The book review digest, volume 13, 1917 (part 5 of 10)
“Nothing more in the way of books is required by young navigators, who, doubtless, will welcome it as warmly as it deserves.”
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=JAFFRAY, JULIA KIPPEN=, ed. Prison and the prisoner. il *$2.50 (6c) Little 365 17-31780
This symposium, to which fourteen specialists contribute, is edited by the secretary of the National committee on prisons and prison labor. In the discussions the point of view of the lawyer, the doctor, the psychiatrist, the social worker, the educator and the prison official is expressed, each contributing something to the new ideals of prison reform. Contents: The prisoner and the courts, by William H. Wadhams; The prisoner himself, by Bernard H. Glueck and Thomas W. Salmon; The prisoner—ward or slave? by Karl W. Kirchwey; The control over the prisoner, by George Gordon Battle and E. Stagg Whitin; Self-government by the prisoner, by Thomas Mott Osborne and E. Kent Hubbard; The prison officer, by Frederick A. Dorner; Industrial training for the prisoner, by Arthur D. Dean; The prisoner in the road camp, by Charles Henry Davis; The union man and the prisoner, by Collis Lovely; The man who comes out of prison, by R. J. Caldwell; The community center and the delinquent, by John Collier.
“The joint authors of the book place the emphasis rightly ‘not on the place from which the man has come but on that to which he is going.’” R M.
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“A valuable and inspiring, if somewhat formless, work by a dozen authors with more or less expert knowledge as to our prisons.”
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“A more satisfactory book would have been produced if fewer writers had collaborated, those being left out who either have little to say or who haven’t stuck to their text.”
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“The book obviously aims to meet with specific suggestions, in some instances with programs even, some of the pressing tasks set society by the man in prison. With a few striking successes it scores several dismal failures.” W. D. Lane
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=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Arizona, the wonderland. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 979.1 17-29202
“The scope of the present work is set forth on the title page as follows: ‘The history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker.’ Fortunately the pages are large, so the above subtitle leaves also space for the announcement of a map and sixty plates of which twelve are in color.”—Springf’d Republican
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“A volume valuable as a record, as well as attractive to those in search of timely gift-books.” A. A. R.
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“Too bulky for a guide book, too discursive for quick reference, the work nevertheless, makes pleasant and often informative reading.”
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“His style is so easy that the uninitiated will imagine that the book could almost write itself. But there is a vast amount of research behind this orderly parade of friars and cowboys, Indians and explorers and politicians.”
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=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Reclaiming the arid West. il *$3.50 (3½c) Dodd 631 17-31554
The author has written of the work of the United States reclamation service from the standpoint of the layman and homeseeker. In the early chapters he describes the work of the “army of peace,” which within the past twenty-five years has been carrying out the great plans conceived by Major John Wesley Powell. In the chapters that follow he takes up the projects, one at a time, tells something of the difficulties encountered, the engineering skill that surmounted them, and of the resulting opportunities offered to settlers. The story of the text is supplemented by very excellent photographic illustrations.
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=JAMES, HENRY.= Ivory tower. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-29022
Had it been finished, this work would have added one more to the author’s list of international novels. Graham Fielder is brought fresh from a European background to Newport, to be made the inheritor of his uncle’s millions. The story as it progressed was to have concerned itself with the young man’s reactions to the situation and to his new American environment. As it now stands the fragment has a claim to completeness in its unforgettable picture of the two old men, Mr Gaw and Mr Betterman, business rivals and enemies, each waiting for the death of the other. Appended to the three completed parts of the novel are the notes in which the author had amplified the idea of the book as it first took possession of him.
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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
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“The texture of this story gives me the impression of a firmer and more precious weaving than in any of the novels of the master. The book is a fragment as it stands, but a glorious fragment.” W: S. Braithwaite
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“Artistically, the book reaches the high water mark of James’ genius.”
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“‘The ivory tower,’ if a great thing, is great in the smallest ways associable with its author. The story probes shrewdly into some aspects of our American social scene. But it belongs among such late and relatively little things as ‘The outcry’ and ‘The sacred fount,’ without the beguiling farce of the one or the uniquely confessional purpose of the other.” Wilson Follett
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“Not since 1909, when Ibsen’s preliminary studies made their appearance, has any book thrown such interesting light on the literary process.” Q. K.
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“In the vast world tragedy this story must have seemed to its author trivial; and trivial it is, whether it seemed so to him or not. The style is full of unusual difficulties, even when compared with most of its author’s later works. Real characters there are, too—I have never seen a better presentation of that modern figure, known only too well in modern affluent homes, the trained nurse; but, on the whole, the failure to finish this story cannot be regarded as a literary disaster.” W: L. Phelps
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“Yet it is worth while to persevere with Henry James’s tortuous sentences, clinched so often with a touch of slang as if the literary language had in the end failed him, for they build up, little by little, strange modern characters such as one does not find elsewhere in fiction.”
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“Impressive and interesting as are these posthumous fragments, their interest is immensely enhanced by the plans or schemes for their completion. They are things quite unique in literature, intimate glimpses into what Henry James has elsewhere called ‘the closed chamber of an artist’s meditations.’”
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=JAMES, HENRY.= Middle years. *$1.25 Scribner 17-31066
“With this small volume, which brings us down to about the year 1870, the memories of Henry James break off. It is more fitting to say that they break off than that they come to an end, for although we are aware that we shall hear his voice no more, there is no hint of exhaustion or of leave-taking. ... We recognize, if not directly then by hearsay, the old world of London life which he brings out of the shades and sets tenderly and solidly before us as if his last gift were the most perfect and precious of the treasures hoarded in ‘the scented chest of our savings.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The volume is the third of Henry James’s reminiscences, following “A small boy and others,” 1913, and “Notes of a son and brother,” 1914.
“Unfortunately a mere fragment. Comprised in its pages, however, are some interesting recollections of George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and a few others, as well as memory-impressions of the London of mid-Victorian days.”
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“I am glad it has been published, there are things in it one would on no account have missed, portraits in different scales of Swinburne, Renan, Browning, Lewes, George Eliot, Tennyson, Mrs Greville, Lady Waterford. But it makes me feel that Henry James took with him to England, as a young man of twenty-five, a state of mind which would have been forgivable if it had been temporary, and which lasted forever after.” P. L.
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“Henry James is not at his best in the fragment called ‘The middle years.’ These few chapters were dictated in the autumn of 1914, when he was thinking of something else—the war. We ought to remember that they were never revised by the author, and that he dictated without notes. The book is a model of the publishers’ art, in its clear type, its dull paper, and its exquisite lightness.” W: L. Phelps
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“A series of impressions or memories, which must have been a torture to write, as they seem to be dug out of the novelist’s memory by exquisite toil. ... We are far from saying that these impressions of a distinguished novelist are not worth giving to the world. But we think that they might have been conveyed in a simpler, more vivacious, and shorter form.”
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“It contains little or none of the personal gossip ordinarily to be found in books of reminiscences, but there are, instead, some unforgettable impressions of mid-Victorian worthies. ... Our only complaint against this ultimate fragment of his work is a complaint against the inevitabilities—that he did not live long enough to complete it.”
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“He comes to his task with an indescribable air of one so charged and laden with precious stuff that he hardly knows how to divest himself of it all—where to find space to set down this and that, how to resist altogether the claims of some other gleaming object in the background; appearing so busy, so unwieldy with ponderous treasure that his dexterity in disposing of it, his consummate knowledge of how best to place each fragment, afford us the greatest delight that literature has had to offer for many a year. And this book of memories sounds to us like a superb act of thanksgiving.”
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=JAMES, HENRY.= Pictures and other passages from Henry James; comp. by Ruth Head. *$1 Stokes 813
“Henry James himself set the seal of his approval on Miss Head’s proposed plan of making an anthology from his writings, but did not live to see the completed work. It is divided into five chapters with sections under the headings: The seasons, Nationality, America, France and Paris, Switzerland, Italy, London, Country England, Country houses, Gardens and parks, The world of art, Interiors; Men, women, and their rooms, Passions; Portraits of women, character, feminine; Portraits of men, character, male; Moralities and aphorisms, Similes and metaphors.”—Boston Transcript
“The style of Henry James, building up complex impressions by minute sensitive touches, is more pictorial and more epigrammatic than one realizes until one has his portraits and pictures separated and individualized in such an anthology as this. ... The editor might with advantage have arranged his extracts chronologically, at least within the subsections.”
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“Those who want to appreciate Henry James should read his books—there is no other way of appreciating an artist.”
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“This method of extracting representative passages and grouping them under headings enables the reader to appreciate at once the range and the limitations of Henry James’s genius. He is least happy when dealing with the primitive—the seasons, the passions, the countryside—and is seen at his best when writing of men and women, and the civilization they have made.”
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=JAMES, HENRY.= Sense of the past. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-28794
One of two novels that remained incomplete at the death of the writer. The other is “The ivory tower.” The central character is a young American who, from the English branch of the family, inherits an old London house. He goes to England, seeks out his new possession, and shuts himself away from the world for a night while he wanders from room to room, yielding to the spell of the past that is cast about him. He sees himself in an old portrait of 1820. A compelling sense of the past slips him out of the year 1910 back into 1820. Comfortably at first, and then uneasily he reacts to the people and conditions of the world into which he is projected. He experiences the thrills and embarrassments of two successive love affairs. The story breaks off at the end of the first. But some seventy pages of notes reveal the plan of the writer, his deft scheme for extricating his hero and bringing him back to 1910 and to Aurora Coyne who sent this lover of hers from her for the sake of his development; who grows impatient at the time it takes and hurries to London to find out the cause.
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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
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“One inevitably thinks of ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ and the dream life there so exquisitely portrayed, in reading ‘The sense of the past.’ In a sense, too, the story of Ralph Pendrel’s experience is a dream one, though Henry James has touched it with innumerable hints and suggestions of forces deeper and more measurable scientifically though more elusive.” W: S. Braithwaite
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“An exquisite fragment of a novel in James’ most matured style.”
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“It alters the shape, pushes out the bounds, of the whole Henry James world, adds a substantial figure to the sum of imaginings, achievements, beauties, perfections. ‘The sense of the past’ promised all the rich, full orchestral resonance of novels such as ‘The ambassadors’ and ‘The wings of the dove’; yet, in its entire dissimilarity from anything else that even James could have written, it is as isolated and self-sufficing as ‘The great good place’ or ‘The Madonna of the future’ or ‘The turn of the screw.’” Wilson Follett
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“‘The sense of the past’ is undoubtedly a work of genius; the old inspiration came back abundantly for the swan song. The English style of ‘The sense of the past’ is a glory in itself, like a mediaeval bit of architecture; the result of quiet, leisurely, devoted, loving industry, founded on genius. Fragment though it be, it is an imperishable addition to the work of one of the great masters of English fiction.” W: L. Phelps
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“We can gather from the notes how Henry James wanted to complete it, but as the transition from 1910 to 1820 is not very satisfactorily contrived, we question whether the bringing back of the hero to his own time could have been an artistic success.”
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“How this passion is adumbrated and suggested, how it grows and glows to a brightness of almost insane intensity, is sufficiently given to us in this fragment to make us sadly aware of our loss of a complete masterpiece. It would surely have been, we feel, the greatest of ghost stories.”
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=JAMES, HERMAN GERLACH.= Municipal functions. (National municipal league ser.) *$2 (2c) Appleton 352 17-10893
“Municipal advance in a democracy can be achieved in only one way, namely, by the realization on the part of the citizenship of what should be the ideal of municipal government,” says the author. His book is addressed, not to city administrators, but to citizens. His purpose is to give “a simple but comprehensive survey of the whole field of municipal endeavor.” This is done in chapters on: The growth of municipal functions; Public safety; Public health; Public education; Public morals; Social welfare; City planning; Public works; Public utilities; Municipal ownership; Municipal finances—revenues; Municipal finances—debts, budget and accounting. The author is associate professor of government and director of the Bureau of municipal research at the University of Texas.
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“It is popular in style, practical in aim but scientific in method, and will give the general reader an excellent perspective of the modern problems of city government. Among the most important chapters are two entitled ‘Public morals’ and ‘Social welfare.’ As regards the saloon and liquor problem, he comes to the rather regrettable conclusion that this issue should be decided locally.”
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“In one respect this work differs from most books of its class. The author approaches the discussion from the standpoint of the smaller community rather than the metropolis.”
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“Though perhaps not directly intended as a text-book, it has the special values of being fundamental and clear, so much required and so seldom found in text-books. For the beginner who would acquire the point of view of the municipal statesman there is probably nothing better. There is one disappointment in the book. The reader is left with the impression that the housing problem cannot be solved.” E: T. Hartman
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=JAMES, WILLIAM.= On vital reserves. *50c (4c) Holt 131
A little volume containing two of the essays of William James, one reprinted from “Memories and studies,” one from “Talks to teachers on psychology.” The first, “The energies of men,” is a study of “the phenomena of second wind.” The second, “The gospel of relaxation,” is based on the Lange-James theory of the emotions, which sometimes expresses itself popularly in the statement that we are afraid because we run. We are a tense, nervous and over-strained people, argued Professor James, because by habit we assume attitudes of tensity. Our mental state is the result of our habit of life, not vice versa.
“The practical side of the Professor James’ books has always given them a wider public than is usually supposed to belong to the philosophical or psychological writer. In the two essays of this book he sums up the best ways in which young men and women—all men and women in fact—may realize their powers.”
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“Both statements are models of expression. They deserve the wider circulation which, in this form, they promise to attain.”
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“The gift of making psychology read like an adventure story came to William James as to few, if any others. His gingery essays ‘On vital reserves’ are therefore well worth the while of the Henry Holt company in re-publishing.”
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=JAMISON, EVELYN MARY, and others.= Italy, mediaeval and modern; a history. (Histories of the belligerents ser.) *$2.90 (2c) Oxford 945 17-19811
The present volume, covering the period from the barbarian invasions to 1915, has been written to supply the need for a general sketch of Italian history which should serve as an introduction to more detailed studies. The authors “have devoted considerable space to political and ecclesiastical history ... have called attention to the more remarkable achievements of the Italian spirit in the fields of art and philosophy and science, and the historical conditions which made these achievements possible, [and] finally, have traced, so far as it is possible to do so in a textbook, the working of those instincts ... which from age to age promoted or retarded the cause of national unity.” (Preface) Appended are an eight-page bibliography, tables of genealogies, and a list of the popes.
“The appended lists of books, and other subsidiary matter, will be of great service to students; and the volume is well provided with maps. The index might with advantage have been fuller.”
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“Of the quartet of authors to whom we are indebted for this rather uninspired but extremely learned, sound, and valuable history of Italy, the last-named, Professor Terry of Aberdeen university, is the best known. ... There should certainly have been a chapter or a section to deal with literature since Goldoni, with music since Palestrina, with sculpture since Canova, with the novel since Boccaccio. ... The book answers the question, Why Italy entered the war. The authors are true philosophers of motives.” N. H. D.
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“In Italy, more perhaps than in any other European country, the national history is interwoven with that of the church, and cannot be fairly presented unless church history receives its meed of studious attention and just judgment. These the authors of the present work have not seen fit to give it. Hence, while the work may have its partial uses as a reference book, it cannot be recommended as accurate, authoritative or comprehensive.”
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“It may be doubted, however, whether they are correct in the reasons which they tentatively assign for the Libyan war; their bibliography of this period is not up to date; and no adequate attempt is made to fill the greatest blank in Italian history—that since 1870.” W. M.
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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 50w
“A clear outline of the subject. ... Each period has been treated by its author with full knowledge, and with a sympathy that secures the interest of the reader. ... The story of the foundation of the kingdom apparently written by Professor Sanford Terry, is a brilliant piece of work.”
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=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russian poets and poems. 2v v 1 *$3.50 Longmans 891.7 17-27782
This volume, to which Dr Jane Harrison of Newnham college contributes the preface, is by the author of “The Russians and their language.” “Madame Jarintzov first discusses the subject of Russian versification; and she compares the poverty of what she calls the ‘small squirrel’s wheel’ of English rhymes with the wealth of rhyming words in Russian. Many convincing examples are given in the introduction. For the most part biographically, but to some extent critically, the author then deals with the Russian poets I. A. Krylov, V. A. Jukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, A. V. Koltzov, M. Y. Lermontov, F. L. Tutchev, Alexei Tolstoy, N. Nekrasov, and A. A. Fet. Of their works Madame Jarintzov furnishes numerous examples, translated by herself; and in her renderings she, as a Russian, has endeavoured to carry over into English the Russian spirit, and, as far as possible, the Russian manner.” (Ath) “In a second volume it is intended to treat the modern poets in the same manner.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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“A fairly good biographical and critical essay on Nekrassov will be found in Mme N. Jarintzov’s ‘Russian poets and poems.’ In spite of her theory, which we cannot take seriously, Mme Jarintzov succeeds in producing some good translations. Nevertheless, her experiment in rendering Russian poetry, ‘along new lines’ can hardly be considered successful.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
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“These poets, Pushkin and Lermontov excepted, are almost unknown to the average English reader. ... Upon the difficulty of rendering the spirit and the rhythm of Russian verse in English Madame Jarintzov writes with feeling and eloquence as one who has herself attempted the impossible. Yet in a high degree she has attained to it. ... Her work forms a valuable link between two great literatures.”
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“We can bear witness to the accuracy of such of the versions as we have compared with the originals, and the Russian metres are reproduced with really astonishing success. Unfortunately we must add that the English reader knowing no Russian will too often be impressed by the queer un-English turns of phrase rather than by the poetic merit of the selected pieces.”
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“These poets use the same metres as we do, with some remarkable and pervading differences. To many Russians, even when they know our language well, English poetry does not seem to be poetry at all, because they miss the double rhymes. ... A second difference is the Russian avoidance of equivalent feet. ... Mme Jarintzov thinks it of capital importance to reproduce these peculiarities of her originals—the double rhymes and the exact syllabic correspondence. ... But she goes much farther than this; she attacks the established theory of translation.”
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=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russians and their language; with a preface by Nevill Forbes. *$2.50 (6c) Kennerley 491.7 (Eng ed 17-10234)
The author is a Russian woman who has lived in England and who writes in English. It is her belief that much of the bewilderment experienced by the English reader on first attempting to read Russian literature in translation is due to differences in language. In her introduction she discusses some of the problems of pronunciation and transliteration. The remainder of the work represents an attempt “to show the national character of the Russians as reflected in their language.”
“Every time Madame Zharintsova publishes a book, she has a new way of spelling her own name. ... For the student of Russian there is much that is suggestive in this book. All the words used are given in an appendix in Russian with the proper accent. For those that love Russia there is much that is interpretive in her dispositions on slang and diminutive and word-play.” N. H. D.
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“A good deal in this book will doubtless mean little to one who knows nothing of the language; however, anyone interested in Russia may glean therein much of interest on its life, literature and psychology.”
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“Books by amateurs in any subject are not likely to be marked by accuracy, proportion, or solid judgment, but they often express points of view and shrewd comments on details for which specialists may be grateful. All this is true of ‘The Russians and their language.’ The writer has no knowledge of phonetics, so that her chatter about Russian pronunciation and transliteration is of the sort that darkens counsel.”
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=N Y Br Lib News= 4:71 My ‘17
“One very interesting feature of this little study is the interpretation of Russian literature from an accurately balanced Russian standpoint. Readers who have taken the younger authors overseriously as typically Russian will be surprised to learn that an average Russian after speaking about them feels inclined to take a deep breath of fresh air.”
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“The intelligent student of Russian will be fascinated by this clever book—the work of a Russian lady who knows English extremely well, and is therefore able to interpret with quite exceptional fidelity the character of the Russian language. ... Mme Jarintzov’s comments on the great authors are most illuminating, though all too brief, and her hints on pronunciation are invaluable.”
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“There is a section on pronunciation and transliteration, but we do not think (and here Mr Nevill Forbes, who supplies a preface, seems to agree with us) that much light is thrown on either of these dark regions. Russian sounds can be learnt only from the living voice. ... The merits of the book, which are great, lie elsewhere. ... The author takes a large number of linguistic facts, and shows from them that the Russian language is a true reflection of the Russian character.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p414 Ag 31 ‘16 900w
=JASPER, MME.= Flemish system of poultry rearing. il *$1.50 Scribner 636.5
“The Belgian poultry-rearing industry has attained great dimensions; and in this volume Mme Jasper (who possessed at Tongres a large establishment for the breeding and management of poultry for table use) describes wherein Flemish methods excel those customary in England. The distinctive feature of the Flemish system is that the birds are sheltered from cold and damp, provided with plenty of air without any draught, kept in a mild and carefully regulated temperature, and put to sleep in a clean and spacious brooder.”—Ath
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=JASTROW, MORRIS.=[2] War and the Bagdad railway. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott 940.91 18-1122
A timely presentation of one of the most important single factors contributing to the present war. Because the full import of the railroad venture is made clear in the light of the history of Asia Minor, the author traces that history and its relation to the civilization of antiquity thru the period of Greek, Roman, Parthian and Arabic control down to the conquest by the Ottoman Turks. Then he proceeds with the story of the railroad thru which he follows the growth of hostile rivalry among European nations terminating in the great war. Step by step the writer follows the change in the project from a commercial scheme to a political one in which Germany ambitiously aims to get the mastery of the East. The solution offered is to throw open the road to the East but urges that its control be neither German nor British but international.
“Of all the books that have come to our notice, works dealing primarily with the problem of Bagdad, Professor Morris Jastrow’s ‘The war and the Bagdad railway’ with its illustrative map, is unquestionably the best.” S. A.
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“Professor Jastrow is hard to match for brevity and clearness, although he adds little that is new to the discussion of the present problem.” A. J.
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“Not from the patriots with their hands over their ears, nor from the pacifists with their hands over their eyes, but from such accurate thinkers as Dr Jastrow do we make the first patient beginnings in the unsnarling of the war problem. It is not easy these days to write as a student of history and not as a partisan, but it would be difficult to doubt the justice of Dr Jastrow’s claim to this position.” Doris Webb
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“Professor Jastrow is a high authority in the field of Semitic languages. ... His studies of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia have been extended to an accurate knowledge of the present peoples and conditions. He has thus been able to give us a remarkable valuable account of the recent rivalries of the great European powers in Asiatic Turkey, and in his newest book he tells the story of the Bagdad railway more instructively for American readers than any other writer has yet done.”
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=JATAKAS.= Jataka tales; selected and ed., with introd. and notes, by H: T: Francis and E: J. Thomas. il *$2.50 (1½c) Putnam 398.3 (Eng ed 17-18045)
“Jataka tales” are Hindu folktales. They are commonly referred to as “Buddhist birth-stories,” but Mr Thomas in the introduction points out that their origin is pre-buddhistic. This introduction considers also the relation of the tales of those of Aesop. The aim of the editors has been to bring together the stories “of most interest, both intrinsically, and also from the point of view of the folklorist.” The translations are taken from the complete edition translated under the editorship of Prof. E. B. Cowell, Cambridge, 1895-1907.
“The Jataka stories included in the present collection exhibit many features of interest to the student of folk-lore; and at the same time the English renderings run so smoothly that readers who seek merely entertainment will find plenty of it here.”
+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 150w
“From one point of view their work is of an encyclopædic character, from another it is thoroughly human composition. They have retold stories of the world’s childhood in such vigorous prose that the children upon whom the ends of the world are come will read with avidity what they have written.” Bishop Frodsham
+ =Sat R= 123:sup5 My 19 ‘17 520w
“Type and page are of excellent size, the editing is entirely trustworthy, and the illustrations are taken from the representations of the Jataka tales carved on the Stupa of Bharhut, discovered by Sir A. Cunningham in 1873 and dating from 250-200 B.C. ... To this day there is no book so beloved by humble eastern folk as this book. There is a mighty, enthusiastic audience for the recital of it at this very present in Ceylon. For us of the West it gives us glimpses of the permanent life of the people such as is seldom afforded us in other Indian literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1900w
=JEFFERSON, CHARLES EDWARD.= Land of enough; a Christmas story. *50c (9c) Crowell 17-24813
The moral lesson of this little book is effective because it is presented with a saving touch of humor that removes it from the “Sunday-school” type of story. Max and Madge never had enough of anything. Max always wanted more time to play, more time to sleep, more of something to eat. Madge wanted more clothes and more of a dozen other things that girls of seventeen do want. And it was quite in vain that her mother compared Madge’s wardrobe with her own when she was a girl, for, as the author says, “there are comparisons which are odious, and this is one of them.” And then suddenly the “Land of enough” is really achieved, and is found to be a quite barren country.
“An effective sermon on the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 170w
+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 20w
=JEKYLL, GERTRUDE.= Annuals and biennials; with cultural notes by E. H. Jenkins. il *$3 Scribner 716 17-15076
“This addition to Miss Jekyll’s garden books, always acceptable to the aesthetic gardener, consists on pp. 57-156 of an alphabetical list, with description of culture, of the best annuals and biennials; following introductory chapters on various sides of the subject, including one by Mr Jenkins on ‘Raising annuals in green-house or frame.’ At the end is a chart of colour and height and a list of selections for various purposes and aspects. The book is fully illustrated by full-page photographs and some coloured plates.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 70w
+ =Spec= 118:49 Ja 13 ‘17 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 D 14 ‘16 90w
=JENKINS, BURRIS ATKINS.= Man in the street and religion. *$1.25 Revell 17-11447
“A stimulating and virile book by the chaplain of a regiment in the Missouri militia, who is also pastor of a church of 2000 members in Kansas City, and a keen sportsman. He believes everybody of all conditions and classes is religious, and he makes a series of appeals to this unconscious faith.”—Springf’d Republican
“An exceptionally readable and suggestive demonstration of the proposition that everyone is religious at heart, coupled with a delineation of the kind of Christianity which will appeal to the average man.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 70w
“The book is brightly written, and abounds in anecdote and quotation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 130w
=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Bindle; the story of a cheerful soul. *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 16-22980
Joseph Bindle is a furniture-mover by profession, a calling which is “fraught with many vicissitudes and hardships.” Of Bindle himself, we are told: “Two things in life he loved above all others, beer and humor (or, as he called it, his ‘little joke’); yet he permitted neither to interfere with the day’s work, save under very exceptional circumstances.” Of Mrs Bindle, her husband says, “She thinks too much o’ soap an’ ‘er soul to make an ‘owlin’ success o’ marriage.” The story consists of a series of episodes from the life of Bindle. Herbert Jenkins, the author, is the British publisher of that name.
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p480 O ‘16 120w
“Those who like Charlie Chaplin—and his popularity must have a very genuine foundation—will thoroughly appreciate Bindle. There is nothing illusive, nothing subtle, about his style of humor. It is as general in its appeal as was the earlier work of Mark Twain, and it possesses something of the same quality of humanness.”
=Bellman= 22:441 Ap 21 ‘17 230w
“The humor of the book is slap-stick comedy and sometimes it is too obviously planned, but parts of it are entertaining.”
=Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 350w
=Sat R= 122:395 O 21 ‘16 150w
“For the most part very good fun.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 21 ‘16 300w
=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.=[2] Night club. *5s Herbert Jenkins, London
“Bindle, ‘J. B.’ to his friends, was responsible for dignifying as The night club the weekly gatherings of several totally unlike men who had formed a habit of meeting in the flat of one of their number for a smoke, a drink and a yarn. ... A story being the principal business of the evenings, the author has ingeniously woven those that were told into a humorous account of several adventures of the members, their families and friends. ... The actors include principally, first and foremost Bindle; his wife and her brother, both afflicted with a peculiar sort of religion; Angell Herald, the publicity agent who dreamed that he had been asked by the prime minister to be minister of publicity; ‘The boy,’ who had won his D.S.O. early in the war, but who didn’t like to hear about it; Gimp, the actor, whose story was surprisingly better than he or his acting; the old general who considered it a privilege to talk to the men of the new army; and Miss Sallie, who did what the whole German navy had failed to do—tricked the British navy.”—Boston Transcript
“Bindle is the central figure, though he does not give his name to the book, and his genial shrewdness and candour win our appreciation as they did that of the very varied membership of the club.”
+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w
“The present volume is happily conceived in that it may be taken up and enjoyed in spare moments or read through at one sitting; in either case the reader will be filled with a sense of the warmth of its geniality and wit.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 5 ‘18 450w
“A large percentage of readers will close this volume with a sincere wish that they, too, might become members of ‘The night club.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 500w
“The stories should amuse a larger circle; for they are unfailingly lively and show much fertility of idea.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 8 ‘17 100w
=JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.=[2] Trust problem; 4th ed., enl. and completely rev., with the collaboration of Walter E. Clark, diags *$2 (1c) Doubleday 338.8 17-28340
This so-called “Bible on industrial combinations,” by the director of the division of public affairs, New York university, becomes practically a new book in its fourth edition. “Some new chapters have been added. Chapter 1 on the Evolution of business, the very large additions made to Chapter 9 on Prices, Chapter 10 on Trusts and the working man, with the new facts that they contain, aid materially in the discussion of the economic principles involved. Chapter 12 on Industrial combinations in Europe gives us a basis of wide experience. The new chapters on State and federal trust legislation in the United States, and the one on Trusts and the federal court, showing the development of legislation during the last few years, likewise serve to strengthen the economic foundation of the discussions, since the course of legislation has, to a considerable degree, clearly been based upon the principles brought out in the theoretical discussions.” (Preface to fourth edition)
“In our judgment, no other single volume on the subject of industrial combinations, their development, structure, and problems, equals this one for compact information, breadth of view, and the variety of facts presented. The book bears evidence of careful planning and patient work, and is suggestive of the systematic and exhaustive work with which German scholars are credited.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 260w
+ =R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 70w
=JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA.= Street of the blank wall, and other stories (Eng title, Malvina of Brittany). *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 16-23590
The first story in this collection of six is a tale of mystery in which the real truth about a murder is brought to light fifteen years after its commitment. The second story “Malvina of Brittany,” the longest story in the book is also the lightest. Malvina is a fay or pixie transported from the pages of old English romance to modern Britain. Each of the four that follow, His evening out, The lesson, Sylvia of the letters, The fawn gloves, represents a different type of short story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17
“Altogether, it is not a particularly rewarding volume.” F. I.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 480w
“Mr Jerome writes with sincerity, with feeling for reality, with some insight into the deeper possibilities of life, with a feeling for what is lovely as well as of good report. And that sort of thing is in itself good, better, I should say, than a striving for virility.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:190 Mr 8 ‘17 250w
+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 550w
“The stories doubtless have been written at wide intervals and add little to Mr Jerome’s reputation.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 100w
“Most of these stories are written at greater length than is necessary, and part of what is superfluous is also irrelevant; we should infer, indeed, that Mr Jerome is too preoccupied with edification to take much thought for form. No such criticism, however, is applicable to ‘The fawn gloves.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 450w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Secret bread. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20670
“The story tells how a bastard was elevated above his legitimate brethren, and surmounted his difficulties by the help of a fine-minded pastor; and in addition we have most graphic and intimate studies of [English] farming and the improvements that a progressive landowner introduces.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The abiding impression left by the book as a whole is of a large and sympathetic interpretation of human experience, though set in a minor key.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:486 D ‘17 600w
“‘Secret bread’ is a narrative at heart starkly chill. As a whole, it is undubitably powerful, with many pages of prose of the first rank.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 19 ‘17 330w
“It gratefully lacks the famous brilliancy of the ‘younger British school’ of novelists. It has solidity, not only in its portraiture, but in its embodiment of a truth, or, if you will, a moral, as contrasted with the expression of an ‘idea’ in the Wellsian sense. This is a book of rich texture, both in form and in substance.”
+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 580w
“The story is written with a wealth of detail and a great number and variety of characters. All the people in it, notwithstanding their strongly marked differences of social position and mental endowment are delineated with subtility and truth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 550w
“The author shows great sympathy for the very young and the old. ... A little reserve of force would have been more telling than the almost camera-like detail in which she prefers to indulge—detail that is sometimes wearying, and often coarse and offensive.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 300w
“The book is very generously planned, like the English novels of an earlier day. And now and then we find Miss Jesse straying a little too widely from her main theme.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p272 Je 7 ‘17 670w
=JOHNS, CECIL STARR.= With gold and steel. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-28765
A romance of France in the time of Henry of Navarre. The hero is François Le Pouldu who comes to Henry with a tale of treasure that he is ready to devote to the king’s service. On a lonely coast he has come upon a wrecked Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and arms. The king furnishes the outfit necessary for salvaging the cargo and François starts on his adventures. Denise de Marmont, sister of one of Henry’s enemies, early enters the tale to give it the required feminine element.
“We congratulate Mr Johns on his ability to get out of the beaten track of the average novel of sword and cloak into the field of fresh plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 14 ‘17 210w
“Those who like stirring, old-fashioned historical romance, served with something of the dignity and leisurely manner of the Stanley Weyman novels, will enjoy this story by Mr Johns. ... The characters all do a great deal of talking, but it is conversation that helps to carry on the story, which it does with brightness, vivacity, and humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:571 D 23 ‘17 330w
=JOHNS, ORRICK G.= Asphalt, and other poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811 17-13553
Mr Johns’s poem “Second avenue,” which was awarded a prize in a poetry contest a few years ago, is included in this collection of poems. The book takes its title from the group of street ballads with which it opens. The remaining groups that compose its contents are: Country rhymes; The city; Old youth; Three women; Ebb sand and stars.
“Nothing could afford a better illustration of the fact that poetry which addresses itself to current issues or social conditions will grow passé, like a last year’s garment, than the lack of interest which one feels now in a poem like ‘Second avenue.’ The same criticism applies to the opening section of ‘Asphalt,’ to the street ballads, in gutter dialect, through which Mr Johns hits off social conditions. ‘Country rhymes,’ whose title must not mislead one into thinking they are rustic verses, take one captive from the start. They are full of charm and whimsicality, but something much deeper is in them, too. ‘Asphalt’ demonstrates the fact that Mr Johns has versatility and a poetic gift of no common order.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:578 Ja ‘18 750w
“One could wish that he had omitted the dialect poems at the beginning of his book, but in reading many of the lyrics which compose the rest one experiences little but delight. Not only has Mr Johns a very seductive gift of melody, but at times he has what is rare among contemporary American poets, charm,—which is only one degree removed from magic.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 62:476 My 31 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
“On the whole, ‘Country rhymes,’ and the section called ‘Old youth,’ contain the best poetry of the book, the other portions seeming to us not so much absolute achievement as clever experiment or good promise.”
=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 150w
“Has melodic freshness and contains much essential poesy.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 80w
“Orrick Johns reveals himself as a young poet of considerable individuality but little poetry.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 270w
=JOHNSON, BURGES.= Well of English and the bucket. *$1.25 (5½c) Little 808 17-26881
A collection of essays on the writing of English. The author is assistant professor of English at Vassar college and he writes from the point of view of one who has tried to break away from the stilted academic traditions in English teaching. Some of the essays are reprinted from Harper’s and the Century. Contents: The well of English and the bucket; Grammar, the bane of boyhood; Impression and expression; Essaying an essay; The right not to laugh; The everyday profanity of our best people; Ethics of the pen.
“Seven essays, written clearly, convincingly and with a touch of humor.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:79 D ‘17
“This writer is interesting; he puts old views freshly, he urges new ones with effect.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 280w
“The author is able not only to teach the students in his English classes how to write but he can give them good models from his own light, lucid and vigorous pen.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 380w
=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 70w
“‘The well of English and the bucket’ is a thoughtful piece of work with a very clever title. Its author has pondered much upon the educational and practical problems of writing without missing their difficulties, and, at the same time, without representing the situation as altogether hopeless.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 250w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= New England; a human interest geographical reader. il *$1 Macmillan 917.4 17-8898
“The aim of the author is to furnish interesting and valuable supplementary reading material for the upper elementary grades. The facts are drawn from geology, nature, history, industry, biography, literature, legend, and humor, and are selected with the idea of entertaining and instructing the reader. The general plan of treatment is first to devote a few chapters to New England as a whole and then to treat each of the six states separately. In dealing with each state the plan is to devote a chapter or two to historical beginnings and the remainder to industries, natural scenery, and famous people and places. There are about two hundred well-selected illustrations.”—El School J
“Beautifully illustrated geographical reader. ... The author betrays his prejudice by absolute silence regarding all things Catholic.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:693 Ag ‘17 60w
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=Educ= 56:174 F ‘18 40w
“Outside of New England the book will be of little practical value as a supplementary reader. If such material is used in school, it should treat of the community in which it is studied. The great value of Mr Johnson’s book to communities outside of New England is to indicate the types of local material which can be utilized in a study of one’s near or immediate locality.”
=El School J= 17:773 Je ‘17 220w
“Thru all the descriptions runs a personal touch that appeals to children. The pictures are most helpful.”
+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 50w
“His methods are somewhat unique, and include a combination of the historical and the descriptive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 380w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.= Peril of Prussianism. *75c (1c) Putnam 940.91 17-22576
This is “the substance of an address delivered by the associate professor of physiography in Columbia university before the annual convention of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines on June 14, 1917.” (Foreword) His argument is that the American ideal and the Prussian ideal of government “are mutually antagonistic, and cannot long exist in the world side by side,” because the “very existence of the Prussian ideal depends upon an aggressive militarism.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 20w
“One of the most interesting features of the book is a series of historical maps showing the area controlled by the Hohenzollern dynasty in succeeding centuries, from the origin of the Brandenburg monarchy to the present day.”
+ =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 50w
“A vigorous indictment of Prussian methods.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 60w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.=[2] Topography and strategy in the war. il *$1.75 (3c) Holt 940.91 17-27768
An analysis of the topography of each of the most important theaters of war, together with a summary of the principal campaigns, pointing out how military operations have been influenced by the surface features of the country. One object is to emphasize the relationship between inanimate nature and the science of war. Another is to place before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our allied troops. Good maps, diagrams and illustrations generously supplement the text.
“A remarkably suggestive book with few technical terms, which will need to be consulted by future historians of the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 80w
=Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 40w
“An excellent beginning has been made in the treatment of this rather difficult subject and additional chapters will be demanded as new campaigns bring other regions within the area of active warfare.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 120w
=JOHNSON, JOSEPH ESREY, jr.= Blast-furnace construction in America. il *$4 McGraw 669.8 17-9602
“The author of ‘Blast furnace construction’ has been a student of the blast furnace on both the theoretical and the practical side for a number of years, and has given to the furnace-man many valuable and instructive papers bearing on the operation and control of this most complex of all metallurgical processes. The present volume deals fully with the construction of the furnace proper, from an early date up to the present time, and considers in detail all the adjuncts that play an important part in the production of pig iron.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“This comprehensive work, based partly upon investigations by the author, fills a long felt want in metallurgical literature. ... Of especial note is the chapter on the dry blast.”
=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 50w
“The chapter on distribution of stock in the furnace proper is well worth the price of the book, as probably more troubles in blast-furnace operation are traceable to poor distribution than to all others combined. The chapter on washing and cleaning gas could well have been enlarged in scope. ... The intention to amplify this work by another on blast-furnace operation will be awaited with interest by the producers of pig iron and allied products.” C: E. Lehr
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
“There seems to be nothing of importance upon which Mr Johnson has not touched from the laying of the foundation to the last detail in the completion of a modern blast furnace. His book will be indispensable as a work of reference in every metallurgical establishment in the country.”
+ =Nation= 104:766 Je 28 ‘17 230w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Very useful work on arrangement and construction, and to some extent on mechanical features of operation. Not concerned with metallurgical problems. For this subject see Robert Forsythe’s ‘Blast furnace and the manufacture of pig iron,’ 1909.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:423 My ‘17 30w
“The series of articles on blast construction and operation which appeared in several numbers of Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, is a thorough covering of the subject in the compass allowed by the 405 pages utilized.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:456 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Blast Furnace and Steel Plant p190 Ap ‘17)
“Authoritative treatise.”
+ =Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17
=JOHNSON, LIONEL PIGOT.= Religious poems. *$1 Macmillan 821
“This selection from the most directly religious poems of the late Lionel Johnson has been made by Mr George F. Engelbach, and Mr Meynell contributes an appreciative and sympathetic preface to a volume which will be welcomed by many admirers of the poet.”—Ath
“‘Friends,’ ‘Winchester close,’ and ‘A dream of youth’ are specially appealing and sympathetic.”
+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘17 60w
“Johnson’s poems, written after his admission into the Catholic church, are resonant with faith and tender with devotion. Nevertheless, there is not in them that ring of anguish, of personal need, of mystical rapture that arrests us in the poetry of Francis Thompson.”
+ =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w (Reprinted from the Dial)
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17
“It is, perhaps, a question whether these selected poems have not the effect of rendering somewhat too definitely a ruling temperament. ... Many might prefer to meet this singer’s most directly religious poems amid the lighter environment out of which they have been taken. Of the attractive quality of their nobility, fervour, and sincerity there can be no doubt. Only—they present the austere outlook on gifts of earthly joy.”
+ =Sat R= 123:577 Je 23 ‘17 900w
“A series of poems of personal aspiration, and a series devoted to the celebration of friendship both reveal a striking kinship of spirit with the religious verse of Digby Markworth Dolben, recently edited by Mr Bridges, and in both cases constitute the poet’s main contribution to the not very large body of English sacred poetry of a high order.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p66 F 8 ‘17 1050w
=JOHNSON, ROSSITER.= Fight for the Republic. il *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam 973.7 17-5857
The subtitle calls this “a narrative of the more noteworthy events in the War of secession, presenting the great contest in its dramatic aspects.” It does not aim to be a complete history of the Civil war. As the author defines his purpose, it is “to set forth clearly such of the greater events as either constituted turning-points or distinctly advanced or retarded the general movement toward the end.” There are a number of folding maps, and several portraits.
