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give the people of thirteen little re-
publics central government strong
enough to protect them from internal
dissension and foreign aggression has
been found sufficient for the manage
ment of the business of a nation which
uses commercial and industrial ma
chinery not dreamed of in the Consti-
tution-making era"
UNDER THREE FLAGS. By ST Clair
Livingstone and Ingeborg Steen-
Hansen. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
These Red Cross nurses, one writing
in English and the other in Norwegian
here tell the story of the war as they
net it in Belgium and northern France
and Serbia. The battle of Charleroi
Lille, the hospitals of Paris the many
sided appeals of Serbia. Italy and
Serbia again. furnish the foundation
of this deeply personal record of the
war. This book emphasizes again the
striking difference between the man
story of the war and the woman story
with the big movements and plans
with campaign and strategy and issue
The women, on the other hand, see the
infinity of little things-the one man
broken, the little child alone and cry
ing, the shattered home, the scattered
hearth-gods. This little book is par
ticularly intimate with these personal
aspects of the great war. touching and
impressive things that, in their way
are as valuable as the purely military
aspect of the event. One wonders if
in human values. they are not more
valuable. Hundreds of simple pictures
move swiftly before one here. Here is
one: "All anxious to fight for La
France, which they loved. Every wom-
an and every little girl had a stocking
in her hand-at home, in the street
cars, even in church, where they knit
ted as they prayed for their country"
And another: Il saw a cab driver at
the corner of the Rue de Berri and the
Champs Elysees, feeding his horse with
Jumps of sugar from a paper bag Tears
were running down the mans face, and
when he caught my eye he shook his
head and tried to smile. He has been
requisitioned for tomorrow said the
cab driver, showing me a paper which
called the horse under the flag I
weep because we must part He is
young and strong and can serve his
country, while I am old and useless,
sixty years old" So, going from place
to place. these girls transcribe in
cial pathos of appeal
PHASES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY.
By J. Estlin Carpenter, D. Lift.
New York: C. p. Putnam's Sons
This study covers the hundred and
fifty years following the first century
after Christ. Its theme is that of sal
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walton. Around this theme the writer
traces the development of the Christian
doctrine. defining in relation thereto
the rise. the permanence and the in
fluence of certain Christian institutions.
Among the topics included in this dis
cussion are christianity as Personal
Salvation" THE Person and Work of
the Saviour" The Church as the
Sphere of Salvation" and christianity
at the Parting of the Ways" Given
originally as lectures, under the aus
pices of the American committee for
lectures on the history of religion, this
discussion by an eminent oxford schol-
ar here becomes a part of the series
designed by this committee to cover the
history of religions for the use of
American students of this subject.
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It's Religious and Political Growth
and It's Present state. By c. Snouck
Hurgronje, professor of the Arabic
language in the University of Leiden.
Holland. New York: q. p. Put
MANS Sons.
REVELATIONS OF GERMAN At
TACHE; Ten Years of German
American Diplomacy. By Emil
Witte. late councillor of legation at
Washington: Translated from the
German. New York: George II.
Doran Company.
Poems. BY Minnie Bond Garner
Ranney. Chicago: Rand. McNally
& Co.
THE HOME CARE OF SICK chill
DREN; A Guide for Mothers I'm the
Care of Sick Children. By Emelyn
Lincoln Coolidge, NJ. D., formerly
house physician of the Babies Hos
pital of the city of New York, etc,
author of The Mothers Manual"
etc. New York: d. Appleton & Co.
HAY-FEvER; It's Prevention and Cure.
By W. c. Hollopeter, A NJ. NJ D.
etc. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Company.
THE CITY OF TOLL AND DREAMS;
Verse. By William Cary Sanger,
jr.. author of Tides of Commerce
New York: Country Life Press.
FORE-ARMED, How to Build n Citi-
zen Army. By Granville Fortescue.
author of lat the Front with Three
Armies etc. Philadelphia: The
John c. Winston Company.
EXCERPTS FROM AN EGPTIAN
MANUSCRIPT. By K. Esryer. Chi
cago: Printed by the author.
GENTROLLOGY, The Science of Medi-
cine. By Rufus Choate, N. D.
Washington: Published by the
author.
THE BUSINESS OF BEING FRIEND,
BY Bertha Conde, senior student
secretary for the national board of
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion. With an introduction by Rich
ard c. Cabot. NJ. D. Boston: Houeh-
ton Mifflin Company.
