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Show NEW BOOKS. "The Business Career" is the title of a recent volume from the house of Paul Elder & Company. Albert Shaw, editor of the Amrolcan Review of Reviews, is the author, and the present Interesting Inter-esting book is the first of a series to bo known as the Barbara Wolnstock Lectures on the "Morals of Trade." The subject is treated by Mr. Shaw with a comprehensive grasp, and cannot fail to deeply interest professional men as well as men of business. busi-ness. The busy man of affairs who reads the book will finish it with higher ideals of trade relations and the business life. The following extract gives an indext to the nature of Mr. Shaw's work: "We are not at heart in this splondid country of ours engaged In a mad struggle and race for wealth. We are engaged rather In the greatest effort ever made In the world for the upbuilding of a higher civilization. To avow that this civilization civiliz-ation must rest upon a physical and material basl. that is to say, upon a high development of ou? productive capacity and upon a constant improvement improve-ment in our processes of distribution and exchange, is not,, on the other hand, to confess that our civilization is materialistic in its nature, or in lta aims. & & $ "The Sin of David," Mr. Stephen Phillips's new poetical drama in three acts, is not Biblical, but it follows closely the action of its Old Testament prototype the story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah. The scones are laid in the tlmo of tte English Civil War, among the surroundings of a section of the Parliamentary Army operating In the eastern part of the country. Colonel Mar-dyke, Mar-dyke, a stern old Puritan, is married to a young wife, Miriam, a woman of ardent nature, to whom the greyness and repression of her home are intolerable. in-tolerable. When Sir Herbert Lisle, commander of the Parliamentary forces in Fenland, makes Mardyke's house his military headquarters for a time, he and Miriam fall in love with each other. Just when their love is declared need arises for a commander in a disparate night attack oh the H enemy, which can only result In the death of the H leader. After slight hesitation, Lisle, unknown to H Miriam, sends Mardyke to his death. The incl- H dents of the third act of the play take place five H years later. The poem marks a great advance for jH Mr. Stephen Phillips. . As poetry many of Its pas- H sages take very higli rank indeed; while Its dra- jH matic action Is so strong and clear and impressive H that it will prove a good play for reading as well H as for acting. H iv v tv H "Four children would not read Scott," writes H Mr. S. B. Crockett in explaining why he wrote his H beautiful book, "Red Cap Tales," so I told them H those stories to lure them. to the printed book. ;H Now the Scott shelf in the library has been taken H by storm and escalade. Thereare nightly sklrm- H ishes, oven to the laying on of hands, as to who iH shall sleep with 'Wavorley' under his pillow." Con- H secutlyo stories are told from "Waverley," "ROb H Roy," "The Antiquary," and "Guy Mannering," with M a break here and there while the children discuss H the story just told them from their own point of M view. The book contains sixteen fine colored illus- (H trations, and is the handsomest and most attractive tM of the autumn juveniles. M & ,V5 & H The late Lafcadlo Hoarn's "Japan: An Attempt M at Interpretation" has been welcomed as the ad- H mirable summing up of his life work, and as af- H fording the most subtle and searching oxplana- M tion of the qualities of the modern Japanese which M has appeared. As in his previous books, the vol- jH ume Is written in the most delightful and lllumln- jH ating English. jH |