The book review digest, volume 13, 1917 (part 2 of 10)
The author discusses standards in art and literature. The tendency of the present day is to discard standards of all kinds, and to point out the dangers of such a course is part of Mr Brownell’s aim in this little book. There are seven chapters, dealing with: Measures of value; The public; Taste; The individual; The inner life; “Modern art”; The cause of art and letters.
=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17
“A brief monograph, admirable in its technique and apparently intended to supplement his concentrated little essay on criticism.”
+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 80w
“A thin volume of masterly essays with a rich and widely varied vocabulary that well serves to project intellectual and art pyrotechnics.”
+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 70w
“There can never be too much of the refined and much-experienced criticism such as Mr W. C. Brownell’s essay on ‘Standards,’ which we all read in Scribner’s Magazine and are glad to have now as a book.”
+ =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 100w
“His pages sparkle with wit and wisdom in happy combination. The reader feels the sway of a loyal, candid, deeply self-respecting nature and of a mind disciplined by the study not only of what literature discloses of life, but of that still richer revelation which actual living brings to the soul that can receive it.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 800w
=Pratt= p33 O ‘17 20w
=BRUBAKER, HOWARD.= Ranny, otherwise Randolph Harrington Dukes. il *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-20177
“A tale of those activities which made him an important figure in his town, in his family—and in other families.” (Sub-title) The sixteen chapters about the doings of this representative American small boy, during the year when he was “eight-going-on-nine” are written from the adult point of view. They appeared originally in Harper’s Magazine.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w
“Howard Brubaker has been a real boy, but more to the point, he has the faculty of making his readers boys again. ‘Ranny’ is excellent reading.”
+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 40w
+ — =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 370w
=BRUCE, EDWIN MORRIS.= Detection of the common food adulterants. 3d ed rev and enl *$1.25 Van Nostrand 614.3 17-31161
This third edition of a little volume published in 1907 “has been revised so that it contains the latest and best tests for the common food adulterants.” (Preface) Contents: Dairy products; Meat and eggs; Cereal products; Leavening materials; Canned and bottled vegetables; Fruits and fruit products; Flavoring extracts; Saccharine products; Spices; Vinegar; Fats and oils; Beverages. In addition to the general index, there is an index to authors and tests.
=BRUCE, HENRY ADDINGTON BAYLEY.= Handicaps of childhood. *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7 17-29498
The author states that he has written this book “to amplify and supplement his ‘Psychology and parenthood.’” “Its general aim, accordingly, is to present additional evidence in support of the doctrine, that, in view of the discoveries of modern psychology with regard to individual development, the mental and moral training of children by their parents ought to be begun earlier, and be carried on more intensively, than is the rule at present. But whereas in ‘Psychology and parenthood’ the emphasis was chiefly on the importance of early mental training, the chief concern of the present book is to demonstrate the importance of early training in the moral sphere.” (Preface) Much of the material here presented has already appeared in the Century, Good Housekeeping, McClure’s, Harper’s Bazar, Every Week, and the Mother’s Magazine. The book includes chapters on Stammering, The only child, and Fairy tales that handicap. This latter points out the danger to many children of fairy tales that reek of brutality and gore.
“A work of manufacture rather than of literature, but none the less rather interesting reading for an hour or two and, if liberally seasoned with the salt of skepticism, perhaps not unprofitable reading for parents. The salt is needed for the author’s naïve acceptance of Freudian ‘discoveries’; apart from this prepossession, his suggestions are not lacking in sanity.”
+ — =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 100w
“Simple in expression and eminently readable, this discussion of child psychology is based on full knowledge and sound thinking.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w
=BRUCE, WILLIAM CABELL.= Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed. 2v *$6 (3c) Putnam 17-29818
A biographical and critical study of Franklin based largely on his own writings. All of the aids of modern scholarship have been employed to make the work accurate and exhaustive. It is the many-sided Franklin who stands revealed in these pages. The first volume inquires into Franklin’s moral standing and system, his religious beliefs, family relations, American, British and French friends, and estimates Franklin, the philanthropist and citizen; the second volume portrays his personal characteristics, looks at Franklin, the man of business, statesman, man of science and writer.
“The volumes throughout are distinguished by keen critical insight and by a deep understanding of human nature, added to which are a fine sense of proportion and a literary manner which renders the work eminently readable.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 730w
“Here are two volumes which, with literary finish, careful accuracy, and critical insight, consider every side of this remarkable man. They abound in citations from Franklin’s writings, especially his private letters, and thus reveal his personality as no mere biographical pages could.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 340w
“It is detached, impersonal, detailed, and it discusses Franklin’s foibles and flaws on every side, in all their manifestations and in all their relations to his family, friends, and period.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:5 Ja 6 ‘18 650w
“An admirable piece of work—every page sparkling with the interest that attaches to a unique character.”
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 100w
+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 110w
+ — =Spec= 120:61 Ja 19 ‘18 2050w
“The author belongs to that school of American writers on biography and history who have never taken to heart the maxim that the half is greater than the whole.”
– + =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p16 Ja 10 ‘18 1000w
=BRUNNER, EDMUND DE SCHWEINITZ.= New country church building. (Library of Christian progress) il 75c Missionary education movement 17-17093
“Edmund de S. Brunner, who has been successful in community leadership and who knows churches from every angle, including that of the pulpit, ... has packed into these 140 pages a comprehensive survey of architectural and spiritual needs. Eleven plans are submitted for country churches, incorporating in varying degree, from simple to elaborate, suggestive arrangements for Sunday-school rooms, boys’ and girls’ club rooms, gymnasium, etc.; and several other plans deal with parish houses or community buildings.” (Springf’d Republican) The Federal council’s commission on church and country life has indorsed Dr Brunner’s volume.
+ =Ind= 91:345 S 1 ‘17 40w
“While the volume is meant for country churches, it has much of value for town and city parishes.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 8 ‘17 350w
“It is not a technical book, but it should be valuable to the architect, though it is written for the country minister, the country layman and the rural social worker. The sketches and plans by James Grunert are most suggestive. Particularly interesting is the section by Mrs Brunner upon the kitchen.” S.
+ =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 200w
=BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS.= Heart to heart appeals. il *$1 Revell 308 17-12620
“These selections from the Bryan speeches and writings are varied and all-embracing. The topics include Government, Imperialism, Equal suffrage, The liquor question, Peace, Ideals, Labor, Trusts, and many more.”—Boston Transcript
“As one glances through the pages of this book it is bound to embody merely the fond and lingering memories of a man whose talents and political efforts have largely spelled failure.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 450w
Reviewed by H. M. Kallen
=Dial= 63:445 N 3 ‘17 580w
“They afford many glimpses of history, with side-lights revealing a personality widely recognized as dominant and picturesque.”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 6w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 100w
=BRYANT, MRS LORINDA (MUNSON).= American pictures and their painters. il *$3 (4c) Lane 759.1 17-16076
This work “is designed to provide a working basis for the appreciation of American art. To accomplish this I have attempted especially to trace the careers of the leaders in their respective eras—artists who even now are modern old masters. ... Naturally it is too early as yet to judge the younger artists correctly, consequently only a limited number are here represented; those are included who indicate the trend of thought in art to-day.” (Introd.) Beginning with a chapter on West, Copley, Peale and Trumbull, the author traces American painting down to the present day, closing with a chapter on Ultra-modern art. The book is illustrated with over 200 reproductions of paintings.
=A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17
“The author has been responsible for a series of quite a half-dozen books embodying various phases of this subject, all of which have found readers. ... The work is broad and comprehensive, and the many illustrations are equally so, and add greatly to the interest of the work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 420w
“The author’s appreciations are characterized by both fairness and interest. The 230 illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w
“The illustrations afford only a fair idea of the pictures, for it must be confest that they are somewhat flat and leave much to the imagination.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 300w
+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 40w
“The text is delightfully written, with just enough chattiness to lift it out of the ruts of guide-books. One welcomes the chapter on ultra-modern art, inasmuch as upon the spirit of unrest manifest in it largely depends our artistic progress.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 100w
“One studies the volume rather hopelessly in the search of the key to the sequence of names. The pictures are so good that they might stand as the raison d’etre of the volume with the letterpress added as commentary.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ‘17 350w
=BRYCE, MRS CHARLES.= Long spoon. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-23341
The title of this book is taken from the old proverb, “He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.” The scene is laid in Wales. The heroine, Thirza, has married Sir Hugo Averill as a means of support, only to discover that he is a brute with a partially unbalanced brain. Two men fall in love with Lady Averill: George Blount, who has rented Sir Hugo’s fishing, and Oswald Gerrard, Sir Hugo’s land agent. The story goes on to tell how Lady Averill resorts to necromancy to solve her difficulties, and what comes of it all in the end.
“Terse and full of action and sustained interest. ... To introduce necromancy in a novel is daring and difficult, for if the subject is not treated with great tact it so easily distorts and cheapens. Mrs Bryce has done her work cleverly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 160w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.= Some historical reflections on war, past and present. *1s Oxford 172.4
These essays are portions of two presidential addresses delivered to the British academy, June, 1915 and July, 1916. “Among the topics considered are the vast range and extent of the war, its immense influence upon neutral nations, the changes in the methods of war, the cost, the moral issues raised, the effect in each nation upon the whole body of the people, ... the shock given to the rules of international law, the chief causes of war in the past, the question whether international machinery can be contrived ‘calculated to reduce the strength of the forces that make for war and to strengthen those that make for peace.’ He indicates some of the difficulties to be surmounted, but believes that there is much to be hoped from the creation of ... an international mind, and of an international public opinion.” (Ath)
=Ath= p33 Ja ‘17 280w
“Lord Bryce’s two presidential addresses are deliberately written in a spirit of detachment. ... The second address contains some acute criticisms upon plans for a federation, or league of nations.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:538 Jl ‘17 110w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.= Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman empire, 1915-1916; documents presented to Viscount Grey. *$1 Putnam 956 17-2893
“The collection is made from a great variety of reliable sources including American consuls and missionaries, German travelers and missionaries, Danish Red cross workers, Swiss visitors, native teachers, pastors and other religious leaders. It is a terrible mass of conclusive evidence pointing to the perpetration of the foulest crime ever committed against a defenseless people.”—Ind
=A L A Bkl= 13:393 Je ‘17
=Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 200w
“If the reader is sickened by the dreadful reiteration of horrors, of torture and murder and mutilation, of outrage and burning, of the sufferings of starving women forced to march on under a blazing sun when the pains of labour were on them, let him not fail to read Mr Toynbee’s admirable historical retrospect of Armenia and his review of the antecedents and procedure of the deportation policy.”
=Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 2100w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount, and others.= Proposals for the prevention of future wars. *1s Allen & Unwin, London 341.1 (Eng ed 17-22062)
“This is a draft scheme for an international alliance to keep the peace. It differs from the League of nations society’s programme in not asking the Allies to enforce an arbitrator’s award, and from the programme of the American League to enforce peace in requiring the Allies to deal with aggression by a non-Ally as well as by one of their number.”—Spec
=Ath= p303 Je ‘17 90w
=Int J Ethics= 28:288 Ja ‘18 110w
=Spec= 118:705 Je 23 ‘17 60w
“The proposals are reasonably modest and admittedly deal only with a part of the problem. They are concerned only with international disputes and with the means of preventing international wars. ... They are sound enough so far as they go, but the motor will not move without its petrol; and it is the spirit which is difficult to obtain.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p313 Jl 5 ‘17 2300w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount, and others.= War of democracy. *$2 (2c) Doubleday 940.91 17-8205
A collection of papers on the war from the standpoint of the Allies. Lord Bryce in his introduction says: “The present war differs from all that have gone before it not only in its vast scale and in the volume of misery it has brought upon the world, but also in the fact that it is a war of principles, and a war in which the permanent interests, not merely of the belligerent powers but of all nations, are involved as such interests were never involved before. ... This war of principles is a war not only for the vindication of international right, for the faith of treaties, for the protection of the innocent, but also for liberty.” Among those who contribute to the book are: Lord Haldane, Gilbert Murray, Arthur J. Balfour, G. M. Trevelyan, Viscount Grey of Falloden (Sir Edward Grey), and M. Maurice Barrès.
“Mr Balfour’s discussion of naval questions comes no nearer to our time than the summer of 1915, and this fact suggests the most obvious comment upon this whole volume. It is not keyed to the present moment. It meets no present vital need. The volume entitled ‘The war and democracy,’ which Messrs Seton-Watson, Wilson, Zimmern, and Greenwood published in 1915, is incomparably superior to this one.” C. H. Levermore
– + =Am Hist R= 23:170 O ‘17 470w
“A notable collection of articles, addresses, interviews, and documents.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17
“Mr Fisher’s discussion of the value of small states is an historical analysis of permanent importance. ... The temper of the book is admirable in its moderation and its calm common sense. It is greatly to be hoped that this collection is only the first of a series which will winnow from the immense mass of pamphlets some, at any rate, of those which have more than a momentary importance.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 62:473 My 31 ‘17 170w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w
“‘The war of democracy’ was written for American consumption and was put together with the avowed purpose of influencing American opinion. As America made up its mind definitively at the very hour of the book’s publication, many of the articles, addresses, and interviews so carefully selected by the editor are rather belated. A few of the articles, however, are of permanent value.”
+ — =Nation= 105:227 Ag 30 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
“Perhaps the article which most needs to be read by Americans is the one on ‘Economic Germany,’ in which Henri Hauser discusses German industry as a factor making for war. For he lays bare developments, conditions, purposes that are as much a menace to the harmony and well-being of the world as is Prussian militarism.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:45 F 11 ‘17 650w
“Includes some of the great speeches of the war period.”
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:114 My ‘17 30w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:427 My ‘17 60w
+ =Pratt= p43 O ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:106 Ap ‘17
=BUBNOFF, I. V.= Co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance, and character. il $1.25 M. Fainberg, 309 Broadway, N.Y. (Co-operative printing society, Manchester, England) 334 17-30589
The author shows that cooperation has gained a firm footing among the Russian peasantry, and that the European war has given a prodigious stimulus to the movement. He begins with a sketch of agriculture from the abolition of serfdom in 1861, and tells of the help furnished the peasants by the zemstvos and by agricultural societies, whose work is mainly instructional while economic functions are discharged by the artels for production, consumers’ societies for distribution, and credit banks for finance. Consumers’ societies, we are told, between 1905 and 1917 have multiplied from 1,000 to 20,000 and credit and loan associations from 1,434 to 16,057.
“The book evidently contains authentic matter prepared by one thoroughly familiar with the subject at first hand.” Herman Kobbe
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 180w
=Spec= 118:64 Jl 21 ‘17 70w
“Mr Bubnoff says nothing about the political or industrial side, but his account of the cooperative movement reveals so much capacity for organization, self-help, and practical action among the peasantry and industrial classes of Russia that current events become much more intelligible in the light of it. ... His book is a compact statement of facts with sufficient explanatory comment to make clear the character of cooperation in Russia and its various ramifications. It is a valuable addition to the library of cooperative literature.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 Je 21 ‘17 950w
=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran (1s Nelson, London) 940.91 17-14221
The main purpose of the allied forces at the Somme, says the author, was “to exercise a steady and continued pressure on a certain section of the enemy’s front.” Subsidiary aims were to ease the pressure on Verdun and to prevent the transference of large bodies of German troops from the western to the eastern front. He gives a somewhat detailed account of the entire campaign, dividing it into four stages. The book is illustrated and well supplied with maps.
“Contains two appendixes: 1, Sir Douglas Haig’s second dispatch; 2, General Sixt von Armin’s report.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17
“A most lucid and instructive account with not a few fine touches; it is also marked by the admirable balance that places Mr Buchan above most war historians and chroniclers of these days.”
+ =Ath= p600 D ‘16 33w
“Mr Buchan’s book is a recital of the field moves of an army all told in a calm, clear way and without passion. Then at intervals it gathers up its momentum of dispassion, its inertia of facts, and in some supreme and succinct statement of fact carries the reader to a conclusion that creates emotion. It is his reticence that gives one additional confidence in the sequence of his facts.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 550w
“His style is simple narrative with the accent of true English restraint.”
+ =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 220w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 90w
“Written with the fervour and simple straight patriotism we expect from Mr Buchan. ... Here is the right blend of emotion and of sturdy common sense.”
+ + =Sat R= 122:556 D 9 ‘16 100w
“Its main concern is to give a semitechnical account, which he succeeds admirably in doing, thanks in great measure to the ample number of maps with which the book is supplied, and which appear at sufficiently frequent intervals to make the text entirely comprehensible. ... Mr Buchan’s qualifications for his task are attested by his recent appointment as director of publicity in Great Britain.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 450w
“This is a timely narrative, very well illustrated.”
+ + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p562 N 23 ‘16 20w
=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Greenmantle. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-20424
Richard Hannay, hero of the author’s first novel, “The thirty-nine steps,” is made the central figure in this war story. Hannay, who has been made a major in England’s new army, is summoned to the foreign office and entrusted with an important mission. He is to investigate the sources of a “jehad” (holy war) said to be organizing in the East. With three companions he gets into Germany, and out again. He then goes to Constantinople, and there finds what he is seeking, the woman who is the chief agent in fomenting rebellion in India.
“An absorbing adventure story, not a series of ‘movie’ thrills but clean cut, sustained excitement.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:314 Ap ‘17
“Mr Buchan has given us another novel, not only of vivid interest, but one which visualizes certain phases of the world war as only a book of its kind can.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 F 24 ‘17 300w
“Although (or perhaps because) it is not a realistic war story, the book is a great favorite with convalescent readers at the base hospitals, and the fact that the author wrote it while in active service accounts for the vividness of some of its details.”
+ =Cleveland= p63 My ‘17 90w
“There is no instruction in the book. ... You will just be thrilled—as Cooper thrilled you with his Mohicans and Dumas with his Musketeers. You will arise refreshed from the contemplation of great exploits greatly performed. And next day’s business will seem the brighter because for one short evening you have held commune with the impossible.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 11:60 My 12 ‘17 950w
“A story full of spirit and swing and high heroism. It is very much better than either of its author’s two previous novels, successful and interesting as were both those books.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 450w
“This is the longest of the sensational romances that Mr Buchan has given us since the outbreak of the war. It is also the most exciting and in our opinion the best.”
+ =Spec= 117:555 N 4 ‘16 850w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p512 O 26 ‘16 500w
=BUCHAN, JOHN.=[2] Nelson’s history of the war; with preface by the Earl of Rosebery. v 14-17 maps ea *60c Nelson 940.91 (War15-86)
Volumes 1 to 13 were published in 1916. In volume 14 Mr Buchan “begins with General Townshend’s surrender, writes of the war in the Levant, of the Russian front, of the battle of Jutland, of Italy’s part, and ends on the second battle of Verdun.” (N Y Times) Volume 15 deals with Brussilov’s offensive and the intervention of Rumania. “The sixteenth volume is devoted entirely to the battle of the Somme. That great achievement is described in five chapters, the first of which is concerned with preliminaries. The appendixes contain Sir Douglas Haig’s second dispatch, and General Sixt von Armin’s report describing experiences of the 4th German corps during July, 1916.” (Ath) “The two main episodes of the seventeenth instalment are the brilliant opening and the disastrous sequel of Roumania’s campaign, and the heroic advance of the French at Verdun.” (Ath)
“Mr Buchan’s account of the great sea-fight is a masterpiece of clear and sober narrative.”
+ =Ath= p551 N ‘16 200w (Review of v 14)
+ =Ath= p316 Je ‘17 70w (Review of v 16)
“Lieut.-Col. Buchan continues, with the same mastery of detail and incisive style, to convert yesterday’s news into intelligible history. It would facilitate reference if the year, as well as the month and day, of the event recorded were printed oftener in the margin.”
+ — =Ath= p531 O ‘17 180w (Review of v 17)
“He handles the intricacies of the Balkans with the same quiet clearness that marks his treatment of the attacks on Verdun.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 90w (Review of v 14)
“The most striking portion of the work is the lucid account of the battle of Jutland, which is described with an exemplary grasp of essentials. There are several diagrams.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 23 ‘17 (Review of v 14)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p419 Ag 30 ‘17 100w (Review of v 17)
=BUCHAN, JOHN.= Salute to adventurers. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-26974
Altho the story opens in Scotland, its scene changes shortly to Virginia. Young Andrew Garvald goes out to the colonies to engage in trade. His business takes him far away from Jamestown and the tidewater, back into the interior of the country, where he learns more of true conditions than the governor or the young gallants of his train will believe. The sudden outbreak of the Indians does not come to him without warning, and because of this he is able to rescue Elspeth Blair and win the reward of which he had dreamed ever since his first meeting with the girl in Scotland years before.
“Good of its type, but not as good as ‘Greenmantle.’”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18
“It is a colorful tale, this, with plenty of action and ingenuity and interest, but it does not rank for a moment with ‘Greenmantle,’ either in its characters, its setting, or its plot.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 550w
“With its strong Scotch flavor and its tang of hazardous events, the book smacks strongly of Stevenson. ... Unfortunately, Mr Buchan is open to the criticism of which most prolific writers are deserving. His historical facts and background are not accurate. ... But, after all, the story’s the thing, and inaccuracies of this sort are unimportant in so gripping and adventurous a yarn.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 600w
=BUCHANAN, FLORENCE.= Home crafts of today and yesterday. (Harper’s home economics) il *$1 (2½c) Harper 640 17-16903
The author is instructor in handwork in the School of household science and arts, Pratt institute, Brooklyn. “The woman who longs to try something new but feels a bit vague about beginning will find [here] the what, the where, and the how for a variety of crafts. Emphasis is placed on the start rather than on detailing the technical processes, but enough of the latter is always given along with explanatory diagrams to guide a beginner through the piece of work.” (Preface) Linen, chair-caning, basket-planning, dyeing materials for and making rugs, weaving, painting and batik dyeing are among the subjects considered.
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“Practical book for the home keeper who wishes suggestions for many kinds of handiwork.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 30w
=N Y Times= 22:521 D 2 ‘17 50w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:365 O ‘17 10w
=BUCHANAN, JOHN YOUNG.= Comptes rendus of observation and reasoning. il *$2.25 Putnam 504 (Eng ed 17-18064)
A collection of scientific papers. The author says, “As the title of this volume indicates, the book consists of ‘accounts rendered’ of work done at different times, in different places and on different subjects.” Among the subjects with dates of first publication are: Recent Antarctic exploration (1906); On ice and brines (1887); On steam and brines (1899); The size of the ice-grains in glaciers (1901); Ice and its natural history (1909); On the use of the globe in the study of crystallography (1895); Solar radiation (1901). Some of these are republished from the Proceedings of the Royal society, others from magazines and newspapers.
“Mr Buchanan is a believer in original research in the full significance of the words, including originality in methods and point of view, as well as in the subject dealt with. Unlike his former volume of collected oceanographical papers, this collection consists of a selection on many subjects, scientific and popular, several reproduced from the pages of Nature. ... The memoirs themselves form solid and informing reading for students; but they are rendered entertaining by the extraordinarily copious analytical table of contents, which occupies thirty pages.” H. R. M.
+ =Nature= 99:142 Ap 19 ‘17 800w
“A prospective reader who opens this book at the beginning will find a rather dull account of Antarctic exploration as it stood in 1905, with a reprint of chemical and physical notes for the use of explorers, which, however important for their particular purpose, are likely to bore the layman. If he then turns impatiently to the end, he will find some elementary remarks on such fundamental topics as the ‘power of Great Britain’ or the ‘House of commons,’ and he may then lay the book aside. But if he has the good luck to open it in the middle, he will probably turn over a good many pages with pleasure and profit; for Mr Buchanan has some interesting and important things to say on a fascinating topic, which makes it the more aggravating that they are presented in so unnecessarily unattractive a guise.”
+ — =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p173 Ap 12 ‘17 900w
=BUCK, ALBERT HENRY.= Growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800. il *$5 Yale univ. press 610.9 17-5568
“As Dr Buck has chronicled them, there are nine periods in the history of medicine. They are: Primitive medicine to be reckoned by thousands of years; the medicine of the East by which we possess only a fragmentary knowledge; the medicine of the classical period of antiquity; that of the Hippocratic writings which in Greece was the most flourishing period; the period during which the greatest intellectual activity was at Alexandria, Egypt; the medicine of Galen whose searching profoundly influenced the thought and practice of one whole civilized world of medicine up to our seventeenth century; the medicine of the middle ages; the medicine of the renaissance which brought adoption of dissection, the only effective method of studying anatomy; and modern medicine, in two periods, the first to about 1775. The second Dr Buck does not attempt to cover.” (Boston Transcript) “The author is consulting aural surgeon of the New York eye and ear infirmary.” (St Louis)
“Especially interesting are the chapters on Oriental medicine, The Arab renaissance, and The advance of surgery during medieval times.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17 (Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association 68:1650 Je ‘17)
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 1500w
“The book is not intended for the student of medical history, but for the physician who wishes to become acquainted with the essential phases of that earlier medicine upon which his own theory and practice had been built.”
+ =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:72 My ‘17
“Not overburdened with detail, but presents the important facts in an attractive manner.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:817 D ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:142 My ‘17 10w
“Throughout the volume the reader is impressed by the clearness of Prof. Buck’s expression and by the overwhelming mass of facts that have been interestingly assembled.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 1550w
“An interesting and thought-provoking volume is this, when the material might easily have been treated as technical and specialized. The history has a social message and this not for the doctor only, but for every one who watches with interest all progress of matters medical.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 450w
“Dr Buck claims nothing which is not his own, and credit to authorities is honestly and fairly rendered, wherever due, without the encumbrance of footnotes. The book is printed in beautiful style.” F. H. Garrison
+ =Yale R= n s 7:205 O ‘17 1050w
=BUCKROSE, J. E., pseud. (MRS ANNIE EDITH [FOSTER] JAMESON=). Matchmakers. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-21706
Peggy, daughter of the rector of Little Pendleton, is the heroine of this story of English village life. Little Pendleton doesn’t always approve of Peggy, but it has her best interests at heart and wants above all to see her make a good match. All the village stands back of the squire in his wooing, but Peggy takes the matter into her own hands, and altho the village is flouted in its aims it isn’t crestfallen. It turns squarely about and takes credit to itself for the success of Peggy’s marriage with young Charley Tremaine. Peggy’s father, the impractical rector, is made a very lovable figure, and the whole story is told with quiet humor.
=A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17
+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 60w
“Our greatest quarrel with the story lies in the arbitrary way in which the author has surmounted her difficulties in the end. It quite offends our sense of good story telling that with a good situation, instead of finding a way out of it, she should so arbitrarily go around it.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 300w
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 250w
“A genial, placid portrayal of village life which never excites, but equally never bores and never offends.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p466 S 28 ‘16 70w
=BULLARD, ARTHUR.= Mobilising America. *50c (2½c) Macmillan 355.7 17-10363
The author, having spent much time in France and England during the war, had begun to collect data for a book on “How democracies mobilise.” Some of the main points on the subject are summarised in this small book. He says, “I am not considering the ethics of war, nor the advisability of our participation in the present struggle. I accept the fact that we have decided to fight and I try to show how the experiences of other democracies can teach us the way to do it efficiently.” (Preface) Contents: America goes to war; Democracies as fighting machines; The mobilisation of public opinion; The mobilisation of industry; The mobilisation of men; A programme.
“His book has the endorsement of a long list of prominent editors and authors, and of the conference committee of national preparedness.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:427 Jl ‘17
“This is a tiny volume, but it is worth the intelligent perusal of every American citizen. It is sane, thoughtful and constructive. It would be of particular value in any course in government given at our American colleges.” D. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 370w
+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 50w
+ =Ind= 90:185 Ap 21 ‘17 30w
“One can only hope that the sanity and helpfulness of Mr Bullard’s fertile suggestions will not be lost in the maze of Washington officialdom.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:166 Je 9 ‘17 950w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 830w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 10 ‘17 500w
“Offers many of the practical suggestions which have since come from the visiting French and English commissions as how best to mobilize and conduct the war.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 50w
=BULLITT, MRS ERNESTA DRINKER.= Uncensored diary; from the central empires. *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-10878
A diary written, the author says, for her great grandchildren, not for publication. She was in Germany with her husband, a newspaper correspondent, in the summer of 1916. A short trip to Belgium and one into Austria-Hungary are recorded in the diary, but it is concerned for the most part with her experiences in Germany. It forms one of the very small number of books which tell us anything of what is going on within the German empire. Informal interviews and conversations with important officials, among them Von Bissing and Zimmermann, are reported, but of no less interest are the accounts of what German women are doing. The book also throws some light on the methods by which Germany is attempting to conserve her child life during war.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 680w
+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 70w
“The book is markedly good on two counts: It is written with freshness, with cleverness and wholesomeness and real personal charm; and it has things of actual interest and importance to say.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 350w
=Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w
=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 80w
=BULLOCK, EDNA DEAN=, comp. Selected articles on single tax; 2d ed., rev. and enl. by Julia E. Johnsen. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 18-397
“Since the first publication of the Single tax handbook a fairly large bibliography on the subject has become available, references to which are included in this revised edition. The handbook is brought down to date by the inclusion of late reprints in the concluding pages, and by a revision and enlargement of the bibliography and brief.” (Explanatory note) The first edition, compiled by Edna D. Bullock, was published in 1914. The second edition has been prepared by Julia E. Johnsen.
=BÜLOW, BERNHARD HEINRICH MARTIN KARL, fürst von.= Imperial Germany; tr. by Marie A. Lewenz. new and rev ed il *$2 (2c) Dodd 943 (17-5549)
This book was first published in Germany as a section in an important general work compiled to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor William II. A revised edition was separately published in Germany in 1916. The first edition in English was reviewed in the Digest for 1914. “More than one-half of the letterpress of the original volume has been re-written, ... and the new passages are indicated by brackets. The introduction by Prince Bülow is entirely new, and so are the two chapters on Militarism and the chapter on the Social Democrats, and the latter part of the Conclusion.” (Publishers’ note) An illuminating foreword of twenty-eight pages is by J. W. Headlam, who speaks of the book as “largely a defence and apology of von Bülow’s own action during the years he had held office (1897-1909), and an exposition of the principles by which he had been guided.”
“One dollar cheaper than the first edition (Booklist 10:384 Je ‘14).”
=A L A Bkl= 13:456 Jl ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 700w
“It is admirably translated. ... Written as it is by one who, with the single exception of the German emperor, is more responsible than any other man for the present catastrophe, it is little less than a public duty for everyone who wishes adequately to understand the present situation to read it. ... Prince Bülow’s whole conception of international relations is based upon the terrible chimera of the balance of power, and he obviously considers concerted European action of any kind a fantastic dream. ... Such was the attitude of Prince Bülow in 1913. The tragedy of this new edition is the fact that not even the terrible experience of the last three years has led him to modify a single conclusion.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 63:16 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
=New Repub= 12:83 Ag 18 ‘17 160w
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 200w
=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Poems of H. C. Bunner. new ed il *$2 Scribner 811 17-24881
H. C. Bunner, former editor of Puck, died in 1896. Lately there has arisen a steady demand for his writings, which resulted in the publication, about a year ago, of a new edition of his stories, now followed by his collected poems. “In the present volume are included the contents of the two books of verse he published during his lifetime, ‘Airs from Arcady’ in 1884, and ‘Rowen’ in 1892, and also a selection from the ‘Ballads of the town’ (which he had been contributing to Puck for half-a-dozen years), together with a few of his later lyrics and the ... lines read before the Army of the Potomac at New London in 1895.” (Introd.)
“‘It is perhaps as a poet,’ writes Brander Matthews in his introduction to this edition, ‘that the author of “Airs from Arcady” is likely longest to be remembered; it is as a poet that he would have chosen to be cherished in men’s memories.’ And his verse met with the same good fortune that befell his fiction; it pleased both the critical and the uncritical. ... Bunner’s name stands for the light, delicate and whimsical. His work in prose and verse is alike beloved for its charm. ... Among the more serious poems is one, ‘Bismarck soliloquizes,’ which is a most fitting expression of men’s thoughts today; indeed, nothing more vigorous and condemning has been written by any contemporary poet on the iniquitous system of German autocracy than this poem of Bunner’s—written a quarter of a century ago.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 1450w
“Great metrical accomplishment is in these poems. There is such variety in the themes as would be expected of the poet who is also a journalist. Invention often flies on humor’s wing. ... It is a happy sign that the present hour is willing to turn back for inspiration and fine and perfect examples of the lighter lyrical art to the day before yesterday.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 650w
=BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER.= Stories. 2v il ea *$1.35 (2c) Scribner
v 1 17-13500 v 2 A17-392
Two volumes of the stories of H. C. Bunner were published last year. The addition of two more volumes makes complete a collection of his stories in four books of uniform make-up. The first of the new volumes contains “Short sixes” and The suburban sage; the second, More “Short sixes” and The runaway Browns.
“Good paper and binding, and wide margins.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:361 My ‘17
+ =Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 330w
“All these gently satirical tales and the purely humorous ones are more worth while, incidentally, as mirrors of the past, but first and foremost as good short stories.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:584 F 17 ‘17 500w
=BURBANK, EMILY.= Woman as decoration. il *$2.50 (6½c) Dodd 391 17-29164
A book on costume, illustrated with thirty-three plates. The foreword says that the book is intended as a sequel to “The art of interior decoration,” by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank. “Having assisted in setting the stage for woman, the next logical step is the consideration of woman herself, as an important factor in the decorative scheme of any setting,—the vital spark to animate all interior decoration, private or public. ... Contemporary woman’s costume is considered, not as fashion, but as decorative line and colour.” (Foreword) The book has been planned also to meet the demand for a handbook on costuming for fancy dress balls, etc. The scope of the illustrations ranges from studies of Greek vases to portraits of Mrs Vernon Castle.
“It expounds no philosophy of clothes—it is technical rather than philosophic—and it has no claim to being regarded as ‘literature’; and yet one feels that it should be recommended. It teaches the art of using an old weapon in a new cause.”
+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 190w
=Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 90w
=BURGESS, GELETT.= Mrs Hope’s husband. il *$1 (4c) Century 17-23049
When Mrs Hope became a well-known novelist and was sought out by many clever people, her husband, an able lawyer, ceased to interest her. He regained her love and his own self-respect by courting her a second time, through letters, under an assumed name. The story is being dramatized by a well-known playwright.
=A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
“A delightfully humorous comedy of manners and character.”
+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 100w
“High-class comedy, graceful, skillful, entertaining, and always clever. Its skillfulness is especially manifest in the artful legerdemain with which the author probes into the deeps of the human soul without seeming to be doing more than skimming over its surface.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 550w
“Mr Burgess’s humor and satire are delightfully keen; but apart from this he tells a dramatic little tale that provokes a lively sympathy and interest throughout.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 250w
=BURKE, EDWARD.= My wife. *$1.50 Dutton 17-23980
This book is the “autobiography of a middle-aged man. Although outsiders show a full appreciation of his wife’s looks and good qualities, he imagines that he cherishes a romantic passion for a flame of his boyhood, till the lady in question reappears on the scene after twenty years, and he finds himself disillusioned concerning her.”—Ath
“Clever and amusing.”
+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 80w
“Mr Burke’s feeling for character is almost, if not wholly, as noteworthy as is his quality of humor in the handling of it.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1200w
=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w
“Mr Burke has turned out a humorous little story that makes excellent reading. Despite its war atmosphere, it is done in the spirit that ‘while the big things crash around us, the lives of those of us who are out of it go on much the same.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 250w
=BURKE, THOMAS.= Limehouse nights. *$1.50 (3c) McBride 17-22292
“Limehouse, that district down by the West and East India docks, is not a pleasant part of London, and there is nothing pleasant about any one of the fourteen stories in this volume, each of which has its scene laid in that region. Most of them are grim tales, tales of cruelty, bestiality, horror, and fear.” (N Y Times) Contents: The Chink and the child; The father of Yoto; Gracie Goodnight; The paw; The cue; Beryl, the Croucher and the rest of England; The sign of the lamp; Tai Fu and Pansy Greers; The bird; Gina of the Chinatown; The knight-errant; The gorilla and the girl; Ding-Dong-Dell; Old Joe.
“One of the most frankly and brutally realistic books that has appeared in our tongue in a long time. ... But such a description does not convey the whole truth. The fact is that Burke has cast a glamour over his pages that prevents his stories from being merely studies in the sordid and the morbid. He has seen things with sharp vision and he has etched them just as clearly. But somehow also he makes you feel that he has viewed life with pity and tenderness and loving comprehension.” Milton Bronner
+ =Bookm= 46:15 S ‘17 1750w
“Not pour les jeunes, these heart-rending stories of London’s Chinatown; but for the stalwart reader they are full of cleansing and noble pity and terror. ... Amid erotomaniacs, satyrs and sadists—and if the full meaning of those ghastly terms escapes you, be thankful—he seizes scraps of splendid courage, beauty and pathos. The poor little gifts of those eastern pavements are the undying memory of his book. ... If you dare to face the human heart as it really is, do not miss ‘Limehouse nights.’” C. D. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Burke’s passing repute comes from the tales of terror which the libraries were compelled to bar from their shelves; but to those who have some respect for the English tongue and for whom Walter Pater has not lived in vain, Mr Burke will always possess an attraction because he has written well his slight sketches of London life. ... These ‘Limehouse nights’ appeared in three of the most interesting periodicals of England: the English Review, Colour, and the New Witness.” G. V. Seldes
* + =Dial= 63:65 Jl 19 ‘17 2500w
“He has made a new sensation in war-time England, avid of spicy diversions. Mr Bennett has praised his book, Mr Wells has lauded its ‘romantic force and beauty.’ ... There is no fresh note of inspiration here; at best, there is a fresh trick.”
– + =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 280w
“The stories are well told, and have their full share of that curious fascination which so often goes hand in hand with horror. And here and there comes a touch of beauty, a glimpse of real love, like a flower growing from a cranny in the rocks. ... ‘The paw’ [is] an intensely painful tale of a tortured child—almost too painful to read. ... Perhaps the best of all the tales in the volume, however, is ‘The bird,’ a powerful imaginative story, as grim and as brutal and as hideous as its fellows, but with a certain artistic quality which lifts it above them.”
=N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 500w
“Taken as a whole, it is one of the books that would better not have been written.”
– + =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 60w
“The material was so unique that we quarrel with Mr Burke’s misuse of it. In place of the steady, equalized light which he should have thrown on that pestiferous spot off the West India Dock-road, he has been content for the most part with flashes of limelight and fireworks. ... ‘The paw’ is not a story, but a piece of brutal, horrifying, useless writing.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 S 28 ‘16 750w
=BURLEIGH, LOUISE.= Community theatre in theory and practice. il *$1.50 (4½c) Little 792 17-25292
A valuable book for students of modern drama which breathes the spirit of the new democracy. The writer in her first chapter quotes a statement of J. R. Seeley’s, “Three ties by which states are held together are community of race, community of religion, and community of interest.” In the course of a thoughtful examination she shows that in America today we have no community of either race or religion. She concludes that “for a unifying force we must find a living expression of a great common ideal: we must depend upon a community of interest: we must find an institution in which great and small can find expression.” The eleven chapters that follow enlarge upon the fitness of the community theatre to perform the desired service and the practical success so far achieved. Mr Percy MacKaye contributes a prefatory letter.
=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17
“‘The community theatre’ treats the drama earnestly and endearingly, though somewhat scrappily, from the point of view of its social qualities and the emotional needs of the community.” Algernon Tassin
+ — =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 130w
=Pittsburgh= 22:806 D ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 130w
“Miss Burleigh has produced a rather dull work about an intrinsically keen subject. She fails to recognize the necessary spontaneity of the movement. But her earnestness and enthusiasm cannot fail to win the reader’s own sympathy.”
+ – =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 25 ‘17 1100w
=BURNET, JOHN.= Higher education and the war. *$1.50 Macmillan 378 (Eng ed 17-18365)
“In his ‘Higher education and the war’ Prof. John Burnet, now dean of the faculty of arts in the University of St Andrews, deals primarily with the conditions of education in Scotland, but his observations bear none the less on his own university, Oxford, and indeed on our American institutions, to which he makes frequent reference.” (Nation) “He states that most of his criticisms were published in 1913 and ‘are not, therefore, unduly influenced by the war.’ That they have been somewhat influenced thereby is thus admitted; this is the chief way the war comes in, for the work is mainly an appreciative account of the German system of higher education. As such it will be useful if only to show those people who are ignorant of the fact ... that this system is more completely based on the ‘humanities’ than that of any other country.” (Nature)
“The work of a master in small compass. Written with a delightful limpidity, in a spirit at once shrewd and idealistic, it is full of real knowledge and wise comment as to the working of higher education, not only in England and Scotland, but in Germany, in France, and in the United States.”
+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 1000w
“An important work for educators. ... The first chapter, on German kultur, should be interesting to many who are not concerned with higher education.”
+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w
“This is a most thorough, sane, and scientific piece of work. ... This is the best work on education we have seen for a long time.” P. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:289 Ja ‘18 100w
“Not the least valuable part of the treatise is the lucid description of the actual scheme of studies in the German higher schools and universities, and the impartial analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the system, with reference to the systems prevailing in Scotland and England. ... His arguments for the humanities, while neither narrow nor exaggerated, are extremely cogent.”
+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 240w
“Like most other humanists, Prof. Burnet holds that an education based upon the acquisition of knowledge which is of no value in after life is more useful than one based on knowledge which is of permanent value. ... Prof. Burnet’s contentions are not without such discrepancies as are inseparable from the pursuit of a weak line of argument.” E. A. Schäfer
– + =Nature= 99:361 Jl 5 ‘17 1500w
+ =Spec= 118:677 Je 16 ‘17 230w
“He shows a much more intimate knowledge of the details of the German system than do most writers. ... Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is to be found in the pages in which Professor Burnet shows that, however in appearance the Prussian gymnasium and other schools still continue on the old lines, the action of the Prussian state has really completely changed and warped the whole spirit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 2050w
=BURNETT, FRANCES (HODGSON) (MRS STEPHEN TOWNESEND).= White people. il *$1.20 (6c) Harper 17-5128
A little story that touches delicately on the supernatural and evidence of life after death. The heroine, who spends a lonely but happy childhood, in an old feudal castle in Scotland, has a gift of seeing things denied to others. She is grown up when she first learns that her “white people” are not visible to other eyes. To her, thru this power or gift, the dead are not dead, and because of this she is able to bring comfort to others. The story was published in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1916—January, 1917.
“Appeared in Harper’s Magazine.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“Mrs Burnett has not hitherto done anything with so sustained a note of simplicity and sincerity; moreover, she has here employed the brevity that is the test as well as the achievement of art. By this means she has accomplished that rare result, genuine pathos. The delicate, touching beauty of the one love scene, and of the closing chapter, is not paralleled in any of her former writings and is not surpassed by anything in recent fiction.”
+ =Cath World= 105:405 Je ‘17 250w
“Mrs Burnett’s transcendentalism will probably appeal more to ‘new thinkers’ and the like than to those whose fancies range less freely. In any case one may enjoy its consistent setting, in the purple Scotch Highlands, and the manner of the author’s narration.”
+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 140w
+ =Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 170w
“Mrs Burnett is always a sentimentalist, but in this instance develops a difficult theme with a fair measure of restraint.”
+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 200w
“A story, so simple, so natural, so humanly normal and sweet, that it must hold the reader by its sheer lovely closeness to the realities of ordinary life. Its background is exquisitely beautiful. Its theme is mystical. ... This challenge to the fear of death is a simple story of life.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 500w
+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 220w
=BURNS, CECIL DELISLE.= Greek ideals; a study of social life. *$2 Macmillan (*5s G. Bell & sons, London) 938
“This book is mainly an attempt at an analysis of some Athenian ideals in the fifth century B. C. It is a brief, but lucid survey of Greek social life; of the Athenian religion; of the great festivals, such as the Anthesteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia, and Eleusinia; of the political ideals of Athens; of Greek moral standards; and of the ideals of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.”—Ath
=Ath= p313 Je ‘17 80w
“The chapter on Athenian religion is an illuminating piece of analysis. ... Mr Burns succeeds in making Greece live again, and this because he is alive himself. ... He is at his best in his criticism of Greek political thought.”
+ + — =Ath= p397 Ag ‘17 2000w
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:293 Ja ‘18 130w
“To one who is fairly familiar with Greek literature, and has read Mahaffy on Greek life and Frazer on ancient religions, the first part of the book offers nothing new. It has, indeed, the defect of being rather too diffuse for scholars while demanding a little too much from the reader unversed in Greek. ... With the eighth chapter the discussion acquires a keener interest and a surer appeal; for here a certain psychological acumen with which the author is rather unusually gifted comes strongly into play. The analysis of the Athenian thinker of ‘the old school’ is both just and humorously acute. ... In the main an excellent description and a somewhat penetrating analysis of Greek moral ideas, the book is occasionally marred by a certain looseness of statement.”
+ — =No Am= 206:311 Ag ‘17 1250w
“A discussion of Greek ideals, designed primarily for ordinary readers. It presupposes some acquaintance with Greek history and literature, but not necessarily a knowledge of the language. ... Mr Burns gives a lame excuse for his silence about the supreme artistic instinct of the Greeks. ... It is also a pity that he had not more space to deal with their religious contribution to the world’s inheritance. ... Further, he shows little sympathy with or understanding of Christian ideals, and is ready calmly to beg the most colossal questions. ... Then there are definite errors. ... Passages suggest that Mr Burns is not primarily a scholar, but a student of politics and morals in other fields who has interested himself in Greece. But they should not blind us to the merits of his book. He has covered much ground in a small compass. He is thoroughly alive himself, and treats Greece like the living force which it is. Most of what he says is indisputably true.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1600w
=BURNS, ROBERT.= Sylvander and Clarinda; the love letters of Robert Burns and Agnes M’Lehose; ed. by Amelia J. Burr. il *$1.50 Doran 17-29797
A woman, shorn of illusions by a worthless husband, her brilliancy grown hard in the process, looks around for a lover “who will offer his passionate devotions at her shrine in the decent name of friendship which shall offend none of her benevolent friends. ... She wants a guest who will accommodate himself to the cramped quarters of her heart and warm them with Promethean fire.” Burns is the man she chooses and this volume brings together their letters extending over many years. The curious satisfaction which many readers find in the bared intimacies of literary folk shrivels before the larger privilege offered here of getting at Burns’s daily life, of seeing at work the quality of genius that gave the world some of its most human poetry.
“To read these letters is to be in the midst of a highly entertaining literary achievement as well as to be witness to a lively exhibition of the greatest of human passions. It is a deep and moving affair while it lasts, but little insight is necessary to discern its transitoriness. ... It must not be imagined that Cupid is their sole hero. In fact, they plunge more than once deeply into the labyrinths of philosophy and religion.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ‘17 1700w
=Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 40w
“The publishers deserve hearty thanks. The book is edited with care, knowledge, and sympathy, and furnished with an introduction that is an admirable biographical essay in itself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:448 N 4 ‘17 800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 500w
=BURR, AGNES RUSH.= Russell H. Conwell and his work; one man’s interpretation of life. auth ed il *$1.35 (1½c) Winston 17-5422
The subject of this biography is widely known as preacher, lecturer and teacher. His is one of those romantic, and essentially American stories of success won against odds. He began life on a rocky New England farm, worked his way thru college, served in the Civil war, prepared himself for the ministry and entered on a life of service that has brought a large measure of success. Dr Conwell’s famous lecture, “Acres of diamonds” is reprinted in an appendix.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 650w
“No other man in America, perhaps, has touched individually and helpfully so many lives as has Russell H. Conwell.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 170w
“The story will inspire many a seeker after education and opportunity, inspire many a servant of humanity and stir the flagging spirits of those who faint by the way. It is a mine of material for illustration, anecdote and quotation.” L. A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y Times= 22:533 D 2 ‘17 90w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 10w
“As he is a sort of national institution, by virtue of his ubiquity on the lecture platform, the general public will be glad to know that an authorized biography has appeared.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 520w
=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Fight for the future; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *1s Nisbet, London
“This is a collection of seven papers of diverse origin and for the most part spoken to audiences of various character. They do not, therefore, present a logical sequence of thought, and there are repetitions of ideas or phrases. But they have a unity of purpose, and it is rather helped than hindered by the emphasis of repetition. The purpose is partly to give some help towards understanding the religious significance of the war, and partly to urge the practical claims of a movement, influentially supported by the leaders of different religious bodies, called ‘The league of spiritual warfare.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham
+ =Sat R= 122:sup3 O 14 ‘16 600w
“An Oxford churchman and scholar has in such a crisis as the present a very definite task before him; and Mr Burroughs is one of those who have done most to show the world what that task is.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 23 ‘16 1000w
=BURROUGHS, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Valley of decision. *$1.60 Longmans 940.91 17-15980
“The Rev. E. A. Burroughs, a thoroughgoing British patriot, presents what he calls ‘a plea for wholeness in thought and life.’ The author says the British people have been convicted through the lessons of the war of fragmentary and haphazard living, and stand in need of a philosophy of life. This philosophy he sees in the religion the British ‘have long professed and never yet practiced.’ His view is that the war has not disturbed the claims of Christ on the world, but has illustrated and reinforced them; all that remains to be done, he argues, is to acknowledge these claims and act accordingly.” N Y Times
=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 100w
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“This is a man who has devoted the enthusiasm of a well-stored mind and an evangelistic spirit to the task of helping and keeping in touch with men and officers—especially undergraduate officers—during their great ordeal at the front. ... Mr Burroughs has a message based on independent observation, and this gives him an ample right to be heard.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 470w
=BURTON, RICHARD EUGENE.= Poems of earth’s meaning. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-18038
“A midsummer memory,” the elegy in memory of Arthur Upson, published by Edmund D. Brooks in 1910, is reprinted as the first number in this volume. It is perhaps Dr Burton’s most distinguished piece of work. Other poems, many reprinted from Harper’s Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Bellman, and other magazines complete the book. Among them are a number that justify the title given to the volume. Such are: The earth mother, Song of the open land, Spring fantasies, Aspects of autumn, etc.
