Nixon, Lewis. HJS Canal tolls and American shipping. 1914. McBride, Nast. $1.25. "An analysis of the text of all of the important acts and conventions relating to the Panama canal policy with a review of both sides of the controversy." "" Book review digest. Brisco, Norris Arthur. Economics of business. 1914. Macmillan. $1.50. National tax association. HK 2HT Proceedings under the auspices of the national tax association, 1907-1913. v. 1-7. National tax association, Madison, Wis. Key, Ellen Karolina Sofia. I The younger generation; tr. from the Swedish, by A. G. Chater. 1914. Putnam. $1.50. "A very thoughtful survey of social agitation since the French revolution." Springfield republican. Southern sociological congress, Memphis, Tenn. I Battling for social betterment, Southern sociological congress, Memphis, Tennessee, May 6-10, 1914; ed. by J. E. McCulloch. 1914. Southern sociological congress, Nashville, Tenn. $2.00. EDUCATION Foerster, Norman, Manchester, F. A., and Young, Karl, comp. Essays for college men; education, science, and art. 1913. Holt. $1.25. Parker, Samuel Chester. IK IK A textbook in the history of modern elementary education, with emphasis on school practice in relation to social conditions. 1912. Ginn. $1.50. Strayer, George Drayton, and Thorndike, E. L. IP Educational administration; quantitative studies. 1914. Macmillan. $2.00. POLITICAL SCIENCE Faguet, Émile. J The dread of responsibility; tr., with introduction by Emily J. Putnam. 1914. Putnam. $1.25. "Very brilliant and entertaining book." Spectator. Kales, Albert Martin. JO Unpopular government in the United States. 1914. University of Chicago press. $1.50. An effective and convincing argument for the short ballot." A. L. A. booklist. Wells, Herbert George. JQ The war that will end war. 1914. Duffield. $.75. JU Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. What Germany wants. 1914. Little, Brown. $1.00. "Of all the arguments offered on behalf of Germany in this war, by all odds, the most balanced, reasonable, and persuasive, devoid of mordant insinuation. . . . The ablest statement of Germany's case we have seen." Outlook. Treitschke, Heinrich Gotthard von. JU Treitschke, his doctrine of German destiny and of international relations, together with a study of his life and work, by Adolf Hausrath, for the first time tr. into English. 1914. Putnam. $1.50. A book of value to those who want to know about one of the chief sources of the war." Outlook. Toulmin, Harry Aubrey. JW The city manager; a new profession. 1915. Appleton. $1.50. (National municipal league.) "The commission form of government was designed to prepare the American municipal mind for the next important step, namely, that of concentrating the administration of the city in the hands of a qualified expert in municipal government." Clinton Rogers Woodruff, in Introduction. Shurtleff, Flavel, and Olmsted, F. L. JWP Carrying out the city plan; the practical application of American law in the execution of city plans. 1914. Survey associates, N. Y. $2.00. (Russell Sage foundation [publications].) "This work is concerned chiefly with the methods of acquiring land for public purposes employed in different parts of the country. In these methods the investigators found an astonishing variation,' and as they say, 'mere variation in method would be of little more than academic interest in itself, but variations that result in obstructing the path of progress in one community and clearing it in another are of large practical importance." " Book review digest. Fullerton, William Morton. JX Problems of power. New and rev. ed. 1915. Scribner. $2.25. Low, Alfred Maurice. JX Great Britain and the war. 1914. Columbian printing company, ton, D. C. $.25. Washing JX Royce, Josiah. War and insurance; an address delivered before the Philosophical union of the University of California at its twenty-fifth anniversary at Berkeley California, August 27, 1914. 1914. Macmillan. $1.00. An essay voicing the tentative proposal of a system of international insurance whereby wars would be rendered less liable to recurrence or, at least, 'less destructive and less willful.' The proposal is in reality an application of Professor Royce's favorite philosophy of loyalty.' Book review digest. Dunning, William Archibald. 2JZ The British Empire and the United States; a review of their relations during the century of peace following the treaty of Ghent; with an introduction by the Right Honourable Viscount Bryce and a preface by Nicholas Murray Butler. 1914. Scribner. $2.00. Japan society of America. 2JZ Japan to America; a symposium of papers by political leaders and representative citizens of Japan on conditions in Japan and on the relations between Japan and the United States; ed. by Naoichi Masaoka. Authorized American ed.; with introduction by Lindsay Russell. 1915. Putnam. Usher, Roland Greene. JZ Pan-Americanism; a forecast of the inevitable clash between the United States and Europe's victor. 