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A SELECTION OF THE NEW BOOKS RECENTLY ADDED

TO THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

BOOKS IN THE FOLLOWING LIST, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FICTION AND OTHER
CURRENT POPULAR WORKS, ARE AVAILABLE AS INTERBRANCH
LOANS UPON THE REQUEST OF THE READERS

GENERAL WORKS

Hadlock, E. H. Press correspondence and journalism; a complete system and course of instruction for students of those branches. 1910.

Kaiser, J. B. Law, legislative and municipal reference libraries; an introductory manual and bibliographical guide. 1914.

In spite of the phrase "introductory manual" the subject is treated at length and with care. Contains full index.

Moncrieff, A. R. H. A book about authors; reflections & recollections of a book-wright. 1914.

Mr. Moncrieff is a veteran writer, the author of many books on varied subjects. Much of this volume is very readable.

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Coit, Stanton. The soul of America; a constructive essay in the sociology of religion. 1914.

Hare, Christopher, pseud. Men and women of the Italian reformation. 19—?)

Contents: Precursors of the reformation. Oratory of divine love. Cardinals Giberti, Sadoleto and Morone. Cardinal Pole. Religious circle at Viterbo. Caterina Cibo, duchess of Camerino. Peter Martyr and Ochino. Renée of France. Calvin and his visit to Ferrara. The sorrows of Renée, and other essays.

Hart, Samuel. Faith and the faith; the Bohlen lectures, 1914.

Contents: Faith. Faith in God. Faith in Jesus Christ. Faith in the spirit. The life of faith.

Jones, R. M. Spiritual reformers in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1914.

Margoliouth, D. S. The early development of Mohammedanism; lectures delivered in the University of London, May and June 1913. 1914.

Martin, E. O.. The gods of India; a brief description of their history, character and worship. 1914.

Stainer, Sir John. The music of the Bible; with some account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types; new edition, with additional illustrations and supplementary notes by the Rev. F. W. Galpin. 1914.

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Sociology, continued.

Branford, Victor. Interpretations and forecasts; a study of survivals and tendencies in contemporary sociey. 1914.

Contents: Some illustrations of sociology. The citizen as sociologist. The citizen as psychologist. The sociologist at the theatre. The medieval citizen. The present as a tradition. Town and gown in America.

Brown, W. C. The new politics, and other papers. 1914.

Contents: The new politics. Prophetic voices about America. The white peril; the immediate danger of the negro. The south and the saloon. President Taft's opportunity. Greetings to the presidents.

Butler, J. R. M. The passing of the great reform bill. 1914.

This dissertation of 450 pages is "more concerned throughout with negotiations behind the scenes, and with the working and effect of popular opinion, than with the course of events in Parliament." Preface.

Clark, J. B. Social justice without socialism. 1914.

In this short lecture Professor Clark states his reasons for preferring a programme of social reform to socialism.

Cromwell, J. W. The negro in American history; men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. 1914.

Hobson, J. A. Work and wealth; a human valuation. 1914.

The purpose of this book "is to present a full and formal exposure of the inhumanity and vital waste of modern industry by the close application of the best-approved formulas of individual and social welfare, and to indicate the most hopeful measures of remedy for a society sufficiently intelligent, courageous and self-governing to apply them." Preface.

Kautsky, Karl. The high cost of living; changes in gold-production and the rise in prices; translated by Austin Lewis. 1914.

Supports the theory that an increase in the gold supply causes an increase in the price of commodities.

Nixon, Lewis. The canal tolls and American shipping. 1914.

An interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty by an opponent of the Tolls repeal act.

Osborne, T. M. Within prison walls; being a narrative of personal experience during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York. 1914.

Perlman, M. Rodman instruction for civil service examinations; with aids for axeman, chainman, transitman, draftsman, and leveler; containing 100 answers to questions asked at examinations in the New York State service, and 350 specimen questions. 1914.

Picht, Werner. Toynbee Hall, and the English settlement movement; revised edition, translated from the German by Lilian A. Cowell. 1914.

