somehow, to work it out with me?" She will. Curtain. I am inclined to laugh at this, as I did not laugh at a similar situation in Ernest Poole's His Family, because, apart from this motive, A Daughter of the Morning is sheer romance of the pretty sort, with appropriate machinery and accessories. The feminist flavour has the effect of one of those strange sauces with which experts of the soda fountain are now crowning the most unlikely substances: we have the literary "sundae," also. The reader who is a bit surfeited with this kind of thing may guiltily enjoy, now and then, a story like The Heart of O Sono San. Here, contrary to certain expectations which might be roused by the title, of something in the Madame Butterfly line, he will find an open celebration of the oldfashioned woman, as exemplified by the woman of Japan. In her Preface the author has the temerity to assert not only that these women are the conservers of the best and oldest ideals of Japan, but that they are so by virtue of their fulfilment of the old ideal of womanly character: "They still believe that the only qualities that benefit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy and quietness. She is taught from infancy to love, yield, help others and forget self. Under such influences she is able to make any sacrifice, and brave enough to bear any cross. Her education within the home cultivates simplicity of heart, natural grace of manner, unquestioning obedience and love of duty...." Heavens! what an ideal to hold up before the occidental girl of the twentieth century-the ideal of her own silly old great-grandmother! According to this reactionary chronicler, "it has produced one of the finest, sweetest types of womanhood that the world has ever known," and she here tells a tale of a little Japanese which would seem to bear out her contention. O Sono San does not find happiness, in the sense of getting what she wants; she loses, in the name of obedience and duty, her beloved doll, her lover, and her son, who dies for Japan at the taking of Port Arthur. And yet she has not failed: "Regret, -regret-? Her life would be one long sorrow, but above that sorrow and the heart-breaking knowledge that she must be forever alone, was the exultant thought that she had helped pay the price of victory. She had given a life, more than her life, she had given the life of her son." The little story, as artless in its structure as Potterat, is told with great delicacy and sympathy. THE BOOKMAN RECOMMENDS In this department the editors each month will endeavour to select from among the previous month's publications those volumes in each classification which seem in their opinion to be most worthy of recommendation to BookMAN readers. The editors will be happy to answer any questions in their power regarding these books and indeed regarding any books concerning which BOOKMAN readers may desire information. DRAMA The Story of the Scots Stage. By Robb Lawson. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $2.00. Happenings and stories of the plays and players of Scotland to the middle of the nineteenth century. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann. Edited by Ludwig Lewisohn. New York. $1.50. A translation of four plays which mark the culmination of the dramatist's work. ECONOMICS Man's Supreme Inheritance. By F. Matthias Alexander. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $2.00. A thesis on conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilisation. 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A story of two married women whose lives in outward things are contrasted, but who both have the spirit of unrest and rebellion characteristic of to-day. Mistress of Men. By F. A. Steel. New York: Frederick A. Stokes. $1.40. A novel of India in which a poor little girl becomes an empress. The Full Measure of Devotion. By Dana Gatlin. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. 50 cents. A little story whose theme is the meaning of the war to the fathers and mothers of America. Love and Liberty. Aleaxnder Dumas. Translated by R. S. Garnett. $1.40. A translation for the first time, for English readers, of one of the author's most remarkable romances. GENERAL LITERATURE Thomas Woolner, R.A. His Life in Letters. Written by his daughter, Amy Woolner. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. With fifty illustrations. $6.00. 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With twelve coloured plates and over 400 illustartions from photographs. $2.50. The secrets of ship yards, with accounts of great sea battles, diving, and other subjects connected with the seas. Training and Rewards of the Physician. By Richard C. Cabot, M.D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $1.25. Another of the Training Series "for those who want to find themselves." A Text Book of Precious Stones. By Frank B. Wade. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.00. Technical methods and principles in use for identifying precious stones-for jewelers and the gem-loving public. Simplest Spoken French. By W. F. Giese and Barry Cerf. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 65 cents. A little manual for soldiers. History and Methods of Ancient and Mod ern Painting. By James Ward. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. Vol. 2. With twenty-four full-page illustra tions. $3.50. Italian painting from the beginning of the Renaissance period, including the work of the principal artists from Cimabue to the Pollaiuoli. The New Business of Farming. By Julian A. Dimock. New York: Frederick A. Stokes. $1.00. A handbook on the business side of farming. Booth Tarkington. By Robert Holliday. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. Illustrated. $1.25. A biographical and critical study of the novelist. POETRY The Moods of Ginger Mick. By C. J. Dennis. New York: John Lane Company. $1.00. Humourous poems, in Australian dialect, laid in Melbourne, Egypt, and Gallipoli. The Rhyme Garden. Verses and Drawings by Marguerite Buller Allan. New York: John Lane Company. Verses some of which have appeared before in the Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas. Trackless Regions. By G. O. Warren. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $1.25. A collection of poems, some of which formerly appeared in magazines. One Who Dreamed. By Arthur Crew Inman. Boston: The Four Seas Company. $1.25. Songs and lyrics written before the author was twenty-one. Poems. By Edward Thomas (Edward Eastaway). New York: Henry Holt and Company. $1.00. The first American edition of the work of the British poet who was killed at Arras-poetry indirectly of the war, and primarily of the English character and countryside. London Lamps. A Book of Songs. By Thomas Burke. New York: Robert M. A collection of poetry worthy of the author of Limehouse Nights. Sonnets and Other Lyrics. By Robert Silliman Hillyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. A collection of poems, some of which have been reprinted from other magazines. In the Paths of the Wind. By Glenn Ward Dresbach. Boston: The Four Seas Company. $1.00. Another volume of Mr. Dresbach's poetry of unusual charm-many of the poems are reprinted from magazines. Songs of Hafiz. Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Boston: The Four Seas Company. $1.00. A translation of the lyrics of the Persian poet. 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Experiences on the Western front, by the novelist and diplomat. On the Field of Honor. By Hugues Le Roux. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. $1.50. The story of a young French lieutenant who was mortally wounded in his first engagement. Democracy after the War. By J. A. Hobson. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1.25. A discussion of the policy by which political and industrial democracy after the war may be achieved. The Willy-Nicky Correspondence. By Herman Bernstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $1.00. The secret and intimate telegrams exchanged between the Kaiser and the Czar. Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer. By R. A. L. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $1.35. Letters of a Canadian soldier, telling of three years at the front. Trotzky's Message. The Bolsheviki and World Peace. By Trotzky. New York: Boni and Liveright. $1.50. The Bolshevik Minister of Foreign Af fairs for Russia speaks in eleven sensa. tional chapters. Hand-to-Hand Fighting. By A. E. Marriott. 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