“In 1910 the author published ‘A history of the war of secession,’ the military chapters of which are now reprinted under a separate title. The present volume excludes practically everything except military history, and on this side presents little that is not found in the former volume. Students of the war period will find nothing new in ‘The fight for the Republic,’ while for those who are taking up the subject for the first time the book is not to be recommended because it is too one-sided.”
— =Am Hist R= 23:222 O ‘17 250w
“Facts are well backed up by figures. ... A valuable feature of the work is found in the illustrations. There are sketch maps of all the principal battlefields.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 380w
+ =Cath World= 105:409 Je ‘17 170w
“The limitations of the work are considerable. ... It is hardly possible to write, in this day, a valuable history of the Civil war without devoting some attention to the non-military aspects of the period, but for Mr Johnson these matters evidently have little interest. For one who wishes to get a brief description of a battle or a campaign as seen from the Union side, this work will serve well; but he who wishes to read understandingly of the fight for the Union must go elsewhere—for example, to Mr Rhodes—for a more comprehensive account.”
+ — =Dial= 62:318 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w
“It cannot be recommended to students familiar with the work of Burgess, Rhodes, Ropes, Wood and Edmunds and Formby, but will be useful to any one making a beginning in the field.”
=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Rossiter Johnson has long been recognized as a historian who builds dramatically on a foundation of well-verified facts. This—his third important book on the Civil war in America—seems to leave little more to be said on a subject not easily exhausted.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 1500w
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 100w
“The facts concerning the nation’s great struggle can always be portrayed in a new way, and that is what Rossiter Johnson has done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 12 ‘17 220w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America and the great war for humanity and freedom, il *$1.50 (2c) Winston 940.91 17-17290
“Eight chapters of this book review the antecedents of the war, and the stories of the different states which entered the war in 1914. The six following chapters describe the war as fought in the different countries and upon the sea and in the air. Three chapters give the story of America’s relations with Germany while she tried to be neutral. Then follow some chapters which describe the resources, actual and potential, of the United States, discuss how modern wars are waged, etc. Among these are brief chapters on women and war work, universal military service, the Monroe doctrine, and the flag. The book is illustrated with photographs and maps.” (Boston Transcript) The author is honorary professor of the history of American foreign relations in New York university.
“The author has been for many years a student of American history, especially in its foreign relations, and he has carefully followed the progress of the war from the beginning. The results of his study have appeared in the Transcript and other papers, and now he has gathered them together in this volume which is one of the most enlightening which have appeared up to the present time.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 550w
“For those who like to have a popular ‘vade mecum’ of narrative, argument, and statistics, opening with the ‘Battle hymn of the Republic’ and closing with the ‘Star-spangled banner,’ the volume should prove serviceable. The hundred and more maps and illustrations are, as a rule, well executed.”
+ — =Nation= 105:322 S 20 ‘17 150w
“One of the important works of reference on the war. Of great timeliness to the student of current events.”
+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 110w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America’s foreign relations. 2v il *$6 (2c) Century 327.73 16-9786
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Although rarely brilliant, the style is at all times clear, while some chapters, notably those on Hawaii, Samoa, and Far Eastern relations possess a fascination to be found only in really fine historical writing. ... The index is adequate; the book has neither footnotes nor bibliography. ... Most of the errors made by the author are of minor importance in themselves, but taken together perhaps show an uneven grasp upon all parts of the subject, and at times an inadequate background of political and constitutional history. ... Despite these and numerous other inaccuracies, and the limitations, from the scholarly viewpoint, imposed by its ‘popular’ character, Mr Johnson’s book is the most complete, most readable, and altogether the best account that has been given of America’s foreign relations.” Ralston Hayden
* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:156 F ‘17 1400w
“The book is readable, and at the same time weighty, and, on the whole, remarkably accurate and impartial. ... The determining factors of American foreign policy are presented to us, correctly, as governed not by theoretical but by practical considerations. It is this which will give it its peculiar value in educating American opinion. ... At the present time when it is of capital importance that the British public should realize what are the really determining motives of American policy, this book should be read by every one who is capable of understanding it. Mr Johnson’s account of America’s attitude from the beginning towards the question of ‘the freedom of the seas’ is, alone, of great educative value.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p62 F 8 ‘17 1550w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= The wanderers. *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 17-24277
From the woman of the tree-folk who discovered fire and the uses of the long stick, down thru the ages, Miss Johnston traces the progress, now forward, now back, of women. The cave woman who taught the wanderer man that it is good for two to be together, Gata of the long house, who disclosed the mystery of paternity, Vana who gave away the mother-right and established inheritance thru the male line, Lindane the Amazon, Myrina the courtesan, Valeria the Roman wife, and Alleda, the Goth who brought Christianity to her people, are some of the figures who stand out in the narrative, which, loosely constructed as it intentionally is, is held together by the thread that follows the gradual strengthening, refining and sweetening of the love tie that binds man and woman. The story approaches modern times only so far as the French revolution.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“An impressive departure from the author’s usual field.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 50w
“It is due to the really fine art of the author that she makes the reader become wholly interested in each of her nineteen sets of characters, though only the space of a single chapter is allotted to any one set of characters. Remembering that each one of these chapters has to be built up about some phase of the same subject, we gain some realization of the breadth and difficulty of the task. ... The book is unusual and only an author of the deep insight and the dramatic intensity of Miss Johnston could have made it so revealing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1250w
“The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest, without a sufficient disguise for its purpose to be successful. In other words, the artist in Miss Johnston has been pretty thoroughly stifled here by the feminist.”
— =Cath World= 106:400 D ‘17 280w
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w
“Miss Johnston’s new book shows the same primary weakness that we have found in all her work. This is the weakness of the long face. We suspect that Miss Johnston’s later work has bored a good many people who have approached it with the best intentions. It has no light and shade; it is all done with the down stroke. ‘The wanderers’ is uncommonly hard reading.”
— =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 450w
“It is a grindstone for the feminist axe. ... The love stories are in themselves typical and appealing, though on the whole monotonous and unvaried by any insight of the depths and chasms between lovers. This does not mean that there are no tragedies, but only that the attitude between lovers is that of lovers in a book—when they are happy it is as protagonists, and unhappy, as tragic exemplars. They exult in terms of uncritical idealism, and they die as badly.” J. L.
– + =New Repub= 13:289 Ja 5 ‘18 430w
“The idea is an interesting and a very ambitious one, and though the book as a whole would be more effective were it not so extremely long, many of the tales are interesting in themselves, containing color and a good deal of drama.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 550w
=Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w
“They preserve to an extraordinary degree the atmosphere and probable perspective of life of the periods they represent.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 90w
“The book is a fine piece of imaginative writing—a landmark in the season’s fiction—and enhances Miss Johnston’s already conspicuous position in American letters. ... It is a book for the discriminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 430w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= “Limpy,” the boy who felt neglected. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-7454
He had a good home, a kind father, a sympathetic mother and two brothers who did their best to be thoughtful, but he wasn’t happy. His nickname, “Limpy,” explained why, for he wore an ugly iron brace and couldn’t run or fight or play games like other boys. Then he made friends with an old Civil war soldier who had only one leg. Their common bond drew them together, and reassured by this new friend, Limpy found courage to go on bravely till the time came when a surgical operation cured his lameness and made him like other boys.
– + =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“Mr Johnston has achieved a task as delicate as difficult. He has disclosed the heart of a boy with a tenderness which has no trace of sentimentality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 280w
“Huck Finn and Penrod have, between them, made all the other boys of fiction seem a little tame. Were it not for them, ‘Limpy’ would be a capital boy story. As it is, it runs a close second in places, although its hero exhibits something of the lamentable ‘glad’ mania that has recently affected all the little girls of fiction.”
+ =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 450w
“Unfortunately, the book lacks the humor that one associates with stories about boys; but its naturalness, both as to speech and action, goes far to compensate for this deficiency.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 300w
=JOIRE, PAUL MARTIAL JOSEPH.= Psychical and supernormal phenomena, their observation and experimentation. il *$3 (1½c) Stokes 134 (Eng ed 17-9817)
Dr Joire is a professor at the Psycho-physiological institute of France and president of the Société universelle d’études psychiques. “This book deals with such subjects as multiple personality, ‘motricity,’ haunted houses, telepathy, crystal-gazing, levitation, materialization, automatic writing, and the like. It is claimed that psychical phenomena have not, for the most part, been subjected to sufficiently serious observation and scientific analysis; and that their verification, though extremely difficult, is not impossible.” (Ath) The book is translated by Dudley Wright.
=Ath= p473 O ‘16 50w
“To the student of psychology this work should prove of some value. The subject, in its most elementary as well as advanced form, is here dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and the usual adverse criticisms of psychical phenomena, criticisms which in many cases, to the lay mind at least, seem only too well founded, are tackled by Dr Joire in an able and impartial manner.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 630w
=JONES, DANIEL.= English pronouncing dictionary (on strictly phonetic principles). (Dent’s modern language ser.) *$3 Dutton 423 A17-1345
“The object of this dictionary—it gives no definitions—is to record with as much accuracy as is necessary for practical linguistic purposes the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation by cultivated southern English people. ... The system used for representing pronunciation is that of the International phonetic association, which, in the opinion of the author, is the best as well as being the most widely used of the existing phonetic alphabets. ... Special features of this dictionary are the inclusion of proper names, all plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives, and the inflected forms of verbs. ... The pronunciation is recorded of 49,690 words, exclusive of inflected forms.” (Springf’d Republican) The author is reader in phonetics in the University of London.
“Here is material for much warm-weather discussion, and to such disputants, of whom this topic counts its millions, there could be recommended no better guide than Mr Jones both for industry and accuracy in collecting his facts and for open-mindedness in the presentation of them. For, apart from a few striking dialectical peculiarities, such as the glide before r in hero and the like, the language which Mr Jones describes would pass as good and by no means peculiar English wherever educated people meet together.”
+ =Nation= 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 620w
=N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 80w
Reviewed by W. H. Chesson
+ =Sat R= 123:551 Je 16 ‘17 1400w
“The book will be of much service to Americans as informing them of what is probably the best English usage as to the pronunciation of ordinary words and will be very illuminating to them on the pronunciation of English place names and on the English usage as to other proper names.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 450w
=JONES, EDGAR DEWITT.= Fairhope; the annals of a country church. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-16185
“Some of the names in this story of Kentucky country life may be disguised, but the annals are, evidently, history, not fiction. They cluster around a ‘meeting house’ of the denomination known as Disciples of Christ.” (N Y Times) “The protracted meetings, the student preachers, the wooing of one of them, the changing of the old order from the doctrinal champions to the modern minister expert in rural sociology, these and other phases of the parish annals are set forth.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Lifelike and wholly pleasant sketches.”
+ =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“Mr Jones has given more than a mere picture of Fairhope church and its people from ‘The days of controversy and debate’ half a century ago to the present time of broad toleration; he has lifted bodily for our behoof the very soil itself, with its characters, genuine and quaint, and the church which was their centre and soul.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 350w
“Just what Ian Maclaren did to put ‘Drumtochty’ on the map of Scotland, that has ‘David Westbrooke’ done for Fairhope. ... Half a century ago there were public doctrinal debates exciting almost as much interest as the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the political field. Some of these, one in particular, are described here.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 400w
=JONES, EDWARD DAVID.= Administration of industrial enterprises; with special reference to factory practice. il *$2 Longmans 658.7 16-24712
“In this volume the author first outlines the problem of equipment and then proceeds to discuss the formation of an administrative organization, the adjustment of the relations of labor and capital, and, finally, the process of mercantile distribution. The aim of the book is two-fold—to trace the application of the scientific method in industry and to point out the efficiency of an economic policy based upon welfare and service.”—R of Rs
“The proportions of the work are not perfect. Too much space is devoted to the highly technical subject of ‘layout of a manufacturing plant’ and not enough to modern aids to an enlightened administration. The treatment of cost accounting is far too meager and there is nothing at all on managerial statistics and the graphical presentation of facts. Nevertheless, the ground in general is covered with judgment and as thoroughly as a work of moderate size addressed to the general reader would permit. At the end of each chapter is a well-selected bibliography. Where the author most falls into error is in handling some of the technical features of scientific management.” C: W Mixter
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:630 S ‘17 530w
“A valuable, short, compact statement. Not as inspiring as Lewis’ ‘Getting the most out of business’ nor as analytical as Shaw’s ‘Approach to business problems.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:116 Ja ‘18
“Dr Jones has given us a well organized work. It is a straightforward, connected story. As a textbook, it ought to be well received, and as a part of a business man’s library, it should prove an asset.” Malcolm Keir
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:229 My ‘17 250w
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 480w
“Although the preface does not indicate it, this volume is better suited for use as a textbook than as a guide to executives of industrial plants. It covers too wide a range to touch more than lightly on the vital things that make for successful management. The man with executive problems to solve will need fuller treatment.”
=Engin News-Rec= 78:154 Ap 19 ‘17 90w
“Here are no abstract theories of business organization, but facts in profusion stated so professor alike may easily understand. ... Perhaps, in his enthusiasm for the subject, Professor Jones overemphasizes the results which will come from scientific management. After all, the human element must always remain as a large factor in business success.”
+ =Ind= 89:508 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“The necessary result of this enlargement of scope is, however, that the treatment of all the topics is very brief. Indeed, in some cases, the discussion is so slight as to make it a question whether much benefit can be derived by the student.”
=Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 70w
=Pratt= p28 O ‘17 30w
=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 70w
“Professor Jones has attacked this somewhat formidable task with considerable success.” E. B. Gowin
+ =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 150w
=JONES, FRANCIS P.=[2] History of the Sinn Fein movement and the Irish rebellion of 1916; with an introd. by J: W. Goff. il *$2 Kenedy 941.5 17-14796
“Mr Jones analyzes the English influences that have been at work in Ireland for many years. He shows the pernicious attempts to strengthen Ireland commercially and politically. In contrast to these influences he explains the Sinn Fein ideals, and traces out the gradual unification of discontent that culminated in the revolt of 1916. Of that unfortunate insurrection and its leaders, he gives a most intimate account, having gathered his material from personal contact with Pearce, Connolly, MacDonald and the other Sinn Fein leaders.”—Cath World
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“His presentation of the Irish problem is the most conclusive written in recent years, and contains a complete review of a period in Irish history that will grow in importance with the passing of time. No one who would know Ireland’s present position can afford to miss reading this scholarly work. In writing it Mr Jones has done a great service for Ireland and her people.”
+ =Cath World= 105:549 Jl ‘17 250w
=Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
“The story of the Sinn Fein movement is dramatically told, and there is a running account of the various armed movements that accompanied it. All this is well done. There is not, however, sufficient notice taken of the Irish trade union movement, or the part it has played in reforming and extending the economic ideas of the Irish people.” Frank MacDonald
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Ap 29 ‘17 900w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
=JONES, JENKIN LLOYD.= Love for the battle-torn peoples. 75c Unity pub. 172.4 17-26179
“A series of popular sermon-studies, sketching rapidly the contributions made by each of the warring countries to civilization, which entitle them to the love of the American people. A new statement of the author’s well known faith in human brotherhood and internationalism.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:241 Mr ‘17
“A charming little volume.”
+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 40w
“The author has a wide knowledge of literature and a profound feeling for the great values of history and human life. He has also the gift of expression.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:267 Ja ‘17 60w
“No one will read Mr Jones’s book without feeling that some things have been included that he cannot and does not want to love and that even more has been omitted that one has learned to love. And yet it is fair to say that Mr Jones has more nearly succeeded in reaching an average possessing universal appeal than could have been thought possible before the idea was given a trial.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 11 ‘17 300w
=JONES, JOHN PRICE.= America entangled (Eng title, German spy in America). pa *50c Agnes C. Laut, 286 5th av., N.Y. 940.91 17-8589
“In the course of his work on the staff of the New York Sun Mr Jones has given a year to the close investigation of the subject [of the German spy in America]. ... Here we have a detailed exposure of the misdeeds of von Papen, von Igel, Koenig, Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, the ‘German arch-plotter,’ who was commissioned ‘to isolate commercial and financial America as a base of war supplies from Europe,’ Dr Heinrich F. Albert, Dumba, and the rest of the conspirators; the full story of the Lusitania, an account of Germany’s lobby in Congress, and of the change in the system when publicity became too strong. Mr Roosevelt contributes a foreword, and Mr Roger B. Wood an introduction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p476 S ‘17 200w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“Not only to Americans, however, but to all the belligerent countries, and above all to neutrals, will Mr Price Jones’s book be of service in warning them how the Kaiser makes war.”
+ =Spec= 119:298 S 22 ‘17 1650w
“A remarkable story, lucidly and effectively put together.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“Mr Jones’s story is the more deadly because it is supported throughout by documentary evidence, and is told in plain, straightforward language, little embellished by rhetoric.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p380 Ag 9 ‘17 1000w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= St Paul, the hero. il *$1 (3½c) Macmillan 225.9 17-10430
“This is the story of the life of St Paul, told with remarkable simplicity and especially designed for younger readers. ... The first chapter shows him as a boy ten years old, talking with his father about the meaning of the law; the last chapter gives us a picture of the heroic champion sealing his loyalty to the gospel by his death.”—Bib World
“The unfolding history is given in untechnical language, vividly and concretely. ... This short book ought to be of great value in Bible study. The pictures are unusual, being reproductions of steel engravings in the classical style. The maps are too fine to be legible.”
+ =Bib World= 50:128 Ag ‘17 160w
“St Paul’s life is so full of incident and so fascinating in detail that to write a long book about him would be far easier than a satisfactory short one; but Professor Jones, with the exactness of a scholar and with the quiet reverence of a Quaker, has produced a series of brief chapters that will convey to young people a very clear outline of the main story, while not exceeding the compass of their patience.”
+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 170w
“The well-known scholar succeeds in making the character of Paul interesting to the adolescent boy. ... The story is written so as to appeal to the youthful imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 110w
=JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR.= Spiritual ascent of man. *$1.50 Putnam 201 17-5700
In his introduction, A. L. Smith, master of Balliol college, says “This book aims at bringing the best philosophical thought of the time within the range of the ordinary reader.” As the author defines his purpose it is “to present some of the main problems of science, philosophy, and religion as these are dealt with by a number of the most prominent writers of our day.” The greatest weakness of the church in the past, he says, has been its failure “to give due heed to the various branches of knowledge in their bearings on religion.” Contents: The scope and limits of science; Matter and life; Body and mind; Intellect and intuition; The “is” and the “ought”; Values; The nature of spirit; The conception of God; Religion and Christianity; Conclusion.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 430w
=Dial= 63:536 N 22 ‘17 220w
+ =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 70w
“This book is clearly the fruit both of wide philosophical reading and of hard philosophical thought. ... It is certainly a book which all who have the cause of religion at heart would do well to read and ponder. The book appears at an opportune time. ... We whole-heartedly commend it.” J. T. Walley
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 720w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JORDAN, DAVID STARR.= Alsace-Lorraine; a study in conquest. *$1 (5c) Bobbs 943.4 17-6885
This work was written in 1913. It is based on a study made in Alsace-Lorraine at that time. Writing then, before the war, Dr Jordan compared Alsace to a cyclone center—the quiet place within the storm where there is no movement. Alsace was then the least war-like place in Europe. An Alsatian expression of opinion is quoted as typical: “War is the worst possible solution of our problems, because war is no solution. With war there is never a solution of any question. ... If France should gain Alsace by war, it would be only the beginning of another war, and so on without end.” Contents: The “nightmare of Europe”; The German point of view; Alsace-Lorraine as “Reichsland”: The French point of view; Nationalism. The material of the book appeared in part in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1914.
=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“Brings very clearly to the foreground the evil results following Germany’s action in striving to absorb a people against their natural affiliation.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
“Prof. Jordan is eminently fair to both sides. The letters he quotes as having received from prominent Frenchmen and Germans on this thorny question form not the least interesting part of his readable and informing little book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 320w
“If the author is unable to forecast the best solution of the perplexing problem of Alsace-Lorraine, at least he brings sufficient evidence to show that many of those which have been proposed from time to time are utterly impracticable. ... The creation of a new ‘buffer’ state, though not advanced by Dr Jordan as ‘the’ solution, from an analysis of the material which he brings does stand out as at least the most promising approach to it.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 1000w
=JORDAN, EDWIN OAKES.= Food poisoning. (Science ser.) il *$1 (3½c) Univ. of Chicago press 613.2 17-14054
The author is chairman of the department of hygiene and bacteriology of the University of Chicago. The introduction deals with the extent and kinds of food poisoning and articles of food most commonly connected with food poisoning. The author then considers: Sensitization to protein foods; Poisonous plants and animals; Mineral or organic poisons added to food; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Animal parasites; Poisonous products formed in food by bacteria and other micro-organisms; Poisoning of obscure or unknown nature.
=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“Concise authoritative, non-technical summary of present-day knowledge.”
+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 600w
“The book is of value at any time, and of importance; but the coming food campaign should focus attention upon it as one of the books which, above the primer grade, lead thoughtful readers into the desired realization of certain physiological aspects of the three-meals-a-day routine.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 240w
=JÖRGENSEN, JOHANNES.= False witness. il *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-26259
A translation of a Danish work, “Klokke Roland.” The main part of the book is taken up with an examination of “Appeal to the civilized world” sent out by ninety-three German professors. The author examines their claims and brings evidence to prove them false. In addition the book contains miscellaneous chapters on German character and “kultur.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
“It is an interesting book, written in genuine and acknowledged sympathy with Belgium, and bears the marks of a craftsman.”
+ =Cath World= 105:694 Ag ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 80w
“It is the first authoritative expression of the Danish viewpoint—if one may go so far in generalizing—that we have had. And it should be welcomed here, as the comment of a neutral and a neighbor, upon the conduct of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 430w
“No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 120w
=JOYCE, JAMES.= Portrait of the artist as a young man. *$1.50 (2c) Huebsch 17-4707
The story of the childhood, boyhood and youth of a young Irishman. It is extremely subjective and at times difficult to follow in its intricate turnings and abrupt transitions. From babyhood onward, Stephen is a lonely soul. At an early age he is sent to a Jesuit school where, altho he is evidently popular with the boys, he seems more than ever alone. He lives a secret life and during adolescence falls prey to the temptations of sex that lie in wait for the young. The agony of his remorse, his fear of confession, and the peace and exaltation that follows it, are among the most vivid impressions the book gives. The Catholic influence is strong thruout his early life. At one time he is led to think that he has a “vocation,” but when the book leaves him at the beginning of early manhood, he is leaning toward agnosticism.
“The book has an irresistible effect of sharp, first-hand reality. But as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”
=Cath World= 105:395 Je ‘17 1100w
“Such a book would have been impossible forty years ago. Far from looking back with regret at the good old novelists of the nineteenth century (whom, besides, we need never lose), I believe that our fiction is immensely freer and richer than the fiction of our immediate forefathers.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:525 Je 14 ‘17 240w
“The book in many places is exceedingly coarse, so marring uncommon beauty, descriptive power and insight.”
– + =Ind= 90:256 My 5 ‘17 50w
“What thrusts itself forward is the naturalism.’ Apart from this, in spite of it, the book has a measure of force by virtue of its sincere intent and its unconquered though ingrowing and indeterminate idealism. Its hero (who surely discourses like nobody in nature) is to be an artist in words—for the sake of Ireland.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Nation= 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 350w
“The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man.’”
— =Nation= 104:600 My 17 ‘17 500w
“One almost despairs of conveying it to the person who has conventionalized his idea of Ireland and modern Irish literature, yet there is a poignant Irish reality to be found in few existing plays and no preexistent novel, presented here with extraordinary candor and beauty and power. ... ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man’ is not entirely pleasant. But it has such beauty, such love of beauty, such intensity of feeling, such pathos, such candor, it goes beyond anything in English that reveals the inevitable malaise of serious youth. Many people will furiously resent his candor, whether about religion or nationalism or sex. But candor is a nobility in this instance.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 10:138 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w
“It is worth a great deal to the outside world to read of such events as are chronicled in ‘The portrait’ and ‘Dubliners.’ To see directly into the household and the heart of this sensitive young Irishman of the upper middle class is to be brought face to face with the social, political and religious forces which vex Ireland (and England, too, incidentally) daily.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 650w
“If we begin by complaining of the title of this book, it is only because it may turn some people away from it. Others may be put off by occasional improprieties; and it is useless to say that people ought not be put off by such things. They are; and we should like the book to have as many readers as possible.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JOYCE, THOMAS ATHOL.= Central American and West Indian archæology. il *$3.75 (5½c) Putnam 913.728 (Eng ed 16-17487)
The author calls this “an introduction to the archæology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies.” His aim has been to treat the archæology of these districts in a manner similar to that of his earlier books on Mexico and South America. He says: “The geographical area covered by the book is one which is still very imperfectly known from an archaeological point of view; the people inhabiting it in early times were not so highly developed, politically, as the Mexicans or the Peruvians, and the literature dealing with them is neither large nor easy of access. Still a summary of the known facts may be of use, if only in performing the function of a signpost for future investigators.”
“Summarizes in a scholarly way much material on excavations and discoveries of scientists that has heretofore been unavailable. Good illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:217 F ‘17
“Mr Joyce, who is an assistant in the department of ethnography in the British museum, has already written two earlier volumes on the archaeology of Mexico, Yucatan and the South American continent, including the exceptionally interesting study of early Aztec civilization. ... He has gathered many of the interesting traditions which have come down from pre-Colombian days. Since the conquest of Porto Rico by the United States much has been done by our Bureau of ethnology in the line of ethnological research in that and the adjoining smaller islands, some of the results of which are seen in Mr Joyce’s book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 30w
=Dial= 63:467 N 8 ‘17 120w
“The title well describes the book as an ‘introduction’ to the subject. As such it has good value. One feels, however, that the price set is high, considering the size of the volume.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD.=[2] Psychology, general introduction. 2d completely rev ed il *$1.80 Ginn 150 17-25595
A second edition largely rewritten. The writer points out the principal changes and elaborations: (1) “The present edition goes further than did the first in working out the doctrines of functional psychology, especially in so far as these use motor processes in explaining mental organization; (2) The doctrine of attitudes which was presented in the first edition has been much expanded; (3) The applications of psychology have been elaborated, especially through a new chapter on mental hygiene; (4) The view with regard to the importance of consciousness in evolution which was set forth in my paper before the American psychological association in 1909 has been adopted as a guiding principle in this volume. In keeping with this view, the chapter on volition has been wholly rewritten, and several earlier sections have been largely worked over.” The chapters only slightly modified are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 17.
“The significance of this revision for educators is enhanced by the fact that the author, for most of the ten years which have elapsed since the first edition, has been actively engaged in the teaching and administration of education. This has meant that the functional aspect of mental life, in which it is regarded as active, and doing something in the organism which it inhabits and in the world outside—this aspect which was already emphasized in the first edition is still more clearly defined in the additions which appear in the second edition. The student who is sufficiently mature to make applications of general principles for himself will gain profit from a study of the discussions of this book.” H. O. Rugg
+ =El School J= 18:312 D ‘17 400w
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY=, comp. Myths and legends of British North America. il *$1.50 (3½c) McClurg 398.2 17-11232
To her series of books of retold legends of American Indians, east and west, the author adds a volume of tales from the north. Among the tribes represented are the Haida, Eastern Eskimo, Wyandot, Cree, Bella Coola, Lillooet and Chilcotin. The author says, “Only authentic myths and legends have been used in the compilation of this volume. The leading authorities are the publications of the United States Bureau of ethnology, of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, of the Memoirs of the American Museum of natural history, as well as the ethnological publications of the Canadian Bureau of mines.” There are about twenty illustrations.
=A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“A large selection of well-executed cuts enhance the aesthetic appeal of the work. The author has, however, been less successful in her comments on some of these samples of Indian art. ... No justification can be found for the promiscuous arrangement of the myths of wholly heterogeneous provenience. ... A more judicious arrangement would have enhanced the value of the work immeasurably.” A. A. Goldenweiser
+ — =Bookm= 45:418 Je ‘17 650w
“They have an ethnological value as well as a picturesque interest.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 450w
“The purpose of the book seems to be the entertainment of young people, but even for this modest design the sketchiness of the material and lack of developed unity leaves it inadequate.”
— =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY.= Old Crow stories. il *$1.35 (4c) Little 17-24075
A book of animal stories selected from Indian folk lore. “Old Crow” is one of the characters in these tales, others are Raven, Grizzly and Coyote. How Raven brought the light, How Grizzly Bear stole the light; How Sun was made; When Real People were baked; How Coyote got his cunning; How Fire came to the Real People, are some of the titles. The pictures are by Charles Livingston Bull.
“She has retold these Indian myths of the beginnings of things in a spirited manner and in simple enough language for the little ones, yet without the condescending ‘talking down’ to which children instinctively object.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 270w
“They have a decided interest for older readers who recognize their ethnic and symbolic importance, while children will read them as the most delightful make-believe.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w
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=KAMBAN, GUTHMUNDUR.=[2] Hadda Padda; a drama in four acts; tr. by Sadie Luise Peller. (Borzoi plays, v) *$1 Knopf 839.6 17-30695
This play, translated from the Icelandic, was given its first production in Copenhagen in 1914. In spite of its difficult fourth act, which had made managers hesitate to attempt the play, it was an instant success. The other Scandinavian countries accepted it with equal enthusiasm and preparations for its presentation in Germany were only cut short by the war. It is a four-act tragedy on the theme of a proud woman’s betrayed love. Even in the pages of the printed play, Hrafnhild, called Hadda Padda, stands out as a very vital creation. In his drawing of her character and in the working out of the last act, the young dramatist reveals his northern heritage. There is an appreciative foreword by Georg Brandes.
=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 70w
“The element of the death of Hadda Padda in this occasionally strong little drama is a weakness—not strength, not climax. It is one of the instances of avoidance, of seeking the easiest way out, both for dramatist and character. ... The play deserves success, for, in spite of common places worked out in a commonplace manner, and its artificiality, it goes far beyond the average run of plays, and it is really in a class quite outside our English works.” F. M.
+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 15 ‘17 600w
“Strikingly brilliant play.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w
=KARAPETOFF, VLADIMIR.= Engineering applications of higher mathematics. 5v ea *75c Wiley 620 (11-32468)
“‘This is not a book on calculus or analytic geometry, nor on engineering or any branch of it. It is intended to enable an engineer to make a better and more extended use of higher mathematics in his work.’ (Preface) Contents: v. 1. Problems on machine design; v. 2. Problems on hydraulics; v. 3. Problems on thermodynamics; v. 4. Problems on mechanics of materials; v. 5. Problems on electrical engineering.”—Cleveland
“The author has great skill in stating the application of basic principles and in leading students to advanced work without waste of time and energy.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:205 F ‘17
=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘17 60w
“The treatment is, on the whole, sound, though the diction is often rather loose. ... The mathematical work is not distinguished by neatness, and one finds awkward and cumbrous proofs where often quite simple methods are available. The author appears afraid of making undue demands on the knowledge of his readers, and when a real difficulty occurs contents himself with a reference to a textbook. These criticisms must not be taken to reflect on the competence of the author, whose aims, as recorded in his prefaces, are excellent.”
+ =Nature= 99:102 Ap 5 ‘17 380w
=KAWAKAMI, KIYOSHI KARL.= Japan in world politics. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.52 17-21929
Writing from Peking in 1917 the author of “American-Japanese relations” and “Asia at the door” tells us in his preface to this book that prior to 1901 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic party in Japan. His experiences in America subsequent to that date caused him regretfully to turn from the socialism and trade unionism he met here because he found them to mean a brotherhood between western nations only. “I have come to the conclusion,” he says, “that socialism cannot be achieved until the relations between the East and the West are radically changed.” That such a change may mean the averting of the world catastrophe that the future centuries will otherwise see is his reason for this attempt to “serve mankind by removing some of the misunderstandings now casting a dark shadow upon the relationship of the two nations.” Most of the chapters of this book were originally published as separate articles in the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. Among the topics discussed are: The Japanese instinct of self-preservation; America’s issues with Japan; Is America preparing against Japan?; Land hunger: the background of the immigration question; Japanese immigration to America; The Pacific coast and the Japanese; The expatriation of the Japanese; The open door in China; Japan and America in China; Japan’s blunders in China; America and Japan in Korea; Japan and the Philippines; Japanese “designs” upon Mexico; America and the Anglo-Japanese alliance; America and German-Japanese relations; America and the Russo-Japanese entente.
“The author’s sympathies are with Japan in American-Japanese questions, though his presentation of his views is reasonable and sane. He feels that the Monroe doctrine is unjust to small overcrowded nations and that unhindered immigration is necessary for a permanent peace. He attempts to justify Japan in China and Korea and to allay suspicion of German-Japanese relations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by W. W. McLaren
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:777 N ‘17 300w
=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 130w
“If he were writing from the patriotic Japanese standpoint, he would remember that Great Britain is the ally of Japan, and as such is to be treated with courtesy and respect. But all the allusions to ‘England’ throughout are as unpleasantly unfair as if they came from a ‘Zeitung,’ and are particularly regrettable at the present moment. If he were writing as a keen-witted American, he would know that the policy of the ‘open door’ enunciated by John Hay has always had British support.”
– + =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 520w
“The author declares that he was once a socialist. He abandoned socialism, however, when he began the study of the relations of Asia and Europe. This he tells us, is a chasm to be bridged before there can be any reasonable talk of socialism and internationalism. So Mr Kawakami sets about to state the problem. And he does it well.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 750w
“Not often does one find a discussion of Japanese and American relations that will compare with this little book in sanity, reasonableness, judicial temper, and ability to see the rights and wrongs of all sides of a question. As between America and Japan, he makes emphatic his conviction that the crux of the matter is the question of naturalization.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 950w
+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= John Galsworthy. (Writers of the day) il *60c (4c) Holt 823 A17-395
The author ranks Galsworthy higher as a dramatist than as a novelist. His strong points, craftsmanship and sense of form, stand out with distinctness in his plays, and his weakness in character drawing is not so evident. Types are more successful than individual characters on the stage. Furthermore Galsworthy is more successful in his plays than in his novels because most good plays are founded on a situation; most good novels on the development of a situation; “and development is not a characteristic of Galsworthy’s art.” Two chapters are devoted to the plays, two to the novels, one to the sketches, and a final chapter considers Galsworthy the artist.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17
“His admirers will like this essay and it may help those who demand that he be other than he is to understand and value one of the real artists of our time.”
+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 120w
=Nation= 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w
“A commonplace study of the cataloging type of John Galsworthy, placing emphasis upon his dramas rather than his novels, but taking one production after another in each field with impartial disregard of the demand of the ordinary reader for a measure of synthesis.”
— =Nation= 105:324 S 20 ‘17 430w
“A worthy successor to the other numbers of the series. And that is high praise. ... One is tempted to quote the book in detail, analyze its analyses. It is a pregnant and most excellent little volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 630w
“Not a brilliant or inspired but a good, discerning, level-headed and reasonably sympathetic study. ... One feels, however, that Miss Kaye-Smith over-praises Galsworthy’s power with words.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 1150w
“It goes simply and concisely through the several items of Mr Galsworthy’s work, with descriptive and clear thoughtful criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 N 16 ‘16 150w
=KEARY, CHARLES F.= Religious hours. *2s 6d Constable & co., London 821
“The title of this volume will suggest to many readers something in the vein of the ‘Christian year.’ But Mr Keary’s religion is not Keble’s. It is not orthodox, not even Christian, at all. In his prefatory note he says that the poems are chosen, out of a quantity of verse he had ready for publication, as more suited than others to ‘the gravity of the time’; and, he adds, ‘the title “religious” which I have given them is to be construed in this sense, the literary one; the sense in which Herrick often uses the word.’ ... The truth is that religion in Mr Keary’s use means not something fanciful which poets have invented, but what it actually meant for the world of Greece and Rome before the coming of Christianity.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Keary’s long and devoted service to fine letters is well summed up in this choice book, which, we hope, will not be passed by as if it were inferior hymnology.”
+ =Sat R= 123:208 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“A volume of grave pagan psalms and hymns of a true piety and a true imagination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Wayside flowers of summer. il *$1.35 Scribner 580 17-14079
“A study of the conspicuous herbaceous plants blooming upon our northern roadsides during the months of July and August.” (Subtitle) In the introduction the author adds, “The plants described in this volume are those that the wayfarer, starting out upon his summer vacation, will most likely meet if he goes on foot, or pass if he takes an auto, or see from the windows of his moving train; they are the ones that are part and parcel of summer life. ... In round numbers they vary from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty.” The botanical descriptions are based on Gray’s “Manual of botany,” seventh edition, and Britton’s “Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada.” The book is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and pictures in color.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p19 O ‘17.
“Of convenient size for the pocket, of good type for the eye, of generous illustration both in color and line drawings.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, EDITH.= Seven years at the Prussian court. il *$3 (3½c) Lane 943.08 (Eng ed 17-1178)
The author spent seven years in Germany as a companion in the household of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, sister of the German empress. Like the many others of its kind, the book is made up of personal reminiscences and bits of gossip about royal personages. Among the chapters are: My early days at Potsdam; The princess Margarethe; Incognito visits to England; Servants in German royal households; The crown prince and princess; The days before the war, etc.
“Her knowledge of the Kaiser and his family is at best but second hand information.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 14 ‘17 400w
“There is frequently a bias in her manner of writing that makes one realize how difficult it is for the author to be fair toward her country’s enemies.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 80w
“Much entertaining gossip for those interested in the love affairs and dress bills of royalty is scattered over these rambling pages, but there is singularly little that is significant of anything beyond personal concerns. ... The frequent glimpses of the Kaiser, sometimes in his moods of testiness or of ruffled vanity, are the most enlivening feature of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 270w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:271 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
+ =Outlook= 115:625 Ap 4 ‘17 140w
=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS.= Medical research and human welfare. il *$1.25 (4½c) Houghton 610.9 17-30712
This “record of personal experiences and observations during a professional life of fifty-seven years” formed the substance of the Colver lectures for 1917 at Brown university. Dr Keen is emeritus professor of surgery in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. His professional experience covers the period from the “old horribly fatal surgery of the Civil war” to the present. He has watched surgery emerge “from a septic purgatory into an aseptic paradise,” and he very briefly covers the marvelous changes that have taken place in this time. Among the subjects touched on are Bacteriology, Puerperal fever, Hydrophobia, Modern surgery, Syphilis, Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow fever, Malaria, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
“This record surpasses in interest the most thrilling detective story. ... It is the best possible answer to some of the claims of Christian science training.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 100w
“The readableness, the sagacity, and the persuasiveness of this book are to be found only by the careful perusal which it deserves.”
+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 90w
“[Written] in brilliant, scholarly, but quite untechnical style.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 240w
=KEENE, LOUIS.= “Crumps”; the plain story of a Canadian who went. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-29600
The word “crumps” is trench slang for a bursting shell—“on account of the sound they make, a sort of cru-ump! noise as they explode.” The author is a young Canadian artist who writes of the early days of the war, illustrating his account with his own drawings. He touches lightly on war horrors in his text; but some of his pictures are very grim indeed. There is a very brief foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“Of life in the trenches the writer tells his story with light and cheerful spirit and yet not without full sense of duty and responsibility.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 600w
=Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 40w
“‘Crumps’ takes the whole thing a good deal as a college boy takes a big football game; it’s all something of a lark, a glorious great game, and even the horrors are touched on with a latent feeling that they are, in their own way, humorous.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 1750w
“The chief interest, in fact, of the book is in its earlier chapters, which tell of things that other men have left largely unreported.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 690w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE, and CARNOY, ALBERT JOSEPH.= Indian [mythology]; Iranian [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) 13v v 6 il $6 (6c) Jones, Marshall 291 17-6787
The sixth volume of the Mythology of all races is made up of two books in one. The first part, Indian mythology, is by A. Berriedale Keith, regius professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Edinburgh university. The author has limited his subject by restricting the treatment as closely as possible to the mythology that is closely allied to religion in India. Part 2, Iranian mythology, is by Professor Albert J. Carnoy of the University of Louvain, now research professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He says, “The purpose of this essay is exactly set forth by its title: it is a reasonably complete account of what is mythological in Iranian traditions, but it is nothing more; since it is exclusively concerned with myths, all that is properly religious, historical, or archaeological has intentionally been omitted.” The illustrations of the volume are deserving of special mention. Among them are a number of fine color plates.
“Both accounts well fulfil their purpose as popular summaries; both will also prove valuable to specialists. The most satisfactory chapters of Keith are those on the Rig-Veda, the Brāhmanas, and the Epic. The chapter on Buddhism, the most difficult one to write, is the least satisfactory of all.” W. E. Clark
+ — =Am J Theol= 22:155 Ja ‘18 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:424 Jl ‘17
“This series promises to be one of the great monuments of the history of religions. It is impossible to enter into a discussion of each one of these volumes. It is enough to call attention to the admirable analysis of material, its readable style, the mass of notes and bibliography.”
