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experiences with these opportunelN dis
covered Bibles. one senator sent $50 Tor
the work as a token Of his appreciation.
An actress wrote . pathetic letter. and
sent money for a Bible she could own.
tSonc copies of the Rib" are pilfcr"d
from the hotels0 \ fugitive from justice
read the book. and Went back nome TO
cake his medicine" The widow. tho
prodigal the discouraged business man,
the sleepless wayfarer-all have written
their gratitude
The hotelkeepers approve, although one
hotelkeeper said they caused an increase
in his light bills. Some hotels have
paid for their own supply of sibies
The Gideons take charge of buying and
placing the books. but the funds are usu-
ally raised among tho Local church folk.
ana other religious organizations coop
crate.
The imprimatur OF a travelling men $
organization upon these books is a
shrewd commendation and appeal, FOR
no man can make good as a commercial
traveller and be milksop. That the
worldly wise and sophisticated diummers
arc tho great American circulators of the
Bible is certainly significant
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the solicitor general usually representing
the government there; but soon after
taking Office Attorney General Mercy
noIds personally appeared i'm the court
in the matter of the dissolution of the
Hartman lines Of railroad. His attitude
there and since i'm this case was in en-
tire harmony with what the attitude OF
his predecessor would have been.
These are but facts indicating the
course the new Attorney General is to
follow. So far. however. no matter OF
great import requiring the formation
I Of an original policy has presented
itself to the department. There Is no
one striking act on the part of the
Attorney General as Attorney General
in existence to give special character
to his administration of his office. His
big record is yet to be made.
That is but natural. 1t is only fair
to say that the patronage question has
absorbed the greater part of his time
since he took Office. There are several
district judges to be appointed and
many attorneys and marshals. Under
the new dispensation the Attorney
Generals recommendations are required
in each case.
This means that applicants for the
positions and their senatorial and con-
gressiOnal sponsors must see the At
torney General. They have been seeing
him His outer office. once a drawing
ROOM daily is thronged with this class
of visitors
1t is class OF business not entirely
to The tastes of the Attorney General
whose fondness is for the purely legal
side of his work But until this task
is done he will be unable to get fully
into his stride the SoNernmenl
chief prosecutor.
Recent administrations each have had
one bachelor IN the cabinet Mr.. Mickey
nolds is the one III the Wilson cabinet.
1t would be too much to say that he Is a
confirmed woman-hater. but-wel!, any
woman knows what sort OF man II IL
who will pass his half century mark With
out getting married.
Society with a capital has no attfac-
tions for the Attorney General. However,
he is not a hermit at all. and. while n
has figured slightly III Was hlns.on oHiclai
society. he has not conveyed the impress
sion Of a gay and carefree society man.
Sound solid talk with w-professlonai
mon meets more his ideal of social diver
sion than fiuttering around IN eftnins
clothes and paving attention TO taii de~u
tantes .-, -
He can be irascibe at times ihus re
Gently when persistent photographers
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ihiS-"orld "mnt onS. the other picturing
something of h.s rather involved notions
about his own part in the scheme of
ottieT-NoTld ana rs. Magicians are
active here. as they were in the Tao
religion. The Buddhist theory that the
soul passes out of the body and into that
of another body. possibly man. possibly
animal. sets some strange situations
here. The Strange S;or cS From the
Lodge of I.eislircs'' was written toward
the close of the eighteenth century BY
Fou Son2-lin Of the chantong province.
Cut OF the more than .iOD stores making
up the work NJ. Soulie selected twenty
five of the most markedly characteristic
ones for this collection. 1t is Il literary
rather than a literal translation. and one
suspects that the French medium has
much to do with the crysta'-clear quail
ity of these recitals, with their simple
and artlesS manner. The book IS m
portant as a bit of real Chinese litera-
ture, q reflection of Chinese everyday ME
and of the common currents OF Chinesc
thought.
WELCOME TO OF CITY. BY Julian
Street. author of paris IL carte.
etc. Illustrations by James Mont
gomery Flagg and Wallace Morgan
New York: John Lane Company.
