The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-30

HERE is THE EVIL OF
OUR GREAT BIG CITY
Arrangement Of That Whirling Element Of Metropoi-
tan Life the Cautious Avoid and the Police Watch.
How to Decorate Interiors. Write Newspaper Stories.
Sell Plays, Knit. and Do Other Things.

who wrote the story. Some OF the
stories are excellent examples OF good
newspaper work, but a good many have
slight distinguishing marks. To each
the editor appends a comment for the
guidance OF the pupil. 1t is possible
| hat the book may save the pupil
some modification In offices where the
views Of the copy readers coincide
with those Of the author.
Much Information about the stage
and its mechanism. about acting and
a number of things that authors are
apt to overlook is given by Fanny
Cannon in Writing and Selling a
Play Henry Holt and Company.
Her instructions about writing and
construction may also prove useful
now that dramatic art Ia becoming a
mechanical industry. The plays she
selects for analysis are well known.
The book may be as productive Of play
wrights as the college courses in IRA
mates. for the author holds to the
practical side throughout.
A good argument in favor Of woman
suffrage Is offered by the shipshape
manner in which NJ. G.. Staplcr's
Primer for voters National Woman
Suffrage Publishing Company. New
York; is put together. II contains in
clear. compact form all that the voter
should know about voting. nominal
tons and the duties of the state and
city officials. In its present form It
applies to New York. II will be useful
immediately to the legal voters: the
only application to women lies in their
hope that they will obtain the ballot
at the coming election.
The needs Of the manual training
classes in tho schools rather than the
increased demands made by the wal
are responsible for the very complete
handbook on knitting Without Speci-
mems" by Ellen +. Clayton and c. a.
Clayton f. p. Dutton and Company.
The authors include crochet work in
their instruction and make up for pat
terms by n large number of illustra-
lions. Some notifications must he
mahe with regard to materials and
tradesmen. as the boo is Of English
origin. Another school manual that
is profusely illustrated is simple Art
Applied to Handwork." by II. A. Ran
kin and T.. II. Brown CE. +. Dutton
uIiu 1oIibdhy y. iiht" n a piiAi'h
product. The art In this case is applied
to the drawing and coloring Of onven
tional patterns. geometrical. flowers,
animals and 50 on. and to stencilhng
and lettering.
That last very subsidiary department
of art is treated very seriously by
Wilfrid J. Lineham in "A Treatise ON
Hand Lettering" CE. l.. Dutton and
Company, "a small folio with fine
sheets Of engravtngs. We are nor
impressed with the clcarness of the
directions m the pains the author
takes in assuring perfection than in
the importance Of the subject.
Three useful and interesting tr"hni-
cal textbooks come to us from the -.
Van Nostrand Company. The "Forg-
ing OF Iron n Steel" 10y William
Allyn Richards. Is attractive enough to
engage the attention OF the general
reader ~ We'll a. OF the student. The
Mining and Mine Ventilation" by
Joseph J. Walsh, is "A clear and practi-
cal handbook that gives the scientific
reasons for what must be lone.
"therncal Constitution and Phys.olog-
icai Action" by DIR. Leopold Spiegel.
has been translated by &. Luedeking
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