SAILING IN-THE STEREO-BOOK OF SHIPS,
Photo-
Photographs by Herbert C. McKay. Farrar &
Rinehart, Inc. New York. 53 pages. $3.00.
What a boy sees on his first ocean trip makes up most of the material of Laing's Stereo-Book of Ships, but in addition to the story of a voyage from Cherbourg to New York there is found in this novel volume a set of photographs which spring to life of three dimensions when seen through a stereoscopic attachment to the back cover. There, the reader gets not only views of steamships, sailships, buoys, crows' nest, mainmasts and all rigging, but also scenes of cities and objects in passing, Southampton Harbor, Grand Banks, Ply- Dartmouth, Sailors' Snug Harbor and Kill van lull.
For picture-lovers, children and adults, the mechanism of the stereo is fascinating. Raised from a light support, sliding on a steel beam firmly embedded in the back cover, the glasses can be made to hover over any page. The matter of adjustment, lights, variations in view and position are in themselves interesting. As most New Englanders saw ship models in glass, bottles, or through an old fashioned stereo, in bygone days, so may the modern reader obtain the same effect in more sophisticated times.
There is a future for this contraption, it seems to the reviewer, since this is a picture age, and any novelty in that line is immediately welcomed. And there is in it a hint to the motion-picture producer, who seems to have forgotten that three dimensional pictures were shown at the old Alhambra Music Hall in London ten years ago and caused considerable interest. Incidentally the Laing stereo can be used with any of the old stereo pictures that happen to be lying about. Possibly even the candid camera fan might like to try his luck at making some such pictures. A book °f football pictures or skiing pictures might well follow this novel little volume.
—E. P. KELLY 'O6.
Recent tax decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court, a resume of important decisions rendered at the last session by Professor James P. Richardson '99 appears in the November issue of the Tax Magazine. This paper was delivered before the NewEngland Tax Conference on September 29, 1937.
Spasmophemia in Dyslalia Cophotica: case report by Elsie S. Voelker and Mr. Charles H. Voelker, has been reprinted from Annals of Otology, Rhinology andLaryngology for September. The May issue of American Annals of the Deaf contains an article by the same authors entitled Hypothyroidism in Alalia Cophica: Glandular Deficiency in Oral Deaf, and in the same issue of the magazine Mr. Voelker has contributed The Schwa and Other Indefinite Vowels in Deaf Oralism.
Mr. Albert W. Levi has contributed an article Whitehead and Hutchins to the October number of the Harvard Educational
Review.
Mr. George Bohman and Jean Palmer are the authors of The First PresbyterianChurch of Princeton, Illinois: Its First Century 1837-193], published by the PrincetonIllinois Bureau County Republican, 1937.
Cryptostomatous Bryozoa from the Middle Devonian Traverse Group of Michigan by Dr. Andrew H. McNair is published as Vol. 5 No. 9 of the Contributions from theMuseum of Paleontology, University ofMichigan.
Our Racial and National Minorities published by Prentice-Hall (1937) contains a chapter on the Greeks in the U. S. by Professor Michael E. Choukas.
