Sir Herbert Morgan has brought his business experience to the
task of making an exceptionally useful vocational guide, as well as a mind receptive to the stir of new ideas in the fas- cinating world we live in. Careers for Boys and Girls (Methuen, 6s.) warns parents that sociological factors, far from being matters of mere academic interest, may profoundly affect their children's future. The declining birth-rate, new methods of transportation, social readjustments, wireless, the oil-engine and a hundred other factors will influence the lives of our children in ways we can but dimly see. Just because we cannot see the future clearly, and because we are in an age of changing values, we welcome a book such as this, written by a man who has made a success of his own life and who knows of what he writes. Glancing through Careers for Boys and Girls one is struck by the great diversity of opportunity which exists in the modern world . . . if youth but knew !
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