The Following Are Full and Accurate Reviews of All the Important Books Lately Published THE SHAME OF THE COLLEGES. By Wallace Irwin. Published by Outing Publisihng Co., New York. Price $1.50. "The Shame of the Colleges" is the telling caption of an exceedingly entertaining book by Wallace Irwin. Mr. Irwin's humorous portrayal of the characteristics of our prominent colleges is extremely clever and full of striking truths which do not lose their strength because they are told with a smile on the lips and a twinkle in the eyes. Any one interested in college life, and we venture to say those who are not, will find much enjoyment in this author's rather cynical, but wholly good-natured treatise on the character and ambitions of the modern college student. Harvard, Vassar, Princeton, University of Chicago, Yale and West Point all receive their share of his good natured censure. The work shows a wide knowledge of our college customs and the character and ambitions of college students and is written in an exceedingly smart and lively style. GROWTH. By Graham Travers. Holt & Co., New York. Published by Henry "Growth" is a very strong book bearing on Scottish life. It treats with student life in Edinborourgh. The characters are real, with decided likes and dislikes, which are readily brought to light in the discipline case discussed. Dugald Dalgleish is a young Scottish country lad who leaves his home in the green peaceful valley to pursue his studies for the ministry. Being the only son of a famous country clergy he has a narrow idea of life and naturally in his travels associates with different students and classes who lead him to theaters and places which his former teachings taught him to shun. He meets and falls in love with an actress which results in the arising of many complications. The story is written in a fluent, broad, plain manner and will stand reading more than once. TINMAN. By Tom Gallon. Published by Small, Maynard & Company. Price $1.50. "Tinman." by Tom Gallon, is a novel of love and abnegation of unusual force and interest. There is in it a celerity of movement: vigor and boldness that lend unusual charm. It is masterly in plot, style and treatment and compares favorably with the work of our best authors of fiction. The principal character is a man who "kills the lie" by murdering the slanderer of the woman he loves and re-acts the same deed after twenty years "I of imprisonment in defense of the woman's daughter. have lived two lives just as when my time comes, I shall have died two deaths. I have touched the warm lips of love. I have clasped the gaunt hands of misery," is a telling extract that suggests the pithy style in which this most remarkable story is presented. "Tinman" is a book of unusual strength, depth and beauty. THE SHERIFF OF WACO. By Charles Rose Jackson. Published by J. W. Dillingham Co., New York. Price $1.00. This book holds a fascinating adventure story full of living characters that are forcible yet entirely uncommon, written in a manner absorbing and attractive. Myra White, while she possesses the courage and power of endurance equal to a man in time of need, is weak where real courage is called for. 5,000 FACTS ABOUT CANADA. By Frank Yeigh. Canadian Facts Publishing Co., Toronto, Canada. A remarkable little booklet has been compiled under the above self-explanatory title by Frank Yeigh, of Toronto, the well-known writer and lecturer on themes Canadian. Perhaps no one in the Dominion is better qualified to make such a compilation. Its value is, as claimed, "worth its weight in Yukon gold or cobalt silver." The idea is a clever one, viz.: a fact in a sentence, giving a wonderful mass of information in the smallest compass on every phase of the commercial and industrial life of Canada and her natural resources. RED CAVALIER. By Lewis Ramsden. Published by Mr. Ramsden's "Red Cavilier," though of an entirely different order, is very much like Katherine Green's story of "The Mayor's Wife," particularly in the art of holding the reader's interest. The life of this great cavalier almost places a climax on adventure. A book of absorbing interest and one to hold the attention of the most careless reader. The Outing Publishing Co., of Deposit, N. Y., tells us that Emerson Hough has made a great reputation as a writer on western themes. It may be said truthfully of him that he has slept out-of-doors more, traveled more after big game and seen more of the actual life of the open than any writer ever before the American public. And yet. Mr. Hough is not strictly a Westerner. He was born in the East, and comes of sturdy Quaker ancestry. From his earliest years, however, he felt the call of the West, and as soon as he could, he went thither, and as he whimsically expresses it, "has been going ever since," for never a year passes without a trip into some wild country in search of big and dangerous game. His new novel, "The Way of a Man," is to be published shortly. Frederick McCormick, journalist, artist, and war correspondent, has also become an author. His book, "The Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia," will be published in October by The Outing Publishing Company. The narrative tells the story of the war as he, a war correspondent saw it, and felt it. Mr. McCormick was with the Russian army, as special representative of the Associated Press, and shared the fortunes of that unhappy host during the dark days of the flight from Mukden. He witnessed the first and second attacks on Port Arthur, and all the principal land battles of the war, and after the signing of peace, he accompanied the Red Cross Squadron to Japan to arrange for the evacuation of the Russian prisoners. His book is a serious study of the Eastern question, as well as a history. COMMON SENSE SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS LETTER WRITING. Ludwig. Chicago. By L. E. Published by Publicity Publishing Co., Price $1.00. From the Publicity Publishing Company comes a hanay little book entitled "Scientific Business Letter Writing," by L. E. Ludwig. There are few men who can compile a letter from "Dear Sir" to the final period that will present a proposition to the reader as clearly as if stated viva voce. There are fewer still who know just how to vary their correspondence to suit the temperament of the individual to whom they are writing, or how to indite the opening paragraphs of a letter so as to interest the recipient immediately and influence business their way. To those