$1.25 net.
If you are at all interested in the problem of a Future Life, you cannot afford to overlook this book. These letters, dictated to Mrs. Barker by the spirit of a departed friend, are undoubtedly the most remarkable contribution to “psychic” literature of recent years. The volume, with its tone of optimism, its minute, intimate account of life beyond the grave, is certain to be widely discussed, and those who do not read it place themselves at a certain disadvantage. Elsa Barker has given her absolute assurance that the book is in no way “faked.”
SONGS OF THE DEAD END. By Patrick MacGill, author of “Songs of a Navvy,” etc.
$1.25 net.
The majority of these “songs” deal with the lives of the working man, the day laborer who builds our houses and our railroads, works in the mine and the ditch. The author has lived this life and writes of it with power and feeling. He has grasped the wider meaning of it all, made plain the essential nobility of labor, the heroism and idealism of many of these men. In short, he has done in verse for the working man what Constant Meunier did in bronze.
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. By Van Wick Brooks, author of “The Wine of the Puritans.” Frontispiece.
$1.50 net.
One of the more important biographies of the year, and yet it is more than a mere biography, for Mr. Brooks attempts to place Symonds in relation to the literary world of his own day and of the present. He builds up a clear picture of Symonds’ life, from early days to the end. His book is uncrowded but not deficient, clear and unsluggish but not too rapid. In short, it is itself literature.
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN. By James Hinton, author of “Life in Nature,” “The Place of the Physician,” etc., etc.
$1.00 net.