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"Discourses on War" by William
Ellery Charming with an introduction
by Edwin d. Mead. Published for the
International Union by Gin & Com
pany,, Boston. Cloth, SLIPS. These
discourses are instructive and elevat-
ing. They are calculated to make
men better and to up-lift communities.
The best of Channing's addresses and
sermons are brought together in this
volume and carefully edited. Probably
no volume could be published at this
time better calculated to show just the
sort of influence which he eXerted or to
influencing the thought of the present
day. The words spoken by him half
a century ago have lost none of their
force, and have direct and often star
Ting application to the problems and
temptations of to-day. A fair idea of
Charming and his teachings is obtained
from an extract taken from the ad-
dress of President Eliot of Harvard
University, delivered at the unwilling
of thu Boston Monument to him. The
extract is as follows: 1T is impossi-
BILE to join in this centennial celebra-
ton of the advent to Boston of this re-
ligious pioneer and philanthropic leader
without perceiving that in certain re-
spects the country has recently fallen
away from the moral standards he set
up Charming taught that no real good
can come through violence, injustice,
greed, and the incubation of hatred
and enmities or of suspicion. He never
could have imagined that there would
be an outburst in his dear country,
grown rich and strong, of such doc
trines as that the might of arms or
possessions or majorities make right;
that a superior civilization may rightly
force itself on an inferior by whole
sale killing, hurting, and ,impoverish-
ing; that an extension of commerce or
of missionary activities justifies war;
that the example of imperial Rome is
an instructive one for republican
America, and that the right to liberty
and the brotherhood of man are obso-
lete sentimentalities. Nevertheless, in
spite of these temporary alterations of
the public mind and heart it is plain
that many of Channing's anticipatiops
and hopes have already been realized,
that his influence on three generations
of men has been profound and wholly
benefcent, and that the world is going
his way, though with slow and hating
steps,"
Gordon Keith" by Thomas Nelson
Page illustrated by George Wright.
Charles Scribners' Sons, publishers, 159-
157 Fifth avenue, New York city. Cloth
$3.50. This is Mr.. Pages first work
since RED Rock" and is of remark
able scope. The scene includes New
York city and Virginia; the period ex-
tends from the close of the war well
into our own times; the characters are
many and greatly varid; the hero is
Southern, the heroine a New York girl;
the plotlis broad, full, and interesting;
the color has all Mr.. Pages richness.
Mr.. Pages popularity is so well estab-
lished as a writer of fiction that this
story is certain to have many read
ers Those who read it will not regret
having done so.
"a Gentleman of the South" by
William CARROT Brown. The Mac
MILAN Company, New York, publish
ers. Cloth $1.5O. In "A Gentleman of
the South Mr.. William CARROT Brown
has told an unusual love story of the
South shortly after the Mexican War.
Henry Seldom is bachelor OF forty
or forty-f1Ve in whom the bitterly sad
ending of a love affair has resulted
in a good and noble life-almost
happy one. His own family and that
of the girl whom he loved had been
divided by a feud growing out of a
duel which occurred just before the
breaking of the engagement that kill
ed his sweetheart. AS the story opens,
Henry's younger brother, Fitzhugh, re-
turns from the Mexican War, brew
cited captain, for the Christmas holt
DAVIS. and his younger sister, Bevef-
lev. comes home from the boarding
school in Virginia at the same time that
the younger sister of Henry's fiance
is coming to be with them that the
feud may end. 1t would not be fair
to the reader to tell of the loves that
follow or of the ending to which they
come; but the book is distinguished
by the fact that it tells its story
sfraightly and clearly and without
pause from beginning to end. 1t Is not
a long novel-some 200 pages or so;
lust a simple, homely, straightforward
story. whose narrative flows uninter-
ruptedly from beginning to end. 1t has
singular charm of manner, OF prose,
of characters and of atmosphere
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'srhe Under Dog by F. Hopkinson
Smith. Charles scrlbner's Sons, l5S-157
Fifth avenue, publishers. Illustrated,
l2mo. Gilt top. $3.50 If the sympa-
thies of the public are always with
1.-The under dog the portraits, pathet-
&c and tender, and the incidents, tragic
and humorous, which form the sub
stance of these stories win interest
wide circle of readers Most of them,
as the title implies, are tales of men
whom the world has used roughly; and
in the fashioning Of them the authors
extraordinary sense Of the dramatic
and picturesque Is united with an
ideaIized justice and with seriousness
OF purpose which lift the book TO a
high plane. Titles OF the stories mo
Respecter OF Persons" '"rhe Crime OF
sananthy North" bud Tilden, Mail
Thief" Eleven Months and Ten
Days. "Capt. Bob OF the sereameriN
"A Procession of Umbrellas" doc
shlpman'a Fee" "His Last Cent"
plain Flnn-~Pap0r Hanger" Long
jim" Compartment No. A." SAM
myi" "Marnys shadow "Mufiiefi the
Barkeep."
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