. Review of reviews and world's work. ntertaining. The American Jewish Year Book for 1904-1905 (5665),edited by Cyrus Adler and Henrietta Szold, has justbeen issued by the Jewish Publication Society of Amer-ica. It is the sixth volume, and is prevailingly bio-graphical in character. The two chief phases consid-ered are the biographical sketches and the passportquestion, the latter particularly with reference toRussia. Mr. Hamilton Busbey, well known as an authorityon horses, has contributed a volume on The Trottingand the Pacing Horse in America to The AmericanSportsmans Library (Macmillan). T
. Review of reviews and world's work. ntertaining. The American Jewish Year Book for 1904-1905 (5665),edited by Cyrus Adler and Henrietta Szold, has justbeen issued by the Jewish Publication Society of Amer-ica. It is the sixth volume, and is prevailingly bio-graphical in character. The two chief phases consid-ered are the biographical sketches and the passportquestion, the latter particularly with reference toRussia. Mr. Hamilton Busbey, well known as an authorityon horses, has contributed a volume on The Trottingand the Pacing Horse in America to The AmericanSportsmans Library (Macmillan). The book containsenough of common interest to make it appeal to thegeneral reader as well as to the horse-fancier. OTHER LATE BOOKS. An entirely new biographical sketch of Emperor Wil-liam of Germany, under the title Imperator et Rex,by the author of The Martyrdom of an Empress, hasbeen issued by the Harpers. In this well-illustratedsketch, the Kaiser is shown to be a warm-hearted, im-pulsive man, with a deep love for family and MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. His family and charming home life are described withpicturesque touches. Man and Superman (Brentano) is the title of abrilliantly written drama by George Bernard Shaw,which is subtitled A Comedy and a who has enjoyed An Unsocial Socialist,The Quintessence of Ibsenism, and Candida willfind in Man and Superman the same crisp phrasingof philosophical and witty truths. It is the story of amodern Don Juan, andis supplemented by anexposition of the au-thors philosophicaland social views, underthe heading The Rev-olutionists Hand-book. Mary Piatt Parmele,author of The King-dom of the Invisible,has written a plain butsearching little bookletentitled ChristianScience, — Is It Chris-tian? Is It Science?(). The con-clusion may be foundin these words : has not discov-ered Idealism. What she has done is to lay violent handsupon an old Philosophy which will not die because itcontains a sublime tr
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