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Angela S Business, Henry S. Harrison.
We quote Robert Herrick s opinion
of this book as given in the New Re
public. angela s Business is an ex-
animated and frequently anus
ing treatise in the noisy field of fem
inism, smartly summing up many points
of view and engagingly setting them
forth with opportune examples. y
Bealby; Holiday, George H. Wells.
Bealby objects strenuously to being
sent to Shonts to be a steward Is help
eT, in fact to being a servant of any
kind, but he is compelled TO 90. He
runs away and has a week of highly
which Bealby thinks he has committed
heinous crime. He returns to
returns to Shonts a sadder and wiser
Bealby, more than willing TO be a.
steward s boy.
u ShALd " VIII Oll4i 1 VI 4 dh lON ShC.
The simple unaffected story of the
childhood of little Hungarian girl
until she is sent to England to be edu-
Gated. The characters are so real, the
manner of life so wildly told, we gain
the impression that the story is auto
biographical rather than mere fiction.
The Clarion, Samuel Ii. Adams.
Young Surtain whose father. mas a.
yearly income of half million dollars,
derived from the sales of duack cure
all, buys out the Clarion, the leading
newspaper, in order to vindicate his
father whom he believes to the limo
cent victim of a undertaking article
| published in the Clarion He decides
| to print all the news truthfully and in
order to carry out his decision is com
lpelled to combat the advertising
forces of the town, the girl he loves
and his own father.
The Harbor, Ernest Poole.
A story in which the social and in
dustrial forces of the day center
around New York city and its won
derful harbor. The story interest cen
tiers in the little boy who lived beside
the harbor, fearing yet fascinated by
lit; and who when manhood is reached,
realizes the power and glory of it all
and through his writings is able to in
terpret the seething life about him
with clear vision and charity.
Martha of the Mennonite Country,
Mrs. Helen Martin.
! Martha has had all of the usual
Mennonite "maid training being the
household drudge of a mean father and
a still meaner step-mother; her ro-
nance begins when two New Workers
} for different reasons, seek the land OF
the Mennonites, in Pennsylvania. One
is a noted novelist who wishes to fnC
new scenes, new social conditions, new
{ characters, so he follows the advice Of
) a friend and takes the position OF
principal in the village high school
The other is a young lady, reared il
luxury, who wishes for an Independent
life, SO she becomes assistant in tht
same school. Both are teaching unde
Q assumed names, and the many curiou
n and amusing complications which aris
I form a comedy story which ends hap
J Ipily for all.
|. The Second Blooming, w. l.. George
e The title of this novel indicate
u that the women in this story are near
} ing middle age, a time when some VIC
. men are liable to a severe second at
t. tack of romance. The story relate
d how the second attack influenced tn
{ lives of three women, all married bu
{ not satisfied, they long to bloom agar
mantle love affair, the second has
career in politics, the third love
children, seizes upon motherhood a
her hfe-business and has children 90
e lore. In the last chapter the tire
L sisters meet and talk over the re
3 suits of their second blooming The
;, agree that marriage brings respons
!. biities, that laziness and "settlin
II brings good to any woman-that W.
l, men must take up something in ca
= nest-art, politics, business, mothe
i hood, philanthropy,-in order to be
come big, fine women.