Interesting New or Forthcoming Books
[Classification in this list implies a review in an early issue.]
Notes of a Son and Brother, by Henry James.
Collected Essays of Rudolph Eucken.
The Fugitive, by John Galsworthy.
Plays, by Tchekoff and Andreyeff.
Stories of Russian Life, by Tchekoff.
Selected Essays of Alice Meynell.
Second Nights, by Arthur Ruhl.
—Scribner.
Stories of Red Hanrahan, by William Butler Yeats.
The Tragedy of Pompey, by John Masefield.
Chitra, by Rabindranath Tagore.
The Possessed, by Dostoevsky.
The Flight and Other Poems, by George E. Woodberry.
—Macmillan.
When Ghost Meets Ghost, by William De Morgan.
Nowadays, by George Middleton.
Angel Island, by Inez Haynes Gillmore.
Euripides and His Age, by Gilbert Murray.
Social Insurance, by I. M. Rubinow.
—Holt.
The World Set Free, by H. G. Wells.
The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler (new edition).
Wagner as Man and Artist, by Ernest Newman.
The Philosophy of Ruskin, by Andre Chevrillon.
—Dutton.
Little Essays in Literature and Life, by Richard Burton.
Beaumont, the Dramatist, by Charles M. Gayley.
Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures.
Prostitution in Europe, by Abraham Flexner.
—Century.
The Poems of Francois Villon.
Knave of Hearts, by Arthur Symons.
Essays of Francis Grierson (new editions).
The Fortunate Youth, by William J. Locke.
—Lane.
The Making of an Englishman, by W. L. George.
The Truth About Women, by C. Gasquoine Hartley.
—Dodd, Mead.
Our Friend, John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus.
Paul Verlaine, by Wilfred Thorley.
The Japanese Empire, by T. Philip Terry.
—Houghton Mifflin.
Knowledge and Life, by Rudolf Eucken.
The Science of Happiness, by Jean Finot.
—Putnam.
Florian Mayr, by Baron von Wolzogen.
Socialism and Motherhood, by John Spargo.
—Huebsch.
Richard Wagner, by Oliver Huckel.
The Education of Karl Witte, translated by Leo Wiener.
—Crowell.
Crowds, Jr., by Gerald Stanley Lee.
A Thousand Years Ago, by Percy MacKaye.
—Doubleday.
The Masque of Saint Louis, by Percy MacKaye.
—Stokes.
Old Mole, by Gilbert Cannan.
—Appleton.
Poems, by Brian Hooker.
—Yale University.
The Clean Heart, by M. A. Hutchinson.
—Little, Brown.
Some Scribner Spring Books
Notes of a Son and Brother
By Henry James
Illustrated, $2.50 net; postage extra
This is the continuation of the account, in “A Small Boy and Others,” of the early years of William and Henry James and their brothers, with much about their father and their friends. The story of the life in Switzerland and Geneva, and later on in Newport and Cambridge, tells not only their own experiences but a great deal about such men as John LaFarge, Hunt, Professor Norton, Professor Childs, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a close friend of Henry James, Senior. The description of the Civil War time and of Wilkinson James’s experiences with Colonel Shaw’s colored regiment are particularly interesting. The illustrations are from drawings made by William James in the early part of his career when he was studying to be a painter.
Shallow Soil
By Knut Hamsun
Translated from the Norwegian by Carl Chr. Hyllested. $1.35 net; postage extra
Introduces to the English-speaking world a writer already a classic not only in his own country but throughout continental Europe.
The publication of “Shallow Soil” is accordingly a literary event of the first magnitude in the sphere of fiction. Hamsun is the greatest living Scandinavian novelist and this work alone justifies his fame. It is a social picture of Christiania, and indeed of generally modern life.
A Village Romeo and Juliet
By Gottfried Keller
With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Edith Wharton. Translated by A. C. Bahlmann, $1.00 net; postage extra
This love story of Swiss peasant life—whose title conveys the character of its plot—is generally regarded as the finest and most representative production of the great Swiss novelist. But it has a still further element of interest beyond that which necessarily attaches to so fine a piece of writing—the singularly modern spirit which actuates the characters and inspires the writer.
