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...to each chapter there will be appended a bibliography of authorities...

...Less than one-half of the nine hundred million acres in the hands of the farmer is improved...

...the rich homesteads of a decade or two ago, to be had for the asking, have forever passed into history...

...The sole means offered to forestall this inevitable day of doom is the use of chemicals as fertilizers, limited in supply themselves...

...ONE OF the most important historical undertakings of recent years is the publication of The Cambridge History of India which the Mac-millan Company is announcing...

...There are swamps to be drained, cut-over forests to be cleared, deserts to be watered, and dry lands to be made productive by specialized crops and methods...

...The completed series will cover India from the earliest times down to the present day—a period of more than three thousand years...

...Carroll Watson Rankin is an author who has evidently the knack of writing for the girls of this generation...

...The desire for radical literature on the part of the Finns in the United States is an interesting manifestation of the persistenc* of their struggle for emancipation...

...Without increasing the efficiency of its improved acres, the nation still possesses enough resources in terms of land alone to feed double the population that exists today...

...Speaking of soil fertility, which he considers in connection with his examination of the extent of our land resources, Mr...

...Only a fortnight ago B. W. Huebsch who published this work in the original as well as Benson's The Truth about Socialism, stated that the latter was also to be brought out in Finnish...

...and photographs or other reproductions of the most noteworthy objects of interest will be added...

...Henry Holt and Company's report, being sent to press for another large printing...

...Professor Delage is the leading worker in France on the origin of life problem and created a stir recently by his experiments in artificial fertilization, in which he showed that the eggs of the sea urchin could be developed into living specimens, being hatched by purely chemical means...

...THE CELEBRATED French zoologist and professor at the Sorbonne, Yves Delage, has just been stricken with total blindness, according to a Marconi despatch to the New York Times...

...Anderson says, "The problem of the fertility of the soil is one of national importance...

...It will deal concisely with the political and social history of the numerous nationalities which have risen to power in the Indian continent during historical times...

...The work will thus satisfy the requirements both of the general reader and of the student who desires to make an independent investigation of any particular subject...

...This theory assumes the mineral elements of the soil to be inexhaustible, an assumption which the history of China, whose soils are unimpaired, indeed are the richest in the world after four thousand years of intensive cultivation, seems to justify...

...Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton '"WHERE shall I locate my plant?' This," says Frederick Irving Anderson in the preface of his The Farmer of Tomorrow (Mac-millan), "is the prime question the man who goes back to the land today must ask himself...

...Failing this, it has been variously computed that our soils, cropped for a scant three generations, contain only enough mineral elements to continue producing food for seventy-five, one hundred, or one hundred and fifty years...

...Hitherto the three main periods of Indian history—ancient Hindu, Muhammadan and British—have received separate treatment...

...For generations past, agricultural literature has been buried under a theory of doom imposed by a great chemist, Liebig, which teaches that the resources of the soil are as definite as cash in a bank or coal in a mine...

...In the first place the maps will be inserted in the text and not gathered in a separate volume...

...Literary Notes "GOOD BOOKS for girls are scarce" was the recent remark of a prominent juvenile librarian...

...Under this orthodox theory which actuates the machinery of the greater part of agricultural education as it exists to-day, the farmer must feed the soil if he would have the soil continue to feed him...

...a system which carried to its logical conclusion considers the soil merely as a mixing bowl in which food may be manufactured synthetically...

...This new hypothesis in the light of orthodox criticism is carefully taken up by the author...

...Her first book Dandelion Cottage is in its 10th edition, and her latest story The Castaways of Pete's Patch is, according to Messrs...

...nearly two-thirds of this land nominally in farms has not yet been called on to produce food...

...Anderson says, in outlining the purpose of his book, "to chart this empire of opportunity that awaits the gleaner in the path of reclamation which is now setting toward flood tide...

...That is to say, the aim of each chapter will be to summarize in an accurate and readable manner the results of the latest investigation in the subject with which it deals...

...and in the second place the volumes will be abundantly illustrated...

...Yet there are opportunities for the business farmers of today undreamed of by their ancestors of a generation or two ago, to whom land was nothing but a means of labor...

...It was in collaboration with this assistant that Delage wrote his great book, The Theories of Evolution, a translation of which was published by B. W. Huebsch last year...

...As the monuments of India, its inscriptions and coins supply the most valuable historical and chronological information, special chapters will be devoted to these sources of history...

...ANNOUNCEMENT is made that John Spargo's Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism is being translated into Finnish and will be published by the Finnish Socialistic Publishing Company...

...Free land is gone...

...Goldschmidt...

...Despite his affliction he announces that he will continue his researches in his laboratory by means of the devoted assistant who has been his right hand for many years, Mlle...

...it determines not only the fortunes of the farmer in the field, but in the end, the life of the nation...

...While following in the main the style of The Cambridge Modern History, The Cambridge History of India will differ from it in two important features...

...As now planned, each volume will contain between five and six hundred pages...

...In general construction The Cambridge History of India will follow the plan adopted in The Cambridge Modern History...

...It is planned now to publish the first volume of the history, which is to be complete in six, within a year, the remaining volumes to appear subsequently in chronological order at regular intervals of six months...

...Recently, however, there has been put forward a more logical and less pessimistic hypothesis concerning the fertility of the soil, a hypothesis fathered by the scientists composing the federal Bureau of Soils at Washington and backed by a long series of classic experiments, as well as by the teachings of history...

...There is no single work in existence which deals adequately with the subject of Indian history as a whole...

...It has been my effort," Mr...