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On the Trail of The Immigrant

<h2>XXV AU REVOIR</h2> My Dear Lady of the First Cabin:         I have followed your good advice, have told my story as I told it to you; and yours be the praise and the blame. You interrupted me in the telling, by saying that I did not know the first cabin, and that my story would not be complete until I knew that part of the ship and that portion of the world also. I have as you see taken passage in the first cabin. They sold me the ticket as readily as if it were for the steerage and did not ask for my pedigree, only for my check. Fifty dollars more gave me the privilege of sitting where you sat (which was at one time the “seat of the scornful”), of looking proudly upon the second cabin, and pityingly upon the steerage below. It is a delightful sensation this; of being summoned to your meals by the notes of a bugle rather than by the jangle of a shrill bell; of looking over half a yard of menu, and ordering what you want, and whom you want, just as you please, rather than being ordered about as some one else pleases. The first day out I found the first cabin as quiet as the steerage; only more dignified. The passengers were walking on tiptoe; many of them trying to adjust themselves to these labyrinthine luxuries; while the distinguished rustle of silken petticoats relieved the pressure of the atmosphere, which naturally was tense from the excitement of the beginning of a journey. Critically, almost with hostility, each passenger measured the other; the tables were buried beneath the loads of flowers and floral designs which were past the fading, and in the first melancholy stages of decay; so that all of it reminded me of a palatial home, to which the mourners have just returned from a rich uncle’s funeral. As yet, no one had spoken to me, although I had volunteered a wise remark about the weather to one passenger, and the gentleman addressed recoiled as if I had struck him with a sledge hammer. I learned afterwards that he occupied a thousand dollar suite of rooms and that his name was Kalbsfoos or something like it. In choosing his seat at the table, I heard him remark to the head steward that he did not want to sit “near Jews,” nor any “second class looking crowd”; but that was a difficult task to accomplish. More than a third of the passengers were Jews, and more than two-thirds were people whose names and bearing betrayed the fact that they were either the children of immigrants, or immigrants themselves, who too were returning to the Old World because they had succeeded. In the Vs. Mr. Vanderbilt’s name headed the list, but the name closest to his was Vogelstein; while between such American or English names as Wallace and Wallingford, were a dozen Woolfs and Wumelbachers, Weises and Wiesels. I need not tell you of the multitude of the Rosenbergs and Rosenthals there were in our cabin. Mr. Funkelstein and Mr. Jaborsky were my room-mates. First cabin after all is only steerage twice removed, and beneath its tinsel and varnish, it is the same piece of world as that below me; which you pity, and which you dread. The staple conversation to-day is the size of the pool—which has reached the thousand dollar mark, and the fact that a certain actor lost fifteen thousand dollars at poker the night before. In the second cabin the pool was smaller, the limit in poker ten cents; while in the steerage they lived, unconscious of the fact that pools and poker are necessary accompaniments of an ocean voyage. It is a stratified society in which I find myself up here, and the lines are marked—dollar marked. The stewards instinctively know the size of our bank accounts by our wardrobes. Around the captain’s table are gathered the stars in the financial firmament; those whom nobody knows, who travel without retinue are at the remote edges of the dining room, far away from the lime light. In the steerage, everybody “gets his grub” in the same way, in the same tin pans—“first come first served”; and all of us are kicked in the same unceremonious way by the ship’s crew. The first cabin and the society it represents are not all finished products. There are many of those who eat, even at the captain’s table, who are still in blessed ignorance of the fact, that knives were not made for the eating of blueberry pie; and who also do not know what use to make of the tiny bowls of water in which rose leaves float, when they are placed before them. Then there are the maidens who walk about with mannish tread, talking loudly and violently through their noses; who assault the piano furiously with the notes of rag-time marches; and who waft upon the air perfumes which offend one’s olfactory nerves. Yet beside them, and in strong contrast to them are those superb men and women, the flower of American civilization, whose like has never been created anywhere else in the world. No, what I have learned in the first cabin has not changed my vision in the least; for the world it represents is not closed to me; and I reckoned with it in my story. You know enough about me to realize that I harbour no class or race prejudices, and that I try to “play fair.” The people of the