The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-27
new LIBRARY BOOKS
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SUNDAY READING OF DIvERSlFI
ED NATURE is AT MISSoulA
INSTITUTION.

iatFOns OF the pubic flbrarN III quest
of sunday reading will be gald to find
shelf full of new books ready for
their use this afternoon. There are
books on many subjects and readers
who prefer something beside fiction
are almost certain to find something TO
interest them.
The library has never been strong
in technical works. largely because
until very recently the demand 70,
such books has been very light But
now, each order of books contains a
few titles of books which are ciassi-
lied as among the Useful Arts"
Wireless Telegraph and Telephony"
by \. +. Kennedy is a timely book.
which ought to find plenty of readers.
Bartlett's Mechanical Drawing" and
the Care Of Automobiles by Paris.
should be useful and next them on
the shelf stand two books on concrete
construction.
The reader who is student of
music will be glad To see Josef Hoff-
mans little book on Piano Playing
and w. s. =. Mathews Masters and
Their Music" while those who prefer
books on literature will find the lions
share. Cody's Best English ESSAYS
contains a discussion of the essay as
form of literature. as well as a col
lection of essays which have become
classics. Crother's BY the Christmas
flre' and Benson's From College
window are collection of charming
essays which are well worth reading
The Shakespeare collection is enriched
by Dowden's Shakespeare Primer
and Johnson's Shakespeare and His
Critics" which attempts to give an out
line of the attitude of the literary
world toward the plays of Shakespeare
from the seventeenth century to the
present time
Three books on the DEVELOPMENT of
the novel, Gardeners Forms of Prose
Literature" and translation of Les
sings Dramatic Works, in two volumes
complete the list of boks classified as
literature.
For the reader who is interested in
travel and adventure there are several
notable books. One called Haremlik
Is a personal account of life i'm
Turkish harem, from the pen of a
Greek girl who was brought up in
Turkey. and who sees another side of
the picture from that usually pre-
sented. 1t is a very readable book.
Those who heard DR. Grenfell lee
ture last winter will be glad of an
opportunity to read his account of an
adventure to which he alluded in his
talk. 1t is called "Adrift on an Icepan"
and Is an absorbing. graphic narrative
that will entertain reaHsrs or all ages.
Greeiey's Hand Book of Alaska" is
not as picturesque an account of that
territory as some on the same subject,
but II claims to be. and undoubtedly
Is. reliable and authoritative. The
preface says: Herein are presented
such phases of Alaskan affairs as may
concern those interested in the coun-
try. for those who plan Alaskan
journeys, as well as those who have in
view commercial ventures"
when Railroads Were New" bv c.
F. Carter is book which gives the
story of railroads in early days and
succeeds remarkably well in bringing
before the reader the romance of early
railroad history. Spears STORY of the
New England Whalers" and Stern
berg's Life of a Fossil Hunter" are
both extremely readable accounts of
phases of life of which most of us know
Very little. Another book of the same
type-interesting and informing-is
Towers story of on
knopfs Tuberculosis, a Prevent
able and Durable Disease is a time
ly book which. while il is by a recog-
nized authority. is not too scientific
for the average reader
Brand Whitlock has written "A brief,
but well proportional Life of Abra-
ham Lincoln" which is one Of the
Beacon biography series. Close beside
1t Is Lecky's american Revolution"
Taxation" and Seett's
Social Education" which undertakes
To show how the activities of children
can be made more productive and eff /
fectiye for scholarship and discipline /
Those who enjoyed William James
Pragmatism' last year. will want to /
hear the other side of the case which I
is given in Pratts What is Pragma-
tism." While not as interesting as
Mr.. James book it is a good resume /
of the case against pragmatism. clear .
forcible and to the point.
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