Treats of the organization and work of English social settlements. An appendix gives a list of all the settlements in Great Britain.

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Bell, A. M. Popular manual of vocal physiology and visible speech. 1904.

Hall, A. J. Religious education in the public schools of the state and city of New York; a historical study. 1914.

Henderson, C. H. What is it to be educated? 1914.

Kerschensteiner, G. M. A. The schools and the nation; translation by C. K. Ogden; with an introduction by Viscount Haldane. 1914.

Kilpatrick, W. H. The Montessori system examined. 1914.

Taylor, C. K. The physical examination and training of children; a handbook for school medical inspectors, physical directors, teachers, and parents. 1914.

SCIENCE

Housden, C. E. The riddle of Mars, the planet. 1914.

Letts, E. A. Some fundamental problems in chemistry, old and new. 1914. Lynde, C. J. Physics of the household. 1914.

Miller, C. M. Kitecraft and kite tournaments. 1914.

Moritz, R. E. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book. 1914.

Moulton, F. R. An introduction to celestial mechanics. 1914.

Shealy, E. M. Heat; prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin. 1914.

Wright, W. B. The quaternary ice age. 1914.

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

Crussell, E. H. Jobbing work for the carpenter. 1914.

Parker, P. à M. The control of water, as applied to irrigation, power and town water supply purposes. 1913.

Protheroe, Ernest. The railways of the world. 19-?

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Holder, C. F. Salt water game fishing. 1914.

Jones, O. G. Rock-climbing in the English lake district; with a memoir and two appendices by George and Ashley Abraham. 1911.

Mason, James. Social chess; a collection of short and brilliant games with historical and practical illustrations. 1900.

Metcalfe, A. R. Complete auction bridge. 1914.

Miller, E. D. Modern polo; edited by L. V. L. Simmonds. 1911.

Mummery, A. F. My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus; with an introduction by Mrs. Mummery, and an appreciation by J. A. Hobson. 1908.

Noakes, E. E. Magical originalities; a chat on practical magic, with a preface by J. N. Maskelyne. 1914.

Stone, H. L. The "America's" cup races; illustrated with photographs. 1914.

FINE ARTS

Bryant, L. M. What sculpture to see in Europe. 1914.

Burgess, F. Chats on old copper and brass. 1914.

Bushnell, A. J. de H. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. 1914.

Cram, R. A. The ministry of art. 1914. Contents: Art the revealer. The philosophy of the Gothic restoration. The place of the fine arts in public education. The artist and the world. The craftsman and the architect. American university architecture. The ministry of art.

Davies. Randall. Six centuries of painting. 1914.

Contents: Tuscan schools. Venetian schools. Spanish school, Flemish school, Dutch school, German schools, French school. The English school. The nineteenth century.

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LITERATURE

Including Drama, Essays, etc.

Clark, B. H. The continental drama of to-day; outlines for its study, suggestions, questions, biographies, and bibliographies for use in connection with the study of the more important plays. 1914.

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Contents: What constitutes a play. Henrik IbBjörnstjerne Björnson. Leo Tolstoy. Maxim Gorky. Anton Tchekoff. Leonid Andreyeff. August Strindberg. Gerhart Hauptmann. Hermann Sudermann. Frank Wedekind. Arthur Schnitzler. Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Henry Becque. Jules Lemaitre. Henri Lavedan. Maurice Donnay. Paul Hervieu. Eugène Brieux. Edmond Rostand. Maurice Maeterlinck. Gabriele D'Annunzio. Giuseppe Giacosa. José Echegaray, Benito Perez Galdós.

Matson, Esther. A book of inscriptions. 1914.

Names for country houses; chimneypiece mottoes; inscriptions for bed-rooms and dining-rooms, for fountains and sun-dials; quotations to accompany gifts.

Monahan, Michael. At the sign of the van; being the log of The Papyrus with other escapades in life and letters. 1914.

