“It is not only informational, but inspirational. The attitude throughout is that of the highminded amateur sportsman of the best type. For this reason, if for no other, it is a book that most men and all boys should read.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 6 ’20 210w + N Y Times p25 Ja 30 ’21 160w
ROSE, JOSHUA. Complete practical machinist. il $3 Baird 621.9
20–2274
In the twentieth, greatly enlarged edition of this work, the reader is introduced “to the machine tools in which the cutting tools are used, whereas in the earlier editions the cutting tools only were treated upon.” (Preface) The present edition has 432 illustrations. The work originally appeared in 1894.
ROSEBORO, VIOLA. Storms of youth. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8273
Just before Perry Grantley left college, a faculty incident revealed to him in a flash what “a sporty thing” it would be to be a man. It clinched his decision to stay in the old home town and fight the political graft that had crept into the local government there. In the story we follow Perry’s crusade against the insidious corruption of the town and his personal vicissitudes in matters of the heart—how his unguarded marriage to a flower-like girl with an unborn soul resulted in early widowerhood and his final union with the playmate of his youth whom he had always loved. Incidentally a picture of small town life, its outstanding figures, with their normal, their sub- and super-normal qualities, unfolds itself, leaving the reader with the impression that life with its successes, its failures and its sorrows is all a part of “the beauty and wonder.”
“There is a very vivid picture of the life of the town from the beginning of the book. One must admire the author’s skill in visualizing these varied elements.”