The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-27

WOMAN SUFFRAGE In The UNITED
STATES, A STUDY. By A Lawyer.
Arena Publishing company.
small neatly printed and bound vol
ume, modest in makeup and price, this
Study can be commended as q most sin
cere and able argument against he mod
ern woman movement. Its twelve chap
tiers treat of every phase of the question
and leave little to be said ON the main
points. From the Bible standpomt-the
religious phass-the argument is particu-
larly storing. The most striking phase
as affecting society and the home life is
the matter of divorce. The writer shows
how divorces have increased in the
United States these last few years. until
in 1875 theT exceeded those OF all the rest
of the civilized nations of the world com
bined; and argues that it is all of a piece
with the rest--that hume life means less
and less all the time.
The closing chapter, The Decay of
Faith, is candid appeal for the rights
of children to have the teaching and the
example of old fashloned homes.
The great mass of women who swim in
the shoals OF summer conventions, and
who are convinced that the world needs
ripping up and making over, could read
this little book TO excellent advantage.
In it they will find no antagonism to the
rational view that every woman may en-
ter any just and pr';fitabie employment.
as she now does, without challenge and
without criticism; nor any denial that
men should trust and cherish them better
than all men do now, divide earnings
with them and give them money as
right and not dole it grudgingly-t
real things to be complained OF now.
But they will find sense and sentiment
lying at the bottom of this tremendous
problem. Possibly the world might seem
sweeter and wholesomer if they stirred
the depths of life instead of sporting on
tha VT nho int lNnp 70 Nf
New England-and ola England for that
matter-laid the foundation for study and
thought and discipline that would be i'm
possible to find today.
Things change naturally and the rights
of women among the rest; and this is
times. but not naturally, and this is revo-
tuition. Let US all take heed unto our
ways.
THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF
DYNAMO ELECTRIC MAOHIN-
cry, by Carl X. McFadden and
William d. Day; Laird IL Lee. Chi
cago.
This little book aims TO reach a class of
readers who would like to understand the
application of electrioityin a fundamental
way, if not more. Still it is after all a
treatise more for practical workers than
superficial readers or students. The text
is most deliberately illustrated and alto
eether it is a most attractive little volume,
fit Tor the library, the pocket or the shop.
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DICK AND JACKS ADVENTURES ON
SABLE ISLAND. By B. Freeman
Ashley. Laird IL Lee Chicago.
The boy who read Tan Pile Jim, by
the same author, will naturally look
forward with some interest 10 this
recital of curious adventures of two lads
on one of the most remarkable islands
in the Atlantic ocean-outlying and
threatening, the graveyard of the At
lantc," as SO many old sailors call it.
One could wish that the paper of the
book we're a little better. since so much
care has been given TO the illustrations.
The volume Will surely be in demand for
the holiday season.
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THE WANDERING JEW. By Eugene
Sue, author of the Mysteries of Paris.
Thomas Y. Crowel & Co., New York.
vols. full illustrations.
These two splendid volumes are re-
printed from the original Chaplain d
Hall edition. and are welcome and sea-
sonable. The old admirers of this re-
markable romance will welcome it anew,
while rich treat awaits all those who
have never yet read this masterpiece of
the old school of French novelsts. A
great story never goes out of fashion: and
this new dress will only serve to mark
and EN- phasize the rank that has been as.