+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 240w
“Professor Keith of Edinburgh university, the author of the volume, has already published the standard ‘Vedic index of names and subjects’ and appears as editor and translator of the Sankhayana and Aitareya and of the Taittiriya Samhita. ... This is the first time, however, that any authoritative work has been published in English on the history of Indian mythology. ... The Metropolitan museum of art allowed the color plates from the Persian manuscripts of the Shaknamah to be used for illustrations of the Iranian section.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 850w
“Dr Keith has with infinite skill cut a swathe through what seems an inextricable tangle of mythological detail. He makes clear the development of philosophical ideas and yet preserves so much of the mythological drapery in which these ideas are clothed that the book possesses the double quality of scholarliness and fascination. By recognizing the close connection between mythology and religion, he has greatly enhanced, in my opinion, the interest of his subject.” H. A. Clarke
+ =Dial= 63:158 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w
“In clear presentation of matter, and in appropriateness of illustration this volume is superexcellent. For the last, some of the choicest of manuscript and book-decorations have been employed at large cost.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=Nation= 104:658 My 31 ‘17 1200w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 640w
=KEITH, KATHERINE.= Girl. *$1.35 (3c) Holt 17-3032
Chapters from this autobiography have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It gives a series of impressionistic pictures from a girl’s life from childhood up to her eighteenth year. As a little girl she is both mischievous and imaginative. She lives partly in a dream world and invents long and involved romances, of which a handsome actor and a western ranch are features, she herself playing the part of a boy. As she begins to grow up, the narrative seems more artificial and some of the incident and the mixing of the dates of certain known events give the impression that the whole is a piece of fiction.
“It is obvious that its writer has striven hard to write something strikingly original, and that she frequently makes the sad mistake of thinking that freakishness is identical with frankness, and that self-searchings and their public confession are as interesting to the reader as to herself. ... The confessions are too artificial to carry with them the convincing power of truth.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 10 ‘17 1050w
“It is a very interesting book. People perhaps will like to discuss its social significance,—as I have done. But it is chiefly worth while as a very definite rendering of an interesting conception,—rather a rare thing in art.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“Written with a curious detachment and objectivity rare in personal revelations.”
=Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“A book of ingrowing emotion, of strained and hectic self-consciousness, of feminism in its aimless and sterile phase. It is also consciously and deliberately ‘literary.’”
— =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 250w
“The story is no more chaotic than is life itself. One of its charms is its surprises.” J: N. Beffel
+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 950w
“The story is written with delicate art, its crisp, lucid style strikingly simple and its situations vividly realized. This is especially true of those portions of the book that deal with the childhood of the girl.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:24 Ja 21 ‘17 250w
“Semi-fictionalized reminiscence. ... It consists of a loose-strung series of incidents, anecdotes and self-revealments ... many of them exquisite in themselves and in their presentation; and the lot of them cumulatively meaningful in their feminine entirety.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:208 Mr ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Life, 1917)
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Sudden Jim. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6325
James Ashe, senior, was known as “Clothespin Jimmy.” It was a matter of disappointment to him that his son, Jim, in the twenty-eight years of his life had acquired no distinctive title. A man didn’t amount to much, in his opinion, who had done nothing to merit a descriptive name. That was one of the reasons that led him to go off to California leaving his clothespin factory in Jim’s charge. If there was anything in the younger man, he wanted to see it come out. In less than a week on his new job, the son had earned his title, “Sudden Jim.” The scene of the story is a small town in Michigan and local politics play a part in the action.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“He is a type loved by the average American.”
=Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 120w
“A good book of its kind. It is amusing, brisk, swift moving, full of incident and surprise.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 320w
“Mr Kelland cleverly sketches a group of local characters, whose colloquialisms and hard commonsense are a source of delight. It is a clever, rapid and diverting American story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 330w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Turn about Eleanor. il *$1.40 Bobbs 17-23983
“Half a dozen young people, three girls and three young men, all of them great friends and all but one pledged never to marry, decide to adopt a child and bring it up on the co-operative plan. A little girl of ten, Eleanor Hamlin, an orphan from Cape Cod, is chosen as the subject of this experiment, and the first twelve chapters tell of her experiences with her six volunteer parents, each of whom lives in a different way and has different ideas from any of the rest. Eleanor spends two months with first one and then another, until she has stayed with all six; they teach her a good deal, and to them she is a liberal education.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 100w
“Will attract the favorable attention of those who want an old-fashioned story about new-fashioned people. It is old-fashioned in this day of typewriter-made fiction because it is full of common sense and good workmanship. There is more than an amusing plot, there are real ideas in it, as well as flesh and blood and brain characters.”
+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“It is a bright little story and the cooperative parents are nicely sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:402 O 14 ‘17 250w
=KELLOGG, MRS CHARLOTTE.= Women of Belgium; turning tragedy to triumph. il *$1 (3c) Funk 940.91 17-12252
An account of relief work in Belgium, with special reference to what the Belgium women have been doing for themselves and their countrymen. Mrs Kellogg went to Belgium in July, 1916, as the one woman member of the Commission for Belgian relief. Herbert Hoover, on behalf of the Commission, says “We offer her little book as our, and Mrs Kellogg’s, tribute in admiration of them [Belgian women] and the inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.” All profits from the sale of the volume go to the relief work.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“A wonderful story of courage and heroism as splendid as any of the battlefield or trench.”
+ =Cath World= 106:105 O ‘17 200w
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w
“There are many angles of vision, of course, from which one may consider the conditions in Belgium, and Mrs Kellogg has elected to put her emphasis, not upon the source of the Belgian calamity, but rather upon the spiritual reaction of the women to the set of circumstances imposed upon them.”
+ =Dial= 63:277 S 27 ‘17 540w
+ =Ind= 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 110w
“Her tale is moving to a degree. She has given to the world, in her description of the accomplishments of the 55,000 volunteer relief-workers, a remarkable picture of splendid courage and of the noble service of true human brotherhood and sisterhood.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Kellogg’s restraint gives her book convincing value as a document.” E. S. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:253 Je 30 ‘17 480w
“The simplicity with which she writes makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service, the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more grandly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 620w
=KELLOGG, LOUISE PHELPS=, ed. Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1669. (Original narratives of early American history) *$3 (2c) Scribner 973.2 17-6235
The author has brought together a group of the original narratives of the early French explorers of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi. These narratives, as she says, are “full of the charm of brave deeds, of heroic endurance, of abiding enthusiasms, and of famous achievements.” Among them are records of the adventures and explorations of Nicolet, Radisson, Allouez, Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle and Tonty, and Duluth. Three facsimiles of old maps illustrate the volume.
“All of the narratives thus brought together are elsewhere printed, but not all are readily available, nor are all English versions complete or trustworthy. The Tonty memoir, here given in full, should prove useful to students of a wider field than that to which this volume is specially devoted. For all of the journals, Miss Kellogg’s abundant annotation is helpful. The clearly-penned introduction to each narrative not merely summarizes it, but informs the student of what printing it has already had, either in French or English, and makes plain the editor’s choice of text. Not the least interesting feature of the work is a facsimile of a contemporary map drawn to illustrate Marquette’s discoveries. The volume as a whole bespeaks scholarly care.”
+ =Am Hist R= 23:179 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17 + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 630w
+ =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 380w
“Although not by any means the most important of the series, it is in many respects the most interesting. The narrations of the early Frenchmen who traversed the Old Northwest possess a charm that will always appeal to the student of history.”
* + – =Nation= 104:762 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:428 My ‘17 100w
“It is a great convenience both to the historical student and to the general reader to have these materials arranged in a single volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 110w
=St Louis= 15:155 My ‘17
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, and TAYLOR, ALONZO ENGLEBERT.= Food problem. *$1.25 (2½c) Macmillan 613.2 17-29573
The two authors are members of the United States food administration and the book has an introduction by Herbert Hoover. Part 1, devoted to The problem and the solution, has chapters on: The food situation of the western allies and the United States; Food administration; How England, France and Italy are controlling and saving food; Food control in Germany, and its lessons. Part 2, The technology of food use, has chapters on: The physiology of nutrition; The sociology of nutrition [two chapters]; Grain and alcohol. In conclusion there is a brief chapter on Patriotism and food.
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 29 ‘17 230w
“Their volume is so replete with facts and cogent, lucid reasoning that it is indispensable to all who write on this problem for newspapers and magazines. Particularly instructive, psychologically as well as economically, are the results of a study of conditions in Germany made in these pages.”
+ =Nation= 105:606 N 29 ‘17 1100w
“The present admirably clear book will make the patriotic reader rather painfully conscious of the enormous difficulties in our food situation.”
+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 450w
“The book is specially remarkable because of its comprehensiveness, the amount of space it covers in its two hundred-odd pages, and for the clarity of its discussion.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 700w
“The second section of the book gives a popular exposition of the most widely adopted modern theory of nutrition such as every speaker and writer on food conservation should carefully study to guard him from pitfalls. Altogether, this section is full of new and revised judgments even for those, not specialists, who may claim a general acquaintance with the subject. The only item in the detailed recommendations to which the reviewer finds it difficult to assent is the advice to those of means to subsist as far as possible upon the ‘rare, expensive goods, delicacies, if you please,’ in order to release more of the cheaper foods for the poorer classes and for export.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 570w
=KELLY, RUSSELL ANTHONY.= Kelly of the Foreign legion. il *$1 (4½c) Kennerley 940.91 17-28641
“The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters.” (Preface) The letters date from November 25, 1914 to June 15, 1915. After the engagement around Souchez on June 16 their writer was officially recorded as “missing.” Their helpfulness lies in their naturalness in the recording of daily happenings. The last chapter of the book gives an interesting history of the Foreign legion, dating its existence back to the fifth century under Clovis.
“One could wish nothing better for our boys ‘over there,’ and on the way, than that their records may be as honorable as that of ‘Kelly of the Foreign legion.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 230w
“The book differs from many others of its kind in an apparent absence of emotion in the performance of a hated but inevitable task.”
+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 50w
=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“That he enjoyed the experience is manifest in spite of his repeated assertions that war is asinine and his ridicule of the theory that war is grand. It is an interesting human document.”
+ =New Repub= 13:28 N 3 ‘17 140w
“Kelly makes the soldier’s life stand out vividly in these letters. The book is a good side light on the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 5 ‘17 220w
=KELSEY, CARL.=[2] Physical basis of society. *$2 (2c) Appleton 304 17-274
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two things especially are worth noting about this book. One is the great mass of data which has been assembled. ... The second important feature of the book is that it symbolizes very markedly some of the newer tendencies in the development of sociology.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:600 S ‘17 500w
“The defects, as far as there are any, are essentially those which are related to the use of the survey method. The extensive character of the facts which are given would seem to justify more personal induction than one finds in the book. A few inaccuracies occur. ... A splendid and original service has been performed by Professor Kelsey in selecting, bringing together, organizing, and presenting in one volume such a fund of concrete material upon the physical bases of social progress. Students undertaking sociological studies, and the busy reader alike, will find the book of increasing usefulness.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:270 S ‘17 310w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:289 Ap ‘17
“From the writings of the specialists on geography, natural history, biology, ethnography and criminal anthropology, he has gleaned, arranged and intelligently interpreted experiments and observations not easily accessible to the student. The style is clear and interesting, the treatment concrete and summary, the attitude objective and the spirit impartial. The author shows open-mindedness and sound judgment, and, in dealing with controverted matters, takes pains to give the evidence on both sides.” E. A. R.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:240 My ‘17 220w
“A work that widely read would do much toward bridging the gap between the older generation and the new.”
+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 370w
“Dr Kelsey gives us little more than a compilation of the best thought of authorities on the subjects he discusses. If Dr Kelsey has anything original to tell us, it is only the most assiduous reader who will be able to find it. His two most original chapters are those wherein he discusses ‘Social institutions’ and ‘The nature of progress.’” Harry Salpeter
– + =N Y Call= p14 My 13 ‘17 650w
“The book gives all appearances of having been too hastily written, and thus furnishes grounds for the criticism that the work of sociologists is superficial. This is all the more deplorable because the general plan and logic of arrangement of the book are excellent.” F. S. Chapin
– + =Science= n s 46:215 Ag 31 ‘17 510w
Reviewed by Graham Taylor
=Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 210w
=KEMMERER, EDWIN WALTER.= Modern currency reforms. diags *$2.40 Macmillan 332 16-25102
“Beginning with the Indian monetary reform of 1893 five important currency adjustments have been consummated. The other four comprise those perfected in the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Straits Settlements, and Mexico—although some may doubt the efficacy of that of the last-named country. Professor Kemmerer has assembled data of these five reforms covering the conditions which preceded them, the causes, the plan of readjustment, and the results, presenting it in a volume of unusual value and interest to students of finance.” (Boston Transcript) “Professor Kemmerer was financial adviser to the Philippine government, and during that service drafted the currency legislation for the Straits Settlements. He had especial opportunities for information regarding the establishment of a new standard of value in Porto Rico.” (N Y Times)
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“Barring the title, the book is quite satisfactory, from table of contents to index, both inclusive. ... No man, surely, is better fitted than Professor Kemmerer to write such an account. The author himself made so much of the history here chronicled that his book must have for every reader an unusual quality of finality. ... Is not adapted to use as a textbook for American college classes.” G: R. Wicker
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:356 My ‘17 220w
“Professor Kemmerer needs no introduction to students of money and credit. His contributions in this field have been numerous and of a uniformly high order. He and Professor Irving Fisher are generally recognized as the two foremost exponents in the United States of the modern form of the ‘quantity theory’ of money value.” E. E. Agger
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 390w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w
“Every day enhances the value of this work. ... It is safe to say that attempts at currency reform will play no small part in the finance of the coming years, and the laboratory experiences which Professor Kemmerer here describes will be of inestimable value to the world. To be sure, these experiences are related to fluctuating silver moneys, whereas the great problems of the future will relate to depreciated paper currencies. Yet a depreciated currency is a depreciated currency, whether it be metal or paper.”
+ =Nation= 105:92 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w
“No one wishing to be abreast in the state of the art and science can afford to be ignorant of these object lessons of how prices, taxes, wages, and contracts of indebtedness are affected by such reforms.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 180w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 100w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Rib of the man; a play of the new world in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of an afternoon in the fulness of days. il *$1.30 Harper 822 17-8757
The theme of Mr Kennedy’s play is the coming of a new day in which a new relation will be established between men and women and in which there will be no war. “If we depend upon war to end war, we are lost indeed,” says Diana Brand, “No! War will end by the advent of something mightier than itself! It is here, now! At the door!” The scene is an island in the Ægean, the time, toward the end of the European war. Scene and action are arranged to correspond somewhat with the situation in the Garden of Eden.
=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“With all these elements which would seem to remove it far from any sense of reality, the dramatist does the seemingly impossible, and gives us actual people, doing real things in a natural way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 170w
=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 110w
“Part of the dialog is witty; once or twice the plot of the play proper begins to sound very interesting. As for Diana, she is a very real and very wonderful woman, and deserves a better vehicle for her power, beauty and humor.”
– + =Ind= 92:489 D 8 ‘17 330w
“It will be caviare to the general and a stumbling block to some of his stanchest admirers. To the cynical and skeptical it will appear the work of a rhapsodical sentimentalist and visionary. Only those in sympathy with his sturdy apostolic faith will recognize the inspiring spirituality of his main themes, and even they will regret that high ideals, so eloquently and forcibly expressed, should be blurred by much that is extravagant or intemperate.” J. R. Towse
+ — =Nation= 104:608 My 17 ‘17 900w
“Had Mr Kennedy not enlisted the aid of symbolism that simplicity of his program might perhaps have been quarreled with, but he envelopes the issues in such allegorical vagueness that realistic standards are inapplicable.”
=New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 180w
“The fervor, humanitarian aspiration, glorious conception of a spirit-free world, loyalty to true art, occasionally beautiful turn of phrase and daring presentation do not rescue this play from frequent triviality and occasional overwhelming dullness. ... It will leave most readers merely indifferent.” Frank Macdonald
+ — =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 270w
“A vein of satire runs through it, for Mr Kennedy delights in satire, and the character study is delicately done. Of action the play has little; it moves in the realm of thought.”
=N Y Times= 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 650w
“His people, save for his superman and superwoman with their conception of the new world, are all more or less caricatures, illustrative of present-day types. Indeed the superman and superwoman themselves are tremendously overdrawn, as they must perhaps be in an allegorical play, yet drawn for all that with force and feeling. They express radical doctrines. They utter lines that are ultra-modern, occasionally blasphemous—a compound of Wells and Shaw—and yet it is impossible to escape the lofty thought that animated the poet-dramatist in writing. ... The situations possess true dramatic forcefulness and the lines many times rise to genuine poetry.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 680w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER.= Social teachings of the prophets and Jesus. *$1.50 Scribner 220 17-12971
“The discovery that the great prophets and founders of Judaism and Christianity were above all else social teachers and reformers is rapidly revolutionising the study of the Bible,” says the author. “The Hebrew prophets and Jesus speak to us to-day more directly and convincingly than they did even to their contemporaries, for we are far more keenly alive to the importance of the social problems which they were seeking to solve. To appreciate fully the social principles which they laid down it is necessary first to become acquainted with the personality of each of these prophets and with the immediate political and social conditions with which they were dealing. Studied in the light of their historical background, these teachings can then be readily interpreted into universal terms and used as a solvent for the social problems of today.” In this paragraph both the purpose and method of Professor Kent’s book are summed up. It is divided into four parts, treating of: The social ideals of the pre-exilic prophets; The social ideals of the exilic and post-exilic prophets and sages; The social ideals of Jesus; The social ideals of Jesus’ followers. There is a five-page bibliography.
“Dr Kent’s conception of Jesus is well known from his earlier works, and reappears here with still sharper emphasis on the ‘social service’ aspects. ... The objections to this point of view hardly need recapitulating. All this is in no way meant to say that Dr Kent has not written very much of very great value. The weakness is a weakness often to be found in writings of the ‘social service’ school—a desire to obtain results too directly, a constant implication that the biblical teachers spoke with modern problems in modern phrasing ever before their minds. Good method requires that we determine the content of such teaching in the light of its own day. The appendix contains an excellent bibliography, an elaborate list of subjects for investigation and discussion, and a brief classified index of biblical passages.” B. S. Easton
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:470 Jl ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
“The book will not solve all present-day social problems by the teachings of the Bible. It is not intended to do this. It is meant primarily to be a source book; and when used as such it will be found to be a most excellent one.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 23 ‘17 500w
“It is not so much his social principles that are objectionable, which are one sided rather than false, but his implicit rejection of supernatural religion without which those principles have little force. Traditional Christianity is the most tremendous assertion ever made by man. It is worse than futile to hold, as does this writer, that it matters little or nothing whether it is true or not. That is the one thing that really does matter.”
– + =Cath World= 106:401 D ‘17 580w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 30w
“Will be of much assistance to Christian preachers and teachers.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“This is the work of a man saturated with the broader subject which includes that of the book. Those who are wondering what to teach advanced classes in a church school will find a good course in this college textbook.” L: A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 150w
“Dr Kent, who is Woolsey professor of Biblical literature in Yale university, is well known to Bible students for his work in religious history and modern criticism. ... Dr Kent is in the main a conservative as regards social theory, but he seeks merely to arrange the social utterances and expand them as nearly as possible in accordance with their original meaning. The book is carefully compiled, and is a valuable and timely contribution to the Christian interpretation of modern social problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 210w
=KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT.= How to read. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 028 16-22768
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17
“This is a most suggestive book. It should lead many to realize the mental indigestion from which they suffer, and help them to order their reading so as to make it useful.”
+ =Ath= p248 My ‘17 30w
“Mr Kerfoot is the literary critic of Life; and he has brought into his essay that journal’s distinctive tone: the brilliant and piquant passing into the flippant, and occasionally degenerating into the slangy. But the principles for which he argues are old friends of psychology, applied to reading. ... The principles upon which Mr Kerfoot dwells are by no means new in themselves, but they may well be new to many. The author’s method is certainly novel.”
+ =Cath World= 105:121 Ap ‘17 420w
“There may have been a more fascinating exposition written in some language, at some time, on some subject, than Mr Kerfoot’s book; but one is permitted to doubt it.”
+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 430w
“It is all interesting, but we wish he had made some of his statements with more directness and fewer explanations.”
+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 150w
“It is not a humorous book, but it sparkles from the first page at frequent intervals clear to 297. Going to such a school is delightfully rewarding if one will not expect the teacher to do it all. Reaction to the Kerfoot stimulus is not difficult, but it must be seriously experienced, not too much at once, if this book is to be a veritable ‘open sesame’ to literature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 1 ‘17 350w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= In good company. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 920 17-15319
A volume of personal reminiscences of distinguished men. Five of the papers that compose the contents deal with Theodore Watts-Dunton. The other papers are: A. C. Swinburne; Lord Roberts; When Stephen Phillips read; Edward Whymper as I knew him; Oscar Wilde; S. J. Stone, the hymn-writer.
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 140w
“A miscellany of excellent personalia, somewhat inflated in manner but intimate in its revelations of the inner world of literary London.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 6 ‘17 370w
“Mr Kernahan’s book, like all good company, is stimulating and provocative. It is too often dull; it is marred by mysterious hints at things the author might tell an he would, and by a very wearisome and embarrassing—an almost servile—self-depreciation. And yet the glimpses that it affords of such ever-interesting figures as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, and the mountaineer and scientist, Edward Whymper, who are the subjects of the best of the sketches, are amazingly lifelike.”
+ — =Dial= 63:347 O 11 ‘17 490w
“The Wilde essay has some things that had better have been left unsaid.”
+ — =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 250w
“Mr Kernahan, in his pictures of his friends, reveals his own stature—a man big enough to forget his own importance in a study and appreciation of his friends and fellow craftsmen.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 280w
“This collection of ‘personal recollections’ superficially resembles but essentially differs from the abundant chirping books and articles about the celebrities of the day. It differs from them in containing a number of deliberately executed literary portraits, composed and finished with a clear consciousness that portrait painting is a fine art with a technique beyond the reaches of the cheerful chatterbox.”
+ =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 950w
“In his circle Mr Kernahan moves with appropriate kindliness and dignity and attentiveness. Of his three graces the best is undoubtedly the last. He has a fine faculty for remembering and recording what people actually said, or what sounds actual.” B. H.
+ =New Repub= 12:309 O 13 ‘17 650w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 100w
“He pays a fine tribute to Lord Roberts, in whose campaign for national service he took part. Like every one else who came into contact with that great man, Mr Kernahan was profoundly impressed with his courtesy, his patience, and his abounding energy.”
+ =Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 70w
“One of the most interesting because least familiar sketches in Mr Kernahan’s book is that of S. J. Stone, the hymn writer, author of ‘The church’s one foundation.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w
“We have enjoyed Mr Kernahan’s book so much that we find ourselves asking what the reason can be. ... He succeeds very singularly in making us feel that to all these men life was a rich and remarkable affair. ... The average person is chiefly struck by the eccentricities of the great; Mr Kernahan, on the other hand, bears witness to the fullness, sincerity, and passion with which great men live compared with lesser men.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1050w
=KERR, SOPHIE.= Blue envelope. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-5983
When she is nineteen, Leslie Brennan learns that she must earn her own living. It had been her father’s wish, her guardian informs her, that she adopt some gainful occupation and support herself for two years. The transition from a well-established social position in a small city to a business college and boarding house existence in New York is a sudden one but Leslie adapts herself to it. She finds a position with a red-haired, irascible chemist, and it is when her employer sends her to Washington with an important formula intended for the War office that exciting events begin for Leslie. It is thru them that she proves her mettle, learning at the same time how affairs stand between her and the red-haired chemist.
“Light, good for reading aloud, and has made a good ‘movie.’ Appeared in Woman’s Home Companion.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The story is told with vivacity and skill. A considerable fault is the not infrequently reviewed recital of happenings for the benefit of persons in the story not as well informed as the readers of the book.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 330w
+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
“There is a delightful vein of humor throughout the tale, and, while the pictures of difficulties encountered by working girls are vivid and serious, the story is quickly diverted to a more romantic and improbable course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 270w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KERRUISH, JESSIE DOUGLAS.= Miss Haroun Al-Raschid. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13954
“Rathia Jerningham, heroine and narrator of the tale, has led a very unusual kind of life. Her mother, Rathia Khan, of Abasside descent, having died when she was but a baby, her father married a courageous English lady who went with him on all his expeditions. It was often very dangerous, for Sir Horne Jerningham was a really great Assyriologist; as his daughter grew up, she shared his work and became herself an expert. But before this Lady Jerningham the second had also died, several years had been spent in England, and Rathia had a year in society before she returned to Asiatic Turkey, leaving her half-sister, Evelyn, and two brothers to be educated in England. The novel begins with the coming of this half-sister to Constantinople, whence she insists upon accompanying her father and Rathia to their home in Mosul. Through Kurdistan and Mesopotamia the story takes us into Armenian villages, among the Chaldean Christians, and into the hold of a Kurdish mountain chief. ... There is a love story interwoven with it all. ... The period is the early nineties, when Victoria was still on the throne of England, and the Armenian massacres were brewing.”—N Y Times
“The author apparently knows well the life of which she writes, for her novel contains an abundance of illuminating and interesting detail.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 650w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture of Mesopotamia given us by the author. The part of the book which deals with Assyriological excavations in the Land of the two rivers furnishes most timely reading, and incidentally affords much detailed information as to the conditions under which our troops are fighting in that theatre of war.”
+ — =Spec= 118:544 My 12 ‘17 80w
“An exceedingly well-told tale, full of color, excitement, and solid information. The last named is so smoothly merged with the element of fiction, however, that it never transcends the imaginative atmosphere surrounding the narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 460w
“Miss Kerruish’s story has won the first prize in her publishers’ thousand-guinea novel competition, and both the authoress and her judges are to be congratulated on a decision with which her readers will have good reason to agree.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Ap 5 ‘17 790w
=KESTER, PAUL.= His own country. *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-17972
“The plot of ‘His own country’ centres around the personality of Julius Cæsar Brent, whose blood is but one-eighth black. While still a boy he goes to Montreal, becomes in time a physician, marries twice, in each case a white woman. He has three children, a son and two daughters. In middle age the call of his native Virginia rings loud in his ears, and having acquired a competence, he purchases an old estate by correspondence and without revealing his identity as a former slave boy who once dwelt in a cabin in the very district of tidewater Virginia to which he returns. ... He is denied all social recognition. Against the appeal of his wife, he decides to remain, subjecting her and his children to a degrading humiliation even greater than his own. The months and the years pass. He becomes a national figure, lectures far and wide on the race question, heads a great movement to make the negroes a permanent political and financial power, and finally brings upon himself and two of his children the doom of death. A thousand and one details of his association with his fellow Virginians of both races add to the length and substance of the story, and numerous plots and counterplots in it increase its persistent sensationalism.”—Boston Transcript
“The book is long, rather unpleasant, and will have a limited appeal.”
— =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“The hand of the playwright betrays itself in the series of dramatic or melodramatic episodes upon which the story hinges. ... As a tract this book, prophesying as it does a great struggle to the death between the black race and the white, may do more harm than good; as a story, with all its touches of realism, it amounts to a skilful melodramatic contrivance on a great scale.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 45:647 Ag ‘17 800w
“His facts run away with him, and his imagination plays havoc with them. ... His story becomes a veritable chaos of ill-constructed incidents. It is the wildest sort of sensation. ... Its pictorial quality is unquestioned, its creation of both black and white character is remarkable in its truth to life, it contains many incidents strong in their realism, its dialogue abounds in shrewd human touches, but the story as a whole falls far short of reaching the dignity of its theme and of achieving the sincerity of the novelist’s purpose.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 800w
“As a novel, the story is interesting; as a psychological study and as a thought-provoking introduction to more serious consideration of the future of the colored race in America, it deserves attention. To offset the prolixity and occasional stiffness there is a sincere and wholesome study of conditions and atmosphere that cannot fail to impress the reader.”
+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
“We are all thinking first of the war. But we must not forget the problems of democracy facing us at home, and no one of these is more important than the problem of right and justice in our relations with the colored people. ... The story does not offer any solution for the race problem but it does present the tragic situation fairly and humanly.”
+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 280w
“Fully and strongly as the case for ‘the nigger’ is put by Brent in speech, it is all belied by Brent in action. He can go so far and no farther towards greatness, fails always to meet the supreme tests. ... This theory of his essential inferiority by reason of the ‘black drop’ in him emerges as the dubitable idea underlying this elaborate and, on the whole, melodramatic narrative.”
– + =Nation= 106:148 Ag 9 ‘17 700w
“Dr Brent is not a tragic figure, nor one that wins the reader’s sympathies. He is not even convincing. The whole story reads much as if Mr Kester meant it to be a warning of the dangers of negro progress.”
— =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 850w
“With very considerable talent, and with more than average knowledge of his subjectmatter, he has written a strange and wonderful melodrama, at times verging on power, at times so crude as to be scarcely tolerable.”
– + =No Am= 206:797 N ‘17 850w
“So far as it discusses race problems it would be a better book if the author showed evidence of the slightest knowledge about the effort made by Booker Washington, Hampton and Tuskegee, and their friends, North and South, black and white, to make a good man and a good citizen out of the negro. He seems to have the idea that the friends of the negro are chiefly occupied in advocating miscegenation and negro supremacy.”
– + =Outlook= 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 200w
“Mr Kester is neither academic nor melodramatic. The ethics of the question are presented without weakening the dramatic and emotional elements inherent in the tale. It is a very long, but at no point, tedious book. ... which makes a deep impression on the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
=KETCHAM, EDWARD AUGUSTUS.= Fire insurance. $2.50 E: A: Ketcham, Madison, Wis. 368 16-11610
“The author has been for ten years an examiner in a state insurance department and his purpose in writing this book is stated to be ‘to place in convenient form the essential elements relating to the fire insurance business ... for the student.’ The following chapters occupy 218 of the 301 pages and constitute the important part of the book: History of fire insurance (two chapters), Rating of risks, Fire insurance accounting, and Examination of a fire insurance company.”—Am Econ R
“The book is almost wholly descriptive, with much detail in parts of it. The style is good, but there is a lack of unity and logical arrangement, each chapter reading as if it had been prepared as a paper or as an address. There is little discussion of the fundamental principles underlying fire insurance or of the concrete problems which arise in the conduct of the business. ... No index is provided; and this in a book lacking unity, and almost wholly descriptive in character, becomes a more than ordinarily serious defect.” W: F. Gephart
=Am Econ R= 6:934 D ‘16 800w
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 10w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.= Poems and parodies. *$1 Stokes 821 (Eng ed 17-17077)
The author, late professor of Irish economics in the National university of Ireland, was killed in France in 1916. This little book of his poems has an appreciative foreword by William Dawson. The poems themselves are grouped as: Personal; Early poems; Translations; Miscellaneous; Political; War poems.
“They are the reflection of a mind quick and free, rich in subtle ironies and tendernesses, but most frequently—since it was the mind of an Irish patriot—full of a brilliant indignation.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:393 D ‘17 340w
“Those who are interested in following the careers of the men who have made the big concern of their lives the political emancipation of Ireland will no doubt be interested in this volume, but it has no particular claim to one’s attention as straight poetry or parody though it is all quite clever.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 290w
“The charm and the finest quality of Kettle’s poems come out in the dreaming. He fought the Germans for a dream, as he had fought England for a dream; and however uncomfortable it may be for the politicians and rulers of the Empire when this power is expended upon politics, this heroic dreaming is the source of all good Irish literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.=[2] Ways of war; with a memoir by his wife, Mary S. Kettle. *$2.75 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28917)
“Barrister-at-law, poet, literary stylist, patriotic Irishman, eloquent speaker, member of Parliament, journalist, professor of economics, and finally a soldier, giving up his life at Ginchy on Sept. 9, 1916, ‘at the post of honour, leading his men in a victorious charge,’ Kettle was a man of the loftiest ideals. ... The memoir by his wife is followed by a sequence of chapters which constitute the apologia of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer up his life in the war for the freedom of the world. The first section of the book, ‘Why Ireland fought,’ includes chapters upon ‘The bullying of Serbia’ and ‘The crime against Belgium.’ In the early days of the war Kettle was in Brussels, and had opportunities of visiting Termonde, Malines, and other places. A striking chapter of the book deals with the soldier-priests of France.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p507 O ‘17 970w
+ =Ath= p525 O ‘17 200w
“The book will help to fill a small and solitary shelf in the big library this world-conflict is creating; for it is rich in two of literature’s prime essentials, a lucid and beautiful style, and a fervor in expression that is well-nigh that of the mystic who is a zealot.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 590w
“The volume is composed of various papers, all bearing the marks of a rare style and scholarship. There are pungent and vivid pages on the scenes he witnessed in Belgium, and on various phases of life at the front, a scathing study of Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Treitschke in ‘The gospel of the devil,’ while the ‘Rhapsody on rats’ is typical of Kettle’s racy wit.”
+ =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 470w
=New Repub= 13:256 D 29 ‘17 1850w
=N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 900w
“Read this book that you may receive comfort and confidence from the unquenchable spirit of the new France. Read the memoir, written simply and movingly by Kettle’s widow, that you may come to love the man for what he was and the country which begat him.”
+ =Spec= 119:297 S 22 ‘17 1300w
“The book contains some brilliant little sketches of life at the front.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 860w
=KILMER, JOYCE.=, ed. Literature in the making. *$1.40 (3c) Harper 810.4 17-13416
Mr Kilmer reports interviews with a number of contemporary men and women of letters. He says in explanation of his purpose: “How eagerly would we read an interview with Francis Bacon on the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, or an interview with Oliver Goldsmith in which he gave his real opinion of Dr Johnson, Garrick, and Boswell! A century or so from now, some of the writers who in this book talk to the world may be the objects of curiosity as great.” Among the subjects discussed with various authors are: War stops literature—William Dean Howells; The joys of the poor—Kathleen Norris; National prosperity and art—Booth Tarkington; Romanticism and American humor—Montague Glass; Commercializing the sex instinct—Robert Herrick; Literature in the colleges—John Erskine; The new spirit in poetry—Amy Lowell. The interviews were written up first for the New York Times.
=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17
“Much sense and much nonsense will be found, as might be expected, in these interviews.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 480w
“A book of fascinating quality and wide appeal.”
+ =Cath World= 105:681 Ag ‘17 280w
“The titles of the interviews really promise more than the interviewer accomplished but some interesting things are said with point and humor.”
+ — =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 100w
Reviewed by G: B. Donlin
— =Dial= 62:519 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 180w
=Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 300w
“A genial, human, gratifying, and readable book. ... A brief biographical paragraph in the table of contents after each author’s name gives an outline of his life and work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 500w
=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 110w
“The interviews by Joyce Kilmer which have appeared in the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times may be said to have outlived their usefulness. The papers in collected form are a veritable hodge-podge. ... It must not be inferred that Mr Kilmer ‘writes down,’ that he is inept, or that he distorts; he is too good a newspaper man and too honest a writer for that. The papers were not intended to have permanent form, and that is why they appear to such disadvantage in it.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 280w
=KILMER, JOYCE.= Main street, and other poems. *$1 Doran 811 17-28181
Mr Kilmer is now an officer in America’s new army, and six of the twenty-eight poems in this volume are about the war. “The white ships and the red” deals with the Lusitania, while “The cathedral of Rheims” is from the French of Émile Verhaeren. Nearly half of the remaining poems deal with religious subjects.
“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he might sag.” C. D. M.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1000w
“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’ It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little, infinite thing, the human heart.’”
+ =Cath World= 106:405 D ‘17 670w
“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 110w
“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young, an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly accepted.” Conrad Aiken
— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious fervor, in his new volume of verse.”
+ =Lit D= 55:38 N 24 ‘17 1350w
“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain friendly, human feeling.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 360w
=KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.=[2] Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il *$1 Appleton 355 17-31017
This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers, attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training. Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company, Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.” Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in an appendix. The book is indexed.
“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
=KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL).= Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il *$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244
The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C. Gorgas.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17
“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not include.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 190w
+ =Nation= 105:539 N 15 ‘17 1400w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
=KING, BASIL.= High heart. il *$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285
“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born, who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter, who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into the latter part of the story.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great European conflict.”
+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 130w
=Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”
— — + =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:750 N ‘17 40w
=Spec= 119:682 D 8 ‘17 20w
“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or two minor persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or ‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral principles are one and the same.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 900w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 140w
=KING, BASIL.= Lifted veil. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203
The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled. She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.
“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 450w
“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and arriving nowhere in particular.”
— =Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 350w
“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything else: a means of escape, not of access.”
— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 180w
“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come from his pen.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 570w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 400w
=KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL.= Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il *$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108
The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this “book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of disinfectants.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every public library in the land.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 190w
“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile, chiefly drawn from army life.”
+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 250w
+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 250w
“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view, however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs
+ =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 250w
=KING, HENRY CHURCHILL.= Fundamental questions. *$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741
The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of Christianity as a world religion.
“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is superb.”
+ =Bib World= 50:255 O ‘17 270w
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:678 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p7 Jl ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and the greatness of its problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=KINGMAN, HENRY.=[2] Faith of a middle-aged man. *$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597
“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares, that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon “The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending fellowship.
“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 120w
“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been attained by stern heroism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 490w
=KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON.= All aboard for Wonderland. il *$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718
A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another. Tired and happy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ — =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w
“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the several illustrations in color add to its charm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w
=KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY).= Neighbors *$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704
The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes” and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a new baby.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 260w
“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 300w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Clothing and health. (Home-making ser.) il *65c Macmillan 646 16-18558
“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and textiles.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17
“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300 pages, as excellent as its mate.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the home.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 40w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il *80c Macmillan 640 17-3475
“This is an elementary text book of home making, to be used as a supplementary reader, and source book. It describes the decoration and furnishing of a cottage at Pleasant Valley in a way that develops a strong desire to go and do likewise.”—School Arts Magazine
“Has a chapter with simple directions on how to care for ‘the most important member of the family,’ the baby, and one on right living and how to keep well. Good print and illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Nature= 100:3 S 6 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17
“Four color plates and 185 other illustrations add to the attractiveness and to the value of this sensible volume.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Diversity of creatures. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11707
A collection of stories and poems. A number of the stories have appeared in American magazines: “In the same boat,” in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1911; “In the presence,” in Everybody’s, March, 1912; “The vortex,” in Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1914; “Swept and garnished,” in the Century Magazine, January, 1915; and “Mary Postgate,” in the Century Magazine, September, 1915. There are fourteen stories and about an equal number of poems.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
“He has never shown himself a greater master of the art of story-telling, never combined creative imagination with more triumphant realism, or handled his own English prose with more ease, economy, and certainty of effect. The first of the fourteen, ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ is perhaps the finest short story of the future ever written.”
+ =Ath= p240 My ‘17 850w
+ =Ath= p254 My ‘17 180w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:537 Jl ‘17 330w
“Two of them, ‘Swept and garnished’ and ‘Mary Postgate,’ are products of the war, and that they reveal him at his best is evidence of his command of the vital facts of life. Both are grim.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 1600w
“In these stories Kipling presents the lamentable spectacle of the writer who has written himself out. From ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ a wearisome, drawn-out, scientific tale in the early H. G. Wells manner, To ‘Mary Postgate,’ an account of the war’s reactive effect on two lonely women, he gives on the whole only meagre evidence of that power which in the eighteen-nineties made his name famous over the globe. The fourteen tales vary in merit, but by a curious grouping the poorest and dullest rank first, the last five stories are the best of the collection. There are two stories of practical jokes on a large scale—‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines.’ The last is the better, and has more than a little of the old rollicking humor of ‘Soldiers three.’ ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ is interesting in conception, but is drawn out to such impossible conclusions and to such an unconscionable length as to destroy its effect.”
– + =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 280w
“The best stories in this volume are Kipling all over. ... His old vigor of phrase is undiminished, both the vigor which is beauty and the vigor which is brutality.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:441 My 17 ‘17 950w
“Three stories stand out from the book sufficiently to assure them a place in the anthologies of the future, ‘As easy as A B C,’ ‘In the same boat,’ and ‘The village that voted the earth was flat.’”
+ =Ind= 90:350 My 19 ‘17 550w
+ — =Lit D= 54:1858 Je 16 ‘17 160w
=Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 550w
+ — =New Repub= 11:112 My 26 ‘17 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 22:177 My 6 ‘17 1100w
Reviewed by Fremont Rider
+ — =Pub W= 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Only two of the stories actually deal with the war, and in them the author is at his best. They have restraint and dignity. There are no tricks or fireworks, but they are written with immense power and sincerity. In striking contrast to these are the two ‘comic’ stories, ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines,’ which are as bad as anything that Mr Kipling has done in the way of whipped-up humour.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
+ =Spec= 118:461 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
“‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘In the presence’ not only transcend the others in merit, but are also most characteristically Kiplingesque.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 770w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Ap 19 ‘17 750w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Sea warfare. *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 940.91 17-7953
“The fringes of the fleet,” printed earlier in a separate volume, is included here as the first of three parts. Parts 2 and 3 are Tales of “The trade” and Destroyers at Jutland. By “The trade” is meant the submarine service. A number of poems are included.
=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“This collection of Mr Kipling’s recent articles exhibits his genius for vivid description of the almost indescribable, and his power of giving life to brute engines and physical energies, at its highest.”
+ =Ath= p601 D ‘16 50w
“Only one American writer has so far laid his finger on the secret by which Kipling may be understood. In a recent article Mr Will Irwin discussed the cleavage in the British race between Norman blood and Saxon—a cleavage that very few understand but that is very illuminating. Rudyard Kipling is clear Saxon. He sees and writes from the Saxon point of view. His Norman-blooded officers are seen from beneath. ... In his most recent book he has given us again the purely Saxon viewpoint, writing as a brother when he writes of Grimsby fishermen. On the other hand, his officers (and the navy with its rigorous caste rule is practically all Norman on the upper deck) are admirable at a little distance.”
