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tiles. The book will be valuable to all
students Of economics who are interest
ed in the financial growth Of the country.
Harper & Brothers announce that
they are putting to press for reprint
ings The Captain of the Janizaries."
by James NJ. Ludlow. They also are
reprinting Elements Of Navigation"
by w. ]: Henderson,: Boots and Sad
dies" by Eliza B. Custer. and Farm
Legends" by VIII Carleton.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are already
having to send John l. Given's MAX
ing a Newspaper" to press for the
sixth time. Mr.. Given's experience on
the New York Evening Sun stood him
In good stead His book is not only In
teresting to prospective newspaper
men, but to the general reader. and
especially at this time, in such chap
ters as THE Police as News Gather
ers" and Police Courts as News Cen
ters"
There Is hardly another author who
knows better the negro of the South or
uses him to better advantage in fiction
than does Halle Erminie Rives. whose
new romance. The Valiants Of Vir-
ginia," recently was published. A born
Southerner and until a few years ago
a resident Of the South. Miss Rives has
been in a position to study the negro
and his ways and to see him at his
best. She has analyzed his nature and
made a personality of him In her
stories.
The Century Company reports imme-
ciately following issue a second edition
of Arthur Stringer's novel of a detec-
tive's round-the-world hunt. A fifth
large edition Of Frances Hodgson Bur
nett's "Racketty Packetty House" is
on the press. to meet the demand EVIL
IDENTIFY stimulated by the staging Of the
story at the Century Theater.
On the American Library Associa
tion's just issued list OF most impor-
tant books of 1912-from the stand
point OF desirability of purchase for
the small library-are included Helen
Nicolay's Personal Traits OF Abraham
Lincoln" Jean Webster's Daddy Long
Legs" Alice Hogan Rice's "A Romance
Of Billy Goat HILL" and Jack London's
Smoke Bellew"
Rev. Robert Hugh Benson. English
author and Catholic priest, has this
spring given US another novel. Come
Rack! Come Rope" CDodd. Mead &
Coz. II is a story of the persecution
Of the Catholics during Queen Eliza
beth's time, and the title is said to be
taken from the dying speech of a Cath
Ollie leader of that period. Father Cam
pion, who was tortured and executed
at Tyburn.
"Pipp'n." which the Century Company
will publish. is Miss Evelyn Van Buren, 8
first book. though she is well known in
the magazines The Century Magazine
has published her '-Cecilia's Corner"
"Lirs Old Man" and THE Martins"
among others: and II was the late Mr.
the present buck. tale of London street
life.
Jack London's new book of short
stories tths Century Company will in
clude The Night-born," THE Madness
Of John Harmed" when the World was
Young" THE Benefit Of the Doubt. 4"
Winged Rlackmail." punches Of
Knuckies," War" Under the Deck
Awnings" ITO Kill a Man." and The
Mexican"
The Putnams have just published a
volume entitled Problems of the Sexes"
by Jean Finot. NJ. Finot Is well known
as writer "n social and philosophical
topics. Starting from the statement that
"the ascent of man has been arrested
by the immotility OF woman" he sets
out to conquer a joint paradise in which
woman shall be admitted to the ban
ouet Of life" on terms of perfect equal
fly with man. He finds that the result
of the exclusive government by man has
been a dismal failure.
In THE Romance OF the Rothschilds," t"
which the Putnans have just published,
Ignatius BalIa tells OF the acquisition of
a fortune nf fabulous magnitude through
the business genius of the Rothschilds
The story had its beginning In the
ghetto of Frankfort where was born, in
l1S3, Mailer Amschel. the first OF the
dynasty. From these humble origins the
family's influence spread tu the chief
cities of Europe until to-day the Roth
schild tradition is part and percel of
European history. 1t is an absorbing