improvement work, and should supply a need for some time felt by Improvement Societies and Home Garden Associations.

It aims first to give the reader a broad outlook beyond the limits of his own garden, taking the individual garden in its relation to the whole garden land of the community and to the great world garden itself. Then beginning with the autumn it furnishes timely suggestions for garden work throughout the varying seasons. It gives simple directions for choosing the site, laying out beds, selecting seeds, planting, raising, caring for, and harvesting the flowers and vegetables. It does not try to supply technical botanical information, but seeks to deepen the interest of the young gardener in all the details of his daily work by showing him something of the meaning and manner of the plant life with which he has to deal. It is furnished with a goodly number of illustrations which add to its interest and usefulness. Nearly all these are from photographs taken by the author while at her work.

Miss Higgins has had a varied experience in both school and home gardening with children of all ages.

Present-Day Topics

PERSONAL POWER
By William Jewett Tucker

Crown 8vo, $1.50 net. Postage extra.

As president of Dartmouth during the period when it was growing from a small New England college to one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States, Dr. Tucker came to feel very keenly the need of quickening in young men the sense of personal power. This may be accomplished through various agencies, notably through the competition of business; but no business exists for this purpose. By common consent, however, the college stands for just this influence. From time to time, therefore, Dr. Tucker gave the Dartmouth students addresses, or less formal talks, on themes like the Estimation of Power, the Distribution of Personal Power, the Morally Well-bred Man, Moral Maturity, and the Recovery of Personal Power. Several of the most suggestive and stimulating of these talks are now gathered for publication. The volume contains also a group of four addresses made at the opening of successive college years, on the general subject of the Moral Training of the College Man, taking up successively the training of the Gentleman, the Scholar, the Citizen, and the Altruist.

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WILLIAM J. TUCKER

The immense popularity of ex-President Tucker at Dartmouth will of course commend this book to all men who have been connected with that college during the last sixteen years, but the interest will not stop there. He is almost equally well and favorably known to the public at large, as a wise educator and an eloquent preacher, for he has been heard in many prominent pulpits and was for several years a professor in Andover Theological Seminary.

THE HEALTH OF THE CITY
By Hollis Godfrey

12mo.

Few contemporary topics are so pressing, or attracting so much attention, as city sanitation to help the health of cities. Mr. Godfrey, well known for his work in popular science, has been making a study of these questions for many years, and by his papers in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere, has come to be an authority in the field. This book brings together the results of his studies, in a volume that will be of interest to every intelligent citizen, and of the highest usefulness to all engaged in welfare work. The topics treated are: city air, water, milk, food, ice, noise, waste, plumbing, and housing. Mr. Godfrey's writings are entertaining as well as instructive, and the book is the best handbook of this important subject obtainable—(Ready in April.)

THE CONQUEST OF CONSUMPTION
By Woods Hutchinson, M.D.

Dr. Hutchinson has won a unique place for himself as a brilliant writer upon medical topics. In this book upon one of the most pressing themes of the time, he is at his best. The list of chapters of the book indicates its helpful and timely character: A Message of Hope, The Enemy Himself, What Happens to the Bacillus in the Body, The Weapons of War, Fresh Air and How to Get It, Sunlight: the Real Golden Touch, Food the Greatest Foe of Consumption, Work and Rest, Intelligent Idleness, The Camp and the Country, Cash and Consumption, Climate and Health, Specifications for the Open-Air Treatment at Home. In addition to this there are some practical appendices dealing with the construction of open-air sleeping porches, camp building, etc. It is a book which should be in the hands of every tubercular patient, as well as of all those who are interested in stamping out the great white plague.

The illustrations consist of five full-page plates showing various styles of sleeping porches for home use, and a diagram of a tent.

EVERY-DAY BUSINESS FOR WOMEN
By Mary A. Wilbur

12mo, $1.25 net. Postage extra.

The aim of this book is to furnish simple and accurate instructions for the conduct of "Every-Day Business,"—such business as inevitably falls to the lot of thousands of American women, both married and single. The methods of banking, the management of a check-book, foreign exchange, getting money in emergencies, how to send money, bills and receipts, the relations of employer and employee, relations with railroads and hotels, simple bookkeeping, on sending things, taxes and customs, the use and transference of property, stocks and bonds, wills and estates—all these are clearly and even entertainingly explained, and the woman who has read the book will find herself saved many daily moments of doubt and many annoying errors. It is a book which should be in every home, on every woman's writing-table.

Miss Wilbur has been for many years a teacher of banking and political economy in Miss Dana's celebrated school at Morristown, New Jersey, and the present work is the result of practical experience in teaching the elements of correct business procedure.

WOOL-GROWING AND THE TARIFF
By Chester W. Wright

The continued discussion following the passage of the recent tariff bill indicates that we are now at the beginning rather than the end of a period when public attention will more than ever centre upon this subject. In the history of our tariff no other schedule has attracted so much attention or been the cause of more controversy than that relating to wool and woolens. It was the failure of Congress to make any substantial change in duties on them which led President Taft to single them out in particular as his chief cause for any dissatisfaction with the present tariff. The one point made clearest of all in the recent tariff discussion was the need for a thorough knowledge of the facts and genuine scientific study. In this volume, based upon years of research, the author has studied the wool-growing industry of the country in connection with the tariff duties on wool and woolens. He shows an unexpected variety and complexity of forces, and proves the superficiality and fallacious character of much of current discussion. The duties on wool are shown to be of little real importance in the growth of the industry. Incidentally the book also presents a history of the woolen manufacture, touches on