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LAST. By J. MacDonald Oxley. Price, $1.25, American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.

A stirring story of adventure founded largely, as the author tells us, on the records of the experiences of two travelers, who appear to have been not only the first, but also the last Europeans to succeed in making their way into the Forbidden City of Thibet. Those who have read "The Hero of Start Point," The Good Ship Gryphon," and other well-known stories, need no introduction to the author, and those who have not will be quite ready to do so when they have finished the present volume.

THE TRAINING OF $150 American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.

RACHEL HALLER. Price

The name of the writer of this story is not given. She is resumably a woman, and is announced as the author of "The Family of

The Black Forest," "The Merrivale Will," "From the Heart of England," etc., with none of which we are familiar. The new story has no especial individuality: the plot is somewhat involved, with the abduction of two little children as its starting point, and some of the coincidences seem quite too improbable. Rachel Haller, after a variety of uncomfortable occurrences, finds out who she really is and matters turn out tolerably well, after all. One of the many stories of which there is not much to be said, either good or bad.

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THE LADY OF THE LILY FEET AND OTHER STORIES OF CHINATOWN. By Helen F. Clark. Philadelphia, The Griffith & Rowland Press. Price 50 cents.

Miss Clark was for several years closely identified with the Chinese Mission in New York City, where she labored with great devotion and success, and where she studied the question of the social condition of the Chinese in this country, as she says, “with an ever saddening heart." The terrible lives and sufferings of the girls and women appealed to her especially, and these pathetic little stories, of really wonderful interest, testify to the one and only remedy for all these almost unspeakable horrors-Christianity. The converted Chinaman recognizes the rights of the woman, and many a slender girl who has found the "Jesus-God" has had the courage and will to assert herself and maintain her ground, saving eventually not only herself, but bringing conviction and conversion to the heart of the tyrant who would otherwise have crushed her. The stories are touching and pathetic in the extremea book not easy to lay down when once taken up.