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out some of special class or calibre or style, and measurably ignore some of the poorer or less literate, who, perhaps, need my assistance more? Am I doing to all these a brother's part, as I would that they should do to me, if our positions were transposed? As the pastor, am I thoughtful of the interests of the brethren? Do I watch out for their liberties? Do I seek to impart to them freely whatever knowledge I possess, or am I trying to hoodwink

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them and to keep them in ignorance, and to hold them down? In a word, am I doing for the Lord's sheep, as an under-shepherd, what I would wish to be done to me by an under-shepherd, if I were one of the Lord's sheep under his care? Or, as one of the Lord's sheep, under a pastoral head, am I seeking by word and act to encourage and assist the pastor, as I would like to have the Lord's people do for me, if I were in pastoral service?

LULLABY

Brown your eyes as the wood-dove's coat,
Bird of Mine!

Sweet your voice as her cooing note,

Bird of Mine!

But your kindred nest at the close o' day,
So hush the voice of your prattling play,
And your drowsy head on my shoulder lay
Bird of Mine.

Red your mouth as the poppy-flower,
Blossom Mine.

Bright your smile as sun through shower,
Blossom Mine.

But flowers ciose, and the star-elves peep,

And they've swung a hammock where you shall sleep,

Woven of moonbeams wide and deep,

Blossom Mine!

The young moon shines o'er my shoulder right,

Luck of Mine!

And I wish for a future brave and bright,

O Luck of Mine!

Sleep for the wish will sure come true,

Sleep! Mother's warm arms cradle you,

And my love shall guard you the long night through,

Dear Luck of Mine.

ELEANOR D. WOOD.

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"The Sword of Bussy; or, The Word of a Gentleman," by Robert Neilson Stephens and Herman Nickerson. With a frontispiece in full color from a painting by Edmund H. Garrett. 512x734, cloth decorative, net, $1.25; postpaid, $1.40. Published by L. C. Page & Company, 53 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

A brilliant romance of France in the sixteenth century, in which Bussy d'Amboise, the brave and impetuous

Reduced frontispiece from "The Sword of Bussy," by R. N. Stephens and Herman Nickerson.

favorite of the Duc d'Anjou, brother of Henri III, and Heloise de Maucourt, are the chief figures.

"Christ Among the Cattle," a sermon; preached in the First Congregational Church, Portland, Or., by Frederick Rowland Marvin; sixth edition, revised and corrected. This is one of the most effective anti-vivisection arguments extant, a classic of its kind, to be associated in its mission with "Black Beauty" and "Rab and His Friends." It is effective. because written with the authority of personal knowledge trained to accurate observation through the author's education as a doctor of medicine. The use and abuse of vivisection and its supposed benefits to humanity no one is better qualified than Dr. Marvin to set forth. This powerful little volume has won wide commendation, and is already entering upon its sixth edition. John G. Whittier, Goldwin Smith, Moncure D. Conway, John Burroughs and Robert Collyer have spoken warmly in its favor.

A handsome little gift book.

Cloth, 12mo., 60 cents net; by mail, 65 cents. Sherman, French & Co., Boston.

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"The Art Treasures of Washington," by Helen W. Henderson, with sixtyfour illustrations in duogravure. 6x834, cloth decorative, boxed, net, $3; three-quarters morocco, boxed, net, $6. Postage 25 cents extra. Published by L. C. Page & Company, 53 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Miss Hendson's account includes the famous Corcoran Gallery, a description of those portions of the Freer collection which have been exhibited publicly, the National Gallery, placed by Congress in the care of the Smith

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Facsimile illustration from "The Art Treasures of Washington," by

Helen W. Henderson.

sonian Institute, which includes curios and articles gathered from all parts of the world, as well as the other public and important private collections of the city of Washington.

"Old Chinatown," a Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe, with text by Will Irwin.

Since Dr. Genthe has taken up his new art quarters in New York he has

issued a new edition of his famous photographs depicting the most attractive scenes and characters in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco. The pictures tell, as no other pictures do, the story of daily life in this old Oriental quarter we all knew so well before the great fire of 1906. A new Chinatown has risen with modern structures on the ruins of the old, and has almost effaced the peculiar Oriental charm and alluring spirit of the by-gone days. Dr. Genthe's sympathetic nature caught this spirit with his camera, and there is no collection of pictures like his to tell the story of every-day life in the Chinatown that was. From the pen-point, Will Irwin was as familiar with the section as was Dr. Genthe with his camera, and with an illuminating text he makes clear to the reader the descriptions of the places not covered by the camera. Between them they have produced a book on the old San Francisco Chinatown that is a treasure of its kind.

