usually done for a country and people by "a traveled and cosmopolitan novelist who rushes across Japan and Siberia and is back in six months with the manuscript of a book that will exhaust the subject." Mr. Buchanan's style is dignified and his narrative informing. A trenchantly written volume of courageously expressed opinions on "The Near East" has been brought out by Doubleday, Page. So incisive and outspoken are the opinions that the author thinks it advisable not to sign his name. The book is really a discussion of the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey, and Macedonia. It contains many plain statements and considerable outspoken criticism. All through the Balkan peninsula to-day, says the writer, the weak are being crushed by the strong. Moreover, "to MASUJI MIYAKAWA. in the course of the university exchange between France and the United States. Professor Wendell, who holds the chair of English at Har DR. WILLIAM E. GRIFFIS. Germany in great measure is the present terrible state of Macedonia due." The volume is illustrated from photographs taken by the author and Princess Xenia of Montenegro. An excellent book of travels, unusually well told, is Frederic Courtland Penfield's "East of Suez" (Century), which is made up of descriptions of a visit to Ceylon, India, China, and Japan, illustrated from drawings and photographs. W. S. Monroe's account of "Turkey and the Turks (L. C. Page & Co.) is a thorough discussion of the lands, the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman Empire. A bit of history is given, but the main portion of the book is devoted to present-day conditions, particularly to the economic status of the subject peoples and the rank, progress, and general activities of Constantinople. The volume is illustrated. Prof. Barrett Wendell has collected into a book his lectures on France and the French peo- Illustration ple delivered at the French universities last year A TURKISH PEASANT. (redrawn) from "Turkey and Turks." the PROFESSOR BARRETT WENDELL. vard and was the first lecturer on the Hyde Foundation at the Sorbonne, gives these impressions of contemporary France in eight lectures under the general title "The France of Today" (Scribners). It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament which Professor Wendell gives in considering the general subjects of the universities, the structure of society, the family, temperament, literature, religion, and politics of the French people. In the Spanish series of descriptive historical volumes, issued by John Lane Company, we have Seville, The Pearl of Andalusia," prepared with numerous illustrations by Albert F. Cal vert. "The Umbrian Cities of Italy," a work of art and history, by J. M. and A. M. Cruickshank, has been brought out in two volumes, copiously illustrated, by L. C. Page & Co. A finely illustrated little volume is Dr. Herbert M. Vaughan's book on "The Naples Riviera" (Stokes). The illustrations in color are by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Another descriptive book on Italian scenery is Scenes and Shrines in Tuscany" (Dutton), by Dorothy Neville Lees. "On the Mexican Highlands," a volume of travelers' impressions, by William Seymour Edwards, comes from the press of Jennings & Graham. In "With Wordsworth in England" (McClurg) Anna Benneson McMahon takes the reader of English poetry through the country sung of and described by the gentle poet, quoting appropriate verses and also from Wordsworth's correspondence. The volume is illustrated from photographs. A series of bright, philosophic remarks on travel in general have been gathered into a little volume by Don C. Seitz, which is entitled Discoveries in Every-Day Europe" (Harpers). An entertaining volume of travels, "In Search of El-Dorado" (George W. Jacobs), recites the globe-trotting experiences of Alexander Macdonald, F. R. G. S. 67 OTHER IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE MONTH. In the Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, edited by Dr. Horace Howard Furness (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company), the version of Antony and Cleopatra" has just appeared. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that the high-water mark of Shakespearean scholarship has been attained in this remarkable edition. The fullness and richness of the critical notes afford some compensation to Shakespearcan students for the long intervals that occur between the publication of the several plays. Mr. Romeyn Beck Hough's "Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada" (Lowville, N. Y.: published by the author) is unique in arrangement and descriptive method. It is made up of a series of photographic illustrations of fresh leaves, fruits, leaflets, branchlets, and typical barks of our native trees, accompanied by terse descriptive paragraphs, including all the essential points necessary for identification of the various species. In each instance the trunk of the tree is pictured on the right-hand page, while the leaves, branchlets, and fruit appear on the facing left-hand page. As a convenient means of indicating size the background of all the leaf illustrations is ruled into square inches. The illustrations used throughout the work were made from photographs taken by the author himself, who is an experienced forester and expert on the subject of American woods. These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook its distinctive value as a work of reference. The lectures for the year 1907 on the Bull Foundation at the Philadelphia Divinity School were delivered by Booker T. Washington and W. E. Burghardt DuBois, and were devoted to the economic progress of the negro in the South in relation to his moral and religious development. The lectures have now been published in a volume entitled "The Negro in the South" (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.). They contain an excellent summing up from the negro's point of view of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation. 66 One of the most timely of the fall books is Railway Corporations as Public Servants," by Henry S. Haines (Macmillan). The author, who is an experienced engineer and railroad manager, gives in this volume an exposition of the real nature of the public service performed by railroads, the public burden imposed on railroads, and the recent attempt to secure public control through legislation. In the discussion of these topics the author's point of view differs from that of most writers on railroad problems, and the reader is enabled to gain from his pages a clearer conception of the advantages inherent in railroad management and the littleunderstood aspects of the railroad problems which present themselves to those who are actually in control of our great transportation sys tems. 409/K. 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