Preussen and Deutscher Kaiser, the world has been mistaken only once. On his succession he was regarded as an erratic and unimportant individual. To-day the world begins to feel that the Kaiser will win for Germany a voice in the world's affairs which will be heard and heeded. The author tends to the belief that the Kaiser is “un malade," and while this belief is not unshared by others, one must in justice admit that there is method in his madness. "William II and God" has tickled the risibilities of even those who are prone to regard William II as remarkable, of the same calibre as Theodore Roosevelt-a man of progression. M. De Noussanne's work, even if at times stilted, and somewhat too strongly flavored with paprika, in his implied criticism of the Kaiser, is an important addition to historical "Facts about Monarchs" and constitutes an interesting searchlight on a complex and little understood man. B. J. ROTART. Missionaries in Two Fields The Education of the Wage "TH Earners HE Education of the Wage Earners" is a series of essays and letters by the late Prof. Thomas Davidson, giving an account of his last work the establishment of an evening school for wage earners in the lower East Side, New York. After an introductory chapter by the editor, Dr. Charles M. Bakewell, of the University of California, which sketches the life and philosophy of the author, there follow two remarkable essays on the "Problems Which the Nineteenth Century Hands on to the Twentieth," in which Prof. Davidson expresses his broad conception of democratic education, its present weakness and its needs. For the dignity of the individual spirit as an end in itself, for the education that makes men intellectually, morally and socially free as the birthright of every human being, Professor Davidson earnestly pleads. a Chapter IV relates how the enthusiasm aroused by these lectures, delivered before an audience of Russian, Polish and Hungarian Jews, led to a class in History and Social Science, which developed into "Bread Winners' College" and became a social centre in the Hebrew quarter of the East Side. The graphic description of his difficulties in arranging his heterogeneous pupils and the methods of instruction he pursued, are a valuable addition to the literature of social reform, as well as to the problem of Democratic education. Chapter V consists of letters of encouragement THE EDUCATION OF THE WAGE-EARNERS. By Thomas Davidson. Ginn & Co. and direction written weekly to his class during the summers of 1899-1900 while he was absent conducting his summer school of philosophy in the Adirondacks. The book closes with a history of the progress that has been made since the untimely death of Prof. Davidson in 1900, the work having been carried on by his pupils. The results achieved are convincing evidence of the soundness and the truth of Mr. Davidson's theory of popular education, that among the wage-earners themselves must be sought the forces that send toward righteousness and truth. The little volume is incomplete and unfinished, and yet it holds many valuable suggestions as to the methods of giving a liberal education to those "who have to go to work early." Thomas Davidson's Schools are a fitting monument to a "wise and good man whose work and influence were out of all proportion to his general reputation." His published works are not numerous and do not do justice to his scholarly capacities. Although pre-eminently a scholar and thinker, he was through life animated by a profound missionary zeal and gave much of his time and strength to the helping of earnest workers to the idealized culture which he worshipped. Mr. Davidson was born in Scotland in 1840, but came to America shortly after his graduation from the University of Aberdeen. He began his career as a teacher, but abandoned that profession in order to lead the life of a scholar. In his pursuit for knowledge, he travelled much, absorbing the language and thoughts of many lands. He was a linguist, an his torian, a philosopher and at his death was accredited as "one of the dozen most learned men in the world." The list of Mr. Davidson's works includes "The Philosophical Systems" of Antonio Rosmini Serbati" (1882); "The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays" (1886); "Scartazinni's Handbook to Dante" (1887); "Prolegomena to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'" (1889); "Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals" (1892); "The Education of the Greek People" (1894); "Rousseau and Education According to Nature" (1898). CHARLES HOUSTON GOUDISS. of the "price of fish." Strongly, tenderly, effectively it is shown that there is no religion at sea, that the lust of money is as cruel as the thirst for grog, and as overpowering. The earnest cry is to save the brave fishermen from the land-shark and from drink. Like a thread of gold, the