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JUST PATTY
By JEAN WEBSTER
"Just Patty" is bubbling over with the delicious humor of Patty in college. Patty is full of the joy of living, fun-loving, given to ingenious mischief for its own sake, with a disregard for petty convention which is an unfailing source of joy to her fellows and of perplexed wonder to the faculty. What she does not think of in the way of mischief at that most select of boarding-schools, St. Ursula's, isn't worth thinking of.
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Author, with Stewart Edward White, of The Mystery
AVERAGE JONES
Average Jones is the cleverest detective since
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE-Franz Cumont, author of Oriental Religions in Roman Pa-
ganism, will make a lecture tour in America for the "Americau Committee for Lectures
on the History of Religion." He begins the 9th of October at Lowell Institute in Boston,
then he continues at Hartford (Theol. Sem.); Brooklyn (Institute for Arts and Sciences);
Baltimore (John Hopkins Univ.); Philadelphia (Drexel Institute); Chicago (U. of C. from
21st to 28th of Nov.), and finally Meadville, where he leaves the 9th of December. He is to
give six lectures ou astrology and religion in antiquity.
ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN
ROMAN PAGANISM
With an introductory essay by Grant Showerman, Univ. of Wisconsin.
Authorized Translation. Pp. 320. Cloth, $2.00 net (8s. 6d.)
TABLE OF
INTRODUCTION.-The Significance of Franz
Cumont's Work, by Grant Showerman.
ROME AND THE ORIENT.-Superiority of the
Orient. Its influence on Political Institutions,
on Civil Law, on Science, on Literature and Art,
on Industry. SOURCES: Destruction of Pagan
Rituals. Mythographers. Historians. Philoso-
phers. Christian Polemicists. Archeological
Documents.
WHY THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS
SPREAD.-Difference in the Religions of the
Orient and the Occident. Economic Influences.
Theory of Degeneration. Conversions are of In-
dividuals. Appeal of the Oriental Religions to
the Senses, to the Intelligence, to the Consci-
ence. Inadequacy of the Roman Religion. Im-
perial Power.
ASIA MINOR.-Arrival of Cybele at Rome.
Her Religion in Asia Minor. Adoption of the
Goddess Ma-Bellona. Politics of Claudius.
Spread of the Phrygian Religion in the Provin-
ces. Its Official Recognition. ARRIVAL OF OTHER
CULTS: Men. Judaism. Sabazius. Anahita.
The Taurobolium. Philosophy. Christianity.
EGYPT.-Foundation of Serapis Worship. The
Egyptian Religion Hellenized. Adoption at
Rome. Persecutions. Adoption Under Caligula.
Its History. Its Transformation. Uncertainty
in Egyptian Theology. Insufficiency of Its
Ethics. Power of Its Ritual.
SYRIA.-The Syrian Goddess. Importation of
New Gods by Syrian Slaves. Merchants. Sol-
diers. Heliogabalus and Aurelian. Value of
Semitic Paganism. Animal Worship. Baals.
Human Sacrifice. Transformation of the Sace-
dotal Religion. Influence of Babylon. Es-
chatology. THEOLOGY: God is Supreme. God
is Omnipotent God is Eternal aud Universal.
Semitic Syncretism. Solar Henotheism.
PERSIA. - Persia and Europe. Influence of
Mazdaism. Conquests of Rome. Origin of the
Mysteries of Mithra. Its Diffusion in the Occi-
dent. Its qualities. Dualism. The Ethics of
Mithraism.
ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC.-Prestige of As-
trology. Its Introduction in the Occident.
Polenics Powerless Against Astrology. The
Primitive Idea of Sympathy. Divinity of the
Stars Transformation of the Idea of God. New
Gods. Big Years. Astrological Eschatology.
Mao's Relation to Heaven. Fatalism. Efficacy
of Prayer. Efficacy of Magic Treatise on
Magic. Idea of Sympathy. Ancient Italian
Sorcery. Persian Magic.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROMAN PA-
GANISM.-Paganism Before Constantine.
Many Pagan Religions. Popular Religion and
Philosophy. Christian Polemics. Roman Pa-
ganism Become Oriental. Mysteries. Nature
Worship. Supreme God. Sidereal Worship.
The Ritual Given a Moral Significance. The
End of the World.
THE MYSTERIES OF MITHRA
By FRANZ CUMONT. Pp. 240.
Cloth, $1.50 net (6s. 6d.)
A treatise on the origin and history of the Mithraic religion, showing how and why it failed to
become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
THE CHRIST MYTH
By ARTHUR DREWS. Cloth, $2.25 net. Pp. 300 8vo.
A scientific and well-documented study in comparative religion. The large sale of this book
among professional men is very significant in that it proves that religion is no longer to be accepted on
unquestioning faith.
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Plucked in the garden of child fancy. Enhanced in color by the brush of
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A beautiful book of rarely enchanting fairy tales. Profuse with color
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What a little tot learned of Mother Nature's secrets-in the magical
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WILHELMINA SEEGMILLER
Charming verses, exquisitely told. The favorite Juvenile of the
season. Quarto. Illustrations and borders in black and white by
Ruth Hallock.
Hiawatha (Player's Edition)
Introduction by FRANK W. GUNSAULUS, D.D.
A beautiful edition illustrated with unusual photographs by Grace
Chandler Horn. Taken from life among the Ojibwas, they give us the
very characters, the very scenes so beautifully sung in Longfellow's
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woods; "the luminous water are brought before us with startling and
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