+ =Dial= 62:358 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
+ — =Ind= 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 10w
“The ‘Destroyers at Jutland’ chapter furnishes the real interest of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 420w
“Have an atmosphere and flavor of their own; they sometimes seem tenuous and even confused, but their effect is cumulative, the significant though often slight incidents related remain in the memory, and we conclude, with the author, that ‘the navy is very old and very wise.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
=KIRK, MRS ALICE GITCHELL.= Practical food economy. il *$1.25 Little 641 17-24175
Mrs Kirk offers this book as the direct result of eleven years lecturing on home economics and the teaching of all grades from kindergarten through the academic departments in cooking. Contents: Preparedness in the home; Meats; Bread; Milk; Conservation of fruits and vegetables; Use of fruits in season; Service first. Nutrition tables, Children’s menus, School lunches for children, A week-end vacation for mother, are some of the features of a book designed to put in operation Mr Hoover’s direction to “Eat plenty, wisely, and without waste.”
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“To the average housewife a definition of and a technical treatise on the familiar word ‘calorie,’ is not particularly illuminating. In this book Mrs Kirk has incorporated a generous list of examples representing approximately 100 calories and Professor Atwater’s nutrition table which shows the waste and fuel matter (measured in calories) of every food variety.”
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 120w
“Mrs Kirk’s technical knowledge is sufficient to enable her to find untechnical expression for it, and she robs calories of half their horror in her careful, practical explanations.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 200w
“Special attention is given to the elimination of waste in buying, preparation and cooking. Ways for co-operating with the Food administration are suggested. A special section deals with ‘understanding the gas range.’ An entire chapter is devoted to bread. Decidedly this is the book for all those wishing to become partners with Mr Hoover.” Cyra Thomas
+ =Pub W= 92:816 S 15 ‘17 420w
=R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 30w
“Another valuable point in this book is the amount of space devoted to the proper foods for children.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 100w
=KIRKPATRICK, MARION GREENLEAF.= Rural school from within. il *$1.28 (2c) Lippincott 379 17-19387
This book is largely autobiographical. The author tells the story of his teaching experience in a rural school in Kansas some twenty-five years ago. It is a very human story in which the characters of the young teacher, his pupils and the men and women of the community are revealed. With the ripe wisdom that has come from years spent with boys and girls, the author discusses some of the problems of education and discipline represented in that early experience. He is now specialist in education, division of college extension, Kansas State agricultural college.
“Those who have neither attended nor taught a rural school may get much local color and good advice, if they desire them, from this didactic but interesting narrative. The data on consolidation of country schools may appeal to more specialized readers. The proposed rural-school curriculum falls far short of the changes which present conditions demand.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:554 Ja ‘18 100w
“Shows a sympathetic insight into the rural school problem and should be a source of inspiration to those interested in rural education.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
“A constructive book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 150w
“The freshness of his approach to a discussion of these problems and of means of making progress towards their solution is the delightful quality of a loosely written book; a book humanly rather than intellectually original. ... His heart is plainly in what he writes, and his sympathy and first-hand experience are refreshing after books which make rural education a dehumanized affair of sociology and public administration. But to appreciate the homeliness of his book is not to forgive its poor organization and padded style.”
+ — =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“From the first paragraph to the last it is constructive.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 110w
“The spirit and tone of the book is sane and helpful and will help to inspire those who sincerely desire to render service to country people.” G: L. Roberts
+ =School R= 25:529 S ‘17 180w
=KITTREDGE, MABEL HYDE.= Home and its management. il *$1.50 (1½c) Century 640 17-13801
“A handbook in homemaking with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts.” (Sub-title) Among the chapter titles are: The house itself; Kitchen; Dining-room; Living-room; Bedrooms; Plumbing; Useful facts for the homemaker; Laundry work; Marketing; Division of income; Foods and their value. The author is president of the Association of practical housekeeping centers in New York city and chairman of the New York school lunch committee. She has written several other books on housekeeping subjects.
“An amplification of the material contained in two previous books. ‘Practical home making’ and ‘Second course in home making.’ While addressed to school girls, the suggestions are helpful and practical for all inexperienced housekeepers.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“An authoritative volume.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 190w
“Miss Kittredge’s book begins at the beginning; it takes for granted exactly nothing at all. The youngest and most ignorant housekeeper will learn the fundamentals here. In its compass of less than 400 pages, it is a remarkably inclusive book. It will be of particular value to the young homemaker in a city apartment. It will be welcomed, too, by the woman of limited means.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:284 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“There are a great many suggestions about living conditions, such as a discussion of the treatment of servants, which hardly belong in a textbook for use in settlement or home-training classes. It seems almost a self-evident fact that the greatest need of the housekeeper at the present time is the ability to evaluate her time and to learn thereby how to maintain an efficient home with the least expenditure of effort. There is no attempt in Miss Kittredge’s book to even suggest this problem, and many of the methods of work that are given are unnecessarily time-consuming.” A. R. Hanna
– + =School R= 25:613 O ‘17 430w
“Even the most experienced housekeeper will be likely to find something new in this volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 150w
=KLEENE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.= Profit and wages. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331 17-100
A study in the distribution of income. Income is differentiated from general wealth as “wealth just produced or come into existence.” The author examines the various economic theories that have been put forth and then arrives at his own conclusions, which go back to doctrines of the classical school. Contents: Introduction; Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest; The time-preference theory; The abstinence theory; The productivity theory of interest; The essentials of a theory of profit and interest; The theory of wages—The supply of labor; The theory of wages—The demand for labor; Conclusion.
“A clear, well reasoned attempt to state and solve the problem of distribution in economics. Scholarly and highly theoretical, it complements, but does not replace, other works in this field.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:290 Ap ‘17
“The book is excellent in style and tone, and a perusal of its contents will be particularly useful to economists who have followed the subjective theorists into the wilderness of psychological determinations.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:365 My ‘17 150w
“Professor Kleene’s volume must be classified as a contribution to economic criticism. ... On its constructive side the book is fragmentary and lacks coherence. It doubtless will prove useful both to those who are insisting upon a return of theory to the problems and methods of classicism and to those who are demanding a newer institutional economics. If the book is far weaker as a constructive study than as a critical attack, the result is not evidence of personal weakness on the part of the author. Rather it affords testimony to the existing state of economic theory. In view of their problems it is unfortunate that both volumes reveal a lack of familiarity with the writings of the school of English economists who recently have been giving their attention to the subject of welfare, and who of all current theorists seem to be most fully conscious of what they are doing.” W. H. Hamilton
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 220w
“This is a theoretical analysis of the distribution of income, which the trained student may find very instructive, but which will never be read by the ordinary man of affairs.”
=Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 90w
=N Y Times= 22:120 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 40w
“The whole analysis is careful and well reasoned. It will interest everyone who is thinking in the field of economics.” H. F. G.
+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=KLEIN, ARTHUR JAY.= Intolerance in the reign of Elizabeth, queen of England. *$2 Houghton 274.2 17-4838
“This careful study (by the professor of history in Wheaton college, Norton, Massachusetts) of the religious and political animosities rife in the Elizabethan era shows, as the author remarks, that the great queen’s reign is ‘not altogether an encouraging field to the idealist seeking in the past for the first rays of the light of tolerance.’ Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians contended, and intrigued against each other, with bitterness and persistence.” (Ath) “Mr Klein ... makes clear his belief that the comparative tolerance of the Anglican church was none of its choosing, but was imposed upon it for political reasons by the queen.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If Professor Klein had called his book a brief sketch of ecclesiastical controversies during the reign of Elizabeth and had made no pretensions beyond a careful restatement of the conclusions already reached by competent scholars, the book could have been commended as vital, interesting, and for the most part accurate. But as a history of intolerance during the reign of Elizabeth—it must be said in all kindliness—the book possesses the remarkable deficiency of saying very little about it. ... The long bibliography and the acknowledgments in the preface raise expectations of a more extended study of manuscript and printed sources than the text substantiates, for the great majority of its details are supported abundantly by standard secondary authorities and the foot-notes are devoted mainly to Strype, the Parker society’s publications, and the State Papers, Domestic.” R. G. Usher
=Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 580w
+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 150w
“The bibliography is not critical, and evidences the author’s anti-Catholic prejudice. He warns his readers against accepting the statements of Catholic writers, but says nothing against unfair books like Bury’s ‘A history of freedom of thought.’ Again he is not aware of the utter unreliability of Sarpi’s history of Trent, nor does he apparently know that a new critical history of the Council is in course of publication.”
— =Cath World= 105:546 Jl ‘17 670w
+ — =Dial= 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
“The truth is that the intolerance of churches is an antiquated issue; it is the intolerance of states with which we fight to-day. ... To the question ‘When does persecution cease to be persecution?’ Mr Klein seems to provide the facile answer ‘When it is done by the state.’ ... The bibliography is portentous and indiscriminate, amounting to nearly a fifth of the text.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 1400w
=KLEIN, FÉLIX.= Hope in suffering; memories and reflections of a French army chaplain; tr. from the French ‘Les douleurs qui espèrent,’ by Gemma Bailey; with an introd. by Canon H. Scott Holland. *4s 6d Melrose, London 242
“It was the Abbé Klein, of the American hospital, Neuilly, Paris, who gave us the sad and moving little book ‘La guerre vue d’une ambulance’—translated under the title ‘Diary of a French army chaplain.’ The present little book has the same poignant note of single-mindedness; and it is not confined to ‘memories’ for about a third of it contains ‘Reflections’—on the problem of Evil, Grief, Atonement, ‘Lux in tenebris,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p474 O ‘16 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Fifteen thousand useful phrases. *$1.60 Funk 808 17-30916
That this is a work for study rather than for reference is made clear in the author’s preface on How to use this book, in which he says, “The method used for building a large vocabulary has usually been confined to the study of single words. This has produced good results, but it is believed that eminently better results can be obtained from a careful study of words and expressions, as furnished in this book, where words can be examined in their context.” The phrases for study are arranged in eleven groups: Useful phrases; Significant phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases. There is an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly.
“A book of practical usefulness for the student, the writer and the public speaker.”
+ =Cath World= 106:414 D ‘17 50w
“Has great helpfulness for whoever is willing to use it according to Mr Kleiser’s plan.”
+ =Lit D= 56:46 F 9 ‘18 90w
=N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 70w
“While some of these selections seem ‘thwarted by fortune,’ one’s criticism must be ‘tempered by charity,’ and there is no doubt that a systematic study of these pages would greatly improve a deficient vocabulary.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.=[2] How to build mental power. il *$3 Funk 374 17-27883
A practical, constructive aid to mind-development. Each chapter constitutes a lesson. In order, one is taught how to develop concentration, a stock of ideas, orderliness of mind, power and use of words, clear thinking, intellectual force, habit of analysis, sound opinions, the use of the will, imagination and feeling, a retentive memory, conscience, power of intuition, breadth of mind and spirituality. The whole subject of mental culture is presented in a clear, simple manner that can be readily followed by an intelligent student at odd moments.
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Talks on talking. *75c Funk 808.5 16-19827
“Both private and public speech are covered by these ‘Talks’ of Mr Kleiser. ... They refer to Talkers and talking, give Phrases for talkers, consider Talking in salesmanship, How to tell a story, How to speak in public, The dramatic element, Care of the throat, etc. It is worth while for every one to realize the value of an attractive voice, to avoid mannerisms, and to be natural, spontaneous, charming, to the largest possible degree. Mr Kleiser’s pages will help.”—Lit D
“Suggestive but not exhaustive.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:161 Ja ‘17
=Cleveland= p145 D ‘16 30w
“A new book on an old art, which can be taken in hand and read through in an hour or so, while the suggestions, if well remembered, may last a lifetime.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:171 N ‘16
+ =R of Rs= 54:685 D ‘16 50w
“The author was formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school.”
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 12w
=Spec= 118:340 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH)=, ed. Beautiful crochet on household linen. (Home art ser.) il *75c Stokes 746 17-26258
A companion volume to a work on knitting, showing how table cloths, curtain tops, towel ends, sideboard cloths, tea cosies, dressing table runners, and other items may be finished with crochet. The author says that special features of the book are suggestions for finishing cloths with a straight edge, and designs showing natural flowers in filet crochet.
=A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 10w
“Some of the patterns are effective, but we wish that the designers could find inspiration in conventional renaissance work, instead of trying to adapt the forms of natural flowers to such an unsuitable medium as flat crochet.”
+ =Spec= 116:635 My 20 ‘16 150w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSONSMITH).= Flower-patch among the hills. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 828 17-26323
Flora Klickmann is editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, an English publication, and author of a number of books on domestic art. In this volume she writes of a summer spent in an old English cottage in the hills overlooking the Wye. The book recalls “The garden of a commuter’s wife” and others of the kind in which amusing personal experiences, out-of-door descriptions and neighborly gossip are mingled.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
“She has much that is quaint and amusing and picturesque to place before the reader of her narrative.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 7 ‘17 140w
“Will appeal to those in whom the love of gardens is an instinct. ... She writes best of what she loves best, and flowers rather than humanity are her happiest inspiration.”
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ =Spec= 116:726 Je 10 ‘16 60w
=KLINE, BURTON.= End of the flight. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-11708
Mrs Branstane, as unpleasant a woman as one could find in fiction or out of it, is named by her creator “one of the causeless catastrophes.” The scene of the story is Rossacre, typical of the smaller American cities. Rossacre boasts its social set and its social season. Of the former the Gaylands are the leaders, and it is in the Gayland home that Mrs Branstane occupies the modest position of housekeeper. But there is something sinister in her presence in the house and in her hold over Judge Gayland. He is the first of her victims. Others follow till she meets her match in Andrew Penning. Penning, who in time becomes judge in Gayland’s place, is in love with Annabel, Gayland’s daughter, and it is in her jealousy of the girl that Mrs Branstane oversteps herself and accomplishes her own ruin.
“Primarily a novel of character, of clashing temperaments and wills. Yet its best achievement and the highest promise it contains of the author’s future as a novelist—next, perhaps, to his unmistakable felicity of word and phrase—is his willingness to array his story in a healthy provincialism of scene and feeling, and his considerable ability to make his reader see that scene and share that feeling. In clarity of delineation of character and in sustained and unified effectiveness of its story of character clashing with character, this novel may leave something to be desired.” F. I.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 1250w
“The characters do not live, and the temptation to much skipping is irresistible. The book is better written than many which take a more compelling grasp of their readers.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 160w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
=KNIGHT, AUSTIN MELVIN.= Modern seamanship. 7th ed rev and enl il *$6.50 (2½c) Van Nostrand 656 17-11225
This work by Rear-Admiral Knight, first published in 1901, now appears in a seventh edition. A note says, “The present edition is designed to bring the work up to date as completely as possible. To this end, a large amount of new material has been added, much that was obsolete has been cut out, and about one-third of the remainder has been extensively revised or entirely rewritten.” The new edition is illustrated with 159 plates.
+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Lost little lady. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25247
The scene of this story for young people is laid in New York at the time of the draft riots In 1863. Nora O’Neil rescues a strange little girl, somewhat younger than herself, from the mob. Nora is warm hearted and impetuous, and the great wealth which has come to her father and herself quite suddenly has not spoiled her. The opportunity to mother this little stranger is a golden one to lonely Nora and she hopes fervently that the child’s people will never be found. Her wish seems in a fair way to be gratified, for Bébée refuses to disclose anything about herself. The two girls become devotedly fond of one another, and, happily, the final solution of the mystery surrounding Bébée does not separate them.
“An entertaining tale.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17
“Dr and Mrs Knipe have a literary style which places their books far above the range of average juvenile literature.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
“There is plenty of both plot and incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Maid of old Manhattan. il *$1.25 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24856
A story of New Amsterdam under the rule of Peter Stuyvesant. Annetje, the maid of old Manhattan, had spent her early childhood with the Indians. She knows that they had loved and treasured her highly, for even after they have sent her to live with the white people, their protective watch over her continues. Of her parentage she knows nothing, but she has sometimes been made to feel that she is not Dutch like her companions. Twice it is given Annetje to warn the governor of impending danger. The first time, when an Indian attack threatens, she intercedes with her red friends and the town is saved. The second time her warning is not heeded. The English ships come and New Amsterdam becomes New York. But the ships bring to Annetje the secret of her birth, and Peter Stuyvesant, no longer the governor, sanctions his son Balthazar’s choice of a wife.
=A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 30w
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 80w
“This is a novel whose simplicity and direct methods are its greatest charm. There is enough excitement to hold the reader’s attention, and enough of historical setting to give the simple story dignity. It is a wholesome and pleasing story.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 60w
“I think children from ten on will like it better than I do, because I tried it on them, and they voted it ‘great.’ And they will get a glimpse of old Manhattan at the time the British took it over, learn what they ate and what they wore, and some Dutch words, interesting because quite mysterious.” Maud Thompson
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 270w
“A story with history, action, and interesting characters, well adapted as a gift for girls.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 15w
=KOBBÉ, GUSTAV.= All-of-a-sudden Carmen. il *$1.35 (3½c) Putnam 17-13315
The Metropolitan opera house is the scene of this story, and a little waif, left at the stage door, is the heroine. It is Yudels, the doorkeeper who, having picked her up, becomes her official father; but all of the company, from the prima donna down, help to mother her. She grows up amid the stage scenery. Stage properties are her playthings and she picks up the music of the operas as readily as she does the four languages spoken by the singers. Her favorite is always Carmen, the opera that was sung on the night of her arrival, and it is in Carmen that she makes her own first appearance on the stage.
“It is a pretty little story, light and improbable, but interesting.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:35 Ag 18 ‘17 140w
“The very slight plot is merely a thread on which to hang a detailed description of the world behind the scenes at the Metropolitan opera house, and of much of the mechanical ingenuity which goes to the production of grand opera. Singers whom all New York once flocked to hear are easily recognizable through the very thin disguises with which the author has cloaked them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w
“Famous opera stars of a generation ago cross the background of ‘All-of-a-sudden Carmen.’ ... It is a light story with a pleasant strain of sentimentality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 210w
=KOBER, GEORGE MARTIN, and HANSON, WILLIAM CLINTON=, eds. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene. il *$8 Blakiston 613.6 16-16701
“A collection of studies each by an expert in the particular subject. ... The essays are in three main groups. Part one discusses specific and systemic diseases of occupation; part two discusses first the cause and means of preventing occupational diseases, then the various occupations in which exposure to injurious conditions is involved. In part three there is a description of the unique Milan clinic for occupational diseases; then a discussion of statistics, their uses and their fallacies; and last, chapters that contain the latest study of legislation for the prevention of occupational disease; on the ‘rationale’ of making such diseases notifiable and including them in the records of vital statistics; on women’s and children’s work; and on administrative power and methods.”—Survey
=American Industries= p43 Mr ‘17
“Although the respective articles have been written by a large number of men, it is exceedingly gratifying to note the general tone of conservatism displayed throughout, especially in the medical discussions.” P. N: Leech
+ =Am J Soc= 23:265 S ‘17 400w
“It is a storehouse of knowledge and will be immensely useful to the teacher of economics and sociology, to the business man, and to insurance officials, as well as to those in charge of public health work or the care of the sick. It deserves a place in every college or public library.” Carl Kelsey
+ + =Ann Am Acad= 70:331 Mr ‘17 250w
+ + =Dial= 62:151 P 22 ‘17 450w
“Intelligent citizens who may wish to obtain light upon the subject will find in this book a great abundance of information.”
+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16
“With editors and contributors of such caliber, the treatise produced is necessarily almost complete and authoritative. ... I believe one of the most important articles in the book is that written by Frederick S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university. It is entitled ‘Fatigue and occupation,’ and in a scientific and dispassionate way endeavors to prove the close relationship of fatigue to occupation ... and specifically of the effect of the length of the working day upon the health of the workers.” G: M. Price, M.D.
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 26 ‘16 800w
“The book is a valuable asset to industrial medical literature. The eminence of its collaborators ... is an indication of its authoritativeness and its classic character. Its range of subjects and the exhaustive references to the original sources at the end of each chapter make it invaluable as a reference work. While not the first American treatise upon the subject, it is the most comprehensive.” T. G. Miller
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Ja ‘17 200w (Reprinted from Journal of the Franklin Institute D ‘16)
“A valuable asset to industrial medical literature. ... While not the first American treatise upon the subject it is the most comprehensive.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:42 Ja ‘17 50w (Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1916)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:339 Ap ‘17 100w
“The numerous bibliographies are valuable”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17 60w
“Dr T. M. Legge’s section on arsenic poisoning is the best brief treatment of this subject known to the reviewer. ... The most serious problems of industrial life are accidents and tuberculosis, the industrial poisonings (except plumbism) being by comparison relatively unimportant. Accidents presumably fall outside the scope of this work but certainly industrial tuberculosis does not; yet dust removal and factory ventilation are scantily treated, while pages are devoted to rare intoxications, of interest only as medical curiosities. ... ‘Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene’ contains much material which will make it a valuable reference book for the specialist, but it is not likely to supplant either of the two earlier works [W. Gilman Thompson, ‘Occupational diseases,’ G. M. Price, ‘Modern factory’] each of which so well fills its special field.” C. E. A. Winslow
* + =Science= n s 45:260 Mr 16 ‘17 650w
“Basic data are presented with a simplicity, clearness, fulness and interest that at first conceal the magnitude of the completed task. The editors have appreciated the value of mechanical aids, such as heavy-faced type for headings, numbered divisions, paragraphs of moderate length and a good index.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 37:467 Ja 20 ‘17 450w
=KOCH, THEODORE WESLEY.= Book of Carnegie libraries. il *$3.50 (4c) Wilson, H. W. 022 17-27889
In 1907 Mr Koch, of the Library of Congress, issued a portfolio of pictures and plans of typical or notable Carnegie library buildings. This collection of plates is now reissued, together with an explanatory text, which the original work lacked. The book has an introduction by R. R. Bowker of the Publishers’ Weekly. In addition, there is a character sketch of Andrew Carnegie by Hamilton W. Mabie, reprinted from the Century, and a paper on Carnegie libraries and good reading, by Arthur E. Bostwick, of the St Louis public library. Mr Koch’s text consists of chapters on: Method of giving; Documents relating to the establishment of the New York city branches; The architecture of the Manhattan branches; Reaching the people; The Brooklyn branches; Eastern libraries; The public library of the District of Columbia; The South; Pittsburg; Ohio and Michigan; Wisconsin and the Middle West; Iowa and the farther West; The southwest and the Rocky mountain region; California; Library planning. Index to text, Index to plates, and List of plates follow.
=A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18
=N Y Times= 23:32 Ja 27 ‘18 50w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin-America. il *$4 (2½c) Century 980 17-14549
Mr Koebel, who has acted as special commissioner for South America for the London Sphere and Standard and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopedia of South America,” has written a number of books on the various South American states. “His ‘British exploits in South America’ covers a period of more than three hundred years. It opens with a picturesque account of the old English navigators and buccaneers who sailed the Spanish Main, and goes on to describe successively the work of the English and Irish Jesuits in the Spanish colonies, the British voyages of exploration in the eighteenth century, the development of British Guiana and the Falkland Islands, the exploits of the British in Brazil, the part taken by Englishmen in the wars of independence, the early relations of the English with the new republics, and the deeds of innumerable adventurous British travellers, traders, naturalists, and soldiers of fortune.” (Dial) Three aspects of British operations are emphasized: the large part played by capital, the exceptional ease with which the Englishmen took root in South America, and the fact that “almost all of the British achievements in South America have been the work of free lances.” The final chapter, “Today and tomorrow in South America,” is devoted mainly to a discussion of the commercial situation and outlook. Appended is a fifteen-page “Bibliography of modern works from 1870.”
“For the most part the present work is a compilation of extracts culled from contemporary accounts by British writers and pieced together into a somewhat disjointed narrative. The book is provided with illustrations more or less apt in reference and plan of insertion. The bibliography of works issued [since 1870] is not characterized by either accuracy or exhaustiveness, and lacks any sort of evaluation. That the works by Dawson and Scruggs should be mentioned twice, that Bourne’s treatise, along with numerous others of merit, is ignored, that the authorship of Helps’s volumes is ascribed to Oppenheim, and that a reprint of Humboldt’s account should be put down as a recent contribution, are defects not remedied by the inclusion of substantially all of Mr Koebel’s own books. Were Mr Koebel as familiar with the Spanish language and records as he is with those he actually uses, he would not have allowed so many errors and omissions to mar his pages.” W: R. Shepherd
— =Am Hist R= 23:200 O ‘17 550w
=A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“This is the book of an author full of his subject and evidently forms the result of many years of note-taking and much general and special reading. It is a permanent contribution not only to South American literature, but is also a noteworthy addition to the shelves of general romance and adventure.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 170w
“A series of portrait sketches drawn with such surety and finesse that in the brief space allotted to each, the personalities of the most famous of the British soldiers of fortune stand out with extraordinary vividness. ... In the concluding chapter, after having studied the ‘bright side’ of British trade in South America, the author, with an equal candor, examines the reasons for its decline, during the past few years. And they are those we of the United States should also heed.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 680w
“Mr W. H. Koebel—who, notwithstanding his German-sounding name, is a thoroughgoing Englishman ... speaks with authority on all matters pertaining to the contact of Europeans with Latin American resources, governments, and peoples. ... He gives evidence of an easy command of rich resources of memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and old books of travel and history: he has a keen sense of character, and his chapters make interesting reading.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:57 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w
“Since the author perforce must introduce ‘true blue’ British sea-dogs and buccaneers, one feels he has achieved a triumph in divesting them of the slightest suspicion of rum, and never exploding on his pages an improper swear word.”
=Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 490w
=Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 410w
“The author has an irritating habit of peppering his page with irrelevant marks of exclamation. He lapses at times into rank journalese. But all deductions made, Mr Koebel has brought together a great deal of widely scattered information on South America and presented it in a popular and readable fashion.”
+ — =Nation= 105:512 N 8 ‘17 1250w
“While much of the matter in Mr Koebel’s book will not be new to those who have been sufficiently interested in South America to read its history, there is a freshness in the author’s literary style that makes a relation of an old, or even threadbare, fact peculiarly his own. He is a born story-teller.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
“The recent, somewhat unsatisfactory position of British commerce in those countries as contrasted with the rapid advance made by Germany before the war is frankly discussed in this volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 140w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Paraguay. (South American ser.) il *$3.50 Scribner 918.9 (Eng ed 17-26318)
In addition to other books on individual South American countries, Mr Koebel has written a work on “South America,” published in 1913, and one on “The South Americans,” published in 1915. “He tells something of the romantic history of this smallest and least accessible of the South American republics. ... He describes the physical characteristics, the cities, the country in general, the people and their life, and devotes much attention to the resources and to the trade in cattle, timber, fruits, cereals.” (N Y Times)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17
“A verbose account of the land it describes in which one looks in vain for any real interpretation of the country. The book is largely a presentation of facts, more or less interesting. About two-thirds of the whole is history; the remaining third consists of chapters on various topics.” G. B. Roorbach
– + =Ann Am Acad= 73:232 S ‘17 190w
“Especially valuable and interesting for its detailed account of present-day conditions, a work for which the author is well fitted, as he has shown by several previous volumes in this series. ... The book is, indeed, a storehouse of all those up-to-date data desired by intending tourist or business man, or by the stay-at-home seeker after information.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:101 Mr 25 ‘17 180w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:424 My ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p42 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 200w
“Mr Koebel gives a really admirable description of the early history of the colony. ... One of the best chapters is the eighth, on ‘The Jesuit mission establishments.’ Mr Koebel treats the subject fairly and impartially. ... A highly prosperous future, if internal stability be maintained, almost certainly lies before this inland republic, but it is a prosperity of promise. Mr Koebel, drawing his information from official sources, undoubtedly paints a picture too roseate.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 15 ‘17 2050w
=KOHLER, MAX JAMES, and WOLF, SIMON.= Jewish disabilities in the Balkan states. $1.50 Am. Jewish hist. soc. 17-7956
“This paper, amplified from the form of its original reading before the society and fortified by voluminous foot-notes, is valuable chiefly because of its compact summary of the legislation now existing in Rumania to the detriment of the Jewish population of that country; and, in consequence, thus formulating the terms of the problem which will arise when the present war in Europe is ended. ... The contributions of the United States to this problem have been almost continuous, beginning a full half-century ago with Mr Seward’s note to Turkey. ... All of these efforts, however, as Mr Kohler shows, were instigated by one or another of the organizations designed to further the political and other progress of the Jewish race; but it is none the less to the credit of American statesmen that the spirit of our diplomacy so readily and generously responded to the appeal.”—Am Hist R
“Mr Kohler has marshalled a line of impressive precedents which point the way for American influence to make itself felt beneficently.” G: H. Moses
+ =Am Hist R= 22:708 Ap ‘17 400w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 50w
“This volume constitutes one of the most important and valuable issues in the series of ‘Publications’ of this active society. ... Mr Kohler, the one author, is a prominent attorney and writer on historical and sociological topics of this city, Mr Wolf, the other collaborator, is the venerable champion of Jewish rights at Washington; for more than fifty years he has acted in support of the civil and religious rights of his brethren-in-faith at the national capital. ... The book is well printed, furnished with a comprehensive index, and conveniently bound.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:434 O 15 ‘16 700w
“Though primarily intended as a contribution to the literature on Jewish history and not written in a form which will attract the general reader, the present volume is likely to help in formulating the policy of this country concerning European reconstruction after the present war. Its scholarship and authority give it unusual weight as a brief for American intervention on behalf of the oppressed Jews in Rumania and other Balkan states.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 37:438 Ja 13 ‘17 600w
=KORNILOV, ALEKSANDER.= Modern Russian history; being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the age of Catherine the Great to the present. 2v maps *$5 Knopf 947 17-8743
“The material chiefly employed in this book by a Russian professor was originally used in his lecture courses at the Politecnicum of Peter the Great in Petrograd within the past two years. It embraces a sketch of Russia’s development as state and people down to the year 1866. The author does not attempt to trace the development of the various Russian nationalities, but aims to expand the history of the Russian people. It is not with Russia’s external history that he deals, but with its social, cultural and inner history. ... The study closes with the year 1890. But in a supplementary section, Mr Alexander S. Kaun, the translator, writes some complementary chapters, although he disclaims all thought of directly continuing M. Kornilov’s work.”—Boston Transcript
“Here is an excellent book on a subject about which there is little good literature in English, and it is made almost unreadable for us by the incompetence of the translator. The title is misleading. It promises a general history of Russia, but the work is almost confined to Russian institutions and political development in the last century and a half. Foreign relations and wars and expansion of territory are touched upon only in a casual and rather slipshod manner, and there are several errors in statement. Economic development comes out a little better, but not much, and there is nothing about such things as the progress of science, literature, or art. On its real topic the book is valuable. Being composed for Russians, it presupposes a certain knowledge of Russian history on the part of its readers. In short, Professor Kornilov’s work is a scholarly, judicious compendium of an important subject, but it is not likely to prove attractive to many American readers. The transliteration of Russian words is in the main good.” A. C. Coolidge
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:148 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“It is likely to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of Russia more than any other single work which has appeared in English in late years.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 45:320 My ‘17 1000w
“Mr Kaun’s addition is pertinent and readable. He does not enter into a discussion of the causes of the present war, but he aims to show the prevailing attitude of the Russian intelligentzia towards it.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 400w
“Admirably written and reliable. The print of the two volumes is too fine for the comfort of the reader.”
+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 90w
“An outstanding work. Taking as its basis the best studies of Russian social and political development,—Kluchevsky’s ‘Survey of Russian history,’ and Miliukov’s ‘History of Russian culture,’—it is a lucid, dispassionate, discreetly documented and thoroughly reliable survey of the history of Russia in the nineteenth century.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 980w
“It is a book for the student, not heavy, but with no particular attempt to attract the casual reader. The full index makes it excellent for reference.”
+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“The author is radical-liberal in his attitude. Nowhere in English, so far as we know, can one find so clear, simple, and yet somewhat philosophic an account of the growth of liberalism and democracy in the great Slav empire. Professor Kornilov is one of the first to interpret adequately the influence of the Russian publicists and the Russian newspaper press in the formation of parties and policies. He has also a fairly good ethnological account of the various tribes and nationalities which make up the Russian state and which have become more or less Russified. Unfortunately the extreme gaucherie of the translator has filled the pages with hideous Teutonisms and some almost unintelligible phrases.”
+ + — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 400w
“It is a relief to feel that one is at last in the presence of a socially-minded and conscientious historian, who is gifted with the ability to assemble and organize complex data, and endowed with the power to see events, institutions and human relations in perspective. ... I wish especially to call attention to our author’s lucid treatment of the peasant problem.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 17 ‘17 1100w
“The many tangled threads of Russian life and development are handled in a masterly way, making clear the growth of Russian liberalism through all its varied stages and manifestations. ... Professor Kornilov has the reputation of being a liberal, and therefore it is the more surprising to find his point of view entirely calm, cool, and detached. The hot heart of indignation does not beat in his literary breast, however much it may in his human frame. In that one respect his work seems somewhat defective, since it fails to give the reader an adequate idea in their true colors of Russian affairs and Russian life.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:103 Mr 25 ‘17 1000w
“Naturally of a special interest to us to-day are the concluding chapters, which are packed with interesting information in regard to the various dumas, the zemstvos, the workmen’s movement, and the conduct of the war with Germany.”
+ =Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 40w
Reviewed by R. Staughton
=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
“For the first time, we now have an authoritative history of Russia, from the time of Catherine the Great to the third year of the great war.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 220w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17
“Professor Kornilov’s ‘Modern Russian history’ is an excellent book, and it ought to have an enormous circulation in America. Based on lectures to students, it is written in a clear, luminous style. This history, more than any other book I have read, enables one to understand the Russian revolution of the year 1917, and its prodigious importance. The concluding pages of the book, written by Mr Kaun, intentionally forsake the calm historical manner of Professor Kornilov.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:186 O ‘17 450w
=KREHBIEL, HENRY EDWARD.= Second book of operas; their histories, their plots and their music. il *$2 (3½c) Macmillan 782 17-7943
This book, devoted to some of the more recent developments in operatic music, supplements the author’s earlier “Book of operas.” Contents: Biblical operas; Bible stories in opera and oratorio; Rubinstein and his “Geistliche oper”; “Samson et Dalila”; “Die königin von Saba”; “Hérodiade”; “Lakmé”; “Pagliacci”; “Cavalleria rusticana”; The career of Mascagni; “Iris”: “Madama Butterfly”; “Der rosenkavalier”; “Königskinder”; “Boris Godounoff”; “Madame Sans-Gêne” and other operas by Giordano; Two operas by Wolf-Ferrari.
“Well written, authoritative, and has critical value.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17
“For the musician and student of music rather than for the average opera-goer.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 90w
“As in his earlier work, the free expression of his own preferences and aversions contributes to the enjoyment of the book. Portraits of composers and performers abound, and there are a few facsimiles of autograph scores.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Mr Krehbiel writes with learning and authority, but without pedantry, and in an easy and pleasant style. It must be added that at times his prejudices sit heavy upon him.”
+ — =Ind= 92:384 N 24 ‘17 180w
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 120w
“One of the most refreshing things in this book is the enthusiasm for Humperdinck’s ‘Koenigskinder.’ Of particular interest also are the pages on Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly,’ in which the Japanese factors that enter into the texture of the score are made evident.” H: T. Finck
+ =Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 380w
=St Louis= 15:177 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
=KROEGER, ALICE BERTHA.= Guide to the study and use of reference books; 3d ed., rev. throughout and much enl. by Isadore Gilbert Mudge. $2.50 A. L. A. 028.7 17-23822
“The third edition of the guide is based, in the main, upon the second edition, 1908, and the two supplements for 1909-10 and 1911-13, but the many changes in reference books and developments in reference work and teaching since 1908 have necessitated many changes from the earlier edition. The general plan and arrangement of the second edition have been followed and Miss Kroeger’s introduction has been kept intact except that one section, ‘How to study reference books,’ has been made slightly more detailed. The lists of reference books, however, have been changed very materially and the annotations have been rewritten and much extended, so that this latter feature of the guide is practically new throughout, only a few annotations having been carried over from the second edition, although somewhat more have been retained from the two supplements. Aside from the new annotation, the revision of the lists of reference books has consisted principally of (1) excision of older titles and editions now superseded by more recent material, (2) addition of new titles including not only the recent books listed in the two supplements and later titles through 1916, but also a very considerable number of earlier titles, principally foreign or more special works not hitherto included in the guide, and (3) the addition of some entirely new lists, such as those on Constitutions, International law, Romances, Historical source books, English public documents, etc. ... In general, information included goes through 1916, and does not cover changes, additions, etc., for 1917.” (Preface) Miss Mudge is reference librarian of Columbia university.
“A new edition of the guide, which is everywhere recognized as the foremost ‘guide to reference books,’ has been demanded by librarians in all parts of the country for the past five years, and the A. L. A. publishing board have been fortunate in securing for this important work the services of Miss Mudge, than whom there is no better judgment on the subject of reference books anywhere in the country. ... Absolutely necessary for all libraries making any pretensions at doing reference work, and recommended for purchase for all libraries having 5,000 volumes or more.”
+ =A L A Bkl= O ‘16
“The new guide lists over one and a half times as many titles as the old edition and the notes are much more critical and minutely descriptive.” M. E. H.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:243 O ‘17 210w
=KROPOTKIN, PETR ALEKSIEEVICH, kniaz.= Mutual aid: a factor in evolution. *$1.25 Knopf 301 A17-1635
A reprint of a work published in 1902. “At the beginning of the war in 1914, Prince Kropotkin determined to prepare a reprint of his ‘Mutual aid.’ He put it forth as evidence of his belief that the constructive forces of men are at work in spite of the destructive influences of the war, and that these will lead to a better understanding between men and eventually among the nations. In his discussion of the subject of mutual aid, he begins with the evidence of it to be found in animals, and he then proceeds by evolutionary stages through its aspects as found in the social lives of savages and barbarians, in the mediæval city, to its culmination in the modern state and community.” (Boston Transcript)
“As we read these pages it seems impossible that a man capable of such argument and discussion should have been imprisoned behind stone walls as a danger to his country. It was, however, not his country, but its autocrats that feared him and kept him in an exile that is now ended. Prince Kropotkin is at last free to return to Russia and to take part in the government that by his voice and his work he has succeeded in establishing.” E. P. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 700w
=Dial= 64:32 Ja 3 ‘18 160w
“Those who are old enough to read, and to think seriously, should read this book. Those who are old enough to have read it already, should read it again.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 3 ‘17 670w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 160w
“This sociological study of Prince Kropotkin’s, so full of the generosity and humaneness of the Russian temperament at its best, is in many ways valuable for its instruction, and will be found not lacking in inspiring qualities even by those who think it unduly neglectful of the egoistic instincts and who regard its conception of progress as one-sided; though, of course, the author might reply that individual achievement, such as Plimsoll represented, or Lord Shaftesbury, may be gained by the dedication of exceptional powers to the common good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ‘17 680w
=KRYSHANOVSKAYA, V. I.= Torch-bearers of Bohemia; tr. from the Russian by Juliet M. Soskice. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-11467
This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia. The time of the story spans the last years of John Hus, from 1401 to 1415. John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the story, altho its plot is built about the figure of Rugena, a young girl betrothed from childhood to Count Vok of Waldstein. This betrothal is brought about by Bishop Brancaccio, in whom the corruption of the church of the time is exposed at its lowest depths. By lying and forgery he represents the marriage as the will of the girl’s father, whom he has murdered. The two reformers, Hus and Jerome, both play a part in the girl’s later history.
“The novel certainly deserves recognition, if only for the fact that it is perhaps the only work of fiction dealing with the period of John Hus. It has the romantic fascination of the past, and the English reader will find a familiar atmosphere in the book, owing to the excellent translation which has preserved the peculiarities of the epoch through a masterly use of old English and of the traditional methods of Scott and Reade. The author has been true to historical facts.”
+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 170w
“‘The torchbearers of Bohemia’ differs from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz only by greater condensation, a kinship that may be a distinction, but which fails to satisfy those whom modern Russian literature has trained to expect less of a surface treatment. ... Considered solely as a conventional historical novel, the book is vivid enough.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17
“The author has made the theme of this book a round denunciation of everything German in the great days of Hus. ... Miss (or Mme) Kryshanovskaya has done a tremendous amount of historical reading for the artistic and historical touches that lend an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.” W. M. F.
— =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 300w
“In the light of the present situation in Russia, it is peculiarly interesting to note the fire and sympathy with which the struggle for national and religious liberty in Bohemia is depicted by a Russian writer. The splendid personality of John Hus dominates the volume, and gives us an illuminating portrait of that great martyr.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 380w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 40w
=KUELLER, JO VAN AMMERS.= Young lion of Flanders; a tale of the terror of war; tr. by C. Thieme. il $1.50 Stokes (Eng ed 17-10166)
“The book tells what happened to a peaceful, well-to-do Belgian family, one of the daughters of which had married a German. The principal character, the ‘Young lion of Flanders’ himself, is sixteen-year-old Léon Casimir. An expert motor cyclist, he becomes a dispatch rider in the Belgian army, and distinguishes himself at Marbeke, winning the approbation of the hero-king, Albert of Belgium. He has more than one narrow escape from death, and is very nearly shot with a number of other prisoners.”—N Y Times
“It is told as much by suggestion as by direct description. For appalling as is its revelation of German ‘frightfulness’ and perfidy, it is remarkably restrained.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 440w
“It is not exclusively juvenile readers who will be held by this stirring story, of which the translation is exceptionally fluent and satisfactory.”
