Books
Kolars, Mary & Bates, Ernest Sutherland & Ryan, John A. & Cooper, Frederick Taber
December 30, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 219 BOOKS CHILDREN'S BOOKS ' I ^ HERE was a time in the dim dark ages when such a A thing as a children's book was unknown and unheard of. The legends that...
...Chase has exaggerated by 100 percent the amount of waste in our economic system, he has produced an extremely useful book...
...The losses of an average ton of soft coal burned in a steam boiler aggregate 96 percent...
...The legends that were handed down by word of mouth were all that children had to content themselves with...
...in 1920, the ratio was about 50 to 50...
...1 HE Blue Guide for Southern Italy, including Rome, Sicily and Sardinia, will be a useful addition to the library of this year's tourists anxious to provide themselves with a handy authoritative guidebook, entirely up to date in the matter of railroads, hotels and restaurants...
...There are also enormous wastes in the home...
...After this, we are prepared to find him constantly using "mediaeval" as a disparaging term and denying the glories of the renaissance...
...2.50) is a compilation of stories and verses by well known English authors—Alfred Noyes, G. K. Chesterton, J. M. Barrie and Hilaire Belloc, to mention a few of them...
...Children now seem able to get their pleasure without pain, and this volume gives all the interesting details of the old legends without the disadvantage of having to wade through an inferior translation in blank verse...
...Among these are Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham...
...Nevertheless, he puts the total minimum wasted man-power in the field of consumption at 8,000,000, or 40 percent of the total wastes of the industrial system...
...The Flying Carpet, by various authors (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...He sees four main channels of waste: the production of 220 THE COMMONWEAL December 30, 1925 non-essentials, idleness, bad technical methods, and the misuse of natural resources...
...John A. Ryan...
...Among others, Stevenson's Kidnapped is a volume for the boy or girl who loves romance, the sea, Scotch moors, and hand-to-hand fights...
...Chase found that about two-thirds of them "capitalize human frailties," such as vanity, shame, sex curiosity, etc., or were palpably false, or exploited harmful products...
...BRIEFER MENTION Vistas in Sicily, by Arthur Stanley Riggs...
...The Odyssey, retold by A. J. Church (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...He dislikes logic, praises inconsistency, and bases on the divergence of human theologies a startlingly new argument for the existence of God—"their diversity...
...But now, quite suddenly, we have Mrs...
...The disadvantage of this form of inspired improvization, if so it may be called, is that it provides none of the structural aids for the capturing of a unified impression...
...Dalloway: a complex orchestration of London's most highly sophisticated social world, done with a harmony of verbal rhythm and subtle color-tones that are nothing less than hypnotic in their power to translate the reader through space and time and enroll him too as part and parcel of this setting...
...an argument which despite its adaptability to the needs of the innumerable Protestant sects will hardly displace the traditional scholastic arguments in the eyes of the philosopher...
...Dolittle...
...Mrs...
...her sister Sylvie, for whom she has done so much, is, for a long period, estranged from her...
...It was indeed a lover of books who could wade through the intricacies of Dickens to find the delight contained, for instance, in David Copperfield...
...Eleven of the thirteen chapters of the book are taken up with a comprehensive discussion of these four channels, wastes being classified under the four main heads of consumption, production, distribution, and natural resources...
...Hoover's Committee of the Federated American Engineering Societies, which disclosed a ratio of waste in production of from 30 to 50 percent in six typical industries...
...2.50...
...Advertising creates no new wealth...
...second, between one-third and one-half of the people of the country do not receive the equivalent of a comfortable livelihood, nor would that degree of welfare be available for all if total national income were equally distributed...
...Dalloway herself, when we first meet her crossing Victoria Street on this particular perfect June morning, with Big Ben musically booming forth the hour, is on her way to buy the flowers for the party she will give this evening—one of her famous, distinctive parties, where titles, decorations, and a few cabinet ministers will meet and mingle...
...A kind of unity is imposed, of course, by M. Rolland's absorption in his chief character...
...of her lovely daughter, Elizabeth, "a lily by the side of a pool," or even upon Septimus Warren Smith, the shell-shocked soldier, who plays his inconsiderable part, until his warped imaginings lead to self-destruction, would be futile in a brief review, for they would give not even an approximate suggestion of the infinitely complex human relations that Mrs...
