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Show I mm MhorsBookg A MONUMENTAL WORK The .ie-th Encyj topedia. a nesetiptive Record ' Ch History Religion. Literature. Litera-ture. unl Customs - f t Jewish Peo-nfe Peo-nfe from the Earliest Times to the Present Psv. Prepared by More than Four Hundred Scholars and Special -lets Including Cyrua Adler, PI;. P. Ia K Funk. P D.. LL. I'.. Bmll O. Hlrjch. Ph. D., LL D.. and William Poppe;-. M. A.. PI). P.. Associate Revising Re-vising Editor, Chief of the Boree.ii of Translation, all under the direction of Isidore Slnsrer. Pli P.. Projector and Managing Editor assisted by Ameri -an And Foreign Board of Consulting tort, In Twelve Volumes. Volume V. Punk B) Wagnnlls Company. Publishers. Pub-lishers. KW York. This fifth volume of the groat work nnrlf rtk' ii by the compiler! and publishers pub-lishers runs from Louis Lucien Provtus Briaac to Goat in biblical datn. As i:i the previous volumes of this monumental monumen-tal w. rk. the utmost diligence is oxer cised in fhedding all possible light rror the persons whose biographies are liven and narrated, and upon every subject treated. The frontispiece of the T-olume is a fac ,nule of a p.ipe of an illuminated scroll of the Bo k ol Esther fAfejrillah), probably an Italian! writing of the eighteenth century. Fat I i.n-les of important documents, grants. strir, and n.eient pieturpgraplis. and r ! c BOO ret of Jewish music, are all c.-.r-, nc-l in excellert form I There eo : in natural ordi r in this! l-.o..1. a di-,u:on of Flgvp. which is of so much jinportiince in congestion -with' toe Jewish people and in the Biblical roemdi T'mm; ia a long article on Kng-Itnd Kng-Itnd in connection with the Jewish settlements, set-tlements, the Jewish business activities, 'ind coTnmSreral political, and literary helpfulness of the .Tews in that mnn'rr, 1 Bachatolog? occupies a considerable i section of the volume, and there is a full description of the Essenes. The; Bool: of Ksther reccies full treatment. both traditional and c-itical '"Ethics" occupies many pages, and has very keen nr.d earnest discussions. "Die Exodus is silo treated Pery folly, and with a wealth of erudition and breadth of spirit very good to rend. "Ezra'' naturally nat-urally occupies attention, both hisrori-vaJly hisrori-vaJly and in a biographical way. The biographies ure eepecialli numerous and full in this volume. "Festivals'" arp described, and the proper distinctions made between the different kinds of rherii. Folk lore and folk tales receive duo attention. The article on France is very long, and is also very important id the bistor -.f -ho .lew, all mattSTd relnting 10 the Jews and occurring in France arc pmen full treatment herein. A considfrnnli nitrnbtr of paces ;re i'e-vntfed i'e-vntfed lc Tit nkfort on-the-Main. Fr e-nuieoury e-nuieoury among the Jews receives u t;n.ticn nmcng othei rites and soi i-described. i-described. Galicia and fialatia re-ceive re-ceive the attention which is their due, and there is n full biography of the gre;ii Grarnaliel, and mites on other (in malie?. "Games and Sports" are de scribed anrl illustrated, and the ritlp oil ffHon, rather obscure generally, is fully interpreted. 1 he term Gehenna is ex plained in detail, and an illustration es as a view of the valley of Ge-Hihnom. Ge-Hihnom. The hook of Gonesis, Pol-lowing Pol-lowing alphabetically, receives scholarly' and admirable treatment in every phase of-it. Gentiles, a generic term for the stranger." the outsider. r the unknown, un-known, eomeH in for fnll elucidation, and historical, descriptive, and racial treatment. German and its high importance im-portance to I he .lewish people take up manv pnges, and the exposition ia mofl important And so one might go through thf volume from first to last, finding in- structibn, information, and the best of data on evety Bubjeet and on every por-Fon por-Fon having any relation to or with the; lews. It is indeed a treasure house of learning uDOn all matters relating to the) .Tews and to the connect ion of the I Ws with persons and places from the earliest times to the present. And "thing is stale or narrow herein; all is broad, scholarly. and admirable throughout. It is a publication that ivnrk' sn epoch. A HELPFUL GIRL. Mfcrela of th Little Home. Bv Emiiv Galvin Blak. Illustrated. D. Appi.