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...setting is convincing and not obtrusive--always a danger in writing of "far lands and strange peoples." The plot tends toward the melodramatic, with a correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
EDUCATION AND THE GOOD LIFE- Bertrand Russell-Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This is a book for which a thoughtful public's appetite has been sharply whetted. When Mr. Russell, Britain's celebrated philosopher and mathematician, entered the field of psychology, it became apparent that he is no idle perfectionist but a thinker who refuses to shirk the humanistic implications of his theories. "What will he have to say about education?" was the question, underscored by the arrival of the Russells' two children...
...collection comprises files of "the Perfectionist," 1843-1846; "The Circular," 1864-1876; "The American Socialist," 1876-1879; "The Second Annual Report of the Oneida Association," 1850, pp. 31; "The Third Annual Report of the Oneida Community," 1867, pp. 71; "Handbook of the Oneida Community," 1875, pp. 48; "Salvation from Sin," 1876, by J. H. Noyes, pp. 48; "Mutual Criticism," 1876, by J. H. Noyes, pp. 96; "Male Continence," 1877, by J. H. Noyes, pp. 32; "Scientific Propagation," by J. H. Noyes, pp. 32; "Paul's Prize," by J. H. Noyes, pp. 16; "Bible Communism," 1853, pp. 128; "The Oneida Community...