Formulas, Recipes, and Processes,

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 287, 30 August 1919, Page 11

Formulas, Recipes, and Processes,

Honley's "Twentieth Century Home and Workshop Formulas, Hecipes, anil Processes" (Henley Publishing C 0.,. N.Y.; Angus and Kobortson, per VVhitcombo au<i Tombs),. might be described as a cyclopaedia of technical knowledge'and information, interesting and valuable alike to tlio housewife, the Home-worker, the artisan, the mechanic, and the manufacturer, for the editor has evidently ende'iuoured to meet tho practical requirements of mo homers well as the factory. Works of this klifd have long been very popular in ;Americtt, whore, in tho more isolated 'and sparsely peopled territories, men und women have to do liliiiiffs far themselves which, in large centres of population, aro generally! loft to the expert 'workers. • A. special effort has . been imado to modernise tho reeipos and formulas given, and much of the matter has been, so tho oditor informs us, specially translated for tho work from foreign technological works and periodicals, much practical information being thus embodied which has hitherto been inaccosaiblo to most English-speaking peoplo. Tho list of authorities consulted includes many leading American, British, Frond), German, Swiss, and Kalian technical periodicals and books. Tho book, which runs into over 800 closely but clearly printed pa.ges, contains ovor 10,000 selected household and workshop formulas, recipes, processes and moneysaving methods, including hundreds of so-called tnido secrets' in many classes of business. It is claimed by the oditor, llr. Gardner D. Hiscox, M.F., that the 'work will servo as a most useful reference both to the small and liwgo manufacturer. Supplying intelligent seekors with tho information nceessary to conduct a process, tho work will, "it ii»claimed, be found of inestimable worth | "to the metallurgist, tho photographer, tho perfumer, the paintor, the manufacturer of glues, pnstes, cements and mucilages, the compounder of alloys, the cook, tho physician, the druggist, the eleotrician, the brewer, the ongincer, the foundryinon, the machinist, the pocter, tho tannor, the confectionor, the chiropodist, tho manicurist, the manufacturer of chemical novelties and toilet preparations, tho dyor, tho e.leci.roplater, tho enameller, the engraver, the provisioner, 'tho glass worker, the goldbeater, (.ho 'watchmaker and jeweller, the hat maker, ■ tho ink manufacturer, the optician, the ■farmer, tho dairyman, tho wood and ; metal worker, tho chandler and soap maker, the. veterinary surgeon, an(l the technologist in gbneraj.".

Tho "Blonde Beast" Once Again. .It is a- terrilie and crushing exposure and lmhclmuit of the dirty work wnieli tlio lam construed as legitimate war propaganda' which is given in "The Truth About the. Black Book," by C. Sheridan J ones (Stanley Paul and Co.). According to u\t'i'. Jones, the Germans ior some years before the war, as during the war period,.pursued a deliberate policy of corrupting- Europe, anil especially England, 'D.v means ot' a literature a) vile as to bo almost openly ' pornographic. Mr. Jones quotes freely from such German novelists and playwrights as Sacher Masocli, Prams Wedekind, Sudennann, and H'nuptman'n to prove the claim that literature and tho drama were in modern Gc'imany poisoned at the core. .To some extent, in his exposure of' tho widespread and disgusting vice which met with ench , astonishing oiiicia,! toleration in Berlin during tho last years of the Hohenzollern j regime, Air. .Tones deals, wi.tlv a subject already, I should have imagined, been given sufficient attention in Mr. Do Halsiille's "Degenerate Germany." Kraft Ebj. bing's notorious "Psychopathi.a Sexualis,' and similar works, aro drawn upon with such unnecessary freedom as to render the book quite unsuitable for general] reading, but, allowance made for tho authors evident striving after the sensational, it must lio -admitted that the facts ho 6ets forth prove, incontestably that German private .morality was at a very iow ebb in tlio immediate pre-war - period. In a brief introductory sklo to Mr. Jones's, hook, the. Very Rot. the Dean of' Durham sounds' a grnve note of warning to. his fellow-c.ountirymen on the subject of vice. He says: Thero is no' doubt that English society v/ae inclined, before the war. and ma;v be inclined even now-, to play fast and loose with' morality. - Attacks, not veiled, but open, upon tho. purity of homo- life and i the sanctity of marriago. lmd eomo to bo ! alarmingly frequent.. Still, more sorious, {bocausc more, insidiojis, was the disposition to palliato or extenuate violations of tho moral law. But whoever aims at sapping foundations of morality is an enemy of his country..-

. Thore may have been before the .'war a groat lashes* of moral tone in a certain 'section of English society, but that there was in England anything like that widespread indulgence in vico such as Mr. .Tones shows 'existed in Germany, it is indeed difficult to believe. Two Interesting. Essays. ' Under the title "National and International Right and Wrong" (George Allen ftiul ■Umvin) aro. reprinted two essays by the late Henry Sidgwick, whose writings on philosophical, ethical; and political questions are ©o well known and-highly esteemed. The two essays are entitled respectively "Public Morality" and "The Morality of Strife"; the first having been, rend in January, 1897, at'ft meeting of a Cambridge essay club, called the "Eranua," and the seoond being an address delivered in tlio year 1890 at the London Ethical Society. The Right Hon, Viscount Bryce contributes a prefaco to the book, in which he points out, inter alia, that in the essay on "Public Morality," Sidgwick'dealt "with the vory questions raised by tho German invasion of Belgium, and by Dr. von Bethmann-Hol-weK*fl attempted palliation of that lawlass act." "Sidgwick," says Viscount ]3rycc, "had already perceived .more than twenty years ago that the current of. German thought ( beginning to run iu an anti-moral direction, was'returning to tho doctrines'promulgated by Mucdiiavelli. but provided with a now basis by tho Hegelian doctrine of the omnipotent state. Some .of ub had latterly observed that not in Gormany only was there a docline from tho moral standards of eighty years ago, but no one (so far as I Know) has explained with so muoh ingenuity tho causes that havo contributed to tho change."

In the second essay, "The-Morality of. Strife," Sidgwick deals ivith industrial as well as general warfare, and especially with, what he calls the "spiritual methods, of avoiding both international and industrial strife." Viscount Biyce warmly praises botli essays, which lmve, ho says, "that atmosphere of mellow wisdom which Rives its distinctive quality to all that Sidgwick' wrotei. oii, ethical and historical subjcc'.s." Tho reprinting of the tw<j essays was a happy thought, for thev are full of useful suggestion on questions which to : day. are of 'even greater public importance than they wore when tlioy were delivered in the nineties of tlio last century. Now Zealand's Losses. 'Referring .to,a review of Mr. Dalton's book, "With British Guns in Italy," which appeared in this journal recently, a. valued correspondent writes as .follows:— . ■ In your review of Dallon's book you make a point that tlio Italian dead' amount to 13 in fcvery thousand of the population. I should judge yon. consider this remarkable, 'but ths New Zealand dead are more. The last return gives our doad as 16,661, which is within a fraction of 14 per 1000 of our population. In the light ,of this,. Italy's lobb is not. so great in proportion as this littlo country's. I. fancy few psoplo realise how enormous our losseß are. Out of. a force of roughly 100,000, some thousands of whom lioyer saw tho front, tho total casualties wero CT9, or about 68 per cent., really higher if actual lighters only were taken into account. I liavo always contended and still do that our, losses, especially at the Sornme, were altogether out of proportion to what they should have been, and if applied to the English army as a,whole would have meant annihilation in a, year or so. -