but for what they were and the way in which they lived, will not be disposed to subtract from the sum total of their merits and their achievements. The record would have been more convincing to persons of a worldly mind if it had been less enthusiastic. But Miss Whiting is a lover of beautiful things, a believer in them and a recorder of them; and in this book, as in "The World Beautiful," her emphasis rests on the things which are honest and pure and of good report. She has collected a great deal of information; and while her book is not an original contribution to the history of Boston, it is an interpretation of that story on its highest levels of

achievement.

Camp Fires in the Wilderness: Valuable Information for Campers and Sportsmen. Illustrated. By E. W. Burt. National Sportsman Press, Boston. 5X7 in. 164 pages.

Christian Science: A Comedy in Four Acts. By M. M. Mangasarian. Published by the Author, Chicago. 42x72 in. 78 pages.

Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics (The). By Edith M. Thomas. Richard G. Badger, Boston. 5X74 in. 93 pages. $1.50.

Daniel Webster. By John Bach McMaster. Illustrated. The Century Co., New York. 51⁄2 81⁄2 in. 343 pages. $2, net. (Postage, 16c.) A beautifully illustrated life of Webster, popular in style as the name of its author assured, and reaching in its final pathetic chapter on the Seventh of March speech an unwontedly high level of historical writing. Indeed, this chapter has genuine dramatic power. The whole narrative is interesting, and the illustrations which accompany it have been chosen with judgment and reproduced with rare skill and effectiveness.

Discords. By Anna Alice Chapin. The Pelham Press, 9 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York. 5x7 in. 208 pages. $1.50.

wholesome Scotch sturdiness, and, thoug never acrid, is sometimes sharp. Essentials in Ancient History (From the Ear est Records to Charlemagne). By Arthur May Wolfson, Ph.D., and Albert Bushnell Hart, LL. Illustrated. The American Book Co., New Yo 54×8 in. 528 pages. $1.50.

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Fifty Mastersongs. By Twenty Composer Edited by Henry T. Finck. Oliver Ditson C Boston. 9x12% in, 186 pages. Paper bound. $13 This collection, or more accurately selectio of songs is unquestionably the most adequa that has ever been prepared. Schubert, course, is represented by the largest numb of songs-eight. To some it will be surpri ing that Grieg shares with Franz the plac of second importance, each contributing si songs. This, we think, is an indication Mr. Finck's personal taste rather than h editorial judgment; but if any man's tast has authority, Mr. Finck's ought to have i this department of music. This fact, howeve hardly makes it necessary for him to insist i his introduction quite so strongly upon hi own expertness. Chopin is conspicuous b his presence among the Twenty with two his songs! Mendelssohn and the Italian song writers are conspicuous by their absence MacDowell contributes the one America song; the editor, however, says that mor would have appeared except for copyright di ficulties. The editor's brief comments o each composer and song are readable an generally judicial. Altogether, "Fifty Master songs" succeeds in its purpose to provide touchstone by which the genuine in song ma be distinguished from the worthless. Forty Piano Compositions by Frédéri Chopin. Edited by James Huneker. (The Mus cians' Library.) Oliver Ditson Co., Boston. 9x14 in. 184 pages. In cloth, $2.50.

tation in the New Testament. By James Denney, D.D. A. C. Armstrong & Son, New York. 5x8 in. 334 pages.

The chief and fundamental defect in this book, it seems to us, is the assumption that there was in the minds of the New Testament writers, and in the mind of Jesus himself, a common system of belief, and that this system was the source of their power. "The doctrine of the death of Christ and its significance," says the author, " was not St. Paul's theology. It was his gospel. It was all he had to preach." Religion is accordingly an interpretation, not primarily an experience. The logical conclusion is that a person can be a Christian only as he understands this interpretation and accepts it as his own. As a matter of fact, this has been disproved myriads of times by the lives of those who would be utterly perplexed if asked to give their system of belief. Although this book uses the results of modern research, it represents a type of book that the historical spirit has made antiquated; it uses modern apparatus to construct an obsolete machine. And yet it would be very unjust to give the impression that the theology of the book is itself mechanical. The reader receives the impression of a mind that is marked by

Huneker's exceedingly able and clever intro duction. His reputation for clear, vivid, an readable style is well sustained in these com ments upon Chopin and the works included i this volume. The publishers' work in th series to which this volume belongs deserve commendation. The Musicians' Librar should attain high rank among what may b termed, if the phrase is allowable, musica anthologies.

Introduction to Botany. By William Chas

Stevens. Illustrated. D. C. Heath & Co., Bosto 5x7 in. 127 pages.

