New Britain herald., 1921-09-30
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THE LARGER SOCIALISM, by Ber-
tram Benedict.
Another attempt to strip socialism
CT it's doctrinaire character and pre-
sent wider economic and ethical as
poets more in keeping with American
ways OF thinking. A book which will
probably be denounced as unorthodoX
not only by the Socialist Party but also
by other organized groups Of sociolo-
gsts in America."-Survey.
OUTER CIRCLE, rambles in remote
London, by Thomas Burke.
Studies of the people who live out
on the countryside, near London
Publishers Weekly.
LAST DIARY. by Bruce Frederick
Cummings.
| This Last diary is the work of
tired man, but the fame still shoots
| up from time to time in the book. as
| il still shone in his eyes. The books
sincerity is actually painful; it con-
| tracts the heart. Here, in good truth,
a a hulran soul to study. 1t is a
lock wh:ln Ill make you suffer and
yet it is Sood to read."-N. Y. Times.
"Barbellion's three books of confess
sions will stand, from literary stand
| point, with the best ever written.
Literary Review.
| AMERICA AND THE RACE FOR
WORLD DOMINION by Albert
Demangeon.
Facts and figures contrasting
Europe's economic depletion with
the vitality of Japan and the United
States. These two powers will divide
between themselves the leadership Of
civilization which Europe is forced to
| cede. So predicts the author who is
an economist and a professor of
geography at the Sorbonne.
DEATH AND ITS MYSTERY, by
Camille Flammarion.
The first volume of a trilogy intend
ed to prove the immortality of the
soul. This volume attempts to prove,
with a minimum of argument and a
large nubmer of cases of provision.
,resentiment telepathy, clairvoyance.
&c, that the soul during lie has IN
existence distinct from that of tbs
,, research will appreciate this large
summoning Of evidence.
AMERICAN POLICE ADMINISTRA.
TON, by Elmer D. Graper.
A handbook on police organization
and methods of administration IL
American cities. y The book is de-
signed for the use of superior police
officers and for those members of the
rank and file who would aspire to nit
themselves for higher administrative
posts. =, -"
SOME WINCHESTER LETTERS OF
LIONEL, by Johnson.
/. These letters were written to var
ious friends when Lionel Johnson was
a boy at Winchester College. They !
deal not with personal or temporary |
affairs. but with general questions of
a kind which have interested tbs
whole thinking part of the human
race for centuries. They are further |
remarkable as the production OF
.choolboy between the ages of sixteen |
and eighteen, showing as they do i |
most unusually extensive acquaintance
with English literature and a great |
sense of values |
STORY OF A FORTUNATE YOUTH.
by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie. |
Daughter of an elderly gentleman |
las written with a sympathetic charn |
his memories of the days when nc
wore a kilt, a wee bit shirt, and a |
Nelveteen jacket in the sun-bathed
highlands of Scotland, and of mis- |
early days in America when he turned |
q dollar at an odd job and later I'M
expectedly became student for this |
ministry."-A. l.. A.
Osborne |
He writes as detached and rath
or unsparing realist. The result |
should. however, by no means offend
intelligent Japanese sensibilities, Us
Mr.. Osborne retains throughout the
objective point of view."-N. Y. Times.
MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND
EDUCATION, by Michael Vincen'
O'Shea.
A discussion of the response of the
child to education at various stages
Of his deveIopment.-Publi
Weekly.
PRACTICAL ENGLISH FOR NEW
AMERICANS, by Rose NJ. O'Toole.
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA, by Arthur
Ransome.
A glance over Russia showing what
las happened since Russia in 1919. 1t |
is a frank Admission of the shortcom- |
ings of the Soviet government, al |
most completely eclipsed for the time
5v the revolution due to lack of trad |
ing facilities; describes the workings