"AStumbling Block." by Justus MilesForman;Harper. &Bros.. New York.

•'John Kendry's Idea/ by ChesterBailey Fernald; Outing publishing com-pany. New York. «

"The Traitor," by Thomas Dixon Jr.:Dbubleday, ,Page .& Co-. New York..

."The";Sinner, and *Hls Friends,", byLouis Albert -Banks ;Funk & Wagmallscompany. New York.

"Where the Rainbow Touches theGround.": by. John Henderson, Miller;Funk & Wagnalls company, NewYork.

"T. Thorndyke. Attorney at Law," byHerbert L

'Gosat \u25a0 the C JL Qljurla Pub*

'

UaiJto* ''cam^aajv Boston, ""~

"The Talking Woman." byMay IsabelFiske; Harper & Bros., New York.'"A Woman's . War," 'by Warrick

Deeping; Harper &Bros.. Netr York.."Through the Eye of the Naedla." by

W. D. Howells; Harper & Bros., NewYork.

Books Received"Bud." by Nell •Mmxto*; Harper &Bros., New York.

Although Martha Evans Martin, au-thor of that fascinating book of naturestudy, "The Friendly Stars," Is now aresident of New York (where she lovesto, watch the, stars from .the roof ofa lofty apartment house overlookingthe Hudson), and spends .her summersin New Jersey (where she studies thastars from the porch of her. summerhome or from points -along the woodedridge on which' lt stands): she is oneof the numerous Indiana-born writerswho have. won distinguished success.

She was born inTorre Hante, and ed-ucated at that De Pauw university towhich Indiana is so loyal. She thenlived for a number of years at Rich-mond and Indianapolis. She marriedan -Indiana editor, and her father waslong known •as the oldest in service.of all Indiana editors.

Itis scarcely known outside of Spainthat Velasquez, the^ great

-painter, left

a series of remarkaWe critical notes onthe cellection of paffitings which PhilipIVsent to the monastery of San Loren-zo In 1656. Walter ,Pac6., an Americanartist, ,'has translated these succinctcommentaries- and has written a pref-ace. It la illustrated with reproduc-tions of the paintings commented on.

Ella Middleton Tybout excels in hu-morous easy-dialect darky stories, suchas "Isaiah's, Daddy." and also has sev-eral popular novels to her credit. "TheSmuggler," which !appeared in theMarch Lippincott's, is one of her best;and' there are many inquiries as towhen this is to be published tn bookform. Itis" promised for fall publica-tion.

.The irresistible humor and southerncharm of the stories bearing the nameof Sarah Chichester Page (frequentlya Lippincott contributor) have won herhosts of"friends. Her home in northernVirginia is in the very heart of thescenes depicted in her fiction.

George Edwin Hunt, author of"Angel Paradise" Inthe current Lippln-cott's, and an Indianapolis physician ofstanding, acknowledges that he Is "astory writer by inclination." Havingbeen a classmate of Senator Beverldgaand Representative Watson, he drawsthe moral that "a man can lead an up-right life if he Is determined to do so:congress, like whiskers, is a man's ownfault.'!

Under the general title of "EmotionalMonotones," there .appears from timato time in..Lipplncott's Magazine aclever little allegory^ signed Jane Bel-Xleld. The author is one of this peri-odical's valued discoveries, though herwork has since appeared elsewhere.She lives in Philadelphia In winter andpasses her summers at Cape May. Thecurrent number of Lippincott's con-tains her story called "From the Landof Ought"

The. delicious humor ot CarolynWells' short fiction has aroused con-siderable curiosity regarding her firstnovel, a detective story called "A Chainof Evidence." This has been securedby Upplncott's Magazine for publica-tion complete in their September lssofe

Introspection consists of looking atyourself from a purely Impersonal pointof view and picking out your faults—ifyou have any. You must be sure,also, that your color matchesthat of your friends, or is at least har-moniously contrasted; otherwise tho-continuity of your self analysis willgoall. to smash, you know, and splatterthe wall paper. Inever saw an astralcolor and neither did you. but we'voall got 'cm

—yes, lndeedy!

—July Bo-

hemian.

