With portraits and other illustrations. Square crown 8vo, $ 1.50 net. Postage extra.
Of the many notable women of the nineteenth century, few did work of such lasting importance as Mary Lyon, through whose influence the movement for the higher education of women was begun. As the founder of Mount Holyoke College, the story of her life and the force of her personality are already traditionally known to thousands of college women throughout the United States, but the world at large, which knows her chiefly as a celebrated name, will for the first time learn from Miss Gilchrist's admirable biography of her great personal magnetism and charm. Miss Gilchrist has done her work well and sympathetically, and has painted a permanent addition to the portraits of the world's great women. It is a fit companion to the remarkable "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer," one of the most successful books of 1908. In the best sense it is a book of inspiration.
MY FRIEND THE INDIAN
By James McLaughlin
Illustrated. Large crown 8vo, $2.50 net. Postage extra.
This is an authoritative book of engrossing interest. The author, as Indian Agent and Inspector, has had intimate relations with Indians for a period of nearly forty years. It was he who ended the Ghost Dance trouble in 1890 by the arrest of Sitting Bull, and so successful have been his negotiations with the Indians in many difficult and complicated cases that he is known among them as "The Negotiator." The story of his life and work is unique in the rich literature dealing with the subject of the American Indian. He tells of many thrilling episodes in Indian history, including for the first time the Indian side of the story of the Custer tragedy at Little Big Horn, and the story of Chief Joseph's famous retreat with his Nez Perces. Along with these intensely interesting reminiscences, there are studies of the Indian character that are of first importance. The author tells of the Indian's daily customs in love and war, of his way of looking at things, and of his religion. The whole, in short, is a thrilling narrative of adventure and a firsthand study of the Indian character that cannot be passed by. It is fully illustrated with unusual pictures of Indians and their life. (Ready in April)
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AN UNTAMED INDIAN
COLONIAL MOBILE
By Peter J. Hamilton
Revised and enlarged edition. With illustrations and maps. 8vo, $3.50 net. Postpaid.
Mr. Hamilton has found a new historical field in the region, originally the stronghold of the greatest tribes of Indians, then explored by the Spaniards and settled by the French, and long a debatable ground between the Latins on the Gulf and the Anglo-Saxons on the Atlantic. The Alabama-Tombigbee Basin, the original Louisiana, of which Mobile was the metropolis, shifted from one side to the other in the contest until even Edward A. Freeman declared it an historical puzzle.