saving spirit shines on every page, a bold, definite call through fiction for the missions that save and bless. The need is great and the men worth saving. Fishermen are shown on God's side, working for God, in a way that shames us. Dramatically, the courage unto death, with no earthly reward, is told, until we wake up to the value of these heroic souls. It is the definite call of the master to the individual. When the dear good Doctor bids the fish-eaters consider the fish-catchers, it is no uncertain command and we feel the real plot, spiritual and eternal. KATE BLACKISTON STILLE. For Nature Lovers Another Hardy Garden Book TH HOSE who profited by Helena Rutherford Ely's "A Woman's Hardy Garden" need no introduction to the author, and will greet with delight "Another Hardy Garden Book." The introduction to this is a charming little essay, explaining why women love gardening, and explaining the difference in the way in which a woman looks at the beauties of nature from that in which a man views them. The book itself tells us of the author's experiences in raising flowers, fruits and vegetables, and is full of valuable suggestions. While not strictly a scientific work, it is decidedly systematic. Mrs. Ely is not a dabbler in the art, as the pictures of her garden testify. That she has had a broad experience is certain, for she has raised a remarkably large number of plants. Consequently we are thankful to her for the *THE HARVEST OF THE SEA. By Wilfred T. Grenfell. Fleming H. Revell Co. ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK. By Helena Rutherford Ely. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company. record of her gardening, and willingly look to her for advice. Mrs. Ely tells us not only how to grow the plants, but about the proper preparation of soil for planting, and adds some valuable suggestions about the arrangement of the garden. The book coming, as it does, just as the Spring is bidding us prepare for the wealth of vegetation that the summer brings, will prove a friend to many who want beautiful gardens this year. C. E. B. TH Butterflies* HERE is nothing in the whole realm of nature so fascinatingwith the exception of the flowers of the field, the woods and the garden-as these flowers of the air, butterflies. Their names, even, are so poetical, "MourningCloak," "Camberwell Beauty," "Monarch," "Painted Lady." And then their diet is so choice,-asters, golden-rod, dandelions, thistles; their whole existence such a mystery, taking in the different *MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIEs. By Mary C. Dickerson, with 200 photographs from life by the author. Ginn & Co. stages, at one time weaving themselves a silken carpet or pathway; at another, disporting themselves in gorgeous colors in the sunshine. We are glad, then, to add to our slender knowledge of the subject so much exact and varied information as is to be found T in this book. Notwithstanding the strictly scientific classification, the author succeeds in thoroughly interesting us in her story. The chapter on the relationship between different families of the insect world is of especial interest, on account of its close and lucid reasoning. A New Philosophical Work HE psychical element in evolution is sively entitled book. Assuming Monism as a philosophical axiom, and insisting on the permanence of spirit and the relativity of matter, Mr. Carpenter attempts to trace the evolution of consciousness. He gives us the history of this evolution in three stages: first, the primitive consciousness of the savage or the child; second, the rational consciousness of civilized man; and third, the transcendent consciousness which sees the Oneness of all things, and to which few of the present age have yet arrived. Perhaps the most interesting chapters in the book are those treating of the Gods, the Devils, and the Idols as hereditary elements in the self-consciousness handed down through the race-life. Beauty and Duty are regarded as late developments of the race-life. By this race-life, according to Mr. Carpenter, we are linked to the M. L. * precedent psychical state of individual consciousness and to the subsequent idealistic state of world-consciousness, the latter giving us the transcendent self as the creative source of all things. In other words, if we arrive at the point where we feel and know the Oneness of all things, we ourselves become the creators of all things. The author has attempted a synthesis of all existing world philosophies. The work is not technical, and the writer is guilty of many logical inaccuracies. We feel that he could have given a far greater element of probability to his statements if he had arranged his arguments as scientifically as the thesis would permit. As the work stands, neither the historical nor the analogical form of proof is closely followed. The book, in places, by way