A stimulating volume with a “kick” upon the relation of books to life; the part great books play in our goings and comings, in the office, in the street, and in the market place. The relation of poetry to the suburbanite, etc. A book for the man who never reads and for the one who does.
From Nature Forward
By HARRIET DOAN PRENTISS. Limp leather binding. $2.00 net.
The public mind is unsettled; the individual lives a day-to-day existence, wrestling with disease, mental troubles and unsatisfactory issues. This book outlines a system of psychological reforms that can be followed by every man and woman, as the author says, to “buoyant physical health, release of mental tension, and enlarged and happy outlook on life.”
Peg Along
By DR. GEORGE L. WALTON. $1.00 net.
Dr. Walton’s slogan, “Why Worry,” swept the country. His little book of that title did an infinite amount of good. “Peg Along” is the present slogan. Hundreds of thousands of fussers, fretters, semi- and would-be invalids, and all other halters by the wayside should be reached by Dr. Walton’s stirring encouragement to “peg along.”
A Short History of the Navy
By Captain GEORGE R. CLARK, U.S.N., Professor W. O. STEVENS, Ph.D., Instructor CARROL S. ALDEN, Ph.D., Instructor HERMAN F. KRAFFT, LL.B., of the United States Naval Academy. New Edition. Illustrated. $3.00 net.
This standard volume is used as a text at the United States Naval Academy. This edition brings the material to date and is an especially timely book.