steerage are in a large measure what I told you they are—primitive, uncultured, untutored people; with all their virtues and vices in the making. They are the best material with which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in replenishing physical depletion; and capable of taking on the highest intellectual and spiritual culture. They are a serious problem in every respect; whether you shut the gates of Ellis Island to-day or to-morrow, those that are here are an equally serious problem. One thing the journey in the first cabin has done for me; it has made me grateful for my journeys in the steerage; grateful that I could stand among those tangling threads out of which our national life is being woven, and see the woof and the warp, and know that the woof is good. I am conscious of the fact that it will take strong sound warp to hold it together, to fill out our pattern and complete our plan. Oh, my dear lady! What a great country in the making this is! And how close you and I are to the making! Here are we, living at a time in which the greatest phenomenon of history is taking place. Future generations will wonder at the process and will say: “A new gigantic race was being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific; a race born to build or to destroy, to cry to the world, ‘Ground Arms,’ or cast it into the hell of war; a race in which are welded all kindreds of the people of the earth, or a race which will destroy itself by mutual hate.” My lady, you and I are here to work at a task which will outstrip all the wonders of the world, and we cannot do it in our own strength; we need to call to each other, as we bend to our task, the greeting which the Slovaks sent after you when you left the ship: <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> “Z’Boghem, Z’Boghem,” “The Lord be with thee.” </div> </div> <h2>APPENDIX IMMIGRATION STATISTICS</h2> THE author has refrained from using statistics in his book, not because he has any objection to figures; but because the statistics of immigration (even those prepared by the United States Government) are misleading. Professor Walter F. Willcox, Chairman of the Committee on Basal Statistics, appointed by the National Civic Federation, calls attention to this fact in his report, and gives the following reasons for their unreliability. <div class="blockquot">The meaning of any statistics depends largely upon the meaning of the unit in which the statistics are expressed. It is a common but fallacious assumption that a word used as the name of a statistical unit has precisely the same meaning that it has when used in popular speech. In the present case the word “immigrant” has had and to some degree still has different meanings, which may be called respectively the popular or theoretical meaning and the administrative or statistical meaning, and these two should be carefully distinguished. In the popular or theoretical sense an immigrant is a person of foreign birth who is crossing the country’s boundary and entering the United States with intent to remain and become an addition to the population of the country. In this sense of the word an alien arrival is an immigrant whether he comes by water or by land, in the steerage or in the cabin, from contiguous or non-contiguous territory, and whether he pays or does not pay the head tax. The essential element is an addition to the population of the country as a result of travel and the word thus covers all additions to the population otherwise than by birth. A person cannot be an immigrant to the United States more than once any more than a person can be born more than once. It is a characteristic of this meaning that it does not alter. The word immigrant in its administrative or statistical sense is not defined in the Reports of the Commissioner-General of Immigration, but from that source and from the instructions and other circulars issued by the Bureau the following statements regarding its meaning have been drawn: 1. The administrative or statistical meaning of immigrant is not fixed by statute law but is determined by the definitions or explanations of the Bureau of Immigration and those are dependent upon and vary with the law and administrative decisions. 2. In the latest circular of the Bureau immigrants are defined as “arriving aliens whose last permanent residence was in a country other than the United States who intend to reside in the United States.” This definition seems to agree closely with the popular or theoretical one. 3. But the foregoing definition is modified by a subsequent paragraph of the same circular which excludes from the immigrant class “citizens of British North America and Mexico coming direct therefrom by sea or rail.” So the official definition is substantially this: An alien neither a resident of the United States nor a citizen of British North America, Cuba or Mexico, who arrives in the United States intending to reside there. 