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...everything else, men must apprentice themselves to their trade. Minus a working knowledge of the golden rules the highest gallantry is too often unavailing." So reads the preface of a soldier's handbook, Battle Training in Word and Picture (George Newnes Ltd.; 6d.), recently published in London with a War Office blessing and foreword by Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Field Forces...
...specific illustrated lessons included in the handbook is on "Tanks-The Right and Wrong...
Long lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard Sobel-a veteran of Broadway-has crammed a vast amount of useful information about the theatre's thousands of years...
Till last week, white-haired, pink-cheeked Porter Sargent was widely and amiably known as a rich, eccentric Bostonian who publishes the Handbook of Private Schools, whose salty annual prefaces on world affairs amuse many. Last week Mr. Sargent jumped right out of his scholastic skin. Reverting to Revolutionary New England form, Mr. Sargent attempted to flay the hide off British propaganda. If the U. S. people get into World War II, nobody can say that Porter Sargent did not warn them...
...former president of the American Accounting Association, Professor Paton has been director of Research for the Association since 1935. He has written extensively on accounting theory, and has served as editor of the Accountant's Handbook...