a single quaint
character that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his story
a typical Iowa farmer's family and their neighbours; and, although
every one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense of
proportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of real
life, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It is
a wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a book
to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truth
of self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.

A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.
DIFFERENCES
BY HERVEY WHITE.

12mo, cloth, decorative, 320 pages. $1.50

"It is treating the poor as a class and employing any method of
handling them that I object to.... Why can't they be treated as
individuals, the same as other people? What would the rich think of
my impertinence if I went about the world treating them in a peculiar
manner,--as if they were not real people, at all, but only 'the rich,'
in my knowledge? "--Hester Carr, in _Differences_.

"_Difference_ is an extraordinary book.... The labor question
is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern
conditions have erected between the man who works and the man
who merely lives. This is no new theme, yet _Differences_ is
new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The
only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the
picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with
bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely
artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl,
who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade,
the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of
metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They
embody the 'differences', and, if they do not point the way
to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet
ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a
thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity,
a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that
brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of
economics and to the lover of human feeling."--_Philadelphia
North American._

"There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor
an