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Domestic Economy, continued.

Bohemian-American Rosická, Marie. cook book; tested and practical recipes for American and Bohemian dishes; an English translation of the cook book published in the Bohemian language and compiled by Mary Rosický. National Printing Co., 1915.

Wright, M. M. Candy-making at home; two hundred ways to make candy with home flavor and professional finish. Penn Publishing Co., 1915.

BUSINESS

Baugh, F. H. Principles and practice of cost accounting for accountants, manufacturers, mechanical engineers, teachers and students. Baugh, 1915.

De Weese, T. A. Keeping a dollar at work; fifty talks on newspaper advertising, written for the N. Y. Evening Post. Evening Post, 1915.

Spencer, E. L. The efficient secretary; practical suggestions, information, helps to stenographers and others wishing to become secretaries, ideas, economy, loyalty, typing, filing, getting a position. Stokes, 1916.

SCIENCE

Bishop, Farnham. The story of the submarine. Century, 1916.

Dommett, W. E. Aeroplanes and airships, including steering, propelling and navigating apparatus, bombs, flechettes, anti-aircraft guns and searchlights, and with notes on aircraft offensive and defensive tactics and exploits in the present war. Whittaker, 1915.

Grieves, L. C. Military sketching and map reading for non-commissioned officers. U. S. Infantry Association, 1915.

Luckiesh, M. Color and its applications. Van Nostrand, 1915.

Practical, comprehensive, and completely illus trated. Author is physicist to the Nela Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company.

Tells about the theory of light and the production of color, color mixture, terminology, analysis, color and vision, effect of environment, color vision, photometry, color photography, lighting, color effects for the stage, color phenomena in painting, color matching, color music, and colored media.

Moore, F. J. Experiments in organic chemistry; a laboratory manual designed to accompany outlines of organic chemistry. Wiley, 1915.

Turner, H. H. A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas, 1913. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1915.

Watson, J. A. S. Evolution. Jack, 1915.

GARDENING AND AGRICULTURE

McCall, A. G. Field and laboratory studies of crops; an elementary manual for students of agriculture. Wiley, 1916.

· Newell, F. H. Irrigation management; the operation, maintenance and betterment of works for bringing water to agricultural lands. Appleton, 1916.

Rexford, E. E. A-B-C of vegetable gardening. Harper, 1916.

HYGIENE

Bannington, B. G. English public health administration; introduction by Graham Wallas. King, 1915.

Le Prince, J. A. A., and A. J. ORENSTEIN. Mosquito control in Panama; the eradication of malaria and yellow fever in Cuba and Panama; with an introduction by L. O. Howard. Putnam, 1916.

Summerville, Amelia. Why be fat? Rules for weight-reduction and the preservation of youth and health. Stokes, 1916.

OUTDOOR LIFE AND INDOOR
AMUSEMENTS

Auer, H. A. Camp fires in the Yukon. Stewart, 1916.

Ehlermann, Carl, jr. Neglected points of auction bridge. Harper, 1916.

Moore, H. H. Keeping in condition; a handbook on training for older boys; with an introduction by Clark W. Hetherington. Macmillan, 1915.

Shaw, F. G. The complete science of fly fishing and spinning. Macmillan, 1915.

Verrill, A. H. The book of the sailboat; how to rig, sail and handle small boats. Appleton, 1916.

Wright, W. L. The motion picture story; a textbook of photoplay writing. Lundeen Publishing Co., 1915.

FINE ARTS

Including Architecture

Bell, R. H. The philosophy of painting; a study of the development of the art from prehistoric to modern times. Putnam, 1916.

Brinton, Christian. Impressions of the art at the Panama-Pacific Exposition; with a chapter on the San Diego Exposition and an introductory essay on "The modern spirit in contemporary painting." Lane, 1916.

"A valuable record... Mr. Brinton prepares his public for the most recent phases of contemporary printing by a preliminary chapter... He does not shrink from disparagement of certain general aspects of the exhibition." -N. Y. Times, March 5, 1916.

Dustman, U. M. Construction of dwelling houses and bungalows; a book that shows you how to construct in fullest detail, modern priced homes and bungalows. Thompson, 1916.

Holborn, J. B. S. The need for art in life; a lecture delivered at the University of Manchester, by J. B. Stoughton Holborn. Shaw, 1915.

"We cannot say that our age is markedly deficient in intellectual activity, nor is it conspicuously lacking in the moral sense. But what about Art and Beauty...? This then is our endeavour...to bring home the fact that art is the thing we lack, and that it is this...that indirectly has affected our other activities and injured our life as a whole." - Preface.

Meloy, A. S. Theatres and motion picture houses; a practical treatise on the proper planning and construction of such buildings and containing useful suggestions, rules and data for the benefit of architects, prospective owners, etc.; with drawings by the author. Architects' Supply and Publishing Co., 1916.

This, and a German book, are the only ones that have come to us, dealing with the designing of a form of building which has taken an important place in the public eye.

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Leffingwell, Albert. An ethical problem; or, Sidelights upon scientific experimentation on man and animals. Bell, 1914.

Contents: What is vivisection? On certain mistakes of scientists. An eighteenth-century vivisector. Magendie and his contemporaries.

Patrick, G. T. W. The psychology of relaxation. Houghton, 1916.

Contents: Introduction. The psychology of play. The psychology of laughter. The psychology of profanity. The psychology of alcohol. The psychology of war. Conclusion.

Payne, G. H. The child in human progress; with a foreword by A. Jacobi. Putnam, 1916.

