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d, as it surely e upon dogma the tenets of bodies, could officlal ion, sanctioned and regents, do versity - versalism cannot be rectice. The weight of opin- at e public university vorced from any programme of religious training if it is to achieve ependence of thought and le is studied as litera- ; religious schemes en- losophical stud- for consideration in the e scope of T ebstrac is 1hv p"fl\’fin'e of the mode ing to opinion, have T ersity of Ch DUNBAR in Verse and Story the reading world did rea what store it set by rk of the colored singer of VHAPS ize d teller of tales, Paul Dunb, until death very nigh to him his ical tongue the literature re, the only col- aised himself to interpreter of the measures - of better in his us the very esse 1d the common- plac the lights and without com- X X r lives. His ast published boc “The Heart Hollow and “Li'’ Gal” the one verse the other, nt Dun hig best. “The Heart of Happy Hollow” is a volume of sixteen short tales, some n dialect, which have to exploit the features that mark the daily round in Darktow the With one or two exceptions ries are all first clas: these ticns mark the author’s effort to k with the atmosphere that is his y right and to draw inspiration from world beyond the confines of the lored ma It is when he chooses some from the lives of his race-fellows and delivers it in the ir- resistible dialect of the “’foh de war” eunty or uncie that Dunbar excels as comedy r hag quick recog- d the vagaries Bruvver Hay- found freedom and the law make for him <l. “A Matter of Doctrine,’ before a in colored of the flock put the ation into prafitable one of the clever- dialect negro 1t vol of ¥ mpilation that the poet has st past nes during the es the well known Hot” and the Here ay trade, uced from a stydent of the tions being ographs made by »n Institute. fead & Co., New each.) York; price PELETE ISLLANDS of the Caribbean. l\' a ndsomely printed and bound me of 430 odd pages, “Our dian Neighbors,” by title, Frederick A. Ober tells a great deal t th American Mediterranean will be new to most of us. igh he tells it with little pretense hing but a clear, straightfor- ative style and lacks, per- ve for the picturesque and beautiful, Mr. Ober's book valuable for the vast amount of facts little known spots of the West- hemisphere which it contains. hor his readers straight through from the Bahamas off the Florida co: down to Trinidad d the Dutch islands fringing the hern shore of Venezuela. In each group he treats of the history of the peoples, their origin and their sc- cial and economic life; a survey of the is carries topography and products of each cluster of islands is given and a description of the gities and points of 1ter situated therein. To this somewhat categorical scheme of the guide book Ober adds a fund of anec- dote and personal reminiscence which relieves his work of the strict formal- ism of a book of travel. In many in- stances statistics gathered by the au- thor himself while serving as a com- missioner of the Columbian Exposi- tion give the volume the value of a al book of reference. Cuba, with which the author seems the most famillar, receives lengthy eration. Several trips through nd, both before and after the mancipation from the Spaniard, made Ober thoroughly familiar with the type of people in whose hands government is now entrusted and of se Cuban ex-patriots he writes at h. He credits the native Cuban vith but mongrel pedigree and with an order of intelligence lower than the average. True, the newly emanci- pated citizen of a free republic does not drink to excess, nor is he thievish in Ober’s eyes; but he is irredeemably wedded to the obsolete past in his every walk of life and even to-day he is the slave of the coldly calculating Spaniard. The Spaniard is still the man of affairs in Cuba. (James Pott & Co., New York; lustrated; price $2 50.) R — CHILDREN of New York Ghetto HERE has been no brighter book than Myra Kelly's “Little Citi- zens” this season. For pure drollery and downright fun this collection of short tales about the children. of New York's ghetto cannot be surpassed. The dialect brings surprise at every turn and gales of laughter. The incidents are as unhackneyed as the atmosphere. The author's keen perception of humor and her quick way of turning it to account are as Irish as her name. Though Jacob A. Riis has given readers many- pictures of New York's slum children in “How the Other Half Lives” and other of his sketches “of the tenements, his tales rarely catch the sunshine -that filters down even through the chimney pots of the crowded ghetto; they are too purpose- ful to admit of anything -but the 11- its THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL i 4 RENC, DENBAR luzvo» oF & AND s st,fpf. o5 FA RO BOLL Oy tinge. of sadness and