HANOVER BROWSING

THIS MONTH I present lists of the best recent books in diverse fields of knowledge suggested by certain departments in Dartmouth College.

Many alumni who keep up their reading after graduation in their major subjects or in other fields have said that they would appreciate expert guidance in what books to read. The departments that I consulted co-operated most helpfully and to them, in behalf of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, I extend grateful thanks.

Two further statements need to be made. First, that it was obviously not practicable to include every department in the college, and I have chosen subjects that seemed most appropriate and more difficult to get information on, than, let us say, the best books in contemporary literature. Second, the books listed (and there was not enough space available for much, if any, comment) include not only the best books published during 1935, but also, in certain cases, within the last few years.

I trust that these faculty recommendations will prove helpful enough to make it a yearly feature of this column.

THE Department of Art andArchaeology via Churchill P. Lathrop suggests: "a list of interesting books in the field of the visual arts published during 1935. They are all in English, are well illustrated, and are available in this country." The list follows: (1) Barnes, Albert Coombs, Art of Renoir; (2) Bauer, Catherine, ModernHousing-, (3) Benson, E. M., JohnMarin ("Manny" Benson was in the class of 1937); (4) Clark, Kenneth McK., A Catalogue of the Drawingsof Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of His Majesty the King, atWindsor Castle, 2 volumes; (5) Dorner, Max, Materials of the Artist; (6) Finlayson, Donald Lord, Michelangelo, the Man; (7) Hinks, Roger P., Carolingian Art; (8) Mack, Gerstle, Paul Cezanne; (9) Morey, Charles Rufus, Christian Art; (10) Morrison, Hugh S., Louis Sullivan,Prophet of Modern Architecture (Hugh Morrison, class of 1926, now teaches at Dartmouth); (11 and 12) New York. Museum of Modern Art, African Negro Art and Vincent vanGogh; (13) Robb, D. M. & Garrison, J. J., Art in the Western World; (14) Rothschild, E. F., Meaning of Unintelligibility in Modern Art; (15) Soby, James T., After Picasso; (16) Vanity Fair's Portfolio of ModernFrench Art; (17) Wooley, C. L., Development of Sumerian Art.

PROF. CHARLES LEONARD STONE of the Department of Psychology, and in its behalf, writes: "The outstanding publication in psychology during 1935 is, in my opinion, Muller-Freienfel's The Evolution ofModern Psychology (Yale Press). This work, however, like the one I should select as outstanding in 1934, Hartshorne's The Philosophy andPsychology of Sensation (U. of Chicago Press), requires for its appreciable assimilation a considerable scholarship in psychology and philosophy.

"Other important theoretical works include three on the Gestalt movement, Koffka's Gestalt Psychology (Harcourt) the most complete, Lewin's A Dynamic Theory of Personality (McGraw-Hill) the most technical, and Hartmann's GestaltPsychology (Ronald) the most intelligible to the layman. McDougall's challenging book, The Frontiers ofPsychology (Appleton-Century), argues the necessity of psychology to other sciences.

"Three important works appeal primarily to specialized interests. Zipf's The Psycho-Biology of Language (Houghton Mifflin) is an original contribution to dynamic philology. Guthrie's The Psychology of Learning (Harper) is a substantial treatise which includes an excellent critique of the conditioned response. The first of three volumes on Comparative Psychology by Warden, Jenkins, and Warner (Ronald) treats of the principles and methods of animal investigation.

"The general reader will find that the following volumes, brought out this past year, are not only intelligible, but engaging and rewarding: Jastrow's Wish and Wisdom (Appleton-Century), which deals with the frailties of human belief; Shakespeare's Imagery by Spurgeon (Macmillan), a fascinating analysis fundamentally psychological; Doob's Propoganda (Holt); Cantril and Allport's The Psychology ofRadio (Harper); Robinson's Lawand the Lawyers (Macmillan); Klineberg's Race Differences (Harpers); and Mead's Sex and Temperance (Morrow), an account of three societies in which the female had three different roles, despite the 'sex traits' so often supposed to be native.

"It will interest Dartmouth men to note that two of the authors are former members of the Dartmouth faculty, Prof. George Hartmann (now at Pennsylvania State) and Prof. Gordon Allport (now at Harvard), and two are Dartmouth alumni, Dr. Hadley Cantril '2B (now at Teacher's College, Columbia) and Dr. Leonard Doob '29 (now at Yale)."