4. The only important difference between these two definitions is that the statistical definition excludes, as the popular definition does not, citizens of British North America, Cuba and Mexico. As the natives of Canada and Mexico living in the United States in 1900 were 14.2 per cent. of the natives of all other foreign countries, it seems likely that the figures of immigration for the year 1905-06 should be increased about 14.2 per cent. in order to get an approximate estimate of the total immigration into the country during the year just ended. 5. Perhaps the most important difference between the popular or theoretical and the statistical definition of immigrant is that the former is unchanging and the latter has been modified several times by changes of law or by modifications of administrative interpretation. 6. Until January 1, 1906, an alien arrival was counted as an immigrant each time he entered the country, but since that date an alien who has acquired a residence in the United States and is returning from a visit abroad is not classed as an immigrant. This administrative change has brought the statistical and the popular meanings of immigrant into closer agreement, but in so doing has reduced the apparent number of immigrants more than ten per cent. and has made it difficult to compare the earlier and the later statistics. 7. Until January 1, 1903, an alien arriving in the first or second cabin was not classed as an immigrant, but rather under the head of other alien passengers. This change likewise brought the two meanings of immigrant into closer agreement, but also made it difficult to compare the figures before and after that date. By a mere change of administrative definition the reported number of immigrants was increased nearly twelve per cent. 8. Until the same date an alien arrival in transit to some other country was deemed an immigrant, but since that date such persons have been classed as non-immigrant aliens. This change also makes the figures before 1903 not strictly comparable with later ones. About three per cent. of those who were formerly classed as aliens have been excluded since 1903. The alteration has brought the two definitions closer together, but in so doing has entailed administrative difficulties which lead the bureau to favour a return to the former system or at least to favour collecting the head tax from such aliens in transit. 9. An immigrant in the statistical sense is a person liable for and paying the head tax. But to this there are two slight exceptions. Deserting alien seamen not apprehended are liable for the head tax which is paid by the company from which they desert, but such cases are not included in the statistics. Citizens of British North America, Cuba and Mexico coming from other ports than those of their own country are reported as immigrants, but do not pay the head tax. Obviously both are minor exceptions hardly affecting the rule. In the popular or theoretical meaning of immigrant this head tax is not an element. 10. Probably other changes of definition have occurred of recent years. No attempt has been made to exhaust the list. The general tendency of the changes has clearly been towards a closer agreement of the popular and the statistical meanings. But they have probably tended to make the increase of immigration indicated by the figures greater than the actual increase, and to that degree to make the figures misleading. If the Government Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization could make a carefully studied estimate of the extent to which such changes in the official reports really modify the apparent meaning of the published figures, it would render a valuable service. 11. A committee like the present can hardly make such an estimate or go further than to point out that for the reasons indicated the official statistics of immigration are likely to be seriously misinterpreted and are constantly misinterpreted by the public. The official statistics of immigration being subject to all the qualifications indicated and reflecting so imperfectly the amount of immigration as ordinarily or popularly conceived the question at once arises, Can any substitute or any alternative be proposed? What the public is mainly interested in, I think, and what it commonly but erroneously believes is indicated by the official figures of immigration, is the net addition to the population year by year as a result of the currents of travel between the United States and other countries. Alternative figures for the last eight years, a period which closely coincides with the last great wave of immigration now at or near its crest, may be had by comparing the total arrivals and departures in the effort to get the net gain. The results appear in the following table: <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary=""> <tr align="center" valign="bottom" style="font-style:italic;font-size:95%"> <td>Fiscal Year</td> <td>Total Passengers Arrivals</td> <td>Total Passengers Departed</td> <td>Total Immigration</td> <td>Arrivals Minus Departure</td> <td>Per Cent. That Net Increase Makes of Immigration</td></tr> <tr><td>1898</td><td align="right">343,963</td><td align="right">225,411</td><td align="right">229,299</td><td align="right">118,552</td><td align="right">51.8</td></tr> <tr><td>1899</td><td align="right">429,796</td><td align="right">256,008</td><td align="right">311,715</td><td align="right">173,788</td><td