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Philosophy

McCabe, Joseph.

Spiritualism; a popular history from 1847. 1920. Dodd.

134 M12

The pres

A survey of the various movements in America, England, and continental Europe, showing how the decline of each was due to more or less complete exposure. ent revival of interest in this subject, though more scientific than former ones, the author believes has reached its height and is now on the wane.

Ethics

Cheley, Frank Hobart.

Stories for talks to boys. 1920. Association Press.

173 C4i

A collection of brief stories, anecdotes, and quotations which may be used by teachers, preachers, and scoutmasters to point a moral lesson. Arranged alphabetically by the ethical principles they are intended to illustrate.

Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.

r 178 C85wh

Why dry? briefs for prohibition, local, state, national and international, with an introduction by J. G. Wooley. 1918. International Reform Bureau.

Dean, Edward Owen.

174 D34

Opportunities out-of-doors. 1921. Harper. (Opportunity books.) Contents: Wanted-men out-of-doors.-Construction.-Forestry. The lumber industry. Tree surgery.-Rural motor express.-Collecting and growing medicinal plants. -Landscape gardening.

Haviland, Mary S.

Character training in childhood. 1921. Small.

173 H36

The chief topics considered are the physical basis of character; early habit forming; growth through play, study, and work; the child and his vocation; religious education. The author is (1921) research secretary of the National Child Welfare Association.

Religion

Bible-Old testament. Job.

223.1 B47e

The epic of the inner life, being the book of Job; tr. anew and accompanied with notes and an introductory study by J. F. Genung. 1919. Houghton.

Butler, Edward Cuthbert.

271.1 B97

Benedictine monachism; studies in Benedictine life and rule. 1919. Longmans.

"List of works," pref. p.8.

The author has been for more than 40 years a Benedictine monk, and is now (1919) abbot of the Downside Abbey, Bath, England.

Cadman, Samuel Parkes.

Ambassadors of God. 1920. Macmillan.

251 CII

Contents: The scriptural basis for preaching.-Prophets and preachers of the Christian church.-The modern attitude toward preaching.-Cross currents which affect preaching. Present day intellectualism and preaching.-The nature and ideals of the Christian ministry.-Preaching; its preparation and practice.-Preaching and worship. "Bibliography," p.341-343.

Crow, Mrs Martha (Foote), comp.

232 C896

Christ in the poetry of to-day; an anthology from American poets. 1917. The Womans Press.

A selection of poems about Jesus written by American poets since about 1900, arranged in the order of the events of his life. Condensed from Introduction.

Devine, Minos.

226.2 D49

Religion of the beatitudes; a study of Christ's teaching based on addresses delivered at the Church of All Hallows, Lombard street, E. C. during Lent 1917. 1918. Macmillan.

Hall, Edward Hagaman.

283 H17

Guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the city of New York. 1920. Laymen's Club of the Cathedral.

Headlam, Arthur Cayley.

280 H38

Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion; the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. 1920. Longmans.

Contents: The origins of the church. The apostolic church.-The Catholic church. -The teaching of St. Augustine.-The divisions of the church.-The doctrine of the church.-Reunion.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes.

Kent, Charles Foster, & Jenks, J. W.

Jesus' principles of living. 1920. modern life.)

232 K19j

Scribner. (Bible's message to

"Books of reference," pref. p.6-7; "Parallel readings" at the beginning of each chapter.

A text-book for students in colleges and adult Bible classes. The aim is "to interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively in the light of modern conditions...to formulate the vital questions that now confront the citizens of every country and to help them in the light of Jesus' principles...to think them through and to reach a true and practical solution." Introduction.

Lambuth, Walter Russell, bp.

266 L18

Medical missions: the twofold task. 1920. Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.

"Bibliography," p.253-257.

A picture of the need for this service in non-Christian lands, and a plea for better equipment and more thorough professional training for the men and women who take up the work.

255 M72

Ministry of women; a report by a committee appointed by His Grace the lord archbishop of Canterbury, with appendices. 1919. Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

The object is to consider "the sanctions and restrictions which govern the ministrations of women in the life of the Church and the status and the work of deaconesses." The larger part of the volume is given to the appendices which consist of articles on various phases of the subject and its history from New Testament days to modern times.

Murray, Robert Henry.

Erasmus & Luther; their attitude to toleration. moting Christian Knowledge.

"Bibliography," p.449-475.

270.6 M97

1920. Soc. for Pro

The author's purpose is to contrast the position of these two men on a fundamental problem, but at the same time his book is a valuable study of the reformation since he is careful to supply the historical background for the doctrinal conflict. Condensed from Spectator, 1920.

Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan.

Science and morals, and other essays. 1919. Burns.

215 W78

Contents: Science and morals.-Theophobia and nemesis.-Within and without the system. Science in "bondage."-Science and the war.-Heredity and "arrangement." "Special creation."-Catholic writers and spontaneous generation.-A theory of life.

Sociology

r 396 A44

Almanach féministe, 1899-1900; directrice Marya Chéliga. [v.1-2. 18991900.]

"Bibliographie," v.1, p.284-292.

Edman, Irwin.

301 E29

Human traits and their social significance. 1920. Houghton.
Biographical foot-notes.

This book was originally written as a text-book for a college course in contemporary civilization. It attempts to give a bird's-eye view of the processes of human nature, from man's simple inborn impulses and needs to the most complete fulfillment of these in the deliberate activities of religion, art, science, and morals. Condensed from Foreword.

England-Local government board.

r 362.7 E64w Welfare of the children of women employed in factories in France and Germany; report prepared in the Intelligence department.

New York (city), Bureau of Social Hygiene.

