THE NEW BOOKS

This department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION

Before the Wind. By Janet Laing. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50.

This is a war tale and is also a detective story of thrilling incident. The author has coined a new word for the excellent people who are perfectly self-satisfied in peace and perfectly useless in war time. She calls them "the Wrack-straws," and she has not a little good-natured fun at their expense. Book of the High Romance (The). A Spir itual Autobiography. By Michael Williams. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.60. A singular combination of fiction and biography. The boy here portrayed as imaginative, idealistic, and intellectually avid, is thrown into a business life which is sordid and distasteful. He breaks the bonds, becomes a newspaper worker, and in his struggle to gain a foothold in literature meets actual men of note, about whom he talks frankly and by name. The narrative is unique in form; it is also fascinating in its appeal to the reader.

His Second Wife. By Ernest Poole. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50.

With fineness of perception Mr. Poole Ideals here with the second wife's effort and final success to counteract in her husband's character the weakening effect of the pleasure-loving, money-getting first wife, who has all but killed, unconsciously, the man's idealism and love of art. The new wife has a delicate task, for there was love in the first marriage. Her reconstruction scheme is wise and cautiously carried out

to success.

Shandygaff. By Christopher Morley. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $1.40.

There is plenty of fun in Mr. Morley's talk about all sorts of subjects, literary, political, and personal. There is also an undercurrent of genuine patriotic feeling and of serious interest in the big questions of the day. Some of the chapters are merely light sketches; others are carefully worked out. Particularly interesting are the appreciations of Don Marquis, of the New York "Evening Sun's" famous column; of Rupert Brooke, the hero poet; and of William McFee, the author of the remarkable novels "Casuals of the Sea" and "Aliens."

MUSIC, PAINTING, AND OTHER ARTS Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $2.

In text and illustration Mr. Joseph Pennell's latest volume well expresses what he stands for in art and life. The book consists of a series of reproductions of this famous artist's lithographs of munition workers, with notes and Introduction. It is a continuation of his "Pictures of War Wonder Work." Though Mr. Pennell says that his drawings were done not so much with the idea of winning the war as because from his earliest days he has always been trying to record the wonder of work, the book will help to win the war, just the same. The Introduction and notes are full of clever, caustic observation.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

In Audubon's Labrador. By Charles Wendell Townsend, M.D. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.50.

When the author of this book was on his way to Labrador, a bluff sea captain said to him, "You fellows are all tarred with

The New Books (Continued) the same stick-you're never happy unless you're in some d -d wilderness." To people who know and love the wilderness it seems holy rather than profane; and all readers of this ilk will thoroughly enjoy Dr. Townsend's story of his trip over the territory traversed by his famous fellowornithologist nearly a century ago. Numerous pictures add to the interest of the sprightly narrative.

Two Children in Old Paris. From the Notes of a Journal by their Mother. By Gertrude Slaughter. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50.

The pleasant land of France is pleasant not only because of its lovely landscapes. It is pleasant also because of the striking contrast between its "oldness" and its old newness"-between its houses, churches, gardens, books, plays, on the one hand, and, on the other, its indestructible youthful buoyancy, vivacity, gayety, charm. Two little American girls who have lived in Paris teach us about these things. The volume is refreshing and wholesome. It might be read by many people who still persist in having the wrong idea of French life in general.

WAR BOOKS

Militarism and Statecraft. By Munroe Smith. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $1.50. National Strength and International Duty. By Theodore Roosevelt. The Princeton University Press, Princeton. $1.

Norman Prince. A Volunteer Who Died for the Cause He Loved. With a Memoir by George F. Babbitt. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

Over Here. Impressions of America by a British Officer. By Hector Mae@harrie, B.A. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $1.35. The writer, an officer of the British Royal Artillery wounded at Ypres, came to America as an inspector of munitions production for his Government. What he saw here in travel, at steel plants, in social and club life, as a speaker at patriotic meetings and the like, is told with friendly good humor and often with epigrammatic terseness. The book is entertaining and good-tempered.

MISCELLANEOUS

Profession of Journalism (The). A Collection of Articles on Newspaper Editing and Publishing. Taken from the Atlantic Monthly. Edited by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer, Ph.D. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston. $1. "No one who compares the newspaper of to-day with its predecessors of fifty, seventy-five, or a hundred years ago can fail to appreciate how immeasurably superior in every respect is the press of the present day." This optimistic sentence is from the Introduction to this volume. The thoughtful reader of these essays, however, will find plenty of matter in them to bring pessimistic thoughts to his mind. But both sides of the question are fairly and ably presented, and every reader or maker of a newspaper will be wiser for studying this book.