align="right">55.8</td></tr> <tr><td>1900</td><td align="right">594,478</td><td align="right">293,404</td><td align="right">448,572</td><td align="right">301,074</td><td align="right">67.0</td></tr> <tr><td>1901</td><td align="right">675,025</td><td align="right">306,724</td><td align="right">487,918</td><td align="right">368,304</td><td align="right">75.5</td></tr> <tr><td>1902</td><td align="right">820,893</td><td align="right">326,760</td><td align="right">648,743</td><td align="right">494,133</td><td align="right">76.3</td></tr> <tr><td>1903</td><td align="right">1,025,834</td><td align="right">375,261</td><td align="right">857,046</td><td align="right">650,573</td><td align="right">75.9</td></tr> <tr><td>1904</td><td align="right">988,688</td><td align="right">508,204</td><td align="right">812,870</td><td align="right">480,484</td><td align="right">59.3</td></tr> <tr><td>1905</td><td align="right">1,234,615</td><td align="right">536,151</td><td align="right">1,026,499</td><td align="right">698,464</td><td align="right">68.1</td></tr> <tr><td class="tp">1898-1905</td><td colspan="2"> </td><td align="right" class="tp">4,822,662</td><td align="right" class="tp">3,285,372</td><td align="right" class="tp">68.1</td></tr> </table> The figures indicate that the net increase of population by immigration during the last eight years has been slightly more than two-thirds of the reported immigration. But these figures of net increase should be increased by an estimate of the arrivals by land from Canada and Mexico. As the Canadians and Mexicans by birth residing in the United States in 1900 were 14.2 per cent. of all residents born in other foreign countries, this would indicate an influx of 466,000 Canadians and Mexicans, a figure probably in excess of the truth since the currents have probably been setting Canadaward of recent years. I estimate, therefore, that the net increase from immigration 1898-1905 has been about 3,750,000 instead of 4,820,000 as might be inferred from the reports of the bureau of immigration. The actual increase would then be about seventy-eight per cent. of the apparent increase. </div>     Printed in the United States of America <h2>INDEX</h2> A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z “Americana,” by Dr. Lamprecht, quoted, 321 Americanizing the stranger, 291 Americans, poor example set by, 119 Americans or foreigners, in the slums, 316 Amish, the, 96 Anti-Semitic riots, 53 Ashkenazim, the, 146 Assimilation, miracle of, 291 Atheism of Hungarians, 249 Austro-Hungarian Jews, 148 Bialistok, Jews from, 61, 325 Bohemian movement, beginning of, 23 Bohemian immigrant, distribution of, 225; characteristics of, 227; irreligion of, 228; socialism of, 234; both best and worst, 235 Bohemian school teachers from Cleveland, 355 Bulgarians, the, 26, 180 Castle Garden days, 78 Catholic, see also Roman Catholic Catholic Church, foreign priests a hindrance to, 323; and the Bohemians, 229; and the Italian, 278 Catholic Hungarians, 247 Centre of Mill Horror, 222 Christian Church and Jews, 164 Church, political power of, 322 Citizenship papers for ten dollars, 331 Commissioner Watchorn, Ellis Island, 81 Commissioner Williams, Ellis Island, 81 Competition the life of prejudice, 309. Count Aponyi, Hungary, quoted, 318 Crainers, the, 212 Criminal element among immigrants, 75 Criminals, Italian, 255, 273 Croatians, the, 26, 180, 212 Czechs, the, 180 Dalmatians, the, 26, 181 Degeneration due to influx of foreigner, not evident, 304 Deported from Ellis Island, 65, 66, 68, 72, 82, 92 Detention room, in the, 68 Diocletian, palace of, a Slavic town, 18 Economic problem of new American, 309 Economic value of immigrant, 318 Educational Alliance, the, 161, 163 Ellis Island ahead, 48; examination at, 65; conditions at, 79; new conditions at, 86 Emigrant, passports for, 31; treatment of, at port of embarkation, 32; medical examination of, 35; examination of, at home, 75 Endeavour Societies, Jewish, 151 Ethical Culture Society, the, 152 Excluding the weak and helpless, 072 Families divided, by inspectors, 65 Finns, the, 27 Free thinkers, 106 First Cabin vs. Steerage, 14 Gentlemen in homespun vs. beasts in broadcloth, 46 George, Joseph J., Worcester, Mass., and Syrian children, 83 Geringer, Mr., editor Svornost, 228, 229 Ghetto, the Russian, 136; of New York, 154; vs. the West Side, 305; vs. upper Broadway, 306 German aristocracy, the real, 98 German Evangelical Church, 108 German immigrants, the first, 94; characteristics of, 97; socialism of, 98; intellectual life of, 100; social life of, 101; political influence of, 103; influence of Church upon, 105; materialism of, 107; influence of, on religious life, 108 German Jews, 148 German Methodists, 108 Great Russian, the, 181 Greek Catholic Church, the, 204 Greek Catholic immigrants, 322 Greek Church and the Slav, 204 Greek immigrant, the, 282; characteristics of, 285, 288; and the Church, 287 Greek Orthodox immigrants, 322 Greek play at Hull House, 291 Hall, Prescott F., quoted, 296 Hamburg, treatment of emigrant, 34 Hartford, Conn., Italian district, 266; gathering of Jews in, 298 Hearst influence in the Ghetto, 168 Hertzl, Theodore, 298 Hester Street vs. the West Side, 305 