includes exercises in grammar, idioms and translation. Part two is a reader made up of selections on commercial subjects. Gives also information on the form and conventionalities of French letters, lists of commercial terms, abbreviations and tables of French money and weights. Presupposes a knowledge of French equivalent to about two years of high-school work. 448 Commercial correspondence, French 20-16933/3 500-600 NATURAL SCIENCE USEFUL ARTS Davis, Michael Marks. Immigrant health and the community, by Michael M. Davis, jr. (Americanization studies) N.Y.Harper, 1921. 481p. illus. map. $2.50. A thorough attempt to link Americanization work as a whole to health improvement of the foreigner. The author shows that foreigners are more susceptible to disease, largely due to insanitary housing, to a change from the old home diet and inability to read so as to understand safety first and health bulletins. Index. Appendix of recipes for foreign cooking. 614 Hygiene, Public U. S.-Foreign population | Americanization 21-9530/5 Harrow, Benjamin. Vitamines, essential food factors. N.Y.Dutton, 1921. 219p. $2.50. After a rather long discussion of the general principles of nutrition, the author describes the experiments which led to the discovery of vitamines, the diseases caused by their lack, and the planning of diets to supply them. Non-technical in style, but accurate and authoritative. Index. 613.2 Vitamines | Nutrition. Analytic : Vitamines-Bibliography 21-2304/5 McDougall, William. Is America safe for democracy? N.Y.Scribner, 1921. 218p. illus. maps. $1.75. A psychologist's discussion of the thesis that a race or nation progresses, not under the impulse of mass, but by virtue of the abilities of the relatively small number of the population who possess intellectual energy. The conclusion is eugenic. Popularly written, reminding one of the theme of Grant's Passing of the great race (Booklist, 13:205, F 17) from which the author quotes freely. 572 Race Civilization # U. S.-Civilization | Eugenics 21-11319/6 Pope, Amy Elizabeth. A textbook of simple nursing procedure for use in high schools. N.Y.Putnam,1921. 360p. illus. $2.50. The untrained emergency nurse is here given a text remarkably clear on the handling of bed patients, first aid, the cure of children and the use of drugs. The simply written text is clarified by numerous photographs and diagrams. Glossary and index. Supersedes the author's earlier volume Home care of the sick (Booklist, 3:170, O 07) 649 Nurses and nursing 21-14302/3 Rural organization; proceedings of the third National country life conference, Springfield, Mass., 1920. Chic.Univ.ofChic.1921. 242p. $2.50. The report of the third convention of the American country life association contains very readable papers on phases of rural art, the rural home, health, school, church and international relations. Butterfield, Lorado Taft, Moton, Henry Jackson, Mabel Carney, Galpin, Branson, and so on run the names of the well known authors. More useful than the ordinary compilation of addresses. Index. 630 Country life-Congresses | Country life-U. S, (19-13292)/3 Spaulding, Roy Henry. Your dog and your cat, how to care for them. N.Y.Appleton, 1921. 166p. $1.50. Lovers of house pets will find here suggestions for all their wants from the proper housing and care of diseased conditions to niceties of manicuring nails and training silken coats. Should be very useful. 636.7 Dogs | Cats 21-11035/4 Trecartin, Homer S. The way to greater production, by Homer S. Trecartin and others. Chic.Shaw, 1920. 256p. illus. $3. Brings together experiments which have succeeded in making labor more productive in some of the largest and most important industrial organizations in this country. The material is grouped into two parts, the first on training the worker, the second on managing employees. 658 Efficiency, Industrial Baker, George Pierce. Employment management 700 FINE ARTS 20-22223/4 The Pilgrim spirit. Bost.M.Jones, 1921. 136p. illus. $1.50; paper (no illus.) 50c. "A pageant in celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1620, acted and sung by the people of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury and Marshfield, July 13, 14, 15, 16, 30, August 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1921, in the state reservation by Plymouth Rock."-Subtitle. Of interest because of the group contributing as well as because of its scholarly descriptions of episodes in Pilgrim history in the text of the pageant. It contains some beautiful verse by Robert Frost, Hermann Hagedorn, Josephine Preston Peabody and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Illustrated from photographs. The music scores are not included. 792 Pilgrim fathers-Drama | Pageants-Plymouth, Massachusetts 21-12352/4 Ferris, Helen Josephine. Producing amateur entertainments. N.Y. Dutton,1921. 266p. illus. music. $2.50. Amateur plays, stunts, songs, pantomimes of the lighter sort suitable for camp nights or parties. "A plea for gladness, with a touch of sprightliness and beauty." Complete directions for managers. Useful to many. Sources of help and information (17p.) Index. 21-13002/4 793 Entertaining. Analytic: Entertaining-Bibliography King, Mrs Louisa (Yeomans) Pages from a garden note-book, by Mrs. Francis King. N.Y.Scribner, 1921. 291p. illus. $3. Appreciative descriptions of plants and of garden beauties. Garden lovers will find in them profitable suggestions as well as charm. There is an informing chapter on women in agriculture. 710 Gardens. Analytics: Women as farmers || Women in agriculture 21-9688/5 Knickerbocker, Edwin Van B., ed. Plays for classroom interpretation. N.Y.Holt,1921. 264p. illus. music. $1.20. A student textbook which follows a method actually worked out in a high-school classroom. The notes for the instructor give practical suggestions without being too definite to allow for originality. Includes seven plays, with notes, which have literary merit. A useful book to teachers who wish to try project work in the English class. 792 Drama in education 21-11058/3 Taylor, Albert D. The complete garden, by Albert D. Taylor assisted by Gordon D. Cooper. Garden City,N. Y.,Doubleday, 1921. 440p. illus. 26cm. $6. The preliminary chapters on planting and care, though somewhat lacking in concrete detail, give much useful information. Most valuable are the reference lists of plants suitable for every conceivable situation, for different regions of the country and for every kind of landscape effect. Sixtythree plates, some in color. Classified bibliography (17p.) glossary and thorough index. Should prove very valuable for reference use. 710 Landscape gardening || Plants, Cultivated. Analytic: Landscape gardening-Bibliography 21-7181/5 Withington, Robert. English pageantry; an historical outline. v.2. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard univ.1920. 435p. illus. 29cm. $6. A scholarly and artistic successor to volume one (Booklist, 15:211, Mr 19) Much of the content regards the Lord Mayor's show beginning in the thirteenth century. This is followed by a discussion of the decline of spontaneous pageantry of the past and of the place of the conscious, historic pageant now being revived. For large collections. Bibliography (36p.) Index. 792 Pageants-England. Analytic: Pageants-Bibliography (18-12461)/4 800 LITERATURE Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury. A plea for old Cap Collier. N.Y.Doran, 1921. 56p. illus. 75c. A delightful vindication of the "nickul librury" spitefully known as the "dime novel" by most parents. The essay is a brief article which appeared in one issue of the Saturday Evening Post, but so full of boyhood memories that men will enjoy it as a gift book. 817 or 827 21-14551/2 Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and comments. 2d series, 1914-1920. Bost.Houghton, 1921. 248p. $2.75. Random jottings which express the author's reactions to a myriad incidents of living. He is in turn thoughtful, jovial and a bit cynical, but never loses his large geniality of spirit even through the war period. Continues the first series (Booklist, 11:306, Mr 15) . 824 21-26726/2 Gosse, Edmund William. Books on the table. N.Y.Scribner, Lond. Heinemann, 1921. 348p. $3. Short reviews reprinted from the Sunday papers. They are chatty and also scholarly little disquisitions on encounters with recent books and discoveries of half-forgotten masterpieces. Partial contents: A Frenchman of the fourth century-The letters of Tchekhov-Pascal and the JesuitsAutobiography and Mrs. Asquith-The tutor of Marcus Aurelius. 804 Literature-History and criticism 21-9470/3 Hueffer, Ford Madox. Thus to revisit. N.Y.Dutton, 1921. 231p. $6. Entertaining, rambling discussions of Conrad, Henry James, Stephen Crane, W. H. Hudson and others. Those who have read a great deal will like it best for the book is full of allusions and references. 804 Literature-History and criticism. Analytics for authors (about 4 cards) 21-26730/7 Krilóv, Iván Andréyevich. Kriloff's fables; tr. from the Russian into English in the original metres by C. Fillingham Coxwell. N.Y.Dutton, Lond.K.Paul, 1921. 176p. illus. $2. 4/6. Eighty-six quaint fables and proverbs by the noted Russian of whom the introduction gives a biography. They are translated into suitable catchy Rather for the studious person because the task of translating has left the story not always vivid. verse. 891.7 Fables 21-26731/3 Lodge, Henry Cabot. The Senate of the United States, and other essays and addresses historical and literary. N.Y.Scribner, 1921. 248p. $2.50. The first essay, on the Senate, clarifies its relation to the Constitution but does not touch on its function in world affairs. The literary essays reveal their author as the cultured humanist of the old school. Partial contents: New lamps for old-Value of the classics-Theodore RooseveltThe Pilgrims of Plymouth. A narrative poem rich in flavor of old New England witch days and in descriptive passages of nature, really more interesting than the story which the author refers to, Mann's In the heart of Cape Ann, as the source. 811 or 821 21-10974/2 Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Second April. N.Y.Kennerley, 1921. 