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424 Our Fresh-Air Fund. Previously acknowledged... $7,212.07 OAWOPS “CWP nen Miss Eva Callahan Ellen, ¢ sHawall 0... Cash... . . * Brookline "...... apg Proceeds of a“ Hlampty Dumpty " Show given at Loon Lake by Gilbert C Demorest and a couple of young sociates. “In ris as. of Loutse Our Thanks. “T7O certain ladies of Ridgefleld for many suits of clothing for the children. To the Davis and Lawrence Company for two ad n bottles of Painkiller and other enemies to be green apple. LETTERS FROM LIFE'S FARM. Jeny 11, 1908, Deak HENRY : [arrived hear yesterdas. It 1s On out here tn the swings and tent every day the milk fresh from the cow. Igo for a swim when I want too, As soon as 1 know the address 11 send It to you. Yours, Lie’s Fars, Branchville, Conn yj Dean Mrs. )— ; We are now at Live's Farm, ~y Connecticut, enjoying ourselves Everyday we . go in bathing in the brook. For our meals we pe publication of The Love Letters of can have all We wantof what there is. We are Margaret Fuller is one of the theoretic- Mt to drivk all the milk we can and not water. ally brilliant literary events about which On Sunday the Catholics go to the Catholic every one talks and writes and about which church to the nine o'clock mass and the protest- ? Wailea in 18k protestant church at 10,08, m. ay afternoon we have ® Sunday a Jew, these letters have school concert und the first Sunday we were here al in per- we had cream and all the cake we wanted. I haps at this day justifies their publication, WU! now close ms letter as Ihave no more toxay. but from general interest the: Yours respectively —_—— free. (D. Appleton and Comp very few care. 5 to one goto Every Su’ James Nathan, some biographic: portance which are singularly 1.35. Please answer as # letter to us ts as much ns five dollars in the City P.S. Please excuse the writing as I had to write on a rack. T hope you are € The Jones Readers, from the First to the Fifth inclusive, are printed in large, clear type, and are carefully edited, alm They should serve their purpose admirably. Fi (Ginn and Company, Boston.) andsome Joying good th Very bright and attractive is Boston, a guide prepared for the National Educational Association, by Edwin M. Its field should not be limited to (Ginn and Com- acon, this entourage. pany, Boston.) G. K. Chesterton's life of Robert ‘\ Brovening, contributed to the Eng- s lish Men of Letters Series, is one of the most delightful bits of critical writing of the day, Mr. Chesterton appeals at once to the ear, the in- tellect and the imagination, and if one occasionally siniles at his self- assertion, one gains both e1 and ideas from his pag Macmillan ( >) That Anoka, Minnesota, is some- mpany. PRICK IT AT LIFE'S FARM, THE ARENA, what off the beaten track makes the contents of The Theory and Practice of the Chri Ketigion, by P. R. Benson of that city, rather significant of the spreading apprecia- tion of the change of base effected by the churches from oue of spiritual authority to one of competition for worldly and social favor. That Mr. Benson writes rather in sorrow than in exultation adds to the significance. (P. R. Benson, Anoka, Min- nesota.) tian J.J. Bell, author of Wee Macgreegor, has written a book in English, It is called Ethel, and consists of a series of dialogues between a Glasgow young lady and her The method is much the same as fiancé. in Wee Macgregor, and yet the book is an it be that an important rather boresome. element in the appreciation of Scotch humor is self-conceit over the ability to penetrate the Scotch dialect? (Harper and Broth- ers. $1.00.) Thomas Nelson Page's Gordon Keith re- solves itself under the most simple analysis into a complete and well-appe Lane melodrama, The treatment, however, is the suave and quiet and skilfal treatment of Mr. Page. Elementary fiction, tastefully served and a very large helping for your money. (Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.) wted Drury Marvin Dana has chosen for the setting of his story, A Puritan Witch, a period in our history much neglected considering its dramatic possibilities—that of the Salem witchcraft days. He draws modestly upon the store, but his book is both realistic and attractive. (The Smart Set Publishing Com- pany. $1.25.) J.B. Kerfoot, comicbooks.com