1915. Century. $2.00. Beard, Mrs. Mary (Ritter). WOMAN KWW Women's work in municipalities. 1915. Appleton. $1.50. (National municipal league series.) Hale, Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson. KWW What women want; an interpretation of the feminist movement. 1914. Stokes. $1.25. National society of the colonial dames of America. and its work, 1891-1913. 2KX colonial dames of America; its beginnings, its purpose Printed for the society. NATURAL SCIENCE Kahlenberg, Louis, and Hart, E. B. LO Chemistry and its relations to daily life; a textbook for students of agriculture and home economics in secondary schools. 1913. Macmillan. $1.25. Holder, Charles Frederick. PB Game fishes of the world. 1913. Hodder and Stoughton. $5.00. INDUSTRIAL ARTS Bailey, Liberty Hyde. RHF Principles of fruit-growing, with applications to practice. 20th ed. completely rev. 1915. Macmillan. $1.75. (Rural science series.) Cable, George Washington. RHF Amateur garden. 1914. Scribner. $1.50. Thomas, George Clifford. RHF Practical book of outdoor rose growing for the home garden; with 96 plates in color, charts, and half-tones. 1915. Lippincott. $4.00. Lewis, Harry Reynolds. RJN Productive poultry husbandry; a complete text dealing with the principles and practices involved in the management of poultry...329 illustrations in the text. 2d ed. rev. 1914. Lippincott. $2.00. (Lippincott's farm manuals.) McNicol, Donald. RU American telegraph practice; a complete technical course in modern telegraphy, including simultaneous telegraphy and telephony. 1913. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $4.00. On the whole the volume can be well recommended as a textbook for students of telegraphy and for superintendents, managers, operators, wire chiefs and plant employees in general." Electrical world. Kelly, Albanis Ashmun. SI The expert house painter; a complete exposition of the art and practice of house and structural painting, interior and exterior, including surfaces of wood, plaster, stucco, cement and concrete, iron, steel, galvanized iron, tin, copper, etc. Containing also a full description of all the pigments and liquids used in the work, latest methods of treatment, very full color schemes for all kinds of buildings, estimates of materials, quantities and covering capacity, etc. 1913. Press of the Master painter publishing co., Malvern, Pa. $3.50. (Expert series.) Haskin, Frederic J. SS Panama canal; illustrated from photographs taken by Ernest Hallen, official photographer of the Isthmian canal commission. 1913. Doubleday, Page. $1.35. "Deserves commendation as perhaps the best and most thorough all-round account of the canal that has yet appeared." New York times review of books. Woolman, Mrs. Mary (Schenck), and McGowan, E. B. TS Textiles; a handbook for the student and the consumer. 1915. Macmillan. $2.00. Henderson, Ernest Flagg. UC Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe. 1914. Bobbs-Merrill. $1.25. Boy scouts of America. RECREATION V Handbook for scout masters, Boy scouts of America. 1914. Published under the supervision of the Editorial board representing the National council of the Boy scouts of America. $.50. Holder, Charles Frederick. VE 1908. Outing publishing company, N. Y. $2.00. Holder, Charles Frederick. VE Salt water game fishing. 1914. Outing publishing company, N. Y. $.70. (Outing handbooks.) GAMES Little, Raymond Demorest. VK Tennis tactics. 1913. Outing publishing company. $.70. (Outing handbooks.) Reed, Herbert. VK Football for public and player, by Herbert Reed ("Right Wing"). 1913. Stokes. $1.50. "Altogether, 'Right Wing' has done a needed thing excellently, and American game, from coach to humblest spectator, owe him gratitude." Crawford, Caroline. Dramatic games and dances for little children; the Fogg, illustrations by Katherine Kellogg. 1914. all who have an interest in the great New York times review of books. VM+ music by Elizabeth Rose A. S. Barnes company. Daly, Maurice. VN Daly's billiard book, illustrated with more than 400 diagrams, 30 technical photographs and 3 "strategy" maps; ed. by W. W. Harris. 1914. McClurg. $1.25. "Written by an experienced and successful teacher of the game." A. L. A. booklist. Foster, Robert Frederick. VN Foster's complete Hoyle; an encyclopedia of games, including all the indoor games played to-day; with suggestions for good play, all the official laws to date, illustrative hands. New rev. and enl. ed. 1914. Stokes. $3.00. Castle, Vernon. DANCING να Modern dancing; with many illustrations from photographs and moving pictures of the newest dances for which the authors posed; introduction by Elisabeth Marbury. 1914. Harper. $1.25. 2VQ The dance; historic illustrations of dancing from 3300 B. C. to 1911 A. D., by an antiquary. 1911. J. Bale, sons & Danielsson, London. 3/6. Gardner, Percy. FINE ARTS $2.25. Principles of Greek art. 1914. Macmillan. An exceptionally valuable book for reading and reference." Educational review. Hartmann, Sadakichi. W127 W83 History of American art. 2v. 1901. L. C. Page. $4.00. (Art lovers' series.) ARCHITECTURE Singleton, Esther, ed. WF Wonders of the world as seen and described by great writers. 