As Long as the Grass Shall Grow

By Oliver La Farge $2.50

THIS is a short book, well-written and heavily illustrated with photographs in half-tone, descriptive of the life and circumstances of American Indians at the present time. It gives briefly and in general terms an account of the appalling cruelty and thrice-damned knavery of our governmental relations with the Indians, and then goes on to describe the occasional lame efforts under more recent administrations to make some kind of amends — efforts consistently crippled and slowed down by forces of ignorance, indifference, greed, politics, sentimentalism, and zealous stupidity, all working together. It is not a pretty story, but if the American who indulges the pleasant fancy that he is patriotic will hold his nose and face it, he will get a large earned increment of self-respect out of the distasteful task. This book may be especially recommended to ‘our home-grown missionaries,’ as Mr. Beard calls them — the Mrs. Jellybys ot both sexes who are just now so busily sweating blood over governmental iniquities in distant foreign lands.