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Washington is beyond doubt a difficult newspaper field. Unlike the other great capitals, it has been merely the seat of the national government and not until comparatively recently has it even taken on the outward aspects of an impressive residential city. A dozen years ago its fashionables never shopped except in New York or Baltimore, today its shopping district impresses. Only within the last twenty years has it been discovered as a delightful winter resort for retired civilians or the idle rich who are beginning to play such a part in its social life.

The article focuses on the book "Practicable Socialism," by Canon Barnett and S.A. Barnett. Canon and S.A. Barnett, indeed, not merely are not "Socialists," but are at the very antipodes of Socialism. The entire series of papers covering subjects as little related as is possible in a general discussion of human activities rests on the fundamental notion that betterment in human social relations must come from within the individual heart, not from external social decree. It Is significant that the book opens with Canon Barnett's paper on "Religion of the People," first published in 1907.

This article presents information regarding publishing of books on various topics. Macmillan & Co. will publish "Life or Adam Smith," by John Rae, "Studies in Social Life and Theory," edited by B. Bosanquet, and, in connection with J.M. Dent & Co., a translation of Honorede Balzac's works under the editorship and direct supervision of George Saintsbury, with etched illustrations. The reprinting of classical novels promises to go forward this year with renewed activity, and with no falling off in mechanical beauty.

This article focuses on the Union that owns Newfoundland. On the spray-drenched, rock-ribbed island of Newfoundland a unique social organization has recently been built up among the fishers who ride the sea in their fleet of tiny boats and schooners. In the last fourteen years the biggest and most powerful fishermen's union in the world has developed there, led by one of the most unusual men in North America. Twenty-five thousand strong, with three hundred councils in as many ports, this organization has not only built up the biggest individual commercial concern in Newfoundland.

The article presents information about the book "Impressions of London Social Life. With Other Papers Suggested By an English Residence," by E.S. Nadal. The observations made by Nadal about English society are vague and ineffectual. He has cited only few examples, but has made several generalizations about the society.

This article discusses the book "Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America," by John William Draper. The title of this volume may perhaps define the design contemplated by the author in writing it, but fails to describe its contents. The cardinal doctrine with which Draper sets out is that in individual life, in social life, in national life, everything is influenced by physical agents, and is therefore under the control of law. The progress of human generations is shaped by the physical circumstances in which they live.

The article discusses the book "Italian Life in Town and Country," by Luigi Villari. When one considers how entirely distinct in most characteristics the provinces forming United Italy are, one must agree with the author that it is no easy task to give a just idea of Italian social life in a short volume. In the north the people are industrious, active, full of business enterprise and capacity. They take the lead in politics and in social questions, and consider themselves vastly superior to their southern compatriots, for whom they do not trouble to hide their contempt.

The article presents information on old-school proofreaders and a letter gentle protest from James M. Lynch of Syracuse. The letter stated that in the hand-set days and for some years after machinery was introduced into composing rooms, the printer and the operator were required to know how to set type and correct the errors that so often appeared in the copy coming from the editorial rooms. They had to know names of places no matter how remotely located; they had to have literary knowledge; above all, they had to be familiar with local names both as to initials and spelling, and with the business and social life of the community in which they worked.

The article throws light on the concept of social psychology. It gives further information on the book "Outlines of Psychology, Based Upon the Results of Experimental Investigation," by Oswald Külpe. It is an outline account, yet it is by no means an elementary book; and it has 450-odd pages, of 42 lines to the page and 10 words to the line. It has the usual qualities, good and bad, of a German treatise. It is scientific, earnestly bent upon the ascertainment of the truth, in the general current of scientific research, painstaking. The first assertion in the section, after delineating the subject of it so falsely, is that "the velocity of the individual waves is very different in different cases."

This article presents a study of a rabbinical student on the poor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's inner city. The study concludes that Jewish apathy is a frustrating, ever-present factor which clouds the future of Jewish-African-American relationships as the African-American fights for his place in the U.S. society. It was observed that the so-called African-American anti-Semitism is basically only an anti-white attitude rather than something directed specifically against the Jew. On the other hand, the traditional role of Jewish civil rights organizations in bringing help to the African-American has made little or no impression on either the African-American or Jew.

The article presents information on the book "Studies in Oriental Social Life, and Gleams From the East on the Sacred Page," by H. Clay Trumbull. Certain phases of life as Trumbull saw them on his brief tour gave direction to his after reading, both sacred and secular. Much of the Bible seemed to him either illustrated by his observations in the transient pilgrimage or illustrative of them. More than seven hundred texts of this sort, scattered through fifty-two books, are referred to in his text, and are marshalled in an index of fifteen columns.

The article discusses some books like "Impressions of Soviet Russia and the Revolutionary World," by John Dewey and "The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets," by Avrahm Yarmohnsky. In, John Dewey's visit to Soviet Russia he somehow grasped certain essentials that many of the most ardent of the statistics gatherers have missed. He seems, to be sure, somewhat bewildered in his efforts to reconcile his preconceived ideas of what the Revolution was all about with what he actually found, and somewhat contradictory in disclaiming in one place the significance of the economic and industrial changes, and later on attributing the whole success of the widespread application of new educational ideas to the fact that they could give to the economic and industrial phase of social life the central place it actually occupies in present life.