New Britain herald., 1922-11-20

MODERN WORKSHOP PRACTICE
 By Ernest Pull.
 OPEN SPACES; INCIDENTS OF
 NIGHTS AND DAYS UNDER THE BLUE SKY by John c. Van
 Dyke.
 Never were vicnrious ioiterings more enthralling than these through the hunting and fishing grounds of Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, Wy oming and Dakota, California and Arizona. ."--Boston Transcript. SHOES OF THE WIND,
 By Hilda Conkling.
 The second volume of Hilda Conk- ling's poems. Shoes of the Wind has appeared. There is certitude of beau- ty, such remarkable fabric in this setting forth of child's reactions to the things about her, that their being fashioned into printed form becomes a precious gift to the world of poetry. Christian Science Monitor.
 
 SHOUTS AND MURMURs; ECHOES
 OF A THOUSAND AND ONE
 FIRST NIGHTS, by Alexander
 Wooilcott.
 Adventures among playwrights and players recorded by ths. dramatic critc of the New York Times" sKETCHING AND RENDERING IN
 PENCIL by Arthur L. Guptill.
 The first part is devoted to draw ing in general, the second part to the consideration of the subject in rela- ton to the representation of archi- tectural subjects"
 soLILoQuIEs IN ENGLAND AND
 LATER SOLILOQUIES,
 By George Santayana.
 Probably the most distinguished series of philosophical discourses published in English during this cen tury. He Is in this book a philosoph- CT, a critic, an essayist and a stylist. He Is a kindly and tolerant man who has found his happiest expression, his most valuable gift to the world, in these soliloquies wherein he speaks what is in his heart as frankly and as honestly as he knows how. No VOL ume of philosophical essays has ap- peared since the death of Remy de Gourmont which contains so many ideas, faultlessly expressed with wit and grace. IN. r.. Tribune.
  sTEEL-THE DIARY OF A FUR
 MAGE WORKER
 By Charles Rumford Walker.
 The story of young mans exper- fence among the rough and tumble laboring jobs at the bottom of a steel mill showing actual working condi- tions in Americas greatest industry" THE STORY OF DRUGS,
 By Henry Corbin Fuller
 His account of the origin and manufacture of drugs are the most interesting part of book which is remarkable for its ."-In- dependent.
 THE TELESCOPE,
 By Louis Bell.
 TEN YEARS AT THE COURT OF
 ST. JAMES, by Baron von Eek
 ardstein.
 No more enthralling set of remi- niscences has been written in recent years than these. No more import ant historical subjects have been told more, intimately or with greater au- thority. Although the author fought for his country, it is apparent that had he been controlling factor in German statesmanship events would have been very difficult. ."-Boston Transcript.
 VICTORIAN AGE by W. R. Inge. Originally delivered as lecture at Cambridge university the brief ad- dress that has now reached a second impression in book form is an elo- quent summary of the main trends of thought, intellectual, social and relig- icus, that made the Victorian age stand out with the Elizabethan as one, to quote Dean Inge, of the twin QC1no III WAiSlA GA6ilcH CltiliZdJlOu Incidentally the address is a glowing tribute to the genius of Tennyson, the grandest and most full ly representative figure in all Victor ian literature. ."'--Literary Review.
 
 THE WONDERLAND OF THE
 EASTERN CONGO by T. Alex
 ander Barns
 "A thrilling account. of explorations by the author and his wife, among the lakes and mountains, and in the jungle of the northeastern Congo; also of the hunting, with rife and the giant gorilla, the ele- phant, the buffalo and the okapi."
 Fiction. SHAWL,
 By Joseph Hergesheimer.
 Tt is. necessary introductory that the imagination of Joseph Hergesheimer is to a remark able extent pictorial. He can analyze character with deftness and discrim- nation. but 1t Is not 30 much such analyses as it is bis all-prevading pie which constitutes. the most striking lineament of his in dividuality."