The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-02

not only valuable as register or
 daily events, but especially useful for
 the ready information it contains on points constantly arising in business and social affairs. Among the special
 features are 12 pages of colored maps. business laws, interest laws and stat
 utes of limitations, legal holidays in all the states postage rates, population of the United States cities of 10000 or more, and date finder by means Of which one can instantly refer to any
 date from Januafy l, 1900 to December 31, 20oo.
 '-The Religion of Evelyn Hastings" by Victoria Cross. Mitchell Kennerly.) Those readers who are familiar with the work of Victoria Cross will be agreeably disappointed in this book, which has been recently published in this country. It was
 written some time ago, but has only
 gently been published in the United
 States. Evelyn Hastings was a girl who had a religion of her own-that Is to say.
 she was a great believer in the effect of prayer, and also she was able during
 sleep to project her soul, so to speak, to
 portions of the earth which she had never visited and of which she knew nothing. She was very much in love with a man who had been wounded. and the news came to London that this lover had been killed. but Evelyn Hastings refused posi- lively to believe that her lover was any thing but injured, and would turn up all well and good in London, which he did This is really the principle point in the book; that is, that Evelyn Hastings be- lieved In prayer, and particularly her form
 of addressing providence. That is, she
 spoke in her prayers just she would to her earthly father asking for this and begging that the other should not come to her.
 This book, like practically all of the novels written by the woman signing her self as Victoria Cross, is very interesting. In fact this book Is so clean and so far , superior to say 'Life's Shop Window"
 that this department takes pleasure in recommending 1t highly.
 with the Night Mail" by Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday Page & Co) This short story appeared in McClure's Magazine some time ago, and is now for the first time sent forth in book form by Doubleday Page & Go. It is handsomely | illustrated in colors by Frank K Leyer- | nected with him might not beu njustly ] that deals with a supposed trip in the year 2o00 A. D. in an airship from London to Quebec in Postal Packet No. 162' There are also given supposed extracts | from the contemporary magazines of the | year D00 describing the airship and the | passage across the Atlantic Ocean. This 1 is very short story and is printed on one Sluc only or tn6 pdSo, dIu cdil DC redu III I half an hour.
 '-The A. B. C. Taxation" by c. B. File brown. Doubleday, Page & Co.) | The question of the single tax Is argued most effectively by c. B. Filebrown, the | retiring president of the Massachusetts l Single Tax league. which has now been !: published by Doubleday, Page & Go. This l book is really one of importance for stu dents of taxation. It contains a presenta- | ton of the single tax doctrine. which is | in many respects the strongest that has l yet been made. It really is something on | the order of ''kev'' to Henry Georges | Progress and Poverty" Fillebrown | gives the proposal of single tax broad and fine grounding, and he takes sub | ject as dry as this and makes 1t very in l teresting-that Is, to the reader who cares | for such discussion. In the first part of l the book the author presents in success l sive chapters three propositions. which constitute the tripos of the single tax.
 viz. (a) Ground rent as social product: