New Britain herald., 1923-07-02

ARDS , CAIRO TO KIsUMU by Frank Georg
 Carpenter.
 This book on Egypt takes in, to gether with upper Egypt and the thor oughly modernized cities of Alexan dria and Cairo, Nubia, the Sudan all kenya Colony. It is compiled fror notes made by the author during sev eral trips and under all sorts of con ditions and describes what he saw oi background of the past" CASANOVA: ADVENTuRER AMI | LOVER by Joseph LeGras. "Mr. LeGras in writing this stud. of the life of Casanova has given Eng lish-speaking people opportunity t become acquainted with the famous | Venetian adventurer. Translatlons 0 the Memories are rare, and even i read in French they discourage tht reader by their very bulk" Literar, Review.
 CORRESPONDENTS OF SIR JOHN
 MACDONALD by Sir Joseph Pope DICKENS THE IMMORTAL by Ed
 ward Basil Lupton.
 Dickens, the immortal, is an inter estirg and important contribution to the literature about Charles Dickens and his perennial works" DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE
 by Joseph Collins.
 "A book about modern novels-and lins is distinguished neurologist." Independent.
 DOGS OF CHINA AND JAPAN by V.
 w. r. Collier.
 "Mr. Collier in his account of east ern dogs, presents an elaborate and fascinating array of historical and na- tional facts and customs. lore and legend. art and philosophy, of China and Japan" Boston Transcript.
 
 EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR
 SOCIAL WORK by James Hayden
 Tufts.
 HUMAN EFFORT AND HUMAN
 WANTS by Logan Grant McPher-
 son.
 "A study of the great economic laws in simple phraseology suited to the man in the office, the family in the home and the youth in the schools"
 LIFE OF ERNEST sHACKLETON by
 Hugh Robert Mill.
 "'The life of a man of action, writes Dr. Hugh Mill in his preface, may titly be presented as continu- ous narrative of his doings from which reader may gain clear sense of the personality and trace the growth of character. The author has carried out this ideal to something very near perfection, and his simple and straightforward story of career of great adventure is far finer tri- bute to the character of the explorer than the eulogies and panegyrics, so apt to be evoked upon similar occa- sions. Dr. Mill's long and intimate friendship with the explorer, coupled with the material intrusted him by Lady Shackleton has enabled him to write with accuracy upon matters of letail." Christian Science Moniter. LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Joseph Quincy Adams. LINE: AN ART STUDY by E. J. sul- livan.
 DISCIPLINE by John Erskine.
 ""The Literary Discipline is one of he most stimulating contributions which have recently been made to the discussion of esthetic theory. It lies within the tradition of the little en- turing criticism that has been produc- d in the United States and it belongs with the best of that, with such books as those of George Santayana md George Edward Woodberry which eem to hold admirable and vital con- ent of artistic wisdom"
  TAKING WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENT, by William r. Mo Combs. "The author was manager of the ational campaigns which resulted in he nomination and election of Wilson 8 president in 1912 and was chair nan of the Democratic National com nittee, 1912-1916." ,OTEs OF A CATHOLIC BIoLO- CYST, by George Kreidel. 'OEMS OF ARTHUR O'SHAUGH- | MESSY, edited by William A. Percy | "A reissue of the Poems of Arthur | 'Shaughnessy, selected and edited by | V. A. Percy, has now after a lapse | f thirty years appeared; it will find | avor with those readers who have a 1 bible for Victorian poetry and who | O not demand the vitality, emotional | nd artistic, infused into it by mas CTS. O'Shaughnessy is a minor poet ! ut he should not therefore be neglec- ad. If his verse lacks the perfected | lending of meaning and form which onstitutes Swinburne's power, that | oes not mean it has not spontaneity nd grace of it's own" Bookman.
  0WDER OF SYMPATHY by Chris topher Morley.
 'In The Powder of Sympathy MT. [orley has again made q book of his ew,paper contributions. Its title, the econd word Of which is persistently lisprinted Power represents mis- ellany of Morleyan observations with rawn both from the books he reads