Sir—Ever since I can remember, people anxious to advertise their culture have been making lists of 10 books to be taken when wrecked on a desert island. In every instance that I can recall, the selection was on a neurotic basis. The latest illustration is furnished by 3 western college professors, each of whom starts off dutifully with "The Bible and Shake-Speare. In the first place, if they ate the men they ought to be, they Would know the Bible and Shakes-peace so well that it would be need-Tess to encumber their luggage with the volumes. In the second place, what possible benefit could a castaway derive from these old standby? Perhaps a man feels virtuous to think that the rescue party will discover him dead on the beach, the Bible clasped in one hand and Shakespeare in the other. Anyway, hell be dead. Any list of the best i0 books for a castaway must, if it is made up rea-Ustically, be about as follows:
1.À book on camping and wood-
2. A book on building and managing small boats, 3. The best atlas possible.
4. A popular book on astronomy.
5.A treatise om human anatomy.
6. A treatise on human physiology.
7. A popular handbook on medicine and "hygiene.
8. A book on gardening and horticulture, 9. J. C. Wiliss "Manual and dictionary of flowering plants and ferns" (for identification of useful flora 10. The Columbia Encyclopedia."
Somehow, we would like to meet Mr. Paul Popenoe of Los Angeles, California; he impresses us as a man of rare understanding.
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