...It is full of exciting adventures of a disrupted family, miraculously reunited, and is notable in particular for its breadth of view...
...More than half the printed matter that appears in the United States is advertising...
...From her first published pages onward, there has been no question as to her possession of a rare and limpid style, her easy mastery of the plastic phrase and the fitting word...
...The chapters on Fasting and Abstinence, Property Rights of Parish Priests, the conduct of Catholics toward non-Catholic functions, are supplemented by a simple and excellent discussion of Mysticism False and True, which will be of very timely service in these days when the transcendental is so in fashion...
...The vast waste arising out of excess plant capacity, in other words, superfluous capital and investment, could be greatly lessened through higher wages, which would automatically increase consuming power...
...In conjunction with the Labor Bureau, Inc., he has compiled an enormous mass of information, of which it is impossible to give more than a few samples in this review...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Points of Church haw, Mysticism and Morality, by T. Slater, SJ...
...Devoid of anything resembling religious belief, and yet conscious of profound inner needs (M...
...and she finds peace at last, on the eve of the world war, in the birth within her of a new soul...
...Of course, he cites the investigation made by Mr...
...Dalloway, the almost perfect flowering of this new culture: a story as limpid as sunlit, running water, mercurial in its swift, elusive interplay of thought and action, amazing in its unabashed nudity of human motives, fears and hopes...
...For younger children, is Miss Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and the Tapestry Room...
...first, the energy resources, natural and artificial, of the United States are equivalent to the labor of 3,000,000,000 hard-working slaves, or thirty servants for each man, woman and child...
...Macmillan has put out an edition not only for the child, but for the parent who wishes his children to love the best in literature...
...That the study may have a cultural and imaginative value for the spirit, he utterly ignores...
...2.00) is excellently edited and illustrated by quaint black and white drawings which add materially to its charm...
...A great part of the wastes in distribution occur in the socalled "overhead trades...
...600,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas...
...1.75) is the story of the adventures of a little boy in a strange town...
...1.50...
...The Prince and the Page, by Charlotte M. Yonge, is a romance of quite another order...
...Father Finn's Sunshine and Freckles (New York: Benziger Brothers...
...Chase, the total man-power wasted in distribution methods is at least 2,500,000...
...Nowadays, children have come into their own—the old folktales have survived in the various books of fairy tales, but in addition there are any number and variety of others for each child's individual taste...
...Sermons of a Chemist, by Edwin E. Slosson...
...Rolland depicts the dilemma with the acuteness which, surprisingly, is often granted to his quasi-religious intuitions) Annette sets about the working out of her own salvation on a natural but genuinely lofty plane...
...Wallace Nutting's fine volume, proving the Irish natural claims in a profuse series of illustrations covering all the counties of the Emerald Isle, and revealing many scenes of unusual beauty...
...Such, in a broad, general sense, is the chosen background of Mrs...
...Virginia Woolf's conception of the time element is something so different in fiction as to be revolutionary...
...She remembered especially how impossible it had seemed to make up her mind not to marry him...
...They fall under the main heads of inorganic resources—coal, water power, oil, natural gas, lumber, and by-products...
...the over-head trades and professions...
...She suffers socially upon the birth of her child, whose father she had refused to marry...
...and advertising...
...In 1850, selling and distribution effort was to production effort as 20 is to 80...
...For children who know how to take care of books, and love beautiful illustrations, any of the series of illustrated classics which Scribner's has been getting out in late years is worth recommending...
...Memory represents the distinguished author's foreword to Annette and Sylvie (volume one of The Soul Enchanted) as having been to the effect that he let himself be possessed by the soul of his heroine, Annette Riviere, and them merely set down what he felt, from moment to moment, must be that soul's inevitable experiences...
...These aids are admittedly artificial, a balanced story, in the external sense, being a thing rarely found in nature...
...1.75...
...The total man-power wasted in production methods is placed at 4,000,000...
...1.75) is another example of the benefits of the "children's age...
...Louis Untermyer has collected a pleasant feast of Swiss tales in The Fat of the Cat, by Gottfried Keller (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...While its main conclusions are easily summarized, the premises, consisting as they do, of an enormous mass of statistical and other facts, cannot be set forth fairly or intelligently in any summary statement...
...adulteration...
...With the same nonchalance with which she brushes aside the years and months, she strips the veil from the privacy of human thought...
