Evening star., 1933-10-01


Reading With a Purpose" it presents
so stimulating reading courses in SUBJ
jects Of cultural, historical, economic,
or occupational interest, each prepared
by an outstanding authority. The
booklets may be obtained at the infor-
nation desk at the central building Of
the Public Library, or at any neighbOr-
hood branch. At the central library
and the major branches, the readers
advisers will gladly talk over reading
problems, give assistance in finding the
books listed in the courses, and help
to follow up with volumes suggested
for further reading.
1.-THE study of art Is taste at once
engrossing and unselfish, which may
be INDUCED without effort, and yet has
the power of exciting the deepest emo
tions, a taste able to exercise and to
crafty both the nobler and softer part
Of our nature.
Z. Ears to Hear. Daniel Gregory
Mason.
81. Pleasure from Pictures, Henry
Turner Bailey.
IT. Appreciation of Sculpture, dorado
Taft.
%. Architecture. Lewis Mumford.
S. American Life in Architecture, P.
N. Youtz.
Books to Be Remembered.
Literature, properly so-called, draws
its sap from the deep soil of human
natures common and everlasting SYM
pathies, the gathered leaf-mould Of
countless generations, and not from any
top dressing capriciously scattered over
the surface"-Lowell.
4. Some Great American Books,
Dallas Lore Sharp.
49, Twentieth Century American
Novels. VIM. Lyon Phelps.
2. English Literature, w. NJ. c.
Carlton
20. Shakespeare, Felix E. Schelling
a. English Drama on the Stage, w.
P. Eaton
81. French Literature, Irving Babbitt.
81. Russian Literature, Avrahm Var
molinsky.
54. Scandinavian Literature, Hanna
"a. Modern Essay. Samuel McChord
Crothers.
10. Poetry Of Our Own Times, Mar
guerite Wilkinson
20. Modern Drama, Barrett H. Clark.
Interesting Men and Events.
Each generation gathers together
the imperishable children of the past,
and increases them by new sons Of
light, alike radiant with Immortality
Bancroft.
3. Ten Pivotal Figures of History,
A. w Vernon.
Is. Life of Christ. Rufus M. Jones.
81. Founders Of the Republic. c. G.
A. George Washington, Albert Bush
nell Hart.
20. westward American Settlement,
Hamlin Garland.
Is. Americans from Abroad, John P.
Gavit.
TO- United States in Recent Times,
F. L. Paxson.
81 Practice of Politics, Raymond
Moley
63. Representative goth Century
Americans. NJ A. De Wolfe Howe.
Al. Pivotal Figures OF Science. A. E.
Bostwick.
26. French Revolution in Fiction,
VIM. S. Davis.
As. English History, George H. Locke.
1S. Europe of Our Day, Herbert A.
Gibbons.
Thinking for Ourselves.
Man thinks, and at once becomes
the master Of the beings that do not
think Button.
6. Frontiers of knowledge, Jesse Lee
Bennett
l2. Philosophy, Alexander Meiklejohn.
a. Religion in Everyday Life, w. T.
Grenfell.
Developing Mind and Body.
1.-The training which makes men hap
piest in themselves also makes them
NOSE serviceable to others. s."-Ruskin.
II. Psychology and Its Use. Everett
D. Martin
1e. Mental Hygiene, Frankwood E.
williams.
Al. Human Body and Its Care, Nor
ris Fishbein.
10. Our Children. M. v. O'Shea.
SO. Young Child, Bird T. Baldwin.
Our Fellow Man.
Omit a few of the most abstruse
occupies nearly the whole field of lit
erature. The burden of history is what
man has been; of law, what he does;
Of physiology. what he is; Of ethics,
what he ought to be; Of revelation,
what he shall be."-Finlayson.
48. Capital and Labor, John A. Fitch.
66. Unemployment, Aaron Director.
S. Economics, Walton H. Hamilton.
8. Sociology, Howard w. Odum.
81. Farm Life, Clarence Poe.
10. Conflicts in American Public
Opinion, VIM. Allen White and w.
E. Myer.
81. Practice of Politics, Raymond
Moley.
o. American Education. VIM. F.
Russell.
80. Foreign Relations Of the United
States. P. S. Mowrer.
so. International Relations, Isaiah
Bowman.
A. Pacific Area, ]. B. Condliffe
IS. Latin America, James G.. Nc
Donald.
What Man Has Learned.
Science corrects the old creeds,
sweeps away, with every new percep-
ton, our infantile catechismS, and
necessitates faith commensurate with
the grander orbits and the universal
laws which it discloses. Emerson.
80. The Stars, Harlow Shapley.
81. Evolution, j. Arthur Thomson.
43. Prehistoric Man, George G. Nc
Curdy.
/. Biology, Vernon Kellogg.
40. Geography and Our Need OF It,,
J. Russell Smith.
9. Physical sciences. E. E. Slosson.
Al Pivotal Figures of Science, A. E.
Bostwick.
Sc. Invention and Society, Waldemar
Kaempffert.
Occupations and Hobbies.
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