University Press Turns Out Record Number of Books--Total Reaches 21

Since the beginning of the academic year the Harvard University Press has published, in addition to the official University publications, 21 volumes This number sets a new record of output and exceeds last year's production by three books.

The three volumes that have been the most popular with the public are "Harvard Memories" by President. Eliot, which discloses the spirit of the Harvard of a generation ago; "Bits of Harvard History" by Samuel Francis Batch-elder '93, which brings forth a fascinating store of history and legend about Harvard from the days when the College was little more than a boarding school; and "The Achievement of Greece" by William Chase Greene '11, in which politics, economics, science, aesthetics, philosophy, and religion are woven into a coherent story which gives complete familiarity with every aspect of Greek life.

Finds "the" Most Common Word

Another of these books, the "Relativ Frequency of English Speech Sounds" by Godfrey Dewey '09 gives data of indispensable importance for the foundation of any scientific study of shorthand problems. The text is written in "simplified" spelling as can be seen from the title. In commenting upon this book Mr. D. L. Pottinger '06 of the University Press said, "The facts brought out in this book recall to me the New York Times affair of last fall. The Times, for some unknown reason, asked various professors of Princeton and Yale what were the most important words in the English language. They received in reply such words as truth, loyalty, faith, and patriotism. However, the Times did not question Harvard professors. There now appears Mr. Dewey's book. He based his study upon 100,000 words of connected matter gathered from newspapers all over the country, from modern fiction, modern American speeches, business and personal correspondence, religious English, popular scientific English, modern special articles, magazine editorial English, the Saturday Evening Post and the Literary Digest. It appears from Mr. Dewey's tabulations that the word "the" is the most frequently used word in the language, there being 7,310 instances of its use in the investigated material. "Of" ranks second with 3,998 examples, while "and" with 3,280 instances is a close third. "Worry" was the least frequently used word.

The complete list of the 17 other books published since last September follows:

Writes on Carlyle, Arnold, Browning

John Kelman: Prophets of Yesterday. An eloquent study of the message for the modern world from the three "prophets of yesterday:" Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning.

Clement Robinson: A Handful of Pleasant Delights. A collection of ballads and poems reprinted line for line from the 1854 edition.

Percy Hazen Houston '05: Dr. Johnson. A penetrating study of Dr. Johnson and 18th century humanism.

Edward Douglas Snyder '11: The Celtic Revival in English Literature 1760-1800. Dr. Snyder's study traces in detail this revival movement among the English men of letters.

Grandgent Selects Dante Fragments

Charles Hall Grandgent '83: Discourses on Dante. The book begins with a sestina and ends with a sonnet while throughout the whole are scattered fragments of translation from Dante's works and from his contemporaries' poetry.

Louis Allard: La Comedie de Moeurs on France an Dix-Neuvieme Siecle, Volume 1. This is the first volume of a history of the comedy of manners in France during the 19th century.

Harvard Committee of Classical Instructors: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 34. A text containing "The Peloponnesos in the Bronze Age" by J. P. Harland and "A New Approach to the Text of Pliny's Letters" by E. K. Rand '94.

Chase Discusses Classic Sculpture

George Henry Chase '96: Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Collections. The author considers the progress of the sculptors during the period under discussion, using well-known monuments for illustration.

George Andrew Reisner '89, Clarence Stanley Fisher, and David Gordon Lyon '01: Harvard Excavations at Samaria 1908-1910. An account of the archaeological work carried on by the Harvard Semitic Museum during the years 1908, 1909, and 1910.

George Edwin Horr: The Christian Faith and Eternal Life. The author here shows Jesus' thought on the subject of immortality.

Julien Bezard: My Class in Composition. A teacher's diary showing how French boys learn to write.

Diary Tells of British in Boston

The diary of Lieutenant John Barker from 1774 to 1776: The British in Boston. This volume covers the daily life of the British troops during the siege of Boston and also gives accounts of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.

Jacob Viner '15: Canada's Balance of International Indebtedness 1900-1913. This is, the first comprehensive and thorough inductive test of the classical explanation of the mechanism of international trade between gold-standard countries in its larger and fundamental aspects.

Explains Early Monetary Theory

Arthur Eli Monroe '08: Monetary Theory Before Adam Smith. Dr. Monroe's book is a history of the theories rather than of the theorists of the time of Adam Smith.

Arthur Eli Monroe '08: Early Economic Thought. Representative extracts from sixteen authors before Adam Smith.

Theodora Kimball: Manual of Information on City Planning and Zoning. A book that makes clear what city planning is and why it is essential.