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torial control of Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve-
land, sister of the President 1t is this
number which the New York jFo{d the
other day reproduced in its pages, in full,
feat we do not recall the parallel of. The
magazine is of 46 pages, neatly printed,
compact and without any waste of space
The articles are, Biography of Paul II.
Hayne "twith portrait, by E. S. L. Thomp-
son " One of Haynes Poems" "Soli-
tude,' by John Burroughs; he Riding
of Sir Harold, poem by Clinton Scollard !;
:" The Risks Of Authorship by Maurice
Thompson; No Perfect Work but Gods"
poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe "The
Novel," a limited biography, by Pro-
fessor David Swing; Quatrain Sirius"
-" The Oubliettes of Chillon, by Margaret
Charles j. OMalley; Among the
omahas," by Alice Fletcher; "a Sum
mers Silence, poem, by Rebecca Peiley
Reed; Portraits of Authors, Collected
from Carlisle's Works" by Susan Coleridge
Editorially Miss Cleveland talks of East
and West, Miss Fletcher's work among the
Indians, studies of Dante and Goethe, the
Audubon Society, and the magazine and
its plans. In her editorial columns there
is not much of vigor except in the article
on the Audubon Society, in which she
enters vigorous protest against the de-
struction of birds to feed the within of fash
ion for their plumage. 1t is scarcely fair
to judge of Miss Cleveland's possibilities
by this initial effort in editorial manage
ment. There is a tint of the amateurish
about her method and an unevenness in
her diction, a lack of confidence in self,
something of timidity, that reveals the be-
ginner in a new field. But we prefer to
see this than oyer-boldness and boasting
and pompous promise. The critical skill
exercised in passing upon the matter TO ap-
pear reveals more of ability in Miss Cleve-
land than her editorial writings She has
selected well, and the present contents of
Literary Life speak well for the future
Of the magazine.
Men, Women and Gods and other lee
lures by Helen Ii. Gardener opens with an
introduction by Colonel Robert G. Inger-
soil. The title of the work and the we'll
known beliefs of Colonel Ingersoll clearly
indicate the radically liberal character of
the book of the author. Colonel Ingersoll
says: The writer of this little volume has
read the Bible with open eyes. The mist
of sentimentality has not Clouded her
vision. She has had the courage to tell the
result of her investigations. She has been
quick to discover contradictions. She ap-
preciates the humorous side of the stupidity
solemn = 81 $ No human being can all
swer her arguments. There is no answer.
All the priests in the world cannot explain
away her objections" 1t will suffice to say
that while the text of the book in no wise
is to be compared with the graceful wit AID
trenchant humor of Colonel Ingersoll, it
does not fall whit below his works of as
sault upon the Bible and the church. In
this respect it frequently approaches the
gross, and at all times is remarkably plain
spoken and vigorous and scathlng IN as
sault upon the Bible, the church and what
is termed theological ictions p" and
upon Christianity generally. The chief aim
of Miss Gardener appears to be to prove
that of all others women should have least
respect for the religion of Christianity, on
the ground that all its Biblical and church
history has been marked by the degradation
of woman. She is especially bitter upon
the doctrine of vicarious atonement as I'M
Just, weakening and corrupting, because,
she holds, 1T arranges for q man to be
criminal and TO escape the consequences of
his crime. destroys personal responsibility
and is contrary to every moral principle"
Truth Seeker Company, New York; Sacra-
mento, c. S. Houghton.
From 4. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francis
co, we have Harper & Bros (New York.
issue of an octave volume entitled Boiling
broke, a historical study, and Voltaire in
England" by John Churton Collins. 1t
gives the political and literary life of Lord
Bolingbroke, ard an account of his life in
exile. These chapters are followed
by three on Voltaire's stay in Eng
land, from June, 1726, to March,
1929. 1t is a new chapter in the
literary history of the eighteenth century.
hp in iall
contributed to the Quarterly Rerielu and to
the C0rnhW Magazine. Both series of essays
have been carefully revised; to both series,
but particularly to the second, considerable
additions have been made. They have
been collected in a volume because the
author thinks that they throw light on two
singularly interesting episodes in the po-
litical and literary history of the eighteenth
century, and because he believes, that as
they are the result of more research than
will perhaps appear upon the surface, they
may be of some use to future biographers
of Bolingbroke and Voltaire.
Of the same series land from the same
house, we have 1.-THE Story of Germany
by Professor Sabine Barring Gould, with
the collaboration of Professor Arthur Gil
man. The author is widely known as the
writer of " Germany Present and Past,
ard of the volume entitled Curious Myths
of the Middle Ages" Professor Gilman is
the author of THE Story of Rome" "a
History of the American People," and
other popular historical monographs. The
story begins with the life of the German
nation in the period when Rome was baf-
fed by Hermann, and follows down the
record of time to the recent date when Ger
man arms conquered France. That it is
made recital of absorbing interest needs
scarcely to be stated. 1t proceeds upon the
plan OF the series, to pay most attention to
dramatic events and details, and less to an
alysis of causes and examination into social
conditions. We know of no book in which
the story of Germany is so admirably told
or comprised in so few pages. Octave; 81 so.
From Houghton, Mifilin & Co., Boston,
we have the " Atlantic Monthly for Sep
TENDER, with this attractive table of con
tents: 4" The Laws Partially to Married
Women" Frank Gaylord Cook; The
Shell and the World" Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop; French and English" Philip
Gilbert uamerton Mademoiselle JOAN
Rebecca Harding Davis " Confessions of
a Birds Nest Hunter Bradford Torrey
" Edwin Percy Whipple,' Thomas Went
sima" Cook Fourth, Nil, XL1.; Book
Fifth, Mill, NLiV.), Henry James
The Links of Chance" Andrew Hol-
brooke; The Paper Money Craze of 1856
and the Shays Rebellion" John Fiske
f" The Saloon in Politics, George Frederic
Parsons; "Schuylers American Diplo-
macy" Grants Memoirs " Second vol
ume), THE Contributors Club, Books
of the Month" and the usual serials.
OF THE Story of the Nations " series
(press of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
and London; San Francisco A. L. Ban
croft e Coz, we have -" The Story Of Nor
way" by Hjalmar II. Boyesen. Probably
no modern writer is better qualified than
the poetic Boyesen to popularize histor-
ical work on Norway. The study of the
history of the Norsemen he has made the
business Of his life, and it has been bust
ness, too. of love. Prior to issuance of this
book no other on Norway has appeared in
English that comes up to the need of the
inquiring mind. According to the plan of
the series of which this volume is one, the
book dwells particularly upon the dra-
matte phases of historical events rather
than the growth of institutions and soco-
logical phenomena. For the general reader
this treatment renders the volume all the