“There is none of the pulsing unrest of the present in these poems, nor the disquieting struggle toward complete revelation which is found so often in the poetry of today. It brings us back quietly but unerringly to a realization of the strength and beauty of that which underlies the present and is the enduring link between the present and past and future. ... This collection of verse contains the best of Mr Burton’s poetic work during the last few years.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 1250w
=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 140w
“Professor Burton holds his old course thru his latest volume. He is untouched by recent fantasies of verse form, neither is there here any poem born of the war. Sincere work there is with no straining for emotional or linguistic effect.”
+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 60w
“There is no appeal for popularity in ‘Poems of earth’s meaning,’ and no high poetic gifts, but a richness of thought foreign to most modern verse.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 250w
=BURY, HERBERT.= Here and there in the war area. il *$1.40 (2c) Young ch. 940.91 17-18817
A collection of papers by the Bishop for North and Central Europe. The title is well chosen, as his duties have taken the author to many parts of the war zone. Contents: Our naval division in Holland; With the wounded; “Somewhere in France”; In the trenches and firing line; Has there been a spiritual revival? Prisoners of war; “Manfully”; How the permanent chaplains “carry on”; The way to Russia through Norway and Sweden; Russia’s two capitals; With the bishops, clergy, and people of Russia; “Our gallant Russian ally.”
“During his experiences as chaplain on and near the fighting lines in Holland and in France Bishop Bury found the good for which he sought. ... Without asserting it directly, the good bishop impresses the reader as believing that there has really been a great spiritual revival on the war front. ... On the German side, also, the spirit has been working, fostered by the German Student Christian federation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 220w
=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w
“He writes very pleasantly, and, if we may judge from this book, has carried everywhere a saving common-sense, unbounded energy, and a cheerful disposition.”
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 110w
“His general report on the treatment of prisoners on either side, which partakes of the spirit of optimism to which we have alluded, will repay study.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 N 9 ‘16 200w
=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Dominie Dean. il *$1.35 (2c) Revell 17-18164
“Ellis Parker Butler sympathetically recounts the large difficulties and small triumphs of Rev. David Dean in his lifelong service to a Presbyterian parish in a small Mississippi river town. It is the young minister’s first and only charge. ... Occasional dissensions within the church threaten his dismissal or enforced resignation, but he invariably triumphs in these contests. On one occasion he foregoes a call to a wider and more lucrative field in order to complete the self-imposed task of saving a young man addicted to drink. The story begins before the Civil war days, extends over several decades, and leaves the minister an old man, poor and neglected, but still possessing his childlike optimism and faith.”—Springf’d Republican
“Appeared in the Ladies Home Journal.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17
“There is more than a touch of Mark Twain in its composition, without the spark that vitalizes Twain’s narrative.”
+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 70w
+ =Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 500w
“We feel the power of ‘Our Davy’ at home and in the church, and we resent the neglect and the lack of appreciation which he received, but the characters and events which go to make up the story have no vividness; they are neither real nor logically convincing.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w
“Though Mr Butler’s people are by no means badly drawn, they are not sufficiently well drawn to carry a book of this type, a book which depends altogether upon characterization. Even David Dean himself, carefully as he has been studied, does not win as much as he should of the reader’s affection and sympathy.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 300w
“The author makes Dean a lovable, appealing personality, and effectively brings out the injustice of leaving pastors to want in their old age after a lifetime of unselfish service to their congregations. It is a well-told and very interesting story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 350w
=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= World in ferment. *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-21930
These seventeen “interpretations of the war for a new world” were delivered by the president of Columbia university between September 23, 1914 and June 6, 1917. They, therefore, follow the development of his thought during the years of the great war. In his introduction Dr Butler states: that this “is a war for a new international world and a war for a new intranational world. It is to be hoped that the new world will come to an understanding with itself about peace. ... Peace is not an ideal at all; it is a state attendant upon the achievement of an ideal. The ideal itself is human liberty, justice, and the honorable conduct of an orderly and humane society. Given this, a durable peace follows naturally as a matter of course.” Among the addresses are: Higher preparedness; Nationality and beyond; Is America drifting? The Russian revolution; The call to service; The international mind: how to develop it; A world in ferment. The book is indexed.
=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 30w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 430w
“He takes refuge in general statements, for the more general your statements the more noble they may be made to seem. His volume, therefore, is interesting not for any interpretation of our time so much as for its revelation of an anachronism—the florid oratorical mind still at work in the years 1914-17.”
— =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 210w
=Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w
“It is a tribute to President Butler’s essential statesmanship that these papers, delivered under such varying conditions, sustain as well as they do the test of reprinting. Few collections covering a like period contain so much that has proved true and wise, or, being still in the future, is still likely to justify the author.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 220w
“The president of Columbia has much skill in phrasing sententious platitudes, especially regarding the moral aspects of business or politics. We commend this volume of addresses to all who feel that they ought to take the world seriously, but who at the same time cannot bring themselves to think very deeply about it.”
— =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 570w
“President Butler seems enamored of this utopianism of language, by means of which the specific difficulties of a problem are resolved in an elaborate statement of the good effects which will inevitably flow from its perfect solution. In reading President Butler one aches for a specific, quantitative recommendation as one aches at a Debussy opera for a whole tone.”
— =New Repub= 12:251 S 29 ‘17 500w
“We have gone over these essays carefully, and, though we regret to return empty handed, we must sorrowfully admit that there does not seem to be anything very original or striking in any of them, though perhaps they may be regarded as good, sound, practical common sense, as that rather indefinable quantity is regarded today.” Joshua Wanhope
— =NY Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 460w
“His presentation and argument are very interesting. And his repeated warning to the American people that as they move forward in this new direction they must keep in mind their old ideals, is of the highest consequence. There are many suggestions and brief discussions of the means by which the movement of the nations toward closer and more harmonious co-operation can be encouraged and facilitated, so many, indeed, that this idea becomes, especially with reference to America’s part in that movement, the dominating note of the book.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:301 Ag 19 ‘17 800w
“Without any shrinking from grim facts and without any flamboyance of emotional or self-laudatory patriotism, the author makes one see a better future for the world as something real and tangible and within reasonable expectation, and he sets forth the part that this country is to play in helping on the coming of a new and better order, with a clearness and sanity that makes national duty seem near and feasible and attractive.”
+ =No Am= 206:799 N ‘17 320w
+ =Spec= 119:329 S 29 ‘17 760w
“In these days when history is being made and remade in so short spaces of time, a book such as this soon loses whatever initial starting-point it may have adopted, simply for the reason that the events with which it deals are soon left in the background, displaced by newer developments.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 190w
=BUTLER, SAMUEL.= Notebooks, new ed *$2 Dutton 824
The book “gives the tang of Butler’s personality, and presents in fairly compact form his comment upon man, morality, memory and design, mind and matter, pictures, books, music, cash, religion, travel, truth, translation, etc. ... He recorded his observations; he tried their effect in conversation; he rewrote them; he drew upon his store for his published books; he collected and indexed them. After his death, his friend Henry Festing Jones sorted and rearranged and expurgated them, and brought them out in 1912. Dutton republishes the volume with a brief appreciative introduction by Francis Hackett.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18
“It used to be a boyhood stunt to stand on your hands and see the world upside down. Butler knew the trick well and did a deal of walking on his hands through our world of conventions. His books are integrated visions of the world thus viewed—‘The way of all flesh,’ of marriage and the family; ‘Erewhon,’ of the daily life of the English-speaking world; ‘Life and habit’ and ‘Evolution, old and new,’ of Darwinism; ‘The fair haven,’ of Christianity. ... The ‘Note-books,’ is a museum of thoughts caught on the wing. ... To thinking men and women, providing they are not too old in spirit, Butler speaks with vital directness. Not that he formulates a philosophy or solves problems or teems with information. Exactly not that. One does not accumulate: one expands. One does not become a little Butler but a larger self.” M. C. Otto
+ =Dial= 63:106 Ag 16 ‘17 3100w
+ + — =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:746 N ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 230w
“Butler was the precursor of the critical and ironical reasoning to which religious and moral conceptions are subjected nowadays by writers of the type of Messrs Shaw and Wells. ... As an expression of personality, and pungent, individual thinking the ‘Notebooks’ continue to be worth reading, though the criticism of society, and in particular of the church, is much less effective than in ‘The way of all flesh.’”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 330w
=BYNE, ARTHUR, and STAPLEY, MILDRED.= Spanish architecture of the sixteenth century; general view of the Plateresque and Herrera styles. (Hispanic soc. of Am. Pub. no. 109) il *$7.50 (11c) Putnam 724 17-11801
Spanish renaissance or Plateresque architecture which forms the subject of this book is, the authors say, a distinct product from that “picturesque, semi-Moorish stucco architecture” of Andalusia which was introduced into Spanish America and which is now usually accepted as typically Spanish. The Plateresque style flourished chiefly in Castile and the purpose of this book is “to increase the appreciation of what was done in Castile, to point out its charm, and to give the student some idea of what awaits him in Spain.” The book is illustrated with eighty plates and one hundred and forty other pictures in the text.
“This book is stated to be the first to appear on renaissance architecture in Spain. The change from the Plateresque to a more frigid style under the chilling influence of Philip II is well described in chaps. 13 and 14, the latter including an interesting account and an impressive view of the vast and gloomy Escorial.”
+ =Ath= p360 Jl ‘17 150w
“The book is illustrated with eighty full-page plates and 140 text-illustrations and these, without the accompanying inscriptions, give an intimate notion of the richness of the churches, palaces, and houses of Spain. ... A good many Spanish terms are used but they are all explained and the book is filled with thrilling bits of history. It is a rare addition to the literature of architecture.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 370w
“The book must take an honored place in every architectural library with any pretense to completeness. Not only does the volume contain more than two hundred illustrations, but many of these are carefully measured drawings, the value of which, to an architect, is greater than any photograph, however good. The text is historical as regards the style, biographical as regards its most famous practitioners, and critical in the discussion of the more famous buildings.” Claude Bragdon
+ =Dial= 63:17 Je 28 ‘17 1200w
“The discussion is not at all popular, indeed it is almost severely technical. The unprofessional reader requires at hand a dictionary of architectural terms to gain an adequate comprehension of the volume. ... The publishers have given us a volume worthy of their reputation, substantially bound in buckram. To own it is a pleasure; to comprehend it, a full recompense for the effort expended.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 270w
“Their work is a welcome addition to the literature of architecture in a sadly neglected field. The architect who has Prentice’s invaluable folio volume of plates and this excellent history to go with it, possesses the material for acquiring an intelligent appreciation of a most interesting phase of the history of the renaissance in western Europe.”
+ =Nation= 105:70 Jl 19 ‘17 900w
“Its pages are refreshing in their clear revelation of personal contact with the country and race, and of the intimate connection between these and the architecture.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:390 O 7 ‘17 500w
“A rich find for students of architecture.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:218 Ag ‘17 130w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p295 Je 21 ‘17 1400w
=BYNNER, WITTER.= Grenstone poems; a sequence. *$1.35 Stokes 811 17-25234
“Many a glimpse in Mr Bynner’s poems localizes the habitation of Grenstone up under the shadow of Mt. Monadnock, but the name symbolizes more than a place in the poet’s singing; it is the deification of experience finding love, losing its earthly presence, and gaining above all the indestructible sustenance and faith of realities beyond the world. This is the golden thread upon which all these lyrics are hung.”—Boston Transcript
“His love and joy and grief and faith are expressed with much delicacy and spirituality.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17
“The mistake has been made that poets almost universally make, of putting in much that is ephemeral and irrelevant to the real soul of the book, thus obscuring that precious and intrinsic quality—personality. It is in an epigrammatic lyric, of a peculiar pith and pungency, and often informed with a whimsical humour, that Mr Bynner seems to me to be most wholly himself.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:440 D ‘17 930w
“There is the suggestion here of a new Dante and a new Beatrice, in the poet’s relation to Celia. ... Nearly two hundred lyrics, touching upon an infinite variety of moods and subjects, more subtle and simply wrought, more instinct with genuine flashes of lyric beauty, subjective in the best traditional manner of English verse, than any collection produced since the present revival of poetry came into being.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 780w
“Charming and delicate as the poems are, full of whim and fancy and loveliness, they are imbued above all with Bynner’s ordered passion for simplicity. It seems to me that he is sometimes almost mathematical in the development of his simplicity. He loves to strike poetic balances and make poetic classifications—almost to replace poetry by a lengthened epigram. My only wish is that he would content himself with being a very good and growing poet, instead of tending to preoccupy himself with a theory. His gift is sufficient, if he will permit it, to stand above theories.” Swinburne Hale
+ — =Dial= 64:23 Ja 3 ‘18 1450w
=Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 50w
“A volume overflowing with lyric beauty. Pure and strong passion, a keen sense of melody, epigrammatic deftness of phrase—these are among Mr Bynner’s gifts.”
+ =Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 360w
“One of the most effective things in the arrangement is the way it builds up to the final ‘Behold the man’:
Behold the man alive in me, Behold the man in you! If there is God—am I not he?— Shall I myself undo?
I have been awaiting long enough Impossible gods, goodby! I wait no more ... The way is rough— But the god who climbs is I.
This last line is humanity’s motto today; and its author is one of the leading interpreters of the climbing.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 530w
“Though he has failed in his main purpose, however, it is to be remarked that scattered here and there throughout the book are many charming lyrics quite in his usual satisfying manner. Of these, ‘Mercy,’ ‘An old elegy,’ and ‘The heart of gold’ are particularly fine.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 550w
“He has not, to be sure, the depth of background of Edwin Arlington Robinson and some others. But he now proves himself a genuine poet of beauty”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 400w
=BYRNE, LAWRENCE, pseud.= American ambassador. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-13818
The publishers say that the author of this novel is an American diplomatist who prefers to write under a pseudonym. The story is told in the first person by a young man who has just been engaged as private secretary to a newly appointed ambassador to one of the European courts. He begins his duties by falling promptly in love with the ambassador’s daughter. Kate Colborne, like her father, is wholesomely frank and American, but Mrs Colborne, her step-mother, is one of those Americans who crave social prestige and bow down before a title. An important cablegram from the State department at Washington is stolen from the ambassador’s desk. To save her father from possible ruin, Kate engages herself to Comte de Stanlau, the man who seems to hold his fate in his hands. The mystery of the lost cablegram is explained; the ambassador wins a triumph for himself and his country, and Kate’s affairs are settled happily for the young man who is telling the story. The background of the story is necessarily indefinite, as the European country concerned is not named.
=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
“There is a love story running through the book which increases the excitement of its episodes and helps round out the plot. It is well written, and the fine picture it presents of an American diplomat should come at an opportune moment.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 950w
=Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 70w
“‘You rarely see an American man who looks as if he had ancestors. We usually appear to have been made in a hurry.’ Thus Mr Lawrence Byrne sums up, unconsciously, the fault of his novel.”
— =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 80w
“Comes down to a Zenda story with realistic touches. ... The American ambassador is the plain, blunt hustler from ‘back home,’ who drags at each remove a lengthening chain of ignorances and complacencies.”
=Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 150w
“We venture to assert that the writer who signs himself ‘Lawrence Byrne’ is personally familiar with the ways of embassies. ‘The American ambassador’ is written with a seemingly unconsidered mastery of small detail that gives the book background, charmingly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 480w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 350w
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=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.= Cream of the jest; a comedy of evasions. *$1.35 (3c) McBride 17-24970
Mr Cabell’s story will provide a new sensation for the satiated novel reader. The reader, however, must not be the matter-of-fact sort who has lost faith in human dreams. The pendulum of the story swings leisurely between the two existences of Felix Kennaston. In one, as Kennaston, with two motors and money in four banks, he lives a life that “his body is shuffling thru aimlessly.” While in this atmosphere of action and the commonplace, he bores himself and others, including a rather worldly minded, otherwise estimable wife. But as Horvendile, the hero of his own book, the dreamer, “he lives among such gallant circumstances as he had always hoped his real life might provide to-morrow.” As a part of his mental diversions, he abandons himself to “delicious and perilous frolics” with Etarre, the heroine of his book, who symbolizes the ageless, deathless ideal of woman. The delicacy of touch and the classic atmosphere of the dream episodes give charm and distinction to the tale.
“People who have a great respect for gas and none at all for moonshine, for whom half-shades are non-existent and dreams mere nonsense, will do well to pass it by.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 400w
“Both for its originality and literary value the book is notable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 380w
=CABLE, BOYD, pseud.= Grapes of wrath. il *$1.50 (3c) Dutton 17-13446
Altho Mr Cable’s story is based on the battle of the Somme, he warns the reader that it is not to be taken as an authentic historical account. He says, “My ambition was the much lesser one of describing as well as I could what a Big Push is like from the point of view of an ordinary average infantry private. ... I have tried to put into words merely the sort of story that might and could be told by thousands of our men to-day.” Four men, fellow soldiers and close friends, are the heroes of the tale. Three of them are Englishmen, drawn from different social ranks. One is an American.
=A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 80w
“The story is told in a vigorous, straightforward way without false sentiment or pretentious effort. That no one who starts it will be likely to set it down unfinished is sufficient comment on its worth.” R. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 430w
“As big as its theme and as moving.”
+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 250w
=Dial= 63:219 S 13 ‘17 340w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 80w
“So does the great American hymn give title and summing up to this picture of the army of one of our allies, a picture etched with steel in lines of fire and blood and heroism unsurpassed. ‘Grapes of wrath’ is indeed a memorable book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 60w
+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 700w
“One who wishes to learn about war as it is fought will do well to read it, for no other among the host of war books explains this phase of it so well or even seeks to.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ‘17 300w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 120w
=CADE, COULSON T.= Dandelions. *$1.50 (1½c) Knopf 17-19507
“‘Dandelions’ is a first novel. A story of heredity, its thesis seems to be that education, no matter how excellent or how careful, is of little influence when opposed to the force of inherited qualities. The two principal characters in the book are a father and son; the father, Sir Harold Carne, makes idle love to the pretty daughter of the village innkeeper. Later he marries and has a legitimate son, whom we leave as, at about eighteen, he is taking his first step along the road trodden by his father.”—N Y Times
“It is a very singular story, with no trace of the characteristics of contemporary fiction. It might have been written in the days of Fielding, although fortunately it is of a reasonable length. The average reader of ‘best sellers’ and ‘glad’ books may turn from ‘Dandelions’ with signs of ennui. But its publisher as well as its author are to be sincerely congratulated. It has distinguished literary merit.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 400w
“There is charm and to spare in the pictures of English country life that are presented in dissolving succession. But the machinery of Mr Cade’s narrative rumbles and groans too audibly at too frequent intervals; the plot is superficial, even flimsy, and the characterization shallow.”
– + =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 180w
“A story of odd and vaguely reminiscent flavor—Peacockian, if we were to give it a name. Its quaint style, its sly humor, recall the author of ‘Headlong hall’ and ‘Gryll grange.’ It is all mildly amusing, and a trifle wicked, ending on a note of what on the whole deserves to be called malice rather than irony.”
=Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 140w
“The descriptions of the English countryside are very much the best part of the book—far better than the dialogue, which is often ‘bookish’ rather than natural, or the story, which is not particularly interesting. This new writer is not without gifts, but he should learn to restrain his tendency to verbiage.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 400w
“The one thing lacking in Mr Cade’s novel is a point of view. ... We are offered neither a moral idea nor a wholly consistent tale. Otherwise this is a well-written and amusing book. ... Mr Cade’s work will be worth watching. He can put colour into it without letting it get loud; he likes a dash of oddity, but keeps his people human.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 600w
=CADY, MRS BERTHA LOUISE (CHAPMAN), and CADY, VERNON MOSHER.= Way life begins. (Serial pub. no. 85) il $1 Am. social hygiene assn. 570 17-4856
This introduction to sex education, intended for parents and teachers, regards nature study as the logical means of approach to the subject. Dr William Freeman Snow in his foreword, says that the book has been prepared to meet the demand for “a simple, scientifically accurate book on the subject of the way plant, animal, and human life begins, written in an interesting, non-technical way, and with adequate illustration.” The arrangement of material is shown by the table of contents: The deeper meaning of nature study; The lily; The moth; The fish; The frog; The chick; The rabbit; The child; Nature study and the personal problems of life. The book is illustrated with nine plates and other figures in the text.
“The last chapter on ‘Nature study and the personal problems of life’ is a sane summing up of the attitude the parent or teacher ought to take toward this important subject.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17
+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p19 O ‘17 30w
“The tone is sweet and constructive—spiritual, in the finest sense of the word. One is pretty well justified in saying that while it is not the only useful and commendable book in its field, it is beyond any question the best.” J: P. Gavit
+ =Survey= 38:423 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
=CAFFIN, CHARLES HENRY.= How to study architecture. il *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 720.9 17-24868
This book is an attempt, by an art critic, “to trace the evolution of architecture as the product and expression of successive phases of civilisation.” (Sub-title) Each chapter, or group of chapters, on the architecture of a period, is preceded by a chapter on the civilization of which it was a product. Book 1 is introductory; the remaining six books deal respectively with the pre-classic, classic, post-classic, Gothic, renaissance, and post-renaissance periods of architecture. There is a two-page bibliography, which follows the glossary and index. The book is illustrated with numerous plates.
“Each type is well illustrated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“A good handbook is a valuable and welcome addition to the understanding of a given art, and Mr Caffin’s work in this case is well done and has the virtue of being readable and not a bore. He is, from long practice, an essayist on this and similar themes who knows how to write and so spares us the ennui which is immemorially associated with works of reference. In his statement as to what has been done and is doing of late years in the United States, it would seem as if the treatment were a little sketchy, because it is centered in New York city.” R: Burton
+ — =Bookm= 46:479 D ‘17 450w
=Dial= 63:527 N 22 ‘17 500w
“The field covered is so wide ... that a certain congestion of statement was, perhaps, inevitable. ... By its inclusiveness and the abundance of its modern material it fills an empty place in the literature of its subject.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 190w
“To teachers and students the cohesion shown between art principles and their historical manifestations has particular value, and to readers generally the subject and its treatment provides the appeal of romance as well as instruction and an opportunity to develop critical appreciation.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:274 F ‘18 310w
=CAHAN, ABRAHAM.= Rise of David Levinsky. *$1.60 (1c) Harper 17-23760
In this novel, a Russian Jew who came to America in 1885, at the age of twenty, tells his own story. About eighty pages deal with ghetto life in Russia, the rest of the action passes in America. Though he has been educated in a Talmudic seminary, David tries first to earn a living in New York as a peddler. Failing in this, he becomes an operator in a clothing factory, with the idea of earning enough money to put himself through the City college. An accident changes his dream and he starts out as a manufacturer in the business he has now learned. He steals designs, cheats the union and indulges in other dishonest business practices; but he makes his pile. The story of his relations with various women is given, and especially with the three he loved: Matilda, his first love; Dora, the wife of his friend, Max Margolis, and Anna Tevkin, socialist daughter of a Hebrew poet. David does not marry, and we leave him at the end of the story sensitive, sensual, desperately lonely, finding business “good sport,” but confessing that there is one thing which he craves and “which money cannot buy—happiness.” The story is marred by occasional vulgarities. The author is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Daily Forward and is the author of “Yekl, a tale of the New York ghetto” and other works.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 100w
“As he approaches sixty, Mr Cahan gives us this solid, mature novel, into which are compacted the reflections of a lifetime. The vanity of great riches was never set forth with more searching sincerity. ... As a matter of biography, he is a child of Russian literature. And that is why his novel, written in faultless English, is a singular and solitary performance in American fiction.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 63:521 N 22 ‘17 1750w
=Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 500w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 150w
“One of the most impressive novels produced in America in many a day.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 14:31 F 2 ‘18 650w
“The tale of Levinsky is, incidentally, the tale of the cloak industry in this country; of the methods by which a dominating personality achieves his financial success. But its revelations in this regard are as far from mere muckraking as are Cahan’s pictures of the cloak makers from mere propaganda. ... It is written with a clarity that is French, a chaste realism that is Russo-Yiddish, and a deep human insight that render it universal.” Isaac Goldberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 700w
“No phase of modern life betrays the cheapness and shams of capitalistic culture more strikingly than does the literature of today. Happily, however, there are some few exceptions, and Cahan is one of these. His ‘Rise of David Levinsky’ is not a commodity, but a piece of art, full of life’s unvarnished truths.”
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 1500w
“‘The rise of David Levinsky’ is not a pleasant book, nor is David himself an especially likeable or appealing individual. His very soul is stripped bare before us; we know him intimately, but it cannot be said that to know him is to love him. Yet he often excites our pity. ... The dominant quality in this novel is the effect it gives of being altogether real. Whether the scene be laid in the Russian ghetto or the big expensive hotel in the Catskills where rich Jews congregated, whether it is in the Division street factory or David’s fine place on Fifth avenue, this sense of reality is always present. ... In this story of ‘The rise’ of one individual is pictured the development of an entire class, as well as of what has become one of the great industries of the country.”
=N Y Times= 22:341 S 16 ‘17 1200w
“As a story for the story’s sake the novel is much less important than as a study of a people whose qualities and experiences are to be increasingly important in American life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 550w
“Had the book been published anonymously, we might have taken it for a cruel caricature of a hated race by some anti-Semite. It will be taken by an already critical outer world as a picture of Jewish life in general. It really is not.” K. H. Claghorn
– + =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 350w
=CALHOUN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= Social history of the American family from colonial times to the present. 3v v 1 $5 Clark, A. H. 392.3 17-23329
“The first volume of ‘A social history of the American family’ devotes a chapter to sexual codes and customs in the European countries which furnished colonists to the new world and then traces their modification and development in the thirteen English colonies down to revolutionary times.” (Ind) “Three volumes are contemplated, the second bringing the history through the Civil war period; the third focussing its attention on the present generation.” (Cath World)
“In addition to the value of this material as social history, all of it makes the most interesting reading, and some of it is unsurpassed as the richest kind of humor.” F. W. C.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 750w
“Dr Calhoun, despite his avowed intention not to exaggerate in this direction, does, we think, lay too much stress at times on the ‘economic interpretation’ of life. ... But on the whole, Dr Calhoun is clear-sighted and open-minded. He has, for instance, the courage to show what dire fruits the reformation and the loose moral teaching of Luther have borne to the world.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:263 N ‘17 350w
“The volume shows evidence of great research and contains a full bibliography.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 60w
“The publishers have given an excellent page on attractive and substantial paper in a serviceable cover.”
+ =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 500w
“American history is being rewritten by the scientific historians, and this volume is a valuable addition to the rich contributions that have been made in recent years.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 1100w
=CALHOUN, DOROTHY DONNELL.= Princess of Let’s Pretend. il *$1.50 Dutton 16-25148
“The first story is called ‘The story of the enchanted leg’; it tells how a fairy came to Gert van Vent and took charge of his wooden leg, thus bringing happiness to his daughter. ‘Damon and Pythias’ relates the old legend in terms of childhood. ‘The merry monarch’ makes a cobbler king for the day to the great amusement of the court. ... ‘The princess of Let’s Pretend’ contains several other stories, touching on a variety of subjects. Even a baseball story adorns the volume.”—N Y Times
“The illustrations are novel, being photographs chosen from moving picture films; but their realism will disappoint the childish imagination, which can far more aptly picture its own fairy world.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:556 Jl ‘17 60w
“A delightful collection of stories. They are simply told and sure of entertaining the little folk.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:224 Je 10 ‘17 170w
“Obviously intended for children from eight to ten or twelve.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 150w
=CALKINS, GARY NATHAN.= Biology. 2d ed rev and enl il $1.80 Holt 570 17-25304
“In the present edition, although there is no change in the method by which the subject of biology is developed, there are many changes in the text, some parts being condensed, others elaborated, in the interest of clearness. Apart from verbal improvements throughout the book, the most important alterations and additions have been made in connection with the subjects of fermentation and enzyme activities; the significance of conjugation; plants, the food of animals; photosynthesis; circulation in the earthworm; and immunity. Three figures in the first edition (numbers 6, 21, and 39) have been replaced by more instructive illustrations, and in all cases where necessary, the legends have been amplified. The glossary, which was introduced with the second printing of the first edition, is considerably enlarged, and a bibliography added.” (Preface to the second edition)
+ =Educ R= 55:79 Ja ‘18 30w
=CALVERT, MRS AMELIA CATHERINE (SMITH), and CALVERT, PHILIP POWELL.= Year of Costa Rican natural history. il *$3 Macmillan 508.728 17-6345
“The primary concern of the authors in visiting Costa Rica was a study of dragon flies with reference to their seasonal distribution. The book has little to say on that subject, however, because their investigations along that line are not completed. It is devoted mainly to the little republic itself. Describing the daily life in town and country, the authors always have a quick eye for its trees, plants, and animal and insect life.”—N Y Times
“It is abundantly illustrated and will interest tourists and students of general and commercial conditions. Bibliography (30p.).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17
“Here lies the drawback of the book; although so full of information, there are but few chapters to be enjoyed by the general reader, who, taking the detail, much of which is unavoidably technical, for granted, would relish some more comprehensive generalised descriptions as characteristic of the country.”
+ — =Nature= 100:323 D 27 ‘17 650w
=N Y Br Lib= News 4:59 Ap ‘17
“The result of their observations is set forth with a skill and all-embracing perception only possible to writers who are able to catalogue definitely in their minds what has come under their notice. It is all told in an impressive volume of 577 pages.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 190w
=Pittsburgh= 22:655 O ‘17 30w
“The style in which this almost inexhaustible store of material has been presented renders the book readable throughout.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 330w
=St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 2 ‘17 250w
Cambridge history of American literature. 3v v 1 *$3.50 (3c) Putnam 810.9 (17-30257)
=v 1= Colonial and revolutionary literature; Early national literature: Part 1.
The Cambridge history of American literature, edited by William Peterfield Trent, of Columbia, John Erskine, of Columbia, Stuart P. Sherman, of the University of Illinois, and Carl Van Doren, headmaster of the Brearley school, will be complete in three volumes. Volume 1 covers Colonial and revolutionary literature and Early national literature, part 1, ending with a study of Emerson. The distinctive features of the work as a whole are enumerated by the editors: “(1) It is on a larger scale than any of its predecessors ...; (2) It is the first history of American literature composed with the collaboration of a numerous body of scholars from every section of the United States and from Canada; (3) It will provide for the first time an extensive bibliography for all periods and subjects treated; (4) It will be a survey of the life of the American people as expressed in their writings rather than a history of belles-lettres alone.” (Preface) As in the “Cambridge history of English literature,” the bibliographies, arranged at the close, are extensive.
=Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 1200w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 730w
“A chapter on transcendentalism by Professor Goddard, of Swarthmore college, is one of the best pieces of work in the volume. ... Now that the foundations of the history are laid, perhaps the superstructure will exhibit a lighter and more attractive aspect. One would welcome a smaller measure of compilation and a larger manifestation of the critical and the appreciatory.”
+ — =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 340w
“Tho the chapters on Franklin and Emerson are very well done, perhaps the most delightful chapter in the whole volume is that on Washington Irving, by Major George Haven Putnam.”
+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 380w
“A valuable, comprehensive, and from beginning to end a most interesting book. Emphasis must be laid upon the care and detail which the authors and editors have devoted to the early literature of our land. ‘The Cambridge History of American literature’ is a book of the utmost importance.”
+ + — =N Y Times= 22:497 N 25 ‘17 1500w
+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 90w
+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 170w
“The editors have plainly worked in harmony, and, what is more, they have plainly tried to harmonize the work of their contributors. In one or two of the chapters there is excessive individualism in the interpretation; and even a few foolish statements can be found. But, in the main, the contributors have worked upon a basis of facts and have sought to study the relations between facts. It is to be regretted where so much space is devoted to bibliographies, that they are less exhaustive than cooperative scholarship might make them.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 1600w
Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W: Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v v 13-14 ea *$2.75 (1½c) Putnam 820.9 (7-40854)
=v 13-14= Nineteenth century.
The thirteenth volume continues the history of the nineteenth century, begun in volume 12. Among the studies contributed to the volume are: Carlyle, by J. G. Robertson; The Tennysons, by Herbert J. C. Grierson; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Sir Henry Jones; The prosody of the nineteenth century, by George Saintsbury; Nineteenth-century drama, by Harold Child; Thackeray, by A. Hamilton Thompson; Dickens, by George Saintsbury; The Brontës, by A. A. Jack. Volume 14 completes the trilogy of the nineteenth century and brings the work as a whole to a close. It has chapters on: Philosophers; Historians, biographers and political orators; The growth of journalism; The literature of science; Anglo-Irish literature, etc. There is also a chapter by W. Murison on Changes in the language since Shakespeare’s time.
“Volume 14 has especially noteworthy articles on the growth of journalism and on literature in the English colonies.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:340 My ‘17 (Review of v 13 and 14)
“A grim and militant provincialism is the presiding spirit of the volumes. Only so can one explain the fact that Newman is mentioned only in scattered references and nowhere treated as the great master of prose that he was, that Meredith’s ‘Modern love’ is slurred over as unimportant, and that the treatment of Patmore’s later verse (’The toys,’ ‘Magna est veritas,’ etc.), of Henley, and of Pater is brief and grudging.” Ludwig Lewisohn
— =Dial= 62:473 My 31 ‘17 1700w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“Mr Robertson treats in too cursory and perfunctory a fashion the question of the historical value of Carlyle’s historical works, nor does the bibliography supply this lacuna. ... In any general survey of the progress of historical studies in England during the nineteenth century there are two facts which ought to be clearly stated and adequately emphasized, viz. the opening of the national archives to historians and the revival of the study of history in the universities. They are suggested and referred to, but not given sufficient importance. ... Instances might be noted in which the selection of one writer rather than another seems difficult to explain, but carping criticism of details is an ungrateful task, where in the main there is agreement.” L.
+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:447 Jl ‘17 850w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“The bibliographies in themselves form probably the most valuable book-record of the subject in print.”
+ =Ind= 90:215 Ap 28 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1-14)
“With such names as Robertson, Grierson, Saintsbury, and Jack, it can be assumed that the present volume reaches the high level normal to this authoritative series.”
+ =Lit D= 54:768 Mr 17 ‘17 250w (Review of v 13)
+ =Lit D= 54:1429 My 12 ‘17 280w (Review of v 14)
“But there is much more in the volume that will interest men of science than the single chapter which is specifically devoted to the literature of science. The whole volume is full of interest. A chapter on the changes in the language since the time of Shakespeare, by Mr W. Murison, may be commended to all those who are interested, as all of us ought to be, in the literary exposition of scientific work.”
+ — =Nature= 100:141 O 25 ‘17 1100w (Review of v 14)
+ =N Y Times= 22:97 Mr 18 ‘17 950w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“The editors have chosen for their collaborators writers who know how to be scholarly without being pedantic; and they have allowed a fair modicum of personal equation to pass the editorial pencil unchallenged. Nevertheless, one feels, more in some chapters than in others, a sense of restraint, as tho the critic had checked himself on the verge of giving expression to his full thought.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 91:591 F 17 ‘17 750w (Review of v 13)
“It is a miscellany of both brilliant and careless workmanship, and its value will depend largely upon the individual reader’s interpretation of what is meant by history.”
+ — =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 180w (Review of v 14)
=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 (Review of v 14)
“The chapters devoted to the literature of the Dominions from the freshness of their matter and their treatment, are among the most enthralling in the book.”
+ =Sat R= 123:438 My 12 ‘17 1650w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“Most of the contributors have taken pains to be accurate in their statements of fact even if their criticisms often provoke dissent. The very lengthy bibliographies add much to the value of the work for purposes of reference.”
+ =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 180w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“If the volume fails to make a unified impression, one is glad to take it for what it is—a collection of interesting and sometimes important papers by men well qualified to speak of their respective subjects. But the drawback of the method is not to be overlooked.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 1100w (Review of v 13)
“A newspaper man will relish the chapter on ‘The growth of journalism,’ by J. S. R. Phillips, editor of the Yorkshire Post, a model of condensation and good judgment. But the public as a whole may be more interested in the well-written and well-reasoned chapter on English-Canadian literature by Pelham Edgar, professor of English literature in Victoria college, University of Toronto.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 19 ‘17 1350w (Review of v 13)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 4 ‘17 120w (Review of v 13 and 14)
“In conclusion we must regretfully congratulate Professor Robertson, Mr Hamilton Thompson, and Sir Adolphus Ward on being the only authors in this volume with a right sense of the historian’s responsibility; they alone have completed their own bibliographies. ‘G. A. B.,’ who is wholly or partly responsible for the rest, cannot be said to have attained a satisfactory level in the more difficult subjects.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p54 F 1 ‘17 1600w (Review of v 13)
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p78 F 15 ‘17 1650w (Review of v 14)
=CAMMAERTS, ÉMILE.= Through the iron bars (Two years of German occupation in Belgium). il *75c (3½c) Lane (Eng ed 6d) 940.91 17-22575
“It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule. ... The German occupation of Belgium may be roughly divided into two periods: Before the fall of Antwerp, when the German policy, in spite of its frightfulness, had not yet assumed its most ruthless and systematic character; and, after the fall of the great fortress, when the yoke of the conqueror weighed more heavily on the vanquished shoulders, and when the Belgian population, grim and resolute, began to struggle to preserve its honour and loyalty and to resist the ever increasing pressure of the enemy to bring it into complete submission and to use it as a tool against its own army and its own king. I am only concerned here with the second period. ... My heroes risk their lives, but they are not soldiers, merely prosaic ‘bourgeois’ and workmen. They have no weapon, they cannot fight. ... They can only oppose a stout heart, a loyal spirit, and an ironic smile to the persecutions to which they are subjected.” (Chapter 1) Seven cartoons by Louis Raemaekers are reproduced.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18
“In these pages we have vivid, searching descriptions of and protests against the unwarrantable vandalism of the Teuton soldiery. It is a sad document, illumined by fires of devoted heroism.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ‘17 160w
“The evident restraint of passion is not its least virtue.”
+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 110w
“M. Cammaerts describes very clearly the successive phases of Belgium’s martyrdom under the rule of an enemy who has by turns attempted to cajole and to intimidate her. He says that the German pro-Flemish agitation has been a complete failure, as the Flemish-speaking Belgians saw through the enemy’s intrigue.”
+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p203 Ap 26 ‘17 70w
=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Abandoned room. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-29177
This story of two mysterious murders is by the author of the “House of fear.” These murders take place at “The Cedars” in a bedroom where many Blackburns have died reluctantly and which has been unused for a number of years. Who murdered Silas Blackburn and the detective, Howells? Was it Katherine Perrine, who lived with her uncle? Or Bobby Blackburn, that “damned waster,” his grandson? Or Carlos Paredes, Bobby’s Panamanian friend, who was always harping on the supernatural? The secret is well kept, and the solution of the mystery a most unexpected one.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 20w
“The author succeeds to an unusual degree in inducing in the reader that peculiar creepy feeling associated with deeds of darkness and the supernatural. Nevertheless, the characters are very human, present-day people and the romance of Bobby and Katherine lends a welcome touch of tenderness.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 320w
“Mr Camp’s new mystery story is one of those tales which keep the reader on the alert, leading him on from one apparently inexplicable occurrence to another, and leave him in the end with a feeling of mingled disappointment and annoyance.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:491 N 25 ‘17 220w
“Mr Camp makes such effective use of the supernatural manifestations that the reader has frequent attacks of goose flesh. The story is rather superior to the general run of its type, but the type is not distinguished.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 250w
=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= War’s dark frame. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 17-15964
These impressions of life in France, Flanders, and England in wartime picture the home conditions of the man at the front as well as his life in the trenches. The author is a war correspondent whose tour apparently took place during the winter of 1916-17, and who was many times under shell fire.
=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17
“One notices the changed attitude in this book from the journalistic flippancy that used to be encountered in the earlier war-books. The continued strain is beginning to tell not only upon officers and men, but in the literature of the war. It is a serious business, which nevertheless has its virtues and its lighter sides. All are reflected with great fairness and sincerity by this thoroughly competent correspondent and author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w
“An account of the darker side of the war told with an economy of words which makes it singularly moving.”
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w
“His conversational way of mingling fact and fancy makes a decidedly readable, though light, book.”
+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 130w
“It is intimate touches that make the book unique, and which will probably cause it to become more popular than many another much more pretentious volume. The fourteen illustrations, all from photographs, have the added value of showing people as well as places.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 500w
=CAMPBELL, FRANCES (WEED) (MRS GEORGE CAMPBELL).= Book of home nursing. il *$1.25 Dutton 610.7 17-21895
“A practical guide for the treatment of sickness in the home. ... While the subject matter is in the main such as would be found in any practical book dealing with the problems of sickness and nursing, there are included many original ideas in the care of patients that have been used with great success by Mrs Campbell.” (N Y Call) “The author is a trained nurse who writes out of the knowledge gained in actual experiences. One very useful chapter is called: How to keep well.” (R of Rs)
+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 270w
“If you are intending to work in the war hospitals, this book will prove invaluable and serve as a solid foundation for specialized training.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 50w
“Writing in an easily readable style with now and then a little flash of humor, Mrs Campbell has brought together simple every day facts that should be of great value to one who, unused to the profession of nursing, is suddenly forced to think and plan for the comfort of an invalid.” J. E. Hitchcock
+ =Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 230w
=CAMPBELL, JAMES MANN.= New thought Christianized. *$1 (3½c) Crowell 131 17-13828
This book discusses “the law of suggestion, fear and its antidotes, the folly of worry, repose and how to get it, health and religion, true optimism, the power of initiative, self-control versus divine control, the higher environment, etc.”—R of Rs
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:111 Jl ‘17
“These cults lack an essential element of Christianity. They affirm man’s self-sufficiency apart from God, of whom, man’s indispensable source of sufficiency, they affirm little or nothing.”
=Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 70w
“Dr Campbell is in agreement with Dr Dresser in fundamentals. ... This is an excellent book for the orthodox Christian who wants to come over into the New thought camp without the loss of one jot of his Christianity.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 140w
=CAMPBELL, MAURICE VIELE.= Rapid training of recruits. *$1 Stokes 355 17-29354
“A practical scheme for quick results in training the national army, based on the definite record of what has been actually accomplished in England. The aim is to give the recruit instructor in America cantonments a thoroughly tested plan for whipping his men into shape speedily. A typical day’s work is minutely outlined, lectures are suggested, in fact every detail necessary to an intensive program is fully treated. The book is as useful to the recruit himself as to his instructor.”—Publishers’ note
+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL; PIERCE, FREDERICK ERASTUS, and DURHAM, WILLARD HIGLEY.= Facts, thought, and imagination. *$1.30 (1c) Macmillan 808 17-19155
A book on writing, prepared for the use of second year college students. It is assumed that the students have been taught “all they can absorb of unity, coherence and emphasis” and are now ready to write. Part one of the book consists of theoretical discussion and is made up of three chapters on writing: Facts, by Frederick Erastus Pierce; Thought, by Henry Seidel Canby; and Imagination in the service of thought, by Willard Higley Durham. “These essays,” the authors say, “not only give instructions for writing, but also, directly or by implication, suggest an abundance of subjects.” The remainder of the book is given up to selections, arranged in three groups to accompany the three chapters, and chosen from the work of modern writers. The authors are members of the department of English, of Sheffield scientific school, Yale university.
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Mendel; a story of youth. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 16-23586
Mendel Kühler is a young Austrian Jew who grows up in the East End of London. He is the youngest child of his parents and the best loved, and his early leanings toward art are fostered, altho humble Jacob and Golda, intent only on getting on in the world, cannot understand them. The story is concerned with Mendel’s progress in art, his life in London’s Bohemia, his association with his artist friends and his love for Greta Morrison. He is a child of the city and he loves it, its squalor and filth and noise. As an artist he paints it, coming in time to adopt the new modern methods of treatment. Greta Morrison belongs to the country. Her delights are in deep woods and wet meadows. Their love is a conflict, but while the book leaves their story unfinished, it gives the impression that their need for one another must conquer all differences.
“Gilbert Cannan, in his new book, has hardly maintained the high standard that he has set for himself in some of his earlier work. There is too much of the flavor of George Moore, particularly of ‘Lewis Seymour,’ in it, and a good deal of Jean Christophe, and dish-water. ... It must be said, however, that the character drawing is fearless and generally consistent.”
– + =Bellman= 22:278 Mr 10 ‘17 250w
“There is a good deal of dinginess in the chronicle, the dinginess of egotism, of drink, and of sex.” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:204 Ap ‘17 650w
“Mr Cannan’s is so expert a hand at hard realism that we again and again regret his frequent excursions into the field of grotesque fantasy and violent eroticism. ... It must be obvious by this time to anyone who has followed Mr Cannan’s work as a novelist that he is obsessed by the idea that sex and nothing but sex should form the background of a novel. ... His entire atmosphere reeks with eroticism. ... And intermingled is a persistent jargon about art which gives us little knowledge of the subject and that fails to convince us of Mendel’s genius.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 17 ‘17 1400w
“The book is unreserved, but the naturalism is subordinated to the fine characterization of a Jew and an artist, and therein Cannan does for his genius what Theodore Dreiser fails to do for his; that is, he gets above the merely material plane and shows how lower values are transmuted into higher.”
+ =Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 120w
Reviewed by John Macy
=Dial= 62:357 Ap 19 ‘17 350w
“In long dissertations on art between Mendel, and Logan, and other art-students, we cannot forget that they were only callow youths with more enthusiasm than brains. In his ups and downs we get quite an insight into the ‘new art’ of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. ... The author is overstocked with material. ... He is too diffuse.”
– + =Lit D= 54:1088 Ap 14 ‘17 270w
“It is an exceedingly candid picture of life, and a remarkable portrayal of an interesting and significant character—the realest person that I have met in fiction for years. ... There is something new happening in fiction; and this is it.” F. D.
+ =Masses= 9:28 My ‘17 700w
“As usual, Mr Cannan has found plenty of spades here to be called by name, but we never suspect him of pursuing grossness for its own sake. The narrative is hardly a ‘story,’ it has no plot, and is most liberal of detail. It is, nevertheless, very artfully put together to an end far beyond that of naturalism in its raw phase—to the end of interpreting a human character in action upon a higher than animal plane.” H. W. Boynton
=Nation= 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 150w
“One likes Mendel chiefly because it expresses valorously a sense of the primitive value of the fight that there is when one’s work and one’s love are made to use all the forces of one’s life. The book is not comfortable and acquiescent. It demands thoroughgoing and pugnacious protest. ... But one wishes Mr Cannan would write a little better. ... It tests one’s disposition toward Mendel to have its author give so little gratification to a taste for letters as a fine art.” Edith Borie
+ — =New Repub= 10:sup11 Ap 21 ‘17 950w
“A long step forward in fictional art has been taken by Gilbert Cannan in this new novel. He is best known to American readers as the translator of ‘Jean Christophe’ and as the author of ‘Old Mole,’ ‘Young Earnest,’ and ‘Three sons and a mother,’ as most of his long list of novels and plays have not been brought out in the United States.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 600w
“The acrid savor of the Jewish race, their mounting egotism, their strange humility and ever-mastering desire for God, Cannan has pictured with sympathy and deep insight.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w
“‘Mendel’ is a fearless piece of work. It has grip and power, shrewd observation, and clear-cut thought. Sloppiness, sentiment and gush—the three distinguishing traits of so many modern novels—are absent. The writer knows what he wants to say and knows how to say it. Mr Cannan works close to life. His book is realism, but realism of the right kind.”
+ =Sat R= 122:628 D 30 ‘16 500w
“Besides theories on art, another preoccupation of Mr Cannan’s personages is sex. There is far too much talk about it; an exasperated consciousness of it pervades the book. ... So far we have said nothing of the honesty, the intelligence, the frequent and delightful pungency of the book. Mr Cannan has moments in which he lazily subsides into ineffective emphasis, or caricature, or cut-and-dried appreciations, and these moments are frequent enough to make ‘Mendel’ seem too long. But it almost continuously entertains, and we are not using the term in a trivial sense; it entertains because it provokes.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p499 O 19 ‘16 600w
=CAPPEAU, MRS IDA MAY (JACK).= Voyage to South America and Buenos Aires, the city beautiful. il $1.20 (4c) Sherman, French & co. 918 16-24332
A woman’s diary of a voyage to South America. On the voyage stops were made at Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and Santos, and brief glimpses of these cities are given. Most of the author’s time was spent in Buenos Aires and she writes with enthusiasm of the city and of the courtesy and kindness of its people.
“Only the fact that so few people find anything at all to say about South America makes Mrs Cappeau’s account appear of relative interest. ... A few of the photographs are excellent.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 10 ‘17 70w
=CARBAUGH, HARVEY CLARENCE=, ed. Human welfare work in Chicago. il *$1.50 (4c) McClurg 917.731 17-9261
The purpose of this book is to bring together information pertaining to the various activities in Chicago that come under the heading human welfare. These include music, art, education, philanthropy, etc. The editor is a member of the civil service board of South park commissioners; there is an introduction by John Barton Payne, president of the South park commissioners, and chapters are contributed to the book by other men directly engaged in special lines of work, among them Henry E. Legler, librarian of the public library. Contents: Art in Chicago; Chicago as a music center; The city’s public schools; The public library; Parks and boulevards; Public recreation; A summary of philanthropic work; Philanthropic work of religious organizations; Neighborhood work. There are a number of interesting illustrations.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:427 Jl ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w
“It is not until one comes upon the full list of municipal activities, as in such a volume as the present, that the scope and significance of that future are possible of realization. ... The volume contains much statistical information and is amply illustrated.”
+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 190w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 80w
=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 60w
“A valuable handbook for those interested in gaining an idea of the varied activities which a modern city carries on for the benefits of its citizens.”
+ =Pratt= p10 O ‘17 40w
=CARMICHAEL, MARY H.=, comp. Pioneer days. il *$1.25 (3c) Duffield 973 17-13393
The author has collected these stories of pioneer days in the Mississippi valley from early histories and from lives of frontiersmen and pioneers written by contemporaries. Contents: Josiah Hunt—the Indian fighter; Maniac defender—a story of the border; Providential interference; Tom Higgins rescuing his comrade; A romance of pioneer life; Ham Cass and his vow; Capture and escape of Alexander McConnell; Charles Hess; Captain Hubbell defending his boat; Pioneer boys; James Moore’s captivity; Lewis Wetzel’s scout. The illustrations are from old prints.
