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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 19.

BOOK NOTICES

“Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; or War on the White Slave Trade.” By Ernest A. Bell, Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association. Illustrated. Price, fine cloth, inlay on cover, gilt stamp, $1.50; half morocco, $2.00. L. W. Walter Co., Chicago, Ill.

A few months ago the country was stirred, a little at least, over the revelations of the systematic traffic in girls, emigrant girls, country girls, unsophisticated, and often innocent girls, this traffic conducted by a regularly organized gang of harpies in various cities. It came before the United States Senate. This book gives horrible facts, stories of actualities that should stir the soul to its deepest depths. Yet it is but an accurate account of a small part of this shameless traffic. It reveals the methods used by these diabolic men to lure innocent young girls from home and innocence, and sell them to keepers of dives. It shows the magnitude of the organization and its working, beginning in Paris and extending to the ends of the earth. The object of its author is to arouse men and women, fathers and mothers, to save their boys and girls; to arouse the sleeping and indifferent, and save the innocent. There are special chapters written by Hon. Edwin W. Sims, United States district attorney, Chicago; Hon. Harry A. Parkin, his assistant; Hon. Clifford G. Roe, assistant state's attorney, Chicago; William Alexander Coote, secretary of the National Vigilance Association, London; the late Mr. Charles N. Crittenton, Mrs. Ophelia Amigh, Miss Florence Mabel Dedrick, and five other noted men and women. The book tells sad, awful stories of man's inhumanity, brutality, bestiality. It ought to arouse public opinion and lawmakers to that extent that there would be no room for the white slave dealer on the earth.

“The Science of Living, or the Art of Keeping Well.” By William S. Sadler, M.D., Professor of Physiologic Therapeutics, the Postgraduate Medical School of Chicago, etc. Illustrated, 420 pages. Well bound. Price $1.50 net.

The object of the author is to present in clear, forcible language to the lay reader, the student, and the health-seeker a concise outline of modern hygiene as it has been worked out in the great research laboratories of the world. It seems to us that the book does this, and does it, too, free from scientific, technical terms. It tells its stories and gives its instructions in common, clear, every-day English.

The human body, its structure, sunlight, breathing, clothing, digestion, nutrition, foods, mistakes, drinking, bathing, etc., etc., the whole category of man's needs in health building and maintaining is quite fully covered. There are 42 illustrations and diagrams, which help to illuminate the work. In our general examination, it seems to be an excellent work. Valuable food tables add to its value.

“The Apostles as Every Day Men.” By President Robert Ellis Thompson, S. T. D. Price 50 cents. The Sunday School Times Company, Philadelphia.

There are seven chapters in this little work: Simon Peter and Andrew; James and John; Philip and Nathanael; Thomas and Matthew; James and Jude; Simon the Zealot and Judas; What Became of the Apostles? It is a striking little work, and whether you agree with Dr. Thompson or not in all his conclusions, you will close the book with the feeling that you know the apostles better, and that you love God more for the work that He wrought through fallible men.

“The Anti-Saloon League Year Book for 1910,” published by the Anti-Saloon League of America, Westerville, Ohio, compiled and edited by Ernest Hurst Cherrington, editor of the American Issue, is a convenient encyclopedia of facts and figures relating to the liquor traffic and the temperance reform. It is the official book of the League, telling what that organization has done, and much more besides. The book contains many statistical tables, maps, diagrams, compiled from the most reliable statistics of government reports and census and revenue returns. Bound in manila, 35 cents; in cloth, 60 cents.

“Speakers’ Manual of Pronunciation.” By Fannie Dickerson Chase. Bound in cloth and leather. Prices 25 and 50 cents. Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C.

This is a convenient little volume giving the approved pronunciation of nearly two thousand words often mispronounced, including lists of proper names, foreign words and phrases, homonyms for class use, general suggestions and rules for spelling, together with exercises in enunciation and pronunciation. It is a helpful little manual.