ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
"Thrifty Stock and Other Stories", Ben Ames Williams '10. E. P. Dutton and Co., New York.
Ben Ames Williams has written another thoroughly interesting book. There is movement, humanness, and a refreshing soundness in the several stories in Thrifty Stock which leave us satisfied not only with the stories themselves,_ but with life as well. And, after all, that—-Doctors and Esthetes to the contrary —is one of the chief purposes of fiction, though in some cases the theme and the machinery have a familiar ring, yet the sound enjoyment of living and of ordinary activity— which characterizes all Mr. Williams' work— provides a positive and satisfying flavor more grateful than mere originality of invention. All of these stories move quickly and interestingly —especially the dog stories, where, I think, Mr. Williams' own heart is particularly engaged—and I ended them with a feeling that I had spent time more wholesomely than I should have over the reading of some of our much belauded offerings before the shrines of certain more modern and esoteric gods. The humanness in Mr. Williams' work is increasing, and with it—as always—the quieter, sounder values.
"The Welding Encyclopedia, a practical review book on Autogenous Welding", compiled and edited by L. B. Mackenzie and H. S. Card '11 of the editorial staff of the Welding Engineer, has just been published in a third edition by the Welding Engineer Publishing Company, Chicago.
Edward Balmer and Gene Markey '18 are the authors of a series of stories of the Chicago underworld entitled "Shadows of the City", appearing in the Designer. The second of these stories appears in the .March, 1924 issue. Four additional stories are announced for publication. This series will be published in book form in the fall.
Mr. Edward C. Mabie '15, is the author of an article "Speech from Another Angle," which appears in the November, 1923 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech Education.
"Ebenezer Hill; the Little Minister of Mason, New Hampshire," a sketch by Charles E. Hill '71, and a genealogy by John B. Hill, has recently been published as a book of 82 pages.
The American Mercury for February, 1924 contains an article by Dr. Raymond Pearl '99 entitled "Alcoholism and the Duration of Life."
Dr. A. J. Detlefsen is the author of the following reprints: "An Orchard of Chestnut Hybrids," with W. A. Ruth reprinted from the July, 1922 issue of the Journal of Heredity; "Are the Effects of Long-Continued Rotation in Rats Inherited?" reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 62, no. 5, 1923; and with L. S. Clemente, is the author of "Genetic Variation in Linkage Values," reprinted from the Proceedings' of the National Academy of Sciences, May, 1923.
"The Splendid Sport of Ski-Jumping" by Fred H. Harris '11 is published in the February number of Country Life in America.
"Newspaper Publicity for the Public Schools" is the title of a booklet recently published by Rollo George Reynolds, Ph.D., 'lO, Director of the Bureau Educational Service, Teacher's College, Columbia University.
Mr. Arthur D. Holmes 'O6 and Robert H. Kerr are the authors of "Notes on the Ether Extract of Feces", reprinted from the Journalof Biological Chemistry, vol. 58, no. 2, Dec., 1923.
