graphs by Mr. Phillpotts. Professor Edwin Greenlaw writes on "Spenser's Fairy Mythology," and there are a number of other important articles by scholarly writers. The Historical Society of East and West Baton Rouge has issued the second volume of its proceedings. This report is a model for the detailed information which it gives regarding the work of the society. It contains many short but interesting papers dealing with state and local history. The editor is Professor M. L. Bonham, Jr., of Louisiana State University. The report of the secretary of the General Education Board for the year 1916-1917 contains an account of the activities of the Board in aiding a number of colleges and universities, in promoting the establishment of a strong medical college at the University of Chicago, and in aiding public education in various of the states. Especially interesting is the account of work done to improve the character of negro rural schools in nearly all the states of the South. The General Education Board, 61 Broadway, New York City. Bulletin No. 638 of the United States Department of Agriculture is a contribution from the Forest Service on "Forestry and Community Development," by Samuel T. Dana, Assistant Chief of Forest Investigations. The bulletin is a most striking presentation of the effects of destructive lumbering and forest devastation. The text and the illustrations show the evils that have resulted in abandoned towns, deserted cutover lands, eroded hillsides, abandoned railroads, and depreciated property values. The pamphlet is a strong and convincing argument for the development of a rational timberland policy. "The Need for National Efficiency" is a reprint of part of an address delivered by Mr. Otto H. Kahn at Chicago, January 12, 1918. Mr. Kahn has made in this and other addresses valuable contributions to popular understanding of the economic problems involved in the participation of the United States in the war. He makes a plea for an official body charged specifically with the duty of giving direction to the necessary general campaign of saving and also with the task of studying and advising on industrial and economic postbellum problems. The address is a very effective argument against the haphazard handling of problems of gravest importance to the nation's welfare. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for the education of negro students will be celebrated on October 31 and November 1 at Hampton, Virginia. The dedication of the Robert C. Ogden memorial auditorium will occur on October 31 with an address by Chancelor J. H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt University. If the condition of the public service shall warrant at the time, the President of the United States has agreed to be present and make an address on Friday, November 1. President Alderman, of the University of Virginia, is also expected to speak on the same day. Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, has recently published an interesting review of the work of the Foundation in the year 1917. During that year the Foundation expended in the various fields of war work nearly six million dollars. During the same period $3,630,000 was expended for medical research and education in connection with the Rockefeller Institute and the China Medical Board. Expenditures for various other philanthropies brought the total to between eleven and twelve million dollars. Dr. Vincent's review of these far-reaching philanthropies is accompanied by many charts and illustrations. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. The Guaranty Trust Company, of New York City, is publishing and distributing free of charge to those who are interested a series of booklets on economic and financial subjects of current interest. Recent issues deal with "The Federal Income Tax Law," "The War Finance Corporation Act," and "The War Excess Profits Tax Law." 140 Broadway, New York City. THIS tobacco is a friend just before the exams. You want concentration and you want it bad -smoke Velvet and you'll get it! Velvet tobacco-the finest leaf-aged over 2 years-time matures the leaf as nothing else can. Time develops a mellowness and flavor that are rare indeed. There is no bite in Velvet! Fill your pipe with this tobacco-then you will appreciate why we named it "Velvet." At all dealers. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. "Vantage in" Yes, it happened only a few years ago-we We decided to first place it on sale in col- Championship quality! Plain package-good tobacco-20 times! Distinctively Individual❤ Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. FATIMA TURKISH BLEND |