Hoar, Geo. F., Senator, quoted, 82 Hoboken saloon-keeper, the, 348 Hungarian, see also Magyar Hungarian Catholic, the, 247 Hungarian Greek Catholic, 247 Hungarian gypsies, 244 Hungarian immigrant, characteristics of, 250; socialism of, 244; hostility to religion, 249 Hungarian Jews in second cabin, 351 Hungarian Protestant, the, 248 “Hunkies,” 198; looking for work, 213; in steel mills in Penn., 220; with the Illinois Steel Co., 222 Huss, John, succeeded by George Washington, 234 Illyrian, the, 180 Imagination and reality, 74 Immigrant of to-day, characteristics of, 29; expectations of, 62; treatment of, at Ellis Island, 79; types of, 91; not content with old conditions, 311; problem of, not an economic one, 314; economic value of, 318; economic effect on his own country, 318; religious ideas of, 322; amenable to religious influence, 326; in politics, 330; patriotism of, 332 Immigrant societies, 64 Immigration, quality of, improving, 91; where the danger lies, 92 Immigration laws, effect on steam ship companies, 35; amendment to, procured by Senator Hoar, 85; as to public charge, 92 Immigration Congress, N. Y., 315 Infidelity of Bohemians, 228 Ingersoll, Robert, influence of, 228, 230 Inspectors at Ellis Island, 80 Italian movement, beginning of 19 Italian, the, at home, 28, 252; characteristics of, 253; affected by other races, 253; lawlessness of, 255; criminals, 255; distrust of the Church, 258, 260 Italian immigrant, the, 262; characteristics of, 262; distribution of, 264, 269; in business, 268; competitor of the Jew, 271; and the school, 276; and the Church, 277 Italians returning in the second cabin, 354 Jamestown, N. Y., Swedish colony of, 117, 122 Jewish movement, beginning of, 21 Jewish world, the real, 133 Jews the, in the old world, 126; homelessness of, 126; distribution of, 127; characteristics of, 127; in Russia, 134; socialism of, 140; 250th anniversary of landing in America, 143; charter granted to, in 1655, 144; four groups of, 147; spiritual movements among, 151; and the Christian churches, 164, 329; missions in the Ghetto, 166; in politics, 167; second generation of, 171; mutual distrust of, 172; racial fealty of, 303; relation to Christianity, 329 Judaism, crisis of, in America, 302. Kishineff, Jews from, 61, 325 Labour market, changes in, 310 Labour unions or manufacturers’ associations, 310 Lady of the First Cabin, The, 9, 359 Lamprecht, Prof. K., quoted, 101, 321 Lindsburgh, Kansas, model Swedish town, 122 Lithuanians, the, 27 Little Hungary, 238, 305; as a political school, 352 Little Russian, the, 182 Lodge, Henry Cabot, Senator, 83 Lombroso, Dr., on criminology, 256 Lutheran church, influence of, 105 Lutheran church and the Swedes, 118 Magyar, see also Hungarian Magyar, the, 27; Jews, 149; in Austro-Hungary, 241; in Little Hungary, 242; political tendencies of, 244; not Slavs, 241 Man at the Gate, the, 78 Marxian Socialism, 98, 234 Massarik, Professor, quoted, 230 Materialism of Germans, 107; of Bohemians, 230 Mennonites, the, 94 Milwaukee, the most German city, 100 Minneapolis, 115, 122 Minnesota, Swedes unpopular in, 117 Money sent home by immigrant, an economic gain, 320 Montefiore, Sir Moses, 131 Montenegrins, the, 26, 180 Moravians, the, 96 National Immigrant Societies, 64 Neglect, effect of, 124 Nelson, Knute, 117 New Britain, Conn., Polish town, 212 New Greece, Chicago, 288 New Prague, typical Bohemian town, 231 New Ulm, a city without a church, 98 Odessa, Jews from, 61 Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 96 Paupers and criminals, a million a year? 72 Pole, the, vs. the Slovak, 210 Polish movement, beginning of, 24 Polish town, New Britain, Conn., 211 Political immigrants, 97 Political tutelage of immigrants, 330 Pope Pius X, 259 President Roosevelt and Ellis Island, 81 Prohibitionists, the first, 96 Protecting American labour, 309 Protestant influence on Bohemians, 231; Hungarians, 248; Church and the Italians, 281 Public charge, a, 68 Rabbinism, power of, 146 Rabbis of the Ghetto, 162 Race movement of Eastern Europe, 16 Races, difficulty of distinguishing between, 294 Racial characteristics, changes in, 294 Racial fealty of Jews, 303 Religions, national, 322 Religious atmosphere of America, 321 Religious ideas of immigrants, 322 Republicans, Democrats and “Inepenny,” 345 Restriction Immigration League, 296 Returned immigrant, influence at home, 339 Roman displaced by Slav, 18 Roman Catholic, see also Catholic Roman Catholic Church, influence on Germans, 105; and the Slav, 204 Roman Catholic immigrants, 322 Roosevelt, President, and Ellis Island, 81; letter to, of Senator Hoar, 84 Russian Jews, 150; characteristics of, 173 Russian refugees, 57 Saloon-keepers in second cabin, 349 Scandinavian immigrant, the, 112; characteristics of, 113; distribution of, 114; second generation of, 113; considered unreliable, 117; town of Lindsburgh, Kansas, 122 Schurz, Carl, 97 Schwenkfelders, the, 96 Secret societies of Italy, 256 Sephardic Congregations, 145 Servant girl, as she returns, 337 Servians, the, 26, 180, 212 Shylock vs. Daniel Deronda, 130 Silverman, Dr. Joseph, 143 Slav at home, the, 20; distribution of, 179; characteristics of, 180, 183; blood revenge still practiced, 185; treatment of women, 