-'-ton ah I Company, Publishers NOW York. This is a storv of a very bright. Mir.some little girl, the daughter of a man whose father and mother had dm carded him fof supposedly marrying beneath him The little girl 1 nm. bitioue, capable from her very youth up, attractive, energetic, and" apt to make her way. When anything is to be don.- she is the little girl to do it. -r 1 does ool wail for suggestion! prompting, or command; she takes hold and does it, and is a veritable little housewife Not only that, but slu-takes slu-takes it upon her and ex nutea fine lier purpose ko help on the outside, and finally leads the way to triumph for her much loved "daddy" that makes them ali happv. It i- a very charming little story, winningly told. MUNICIPAL COMnSSIONS. City Government i Commission. Edited lis Clinton Rogera Woodruff. Published by D Appleton and Company, Now York. This is a pretty thoroughgoing exposition expo-sition of the various commission forms of government for cities, and also of the arguments relied upon in support of the imposition of mi h forms upon the i-ities. The tone of the work i decidedly decided-ly in favor of the commission form, and yet it honestly and fairly states the ob-lections ob-lections thereto. Borne of the reasons ings are very curious, as in the description descrip-tion of a commission form of government govern-ment by Mr. Oswald Ryan (page 66 WO read. TIk- in se.-tionnl representation WSS do:ih: i...vd upon 111" dlff'-.-ent luit-re-tj a. -i different States sometim. ,oprs diverse Interests. Bsperlence pr.-.--. h.-.A-evr-r, tnat then- w;ift no suols is;oii of Inteersts as was suoooaed. and the municipal council. Instead of roSSrdlua the general lntereBts of tln-etty. tln-etty. came to represent tho sneci.il ln-tcresis ln-tcresis of particular wards. rtmt is, i lie belief in sectional representation rep-resentation is founded upon a fallacy, but experience proved that the supposed sup-posed fallacy was actuaUy true. i1 was supposed that local or special ward interests would prevail, which was not so, but when five test was applied it was found I" be just so. The discus ion of the Newport plan by Rear-Ad-miTala P. E ChadWick, V. S. N. (retired1 (re-tired1 is a vigorous paper, going to the root of the whole matter. In it he points out the inconsistency from the standpoint of a popular government of massing the tax levying and disburse tnetit power in one body First the Galveston Gal-veston fdan is diseiissed. and then the different plana radiating therefrom. The Houston plan, the Iowa plan, the results re-sults in Memphis and other cities, the Newport plan, the growth of the move ment. are all duly and well set torth. i The book is certainly a comprehensive j and instructive one. and has the highest possible value lust now when tho commission com-mission plan la coming into vogue here, ' and when jt is so generally discussed throughout, tho country This work is ! the first of a contemplated genes planned I by the. National Municipal League, to j be followed by other volumes dealing i with other forms of eity making and I city administration. There is no ques j lion of the high standing, the fair pre sentation, and the endeavor to be of public service, on the parr of the gentlemen gen-tlemen who are connected with the j issue of this series. The publication Committee comprises Prof Albert Rush- ne)l Hart, of Harvard; Prof. Charles A. I Beard, of Columbia; Dr. William Hen nett Munro. of Harvard; Prof L S Sowe, of Pennsylvania, and Clinton T?j-.jrer Woodruff, Chairman No one Interested In-terested m the movement for the bt ferment of city government can afford to be without this excellent volume. A WOMAN'S STRUGGLES. The Autobiography or n Woman Alone. D. appleton and Company, Publishers Kew York. Th author of this work is anonymous anony-mous note aays that "this hook is not a novel, but a record of tho actual