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Seven on the Highway, Howard,
Seven Glad Days, I. C. Jerome,
Seventeenth Century Studies, Ed-
mund Gosse,
Sewall, Samuel, N. H. Chamberlain, 207
Seward, Theo, F., Heaven Every Day, 149
Seward, William H., T. K. Lothrop,
Shadow Christ, The, Gerald S. Lee,
Shadow and Substance, George C.
Needham,
150
Shadow of Shame, The, Granville, 195
Shakespeare Calendar, A, L. C. Poole
and A. Jonsson,
435
Shakespeare, William, Cymbeline, 379
Shakespeare's Heroes on the Stage,
Charles E. L. Wingate,
Shakespeare's Holinshed, Boswell-
Stone,

211 Shakespeare's London, T. F. Ordish, 370 Shakespeare's Macbeth, J. M. Manly, 44 Shakespeare's Men and Women, Rose Porter,

Shaler, N. S., American Highways,
Shall We Continue in Sin? Pierson,
Shapes in the Fire, M. P. Shiel,
Sharp, Evelyn, The Making of a
School Girl,

27 343 Sheedy, Morgan M., Christian Unity, 150 Shelburn, Richard, Our Humor, 380 Sheldon, H. L., The Nicaragua Canal, 221 Shelley, H. C., Ayrshire Homes and Haunts of Burns,

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Song and Fable, B. O. Aylesworth, Songs after Work, L. J. Magee, Songs of Exile, Herbert Bates, 92 Songs of the South, J. T. Clarke, 25, 76 Songs of Yesterday, B. F. Taylor, 181 Sonnets of Michael Angelo, Symonds, 427 Sonnets from the Portuguese, Mrs. Browning, 427 Sonny, Ruth McEnery Stuart, 59 Soul's Quest After God, The, Abbott, 338 Sound Money Monographs, W. C. Cornwell, Sources of Spenser's Classical Mythology, Alice E. Sawtelle, Southern Baptist Pulpit, The, Southern California, Beatrice Harraden, Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime, Trent, Southey, Life of Nelson,

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Studies in the Thought World, H. Wood,

Theological Literature of the Church

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Substance of His House, The, Frye, Success is for You, Dorothy Quigley, 379 Success, O. S. Marden, 437, 481 Sue Orcutt, Miss Vaile, 437

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of England, Dowden, Theory of Physics, J. S. Ames, The Real Issue, William A. White, Things to Live For, J. R. Miller, Third Violet, The, Stephen Crane, Thoits and Taylor, Three Flags, Thomas, Edith, A Winter Swallow, Thomas, Katherine E., Not All the an King's Horses, Thompson, Edward P., X Rays, Thompson, Francis, New Poems, Thompson, H. C., The Outgoing Turk, 140 Thompson, Rt. Rev. H.M.,More Copy, 359 Thomson, E. W., Walter Gibbs, the

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Suggestive Illustrations on the Gos-
pel of St. Matthew, Peloubet, 437
Sullivan, A. S., A Questionable Mar-
riage,
355
Sullivan, F. S., The Flame Flower, 433
Sullivan, J. F., The Flame Flower,
Sultan and His Subjects, The, Davey,
Sunbeam Stories, Annie Flint,
Sunday Reading for the Young,
Sunlight and Shadow, Adams,
Sun of Saratoga, The, Altsheler,
Supplement to Encyclopædia Britan
nica, New America, 61, 132, 159
Supplement to Reading for the
Young, John F. Sargent,
Suppression of the African Slave-
Trade, W. E. DuBois,
189
Susan's Escort and Others, E. E. Hale, 298
Swan, C. H., Monetary Problems and
Reforms,

Thomson, John S., Estabelle and
Other Verse,
Thomson, Joseph, J. B. Thomson,
Thoreau, Henry, Walden,

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Thoughts for the People, Dr. R. Green, 131
Three Boys in the Wild North-Land,
Egerton R. Young,
Three Homes, The, Dean Farrar, 29
Three Margarets, Mrs. L. E. Richards, 478
Three Old Maids in Hawaii, E. B.

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Sherwood, M., A Puritan Bohemia, Sherwood, Mrs. J., Epistle to Posterity,

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Shiel, M. P., Shapes in the Fire,
Shinn, Charles H., Story of the Mine, 262
Shinn, G. W., Modern Substitutes for
Christianity,

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Spotless Reputation, A., D. Gerard, Stadling, In the Land of Tolstoi, Stafford, John, Our Country Idylls Stalker, J., Trial and Death of Christ, Stanbury, Mr., Klondike,

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Ships and Havens, Van Dyke,

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Ship's Company, The, J. D. Jerrold Kelley,

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Stand By, The, Edmund P. Dole,
Stapfer, Edmond, Jesus Christ,
Stark, Mary L., First Temptation,
Star Sapphire, The, Mabel Collins,
Statue in the Air, The, Miss C. E. Le
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Syms's Second Year in French,

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Tompkins, F. W., The Christian Life, 76
Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain,
Torpeanuts the Tomboy, Wesselhoeft, 460
Torrent and the Night Before, The,
Robinson,
Tortured Soul, A, S. D. Barker,

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Shipman, L. E., Urban Dialogues,

281

Shod with Silence, Edward S. Ellis, Short Cruise, A, James Otis,

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St. Augustine's School and the Benson Library,

Syms's Third Year in French,

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Tourgee, A. W., Way of the Standards, 229 Townsend, V. F., Dorothy Draycott's

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Short History of Medieval Europe, Thatcher,

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Short Sayings of Famous Men, John

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Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors,
Mrs. M. A. B. Kelley,
Shropshire Lad, A, A. É. Housman, 128
Siam, Maxwell Sommerville,
Sichel, Edith, The Household of the
Lafayettes,

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Sidney, Margaret, The Gingham Bag, Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis,

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Sign of the Cross, Wilson Barrett,
Sign of the Red Cross, E. E. Green,
Sign of the Spider, B. Mitford,
Sign of the Wooden Shoon, Mather,
Simon Ryan, the Peterite, Jessop,
Singer's Heart, A, Anna Farquhar,
Singing Verses for Children, Coonley, 427
Sir Mark, Anna R. Brown,

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129 Stepmother, The, Mrs. Edmunds, 355 Stepping Stones to Literature, Arnold and Gilbert, 434 Sterrett, John D., Power of Thought, 278 Stevens, C. E., Romance of Arenfels, 226 Stevenson, E. I., A Matter of Temperament,

Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie, 224; In the
Tide-Way, 210; On the Face of
the Waters,
Steevens, G. W., Land of the Dollar,
Stephen Lescombe, Julius H. Hurst,
Stephens, R. N., Enemy to the King, 464
Stephens, Riccardo, Mr. Peters, 324
Stephens's Supplement to "Small
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Stevenson, P. E., A Deep-WaterVoyage,

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Sir Roger de Coverley Papers,
Sir Toady Lion, S. R. Crockett,
Sister Jane, Joel C. Harris,
Skeleton's Message, The, L. L. Elliott,
Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia,

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Sketches from Old Virginia, Bradley, 397
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and
Green, Jerome K. Jerome, 281
Skinner, C. M., Nature in a City Yard, 298
Slight Romance, A, E. L. Dalton, 210
Sloane, William M., Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte,
173, 421
Smaller History of Greece, William
Smith,

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Smollett, Tobias, Oliphant Smeaton, 221
Smyth, Newman, Place of Death in
Evolution,
Smythe, Alfred, A New Faust,
Snaith, J. C., Fierceheart the Soldier, 355
Snarleyyow, Captain Marryat,
Snider, Denton J., Homer's Iliad, 276
Social England, H. D. Traill, 42, 324
Social Spirit in America, Henderson, 295
Soldiering and Surveying in British
East Africa, Maj. J. R. L. Macdon-
ald,
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Soldier of Manhattan, A, Altsheler, 479
Soldiers of Fortune, R. Harding
Davis,
239
Soldier Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 57
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets,
etc., Ruth McE. Stuart,
181
Some Aspects of Religious Life in
New England, Walker,
Some Colonial Homesteads, Marion
Harland,

Some Masters of Lithography, Curtis, 205
Some Women's Ways, Mary A. Dick-
ens,
Some Whims of Fate, M. M. Dowie, 58
Sommerville, Maxwell, Siam,

