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Scott, Walter Dill.

HK

Increasing human efficiency in business; a contribution to the psychology of business. 1911. Macmillan. $1.25. Taylor, Frederick Winslow.

HK

The principles of scientific management. 1911. Harper. $1.50. Wilbur, Mary Aronetta.

HK

Every-day business for women; a manual for the uninitiated. 1910. Houghton. $1.25.

Contents: The office of banks.-The formulas and methods of banking.-Borrower and lender.-Exchange. -Other forms of banks.-About money.-Contracts.-Bills and receipts.Employer and employee.-Our business relations with railroads and hotels.-Simple bookkeeping. On sending things. -Other people's property.-Taxes and customs.-The use and transference of property.-Stocks and bonds.-Wills and estates.-Fundamentals of business. 6HK+ Kelly's directory of merchants, manufacturers and shippers, and guide to the export and import, shipping and manufacturing industries of the world. 30th ed. 1916. Kelly publishing co., N. Y. 36/. 6HK+ Thomas' register of American manufacturers and first hands in all lines; the buyers' guide issued annually, 1916. Thomas publishing co., N. Y. $15.00.

ETHICS OF SUCCESS.

Crooker, Joseph Henry.

Shall I drink? 1914. Pilgrim press, Boston. $1.00. Fisher, Irving, and Fisk, E. L., ed.

IB

QH

How to live; rules for healthful living, based on modern science; authorized by and prepared in collaboration with the Hygiene reference board of the Life extension institute. 1916. Funk & Wagnalls. $1.00.

"The book is the first general statement of the conclusions of the board of hygiene of the institute, which comprises 100 or more of the most eminent authorities in the country. It constitutes one of the most authoritative works on the highly important subject of personal hygiene."-Springfield republican.

Fiske, Amos Kidder.

HK

Honest business; right conduct for organizations of capital and of labour. 1914. Putnam. $1.25. Fowler, Nathaniel Clark.

BQ

How to get your pay raised; a work of experience-the underlying principles which lead to promotion-a composite of success-making methods; by Nathaniel C. Fowler, jr., assisted by sixty-nine men of marked achievement. 1912. McClurg. $1.00. Gulick, Luther Halsey.

The efficient life. 1907. Doubleday, Page. $1.20.

QH

"The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician recorded in the 'Efficent life' recommends the book to business men and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work easier and work itself more efficient."-Annals of the American academy of political and social science.

Gulick, Luther Halsey.

Mind and work.

1908. Doubleday, Page. $1.20.

QH

Contents: The habit of success. What is real.-Resolutions-good and bad.-Mental effects of a flat top desk.-Thinking that arrives.-Put it on paper.-Management of the feelings. The time to quit.-Fatigue and character.-Will-fatigue.-Rest the will.-Willeconomy. The need of adequate work.-Handicaps.-The spirit of the game.

"No one could have a better stimulant or a more sensible corrective than this book."Outlook.

Hubbard, Elbert.

2BQ A message to Garcia. 1899. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y. $.10.

"Must always remain a classic in revealing the kind of man who grasps and makes the most of the opportunities that are in his path."-John Lee Mahin. Lewis, Elias St. Elmo. BQ

Getting the most out of business, observations of the application of the scientific method to business practice. 5th ed. 1916. Ronald press company, New York. $2.00.

"The informal, chatty observations of a practical business man, on the qualities which contribute to business and personal efficiency. Men, methods, principles, organization, and business philosophy are discussed in a manner at once Instructive and entertaining, with a sufficient infusion of humor and apt illustration to drive the truths home."-A.L.A. booklist.

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ROSENBERG LIBRARY, GALVESTON, TEXAS Building dedicated June 22, 1904. Size, 87 X 134 feet; cost, $155,000

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