New Britain herald., 1925-07-01

veloping pictures, including tho lat est developments in radio and tcle, phonic transmission.
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN
 WHO LOVED THE STARS, by John Alfred Brashear.
 An interesting account of the ac. tivities and accomplishments of the man who working as a millwrlght became the foremost maker of as. tronomical lenses Of his day, con. trlbutor to scientific knowledge and the recipient of unusual honours His story told with great modesty reveals a rare personality whose gift for friendliness urged him con. tlnualIy 10 share the joy of his work and attainments with his fel- low men,-A. l.. A. Booklist. BASkETRY; WEAVING AND DE- SIGN, by Mrs. Minnie M, Lang
 Assumes an elementary knowl. edge of the work but gives enough definite instruction on the funda. mental structure of the designs tc enable one to make any of the arti- cles shown as models. Also some original designs using wood beads raftia and pine needles.
 
 BRIGHAM YOUNG, by Morris Rob
 ert Werner.
 Mr. Werner tells of the beginnne ot the Mormon movement, it's perso. cution, the painful and heroic march across the United States to Utah and the evolution of the extraordi- nary city-state on inc shores of Great Salt Lake. One of the most en- thralling chapters of American his tory.
 EDITH WHARTON, hy Robert I Morss Lovett.
 A friendly hut by no means of. fusive discussion of Mrs. Wharton and her work. She remains for us amons the voices whispering the last entertainments Of the Victorian age. '-Amerfcan Mercury. ETHICS: AN HISTORICAL INTRO DGICTION, by Stephen Ward.
 A compact historical survey of ethics from the Sophists 10 current times,
 GASOLINE. WHAT EVERYONE
 SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TT, by
 T X, Boyd.
 Fascinating story of gasoline, from the oil well to Its final utilization in the automobile.
 HOW TO SEE MODERN r1C-
 TURTS, by Ralph M Pearson Art handbook for the ,laynan cv- p'ainins the principles of dosIgn and giving advice asfto how tn use the museums and art shors, what to read, etc.
 IN MEXICAN WATERS, hy George
 Hugh Banning.
 Account of q cruise to the islands lying off the western coast of MoN- CO., and of visits to some of tho towns and ostuarios of the mainland T.ETTHANDFDNESS. hy Beaufort
 Sims rarsor.
 A detailed demonstration in sclcn- fife terms of the authors novhl ov. rlanation of the phenomenon o' lefthandedness.
 pH.Ds. MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. hy T,oon-
 ard Bacon,
 Two long nooms "Sonh'a Trcn- ton" and "Tho Dunbar Traaody,." which satirizo thc dull business of thesis writing for doctor of nhil- osorhy degrees. Witty and original SHErHFR0 OF ETERNITY ANO
 OTHER POEMS, hv Eva Gore
 Booth.
 TALE or OTP MERCHANT
 SHIPS by Charles F. Cart
 wright.
 Traces tho evolution of our mor- chant marine from colonial times to the present day, with a few brief chapters on ancient ships and sail ing. Recreates something of the romance of the days of sail. and contains some particularly good de- scriptions of the ships in uso at dif- forent stages of our maritime his tory.
 WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND
 THE FAR EAST, by stephen
 King Hall.
 A study of "rresont-day Far Eastern political tendencies from the point of view of their relationship to world affairs" A historical sur- vcy of the affairs of China and Ja- pan Is also included as background necessary for the complete hnder- standing of tho problem of coorora- ton between East and West with which the study is Immediately con- Cerned.
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 Fiction BARREN GROUND, by Ellen Glas.
 gow.
 The south, so familiarity pictured in fiction as a land of colonels, old mansions. and delicate romancos. is here shown 10 be a hard country peopled by farmers who live lives as real as any in our great cities or on our wide western priaries. SPINDRTFT: a novel of the Great
 Lakes, by Harold Titus.
 The hero, imprisoned for a mur- i "A