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business interests from the United States to promote Mexican quarrels; and he attempts to show that the fighting in Mexico has not been with or concerning American or foreign interests, but between local factions and political parties. What Mexico chiefly needs, he insists, is financial assistance in its business development. Houghton Mifflin Co.

In "Gold Must Be Tried by Fire" Richard Aumerle Maher has written one of the best stories ever based on the conflict between labor and capital. In the opening chapter, Daidie Grattan-eighteen, strong and lithe and sound as a sapling-makes a reckless marriage to free herself from the monotony of mill-life. Indignant at the cowardice of her husband who provides for his own safety without thought of her, in a fire on a Sound steamer, she separates from him at once, and spends three years in training as a nurse in a Sisters' hospital where all the influences confirm her purpose to dedicate her shadowed life to the service of other women. Going out under her girlhood's name-a mistake against which Mother Regina warns her she finds work at six dollars a week in a paper mill in Northern New York, and there the real action of the story takes place. Hugh Barton, the young owner of the mill, has different ideals from those of his father who built it, and in his struggles to realize them is thwarted not only by the competition of other manufacturers but by the failure of his own men to trust and co-operate with him. The inevitable strike is vividly described, with the typhoid epidemic following it; but perhaps no chapters hold the interest more closely than those in which young Barton pits himself against the Paper Combine. Ardent and yet candid in its spirit, brilliantly written, with characters

strongly individualized, the story is unquestionably one of the most promising of the season. The Macmillan Co.

George Matthew Adams's "Take It" (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) is a modest volume of barely a hundred pages, but it contains more than a hundred sensible, pungent and epigrammatic essays, all of the maimed at "the man in the street," and all of them charged with buoyancy and hopefulness. The prevailing lesson is that every man should take the world, his world, as he finds it, and make the most and best of it and of himself in it.

Charles K. Taylor, the author of "The Boys' Camp Manual" (The Century Co.) founder of Camp Pen, near Plattsburg, is well qualified to write a manual of this kind, for he has been for years identified with the physical training of boys and the management of boy camps. Gen. Leonard Wood, in a cordially appreciative Foreword, remarks that the work which Mr. Taylor is doing and proposes to do "will send to us that portion of the youth of the country who come under his control in far better condition to receive their final military training than would otherwise be possible." The present volume is calculated to be of great use to this end, for it covers every detail of the organization and establishment of camps, the necessary construction, physical training, formal military drill, signaling field and other exercises, and camp interests. The directions and suggestions which it contains, with the accompanying illustrations from photographs, will promote the physical and moral health of the boys into whose hands it falls, and will tend to make the boys of today vigorous, courageous and efficient young men of tomorrow.

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