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THE READERS' INDEX

A GUIDE TO WHAT IS IN APRIL MAGAZINES---LEADING ARTICLES---BEST FICTION---BOOKS AND BOOK TALK

AGRICULTURAL

CHICKENS IN THE BACK-YARD, by Frank A. Waugh. Woman's Home Companion. Some advice on the raising of poultry.

HOW TO START A GARDEN, by Samuel Armstrong Hamilton. Woman's World. Telling how everyone may be successful in growing flowers.

THE DENVER LIVE STOCK SHOW, by Alden B. Swift. National.

THE MOTOR-TRUCK AND THE FARMER, by Thaddeus S. Dayton. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 1. How the faithful horse is being superseded. THE NEW SPIRIT IN SOUTHERN FARMING, by E. E. Miller. Review of Reviews. Some of the factors that are helping to recast rural life in the south.

ART

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ART REVOLUTIONISTS ON EXHIBITION AMERICA. Review of Reviews. Concerning the recent exhibition in New York.

FOUR WONDERFUL PAINTINGS, by Charles H. Caffin. Metropolitan. Historic portraits of the Morgan collection recently brought to the United States.

KWAN YON PICTURES AND THEIR ARTISTS. Open Court.

SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by C. J. Ryan. Theosophical Path. With reproductions of some of his most celebrated paintings.

THE ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, by Rev. Dr. Celso Costantini. Ecclesiastical Review. Studies in Christian art for the clergy.

THE DECORATION OF WALLS, by Ruby Ross Goodnow. Delineator.

THE LAST WORD IN ART: THE GEOMETRISTS. Strand.

THE "MODERN" SPIRIT IN ART, by Kenyon Cox. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 15. A discussion of the Cubist movement and the recent International Exhibition held in New York.

EDUCATIONAL

A PRACTICAL RURAL SCHOOL, by Louise H. Campbell. Successful Farming. Concerning

the Grand Meadow Township Special School of Cherokee County, Iowa.

HIGH SCHOOL MANUAL TRAINING PROBLEMS FOR COUNTRY Boys, by Ozro B. Badger. Manual Training Magazine.

THE COLLEGE AND THE INTELLECTUAL Life, by Edward P. Morris. Yale Review.

THE SIX-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL, by George Wheeler. School Review. The drift toward a six-year elementary school course, followed by a six-year high school course.

TRAINING EXPERTS for PUBLIC SERVICE, by L. D. Upson. LaFollette's, Mar. 8. What the New York Bureau of Municipal Research is doing to supply the growing demand for efficient men in public undertakings.

FINANCIAL

INDUSTRIAL PEACE OR WAR, by Everett P. Wheeler. Atlantic Monthly. Treating of the unsettled relation between capital and labor.

OUR WOOL DUTIES, by Thomas Walker Page. North American Review. An informing article written by a former member of the Tariff Board.

THE MAKING OF A TARIFF, by Frederick A. Emery. National.

HISTORICAL

A GLIMPSE OF WAR, by Henry W. Farnsworth. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 29. Describing the siege of Tchataldja.

ANCIENT AND MODERN LIFE, by F. S. Darrow. Theosophical Path. An interesting comparison between Hellenicism and the ancient ideals, and the ideals and life of today.

CONSTANTINOPLE IN WAR-TIME, by H. G. Dwight. Atlantic Monthly. Written by one who was long a resident in the capital of the Nearer Orient.

IN DEFENSE OF WASHINGTON (1863), by Thomas R. Lounsbury. Yale Review.

OUR FIRST MISSION TO JAPAN, by James Barnes. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 22. An account of Commodore Biddle's visit in 1846, and how he was received by the natives.

SIR GEORGE DARWIN, by Philip E. B. Jour

dain. Open Court. A biographical sketch of the second son of Charles Darwin.

WHO WERE THE FIRST BISHOPS AND ARCHBISHOPS IN THE New World? By A. H. Solis. Ecclesiastical Review. Where were the first Sees established?

HOME AND SOCIAL

BOTH SIDES OF THE SERVANT QUESTION, by Annie Winsor Allen. Atlantic Monthly. An ingenious paper on the subject. CONSUMERS' CO-OPERATION-THE NEW MASS MOVEMENT, by Albert Sonnichsen. Review of Reviews. Another remedy for the "high cost of living" problem.