Mrs. Daniel Lothrop ("Margaret S!d-neyT) has just finished correcting theproofs of the eleventh volume of thefamous "Pepper Books.- entitled "FiveLittle Peppers in the Little BrownHouse," which her publishers. Lothrop,Lee and Shepard company, have inpress, and sailed June 22 on the Phil-adelphia for a year abroad. She isaccompanied by her daughter. MissMargaret Lothrop, a recent graduateof Smith college. They will first visitrrTormandy, Brittany and the Chateaucountry; then go to the Italian lake• strict, the Engadine and the Dolom-ites, spending much time In the Aus-trian Tyrol. Mrs. Lothrop proposes tofind much - material in unbeaten pathsfor some books which she has alreadybegun to plan out.

With a pride in-one of America's Il-lustrious sons that does us all credit.*•=have been, inclined over here tolook upon. Luther Burbank as a pio-neer, a discoverer of new principles, inhorticulture. The truth Is, accordingto the illustrious Huso de-Vries. pro-fessor of botany in' the university ofAmsterdam, that Luther Burbank has'not enlarged human knowledge of any-thing essential In,the science of plant-breeding. His results, brilliant inthemselves. 6eem quite new in ourcountry because the methods and re-sults of European horticulturists are.as .a rule, accessible to Americanbreeders only with difficulty. "Bur-bank has had to rediscover many ofthe rules and practices which in Eu-rope were more or less universallyknown." Thus Professor de Vries Inthe work newly Issued by him on the•übjeet of plant breeding. Burbank'3•clence and Burbank's methods are "hisown work," concedes De Vries, but Incomparison with those of other horti-culturists they do not comprise essen-tially different procedures.- Not onlydoes Burbank's work not 'enlarge ourknowledge.. but itis not intended to do\u25a0o. "He Is a" nurseryman, but he hasno nursery in tho ordinary sense ofthe word. He Is a tradesman, but sellsnothing besides hjs novelties, and theseonly to other dealers who willmultiplythem and offer them to the generalpublic." Mr. Burbank is not engagedIn pure scientific research.

—Current

Literature for July.

bachelorhood. and one of his principalrecreations Is to take long walks alonethe charming roads in the vicinity ofhis home.

"John Bull's Other Island and Major

E? Kerr.an! Eliaw, acffcor cif "Plans, Pleasantand Ccplcajtrt." "Tb« Qnlntessence of Ib-w.!s:n." *te. Published L>y ErreUßb'a, NewYork. Price $I.W.

THISnew Shaw book contains

three plays. One was evidently

not considered worth mentioning

oa the cover, but Shaw lovers•wlfl be glad to feave it, for it Is thelittle skit on "Candida." which he wrote

for Arnold Daly in1903. Mr.Daly wasthen playing Napoleon In "The Man ofDestiny," and found the play too shortto stage alone and too long to takethe place of a curtain raiser, so Shawwrote for him "How He Lied to HerHusband." The preface to this play

deals with the treatment of "Mrs. War-ren's Profession," when it was playedIn New York. Shaw always laughs atI:2s audience and his mockery is never-more plain than in a preface such asthis. His play had been printed andsold and read for years, and peopleeven bragged of understanding St and«idmired his cleverness, yet when itwasput across the footlights, a roar wentup and the theater, the manager, theactors, everybody concerned, In fact,

was Inan unpleasant mess.••John Bull's Other Island" was.writ-

ten in ISO4at the request of WilliamButler Yeats as a contribution to therepertory of the Irish Literary theater.As Shaw says in his preface, 60 pageslong and all Interesting: "It was un-congenial to the whole spirit of thenon-Gaelic movement, which Is bent oncreating a new island after Its ownJdcals, whereas, my play is a very un-compromising presentment of the realeld Ireland." wES^

In this play the Saxon and Celtictemperaments are powerfully andcynically contrasted and, while theplay attracted little attention irkAmerica, the reading of It is distinctlyp..pleasure. ShaWs prefaces are so•well known now that one hardly neeJabe reminded of their interest. He saysof this play that it was produced inJ^ondon at the Court theater and, withdelightful conceit, that it "won imme-diate and enormous popularity withrelighted and flattered English audN«nces

• • •which constituted it a suc-

cessful commercial play."Rhaw say* that a terrible miscon-

ception of Irish character Is abroad:(that the Irishman is not the theatricalpentimentalist we haxre always believedJilm to be; that he is a hard headed,prosaic worker at heart, but that a cer-tain romantic something about the at-mosphere and soil of Ireland preventsthe natives from progressing at home,

This argument he presses home by ex-amples of the thrift-of transplanted

Irishmen In England and America.The play Is full of stinging sarcasm

en the relations of England and Ire-land on the question of home rule, and•while what he has to say may not do v

any present. good, he has many.practl-

cal and sound common sense sugges- .tions to offer on the whole Irish ques-tion.

