Heseltine, Marjorie and Ula M. Dow. 1936 GOOD COOKING MADE EASY AND ECONOM-
ICAL. Houghton Mifflin Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Price $2.50. The revised and enlarged
edition of a firmly established cook book which has made so many friends is in keeping with
the changes that have been going on in kitchen affairs. New recipes and service sugges-
tions have been devised.
Silver, Fern. 1941 FOODS AND NUTRITION. D. Appleton-Century Company, New York
City. Price $1.72. The book is intended for use as a text in foods and nutrition classes in
senior high schools in any class from the freshman to the senior year inclusive. The style,
problems, and the interests are on the level of high school experience. The development of
the study of foods and the foods laboratory work is built around meal planning as nearly as
is practicable in a high school situation, rather than around the cooking of individual foods.
"Food Preservation" and "Camp Cookery" are two of the units treated.

 CLOTHING AND TEXTILES AND RELATED SUBJECTS

Duncan, Ida Riley. 1940 THE COMPLETE BOOK OF PROGRESSIVE KNITTING. Liver-
ight Publishing Corporation, New York City. Price $2.50. If well-stated directions and clear
diagrams are enough to teach one how to knit even so complicated an article as a fancy stitch,
made-to-special measure garment, then anyone should be able to achieve that with the help of
this book. Many inexpensive sources of this same material can be found, and so the advis-
ability of purchasing this book would be questionable where funds are limited.
EDLMANN, C. ELIOT. 1937 THE MAKING OF SOFT TOYS. The Manual Arts Press,
Peoria, Illinois. Price $1.25. Children in all ages, all countries and all climates have always
demanded toys. This book tells how to make them using fur cloth, silk, velvet, etc., and stuffed
with cotton or wool. A set of full-sized patterns accompanies the book of instructions. Simple
tools, good patterns, explicit directions make this book an easy one to use. Nine animals are
given including a teddy bear, a rabbit, and Mary's lamb.
GILES, NELL. 1940 SUSAN, BE SMOOTH. Hale, Cushman, and Flint, Boston, Massachu-
setts. Price $1.00. Smoothness is something which doesn't necessarily mean beauty. Lots of
beautiful girls aren't smooth. Smoothness comes from an attitude of mind toward the right
habits of grooming and is very much worth taking pains over. You can be smooth with only
fifteen minutes a day, and Susan, Be Smooth tells you how. Delightful illustrations enliven
this little book designed for all girls, but especially those under twenty, who want to be no-.
ticed-and who doesn't?
Hess, Katherine. 1941 TEXTILE FIBERS AND THEIR USE. J. B. Lippincott Company,
Atlanta, Ga. Price $2.40. Not a high school text, but a good book for reference material. It
gives the consumers' point of view.
Lester, Katherine Morris and Bess Viola Oerke. 1940 ACCESSORIES OF DRESS. The Man-
ual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois. Price $10.00. (587 pp., 704 illustrations.) This book is dis-
tinctly in the luxury class. If the budget permits, it would be a valuable reference for the li-
brary in schools where advanced classes consider costume and designers of historical costume
true to the period. The book covers various accessories of costume for men and women from
primitive man down to modern times. It tells the story of hats and hose, ribbons and rings,
wigs and watches, and all the other accessories that fashion through the centuries has decreed
for the personal adornment of men and women.
McFarland, Freda Wiegand. 1936 GOOD TASTE IN DRESS. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria,
Illinois. Price $1.00. Every girl is interested in her personal appearance. This little book dis-
cusses questions of figure, dress, coloring, personality, as well as lines, fabrics, correct dress
for given occasionsand many other related subjects.
Machrie, Elsie and I. P. Roseaman. 1939 FELT TOYS. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illi-
nois. Price $1.25. Contains patterns and complete directions for making eleven toys out of
felt. The assortment includes a ball, goose, rabbit, goose-girl, doll, and a golliwogg."
Machrie, Elsie and I. P. Roseaman. 1937 CUT WOOLLY TOYS. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria,
Illinois. Price $1.25. Full-sized patterns and illustrated descriptions of the processes of mak-
ng animal and doll toys, using cut wool. The close-cut wool suggests the furriness of the
animals.