Types of Colleges JOHN CORBIN Illustrated. Crown Svo, $1.50 net. Postage 12 cents. Brilliant Essays Crown 8vo, $1.50 net. Postage 12 cents. In Defense of the IRVING BABBITT Crown 8ro, $1.25 net. Postage 11 cents. 12mo, $1.00 net. Postage 10 cents. Third Edition. American Life of To-day WHICH COLLEGE FOR THE BOY? 66 By JOHN CORBIN 'Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Michigan, Chicago and Wisconsin are considered by Mr. Corbin and," to quote the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "each of these institutions is given a distinctly individual characterization. Princeton represents the collegiate university, Harvard the Germanized university, Cornell the technical university, Michigan the middle eastern university, Chicago the university by enchantment, and Wisconsin the utilitarian university. The six may be taken as typical of all American institutions of higher learning. It is not a book of advice to parents or of advice to boys. It presents merely the ideals of the universities, the tone of undergraduate life, the special strength and weakness of each. It will be read with profit and pleasure by young men about to enter college. While Mr. Corbin essays to give no suggestions, he presents conditions as they exist, so as to provide information upon which individual selection may be intelligently made. The book is illustrated by many photographs of college buildings." THE NEW AMERICAN TYPE By HENRY D. SEDGWICK This is described by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as "a volume of delightful and genuine essays. There is significance in every topic Mr. Sedgwick selects, and a broad view, introduced by means of words which show the finest talent of discrimination and expression, is combined with a kind of democratic good sense. There is not a page in the entire volume that will not be read with relish." In the opinion of the New York Times, "these eleven essays on the fine arts, literature, social life, and education are distinguished by clearness of vision, sanity, aptness of phrase, elevation of thought, and insight." LITERATURE AND THE AMERICAN COLLEGE By IRVING BABBITT 66 The Nation characterizes this as a readable and admirably written little volume. The central thought is that the old-fashioned culture and discipline of the American College are being crowded out of modern life and education by the encroachment of the sentimental license of the kindergarten from below, and the pressure from above of specialized pedantry in the graduate school. The remedy is to be found in a return to humanism, as Professor Babbitt would define it - the severe selective and assimilative study of great literature in a spirit of high seriousness, equally removed from the philology of the graduate school at one extreme and the impressionism of the extension lecturer at the other. With Professor Babbitt's main ideas we are in cordial sympathy." The San Francisco Argonaut regards it as "fortunate that these masterly essays have been allowed to appear in book form. They may, indeed, be as the voice of one crying in the wilderness, but they will take their place among the sober and warning forces that are urging us to educational reform." "These essays are worth careful reading, and perhaps no better statement of the case has been made," says the Springfield Republican. SIN AND SOCIETY By EDWARD A. ROSS "These essays would be worth reading for the style, if for nothing else. Epigrams and pointed sentences, unusual phrases and turns of thought meet the reader on every page. The interest is held throughout. But the book is worth reading for far more than the style. Any man would be a better American citizen for reading it."- The Interior. "The only penetrating, strong and vet picturesque study that we have of present social phenomena." - The Public. ON THE TRAINING OF PARENTS By ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT "These unusually keen and analytical essays," the Chicago News considers, “are so full of shrewd common sense, humor, and psychological insight into the relations of parents and children as to bring the most thoughtful parent to consider seriously whether or not energy has been expended upon his child's subduing which rightly belonged to his own. Mr. Abbott suggests reasonably and forcibly that the physical, mental, and moral habit should begin with parental training. It is a decidedly helpful book for the perplexed young parent and the conscientious guardian." "Fairness, justice, respect for the child and careful consideration of his temperament are the cardinal principles in Mr. Abbott's creed," says the Milwaukee Free Press, "and they are urged so candidly, so persuasively, so entertainingly, and with such a sense of humor that he must be hard to convince who is not won to his methods. His chapter on the uses of imagination is a golden one, rare in its sense and understanding." The New York Tribune finds the little book "wise and