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sA woman's Confessional" by Helena
 WoIjeska - ssPresIdent ROOseveIt's
 Railroad PoIiey"-"studies in Modern
 German IIterafure," by Professor
 otto HeIler-ForthcOming Books
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 "A Woman's Confessional" by Hele- na Woljeska; Pp. 1O4. Life Publishing Company; 75 cents.
 Much curiosity is bound to arise con corning the identity of the author of this little book. The epigrams of which it is made up are clever in themelves, and they reveal very frank ly the workings of a womanis mind on subjects which women rarely discuss and about which they tell the truth more rarely. The real thoughts and beliefs of this woman may not thor oughly meet the approval of the more Conventional and straight-laced of her sex, but all women will find them in teresting through their very frankness. Their cleverness of expression and marked originality are bound to att tract the attention of men and women alike.
 The epigrams are extracts from the Journal of woman who was born of a distinguished family in Vienna. Her life is carried from here to the western part of America and through various vicissitudes to studio life in one of the larger cities-presumably New York. The book reveals her inmost thoughts, some bitter, some loving, some passionate, some sad, but all carrying with them intrinsic evidence of their veracity.
 "A Woman's Confessiona" is a unique little book in its makeup, be- ing printed throughout in purple ink. the cover a light mauve and the in- side pages an agreeable shade of yell low. There seems no good reason why the printed pages of books should be confined to the monotony of black ink on white paper, and this innovation by Life Publishing Company, which issues "A Woman's Confessional may lead to other combinations of color which will give us not only novelty, but have a distinct value from the eye-doctor's point of view.
 Ginn and Company issue President Roosevelt's Railroad Policy" the re- port of a discussion before the Eco homie club of Boston. The book in cludes speeches by Hon. Charles A.. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission; President Wilcox, of the Delaware and Hudson railroad compa- ny; Judge Grosscup, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and Professor Frank Parsons.
 '.Studies in Modern German Litera- ture," by Otto Heller, professor of the German language and literature in Washington university director of German in the Chautauqua institu- ton; published by Ginn and Company, Boston. Cloth, S01 pages; list price, s1.25; mailing price, $1.35. A most -~shnely contribution to the knowledge of present-day literature is offered in this volume, dealing, as it does, with conspicuous figures and the most i'm portant aspects of German modern ism. The works of Hauptmann and Sudermann, particularly, are treated with greater fullness and accuracy than has been hitherto accorded them by English or American critics.
 The author, though evidently not al- together in sympathy with what is generally styled Die Moderne,' re- gards the rise and decline of natural ism as a valuable episode in the devel- opment of the drama. In his opinion, the abiding service rendered by natu- ralism to the higher realism into which 1t is fast emerging, consists In bring ing dramatic art into a. closer touch with the social forces of modern life.
 The latter portion of Mr.Heller's book deals with the Woman Writer of the Nineteenth Century. He shows the unmistakable continuity of develop p1ent which runs through the literary activity of the German authoress from the beginning of the nineteenth centu- nv, when she made her official bow in polite literature, to the present day. Without eulogizing the German woman writer unduly, the author traces in the story of her increasing influence the signs of an upgrade movement calcu- lated to disarm the detractor and the pessimist. Women readers of this clever book may derive qualification from the fact that an unconverted skeptic, as regards the artistic capacf- ty of womankind, concludes highly appreciative discussion of such writers as Isolde Kurz, Clara Viebig, Helene Bohlau and Ricarda Huch with the frank admission that one cannot name the foremost living writers of Germa- nv without including several women
 MT. Robert Lutz, of Leipsic, who bought the German rights of Burton ID. Stevenson's "Holaday Case" from Messrs. Henry Holt and Company, has just bought from them the rights of the same authors Marathon Myste- ". Messrs. Henry Holt and Company in response to numerous demands will is- sue at once low priced, popular edi- ton of their Lucass Book of Verses for Children" It is doubtful if there is any better anthology for the young people than this book of two hundred poems from some eighty representative authors. It has steadily grown in fla vor and this next edition will be the