THE Department of Philosophy have wisely excluded from their list books of a technical character and books in foreign languages, and have selected their list for alumni interested in readable and interesting books in contemporary philos- ophy. The list follows: (1) Berdiaev, N. A., The Fate of Man in the Modern World; (2) Bergson, H., The Two Sources of Morality and Religion-, (3) Dewey, J., Liberalismand Social Action; (4) Joad, C. E. M., Return to Philosophy, (5) Kallen. H. M. and Hook, S., editors, American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow; (6) Lovejoy, A. and Boas, G., Primitivism and Related Ideas inAntiquity; (7) Lunn, A. H. M. and Haldane, J. B. S., Science and the Supernatural; (8) Muirhead, J. H., Bernard Bosanquetand His Friends (letters); (9) Perry, R. 8., The Thought and Character of WilliamJames (2 volumes); (10) Rader, M., AModern Book of Aesthetics; (11) Smith, T. V., Creative Sceptics in Defence of theLiberal Temper; (12) Temple, William, Nature, Man, and God.

FRANCIS E. MERRILL of the Departmentof Sociology ("Red" Merrill of the class of 1926) in behalf of his department sends in an excellent list which follows:

A. Books in the specific field of Sociology.

(1) Chapin, F. Stuart, ContemporaryAmerican Institutions; A Sociological Analysis (Harper); (2) Curti, Merle, The Social Ideas of American Educators (Scribners); (3) Doob, L. W„ Propoganda, ItsPsychology and Technique (Holt); (4) Gil fillan, S. C., The Sociology of Invention (Follett); (5) Glueck, Sheldon, and Eleanor T., One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents (Harvard Press); (6) Hart, Hornell, and Ella 8., Personality and the Family (Heath); (7) Klineberg, Otto, Race Differences (Harper); (8) Mead, G. H., Mind,Self, and Society (Chicago Press); (9) Mead, Margaret, Sex and Temperament (Morrow); (10) Ogburn. William F. (editor), Social Change During Depression and Recovery (Chicago Press); (11) Pareto, Vilfredo, The Mind and Society (Harcourt) 4 volumes; (12) Ware, Caroline, F„ Greenwich Village, 1920-1930 (Houghton Mifflin).

B. Books of general interest that are marginal to the field of Sociology.

(l) Agar, Herbert, Land of the Free. (Houghton Mifflin); (s) Allen, Frederick Lewis, Lords of Creation (Harper); (3) Bingham, Alfred, Insurgent America (Harper); (4) Cairns, Huntington, Law andthe Social Sciences (Harcourt); (5) Chamberlin, W. H., Russia's Iron Age (Little, Brown); (6) Corey, Lewis, The Crisis of theMiddle Class (Covici); (7) Dewey, John, Liberalism and Social Action (Minton Balch); (8) Duranty, Walter, I Write as IPlease (Simon and Schuster); (9) Millis, Walter, The Road to War (Houghton Mifflin); (10) Robson, William A., Civilization atid the Growth of Law (Macmillan); (11) Schuman, F. L., The Nazi Dictatorship (Knopf); (12) Seldes, George, SawdustCaesar (Harper); (13) Sheean, Vincent, Personal History (Doubleday); (14) Vorse, Mary Heaton, A Footnote to Folly (Farrar); (15) Yutang, Lin, My Country and MyPeople (Reynal and Hitchcock).

(All of these, with two exceptions, were published in 1935.—ED.)

THE Department of Chemistry recommend the following books in their field suitable for the general reader interested in keeping up with the various phases of that science.

1. Chemistry and its applications. (A) Marvels of Modern Chemistry, B. L. Clarke. (Harpers, 1932.) Chief emphasis upon practical applications. (B) Out ofthe Test Tube, H. N. Holmes. (Long and Smith, 1934.) Entertaining, but inclined to overstate the accomplishments of the science. (C) The Spirit of Chemistry, A. Findlay. (Longmans, 1934.) A stimulating book skillfully written for students interested in chemistry as part of a liberal education. (D) General Chemistry, L. B. Richardson. (Holt, 1932.) Needs no comment to Dartmouth men.

2. Organic chemistry and the chemistry of the life processes. (A) In the Realm of Carbon, H. G. Deming. (Wiley, 1930). A popular account of organic chemistry. (B) Fighting Diseasewith Drugs, J. C. Krantz, Editor. (Williams and Wilkins, 1931). The story of pharmacy to date. (C) Materials of Life, T. R. Parsons. (Norton, 1930). (J)) Food and Health, H. C. Sherman. (Macmillan, 1934.) Nutrition for the man in the street.

3. Chemistry in Commerce and Industry. (A) Creative Chemistry, E. E. Slosson. (Century, 1930.) (B) Earth Oil, by Gustav Egloff. (William and Wilkins, 1933.) A brief story of petroleum.

4. Historical and Biographical Works. (A) Makers of Chemistry, E. J. Holm-yard. (Oxford, 1931.) (B) Crucibles, B. Jaffe. (Simon and Schuster, 1930.) The lives and achievements of the great chemists. (C) The Lure and Romance of Alchemy. C. J. S. Thompson. (Harrap, 1938.)

