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gestive title of a little volume by David
Starr Jordan, president Of Leland Stanford
Jr. Unitarian association, Boston. In this
Study of the Decay of Races Through
the Survival of the Unfit" which is the
appropriate subtitle, the author discusses
the problem of heredity, the tendencies
which make for race-degeneraflon, the all
important factors of race development as
influenced by the pursuits of peace and
the occupations OF war, and the causes
inc consequences of the survival of the
unfit.
himself with a book of short stories called
MEMS Tragedies has written a novel
which Messrs. Herbert 8. Stone & Co.
are publishing. 1t is called 1.-THE Life of
a Woman and deals with the restricted
opportunities of a clever, imaginative girl
who has spent her life in the suburbs of
a large city and known no other outlook.
Louis ZangwilI, author of "a Drama
in Dutch" etc, has just finished a novel
entitled Zones Womankind," which W.
shortly appear from the press of A. s..
Barnes & Co. Mr.. Zangwill shows remark
able strength in the NATURALIZATION of
character and deXterity of literary hand
ling. His new book will be awaited with
great interest.
Nov, II A. G. MeGlurg & Co. will pub
issh th Mrs 5res Dyes me i5 G ronanes form mlic Of
lily
the 'ttrue story of Lewis and Clark" This
work has been the sole occupation of the
author for over four years. and the size of
her task nay be inferred from the fact
that during this period she has made four
separate trips across the continent.
The Frederick A. Stokes Company has
issued a pretty little volume entitled Mrs.
Leslie Garter in David Belascos Du Bar
ry." The book of f1fty-nine pages is pro
fusely illustrated, the finis being four Du
Barry Slippers.
WITH NOVEMBER MAGAZINES.
The many persons whose inalienable
right to light and air has been lnfrlnged
by the mountainous buildings which are
so conspicuous a feature of urban Ameri-
can landscape, will be keenly interested
in Mr.. Burton j. Hendricks paper on
Limitation to the Production of Sky
scrapers," in the Atlantic Monthly for
October. Mr.. Hendrick, who is an edito-
rial writer ON the New York Evening
Post, and therefore a dWeiler IN a DIS
to this subject much observation ana
study.
Edgar Fawcett contributes to the No
vember number of the Smart Set a nov
elette that surpasses any previous work
of fiction from his pen. It is entitled
Lady Ursula's Lovers and n contains a
striking analysis of the effect caused by
the passion Of love on the sense, of honor.
The story has a singular ingenious plot.
which the movement develops with swift
and constant interest. With it's clever
balancing of action and dialogue. tighten
ed by frequent humor, Lady Ursula's
Lovers is a work to command eager at
tention and sincere admiration.
The November Century will open with
what the publishers call "a seFenfoid col
ored frontispiece"-seven ~full-page pic
lures by Maxfield Parrish, illustrating
1.-The Great Southwest" including one
picture of the Grand Canon Of the Col
orado, which is the subject of an article
in the same number by John Muir, the
distinguished California naturalist.
The chief articles In Harper's MAGAZINE
for November are: ..Through7 Slner1a 20
Bering Strait" by Harry de W1ndt, +; II.
G.. S.: my Spirit" a poem, by W1iliam
Chandler Bagiey; "A Perturbed Spirit
c%entions of Life" by Carl Snyder; Surrey
Downs" Arthur Cotton; Evolution and
the Present Age John Fiske.