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This is a delightfully fantastic story of a student and his little daughter Fiona who lived on the Isle of mist on the shores of a gray sea-loch. The old hawker who came to them with a pack of buttons to sell and who gave Fiona an old copper bangle bracelet, and the “search” turned out in the end to have been the king of fairies. The bracelet gave Fiona the power to talk with animals—to hold long philosophic conversations with a centipede—and to see and talk with the spirit of the mountain. But it was not only on account of the bracelet that she could do this but—because she was a child and could still see. When the treasure cave was closed up to her by a great fall of rock she knew that now she was too old for the search. The chapters are headed: The gift of the search; The beginning of trouble; The haunted cave; The urchin vanishes; The oread; The king of the woodcock; Fiona in the fairy-world; Fiona finds her treasure.

“Delicately imaginative and beautifully written.”

“An exquisite fantasy of youth and autumn.” A. C. Moore

“W. W. Tarn has written a book so beautiful, so whimsical, so exquisite alike in its humor, its loveliness and its sheer charm that it will be a dull reader indeed to whom it does not bring an abiding joy. This is a rare and beautiful book, a real discovery.”

“The fact is that Mr Tarn, apart from his lovely scenery, has adorned his tale with a remarkably bushy moral, excellent for Fionas and Urchins as such, but un-fairyish.”

TASSIN, ALGERNON DE VIVIER.Craft of the tortoise. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812

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A satirical play in four acts tracing the evolution of the present status of woman, especially her social supremacy over man, from the ancient faraway beginnings to the present day. The play is built on the premise that woman, at first a slave, subjugated to man’s will and power, had to resort to trickery, exploitation of her sex attractions, and a clever use of clothing and adornment, in order to get ahead of her lord and owner; and that she finally made a complete reversal of social conditions. In his long introduction, brilliant and with a certain Bernard Shaw piquancy, the author is complimentary to neither sex. Having in his introduction compared woman with the tortoise in the fable racing with the gamboling hare, the author has titled the four acts respectively: The tortoise finds herself; Tortoise turns the first corner; Tortoise strikes her gait; Tortoise on the home stretch. The first three are remotely laid in that past so alluring to the imagination, the last is a satiric picture of modern life.

“In the preface, Mr Tassin’s style reminds one of Chesterton in its sharp shafts of wit and depths of irony. The first and second acts are excellent in their humor and sardonic style, the third lapses momentarily, and the fourth merely ‘carries on.’”

“The plays hover between satire and burlesque, and contain much that is arbitrary, didactic, and as inept as the figurative title; but they contrive to be both entertaining and provocative.”

“An ingenious and sometimes witty satire.”

“The source of this play in Mr Tassin’s mind was some moment of extreme irritation over the modern American woman. But to jump to the conclusion, as many would at once, that he is an anti-feminist, would be quite erroneous. The play has wit, it has wisdom, it has keen characterization of the purely intellectual sort, and it has dramatic energy.” L. L.

“Undoubtedly in many respects this dramatic symposium is outrageously unfair. It is a bit of special pleading, at once vigorous and shallow, which it would be absurd to take too seriously. And it is marred by a spice of somewhat cheap and unattractive cynicism. But it is a piece of literary and dramatic workmanship of highly superior quality.” J. R. Towse

“It is quite amusing in parts, although it is written to the length of prolixity. Mr Tassin’s characterizations are entertaining; he scores his points with consistency if one accepts his premises, and reveals a genuine humor that is admirable.”

“In spite of a satyrical vein which makes many of the scenes amusing, the entertainment is too heavy for continuous enjoyment. The known facts of anthropology and history are in places perverted into grotesque misstatements.” B. L.

TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM.Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. *$2 Macmillan 337

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“A collection of papers and addresses covering the phases of the tariff controversy now chiefly under discussion in the United States by the Henry Lee professor of economics at Harvard (who has been chairman of the United States tariff commission).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The papers have been taken from talks to various audiences and periodical articles from 1904 to date discussing the tariff pro and con in a form usable by the general reader.”—Booklist

“Useful to high schools.”

“Dr Taussig’s authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful, even-tempered criticism, is preeminent.”

“The volume is characterized by more of unity than usually attaches to such a collection, and the reader will find in it a coherent, consistent presentation of the author’s views on the main issues of the tariff question. In a time marked by the uncertainties and confusions which characterize domestic conditions and foreign relations today, it is not surprising to find the author chary of dogmatism as to the future course of events.” F: C. Mills

“Each problem is handled with the author’s characteristic open-mindedness. Each conclusion is reached after painstaking analysis, with a realization that future developments and changes in economic factors may take from an argument all its force.”

Reviewed by Bertram Benedict

“There is no safer guide on these topics than Dr Taussig. He was never an opportunist, but ever a preacher of the true word, with little if any reference to partisan expediency. Therefore, he is able to reproduce his arguments for the most part without change. Dr Taussig is a popular as well as an authoritative writer.”