“A good library book for sixth grade.”
+ =Ind= 91:228 Ag 11 ‘17 40w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 50w
“There might have been a more careful editing of the contents; one is led to infer that scissors and paste-brush were the only utensils in use.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 31 ‘17 200w
=CARNOVALE, LUIGI.= Why Italy entered into the great war. il $2.50 Italian-American pub. co., 903 Michigan boulevard bldg., Chicago 940.91 17-21996
“The author, an Italian living in Chicago, writes this book to defend his country from the charges ... that Italy had been guilty of treachery in declaring void the treaty of the Triple alliance and that she entered the war first because she had been bought by English and French gold, and secondly because she was eager to acquire territory (Trieste and Trent) ‘which by hereditary divine right was the possession of the Hapsburgs.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The first part deals with recent history—with the relations between Italy and Austria for the past century. ... The second part comprises a longer historical retrospect—one of two thousand years—and is designed to prove the essentially Italian character of the borderlands in dispute between the two countries. The third part gives an account of the diplomatic doings which immediately preceded the declaration of war—a complete and compact presentation of the actual documents. The fourth part gives the reasons which justified Italy in breaking with the Central powers and in joining France and England.” (Dial) The book is printed in two languages. “The English text fills the first three hundred pages, and the whole is then presented in Italian in the second half of the book.” (N Y Times)
=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17
“One feature of the book is a plate giving in facsimile the famous ‘Tavola Clesiana,’ a bronze tablet which was discovered at Cles, in mid-Tyrol, in 1869. This tablet contains a decree of the Emperor Claudius, A.D. 49, determining the essentially Italian character of the inhabitants of that region. ... Mr Carnovale, who has a reputation as a journalist both in Italy and America, is one of the younger school of radical reformers. He is against not only the papacy but also the house of Savoy; and against not only the house of Savoy but also the capitalistic forces which ... often take an undue part in originating and in furthering wars.”
+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 430w
“Readers who wish to preserve a judicial attitude will need to be on their guard against the author’s point of view. And one cannot refrain from marveling that so ardent a patriot should choose to live in a country of which he has such a low opinion as he expresses of America.”
— =NY Times= 22:382 O 17 ‘17 350w
=St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 10w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 150w
=CARPENTER, FORD ASHMAN.= Aviator and the Weather bureau. 2d ed il 25c; free to libraries San Diego chamber of commerce, San Diego, Cal. 629.1 17-25375
“This little booklet consists of a brief but comprehensive account of the history of aviation as it is associated with southern California and of a syllabus of lectures delivered at the War department school of aviation at San Diego on practical meteorology as applied to aviation. There is also an interesting narration of weather study from an aeroplane, including the details of the author’s first ascent, and, finally, an account of the present active coöperation between aviators and the United States Weather bureau.”—Nation
+ =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 170w
“Contains a considerable number of interesting illustrations.”
+ =Nature= 99:263 My 31 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:753 N ‘17 20w
=CARPENTER, WILLIAM BOYD.= Further pages of my life. il *$3.50 Scribner (*10s 6d Williams & Norgate, London) 17-14124
“The ways of man and the shortcomings of clergymen, the life of the rural vicarage and the personalities of several English leaders in letters, religion and affairs, are revealed by Dr W. Boyd Carpenter in a second volume of reminiscences. It is a companion to his ‘Some pages of my life,’ and it is written in the same informal, companionable and entertaining manner. Neither is it in any sense a biography, for Dr Carpenter is content merely to set down a few glimpses of life and people as he has encountered them during a long career of clerical activity. After having served as bishop of Ripon from 1884 to 1911, he is now sub-dean and canon of Westminster.”—Boston Transcript
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 25 ‘17 750w
“There are many good stories of all sorts—humorous, strange, and grim—in this variegated chronicle.”
+ =Spec= 117:704 D 2 ‘16 1850w
“Few people write a sequel to an autobiography which is more interesting and important than the first book. But this is the case with ‘Further pages of my life.’ ... Every clergyman should read the chapter on the bishop’s experiences with the clergy of his diocese. ... The book, as a whole, is delightful reading. ... Bishop Boyd Carpenter is able to tell things which have never before been revealed. This is especially true in his chapter on King Edward VII.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 570w
“A fascinating volume.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 N 23 ‘16 1000w
=CARR, JOSEPH WILLIAM COMYNS.= Ideals of painting. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 759 17-8604
The purpose of this book is “to assist those students who desire to obtain a general view of the movement of painting from the time of Giotto to the present day; and to compare and contrast the spiritual ideals that have been pursued and perfected in the work of separate schools labouring under the dominating impulse supplied by individual genius.” The first two sections of the book deal with The ideals of Italy and Venice and the north. The remainder consists of chapters devoted respectively to the ideals of Flanders, Germany, Holland, Spain, France and England. There are a number of illustrations, and an index that seems to be complete.
“The illustrations are numerous and well chosen.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 230w
“Well arranged material.”
+ =Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 40w
“There is any amount of interesting detail, comparison, analysis, and assertion; but no pattern of a theory of life, related in specific ways to the theories of life of the others, emerges for any one of these lands.”
– + =Dial= 63:115 Ag 16 ‘17 250w
=Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 100w
“Nearly everything he says is interesting, and his characterization of particular painters is often admirable. Of course, there are what must appear to another critic faults of proportion and of accent. His greatest critical weakness seems to us to be a lack of complete understanding of the possibilities of light and shade. The greatest drawback of Mr Carr’s book is his style. He is not master of the vivid phrase or the illuminating word. His wordiness and repetitiousness make hard reading, and it is to be feared that few readers will be sufficiently persevering to discover how much better his thought is than it sounds.”
* – + =Nation= 105:126 Ag 2 ‘17 800w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:75 My ‘17 40w
“The present book reflects to a degree the crowding of thoughts and impressions arising in the presence of so multitudinous a subject, and it lacks distinction of proportion.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:334 S 9 ‘17 180w
“The text is set forth with the same charm as characterized the author’s previously most lately issued volume, ‘Coasting Bohemia.’”
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 110w
“Will give the veriest tyro in art the ability to appreciate and to criticise intelligently the paintings of the various schools.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 170w
“The history of art is now so specialized that to be adequately furnished at every point is scarcely possible to a single man. How can any one student know as much as Morelli or Mr Berenson about the Italians, as much as Dr Bredius or Dr de Groot about the Dutch, and as much as a dozen other experts about the French, German, Spanish, and English painters? Mr Carr would have replied that he made no such pretension. ... To sum up, we have found this book interesting and suggestive and based on a sound foundation of knowledge. It is a pity, however, that the proofs were not more carefully read.”
* + – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p235 My 17 ‘17 1150w
=CARRINGTON, FITZROY.= Engravers and etchers. il $3 Art institute of Chicago 760
“This volume, with its 133 illustrations, embodies six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Scammon foundation at the Art institute of Chicago by the curator of prints at our own [Boston] art museum. The chapter titles will give an adequate idea of the ground covered: German engraving: from the beginning to Martin Schongauer; Italian engraving: the Florentines; German engraving: the master of the Amsterdam cabinet and Albrecht Dürer; Italian engraving: Mantegna to Marcantonio Raimondi; Some masters of portraiture; Landscape etching.”—Boston Transcript
“He scarcely touches on contemporary artists of the needle and burin, and he dwells lovingly on Dürer and Rembrandt. ... This necessarily limits the interest of the book principally to those that know little or nothing of these arts. Neither does he go into the technicalities of the processes engaged in them. His book is to be especially recommended to young amateurs. ... Most of the reproductions of the works of Schongauer, Mantegna, Raimondi, Nanteuil, Daubigny, Corot, Haden and other masters represented, are admirably clear and satisfactory.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 25 ‘17 520w
“The last lecture, dealing with landscape, is perhaps the best in its directness and unity, and the tribute to Dürer’s little-realized importance in this field is noted with pleasure by the reviewer. As to the illustrations, regrets concerning the havoc with lines played by the half-tone screen are of course unavoidable. And one may at least question whether the irritatingly glazed and malodorous paper used throughout the book is necessary. Mr Paff’s bibliographical lists, obviously not intended to be complete, are helpful.”
+ — =Nation= 105:299 S 13 ‘17 430w
“In its agreeable blending of technical discussion with discriminating feeling the book is an excellent aid to appreciation.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:811 D ‘17 50w
“For the needs of persons to whom engravings and etchings are an unexplored region of art there is no better book. It is beautifully printed and contains 133 well-executed illustrations.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 130w
=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Mastery of nervousness based upon self reeducation. *$2 (3c) Macmillan 616 17-18704
Dr Carroll tells us that “nervous health is a mental state, not a physical condition,” although “physical disturbances play a large part in the production of nervousness.” For instance, food intemperance, which in America is “almost universal,” is “a larger factor in producing the damage which results in defective nervous offspring, than any other single cause.” The earlier chapters of the book take up various types of nervousness, discuss “eating errors” and “eating for efficiency,” and point out the benefits of work and play. Later chapters deal with mental and moral self-reeducation under such headings as: Tangled thoughts; Emotional tyranny; Clear thinking; Moulding the emotions; The fulfilment of self, etc. Dr Carroll believes that nervousness is to be mastered by diet, exercise and training of the will, rather than by drugs.
“A most helpful popular treatise.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 13 ‘17 400w
“An abundance of useful information and wholesome advice is presented by Dr Carroll.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:521 D 2 ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 170w
=CASALIS, ALFRED EUGÈNE.= For France and the faith. il *60c (3c) Assn. press 940.91 17-24722
This book is made up of fragments of letters written to relatives and intimate friends by Alfred Eugène Casalis who was born of missionary parents in South Africa, was a student in the theological seminary of Montauban, France, when the war broke out, volunteered and fell in battle at the age of nineteen. The letters are translated by W. E. Bristol. In an introductory page John R. Mott says: “The English edition has helped many a soldier of Britain to live his life and to fight his battles on the higher levels.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.= Wolf-lure. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-24204
“The strange, barbaric title of this latest adventure story by these popular authors amply suggests the wild, exotic scenes enacted about Castle Rozac of Guyenne, not long after the old French régime came to an abrupt downfall under the ‘Corsician upstart.’ The tale consists of the reminiscences of an elderly Englishman, who in youth wandered into this out-of-the-way part of France for the sake of historical study and research. The action, which is extravagant, though doubtless appropriate to the times and the setting, takes one into the midst of a passion-haunted castle, into the territory of a race of ruffians and counterfeiters, and even down to the subterranean caves in the back waters of the Tarne.”—N Y Times
“Romantic and rather long.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18
+ =Ath= p595 N ‘17 90w
“Needless to say of a work from these experienced hands, it is a vigorous and finished story of its kind.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 60w
“The color and romance of the story give us the Castles at their best; and the character of Louvecelle, the heroine, is touched with spirit and charm.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 170w
“‘Wolf-lure’ is the work of specialists in their field. ... Having chosen their atmosphere, they breathe it easily; and they are seldom to be caught napping (there are a few modernisms in the dialogue of the present story) in matters of detail.”
+ =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 270w
“The story is surprisingly void of really ‘palpitating moments.’ This is due, perhaps, to a certain loquacity on the part of the narrator that detracts from the point and force of the tale.”
+ – =N Y Times= 22:381 O 7 ‘17 300w
“The story is not always quite probable, but it holds the reader’s attention closely.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 40w
“We have no objection to fantastic invention in stories of this kind, but if they are put in an historic setting the setting should be true to history.”
— =Sat R= 124:353 N 3 ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 230w
“The tale has many exciting moments; but these come in the latter half of the book, and it needs some perseverance to win through to them.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 200w
=CASTLE, WILLIAM ERNEST.= Genetics and eugenics; a text-book for students of biology and a reference book for animal and plant breeders. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575.6 16-25200
“The first part of Prof. W. E. Castle’s ‘Genetics and eugenics’ is devoted to the larger subject of genetics, especially in its relation to the theory of evolution, and the smaller second part is given over to the discussion of the ‘agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.’ Most emphasis is laid, of course, upon the fundamental studies of Lamarck, Darwin, Weismann, and Mendel, but the very latest researches are also considered.”—Nation
“This is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing list of books which set forth the newer results and problems of biology and show their application to human life. Moreover, it is well illustrated. ... The volume will be of great interest and value to laymen as well as biologists; indeed, we may assume that the latter know the facts now.” Carl Kelsey
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:244 S ‘17 310w
“The reader will find here a summary of the subject that will put him fairly in touch with the best of contemporary thought on such matters as the inheritance of acquired characters, biometry, the mutation theory, unit characters, sex-linked and other kinds of linked inheritance, inbreeding and crossbreeding. ... As regards human inheritance, Professor Castle agrees neither with Pearson, who denies Mendelianism, nor with Davenport and Plate, who are enthusiastic for unit characters, but adopts a more eclectic view.”
+ =Nation= 104:563 My 3 ‘17 300w
“Since the beginning of the present century, when genetic research passed from the province of the amateur to that of the professional, Prof. Castle has been recognized as one of the most active workers on these lines. A book embodying his outlook after years of teaching and research is sure of a welcome from all who are interested in these matters. ... The amount of ground covered involves a condensed treatment of many important questions, and though this need not be a drawback to the student whose reading is supplemented by lectures, it makes it rather a difficult book for the average reader. ... The treatment of eugenics is eminently sane.”
+ =Nature= 99:202 My 10 ‘17 650w
=CASTLE, WILLIAM RICHARDS, Jr.= Hawaii past and present. rev and enl ed il *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 919.69 17-5138
The first edition of this book was published in 1913. The addition of a chapter on The army and navy in Hawaii is the most noticeable change in the second edition. Other chapters have revisions, bringing them down to date.
=A L A Bkl= 13:362 My ‘17
“A descendant of the earliest white families to settle in the Hawaiian Islands, Mr Castle is well fitted by long acquaintance with the people and their life and customs to write sympathetically and intelligently concerning them.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 210w
“A valuable book that purports to do a great deal and accomplishes it.”
+ =Cath World= 105:266 My ‘17 250w
=N Y Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17
=CATT, MRS CARRIE (LANE) CHAPMAN=, comp. Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment. (National suffrage library) $1.30 (8½c) National woman suffrage pub. co. 324.3 17-4988
This little book does not argue the question of woman suffrage. The justice, necessity and inevitability of suffrage for women are taken for granted. “The discussion is strictly confined to the reasons why an amendment to the federal constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question.” Contents: Why the federal amendment? by Carrie Chapman Catt; State constitutional obstructions, by Mary Sumner Boyd; Election laws and referenda, by Carrie Chapman Catt; The story of the 1916 referenda, by Carrie Chapman Catt; Federal action and states rights, by Henry Wade Rogers; Objections to the federal amendment, by Carrie Chapman Catt.
=A L A Bkl= 13:375 Je ‘17
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:126 Ag ‘17 80w
=CATT, HEINRICH ALEXANDER DE.= Frederick the Great; the memoirs of his reader (1758-1760); tr. by F. S. Flint; with an introd. by Lord Rosebery. 2v il *$7.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-11818)
“The translation constituting the bulk of these important volumes has been made from the French text published from the manuscript in the Prussian state archives. ... As reader and librarian to the king, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, Catt had ample opportunity of observing and becoming conversant with the sovereign’s character, and he recorded Frederick’s sayings as faithfully as Boswell noted down for posterity those of Johnson. The result is that Henri de Catt’s memoirs, though almost devoid of literary merit, have preserved for us a picture which it is scarcely too much to affirm gives a better idea of the man than does even Carlyle’s monumental work.”—Ath
“During the bitter years 1758-1760 Catt kept a very brief diary of all the conversations and journeys with the king. Many years later he artistically amplified the diary into ‘Memoirs.’ ... The former, not here translated, consists of disconnected jottings and is wholly without literary form. It is of much value, however, to the meticulous biographer of Frederick, because of its unvarnished accuracy. The ‘Memoirs,’ on the other hand, put together in pleasing narrative form, have doubtless much greater interest for the general reader, but are not quite so trustworthy. Admitting, however, that there is a mixture of ‘dichtung und wahrheit’ in the ‘Memoirs,’ they nevertheless give a generally veracious, favorable, and intensely human picture of a really great man.” S. B. Fay
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:146 O ‘17 700w
“The book is of great interest, and has appeared opportunely.”
+ =Ath= p50 Ja ‘17 230w
“A document of great human interest, a faithful portrait of a monarch working at concert pitch with an intensity and application truly marvelous, Catt’s memoir is of even greater value as the chronicle of the sowing of a seed which only now has reached its sinister harvest. ... The translator has done a difficult work well. The original ‘abounds in solecisms and faults of style’; the translation has both character and lucidity. The work will join that company of distinguished biographies which is as exclusive as the host of ordinary biographies is numerous.” R. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1050w
=Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 1000w
“Carlyle, in writing his life of Frederick, would have been only too delighted with these memoirs, had he been acquainted with them. They would have formed a welcome oasis in the desert of Dryasdusts against whom he loved to fulminate.”
+ =Nation= 105:295 S 13 ‘17 600w
“Mr Flint has given us a text in good idiomatic English. ... One of the most interesting features in the ‘Memoirs’ is the light they throw on the relations of Frederick and Voltaire.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:145 Ap 15 ‘17 1100w
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 200w
=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 70w
“This is a capital book, and an agreeable surprise. ... Catt is the soul of sincerity and straightforwardness; but Catt soon perceives that a little of the truth goes a long way, and it is amusing to see him reflecting how far he can venture to go in the criticism of bad verses and other of Frederick’s indiscretions.”
+ =Sat R= 123:16 Ja 5 ‘17 1500w
“As Lord Rosebery says in his introduction, this is a very human book. Frederick the Great, Prussia’s only really able king, has been eulogized and criticized in hundreds of volumes, but we have never read anything giving so simple and homely a picture of him as that drawn by his admiring Swiss reader.”
+ =Spec= 118:237 F 24 ‘17 2250w
“The ‘Memoirs,’ which are now for the first time translated from the original French, present a very remarkable picture of one side of the great king. They extend over two years only, but those two years include the crisis of the Seven years war. ... The translation, which is admirably done, is introduced by Lord Rosebery in a preface which brings out the full difficulty of the enigma which the character of Frederick presents.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p1 Ja 4 ‘17 180w
“Catt’s memoirs approach Boswell’s ‘Johnson’ and Busch’s ‘Bismarck’ in their intimate revelations, and, for those who read only English, furnish an excellent supplement to Carlyle’s fervid and memorable epic.” A. L. Cross
+ =Yale R= n s 7:221 O ‘17 1450w
=CAULDWELL, SAMUEL MILBANK.= Chocolate cake and black sand, and two other plays. il *$1.50 Putnam 812 17-16753
The three plays in this book were written by the author for the entertainment of his own children and the amusement of his friends. The author’s preface says “These plays are distinctly a domestic product intended for home consumption. The family hearthstone finds its place in the foreground of the stage setting. The living-room is transformed into the orchestra and the hall staircase answers all the purposes of the gallery. Little if any stage scenery is required, except such as can be found in the cellar or garret of any well-regulated family.” Mrs Cauldwell, who has edited the plays for publication after her husband’s death, says that they are offered to all who are interested in amateur performances in the home. The title play and the one following, “The undoing of Giant Hotstoff,” are dream plays. The third, “The invention of the rat trap,” is a “romantic historical drama.”
“Very whimsical and gay.”
+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w
“They are stronger dramatically than most plays for young actors.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Barbarians. il $1.40 Appleton 17-28656
“The story is a group of episodes, each narrating the fate of one of eight men who sail for Europe together on a mule-laden steamer ‘in quest of something they could not find in America—something that lay somewhere amid flaming obscurity in that hell of murder beyond the Somme—their soul’s salvation, perhaps.’ They are ‘fed up’ with America’s holding aloof from participation in the struggle. Several of the men take service in the French army and Mr Chambers follows each to his dramatic end. ... Mr Chambers displays bitterness and abhorrence of Germany’s military conduct and employs strong terms in characterizing it.”—Springf’d Republican
“Tales that, if not inspired, are honestly felt and written, and not merely manufactured for an audience or an effect.”
+ =Nation= 105:695 D 20 ‘17 270w
“Mr Chambers expresses much contempt and disapproval of the government of the United States because it did not enter the war at the beginning. Whatever may have been one’s personal opinion upon this matter in former months, such piled-up objurgations in the pages of fiction at this time are in offensively bad taste, to say the least.”
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=Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 40w
“Too bad that the author could not resist the temptation to play up the usual suggestive moments! As a matter of fact, however, they do not particularly detract from a work of great vividness.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ — =Pub W= 92:2030 D 8 ‘17 370w
“The episodes are adroitly conceived and related with grim vividness and feeling.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 200w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Dark star. il *$1.50 (1c) Appleton 17-13501
A Russian princess, a German prima-donna and the young daughter of an American missionary are characters in this war-time romance. As a child in Turkey, Rue Carew had played with the wonder box that had been the property of Herr Conrad Wilner. It held, along with the figure of a Chinese god and other treasures, a series of maps and plans. Years after when she is studying art in Paris, under the protection of her friend, the Russian princess, Rue learns how important these old sketches are. A cable despatch to her childhood friend, Jim Neeland, in America, sends him up to her old home in the Catskills to find the box, which he is instructed to bring at once to Paris. But someone is there before him; the German singer also knows of these plans of the fortifications of the Dardanelles. This is only the beginning of the series of adventures in which he becomes involved and from which, being an American with a touch of Irish blood, he comes out victorious.
“Sensational, but almost without any cloying sentimentality. Appeared in the Cosmopolitan.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17
“Not since Robert Chambers’s early novels has he given us so absorbing a story of adventure as that which he has woven about ‘The dark star.’ In it he gains back the power which made him a magician in the realm of adventure stories, but which has so often been lost sight of in his later novels.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1000w
“A lava-spouting, rambunctious, movie-play kind of an entertainment. ... But Mr Chambers never forgets the marshmallows, and the dainty makes its appearance, as luscious as ever, at the proper time.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 670w
“This is not only a very stirring tale, but is the best-written novel Mr Chambers has produced since the outbreak of the war.”
=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 270w
=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Jimmy’s wife. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 17-2485
When they separated, Jimmy’s wife had exacted from him a promise. He was never to recognize her should they meet in public. This much of his story Jimmy tells to Rev. and Mrs Horace Venn when he comes to live in their parish, and Mrs Venn, who tells the story, begins immediately to take an interest in Jimmy’s wife. She has reason to believe that one of two women is the lady in question. But which? Circumstances point sometimes to one, sometimes to the other. At the end the war breaks in on the events of the story, as it does in so many English novels of the day. It helps to solve the problem of Jimmy and his wife without in any way curbing the sprightliness of the narrative.
“There are clever touches, evidently from close observation of real life. The author is smart, but not truthful, in the scenes wherein she presents the daily conversation in the rector’s family life. ... The principal blemish of the book is the writer’s evident satisfaction in her own mental dash and alertness.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 280w
=Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 110w
“The dominant situation resembles that of Mr Hay’s very clever tale of ‘The man who forgot.’ The conversations are the strong point of the novel.”
=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 300w
=CHAMPNEY, ELIZABETH (WILLIAMS) (MRS JAMES WELLS CHAMPNEY), and CHAMPNEY, FRÈRE.= Romance of old Japan. il *$3.50 Putnam 398.2 17-30304
Colorful, atmospheric, this volume which is uniform with “Romance of old Belgium” traces the legends of the flowery isles—“traces the floating bubbles of romance which reveal the deeper tide of history.” There are the legends of the age of mythology, of mediæval days and of later times, legends in prose and verse with illustrations that bear out the spirit of the tales. The most tangible chapter of the book is the closing one, “Notable examples of Japanese architecture,” contributed by Frère Champney who is an acknowledged authority on the subject.
+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 90w
“It is not a scholarly work in any sense. The authors are careless of or indifferent to sources, and they handle their material with a romantic disregard for anything save its lurking charm. To this uncritical attitude is attached the further fault of a too unselective catholicity.”
– + =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 180w
“Both in text and illustration this volume well carries out its authors’ aim.”
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 30w
“Lastly come the more modern romances suggestive of ‘Madame Butterfly.’ These tales lose something of the romantic reality and flavor of their precursors ... partly because the materialistic present seems to render ridiculous the sweetly appropriate actions of a halo-ed past when life was poetry, before a sense of humor had been born.” Ruth Stanley-Brown
+ — =Pub W= 92:2029 D 8 ‘17 620w
+ =Spec= 119:683 D 8 ‘17 40w
“The volume is a pleasant doorway into the literature of old Japan.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 230w
“It is a pleasantly got up book, well illustrated, and by no means as lengthy as the number of its pages might imply.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 N 29 ‘17 70w
=CHAN, SHIU WONG.= Chinese cook book. il *$1.50 Stokes 641.5 17-25804
More than one hundred tested recipes of palatable Chinese dishes, explicit enough for every housewife and practicable for the restauranteur. Aside from the novelty of the dishes, the recipes are to be recommended for the success they achieve in furnishing a desirable mixed diet. One feature that recommends itself to housewives who are practicing Hoover restraint and economy is the substitution of peanut oil for butter.
“The directions are so explicit that a woman with little experience can follow them.”
+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 300w
=CHANNING, EDWARD.= History of the United States. 8v v 4 *$2.75 Macmillan 973 (5-11649)
=v 4= “This history deals with the period from 1789-1815, when Federalists and Republicans were the dominant political parties. Earlier volumes deal with the planting of a nation in the new world (1000-1660), a century of colonial history (1660-1760), and the American revolution (1761-1789). Eventually there will be eight volumes. ... The work represents an effort to search out the truth of statements of earlier writers, to analyze anew original material and to turn fresh light upon a period that is little understood by the average American and even among specialists is a subject of dispute and much disagreement. The notes and bibliography are especially valuable.”—Springf’d Republican
“The discriminating reader will note the success with which Professor Channing solves his problem of writing a new book which is not merely a re-statement of what he wrote in the twelfth volume of the ‘American nation.’ It does not seem extravagant to say that for the period with which this volume deals Professor Channing must be regarded as having set a new light in the historical heavens in the United States which none of his successors will ignore. The most important general feature of the volume is that the author irons out the New England crimps that have long been noted in the history of this period. ... By a fresh examination of documents, with his mind divested of the ideas that he got from the older books, he composes his own narrative in which appears no sectional bias of either conscious or unconscious origin.” J: S. Bassett
* + =Am Hist R= 23:189 O ‘17 1600w
“Special mention should be made of those chapters which deal with the organization of the new federal government, the rise of political parties, and the downfall of federalism.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:793 N ‘17 60w
+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 60w
“Professor Channing’s work is a little difficult to appraise justly. It is substantial, informing, and useful; one could not well afford to leave it off one’s shelves. Yet there is little, if anything, new in it. Perhaps this is as it should be in such a work. Nor are there new interpretations or evidences of very keen insight. ... Still if this work fails to show, as one might wish, the evolution of society in America, the meaning of events, and the influences of ideas, it is a useful reference work, an ever-ready friend in time of need, which all who are interested in American history should hasten to buy.” W: E. Dodd
* + =Dial= 63:60 Jl 19 ‘17 2100w
“Valuable as Professor Channing’s work is, and indispensable as it is bound to become to the student of the history of the United States, we still think that the historian who performs his function rightly must deal not only with facts, but also with ideas, institutions, and the operation of historical and social forces, and must include the interpretation of evidence among his necessary attributes.”
* + – =Nation= 105:692 D 20 ‘17 1850w
“The reader will be mistaken if he comes to the conclusion that he might as well turn back to his Hildreth and Schouler. Not so. Professor Channing does not write with the scissors and paste pot. He turns every topic over and views it in the light of the last results of historical research. ... There are many such judgments in Mr Channing’s pages, judgments that betray penetration and that long thoughtfulness which mark the true scholar off from the cheap critic and cheaper chauvinist. They betray also a mind of great natural powers, which, had it been devoted to a different type of historical construction, could have contributed still more to our understanding of the early phases of American politics.” C: A. Beard
+ =New Repub= 11:282 Jl 7 ‘17 1250w
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 110w
“Of all the American historians with whom we are acquainted, he is the most supremely dispassionate and impartial.”
+ =Spec= 120:16 Ja 5 ‘18 1800w
“The work is not easy reading, but it is not designed for popularity. Rather does it meet the needs of the student who would go into the complex currents of that day in search of a better understanding of the beginnings of this government.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 450w
=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Greenwich village. il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 974.71 17-30045
In spite of “our great streets, hemmed by stone and marble and glittering plate glass, crowded with kaleidoscopic cosmopolitan traffic, ceaselessly resonant with twentieth century activity,” Father Knickerbocker still “has a sanctuary, a haven after his own heart, where he can still draw a breath of relief, among buildings small but full of age and dignity and with the look of homes about them; on restful, crooked little streets where there remain trees and grassplots; in the old-time purlieus of Washington square and Greenwich village!” Browsing among Manhattan’s oldest records the writer has gleaned history, tradition and romance from the records that hold immortal the quaintest section of New York. She has also caught in her pages the magic of the village that holds Bohemia under its spell today. It is a very personal and careful handling of the personal soul of the village that has engaged the author of “Wonder tales from Wagner.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“Miss Chapin has diligently assembled all the points of interest in this holiday volume, to which Allan Gilbert Cram contributes sixteen full-page illustrations. They have produced a charming memorial of one of the most interesting spots in America.”
+ =Lit D= 55:38 D 8 ‘17 120w
=Nation= 105:612 N 29 ‘17 90w
“An interesting and attractive book. The author has studied her subject with care and in detail, and the artist has made charming drawings of the Washington arch and Milligan place, of Jefferson market and old St John’s. The book is pleasing, too, in its binding and general makeup.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 780w
=CHAPIN, CHARLES VALUE.= How to avoid infection. (Harvard health talks) *50c Harvard univ. press 614.4 17-7060
“The present essay is one of a series of lectures sent out from the Harvard medical school on subjects of general medical interest. In this booklet [of 88 pages] Dr Charles V. Chapin tells us ‘How to avoid infection’ in terms that all can understand and in ways that all can follow. A discussion of bacteria and bacterial diseases is followed by a clear and concise statement of the more simple means at our disposal of safeguarding our health from the more prevalent troubles, especially those connected with the public drinking cup and public towel.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 13:381 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 10w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 100w
“Not often is the needed authoritative information made available in a form so compact and so interesting as that of Dr Chapin’s little pocket volume. It illustrates the changed emphasis from cure to prevention.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 150w
“Admirably practical and concise statement of the modes of infection and how a person or community may avoid them. By the author of ‘Sources and modes of infection.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:216 Jl ‘17 30w
=CHAPIN, FRANCIS STUART.= Historical introduction to social economy. il *$2 (3c) Century 330.9 17-25499
A study, in the light of present progress, of contrasting types of industrial organizations at different historical periods, and of public and private efforts made to relieve the poverty of each period. Elementary in treatment, the volume meets the need of a textbook for an introductory study in the history of social economy. Problems of early Greek and Roman civilization are reviewed; likewise, the industrial development at the end of the middle ages and the great social revolutions of modern times. The transition from remedial to constructive charity and preventive philanthropy is the theme for the closing chapters.
Reviewed by S. A. Queen
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:549 Ja ‘18 220w
“As far as it goes Professor Chapin’s ‘Social economy,’ is a stimulating and valuable book.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 420w
“The work is important in its analysis of the recurrent agrarian problems, particularly land distribution, of the productive systems of slavery and free labor, and of the historical changes in industrial organization.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 24 ‘18 500w
“It is rather a wide subject for 300 pages, and it is necessarily a little sketchy. As a general introduction to a great subject the book is sound and valuable.” I. C. Hannah
+ — =Survey= 39:150 N 10 ‘17 140w
=CHAPIN, HENRY DWIGHT.= Health first; the fine art of living. *$1.50 (3½c) Century 614 17-23809
An essentially common-sense book by a New York physician of long experience and high standing. He says: “In order to understand and properly manage any period, we must know the conditions that precede and are liable to follow it, so that we may make the necessary changes in our conduct of life. ... It is believed that in this way life can be prolonged and made more efficient.” (Preface) Dr Chapin therefore discusses, in a series of chapters, rational procedure from infancy to old age and also considers health from the outlook of nutrition, the avoidance of infection, climatic, local and moral influences. A practical book for the use of the individual reader in home or work. The publishers call it a “first aid to the well.”
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 20w
“The book is written in an agreeable, terse, and altogether readable style. It is a volume to be welcomed, to be read and returned to with lasting profit. The author is a recognized authority, of course, on his subject, and he presents it in important detail and interesting form.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 980w
“The few pages devoted to infancy contain more useful information than many a volume written on the subject. The description of adolescence is necessarily incomplete. On the other hand, the chapters on nutrition and infection contain the gist of the subject. ... There probably is no other book that covers the subject so well in so few pages.” Medicus
+ =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 200w
+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 180w
“A reading of the book should stimulate healthful thinking and should lead to the exercise of healthful precautions in daily life. For the application of individual details, however, it were wiser to consult a well-trained physician.” L. A. Jones
+ — =Survey= 39:472 Ja 26 ‘18 250w
=CHAPLIN, ALETHEA.= Treasury of fairy tales. il *50c (1½c) Crowell
Six old fairy tales retold with sympathy and charm, with the necessary expurgation and change to warrant their having a safe bed-time effect. The stories are: Babes in the wood; Puss in boots; Hop o’ my Thumb; Jack and the bean stalk; Red Riding Hood; Cinderella.
=CHAPMAN, ARTHUR.= Out where the West begins, and other western verses. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-7485
The title poem appeared first in a Denver newspaper and it has been copied and re-copied many times. The other poems of the book have a western flavor, too, as some of the titles will show: Cow-puncher philosophy; The sheriff’s report; The diamond hitch; The white man’s road; The herder’s reverie; Little papoose; The old-timer; Out among the big things; The pony express; The homesteader; The mother lode.
=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18
“Mr Chapman phrases the old facile philosophy of ‘God’s out-of-doors’ in a manner not very novel or very attractive in itself. The title poem is merely an inept and sentimental phrasing of the braggadocio of the far West.” Odell Shepard
— =Dial= 63:20 Je 28 ‘17 110w
“Mr Arthur Chapman is one of the most popular of American poets, and he counts among his readers many who are not to be classified as poetry-lovers. Yet what he writes is poetry, imaginative and beautiful, but so filled with human sympathy that it appeals even to those who ordinarily are deaf to rime and rhythm.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1072 Ap 14 ‘17 370w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17
“Some are in cowboy language and nearly all are serious in tone.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 40w
=CHAPMAN, CHARLES FREDERIC.= Practical motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting, il *$1 Motor boating, 119 W. 40th st., N.Y. 797 17-12272
“Twenty-one timely and concise chapters by the editor of Motor Boating upon the subjects of navigation, regulations, lights, buoys, equipment, compasses and charts, piloting, helpful publications, instruments, flags, signals, yachting etiquette, steering, and meals.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) “Especially prepared for the man who takes pride in handling his own boat and getting the greatest enjoyment out of cruising; adapted for the yachtsman interested in fitting himself to be of service to his government in time of war.” (Sub-title)
=A L A Bkl= 13:432 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p10 Ap ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 30w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 30w
=CHAPMAN, JAMES CROSBY, and RUSH, GRACE PREYER.= Scientific measurement of classroom products. il $1.25 Silver 371.3 17-9714
A book which “describes quite clearly—in fact, often as to a child or a moron—the several scales that have been devised for the measurement of ability in arithmetic, handwriting, reading, spelling, English composition, completion of sentences, and drawing. The authors regard the application of scientific measurement to school products as ‘the greatest contribution which has been made to education in the last ten years’; but they do not minimize the difficulties to be met with in the application of the various methods devised, and counsel caution to the over-enthusiastic convert.” (Nation) There is a three-page bibliography.
+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 80w
“The writer of a text on educational measurement takes upon himself the responsibility of (1) selecting the best representative scales and standard tests to put before teachers, (2) evaluating these carefully, (3) presenting them in non-technical language, (4) showing how they can be and are being used to set standards of attainment and to improve teaching in a very definite way, and (5) supplying the teacher with a completely organized and well-annotated bibliography of tests and scales that are now available. ‘The scientific measurement of classroom products’ is deficient on nearly every one of these counts. ... Because of all these deficiencies, we do not commend this publication as a representative discussion in the field of educational measurement.”
* – – =El School J= 17:765 Je ‘17 1150w
=Nation= 105:259 S 6 ‘17 360w
=CHAPMAN, VICTOR EMMANUEL.= Victor Chapman’s letters from France. il *$1.25 Macmillan 940.91 17-14800
Victor Chapman was a young American who was killed at Verdun in June, 1916. He was in Paris studying architecture in the summer of 1914, and he enlisted at once in the Foreign legion, and became a member of the Franco-American flying corps. This book consists largely, as its title states, of his letters written from France, but there is also a memoir, written by his father John Jay Chapman, together with other tributes.
“Remarkable letters, spontaneous and without self-consciousness.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17
“His letters, more than all the short sketch which precedes them, show us the young legionnaire and aviator in his true colors—as one to whom danger was life itself, to whom pretension and heroics were as foreign as fear, who took life, so be it a life of action, as a glorious adventure, and death as the most natural and perhaps the most glorious adventure of all.” R. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 470w
“The memoir by his father is an emotionally reserved but curiously vivid sketch of the young Victor.”
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 130w
“Victor’s letters should endear him to readers principally for the whole-hearted enthusiasm shown for the cause for which he fought and for his boyish naïveté and buoyant youthfulness. The letters are interesting as revelations of character. They shed a strong and illuminating light on trench conditions and the every-day experiences of soldiers in France. It is a book of touching and pathetic as well as inspiring revelations.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 200w
+ =Nation= 105:462 O 25 ‘17 200w
“His letters express his passion for landscape, for the French countryside he could look down on, for the clouds near which he was so much at home. He and his mother come to life again, and will live with a tragic intensity forever, in this ‘Memoir,’ where Mr Chapman speaks of them with a passion of candor that is lonelier than any reticence.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:22 Ag 4 ‘17 1450w
“They are graphic letters that show imaginative feeling and unusual faculty for literary expression, and they are filled with details of his daily life and duties and reflect the keen satisfaction he was taking in his experiences.”
=N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 650w
=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 100w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 120w
=CHASE, MARY ELLEN.= Virginia of Elk Creek valley. il *$1.35 (3c) Page 17-10859
This book is a sequel to “The girl from the Big Horn country,” published in 1916, which told how Virginia Hunter left her father’s cattle ranch in Wyoming and went east to school. In the new volume, practically all the action takes place on or near the ranch which is Virginia’s home, and to which she invites her eastern friends in the summer vacation. The only love affair in the story is that of Virginia’s Aunt Nan, and that is touched on but lightly.
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= House with the mezzanine, and other stories; tr. from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-22089
“My life,” the longest of the seven stories, takes up about half the book. The other stories are: The house with the mezzanine; Typhus; Gooseberries; In exile; The lady with the toy dog; Goussiev. “The lady with the toy dog” appears in the third volume of Chekhov’s tales translated by Mrs Garnett and published by Macmillan as “The lady with the dog.”
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w
“Chekhov, with the subtle skill of the etcher, transforms the ordinary into the artistic. This is his miracle of creation.” L: S. Friedland
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 12 ‘18 300w
“He is, above all things, a lover of beauty. If he were not, he could not hate ugliness so much. ... In the present volume his sensitiveness becomes almost morbid. ... Tchekoff is an artist, not a propagandist, and he holds out no panacea for the conditions he portrays. But he places a suggestion in the mouth of Misrail, the ineffectual, wasted idealist, that is very significant—i.e., that in order that man should not enslave his fellows, nor build up a prison house of greed and egotism about himself, ‘it was necessary that all without exception—the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor—should share equally in the struggle for existence, every man for himself, and in that respect there was no better means of leveling than physical labor and compulsory service for all.’ ... The world is coming to see that universal service of one sort or another is a national duty. ... William James has offered it as a substitute for war. Tchekoff offers it as a necessity of peace.”
=N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w
“The popularity of Anton Chekhov, or at any rate, the attempt to popularize him, is evidenced from the fact that two publishers are concurrently bringing out what must eventually be his complete works. ... There is much overlapping, and as even the most enthusiastic Russophile would not want both sets, the question comes to one of translation. Cursory comparisons fail to settle the question. Mrs Garnett has probably rendered more Russian into English than has Mr Cannan, but Mr Cannan is not unskilled, and imparts a finish to the work, which does not mean lack of fidelity to the original, that makes it read as smoothly as does Mrs Garnett’s version, which is no mean praise.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 330w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Lady with the dog, and other stories; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-15285
“This is the third volume out of the six in which Mrs Garnett’s translations of Tchehov’s tales are to be issued.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “One or two of the stories have already appeared in different translations.” (Boston Transcript) The longest of the nine tales, “An anonymous story,” takes up about a third of the book. The other stories are: The lady with the dog; A doctor’s visit; An upheaval; Ionitch; The head of the family; The black monk (a story of madness); Volodya; The husband.
“Any one with a turn for sampling stories by looking at the last page might well be put off by the uniform ending of these tales in suicide, disillusionment, or gross abandonment to the sensual sty, and suspect a formula of pessimism and tragedy on the author’s part. But they are various enough in theme, if monotonously grim in colouring; and they belong to various periods in Chekhov’s life, the most poetical of them, ‘The black monk,’ having appeared in English as long ago as 1903.”
=Ath= p416 Ag ‘17 280w
“It is said that among the more modern masters of Russian fiction, Chekhov is accorded the first place by his own people. No doubt it takes a Russian fully to appreciate the significance of this, for the writings of Chekhov lack the extraordinary beauty of Sologub’s, the simple charm of Kuprin’s, the deep tragedy of Andreiev’s and the tensity of Maxim Gorky’s. But as the characteristics of all these writers are to be found in Chekhov’s pages, together with a distinct individuality, perhaps he really does give a saner and more truly typical picture of his people, thus explaining the veneration in which his memory and writings are said to be held in Russia. ... ‘A doctor’s visit’ is the unforgettable story of the book. It seems to us to be one of the finest stories of capital and labor ever written.” J. F. S.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 650w
+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w
“Mr Edward Garnett has said that Chekhov is ‘an unflinching realist, with a poet’s sensitiveness to beauty.’ ‘A true realist’ might better express it all, if we were to permit the phrase its higher meaning. ... Hapless mortals, striving vainly for self-fulfilment, for happiness; frustrate in the end, but not ignoble: such are the figures with which this little world of Chekhov’s is mainly peopled.”
=Nation= 105:70 Jl 19 ‘17 400w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 20w
=N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 830w
“In one way or another, that opposition between the claims of the ego and the inevitability of ‘what is going on about us’ is almost as persistent in Tchehov as it is in the novels of Mr Hardy. ... Life interested him, hurt him, puzzled him; and the more it puzzled him, it might be thought, the more urgently he felt the need of expressing its effect upon him, touching with the nicest restraint upon the significant though homely details which emphasized the puzzling interest by bringing it to the very doors of his Russian readers. An English reader who does not know Tchehov’s Russia can never, perhaps, appreciate the full force of those details; but many, perhaps most of them, stand good for any civilized country of the modern world.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p306 Je 28 ‘17 1200w
“Chekhov can forgive any sin of the body or the mind except the sin against the Holy Ghost—the failure to understand the joys and sorrows of the imagination.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 500w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Party, and other stories. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-23646
This is the fourth volume in the new series of Chekhov’s tales translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Contents: The party; Terror; A woman’s kingdom; A problem; The kiss; “Anna on the neck”; The teacher of literature; Not wanted; Typhus; A misfortune; A trifle from life. Another translation of “Typhus” appears in Chekhov’s “House with the mezzanine, and other stories,” published by Scribner.
“This volume includes eleven tales of a high level of merit. While there is considerable diversity in the subjects and methods of treatment, the general sombre atmosphere and feeling of uneasiness and dissatisfaction make it desirable that the tales should be taken singly in order to be fully appreciated.”
+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 140w
“There are eleven tales in this volume, and in none of them is life found anything better than unintelligible. The sweetness and spirituality have been carefully extracted from life, and there is left a sort of carnival of sordidness and inconsequence which is like a nightmare of the soul. It is nothing to say that these tales are not Christian. They are not even in the nobler tradition of paganism.”
— =Cath World= 106:689 F ‘18 360w
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
* + =Dial= 64:27 Ja 3 ‘18 2350w
“Chekhov, in ‘The party and other stories,’ shows himself again a master of the art of character drawing. With all its power, however, the book, like so much of Chekhov’s work, is depressing and gloomy. Its keynote is human feebleness, human futility. There is not one instance in it of a man or woman fighting against and overcoming adverse circumstances by force of will.”
+ — =Ind= 93:150 Ja 26 ‘18 150w
“If we really wish to understand Russia, we have much to learn from Chekov. Read ‘The party’ and you will know at least something of the life of the intelligent upper classes of the provinces. ... Chekov is concerned mainly with middle class and aristocratic life, fundamentally in a false position among the benighted and exploited millions. Inevitably there is much that is pathological in life thus artificially limited, much that is corrupt and more that is futile. The effect is sometimes depressing, but no intelligent reader would wish it relieved. Chekov gives us nothing that we do not need to know, if we wish to understand Russia.” Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 13:sup12 N 17 ‘17 320w
“‘The party’ is a terrifying piece of realism, indicting the ordinary artificialities of life with a power which would seem as excessive as that used to break the proverbial butterfly on the wheel, if we were not at the same time made to feel that an existence made up of these artificialities is spiritually and even physically ruinous—a lingering death-in-life. Chekhov is the modern Preacher. An evil hath he seen under the sun.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 670w
+ =Outlook= 117:134 O 3 ‘17 20w
“‘The party’ is a powerful, grimly realistic tale.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 70w
=CHENEY, SHELDON.= Art theatre. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 792 17-30697
A study of the art theatre, its ideals, its organization and its promise as a corrective for present playhouse evils. The writer believes that the art theatre must become the corrective first for the shortcomings of the little theatre. His point of view differs from that of some of the writers about little theatres, in that he considers the little theatre only a step towards something better. “In all the excitement about little theatres we are in danger of losing sight of the higher ideal—the art theatre.” Next the art theatre must correct the evils of the commercialized theatre with its destructive practice of creating and exploiting “stars.” The real art of the theatre, he thinks, must be established thru the development of fixed local playhouses with resident companies dedicated to repertory production of the best that dramatic art has to offer.
“As a man of experience and vision, he does not fall into the error of trying to ‘uplift’ the commercial theater. It can’t be done, and he knows it.” L: Gardy
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ja 12 ‘18 730w
“Deals to a certain extent with the same subject as Mr Dickinson’s book, but views it from so different an angle and discusses it with so different an individuality that the two books admirably supplement each other and should both be read by any one who desires all the illumination of the question it is possible to have. A chapter of bibliography, with running comment upon the books mentioned, will add greatly to the book’s value to the student.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 300w
“What these theaters mean in the process of the democratization in our national life, and in the development of a fresh and vital art impulse, Mr Sheldon Cheney tells us in a stirring and captivating book.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:107 Ja ‘18 350w
=CHÉRADAME, ANDRÉ.= Pangerman plot unmasked; Berlin’s formidable peace-trap of “the drawn war”; with an introd. by Lord Cromer. il *$1.25 (2c) Scribner 327.4 17-1796
“By pan-Germanism Mr Chéradame means ‘the doctrine, of purely Prussian origin, which aims at annexing all the various regions, irrespective of race or language, of which the possession is deemed useful to the power of the Hohenzollerns.’ This doctrine, the author claims, is one of steady growth and accretion, and a realization of it has already been on the verge of achievement. He holds even that acceptance of the German offer of a drawn game would make it real within a decade at the furthest.”—Lit D
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:305 Ap ‘17
“To review the book adequately would be to quote it in its entirety, for every page is of significance. It is by all means the most pregnant volume on the deeper issues of the war that has come under our eyes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 31 ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 60w
“Useful for its vigorous handling of the geographical issues involved.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 62:96 F 8 ‘17 30w
=Ind= 89:558 Mr 26 ‘17 110w
“Mr Chéradame has concentrated on this subject for over twenty years, in studies in the very lands now occupied or directed by the Germans.”
+ =Lit D= 54:413 F 17 ‘17 350w
“The neutral nations are vitally concerned in this. ... His book is arresting, pertinent, unforgettably challenging to serious thought.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 750w
“It is not surprising that M. Chéradame, an eager student of international politics from his youth up, and a pupil of Albert Sorel, should have derived from these sources a point of view quite different from that of the ordinary French or English official diplomatist. ... Entirely apart from any conclusions that may be thought speculative, there are in this book of M. Chéradame’s certain truths of fundamental importance which ought to be widely appreciated, especially in the United States.”
+ =No Am= 206:477 S ‘17 1000w
=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:73 Mr ‘17
“We cannot commend to our readers a better collection of facts from which to derive a wise caution at this critical turn of events than is contained in this important work. ... Pan-Germanism, which was the source of the war, aims at creating a great military empire stretching from the North sea to the Persian gulf. ... Even as the situation is, Germany has executed nine-tenths of the pan-German plan of 1911. ... The substance of the whole book is a most impressive political argument, very cogent and extraordinarily opportune.”
+ =Spec= 117:805 D 23 ‘16 2050w
“No British writer has so firm a grip as M. Chéradame upon the countless ramifications of the pan-German movement.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p618 D 21 ‘16 850w
=CHESTERTON, CECIL EDWARD.= Perils of peace; with an introd. by Hilaire Belloc. *2s T. W. Laurie, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20285)
“Mr Chesterton’s book is a warning against any compromise or patched-up peace with the enemy, of which he considers there is danger. Three factors in the politics of this country he regards as mainly concerned in the problem: pacificism, with which he associates the names of Mr Macdonald, Mr Snowden, and others; financiers with cosmopolitan concerns; and our system of government by professional politicians. Mr Chesterton is severe upon the ministers in power. Alluding to their decision to fight Germany, he remarks that ‘they achieved the most popular act of their largely misspent lives.’ He considers that if the war proceeds to exhaustion, the Central powers will be exhausted first, and will therefore be obliged to accept the Allies’ terms. A compromise would, for the Allies and especially Great Britain, be disastrous.”—Ath
“We notice some misprints; everywhere Mr Snowden’s name is spelt ‘Snowdon.’”