pathos. In “Lit- tle CI ns,” on the other hand, the clever young writer has to offer only the little comedies of life and thought that fall among the children there. As teacher in one of the settlement schools Miss Kelly found herself in the very midst of the strangest miniature world of mingled shrewdness, world- ly ,wisdom and innocence—a replic the elders. There in these buddirn Americans of Lithuani- an, Polish and Rus n tongues, the teacher read some queer pages of life. of the world of The ingraft of pugnacious, prograssive Americanism upon the keen, specu- latlve root-stock of the Old Worla Hebrew produces a hybrid breed in the younger generation that defies analy One of the best stories in the col- lection is that which has to do with “A Christmas Present for a Lady.” When all of the little “owitzes” and “ewskys” were preparing fittingly to celebrate the teacher’s holiday with gifts of candlesticks, “could to cost three for ten cents,” and perfume “to make teacher's hair smelly,” little Morris Mogilewsky, whose family can- not afford even a flve-cent gift, brings something which his father had given his mother for a gift. n he looks sooner she awful glad ns Morris ipation of his gift presenta- In her eyes stands tears, und on it, in tion. anti she says, like that—out of Jewish— “Thanks,’ un’ she kisses my papa a kiss. Und my papa. how he is po- lite. He say out of Jewish, too— ‘You're welcome, all Tight,’ un’ he kisses my mama a The gift for the teacher was a re- ceipted bill for the rent of two rooms: Let us hope that Miss Kelly will find the opportunity to give us more of these intensely human little stories of the ghetto. Hers is a pen that sketches pictures even while it writes a tale, (McClure, Phillips & Co., New York; illustrated; price $1 50.) v A STUDY of Our Immigrants 113 l is a bock filled with good ma- terial. Though the author de- signed to show some of the economic and sociological aspects of the great flow of aliens into this country, which is yearly becoming more and more a subject for grave consideration, the scientific “worth of his book is over- shadowed by the weight of human in- terest incorporated therein. The type of the immigrant rather than the sig- nificance of his coming here is what interests the reader most. Belicving that good material lay “in getting the immigrant’s point of view to compare with the publie-spirited American one,” Mr. Brandenburg de- termined to become one with the Ital- fan immigrant and to catch from that position an aspect with which the great mdss of the American people is unfamiliar. To that end the author, accompanied by his wife, went to live for- geveral months in the crowded Italian tenements of the East Side in New York. Having acquired there suificient familiarity with the language to insure the success of his scheme, he went by the uncomfortable steer- age route directly to Italy, the source of supply. After having made astudyof the peasant life throughout the poorer districts of Italy, he attached himself to a Sicilian family that was contemplat- ing a voyage to America, and with them he.made the tedlous voyage across the ocean and passed through the tortuous channels of Ellis Island. So much for the author's quest in search of material. That it was pro- ductive of some very strong convie- ~tions is apparent throughout the book. His dominant belief is that the Italian immigrant as a-class is endowed with qualities muking for the best citizen- ship. He admits, however, that the leaven of bad existing is sufficient to sour the whole dough. To obviate this the author would have inspection MPORTED Americans,” Brough- ton Brandenburg's study of some phases of Iimmigration, and restriction put upon immigrants in their ¢wn country, rather than at the norizls of America. He belleves that an itinerant board of examiners should first seek principles by going to the very roots of immigration sources and there passing upon the Gualifications of would-be citizens of the republic More convincing than this rather chamerical scheme for the regulation of immizration is the ing of the type that repre contribution to our hod tionality. It was his experience that throughout the whole agrarian popu- lation America wwas synonymous with the Promised Land of Biblical lore. Everywhere did he find it that the ultimate of individual endeavor Was ewanclpation from the tyranny of mili- tary comscription and the burden of church tithes, and passage to the magic land of the West. Significant is it, according tp the author's deduction, thut those districts the most rich are the very ones which have contributec most to the tide of immigration. A family that has a representative in this country is more fortunate than its fellows; a village that has contributed many of jts sons and daughters has little debt to worry it. America is mieasured by the dollar sign by all of Ttaly’s poor and Italy on its part profits by the wholesale shipment of these people to the Western land of oppor- tunity. