SUGGESTIONS

Two books of interest to Dartmouth men especially I want to mention this month.

The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet. The Countryman Press, Weston, Vermont. Limited and signed.

Vrest Orton, who sent me this book, is advisor to the College on printing matters. He designed this book, which is illustrated by Harold Denison, and the result is a book perfectly fitting the story of a Yankee farmer Jabez Stone, who sold his soul to the devil, and who retrieved it through the eloquence of our own Daniel Webster. It is an exciting story, and when Daniel addresses the jury of shades (Simon Girty, Teach, etc.), he rises to oratorical heights even greater than usual. For any alumnus who collects Dartmouthiana this is indispensable.

Modern Building, Its Nature, Problems,and Forms, by Walter Curt Behrendt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1937.

Professor Behrendt, who now gives courses at Dartmouth, has written here a masterly monograph on modern architecture. Many years of actual experience in charge of governmental housing in Germany, plus a lifetime of mature thinking on the history, not only of architecture, but of European culture, gives this book a solidity and a profundity rare in modern architectural criticism. Mr. Behrendt is a pioneer in a movement which is rapidly gaining momentum, and which by the very nature of modern society, must eventually triumph. It is a privilege to recommend it to the readers of this MAGAZINE. I consider it a great work in its field, and I use the adjective great advisedly.