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Maple Sugarand Syrup The New Crop A PUBLISHER'S NOTES STATISTICAL expert has just submitted a novel report as to the amount of reading matter in The Outlook compared with other periodicals of its class. Since The Outlook is a weekly journal, he has totaled the number of words of reading matter in four average numbers for comparison with single issues of various monthly magazines. Thus he estimates that four issues of The Outlook contain about 189,000 words of text, compared with about 93,000 in one issue of the "Atlantic Monthly," 85,500 in "World's Work," 107,000 in "Scribner's," 112,500 in "Harper's," and 105,500 in the "Century." This expert also finds that The Outlook contains nearly twice as much reading matter each week as, respectively, the "New Republic," "Independent," or "Nation." OTTLE BROTHERS, of Perry, Maire, P wanted to know if we would accept fifteen jars of wild-raspberry preserves in payment of three years' subscription to The Outlook. There is a sweet-tooth in every hard-fisted New York countingroom, and so the offer proved irresistible. The jam has been ordered delivered to the employees' lunch-room. TIMOURIAN, of Fresno, California; A. subscribes for another year because he disagrees with our policy on so many things "especially your tiresome defense (or support) of the French." W R. K. SCOTT, a metallurgical engineer of Gary, Indiana, wants The Outlook for another year. He writes: "For over ten years I have been a subscriber, and each year it is more of a pleasure to forward my renewal; it is really a part of my home, and always will be so long as the principles and policies laid down by Lyman Abbott control its expression." T. HITCH, physical director of the H. Y. M. C. A. in San Juan, Porto Rico, likes our recent articles on athletic sports. He writes: "Many people, especially the Latins, never connect the idea of character development with sports and athletics, and it is for this reason that we physical directors in Latin America appreciate anything that will help to spread the idea, as your articles are doing." Evania, writes: LLIS S. SMITH, of Hanover, Pennsyl"As a teacher of English in the Hanover High School, 1 have found that the seniors seem benefited by taking The Outlook on the club plan. They make five-minute talks in chapel several times a week, basing their remarks on the news found in The Outlook. This is useful in bringing topics of the day to the attention of the other classes, who read the dailies but little and the better weeklies not at all. A recent article was the source of an essay by a sophomore girl on the subject, 'Would You Rather Be a Country Youth or a City Youth?' Books and reading are fostered by Mr. Townsend's reviews of current volumes that are published from week to week. It stimulates appreciative reading. Are We a Nation of Low-Brows? It is charged that the public is intellectually incompetent. Is this true? It is Without Cultural Leadership The main criticism, as we find it, is that the people support ventures that are unworthy, that represent no cultural standards. The public is fed on low-brow reading matter, low-brow movies, lowbrow theatrical productions, low-brow music, low-brow newspapers, low-brow magazines. We think the criticism is unfair in that it does not recognize the fact that the public is without cultural leadership. Those who have the divine spark get off by themselves. We believe the public has never had a real chance, never had an opportunity to get acquainted with the great and the beautiful things of life. Given half a chance, the public will respond. We believe there has been enough talk about the public's inferior taste. The We believe we have a way to find We have selected a library of 25 books, which we are going to offer the public at an absurdly low price. We shall do this to find out if it is true that the public is not going to accept the better things when once given the chance. And we shall make the price so inviting, that there shall be no excuse on the ground of expense. All Great Things Are Simple Once the contents of the following 25 books are absorbed and digested, we believe a person will be well on the road to culture. And by culture we do not mean something dry-as-dust, something incomprehensible to the average mind-genuine culture, like great sculpture, can be made to delight the common as well as the elect. The books listed below are all simple works and yet they are great-all great things are simple. They are serious works, of course, but we do not think the public will refuse to put its mind on serious topics. Here are the 25 books: Are the People Ready to Read These 25 Books? 25 Books-2,176 Pages-Only $1.85--Send No Money If these 25 books were issued in the ordinary way they might cost you as much as a hundred dollars. We have decided to issue them so you can get all of them for the price of one ordinary book. That sounds inviting, doesn't it? And we mean it, too. Here are 25 books, containing 2,176 pages of text, all neatly printed on good book paper, 31⁄2 x 5 inches in size, bound securely in card cover paper. You can take these 25 books with you when you go to and from work. You can read them in your spare moments. You can slip four or five of them into a pocket and they will not bulge. You can investigate the best and the soundest ideas of the world's greatest philosophers-and the price will be so low as to astonish you. No, the price will not be $25 for the 45 volumes. Nor will the price be $5, though they are worth more than that. The price will be even less than half that sum. very best at the very least. Never were Are we making a mistake in adver- Of Unusual Interest Industrial and Commercial By ANNIE S. PECK A mine of information as to the several The book is clear, definite and up-to-date. It should be in the hands of every one interested in South America whether as manufacturer, merchant, traveler, teacher, student, or general reader desiring informa- tion as to our southern neighbor. Mr. Kawakami is well known by his articles in The Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals, and his books on various phases of Japanese life and thought. He is a proved friend to this country, eminently capable of interpreting Japan and the modern world to each other. Ready in May. Trans. by Professor George Young Before the war Baron von Eckardstein was a strikingly popular figure in London society, with which this book deals freely and frankly. Under its good stories about celebrities of various kinds, there is an undercurrent of significant comment on international affairs of the highest impor- tance. No book of recent years combines so much that is entertaining with so much Granddaughter of one famous Metter- nich (the Chancellor) and wife of another (the Austrian Ambassador to Paris), the author was the great friend of Eugenie and by many held responsible for most of the eccentric frivolity of the later years of the A collection of lyrics which are a tribute to and aim to express the fine person- ality of the late Professor Coman of St. John's Riverside Hospital Training Registered in New York State. offers a 23 years' course— as general training to refined. educated women. Require- ments one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the Directress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York. School Men Wanted Excellent opportunity for part ownership in chain The Outlook will carry the announce- ments of many of the best boys' and girls' camps this spring. Camp adver- tisements will be largely grouped in the second and fourth issues of May Perhaps an inch or two of space will be sufficient to convey your message to thousands of Outlook families. The CONTRIBUTORS' ILHJALMUR STEFANSSON was born in Manitoba in 1879 and was educated at the State Universities of North Dakota and Iowa and at Harvard University. During his life he has been almost everything from cowboy to reporter on the Boston "Evening Transcript" and associate instructor in anthropology at Harvard. 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