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come good AmericanQ citizens, and in any
event they are entitled to the protection of
the law until they viaiade it;
Brigadier GeAnIera1 GAI co1;mandine' u; ndn'
NEW PUBLICATIONS,
THE UNCALLED; a Novel By Taul Laurence
Dunbar, author Of Lyrics of a Lowly Life
New York: Dodd, Mead & Compiny.
Mr.. Dunbar has hitherto been known
mainly by his poems. which have attracted
wide attention, botn from their own merit
and also from the fact that Their author is
practically in the front rank If his race
in the production of literature. This novel
serves to present the poet as 4 writer of
prose. 1t is both strong and weak 1t
presents a problem and deals with 1t DOW
erfully, but it does not end ii strength.
The author puts the case of 4 bow. left
practically an orphan, Handicapped by the
Dad repute OF his parents, adopted by an
austere spinster and reared according to
the severe standard of deep religious
but narrow community. He Is forced
to become a preacher. against lis will his
inclination and his ambitions That he is
eminently qualified for the pul Dit in ora
torical powers does not spare him from the
deep humiliation of living what in his con-
science he knows to be lie He revoIts
after he has achieved success and goes
forth to learn life outside the &C nf1nements
of an Ohio village. From this point the
work begins to lose in power though it
rises anew to height when the ex-preach-
er meets his father. dying drunkard
claiming salvation. Had Mr.. Dunbar been
willing to abandon conventions III his story
making this work would have s. ood boldly
forth as one of the remarkabl novels of
the year. Some of the character drawing
Is excellent but there is much Useless dia-
lect writing which drags sadly i'll places
EDUCATIONAL REFORM; Essays AMI Addresses.
BY Charles William Eliot. ID, President of
Harvard University. New Yock: The Century
Company.
President Eliot's position at the head of
one of Americas greatest universities
places him in the front rank of the worlds
educators. His views on any topic con-
nected with the training of The mind,
therefore, warrant the closest of consid-
Grafton. especially they cove a period
of many years and developme Mt in edu-
cational processes seldom before euualed
in the history of civilization during any
similar lapse of time. During these years
President Eliot has not contented himself
with the mere administration Of the af-
fairs of the great institution under his
charge. He has sought at all times for
better means to the end Of hums n enlight-
eminent and development. His pleas for
reforms in educational methods have
aroused bitter criticism, for he las spared
no school of thought in his assaults upon
what ne considers the useless the anti
quated. the false. It is traditional that
educators, like physicians, seldom agree as
to the exact processes to be employed.
Their task is difficult, their raw material
is never the same. Their controversies are
endless. In general Prssident Eiots theo-
ries and urgings have Had their effect upon
the broad system of education in this coun-
try. The papers in this volume represent
the trend of his efforts in this line during
the period extending sfsom the cate of his
inauguration as president Of Harvard in
1853 to the present The contents COM
prise many speeches. lectures and address
es delivered on various occasions. as well
as papers published iH, the maglznes and
educational periodicals4
ARicA an sfafhs to the sto1 EsE aS M
Politics Of Spanish iymerica. By Bernard
Moses. PhD.. professor in the University of
California. author Of9kBemDcracy and Social
Growth in AmsT}ea. Sew York: G r Put
mans Sons Washington: william Ballan-
tyne SONS = 14yif-
The war betweenl ttdR Il nited States and
Spain for the liberation of Cuoa focuses
public attention snore' definitely upon the
history of the relations Of Spain to this
hemisphere than ever before In conse-
quence there is "A marked inf1u, of works
dealing with the general subject of the
Spanish influences In the Americas, but
none that serves a better public purpose
today than this volume, which furnishes
an excellent groundwork for close his
torical research. 1t is not designed to en-
brace a history of the Spanish colonies
or to analyze their constitutional law. II
makes clearer than before to ordinary read
ers and students in high schools and col
leges by the use Of historical facts the
origin and character OF the political and
economic institutions constructed for the
government of Spanish America. 1t sug-
gests, well, that all American history
is not. told in the record of the United
States alone Some of the chapters have
already been published in the form of de-
tached articles in various periodicals. but
the bulk OF the work is new and the as
sembling of these fragments has an ADJ
tional value in view of late events me
author says of his subject:
Spanish rule in America had its begin
ming in the days of Spain's enterprise ana
daring, and has ended in the days of her
weakness and degeneracy. 1t embraces
three general subjects for historical and
political inquiry: the establishment OF
Spanish authority, the movement toward
civilization under this authority ana Ine
struggle of the colonists to be free- me
first of these subjects is the theme of this
volume"
WHEN KNIGIrrHOoD WAS IN FLOWER; the
Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary
Tudcr the Kings Sister and Happening IN . the
Wi. Rewritten and Rendered into Modnrn
English from Sir EdsTard Caskoden n, Memoir Memoir
by Edwin Caskoden. Indianapolis: The Bowen
Merrill Company.
While this book shows studious effort
to get at the characteristics Of the time
and its people. it is relieved of the pedantry
which is likely to prove a snare In such an
undertaking. There is enough research to
make the work convincing but the loving
and the living, the coquetries and the hight
ing constitute the chief elements of inter-
est. and are handled earnestly and ener-
getically. The two hundred and fifty pages
appeal more to the emotions than to the
sense of humor, and there are touches of
candid realism which convey a vivid i'm
preston of the morals Of court life. The
selection of Anglo-Saxon theme is a
1uh hoI he courts of Ger