Under the smoking roofs of the primitive clay houses lifted high above the level of the fields, because resting on the ruins of villages which have crumbled there from time immemorial, mothers feed their children, clutched by the old fear that there is not enough for each to have his portion; and the traveller comes to realize with a pang that the villages are built upon the bleak, barren places quite as the dead are always buried in the desert because no black earth can be spared, and that each new harvest, cut with sickles of a curve already ancient when Moses was born, in spite of its quick ripening, is garnered barely in time to save the laborer from actual starvation. Certain it is that through these our living brothers, or through the unexpected reactions of memory to racial records, the individual detects the growth within of an almost mystical sense of the life common to all the centuries, and of the unceasing human endeavor to penetrate into the unseen world. These records also afford glimpses into a past so vast that the present generation seems to float upon its surface as thin as a sheet of light which momentarily covers the ocean and moves in response to the black waters beneath it. Printed in the United States of America. The following pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects. _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ Women at the Hague BY JANE ADDAMS, EMILY G. BALCH AND ALICE HAMILTON _Boards, 12mo, $.75_ The official report of the International Congress of Women, convened at The Hague in April, 1915. Among the titles of the different chapters are noted the following: Journey and Impressions of the Congress, The Women at the Congress, Civil Government in Time of War, Journey to the Northern Capital and Factors in Continuing the War. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil BY JANE ADDAMS _Cloth, 12mo, $1.00. Standard Library, $.50_ Jane Addams has an understanding way of looking at things. Hers is not to censure or to blame, but only to help humanity. That is the purpose of her new book in which she takes up a question that civilization will always have with it, the greatest social evil of our times. Miss Addams’s treatment is at all times frank, and there can be no doubt but that such a plain statement of the conditions and the source of the trouble, coupled with significant suggestions as to how these conditions may be bettered, will do much to bring about that happier state which, in Miss Addams’s opinion, is forecasted by the “new conscience.” The Newer Ideals of Peace _12mo, cloth, leather back, $1.25. Standard Library, $.50_ “A clean and consistent setting forth of the utility of labor as against the waste of war, and an exposition of the alteration of standards that must ensue when labor and the spirit of militarism are relegated to their right places in the minds of men.”--_Chicago Tribune._