Mr. Streets book reads like the fan
tastic and constituencies inventions OF
an uncommonly clever funny man bent
to entertainment. 1t looks like pure
extravaganza- harlequin show. comic
opera. madhouse. even. whose de-
lusions and vagaries have. by some
witchery. taken on body and motion
What ii really is, on the contrary. IS
letter-perfect print of New YORK
city at play, taking it's ease IN hours OF
relaxation. In the Eayest of gay hu-
mors Mr. Street, acting as host, a
sort of lord mayor of play-town. Wei
comes the reader to "our city" and
goes with him, dining and winning,
lunching, cabareting and tangoing- He
leads him into exclusive clubs and
cafes. through equally exclusive but
dingy stage doors and to dingfer be-
hind-scenes. At every turn he f1ashes
a little mirror held in hiding in his
palm. This looking glass is possessed
by clear ma gle. for it reflects the un-
inside Of this astonishing cup. Smiles
frame il and good natured laughter
ripping its face, breaks the absurd
but lifelike pictures into a thousand
new. and true. SroteSqueries Of appear
arce and meaning. By the simple eX-
pcdent of setting things down exactly
as they are. Mr.. Street has made what
looks like very clever satire on the
highly organized and elaborated syn
passes muster for the amusement. dl
version, entertainment of our city"
The laughter. bound to go along with
the reading of this book. viii ut many
Il turn take on the forced note with
which one laughs when the joke is on
himself. For everybody, at one time
and another, plays the fool to what is
called pleasure. and no end of times
here does one see himself in this be-
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Antiquity Of Colchester.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle
One cannot but admire the condcscen-
sion of Colchester in celebrating recent
" the JeUth anniversary of charter
granted by Henry Y. For Colchester has
matters of a hoarier antiquity to base a
bean feast upon. The first Roman colony
founded in Britain established Itself here.
and although it existed only two years.
it managed to export to Italy the local
oyster. whose remains can stun be dug
out of the ruins Of Rome. So that II Col
chester has the finest specimens OF an
cient Rome in her museum rome may
ba said tn have the finest relic of Col
chester i'm her soil. The most treasured
possession of Camulodunurl-as the Ro-
mans. called her--is not the charter about
which the modest fuss is now mace. but
a silver oyster among tht5.city plate. used
us a standard of weigS to insure the
city's customers an adequate mouthful.
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development Since Germany is the cX
pertinent station for students of munich
pal matters. the author devotes fifteen
of the twenty-one chapters here to a
study of the German city whose primary
meaning is that it exists for the people.
a meaning that colors every aspect of
its life and advancement. setting the
! community resolutely above the individ-
ual, being completely free to do what
ever makes for the welfare of all. A
special study is made of Dusseldorf as
the seat of municipal socialism, and of
FrankfOrt-On-the Main an example
of business administration. Five chap
terS are given to an examination OF the
British city. and a final one to a con-
trast of European and American cities.
1t is book of useful and interesting
facts concerning municipal government.
budgets. sources OF revenue. housing
problems and conditions, specialization
of utilities. town planning and city build
ing. with an explanation of the German
and British city on the basis of their
psychology. their inner content of mean
ing and vision. Despite our different point
of view in city building, these European
cities give lessons innumerable to Ameri-
cans on the subject. lessons which. at
this moment. they are in a state to take
over and use. to the profit of their sense
of community life to the advantage of
their municipal building.
THE CHURCH AND THE LABOR con-
FLICT. By Farley Paul Womer.
author of "A Valid Religion for the
Times" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Assuming elat the modern church, along
with other moral agencies of the day. has
a positive mission in the field of IN
dustry and labor. Mr.. Womer undertakes
in this volume to give concrete illustra-
ton of this mission. to make specific def
milton of it. where hitherto the whole
subject has. in the main, rested upon
vague generaliZings and incOnclusive dis
cussions. The foundation Of Mr.. Womer's
study is the fact that we are In the be-
ginnings of a new reformation one more
momentous in nature and inclusions than
that of the sixteenth century. a reforma-
ton whose scope covers economics and
industrialism. whose object is social
righteousness. The fraternal purpose Of
the movement, together with the nature
and urgency of modern labor problems
points to the church as the first of all
organized influences to enlist i'll the labor
crusade. Just what the attitude of this
powerful institution should be in respect
To the present agitation in industry. just
what it can do in behalf of labor. in what
directions and to what extent its actvi-
ties may. and should reach. just what it
has already planned and commenced TO
carry out-theSe are the topics of this
comprehensive and concrete investigation.
