late Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., estabe base of that home missionary movethe Slavonic peoples which he, within ears, extended from Maine to Nebraska, y founding sixty-five churches, a magai two educational institutions. Since ng from Princeton in 1902, Mr. Schaufbeen six times in Europe and has conis intimate boyhood relations with our nmigrant peoples on both sides of the ving in their homes, going as their fellowto the Olympic Games in Athens, and earning their folk-lore languages. Their the music of his old Italian 'cello was an at factor in breaking down the barriers ir immigrants almost instinctively put up all natives after a few hard experiences. ee years which elapsed between the conand the writing of "Scum o' the Earth" ecially rich in experience. Mr. Schauffler in social service, made a study of Ellis picketed with Jewish strikers in Philadelimped day after day from door to door of ns with friendly polyglot peddlers who dozen languages, and prepared a sociolories for a popular magazine, which inong personal interviews with young ims in every part of the Union. The last eks before the poem was written were nder the respective roofs of a Bohemian a Bohemian saloon keeper, a Bohemian and of a school that taught ten nationali For the Summer Visitor to New Hampshire aps none of the picturesque regions of a have been made so often and so successe theme of poetry as the White MounIn "The White Hills in Poetry," the edigene R. Musgrove, has made a very happy n of 137 poems or parts of poems by more ty different authors, including Whittier, rcom, Edna Dean Proctor, and many able the present day. The book is so arranged nstitute practically a poetic guide-book to ite Mountain region, and no more charmpanion can be imagined for a tour through gion, while for winter reading it will have e appeal for lovers of the White Hills. e least notable part of the book is the charic introduction by Dr. Samuel M. Crowhose own summer home is in the White ains. The volume is bound attractively in ible leather, pocket size, and is admirably ted from 24 excellent photographs of Mountain scenery. It is also furnished with ology, notes, biographies, and index of first entity of the "Elderly Woman" Made Known e has been much speculation as to the au"The Autobiography of an Elderly Wowhich was published anonymously last au tumn, and for some reason or other, the book was very generally credited to Mrs. Margaret Deland. 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