THE BOOKLIST A GUIDE TO THE BEST NEW BOOKS VOLUME 18, NO. 4 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CHICAGO The list will contain about 300 titles chosen by library vote as best adapted to public library use. Each book is given a short descriptive note usually taken from The Booklist. The list of the year's technical books for a small library will be continued as a special feature. This was found most useful in the 1919 and 1920 editions. Mark The Booklist Books with the library call number and circulate them with books. Readers like to see the notes and to choose their books from it. Offer a few copies for sale to your readers. Ready for delivery February 15th: Single copies, 25c. 10 to 50 copies, 10% discount. Order Now in Quantity 78 E. Washington Street Chicago, Illinois January, 1922. Volume 18, No. 4 Address: The Booklist, A. L. A., 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, Ill. Issued monthly except August and September. May Massee, editor. Subscription price $2.00 per year; single copies 25 cents. Entered as second-class matter, February 4, 1918, at the postoffice at Chicago, Ill., under Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 8, 1918. SMALL LIBRARY LIST These books are not necessarily essential. Please read the notes before buying. Non-fiction Adams, E. K. Women professional workers. 106. Bowman, I. The new world. 106. Brown, A. Louise Imogen Guiney. 110. Burroughs, J. Under the maples. 107. Cantacuzéne, J. D. (G.) princess. My life here and there. 117. Chambers, J. News hunting on three continents. 117. Clark, B. H., ed. Representative one-act plays by British and Irish authors. 110. Gale, Z. Miss The romance of business. 108. Gibbs, Sir P. H. More that must be told. 113. Glover, T. R. Jesus in the experience of men. 105. Hall, J. N., & Nordhoff, C. B. Faery lands of the South seas. 115. Hotchkiss, G. B., & Kilduff, E. J. Advanced business correspondence. 108. Hudson, W. H. A traveller in little things. 111. Mayer, C. Trapping wild animals in Malay jungles. 109. Newcomb, E. Leschetizky as I knew him. 119. Palmer, F. The folly of nations. 106. Powell, E. A. Where the strange trails go down. 116. Stock, R. The cruise of the dream ship. 116. Hall, J. O. When I was a boy-in Norway. 125. Patteson, Mrs S. L. G. When I was a girl in Switzerland. 125. Van Loon, H. W. The story of mankind. 125. White, E. O. Peggy in her blue frock. 126. Wright, H. S. New plays from old tales. 126. Look over the New Editions and Pamphlets. Also look over the High School List and, in a small town, consult with the high school librarian to see which of the books will be bought for the high school. Very often the public library and the high school library can supplement each others collections instead of duplicating titles, This list is always merely suggestive. The titles are chosen by experienced high school librarians and represent books which they would like to have in their libraries. Unless otherwise indicated these books are useful for both teachers and students. Non-fiction Adams, E. K. Women professional workers. 106. Brown, A. Louise Imogen Guiney. 110. (For teachers.) Clark, B. H., ed. Representative one-act plays by British and Irish authors. 110. Dixon, W. H. Westward hoboes. 114. Forbes, W. C. The romance of business. 108. Gale, Z. Miss Lulu Bett. 111. 115. Hall, J. N., & Nordhoff, C. B. Faery lands of the South seas. Newcomb, E. Leschetizky as I knew him. 119. (For teachers and special students.) Powell, E. A. Where the strange trails go down. 116. Stock, R. The cruise of the dream ship. 116. 110. Adams, K. Midsummer. 124. (For junior grades.) Colum, P. The golden fleece. 125. (For junior grades.) Duganne, P. Ruthie. 125. (For junior grade girls.) Van Loon, H. W. The story of mankind. 125. Wright, H. S. New plays from old tales. 126. (For junior grades.) New Editions Bumpus, T. F. The cathedrals of England and Wales. 128. Carroll, L. Alice's adventures in Wonderland, and Through the looking glass. 128. (Reprint of the good edition.) Dickens, C. Our mutual friend. 129. Dumas, A. The three musketeers. 129. Dye, Mrs E. (E.) McLoughlin and old Oregon. 129. Hearn, L. Books and habits. 129. New international year book, 1920. 129. (For reference.) Schevill, F. A political history of modern Europe from the reformation to the present day. 130. (New ed.) Thorp, N. H. Songs of the cowboys. 130. University debaters' annual, 1920-1921. v. 7. 131. (For reference.) At the joint session of the Library department of the N. E. A. with the National council of teachers of English, Des Moines, Iowa, July 5, 6, and 8, 1921, the motion was made and seconded, that the Library department of the N. E. A. and the National council of teachers of English endorse The Booklist of the American library association and recommend its use as an aid in book selection, for use on the reading tables in all high schools and in courses of English as a basis of current book evaluation. GENERAL LITERATURE 100-200 PHILOSOPHY-RELIGION Glover, Terrot Reaveley. Jesus in the experience of men. N.Y Assn press, 1921. 253p. $1.90. The author of The Jesus of history (Booklist, 13:424, J1 17) in this volume shows the influence the teachings of Jesus have had on men and periods of thought with a discussion of present-day Christian thought and experience. A readable book interesting for its illumination of early Christian character and times. 204 Christian life 21-3124/3 Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney. The rational good. N.Y.Holt, Lond.Allen & Unwin, 1921. 237p. $2. 8/6. An ably written study concerned "with the function of Reason in practical life." This volume is an enquiry into "whether there is a Rational, and therefore a demonstrable standard of values to which actions of man and the institutions of society may be referred . a standard which we may call the rational good.' In his resourceful presentation the principles making up this standard are made to sound convincing and persuasive. 170 Ethics, Evolutionary 21-14577/3 King, Basil. The conquest of fear. Garden City,N.Y.,Doubleday, 1921. 270p. $2. A comforting philosophy worked out in an earnest account of the author's fight against fear, begun when ill, lonely and threatened with blindness. He says, "Everyone is living and working in fear. The mother is afraid for her children. The father is afraid for his business . If, therefore, one has the feeblest contribution to make to the defeat of such a foe, it becomes difficult to withhold it.. I write from my own experience. No other method would be worth while." 131 Fear New thought 21-19789/4 More, Paul Elmer. The religion of Plato. Princeton, Princeton univ.1921. 352p. $2.50. Believing "that Greek literature, philosophic and religious, pagan and Christian, from Plato to St. Chrysostom and beyond that to the Council of Calcedon in 451 A. D., is essentially a unit and follows at the centre a straight line" and calling "this body of thought the Greek tradition," this book is the first volume of a series of four, "designed to constitute a single connected treatise." Platonism (Booklist, 14:212, Ap 18) serves as a foundation or introduction for this series. Ably developed and of course very well written. 184 Plato | Philosophy, Greek 21-27473/4 Myerson, Abraham. The foundations of personality. Bost.Little, 1921. 406p. $2.25. An endeavor "to understand the fundamental forces of character Note: Number in right margin after each title is for use in ordering Library of Congress cards. When two publishers are mentioned in the imprint and both are not included in imprint on L. 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