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6 THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 59.
ferity. He presented them to his
friend 'Riddel, of Glenriddel, who
died in 1794. Riddell's widow returned
the books to Robert Burns. After
his death they became the property
of Bonnie Jean, who lent them to
Dr. Curtis, Burns's biographer, and
eventually all trace of the volumes
was lost. They were esteemed very
Price $1.00 net. his heart forever. The tales of war airy appearing little creature, who
valuable. On the title page of one
there is, in .Robert Burns's handwriting,
an exquisitely worded pre­
Culebra Cut come very near to us religion or politics, sustain his inter- who flirts with those who have no
The Panama Canal and the Great ring factions and clans, about either makes everyone happy around her,
sentation. The surprise, whic'n while reading this book. It is intended est in every sentence of books written designs upon her, makes fun of those
amounted as we have said, to an international
sensation, came at the an.
to give the experiences of a boy of upon such subjects. Such a book is who would like to gain her favor for
seventeen, who is forced to forego .Stevenson's "Kidnapped." It tells sordid purposes, but nevertheless has
nual dinner of the St. Andrews .Society.
Mr. John Gribbel, a wealthy college education for lack of money where the feuds have broken out in a great depth of character and after
Philadelphia publisher, was present, and to help his father, who is a flrst families, where one brother usurps all is a thorough business woman.
but as he had not been named among class bookkeeper, but a victim of cir- the rights of another; where so-called The hero of the story is a poor young
the speakers at the banquet, none cumstances. The son and daughter religion has become mixed with poli- man, who works for every dollar he
knew the nature of the announcement
that he asked -permission to
are brought up with good moral prin- tics and the moaning of the long suf- commands, but who binds a galling
ciples, and the kindness of the son to fering and martyred Covenanters is yoke around his neck by becoming
make. Taking the priceless Burns
manuscripts out of a small safe in a poor sea captain who gets "rattled" echoed in the saddest of melodies, the engaged to a butterfly of fashion,
the banquet room, and exhibiting on land, leads to a succession of ad- Jacobite songs, written about a beau- -^vho, when he has a backset in money
them, he said: "Two weeks ago, I
was astonished by having a dealer
come to Philadelphia and submit to
me for sale the famous missing
manuscripts, which x purchased." Mr.
Gribbel said he intended presenting
the manuscripts to Scotland.
Tte eleventh annual meeting of the
Lord's Day Alliance of Pennsylvania
was held on November IS in Philadelphia.
Dr. T. T. Mutchler is General
Secretary, and gave in his report.
Rev. H. L. Bowlby, General Secretary,
spoke on "Wbat the Lord's
Day Alliance of the United States is
Doing," and Miss A. E. Willson,
Chairman of Sabbath Department, on
"What the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U.
is doing through their Unions." The
General Discussion of the work related
to what must be done throughout
the State, not only to prevent a Modif
cation of the Sabbath law, but to secure
its proper enforcement and a
more general observance of the
Lord's Day.
N E W A N D D E S I R A B L E B O O K S
CHARLES SCRIBNERS' SONS, duces unrivalled beauty, and moves by those who are craving for money;
NEW YORK. the traveller to exclaim continually of the falsehoods and other deceits
"The Steam-Shovel 'Man." By Ralph about its grandeur. (But it does more used in getting rich quick.
D. Paine. Cloth. 212 pages. Illustrated, to the native Scot; it endears it to The heroine of the book is a fair.
From ''The Shepherd of Us All." Published by Fleming H. Revell Co.
affairs, has no use for him. She had
not learned that "kind hearts are more
than coronets, and simple faith than
Norman blood."
The author, although dealing with
bard flnancial problems, weaves
around them a web of romance whose
coloring is of the finest tints and
makes a work of fictionthat is not
only delightful reading but imparts
a knowledge of the harassing troubles
that must confront and make unhappy
every speculator who tries to make
money by the measures usually tried
in such places as Wall Street.
L. C. PAGE & COIVIPANY, BOSTON,
MASS.
"Mary Ware's Promised Land." By
Annie Fellows Johnston. Cloth. 317
pages. Illustrated. Price $1.50 net.
Mary Ware's Promised Land sometimes
seemed a long way off, and
*^^6^ Jt seemed to Shift its situation,
ventures, many and thrilling, on tiful but unworthy heir to the throne, ""' ^^^^^ ^""^* ^^^^ °^ ^""^ ^^^P^"'
. , , . . „ , „ , , . X, , ^'^y. first helping her mother, then
board ship, m New York, and m the charming but false Prince Charlie, ^^^^^ j^j^^ ^^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
Panama, that flnally end in the whole afterwards King Charles II. of Scot- then doing for a neighbor or a
family making the Canal Zone their land. There is the hue and cry of the chance passenger like herself that
In New York, on November 11, heme. Walter Goodwin proved that persecutors as they search the caves ^^'^ ^^^ on a journey, but never able
prompt and effective redress by the although there were already too many and rocks of the mountains, the to look ahead and plan for herself a
settled occupation. Yet wherever she
President and others in authority at men for the lying around jobs it was heather, the valleys and forests, for
went, there was sunshine and help
Washington was demanded by the "just the iplace for a husky young tte persecuted. No tales of perseculellow
with the right stuff in him." tion, brutality, wrong and bloodshed miembers of the family seemed to
for somebody, and although tbe other
Unitarian Conference of the Middle
States and Canada in a resolution
setting forth that colored employes in
are more harrowing and no romance have great callings toward which they
the Federal departments "are being "Kidnapped." By Robert Louis Stev- so attractive as tales about the Scotenson.
Cloth. 2,89 pages. Price $2.25 tish Covenanter struggles such as we
were working, Mary was the little
segregated into groups or classes by
themselves on the ground that some net. Full page illustrations by N. C. read in "Kidna.pped," by the wonderwhite
citizens in tbe same service "^'^'yeth.
fully gifted author.
object to associating or should not
be required to associate with tbem."
There is a weird beauty about the
highlands and lakes of Scotland, more
Merrillie Dawes." By Frank H.
wild and intense than that about the Spearman. Cloth. 382 pages. lUustratmountains
and lakes of any other ed. Price $1.35 net.
home maker that made happy and
comfortable the last days of her mother's
life, and at the same time faithfully
attended to any work that came
her way that might help swell the
small income of the family, and after
her mother's death, tried to take her
place with the younger children.
She was a favorite with young peo-
North DaKota Supreme Court has
decided that the Xorth Dakota law
prohibiting the sale of snuff, passed country. The blue mists rolling up j A problem book, written about the pie, for she was" in 'sympathy" with
at the last session of the Legislature,
over the mountain side and top, the doings in Wall Street, of millionaires tbem in their joys and sorrows. She
is constitutional. It would therefore
sun shining down wonderfully clear and heiresses, of getting rich by corresponded with a young friend
be constitutional in Xorth Dakota to
prohibit the sale of tobacco, would it on the water, trees and foliage vivid-^gambling, and getting poor the next '^^'^^ ^^^ mother had considered as
not? If so, we hope North Dakota ly reflected therein, and the unwontedlday by gambling- of the plots laid ''''°^^®'' ^""^ *'^"^ '^^^^'^^ P®^^^''*^ °*"''
will lead off with such a law.
stillness surrounding everything, pro land love made to probable heiresses' '"'""Zl'' ""'" ^""T'.'' "^^T'C^
H V iJiuuauie uenesses capability was made happy by being