=Ath= p438 S ‘16 240w
“I do not in the least disagree with Mr Cecil Chesterton in the immediate object of his book, which is, to avert a sudden laying down of our arms. But I see no danger of that: we are far more likely to go on fighting long after there is nothing more to be gained by it. For the rest the book is full of the most frightful nonsense.” G. B. S.
=New Repub= 9:270 Ja 6 ‘17 9000w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Short history of England. *$1.50 (2½c) Lane 942 17-29757
At the start Mr Chesterton challenges the claim of so called popular histories to the word popular. “They are all, nearly without exception, written against the people; and in them the populace is either ignored or elaborately proved to have been wrong.” It is his aim to produce, therefore, a history from the standpoint of the public, one that does not trample upon popular traditions. His book is a small one on a big subject; but as he strides down the centuries of England’s progress he pauses at the epoch-making forces long enough to estimate their power and influence in shaping the nation’s course. He dismisses the detail of transitional happenings with a sentence. He places the crisis in English history at the fall of Richard II where the king and the populace for a moment came together, instead of placing it about the period of the Stuarts. Turning to the present world struggle he sees in defeat nothing before England but the servile state; in success, freedom from a yoke of slavery which is another word for militarism.
=A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18
“You open his pages—perhaps you distrust him and doubt him—but whether you agree with him or disagree, whether you are pleased or annoyed, you inevitably go on reading.”
+ — =Ath= p659 D ‘17 300w
“It is a trifle that a book should be sometimes too exuberant. The main thing is that it should be alive. And Mr Chesterton’s history is not only alive, but kicking. It has so much of the truth of imagination that it may be forgiven for having some of its falsehood as well.”
+ — =Ath= p661 D ‘17 1650w
“On the whole, it is one of his best books, the tendency to verbal display and superficial antithesis being balanced by the demands of a sustained argument.”
+ — =Ath= p683 D ‘17 200w
“This book, a pioneer in historical introspection, must kindle severe criticism for its superficial conclusions, inferentially at least, against the assertion of spirited leadership in transition eras, when the persistence of ‘one good custom should corrupt the world.’ ... However, Mr Chesterton is to be welcomed in this new rôle of political philosopher for the fresh interest he brings.” L. E. Robinson
+ — =Bookm= 46:270 N ‘17 700w
“But it is true of Chesterton’s ‘History of England,’ as it is true of any work of art, that the sanctities which it violates are not so important as the vision which inspires it.” R. K. Hack
* + =Dial= 64:65 Ja 17 ‘18 1450w
“Finally, Chesterton is unable to make his book wholly impartial; it is a partizan history, as bitter against the aristocracy as Macaulay was against the Stuarts and as pro-Catholic as Froude was anti-Catholic. Chesterton is at his best as a historian when he sums up for us the general ‘atmosphere’ of an age or an institution.”
+ — =Ind= 93:128 Ja 19 ‘18 1100w
“Mr Chesterton’s thesis is that the middle ages were the time of true democracy, and that parliamentary government is government by an anti-popular oligarchy. Upon this general theme he has written a strange and fascinating history of England.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:501 N 25 ‘17 700w
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 170w
“We love Mr Chesterton—we could ‘hug him’, as Johnson said of a man in whom he discovered his own preference for rhyme—for his real understanding of and sympathy with the rhetoric and the aristocracy of the eighteenth century. Mr Chesterton’s ‘Short history’ is the wittiest, most eloquent, and discerning essay on the history of England which we have ever happened to read.”
+ =Sat R= 124:395 N 17 ‘17 1100w
“Unsuited, therefore, as Mr Chesterton’s style is to history, it is still less suited to propagandism. ... A paradoxical partisan runs very little chance of winning converts. When we want clear thinking he gives us a jingling antithesis; in the words of Bagehot’s invaluable distinction, he can make a loud argument but not a fine one. ... And yet, when we have counted all the faults of the book, we return to its great outstanding merits: its freshness, its vitality, its interest.”
+ – — =Spec= 119:493 N 3 ‘17 1500w
“Nevertheless the book is a brilliant history of Mr Chesterton’s reactions from English history.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 18 ‘17 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 140w
“It would be vain to review this book as a history of England, for it is interesting only as an expression of Mr Chesterton’s mentality. The historian is well aware that he can only see the past through a glass of many colours, but he knows that the business of his science is to dispel, so far as possible, the distortions of the various media through which historical knowledge is transmitted. But to Mr Chesterton the distortion is the reality.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p564 N 22 ‘17 1550w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Utopia of usurers, and other essays. *$1.25 (4c) Boni & Liveright 304 17-26888
The “Utopia of usurers” is an attack on modern society, with special reference to Great Britain. Mr Chesterton “is up in arms against the terror of a world which shall be ruled—in politics and literature and art and all things else—by its ‘captains of industry.’” (N Y Times) He is particularly concerned about “the way in which the capitalists of today use art and the press for their own purposes. His spleen, it seems, is largely directed against the liberal press.” (Springf’d Republican) Some chapters such as: The amnesty for aggression, The servile state again, and The tower of Bebel, deal with the European war. Other chapters are: The mask of socialism; A workman’s history of England; The French revolution and the Irish; The art of missing the point, etc. Two poems are included: A song of swords and The escape.
=A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17
“The general scope of his latest book, ‘Utopia of usurers,’ is sociological, but it rambles so wildly and discursively through those regions that we doubt if anyone who is diligent enough to read it to the bitter end will have a well-formed idea of his theory of the structure and organization of modern society. ... He gives us the impression of the orator who has a plethora of words and a dearth of ideas and who begins to talk and keeps on talking simply because a multitude of English phrases are at his command and he cannot resist the temptation to use them. ... His wit is not so agile as it once was.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1650w
“The work is an impassioned plea, unmarred by any of the demagogue’s shallow eloquence, for the natural rights of men and the restoration of their earlier liberties. If there is somewhat less than usual of Mr Chesterton’s wit, it is by no means wholly absent; and there is no lack of wisdom, based upon enduring truths and expressed with the clearness of a tocsin.”
+ =Cath World= 106:539 Ja ‘18 400w
Reviewed by E: Sapir
* =Dial= 64:25 Ja 3 ‘18 1650w
“The average literary critic always says that Chesterton is an amusing, entertaining, attractive concocter of paradoxes but that he is not sincere and must not be taken seriously. Chesterton’s latest volume is neither amusing nor attractive, it is certainly the least enjoyable book which he has ever written, but it has a savage earnestness that puts the charge of insincerity out of court completely.”
+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 350w
“The ‘Utopia of usurers’ is distinctly among the ‘negative’ creations of Chesterton, and it takes high rank among those creations. Like all his iconoclastic works, the ‘Utopia’ is a negation only in an objective sense: it is destruction which is positive in its purpose. Chesterton’s natural weapon is the hammer of Thor—in the service of Christ. And in his latest book he utilizes this ancient weapon against something very modern and vital, indeed—capitalism.” E. J. Mayer
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 25 ‘17 1000w
“He sums up the advocacy of eugenics as ‘one of the most strange, simple, and horrible ideas that have ever risen from the deep pit of original sin.’ He is against the ‘social reforms’ of modern government with all the strength of his being. Of the view of English history which is ‘current at public schools and colleges, part of the culture of all the classes that count for much in government,’ he says flatly: ‘There is not one word of truth in it from beginning to end.’ He is the reactionary radical here as elsewhere. Some of his essays are exceedingly dogmatic. With some of his passionate convictions the reader will not agree. But every page of the book is interesting.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:448 N 4 ‘17 1150w
“He who possesses the rhetorical power of Mr Chesterton and uses that power to falsify current history, misinterpret motives, and stir up class hatred is guilty of a crime against humanity.”
— =Outlook= 117:518 N 28 ‘17 240w
“‘Utopia of usurers’ is Chesterton a little grouchy, but Chesterton at his best or very near his best. The object of the satirist’s attack is modern plutocratic society, and, if he is not always at pains to distinguish what is bad from what is good in that society he is always amusing, without being too paradoxical to be pointless.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 1400w
=CHEVRILLON, ANDRÉ.= England and the war (1914-1915). *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 940.91 17-15314
M. Chevrillon, a nephew of Taine, has lived in England, has many English friends, and has visited outlying parts of the empire. Rudyard Kipling says in his preface to the volume that Chevrillon writes “with the knowledge of the psychologist and the profound sympathy of one long acquainted with our lives, our history, and the expression, formal or idiomatic, of our thoughts.” The book is “a psychological study of the English mind in the first eighteen months of war.” (Dial) It tells how “England awoke from a mood of self-complacency to the consciousness of being engaged in a life and death struggle; how a dead weight of cherished traditions, habits, and prejudices, all connected with much that is best in her life, was cast aside; and how her scattered and incoherent energies were welded into one collective and disciplined will.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) All this is discussed under the captions: Public opinion; The illusion of security; The appeal to conscience; The men; The need of adaptation; Adaptation; To-day and to-morrow. The papers were first published in the Revue de Paris from November, 1915, to January, 1916.
“His book is not history in the technical sense. But it is the raw material of history and of the greatest value. The French quickness of understanding and ability to put oneself in another’s place come here to the advantage of the future historian.” G. B. A.
+ =Am Hist R= 23:432 Ja ‘18 550w
=A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17
“The best treatment of that aspect of events [national psychology] that has yet appeared, and much of it is applicable, for one reason or another to life on this side of the Atlantic.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 240w
+ =Cath World= 106:397 D ‘17 310w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 70w
“When allowance for the human fact of conviction is made this is the best interim study of the English attitude the war has so far produced.” H. J. Laski
+ — =Dial= 63:53 Jl 19 ‘17 1900w
“Tho M. Chevrillon’s study does not surpass or, indeed, nearly equal that revelation of the English mind presented by Mr H. G. Wells, yet skilfully made is his clean cut distinction between the British sporting conception of war and the German vision of its glory.”
+ — =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 200w
“This may be regarded as the thesis of the book, the power of religion and an inborn sense of duty to take the place of intelligent governmental control before a great and sudden emergency. As coming from a clear-eyed Frenchman, this study of a national temperament very different from his own is peculiarly valuable.”
+ =Nation= 105:128 Ag 2 ‘17 200w
“It ought to be read by Americans as much for the light it throws on our own processes as for the sake of making us understand better our English cousins.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 800w
“M. Chevrillon is, of course, no such theorist as was Taine; but he has a very similar sensitiveness to national character and a like gift of selecting and developing the essential elements. In this there is something more than simple thesis-building or than unambitious description. It is a combination, so to speak, of trenchant analysis with artistic handling, of intellectual and moral honesty with the desire to please. Like Taine, too, M. Chevrillon is perhaps a little prone to exaggerate. But to exaggerate only in the interests of clearness! If M. Chevrillon’s book really expresses in any degree the attitude of France toward England, it is reasonable to expect that there will be not merely a continued alliance between these two peoples, but a true and enduring friendship.”
+ =No Am= 206:637 O ‘17 1000w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 110w
“Some of this comment has been made obsolete by later developments. But, as a study of the English mind in contrast with the German, the book is interesting and it may also prove useful as a piece of friendly criticism.”
+ — =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 100w
“A piece of contemporary history which has, we think, a permanent value.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 180w
“If there is any one deficiency in a narrative and in comments vivid, pointed, and studiously fair, it is a somewhat insufficient appreciation of the work of the navy in our days of limited military inactivity.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 1350w
=CHILDS, LESLIE.= Legal points for automobile owners. 50c (7c) Ogilvie 629.2 17-14172
“The compiler has endeavored to set out, in a few words, the general rules governing the operation of automobiles, and the liabilities for violations thereof. This is in no sense a text book, is not intended for the use of lawyers, or others learned in the law, but for the man in the street, the farmer, the business or professional man, in fact any owner of a car.” (Preface) Among the points covered are: The employer’s liability for acts of his chauffeur; On turning corners; Frightening horses; When required to stop; Unregistered automobile; Unlicensed chauffeur; Lending your automobile.
+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:664 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17
=CHILDS, W. J.= Across Asia Minor on foot. il *$4 (2½c) Dodd 915.6 (Eng ed 17-26394)
The author started from Samsûn on the Black sea and traveled, by a somewhat devious route, to Alexandretta on the Mediterranean. His experiences were pleasant ones and he writes of them entertainingly. He says, “Only in the quality of adventure did realisation fall short of what might have been expected. Brigandage and robbery, fighting between troops and deserters, murder and forcible abductions—affairs of this kind took place before and behind me, but I missed them ever, sometimes by days, sometimes only by hours, and moved always, it seemed, in the peaceful intervals between storms. For this reason no blood-shedding, no hair-breadth escapes will be found in the narrative.” His journey was taken in the days before the war and he met with universal kindness, from American, German, Turk, Armenian and Greek. In his last chapter he touches on the international significance of the undeveloped resources of Asia Minor.
“Incidentally sheds light on the Armenian situation before the war and the German plan for a railway to Bagdad.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:397 Je ‘17
“Not only lovers of travel but those readers desiring to understand as much as possible local conditions in the various fighting areas of the war will find Mr Childs’ book a revelation. ... For on the same battle-scarred terrain where Alexander and Cæsar fought for that world hegemony only the control of the travel route to India and the Far East could give the armies of the Allies are fighting today.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 800w
“A tale of adventure of never slackening interest from beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 200w
=Pittsburgh= 22:677 O ‘17 60w
“The illustrations are attractive, but we are rather surprised that an obviously competent writer has forgotten the detail of an index.”
+ =Sat R= 123:233 Mr 10 ‘17 830w
“Exceptionally attractive and brilliant book of travel. ... Mr Childs does not devote much space to politics. He has too many other subjects to deal with, and, like Borrow, prefers the wind on the heath or a night in a crowded tavern among alien folk to debating high matters of state. But his shrewd estimates of the native peoples are fresh and valuable.”
+ =Spec= 118:273 Mr 3 ‘17 1950w
“To some not the least interesting part of the book is the indication constantly given as the traveller gets farther south of the large far-seeing policy which the Germans have for the last twenty years been slowly, quietly, and consistently carrying out in the East. ... We are grateful for a book which enables us to share the romance of one great road before the railway opens up its hidden places and destroys its guarded secrets.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p221 My 10 ‘17 1350w
=CHITWOOD, OLIVER PERRY.= Immediate causes of the great war. *$1.35 (3c) Crowell 940.91 17-13588
“The object of this volume is to narrate briefly the direct causes of the European war as they are given in the published documents of the belligerents. These sources are abundantly adequate for determining the immediate responsibility of each nation and apportioning the guilt for this great crime.” (Preface) The author is professor of European history in West Virginia university, and he says that his experience as a teacher has shown him the need for such a work. Contents: Some indirect causes of the war; The assassination of Francis Ferdinand; The Austro-Hungarian note to Serbia; Serbia’s reply to Austria-Hungary; Efforts to prevent war; Efforts to isolate the war; The war area broadens; Great Britain declares war on the Teutonic powers; The violation of the neutrality of Belgium; Japan and Turkey drawn into the conflict; Italy enters the war; The lesser belligerents.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:101 Jl ‘17
“Persons who do not have access to the various official statements of the governments at war, or do not have time to read the evidence therein presented, will find this summary convenient and useful.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 100w
=CHOLMONDELEY, ALICE.= Christine. *$1.35 (2c) Macmillan 17-21644
Reviewers differ from each other as to whether these letters are fact or fiction. The publishers wrote the editor of the Digest on September 13, that “We don’t know and we have no means of finding out.” The letters purport to be written to a mother by a young Englishwoman with a talent for music, who goes to Germany to study the violin, and is in Berlin from May to August, 1914. Christine believes all Germans to be “simple and kindly.” Her disillusionment begins in Frau Berg’s middle-class boarding-house where “she becomes a target for the Anglophobe remarks of the other boarders,” and is continued in the home of a family of the “junker-military-official military set,” where she goes to live later because she has become engaged to a young officer in the Prussian army with a leaning towards music. The point of view of the well-to-do country folk is given when she goes for a short rest to the home of a forester and his wife at Schuppenfelde. The artistic set is represented by her violin teacher, Kloster, who seems to stand “for fearlessness, for freedom, for beauty, for all the great things,” but is silenced when the government “chokes him with the Order of the Red Eagle, First class.” When war comes, Christine’s situation becomes impossible and she starts to join her mother in Switzerland, but contracts pneumonia on the way and dies in a hospital at Stuttgart.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:94 D ‘17
“In style and feeling ‘Christine’ reminds one strongly of ‘Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther’ and other works of the Baroness von Arnim.”
+ =Ath= p526 O ‘17 160w
“It is not often that a collection of letters intended for no eyes but those of a beloved mother turns out to be an amazingly accurate revelation of the real, hidden nature of a great people. ... To the earnest men and women of the time the book is a state document, to the eager story readers an idyll, to the lover of music a perfect interlude, to any reader an hour’s delight.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 2400w
“Whether fact or fiction, they have the ring of truth and spontaneity.”
+ =Cath World= 106:251 N ‘17 300w
“They tell a touching story, and give a vivid, but for artistic purposes, somewhat over-emphasized picture of a whole nation hypnotized by one man.”
+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 80w
“The doubt as to the legitimacy of the letters comes when one reads the initial one, which, like all first letters in epistolary novels, retails to the ostensible recipient all the facts the reader needs to know. And as one reads on, the natural development of events, the study of the actions and reactions of different classes of Germans to war and then to the war, no less than the fluency of the style, seem to indicate that ‘Christine’ is a clever, interesting, but fabricated, narrative.”
+ =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 550w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 80w
“If the volume is indeed what it purports to be—it is a document as significant as any which the war has yet furnished. For, on this assumption, it goes far to wipe out the distinction gladly made by many between the attitude of the German people and that of the German government towards the possibility of a world war. Provided the letters are genuine, they leave little doubt that the great middle class in Germany ardently desired, even before the Sarajevo tragedy, a testing of German arms, and especially with England. If this is not a true history (and we prefer to believe that it is), then we can only deplore the wretched taste of an author who just at this time would dare to confirm our worst suspicions of Germany by an elaborate fiction parading as a document before the fact.”
=Nation= 105:202 Ag 23 ‘17 1000w
“Were ‘Christine’ genuine, it would be impressive. Were ‘Christine’ a ‘human document,’ it would confirm many sickening doubts and fears, it would fortify the indictment of a whole people. But whether those doubts and fears are to be sustained or not, ‘Christine’ will not confirm them or even support them because it is a book obviously composed by a skilful writer of fiction, feeding the appetite for hatred, supplying in detail and with subtle art the ‘confirmation’ which it is natural at this date for groveling natures to relish.” F. H.
— =New Repub= 12:277 O 6 ‘17 1500w
“A book which is true in essentials though it wears the garb of fiction—so real is it that one is tempted to doubt whether it is fiction at all. ... It would be difficult to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people just before and at the very beginning of the war was pictured so clearly, with so much understanding and convincing detail, as it is in this one. The letters are admirably written, revealing an absolutely charming personality.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:285 Ag 5 ‘17 1200w
“Doubtless it is based on ‘genuine’ letters. But we can’t help believing that in editing these letters ‘Alice Cholmondeley’s’ knowledge of the needs of fiction was drawn on repeatedly. And we can’t see that the book—even as a ‘document’—has suffered in consequence. The fact part has not been injured by the fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:358 S 23 ‘17 930w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 40w
+ =Pratt= p50 O ‘17 20w
“It is also odd to find a girl in real life so extraordinarily like one in Mrs Ward’s novels.”
– + =Sat R= 124:509 D 22 ‘17 560w
+ =Spec= 119:389 O 13 ‘17 250w
“The chief value of the letters—assuming the correctness of the author’s observations—is the vivid presentation of the German viewpoint and the analysis of the bumptious, modern-minded, all sufficient, yet fear-haunted Germany that plunged the world into a needless war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
“In one sense, however, it does not matter whether the setting is real or only made up. The matter, in either case, is full of truth. The letters, whether written by an English girl in Berlin before the war, or by a clever story-teller in England during the war, were written by someone who knew Germany and the Germans.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p450 S 20 ‘17 750w
=CHRISTIAN, W. E.= Rhymes of the rookies. *$1 Dodd 811 17-25969
The “sunny side of soldier service” is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. The rhymes have been called the barrack-room ballads of the American soldier, touching, as they do, upon the little monotonies of life in camp. Aside from the short poems there is a glossary of American and English army slang, words to the army trumpet calls and a few hints for first aid.
=A L A Bkl= 14:85 D ‘17
=CHURCH, ALEXANDER HAMILTON.= Manufacturing costs and accounts. diags *$5 McGraw 657 17-3317
“It is the purpose of this book to present the subject of costing in such a way as to bring together the points of view of cost men and of general accountants. ... The book is divided into three parts, the first of which gives a general outline of manufacturing accounts. ... Part 2 opens with a general diagram that, with proper study, makes clear the relationship of the cost records to the main books of account and explains means for unifying the general accounts and the cost system into a consistent whole. The separate features of manufacturing accounts, as outlined in part 1, are then taken up in greater detail. ... Cost system reports and returns for the foreman, superintendent and general executive are suggested and described in part 3. The four chapters making up this part are revised from a series of articles published in the American Machinist in September, 1915.”—Engin News-Rec
“Some question may be raised as to the wisdom of attempting to teach or explain the theory of double entry bookkeeping in the small amount of space allotted to this subject by the author in part one. The book is a notable addition to a library on cost accounting, and to the student who is well grounded in the basic principles of accounting it will prove of considerable value in treating of cost accounts.” A. T. Cameron
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:294 N ‘17 390w
=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 20w
“It is sufficiently elementary in treatment to be recommended as a general textbook on accounting and cost keeping for the use of engineers needing instruction in those subjects.” R. R. Potter
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:150 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
“Mature minds ... will find in it suggestion, explanation, and direction obtainable so far as the reviewer knows, nowhere else.” C: B. Going
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 80w (Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)
=Pratt= p24 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17
=CHURCHILL, MRS MATILDA (FAULKNER).= Letters from my home in India; ed. and arranged by Grace M. Rogers. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 16-22790
The author has spent a lifetime in India. She went to that country as a missionary in 1873 immediately after her marriage. The letters cover the period from that time to the present. In the last letter, written from Nova Scotia, the author’s native home, she expresses her deep joy at the prospect of returning to her labors in the mission field.
“The appeal of sincerity is universal. Hence, however divergent, anent foreign missions, may be the views of the readers of Mrs Churchill’s letters, they will be unanimous in respect to the writer’s unselfish and heroic service.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 18 ‘16 250w
+ =Dial= 61:542 D 14 ‘16 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:14 Ja ‘17
=CHURCHILL, WINSTON.= Dwelling-place of light. il *$1.60 (1c) Macmillan 17-25746
Mr Churchill’s latest novel deals with, but makes no attempt to solve, the industrial problem. “The Massachusetts mill city of Hampton ... appears to be Holyoke to a hair, until an industrial crisis involving the I.W.W. and a dynamite plot on the part of the manufacturers convinces us that we are in Lawrence, with its neighboring Andover.” (Nation) The central figure in the story is Janet Bumpus, whose father, “a racial failure who worships the Bumpus genealogy,” is gate-keeper in the Chippering mill. Janet becomes stenographer and confidential secretary to Claude Ditmar, the manager of the mill, but later joins his enemies, the I.W.W. workers who are handling the strike. Janet’s personal relations with Ditmar, with Rolfe, the I.W.W. leader, and with Brooks Insall, the humanitarian author, are recounted with much detail. Lise, Janet’s sister, who has the temperament of a courtesan, and is “all for easy street,” forms a strong contrast to Janet.
“Though we did not close the book satisfied that we had learnt how and where the mind might be sure of being environed by wisdom, we felt that some of the ways and means of approach had been indicated.”
+ — =Ath= p679 D ‘17 90w
“Somewhat oddly, perhaps, our author is a good deal more chary of laying down the law about industrialism than he was about religion. It almost seems indeed that, three-quarters through his narrative, he gradually withdraws from the problem he has so thoroughly stated, and takes refuge in the personal human story of the girl Janet.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 360w
“With ‘The dwelling-place of light’ Mr Churchill begins what appears to be his third epoch as a novelist. It contains something of each of his earlier manners, but it also involves an archaic tale of unrequited love such as hitherto he has never attempted to tell. He combines this with an ultra-modern portrayal of the sordid conditions of life among the poor, and a tedious account of a strike whose details are very obviously drawn from the activities of a notorious labor organization in a New England manufacturing city a few years ago. ... Doubtless the novelist has written it in a mood of conviction and sincerity, but it does not convey that impression.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1450w
“Frankly, we believe that this novel merits severe condemnation. Any man who, at this stage of our national life, with a war on our hands and many internal dangers and problems to cope with, will publish such a defence of the propaganda of syndicalism and mob-rule, deserves a reprimand.”
— =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 330w
“He is apparently trying to show Theodore Dreiser the high honor of imitation. He has not Dreiser’s savage equipment, and lacks the ponderous sledge-hammer stroke that makes its effect by heavy iteration of details. He lacks, too, the evident sincerity of Dreiser, who, however unpleasant he may be, is always unmistakably in earnest. Mr Churchill is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and the costume suits him not at all.”
— =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 280w
“To the reader of Mr Churchill’s new novel, bewildered and curious at such long-continued philosophizing and analyzing of apparently ordinary characters, will suddenly come a conviction that, under an apparent sameness, there is something entirely new, something intensely vital.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 480w
“Mr Churchill has rendered with extraordinary breadth and sympathy the New England manufacturing city, with its enterprise and its squalor, its huge industrial ‘plants’ driving always remorselessly for increased dividends, its polyglot hordes kept within bounds, for the most part, by the slender but steely filaments of necessity. Claude Ditmar, manager of the Chippering mill, is a striking portrait of the successful American. ... One closes the record with the impression that, as Mr Churchill has solved Janet’s knot by cutting it, he is fain to dispose of the industrial problem by retiring from it, as Janet has done, to some kindlier, mellower atmosphere.”
=Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 650w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 200w
“Mr Churchill will never escape from gentility. He has achieved his position as its favorite interpreter. But the vitality shown in the ‘Dwelling-place of light’ proves how persistent is his faith in its tenets. He can make a place for the I.W.W. in his tradition rather than give up an American mill or an American girl.” F. H.
+ — =New Repub= 12:306 O 13 ‘17 1750w
“The picturing part of the book is an excellent performance, but the preachment of the after effects of freedom in love, and against socialistic and syndicalistic ideas, smacks of that mid-McKinleyan conservatism and prudery out of whose somber shadows America has stepped, for once and for all.” Clement Wood
+ — =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 800w
“He has never hitherto depicted a woman character with quite so much insight, skill, and surety as he portrays Janet Bumpus. ... It is a pleasure to bear witness to the finer, truer taste with which Mr Churchill now writes. Scarcely anywhere in the book does one find any of those occasional lapses which offended so much in his earlier work. But this does not hold true of the ending of the story. Not since the deathbed of Little Eva has there been anything more banal than the last pages of this novel.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1250w
“Mr Churchill is not afraid to present life as it is, and that with unsparing frankness, but also with a spirit of idealism and desire for future national and social advance.”
+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 170w
“One feels that the straight and logical working out of the plot has been distorted in order to furnish the author with vehicle for some of his own social theories. This, however, does not rob the final tragedy of its poignancy, nor detract from the merit of the masterly analysis of a certain type of feminine temperament embodied in Janet.” F: T. Cooper
+ — =Pub W= 92:1371 O 20 ‘17 1050w
“Mr Winston Churchill has been moved to picture the rapidly changing conditions of American social and industrial life in a story of great earnestness and power.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 400w
“It is with thanksgiving that the serious English reader hails the work of those American authors—a select few—whose mental standpoint differs little from his own. Of these writers, sprung from the old American stock, our near relations, Mr Winston Churchill is perhaps the nearest to us. His point of view is indistinguishable from that of a well-educated and large-minded Englishman, and his language is, with a few comprehensible variants, our own. In the course of the story we get a wonderfully clear impression of the heterogeneous mob of workers in an American manufacturing town; and of the dismay with which the old American regards these hordes of foreigners.”
+ =Sat R= 124:374 N 10 ‘17 580w
“In his plot Mr Churchill is less successful than usual. He has evidently taken great pains with Janet’s complex personality; but though every woman, and every man too, may be a bundle of inconsistencies, a heroine, to be credible and sympathetic, must have a more definite character than she seems to possess.”
+ — =Spec= 119:497 N 3 ‘17 560w
“Recently we had the melancholy spectacle of the gifted Mr Galsworthy floundering in the miasma of sex, and now comes Winston Churchill with a story which treads dangerously near the distressing phases of the same theme. There is doubt whether Mr Churchill is marking time, or entering a new epoch in his literary life. For his own well-being, it is to be hoped that the former is the case, for, notwithstanding abundant evidences of his graceful narrative style and ability at vivid portraiture of character, the story adds little, if anything to his achievements.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 900w
“It is a long book and closely thought out; but it is always interesting to read, because Mr Winston Churchill writes with a discernment which is based on knowledge.”
+ =The Times [London]= Lit Sup p540 N 8 ‘17 570w
=CLADEL, JUDITH=, comp. Rodin: the man and his art; with leaves from his notebook; tr. by S. K. Star; with introd. by J. Huneker. il *$5 Century 17-29347
“Mr Huneker opens the book with an introduction in which he says practically all that need be said of Rodin. He tells us in a few paragraphs what is significant in his career; that he mastered the technique of his art by the sweat of his brow, working for other sculptors as an anonym, that he worked for the Sevres porcelain works, [etc]. ... In the biographical chapters the events of Rodin’s life are elaborated and a reasonable perspective is kept, bringing into relief the important moments [of his career]. ... The pages devoted to Rodin’s own notes cover a wide field of comment. Throughout he raises a hymn to work. ... Besides these comments, written from the intense interest of the artist in the reasons and sources of what he observes, there are other notes that are casual or lyric as the spirit prompts.” (N Y Times) “The text is illustrated by about forty beautiful photographs of Rodin’s work.” (A L A Bkl)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17
Reviewed by Kenyon Cox
* =Nation= 105:574 N 22 ‘17 2200w
“Much of the text is touched by the generous but blighting spirit of special pleading and resentment against criticism of Rodin, but biographical information is given of the kind that alone is important in the case of an artist; and the quotations from the note-books have the great value of original and direct expressions upon a subject thoroughly known and deeply felt.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:557 D 16 ‘17 1600w
=CLAPHAM, CHARLES BLANCHARD.= Arithmetic for engineers. (Directly-useful technical ser.) il *$3 Dutton 620.8 17-14150
“This is a comprehensive, practical treatment of the most elementary arts of mathematics, including simple algebra, mensuration, logarithms, graphs and the slide rule. It is written for students of most limited training; in fact, in the endeavor to make all points perfectly clear to this class of readers the explanations and practical examples are given with most comprehensive care.”—Engin Rec
=Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 100w
“The most important feature of the text is the use of at least one practical example to illustrate every principle or procedure described. This results in a fully illustrated volume, filled with stimulating exercises using engineering subjects, presented in a satisfactory form typographically. It should be emphasized, however, that the text is written for elementary students and is in no sense a handbook for reference.”
+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 130w
“The clear detail of the work should commend it wherever a text or home study is desired.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Scientific American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)
“Author is lecturer in engineering and elementary mathematics, University of London.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w
=CLARK, ALEXANDER GRAHAM.= Text book on motor car engineering. 2v v 2 il *$3 Van Nostrand 629.2
=v 2= Design.
Volume 1 dealing with Construction was published in 1912. The subject matter of the present volume is based on the author’s lectures to students in the Polytechnic, London, and it is intended “for the use of engineers, designers, draughtsmen, students and others whose work entails a knowledge of design.” The illustrations number over sixty and there are also numerous tables.
“We cannot praise too highly the clearness of diction and simplicity of expression which prevail throughout the work. Were it not for the illustrations, we should have been at some trouble to find any cause for criticism of the work at all. ... A little more discrimination in regard to the scale of the drawings as reproduced, and the preparation of an entirely new set of half-tones from original photographs, would have enhanced the value of the book to a degree which would be out of all proportion to the additional expenditure involved.”
+ — =Nature= 100:102 O 11 ‘17 1200w
=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER.= How to produce amateur plays. *$1.50 Little 792 17-15178
“A practical handbook whose aim is to demonstrate how dramatic pieces can be produced in an inexpensive, artistic and effective manner. Discussions of the choice of play and cast are followed by three chapters on rehearsing, with detailed consideration of the stage, lighting, scenery and costumes. Selective lists of amateur plays are added. The appendices include a statement on the workings of copyright and royalty and a note on make-up embodied in an article by Miss Grace Griswold. Mr Clark is qualified to discuss his subject and does so in a lucid manner that makes his instructions clear and comprehensible.”—Springf’d Republican
“Covers much the same ground as Taylor but is more direct in method, has a chapter on lighting, and is illustrated both with diagrams and photographs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17
“Such a handbook as Mr Clark’s has often been called for. Its teaching is practical and its doctrine admirable.” Algernon Tassin
+ =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 80w
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w
+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 120w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:218 Jl ‘17 30w
=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER=, ed. Masterpieces of modern Spanish drama; tr. from the Spanish and Catalan. *$2 Duffield 862 17-8763
The three plays presented in this book are “The great Galeoto,” by José Echegaray; “The duchess of San Quentin,” by Benito Pérez-Galdós; and “Daniela,” by Angel Guimerá. The first and third have appeared in English in earlier translations, the third under the title “La pecadora.” A biographical sketch of the author precedes each play. In his preface Mr Clark says, “As may be seen after a cursory reading of the three plays contained in this collection, the Spanish drama of to-day cannot easily be summed up in a few words; the attempt here made is largely with a view to showing something of the genius of a nation whose dramatic products have as yet scarcely begun to receive the attention they so well deserve.”
“Good translations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18
“Echegaray’s ‘The great Galeoto’ is already known through previous translations and public readings; ‘The duchess of San Quentin,’ by Galdós, seems a little facile, theatrical, and old-fashioned. ... Guimerá’s ‘Daniela’ alone, translated from the Catalan by John Garrett Underhill, comes to us with all the force of a new sensation, and this by virtue of the profound and tragic poetry of its theme. ... It is of the great order.”
+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w
“The splendid technique shown in the structure and dialogue of these Spanish dramas is an answer to the slovenly and ill-fitting constructors of plays in other countries. One learns that correctness and certainty of emphasis are not altogether lost arts in the theatre, and one wishes good fortune to the influence of these Spanish playwrights.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:300 Ag 12 ‘17 250w
=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 50w
“Should have a hearty welcome from the public. ... By some slight oversight, Mr Barrett Clark, who has edited the plays and written a most agreeable introduction, states that only ‘The great Galeoto’ has been previously given an English translation. An excellent version of ‘Daniela,’ rather freely translated by Wallace Gillpatrick, was included among the publications of the Hispanic society (Putnam) in 1916.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 5 ‘17 110w
=CLARK, CHARLES EDGAR.= My fifty years in the navy. il *$2.50 (3½c) Little 17-28674
Rear-Admiral Clark was born in Vermont in 1843, graduated from the United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1863, and was retired from the navy in 1905. In this book, he tells the story of his public life up to the time of his retirement. During the Civil war, he served on board the “Ossipee” in the West Gulf blockading squadron for nearly two years, taking an active part in the battle of Mobile bay. In the Spanish-American war, he commanded the “Oregon” on her memorable trip around the Horn to play her part in the battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898. Some thirty pages of chapter twelve are devoted to a log of the “Oregon” as written by an unlettered sailor, who was one of her crew. The addenda include diagrams showing the positions of the American and Spanish ships at the battle of Santiago. There are three portraits of Rear-Admiral Clark and a number of other illustrations.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17
“The author is a prince of raconteurs. The style is simple and direct. The book is well made up; the illustrations few, but good; its index fairly complete. It should be read by all who seek to comprehend the spirit of our navy during the transition from sail to steam.”
+ =Nation= 105:693 D 20 ‘17 800w
“A straightforward narrative of interest to all who love the American navy.”
+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 30w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 330w
=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.=[2] In the footsteps of St Paul. il *2 (2c) Putnam 915.69
An account of the life and labors of St Paul in the light of a personal journey to the cities visited by him. The author has gone over and identified the Apostle’s routes of travel thru Tarsus, Jerusalem, Damascus, Antioch, Iconium, Ephesus, Salonica, Athens, Corinth, and a score of other cities. In reconstructing, as far as possible, the physical background and the scenery of St Paul’s labors, the writer makes his activities more real and vivid. The book seeks its audience among Bible students, Sunday school teachers—all who study the Bible for public or private use.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 19 ‘17 710w
“This book is a boon to many unlikely to have heard of such a masterpiece as Sir William Ramsay’s ‘Paul the traveller and Roman citizen.’”
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 110w
=CLARK, JOHN SCOTT.= Study of English and American writers, v 3 $2 Row, Peterson & co. 820 16-16560
=v 3= The books that have preceded this are “A study of English prose writers” and “A study of English and American poets.” In these three volumes the author has developed a “laboratory method” for use in teaching English literature. The preface to this volume says, “The method consists in determining the particular and distinctive features of the writer’s style (using the term style in its widest sense), in sustaining this analysis by a consensus of critical opinion, in illustrating the particular characteristics of each writer by carefully selected extracts from his works, and in then requiring the pupil to find, in the works of the writer, parallel illustrations.” About sixty-five authors are included. Professor Clark died before the book was ready for publication and his work has been completed by John Price Odell, professor of English in Occidental college, Los Angeles, California.
“Teachers who have not become familiar with the methods of these volumes have missed valuable training.” G: Sherburn
+ =School R= 25:63 Ja ‘17 580w
=CLARK, JOHN SPENCER.= Life and letters of John Fiske. 2v il *$7.50 Houghton 17-27754
“This is the long-awaited official life of the most eminent and the most interesting of later American historians, the work of one of John Fiske’s lifelong friends, who was associated with him in his philosophical studies, and as a member of the publishing house of James R. Osgood & Co. Mr Fiske’s career was a crowded one, and Mr Clark was in touch with it at every point. He tells the story of the famous historian’s New England boyhood, his early literary struggles, his close association with the famous Darwin-Huxley-Spencer group, his life as a lecturer on American history, his friendships, and his contributions to philosophy and literature.”—Lit D
“Mr Clark’s two-volume life shows just why such rich quality of thought and variety of knowledge filled to overflowing all that John Fiske wrote and why he was able to present his great stores to his readers with never failing clarity, simplicity, and impressiveness.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:327 N ‘17 450w
“The story of John Fiske’s life is told by Mr Clark by means of numerous letters with connecting links of a narrative which is frequently verbosely labored and repetitious. It succeeds in giving, however, a faithful account of a notable career and remarkable intellectual achievements, although little revelation is made of the personality of the man.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1350w
“No book of more general interest to a thoughtful reader is likely to appear in a long time; certainly no book presenting a more engaging personality.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 130w
“These two imposing volumes and their subject are mutually worthy of each other. If one is tempted to criticize the amount of space given to the childhood and youth of young Fiske, he soon learns that the subject is worthy of it.”
+ =Lit D= 56:30 Ja 26 ‘18 980w
“A wealth of personal letters and memoranda has been skilfully utilized, and reveals in attractive light the scope of Fiske’s intellectual activities and the warmth of his friendships. Rarely has the home life of a man of letters shown itself possessed of greater simplicity or sincerity than these pages display. In all these respects the work is an addition of permanent value to American biography. As a piece of constructive criticism, on the other hand, Mr Clark’s work is somewhat less satisfactory.”
* + – =Nation= 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 2100w
“His letters to his family [from England], from which Mr Clark makes liberal quotation, afford some of the most graphic and interesting portraitures of the famous people of that day we have had from any source. ... But, interesting as these portraits are, they should not obscure the story of Fiske’s remarkable career, which Mr Clark has told with full detail and with a richness of background and vividness of color that make it one of the notable books of the year and one of the most notable of American biographies.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:569 D 23 ‘17 2250w
“Mr Clark has produced a faithful, comprehensive account of John Fiske’s life. The reader would gladly spare one or two of the author’s mannerisms. But the book, as a whole, is concrete and readable, and there is no emphasis on questions of philosophy beyond the point to which the average reader will care to go.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 2300w
=CLARK, KEITH.= Spell of Scotland. il *$2.50 Page 914.1 16-23814
“This is one of the interesting ‘Spell’ series. Like its predecessors, it unites description with reminiscences of travel and appreciation of famous sights, antiquities, and landscape beauties of the country it treats.” (Outlook) “The chief attractions of Scotland are agreeably brought to our attention in the eleven chapters of the book, even the Hebrides, but apparently not the Orkney or the Shetland Islands, being included in the author’s tour of the kingdom.” (Dial)
“It is well illustrated, has a good map, and has a four-page bibliography. More expensive than Griffis but in the same ‘popular’ travel-book style.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:263 Mr ‘17
“Though Miss Clark succeeded admirably in ‘The spell of Spain,’ she could hardly have hoped to achieve there what she has in her second book. For she is Scotch of the Scotch herself, and here every page of her writing breathes an instinctive and inherent sympathy and understanding. To ‘see’ Scotland through such eyes is indeed to feel its spell. To the Catholic reader Miss Clark’s book cannot fail to recommend itself with a very special appeal.”
+ =Cath World= 105:828 S ‘17 380w
“Literary allusion and quotation, with a sufficiency of history for popular liking, enrich the descriptions, which are made more vivid still by frequent illustrations from photographs and other sources and eight colored plates of much beauty.”
+ =Dial= 62:150 F 22 ‘17 230w
+ =Outlook= 115:118 Ja 17 ‘17 40w
=CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN.= History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860; with an introd. note by H: W. Farnam. il pa $6 Carnegie inst. 330.9 16-15333
“This is the second of the contributions to American economic history which have been written under the auspices of the Carnegie institution of Washington. ... Of the twenty chapters in the present volume that deal with the history of manufactures, nine cover the colonial period, eleven the period between 1790 and 1860. Dr Clark first describes the colonial environment, British policy, and colonial legislation affecting manufactures. ... The spread of the factory system Dr Clark attributes quite as much to the growth of markets in the South as to the invention of new processes and machines. The effects of tariff legislation, of the development of better transportation agencies, and of a more plentiful supply of capital and labor are treated in successive chapters, as are the technical progress, the organization, and the general distribution of manufactures. Some valuable appendices conclude the volume. ... A second volume, covering the period from 1860 to date, is promised.”—Ann Am Acad
“To say that Mr Clark’s book is the best in its field would be faint praise, for there is only one other that covers the field, and that was written nearly sixty years ago. ... Mr Clark’s book is singularly free from bias or prejudice. ... The quantity of facts assembled in this framework is very great, for the writer’s researches have been wide and laborious. But they are not always interpreted, and sometimes several pages of specific facts are given that have little apparent significance. ... It is far from being the ‘final word’ on this subject, but it is the most considerable contribution to it that has ever been made.” T: W. Page
* + =Am Econ R= 7:300 Je ‘17 1350w
“The volume under review may safely be proclaimed one of the most important and valuable contributions to the economic history of the United States which has appeared in recent years. ... The value of the work is in no small degree to be attributed to the broad interpretation and the method of treatment adopted by the author. ... In the main the conclusions of the author, backed up as they are by scholarly method and a broader basis of fact than has heretofore been available, will, it is believed, be accepted. Concerning a few of the more general statements the reviewer, however, would be inclined to raise a question. ... The index is adequate and the bibliography comprehensive.” C. W. Wright
+ =Am Hist R= 22:384 Ja ‘17 1000w
“One is inevitably led to compare this work with that of Bishop, which covers practically the same ground and for so long has been the single authority covering the whole field. Dr Clark’s book is more analytical and endeavors to explain the movements and forces of each period, and not merely to chronicle facts. It moreover takes up phases of the subject not touched upon by Bishop, such as organization. All in all it constitutes an admirable economic history of manufactures.” E. L. Bogart
+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:323 Mr ‘17 350w
“The chief contribution of the work is in details rather than in principles. ... Not all of the generalizations are substantiated. ... The allotment of space and the distribution of emphasis are open to serious criticism. ... The history of the development of industrial organization is inadequate. ... The section on the factory system (pp. 448-55) is incomplete. ... Since the book was apparently written to trace the volume of growth rather than to analyze the causes for the development of new forms of industrial organization, one ends a critical reading of the volume with a feeling of uncertainty as to how much valuable evidence on the latter subject may have been overlooked.” M. T. Copeland
=J Pol Econ= 25:633 Je ‘17 530w
=CLARKE, GEORGE HERBERT=, ed. Treasury of war poetry, 1914-1917. *$1.25 Houghton 821.08 17-25441
The publishers state that this collection of about 130 British and American poems of the world war “contains important poems by important authors which have not been accessible to other anthologies.” They are arranged under the headings: America; England and America; England; France; Belgium; Russia and America; Italy; Australia; Canada; Liège; Verdun; Oxford; Reflections; Incidents and aspects; Poets militant; Auxiliaries; Keeping the seas; The wounded; The fallen; Women and the war. The editor’s policy “has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the front.” (Introd.) There are indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors; Occasional notes, giving brief biographies of some of the poets; and an introduction by the editor.
=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18
“On the whole Professor Clarke has been remarkably successful in sifting the grain from the chaff.”
+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w
“Many of the poems have been inaccessible to other anthologists, and Professor Clarke has provided illuminating notes to the whole collection.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 110w
“Practically all of the best and finest things the war has inspired are included in the collection, and that means at least a little of the finest verse that has been written in English for some years. The indexes are so well contrived that they deserve a word of praise.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:12 Ja 13 ‘18 420w
“While there may be individual differences of opinion regarding the inclusion or omission of particular poems, no one will find fault with Prof. Clarke’s general principle of selection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 360w
=CLAY, OLIVER.= Heroes of the American revolution. il *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 973.3 16-25270
The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It suggests a book of biographies. What the author has written is a series of chapters bearing on the Revolution and devoted to groups and localities rather than to individuals. Contents: The men of Massachusetts; The royal province of Virginia; The part New York played; The rally of the patriots; The writer of our Declaration of independence; The birth of the American army; Our foreign allies; The shadows of the Revolution; Daughters of liberty; Our revolutionary navy; From Lexington to Yorktown; Our commander-in-chief.
“Would appear to be fitted for use in secondary school instruction. ... It is a good book to put into the hands of American boys, whether in or out of school.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 91:228 Ag 11 ‘17 40w
“The author’s method undoubtedly has its advantages in focusing the reader’s attention on the movements of men in the mass rather than on the development of sporadic careers.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 70w
“While primarily intended for young persons, grown-ups will also find much of interest in ‘Heroes of the American revolution.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 130w
=CLEGHORN, SARAH NORCLIFFE.= Portraits and protests. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-23579
The poems in this volume are arranged under the four headings: Portraits; Of country places and the simple heart; Of time and immortality; Protests.
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“She belongs as thoroughly to New England as does Robert Frost himself, but she sees New England in softer, more gentle garb than he sees it. ... Though people do not move her to the biting word and we feel in her portraits a charity of outlook, it would be doing faint justice to Miss Cleghorn not to note the way in which her lines can flay, when she is roused by injustice or cruelty.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 900w
“While the verses have all a distinct, personal accent, they fail adequately to convey emotion. This is partly due to the fact that the author clings to lilting measures, intelligible for ‘Margerita singing ballads,’ but not for ‘Jane Addams,’ that she uses inversion frequently, permits her metrical feet to stumble, and has a rather tiresome fondness for flounces and roundabouts. The lack of intensity is perhaps also due to Miss Cleghorn’s austere passion for New England.”
– + =Dial= 63:525 N 22 ‘17 260w
“Many of her poems of protest, such as ‘Comrade Jesus,’ have been reprinted in all radical periodicals and anthologies. Others, such as ‘Peace hath her Belgiums,’ ‘The incentive’ and ‘One hundred thousand more’ deserve to be as widely known. ... In the earlier sections of the book there are some lovely things. ‘Come, Captain Age,’ ‘Vermont’ and a few others stand out. But too often the verses seem too chiselled, too cautiously contrived, too much a product of reading rather than life, which either make the result unimportant, or incoherent.” Clement Wood
+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 300w
“The war intrudes itself only momentarily to elicit the ‘protest’ which seems to come instinctively from the ‘intellectual’ in an era of patriotism.’ ... ‘The poltroon’ and ‘Comrade Jesus’ ought to receive the chuckles of delight and the mutterings of wrath that they were doubtless expected to call forth. ... ‘Portraits and protests’ gives the impression that it ought to be an anthology combining the work of George Woodberry, the Masses and Franklin P. Adams.”
=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 18 ‘17 250w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Mark Twain’s letters; ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2v *$4 (1½c) Harper 17-30756
Uniform in binding and in number of volumes with Paine’s biography of Mark Twain. A brief sketch of Mr Clemens’s life prefaces the first volume, while thruout both volumes is editorial comment which amplifies references in the letters and keeps the chronology clear. The letters reveal the great American humorist at his best, and as the personalities of the recipients of his letters are so different and the observations and interests of the writer so varied the reader enjoys a wide range of reactions. The first letters were written from New York and Philadelphia in 1853 when Mr Clemens left his home in Hannibal, Mo., and started out to make his fortune. Among the largest number to any one person are the letters to W. D. Howells, which are intimate and lasting testimonials of the great friendship between the two men.
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson
=Bookm= 46:583 Ja ‘18 1350w
“Few writers made their letters so thoroughly a part of themselves as did Mark Twain. They are as characteristic an expression of his individuality, of his manner, of his habit of thought and tricks of speech, as are the pages he wrote for the immediate eye of the public. His letters are an unending pleasure.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 2100w
“It goes without saying that he portrays himself in this work in every mood, and he had them all. One of the most significant features of the collection is the light it throws on the creation of his books.”