l experiences of the woman who is the I narrator. " Tt rends as though it. might be jus! that. The woman who narrates was thrown upon her own resources early in her youth, and the struggle she bad in doing for herself is faithfully faith-fully portrayed Tt is. in a. way, a severe, se-vere, arraignment of our economic life o kno-n that this sort of effort, is what B woman has to pass through if she undertakes to make, her way in the world from poverty and need; the training is hard and the world -,s cold. The sordid things that are met. the mean things, the insulting things, are not BO prominent in this book as in some others, and vet they are here. The deceptiveness of a man s apparent regard re-gard which turns info the grossest villainy vil-lainy i Often enough told in such nar- ratives, and finds a plaep also here. The boarding house life, the effort, to get employment, the sudden chill that occuis in the conversation when the hoped-for employer learns that the wo- I man Ls nor a casual visitor, but in search of employment, is very olo.ir)v defined here. A common-law marriage is incurred, with the usual failure to redeem the weak and faulty individual, individ-ual, and the revoll that occurs in the woman's soul against it is very keen; and there is the usual difficult v of throwing off the one-. lover) object This woman's experience may fairlv be i said to be one in a thousand, in that, in spite of all the difficulties, perils, and a.-tual degredaifpn that she meets, she finds at the lust her happiness In a muell-COVeted marriage. It does not appear that she told her husband the ftorv of her life, and it is probable that she did not, and this wisely, be-cSuse be-cSuse that, kind of story ia extremely hard to tell to one with whom the in timate relations of marriage aro about to be entered into. U is a heaft- Searching book, and nlfto an arraign ment of our business life that mav well cause those in charge of that life to blush. THANET SHORT STORIES. Stories That Tinrt Well. Hy Oetave Thane-. The Hohbs-M rril Company, l'ub-ilsh.-r:. Indiana polls. This famous author began her lite-erarv lite-erarv career in the successful writ 'ing for the publishers of short stories. Then she published a number of novels of which "The Man of the H":ir." "The Lion's Share.'' and 1 ' P Inheritance" are the most widely am. In this book of )i,ts we find eleven short stories, all of them ending end-ing well, and nil i if them being ! Told. The stories have appeared hare I tof Ore In various magazines, and are I now collected effectively in book form, The stories are: '"An Adventure Adven-ture in Aliruria:" "Through the Per tors f the Law." The Ttoal Thing:" "The Old Partisan;" ".Max Or ILs Picture:" "The BtOUl Miss Hopkins's Bieyele;" "The Spellbin- , der: " The object of the Federation ' "The Little Lonely ; i r i ; ' ' "The Hero of Company 6," and "A Miracle , Pla." Human nature Stories are found here at their best; and Octave Thane; is the author who is the most certain to touch the heart with her unfailing good humor, sympathy, and keen ,n-sight ,n-sight into human character. FOB LITTLE FOLK. Bate and Birds. Verses bjr .Timi Pop--, Drawln by Charleg RobJn-,T,. H 'm ' aJdwel Company, PuUlsheri, New ; York. This a n vrrr handsome book for lit-tie lit-tie folks, In which the drawing of the bird ia made the final word of the tansa of poetry. The illustrations are handsomely ro!p-ed. and the book ii cer'ain to be an envied possession of 'the little girl or boy who owns it. The arorh throughout by author, illuitrator, and publishers is first-class, It is a charming little hook. THE HOLY RUG. Ti e Cur--' from Bagdad. My Harold afacQrath. With Illustrations bj Andre An-dre Caatalgne. The Bobbe -Merrill Company, Publishers, Indianapolis. This is an extravaganza, somewhat on the order of the Arabian Night-;, hut with modern individuals and mod era setting. The plot is- buili upon the theft of the ..r- and holy prayer mg called " The Holy Ybiordes . " It IS Mt den from the palace of the pasha in Bagdad I'V an American scamp, sold by him to the millionaire hero smuggled into .New