. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE JOHN PUBLISHERSPHILADELPHIA 8 ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS The HARIM and the PURDAH Studies of Oriental Women By ELIZABETH COOPER Author of My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Mrs. Cooper, during many years passed inChina, Japan, Burmah, India, and Egypt,has come into the closest contact with East-ern women of every race, class, and the intimacy of a familiar guest sheknows their home life, their social life, theircustoms with regard to marriage, divorce,and polygamy, how they feel and thinkand act. The awakening touch of a wider know-ledge has reac
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE JOHN PUBLISHERSPHILADELPHIA 8 ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS The HARIM and the PURDAH Studies of Oriental Women By ELIZABETH COOPER Author of My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Mrs. Cooper, during many years passed inChina, Japan, Burmah, India, and Egypt,has come into the closest contact with East-ern women of every race, class, and the intimacy of a familiar guest sheknows their home life, their social life, theircustoms with regard to marriage, divorce,and polygamy, how they feel and thinkand act. The awakening touch of a wider know-ledge has reached the Eastern womenconfined in the seclusion of the harim andthe purdah; the world over, women areastir. Mrs. Coopers book pictures Oriental womanhood at the very momentof change—the old still everywhere visible, the new swiftly sweeping in. Thirty-two full-page illustrations. Price $ net. BOUND FEET OF A CHINESE LADY ABROAD AT HOME By JULIAN STREET Author of The Most Interesting American If you went to the Exposition by Pullman,read Abroad at Home, and you will seethe America across whichyou blurred yourway. Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, GrandRapids, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee,Minneapolis, Denver, Salt I^ake City,Seattle will never again be mere namesto you if you read Abroad at Home. The book, take it all in all, is the mostengaging, the most American, the mostamusing and satisfactory and interestingrecord of a joyful pilgrimage imaginable. —New York Times. Illustrations by Wallace MorganPrice $ net FROM PILLAR TO POST By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Autlior of The House-boat on the Styx At once a book of fravels at home, of witand humor, of keen but kindly philosophy,written by one of the best-known Ameri-can funny men, who has behind him arich background of ten years journeyingabout this country as a lyceum lecturer. From Pillar to Post, the reminis-cences of John Ke
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