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Childrens Books and Reading. By
Montrose j. Moses. New York: Mitchell
Kennerley.
William Tyler Olcott's "Field Book of
the Stars is an excellent little book for
amateur astronomers and for those who,
knowing little or nothing about astrono-
my, desire to obtain at least some little
| familiarity with the consultations, COM
mon knowledge of which is usually linn
tied to recognition of the -Dipper and the
| Pleiades. 1t has been written to facili-
tate and popularize the fascinating recre-
alton of star gazing. and is limited in
scope solely to that purpose, all matter of
technical or theoretical nature having
been omitted. Simplicity and brevity have
been successfully aimed at and only such
stars and consultations have been includ-
ed as can be observed with the naked eye
or by aid of an opera glass.
A Field Book of the Stars. BY William
Tyler Olcott. New York: G.. P. Putnam's
Sons. Los Angeles: C. C. Parker.
Though Father and Son. is published
anonymously, there Is small risk In haz-
arding the conjecture that its two heroes
are respectively Philip Henry Gosse, an
in dogma made him a bigoted opponent
of the views Of Darwin when they were
first promulgated and his son. Edmund
Gosse, who has won his chief distinction
as litterateur but who was swept
away from his religious mooring by the
new theories which his parent repudi-
ated Nor need one shirk the necessary
corollary that the younger Gosse is the
author of the present book.
Tt fs nOverfIiI nd in soma raSpactq a
painful study of the domestic upheavals
which characterized that momentous
epoch in the later sos, when the "Origin
of Species" sent the younger generation
into an opposite camp from the elder.
"Ofi the two beings here described"
says the author, ''one was born to fly
backward, the other could not help being
carried forward. There came a time
when neither spoke the same language
as the other or encompassed the same
hopes or was fortified by the same de-
sires."
The survivor, however. finds comfort
in the thought that neither to the very
last hour ceased to respect the other or
to regard him with a sad indulgence.
'The affection of these two persons was
assailed by forces in comparison with
which the changes that health or fortune
or place introduce are as nothing. 1t is
mournful satisfaction, but yet salts
faction, that they were both of them able
to obey the law which says that ties OF
close family relationship must be hon.
ored and sustained. Had 1t not been so
this story would never have been writ
ten."
Father and Son." New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
The five papers published by President
Standards of Public Morality THE
Formation of Public Opinion" s'The Eth
les of Trade "The Ethics of Corporate
Management" "The Workings of Our
Political Machinery" THE Political Du-
ties of the Citizen were originally de-
livered as lectures on the John s. Ken
nedy foundation in New York. The book
opens significantly with the statement.
Zone of the strangest features in the life
of the American people at the present
days is the contrast between it's standards
of private and of public morality" Mr.
Hadley proceeds to say that while indi-
vidually the typical American citizen is
courteous with the weak, self-respecting
with the strong. helpful with all. in az
tion unselfish, In his public morals he is
the reverse. The fault lies not so much
In the Individual as In the public stand
ard of morals. Eacn American citizen
is, to some extent. responsible for the
crimes Of the community. The remedy
lies in the education OF the public con-
science as to individual responsibility for
the state of public morality In discuss
ing the ethics of trade President Hadley
comes to the conclusion that: "A jus.
price, according to the traditional and
generally accepted views. is one which
conforms as closely as possible to the
cost of producing the commodity, and of
It Is necessary, however. to modify this
view by an admission that 1t is neces-
sary to take into consideration the posi-
biiity OF larger profits than this would
allow. Therefore: I'VE are Justified IN
approving as on the whole benehcent the