Fork by the millionaire's agents, and i- the cause ol' murder, kid naping, and vengeance; ending its terrible ter-rible career al last peacefully and sentimentally as the wedding carpet of the two lovers characterised in the book. Of course, it is the wildest ex travaganza, but Harold afacQrath kn iivs how to make even that sort of thing interesting to the reader and he doe not faii in his deft art in this skillfully-told novel, it is an entertaining enter-taining feat of the imagination) and all is most vividly portrayed. PAPER-BAG COOKERY. Sover's Taner Ilac Cookery. By Mcolas Soyer, Late Chef, Brooks's Club, lon- don. Publisher! Iij BtUrglS V Walton Company, New York. There has been a good deal aid in the newspapers and magazines recently about paper bag cookery. This book e!Js all about it. and Is B full answer to every one's curiosity regarding this new-fangled tad Along with the. book came also the paper bags used in thai cookery, and so we have the whole matter complete. This new system is properly called new and revolutionary. It i said to have had- an immense run in Great Britain and in it colonic-', and it is claimed is )i!.-o- m revolution- I izc cooking the world over. Within a month of publication it is said a hundred hun-dred thousand copies of this book were sold in Bngland, and the paper bag manufacturers claim to be selling 350.-000 350.-000 bags a month to meel the demand caused by the book's exposition of this new form of cooking. Sover, the fa-moua fa-moua chef of Brooks s Club, London, claims to have brought this method to absolute perfection. It. is not any more an experiment, but a complete success The book explains the methods, and gives Sover's recipes, and the bag? an.i the expositions exhibit the complete svslr-ni in practical working shape. WORKS OF DEVOTION. Poems "ocinc the Truth tn Christian Fellowship and Worship By Casslua M Loom is. Reld Publishing Company, Boston. Tins ig a little book of pious poems, well calculated to tear) the devout mind into its proper groove of worship and thankfulness. The author exhibits deep spiritual feeling and fine Christ ia a fervor. The poems, besides being de-vdut, de-vdut, have a good literarv quality. Pilgrimage ol the Magdalen. By Casslua M. Loomls. Reld Publishing; Compan: . boston. This is a book apparently upon the model of Van Dyke's ''The Fourth story of the Career of Judas in Egypt, whence ho is assumed to have fled from l'alestiue. The effort in this pilgrimage is ambitious, but it falls far short of either of the great works sug gested. There is pious merit, in it. how. ever, and as close a following as possible possi-ble of the Scripture texL LITERARY NOTES. The opinion is Widely hold today a.inonp thoughtful men that the teachlnga of Christ had been so confuaed in the passing pass-ing of (line that Ills artnal purpose and the prlnclplea which lie stood for, are now widely mlscone.elv ed. "What Is Christianity?" This la an all-serious question of the present generation thousands and thousands thou-sands of men believe. William Clark, D. D . attempts to answer it in his new hook. "The Ideal of J'-suf." just published pub-lished by Oinrles Bcribner'a Sons, not by any lenjirthy texture Interwoven doctrines, doc-trines, but by troini? bni k to the aource of Chiiatlanlty Christ Hlmaelf and forgetting for-getting nil the nineteen centuries that lie betweena How It came to pass that a German mail-hag and Its contents remained undisturbed un-disturbed for oor three hundred years, and what vscre some of the things re -rently found in it. is told In ;ni article which The Living Ago for September It", reprlnta from Chambers's Journal. it reads Ilk fiction, but it is a true story. Tr. Henry Smith Williams, author of "T he Science of Happiness," agrees with Socrates, Montaigne, and most other practical philosophers in making physical culture an Important f.T:t,,r jn the proo-em. proo-em. How to be happy In his book ho trl s to answer the question of wbut la the bi st single form of Indoor exercise and fixes upon wrestling "It was held In high as teem by the ancient Greeks.1 be writes, "being on.