+ =Cath World= 106:548 Ja ‘18 310w
“Léon’s adventures will thrill young readers, but the sad and bitter tone of the book puts it into the adult class.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“The story, the author tells us, was written that her own children might learn thru reading it the horror and futility of war. It seems more probable that the prowess of the boy Leon, and his thrilling adventures would appeal to the heart of youth as glorious.”
— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“It is all quite dreadful enough—unbelievably dreadful, we would have thought it a few years ago. But in the light of our present knowledge we are inclined to feel that in his evident effort not to overstate the author has rather understated his case.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“The four pictures by Raemaekers with which it is illustrated are even more illuminating than the text.”
+ =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 30w
=KUENZLI, FREDERICK ARNOLD.= Right and duty; or, Citizen and soldier; Switzerland prepared and at peace a model for the United States. il $1 (2c) National defense inst., Tribune bldg., N.Y.; for sale by Stechert 355.7 16-25197
The author, a native of Switzerland now living in the United States and acting as assistant appraiser at the port of New York, describes the Swiss system of military training and urges its adoption in America. The text of the military constitution of the Swiss federation is given at the close of the book. There is neither table of contents nor index.
=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 10w
“The preparedness discussion has brought out a number of articles and books expository of the Swiss military system, but this interesting volume is perhaps the most comprehensive and most illuminating of them all.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 22 ‘17 400w
=K’UNG YUAN KU’SUH.= Judgment of the Orient. *60c (6c) Dutton 940.91 17-10431
“Some reflections on the great war made by a Chinese student and traveller, edited and rendered into colloquial English by Ambrose Pratt.” (Title-page) Brief observations as to the characteristics of the different peoples of Europe as they impressed him in his travels, are followed by the author’s discussion of the sex of nations. A nation, like a human being, has a soul, and the soul of the nation like that of the human being has sex. Germany has a female soul. He says, “The psychological genesis of the war between Germany and Europe is sexual. It is a war between the femininity of Germany and the masculinity of her neighbors—especially the masculinity of England.”
“Here is food for thought for the wisest.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 130w
“The opinions recorded have a rapier-like penetration and cannot fail to be a source of satisfaction to those who have the cause of the Allies at heart.”
+ =Dial= 62:153 F 22 ‘17 180w
“It is certainly an ungallant theory as regards woman. ... It is nevertheless an exceedingly curious and interesting speculation, and from the Chinese point of view, certainly does not lack arguments to support it.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 580w
=N Y Times= 22:28 Ja 28 ‘17 480w
“If, in the flood of foolish writing about the war, more nonsense has anywhere else been packed within the narrow limits of seventy-two small pages, it has not been the reviewer’s ill fortune to see the work.” H. R. M.
— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 180w
=KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Rings for the finger. il *$6.50 (6½c) Lippincott 391 17-7933
Dr Kunz, author of “The curious lore of precious stones,” has prepared another valuable book drawing on his wide knowledge of jewels and ornaments. In this book he has treated of “Rings for the finger, from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.” (Title-page) The titles of the chapters are: The origin, purposes and methods of ring wearing; Forms of rings and materials of which they are made; Signet rings; Some interesting rings of history; Betrothal (engagement) rings, wedding (nuptial) rings, and love tokens; The religious use of rings; Magic and talismanic rings; Rings of healing; Ring making. There are 290 illustrations, some in color.
+ =Cath World= 105:125 Ap ‘17 100w
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 120w
“In his registry of pretty ‘posies’ he revives delightfully a bit of seventeenth century sentimentality.”
+ =Ind= 90:37 Ap 2 ‘17 50w
“No review could indicate all the information in this exhaustive study of rings.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 250w
“The illustrations to the book are, from the point of view of reproduction, of exceptionally high quality, but they appear to have been selected a little at random.”
+ — =Nature= 99:522 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
“Will have permanent value as a reference book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“Contains bibliographical foot-notes.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 3w
“A veritable encyclopedia of fascinating lore. Reproductions of paintings of persons wearing rings are included in the 220 illustrations in color, double-tone, and line.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 150w
“The student and the collector will find the clear and well-arranged plates of great value, while other readers will look with interest at the reproductions of portraits showing the rings as they were actually worn by their owners.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup469 N 3 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Kunz has the vantage point of the Metropolitan museum of New York, with which he is connected, as an initial source for his studies and his rank as an authority on this and kindred subjects is now established.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 250w
“Dr Kunz has drawn on the most diverse sources for his materials, and has brought together an extraordinary amount of curious learning. He has not, however, the gift of lucid order. ... If the reader tries to find a connected answer to any question that suggests itself, such as the development of the ring forms, he finds himself baffled by wealth of matter and insufficient method.”
+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
=KUPRIN, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH.= Bracelet of garnets, and other stories; with an introd. by W: Lyon Phelps. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13619
In his selection of stories for this volume, Leo Pasvolsky has had the advice of the author. In a letter from Mr Kuprin, eight of the stories here translated were named as among those he considered “most successful.” “There is wholeness about Kuprin as a writer, which breathes of the strength and power of Russia herself,” writes Mr Pasvolsky. This quality, he says, is brought out best in the longer stories, of which “The bracelet of garnets,” is one. Another side of Kuprin’s art is shown in the very short story, also represented in the volume. In addition to the title story the book contains: The horse-thieves; The Jewess; Anathema; The Læstrygonians; An insult; The park of kings; An evening guest; A legend; Demir-Kayá; The garden of the Holy Virgin. The translator is editor of the Russian Review.
=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
“The book as a whole, however, while no less searching in its psychology and no less unsparing in its truth, than ‘The party’ and ‘The eternal husband,’ has an atmosphere of normality and restraint which make a stronger appeal to Anglo-Saxon minds.”
+ — =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 170w
“This cheerful note rings through all Kuprin’s works, and places him quite apart from his pessimistic contemporaries—Andreyev, Sologub, and Artsibashev. But he falls far behind them as an artist; he lacks their intensity and reserve. The excellent translation of Mr Pasvolsky does not redeem the platitudinousness of the allegories placed in the end of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 350w
“Brilliant little studies in character or atmosphere, some compressed into half a dozen pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
“Two volumes of collections of the short tales of one of the most eminent of living Russian novelists, Alexander Kuprin, have recently been translated, ‘A Slav soul’ and ‘The bracelet of garnets.’ Scarcely any duplication appears, although the biting satire, ‘Anathema,’ is seen in each volume. ‘The garden of the Holy Virgin,’ is a noble illustration of the poetic beauty of Kuprin’s style, when he deals with an exalted theme.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 140w
=KUSER, JOHN DRYDEN.= Way to study birds. il *$1.25 Putnam 598.2 17-15688
A small book for beginners in bird study, meant to serve as a guide to the identification of the more common species. It is adapted to the vicinity of New York city. Part 1, Prerequisites, has chapters on: Method of study; Twelve abundant permanent residents; Note-keeping; How to use a key and learn five songs. Part 2 is devoted to the birds of summer, with chapters on: The fifteen most abundant summer residents; The fifteen next in abundance; Nests. Part 3 consists of two chapters on fall and spring bird study; Transients, and Migration data. Part 4 is devoted to winter, with chapters on Winter residents and Winter feeding. Part 5 gives supplementary data, including a bibliography. There are nine colored plates.
“Directions for keeping notes, recording migrations, and learning bird songs, a partial list of books and a note on preservation and propagation of our native birds widen the usefulness of this valuable ornithological primer.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w
“Despite the ever-increasing number of books designed to teach the beginner how to study birds, it is doubtful whether, after all, the short cuts are not, in the end, long cuts. The way is made easy—and unprofitable. This is in large measure true of ‘The way to study birds.’ With its nine plates, the book is, of course, no substitute for the amply illustrated manuals by Chester Reed and others.”
— =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“A bird book of convenient pocket size and of sufficient comprehensiveness to be of actual use.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 140w
“Arranged especially for the students of New York city and immediate neighborhood, but serves equally well for the southern New England states.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 200w
=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Webster—man’s man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25126
The hero of this romantic tale is a mining engineer, and the heroine, whom he first meets on a western railroad train, is the daughter of the former president of the Central American republic. The story is brim full of action, most of which takes place in the volcanic little republic, which is on the brink of a revolution.
“An extravagant yarn, lively and entertaining.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“‘Webster—man’s man,’ by Peter B. Kyne, belongs to the familiar and ever popular type of the soldier-of-fortune novel, with all the inevitable stage properties and situations in which the late Richard Harding Davis delighted. The surprising thing about the book is that in spite of this there is a freshness and a certain spontaneous sincerity that makes one forget the triteness of its theme. ... Its people are alive, individual, and intensely appealing.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — =Pub W= 92:807 S 15 ‘17 500w
“A rollicking story of love and adventure which, even in its most thrilling moments, preserves the humorous, devil-may-care atmosphere that characterizes it from the outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 200w
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=LAGERLÖF, SELMA OTTILIANA LOVISA.= Queens of Kungahälla, and other sketches; tr. by C. Field. *5s T. Werner Laurie, London
“‘The queens of Kungahälla’ is a cycle of episodes, woven together in a manner highly characteristic of Miss Lagerlöf; the English translation before us supplements it with six short tales which are quite independent. ... The most complete and characteristic is ‘Saint Catherine of Siena.’ ... ‘Old Agneta’ is a mysterious dream of lost souls, tortured with frost on a Norwegian glacier, whose sufferings are mitigated by the efforts of a solitary woman. ‘The fisherman’s ring’ is woven around a description of an Adriatic storm breaking over Venice. ‘The bird’s nest’ alone among these stories is mildly humorous; it describes how a pair of wagtails built a nest and hatched their young in the hand of a hermit who had made a vow not to shift his position. ‘God’s peace,’ which is a sort of appendix to the novel of ‘Jerusalem,’ recounts a terrific incident in the life and death of Ingmar Ingmarson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An enchanting revel of fancy.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w
“Kungahälla is a locality unknown to the guide-books and, we think, to the historians. ... But Miss Lagerlöf gives her fiction such an air of reality that we hesitate to say that this city is wholly fabulous. ... The English reader of ‘The queens of Kungahälla’ will find himself constantly reminded of William Morris’s late prose romances. ... This arises from a similarity in the approach of both authors to the medieval civic life which attracted each of them. ... Miss Lagerlöf has greater vigour of narrative than her English precursor; she leads us more vividly on a more intoxicating revel of fancy, but her essential attitude to the middle ages is the same. She sees the scenes in pure and brilliant colour, like the miniatures in a Book of hours. ... Mr C. Field is often adequate and sometimes excellent, although his text would bear further revision.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
=LAJPAT RAYA.=[2] England’s debt to India; a historical narrative of Britain’s fiscal policy in India. *$2 Huebsch 330.954
A companion volume to the author’s “Young India” which reviewed British rule in India from the political standpoint. The present discussion is from the economic point of view, and is supported by the best British testimony, official and non-official. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work: A historical retrospect; India and the British industrial revolution; “Tribute” or “drain”; How India has helped England make her empire; The cotton industry of India; Shipbuilding, shipping, and minor occupations; Miscellaneous industrial, agricultural, and mining operations; Agriculture; Economic conditions of the people; Famines and their causes; Railways and irrigation; Education and literacy; Certain fallacies about the “prosperity of India” examined; Taxes and expenditure; Summary and conclusion.
“But, even granting all of the author’s statements and argument, passing over his unwillingness to recognize and give just appraisal to all that England has done for India, the fact remains that understanding of the great issues just now at stake and of loyalty to that civilization in which the future welfare of India as well as of the rest of the world is bound ought to have led Lajpat Raya to wait for the presentation of his plea until the greater issues, comprehensive of India’s own, are settled.”
— =N Y Times= 23:51 F 10 ‘18 600w
“This author’s manner is as eloquent as his matter is interesting. Readers may not agree with all his conclusions, but they will, we are sure, appreciate the wealth of information given concerning the economic conditions in India.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 120w
=LANCHESTER, FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Flying-machine from an engineering standpoint. diags *$3 (9c) Van Nostrand 629.1 (Eng ed 17-13807)
This book contains the James Forrest lecture which the author delivered before the Institution of civil engineers three months before the outbreak of war. It has been reprinted in more permanent form in answer to the many requests for copies. The author says, “Since the outbreak of war, from considerations of national secrecy, very little, indeed, of a technical character has been added to the stock of public information, and thus the position existing immediately prior to the war has become a matter of more permanent interest than the author anticipated at the time his lecture was prepared.” He has also added “A discussion concerning the theory of sustentation and expenditure of power in flight,” a paper presented at a meeting of the International engineering congress in San Francisco in 1915.
=Nature= 99:241 My 24 ‘17 1000w
“For a lengthy review see Engineering, April 6, 1917. Also reviewed in Automobile Engineer, Jan., 1917; Mechanical Engineer, Jan. 19, 1917.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ap ‘17 110w
“An excellent, accurate and interesting lecture on the flying-machine for those familiar with the subject.” E. W. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17 30w
=LANE, ANNA EICHBERG KING (MRS JOHN LANE).= War phases according to Maria. il *$1 (4c) Lane 17-6332
Two of these war phases are reprinted from “Maria again.” They are included here to make complete the record of Maria’s most noteworthy activities between 1914 and 1916. The subjects of the new sketches are: Zeppelin dangers; Maria’s political opinions; Maria on submarines; On the new equality; Cardboard friendship; War hens; Margarine and society; War notice. The book is cleverly illustrated by A. H. Fish.
“We do not find Maria more than moderately amusing.”
+ — =Ath= p596 D ‘16 30w
“Maria on the subject of everything under heaven from war hens to submarines is a genuine comedy character.”
+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 300w
“A book not to be missed in these times.”
+ =Sat R= 123:42 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“Mrs Lane’s gifted satirical pen might more profitably be turned to other phases of society than those connected with Maria’s personality.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 450w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 30 ‘16 80w
=LANE, ROSE WILDER.= Henry Ford’s own story. il *$1 E. O. Jones, Forest Hills, N.Y.; for sale by Baker 17-2686
“The American public, says the writer of this book, has made a hero of the big business man. But Henry Ford, she adds, is not a big business man; he is a big man in business. She tells, in this book, the very simple and very interesting story of Henry Ford’s life, ‘how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity.’ ... Her record stops shortly after the outbreak of war; it does not include the peace party. But it tells in a good deal of detail about his wage scale and other experiments with his men.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17
“A very human book. If it were just plain fiction it could not interest one more. ... To read it is to get a new realization of what work means, what persistence will do, on what efficiency must build, and of the tremendous power in unselfish will.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 Ag 4 ‘17 210w
“The platitudinousness and naïveté, the well meaning but sophomoric approach to a problem that are revealed in Mr Ford’s utterances on all subjects not relating to engineering are almost incredible. Such intellectual infantilism would be impossible any grown man in any other civilized country—as would Miss Lane’s ecstatic admiration of it. But the story of Henry Ford does not end there. Against his contempt for the amenities of life and the finer cultural satisfactions may be set his hatred of poverty and wretchedness. In that balance, who can say that the admiration of Miss Lane is misplaced?”
=New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 370w
“A most unusual piece of biography and exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 180w
=Pittsburgh= 22:404 My ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
“Some day, as has been said, Mr Ford will have a real biography; before that time comes there will be plenty of studies, personal, economic, sociological. Miss Lane’s account is purely popular, colorful, newsy, and it portrays the man.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 13 ‘17 650w
“If sympathy with one’s subject is the sine qua non of biographers this should be the perfect biography. Miss Lane’s enthusiasm for her subject colors the entire book and surrounds him with a halo of glory.” Henrietta Walters
+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“Written in extremely popular and simple style, it is specially adapted to the uneducated or young reader.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 50w
=LANGE, DIETRICH.= Lure of the Mississippi. il *$1.25 (2½c) Lothrop 17-28332
During the period of the Civil war, Minnesota was the scene of several Indian uprisings, the Sioux seeing in the preoccupation of the white man with a war of his own, an opportunity to regain their lands. One of these outbreaks is described by Mr Lange in this story for boys. The young heroes are two southern boys who have come north with an uncle. Driven out by the Indians, they try to rejoin their parents in Vicksburg, traveling down the river with an old trapper and a friendly red man. Vicksburg is under siege and the boys find that they have exchanged one kind of danger for another. But in time they find their parents and the entire party makes a safe return journey to what is to be their permanent home on the northern prairies.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 30w
“Yet the story is not unduly melodramatic, but abounds in good pictures of life on the great river.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 140w
=LANGENHOVE, FERNAND VAN.= Growth of a legend. *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 940.91 16-25175
The “legend” of the title refers to the stories without foundation that are common in all countries in time of war. The author has examined some of these legends which have been current in Germany. He calls his book “a study based upon the German accounts of francs-tireurs and ‘atrocities’ in Belgium.” The work has been translated by E. B. Sherlock, and is published with a preface by J. Mark Baldwin.
+ =Ath= p259 My ‘17 180w
+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 60w
“Written to defend Belgium against unjust accusations, the book also gives the human background of many so-called German ‘atrocities’ which otherwise would seem inexplicable.”
+ =New Repub= 9:251 D 30 ‘16 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17
“M. van Langenhove writes with restraint and painstaking care of the sociological investigator. His book is marked by its absence of invective, of excited denial. ... The book is one of the valuable contributions to the library of war documents.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:3 Ja 7 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“A dispassionate work, compiled in the impartial spirit of scientific research. Rhetorical expressions of indignation are hardly to be found in its pages, though they abound in Mr Baldwin’s preface.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= Your part in poverty. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 331 17-26891
George Lansbury is a member of the Church of England, the Church socialist league and the Independent labor party, has been for thirty years in active political life, and has served on the London county council and the Royal commission on the poor law. He writes this “appeal to men and women of the comfortable classes,” not from the point of view of an economist or a philanthropist but from that of an “ordinary person,” to make clear to them “what Labor asks and what, in his judgment, on Christian principles, Labor ought to have.” Mr Lansbury believes that land values should be taxed, that the wages and profit system should be abolished, that we must substitute cooperation for competition, and that the workers must “join together in great industrial unions or guilds, representative of particular industries.” After an introductory chapter, the subject is dealt with under five headings: Workmen; Women and children; Business; Churches; What we must do. There is a preface by the Bishop of Winchester.
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Specifically, we are exhorted to join the more advanced section of the working class movement, the section which aims at the complete control of the great industries by the workers in each industry. ... The difficulties which would confront such a system are lightly brushed aside by the author in a spirit of simple faith.”
— =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 350w
“There is broad charity in Mr Lansbury’s criticism of those who possess and an earnest appeal to the innate love of man for man. Even in his chapter on business, a sermon on the text, ‘business is business,’ he offers sympathy for the overwrought business man.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“No one who wishes to understand the labor movement in England can afford to miss this book; few who read it can fail to be captivated by its charm. It is not a program; it is not a treatise. It is simply the expression of an attitude to life which is growing rapidly in importance in every section of the English working classes.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:25 N 3 ‘17 1800w
“Mr Lansbury’s indictment of society, the church, and the state is confused, and his suggested remedies are very vaguely indicated. But we are impressed by the sincerity of his wondering indignation, and we feel that the book, at any rate, reflects the doubts and fears of many intelligent workmen.”
– + =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
“He seldom lets his feeling get the better of him. Consequently nearly all that he says has force. ... For the sake of symmetry in the argument Mr Lansbury ought perhaps to show that the ‘liberated’ working class—to use the word ‘liberate’ in the sense in which he uses it—would represent a higher standard of probity, self-restraint and disinterestedness than is exemplified by the prosperous elements in society to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 11 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Lansbury has written a penetrating statement. But it is written in such a kindly way that one must wonder at his moderation. He knows the poor and their problems, and he knows where the trouble lies. But he does not attack those who are responsible.”
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 430w
=LANUX, PIERRE DE.=[2] Young France and new America. *$1.25 Macmillan 327.73 17-31439
“Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. They deal with the present events and those from the near past, but their expression is first inspired by the thought of the near future, that is to say, the period that will begin when this war ends.” (Foreword) The writer sums up what the Franco-American co-operation will mean in the years to come, how the war has opened the way to a better understanding of each other and cemented loyalties. To the Frenchman who thought of the American as a millionaire pork dealer and the American who looked upon the Frenchman as a “fussy, nervous gentleman who wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole” the experiences of the past three years have been fraught with revelation.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 680w
“I think M. de Lanux writes about us with too obvious a will to be kind. What he says of America’s coming influence upon French art, literary and plastic, may be true or may be mistaken, but certainly, to my taste, it is written by too glad a hand. Other parts of his book, however, are wholly free from this taint.” P. L.
+ — =New Repub= 13:350 Ja 19 ‘18 1430w
“The author’s notably keen and understanding observations and conclusions in the United States show him to be a trustworthy student of life. Without doubt, M. de Lanux’s book will receive the attention and the interest it deserves. The people of this country are ready for its message and they will welcome both its spirit and its practical suggestions.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 780w
=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 110w
“Told with an amplitude of apt quotation and with a charm which makes this contribution to the literature of foreign relationships a real source of inspiration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 200w
=LARNER, RING W.= Gullible’s travels, etc. il *$1.25 (3c) Bobbs 17-5401
Perhaps the narrator in these five tales is the original Tired Business Man. His account of “Carmen” would seem to entitle him to that distinction. His second experience of opera is described in the next sketch, and in the third, from which the book takes its title, he relates experiences at Palm Beach. The two stories that follow are in like vein. First copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company.
=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“Amusing but excessively slangy short stories.”
=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 6w
“Underneath the funny narratives of narrow views and man-handled English, there is a layer of shrewd common sense that punctures the provincialism of the snug middle class and the humbug of our so-called exclusive society. ... A broadly farcical volume.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
=LASKI, HAROLD J.= Studies in the problem of sovereignty. *$2.50 Yale univ. press 320.1 17-8598
“The problem of sovereignty which Mr Laski discusses is whether the seat of authority in society is single or manifold. In other words, whether a sound political theory is monist or pluralist. He argues in favor of the pluralist view, and maintains that a society is a ‘person’ in reality, not merely by a legal fiction; for the law merely recognizes and regularizes a preëxistent fact. He supports this argument by an appeal to the evidence supplied by three ecclesiastical and religious movements in the nineteenth century in Great Britain—the Scottish disruption, the Oxford movement, and the Catholic revival—and by the careers of Le Maistre and Bismarck on the Continent.”—New Repub
“It is an example of painstaking and rather brilliant historical writing, and may justly be classed, both as regards the subject-matter with which it deals and its scholarly method of treatment, with the studies of Mr J. N. Figgis, and particularly his ‘From Gerson to Grotius’ and his ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... When Dr Laski leaves the field of history and enters upon a discussion of the nature of sovereignty he is less happy, and critics who will attribute to him an imperfect understanding of the real character of sovereignty are not likely to be wanting.” J. W. Garner
+ =Am Hist R= 22:844 Jl ‘17 2200w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“An important contribution to the literature of that brilliant school of political writers who are forging for us a new and more satisfactory theory of the nature of the state. It should be read especially in connection with Maitland’s classic introduction to Gierke’s ‘Political theories of the middle ages,’ and Figgis’s ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... Not only does [Mr Laski’s doctrine] mean an abandonment, or at least a serious impairment of the theory of the sovereignty of the state, but it involves the revival of the eighteenth century doctrine of natural rights, now, however, attached to group-units instead of to individuals. Whether in every particular these ideas will withstand the effect of criticism, there is no doubt that they offer in some respects a much better explanation of contemporaneous political tendencies and movements than the Hegelian theory that the state is an all-inclusive metaphysical organism, which governs the practical politics of modern Germany.” W. J. Shepard
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:582 Ag ‘17 550w
“Throughout, the style is as incisive and clear as the temper is judicial, and everywhere sympathy is combined with a rare detachment.” C. H. McIlwain
+ =Dial= 62:436 My 17 ‘17 2700w
“The book is marked by a certain agreeable scholarship. This scholarship in respect to concrete historical happenings, is however, set in a philosophical frame which is most unbecoming and which must in all frankness be ascribed to the author’s very superficial knowledge of political theory and to his failure to understand or to appreciate some of the most fundamental distinctions of political science. Even if Mr Laski’s assumptions were not of this superficial character, his practical teaching would destroy itself thru its very absurdity.” N. M. B.
– + =Educ R= 54:513 D ‘17 1050w
“Mr Laski has done his part both in making clear his own tentative ideas and in presenting the historical data upon which they are based. This book, moreover, is not to be his last word on the subject.”
+ =Nation= 105:671 D 13 ‘17 280w
“Possibly he assumes at times too great a knowledge of the facts for American readers, and writes in an unduly allusive style, but to the mind of any one who comes from Oxford and has lived in its atmosphere, so permeated with the tradition of the Oxford movement and Catholic revival, the story seems excellently and sympathetically interpreted, for Oxford, though it gives an artificial mannerism which soon dies, gives also a real inspiration, which quickens as well as lives; and Mr Laski belongs, I think, to those whom Oxford has taught to see life whole, as well as to study it in detail.” K. L.
+ =New Repub= 11:25 My 5 ‘17 1650w
“The London Times, with visions of conscientious objectors rampant, finds much in the book that is ‘disreputable and even dangerous,’ and one cannot forbear to suggest that the Times is more agitated about the alleged disrepute of Mr Laski’s theories than their danger. But after the indispensable ‘word of warning’ has been meted out, one cannot fail to appreciate that the truth of Mr Laski’s reasoning overtops the danger.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 820w
“Mr Laski is an Englishman, but he bears a historic Polish name. He should study, from the point of view of that pragmatism to which he makes frequent appeal, the effects of the liberum veto in the old Polish constitution. It still has its defenders as the last word in the assertion of the moral liberty of the citizen. ... Though there is much in this volume which we consider disputable and even dangerous, there is also much that is sound and illuminating; and though his presentation of his subject is too often involved and obscure, it rarely fails to stimulate thought.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 My 17 ‘17 2250w
“He has given us a scholarly and invigorating historical review of the significant events and theories which he selects as background for his discussion. He has also given timely warning to us, as citizens, of the dangers of an implicit acceptance of a certain grim Hegelianism which has swept us unprotestingly on into the vortex of a great All which is more than ourselves.’” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 7:443 Ja ‘18 1250w
=LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT.= Development of China. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 951 17-8745
“Mighty changes are taking place in China. It is undergoing a transformation whose results no man can foresee. ... It is certain, however, that the outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. ... If Americans are not to blunder, if they are to make to the new China the unselfish contributions of which they are capable, if they are not to stumble into unnecessary conflict with Japan, if they are to share to the utmost in the trade and the industrial development of the new China, they must know her and must know her better than they do now.” (Introd.) The author, formerly of the College of Yale in China, has written this book for college students and for the general public. His aim has been to present in the light of modern scholarship a sketch of the essential facts of Chinese history and development and of the historical setting for its present-day problems.
“The characteristic feature of this book is successful condensation. ... The book is well written, well printed, and should prove very valuable for the purpose for which it is intended. It brings together within brief compass a variety of essential information which will greatly facilitate the work of classes in oriental history and contemporary politics. In producing this work Professor Latourette has rendered a distinct service both to student and to teacher.” S. K. Hornbeck
+ =Am Hist R= 22:857 Jl ‘17 670w
“Bibliography (7p.) with useful descriptive notes.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“Will serve as a valuable textbook to the student of Chinese history. It should meet with even greater favor from that class of general readers who, without the drudgery of technicality and details, desire an unconventional introduction to the civilization of the Far East.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 250w
=Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 150w
“Perhaps a dozen brief histories of China are available in English. Some of them are hastily written and untrustworthy. Some are prejudiced. Some are overloaded with dynastic details. ... There is, therefore, a place for Mr Latourette’s ‘Development of China,’ which is carefully written, fair, and free from excessive technicalities.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 62:524 Je 14 ‘17 1050w
“Mr Latourette is the first writer of a serious work who has accurately set forth the character of the late Yuan Shi Kai. He has furnished also a readable statement of the progress of events since 1894. ... Those interested at all in the Far East will find the volume worth reading and rereading.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 Jl 14 ‘17 170w
“It furnishes a splendid background to just such a study as Professor Hornbeck’s. While lacking the vitality and the temperamental felicity of such life-long writers on China and her history as Giles, for instance, and Little and Martin, Mr Latourette does nevertheless cover the ground that these more rugged writers have covered before him; and he covers it with a precision and a scholarship that perfectly adapt his book to the college classrooms for which he has designed it. ... He further adds to the value of the book as a basis for instruction by a voluminous index and an extremely serviceable and well-chosen bibliography.”
+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 330w
“An introductory sketch like Mr Latourette’s, notable for the scholarly absence of inflation of facts, for its sense of proportion, and for the understanding it gives of the larger features of China’s development and of the historical setting of present-day problems, meets a real need.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“He is fair to the Japanese, fair to the British about the so-called opium war, fair to the missionaries and entirely appreciative of all that is best in China’s glorious past. By far the best part of his book is that which deals with present-day problems.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
=LAUCK, WILLIAM JETT, and SYDENSTRICKER, EDGAR.= Conditions of labor in American industries. *$1.75 Funk 331.8 17-13561
“The present volume is designed to meet a practical need for a compact collection of the results of the large number of investigations and studies of conditions under which the American wage-earner and his family work and live. It is presented merely as a summarization of the principal and fundamental facts that have been ascertained during the past decade and a half; it is not intended to be a critical discussion of those facts, or to be an argument in favor of or against any partizan conclusion, or any remedial program.” (Preface) These summaries are presented in nine chapters; The labor force; Wages and earnings; Loss in working time; Conditions causing irregular employment; Working conditions; The wage-earner’s family; Living conditions; The wage-earner’s health; The adequacy of wages and earnings. Mr Lauck is author with J. W. Jenks of a standard work on immigration. Mr Sydenstricker wrote one of the reports for the Commission on industrial relations.
“The statistical data presented—most of which was gathered for the United States Commission on industrial relations—are quite extensive. ... There is very little new material in the book. Its purpose, on the contrary, was to make easily available existing material, and this the authors have done in a painstaking manner. Particularly valuable are the discussions of unemployment, its causes and effects: family income; and the health of the worker. The chapter on working conditions is less satisfactory. It is unfortunate that so little attention is paid to unionism and collective bargaining. Perhaps the chief weakness of the book is the tendency to dogmatize from insufficient data.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:649 S ‘17 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:151 F ‘18
“The book is intelligently planned, is designed to answer those questions which so frequently arise in the mind of the legislator, the teacher, the general reader, and the newspaper editor. ... While replete with statistics, it is interesting throughout. It deserves careful study and a wide circle of readers.” J. T. Young
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:234 Jl ‘17 570w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w
=Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 220w
“A valuable reference book for educators, social workers, and all in any way engaged in handling employment problems.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Nathan Fine
=J Pol Econ= 25:851 O ‘17 760w
“No reflective business man, no thoughtful workingman, no social worker, no trade unionist, no student of industrial problems, can study the situation here revealed without realizing how fundamental to our national life these facts must be, and how thoroughly they deserve consideration.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 3 ‘17 430w
“To some extent the ‘American labor year book,’ published under the editorship of the present reviewer, attempted to accomplish the same purpose. The present volume is more inclusive. As a reference volume on present-day industrial conditions the book should prove valuable to those who have no opportunity to consult original sources.” Alexander Trachtenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 430w
+ =N Y Times= 22:296 Ag 12 ‘17 650w
“The data are largely those relating to conditions between 1900 and 1914 or 1915, since which time many changes have taken place. These, however, are noted, and such facts as are obtainable concerning them are reviewed. The authors appear to have succeeded remarkably well in keeping up with a constantly and rapidly-moving procession of industrial events.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ‘17 870w
“The book is devoted, in the main, to an examination of the income of the American wage-earner and a consideration of its sufficiency. The chapters that deal with that subject are worth reading. One may not always agree with the conclusions—based as they are on statistics that are anywhere from four to sixteen years old and some of them questionable too—but the discussions are illuminating and the figures are the only ones we have. ... The book is full of little errors of varying degrees of importance, from misspelled names to misstatements of fact. Dates get mixed, words are omitted, pages at one point are incorrectly inserted. These are minor matters. But there are other errors that are more serious.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 600w
=LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH.= Heart of Her Highness. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-25586
A romance of Flanders in the fifteenth century. The heroine is Mary of Burgundy, orphaned daughter of Charles the Bold. With her young step-mother as her only sympathetic counselor, Mary is beset with many troubles. In her childhood she had been betrothed to the young son of the emperor of Germany, but the proposed alliance had all but been forgotten, and Louis of France wished to force a marriage with his son, while her own people urged a marriage equally distasteful. Mary herself has given her heart to an unknown youth, and while it looks for a time as tho love must be sacrificed to her country’s needs, the two claims are in the end discovered to be identical.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 70w
“Begins like a novel and ends like a fairy tale. There is more than one vivid passage; and if the dialogue is too conventional to be convincing, it is suggestive of those firelight stories that were always too good to be true.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 230w
“Miss Laughlin is to be commended for telling her story in present-day English and avoiding the practice of some historical romancers of attempting to reproduce archaic forms of speech.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 220w
=LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAURENCE.= Latter-day problems. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 330.4 17-3490
The three last chapters of the first edition, dealing with money and banking, have been omitted from this revised edition. In their place the author has added five chapters on: Women and wealth; Monopoly of labor; Capitalism and social discontent; Business and democracy; Economic liberty. The omitted chapters may be included later in a volume dealing with monetary problems.
=A L A Bkl= 13:275 Mr ‘17
“The tone of Prof. Laughlin’s dismissal of the case for the working class makes a liberal suspect him. ... The best thing to be said for ‘Latter-day problems’ is that it makes a very creditable attempt to solve 20th century problems with 18th century formulæ.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 270w
=LAVIS, FRED.= Railway estimates, design, quantities and costs. il *$5 McGraw 625 17-14018
“The author, a special lecturer on railway engineering at Yale university, presents in one volume all that is necessary in estimating the probable cost of a proposed railway and the design of general features, together with a complete analysis of details not hitherto available in any single publication.” (Pittsburgh) “The book is more than a development of chapter 8 of the author’s ‘Railway location, surveys and estimates.’ It is an expansion of that chapter and a setting forth of the timely subject matter in a manner that carries weight and impresses the reader with the author’s broad and practical knowledge of the subject.” (Engin News-Rec)
“It is a pleasure to note that the author, in handling chapters 3 to 11 inclusive—the principal classified cost elements—has, as is his custom, confined himself to the practical illustrative essentials and avoided wordy expansions of irrelevant features. One would have been glad to find in the text three or four chapters instead of three or four pages on the subject of electrical operation and electrification of steam roads.” M. P. Paret
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 580w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 50w
=LAY, WILFRID.= Man’s unconscious conflict; a popular exposition of psychoanalysis. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-9481
The author offers an interpretation of Freud which will be more acceptable to American readers than many that have preceded it. He has adopted a nomenclature that is more in accordance with our common usage and modes of thought, thus eliminating much of the seeming offensiveness of the Freudian theories. The treatment is popular. His purpose is “to show the unconscious operating in every act of our lives, not merely in the actions ordinarily known as unconscious or automatic, but in that part of our activity to which we attribute the most vivid consciousness.” One important chapter, on a phase little touched on heretofore, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to education. The author suggests that most if not all the faults of the present system of instruction in schools is due to ignorance of the function of the unconscious.
“Fascinating and very practical book.” L. M. Field
+ =Bookm= 45:417 Je ‘17 550w
“Dr Lay, for all the qualities of his argument that look like prepossessions, lays out this difficult lore with a clarity, a charm and a high moral force, that point his book with every power to instruct and improve. No science is so immediately devoted to human service as psychology, no person with his own or society’s welfare at heart can afford to neglect it, and few writers have laid bare its main principles with happier effect than Dr Lay.” B. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1000w
“A coherent and systematic account, in simple terms, of the fundamental principles and conceptions that are implied in the discoveries and hypotheses of Freud and his school. This is in itself no small achievement. ... It is a pity that Dr Lay still defers so much to the rather inconclusive and therapeutically as well as theoretically useless generalization of sex; that he underestimates, if he at all considers, the importance of the ‘self-regarding instinct’; and that he offers hasty prescriptions to teachers.”
+ — =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 230w
“It gives one a fair idea, in an easy and entertaining style, of what it is all about—and incidentally enables one to measure the depths of psychoanalytic credulity.”
+ — =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p7 O ‘17 50w
“Valuable book, which should be in the hands of all parents and educators.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 110w
=LAZARILLO DE TORMES.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. *$1.50 (4c) Kennerley 17-12486
This version of the first picaresque romance is “done out of the Castilian from R. Foulché-Delbosc’s restitution of the editio princeps, by Louis How.” (Sub-title) “The “Life” was probably in existence in some form or other, perhaps for some time, before 1554, the date from which our earliest editions reach us. But the numerous English editions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early nineteenth centuries are not widely current in these days, and they are all filtered through French translations.” (Dial) There is no plot. Lazarillo’s experiences with his many masters form a satire on society in sixteenth century Spain. After a prologue, the narrative proper is divided into seven treatises or chapters. “The first deals with the early life of Lazarillo and his peregrinations as guide of a blind beggar. In the next four he appears as the servant of a priest, an impoverished petty noble, a friar and a pardoner. In the sixth and seventh he serves a painter of tambourines, a chaplain and a constable, and finally becomes a town crier of Toledo, ... and settles down as the complacent husband of a maidservant of the archpriest of San Salvador parish. Most of the action passes in Toledo or in its immediate neighborhood.” (Introd.) The historical introduction of forty-four pages, and the notes, are by Charles Philip Wagner.
=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w
“Mr How has attempted a literal version; he goes so far as frequently to sacrifice smooth English in his effort to keep the construction of the original. The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing, but too often the reader misses the craftsmanship of the anonymous author. The notes, by Mr Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to serious students of Spanish. Some of the latter will doubtless wish to quarrel with Mr How over a few of his renderings.”
+ — =Dial= 63:216 S 13 ‘17 290w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
“Should serve greatly to widen the circle of readers of the tale. We think such who come to it afresh will enjoy the series of anecdotes through which Lazarillo passes with the perfect effrontery of the mediæval rogue.”
+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 200w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.=[2] Frenzied fiction. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 827 18-768
To “Nonsense novels,” “Further foolishness” and other humorous works, Mr Leacock now adds a work of “Frenzied fiction.” It opens with the author’s “revelations as a spy,” quite as solemnly ponderous and neither more nor less revelatory than many of the supposedly authentic confessions. Other pieces in the book are: Father Knickerbocker—a fantasy; The prophet in our midst; Personal adventures in the spirit world; The cave man as he is; The new education; Back from the land.
“The book is the work of a warmhearted and joyous spirit, a friendly, gentle soul that pokes good natured fun at our ridiculousness, our pretensions. He makes you like him and he makes you laugh. It is much.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 1500w
“This is Leacock at his best, and this best is better than others of his recent books. The fun is sly and penetrating; the burlesque quality is sustained; the writing is that of a humorist, not that of a mere jokesmith.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 40w
=LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE.= Enforced peace; proceedings of the first annual national assemblage. 50c (1c) League to enforce peace 172.4 17-697
A volume containing the proceedings of the first annual national assemblage of the League to enforce peace, held in Washington, May 26-27, 1916. An introductory chapter is devoted to the organization of the League. Its principles and proposals are given in an appendix. Among the papers reprinted are: The League to enforce peace and the soul of the United States, by Edward A. Filene; The League program, preparedness, and ultimate reduction of armaments, by Hamilton Holt; Constitutionality of the proposals, by William H. Taft; The Monroe doctrine, by George Grafton Wilson; The European nations and the League program, by John Bates Clark; American labor and a constructive settlement of the war, by Samuel Gompers; American agriculture and the League to enforce peace, by Carl Vrooman.
=Cath World= 104:839 Mr ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:135 F ‘17
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 160w
=LEAMY, EDMUND STANISLAUS.= My ship, and other verses. *$1 Lane 811 17-30423
Many of the poems in this book were inspired by travel in far countries. The author is the son of an Irish patriot, and Katharine Tynan in her foreword says of him: “His father’s adventure was the one upon which so many have embarked, will embark—the great adventure for the Dark Rosaleen. The son’s adventure carries him over oceans and continents, but he has always the faithful, the untravelled heart that belongs by right to his father’s son.”
“Full of the spirit of youth and glowing with adventure.”
+ =Lit D= 55:62 D 8 ‘17 350w
“Mr Leamy sings sweetly his unaffected songs of gentle and kindly sentiment, old memories, wandering and the home-spirit, seen tenderly through mellowing mists of revery and dream.” M. T.
+ =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 30w
“A collection of verse that seeks to translate the emotions aroused in the American by America herself.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 350w
=LE BAS, SIR HEDLEY FRANCIS=, ed. Lord Kitchener memorial book. il *$2.50 Doran (*3s 6d Hodder and Stoughton, London) (Eng ed 17-12259)
This record of Lord Kitchener’s life is largely pictorial, altho tributes by men who were his friends and associates are included, also a complete record of his own speeches made during the progress of the war. The profits from the sale of the book go to the Lord Kitchener national memorial fund, which is devoted to the relief of disabled soldiers.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 21 ‘17 450w
“This is not a biography, and yet in speech and picture it records the life of Kitchener from his boyhood until as field marshal his life ended.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 300w
“The volume’s first value is pictorial. The second value is personal.”
