Show LITERATURE SWITZERLAND By Lena Hug and Richard Stead New York G P Putnams Sons Price 5150 One of the most useful series of popular volumes ever issued is The Story of the Nations series of which the present is the latest book In these are presented historical histo-rical studies wherein the stories of the nations na-tions which have attained prominence are told in a graphic impressive manner While these are in fact histories tho writers wri-ters avoid the unattractive and wearisome weari-some details which spoil for the ordinary reader so many of the histories The authors enter into the real life of the peoples and tell us how they lived what they did and so on at the same time keeping in view the relations of the various countries to each other and pointing out the significance of noteworthy incidents and actions The story of Switzerland begins with the lake dwellers who first lived in that country and comes down to 1SS9 and is interesting from tho opening chapter down to the closing paragraph para-graph The volume is handsomely illustrated illus-trated TIlE CHILDRENS BOOKA Calleclion of Short Stories and Poems A Mormon Boon for Mormon Mor-mon Children By Augusta Joyce Crocheron Bountiful Davis county Utah Mrs Crocheron is known as one of our favorite poets and in this volume of three hundred pages she demonstrates that she writes excellent prose and is an entertaining enter-taining story teller as well The book was written for children and they will be interested in-terested in it and instructed by it as well The volume is dedicated to the sweetest and best of children and every mother loves it THE INDUSTRIAL REVOUTTIOX OF THE EIGHTEENTH EIGH-TEENTH CENTURY is ENGLAND By Arnold Toynbee In two parts 33 cents each The Humboldt Publishing company iS Lafayette Place New York The point of view of the author of this important work is that of one who while ho admits the benefits conferred upon mankind man-kind by the old school of political economists econo-mists Adam Smith Ricardo Malthus and the restbelieves that their work is done and that the world has got beyond them and stands in need of something more The worn is a history of the bitter argument argu-ment between economists and human beings to use the striking phrase of his chapter on Ricavdo and the old political economy When the economic relations of men are studied by an observer who to abundant learning adds the quality of human sympathy the result is no dismal science Besides the treatise named above the present work contains three popular addresses on Wages and Natural Law Industry and Democracy and Are Rad icals Socialists as also papers on The Education of Cooperation and Tholdeal Relations of Church and State There is a memoir of the author by B Towett master of Balliol college Oxford England in which college Toynbee was a lecturer on political economy |