...It is a very able selection of reviews from the children's page of the New York Herald-Tribune, with suggestions of suitable books for almost every occasion...
...I remember well the musty old volume I had to read through, quite devoid of illustrations, and in printing that comes to my mind as a sorry contrast to the well-arranged present edition...
...In all her stories, time is a universal, circumambient medium, a buoyant, all-pervading ether, through which she cleaves her swift, swallow-like flight in sweeping loops and spirals, darting suddenly away to the remotest confines of childhood memories, and again dizzily soaring to the zenith of tomorrow's dreams...
...It is this constant interplay of yesterday, today and tomorrow, this determination to see men and women not merely as what they are now, but as the sum total of all that they ever have been and all that they may hope to be—as a composite picture of all their life experiences and successive contacts—that makes her characters stand out in such sharp perspective, so vibrant with the keen awareness of life...
...With no definite philosophy or theology to fall back upon, he is left with only the vaguest conceptions of the universe in which he lives...
...This land, the contested prize of a hundred invasions, the dream of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the shifting jewel in the crown of Normans, Spaniards, French and Italians, shines forth from Mr...
...Slosson assures us that the world is the creation of God and that faith in natural law is faith in God, while on another he quotes approvingly Blake's statement that "nature is the work of the devil...
...But there is, after all, nothing so very preposterous in recommending artifice to a professional artificer...
...It shows that the material basis of reasonable living for all the inhabitants of the United States is even now available...
...Yet there are lessons suggested by these sermons, though not the ones the author intended: the lesson of the vital need for culture in modern life and the lesson that this need is not likely to be supplied by scientists...
...He has drawn in Annette a woman of large outlines and appealing nobility of character...
...To those who have the cosmopolitan instinct there is a nostalgic ache lurking in these pages...
...THIS volume by a well-known scientist and, as he states in the preface, "an elder or deacon in Presbyterian and Congregational churches for the last thirty years," is a collection of lay sermons delivered in college chapels or before Protestant congregations...
...Older and more vivid in its life and communities, gracious and amiable in its native character, and filled with a beauty transcending that of other lands, the old island of Panorma has been the resort of generations of visitors from the north, seeking its ruins, that are still more than ruins in their exquisite settings, the lofty shrines of Girgenti and Siracusa, the idyllic cliffs of Taormina and the Sicilian Byzantine chef-d'oevres of Palermo...
...Macmillan has gotten out as well, a series of children's classics...
...Translated from the French, by Eleanor Stimson and Van Wyck Brooks...
...she achieves, with anguish, a final separation from the man whom she passionately loves, because his sensual domination of her soul is intolerable to her...
...Restriction of output by capital, as well as by labor, is only one manifestation of this excess...
...To the exceptional few, who take their fiction as a new problem in chess or an excursion into higher mathematics, those earlier experiments were a sheer intellectual delight...
...Woolf has achieved results that eluded the older established technique...
...war and the military establishment...
...What arc the facts which, in the mind of Mr...
...Because of Clarissa Dalloway herself, it is one of those volumes that refuse to be forgotten...
...He would cut in half the Treasury Department's estimate of the expenditure for luxuries in the year 1919, which was $22,700,000,000...
...Arthur Stanley Riggs's volume with a clearness and charm that will invite the newcomer with most ardent hopes and nourish the dreams and memories of those who have known Sicily in the past, Muirhead's Southern Italy, by L. B. Bertarelli...
...Cooperative societies in agriculture and distribution could eliminate another large part...
...2.50...
...IRELAND is always beautiful: to its children through traditions and early memories: to the traveler in its contrasts with other lands...
...He is utterly blind to the intimate connection between religion and art...
...IT is not easy to find comment for any one fragment of a narrative which suffers from the piecemeal composition adopted by M. Rolland...
...The doors of history necessarily remain shut before such an attitude...
...Chase offer for the industrial ills that he has so painstakingly described...
...Woolf has caught and imprisoned in her iridescent, gossamer web...
...New York: Henry Holt and Company...
...If his diagnosis is correct, he does not exaggerate when he calls this phenomena a "tragedy...
...While he visualizes an industrial general staff having supreme control over consumption, production and distribution, he does not commit himself to such an institution...
...Even from the viewpoint of the advertiser, the greater part of the advertising is inefficient...
...Its fantastic whimsicalities are intriguing to older people and children alike, and the new volume is quite up to the standard of the first of that now popular collection...
