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...good germs," whose action is not only beneficent but even essential to the maintenance of the human species. Dr. Arthur I. Kendall, professor of bacteriology, Dean of Northwestern University Medical School, and author of Bacteriology-General, Pathological, Intestinal, tells the story in simple readable language in his latest book written for his daughter, Alice, to supplement her high school science course...
...publication of the Bradstreet index of prices as of Oct. 1 clearly showed a continued upward swing The index number for Oct. 1, 1923 was $13.0974-a gain of 1.3% over the figure for Sept. 1. At this latest date prices stand 42% above the average for the year 1913 and 73% under the high record for all time established...
...Irish Statesman, published by Sir Horace Plunkett, passed away in 1920 during the hottest period of the struggle of the Irish for Independence. Nevertheless it has sprung up anew, its latest issue labeled...
William Orpen, the latest unit in Messrs. Putnam's lucrative series of " Outlines," attains neither the scientific authority of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, nor the literary distinction of John Drinkwater. It is a frankly popular attempt to illumine the main peaks of painting in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th Century, covering the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French and British schools. Its chief aim is to reproduce several ; hundred of the world's recognized! masterpieces and to say enough about; them and their painters to give the: layman some notion...
...greatest confederation. One step was evident when the quasi-Independence of the colonies was formerly recognized in the League of Nations. Another is seen in the serious attempt to discover the wants of the colonies through increasingly important Imperial Conferences and tours of inspection by princes and ministers. The latest, that of erecting a protective wall about the commerce of the empire, may with the others, realize the dreams of Kipling, the prophet of Imperialism, for a great sister-hood of English-speaking peoples-a practical League of Nations...