5. Miscellaneous. (A) Research, the Pathfinder of Science, T. A. Boyd. (Appleton-Century, 1935.) Eminently readable and useful especially to organizations contemplating this sort of work and to individuals considering research as a career. (B) The Romance ofResearch, Redman and Morey. (Williams and Wilkins, 1933.) (C) The Story ofScience, by D. Dietz. (Dodd, Mead, 1934.) (D) Electrons, Protons, Photons, Neutrons,and Cosmic Rays, by R. A. Millikan. (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1935.) Understandable if one has some knowledge of elementary physical science. A scholarly treatise of the progress of atomic physics.

THE Department of Biology, in co-operation with its chairman, Prof. W. Byers Unger, sends in a most excellent list of titles chosen for their special interest to Dartmouth alumni. Some of them have been reviewed in these columns. The list follows:

(1) Akeley, Carl E., In Brightest Africa (Doubleday); (2) Andrews, M. N., Gardensin Glass (A. T. de La Mare); (3) Andrews, Roy C., Across Mongolian Plains (Appleton); (4) Aymar, Gordon C., Bird Flight (Dodd, Mead); (5) Barrus, Clara, Heart ofBurrough's Journal (Houghton); (6) Bazalgette, Leon, Henry Thoreau (Harcourt); (7) Bradford, G., Darwin (Houghton); (8) Carnochan & Adamson, Empire of theSnakes (Stokes); (9) Ditmars, R. L., Confessions of a Scientist; (10) Fasten, Nathan, Principles of Genetics and Eugenics (Ginn); (11) Hawk, Philip 8., Streamlinefor Health (Harpers); (12) Hegner, Robert, Parade of the Animal Kingdom (Macmillan); (13) Huntington, E., Tomorrow'sChildren (Wiley); (14) Huxley, Julian (Editor), T. H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H. M. S. "Rattlesnake" (Chatto and Windus); (15) Huxley, Leonard, CharlesDarivin (Greenberg); (16) Jean, Harrah, Herman, & Powers, I. Man and the Natureof His Physical Universe, 11. Man and theNature of His Biological World (Ginn); (17) Kearton, Cherry, The Island of Penguins (Mcßride); (18) Mcllhenny, E. A., The Alligator's Life History (Christopher); (19) Nesbitt, L. M., Desert and Forest (Cape) [same book with American title, Hell-Hole of Creation (Knopf); this book was especially recommended here last year]; (20) Peattie, D. C., An Almanac forModerns (Putnam); (21) Robbins, W. W. and Pearson, H. M., Sex in the Plant World (Appleton-Century); (22) Robbins, W. M. and Ramaley, Francis, Plants Useful toMan (Blakiston); (23) Roosevelt, Theodore, Trailing the Giant Panda (Scribner); (24) Sears, P. 8., Deserts on the March (Univ. of Oklahoma); (25) Seward, A. C., Plants: What They Are a?id What They Do (Macmillan); (26) Shephard, 0., Heart ofThoreau'S" Journals (Houghton); (27) Sulzer, M. N., House Plants: Modern Careand Culture (Doubleday); (28) Ward, F. K. fnot Kemp from Rochester), A PlantHunter in Tibet (Cape).

THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE Department of Political Science may be divided into three sections:

A. Books dealing with internal politics and government. (i) Bernheim, A. and Van Doren, D., Labor and the Government-, (2) Corwin, E. S., The Twilight of the Supreme Court', (3) Dickinson, John, Hold Fast the MiddleWay; (4) Elliot, W. Y., The Need for Constitutional Reform; (5) Holcomb, A. N.,. Government in a Planned Democracy; (6) Loeb and associates, Chart of Plenty; (7) Lorwin, L. J., The Labor Relations Board; (8) Monaghan, Frank, John Jay, Defenderof Liberty; (9) Pollard, J. P., Cardozo; ALiberal Mind in Action; (10) Salter, J. TV Boss Rule; (11) Seldes, G., Freedom of thePress.

B. Books dealing with Foreign Affairs. (1) Cambon, Jules, Foreign Policy of thePowers; (2) Dulles, A. W. and Armstrong* H. F., Can We Be Neutral?-, (3) Lansing, Robert, War Memoirs of Robert Lansing; C 4) Latan6, J. H., History of American Foreign Policy, (5) Quigley, Harold, ChinesePolitics Today; (6) Saito, Japan's Policiesand Purposes; (7) Tonin, O. and Yohan, E., Militarism and Fascism in Japan. C. Fiction.

(1) Briffault, Robert, Europa; (2) Lewis, Sinclair, It Can't Happen Here; (3) Wells, H. G., The Shape of Things to Come.

PROF. BANCROFT H. BROWN of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy recommends New Numbers by F. Emerson Andrews, published by Harcourt Brace in the fall of 1935. Professor Brown comments: "The author had two articles in the Atlantic and has expanded these to book form. The only out about the book is that a layman has done what a mathematician ought to have done long ago. This one I really recommend."

