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[OST bookish people have heard of the famous Sun Dial Edition of Joseph Conrad. The great novelist autographed it, and wrote a special preface to each one of the twenty-four volumes. The sets sold for $175.75 each, and 735 wealthy book-collectors paid a total sum of $129,176.25 for this edition.

The new Inclusive Edition, offered here, is printed from the same style and size of type as the Sun Dial Edition. It contains the same fascinating special prefaces by Conrad. But, instead of selling for $175.75 cash, like the autographed Sun Dial Edition, its price is only $35.00 and even this sum may be paid in convenient small amounts, if desired.

For those who want to own Conrad completeand what intelligent book-lover does not? this is the best opportunity ever presented.

Romance Is Dead-Not Conrad

The story of Conrad is one of the most amazing in the annals of literature. He did not speak English until past twenty. He had never written a line before he was forty. Yet, the world's most famous authors ultimately paid homage to him as the greatest of them all; his original manuscripts, at an auction before his death, sold for $110,998 (probably no such tribute had ever been paid to an author while he was still alive); above all, thousands of intelligent people all over the world counted every story from him as an event.

"Romance is dead now, not Conrad," one woman wrote when she heard of his death. It expressed beautifully how thousands felt about the passing of this great Master.

The Secret of Conrad

The secret of Conrad's fascination lies, above all, in the exciting narratives he had to tell. No one could ever tell a story like Conrad, and no one has ever had such tales to tell. He himself had met these men he wrote about-the riffraff of the world thrown up in the mysterious East-outcasts, adventurers, sailors, rough traders, thieves, murderers.

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Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1925, by The Outlook Company. By subscription $5.00 a year for the United States and Canada. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56.

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THE OUTLOOK, October 21, 1925. Volume 141, Number 8. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

WHAT I THINK OF PELMANISM-Ben B. Lindsey

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I first heard of Pelmanism while in England on war work. Sooner or later almost every conversation touched on it, for the movement seemed to have the sweep of a religious conviction. Men and women of every class and circumstance were acclaiming it as a new departure in mental training that gave promise of ending that preventable inefficiency which acts as a brake on human progress. Even in France I did not escape the word, for thousands of officers and men were Pelmanizing in order to fit themselves for return to civil life.

When I learned that Pelmanism had been brought to America by Americans for Americans, 1 was among the first to enroll. My reasons were two: first, because I have always felt that every mind needed regular, systematic and scientific exercise, and secondly, because I wanted to find out if Pelmanism was the thing that I could recommend to the hundreds who continually ask my advice in relation to their lives, problems and ambitions.

Failure is a sad word in any language, but it is peculiarly tragic here in America where institutions and resources join to put success within the reach of every individual. In the twenty years that I have sat on the bench of the Juvenile Court of Denver, almost every variety of human failure has passed before me in melancholy procession. By failure I do not mean the merely criminal mistakes of the individual, but the faults of training that keep a life from full development and complete expression.

It is to these needs and these lacks that Pelmanism comes The as an answer. "twelve little gray books" are a remarkable achievement. Not only do they contain the discoveries that science knows about the mind and its workings, but the treatment is so simple that the truths may be grasped by anyone of average education.

In plain words, what Pelmanism has done is to take psychology out of the college and put it into harness for the day's work. It lifts great, helpful truths out of the back water and plants them in the living stream.

As a matter of fact, Pelmanism ought to be the beginning of education instead of a remedy for its faults. First of all, it teaches the science of self-realization; it makes the student discover himself; it acquaints him with his sleeping powers and shows him how to develop them. method is exercise, not of the haphazard sort, but a steady, increasing kind that

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brings each hidden power to full strength without strain or break.

The human mind is not an automatic device. It will not "take care of itself." Will power, originality, decision, resourcefulness, imagination, initiative, couragethese things are not gifts but results. Every one of these qualities can be developed by effort just as muscles can be developed by exercise. I do not mean by this that the individual can add to the brains that God gave him, but he can learn to make use of the brains that he has instead of letting them fall into flabbiness through disuse.

Other methods and systems that I have examined, while realizing the value of mental exercise, have made the mistake of

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limiting their efforts to the development of some single sense. What Pelmanism does is to consider the mind as a whole and treat it as a whole. It goes in for mental team play, training the mind as a unity.

