Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, By Leonard D. White, Professor of Political Science in the University of Chicago. (Dartmouth, 1914). The Macmillan Company, New York, 1926. pp. xiii, 495.
It is a source of gratification to Dartmouth men that the first unified treatment of the great subject of public administration in the United States should have come from the scholarly pen of one of their own number.
The object of the book is to furnish for the student of political affairs, in or out of the university, an outline of the governmental problems involved in what we call "administration" and a consideration of the progress which has been made toward their solution. Federal, state and municipal affairs are not dealt with separately, but all as aspects of the same large question. This treatment is unique and valuable, and the chief criticism to be made is that it could not be applied adequately within the limits of space which Dr. White set for himself. Nearly one-half the book is given to a discussion of all aspects of the personnel problem in government. These chapters are written with a thoroughness of treatment, aptness of illustration and clarity of style which make them excellent reading, as well as first-class material for the student of personnel questions anywhere.
Dr. White's name is becoming increasingly well-known among American political scientists and by this excellent piece of work in a field in which he is one of the pioneers, his reputation will be further enhanced.
The issue of The Granite Monthly for October 1927 contains an article entitled "Professor Bartholomew van Dame" by John Scales '63.
Marshall Jones of Boston have published "Home Makers, a Profession for Men and Women" by Elizabeth Macdonald and Forrester Macdonald '90.
Agricultural Library Notes for May-July 1927 contains an article by W. W. Eggleston '9l, "The Botanical Publications of Dr. Alphonso Wood." Mr. Wood, a famous Botanist, was a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of '34.
"Changing Concepts of Population" by Herbert A. Miller '99 may be found in the Publications of the American Sociological Society, volume 21.
J. A. Russell '20 is the author of "Thoreau, the Interpreter of the Real Indian" published in the September number of the Queen's Quarterly, Queens College, Canada.
A poem entitled "Who" by Clifton Blake '24 may be found in the October issue of Palms.
The New York Telegram for June 13, 1927 contains a poem "We" by Victor Whiting Porter '16.
The issue of the Saturday Evening Post for October 22, 1927 contains "The Uses of Inquiry" a continued story, by Ben Ames Williams '10.
"The Psychopathology of the Delinquent Child" by W. Beran Wolfe, M. D. '21 appeared in September issue of the Journal of Delinquency. Dr. Wolfe is also the author of "The Stupid Child" which appears in the October number of Hygeia.
The Romanic Review for July-September contains "Letters of Mallarme and Maeterlinck to Richard Hovey," with notes by Barbara Matulka.
