In the summer time Y. M. C. A. workers attend great conferences or summer schools like the school at Silver Bay, on Lake George, where they study Association methods. At Springfield, Mass., the Y. M. C. A. maintains the greatest technical college of its kind in the world. The technique taught there is the technique of man. Here hundreds of students study man physically, mentally, morally, and historically. They learn all the games played by men. There are two large There are two large gymnasiums, two athletic fields, a swimming pool, and an enormous laboratory, with 2,500 boys as subjects to work with. These subjects are town boys who come there to work and play. The Y. M. C. A. students lead them and work with them and study them just as other biologists study so many rabbits or so many guineapigs. The result is that the trained Y. M. C. A. men know just how a man's mind works and why. They are experts in psychology as well as in athletics and in other subjects. And that is the reason they are so wonderfully successful in getting such a strong hold on the men who come into the Y. M .C. A. buildings THE ASSOCIATION'S BUILDING IN THE CITY OF MEXICO PHOTOGRAPHED AFTER THE RECENT REVOLUTION AND SHOWING THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE ARTILLERY DUEL BETWEEN THE FORCES OF MADERO AND DIAZ SERVING AMERICAN SAILORS IN RIO JANEIRO DURING THE BATTLESHIP FLEET'S CRUISE AROUND THE WORLD IN 1908, BY HELPING THEM FIND THEIR WAY ABOUT AND BY SAFEGUARDING THEIR AMUSEMENTS M THE NOVELS THAT SELL 100,000 WHO WRITES THEM THE PROFITS OF THE "BEST- BY ARTHUR W. PAGE R. GEORGE P. BRETT, the head of the American publishing house, house, The Macmillan Co., closed a recent article upon "Book Publishing and Its Present Tendencies" with these words: Novels of merit and value, representing honest work and the real convictions of their authors, still from time to time make their appearance, but it is seldom indeed that one of these finds its way into the ranks of the "six best-sellers." Their appeal is to that part of the public which still discriminates in its reading, a smaller percentage of the whole, I fear, at present, than in any recent period of our history. One is reminded of the remark of one of our best critics, himself an author of many books well known to lovers of the best literature: "I should consider myself disgraced if I had written a book which in these days had sold one hundred thousand copies." Copyright by Haeseler MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AUTHOR OF "A MODERN CHRONICLE" Such remarks are as common in literary circles as fulsome eulogies of these same bestsellers are common in the book reviews, but the public has no very definite information of what books sell 100,000 copies. As a rule it has no accurate record of the authors whom it has brought into disgrace with the critics by so lavishly buying their books. Between January 1, 1910, and January 1, 1913, there were published new books of fiction by thirteen authors that sold as many as 100,000 copies in the |