outside the circle of proficiency in this respect, and also to others even better qualified, this handbook will be found of great assistance. In its introductory pages the author analyzes the general character and disposition of business correspondence as we see it every day; he points out the weak phases and the faulty phrases; then step by step in easy stages, he seeks to show the veriest tyro in writing how to indite such a letter as will bring the business. A liberal number of specimen letters to and from different classes of correspondents is given, also a useful series of "Follow-up" letters and suggestions for framing different business propositions. The cost, $1.00, is nothing in comparison to the value of the suggestions offered between the covers of this valuable book. Once upon a time, during a strenuous railroad-building battle in the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Francis Lynde, writer of Empire Builders, by Bobbs Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind., was field officer in charge of men-moving. Finding himself at the track-layers' camp one bitter night, fifteen miles above his base of transportation supplies, he borrowed a construction engine, and with the Irish camp watchman for a helper, started down canyon after a string of empties. The night was black dark; the unsurfaced track was as rough as a corduroy road; and the grades and curves were heart-breaking. Very early in the game the substitute fireman lost his nerve. Staggering across the cab, he shouted huskily into the ear of the pro tempore engineer: "Arrah! Misther Lynde, 'tis a foine runner ye are entoirely, and I'm sorry to be throublin' ye to stop her." "What's the matter, Mike? Are you scared?" "Divvle a wan bit am I scared, but I think I'll have to be walkin' back along. I did be l'avin' me pipe up yonder at th' camp, and I'm that near dead for a shmoke!" Published A QUESTION OF HONOR. By Max Nordau. by Luce and Company, Boston and London. "A Question of Honor." by Max Nordau, is an excellent book which contains a present-day tragedy in four acts. The anti-semite sentiment is strong throughout the play and it sets forth forcibly the attending difficulties of intermarriage between the Christian and the Jew. The leading character, Dr. Kohn, is a young Hebrew who wins the highest honors of a great university and is then denied the seat of professorship because he is of Jewish birth. He wins the love of a girl, high in social ranks who is born of a Christian faith, but is denied her hand because he will not renounce his people. The book is full of pathos, pure and real, and the climax is unusually strong and masterful. BUSINESS LETTER WRITING Pub THE BEING WITH THE UPTURNED FACE. By Clarence Lathbury. lished by The Nunc Licet Press, PhilaPrice $1.00. delphia and London. One of Clarence Lathbury's late books. "The Being With the Upturned Face," is food for many hours' reflection. It is full of inspiration and helps to keep one hopeful and kind through a trying day. Every page teems with hope and health. PUBLICITY PUBLISHING COMPANY SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS LETTER BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY. By Leon C. Prince. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Price $1.25. For the person who is desirous of obtaining a good insight into American History he can not buy a better volume than Leon C. Prince's Bird's Eye View of American History." This book omits all tiresome detail which so often is a part of history, and brings in just enough of the realistic touches to make each picture and description vivid. From the first pages describing the Discovery of America to the last pages speaking of America in the Twentieth Century inclusive of all important facts intermingling, the reader's interest is held most absorbingly. OUT DOORS. A book of the woods, fields and marshlands. By Ernest McGaffey. Published by Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York. For vivid scenery pictures of nature read "Out Doors." by Earnest McGaffey. Nature's beauties are portrayed so vividly that you are carried deeper and deeper into her charms with each chapter. Just the book for the lover of nature. THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN PROLETARIAN. By Austin Lewis. Pubblished by The International Library of Social Science. "The Rise of the American Proletarian" is another of Austin Lewis' books on Scientific Socialism which is a fountain of knowledge on things socialistic. It covers in an able manner, among other equally instructive subjects, the early industrial history of the United States; the growth of industrial organization and the rise of the greater capitalism. The review of these vital issues is handled with every regard for exactness and the book fulfills its mission-that of showing the origin of the ever-gaining proletarian class in the United States, admirably well. THE ROME EXPRESS. By Arthur Griffiths. Published by L. C. Page & Co., Boston, Mass. Price $1.50. The Rome Express is a detective story fascinating, dramatic, and breathing superstitions and spirit of France coupled with the treachery, deceit and cunning of an adventure-loving woman. The book treats on the murder of an Italian Count while en route from Rome to Paris. The story is full of adventure and thrilling experiences; well written and descriptions are vividly portrayed. SMOKE. By Ivan Turgenieff. Published by Charles Scribner & Sons, New York. Price $1.25. "Smoke," by Ivan Turgenieff, is fully as absorbingly interesting as his "Virgin Soil." It is translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood, who presents it in admirable English. None of the author's spirit is lost, and the work is exceedingly entertaining from cover to cover. The story is an accurate portrayal of social life in Russia with one of the nation's most capricious noblewomen for its principal character. Her unconventionality and daring, place her in many novel situations in which lovers of fiction find much enjoyment. Engraving Printing Wedding Announcements, Private Correspondence Paper. (Reference - The Roycrofters East Aurora, N. Y. Clark Engraving & Printing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Social Life Demands The True Science of Social Service AN important new series of popular articles by Louis F. Post, entitled "The Science of Social Service," has just been begun in THE PUBLIC. 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