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Macmillan Books for Christmas Gifts

"Paine's research has been astounding."-World's Work.

Joan of Arc-Maid of France

A new biography by Albert Bigelow Paine

This is the authoritative story of the peasant girl of France who at seventeen led a nation's armies; her first unbiased and complete biography.

It is the story as told on oath by her playmates, her neighbors, her comrades-at-arms, the doctors who questioned her, the judges who tried her. This, along with the testimony and letters of Joan herself, is now complete in English for the first time. Nearly 100 pictures—32 in gravure and one in full color. Two volumes.

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$10.50

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Ernestine Sophie

A new novel by Sophia Cleugh

The vivacity, humor, and adventure born in "Matilda" have not died. The author has
rejuvenated them in "Ernestine Sophie." And what a rejuvenation. The piquant, wide-
awake heroine who dominates this second novel is every bit as captivating as Matilda
ever thought of being.
$2.00

Christina Alberta's Father
A new novel by H. G. Wells

A return to the author's early manner in "Kipps" and "Mr. Polly." "It stands, as a
matter of fact, quite by itself. It is excellent," said John Farrar in the New York Sun.
You can't help liking Christina Alberta. She is irresistible.
Price $2.50

Masefield's Collected Works

At last John Masefeld's complete works, his novels and short stories alone excepted, have been brought together into four beautifully bound volumes. All of his ballads, plays, poems, and narrative poems are included.

Complete Works of William Butler Yeats

in five volumes

William Butler Yeats' complete works are now ready in five volumes. $2.50 each There is also a limited autographed edition de luxe.

$5.00 each

Price $3.00 each volume.

The Song of the

Indian Wars

by John G. Neihardt

This new poem by Mr. Nelhardt carries on
his epic which was begun in "The Song of
Three Friends" and "The Song of Hugh
Glass". Illustrated by Allen T. True $2.25

Etchers and Etchings
by Joseph Pennell

"Mr. Pennell's book, designed for the collector as well as the student, is a beautiful
piece of book-making.
experience."-The Nation.

It is rich with information drawn from Mr. Pennell's long
New and cheaper edition. Fully illustrated $10.00

The World Court

by a Judge of the Court itself

This is the first authoritative, thoroughly understandable, account of the World Court. Antonio S. de Bustamante is the author, and he presents in most readable form all the facts that our Senate is to be confronted with at the coming session, when the Court will be either accepted or refused. Price $3.00

The Little World

by Stella Benson

Stella Benson writes about places and people in America, Japan, China and India, including a vivid account of her wedding journey across the States" in a Ford. Illustrated. $2.50

Yule Fire, an
Anthology

by Marguerite Wilkinson

The sweet homeliness of the early carols and the reverent insight of the best modern lyrics make this a book of Christmas Poems to be cherished Illustrated. $2.50

Animal Heroes of the Great War by Ernest Harold Baynes

An unusual record, written as only Baynes, the lover of animals and their understanding chronicler, could write it.

Coming Dec. 15. Illustrated. $3.50

The Tragedy
of Waste
by Stuart Chase

"A book that is at once exciting
and informing. Mr. Chase has deli-
vered himself of an epic."- New
York Times.
$2.50

Science and the
Modern World

by A. N. Whitehead

Embodies a study of the mental-
ity of Western culture during the
past three centuries, in so far as
It has been influenced by the de-
velopment of science.
$3.00

Ruth Talks It
Over

by Junius Vincent

An open debate on both sides of the new morality" in which a teacher "who knows" tells the American girl of today what she Is overlooking in her quest for thrills, and sticks to psychology and physiology in the telling. $1.50

The Modern
Reader's Bible

by Richard G. Moulton

The price of this remarkable book of over 1,700 pages containing the complete Bible in modern, readable form, with 400 pages of literary analysis, has been reduced to: Cloth, $2.50: Leather, $4.50; Cloth, illustrated, $5.00

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Hawaii

"Huki!" Hawaiian boys shout at Waikiki "Pull, Pull!" as a great white-capped comber lifts your outrigger canoe and hurls you landward at breath-taking speed.

Try this summery vacation this winteras unlike the rest of your year as a holiday should be-and as easy to plan and take! Your nearest railway, steamship or travel agent can book you direct to Honolulu. Steady-keeled liners sail from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver or Victoria, B. C., in 5 to 6 days.

