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"Essays Towards Truth." Selected by Kenneth Allan Robinson, William Benfield Pressey, James Dow McCallum, of the Department of English, Dartmouth College. Henry Holt and Company.

This volume of essays, selected by three members of the English Department with the Dartmouth freshman particularly in mind, should be of exceptional interest to Dartmouth alumni. In the first place, it is a significant indication of the changes made in freshman English in recent years. Even the younger alumni can remember the type of book used not many years ago—prose selections arranged under those common, but arbitrary and vague, headings: description, exposition, etc. "Essays Toward Truth" is a volume of strikingly different sort: its nature clearly suggested by its title and its sub-title, "Studies in Orientation." It is not, in any sense of the word, merely another text-book of rhetoric nor even another volume of models for feeble imitation by freshmen; it is, rather, as the brief but pointed preface states, a collection of essays "collected for the purpose of calling attention to certain fundamental social questions that powerfully engage mankind, and to some of the things that are being thought and written about them." From many points of view, not, be it said in passing, all "radical," the freshman is given this opportunity of finding out what some of the more stimulating contemporary writers, British and American, are thinking about education, science, religion, and literature. He finds conservatives like Galsworthy, and Ralph Adams Cram side by side with such liberals as Bertrand Russell and Dean Inge. The experiment of devoting several weeks to informal class discussion of these essays has been eminently successful.

To add that "Essays Towards Truth" should interest the alumni on its own merits, quite aside from its place in the freshman curriculum of today, is to state the obvious. Here are twenty-four essays drawn from various sources, chosen with great discrimination, and published not in a dreary text-book format but in attractive binding, with good paper and clear type, a volume suitable for any private library. It will be an excellent addition to the list already prepared by the English Department, at the request of the alumni themselves, of those books recently published which deserve attention even from the busiest men.

Nathaniel L. Goodrich is the author of an article entitled "On Alcoves," a paper read at the Eastern College Librarians' Meeting at Columbia University, November 29, 1924. This article appears in the January, 1925, number of the Library Journal.

Professor A. C. White is the author of an article in the January issue of the Forum entitled "Politics and Suspenders."

"Periodic Reversal of Heart-Beat in a Chrysalis" by Professor James T. Gerould may be found in the issue of Science for December 19, 1924.

"A Sex Cleavage in the Presidential Election of 1920" which appears in the Quarterly publication of the American Statistical Association for December, 1924, is from the pen of Professors Malcolm M. Willey and Stuart A. Rice.

Dr. John P. Bowler 'IS is the author of "Pre-operative preparation of patients with obstructive jaundice." This has been reprinted from Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics for August, 1924. This article is written in collaboration with Dr. Waltman Walters.

"Weather Poems," a group of three short poems by Mr. Norman McClean '24, appears in Palms, vol. 2, no. 4.

Houghton Mifflin Company have recently issued a new edition of "Songs and Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard" translated by Professor Curtis Hidden Page. The first edition of these translations was published about twenty years ago in a special limited edition which has long been out-of-print. The new edition is issued at popular prices to meet the great demand for these translations.

"Why I teach evolution" by Professor William Patten may be found in The ScientificMonthly for December.

The McGraw-Hill Book Company have just published "Scientific Management since Taylor, a collection of authoritative papers" edited by E. E. Hunt. Chapter eleven of this volume is by Professor Herman Feldman and is entitled "The New Emphasis in the Problem of Reducing Unemployment." Five chapters of the book are by former Professor H. S. Pearson. In the issue of the Ronald Forum for November appears a brief article "Fundamentals of a College Personnel Course" by Professor Feldman.