Tracy, Louis. [Great mogul.] $1.50. Clode, E. J.
The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son, and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful princess Nur Mahal.
“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will reward reading.”
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| N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w. |
Trade unionism and labor problems, ed. by John R. Commons. [*]$2.50. Ginn.
This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is “planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite, typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader as well as to the student.
Train, Arthur. [McAllister and his double.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen illustrations.
[*] “The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of ‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”
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