Jim and Joe. By Edward S. Ellis. Henr T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia. 5x7 in. 450 page 80c., net.

Life and Career of James William Hott, D.D LL.D. By Marion R. Drury. D.D. The Urite Brethren Publishing House, Dayton, Ohio. 54x in. 214 pages. $1, net.

Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingerso Bowditch. By his Son Vincent Y. Bowditch. I 2 vols. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bo ton. 6x9 in. Per set, $5, net.

The memorials of the dead which are mos inspiring for the living include those of th path-breakers, the leaders of progress, and o those who volunteer for the forlorn hope i

the beginning of reform. In this class is the present work. Dr. Bowditch's father, Nathaniel, gained National fame as a mathematician; he himself, as a physician, by his promotion of "preventive medicine," particularly in combating consumption. For this he was made chairman of the State Board of Health in Massachusetts when instituted in 1869, and a member of the National Board of Health when instituted in 1879. He deserves remembrance for his early advocacy of the unpopular proposition to open the medical profession to women. It was in the early time of the anti-slavery movement that his chivalrous character was most conspicuously exhibited from the day when the mob of respectable Bostonians endeavored to lynch Garrison, in 1835. Thenceforth he staked his social standing, his professional prospects, in courageous struggle for the right of free protest against slavery and for the emancipation of the enslaved. The story of the part he bore in the days when Federal troops were employed in Boston to enforce an unpopular Federal statute, as they have never been employed in time of peace in any other American city, still stirs the blood of the survivors of those evil times. It has often been told, but it cannot be told, as in these pages, too often as a tonic to the true American spirit. Dr. Bowditch was a man of religious spirit, sensitive conscience, positive character, and genial disposition, a faithful exponent of "applied Christianity." His son has in this memorial of his life performed a patriotic service as well as a filial duty.

Life of the Ancient Greeks (The). By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph.D. Illustrated. (Twentieth Century Text-Books.) D. Appleton & Co., New York. 54x8 in. 373 pages. $1.40, net.

Rationally conducted study of ancient languages, of which there has been too little, is study not only of the language but of the life of the people speaking it, with which their language is a means of opening acquaintance. Of Greek life in the golden age of Greecethe fifth and fourth centuries B.C.-Dr. Gulick gives a detailed description of interest to the general reader as well as to the student of Greek preparing for college examinations. The accompanying illustrations, numbering several hundred, are provided with all desirable interpretation in a descriptive list.

Little Boom No. 1. By Mrs. Frank Lee. Illustrated. The Pilgrim Press, Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 255 pages.

Memoirs of François René, Viscomte de Chateaubriand, Sometime Ambassador to England. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Illus trated. Vols. V. and VI. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 6x9 in. $3.75 per vol. The appearance of the final volumes in the English translation of Chateaubriand's "Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe" calls for added emphasis of The Outlook's criticism on the preceding volumes, in which the ordinary reader and the student of history alike find entertainment and enlightenment. The translator (whose work has been admirably done) even goes so far as to say that the Memoirs constitute the greatest prose work of the greatest prose writer of the nineteenth century. Not

all readers will agree in this criticism; but it is safe to say that all who are interested in French history, politics, and society, all who love to signalize the quality of the romantic school in literature, as distinguished from the writing of the eighteenth century which preceded it and from the aridity which succeeded it, finally, all who glory in the work of the Spirit of God, will find in these volumes a rich store of knowledge and inspiration. Chateaubriand was a notable traveler; he and Marco Polo or Sir Richard Burton could have compared notes with interest and profit. He was a notable figure as a man of letterssome think as notable in his way in France as was Byron in England or Schiller in Germany. He was a statesman whose service to the monarchy is only now recognized at its full value. Above all, Chateaubriand was the man who dared to write the "Génie du Christianisme," and thereby to put into the world a spiritual force which had not before existed in such a form. The last two volumes of the Memoirs are distinguished from the others by reason of the author's description of his European travels, especially of his round trip from Prague to Prague (an itinerary to be commended to present travelers), by way of Eger, Baireuth, Würzburg, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Metz, Verdun, Châlons, Paris, Pontarlier, Lausanne, Bex, Brigue, Domo d'Össola, Milan, Verona, Venice, Udine, Villach, Gmünd, St. Michael, Salzburg, Linz, Thabor, and then back to Prague. As in the previous volumes, great and picturesque figures flit across the. stage, especially those of Talleyrand, Lafayette, Béranger, Guizot, Madame Récamier, Charles X., Thiers, Louis Philippe, but more interesting and perhaps more significant than any of these is the figure of Chateaubriand himself.

