Evening star., 1925-09-25

the customs of good society in the
| first city OF America" said the Boston
Commonwealth. in the appended
boosts. The Hartford Courant said:
"A very sensible and-if We may say
it OF a Rockwell bred volume. 1t
gives the rules that are observed in
! the metropolis. These sometimes seem
artificial. but are usually founded on
reason
The New York Evening Post car
ried off the prize with Its diplomatic
sentence concerning "Misertcordia. :"
by Ethel Lynn Linton. published in
the ''new<handy volume series:
We are not sure we like anything
by Mrs. clinton better than this" and
| the astute Evening Post reviewer
Those who have the duty. pleasa Mt
| and otherwise, of reviewing books,
ought TO copy out this sentence for
use In an emergency.
The new handy volume series re-
ferred to was something our own day
and age sadly lacks. These books
were sold st 20 to 80 cents, mailed
post paid to any address in the United
States 'on receipt of the price" They
were in large type, of a size con-
venient for the pocket. or suitable for
the library shelf, bound In paper
covers"
The paper covered book filled q
want, d want which exists today. Amy
one who has purchased a modern
| novel at 81. TO read once, knows the
truth OF these words.
Many writers have tried to give the
impression that Herman Melvilles
stories are a find" Of our day, but
in these advertising pages, printed in
1879, find the following addenda to
The Arab Wife" a romance Of the
Polynesian n Seas:
and romantic story. OF a kind to re-
call to many readers those brilliant
books Of so years ago-Melvilies s
'Typee' and 'Omoo"
SO. some As years ago. Melville was
not forgotten.
The demand for health books, too,
seems TO have been active in those
| days. Nor IL preventive medicine
quite the new thing that some would
like to have us believe. 1t seems that
in those days DR.. Richard McSherry.
professor of principles and practice Of
| member Of the American Medical As
ISOLATION and president of the Balti-
more Academy Of Medicine. published
book on Health, and How to Pro-
| mote It," in which the first division
| was headed:
Hygiene the Better Part of Medi'
cine"
1t seems to me that some Of those
who have been accusing the A. NJ. A.
of backwardness in preaching pre-
vention might with benefit look up
this old work.
An interesting division head from
the work Is:
Chewing and Smoking Should Be
Forbidden in School"
Just what long-past evils are re-
fsrred TO would be hard TO say, with
out reading the book. but they proba-
bly, refer to just about what the words
say. Ours has been a hardy republic;
no doubt Dickens was right when he
censured US for tobacco chewing:
Happily, however, as our little
ones take up their school duties this
| week, the problem of chewing among
pupils, even in high school, IL practi-
cally no problem at all. AS TO smok-
ing, that Is another matter.
Some of the books advertised In
these old pages, however. are with US
yet. The passage of time has not
swept them away. Nor will 1t. Here
are the Essays of Ella" by Charles
Lamb, 80 cents, with the following
from the Philadslphia North Amer
lean:
The quaintness of thought and ex-
preston, the originality and humor
and exquisite elaboration of the pa
pers have made them as much a
standard as any of the writings of
Addison and Steele, and far more
agreeable"
Here, olso. We have ads OF Marryat' S
| novels. Of which '.h1idshipman Easy
Is the only one widely read today;
the Waverley novels, in various edi-
| tfons. one at % cents volume: also
Charles Dickens Works" in many
editions. ending with one in paper;
at from Is to 35 cents q CODY,
and James Fenimore Coopsr's i'm.
mortal Leather-Stocking ron1ances
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