The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by Shelby M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities carried on in recent years by means of modern transportation facilities, i.e. “the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion pictures and other campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country, or cross a continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and advantages of traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in campaigning; Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity and organization; The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of the truck or train; Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index and illustrations.
Ann Am Acad 93:226 Ja ’21 40w
“Home economics workers who are touching the extension work field will find this volume indispensable.” B. R. Andrews
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ROWLAND, HENRY COTTRELL. Duds. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
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The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of jewelry and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide dealer in the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose the gang. He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in Captain Phineas Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to. But Karakoff although the chief of the gang is not one of them and repudiates their methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play and clubbings and killings that go on in the story, throws the whole thing over when he realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for and makes ample restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the story, Karakoff’s daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose rescuer Phineas becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The other, a devil woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a pugilist, dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but is really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.
“Mr Rowland is no novice at story-writing and knows how to keep up an unflagging interest to the end. In Miss Melton he has introduced a singular character, and the situations are unusual and make exciting reading.”