Word: monograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HYGIENE OF SEX?Max von Gruber, M. D.?Williams & Wilkins ($1.50). The publishers set forth two excellent reasons for bringing this German monograph before the U. S. public: the strong recommendation of eminent U. S. health authorities, and the reception of the book in Europe by scientific men and a public of 300,000. Family physicians testify to the need for a simple, direct, complete presentation of knowledge that they wish all their patients might possess. They pronounce Dr. von Gruber's work the best they have yet seen, especially for its lack of "moral poultice." "Certain portions...
JOSEPH CONRAD?Ford Madox Ford ?Little, Brown (|2.50). Ford Madox Ford collaborated with Conrad in the writing of Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. In this monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes recollected, the personality of Joseph Conrad is projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing...
...Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science," by Charles Homer Haskins Hon. '08; "Men and Policies," an eighth volume of Elithu Root's collected addresses; "The Philosophy of Character," by Edgar Pierce '92; a masterly volume on the naval history of the World War, by Thomas G. Frothingham; another monograph in the Harvard Health Talks, "Present day Conceptions of Mental Disorders," by C. M. Campbell," and an entirely new translation of Montaigne, by George B. Ives...
...Jungle Peace is in some respects his best book-a collection of essays most of which appeared originally in The Atlantic Monthly; but Edge of the Jungle was not far behind in beauty and appeal. Galápagos is his most elaborate published book, with the exception of the pheasant monograph...
...monograph, "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination", Walter de la Mare quotes from a letter written to him by an American friend, "We over here can't have all the simple, lovely and solitary things of which Englishmen write. It helps so much to think of them as they are in England...