ry rate.

Co-operation is the key-word, the essence, the very soul of Solaris
Farm. All the successes achieved by the characters that people the book
are the results of co-operative working, thinking and saving. Every
stockholder lends a hand, and lo! the hours of labor are short and
delightful; when a disagreeable task must be done, co-operative thinking
invents a machine which does the work better than a man could do it; the
dignity of toil is established on a sure foundation, and the statement
that "muscular effort is a mental demonstration," is verified.

"Will it pay?" is sometimes called "the American question." In Solaris
Farm the author has successfully undertaken to present an unselfishness
that will pay--not in the fairy gold of a far-off Heaven, but in the
coin of the realm, here and now. Leisure for study and recreation;
books, pictures, objects of beauty and art; better health; longer life;
the society of delightful people none of whom are competing for the
lion's share, but all of whom are co-operating for the benefit of the
community; absence of the fear of poverty; certainty of support in
sickness and old age;--all these and thousands of other comforts are
some of the certain wages of unselfishness.

A feature of Solaris Farm which will commend itself to every well-wisher
of the race is the high estimate which the author places on humanity.
Man, he says, is the flower and fruit of the planet, its highest and
best product. To arrive at the highest point possible in his evolution,
it is necessary for him to be well born and this necessitates happy,
healthy, prosperous parents and proper environments. To follow out this
idea to its logical conclusion would be to repeat the author's
arguments, for he has completely filled the field. The reader is
referred to the story for the facts proving that unselfish co-operation
will furnish everything needful for the complete unfoldment of the now
almost dormant possibilities of human nature.

The pursuit of happiness and the hope of its ultimate possession is the
motor which induces all human endeavor. No act is ever done except in
obedience to this law of our nature which compels us to seek pleasure.
Ignorance of the nature of true pleasure has led us after many a
will-o'-the-wisp, and our unlearned race has soiled its garments many
times in error, commonly called "sin." "Sinful pleasures," against which
our parents, the clergy, and all moral philosophers have war