'V

By far the most interesting, the mostremarkable and decidedly the most im-portant of the three plays is "Major

Barbara." It deals with the ideals of'

th« Salvation Army and brings intorelief the power of money. Shaw. gives .with liiis play a preface or Introduc-tion; which he calls "First Aid toCritics." One may; Degln to read Itlightly, expecting to. be amused,' butone is • soon disabused of \u25a0 that .notion.

"The unU'ersal regard for money,'.'

cays Shaw, "Is the 'one hopeful fact in

our civilization, the one sound spot In

our social conscience.•. • * Money

represents health, strength,. honor, gen-erosity and beauty tvs conspicuously

and undeniably as the want of it rep-resents illness, weaknew. < disgrace,

mea—

c£3 and ugliness. Not the, leastbf lti"virtues :i« that It-destroys bastpeople e« certainly a* It forUfiw *nddignifies noble people. Itto ojrwhenIt is cheapened to w»rthlessness for.tome and made Impossibly dear to

bther* that tt becomes a curse.•

_•\u25a0*h» crying need of the nation Is not

-

Over tfie main building; floats ft. pat-metto flag.vholsted by the students. rAclass enters for recitation. Thepresi-dent, a union man, asks if the flag Isstill flying.;

"Yes, Mr.President/.Vthe boys answergravely, frightened but loyal;"yes, Mr:President, it Is." ,

"The class is dismissed," retorts thepresident. "I will never hear a reci-tation under a traitor's flag!"

The boys gather in groups in thahalls, on the campus, on the sidewalks.The boys from the .Virginia Militaryinstitute, "the West Point of the south,"join them. They talk earnestly, .ex-citedly, with:gesture and declamation.In an hour they are men, and war ia

\u0084the business of men. The Rockbridgeartillery is organized. They drill nightand day. ItIs war and they are going!Going to fight and win fame, and die.

"Itwas on a beautiful' Sunday morn-ing In May," the author writes, "thatthe cadets received orders tovmove andIremember how we all. were astonishedto see the Christian major galloping,to and fro on a-' splendid .horse, pre-parjng for their departure.": This "Christian, major," rnarshalinarhis columns of eager boys, was sconto be known to the world as "Stones-"wall" Jackson— Jackson,

'the fighter,

who, like Oliver Cromwell, praised Godand kept his powder/ dry; who wor-shiped God with his strong right.armand who. pending thes church triumph-,ant, fought like a saint in the churchmilitant.

The^boys march away. Then comelong years of privation, of weary toiland red blood flowing; years when highhopes, glory, defeat, loss and|killingalternate like . clouds and sunshine;years of following the heavy guns.through Bodden roads, years amid thun-ders of death, shouting and rollingsmoke; then— "about 8 o'clock on Sun-day morning, April9i as our two gunswere entering the', little'village "of Ap-pomattox, several cannon shots soundedin quick succession. Immediately in ourfront..*..Without word, of command wecame to. our last halt."

Between those,- two -Sunday morn-ings

—tho brilliant and' inspired boys of

'61 and the tired arid;hopeless men of'

'65— stretched four pathetic years. Thiscannoneer has told, the story, of thesoyears in a clear, direct, soldierly way,like a man who realizes the importanceof what he relates; told It,*humorously"and sympathetically, -like;a man. towhom ,life is a larger thing, than anyone man's experience; told It in detailand in order, like' a man who wouldconvince by stating the truth as hesaw It, and all of the truth; :renderingto each his dueof. honor, he has in-,eluded in his narrative'a complete rollof the officers and men" of the cdmpanvand their records. '-Itls'fltting that thisroll.be given a ,prominent place and aform in which it can be preserved andreferred to, and such a place and formhe has given it.Itis history and romance, instructionand delight, a chronicle ;and a:picturegallery. T6 read it-is to \know a;lov-able ;and brave soldiery, ''% a? commandthat proved Itsrmettle'in 23 iengage-ments, 1a company worthy. its>;inspira--tlon; its,strength and

'

its-

hero— even ;"Stonewall 1* Jackson.; '; . " VJ,

'The New HarmonyHlovement"By George B. Loekwood. Published by D An.pleton & Co., New.York. :.~

'..-,.