ENTER THE LANDLADY, by Lionel Josaphare. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 22. A humorous description of the much-abused creature-the landlady.

FINANCING MOTHERHOOD, by William Hard. Delineator. Some facts and information regarding our foundling asylums.

NOAH'S ARK, by R. Machell. Theosophical Path. An interpretation of the story applied to the present human race.

ON THE ARDUOUSNESS OF BEING A CITIZEN IN A FREE COUNTRY, by Ezra B. Crooks. Open Court.

ON THE PRIVILEGES OF REALISTS, by Helen Sard Hughes. North American. How far does an asserted moral purpose justify the presentation of immoral material?

PARENTHOOD AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE, by Seth K. Humphry. The Forum. Dealing with eugenics and heritage.

PARTNERSHIPS AND MATRIMONY IN FRANCE, by Mrs. John Van Vorst. Delineator. Where the family is a business organization and sentiment always operates with common sense.

THE BURDENS OF LIFE, by Orison Swett Marden. The Nautilus. Showing that what we think upon we build into life.

THE CASE OF THE PLAIN MAN, by Arnold Bennett. Metropolitan. Entering into the problems of every-day life.

THE CONFESSIONS OF A CLIMBER. Harper's Bazar. In which the wife tells of the ruin and subsequent rehabilitation of a young couple who sought social position at any cost. THE DIARY OF A COP, by Michael F. American. Being a plain, unvarnished tale of the gentle art of making a decent man a grafter.

THE GENTLE ART OF HOME-MAKING, by Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton. Harper's Basar.

THE GOSPEL OF THE NEW HOUSEKEEPING, by Helen Louise Johnson. Harper's Bazar. The art of right living is shown to be closely related to the art of good housekeeping.

THE WOMAN OF TOMORROW, by Gertrude Atherton. Yale Review. The "woman question" from a new angle.

WHAT MY BOY KNOWS. American. Being the Confessions of a Father.

WHY I WORK, by Alice Grant. Pictorial Review. A married woman's protest against a worn-out conventionality.

INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS

FOREIGN TRADE AND SHIP SUBSIDIES, by Anan Raymond. The Forum. Reviving the question of our merchant marine and its restoration with the opening of the Panama Canal.

HOW IT WORKS, by Frank Barkley Copley. American. A record of personal investigation of what manufacturers and workmen are getting out of scientific management.

How UNCLE SAM IS SELLING HIS TIMBER, by Chief Forester Henry S. Graves. LaFollette's, Mar. I. An answer to the criticism that National forest timber should be sold cheaper and faster, and a statement of the policy of the Forest Service.

OLAF HOFF HIS WORK, by Flynn Wayne. National. The work of one of the world's greatest tunnel builders.

OUR NEW INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION, by Robert Sloss. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 1. Dealing with the movement for the improvement of the efficiency of labor.

PLANTING SKYSCRAPERS IN OLD NEW YORK, by Bennett Chapple. National. Regarding New York's epoch of skyscraper construction. REMAKING CHICAGO. Metropolitan. Some contemplated plans for the relief of a congested city.

"SEEING" MEN, by Cromwell Childe. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 15. The ability to see promising material in men, and attaching them to your organization.

SHALL IT BE A UNITED NEW ENGLAND? By Mitchell Mannering. National.

THE COST OF OPERATING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES, by J. M. Van Harlingen. Review of Reviews. Showing what the motor truck actually costs its owner and what the items of operating cost really mean.

THE SPY OF TRADE, by Cromwell Childe. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 29. Describing the personality and duties of the trade spy.

LEGAL

ASPECTS OF THE INCOME TAX, by Sydney Brooks. North American Review. The author points out the effect in England of the operation of such a tax, where its limit of exemption is higher than in the other States of Europe.

LAND-VALUE TAXATION, by F. J. Dixon. Farm and Fireside. The results in Western Canada of raising the revenue by one tax on land values.

THE AGE OF CONSENT AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE, by Anna Garlin Spencer. The Forum.

THE COMMERCE COURT, by James A. Fowler. North American Review. The assistant to the Attorney General contributes a series of arguments for and against the importance of the Commerce Court.

WHERE JUSTICE MILLS FLOURISH, by Theodore M. R. von Keler. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 22. Telling something of the ways of the miscarriage of Justice.