187; love of music, 189; religious feeling of, 195 Slavic immigrant, the, 198; the Slovak, 198; the Pole, 198, 210; the Bohemian, 225 Slavic literature, 194 Slovak movement, the, 25 Slovak, the, 180, 191, 200; in politics, 206; entertainments, 207; as a type, 301 Slovenes, the, 26, 181 Slums in the, Americans or foreigners, 316 Socialism of Germans, 98; of Jews, 140; of Bohemians, 234; of Italians, 257 Social nose or social heart, 12 Social Democracy, and the Magyars, 243 Social Democrats in the Ghetto, 167 Social Labour Jews, 169 South Chicago, steel mills of, 222 Spanish Jews, 147 Steamship companies, responsibility of, 76 Steerage, the, from the quarter-deck, 10; conditions in, 35; vs. second cabin, 36; should be abolished, 37; accommodations, English best, 38; vs. the slum, 41; songs, 42; comradeship of, 43, 50; amusements of, 51; question of, 53; shadows of the past, 53; polyglot sermon in, 62; and anarchy, 77; fellowship of, on return voyage, 334; self-assertive on return, 335 “Stomach Jews” vs. “Soul Jews,” 328 Stratified society in first cabin, 362 Strikes by foreigners, 311 Svornost, Bohemian infidel paper, 228, 232 Swedes, see Scandinavians Syrian children, story of, 82 Syrians, the, 28 Tragedy of the deported, 65, 66, 68-72, 82, 92 Tucker, President, quoted, 326 Tunkers, the, 96 Turner Societies, 106, 230 University Settlement, the, 164 Vanderbilt vs. Vogelstein, 361 Watchorn, Robert, Commissioner, Ellis Island, 81; secures reforms, 86 Wends, the, 180 West Side vs. Ghetto, 14 Williams, William, Commissioner at Ellis Island, 81 Yiddish, the, 156 Zionistic movement, 141 Zionist leader, Theodore Hertzl, 298 <hr /> SOCIOLOGICAL <hr class="full" /> HAROLD BEGBIE The Crisis of Morals “The Weakest Link.” 12mo, cloth, net 75c. “Here is a strong plea for social purity and a call for earnest effort to educate and lead the world into purer life. 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MARY LANE DWIGHT Children of Labrador Illustrated, 16mo, cloth, net 60c. It is hard to picture a more delightful addition to “The Children’s Missionary Series” than this vivid story of Dr. Grenfell’s land. Its simplicity and clearness appeals to children, yet grown-ups will be equally fascinated in its descriptions of the children of the Eskimos and fishermen of this barren land, so pathetically described by an old native as “wonderful bleak and dreary.” Earlier Volumes in The Children’s Missionary Series <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> <tr><td>Children of Africa</td><td>Children of India</td><td>Children of Egypt</td></tr> <tr><td>    James M. Baird</td> <td>    Janet Harvey Kelman</td> <td>    Miss L. Crowther</td></tr> <tr><td>Children of Arabia</td> <td>Children of Ceylon</td ><td>Children of Persia</td></tr> <tr><td>    John C. Young</td> <td>    Thomas Moscrop</td><td>Mrs. Napier Malcolm</td></tr> <tr><td>Children of China</td><td>Children of Jamaica</td><td>Children of Japan</td></tr> <tr><td>    C. Campbell Brown</td> <td>    Isabel C. Maclean</td><td>    Janet Harvey Kelman</td></tr> </table> <hr /> BIOGRAPHY <hr class="full" /> EDWARD A. STEINER Author of “On the Trail of the Immigrant” From Alien to Citizen The Story of My Life in America. Illustrated, 8vo, net $1.50. In this wonderfully interesting book we see Professor Steiner evolving from boyhood in a far-off Hungarian town, into an immigrant to the West; then, year by year, undergoing experiences, the story of which is conducive to a better understanding of what the alien has to endure in order to gradually adjust himself to American conditions and institutions. Real life is portrayed first among the racial wrongs and hatred of southern Europe, then in the steerage of the ocean liner; in New York, Princeton, Pittsburgh, and cities further west. Through and in it all, we see Professor Steiner, pressing ever forward and upward to the position of opportunity and influence he occupies to-day. H. ROSWELL BATES The Life of H. Roswell Bates A Biographical Sketch by S. RALPH HARLOW. With Portraits. 12mo, cloth, net $1.00. The author of this short “Life” knew Roswell Bates from his early years, and presents a satisfying picture of the man as he really was; at work and play; laboring, spending himself for others, giving of his best to “Spring Street,” on the lower west side of New York, and going to his rest before he reached his prime, yet with a great life-work well and nobly done. HERRICK JOHNSON, D.D. Herrick Johnson An Appreciative Memoir by Rev. Charles E. Robinson, D.D. With Three Portraits. Cloth, net $1.25. A faithful and convincing survey of the life and life-work of one of the great, formative figures of American Presbyterianism. Dr. Robinson enjoyed an almost life-long friendship with his subject, and is thereby enabled to present a satisfying picture of Herrick Johnson as student, pastor, seminary professor, and church statesman, such as no mere biographer could possibly have furnished. RAY STRACHEY A Quaker Grandmother: Hannah Whitall Smith Reminiscences of the author of “The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life” Illustrated, 16mo, cloth, net $1.00. Hannah Whitall Smith was one of the great formative, religious influences