This account! of the "Rappite" and"Owenite". colonies, the; fruits of' tworemarkable movements." is Jhistorically'complete and -yet.- sufßcien tly;graphic

*;to be of rpopular iinteresL The- littlevillagetof- New,Harmony, on the In-dlana 'side ,bfithe iWabash; river, .upon ;

which; the;book , centers, o.has been,strange to say, the >social; experimentstation :of two 'great //movements for !the betterment" of s.the ~ conditions \ of

*:mankind.' The :establishment 'of the

'Rappite colony,, consisting j?ofIGerman^!peasants,, under the 'of ]George Rapp, $in\the *early ;\u25a0 part fof:th«^:nineteenth century iwas.in:xnany Iways

';i

a successful demonstration" of com-munism.: Itcleared away many of thedifficulties and solved many of .thoproblems of social science. After itsdisbandment/, Robert Owen.; "the fatherof English socialism," bought' the vil-lage of, New Harmony as an eligiblesite f.or'putting into practice his owntheories of communistic colonization.The 'history of the movement -\u25a0 is fullygiven by Mr. Lockwood. Itis'interest-ing to know that the deathbed of,Ro-bert Owen's social system became:. theblrthpJace of-several important move-ments. . ; ];. . \u25a0.

There the doctrine of universal ele-mentary, education > at.public \u25a0 expenseas a duty of the -state waß first pro-claimed in;the middle west. "ThroughOweri and others,tlie Fleetalozzian sys-tem of education was tothis country.

''Technical training '.was

introduced, also the "infant school"system. . '

New, Harmony the \- greatscientific center £ of.:America' and" theheadquarters of the United States geo-logical survey.

' .."So.it is,";says the^.wrlter, "that ;the

little touch 'of. learning long ago kin-died Ip the .wilderness »made ]N^willar-mony-aV center of.[light,ahd" learningwhile {it was yet surrounded by thetrackless .^wild." ". V; \u25a0 r ;: ; •*

The book' willvbe";interesting; to allreaders, and ,'the ~lhlstoiy \. of

- the twocolonies "should^ be^valuable data 5 forall practical sociologists. ;,

•'A Dull Girl's Destiny!1

By Mrs.. Baillie\ Reynolds, . author/ of. "Tha-lassa,">etc.:;.Published, by>Brentano's, New

,\York. Price »1.50.Oriel remembers with pleasure'atib\ pel

by this;author* reviewed ;iast\y*ar| anddelights; to;flrid;a!book so full? of prom-ise in the vmidsummer parcels ;

-also,

oneiforgets : to ,be - critical \u25a0in'reading

this;well;told|tale.' .V" -:.;

A man of great fstrength rand/orig-inalityfoficharacter ?is Vthe hero, jandthe heroine isia'.woman 1of such ';reservethat T,she ;iis rdubbed ?."aj dull>glrl"*bythose ;who^ fall

'to'see* beneathV the 'sur-

face. The!man 'jis;a"professor? of;geol-ogy and fhas ilatelyiattained :fame \andposition: in'vhJs^cbosen:fleld/7;ReTknowslittle/of;life?as: the"; frivolous fiand;-bo-hemian set of^London'ylew./It.lbut findshimself Tplunged;" Into*'its \very ;;midst.'The :picture ,whichrMrs.':Reynold s-givesof this |llfe'islphotbgraphlc |in

'its detail

and fverity.^"The;"dull% girl"?Is :\u25a0 a '}finetype,:not;exactly^ tinique ?In fflctlonrbut,featured /as .sheIis ,'inIthisibooJc, 1

'quite

new—a;girl.whose destiny,' seems'to7be

misunderstood by .; all.her ; associates/Tho -; franklyJ sympathetic . reader twilllong:to>|shake jher,*' stupid; mother andpity/thelweak; tather^ a»diwill detesther;brothers [and!elsters =Jjj- la,w.V Butall "th« -whlltJ

'b«r 4«s Unjr,1a , wworkingworkingorking0rking

for better morals, cheaper bread, tem-perance, liberty, redemptionof fallen sisters and erring .brothers,nor the grace., love and fellowship ofthe -trinity, but simply^ for enoughmoney. And the evil to be attackedis not eln, suffering, greed, priestcraft,kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignor-ance, drink, war, pestilence, !nor anyother of the scapegoats which reform-ers sacrifice, but simply poverty. Thegreatest Of evils and the worst oJcrimes is poverty, and our first duty—a duty to which every other considera*-tion should be sacrificed

