University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20
1t publishes fiction only and has a
wide circulation.
BOOKS.
"The Science of Happiness"


cheer in Dr. Henry Smith Williams
book on THE Science of Happiness
In one of his chapters he says, II
you would find full joy, in living, you
may well aspire to climb the intellect
ual. the aesthetic, the philosophical
heights. Before you have gone far III
Itn slope you will, find yourself breath
ing a purer air than that of the val
Ileys; you will feel the eXultation that
comes with the recognition OF ever
widening horizons. And from your joy
Iously attained coign of vantage you
may look back with eyer-incraasing
elation-yet never, ! trust, without
sympathetic pity-on the masses OF
your sometime associates, blindly crop
ing there into illusory by-paths of evan
escent pleasure and wilfully or ignOr-
antly stunning the broad and inviting,
even if sleeper, highways that might
open to them vista5 OF profounder and
more abiding happiness
Doctor Williams thinks that people
can attain the highest degree of eff
cheney only when happy, for, he says,
The problem OF happiness is the prob
for psychologists; for the little child
prattling at its mothers knee, and for
the old man tottering to the grave"
When we read this book we are lift
ed SO to speak, from the cellar to the
attic of cur nature, where the window
is opened and we look out into the
heavens, and we see and feel the bet
ter world. The work is sympathet tic,
stimulating and powerful.
(Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
New York;
1t IS fitting that Charles Evans
Hughes, former Governor of New York,
now Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, should write OF
the Conditions OF Progress IN Demo
cratic Government. Mr.. Hughes wants
his book to serve to quicken in young
men the sense of civic responsibility,
by outlining to them the field of en-
deavor. OF privilege and of obligation.
By reason OF his wide experience and
his knowledge of conditions, he is able
TO speak with force and authority uD-
on this subject. 1t is a work that has
grown out of years of training. appli-
cation and reflection.
He urges young men to "join a
party, one of the great parties, ac-
cording to your general agreement
wits its record, policy and tendency;
lend your effort to make it whole
some and effective; stand firmly
against every effort to corrupt it or
use it for selfish purpose; stand for
honorable candidates. Impoverished
and representative of the wisdom and
pest purpose OF the party-stand
against "bossism' and all that the
word implies; -believe that there is
sufficient love of truth and justice to
win support for what is we'll conceived
and faithfully declared To the extent |
that these ideals are held sacred. our
essential party activities will be a !
benefit to the nation
The book is full Of thought, wisdom |
and advics; it is the book of an Amer |
lean to Americans and is deserving of
an appreciative study. CThe Yale
Press, New York;
The new American Social Progress I
series, which the Macmillan Company
S bringing out under the editorship OF
Professor Samuel Mcclure LINDSAY.
has added another worthy volume to
It's number. This new book is Coy
Action for Social Welfare"
oy Professor jeremiah w. jerks of
cornell University. 1t is written with
he hope that it may have some in
luence toward checking the social
wills. such as paupersm, crime. and
ice CT various kinds. 1t intends tn
'elp tha social workers to determine
ne metea and bounds which they NAV
work, and. further. the writer wants
90 what he can to help solve the
ocial problems OF our country. Il
Altogether the work is deserving of
Judy for it is sound in thought and c
road in suggestion. (Macmillan l
company, NV York, Price, s1.Oo.) t
~. JACK HUTTO. l.
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