New Britain herald., 1923-04-30
New Books at
the Institute
THE AMERICAN RHYTHM, by
Mary H. Austin

MRS austin ElNth iltE hbllhlAei'iis
about the psychological and organic
origin OF rhythm and accent In verse
following the poetic process back "a
its beginnings among the American
tribes of the United States; her
studies show that the characteristic
movements of average American life
are in the modern poetry, just as the
Indian songs and dances took their
rhythms from the environment which
produced them; there are transla-
tions of American songs and group
Of her own poems"
AUTOMOBILE POWER PLANTS by
Ben G. Elliott.
BELT CoNVEYORs AND BELT
ELEVATORS, by Frederic V.
Hetzel.
COAL-TAR COLORs IN THE DECO
RATINE INDUSTRIES, by A.
Clarke.
ELECTR ODEPOSITION AND ELEC-
TROPLATING, by Farraday So
ciety, London.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PHIL
oSoPHY, by Arthur k~nyon
Rogers.
1T will be particularly useful in
that 1t brings into connection with
philosophy in the more technical
sense figures and movements repre-
senting the influence of science, phil
osphy and thought in general in the
field of literature, of religion, of
political and social inquiry-The last
four chapters, constituting over half
of the book, furnish the most COM
pact and complete synopsis OF recent
English and American philosophy
with which the reviewer is acquaint-
ed."-Journal of Philosophy.
FIFTY FIGURES AND CHARAC-
TER DANCES FOR SCHOOLS.
by E. 7. Bell.
THE FLOW OF GASES IN FUR
NACEs, by w. L. Groumje-
Grjimail.
HANDBOOK OF STEEL EREC-
TION, by Bland,
HAVE YOU AN EDUCATED
HEART? by Gelett Burgess.
TT was compositor, or a proof |
reader, who made Tennyson respon-
sible for the assertion that kind
hearts are more than cormorants and
simple faith than human blood. Mr.. /
Gelett Burgess, wittiest of authors
and inventor not only of word, but
Of a school of thought, Gin his Are
you a Bromide?D now comes out
strong for the Victorian belief in the
kind heart. His essay Have you an
educated heart is not a jeu d'esprit
but a serious advocacy of what Mrs. /
Ella Wheeler Wilcox called the SIM
pie art of being kind AS it is writ
ten by Mr.. Burgess, it is not bro
midic. "-Independent,
A HISTORY OF FRENCH LITER
AZURE, by w. A. Mite & E. P.
Dargan.
professors Mite and Dargan, of
the University of Chicago, have pro-
duced in their History of French
literature an admirable and much
needed book, unlike any other work
in it's general field. The fact that
they have kept in mind the needs of
their own classes and those OF univer-
sity students generally that they have
brought to their task not only wide
reading but also that invaluable ex-
perience which is to be gained only
in the actual presentation of SUBJ
ject, has made their book remarkably
just in apportionment of space and
clear in outline christian Science
Monitor.
HOW WE RESIST DISEASE, by
Jean Broadhurst.
The main principles of immunity
covering in a general way the most
important preventive and curative
practices; prepared with special ref
erence to nurses and general college
students"
INSURANCE, PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICES, by Rogert Riegel.
Important features are: an an
alysis of accident and health insur-
ance policy provisions: fuller treat
ment than usual of credit insurance
and corporate bonding; presentation
OF the new basis for automobile in
surance rates; discussion of the new
standard fire policy L. A. Book
list.
COURSE IN ELEC-
RO-CHEMISTRY, by Oliver P.
Watts.
MORALS OF THE MOVIE, by Ellis
Paxson Oberholtzer.
This is no fanatical or prudish
survey-the language is tempered
and plain, the presentation absorb
- TURN RULE -.
LIFE OF CHRIST, by Giovanni Pa
PM.
ITO thousands who have caught
only vague glimpses of the real Jesus
through the mists of medieval meta
physics or else have passed Him by
in ignorance or contempt Papini's
volume will prove as Illuminating as
1t is fascinating. 1t is for such that
he wrote, and not merely that they
might he entertained h11t that like