UNIVERSITY PRESS ISSUES TWENTY-THREE NEW WORKS

Eighteen new books are already in press and five more in preparation, according to the 1916 catalogue of the University Press, which may now be obtained at University 2. These volumes deal with a great range of subjects, including politics, business, history, literature, poetry, art, religion, eugenics, and sanitation. The most notable authors on the list are Professor C. H. Haskins, of the History Department; Dr. Osvald Siren, of the University of Stockholm; Dean E. F. Gay, of the Business School; Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department; G. C. Whipple, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering; Professor Masaharu Anesaka, of the Imperial University of Tokyo; Professor C. H. Moore '89, of the Latin Department; and G. F. Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions.

Volumes Now in Press.

Of the 23 forthcoming books 18 are already in press and will be placed on sale in the course of a few weeks, while five are still in preparation. The most important of the former are a set of six volumes on "Papers and Addresses by Elihu Root," edited by Robert Bacon '80 and James Brown Scoot '90. These will consist of his lectures, his addresses, formal and informal, and the state papers written in the performance of his duties as an executive officer of the United States. These latter include his reports as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. It is planned to keep the official documents separate from the others except in the case of the volume devoted to military organization and colonial policy. Here will be included such portions of Mr. Root's reports as Secretary of War as throw light on these subjects. The titles of the volumes now in press are as follows: "International Law and Foreign Relations," "Government, Administration, and Legal Procedure," "Central and South America and the United States," "Military Organization and Colonial Policy," "The North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration," and "Political, Historical, and Commemorative Addresses."

"An Approach to Business Problems," by Arch Wilkinson Shaw, discusses the most effective method of attacking a business problem and ranges over the three great fields of production,--distribution, and administration. In view of the fact that the activities of production have been reduced to fairly generally accepted standards, the author begins with this phase of business and after demonstrating in this known and charted field a method of analysis and systematic approach, he shows how the same method could be applied to the problems of distribution and administration.

Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department, contributes a volume on "Personality in German Literature before Luther." This book contains six lectures delivered in 1915 at the Lowell Institute and subsequently under the Jacob H. Schiff Foundation at Cornell. Its main them is the rise and spread of individualism, together with an attempt to trace in the various forms of literary and intellectual life of the centuries preceding the Reformation a steady line of transition from aristocratic to democratic conceptions of personality.

"Maistre Charles Fontaine: Parisien," by Richmond Laurin Hawkins '03, instructor in French, deals with the varied activities of Fontaine and cites him as a good example of the many-sided Frenchman of the Renaissance.

Joseph Clark Hoppin '93, former professor in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in "Euthymides and his Fellows," tells of the activities of the vase-painter, Euthymides. The marked individuality of his school has made it possible to identify numerous pieces of pottery, which are described and illustrated by cuts and plates.

Dr. Osvald Siren, of the University of Stockholm, who has been lecturing in Cambridge this spring, contributes a book on "Giotto and Some of his Followers." This work gives a detailed and critical consideration of Giotto's paintings and those of six of his school.

Professor George Chandler Whipple, a member of the council of the present State Department of Health, describes the functions of the department in his book, "State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1869-1914." The annual reports of the board, issued regularly for more than fifty years, and its many special reports cover almost every phase of sanitation and public-health activity.

Tweive Write on Religion.

The five remaining books in press are all on religious subjects. "Nichiren: The Buddhist Prophet," by Masaharu Anesaki, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, discloses the striking personality of one of the most interesting figures in the history of Japanese Buddhism. "The Aramaic Source of Acts 1-15," by Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, of Yale, will be the first volume of a series of Harvard Studies in Theology. The second will be "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic Religion," by Professor William Henry Paine Hatch, of the General Theological Seminary of New York.

"The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity," by Professor Clifford Herschel Moore '89, of the Latin Department, deals with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion, and discusses also ancient morality, Roman religion, oriental cults, and early Christianity.

No less than eight eminent theologians collaborated in the writing of "The Religious History of New England," which gives a sympathetic description of the contributions of the several Christian denominations to the religious life and thought of New England. These eight men are William Wallace Fenn '84, Dean of the Divinity School; William Loring Worcester, President of the New Church Theological School; J. Winthrop Platner, Andover Professor of Ecclesiastical History; George E. Horr, President of the Newton Theological Institution; George Hodges, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School; William E. Huntington, Dean of the Boston University School of Theology; Rufus Matthew Jones, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford; and John Coleman Adams.

Books Still in Preparation.

As the volumes in preparation are not yet in final form, little can be given except the titles and authors. These are as follows: "Studies in Anglo-Norman Institutions," Professor Charles Homer Haskins, of the History Department; "Lectures on the Industrial Revolution," Dean Edward Francis Gay, of the Business School; "Poetic Art in Ballad and Epic," Professor Francis Barton Gummere, of Haverford; "Aristotle: Meteorology," Professor Francis Howard Fobes, of Union; and "Judaism at the Beginning of the Christian Era." George Foote Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religions.