Mont Pelée and the Tragedy of Martinque. By Angelo Heilprin. Illustrated. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 6x9 in. 335 pages. $3,

net.

Reserved for later notice.

Negro (The): Revelation in History and in Citizenship. By Rev. J. J. Pipkin. Illustrated. The N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., St. Louis. 6X9 in. 491 pages.

This volume is far from being literature, but none the less it deserves the attention of the book-reading public. Through condensed biographies of negroes who have been successful in various lines of work, it presents a record of negro achievement which will convince skeptical white people of the possibilities of negro advancement, and will inspire colored people with new faith in striving for their own advancement and that of their children. Best of all, the book is not written by a negro or by a Northern white man, but by a Southern minister, who, despite both sectional and political prejudices, has labored sympathetically to show what the negro race is capable of. The volume contains an introduction by General Gordon, formerly United States Senator from Georgia, which is written in the same spirit as the volume itself, and calls attention to the fact that there are a great number of negroes who are not "problems" but "useful citizens."

Old Testament Word Studies. By the Rev. C. E. Butler. Edited by Principal J. T. L. Maggs, B.A., D.D. The Abbey Press, New York. 5×8 in. 266 pages.

Organ and Its Masters (The): A Short Ac

count of the most Celebrated Organists of Former Days, as Well as Some of the More Prominent Örgan Virtuosi of the Present Time, Together with a Brief Sketch of the Development of Organ Construction, Organ Music, and Organ Playing. By Henry C. Lahee. Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. 5x74 in. 345 pages. $1.60, net. The somewhat limited interest in the organ ought to be increased by this volume. So far as we know, there is no other book that covers quite the same field. The work of the author has been done with evidently painstaking care. The growth of the organ is traced from its primitive form to the modern electric mechanism; but throughout the instrument is considered, not from the point of view of the builder, but from that of the performer and composer. The book is, therefore, to a very large extent biographical. A chronological table and an index make it valuable for reference. Pipe Dreams and Twilight Tales. By Birdsall Jackson. F. M. Buckles & Co., New York. 4×7 in. 257 pages. $1.25.

Poetical Works of John Keats (The). Edited by Walter S. Scott. Revised by George Sampson. (The Hampstead" Edition.) The Macmillan Co., New York. 5×73⁄4 in. 632 pages. $1.75. An admirable one-volume edition of Keats's poems, strongly bound, handsome of page, and well printed.

Primer of Right and Wrong (A): For Young People in Schools and Families. By J. N. Larned. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 4×7 in. 176 pages. 70c., net.

These lectures by the Bishop of Southern Virginia were delivered before the students and professors of the General Theological Seminary in New York. They are the expression of the views of a conservative thinker with a progressive spirit. In the course of the lectures here embodied in book form the point of view seems to change frequently and unexpectedly. It is therefore almost impossible to indicate the course of thought or the conclusions reached. Perhaps some indication of the temper of the lectures may be given by saying that, in view of other positions maintained, it is significant to find the author declaring, for instance, that the distinction between natural and revealed religion rests upon an illusion.

Reformer (The). By Charles M. Sheldon. The Advance Publishing Co., Chicago. 5x8 in. 299 pages. $1.50.

"The Reformer," like Mr. Sheldon's former and more original book, "In His Steps," is strong as a sermon but weak as a novel. Like its predecessor, it preaches the Brotherhood of Man, the duty of the rich and well born toward the "humanity that works with its hands for a living, the humanity that toils at the furnace and the loom and the machine." Although the scene might be laid in any great

and Beatrice Webb. (New Edition.) Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 512×8 in. 286 pages. A new edition of an interesting and valuable collection of essays by the historians of the English labor and cooperative movements. In their preface to this edition Mr. and Mrs. Webb comment upon the growing monopolization of industry in the United States, and urge that the movement is not to be resisted, but to be kept from injuring workmen by legislation, securing the latter a minimum of pay, a minimum of recreation, a minimum of sanitation, and a minimum of education.

Proofs of Life After Death (The): A Twentieth

Century Symposium. Arranged under the several heads of Science, Psychical Research, Philosophy, Spiritualism. Compiled and Edited by Robert J. Thompson. Robert J. Thompson, 1604 Wellington Avenue, Chicago. 5x8 in. 365 pages, $2, net. Moved by the decease of a dear friend, and by desire to obtain all possible confirmation of his belief in immortality, the editor of this compilation addressed a circular-letter to a large number of persons of reputation, desiring their strongest reasons for this belief. The list of those whose judgment is here recorded fills four pages. The number of influential names in the list is noticeable, some of whom reply at considerable length. Another noteworthy thing is the general absence of refer

position to the slums, New York seems to be the modern Gomorrah portrayed. In one of its heroes, the vigorous young attorney, Judge Julius Chambers, with his quiet voice and scholarly face, one recognizes at every turn Mr. Jerome. The most striking figure, and, unfortunately, the most true to life, is the City Boss, Tommy Randall. He seems flesh and blood; the reformer, John Gordon, and his friends at the Hope House Settlement do not. Russell Ryder. By David Bruce Conklin. The A. Wessels Co., New York. 5×7% in. 333 pages. $1.50.

