Our collection of imported fabrics equals if it does not surpass anything heretofore shown in this country, being the result of a remarkably successful buying trip in Europe last summer. We will also show a choice range of American-made materials of the finer grades. The following will be favorites: Imported Swiss and French Organdy, for Waists or entire Dresses. Organdies will play a most important part. They come in plain shades, Stripes, Checks, Plaids and Dots. Handkerchief Linens, in plain colors, Checks, Spots of various sizes, novelties in Stripes, etc., will be very desirable. French and English Novelty Cottons. Sheer, filmy fabrics. printed or woven Voiles, Marquisettes, in Stripes, Checks and Plaids in an almost endless variety. Voiles and Batiste in plain shades. White Fabrics. New weaves in Skirtings, Piques, Corduroy, Gabardines, Voiles, Swisses, Dimities, Oxfords and Shirtings, as well as Voiles, Transparent Organdies, French Lawns and Batiste. 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When we cannot coincide with its views, as happens rarely except when problems of capital and labor are discussed, we regret that, in spite of much reading, we are so unprogressive and conclude that the standards of The Outlook are too high for us! E. C. C. A Kansas subscriber briefly but wholeheartedly approves of The Outlook's new coat: You certainly did an artistic job in making the new Outlook-it is a delight. C. M. H. Another subscriber, who does not like our new coat, but nevertheless does not intend to refuse us a welcome for any such reason as that, writes us from Massachusetts: The Outlook is now established as a guest beneath my rooftree. For many years had I listened to his opinions with interest, for he is an old friend whom I've met every week at the club, but never before have entertained by my fireside. When he walked in the door for the first time with a cheery "Happy New Year," I confess to a sense of shock, for he was not the jaunty gentleman of old, nor so attractively dressed. His attire had always appealed to me strongly, and I had admired his good taste in dress, for his personality and individuality had always pleased me exceedingly; but I fear that the exigencies of business have compelled him to economize, and to cut his coat to suit his cloth. I note with regret the loss of his old-time style, for in this he was fastidious. However, I must try to find consolation in the old saw, "Clothes do not make the man," and I shall treat him with hospitality and be mindful of his merits and good qualities rather than of his outward appearance. But, alas! 'tis hard not to remember him as he was. F. S. S. In Ontario, Canada, lives a subscriber to The Outlook who likes both its spirit and its garb : Walkerville, Ontario. Yesterday I received The Outlook in its new dress, and it certainly looks fine. I would not like to do without The Outlook; the editorials on the war are particularly good. And, last of all, here are words from two neighbors of ours, one of them a journalist. Surely the approval of a neighbor is always just cause for pride: I like the new form of The Outlook very much. Its appearance is quite classic. It is neither too large nor too small, I should say, and it handles perfectly. The style of type is exceptionally good and clear to read. The pictures also, by reason of the increased size, show up better. The improvement as a whole even runs through A PACIFIST ON PACIFISM As a constant reader of The Outlook and a pacifist I should like to repudiate your statements about our platform. It passes my understanding that you should be so intelligent about everything else in heaven and earth and yet not know what a pacifist believes. May I try to state my creed? Righteousness is the best word to cover all the good things, physical, moral, and spiritual, which I desire. In other words, I want to be part of a world that is right. There are bound to be "disturbances I suppose the present European situation is one of them. To meet such situations as a pacifist I should minimize them by just and constructive measures before a crisis came. I should cultivate good will and brotherhood and never be destructive of lives or property even if a "disturbance did arise. I believe in a police, in restraint, even in imprisonment all, however, for the good of all concerned. If my wife should be attacked-a stock question which seems to have been agreed upon as a great test to the pacifist-I should call the police and use every effort to prevent her death, except to kill her enemy. I should give him a chance to live and repent even if he killed me. To my mind, passiveness and pacifism are not at all synonymous. The pacifist is energetic, active, even aggressive; but always to construct, never to destroy. He believes that peace is a state of mind which is ever active to see the good, to be brotherly, to develop good will, to overcome evil with good, and that war can never do one of these good things. The nations are now learning that their ideals can never be achieved by the methods which they are using. Germany is learning that the glory of her contribution to the world is being trailed in blood and mire; the Allies are learning that human freedom and brotherhood do not come by killing enemies and sons. The English conscientious objectors who have bravely sacrificed their lives, their homes, and their family ties for freedom of conscience may help to teach us humans that, after all, the Sermon on the Mount is both the sanest and most successful method by which men can live together. Anyway, they have had the blessed experience of learning that the teacher who proclaimed that method is still with us to perfect the plan and sustain his followers. JOSEPH ELKINTON. Moylan, Pennsylvania. For years the Pennsylvania Railroad System Only all-steel cars have been built. Effi- It is the