New Britain herald., 1924-10-07
Mew Books at Me Institute

modern Greek, Polish and Yiddish will find new titles on the shelves. These books have ben carefully se- lected and offer the foreign born citizen a chance to enjoy literature written in their native tongue.
 Also the library has a useful col lection of books which will help the foreign born reader to learn English and a number of guides to citizen ship. giving the necessary steps to- ward becoming a voter. Evening school teachers and social workers are invited to call attention to these attractions at our public library. BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO
 MAN by c. M. Weed and Ned
 Dearborn.
 The tremendous economic signi.' ficance of bird life Is very clearly impressed upon the reader of this careful and enightening volume. CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL UNREST
 by John A. Fitch.
 That working people are essen- tially human and understandable though not always right is the thesis of this book as of the authors earl fer articles in the Survey. Patient investigation and calm interpreta- ton combine to make this a very genuine contribution to the discus sion of labor problems. THE COMMON SENSE OF TENNIS
 by William T. Tilden.
 Dos and don'ts for the dub" is a chapter at once humbling and en- couraging to the would-be tennis player who will want to join his more expert brethern in reading all of this very excellent little book by fine sportsman and straightfor- ward writer. DEMOCRAC1ES OF THE EAST by
 R. Mukerjei.
 In the East democratic govern ment is fine art and Its forms in India, China and Japan are expound- ed by Professor Mukerjel provide abundant material, which is here brought together for the first time,
 
 EYE HAZARDS IN INDUSTRIAL
 OCCUPATIONS by Louis Res nick and Lewis H. Carris.
 Safety devices and methods for getting them used are carefully de- scribed in this very excellent and well illustrated handbook written for all who have any responsibility for the prevention of eye injury or disease in industry.
 GEORGIAN STORIES 1924.
 A choice collection Of the best efforts of fourteen leading English writers.
 THE GIFT OF rLACK FOLK by ". E. B, Dubois.
 This intense apostle for the negro holds that in spite of war, caste and slavery, the black man has brought very real and many sided contribution to American life. HEIRS OF THE INCAS by Carroll
 k. Kitchener.
 Mir. Kitchener tells the story of his travels in this "crade of the South American people" with humor and keen appreciation of the beau ties of the Andean country the strange types of people and the ex- traordinary combination of modern commercialism, medieval ideas, and general soveniness that flourish there.
 ISLES OF EDEN by Laura Lee
 Davidson.
 Leisurely vacation musings inter spersed with dramatic bits from the life of country folk. KEEPING UP WITH SCIENCE by
 Edwin Emery Slosson.
 With this incurable capacity for making things interesting the au- thor of Creative Chemistry" brings his readers painlessly and prohtably up to date in matters scientific, LIFE OF THE BAT by Charles
 Derennes.
 Intimate and sympathetic pictures of the life and habits of these mys- terious little creatures. LOUISIANA UNDER SP AT N,
 FRANCE AN THE L. S. 17S5-
 1897 by James Alexander Rob-
 ertson.
 Source documents, carefully trans lated and edited which give rather interesting sidelights on life in the early days of Louisiana.
  MENTAL DISEASE. public health
 problem by James V. May.
 Causes, types, and prevention of mental disorders are authoritative ly discussed in this plump but read able volume by the head of Boston State hospital.