+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w
=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 110w
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w
=LE BLANC, MAURICE.= Golden triangle; the return of Arsène Lupin. il *$1.35 (1½c) Macaulay co. 17-2342
It is April, 1915, and Paris has her share of maimed soldiers. She also has still in her midst spies and plotters. It is around the efforts of one of these soldiers, Captain Patrice Belval, to free the woman he loves from the fate that threatens her that this story turns. But the plot is too intricate for the honest, impulsive captain to unravel. For “Little Mother Coralie” of the hospital wards is wife to the scoundrel financier, Essarès Bey, a Turk passing as an Egyptian and a naturalized Frenchman. The wealth of France is at stake. Therefore Arsène Lupin, under an assumed name, again appears upon the scene, and under his marvellous skill, the tangled web is made straight.
=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 40w
=Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 270w
“The entire atmosphere is always tense, but so confused at times that there is difficulty in determining just what is what and who is who. ... The characters of the story are well done.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 320w
“One flaw in the story I must point out. It contains too much crime. Does Le Blanc confuse us connoisseurs with drunkards of crime who must have their dose increased in size with each chapter?” M. A. Hopkins
+ — =Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 450w
“It must be acknowledged that the book is more entertaining before Arsène Lupin appears like a god out of the machine to smooth all difficulties in almost too easy a manner.”
=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w
=LE BON, GUSTAVE.= Psychology of the great war; tr. by E. Andrews. *$3 Macmillan 940.91 (Eng ed 16-23099)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Only for libraries making a very complete collection of war material.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17
“The reader will find M. Le Bon’s argument saturated with loyalty, but not blindly; he will find running through it a sanity of comprehension that may lead to irrelevance but not to injustice; and he will observe a sincere objective intent. ... In view of the peculiarly meagre contributions that in any way illuminate the psychology of the war, and equally of the fact that so many writers admit and emphasize that the psychological causes are the significant ones, the essay of M. Le Bon attains an importance which his reputation presages and his performance confirms.” Joseph Jastrow
* + =Dial= 62:182 Mr 8 ‘17 1700w
“The title of this book does not convey a correct idea of its scope. It would probably be impossible for any living man to write a scientific psychology of the war, partly because psychology is not at present provided with the necessary principles and methods and partly because sufficient data are not yet available. ... This must not be taken to imply that the book is not valuable. It would be valuable if it were only as a collection of excerpts from newspapers, interviews, letters, and state papers. But it is more than this; it is an informing and stimulating book. I mean only that it is not what the author seemingly intends it to be, namely, an explanation of the war in terms of psychological laws. The author adds nothing in the present book to what he has already said on the collective mind.” R. B. Perry
+ — =J Philos= 14:527 S 13 ‘17 1400w
“What Gustave Le Bon writes is always worth reading. No man living knows more about the facts of social psychology, or builds more plausible hypotheses when facts are wanting. ... If the author could have written with scientific impartiality, he would have produced the most important rational work on the war that has yet appeared. Scientific impartiality, however, is not to be expected from a patriot whose country is agonizing under invasion. ... The scientific value of the first third of the book is sadly impaired by mystical contamination of rational conceptions.” A. S. J.
+ — =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 1450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17
=LEDOUX, LOUIS VERNON.= George Edward Woodberry: a study of his poetry. (Contemporary American poet ser.) $1 Poetry review co., 12 Chauncy st., Cambridge, Mass. 811 17-18966
“An interesting biographical essay on this great modern New Englander, on the influences that have governed him and made his poetry what it is, thoughtful, philosophical, cultivated and also very acutely felt. The book includes a good bibliography of all of Mr Woodberry’s writings.” (Ind) Mr Ledoux is vice-president of a firm of mining engineers and has published several volumes of poetry.
=Ath= p469 S ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 90:553 Ja 23 ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 620w
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 40w
=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Songs of peace. *3s 6d Jenkins, London 821
“Last July there fell, fighting for world freedom in the ranks of the Royal Inniskilling fusiliers, the Irish poet who more than any other of recent years has won for himself a unique place in Irish (and incidentally English) letters. ... His work was introduced to the world by Lord Dunsany, who wrote the foreword to ‘Songs of the fields,’ a friendly office which he has again performed for ‘Songs of peace,’ Ledwidge’s last book. ... The poems in the new volume are more self-revelatory than those of ‘Songs of the fields.’ ... The influence of outward events is shown, not only in the tone of the poems, but in the names of the sections into which the slender volume is divided—At home, In barracks, In camp, At sea, In Serbia, In Greece, In hospital in Egypt. Despite stirring times and deeds, the poet’s thoughts turn constantly to Ireland, and his song is most often of her. For this reason Lord Dunsany names the new volume ‘Songs of peace,’ ‘in spite of the circumstances under which they were written.’”—Boston Transcript
+ =Ath= p593 D ‘16 60w
“Ledwidge is before all else the poet of Irish landscape. ... Not only does he give the physical appearance of Ireland, but the true inwardness of her landscape—the color, the scent, and the sound of his beloved land, that the Gael may feel a catch in his breath as he reads, and find his brain flooded with many memories. ... As a poet of nature, Ledwidge has imaginative power linking him with the great poets of the past. ... Yet he is in no sense imitative, he belongs to his own day and has a personality of his own.” N. J. O’C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1200w
+ =Pratt= p34 O ‘17 30w
“This is Mr Ledwidge’s second book, and it shows happily, if anyone doubted it, that his gifts and endowments are of the lasting order. He is a genuine poet; he raises common things above their commonness; he has the vision which perceives and makes beauty.”
+ =Sat R= 123:162 F 17 ‘17 520w
“Last week brought the news that the author of these ‘Songs of peace’ has been killed. ... No one can say what he would have been if he had lived. One cannot be confident about the promise of the queer tender beauty in these poems. ... But of the beauties there can be no doubt.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w
=LEE, JAMES MELVIN.=[2] History of American journalism. il *$3.50 Houghton 071 18-292
A comprehensive and authoritative history of American journalism prepared by the head of the New York university school of journalism. The text which runs through the following chapters is illustrated with reproductions of famous papers and cartoons: Precursors of American newspapers; The first American newspaper—the Boston News-Letter; Beginnings in colonies; Colonial period, 1704-1765; Revolutionary period, 1765-1783; Period of early republic, 1783-1812; First dailies and early party organs; Party press period, 1812-1832; Beginnings in states, 1783-1832; Beginnings of the penny press; Transition period, 1832-1841; Beginnings in states and territories, 1833-1873; Mexican war to Civil war period, 1846-1860; Civil war period, 1860-1865; Reconstruction period, 1865-1880; Period of financial readjustment, 1880-1900; Period of social readjustment, 1900-; Journalism of to-day.
“Unfortunately, Mr Lee thinks it necessary to belittle the work of his predecessor. Were Mr Lee’s own work absolutely flawless, this harsh judgment upon the work of his fellow journalist might be pardonable, but under the circumstances it seems peculiarly unnecessary and inconsiderate. The vast amount of information gathered by Mr Lee makes his volume undeniably of great value as a storehouse of facts. But as a history it contains many defects of arrangement and style. Its index is so incomplete as to be absolutely worthless.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 1150w
“He has performed his task con amore, as his comprehensive work attests.”
+ =Lit D= 56:44 F 9 ‘18 370w
“A book of prime importance to all newspaper men who take an intelligent interest in their profession, of decided interest to the general reader on account of its lively style, and of real value to the student of American life because of its comprehensiveness and its presentation of the ethics as well as the annals of its subject.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w
=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Green jacket. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-24273
This is an unusual kind of detective story. Millicent Newberry, a small woman with gray eyes and hair, who dresses in gray, and whom anyone passing in a crowd would not have noticed particularly, tired of detective work as done in Tom Corbin’s detective agency, because she came to see that “It isn’t commonsense to go on catching folks and locking them up forever, or for a little while—and then letting them run loose.” So she set up an agency of her own and took no cases except with a signed agreement that she should say what should be done with the criminal she caught. Milly solved the mystery of the Mason emeralds which had for two years baffled other detectives. It was her custom to knit when on a case, and the book takes its title from the green jacket she was knitting while she pondered on the mysterious disappearance of the emeralds.
=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
“This story of Millicent Newberry is largely a thing of atmosphere, for it is the subtler realm of atmosphere that Mrs Lee finds the surest way to make her heroine real to us.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1150w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w
“Altho the author leads the reader to expect miraculous sleuth work on the part of Millie Newberry, one is sadly disappointed. The story is rather well constructed but there is not sufficient suspense to hold the interest.”
– + =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 60w
+ =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w
+ =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 300w
=LEE, ROGER IRVING.= Health and disease; their determining factors. *$1.75 (1½c) Little 613 17-8216
The author is professor of hygiene at Harvard university and this book on preventive medicine is the outgrowth of lectures delivered to his classes. It is intended for the layman, whose duty it is to cooperate intelligently with health authorities in the prevention and control of disease. Dr Lee’s purpose is to give him a summary of the knowledge that has been gained by medical science, not omitting to point out the things that science has not yet learned and the fields that are still to be explored. There are chapters on: Heredity; Food; Air; The skin; Exercise and work; Light and the eyes; The hygiene of the teeth and the upper air passages; The hygiene of the mind and the nervous system; The communicable diseases; The air-borne diseases, etc. There is also a discussion of Occupational diseases and a chapter on The function of the board of health.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“Concise and easily readable. ... The volume constitutes a summary knowledge gained from scientific medicine in recent years, but there is an utter absence of technical matter so unwelcome to the layman.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 370w
+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w
“There is nothing in the nature of ‘every-man-his-own-physician’ about this book. On the contrary, the reader of books like this will be very likely to learn when to send for the physician. ... There is a good index and the book is well printed.”
+ =Ind= 90:515 Je 16 ‘17 200w
“Now, as never before, such a work may helpfully serve employers who would understand the wisdom and gain of solving the health problems of their employees. It may even assist medical practitioners who would like a summary of preventive remedies.”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 370w
+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 90w
“It is a misfortune to use this phrase [’The air-borne diseases’] in any sense. ... Specially to be commended are the chapters on Alcohol, tobacco and the habit-forming drugs and on the Venereal diseases and sex-hygiene. ... It is to be most cordially recommended to the lay reader and might find a useful place as a text in a general elementary college course in hygiene and sanitation, and should certainly be on the desk of every teacher of biology and hygiene.” C. M. Hilliard
+ =Science= n s 45:463 My 11 ‘17 350w
“Sane, comprehensive, interesting and up-to-the-minute. One feels that, at last, the subject is set upright, solid, and on its feet.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 200w
=LEFEVRE, EDWIN.= To the last penny. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-10667
Tommy Leigh, newly graduated from college, is faced with the necessity of earning a living. Having grown up in the belief that his father is a rich man, the discovery that he must fend for himself comes as a shock. The severity of the blow, however, grows out of the suspicion that his father is not an honest man, that he has taken advantage of his position as a trusted bank employee to appropriate the funds that paid for his son’s education. Tommy’s first job takes him out to Dayton, Ohio, where he enters the employ of the Tecumseh Motor Company. The chief interest of the story is centered in Thompson, the head of this company and his business methods. At the end there is an adjustment between Tommy and his father and an explanation of the father’s motives.
“A good clean story. ... Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A mechanical piece of work.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 40w
“The story has already appeared serially in one of the well-known weeklies and will be a welcome addition to the summer library of novels. ... It is a book to help one as well as to amuse him.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 220w
“Entertaining, and exceptionally ingenious.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
=LEGGE, THOMAS MORISON, and others.= Origin, symptoms, pathology, treatment and prophylaxis of toxic jaundice observed in munition workers. *$2.50 Longmans 615.9
“Since the war a new occupational disease has been listed in the British factory inspection reports and has been added to those for which compensation can be claimed under the law. This is toxic jaundice, a form of poisoning caused by contact with the explosive trinitrotoluol, or triton, or TNT, to give it all its names. ... In 1916 there were reported in Great Britain 181 cases of toxic jaundice—the severe form of TNT poisoning—with 52 deaths. Milder forms need not be certified, but they are said to number about 30 times as many (some 5,400). ... As our output of munitions increases, TNT poisoning will inevitably increase unless we adopt the means of prevention worked out in England. This book is a mine of interesting information concerning this new and important industrial disease.”—Survey
“While much of it is very technical and of value only to physicians, there is a great deal for the lay inspector or welfare worker.” Alice Hamilton
+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 350w
=LE GRAND, PHILIPPE E.= New Greek comedy; with an introd. by J: Williams White. *$4.50 Putnam 882 17-21776
“Professor Legrand’s ‘Daos, tableau de la comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle’ appeared in 1910 and immediately commanded the favorable consideration of classical scholars. Now Mr James Loeb, who had already translated Decharme’s ‘Euripides and the spirit of his dramas’ (1905) and Croiset’s ‘Aristophanes and the political parties of Athens’ (1909), has put us still further in his debt by providing an English version of Legrand as the concluding member of a trilogy of French works dealing with the history of ancient drama. ... With the idea of securing the attention of a wider public, not a little which would be of interest primarily to specialists has been omitted in the present edition. The translator’s preface states that the selection of passages for omission was made by the French author and that the bulk has thus been reduced by almost one-third.”—Class J
“Between the author and the translator every effort has been made to recommend this book to the general reader without taking away any part of its accuracy or its importance to the scholastic world.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 900w
“One would be greatly mistaken if he concluded that the present version were rendered altogether suitable for the general reader, for Greek and Latin words, phrases, and sentences are left standing in the text with such frequency as to present a serious obstacle to all but the classically trained. ... It would have added considerably to the value of the book if the author or translator could have brought the bibliographical references quite up to date. ... I have tested the translation at numerous points and have found it uniformly accurate. ... The original edition had no index, but Professor Capps has supervised the compilation of an extensive index for the translation. ... The French edition was competently reviewed by Professor Prescott in Classical Philology, V (1910), 377ff.” R. C. Flickinger
+ =Class J= 13:77 O ‘17 1350w
“Although Legrand’s book is unquestionably the best available description of New comedy, it is at times tedious reading, in its English form, for the general student of literature. It is often unnecessarily profuse in arraying examples of a given phase of comedy; the French author’s style of exposition is sometimes clumsily mechanical; and in general a clear succinct statement of the essential features of content and form, described from the standpoint of a modern reader of ancient comedy, would serve much better the needs of the audience to whom Mr Loeb addresses his translation.” H: W. Prescott
+ — =Class Philol= 12:442 O ‘17 220w
“This book will be not only indispensable to the conscientious student of literary history, but of genuine interest to the intelligent general reader who might be repelled by the mass of technical material, wisely omitted in this case, which so many writers on classical subjects seem to think it ignominious to spare him.” E. D. Perry
+ =Educ R= 55:73 Ja ‘18 900w
“The ‘Daos’ of Prof. Legrand, which Mr Loeb now gives us in an excellent version, has not the characteristic French gift of brilliant generalisation. It is rather a book which appeals to the main trend of American scholarship, which is to gather up laboriously an infinite amount of small detail. ... It will be a bit stiff for the general reader who is in view, for it is thickly spread with the names of plays, which are usually fragments of plays, and dramatis personæ.”
+ =Sat R= 123:578 Je 23 ‘17 1350w
“M. Legrand is happy alike in his opportunity and in the use that he has made of it. ... To the general reader the omissions are no loss, while Mr Loeb’s English version shows that he himself is a master of the art which he has done so much to encourage.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p220 My 10 ‘17 2150w
=LEIGHOU, ROBERT BENJAMIN.= Chemistry of materials of the machine and building industries. il *$3 McGraw 660 17-11589
“A text-book for technical schools considering from the standpoint of the user the chemistry of water, fuels, refractory materials, iron and steel, nonferrous materials and alloys, foundry sands, building stones, lime and gypsum products, cement, clay and its products, paints, varnishes, lubricants, glue, rubber, insulating materials, etc.” (Cleveland) The author is associate professor of chemistry in the Carnegie institute of technology.
“The bibliographical footnotes and the lists of books and periodical references at the chapter endings make this an excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”
+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w
“There is a curious admixture of the scientific and the popular methods of treatment. The references are many and interesting, though it is to be doubted whether the technical student will be other than bewildered by their number, or the user of materials, seeking detailed information, will be less than exasperated by the glossing of facts indicated by their unceasing recurrence.”
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 150w
“Intended for students who have a knowledge of elementary general chemistry. ... An excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ap ‘17 90w
“Useful work, including a wide range of materials and giving concise information much of which is not easily available elsewhere.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 40w
=LEONARD, MARY FINLEY.= Ways of Jane; a story with which the wise and prudent have no concern. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 17-8350
This is the story of Jane and her friends on Sycamore street and of certain other people who live in the more aristocratic Kenton place. Jane is seven years old and she lives with Angela, her aunt, who is young and lovely and who writes reviews of books to help with the family living. Jane has a part in the reviewing, too, placing large blue penciled R’s on the paper jacket of each book as it leaves Angela’s hands. Jane’s best friend is Miss Goldie, the little dressmaker who shares her belief in fairies and ogres. Her next best friend is David. David is a young man who lives in Kenton place, but Jane does not recognize class distinctions and this does not interfere with their friendship. There are other pleasant people in the story and before the end of it Jane’s faith in fairies, yes, and in ogres, too, is vindicated.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
“A very slight, rather pleasant and somewhat long-winded little story.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 140w
“Although Jane is a juvenile, the book is not.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 180w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w
=LEONARD, STERLING ANDRUS.= English composition as a social problem. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (2c) Houghton 808 17-5148
The idea that lies back of this monograph is expressed by Dr Suzzallo in his Editor’s introduction: “Most self-expression is for the purpose of social communication. We express ourselves in the presence of other people to gain appreciation or stimulation and to influence and control others. Our whole use of language has a social setting.” The author has worked out this idea in a plan for composition teaching in grades and high school. Four chapters discuss: The sources of composition projects in child-activities; The social group as an agent in expressional development; The organization of ideas; Evolution and attainment of expressional standards.
=A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17
“Stimulating, somewhat technical.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 My ‘17 70w
+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:46 Mr ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:646 O ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 60w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:606 O ‘17 90w
=LESLIE, SHANE.= Celt and the world. *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940 17-7029
The present war is termed a Teutonic family split. The real point at issue is, Which of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic family shall rule the sea. The theme of the book is the relation of Celt and Teuton in history, with special reference of course to the relation of England and Ireland. Between Germany and Ireland, there can be little in common is the author’s conclusion. “The fortunes of Ireland are with the Anglo-Celtic empire, though the reactionary English element has by unwisdom obscured the path.” Contents: The Aryans and their religion; Celt and Teuton; The conversion of the Celt; The holy Aryan empire; The Aryan dispersion; A view of Irish history; The Teutonic family split.
“Not only from the standpoint of history is his book interesting, but he has built up an argument which is certainly thought-provoking.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 220w
“Though entertainingly written and abounding in literary charm, the study will prove a disappointment to most readers. They will naturally expect an illuminating study of the influence of one of the world’s great races on its general trend of events, but they will find instead an opportunist brief born of the present war.”
=Cleveland= p81 Je ‘17 80w (Reprinted from America)
“Pre-supposes a ‘well-read’ reader and a receptive mind. To many the sketch of Irish history will be the most interesting thing in the book; and the praise heaped upon the Celtic hero, Daniel O’Connell, will find few critics. Mr Leslie surely knows his subject.”
+ =Cath World= 105:823 S ‘17 340w
“An essay on European development from an unusual angle—from the angle of a student who remains rather aloof from the achievements of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic stock—the German and the Anglo-Saxon. Mr Leslie’s ideal of European union is one from which Europe seems to have decisively departed—a union under the presidency of pope and emperor. ... Now that the dominant Aryan people, the Teutonic, are wasting themselves in fratricidal conflict, the menace of Asia becomes more positive, more immediate. That is the thesis of ‘The Celt and the world.’” Padraic Colum
=Dial= 62:435 My 17 ‘17 900w
+ — =Nation= 105:73 Jl 19 ‘17 400w
“Both learned and brilliant—a rare combination today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 400w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w
Letters from a French hospital. *$1 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-15442
A series of letters written to her people at home by an English girl nursing in France. They range in date from July 31, 1915 to September 17, 1916. For the most part they are concerned with the every day duties and routine of hospital service, but now and again there is a reflective sentence that reveals the writer’s character. “I never for a moment wanted the Boches to win, but I just can’t want them killed,” she writes. At another time she tells that she has just motored over to the Spanish frontier where she stood on the border and “looked longingly over into peace.”
“American women who are looking forward to hospital service during the war cannot fail to be interested in these unusual letters.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 30w
“The letters are an interesting revelation of all the unconscious little heroisms that are part of the daily life near any great fighting front.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 220w
“Pictures conditions similar to those described in ‘Mademoiselle Miss,’ and the writer displays many of the same qualities, which led to success despite her lack of training.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 50w
=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Hallow-e’en, and poems of the war. *$1.25 Dutton 821
“Most of the war poetry has had in it more or less of the clangor of battle, the exaltation of spirit that fills the soldier at the firing line, the gay comradeship of the march. But these poems are mostly from the point of view of the home-staying ones and are full of the tender reverence of these for the soldier fighting and dying, of compassion for the bereaved at home, and of admiration for the courage with which they bear their losses and sorrows.”—N Y Times
“A somewhat different touch marks these war poems in comparison with most of the war poetry the last two or three years have brought forth—a touch that perhaps can be best described as the priestly touch of understanding and compassion and healing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 530w
“Contains many fine poems, several of which have received praise on previous publication in English magazines. ‘Hallow-e’en, 1915,’ ‘He prayed,’ and ‘The spires of Oxford,’ have a rare quality and deserve a place among the best expressions of the war spirit in poetry.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 50w
“Miss Letts never strikes a wrong note or plucks needlessly at our heartstrings, and if there is little gaiety in her new volume, there is no wantoning with sorrow.”
+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 200w
=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Spires of Oxford, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 821 17-24170
“The majority of the poems in this volume were published in 1916 under the title ‘Hallow-e’en and poems of the war.’ The verdict of the public, as shown by continual requests for permission to republish, is that ‘The spires of Oxford’ is the most important poem in the volume—and therefore in issuing a new edition with several new poems, we bow to this verdict and give ‘The spires of Oxford’ its place in the forefront of the volume.” (Publishers’ note) Contents: Poems of the war; Ad mortuum; Miscellanea.
“They have a felicity of expression, variety, distinction, a touch of dramatic fervor and a genuineness of feeling which make them appealing.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“These war poems one may read through with responsive interest, but with no keen poignancy, except on one occasion. That exception is in the verses called ‘What reward?’ ... The poems in the other two groups of Miss Letts’s volume show her, I think, in a better poetic light. ... The work is always clear, sometimes vivid, always cleanly wrought.” W. S. B.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 500w
+ =Cath World= 106:402 D ‘17 90w
“Contains some poems on the war which we should be sorry to have missed.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w
“There are many noble war-poems in Miss Letts’s book, but the part of it which impresses us most is that containing poems personal in theme. Miss Letts’s chief claim—and a strong claim it is—upon the affections of those who care greatly for poetry is the group of poems called ‘Ad mortuum.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 6 ‘17 850w
“They are primarily poems—buoyant with beauty, full of fresh visions of loveliness, warm and human and sweet. The war poems are dignified and reveal an occasional flash of understanding that is all too unusual in war verse.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 470w
+ =N Y Times= 22:566 D 16 ‘17 230w
“The poem from which the book takes its title is an outstanding example of war verse, notable for its simplicity and feeling. ... Almost equally affecting is ‘Halloween, 1915.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 24 ‘17 280w
=LEUBA, JAMES HENRY.= Belief in God and immortality; a psychological, anthropological and statistical study. *$2 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 218 17-54
The author says, “In an earlier book [’A psychological study of religion,’ 1912] I have considered the origin, the nature, the function, and the future of the belief in what I have called ‘personal’ gods. The present volume is a similar study of the belief in personal immortality.” Part 1 treats of The two conceptions of immortality: their origins, their different characteristics and the attempted demonstration of the truth of the modern conception. This part also includes an examination of the studies of the Society of psychical research. Part 2 presents a statistical study of the belief in a personal God and in personal immortality in the United States. Part 3 treats of the present utility of the beliefs in personal immortality and in a personal God. The author is professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr college.
“The author presents a somewhat detailed study of the belief in God and a future life as it appears in primitive religions and in the modern world of educated men and women. The treatment is extremely suggestive and illuminating. The conclusion is that these beliefs, having in the minds of people today little or no relation to the conduct of life, may well be discarded in favor of more practical moral teachings. The book deserves careful reading on the part of all religious and social workers.” Irving King
+ =Am J Soc= 23:129 Jl ‘17 550w
“It is a pleasure to find, as one does in Leuba’s work, a really fresh presentation and something like an original point of view. Professor Leuba has put in his debt all those who have the welfare of religion at heart by showing them that the situation is really much more serious than most of them had supposed.” J. B. Pratt
+ =Am J Theol= 21:629 O ‘17 1650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p94 F ‘17 100w
“Rarely, if ever, has the distinction between two quite different conceptions of personal immortality been so successfully elaborated.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 150w
“There are few subjects as to which statistics can be more meaningless, and that is saying a great deal.”
— =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 40w
“The book is exceedingly interesting, but far from convincing, when one realizes that the conclusions are based merely upon questionnaires sent to interested persons of the college world.”
=Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
“The reader of this study can but be impressed with the fact that in this book is discussed with the fair spirit of critical inquiry a subject that in recent literature has been even unscrupulously handled.” J. R. Kantor
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 500w
=Nation= 104:496 Ap 26 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:41 Mr ‘17
=LEVI, N.= Jan Smuts; being a character sketch of Gen. the Hon. J. C. Smuts, K. C., M. L. A., minister of defence, Union of South Africa. il *$2.50 Longmans 17-15584
“General Smuts, leader of the British forces against the Germans in German Southeast Africa, has gone to England as a member of the British Imperial war cabinet. ... He is one of the really interesting personalities of this far-flung war. And in a book, written by a South African neighbor, presumably for South African readers in the first place, and then for Britons in general, the author of the present volume has offered a real contribution to the knowledge of the world at large. ‘Jan Smuts’ is, as the title page states, a character sketch rather than a biography. It is written with great simplicity, out of a heart-felt admiration, with the utmost sympathy and the most intimate knowledge both of the man himself and of the circumstance and the events of his life.”—N Y Times
“The work gives one the flavor of South Africa. It is not only the racy English idiom enlivened with fresh South African phrases, nor the imagination that loves to play with odd figures of speech drawn from the author’s own experience; it is the insight into the Boers, the sympathetic insight of a man who has seen a wider world only to estimate his own better. Few men in their lifetimes have been so fortunate in their biographers as General Smuts.” Wallace Notestein
+ =Am Hist R= 23:434 Ja ‘18 450w
+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 330w
“Seems to lack those picturesque features and that broader humanity with which we associate General Botha.”
+ — =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 150w
“It is exceedingly interesting. ... The last sentence is all the more interesting in connection with a statement quoted from A. G. Gardiner of the London Daily News that Jan Smuts is ‘the most considerable figure in Greater Britain.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 520w
“His biography is doubly worth while; it describes both an interesting individual character and the recent development of South African economic, social, and political conditions.”
+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 70w
* =Spec= 118:365 Mr 24 ‘17 1500w
“His style is dreadful. ... Yet Mr Levi has his merits. He is ingenuous and kindly. His knowledge of facts is accurate, his judgment of political opponents not usually overharsh, his reverence and affection for General Smuts himself very genuine and very obvious. His book, at least, comes pat to the moment. ... People in this country might do much worse than get it and read it. It will, at least help them to understand the elements of South African politics and the position of the Botha government.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 430w
=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Russian revolution. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 947 17-15056
This work by the foreign news editor of the New York Tribune has chapters devoted to: A century of struggle for freedom; Russian autocracy and the great war; Russian democracy and the great war; The birth of social Russia; The Duma and social Russia; The democratization of the army; The rule of Goremykin; The dark forces; Working for Prussianism; A traitor to democracy; The crisis; Rasputin and Protopopov; The revolution; The fall of czarism; The new Russia; The future. Summarizing the contents, the author says, “The first six chapters of this book give a general survey of the forces that underlay the revolution. The following six chapters deal with the events in the thirty months preceding it. The last four chapters cover the revolution proper and its possibilities.”
“Very interesting and compact.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17
=Ath= p530 O ‘17 200w
“A clear-cut and sober analysis.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w
“It is a thrilling story and it is so well presented on the whole that one forgets the aberrations of the author’s English style.” N. H. D.
+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 850w
“Presents information which is not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“Although he has leavened the mere literal record with competent and sometimes illuminating interpretation, Mr Levine does not attempt to give more than a hasty journalistic summary. Yet even in so slight a book the author is compelled to devote over two-thirds his space to an analysis of the governmental disorganization, chicanery and almost open treason which made the drama of March, 1917, inevitable.”
+ =New Repub= 12:56 Ag 11 ‘17 600w
“The book as a whole is fascinating. But one chapter of it, because of its unusual character, may be mentioned, that dealing with Rasputin.” Frank Macdonald
+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 600w
“Tells in crisp, journalistic style, and with a full sense of its amazingness, this latest romance of human freedom. The author draws from a full and deep knowledge of Russia; he is able to sum up the salient facts leading gradually and surely to the revolution without wasting time or losing the reader’s attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 1500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 70w
+ =Pratt= p44 O ‘17 10w
“By all odds the most journalistic and vivid of the presentations of the motives and forces that are energizing the Russian national movement. ... Mr Levine’s terse and graphic narrative of Petrograd’s days of transition from absolutism to modern democracy can hardly be surpassed.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 250w
“Much of what he says should be common knowledge, and if it is not his book should help in making it so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 100w
“The personalities of Sturmer, Rasputin, Protopopov, the Tsaritsa, and other pro-Germans are clearly brought out.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
=LEWIN, PERCY EVANS.= German road to the East. *$2.50 Doran 327.4 (Eng ed 17-9488)
“An account of the ‘Drang nach Osten’ and of Teutonic aims in the Near and Middle East. It discusses the political and economic causes which underlie the Eastern question, the problems of the Balkan states and Russia, the position of Persia and the probable result of British occupation of Bagdad.”—A L A Bkl
“Interesting in connection with Naumann’s ‘Central Europe’ (Booklist 13:247 My ‘17) and Gibbons’ ‘New map of Europe’ (Booklist 11:258 F ‘15). Well documented with a selected classed bibliography (8p).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17
“Mr Evans Lewin’s book lacks the personal knowledge and individual feeling that give originality to Sir Thomas Holdich’s writing. Its strongest feature is its bibliography, and, indeed, the whole book smells somewhat of the lamp; yet the standpoint from which it is written fatally deprives it of authority and permanence. A history of German penetration in the Near East would be an intensely interesting sociological study; but Mr Lewin is not writing a history, he is making out a case. ... There is a great deal of excellent geographical analysis and solid historical information in Mr Lewin’s book.”
– + =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 650w
“An excellent and painstaking study of the Berlin to Bagdad project, the fullest and perhaps best balanced account of Pan-Germanism, which has so far appeared.”
+ =Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 50w
“A scholarly and important contribution to the literature of the war and its causes.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 15 ‘17 750w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
“The study throughout is comprehensive and penetrating and authorities are given for all important statements.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 150w
“In this useful book Mr Lewin examines in detail the development of Germany’s ambitious designs on the Near East, typified in the phrase ‘from Berlin to Baghdad.’ Every one, we suppose, now understands the German desire to absorb the whole heritage of the ‘Sick man,’ but it is convenient to have the diplomatic and economic history of the German schemes during the last twenty years set forth in this readable form. Mr Lewin, we think, exaggerates English ignorance of pan-Germanism.”
+ — =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 250w
“Mr Lewin is already known by his useful volume on the Germans in Africa; he has many qualifications for the task he has undertaken; he has great industry and wide reading, and, in particular, has a very thorough understanding of British colonial aims and interests. This latter quality is shown in the volume before us; by far the most valuable chapters are those on Asia Minor, and particularly on Persia. ... While, therefore, the book is of great value as regards the events in Asia, for an explanation of the real influences and character of German policy at home it is inferior to other recent works such as those of Dr Rose, or Dr Prothero’s very useful pamphlet, ‘German policy before the war.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p482 O 12 ‘16 2000w
=LEWINSKI-CORWIN, EDWARD HENRY.= Political history of Poland. il $3 Polish book importing co., 83 2d av., N.Y. 943.8 17-19703
“The author has sketched the history of the Polish state from its early beginnings to its disintegration, and has followed the fortunes of its scattered remnants down to the present day. The chapter on The Polish question and the great war contains information on the Polish legions and on the present attitude of Polish patriots towards Russia, Germany, and Austria not easily obtainable elsewhere. ... Dr Lewinski-Corwin believes that a free and republican Russia will make the reconstruction of Poland, as an independent state, in confederation with Lithuania and Ruthenia, a political possibility.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17
“A chapter on the Polish legions and the attitude of the ‘patriots’ toward Austria, Germany and Russia is illuminating and gives information not easily accessible elsewhere.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
“The last two chapters, however,—dealing with ‘constitutional Russia and the Poles’ and ‘the Polish question and the great war,’—have decided value, not alone because they bring the story up to date, but because they show an unusually keen insight into the perplexities of the contemporary Polish problem.” F: A. Ogg
+ — =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 670w
=Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 280w
“Fully familiar with his subject. ... The interest of the volume is enhanced by numerous illustrations. ... The book might have gained in value by more careful proof-reading.”
+ — =Nation= 105:298 S 13 ‘17 240w
“A great deal of space is given to the many efforts of Poland to free itself from Russian serfdom.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 370w
=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17
“If due allowance is made for these limitations, Dr Lewinski-Corwin’s book takes its place as the best and most authoritative brief history of Poland now on the market.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ — =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 800w
=LEWIS, BURDETTE GIBSON.= Offender and his relations to law and society. (Harper’s modern science ser.) il *$2 (1½c) Harper 364 17-10887
A work on prison reform and modern correctional methods by the Commissioner of correction for New York city. The book is made up of two parts, the first, Society and the offender, is a study of methods actually in use in various institutions. There are chapters on: The court and the offender; Classification of the offender; Probation and parole; The indeterminate sentence; Autocratic government and discipline; Other systems of government and discipline, etc. Part 2 deals with the prevention of crime and considers the different social forces which can be used to that end. There are several appendixes presenting interesting matter relating to prison practice, including among other items a Plan for the rational treatment of women convicted in the courts of the County of New York prepared by Katharine B. Davis.
“The book is open to criticism because of the inadequate development of part 2 on the prevention of crime. The common-sense point of view, the thoroughly socialized legal attitude, and the new illustrative material from the author’s experience are the strong points.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:553 Ja ‘18 180w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 60w
“Neither reactionary nor sentimental.”
+ =Ind= 91:292 Ag 25 ‘17 120w
“The great merit of this book is the humanity and intimacy, the familiarity of detail and truthfulness, with which it treats of four complicated aspects of society’s dealing with the wrongdoer.”
+ =Nation= 104:734 Je 21 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Lewis combines idealism with common sense. ... The volume is sound in its philosophy, shows in the author both a practical familiarity with present methods and an intelligent reading of history and is to be heartily commended to all those who are interested in the problem.”
+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:533 Je ‘17 100w
=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w
“It is refreshing to find an administrator so alive to the modern scientific study of the individual delinquent and to the need for individual treatment. Mr Lewis’s approach to his subject is for the most part liberal and scientific; his information goes far beyond the files of his own department. ... The book is not as fluent in style as Wines’ ‘Punishment and reformation,’ but it supersedes that volume for the student of penology today.” W. D. Lane
+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Innocents. il *$1.25 (3c) Harper 17-24286
The author calls this “a story for lovers,” “a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry, and love old people and children.” (Introd.) It is the story of the later years of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, who, though they were born in New York city, and had lived there upward of sixty years, were “rustic as a meadow-ringed orchard.” After their daughter has married a prosperous druggist in a small New York town, “Father,” who has clerked for many years in Pilking’s shoestore on Sixth avenue, decides to give up his job, and, with the help of “Mother,” opens a tea-room in an old farm house on the cliffs at Grimsby Head, Cape Cod. Why the venture fails, how the old couple take to the open road and how they finally make a place, and that no mean one, for themselves in Lipsittsville, Indiana; instead of living with their eminently respectable daughter who is always trying to make them over, is sympathetically told by Mr Lewis.
“An entertaining and amusing variant of the typical love story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“It is in spite of his ingenuity, not because of it, that the reader keeps on believing in Father and Mother, the devoted and the irrepressible.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 170w
“The characterization rings true, but the adventures, especially the long tramp from city to city, are pleasantly improbable.”
+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w
“The facile smartness of phrases, the essential flimsiness, of Mr Lewis’s latest book presents a spectacle made all the sadder by the traces of a better self revealed in it.”
– + =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 550w
“We wonder if the publishers really agree with the notice-writer that the book is ‘a tender romance of an American Darby and Joan?’ Sentimental farce would come nearer the mark.”
— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 260w
“Preposterous but rather amusing story.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w
“In some of his former stories Mr Lewis has shown a peculiar understanding of the gray, limited lives of the small work people of a big city and of the meaning to them of their possible pleasures, dreams, and temperamental expressions. In ‘The innocents’ he gives full rein to this faculty, with the result that the intimate and full-length picture of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, otherwise ‘Father’ and ‘Mother,’ is very touching, very charming, and so simple and true in all its essentials that even when the story is at its most audaciously romantic pitch it is still plausible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w
“The story as a whole is a delightful picture of mutual love and courage, that floats like a fresh breeze over the reader’s consciousness, jaded with the conventional romances of the day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 310w
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= The job. *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6323
A story of modern business and of a woman’s place in business life. Una Golden, who comes from Panama, Pa., to New York, is an ordinary girl, with blond hair and eye-glasses. The story covers ten years of her life, from 1905 to 1915, from the age of twenty-five to thirty-five. In that time she studies at a “commercial college,” holds various jobs, and lives the life of a working girl, in boarding house, “home,” and light-housekeeping flat. Midway in this period she finds the job getting on her nerves, and takes the way of escape offered, marriage. But marriages made from that motive start with a handicap, and Una’s is a failure. She returns to the job with new resolution, determined to conquer. She does, becomes a successful business woman, and then begins to consider the possibility of a second marriage in which conflicting claims of home and a career are both to be satisfied.
“Some of the episodes of her unfortunate marriage may be considered too frank and sordid but they are not the main interest, while the story leaves one with more confidence in the women who are beginning to realize the possibilities of ‘the job.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
“What justifies the book, in the end, is not its ‘idea,’ or its incidental cleverness, which is notable, but its portrait of a woman. Una Golden is—herself.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 405:316 My ‘17 750w
“To say that Mr Lewis’s novel is aggressively modern is not to say more than truth. It expresses the American spirit of this very day and hour.” E. F. E.
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w
=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 140w
“One may discern here a sermon preached, a plot more or less arranged. But there is no escaping the sincerity and originality of the central portrait. As a person, theories apart, Una Golden rings true.”
+ — =Nation= 104:433 Ap 12 ‘17 470w
“Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. ... He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos. He has kept the spotlight of the novelist on her without giving her a spotlight-life.” F. H.
+ — =New Repub= 10:234 Mr 24 ‘17 1250w
“The story of the girl who for one reason or another goes into business has been told many times; but very, very seldom indeed with even one-half the convincingness which this author has managed to give to his history of Una Golden. ... Sane, generous, well balanced, above all, real, it interprets by presenting this world as it is.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 1050w
“The story is a serious, if gloomy, study. It has no light phases. ... In its main details the story rings true, considering the character concerned, but it is unpleasant.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 27 ‘17 450w
“The story reads like a true one but is hardly pleasing enough to attract the ordinary novel-reader.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 70w
=LIBBY, WALTER.= Introduction to the history of science. il *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 509 17-8227
“This book is intended as a simple introduction, taking advantage of the interests of youth of from seventeen to twenty-two years or age (and their intellectual compeers) in order to direct their attention to the story of the development of the sciences. ... It is a psychological introduction, having the mental capacity of a certain class of readers always in view, rather than a logical introduction.” (Preface) Contents: Science and practical needs—Egypt and Babylonia; The influence of abstract thought—Greece: Aristotle; Scientific theory subordinated to application—Rome: Vitruvius; The continuity of science—the medieval church and the Arabs; The classification of the sciences—Francis Bacon; Scientific method—Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes; Coöperation in science—the Royal society, etc. The closing chapter is a discussion of science and democratic culture. The author is professor of the history of science in the Carnegie institute of technology, Pittsburgh.
“A little book on a big subject in excellent English. [The relations of science] to other fields of man’s life—education, war, religion, industry, travel, philosophy, art, ethics, and democracy—are well touched upon, and the closing chapter deals chiefly with Matthew Arnold and Nietzsche. It contains many interesting facts that will be new to most persons, and also a number of passages that set one thinking. Many history teachers might broaden their view of the past by perusing this volume.” Lynn Thorndike
+ + — =Am Hist R= 23:125 O ‘17 720w
=A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w
+ =Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 600w
“Breathes on every page the tolerant, generous, objective spirit of science. But Dr Libby is no narrow champion of scientific as opposed to literary culture, and he recommends systematic teaching of the sciences in relation both to the daily work and to their historical and cultural antecedents.’ It is on account of its broadening and stimulating cultural influence that this fine work of Dr Libby’s is to be recommended. It should find a place, if not always in the curriculum, certainly in the library, of every high school, normal school, and college in the land.” Cephas Guillet
+ =Educ R= 54:192 S ‘17 600w
+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 80w
“We have long needed a systematically organized and clearly written history of science for the college student and the layman who is not taking active part in the development of any one of the sciences. Professor Libby’s new book is probably the first contribution in this field.”