TAWNEY, RICHARD HENRY.Acquisitive society. *$1.40 Harcourt 330

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The author holds that no change of system or machinery can avert those causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or quarrelsomeness of human nature. But it can create an environment in which these qualities are not encouraged; it can offer people an end on which to fix their minds, thus, in the long run directing their practical activity. To think of the economic organization of society on the basis of function rather than of rights, is a habit of mind to be encouraged. It implies three things: that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service and abolished when they are not; that the producers shall stand in direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on; that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon the professional organization of those who perform it. Contents: Rights and functions; The acquisitive society; The nemesis of industrialism; Property and creative work; The functional society; Industry as a profession; The “vicious circle”; The condition of efficiency; The position of the brain worker; Porro unum necessarium; Index.

“The author uses sound logic and pertinent historic facts to maintain his cause and there can be little doubt that this book will exert a great influence for good, for his theory is perfectly consistent with Christian principle.”

“This little book is destined, we believe, to be regarded as a classic masterpiece upon its subject. The treatment is at once profound and brilliant; brilliant because it gives powerfull and worthy expression to profound thought.” D. S. Miller

“He advocates revolutionary doctrines with temperateness and a seasoned mind. He writes of the ‘nemesis of industrialism,’ but with no trace of fanaticism.” R. B. Perry

“Cleverly written pamphlet. It is encouraging to find that one Socialist at least is on the right track.”

TAYLOR, EMERSON GIFFORD.New England in France, 1917–1919. il *$5 Houghton 940.373

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The book is the record of the Twenty-sixth division of the American Expeditionary force, whose organization, personnel and record as a fighting unit are typical of American fighting troops in the field, on the march, in billets, or in the heat of battle. It is also the story of volunteer American citizens, non-professional soldiery. The contents in part are: Organizing the division; Overseas; Settling down in France; The chemin des dames; On the march; The Le Reine (Boucq) sector; The fights at Bois Brulé and Seicheprey; The affairs of May and June; The Aisne-Marne offensive; The Saint-Mihiel offensive; In the Meuse-Argonne offensive; Before the armistice and after. The book is illustrated and indexed and has six maps.

TAYLOR, FRANCES LILIAN.[2]Two Indian children of long ago. il 70c Beckley-Cardy 398.2

A book that combines information about the Indians with stories drawn from Indian myth and legend. “The author has endeavored to describe child life in the wild-rice region west of the Great Lakes ... and to retell some of the most interesting stories enjoyed by Indian children. The aim of the book is to gratify the American child’s natural interest in primitive life by stories of our own land and to increase his respect for all that is original and worthy in the lives of the first Americans.”

TAYLOR, IDA ASHWORTH.Joan of Arc, soldier and saint. il *$1.50 (2½c) Kenedy

A very simple and direct presentation of the life story of Joan of Arc. A prefatory note states: “The list of the lives of Joan is long; but some are too lengthy, some too much weighted with historical complications and details of campaigns, some too full of more or less controversial matter, to commend themselves to young readers. The following narrative is purely a personal record of her deeds and ideals, recounted, whenever possible, in her own words or in those of contemporary chronicles and in the archives of her tragic condemnation as heretic, her death as martyr, and her triumphant rehabilitation.” There are eight black and white illustrations by W. Graham Robertson.

TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday

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In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.

“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while achievement in the future.”

TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON.Personnel administration; its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1

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“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the administration of human relations in industry; and they take up seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.), rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable and timely volume.” T. T. Read

“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately rare.” P. H. Douglas

Reviewed by G: Soule

“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize the writing.” W: L. Chenery

TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.Little garden the year round. il *$2.50 Dutton 716.2

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“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have said about them and various other things that are more or less essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican

“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids, and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full knowledge of his subject.”

TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.Pleasures of collecting; being sundry delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American, European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749

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“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.” (Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting; Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz; Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces; Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica; Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations, an extended bibliography and an index.

“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of others.”

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”

“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires. Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the glass.”

TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).Flame and shadow. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

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“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times

“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale, Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean, straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer

“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W. S. B.

“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson

TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS.Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd

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A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors; The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored illustrations by Herbert Paus.

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely repetitions of the play.”

“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.[2]Last days of the Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947

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The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape; Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical index of names.

“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part of the book is the more interesting.”

“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and poignant interest.” J: Bunker

TEN-MINUTEtalks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330

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Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In preparing them for American publication, only such editorial interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The upward path.

“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”

“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in conventional economics for secondary schools or even college freshmen.” E. R. Burton

“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily expressed in compressed form.”

TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY.Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan

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“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation

“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”

“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he met.”

“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as good.”

“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of description.”

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.Bruce. *$2 Dutton

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“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences, and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed, is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas. Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican

“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune. Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”

“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”

THATCHER, EDWARD.Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680

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“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist

“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”

“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who delights to handle tools.”

THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER).Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century

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“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course; and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and, characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the murderer.”—Springf’d Republican

“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot better worked out than the average.”

“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”

“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated of fiction readers.”

THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE.Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920

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“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review

“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical faculty gives especial value to his comment.”

“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is conspicuous.”

“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”

“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of literary criticism.”

THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.[2]Kentucky superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3

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“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches, hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of the volume.”—Survey

“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”

“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith

THOMAS, EDWARD.Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304

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