...It harks back to the days of the crusaders when men fought in battle for the sake of their faith...
...According to the author, the explanation of this discrepancy between production capacity and popular welfare is to be found in waste...
...fashions...
...On an errand of mercy, he wanders into a house where he meets with a man who loves equally to make ship models, and weave tales for children...
...Analyzing some two hundred and forty-four advertisements, Mr...
...and on yet another insists that natural laws are only "fabrications of the mind...
...December 30, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 221 Undeniably, in her own chosen way, Mrs...
...She works hard, and in obscurity, for herself and her child...
...New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, $2.50...
...The essential challenge of the theme is enunciated in two antithetical propositions...
...His answer is—"We know no sure way out...
...Nine-tenths of it is not genuinely informative...
...The wastes in natural resources are extremely difficult to describe in general terms...
...As for the specific story of Clarissa Dalloway herself, it is nothing less than a little miracle of constructive foreshortening, a verbal legerdemain by which the life histories of a half score men and women are caught and mirrored in their completeness on this swift-flowing printed film of one passing day...
...And despite the mental tax imposed by incidental obscurities of such experiments as Monday or Tuesday, there has never been any real difficulty in understanding what was, in the larger sense, her ultimate goal...
...According to Mr...
...The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Nancy Barnhart—all of them a delight to the eye as well as to the intellect...
...But she is not thinking of her party, nor of her husband and his parliamentary duties and aspirations—all part of the intricate web and woof of her daily social fabric—but rather of Peter Walsh—still her Dear Peter, after half a life-time of absences—who is at last on his way back from India and may arrive any hour...
...The wood pulp consumed by a single New York newspaper represents an annual tribute of 2,000 acres of forest land...
...Mrs...
...quackery...
...Chase, justify this startling estimate, this challenge to our boasted industrial efficiency...
...This is the tale of a little girl's adventures in Patagonia, with all sorts of strange, and so far, I believe, unknown animals...
...Salesmanship sucks up into overhead costs a greater and greater man-power...
...It is primarily a verbal portrait, done in a pigment of simple, familiar words and phrases, monosyllabic, almost trite—the kind of words and phrases that • most of us use in our unspoken thoughts—and yet the cumulative effect of magic line and color is a Pygmalion-like incarnation of an artist's dream: a woman in the full ripeness of Indian summer, a blend of perfect poise and grace and charm, with a mind and a manner as mobile as quicksilver...
...Like an experimental chemist, she was more interested in the formulae of her reactions than in the value of the life-compounds she was evolving...
...All of the above are from The Macmillan Company, New York...
...The Tragedy of Waste, by Stuart Chase...
...To touch even lightly upon the many other threads involved, upon Sally Seton, Clarisca's closest girlhood friend, who used to do shocking things and whose voice was a caress...
...It constitutes a challenge to our complacent "efficiency" which will not be easily answered...
...This book will be welcome to all lovers of the land of Erin...
...Summer, by Romain Rolland...
...Thus, on one page, Dr...
...Such is the simple, quietly poignant drama of Peter Walsh's return, constituting the dominant thread of this intricate and varied weaving...
...Mary Kolars...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...JL HIS little book, a compendium of the new Code of Canon Law, by the English author of A Manual of Moral Theology, will immediately appeal to general readers who desire a convenient guide to some of the questions that seem to fall so readily into confusion even in minds usually well-informed...
...If writers are content merely to render the inconsequent and everlasting flow of fact, neither crystalized about some conviction nor penned within the nonnatural confines of some definite and rememberable story, there will be less and less reason for turning to literature, as time goes on...
...This enthusiasm.of the historian and poet is well attested in Mr...
...Hence, the elimination of this volume of waste would enable the production output to be doubled...
...Turn by turn he clings to evolution and to philosophical idealism, but derives his chief consolation from the fact that scientists are not interested in truth but only in how hypotheses work, although elsewhere in the volume, when he happens to be a pragmatist he would have us believe that the way in which things work is the only test of truth...
...TO those 'who have followed sympathetically Virginia Woolf's bold excursions into a new and intricate technique, her latest volume, Mrs...
...What remedies does Mr...
...The waste in natural resources might be greatly reduced through government ownership and operation of the coal mines, and the sources and instrumentalities of electric power...
...What we lack is neither natural resources nor industrial equipment, but rational management and operation...