Schillers Wallenstein Tod. Edited by Charles A. Eggert, Ph.D. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 5x74 in. 189 pages.

School Composition for Use in Higher Grammar Classes. By William H. Maxwell, M.A., Ph.D., LL D., and Emma L. Johnston, A.B. The American Book Co., New York. 5x7 in. 224 pages. 50c. Sea of Circumstance (The). By Jeanne G. Pennington. The Abbey Press, New York. 44x7 in. 142 pages. 50c.

Shroud of Christ (The). By Paul Vignon, D.Sc. Translated from the French. With Photogravure and Collotype Plates and Illustrations in the Text. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 8x11 in. 170 pages. $4. net.

An attempt to prove by scientific testimony

that the holy shroud of Turin is the veritable shroud that enwrapped the body of Christ. The argument is based on the statement that the impression upon the relic was made by a chemical process, resulting from a combination of ammoniacal vapors from the body and the spices smeared upon the cloth. Notwithstanding the flaws in the argument, the reasoning is ingenious. The accounts given of elaborate investigations and the examination of minute details lend an air of plausibility to the discussion. The volume is sumptuously printed and illustrated. Altogether it leaves a strange impression of mingled mediævalism and modern science.

Stories of Humble Friends. By Katharine Pyle. Illustrated. (Eclectic School Readings.) The American Book Co., New York. 5x7 in. 197 pages. 50c.

Stories of Old France. By Leila Webster Pitman. Illustrated. The American Book Co., New York. 5x7 in. 312 pages. 60c.

An interesting attempt to present French history in a semi-fictional form, and as an introduction to more thorough study. There are many well-selected pictures.

Studies in the Apostolic Church. By Charles Herbert Morgan, Thomas Eddy Taylor, and S. Earl Taylor, Jennings & Pye, New York. 6x9 in. 226 pages. 75c.

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It. By J. Angus MacDonald. The Lincoln Publishing Co., Philadelphia. 6x9 in. 400 pages. $2. Sur les Bords du Rhin: Selections from Victor Hugo. Edited by Thomas Bertrand Bronson. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 4x61⁄2 in. 148 pages.

Sunday. By Rev. W. B. Trevelyan, M.A.

(The Oxford Library of Practical Theology.) Longmans, Green & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 307 pages. This book is an attempt in untechnical form to account for the origin of the Lord's Day, show its relation to the Jewish Sabbath, trace its history until the present time, and state its proper function. According as Christianity is conceived of as primarily a new Law or primarily a new Life, Sunday is correspondingly a Sabbath or the Lord's Day. Both historically and philosophically the author finds that the observance of Sunday is not obedience to an external command, but is "the utterance and expression of Christian joy." Its sanction is not to be found in the Fourth Commandment, but in the Resurrection. Nevertheless, the author has the breadth of mind to recognize the service that the Sabbatarian view of Sunday has temporarily rendered to the race and is likely to render for generations to come. After a chapter on Principles of Sunday Observance, the author considers in three successive chapters the subjects of Worship, Rest, and Service. The first is treated from the point of view of the clergyman of the Church of England. It is a pity that some of the very impressive truths which need wider acknowledgment than they receive generally by Protestants should be put in language which can appeal to but few except those of the Anglican Communion. The emphasis which is laid upon service-that is, philanthropic and religious activity-is sig nificant of the awakened social consciousness

of the Christian Church. There are a number of interesting appendices.

Tale of a Tub (A).

By Jonathan Swift. Herbert B. Turner & Co., Boston. 42x61⁄2 in. 284 pages. $1.25.

Territorial Growth of the United States (The). By William A. Mowry, M.A., Ph.D. Illustrated. Silver, Burdette & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 237 pages. $1.0.

Treatise on Atonement (A). By Hosea Ballou. (Fourteenth Edition.) The Universalist Publishing House, Boston. 5x8 in. 272 pages. $1, net. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Hiram Albert Vance, Ph.D. The Macmillan Co., New York. 4×54 in. 229 pages. 25c. Twelve Types. By G. K. Chesterton. Arthur L. Humphreys, London. 52x7 in. 203 pages. Usury: A Scriptural, Ethical, and Economic View. By Calvin Elliott. The Anti-Usury League, Millersburg, Ohio. 5x74 in. 299 pages.

