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"A Country without Strikes" by
Henry Demarest Lloyd; 1873 pages; Dou
bleday, Page & Co, New York; $1.00
for sale by Judd. This work is exciting
much interest both in this country and
abroad, its topic being timely and espec-
| tally so with big strikes now in pro-
| gress in Chicago and st. Louis. In
| many Of the leading newspapers MI
! Lloyd's book has been alluded to edito-
| rally with the view of throwing light
upon the vexing problem of how to deal
| with strikes. Mr.. Lloyd has written the
| first adequate account of the compulso-
! ry arbitration system in force in New
! Zealand, which has resulted 50 far in
| the complete prevention of labor trou-
| bles in the colony-to the entire salts
| faction of both employers and employees.
1t is study made on the ground, an
| original investigation, which is justly
| claiming public attention.
| Primer of Parliamentary Law" by
| Joseph T, Robert. principal Of the Rob-
| ert Correspondence School of Paria-
mentary Law, Chicago; 265 pages; Dou-
bleday, Mcclure & Co, New York;
cloth, rs cents: for sale by Judd Mr..
Robert presents textbook of parlia-
| mentary practice, which is a needed
work. From his large experience in
teaching in clubs, colleges, and especial
ly at Chautaudua, N Y, he has gradu-
ally developed this simple progressive
method full of detail and illustration,
which will be found interesting to the
general reader and stimulating to the
student. Clubs which have adopted
Roberts Rules or Roberts Parliamenta-
ry Syllabus as authority will find the
Primer in complete harmony with both
those works and illustrative of their
meaning on all points.
THE Seafarers. a Modern Romance"
by John Bloundelle Burton, author of
THE Scourge of Cod THE Clash of
Arms" etc D. Appleton g. Co., New
York; so cents, paper cover: for sale by
T. H. Pease&Son. This is another pleas
ing addition to Appleton's Town and
Country Library. A society girl, beau
tiful and unspoiled, loves q titled young
man of fortune and goes forth in a
ship of her uncle's to wed him in Bonn
bay. One of the ships chief officers is
brave and noble shipmaster with
goodly fortune, who loves her with an
story ends. There Is shipwreck and
wild struggle for life, in which the sail
OF lover by superhuman effort rescues
the fair maiden from the billows to
land her on a deserted coast far south
ward. There Is a tragic ending for the
brave sailor lover, but the maiden's at
famed is saved for the ultimate we'd
ding at home. A vast deal of adven-
ture is interviewer in this tale and there
is a tiger cub who figures in the story.
The Black Homer of Jimtown." by
Ed. Mott, a book of real "coon" stories;
cloth, gilt; PCS pages, $1.25; published by
Grosset & Dunlap, No. II East Sixteenth
street, New York. An interesting col
lection of readable stories is here pre-
scented. The Black Homer as a story
teller is unique. He has the extrava-
CANT fancy and abundant imagination
of his race, and his tales are overlooking
with drollery and humor, which togeth-
er with a childlike faith in all sorts of
amazing and impossible things are no.
table characteristics in the old-time
southern darby. Those who have read
Uncle Rastus'' and kindred woeks will
find this equally enjoyable. 1t is enter
tanning from start to finish The Black
Homer deals with various local tradi- |
tions and the folks of Cape Fear coun- |
try "befo' de wah," and all manner of
quadrupeds and bipeds Of that southern
country come in play for humorous
treatment and for the establishment Of
these jolly tales. The relations of mas |
ter and slave in the days gone by are
touched upon also, and there is sub
tie vein of philosophy mingled with SUI
perstition as an undercurrent.
1.-THE Elusive Hildegarde,' by H. r. |
Martin; 1928 pages: R. F. Fenno e. Co.,
New York; $1.25; for sale at judas
The author of Warren Hyde possesses
the happy faculty of writing books that
appeal to the large class of readers who
want an entertaining book for a leisure
hour, one that neither deals with statis-
tics nor political economy, nor has a
deep and tiresome underlying scheme of
'eform, which crops out continually and
detracts from the interest. Warren
Hyde by this author, was such book
and this new effort IL well described as
q bright, sparkling story, with con-
happy ending. This class of
BOOKS claims large constituency of
readers The author draws some quite
strong character pictures, notably those
If Hildegarde herself and of the Judge
Ter father and his wife. There Is a
of happy surprises in the sto-
", and some very cleverly drawn situa-
ions The people of the story are most
y well-to-do American society people
The book, which is of the e. p. Roe and
Mary Jane Holmes type. is well calcu-
ated to fascinate many people.
L. c. Page & Co, of Boston. announce
hat thirty thousand copies were sold in
ldvanee OF the new novel published by
hem entitled Phillip Wnwood" by
Robert Nelson Stephens, author of "A
Gentleman Player" "An Enemy to the
King, 1.-THE Continental Dragoon'' and
'ther popular books. The book sells for
l so and may be had al Judd's. It is a
ketch of the domestic history of an
american captain in the war of indie
,endence, embracing events that oc-
urred between and during the years
763 and 1856 in New York and London
written by his enemy in war, Herbert
russell. lieutenant in the Loyalist
orces. 1t is well illustrated by E. w. s
Hamilton II Isl n wholesome ON tar ! {