Briefly Noted

Sinclair H. Hitchings '54 is the co-author (with Catherine H. Farlow) of A NewGuide to The Massachusetts State House (108 pp., illustrated, paperback) which was prepared and published this year "as a Public Service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company." The author has wisely interwoven a descriptive history of this governmental facility with the people who have been a part of it, for as interesting as the story is architecturally (depicting the marriage of art and function from architect Charles Bulfinch's original design on) and symbolically (with the four-foot, eleven and one half inch pine cod as a fine example), it is more interesting as a chronicle in bricks and mortar of the aspirations of men. Roderick D. Stinehour '50 is credited with typography in this handsomely-designed and illustrated publication.

A second edition of Foundations of Embryology by Bradley M. Patten Ml, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy at the University of Michigan Medical School (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 622 pp.) has been published with 1,008 drawings and photographs grouped as 327 illustrations — 23 in color. While his objective in the new edition remains as it was in the first, Professor Patten says in his preface (the first edition was reviewed in the January 1958 issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE), he has concentrated on "... weaving newly available information into its proper place ... on improving the written and graphic presentation of the subject matter."

Assistant Professor of English Jeffrey Hart '51 has written Introduction and Notes to a new publication of Edmund Burke's Speechon Conciliation with the Colonies (Chicago. Henry Regnery Co. A Gateway Edition. 1964. 150 pp. 95 cents. Paperback). Professor Hart has contributed an Introduction that is helpful in relating both the events in England and the Colonies leading up to the breaking point that Burke sought to avoid - and background material on the speech itself.

Charles E. Widmayer '30 has edited and written the greater part of a monograph entitled Advertising and the Alumni Magazine which has been published by the American Alumni Council. The sixteen-page illustrated manual resulted from the work of a nations study committee and is designed to provide basic information on advertising from solicitation to layout for alumni magazine editors.

For those "with the spark of adventure in their eyes and the touch of devil-may-care in their souls the lure of open water will be irresistible" and a new publication by Robert Jay Evans '49 will be helpful. The booklet entitled Fundamentals of Kayaking (Hanover, N.H.: The Ledyard Canoe Club of Dartmouth. 1964. 33 pp. $2.00. Paperback) moves from notes on building your own kayak through paddling techniques to competitive racing.