188 Sons and Fathers, H. S. Edwards, 27 Son of the Old Dominion, Mrs. Harrison,

Son of a Peasant, The, McNulty,

Story of Jane Austen's Life, Adams,
Story of Japan, R. Van Bergen,
Story of Jesus Christ, The, Mrs. Ward,
Story of Language, C. W. Hutson, 475
Story of Marie Antoinette, Bicknell, 475
Story of My Life, A. J. C. Hare, 35

Stuart, R. McEnery, In Simpkinsville, 298; Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets, 181; Sonny,

Stiegler, G., Memoirs of Marshal Oudi-
not,
85
Stirpiculture, Dr. M. L. Holbrook, 475
Stisted, G. M., True Life of Burton, 54
Stockard, Henry J., Fugitive Lines,
Stockton, F. R., A Story-Teller's
Pack,
Stoddard, Enoch V., Bertrand du Gues-
elin,
Stoddard, William O., The Windfall,
Stokes, Anson P., Joint Metallism,
Stone, S. J., In the Himalayas,
Storm, Theodor, Immensee,
Stories from the Chap-Book,
Stories by English Authors
Stories of Naples and Camorra, Grant,
Stories of a Sanctified Town, Lucy S.
Furman
Stories, Sketches, and Studies, Mrs.
Stowe,
182
Story of Aaron, J. Chandler Harris,
Story of American Coals, Nicholls, 76
Story of Architecture, C. T. Mathews, 86
Story of the Atmosphere, Archibald, 361
Story of the Balkans, William Miller, 86
Story of the Birds, J. N. Barkett, 278
Story of a Busy Life, J. R. Miller, 150
Story of the Chosen People, Guerber, 198
Story of the Cowboy, The, E. Hough, 436
Story of Cupid and Psyche, The, Pater, 428
Story of Extinct Civilizations of the
East, R. E. Anderson,
Story of the Innumerable Company,
Jordan,

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398 Talks on Writing English, Arlo Bates, 11 Talks to Young Women, C. H. Parkhurst, 229 Talmage, Dr., Heavenly Recognition, 338 Tanglewood Tales, N. Hawthorne, 360 Taquisara, Marion Crawford,

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Travels in West Africa, Miss Kingsley, Traver, Graham, Fellow Travellers, 108 Treasure of the Humble, The, Masterlinck, Trent, Professor, Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime, 146 Trial and Death of Christ, Stalker, 76 Trimmer, F. M., The Golden Crocodile, 460 Triumph of Destiny, Julia H. Tuells, Jr.,

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Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, Bacon,

Trivia, Gay,

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Trooper Peter Halket, Schreiner,

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Tatterley, T. Gallon,

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Trowbridge, J. T., The Prize Cup,

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Taylor, B. F., Songs of Yesterday,"

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Story of the Mine, Charles H. Shinn, 262 Story of Mollie, Marian Bower, 243 Story of Nell Gwyn, P. Cunningham, 71 Story of the Romans, H. A. Guerber, Story-Teller's Pack, A., Stockton, 260 Story of a Piece of Coal, Martin, 76 Story of the Rhinegold, The, Anna Alice Chapin, 344 Story Without an End, The, Garove, 428 Stowe, Mrs., Stories, Sketches, and Studies, 182 Strike, The, and Other Poems, G. B. Hewetson,

Ten Brink, Bernard, English Litera-
ture, XIV Century to Surrey, 148
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, A Memoir
by His Son,
Tennyson Illustrated,
Tennyson, Alfred, Enoch Arden, 379;
Locksley Hall,'
Tennyson's Princess, A. J. George,
44; do., G. E. Woodberry,
44
Terhune, Albert P., Columbia Stories, 298
Terry, Milton S., D.D., The New
Apologetic,
Tesniere, The Eucharistic Christ,
Thackerays in India, The, W. W.
Hunter,
Thackeray, The Dollar Edition,
Thanet, Octave, The Missionary

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Twice Told Tales, Hawthorne,
Twins and Their Troubles, The,
Wilder,
Two Lectures on Theism, A. Seth, 295
Two Strangers, Mrs. Oliphant,

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Tyler, C. M., Grounds of Religious Faith,

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Tyler, Moses C., History of American Literature,

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Uncanny Tales, Mrs. Molesworth, 91
Uncle Scipio, Mrs. J. H. Walworth, 43
Unconscious Humourist, The, E. H.
Lacon Watson,
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Uncrowned King, An, Grier, 211, 343
Uncrowning a King, Edward S. Ellis, 213
Undercurrents of the Second Empire,
Albert D. Vandam,
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Underhill, Mrs., The Dwarf's Tailor, 212
Under the Deodars, etc., R. Kipling, 262
Under the Liberty Tree, James Otis, 181
Under the Red Crescent, Ryan,
Under Three Flags, Taylor and
Thoits,

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Street, G. S., Wise and Wayward, 43 Stuart and Bamboo, S. P. McL. Greene,

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The Clock of Nature, Hugh Macmillan,

Thayer, William M., Men and Women Who Win,

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Units, Mrs. Lucas,

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The Incas, Telford Groesbeck,
The Mount, Philip G. Hamerton,
The Mystic Flowery Land, Halcombe, 123
Then and Not Till Then, McLeod,

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Upton, Bertha, and Florence K., The Vege-Men's Revenge,

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Echoes,
Wordsworth's Poems, Andrew Lang, 481
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Wordsworth's Poems, Prof. Dowden, 481
Workers on Their Industries,

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Workman, F. B. and W. H., Sketches
Awheel,
Works of Lord Byron, W. E. Henley, 100
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World Beautiful, The, Lilian Whiting, 223
World Biographies, John D. Barry,

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Wright, Henrietta C., Children's Sto-
ries in American Literature,
Wright, Mabel Osgood, Tommy Anne, 13
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Coues, Citizen Bird,
Wright, Margaret B., Hired Furnished, 222
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Wright, J. McN., The Pooles' Millions, 12
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Wrong, Geo. M., Historical Publica-

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He was named Jesus; he came from Nazareth, and he was crucified for I know not what crime. Do you remember the man?

Pontius Pilate frowned and carried his hand to his forehead. Then, after some moments silence: "Jesus," he murmured, "Jesus of Nazareth, I do not recall him." Even this wretched translation cannot injure the dramatic intensity of this sig

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* Conan Doyle, Stanley Weyman, Gilbert All the sketches are short. They vary
Parker, and half-a-dozen others are doing in interest, but all show great artistic
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American Actors of Today

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Winning Whist

English Studies

A Manual for China Painters

The Colour of Life.

Talks on Writing English

Through the Dolomites

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Sir Mark.

For Freedom's Sake

Andria

We Ten

Daphne

Taquisara.

The Pooles' Millions

James

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Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton resembles Mr.
Stanley Weyman closely, and his In the
Day of Adversity is quite as good as

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Tommy Anne and the Three Hearts

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A History of Greece

The Story of Aaron.

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Historical Tales

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Grimm's Household Stories
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Such mistakes are unpardonable, and
we regret that these powerful tales should
come to us in such halting English.
They are character-sketches often with
an historical foundation. One, the first,
introduces the reader to Pontius Pilate in
extreme age.
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the bulk of writing on this engrossing theme; on the one hand the vehemence and prolixity born of ignorance and unbalanced enthusiasm, and statistical dullness on the other. Impassioned oratory and unmeasured words have done much to retard the progress of social reforms. Fortunately or otherwise the mass of people are conservative to the verge of pigheadedness, and recoil from extravagant attacks on the existing order. Nor are many men moved by an array of figures, however carefully collated, unless the statistician gives evidence of a warm heart as well as a cool head. Given the combination of both and you may be reasonably sure of an audience.

For this reason we are confident that we do not err in saying that Dr. Abbott and Dean Hodges have made each a valuable contribution to the study of those social problems which appear to press for a solution. The former' has given us something of a mosaic of his own lectures and addresses, delivered in various places, together with some articles published in several periodicals. It consequently lacks the systematic arrangement which the reader might desire, though the ground is well covered and there is no suspicion of scrappiness. Christianity in its relation to democracy, communism, and socialism, Christ's standard of values, Christ's law for the settlement of controversy, international, personal and industrial are all treated with a vigorous hand. The present method of dealing with criminals is strongly condemned and, as every one knows who knows anything about the subject, condemned with justice. Almost at the end of the volume the author says a word for that unfortunate creature, "the fallen woman.

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