...She is fond of picturing her people as poised "on a point of time," suspended in infinity on a certain magic hour of, let us say, a June morning in London—just as one might stand poised on a curb-stone, preparing to cross over—yet ready to sweep backward through a score of years at a whiff of hot asphalt or a glimpse of spring-time violets...
...Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is another volume of this same series, which will please any child...
...The Sly Giraffe, by Lee Wilson Dodd (New York: E. P. Dutton Company...
...when they were forever quarreling, because of Peter's scorn of social artificiality...
...Rain on the Roof, by Cornelia Meigs (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...But for the more normal reader, who demands primarily relaxation and entertainment, the cerebral gymnastics required to follow her rapid flirtings of thought often built up a barrier more forbidding than those she had set herself to break down...
...The new book by Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle's Zoo (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company...
...Under the head of production, the two chief wastes are the use of poor plants, and the failure to coordinate output with the requirements of the population...
...It merely urges him to buy from one dealer rather than from another, or at most, to buy a substitute which is not really different...
...It merely transfers purchasing power from A to B. "It makes people stop buying Mogg's soap and start buying Bogg's soap...
...Ireland Beautiful, by Wallace Nutting...
...1.50) I must confess, I read with as much pleasure as if I had been nine...
...The Arabian Nights, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish...
...Framingham, Massachusetts: Old America Company...
...financial disaster follows...
...The introduction of Rome in the guidebook for Southern Italy will meet the approval of most purchasers of a guide for their southern tour...
...Even when we turn to so recent a volume as Jacob's Room, that brilliant, tragic document of youthful promise running its brief, meteoric course and then suddenly snuffed out, leaving only a void and an evanescent memory, the question that forces itself to the front is whether, after all, the same facts of life, cast in the old, conventional form, even at sacrifice of those magic half-tones of truth so peculiarly her own, would not have left a clearer, more deeply etched picture on the average human mind...
...4.00...
...this book contains two fairy tales with real children as the principal characters, which will probably make them seem more plausible to children of matter-of-fact minds who find little pleasure in the real fairy tale...
...Its possibilities may be inferred from the fact that our more or less unified war control of industries was able to produce with 30,000,000 workers as much, if not more, by way of food, shelter, clothing and comforts than 40,000,060 had been producing before the war...
...she rejects, against the impulses of worldly prudence and her own tenderness, the two suitors whose characters fall below her instinctive demands...
...For mothers who are at a loss to know what books to select for their children, an excellent volume is The Three Owls, by Anne Carroll Moore (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...The story of Martha Jane, by Inez Specking (New York: Benziger Brothers...
...Some of the kinds of illth which he describes are: the ignorance of the consumer...
...that is, conveys no useful knowledge to the consumer...
...In a whole roomful of people, she will make you hear, above the stir and drone of the crowd, the ripple of perfunctory greetings and undercurrent of spicy gossip...
...She has caught the very soul and essence of London, the inimitable glint and sound and scent of its streets, of Piccadilly and Buckingham Palace, of Hyde Park and Bond Street—of Bond Street, perhaps, above all else—"Heaven only knows why one loves it so...
...Adopting the term invented by Ruskin, the author calls the wastes in consumption "illth...
...Religion, for him, is a prosaic matter of mutual adaptation between human beings in the street or the market-place...
...Their aim is the well-meant one of harmonizing religion and science, but they illustrate the typical confusion of mind and desperate shifts and turnings—not to say squirmings—of the liberal Protestant of the present day...
...Besides these outer tribulations, she finds that she must reckon with an ancestral trait, a strain of deep sensuality which, for the whole period of her young womanhood, threatens her integrity and peace...
...It should be a good antidote for a rainy afternoon...
...and the Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry declared that the trades having the most persistent advertisers "carry higher percentages of operating costs than other lines...
...drugs and patent medicines...
...Muirhead's Southern Italy shows signs of indebtedness to the famous Baedeckers on Italy: the general arrangement of the volume, its small and large print and maps are of a similar format and proportion to those that have been found most adaptable to travelers' needs in the past...
...2.50...
...The fault, of course, was not with Virginia Woolf's method, but with her incomplete mastery of it...
...And now Peter is on his way home...
...Men turn from life to literature expecting, among other things, some interpretative ordering and enhancement of fact...
...The only value that he can see in the study of history, as he explicitly states, is that we may learn to modify our conduct by it...
