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these organizations the United Stetes
led with 56, England being second with
80, followed by Germany, France and
! Canada, in the order named. OF these
organizations "a had for their object
civil and political reform, 80 stood Tor
religion, Is for social and moral reform,
II for charity, IL for education, and so
on through the list The macs of mat
ter to be edited by Mrs. Sewsll, whose
work has been most admirably done,
may be partly guessed from the fact
that over 900 speakers addressed the con-
gress during it's session, and from almost
every land under the sun. These ad-
dresses are appropriately grouped, and
/ follow each other in an orderly and sys-
! tematic way. 1t would be impossible,
| in any review of the work, to set forth
its claims any better than by these state.
ments OF the main points. Its nearly
| 1000 pages are mostly given up to the
notable papers read. and, as we have
said are most happily arranged. There
is spice in the differences o. opinion.
and. in the varying styles OF treatment
of the same questions, which is not the
least interesting phase OF the discus
sions. The editor has shown much tact
and good judgment in the part she was
permitted to enact, and the volumes are
not, as might be feared, careless jum-
bles of arrangement.
Portraits OF the most celebrated psrtic-
ipants, numbering some $50, are in
cluded, among the most striking and
lifeike being those of Mrs. Bertha M.
Honore Palmer, Ellen M. Henrotin. May
Wright Sewsll, Rachel Foster Avery
Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson, Lady Henry
Somerset, Julia Ward Howe. Helen
Modjeska, Georgia Csyvsn. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, the Countess of Aber-
deem, Frances E. Willard, Susan B.
Anthony, and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
The work is sold only BY subscription.
and is now being offered here. the King
Publishing company of San Francisco
being the exclusive agents for the Pacific
coast.
CHILDE HAROLD'5 PILGRIMAGE. BY LORD
BYRON. Handy Vol. Ed, plus 2S3 pp.,
81 photogravure illustrations, notes; vel
lum cloth. J. w. Orowell Il Co., Boston
and New York.
This newest addition is the Handy
Volume edition; is gem of the art Of
making books. Every body who wants q
companionable volume for reading while
travelling, or would make dainty gift
to friend or family, will be attracted to
this series, and particularly to this vol.
ume. 1t is proiusely snd beautifully
illustrated end has full notes. which
will be found very helpful. Childe
Harold is q masterpiece of literature,
whose popularity grows with every gen
GRAFTON of scholars and general readers.
Messrs. Crowell & Co. have now their
place in the front rank of publishers,
through faithful and deserving work in
many lines; but no single venture has
been a more striking success than the
Handy Volume Classics. now found
everywhere.
THE RIGHTS OF LABOR. Kerr & Co., Chi
cago.
This is an anonymous pamphlet OF
something over 100 pages. devoted to
showing that wealth is unevenly distrib-
uted and that labor can never get it's
share under its present relations to cap
ital. The book is moderate and even
modest in style, aud the author evident
ly i5 sincere; but there is little that is
new and little Of the old erguments that
ID aet out in new form. There
fore it 10 not q striking book, but is de-
serving of reading.
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THE REAL JAPAN OF OLD. Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co.. Boston.
Here 10 wonderfully captivating
book. though one sided. 1t is marvel
Of beautiful things about unfortunate
Japan, and the two volumes are beauti-
iully printed and bound. Here ia a
eample of its writer's style: "Why
ehould the trees be go lovely in Japan
With us plum or cherry tree in flower
is not an astonishing sight; but here it
ia q miracle OF beauty go bewildering
that, however much you may have pre-
viouBiY read about it, the real spectacle
strikes you dumb. You see no leaves
only one great tilmy mi5t OF petals. Il
it that the trees have been SO long do
mesticated and caresset by man in this
land OF the gods that they have acquired
souls, and strive to chow their gratitude,
like women loved. by making themselves
more beautiful for mans sake? AS
suredly they have mastered mems
hearts by their lovelinese, like beautiful
slaves. That is to cay, Japanese hearts.
Apparently there have been some for.
eign tourists of the brutal class il this
place, since it has been deemed necesea.
ry TO set up inscriptions in Euglieh an
nouncing that 1t is forbidden to injurs
the trees
A Common-sense View of the westmin- =
ster COBfsssiou,
One OF the most striking pamphlets ol
the year is the elegantly printed mono
graph, A Common-sense View of the
Westminster Confession by John Shir-
ley Ward, an elder in Emmanuel church