MORE THAN MERE LIVING,

by H. ThompsonRich '15, Whittlesey House, McGrawHill Book Company, 215 pages, $1.75.

This little book is the account of how two people—the author and his wife—have found happiness in life by a careful planning of their economy. Concentrating on only those things which seemed to them worth while, they have succeeded in obtaining on an income of $3000 material and mental satisfactions equivalent to those for which most people expend an amount two or three times as great. In the belief that their personal experience will prove valuable to others who find difficulty in doing "more than mere living" because of narrow circumstances, Mr. Rich has here set forth in detail both their plans and their accomplishments.

His mode of action is summed up in this paragraph: "We don't require much, for by experience we have learned how to get a lot out of life on a little. What I make is enough. .... Since we can't have everything, we select the few things we want most and let the rest ride. Anyone can do the same thing Life goes by terribly fast, and years spent postponing its simple pleasures in the hope of better times are wasted years. No use to sit and wish for a million dollars or even a thousand. Take what you have and get the most out of it. That is what we do, and we feel sure that others can do it, too."

Acting on this principle, Mr. and Mrs. Rich find it possible to live well in New York in the winter and in the country in the summer, to travel, to educate their young son in a private school, to own a car and a motor cruiser. The specific means they have made use of to achieve these ends form the subjectmatter of the eight chapters of this interesting, informal autobiography.