University Presses Stop Till Next Year; Pottinger Names Outstanding Autumn Books

Completing last week their autumn program which included the publishing of more than 30 books, the Harvard University Press will issue no more books until next year. Seven of the books published this Fall are especially worth noting, according to David T. Pottinger '06, associate director of the Press. They are as follows:

Eight Outstanding

"Concord River" by William Brewster, with twelve illustrations by Frank W. Benson, 259 pages, $3.50. The author was one of the greatest American ornithologists, and spent his life in the study of birds.

"We Americans" by Elin L. Anderson, 286 pages, six illustrations, $3.00. Has the great American melting pot ceased to melt? Are the social chasms of race prejudice widening with great rapidity? It was to answer such questions as these that Mr. Anderson set out to consider scientifically the adjustments of racial groups in a single community, Burlington, Vermont.

Wallace Writes on Aluminum

"Market Control in the Aluminum Industry" by Donald H. Wallace '24, assistant professor of Economics, 599 pages, $5.00. Industrial organizations face perplexing problems today, and the author attempts to show by examining the mixture of competitive and monopolistic forces in the aluminum industry the primary requisites for a constructive change.

"A Grammar of Chinese Lattice" by Daniel Sheets Dye of the West China Union University, two volumes, 468 pages, 226 plates, $10.00. Artists, designers and all sorts of craftsmen will welcome this collection of nearly 2500 designs of lattice windows, the result of more than 20 years study on the part of the author.

"Parkways and Land Values" by Henry Vincent Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton professor of Regional Planning and John Nolen, late lecturer in City Planning, 135 pages, 30 illustrations, $1.50. Examining both the nature of a parkway and their values, this volume presents a mass of expert information that may be used for valid judgment in particular cases of proposed parkways.

"Adventuring in Education" by Paul H. Hanus, professor of the History and Art of Teaching, emeritus, 259 pages, three illustrations, $2.00. This is Professor Hanus's long-awaited biography which includes besides his personal revealment, the story of the founding of the Department of Education at Harvard. The experiences of more than forty years of professional career provide him with ample material for descriptions of important school improvements in which he has participated.

Early Commerce Studied

"The Jacksons and the Lees" subtitled "Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765-1844" by Kenneth Wiggins Porter, assistant professor of History and Political Science at Southwestern College, 2 volumes, 1625 pages, 44 illustrations, $10.00. From hitherto inaccessible family archives is presented a wealth of material on interest to students of general American history and business history.