of her time. She was a philanthropist, a mother in Israel, a spiritual guide. Yet it is with none of these things that the present sketch has to do. It depicts her in simple relations of life only—that of a grandmother to her grandchildren. MRS. E. M. WHITTEMORE Delia, the Blue Bird of Mulberry Bend Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 75c.; paper, net 35c. A new and revised edition of the heart-searching story of spiritual ruin and rescue already circulated in many tongues and lands, told by the founder of the Door of Hope Mission. MADAME GUYON Life of Madam Guyon 8vo, cloth, net $2.00. The life, religious opinions and experience of Madame de la Mothe Guyon, together with an account of the personal history of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray. By Thomas C. Upham. New edition, with detailed Table of Contents and an Introduction by Prof. W. R. Inge. PAUL SEIPPEL A Huguenot Saint of the Twentieth Century The Life of Adèle Kamm. Translated from the French by Olive Wyon. With Portrait. Net $1.25. A short biography which imparts more wisdom on the problem of suffering than a whole shelf-full of treatises. It is an account of the brief, pain-racked life of a sweet-souled follower of Jesus who passed from earth in 1911, at the age of twenty-five. Into the last six years of the life of this little Swiss girl were crowded experiences of God’s presence and of human need, of Divine support and of self-dedicatory usefulness for others, such as would have done honor to even a long life. WILLIAM A. SUNDAY, D.D. The Real Billy Sunday By Elijah (“Ram’s Horn”) BROWN. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.00. “This volume is prepared by a gifted writer who has long been a personal friend of Mr. Sunday’s, and who was for many years his associate in evangelistic labors. It begins with his birth in an early Iowa log cabin and follows him down to the present. It tells the story of his early experiences, his baseball associations, his conversion and his work in successive meetings. It is a wonderful story, delightful almost overpowering as a narrative of the grace of God, and full of the most interesting facts and incidents. No one who reads it will find a dull page in it, nor will he ever question whether the day of revivals has passed.”—Herald and Presbyter. <hr /> EARLIER WORKS IN DEMAND <hr class="full" /> MARTHA S. GIELOW Uncle Sam A Story of the Mountaineers. Illustrated, net 50c. “Mrs. Gielow has written ‘Mammy’s Reminiscences,’ ‘Old Plantation Days’ and ‘Old Andy the Moonshiner,’ in addition to ‘Uncle Sam,’ and the wide circulation of these stories has accomplished much toward procuring interest and aid for the cause.”—Book News. EDWARD A. STEINER Author of “On the Trail of the Immigrant” The Parable of the Cherries 12mo, boards, net 50c. “The little book is truly a call to larger brotherhood by one who has devoted his life to informing us toward the stranger within our gates.”—N. Y. Times. JOHN BUNYAN The Pilgrim’s Progress New Pilgrim Edition. 12mo, cloth, decorated, net 50c. A popular reprint of the standard “Puritan” edition, acknowledged to be without a superior in point of accuracy and faithfulness to the latest revisions by Bunyan himself. With eight of the celebrated Copping illustrations—clear type, annotated. I. T. THURSTON Author of “The Bishop’s Shadow,” etc. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girl’s Story. Illustrated, net $1.00. “A story of Camp Fire life both in the city meetings and in active camp in the country, it shows with graphic clearness what this great movement will mean to thousands of girls. The author has made this appeal the underlying burden of the narrative, all the more poignant because it is made without any attempt at effort. An interesting tale for not only the initiated but the uninitiated as well.”—Washington Times. MARY STEWART Author of “Tell Me a True Story,” etc. The Shepherd of Us All Stories of the Christ Retold for Children. Illustrated, net $1.25. “The book goes into the enticing realms of fairy lore. A shepherd with a magic flute leads the way. Then come adventures in plenty. All the favorites, even unto the giants, are found, and there is not a word to keep the most nervous youngster from sleeping as do the just.”—Baltimore Sun. WAYNE WHIPPLE The Story-Life of the Son of Man 8vo, illustrated, net $2.50. “A literary mosaic, consisting of quotations from a great number of writers concerning all the events of the Gospels. The sub-title accurately describes its contents. That sub-title is ‘Nearly a thousand stories from sacred and secular sources in a continuous and complete chronicle of the earth life of the Saviour.’ The book was prepared for the general reader, but will be valuable to minister, teacher and student. There are many full-page engravings from historic paintings and sacred originals, some reproduced for the first time.”—Christian Observer. GAIUS GLENN ATKINS, D.D. Pilgrims of the Lonely Road 12mo, cloth, net $1.50. “A rare book for its style, its theme and the richness of its insight. Seldom is seen a book of more exquisite grace of diction—happy surprises of phrase, and lovely lengths of haunting prose to delight the eye. Each of the great pilgrim’s studies is followed step by step along the lonely way of the soul in its quest of light, toward the common goal of all—union with the eternal.”