The church has for so long been left to
its own churchly viewpoints and meth
DDS that when important things are
afoot-progressive. practical, big things
calling for courage, initiative, admins
trative force, it comes with a bit OF
shock to face upon 1t here, busy with
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THE G|DEONS' BIBLES
Many Travellers Find ConsoIa-
ton in the Sacred Word.
PASSAGES BRING CHEER
Incidents of Work Performed by
Travelling Men in Providing the
Books for Hotel Rooms.

ir.tu thy ph.ic,ilphia North AiIcrican
~ distinctive ITeScut-day forms Of re
li-5ot< work nouc i more romantic or
loss known To the averages church mem
bCr than the Gid.uns. whose international
convention hae recently adjourned at To
toHfu.
Tn, o;idcons are travelling men. They
number I5.0Ft out of the more than half i
million couriers Of commerce who cover
tins continent. They are known by the
blue button bearing q white jar with a
flame from its mouth. They are the mod
crn iypc of Gideons host. and their motto
is And they stood every man in his place
round about the camp. Because OF the
pcrsuasiveness Of their calling they are
an unusually potent body of Christian
workers.
All sorts Of good works go with the
Gideon membership. but at base is the
living Of a. /cIean. Christian life. amid
surroundings that do not always conduce
To this. They have had distinct part in
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Souvenir Of the Dedication .. .hc S.~ York
state Education Building. IKs3l-St:a..
Method IkH st.ss. -"
Ward F. J.. Tic Social Center. iKRs-w2l
racy. IRA ~ ''''''' ''' '"e-
Teaching.
Cooley. Mrs: :; ". Language Teaching IN II.
Holmes; W.; IT, School Organization and II.
Courses for Rural Teachers IQr.M,s2t
National Education Association OF thr United
Salaries and Cost OF Living. rQT -N2ist.
New York state. Education Department. STATE
Normal Schools. 1911. ZONES.
Rice, J. VI. Scientific Management In Educs-
ton IPo Ra5s
ssslsy , Levi and rrtticrs~. \. q. seeiey's
Handschin. e. II. Traching 81 Modern Ian
suases in The United states. ir-H,sa
strsy:r o. H.. and Thorndise. r. l.. Educs
tionaI Administration. IPo-sts:e.
Fairgrounds and Gardens.
District 81 Columbis Department Of Play.
grounds. riayET"Snh Movement IN the p'stre'
Judd. zehnlon. Cultivatinc the School Grounds
in MAJ Wal" r"nn !. : s., anH. ss Hon. o.
IRX-Mi74s
Defective Children.
Grossmann. II: r: T.. The Study of Individual
Children. IZF-Gai7s.
III I!oI@s. Arthur. Conservation of the Child
Nltche. r. r. L!p-readins Principles and P-ac
Peace.
Ancell. Norman. pseud. Peace Theories ant
the Balkan War. JQ-Ans4p.
Fried. A. ii. German Emperor and the Peace
Hull. W. l. The New Peace Movement. 10
HSI5n.
Mead. Mrs. L. A. Swords and Ploushshsres
10 M464s.
Moritzen. julius. The Peace Movement or
America. 10 sIS24p.
sniki. Tsdasu Worlds Peace. JQ-sac5.
World Peace Foundation. Publications. i9ioi2.
Socialism.
Crane. Frank. God and Democracy IHo-
CSl;:g
Bernstein. Edua-d. Evolutionary Socialism
1909. jill -BiJ1.E.
! Grahame. Stewart. Where Socialism Faiied
jill -G.i:.w
Howerton, J. Il. church sni Social Reform.
He HS.;4
Orth. y l.. Socialism AMI Democracy ia IN
Smith. :. q. Democracy and the Church JIG
SmGs
Municipal Government
Beard. {. A. American city Government. Jw
B3>3
Munro. W. b. Government of American Cities
JwS:. -M9a1g
Washington Il. {. Chamber .. Commerce
District Of Columbia ard Its Relation, t. tn
Genera! Government. -JwS5e W.T..
