Black Pawl
by Ben Ames Williams '10. New York: E. P. Dutton Co.
"Black Pawl" is another sea story by Mr. Williams. All the action, and there is a good deal of it, takes place on a schooner somewhere in the Pacific. The background is convincingly sketched. Black Pawl is captain of the ship, and the story concerns his struggle with Red Pawl, his son and mate, for Black Pawl's long-lost daughter, who appears as a passenger. In the course of the story, there is a prolonged and quite exciting fight, a good deal of drinking, a storm or two, incipient mutiny, one pure and several impure loves, one sudden death and one not quite so sudden. The whole makes rapid and easy reading, lasting very little longer than the average movie, in which form the story will no doubt appear some day.
The Hayward -Publishing House. Washington, D. C., have just published "Law Chartsand Patent Engineering" by Harry H. Semmes '13 and Harry R. Van Deventer. This is a book of nearly 250 pages and is the first attempt "to present in graphic form the functioning of an engineer attorney, and the procedure for the U. S. Patent office and the Federal courts."
The Macmillan Company have just issued a new and revised edition of "Questions on thePrinciples of Economics" [by Prof. Taussig] by E. E. Day '05 and Joseph St. Davis.
Mr. J. Howard Randerson '11, is the author of an attractively printed monograph "TheOrigin of the War Term 'No Man's Land.'"
"Studies in Public School Finance, TheWest, California and Colorado" by Fletcher Harper Swift, Ph.D. '98 has been published as No. 1 of the Education Series in the Research Publication of the University of Minnesota. This is a monograph of 221 pages.
