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The Japanese Nation, Its Land, Its People, and Its Life: With Special Consideration to Its Relations with the United States, by Inazo Nitobe, A. M., Ph. D., Professor in the Imperial University, Tokyo; JapaneseExchange Professor to American Universities.

This book has the good fortune to come from the pen of a scholar and thinker who is not only imbued with the history and the ideals of his own country but who, through his cosmopolitan training and his familiarity with the traditions of other lands, can present the spirit of the East in terms of Western thought and render what might otherwise seem alien and unassimilable, familiar and sympathetic. The book will be a revelation to those who have ill-substantiated notions about the Japanese. The author has been in close touch with the present trend of thought in our own universities regarding the relations and problems confronting the Orient and the Occident and from his viewpoint he makes them clear in a strong and interesting way. It may interest Californians to know that his first lectures in this country on Japan were delivered at the Stanford University. That lecture, a very important one, entitled "Peace Over the Pacific," is in the appendix. A map indicating the great trade routes of the Pacific ocean is inserted.

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, $1.50 net.

"A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill," by Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice.

"A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill," Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice's new novel,

bids fair to approach the success of the earlier works that gave Mrs. Rice fame. In this connection it is interesting to note that those that had thought of Mrs. Rice only as humorist, an opinion based on her first successes, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and "Lovey Mary," today see the fulfilment of the late Richard Watson Gilder's prediction that she would succeed notably when drawing on "a broader canvas." She did not have far to go to find either the "broader canvas" nor the characters with which to people it, for, like "Mrs. Wiggs," the new novel is in her own Kentucky, and, again, like the beloved philosopher of the cabbage patch, is filled with humor of the kind one expects from Mrs. Rice. The central figure, however, is a wildflower heroine who, through misunderstandings due to a series of dramatic incidents, is parted from the man of her choice and weds an elderly scholar. The lover returns to face charges that had been made against him, and there arise complications that confirm Mrs. Rice's skill as a story teller. The restoration of a boy's power of speech is one of the unusual means by which the tangled situation is made straight.

"Kismet!" by Dr. Joseph P. Widney. Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company.

"Dying, but not dead! The Turk is a twentieth century anachronism. His life is in the past. By the waters of the Golden Horn he sits dreaming away the years, heedless of the worldstir about him; and in his dreams he lives for Semitic Islam over again the days of Good Haroun of Bagdad;

while from minaret at evening fall goes out upon the still air as of old the muezzin's cry, Allah il Allah! And the future? "Kismet!!' and he turns again to his dreams.

"Kismet! for he knows the land is not his; and he feels the hour of doom. Islam has ever existed only as an armed camp upon European soil. Its tenure has been that of the sojourner; not the abider. It was so with the Moor in Spain. It is so with the Turk by the Bosphorus. The Turk recognized this uncertain tenure from the beginning, and moved in, rather than built. The churches of Constantine became the mosques of Mohammed, with only the Christian symbols plastered over; and now, after three centuries, the stucco is peeling off, and the Greek inscriptions stand revealed, mutely prophesying of the end."

So reads a bit of prophecy and historic philosophy by Dr. Joseph P. Widney, in his great work on "Race Life of the Aryan Peoples," written and published by Funk & Wagnalls Company before the recent war of the Allies against Turkey began.

Prototypes of Dr. Lavendar in "The Voice," by Mrs. Margaret Deland. Dr. Lavendar, the lovable character of Margaret Deland's "Old Chester Tales" was acknowledged by that author in a recent interview to be a composite of two clergymen whom she had known in her childhood-one her uncle, Dr. William Campbell, president of Rutgers College, and the other Dr. Preston, at one time an Episcopal rector in Pittsburg. As is now generally known, Manchester, a suburb of Pittsburg, was the original of Old Chester. The latest appearance of Dr. Lavendar is in Mrs. Deland's just-published holiday book, "The Voice."

"Memoirs Relating to Fouche." Pub

lished by Sturgis & Walton Co. "Memoirs Relating to Fouche, Minister of Police under Napoleon," which are just published by Sturgis & Wal

ton Company, were first issued in September, 1824, under the title Memoires de Joseph Fouche, duc d'Otrante, ministre de la police generale. Their success was instant. The Memoirs had in fact been written by Alphonse de Beauchamp from autographic notes and authentic documents. This was proven by the numerous details they contained, and which no one but Fouche could have known. The book is an absorbing account of the eventful days of the Directorate, the Consulate and Empire, and is of great historic value and the liveliest and most piquant interest.

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Stories told by Lincoln and anecdotes related about him are prized for their own sakes and for the light they throw upon his character. Of such tales Anthony Gross, an enthusiastic student of Lincoln's life, has made a large and well discriminated collection, contained in the book entitled "Lincoln's Own Stories," published by Harper & Brothers. The storytelling itself is the phase of the President's character perhaps that brings him closest to us, and the stories with the circumstances that gave rise to them are vividly illustrative of the wit, wisdom and resourcefulness that have become permanently associated with his name. So much in the form of anecdote about one man hardly prove readable if the man were might any one except Lincoln; but in Mr. Gross's collection there is a sufficient variety to make continuous reading enjoyable, while every tale or incident is marked by a pungency of humor or greatness of mind which declares its source. Mr. Gross has carefully sifted the true from the false, the unimportant from the really significant; he presents a compilation authentic and practically complete. The anecdotes touch upon every side of his nature and cover every period of his career. There are stories of his boyhood, of his law practice and circuit-riding, of

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his experiences as a country politician, incidents of the debate with Douglas, and finally records of his sayings, his keen judgments sometimes expressed in jest, during the years of terrible strain and responsibility in Washington. Some of these anecdotes are familiar, but they can never be too often retold, and it is no small matter to have them in their true and original form. Of those which are not in common circulation and not likely to be met with in the course of general reading, there is a vastly larger number. It is not too much to say that nearly every reader will find in this book of Gross's much about Lincoln that is new to him and decidedly worthy of attention.