LITERARY

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, by A. St. John Adcock. Strand. A study of the man and his books.

BOOK-PUBLISHING AND ITS PRESENT TENDENCIES, by George P. Brett. Atlantic Monthly. Remarking on the decline of fiction and the increasing difficulties in selling serious books. "Boss" LORD, by Edward G. Riggs. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 1. Concerning Chester S. Lord, the famous managing editor of the New York Sun, and the thirty-two years he guided that paper.

EMOTION AND ETYMOLOGY, by Yoshio Markino. Atlantic Monthly. The author shows some reasons why his English will never become English English.

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, by Van Wyck Brooks. The Forum.

LITERARY TALENT IN THE ITALIAN ROYAL FAMILY, by K. M. Theosophical Path.

THACKERAY AND FIELDING, by Frederick S. Dickson. Norh American Review. An appreciation.

THE BREATH OF LIFE, by John Burroughs. Atlantic Monthly.

THE GREATEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD, by Laura Spencer Porter. Woman's Home Companion. Last in a series of articles on great literature: "The Man of Uz."

THE LATE JOAQUIN MILLER. Harper's Weekly, Mar. I. An account of the life of California's most picturesque character.

Two OF THE NEWEST POETS, by Robert Shafer. Atlantic Monthly. Referring to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and John Masefield.

WHERE BERGSON STANDS, by Charles Johnston. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 15. An appraisement of the French philosopher and his contribution to modern thought.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH

A HEALTHY MIND IN A HEALTHY BODY, by Ralph Waldo Trine. Woman's Home Companion. Some suggestions on the proper way to live.

HEALTH AND HORSE-POWER, by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. American. Suggestions for health and proper living.

HEALTH BY WAY OF THE GROUND FLOOR, by Audrey C. Bullock. Delineator. The value of cleanliness and the proper care and storage of food.

How CANCER May be PrevenTED, by Leonard Keene Hirshberg, M. D. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 29. How this dreaded disease, if taken in time, may be cured.

READ YOUR LABEL, by John Phillip Street. Woman's Home Companion. The Pure Food Commissioner of Connecticut gives some advice on canned and bottled foods.

THE CURE OF INTEMPERANCE, by Austin O'Malley, M. D. Ecclestiastical Review. The physical treatment and ethics of alcoholism.

THE ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE CRUSADE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS, by Lawrence F. Flick, M. D. Lippincott's. A sane and practical article on the stamping out of tuberculosis.

MUSIC AND DRAMA

A ROSE OF SAXONY, by William Armstrong. Metropolitan. Concerning Miss Frieda Hempel, the young German soprano who made her American debut this season.

ETHEL BARRYMORE AS HER FRIENDS KNOW HER, by Rennold Wolf. Green Book. An interesting study of the off-stage personality of Miss Barrymore.

MOVING-PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS: The Motion Picture and the Church. Ecclesiastical Review.

MOVING PICTURES IN THE HOLY LAND. Christian Herald, Mar. 26. The difficulties which have been surmounted in taking pictures in. the Holy Land.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A THEATRICAL PRESS AGENT. American.

THE PASSION FOR PASSES, by W. Dayton Wegefarth. Lippincott's. The schemes of the persistent pass-hunter.

THE THEATRE, by Walter Prichard Eaton. American. Concerning William Faversham. TOURING WITH AN ORCHESTRA, by W. E. Walter. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 29.

WHY I AM A MOVING PICTURE ACTRESS, by Sarah Comstoch. Green Book.

POLITICAL

A COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, by Capt. John Robert Procter, U. S. A. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 8. Taking up the question of the adoption of a fixed policy for our military forces.

A NATION IN IRELAND, by Darrell Figgis. The Forum. Article II.The Times of Prosperity.

A SPECULATION AS TO DISARMAMENT, by Theodore S. Woolsey. Yale Review. Dealing with international peace.

A TEXAN'S EUROPEAN STUDIES, by Frank Putnam. National. Dealing with the conditions in Germany.

EUROPE ARMED PEACE, by Sydney Brooks. Harper's Weekly, Mar. 29. Europe hums with

armaments, and the Great Powers constantly
seek increase of military equipment.

HOW THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA ARE PRE-
PARING FOR CITIZENSHIP, by Lewis Edwin
Theiss and Mary Bartol Theiss. Pictorial
Review.

