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...report of President Hoover's committee on Social trends, is contained in two large volumes of some thirty chapters, each of which deals with some phase of present day social life, especially with regard to the changes that have taken place during the last 30 years. Probably the usual reader will content himself with the introduction, written by the committee, and with one or two chapters on subjects which fall in his special field. But whatever part he reads will almost certainly give him the impression of a curious inequality in our rate of progress as a people...
...Pound does nothing to help his readers. He once told a friend that the key to the Cantos was "the presentness of the past," but if there is any connected idea (there is no story) in the Cantos, it is too elusive for amateur readers, too buried under Greek, Latin, Provencal, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese allusions. Stunned by the almost continuous avalanche of changing subjects, the plain reader may be too dizzied to get far, but if he perseveres and keeps his eyes open he should find some picture-passages to please...
...unusually comfortable furnishings, and a peaceful atmosphere, this beautiful library has been much used. Nearly all the books needed as texts and for tutorial reading, as well as certain current periodicals of special interest to students of History, Literature, Science, and Economics are here. In addition, the general reader can find a wealth of biography and fiction. The well-arranged stacks with small desks for study are a convenient and important adjunct of the library. Since the first of the year an attractive show case for rare book collections has been acquired. A great deal of interest has been taken...
...fascinated reader of Parkman's narrative of the fall of Louisburg in 1745 this collection of contemporary journals may offer sharp contrast to the romantic tale that is found in the "Half Century of Conflict." The book is a compilation of ten accounts of the siege by different eye-witnesses, six of whom remain unknown to the present day. Written in the plain matter of fact fashion of the unimaginative colonial they simply set forth the events that took place in the one American expedition of the War of the Austrian Succession. One must not expect to find more than...
...England way, record the day by day progress of the siege as the weeks wore on. The first journal was kept by a man who was apparently on the inside of camp affairs which enabled him to write one of the best chronicles from an historical standpoint. The reader must remember that this expedition was undertaken with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe for the Protestants. It is not difficult to realize this from a casual glance at the diary, which hardly lets...