Two well-known poems about the morning-glory, taken from The Japanese Floral Calendar run as follows: "Each morn, when the dawn brightens into joy, To give us hope and peace that wither not." The book gives an interesting glimpse of a side of Japanese life which is full of attraction, but which is likely to escape the Occidental. Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y. The many illustrations of Japanese gardens, picnic scenes and flowers are of exquisite beauty. Onward, Toronto, Canada evil is, but give me, O God, that sublime belief, that seeing evil I yet have jaith.” My Little Book of Prayer BY MURIEL STRODE 99 If you want to know the greatness of a soul and the true mastery of life, apply to The Open Court Publishing Company for a slip of a book by Muriel Strode entitled simply "My Little Book of Prayer. The modern progress of sovereign mind and inner divinity from the narrow cell of the ascetic to the open heaven of man, made in God's own image, is triumphantly shown in it, yet a self-abnegation and sacrifice beyond anything that a St. Francis or a Thomas a'Kempis ever dreamed of glorifies the path. To attempt to tell what a treasure-trove for the struggling soul is in this little volume would be impossible without giving it complete, for every paragraph maiks a milestone on the higher way. That the best of all modern thought and religion is garnered in it, its very creed proclaims: Not one holy day but seven; Worshiping, not at the call of a bell, but at the call of my soul; Doing for the joy of it. Some one who has “entered in" sends back to us this inspiring prayer book, and to seize its spirit and walk in the light of it would still the moan and bitterness of human lives, as the bay wreath ends the toilsome struggle in the hero's path. Measure the height attained in this one reflection for the weary army of the unsuccessful: "He is to rejoice with exceeding great joy who plucks the fruit of his planting, but his the divine anointing who watched and waited, and toiled, and prayed, and failed--and can yet be glad." Or this, in exchange for the piping cries of the unfortunate: "I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it." Cover all misfortune, too, with this master prayer: O God, whatever befall, spare me that supreme calamity-let no afterbitterness settle down with me. Misfortune is not mine until that hour." Here, too, is the triumph of the unconquerable mind: "The earth shall yet surrender to him and the fates shall do his will who marches on, though the promised land proved to be but a mirage and the day of deliverance was canceled. The gods shall yet anoint him and the morning stars shall sing." And this the true prayer for the battlefield: "I never doubt my strength to bear whatever fate may bring, but, oh! that I may not go down before that which I bring myself.' Nuggets of pure gold like these abound in this mine of the mind which the victorious author has opened for us. To seek it out swiftly and resolve its great wealth for himself should be the glad purpose of the elect. And who are not the elect in the light of its large teaching? To claim them in spite of themselves is its crowning lesson. "It is but common to believe in him who believes in himself, but, oh! if you would do aught uncommon, believe in him who does not believe in himself-restore the faith to him."-St Louis GlobeDemocrat, March 5. Printed on Strathmore Japan Paper, Gilt Top, Cloth, $1. Alexis Paper, Bds. 50c Postpaid The Open Court Publishing Co., 1322 Wabash Ave., Chicago Patriotism With pertinent extracts from other essays By Count Leo Tolstoy TABLE OF CONTENTS Prefatory Note. Christianity and Patriotism, translated by Paul Borger. Overthrow of Hell and its Restoration, translated by V. Tchertkoff. Appeal to the Clergy, translated by Aylmer Maude. Answer to the Riddle of Life, translated by Ernest H. Crosby. Views on the Russo-Japanese War, translated for the London Times. Epilogue-Patriotism and Chauvinism: Paul Carus Frontispiece, 98 Pages, Sewed Paper Cover, Large Type, Price 35 cents "Tolstoy probably impresses the average American thinker as having a decided strain of QUEERNESS; but he is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men living, and we can recall no man on earth who in so large a sense may be said to have, in the name of Christianity, a message for the nations, for humanity. He is an extremist in his declaration of the doctrine of nonresistance; but the leaders of thought in Christian lands will do well to heed his words concerning the sinfulness of war, and to mark how easily and nobly he pricks the bubble of Chauvinism. 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His little book On Life After Death is his most important publication in this line. Fechner believes in the immortality of the soul, but his treatment is of especial interest because he uses a distinctive scientific method in dealing with the subject. Though the thoughtful reader may often find the ideas expressed at variance with his preconceived notions of the after life, he cannot fail to be impressed with the importance and suggestiveness of Professor Fechner's thought. "I wish to congratulate you and the translator upon the beautiful translation of Fechner. It did not seem possible that such a translation, breathing as it did the entire spirit of the original, could have been made by a German. I have seldom seen a more successful bit of translating"-DAVID EUGENE SMITH, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Mathematics, Teachers' College, New York City. "The essay of which this little book is a translation was first published in German in 1835. Its author held that the spirits of the dead continue to exist as individuals in the living, and has worked out this idea in quaint suggestions and meditations which will interest many and perhaps will add somewhat of illumination to their eager gaze into the world beyond death. It is devout, hopeful and confident of a kind of a personal immortality.”—THE CONGREGATIONALIST AND CHRISTIAN WORLD. ་་ "A volume that will greatly interest if not influence lovers of philosophical writings." THE BURLINGTON HAWK EYE. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. 1322 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO. The Gods of the Egyptians OR Studies in Egyptian Mythology BY E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M. A., Litt. D., D. Lit. KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM A Description of the Egyptian Pantheon based upon original research; methodical, thorough, and up-to-date in every respect. It is unique, and the probability is that the work will soon become rare. The original edition consisted of 1500 copies, but a disastrous fire in the bindery destroyed 500 of them, thus limiting the edition to 1000 copies. As the color plates were printed at great cost by lithographic process, and the drawings on the stones immediately after destroyed, there is scarcely any probability of replacing the lost copies by a new edition. It is published in two volumes, containing, 988 pages, (Volume I, 548 pages; Volume II, 440 pages), and is richly illustrated with 98 colored plates, averaging eight impressions each, and 131 specially prepared illustrations in the text. Two Volumes, Royal Octavo, Library Binding, Price $20.00 Net. The author discusses the worship of spirits, demons, gods and other supernatural beings in Egypt from the Predynastic Period to the time of the introduction of Christianity into the country. 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