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e, author. i ney areé Much the best item ion is "Man IFriday irk;,"-a "spirit corn- iving Man IFriday's of Robinson Crusoe's. Tbe Caftsmn's andbook of C'en- nino d'Andrea Cennini. Trans. D. V. Thompson, Jr. MQDERN LIBRARY PRESENTS 2100FTHE WORLD'S GREATEST 1'BOOKS FOR ONLY 95 CENTS A COPY. CIIANDLER'S Fow*tain Squre Ev&Wson sac-. '3-page pamphlets, so .brief they can be snaLtched'up and swallowedalongý wîth breakfast eggs, thumbed, wbite Sitting in- waiting rooms, or slept over on porcb swings Sunday afternoons. "Alice Througb the C ellophane" is not for dozing, howe ver. Wbite puts business conditions under transparent wrapping paper and wise cracks from cover to cover. upon industrial and social flaw.s wbicb be' views with bis mind's eye. Washington, the nation's capital, be. daims to be ful of "professors, men wbo formerly were.teacbing our youtb to make-PbiBeta Kappa and are now trying te teach our execu- tives the law of diminishing returns."ý A plannied, future hé interprets* as a dirather touching promise -conipounded of gasoline and tears." Instead of a new social order, the discarding of the price system, or conflscating large incomes through taxation in the higb brackets, and "*letting tbe money seep back to the people through the normal leaks in government," he recommends reward- iaig the lazy, the inefficient, and the penalizing of the industrious. Over- production is solved on the spot. Or wbat bas a stili greater appeal, Mr. White recommends the simple life, pictured by- bim as lying on a rock material, is a reprint .of an. address delivered by him on Charter Day at the University of California. IA good life is not te be attained by the "unconscious working of destiny" but by, the deliberate planning, striy- ing and acbieving of men as a wbole. "This," he adds,,"is the theme wbicb we bave te understand, to contem- plate, to explore and, finally to pos- sess as tbe aniinating principlé of our lîe f e m t t i l cnrndir SI asum of $10,0 right prize, and on account ofi uooK as smewnat the feeling -of Fifth Avenue on a bright, cold day; it is full of people who are well-dress- cd a >nd ini a hurry, and flot very happy but not conscious of that fact, and, above ail thinga, eager to escape boredom. It is to. escape boredomi that the characters in the book-seize the gossip abo ut Silvia, who is a widow with a.little daugbter and an unconcealed love affair Witb a writer of detective stories wbo won't* mar 'ry ber .because it would interfere with his work. Silvia bas someé difficulty in managing a lover. and a cbild at once, and tbere is, before tbe book is over,. a case 'Of wbat looks very. like mnanslaughter, but, everytbing ends happily, and one is left wondering à littlewbat ail tbe'excitement bas be'en about and, wby we bave rushed so0 breathlessly ail over Chicago to watcb two people get married -wbo might.just aswell bave got married on page one. Tbe characters..are presenited witb aý superficial sbarpness tbat almost conceals the faet that their drawing ais extremely shallow. (The neurotic old maid, for instance, certainly seems to be put together from a textbook on neurosis ratber tban genuinely feit.) And ini just the samne way, tbe spee d and the real verve of tbe treat- ment will make many readers over- look the tbinness of the story. For those readers who like the feeling of being intimately concerned in gossip about the best people, and of baving one engagement after another in rich houses or boheniian flats, tbis book Madesin Phillips, president of the Na- tional Council of Women, the first *cçpy of Inez Ifaynes; Irwin's book, y Angels and Amazons: One Hundred eVears of American Womën." hasý been sent to, Mrs.iFranklin D). Roose- velt. a A second, copy of "Angels and ýAmazoins,"* also appropriately ii rscr.ibed, was sent to, Amelia ýtarhart,. îbecatise Mrs.- Irwin bas closed ber ibistory of womnens struggles and tri- rumiphs for the, past hundred years witb a pen sketch of "4tbe girl eaglet, winging ber impetuous way.over the vasty ýdeeps," in an adventure tbat is ..a supreme1 proof of women's equiali-. ty in nerve, mechanical skill ani courage. Other pen pictures, equally vivid, fli the pages of "Angels and Amna- zons.", An audience ofi the Il40'. thrilled, amused or sbocked, accord- ingý to temperament, at the daring spectacle of girls cônjugating a Lat - in irerb in a publîc examination. Mary Lyon taking a scbool teachi- er's job. at 75. cents a week, and working indefatigably to get monley enough to launch 'her s'eminary for girls so tha t th ey might b ave the« rigbt to education, as well as* Men Harriot- Hunt, attempting, to enroîl in tbe scbool of niedicine at. Harvard in 1847, and evoking such a storm cet protest tbat the students held a mas meeting and voted for ber exclusion., Lucy Stone being refused an op-. 110WWE IflN. B Joh Deey. he r 4ated from Oberlin in 1852, Since Professor Dewey~s napual1 although sbe was one of tbe rankiaîg appeared in 1910, it bas served widely stdets in the class. Susan B. Aan- and usefully to orient those wbo in thony going on trial, and being one way or another had to teach tbreatened with jail, because she at-- the young idea bow to shoot correct- tempted to cast a ballot in 1872. ly. In . ts present restatement this, Much of tbe 'impetus for womnis educational aim remaials dominant in success n the early part of the 2t space and purpose, from giving the cen tury the author attributes to tbe lay, of tbe land-the problems-to International Congress of Women in instuctonsfortringuatin-tn. Chicago in 1893, in wbichtbe Nation- ing in the handlang of the tools, and ai Council of Women, sponsor1 of the techniques of thae process. The reno- Irwin book, was the moving spirit. vation is well carried tbrougb and '.After that Congress," she writes, reflects the clarity characteristic of- vnbcwositeke ha our Nestorian sage. -Its appeal to en*bcodsctskaw ht wi- pay1mUiDs are will payoften dra an out- FOREIGN is a vmr advance Les Effets de la Guerre en Bul garie. brary wli G. T. Danaillow.; Paris. is consta Y tastactory book for aIl information Of this 'kind: rcalled for. in the colle( Rises to Rei munication" version of son doings. ýl