WASHINGTON; AN AMERICAN VERSAILLES, by Waldon Fawcett (World Today). Description and pictures of the beautiful residences.

VOLENDAM, by Estelle M. Kerr (Canadian Magazine). A beautifully illustrated article.

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UP THE MATTERHORN WITHOUT GUIDES, by Maurice Steinmann (Wide World). Description of a trip to the summit undertaken without professional assistance and the outcome of it all.

N college and in school one of our needs is for a literature of fiction that clearly and adequately symbolizes the facts of real life. For educational uses, such fiction must be ethically wholesome, broadly interesting, close to life, and both simple and artistic in style. But few of our American works of fiction display these characteristics. The recent development is rather away from than toward the standards of pure and universal literature for all time and all civilizations. Such works as display both living truth and literary art may fittingly be used as general class reading matter, and by individuals in university, college and school, in public libraries and private homes. We, whose profession is education, should encourage the production of this high-grade literature by encouraging in all reasonable ways the use of good books when they appear.

The words of W. E. Chancellor, just read, are very true. They were written to bring to the attention of educators William Allen White's "A Certain Rich Man" (Macmillan) and this is worth while. Mr. White's novel is very remarkable in that it contains all that a novel should contain-characterization, atmosphere, plot, truth, social and economic conditions, and a moral that is delightfully wholesome.

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS AND ADDRESSES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN is a happy though. They have been put into a neat little volume, easy to carry and easy to get at. Twenty-one of Lincoln's most significant speeches, letters and proclamations are in the collection. Charles E. Merrill Co., New York; 25 cents.

STEVENSONS'S AN INLAND VOYAGE AND TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY (Merrill's English Texts), edited by Professor Allan Abbott, are two narratives full of the charming author's incomparable charm. They are most admirable for reading in secondary schools. There is a biographical sketch of Stevenson, many explanatory notes, and some important helps. Charles E. Merrill Co., New York; 328 pages; 40 cents.

ELEMENTARY CABINETWORK, by Frank Henry Selden, is not only for the student who is pursuing a course of study in manual training, but it is an excellent book for individuals who have the inclination to construct furniture for their own amusement and for use in the

home. The book contains a very large number of illusrations, showing designs and combinations in furniture. Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago; 278 pages; $1.25.

STORIES AND STORY TELLING, by Professor Edward Porter St. John of the Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy, is dedicated to all teachers who are disposed to take story-telling seriously. It discusses stories and story-telling in moral and religious education. The author discusses the educational value of the story, what a story really is, the use of idealistic stories, realistic stories and how to use them, some vital characteristics of good stories, learning to tell a story, stories to interest individuals of different ages, where to find stories, etc. The Pilgrim Press, Boston; 100 pages; 50 cents net.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS, by Professor C. Edwin Merriam of the University of Chicago, is a book for the governors and the governed. Professor Merriam traces the early legislation regarding primaries, primary regulation and legislation, the convention system, the direct primary, etc. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and New York; 300 pages; $1.25 net.

LIFE-HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS, by Ernest Thompson Seton, provides a comprehensive and highly interesting "account of the mammals of Manitoba." It is a magnificent treatise, which "aims to be a book of popular natural history on a scientific basis." The sixty species described "take in all the large land mammals of the United States, except about a dozen, including five of the big game.” Having followed these animals into all parts of their ranges, their devoted admirer feels that he has virtually included the continent from Labrador to California. And a wonderful amount of variety of well-arranged knowledge he has brought into easy use. From the technical side it is no less valuable, 68 maps, 560 spirited drawings, many of them full pages, by the author, large plates, a list of the chief works cited, and a synoptic index serving all purposes of study. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; two volumes, boxed; $18 a set.

THE BROKEN STATUE DE FONTANGE, by Harold W. Gammans, professor of languages at Shenandoah Collegiate Institute, is a little play written in dramatic verse. The story has to do with the last mistress to Louis XIV; its lines are poetic, and its situation, dramatic. Ruebush-Elkins Co., Dayton, Va.; 40 cents.