THE GOLD TRAIL; A Romance of the
south Seas. By H. DeVere Stac-
poole. author of The Blue La
goon," etc. New York: John Lane
Company.
THE GRASP OF THE SULTAN, With
illustrations by w. T. Benda Bos-
ton: Houghton Miffiin Company.
TORCHY. PRIVATE SEC. BY Seweu
Ford. illustrated by F. Foster Lin
coln New York: Edward J. Clode.
THE COMING BACK OF LAURENCE
AVERILL. By Maurice Drake,
author of wv. O." Illustrations by
A. w. Parsons. New York: Edward
J. Clode.
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tions: canoes are cut from conch shells.
and pearl buttons are made from fresh-
water CLAIMS and abalone shells ASIDE
from these things. all important lndus-
tries is the fact that mollusks are direct
agents of sanitation. They are the scav-
engers of the ocean and its border.
The physical form of mollusk is per-
hans its chief attraction, though it is true
that most mollusks have no shells. Ihe
shelled creatures, however. are legion.
The shell, it will be remembered, is
part of the mollusks body and is built in
the same way as a human beings bones.
1t is primarily provided as protection
for the animals organs. Unlike hornets
nest or bees comb. it Is not built by
the mollusk itself. 1t grows as the ami
NAL grows and is forever attached until
it dies. 1t is usually horny skin with
pearly or enamel lining which protects the
soft body from the corrosive action OF the
acids in the water the dangers on land.
Shells come in all conceivable shapes
glossy and curved. horned and pointed.
They are grouped under two general dl-
visions, the univalves, which are animals
with a single she'll such as the conch,
and the bivalves, those which have two
symmetrical concave shell sections Joined
together with ligament, such as the
clam. Neither class exceeds the other in
beauty. though the univalve is the more
mystifying and artistic 1t is conical
type wound in a perfect spiral around a
central axis. Usually they are wound to-
ward the right. but rare shells are found
wound toward the left. These are as
scarce as four-leafed clovers. Those wound
to the right are called dextral and those
to the left sinistral shells. The largest
coil Of the univalve is the body whorl
where the body lives.
To attempt to give all Of the species
of mollusks would be to write a book
Some of the best known and most
likely to be found on the shores of
the United States are the murex. the
pear-shaped shell of rich coloring
which is SO strikingly ornamental by
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LIS. LARGER BEING ATLANTIC CoNCH.

On lifting the valve the soft parts will
be exposed. CLANS are a family of
useful and beautiful bivalves. The
cookie shells. which Mary, Mary,
quite contrary" had in her garden, are
edible as well as ornamental and are
raked in the muddy shadows which
skirt the British Isles and the con-
tinent in great quantities for the
European market. The oysters. of
course, are famous and the mussels
are attaining front rank of value.
The great pearl oysters, which live
in the tropical seas, provide in their
thick lining the valuable mother-of-
pearl. This is the real dependa BILE
product of the pearl fisheries. The
pearls themselves are few and far be-
tween, only one oyster in a thousand
yielding a gem of any value.
1t is odd to note that mother-of pearl
comes from healthy, fullgrown shells,
while the finest pearls come from shells
distorted by disease. The mother-of-
pearl is the normal growth and the
pearl an abnormal one. Through the
equatorial seas thousands of pearl fish
cries are planted. One in Ceylon is
operated under government control.
The Persian gulf is the place from
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Six of One.

g ENATOR OLLIE JAMES was talk
~ ing in st. Louis about the North sea
naval battle.
Both sides claim the victory" he said
Its six of one and half dozen of the
other. It's like the seashore adventure
"A young man said to a young woman
on the beach in the moonlight:
Goodbye, dearest. I'm off tomorrow
You've made my holiday more than pleas
ant for me- But-ha. ha. ha!-but if you'd
known that I'm married man YOU
wouldn't have been SO agreeable. would
your
Yes. l guess very likely would said
the young woman. You see. you haven't
got anything on me at ALL What If you
are married? I'm an escaped lunatic
from Matteawan.'"
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of concise and forcefu1 statement. as
well as a mine of political fact bear
ing upon the past twenty-five years of
European history.
ROSE COTTINGHAM, A Novel. By
Meta Syrett. New York: G. P. Put
mans Sons.
