SNAP SHOTS

Middleton, George

Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton IN THE broad panorama of life as it present itself to an author there are many phases which may attract him, and it seems that Albert Edwards is...

...THE FIRST BOOK for young readers ever awarded the Certificate of High Commendation of the Camp-Fire Club of America is Be Prepared, a story of the Boy Scouts in Florida by A. W. Dimock, author of Dick in the Everglades, Florida Enchantments, etc...
...It is interesting, of course, for the author is gifted with a vivid sense of phrase and the subject matter is of continual vitality...
...Comrade Yetta (Macmillan) is a story of a garment worker...
...This committee describes Be Prepared as "a boys' book of literary merit and interest, giving much information as to the wild life of Florida and inspiration to health, reliance and observa tion...
...The obstacles to acquiring the normal voice are overcome by treatment in relaxation, by exercises in gaining self-confidence, by training in correct ways of thought, etc...
...STUTTERING AND LISPING presents the results of many years of scientific investigation and practical experience with these two classes of speech defects...
...He shows, for instance, the deceptions which the oppressed must practice when oppression can hire its perjurers to swear lies against the girls...
...And this gospel of work is the strongest note struck in the book since continual and persistent effort alone will bring about any change...
...He was then for four years commissioned by the Carnegie Institution of Washington to make special researches on speech...
...Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton IN THE broad panorama of life as it present itself to an author there are many phases which may attract him, and it seems that Albert Edwards is particularly interested in the problems of the working classes...
...The cramps and tenseness of the speech muscles are only symptoms of a deeply seated mental peculiarity which often amounts to a defect of character...
...Literary Notes THERE SEEMS to be no lack of books defining Socialism, but it remains for Allan L. Benson to hit straight from the shoulder in a book which is called The Truth About Socialism and which B. W. Huebsch will publish shortly...
...He also directs the speech department of the Vanderbilt Clinic...
...A third one, Neurotic Lisping, is a defect of a peculiar nature described for the first time in this book...
...Scripture's researches have shown that even when the stutterer is apparently not having any difficulty, yet he always speaks in a peculiar voice and never in a normal one...
...Yetta is sent to the workhouse, through which such a storm of public opinion is aroused, that she practically wins the...
...Edwards is a novelist who will bear watching, for he is gifted with a vision and understanding which is rare...
...A thorough readjustment of the patient's character must sometimes be undertaken...
...Stuttering is shown to he a purely mental disease...
...The Camp-Fire Club of America is composed of distinguished adherents of the out-door life and is perhaps the most prominent organization of its kind in the country...
...strike herself...
...It is written in the plainest _aiid simplest language and has elicited from Eugene V. Debs the statement that it is "the very clearest and cleverest of all," while the lone Socialist representative in Congress, Victor L. Berger, says, "The best statement of Socialism for non-Socialists that I have ever read...
...Another is that of Organic Lisping where the speech defect arises from tongue-tie or defective teeth, etc...
...Under Lisping several speech defects have been grouped...
...The methods of treatment are explained in detail...
...Last year it was our pleasure to review in this column his very unusual study of New York life significantly named A Man's...
...Yetta is a very unusual girl of the people who finds quite spontaneously the need of revolting against the sweatshop system...
...and the methods taken with private detectives in collusion with the forces of law and order to break up the strike...
...I have merely emphasized this angle because it was most interesting to me...
...By training him to speak normally he acquires a new voice...
...He now comes to us with a new novel which once more deals with conditions in that city, though none the less typical all over the country...
...The methods of treatment are described in detail in the book and various exercises are given in full...
...Through these pages, though, there are scattered numerous scenes in which the various facets of the present labor problem in this country are presented...
...In fact, these early chapters are full of absorbing interest...
...Many children retain these defects for a long time...
...It was published last fall by Stokes...
...The novel is full of vivid little episodes which hold and excite interest...
...He is an artist and a thinker turning to the vital problems which are confronting us as a nation today and we should read his books because of what they aim...
...Here we have trenchantly stated the outline of the forces within the labor camps and these chapters will no doubt east much light to those on the outside...
...She leads a strike which spreads all over the trade like wildfire and soon she finds herself one of the leaders...
...He is now Associate in Psychology in Columbia University, New York City, and Director of the Research Laboratory of Neurology...
...E. W. Scripture, its author, was formerly Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory at Yale University...
...Yetta comes to feel that it must all be done from within and she thus achieves the class consciousness which is so dominating a note among people of her type...
...since this is completely unconnected with the cause of his malady, he cannot stutter as long as he uses his new voice...
...The normal voice is a strange one to the stutterer...
...The methods of treatment are...
...The author cleverly points out this force of public opinion against which nothing can stand...
...But the author has not written a labor tract...
...The book is illustrated by nearly one hundred figures and plates...
...The author has pictured with rare fidelity the phases of this strike as one who has had the slightest contact with the recent strike in the same trade will know...
...As the book proceeds, however, the same quality is not felt...
...World...
...This book had its origin in a series of articles which appeared in Pearson's Magazine last year and aroused much comment, especially among Socialists...
...directed not only to the removal of the symptoms but also to the cure of the mental cause...
...The president is Dan Beard, the secretary, Arthur F. Rice, and the Chairman of Committee upon Literary Honors, William Edwin Coffin...
...One of these is the ordinary imperfect speech of children which occurs when they do not learn to make the speech sounds property...
...He is a propagandist who has insight enough to be fair to all sides since he recognizes that many of the pet views we all hold towards life may differ from, those of others with equal sincerity...
...His people live and in character sketching his new book easily fulfills the promise of the first Mr...
...Edwards has a thorough understanding of the different points of view, too, with which the outsider is trying to contribute some help to the other classes...
...But it becomes more a. love story than anything else, with subtle reactions and yet devoid of the big sweep of the first half of the novel...

Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 12


 
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