The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-19
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figure of John Brown being dramati-
cally introduced. AS a romance dealing
with period of American history and
a portion of our country practically
untouched in fiction, the tale is there
fore particularly worthy Of attention.
Doubleday & Mcclure Co., for sale by
Putnam, Davis s. Co..
Our Foes At Home" By H. H. Lusk.
Mr.. Lusk has spent several years in
the United States and was for a long
time a member of the New Zealand
parliament. He has brought to bear
upon some problems of American gov
eminent an, observation trained yet
fresh and complete knowledge of af-
falrs both here and abroad, producing
volume of extraordinary interest,
which no American can read without
enlightenment on many vital points.
The author does not present "irides-
cent theories; he shows what has ac-
tuaAy been done in, New Zealand and
contrasts this strikingly with Ameri-
can conditions. Chapters are devoted
to profitable taxation, monopoly ac-
cordng to law, monopolies in the peo-
pies hands, monopolies in defiance of
law, and state guardianship of liber-
ty. Mr. Lusk says that the American
party system as 1t now exists could
not endure the publicity of the Aus
tralian methods for a day; that the
Australian system is in no sense alien
to the genius of American institutions,
and that it's adoption here would mean
return to both the principles and the
practice of the purer days of the re-
public. Doubleday & Mcclure Co, for
sale by Putnam, Davis & Coz
No subject of historical investigation
lies so near to the life of the church as
does the revelation of Jesus. In Eng
fish there is but one scientific discus
sion of the entire subject of the teach
ing of Jesus (the translation of Prof.
Wendt's work., although single topics
on the teaching of Jesus have been in
vestigated by such eminent scholars
as Briggs, Bruce, Fairbairn, Haupt
and Baldensperger. and works on the
theology of the New Testament, nota-
bly, those of Weiss, Beyschlag and Bo-
Won, contain a condensed treatment of
the subject. But it still remains true
that this most vital subject has receiv-
ed relatively little scientific attention.
George Holley Gilbert, PHI D., profess
sor of New Testament literature and
Interpretation in Chicago theological
seminary, and author of THE students
seminary. and author Of THE Students
Life of Paul" has brought out through
titled 1.-THE Revelation of Jesus; A
study of the primary sources of Chris
tianity." 1t is an attempt to follow
the thought of Jesus, with the utmost
accuracy without regard to theologi-
cal bias. There are $50 pages in the
book, which is equipped with two full
indexes.
Successward, young mans book for
III, CT
ion and 18th thousand. New edition with
new chapters. Published by Doubleday
& Mcclure Co., New York. Cloth, Soc
A practical handbook of successful
living for young men; what success
means; how attained; what is neces-
sary; in business life; in social life; in
his religious life; dress and marriage
the life of a young man of today from
every point of view.
A Tangled Web, by Walter Raymond.
Published by Doubleday e. Mcclure Co.,
New York. $1.25.
Mr.. Raymond has here written an
idyll of that western English country
life which he knows so intimately With
two main keynotes-f1rst of one bro
theirs supplanting the other in his
sweetheart's affections; then, of a pair
Of lovers and a misery father-the quiet
drama moves forward inevitably and
overwhelmingly to pitch of tragic in
tensity, wonderfully heightened by the
entire realism with which the details
of the rustic life are portrayed.
For Loves Sweet. Sake. Selected
poems of love in all moods. Edited by G..
Hembert Wesley. Cloth, $1.5O Illus
trated. Published by Lee & Shepard,
Boston
Any one capable of constructing a
scrapbook can compile a volume of Sc
lected love poems, but only one who is
himself a true poet and a scholar of ex-
ceptional research could do what G..
Hembert Westley has in the charming
collection called For Loves Sweet
Sake" The poems are presented in four
divisions, respectively entitled, Loves
morning" Loves noontide," Loves
evening"" and Loves night" The con-
tents are fifty chosen for each selection,
and suit themselves to all moods of love
and friendship This book is intended
to be companion to the same publish
ers' previous widely known collection,
Because Love You" The book is a
gem of the printers and binders art,
with it's rich cover fine paper, excellent
full-page Illustrations, and profusion of
decorative designs. No one need seek
farther for a tasteful gift to friend or
lover.
Beck's Fortune; a Story of School and
Seminary Life. BY Adele E. Thomp-
son, 377 pages. Cloth, $1.5O. Illustrat-
ed. Published by Lee & Shepard.
1t is we'll recognized fact that tho
roughly f1rst-class books for girls are
harder to find than those of high grade
for boys, and when a really excellent
book for older girls appears it seems
worthy of especial notice. We accord
ingly commend "Beck's Fortune" by
Adele e. Thompson, a well-known wri-
her first book Beck, the heroine, is an
orphan girl, bright but impulsive, self
willed, and embittered by her hard
life, who is dependent upon the meagre
bounty of a miserly grandfather living
on a lonely farm. At the old man.
death she inherits his secret hoard,
which seems to her vast fortune, and
after ludicrous and notifying at
tempts at being a fine lady is placed
on the road to noble, cultured woman
hood by the family of Judge Stannard,
whose son the imperious heiress
chooses as her guardian. 1t is not a
love story, although Beck at last finds
her best fortune in the honest affection
of her guardian, whose manhood has
been strengthened by the nobility of
character in the girl of whose affairs
it falls to his lot to have charge. 1t is
rather story of the development of a
girls possibilities through life at a
typical seminary to which Beck is sent.
This school life is portrayed with rare
skill, the conversations are all piquant
and natural, and the different girls
have their counterparts everywhere. A
sparkling humor pervades the book.
Wee Lucy's Secret, being the fourth
volume of Little Prudy's Children Sc
ries. BY Sophie May. Cloth, IS cents.
Illustrated. Published by Lee & Shep-
ard.
The little girls who many years ago