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substantial kind, and at less expense
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THE BOOK LOVERS MAGAZINE.
January, 1903. Volume I, No. /. The
Library Publishing Company. No 1928
| Walnut street, Philadelphia. 50 per an
! mum; Is cents a number.
The Men Behind the Magazines, Jean.
nette l.. Glider, Richard Watson Glider,
i Charles Scribner. IS. S. Mcclure, Albert
Shaw. Edward Box, George Harvey,
| Frank A. Munsey. Frank N. Doubleday;
Is Morality Shifting in It's Foundations: .
Goodwin Smith; The Modern Street Rush.
Cyrus Townsend Brady; No Successor to
| Norris. Julian Ralph; Meddling with the
Army, Richard Henry Savage; The Age.
OF the Whirlwind, Hamilton W. Mahie;
What is Our Real Enemy? E. W. Thomp-
son; Dum-Fool ThingA Paul Piper;
America: the Jews Last Opportunity.
! Isidore Singer; He Who Dares to Speak
Truth, George L. Bolen; Reform on Trial
In New York; Norman Hapgood: The
Useless College Graduate. Joseph French
| Johnson; Another Word on College
| Courses, T. NJ Parrott; The Supreme
| Need Of the World, William Newton
| Clarke: All Work and No Play. Sydney.
! Reid; Training of Head and Hands, VIII
! Amory H Bradford; 41robem OF Empty
Pews. Howard Shaw Rudy; The Amer
| lean Historical Novel; a Protest. Theo-
| dore T. Munger
| Here is another debutante in the maya
| zine world! And a beautiful one it is.
| too, with the most tasteful of bindings
| and exceptionally beautiful colored pic
lures which are well calculated to attract
| attention. The editors promise their read
| ers % attractiveness: (O novelty; 90
] up-to-dateness, and a. a reasonable share
of common sense. In the initial number
| Of the periodical they have certainly
| lived up to their promises. Indeed, It
Is in no spirit of charity that we COM
mend the Book-Lovers' Magazine as
| delightful publication, artistic from COW
er to cover. It will have friends from
| the start.
THE VALE OF cEDARs, AND OTHER
TALES. BY Grace Aguilar, with an In
PRODUCTION bysWalter Jerrold. illustrate
ed by T. H Robinson. Philadelphia.
The Jewish Publication Society OF
! America.
| The Jewish Publication Society is
greatly to be commended for the present
publica ton OF Grace sAguilar's well known
| novel. It Is a sweet, pure story. familiar
| to many readers Of years agone, and
comes as refreshing change in these
| latter times. when the market is flooded
with questionable literature. The Vale.
| OF Cedars'' is a tale Of the Spanish in
QUESTION. and the martyr Jews. beautiful
| ~ written, and with that undercurrent
! of pathos and deep religious feeling that
| is one OF the characteristics Of the au-
! thor's work. It is a book that any young
| person may read, understand and be bene-
| fted by. and inparts a high moral lesson:
| Also those Of ripper years will find nothing
! lacking in it. The short stories follow
| ing it are equally as interesting, and are
i the tales of Jewish life, first published
! in ONE Scenes and Heart Studies. The
| Introduction by Nathan Jerrold. gives
short summary. of Grace Aguilar's In
| teresting life, her influence and her la
bors. The book is handsomely bound and
! illustrated.
CURRENT HISTORY for January
, summarizes the world history
[ for November and does SO with
conciseness and clearness- "A strong
portrait Of the late ex-Speaker
/ Reed serves as frontispiece. Other pQr-7
| traits Of famous personages of to-day
together with maps and views; to accom-
many theStext, brighten the, pa es. sArti-
cles on ..The Education Struggle in Eng
land by Dawson Burns, aof%London. and
..The Passing of the Big Cattle Ranches,
by William r. ORA per, precede the regu-
lar geographical and historlcal so e
| ments on Science. Education, Art Music
| and the Drama, Literature, etc. This
magazine is a happy combination OF the
entertaining and the useful. Professional
people and students In general Of the;
|. times in which we live find it Of peculiar
assistance and value. Sample copy free
! IN application Address Current His
tory Company, Boston, Mass. :
|STHn STORY OF TRIsTRAn1 BY Dr..
EDWARD Brooks, M. A.. Is thor Of The
Story OF the lilac. The Story OF. the
Odessey.'' etc. Philade Iphia, Penn
Publishing Company. g
The story of Fristran and 1soude sls
supposed to have had original ys no con
nection with the legends of King rthurE
and the knights OF the Round =. .s1 ble,s
but Mallory writing IN the fifteenth CEN.
tnrp found the two had bear interviewer.
bysthe snstrelsS of Rrt ain and the con- on
Stinent. and INSIDE the former part s5of
@hissM orte {. 81 hur.s 81 event here,
saays@p Brooks. 81 gtessdss out ssaa.asdis-.