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SUN THE Qenelgred by E. G. Lathrop. N b World Beautiful ] Liillian Whiting's latest is much which many 4L only interesting but well. The book is the part which literature plays in helpig to build up the spiritual na- re of man. Miss Whiting first discusses intellectual and spiritual needs of which he must satisfy, if he is to h the highest development 6f which is capable; and then shows how the vérious kinds of books can help toward 'he in Book work, there will find not helpful an inquiry the satisfaction of those needs. In the roductory nortion of the work the au thor says of its purpose: Literature and life are so absolutely can only - ¥ lig.t of a series of cause h reacting upon the other determining influence. By the magic f some spiritual chemy reading smuted into the qualizies which bufld up character, and these qualities in turn determine the further choice of books, that selection and resuit perpetuate them- form unceasing contribution socia jence If a man's life is but sum of the expression of his thought s0 very power and the degree of this ht depend largely on his range of ading. Books are thus intimatel® asso cigted with the ry springs of character biography is recorded in a has grown with his thought xpression of his intellectual n's vol he book that he has lived with and associated with ‘certain phases of growth becomes a part of his essential The world of literature is as wide as the world of humanity, and the objectwnf this little tour is to turn the searchlight on a limited selection of the more vital of expression that appeals to the 1 life: that are aspir 1 on, and that liberates en ther than tg dally with admiring co tion or critical analysis of literary There ithors whose work Uving force In every mge and from whom we may well welect matter that ir fuses mew ardor and purpose into lfe In this especial quest restriction I8 per haps more to the purpose than expan on. Abl ind able uys have wtulogued lterary excellences and o ted thelr renders to fare forth in earn « ext of Thucydides, Plato, Homer Culderon, Dante, Bhakespeare, Goethe »ut this little volume aims to concern it self chiefly with that range of reading which has a direct application to the qual ties of life In pureuance of the purpose In view Mise Whiting enumerates tue different ypes of books which have had a potent e in the development of the race Ir ¢ case of certain books thelr con- tents are outlined, while from others quo- s of the most striking passages are ven. In the first chapter there is put forth a strong plea for the necessity of a sdicious selection of books to be read by be young. The author says very wisely: There is much in even the greatest lit- child in the nurs te and love that arn to apprec with noble thought and beautiful ifluences the subee ee of unguessed potenc ds the spirit thus fine! ouched omward to all fine § berless are the passages in S| s the description of Cleopatra’s barge, ¢ scene of the witches’ heath in ** beth, the forum in ulus Caesar which will enthrall the imagination of the and enlist a far deeper interest than may and irres the siily nd meaningless rhyme too thrust upon juvenile readers, *** This is the fortunate time, indeed amillarize the mind with a large pre fon of that Mterature of the st for which the crowded years of lates ife have littie ure. The assimilatis pewer of the child’s mind for much of the best in all Mterature is usually underesti- mated. The stories of the lives of great men are reco a part of the mer tal culture of youth, and to these can be jed those of the impressive figures of art and literature, as well as the heroey of action. * * * If comprehensive knowl- edge of that which is best In the world of books, united with judiclous se- lection and unfaltering attention, can but child onw into literature, any girl or boy should, by the age of sixteen, be well grounded in all the various branches of literary activity. Yet it is by no means uncommon to find high school and college graduates—young people equipped with all the technique of schol- arship—who are yet strangely unfamiliar with literature. It is not going too far to say that if this familiarity i not a grow- Ing possession, from the nursery up, it can never be absolutely acquired. For literature must be gssimilated into life and contribute to that reservoir of the unconscious knowledge before it can be accounted an absolute possession.” On the right of' poetry to be considered an educational agent, at once humanizing and uplifting, Miss Whiting cannot speak in sufficiently high praise. On the subject of the place of poetry in the ideal system of education she says: “There are poets whose voices eall to us from the starry spaces and who glve to us the clew to the meaning of life; who reinspire us with courage and hope, with patience and persistence, which should always be united, and with that faith Impressicns erartcrly " magazine, will Inter all thoughtiul readers, . , . Ihe “tevenson.Menley contro. very, (ws points of view, “Th' Perlls of Prophecy,” “A l Grear Ane fean Potter,” etc. | not o subscriber purchase (e current number (18 cents) o subieribe for the .year (50 conts), . ., ... ' l Elder and Shepard 238 POST STREET " 3R Y T e which is the substance of things not seen. * * * Poets who hold over us this high dominion inspire the conditions on which Maeterlinck insists when ‘€ says: “ “We should live as if we were always on the eve of the great revelation, and we should be ready with welcome, with warmest and Keenest and fullest, most heartfelt and intimate welcome. And what the form it shall take on the day that it comes to us, the best.way of all to prepare for its fitting reception is to crave for it now, to desire it as lofty, as perfect, as vast, as ennobling as the soul can con- ive, “Of the poets whe®speak to the spirit— Dante, Milton, Goethe, Shelley, Words- worth, Tennyson and Browning—no one has given moré impassioned expression to that ideal which beckons on' beyond sun and star than his Shelley ip his ‘Prome- theus Unbound.’” It is a poem so great in its mysterious, incalculable force, that it comes to be, not alone a ginative cre- tion, but a human t, mirroring the decpest experien: B 40 ““The degree to which one is enabled to dominate his own life in the sense of con- trofling ang selecting and grouping its outer events is precisely proportion to the spiritual power he has achieved, and this power depends largely on his choice and range of reading. * * * The inner life that is lived—the life of reading, thought, aspiration, purpose and prayer— dominates and determines the outer life.’ 1t creates it. ' And when one feefs help- lessly drifting at the mercy of events his only safety lies in a more positive and abounding energy; in deeper purpose and firmer grasp on his intellectual life, a higher and diviner trend to his thought and a closer clinging to the divine prom- Nor is the result hardly less indebtéd to the literature of belles lettres than to that qf ethies; for spirituality, that high- est degree of energy, is the product of both intellectual and moral culture, of taste and refinement blended with aspira- tion and high purpose.” A wide range of rcading in the novel is advocated as a m s of giving needed relaxation of mind and of helping toward a better understanding of the complex phages of human character. Books by the best writers on sclentific subjects Miss Whiting .gonsiders of scaveely less value as an aid toward widening the spiritual outlook than works devoted exclusively to ethies and religlon, For, according to Miss Whiting's view, there Is no real contlict between the’ great principles of sclence and of religion. 8o Mixs Whiting adviscs help to a wider Intellectunl and culture an scquaintance with the popular works of the leading sclen- tiste, at least as well us u_study of the great religlous and philosophical works which have proved a source of inspiration to the different races of men, Those acquainted with the former works Ak n moral more of Misx Whiting will expect to find this one, like ‘the others, d'stingulshed by a lofty moral tone and by a desire to win a hearing for the great teuchers who have striven to make the' world a more beauti- ful and a better place in which to live, ““The World Beautiful in Books” will be of speclal assistance to young lovers of books, who need suggestions as to what the world considers the hooks most worthy 10 be read, and who from lack of experi- ence have not as yet learred that the in- fluence of books in giving % bias to char- acter is but little less than that of the persons by whom they are surrounded. (Publishéd by Little, Brown & Co., Bos- ton. Price $1.) The Passing of the Great Queen. In “The Passing of the Great Queen” Marie Corelli has written a panegyric upon the virtues of Queen.Victoria. The work is in no sense a chronicle of events in the life of the Queen. It aims to enu- merate the noble qualities which the Queen possessed in such an eminent de- gree, and to show that unless these quali- tles shall come to distinguish people of all ranks of society in a greater degree than they do at present modern culture and the materlal advantages brought by modern inventions cannot be of perma- nent assist the progress of, the race. te esides being a eulogy of Queen Victoria, at times comes near belng a tirade ainst a life exclusively devoted to the pursult of pleasur Still, cven when Miss Corelli utters her bitter- est anathemas, albeit at times she grows theatrical, her very carnestness com- mands attention. A few paspages from the book will show the trend of fts thought: “l am merely trying to express in this brief tribute to her imperishable glory what 1 feel to be the special lesson of this noblest woman’s life to women, In a time like the present, when the accu mulation of wealth seems to be the chief object of existence and the indulgence of self the rule of dally conduct, and yet, when, despite our exceptional advantages, our modern luxuries and conveniences, 50 many of us are-weary, restless and ili at ease, traveling from one place to an- other in search of the chimera of happi- ness, which forever eludes our grasp, is it not plain and paramount, after all, that simple goodness is best? The ‘old- fashioned” virtues—is there not something in them?