PRESS PUBLISHES MANY WORKS

The University Press has recently published several extremely timely and interesting volumes. The subjects include Thomas Jefferson's drawings for his home, Monticello, a history of Scientific Management, an account of the German teacher in the secondary schools, and a work on a little known source of English realism, the history af Mary Carleton.

At this time, when the government is considering the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, peculiar interest is lent to the publishing in the Harvard Architectural Quarterly of the original drawings for this place by Thomas Jefferson himself. These drawings were only recently discovered among the papers of the late T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. By means of them it becomes possible to study the position held by Jefferson in the American revival of classical architecture. There are also published with this article plans and elevations, which show great community of thought and feeling with Jefferson's drawing. The article, by Sidney Fiske Kimball, instructor in architecture at the University of Illinois, is unusually interesting, especially at the present moment.

A new study of scientific management, edited by C. Bertrand Thompson, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, shows that this field is as old as the spinning jenny. Nevertheless, it has not been until the present time that a complete and detailed study of the subject has been made. In this volume the theories on which the principles of scientific management are based are supplemented by the viewpoints of successful managers, of employees, and of students of the subject.

The real apology for the "Kultur" of Germany lies, not in her military operations, but, perhaps more than anything else, in what she has done in her secondary schools, according to Dr. William Setchel Learned's work on the "Oberlehrer." Written before the outbreak of the war, it is the first account in English of the position of the secondary school-teacher. This book gives an excellent idea of the patient work and the high ideals of this generally over-looked part of German educational machinery.

Uutil very recently it has been though that Defoe was the father of the modern realistic novel. Dr., Ernest Bernbaum '02, in his work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms.