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IN THE REALM OF BOOKLAND.

so stopped a case of blackmail by pigeon-wireless; but Jack London's telling keeps the reader absorbed and leaves him with no sense of improbability. Fragments of the author's own experiences in wild parts of the world are evidently woven into some of the stories; and they all have London's vivid and vital telling. It is a book which every admirer of London will want.

Price, $1.25 net, postage extra. Published by The Century Co., Union Square, New York.

"The Shadow," by Arthur Stringer.

This is an engrossing story of a great detective and his great case; but it is more than that-it is the record of an absorbing passion of pursuit, a chase which took so relentless a grip upon the mind of the pursuer that it outlasted even the memory of the crime for which he tracked his quarry to the kill. With the tenacity of the bulldog and the unerring instinct of the bloodhound, the "shadow," Detective Blake, pursues a counterfeiter all over the world in a chase of wild daring and peril-through the dives of the East and the dens of Naples and Southern France; to Panama and revolution shaken South American republics, and back to the States again; here picking up a clue, there coming within trailing distance of his man, and again losing him in the mazes of the underworld. Two of the foremost secret-service men in the United States have aided Mr. Stringer in portraying police methods and the life of that branded class who are "wanted" by the law. It is an exciting adventure story, powerfully told, with a finely dramatic ending.

12mo., 302 pages. Price, $1.25 net, postage extra. Published by The Century Co., Union Square, New York.

"The Rocket Book, Pictorial Nonsense," by Peter Newell.

The joyous pictorial nonsense of Peter Newell, which SO fascinated young and old in those merry inven

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tions, "The Hole Book" and "The Slant Book," takes a new and unexpected form in the recently published "Rocket Book." The rocket set off in the basement of an apartment house of many stories by the mischievous son of the janitor has adventures in its penetrating upward flight such as only Peter Newell would be likely to conceive and only he could illustrate. Certainly Mr. Newell has a gift that makes him, like Edward Lear and a few others, a master of pure nonsense. His work has the childlike quality, the quaint and plausible ingenuity, the whimsical humor that cannot be imitated or acquired by taking thought. One does not pretend to know how these things are done. Something a little too grotesque in the drawings, something a little to lifelike in them, some subtle violation of the nonsense spirit in which they are conceivedand the charm would be gone. But of this there is no danger so long as Mr. Newell makes the pictures and writ s the verses. "The Rocket Book" will appeal to the sense of fun of readers of all ages in the way that gave "The Hole Book" and the "Slant Book" so much more than a juvenile popularity.

Published by Harper & Bros., Franklin Square, New York.

"Trees in Winter," by Albert F. Blakeslee, Professor of Botany and Director of Summer School at the Connecticut Agricultural College, and Chester D. Jarvis, Horticulturist of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. Illustrated.

This book gives the needed information in regard to the kinds of trees to select for different purposes, where to locate them, when and how to plant them, how to take care of and protect them from insects, fungus and other injuries. It also gives the means of identification of all the more familiar trees, both wild and cultivated, in Northeastern America. Chapters on the methods of tree study and on the life and growth of trees will add to the value of the book for use in

schools. The title emphasizes the fact that trees usually should be handled only in their dormant or winter condition. To one unacquainted with the subject, the title might seem to confine the usefulness of the book to the months of December, January and February; winter, as the authors use the term, is not defined by the human calendar; it is that period when the tree is in its resting condition. Such exceptional treatment as spraying for leaf diseases are fully discussed. Ten full page plates and over one hundred text illustrations elucidate the text.

Cloth, 12mo., $2 net; postpaid, $2.16. Published by Macmillan Co., New York; orders to Blakeslee & Jarvis, Storrs, Conn.

"The Price of Inefficiency," by Frank Koester.

The book claims to lay bare in searching analysis, and startling deductions national ills and weaknesses due to inefficiency, governmental, or non-governmental, and largely responsible for the high cost of living and other harsh conditions. It stands also for specific remedies for the staggering cost, admittedly amounting to millions annually, of avoidable waste. The author, an engineer of international reputation, and now an American citizen, writes, not as an outsider, but as one who has cast his lot here. His treatment shows the analytical mind of the scientist and the philosophical breadth of the thinker. Comparisons with the methods and results of other countries give force and point to both his constructive and destructive criticism.

Published by Sturgis & Walton Co., New York.

"Why I Am Opposed to Socialism." Original Papers by Leading Men and Women, edited by Edwin Silvin. The author has gathered the views of some seventy authors, college professors, lecturers, reformers, ministers, journalists, lawyers and scientists of this country and condensed

them into less than a page each, literally the bones of their reasons for being opposed to socialism.

Price, paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. P. O. Box 963. Sacramento, California.

"Art in Egypt," by G. Maspero, Director-General of Antiquities in Egypt.

This volume, in the compact little "General History of Art Series," published by the Scribners, is the only complete history and description of the arts of Egypt. And its six hundred odd tiny illustrations form the largest collection of the kind ever assembled in a work on the subject. It is divided into three parts: The Beginnings of Art in Egypt, Theban Art, and the Saite Age and the End of Egyptian Art. The first is divided into Thinite Art and Memphite Art; the second, into the First Theban Age from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Dynasty, and the Second Theban Age from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Dynasty. The third is followed by an excellent index. The author says in his preface: "I have tried as far as possible to reproduce and to appreciate only things I have myself seen and handled, and the good fortune which made me twice the director of the service of antiquities has greatly facilitated my task. . . . Egyptian art is no longer the exclusive domain of a privileged few. Artists-painters, sculptors, architects-blind at first to its merits, have come of late years to perceive and feel them keenly; the admiration it inspires increases with. closer study."

