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Suzanne" is a mighty interesting
novel, based on the uplift movement
and embracing all the live issues OF
the day. 1t presents new view OF
settlement work. Tho leading char
acter, n minister of the gospel, loses
his fashionable congregation through
his altruistic desire to serve the peo-
pie. His associations with the social
isuc clement give some thrilling and
amusing experiences.
When he fails in his efforts to up
lift and save souls he turns energetic
ally to the humane field to save lives.
making an unoppreclated success out
of what would otherwise have been
q failure
A shadowy nemesis followed the
Path strawn with his mistaken de-
slres. misplaced hopes. and unfulfilled
ambitions.
The woman in the story is deemed
essential to happiness and cast aside
all she possessed and went forth for
what she desired. She welcomed the
complex as II resolved itself Into the
simple until II ceased to be aNalted
and grew colorless and monotonous.
She found love unadorned rarely out
lasts the season that gave II birth. The
river of life flowed IN an ever lessen
ing channel. while the waters grew
brackish
Her view narrowed until the hori-
zon was lost over the environed hills
tinRcd with the purple of regret a re-
greet as sullen and defiant as the red
hills of Judea.
The minister's daughter inherits his
weakness along with his strength In
time We ind her in the slums of n
great city. with an exalted ideal. How
shG nnds her father and herself Is
most dramatic.
The delicate situations are handled
with truthful simplicity Tha love
motives touch the heights and depths
of realism while the philosophy shows
much thought has been devoted 10 the
serious questions of the day.
The thought pictures are wildly
illustrated In word painting that Il
constant delight 10 the lover Of ma
ture,
The story is decidedly original in
conception aud daring In construction.
The book Ia deliberately illustrated
and viii prove of interest because II
| has TO do with the many sided and
ever changing issues ~ life.--Monarch
Book company. Chicago.
Two now volumes win be published
by Houghton. Mifglin & CO.. IN The
| chief Poets Series" Thor titles will
| be- The chief English Poets 10 the
| Time OF Chaucer" edited by Prof G.
| O.. Child OF the University OF Penn-
| sylyania: and THE Chief icnglish
| Poets from Chaucer 10 Tottels Alscel-
| leny" edited lay Prof W A Nelson
| and Dr. Kennth @. 4. Webster OF
| Harvard university The volumes in
this serlns now published or In active
| preparation include the two above
| mentioned. The Chief American
! Poets" edited by Prof. Curtis Hidden
I Page, of Columbia university The
| CHIEF Elizabethan Dramatists" Tex
| cent Shakespeare To the Close OF tho
Theaters." edited by Prof, William A.
| Nelson, Of Harvard university, the
editor OF the new single volume
Shakespeare THE Chief British Poets
of the Sixteenth and seventeenth Gem
utrles,' edited by Prof. Curtis Hidden
Page; The Chief British Poets OF the
Eighteenth Century" edited by Prof.
Curtis Hidden Page, In general char
aeteristics these books VIII resemble
Prof Pages "Chef American Poots."
The contents viii cover the fun prae-
teal needs OF college courses on the
respective periods, and each book
VIII be furnished with such biograph-
ical ana explanatory notes as are re-
CURED ~ literary courses. These