112p. $2. Those who love lyric poems of thoughtfulness with a shade of sorrow will return often to exquisite bits in this volume. The spring, the sea, silence and death are beautified in it. 811 or 821 21-26734/2 Mitchell, Robert Stewart. Poems. N.Y.Duffield,1921. 85p. $1.25. One of the "Eight Harvard Poets" who a few years ago combined their undergraduate poems, has now come forth, managing editor of The Dial and author of a volume of poems notable for their quiet, cultured beauty, expressing in conservative form feelings which all poetry lovers will appreciate. 811 or 821 21-7985/2 The Provincetown plays; cd. and selected by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay; with a foreword by Hutchins Hapgood. Cincinnati,Stewart Kidd, 1921. 272p. $2.50. Ten one-act plays, comedies and tragedies, dealing preferably with problems of the "artistic" temperament. A favorite theme is the collapse of intellectual radicalism when brought up short against social convention. Well suited to amateur performance. Some of the authors are: Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Oppenheim, Floyd Dell and Eugene O'Neill. Several of the plays have been published before. 812 or 822 American drama-Collections. Title analytics (10 cards) 21-6633/12 Rich, Mabel Irene. A study of the types of literature (Century studies in literature for high schools) N.Y.Century, 1921. 540p. illus. $2. A textbook for fourth year high school students. It steers between the ordinary history of literature and the minute analysis of masterpieces. The problem of discovering the characteristics of a type of literature is used as the approach. The selections are chosen for their service in forming good taste, enlarging experience and inspiring ideals. English and American classic and contemporary authors are represented. There are classroom exercises, reading lists and a period chart. 820.9 English literature-History and criticism || American literature-History and criticism 21-8852/4 Van Doren, Carl Clinton. The American novel. N.Y.Macmillan, 1921. 295p. $2. "A record of the national imagination as exhibited in the progress of native fiction." As such it calls to one's attention curious, forgotten novels as well as those well known, which describe a movement in American thought. The book is an enlargement of the author's contribution to the Cambridge history of American literature. A very interesting historical and literary study. Bibliographical notes and index. 813 American fiction 21-10973/3 Walker, Stuart. Six who pass while the lentils boil (Stewart Kidd modern plays) Cincinnati,Stewart Kidd, 1921. 54p. illus. music. paper, 50c. The simplicity and charm of the folk tale cling to this one-act play in which a distraught queen is saved from a beheading by an ingenuous little boy. Requires simple stage setting and few characters. The right to produce must be obtained from the author. 812 or 822 900 HISTORY Bell, Walter George. The Tower of London. 164p. illus. $2. 21-11524/2 N.Y.Lane, 1921. A history and guide book of the Tower written to interest Londoners in their interesting possession. With illustrations and diagrams of the building from the time of William the Conqueror are also rare little bits of biography of the prisoners. A book which children and older people will find as thrilling as any fiction. Useful to libraries which cannot afford the more complete Younghusband (Booklist, 16:85, D 19) 948 London, Tower 21-12880/3 McClintock, James H. Mormon settlement in Arizona. State House, Phoenix, Ariz.,Author, 1921. 307p. illus. maps. $2.10. A history of the agricultural development of the southwest, especially Arizona, told in a human-interest fashion from the records of the Mormon pioneers. The state historian is deliberate in unprejudiced description, intentionally omitting reference "to their religious beliefs and to the trials that, in the earlier days, attended the attempted exercise of such beliefs." For the student of history or the interested general reader. Bibliography, chronology and index. 979.1 Mormons and Mormonism || Arizona-History 21-10693/4 Wright, Peter E. At the supreme war council. N.Y.Putnam, Lond. Nash,1921. 201p. illus. map. $2.50. 7/6. A book which gains its importance from its "inside" information derived by the author's position as assistant secretary at the supreme war council. It will arouse comment and disagreement because of its frank, dogmatic accusations of British officers' bungling of the war, of the lack of co-operation among the Allies, of the comparative weakness of the enemy and the unstinted praise of Foch. Preface urges the author's conviction of the importance of military training and preparedness. 940.4 European War, 1914- || Allied and associated powers (1914-) Supreme war council 21-26738/4 910 GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL Fedden, Romilly. The Basque country; painted by Romilly Fedden; described by Katharine Fedden. Bost. Houghton, 1921. 196p. illus. map. $6. An artistic portrayal of a quaint corner of France and Spain. The artistry is not only in the twenty-four colored plates from paintings and sketches but in the descriptions of customs and legends of à people of prehistoric nationality. Beautiful though expensive. Plates tipped in. 914.4 Basques A21-1245/3 |