An arraignment of the taking of interest written in the spirit of the prophets of the early Christian and mediæval Church. The author does not, however, condemn rent as well as interest, nor recognize, as did the Genevan theologian after whom he is named, that interest on money in ordinary commercial transactions is merely rent for the land, houses, or other capital which the money enables the borrower to use. Despite its inadequacy on the side of economics, however, the book has intellectual strength as well as moral fervor, and is profitable reading to morally sensitive minds.

Vale of Cedars and Other Tales (The). By Grace Aguilar. Illustrated. The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia. 512x8 in. 428 pages.

These tales were favorite reading in households of a generation ago, and their fine moral spirit and honest wholesomeness has caused their reappearance.

Where American Independence Began. By Daniel Munro Wilson. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x84 in. 289 pages. $2,

Indispensable as a book of reference to those who have occasion to verify names, find residences, and otherwise search for biographical data about living Englishmen. With its American companion of the same name, "Who's Who" is perhaps more frequently looked into than any reference-book except the dictionary. That it is closely condensed and (happily) has no critical estimates makes it possible for its scope to be really large. There are some non-Englishmen included; we judge that the number of Americans has been increased considerably since the last edition.

A Defense of New Mexico

To the Editors of The Outlook:

In your issue of December 13, page 862, you make some comments on New Mexico which are unworthy of The Outlook. I credit you with a desire to be just and fair. The man who has always lived in Timbuctoo does not usually write intelligently about New York. You are equally uninformed about New Mexico. In referring to the population of the Territory, the statement that the “56,000, or less, classed as Americans, though in reality they are largely foreign ers of various nationalities," is not correct. More than ninety per cent. of them are natives of the other States, although we have a fair representation of English and Germans.

The statement that "all proceedings in the courts require the co-operation of an interpreter," etc., is untrue. The writer has been familiar with the courts of New Mexico for thirteen years, and while the interpreter is a court official, there have been many terms of court at which his services were not needed. During the years above mentioned I have never seen a Mexican juror who did not understand English. The fact that "ballots are printed in Spanish as well as English" means that those who do not read English vote intelligently in New Mexico, while the foreigners in New York City, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other States having a large non-English-speaking population cast ballots that they cannot read and do not understand. The "voting in herds" is not nearly so common in this sparsely settled country as it is in the cities of the East. The independent voter, both American and Mexican, is much more in evidence here than in New York.

You say that "the occupations of the people are agriculture, stock-raising, and mining. The two former are dependent absolutely on irrigation." The latter part of this statement is flagantly untrue. Not one hundredth part of one per cent. of the stock-raising interests of the Territory depend on irrigation. A few cattle are fattened on alfalfa and corn raised by irrigation, but the great stock interests cattle, sheep, and horses-depend entirely

on natural grasses. These grasses “cure” on the ground, and furnish nutritious food for stock during the winter and early spring. Granting that our people are agriculturists, stock-raisers, and miners, are those occupations a bar to good citizenship? Are the citizens of rural New York less worthy of the right of suffrage than the denizens of the East Side? You probably do not know that the mining population of New Mexico and Arizona are nearly all Americans, and have nothing in common with the ignorant foreigners who work the coal-mines of the East.

Your statement of insufficient water supply for irrigation is not based on a knowledge of the facts. In ten years' time you will treat us more fairly on that topic, as you will be better informed.

Again, you say that "the people both in New Mexico and Arizona care very little about Statehood." I speak only for New Mexico, as my knowledge of Arizona is limited to car-window investigations, and hence is not by authority. The people of New Mexico want Statehood. They do not spend all their time lobbying in Washington, because they have duties at home to perform. They do not base their claim for Statehood on the ground that it would "be for the advantage of the people of the United States to admit" We do not pretend to be looking out for your good. We are neither philanthropists nor hypocrites. We want Statehood because it would be for our ow material and social advantage, and be cause it is our right. More than fifty years ago the United States Government by solemn treaty promised it to us, and a refusal to carry out this promise is a flagrant injustice.

us.

You say, "It is the undeveloped mining claims that furnish the demand on Congress" for Statehood, and that "this demand comes, not from the people of those Territories, but from capitalists outside of them." This statement is not only untrue but libelous. No portion of the Territory is more enthusiastic for Statehood than the fertile valley of the Pecos, in the southeastern part, and there is not a mine or a mining claim in the whole region. Is it an argument against Statehood that