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First published in the year 1918, the present book ‘Creating Capital’ by Frederick L. Lipman is an essay on moral values of thrift. This is a broad discussion of money-making in its moral aspects, an examination of its prevalence as an aim among people generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money.

Must we then give up fathoming the depths of life? Must we keep to that mechanistic idea of it which the understanding will always give us—an idea necessarily artificial and symbolical, since it makes the total activity of life shrink to the form of a certain human activity which is only a partial and local manifestation of life, a result or by-product of the vital process? We should have to do so, indeed, if life had employed all the psychical potentialities it possesses in producing pure understandings—that is to say, in making geometricians.

It costs me nothing to feel that I am; it is no burden to me. And yet if the mental, physical, chemical, and other innumerable facts concerning all branches of knowledge which have united in myself could be broken up, they would prove endless. It is some untold mystery of unity in me, that has the simplicity of the infinite and reduces the immense mass of multitude to a single point.

This One in me knows the universe of the many. But, in whatever it knows, it knows the One in different aspects. It knows this room only because this room is One to it, in spite of the seeming contradiction of the endless facts contained in the single fact of the room. Its knowledge of a tree is the knowledge of a unity, which appears in the aspect of a tree.

From the author of Creative Mind And Success, comes this short book on how to utilise the power of your mind. Holmes shows us how our thoughts can become reality and what we can do to use that to our benefit.

Pausing momentarily on the midway staircase-landing, which
has prominent place between the second and third stories of the
Bradstreet establishment at 279, 281 and 283 Broadway, New York,
an undefined sensation, which attains almost to inspiration, comes to
the hand that traces these lines as the eye falls upon the army of
busy workers below—an inspiration creating an intense desire to
learn, if possible, what battle of life that army is engaged in fighting
so earnestly—whether the cause in which its daily engagements are
being made is a just or an unjust, a noble or an ignoble, one; whether
engendered in generous or selfish-minded motives, and also whether
the day is being lost or won by the serried ranks of men and women
there drawn up in battle array.

Surely it is sheer neglect of opportunity offered by an official position if, being an editor, one has no prefatory word to say of the work that one is editing. It is said that that which is good requires no praise, but it is a saying that is contradicted at every turn—or else all that is advertised must be very bad. While it is our firm belief that the merits of the present book—The Country Life Cricket Book—are many and various (it would be an insult to the able heads of the different departments into which the great subject is herein divided to think otherwise), we believe also that the book has one very special and even unique merit. We believe, and are very sure, that there has never before been given to the public any such collection of interesting old prints illustrative of England’s national game as appear in the present volume. It is due to the kind generosity of the Marylebone Cricket Club, as well as of divers private persons, that we are able to illustrate the book in this exceptional way; and we (that is to say, all who are concerned in the production) beg to take the opportunity of giving most cordial thanks to those who have given this invaluable help, and so greatly assisted in making the book not only attractive, but also original in its attraction.

In the year 1906 the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, rejected the application of an actor for membership on the ground that one of his profession could not be a moral person. Viewing the action as a slur cast on the whole theatrical profession, Mr. Henry E. Dixey, the well-known actor, offered to give one thousand dollars to charity if it could be shown that actors, man for man, were not as good as ministers of the gospel. No champion of the cloth appearing to claim Mr. Dixey’s money on that proposition, he went further and offered another thousand dollars if there could not be found a minister in jail for every state in the Union.

The present novel ‘Crome Yellow’ is a historical fictional novel written by the famous British author Aldous Huxley. It was first published in the year 1921. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write.

First published in the year 1831, the present humorous fictional novel ‘Crotchet Castle’ was the sixth novel by the famous English author Thomas Love Peacock. In this novel, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.