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INDUSTRIAL

PROGRESS

Believing that the advance of business is a subject of vital interest and importance, The Outlook will present under the above heading frequent discussions of subjects of industrial and commercial interest. The department will include paragraphs of timely interest and articles of educational value dealing with the industrial upbuilding of the Nation. Comment and suggestions are invited.

A GARDEN SUBURB FOR WAGE-EARNERS AT

AKRON, OHIO

(From the "Architectural Review") The Nation-wide impetus which the war has imparted to the movement for better housing of wage-earners and the entrance of the Federal Government upon a programme of house-building involving the expenditure of at least one hundred million dollars in the current year have led logi

edge with regard to the scope and results

up the development of the remaining 350 acres, lying to the northeast of the first tract.

Playgrounds and small parks, totaling 28 acres, within the property area, and two other park areas contiguous thereto of 28 and 40 acres, respectively, give a total park area of nearly 100 acres. Of the entire Goodyear development twenty-three per cent is given to streets, eighteen per cent to parks, and sixty-three per cent to salable lots.

...

The architect for the Goodyear Heights Realty Company has planned 1,000 houses, 500 being started during 1917. Including all houses erected since the beginning of operations in 1913, 926 dwellings are now either completed or are in course of construction.

The dwellings are of the single-family, detached type, with five or six rooms, bath, cellar, but no attic. Houses have sewer connections, water supply, gas, electricity, and hot-air heating; no wash-trays or tubs, but a hot and cold water connection is left in the basement.

The features to promote social welfare and add to the general comfort of em

that were conducted by manufacturers and

country prior to the outbreak of the war.

A survey shows that one of the most important classifications, with respect both to capital invested and results achieved, includes those enterprises promoted by a single manufacturer with an established plant, either within or adjacent to a city of considerable size, for the purpose of supplying low-priced houses at cost to employees in his plant. Goodyear Heights, the garden suburb development of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, at Akron, Ohio, is one of the largest and most interesting operations of this type in America.

When the development work was started, four years ago, the company had no housing problem on its hands. The enterprise was conceived with two objects in view: first, to enable the man earning average wages to own a good home in an attractive environment, convenient to his work; and,

tentment of the employee by raising the standard of living conditions in his home. In pursuance of these aims, and as a result largely of the interest and energy of Frank A. Seiberling, Vice-President of the com450 acres of land, formerly used for pany, farming and grazing, were acquired near the Goodyear factories, at a cost of $300 an acre. The land, of generally rolling character, is of higher altitude than any other residence property in Summit County, and affords a particularly fine outlook and distant views toward the east and south across the valley of the Little Cuyahoga River.

An experiment was first made in the development of 100 acres lying nearest the Goodyear factories. The plan... provided 436 lots, with an average width of 50 feet and a depth of 115 feet.... Sub-surface utilities, sewers, storm-drains, water, gas, and electricity mains, were installed, and pavements, sidewalks, curbing, and gutters substantially constructed. Within a little over a year from the beginning of operations in 1912, 111 houses were erected in the 100-acre operation...

With the outbreak of the war, in 1914, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was confronted for the first time with a real housing problem. The number of employees doubled in a few months. The Goodyear Realty Company thereupon took

The athletic field in Seiberling Park, the variety of open spaces for outdoor recreation, the girls' dormitory, the hospital, public schools, and stores are all examples of what are now considered essential parts of any well-conceived modern housing enterprise.

There are between forty and fifty different types of houses selling at from $2,400 to $4,450..

Even a brief survey of the Goodyear Heights enterprise would not be complete without commending the admirable features of the selling plan, with its provision for two per cent down as payment on the houses as against the usual real estate practice; the arrangement of the mortgages over a twenty-year period; the plan for eliminating speculation during the first five years; and the arrangement by which purchasers may carry without burden ample protection for their families in the form of life insurance to the amount of the mortgages on the property.

