The Saint Paul globe., 1901-03-03
= eviews Of the New Books

''Winsome Womanhood," by Margaret r.
Sangster. Fleming H. Revell company,
Chicago.
Mrs. Sangster has happy style in
writing which puts her in immediate
touch with her girl readers and enables
her to give world of sweet, wholesome
ADVICE Which in less alluring dress
would be scornfully rejected by youth
full readers
Her sympathy with the vague half
defined hopes and ambitions of the
young girl standing where the little
limpid brook with its narrow silvery
thread and fiower-bordered banks meets
the full-bosomed, river, is true and clear
sighted Not only the girl- but the girls
mother will be helped by these familiar
talks on life and conduct"
The book is not alone for the young
girl with her unfathomed reserves, but
is also for the older woman bearing the
responsibilities of middle life and for her
whose outlook Is towards the setting
sun.
'The Armies of the World"
''The Armies Of the World" by Charles
s. Jerrams. New Amsterdam Book COM
pany, New York.
III aiming to compile statistical ac-
count of the armies of the world which
would be useful to journalists and the
general public, Mr. Jerrams has admir-
ably succeeded. His book shows at
glance the strength of the worlds
armies and gives in outline the methods
OF recruiting, equipment and organiza-
tion, and in one OF two special cases a
brief account Of frontier fortifications
The population of each country is given
with the peace and war strength Of the
army, the liability for service, and in
fact almost every item of information
which laymen might require. In many
cases the military will no doubt find it
helpful when more exhaustive accounts
are less accessible. The work furnishes
grim comment upon the recent peace
congress at The Hague and refutes any
suggestion of the near approach of the
period Of universal disarmament
'Verbeck of Japan"
''Verbeck Of JAPAN by William Elliot
Grif1s f. H. Revell & Co., Chicago
In the last year the secular world has
had much to say concerning the mis-
takes of the missionaries in the Orient
These people were held responsible for
q great part of the trouble which cul-
minated so tragically for many of them
III China. AS class they are perhaps
no freer from the follies Of human
nature than the rest of the world, but
without doubt the majority of the men
and women who leave home and friends
TO preach Christ's gospel to an unfriend-
ly people are actuated by noble prin-
ciples.
Adiniron Judson Is but one Of hun
dreds whose consecrated lives helped to
"make light the waste places.'' Side by
side with the history of the first mis-
sionary to India we must place that of
Guido Fridolin Verbeck-"Verbeck of
| Japan" the greatest under Gcd of the
makers of the new Christian nation that
is coming and even now is." Born in
Holland in 1880 Guido Verbeck had back
| Of him a fine ancestry of noble men and
women who, many generations before his
| birth suffered persecution fol their re,
| ligion. When twenty-five Guido left
| Holland for America, and in 1859 he left
America with his young bride for Japan
where for forty years he gave the best
powers of his mind and body to the con-
! struction of the new Japan.
Fifty years has wrought wondrous
changes in the Midako's empire. When
Verbeck went there the country was
under the bonds of despotism and it
was more difficult TO present the Christ
ian religion than it is now In China.
Mr.. Grif1is, whose knowledge of Japan
admirably fits him to be the historian OF
life so identified with that country
civ es in this life of noble man brief
account Of the political changes from
1859 to 1893.