—something sweet and penetrat. ing like the perfume of thyme and laven- der in the ‘old-fashioned’ garde: em: . Our late monarch has given to women a supreme example of what mothers should be—wise, prudent, patient, never weary in well doing, and forever tender, forever loving. * * * ‘Reverence for God!'. No one will deny that the Queen in the clos- ing years of her long and splendid reign must have seen this reverence dying out and that her heart must often have been surcharged with weeping when she con- sidered the great change which has come over modern thought and modern life since she first ascended the throne, a shy, pretty little girl, with all England walting to do her homage. Bhe must have noticed a complete departure from old ways and customs, which, however simple they were, certainly did mark English women an Queen roses of the world, and did wo influence men to love their homes and to | work for the glory of thelr country that | they were able to leave It greater th they found it, She must have watched Progress marching with swift, Impetuous wteps In one direction—but Kresslon und decny marching as steadily, though more slowly, in another—progross, let us say, In machinery, but retrogression n men, * * ¢ Tho great thing, therefors, In to live here and now the dally life of wimplicity and self-dental such ux our late glorlous Queen lived,. Bixty-three years of the moat exalted position In the world, wixty-thres years of undisputed wover- elgnty over milllons of human belngs, nelthor spolled the enrthly woman nor the heavenly woul whieh God hud made our-Queen, Bhall we not be grateful for thin? Bhall we not give hearty thanks amid our lamoentations? There In cmune for the very profound rejoloing that tho Queens of the earth to-day are proverb. lally of simple tastes and gentle churncs ters, and we may be proud that our Queen was the simplest of them all, Re- membering her, and cherixhing her mem- ory ue we shall %ever do, it may be we shall help ourselves to measure things rightly by the standard has left us, Striking poster of “Audrey,” Mary 80 that we may be no longer deceived by false appearances, * * * The memory of the great Queen who has passed from our midst without a stain upon her char- acter as a woman, or a flaw in her wis- dom as a monarch, may exercise a soft- ening charm and a refining influe upon us through the chastening sorrow we feel at her irreparable los: (Pub- lished by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $1.00.) “The Warners.” “The Warners," written by. Gertrude Potter Danlels, 1s an ably written novel, but its theme is too unpleasant to allow it to be zltogether agreeable reading. Warner, the principal character, I8 a man PR P | REDERIC REMINGTON, the art- Ist, whose clever pencil. has dig- nified. for all time the cowbay, the Sioux, the Apache, the blue-conted | cavalryman and the fringe-legged seout—all the ploturesque personalities of the frontler=is the man to whom Au- gustus Thoman owes much of the fidelity of detall of environmant and “‘atmos. phere’ which Ix Inevitubly remarked by the Intelligent playgoer witnessing a per: formance of “Arlsona," Frederie Wenington, artist par excel- lence of “Thy Man and the Horse," han nut achieve nin kingship of a unloue emplre In the realm of art without works Ing hard for 1t. Remington haw, [or the pust fifteen yeurs, spont fully half his tUme In the ranches, urmy postw and In. dian ngencles of the great West, He hun studled the “types’’ of frontier folk from the Canadinn borderland to the hell-holes which mark the International boundury between Arfgonu and Old Mexlco, Ho has ridd with the wecouts and the Indlun pollce throvgh the grass lands of Mone tana and Dakota, rounding up proud but reculeitrant Brule Bloux; he has lived with the miners and prospectors of Nee vada and Colorado; has hunted coyotes with the cavalrymen of Fort Rlley and ’ Jokinston’s latest book, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. who {8 upright, industrious, and intelli- gent; yet whose efforts toward insuring the permanent happiness of his family and himself are frustrated by bad luck. Warner begins li e in the most abject poverty. Little by little, at the cost of tremendous effort and. self-denial, his circumstances improve. When Warner reaches manhood he gains employment in a factory. In this place there works a girl, Betty Martin, with whcm Warner talls in love. In time the two marry. By this time Warner has saved enough money to enable him to buy in a distant part of the State land on which there is an oil well, On the land there is also a little cottage, In which Warner and his wite take up their residence. By the