Briefly Noted
The June 1968 issue of The Numismatist contains a long lead article, "Confederate Treasury Notes," by Philip H. Chase '07. To solve some of the perplexities of the many varieties of Confederate notes dated July 25, 1861 and produced by the Richmond lithographing firm of Hoyer & Ludwig in five denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, Mr. Chase in 1945 offered a new classification and description of many of the varieties. In his latest article the author reports on his further studies of the Hoyer & Ludwig notes, disclosing the origin of most of them and bringing into clearer perspective the relationship between the varieties. Some 40 illustrations accompany the article.
A small volume of poems entitled Keepsakes, privately printed by its author, James Henry McGowan '17, in 1964, has recently been presented to Baker Library. A writer of verse over the years, Mr. McGowan has put together 41 of his favorites. Four of the poems — "Bells of Dartmouth," "John Spaghetti," "A Song for Seventeen" and "Nineteen Seventeen"— relate to Dartmouth days. Several poems deal with local subjects of Medford, Mass., and others are devoted to patriotic, religious, and topical themes. The first poem in the booklet, "A Pledge to Our Flag," received some acclaim when written many years ago. A framed copy of it hung in the White House office of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Herbert L. Searles '17 of the University of Southern California is author of Logicand Scientific Methods, an IntroductoryCourse, third edition, published by the Ronald Press. It treats the relations of logic to language, semantic problems arising in the verification and communication of knowledge, and the statistics and probability theory as related to scientific methods. Important innovations are an extensive section on symbolic logic including the construction and use of truth tables, the evaluation of truth-functional arguments, and quantification. The chapter on probability, amplified, includes a discussion with illustration of Bayes' theorem.
Published by Appleton Century Crofts at $3.75, Cases in Business Ethics by the Rev. Theodore V. Purcell '33 (Cambridge Center for Social Studies), Thomas M. Garrett (University of Scranton), Raymond C. Baumhart (Cambridge Center for Social Studies), and Perry Roets (Marquette University) has a two-fold purpose: (1) to familiarize the reader with the range and complexity of ethical problems faced by businessmen and (2) to provide the reader with opportunities to discuss the origin, context, and solution of these problems. Though the volume is not intended as a dramatic catalogue of unethical practices in business, many typical situations involve temptations for personal profits based on unethical behavior. All situations discussed in the book are real as faced by businessmen though not all deal with identifiable persons and situations.
Mother Whittier's Meeting, A HistoricalPlay in Three Scenes, by Henry Bailey Stevens '12 has been printed in paperback by Baker's Plays of Boston. It was first performed in 1963 as part of the 300th anniversary of the Society of Friends in Dover, N. H., on the meeting house grounds under the title Dover and Its Friends.
Hugh R. Fox '58, Assistant Managing Editor, Equity Publishing Corporation, Orford, N. H., has edited the 1520 pages of the three volumes of New Hampshire Practice, Probate Law. The author, William W. Treat, in his Foreword praises Mr. Fox's "consummate care and skill" and adds that his "technical talents and legal acumen have been indispensable through the many months of preparation."
Edwin Mansfield '51, Professor of Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has edited Defense,Science, and Public Policy in which a number of experts attempt to show what an important role the defense and space programs play in utilizing a major share of scientific and engineering talent in the United States and what the significance is of the intertwining of defense and science. Among the authors of the 22 essays are Dwight D. Eisenhower on the industrialmilitary complex, Hanson W. Baldwin on the slowdown in the Pentagon, and Hubert H. Humphrey on the technology gap and brain drain. How important a thorough examination of defense efforts is may be understood when one reflects that in 1967 expenditures on national defense totaled about $70 billion, or about 60% of the federal administration budget. A valuable addition to this volume of 224 pages costing $5.95 is a bibliography of 51 suggestions for further reading.