Contents: At the sign of the van: A parable; Spring song in Harlem; Farewell to New York; One summer; In the country; Pro domo sua; Samples of his philosophy; Rifts in the lute; A blank; Hegira; God's acre; A resurrection; A child is born; The return; His wanderings over; The literary motive; A brother-at-arms. Adventures in life; Crossing the ferry; The lions; Youth and fame; Milady of the anise; A Whitmanite; Pro amicis et hostibus; Tartarin; Americanus sum; The expatriates; Out of the East; A humble life; The poet as host; and other essays.

Tolman, F. L. Legends and poetry of the forests; Arbor day, May 8, 1914; compiled by Frank Leland Tolman. 1914.

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Author was an Irish "navvy" (laborer). His poems have a certain rough strength, somewhat after the manner of Jack London and others of the "red blood" school.

Norton, G. F. The sister of the wind, and other poems. 1914.

Rentoul, J. From far lands; poems of North and South, by Gervais Gage. 1914. Untermeyer, Louis. Challenge. 1914. Wagstaff, B. S. Eris; a dramatic allegory. 1914.

Woods, M. L. B. Collected poems. 1914. Contents: London poems. Peasant poems. Oxford poems. Child poems.

Ballads and lyrics. Songs. Plays: Wild justice. The Princess of Han

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Contents: The movement called the renaissance. Frederick, emperor, and Francis, saint. Italy before the renaissance. The ascent to Dante. Dante. From Dante to Petrarch. Petrarch. Воссассіо. The rise of the despots. The Venetian republic. The progress of humanism. The age of the academies. Printing and the renaissance. Educational idealists in the renaissance. The house of Borgia. The Medici and renaissance Florence. A great reactionary; Savonarola. Machiavelli. Women of the renaissance. The school of Ferrara and Ariosto. Erasmus. The renaissance in Germany. Martin Luther. The renaissance in Spain. The navigators. The art of the renaissance. The renaissance in France. The renaissance in England.

Vassili, Count, Paul, pseud. France from behind the veil; fifty years of social and political life. 1914.

BIOGRAPHY-COLLECTIVE

Mathews. Basil. The splendid quest; stories of knights on the Pilgrims' Way. 1914?

Contents: The knight of the quest; Sir Galahad. A twelve year-old knight; King Louis of France. The man with an axe; Abraham Lincoln.

The knight of his sister; Charles Lamb. The maiden knight of voices; Joan of Arc. The hidden pil. grims; Knights unnamed and unknown. The daring fisherman; Simon Peter. Our Lady of dingy streets; Sister Dora. The greatheart of Papua; James Chalmers. The man in a coracle; Columba. Steel true and blade straight'; Louisa Alcott. The adventures of St. Paul. The splendid conquest; The Hero of Heroes.

Speer, R. E. Studies of missionary leadership. 1914.

Contents: Walter Lowrie and the foundation of the missionary enterprise. Jeremiah Evarts and the early problems of missions. Paul Sawayama and the principle of the Independent National Church. Nehemiah Goreh and the relation of western forms of Christian experience to the Indian mind. David Trumbull, the friend of Chile, and the problems of the foreign community and religious liberty. Rufus Anderson the foremost American missionary administrator.

Stubbs, M. W. How Europe was won for Christianity; being the life-stories of the men concerned in its conquest. 1913.

The linking of the old and the new. The prince of missionaries; Paul the Apostle. A missionarybishop. Wulfila the Goth. Bondsman and emancipator; The story of Patricius. The apostles of Galloway and Strathclyde; Ninian and Kentigern. The dove of the churches; Columba and the Missionary Institute of Iona. A voice from the desert; Severinus, hermit-missionary. Celtic missionaries on the continent; Columbanus and Gallus. The founder of Canterbury; Augustine and the conversion of Kent. A Roman bishop and a Northumbrian king; Paulinus and Eadwine. The glory of the north country; Aidan and Cuthbert. Whoi the Briton honours; England's lesser apostles. Labourers in Friesland; Amandus; Eligius; Wilfrid; Willibrord; Liudger; and Willehad. The monk of Nutscelle; Winfrid, better known as Boniface. The apostle of the north; Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg. Messengers among the Slavs; Cyril (Constantine), and Methodius, and others.

