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illustrations are many and valuable, and they are made by Harry 

 W. Jacobs, Director of Drawing in the Dept. of Education in 

 Buffalo, N. Y. The following are the industrial arts described: 

 Bookmaking, Papermaking. The Manufacture of Baskets and 

 Boxes, Brick and Tile, The Pottery Industry, Cement and Con- 

 crete, the Textile Industries, Copper, Iron and Steel, The Soap 

 Industry, The Glass Industry, Wood and Woodworking. The vol- 

 ume is interesting, instructive and useful from every point of view. 



From Arrow Head to Airplane. Loren Stiles Minckley M. A. 

 Copyrighted by author and published by Crane & Co., Topeka, 

 Kansas. 226 pp. 



Mr. Minckley wrote a volume on "Americanization Through 

 Education" which embodied his ideals of our great country. Now 

 he gets at it from another angle and has written what he terms 

 "An American Epic of Joy and Tragedy." It consists of eleven 

 cantos, the first dealing with Indian customs and those that follow 

 covering the colonial times, the Revolution, the re-construction 

 afterwards, the War of 181 2, the growth of the middle west, the 

 Civil War, the forty years following, the War with Spain, twentieth 

 century progress, and finishes with the World War. It is certain^ 

 an ambitious work and the historic records are very complete 

 considering the nature of the book, and through it all is carried 

 the ideals of liberty and freedom of a self-governed nation. The 

 plan of rhyming which the author has selected seems to us some- 

 what difficult and would tax the ingenuity of the best of poets to 

 carry it successfully through a whole volume. A fair example of 

 the verse is the following description of the battle of Bull Run : 



"On to Richmond!" North then shouted 

 So from Washington they scouted; 



Thirty thousand boys in blue 



In July with leaders true 

 On the twenty-first were routed. 



At Buil Run, one-half the distance, 

 They were met with first resistance, 



And the boys who live today, 



Of those lads in blue and gray 

 Tell the story with persistence. 