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York; mustrate( price s1 50.) JUVENILE BookKs of the Season S the Christmas holiday approaches and the desk of the distraught re- viewer becomes a very wilderness of books, all demanding atten- tion, he finds himself sore put to it to satisfy both the publishers and the readers of his page. What with two score novels and a baker's dozen of books in heavier mold crowding imper- atively, may he not escape for the min- ute to the lighter and often more enter- taining task of glving the children’'s books place? For Christmas is very large on the horizon at present, and the infant who does not find at least one book under the toe of his stocking has righteous cause for rebellion, Boys.first. And for these I can think of no better volume than Edwyn San- dy's “Sportsman Joe.” In this healthy outdoor book the author of “Trapper Jim” holds his voung readers close to the fortunes of Joe, the young sports- man, who has the great good fortune to leave the haunts of city life for a wonderful trip through the hunting lands of Canada. He follows deer on still hunt, he catches fighting trout in the woodland torrents, he has a chance at ducks and snipe, grouse and prairie chicken. More a bay could not ask. Nor can the boy reader ask more. In telling his story the author has filled the nar- rative with bits of woodcraft, the study of wild things and the tricks of a sea- soned camper—things which every boy ‘wants to know, and once known to put into practice. One does not necessarily have to qualify in the “boys’ size” clasg to enjoy “Sportsman Joe.” (The Macmillan Company, New York; illustrated; price $1 §0.) Egerton R. Young is a name well known to all boy readers. This prolific writer of books of adventure in the nerth lands and among the Indians of the Canadian Northwest, who draws all his material from the fund of expe- rience furnished by long duty as a mis- sionary to the tri has now added to the already long list of his juventles with a book which can be read by the elders with no little profit, “Algonquin Indian Tales.” This book incorporates a complete cycle of legends gathered from the various branches of the Al- gonquin tribe, most of which center about the mythological hero, boozhoo, a mighty man and a ve metheus for all the Indians the north. In reproducing these folk, tales of the savages the author has keot ad- mirably well the original spirit of poetry resident in them; throughout the entire length of the book the spirit of the woods and the solitudes is made to breathe its presence through the in- terpretations of the tales. For these le- gends, as those of every primitive peo- ple, are in large part but the interpre- tation of nature's forces according to the understanding of the rude wilder- ness dwellers. of (Eaton & Mains, New York; illus- trated; price $1 25.) “Strenpuous Animals being vera- cious tales of our furred and feathered friends by Edward J. Webster, is Ern- est Thompson Seton set to the measure of roaring farce. While one is inclined to wax exceeding tired with Mr. Se- ton’s constant procession of straight- laced animals apdealing to his lachry- mal ducts, I doubt if any person that reads this book of uproarious mirth will gainsay the author's writing an- other like it, even though he may switch his middle and last name in the interim. The trained ferret that could lay telephone cables without tearing up the city streets, the balloonist dog that had the record for sprinting, the elec- tric-motor frog—these weird creatures of Mr. Webster’'s creation have Thomp- son Seton “backed right off the map,” to adopt the superlative of Uncle Billy. Amusing illustrations by Kemble and Bob Adams re-enforce the risible at- tributes of the book throughout. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York; price $1.) —_—— Among recent stories of adventure Edward Stratemeyer's book, ‘“‘Under the Mikado's Flag,” claims precedence. It relates the adventures of two young Americans in Korea and Manchuria during the outbreak of the great war between Russia and Japan, the leading character being Gilbert Pennington, the hero of “On to Pekin,” and the other, Ben WRussell, who, With his brothers, Larry and Walter, is so well known to the thousands of readers of the famous “Old Glory Serles.” It closes with the great battle” of Liao- yang, and is as valuable for the in- formation conveyed as it is interesting as a story. The boys of the whole country have been expecting Mr. Stratemeyer to give them a book on the Japanese war, and he has respond- ed by one of his very best. (Lee & Shepard, Boston; Jflltstrated; price $1 25.) ' James Otis, the popular writer of boys’ juveniles, has produced a book with a girl as the central figure. The first Fourth of July celebration, when ‘Washington assembled his troops to listen to the reading of the' Declaration of Independence, is the time of this exciting story for children. Dorothy IR AELLY ATTEOR oF ZI/J'/‘.