Show BOOKS Th The Spanish In the II It just juat published by br Roia ROJa V y Winterburn From the simplicity of or orthe o othe the Indians through the tho biographies of or o othe the Spanish explorers and the Indol Indolence once ence of their occupation this little sup HUP reader carries curries us down to te the tho American occupation of ot California Tho Thie book bool Is a e story of ot history a II col collection lection of or stories HO so selected and nr or ranged us ua to 10 present pre nt historical charac characteristics and tendencies The fhe narrative while furnishing much useful information Information tion Is simple In lt Itt itS style stylo and attiRe live In Its At the tho th end en enof of or each ench chapter are he questions for The rIte Illustrations are num numerous numeroUs erous and artistic This is one of at the thu series orles of at Eclectic J School Headings S SC i Two Girls In China Is n a i ineat neat book by br Mary II H Krout author of oi Hawaii and a II Revolution Involution etc The rite material for tor this book bool was waft obtained by bytho bytho b tho the writer during several months of ot travel In tn Chino China Just before the Boxer outbreak The greatest grent t pains were tak taken taken taken en to observe ob erve and und record such uch facts as would be Interesting to young loung readers The narrative follows the trip of ot two IWO girls across tho the continent from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York over Oer the tho Pacific ocean and through the northern part of or China Chino It describes tho ho features of or ortho tho the country cOlin try Its products and this the oc or occupations and customs of or the tho people rho Tho book It Is attractively Illustrated and supplies in brief compass compau much useful Information regarding the tho Middle American Book Jook Company N Y YA YA a C C CA A story designed to exhibit the evil consequences of ot a II hInd blind t adherence to tonn toan toan an nn Impossible religious standard A woman trained to be nn an agnostic but of at strong religious Instincts becomes the wife of ot a II professional theologian and partisan of that venerable Confession of ot Faith I which though hd aloft AS ns the standard of ot a great gr lIt church hulth H lii aci nc unity repudiated by b many of or Its pro professed teased followers Natalie Natali Claghorn has no conception of this tithe attitude She Sho assumes n the absolute sincerity of ot other her husband and with the humility of a n conscientious woman who has round found when too late that she Is mis mated mAte strives to accept doctrines which tier her with partisan tudor aidor de lie to be 00 the tho living truth To her conscious of ot the wrong she does bell bellIn In looking lingeringly hack bock upon memories of ot a 11 lost and now forbidden love ore It becomes a II supreme duty to sacrifice wen oven reasoning powers to loyalty to 10 her husband and her hUe hua bands creed c d She will believe In eternal damnation If It the she must and andr if r she cannot compass that will at least not lot doubt her husbands sincerity nut hut with that resolve It Is III borne In upon Ullon her hor that the th believer In hell has hns no 10 right to bring the world orld chil ehli children children dren hen destined to possible eternal nils mis ery try Hence marital complications with vuth tragic result results It Is a daring book ook with Ith no glazing of ot hard facts but ut with reverential treatment nt of re rl religion ligion as distinguished 1 from dogma inch skilful handling of ot which relieve It of or the till taint of or Bug sug The plot l Is complicated but Ut not entangled and of ot absorbing nb Interest There Thore Is excellent character characterization tuni 1111 plenty plent of humor By Borne ome It II will be culled called Immoral others will viii pronounce It moral In a 1 high de do degree defree dotree tree free Though the this story has Its sombre side It ends pleasantly with wedding bells boils |