece by Troy and Margaret Scott Kenney, and is a lovely gift for the day when the birth of the strongest of Kings is celebrated. A. C. MeClurg & Co.

Miss Mary Wright Plummer's "Roy and Ray in Canada" would make an excellent guide book for the Eastern Provinces of the Dominion, and admirable supplementary reading for school children taught from ordinary manuals of geography, but it is meant for home consumption, and from it the "States" children may learn more of Canada than nine-tenths of their elders could tell them. The little map will not be new to them, and some of them may have gathered snatches of history from forty-seventh dilutions of Parkman, presented in various story-books, but the instruction as to the form of government of each province; the character and achievements of the principal statesmen; the industries practised, and the inter-relations of the United Kingdom, the Dominion and the United States will be novelties. As Canada becomes of greater importance to Americans with every passing year, the sooner parents put this book in the hands of their boys, the sooner will the United States possess a body of young voters fit to judge of the commercial and political relations of Uncle Sam's nearest English speaking neighbor. Henry Holt & Co.

Mrs. Everard Cotes has so faithfully King considers first the causes of the

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yet humorously pictured an American family in London that her American readers fancy that she is their countrywoman, but she is of Canadian birth and naturally her "Cousin Cinderella," with its Canadian heroine, is written with even more vividness than her Anglo-American story. Both were serially published in London and one suspects that both, and especially "Cousin Cinderella," sorely puzzled the British matron and also the British maid, because in both foreign visitors retained their self-possession, and coolly scrutinized and criticized the natives. modern Mrs. Leo Hunter, the woman who summons her guests and dismisses them with equal freedom, not permitting them to interfere with her plans; the alliance-hunting mother and her obedient children; the English great lady who condescends to the universe; are described vividly but with good temper, and if the visiting Canadian brother and sister are set above both the English and the American characters, one feels that these especial types deserve their place. Those who study national character in fiction may freely accept "Cousin Cinderella." The Macmillan Co.

Every successive generation regards itself as more given to doubt than any of its predecessors, and each one strives to find a remedy, and "The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life," by Mr. Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin, is one of the latest books produced in answer to the demand. The title page calls it "The Nathaniel William Taylor lectures for 1907," but in the preface the author says that parts of it have been given as lectures before the Federate Summer School of Theology at Berkeley, and part at the Harvard Summer School of Theology, and this statement by itself proves the necessity for such a work.

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seeming unreality, the misconceptions, the failure to fulfil conditions, the inevitable limitations and fluctuations of our nature, and suggests that the seeming unreality is not only purposed but that our very questionings are a proof of reality. He then sets forth various ways into reality, as to the theistic argument, as to the personal relation to God and as to particular Christian doctrines. His work will be found helpful by those who desire help, for it is both logical and reverent. The Macmillan Co.

It pleases Mr. Charles Battel! Loomis to assert in the preface of his "A Holiday Touch" that no critic will obtain half the pleasure from criticising the stories contained in it that he had in writing them, and he certainly does not exaggerate. Even the pleasure of reading the first story, a tale of men who, mistaking a stranger for Mr. Rockefeller, give him money in exchange for checks for two hundred times their amount, and receive their due reward, cannot give anything like the delight to be derived from delicately defining their various species of self-deceiving cupidity. The sheer farce of hunting a dinner given in one's honor, without a cent to pay the cabman until one can find the comparative opulence gathered around the board is laughter compelling, but fancy the pleasure of setting the snare for the laughter! Uncle Eli's tales of cannibals and of induced ambergris; the story of Awful Adkins, the ba-ad man, whose sole vice was shooting, are stories to remember with pleasure after reading them, but what is that compared to recollections of having written them! Here is genuine American fun without the cruelty of the imitators of the Wilkins, Newell, Susan Clegg schools: fun not needing the salt of bad spelling or misplaced capitals.

and when an American meets its like he does not desire to hear it eulogized; he wishes to read it and do his own eulogizing. Henry Holt & Co.

Mr. T. Francis Bumpus's "The Cathedrals and Churches of Northern Italy" most creditably continues the "Cathedral Series" with a boxed volume bound in pretty holiday fashion, a handsome title page, and engraved borders for its many pictures, setting off its attractive text. The first chapter

is an introductory sketch of Italian Church Architecture, a complex matter upon which many external influences have from time to time been brought to bear. Chapters on Vicenza, Verona, and Padua follow, and the fifth takes the reader to Venice, St. Mark and the Torcello.