DR. MARTIN L. LINDAHL, in behalf of the Department of Economics, sent in a list of books which cover the various fields of Economics and which should be of general interest. All have been published within the last twelve or fifteen months. The list follows:

(1) Catlin, Warren 8., The Labor Problem (Harper); (a) Commission of Inquiry, International Economic Relations (University of Minnesota Press); (3) Davis, Joseph S., Wheat and the AAA (Brookings institute); (4) Einzig, Paul, World Finance,1914'1935 (Macmillan); (5) Gregory, T. E., The Gold Standard and Its Future (Dutton); (6) Knight, Frank H., The Ethics ofCompetition (Harper); (7) Laidler, H. W., Socializing Our Democracy (Harper); (8) Leffler, Ray V., Money and Credit (HarPer); (9) Locklin, D. P., Economics ofTransportation (Business Publications, Inc.); (10) Lyon, L. S. and others, The National Recovery Administration (Brookings Institute); (11) Millis, Walter, Road toWar, America 1914-1917 (Houghton Mifflin); (12) Moulton, Harold G., Income andEconomic Progress (Brookings Institute); (13) Nelson, C. L., Blakey, G. C., and Blakey, R. G., Sales Taxes (League of Minnesota Municipalities); (14) Peck, H. W., Economic Thought and Its Institutional Background (Farrar); (15) Robbins, Lionel, The Great Depression (Macmil!an); (16) Simons, H. C., A Positive Program for Laissez-Faire (University of Chicago Press); (17) Staley, Eugene, War andthe Private Investor (Doubleday); (18) Strachey, John, The Nature of the Capitalist Crisis (Covici); (19) Taylor, Alonzo E., The New Deal and Foreign Trade (Macmillan); (20) Wootton, Barbara, Plan orNo Plan (Farrar).

PROF. FRANK MALOY ANDERSON, in behalf of the Department of History, sends in a list of fifteen important books in history and biography for 1935. The list follows:

(i) Andrews, Charles M., The Colonialeriod of American History, Volume 1 (Yale University Press); (a) Baker, Ray Stannard, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Volume V (Doubleday); (3) Barnes, Harry E., History of Western Civilization. Two volumes (Harcourt); (4) Chamberlin, William H., The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. Two volumes (Macmillan); (5) Churchill, Winston, Marlborough: His Lifeand Times. Volumes 111 and IV (Scribner); (6) Du Bois, W. E. 8., Black Reconstruction (Harcourt); (7) Fisher, H. A. L„ A Historyof Europe. Three volumes (Houghton); (8) Freeman, Douglas S., R. E. Lee. Volumes 111 and IV (Scribner); (9) Lansing, Robert, War Memories (Bobbs Merrill); (10) Lawrence, T. E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Doubleday); (11) McLaughlin, Andrew C., A Constitutional History of the UnitedStates (Scribner); (12) Nicolson, Harold, Dwight Morrow (Harcourt); (13) Seymour, Charles, American Neutrality, 1914-1917 (Yale University Press); (14) Sullivan, Mark, Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925. Volume VI (Scribner); (15) Turner, Frederick T., The United States. 1810-1810 (Holt).

PROF. A. B. MESERVEY of the Departmentof Physics sends in the following list of books in the field of Physics for the general reader: (i) John Mills, A Fugue in Cycles andBels (Van Nostrand, 1935), described as follows: "This book is written for those who may wish to know what science is doing to music, and what it can do for music." It is written by a man who is able to combine good science with good English.

(2) D. C. Miller, Anecdotal History ofSound. This small volume supplements the histories of physics, which give scant attention to sound, but is written in nontechnical language. Considerable attention is given to the men and discoveries connected with the development of musical instruments.

(3) Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth (Williams and Wilkins, 1934?). Highly recommended by Professor Murch.

(4) H. T. Stetson, Earth, Radio, and theStars (McGraw-Hill, 1934).

(5) J. H. Jeans, Through Space andTime (Macmillan, 1934).

(6) H. B. Lemon, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays (Univ. of Chicago, 1934). This is based on the physics part of the general introductory course in the physical sciences at the University of Chicago for students who do not expect to take any regular courses in physics.

(7) N. W. McLachlan, Noise (Oxford Press, 1935). "A comprehensive survey from every point of view."

(8) C. C. Furnas, The Next HundredYears, the Unfinished Business of Science.

(9) Diary of Robert Hooke, 1635-1703.

THIS COMPLETES THE departmental recommendations and its seems to me to be by far the most valuable contribution to "Hanover Browsing" of the year. I shall welcome comments by the alumni as to whether or not they should like to see this a yearly feature. Again to the departments concerned I express my thanks.