- of the standard sports of their so-called pentathlon and it quickly commends itself to most moderni who try it under favorable conditions. con-ditions. An Ideal bom- in the gymnasium may weit i,r- concluded with u twenty-mJnute twenty-mJnute content on the wrestling-mat, preferahiy nt catcb-as-catch-can style " br. Williams himself ia a robust six-footer six-footer who ke-pw? himself In the pink of condition, despite hla hard labor as a scholar and writer. Among his other works ls "A History of Science." The sad lng article in the Living Age for Sepiemt" r r, "Morocco in Liquidation," Liquida-tion," reprinted from Blackwood's afaga-auae, afaga-auae, pr.-s.-nts a vivid and extremely interesting in-teresting account of the complications out of which the present dangerous situation situ-ation bus arisen. "A New England Maid." hv Buss Pollard, H. M "nldwc)i Boston and New York, is a stirring .-tor. of the u;ir for American Indcpeiub n.-e in winch jU''h hlstorl'-iil rhariu-ters .is Vn.hlng- ton. Major Andre nnrl Benedict Arnold aro Introduced. Th; chief Interest of the story rests with Hannah Arnold ; sister of Benedict, anrl Hie failure of her efforts to save Andre, who by a piece of Mack treachery is betrayed on American soil. The opening article in The Living Ape for Replf in T -"Some T.ilks With Mr. Roosevelt" can hardly fall to attract at-tract wide attention, for it. expresses with astonlahlng freedom the views of the ex-I'reslcjf-r.t regarding the policies of his bui cessor The author Sydney Brooks, 1s one of the most competent and authoritative au-thoritative commentators on American affairs for i he SngHsh reviews, and this article reprinted from the Fortnightly. Fort-nightly. A ven unnauaJ booh by Angela M fCeyea atKi Jessie Wilcox Smith win be published this nionili by Moffat, 'anl & Company. Ft la ealled the "Five Senses" and describes what has been so beautifully beau-tifully called "The Five Windows of th-S-juI." as they have appeared In the prost-und prost-und verse of pre,-tt Writers. It will have Miss Smith'i charming plcturea of ohiM-hood ohiM-hood reproduce i in exquisite coloss to Illustrate the text. Prof4.-.s.sor BSdward AlSWOrth Ross ac-qulred ac-qulred much Of his intenso and nbldlnp fnteresl in the problems? of the Orient during his seven years' residence In California Cali-fornia While a pnjfssor at Leland Stanford Stan-ford university. During the y.-.-ir 1810 he visited Chlnn and spent six months studying Chinese society in all its phase; religion, education. Industry, opium, the position of th-"- Chinese women. During his Investigations hs traveled over ten thousand miles. Professor Ross has summarized sum-marized his SndingS In "The Changing Chinese. ' ilv- first pro::ouiic- nn-nt on China and China's problems by a com- petont representative of the science or sociology. Mir.s Angela M. Keyes of th Brooklyn TraiidiiK School for Ten. -hers has written for the popular "When BfotheT Lets Us" aeries, a book entitled "When Mother Lets I's Play." In the foreword she sh y h, "Crown ups. BS W- as hoys und Klrls. will enjoy pn-sflnc the charades, and what splendid r.torh-s i iin '( t,f to them. sp--allv night. b:forc tin- op"ii e,r, .' It is published this month ly Moffat, Yard at Company, The Hon. Bamuel f. Crawford who whs war governor of Kansas and an officer offi-cer of tin UnkMI forces operating In Missouri, Mis-souri, has written for i;nm-ilale publication publi-cation hy A. C. afcClurg A- CO., hi memories mem-ories Of "Kansax In the BtxtiOS." The PTlod durlnjf which he guided the destinies des-tinies of Kansas was tiu- stormiest la the state's hlsr-rv. a time wh'-n the pioneers pio-neers had to defend tbamseJvea against uvei wbdmlngly stronp bands of Indiana who Stubbornly disputed each White advance, ad-vance, and exacted heavy aaerlnos of white liv-s for every foot of ground ridded ridd-ed to the invaders' dominions His story; is as much concerned with the boglnnlnga of the internal growth of the state and the development of the country as it now siunds. as It Is with the r nianr- of re- claiming It from wilderness. |
