“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with principles rather than with their practical application, tho many useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of influence.”—Ind.
“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers? This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation for it.”
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“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings. Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the book is intended.”
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McGrath, Harold. Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
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Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good fight.