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Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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ERNEST C. MOSES. remarked that he thought a building of this;sort was more needed by the laboring peoplethan even libraries. For they were very tiredafter the work of the day; rest and refresh-ment were what they called for, and, alas, theyoften found them only in dissipation or perhapsvice. If such buildings, of a really fine char-acter, could be scattered over the city, theywould do incalculable good, and make a vastinroad upon vice and crime. Thou shalt not *has had too large a place in our methods;Come and welcome* would accomplishwonders. Perhaps Mr. Carnegie himself maybe drawn to such a work as this. I went to thePeoples Palace in London, and found in it anorgan recital, a loan picture-gallery with someof the chief works of art in England, picturesknown round the world, a public concert,bowling-alleys and billiard-tables, all for oneEnglish penny, and the place filled with people. UlCjItlZGO Dy VJ v/v/V Lv 472 Books and Writers.
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EDWARD A. ROSS,Author of Social Psychology. This seems the very spirit of Jesus of Naza-reth, and his parable of the good Samaritan.When the world is made good, it will be foundthat despised amusement has done a full share-of the work. This is a work we take pleasure in recom-mending to our readers. Four Aspects of Civic Duly. By Hon. WilliamH. Taft. Cloth. Pp. 112. Price, $1.00 net.New York: Charles Scribners Sons. This volume contains four addresses deliv-ered by Mr. Taft at Yale College in 1906 onThe Responsibilities of Citizenship. Theydeal with the duties of citizenship viewed fromthe standpoint of a recent graduate of a uni-versity, of a judge on the bench, of a colonialadministrator, and of a national executive. They are like many of the pleasant-soundingutterances of the late ex-President Cleveland,rich in glittering generalities and platitudesthat no one for a moment questions, but intowhich, however, is injected from time to timethe virus of reaction and the vicious politica

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