Plays by Björnstjerne Björnson
Translated from the Norwegian, with Introductions, by Edwin Björkman. Each with Frontispiece. $1.50 net; postage extra
Second Series
“Love and Geography”
“Beyond Human Might”
“Laboremus”
Plays by Björnstjerne Björnson
First Series
“The New System”
“The Gauntlet”
“Beyond Our Power”
Translated from the Norwegian, with an Introduction, by Edwin Björkman. Frontispiece. $1.50 net; by mail $1.65
Second Nights
By Arthur Ruhl, author of “The Other Americans,” etc. $1.50 net; by mail, $1.64
A perfectly charming chronicle of the chief features and phases of the metropolitan theater within the past few years. The point of view is wholly unprofessional, and the text, unweighted by the responsibilities of the first-night critic, is intimate and familiar.
The Fugitive: A Play in Four Acts
By John Galsworthy
60 cents net; postage extra
This is the tragic story of a woman who tries to escape from the bondage of social conventions. Clare, the heroine, strikes the key-note of the whole play when, in the last act, she says to the young man she has never seen before:
“You see: I’m too fine, and not fine enough! My best friend said that. Too fine, and not fine enough. I couldn’t be a saint and martyr, and I wouldn’t be a soulless doll. Neither one thing nor the other—that’s the tragedy.”
It has a deep significance when taken in connection with the feminist movement of today.
Mural Painting in America
By Edwin H. Blashfield
Illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extra
“The entire volume shows clearness of thought, careful analysis of the topics discussed, and a facility of expression that is seldom found in books written by men of action rather than words. Its perusal will repay any one of culture.”
—The American Architect.
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Two Important Biographies
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Two Americans, great in the world of politics and illustrious in their citizenship, have lately come into their full stature of fame through the lives of LYMAN TRUMBULL and HARRISON GRAY OTIS.
“THE LIFE OF LYMAN TRUMBULL” is the work of Horace White, ex-editor of the New York Evening Post. Whoever reads it will lay it down not merely with new knowledge concerning Lyman Trumbull but with a broader and surer grasp of the essential facts and philosophy of the war and the reconstruction period. Mr. White was an intimate friend of Trumbull, and it is evidence of his conscientious work that, in the preface, he admits that the careful study forced upon him by the composition of the book convinced him that his views upon one important point had been wrong from the beginning. Such open-mindedness could result only in what the book is—a fair and clean-cut presentation of the subject and, aside from its intrinsic interest, a valuable addition to American history and literature.
HARRISON GRAY OTIS was a conscientious public servant, but so deep and instinctive was his devotion to Massachusetts that his loyalty to the national government was more than once seriously questioned. His biography disproves conclusively the accusation that he was ever concerned in any attempt to secede from the Union, and gives, for the first time, a full account of the famous Hartford convention, with illuminating paragraphs on the psychology of its leaders. The book is, in fact, an inside history of the Federalist party from 1796 to 1823. The author, Samuel Eliot Morison, is a descendant of Mr. Otis, and through his unusual opportunities of access to private correspondence has produced a work that is not only valuable as history, but fascinating in the gossip and personalities of the time.
THE LIFE OF LYMAN TRUMBULL, by Horace White
Illustrated. $3.00 net. Postage extra
HARRISON GRAY OTIS; His Life and Correspondence, 1765-1848
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PROMISE
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“For a first novel ‘Promise’ is exceptionally able—one that should have notable successors.”—Nation.
“We are left to hope that the life of this English Jean Christophe will continue through at least another volume, filled with people as variegated and attractive as those to whom we are introduced in this.”—Spectator.
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An Idyll of the Quarter
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“‘Promise’ was a work which lived up to its name. Its successor fulfills it.”—Morning Leader.
“The scene of the final parting of Ferguson and Gilberte Morny is as fine as anything we know of in recent fiction. This is that most desirable thing—a novel that is different.”—New York Press.
HERSELF
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“The hardly and ill-used word ‘charm’ must be given its original lustre for the sake of Miss Ethel Sidgwick’s new novel ‘Herself.’ It has the power to bewitch and fascinate; odd smiles and warm tears lurk in it, and a melody played on the strings of the heart.”—Morning Post.
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“A novel that leaves one remembering a chain of scenes vividly impressed, and a good dozen of characters profoundly imagined and beautifully drawn.”—Manchester Guardian.
“In the person of this young woman a new figure of unusually brilliant power has arisen in English fiction. She is the first woman novelist of the new period ... to accomplish the conquest of the American public and critics.... Succession is indeed a tremendous piece of work. It is not only one of the big novels of the year, but a permanent contribution to English fiction.”—Boston Transcript.
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STUDIES IN STAGECRAFT
By CLAYTON HAMILTON
A book to increase the pleasure of the theatre lover and the skill of the playwright. By the author of “The Theory of the Theatre,” already in its 4th impression. With full index. 12mo, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62.
