SCRIBNER'S FOR 1921 My Brother THEODORE ROOSEVELT BY CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON THE SISTER OF COLONEL ROOSEVELT has spoken scores of times, particularly before young children, about her brother and his views on the right kind of good Americans. Now she has set down the intimate personal recollections of her brother from nursery days until he became the leading citizen of the world. "I want to write my own recollections of him," says Mrs. Robinson, "our talks together all his life our personal letters. My view of him in the book is THE GREAT SHARER, giving his life and the best that was in him to his family, his friends, and the country.' This remarkable narrative will run through SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, beginning in an early number. MAKING A FRENCH UNIVER Professor Charles Downer Hazen, of Columbia University, will spend the next academic year at the University of Strasbourg, Alsace, lecturing on American History. He will de scribe how the faculty of two hundred men has been built at Strasbourg from Frenchmen; the great German faculty has of course entirely disappeared. PSYCHOLOGY GOLDBRICKS Henry Foster Adams, Professor at the Psychological Laboratory, University of Michigan, will contribute a group of articles called "Psychology Goldbricks." They are a criticism on psychological grounds of memory systems, systems for training the will, character analysis, and courses in so-called "applied psychology." They tell frankly and impartially the strong and weak points of the systems discussed. FILL OUT THE COUPON now while you are looking at it; mail it to-day. Do not miss the 75th anniversary programme of Scribner's Magazine. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City Please start my subscription to SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE at once. When your bill comes I will pay you $4.00. Name... Address... 0 City.... ....... State.... ...... Mail this now so that you will get all the 75th anniversary features. IS CHIVALRY DEAD? and fair play, a number of points ought to be stated. 1. Local comparisons are not justified. Your correspondent "has heard that in the far West" the male of the species yet reains his gallantry. Every once in a while some one declares that the worst manners re to be found in New York, or San Franisco, or Chicago, or whatever place may e under discussion. I have not found that ny section of the country has a monopoly of either boorishness or chivalry; nor are ustoms greatly different on either side f the water. 2. There has been no deterioration. There was as much rudeness in the old lays of the horse cars as there is now in 1920. 3. Some men honestly believe that if adies are obliged to stand the responsiility is with the transportation companies, vhich are under moral obligation to proide a seat for every passenger accepted. They feel that as long as men will yield heir seats the injustice of overcrowded ars will continue. I hear discusmany ions among my traveling companions, and find that some men actually hold the opinion that, though they may feel very incomfortable, they are really rendering he public a service by retaining their eats. 4. A far greater number believe that it 8 impossible to lay down a rule of univeral application. Here are some questions: Should an old man give his seat to a young voman? Should a sick man give his seat o a healthy woman? Should a man exausted by a day of hard labor give his eat to a woman who evidently never lifts her finger for self-support or human serrice? If a negative answer is given to hese suggestions, the whole matter is nade conditional. Who shall say just where the line is to be drawn? t . 5. Very regretfully I have to say that Fome men have lost the impulse to genersity because so many women show not he slightest appreciation of the courtesy and sacrifice involved in seat surrender. Time after time I have seen men, weary nd bundle-laden, rise, touch their hats, nd give their places to women who have nade not the least acknowledgment by word or even by friendly glance. Should here be no feminine grace corresponding o masculine chivalry? It is not very encouraging to a man who, for reasons of health, needs a seat to receive, upon giving up, no more consideration than if he had been an insect that had chosen to ly away. The cool assumption that in all cases the mere matter of sex gives one person rather than another a right to, a seat s exasperating in the extreme. The other lay I saw a young working boy politely give