WHEN WE SKI

By Charles M. Dudley, Grosset & DunJap, N. Y., 1937. p. 121. $1.00.

Mr. Dudley (Charlie to a lot of us) keeps me busy reviewing his books. No sooner have I finished one, then another book is handed me, and I am astonished to see that it is by him.

When We Ski, is an enlargement of the pamphlet It's Easy To Ski, and is worth every penny, and more, that the publishers ask for it.

Besides a brief exposition of the present vogue of skiing, and the evolution of modern ski technique, there are ten lessons in the sport of skiing, with excellent diagrams illustrating the position of the skiis in various turns, the running position, hill climbing, and so on. This is followed by an adequate exposition of the kind of equipment that one needs to ski properly, and one might add, to be in the fashion. The days of wearing a pair of cast off flannel trousers, with a warm sweater are over. One may even surmise that some of the popularity of skiing among women may be due to the gorgeous and stunning costumes that they are invited to wear. This year's Carnival Queen, according to published reports had never seen snow, yet she looked very charming in a ski suit, standing graciously on a pair of skis and holding tenaciously to a couple of poles. It's the new rage, all right, though this year, alas, there was so little good skiing here, that the equipment, including costumes, must wait for another year. The excellent photographs in When WeSki create a nostalgia that is genuinely uncomfortable.

Collected papers from the Departmentof Biology of the School of Hygiene andPublic Health of the Johns Hopkins University, vol. 13, contains the following articles by Raymond Pearl '99. Life tables forthe pecan nut case bearer, Acrobasis caryaeGrote by Mr. Pearl and J. R. Miner; Warand overpopulation; Multiplying Man;World population growth by Mr. Pearl and Sophia A. Gould; Third progress report on a study of family limitation; Fertility and contraception in urban whitesand negroes; On the incidence of tuberculosis in the offspring of tuberculous parents; Constitutional factors in diseases ofthe Cardiovascular-Renal system; Studieson Constitution, IV. Endocrine organweights and somatological habitus types by Mr. Pearl, Marjorie Gooch, J. R. Miner and Walter Freeman, and Historical papers in the Journal, Human Biology.

The Peter Pauper Press of Mt. Vernon, New York, has just published in a very attractively printed edition Fruits of Philosophy, or the Private Companion ofAdult People by Dr. Charles Knowlton, Dartmouth Medical School 1824. This book is edited with introductory notes by Professor Norman E. Himes of Colgate University. Dr. Knowlton with Robert Dale Owen are considered the founders of the birth control movement in the United States, and this book is the first book written on this subject in this country. This reprint is based upon the tenth edition which was revised just before Dr. Knowlton's death. No copy of the first edition is known, and only one of the second has been located, and this in the Treasure Room of the Harvard Library. Neither are any copies of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th known. Three only of the 4th edition have been located, one of which is in Baker Library.

Rudyard Kipling in New England by Howard C. Rice '26 has proved so popular that the book has gone into a second edition. Because of Kipling's autobiography there is an unusual interest in him at the present time. Elliot Balastier, a relative by marriage of Rudyard Kipling, says of this book in the Saturday Review "So much hasbeen written of Kipling-in-America thatis, to put it mildly, apocryphal, that it isrefreshing to discover a biographer whosefacts are at least ninety-eight per cent accurate. Mr. Rice has given us a charmingsketch and a sympathetic and understanding pen picture of the man himself. Itsonly serious fault is its brevity."

Basil O'Connor '12 is the author of Greater New York Celebrations which appears in the President's Birthday Magazine.

Man at work: his industries, vol. 6 of Man and his changing society by Harold O. Rugg 'OB and Louise Kreuger, has just been published by Ginn and. Company. They are also the authors of a pamphlet of 95 pages, The building of America Workbook also published by Ginn and Company.

Liberty and other poems by Albert LeChef (James C. Cooke '91) has been published as a pamphlet of 26 pages by the Averill Press, Sanford, Maine.

Factors affecting yearly abundance ofpasserine birds by S. Charles Kendleigh and S. Prentiss Baldwin '92 has been reprinted from the January issue of Ecological Monographs.

Living vicariously in New Hampshire—668½ miles away by Ford M. Whelden '25 appears in the New Hampshire Troubadour for February.

The February issue of the Sportsman contains an article by Carl E. Shumway '13 entitled The man who put America onskiis. This article has reference to Fred Harris '11.

Events a monthly review of world affairs for January contains an article Mexico wars on property by Francis Brown '25.

The January issue of Events contains an article by Shepard Stone '29 entitled TheSoviets go democratic.

George W. Stone Jr. '30 is the author of Garrick's presentation of Antony andCleopatra reprinted from The Review ofEnglish Studies for January.

Current History for January contains an article by Gabriel Farrell '11 Pensions forthe blind.