Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.
“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games. Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.
“Entertaining story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 670. O. 14, ‘05. 540w. | |
| Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 50w. |
Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. [†]$1.50. McClure.
About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American, British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.
“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel, sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 240w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 410w. |
[*] Strong, Josiah. Next great awakening. 75c. Baker.
A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world; The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual quickening.