The JUNIOR Life-Situations of Children Nine

to Eleven Years

of Age

By ERNEST J. CHAVE

To control the child's environment and shape it to his best interests, that is, to turn it to the building of character, is Mr. Chave's purpose in this book.

The author has made a detailed study of a specific group of children of the middle childhood or Junior age—nine, ten, and eleven years. In this manner the observations and reactions of over six hundred and fifty children were obtained and used, subsequently, in this book. The technique is simple and could be used easily with any group. However, the data secured from this one unit may justifiably be generalized upon for the guidance of other groups.

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The most flexible of textbook forms, the collection of readings, is used in a companion volume, Readings in Risk and Risk-Bearing, to cover thoroughly the element of risk in business, as seen through the eyes, not of one man, but of many specialists. This volume provides in convenient form supplementary reading for college classes in the subject, particularly where Mr Hardy's Risk and Risk-Bearing is the principal text. The organization of the two books is substantially the same, the chapters in the supplementary volume corresponding in title and subject to those of the text itself. Divergent points of view are represented and those portions of the main text are supplemented most fully which experience has shown to be most in need of additional material.

There are readings on the cost of risk, ways of dealing with it, the business cycle, business forecasting, risk and the management of capital, securities and speculation, hedging, the various classes of insurance, guaranty and suretyship, the risks of labor, and the social aspects of risk-bearing.

The sections on insurance comprise nearly half the volume, and the discussion will give the student a knowledge of the questions that are interesting the insurance world. READINGS IN RISK AND RISK-BEARING. BY CHARLES O. HARDY. $3.50, postpaid $3.60.

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The new Catalogue of the University of Chicago Press is ready for distribution and will be mailed to all applicants. It is a complete list of the books-nearly a thousand of them-published by the Press, with special emphasis on the new books that are being introduced this fall. Write for a copy of this book about books.

The World and Man

The advance of modern science has revealed a vast store of fascinating facts about the universe in which we live. More discoveries have been made in nearly every branch of science in the past two or three decades than in all the previous history of mankind. Scientists have disclosed a world of the infinitely small in electrons, atoms, and molecules; and of the enormously large in giant suns and galaxies of stars, billions of miles distant. They have looked back millions of years to the origins of worlds, and have traced their history through the geological ages to the present. Myriads of plants and animals have been studied, from the lowliest bacteria and protozoa up to man. Minute investigation of man himself-his origin, the wonders of his body, the development of his intelligence has yielded astonishing facts. Inanimate matter has revealed marvelous secrets to the modern chemist. The physicist has explained the forces we see about us every day, and the biologist is seeking to explain the very secret of life itself.

To help the inquiring reader in his efforts to keep up with the procession of modern science, sixteen members of the Faculty of the University of Chicago have written The Nature of the World and of Man, which E. E. Slosson describes as a book for “those who have not been to college and those who have."

These men, specialists in their fields, are the authors: Forest Ray Moulton, Rollin T. Chamberlin, J Harlen Bretz, Harvey B. Lemon, Julius Stieglitz, Horatio Hackett Newman (the editor), Edwin Oakes Jordan, Merle C. Coulter, Henry Chandler Cowles, Warder C. Allee, Alfred S. Romer,

Fay-Cooper Cole, Elliot R. Downing, George W. Bartelmez, Anton J. Carlson, and Charles Hubbard Judd.

Beginning with the outstanding facts about the solar system, each of the sixteen authors has described that phase of development with which he is most familiar: the origin and early stages of the earth; geological processes and the earth's history; the nature of energy and matter; bacteria and their origin; evolution of the plant kingdom, the vertebrates, and the invertebrates; interactions between plants and their environment; the coming of man; organic evolution and the origin of life; human inheritance; structure of man; the living process; and mind in evolution. Throughout, the authors have emphasized the conception of science as a glowing, living thing inextricably bound up with every human life. With all its multiplicity of authorship, the book has (in the words of the Chicago Tribune) "taken on the unity, the coherence, the march of one great epic poem."

Stuart Pratt Sherman said not long ago: "I have strong impression that our average' American is waking up, responding to the new emphasis on 'adult education,' becoming infatuated with the idea of having his education go on as long as he does. He has got wind of the secret that in all the fields of knowledge enormous changes and advances have been made in the last twenty-five years and are still being made at this present hour. His sporting desire to keep up with his times grows keener and the range of his curiosity will soon be encyclopedic.'

The popularity of The Nature of the World and of Man is evidence of the awakening of the adult public to the possibilities of

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further education. For the reader outside the universities the book is a guide to the world of contemporary science; it enables him to form a conception of how the earth came to be, what its place is in the vast physical universe, how life originated; it gives him glimpses of the monsters of early ages; shows him how Cro-Magnon man lived, how atoms are held together in a molecule, how invisible throngs of bacteria surround us, how life came from the sea to the land, why insanity is increasing, how speech developed, how hormones regulate bodily processes.

The Nature of the World and of Man contains the subject matter of a "survey course" given each year by its authors to a selected group of beginning students at the University of Chicago. The success of the experiment upon which it is based suggests a wide use of this text in similar courses in other institutions to give the beginner a preliminary view of the surrounding world and of his possible function in it.

In this day of increasing specialization and a confusingly large body of human knowledge, orientation toward the more general aspects of the world and of man is a necessity. În the belief of the authors of this text, orientation may best begin with a presentation of what modern science holds as truth. They have therefore attempted to give the student that acquaintance with the general outlines of scientific thought which is the ideal point of departure for his entire intellectual development, and which alone affords him the proper perspective on the world of modern thought. More specialized courses in thinking, man in society, or the arts, may well follow, but this course, being more informational, more inclusive, and easier for the beginner should be the point of departure. THE NATURE OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN. BY SIXTEEN MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. $4.00, postpaid $4.15.

