The San Francisco call., 1910-10-02

=: The second volume in the How Does
IT Work" series is now ready. It is en-
titled, Model. Making" by Cyril Hail
and contains instructions for making a
steam locomotive, turbine, steamboat
electric engine, motor, yacht. printing
nress. steam crane, telephone. electric
bell telegraph and many other things.
Tie information is given in simple IAN
guage and many excellent half tones
and. line drawings illustrate the work.
It:is an: excellent book to give the boy
with a mechanical bent. OR. F. Fenno
&, Co,~.New York. 75 cents)
= book entitled startling State
ments" has for it's subtitle The Down
fall Of the Great Republic. 1t is writ
ten by RaIston J. Markoe and purports
to contain facts and figures for the
peopIe.' 1t will have its place on the
shelf with other revolutionary Htera-
ture and is neither better nor worse
than hundreds of other volumes of
warnings which have been published
during the last few years. The author
tells us of all sorts of troubles which
exist today in. ali large cities. He tells
of trusts and graft and monopolies and
hard times, but offers few practical
suggestions for remedy privately
printed Northwest publishing COM
pany. st. Paul. Mimi
Transportation in Europe" is the
title of the new book by Logan @. NC
Pherson, lecturer on transportation at
the Johns Hopkins university and au-
thor of many well known works on
traffic. Just after the author completed
a three years first hand study Of traf-
flc conditions in the United States. he
accompanied the national waterways
commission to Europe for similar m
vestigation on the continent and IN
England This volume is the result. In
the main it is a rearrangement and
amplifcation of the authors formal re-
ports to the national waterways COM
mission, each of which received the
critical scrutiny Of cabinet ministers and
other Officials charged with the control
several countries of Europe. as well as
leading men OF affairs (Henry Holt &
Co. New York. Price s1.5O)
The second volume in the Young
Farmers Practical Library" is now
ready. It is entitled "Neighborhood
Entertainments" and is written by
Renee B. Stern of the congressional
library. Former President Roosevelt's
country life commission found from the
direct testimony of men and women
living on farms and in small towns all
over the union that there was among
them an unfortunate lack of sufficient
social life. To give host of tried and
practical suggestions for the increase
OF sociabiIity is the purpose OF this
book Firstly, organization and CO.
operation are necessary; the individual
of himself can achieve but little in rural
neighborhoods, and this book tells how
to. create pleasurable gatherings and
meetings that will result in mutual
helpfulness: it concerns itself with
clubs and purely social types OF enter
tainment and explains how they may be
organized and conducted; 1t gives pro-
grams of amusements and contains a
miscellany OF matter relative to its sub
feet. (Sturgis & walton company, New
York. 75 cents)
About three years ago a book en-
titled Exercising in Bed" appeared
and created some local interest. 1t
was written by Sanford Bennett, who,
1t is asserted, has broken all records
for rejuvenation- A picture of himself
decorated the book taken at the age
of SO. 1t showed an old man, thin, dys-
peptic, bald and wrinkled. At 20 his
picture again appeared, a healthy
young man. The book made friends