ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
Homer Eaton Keyes '00 is the editor of a new monthly magazine, "Antiques, a magazine for collectors and others who find interest in times past and in the articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers." Volume one number one is dated January, 1922. Frederick E. Atwood '00 is the publisher and Alice Van Leer Carrick is editorial consultant. The editor on the editorial page states that he hopes to cover the following subjects: "Arms, armor, books, bronzes, china, clocks, coins, draperies, etchings, fabrics, furniture, glassware, hardware, jewelry, laces, lamps, medals, paintings, pottery, porcelain, pewter, rugs;, samplers, silverware, stamps, tapestries and wall coverings."
Among the articles in. the first number are "Playthings of the Past," by Alice Van Leer Carrick; "Early Pottery of New England," by Walter A. Dyer; "A Cabinet-Maker's CabinetMaker: Notes on Thomas Sheraton, 1751-1806"; "Books: Old and Rare: The Market Worth of Bibles," by George H. Sargent; "Antiques Abroad," by Autolycos, and "The Museum and the Collector," by Charles Over Cornelius.
The department of antiques abroad will be maintained by monthly correspondence from a recognized connoisseur resident in London. Mr. Cornelius will also month by month note items of museum method or museum acquisition.
Mr. Keyes has done well to secure as contributors such authorities as Alice Van Leer Carrick, whose articles on all branches of antiques are well known far and wide; Walter A. Dyer, author of "The Lure of the Antique" and "Early American Craftsmen"; George H. Sargent, author and the Bibliographer of the Boston Evening Transcript, and Mr. C. O. Cornelius. Alice Van Leer Carrick's article on "Playthings of the Past," is copiously illustrated and is most delightful reading, especially as little has yet appeared in print about children's playthings. Mr. Dyer's articles on "Early Pottery of New England" is entertaining and instructive. Of late a great deal of interest in old New England pottery has been aroused. This has been due in part to the interest in the subject shown by the late Albert H. Pitkin, whose collection in the Morgan Memorial at Hartford, Connecticut, is one of the best museum collections in the country. Up to within a few years the only New England pottery that has been collected has been the well known Bennington ware. In this interesting article dealing largely with early Connecticut potteries, Mr. Dyer leads us to believe that Bennington pottery was not made before 1846, whereas a pottery was established in Bennington, Vermont, probably as early as 1793.
Besides these longer articles there are shorter articles of interest, book reviews, a bibliography of articles on antiques in current magazines, a list of current literature on antiques and a list of exhibitions of antiques, auction notes and a list of antique stores in Boston. The cover shows a rare type of curved Heppelwhite settee in the home of Mr. Winslow Pierce 'OS of Portsmouth, N. H. This magazine of 48 pages is well printed on good paper and copiously illustrated.
As there is no magazine in the country that deals with the increasingly interesting subject of antiques, there seems to be a demand and a wide field for a magazine of this kind.
If future numbers equal in interest and are as well illustrated as the first issue, the editor and publisher may certainly hope to have a large subscription list. In the artistic hands of Mr. Keyes such a magazine is bound to win recognition. His friends everywhere will wish him and "Antiques" success.
"Models of Speech Composition," compiled by JAMES MILTON O'NEILL '07, Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, University of Wisconsin. Century Co.
Mr. O'Neill has aimed to present in a single volume of not unwieldy size several "models" of each of the various types of public speech, classified under the heads—Forensic, Deliberative, Demonstrative, Sermons and Lectures; the first three being the traditional classes familiar to students of rhetoric. Under Demonstrative orations he gives twelve subclasses. There are ninety-five speeches in' all, and every speech is. given entire, "without the omission of a single word." They vary greatly in length, from Webster's Second Reply to Wayne, covering sixty-one pages, to Shailer Mathews' two words introducing Woodrow Wilson—"The President". The largest number from one author is five. Lincoln contributes his Cooper Institute Address, his few words of farewell to his Springfield neighbors; his two inaugurals and the incomparable Gettysburg address. Coming next in number of contributions is Woodrow Wilson, with four speeches, one of which was given in Hanover on the occasion of Dr. Nichols' inauguration. Two selections are from Dr. Tucker. Another speech of local interest is that of Justice Stafford on the occasion of Dartmouth's sesquicentennial.
No translated speeches are given, and all but one of the authors (Kossuth) are either American, British or Irish—the non-American numbering fifteen of the total number of seventy-three. The compiler has aimed at variety as well as excellence—variety of occasion, of subject, or of plan.
The function of a critic in this case would seem to be to judge of the plan of the book as a whole and to appraise the judgment of the compiler in choosing his "models." The Present reviewer can unreservedly commend the book as a whole. He believes it will meet a real need among students and among men in general who are interested, for one reason or another in the best specimens of oratory. This book is perhaps the only one made on precisely Mr' O'Neill's plan. As to his judgment and taste in the selections made, there is of course room for criticism. No two compilers, expert in such matters, would give us exactly the same group of speeches. It is doubtful whether anot er compiler would have chosen more wisely. Mr. O'Neill is to be warmly congratuate for producing a book so interesting and so useful.
Eugene R. Musgrove '05 is the author of a poem, "My Arcady," in the January issue of the Granite Monthly.
The Outlook for November 2, 1921, contains an article by Kingsley-Moses '11 entitled "You Can't Work Without Tools."
Dr. Waltman Walters '17 is the author of a pamphlet, "Bence-Jones Proteinuria, a Report of Three Cases with Metabolic Studies" and "Chronic Nephritis with Bence-Jones Proteinuria. Effect of radium exposures on quantitative output of Bence-Jones Protein" reprinted from the Medical Record, November 12, 1921.
Two articles on skiing by Fred H. Harris 'll are "Finer Points of Skiing" in the December, 1921, issue of Country Life, and "How I Learned to Ski" in the January number of Outing.
Kendall Banning '02 is the author of a poem, "Till the Last Great Song is Sung" in Leslie's September 10, 1921, and a "Song of the Unafraid," a poem set to music by Alfred G. Wattrall, published by the Oliver Ditson Company.
"Beginning English for the Levant," Robert College text by Ernest Bradley Watson, Ph.D., '02, Professor of the English language at Robert College, a book of two hundred pages, has recently been issued by Robert College.
Among recent publications by Harold E. Burtt '11 are the following: "Sex Differences in the Effect of Discussion," reprinted from Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. III, No. 5, October, 1920; "The Inspiration-Expiration Ratio during Truth and Falsehood," reprinted from Journal of ExperimentalPsychology, Vol. IV, No. 1, February, 1921; "Further Technique for Inspiration-Expiration Ratios"; "Correlation of Army Alpha Intelligence Test with Academic Grades in High Schools and Military Academies."
Dr. Bradley M. Patten '11, together with Dr. F. C. Waite, are the authors of "Outlines of Laboratory Course in Cytology, Histology and Organology," which has reached its fourth edition. Dr. Patten and Rees Philpott are the authors of "The Shrinkage of Embryos in the Processes Preparatory to Sectioning," reprinted from the Anatomical Record for March, 1921. Other recent outlines by Dr. Patten are: "Outlines of Laboratory Course in Histology and Microscopical Anatomy for Dental Students," "An Outline of Laboratory Work in Vertebrate Embryology—Part I, the Chick," "An Outline of Laboratory Work in Vertebrate Embryology, Part 2, the Pig."