SOCIAL INSURANCE
With Special Reference to American Conditions
By I. M. RUBINOW
This book tells how social insurance is combating poverty in European countries and how these methods apply to American conditions. It deals with poverty due to sickness, old age, industrial accidents, unemployment, widowhood, or orphanage, with Employers’ Liability Laws, Old Age Pensions, Pensions for Widows, etc. 8vo. 525 pp. $3.00 net; by mail, $3.20.
“We had nothing approaching a spirited and authoritative treatment of social insurance until Dr. Rubinow published his important work.”—The Dial.
“A thorough and clear exposition of a subject which has suddenly become of great importance in America.”—New York Times Book Review.
THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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SOME OF THE 77 VOLUMES NOW READY
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| Gilbert Murray’s | Euripedes and His Age |
| G. K. Chesterton’s | Victorian Age in Literature |
| Jane Harrison’s | Ancient Art and Ritual |
| H. A. L. Fisher’s | Napoleon |
| J. B. Bury’s | History of the Freedom of Thought |
| William R. Shepherd’s | Latin America |
| W. T. Councilman’s | Disease and Its Causes |
| C. M. Andrew’s | The Colonial Period |
| William MacDonald’s | From Jefferson to Lincoln |
| F. L. Paxson’s | The Civil War |
| A. F. Pollard’s | The History of England |
| W. Warde Fowler’s | Rome |
| Benjamin Moore’s | Origin and Nature of Life |
| Thomson and Gede’s | Evolution |
| William MacDougall’s | Psychology |
| R. R. Marett’s | Anthropology |
| J. R. MacDonald’s | Socialism |
| W. T. Brewster’s | Writing English Prose |
| John Masefield’s | Shakespeare |
| G. L. Strachey’s | Landmarks in French Literature |
| G. F. Moore’s | The Literature of the Old Testament |
| B. W. Bacon’s | The Making of the New Testament |
| Bertrand Russell’s | Problems of Philosophy |
WILLIAM DE MORGAN’S
WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST
New Novel
A long, delightful romance in the measure and vein of “Joseph Vance.” 62 pages. $1.60 net.
INEZ HAYNES GILLMORE’S
ANGEL ISLAND
New Novel
A story of love, adventure and aspiration. By the author of “Phoebe and Ernest.” Two illustrations by John Rae. $1.35 net.
EUGENE MANLOVE RHODE’S
BRANSFORD IN ARCADIA
New Novel
The story of a brave and humorous American of today in love and in deadly peril on our Mexican border, by the author of “Good Men and True.” With frontispiece. $1.20 net.
CONINGSBY DAWSON’S
THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS
Great Success
The romance of a Pagan-Puritan. “The literary surprise of the fall season.” 7th printing. $1.35 net.
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Francisco Goya
A Study of the Work and Personality of the Eighteenth Century Spanish Painter and Satirist
By HUGH STOKES
8o. With 48 Full-page Illustrations. $3.75 net
Francisco Goya y Lucientes ranks with the great masters of modern painting. As a satirist he may be termed the Spanish Hogarth; his portraits recall the best period of the eighteenth century, whilst in his designs for tapestry he frankly emulated the light grace of the French craftsmen. Yet he could treat sterner subjects in a severer style. His large canvases, dealing in a realistic and dreadful fashion with the horrors of the French war, prove that he was artistically the precursor of Manet. His etchings are superb. Goya’s life was as full of incident as that of Benvenuto Cellini. Although a Court painter he was a fervent Republican. At last, sick of Bourbon misrule, he fled to France, and died in Bordeaux, April 16, 1828, at the advanced age of eighty-two.
The Science of Happiness
By JEAN FINOT
Author of “Problems of the Sexes,” etc.
Translated from the French by Mary J. Safford
8o. $1.75 net
The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied questions.
“Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man,” remarks M. Finot, “the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls.”
Knowledge and Life
By RUDOLF EUCKEN
Author of “The Truth of Religion,” “The Life of the Spirit,” etc.
$1.59 net. By mail, $1.65
Professor Eucken’s plea in this new volume of the Crown Theological Library is that the only knowledge which may be termed genuine springs from the demands and aspirations of man’s own deepest life.
The book forms an excellent epitome of the author’s views concerning the need of a Metaphysic of Life.
One Generation of a Norfolk House
A Contribution to Elizabethan History
By AUGUSTUS JESSOPP, D.D.
Author of “The Coming of the Friars,” etc., etc.
