Oom Paul's People
By Howard C. Hillegas. With illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
"Oom Paul's People" is the title of an exceedingly timely and interesting book, presenting clearly for the first time in this country the Boer's side of the Transvaal Question. The author is Howard C. Hillegas, a New York newspaper man, who spent nearly two years in South Africa, enjoying special facilities at the hands of President Kruger and other Boer officials, as well as from Sir Alfred Milner and other British representatives at Cape Colony. The book contains an important interview with Oom Paul, and a special study of Cecil Rhodes. The author blames stock jobbers and politicians for all the trouble between the Boers and the English, and believes that war is the probable final outcome. One chapter is especially devoted to the American interests in South Africa, showing that, while British capital owns the vast gold mines, American brains operate them. The book is eminently readable from first to last.
Averages
A Novel. By Eleanor Stuart, author of "Stonepastures." 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
Novels of New York have sometimes failed through lack of knowledge of the theme, but the brilliant author of "Averages" and "Stonepastures" has had every opportunity to know her New York well. She has been able, therefore, to avoid the extremes of "high life" and "low life," which have seemed to many to constitute the only salient phases of New York, and she paints men and women of every day, and sketches the curious interdependence and association or impingement of differing circles in New York. It is a story of social life, but of a life exhibiting ambitions and efforts, whether wisely or ill directed, which are quite outside of purely social functions. There is a suggestion of the adventurer, a figure not unfamiliar to New Yorkers, and there are glimpses of professional life and the existence of idlers. "Averages" is not a story of froth or slums, but a brilliant study of actualities, and its publication will attract increased attention to the rare talent of the author.
The Races of Europe
A Sociological Study. By William C. Ripley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mass. Institute Technology, Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. Crown 8vo, cloth, 650 pages, with 85 Maps and 235 Portrait Types. With a Supplementary Bibliography of nearly 2,000 Titles, separately bound in cloth (178 pages), $6.
Idylls of the Sea
By Frank T. Bullen, author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot." Uniform ed'n. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.