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the next chapter, and a long one is given to the chief Lombard Cathedrals and Churches. Milan is treated at considerable length, and Ravenna occupies more space than any other city. In an apendix is a list of the pictures and wall paintings in the churches described and a good index completes the work. Nearly all the illustrations are exterior vews, but a few interiors, almost without exception chosen from churches very rarely pictured, are given. A little map of the region with which the book is concerned appears on the end papers with the tiara and keys blazoned in carmine,-the same device appears on the back, and on the cover is a view of the church of St. Antonio di Padua seen at an angle different from that presented in illustration of its description. Thus at every point the volume presents a novelty. L. C. Page & Co.

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rial honors long before he attained them, and has generally re-arranged history and biography, but for a welltold story of a prolonged fight, or rather a delirious dance of fighting figures, one need go no further. Smugglers, a gang of land-pirates more horrible than the hideous crew in "Lorna Doone"; brave old sailors and soldiers; a gallant little midshipman, a renegade emissary of Bonaparte playing hero, and justifying crime in the name of Ireland, although magnanimous on his own private account, are the chief personages, and Nelson and Jervis move among them. The time is nominally the moment when Bonaparte was planning to invade England, and the scene is Pevensey, of which Mr. Kipling is by no means to be allowed to have a monopoly it seems, and all the time and all the space are occupied by the fighting aforesaid. The author indulges himself in making paragraphs of sentences and even of ejaculations after the fashion of Dumas, but certainly not for Dumas' reason, and perhaps he does well to associate himself with the master of the fighting story. His Kit Caryle, if no D'Artagnan, is at least as bonny a young sailor lad as ever whistled to the morning star. This is a novel without a heroine, unless the name be given to the evil genius of Nelson's life of whom every personage is conscious and whom Fighting Fitz treats according to her deserts, but heroines are out of place in a tale of steady fighting. The Macmillan Co.

The novelist who excuses his lack of originality by pleading that all the good plots are pre-empted should be grateful for American statutes and American sentiment concerning divorce, inasmuch as they have given him two new personages, both exempt from all rules of logic, and each free to act according to fancy. In her

new story, "I and My True Love," Mrs. H. A. Mitchell Keays has taken full advantage of the liberty open to her, and has employed the units created by a divorce after the birth of a daughter as her hero and heroine. The former, an unformed and apparently dull boy at the time of his marriage, has become a successful dramatist when the story opens; the wife who left him to wed a rich profligate and sensualist is a rich widow, socially conspicuous in a city in which gentlewomen call out of the windows to small children in the street; and the daughter is old enough to wish to marry a young man of whom her father does not approve. Feeling that she needs a mother's advice, he sends her to his former wife for a long visit, to the great edification of both, as each represents her generation fairly well, and as the girl's freedom of speech is only to be compared with that of a physician addressing medical students. After trying to force herself to marry the governor of the State, and finding the prospect more and more disagreeable as her wedding day approaches, the girl decides to return to her true love and the husband and wife concur in wishing to re-marry, he finding her very fascinating and she thinking him far preferable to the man for whom she left him. Tersely put, the events seem absurd: clothed in many hesitations and much debate they puzzle and interest, and, most influential element in the success of a story, they cause discussion. Now without the divorce laws such a book could not be. Small, Maynard & Co.

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of the sane, wholesome elements of the American body politic. He represents those whose honorable ancestry may easily be traced for generations, capacity to rise above the average level being a constant characteristic; those who submit to authority until obedience confers upon them the knowledge necessary to command; those indifferent to public approval or conscious of having earned their own; those who, looking backward at even time, see light upon their pathway and doubt not. The type is quite as truly representative as that of the doubter, the boaster, the trickster, the insatiable wealthgatherer, the shallow joker, the ralffledged citizen willing to sell his new country if thus he may assault the enemy of the old land, but it is so quiet. and the others are so noisy, and so eager to silence it, that foreigners hárdly perceive its existence, but henceforth they may be referred to General Draper's "Recollections of a Varied Career" for evidence of its concrete existence. The book was begun as a legacy to the author's descendants, but, as he wrote, he perceived that as soldier, legislator, diplomatist, and manufacturer, and in youth a dweller in a Community, his interests had been so multifarious that his life was exceptional, and he decided to publish its record. Written in this way, the book has a character entirely different from autobiographies prepared for magazines, and is doubly interesting because of its independent spirit. The most valuable passages are those describing the author's business career. Autobiographies of soldiers and diplomatists are countless, but the business man rarely writes of himself. The closing chapters, which deal with State and national politics are also valuable, and worthily complete a story which it is well should be given to the whole people, rather than to a single family. Little, Brown & Co.

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