O’SHEA, PETER F. Employees’ magazines; for factories, offices, and business organizations. il *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 658
20–26978
A book on house organs as a factor in employment management. The foreword says, “The value of the printed word in organizing, educating and managing large groups of employees in industry is greater today than ever before.... The old paternalistic shop paper which reached down to pat a man on the shoulder is out of date. But the modern house magazine, alive, sincere, human and constructive, has tremendous opportunities, that have been greatly increased by the wide-spread growth in intelligence and interest among workmen the country over.” Contents: The employees’ magazine as an aid to management; Promoting cooperation by the house organ; Educational work of a house organ; How a house organ improves morale; Democracy of an employees’ magazine; Organization and getting material; Editorial methods and costs; A contractor’s employees’ magazine; Magazines for offices, stores, and sales organizations; Learning from other fields; Appendix: a brief list of good exchanges.
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OSLER, SIR WILLIAM. Old humanities and the new science. *$1.50 Houghton 375
20–7592
The book contains Sir William Osler’s inaugural address as president of the British classical association, which proved to be his last public utterance. It contains a memorial introduction by Dr Harvey Cushing setting forth the unusually high and many-sided achievements of the author as both scholar and man and describing in brief the organization and purpose of the Classical association. One of these purposes—the furthering of a closer cooperation between natural science and the humanities—accounts for the choosing of “one of the most eminent physicians in the world” as its president. Dr Osler is said to have been “a well-nigh perfect example” of this union and his address to have “embodied the whole spirit of this ideal.”
“It is a rare production, witty, learned, fraught with a high degree of inspiration, full of sympathy for the old humanities, filled with surprises in the portrayal of great classical writers.”