HOUSING FOR SHIP-
BUILDERS

(From the "Nation's Business")

On March 1 the President signed the bill which makes available to the Emergency Fleet Corporation $50,000,000 for providing housing accommodation at shipyards. The Corporation can itself acquire lands and houses, by condemnation if necessary, or it can make loans to persons who will undertake to provide the accommodations.

The Fleet Corporation had some plans ready when the appropriation became available. Housing projects are not to be undertaken where increased transportation facilities can be made to afford relief. Where this solution of the problem is not possible, housing is important. For example, at Sparrows Point, Maryland, additional housing for 3,500 men is estimated to mean an extra annual output of 75,000 tons of vessels. The demand for houses at shipyards has by no means reached its maximum. In January about 180,000 men were employed at the yards; when all the plants are working at capacity, there will probably be 300,000.

An appropriation of $50,000,000 for

Housing for Ship-Builders (Continued) housing at other plants than shipyards was recommended on February 28 to the House of Representatives by its Committee on Public Buildings. These projects would be under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor.

NEW MOTOR TRANSPORT BODY AFFORDS HIGH SPEED

(From the "Commercial Vehicle")

Increased speed in the moving of troops by motor truck is promised by a recent test trip over the Dixie Highway, along the same route over which Sherman made his. famous march to the sea. This trip, as reported briefly in the "Commercial Vehicle," was between Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, Georgia, and Fort Oglethorpe, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, a distance of 135 miles. The motorized transport covered the ground in 5 hours 32 minutes, an average of 24 miles per hour, and beat the train schedule for this route by three hours, saving at the same time $2.89 on the fare for each man.

Much credit for a speedy trip must be given to Colonel Hugh J. Gallegher, depot quartermaster at the Atlanta camp, who has designed a special body for the transportation of troops. This body, which in the recent trip was mounted on a White chassis, differs from the usual type of transport in that the men sit lengthwise of the vehicle, facing outward. This position has two advantages. It balances the load, and it puts the men in an advantageous position in case of attack. That is, they are sitting back to back, and hence could not be attacked in the rear. The advantage of the body, however, is not chiefly for actual fighting, where an armored car would be decidedly better; but is designed especially for the rapid movement of troops, shifting them from one part of the line to another, bringing up reinforcements.

The outfit is designed to carry eighteen men, eight on either side and two in front. There are foot rails and arm rests to prevent those on the side benches from swaying or being thrown off when rounding corners at high speed or moving rapidly over rough roads. The rifles, when not in actual use, may be stored in rifle chests built between the backs of the seats.

The new transport is expected to eliminate the necessity for baggage wagons in quick shifting of men, as the Gallegher body will carry light baggage. There are lockers under each seat for shelter tents, blankets, extra underclothing, shoes, and other equipment usually carried by troops when on the march.

Special lockers are provided for 500 rounds of ammunition for each man. In the rear of the truck there is a compartment which will hold three days' supply of the non-perishable components of rations, such as coffee, sugar, bacon, baked beans, hard bread, and the like.

NEW YORK-WASHINGTON TRUCK SCHEDULE

INAUGURATED

The Liggett-Riker-Hegeman Drug Stores have inaugurated a truck schedule between New York and Washington to overcome the uncertainties of rail shipments. A 62ton Packard is used, and it is expected that with clear weather conditions the 300-mile journey can be made in two and a half days.

A

Sanford Bennett at 78

An Old Man at Fifty
Young Man at Seventy

The Remarkable Story of Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco
Business Man, Who Has Solved the Problem of Prolonging Youth
By V. O. SCHWAB

There is no longer any occasion to go hunting for the Spring of Eternal Youth. What Ponce de Leon failed to discover in his world-famous mission, ages ago, has been brought to light right here in staid, prosaic America by Sanford Bennett, a San Francisco business man. He can prove it too, right in his own person. At 50 he was partially bald. Today he has a thick head of hair, although it is white. At 50 his eyes were weak. Today they are as strong as when he was a child. At 50 he was a worn-out, broken-down, decrepit old man. Today he is in perfect health, a good deal of an athlete, and as young as the average man of 35.

