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books are circulated, the earlier will dawn the new day which shall bring the recognition of the right of all men to have work to do and just remuneration for their labors, the opportunity to enjoy a home and the pleasures of education and wholesome recreation.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

"The Childhood of Ji-shib the Ojibwa." By Albert Ernest Jenks. Cloth, 130 pp. Price, $1. Madison, Wis.: The American Thresher

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"The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems." By Edwin Markham. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Cloth, stamped in gold. 114 pp. Price, $2 net. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company.

"The Spiritual Significance; or, Death as an Event in Life." By Lilian Whiting. Cloth, 393 pp. Price, $1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

"Dramatis Mortalis." By John Oliver Bellville. Paper, 23 pp. Price, 10 cents. J. O. Bellville, Pearsall, Tex.

"Momentous Issues." By George H. Shibley. Paper. 230 pp. Price, $1. Chicago: Schulte Publishing Company.

"How to Be Attractive and Successful." By Antoinette Van Hoesen. Paper, 17 pp. Price, 20 cents. Chicago: Olivia Publishing Company. "Words That Burn." By Lida Briggs Brown. Cloth, 366 pp. Price, $1.50. Daniel B. Briggs, Utica, N. Y.

"The Ten Commandments: An Interpretation." By Rev. George Chainey. Cloth, 130 pp. Price, 60 cents. Chicago: Stockham Publishing Company.

"Thoughts on Social Problems and Scripture Readings in Verse." By Emma C. Schafer. Cloth, 57 pp. Pasadena, Cal.: E. C. Schafer.

"The Religion of Democracy." By Charles Ferguson. Paper, 160 pp. Price, 50 cents. San Francisco: D. P. Elder & Morgan Shepard. "Fate Mastered, Destiny Fulfilled." By W. J. Colville. 52 pp. Leatherette, 35 cents. New York: T. Y. Crowell.

"Creeds and Religious Beliefs." By John S. Hawley. Cloth, 167 pp. Price, $1. New York: Wilbur B. Ketcham.

"Evolution of Immortality." By Rosicruciæ. Cloth, 145 pp. Salem, Mass.: Eulian Publishing Company.

"Two Men and Some Women." By Walter Marion Raymond. Cloth, 160 pp. Price, $1. New York: The Abbey Press.

"Contending Forces." By Pauline E. Hopkins. Cloth. Illustrated. 402 pp. Price, $1.50. Boston: Colored Coöperative Publishing Company.

"The Religion of Abraham Lincoln." Correspondence between Gen. Charles H. T. Collis and Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. Paper, 24 pp. Price, 25 cents. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.

NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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HE unusual length of some of the contributions to this month's ARENA necessitates an increase in the size of the magazine. The topics discussed are of a degree of timeliness and importance that precludes their curtailment, and we are confident that the extra sixteen pages will be appreciated by our growing army of readers.

Edward Augustus Jenks, A.M., whose portrait forms our frontispiece, is eminently conservative in his presentation of the theological views of a layman of the Congregational Church. His is a long but exceedingly able paper, and should interest the non-Christian rationalist not less than the orthodox devotee. An exhaustive discussion of that ever-popular question, "Are Scientific Studies Dangerous to Religion?" by James T. Bixby, Ph.D., which will appear as the leading article in our next issue, with portrait of the author, will admirably supplement Mr. Jenks's contribution to the current number.

Editor Flower reappears as an essayist this month in the first of a series of papers on "Laying the Foundations for a Higher Civilization," in which an admirable epitome is given of the progress of the nineteenth century, which will be reviewed in our March issue, by the same writer, as the age of utilitarianism.

In "Topics of the Times," Mr. Flower discusses, among other things, the contemporary stage and the modern actor. His observations are a timely rebuke to those apostles of decadence and reaction who prate about the "degeneracy of the drama" and judge the theater only by its abuses. This source of education and enlightenment has never been of greater utility than it is to-day.

One of the most important features of this month's ARENA is Professor Frank Parsons's discussion of municipal ownership of public utilities. This is now a vital topic in American thought, and Prof. Parsons is an undoubted authority on the subject. The queries he answers so lucidly and conclusively, in our "Stoa of the Twentieth Century," embody the most common objections to the proposed reform, and his remarks

constitute probably the strongest paper on the street-railway problem that has appeared in any magazine.

Of especial and peculiar interest, at the beginning of our new chronological epoch, is the Rev. Joseph S. David's paper on "Vibrations, Waves, and Cycles." The author is one of the most thoughtful clergymen of the liberal wing of the Swedenborgian Church, and his references to the teachings of the great Swedish seer must suggest many new thoughts to students of the occult. The attention being paid to matters pertaining to the psychic realm by scholars in various walks of life is one of the most significant developments of modern culture.

The next paper in this series on the New Psychology, to appear in our March number, will be from the able pen of Mr. Henry W. Stratton, who will discuss "The Key-note in Musical Therapeutics." The author, a Bostonian, is an authority on music, not only as an art, but as a philosophy, a science, and a principle of immortal life. This paper is a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge-admirably free from technical phrases.

Miss Kellor's second article, which appears in this issue, will prove suggestive to those who believe that missionary endeavor, like charity, should begin at home. In our next issue this writer will describe some characteristics of the negro criminal-as developed by the State, county, and municipal penal systems and laws of the South.

A number of excellent articles on questions now uppermost in the minds of thoughtful Americans are in preparation for the March ARENA. Worthy of special announcement at this time are: "Organized Charity," by Charles Brodie Patterson; "Farming in the Twentieth Century," by the Rev. E. P. Powell; and "The Army Canteen," by G. A. Marshall.

Editor Patterson will present in his paper some cogent reasons for improvement in benevolent organizations, and will show the fundamental necessity of placing official charity on the same altruistic basis as that on which private benefactions properly rest. This contribution will contain many practically helpful hints to the recipient as well as the bestower of charity, and is designed to encourage optimistic views of life in the mind of every lover of his race by whom it is read.

J. E. M.

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