—Is not to be

poor."Shaw says that oar toleration of

poverty Is "stnpld levity," and that"Ifa'man is indolent, let him be poor.Ifhe Is drunken, let him be poor. .Iflie is addicted to the fine arts or topure science, let him be poor. Ifhechooses to spend his urban 18 shillingsa week or his agricultural 13 shillings.a week on his. beer or his family. In-stead of saving up for his old age, lethim be poor. Serves him right."

Shaw goes on to explain what "lethim be poor" means: "It means, lethim be weak. Let him be Ignorant/Let him become a" nucleus of disease.Let him be a standing exhibition andexample of ugliness and dirt. Let himhave rickety children. Let him becheap and let him drag his fellowsdown to his level by selling himself todo their work. Let his habitations turnour cities into poisonous congeries ofsliyns. Let his daughters infect ouryoung men with the diseases of thestreets, and his sons revenge him byturnlng the nation's manhood intoscrofula, cowardice/ cruelty, hypocrisy,political imbecility and all the otherfruits of oppression and malnutrition.This being so. is it really wise to lethim be poor? Would he not do 10times less harm as a prosperous bur-glar. Incendiary, ravisher or murderer,to the utmost limits of humanity'scomparatively negligible Impulses Inthese directions? Suppose we abolishall penalties for such activities anddecide that poverty is the one thing wewill not tolerate

—that every v adult

with less than say £365 a year shall bopainlessly but inexorably killed, andevery hungry, half naked child, forciblyfattened and clothed, would not that be/an enormous Improvement on the ex-isting system, which has already de-stroyed so many civilizations and isvisibly destroying our own?"

"A Stumbling Block"By Justus Miles Forman, euthor of "Buchan-

an's Wife." etc. Published by Harper &Bros., New York and London.

Justus Miles Forman has made hisreputation before now, but it seemsthat he is not satisfied

—he must have

more laurels. These will come wltithis book. "A Stumbling Block." It isan unusual story, one which will bearstudy and^a rereading. It is the taleof a young man with ambition for lit-erary honors. His \u25a0 guardian, an old,disappointed man, who had in youthloved the boy's mother, is anxious todo all he can for him, for that old love*sake. He begins his training treatmentby sending the boy away from a bud-ding love affair to travel and study forat least three years. It seems to himnecessary that the boy be kept freefrom "entanglements." and a -womanwould be sure to dwarf the boy's abilityand ambition.

T!" r.toi\v is developed with greatskill and the reader Is not obliged tostrain his credulities at any point. Thecharacter drawing of Robert Henley,the strange, sour old guardian; ; ofR6semary Crewe, the faithful love, andof Violet Winter, the stumbling blockto David Rivers, is all done faultlessly.It is so real, so like the tragedy ofeveryday^ life that the pleasant endingcomes as a great relief. Nor is thatending unnatural. The whole story hasled up to itperfectly. Itis better thanfiction and yet is a romance with apurpose.

"Women's Work and Wages"By Edward Cadbury..M. Ocile Matbeson and

Geoixe Shaun. • Published/by the UniTersltyof Chicago Press. . t :

There is a.growing demand for a...<a ...<scientific method by which the social':

'

problem may, 'be attacked, a demandfor the cxact^intormation upon whichany such metwd must be based. That !demand, in soIfar as it relates to '\u25a0',women's place 'in Industrialism in a .typical English-fi eld, is met "by the '.present volume, whose' writers have ,been, indefatigable in their .efforts tosecure precise -

Information. .This bookis

•based ,on* personal'interviews with .'<

6.000 working women,' 400: trades unionsecretaries, managers and :foremen ofworks employing women and*., uponmany, interviews; with employers andmembers and ,,managers of girls' clubs. EThe rgreat \u25a0 British:industrial . center, j

Birmingham, was, the field for these in- <vestlgations.l . *'

\Four; reasons are given why!women i

receive smaller wages than men, thus :->.'«-"(a) 'Because -their 'pastltralning; or

want of training has- not \u25a0 contributed ,i

to develop • Independence, but,has been i

the r«ven^<HHtfttsfiMHHMR'lBP9QHi

\u25a0"(.b) ; Because, she \u25a0is subsidized by ifamily or.V-husband;- this

'subsidizing ]being Itself at once a cause and effect j

Of low;wages; sand ; > -;

"r-; -:--..• "\-

- <"(c> JBee*u*9 TTomea lack power of j

out. or*course, one can not But knowhow ;the 'ibook will;turn out, but themanner of reaching the conclusion Isunusual and artistic.