This story ends where most novels
begin-with romance advancing at its
own uncertain pace toward the hapless
pair around whom its designs, for the
time being center. That is to say, this
is not a love story. 1t is. on the other
hand, the history of a girl who, at the
re-handed age of nine. set up as a
rebel. Nowadays, revolt among the
women is commonplace. Thirty or
forty years ago, however. and especial
ly in England, where this story is
placed, it was a quite different matter.
The immediate background here is an
ordered English manor house. where an
austerely autocratic lady rules over the
lives of her two little granddaughters.
The younger of the two is built on the
lines of strict English propriety. She
serves not only to point by contrast
what is looked upon as the ingrained
naughtinesS of the older one, but to
urge the latter on. besides. to more fire.
quent and more fragrant outbreaks
against the law Of what little girls are
expected to be. At home. and later at
SchOOl, Rose COCtlnRnaTn Is, InuCn
the time. paying the penalty of being
different from her class. She disgraces
the English Womanhood Of that period
by aspiring to college. She degrades
her particular caste by consorting with
laboring folks and socialists and all
sorts of queer people. And, finally, she
blights her own family by writing a
novel. successful one at that This
is story of the emergence of women
from that coma of unventilated domes-
ticity which. fifty years ago. SO
dear to the heart of the good queen.
Miss Syrett knows this little girl like a
book, and possesses the gift of leading
the reader to know her in her pathetic
revolts and her touching lonesomeness.
She is, in fact, somewhat haunting
figure. beating futile wings against the
cage of feminine custom. But one
cheers up with the thought that Rose
Cottingham may sail about pretty much
as she pleases today, to compensate her
for the battles she fought, and lost
forty years ago.
THE STORIES OF II. c. BUNNER.
With an Introductory note by Bran
der Matthews. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
A couple of volumes here cover about
score of the H. c. Bunner short
stories. Written something like twenty
five years ago. these stories are calcu-
lated to surprise the casual reader with
a quality of realism that he, offhand.
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Ready for the Harvest

Grafton and restraint in the national
attitude toward a form of government
that has secured so much of advantage
both to the individual and to the state.
This is a finely conservative study.
study that is informed by scholarship,
wide experience, the statesmanly out
look, public spirit and a forceful treat
ment 1t is an admirable book for the
times.
WHY WAR. BY Frederic C. Howe. Phi.
D. Ii. D., commissioner of immi-
grafton at the port of New York.
author of 'SocialiZed Germany"
etc. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Surplus wealth, according to Mr..
Howe, is the immediate cause of the
war This overturning of the world is
but the logic of events set in motion
by high finance throughout Europe
bent to the task of exploiting rich
quarters of the earth that are held by
politically weak peoples. An ultimate
arrival at the prime cause OF the war
will not disclose so much the ambi-
tions of kings as the aggressions of
European financiers, lords of trade and
captains of industry. The sharp riv-
alries of these separate groups of ma
tionalists, breeding suspicious, ami
moSitieS, hatreds and overreaching,
have spread to the nations themselves.
In ways that are dark, the financier.
the war lord, the trader, and the NUM-
ton maker have gotten together. They
have captured the press, turning it
into a public textbook to suit their
purpose. They control politics. They
are the people. In the name of nation
al safety, but in reality to protect pri-
vate investments, they have set up
the exhaustfng institution of competi-
tive armament and developed diplom-
acy to an intricate and tenuous web
Of chicanery. In support Of this thesis
Mr.. Howe takes up in good detail the
cases of England in Egypt and South
Africa, of France in the north of
Africa, of Russia and England in
Persia, of Germany in its relations with
the Turk. Of the intrigues surrounding
the construction of the Bagdad rail-
way, of all the powers in the Balkans,
in China, in Persia and Morocco. This
is an especially clear summary. With
this clean-cut budget of evidence in
hand. the writer turns toward the
United States. Surplus wealth is here,
and the financier, and the trader Pri-
vate interests are paramount, national
veal a negligible consideration. These
are the elements that, put together. ac-
cording to European fashion, will lead
in the course of time to the same is
sues that are now disrupting the con-
structive forces of the world The
book, in prime purpose, is one of warn
ing to menaced nation. 1t is in the
development of this purpose a marvel
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by Fellows, See You in Two Weeks"

would have said belongs only to yester-
days or today's manner of American
writing. To be sure. the settings differ
from those that mark the story of this
morning. But this is only superficial
difference, no more than the new vogue
that reShapeS mans waistcoat or die
tates another shade for his afternoon
cravat. In every essential OF realism,
in all the ns and outs of vivid. real
istic writing on everyday American
topics. these stories walk side by side
with those of O. Henry. Literary
father and son one takes the two to be.
