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cate health appeals to our sympa t.ics,
but when we get To lcnor. I, a !. Z, !, a ..

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cate health appeals to our sympa thics.
but when we get to know her ana II
see her in work, study and play with
her companions our hearts go out TO
me warm, sincere personality which
INC author limns for us. What child
VIII not be overjoyed at this rea,lza.
ZION OF the browning ambition OF small
sirlhood--to keep store? For our lit
Tie heroine, in spite OF her fathers
millions, 1t was dream come true
4 ana in reading we forget that 1t is
4 story, but seem to live through her
experiences. her friendships and her
j practical difaculties.
Il We have found a new circle OF boys
4 and girls for our children to grow M
4 Win. It is true that they arc younger
man the. Immortal groups that Miss
4 Alcott gave us. but they supplement-
her little men and women. We are
glad to know Billy Potter-we like the
Maw lie treats the children-and we
love dear old Granny FLYNN. The in
dustrions crippled boy and the purse
proud girl: the boy who steals and the
red clicked truant girl: the secret So
clety: the holiday fetes-how many
generations of youngsters will pore
over these.
MAZDA. healthy and happy. leaves the
! shop at the end, but she promises to
return Let US hope that she may!
"Thc Poet OF GaliIee."
BY William Ellery Leonard. 3. ".
| .Huebsch, New York. s1.00 net.
a literary study of the authentic
fragments OF the discourses and say
| ings OF Jesus as embedded In the
synoptic Gospels; psychological
! analysis and reconstruction OF the I'M
posing personality and genius of the
great Galilean, rather than an abstract
esegess of his theology or ethics: the
earnest work OF writer whose desire
is to approach allsproblems of men and
books with self-relance and detach-
ment. The essay, though conscien-
l,tiously based upon the results OF mod
crn scholarship, is neither TECHNICAL
nor polemic: and. though frankly en-
phasizing the humanity OF Jesus
should be welcome and helpful to I
thoughtful men and women OF any
creed.
"Thc Substance OF Socinlixm..
BY John SparSo. B. w. Huebsch, OF
New York 81 net.
Part first OF this book considers the
Socialist hope: the second part takes up I
private property and personal liberty
In the Socialist state; the third part is I
devoted to the moral value OF class
Consciousness.
The first part was delivered In. the
form of all address at Socialist con-
ference In Boston. The second part
was contribution In June of 1909 to
the North American Review. and third
a lecture at Cooper Union, New York
City. under the auspices OF the Peoples
institute. Mr.. Spargo concludes his
preface by expressing tho hopeithat his
llttle volume may help to give the
reader q clearer and justerf'view or
the great socialistic M ovenent of to-
day than has heretofore generally pro-
vailed
''sVhnt Is Socialismt,.
BY Reginald Wright Kaufman.
M0ffat, Yard & Co.. OF New York, pub
fishers. sl.25 q 'sS,5l
a concise, popular and scientific an
sWer to q question which has oftenl
been. OF late years. on the tongue Of
every thoughtful observer OF the march
% human events. Mr.. KAUFMAN IS IL
wonderfully clear thinker, and pos
sesses the knack OF making the al
.struse thing plain to the inexpert
mind OF fair intelligence. He discusses
socialism IN It's scientific ana philo.5l
sophtcal aspects, and In It's practically
Working out in actual life. sharply dis
tlnguishing between real socialism
and the innumerable shamss which
travel travel under the name OF socialism,.
8.5l Is book which will flnd a large.
and attentive audience among AMI
classes IS Of hlnkers and all.klnds ana
OF men. ID
"Calcb fFrench.s, T.
BY Mary INLAY Taylor. Little, Brown
4 Co. Of Boston. SLIGO.
Tales OF Southernlife.s so called, have
certain features that seem to be the
stoclS IN trade OF the novelist writ
Ing from an atmosphere outside OF
the South, and quite apart from its
real homo and community life, These
features are all repeated In "Caleb,
French" 3g !
& There IS the Southern family with e
It's pride and prejudice. its feeling OF
aloofness separating 1t from every
thing and everybody outside az its
class; the old general pruc tittoner and | |
lawyer Of the Southern neighborhood, | /
q poor, half-witted girl with the world / /
against her: type s OF $fa,nily ~ and plan
tation negroes, the young southernII
beauty, md finally the Northern m an.
newly fitted into u Southern surround 7
ngs,{ and contrasting fayorably with 81
Sou lern men Tho impose him. politl-s
sally and social ly.3 If rs
4 There Is he episode Of the un-t d
lvotda bic duel. With the Northerner|f l
firing HTS nist col fn8s haSA n ~ IA Z