"Comrade Yetta." Published by Mac

millan Co., New York.

Added interest is given to Albert Edwards' new book, "Comrade Yetta," through the garment workers' strike in New York City. Mr. Edwards would seem to have anticipated this upheaval -for his story, which is to be published shortly, is said to be an accurate picture not alone of the conditions which brought about the strike, but of the strike itself. The central character of the book is a garment worker in whose life there is much that is significant and much that bears directly on the big industrial revolt which is creating so much comment at the present time.

Books for All Classes. To be published by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

Books for all classes of readers are found on the list announced for early spring publication by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Fiction is represented by a strong novel of unusual plot, entitled "A Superman in Being," by Litchfield Woods; "The Debt," a lively and thoroughly enjoyable story of South African life, by William Westrupp; and by Samuel W. Odell's "Princess Athura," a brilliant historical romance dealing with events in an

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cient Persia. Kate F. Kimball's “English Cathedral Journey" is a notable addition to the Crowell Travel Stories. For boys there is an informing work on "How to Play Baseball." Dr. Orison Swett Marden has written a new optimistic book, "The Joys of Living," and two attractive volumes on efficiency lines, "The Progressive Business Man" and "The Exceptional Employee." New Thought is summed up in enlightening and convincing fashion by Charles Brodie Patterson in his "What is New Thought?" The list closes with a translation of Karl Mortensen's "Handbook of Norse Mythology," which has gone through many editions in the Danish original and should prove equally popular among students on this side of the ocean.

"The Problem of Christianity." To be published by the Macmillan Co., New York.

Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard University, sailed last week for England, where at Oxford University he I will deliver a series of lectures on "The Real World and the Christian Ideas." These lectures will later be gathered together and those which Dr. Royce delivered before the Lowell Institute on "The Christian Doctrine of Life" added to them, and the whole published in two volumes under the general title, "The Problem of Christianity." The work will probably appear in April.

The author of "A Vagabond Journey Around the World," Harry A. Franck, mailed from Quito December 31st the complete manuscript of his new book, "Zone Foliceman 88," which The Century Co. will publish as soon as it can be put through the press. The new book deals with Franck's experiences as plain clothes policeman and census taker during five months in Panama before starting on his long tramp through the wilds of South America.

"The Island of Beautiful Things," by porter eager to catch the train for the Will Allen Dromgoole.

An author whose art can hold equally the interest of both men and women is an exception, but Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, the brilliant Southern writer, has accomplished this with success in "The Island of Beautiful Things." With delightful precision of vision and style, she gives us a love story of the South. It is the first time she has interpreted this phase of life, and her conception and treatment is decidedly original. Through a little. child a strong "fighting man," who has lost all confidence in human nature, is led to put his trust in humanity once more-and in a woman. The author has developed the story so sympathetically that the book and the people in it will linger long in the the reader's memory.

Illustrated in color by Edmund H. Garrett. Net, $1.23; postpaid, $1.40. Published by L. C. Page & Co., Boston, Mass.

"The Secret of the Clan." A story for girls. By Alice Brown.

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Imagine four girls of fifteen thereabouts, a delightful grandmother with whom they live and who believes that young people should have some secrets and do things their own way, a governess who knows how to dance and how to get up amateur plays, an uncle who wants to appear gruff, but in reality loves the "imps," as he calls his nieces, and you have the fundamentals out of which Miss Brown's wholly absorbing story is built.

Published by The Macmillan Co., New York. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.38.

"A Wanderer in Florence," by Edward V. Lucas.

Mr. Lucas has shown in his wanderings in many lands that he is an intellectual loiterer absorbing the atmosphere of the country and the soul of its people, rather than a keen-eyed re

next stopping place and content with mere diagramatic descriptions. He seems as much at home in Florence as in London, and the illustrations which have distinguished his previous books are as numerous and noteworthy as heretofore.

Published by The Macmillan Co., cloth, 12mo, New York. Decorated $1.75 net; by mail, $1.89. Leather, $2.50 net.

"The Flowing Road," by Caspar Whitney.

Mr. Caspar Whitney when asked recently for a sketch of his life threw up his hands at the idea: "Heavensdon't ask me to write the story of my life. All I can say is I've always been a wilderness wanderer, beginning with my first venture at nine years when I ran away from a Connecticut boarding school, into the woods, where I lived for three days on stray farmer turkeys, while all the school and the country side were looking for me, and finally caught up with me. I was in the saddle for nearly eight years riding and hunting continuously through the Rocky Mountain section from Mexico (and into Mexico) up to and into Canada. I wanted to see the other kinds of wilderness in the world, so I went to the Far East-India, Burma, Siam, East Indies, Malay, etc., and through South America, Mexico, the West Indies and, snow-shoed from the railroad through the Barren Grounds down to the Arctic Coast. My chief interest in all my hunting and wilderness adventuring has not been the hunting-i. e., the killing-but to see the wilderness itself and the wild life in its home."

Those who wish to know more of Mr. Whitney's interesting travels will find great pleasure in reading his latest book, "The Flowing Road," a record of five expeditions into the heart of South America.

Published by the J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

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