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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 946 



These changes in the table naturally neces- 

 sitate certain changes in the body of the 

 article on pages 887 and 889. 



The enrollment as of November 1, 1912, of 

 a number of colleges for men and women, and 

 schools of technology is given in the preceding 

 table. EuDOLF Tombo, Jr. 



Columbia "University 



building stones and clay products 

 In the iss«e of Science for December 37, 

 1912, there appeared a review by George P. 

 Merrill of " Building Stones and Clay Prod- 

 ucts " by Heinrich Eies. It seems to me that 

 the criticisms thus set forth in the review are 

 a trifle harsh and I would like to call atten- 

 tion to a few statements which seem inac- 

 curate. The reviewer says : 



The portion devoted to stone contains nothing 

 that is not to be found in other easily available 

 works. 



The fact that the work contains much in- 

 formation taken from American and foreign 

 publications not even to be obtained in such 

 a library as the Carnegie Library of Pitts- 

 burgh, would indicate that the information is 

 Bot all easily available, while, in truth, a large 

 part of it is practically unavailahle to many 

 of those who will make use of the book. 



The second portion of the book, that de- 

 voted to clay products, he states " is little 

 more than an abbreviation of what the author 

 has already included in his well-known work, 

 ' Clays, their Origin, Properties and Uses.' " 

 In his work on clays, Dr. Ries devotes 42 

 pages to structural clay products, while in the 

 book under criticism, 130 pages are given 

 over to the subject. The new work contains 

 84 illustrations concerning clay products, only 

 6 of which were given in the book on clays. 

 The section on clay products, if compared at 

 all with the similar portion of the earlier book, 

 is a decided amplijication instead of an ah- 

 hreviation. 



All works of this character must be largely 

 compilations and their value depends largely 

 on the arrangement and the care in selecting 

 ^he proper material from the wealth of pub- 



lications at hand. Dr. Ries has apparently 

 made good use of the available literature both 

 American and foreign and has condensed it 

 into a volume whose usefulness, for the class 

 of readers for which it is intended, is, I 

 believe, enhanced by such condensation. 



Henry Leighton 

 Univeesity or Pittsburgh 



QUOTATION S 



CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT OF 

 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AND THE PROFESSOR 



OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE' 

 My Dear Prof. Fisher: — The press, far and 

 wide, contain articles relative to remarks in refer- 

 ence to the churches of the country, reputed to 

 have been uttered by you in a recent address in 

 Hartford. I desire to know whether or not you 

 have been correctly reported. If you have been 

 incorrectly reported, will you please give me an 

 exact statement of what you did say? 

 Sincerely yours^ 



William Aenold Shanklin 



My Dear Dr. Shanklin: — In reply to your letter 

 just received I would say that the report of my 

 remarks before The Get Together Club in Hart- 

 ford, last Wednesday evening, was substantially 

 misleading. Partly by the omission of qualifying 

 statements which made the setting and shaped the 

 interpretation, partly by ascribing to me words 

 and utterances which were not mine at all, and 

 perhaps partly by the striking headlines which 

 raised brief incidental remarks into the prominence 

 of a principal theme, the original report, upon 

 which apparently many newspaper conclusions and 

 comments have been based was — as I should judge 

 — decidedly unfair. This judgment of mine is 

 confirmed in some degree at least, by the fact that 

 the paper in which the report appeared was eon- 

 strained by criticism in Hartford to offer me an 

 opportunity to make corrections. There was, how- 

 ever, a large underlying element of truth in the 

 report. I did not say that I would "throw Sun- 

 day wide open" or anything else of closely similar 

 meaning. But I did say that I would allow very 

 great freedom of Sunday observance, allowing a 

 man pretty nearly anything that did not disturb 

 the religious or other use of the day by others. 

 I did say that I saw no religious inconsistency in 



' The letters are all dated from Middletown on 

 January 27. 



