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...more famous companion book. The author has long been associated with the moving picture departments of the New York "Herald" and "Life", and is perhaps as well qualified as anyone to edit a "year-book of the American screen". In fact he has brought out an interesting and intelligent handbook of the American movies, which, in its way, does for the moving picture public, what "the Best Plays" does for the theatre-going public...
...great deal that is good in them; and it is with the latter element that his book deals. For those desiring a more comprehensive and a more permanent record of American "movies" than can be found in the current photo-play magazines, "The Best Moving Pictures" forms a handbook and a book of reference entirely without rival in its field...
Frederick Flather '23 of Lowell has been appointed editor of "The Harvard Handbook" for 1923-24, published by the Phillips Brooks House Association. James Bogert Tailer Jr. '25 of New York City was selected as business manager. The assistant managers are: Alexander Moss White '25 of Brooklyn, New York: Hollis Keresey Thayer '25 of Brooklyn, New York; and Arthur Russell Sharp Jr. '25 of Boston...
...Handbook of Scholastic Morality by "Deacon" Scott...
...HANDBOOK OF COOKERY FOR A SMALL HOUSE-Jessie Conrad (With a preface by Joseph Conrad)-Doubleday ($1.75). Joseph Conrad offers himself "modestly and gratefully as a Living Example" of his wife's art. Her style, lacking the richer beauties of his, has a toothsome directness. The following excerpt is characteristic: "The best plan is to soak the head in a bowl of cold water and a little salt all night, previously removing the brains." The quotation is from a fanciful essay entitled "Calf's Head...