+ =El School J= 17:610 Ap ‘17 350w
“Professor Libby has divided his purpose in such a way as to obscure and to break the thread of his subject. He, apparently, tries to compress into one small volume a résumé of the history of all the sciences from the earliest times. In addition to this almost hopeless task, he wishes to attract and to influence the youth by showing the nobility of science. He also wishes to exalt the national spirit, and he does it by devoting whole chapters to Franklin and Langley, which compels him to compress or to omit many of the really great achievements in science. As a textbook, the work is of value in spite of this confusion. In the first place, there are almost no others available, and in addition Professor Libby has been accurate and his style is readable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 500w
“One of the most effective pieces of scientific popularization it has ever been my good fortune to read. Prof. Libby has a power of presenting clearly ideas often difficult from their inherent abstractness that has rarely been equalled save by men of genius like Huxley and Galton. He has obviously an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and he has a singular success in communicating his enthusiasm. His book is, on the whole, conceived in admirable perspective. It has exactly the right amount of biographical material to give it the genuine touch of living personality.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:23 Ag 4 ‘17 2000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 130w
“With an undercurrent of philosophical speculation, the treatment is rather biographical, typical scientists being selected to illustrate the attitude and the methods of the scientists, as well as the principles developed and applied.” B. C. Gruenberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 40w
=LIDDELL, ROBERT SCOTLAND.= On the Russian front. il *8s 6d Simpkin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-15304)
“Mr Liddell saw the great Russian retreat of last summer in a double capacity: he was a member of the seventh group of Polish Red cross volunteers, and also the correspondent of the Sphere; that is to say, he took part in the events described in the book, and he recorded them before his impressions became blunted. ... It is a depressing story that Mr Liddell has to tell—a story of crippled men, of gutted buildings, and of refugees, flying one with his drawing-room suite on a cart, another with a couple of canaries in a cage, several with nothing but some potted plants. But the Russian soldier is not depressed; his comment is ‘Neechevo’—‘It is nothing.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16
“Every page in this book was written amid the routine of danger, a battle thundering quite close at hand, and a drama of mingled sweat and blood and dirt coming with the stricken, whose uncomplaining courage was an awful monotony of silent anguish.”
=Sat R= 122:299 S 23 ‘16 1200w
Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer
=Spec= 117:551 N 4 ‘16 1600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 6 ‘16 650w
=LIEBKNECHT, KARL PAUL AUGUST FRIEDRICH.= Militarism. *$1 (2c) Huebsch 172.4 17-26892
A fearless arraignment of autocracy which cost Liebknecht his freedom and resulted in the suppression of his book. It is a clear statement of the principles and convictions of the man who has so courageously led the struggle against militarism in Germany. He points out that militarism in its four-fold development is the offspring of capitalism; “militarism for abroad,” navalism, colonial militarism and “militarism for home.” He shows that all of the policies of the militaristic system serve the exploiting interests of the ruling classes of capitalism instead of furthering economic development in conformity with the duties and interests of civilization. Militarism obstructs class consciousness, turns the army into a handy, docile effective tool, while distorting the reason and narcotizing the soul. Thruout the discussion the point of view of the proletariat is kept—of the under-dog against whom the army is a weapon along the path of economic struggle.
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Herr Liebknecht assails the past record of militarism socially, politically, economically, historically, and statistically, with true German thoroughness.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w
=Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 620w
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 160w
“The book is chiefly of historical interest, since the world war is so changing world ideas. ... But the book is interesting and timely for the light it throws on the pre-war Germany and for the illumination it makes of the character of Karl Liebknecht.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 900w
“The fact that Dr Liebknecht’s ‘Militarism’ was suppressed and the author put in prison for his daring criticism of the German military system would assure it a cordial welcome in the United States even were the book not so abundantly able to stand on its own bottom. ... Yet be warned that Dr Liebknecht measures us along with other countries and finds us, well, not absolute perfection. He lists us and our methods along with other nations and their methods with a horrid impersonality that intimates that we are just like other folks.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 92:811 S 15 ‘17 850w
“While the book perhaps overemphasizes the part played by the class struggle in creating modern armaments, its words deserve the most careful heeding.” H: Neumann
+ — =Survey= 39:471 Ja 26 ‘18 630w
“Interesting at the present time, but not essential in small libraries.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 50w
=LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.= Uncollected letters; now first brought together by Gilbert A. Tracy; with an introd. by Ida M. Tarbell. il *$2.50 Houghton 17-28895
Three hundred letters which Lincoln wrote for the greater part from 1858 to 1861 most of which have never been published before. Tho many of them are brief each has the stamp of Lincoln individuality; and covering, as they do, a great range of interests they furnish a sidelight on the character of Lincoln which no student can overlook. There are legal letters, letters that bear upon the period when Lincoln was competing with Douglas for the senatorship, and letters that reflect his life and relations with friends, all of them giving ample illustration “of his cleverness, his fairness and continued zest in the political game.” The collector of the letters was a clerk in the War department from 1863 to 1868 during which time he grew to love and revere the great emancipator. “Mr Tracy has crowned his life long devotion to Abraham Lincoln with a noble gift to the people of the country.”
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 330w
“In spite of the scarcity of allusions to his domestic life it is profitable to get such glimpses as are revealed in the collection. ... It must be said that a considerable portion of these letters have no connection with the great service and life of Lincoln, but relate to commonplace and routine matters. Many are not worth preserving except for their autographs. It is regrettable that classification and topical headings are lacking, though the index is complete and satisfactory.” H. S. K.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w
“That many are inconsequential does not discount the value of the entire collection. As a whole they shed strong light upon Abraham Lincoln’s life.”
+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 110w
+ =Nation= 105:569 N 22 ‘17 950w
“Many of the pieces are of little moment, except that, as Miss Tarbell says in her preface, ‘Nothing that he wrote is without importance’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 1050w
+ — =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 110w
=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Extricating Obadiah. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-25818
Cape Cod, of course. A simple story scheme that runs something like this: Obadiah Burgess inherits a house and twelve thousand in cash. He had formerly been a cabin boy and had gone to sea with Captain Noah Newcomb. At the time of his prosperity his old captain, now retired, is touring Cape Cod and is laid up for motor repairs in Obadiah’s town of Trumet. Obadiah had indulged in a good deal of talk about his wealth and excited the cupidity of a dealer in antiques who begins a systematic and apparently successful campaign to relieve Obadiah of his wealth. Worried, Obadiah appeals to his old friend. After the captain finds that about a dozen are taking part in weaving a net around Obadiah he turns to a task quite similar to putting together a picture puzzle. He lists his pieces, gets their number, and puts them together to the amazement of Obadiah and the discomfort of his culprits.
“Full of Cape Cod dialect and humor.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w
+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w
“The author’s versatility is equal to any difficulty and he evolves plots, inner plots, and counter-plots. He makes impossible and exaggerated facts seem quite plausible.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 210w
“The simple little story is familiar and commonplace but it is a fairly entertaining tale, nevertheless.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w
“Again we have racy dialogue, honest fun, and clever situations.”
+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w
“The plot is not a very heavy one, but who reads a Lincoln novel for the plot alone! One reads it for genial old tars like Captain Noah, for rascally old skinflints like Balaam Griggs, for Serepta Hatches, keeping tabs on how many times Mary Barstow’s beau calls, for salt water vocabularies, for glimpses of Cape Cod’s sandy marshes and for mental whiffs of stiff sea breezes.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 450w
“In the new story there is a well-sustained plot in addition to a new group of familiar character types. The story is in Mr Lincoln’s best vein, which spells unadulterated diversion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 350w
=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Nameless man. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24163
“Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between California and Washington, in diplomatic circles and social life, the mystery runs, implicating white men as well as Japanese. And mingled with the adventure of seeking the fomenter of plots and murderer of innocent men is the never-failing love interest, as troubled as it is true.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w
“Abundant thrills mark the progress of the tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 160w
“Although the facts as they are ultimately disclosed seem incredible, and the characters are stereotyped ones, the excitement of unraveling the tangled threads and of having the sport of detection keeps interest awake.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 170w
“If the reader dismisses the mischievous political innuendoes he may enjoy a diverting mystery tale.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 110w
=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Chinese nightingale, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25832
The first collection of Mr Lindsay’s poems to appear since the “Congo” volume. There are five groups: The Chinese nightingale, awarded the Levinson prize in 1915, is alone in the first group; in the second are a half dozen poems under the heading, “America watching the war”; the third includes poems grouped under “America at war with Germany”; the fourth is a collection of “Tragedies, comedies and dreams”; while the fifth is a group of “Poem games” all of which have been successfully illustrated in pantomime. The aim of the poem game is to abolish orchestra and piano, replacing them with the natural meaning and cadences of English speech which, the author claims, can convey poetic ideas faster than musical feeling.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Whatever Vachel Lindsay does, one feels the sincerity and the strong native impulse back of it. He is a vitalising force in modern poetry, having at once the social vision and the knowledge that it cannot be realized apart from beauty. Technically he has widened the outposts of poetry, and we may look to him to annex a still wider demesne.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ =Bookm= 46:576 Ja ‘18 590w
“It is disappointing to regard Mr Lindsay in ‘The Chinese nightingale and other poems,’ taking an attitude below the ‘Congo’ volume, and levelling, in the group, the ‘General William Booth’ column. ... In ‘America watching the war’ ‘The tale of the tiger tree’ finely illustrates the tapering of Mr Lindsay’s imaginative power into a mannerism; it is all here, the kind of incisive exploration in vision which Mr Lindsay takes to particularize a simple and impressive fact, but the kind of familiarity which envelopes it, takes away the thrill of emotion that we do feel in ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ and in the poems of the two earlier volumes. Mr Lindsay can never fail to be interesting, seductively arresting, exhilarating, in his own strange and individual way. ... The new art, or combination of arts, which Mr Lindsay has devised in ‘The poem games,’ is, apart from ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ the most interesting feature of this new book.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w
+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 90w
“Any admirer of Lindsay will observe with distrust this growing insistence on the sermonizing feature of his work.” L: Untermeyer
– + =Dial= 63:633 D 20 ‘17 1050w
“Of all the American poets to whom the epithet ‘modern’ has been applied Nicholas Vachel Lindsay has struck the most distinctively American note.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 1000w
=New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 60w
“The book does not lift his place in American poetry; its crudities are more noticeable, as this is a third book; but the spontaneous soil-taste of some of the poems cannot be gainsaid, nor his ability to weave garments of fantastic wonder, to please childlike hearts forever.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 670w
“For beauty and vigor the title poem is unsurpassed in modern poetry.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 80w
=LINTIER, PAUL.= My .75; reminiscences of a gunner of a .75 m/m battery in 1914; from the French; with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard. *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-24670)
A dramatic story of France from the days of mobilization to the battles on the Aisne. The author, twenty-three at the time of his death, has not only furnished the world with a first hand account, clear and gripping, of the important events ending at the Marne and the Aisne but has prepared a human document which will show the ages to come the heroism of souls as they reacted to the stupendous demands of the field of honor. “The admirable patience, the great good humour, the intelligent cleverness and heroic devotion together with the plain, simple courage, all the deep-rooted, undreamed of qualities of the French race, are to be found within its covers, making it a monument to stoic virtue.” (Preface)
“It is the work of a fine, eager spirit and it is well done, clear, vivid, unpretentious. No one can deny that he had the gift of narration. But it is promise, not fulfilment, after all.” C. M. Francis
+ — =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 270w
“The book is an important document because the two qualities of the French race are here found, intellectual cleverness and simple courage.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 330w
“Amongst the appalling number of war books ‘My .75’ stands out. Plainness of language and matter of fact descriptions go to make the book distinctive.”
+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 100w
“There is pathos, romance, and history in the proper degree. There is just enough of each to make the work comprehensive. Paul Lintier has that fine combination of delicacy and strength, so characteristic of Balzac, De Musset, and Bordeaux. It is an exceptional book and should live in the hearts of those who love France and in the minds of those who love good literature.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 140w
“It is the work of an acutely observant and sensitive mind. On one page the author puts down horrors and outrages with downright realism; on another he reveals the power of rumour or the glory of a country luxuriant in natural beauty. ... The candour of the writer is remarkable.”
+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 400w
=Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 100w
“His book should live, however, for a long, long time, because of its single truthfulness and sincerity, because of its vivid pictures of the French army in the early part of the war. The spirit shown by Lintier in his diary was the spirit of his comrades—of France. Every detail, no matter how ghastly, bears the stamp of truth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 300w
=LIPPINCOTT, HORACE MATHER.= Early Philadelphia; its people, life and progress. il *$6 Lippincott 974.8 17-28902
“This book endeavors to name and describe all the leading characters and the various social, financial, and patriotic organizations, giving portraits and reproductions of people and places, buildings and bridges and parks, in such a way as to offend none and please all, at least all whose names and interest are included. It is a sort of book of heraldry for all the substantial and socially fit of the present day. If you are a Philadelphian and have ancestors who counted in the city of Franklin, this book will give you name, business, and standing.” (Dial) “Mr Lippincott begins with a sketch of and tribute to the founder of the city and carries the record down to and beyond the middle eighteenth century.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Other little matters of this sort might be found, but so many errors have been contained in other books about the times (notably ‘Hugh Wynne’), concerning Quaker traits and local geography, that these seem trivial, and one gets a very fair picture of old scenes and manners from Mr Lippincott’s book. The style is clear and the selection of subjects well proportioned.” I: Sharpless
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:416 Ja ‘18 530w
+ — =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 350w
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 60w
“Naturally and logically, a great part of the volume is devoted to a description of the Philadelphia Quakers. Other elements in the city’s growth receive due attention, and there is an interesting treatment of the German and Scotch-Irish migrations into what was then the wilderness.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w
“Mr Lippincott has not written a classic account of Philadelphia life. But his sketchy pages are readable and informing and are suitably flavored with quotations from contemporary documents.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 550w
=LIPPMANN, JULIE MATHILDE.= Mannequin. *$1.30 (3½c) Duffield 17-12389
A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this story. A rich and idle young woman is taken for one of the mannequins in a dressmaking establishment. The mistake is made by Mrs Jerome-Jarvis, an autocratic society leader, who had engaged the real mannequin as a companion on a yachting trip. Elizabeth Tiernan finds herself hustled without ceremony aboard the great lady’s yacht, and thinking it a joke that can be explained in the morning, she keeps silent. But by morning the joke has been carried beyond her control. She scents a mystery, and by making a few errors in judgment on her own account, adds to the confusion.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w
“This new book by the author of ‘Burkses’ Amy’ and ‘Martha-by-the-day’ is one of those tales which, being possessed of an utterly preposterous plot, require the lightest and deftest kind of handling. Such stories need wit, and debonair, irresponsible gayety; they must froth and sparkle, if they are not to be merely silly. And ‘The mannequin’ reminds one very much of lukewarm ginger ale—entirely flat and insipid.”
— =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w
“The situation develops into a hilarious farce, with ludicrous misunderstandings and cross purposes. The heroine is always charming and sprightly, and the story affords amusement.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w
=LIPSON, EPHRAIM.= Europe in the nineteenth century; an outline history. il *$2 Macmillan 940.9 (Eng ed 17-859)
“The author, already known by his ‘Introduction to the economic history of England: middle ages,’ now provides a history of Europe from the fall of Napoleon to the present time.” (Ath) “In the preface to the book now under review Mr Lipson lays claim to a certain originality, at least of presentment. He has, he says, ‘discarded the traditional method of writing European history from the standpoint of international politics in favour of a method of treatment which gives a concise and connected account—analytical rather than narrative—of the internal development of the chief European states after the fall of Napoleon.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The brevity of the book, as compared with other recent discussions of the same subject has been brought about by some notable omissions. Substantially no space is given to England or to minor states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries; the industrial revolution and, in general, the social and economic parts of the story, are given only slight attention—much less than in most of the later books; little emphasis is placed upon European history since 1870, except as connected with the outbreak of the war. ... An extremely pleasant characteristic of the book is the calm, historical temper with which Mr Lipson approached those parts of his subject that deal with the present war. ... As an example of the book-maker’s art, the volume reflects war conditions in the unsubstantial character of the binding. There are no bibliographies and the index is inadequate. The maps do not compare favorably with the best of recent publications on nineteenth-century Europe.” C: R. Lingley
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:852 Jl ‘17 650w
“Of particular importance are the chapters on ‘The reform movement in Russia, 1815-1916,’ and ‘The growth of the German empire, 1815-70.’ ... Mr Lipson gives a clear account of the achievement of the political unity of Italy. ... The maps in the volume can be commended. Altogether, Mr Lipson has produced a valuable summary of modern European history, treated in a somewhat novel manner.”
+ =Ath= p437 S ‘16 250w
“The chapter on the Balkan States will probably be the most valued by the ‘general readers’ for whom the book is intended.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:157 Ja ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
“From the point of view of the general reader one capital defect of Mr Lipson’s method is that it necessarily takes too much knowledge for granted. ... In general, apart from this defect, the chapters dealing with the internal developments of the states are clear and accurate, though following in the main conventional lines. ... His chapter on the Reform movement in Russia is particularly interesting, especially the account of the effects of the industrial revolution which followed the emancipation of the serfs and the introduction of railways. But here again the bias that makes him defend the Commune makes him less than fair to autocrats. ... Not all the chapters reach the high level of that on Russia. The least satisfactory perhaps is that on the Balkan States.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 5 ‘16 1300w
=LISTER, CHARLES ALFRED.= Charles Lister; letters and recollections. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-13304
“This volume, which serves as a memento to his son, Lord Ribblesdale has compiled out of letters written to his family and friends by Charles Lister, to which are added a memoir by the father, and recollections of the son by Sir Rennell Rodd, under whom the young man served in the British embassy at Rome before the war, and others. Charles Lister took part in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was wounded three times, and died from the effects of the last wound in August, 1915, at the age of 28. ... The letters begin five years before the opening of the war and relate his doings, observations, and thinking during a holiday in Germany, his two years of service at Rome with the British embassy, a trip to India and Constantinople, and then take up his experiences on the expedition to the Dardanelles. These last compose the bulk of the book.”—N Y Times
“Unusually readable letters.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 200w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 118:45 Ja 13 ‘17 1500w
“There is never a trace of the junker spirit, never a word about the glory of war. There is hardly any self-consciousness. The book is a continuous revelation of charm, high spirits and character: also of a young man’s alert-minded and fruitful reaction to the various phases of his experience in the 20th-century English world.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 1150w
“Lord Ribblesdale has done his work as editor with detachment and restraint. With abundance of material, he has managed to keep the book comparatively small and altogether interesting.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1150w
=LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO.= Song of the sirens. *$1 Putnam 811 17-11825
Ulysses is made the hero of this poem. In rhymed couplets and regular measure the author tells the story of the perilous passage of the Sirens’ rock, with Ulysses lashed to the mast and vainly demanding release from his unheeding seamen. One of these is singled out from the rest, the youngest and least of the rowers, who suffers in his master’s agony.
“The book stands out among this season’s volumes of verse as a work of much more than passing interest and value. It is unfortunate that none of our magazines had an editor sufficiently enlightened to discover ‘The song of the sirens’ and print it as a serial.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1861 Je 16 ‘17 750w
=LIVESAY, FLORENCE RANDAL=, tr. Songs of Ukraina; with Ruthenian poems. *$1.50 Dutton 891.7 17-26397
“This collection of the songs of the essentially poetic and musical ‘Little Russian’ people is divided into parts according to subject—Cossack songs, Wedding songs, etc., the longest section being Folk songs; and the poems by Fedkovich (1834-1888) having a place by themselves.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p543 N ‘16 60w
“The translations, though not ideal, are lively and spirited. It is a book which every lover of poetry will prize.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 800w
=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 90w
“The translations into English are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 150w
“The translator is a Canadian—her home is in Winnipeg. ... These folk songs of the ‘forgotten kingdom of Ukraina’ have come down through singing centuries and hold in them the history of the most artistic of Slav people.”
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 60w
“The gloom and toil of the Russian peasant pervades these poems, and it must be said that in some cases they seem hampered by faulty translation.”
=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 40w
=LIVINGSTONE, RICHARD WINN.= Defence of classical education. *$1.40 (2c) Macmillan 375 (Eng ed 17-12623)
“A main contention, in this able defence of the humanities in education, is that a nation can be ‘scientific,’ though compulsory classics are the staple of its secondary education, and though the majority of its youth is trained in classical schools. Particulars are given to show that German secondary education is far more classical than ours. A caution is conveyed against the mistake of supposing that we are simply suffering from the predominant position of classics in our public schools, and that we have only to expel them in favour of physical science and modern languages ‘to be cured of all our ills.’ It is admitted by the author that we need more physical science in industry and elsewhere; but it is pointed out that our real weakness is a national indifference to knowledge. Cogent presentations of the case for Greek and the case for Latin are embodied in chaps. 3 and 4; and an effort is made later to combat the idea that the classics can be studied satisfactorily in translations. The last chapter contains suggestions for reforms.”—Ath
“The title of the book may, we fear, militate against its usefulness and have the tendency of warning off the general reader, who may regard it as the work of a specialist. ... ‘A defence of classical education’ is admirably adapted, by its absence of technicalities, its infectious enthusiasm, and its clear and graceful style, to appeal to that growing public which is ready to know more of this new learning.”
+ =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 1050w
+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 170w
“This book is, unfortunately, based upon two misconceptions, both of which are common amongst classicists. ... The title of the book is a misnomer, for the work is not a defence of classical education at all. ... As a plea for the retention of classics in a general scheme of education, the book is excellent. Where Mr Livingstone is dealing with facts he is on safe ground, and the majority of the work is a ‘hymn of praise’ which is wholly admirable. His assumptions, however, are nearly always erroneous, and his conclusions illogical; one cannot help thinking that a little knowledge of scientific method would have saved him from many pitfalls.”
– + =Nature= 99:1 Mr 1 ‘17 900w
“The questions most frequently asked are these: Why should the classics have a place in our education? Why should they not be confined to a few specialists? Why should they not be entirely replaced by our own and other modern languages, literatures, and history? To these inquiries Mr Livingstone wisely devotes the greater part of his book. ... We are glad to see that Mr Livingstone ends with some excellent suggestions for reform in classical teaching, more attention to ‘realien,’ and less prominence for the purely linguistic side.”
+ =Sat R= 123:41 Ja 13 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Livingstone has written a charming book. The beauty and solid worth of the best Greek and Latin authors are admirably described in his main chapters. But while we sympathize heartily with his reverence for the classics, we cannot help remarking that he does not really face the question whether they can be read with profit in translations.”
+ =Spec= 118:174 F 10 ‘17 900w
“Among these fixed points which are emerging, the central one, and the most important, is the growing conviction that the aim of education is neither literary culture nor scientific acquirement, neither technical skill nor commercial aptitude, but the creation and diffusion of citizenship in its full sense. ... Mr Livingstone’s volume is a statement, satisfactory in its fullness, excellent in its sanity and moderation, of the reasons for holding that, here and now, the study of the classics has a necessary and important place in such an education.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 18 ‘17 2650w
=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Mary Slessor of Calabar: pioneer missionary. 6th ed il *$1.50 Doran 16-22663
“The heroine was a Scotch girl born amidst the humblest surroundings and conditions, which made her at fourteen and for fourteen years a millworker in the city of Dundee. ... From her early childhood she was interested in the missionary efforts along the old Calabar coast, and here from 1876 until her death in 1915 she carried on, often alone and in the midst of danger, a pioneer work for the reclamation of the savage tribes. This well written memoir, based chiefly upon her many letters, gives the reader a striking picture of the barbarous life and customs of the natives of Calabar and shows the uplifting power of civilization.”—Ind
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17
=Cleveland= p106 Ag ‘16
“One of the most fascinating missionary biographies ever written. It has the romance of heroism and adventure, the vitality of vigorous achievement, the freshness of pioneering in a land of strange peoples and weird customs.”
+ =Ind= 88:327 N 20 ‘16 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:91 Je ‘16
“Has had the unusual experience for a biography—and especially that of a foreign missionary—of being among the ‘best sellers.’ In its first months it is already in its fourth edition, and well it may be, for rarely has a life been lived so full of romance, of heroism, and at the same time of absolute sincerity and simplicity.”
+ =Outlook= 115:194 Ja 31 ‘17 2750w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p45 Ja ‘17
=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Story of Mary Slessor for young people; a true story of adventure, heroism and faith. il *$1 Doran 17-4476
“The natives of Africa knew the heroine of this true story by the name of ‘The white queen of Okoyong.’ Her real name is Mary Slessor, and this is her biography. It is written for children, and tells the whole life history of the brave Scottish missionary whom the Presbyterian church sent out to Africa in 1876. From that date until her death in 1914 Miss Slessor acted as friend, teacher, minister, doctor and officer of the law to the savages in the then uncharted wilds of Calabar.” (Boston Transcript) Mary Slessor is one of the “Heroines of service” about whom Mary R. Parkman writes in her book of that title.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:454 Jl ‘17
“This book ought to fire the imagination and direct the activities of boys and girls until they shall become in turn such workmen as Mary Slessor was in the realm of unselfish service.”
+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 90w
“The account throws many sidelights on African customs and institutions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 160w
=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Red planet. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-26481
Grief-stricken with the sudden news of the death in action of his only son, Sir Anthony Fenimore turns to take his place as chairman of a war committee with the words: “The boy didn’t shirk his duty. Why should I?” This opening incident is the keynote of the book, which is a story of England in war-time, a story of high courage and of homes made desolate. It is told by Major Meredyth of the regular army who, invalided since the Boer war, could, at first, only watch those activities in which he longed to join. But, in the end, he, too, finds his place and can say: “I, too, am a man of the great war. I have lived in it, and worked in it, and suffered in it. So long as one’s soul is sound—that is the great matter.” His work had been the helping to keep sound the souls of those about him in the little south of England town in which he lived, and, in particular, to aid as only a brother officer could, Leonard Boyce, in his tragic struggle between his better and his lower nature. It is this struggle for self-mastery, fought out in South Africa, in England, in the trenches, that forms a background for the incidents of the book, and it is Betty Fairfax, type of all true women in the war, who gives charm and heart to the tale. Locke, the romancer, is no longer romancing. He is telling spiritual truth.
“Well written, full of good character sketches and will be popular. Appeared in Good Housekeeping.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 110w
“‘The white feather’ might have better suggested its central motive, for the chief figure in the action is an English officer with a lifelong strain of cowardice to fight down and conceal. ... A piece of clever claptrap. Any war might have served as the background.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:645 Ag ‘17 650w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1300w
“Written with much skill, timely to the very minute, and full of human appeal. Mr Locke has succeeded, in his portrayal of Boyce, in giving a living character to literature. The conclusion is an artistic blunder, as well as distasteful from the moral point of view.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:110 O ‘17 600w
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 110w
“It is the astonishing combination of the modern and the mid-Victorian that fascinates the reader of ‘The red planet.’ A well-ordered globe is Mr Locke’s, an England rubber-tired and ball-bearing, not the dusty and irresponsible country of Mr Britling. And we are not sure that Boyce is not one of the most virile men that Locke has ever drawn.”
+ =Dial= 63:162 Ag 30 ‘17 270w
“A thoroly interesting story crisply and entertainingly written.”
+ =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 400w
“For all its clever and amusing detail, there is little sincerity in this book: even the great war is used merely as an off-stage convenience for the development of an essentially commonplace and artificial plot.”
– + =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 450w
“We cannot even pretend to believe in these people. They are pallid and patriotic and dull. They do not really exist.”
— =New Repub= 12:82 Ag 18 ‘17 400w
“Mr Locke has always shown remarkable skill in making interesting, even heroic or lovable, figures out of most unpromising material, such as that of his ‘Beloved vagabond,’ and none of that skill deserts him as he unfolds this story through the pen and personality of Major Meredyth, almost helpless paralytic though his leading character is. ... We can come into touch with the struggle only through the spirit. But his spirit flames and mounts, and in it one sees the spirit of England.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 1350w
“Mr Locke is always better in character rendering than in plot, and even more so than usual in this novel.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 50w
+ — =Sat R= 124:335 O 27 ‘17 500w
“Skilfully constructed and worked out to a dramatic close.”
+ =Spec= 119:330 S 29 ‘17 950w
“While presenting but a tiny corner of the war drama, he makes the reader feel the spirit and far-reaching effects of the struggle.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 600w
“It may be that recollections of ‘Lord Jim,’ and perhaps of ‘The four feathers,’ make Mr Locke’s analysis of Leonard Boyce seem a little confused and shallow.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 20 ‘17 600w
=LODGE, HENRY CABOT.= War addresses, 1915-1917. *$2.50 (3c) Houghton 308 17-14032
A collection of addresses made between 1915 and 1917. Among them are: Mexico, a speech delivered in the Senate, January 6, 1915; Force and peace, the Chancellor’s address at Union college, June 9, 1915; France, delivered before the Franco-American Republican club of Massachusetts, September 6, 1915; National defence, delivered before the National security league at Washington, January 22, 1916; Armed merchantmen, delivered in the Senate, February 18, 1916; The failure of the Executive to vindicate American rights, delivered in the Senate, February 24, 1917; and War with Germany, delivered in the Senate, April 4, 1917.
=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17
“Some of these addresses are of great interest and value to students of public affairs. All of them deal with topics of present day interest and all are of sufficient merit to warrant their preservation for readers of a future generation.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 90w
“All the attributes of a sound statesmanship based upon a thorough knowledge of the past, a clear understanding of the present and a prophetic insight into the future are to be found in the volume of Henry Cabot Lodge’s ‘War addresses, 1915-1917.’” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 770w
+ =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 120w
“Naturally, Mr Lodge’s addresses in the Senate and elsewhere, during the years 1915-16, were those of a Republican senator criticizing a Democratic administration; and some of his criticisms were very keen. Yet even then, he was often in accord with President Wilson.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 450w
“Mr Lodge’s shift from advocacy of a league of nations to opposition, coming coincidentally with Mr Wilson’s new emphasis and the raising of the question as an immediate practical issue, is the most important fact that ‘War addresses’ records. ‘War addresses’ is an exceptional book for its directness. But it leaves the impression that Mr Lodge is progressive where progressiveness matters least, and reactionary where the opportunity for liberalism is most bright.” C. M.
+ — =New Repub= 13:221 D 22 ‘17 1500w
“There is a kind of luminous simplicity and earnestness in the statement of plain truths and sound ideals that hardly ever fails of its effect. This kind of eloquence is possessed in no small degree by Senator Lodge. ... The more controversial parts of the political speeches, too, will delight any not too unsympathetic reader who appreciates caustic criticism, subtle sarcasm, and argumentative skill.”
+ =No Am= 206:136 Jl ‘17 480w
=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 120w
=R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 80w
“The ‘War addresses’ are hardly important except as political documents—using political in the partisan sense. Of course Mr Lodge’s polished phrases give his speeches a superficial distinction which the oratory of the Senate frequently lacks. But no consistent application of principle is manifest in this collection and no fundamental policy besides the gaining of political advantage.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 2 ‘17 450w
=LOEB, JACQUES.= Organism as a whole. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 575 16-25201
Individual physiological processes are readily explained on a physiochemical basis, but how, from this point of view, is the fusion of individual processes into a harmonious whole to be accounted for? This is the problem to which Dr Loeb of the Rockefeller institute addresses himself in this volume. The book is based on his experiments in recent years and consists of chapters on: The specific difference between living and dead matter; The chemical basis of genus and species; Specificity in fertilization; Artificial parthenogenesis; Determinism in the formation of an organism from an egg; Regeneration; Determination of sex; Mendelian heredity and its mechanism; Animal instincts and tropisms; The influence of environment; Adaptation to environment; Evolution; Death and dissolution of the organism.
“Scientific and accurate in details and should be read by all individuals interested in a mechanistic philosophy of living things.”
+ =Nation= 104:494 Ap 26 ‘17 850w
+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w
“The volume is a valuable addition to the science series—a series in which so many subjects have been treated—and is one that will appeal strongly to anyone who has the rudiments of a zoological training.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 300w
“Gifted with strong scientific imagination, Professor Loeb is one of those who go on, making the most of the facts we have, imperfect though our comprehension be.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p461 S 27 ‘17 2200w
=LONDON, CHARMIAN KITTREDGE (MRS JACK LONDON).=[2] Our Hawaii. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 919.69 17-27941
A book that has grown out of the experiences of the Londons in the “little space of Paradise ... that is so beautiful and restful and green.” One of Mrs Jack London’s evident desires is that the journal, in addition to its descriptions of Hawaii, may reveal something of her late husband’s personality and manner of living. The journal covers a few months spent in Hawaii a decade ago and concludes with a résumé of experiences there in 1915-1916. Mrs London says, “I have tried to limn a picture of the charm of the Hawaiian Islander as he was, and of his becoming, together with the enchantment of his lofty isles and their abundant hospitality.” Maps and illustrations accompany the text.
“There are several reasons why ‘Our Hawaii’ is an exceedingly interesting book.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w
“Her desire to express the spirit of Hawaii in the written word has made her book in some places resemble the attempts of a schoolgirl intent on writing a theme full of ‘atmosphere.’ In spite of being badly written, the book derives some interest—though not much—from its exuberant impressions and also from the biographical facts revealed about the author’s husband.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 200w
=LONDON, JACK.= Human drift. il *$1.25 Macmillan 818 17-6354
A collection of miscellaneous papers and sketches reprinted from various magazines. The human drift is an essay on the movements and migrations of peoples in their search for food, and the rise and fall of races. Following this come four sketches drawn from Jack London’s own experiences on land and sea. The introduction written for “Two years before the mast” is reprinted, and the book closes with two short plays.
=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17
+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 430w
=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 70w
+ =Nation= 104:583 My 10 ‘17 350w
“London has not attempted much in the dramatic field. A reading of the two sketches included in this volume is enough to show that, with all his power of dramatic description and narration, the dramatic form itself is beyond him.” D: P. Berenberg
=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 430w
“Lovers of Mr London’s work will probably find him at his best and most individual self in the essay on ‘Small boat sailing,’ which will be a very enjoyable bit of writing for all devotees of that sport.”
=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17
“London voices no new thought in his philosophical sketch, ‘The human drift,’ but he does present old ideas in a new and vivid garb.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 740w
=LONDON, JACK.= Jerry of the Islands. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-12393
Jerry is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat engaged in “nigger-running,” the trade by means of which labor is supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan Jerry finds two gods worthy of a dog’s worship.
=A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“As a protracted dog yarn, the story is quite pleasant reading.”
+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 80w
“Jerry and his tale are more plainly fiction than that great dog story, ‘The call of the wild’; but what a story-teller this man was!” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 430w
“His knowledge of and sympathy with his subject is unbounded, and his imagination plays with all its customary vigor and variety over a multitude of scenes in which men as well as the dog hero have an important part. ... It is good, too, in his last novel to find Mr London a story-teller and not a propagandist.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w
“While ‘Jerry’ is not in any sense one of London’s best works, it is yet worth reading.” D: P. Berenberg
– + =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 300w
“The story suffers a good deal from excess verbiage. ... This fault is at its worst and more discouraging in the early chapters, before the reader’s interest has been awakened. But if, by dint of hope and skipping, he goes on he will be well repaid.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 630w
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w
“The book is effectively written in a way, yet tediously full of the traders’ variety of pigeon-English called bêche de mer, which serves as a medium between white man and black. The home-staying white of this country will find it not easy to understand.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:251 S 29 ‘17 530w
“In this last story of his Mr London has struck a new note. He has sought to express the gentler emotions—the love of the dog for the master and the love of the master for the dog.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 26 ‘17 700w
=LONDON, JACK.= Michael, brother of Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-29517
Like Jerry, Michael was a dog of the South seas, and like Jerry he could make himself quite as much at home on slippery decks as on dry land. Michael’s first master is Captain Kellar of the Solomon islands, but after he is stolen by Dag Daughtry he comes to love that none-too-honest, beer-drinking steward with all a dog’s devotion. It had been Daughtry’s intention to sell the dog, but having given much loving patience to his training, he finds that he cannot part with him. Circumstances, however, take Michael away from this considerate master and he falls into the hands of a noted animal trainer and enters the life that Jack London calls an animal hell. “Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world,” he writes in a foreword. Michael is rescued in time by Harley and Villa Kennan, but he is never the same dog again.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
“Jack London was the founder of a school of writers in fiction whose work will outlive his own, but which is not likely to catch the trick, the magnetism—call it what you will—that distinguishes his own above the rank and file.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 400w
“Red tears and bloody sweats!—these are the tributes Jack London loved to wring from the torn hearts (as it were) of his auditors. If the reader would put his finger on some special item in proof of this, let him read the description of the fight between Michael and a quite casual man which takes place after Michael has been rescued from the torment of the trained-animal world, and which is therefore clearly introduced on its own merits.”
– + =Nation= 105:666 D 13 ‘17 350w
“If the picture drawn by London of the training of animals for the circus and the stage is a true one, then the quicker we act to eliminate animal performances the better. It is to be hoped that ‘Michael’ has a wide circulation.” D. P. Berenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 380w
“It is, of course, scarcely necessary to say that much of this book is anything but pleasant reading. If, however, what it tells be indeed the truth, then it is reading which people should have forced upon them. Michael himself will appeal to all dog-lovers, and Dag Daughtry is well drawn.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 1100w
=LONG, HAROLD C.= Plants poisonous to live stock. (Cambridge agricultural monographs) il *$2 (5c) Putnam 581.6 (Eng ed Agr17-863)
The author says, “As in the case of a previous volume ‘Common weeds of the farm and garden,’ the preparation of this handbook was undertaken because of the great lack of readily available and reliable information on the subject in English scientific literature.” An introductory chapter discusses such matters as What is a poisonous plant? Harm done by poisonous plants, etc. The remainder of the book is given up to descriptions of plants and of the symptoms of poisoning. There is a chapter devoted to Plants suspected of being poisonous and one to The effects of plants on milk.
“A handy work of reference in a subject on which the literature is remarkably scattered. The author has brought together many facts from numerous technical reports and journals, and the compilation will be of great value to those responsible for the care and treatment of animals.”
+ =Nature= 99:501 Ag 23 ‘17 430w
“Mr Long has filled a gap in scientific literature with a monograph which shows wide knowledge. The bibliography shows the extent of his gatherings.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup7 Jl 7 ‘17 110w
=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Outlines of English and American literature. il $1.40 (1c) Ginn 820.9 17-14159
This “introduction to the chief writers of England and America, to the books they wrote, and to the times in which they lived,” is based on the author’s earlier works, “English literature” and “American literature.” It is a work however in which “the material, the viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers” are entirely new. The author’s aim here has been to relate literature to life. He says, “The only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality.” For each literary period a brief historical survey and a review of literary tendencies are given. These are followed by biographical sketches of authors and discussions of their principal works. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography.
“Histories of English literature and histories of American literature are many, but rarely if ever has the one subject been compressed within the pages of a single volume in a way to show their unity and alliance. Dr William J. Long has, however, done this with exceptional skill. ... Attractively printed and bound, illustrated with many portraits and scenes, Dr Long’s book gives incentive to a study of literature. It is elementary, to be sure, but it contains much that is profitably enlightening to readers who are fully acquainted with the subject.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 800w
“Excellent illustrations.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 70w
“Written with much vivacity and charm. The latter third of the book is given to an uncommonly well balanced review of American letters.”
+ =Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 120w
“The opening chapters excellently combine a view of the development of the language along with an account of the literary monuments. There is no attempt to bring American literature into relation with English; we have frankly two volumes in one. The story does not come beyond Stevenson and Ruskin, and Howells is the only living American author treated at length.”
+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:610 O ‘17 70w
“William J. Long, the well-known nature writer, could be pardoned a few heresies, for the author discloses considerable freshness in his impressions and his style; but the book is too full of erroneous statements and erroneous judgments to be accepted as an introduction to English letters.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 500w
=LONGACRE, LINDSAY BARTHOLOMEW.= Prophet of the Spirit. *75c Meth. bk. 224 17-23303
“The sub-title of this book is ‘A sketch of the character and work of Jeremiah.’ In his preface Professor Longacre says: ‘The following brief study of the prophet Jeremiah has been made in the belief that attention to the distinctions of time and circumstance leads to a discovery of God’s methods of self-revelation. The purpose has been to portray a man rather than to expound a book.’” (Boston Transcript) “A preliminary chapter on the literary history of the book leads to a study of ‘The man his neighbors knew,’ and with this key in our hands we pass through his various struggles with king and people, and no less with himself and his God, till we emerge to the clear sunshine of the New covenant of spirit and life.” (Bib World)
“An admirable little book. It is excellently written and well adapted to the purpose for which it was written. The prophet Jeremiah is made to appear like a real man working among his fellow-men.” J. M. P. S.
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:634 O ‘17 230w
+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 190w
“Professor Longacre’s conception of the character of Jeremiah is admirably carried out.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w
=LONGMAN, W.= Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers and book-makers. il *$2 (9½c) Longmans 737
The practice of issuing “tokens” in lieu of small change grew out of the scarcity of coins of small denominations. A “token” issued by a tradesman corresponded to a promise to pay the amount stamped on the face. The author, a collector of these curious examples of coinage, has brought together all the information he has at his command concerning tokens issued by booksellers and others connected with the book trade of the 18th century, including authors, publishers, engravers and paper makers.
“The descriptions of the various tokens are accompanied by interesting notes on the life and history of their issuers. These include notably Eaton, Spence, and others who suffered on behalf of the liberty of the press at the close of the eighteenth century.” E. T. L.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:317 Ap ‘17 100w
“A delightful account written by a collector who knows his subject. ... It may be recommended to collectors of tokens, and to those for whom the history of booksellers, printers, etc., is attractive, as well as to any one investigating political opinions of the period.”