Third Edition. Entirely Revised and Reset. $2.25 net
Dr. Jessopp has lent interest to everything he has written, and this study of his throws a welcome flood of light on a period which has been distorted alike by fanaticism and ignorance. It is a contribution to Elizabethan history of the first importance, particularly as a picture of the relation of the Jesuits to the political events of the time, and of the attitude of the government toward them. The author in elucidation of the merely personal narrative has introduced certain phases and aspects which have been neglected or ignored by other historians. The present edition has been revised with the aid of the author’s memoranda made during the last thirty years.
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
New Light and Old Evidence
By COUNTESS DE CHAMBRUM
12 Full-page Illustrations. $1.75 net. By mail, $1.90
This new edition of the Sonnets contains a readable as well as scholarly contribution to a most unsettled literary problem. There is new evidence solidifying some old theories, and there are ingenious suggestions opening up new vistas to the exploring mind.
Continuity
Presidential Address to the British Association
By SIR OLIVER LODGE
Author of “Life and Matter,” etc.
$1.50 net. By mail, $1.65
The author contends against the tendency of the era apparent in the taking of refuge in vague forms of statement, the shrinking from close examination of the puzzling and obscure, and the denial of the existence of anything which makes no appeal to organs of sense—no ready response to laboratory experiment.
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FORTY YEARS OF IT
By Brand Whitlock
Formerly Mayor of Toledo, Now Minister to Belgium
Mr. Whitlock’s volume is in a sense a history of the progress of democracy in the Middle West. His reminiscences are of such men as Governor Altgeld, Tom Johnson, “Golden Rule” Jones. In the telling of these men, their ideas and ideals, and of himself as the continuator of their work, he illuminates that spirit which makes for democracy. Few reminiscences have had the vigor, optimism, and personal appeal of Mr. Whitlock’s pages.
Cloth, $1.50 net. Postage extra.
PSYCHOLOGY IN DAILY LIFE
By Carl Emil Seashore
Professor of Psychology and Dean of the Graduate College, University of Iowa.
A presentation of the general aspects of mental affairs which are involved in the regulation of practical interest. “A handbook for those who want to bring order out of mental chaos.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
$1.50 net. Postage extra.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
By L. Lind-af-Hageby
A thoughtful monograph combining a critical estimate with a sufficiently full and searching biography, the whole presenting a clear picture of this elusive author in his relation to modern thought.
With Portraits. $2.00 net. Postage extra.
PHILOSOPHY OF NIETZSCHE
By G. Chatterton-Hill
The best and most readable exposition of the teachings of the philosopher that has yet been available for the general reader.
$2.50 net. Postage extra.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
By Martha Foote Crow
The wonderful woman whose history is described is seen in the home-making side of her life rather than in the more public and National phases.
Frontispiece. $1.25 net. Postage extra.
WOMAN IN SCIENCE
By H. J. Mozans, Ph.D.
After outlining woman’s capacity for scientific purposes, Dr. Mozans takes up step by step her achievements in all the departments of pure science from the earliest times to the present. A fountain of inspiration for those interested in the cause of women.
$2.50 net. Postage extra.
Recent Novels of Literary Importance
OLD MOLE, by Gilbert Cannan, author of “Round the Corner.”
YOUTH’S ENCOUNTER (Sinister Street), by Compton Mackenzie.
RICHARD FURLONG, by E. Temple Thurston.
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The Making of an Englishman
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Author of “A Bed of Roses,” “Until the Day Break,” etc.
More clearly and cleverly than most books which attempt to do nothing else, Mr. George draws in this novel the contrasted characteristics of English and French. But this is in passing and a frame, as it were, to a story of people who are undeniably and indelibly real. Among the crowd of ephemeral novels of the season it stands out by reason of that quality which is as rare in novels as in people—a strongly marked individuality.
$1.35 net.
A Pillar of Sand
By WILLIAM R. CASTLE, Jr.
Author of “The Green Vase”
A novel which in a very clever way not only concerns itself with the doings of a group of people who are part of Boston society, but which delineates and holds up for the inspection of all Boston society. What is Boston society; what kind of people is it composed of; what are its characteristics; what does it amount to in this busy age?
$1.30 net.