Its big value, however, is the instructional note. Each lesson is accompanied by a work sheet that is really a progress sheet. The student goes forward under a teacher in the sense that he is followed through from first to last, helped, guided and encouraged at every turn by conscientious experts.

Pelmanism is no miracle. It calls for application. But I know of nothing that pays larger returns on an investment of one's spare time from day to day.

(Signed) BEN B. LINDSEY.

Note: As Judge Lindsey has pointed out, Pelmanism is neither an experiment nor a theory. For almost a quarter of a century, it has been showing men and women how to lead happy, successful, well rounded lives. 650,000 Pelmanists in every country on the globe are the guarantee of what Pelman training can do for you.

No matter what your own particular difficulties are poor memory, mind wandering, indecision, timidity, nervousness or lack of personality-Pelmanism will show you the way to correct and overcome them. And on the positive side, it will uncover and develop qualities which you never dreamed existed in you. It will be of direct, tangible value to you in your business and social life. In the files at the Pelman Institute of America are hundreds of letters from successful Pelmanists telling how they doubled, trebled and even quadrupled their salaries thanks to Pelman training.

"Scientific Mind Training" is the name of the absorbingly interesting booklet which tells about Pelmanism in detail. It is fascinating in itself with its wealth of original thought and clear observation. "Scientific Mind Training" makes an interesting addition to your library.

Your copy is waiting for you. It is absolutely free. Simply fill out the coupon and mail it today. It costs you nothing, it obligates you to nothing, but it is absolutely sure to show you the way to success and happiness. Don't put it off and then forget about it. Don't miss a big opportunity. MAIL THE COUPON NOW.

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To the glittering pageant of upper Fifth Avenue, an old-established firm now adds the lustre of its name. For McCutcheon's has moved to its handsome new building on that famous thoroughfare at 49th Street.

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SUBSCRIBER in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has sent us an amusing advertising circular which he recently received from a firm of tailors in that city. We quote from it as follows:

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"DO A MURDER GET COMMIT?" (From an Indian native newspaper in the London "Morning Post")

The news of England we tell the latest. Written in perfect style and much earliest. Do a murder get commit we hear and tell of it. Do a mighty chief die we publish it in borders of sombre. Staff; has each one been college, and write like the Kipling and the Dickens. We circulate town, and extortionate not for advertisements.

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October 21, 1925

No one has a better right to discuss the problems of our National defense than the American Legion. It acted properly in declining to mention Colonel Mitchell by name in its resolution. The friends of Colonel Mitchell would have acted more wisely if they had not attempted to bring his name into the picture. It is not in accord with American traditions for army officers to appeal to civil bodies for support in a controversy with their superiors.

The Tide of

Industrial Consolidation

THERE are indications that a new era

of business and industrial consolidation is beginning in the United States. There is not in this anything particularly surprising. To persons whose thinking has gone much beneath the surface it has appeared for a long time inevitable, as possibly the only road to development leading elsewhere than to Government ownership. But the indications are, too, that the thing may be accomplished without undue official interference and with a pretty full measure of public approval. Heretofore there has been sometimes official interference where it was not needed even if there may have been lack of it where it was needed, and always there has been a considerable section of the public which looked upon any consolidation as an infringement of the public right. This section of the public, or a part of it, looked more or less longingly, perhaps, toward Government ownership. But the number holding this view has apparently dwindled and the number looking favorably upon legitimate consolidation has as evidently increased.

That the Federal Government, at least, is not to interfere needlessly with business is shown by the recent report of William J. Donovan, assistant to the Attorney-General in charge of anti-trust work. Mr. Donovan makes it clear that cases involving violations of law will be vigorously prosecuted, but he makes it equally clear that "the investigation of unsubstantial complaints that tend to the

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unsettlement of private business" will not be permitted to clutter the Department and confuse the country. Crystallization of this attitude in the Department of Justice under Attorney-General Sargent has been indicated by the AttorneyGeneral himself on several occasions.

The indication of public approval of this course comes from newspaper comment, not on the report of the assistant to the Attorney-General, but upon a specific action of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Two years or more ago the Armour and the Morris packing interests were consolidated. Something of a storm of protest arose, with charges of violations of the Anti-Trust Law. After some de

lay, Henry C. Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, began dissolution proceed

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