amusing and full of useful suggestions." Biography THE LIFE OF ALICE FREEMAN PALMER By GEORGE HERBERT PALMER So immediate was the demand for this book that a second printing was ordered two days after the publication of the first. "In every way," says the Boston Transcript, "Professor Palmer has written a remarkable biography of a remarkable woman a biography that is at once a record, an appreciation, and a criticism, and best of all a biography that fulfills the essential requirements of its kind. In theme and authorship it represents the utmost demands of the biographer's art. None could have accomplished as much as he in its writing. By sympathy, by knowledge, and more than all else by personality and ability, he was perfectly equipped for a task that has obviously been to him both a duty and a pleasure. In it he shows to what extent culture and innate talent may blend into one critical whole the biographer and the friend." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat feels that "there are few biographies of women that will rank in interest with this, the story of the life of one of the greatest women teachers." The Boston Herald calls it "a book destined to win its place in the hearts and minds of thousands of readers as a biography which for blended fascination of high spiritual interest and wholesome, cheery, outdoor, human quality furnishes a distinct addition to the so-called lives of saints.' "It is an extraordinary book that Professor Palmer has written," says the New York Sun, "and he shows discretion in what he tells and what he leaves untold." LIFE AND LETTERS OF By MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR This new and enlarged edition, edited by Dr. Frederic G. Kenyon, the well-known English Browning authority, contains many new letters and other fresh items, and is indispensable to lovers of Browning and his poetry. WALT WHITMAN By BLISS PERRY A revised edition with an appendix containing new material. "The volume will probably take its place as the sane and authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come," in the opinion of The Nation. 5 A Book for Young Fathers and Mothers 16mo, $1.00 net. Postage 10 cents. "A Remarkable Biography of a Remarkable Woman” MRS. PALMER Illustrated. Square crown 8vo, $1.50 net. Postage 15 cents. New Editions With portraits. Crown 8ro, $2.00 net. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 net. Postage 12 cents. "The Good Gray Naturalist" JOHN BURROUGHS With portrait. 16mo, $1.10 net. The Bird as he is in Life 12mo, $1.25 net. Postage 11 cents. Nature LEAF AND TENDRIL By JOHN BURROUGHS "Whoever has loved John Burroughs," says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "will find this latest book one of the best he has written. To read one of these essays is nearly as exhilarating as a walk in the April pastures or the woods of June. Fresh air and the joy of a verdant world seem to pass from the pages to the consciousness of the reader. It is all so marvelously simple, so free from affectation, so lacking in the spirit of ostentatious vaunting of powers of observation beyond the gift of the ordinary mere mortal." "No need to tell nature lovers that these essays are stimulating and delightful.” observes the Chicago Record-Herald. "This volume, like everything that Mr. Burroughs writes, is clear-eyed, choice of diction, full of moral ozone and mental stimulus. Its point of view reminds one repeatedly of Walt Whitman, and the frontispiece portrait of the venerable author deepens one's impression of the similarity of the two men." The Brooklyn Eagle calls it "a wholly delightful book. One finds in its pages so much of sane thinking, cool judgment, dispassionate reasoning, so many evidences of a calm outlook upon life and the world, that its pages come to the mind like a tonic. They are calming and uplifting. Mr. Burroughs's philosophy is well ripened; it is also wonderfully human and appreciative. No wonder his circle of friends increases with every new book from his pen." THE BIRD OUR BROTHER By OLIVE THORNE MILLER Mrs. Miller says in her preface: "So much has been said of late about the characteristics and habits of the bird that it seems worth while to collect the testimony of persons who have studied the living bird, and thus to throw a strong light upon his life and his ways. In this contribution to the better understanding of our interesting little brothers, I have aimed to admit no testimony except that of competent and trustworthy witnesses. · It will be noted that my own observations and conclusions - the result of more than thirty years of close and absorbing study of bird-life — are sup ported by the evidence of others, every one, as I have reason to believe, an honest, truthful observer. . . . The book is intended solely for the 'general reader,' being not in the least technical." A Monumental Work Literature, Belles Lettres, etc. F. E. SCHELLING In two volumes. 8vo, $7.50 net. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA By FELIX E. SCHELLING "Professor Schelling has made a vast and splendid contribution to the critical and historical literature bearing upon the most momentous period in the development of the drama," says the Chicago Record-Herald. “His work is thorough, cautious, and scholarly. He has put the chaotic mass of a dramatic inheritance representing nearly a century into precise order, and no work comparable to his for patient research and wealth of detail has been done in this field by any other American scholar except Dr. Furness. These two volumes are an honor to American scholarship, a marvel of industry and perseverance, and a long needed guide in a department of literature that is baffling only because it is so rich." The New York Times considers it “a valuable work for the student, and particularly so for its intelligible account of the rude plays which grew out of the morality and miracle plays, the bib liographical essay, remarkably full and interesting, and the alphabetical list of plays. This list is unique, we believe, and its value is indisputable. Professor Schelling's reputation as a sympathetic student of Elizabethan history and letters was long since assured. He writes with distinction and grace, while his new work, in scope and purpose, differs materially from the many on the same subject which have preceded it. The book is handsomely made, with good paper and clear, tastefully selected type. It will be an ornament to the shelves of any library." In the opinion of the Philadelphia Press “it is an exceptionally able work, and while scholarly, it is interesting apart from its thoroughness and value as a mine of information concerning the 1300 Elizabethan plays now extant in print or in manuscript. It will stand as a worthy representative of painstaking American scholarship in its own fascinating field of research.' 7 TRAGEDY By ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE This book, as Professor Thorndike states in his preface, "attempts to trace the course of English tragedy from its beginnings to the middle of the nineteenth century, and to indicate the part which it has played in the history both of the theatre and of literature. All tragedies of the sixteenth century are noticed, because of their historical interest and their close relationship to Shakespeare, but after 1600 only representative plays have been considered. The aim of this series has been kept in view, and the discussion, whether of individual plays or of dramatic conditions, has been determined by their importante in the study of a literary type. Tragedy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has attracted very little critical attention, and in those fields the book is something of a pioneer. The Elizabethan drama, on the contrary, has been the subject of a vast amount of antiquarian, biographical, and literary research, without which such treatment as I have attempted would be almost impossible." In the Types of English Sq. 16mo, $1.50 net. ITALICA By WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER "Throughout all these suggestive papers," says the Boston Herald, "Mr. Thayer's intimate knowledge of Italian life and thought is strikingly in evidence. 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Miscellaneous THE CHURCH AND MODERN LIFE By WASHINGTON GLADDEN Dr. Gladden's latest volume The Interior calls "a noble and healthy book which it would pay every minister and student for the ministry, and every layman too, who loves righteousness, to possess and use." "The message is optimistic while serious," says The Congregationalist, "and it is all the more encouraging since it comes not from some youth inexperienced in the warfare of life, but from a veteran who has led the advance for years and knows both the church and the world at their worst and their best." The Philadelphia Record finds it "a pleasure to read Dr. Gladden - he is so sincere, so enthusiastic, so inspiring." "This notable book," says the Methodist Protestant, "is so compact, so suggestive, and so admirably written as to lure the reader on from the beginning to the end with increasing interest. 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THE STANNARIES By GEORGE R. LEWIS "Much well-directed research has gone into Dr. Lewis's work, and the subject is worthy of it," says The Nation; "for, excepting agriculture and fishing, no British industry is older than tin mining in Devon and Cornwall, and none has a more interesting political, economic, and social history..... Dr. Lewis has concerned himself with every phase of the industry, and has carried the history down to the present time. His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tin-mining counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of England in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for its inclusiveness." 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