of comparison and contrast, suggests Paulsen's admirable argument for idealistic pantheism. GEORGE E. ROTH. When the Wilderness "A GREAT, unknown land right near home, as wild and primitive to-day as it has always been! I want to see it. I want to get into a really wild country and have some of the experiences of the old fellows who explored and opened up the country where we are now." So spoke Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., to his friend, Dillon Wallace, one night in 1901 when the two were camping in Southern New York. Hubbard referred to the eastern portion of the peninsula of Labrador, into which no white man had as yet penetrated. Hubbard was a news*THE ART OF CREATION. By E. Carpenter. The Macmillan Co. THE LURE OF THE LABRADOR WILD. By Dillon Wallace. Illustrated. Fleming H. Revell Co. Calls t paper man in New York City and associate editor of "Outing;" Wallace was a New York lawyer. It had been Hubbard's dream from childhood up to go upon an exploring expedition, and now he began to lay the plans for its fulfillment. Wallace, his good friend, agreed to accompany him, but not until June of 1903 did the arrangements reach completion and the expedition actually begin. It was agreed that if one of the two succumbed to the hardships or perils of the journey, the other was to write the record of the trip. It has fallen to Mr. Wallace's lot to give the story to the public in the book, "The Lure of the Labrador Wild," for Hubbard, only twenty-nine years of age, spirited, ambitious, with a dauntless. Τ The White Terror and the Red* O a free born American citizen, thinking as one, it is impossible to conceive of such a state of affairs as is revealed in Mr. A. Cahan's latest work, "The White Terror and the Red." The sum and substance of the book is Russia-Russia as it is-Russia as it was, there being little or no difference between the two periods, as shown to us by the book or by our study of Russia's history during the last few decades. Prince Pavel Boulatoff, a scion of the bluest of the blue-blood of Russia, is by a comparatively trivial incident converted to the underground movement for the extension of civil liberty. His conversion is largely due to a young Jewess, with whom he afterwards works, and whom eventually he marries, but the love story is lost to sight in the details of crass ignorance, unmitigated horror, attenuated estheticism and brutal bestiality, which Mr. Cahan treats with a calm journalistic expression of facts, but with marvelous self-repression, when we consider his evident sympathy with the under man in the struggle. Boulatoff, by his zeal and position, obtains a prominent place in the Executive Committee of the Terrorists, and with the accuracy of intimate and historical knowledge, the author brings out in marked detail, the conspiracy leading up to, and culminating in the assassination of Alexander II, on Sunday, March 13, 1881; by a remarkable coincidence, the details of Alexander's death bearing a striking similitude to the recent assassination of the Grand Duke Sergius, and the account of the antiSemitic movement in Kieff and Miroslav being a remarkable duplicature of our recent accounts from Gomel and Kishineff. The accounts of this movement, which followed the assassination of Alexander II reveal the revolting scenes of our more recent history, which is so fresh in the mind that a detailed description is unnecessary: Nihilism, autocracy, anti Semitism all bound up in an immiscible bundle. THE WHITE TERROR AND THE RED. By A. Cahan, author of "Yekl," etc. A. S. Barnes & Co. The opening chapter holds the motif of the tale. A dying man-a colored woman who intrudes upon the grief of the wife to tell her insolently "I'm the mother o' his child"-a child whom he later admits to his outraged wife to be three or four years of age. "Elizabeth was four in June," she answered absently. The shock turns the scale of life or death in Lawton's favor, and he lives. Margaret, however, cannot forget or forgive "the beast." The man she loved lives in the beast's human form, but the man she loved is dead to her. A year later Philip contracts a severe cold, and his vitality, undermined by his unremitting remorse, this time her "dream man" slips away. Mrs. Lawton takes the mulatto child into her household, and she is brought up and educated with little Elizabeth. The inevitable struggle which follows the awakening of the mind and soul of those unfortunates who are pale in hue, but through whose veins courses the fatal "black drop," came to Viry. A thread of a love story lends color to the upbringing of the younger element and how.Mrs. Lawton finally vanquished. the rebelliousness of Viry, and her own troubled heart, is told at the close of the story. The entire tale offers a psychological problem of unusual interest and a *THE MASTER WORD. By L. H. Hammond. The Macmillan Co. |