Part 7

Miss Wharton so enlivens the past that she makes the distinguished characters of whom she treats live and talk with us. She has recently visited the homelands of a number of our great American leaders and we seem to see upon their native heath the English ancestors of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers, the Maryland and Virginia Cavaliers and others who have done their part in the making of the United States.

*Quaint and Historic Forts of North America*

By JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND. Photogravure frontispiece and sixty-five illustrations. In a box. $5.00 net.

Mr. Hammond, in his excellent literary style, with the aid of a splendid camera, brings us on a journey through the existing old forts of North America and there describes their appearances and confides to us their romantic and historic interest. We follow the trail of the early English, French and Spanish adventurers, and the soldiers of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the later Civil and Indian Wars.

*Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Wonder of Work*

Profusely illustrated. $2.00 net.

Mr. Pennell is notably a modern, and has found art in one of the greatest phases of modern achievement--the Wonder of Work--the building of giant ships, railway stations, and the modern skyscraper; giant manufacturing, marble-quarrying; oil-wells and wharves--all the great work which man sets his hand to do. The crisp and wonderful and inspiring touches of introduction to each picture are as illuminating as the pictures themselves.

*Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; Paris, London, in the Fighting Nineties.*

By ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL. Sixteen illustrations from photographs and etchings. $3.00 net.

The pleasure of association with equally famous literary and artistic friends has been the good fortune of the Pennells. The illustrations, photographs, and some etchings by Joseph Pennell are unusual.

*Our Philadelphia*

By ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell, with 105 reproductions of lithographs. In a box. $7.50 net.

Joseph Pennell's Pictures of the Panama Canal

Twenty-eight reproductions of lithographs made on the Isthmus of Panama, with Mr. Pennell's Introduction giving his experiences and impressions. $1.25 net.

*Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Temples*

Forty plates in photogravure from lithographs. $1.25 net.

*Life of James McNeill Whistler*

By ELIZABETH ROBINS and JOSEPH PENNELL. Thoroughly revised Fifth Edition of the authorized Life. Ninety-seven plates reproduced from Whistler's works. Whistler binding. $4.00 net. Three-quarter grain levant. $8.50 net.

*Rings*

By GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH.D. Profusely illustrated in color and doubletone. In a box. $6.00 net.

The origin, purposes and methods of wearing, the forms and materials, the historic interest and talismanic powers of rings as they have played a part in the life and associations of man. It is an authoritative volume, magnificently illustrated.

*Shakespeare and Precious Stones*

By GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH.D. Four illustrations. $1.25 net.

Treating of all the known references to precious stones in Shakespeare's works, with comments as to the origin of his material, the knowledge of the poet concerning precious stones, and references as to where precious stones of his time came from.

*The Curious Lore of Precious Stones*

By GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH.D. Profusely illustrated in color, doubletone and line. In a box. $6.00 net.

Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in protection, prevention, religion and divination, crystal gazing, birth stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal and planetary.

*The Magic of Jewels and Charms*

By GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH.D. Profusely illustrated in color, doubletone and line. In a box. $6.00 net.

Magic jewels and electric gems; meteorites or celestial stones; stones of healing; fabulous stones; concretions and fossils; snake stones and bezoars; charms of ancient and modern times, etc.

*Open that Door!*

By R. STURGIS INGERSOLL. $1.00 net.

A stimulating volume with a "kick" upon the relation of books to life; the part great books play in our goings and comings, in the office, in the street, and in the market place. The relation of poetry to the suburbanite, etc. A book for the man who never reads and for the one who does.

*From Nature Forward*

By HARRIET DOAN PRENTISS. Limp leather binding. $2.00 net.

The public mind is unsettled; the individual lives a day-to-day existence, wrestling with disease, mental troubles and unsatisfactory issues. This book outlines a system of psychological reforms that can be followed by every man and woman, as the author says, to "buoyant physical health, release of mental tension, and enlarged and happy outlook on life."

*Peg Along*

By DR. GEORGE L. WALTON. $1.00 net.

Dr. Walton's slogan, "Why Worry," swept the country. His little book of that title did an infinite amount of good. "Peg Along" is the present slogan. Hundreds of thousands of fussers, fretters, semi- and would-be invalids, and all other halters by the wayside should be reached by Dr. Walton's stirring encouragement to "peg along."

*A Short History of the Navy*

By Captain GEORGE R. CLARK, U.S.N., Professor W. O. STEVENS, Ph.D., Instructor CARROL S. ALDEN, Ph.D., Instructor HERMAN F. KRAFFT, LL.B., of the United States Naval Academy. New Edition. Illustrated. $3.00 net.

This standard volume is used as a text at the United States Naval Academy. This edition brings the material to date and is an especially timely book.

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*Training for the Newspaper Trade*

By DON C. SEITZ, Business Manager of the New York World. Illustrated. $1.25 net.

*Training for the Street Railway Business*

By C. B. FAIRCHILD, JR., Executive Assistant of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Illustrated. $1.25 net.

*Training for the Stage*

By ARTHUR HORNBLOW, Editor of The Theatre Magazine. Preface by DAVID BELASCO. Illustrated. $1.25 net.

*Training of a Forester*

By GIFFORD PINCHOT, New Edition, illustrated. $1.25 net.

*IN PREPARATION*

*The Training and Rewards of a Doctor*

By DR. RICHARD C. CABOT.

*The Training and Rewards of a Lawyer*

By HARLAN STONE, Dean of the Columbia Law School.

*Fundamentals of Military Service*

By CAPTAIN LINCOLN C. ANDREWS, U.S. Cavalry. Prepared under the supervision of Major-General Leonard Wood, U.S.A. Bound in limp leather. $1.50 net.

This book is especially prepared for citizens who wish in the militia, in training camps or in military courses to equip themselves thoroughly for the responsibility that may come upon them. "A really capital handbook."--_Theodore Roosevelt_. "This little handbook is one which each and everyone should read."--_General Leonard Wood_.

*Fight For Food*

By LEON A. CONGDON, Advising member of Kansas State Board Health. $1.25 net.

The high cost of living is everybody's problem. This book presents the reason and stimulating thoughts upon the solution. It treats the problem from the producer's, the middleman's and the consumer's viewpoints.

*The Rise of Rail Power in War and Conquest*

By E. A. PRATT. $2.50 net.

The basis upon which military railway transport has been organized alike in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, with a presentation of the vast importance of railway facilities in modern warfare and a thorough discussion of the subject from the standpoint of the American looking to his country's needs.

*First Aid in Emergencies*

By ELDRIDGE L. ELIASON, M.D. 106 illustrations. $1.50 net.

Nowhere will be found a better First Aid guide for the soldier, the camper, the sportsman, the teacher, scout master, and the father and mother of the family.

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