National Government.
Algcr; G. "; The Old Law and the New Or
Chancellor. W. L. Our Presidents and Their
Office. JyS3-C363o.
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vision Of the profession. he would be a
solicitor rather than a barrister: aud
yet his career shows that lie is an able
advocate and pleader.
The Attorney General is not given to
loose conversation regarding what he
hopes to accomplish i'm Office. He de-
clines to commit himself as to fifty-odd
great antitrust cases-civil and criminal
now pending In the district courts.
But his conversation. while not for pub
LEGATION, clearly indicates his general pol
icy. Briefly, it does not depart materially
from the policy OF Attorney General
Wickersham. which was one of vigorous
prosecution under existing laws
Attorney General McReynolds has no,
been one of those who has been clamorine
for more law and wider powers to prose
cute under the antitrust statutCs-for II
is antitrust prosecutions in which the
general public takes the deepest interest
as regards the activities Of the depart
ment.
1t was Mr.. McReynolds who. as special
attorney for the United States, handled
the prosecution of the tobacco trust cases
which resulted in the dissolution decision
Common report is that Mr. McReynolds
was dissatisfied with the action of his
chief. Attorney General Wickersham, il
agreeing to a less drastic manner OF dis
solution than Mr.. McReynolds thought
was proper. Mr.. McReynoIds wanted alb
solute disintegration.
As an employee Of the department Mr.
McReynolds was connected i'm large
way with the prosecution " the anthra-
cite coal railroads. His attitude there
throws further light Oh his possible pol
icy, for it for extreme prosecution.
Though Il democrat-he prefaced the
word with the word ".ulG' in his ap-
proved biographies last year-where the
doctrine Of states rights is raised to con-
trovert the efforts of the government in
handling prosecution. it is not To be
suspected that Mr.. McReynods will give
that doctrine any sympathy.
His pleadinSs on behalf of the govern
ment in the comparatively recent cases
involving the right of state railroad
commission to make railroad rate reeu-
lations that conflict with interstate COM
merce rate regulations are in point
There he took-and in no uncertain terms
the anti-state's rights view.
original decision against the states
rights idea was written by gentleman
who is now also member of the cab
inet-t'ranklin *. Lane, then a member
of the interstate commerce commission
and now Secretary Of the Interior.
The Attorney General does not often
appear i'm case in the Supreme Court.
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houp-la and host Of other things. an
kept b. noble lords ana iaoies. Wno 10
the amount o. their takingss;
The keepers of these stalls have a
very Keen eye TO business. and SO they
seek the aid OF all rhe prettiest chorus
girls. Ii is the duty OF thess .a,i olies
ia rat as much none. out OF their ad-
mirers as they can aud they usually
succeed very welt a.
AS such ridiculous sums as anu ~
.shillings is 10 unusual thing to pay
for turn in the roundabout oi smihs
there Is naturally no question OF What
g. iost On the swings must be made
up on the roundabouts. ana
Very often as much as Z'oVo pounas
is raised for charity III day py means
Of one of these garden pa Ties. anu SO
a great deal of good comes out VI ''iis
summer amusement
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ALWAYS earnest and vigorous is now
the Attorney General. OF all the cabinet
ne is the only ono who took office with q
previous knowledge of the department
over which he presides.
x.
Long before he went into the cabinet
James Clark McReynoids had served for
years as the government chief trust
buster in the Department of Justice. As
long ago as the first Roosevelt admins
tration there were times when he presided
over the department as acting attorney
general in the absence of his chief. And
In very recent times he has handled, as
special attorney for the United States
some OF it's most important cases.
He came, hence, to the department as
one coming back to his ola home He
had not to familiariZe himself with new
duties, for often had he discharged them
He knew and was intimate with many of
his subOrdinates. Though far be II from
any one to intimate that anything of the
sort would be attempted. no departmental
clique or organization was in a position
to put anything over on him. he
knows the ropes.