"The Story of a Good Woman" (Jane Lathrop Stanford), by David Starr Jordan. 12mo; 60 pages; 75 cents net; by mail, 80 cents. Published by American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

This book will be of special interest to Californians, and indeed to all residents of the Pacific Coast who have taken even an indirect interest in the success of the Stanford University. Mrs. Stanford co-operated with her husband, Leland Stanford, exGovernor of California, and one of the famous quartet of builders of the Central Pacific Railroad, in founding and endowing that institution with an immense fortune, in memory of their only son, who died in his early youth. Dr. Jordan terms Mrs. Stanford "one of the bravest, wisest, wisest, most patient, most courageous and most devout of all the women who have ever lived." The reader will understand this praise when he learns from these pages something of the history of the founding of Stanford University, the great vicissitudes of its early years,

and the devotion of Mrs. Stanford to it when success seemed impossible. It furnishes a glimpse of a life dominated by the spirit of love and selfsacrifice, and sets forth before the reader a high ideal of American womanhood. It is the story, as the author states early in his narrative, of "the six dark years from eighteen ninety-three to eighteen ninety-nine, those days in which the future of a university hung by a single thread, but that thread the greatest thing in the world-the love of a good woman. If for an instant in all these years this good woman had wavered in her purpose, if for a moment she had yielded to fear or even to worldly wisdom," the university would now be only a memory. It is a stirring record.

"Unseen Empire," by David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University. 12mo; 211 pages; $1.25 net; by mail, $1.32. Published by American Unitarian Association, Boston, Mass.

Several years ago Dr. Jordan began the study of the "eugenics of war," the results of which have been set forth in "The Human Harvest." The author soon found it necessary, however, to supplement this study with a still broader one that might be termed "the euthenics of war," or the non-hereditary effects of the financial impoverishment of the rank and file of the people by the cost of war and war armaments. "Unseen Empire" is a preliminary survey of the elements involved in this subject. Dr. Jordan shows that civilized nations are all in their degree under the domination of a power stronger than kings or parliaments, more lasting than armies or navies, the unseen Empire of Finance. He further shows that this mastery is not now in the hands of individual men, however powerful, but that it has passed over into an impersonal Empire of Debt, an "unseen empire" that can to a certain, and perhaps to a large, degree sway the destinies of nations. The method, if not the exact extent of it, is here told.

IN THE REALM OF BOOKLAND.

"Serena and Samantha: Being a Chronicle of Events at the Torbolton Home," by Rosa Kellen Hallett. Cloth; 8vo; $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35. Published by Sherman, French & Co., 6 Beacon St., Boston, Massachusetts.

Have you ever met Mrs. Serena Dodd and Mrs. Samantha Wells of the Torbolton Home? From time to time they have made their appearance in the pages of The Youth's Companion, and thousands of its readers know and love them. Mrs. Dodd is usually the moving spirit in her little world. According to her own testimony, own testimony, "Didn't darst and Sereny Dodd wa'n't never near neighbors!" Her roommate, gentle little Mrs. Wells, is a hopeful, trustful soul. "That's Samanthy! Things open right up before her!" declares Mrs. Dodd. The lifelike situations, sometimes semi-tragic, but for the most part deliciously amusing, make a universal appeal. a universal appeal. The old ladies themselves might be your own grandmother or the elderly lady next door. Live in the past? Not a bit of it! Sail with them to Ageram Point and get Mrs. Dodd to show you how to eat clams at a real Rhode Island clam-bake. Come to Class Day with them. Share Mrs. Dodd's career as a director of "Ye Clothed Me" Society. And as you follow their many "doings," you will admit that a more live and happy and interesting group of people was never assembled.

"A Free Lance," by Frederic Rowland Marvin, author of "Love and Letters," "The Excursions of a Book Lover," "The Companionship of Books," etc. Cloth, 8vo; 200 p.; $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35. Published by Sherman, French & Company, 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

To people who take pleasure in independent thinking backed by finished. scholarship both in the school of books and in that harder school of experience from which, though a fool may. learn much, the wise man learns infinitely more, Frederic Rowland Marvin's opinions are as welcome as they

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are interesting. During the years that he has been writing there have been many stray bits of wit and wisdom that have not fitted into any of his published works-jottings on many subjects from politics to religionthat are, nevertheless, far too good to be lost. These gleanings have been thoroughly winnowed by the winds of Time and the grain is here harvested. Some of the topics treated in brief essays and paragraphs are "The Shadow," "Freedom in Married Life,” "The Sharp Edge of Mercy," "Theology and Physical Condition," "A Buttonless Philosophy," "Ye Olde Booke Man," "Manners," "No Long Poem," "Seneca's Pilot," "A Perfect Temperament," "Our National Emblem," "Pharmacy," "The Agnostic," "A Brazen Jackass," "English Rule in America," "Minor Poets," "The Bull Moose in Greek." Mention of the book would be incomplete without a fragment or two from his "Mosaics":

"No one ever recovered a lost faith by advertising for it." "Good-natured mediocrity is like an old slipper: one wears it when he has nothing better, and he is sure to find it wonderfully comfortable."""Live with the gods,' wrote Marcus Aurelius; but that must I think, depend somewhat upon the willingness of the gods to live with us." "I am not averse to hearing a man discourse about himself, if only he will make that self worthy of discourse."

One may not always agree with the author, but it is impossible not to enjoy him.

"Into the Light," by Edward Robeson

Taylor. Paper boards; 12mo; $1.00 net; by mail, $1.10. Published by Sherman, French & Co., 6 Beacon

street, Boston, Mass.

The many California friends of Dr. Taylor will gladly welcome this last offering of his muse. offering of his muse. Busy as Dr. Taylor has always been in his multitudinous affairs, civic, legal, scientific, business, social and literary, he has always pressed Father Time so closely as to exact sufficient moments to com

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