Graded Social Service for the Sunday School. By William Nor- 

 man Hutchins. 



xii + 135 pages, i6mo, cloth; 75 cents, postage extra (weight 12 oz.) 



A highly suggestive discussion of the question as to what 

 may be done in the Sunday school to convert its social teaching 

 from theory into practice. As the outcome of a wide study of 

 present activities the author presents a varied program of possi- 

 bilities, from which teachers and workers may select according 

 to the conditions in their own schools. 



The Sunday - School Building and Its Equipment. By Herbert 



Francis Evans, Professor of Religious Education in Grinnell 

 College. 



xvi+ 116 pages, i6mo. cloth; 75 cents, postage extra (weight 12 oz.) 



With the modern reorganization of the curriculum of the 

 Sunday school there has come an urgent demand for adequate 

 housing of the school; and the author in this book answers the 

 question as to how buildings should be constructed for Sunday- 

 school use, and how old buildings may be remodeled at a moder- 

 ate expense. It is the most recent practical discussion of 

 Sunday-school architecture. 



Unpopular Government in the United States. By Albert M. Kales, 





Professor of Law in Northwestern University. 



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This volume by a prominent member of the Chicago bar is 

 an especially timely book, presenting with great clearness and 

 cogency some of the political needs of the country , particularly 

 the necessity of the short ballot. The author defines unpopular 

 government as one of centralized power which is able to main- 

 tain itself in the face of popular disapproval. He then points 

 out that the establishment in the United States of state and 

 municipal governments, according to the plan of splitting up the 

 power of government among many separate offices and requiring 

 the widest and most frequent use of the elective principle, has 

 cast so great a burden upon the electorate that an intelligent 

 citizen is reduced to a state of political ignorance inconsistent 

 with self-government. This situation has made it possible, he 

 thinks, for a well-organized hierarchy to acquire the real power 



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