DRAMAS

Anspacher, L. K. The unchastened woman; a modern comedy in three acts. Stokes, 1916.

Dreiser, Theodore. Plays of the natural and the supernatural. Lane, 1916. Contents: The girl in the coffin. The blue sphere. Laughing gas. In the dark. The Spring recital. The light in the window. "Old ragpicker.'

Garnett, L. A. Master Will of Stratford; a midwinter night's dream in three acts with a prologue and an epilogue. Macmillan, 1916.

London, Jack. The acorn-planter; a California forest play; planned to be sung by, efficient singers accompanied by a capable orchestra. Macmillan, 1916.

Pinero, Sir Arthur W. The big drum; a comedy in four acts. Heinemann, 1915. Wilde, Percival. Confessional, and other American plays. Holt, 1916.

Contents: Confessional. The villain in the piece. According to Darwin. A question of morality. The beautiful story.

LANGUAGE

Fernald, J. C. English grammar simplified; its study made easy. Funk, 1916.

Hall, G. F. All Spanish method; first and second books. Método directo para aprender el español. World Book Co., 1915.

MUSIC

Goetschius, Percy. The larger forms of musical composition; an exhaustive ex

Jordan, David Starr. Ways to lasting planation of the variations, rondos, and peace. Merrill, 1916.

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sonata designs, for the general student of musical analysis, and for the special student of structural composition. Schirmer, 1915.

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Moss, J. A., and M. B. STEWART. Selfhelps for the citizen-soldier; being a popular explanation of things military. George Banta Publishing Co., 1915.

Palmer, J. M. An army of the people; the constitution of an effective force of trained citizens. Putnam, 1916.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Fear God and take your own part. Doran, 1914-16.

Contents: Fear God and take your own part. Warlike power; the prerequisite for the preservation of social values. Where there is a sword for offence there must be a sword for defence, and other essays.

Usher, Roland G. The challenge of the future; a study in American foreign policy. Houghton, 1916.

Wood, E. F. The writing on the wall; the nation on trial. Century, 1916.

RELIGION

Including Mythology and Folk-lore

Benson, L. F. The English hymn; its development and use in worship. Hodder, 1915.

Brown, F. L. Sunday school officers manual; the training of officers and committees; a practical course for Sunday school leaders. Abingdon Press, 1916.

Courtney, W. L. The literary man's New Testament; the books arranged in chronological order with introductory essays and annotations. Dutton, 1915.

Cuthbert, Father. The romanticism of St. Francis, and other studies in the genius of the Franciscans. Longmans, 1915.

Contents: The romanticism of St. Francis. St. Clare of Assisi. The story of the friars. A modern friar.

Decker, F. H. Christ's experience of God; with introduction by William D. Hyde. Pilgrim Press, 1915.

Fairbanks, Arthur. Greek gods and heroes, as represented in the classical collections of the museum; a handbook for high school students prepared in conjunction with a committee of teachers. Houghton, 1915.

Figgis, J. N. The fellowship of the mystery; being the Bishop Paddock lectures

delivered at the General Theological_Seminary, New York; during Lent, 1913. Longmans, 1915.

Fleming, G. G. The dynamic of allprayer; an essay in analysis; with an introduction by the Rev. Andrew Murray. Doran, 1915.

Gibson, J. T. Jesus Christ; the unique revealer of God. Revell, 1915.

Jackson, F. J. Foakes-. The faith and the war; a series of essays by members of the Churchmen's Union and others on the religious difficulties aroused by the present condition of the world; edited by F. J. Foakes-Jackson. Macmillan, 1915.

Kern, J. A. Vision and power; a study in the ministry of preaching. Revell, 1915. Contents: The man. The housetop. The vision. The interpretation. Visions and vision. Vision of nature. Vision of man. Vision of Jesus. The opportunity. Enlargement of opportunity.

Knight, A. E. Amentet; an account of the gods, amulets and scarabs of the ancient Egyptians. Longmans, 1915.

Lambuth, W. R. Winning the world for Christ; a study in dynamics. Revell, 1915.

Contents: The kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit; God seeking man. Prayer; man seeking God. Missions and the heroic. A missionary church. The preeminence of Christ.

McKeever, W. A. How to become an efficient Sunday school teacher. The Standard Publishing Co., 1915.

Contents: The basic principles. The kindergarten age. The elementary grades. The adolescent problems. The parents' divisions.

The doctrine of the Mozley, J. K. atonement. Scribner, 1916.

Murray, J. L., and F. M. HARRIS. Christian standards in life. Associated Press, 1915.

son.

Contents: Enthusiasm for service, A. F. JackResponsibility for the way others live, Jacob Riis. A fearless messenger, G. L. Mackay. Everyday friendliness, John Woolman, and other articles.

Re-Bartlett, Lucy. The circle and the cross. Longmans, 1915.

Contents: The angel of pain. Bernhardi and what he teaches us. Are the churches Christian? Reality within the home. Reality in work and friendship. Reality in faith. Concerning inspiration. Reality in education. The circle and the cross.

Ropes, J. H. A critical and exegetical commentary of the epistle of St. James. Scribner, 1916.

Shepheard, H. B. Jesus and politics; an essay towards an ideal, with introduction by Vida D. Scudder. Dutton, 1915.

Slattery, C. L. Why men pray. Macmillan, 1916.

Contents: All men pray. Prayer discovers God. Prayer unites men. God depends on men's prayer. Prayer submits to the best. Prayer receives God.

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