1912. Dodd, Mead. $1.60. Beard, Daniel Carter. Shelters, shacks, and shanties. 1914. Scribner. $1.25. Radford, William A. WIM WIM Radford's garages and how to build them. . . fifty-five designs covering a great variety of types. 1910. Radford architectural company, N. Y. $1.00. Anderson, Margaret Steele. PAINTING WP Study of modern painting; with illustrations of the work of European and American artists. 1914. Century. $2.00. "A most comprehensive and interesting study." A. L. A. booklist. Hurll, Estelle May. WP Home book of great paintings; a collection of one hundred and five famous pictures described and interpreted by Estelle M. Hurll. 1914. Houghton. $3.50. Ball, Eustace Hale. PHOTO-PLAY WRITING WRN Art of the photoplay. 2d ed. 1913. G. W. Dillingham company, N. Y. $1.00. 66 'A compact, suggestive little book, to show 'simply, honestly and with absolute practicality' how a scenario is received and produced, what are its essentials, how it will appeal, and how to sell the themes to the best companies." A. L. A. booklist. Esenwein, Joseph Berg, and Leeds, Arthur. Mass. $2.00. (Writer's library.) WRN Home correspondence school, Springfield, "One of the most helpful books for the student, explaining the qualifications of a successful writer, the essential elements of the photoplay, the sort of material needed, censored themes, and how to market the photoplay script. Appendix gives list of books dealing with plot in fiction and four useful books on photoplay writing. A. L. A. booklist. Kleinhans, Lindley. Art of writing photoplays; suggestions to the beginner. 1913. publishing company, Brooklyn, N. Y. $1.00. 2WRN Home studies LITERATURE Burton, Richard. Little essays in literature and life. 1914. Century. $1.25. Y "There is an atmosphere of culture and serenity, and a mellowness about them that is reminiscent of Benson." A. L.A. booklist. Collyer, Robert. Y Clear grit; a collection of lectures, addresses and poems; ed. by J. H. Holmes. 1913. Beacon press, Boston. $1.50. "All bear witness to Dr. Collyer's greatness of heart and of mind, and to that 'matchless' English stylewritten and spoken-of which he was the master." Boston transcript. Ellis, Havelock. Harte, Bret. Y Impressions and comments. 1914. Houghton. $1.50. Y Stories and poems and other uncollected writings; ed. by C. M. Kozlay. Overland ed. 1914. Houghton. $1.50. " As with most writers whose works live after them, such a collection is justifiable not only for whatever intrinsic merit it may possess, but also for the light it casts upon the history of the author's development." New York times review of books. Tower, Charlemagne. Essays political and historical. 1914. Lippincott. $1.50. Y Contents: The European attitude toward the Monroe doctrine.-The treaty obligations of the United States relating to the Panama Canal.-Diplomacy as a profession.-Some modern developments of international law. -Lord Cornwallis in America. The relations of the United States to arbitration for the settlement of international disputes.-General Howe's campaigns in the revolutionary war. Brown, Alice. DRAMA YD Children of earth; a play of New England. 1915. Macmillan. $1.25. "A play of New England in which the main characters, a middle-aged woman who has been thwarted and hemmed in all her life and an idealistic farmer who lacks the supreme virtue of 'thrift,' live the crowning days of their lives through the realization and renunciation of their love for each other. The setting and minor characters show the same understanding found in the author's New England stories. Received the $10,000 prize offered by Winthrop Ames for the best play by an American author, and was highly praised by critics at its production." A. L. A. booklist. Jones, Henry Arthur. YD Mary goes first; a comedy in three acts and an epilogue; with an introduction by Clayton Hamilton. 1914. Doubleday, Page. $.75. (Drama league series of plays.) 'One of the cleverest of modern comedies of manners,' satirizing with delicate humor the foibles of British aristocracy." Wisconsin library bulletin. POETRY Braithwaite, William Stanley, comp. YP9 Anthology of magazine verse for 1913, including the magazines and the poets; a review. 1913. Issued by W. S. B., Cambridge, Mass. $1.00. Braithwaite, William Stanley. comp. YP9 Anthology of magazine verse for 1914, and year book of American poetry. 1914. Issued by W. S. B., Cambridge, Mass. $1.50. Braithwaite, William Stanley, comp. YP9 Book of Elizabethan verse; with an introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1907. Herbert B. Turner & co., Boston. $2.00. Braithwaite, William Stanley, comp. YP9 Book of Georgian verse. 1908. Brentano's. $2.50. Braithwaite, William Stanley, comp. YP9 Book of Restoration verse. 1910. Brentano's. $2.00. Campbell, Wilfred, comp. YP9 Oxford book of Canadian verse. Oxford university press. 5/. |