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It is as if "the Lady Abbess of Chicago" with gently entreat- ing eyes, held out to us the key to those cloistered recesses in youthful hearts where nature stores the elements of human destiny.

Harriet Park Thomas

Certain pages of Miss Addams' book seem to me to contain quite immortal statements of the fact that the essential and peren- nial function of the youth-period is to reaffirm authentically the value and the charm of life. All the details of the little book flow from this central insight or persuasion. Of how they flow I can g^ve no account, for the wholeness of Miss Addams' embrace of life is her own secret. She simply inhabits reality, and everything she says necessarily expresses its nature. She can't help writing truth.

Wm. James

War on the White Slave Trade. A Book Designed to Awaken the Sleeping and to Protect the Innocent. Edited by Ernest A. BelLj Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association (for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic). Con- taining chapters by Hon. Edwin W. Sims, United States District Attorney, Chicago; Hon. Harry A. Parkin, Assist- ant United States District Attorney, Chicago ; Hon. Clifford A. Roe, Assistant State's Attorney, Cook County, Chicago; Wm. Alexander Coote, Secretary of the National Vigilance Association, London, Eng. ; James Bronson Reynolds, of the National Vigilance Committee, New York; Charles N. Crittenton, President of the National Florence Crittenton Mission ; Mrs. Ophelia Amigh, Superintendent of the Illinois Training School for Girls ; Miss Lucy A. Hall, Deaconess of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago; Principal D. F. Sutherland, Red Water Institute, Red Water, Texas; Dr. William T. Belfield, Professor in Rush Medical College, Chicago ; Dr. Winfield Scott Hall, Professor in Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Rev. Melbourne P. Boynton, Pastor of the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. Chicago: The Charles C. Thompson Co., 1909. Pp. 481.