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all the more noteworthy. His book, it may De added, Is collection of his articles which appeared in Every podys Magazine as Soldiers of the C----.--on Good" but he has enlarged upon his theme and added consider able new matter pertinent and telling. The interest excited by the book is evidenced by the fact that the chapter on Japan has been secured by the Japanese government, translated into Japanese, distributed in the public schools, and published throughout the country; and that during the recent election campaigns in Australia, the chapter on that country was used as a political pamphlet with unusual re- suits
 MT. Russell when in England ab- sorbed in his quest for material for his ! book asked MT. George Riland, mem Der of the Queensland Parliament, what he considered the best treatise on political and social economy, Mr. Riland answered immediately, why the Sermon on the Mount" and his tone indicated that he was astonished that anyone should ask such a ques- tion. Riland began life as a plowman on a sugar plantation For years he plowed by day and studied and pom dered by night. He Is one of the best read men in the Australian Parliament to-day, and as the result of his vast reading and his life experience. he is convinced that the Sermon on the Mount contains the heart and essence of political and social economy. After all Mir. Riland's answer is a summing up that strikes at the root of the mat ter.
 MT. Russell cites Switzerland as a country without graft where there are conditions nowhere else existent to- day and says further in substance that monopolies have been changed from instruments of private profit getting to useful public servants. The f process has not been forced nor il- legal nor dishonest. It has been a pure- ly democratic evolution brought about by honest men who believe Utopian ideals were not merely dreams of a Sir Thomas Moore, but were practical possibilities. Switzerland has made good, Her citizens have proven themselves a sovereign people.
 A little spot of the earth like Switz- erland has no great industries, no teeming millions, no great industrial problems, MT. Russell's bok is worth reading but his deductions and con- clusions are frequently chimerical
 
 I'M ET1Ay NrAy IL. by Robert Nelson Stephens and George Humbert Westley; illustrated publish- ed by |. c. Page X Co.,, Boston; $150 at Judd's.
 Both of these authors are well known as successful writer's of books, MT, Stephens being author of "An En- emy to the King" Philip Winwood," etc., and MT Westley having written At the Court of the King" etc. Tn this new book, "Clementina's High wayman," are combined fine qualities of plot, construction and literary fin- ish.
 It Is distinctly a romance, the story being laid in the mid Georgian period. It Is a dashing, sparkling, vivacious comedy with a heroine as lovely and changeable as an April day and hero all ardor and daring.
 The distinctive quality of MT. Stephens style clothes the story in a rich but delicate word-fabric; and never before have his setting and at- mosphere been so perfect.
 There is an abundance of spirited adventures in this story. The book Is replete with stirring scenes. There are fine illustrations by Adelaide Ever hart
 The late MT. Stephens full list of novels are; An Enemy to the King, ," 1 "The Continental Dragoon," "The Road to Paris" "A Gentleman Play er," Philip Winwood," Captain Raw enshaw," "The Mystery of Murray Da- venport" "The Bright Face of Dan ger D and "The Fight of Georgiana."
 Concerning "Clementina's Highway man." and the late MT Stephens ca- reer the Boston Transcript says, The modern writer of the historical novel is nothing if not prolific. For ten years or so prior to his untimely death be- fore he had scarce reached middle age, Robert N. Stephens has proved himself an ingenious inventor of plot, : clever interpreter of character and a skflful writer of narrative. Begin |, ming first as reporter, and then as an editor in various positions on Phil , adelphia newspaper, he then found his way to more profitable, if not to } more lasting, work as the writer of dramas in which the low life of New York was exploited on the stage for the 'delectation of not over critical , populace. "On the Bowery' and The 1 White Rat" were the names of his , earliest dramatic efforts, and in the first of them was displayed the per | sonality of Steve Brodie, the hero of , a Brooklyn bridge jumping episode, that was the a1l-absorbing topic of the hour some fifteen years ago. There 2. was something decidedly worth while in these plays, although none but an expert could have discerned it, so 5 thoroughly were they written to order and for the moment, and it did not , take MT. Stephens long to outgrow 5 their crudites and their ineptitudes. } With "An Enemy to the. King" he : found his way into the higher reaches of the drama, and many playgoers of { some ten years ago doubtless retain ? pleasant memories of MT. Sothern's l appearance as the romantic hero of that play Strange to say however, this was, with one exception, MT. l Stephens last play, and he turned 5 from it immediately to the task of 5 novel-writing, having been induced to | take that step despite the fact that the . profits of the successful novelist are