BIOGRAPHY-INDIVIDUAL

Calvin, John. John Calvin; his life, letters, and work, by Hugh Y. Reyburn. 1914.

Dowden, Edward, and E. D. W. Fragments from old letters E. D. to E. D. W., 1869-1892. 1914.

George I., king of the Hellenes. King George of Greece, by Walter Christmas, translated from the Danish by A. G. Chater. 1914.

Napoleon I., emperor of the French. Napoleon in exile; Elba, from the entry of the allies into Paris on the 31st March 1814 to the return of Napoleon from Elba and his landing at Golfe Jouan on the 1st March 1815, by Norwood Young; with a chapter on the iconography, by A. M. Broadley. 1914.

Stanhope (3. earl). Charles Stanhope. The life of Charles, third earl Stanhope, by Ghita Stanhope and G. P. Gooch; revised and completed by G. P. Gooch. 1914.

Symonds, J. A. John Addington Symonds; a biographical study, by Van Wyck Brooks. 1914.

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TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION Bagley, A. L. Walks and scrambles in the highlands. 1914.

Bell, J. M. The wilds of Maoriland. 1914.

Braun, Ethel. The new Tripoli, and what I saw in the hinterland. 1914.

Davis, W. S. A day in old Athens; a picture of Athenian life. 1914.

Fraser, J. F. The amazing Argentine; a new land of enterprise. 1914.

Gibson, R. R. Forces mining and undermining China. 1914.

Hutton, W. H. Highways and byways in Shakespeare's country. 1914.

Lorimer, N. O. By the waters of Germany; with a preface by Douglas Sladen. 1914.

Lynn, Margaret. A stepdaughter of the prairie. 1914.

Russell, W. S. C. Iceland; horseback tours in saga land.

Stewart, E. P. homesteader. 1914.

1914.

Letters of a woman

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Chekhov, A. P. Stories of Russian life, translated from the Russian by Marian Fell. 1914.

man in a case.

Contents: Overseasoned. The night before Easter. At home. Champagne. The malefactor. Murder will out. The trousseau. The decoration. The Little Jack. Dreams. The death of an official. Agatha. The beggar. Children. The troublesome guest. Not wanted. The robbers. Lean and fat. On the way. The head gardener's tale. Hush! Without a title. In the ravine.

Crockett, S. R. Silver Sand. 1914. Herrick, Robert. Clark's field. 1914. Janvier, T. A. At the Casa Napoléon. 1914.

Stories of New York, south of Washington Square, thirty or forty years ago. The "Casa Napoléon" is a fictitious name for a real place.

Jepson, Edgar. The intervening lady. 1914.

Keller, Gottfried. A village Romeo and Juliet; a tale, translated from the German by A. C. Bahlmann, with an introduction by Edith Wharton. 1914.

Lessing, Bruno, pseud. With the best intention. 1914.

Lincoln, N. S. The man inside. 1914. London, Jack. The strength of the strong. 1914.

Contents: The strength of the strong. South of the slot. The unparalleled invasion. The enemy of all the world. The dream of Debs. The seafarmer. Samuel.

Maartens, Maarten, pseud. A question of taste.

1914.

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Henry of Navarre, Ohio,

by "Holworthy Hall." 1914. Comic story of a college student. Schnitzler, Arthur. The road to the open; authorised translation by Horace Samuel. 1914?

Sinclair, B. W. North of fifty-three. 1914.

Sinclair, May. The return of the prodigal. 1914.

Contents: The return of the prodigal. The gift. The fault. Wilkinson's wife. Miss Tarrant's temperament. Appearances. The Wrackham memoirs. The cosmopolitan.

Van Schaick, George. Sweetapple cove. 1914.

Whitaker, Herman. Cross trails; the story of one woman in the north woods. 1914.

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