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bitrary even in appearance.
Since 1853 the French Canadians have
lived in isolation, SO that their rate of
increase has not been raised by immi-
grafton from abroad or interfered with
in other similar ways.
AS the result of his study Professor Da-
wilson finds that the average rate of
increase per decade from 17S5 to 1891 has
been 29.7 per cent, which would cause the
population to double every twenty-seven
years.
A CENTURY OF CHARADEs. By
William Bellamy. Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co., Boston.
This small volume contains one hum
dred charades, all of which are very
cute. Since it's issue, only few months
ago, 1t has attained so great popularity
that Second Century is in course Of
ingenious key, to verify answers, is
great help. Who can guess the opening
charade?
my first endured a hundred years
A prodigy of logic and of wit;
MY last the faro banker fears,
King Solomon was not arrayed like It.
When you peruse this book of mine"
THE IDOL MAKER BY Adeline Ser
geant, author of Out Of Due Season,
The Mistress Of Quest, etc. D. Ap-
pleton & Co., New York. For sale
by Stoll & Thayer.
This is No. 202 Of the well known Town
and Country series, and by a writer so
well known that a liberal sale of the vol
ume is assured. Indeed, all of these vol
umes sell because they deserve to.
THE PRICE HE PAID. BY e. Werner.
author of Danira and She Fell in
Love With Her Husband. Rand,
McNally & Co., Chicago.
This is the last volume in the Globe
Library Series which is becoming so well
known to the lovers of light literature.
LEES HOME AND BUSINESS IN
STRUCTOR.
Even a rapid examination of this
handsome little volume is sufficient to
demonstrate it's novelty and its useful
ness. The very fact, quite self-apparent,
that each Of the ten DEPARTMENTS in
cluded within these 400 pages Is the work
of an American specialist in that par
ticular line, gives the book value that
no reprint or extract can possess. Here
penmanship, bookkeeping, letter writ
ing, banking, law, social forms, ETC., ETC.,
are taught, by pen and picture, with di-
rectness and accuracy found only in
works carefully planned from the start
and conscientiously executed all
through.
This is the fifth volume in Lees Pony
Reference Library, and is a really valu-
able book in any household and office.
1t is issued at a price to bring it within
the reach of all.
ONE DAYS COURTsHIP. AND THE
HERALDS OF FAME. BY Robert
Barr. Frederick A. Stokes Co. For
Sale by c. G. Parker.
The main story Of this volume, One
Days Courtship, which gives the
title to the book, is charming one, and
though not an ambitious venture, like
A Woman Intervenes, it helps on the
fame of Mr.. Barr as a born story teller.
This very strong and amusing court
ship took place, all on summers day.
away up in the Canadian forests, and
an English artist and Eva Sommerton,
Of Boston, were the parties to it. 1t is a
dashing and brilliant little story, evil
IDENTIFY written before Mr.. Barr became
famous, but none the worse for that.
The volume is uniform with A Master
Of Fortune and AFull Confession, recent
ly reviewed in these columns.
AROUND THE CAMP FIRE-By
Charles G. D. Roberts, M A., F. r. s.
c. With sixteen illustrations by
Charles Copeland. One vol, vo., 349
pages, cloth, $1.50. T. Y: Crowell & Co.
This is a very handsome volume,
ways. In fact, there is nothing cheap
about it. 1t is not a mere compilation
only made to sell, but has genuine ex-
cellence of it's own, and will be eagerly
read by men and boys who have ever
known the fascination of the deep
ics bfafn ,f pix
cheerful sportsmen who start on a
canoeing trip in the New Brunswick
wilderness, and every evening as they
sit around the camp fire each in turn Is
called upon to spin an enlivening yarn
The scheme is carried out with great
escapes, of intimate acquaintance with
wildcats and BEARS moose and other
denizens of the woods are strung on the
simple but delightful thread of the ex-
pedition. Prof. Roberts has a personal
knowledge Of the region to which he in
troduces his readers and he has sue
ceeded in telling series of delightful
stories in style which would of itself
make him famous.
AN ESSAY ON THE PRESENT DIS
UNITED STATES-By Charles D.
Spahr, Ph. D.; IL mo-, 1874 pages; ap-
pendices, index; (volume 12 in Crow
ellis Library of Economics and Poll
tics); $3.50. T. Y. Crowell & Co., New
York.
DR.. spahr's essay is written for
the instruction of the uninstructed
classes. While he presents many
statistics and tables, he is care
full to draw from them conclusions
that coincide with the common observa-
tions of common people, for, he says,
he has come to believe that social sta
tistics are only trustworthy when they
show the world at large what common
observation shows to those personally
familiar with the conditions described !"
The keynote Of the authors belief Is
struck in the opening chapter. After
showing that there has been a strong
tendency toward the concentration Of
wealth. he claims that this has nothing
to do with natural laws. 1.-The distri-
button of wealth is under the direct con-
troll Of laws for which the national
conscience Is responsible; and 1t has
become better or worse, precisely as the
national conscience has been directed
to or from the laws controlling it."
DIR. Spahr Is pessimistic rather than
otherwise, and the picture he draws Of
the present and coming state Of things
Is not comforting.
He begins with a retrospect showing
how the distribution Of wealth has been
changed in England since the latter mid
die ages. He claims that at the present
time 1926, 900 persons in the United King
dom own s10 ZOO, 900, 900 Of private prop