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 140w
“The work, as done by Mr Paine, is not only a contribution to Mark Twain literature, but it is, likewise, a notable example of the way in which letters should be compiled so as to reflect the true character of the person who wrote them.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 29 ‘17 2050w
+ =Nation= 106:115 Ja 31 ‘18 2100w
“[Mr Paine’s] running commentary [is] always modest, always unobtrusive, and always confined to the strictly necessary explanations. In other words, he has let Mark Twain, the letter writer, speak for himself. It is difficult to see how this work could have been done more discreetly or more tactfully. These letters are never composed with any thought of publication; they are never labored; they are always easy; they are sometimes even free and easy. They are the spontaneous expression of the man himself as he happened to be at the moment of taking pen in hand. They are highly individual; they abound in whim, in humorous exaggeration, in imagination, and in energy. They are delightful reading, in themselves in the first place, and in the second as revelations of the character and the characteristics of Mr Samuel L. Clemens, who was in some ways a different person from Mr Mark Twain known to all the world.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:473 N 18 ‘17 2300w
“The letters are well edited, with such historical comment as is needed to make them understandable and no more.”
+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 190w
“His is one of the few figures that the whole nation has learned to love, and one that has become an enduring part of our best traditions. It has been only too often the unfortunate office of intimate letters to shatter similar illusions. So what greater tribute can be paid to the present ones than to say that they serve simply to enhance the richness, the tenderness, the whimsical tolerance of the Mark Twain we have learned to know in his books.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 93:221 Ja 19 ‘18 1050w
“This collection of his letters is a revelation of his growth as a writer and of the main-springs of his conduct.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 170w
“Albert Bigelow Paine is the editor of these volumes and a most loving interpreter of Mark Twain he proves to be. He is a little sweeping in his judgments, but he supplies adequately the information which enables the reader to understand the occasion of any letter. ... The feeling in the book, wherever it crops out, is as unaffected as the humor, and seemingly expressed with the same unconsciousness. The offhand nature of this writing is peculiarly American. The style is undress without being excessively colloquial, vigorous and workmanlike, and, above all, rich with meaning and savor.”
+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 2400w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= What is man? and other essays. il *$1.75 Harper 814 17-13964
A collection of miscellaneous essays and papers, some of them reprinted from magazines, others appearing in print for the first time. “What is man?” the longest piece in the volume, is Mark Twain’s cold and cutting analysis of the human race. It is in the form of colloquy between an old man and a young man, the elder arguing that man is a machine and nothing more. This is followed by the touching memorial to Jean Clemens, who died shortly before her father. Several of the papers are sketches from the author’s travels abroad. One is an appreciation of William Dean Howells. Other miscellaneous essays are: English as she is taught; A simplified alphabet; Concerning tobacco; The bee; Taming the bicycle; Is Shakespeare dead?
=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18
“Wherever in these pages he is humorous, Mark Twain is at his best; wherever he is serious and in a disputative mood he causes his readers to long for the creator of the Jumping frog, and for the traveller who made his historic journey through Europe in company with a party of merry Innocents.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 2 ‘17 500w
“An aftermath of sixteen papers representing the intellectual byplay of a big restless mind. Nothing human is foreign to this ranging curiosity.”
+ =Nation= 105:489 N 1 ‘17 520w
=CLEMENTS, FREDERIC EDWARD.= Plant succession. pa $5 Carnegie inst. 581.1 16-17349
“For nearly a quarter of a century the author of this large and attractive volume has been investigating numerous problems in the field of phyto-ecology and related subjects as he has found them in the great out-of-door laboratory of western United States. This area is particularly stimulating for such work since so many of the natural life phenomena have been preserved to the present in nearly their original conditions. ... The reader must understand that this work is not in any sense a treatise on general plant ecology. It represents a careful examination of the facts and principles of plant succession, an analysis of the development of vegetation in the past as well as the present, together with a digest of the methods for investigating successional phenomena.” (Science) Professor Clements has recently resigned from the faculty of the University of Minnesota to become a member of the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He is the author, with Mrs Clements, of “Rocky Mountain flowers.”
=Cleveland= p40 Mr ‘17
“This latest work from Clements will attract the attention of botanists and biologists in general throughout the world. ... The bibliography of nearly a thousand titles, the most of which have been abstracted or noted somewhere in the text, is still another valuable part of the book. This is probably the most nearly complete collection of titles on succession and related phenomena available. It may be said, after securing a bird’s-eye view of the book as a whole, that Clements’s monograph presents an invaluable summary of our knowledge of plant succession and that it must become at once the indispensable reference and guide for the student of vegetative cycles in all parts of the world.” R. J. Pool
+ =Science= n s 45:339 Ap 6 ‘17 1650w
=CLENNELL, WALTER JAMES.= Historical development of religion in China. *$2 Dutton 299 (Eng ed 17-17530)
“This book is an expansion of an address delivered on Dec. 8 and 9, 1913, to the students of the Caermarthen Presbyterian college. The relation between religion and history in China, and the attitude of the Chinese towards religious beliefs and practices, are set before the reader, together with accounts of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism in China, and Lamaism, the modern transformation of China, and other matters of interest.”—Ath
=A L A Bkl= 14:110 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p94 F ‘17 70w
“A sane and readable account of Chinese culture by a British consul. ... Mr Clennell succeeds in putting comprehensive statements in a lucid way, and any one who performs the easy task of following them is already equipped with some understanding of the creeds of China.”
+ =Nation= 105:125 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w
“Scholarly, thoughtful, suggestive, reverent, the work before us is one of the very best of its kind.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 39:446 Ja 19 ‘18 200w
=CLIFTON-SHELTON, ALFRED.= On the road from Mons. map and diags. *$1.25 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed A17-707)
“The work in the field of the English A. S. C. (Army service corps) is a branch of the service little known to Americans. Captain Clifton-Shelton, who was with the supply train of the Nineteenth brigade, gives, in ‘On the road from Mons,’ an account of the peril and the obstacles encountered by his immediate command during the historic retreat from Mons and the forward movement to the line of the Aisne.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17
“Graphic, and at times humorous, account.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 290w
+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 40w
=COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Fragrant note book; romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way. il *$2.50 Putnam 716 17-14230
Mr Coan tells us “how to know the flowers, intimately and lovingly, but not at all scientifically and botanically. ... Poetry, both original and selected, profusely sprinkles the pages. ... Delicately tinted decorations cover the printed text.”—Dial
“To Mr Coan, his garden, through whose gate the Dumb Porter leads us, is a place of delight, of peace and ease of heart. And its freedom is given generously to us.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 280w
“In its content there is, as the author warns us, ‘of horticulture not a word.’ ... The appearance of the volume is handsome, and it will doubtless figure as a gift-book.”
+ =Cath World= 105:685 Ag ‘17 80w
“Delightfully original.”
+ =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 250w
“Precisely the sort of sentimental concoction devoted to ‘Romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way’ that is irresistibly alluring to a certain part of the American public.”
– + =Nation= 105:44 Je 12 ‘17 140w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= “Speaking of Prussians—” il *50c (4c) Doran 940.91 17-14799
The author was in Europe as a war correspondent early in the war. At that time he was a neutral, representing a neutral nation. He now says, “I am not a neutral any more. I am an American! My country has clashed with a foreign power, and the enemy of my country is my enemy and deserving of no more consideration at my hands than he deserves at the hands of my country. Moreover, I aim to try to show, as we go along, that any consideration of mercy or charity or magnanimity which we might show him would be misinterpreted. Being what he is he would not understand it.” The essay is reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17
“He is brief, uncompromising, but he is also fair-minded. He defends the German soldier from many charges, and thereby makes his arraignment of the German government and military system the more convincing.”
+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 40w
“He was one of five experienced newspaper men who signed a statement of inability to discover good evidence of German atrocities in Belgium at that time. For such sentiments Mr Cobb was charged with being a German sympathizer when he was merely an open-minded reporter. But if any doubt exists in anybody’s mind as to the real state of the author’s mind, the reading of his little book will rapidly dispose of it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 17 ‘17 270w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Those times and these. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16321
Ten of Irvin S. Cobb’s stories are collected in the volume. In several of them he returns to his native Kentucky and to Judge Priest. The first story, “‘Ex-fightin’ Billy,” is a tale of Judge Priest’s youth, of the time at the close of the war, when, refusing to be reconstructed, he had tried to become a citizen of Mexico. One of the later stories relates an episode of the present war. Contents: Ex-fightin’ Billy; And there was light; Mr Felsburg gets even; The garb of men; The cure for lonesomeness; The family tree; Hark! from the tombs; Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom; A kiss for kindness; Life among the abandoned farmers.
=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 320w
“Every story is well written, and, as Judge Priest would say, ‘is as clean as a hound’s tooth.’”
+ =Cath World= 106:109 O ‘17 190w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w
“These tales belong more to the surface of things than did certain of the earlier ones; they are less dramatic and less gripping. Nevertheless, they are very well worth reading, even Mr Cobb’s worst being above the best of the great majority of short-story writers. And the volume closes with a bit of satirical foolery which is thoroughly joyous and amusing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 900w
“In many respects these stories do not measure up to those going before. They are reminiscent and genial as of yore, but their insistently reminiscent qualities give them something of a superficial and not infrequently, forced tone.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
=COBBETT, LOUIS.= Causes of tuberculosis; together with some account of the prevalence and distribution of the disease. (Cambridge public health ser.) il *$6.50 Putnam 616.2 (Eng ed SG17-322)
Dr Cobbett is lecturer in pathology at Cambridge university and an authority on the subject whereof he treats. Some of the many important problems discussed by him are: “(1) the causes of the steady decline of consumption, since 1863, in spite of the growth of cities and of industrialism; (2) the fact that most of us, without any memory or reminder of it, have at some time or other been infected; (3) the question how far this infection confers immunity against re-infection; (4) the fact, or strong probability, that the risk of infection depends on the dosage—i.e., that we can deal with small doses of the bacilli, but not with ‘massive’ doses.” (Spec)
“His experience of experimental work and its pitfalls, and his acquaintance with the difficulties that face the practical sanitarian and those who are engaged in the treatment of tuberculous patients, enable him to bring to bear a keen critical faculty on the experience and experiments of other investigators, with the result that the work now before us may be looked upon as a ‘classic,’ and one that for years to come will, probably, remain the reference-book for those interested in tuberculosis.”
+ =Nature= 100:301 D 20 ‘17 1350w
“Dr Cobbett’s is one of the very best books of its kind, alike in its wealth of knowledge, in its clear, quiet style; its orderly marshalling of the legions of references, and the exact drawing of conclusions so inevitable that they seem to come of themselves. ... And it is for everybody to read who has had a grounding in the principles of bacteriology.”
+ =Spec= 119:118 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w
=COBERN, CAMDEN MCCORMACK.= New archeological discoveries. il *$3 Funk 225 17-15313
The author, who holds the chair of English Bible and philosophy of religion at Allegheny college, Pa., tells us that he is the first to attempt “to give a summary of all the discoveries in all lands, so far as these in any important way have cast light upon the New Testament writings or the life of the primitive church”; that the mass of new information utilized by him comes from the recently unearthed Greek and Coptic papyri; that “many of the texts are here translated into English for the first time”; and that his “semi-popular summary of important results” has been written “primarily for Bible teachers and ministers.” Dr Cobern shows that the papyri recently discovered in Egypt “prove conclusively that the Greek in which the New Testament was written was ... the vernacular of the day,” (Lit D) and that this “has led, not only to a rewriting of the New Testament grammars and lexicons but to a general recasting of very many phrases in the gospels and epistles, some of which were formerly obscure.” (Boston Transcript) A list of Scripture texts, illustrated is given on pages 687-8. There is an introduction by Edouard Naville, professor of archeology at the University of Geneva.
“Dr Cobern has produced a monumental work, in which he has brought down even to the opening of the current calendar year the richest and fullest knowledge which sheds light upon hitherto dark places in the Bible story.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 1150w
“The fact that Dr Naville has written the introduction is sufficient guarantee of the scholarly character of Dr Cobern’s work. The present volume will prove of the greatest utility to the large number of readers who look for just such a ready reference to the scientific discoveries of modern times, and scholars, too, with large libraries at their disposal, will welcome the main facts presented in this condensed form.”
+ =Cath World= 106:244 N ‘17 360w
“While filled with illuminating material that will be prized by scholars and Bible students, it is written in a style so popular as to make a strong appeal to every book-lover. ... The illustrations are exceptionally fine, showing numerous portrait busts, recently excavated temples, and other buildings, frescoes, sarcophagi, etc.”
+ =Lit D= 55:32 Jl 14 ‘17 650w
“Dr Cobern brings the life and the customs of the early Christians before us in astonishing detail.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 230w
+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 90w
=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17 50w
“It is manifestly unfair to write what purports to be a scientific study and to twist facts and give far-fetched interpretations of facts to fit a preconceived system of ideas. Camden M. Cobern has written a compendious work in which he is carried much too far by prepossessions. He at times makes astonishing statements and neglects to give the slightest authority or evidence therefor.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 880w
=COCHRAN, MRS EVE OWEN.= Wilderness rose; a play in four acts especially adapted for the use of American historical societies and chapters of the D. A. R. (American dramatists ser.) *$1 Badger, R: G. 812 17-10977
A pageant-play designed for amateur production. It tells a story of colonial New England in the days of the witchcraft delusion. Naomi Dickinson, a young girl, is accused of witchcraft. She flees from her native village and finds shelter with friendly Indians. Repentance on the part of the woman who had cast suspicion upon her and the efforts of her lover to find her result in her return and a happy ending.
=COCKE, SARAH COBB (JOHNSON) (MRS LUCIAN HOWARD COCKE).= Master of the hills; a tale of the Georgia mountains. *$1.50 Dutton 17-17974
“Mrs Cocke [relates] the adventures of two generations of the old Georgian family of Warner, whose lives are curiously interwoven with those of the family of the sturdy mountaineer, ‘Gray Eagle,’ known to his clan as ‘the Master of the hills.’ The story opens just before the outbreak of the Civil war, when, after finishing their education in Europe, the son and nephew of Judge Warner have returned to the little Georgian university town. ... With them comes the young Marquis de Layne, whose advent brings about an undreamed-of complication involving not only the Warners and their friends, but the family of the mountaineer Gray Eagle.”—Boston Transcript
“The changed conditions in the South, after the war, are well indicated. And although they are presented from a southern point of view, they are free from those mannerisms which often make pictures of the kind valueless. The story is agreeably told, sustaining its quiet interest to the end.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w
“The book proves, if it proves anything at all, that an author may be fairly truthful in regard to history, geography, and dialect, and yet completely miss the essential characteristics of a people.”
— =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 80w
“To call it unreal is to insult reality. We marvel most at its finding a publisher.” Clement Wood
– — =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 330w
“The author’s style is poor.”
— =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 250w
“The book shows immature workmanship.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 270w
=COCROFT, SUSANNA.= Growth in silence; the undertone of life. il *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 131 17-25740
A cheerful, demonstrable theory of life underlies these helpful sermonettes. Women who owe Mrs Cocroft a debt of gratitude for demonstrating the way to fuller physical perfection will turn with confidence to what she has to say on the subject of Mental and physical poise, Happiness, Mental atmosphere, Health, Nerve control, Freedom of thought, and kindred themes. The philosophy is a philosophy of optimism which if put into practice develops the harmonies of the soul, and in turn manifest harmony in the body. A book for both men and women.
=COESTER, ALFRED LESTER.= Literary history of Spanish America. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 860 16-18492
For descriptive note see =Annual for 1916.=
“One pays tribute to the author’s labor, and also to his scholarship. In his printing of Spanish names and quotations, he is singularly accurate, only a negligible number of trifling errors having fallen under the reviewer’s eye. ... It may be that, in the course of his long poring over South American writers, and his epitomes of their books, Dr Coester sometimes loses his sense of proportion; is betrayed into calling a poet great because his admiring fellow-countrymen did so. But as a whole he keeps his head and his poise.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:202 O ‘17 550w
“Mr Coester’s book fills an inestimable place as a guide and counsellor in this otherwise uncharted study.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 45:318 My ‘17 830w
“A closing chapter on the contemporary Modernista movement is especially valuable for its appreciation and criticism of the work of the brilliant Nicaraguan lyric poet, Ruben Darío, who died recently. Used in conjunction with the author’s bibliography of Spanish-American literature, published in the Romanic Review, we have here the best available guide, in English, for the novitiate in this field.”
+ =Ind= 89:457 Mr 12 ‘17 280w
“Devoting some forty pages to what he has called the ‘Colonial period’ of Spanish-American literature, the author exhibits with a wealth of interesting detail the origins of one of the most fascinating of literary epochs. The average reader will here find an unexplored mine of information. He will gain some idea of Spain’s eminence in the field of literature.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 470w
“Dr Coester is a young Harvard man, corresponding member of the Hispanic society of America, and author of a ‘Practical Spanish grammar,’ and kindred text books.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:109 Mr 25 ‘17 770w
“Mr Coester gives a chapter to each country. The average reader is surprised to learn that there is a school of realistic novelists in Mexico, which most Americans cannot think of as a literary nation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 220w
=COHEN, ISRAEL.= Ruhleben prison camp, il *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-18379)
Ruhleben is a race course outside Berlin that is now used as a concentration camp for British civilians. The author was interned there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914 to June 6, 1916. He says, “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set forth as faithfully as my memory would permit the varied vicissitudes through which I passed from the outbreak of the war down to my arrival in London. I have confined myself as much as possible to a record of my own experiences and observations, supplemented only to a small extent by the information I gleaned from trustworthy fellow-prisoners.” He writes of: The act of internment; Rules, regimen, and rumours; The segregation of the Jews; Administration, discipline, and punishment; Communal organization; Social amenities and characters; Intellectual activities, etc.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17
“The experiences related have naturally a good deal in common with those described by Mr Geoffrey Pyke in his book published in February, 1916, but Mr Cohen’s way of meeting troubles and difficulties does not appear to us to have been so commendable.”
=Ath= p258 My ‘17 43w
=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 330w
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 80w
“The whole story is told dispassionately and with a charm of manner and power of description that make the recital one of the most vivid and fascinating chapters yet written in the history of the great war.”
+ =Dial= 63:68 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“It is owing to Mr Cohen’s faculty of conveying these impressions vividly as well as to his graphic descriptions of external conditions that his book has such great human interest.”
+ =Nation= 105:44 N 15 ‘17 210w
+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w
“An accomplished journalist, he has none of the higher gifts of writing which stir and thrill the heart. Rather he has written a sober and comprehensive history which will survive as a permanent document of the war when the brilliant sketches are, perhaps, forgotten. ... The illustrations are well chosen and serve to complete a remarkably full book, so thick with detail that it is somewhat difficult to read.”
+ =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 1900w
+ =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 150w
“Of all the books so far printed about Ruhleben it is the most complete, though it could not, in the nature of the case, tell all that there is to be told. It has, no doubt, the defects of its qualities. ... One must go elsewhere for a study of the effect of too much barbed wire upon the human mind.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p122 Mr 15 ‘17 1050w
=COHEN, JULIUS HENRY.= The law; business or profession? *$2.50 Banks 340 16-23082
“‘The law: business or profession?’ raises and answers the question of the ethics of law practice. Mr Cohen finds the case hopeful. He does not blink the bad reputation which lawyers as a class have gained with the common people, and he does not assert that it is unjustified by facts. But he points out a growing spirit within the bar to cleanse itself of undesirable practitioners, and to keep the law as a profession free from business entanglements and from corruption through financial interests.”—Springf’d Republican
“Mr Cohen writes with earnestness and vigor. His plea for the recognition of the law as a profession and not a business will benefit every lawyer and layman who reads it.”
+ =Nation= 105:127 Ag 2 ‘17 670w
“It is not to be thought that there is anything local about the book. It is even broader than the nation, many leading countries being searched for cases affording a basis for the principles which control the lawyer’s professional ethics everywhere, and in all times.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 800w
“Sound doctrine for both the profession and the public.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ‘17 270w
=COIT, STANTON.= Is civilization a disease? *$1 (6c) Houghton 302 17-13984
In this essay, presented first at the University of California in the series of Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade, the author uses the term trade in a broad sense to include our whole system of socialized wealth. Civilization is defined as “the organization of man’s mastery over nature on a basis of self interest,” and modern trade is said to disclose civilization in its acutest form. Civilization, the author points out, is a mushroom growth. It is already beginning to crumble, and will in time be superseded by a new order which is already in process of creation. The title of the little book is suggested by Edward Carpenter’s “Civilization: its cause and cure.”
“These lectures bear the earmarks of shallow thinking, as well as the defacements of fulsome expression.” Archibald Henderson
— =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 300w
Reviewed by H. M. Kallen
=Dial= 63:445 N 8 ‘17 580w
=Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 50w
“If the Barbara Weinstock lectures are to be the vehicle for such wild surmisings as those displayed in ‘Is civilization a disease?’ the founder’s money might have been put to much better uses.”
— =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w
=R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 250w
“Dr Coit is evidently one of those sociological rhetoricians who preach eugenics in season and out of season. Otherwise he might have been graciously willing to discuss the very interesting subject proposed by the foundation of lectures which he was the first to adorn.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 280w
“Dr Coit, in this essay, provides a stupendous idea in tabloid form.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 400w
=COLE, NORMAN BROWN, and ERNST, CLAYTON H.= First aid for boys. il *$1.25 Appleton 614.8 17-14057
“A manual for boy scouts and for others interested in prompt help for the injured and the sick.” (Sub-title) Contents: A handful of signs; What to do; Shock and fainting; A little about the blood and more about bleeding; Sunstroke and heat exhaustion; Concussion, skull fracture, apoplexy, alcoholic intoxication, and epilepsy; Infection and “staphy”; Burns and frostbites; Poisoning; Bandages and carries; Fractures and dislocations; Drowning and artificial respiration; Minor emergencies. There are fifty-one illustrations from drawings by Walt Harris. The book is endorsed by James E. West, chief scout executive of the Boy scouts of America.
“Directions well given and simplified by diagrams.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17
“Dr Cole and Mr Ernst have been active workers in the scout movement, and have made their book not only sound technically but adapted psychologically to the interest of the boy reader. ... Similarly, the drawings by Walt Harris reinforce the text accurately and ingeniously.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 300w
+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p20 O ‘17
=COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and LA MESLÉE, A. MARIN.= Le soldat américain en France, map *50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-22278
A French reader containing “chapters on France, transports, hotels, railroads, manners and customs, food, money, army, etc., with a vocabulary giving the article with all nouns and indicating pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl
“To be used in connection with either of the University of Chicago manuals.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17
“For the green student, this little book would be wholly useless, unless studied with a teacher. The figured pronunciation, even with the instructions given would be an unsolvable mystery. ... The verb is the back-bone of a language; but not a hint is given as to the inflections. The chapters that follow the elaborate statement of pronunciation are written in idiomatic French and are a mixture of the commonplace and the valuable.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p7 S 22 ‘17 220w
=Pittsburgh= 22:693 O ‘17 20w
=COLEMAN, FREDERIC ABERNETHY.= With cavalry in the great war; the British trooper in the trench line. il *$1.50 Jacobs 940.91 A17-1461
“A phase of the fighting on the western front, of which we have known little, is covered by Mr Coleman in this personal narrative of the exploits of the British cavalry through the second battle of Ypres. Some of our readers may recall Mr Coleman’s earlier book entitled, ‘From Mons to Ypres with General French.’ The present volume takes up the story where its predecessor left it—with the closing days of 1914.”—R of Rs
Reviewed by C. M. Francis
— =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 300w
“Mr Coleman’s book is copiously illustrated with excellent photographic views.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 19 ‘17 430w
+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 150w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 150w
=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.= Evening in my library among the English poets. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-13371
An essay on English poetry, with many quotations. The author says, “I invite the reader to spend an evening in my library, drawing down a volume here and a volume there, following no definite order either of date or subject, guided only by a desire to estimate without prejudice the quality of the verse.” Among the poems selected for quotation are many that are not universally known. Among these are a few of the more exquisite of modern poems. With the radical departures in verse-making, the author has no sympathy.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 700w
“This book is rather a personal expression of likes and dislikes in the field of poetry than a work of genuine criticism, that will have an abiding value in one’s own library.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:687 Ag ‘17 280w
“The anthology on the whole is fair, and something more than that. It includes poems from little-known authors, which any reader will be glad to have brought to his notice. The book leaves an impression in harmony with its title.”
+ — =Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17
“A book which definitely assists in the development of literary taste.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 70w
+ =Sat R= 122:438 N 4 ‘16 2200w
“A very unconventional anthology, interspersed with some candid criticism. The modern apostles of ‘force’ like Mr Masefield, and the late Rupert Brooke, and Francis Thompson in his highly rhetorical mood are sternly reproved. ... For our part, we could wish that Mr Coleridge had not included second-rate modern verse like ‘The rosary,’ and that he had hesitated before asserting that Goldsmith’s ‘Deserted village’ was inspired while Gray’s ‘Elegy’ was not.”
– + =Spec= 17:660 N 25 ‘16 110w
“Some of the poems, too, are worthy of rediscovery and deserve a popularizing of their merits. But most of them are less unfamiliar than Mr Coleridge seems to think.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w
“What are the principles that guide Mr Coleridge in choosing selections for our improvement and delight? It is not difficult to discover them. The prize always goes to the poet of finish and scholarship, who observes the laws of prosody and elevates and refines the passions, which is Mr Coleridge observes, the ‘true function of the poet.’ And with this for his standard he moves his poets up and down like boys in a class. ... Enough has been said, perhaps, to show that, though we should not allow Mr Coleridge to choose our new poets for us, he is a very vigilant guardian of the old.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 N 2 ‘16 850w
=COLLIN, CHRISTEN CHRISTIAN DREYER.= War against war, and the enforcement of peace; introd. by W: Archer. *80c Macmillan 341.1 (Eng ed 17-18476)
“Professor Collin, of Christiania, is one of the most eminent of Norwegian writers. ... In these eleven essays he writes with much force in support of the allied cause, and deals effectively with the utterances on the other side in his own country and in Germany—his view of the future being that ‘universal peace will be secured not by disarmament but by joint armament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An excellent statement of our cause by a detached observer. ... Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is the essay on Kant’s ‘Perpetual peace.’ Prof. Collin fixes on the ironical fact that it was Kant, a German, who first promulgated the idea of the gradual federation of the free nations of the world into a world-republic.”
+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 480w
“Prof. Christen Christian Collin, of the University of Christiania, is an acknowledged authority upon Greek, Norwegian, French, and English literature, and an ardent sociologist.”
+ =Ath= p301 Je ‘17 100w
“A very sensible plea for the cause of the Entente Allies.”
+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 90w
=Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 100w
“Nearly all of the essays take up the idea of a league of nations as an outcome of the present war whose function it would be to lessen the danger of war in the future and perhaps even prevent its recurrence.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 570w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 50w
+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 270w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Home handy book. il *$1.10 Appleton 680 17-14069
“A compendium of useful things to do around the average house and how to keep it in repair.” (Sub-title) The author advises every man to learn how to do his own repair work on two counts: first, he will save money, second, he will take pride and pleasure in doing things for himself. He writes of: Tools everyone should have; Indoor mechanics; Be your own locksmith; Doing electrical jobs; The amateur plumber; The handy glazier; The furniture repairer; The home decorator; Handy helps for the house; Odds and ends.
+ =Pratt= p24 O ‘17 20w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 20w
“Just the thing for the man who likes to ‘putter around,’ or the growing boy who wishes to make himself handy.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Magic of science. il *$1.25 Revell 530 17-19383
“In ‘The magic of science,’ A. Frederick Collins has compiled, largely from manuals of his own writing, a book of scientific amusements which can be performed with simple apparatus. Practical glimpses are provided into the mystery of light, heat, sound, magnetism and electricity, and a successful effort is made to set the experiments in an orderly sequence that should make for the positive instruction of the youthful experimenter. Many of the processes are already familiar, but they lose none of their interest from that fact. There are numerous illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican
“It will interest and spur boys’ curiosity in spite of its unattractive make-up.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18
“His latest volume deals with scientific facts, novel and delightful facts many of them, and small boys with average intelligence aged from eleven to fifteen will read it with eagerness.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 100w
“We are sorry for the boy who cannot own a copy of this fascinating book.”
+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 30w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 90w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Money making for boys. il *$1 (2c) Dodd 658 17-31276
Practical money-making schemes for boys in the country, village or city based on the best business ethics. The value to the boy is that the instruction tends to train him to put a value on whatever is sold that is fair to both customer and to himself. The training itself forms the foundation of a business career; it brings into play all of the ingenuity of the boy and helps him direct it into profitable channels. Contents: Why every boy should make money; Ways a boy can make money; How to start an agency business; Running a messenger service; Getting and doing trade jobs; There’s money in refreshments; Raising small live stock; In partnership with the earth; Fishing, hunting and trapping; Making things to sell; Working for other people; What to do with your money.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.=[2] Boys’ book of submarines. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 623.8 17-31264
A book for boys, made up of the following chapters: The first of the submarines; How to make and work a model submarine; How a real submarine is made and works; The heart of the submarine; Making and shooting the torpedo; Making the submarine deadlier; The wonderful eye of the submarine; The marvelous tongue and ears of the submarine; The crew of the submarine; How the submarine attacks; The new submarine chasers; The last word in submarines. There are illustrations from photographs and numerous figures and diagrams.
“A book that is a help to the understanding of war news.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:591 D 23 ‘17 30w
“A splendid book for the boy who is interested in boats and mechanics.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 190w
=COLLINS, CHARLES WALLACE.= National budget system. *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 351.73 17-20555
“This work is an attempt to show in as brief a compass as possible what the budget system is, why it is said to be needed for the United States, and what adjustments could possibly be made short of a constitutional amendment to secure its adoption. ... The writer has attempted, even at the risk of the loss of scientific technique, to make this exposition readable. The work is not intended to be original or exhaustive. ... In the preparation of this work the author has used portions of an article of his, ‘Constitutional aspects of a national budget system’ in the Yale Law Journal for March, 1916, and another, ‘The coming of the budget system’ in the South Atlantic Quarterly for October, 1916.” (Preface) A short list of authorities is appended.
“The intricacies of national finance are not easily expressed in simple terms but the author of the present volume set out to do this and on the whole he has succeeded. This is not because he has evaded or glossed over the difficulties but because he first explains with sufficient detail just how each of the great countries prepares its financial program for the year and then indicates where our own short-comings are. His criticism of the American system is incisive and to the point, but not overdone.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 120w
+ =Cath World= 106:257 N ‘17 450w
“On the whole the argument presented is excellent, but some of the difficulties which would be involved under our present system of federal government are passed over with slight or no consideration.”
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1058 D ‘17 230w
“Mr Collins’ book is a distinctly valuable contribution. It contains little original material. All the data he uses lay undigested in the forbidding tomes of committee reports, statutes and treatises on political science. But, except for Professor Ford’s ‘Cost of our national government,’ little of this has been predigested for popular consumption. Mr Collins’ book is more up to date, has a wider sweep and contains more definite proposals for change, while it avoids even more successfully the pitfalls of technical lingo and involved exposition.” Evans Clark
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 1450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:483 N 18 ‘17 1250w
“Public finance is generally a dry subject, but Judge Collins has managed with rare ability to make his volume interesting and comprehensive. It should appeal to the ordinary reader as well as to students. Not the least interesting part of the work is the author’s description of the various budget systems of foreign governments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 250w
“This compact little book admirably fulfils the purpose of its author. Much stress is properly laid upon the history and budget practice of Great Britain and while all that the author says in praise of the English budget system is true, he has missed the significance of the treasury as a great independent department of administration or business management. He has likewise failed to call attention in his references to authorities and sources for further study of budget systems to the remarkable collection of literature on this subject edited and published by the New York Bureau of municipal research.” S: M. Lindsay
+ — =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 300w
=COLLINS, FRANCIS ARNOLD.= Air man. il *$1.30 (4c) Century 629.1 17-21113
The conquests of the air man in peace and war are told by the author of “The camera man,” “The wireless man,” etc. The opening chapter on Learning to fly describes and compares the methods of teaching in use in America and in France, and enumerates the requisites for obtaining an American flying license. Other chapters are: The aero-sportsman, Aero-exploration and adventure; Aerial transportation; Embattled air-fleets; Air duels; American airmen under fire; The chivalry of the air. The final chapter, American air forces, tells of what has been accomplished in, and is planned for, aviation in America.
“A book to arouse enthusiasm and confidence in aviation.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w
“With its interesting text and graphic illustrations from over fifty photographs, ‘The air man’ ranks among the extremely few books upon aviation that appeal to the average American who wants the thrill of its story free of the dry-as-dust of equations and diagrams.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 240w
“Of interest to boys and adults.”
+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 20w
=Nation= 105:349 S 27 ‘17 540w
“Mr Collins’s book is very opportune, and the fact that it is so well done, gives so comprehensive a view of the general subject of aeronautics and of what has been already accomplished therein and is written with accuracy, although it is not too technical for the ordinary reader, will help to give it the popularity it deserves.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Mogu, the wanderer; or, The desert; a fantastic comedy in three acts. *$1 Little 822 17-8575
Padraic Colum has been closely associated with the Irish dramatic movement, but in this play he leaves his native Ireland to write a drama of the East. The scene is laid in Persia. Mogu the wanderer is a beggar from the desert who at one stroke of fate is elevated to the viziership, made second in power to the king. By an equally sudden chance he is restored to his former lowly position, to return to his desert a beggar.
“Full of authentic oriental color.”
+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 210w
“On the stage, when properly presented in accordance with Mr Colum’s directions, it would make a remarkable picture. There is, unfortunately, in the early act an element of uncertainty as to how far the imagination is to play a part in the development of the plot, as to where the audience is to be serious or not, that somewhat confuses the dramatic action.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 160w
“The play is fascinating and it presents a new phase of Mr Colum’s dramatic invention. The key to this phase is in his volume of poems, ‘Wild earth.’”
+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 210w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 280w
=COLVIN, IAN D.= Unseen hand in English history. *7s 6d National review office, London (Eng ed 17-25264)
“Mr Colvin’s ‘Unseen hand in English history’ is a continuation of his book ‘The Germans in England.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He reviews the chief events of English history since the Tudors with the object of showing what the traditional English policy is.” (Sat R) “The bulk of the book is a plea on not very novel grounds for a protective system, or, as he ... prefers to call it, ‘national industry.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The book is not history: it is not even good honest fiction. It is simply a pamphlet decked out with an apparatus of learning. ... It is, however, well worth perusing as a study of Jingo psychology. Mr Colvin, whose incisive style may be recognized in the leading columns of the Morning Post, [draws] his ideas not from Britain, but from Berlin.”
— =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 570w
“The book is well worth reading. A lively style, adroit selections, an instinct for contemporary sources and authorities, distinguish Mr Colvin from most of our professional historians, who fear they will lose their name for science if they cease to be dull. ... He argues strongly for a tariff, and he chooses the best arguments for his case.”
+ + — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 780w
“Mr Colvin is too much in the grip of Germany.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
=COLVIN, SIR SIDNEY.= John Keats; his life and poetry, his friends, critics, and after-fame. il *$4.50 Scribner 17-30270
“Besides presenting for the first time in full and consecutive detail the history of Keats’s life and poetical activity, the new book discusses with a fullness which has not hitherto been attempted his relations both to his Elizabethan masters and some of his Victorian followers, and relates the slow and gradual growth of his fame after his death. It moreover throws, with the help of various illustrations from prints, pictures, and the antique, new light on some of the sources of his inspiration; and aims at calling up the circle of his friends in their human lineaments about him, as well as at making felt the various and conflicting currents of the critical and poetical atmosphere amid which he lived.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A scholarly, full and connected account.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
“Sir Sidney Colvin, in this fine reassortment of the facts of Keats’s life, seems to us to be insufficiently content with Keats’s actual performance. He is eager to introduce an ethical nobleness into the portrait such as certainly is not reflected in Keats’s greatest poetry.”
+ — =Ath= p664 D ‘17 1400w
“This careful, thorough, tactful, and exhaustive work renders obsolete all previous expressions of opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed, to be labelled with the final word, ‘definitive.’ If this monumental volume is, in any way, disappointing to the present commentator, it is only because Sir Sidney Colvin—actuated by his trained and careful sense of literary values—has avoided sedulously many manifest temptations to assert and to insist upon the prime importance of his hero. And, to my mind Sir Sidney says, if anything, too little in praise of Keats.” Clayton Hamilton
+ — =Bookm= 46:609 Ja ‘18 1550w
“A biography to which the very name and chronicle of the subject could not help but add its atmosphere of charm; but it is not a ‘life’ of Keats, because the biographer gets too near his subject without getting inside of it. It is always in the negative qualities of Keats, both as a man and poet, that Mr Colvin is best in his biographical and critical treatment.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 8 ‘17 2050w
“It is a book to read with delight; better still, it is a book that compels one to turn back and reread the poet himself.” W: C. Greene
+ =Dial= 64:64 Ja 17 ‘18 1050w
“Until some chance discovery of fresh material antiquates it, this must remain the standard authority upon Keats, as accurate as patient scholarship can make it, and interesting to all scholarly and unscholarly lovers of poetry.” P. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:219 D 22 ‘17 1500w
“The author’s monograph on Keats in the English men of letters series, published thirty years ago, has heretofore been the chief authority upon his life, character, and achievements, but compared with the full-length portrait, complete, detailed, and authoritative, presented in this volume, the other makes of him hardly more than a sketched vignette. It is a notable and distinguished piece of biographical writing that is worthy to be classed among the great biographies of English literature.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 1950w
“Manifestly a labour of love, this admirable work, illuminated throughout with thorough knowledge and fine critical acumen, deserves to take high rank in the select company of kindred classics. But the book is not only of absorbing interest as a masterly presentment of the poet and his work; it also teems with vivid studies of the circle in which he lived.”
+ =Sat R= 124:440 D 1 ‘17 1550w
“A special feature of the book is the remarkably full treatment of the sources of his inspiration in literature. Another strong point is the helpful interpretation of the obscurities of Keats’s symbolism, with the result of enabling the reader to form a truer estimate of ‘Endymion’ than was before possible. And if the book has been a labour of love, it is love which is ‘this side idolatry.’ There is plenty of severe criticism of Keats’s lapses from good taste and clear thinking—his amorous mawkishness, his lax phrasing, and infelicitous coinages. Sir Sidney Colvin is scrupulously fair in his handling of Keats’s critics; if he lets himself go about Byron, the provocation is irresistible.”
+ =Spec= 119:601 N 24 ‘17 2050w
“In a book that is itself a poem, so fine and true is its penetration, so full and sensitive its expression, Sir Sidney Colvin has assembled all the essential, one is tempted to say the quintessential, facts relative to the poet Keats.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 800w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 S 6 ‘17 260w
“The new matter adds light and shade to the already vivid portraits of the poet and his friends, and examines his art more closely, both in itself and in its relation to the development of English poetry as a whole. In its pages the life and character of Keats stand out clear in all their subtle and tragic beauty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 N 29 ‘17 3550w
Complete United States infantry guide; arr. by Major J. K. Parsons. il *$6 Lippincott 356 17-21916
This volume, for officers and noncommissioned officers, is said to include all the War department publications relating to the infantry arm of the service. It is profusely illustrated with charts and diagrams.
“In this very formidable volume is all information required to make the infantry soldier efficient. His convenience will surely be served by this opportunity to learn what must be learned from one work, instead of being compelled to familiarize himself with twenty-five books.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 150w
“This encyclopedic volume should be in every military man’s library.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 80w
“The material is well selected and arranged and the book contains a detailed index. The only difficulty results from the size of the publication with its 2074 pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 200w
=COMSTOCK, DANIEL FROST, and TROLAND, LEONARD THOMPSON.= Nature of matter and electricity; an outline of modern views. il *$2 Van Nostrand 530.1 17-8751
“This is a book on the modern physics of matter intended for the general reader and written without mathematics. The authors have collaborated by writing different parts of the book. A large number of topics are presented to the reader in semi-popular form. The treatment is descriptive, aided by diagrams and chemical formula groupings, and technical terms have been avoided as far as possible. Part 1 is divided into eleven chapters on the following topics: Introductory, the ultimate realities, atoms and their behavior, the nature of heat and allied phenomena, the electron and its behavior, electrons, chemical action and light, electrons and magnetism, radio-activity, the structure of the atom, recent discoveries concerning atomic structure and radiation. Part 2 deals briefly in turn with fifty-six subjects and in a manner somewhat more advanced than that of part 1.”—Elec World
=Elec World= 70:24 Jl 7 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:326 S ‘17
=COMSTOCK, MRS HARRIET THERESA.= Man thou gavest. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11705
The story opens in the southern mountains. Here Conning Truedale has come to regain his health, and here he meets little Nella-Rose. The witch-like, mountain child fascinates him, and the marriage vows they exchange under the open sky are as sacred to him as they are to her. Then he goes away, promising to return. He keeps his promise and is stunned to learn that the girl has married her outlaw lover and gone away over the mountains. This is what he is told, and believing it, he goes back to New York and in time marries. But the mountain people had been mistaken about Nella-Rose. She had been in hiding, waiting for the man she called her husband to return and for her child to be born. This child, “Lil’ Ann,” later comes into the lives of Conning Truedale and his wife, Lynda.
“The fatal weakness in this story is not its artificiality of plot and excess of emotion so much as the hollow elaboration of its characters. We might have enjoyed the romance if the author had not tried to make it a vehicle of realism.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 380w
“Southern mountain dialect as it is not spoken is amply illustrated in Miss Comstock’s latest tale of involved heart interest.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 200w
“The primitive life and character of the mountains are forced into the office of pointing up and giving a sort of exotic relish to an essentially and even conventionally ‘modern’ story. Against an action artificially contrived, the figure of Nella-Rose stands out with a good deal of vigor and clarity.”
+ =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 310w
“As a whole the characters, like the tale, belong to melodrama. Ingenuity is shown in the management of the incidents which separate Truedale and Nella-Rose and some of the descriptions are well done.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w
=CONNOLLY, JAMES.= Labour in Ireland; with an introd. by Robert Lynd. *4s Maunsel & co., London (Eng ed 17-25871)
“Although James Connolly acted for many years in connection with the extreme Socialistic party in Scotland, the United States, and Belfast, it was not until the Dublin strikes of 1913 that he attracted much attention from the English public; and even then he was overshadowed in the popular judgment by the more spectacular ‘Jim’ Larkin. When the strikes collapsed he passed again out of general notice except in Dublin, where it was known that the nominal second-in-command of the Irish transport workers’ union was the real contriving head and driving-force of the movement. ... When the Sinn Fein rebellion broke out in Easter week of 1916, he appeared as Commandant-General of the Dublin division.’ ... The present volume is made up of reprints of two of his works, ‘Labour in Irish history’ and ‘The reconquest of Ireland.’ The first and more elaborate of the two is based on the thesis that the key to the secret of Irish history is the exploitation of the poor by the rich. ... The second part of the volume depicts, in the darkest colours, the condition of the working class in Dublin and Belfast at the present day.”—Spec
“Given the point of view, the book is ably and not intemperately written. The author fairly admits difficulties in his theory—such, for example, as the inefficiency of local administration in Dublin, where the machinery of government is controlled by a democratic body democratically elected. His bias appears more in his selection and suppression of facts than in his presentment of them; he thinks he does well to be angry. But if you write history remembering only the severities used to restore law and order, and forgetting or justifying the outrages which provoked them: approving of force when used against the rich, and condemning it when used against the poor; assuming as a matter of course that a man of property always and necessarily acts from the basest of interested motives—you may produce a very vivid picture, but it will not bear much relation to the events and men it professes to portray.”
=Spec= 118:702 Je 23 ‘17 1000w
“‘Labour in Ireland’ cannot be overlooked by any one interested in Irish problems.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p221 My 10 ‘17 800w
=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Running free. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24272
This volume includes ten stories of the sea or of seamen ashore, copyrighted 1913-17 by Charles Scribner’s sons, 1912-17 by P. F. Collier & son, 1916 by the Curtis publishing company. “A bale of blankets” is a story of American naval life; “The strategists” and “Breath o’ dawn” are naval romances, with the fleet in the background. Other stories are: The weeping Annie; The bull-fight; Peter stops ashore; The sea-birds; The medicine ship; One wireless night; Dan Magee: white hope.
“Ten live sea stories told with humor and pathos.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17
“In all these brief, sometimes sketchy, but always effective picturings of life, the one sure, detectable Connolly touch is the signet-ring stamp of individuality. And it is an individuality born of the sea and of a deep, passionate, unalterable love of the sea.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 290w
“The wind whistles vigorously through Mr Connolly’s pages; they drip with brine; and the threatening face of death frequently interrupts the grim humor of the old salts. This good, clean, virile book, like the others that preceded it, will help to keep his fame afloat.”
+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 120w
“Sensationalism is absent, but there is humor, human appeal and the real salty flavor.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
“The author is unhappy in the choice of the first story to appear in this book. ... But Mr Connolly is at home in the succeeding stories. They are strong, and the sharp tang and clean breath of the sea are beside the reader till the book is finished. Perhaps ‘Seabirds’ contains more real character than the others, but ‘One wireless night’ is the story of the book.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 100w
“‘Running free’ is devoid of sensationalism, free from melodrama. ... You will find a crowd of thoroughly human and humorous, unsentimentalized men of the sea. ... There is heroism as well as humor in these stories, but it is an unassuming, casual sort of heroism.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w
“The frequent assertion that romance disappeared from the sea with the advent of steam vessels is abundantly disproved in the ten short stories of ‘Running free.’ In spite of the apparent absence of artificial color, the stories are dramatic and thrilling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 490w
=CONNOR, RALPH, pseud. (CHARLES WILLIAM GORDON).= The major. il *$1.40 (1c) Doran 17-30122
The motif of Mr Connor’s story is one whose patriotic climax and poignant cadence echo in the souls of millions of men and women the world over today. Canada furnishes the scene and the characters, but the sentiment portrayed belongs to the whole wide world at war. The hero is a fine type of manhood, the best that countries can produce. He passes thru the period of bewilderment and misery, which thousands have gone thru, when the burden of his thought is, “that great people upon whose generous ideals and liberal Christian culture he had grounded a sure hope of permanent peace, had flung to the winds all the wisdom, and all the justice, and all the humanity which the centuries had garnered for them, and following the primal instincts of the brute, had hurled forth upon the world ruthless war.” Then came the succession of events chief among which were the Belgian atrocities, which kindled slowly in the hero’s heart the purpose to have a part in ridding the earth of a system that could produce such horrors. Many a young man will read in these pages his own reactions to the call to the colors.
“The story-teller is successful in welding all his material into the substance of a spirited romance.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:603 Ja ‘18 380w
=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 410w
“While Mr Connor’s new novel cannot be said to amount to much as a story, the picture of Canada in the early days of the war with which it concludes is quite interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:556 D 16 ‘17 300w
“The story has the directness and ‘punch’ of earlier Ralph Connor books. It has also a sound and deep patriotic spirit.”
+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 50w
“It is almost startlingly ingenuous at times, but as a whole vigorous and life like.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 140w
=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Shadow line; a confession. *$1.35 (3½c) Doubleday 17-12955
The shadow line marks the boundary between youth and maturity. Its approach is heralded by extreme boredom, weariness and dissatisfaction. It is a time of rash actions—getting married suddenly or throwing up one’s job without reason. The young seaman who is hero of this tale of the Malay Archipelago leaves his ship on a sudden impulse, intending to take passage for home. While idling about in an eastern seaport, opportunity comes his way and he finds himself captain of a sailing vessel whose master had but recently died. He is in command of this ship for twenty-one fever-ridden and ghost-haunted days, and at the end of his voyage he finds that the boundary line has been crossed. Youth lies behind him.
“Gives somewhat the same sense of the power of the sea and the wonder of human nature as ‘Youth’ and ‘The typhoon.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17
“The atmosphere and the portraiture are masterly, but the book seems to us more the elaboration of a short story than an actual novel.”
+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 90w
“The subtitle, ‘A confession,’ may lead us to surmise that the tale may be bound with special closeness to Mr Conrad’s own experience.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 480w
“Nothing written by Mr Conrad during his twenty years of fame as a maker of English fiction is more characteristic than ‘The shadow line.’ It is an epitome of his manner and a summary of his method.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 1450w
“For Conrad, ‘the most unliterary of writers,’ is no more nor no less unliterary than Meredith or Swinburne or Shakespeare. No other writer—I do not except the poets—has a richer variety of verbal resource or uses his power with more careful command.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:442 My 17 ‘17 700w
+ =Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 130w
+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 290w
“The tale is quite straightforward, with a sort of breathless simplicity and candor. ... It is told by a master.”
+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 730w
“Indeed, it might fairly be offered as a ‘first degree’ for the novice seeking initiation into the Conradian mysteries. The menace and the glamour of his ocean are here, the humanly strange yet strangely human atoms with which it plays.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 100w
“Mr Conrad has given us two superb pictures of courage.” Q. K.
+ =New Repub= 11:194 Je 16 ‘17 730w
“About ‘The shadow line’ there is an extraordinary atmosphere of beauty. ... It is a beauty deeper than mere words go.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:157 Ap 22 ‘17 1700w
“‘The shadow line’ is as vivid and as haunting as ‘The ancient mariner.’ What is more, it is thoroughly real and profoundly true.”
+ =No Am= 205:949 Je ‘17 700w
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 70w
“This is a story for the present times, a gospel searching down into the hearts of men to awaken their potentialities in this period of world disaster and send them forth to fight valiantly against their ill-luck, their muddling and mistakes, and to bear with consummate courage the heavy responsibilities thrust upon them.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 250w
“For Mr Conrad the great object of love and enthusiasm is the ship which he came to know so intimately in his twenty years of seamanship. On the title-page [of the English edition] of this book is the sentence, ‘Worthy of my undying regard,’ and underneath stands no human name, but a ship with sails set. Here once more Mr Conrad shows that he loves a ship as a lover does his mistress, and so his latest book is an essential piece of himself, a return to earlier triumphs.”
+ =Sat R= 123:281 Mr 24 ‘17 950w
“Mr Conrad’s new sea story may best be described as a Conradian version of ‘The ancient mariner.’ ... The volume is the first of a new ‘Conrad library,’ including several of his previous novels, but we cannot share the publishers’ satisfaction with the ‘specially attractive binding’ prepared for the series. Messrs Dent have deserved so well of the public in this respect that they must not complain if they are judged by their own high standard.”
