+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 620w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

“Ingenious story.”

+ Outlook. 83: 387. Je. 16. ’06. 90w.

Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.

“Mrs. Strong’s story is of the slightest, but it leaves you with a cheerful sense of having lately picnicked in some pleasant spot where a perpetual sun shone with pure benevolence.” Mary Moss.

+ Atlan. 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 60w.

Strong, Josiah. Social progress: a year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics, 1906. **$1. Baker.

“Social progress” for this present year directly aids the Department of international social information of the American institute of social service in its aim to create an exchange of thought and knowledge between the workers and students in all departments of social activity around the world. It takes its place in statistical value with the statesman’s year book, the census abstract, and the metropolitan almanacs.

Stuart, Charles Duff. Casa Grande. †$1.50. Holt.

Casa Grande is the California ranch house of a young Southerner who, in the early fifties, was forced into a serious struggle to make good his title to an unconfirmed Mexican grant in the Sonoma valley. The eviction of the squatters, who would neither sell their improvements nor buy his land, brings him in contact with Belle, a spirited young girl of true frontier type, adored by the sheriff, her family and dogs. In the course of the events which follow, Belle is mellowed into a truly womanly woman and, laying aside gunpowder and an explosive temper becomes the mistress of Casa Grande.