All this he has accomplished by some very simple and gentle exercises which he practices for about ten minutes before arising in the morning. Yes, many of the exercises are taken in bed, peculiar as this may seem. As Mr. Bennett explains, his case was not one of preserving health, but one of rejuvenating a weak, middle-aged body into a robust old one, and he says what he has accomplished anyone can accomplish by the application of the same methods, and so it would seem. All of which puts the Dr. Osler theory to shame. There isn't room in this article to go into a lengthy description of Mr. Bennett's methods for the restoration of youth and the prevention of old age. All of this he tells himself in a book which he has written, entitled "Old-AgeIts Cause and Prevention." This book is a complete history of himself and his experiences, and contains complete instructions for those who wish to put his health and youth-building methods to their own use. It is a book that every man and woman who is desirous of rem ining young after passing the fiftieth, sixtieth, seventieth, and, as Mr. Bennett firmly believes, the one hundredth milestone of life, should read.

Partial Contents

Some idea of the field covered by the author may be gained by the following topics: Old Age, Its Cause; How to Prevent It; The Will in Exercising; Exercising in Bed-shown by fifteen pages of illustration. Sun, Fresh Air and Deep Breathing for Lung Development; The Secret of Good Digestion ; Dyspepsia; How I Strengthened My Eyes; The Liver; Internal Cleanliness-how it removes and prevents constipation and its many attendant ills; external cleanliness; Rheumatism; Varicose Veins in the Legs; The Hair; The Obese Abdomen; The Rejuvenation of the Face, Throat and Neck; The Skin, and many other experience chapters of vital interest.

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OLD AGE

Its Cause and Preve

The story about the Western contractor who put a customer off until "the day after to-morrow," because he was "building a church to-day and a town hall to-morrow," appears to be no fiction in the light of the work done in erecting a Liberty Hall in Hammond, Indiana, recently. "Work began on the building (140 feet long and 104 feet wide) at 7 A.M. sharp," says an account in "Popular Mechanics." "At eight o'clock the foundations were in place, the studding was going up, and the flooring gangs were at work. At ten the flooring was complete. By eleven windows and doors were going into place. At noon the tar paper was going on the roof. At one the painters and wiremen went to work, and completed their job at 3:30. Meanwhile the carpenters had installed the 1,800 seats in the auditorium. Before five the liberty bell had been put in place. At seven o'clock dancing began in the completed hall, where twelve hours before had been only bare ground." Here is an example for the inspiration of airplane manufacturers, ship-builders, and "win-the-war" workers generally.

The unprecedented activity of our shipyards is reflected in the names of the papers that are being published at the various plants. Among these are the "Speed Up," of Newark Bay, New Jersey; the "Heave Together," of Portland, Oregon; and the "Do Your Bit," of the same eity. Other papers are the " Fore an' Aft," of Newburgh, New York; the " Dry Dock Dial," of Brooklyn, New York; and the "Chester Compass," of Chester, Pennsyl

Mince pies were certainly not invented in New England, says a correspondent, alluding to a recent inquiry in this column. He quotes Green as saying in his "History of the English People" that "it was flat Popery to eat a mince pie under the Commonwealth, thus indicating the English origin of the dainty. Another historian, telling of the Christmas customs of the Middle Ages in England, says: "The favorite dishes at this season were the boar's head with an apple or orange in the mouth and set off with rosemary, plum pudding, and mince pies."

"What's the dispute about?" the storekeeper asked his clerk, according to the Louisville "Courier-Journal," and added: "Remember, in this store the customer is always right." "He says you're an old shark," explained the clerk briefly.

A Japanese reader, writing from Tokyo, says concerning a picture of a Japanese wrestler printed in our issue of March 6 (it was received, be it noted, from a Japanese residing in New York City) that in the caption the word "yokozuna " was used as if it were the name of a particular wrestler. As a matter of fact, he says, the name of the wrestler pictured is Onishiki, and he is one of the five yokozuna of Tokyo. The word in question may be translated as 66 champion."

"Flying" hopes to see an airplane cross the Atlantic within six months. It says: "Lloyds-the firm that will bet that the

WAY

war will last six weeks, six months, or six years, and on almost anything else will not bet that the transatlantic flight will not be made within five months. The Aero Club of America, wishing to stimulate interest in the transatlantic flight, thought of offering prizes totaling $150,000, and asked Lloyds to quote their insurance rate on the prize for six months from February, 1918. Lloyds announced that it could not get underwriters for this, because the flight is possible and will be made."