place for a queen of fashion from the Back Bay. It might have meant a great leal for him to receive the merest nod from that radiant woman. But no nod was youchsafed. Possibly it meant a great leal to him not to receive it a great leal that his fellow-citizens may some day regret. =Perhaps the lady from Missouri, if she reads these lines, will say: "That man is some old curmudgeon who is trying to defend his own selfishness." Not guilty. I am not old. I am not a curmudgeon. I always yield my seat, having been brought up that way. But I sometimes do some very serious thinking. G. E. A. Boston, Massachusetts. ABINGDON Book Talks You've heard how a certain young lady decided not to send her friend a book because "she already had one." Well, thank goodness, she represents a very small minority. More and more it is being recognized that there is something about a book that makes it an ideal gift. Not just any book, of course, any more than 66 any cigar"-or "any necktie." The wisely chosen book should be truly personal,-typical of both the tastes of giver and receiver. 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THE BRIDE OF MISSION SAN JOSE A Tale of Early California By John Augustine Cull A Story of early Spanish Mission days. At once there is a vision of pale gray walls, chiming bells, scarlet bloom-and romance. And here they all are, woven into a charming love story, together with interesting light on the strife between England and America over California. Frontispiece. Net, $2.00, postpaid. A REEL OF RAINBOW By F. W. Boreham Another Boreham book. Original, epigrammatic, challenging. Fully maintains the author's wide reputation as a thinker and writer of unusual versatility and power. Net, $1.75, postpaid. MY NEIGHBOR THE WORKING MAN By James Roscoe Day, Chancellor of Syracuse University "A vigorous, straight from the shoulder book, written by one who was himself a working man. Americanism of the old, individualistic, successful type, whose message is not yet outgrown. A fearless exposure of the sinister fornes underlying certain forms of social unrest. Labor unions are offered much wholesome advice."-The Expositor, Cleveland. Net, $2.50, postpaid. SOME ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIANITY "John Kelman correlates the problems of modern Christianity with the need of constructive statesmanship in international relations. Kelman points out that the Christian ideal of the brotherhood of man is of necessity an international ideal; he also shows how this sense of universal brotherhood is not inimical to patriotism, any more than love of country is inconsistent with the narrower devotion to one's immediate family."-San Francisco Chronicle. Net, $1.00, postpaid. HUNTING By Sir HENRY NEWBOLT Crown 8vo. Price $3.50 net With Coloured Frontispiece and many Illustrations in Black-and-White by STANLEY L. WOOD. This volume by the Author of "The Book of the Happy Warrior, "Tales of the Great War," "Submarine and Anti-Submarine," "The Book of the Blue Sea," 99 The Book of the Thin Red Line," "The Book of the Long Trail," etc., will contain chapters: On the Nature of Sport; Sport and Cruelty, etc.; Elephant Hurting; Lion Hunting; Tiger Hunting; Deer Hunting; Fox Hunting; and Fishing. ARMS By RONALD OAKESHOTT Crown 8vo. $2.00 net A story of adventure, love and intrigue during the period of the birth of Modern England. Jeffery Farnol says, "It is my great pleasure to welcome 'The Merchant at Arms,' to meet again in fair black and white, between the coVers of a book that same George Nuttman, that keen-visioned sturdy Englishman, and his wise and most lovable father, whose acquaintance I made when first they took shape in pen and ink." THE CHARM OF KASHMIR By V. C. SCOTT O'CONNOR Author of "The Silken East" 4to Volume. Price $27.50 net With 16 Coloured Plates by ABANINDRO NATH TAGORE, MRS. SULTAN AHMED, MISS HADENFELDT, the late Colonel STRAHAN, and 24 Illustrations from Photographs In this book an attempt is made to capture the charm of one of the acknowledged beautyspots of the world; but charm is essentially an elusive quality, not easily trapped in a net of words. Pictures have therefore been added. They are interpretations in colour of the Soul of Kashmir, and they depict something more than the external beauty that is acknowledged by the eye of every traveler in that exquisite country. JN the November issue of THE WORLD'S WORK appeared a review of such ex traordinary interest that we have made an attractive booklet of it. believing that many who missed it in THE WORLD'S