The record-union., 1899-10-02
NEW BOOK NOTES.
"RECORD-UNIoNv LIBRARY Ia
BLE--SOME NEW NOVELS.
Erasmus-The Modern Farmer
Grant Aliens Latest-Educa-
tiOna1 Nuggets, Etc.

Grant Aliens Latest-Educa-
tiOnal Nuggets, Etc.
f'The Modern Farmer is a large and
handsome volume issued simultaneous
ly in America and Great Britain Aug
ust 1st. 1t is from the press OF the y.
J. Stone Company, San Francisco. Inc
work is by Edward F. Adams, with
chapter by L. A. Clinton of the college
of Agriculture, Cornell University. 1t
is of nearly 100 pages. The author
has been many years engaged in CO.
operative business has had wide busi-
ness experience and has especially Ia
bored to have agriculturistS engage
their calling in cooperative work. He
makes no pretense to extended knoWl-
edge of economic science, but claims
familiarity with common sense busi-
ness methods. The book does not pre-
tend to be an agency of instruction in
farming: rather it is a book addressed
to the business sense of the farming
people with the endeavor to induce
them to introduce business methods in
to their calling. We have not been a
able to read the work through EX-
animation of it, however, in large part,
induces the belief that the object of
the author has been kept we'll in view,
and that his claims are justified. It
is claimed also that the work is one
for city and town men as much as for
the farmer. The subjects it discusses
and we are free to say that we do not
agree with all of the propositions of
Mr.. Adams-are THE Trusts, The
Banks" The Railroads. "The Retail
Trade "The Commission Trade The
Tariff" "The Currency" 1.-The Single
Tax" 1.-The Export Bounty" THE Ref
erendum," Competition" Socialism" ="
Cooperation"
Much space is devoted to educational
subjects and the larger aspects of farm
and social life which interest all man
kind alike.
1t is thoughtful and incisive. The au-
thor has evidently no fads.
The arguments for and against such
questions as the tariff and currency are
stated in the strongest form for eacH
side, and the reader is left to take his
choice. Professor Hilgard of the Uni
versity of California gives the work
these words of commendation: Il have
perused with much interest the ad-
vance sheets of THE Modern Farmer" 3"
Sby Ed. F. Adams. 1t is certainly a
most timely publication. and if it could
be put into the hands of every farmer,
the sterling sense with which it dis
Gusses the relations of the farmer to
his fellows and the rest of the world,
in plain, terse language, could not fail
to act as a campaign of education"
toward clearing away a multitude of
mistaken impressions and conceptions,
and to help materially toward the at
tainment of his reasonable expectations
and ambitions.
I was much interested in the proof
sheets of the eleven chapters. which
had the opportunity to see, and I am
happy to say, that the latter portions
of the book quite fulfill its early prom
ise. While I might differ with the
author on some matters of minor de-
TAIL on the main issues he is thor
oughly right. If the farmers will only
read this book instead of much of the
stuff usually served to them, the coun-
try will be measurably safe, so far as
the farmers influence can secure it,
From Macmillan & Co., New York
and London, we have work of fiction,
and a charming one, entitled "a Drama
in Sunshine" by Horace Annesley
Yachell a well-known writer and prom
inent in the literary world as the au-
thor of "Quicksands of Actolus'' THE
Romance of Judge Ketchum," etc. It
is a we'll told tale of deep human in
terest. The style of the writer is ad-
mirable and his method without re-
proach.
The Life of the Spirit" is by the
we'll known author Hamilton Wright
Mabie. 1t is a reverential and pro-
foundly religious work notwithstand-
ing the fact that it runs counter in
several respects to the thought of some
religionists. 1t treats of the religious
conception of life; the consciousness of
SIM of the Man Christ Jesus; of repose
in work and strife: of the world of
divine opportunity; of revelation
through character; of the companion
ship Of the sky; of the religion of out
of-doors; of the incident of death, etc.
Press Of Dodd, Mead & Co, New York
THE Autobiography of a Child" is a
narrative by Hannah Lynch that
should be widely read. The world will
be bettered by this book. It is a story
and sermon, and cannot be even
glanced over without engaging the at
tention. Press of Dodd, Mead & Co,
New York.
S. r. Crockett has given us a great
many beautiful stories. Perhaps he
has not written a more attractive one
than Tone March" Press of Dodd
Mead & Co, New York It is fraught
with interest from the first lines and il
Is sustained with ease to the close. It
is freely and handsomely illustrated in
tone with the text, much of which has
a strange not to say a weird interest
and takes the reader into scenes
strange as We'll as foreign 1t gives
US sketches of several sorts of Ameri-
cans and of foreign estimates of them
1t is Mr.. Crockett's first American
story, the scenes of his other novels
having chiefly been laid in North Bri-
tain. 1t is dedicated to Americans,