HENRI BERGSON’S CREATIVE EVOLUTION
Translated from the French by Arthur Mitchell of Harvard University. 370+37 pp. index, 8vo, $2.50 net.[C]
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HELEN R. ALBEE’S THE GLEAM
By the Author of “Hardy Plants for Cottage Gardens” and “Mountain Playmates.” $1.35 net.[C]
“Might be called the autobiography of a soul—A record of the development of the spiritual instinct from its dawn in a child of six to its fruition in a woman of forty-seven.... Told with sincerity and simplicity, with a childlike frankness, and at the same time great reticence in all matters except those of the spirit, and also with an astonishing lack of what is commonly called egotism.... Those interested in psychic experiences will find matter here that piques and holds the interest, and that larger body intent upon some way of escape out of the limitations of daily living and the difficulties and disorder of daily thinking, will find ‘The Gleam’ practically helpful and illuminating.”—The Nation.
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J. NOVICOW’S WAR AND ITS ALLEGED BENEFITS
By the Vice-President of the International Institute of Sociology.
Translated by Thomas Seltzer. 130 pp. 16mo. $1.00 net.[C]
The Contents include: War as an End in Itself—One-Sided Reasoning—War a Solution—Physiological Effects—Economic Effects—Political Effects—Intellectual Effects—Moral Effects—Survivals, Routine Ideas, and Sophistries—The Psychology of War—War Considered as the Sole Form of Struggle—The Theorist of Brute Force—Antagonism and Solidarity.
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