WORK will enjoy reading it in this convenient form. We will gladly send you a copy gratis, if you will fill in and mail the coupon below. A Review by WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER of "THE VICTORY AT SEA" own story A most readable account of our Naval activities during the war, of great historic value. AREVIEWY VILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER THEVICTORY AT SEA BEAR ADMIRAL SIMB DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. Please send me gratis, William Roscoe Thayer's review of Sims' book, "The Victory at Sea." Name.. Address. THE TABLE TELLS THE TALE Decline in Per Rise in Per War Births. Cent. Deaths. Cent. Casualties. 7.1 2,000,000 4.0 1,500,000 3.8 1,840,000 4.6 1,400,000 2,700,000 4.0 2,000,000 1,000,000 2.2 880,000 2.5 4,700,000 8.5 200,000 2.6 120,000 2.5 Total Losses. 5,800,000 3,340,000 6.300,000 800,000 1,850,000 Rumania.. Serbia.. 150,000 2.0 320,000 6.8 1,330,000 360,000 4.7 28.4 600,000 2,500,000 115,000 54,000 159,000 690,000 5.0 15,130,000 3.8 9,829,000 2,280,000 13,000,000 375,000 275,000 510,000 1,650,000 35,380,000 HISTORICAL TABLETS REED & BARTON, TAUNTON, MASS. IF YOU EVER INVEST send for the free booklet "What You Should Know." BARNES BROTHERS, Inc., Minneapolis, Mina NEW CROWELL BOOKS HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN By WILLIAM H. BARTLETT. New By VICTOR DURUY. Edited by J. F. 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AT ALL BOOKSTORES The rapid development of types of aircraft that is taking place in both lighterthan-air and heavier-than-air shows that within a few years aeronautics will have to be relied on to be the first and principal arm in national defense, not only over land, J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY but over the seas as well. For this reason, if for no other, and there are many, the laws that will have to be passed must be Federal rather than Book I THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD Book II THE MAKING Book III THE DAWN Book IV JUDEA, AND INDIA Book V RISE AND "Wells to my mind is king of modern writers. Just think of one thing-a history of man, beginning with the Pithecanthropus or Ape Man and ending with the League of Nations."-Dr. Frank Crane, Editorial in N. Y. Globe. "Mr. H. G. Wells is unmistakably one of those invaluable men who happen along occasionally with the ability to give hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind."-Walter Lippman in Vanity Fair. 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Much work has already been done a more is in progress in order that we have Federal regulations that will prov for the proper inspection of aircraft licensing of operators of aircraft by F eral officials qualified to perform th duties. As soon as the public realizes the gra L value that air service holds in the bro field of National defense there will be a Department of Air in the Federal Gover ment, under which will be operated t combined Governmental air activities. T creation of the Department of Air will B only cost much less by eliminating dap cation of effort, but will develop and contr commercial aeronautics in a way that i impossible at present. It is through successful commercial an nautical operations that the possibilities d maintaining an "up-to-date" trained pe sonnel is secured, as well as the means which a factory production of aircraft a be kept in operation on a sufficiently l scale to provide in times of National stres the building of needed aircraft. The inspection and control of aircr and flying personnel is the work of exper constantly maintained; to be effective it a service that is costly, and the reven derived will never approach the outg Automobile licenses are primarily are enue proposition to secure money to repr the roads, and consequently an interchang between States of license privileges is po sible, but for aircraft and flying personne E A BANKER this interchange is not possible beca BE Prepare by mail in spare time for this attractive profession, in which there are great opportunities. Send at once for free book, "How to Become a Banker." EDGAR G. ALCORN, President, American School of Banking, 41 McLene Bldg., Columbus, O. The Truth About By JAMES H. SNOWDEN, D.D., LL.D. Dr. Snowden's name is sufficient guarantee THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION New York, 156 Fifth Ave. Chicago, 125 N. Wabash Ave. (THE WESTMINSTER PRESS) Headquarters: PHILADELPHIA, Witherspoon Bldg. 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