"Practical Christian Sociology"•

By Rer. .Wilbur F. Crafts, Ph.D. Publishedby Funk: & Wajrnalls company, New Yorkand London. • Price $1.50. \

This .is anew edition of the" workby the;superintenderit of/the Interna-tional \u25a0-. reform bureau. It is reviseddown 'to date, so will have a \u25a0

\u25a0

muchgreater value in its present form forthe student' of sociology -than in itsformer 'shape.j;"A^new preface explains the author'sattitude toward'; all ;the problems ofthe

-day and expresses his willingness

to discuss these problems at: any andall times. .'

This is an orthodox evangelical workand . is \u25a0; Intended to. encourage' preach-ers' to-lake a hand 'In the^work*of so-cial betterment and' not leave it all toorganized /societies ;of .laymen.> 'Dr.'tCraftsl delivered /a-, series of lec-tures 'at /'Princeton ;;semi-nary "and [Marietta -college :on ''MoralReforms rand Social' Problems," and heuses \u25a0 these lectures as a \u25a0basis • for . thepresent -work. --He treats, his; subjectunder :tv four J... :parts. V FirsJ, '"TheChurch"; - second,- TThe Family 'and Ed-ucati?n"; • third;: "Capital and jLabor,"and fourth, "Citizenship." Under: eachhead -he gives fhis" views :•of \ what -con-ditions would become with 'the \u25a0 appli-cation-of \u25a0 practical,' everyday 'Chris-tianity. /,«\u25a0 Of \u25a0 course -the

-position ;fh,e

takes will Ycause ''?" endless 'discussion.One thing;in-particular seeming •hardlypracticable !ln;present 'day. conditions—that vhe swould fhave:an /authoritativeChristian morality itau ght

-In the publlo

'schools-^ln ? the ;sense"ofjbeing .-- '.]the

expression of'the .wills of the

"majority,

regardlessfoff- the ;"ylewsiand iwishes) ofthe'minorlty-^r-and7this

-"would.cause °'.\

wonderfulC betterment in conditions.' ;ltrequires little experience' to;see;' whattroubles [would

"beset ;the

"path of thereformer/* .'; j_~- ;<_ : \u25a0\u25a0.'•:'':rr^The"J author] gives •an:outline :ofL'TheInternational \Reform;Bureau," Iwhoseorganization grew "out-'of; this' verybook after 4

iits;flrst -edition.;This bu-reau inghts";four .big.evils-^-"lntemper-ance,' rV."Impurity," "Sabbath" Breaking"and VGambling."C"\u25a0The ibook /contains many interestingstatistics Iand ;much\ information" of

'In-

terest and value.; s'.5'. :-' '.'\u25a0-..'::

\u25a0'.-

.-. \u25a0 ; it- ''; "\u25a0 \u25a0-- ."-•-' _- : \u25a0 ,

"Socialism: Positive and Negative"„• ': By \u25a0* Robert r.Rives •La 1̂Monte.,-,Published

'"bj

: Charlea H.• Kerr& Co.;•Chicago. ..- \u25a0\u25a0' \u25a0vLike all -books on socialism, Robert

Rives 'I lift"!Monte' s -"Socialism, :\u25a0\u25a0 Positiveend

-Negative,"

*Is:wordy, verbose <•\u25a0 and

given over tjo theories and UtopianIdeas, out of which not a single prac-tical-or working idea can be gleaned'

He has grouped his subject matterunder the following heads:

"Science 'and Socialism." "The Ma-terialistic Conception of History," "TheLaw of Surplus Value/* "The ClassStruggle," "Marxism- and Ethics." "In-stead of a Footnote," "The .Nihilism ofSocialism." "The Biogenetio Law" and"Kismet." * ;

By far the most interesting chapteris the one on "The Nihilism of Social-*ism." from which the following Is.quoted:IfIs tbe purpose of this paper to «how that'

socialism :Is not a scheme for tbe bettermentOf humanity, to' be -accomplished by a suffi-ciently zealous and intelligent propaganda, batthat It \u25a0\u25a0 Is, .on .-.'• tUe contrary. a consistent(thoucli . to many .rppollant)imonistic philosophyof the cosmos; that.lt is from it» Alpha to ItsOmega so closely and .inextricably

-interlock*1!

that its \u25a0 component .parts \u25a0 cannot be disassoci-ated,' sare;by an act of \u0084 Intellectual • suicide:that, in a word, th« nihilism of socialism Islofthe ;Tery essence of socialism.