New Scribner Publications.

Price Collier, Henry James, James Huneker, William T. Hornaday and Linda Hull Larned are among the most notable writers who contribute works of non-fiction to the spring list of Charles Scribner's Sons. Henry James' book, called "A Small Boy and Others," is concerned with his own childhood and that of his brother, William James. Price Collier's new book

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is "Germany and the Germans," a presentation of that nation as sharp and clear-cut as "England and the English." James Huneker contributes "The Pathos of Distance," a series of studies of artists, writers and current questions, in his familiar style. The title of Mr. Hornaday's book, "Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation," sufficiently explains its nature. Mrs. Larned's book, "The New Hostess of To-Day," comprises the substance of her earlier earlier work, "The Hostess of ToDay," but it is actually, if not technically, a new work, very much larger than the other and brought thoroughly up to date.

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and the aptness of this quotation emphasizes the author's own aptitude and judgment in both the subject matter of this group of poems and their range and treatment as well. Into her quatrains bearing such titles as "Experience," "Ambition," "Insomnia,” “A Prayer to Fate," are condensed a fresh point of view or a whole philosophy of life, while “Evening Song," "A Spring Song," or "German Slumber Song," touch the sweetness and sorrow of a poet's reveries. Poems of optimism and hope add their notes of goodcheer to the author's message, which will appeal to "him who a sermon flies!"

Paper boards, 12mo. Price, 75 cents net; by mail, 80 cents. Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston, Mass.

"Carola Woerishoffer: Her Life and Work."

College professors, directors of colleges, eminent publicists, prominent settlement workers, labor union leaders, and industrial workers of New

York, have joined to make this little book a modest tribute of appreciation of the noble and helpful character of Carola Woerishoffer, who, as a simple volunteer, joined the cause "to

"James Fenimore Cooper," by Mary learn and to help" improve social conE. Phillips. Illustrated.

As a monumental record of the man, James Fenimore Cooper, this volume will prove itself invaluable, for Miss. Mary E. Phillips has obtained permission from some members of the Cooper family to use excerpts from letters, portraits and pictures which have never before left their hands.

Published by John Lane Company, New York.

"A Little Book of Verse," by Leila Peabody.

Miss Peabody, who is the niece of former Governor James H. Peabody of Colorado, and a gifted contributor to the Colorado press, quotes from Geo. Herbert on her title page: "A verse may catch him who a sermon flies,"

ditions in Manhattan. Miss Woerishoffer entered the settlement and labor movements shortly after she had graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Thereafter all the energy of her intense character was devoted to ameliorating industrial injustice. She rendered substantial work in investigating the horrible Triangle fire, in the shirt waist strike, in gathering practical evidence required by the Consumers' League in its searching investigations. As Miss Woerishoffer was very wealthy, she was able to render assistance to the cause in great and almost hopeless crises, all in an effacing Christian spirit. Her tireless labor "to learn and to help" was cut short in an automobile accident while making important investigations for the

Bureau of Industries and Immigration. Ida Tarbell has written a sympathetic appreciation as an introduction to the little volume.

Published by the class of 1907 of Bryn Mawr College, Miss Foster, Greenwich House, 26 Jones street, New York.

"The Life and Letters of William Cobbett in England and America." By Lewis Melville.

This biography is based mainly upon unpublished correspondence, gathered from many sources, including letters to Queen Caroline, Joseph Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Pitt and many others. This is the first exhaustive

"The Violet Book." By D. Allen- biography of a man who, "born at the Brown.

Two young women, who have made wonderful experiments with their violet nurseries, give us, in this little manual, the garnered wisdom of about nine years of work as violet growers. They have elaborated a kind of violet calendar, noting the operations to be carried out on the violet farm throughout the months. The book has the

charm of perfect simplicity and direct

ness, and the value of the first essential for a theoretical treatise-knowledge born of practical experience and effort. Illustrated with ten plates in color. Published by John Lane Co., New York.

"The Mystery of the Barranca," by Herman Whitaker, author of "The Planter."

A story of present-day Mexico, mirroring the resentment felt by the Mexicans at the advent of the gringo and his methods. Two young American engineers developing a mine are in constant danger from their neighbors, which is not lessened by the interest that the niece of a rich landowner takes in them. The breaking of the great Barranca dam brings all the influences for and against the foreigners to a climax.

plough-tail," raised himself to a position from which for years he exercised an influence as far-reaching as that of any personage in the kingdom.

In two volumes, with two photogravures and numerous other illustrations. Published by John Lane Company, New York.

Important Books of 1912.

On the American Library Association's just issued list of most important books of 1912-from the standpoint of desirability of purchase for the small library-are included Helen Nicolay's "Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln," Jean Webster's "Daddy Long Legs," Alice Hegan Rice's "A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill," and Jack London's "Smoke Bellew."

"The Story of Panama."

The Century Company is soon to publish "The Story of Panama." The author is Farnham Bishop, son of the Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission; and the book is written therefore with authority. The book gives not only the detailed story of the present vast undertaking, but the interesting history of the canal zone up to the time the United States began work

Published by Harper & Brothers, there. The complete and readable New York. narration will be lavishly illustrated.

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