+ =Spec= 118:391 Mr 31 ‘17 720w
“It is books of this kind that earn for Conrad the epithet ‘Philosophic adventurer,’ and quicken one’s hope that he may be the chosen artist to achieve the final synthesis of realism and romance, toward which modern fiction has so long and uncertainly evolved.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w
“The serene assurance of the imagination which is the outcome of all the finest work of Mr Conrad’s genius is here broken and uncertain. The moral over-balances the story. That deepest meaning which haunts the solemn beauty he has created, simply because, it may be, it has been pursued too consciously or too familiarly, has all but eluded him.”
+ — =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w
=CONRADI, ALBERT FREDERICK, and THOMAS, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Farm spies; how the boys investigated field crop insects. il *50c Macmillan 632 16-19964
“This is a collection of brightly written, well-illustrated ‘story-articles’ on various common injurious insects of North America, designed to catch the attention and enlist the sympathies of ‘boys and girls and those persons who know nothing about insects and how to fight them.’ Among the pests described are the cotton boll-weevil and root-louse, chinch-bugs, grasshoppers, and the black corn weevil.”—Nature
“For fifth or sixth grade.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:130 D ‘16
“Points in the breeding and feeding habits that bear on farm practice are often cleverly emphasised, and some of our British students might be well occupied in compiling for the home country a somewhat similar work.” G. H. C.
+ =Nature= 99:23 Mr 8 ‘17 250w
=N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
=CONWAY, AGNES ETHEL.= Ride through the Balkans; on classic ground with a camera; with introd. by Sir Martin Conway. il *$1.75 (3½c) Sturgis & Walton 914.96 (Eng ed 17-10195)
A novel story told in the fashion that best suited a woman traveler, who with another traveler of her own sex, in the months immediately succeeding a bloody war, wandered unescorted thru regions but recently disturbed, and met with kindness and hospitality at the hands of the people. Instead of an exhaustive treatment of objects of interest in the towns visited we find in the short chapters crisp, informing bits of history, description and comment that stand out with the definition of a photograph. The cities which occupy the leisurely tourists are Athens, Corinth, Constantinople, Salonica, Tempe, Thessaly, St Luke of Stiris, Delphi, Mistra and Sparta, Megalopolis, Bassæ, Yanina, Cettigne, Scutari and Dalmatia. The book is beautifully illustrated from photographs.
“An ordinary narrative of travel, with plenty of human interest. Certain of the views leave something to be desired in regard to clearness of detail.”
+ — =Ath= p254 My ‘17 80w
“Miss Conway’s book is very good reading, and all too brief.”
+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 150w
“The work is lightly written, and archæology, which was the inspiration of the journey, is left in the background, as is explained in an excellent introduction by Sir Martin Conway; but it will appeal to the Antikajis, even amid their martial labours, as well as to the ordinary reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Mr 29 ‘17 470w
=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.=[2] Observation:—every man his own university. il *$1 (3c) Harper 374 17-26979
By the author of “Acres of diamonds” this book is sent out “to induce people to look at their own eyes, to pick up the gold in their laps, to study anatomy under the tutorship of their own hearts.” Observation, the writer believes, is the key to success. This key is viewed in the light of a prized possession and the reader points the way to using it intelligently. Contents: Observation—the key to success; Who the real leaders are; Mastering natural forces; Whom mankind shall love; Need of orators; Woman’s influence; Every man’s university; Animals and “the least things”; The bottom rung; Home reading; Thoughtfulness; Instincts and individuality; Women; Musical culture; Oratory; Self-help; Some advice to young men.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18
=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.= What you can do with your will power. *50c (6c) Harper 174 17-9814
The author says, “The message I would like to leave with the young men and women of America is a message I have been trying humbly to deliver from lecture platform and pulpit for more than fifty years. ... The message is this: Your future stands before you like a block of unwrought marble. You can work it into what you will. Neither heredity, nor environment, nor any obstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straight through to success, provided you are guided by a firm, driving determination and have normal health and intelligence.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p5 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w
=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Corporate organization and management. $5 Ronald 347.1 17-24990
Mr Conyngton’s two earlier books “Corporate management” and “Corporate organization,” published respectively in 1903 and 1904, have been revised and combined into one volume by Miss Helen Potter of the New York bar. “All duplicated and obsolete material has been deleted, and the volume as a whole has been brought sharply up to date. While this has been done, no necessary material has been omitted, all the valuable features of both volumes being retained.” (Preface) In its present form the work is made up of five parts: The corporate system; Corporate organization; Corporate management; Special corporate topics; Forms and precedents. The volume is indexed.
=St Louis= 15:341 S ‘17 20w
=COOK, ARTHUR LEROY.= Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service. il *$2 Wiley 621.31 17-7827
“This book is intended as a guide to modern practice in electric lighting and power applications, and in the design and installation of the wiring for such purposes.” (Preface) It has been written particularly for electrical workers but is also adapted for use in schools. The author is head of the department of applied electricity at Pratt institute. The book is made up of three parts: Electric lighting systems; Electric power systems; Interior wiring.
“Valuable to electric workers occupied with only interior wiring, industrial works, office buildings, or dwellings. Covers this subject more fully than Croft.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:115 Ja ‘18
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 20w
“Examples illustrate each step. Of particular value to the electrical worker are the many diagrams of connections, illustrations of electrical apparatus and fixtures, curves and tables.”
+ =Elec World= 69:1268 Je 30 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17
“Practical and free from troublesome mathematics. A wealth of clearly expressed and definite information and instruction compressed into a volume of pocket size.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ap ‘17 120w
“‘Treatment of lighting is especially good. ... Principles of illumination are taken up in a clear and concise manner. The thirty-three pages on calculation of illumination are eminently suited for the busy architect and contractor. ... The characteristics and advantages of various types of motors are given. Control devices are well treated. ... The chapter on selection of motors is good. ... Interior wiring forms the last section. ... A very useful feature is the chapter on examples of actual wiring systems.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:448 My ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Electrical Age p56 Ap ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17
+ =Pratt= p17 Jl ‘17 40w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 130w
=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w
=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Lake and stream game fishing; with an introd. by James Keeley, and a foreword by Jack Lait. il $1.75 (3c) Stewart & Kidd 799 17-20655
This book, by the president of the American anglers league, conveys much practical instruction in matters of fresh-water angling. It includes “Stories of big fish as told by their captors”; “One hundred questions and answers on tackle, fish and fishing”; and “Poems of the water trails,” by Albert Jay Cook. There are ten full-page illustrations.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“More useful than many recent books on angling in that it gives minute and specific instructions, some of them intended for the mere novice, some valuable to the experienced sportsman. A student of Walton is tempted to the cynical remark that the English is what might be expected of a man who favors self-thumbing and self-spooling reels; but this doubtless betrays a hopelessly old-fashioned taste in both tackle and literary style.”
+ — =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 130w
“Doubtless the novice who wishes to learn how to catch pike or bass in Wisconsin streams and lakes will get more out of Dixie Carroll to that immediate end than he could extract in any available allowance of time from Izaak Walton. But slang is a vehicle of expression all too easily overworked.”
+ — =Nation= 105:229 Ag 30 ‘17 430w
=Pittsburgh= 22:654 O ‘17
“Conceived in the spirit of Izaak Walton but actually written in the modern vernacular of the disciples of the rod and reel. A delightful book to read if you do not fish. The amusing introduction is by Jack Lait.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 50w
=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Mark of the beast. il *5s Murray, London 940.91 17-13490
“The author’s object in collecting and arranging the facts marshalled in this book is to drive home the lesson that an inconclusive ‘peace with the German empire will be a disastrous defeat.’ The three main subjects are ‘German kultur,’ ‘German history and diplomacy,’ and ‘German atrocities.’ The prophecies of Bernhardi, the work of Col. Frobenius, and similar pronouncements, are submitted to illuminative criticism; the tortuousness and duplicity of German diplomacy are described at length; together with the appalling events at Louvain, Aerschot, Audenne, Dinant, &c.” (Ath) The illustrations are reproductions from Holbein’s “Dance of death.”
“As a cumulative indictment of German methods this work is impressive and of deep gravity.”
=Ath= p106 F ‘17 100w
+ =Sat R= 123:87 Ja 27 ‘17 870w
“Our chief criticism of this book is that Sir Theodore Cook is not dealing quite fairly with his readers, for a very brief examination is sufficient to show that a considerable portion of it has already been republished in book form. Page after page of this work is identical with a large part of his previous book, ‘Kaiser, Krupp, and kultur,’ including the quotations with which each chapter is headed; and of this fact no warning is given to the reader.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 650w
=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Twenty-five great houses of France; the story of the noblest French chateaux; with an introd. by W. H. Ward. (Country life lib.) il *$16 Scribner 728.8
“Sir Theodore Cook is an enthusiast for certain phases of French architecture, and he knows his subject. He is also an assiduous student of the romance of history, and he has given the results of his researches and wanderings in France in this handsome and attractive volume.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The author has described houses ranging in character from the citadel of a royal borough to the country seat of a minister of state, from a great fortified monastic establishment on its wind-swept cliff to a substantial burgher’s residence in the heart of a great city. In date the houses described range over five centuries.” (N Y Times)
“The splendid page, the open type, the broad margins, the host of full page plates and the greater host of cuts of details make this study by T. A. Cook a thoroly delightful and valuable work on the chateaux.”
+ =Ind= 88:411 D 4 ‘16 110w
“To architects and students of architecture and to all who have looked upon the noble buildings that made France lovely, even before the war had revealed her heroic soul, this book has an irresistible appeal. ... The text conveys a clear idea of the characteristic architecture of the buildings to even those readers who lack special knowledge of this subject, and the 380 illustrations are a joy to the eye.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:512 N 26 ‘16 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:39 Ja ‘17 20w
“Sir Theodore Andrea Cook is the best of guides, for he is equally interested in history and in architecture. The letterpress exactly reflects in this respect the fascination of the châteaux.”
+ =Spec= 117:833 D 30 ‘16 1550w
“Sir Theodore Cook is always sympathetic, sensitive to impressions, tolerant, and eminently readable, even if he sometimes loses touch of his critical sense in his full-blooded enthusiasm for all the pageantry of the past. But his chief concern is with people, with those who owned and those who lived in these great houses, rather than with the humble artist who designed them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 1600w
=COOKE, JOSEPH BROWN.= Baby, before and after arrival; intimate talks with prospective mothers in plain, non-technical language. il *$1 Lippincott 618.2 16-23365
“This book deals chiefly with the mother, before and after the baby’s arrival, and the title is therefore somewhat misleading. Recent statistics would seem to indicate that child-bearing is still quite hazardous. ... While infant mortality has been reduced almost 50 per cent within the last generation, the death rate of child-bearing mothers has remained stationary. Dr Cooke points out that, while the medical profession is chiefly to blame for this state of affairs, the public is responsible for a good many impediments it has put in the way of the conscientious physician in the scientific performance of his duties. He details the essential facts about pregnancy and childbirth, and indicates the necessity for cooperation between physician and patient.”—N Y Call
“Written in not too technical language, adapted for mothers and nurses. ... It is blunter than Slemons and not so full as Davis.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17
“The entire problem is treated by the author in a practical and sensible fashion.” Medicus
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 18 ‘17 200w
“‘In many ways it is an admirable presentation. ... It is encouraging to find another straightforward, thoroughly scientific popular book on the subject of childbearing.’” D. R. Mendenhall
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:334 Ap ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Journal of Home Economics p144 Mr ‘17)
=COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON.= Cinderella Jane. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11703
By day Jane Judd cleaned studios in the Washington Square neighborhood. By night she devoted herself to the art of letters. For, unknown to the “Studio colony,” Jane had not only ambition, but ability of a rare order. Jerry Paxton, for whom she had worked for six years, had never taken any notice of Jane. To him she was a quiet, undemonstrative, domestic woman—the ideal wife for a popular society painter, unhappily beset by the women who fell victim to his charm. Unexpectedly Jerry asked Jane to marry him, and she accepted. Interesting developments follow; Jane’s first novel is published, and Jerry, who believes that a woman’s one career should be her husband, finds himself married to a woman who is famous. Their adjustment is the substance of the latter half of the story.
“Will be popular. Appeared in the American Magazine.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17
“The truth is, genius apart, Jane is a rather tiresome and irritating person—to the male observer, at least.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:534 Jl ‘17 500w
“The plot is admirably worked out, with a surprise in every chapter. ... Jane is the super-woman type, a trifle too calm to be human. But she is an excellent girl and teems with lessons. Besides, she finally learns a few for herself.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w
“One is not sure about ‘Cinderella Jane.’ The writer is so set upon being modern, so enthusiastic about the current doctrine of marriage as a mutually free state, that she strains the point at the expense of her Jane and her husband.”
=Nation= 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 380w
“The best part of the book consists of the remarks made by Jane and the author regarding women’s careers and economic position, and in these there is nothing which will not prove entirely familiar to any one who has given any attention to these subjects.”
=N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w
=Spec= 119:741 D 22 ‘17 30w
“The theme is now a common one, but the qualities that made this author’s ‘Bambi’ so pleasing to many are here in even greater measure.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w
“A novel of New York life, with a good deal of the unabashed emotional appeal one expects from so representative an American writer as the author of ‘The girl who lived in the woods.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 D 12 ‘17 130w
=COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD GARY.= Origins of the Triple alliance. (Univ. of Virginia, Barbour-Page foundation) *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940.9 17-20014
This volume is based on three lectures given before the University of Virginia, in 1916, by Professor Coolidge of Harvard university, “pointing out the causes, personal and international, that led to the formation of the alliance. The author disclaims having made any startling discoveries or any new theories; his object is to set out the interplay of political forces, the aims of statesmen, and the aspirations of peoples in Europe after the Franco-Prussian war as an indispensable study for anyone who wishes to understand even in a superficial way the causes that have brought about the present world-conflict.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Two appendices give the terms of the Austro-German alliance and the terms (so far as known) of the Triple alliance.
“Its outstanding merit is lucidity of presentation and in this respect the book, considering its small compass and the involved nature of its subject, is a model of exposition. The ordinary student would have been grateful for a list of authorities other than the few referred to in the sparse footnotes.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:430 Ja ‘18 470w
“Short but adequate and very lucid account of the origins of the Triple alliance.”
+ =Ath= p520 O ‘17 170w
“The book is of general interest just now, when especial need is felt of a readable and accurate account of the political forces at work among the central European powers following the Franco-Prussian war.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:272 N ‘17 350w
=Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 170w
“Though Professor Coolidge modestly disclaims having made any startling discoveries, his little volume is probably the clearest, sanest, and most objective brief account of the most important permanent results of European diplomacy between 1866 and 1882. Its value lies in the discriminating judgment, based on wide reading and personal acquaintance, with which he handles such elusive questions as the war scare of 1875, the personal relations between the old Kaiser and the Czar, and the devious motives of Bismarck, Gortchakov, and Andrássy. ... Professor Coolidge has also been wise in giving an unusually full analysis of the Russian and Balkan factors in the origins of the Triple alliance. These have ordinarily been much less appreciated than the Italian and French elements.”
+ =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 650w
“It is pleasant to recognize a book in which Bismarck as a statesman is not, if the expression may be used, melodramatized out of all lifelikeness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:678 O ‘17
“One of the best books to help one understand how the present way came about.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:353 O ‘17 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 90w
=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Rimrock Jones. il *$1.35 Watt 17-13184
“‘Rimrock’ is a young Arizona prospector, possessing all the vices and virtues of his kind—the magazine and moving-picture kind. He discovers a fabulously rich copper mine. A young woman stenographer gives him her small savings to assist in establishing his claim, in return for which he gives her a one per cent interest in the property. He interests an eastern capitalist, but past experience has taught him to be wary of surrendering his control. Eventually, a fault develops in his filing and a man jumps one of his claims. Jones kills the man and is jailed. Until he is acquitted the girl watches over his interests, but afterward he becomes infatuated with an eastern woman, follows her to New York and there pursues a round of dissipation and seriously involves himself in disastrous stock speculation. In the meanwhile, the fault in his mining claim once more crops up in Arizona. This the girl uses to advantage in bringing him to his senses.”—Springf’d Republican
“The story is vigorously written, as beseems its subject, and will especially appeal to those acquainted with mining manipulations.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 120w
“It is a breezy story of its kind, and its rapid action creates a high degree of interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 220w
=COOLIDGE, LOUIS ARTHUR.= Ulysses S. Grant. il *$2 (1c) Houghton 17-4331
“No man who ever gained enduring fame was more the sport of chance than Grant,” says his biographer. “No character in history has achieved supreme success in war or the supreme reward of politics who owed less to his own ambition or design. ... He was the child of splendid opportunities which came to him unsought, for which he never seemed to care, and which he met with calm assurance of his own capacity.” It is a well-written work based on trustworthy sources and it treats adequately of what the author calls Grant’s two distinct careers, devoting more space than is usual to Grant’s presidency.
“Mr Coolidge has used the best books relating to the subject, and particularly everything personally relating to Grant, except the material in the Civil war records. He has not, however, familiarized himself with recent monographic literature, or with the economic and social movements of the time, which emphatically influenced Grant’s career, although they left his personality untouched. ... He seems also not to possess a sufficient background of military knowledge to give force to his military criticism. Grant, however, both man and boy, by quotation and incident, stands out more clearly than in any previous account. ... The study of Grant in some respects is apt to prove final.” C. R. Fish
+ =Am Hist R= 22:885 Jl ‘17 1150w
“General King and Mr Edmonds devote but a small portion of their books to Grant’s life after the close of the Civil war. While not an absolutely necessary biography, would be of use as viewing Grant from this angle.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17
“The more important and distinctive part of Mr Coolidge’s work lies in the last third of it. ... Scant justice is done to the character of Carl Schurz in this review of Grant’s life. ... Mr Coolidge’s book fails to achieve its evident purpose to set Grant among the few great presidents; it was not needed to place him among the country’s greatest soldiers.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 900w
“Mr Coolidge presents an informing and, on the whole, judicial account of Grant’s presidency. The student of our history knows that this is no easy task. One of the best features of this excellent biography is the liberal quotation from Grant’s letters and state papers, written in that simple and forceful style which proceeded from his integrity and strength of character.”
+ =Dial= 64:76 Ja 17 ‘18 630w
+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 60w
“If it cannot be said that Mr Coolidge’s biography altogether explains the man Grant and his career, ... he has nevertheless narrated the events of a difficult historical period with a skill which gives to the present generation a rapid and comprehensive account of much with which it should be acquainted, while older persons familiar with the story can read it once more with renewed interest.”
* + =Nation= 104:759 Je 28 ‘17 1350w
“The biography, while it embodies in quotation or paraphrase all that is most significant in Grant’s narrative, has abundant freshness and vitality of its own: it is written with more than a touch of eloquence. Not merely because of its fullness and accuracy, but also through its literary qualities—its virility and incisiveness—it is not unworthy to stand beside the ‘Memoirs’ as a companion piece.”
+ =No Am= 205:803 My ‘17 1150w
“It comes just short of 600 pages, as long as a one volume biography can afford to be, and a study of its proportions reveals good judgment on the part of the author. ... The value of the volume is enhanced by the portraits, seven of Grant alone, one in a group of officers: all but one of these are from the collection of Frederick Hill Meserve of New York and some of them have not hitherto been published. Five of them are of the soldier, one of the president, two of the veteran.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ‘17 430w
=COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH.= Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism. il *$3.75 (3½c) Putnam 294 A16-1519
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17
“There is nothing scholarly about this book; as a contribution to scientific knowledge, it is nil. Its accounts of the legendary life of Gautama and his teaching, the discussions of the contemporary religious systems of India and of the later developments of Buddhism, as well as the concluding chapters on Buddhist art, are all a hotch-potch of quotations from modern scholars. ... If one wishes to get a general view of Buddhism, he will do better to turn to any popular manual, say the one by Mrs Rhys Davids in the Home university library, which is far better than the present work, and only costs one-seventh as much. ... The book is confessedly a work of propaganda. As an argument for Buddhism, it is not particularly convincing.”
— =Dial= 62:405 My 3 ‘17 750w
“We have many expositions of Buddhism, but few possess either the charm or the forcefulness of this.”
+ =Lit D= 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 320w
“This book, dealing, as it does, very largely with metaphysical speculations, is, of course, not very easy reading. But the author’s style is admirably clear. It is illustrated with a number of fine plates, some in color, others in black and white.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 500w
=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17
“The author’s previous work and his peculiar fitness to write authoritatively on this subject should go far to recommend this book for serious consideration by all students of the Buddhist religion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 12 ‘17 300w
=COOPER, CLAYTON SEDGWICK.= Brazilians and their country. il *$3.50 (3c) Stokes 918.1 17-29767
The writer contends that in a period when territorial barriers are being so rapidly dissolved and when national and social conditions are being so deeply stirred by the greatest human conflict of all ages, isolation and localism are no longer possible for any thoughtful person. He offers this contention as an apologia for a North American’s presumption in writing about a South American people. Contents: Mental hospitality; Brazilian traits; Portugal and Brazil; The Brazilian empire; The orientalism of Brazil; Republican government; A leviathan country; Education; Brazilian home life; The triumph of the engineer; Seeing Rio de Janeiro by tramway; Electric energy transforming Brazil; The racial melting pot; In the land of the Paulistas; The awakening of southern Brazil; Trade and transportation; Outdoor sports and lotteries; Rio de Janeiro, city of enchantment; Bahia, old and bizarre; Paranagua; Pernambuco and Central Brazil; Para and the rubber workers of the Amazon; The Brazilian Indian; Languages, libraries and literature; Brazil’s army and navy; The Latin American view of North Americans; The newspaper as an international medium; Brazil’s tomorrow.
“We have as a result a history with science, observation and experience combined in a really valuable volume.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 110w
“The frequent comparisons between North American and South American ways of looking at life and of carrying on the business of living are always interesting and ought to prove useful to all business men, especially young men, who hope to enter into trade relations with South America.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 360w
“Exceptional among serious descriptive works in being readable as well as full of useful information. A business man with South American trade in the back of his mind might well invest in this book. It gives a striking picture of our great southern neighbor and ally.”
+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w
=COOPER, ELIZABETH (MRS CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER).= Heart of O Sono San. il *$1.75 (3½c) Stokes 17-28073
The heart of O Sono San is not only the heart of every Japanese girl, but the heart of woman the world over. The customs, the ceremonies, the superstitions and traditions that dominate the environment in which O Sono San is reared are those which now stifle, now strangely quicken the development of Japanese women. From babyhood to motherhood we follow her. In her maturity when she gives her boy to her country, while she lives thru the uncertainties and terrors of the struggle for Japan’s life, when her boy falls serving his country, she rallies from the staggering blow with the heroism that is no more Japanese than French, English, German or American. It is the old Spartan heroism of universal womanhood. The illustrations are excellent reproductions in duo tone from photographs.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18
“The author’s ‘The lady of the Chinese court yard’ was an interesting piece of work. It was brilliant, but not so fine as ‘The heart of O Sono San,’ because the latter book possesses rare ethical and spiritual beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 770w
“If the illustrations do not always illustrate the accompanying text, they are in themselves exquisite. The book is worth owning.”
+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 50w
=COOPER, JAMES A.= Cap’n Abe, storekeeper; a story of Cape Cod. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-14190
Louise Grayling decides suddenly to spend the summer on Cape Cod with an uncle she has never seen, Cap’n Abram Silt. She finds Cap’n Abe to be a mild and peaceful old gentleman who for many years has entertained his neighbors with tales of the wild adventures of his seafaring brother, Cap’n Amazon. Louise has never heard of this brother and is amazed to learn that she has another uncle. There are others, too, who have begun to express polite doubt as to his existence. So to silence these doubters, Cap’n Abram arranges for the appearance of Cap’n Amazon. His own disappearance is coincident with the arrival of the swarthy-skinned, black-haired, red-turbaned seaman who can be no other than the legendary captain. The village accepts the stranger at his face value but is sorely puzzled to know what has become of the gentle Cap’n Abe. The reader will anticipate Louise in guessing the secret, but the curious villagers are kept in doubt for some time.
+ =A L A Bkl= 11:26 O ‘17
“Mr Cooper is to be credited with some ingenuity of plot and with holding concealed until almost the closing chapter a climax which can fairly claim originality. ... There is a conventional love romance in the book.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 250w
“If your last trip to the Cape has lost any of that delicious odor of clams and seaweed that clung even to your shoelaces, you can get a new whiff of it here, with a great deal of pleasure.”
+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 100w
“The sea and the seafolk give the breezy atmosphere which makes it pleasant reading for a summer’s day.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 130w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 220w
=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Concordance to the works of Horace. pa $7 Carnegie inst. 874 16-20920
“With this monumental volume a great labor of love on the part of the professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university has been finished, and a new and advanced position in the progress of classical scholarship has been gained. ... The text on which the ‘Concordance’ is based is that of Vollmer’s ‘Editio maior’ of 1912. Contrary to the usual practice, Mr Cooper has maintained a purely alphabetical sequence in the arrangement of Horatian forms, as, for instance, ‘sum, eram, esse, fui,’ etc., rather than listing all these under the basis of ‘sum’ or ‘esse.’ The advantage of this plan is that the student can at once detect the presence or absence of any given form in Horace. The work is a concordance and not a mere index. Each word is quoted in connection with a whole line (or more if necessary) of its context, which makes it possible, not only instantly to identify the passage, but also to study the word or phrase in question without turning it up in the original text. ... Mr Cooper has issued with the ‘Concordance,’ for the benefit of those engaged in a similar task, a list of instructions for preparing the slips used in the compilation of this great work.”—Class J
“We, who up to date have had no index to Horace except those of the Zangemeister-Bentley type, works ill printed and out of print at that, will have constant cause for gratitude to Mr Lane and to his ‘Maecenas,’ the Carnegie institute of Washington, for his scholarly, handsome, and entirely usable volume. It is a royal octavo, on heavy durable paper, printed with type unusually large and clear for such a work.” F. J. Miller
+ =Class J= 63:609 Je ‘17 530w
“To review a concordance exhaustively one must have thumbed it in long service. I have tested this one only by rapid reading of a hundred pages selected at random. I have observed no misprints and no instances of unintelligent or misleading delimitation of the excerpts. They are always so made as to indicate sufficiently the metrical, the grammatical, and the substantive context. ... An interesting page of the preface describes the method by which the forty-five thousand slips were prepared by eighteen collaborators.” Paul Shorey
+ =Class Philol= 12:311 Jl ‘17 450w
=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Greek genius and its influence. *$3.50 (2½c) Yale univ. press 913.38 17-29847
Select essays and extracts that interpret the life and genius of classic Greece. The work aims to supply “a part of the necessary background for the study of Greek and Latin masterpieces, ... and to stimulate and rectify the comparison of ancient with modern literature.” The characterizations of the Greek race which are assembled here have special interest for students of literature, and the writer hopes, for the geographer and anthropologist. A penetrating study of the traits of the Greek race, at its best, furnishes an introduction to the volume. He finds the Greek the most versatile and evenly developed of any race nature has brought forth; they were religious and intellectual; remarkable was their scientific interest in human conduct. The writer, who is professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university, offers the volume as a stimulus to the study of standard English translations of the classics.
“Certainly the reading is good reading, for the whole two hundred odd pages. Only—and one must ask it—why isn’t it edited?” H. B. Alexander
+ — =Dial= 64:63 Ja 17 ‘18 1250w
“While this book lacks the unity that a single authorship would compel, it is none the less abundant in interest and in wisdom.”
+ =Educ R= 55:78 Ja ‘18 80w
=COOPER, LENNA FRANCES.= How to cut food costs. il 75c Good health pub. 641 17-19175
“In this little book, the director of the Battle Creek sanitarium school of home economics gives a popular explanation of a balanced diet and provides a guide to the selection of low cost foods. It contains a large number of recipes and a list of economical menus for ten days. The seasonal factor in food economy is brought out, and the part played in cost by transportation and selling charges illustrated by telling examples. The emphasis is laid on wise buying rather than waste in the kitchen which, so far as working class households are concerned, is apt to be exaggerated by the critics.”—Survey
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 70w
“The book closes with a complete bibliography on kindred subjects.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 140w
“Though this book cannot take the place of verbal instruction and practical demonstration in the education of the less educated housewives, it may be recommended as a trustworthy manual for those already interested in the subject.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 130w
=COPPING, ARTHUR E.= Souls in khaki; with a foreword by General Bramwell Booth. *$1 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-17990
“Mr Copping’s book presents a series of pictures of his personal investigations into spiritual experiences and sources of heroism in the English army. [With the assistance of the War office and the Salvation army] he visited the training camps in England, went to France, tarried in the hospitals, went through the trenches, was under fire, talked with numberless soldiers, whole and wounded, spent much time in the Salvation army huts, and everywhere made it his chief purpose to find out what quality it is in the British soldier that enables him to face calmly and smilingly the horrors and the perils of battle. It is his conclusion that at the front ‘the spirit is supreme and the flesh subordinate,’ and he bears witness to what so many other observers have noted, the reality of religious faith among the soldiers.”—N Y Times
=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 100w
“In spite of the incessant and aggravating recurrence of adjectives—‘piteous’ seems to appear upon every other page—the writer has achieved a very readable war book and one that ought to find a place in the libraries of our Sunday schools.”
+ — =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 380w
“Chatty and interesting but marred by occasional sentimentality.”
+ — =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w
“It is a chatty and very readable little book and shows in a graphic way how spirit can rise above material conditions and make them contribute to its own good, no matter how abhorrent they may be. And that is something that ought, just now, when our own men are soon to be in the trenches, to be a consoling message to Americans.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 330w
“The book is full of stirring anecdotes of heroism and exalted Christian service. It is well put together and is free from any suspicion of special pleading. Mr Copping has done his best to get at the facts. His material is fresh and, in the main, convincing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 1 ‘17 280w
=CORBETT, JULIAN STAFFORD.= England in the Mediterranean [1603-1713]. 2d ed 2v *$5 Longmans 942.06
“‘Once to grasp the Mediterranean point of view is to be dominated by its fascination,’ wrote Julian S. Corbett a dozen years ago in the preface to his admirable work on ‘England in the Mediterranean, 1603-1713.’ He went on to give the first satisfactory account of that important bit of English naval and political history by which England first established her sea-power within the Pillars of Hercules, occupied for a while Tangier, and finally fixed her unshakable hold on the Rock of Gibraltar.”—Nation
“Today the Mediterranean is more than ever the ‘Keyboard of Europe,’ and the history of the seventeenth century strategists who secured it for England must always be of deep historic interest. Some of the episodes discussed in the book are ‘Sir Walter Raleigh,’ ‘England and the Venice conspiracy,’ ‘The navy under James I,’ ‘The Spanish succession,’ ‘Marlborough and the navy,’ and ‘The congress of Utrecht.’”
+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 320w
+ =Ind= 91:187 Ag 4 ‘17 40w
“With unusual success he has kept the complicated politics of the period in close relation to the naval history. With their readable style and their sense of the romance of the sea in its embodiment in English sea-fighters, Mr Corbett’s volumes are again welcome.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1428 My 12 ‘17 280w
“The great war, which has again centered men’s minds on England’s sea-power and her position in the Mediterranean, has called forth a second edition of Professor Corbett’s authoritative story of those small beginnings in the seventeenth century. It is reprinted in smaller format, but otherwise there is no change from the first edition.”
+ =Nation= 104:553 My 3 ‘17 140w
=CORBETT-SMITH, ARTHUR.= Retreat from Mons. il *3s 6d Cassell & co., London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-22253)
“The book deals with Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien’s corps more than with Sir Douglas Haig’s, and even on its own ground does not attempt a connected narrative. It gives us specimen episodes in the fighting; but these are so well chosen that they do in effect convey to us an accurate idea of what the whole strategical issue was.” (Spec) “Much of the book is anecdote: stories of heroism; stories of the irrepressible humor of the British soldier; stories of the capture and summary execution of German spies.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) On p. xi-xvi the roll of honour of the First expeditionary force is given.
“He is particularly skilful in describing individual feats and incidents.”
+ =Ath= p486 O ‘16 40w
“If we were asked how to get the best idea of the early fighting by our small but immortal Expeditionary force, we would say: Read Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book, ‘The first seven divisions,’ for the facts, and Major Corbett-Smith’s book, ‘The retreat from Mons,’ for the spirit.”
+ =Spec= 117:585 N 11 ‘16 1800w
“He gives us one of the most graphic accounts which we have read of the German mass attacks at Mons.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p471 O 5 ‘16 900w
=CORBIN, THOMAS W.= Marvels of scientific invention. (Marvels ser.) il *$1.25 Lippincott 608 17-4604
“Some of the ‘Marvels of scientific invention’ are collected in this interesting account by Thomas W. Corbin. The subjects include guns, torpedoes, the use of high explosives on farms, submarines, protection in mines, smelting, freezing, color photography, and electrical testing. These inventions and their uses are told in a pleasant fashion and their scientific aspects are described accurately in non-technical language.”—Nation
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17
=Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:189 D ‘16
=St Louis= 15:363 O ‘17 30w
“Mr Corbin’s book is briefer than Mr Talbot’s, and covers a smaller range. On the other hand, it has an index, and it goes more fully into the chemistry and science of the subject.”
=Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 150w
“On the whole Mr Thomas W. Corbin achieves considerable success. But he is not entirely free from mistakes in fact.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 120w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w
=CORCORAN, TIMOTHY=, comp. State policy in Irish education, A. D. 1536 to 1816; exemplified in documents collected from lectures to postgraduate classes. *$2 Longmans (Eng ed E17-153)
“The professor of education in the National university has printed a series of documents illustrating the chequered history of Irish education, hampered for centuries by racial, linguistic, and religious differences. The first of them is Henry VIII’s admonition to Galway ‘that every inhabitaunt within the saide towne indevor theym selfe to speke Englyshe,’ and it is characteristic. ... Dr Corcoran’s historical introduction, written from the Roman Catholic standpoint, is instructive, but the documents tell their own tale.”—Spec
+ =Educ R= 54:95 Je ‘17 70w
“It has been necessary to point out that Dr Corcoran mutilates or omits important documents—a practice which might be further illustrated from this book. But, notwithstanding this, all students of Irish history will be grateful for what he has given them. To much of it, no doubt, the criticism which has been made does not apply.” E.
* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:309 Ap ‘17 650w
=Spec= 117:sup533 N 4 ‘16 140w
=CORIAT, ISADOR HENRY.= What is psychoanalysis? *75c (5½c) Moffat 131 17-10883
This little book consists of questions and answers on psychoanalysis. Such general questions as, What is psychoanalysis? Where and under what conditions did it originate? Can psychoanalysis be harmful? What is the cause of certain failures in psychoanalysis? are answered together with many more specific questions relating to definite neurotic ills. The author is first assistant visiting physician for diseases of the nervous system, Boston city hospital, and he has written other books on “Abnormal psychology,” “The meaning of dreams,” etc.
“A straightforward clear exposition of the general procedure of psychoanalysis and of the technical terms that have arisen in connection with it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 470w
+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 40w
“Dr Coriat answers questions that have been in the minds of many persons. All this information is presented in simple terms quite within the understanding of persons of ordinary intelligence.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:432 O 21 ‘17 60w
=CORKERY, DANIEL.= Munster twilight. *$1 (2c) Stokes
A collection of Irish tales possessing all of the qualities we have now come to associate with things Irish, mysticism, pathos, poetry and humor of the sort that is more grim than jovial. Six of the stories are grouped together under the title The cobbler’s den. They are the stories drawn from the reminiscences of a group of cronies who come together nightly in the cobbler’s shop.
=N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 270w
“Whether he has been influenced by the study of Gorky and others of this violently depressing school of realists we cannot say. It may be merely an unconscious convergence, but the resemblance is sufficiently striking. ... Mr Corkery has put nearly all his gloom in the van, a method to be deprecated on prudential grounds, for while it may impress the critic who admires strong meat, it is apt to choke off the plain and gentle reader, especially at the present time. But we recommend the reader to persevere, for he will be rewarded.”
+ — =Spec= 118:109 Ja 27 ‘17 1200w
“Not all of these stories are violent or harshly humorous. Some are warm and tender, with a deep, queer insight into the hearts of old and gentle and afflicted people.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 11 ‘17 500w
=CORNELL, ERA.= Above Cayuga’s waters; comp. by the editors of the Class of 1917. il $1 Cornell era, Ithaca, N. Y. 378 16-19647
A selection of articles and poems that have appeared in the Cornell Era since its founding in 1868 to the present day. It has been the policy of the magazine to obtain for publication articles by prominent men on all phases of college life. “As a result,” says the preface, “the bound copies of the Era, covering nearly fifty years, are a storehouse of articles valuable for all who may be interested in that wonderful phenomenon, the American university.” With few exceptions the authors of the selections are either Cornell graduates or members of the Cornell faculty. Among those represented are Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, David Starr Jordan, Hugh Black, Arthur Brisbane, Norman Hapgood, Dana Burnet, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Jacob Gould Schurman.
“This little book will have interest not only for all Cornellians, graduate as well as undergraduate, but also for many others who busy their minds much or occasionally with the problems of student life and the relations between that life and the world life.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:576 D 31 ‘16 550w
“The book has little general appeal, but is valuable to students because of its treatment of their problems, and to Cornell men because of the memories it preserves.”
=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 200w
=COSMOS, pseud.= Basis of durable peace. *50c (1c) Scribner 940.91 17-3465
A series of articles written for the New York Times in November and December, 1916. As a starting point the author examines statements at that time recently made by the German chancellor and the British prime minister. Finding the two statements strikingly similar in outward appearance, he discusses the meaning of such expressions as “rights of small nations,” “freedom of the seas,” etc., from both the German and the British points of view. He discusses further the principles of the new international order that may be established after the war and the place of the United States in it. Victory for the Allies is the first essential for a durable peace. The second is the stamping out of the military ideal, not in Prussia alone, but in all the countries of the world. “The spirit and the point of view which manifest themselves in militarism, in the subordination of civil to military authority and policy, and in the setting of right below might, must be driven out of the hearts and minds of men. ... The basis of sound international policy will be found in sound domestic policy, and in sympathy with equally sound domestic policies in other lands.”
“The writer who offers his work under the title of Cosmos, and who is undoubtedly ex-President William H. Taft, has given us probably the sanest discussion of the terms of peace that the nations must agree upon at the close of the war. The articles show sound judgment and as far as the settlement of the war is concerned, great practicability.”
+ =Cath World= 106:111 O ‘17 250w
“Much information clearly and briefly given.”
+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 40w
+ =N Y Times= 22:29 Ja 28 ‘17 800w
=Pratt= p36 Jl ‘17 40w
“One of the ablest expositions of the subject that has appeared in small compass. Much less technical than Lafontaine’s ‘The great solution.’” L. A. Mead
+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 290w
=COULT, MARGARET=, ed. Letters from many pens. (Macmillan’s pocket American and English classics) *25c Macmillan 826 17-7948
“Miss Coult has followed a plan of her own in selecting the letters, and her collection is variously lively, informing and inspiring. It is an admirable book for use in schools. ... There is a group devoted to chat about home matters, another group of letters from young people to their elders and another of letters from grown people to children (including some of Phillips Brooks’s and Lewis Carroll’s), a group of letters addressed to strangers, a long collection of sketches from many lands, a section about tastes and a group of letters expressing emotions. A capital group is that of ‘Other times, other manners,’ which runs from classical times through the 18th century.”—Springf’d Republican
“While the educational use of the work is perhaps most important, many persons will find it profitable and delightful for casual reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 190w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Twilight of the souls; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$1.50 (2½c) Dodd 17-25859
This is the third of a series of four novels, “The book of the small souls.” It carries on the story of the various branches of the Van Lowe family. Ernst becomes temporarily deranged, Gerrit, the “healthy brute” of a soldier, who figures largely in this volume, has a severe illness; suffering and death come also to other of the Van Lowes, and the “family group” that “Mamma” van Lowe has tried so hard to hold together, seems to be breaking up. Constance, who, in the two preceding volumes, has been passing through a period of spiritual evolution, and has reached “the happiness of accepting one’s own smallness ... and of not being angry and bitter because of all the mistakes ... and of being grateful for what is beautiful and clear and true,” has a bitter disappointment when her son, Adriaan, tells her that he cannot carry out his parents’ long cherished plan and enter the diplomatic service, because he has become absolutely convinced that he should be a doctor. But the mother understands, forces down her disappointment and encourages her boy to follow his deepest conviction.
“It is a depressing chapter in the family history, yet not without its glimmer of happier light. Constance sees it as that atom, that ‘grain of absolute truth and reality’ which even small souls may possess, and may impart to others.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:488 D ‘17 600w
“The general tone is pessimistic but it is remarkable in its human sympathy and has touches of fine idealism.”
+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 150w
“In ‘The twilight of the souls’ Mr De Mattos translates with his accustomed skill the third of those linked ‘Books of the small souls’ in which the Dutch realist Couperus has embodied so searching and sympathetic an interpretation of human nature and of modern life.”
+ =Nation= 105:514 N 8 ‘17 350w
“Among the three volumes of the series which have now appeared, this, the third, ranks second in merit, above ‘The later life’ and below the ‘Small souls.’ This because, while very much better in every way than the former, it has less variety than ‘Small souls’ and less of inevitability.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:446 N 4 ‘17 1050w
=COURVILLE, E. H.=, comp. Autograph prices current. *25s E. H. Courville, 25 Rumsey Road, Brixton, London, S. W. 017
“The records in the volume are stated to have been extracted from the catalogues of about sixty-five days’ sales, and to represent a sum of more than £35,000. Among the entries we notice autograph letters of Rossetti, Swinburne, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, R. L. Stevenson, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Washington, and others. ... Numerous quotations from letters are embodied in the text.” (Ath) The compilation is to be published annually and is “a complete alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters, documents, and manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot: together with a comprehensive reference index.” (Sub-title). Sales from August, 1914 to July, 1916, inclusive, are comprised in this first issue.
+ =Ath= p425 S ‘16 140w
“His scholarly catalogue will be welcomed by the student, the collector, and the dealer alike.”
+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 190w
“On every page of this carefully edited volume there is something to arrest the attention, and we can only express the hope that it may become as hardy and as vigorous an annual as ‘Book prices current.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 7 ‘16 950w
=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL M.= Wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work. il *$7.50 Little 724.9 16-23955
“‘The wood-carver of Salem’ is a well-deserved tribute to Samuel McIntire, of Salem, whose distinction as an architect and designer, as well as a craftsman, is preserved in many of the stately houses of the third colonial period that still adorn the ancient streets of Salem. ... McIntire passed his whole life and did all his work in Salem, never having had an opportunity to see the productions of Wren and other contemporary English architects. Yet he attained high rank as a designer and, in the opinion of the authors of this book, he was our foremost colonial architect of domestic buildings.”—R of Rs
“To anyone that loves New England and is familiar with its widespread excellence of old architecture such a book as ‘The wood-carver of Salem’ affords pleasant entertainment. ... It is a book to read beside a fireplace such as those fireplaces that it pictures and describes.” W. A. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 400w
+ =Cleveland= p80 Je ‘17 30w
“A plentiful index and 127 plates give added importance to a work that is replete with vital interest.”
+ =Int Studio= 60:95 Ja ‘17 200w
“It appears as a limited edition, carefully and elaborately prepared.”
+ =Lit D= 54:567 Mr 3 ‘17 200w
=R of Rs= 55:105 Ja ‘17 150w
=COX, KENYON.= Concerning painting; considerations theoretical and historical. il *$1.75 (4c) Scribner 750 17-24869
“This book is the result of such thinking as I have been able to do on my own art of painting. It divides itself into three parts: the first is an inquiry into what painting essentially is and into the nature of its appeal to humanity; the second is an attempted account of what painting was in the golden age, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to nearly the end of the seventeenth; the third deals with some aspects of the painting of the more immediate past. Part first was originally given in the form of lectures at Union college. Parts second and third were delivered at Yale, in the Trowbridge course on the history of art, and at the Metropolitan museum and other institutions. The three chapters on ‘The golden age of painting’ have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine, and the other five in the Art World.” (Preface) There are thirty-two reproductions of typical works from the older and from contemporary artists.
“The suggestions are clear and not too technical in form so that they will interest the intelligent layman as well as the student.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17
“I find the first division of the book, devoted to a general consideration of what painting is according to Cox, the most arresting part of the discussion: probably because it is most Cox, whereas the historical survey puts him in a vast field where the competitors are numerous.” R: Burton
+ =Bookm= 46:478 D ‘17 550w
“Dr Cox elsewhere has not kept to himself his opinions regarding the vagaries of futurism, cubism and the other extreme manifestations of erratic individualism but he refrains from even recognizing in this book the existence of such a school or even mentioning the name of its votaries. He waxes quite enthusiastic over John La Farge, having evidently fallen under the sway of the personality of that brilliant genius.” N. H D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 750w
+ =Cleveland= p136 D ‘17 10w
“The eight essays are of unequal interest. Mr Cox has done nothing better than the two studies ‘Painting as an art of imitation’ and ‘Painting as an art of relation.’ ... There is a cleanness and trenchancy about this work which is beyond the range of any other American critic of art. Where Mr Cox’s admiration is fully aroused there is also a great sensitiveness. This quality Mr Cox keeps for his favorites. The rest get a rather schoolmasterly report.”
+ — =Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 290w
“If he wrote only of the technical side of his art he would be an absorbingly interesting author; but he is too much of an artist to stop with this. Not only the form but the meaning interests him, and he connects his comments on the detail of the workshop with observations on persons and schools and countries as catholic and sound and sincere as they are learned. ... His arguments have lost the bitterness that once diminished the force of their effect on his readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:417 O 21 ‘17 530w
+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 50w
“In his chapters on the Italian renaissance and the Venetian school, Mr Cox is at his best. His brief, crisp summing up of the four great masters, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Correggio, is luminous with clear, incisive judgments. ... It is in the third division of this work, devoted to certain aspects of 19th century painting, that we find Mr Cox somewhat disappointing. He has tried to crowd too much into inadequate space. ... Perhaps the most disappointing of all the essays is that relating to the mural painters.” F: T. Cooper
+ — =Pub W= 92:817 S 15 ‘17 1000w
“The book is valuable to teachers and students for several excellent reasons: It is accurately informative, intelligently analytical, and stimulating to the cultivation of æsthetic conceptions that are in harmony with our ideals concerning the newer civilization that we hope to see emerge out of the present chaos of thought.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:226 Ja ‘18 300w
=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SIDNEY COXON).= Autumn. *$1.40 (lc) Lane 17-9809
After ten years of an unhappy marriage, Deirdre Caradoc thought that the best of life was over for her. She was midway in her thirties, she had no child, and her love for her husband was dead. She decides to separate from him, and takes a house in the country where she hopes for uninterrupted quiet. Here she makes two friends, a father and his young daughter, who become of momentous importance in her life. Between the man and herself a deep and sincere love comes to life, but the course of their future is influenced by the daughter, who, in falling in love with a married man older than herself, seems to be giving them a replica of their own situation.
“This work carries the evidence of some originality. But the action does not progress with the desired celerity.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 220w
“It has to do with several charming people who seem unable, either by sin or by virtue, to solve their problems practically, ethically or sentimentally. Puppets of circumstance are they, whose perfervid loves play havoc with them. One wishes that they were all set to earning their living.”
— =Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w
“If the closing chapters of ‘Autumn’ do not quite fulfill the promise of its earlier portion, the novel is, nevertheless, one of unusual merit. ... It has that nameless distinction which, for want of a better word, we term quality.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 600w
=Spec= 119:93 Jl 28 ‘17 20w
“What one complains of chiefly is, first, that the main events of the story do not happen inevitably, but only because the author makes them happen, and that they are, therefore, unconvincing. One’s second ground of complaint is the author’s constant evasion.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p281 Je 14 ‘17 820w
=COXWELL, CHARLES FILLINGHAM.= Through Russia in war-time. il *$3.50 Scribner 914.7 (Eng ed 17-18477)
“It was on May 22, 1915 that the author, an Englishman, sailed from New York for North Cape and Archangel.” (N Y Times) “He describes with full appreciation for the wonders of Russia his journey and the various cities and sections he visited. He entered at Archangel, and travelled from north to south and from east to west of Russia. Much space is given to Petrograd and Moscow. He describes Holy Kiev, Odessa with its busy life, the beauty of the Crimea, the antiquities of Kertch, the Cossack country, the wonderful Georgian military road over the Caucasus, as well as the less-known parts of Russia. At the end he passes through Finland and through the country of the Lapps.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“In spite of his limited Russian vocabulary and in spite of war-time restrictions, he nearly always manages to get into actual touch with the natives, and ultimately to persuade them to pose for him. The result is a collection of unconventional photographs which help to impress on the mind a vivid picture of all those who came within Mr Coxwell’s view.”
+ =Ath= p342 Jl ‘17 700w
“An amusing account is given of the author’s difficulties at the outset with the Russian language.”
+ =Ath= p364 Jl ‘17 80w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w
“Political Russia is of more vital interest than physical Russia; but at the moment when the fate of that nation seems to center in one city, it is not amiss to remember that Petrograd is one of the least representative cities of the new republic and that behind all its changes and its transitory emotions there lies the great mass of the Russian people, sturdy, industrious, and immovable. To consider them steadies one’s sense of proportion. Mr Coxwell’s book enables one so to consider them.”
+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w
“The main impression it conveys is that the war in 1915 had hardly ruffled daily existence in the smaller Russian towns, and was little regarded in such important centres as Petrograd and Moscow.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 480w
“Mr Coxwell is almost a Pickwickian tourist—so simple-minded, so easily pleased, so little subjective in his observations, that he might seem to have just set out from Goswell street. But there the resemblance ends. Adventures crowded on Mr Pickwick at every turn, but not one befell Mr Coxwell. Mr Coxwell is happier, however, with his camera than with his pen.”