Enjoy Hawaii several weeks or months; living costs are moderate. Or make the round trip from the Pacific Coast in 3 or 4 weeks for as little as $300 or $400, allowing a week or two in Uncle Sam's romantic territory and providing for all travel and living expense.

Good golf, motoring, hotels, modern conveniences, on all larger islands. Tennis, deepsea fishing, hiking, inter-island cruising; volcanic wonders in Hawaii National Park. If you wish descriptive, colored brochure on Hawaii, write now

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broom-straw take our fields and our children after us become the peasants of this country which our fathers settled."

TH HE chairman slowly moved back into

his chair. Tense silence filled the room. For a moment there was only the sound of the oakwood fire within and from without the deep sighing of a rising wind in the swaying branches of the pines. For a moment these people seemed

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to gaze into the future. Then, rising in a body, they voiced their thanksgiving and sang:

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!

Praise him, all creatures here below!

Whatever the year's harvest may have lacked, there was no mistaking the spirit of Thanksgiving in the voices of the har

vesters.

The Book Table

Edited by EDMUND PEARSON

St. John Ervine's "Parnell"

A Review by CLARA BELLINGER GREEN ITH the perspective which over a quarter of a century gives to a biographer, St. John Ervine, a student of Irish affairs and author of "Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Movement," has been able to give a just estimate of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great Irish leader. He writes that he began the work with a strong prejudice against Parnell, but "ended it with a feeling of deep affection for him."

Singularly enough, Ireland's greatest leader had no Irish blood. But Mr. Ervine points out that the Celtic-Irish distrust their own kind and look for leadership of higher rank. The Parnells were Anglo-Irish-Anglo-Saxons living in Ireland. They were patrician, and Parnell "could claim kinship with a host of lords." So it remained for a man of English descent, an aristocrat and a Protestant, to become master of the Celtic-Irish, for whom Parnell had almost a snobbish distaste. But, like them, he hated the English, a feeling augmented by his American mother, daughter of Commodore Stewart, who had often commanded "Old Ironsides" against the then bitterly hated English. Parnell himself was never a Fenian, and combated his sister Fannie, who contributed to Irish papers fiery poems inflaming her countrymen against the English, and Anna, who founded the Ladies' Land League and, later, roamed up and down the country with her band of fanatical women, inciting violence. To these activitics Parnell was forced to put an end in due time.

Parnell, though he abhorred violent measures and outrages, was a fighter and an obstructionist. Proud, cold, even

1 Parnell. By St. John Ervine. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $4.

repellent in manner, not generally liked, and with the scant education of a boy who had not taken kindly to books, he had native intellectual power, quick decision, and the tenacity of his race. Public speaking he detested, but he would say in one pregnant sentence what would gain his point and confound his antagonist. Justin McCarthy, when asked to explain Parnell's remarkable rise to power, said: "He had the genius of a commander-in-chief." The same faculty with which, even as a child, he had ruled the Parnell household made him master of the Irish people. Complete obedience from them he always had, but, more than that, he had their adoration. "It is a statement of bare fact to say that the great mass of the Irish people adored Parnell at that time," says Mr. Ervine. He was "the Uncrowned King of Ireland." "He will soon have England as mad as Ireland," exclaimed a bystander, as Parnell once made his way through a crowd of cheering English. Gladstone, who was committed to the self-government of Ireland, was his avowed friend.

Then came the last dramatic events of his life, rushing on to the tragic end, the Phoenix Park murders, in which he was charged with complicity, and the Pigot forgeries-letters purporting to be written by Parnell admitting knowledge of the crime, but actually forged by Richard Pigot for a goodly sum of money. The whole plot was exposed and Parnell cleared.

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What followed is hard to read. O'Shea divorce, naming Parnell as corespondent, naturally came as a shock to both Ireland and England. Yet he seemed by sheer force of character to be in a way to surmount even this disaster;

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throughout he was still to the Irish "our dear chief," but, overwrought and ill, reckless of his health, working ceaselessly, he succumbed to a breakdown, on October 6, 1891. In the previous June he had married Mrs. O'Shea.

"The news of his death stirred England and stunned Ireland." He had worked for the unity of Ireland, and he held together the body of the Irish until his death, when they fell apart. And so it will remain, thinks the biographer, "until another chieftain comes, as Parnell came, and beats the Irish into a unity that will endure."

