can appreciate it" is one reason why suhjects that are required secure from students less valuable and effective work than suhjects they have elected. 13. Freshmen counseling is of major importance if so clrried qn as t o further the right intellectual attitude in the entering student. Many of these conclusions of Mr. Crawford are familiar t o those who have followed similar studies in our schools and colleges, and many of his recommendations, similarly, have been made before (for example, in Richardson's Study of the Liberal College, Hanover, 1924). However, that does not detract from the author's presentation; it is worthwhile t o have these confirmations from Yale, and it will need more than one such interesting and stimulating discussion to evoke any awareness a t all of the inadequacies and absurdities of the liberal college of today on the part of the hide-hound reactionaries too often in control of the destiny of higher education in America. It would be interesting t o know t o what extent the picture drawn by Mr. Crawford differs from what might have been drawn on the basis of a similar study a generation ago. It would also have been interesting (and this Mr. Crawford might have done) t o have compared this picture of college success with similar pictures that have been drawn recently of the conditions underlying scholastic success in the public school. GUYM. WHIPPLS
The American Chemical Industry.
Department of Commerce. Trade Promotion Series, No. 78. U. S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1929. 114 pages. 23 X 15 cm. $0.20.
This report is a summary of the production and foreign trade of the American chemical industry during the first quarter of the 20th century. I t contains numerous charts,.graphs, and tables showing the
growth of the various chemical industries. The information presented in this publieation should he of value t o students of both economics and of chemistry; to the former it will furnish a perspective of the chemical industry and t o the latter an economic interpretation of our chemical science and industry which has made such vast strides during the past twenty-five years. M. W. G. Blue Book of Southern Progress. Manufacturers Record, Baltimore, Md., 1929. 324 PP. 23 X 15 cm. $0.50. The purpose and scope of this publication id ably stated in the foreword: "The Blue Book of Southern Proeress " has became the recognized authority of the entire countrv on the resources and the progress of this section. I t is not merely a handbook of statistical information, invaluable as these statistics are, but it is a running story or commentary on the progress of the South and of the wide range and variety of the resources of this section. "Into the annual editions of the Blue Book of Southern Progress are condensed facts gained from a study of the South during the nearly fifty years in which the Manufacturers Record has been published. Many phases of southern life are covered somewhat differently in each issue, and thus annual volumes become of increasing value from year t o year, containing as they do information which can be found nowhere else about the South and its achievements." M. W. G. Dow Chemicals. T n e Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY, Midland, Michigan. 102 pp. Colored and half-tone illustrations. 26 X 19 cm. This attractively hound catalog contains information concerning properties, physical constants, uses, etc., of over 130 chemical products including pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals, dyes, and insecticides.