MILWAUKEE'S NON-PARTISAN GOVERNMENT,
by Warren B. Bullock. Harper's Weekly,
Mar. 8.

POLITICAL MILITANCY, by Mrs. Havelock
Ellis. The Forum. Its cause and cure.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S CABINET, by Albert
Shaw. Review of Reviews. The Cabinet's
Place in Our American System: President
Wilson's Theory of the Cabinet: Leadership
in the Democratic Party: The New Depart-
ment Heads.

REVOLUTIONIZED CHINA, By Edwin Maxey.
The Forum. The changing of China from a
reactionary, Oriental empire, to a modern
state.

An

THE AWAKENING OF AUSTRIA, by Mrs. Bel-
lamy Storer. North American Review.
informing article on Austrian rule.

THE COLLAPSE of CapitaLISTIC GOVERNMENT,
by Brooks Adams. Atlantic Monthly.

THE ELECTION AND TERM OF THE PRESIDENT,
by Max Farrand. Yale Review.

THE "PORK BARREL" PROBLEM-A SUGGESTED
SOLUTION, by Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. Harp-
er's Weekly, Mar. 22. Suggesting a method
of reducing Congressional "pork barrel" ex-
travagance.

THE ROTTEN BOROUGHS OF NEW England, by
Chester Lloyd Jones. North American Re-
view. Presenting some startling anomalies
in our principle of political representation.

THE SUGAR BATTLE, by George C. Lawrence.
National.

WHAT IS SOCIALISM? By Maurice Low.
North American Review. Giving some rea-
sons for the recent discontent.

WHY STATE AID FOR GOOD ROADS? By Ed-
ward E. Browne. LaFollette's, Mar. 1. An
article showing that state aid is justified.

WILSON AND THE BULL MOOSE, by Will
Irwin. Metropolitan.

RELIGIOUS

A SCIENCE OF PRAYER, by Paul Ellsworth.
The Nautilus. Prayer a natural force and
subject to definite laws and conditions.

CHRIST AND BERGSON, by Canon George Wil-
liam Douglas. North American Review. Com-
pares the philosophy of life as set forth by
Christ with the problem of life as dissected
and analyzed by the philosopher Bergson.

How ITALY FOUGHT THE PAPACY, by Rev.
Alexander Robertson. Christian Herald, Mar.

5.

OCCULT SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS, by H. T.
Edge. Theosophical Path. Written from a
scientific Theosophic standpoint.

SOCIALISM AND SPIRITUAL EXPANSION, by
George D. Herron. Metropolitan. First Arti-
cle: The Great Hope.

THE BIRLE AS LITERATURE IN THE HIGH
SCHOOL, by Norman F. Coleman. School Re-
view. Describing a course in the literature
of the English Bible in a public high school.

THE CENSURED SAINTS, by George Hodges.
Atlantic Monthly. Reviewing the religious
works of the last year.

THE PROBLEMS OF THE CITY CHURCH, by R.
H. Miller. Christian Standard.

THE RELIGION OF AMERICA, by William Barry.
Atlantic Monthly. To a Catholic Missionary
in the United States.

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CHURCH, by Wil-
liam Willis Burks. Christian Standard.

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

APPROACHING THE UNSINKABLE SHIP, by
Robert G. Skerrett. Harper's Weekly, Mar.
29. Describing a protective system to insure
the floating of a craft despite serious wounds
in the hull.

MAN AND FELLOW-MAN, by Edgar A. Singer,
Jr. Journal of Philosophy, Mar. 13.

PSYCHIC EPIDEMICS, by William Dunn. Theo-
sophical Path. An article which should inter-
est all students of psychology.

THE SPIRIT PORTRAIT MYSTERY, by David P.
Abbott. Open Court. Setting forth what is
said to be the final solution of this mystery.

WHAT THE SIXTH SENSE REALLY IS, by H.
Addington Bruce. Pictorial Review. New
light shed on a much-discussed question.

SPORTS AND ATHLETICS

A PRICE UPON HIS HEAD, by L. B. Nagler.
LaFollette's, Mar. 22. Setting forth alleged
frauds and fallacies of our system of giving
bounties for the scalps of predacious wild
animals.

BATTING AND BASE-RUNNING, by C. H.
Claudy. Woman's Home Companion. Some
suggestions for the young baseball player.

