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Show LITE BABY NOTES. Fourth avenue Is becoming the Fleet street of Now York. Its most recent publishing pub-lishing family to move fn is the Century company, which on Monday, February 1, celebrated its first a t -home day in ita new and larger quarters on the top floor of the twelve-dtory Armory build. ng. Fourth avenue at Twenty-sixth street. Fp and down the same thoroughfare are 1 Iotld. Mead & Co., the American Magazine, Maga-zine, the Woman's Home Companion, the McClure publications and others. Thotnaa V. Crowed company announces for publication in February "Problems of Community Life, an Outline of Descriptive Descrip-tive Sociology," by Seba Eldrldge, secretary secre-tary of the department of social betterment better-ment of tno Brooklvn Bureau of Charities. Chari-ties. It Is safe to Fay that when this work i becomes known it will be regarded aa in- I dispensable, both as a text in colleges ; and universities and as a guide and reference ref-erence book for critical students. For it not only furnishes criteria by which to appraise our community life, but offers a programme of reform' whose execution will keep us employed for a generation. ; A pretty good firm 1b Watch & "Watte, , And another is Attit, Karly ii La vie; I And a till another is Doo & Da ire t; But the beet ia probably Grinn Ac Barrett. Bar-rett. February Woman's Home Companion. In the February American Magazine Iavid Grayson, writing Ills new story, "1 lempflelri." presents a ha racier, Ivl. Smith, whose abilities ure partly described de-scribed in the following passage taken from the story: . "It was easy for Ed. to 'size tip' people, peo-ple, for he had just two classifications those people whom he couid use. and those who could use him. His problem of life thus became quite simple; it consisted con-sisted in shifting as manv as posslblo of those of the second Classification inU the first. " Tf you would not be done by a man. do him first,' was one of tld.'s treasured Ben-FTanklinisma." Miss Carolyn S. Bailey's "Montessorl Children' (Holt) to appear February 2'), is to a large extent haaed on her studies duriner a considerable sojourn in Rome of eome dozen typical Montessorl pupilr. She then considers what micht bo done with American children with faults or aptitudes similar to those of these little lit-tle Italians. Miss Bailey's lon service as editor of the child-training department depart-ment of the. Delineator and the sympathy for children, noticeable in her "Twilight Stories" ;md "stories and Rhymn for a Child," promise well for this book. The Writer ( Boston), now In its ten- ty-seventh v1um continues to I nihil ita aim to interest and help literary j workers. The Fobruarv number rontalM. pratK;ii and h-dpfnl articles on "Writim? to Sell " and "Writing as a. Side besides giving imci e.-.ti tig rers.T;tl c -svip about authors and trie news of the literary lit-erary world, and dis' usl?nc such topic an "Rub-s for the Girl Who at:t to Writ." "The Kssential Thing in Writing S-najs." "Terms r.d In Film Iro-!n.-. tion." "The Kffe.-t of Moving pn-ture on the Novel," "1-Miting for Publj.-a tion." 1 'Dtctatirg a ,'ove." and "Sino-rliv in Siory Wriliny." Ti.erf Im also ;i vahiable reirn-e list of "Literary Artb b -a lb It-rlodicnlM." N If vou were to be wrcrkrd on a drsert Islund and could Uike nlong onlv t--n bonkw. what briokn would you chiv'j? Rememhpr, they might be your hf.-tirne 'omp.inions. S-.jr-h was the query put bv tii New York Sun to a luin.Ur of -'-i a t-d authors rr--:it iy. I Vt haps t lie civerf-st and crtalniv the man run-''ie run-''ie aii.-iw- r-- lv" I was from .Limes Montcuiierv FIw e-g. th prince of lllu?-- t rat on. H,,.i ' i it, -;t' author or "I Sl:nuld 1 Say So." (iMrarkd Mr. ri;tg: "I isonM take nine buk, ..f .( rettn papers and old Irv. (.'... b ;; T.,,, k f..n,e.' ' Fn n ! t he tl rn- wlin paws wr'' :i :t ' u-d In v. i r. U ii n l.n tne rnnfum for i d'-ff-M t-.j sold.Kip n low it Ihftn In t"ken of Mibiids-.Dri. in earlv tina". tb.- van- luinbed loA.Te.1 (in!r own fbi a f--w tu t ; and rabif-fj t;.,. n : n t of thir r'inno'T- 1 ors a bo vf b. Then t lie ;i if o;n a i o-,. of , .wiring flisr s a mark of r-fp- I to 'l fa rnoiiH bi i-r w "no bad d l-'d. Tfr sr ;i- e left ;ibo f; the Mag Li for I Im Ma f th- LTfMt i'onquc;-or 1 n-atfi. Tne Amerban hoy. "A Q i!' Corner In a Llbmr.."' bv I'm-tf?ov I'm-tf?ov William Hp-tv M.:.Nopi. jv tl r.;n-r-nri'lon of r-.twiys bv tins fainoii.s n..-r-ban, who n-.w rsbl n 1,inilnn. in db" volum'- fTf.fe-"nr HndHoti dis. u:-ep. in hlv ii wn hb.,hh- at t mi-ttvc- wa v the w rlt'-n Tom 1 (ood. Ge.,ri:o Ltllo' and Sa rrnnd Richardson, and the author of "SaHv in "ur Mb-y." Thin book Is to be fl..ned bv ..tbers of i(. k I m ILi r mi turf, from I be Rand McN'ally & Cornpanv M prisMcs. |