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Bostwick, Arthur Elmore.

020.4 B64

Library essays; papers related to the work of public libraries. 1920. Wilson.

The author is (1920) librarian of the St. Louis public library.

Friedel, J. H,

020.7 F94

Training for librarianship; library work as a career. 1921. Lippincott. (Lippincott's training series.)

"Suggested further reading on training for librarianship," p.222-224.

Describes the work, preparation for it, and its financial and other rewards; and considers various types of libraries from the standpoint of those who are contemplating entering the profession.

Kansas-Traveling libraries commission.

Biennial report (10th), 1916-18. 1918.

Sayle, Amy.

r 027.6 K12

027.4 S27

Village libraries; a guide to their formation and upkeep. 1919. Richards.

Based on experience gained through 12 years' connection with a library in a village of Hampshire, England.

Troy, N. Y.-Public library.

r 027.4 T77

Report for 1919 (Young Men's Association, 1835-1903). 1920. Wheelock, John Hall.

A bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt. 1920. Scribner. Wise, Thomas James, & Wheeler, Stephen, comp.

qr 012 R68w

r 012 L22w

Bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of Walter Savage Landor. 1919. Blades.

Printed for the London Bibliographical Society.

Philosophy

Carrington, Hereward.

134 C23p

The problems of psychical research; experiments and theories in the realm of the supernormal. 1921. Dodd.

Deals chiefly with mental or psychological phenomena and does not touch upon physical manifestations to any extent. Condensed from Preface.

Culpin, Millais.

134 C88

Spiritualism and the new psychology; an explanation of spiritualist phenomena and beliefs in terms of modern knowledge, with an introduction by Leonard Hill. 1920. Longmans.

James, William, 1842-1910.

Collected essays and reviews. 1920. Longmans.

104 J16c

Thirty-nine scattered articles which heretofore have not appeared in book form. Condensed from Preface.

MacMurchy, Helen.

132 M21

The almosts; a study of the feeble-minded. 1920. Houghton. Contents: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott.-The mental defectives of Dickens.— Bulwer Lytton, Charles Reade, Victor Hugo, George MacDonald, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson.-Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Hegan Rice, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Sarah P. McL. Greene, Arnold Mulder, The contributors' club.-The case for the feeble-minded.

Discusses extracts from literature which depict the mentally defective.

104 R32 Religio doctoris; meditations upon life and thought, by a retired college president, with an introduction by G. S. Hall. 1913. Badger. (Library of religious thought.)

Contents: A revery wherein the following essays are conceived.-Philosophy and everyday life.-The nature of explanation and the true interpretation of the principle of cause and effect. The problem of evil.-Happiness and morality.

Ethics

Babson, Roger Ward.

Religion and business. 1920. Macmillan.

174 BIIr

Essays on the relation of the church to industrial and commercial problems and

ethics.

Crafts, Wilbur Fisk, & Crafts, Mrs S. J. (Timanus).

r 178 C85w

World book of temperance; temperance lessons, biblical, historical, scientific. 1911. International Reform Bureau.

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Your biggest job, school or business; some words of counsel for red-blooded young Americans who are getting tired of school. Appleton.

1920.

Intimate talks which attempt to convince boys that a good education will pay in the

end.

Religion

Bible New testament.

225.5 B47m0

The modern reader's Bible for schools; the New testament, by R. G. Moulton. 1920. Macmillan.

A simplified edition using the text of the revised version printed as if it were a modern book. Contains the complete Gospels, the Acts slightly abridged, and selections from the Epistles and the Apocalypse. Condensed from Spectator, 1920.

Diffendorfer, Ralph Eugene.

The church and the community.

1920.

261 D57

Published jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Interchurch World Movement of North America.

"Bibliography," p.175-177.

"An introduction to the study of the local church in its relation to other community institutions, forces, and agencies." Foreword.

Gilfillan, George.

Poets and poetry of the Bible. 1859. Saxton.

220.8 G39

Studies the characteristics of Hebrew poetry and considers passages of poetry in some detail.

Jastrow, Morris.

223.1 J21

The book of Job; its origin, growth and interpretation, together with a new translation based on a rev. text. 1920. Lippincott.

Minucius Felix, Marcus.

239 M73

Octavius [tr.] by J. H. Freese. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Translations of Christian literature, series 2: Latin texts.)

A dialogue between a Christian and a pagan, supposedly written sometime during the first three centuries of the Christian era.

Sinnett, Alfred Percy.

Collected fruits of occult teaching. 1920. Lippincott.

212 S61C

Contains contributions to our super-physical knowledge, hitherto scattered through reviews, pamphlets, and the "Transactions" of the London lodge of the Theosophical Society, of which the author is president. Condensed from Preface.

Watkinson, William L.

211 W31

Influence of scepticism on character; the 16th Fernley lecture delivered at City road chapel, London, Aug. 2, 1886. 1886. Woolmer.

Sociology

Austria-Statistische central-commission.

r 314.36 A93

Österreichisches statistisches handbuch, 35. jahrgang (1916–1917).

1918.

Cole, George Douglas Howard.

Social theory. 1920. Stokes.

301 C68

Contents: The forms of social theory.-Some names and their meaning.-The principle of function. The forms and motives of association.-The state.-Democracy and representation.-Government and legislation.-Coercion and co-ordination. The economic structure of society.-Regionalism and local government.-Churches.-Liberty.The atrophy of institutions.-Conclusions.

"Bibliographical notes," p.210-213.

Harrison, Shelby M.

r 361 H31

Social case workers and better industrial conditions; paper read before the Division on the family of the National Conference of Social Work, May 1918. 1918. (Russell Sage foundation-Charity organization department. Publication 50.)