Fiction

ST. HELIOS. By Anna Robeson Burr. Duffield & Co., New York. $2.

A full-bodied novel, not skimped in characters or incident. It holds its own from start to finish. One only regrets that Mrs. Burr forgot to tell us that the despicable villain was hanged. Perhaps in England it is axiomatic that a wicked murderer is always hanged, but Americans would like to know for sure that the wretch who brained the noble St. Helios with an antique battle-ax met his doom. True, he aimed at the putative hero, but we could have better spared the hero than the nobleman. Lord Heriot, to give "St. Helios" his actual name, is a fine creation-a survival of the early Victorian age poet, diplomat, and so delightfully patrician as to suppose that as Ambassador to Washington it would be all right to bring a famous danseuse with him. That ended his diplomatic career; but years after we find the daughter of the dancer acting as the noble lord's private secretary, and society is puzzled to know whether she is his daughter or what. The situation between St. Helios and the young lady is a singular one and is well handled; we rejoice that in the end (just before the battle-ax incident) St. Helios wakes up to the fact that the girl deserves something more fatherly than a job, fully recognizes her as his daughter, and, what is better, gives her an estate in America so that she may wed the somewhat wooden American hero. A good story, well told.

COOMBE ST. MARY'S. By Maud Diver. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

The English landed aristocracy is a vanishing class; its stately mansions and noble woods are slipping into the hands of parvenu and profiteer, its broad acres are being broken up into real estate "projects." This story is a look backward in honor of the fine traits of the old régime. The interest centers around a charming and gentle girl on whom falls the burden of being lady of the manor. Her love for the old place is joined to a

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Letters and Memories of

SUSAN and ANNA BARTLETT WARNER

By

Olivia Phelps Stokes

Readers who have enjoyed The Wide, Wide World and Queechy, the famous novels of Elizabeth Wetherell, will wish to know more of the true author, Susan Warner, and her sister Anna, also a writer of distinction. Their lives on the historical Constitution Island and at Canaan, New York, the scene of many of their novels, make fascinating reading. Illustrated. $2.50 at all Booksellers G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

2 West 45th Street

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feeling that its farmers and workers are part of her life and responsibility and she flashes into a fight for their defense. Mrs. Diver writes sympathetically and in notably excellent English diction. There is a pleasing love story and half a dozen well-depicted characters.

THE HEART OF KATIE O'DOONE. By Leroy Scott. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

This is an Irish companion piece to Anna Yezierska's Jewish "Breadgivers." Each is a moving record of a girl's success. The Jewish girl, Sara, started as an East Side New York drudge and made herself a teacher; Mr. Scott's Katie starts as a child washerwoman and ends as a Broadway star. The Jewish book has greater fire and power; the Irish tale more sentiment.

THE EMIGRANTS. By Johan Bojer. The Century Company, New York. $2.

We like this best of at least half a dozen recent stories about early days in the West. Mr. Bojer first makes us know his emigrants as they lived in their Norwegian village, then he moves them to America in a neighborhood group by a natural and simple device-a returned emigrant tolls them along with him when he goes back. They settle and struggle along together in North Dakota, fighting fires, cold, and illness, always Norwegian in heart and yet gradually becoming stalwart Americans. The little colony grows and prospers. Such people, brave and steadfast, are not easily downed. They make good citizens. The narrative is simple, true to life, cheerful and hopeful in tone. The translation is well done. SNOW RUBIES. By "Ganpat." Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

The Anglo-Indian author takes his typical sporting Englishman and lovely girl, who is also a good sport, into a wild country in North India. They find a snow-clad plateau where ruby mines. were worked centuries ago by slaves for their armored conquerors. The armored

men have gone (except one or two preserved in ice), the plateau has been long cut off from the world, but the mines and the descendants of the slaves are there. Did the English sportsmen and sports lady get any rubies?

Children's Books

TONY SARG'S WONDER ZOO. Greenberg, New York. $1.

year

There are three picture books this by Tony Sarg: his "Wonder Zoo," his "Animal Book," and "The Jungle Man and His Animals." The text for the last is by Carveth Wells; for the others, Mr. Sarg is both writer and illustrator. The "Wonder Zoo" is the slightest of them all, but it contains fine pictures of his rollicking rabbits, his delicious ducks, his lovely lions, and, best of all, his elegant elephants and magnificent mice.

