Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15.

[p. 10] text-books known as the ‘Technical Drawing Series.’ Rev. Warren S. Woodbridge is the author of ‘Christ in the Life,’ and many articles. Edwin A. Start, Executive Secretary of the American Forestry Association, has written many articles and lectured on forest preservation. Lawrence Boyd Evans, professor of history, has edited the writings of George Washington, first of a series on the writings of American statesmen, and a series of ‘Handbooks of American Government,’ illustrating the polity of different states.

Hollis Godfrey, head of the Science Department in the Practical Arts School of Boston, is the author of an ‘Elementary Chemistry,’ and the ‘Health of the City,’ a clear, concise statement of the problems that rise from city life, with practical solutions for settling them; a book to be studied. The chapters are, respectively, Air, Water Supply, Food of the City, Food of the Individual, Water and Waste, Ice, Sewer Gas and Plumbing, City's Noise and City Housing. The text of the book is:

‘Whether we wish it or no, to keep ourselves we must be our brother's keeper. Only when we strive to guard our neighbors are our own walls secure.’

He has also written an unusual story called ‘The Man Who Ended War,’ and two juvenile stories, ‘For the Norton Name,’ and Jack Collerton's Engine.

Prof. Leo Rich Lewis and Leon Ryder Maxwell compiled ‘The Assembly Praise Book.’

Ruth Dame Coolidge is a contributor to periodicals, the editorial page of the Boston Transcript, and has given a course of lectures on architecture.

In the January number of the present year of the Tufts College Graduate is an appreciation by Prof. Charles St. Clair Wade, of the personality and the poetry of Grace Harvey Lane, who lived her all too short life in Medford, graduating from the Medford schools and Tufts College. Her poetic translations won great praise. Professor Shipman said she had mastered