Current American Prose
In a volume of provocative essays, The Out-
look for American Prose, Joseph Warren
Beach searches the current prose of reflec-

tion, reminiscence, criticism, and social commentary for auguries of a first-rate style. He judges as stylists the American prose artists who are now in the public eye. Timely and incisive comment from this candid and erudite observer will be not unwelcome to readers who have become aware of the development of American prose style in such books as Troubadour, Straws and Prayer-Books, and A Story-Teller's Story.

A professed eclectic, and adherent of no particular school or tendency, Mr. Beach seeks the perfect style wherever it may be found. Looking about for American writ ers of cultivated philosophical prose to compare with Bertrand Russell and Havelock Ellis; biographers to rank with Lytton Strachey; newspaper essayists to place beside Chesterton; and critics as stimulating as Shaw, he advances a gratifying number of claimants to distinction. In Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, H. L. Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Paul Rosenfeld, Simeon Strunsky, and Alfred Kreymborg, Mr. Beach finds the most hopeful signs of a distinguished prose art in America, and whether or not you agree with him, you will have to reckon with his arresting dicta on the luminaries of the day. "Old fashioned or new fashioned, what we want is something first rate," says Mr. Beach. His regard for stylistic perfection

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

leads him to protest against the incoherence of Hergesheimer; the lack of precision in John Dewey, the naïveté of Dreiser; the scientific jargon of Van Wyck Brooks; and the affectations of Van Vechten

-"A prose-writer who dares Sentimental to use the devices of

violence and overuse of such words as "dev

the poet. astating" and "poignant" are charged against Ben Hecht, Hutchinson, Walpole, and Hergesheimer.

warranted meanings which a succession of early translators read into them. This version is based upon the official Hebrew text, corrected and emended in accordance with the findings of present-day scholarship.

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Dr. Smith expresses at the outset his admiration for the King James Version of the Psalms as a masterpiece of English literature, unrivalled in beauty," and disclaims any attempt to supplant it with his own version. His purpose is rather to express, as completely and as accurately as the limitations of language permit, the thought and feeling of the original; and to incorporate the scholarship of recent decades, with its more thoroughgoing text-critical method and improved philological results. His aim has been at all times to create a clear and uncorrupted version in which the reader of today will be able to see unhampered the beauties and true meaning of the world's greatest hymnbook.

This translation is intended for the public rather than for technical study; it is not, however, an attempt to bring the Psalms down to the level of the mythical "man on the street." The Psalms are here reproduced in a language and style befitting their spirit and content.

While seeking to avoid a bald literalism, Dr. Smith has preferred to err on that side rather than upon the side of paraphrastic expansion. His aim being always accuracy of meaning, he has chosen not to take the liberties of paraphrastic rendering. The translator brings to his task unusual qualifications. He is professor of Semitic languages and literatures in the University of Chicago, editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and one

For a long time we have needed a translation of the Book of Psalms into the language of our day-a translation that would give the modern reader new insight into the classical rendering of the King James Version, and enable him to see in the Psalms the meaning they originally had. Such a translation is the new version by J. M. Powis Smith, which removes the stumbling-blocks of a centuries-old vocabulary, and divests the verses of un

country. He is the author of several wellknown books on Old Testament subjects. This version of the Psalms is the first step in the complete American translation of the Old Testament, upon which a committee of Hebrew scholars is now working and which will require a year for its completion.

In this rendering, the modern reader can now read the Psalms in the language of his own day, just as they were written centu

A Short Introduc

tion to the Gospels

By ERNEST D. BURTON and HAROLD R. WILLOUGHBY

Ernest DeWitt Burton continued during his last years the researches concerning the origins of the four gospels which had been the basis of his valued Short Introduction to the Gospels. He made further investigations regarding the dates of the Synoptic Gospels, and approached the Fourth Gospel from a new point of view, applying the method. of source criticism which he had already used with conspicuous success in the case of the Synoptic Gospels.

These significant advances have been incorporated by Harold R. Willoughby in a new revision of the volume which brings to biblical students Dr. Burton's final conclusions. Two important sections of fresh material found in Dr. Burton's files have been added. The first renders an exceptional judgment regarding the dates of the Synoptic Gospels. The second outlines a unique theory concerning the composition of the Fourth Gospel which illuminates the Johannine depiction of Jesus.

This authoritative revision places before students of the gospels those facts concerning the purpose and point. of view of each of them which are most necessary for an intelligent understanding of them.

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Introducing Urban
Sociology

A new volume, The Urban Community, edited by E. W. Burgess, and a previously published one, The City, by Robert E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and others, form together a much-needed introduction to an urban sociology. They are the nearest approach thus far to textbooks in urban sociology, including under that term community organization, urban geography, and human ecology. Based upon a conception of the city as a living organism, they are the first steps in an attempt to supply that basic understanding of the city needed to unify the many present-day urban movements. These two books offer an introduction, not merely to the facts of urban life, but to the processes involved in human life from the standpoint of environment.

Continuing the work of outlining the field of urban sociology as begun in The City, the new volume, The Urban Community, is a prospectus of the present state and promise of sociological research in this field. It indicates and illustrates for students of the subject the different techniques of research, ecological, cultural, and statistical, which are being applied to the study of the city.

It covers a wide range of phenomena from human nature and personality to statistics of city life. It deals with fundamental problems and contains more modern applications of the subject and more statistics on urban problems than any other volume. It will be a most helpful text for teachers of urban sociology and community organization, and will admirably aid all students of these subjects, as well as those interested in urban geography.

The chapters in this volume are selections from the proceedings of the 1925 meeting of the American Sociological Society.