Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . friends and clients who went to seeall exclaimed :Oh, how like the original ! Taint like him, said an oldfarmer; dont you see hes got hishands in his own pockets ? It was a ramshackle little branchrailway; but it was the best theyhad in the neighborhood, so they hadto put up with it, and hoped in timeit would grow into something bet-ter. It so happened a little while agoan old farmer was expecting aready-made fowl-house by rail, andso he set out for the—to him—hitherto unknown station to fetch there and finding his pur-chase, he quickly load
Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . friends and clients who went to seeall exclaimed :Oh, how like the original ! Taint like him, said an oldfarmer; dont you see hes got hishands in his own pockets ? It was a ramshackle little branchrailway; but it was the best theyhad in the neighborhood, so they hadto put up with it, and hoped in timeit would grow into something bet-ter. It so happened a little while agoan old farmer was expecting aready-made fowl-house by rail, andso he set out for the—to him—hitherto unknown station to fetch there and finding his pur-chase, he quickly loaded it on to hiswagon and started for home. He had not got far on his waywhen he heard hurried footsteps,and, looking round, found the sta-tion-master in pursuit. What the Flving Dutchman doyou mean by it ? exclaimed the offi-cial, when he overtook the wagon. Mean by what ? asked the farm-er. Why, by running off with our sta-tion ! was the justly-indignant re-sponse. The Busy Mans Book Shelf Some InterestingBooks of theMonth Reviewed. FROM the long list of books, whichhave been published during thepast few months, the followingselection of the more importanttitles has been made. In each casea short note has been appended givingin a few words a resume of the con-tents of the book. If any readers de-sire further information about anyWork mentioned, the editor of theBusy Mans Magazine will be vciyglad to furnish full particulars on ap-lication. ^ >i» Sociology, etc. POWER TO REGULATE CORPOR-ATIONS and Commerce. By FrankHendrick, (New York: G. P. Put-nams Sons). LABOR MOVEMENT IN AUSTRA-LASIA. By Victor S. Clark. (NewYork: Henry Holt & Co. $). A competent, temperate andjudicial, treat)tnent of an important-subject. BETTERMENT, INDIVIDUAL, SO-CIAL and Industrial. By E. Wake Cook. (New York: F. A. Stokes,$). The object of the book is togive in convenient form the latestdiscoveries on the subject of •effi-ciency . INDUSTRIAL ByArthur Shadwell. (New Yor
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