Show T BOOKS 1 Ask a hundred intelligent ent men and women to name the one best book ever printed and a large majority will probably abi ably agree on the tho same samo book Perhaps I Inot not more than 50 will agree on the best three Ask each ot of the hundred to give ghe Il a list or of ten and no two lists will willbe be alike The selection ot of books Is a subject ot of great Interest It has oven proved a most difficult task to the conscientious for tor of the tho making of books there Is no end The first notable attempt to winnow from all the tho worlds good lit literature literature tho very ery best was wa Sir John famous list ot of Ono One Hun Hundred Hundred dred Best Books Since then man many other selections have been made by br noted scholars and educators The latest lat latest est contributions are aro Dr Five Foot Library and Roose Pigskin Library All of these and many others which will appeal oven more strongly to the booklover are arc given In a little book just Issued by the com coin compan pan pany Cincinnati and which they send for the asking It gives not only lists of 6 10 12 25 80 60 and but there are special selections for tor children for tor boys bos and Ind for tor girls graded according to a age c lists ot of great books and lists ot of enter entertaining books classified lists ot of novels etc Not only the classics but the really good books ot of toda today are arc Inn In Included The contributors besides the famous men named are such noted authorities as James Jamel Baldwin Hamilton W r Mablo and Prot Prof W D Howe The arrange arrangement ment Is admirable Those Thole who are givIng thought to the selection ot of Il a ahome homo home library will find this compact and convenient book a veritable treasure house or of Information William Dean Howells genius Is never mellower that than In his cence of travel As In Certain De Delightful English Towns and In Lon London London don Films lie he shows In this volume a rare American sense of English coun country try to and English types Hero Here the tho author de describes his modest liking for tor Liverpool discusses sonic somo merits or of Manchester enjoys himself In smokiest Sheffield finds n a nine da dayH wonder In York and relates two Yorkshire episodes spends the day at enjoy Cambridge mother ot of the tho American Athens discovers Aberystwyth and Llandudno two little Welsh and dually In indulges In a chronicle of oC English characteristics The book is IR beautifully Illustrated Harper Brothers Publishers er Now New York Just JURt what the tho masses read has haJ always been more or legs le ot of a problem to discover According to The Lobar Labor World however there is III no one more mom popular than Jack Juck London lIo Ho Is one ot of them It says and writes as ono one of at them inspired d and prompted by all allor or of those sufferings hopes und and Z that influence the lives or of those who toll for wages The story or of Mar lar Martin lartin tin Eden should be read by every young oung man In the land for It moro more In inspiringly teaches the lesson or of the sure HUrl achievement of the courage and honest endeavor and the most ox ex acting actinS and discouraging difficulties and obstacles than anything we have rea read 11 for years yeaTS In this respect we deem Eden the most u useful ful book ho has written Tho Labor World does docs not appear to consider the publication of Martin Eden as a mere occurrence In the tho world ot of literature but rather as an sociological event It Is 15 an editorial und and not a a book revIew from these passages have been taken and amid the tho editorial ends Wo We repeat that this volume should be road read by aU all persons who work for or wages and who have havo an ambition to improve their con condition In this book Mr London preaches some somo excellent philosophy ot of ota ofa a practical kind and that Is not soci socialistic In an any sense of oC the tho word Be Beyond Beyond yond all he reemphasizes that tal fact that we ron can do more for our ourselves solves selves titan than any other a agency eney can do for us and that we tso are aro really reany the ar arbiters I biters ot of our own fortune i |