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The Balkan Wars, Jacob c. Schurman.
The book is made up of the Stafford |
Little lectures delivered at Princeton
in 1914. The whole Balkan situation
is reviewed with great clearness. and |
special attention is given to the his |
tory of the countries involved. A val |
liable feature is the maps OF the Bal |
kan peninsula, before and after the
war.
How to Cook and Why, Elizabeth Con
dit and Jessie Long.
This excellent book for all interested
IN good housekeeping is prepared by
two instructors in household science at
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. 1t is best
reviewed by quoting from the preface:
two sets of needs, those of the girl of
high school age and those of the aver
age housewife. The high school girl
studying cookery under teacher with
scientific training needs simple book
to remind her of the principles she is
hearing about and which she herself is
practicing in the school kitchen. The
average housekeeper, deeply interested
IN the responsibility she has in presery-
ing the health of her family, needs a
book that is easy to refer to aud that
will give her broad, general principles
without going so far into detail that
tCba finds 81 ma
question the housekeeper asks for to-
iday, and the high school girl asks for
tomorrow, comes to something like
this: How can [ plan the food Of the
family so as to give them the right
foods rightly prepared at the least
costa This book in dealing with the
subject of preparation stands between
the two questions of food values and
food costs, and necessarily deals with
both. The authors are not offering
a contribution to scientific research
but first aid to the girl or woman
who wants to take advantage of the
/ research that has been done 1t is
the service of the middleman between
the laboratory of science and the kitch
en- of the school or home.
The Industrial Situation, +. 4. Carlton
short survey of social and indus
trial problems by an expert on economic
questions, prepared ait the request OF
the federal council of churches OF
| America. The author attempts to show
t the basic factors and the principl,
phase of the recent industrial situation
, and to put the facts in way whicl
should prove helpful to the reader VII,
n may not have had an opportunity t,
r learn these facts at first hand.
The Life and Times of Cayour, William
Roscoe Thayer.
This great book, the most import
! ant work upon the making, of Ital,
; that has been published in English, :
tells the absorbing story of one of tn
greatest statesmen of modern times an,
/ also gives graphic view of the won
e derful period of European history il
) which the noble Italian people achieve,
r their liberty and 4 united Italy Hon
n Andrew White says of this book: =
e seems to me one of the really grea
Y American books, which cannot fail t
It aid strongly in promoting better lif
e in this country.
e Letters Of a Woman Homesteader, Eli
more Z. Stewart
Mrs. Stewart was left a widow som
years ago, with a two-year-old daueI
&c ter and no means of support. She trio
Y going out by the, day" 1t did nc
70 work, and then she took position a
I housekeeper with a homesteader a
10 Burnt Fork, Wyoming, near the flores
N reserve of Utah. These delightful lie
ters were written TO a former employ
er in Denver. They give the story c
pioneer life, life full of courage, fun
10 and the spirit of adventure. The neigl
to bors as revealed in these letters arc 3
&c real as the homesteader herself. III
''Tackler,' so named because he woul
tackle any kind of a job whether /
e. knew anything about it or not, an
". Aurelia Timmons, who wanted work I
ID So per, and who made cast iron rul
:. that she was not to be called 9 Rebie,
Henry Clyde, the lusty yeller f
: baby's rights, Mrs. O'shaughnessy an
many others are as familiar to US {
our next-door neighbor.
The Mason Bees, J. II. Fabre.
The latest volume to be translate
into English of the greatest interpret,
of insect life and ways. With the II
most scientific precision, but with nol
of the dryness of the usual scientif
books, Mr.. Fabre visualizes for use Il