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dom of the Medes and Persians reached its zenith of power and glory. It is with the stormy time preceding the union of these two brilliant young people, when the country groaned under the rule of Cambyses, that this spirited historical novel principally Ideals. It is told in the course of the plot how the brutal monarch caused the death of his brother and sister, and tried to do away with the Prince of Iran and the Princess Athura. One of the best incidents in the work is the latter's escape by night from the royal palace and her thrilling ride, disguised as a boy, across country to the prophet Daniel, who figures prominently in the book. Other portions to be specially mentioned are the vivid descriptions of battle scenes, the graphic accounts of miracles performed by the Magians with whom the King surrounded himself, and the history of the conflicts between rival religious factions. All of the work is historically accurate and conveys a striking conception of a critical period in ancient Persia. The book ranks well up among first-class historical novels.

Colored frontispiece; 12mo, cloth, $1.25 net; postage 12 cents. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.

"Why They Fail," by Rev. A. T. Robinson, A. M.

The author discusses frankly ethical questions regarding the young that are of vital interest to those having the welfare of the Church and the State at heart. He attacks his problem in practical fashion, and works to a conclusion that should cause the serious minded of the land to pause and ponder. At the conclusion, he asks: "If it be true that we have in our church work largely failed to turn out a man who is ethically fit as tested in the market place; if the failure be due to an oversight-the failure to provide for the proper expression of ethical emotions and ideas in the young; if it be possible to provide

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such channels of expressions; if the Industrial Guild of the Great Commission be one of such channel, admirably adapted to the requirements of about two-thirds of the population concerned; if there be financial possibilities in that institution far beyond its own requirements; and if the imperative need of the hour be larger means for the 'unprecedented advance' through the open doors set before us in every land, what, we ask again, are we going to do about all this? That question the author leaves with the Church and Society at large. He feels that he has thus far done his little part and discharged his moral obligations to the world as a man in connection with what has seemed, to him at any rate, a matter of the very deepest concern to the life of the Church and the world. The essential thing for every man is to find out what seems the right thing for him to do and then to do it. Having done this, the results belong to God."

"Guide to Sex Instruction." A comprehensive Guide to Parents, by Prof. T. W. Shannon, A. M.

The author has taken up a subject that is attracting much attention in schools and homes and his theories of education and information along these lines follows more or less the practical forms now being advocated by the leaders of the movement. He sounds the key note of warning against the prevailing ignorance of the laws of sex, and illustrates his methods of instructing parents as well as child

ren.

In cloth, price $1.50. Published by the S. A. Millikin Co., Marietta, Ohio.

In the early spring an entirely new creation is promised from the press of Funk & Wagnalls Company, in their New Standard Dictionary of about 3,000 pages, on which a large force of editors and specialists have been engaged for nearly four years past. It is said to be the greatest single literary work ever produced in the world.

Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, with Prof. J. T. Lauck, author of "The Immigration Problem," lately transferred his connection from Cornell University to the College of the City of New York, and is frequently heard at important gatherings in and near the metropolis on questions of civic and political interest. A new and revised edition of his "Immigration" book is in preparation and will be issued soon. The scholarship of the country is actively studying this great problem, and expresident Eliot of Harvard, only a few days ago, told a large audience at the Twentieth Century Club in Boston that unmarried male immigrants should be restricted to 15 per cent of the entire number of foreignborn admitted to the United States. Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, on the same occasion, urged that only married men, accompanied by their families, should enter the country as immigrants.

Mr. Farnham Bishop has already engaged passage on the first ship going gaged passage on the first ship going through the Panama Canal. His new book, "Panama Past and Present," is full of information about this gigantic enterprise, how it is being built, why it is a canal with locks instead of one dug down to sea level, how Uncle Sam is playing housekeeper and caterer to 65,000 people, and with an authoritative statement of Panama history which sets right many popular misconceptions. The book was written more especially for wide-awake lads. of fifteen or sixteen, but it has just the information grown-up readers want,

too.

Published by The Century Club. New York.

According to the authors of "Decisive Battles of America." the sentiment which preceded the Mexican war would seem to differ from that of today, in that the proposed war was then a popular movement both in the United States and Mexico. Just sixtysix years ago, American transports

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