The picture on this page, in which an elephant is courteously acting as showerbath for a mouse and his friends, shows that Mr. Sarg understands why elephants always treat mice with great respect. They remember those old days, of which the Chinese sages write, when things were reversed, and mice were the mighty lords of all the animals, the great earth-shaking rulers of the beasts. And elephants were very diminutive and very pretty much admired by everybody, except when they scampered about in too great numbers upon pantry shelves.

Science

THE HEALING GODS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION. By Walter Addison Jayne, M.D. The Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. $5.

Dr. Jayne has made a compilation of the religious lore of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Greece, Rome, and the Celtic lands as it affected medical practice. The connection between healing and formalistic religion, now almost anachronistic, was in pagan ages very close indeed. For every ill there was a particular god or goddess to invoke, and the hygienic practices of many primitive

peoples were, as in the case of the Jews, imposed on the score of religious precept. The Romans borrowed from the Greeks mary of their healing deities, notably Esculapius. Apollo also was adopted by the Romans and invoked as early as 433 B.C. to stay a pestilence. The Greeks early recognized the influence of music. over certain diseases. Hence Orpheus was revered as a divine physician whose incantations appeased the wrath of offended deities. The appended bibliography gives evidence of a thorough examination of all available sources, including the celebrated Papyrus Edwin Smith at the New York Historical Museum (also mentioned in the text), of which Professor Breasted is making a complete translation. A book that will engage the interest primarily of philological and archæological students and physicians with an inclination to study the obscure origins of their profession.

Travel and Description

BEYOND KHYBER PASS. By Lowell Thomas. Illustrated by Photographs by Harry A. Chase and the Author. The Century Company, New York. $4.

Mr. Thomas, who has shown in his previous work, "With Lawrence in Arabia," a genuine knowledge of the East, enriches the pages of his new book with an immense amount of information gathered from a very wide territory. Khyber Pass lies between India and Afghan territory. "It is the most famous and the most strongly fortified mountain gorge on earth, at the far end of which is the sign proclaiming that here travelers must turn back because 'It is Absolutely Forbidden to Cross This Border into Afghan Territory.' But Mr. Thomas was not turned back, for he came with an authority that could not be disregarded, and he found ample opportunity to study the land, the people, their many customs, and their Oriental point of view. One gathers from his account that the present

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Amir, or ruler, is a man of more liberal and modern ideas than his predecessor, and that some of his innovations have even found favor with the veiled inmates of the harems, who have possibly been aware of the achievements of their sisters of the Western world. It is impossible within the brief limits of this review to convey an adequate idea of what the author has to say. The best one can do is to repeat a few anecdotes that throw a light on Eastern schools of thought. The philosopher to whom the author tried to explain the difference between the British and American people replied: "There is no difference. You would fill our country with machines and smoke, make slaves equal to their masters, and destroy true religion. Not you, my friend, but the destiny behind you." A sniper, who from his hiding-place among the rocks had picked off many British soldiers, was finally killed by a young Afghan militiaman, for the sake of the reward offered by the British commander. Complimented on his achievement, he replied, nonchalantly: "I had no trouble in finding him, because I knew all his little ways. He was my father." The book is especially valuable because of the glimpses it affords of a country and people practically unknown to the Western world.

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WANDERINGS. By Clayton Hamilton.

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day, Page & Co., New York. $5. The slightness of these agreeable brief sketches of travel here and there, but chiefly in Europe, is acknowledged in a disarming preface by their author. They were written at different times during twenty years, and are finally put together and published for three reasonsand for plenty of weightier books there are less reasonable reasons: to clear a closet, to get them off Mr. Hamilton's mind, to dedicate them to his wife, and for the pleasure of having them quite charmingly illustrated by his friend, the artist, Mr. Ernest Piexotto.

Sociology

THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN SOCIETY. By Franklin H. Giddings. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. $2.

Professor Giddings charges that our social workers and our uplift organizations do not know what results they are getting, and by what methods they are getting them, in the same rigorous sense in which a well-managed business corporation knows what it is getting out of its personnel, its machines, and its methods. This charge is illustrated by the professor's cross-examination of an active worker in "an organization of wide reach, which devotes itself to the religious and moral guardianship of young men." The

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