logical result of this safety move- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD The Standard Railroad of the World A Warm House in the Morning for YOU A delightfully warm house has announced that it is time to get up. The Little Draft Man does it The Draft-Man is fastened to the wall directly above the present furnace regulating chains in your house. The installation is very simple and can be accomplished by anyone in a short time with the aid of a screwdriver. It will work on any kind of a furnace-steam heat, hot air, hot water or vacuum. The workmanship throughout is the highest grade. Price $10.00. Sold by hardware stores and furnace manufacturers, but we will ship direct by express prepaid On 10 Days' Free Trial tion or refund your money promptly and absolutely guarantee satisfac -Highest bank references as to our responsibility. The Stalker Furnace Regulator Co. 415-425 Detroit St. ANN ARBOR, MICH. THE NEW BOOKS This department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about all books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION And Thus He Came. A Christmas Fantasy. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $1. Burlesques. By H. M. Bateman. Duckworth & Co., London. $1. Fellow Captains. By Sarah N. Cleghorn and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $1.25. Fruit of Toil (The), and Other One-Act Plays. By Lillian P. Wilson. The BobbsMerrill Company, Indianapolis. 75c. BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Right Age. By Stanton Davis Kirkham. Paul Jane Stuart, Comrade. By Grace M. Remick. The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. $1.25. Stories to Tell the Littlest Ones. By Sara Cone Bryant. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.50. Tell Me a Hero Story. By Mary Stewart. Illustrated. The Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, $1.25. Way of the King's Gardens (The). By E. Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, and Henry Hallam Tweedy. (King's Highway Series.) The Macmillan Company, New York. 75c. This and the other volumes of the series combine moral and religious training for children on a carefully worked out plan and system. This sounds formidable, but, in fact, the teaching is by story, poem, parable, and cheerful talk. BIOGRAPHY Dr. J. B. Cranfill's Chronicle. A Story of Gossipy, anecdotal, entertaining; but throws little or no light on the subject of mental diseases. It would have been greatly improved by a thorough excision of minor details that are neither important nor interesting. HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS States (The). Addresses and Reports by Elihu Root is one of the great lawyers and one of the first statesmen in the United States. These two functions are not always consistent. Partly his greatness as a lawyer, partly his lack of democratic sympathies and his naturally aristocratic temperament, have interfered with the public recognition of his services as a statesman. In this volume will be found addresses and papers bearing on military questions, colonial questions, and international questions which should and will serve as a reservoir of material for editorial writers and Federal legislators. Short History of the English People (A). By John Richard Green. Revised and Eularged by Alice Stopford Green. The American Book Company, New York. $2.50. The history of Green's "Short History of the English People" affords a fine illustration of wifely co-operation. His first edi tion, in one volume, twice rewritten, was published in 1874. It was expanded into a four-volumed history with the aid of his wife, and in this form published in 1877-80. Mr. Green died in 1883. Four years later the illustrated edition of his "Short History" was published, prepared by his wife with the co-operation of Miss Kate Norgate. This work, in four volumes, containing a very remarkable collection of historical illustrations gathered by an extraordinary amount of painstaking labor, was published in 1887. It also contained an epilogue, added by Mrs. Green after her husband's death, which continued the history from the Battle of Waterloo to 1874. The present one-volume edition now given to the public contains all the material except the illus trations in the four-volume edition of 1887 and, in addition, some modifications in the history of Ireland which Mrs. Green New, Original, Unique Brother Cushman's Post Mark Collection for the Book United States This book is intended to encourage the desire for a wider knowlbelieves her husband would have incorpo-edge about the Important and rated had he been living. They are due to new material discovered in the last thirtyfive years since the "Short History" was published. These two editions, the one with and the one without illustrations, constitute a noble monument to a great historical scholar, erected almost wholly by the labors of his loyal wife. Probably the following " Sonnet to Theodore Roosevelt" is well known to most of our readers, but we wish to quote it here as an example of the sympathetic insight and comprehending vision which marked John Hay's efforts both in the field of poetry and the field of international politics: "Son of a sire whose heart beat ever true To God, to country, and the fireside love To which returning, like a homing dove, From each high duty done, he gladly flew, Complete, yet touched by genius through and through, The lofty qualities that made him great, Loved in his home and priceless to the State, By Heaven's grace are garnered up in you. Be yours, we pray, the dauntless heart of youth, The eye to see the humor of the game, The scorn of lies, the large Batavian mirth; And, past the happy, fruitful years of fame, Of sport and work and battle for the truth, A home not all unlike your home on earth." Poems. By Dana Burnet. Harper & Brothers, New York. $1.20. One of the