Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-23

eyes, do you send me a book not
n bargain book bought from a haber-
dasher, but n beautiful book, ~ book to
caress--pecuIiar, distinctive, Individual
a book that hath first caught your eye
and then pleased your fancyj written
by an author with tender vhfm, all
right out of his heart. We Will read II
together I'm the cleaning, and when the
gathering dusk doth blur the page
wen sit with hearts too full for speecf
and think 1t over."-Dorothy Words
worth to Coleridge.
r "The Race Life of the Aryan Peo.
ples," Joseph p. Widney, $500 Mar.
Il mion way, Los Angeles, has addeo
two rich volumes to the worlds very
meager knowledge on this subject. Vol
is the Old World and treats OF the
birth of the Aryan Peoples and their
migrations over Europe and Asia. Dr.
Widney does not attempt to settle the
moot question of the Aryan race. lie
gives two theories advanced by pro-
found thinkers, one the shores OF the
Baltic and the other the highlands OF
mi6-Asia, and carefully weighs every
argument in support of each tneory. lis
tentative conclusion leans toward Asia
as the original home of the Aryan race,
In Vol. III DR.. Widney deals with the
Aryan peopies on the new continent.
Every chapter in the two volumes
shows conclusively that the author has
carefully selected his material and
deeply considered every theory before
trusting it to print.
Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and
London, are the publishers.
''The Major Symptoms of Hysteria is
the title given a set OF fifteen lectures
presented before the medical school OF
Harvard university by Pierre Janet, M
d.. an eminent French professor of psy-
chology Prof. Janet is unhappy In that
the pauers were first written in French
and then translated into English, and IN
the transmission have lost something OF
the finer shading incident to the French
language. The lectures were too evil
IDENTIFY written down" to the compre-
hension of students to be of interest TO
members of the medical profession, put
they MAKE rather interesting reading for
the laity. :,
.orhe Major symptoms of Hysteria."
Nv Pierre Janet, M. d. New York, the
Macmillan Co. Los Angeles, 9. G. Par
ker.
DIR. David Starr Jordan has amplified
his sociological essay on ''The Blood OF
the Nation" which is now republished
under the title, "The Human Harvest.
DR.. Jordan traces the causes that lead
to racial deterioration, when "vir' gives
place to homo and real men to mere
human animals Rome did not fall from
the decay of age or from excess Of lux
ury or from overculture. Another writer
Is thus quoted: "Whatever the remote
and ultimate cause may have been, the
Immediate cause to which the fall OF the
empire can be traced Is a physical, not
a moral. decay" DR.. Jordan adds that
nations fall only when they cease TO
breed men. 1t is Inherited deficiency
that destroys race This treatise rs
strictly in line with the advanced
thought of the maturest minds OF the
day.
"The Human Harvest" BY David
Starr Jordan. Boston. the American
Unitarian association
In consultation with such experts as
Miss Annie Carroll Moore, supervisor OF
children,s rooms in the New York public
library, C. G. Leland supervisor of school
libraries and member of the New York
board of education and many others, Mr.,
Moses has written book which will
make instant appeal to parents, teachers
and librarians It supplies in a single,
handy and simply arranged volume
practical. workable guide to children
books and reading.
'.Children's Books and Reading" makes
a plea for the broadening of childrens
reading, and the author warmly advocates
the inclusion in children's libraries,
whether public or at home, of books that
are literature as well as for children
saws Mr.. Moses: place first upon your
list the best picture books and jingles,
Let true art supplant the comic supple-
meht sheet"
In addition to the entertaining chapters
covering the history Of chidren's books
from early times to the present date and
those dealing with the general purpose OF
the books, there Is an appendix Of sixty
seven pages OF book lists, carefully ar