to be a vindication of the present generation--the generation that was
condemned as neurotic and decadent by common consent a little more than
three years ago, but is now enduring the ordeal of the war with great
singleness of heart. This theme, in Miss Sinclair's hands, assumes big
proportions and gives her at the same time ample opportunity for
character analysis, in which art she is equalled by few contemporary
writers.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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Fairhope: The Annals of a Country Church

By EDGAR DEWITT JONES

_Cloth, 12mo., $1.25_

Fairhope meeting-house is in the northermost country of Kentucky, in the
midst of a populous farming community. In this book Mr. Jones, a
life-long member of the community, tells the story of Fairhope
meeting-house. The book is a remarkably sympathetic and appealing
account of a phase of American rural life at a time when religion was
always the uppermost topic in people's minds.

"Simple narratives of our people, our preachers, and the lights and
shadows of our rural religious life"--is the author's modest description