time his only child, Betty, has reached wo- manhood, the financial prospects of Cy- rus Warner look very bright.. Suddenly there appears in the village a millionaire named Anthony Fellows. This man wishes to gain control of all the oil wells in the region round the town in which the Warners live. Almost all the well owners, Cyrus among them, refuse to sell out their interests to Fellows. In revenge Fellows, who 1s an oil ‘magnate, causes the market price of oil to drop to such a low figure that all the small producers are ruined, Warner is driven to close his well, He turns to other work, but mis- fortune pursues him, and he and his fam- ily are reduced to the brink of starvation. Betty Warner is a beautiful girl, with a ——— FREDERIC REMINGTON AND THE COWBOYS has spent long, sweltering days with the untortunates of Uncle Bam's service who, from Fort Grant and other Arigona posts have been kept busy watching the via- Earlen of Geronimo, Cochive and Apache Kid, All of which {s by saying that if there In one man alive outslde of the cavalry, Indlan or ranching business, who thoroughly “navvies' the frontier gama, that man v Frederlc Remington— plump and joyous Individugl who left his fMusteating and hin studlo to go with Augustus Thomans, hix feiend, to slipervise the final dress rehenrsal of “Arisonn'' at the Herald Bquare Theater, New York, Innt full, A ringle Incldent of thnt réhenranl wil nerve to demonstrate the benefielnl In- fluence of the artist upon the myster work of the nuthor, A dogen supernume) arlen cullod from the Bawery, artifielully sunburned, clad In “chaps,” sombroros and blue flannel #hirts, were lnod up for Inupeotion, They had just been nently powdered with alkall dust out of n bix peppor box and looked to the caminl eye the “renl thing." "hey looked all right Lo Mr, Thomas, too, but the orftienl glance of Remington detected o fatal detect, “Walt a minute, Gus," he shouted— ——— “'those fellows have the bandanas on all wrong. The men had them tled loosely around their necks with the pendent flaps hanging down over the shoulders, "What's the matter?' queried Thomas, “That's the way I've always ween them wear them.' ""Which you never did in Arfsona,” re- torted Mr. Remington. “You don't evi know why they wear thome ‘kerchistw, "Look nice and keep the wun off ther necks, I wuppose,” ventured Thomuy, “Not on your life, They wear them knotted loose and hanging down In front for Jukt two reasons; one, wo they oan reach them while viding at full wpeed to wipe the perspiration from thelr faces, and the other for convenlence to wipe the skl dust out of thelr eyes fust s quick aw it wottlow, while théy are round- K upen hord of onttle, The alkall would blind them in five minutes If t got Into thelr eyes, nnd u 'puncher’ working on u roundup with a thousand or two of ex- elted range cattle hasn't any time 6 go digeing for his pockets when he nedds a handkerchief. Twist them round the other way, dirty them up u bit and those fellows will look an near the ‘real thing' us you ean get this side of Toxns." She makes the de a disso- Latred of poverty. quaintance of a son of Fellow lute fellow, who promises her a lifz of luxury if she will leave her varents for h'm. Betty runs away from home, leav- 1ng her father and mother without a clew to the direction of her flight. While Bet- ty Is away home Cyr sells his ofl wells to Fellows at a ridiculously low price. Warner leaves the money re- ceives with his wife, and starts out for Michigan, where he has heard there are valuable iron mipes. Warner es discover a 'rich mine. He returns with the good news to his wife. The day of Warner's return Betty comes back to )l/ler parents in a dying condition. Goaui ed to desperation at - the crueft o young Fellows she has put an end togher miserable life wita him by killing ¥im. Betty dies before the vengeance of the law can reach her. Just before her death there comes to Warner a letter in which Anthony Fellows offers to buy the mine upon which Warner has built so many new hopes. Warner knows that if he re- fuses Fellows’ request it will mean ulti- mately his ruin. Driven to desperation by all th he has suffered from Fellows and his son Warner determines to kill Anthony Fel- lows. The chance to do it Is given War- ner, but at the crucial moment he fails to carry out his intention. And so the story ends. (Published by the Jamleson- Higgins Company, Chicago.) While Charlie Was Away-. Mrs. Poultney Bigelow has written novel in the form of a series of letters. The correspondence is supposed to be carried on by a London woman of society, Mrs. March, and her cousin, Lord pa_rm- way. The title of the book is, “While Charlle Was Away.” “Charlie” is Mrs. March's husband. What goes on in the gay set in which Mrs. March moves l‘lur- ing the absence of Mr. March from h‘f‘:- jand forms the subject of the letters. Quotations from the book itselt will give the best idea of its tone: 3 ou know, Bal, I've got my rl’lofe)when I need support, not only finan- clal, which 