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Current Literature

Tr big schoolchildren can often translate idioms with astonish- ing fluency, we all know the ephemeral nature of such know- ledge : the number of educated Englishmen and women......

Short Articles On The Economical And Physiological...

drink problem, mostly culled from publications of the year, and adorned with admonitory cartoons.......

To The Minute Observer The Eighteenth Century Seems More And

more the age of unreason. Dr. Reed gives us a treasure of bewildering material admirably marshalled. Her main object is to trace the development of literary melancholy from......

Fiction

TRUTH AND SENSATION The Little Karoo. By Pauline Smith. (Cape. 43. 61. net.) Harvest in Poland comes very near to being a good novel— in any sense, good. The book is so crowded......

Visual Education : A Comparative Study Of Motion Pictures...

Other Methods of Instruction. Edited by Frank N. Freeman. (Chicago University Press. t3.50.) THERE is a general impression among serious cinema-goers that the moving picture......

Tiie Pleasure Of Reading These Reminiscences Comes From...

and kindliness of the author's nature. She has been engaged in " good works " from her youth—in missions, hospitals, churches, boys' clubs, girls' clubs, everywhere ; but there......

The Most Rabid Anti-prohibitionist Could Not Help...

of this earnest and gentle plea for abstinence. Dr. Hime is never spiteful to his opponents, nor does he write from a peak of righteousness. After a life of moderate drinking he......