{[ 2 CTTLZEN Dean, the small daughter of -a patriot, after seeing King George's statue pulled down, and getting her best frock spoiled by the crowds which even then surged about in New York’s streets, is sent home for safety. But there she and a playmate became involved in a more serious adventure with a British spy. Thrilling events and escapes fol- low fast in the story, but the ending is happy. The book is by a well-known author of histerical tales for children and so closely has he woven this into actual incident that opne cannot help believing Dorothy to be as real a per- son as George Washington himself (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., N York; illustrated; price 60 cents.) by Clarence Hawkes, is a prettily worded “Stories of the Good Green Woods,” little book on nature study for small readers. In this we become acquaint- ed with the family of Mother Fox; we read the tragic tale of the pet which grew wild again; we witn plovers’ field day; we f tracks the snow and learn how to teil them; we watch the Drummer of the Woods; and we learn many secrets of wood- craft. Mr. Hawkes is one of our most entertaining story-tellers in this field— on W one whom the children will follow gladly upon these pleasant excursions. The book is profusely illustrated by faithful portraits of the small actors represented. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, New Ycrk:illustrated {ce 60 cer ) For very small youngsters the season cffers much. In the first place there Is “McClure’s Children’s Annual,” edit- ed by T. W. H. Crosland and W. Coolinge. The book is re- plete with ctures, full paged, colored ones which catch the eye are jirg! of the toddler. Then there little stories and games in plen ten for the ready comprehension of reader folk—a complete entertainment fcr rainy afternoons. The book is pub- Iihed by McClure, Phillips & Co., New Yerk. The +Saalfield Company of Akron, Ohio, ‘publish Frances Trez» Mont- gomery's last contribution to the Bi Whiskers'~ series, “Billy Whiskers Junior.” Another book for nuksery fclk, complete in picture and text cop Tales,”™ Gelett Burgess' last chrgnicle of that interesting tribe, is brought out by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. Goops have their place in the infantile hall of fame along with Brownies and . shouldl ceive all honor. sl gt 7 4 S MAGAZINES in Holiday Dress HITHERTO unpublished poem by John Greenleaf Whittier will attract universal at- tention the December At- re- to lartic. The number opens appropriately with “A Christmas Sermon” by S. M. Croth- ers, seasonable semi-humorous appeal for peace and good will and toleration to all men. Samuel P. Orth follows with “Our State Legislatures,” a vig- orous and searching analysis of the characters and powers of these bodies whose annual sessions begin so soon in all the capitals ¢f the country, and of the real dangers to be apprehended from them. Henry A. Stimson dis- cusses “The Milliopaire's Peril”"—a vig- orous and timely paper on the tempta- tions and dangers of wealth—and George M. Gould, M. D.,, contributes a brilliant and philosophical paper on the “Infinite Presence.” In fiction, dro” continues to attract and ex- cite its readefs; short stories and es- says Include “When Least Aware” a delicately told and suggestive love story by Ellen Duvall; “Marianus,” a convent romance by Agnes Repplier, and “Miss Gaylord and Jenny,” a startling tale of love and hypnotism by Arlo Bates. Professor William James sends his striking speech at the late Peace Banquet; and J. Macdonald Oxley contributes “A Veteran Skater's Gossip.” Literary papers and studles are “Emerson,” bv the late Henry James, Sr.: “Grotius” (first paper), by An- drew D. Whitei' “Christina Rossetti,” by Paul E. More; reviews of “The His- tory of Twentv-five ¢Years,” " -The Poems of Freneau,” andsbooks new and old, as usual. In additidn to the post- humous Whittier poem, wverses are furnished by Arthur Colton and Nannie Byrd Turner, and the Contributors’ Club is brilliant and inferesting. The December Delineator, with its message of good cheer and helpfuiness, will be welcomed ih every home. The fashion pages are unusually attractive, illustrating and describing the very latest modes in a way fo make their construction during the busy festive In additi feast e AReve. aie the N lar rt ne, with man 1 art m & s relat ing-to woman’'s interests within 1 without the hor The Man Francisco News are the age ma 1 tions are year! son in T umber of panied by its readers v of storv and il erts, J. 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