HAWKING WITH THE ADWAN ARABS, by Wil-
liam Coffin. Harper's Weekly. An account
of a day's sport hawking in the Jordan Valley.

WHO WILL WIN THE PENNANT? By Frank
Leroy Chance. Metropolitan. An attempt to
answer the question now racking the brains
of millions of baseball "fans."

TRAVEL

AROUND THE WALLS OF OLD NINEVEH, by
Professor Edgar J. Banks. Christian Herald,
Mar. 5.

How I SAW JERUSALEM AT EASTERTIDE, by
Pierre Loti. Christian Herald, Mar. 19.

TEMPEST-BOUND ON THE MONCH, by George
D. Abraham. Strand. An adventurous out-
of-season climb of the white-crested sentinel
of the Oberland.

TO AND IN GRANADA, by William Dean
Howells. North American Review. A char-
acteristic travel essay.

Winter in the Catskills, by A. W. Dimock.
Harper's Weekly, Mar. 1. Showing the flory
of winter in the mountains.

BOOKS AND BOOK TALK

THE President and Fellows of Harvard College have voted to establish the Harvard University Press for the publication of works of a high scholarly character, whether produced within or out of the university. For some years the university publication office, besides printing the catalogues, department pamphlets and other official documents, has found it possible, in spite of its limited resources, to issue from time to time a few special works, until it now has a list of some fifteen periodicals and eighty books, ranging from treatises on Indic philology to practical directions from American lumbermen. To organize and extend this activity, so as to make the university properly effective as publishing centre for scholarly books, is the object of the new foundation.

The Harvard University Press, though so recently established, is able to announce several noteworthy volumes as in preparation, including books by the late Professor James Barr Ames of the Law School and by Professors George Foot Moore, Arthur E. Kennelly, George L. Kittredge, Eugene Wambaugh, George A. Reisner, Charles H. Haskins and W. B. Munro. Most of these will appear in a short time. The board of syndics who will decide on the books to be published by the new press are Robert Bacon, fellow of Harvard College, chairman; George Frost Moore, professor of the history of religion; Arthur E. Kennelly, professor of electrical engineering; George L. Kittredge, professor of English; Charles H. Thurber, member of the firm of Ginn & Co.; Edwin F. Gay, professor of economics and dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, and W. B. Cannon, professor of physiology. The director of the press is Charles Chester Lane, for the past five years publication agent of the university.

The establishment of the Harvard University Press recalls the fact that the first printing press in America was a gift to Harvard College in 1642, and was set up in the house of President Dunster. Among other important books which were printed on it were the Bay Psalm Book and John Eliot's Indian Bible.

"Great American Writers," by W. P. Trent, professor of English literature in Columbia University, and John Erskine, associate pro

fessor of English in Columbia. The book comprises one of the Home University Library, and is an admirably condensed and interesting introduction to the study of American literature. While American literature in the most liberal sense of the term is now a little more than three hundred years old, the authors declare that in the strictest sense, comprising only books that are still somewhat widely read, it is not half so old. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is practically the only work written by an American before the close of the eighteenth century that has sufficient excellence and popularity to rank as a classic. Although far from being what may be termed a professional writer, Franklin is, therefore, the first name with which an account of the achievements of American men of letters need properly begin. Charles Brockden Brown was the first real American author in the professional sense; and, beginning with an outline of his life and works, the writers run though the list of representative American men of letters familiar to every well-informed reader. (Henry Holt & Co., New York.)

That political union may be secured through using the school house as the actual headquarters of the government and that with this political unincation, party divisions are not necessary, is the position taken by Prof. E. J. Ward, of the bureau of social center development, in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin, in a volume on "The Social Center." With the people as a whole in control, the so-called political machinery can be made a potent means of advancing the common good. The general antipathy to machine politics has been due to the fact that private groups have controlled the machine. With the school house as a unifying factor, the political machinery of the community can be placed in the hands of the people.

After discussing the possibilities of the school house as a civic center and giving a survey of the present development of this movement, the author shows how the public school may serve as a public lecture center, as a branch public library, a music center, an art gallery, a motion picture theatre, a recreation center, an employment office, a vocational center, a public health office, and a dental office. There is also a detailed discussion of the social center idea as applied to rural communities.

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