1 can't accept even from you, but a kind of moral prop, which only my eousin Bill can supply? The time of life I've got to is Liorrid; people don't talk about it much. I call it the pepper-and-salt stage—that is the age when one’s front hair begins not to match one's back halr, 1 still look young In the Back; my walst goes in beautifully, thanks to a resolute meat diet during a portion”of every My toque (which is always & smart one remember my taste in hats?) shows warm chestnut locks at the back, but in tront— jan't it disgusting? Nature has crimped my hair, but the early snow of premature middle- Age has begun to powder the waves. Men tell e it s ‘fetching’—the sort of men who swear they love & pug nose unless they're talking to a woman with a Greclan one! * * What e Wrongs a to a time In year. —you 1 Mo tiresome about me- is that as my fuce grows older my heart grows younger. All the blows 1've sustained during my earthly pil grimago have left my powers of crodulity un Impatr 1 am always meeting somebody I think 1 could love. The somebody has always a previous attachment, or els salls for or the tim. South Africa, or India th Pole a day or two after 1 mee Charlle doesn’t count. What Is the good of a husband who's a autlor and who lives principally on the west coast of Africa? * ¢ * I want a man who wilk run errands for me, fake me to the play. ond dote upon save me trouble at every turn, me—discreetly. Now I find if they dote they ain’t discreet, and if they're discreet they don t dote. 1It's very discouraging. I tell Charlie that for me he doesn’t exist. If ome day in a fit of absence of mind I should marry some- body, there isn’'t a judge in all England who wowld convict me of bixamy. How can ons belisve in a husband whom one never sees? e « ¢ Do you know Mrs. Bobby Brabazon a good-looking woman, ten years older than [ am, who looks ten years younger. I hats omen like that, don’t you? It's so deceitful. * * + Mrs. Bobby is very soft and sweet. She 1s & kind of moral survival of the medieval prisoners. She picks out a viettm and distills little drops of calumny Into his cup of life until she has killed his reputation, and s! purrs so gently all the time! She has large green eyes, quite lovely, and she fastens them on your face, and what with them and her rolls of beautiful golden hairs and her sweet little undulating gestures, you are hypnotized and find yourself babbling the secrets of your soul, and next day you go out to tea and meet them with trimmings. * * ¢ ‘Mrs. Brabazon went out to tea the other day—she haunts teas—looking lovely and dis- gustingly young In a big black hat, the kind that kicks up and makes one side of you look saucy, and drops down on the other and gives your right cheek a sentimental alr. *‘Isn’t it sad, dear Mrs. March, to think that the truth has come out at last about poor Jimmy Southcote? * ‘What about him? safd L *“ “Why he killed his Erandmother, you know. That we all knew, but, of course, one hever liked to mention It. It was one of those under- stood things which aren’t said. It was for the rubles, you know—the famous Southcote rubles. Poor Lord Jimmy was in love with Ruby Mon- tague—the girl with the high kick; you've seen her. She was always upplsh (her papa was a fishmonger), and she would wear nothing but rubles, because of her name. Rubles are scarce, you know.’ ** ‘As scarce as truth,’ bit of muffin, “‘ ‘Oh, scarcer, Well, Jimmy thought the old lady had lived long enough—eighty year really, are pretty good Innings—and he gave her insect powder In her barley water.” " There is a good deal more in the same s ~ain. The book is written with a fair degree of cleverness—of a certaln sort. As was oncs said apropos of something else, “For tnose who lHke this sort of thing, it is just the sort of thing they like.” (Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York.) I acquiesced, with a Love’s Itinerary. A novel that Is a long series of dea. lightfully humorous situations is “Love's Itinerary,” by J. C. Smaith, The scene of the story Is lald in England In the elghteenth century. A young nobleman, thedarl of Tiverton, has spent in riotous living everything of which he s pos sessed. To add to his misfortuntes he kills & man In a duel. The officers of the law are put upon his track, and to avoid them he flees from London, He does not go alone, however, Lady Cynthin Carew, the daughter of the Duke of Salop, accompanies him. Lady Cynthia i annoyed by the attentions of many sultors, one of whom s favored by her father, and to escape them she flies to the protection of Lord Tiverton, * wit) whom #he s In love, and who loves hey Although . Lady gynthia and her lov have searcely & whilling between them they decide to trust to fortune to pro vide for thelr wants, Aws they eannot af- ford to ride out of London they have to walk. Outside of London they find u Juntry rectory, where they are mar ried. ¥rom there they wtart out on u very wtrange marriage journey, Thuy wander on for several (z supporting