The Youngest World
By ROBERT DUNN
Dr. Frederic Taber Cooper, the well-known reviewer for The Bookman, who read the advance sheets of Mr. Dunn’s remarkable story of Alaska, “The Youngest World,” says: “Plenty of authors have given us the physical suffering of the far north: the dropping away of the outer veneer of civilized man and the reappearance of the human animal, the brutishness and degradation brought about by cold and darkness and hunger. Mr. Dunn’s book stands in a different class: there is no mistaking its absolute first-hand reflection of life—the life of strange, motley hordes of drifting outcasts and adventurers. But unlike the Jack London school, he never forgets that man is a little lower than the angels, as well as a little higher than the beasts; he never loses sight of the innate greatness of humanity, the greater spiritual as well as physical heights to which he may aspire.... The book is good, big, significant, coming as it does in a season when the absolute dearth of vital fiction is painfully apparent.”
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The Empress Frederick A Memoir
An intimate biography of an Empress whose influence upon modern Europe has been very great, but of whom little has been written and little is known. Her son, the present Emperor of Germany, has been called “much more the son of his mother than of his father.”
$2.50 net.
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The Book of the Epic
By H. A. GUERBER
With 16 Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00 net. Postpaid, $2.12
“‘The Book of the Epic’ is a notable contribution to the history of racial poetry.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
“A valuable book which it is a pleasure to recommend. The stories of the most famous epics of all the nations are told briefly and illustrated by reproductions from the masters of painting. It is, in fact, the first book published which contains all the great epics in scenario. This is a book to own, for it is a rich source of knowledge which many readings will not exhaust.”—Pittsburgh Post.
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The Careful Investor
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Professor Mead is well known for his articles on and investigations of financial conditions. In this book he presents the accepted opinions as to what constitutes a safe investment, and gives in condensed form a vast amount of data regarding the financial market.
The Lost Vocal Art
By W. WARREN SHAW. Introduction by David Bispham. 20 explanatory illustrations. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 net. Postpaid $1.62.
Mr. Shaw has written a work revolutionary in character, yet eminently logical, which should be in the hands of every teacher of voice culture and singer. His methods and principles have been endorsed by such great artists as Olive Fremstad, Johanna Gadski, Titta Ruffo, Florence Hinkle, and many more.
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This volume has been written with the purpose of assisting the amateur who is attracted towards the making of moving pictures. Set forth in a non-technical way it clearly points out the first principles of the art and the apparatus employed.
The Meaning of Art
Its Nature, Role and Value
By Paul Gaultier, with a Preface by Emile Boutroux. Translated from the Third Edition by H. and E. Baldwin. With 36 illustrations. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 net.
This work was crowned by the French Academy of Moral and Political Science. It is a remarkably entertaining and earnest exposition of art in its utmost complexity. Its appeal is to the feeling as well as to the understanding. Mr. Gaultier’s work will delight all lovers of the fine arts and to many it will be the portal to a finer enjoyment of art, and a deeper knowledge of its Nature—Role—and Value!
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WILLIAM WINTER
Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of The American Theatre, 1791-1912
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In many respects Mr. Winter’s most interesting and important book, containing the personal as well as professional history of many of America’s greatest actors. It abounds in personal recollections and theatrical history. Managers and actors, plays and dramatists are discussed. The book is full of masterly criticism and analyses. Of interest to all theatre-lovers, and indispensable for libraries.
SOCIAL SANITY
SCOTT NEARING
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FATHER LACOMBE
KATHERINE HUGHES
A popular priced edition of Miss Hughes’s Romantic Biography of the White Robed Voyageur. Of especial and timely interest owing to Father Lacombe’s lifelong friendship with the late Lord Strathcona, and of this friendship the book makes intimate and detailed mention.
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Adventures of The Infallible Godahl
By FREDERICK IRVING ANDERSON
These fascinating chapters from the career of a character even more ingenious in conception than the famous Raffles have made a great sensation during their publication in serial form. Not only are they well worth reading for their interest-compelling plots, but they gain an added value from the exceptional merit of the author’s literary style. Mr. Anderson has developed a vein of fiction that well-nigh outclasses the work of both Hornung and Conan Doyle.
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Edited by W. B. HAYWARD
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TUBERCULOSIS: Its Cause, Cure, and Prevention
By EDWARD O. OTIS, M.D.
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RICHARD WAGNER: The Man and His Work
By OLIVER HUCKEL
A sympathetic study of the great composer, from a fresh viewpoint. Issued in style uniform with Dr. Huckel’s well-known translations of the Wagner Operas. Illustrated.
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HOW TO REST
By GRACE DAWSON
Points out in a practical way the right method of living. Brief and to the point, and filled with sensible advice.
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THE MESSAGE OF NEW THOUGHT
By ABEL LEIGHTON ALLEN
A clear exposition of the basic ideas of New Thought and comparison of its teachings with those of the orthodox religions and Christian Science.
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Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. Further corrections are listed here (before/after):
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