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256    THE CRISIS ADVERTISER

NOTABLE BOOKS 
written by 
Members of the Board of Directors 
of the 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 

These books may be obtained from 
THE CRISIS, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York 
Prices do not include postage. Postage extra. 

 
Jane Addams 
DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL ETHICS $1.25 
THE NEWER IDEALS OF PEACE $1.25
THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND THE CITY STREETS $1.25
TWENTY YEARS AT HULL HOUSE $1.50 
A NEW CONSCIENCE AND AN ANCIENT EVIL $1.00 
The Macmillan Co. 
No one in this country has come closer to the problems held out by poverty than has Miss Addams - Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Thomas Ewing, Jr.
JONATHAN: A Tragedy. Funk and Wagnalls Co. $1.00
 
The tragedy is imaginative, and in its style and tone evinces a strong command of poetic diction. It recalls Byron's 'Cain' in its noble handling of Bible characters. 
- How to know the Books, Philadelphia. 

John Haynes Holmes
THE REVOLUTIONARY FUNCTION OF THE MODERN CHURCH. G. P. Putnam's Sons $1.50 

An earnest, rational and illuminating presentation of practical conclusions as to the social duty of the church. —New York Times.
 
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 
     B. W. Huebsch $0.50 

Mr. Holmes's view comes as near offering a solution of this problem as any that we are ever likely to reach.   
—Rochester Herald. 
 
W. E. Burghardt DuBois
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK 
     A. C. McClurg & Co $1.25 
THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE 
     A. C. McClurg & Co $1.35 
JOHN BROWN 
     George W. Jacobs & Co $1.25
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE—Longmans, Green & Co $1.50
THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO 
University of Pennsylvania Press $2.00 

Professor DuBois possesses a command over the finer qualities of English which greatly enhances the poignancy and pathos, the yearning and hope of his terrible indictment. - The London Academy.

Archibald H. Grimké  
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON: The Abolitionist $1.50 
CHARLES SUMNER: The Scholar in Politics $1.50 

American Reformers Series. Funk and Wagnalls.
 
These volumes are written in a clear, straightforward style, and are admirably adapted for the home library. 

Florence Kelley 
MODERN INDUSTRY: In Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality. 
Longmans, Green & Co $1.00

The writer has been Chief State Factory Inspector of Illinois, living many years at Hull House and the Nurses' Settlement and serving, since 1889, as Secretary of the National Consumers' League. She sets forth changing social and industrial conditions seen at close range, and suggests immediate hopes and plans related thereto. 

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Mary White Ovington
 
HALF A MAN: The Status of the Negro in New York. Longmans, Green & Co., $1.00
A sane, wise and sympathetic study. 
—Evening Post. 

HAZEL: The Story of a Little Colored Girl. 
Crisis Publishing Co $1.00 
Any child, regardless of race or color, would be interested in the little book.  
—Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 

William A. Sinclair

THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro. Small, Maynard & Co $1.65 

The perusal of this work may be urged upon every fair minded man. 
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 

Moorfield Storey
 
CHARLES SUMNER: American Statesmen Series. Houghton, Mifflin Co $1.25
The majestic devotion of Sumner to the highest political ideals before and during his long term of lofty service to freedom in the United States is fittingly delineated by Mr. Storey.
 
THE REFORM OF LEGAL PROCEDURE 
Yale University Press $1.35 

Oswald Garrison Villard

JOHN BROWN: A Biography, Fifty Years After. Houghton, Mifflin Company $5.00

I can only say after reading from first to last its more than 700 pages, that I have never encountered anything this side of Gibbon's 'Rome' which has made me feel more the personal power of a single work. 
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Charles Edward Russell

THOMAS CHATTERTON: The Marvelous Boy. Moffat, Yard & Co $2.00 
LAWLESS WEALTH 
B. W. Dodge & Co $1.50 
SONGS OF DEMOCRACY 
Moffat, Yard & Co $1.00
WHY I AM A SOCIALIST 
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BUSINESS, THE HEART OF THE NATION. John Lane Co $0.25

Mr. Russell's books show him as a great journalist, a poet and a devoted worked and writer for socialism. 

Joel E. Spingarn

THE NEW CRITICISM. Columbia University Press $0.75 
THE NEW HESPERIDES, AND OTHER POEMS. Sturgis & Walton Company 
$1.00

The author of The New Hesperides has already proved himself a critic of a very high order in a lecture on The New Criticism. We very gladly recognize the many fine qualities which proclaim him to be a true poet. —
—London Academy. 

John Garret Underhill
 
SPANISH LITERATURE IN TUDOR ENGLAND. The Macmillan Co $2.00 

A learned and important contribution to the history of the literary and historical relations between England and Spain at the height of Spanish influence and power. 
—Manchester (England) Guardian. 

William English Walling

SOCIALISM AS IT IS. The Macmillan Co., 
$2.00
The best book on Socialism by any American, if not the best book on Socialism in the English language. 
—Boston Herald.
 
PROGRESSIVISM AND AFTER. The Macmillan Co $1.50 
The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on purely economic topics we have ever read.
—Boston Transcript. 


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