New Britain herald., 1915-11-18
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK
Big game fields of America, North and

Big game fields of America, North and
 South, by D. J. Singer.
 Two chapters give the natural his- tory of the jaguar and black bear; the rest of the book tells in an informal manner of the authors hunting trips in British Guiana, Mexico, United States and Canada. Interesting to lovers of this sort of sport"-A. L. A. Booklist.
 Early American craftsmen, being
 series of sketches of the lives
 of the more important personal
 ities in the early development Of
 the industrial arts in America, by
 w. A. Dyer. ,t Hilltop on the Marne: being letters
 writer June 3-September 8, 1914,
 by Mildred Aldrich.
 ''The author of this book is a Bos- ton woman who has lived in Parls for the past fifteen years and bousht a house in the Marne valley, feenns the need, as she wrote to an Amerl- can friend, of calm and quiet-per- feet peace. Before long her hilltop became the very center of the inn portant military operations that ln- cluded the retreat from Mons, the turning east of Won Kluck, and the battle of the Marne. Her plain. pie turesque, vivid narrative of these events, full of humor, makes story of unique interest"
 History of philosophy, by c. c. J.
 Webb. Rapid survey of the history of thought from the time of Plato to Herbert Spencer The ease and clarity Of style, the absence of technicalities, the simplicity of expression, and the element of human interest that in forms it, make it a specially good first book for the general reader."-A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Hitting the dark trail, by Clarence
 Hawkes..
 "It possesses that rare thing, human interest, for it tells the tale, and ade- quately, too, of man who suffered a great tragedy and made a wonderful fight. Moreover, as a discussion of blindness in all it's phases by blind man, the book is remarkable. Book man.
 
 be read by all brave souls who are striving against discouragements, and by all tinid souls who are afraid of their ."-N. Y. Times. Ivory, apes and peacocks, by James - Huneker. Among the subjects of MT. Huneker's studies are Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dos toievsky and Tolstoy Arnold Schoen- berg, Frank Wedekind, Richard Strauss, Max Liebermann and Lafca- dio Hearn. But they will be read not for the subjects themselves but for the individual style and peculiar point of view of MT. Huneker."-Book Re- view Digest.
 Library of Irish literature, in six
 volumes. Thomas Davis: Selec-
 tions from his prose and poetry,
 edited by T. w. Rolleston; Wild
 sports of the west, edited by The
 Earl of Dunraven; Legends of
 saints and sinners from the Irish
 edited by Douglas Hyde; Humours
 of Irish life, edited by Charles
 L.. Graves; Irish orators and
 oratory, edited by T. M. Kettle;
 The book of Irish poetry, edited
 by Alfred Perceval Gates.
 
 and Hthographers, by
 Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell. Tt is far and away the best book that has yet been put together on this subject"
 - Marvels of insect life, by Edward
 Step.
 .The author writes with clearness and accuracy The illustrations are exceptionally clever. We can think of no other introduction to entomology which surpasses it in it's capacity of gripping to the reader."-Nature. Politics and crowd morality, by Ar
 thur Christensen.
 The Danish author has undertaken to forecast the fate of parliamentary government, the possibilities of de- mocracy, and the hopes that we may legltlmately entertain of ultimately, breaking the deadlock between ab- stract ideals and concrete perform ance''
 "A brilliant analysis of the psychology of modern democracies. "- Boston Transcript.
 Possession. by George Middleton. Each play is an excellent bit of workmanship. No one else is doing his kind of work, and his books should not be missed by readers looking for a striking presentation of the stuff that life is made of."-N Y. Times.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson, by O. w.
 Firkins.
 Professor Firkins work is the most valuable to student of all the biog- raphies of the Sage of Concord. Re view of Reviews.
 Rocky Mountain wonderland, by F.. A.
 Mills.
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