ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
The May issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics contains an article by George N. Janes 'Ol "Cooperative Production among shingle-weavers."
Evan A. Woodward '22 is the author of "Cruising Down the Connecticut with Dartmouth's Canvas Fleet," which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript for May 14, 1924.
The issue of the Publishers' Weekly for June 7 contains an article by Clifford Orr '22 entitled "Boston Book Shops—Moving and Improving."
Henry Holt and Cos. of New York have just published "Favorite French Poems Selected and Edited with Notes arid Vocabulary" by Professor Charles H. Hunkins '95. This book is supplied with a vocabulary, notes, account of French versification and portraits of six of the poets represented. One reviewer states that this book "puts within the reach of elementary classes in college and second and third year classes in High School a fine collection of beautiful poetry. One can have nothing but praise for the four-page introduction which gives the fundamentals of French Versification."
"Historical Abstract of Presidential Conventions a|nd Elections" by Dr. Ernest F. Clymer '96 has been privately printed by Moore and Schley, members of the New York Stock Exchange.
The April issue of Popular Astronomy contains an article "The Expedition from the Yerkes Observatory for observing the Total Eclipse September 10, 1923, at Camp Wrigley," by E. B. Frost 'B6.
Ellis O. Briggs '2l is the author of a story "An Episode with a Levantine Lady" in McNaught's Monthly for May.
The June issue of American Mercury contains an article by Professor Fred Lewis Pattee 'BB "Call for a Literary Historian."
"The Best News Stories of 1924" edited by Joseph Anthony, published by Small Maynard and Company, contains a story "Boston's Ellis Island," by C. B. Orr '22.
The Plymouth Press of New York have just published a book entitled "Patriotism of the American Jew," by the late Samuel W. McCall '74.
Of "Audacity," by Ben Ames Williams 'lO, a reviewer in the Boston Herald states, "Mr. Williams is not writing this time of things that are tragic, stark and grim, as in "Evered" and "Black Pawl." Nor is he writing of rural Maine happenings and types as in "Thrifty Stock." This time his story is told in a lighter vein, a comedy with a Boston setting. There is nothing very plausible in it, but it is breezy and amusing and the complications of its mistaken identities make it wholly baffling and fascinating. . . .A light, but very entertaining yarn, and one in which Mr. Williams reveals anew his cleverness and versatility." The New York Times for March 30 says "With the old and many times repeated plot of mistaken identity for its foundation, Mr. Williams has written an amusing story." After an outline of the plot, the reviewer continues, "Yet when the end comes and Danton finally solves this riddle, the solution is so simple that the reader wonders with Perry Danton, why it did not become evident at once. Mr. Williams is a story teller of so much ability that he has been able to conceal the weaknesses of Slim's scheme and make the difficulties of discovery segm very great."
The Eugenics Review for April contains an article by Dr. Raymond Pearl '99 "The Racial Effect of Alcohol."
