SUGGESTIONS

HARLAN P. BANKS '34, now at Cornell, requests the titles of several books which would prove helpful in using the English language correctly. I suggest Fowler's Modern English Usage, and AnA.B.C. of English Usage (both Oxford Press, N. Y.), and Woolley's Handbook ofComposition.

Even though turning my column over to a group of undergraduates I must mention three have-to-be-read books.

Georges Bernanos: The Diary of aCountry Priest, Macmillan, 1937. This is a wise, profound, and beautifully written book translated from the French. It won the Grand Prix de I'Academie Francaise in 1936. It is a sad, but a triumphant story. Perhaps Dean Inge was right when he said of this book: "It is destined to be a classic. I am sure of it."

Miriam Beard: A History of the Business Man, Macmillan, 1938. Charles A. Beard, dean and the most honored of American historians, must be very proud of his daughter's book. He must, long ago, have dreamed that one day she would distinguish herself in scholarship. She does so here. For the first time, a systematic, complete, and readable history of the business man from ancient days to the present is available to the general reader. The business man turns out to be a human being, muddled sometimes, crafty, ambitious, but on the whole motivated by instincts and desires which have, in varying degrees, motivated all men from the earliest times. Do buy and read this fascinating, if mournful, history.

A. F. Tschiffely: Don Roberto, Heinemann, London, 1937. Tschiffely, famous as horseman, was the man to write Cunninghame Graham's life. He has sur- mounted his difficulties in an able manner and the result is a full length portrait of a gallant hidalgo.