both making large use Of New York
city the common source of their in
spiration. These stories impress one
with their originality of invention and
with, the engagingly whimsical turn
that this invention is more than likely
to take. They delight one with their
humor and general kindness of feel
ing, with the fresh and bracing atmos-
phere that breeZes out from them, with
the sturdy human beings that they
present and with the workmanly skill
Of their structure.
An introduction to the series by
Brander Matthews gives a Geographic
and critical summary of this novelist.
short-story writer, poet, journalist and
editor for many years of Puck. the
earliest of our comic papers to win and
hold an appreciable success.
THE AMERICAN PLAN OF GOVERN
MENT, The Constitution of the
United states ms Interpreted by Ac-
ceptcd Authorities. By Charles w.
Bacon. A. b.. assisted by Franklin
S. Morse, A. NJ. Introduction by
George Gordon Battle, NJ. A. New
York: G.. 2. Putnams Sons.
The United States Constitution of
1916 is not the Constitution of 1888"
1t is true that. outwardly. the Consti
tuition has not changed within this
period, save for it's added amendments.
It is equally true that in order to meet
the demands of our rapid and highly
complex national development within
these years, it has expanded greatly
in its inner content, evincing concur
rently that capacity for accomm oda-
tion and readjustment that stands as
the essential fact in every process of
evolution. This authoritative volume
is devoted to a concrete study of these
changes in the Constitution, changes
wrought in part by open amendment.
and in larger part by judicial interpre-
tation and construction of the law. 1t
is in effect, casebook of the Consti-
and full circumstance of each case that
direction of this document of federal
government. 1t is a profoundly in
terestng and highly valuable book, of
which George Gordon Battle, in an in
PRODUCTION. says: THE American Plan
of Government shows how a scheme of
government adopted 127 years ago to
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itself and SO much used by cameo cut
ters for fancy articles. This is a COM
mon variety on the California coast
Another well-known mollusk is the
welk. many species of which are
found in Florida. The best known is
the giant pear. Familiarity called the
conch.
The queen conch is the largest welk
native to this country and it is a most
interesting sight as it Chambers over
the coral reefs. 1t has a polished rosy
lining and a white knobbed exterior.
This is the shell which is so often seen
fashioned small cottage garden of the
south. 1t is also used as a dinner
horn on the plantation and as rude
weapon and utensil The shell is mas
sive. but the animal within is strong
enough to carry 1t. Other well-known
welks are the olive, named on account
of it's shape, and the augur, which
closely resembles the carpenters tool.
The cowrie is another shell family
of widespread reputation. The little
cowrie of handy size is used as money
by the native tribes of Africa and it
is a favorite for personal adornment
and to string on horses saddles 1t
is pear-shaped with very high polish
and beautiful coloring. 1t Is the most
highly priced of all the shells and is
the one supposed to have the sea
sound imprisoned within It, As the
poet says:
Shake me. and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lip to your attentive ear
And 1t remembers its august abode
And murmurs the ocean murmurs there.
1t is to be found both at California
and Florida and is deemed the aristo-
crat of the mollusk world.
The helmet shell Is the true cameo
shell. The black helmet Is the best
for cameo cutting and the shell is
large enough SO that the inner lip of
one will yield several brooches. Moon.
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THE Summer Vacationer and His Mania
for Collecting Shells Along Shores.
MoIlusks That Climb, Leap, Crawl, Bur-
row, Swim, Dive, Float and Fly-From
Microscopic Forms to Marine Snails Two
Feet in Length-Aristocrat of the Shells
and the Living Bivalves of America.
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where the best of the worlds gems
come. There the yearly harvest from
pearls and mother of pearl amounts to
S2,000,000. California, also. has pearl
fisheries.