most promising books of verse of the year is the volume by Dana Burnet. Of some books it is possible to say: "This is good, perhaps the best that the author can be expected to write." This volume, on the contrary, brings instantly the thought: "This is good, and there will be even better work to follow!" Mr. Burnet has a vivid imagination, a Historical Cities and Towns in the United States, in a very unusual way. Every letter that goes through the mail bears some Post Mark, and these can easily be collected in many ways. As collected they direct attention to many of the Historical, Patriotic, and Important Places in the United States. Teachers and parents will quickly grasp the educational possibilities of this book, and every one, young and old, who is fond of collecting will appreciate it. Many spaces for Post Marks, under the various State headings, contain suggestions for the collector. For example-under Massachusetts will be found spaces marked as follows: Capital of State," "Seat of Harvard University," "Old Whaling Port,' ""Center of Witchcraft Agitation," etc. The Post Marks needed for these would be Boston, Cambridge, New Bedford, Salem, etc. There are spaces in the book for over 2,500 Post Marks, the pages being arranged by States, each page accommodating 28 Post Marks. A number of original Post Marks are given with each book to start the collection. Size of book 84 x 1034 inches, bound in heavy boards. We will send a copy of THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 381 Fourth Avenue, New York The New Books (Continued) sense of rhythm, a feeling for words, and an intense desire for self-expression-four of the distinguishing marks of those who are destined to write poetry. Had Mr. Burnet been stranded on a desert island with only the sand for paper and a stick for a pen, he would certainly have written this book. But we are glad that fate happened to preserve it in a more durable medium. Utterance, and Other Poems. By Angela Morgan. The Baker & Taylor Company. $1.40. Miss Morgan is a truly rhapsodic poet. She writes as though she had gone out on a wind-swept mountain-top and shouted her thoughts to the world. Poets with an inexpressible desire for self-expression often lay themselves open to the charge of making careless verses, and to this statement Miss Morgan is not an exception. She is nevertheless a genuine poet and one whose work is very well worth reading. ESSAYS AND CRITICISM Life at the Lees. By X 107. Hall's Book Shop, This brief volume contains the record of a life strangely divided between good and evil passions. The poems and letters. it contains are distinctly provocative of thought. Mr. Lorin F. Deland, who collected and edited the volume, says in his Introduction: The Body, X 107, knew the barred door, the prison dress, the physical humiliation of the cell, the rage against a society forced thus to protect itself. But the Soul, looking through the eyes of its jailer, the Body, saw the stars; it felt the winds blowing over fields of blossoming grass; it heard the lap of moon-led waters, and the laughter of little children. Which was the real woman-the Body or the Soul; the Body, which found its level in the gutter, or the Soul, rejoicing in beauty and goodness? Mr. Deland's question is indeed a difficult one to answer. Play Production in America. By Arthur This is one of those rare books which are equally valuable to specialists and to the general public. Every one who is connected Six Important New Books SIR OLIVER LODGE Raymond: Or Life and Death As a defender of "Spiritualism," Sir Oliver Lodge has added the weight of a great scientific ALLAN MCLANE HAMILTON Recollections of An Alienist Much curious, out-of-the-usual information on criminal insanity, the mistakes of capital punishment, and the fallacy of the electric chair, is contained in these entertaining reminiscences by a distinguished alienist, who was summoned to testify at the trials of the murderers of Garfield and McKinley-and who has appeared in recent years as expert witness in many other famous legal battles. "Few men in this country represent so broad a part of American life as this grandson of Alexander Hamilton. His book is one long panorama of interesting figures. Delightfully spirited."-Philadelphia Public Ledger. Illustrated. Octavo. Net $3.50 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR—VOLUME ONE The British Campaign in France & Flanders, 1914 Not only accurate precisely correct. When the dean of English critics, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, pronounced this history "sure to be permanent-never to be superseded," he recognized that Conan Doyle had the genius to separate himself from immediate events and attain a true perspective. Other volumes will follow shortly. With maps, diagrams and plans. Octavo. Net $2.00 LORD NORTHCLIFFE At the War: A Record of Events and Experiences Next to Lloyd George and the Kaiser, there is probably no figure in Europe as compelling as THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK A Woman and the War Lady Warwick's very advanced opinions gain piquancy from her former popularity with roy- MONTAVILLE FLOWERS with the stage in a professional way-play- The Japanese Conquest of American Opinion wrights, critics, producers, actors, press agents, stage-hands, even ushers-will want to read this volume, which treats adequately the phases of theatrical life which specially concern all of them. It contains practical hints on such eminently practical matters as play "doctoring," scenic grouping, copyright, advance presswork, and the quality of grease paint, yet most of the forty-seven chapters are packed with interest for people whose only connection with the drama is the occupation of seats "out in front." WAR BOOKS The Euvre Mon Lettres de Mon Soldat. GEORGE H. 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