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JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY'S NEW BOOK

THE RILEY READER

Miss Charity Dye, widely known for her unusual work in the teaching of English, has made a careful study of the entire collection of Riley's poetry, and has chosen from it these poems that will most appeal to children. There is a delightful variety, including poems of reflection, of philosophy, of patriotism, of description, of tender home feeling. With frontispiece in color by Ethel Franklin Betts, and many illustrations by Will Vawter. Cloth, 60 cents net.

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Professor of the History of Art, University of Stockholm

Professor Sirén has prepared a detailed life of the great artist from a first-hand study of the material, and has depicted with remarkable clearness the artistic milieu out of which grew the masterpieces with which we are familiar. The book is extensively illustrated with half-tone engravings of Leonardo's sketches, statues and paintings.

Imperial 8vo. Cloth binding. Gilt top. 235 pages. Over 200 illustrations. Index. In a slip case. Price $6.00 net, postpaid.

THE COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL BY HENRY

FIELDING

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY GERARD E. JENSEN, PH.D.

"Mr. Jensen's book is the most important contribution, in recent years, to the personal and literary history of Henry Fielding. He has reprinted all the leading articles, seventytwo in number, of 'The Covent-Garden Journal, the last and best of the four periodicals that were edited by the great novelist. Many of these articles are of unusual literary quality; and taken altogether, they throw new light upon the life and work of Fielding at this period."-Professor Wilbur L. Cross, Yale University.

2 vols. 8vo. Board binding. Vol. I, 368 pages; Vol. II, 293 pages. 12 illustrations. In a slip case. Price $5.00 net, postpaid.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TENNYSON FROM 1809

ΤΟ 1850

By the late THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY

LL.D., L.H.D.

This new biographical material concerning Tennyson is drawn from the memoirs, correspondence, and critical literature of the period, of which nothing seems to have escaped Professor Lounsbury. In this, the author's last work, his wit, humor, and keen observation appear in all the freshness that characterized the life of Cooper, written early in his literaгу career. The book is edited, with an introduction, by Wilbur L. Cross, Ph. D., Editor of the Yale Review.

8vo. Cloth binding. Gilt top. 661 pages. Index. Price $2.50 net, postpaid.

INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP

By H. L. GANTT (Page Lectures)

Mr. Gantt is perhaps best known in connection with his work in scientific management. Here, working in a larger field, he offers suggestions to leaders of industry which might well be adopted as axioms. For example:

"If there is any one principle which, more than any other, is influential in promoting the success of an organization, it is the following:

"The authority to issue an order involves the responsibility to see that it is properly executed."

12mo. Cloth binding. 128 pages. 9 charts. Price $1.00 net, postpaid.

CHANGES IN THE FOOD SUPPLY AND THEIR RELATION TO NUTRITION

By LAFAYETTE B. MENDEL,
Ph.D., Sc.D.

The effect of improved transportation facilities on food supply has been often discussed by the economist. Here, perhaps for the first time, a physiological chemist of note discusses the effect upon the diet of this country of commerce, which provides us eggs from China, and preservative methods, which can keep commodities as perishable as fresh fish in good condition for two years. An interesting feature of this discussion is that dealing with reforms in diet necessitated by economic conditions such as those produced in Germany by the present war.

12mo. Cloth binding. 61 pages. Price 50 cents, net, postpaid.

JOURNEYS TO BAGDAD

THE MIDDLE MILES AND OTHER POEMS

By LEE WILSON DODD

Couched in musical language, with a depth of earnestness, a keen but kindly observation of life and at times a delicate humor, these poems possess a charm and inherent worth which reward the reader in a degree not equalled by much of our contemporary poetry.

12mo. 105 pages. Paper binding, 50 cents net; board binding, 75 cents net, postpaid.

MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS IN THE YALE BABYLONIAN COLLECTION

By ALBERT T. CLAY, Ph.D.

This initial volume of Babylonian Texts in the Yale Oriental Series contains inscriptions, such as the Sumerian prototype of the Hammurabi Code (the oldest laws known), which are of great importance for the reconstruction of the history and life of the Babylonians.

4to. Cloth binding. 222 pages. 55 plates. Price $5.00 net, postpaid.

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A VOICE FROM THE CROWD

By GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER

"Mr. Pepper has proved his right to stand by the side of the great religious teachers who have gone before him (in the Lyman Beecher Lecture Series]. He is scholarly and thoughtful, eminently practical, and in places he sparkles with a restrained humor. But he is above all devout, a man of true spiritual insight and great moral earnestness. -Franklin B. Dwight in the Christian Work. (Second printing.) Bvo. Cloth binding. Gilt top. 207 pages. Price $1.50 net, postpaid.

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By CHARLES S. BROOKS

Illustrated with thirty woodcuts by ALLEN LEWIS

These Essays possess at once rare bookish flavor, keen if whimsical insight, and a happy pictorial power.

The author possesses the unusual gift of being able to write charmingly on simple subjects, finding his appeal in the happy turn he is able to give to homely things. The book is illustrated from wood blocks cut by Allen Lewis, who has been markedly successful in reproducing the spirit of the Essays.

(Second printing.) 8vo. Board binding. 140 pages. 30 woodcuts. Price $1.50 net, postpaid.

THE SOCIAL LEGISLATION OF THE PRIMITIVE SEMITES

By REV. HENRY SCHAEFFER, Ph.D.

A thorough study of the customs and laws of the primitive people of Arabia, Babylonia and Israel-a field which has not been covered since the publication of the Hammurabi Code, of which the author makes excellent use.

12mo. Cloth binding. 245 pages. Index. Price $2.35 net, postpaid.

SOME CHRISTIAN
CONVICTIONS

A PRACTICAL RESTATEMENT IN TERMS OF
PRESENT-DAY THINKING.

"To many who are uncertain and bewildered by the contradictions of modern criticism and by the vagaries of shallow talkers, this thoughtful, large-minded and reverent book will bring illumination and reassurance.-Springfield Republican.

(Second printing.) 12mo. Cloth binding. Gilt top. 223 pages. Price $1.00 net, postpaid.

"If there is one volume of verse this year which we might safely recommend to every American man and woman who has not read poetry before, it is James Oppenheim's 'Songs for the New Age'. The volume will prove more and more satisfying with each re-reading. And its message to the American people may not pass unheeded."-Wm. Stanley Braithwaite in his 1914 Anthology of Magazine Verse.

"We Unborn', in Mr. Oppenheim's 'Songs for the New Age', is the title of the greatest modern psalm since Thompson's 'Hound of Heaven' and Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

These songs are filled with an ecstatic discontent -they are battle cries that call to a beautiful conflict, that rouse us against the armies of the torpidly living and the complacently dead."-Louis Untermeyer in The Chicago Evening Post.

SONGS FOR THE NEW AGE

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"Unquestionably 'Songs for the New Age' is a creative book and burns with its own flame; indeed, it is all flame, and as compared with the inert and obviously invented work of the vers libre school, it glows with a passionate fire. Mr. Oppenheim has lived, he has much to say, and he says it with unmistakable accent of power."-Jessie B. Rittenhouse, in The New York Times.

"'SONGS FOR THE NEW AGE' IS A MILE-
STONE IN OUR POETIC PROGRESS."

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