He quotes freely from the wellknownwriters Yon socialism,, namely: KarlMarx,',Frederick Engels, "William Mor-ris. Enrico Ferrl' and Gabriel Deville.Like all writers on the subject,' he tellsthe worklngman ?"he .has nothing tolose but his chains, and a whole worldto gain." \u0084 .

Gossip of Books and People Who Make Them\ Justin Huntly 'McCarthy, author of

"Needles- and Pins." that brilliant ro-mance: of the poet' -.Villon ,and Louis.the Eleventh and .other Jilghly pictur-esque lives11n a charming:seaside home in Kent, England. Thahouse is surrounded by a spacious gar-den and ,stands on the Crest of

'a lowrounding •: hllL''/ffijffiSjfißJSSH'. :;The house ,is,known as "Herdholt,"and this name puzzled all tha novelist'sfriends, .tor they could not even makea guess (at Jits .origin. V

", Mr."McCarthy: found -the name In oneof ,his ':favorite;books, Vth& "LaxdaelaSaga." I*In;;

4the* Sapa a;famous"Scandi-

navian hero ;Is:described, who lived.ina house which!he named v"Herdholt."This {particular/ hero .chanced <! to be ofIrish origin and doubtless that added toMr. McCarthy's ainterest ,in him..ItjwasIat :•/Herdholt"; that "Needles

and'Plns.'i//IM /Were King*"and other,novels of the oldtime France, which Mr.-McCarthy so /loves to werewritten. . *;\u25a0 \u25a0,* •' •.-';Henry James, whose latest book,'"The /American; Scene," was "recentlypublished :"byfthe, Harpers, is a bach-elor,; and*his'home -is a .charming oldhouse; in;Sussex, ,known =as ."the CharlesLamb ,house" from its,association withthe \u25a0'lifelof-: that

"famous .:author. Mr.

James \u25a0:maintains ;author Qughly'

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BOOK PAGE OF THE SUNDAY CALLP» San Francisco Sunday Call

BOOKS REVIEWED"John Bull's Other Island and

'Major Barbara" i

by Bernard Shaw.:

"A Stumbling Block" by Justus Miles Forman.

"Women s Work and Wages" by Edward CaaV*bury. M. Cecile Maihcson and George Shaun. ,

"Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson" \by E. A.Moore. '

"The New Harmony Movement" by Ceorge\B.L,ocl(Wood.

"ADullGirlsDestiny." byMrs.BaillieReynolds.

"Practical Christian Sociology" by Rev. Wil-1

"Socialism" by W. H. Mcllock. M. A. >

self-protection, due to •their failure tocombine, -which failure Itself Is;due, tocause (a) mentioned above and to thefact that few women expect to-be-life\u25a0workers, practically all looking for-ward to marriage as an escape fromwork."

Many of the statistics given are In-teresting. More than 25,000 women InBirmingham .are' engaged ..in variouskinds of metal work, many In press.work, lathe work. Japanning andblacking, enameling, burnishing, etc,^

The balance sheets at the close,.show-ing the: ratio,of profits, mean that thedemand of the workers for a ;falrerand better life,throws on the nationa moral responsibility. :>

"The nation/ say the authors, :"canafford better conditions for those, whowin r its wealth. '\u25a0':\u25a0 The \u25a0 national 'incomeis increasing by leaps and bounds andyet the mass of,people are In poverty.'.' <

The authors feel that much shouldbo/ done for the working .women' ofEngland; their book Is a promise anda forecast that something willbe done.

"Story of a Cannoneer Under Stone-wall Jackson" ~

By E. A. Moore, published by the Xeale pub-lishing company, New York and Washington.

»..Price ?2.It is the spring: of 1861. At Wash-

ington college books are thrown aside.

UNA H. H. COOL