LULLABIES AND SLUMBER SONGS. By Lincoln Hulley, Ph.D. Cloth, 116 pp. Price, 80 cents. Philadelphia: John Wanamaker.

This dainty little volume contains ninety-seven lyrics. They are poems that will appeal to all lovers of lullabies and slumber songs, being chaste, delicate, and highly poetic. The easy-flowing rhythmic quality of many of these lays will sing itself into the reader's mind. Here are some typical lines:

Sleep, little darling-the day is done;

Darkness steals down from the dusky skies;

Crickets are calling, the night dews are falling,

And sleepy stars blink with their pretty bright eyes.

Bluebells are tolling in elfin lay,

Telling of dreamland and slumber sweet;

List to their chiming and rhythmical rhyming;
Summer is golden and gladsome and fleet.

Moonbeams are woven in tangled webs,
Veiling the mist in the baby's eyes;

Slowly he's sinking, his drowsy eyes blinking-
The zephyrs have borne him to dreamy skies.

The reader of this book will frequently be reminded of some of the popular work of the late Eugene Field.

SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD. By Charles Elmer Jenney. Cloth, 126 pp. Price, $1.00. Illustrated with 22 full-page illustrations. Fresno, Cal. Fresno Republican Publishing Company.

This is a pleasing volume of simple poems, largely reminiscent in character, and dealing with the beauties of rural New England life as scenes of childhood haunt the memory of maturity. The book is rendered very attractive by more than twenty full-page reproductions of highly artistic photographs.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

"Songs of North and South." Poems. By Walter Malone. Cloth, 103 pp. Louisville: John P. Morton & Co.

"Light on the Deep: A Tale of To-day." By George Henry Grafton. Paper, 128 pp. Price, 25 cents. Washington: The Neale Company.

"Solaris Farm: A Story of the 20th Century." By Milan C. Edson. Paper, 447 pp. Price, 50 cents. Published by the author, 1728 New Jersey Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.

"English Spelling." By George D. Broomell. Paper, 27 pp. Price, 10 cents. Chicago: The Ben Franklin Co.

"Death and the Future State." By S. H. Spencer. Cloth, 134 pp. Germantown, Pa.: Swedenborg Publishing Association.

"Selections from George MacDonald; or, Helps for Weary Souls." Compiled by J. Dewey. Cloth, 93 pp. Chicago: Francis L. Dusenberry. "Municipal Public Works." By Ernest McCullough. Paper, 157 pp. Price, 50 cents. Published by the author, Lewiston, Idaho.

"Le Roman D'une Pussie Chat." By Frederick Rogers, D.C.L. Cloth, 255 pp. Detroit: American Publishing Co.

"Limitations of Learning, and Other Science Papers." By Albert Schneider, M.D., Ph.D. Cloth, 100 pp. Price, $1.25. Chicago: Medical Book Co.

"The Word and Its Inspiration." Vols. I. and II. Price, $1 each. Germantown, Pa.: Swedenborg Publishing Association.

"The Molecular Hypothesis of Nature." By Prof. F. M. Lockwood. Paper, 57 pp. Chicago: F. M. Lockwood.

"The Spiritualism of Nature." By F. M. Lockwood. Paper, 43 pp. Chicago: F. M. Lockwood.

"The Wedding Night." By Ida C. Craddock. Paper, 24 pp. Price, 50 cents. Published by the author, 1838 California St., Denver, Colo.

"Right Marital Living." By Ida C. Craddock. Paper, 45 pp. Price, 50 cents. Published by the author, 1838 California St., Denver, Colo. "Vaccination a Curse." By J. M. Peebles, A.M., M.D., Ph.D. Cloth, 326 pp. Battle Creek, Mich. : Temple of Health Pub. Co.

"Aus Zwei Welten." (German) Poems, by Berthold Kalfus. Paper, 115 pp. Published by the author, Denver, Colo.

"Tales from Town Topics." March number. Paper, 50 cents. New York: Town Topics Publishing Co.

"The King of Honey Island." By Maurice Thompson. Cloth. Illustrated. 343 pp. Price, $1.50. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.

"One American Girl." By Virginia Webb. Paper, 382 pp. Price, 50 cents. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.

"Three Men and a Woman." By R. H. P. Miles. Cloth, 290 pp. Price, $1.50. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.

"In Re Molineaux versus a Current Cagliostro." By Michon de Vars. Illustrated. Cloth, 139 pp. Price $3. Providence, R. I.: Arthur W. Brown, Publisher, 719 Industrial Building.

NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

HE portrait of Prof. George D. Herron that forms the frontispiece of this issue is a reproduction of a very recent photograph taken especially for THE ARENA'S use. Public teachers who have the courage of their convictions are so rare in our modern day that we are always glad to acquaint our readers with the personality and views of such heroic souls. The admirable character sketch of Dr. Herron that the Rev. Wm. T. Brown contributes to this number is scarcely less luminous than the outline of "The New Social Apostolate" presented in Editor Patterson's interview with this most interesting apostle of the new economic ideals.

A feature of equal significance and importance in the advancement of American civilization is the symposium introduced by Editor Flower on "An Army of Wealth-creators vs. an Army of Destruction." The six recognized authorities who comment, from widely different standpoints, upon the propositions suggested in the theme epitomize the progressive thought of our era. The new-century recrudescence of militarism that, if not checked, bodes ill for our Republic in the mistaken ideas it is inculcating concerning what rightly constitutes a "world power" among nations renders this consensus of opinions very timely and instructive. The subject is enlarged upon by Mr. Flower in his "Topics of the Times," and every friend of THE ARENA should take pains to circulate this issue among the slaves of the imperialistic delusion and cynical commercialism that are characteristic of recent American thought and activity. The opening article, by Judge Doster, will prove especially impressive to those to whom only the sordid pecuniary aspect of our Philippine departure has appealed.

During the last few months we have given much space to discussions of religious topics, for THE ARENA is convinced that the spiritual element is the vital one in all forward movements; but that the theological incrustation of modern

orthodoxy-in its many contradictory phases of lukewarmness -is militating against the evolution of the loftiest ideals in the world of economics and government, is plainly set forth in Editor Patterson's article, "The Parting of the Ways," which should be brought to the attention of every clergyman in the land.

Another subject to both sides of which this magazine has yielded most hospitable treatment is Christian Science. The doctrines of the cult founded by Mrs. Eddy have been discussed, pro and con, by many able writers in these pages; but our next issue will contain two articles on the affirmative side that may be regarded as the most dispassionate and authoritative presentation of what Christian Scientists really believe and teach that has yet appeared outside the orthodox channels of the sect. The first is from the pen of John B. Willis, A.M., a well-known scholar of Boston, and discusses the relation of Christian Science to some present-day problems of religious thought; the second is entitled "Its Premise and Conclusions," by Alfred Farlow, the accredited press representative of the church.

The third essay of Editor Flower's series on "A Higher Civilization" will appear in our July number, bearing the title, "Physical Science in the Nineteenth Century." It will be preceded, in the June number, by Dr. Charles R. Keyes's contribution on "Geology in the Twentieth Century"-two papers that well illustrate the onward march of modern science in recent decades.

A conversation with Wm. T. Stead, the distinguished editor of the English Review of Reviews, will be another striking feature of our June issue. The subject is "England's Crime in South Africa," which will be accompanied by a portrait and character sketch from the pen of Editor Flower.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.-Friends of THE ARENA will please note that The Alliance Publishing Company will remove its business, on or about May 1st, to 63 West Forty-fifth street, New York, where it has leased commodious offices in a recently built addition to "The Schuyler."

J. E. M.