Ross, Edward Alsworth.

301 R73P

Principles of sociology. 1920. Century. (Century social science series.)

"No one preparing to be a professional social scientist, whatever his particular division of labor, can afford to be ignorant of this book...It is a luminous revelation of realities of the common life." American journal of sociology, 1920.

United States-Pension bureau.

r 351.5 U253

Card records in use in the Bureau of pensions, 1916. 1916.

Politics and Government

Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City, Mo.

r 352 B93

One hundred reasons why 100 cities have changed from private to municipal ownership of their public utilities.

Ireland, Walter Alleyne.

Democracy and the human equation. 1921. Dutton.

321.8 128

A study of the present status of representative government in the United States.

Pennsylvania. Statutes.

r 352 P3992c

Compilation of the laws relating to counties and county officers; comp. by S. E. Hannestad. 1920. (Pennsylvania-Legislative reference bureau. Bulletin no.20.)

Pollard, Albert Frederick.

The evolution of parliament. 1920. Longmans.
Bibliographical foot-notes.

328.42 P76

"It is rather a collection of more or less closely articulated essays on various phases of English parliamentary history than a systematic account of the development of parliament." Nation, 1921.

Roscher, Wilhelm.

321 R71

Politik; geschichtliche naturlehre der monarchie, aristokratie und demokratie. 1892.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes.

The author was one of the founders of the "historical" school of political economy. United States-Foreign relations committee.

r 327.73 U253i Investigation of Mexican affairs; preliminary report and hearings of the Committee on foreign relations, United States senate, pursuant to S. res. 106, directing the Committee on foreign relations to investigate the matter of outrages on citizens of the United States in Mexico. 1920. (66th cong. 2d sess. Senate. Doc. no.285.)

Americanization and Immigration

Barnes, Mrs Mary (Clark).

Neighboring new Americans. 1920. Revell.

2v.

325.73 B256n

Contents: The approach.-Teaching English to adults.-Church neighboring.— Coöperation with daily vacation schools.-Coöperation with public schools and libraries. -Concerning books for new and old Americans.

"Bibliography," p.65-68.

Kellor, Frances Alice.

Immigration and the future. 1920. Doran.

325.1 K16

Deals with the changes in this problem brought about by the world war, and urges that America's attitude should cease to be one of prejudice and ignorance and become one of international feeling and sympathy.

Economics

[Barrett, Robert Lee, & Barrett, Mrs K. M.], comp.

r 330.9 B26 (United

British industrial experience during the war. 2v. 1918.

States. 65th cong. Ist sess. Senate. Doc. no.114.)

V.I contains war laws, rules and circulars.

v.2 contains reports on manufacturing industries and coal mining by W. J. Lauck, and on railroad transportation by Leland Olds.

Revised and edited by the Bureau of labor statistics.

Bastiat, Frédéric.

Harmonies économiques. 1864. (Œuvres complètes, v.6.)

330.1 B29

"The main idea is the natural working together of all moral and social laws under

the conditions of moral and social liberty." Edinburgh review, 1879.

The author, a French political economist of the first half of the 19th century, was an advocate of free-trade.

Boyle, James Ernest.

crop.

332.6 B67

Speculation and the Chicago Board of Trade. 1920. Macmillan. "Reference library for a board of trade," p.265-269.

Deals with future trading and speculation as related to the marketing of the grain

Brown, John Frederick.

330.1 B79

New era economics, presenting a rational theory of value. 1918. Privately printed.

This book, written from a rather extreme socialistic standpoint, advances the theory that all kinds of useful work of standard efficiency should receive equal compensation. Bureau of Applied Economics, Washington, D. C.

r 331.83 B895 Changes in cost of living, 1914–19; a summary of existing data. 1919. Bureau of Applied Economics, Washington, D. C. r 331.83 B895c

Changes in cost of living and prices, 1914 to 1920. 1920. (Bulletin no.6.)

Fisk, Harvey Edward.

336.4 F53

English public finance from the revolution of 1688, with chapters on the Bank of England. 1920. Bankers Trust Co.

The same.....

.r 336.4 F53

The first part of the book deals with England's finances during the great war. The later chapters consider her financial history from 1066 to 1914.

Johnson, Ida Amanda.

Michigan fur trade.

r 338.1 J36

1919. Michigan Historical Commission. (Michigan-Historical commission. University series, no.5.) "Bibliography," p.183-192.

With this is bound "Pere Marquette Railroad Company," by P. W. Ivey. Nevinson, Mrs Margaret Wynne (Jones).

339 N25

Workhouse characters, and other sketches of the life of the poor. 1918. Allen.

The author has had "contact with all sorts and conditions of derelict humanity, and her sense of humor, no less than her womanly sympathy, enables her to depict to the very life the various odd or otherwise striking characters she encounters." Nation, 1919. United States-Interstate and foreign commerce r 331.81 U2535

committee.

Repeal of daylight-saving law; report, to accompany H. R. 3854. [1919] (66th cong. Ist. sess. House. Rept. no.42.)

Submitted by Mr Esch, from the Committee on interstate and foreign commerce. United States-Tariff commission.

r 336.2 U2533an Annual report (1st-date), for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917– date. 1917-date.

Labor

Bureau of Industrial Research, New York city.

r 331.1 B89

American company shop committee plans; a digest of 20 plans for employees' representation introduced by the following American companies: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Company, Bridgeport Brass Company, Bridgeport Manufacturers' Association, Browning Company, Cambria Steel Company, Colorado Fuel &

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