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lures wherein Geneva is eminent In
comparison with other places-for instance,
IL leads all Europe in the proporionatc
amount spent on education. The article is
by Nj. Louis Wuarin. professor of socol-
oGy in the University of Geneva. than
whom no one is better able TO speak on
the subject. Professor Wuarin Is the att
thor OF several books and treatiscs on soci-
oloGy. and It Is said that he is now pre-
paring volume OF comment and criticism
on things American-especially American
poliics--the fruit OF his sojourn in this
country,
The current Humanitarian prints an In
terview with Mrs. Flora Annie Steel on tho
subject OF Women IN India" Mrs. Steel
gives some facts which will be found
startling, and holds some very common
sense views. She has been In the North
west provinces of India for twenty-five
years. and has been iuspectrcss OF girls
schools for many OF those years She
speaks shrewdly and advisedly, without
hvsteria. of female missionaries. and ox-
hibits no senumenality. The article Is
most improving one.
Treating of labor topics in the July
North American Review, Miss NJ. l.. j.
Kelley writes eloquently upon the virtues
Of "The Union Label" asserting that the
development OF industry and the progress
OF economic thought have lately evolved in
the union label an economic force which
promises To grow constantly stronger as
II becomes more widely known. All the
labels indicate struggle for improved
conditions, and In many instances furnish
a guarantee that certain evils have been
abolished, They have been adopted by
more than twenty National trade unions.
The first number of the New Time. the
successor OF New Occasions, contains art-
Giles from such brilliant writer's and pub
lie men as Professor Frank Parsons, Henry
d. Lloyd. Senator Pettigrew. Governor
Rogers of Washington, President George A.
Gates of Iowa college. Senator Stewart.
Eugene V. Debs Justice Walter Clark,
Abby Morton Diaz, Frances Il. Willard
and many others. MIR Flower has con-
tributed three fine editorials and has lost
none of the charm which made him famous
as editor of the Arena. Charles II. Kerr
q Co. publishers. Chicago. III.
Anyone who is interested in taking pho
tographs indoors Will be delighted with
the article on that subject by zaida Ben
Yusuf in the July number of Ey'ry Month,
where the method Is explained and illus
trated with a number OF fine amateur
photos taken under the circumstances de-
scribed. The studies are most peautlful
pictures to look upon and indicate clearly
what strides the amateur mas made in
his art
In the July issue OF Theosophy n remark
able article IS entitled: THE Problem of
the Pyramid" By Major D. w. Lock-
wood, CORPS of engineers. u. s. A. efv-
ing the relation between the pyramid cube
and sphere. The learned author refers par
ticufary TO the pyramid OF GiZch. making
simple Euclidian construction for euhing
the sphere and squaring the circle. This
is a most remarkable feat and is the first
successful solution OF problem wllCh
the greatest mathematicians have Jailed 10
master
With the number for July. he Annals of
the American Academy begins Its eighth
wear and tenth volume This number con-
tains papers on The immigration OF cs-
ton" by United States Commissioner Jos.
II. Senner: THE Greater New York Char
tor" by James w. Pryor. ESQ. OF The
It's Social Consequences, by Professor 81
mon n. Patten of the University of Penn
sylvania. Rousseau and the French Rev
olution." by DR.. Charles II. Lincoln, and
The George Junior Republic" by pro-
fcssor VIM. l. Hull of Swarthmore college.
The August Delineator IA notable for It's
fiction, Frances Lynde's Diana of the
Ephesians." a dainty love story with
setting among the mountains of Northern
Alabama. being complemented by the fas-
cinating narration of an encounter with
Paris necromancer. which forms the sec
ond of Martin Orde's serial accounts Of
Give Rayners adventures. Mrs. A. s.
Potter writing of the social life OF ST.
Louis shows the continued potency of the
Creole influence in that interesting semi
Southern metropolis No. 4 of iesnie
brakes New York types is devoted to a
sprghtly and amusing analysis Of the
Murray continues her Talks on Health
and Beauty" with a discussion of the va
rious forms OF exercise especially beneficial
TO her sex.
The Temple for July contains an author
Natiye Roscrucian Manifesto. remarkable
not meyely as the first public statement OF
tho nature and objects of the Order OF the
Rosy Cross ever published by this VEN
cradle organization OF initiates, but also
for it's significant and suggestive revela-
ton OF the part played by the order in the
work of the worlds redepmtion. IL Is an
open secret that Bulwer found inspiration
for those fascinating romances. "Zanoni,'
1.-THE Coming Race and "a Strange
Story In the illumination opened to him
through Rosicrucian fellowship.
In the July National the leading Illus
trated article ia 1.-THE American Tourist In
Switzerland" by X. II. Il. Etarr, giving an
account OF how the average American
takes in" the little mountainous repub-
lie. Scenes at Ellis Island. New York har-