rthe first time the social his- of the American people is told Lgh the effeet on their lilvs. o! ,nve'ntions that eventually weld- em into the union that xe know Moay. oft he Iran, Me?',is an accounit of what the cotton.-giii did to civilization in the South, how the ~ '4 railroad and the steamnshiP rewrote - the history o!, America, how the in- vention of the Perisl fi il wn the Revolution for:the Contînentals,-. how thequick communicationmd 1possible by the telegraph changed - the entire temper of society-how, "not only did hecessity breed an in- 'bred another necessity.". Inventors Becomne Heroes Here are the stories o! -EH Whit ney., ,Fitch, 'Fulton, lcçorrn-ick. IMorse, Vail, and. manY other.ý in-: Ventors of that Marvelous era .when' painters. fatrmers, clergymen and: "ejnu~rnkù, h e the like stumbled oni new basic bigph biCalVnDr, o! invention over night. breevdbj rtc n ai the Cboil endsvoithythecloeth!!ed "the -Franklin book of oui' the ivi War wo by he ort generatio n." The Viking Press "-by no fortunes or science of.wa is the pubftshing honse. but by the peculiar directions of ____the___ history of inventionlin Arnerica."! Withte- ater f the nation c -Refue hoyT after 186,5., invention entered an vMan ak FreWl phas, an theiro mens mach_'The predom inant scientific and was ver.They had taken passes- social philosophy of our age is thiat sion Ths new i, phase of invention man as an individual is helpless, a novels. He has been engcaged in IVutre' says Henry C, LînI< in research study and in v.writing hi> Thec Rediscoverp of' Man. ne book for the last three years Dr. Link. continues:. "'\an is now --rteeaed ais a being far greater than Safety Measures ýeitheci' the theories or the -machines Iii Let Thýer Lir e, Stewart Hol- hc- has created. He is a creature o! bro(,jk.,authr of Hly Oldfrue will and untold possibiities, 1nrot. has continued on a large sçale what the slave of environmerd or circum-i that fmu ril And 1Sudcdei stances. Itis capabilities are limited Death began. Mr. Holbrook has put: not so rnuch by heredity and poverty into explicit English a picture ofte as by his own vision of hi-mself." -- . --f 1ç This is Dr. Link's thesis and he S.Oto $80.00J per 1,00. Staioner,-Street Ftoor I Childhood rerniflisCences, light and gay, in a family where the parents are .divorced and visita from "fa- ther"-, corne as big, exciting events -make a delightful riovel when pre- sented with the. sympathetic touct, oýf Kathryh Hfirne, the a-uthor of We Liî,ed as- Chi.tdreiz. Kav,' the second daUehter in the farnily, in her own words tells the story of her ."darling«" roother, gr)swid .:hr sister, the pretty Jen. and her broth er, ]Buzz. very% rnuch of ýa boy. Frank,. their unpre- dictable father. who lavishes upor thero . xtravagant presents but*oives their rnother scarcely e nough alimo- ny for household. expen ses. pavz- dashingý, calis and uiiext)ectedlv. brings with himî luxurious tidbits 1< !cat, or maybe a new. lady. friene'. sometimes a new wife. The Earthaualke Except fôir ~the wild upheaval foi lowin1g the San Francisco earth: ýquake. where, the, hildren reisid(i the events in the story are nofiinýl to speak of-the erphasis and th( charni of, the book lying in the ii characterizations of the nmbers of this brke" nd highly comple'_ famnily Erratic. often unkind, highlv emé- tina adpeculiar aî the father Frank. is. he possesses a hypnotik t omething that electrifles the, wholu àhouisehold, mother and three chi-, turn and remarry Lauva, theiir beat- tiful mother. But no mria would ever hold Frank for ogn to the best of women or for the sak( o! the finest o! children. Children . Apart, Jen, Kay and Buzz live inconspi- uously ini nondescript neighbarhoods like just ordinary boys andgil Actually they are children apart Their father's background of' wealtY. and their unusuaI homne life mralku world is occasioned neither by lwir- (3); supper, (4) betwen meals. The ricane nor flood, but it nevertheless reviewèr almost acquired a raven- provides the aUl too credible back- Qus appetite, himself, writing about ground for Josephine Young Case'. Tirne to Kat. The hero of! the. tae. At Midnig)ht on the Thirty-First of à not.,quite-three-year-ld showri March, published by Houghton. Mi!- Sitting at a table eating,, might be fin coMpany. caiI1ed -àa charrner.ý" w LIIE*BT SIBUOE.fl Anewv philosophy of prsnlt 'Tho Rediscovery of Mari" by-Henry C. LÙ,k author of "The,.Return toReigion" $1.75 Daiiy delitlerlý ro Entirp North Shor. 1724 Orrington Avenue Fun tain'Square AOOKS LIsten! the Wind $2.50 Science for the Citizen bY Lance/a)t Hogben $5,00 The Horse and Buggy Doctor, bv Arthur H. Hiertz/pr. $2.75 Fanny Kemble Iy arga'ret .-rrnistroing 53.00 With Malice Toword Soin. by Ifargaret IIczIsel $2.0 Iý I $245- I w.àj*ý for, his, . 1 : 1