...and most significant, most enlightening of all, the secret, unspoken thoughts behind these utterances—the deceits, the disillusions, the springing, buoyant hopes, that taken altogether blend in one vast symphony of human emotions...
...The dead hand of seventeenth-century Puritanism still rests heavily upon this "elder or deacon in Presbyterian and Congregational churches for the last thirty years...
...In the summary of wastes of natural resources, the three largest items are 750,000,000 tons per year of coal...
...Yet in the end she had married Richard Dalloway instead...
...is a proof of the reality they depict...
...the desire for a pictorial representation of an abstract idea or a spiritual concept is due to lack of imagination...
...2.50...
...He has no suspicion that the rapture of the mystic, the lilt of the poet, the natural piety of the painter have a common source in man's emotions of awe, reverence, love and joy in the gift of life and the meaning of life...
...But he thinks that the abatement of waste "lies with the man of science—the social scientist, the engineer...
...speculation and gambling...
...This was all a quarter century ago, and Peter, her Dear Peter, had gone to India and had married some colorless girl whom he met on the voyage out, and never in all the years since had done any of the big things he and she had dreamed of doing together in those remote, glad, quarrelsome days...
...above and behind all this, yet blending with it, a scattering of serious converse, broken, enigmatic phrases, heavy with half-guessed meaning...
...Business men can, themselves, eliminate a great deal of the waste through scientific management, standardization, and other methods which are already in use in the best establishments...
...Therefore, the remedy for waste must be sought in a variety of fields and programs...
...But what can be passed on indirectly is the rare vividness of the book's local color...
...2.50...
...New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons...
...The author shows a similar helplessness before the nature of religion—which for him is evidently nothing more than morality...
...Frederick Taber Cooper...
...and 50,000,000 horse power of water energy...
...The total waste under the first three heads is estimated as the equivalent of the labor power of 20,500,000 able-bodied adults, or approximately one-half of that element of the population...
...When I was a child, in order to get the meat out of the classic authors, one had to pore through large tomes, fine of print, and often without illustration...
...It is well worth reading, for it keeps fairly accurately to historical fact while weaving a web of fiction...
...It is filled with delightful illustrations, and needs no stronger recommendation than the roster of its contributors...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...Dalloway, offers the satisfaction of a prophecy fulfilled...
...They are, perhaps, a bit sophisticated for childish minds, but they are nevertheless charming to read and cleverly illustrated...
...The series gotten out some years ago, by Andrew Lang, to my mind are the best compilations of fairy tales that have ever come into print (The Red, The Blue, The Green, etc., Fairy Books, New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...He estimates the excess plant capacity of the country's industries as the equivalent of 2,000,000 able-bodied workers...
...Even if Mr...
...2.00) will amuse little children greatly —the italics and capital letters will aid the victim who has been impressed into reading them aloud...
...The wastes of advertising are responsible for one of the best and shortest chapters in the volume...
...upon Clarissa's husband, Richard, "a sportsman, who cared only for dogs" and who smelled of the stable...
...A thousand things conspire to send her thoughts hurtling back, deliciously, bewilderingly, to those vanished years, when the most precious thing in life was Peter's approbation...
...2.50) is another of that author's amusing series of the life and adventures of that eccentric scientist and philosopher, Dr...
...Ddlotvay, by Virginia Woolf...
...1.50) is the boarding school adventures of a heroine of that name...
...Nevertheless, Americans do not want either consumption, or production or distribution to be regulated by an industrial general staff...
...Ernest Sutherland Bates...
...super-luxuries...
...Paper never refuses ink but one hardly expected ever to have the privilege of reading such incredibly wrong-headed statements as these—"Artists are naturally materialistic . . . their ears are deaf to the music of the spheres and they hear only air vibrations of a frequency between 16,000 and 40,000 per second...
...Summer shows Annette striving against both outer and inner forces to remake her life...
...THIS is a difficult book to review adequately...
...the keystone to all that is typically lovely and interesting in Italy, shines forth radiant and joyous in the excellent Vistas of Sicily, by Arthur Stanley Riggs...
...But sometimes her trails have led into realms so rarified that the mental breathing was difficult...
...David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, (New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Of the $22,500,000,000 which consumers paid for farm products in 1922, the farmers received only one-third, while more than one-third went to the wholesale and retail stores...
Vol. 3 • December 1925 • No. 8