1919.

r 351.76 N262

Commercialized prostitution in New York city, Nov. 1, 1917; a comparison between 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1917. [1917?]

Parkinson, Henry.

Primer of social science. 1920. King.

304 P24

"Books for reference," p.27-28; "Readings" at end of each part, and interspersed throughout the book.

This work is presented under the light of Catholic principles, and is based chiefly on English conditions. Statistics in this edition are brought up, as far as possible, to

the close of 1919.

Society of Colonial Wars, Kentucky.

r 369.121 S67

Year book, the Society of Colonial Wars in the commonwealth of Kentucky, 1917, to which is added a calendar of the warrants for land in Kentucky, granted for services in the French and Indian war. [1917.]

United States-Census bureau.

r 317.3 U25m

Census of manufactures, mines and quarries, petroleum and natural gas, 1919, E. F. Hartley, chief statistician for manufactures; instructions to special agents. 1919.

White, William Alanson.

301 W63

Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after. 1919. Hoeber. Contents: The social perspective.-The psychology of confict; the individual versus the group.-The integration of social groups; culture.-Psychological effects of war. -Psychological causes of the war.-Some tendencies quickened by war.-Individualism versus socialism; love and hate.-The socially handicapped.

Bryce, James.

Politics and Government

Modern democracies. 2v. 1921. Macmillan.

321.8 B84

In these volumes this noted political historian gives to the world his mature reflections upon the merits and faults of 20th century democracy. The work is in three parts: the first deals with certain considerations which are applicable to every form of popular government; the second contains analyses of democratic institutions in six typical countries, France, Switzerland, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; while the third sets forth with impressive clearness the author's observations upon the present and the future of democracy. Condensed from Atlantic monthly, 1921.

r 325.7 C23 Il Carroccio (The Italian review); rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, celebrando il terzo anno della guerra d'Italia, 1915. 1918.

Cover title.

"Numero commemorativo dedicato all'alleanza fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti." Being v.7, no. 5-6, May-June 1918.

Holmes, John Haynes, comp.

r 323-44 H73

Freedom of speech and of the press; striking passages from distinguished champions of freedom of expression. 1918. National Civil Liberties Bureau.

Contains quotations from Milton, Locke, Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Wilson, Shaw, Socrates, Voltaire, and many others. The material is arranged chronologically under three headings-American, English, and miscellaneous.

Pooley, Andrew Melville.

Japan's foreign policies. 1920. Dodd.

327.52 P79

The author, an Englishman, looks upon Japan's commercial expansion and political ambitions in China and the Pacific with distrust, and declares that a war between America and Japan is a proximate possibility.

Economics

Connecticut-Taxation, Special commission on, 1915.

r 336.2 C753

Report of the special state commission, appointed in 1915, on the subject of taxation, submitted to the General assembly in 1917. 1917. England-Home office.

I 331.4 E643

Substitution of women in non-munition factories during the war.

1919.

England-Industrial fatigue research board.

I 331.81 E644

Study of improved methods in an iron foundry. 1919. no.3.)

(Reports,

"The following account is the result of a visit to the Derwent Foundry Co., Ltd.,

at Derby," by C. S. Myers, member of the board.

"Reports of the Industrial fatigue research board," p.2.

This board was appointed jointly by the Department of scientific and industrial research and the Medical research committee.

Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan.

Taxation and its relations to capital and labor. 1897.

336.2 G95

Prepared at the request of the New York State Tax-payers Protective Association.

Kirkland, John.

qr 338.1 K28

Three centuries of prices of wheat, flour and bread; war prices and their causes. 1917. Privately printed.

Published by the author at the National Bakery School, Borough Polytechnic In

stitute.

"References," p.64.

Miller, David Hunter.

331 M69

International relations of labor; lectures delivered before the summer school of theology of Harvard University, June 1920. 1921. Knopf. "Bibliography," p.75-77.

Bibliographical foot-notes.

A brief historical study of the position attained by labor in international affairs, including a discussion of the labor clauses in the Versailles treaty and the accomplishments of the labor conference held at Washington in 1919.

Oklahoma University-University extension division.

r 331.1 022

Compulsory arbitration of labor disputes; arguments for and against. [1917.] (Oklahoma University. Bulletin; university extension series, no.34.)

"Selected bibliography," p.111-112.

Price, Enid M.

r 331.4 P94

Changes in the industrial occupations of women in the environment of Montreal during the period of the war, 1914-18. [1919. Canadian Reconstruction Assoc.]

Thesis for M. A., McGill University.

Webb, Mrs Beatrice (Potter).

331.4 W36

Wages of men and women: should they be equal? [1919.] The Fabian Society.

The same....

...r 331.4 W36

Presents and refutes arguments against equal pay for equal work, concluding that sex is no reason for differentiation of wages. Recommends the application to earners of both sexes of the principle of a closer correspondence of occupational rates to relative efforts and needs.

Law

National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People.

r 343.2 N15t

Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. 1919. Statistics for these years, and brief accounts, chiefly from newspapers, of 100 lynchings.

Ozaki, Yukio.

342.52 036

Voice of Japanese democracy; an essay on constitutional loyalty; tr. by J. E. de Becker, with an introduction by Marquis Okuma Shigenobu. 1918. Kelly.

Advocates the adoption of a responsible cabinet and party system of govern. ment. The author was a member of the Japanese parliament and minister of justice. Pennsylvania. Statutes.

qr 345 P39d

Digest of Pennsylvania statute law 1920 (complete); based on Pepper and Lewis' Digest of laws of Pennsylvania, containing all the general statutes of the commonwealth down to 1920, with notes showing sources and derivation of statutes and a chronological table of acts, 1683 to 1920; comp. by members of the editorial staff of the West Publishing Company. 1921. West Pub. Co.

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