Now that I am on the eve of leaving Fitz-Adams's Camp, I cannot hide from myself my eagerness to go. I have real regrets; for while two weeks and as many days do not constitute a long period, yet time is purely relative, and I shall have a livelier memory of the camp and of certain of the men, and a keener interest in them, than I have for places and men with whom my association has been much longer. But of the feelings of which I am conscious at leaving, I am surprised at the intensity of the longing to know what has happened during the three weeks, nearly, since I have seen a newspaper from the great world. I thought little of it as the days passed, but now I am all aglow with desire for news about the progress of the campaigns in New York and Massachusetts and Ohio. And then the last word from abroad had piqued one's curiosity to the utmost as to possible results. Mr. Smith, the leader of the House of Commons, I know is dead; and as I was leaving Williamsport for the woods, I saw upon the bulletin-boards the announcement of Mr. Parnell's sudden death; but of the political effect of these events no word has reached me. Has Mr. Balfour or Mr. Goschen succeeded to the leadership of the House? And if Mr. Balfour became the First Lord of the Treasury, does he retain the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland? And has the death of Mr. Parnell brought about a reunion between Parnellites and. M'Carthyites, or is the breach as hopeless as ever? It will be intensely interesting to find answers to these questions and to many more; but after all I am sincerely sorry to leave the camp, and as I go up now to say good-by to Fitz-Adams, who is in his office, it is with the knowledge that I am parting from a man whom it is an inspiration to have known. The Workers--The East By WALTER A. WYCKOFF With five full-page Illustrations. 270 pp. 12mo, $1.25 _CONTENTS:--The Adjustment--A Day-Laborer at West Point--A Hotel Porter--A Hired Man at an Asylum--A Farm Hand--In a Logging Camp._ In this first volume of a college man's narrative of his two years' experience as a day-laborer, he deals entirely with rural occupations and rural conditions. He is a day-laborer in an uncrowded market. He is in close contact with poverty, but not with despair. This is a side of the labor question which has been very much neglected by sociologists, and it forms an invaluable introduction to the more strenuous conditions of the second volume. Professor Wyckoff writes with the literary skill of a novelist, and the scrupulous accuracy of a scientist. "We doubt if any American of the employer class can read it without a feeling that the picture tells a story of the whole civilization in which he lives. It is a thoroughly American book, and could have been written in no other country."--_The Evening Post_, New York.