The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28
BOOK NOTES.

BOOK NOTES.
Equality" by Edward Bellamy,
is continuation so far as the story
goes of "Looking~ Backward" The
| civilization outlined in the book is a
rounding out and perfecting of the
ideals and possibilities of the human
family under an Equality of oppor-
tunity and a system of applied Chris
tianity. The reader who is vitality
interested in the social and industrial
problems of the day will find in this
volume much material for thought.
Some one has said that "our social
system as now constituted is nothing
less than sleeping volcano" In
Equality We have the key to the utili-
zation of all the terrific pent up force
in the slumbering volcano, and it's
transmutation into a power that Will
transform our present civilization in
to condition of happiness for the
entire human race. If the "dreams
| that nations dream, come true" surely
that time is coming, and Edward Bel
lamy's books have done more to
awaken hope and trnst than those of
any other author.
Equality by Edward Bellamy,
D. Appleton & Co., New York.
Handsomely bound in cloth $1.25.
"The Religious Training of Chill
| dren" by Mrs. Abbie Morton Diaz, is
book that will be greatly appreciat-
ed by parents who realize their great
responsibilities. The hopefulness in
the book is the fact that the needs of
child nature are pointed out, and the way
to stimulate the good impulses instead
| OF set of rules for reducing children
to a state of obedience. Heretofore
only the Intellectual development of
children has been considered of i'm
portance, it being taken for granted
that the welfare of the moral nature
| would be looked after either by a
beneficent Providence, or the church.
Mrs. Diaz teaches in q clear and
convincing manner, the Importance of
parents impressing upon she mind in
it's youthful plastic condition, high
ideals of the religious duties and re-
sponsibilities of life This able wo-
man has devoted herself. to the sub
jects dealing with character develop
nent in the young, and this book is
said to be her greatest.
''The Religious Training of Chill
dren" by Abbie Morton Diaz, The
Metaphysical Pub. Co.. Fifth Avenue,
New York. Cloth, price 81.
Not exactly among the new books
comes ''The Story of "a Country
Town, by E. w. Howe, of Atchinson,
now in its tweuty-eighth edition.
1t is book that every library
ought to contain, and every boy and
girl should read it as part of his or
her education in American literature.
We are too prone in our litera Y
tastes to run after men who were born
in certain hallowed localities and who
write books under the shadows of q
certain set of ideas of literary art
That is why our fiction is wanting in
intensity and virility. and has not
the reserve power which inpresses one
with desire to read, and yet read
again, t''The Story of Country
Town" It's portrayal of human
feeling and passion is so intense
that the reader can not allow himself
TO receive the full impress of it's pa
thos and tragedy, at once.
Mr.. Howe is called Hawthornesque:
it is said that his style and the tenn
permanent of his books, tif one can en-
dow them with personal qualities), is
Turgeneffan; another critic calls him
the American Dickens. He is not any
of these, he is simply Howe.
His originality of literary style is
his own. His standing in the front
ranks of American noyelists cannot
be added to, by trying to top him off
with halo Of small refractio ons from
Hawthorne, Dickens and Turgeneff.
"The Story of a Country Town."
by, E. W. Howe, of Atchins on.
Houghton, Mif1in & Co., Boston,
Mass. Paper 25 cents.
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