themuelves by thelr witw, As u natural conwequence they meet with all worts of queer experiences, They ure put into the Wtocks on n charge of vagrancy, they are compelled through hunger to accept the hospitality of gypstes und of a highway- man, ond at last they are deiven to wuch an extremity that they hire out as wer vants to an innkeeper. o Duke ot Salop arrives at the Inn in his search for the runaway couple. To elude him they go off with his earringe and horses | As they are then near the bride's home — she suggests that they visit it for sup= | plies before starting out for America, a8 Lord Tiver has proposed to do. They ima that the Duke will not be able to reach the place befpre they leava. Unfortunatei they are tempted by the prospect of eating a good dinner once | to prolong their stay. While they are making very merry at table in walks the frate parent. But his ax s mnot || proof against his dau te coaxing and h ot only forglves t ung peo- ple in very proper way, but finds means to end all their difficulties. §flhe | boo es not contain one dull line.' The style ightfully quaint, and the || ave f the ill-starred honeymoon both original and, amusing. Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York.) Morgan’s Men. “Morgan’s Men™ is an historical story for boys. The hero, Stuart Schuyler, 18 a young captain of cavalry, who fights in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. e scene of the tale is laid in rolina at the time when the Americans came nflict with the ' forces of Tarleton tory 1s all about | the vicissitudes and the glories of war. It is a bright, dashing tale of Lhe sort that young boys like. (Published by Lite tle, Brown & Co., Boston. Price $1 20.) Literary Notes. “Jim and Kittick, a Life Sketch From Nome Beach,” a touching bit of Eskimo color from the pen of an Alaskan writer who has studied the intimate life of the natives, appears in the March Overland Monthly. “Avila: An Idyl of Southern California,” is a lyric by Tracy and Lucy Rebinson that smells of the sea and the hills, and is beautifulyy embellished by the miniatures that accompany it. Mr. H. C. Chatford-Taylor i{s about to ' publish a new novel, upon which he has been at work for nearly two' years It is to be called “The Crimson Wing,” and will be issued In February by Messrs. Herbert S, Stone & Co. The subject is a more serfous one than this writer has undertaken in other novels, as the Franco- Prussian War forms the background. The two heroin; French, but the hero is a German, and this gives an opportunity for effective contrasts and exciting situa- tions One of the features of the March num- | ber of the Critic will be a comprehensive | blographlcal and anecdotal paper Dr. Henrik Ibsen The letterpress be furnished Mr. Christian and the illustrations, which number over score, and Include numerous portraits anc by k Werensklold. rnaro, Ernest Haskell, Fe n, Bernard Partridge, Robert Bry and others. In addition these there will also be facsimile reproductior will Brinton, by carfcatures of Ibsen MSS., together with origina drawings and costume sketches by Dr Ibsen John Luther Long, whose first novel, “Naughty Nan,” was tssued by the Cer tury Company February %, is the auth of a number of remarkably successf short storfes, one of which, “M Butterfly,” has been a stage succ ‘4 more than a year. It is understood that an opera based on the same tale is being written by the Itallan composer, Glacomo Puccini, whom Verdi called “the mos promising of his successors.” Mrs. Fiske is now appearing in a dramatization of another story of Mr. Long’s—"Dolc Mr. Long, who is a young Philadelphia lawyer, has written in “Naughty Nan” an American love-story which Is sald to be as powerful in its way as was his Japan- ese story, “Madame Butterfly.” e ———a—— The Constitution of the United States of America has put a new meaning into the word citizenship. The high ideals of the fathers of our country have lald the foundations of good citizenship in such a way that the industrious, high-minded. ambitious men and women of all nations have flocked to our shores. The present prominence of our nation among the na- tions of the world and its new flelds of usefulness and power have given to American citizenship a fresh inspiration toward true living and great accomplish- ment The high sentiments of our Chief Ex- ecutive in his address, “The New Citi- zen,” printed In the Youth's Companion, are fittingly published In the W ton's Birthday number. George Washing- ton, by his pure life and wise cum,‘mn ism and ambition for the new country, fairly won his title of Father of his Coun- try. Theodore Roosevelt, the best expon- ent of our twentleth century activity, has equally high ideals for the nation: and in this address, and in his life, he lays par- ticular stress on the Individual, his stew- ardship, his usefulness in home and pub- e life. Washington and Lincoln led our nation over its most difficult paths. 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