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tors and has many advantages over other kinds of courter pockets. It is extremely tough and wears like metej. It is water re sisting, thus assur-

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IN THE OPEN, Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature, by Stanton Davis Kirkham, is one of those books worth keeping on the library shelf. The best idea to be had in concrete form of the quality of this book is contained in the preface, — we always like a book with a preface. "There is an estate on which we pay no tax and which is not susceptible of improvement. It is of indefinite extent and is to be reached by taking the road to the nearest woods and fields. While this is quite as valuable as any property we may possess, as a matter of fact few assert their title to It. Nature is, in herself, a perpetual invitation to come into the open. The woods are an unfailing resource; the mountains and the sea companionable. To count among one's friends, the birds and flowers and trees is surely worth while; for to come upon a new flower is then in the nature of an agreeable event, and a chance meeting with a bird may lend a pleasant flavor to the day." Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco and New York, $1.75.

AMERICANS OF TODAY AND TO- MORROW, by United States Senator Al- bert J. Beveridge, Is a plain little volume of six essays, every one of them worth reading. "It is a book backed with this advantage, thai the wealth it gives only

increases with the spending."

Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia,

50c net.

TWO GENTLEMEN ©F VIRGINIA, by George Cary Eggleston. Virginia is somewhat overdone for "gentlemen," in fact one would almost think that to have been born south of the Mason-and-Dixon line guarantees the right to that much- abused title. Some American Thackeray will one day write a good-natured satire on "Southern" claims to almost exclusive gentility; — some modern Cervantes treat us to a Southern Don Quixote that will forever ridicule a peculiarly unique form of sectional egotism. The foregoing re- flections are insjiired entirely by the title of the book. "The title of the book is an expression used in a number of instances between man and man, to express a sense of honor so high as to be above the need of written agreement." The author tells how a young man, who had won prosper- ity in the West, Inherited a run-down plan- tation with Its outfit of negroes. In con- nection with which the young master tried Interesting social experiments. The work- ing out of the young planter's problem enabled the author to make entertaining history of the story, by picturing condi- tions of the utmost interest, which actual- ly existed, but which are little understood. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., Boston, 11.50.