NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY HARVARD PRESS LISTED

Outstanding among the volumes announced for publication by the Harvard University Press is a new edition of "Some Aspects of the Tariff Question", by Frank William Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. This edition of Professor Taussig's famous book is enlarged by the addition of nearly 100 pages, containing an account of the progress of certain industries for the period since 1910, when the first edition was published. In successive chapters there are accounts of the sugar, iron, steel, silk, cotton, and wool industries as well as the history of each industry and the influence exerted upon it of recent tariff legislation. In a chapter of special interest the rayon industry is discussed. As far as is known, this is the first non-scientific treatment of this industry, which has grown astoundingly in recent years. The mode of treatment and the point of view are identical with those of previous editions, which have come to be considered classics on the tariff question.

Honor Theses

From a group of over 30 theses contributed last year by candidates for honors in English. "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan" by Robert Peel '31, of Brookline, were honored by publication. These theses were chosen by a committee composed of Professors P. W. Souers, F. W. C. Hersey and A. C. Sprague '19, of the Department of English. Their publication was made possible by a fund established by the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers.

Brinser's "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw", was characterized by Professor Sprague yesterday as "a brilliant attack upon the popular concept of Bernard Shaw." The Harvard Press summarizes Brinser's book with "Time was when Mr. Bernard Shaw was con- sidered a highly dangerous youth derisively leveling the shafts of his Socialistic ridicule at the respectability of tht Victorian generation. Now Mr. Shaw is himself old and must in turn submit of an examination of his work at the hands of other young men provided with a new variety of wit and insight. Mr. Briuser speaks for the readers who have grown up since the War and to whom the "Men of the Nineties" are almost as distant as the Elizabethans.