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...CRIMSON BOOKSHELF, serving as it does a less variegated public than is served by metropolitan reviews and having at it disposal less space, must meet a unique situation. It has been trying throughout its existence to find a general plan to suit a college public. On its face the task does not appear great. If space is narrow and the public limited, proportions at least remain normal. This would be fundamentally true also if it were evident upon what grounds of limitation, the choice of books should proceed. It is the perplexity of selection that renders the proper solution...
...taste. It will at once be recognized that each of these suppositions compounds truth and error. Yet one or another of them may be most nearly right. To find such a course and to pursue with some moderate degree of consistency seems the way to make the BOOKSHELF most characteristic and serviceable...
...possibilities in the way indicated and often the results have been gratifying. Without, however, a wide knowledge of the reactions of their public, the progress has been somewhat in the dark. It is the purpose of this editorial to invite comment from the readers of the BOOKSHELF. The editors will be grateful for the recommendations of particular books: but they desire suggestions which bear on the general plan of the undertaking. To the extent that responses do this, they will clarify what otherwise must remain very indefinite reasoning on the part of those who select the books...
...Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms. The Izaak Walton of the Cabinet is Minister of Colonies Perrier, who has brought forth two books on fishing. Minister of Interior Sarraut has written much on civil government. Finally there stand on many a Parisian bookshelf two fat volumes of poems by Minister of Marine Leygues...
...Wednesday the CRIMSON will publish a special Charles William Eliot Memorial issue separate from the regular edition of the University daily. The memorial to the late President Emeritus of Harvard will take the form of a 20-page tabloid edition of approximately the same size as the CRIMSON Bookshelf, printed on heavy paper and replete with drawings and portraits relating to the life of the man it honors...