“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead, whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)
“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and excellently illustrated.”
+ N Y Evening Post p26 O 23 ’20 160w N Y Times p10 O 10 ’20 500w
INGPEN, ROGER, ed.[[2]] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs 821.08
20–19453
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs; Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise; Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.
INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. Report on the steel strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89
20–16529
In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint. These findings justify the strike in its central phase and substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference; Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian findings); Appendices and index.