Other bivalves are the sunset, SO
called because of its rays of wonder
full hues and the scallops. These are
ribbed and arched and the valves are
Joined on square hinge line. None
of the bivalves are prettier than this
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Joseph H. Choate New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
@HESE letters were written by
Mrs. Ward to an American
friend in answer to the ques-
ton, Are the English doing
all they CAM" The western
war front has already given, and is still
giving, triumphant affirmative to the
query. Nevertheless, Mrs. Wards let
ters open up vividly and convincingly
the home side of this English partici
patton in the great war as one has not
seen it done before. Here is specific,
concrete evidence in abundance of a ma
tion-wide activity, of the submergence
of differences in a general cooperation
of effort, of the utter abandonment of
any number of minor causes" in sup
port of the supreme cause, of fierce, un-
tiring energy on the part of men and
women alike, of boundless ingenuity in
making the home plant productive to
it's utmost limit, of dauntless courage.
of unconquerable faith. 1t is an amaz-
ing, an inspiring picture of England's men
and women doing all they can" In the
possession of opportunities and privileges
y
to end of England, gathering evidence
from city and town and hamlet and coun-
tryside. alike. Everywhere the story was
the same. Buildings turned over night.
so to speak, into munition shops, with
every man and woman in the commu-
nifty. who could be of any possible serv-
ice clamoring to do what he or she
could. The barriers of sex and class
gave way. Men and women were work
ing side by side. girls of humble station
and those of higher degree forgetting
their differences in new understand
ing and amity. LAS to the women,
Mrs. Ward says. they are saving the
country. They don't mind what they
do. Hours? They work ten and a half
or with overtime. twelve hours a day.
seven days week. The government is
insisting on one Sunday two Sundays
a month off. | don't say they aren't
right, but the women resent il. We're
not tired they say. And look at them,
They are not tired Splendid,
From the western front Mrs. Ward
completes this illuminating book with
equal stories Of the efficient prepara-
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industry! Scallops, too, are edible and
valuable; wealth comes to the pearl
diver from the beds of pearl oysters that
are found in so many of the seas sepia
ink and Tyrian dyes are molluscan secre-
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\ person who begins with the mis-
conception that all Inollusks are varia-
tons Of snalls and CLAIMS usually is a very
surprised human being when he finds out
that these are but forms Of an animal
family with innumerable species and
that at least 1000 different ones have
been distinguished by name and written
about In fact. the nOllusca constitute
an animal group which exceeds in size
and variety all others. Every latitude
with the exception Of the polar regions
has its n1olUsks: the populous ocean is
way from Its tide line 10 its most abysmal
depths. bodies OF fresh water have their
char, cteristic forms, and even the land
sections are not without their shell-in-
closed residents.
Small wonder that the beaches seem
literally scattered with dead shells, plain
and unColored, brilliant and queer, and
that collection Of shells forms such
important part Of the summer recreation
OF young and old America. The field is
Hmitless and the study never Apses into
monotony.
Not only are the shells fascinating for
the living animals themselves present
tremendous variety Of form. Mollusks
there are that climb. leap, crawl, burrow,
swim. dive. float and even fly. In size
they run the scale from microscopic forms
TO marine snails two feet long and giant
CLAIMS that measure four feet across and
weigh 800 pounds. Indeed. ones interest
Is not allowed TO slaclSen once IL embarks
on a quest OF shell knowledge
This shell world besides furnishing
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material for arousing the
interest Of the jaded vacationer, is
one of the most important
divisions Of animal life to man.
Think of the value Of the oyster.
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VI m

T
those who wend their way toward
the sesIshore. revives yearly the
q inevitable mania for shell collect
ing From Old Point Comfort TO Maine
everywhere that the smell Of the briny
deep pervades-the professional vender of
shells displays his odd and beautiful wares
TO a public that seems unendingly inter
ested- NOt satisfied with purchasing
shells. which are usually indiscriminate
collections from all over the world, this
same public further nanifests its In
terest by an eager search all up and down
the Atlantic coast Cor these ocean treas
ures left Oh the sand by an outgoing tide.
In all the great aqUaria Of the United
States collections OF the shen-bearing
animals OF land and sea may be viewed
alive: IN the great museums OF cities are
wonderful collections Of dead shells. but
while these serve to whet the enthusiasm
Of the seasoned conchologist. il is the
unexpected finding Of a shell on the
beach which brings the deepest thrill
And this IS the surest means OF begin
ming an interest In the great and varied
realm OF rOilusca-
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ENGLAND'S EFFORT. BY Mrs Hum
phry Ward. With a preface by
Joseph II. Choate. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.