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"Life offers but one condition, activity,—ceaseless, contemporary, creative activity. Each day the soul stands face to face with a wealth of possible experience so varied, so inexhaustible, so magnificent that the pulse beats with a divine excitement, and existence itself becomes a high adventure. To live in the spirit, to identify one's self with life, with eager, pulsating, abundant life,—this is to be educated. It is to live eternally. I say it reverently, it is to know God."

C. HANFORD HENDERSON.

Galveston, Texas

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Issued bi-monthly by the Rosenberg Library, for free distribution.

President of Board of Directors, John Sealy; Secretary, I. Lovenberg; Treasurer, J. P. Alvey. Librarian, Frank C. Patten.

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Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Galveston, Texas

No. 26

List of Additions to the Lending Library

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Carus, Paul.

Arranged by Classes

The class mark of the book is given at the right

PHILOSOPHY

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Nietzsche and other exponents of individualism. 1914. Open court publishing co., Chicago. $1.25.

"The reader will get a better idea of the great German individualist, philosopher, originator of the Overman-or, at least, of our conception of him-from Dr. Carus' little book, than from any other book which has recently come to our notice." American review of reviews.

Carpenter, Edward.

The art of creation; essays on the self and its powers. 1912. London. 3/6.

Leopold, Lewis.

BI

George Allen,

2BI

Prestige; a psychological study of social estimates. 1913. Unwin. 10/. "The volume is a constructive and brilliant psychological investigation of an important phenomenon in social life and should take rank among the valuable treatises on social psychology." Annals of the American academy of political and social science.

Maeterlinck, Maurice.

BK

The unknown guest; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 1914. Dodd, Mead. $1.50.

"It is the most significant treatise that has appeared concerning the claims and results of psychical research, to the consideration of which more than half of the volume is devoted. Philosophically the most valuable portion of the work is that part of it which had previously been published as an essay on death, mainly concerned with the question as to the survival of individual consciousness." Henry M. Alden, in New York times review of books. Cabot, Richard Clarke.

What men live by: work, play, love, worship. 1914. Houghton. $1.50.

BQ

"Dr. Cabot's own favorite prescription for 'broken souls and wounded characters' is work, and he has found by observation that other social experts apply two other remedies: recreation and affection; and that they also hope rather helplessly that a fourth resource, worship will somehow get into the sufferer's life.' It is of these four aids to right and sane living, work, play, love, and worship, that he writes in this book." Book review digest.

The "goldfish"; being the confessions of a successful man. $1.30.

BQ

1914. Century.

"A successful man, who finds an income of seventy-five thousand a year inadequate for the current expenses of his family, having arrived at the age of fifty, sits down to analyze his way of life, to sum up his assets and liabilities. The assets as it turns out, are, practically negligible. This rich man, too, is one of those who, having gained the world, has suffered the corresponding loss. The confession is frank to a surprising degree, and the whole forms an honest criticism of contemporary tendencies." Book review digest.

Underhill, Evelyn.

RELIGION

BYM

The mystic way; a psychological study in Christian origins. 1913. Dent. 12/6.

"Miss Underhill's brilliant and suggestive book, which exhibits, it may be said, fine and distinguished literary qualities of word and phrase, does bring out most clearly the immense vitality and continuity of the mystical spirit." Saturday review.

Murray, Gilbert.

BZQ

Four stages of Greek religion; studies based on a course of lectures delivered in April 1912 at Columbia university. 1912. Columbia university press. $1.50. (Columbia university lectures.)

"We thank Professor Murray for a wise and wholly lovable book, a book full of the writer's favorite virtue Sophrosyne, a Sophrosyne sweetened and salted always by the saving

grace of humour." Spectator.

Sabatier, Paul.

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France to-day, its religious orientation; tr. from the 2d French ed. by H. B. Binns. 1913. Dent. 6/.

"Does France possess a religious sentiment that is profound, that is something more than a cultural habit and a traditional gesture? Is this religious sentiment an important factor in the history of society today and does it seem likely to be such for the generation which will follow ours? By these opening questions the author suggests the scope of an important work which has awakened much criticism in France. He is concerned not so much with ecclesiastical religion as with the new religious spirit as it is manifesting itself in philosophy, art, literature and education." A. L. A. booklsit.

BIOGRAPHY

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

2EC

Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle; ed. by Charles Eliot Norton. 1887. Macmillan. $2.00.

Rolland, Romain.

EC

Musicians of today; tr. by Mary Blaiklock; with an introduction by Claude Landi. 1914. Holt. $1.25.

(Musician's bookshelf.)

"This collection of essays on modern music and musicians was published in France in 1908. The appearance in America since that date of the author's musical novel 'Jean Christophe' has prepared readers for this translation of his critical work. There are chapters on: Berlioz; Wagner; Camille Saint-Saens; Vincent d'Indy; Richard Strauss; Hugo Wolf; Don Lorenzo Perosi; French and German music; Claude Debussy, with a final section called The awakening: a sketch of the musical movement in Paris since 1870." Book review digest. Trelawny, Edward John. EC Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron; with introduction by Edward Dowden. 1906. H. Frowde, London. 2/6. Wile, Frederic William.

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Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany. 1914. BobbsMerrill. $1.25.

"A German correspondent for the New York Times here writes an appreciation of over thirty men prominent in finance, commerce, politics, and the fine arts-men who with the kaiser have been the makers of Germany." A. L. A. booklist.

Bismarck-Schönhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold, fürst von, 1815-1898.

Smith, Munroe. Bismarck and German unity. 1910. Columbia university press. $1.00.

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Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron, 1788-1824. Works of Lord Byron; letters and journals, ed. by R. E. Prothero. 6v. 19021904. Murray. 36/.

2E

2E

Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron, 1788-1824. Guiccioli, Teresa Gamba, contessa, afterwards Marquise de Boissy. My recollections of Lord Byron; and those of eye-witnesses of his life; tr. by H. E. H. Jerningham. 2v. 1869. Richard Bentley, London. 30/. Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron, 1788-1824. Jeaffreson, John Cordy. The real Lord Byron; new views of the poet's life. 2v. 1883. Hurst and Blackett, London. 30/.

2E

Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron, 1788-1824.
Mayne, Ethel Colburn. Byron. 2v. 1912. Methuen. 21/.

2E

"A very excellent account of Byron in the light of recent research." New International encyclopædia.

Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron, 1788-1824.

2E

Moore, Thomas. Life, letters, and journals of Lord Byron; a complete edition collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, and others. 1908. Murray. 7/6.

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