While the Department of Justice mas
several annexes in Washington. It's CEN
ter and the office of the Attorney Cen
eral are in dignitied old building. once
a private residence. at the northwest
corner of 18th and Is streets. racing NC
Pherson square. 1t is just beyond the
financial district of the city, on the edge
Of an opulent residence and apartment
house district Mcpherson Square. which
takes its name from the effigy OF the civil
war hero. which adorass the center OF the
little park is lovely bit Of srcensWard.
with winding paths, gorgeous Hover gar
: dens and trees.
1t lends an air of restfulness and alooi-
hess to the department building. That
structure seems miles away from the
hurry and hustle of the great State. War
and Navy building. though distant actual
ly only eight squares. About il is an
atmosphere Of academic repose.
Academic the Attorney General may be
in appearance. "a he sits III the high
ceilinged. red-rugSed corner room on
the main floor. with stately furniture OF
another decade about him. all heighten-
ing the effect of gentlemans library
instead of mere office. but there is moth
Ing Of repose III his manner.
He Is an active sort of man. strong of
build. large of frame--he stands over s.X
feet-with great beak of a nose: blue
OF eye fair of hair: but his whole APP
pearance Is that of a lawyer immersed
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ENGLISH SOCIETY
KISSES FOR CHARITY
Lords and Ladies' Pastimes
at Garden Parties-Bunny
Hugs and Tango.
rom Pparsous Weekiv.

4 rom Persons weeks.
IT has become a craze for members
of the ariStocracy to attend various
garden parties arranged for charitable
objects and to help rake in the shekeis
al these benchcent affairs Needless TO
say. they leave all their society man
ners at home. and make up their minds
TO enter fully into any run that is
going, and to create as much as they
possibly can themselves.
Kisses, of course. are very sa liable
article at such affairs. These fetch all
sorts Of sums, according to the face
value of the lady who is selling them
or how much a man IS prepared TO
pay for such thing.
One of the things which impressed
Mr.. F. Doubleyou most of all when he
was present at one of these parties
the other day was the amount OF rag
time dancing which was going on
"Hugs," "Trots' and "Tangoes."
This craze seems to have affected the
younger members of the upper ten"
as no other craze has. and. In spite OF
the many heated discussions which
have been going on as to the propriety
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BOOK REVIEWS.
TUE STORY OF CtLIFORNTN: From
the Earliest Days to the Present.
Rv Henry X Norton Chicago: \. &.
e.


HE sober historian in writing OF
California finds himself, willy
nilIy writing romance along
with his history. Its authentic
adventures read like the purest
of fiction. Its established facts masquer-
ade as mclodrama. Its plain truths look
like rank sensationalism. Even the
climate and scenery Of the state are
in and oil themselves. the one lyric. the
other epic And upon this noble ground
work Indian Spanard. Mexican and
american have worked amazing pat
tern Of events Mission. preside and
,,uch,o belong To the old order The i'm
1neuse convocation Of the lawless there
i'm 70 marks the breaking of its modern
faN. Then the vicissitous growth Of
order out Of this chaos, and after this.
N swift succession. the race for state
hood and no-savery. the patriotic part Of
California in the civil war. the phe-
ronlenal growth of towns. cities. rail-
roads. industry. the generally insurgent
spirit. the social and political initiative
all these crowd one another in 1ostling
and solicitous throng before the historian
~ this somewhat spectacular but alto
now the Panama exposition makes every
one eager to gather up anew the essential
facts of California. And this volume Is
an. opportunity of the best sort. The book
is convenient to the hand. small book
for 50 rich and voluminous subject.
What one specially likes about it is the
admirable discrimination with which Mr..
Norton has held fast to the color and
vitality and picturesqueness of this
ur,au, development in the history of
tic states
EUROPEAN CITIES VI WORN. By
Frederic &. Howe Phi. D., author OF
The City: The Hope of Democracy.
etc New York: Charles Scribner $
Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
In an earlier book Mr.. Howe made
convincing demonstration Of the theory
that the hope of democracy lies. not
in the state. but in the city instead
This exhaustive. tirst-hand study OF GER
tain European cities comes in natural
sequence. as example and summary OF
the ways and means by which these
cities are realizing themselves along lines
of g.owth and fulfllment. lines pre-
NiS:oned from their beginnings. all con-
scious factors in an organic process of