– + =Sat R= 124:250 S 29 ‘17 350w
“In the main, of course, the narrative is personal, but personal narratives may be of absorbing interest when the writer is an experienced traveler. Added value is given in the liberal space devoted to details of Russian life and customs and to historic incidents.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 230w
“No doubt students of Russian life will find nothing interesting in these pages and the book is not for those who wish to estimate political, economic, or military forces, or for those who look to Russia for spiritual guidance or inspiration. But it is for the not-too-serious tourist and those who are like the author in spirit. ... There is a slight misconception, perhaps, in the title of the book. It has little or nothing to do with the war, and does not describe special war conditions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 7 ‘17 1050w
=CRABB, GEORGE.= English synonymes. rev and enl ed *$1.25 Harper 424 17-10873
The first edition of Crabb’s “English synonymes explained” was published one hundred years ago. The preface to this centennial edition says, “It is an exceptional tribute to Crabb’s scholarship that during an entire century his masterful work has continued to hold the regard of the English-speaking world, and that to-day it is consulted with probably more appreciation than ever before.” Of the changes and additions made for the new edition the preface says further, “Nothing has been eliminated from the master’s explanations of his chosen words, and his style of presentation has been followed as closely as intervening conditions would permit. The entire body of the original words and explanations has been supplemented by a large number of words with their applications that have grown into the language within recent years, besides many that came to have a deeper significance than before because of the great European war.” Another important feature of the new edition is a complete system of cross references. The work has an introduction by John H. Finley.
“Revised and brought up to date by unnamed editors whose work, one cannot help feeling, is considerably inferior to that of the original author in natural feeling for words, in comprehension of philological niceties, and in insight into derived meanings.”
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 31 ‘17 430w
=CRAGIN, LAURA ELLA.= Sunday story hour. il *$1.25 (3c) Doran 372.6 17-13402
The author has written these stories for Sunday telling, either at home or in the Sunday school. They are planned for the younger children and are grouped under the headings: Our Heavenly Father’s care; Our Heavenly Father’s protection; The loving care of Jesus; Prayer; The sabbath; Helpfulness; Kindness; Obedience; Easter; Thanksgiving; Christmas. Many of the stories were written for the Beginner’s leaflets issued by the Presbyterian Boards. Other books by the author are “Kindergarten stories for the Sunday school” and “Kindergarten Bible stories.”
“The way in which the child is led to see how God is in his world makes the book especially fitting for Sunday reading, as it is designed to be.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w
=CRAIG, AUSTIN=, ed. Former Philippines thru foreign eyes. *$3 (3c) Appleton 919.14 A17-1007
This volume, edited by Professor Craig of the University of the Philippines, consists of a series of reprints of original documents and other out-of-print material bearing on the early history of the Philippines. Contents: Feodor Jagor’s travels in the Philippines; The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Thomas de Comyn; Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.; Manila in 1819, by John White, U.S.N.; The peopling of the Philippines, by Rudolf Virchow; People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878; Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. The volume was first published by the Philippine education company of Manila.
“Taken together, these descriptions form an exceedingly valuable lot of material regarding the Philippines. Of them all, the first is the most valuable, because of the intimate touch it gives of conditions and its excellent descriptions. The translation, which was made especially for this work by a young German, one of the victims of the Japanese onslaught on Tsing Tau, is immensely improved over the defective English translation published in London in 1875. By choosing descriptions on the whole favorable to the Filipinos, Professor Craig has presented but one side of his thesis, although it must be confessed material on the other side is easily available to whoever wishes to study the question from other points of view.” J. A. Robertson
+ =Am Hist R= 23:197 O ‘17 900w
“Only where there is special interest.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:442 Jl ‘17
“A republication of valuable and rare documents which is intended to correct the wrong impressions in the minds of students, concerning the Filipino and his islands.” M. C. T.
+ =St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 20w
=CRAIG, AUSTIN, and BENITEZ, CONRADO.= Philippine progress prior to 1898. $1.25 Philippine education co., Manila 991.4 17-31047
The purpose of this source book of Philippine history, prepared by two members of the faculty of the University of the Philippines, is “to supply a fairer view of Filipino participation and supplement the defective Spanish accounts.” The book consists of two parts. Part 1, The old Philippines’ industrial development, by Conrado Benitez, has chapters on: Agriculture and land-holding at the time of the discovery and conquest; Industries at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce: the period of restriction; The 19th century and economic development. Part 2, The Filipinos’ part in the Philippines’ past, consists of documents and reprints, edited with introduction and notes by Austin Craig.
=CRAM, MILDRED.= Old seaport towns of the South. il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 917.5 17-28900
The rain that falls in the first few chapters of this leisurely narrative dampens not at all the ardor of writer, illustrator and reader as they fare forth together on a journey southward from New York to Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, St Augustine and Galveston. The writer is visiting the South of her parents for the first time—the South that had come to mean “the place of sun, chivalry, romance and Uncle Remus.” With freshness of outlook, therefore, the prominent points of interest are viewed. There is a good deal of history thrown in, some illuminating generalizations about social problems, the whole being interspersed with crisp dialog, clear description and entertaining comment. Good illustrations, the work of the author’s brother, accompany the text.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17
“She catches the spirit of the cities, Baltimore, Charleston, Norfolk, and others, with remarkable accuracy. ... ‘Old seaport towns of the South’ is a thoroughly delightful book. The publishers have issued it in most attractive form, making a feature of the unusual and striking illustrations.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 190w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 3 ‘17 600w
“America is being discovered by its own people. The experiences and discoveries of one pair of explorers—brother and sister—are here related in sprightly detail, and the account is dressed by the publishers in the best product of the printing press. The historical facts woven into the narrative are at times somewhat mixed.”
+ — =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w
+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 120w
“She has brought together a great variety of bits of history, tradition, reminiscence, and description which make of each place that she visits a very interesting, attractive, and colorful picture.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 100w
=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Substance of Gothic. il *$1.50 (4½c) Jones, Marshall 723.5 17-25630
“I have called these lectures, given during the winter of 1916-17 in the Lowell institute course in Boston, ‘The substance of Gothic,’ because in them an effort is made, though briefly and superficially, to deal with the development of Christian architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII, rather in relation to its substance than its accidents; to consider it as a definite and growing organism and as the exact and unescapable exponent of a system of life and thought antipodal to that of the modernism that began its final dissolution at the beginning of August A.D. 1914, rather than in the light of its accidents of form and ornament and details of structural design.” (Preface) The author devotes five pages of his preface to listing and characterizing non-technical, easily available books, written in English, for those who wish to follow the subject further.
=A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17
“It is a truly eloquent book, and regarded as a piece of writing will give pleasure to the layman as a literary performance, quite aside from his interest in the theme or his agreement with the view presented.” R: Burton
+ =Bookm= 46:477 D ‘17 640w
“In Mr Cram’s presentation of structural details we are given at last to realize how incomplete, how downright misleading has been the method which presented the material progress, and left altogether out of account the spiritual forces which made that progress possible. ... The importance of such critical method in this day and age is tremendous. ... He is pointing the way to a new understanding of the middle ages upon much more solid foundations. Beneath him is the support of such exhaustively scholarly works as Henry Osborn Taylor’s ‘The mediaeval mind,’ and of such penetrating analysis as has been made by Mr Henry Adams. ... Mr Cram is, on the other hand much inclined to treat the faults and the blemishes of the modern age as though they were the only things visible in all the recent centuries. In this view is much error.” J. E. K.
+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1350w
“The volume, though evidently the work of an accomplished and enthusiastic student of architecture, is by no means a dry text-book abounding in technicalities. Its chief appeal may be to the specialist, nevertheless it will be perused with profit and pleasure by every intelligent reader.”
+ =Cath World= 106:389 D ‘17 230w
“Mr Cram writes not alone from the point of view of an ardent Gothicist, but from that of an ardent churchman as well, and this contributes both to the strength and to the weakness of his book—to its strength because he has so keen and constant a realization of the nobility and vitality of the essential spirit of Catholicism; to its weakness because all those who fail or have failed of that realization are to him either heretics, heathen, or pagans, bent on establishing the kingdom of Satan on earth.” Claude Bragdon
+ — =Dial= 63:517 N 22 ‘17 900w
=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 170w
=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS, and others.= Six lectures on architecture. il *$2 (6c) Univ. of Chicago press 720.4 17-4209
This volume contains the Scammon lectures for 1915, the lectures delivered at the Art institute of Chicago as the eleventh series under the Scammon foundation. Contents: The beginnings of Gothic art, and The culmination of Gothic architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram; Principles of architectural composition and Modern architecture, by Thomas Hastings; Organic architecture and The language of form, by Claude Bragdon. There are forty-five illustrations.
=A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17
“Mr Bragdon’s first lecture, entitled ‘Organic architecture,’ is an unusually clear statement of the condition of modern architecture. ... His second lecture, on ‘The language of form,’ is a valuable and suggestive exposition of his views as to possible sources of new forms in art and ornament.” P. B. Wight
+ =Architectural Record= 41:370 Ap ‘17 1400w
“Mr Cram’s two lectures, which it is rather hard to judge fairly, as he covers an immense field in a few pages, are admirably written. Mr Hastings’s two have some carelessnesses in style. ... There is a good deal of practical advice and of suggestive information in all six. The volume would have been improved had an index been added.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1050w
“Stimulating discussion of conflicting ideals in American architecture.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 70w
“Mr Cram summarizes the evolution of the characteristic features of Gothic construction in paragraphs bristling with names, dates, and technical terms. The effect is sufficiently cryptic even on the printed page. Yet the treatment, on the whole, is stimulating and suggestive. No one in the world to-day—certainly not in this country—is, perhaps, better qualified than Mr Cram to interpret the Gothic spirit. It can hardly be said that Mr Hastings presents a very strong brief for his cause.” W: A. Bradley
+ — =Dial= 63:110 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w
“Well worth reading as examples of three wholly different attitudes and methods of approach to the subject. ... The minds of auditors who heard all six lectures must have been left at the end in a somewhat bewildered state, for the book is full of contentious and provocative suggestions. It is hardly milk for babes in architecture, but it is good reading for those who are already somewhat instructed in the subject, and may well set the mature architect to thinking.”
+ =Nation= 104:437 Ap 12 ‘17 420w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 30w
“The doctors disagree, but it is the disagreement of living thought, and from the series of lectures the public receives a lively thrust toward the act of original thinking which is the desired result in all educational work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:415 O 21 ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17
=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 50w
+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 N 9 ‘17 290w
=CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE.= Life and letters, [ed.] by his daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott. il *$3.50 (3c) Houghton 17-8755
Altho Christopher Pearse Cranch was born in Virginia, he was closely associated with the literary life of New England. As a young man he entered the Unitarian ministry, but left it after a time to follow an artist’s career. He devoted himself to landscape painting and wrote poetry for the Atlantic Monthly, the Dial and other papers of the time. He was the friend of Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, George William Curtis and other distinguished Americans and in his travels abroad he formed friendships with men of letters in Europe, among them Thackeray, and the Brownings. In this book his daughter presents a selection from his letters, joined together by extracts from an unpublished autobiography.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17
“Christopher Pearse Cranch finds a place in many anthologies, and his books are on the shelves of numerous libraries, public and private, that preserve the relics of bygone literary accomplishment. ... It is regrettable that his daughter, despite the abundant material in her possession and her liberal use of it in this volume of ‘Life and letters,’ has thrown it together so carelessly, and has made no attempt, either in her own words or in the words of others, to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of his life. ... As a miscellany of incidents in the inconspicuous life of an American man of letters and leisure, Mrs Scott’s record of her father is valuable despite its incompleteness. ... As material for a biography, Mrs Scott’s volume will serve. It is also an excellent memorial tribute to a worthy life.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 1450w
“By far the most valuable part of the book is made up of the letters he received from others. Besides early notes from James Freeman Clarke and Emerson, there are several letters in Lowell’s happiest manner, several from the Brownings ... and many from W. W. Story and George William Curtis. A few, like those of Curtis from Berlin, are valuable for themselves; but most are of the sort that reveal the recipient as well as the author.”
+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w
“His personality was well worth studying, but the greatest charm of the book lies in the intimate view we get of such friends as Curtis, James Russell Lowell, Mr and Mrs Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. W. Story, Margaret Fuller, and others famous in art, music, and literature. ... It is a very readable biography.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 180w
“The reader who wishes to find a picture of the pale, reflected, undisturbed, and comfortable condition of American arts and letters of the period will do no better than to turn lightly the pages of this volume. But if he is looking for the impact upon a man of varied culture of the forces that were to shake artists, composers, and writers out of their traditional ease, he will turn away as from a sago pudding.”
+ — =Nation= 105:697 D 20 ‘17 440w
“Mr Cranch was one of the most interesting Americans of the last generation.”
=Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:525 Je ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p47 O ‘17 30w
“His relations with New England transcendentalism and with Emerson form an entertaining chapter of the book.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 50w
“If the material gathered in this volume had been thoroughly sifted and digested into a book of half the size, two objects would have been probably attained: We should have had a sufficiently detailed life of the poet, and his life would be likely to interest more readers. As it is, the volume is formidable because of its size and because of the method of presentation of its subject matter.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 15 ‘17 1600w
=CRANDALL, LEE SAUNDERS.= Pets; their history and care. il *$2 (2½c) Holt 636 17-13515
This book on pets and their care is divided into four sections: Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and batrachians; The aquarium. As this division will indicate, the term pet has been given a rather wide interpretation. The author says, “To give, in a single volume, full and efficient directions for the treatment of so many diverse creatures, means that the space devoted to each must be no greater than necessary. For this reason rare or particularly delicate members of the various groups have been excluded. ... On the other hand, many of the birds, such as the pheasants, cranes and waterfowl, cannot be considered as pets in the sense that they may be fondled, but they are widely kept for ornamental purposes, and their proper treatment is a matter often not well known.” (Preface) Theories of breeding are discussed in an appendix. There are many illustrations from photographs, a bibliography and index.
“It covers about the same number of animals as Comstock and is, therefore, fuller in treatment than Verrill. Has fifteen more illustrations than Comstock and a general bibliography at the end of the book instead of the references for each animal discussed in Comstock.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w
=N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 70w
“As an introduction to the practical knowledge of pets, Mr Crandall’s book will well serve. As assistant curator of birds in the New York zoological park he speaks with the weight of an authority behind him. ... There are nearly 100 excellent illustrations.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 230w
=CRANE, FRANK.=[2] Christmas and the year round. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-29490
“Christmas means the supreme fact about life, namely: that it is joyful,” writes Dr Frank Crane in the first of these essays. Others in an equally optimistic vein follow. The art of quietness, Life an adventure, The man who keeps his word, Democracy, The postponement of life, The delusion of safety, are some of the titles.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 100w
“Dr Crane puts a great deal of common sense philosophy into his essays in a spirited, readable form and this newest product is packed with optimistic humanism and wisdom.”
+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 130w
“He is always brisk, and the ideal of life to which he calls his readers is always democratic, independent, contented, and sturdy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:564 D 16 ‘17 370w
=CRANE, FRANK.= Looking glass. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-13215
A book of short essays on such subjects as: The secrecy of goodness; The art of being cheerful; The higher probabilities; Keeping young; Amusements; The fear of deciding; The new teacher; The theatre and morals; The immorality of fear; A consumer’s views on salesmanship; Democracy and organization, etc.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17
“Dr Crane’s devoted admirers will receive with joy a new contribution to his list of books. Like his other offerings, this volume is crammed with spicy essays in tabloid form.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 2 ‘17 190w
“Brisk, wholesome, direct, this spicily served advice is all the better for not taking itself too seriously.”
+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 40w
“His short essays express, in terse phrase, the brisk American optimism. It is not mawkish or spineless; on the contrary, it is vigorously upstanding. But it is determined to see ‘good in everything.’ But we cannot all agree in finding cause for happiness in the ‘number of things’ of which the world is full today. And there is something more than irritation—there is something ghastly—in Dr Crane’s exuberant cry of all-inclusive gladness: ‘Thank God for now!’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 360w
=CRANE, UTLEY EDWIN.= Business law for business men. *$3.50 Winston 347 17-1500
A work on business law, “covering all the states and territories in the Union, with abstracts of commercial law in every state and territory and legal forms for many transactions.” (Title-page) The author, a judge of the municipal court of Philadelphia, says, “Recognizing that the average business man has neither the opportunity nor inclination to pursue a systematic study of business law, this work has been specially prepared to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs. Omission of any citation of authority and all legal technicalities has been for the purpose of rendering the work interesting as well as instructive.” Contents: Contracts; Partnerships; Corporations; Negotiable instruments; Real estate and conveyancing; Bankruptcy; Insurance; Common carriers; Patents; Trade-marks; Copyrights; Sales; Business crimes; Domestic relations; Building and loan associations; Architects and builders; Money; Executors and administrators; Constitutional law; Banks and banking.
“It is a practical book for practical business. It will also be of ‘handy reference’ value to lawyers. It is easy to read and well arranged, so that the layman will have no difficulty in finding the information which he desires.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 380w
“One of the commendable features of the work is its national application. ... As an exposition of the legal principles involved in ordinary mercantile transactions, the work can be commended as sufficiently simple and untechnical to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 130w
=CRANMER-BYNG, LAUNCELOT ALFRED=, tr. Feast of lanterns; rendered with an introd. *80c Dutton 895 (Eng ed 17-6225)
“In ‘The wisdom of the East series,’ edited by L. Cranmer-Byng, and Dr S. A. Kapadia, there is now published a treasure for students of poetry, ‘A feast of lanterns,’ translations from the work of twenty Chinese poets. The introduction explains the tenets of Chinese poetic art, their reverence and love for flowers, symbolism in poetry, and the lore of the dragon, one of the four spiritually endowed creatures of China. There are also interesting comments on the epochs of Chinese poetry, and on the great storehouse of verse that remains untranslated into western tongues.”—R of Rs
=A L A Bkl= 14:14 O ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 60w
“The reader of these graceful relics of the thought of an alien race in by-gone centuries echoes the sentiment of Sir John Davis, quoted on the title-page of this volume, ‘As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day be under a similar obligation?’”
+ =Lit D= 54:1862 Je 16 ‘17 500w
+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 430w
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 90w
=CRAVATH, PAUL DRENNAN.= Great Britain’s part. *$1 (8c) Appleton 940.91 17-7951
These “observations of an American visitor to the British army in France at the beginning of the third year of the war,” were written first for the New York Times. They are republished in the hope that they may “aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European war.” The author says, “The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 50w
+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 170w
“Hardly more than a magazine article, Paul D. Cravath’s little book makes clear methods of organization and the way work is done behind the British lines.”
+ =Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 30w
“A thin book of not two hours’ reading, which is far too sketchy and meagre to justify a defiance of the high cost of paper by adding another pebble to the mountain of war-books. But one conviction strongly and instinctively held by Mr Cravath catches our interest. The conviction is that England will win, that nothing can stop the new army. Since we have ourselves entered the war, we have been glad of any reassurance, however uncritical or dogmatic. Mr Cravath’s conviction is both, yet he has the power to convey his conviction to his readers.”
=New Repub= 10:330 Ap 14 ‘17 230w
=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 40w
“His account of the businesslike methods by which a modern battle is fought makes good reading.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 100w
“Largely a reiteration of what we already know. But it makes an interesting reiteration because it is the result of personal, inexpert observation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ‘17 170w
=CREAGER, WILLIAM PITCHER.= Engineering for masonry dams. il $2.50 Wiley 627 17-17759
“A concise handbook treating first of dams in general, choice of location, preliminary and final investigations, choice of type, and forces acting on dams with tables and equations for computing them; second, of particular types with examples of each and the calculations for their construction. The three final chapters are concerned with the preparation and protection of the foundation, flood flows, details and accessories.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“The 229 pages of the volume are full of valuable information, made easy of access by the methodical arrangement of the material. The assumptions and recommendations are consistent with good conservative practice. ... If the reader feels any regret it is because he does not find treated one of the difficult problems of engineering of masonry dams—outlet control.” F. Teichman
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:562 S 20 ‘17 580w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Jl ‘17 60w
=CREELMAN, HARLAN.= Introduction to the Old Testament; with a foreword by Frank K. Sanders. *$2.75 Macmillan 221 17-12733
“After about thirty pages of discussion of questions of general introduction the outline of biblical material is given chronologically, and divided into ten periods. The materials of four of these periods are found in the Hexateuch; and they are the primitive, the patriarchal, the exodus and the conquest of western Palestine periods. Then follow successively the periods of the judges, of the united kingdom, of the divided kingdom, of the exile, of Persian rule and of Grecian rule. All of this mass of material is analyzed, dated and described. Each section, paragraph, verse and part of a verse is carefully marked, so that the student of the English Bible may test for himself the data upon which the modern view of the Old Testament rests.”—Boston Transcript
“Its general point of view, of course, is that of the historical school, and the author’s conclusions, in so far as they are indicated, are of the cautious type represented by such scholars as Driver and the contributors to Hastings’ ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ But the critical literature so abundantly cited, if used by the inquiring reader, will bring him into touch with every shade of opinion.” J. M. P. Smith
+ =Am J Theol= 21:608 O ‘17 430w
“There are three indexes which will prove very helpful to the student. For those who wish to study the Old Testament as an original source this is the best volume that has been published in English.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 470w
=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= Daughter of the Puritans. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-6643
The author of “Recreations in botany,” “Harper’s guide to wild flowers,” and other books, writes here of her girlhood. The years covered are those from her childhood up to her marriage in 1866 at the age of twenty-three. Of particular interest is her account of the religious training of New England children in her day and of its effect on the child mind. She herself, she says, lived two lives “one natural and childlike, the other terrified and unnatural.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17
“The childish attitude towards religion and God as it existed more than a half century ago could not be better epitomized.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w
“Mrs Creevey is not only a botanist and a writer on botany, with several handy and useful books to her credit on our native flora and the pleasures of its study, but also an agreeable chronicler of events in the animate world of human beings. ... Her account of her education and her school-teaching is good reading—truthful and richly human, with a spice of humor.”
+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 230w
+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 40w
“All except the very young will find in this autobiography their own experiences mirrored.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1088 Ap 14 ‘17 180w
“There are three chapters on Wheaton seminary (now college) at Norton, Mass.”
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 30w
=CREHORE, ALBERT GUSHING.= Mystery of matter and energy. il *$1 (6c) Van Nostrand 530.1 17-28773
In the first chapter of this little book the author says, “One of the purposes of the following lines will be fully accomplished if we succeed in presenting to those who have given little thought to this subject some conception of what is implied by the words ‘the problem of the structure of matter.’ Among scientists this problem has gradually increased in importance to such an extent that it may now be said to be the problem of problems.” Discoveries of recent years have advanced the problem to a point where its solution becomes a possibility. “The improbability of its solution in the eyes of a former generation has, it may be said, been changed into a probability in the eyes of the present generation.” The problem is stated, recent steps in its development traced, and the field for future effort outlined.
“A fascinating little volume. ... The book is written without algebra, but it contains some beautiful geometrical drawings and atomic-model pictures. The volume is to be recommended to all educated persons possessing some general knowledge of physics who are interested in the most recent investigations within the microcosmic world.”
+ =Elec World= 71:50 Ja 5 ‘18 340w
=CREIGHTON, LOUISE (VON GLEHN) (MRS MANDELL CREIGHTON).=[2] Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin. il *$4.50 Longmans
Thomas Hodgkin, an English banker, historian and antiquary who died in 1913, is allowed to tell his life story largely in his own words, Mrs Creighton having drawn on his extensive correspondence and his private journals and diaries. She says, “My object has been to give a portrait of a man, not an account of the various causes in which he was interested, nor even, in the first place, of the work which he actually achieved.” Thomas Hodgkin was a Quaker and the record of his association with the Society of Friends is given in the words of fellow members of that faith. A bibliography, giving a list of all Dr Hodgkin’s writings is included in the appendix. Mrs Creighton is also author of the “Life and letters of Mandell Creighton.”
“The record of a life such as Dr Hodgkin’s belongs among the notable biographies of men of thought and action.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 1350w
“The portrait she presents is serene but a trifle monotonous. There are too many birthday letters, written in a tone of affectionate retrospect, and a superabundance of religious discussions with Sir Edward Fry and other intimates.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:485 D 15 ‘17 350w
+ =Spec= 119:679 D 8 ‘17 1800w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 50w
“It is natural that to Mrs Creighton, who so admirably revealed the many-sided powers of the bishop [Bishop Creighton] who ‘tried to write true history,’ should be given the opportunity of preserving for posterity the lovable character of his friend. In this she has succeeded. ... There is no criticism, no endeavour to analyse his purpose, or assign him rank among the great historians.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p565 N 22 ‘17 1400w
Crime, The, by a German: tr. by Alexander Gray.[2] 2v v 1 *$2.50 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-26980
A book called forth by the criticisms of the author’s earlier book “J’accuse,” with answers to the objections of German critics, among them Dr Karl Helfferich, Dr Theodor Schiemann, Paul Rohrbach, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The author’s chief aim has been to bring new evidence to bear on the thesis of the first book.
“A far better appreciation of the present work is possible to those who have studied ‘J’accuse’ than to readers imperfectly acquainted with its subject-matter. ‘The crime’ will be widely read, and will deepen the impression made by the author’s previous book.”
+ =Ath= p684 D ‘17 210w
“Had his first chapter been written without epithets, declamation, and self-laudation, the whole work would have gained in dignity and force. It is unnecessary explicitly to damn opponents whom your sober arguments render so ridiculous as this author renders the Teutonic apologists. Apart from this blemish the book is unanswerable.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:32 Ja 26 ‘18 580w
“The author lays no claim to be in possession of any material which is not universally accessible, but in very patient and thoroughly German fashion he has made the most of what is available. It must be admitted that his method becomes at times wearisome. Those chapters which are freshest and will be most read deal with the relations between Lord Grey of Fallodon and Count Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London, before the actual outbreak of war, and discuss the German claim that Russia, by being in so great a hurry to mobilize, was really the European ‘incendiary.’”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup550 N 17 ‘17 220w
=CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.=[2] Electrical machinery; principles, operation and management. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-19176
“Avoiding the use of difficult mathematics, this well known author aims to explain to the ‘average’ man the theoretical principles and the essential operating facts relating to alternating-current and direct-current generators as well as to motors and similar machinery, with consideration of control apparatus. Design is not discussed. There are chapters on troubles, testing, and the determination of motor drive requirements. [There are] clear cut illustrations and practical examples with solutions.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Jl ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17 10w
+ =Power= 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 500w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 70w
=CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.= Wiring for light and power. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-11353
“The ‘National electric code’ which this book explains and illustrates is a set of rules prepared by the National board of fire underwriters for the purpose of insuring safe electrical installation. The aim of the author of the present book is to make plain just how the work should be performed to meet the requirements of the ‘Code.’ The ‘Code’ itself may be had gratis from the National board of fire underwriters, 76 William st., New York city.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Valuable reference manual. Covers outside and theater lighting which Cook does not, is better illustrated and a little less technical.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:115 Ja ‘18
“Exceptionally well illustrated and indexed.”
+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:482 Jl ‘17 120w
“Valuable reference manual.”
+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17
“Mr Croft, who has several other excellent handbooks to his credit, has in this practical and clearly written work supplied the desirable explanations and elaborations.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ap ‘17 120w
=Pittsburgh= 22:517 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p21 O ‘17 30w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 90w
=CRONAU, RUDOLF.= German achievements in America. il $1 R. Cronau, 340 E. 198th st., N.Y. 325.7 16-16931
“Written as an answer to what the author terms ‘unwarranted insinuations questioning the loyalty of the German-Americans toward the land of their adoption,’ this book brings together brief records of German achievements in America, from the days of the Palatines to the present, and covers achievements in pioneer life, war, politics, industry and commerce, science and engineering, literature and the press, music and drama, philanthropy and women’s work, including also a chapter on the National German-American alliance and its purposes, and The future mission of the German element in America.”—Cleveland
=Cleveland= p159 D ‘16 90w
=Pittsburgh= 22:213 Mr ‘17
=St Louis= 14:386 N ‘16
=CROSS, HÉLÈNE (FODOR) (MRS C: E: CROSS).= Soldiers’ spoken French. *60c Dutton 448 17-22899
This book is a “short-cut to the amount of French which it is necessary that our men who go to France should be able to speak.” It has been “compiled from a real course of spoken lessons as given to New Zealand’s soldiers.” The author states: “The approximate pronunciation of each word will be found, as the sound would be spelt in English, in brackets beside it.” The binding is said to be waterproof and the book will fit the pocket of a uniform.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17
“It was an oversight, however, on the part of the American publishers not to give the equivalent of the French money in American, as well as in English currency.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:847 S ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 60w
=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Jl 19 ‘17 30w
=CROSWELL, JAMES GREENLEAF.= Letters and writings. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 17-13972
James Greenleaf Croswell became in 1887 head-master of the Brearley school for girls in New York city. His letters fill a little more than half of the present volume. “Many are written to relatives; some to literary and other friends; the majority, perhaps, to present and former pupils.” (Nation) These are followed by about one hundred pages of the author’s writings in prose and verse. Then come some seventy pages of “Recollections and appreciations” of Mr Croswell. The book is illustrated with three portraits of the author, a picture of his summer home and a facsimile of a letter to a child.
“Evidently we have to do rather with a somewhat miscellaneous collection than with a book. Yet it contains enough interesting matter to give the reader no little insight into Mr Croswell’s character. Most interesting, naturally, to teachers are the letters exhibiting Croswell’s views on his own profession, as shown by allusions here and there in them—rarely by more elaborate or formal statement.” E. D. Perry
+ =Educ R= 54:419 N ‘17 1450w
“Even to one who had never before heard of Mr Croswell or of the Brearley school, the book would be sure to be interesting, because there is a man in it. ... The more formal ‘Writings’—a couple of addresses, a fable or two, and a few translations and poems—add little to the picture, but do nothing to injure it. In the letters especially, which fill rather more than half the volume, one meets a personality of genuine and most winning humility, of entire unselfishness and a kind of appealing wistfulness, yet not without subtlety; and this conjoined with a mind of extraordinary keenness, flexibility, and refinement. ... It would be impossible to imagine better letters to young girls than many of these.”
+ =Nation= 105:228 Ag 30 ‘17 550w
=Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 70w
=CROW, MRS MARTHA (FOOTE)=, comp. Christ in the poetry of today: an anthology from American poets. $1 Woman’s press 811.08 17-21868
The compiler of this volume, aroused by Dr Josiah Strong’s allusion to “the return to Christ that is now taking place,” decided to try out the truth of his statement in modern poetry. In fifty volumes of poetry of about 1890, she found few or no poems about Jesus; in 1895, a few; in 1900, many more; while in 1910, times had distinctly changed. In her introduction the compiler says: “Selecting, then, from the super-abundant wealth of poetical material on this theme, written by the poets of the United States of America, since about 1900, and arranging them in the order of the events of his life, we have here a sort of new biography of Jesus, each chapter of which consists of a poem written by a different author, and the whole forming the poetic reaction of our time to the thought of Jesus. ... Jew and Gentile, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Neo-Pagan, Socialist, Emersonian—all sorts and conditions of lovers and admirers of Jesus are represented in this collection.”
“A most useful book for all having to do with programs for church, schools and societies.”
+ =Ind= 91:477 S 22 ‘17 70w
=CROWELL, BERTHA.= Wings of the cardinal. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-25289
Ferol Rankin, a beautiful red-haired, seventeen year old Texas country girl, to get money for her mother, became the mistress of Berry Ward, a rich New Yorker, with tuberculosis, who was seeking a divorce from a cheap actress whom he had married when he was drunk. Ward promised to marry Ferol when he got his divorce, and kept his word. After spending some time in Kansas City, in California and in New York, the Wards settled in San Vincente, New Mexico. Here Ward had an affair with Julia Brace, a married woman, though he was still in love with his wife. Meanwhile James Sanger, a sculptor, fell in love with Ferol and tried to make her go away with him, but although she loved Sanger, she decided that she couldn’t “be a quitter” and elected to stay with her husband. Ward, however, divined the state of the case, told Sanger that he would “play to lose” and that Ferol would be free in six months. He stayed alone in a hunting camp and died of hemorrhage. The “Texas Cardinal” then cabled Sanger, who was in Algiers, that he might return in a few months.
“The novel reads very like a first book, but though it is deficient in artistry and in interest, it has some clever bits, usually descriptions of places and environments. Especially good is the sketch of San Vincente and its health colony, outwardly so light-hearted and careless, really engaged in a plucky fight against the one real enemy, tuberculosis.”
=N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 300w
=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 hints on flowers and birds. *$1.50 Putnam 716 17-17297
Uniform with “1000 hints on vegetable gardening.” Treats of The art of growing flowers, Essentials in gardening, Special features of the garden, The lawn, Shrubbery and trees, Insects and sprays, Color scheme, List of common and botanical names of flowers mentioned in the text, List of flowers arranged according to the blossoming period, List of perennials, also annuals, arranged according to colors, Flowers for cutting, Flowers requiring little sunlight, Flowers that thrive in damp places, Flowers for the old-fashioned garden, and a List of evergreen shrubs and trees. The last thirty pages are concerned with “A plea for the birds.”
“The indexing of the helpful information is scholarly and invaluable.”
+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 130w
“An almost dishonestly misleading title. The impression of coördination that is conveyed is belied when it turns out that the birds receive only thirty-two pages in a volume of 359 pages, or one chapter among twenty-one. This chapter, it should also be said, is of no value to the field student, concerning, as it does, only such matters as bird houses and food. The justification of the book (it does justify itself) is in the highly condensed information on gardening and full index that renders this information quickly accessible. The author’s information, though generally correct and serviceable, is more than once careless.”
+ – — =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 180w
“An indispensable guide for the amateur gardener and home-builder, equally suited to the needs of those who have a large acreage at their disposal and for the person with the modest backyard or the narrow window-box.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:221 Ag ‘17 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 60w
=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 hints on vegetable gardening. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 635 17-18609
Uniform with “1000 shorter ways around the house,” and “1000 things a mother should know.” There is a chapter whose tabulation is alphabetical which groups under each vegetable the hints for the planting, care, cooking and preservation of that vegetable. There are chapters on: Soil and fertilization; The hotbed and cold-frame; Seed; Planting; Thinning and transplanting; Cultivation; Watering; Weeds; Insects and sprays; Fruit; Small fruits; Nuts; Trees; Miscellaneous hints; List of agricultural experiment stations; Plan for a family garden; Table denoting how much space should be devoted to various vegetables; Convenient lists for gardeners; Index.
=CROY, MAE SAVELL.= 1000 things a mother should know. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 649 17-13344
The suggestions the author has brought together have reference “to tiny babies and growing children; their clothes, their care, their food, their training, and their entertainment.” As in her earlier book, “1000 shorter ways around the house,” she has arranged a large amount of miscellaneous material under convenient subject headings. Contents: Pregnancy; Clothing; The nursery; Health rules and medical care; Hygiene and sick-room suggestions; Food; Habits and training; Amusements; Miscellaneous.
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w
“A large amount of miscellaneous information conveniently arranged.”
+ =Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w
=CRUMP, IRVING.= Boys’ book of policemen. il *$1.35 (2½c) Dodd 352 17-13226
A companion volume to “The boys’ book of firemen,” by the same author. It will give a new idea of the policeman’s duties and of the wide variety of the opportunities offered by the calling. Contents: The call of adventure; “Pounding the pavement” with the patrolman; The six-foot guards of traffic; In action with the mounted men; Mile-a-minute motor patrol; The four-footed police of the dog patrol; The pirate fighting marine division; The sleuths of the secret service; The riot call and other police signals; Police preparedness; Policemen in the making; Your big brother—the cop.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17
“Besides all the practical information, stories are told of many adventures and thrilling incidents.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 90w
+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 30w
+ =Pratt= p9 O ‘17 20w
=CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON, and others.= School organization and administration. (Educational survey ser.) il $1.50 World bk. co. 371 16-17381
The report of a school survey conducted by Dr Cubberley in Salt Lake City in 1915. “The survey concerned itself especially with the form or organization and administration under which the schools were operated, the system of supervisory control by means of which the superintendent of schools worked, the progress in the fundamental subjects being made by the children in the schools, and the problem of adequate finance. ... The report contained, in addition, a number of features which were quite distinctive. ... Among these should be mentioned the detailed explanation of the tests made and the results obtained, the study of the instruction of retarded pupils, the work in health control, the school building and site problem, and the peculiar financial problem, presented by this city.” (Preface) The first edition published by the Board of education of Salt Lake City was early exhausted and this second edition is now printed with some revisions and additions by the author.
“A great mass of educational literature is accumulating, some of it of dubious value, which may or may not be useful hereafter as material or sources for students in educational administration and practise. A painstaking example of a work of this type is ‘School organization and administration.’”
=Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w
“Will be useful to any school officer or parent who wishes to work out an intelligent view of his own school situation.”
+ =Ind= 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 70w
Reviewed by B: C. Gruenberg
=N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 430w
=CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM WILSON.= Cooperative marketing. *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 334 17-28662
“In ‘Cooperative marketing: its advantages as exemplified in the California fruit growers exchange’ Prof. W. W. Cumberland has written the history of the exchange since its beginnings in the early nineties, outlined its methods of work, summarized its benefits, and said a few words of its pertinence to cooperative marketing in other fields. ... It consists, essentially, of 8,000 orchardists united into 117 local packing exchanges, each handling fruit on a cost basis; of 17 district selling exchanges, or clearing-houses; and of the central exchange, which, under president and directors, provides market facilities, issues daily bulletins of market information, advertises, owns the ‘Sunkist’ trade-mark, handles litigation, and maintains an organized selling force of 75 offices and 200 salesmen in the principal European, Canadian, and American markets.”—Nation
“Comprehensive, suggestive, candid and rational. This book should give a great stimulus to the one phase of cooperation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 150w
“Professor Cumberland tells his story lucidly and comprehensively.”
+ =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 470w
=CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM.= Progress of capitalism in England. *90c (3c) Putnam 330.9 (Eng ed 17-15935)
This book contains the substance of lectures delivered in the London school of economics and political science in 1915, and is “published in the hope that it may prove a useful appendix to the author’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce.’” (Preface) The book is divided into three sections: Economic history and empirical economic science; The development of the body economic in England: Lessons from experience. “One-third of it is devoted to the general philosophy of the subject. ... The development of industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is touched upon only by a brief discussion of ‘laisser-faire.’ A contribution to the economic problems of the future is offered in the final chapter on ‘Lessons from experience.’” (Eng Hist R)
“Much material of great interest to students of economic history is presented in brief compass, particularly in the second part of the book which deals with ‘The progress of capitalism in mediaeval cities.’”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:597 Ag ‘17 80w
“The many students of Archdeacon Cunningham’s ‘Growth of English industry and commerce’ will not find anything new in his lectures on ‘The progress of capitalism in England’ but those who desire a very brief summary of his views on this aspect of economic history will find this little book helpful.” G. U.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ag ‘17 170w
“Besides an instructive summary of our economic development, this little book contains an earnest plea for the study of economic history.”
+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 80w
=CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE.=[2] Brought forward; Charity; Faith; Hope; Progress; Success. ea *$1.35 Stokes (Eng ed 17-11795)
“Of the six volumes which are now being brought out in a uniform edition in this country, one, ‘Brought forward,’ is published for the first time. The other books, although they have been appearing one by one in England since the early years of the century, have never before been issued here. The present edition amounts, therefore, to an introduction, for American leaders, to a large part of a well-known British writer’s work. Of the fifteen stories in the new volume, three are Scotch, three English, one a story of the Arabs, one a story of Spain; the others take the reader to scenes past and present in Latin America. ... The name of the volume ‘Charity’ is taken from the initial story of the book, but nearly all the tales have charity, sometimes in an odd form, as motif. ... ‘Faith’ and ‘Hope’ form the keynotes of the volumes of those titles, though sometimes faith and hope show themselves, and play their parts in men’s and women’s lives, in strange and sad ways. ... ‘Progress,’ a long story in the book of that name, is a horrible record of the putting down of a rebellion in Mexico. ... His sympathies are always with the simple people, the oppressed, the misunderstood.”—N Y Times
“Keen as is the sympathy that marks his pictures of simple folk in England and Scotland, his stories of Latin America are really the most interesting in the book, with a few brief sketches of Spaniards and Moors following close behind. Yet the whole book is a series of delightful portraits, both of men and of horses. The earlier volumes show the same understanding that marks ‘Brought forward.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1000w
“He has irony, pity, and wit. He is the master of the telling phrase, and can produce a convincing picture with the utmost economy of words. Our delight in this book is tempered only by the fear that it is to be, according to rumour, Mr Cunninghame Graham’s last.”
+ =Sat R= 122:417 O 28 ‘16 470w (Review of “Brought forward”)
“We need only say that they are as attractive as ever—especially ‘El tango Argentino’—and commend them to his many faithful readers, who will be grieved to learn from the preface that the author will write no more.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup609 N 18 ‘16 70w (Review of “Brought forward”)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1200w (Review of “Brought forward”)
=CURLE, RICHARD.= Echo of voices. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 17-13448
Richard Curle is author of a critical study of Joseph Conrad, and Conrad has stood sponsor for this book of short stories. “I think your taking him up is a good move,” he wrote to the publisher. “He has brains; he has also a writer’s temperament.” The short stories that compose the book are serious studies of life and character. Most of them have a commonplace London setting. One, His kingdom, is a story of South Africa; another, Nineteen, of the South seas. The other titles are: The two dependants; Midnight: The would-be friends; General service; Monsieur Clavel; Deep down.
“The book is, it is easily apparent, not strikingly of the ‘wholesome’ breed. It is not likely to please those who lack a relish for the eccentric and somewhat bitter. But the tales, for all their lack of the conventionalities of structure and content, have a certain power and self-sufficiency.” F. I.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 550w
“There is perhaps more than a suggestion of Mr Conrad’s own method, and more than a trace of the influence of the great Russians, especially Dostoevsky. But what then? These are no bad models for a young writer with a temperament, and Mr Curie has had the strength to put his individual stamp on all but one of these tales.”
+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 530w
=CURRAN, WILLIAM TEES, and CALKINS, HAROLD A.= In Canada’s wonderful northland. il *$2.50 (2c) Putnam 917.1 17-5856
A book devoted to the northern part of the province of Quebec, a country now being opened to settlement by the construction of a railroad to Hudson bay. It is an account of eight months of travel by canoe, motorboat and dog-team. The authors were continuing studies made earlier by Mr Curran and summed up in “Glimpses of northern Canada, a land of hidden treasure,” a work issued by the Canadian government. The book is well illustrated and supplied with maps.
“An unassuming and interestingly written record of a trip taken by the authors in 1912.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17
“The book prefigures, in all likelihood, a remarkable expansion northward in the near future.”
+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 270w
+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w
“From the intimate manner in which the narrative is set forth, the reader seems to live in the region through which he passes. The sixty illustrations and maps are illuminating and well chosen.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 170w
“It is not as well written as it might have been; the illustrations are exceptionally good and, on the whole, the book is one of the best volumes of Canadian travel in some time.”
+ — =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 50w
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 80w
“Those who wish a true and vivid picture of the vast region known as northern Canada cannot do better than read ‘In Canada’s wonderful northland.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 270w
“This being a book for the general reader, Mr Curran does not give details about his technical work. It contains an appendix giving new and valuable information about the harbours discovered.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 600w
“Covers some of the ground of Leith’s ‘Summer and winter on Hudson bay.’”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:183 Je ‘17 80w
=CURRIE, BARTON WOOD.= Tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement Industry. il *$1 (2c) Curtis pub. co., Independence square, Philadelphia 631 16-15374
A series of papers on the development and use of farm implements, with particular reference to the tractor, reprinted from the Country Gentleman. Part 1 consists of a miscellaneous collection in which the author deplores the “senseless diversification” of farm machinery and argues for standardization. Part 2 is devoted to the tractor and its place in agriculture.
=R of Rs= 54:459 O ‘16 50w
=CURRIE, JOHN ALLISTER.= Red watch; with the first Canadian division in Flanders. il *$1.50 Button 940.91 (Eng ed A17-370)
“Colonel Currie’s book deals concretely with but one regiment of the many that have gone out from Canada. But in its careful and representative detail it offers us much information about the part played in the war by Canada as a whole.” (N Y Times) “The ‘Red watch’ is the term applied to the 48th Highlanders. After the battle of Langemarck only 212 out of the 1034 members of this regiment responded to the muster call.” (R of Rs)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:394 Je ‘17
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w
“The men under his command were certainly a band of heroes, and the story of their heroism stirs the blood. The pictorial feature is prominent.” P. F. Bicknell
+ =Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 130w
“Colonel Currie is particularly emphatic in praising the temperance and careful living of his men, and denying reports that British, French, or Canadian soldiers are given rum or drugs ‘to keep up their courage.’ ... There is much that is thrilling in this clean-cut soldier’s chronicle, much that is inspiriting and fine. It is a soldier’s record, through and through.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 330w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w
=CURTIN, DANIEL THOMAS.= Land of deepening shadow; Germany-at-war. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-13672
The author is a young American war correspondent who went to Germany late in 1915. His purpose in the book is to give a general picture of conditions in that country under the stress of war. In the early chapters he aims to show how all Germans were “made to think as one man,” in other words, “how the German government creates unity.” It is done by utilizing all the forces that mold public opinion, schools, pulpit, theatre, and press. In the later chapters he describes “the forces tending to disintegrate that wonderful unity.” Among the chapters are: A Land of substitutes; The gagging of Liebknecht; Spies and semi-spies; The iron hand in Alsace-Lorraine; The war slaves of Essen; Germany’s human resources; In the deepening shadow.
“Evidently authentic, it gives many informing and probably unique experiences.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
“Some books dealing with the internal condition of Germany convey an impression that the colours are too liberally spread upon the palette. The supply of horrifying and sensational facts occasionally forces on the reader the suspicion that the authors have kept the probable demand rather too prominently in view. Mr Curtin’s book is free from that sort of thing.”
+ =Ath= p258 My ‘17 280w
=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 320w
“Mr Curtin is one of Lord Northcliffe’s young men; and he has his patron’s faculty of making our flesh creep with quite exceptional hideousness. The book he has written will tell any reader what Mr Curtin says he saw inside the German empire; but I think that he will conclude that his author has still to learn the value of historic and psychological light and shade.” H. J. Laski
=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 60w
=Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 280w
=Lit D= 55:42 O 13 ‘17 300w
“A frank, well-informed, and brightly written, though egotistical, book by a Germano-phobe Irish newspaper reporter for the Northcliffe press.”
+ =Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 500w
“Under the disguise of a seemingly frank and dispassionate analysis of conditions, the facts are carefully selected and presented with true journalistic cunning in contrast and climax. One hesitates to term this technique dishonest even in a minor sense, for the chances are that it results more from an unconscious bias than from any deliberate attempt to deceive. ... The whole force of Mr Curtin’s book comes from making vivid the truth of the chancellor’s utterance in the Reichstag when he said, apropos of the complete blockade of Great Britain by submarines, ‘We are staking all on this throw.’”
+ — =New Repub= 12:54 Ag 11 ‘17 650w
“It is a depressing or inspiring picture, just as the inclinations of the reader are ‘pro-Ally’ or ‘pro-German.’ But it is well written, and seems to be the work of a trained observer, even if his impartiality be questioned.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 750w
“Since thorough knowledge of an enemy is the first essential of efficient warfare, the intimate, first-hand view which he offers ought to have wide reading.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 800w
“The reader will find the information collected and classified; he will find the facts reported in an impartial and historical spirit; and he will find the reports characterized by a degree of reality and authority not always, perhaps not often, to be found in newspaper correspondence. The author reports, not what he was given every facility to see, but what was often carefully hidden from him.”
+ =Outlook= 117:102 S 19 ‘17 340w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w
“Of special interest are his chapters on educational and publicity methods employed by the government.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 120w
“It gives the most complete account at present procurable of the internal conditions of [Germany]. ... The fact that the author’s country was not involved in the conflict enabled him not only to see more than an Englishman would have been allowed to see, but also to take a more objective view of the phenomena which he observed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w
=CURTIS, LIONEL=, ed. Commonwealth of nations. pt 1 *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 325.3 (17-1660)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The lay-reader, despite the clearness of style, the auxiliary plans, and the handsome appearance of the book will hardly be attracted to the seven hundred pages of solid matter. Nor will the scholar be apt to find it of great use. It is essentially an edition of reports, lengthy but marked by serious omissions, made by industrious and intelligent laymen, and drawn from familiar secondary material. The purpose of the work is warmly to be commended but its value to historical scholars is at least questionable.” C: Seymour
=Am Hist R= 22:644 Ap ‘17 700w
“There is great ability in his statement, and a very wide knowledge is implied in his treatment of imperial history. Given the limitations he has himself imposed, the development of the present situation is truly rendered; and the volume is one which no intelligent British citizen can afford to neglect. ... The fundamental fault of Mr Curtis is provincialism. ... His geography would have to be revised for an American edition of his book; and perhaps even his history is tainted with the same provincialism of outlook. ... The sum of our criticism is this: there is ability in the marshalling of facts and the urging of a political programme, but the moral attitude implied is ingenuously primitive.” C. D. Burns
+ — =Hibbert J= 15:344 Ja ‘17 1650w
“The real significance of the present study is that it is to be regarded as a counterblast to such writers as Jebb and others who believe in Britannic alliance and conceive the future of Britain to be an alliance between the mother-country and the self-governing dominions. ... Indeed, the completeness with which it collates such material and the convenient form in which it presents it make the volume a handy treatise on the failure of contract or treaty to insure permanency of political relationships. At this time, too, the subject is of wider interest than its immediate problem; the volume might be read as a sufficient antidote to a good bit of the literature put forth by the League to enforce peace. On the other hand, the study suffers from a failure to look at the history and evolution of the self-governing dominions. The American colonies, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States are treated, but the history of Canada and Australia is almost completely ignored. ... In the background of these ideas is Treitschke rather than T. H. Green. They go with a temper rather out of style at present—too little in sympathy with the common people.” D. A. MacGibbon
=J Pol Econ= 25:512 My ‘17 1150w
“The chapters on the American revolution (from the British point of view) and the relations between England and Ireland are specially interesting. The book is weighty, and may be recommended to students of history and imperial politics. It is liberally supplied with elaborate maps and diagrams.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 170w
=CUSHMAN, ROBERT EUGENE.= Excess condemnation. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 336.1 17-21830
Mr Cushman, who is instructor in political science in the University of Illinois, treats his subject from the standpoint of the American city, the experience of European cities being introduced merely for illustrative and comparative purposes. He defines excess condemnation as, “‘the policy, on the part of the state or city, of taking by right of eminent domain more property than is actually necessary for the creation of a public improvement, and of subsequently selling or leasing this surplus.’” (Engin News-Rec) He discusses the three main objects of excess condemnation: “(1) to solve the vexing problems of remnants of land; (2) for the protection of improvements against the prejudicial use of adjacent land; (3) to take for the benefit of the city the increase in values of land adjacent to public improvements, due to the improvements themselves, and thus pay or help pay for the cost of the improvements. ... He then takes up ‘gains and risks’ administration, and the constitutionality of excess condemnation. A few bibliographical references and a list of cases cited are given.” (Engin News-Rec) The editor of the National municipal league series, in which this is the third volume, states in his introduction that this is the first work in the English language on the subject.