A subscriber is prompted by the reading of the ingenious limerick in this column in our issue of April 10 to perpetrate the following imitation of it:

A young and indigent Prof.
Once tried to escape the Ass.
He fell to his knees

And tried hard to squeeze

Himself and his pride 'neath a dr. Toussaint L'Ouverture, the famous Negro general and patriot-will you look for his name in the cyclopædias under T, L, or O? A recent search to verify the spelling of the name brought out the interesting fact that until he was fifty years old the celebrated Haitian was known as Pierre Dominique Toussaint, and only after a battle with the English in 1793 was L'Ouverture or Louverture added to his name. His success in this engagement led a French officer to exclaim, "Mais cet homme fait ouverture partout!" (This man makes an opening everywhere), and L'Ouverture was thenceforth added to Toussaint. In a similar way General Thomas S. Jackson received the sobriquet "Stonewall."

The roll of honor of devoted workers for the Liberty Loan is a long one. High on the list should be placed the pupils of the Crippled Children's School, at 157 Henry Street, New York City, who raised $11,700 for the loan. One small boy in this school, who in a letter to the Editor-in-Chief of The Outlook gives this information and signs himself "your little friend," succeeded in selling $950 worth of bonds himself.

says

The point of view of the miss of fifteen, "London Opinion," was amusingly brought out the other evening when the young lady had been out for a walk with an admirer and had lingered too long in the gloaming. Her mother somewhat sternly disapproved. "Very well, then," came the petulant reply; "have me left on your hands, like Daisy and Maud!" Daisy and Maud, be it observed, were old maids of eighteen and nineteen summers respectively!

King George the Second of the Tonga Islands is dead, so a cable despatch announces. It was during the reign of his father, George I, that a treaty of "amity and concord” was made between the

islands and the United States. At the
time (1887) this event was amusingly cele-
brated by the humorist Robert J. Burdette
in verses printed in the Brooklyn "Eagle,"
of which the following lines are a part:
"Let hostile nations ramp and roar,
Unmuzzle and loose the dogs of war-
We're now, henceforth, and forevermore
At peace with the Tonga Islands!
We do not fear the mightiest fleet
Of Old World monarchies effete,
We challenge war, defy defeat,

At peace with the Tonga Islands!
Wherever they are we do not know,
But the map of the world will doubtless show
Somewhere between Greece and Mexico

Our friends of the Tonga Islands !"

AN INCIDENT IN A DEMO. CRATIC ARMY

An endless line of drafted and enlisted men with not a stitch to their backs was slowly passing through a room where important-looking men gave each one a glance or a prod, or listened to his heart or lungs, or looked to see if he had fallen arches, and so on.

The men were of many ages, shapes, sizes, dispositions, and nationalities. Papadoupoulos was followed by Lafferty, and he by Cohen, and he by Jones, and he by Bog danski. It was a typical melting-pot crowd.

At the beginning of the line stood a man who merely asked questions-singularly foolish ones too, as many thought. In fact, they were very foolish indeed, but if you happened to be subnormal mentally it was very likely that you would give yourself away when you tried to answer them. That is what they were for, and the questioner, of course, was a psychologist.

He asked the track-walker the usual series of questions, and the poor fellow was bewildered somewhat, but managed to get through without calamity. Then the examiner turned to the next man, a singularly uninteresting specimen.

"What was your job?" asked the psychologist, in a manner meant to be reassuring. "Such-and-such a university faculty," replied the man calmly, "department of psychology."

There were mutual grins of commiseration.

The examiner found that this enlisted man had worked a great deal with mental tests, so he followed the man along, as the line of men slowly made its down progress the long room, and the final turning of the column arrived just as they were discussing the psychological analysis of behavior dif ferences in children!

Then the examiner began making a hurried retreat back to his post at the other end of the room. Upon which the trackwalker turned around with pained and sincere bewilderment in his eyes and expres

FROM THE FAR WEST

I have just read "Enlisting the Farm to Win the War" in your issue of April 3. In two respects I think the facts in this Far West differ from the more eastern portion of the country.

1. The farmers of the West were very slow to believe in our entering the war. They did not at all realize the conditions in Europe, or believe that any nation could commit the crimes that the German Government is continually committing or could have the aims that it has. They are now entirely converted and are standing behind the boys and the President almost regardless of results to themselves.

2. We have no bankers here offering money at 5 per cent. It is 10 per cent or more, and then the security must be adequate. If you have no other security available, they take a lien on the coming crop and all that is produced on the farm. Inkom, Idaho. W. S. HUNT.