—Chicago Record-Herald. S. D. GORDON Quiet Talks on Following The Christ 12mo, cloth, net 75c. “This volume is well calculated to aid in Christian life, to give strength, courage and light on difficult problems. It grips one’s very life, brings one face to face with God’s word, ways of understanding it and, even its every day application. It is plain, clear, direct, no confusion of dark sentences.”—Bapt. Observer. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN, D.D. The Teaching of Christ A Companion Volume to “The Crises of The Christ.” 8vo, cloth, net $1.50. “One does not read far before he is amazed at the clear and logical grasp Dr. Morgan has upon divine truths. Could a copy of this book, with its marvelous insight, its straightforwardness, its masterly appeal, be placed in the hands of our church leaders, it would go far toward negativing the spiritual barrenness of destructive criticism. Here is a work that may profitably occupy a prominent place in the minister’s library.”—Augsburg Teacher. ZEPHINE HUMPHREY The Edge Of the Woods And Other Papers 12mo, cloth, net $1.25. “Sane optimism, an appreciation of the beautiful and a delicate humor pervades the book which is one for lovers of real literature to enjoy.”—Pittsburgh Post. CHARLES G. TRUMBULL Anthony Comstock, Fighter Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25. “Probably there is no man on this continent to-day who hat done more to clean things up than Mr. Comstock has, or shown more splendid courage and endurance in the doing of it. It is a splendid story, that will not only inspire its readers, but will send many a man out himself for the good cause of cleanness and righteousness in the land.”—Christian Guardian. FRANK J. CANNON—DR. GEORGE L. KNAPP Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50. “Senator Cannon was born a Mormon, but has since seen light. Nevertheless, his story of Brigham Young’s life is not a polemic. Born in a Puritan home, endowed with a forceful personality and a gift for administration, Brigham Young is one of the most picturesque characters in our American life, and his biography reads like a chapter in the life of an ancient patriarch, a modern politician and a business promoter all rolled together.”—Congregationalist. CLARA E. LAUGHLIN Author of “Everybody’s Lonesome” The Work-A-Day Girl A Study of Present Day Conditions. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.50. “Sociologically considered, this is a most important work, written by a woman who has personally investigated the conditions she recites. Her knowledge, bought by years of service, proves that environment alone is not responsible for the perils of unguarded girlhood. For that reason the book appeals individually to all who come in touch with the workaday girl, and teaches that whether or not we be our brother’s keeper, there is no doubt as to our responsibility toward our little sister of toil.”—Washington Evening Star. FREDERIC J. HASKIN Author of “The American Government” The Immigrant: An Asset and a Liability 12mo, cloth, net $1.25. “Persons are asking how they may best do their duty and their whole duty to those coming to our shores. This book is a valuable light on the subject. It is full of facts and it is a capable and conscientious study as to the meaning of the facts. Any thoughtful person will find here much valuable material for study and the book is calculated to do much good.”—Herald and Presbyter. <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" style="padding:2%;border:2px dotted gray;"> <tr><th align="center">Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:</th></tr> <tr><td align="center">the announcment=> the announcment {pg 16}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">in prone fight=> in prone flight {pg 27}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">rough rock throne=> rough rock-throne {pg 27}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">the perishing of Pharoah’s horsemen=> the perishing of Pharaoh’s horsemen {pg 56}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">heard that I had been in Bialistok, Kishinef=> heard that I had been in Bialistok, Kishineff {pg 61}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">gentle mein=> gentle mien {pg 159}</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">“Little Italy” at once=> “Little Italy” at least once {pg 271}</td></tr> </table> <div class="footnotes">FOOTNOTES: <div class="footnote">[1] The Dutch West India Company. </div> <div class="footnote">[2] This group is receiving scarcely any additions through emigration. </div> <div class="footnote">[3] The decrease of German emigration has had its effect in lessening the numbers of this group. </div> <div class="footnote">[4] “Immigration,” p. 128, Prescott F. Hall. </div> <div class="footnote">[5] The special agent of the Department of Agriculture. </div> </div> <hr class="full" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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