“It presents ample data on the many perplexing phases of the subject and discusses in a judicial spirit the evidence on both sides of controverted questions. ... The book deserves the careful attention of engineers and other city officials concerned in planning, financing and protecting municipal improvements, broadminded real estate men and all who are interested in helping on the orderly and economical growth of municipal improvements.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:751 O 18 ‘17 500w
+ — =Nation= 106:69 Ja 17 ‘18 210w
“With its historical and illustrative material and general citation of cases the book will prove helpful to all students of the subject. ... The slow movement of our cities towards fundamental improvements is primarily because of the expense involved. The volume will by many be considered lacking in its handling of this.” E: T. Hartman
+ — =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w
=CUTLER, FREDERICK MORSE.= Old First Massachusetts coast artillery in war and peace. il *$1 (2c) Pilgrim press 353.9 17-12948
Lieutenant Cutler gives the history of the “Old First” from its origin in 1784 to January, 1917. There are many pictures showing the changes in uniform and in artillery with the passing generations. The first appendix gives the Genealogy of the coast artillery; the second a bibliography.
“No Massachusetts militia unit has enjoyed a more interesting history, or has been more actively engaged in the country’s defence, than the Old First.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 250w
“It will be news to many to find that in 1784 the general apathy toward military affairs in the United States was so marked that the total regular army was comprized within a single company, now Battery F of the field artillery.”
=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Lieut. Cutler, who, by the way, is pastor of the Congregational church of Wenham, has told his story with a wealth of anecdote and in a style that will commend the volume beyond its particular clientele.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 200w
=CUTLER, ROBERT.= Louisburg square. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-10857
First of all this novel is a picture of Boston society. Old Boston names, Cabot, Quincy, and Copley, appear in its pages. Secondarily, it is a story. Rosalind Copley, the heroine, is a beautiful and popular young girl who interests herself in charities, acting as a volunteer worker in a settlement house. She has entered into a tentative engagement with Ben Cary, a promising young lawyer, when she meets Eric Rolland. Love between the two springs up quickly, but Rosalind feels that Ben has claims on her. Circumstances solve her problem.
“Mr Cutler knows whereof he writes. But the value of his novel does not rest on a knowledge of Beacon street and Commonwealth avenue. ... ‘Louisburg square’ starts where many of its unsuccessful competitors stop. Its universal elements bring it to the goal they miss.” R. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 770w
“The author makes some attempt at characterization, but the result is not very convincing. The whole with its irritating self-immolation is somewhat too suggestive of an ‘Elsie’ book to be pleasant.”
– + =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 120w
+ — =Ind= 81:188 Ag 4 ‘17 70w
“All the old ingredients are here; there is a certain vigor about the telling, but why waste it on this trivial skeleton of an unreality?” C. W.
– + =N Y Call= p13 Ap 22 ‘17 120w
“A first novel and the product of an author so young that he was graduated from Harvard only last year, ‘Louisburg square’ shows a great deal of promise and a quite commendable present achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 570w
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w
“There is quite enough in ‘Louisburg square’ of the quiet insight into and keen appreciation of that Boston culture which Mr Cutler understands well to make us hope for his early return from soldiering to writing—for him, evidently a field of promise.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 700w
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=DALE, ROBERT BURDETTE.= Drawing for builders. (Wiley technical ser. for vocational and industrial schools) il *$1.50 Wiley 692 16-20746
“This book is intended to serve as a basis for a problem course in elementary architectural drawing, and to be especially useful to the practical builder and to the ambitious young man who wishes to become an architect’s draftsman. ... Its aim is not only to teach the student to make drawings, but to instruct him to read and use them. It is written for use in home-study instruction, either with or without assistance, and it is hoped that it may find a place in high schools, vocational schools, night schools and industrial classes.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Drawing instruments and materials; How to make a drawing; Architectural free-hand lettering; Straight-line projection; The problems. These problems take up about one-half of the book. The author is assistant professor in charge of vocational courses in engineering at Iowa state college.
“The same author’s ‘Arithmetic for carpenters and builders’ is an excellent book for the same type of reader.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w
=DALRYMPLE, LEONA.= Kenny. il *$1.35 (2c) Reilly & B. 17-21645
This story is by the author of the $10,000 prize novel, “Diane of the green van.” “Kennicott O’Neill is [the hero’s] full name, and he is a famous painter and as richly endowed with temperament as he is entitled to be by his double birthright of Celt and artist. Nevertheless, every one calls him ‘Kenny,’ even to his 23-year-old son, Brian. ... It all begins because Kenny, being more impecunious than usual, has taken Brian’s shotgun out and sold it, and Brian, being much annoyed, has thrown his paint brush across the studio and smashed a statuette.” (N Y Times) The two quarrel and Brian leaves his father “to tramp off into God’s green world of spring.” Kenny, homesick for the boy, follows him later, and they both find Joan, the girl in gold brocade, and her young brother, Don. Many things happen, and “finally Kenny realizes that the time has come for him to be 44 years old and for Brian, at last, to be 23 years young.” (N Y Times)
“Entertaining, sentimental, and in parts delightfully humorous.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17
“If, not being too particular about facts, one likes occasionally a bit of Irish blarney and a bit of a romance with fairies lurking around the corner, then one should most certainly read about Kenny, artist, lover, and father to his son.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 200w
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 100w
“Leona Dalrymple has written an American E. Temple Thurston novel; and although the comparison between the two may not be wholly in her favor, it is not meant to be derogatory. For nothing is so difficult—for an American writer, so relentlessly difficult—as the expression of charm in personality. Mr Merwin has given us his interpretation of New York’s bohemia; Miss Dalrymple now gives us hers, and, to tell the truth, it pleases us more.”
+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 140w
“A slight, wind-woven, gay story, with a touch of pathos toward the end.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 600w
“Miss Dalrymple tells her very light story with zest, and there are pleasant bits of outdoor description. As a picture of Irish character it is highly conventional.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 250w
=D’ALTON, J. F.= Horace and his age. *$2 (3c) Longmans 874
A study in historical background intended to encourage consideration of the character of the age in which Horace lived and wrote. The writer says, “I have tried to view him in the light of the various movements of his time, to recapture, as it were, the atmosphere in which he moved, to estimate a portion at least of the influences under which many of his thoughts were bodied forth.” Contents: Horace and Roman politics; The Augustan revival; Horace in religion and philosophy; The period of the Epistles; Horace and social problems; Horace and popular beliefs; Literary criticism.
“Prof. D’Alton, with a careful endeavour to steer clear of Procrustean-ism, and from evidence mainly derived from the poet’s writings, has in considerable measure succeeded in placing before us, not indeed a new Horace, but one whose mentality is perhaps a little easier to understand than was previously the case.”
+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w
“It is a particular pleasure to call attention to a genuinely distinguished contribution to the understanding of Horace.”
+ =Educ R= 55:77 Ja ‘18 140w
“To a certain extent he is successful, for he has great knowledge and great love of his subject, he writes admirably, and throws light on many particular points; but the total effect is that he presents the reader rather with an excellent book of reference than with an effective portrait.”
+ — =Spec= 119:647 D 1 ‘17 1650w
“It displays industry, accuracy, and temperate judgment. It does not go wandering after paradoxes like that which ensnared so brilliant a scholar and so keen a critic as Verrall. And by its seriousness it is a good corrective to the superficial view of Horace as an elegant trifler, a preacher of pleasure, one whose ideals of life were low. The defect of these qualities ... is that the book is rather useful than stimulating, and leaves no clear total impression.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 11 ‘17 2000w
=DALY, JOSEPH FRANCIS.= Life of Augustin Daly. il *$4 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25827
The brother of Augustin Daly has written this intimate biography which is not only a full record of the life and work of America’s greatest theatrical manager but is an important contribution to the history of the American stage. During his early years, Mr Daly was dramatic critic for several of the New York papers. In this field he developed taste and genius not only for theater management but for play writing. In 1869 he entered the theatrical business when he leased the Fifth avenue theater for a term of two years and advertised to produce “whatever is novel, original, entertaining and unobjectionable,” and to revive “whatever is rare and worthy in the legitimate drama.” Mr Daly’s sincere, unflagging devotion to the cause of establishing the theater on a successful basis of high excellence furnishes the theme of the larger part of the work which cannot fail to find a large audience among producers, managers, playwrights, actors and, as well, the general public.
“Augustin Daly did a great service for the American stage, a service made all the more important by the influence of his own sterling character and single-eyed purpose, and this account of it deserves to have a place among the interesting records of American achievements.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:328 N ‘17 270w
“A sympathetic appreciation by a brother. The reader is therefore offered a mass of interesting personalia, in lieu of any profound critical estimate of Augustin Daly’s influence on the American theater.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 350w
“The author has succeeded in rearing a notable monument of fraternal affection. But, though a respected and capable judge, he had little skill in bookmaking. The legal habit of his mind is betrayed in the accumulation of the smallest details, rather than in orderly and discriminating use of them. His relation, especially in some of the earlier chapters, is often exceedingly confused and rambling.” J. R. Towse
+ — =Nation= 106:71 Ja 17 ‘18 1300w
“So broad, indeed, is the book’s scope that it becomes almost a history of the New York stage through the middle and later decades of the nineteenth century. And there are numbers of photographs of the stars of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, pictures which will arouse a flood of recollections in the breasts of middle-aged theatregoers.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:13 Ja 13 ‘18 1150w
“An admirable biography. The author has used his ample material with tact and taste.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:803 D ‘17 90w
“The book singularly and regrettably fails to give the intimate view we expect in biography. ... He has made a ship-shape lucid biography with the personal equation of both brothers left out. To this end he seems to have deliberately foregone the abundant anecdotal charm of theatrical books. But he has made a valuable statistical contribution to the history of the American stage.” Algernon Tassin
+ — =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 720w
=DAMPIERRE, LÉON MICHEL MARIE JACQUES DE, marquis.= German imperialism and international law; based upon German authorities and the archives of the French government. il *$3.50 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-15316)
“In the first chapters M. de Dampierre devotes himself to an investigation of the theories which have gone to build up the principles of German imperialism, contrasting them with the opposed doctrines which have found their expression in the attempts to build up a system of international law.’ ... He then proceeds to show how all that has happened in this war. ... is the logical and inevitable consequence of the teaching of German writers before the war. ... He has read widely and ... his illustrations from the works of German writers are always supported by full references. ... The two last chapters, ‘The German war and spoliation’ and ‘German terrorism,’ are almost entirely occupied with a discussion of the diaries of German soldiers, which afford irrefutable evidence regarding what took place during the months of August and September, 1914.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:52 N ‘17
=Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 330w
+ — =Educ R= 54:422 N ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p13 O ‘17 20w
=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 100w
“M. de Dampierre proves quite conclusively that the annexation of Belgium was the direct objective of the war.”
+ =Sat R= 123:601 Je 30 ‘17 1000w
“Ably and temperately written book, fortified throughout by the evidence of enemy literature and documents.”
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 130w
“He writes as one who brings to the study of contemporary history the habits formed in the great school which has grown up round the study of the French archives, and his work is as scientific, as documenté, as that of any German. ... It is much to be regretted that there is no index to the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w
=DANA, MARVIN.= Perfect memory. *$1 (7c) Clode. E: J. 154 17-24845
How to have and keep a perfect memory is the thesis of Dr Dana’s hundred forty pages of practical instruction. He believes that whether a memory is good or bad anyone can improve it one thousand per cent, or more, by following the methods set forth in these pages. The scheme of mental control upon which he bases his instruction stresses concentration, visualization, necessity for the concrete, association of ideas and avoidance of the abstract. He points out the best results, and way to secure them, from memorizing lists, dates, names and faces. He says that the right kind of memory “means a mind in the plenitude of its vigor, growing, serene, energized, competent to every task; a mind that compels the respect of others, and, what is of deeper worth, maintains to the full one’s own self-respect, which is the foundation-stone whereon content is builded.”
=DANE, CLEMENCE.= Regiment of women. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 17-3574
This book by a new writer recalls Hugh Walpole’s early novel “The gods and Mr. Perrin.” It is a study of the unwholesome conditions that may exist in a large school where pupils and teachers are so isolated from the active life of the world that emotional reactions are intensified to a dangerous degree. In this case it is a girls’ school and the teachers are women. Clare Hartill, a brilliant, selfish woman, who attracts girls to her, accepts their devotion for a time and then casts them off, is the central figure. One of the younger teachers, Alwynne Durand, becomes attached to her in much the same way that the sentimental schoolgirls do. The unnatural friendship is fortunately brought to an end by the intrusion of a more healthful outside influence. In an unobtrusive way the story offers an argument for co-education.
“A detailed, well written study. ... Interesting, shows a real danger and suggests a remedy.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:266 Mr ‘17
“The unsound morale of girls’ schools is caught powerfully. The morbid, unhealthy association of women among themselves, the strong affections, the intrigue, the jealousies, and the influence of the mistresses on the immature pupils, are admirably suggested. The atmosphere is heady. The reader longs for a man.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 350w
“The book’s striking merit lies in the extraordinary fidelity of its picture. It does for the English girls’ school much what Mr Walpole’s ‘The gods and Mr Perrin’ did for the English boys’ school. The theme in both instances is the life of the teachers, rather than of the pupils.”
+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 650w
“In a larger way, the book interprets the ingrowing emotionalism and moral sterility to which any community lacking the leaven of the opposite sex is prone.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“Miss Dane does not make manifest to the American reader sufficient reason for the fascination which her Miss Hartill is able to exercise over her associates in the school. Otherwise, it is a noteworthy picture of a scheming, clever, selfish, vain woman who has become, temperately, more or less abnormal. ... The book takes its title, in which ‘regiment’ is used in its old English sense of ‘rule,’ from John Knox’s ‘First blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women.’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 400w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“It is hard to believe that ‘Regiment of women’ is the first novel that its author, Clemence Dane, has written. ... This power of ‘creating’ and expressing character is usually the reward of nothing but long labour. ... The chief impression is one of wisdom: a shrewd penetration into human minds and the circumstances that mould or fix them, combined with an admirable ‘all-roundness’ of outlook upon human life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 550W
=DANILEVSKII, GRIGORII PETROVICH.=[2] Moscow in flames; tr. from the Russian by Dr A. S. Rappoport. *$1.40 Brentano’s 17-31035
“This is not, as the translator states, the first novel by this author to appear in English. Danilevskii (1829-90), already known in English by a novel dealing with Pougachev’s rebellion, called ‘The Princess Tarakanova,’ here presents the French invasion from the Russian point of view. The story covers the period 1812-53, and follows the fortunes of a young nobleman and his betrothed, a society beauty.”—Ath
“It is vivid, full of historical detail, and a good specimen of its class, and is, of course, crammed with historic names.”
+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w
“The characters in ‘Moscow in flames’ are drawn with the flatness and remoteness of fresco; its incidents are strikingly unoriginal. But his comments on Russian life and character are not without shrewdness and piquancy.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 450w
“Allowing for the difficulties of translation, the author’s style is a little crude, judging by severe standards, and his character sketches weak. On the whole, however, the book is interesting, typifying, as it does, a popular Russian novel.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 160w
=DARBISHIRE, ARTHUR DUKINFIELD.= Introduction to a biology, and other papers. il *$2.50 Funk 17-15695
“The late Mr Darbishire, an accomplished young Oxford biologist, died of illness contracted in camp before he could complete his book. He had written a lively criticism of the materialistic theory of life, and just as he came to face the constructive side of his essay—‘Is the soul a mere aggregate symptom of a mechanism—the body? Or is the body not rather the instrument of the soul?’—he had to lay his pen aside. The scattered papers which have been collected by his sister, with a brief memoir, hint at the answer which he would have given. He was strongly influenced by Samuel Butler and by M. Bergson, but he was an original and fearless thinker and inquirer whom English science could ill spare.”—Spec
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 550w
“Unhappily the work is but a fragment. ... The essay, however unconvincing, is brightly written, for the author had a style of candid freshness and a gift of investing even trivial things with humorous interest. The charm of his personality is well brought out in the brief biographical sketch by his sister.”
+ — =Nature= 99:304 Je 14 ‘17 320w
+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p65 F 8 ‘17 1600w
=DARÍO, RUBÉN.= Eleven poems; tr. by T: Walsh and Salomón de la Selva; introd. by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *75c Putnam 861 16-22622
Rubén Darío was born near León in the republic of Nicaragua in 1867, and died in that city in 1916. The introduction to this small book of poems says, “With the death of Rubén Darío, the Spanish language loses its greatest poet of to-day,—the greatest because of the æsthetic value and the historical significance of his work.” He visited the United States twice, and in 1915 was awarded the honorary medal of the Hispanic society of America. In this volume of poems the original Spanish text and the English translation are given on alternate pages.
“They have that downpour of imagery, that cascade of beauties, of which the northern temper is slightly distrustful. Eleven poems, however, cannot embrace or test a man, particularly when the reader hesitates between the rush-light of his own imperfect Spanish and the charity of English renderings which are sometimes of real worth, sometimes bad beyond credence or pardon.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 170w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:408 My ‘17
=DARK, SIDNEY.= Afraid. *$1.35 (1½c) Lane 17-2344
“Courage is so common a quality,” says the author in one of the early chapters of this story, “that experience justifies us in believing that every one possesses it.” The story is a study of a boy who seemed born without it. From childhood Jasper Sedley had been afraid. Moral courage and intellectual honesty were his to a high degree, but the thought of physical suffering made him weak and helpless. His life at home and at school was made miserable. He made no friends and at a critical moment lost the woman he loved because he failed to go to her aid. One is made to feel that sympathetic treatment in childhood might have overcome the obsession, but it is left for the war to call out the latent courage in the boy’s soul.
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“Real as may be his idea, I feel a lack of reality in the way he presents it. His people are too much the characters needed to enforce his idea, too little actual personalities with whom Jasper Sedley chanced to come in contact. ... More important than all this, the final event seems suggested by sentiment rather than a knowledge of what life actually is.” E: E. Hale
=Dial= 62:145 F 22 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
“We doubt if Mr Dark has solved his own problem, for his coward turns out to be no coward. The question really is whether it is a right instinct which leads society to ostracize the coward without considering his character as a whole.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 350w
=DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE.= East o’ the sun and west o’ the moon, and other Norse fairy tales. il *$1.25 (1½c) Putnam 17-11576
Thirty and more Norse fairy tales are brought together in this book. Gnomes and trolls and other figures of northern fancy appear in the tales. Some of them are new, others are variations of the familiar themes, among them the story of Snow-white and Rose-red.
“These quaint tales will prove of interest to older readers as well as to the children for whom they were written. For some of them are reminiscent of ‘fairy stories’ of other lands, and prove again the common origin of the folk-lore of the European nations.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 420w
“Altogether charming.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 220w
“Short, easily memorized fairy tales that will prove treasures to persons who have a knack of telling stories to children.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 180w
“The tales themselves are delightfully old world in flavor and of appealing quaintness. This characteristic is occasionally marred by colloquialisms in which the translator indulges in order to make his meaning clear to young readers. The striking feature of the book consists of the bizarre illustrations by Kay Nielsen, a Danish artist, who, by going back to the original source of the stories, the Norske Folkeeventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe, has been able to get the utmost significance of the original rendering.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 350w
=DAVIES, GEORGE REGINALD.= Social environment. (National social science ser.) *50c (2c) McClurg 301 17-10388
“How far does the accumulated knowledge and experience of the world modify the individual and give him control over biological factors?” is the question considered by the author of this book. He feels that the biological factor, with its emphasis on struggle and the survival of the fittest, has been too strongly stressed in reading the story of human development. His purpose is to set forth the importance of the spiritual factors, using the term spiritual to cover “the intellectual, artistic, and moral achievements of civilization.” Contents: The biological point of view; The evolution of the theory of evolution; The nature of society; Social environment and eugenics; The outlook for social organization. The author is assistant professor of history and sociology in the University of North Dakota and the book is published in a series of which Frank L. McVey, president of the University, is general editor.
Reviewed by U. G. Weatherly
=Am J Soc= 23:558 Ja ‘18 280w
=A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17
“Professor Davies has hardly been fair to biology, while his emphasis on the ‘spiritual’ forces of society contributes nothing essentially new.” R. T. B.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:245 S ‘17 130w
“Hitherto there has been a dearth of literature emphasizing environmental forces in society. This little book should be welcome for its contribution to that neglected field.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 180w
=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 90w
=DAVIES, GERALD STANLEY.=[2] Renascence tombs of Rome. il *$6 Dutton 718
“An unusual field, indeed one never before explored, is covered by this sumptuous volume, written by the master of Charterhouse school and published originally in England [in 1910].” (Boston Transcript) “The volume is divided into two parts, of which the first is given to discussion and criticism of the tombs and the artists who worked on them, with vivid biographical and historical comment, and the second to alphabetical and chronological lists of the churches and tombs; brief histories of the men in whose honor the monuments were designed, and the special and general indexes. The illustrations are half-tone reproductions from photographs, sufficient in number and, of course, indispensable as reference.” (N Y Times)
“The beautiful illustrations add much to the descriptive nature of the text. Mr Davies writes with enthusiasm and with rare critical perception of values in this decidedly unusual field of examination.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 880w
“Mr Davies has broken what is practically new ground with his valuable book, which, in addition to cautiously authenticated information, contains art criticism of the most brilliant and original character.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 420w
=R of Rs= 56:219 Ag ‘17 110w
=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Autobiography of a super-tramp; with a pref. by Bernard Shaw. *$2.50 Knopf 17-13447
“The simple and quiet chronicle of a young man who tramped and begged—and now and then worked for a few weeks at a time—in America and England for many years. ... He tells us how tramps live, how they talk, what their ideals and their habits are. He has pictures of American ‘living conditions’—as the somewhat sententious phrase goes—that are nothing short of astonishing. He has had adventures, to boot. He has much to tell of cattlemen, of berry-pickers, of longshore labor camps on the Mississippi, of tramping and working and begging in city and country and summer resort through most of the eastern half of the United States and on into Canada, of remarkable beggars and expert thieves. Strange characters live in his pages. And his own life story is itself most strange.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17
“A human document in the best sense of that much abused phrase. Not a phrase of it is overdone, not a word in it is egotistical, not a letter in it but spells the truthful story of a life that the world wants to know about.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1100w
“A rather colorless narrative of unimpeachable verbal propriety relating the day-by-day experiences of the Welshman, who seems to have been an ordinary tramp until he began at thirty-four to write in really exquisite verse. The preface by Bernard Shaw, while it reveals still further the genial tolerance of that author, is not a particularly illuminating commentary on Mr Davies’ work or psychology.”
=Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 70w
“Mr Davies is now an established poet, who no longer has to hawk his verses from door to door. His reputation, indeed, is considerable, and it may seem unfair to consider his first book of prose quite apart from his poetry. But if ‘The autobiography of a super-tramp’ has special interest, it is precisely because it shows how completely an unfamiliar medium may refract and distort the image of himself which a writer would convey. It is another lesson in sticking to one’s last.” G: B. Donlin
— =Dial= 62:398 My 3 ‘17 1200w
“His account is so casual that you would think he was living a regular, conventional life instead of that of a hobo. The book is unique.”
+ =Lit D= 56:42 Ja 12 ‘18 240w
“He never grew into much of a Socialist; he has too much of the pure poet, yet reading his strong and simple picture of the incredible life of the poor, we become reconfirmed in our faith that the world must be set free, and society made friendly to the life or the tenderest and most innocent temperaments.” Irwin Granich
+ =Masses= 9:29 O ‘17 1650w
“Mr Davies’s simplicity stands out delightfully with Bernard Shaw as sponsor. ... He will be read, and reread, for the sheer charm of his style. Yet, withal, he has so much to say that is of absorbing interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 650w
“His experiences are told realistically, but would be better for judicious condensation.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17 20w
“‘All I have to say by way of recommendation of this book,’ says Mr Shaw (and his conclusion shall be mine), ‘is that I have read it from beginning to end, and would have read more of it had there been more to read.’” L: Untermeyer
+ =Yale R= n s 7:199 O ‘17 750w
=DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY.= Collected poems. il *$1.25 Knopf 811 16-23556
“This is not a complete edition of the poems of Mr Davies, as many people would gather from its title. It is what is probably a better thing: a book of poems selected by the poet from all the volumes he has published. He tells us in the prefatory note that it contains ‘what I believe to be my best pieces.’ A poet is not always the best judge of what is finest in his own work. But no one can know so well as he what best represents his own mind and mood, what gave him at the time of writing, and gives him still, the greatest pleasure, what is, if not his best, at least his most characteristic, poetry. That is what we get here from Mr Davies.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:256 Mr ‘17
“Mr Davies has learnt much from Herrick, and uses his learning well—not in the least In the sense of plagiarizing, but by his clever choice and treatment of his subjects. The book is well worthy of a place in the library of any lover of poetry.”
+ =Ath= p592 D ‘16 50w
“Mr Davies’s ‘Collected poems’ has the same magical expression as Mr de la Mare’s art, but with a firmer background in experience. ... The best critical opinion admits that the poems of William H. Davies are as likely to live as those of any English poet of his day.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Bookm= 45:436 Je ‘17 190w
“The ‘Collected poems’ of William H. Davies will give pleasure to lovers of the lyric. Mr Davies, who tramped over most of this country and Canada as hungry and thriftless as other tramps, established confidential relations with birds and beasts, with flowers and trees on ‘the open road.’ Perhaps this is why his lyrics celebrate the minute, beautiful things of the ancient out of doors with effervescent joy.”
+ =Ind= 89:556 Mr 26 ‘17 150w
+ =Lit D= 54:134 Ja 20 ‘17 400w
“Some of his little songs catch the charm of Herrick and Lovelace. ... His ‘The sleepers,’ ‘The little ones,’ ‘Whom I know,’ and other poems, show a deep sympathy with suffering humanity; but the intellectual understanding is not here. Davies is a delight; but the stuff is slight and echoey.” Clement Wood
+ — =N Y Call= p12 F 4 ‘17 400w
+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 250w
“This truly lyrical poet has everywhere a definite utterance. It is rarely complex, but it is always beautiful. ... Mr Davies, by the way, who is not so well known in this country as he deserves to be, will soon have an opportunity to broaden his acquaintance when a contemplated trip to America becomes a reality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘17 300w
“A book of the most companionable poetry that any living man has given us. Mr Davies has not the energy, the eloquence, or the passion of Mr Masefield; he has not the scholarly workmanship which half adorns and half conceals the true imagination of Mr Binyon; he has not that magical charm, as of some singularly gifted and beautiful child, which is the special secret of Mr de la Mare. But none of these, nor anyone else, perhaps, manages to convert so much of ordinary life into poetry as Mr Davies. And that is the essence of poetic companionship.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1500W
“Here is one of the most truly lyric voices in the world to-day. Lacking the sudden magic or the individuality of either Walter de la Mare or Ralph Hodgson, he shares with them an unstudied and always singing beauty.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Yale R= n s 7:201 O ‘17 480w
=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Heart’s kingdom. il *$1.35 (1½c) Reilly & B. 17-25432
Charlotte Powers, a beautiful agnostic with a gift for leadership, returned from a winter in New York to her home in Harpeth Valley to find that a Methodist minister, Rev. Gregory Goodloe, who “resembled one of the big gold-colored lions that lived in the wilds of the Harpeth mountains,” had brought her circle of friends under his spell, so that they had taken to attending prayer meetings instead of dances, and had started to reform her father, for twenty years a drunkard. The book gives the story of her attempted marriage to Nickols Powers, his death, her conversion, and her conquest by the “Harpeth Jaguar” (as she called the Rev. Gregory) with the “jeweled eyes” to whom she “gave back a betrothal kiss that was as complete as a great red flower.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 30w
“A doubtful mixture of poor theology and insipid romance.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 190w
“The best thing in the book is the sketch of the youthful Charlotte, the heroine’s ‘name-daughter,’ and her child companions.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
=Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 250w
=DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON.= Out of a clear sky. il *$1 (3c) Harper 17-13185
With a beautiful Belgian countess lost in the Tennessee forests, a very good looking young Tennessee farmer ready at hand to act as rescuer, and a search party, with authority from the Kaiser, in pursuit, you have the material for a modern romance. Céleste, countess of Berseck and Krymn, had fled to America after the fall of Louvain. The young prince, Louis Augustus, whom she had seemed fated to marry, was not at all a bad sort, but he was a German, and the marriage had been arranged by the hated Kaiser who had robbed her of all she loved. So the Countess fled—with a wicked uncle and other enemies following after. To evade them she drops off the train into an unknown world, which happens to be Tennessee, and there she finds Mr Bob Lawrence, his horse and his dog, all equally willing to serve her.
“A charming little tale, bearing little apparent relation to the everyday affairs of reality, but full of tenderness and romance, and told with a very pretty naïve quality in its careful foreign English.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w
“A romantic, improbable, modern fairy tale.”
+ =Pratt= p50 O ‘17 6w
=DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL.= Irrigation works constructed by the United States government. il *$4.50 Wiley 626.8 17-14071
“Within less than fifteen years after the date of the first enabling legislation, the U.S. reclamation service expended about $100,000,000 on the construction of numerous irrigation systems scattered over our vast western domain. ... Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the U.S. reclamation service, has described twenty-one of the twenty-five projects in the volume under consideration. ... Except for a brief introduction and a short final chapter summing up the achievements of the Reclamation service in terms of ultimate aim—‘Settlement and cultivation’—the entire book is devoted to descriptions of the various projects. The plan followed is to give the history and a general description of each project in a few sentences, and then to describe the works in their natural order, from dam and storage reservoir to water delivery to each farm unit. Besides the descriptions of structural works, the volume contains information on a variety of special topics.”—Engin News-Rec
“Besides its value as an account of governmental enterprise in the reclamation of land, the book is a welcome addition to the literature of irrigation, and of dams, canals, pipe lines, and other structures common to hydraulic works.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:939 N 15 ‘17 500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 20w
=DAVIS, CALVIN OLIN.= Public secondary education. $1 Rand 379.774 17-11119
“The correct title of this book is ‘Public secondary education in Michigan.’ After devoting three chapters to the colonial Latin school, the middle period, and the early Northwest, the author begins his discussion with a chapter on early Michigan. Five chapters follow this one, the three most significant being one each on the academy movement, the union schools, and the high schools. It is in these chapters that one finds the explanation of current practices in secondary education in Michigan and to a certain extent in the nation at large.” (School R) “There is no attempt to bring the story down to date, contemporary tendencies being left to another book to be published later.” (El School J)
“The first two chapters contain a short statement largely abstracted from Brown’s ‘The making of our middle schools.’ One is impressed with the fact that, in order to get a background for the detailed story of secondary education in Michigan, Professor Davis has felt obliged to condense an already available and almost classic discussion of the development of our secondary schools. The hurried reader, however, will find in these preliminary chapters a clear, fairly concise, and interestingly written background story which will orient him in his consideration of the problem of secondary education in Michigan.”
+ =El School J= 17:690 My ‘17 400w
+ =School R= 25:462 Je ‘17 200w
=DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT.= Her own sort, and others. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-7925
Ten stories reprinted from Scribner’s, Collier’s and other magazines. The first is the story of a society girl who, deciding to earn her own living, becomes a moving picture actress. She is quite happy in her work till chance throws her in with her old associates. The old lure of the idle life calls her and she goes back to her own sort. Many of the others are stories of society, or at least of city life. Contents: Her own sort; The octopus; God’s material; The joy of dying; When Johnny came marching home; The professor; The twenty-first reason; Side-tracked; The men who would “die” for her; Her man.
“Mr Davis has the gift of seeing the humorous situations in every day life.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 400w
“The make-up is always there; the puppets never become quite human. In the light of the author’s imagination ‘The octopus’ and ‘The professor’ may seem real, but to the rest of us they are stagy and do not arrive; they merely grimace and gesticulate.’ Exception may be made to ‘The joy of dying.’ It is a pathetic and gruesome little tragedy.”
— =Dial= 62:484 My 31 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:73 My ‘17 30w
“They are human and interesting stories, for all the cynicism in their picture of ‘the pleasure world.’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 320w
“Short stories worth reading.”
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 4w
=DAVIS, GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE.= Elements of international law with an account of its origin, sources, and historical development. 4th ed *$3 Harper 341 16-16751
The fourth edition of this work has been prepared for publication by Gordon E. Sherman, formerly assistant professor of comparative and international law at Yale. Changes in the text have been slight. New matter added to the book is contained in appendixes. The extradition treaty between the United States and the Dominican republic, and the text of the Declaration of London are among the documents included. A supplementary bibliography is also added.
“Professor Sherman found it necessary to rewrite important parts of the first two chapters. This he has done with discrimination and good judgment. In printing the Declaration of London he has added notes, referring to the bearing of its dispositions on the present war, as wrought out in practice. One could wish that his annotations of this nature had been more numerous, if not more extended.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:128 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:188 Ja ‘17
“The most valuable additions are those in the appendix.” D. G. M.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:236 My ‘17 200w
+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 30w
“The treatise of the late judge advocate general of the United States, and its representative abroad upon several occasions, is an authoritative and systematic statement of the best international practice of nations during both war and peace.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:406 O 8 ‘16 300w
=DAVIS, J. MERLE.= Davis, soldier missionary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Pilgrim press 16-24706
Jerome D. Davis, the subject of this biography was a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in the Civil war and for thirty-nine years a missionary in Japan. This story of his life is written by his son, who is secretary of the International committee of Young men’s Christian associations in Tokio. In Japan Dr Davis was one of the founders of Doshisha university and the book gives a full account of the development and achievements of this institution.
+ =Bib World= 49:187 Mr ‘17 300w
“Mr Davis has succeeded admirably. His father becomes to the reader a living person, the soldier who had the missionary spirit, the missionary who never lacked a soldier’s valor, a true man, of heroic temper shown in great deeds.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 480w
“A substantial volume of 350 pages, well illustrated and of compelling interest. ... Incidentally one gets in these chapters a history of the famous Doshisha controversy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 400w
=DAVIS, JOSEPH STANCLIFFE.= Essays in the earlier history of American corporations. 2v ea *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 338.8 17-12885
“This group of studies is presented as a modest contribution to the economic and social history of the United States before 1800, especially for the last decade or two of the eighteenth century.” (Preface) Volume 1 contains three studies: Corporations in the American colonies; William Duer, entrepreneur, 1747-99; The “S. U. M.”: the first New Jersey business corporation. Volume 2 is devoted to Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States. The author is instructor in economics in Harvard university and the work is published as volume 16 of the Harvard economic studies.
“The work bears evidence of large and minute investigations of original sources. It is not taken for granted that standard authors are always accurate in their statements or conclusions. Errors in the dates assigned in complications of high authority to some important papers are fearlessly corrected.” S. E. Baldwin
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:185 O ‘17 1150w
“In each volume there are appendices of useful illustrative material, and the second volume has an extensive bibliography. The work as a whole represents a comprehensive, if not an exhaustive, treatment of the topics considered; and should form an authoritative source of information.” J. A. F.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:589 Ag ‘17 420w
“The author has done his work well. These volumes make a distinct and welcome contribution to American economic history.” F. R. J.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:299 N ‘17 150w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 30w
“Mr Davis’s treatment of these subjects is such as to merit the gratitude of students both of economics and of history. Of the four essays of which the work is composed, the second and third, though not the most valuable, are certainly the most interesting. In these two essays we are brought face to face with many of the leading characters of the period. They are as valuable for the sidelights which they cast upon the politics of the day as for the economic information which they impart.”
+ =Nation= 105:511 N 8 ‘17 1550w
“Two very interesting volumes which are based on statute books, letters, financial records, newspapers, reports, etc. The work is, indeed, an important contribution to the industrial and social history of the United States before 1800, and it should have a lasting and well-deserved reputation. ... There is a complete bibliography at the end of the second volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 220w
=DAVIS, KARY CADMUS.= Productive plant husbandry. (Farm life text ser.) il *$1.75 Lippincott 630 17-19170
A text-book for high schools into more than 4,600 of whose curricula have been introduced courses in agriculture. The first six chapters are devoted to plant life and growth, and methods of improving plants; the next four, to soils and their improvement and maintenance; the body of the text deals with the various farm crops including fruits, vegetables, field crops and forestry; then follow three chapters on the enemies of crops—weeds, insects and diseases. In conclusion the writer discusses the business of farming and the rural community.
=Pittsburgh= 22:664 O ‘17 30w
“From the standpoint of its pedagogical merits the book is rather superior. ... The illustrations are numerous and clear and really illustrate the text. Teachers interested in texts in agriculture providing material for a one-year course will do well to examine Professor Davis’ book with some care before they select a text for their course.”
+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 220w
=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Adventures and letters of Richard Harding Davis; ed. by C: B. Davis. il *$2.50 Scribner 17-30256
“Richard Harding Davis was almost a legendary figure from his boyhood, and certainly no American has ever known how to extract so much adventure from life. As newspaper man, war-correspondent, soldier of fortune, and storyteller he had an unfailing knack of being on the spot where the greatest possible interest and excitement were going forward. But few of his readers, perhaps, knew that he was also an inveterate and a capital letter-writer. His brother, Charles Belmont Davis, has now collected his correspondence and woven it about the personal narrative of the author’s life. The book is copiously illustrated with portraits and photographs, many of them taken in various parts of the world by Davis himself.”—Lit D
“They form a very interesting biography.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
=Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 1700w
=Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 130w
“His letters present an array of delightful, amusing, exciting adventures. The book is excellently edited, with a running narrative that is altogether readable and informative, and the photographs are really vivid illustrations of the matter of the book. We know few books more interesting.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:495 N 25 ‘17 1100w
“Unconventional, lively letters.”
+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 110w
“Readers will lay down the book with the feeling that they have become personally acquainted with an interesting man. The explanation of this feeling of intimacy with the subject of the book is that his letters, a large portion of them written to his mother, reveal him as a likable man who loved human companionship, who made friends easily and who possessed many of the attractive and worth-while qualities which have made the heroes of fiction so deservedly popular.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 17 ‘17 1000w
=DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.= Boy scout, and other stories for boys. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-24696
Five stories that “go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies” have been chosen for inclusion in this book. They are: The boy scout; The boy who cried wolf; Gallegher; Blood will tell; and The bar sinister. “Gallegher” is an old favorite. “The bar sinister” has also had a number of years of popularity. The other stories are of later date.
=A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18
“They are for readers of any age, boys included.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 140w
“One cannot be too enthusiastic in recommending the story-telling power of Mr Davis. His dog story, ‘The bar sinister,’ is an ideal tale for boys who love a good and spirited account of animal nature.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 20w
=DAVISON, THOMAS RAFFLES.= Port Sunlight. il *$2 Scribner 710 17-14401
“Port Sunlight is a model village established in England in 1888. As students of sociology are already familiar with its great practical and economic success, it is the purpose of this book ‘to emphasize the artistic and picturesque qualities of the village.’ To this end the book includes a little descriptive matter and a great many illustrations, photographs, sketches and plans. These show most conclusively the charming old English type of village which has been attained, a pleasure to the eye, an uplift to the spirit, without decreasing, but rather enhancing the practical value of the town.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“We are extremely sorry that the author limited himself to a record of the artistic and pictorial aspect of Port Sunlight, a subject so closely associated with the economic aspect of the place as to leave the reader unsatisfied if this also is not described.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 180w
+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 200w
=DAVRAY, HENRY D.= Lord Kitchener: his work and his prestige; with a prefatory letter by Paul Cambon. 2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London (Eng ed 17-20979)
“The well-known French littérateur gives us a graphic and effective portrayal of Kitchener’s work—a hastening, in some half dozen pages, over his earlier military career, and getting on page 29 to the outbreak of the European war and appointment of Kitchener to the war office. ... Appendices reproduce speeches by Lord Kitchener, memorial speeches in the House of commons, etc.”—Ontario Library Review
“H. G. Croser’s ‘Lord Kitchener’ contains more biographical facts of his earlier career; Harold Begbie’s ‘Kitchener, organizer of victory,’ is more popular, but, like this, only a sketch.”
+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 110w
“M. Davray followed events in England closely and on the spot; he has a keen eye and a gift of making the most of what he sees, and he applies these gifts successfully to Kitchener’s achievement in organizing the British military force.”
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:115 My ‘17 100w
+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 30w
“It is probable that one object of this life of Kitchener was to reassure the people of France in regard to Britain’s part in the war and Lord Kitchener’s ability and devotion at a time when the war minister was being violently assailed by Lord Northcliffe’s press.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 400w
=DAWSON, ALEC JOHN.=[2] For France (“C’est pour la France”); some English impressions of the French front. il *$2 (6c) Doran 940.91
“No other claim is made for the pictures, drawn and written, which are presented than that they record a few of the entirely independent and unbiased impressions formed by two English officers who were very kindly permitted by the French authorities to see something of the French army in the field.” (Preface) Captain Bairnsfather’s sketches of the “poilu” deal with him “often with a slight touch of caricature and always with humor and tenderness.” (N Y Times) The spirit of the French army is well brought out as is also the spirit of what Capt. Dawson calls “the reserved fighting line that is so finely held by the women of France.” One chapter, “The joyous ones” describes a battalion “recruited entirely as regards its rank and file, from the ranks of convicted criminals.” Some other chapters are: Paul Dupont, grocer; Paris; Dogs of war; One trench and another, and Verdun.
+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 150w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 O 13 ‘17 260w
+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 170w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 30w
“The chapter on the war dogs is capital, as might be expected, since the author is an expert in that line. ... Captain Bairnsfather has made an effort to restrain his gift for comic types of a special English kind, and his best pictures are better, we think, than his English caricatures.”
+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 330w
“While in the preface both disclaim any pretension at more than a cursory glimpse of a ‘few aspects of France in war time, as seen through uninformed English eyes,’ yet the reader will feel that much of the real spirit of the land and her people has been caught by these sympathetic visitors.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 26 ‘17 600w
=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Carry on; letters in war-time; with an introd. and notes by his father, W. J. Dawson. il *$1 (4c) Lane 940.91 17-15170
The author is a graduate of Oxford university who, after one year at Union theological seminary, New York, decided to be novelist rather than a preacher, a decision which resulted in the publication in 1913 of his “Garden without walls.” But in 1916 after the publication of “Slaves of freedom,” he left his home in Taunton, Mass., for the trenches, accepting a commission in the Canadian field artillery. The letters, which are most intimate and personal, were written to his family from dugouts on the Somme battlefront in the intervals of artillery fire. Their general point of view is well expressed by the Canadian slogan “Carry on” which the novelist’s father, W. J. Dawson, has used as the title of the book. “We’ve got to win,” writes Lieutenant Dawson, “so that men may never again be tortured by the ingenious inquisition of modern warfare.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17
+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w
“He is particularly effectual in putting himself on paper, and his book affords a clear view into the theological soul. The best part of it is that his letters are so full of incident that unless you are particularly interested, you need not bother with the theological interpretation at all.”
+ — =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 650w
— =New Repub= 11:340 Jl 21 ‘17 600w
“From a literary point of view these intimate letters, written in dugouts by the light of a single candle and without thought of publication, are far and away the best work that Mr Dawson has ever done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“They are characterized by vividness of impression, reality, sympathetic insight, and literary grace, and breathe the spirit of heroism, and are a challenge to heroism in others.”
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:114 My ‘17 40w
+ =Outlook= 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w
+ =St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17 30w
“His letters are those of a serious, full-hearted young man, devoted to his own family, and endowed with a natural gift for writing.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p479 O 4 ‘17 90w
=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Pincher Martin, O. D.; a story of the inner life of the Royal navy. il *$1.50 Houghton (Eng ed 17-22561)
“The cryptic—at least, to an American—letters after Pincher Martin’s name are English navy slang for ordinary seamen, and this book, by the author who prefers to be known as ‘Taffrail,’ is an entertaining account of navy life in peace and war, as experienced by an ordinary bluejacket. The story opens about a year or two before the outbreak of the war, and we meet Martin at the moment when he joins his first ship, the predreadnought battleship Belligerent. He remains on her until she is torpedoed and sunk, then serves on board a torpedo boat destroyer, the Mariner. As one of the Mariner’s crew he takes part in the Jutland fight, but before that occurs he has quite a number of adventures.”—N Y Times
“There is, however, more comedy than tragedy in this tale of Pincher Martin, and some of it is very amusing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w
“The book is a welcome tribute to our navy, and bears everywhere the signs of intimate knowledge.”
+ =Sat R= 122:sup6 D 9 ‘16 350w
+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 850w
“Makes good its claim to be ‘a story of the inner life of the Royal navy.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 450w
=DAWSON, CONINGSBY (WILLIAM).= Seventh Christmas. il *50c (8c) Holt 17-29180
This is the story of the seventh birthday of Jesus. His mother Mary tells him the story of his birth, and the golden caskets given him by the Three wise men of the East are opened.
— =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 180w
“Coningsby Dawson’s ‘The seventh Christmas’ is so sweet a little legend that it has a value beyond the celebration of any particular feast.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:563 D 16 ‘17 410w
“The delicate style of Coningsby Dawson, compact of feeling and fancy, would seem to have a congenial field in a legend about the boyhood of Jesus, but ‘The seventh Christmas,’ while it presents a pathetic picture of Joseph’s poverty-stricken home, does not rise to that imaginative ‘saturation’ essential to the undertaking.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 140w
=DAWSON, WILLIAM HARBUTT=, ed. After-war problems. *$2.50 Macmillan 304 17-24513
“The four main sections of this important volume—‘Empire and citizenship,’ ‘National efficiency,’ ‘Social reform,’ and ‘National finance and taxation’—are headed, respectively, by chapters on ‘Imperial federation,’ by the late Lord Cromer; ‘National education,’ by Lord Haldane; ‘The rehabilitation of rural life,’ by the Bishop of Exeter; and ‘National taxation after the war,’ by Prof. Alfred Marshall. The remaining fifteen chapters, which deal with a variety of topics, are by recognized authorities on the several subjects. Thus the two chapters treating of the relations between capital and labour are contributed by Mr G. H. Roberts, who writes from the standpoint of labour, and by Sir Benjamin C. Browne, who states the capitalist’s view; Mrs Fawcett writes on the position of women in economic life, Miss Margaret McMillan on the care of child life, Lord Meath on the cultivation of patriotism, Mr W. Joynson-Hicks on the land question; and so on. The introduction is contributed by the editor.”—Ath
“The general impression left on the mind is that the essayists are satisfied with the ‘status quo ante’ in its main outlines, but seek for improvements in it. There is no deep analysis of the social and industrial system, and no questioning of its fundamentals. The book is, however, much more comprehensive in its scope than any that has previously appeared, and many of its chapters are worth careful reading.”
– + =Ath= p341 Jl ‘17 1400w
“These essays are weighty pronouncements, and the volume in its entirety demands careful study.”
+ =Ath= p355 Jl ‘17 180w
“One receives from the reading of these candid, revelatory documents a feeling of pride in England’s willingness to learn, to adopt new methods, to look to the future with undaunted courage.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 500w
“While the book presents a constructive national policy for England, it seems addressed to Englishmen not vitally interested in securing a vision of the needs of the British empire as a whole, or really concerned with international welfare. The spirit is, a world safe for England. But one raises the question, if each nation at the conclusion of war deliberately embarks upon a policy of national efficiency prompted solely by the desire to acquire foreign markets and to attain self-sufficiency at home, what will become of the fruits of the war to end wars, and will such a world be safe for anybody?” V. T. Thayer
– + =Dial= 63:391 O 25 ‘17 1800w
“Of particular interest is the study of imperial federation by the late Earl of Cromer, altho it comes to no particular conclusion.”
+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 130w
“We can do no more than commend the book to all who would understand the momentous social changes with which England is confronted, and what is being thought and planned regarding them. A survey on similar lines of our own after-the-war problems would be a task well worth undertaking.”
+ =Nation= 106:67 Ja 17 ‘18 750w
“A certain lack of definiteness can be charged against some of the contributors; indeed, the book as a whole does not attain high importance. But changes are coming, and those who will be responsible for these changes will profit by the spirit of some chapters of the book, even if they are not always illuminated by the proposals. ... Among the most valuable chapters in the book because the most concrete is that of Viscount Haldane, whose subject is ‘National education.’”
* + – =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 1550w
“All of them are full of suggestions, most of them directed towards immediate practical ends. Perhaps that is regrettable; for it gives to the program as a whole too conservative a tone. National progress may be sustained for a time by various elements in the nation uniting upon the eradication of old and obvious evils; but a more sweeping flight of the imagination is required, a more prophetic vision of the future, if the magnificent mutual loyalty of the people shown during the war is to be translated into deeds for lasting human betterment. Margaret McMillan, for so many years ridiculed as a dreamer, until she proved by her work that vision and practical achievement go together, alone ‘unveils new horizons.’” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 39:255 D 1 ‘17 720w
“Of the many publications dealing with after-war problems this volume is the fullest and most comprehensive that has yet appeared. Its scope is, of course, limited. ... The most serious omission is the absence of any reference to the development and utilization of the resources of the Empire. ... In the first group Lord Cromer’s examination of the relations between the United Kingdom and the other component parts of the Empire has the most actual value and interest. No man was better qualified to form a sound judgment on the subject.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p266 Je 7 ‘17 1850w