+ =Nation= 104:636 My 24 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 60w
=LONGSTAFF, FREDERICK V., and ATTERIDGE, A. HILLIARD.= Book of the machine gun. il *$3.50 Dodd 358 (Eng ed 17-7941)
This work by two British officers consists of chapters on: The evolution of the machine gun; Machine guns in battle: The evolution of machine gun tactics; Matériel; Machine guns in the British army; Machine guns in Germany and Austria; Machine guns in various foreign armies; Tactics; Training. In addition there are appendixes giving A bibliography of unofficial works; List of some British patents; and Extracts from Colonel Mayne’s works. At the close of the book, following the index, are grouped a series of illustrations, arranged chronologically to show the development of the machine gun.
=A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 30w
“Timely and complete.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
“Written with professional knowledge.”
+ =Pratt= p14 O ‘17 10w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 20w
“An authoritative work.”
+ =St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w
“So far as skill may be learned from a book, it may be learned from this volume.”
+ =Spec= 118:104 Ja 27 ‘17 350w
=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Adirondacks. il *$2.50 (3½c) Century 917.47 17-25281
“There are but two kinds of travelers; those who enjoy the road, and those who think they shall have enjoyment at the end of it. To the latter pass the time of day good-naturedly enough, but reserve the former for your company.” (Preface) So two friends walked, motored, canoed, climbed, sailed and camped in every part of New York state’s natural park. This volume is the outcome of their wanderings which in addition to generous guide-book material gives an account of the early settlement in the Adirondacks of Napoleon’s brothers, tells of the different Indian tribes and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the state’s conservation commission. The illustrations, reproduced photographs, show the grandeur and loveliness of the region at their best.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Written in a pleasant style and well illustrated.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w
“Mr Longstreth is not a Thoreau, but he is a first-rate observer and an amusing raconteur.”
+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 90w
“Mr Longstreth is a schoolmaster who has occupied his holiday time for many seasons in open-air living and journeying. He has spent more than one summer in the Adirondacks. ... The result is a book that is at once the record of a jolly summer, a history and description of the Adirondacks, and a succinct guide to those who would learn of its beauties and enjoyments at first hand. Mr Longstreth’s leisurely style has real charm—a quality not always to be found in a book so full of information as this.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 710w
“Mr Longstreth’s book is most informal, sprightly, and vivacious, yet abounding in matter-of-fact detail of the sort most needed by the tourist.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 130w
=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= By the waters of Africa; with introd. by Douglas Sladen. il *$3.50 Stokes 916.7 (Eng ed 17-31878)
“A woman traveler’s account of what is going on to-day in British East Africa—how the settlers and government officers live and go about, and how the country is being slowly developed. An interesting feature of the book is the description of the famous African lakes, Victoria Nyanza and Albert.”—R of Rs
“Perhaps the homeliness of home-letters adds to the charm of the book, which, in spite of its faults of style, does tell of the common things which a man would have never thought of describing.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 850w
“Great praise is due this lady who, in spite of many dangers, has done such remarkable exploring and given us such interesting information about it.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 370w
+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 60w
“Miss Lorimer in her light-hearted pages from a diary gives perhaps a truer picture of daily life in these great colonies than we find in more serious works.”
+ =Spec= 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 100w
“Unfortunately, she has accepted every piece of casual gossip about the history of the country without investigation. Those who will bear this in mind, and want merely an easily digested story of a woman’s experiences and adventures in both the towns and the back-veld of this amazingly interesting colony, will find Miss Lorimer an entertaining guide.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 450w
=LOTI, PIERRE, pseud. (LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD).= War; tr. from the French by Marjorie Laurie. *$1.25 (2c) Lippincott 940.91 17-18154
A book of war sketches written between August, 1914, and April, 1916. Among them are: Two poor little nestlings of Belgium; A gay little scene at the battle front; Another scene at the battle front; An evening at Ypres; At the general headquarters of the Belgian army; At Rheims: All-souls’ day with the armies at the front; At Soissons; Two Gorgon heads.
“The book is interesting throughout, and the translator’s share has been well done.”
+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 90w
=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w
“In the perusal of this new volume by Loti, it is brought home to one again how inexplicably and beautifully his manner and matter are fused. He treats of the usual subjects, but in the atmosphere of this book, one sees everything bathed and refreshed.”
+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 330w
“In this book Pierre Loti is at his literary best, plus a tender genuine sympathy for his countrymen and their Belgian neighbors and a bitter scorn and hate for the German spirit that has outraged Belgium and France. Yet he seeks to maintain at least a mask of artistic restraint.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 250w
“His pictures of the men in the trenches, the wounded, the refugees, etc., are indeed trivial and pallid compared with the narratives written by dozens of men who, before the conflict, were quite unknown to literature. The prevailing note is somewhat effeminate, strident, and hysterical.”
— =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 290w
“It is not a coherent book, it is episodic, a scrap-book, a hodge-podge of emotions, judgments, reports. And this constitutes the book’s special charm and value. It is a glimpse into the mind of a highly sensitive and perhaps overcivilized man who has been deeply shaken by the tragedy of his native land and all the world. ... This is the war’s book—the war has made use of the delicate and sensitive instrument that is the mind of the author of ‘Pêcheur d’Islande.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl I ‘17 470w
“Those familiar with his rather dreamy and saccharine descriptions of Turkey, Palestine, Japan, and the South Sea islands will be a little surprised, we think, at the comparative terseness of phrase in this volume. The descriptions are of war especially as it affects little children, the Sisters of Mercy, the wounded soldiers, and the exiled rulers.”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 110w
“M. Loti’s book by virtue of the almost feminine fineness of perception, the exquisiteness of imagery and the sympathetic tenderness by which his pages are graced, will make an impression on the reader’s memory. The only occasions on which Loti is unworthy of himself are when he permits himself bitter and scurrilous personal attacks upon the Kaiser and the Crown prince.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w
=LOUGH, WILLIAM HENRY.= Business finance. *$3 (1½c) Ronald 332 17-14250
“This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions and financial practice in the United States, it includes many references also to the experience and practice of other countries which may yield suggestions of value to American business men.” (Preface) The book is made up of five parts: Finance and business; Capital; Securing capital; Internal financial management; Financial abuses and involvements. The author is president of the Business training corporation, New York city. He is also author of a work on “Corporation finance.”
“Compactly conveyed information.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w
“A book which takes rank as one of the important accounting books of the year. Its subject is not new, of course, as it treats of problems which arise every day in private business concerns, but it is a pioneer work in that it is the first attempt we have seen to assemble and co-ordinate data relating to methods of financing business enterprises and from such data to deduce proper and scientific procedure. ... The chapter on financial standards is of decided interest in connection with the proposed statistical library to be established under the endowment fund of the American institute of accountants. ... Not the least interesting feature of this book is the manner in which Mr Lough has driven home his points by numerous illustrations taken from famous (or infamous?) failures in commercial history. Concrete instances are worth many pages of theory to clinch an argument.” W. H. L.
+ =Journal of Accountancy= 24:153 Ag ‘17 1100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 30w
=LOVAT-FRASER, JAMES ALEXANDER.= Henry Dundas, viscount Melville. il *$1.10 Putnam (Eng ed 17-13682)
“To portray a personality rather than to describe a political career, to delineate a character rather than to unfold a history, J. A. Lovat-Fraser has written a slender volume dealing with the life and activities of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.” (Boston Transcript) “The shrewd Scottish lawyer was for long the friend and chief colleague of the younger Pitt, ruled Scotland and India, managed the great war for some years, and was first lord of the admiralty till six months before Trafalgar.” (Spec)
“Mr Lovat-Fraser has written a discriminating and interesting biography of Dundas as a parliamentarian, as the holder of various offices of cabinet rank, and as a figure in social life in London and Edinburgh. But Dundas ranks with Newcastle and George III, as one of the three great political bosses of the eighteenth century; and despite Mr Lovat-Fraser’s book, we are still waiting for adequate studies of the methods and achievements of all these three bosses.” E: Porritt
* + – =Am Hist R= 23:212 O ‘17 520w
“To tell the full story of the life of Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, is at present impossible. Numerous documents at the Public record office and in other quarters await investigation before a complete account of Melville’s career can be attempted. The author’s object, therefore, is, from the materials now available, ‘to delineate a character rather than unfold a history’; and he may fairly be said to have been successful.”
+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 70w
“Mr Lovat-Fraser’s volume is a concise summary of his life, although it scarcely succeeds in presenting a character and personality rather than a political career.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 880w
“J. A. Lovat-Fraser’s excellent description of parliamentary political corruption in Scotland in the eighteenth century explains how it was that Dundas was able to rise and then to hold such autocratic power north of the Tweed that he was commonly known as ‘King Harry the ninth.’”
+ =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w
“Mr Lovat-Fraser resents Mr Fortescue’s denunciations of Dundas as one of the worst war ministers we have ever had, but he attempts no definite reply to the charge, presumably because it cannot be disproved. Dundas believed in scattering small bodies of troops over the whole theatre of war—a policy which cost us dearly in blood and treasure, especially in the West Indies. In this respect, and in others, he was Pitt’s evil genius.”
=Spec= 117:810 D 23 ‘16 200w
=LOW, SIDNEY JAMES MARK.= Italy in the war. il *$1.75 Longmans 940.91 16-24919
“Our knowledge of Italy’s part in the war has been limited. We have the more reason, therefore, to welcome a book that holds the promise of a notable enlargement of that acquaintance and understanding. ... It outlines the history of the country, political and military, since August, 1914. It makes plain the hope of the Italy of the future. It presents the problems and the circumstance of Italy’s part in the world conflict. ... In his study of the progress of the war Mr Low not only points out the necessary differences between the Italian battle lines and methods of fighting and those in France and Flanders, but shows where the Italian strength has been and where its weakness, where its mistakes have been made and lessons learned, and describes in detail the various steps in the conflict.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17
“More than the majority of war books his seems to offer worthwhile information.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
“So far, this is the most informing book from the Italian side.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w
“A comprehensive study of Italian conditions, strategy, fighting. ... An interesting feature of his book, too, is the information that Mr Low has to give us about Austria and the Austrian part in the war. ... The book is illustrated, too, with excellent photographs from the Italian headquarters photographic department.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 380w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w
=LOWE, CORINNE MARTIN.= Confessions of a social secretary. il *$1.25 (1c) Harper 17-5813
Those who delight in reading of the private affairs of that limited section of the social body that is labeled Society will find much to interest them in this book. It gives what appears to be an honest account of the inner workings of the households of a society leader, including town house, country house and Newport cottage. There are details regarding the management of servants, the arrangement of house parties, the planning of dinners, etc. Society, if this be a true picture, must be a deadly dull affair! There is a slight thread of fiction in the story of the rich young girl who chose to marry a real man. The title of the serial publication of these confessions was “This is the life.”
“The book is written in a humorous, readable manner, with more than one touch of real character drawing and a moral in the futility of the life that strives for nothing better than social pre-eminence—and attains it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 170w
“One must be curious indeed about the doings of this set to be diverted by the detail of their domestic arrangements; these details Miss Lowe presents with photographic candor.”
=Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 230w
+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 170w
“Its thread of fiction is not without charm, but its interest and its conspicuousness alike are due to its authenticity. There is nothing fictitious about this record; the anecdotes are true stories; the people are real and may, with no great effort, be identified if one knows enough; the descriptions are photographic.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 400w
=LOWELL, AMY.= Tendencies in modern American poetry. il *$2.50 Macmillan 811 17-25828
Amy Lowell, herself a leading exponent of the new in poetry, writes of six fellow poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robert Frost; Edgar Lee Masters; Carl Sandburg; “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher. In her preface Miss Lowell says, “What sets the poets of to-day apart from those of the Victorian era is an entire difference of outlook. Ideas believed to be fundamental have disappeared and given place to others. And as poetry is the expression of the heart of man, so it reflects this change to its smallest particle. It has been my endeavour in these essays to follow this evolution, in the movement as a whole, and also in the work of the particular poets who compose it. I have tried to show what has led each of these men to adopt the habit of mind which now characterizes him, why he has been forced out of one order into another; how his ideas have gradually taken form in his mind, and in what way he expresses this form in his work.” A bibliography of the works of the poets represented closes the book, and there is an interesting photogravure portrait of each.
“An excellent critical estimate.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 70w
“In her ‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ Miss Lowell is emphatically ‘there’; there in heart, mind, and spirit: there with her faith and her reasons for it; there with her polemical aptitudes and her full employment of them; on the spot, up to date, with her eye on the poetical clock, to the last second of the latest minute.” H: B. Fuller
+ — =Dial= 63:444 N 8 ‘17 1500w
“To meet the ordinary extraordinary ignorance about poets and poetry nothing could be more useful and valuable. When Miss Lowell is not busy with amateurish ethnology and ‘atavism’ and evolution and pseudo-science, she is one of the best expositors that modern poetry could have. And it is for her sympathetic exposition of the things she likes rather than her ineffectual announcement of a system and a touchstone that her book deserves to be read.” F. H.
+ — =New Repub= 13:52 N 10 ‘17 1800w
“The outstanding fault of the book lies in the fact that Miss Lowell has cast herself into double and conflicting rôles—those of critic and propagandist. It becomes a certainty that she is not looking at her subject from an unbiased standpoint, but, instead, that the book is written to bolster up the case for imagism.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p15 N 25 ‘17 1400w
“‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ is a book that needed to be written, and it is doubtful if any one else in America besides Amy Lowell could have written it. She has brought to the task not only critical insight and independence of spirit, but a personal acquaintance with the poets she has discussed. This has served to enlarge her view, not to guide her judgments.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:481 N 18 ‘17 1900w
=LOWNDES, MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC) (MRS FREDERIC SAWREY-LOWNDES).= Lilla: a part of her life. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10163
A story based on a possible situation growing out of the war. Lilla is a delicate, reticent woman whose marriage to Robert Singleton has been uneventful and colorless, altho not unhappy. Making her home with his people, she has found it necessary to repress her own personality until she hardly knows what strong emotion can mean. It is after the report of her husband’s death early in 1914, while she herself is taken up with war work, that she meets Dare Carteret. They are married a short five weeks after their first meeting. Lilla, to whom love had been unknown, has learned its meaning. Then in the midst of her great happiness Robert Singleton returns. The story closes with Lilla in France and with one of the two men involved in her tragedy starting out with Kitchener on his ill-fated voyage.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 1250w
“It is disappointing to find the introduction of characters wholly extraneous to the subject in hand and not even indirectly promoting the action, yet in whom the author attempts to create an interest by long explanations concerning their earlier lives.”
– + =Cath World= 106:106 O ‘17 550w
“There are many vivid pictures of London in war time, especially dramatic and thrilling being that of the first Zeppelin raid. The story moves quietly and rapidly, through emotional climaxes of many kinds that are always tense and gripping and incidents that would be bizarre against any but their fateful war background, to its tragic conclusion. But out of the mangled and smashed human happiness upon which it closes there rises the note of spiritual triumph.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 480w
“The book is ably and sincerely written, and there is a dignity in Mrs Belloc Lowndes’s handling of her characters which gives them both interest and stability.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 350w
=LOYSON, PAUL HYACINTHE.= Gods in the battle; tr. from the French by Lady Frazer; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. *3s 6d Hodder & Stoughton, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-25626)
The author is the son of Père Hyacinthe, the great preacher, and was, before the war, “a rational pacifist” and the editor of Les Droits de l’Homme. Since 1914, he has devoted himself to speaking and working in the cause of the Allies in France, England, Holland and elsewhere. “This collection of ‘Open letters’ to a great variety of persons appeared originally under the title ‘Étes-vous neutres devant le crime?’ A considerable portion of the book, however (104 pages), is devoted to ‘The Roman Rolland case’—appeals and criticisms and other matter connected with the attitude towards the war of M. Rolland, as shown in his ‘Above the battle’ and elsewhere. ‘Notes’ on the contents of the book at the end occupy 45 pages. Neither author nor translator receives any benefit from the sale of the volume; M. Loyson’s fees for the rights of translation has been given by him to the British Red cross fund.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 40w
“No Englishman could have written this book, but we must get our insular minds to realise that there is more than one way of doing a thing. The popular style of to-day in England rather tends to telegraphese than to sustained efforts of argument, irony, and rhetoric. ... M. Loyson fortifies his statements throughout with notes and references, especially regarding the case of M. Rolland. ... M. Rolland, on the evidence here set out at length, is clearly convicted of dodging and paltering.”
+ =Sat R= 123:503 Je 2 ‘17 680w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 80w
“We do not write in M. Loyson’s manner, or, if we do, we do it ill. But M. Loyson does it well, for it is his natural way of expressing himself. He can make the grand gesture without becoming absurd. ... With all its fire it is never spiteful even against the German people. M. Loyson is still a pacifist and a gentleman. The translation is all the more successful because Lady Frazer, herself a Frenchwoman, has not tried to make it too English.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p123 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
=LUCAS, SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD.= Beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire. *$2.90 Oxford 382 17-20009
“There has been much study and writing on special periods in the history of the English chartered commercial companies, but almost no attempt to give a continuous narrative of the whole career of any one of them. The work of Sir Charles Lucas, which endeavors to tell the story of three of the earliest companies, is therefore a welcome and important contribution to the literature of the subject. These three are the Merchants of the staple, the Eastland merchants, and the Merchant adventurers. The first is perforce, for lack of materials, very brief, and the second a slight, almost an outline sketch; the work is therefore practically a history of the Merchant adventurers of England from their obscure origin in the Netherlands in the fourteenth century to their dissolution, after at least four centuries of continuous existence, at Hamburg in 1808.”—Am Hist R
“It is written with the ability and mastery of the trained historian.” E: P. Cheyney
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:381 Ja ‘18 890w
+ =Nation= 106:16 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w
“Their story as unfolded in Sir Charles Lucas’s concise but weighty monograph, is not only illuminating as regards the past but pregnant with lessons for the future after the war. The ‘Beginnings of English overseas enterprise’ is a real and important contribution to that history which is ‘philosophy teaching by examples.’”
+ =Spec= 118:38 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 5 ‘17 1900w
=LUCAS, ST JOHN WELLES LUCAS.= April folly. *$1.50 Dutton
“In ‘April folly’ Mr St John Lucas continues the story of Dennis Yorke which he began some years ago in ‘The first round.’ The central theme of the first part was the relation of Dennis, a wayward boy and an artist, to his father, ‘The Apostle of the respectable.’ This sequel begins with the funeral of Mr Yorke and the return of Dennis to his artistic friends in Chelsea,—Tellier, and Sandys, and others. Now that the death of his father has set him free to develop his musical genius Dennis’s artistic progress is great; but he is still very much in the making, serious with that immense seriousness of youth which Mr St John Lucas can describe so accurately and sympathetically, drawn one way by his art, another by the cold rectitude which he has inherited in the very fibres of his being.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Lucas’s version has the merit of quietly humanising materials which have been so often merely galvanised for an easy public.” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 530w
“After a decidedly well-told story, in progress, the reader suffers the anti-climax at the end with rebellion and dissatisfaction.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w
“A first-rate analysis of calf love in London Bohemia. The only difficulty lies in the comparative slimness of the subject; it does not draw out the novelist’s resources. The whole group of Chelsea musicians is well sketched and we should have preferred following their adventures rather than turning to the sordid, pathetic little tragedy to which the story finally devotes its course.”
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 170w
“His adventures in sex take us along none of those miry ways to which the bold young school have now wonted us. Nevertheless, they would have seemed desperate enough if we had been regaled with them at the time of their alleged occurrence, a quarter of a century ago. ... ‘Yes, but what of it?’ is the mood in which this kind of story, however nicely done, has a way of leaving us.”
=Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 350w
“The musical and artistic environment in which this drama of human relationships is played out to its pathetic and ironic conclusion is delightfully sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 450w
“Mr St John Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers, to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian verse and his graceful original poems. ... He avoids the monotony of uniform cleverness which marks the dialogue of some excellent novelists. He is judicious, too, in skating over thin ice, for you cannot write of Bohemia without touching on its squalid fringes as well as its hearty camaraderie. We may note in conclusion that while the story is written by an artist, with a lively sympathy for artistic ideals, he is so impartial in dealing with normal and even Philistine people that we come away with a heightened respect for them.”
+ =Spec= 117:418 O 7 ‘16 800w
“The story is told with a gentle penetration and judgment which give it charm; and the friends who are grouped together both in Chelsea and at Hampstead move and act with the pleasant ease of real companions; their comments on their arts are vivid and faithful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 430w
=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Other Brown. il *$1.35 Century 17-23048
“A story of dual personality ... [by the author of ‘The curious case of Marie Dupont’]. It adds to its psychological interest, a murder, a mine in Mexico and a love story ending in New York.”—Ind
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w
+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w
“The story is unnecessarily complicated with endless twists and tangles. ... It is a mediocre story.” C. W.
— =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 110w
“‘The other Brown’ is well able to baffle and enthrall the most astute reader, and the personalities taking part in it are altogether charming.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 300w
“The author handles her plot with sufficient skill to keep the reader mystified—which is the only requirement of fiction of the sort. ... The conclusion is not entirely easy and natural.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 190w
=LUTZ, RUFUS ROLLA.= Wage earning and education. diags 50c (1c) Cleveland foundation. Survey committee; Russell Sage foundation 370.91 16-26854
This is a summary volume of the Cleveland survey series, presenting a synthesis of the results of the survey as a whole. Part 1 has chapters discussing some of the general phases of the subject, among them: The industrial education survey; Forecasting future probabilities; The wage earners of Cleveland; The future wage earners of Cleveland; Industrial training for boys in elementary schools; The junior high school; Trade training during the last years in school, etc. Part 2 is given up to summaries of the special reports.
“The risks of such an assumption of static social and economic conditions are already apparent. ... The experiences of the nations at war, as well as developments in older American communities, raise some doubts about the advisability of confining the vocational training of women to retail selling, to the sewing trades and to limited fields of the more mechanical forms of office work. The least satisfactory portion of the report is that dealing with vocational guidance and school placement.” Lucile Eaves
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:903 D ‘17 370w
=El School J= 17:525 Mr ‘17 600w
“The volume contains independent and illuminating comment. The chapter on vocational guidance is one of the sanest in the whole field.”
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Stranded in Arcady. il *$1.35 (3c) Scribner 17-14177
Neither Donald Prime nor Lucetta Millington knows how they happen to find themselves alone in the northern woods on the shore of an unknown lake. Each tells a story of preceding events that ends in haziness. That they have been separately drugged, kidnapped and left together in this lonely place is the only explanation. But the story has to do not so much with this mystery as with the adaptation of two sophisticated young people, one a novelist, the other a teacher of domestic science, to primitive conditions.
“Appeared in Scribner’s Magazine.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“Ingenious and unusual.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 160w
+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 100w
“There was a time when it seemed as though the author of ‘The honorable Senator Sage-Brush’ might intend to use his very marked gifts as a story teller for the serious presentation and interpretation of certain phases of our American life, but Mr Lynde has apparently decided instead to devote himself to a lighter kind of fiction. However, this little romance is interesting, amusing, and well written, and will prove a very pleasant means of whiling away a few idle hours.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 330w
“So well told that one is willing to forget mere improbability.”
+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 70w
+ =Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“This story is different from and less spontaneous than the bulk of Mr Lynde’s other work. Still the action is rapid and a spirit of comradeship and good nature pervades it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 230w
=LYNDON, LAMAR.= Hydro-electric power. 2v il v 1 *$5; v 2 *$3.50 McGraw 621.31 16-23566
“The work, as may be inferred from the title is quite general in scope, covering both the hydraulic and electrical phases of design. Volume 1 is entitled ‘Hydraulic development and equipment,’ and volume 2 is entitled ‘Electrical equipment and transmission.’ However, it should not be concluded that the two volumes are entirely independent of each other. As the author puts it in the preface to volume 2, ‘this volume forms a companion to, and is, in fact, a continuation of volume 1. There is no definite point of division between the two volumes, and this treatise was divided into two sections solely to make it less cumbersome and more convenient for reference.’”—Engin Rec
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 10w
“Vol. 1 of this work is about the most concise treatment of hydraulic engineering from the standpoint of design and construction that is now available. ... The work is notable for its completeness rather than the newness of material presented, since it incorporates fundamental and standard formulas that have been used in the design of water-power developments. In interpretation of this information lie the practical difference and usefulness of the book as compared with other works available. ... Vol. 2 forms a very good supplement to the first volume but cannot be considered an adequate treatise on the electrical design and installation of station equipment or on transmission systems.”
+ =Elec World= 69:665 Ap 7 ‘17 350w (Review of v 1 and 2)
“Students and practising engineers interested in the design of hydroelectric-power plants will wish to add this book to their libraries. ... On the whole, it may be said that the author’s work is well done. In scope the book is excellent; it touches on almost all phases of plant design and defines the principles governing design very well. ... A number of very good charts and diagrams are included. The illustrations are excellent, and the publishers have done their part well.”
+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 500w (Review of v 1 and 2)
=LYNN, ETHEL.= Adventures of a woman hobo. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 17-15672
The author tells of a trip from Chicago to San Francisco taken in company with her husband in 1908. She was threatened with tuberculosis, and looked on a return to California, her native state, as her only salvation. Lacking funds for the journey, they started out to work their way, using a tandem bicycle as a means of travel. Midway across the plains, the tandem was abandoned. They traveled for a time in a prairie schooner, and finally completed the last stages of the journey on freight trains. The experiences described are varied and interesting. At the close the author reports that her health was fully restored and that her view point had been modified. She says, “My belief in the inherent kindliness and unselfishness of the human heart has been strengthened. ... Never again will I think it necessary to change human nature before we can improve social conditions.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
=Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 150w
“This book is worth the reading of all Socialists. It is a clarifying description of why the stranger you meet would rather knock you down than bid you the time of day.” L. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 7 ‘17 500w
=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 250w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 110w
=LYTTELTON, EDITH SOPHY (BALFOUR) (MRS ALFRED LYTTELTON).= Alfred Lyttelton. il *$4 Longmans 17-15058
This life of Alfred Lyttelton, who died in 1913, is a particularly intimate biography. It is written by his wife, who says in the preface to part 2, “Alfred’s unique position among his contemporaries was due not so much to gifts of intellect as to gifts of character. His life was not full of adventure, nor, if measured by some standards, even of achievement. What he was, rather than what he did, needs to be portrayed. In trying to draw the picture of a man’s character, his affections must be described, and as truthfully as possible.” Alfred Lyttelton entered Parliament in 1895, was sent to South Africa as chairman of the Transvaal concessions commission in 1900, and in 1903 was made secretary for the colonies.
“Few biographies offer more chapters of constant and varied interest.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 650w
+ =Sat R= 123:sup3 Mr 31 ‘17 1450w
“An unusually intimate record of the man as he revealed himself to his family and friends. What his loss meant to his friends has already been declared by the tributes paid to his memory by Mr Asquith in the House of Commons; by the address delivered by Mr Balfour last August at the unveiling of the memorial tablet in St Margaret’s, Westminster; and by the appreciations contributed by Lord Curzon and Lord Midleton to the Times at the time of his death. He made fresh friends all his life, but never lost his older ones.”
+ =Spec= 118:388 Mr 31 ‘17 1600w
“Alfred Lyttelton was not a great man, yet his widow has written an extraordinarily interesting and fascinating biography of him. Mr Lyttelton married two remarkable women, first, Laura Tennant, sister of Mrs Herbert H. Asquith, and on her death, the author of the present volume, who was Edith Balfour.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 950w
“She has executed her labour of love both with skill and judgment, throwing the strong lights in her picture upon Alfred Lyttelton’s incontestable splendour of character and charm of disposition, and leaving his ministerial rank and political achievement to furnish just the drapery and the background of the figure.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1050w
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=MABIE, HAMILTON WRIGHT.= Fruits of the spirit. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd 204 17-13307
A collection of essays that have appeared in the Outlook during the past ten and more years. The preface says, “It is significant that the latest essays, written in 1916, during a period of great physical depression, are concerned with the fundamentals of faith, action and achievement.” A few of the titles are: The practice of immortality; The ultimate companionship; The prophecy of love; The larger plan; The child and the world; Lodgings and homes; A secret of youth; The wisdom of youth; The long view of life; Meeting life squarely; The test of courage. There is an introduction by Lyman Abbott.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
“Ethical in content, hortatory in spirit, they are unexceptionable in matter and form and also quite undistinguished.”
– + =Nation= 105:351 S 27 ‘17 120w
“The essays will be found spiritually valuable, not only to the individual reader, but to groups, and even to congregations, especially in the summer when opportunity to attend ordinary church service is often denied.”
+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 120w
=MCADIE, ALEXANDER GEORGE.= Principles of aërography. il $3 Rand 551.5 17-19384
“‘The principles of aërography’ deals with the most recent advances in meteorology. ... The purpose and scope of the book are summarized in the opening sentence of the preface, ... to present this new knowledge [of about the last ten years] in a convenient form even if considerably condensed.’ ... The successive chapters are: ‘A brief history of meteorology; units and symbols; temperature scales; thermodynamics of the atmosphere; stratosphere and troposphere; the circulation of the atmosphere; the major circulations; the minor circulations; forecasting storms; the winds; the water vapor of the atmosphere; condensation; dust and microbes; atmospheric electricity; precipitation; floods and notable storms; frosts; [and] solar influences.’”—Science
“The book is well printed on paper calculated to make the illustrations appear at their best. In fact, the illustrations are one of the chief charms of the book, for they are refreshingly new. The treatment of the clouds is especially good and well illustrated. The long chapter on atmospheric electricity, which is devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the thunder shower and lightning, is again an excellent one. ... Judged as a textbook, and thus the first book to be used by a student or general reader, it has many shortcomings. The material is not well arranged; there are too many omissions and not enough elementary detail in the treatment of many subjects.” W. I. M.
+ — =Astrophys J= 46:301 N ‘17 1100w
“All teachers of meteorology and physical geography owe a deep debt to Professor McAdie for this helpful volume.” F. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 10 ‘17 750w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 O ‘17 130w
“Well illustrated and indexed.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 30w
“Unfortunately, coherence and clearness seem to have been sacrificed to brevity in the attempt to make the book a college text. The volume will probably be of greatest value as a reference accompaniment to a well-ordered course in meteorology. As a reference book for the advanced student, however, it is lacking in footnotes or bibliography, but it offsets this with its wealth of tables computed only with difficulty, and of illustrations and diagrams drawn from valuable, inaccessible sources.” C: F. Brooks
+ — =Science= n s 46:264 S 14 ‘17 950w
=MCARTHUR, JOHN CAMPBELL.= What a company officer should know. (Harvey military ser.) il $2 Harvey 355 17-16323
“The officer will learn how to maintain discipline without becoming a martinet, to foster in his men those absolutely essential requirements of cleanliness and sobriety, initiative within proper restrictions, cheerfulness under hardship, and last but not least how to make thoroly understood that the good conduct and comradeship of each individual is responsible for the well being of the whole command. Of these, examples are given by way of personal anecdote, which assist in pointing the author’s instruction.”—Ind
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17
“It is not too much to state that every reserve officer should provide himself with this handy guide. ... There is an excellent appendix of military forms and abbreviations but one wonders why a little book so cheaply bound and printed should cost so much.”
+ — =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w
=MACAULAY, MRS FANNIE (CALDWELL) (FRANCES LITTLE, pseud.).= Camp Jolly; or, The secret-finders in the Grand Cañon. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24510
A story of the Grand Canyon. Three Kentucky boys, Billy Hargrave, and his cousin Teddy, and Rags, a young colored boy, accompany Billy’s father, an eminent geologist, on an exploring trip thru the canyon. Under the guidance of Wildcat Pete, they have many adventures, and Rags, with his droll comments and his amazement at everything he sees, furnishes much merriment for the party.
“Well written.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17
“The record is a pleasant and mildly exciting one.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 20w
=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 90w
“A good open-air story for younger boys.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 70w
=MACBETH, MRS MADGE HAMILTON (LYONS).= Kleath. il *$1.35 (1½c) Small 17-24097
Christopher Kleath who comes to the Klondike in the early days of the gold rush is something of a mystery. He is engaged as a linotype operator on the first newspaper published in Dawson. But he gives evidence of many other talents, and his manner and social bearing give the impression that he is, or has been, a man of the world. Then too, on one occasion, he shows a surprising skill in picking a lock. Clare Meredith, the wife of the big, fine Klondike doctor, early shows an interest in Kleath, but he proves impervious to her wiles. On the other hand, while he is plainly in love with little Goldie Meadows, he never tells her so. The secret of his past is dramatically explained in the trial scene, after he has been accused of robbing the bank.
“It is regrettable but true that we could not lose a heart-beat during the course of this innocuous story.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 230w
“Her tale is mingled of humor, pathos, and sensationalism, with an unbecoming leaning toward dare-deviltry. It carries a certain air of conviction and will serve for readers whose imaginations accept the printed page as probable truth.”
=Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 80w
“The story is a fairly good specimen of the particular class of fiction to which it belongs, and is sufficiently interesting to hold the reader’s attention.”
=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 270w
“The picture of conditions in Dawson city at the height of the Klondike gold rush is more restrained than is sometimes found in novels of the type.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 290w
=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Pope’s favourite. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 17-14139
Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, Fra Savonarola and other historic personages appear in the pages of this novel. The author says, “I have chosen a period so rich in colour, so instinct with turbulent life, and so well known to us, that imagination had not a laborious task. I have put a little blood into the veins of the great dead figures of the Borgia period and restored the missing threads of the worn historical tapestry.” Giulia, the pope’s mistress, is drawn sympathetically. She appears as a young girl, accepting unquestioningly the customs of her time and deeply puzzled by Savonarola’s preachments. Lucrezia Borgia is presented in a new light, a weak rather than a vicious woman.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:650 Ag ‘17 330w
“It is not all of equal merit, but at least in the figures of this beautiful Giulia and of her ‘Cousin’ Cesare he has made us see a real man and woman of much more than ordinary fascination. He has made for us a brilliant historical picture.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 1100w
“Historically accurate but not very full-blooded story.”
+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 30w
“If the title cause the reader to expect a book that he will conceal behind a magazine in public, he will be misled. It is hardly ‘pour les jeunes filles,’ neither is it for the sensation seekers. It is simply a good historical novel—one of the best that it has been our luck to see in a long time.”
+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 190w
“The picture is rich in detail, colorful, yet described with a certain cool aloofness, a curious lack of vitality. The reader finds himself calmly admiring the author’s scholarship rather than excited or enthralled by his narrative.”
=N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 400w
“The author succeeds in making Pope Alexander a living character, but Cesare Borgia is only a shadow.”
+ — =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 30w
“Mr McCabe, who writes so trenchantly on so many subjects of religion, history, science, and biography, here turns his busy pen to the task of writing a romance of a period to which he has devoted special study.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 60w
=MCCABE, JOSEPH.= Romance of the Romanoffs. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd 947 17-29048
In his first chapter the author sketches the primitive democracy of the early Slavs as it existed before the “inevitable military chiefs” had fastened their hold on the people and established the beginnings of autocratic government. He then proceeds with the ugly story of Moscovite and Romanoff rule. There is irony in his title. He says, “This is not a history of Russia, but the history of its autocracy as an episode. ... To a democratic people there can be no more congenial study than this exposure of the crime and failure of an autocracy. To any who find romance in such behaviour as kings and nobles were permitted to flaunt in the eyes of their people in earlier ages the story of the Romanoffs must be exceptionally attractive.” The story is carried down to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.
“He takes visible delight in exposing the vices and crimes of Russia’s rulers and he revels in exploding time-hallowed historical reputations, for instance, that of Peter the Great. Although this denunciatory and iconoclastic tendency has its drawbacks, particularly in a historical study, it should be welcomed as a wholesome reaction against the complacencies and shams of official Russian historiography.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ — =Bookm= 46:484 D ‘17 200w
“Mr McCabe’s book would be more useful, and the story of the Romanoffs could be followed more easily and intelligently, if he had appended a family tree of this not too familiar line of monarchs, or if he had even given a chronological list of the Romanoff czars.”
+ — =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 270w
=MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS.= Happy: the life of a bee. il *75c (2c) Harper 595 17-12824
The autobiography of a bee. The author’s purpose is to set forth the life of the hive, the perils, joys and adventures of honey gathering, in attractive story form. The book has attractive illustrations and decorations by Clement B. Davis.
“A true story, its incidents being as scientifically exact as they are interesting.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w
+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w
“For young readers this nature story does something like that which Maeterlinck’s famous book on the bee did for older people.”
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 60w
=MCCANN, ALFRED WATTERSON.= Thirty cent bread; how to escape a higher cost of living. *50c (3c) Doran 641 17-14406
The author says, “With regulation, now, we can have all the food we need for home use and export to our allies, 200,000,000,000 pounds. Without regulation, we shall have bread cards and soup kitchens within a year.” He discusses the situation with regard to various foodstuffs and offers suggestions for their conservation.
=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w
=New Repub= 12:280 O 6 ‘17 260w
“His book goes into a number of interesting details on several phases of the ‘food problem,’ such as the classification of and speculation in eggs, the conservation of grain, and the preservation of vegetables.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w
“A simple, convenient argument.”
+ =St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 20w
=MCCARTER, MARGARET (HILL) (MRS WILLIAM ARTHUR MCCARTER).= Vanguards of the plains. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-29178
A story of Kansas and the Santa Fé trail and of the part played by peaceful commerce in the upbuilding of the prairie empire. On one of his early trips over the trail between Kansas City and Santa Fé, Esmond Clarenden, a pioneer merchant and trader, takes the three children who are his wards with him, feeling that they are safer with him than they would be if left alone. This is early in the ‘forties, when the journey is fraught with grave perils. The youngest of the three children, Gail Clarenden, tells the story and in following its development from his childhood to manhood, gives a panoramic picture of the growth of the West. The story has elements of historic interest, adventure and romance.
“A good story of adventure, intrigue and mystery to which the historical background lends an added interest.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:169 F ‘18
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 70w
“No American can read [this book] without a keener realization of what that security, which has been ours from our birth, means.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 560w
“The story as a whole is thrilling enough to hold any reader’s attention. But the value of the book lies in its pictures of early life on the plains and its pages from the book of the Middle West’s development.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 650w
=MCCLELLAN, GEORGE BRINTON.= Mexican war diary. il *$1 (5c) Princeton univ. press 973.6 17-11694
This war diary begins with McClellan’s departure from West Point in 1846 and is continued thru the battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847. The editor, Professor Myers of Princeton, is at work on a life of General McClellan, and this diary forms a part of the collection of manuscript material in the Library of Congress which he is using as a basis.
“This diary was decidedly worthy of publication. The true character of our ‘citizen soldiery’ is presented with a tinge of prejudice but essentially in colors true to the original. And much interesting information is given in reference to certain episodes of the Mexican war—particularly the march from Matamoros to Victoria and Tampico (pp. 21-50), the siege of Vera Cruz (pp. 53-73), and the battle of Cerro Gordo (pp. 79-90). In his account of this battle McClellan makes a distinctly important contribution to the history of Pillow’s operations.” J. H. Smith
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:220 O ‘17 370w
“Well worth publishing, for it gives a perfect picture of the young army officer who was to become in the Civil war the idol of the Army of the Potomac.”
+ =Cath World= 105:407 Je ‘17 280w
“Besides containing a remarkable revelation of General McClellan’s much debated personality, and graphic pictures of the march on Mexico City from Vera Cruz, fully explains, at that early date, the unwisdom of employing raw volunteer forces in active military operations.”
+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 70w
=Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:531 Je ‘17 60w
“Gives vivid glimpses of the campaign of 1846 and makes clearer than ever the failure and futility of the ‘volunteer system’ as a national reliance in time of war.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 60w
“From it we gain an intimate view of the Mexican war not to be found in ordinary books of history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 11 ‘17 300w
=MCCLENDON, JESSE FRANCIS.= Physical chemistry of vital phenomena. il *$2 Princeton univ. press 541 17-13355
A work for students and investigators in the biological and medical sciences. The author is assistant professor of physiology in the University of Minnesota and the work is based on lectures and laboratory work given to graduate and advanced medical students in that institution. “The purpose of the book is not to go far into physical chemistry but to develop a tool for physiological research. Lengthy discussions of debated questions are avoided by tentatively accepting the hypothesis which fits the most facts, until a better one appears. For further discussion of any subject the reader is referred to the literature list and index.” (Preface) The literature list is extensive, occupying thirty-six pages, with a subject index (to the list) of seven pages following. There is no index to the text.
“If the reader of this book, as is certainly advisable, has had a course in physical chemistry, he will find occasion to use marginal question marks, or to make corrections, in a number of places. Defects of the sort pointed out are, however, only slight and somewhat excusable misadventures in the first edition of a volume which has so much to commend it, and which is a noteworthy and valuable contribution to scientific literature.”
+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 550w
“As a whole the book exhibits the defects as well as the merits of its extreme brevity and condensation. The author evidently wishes to be as concise as possible, and largely for this reason his discussion and statements of fact frequently appear dogmatic and lacking in much needed qualifications. Certain explanations are incomplete or otherwise open to criticism.” R. S. Lillie
+ — =Science= n s 46:565 D 7 ‘17 1250w
=MCCLINTOCK, ALEXANDER.= Best o’ luck. *$1 (4c) Doran 941.5 17-28776
Tells how a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain’s king and a D.M.C. He was a sergeant in the “Canadian overseas” and rendered conspicuous service during a raid on the enemy’s trenches and, later, in rescuing wounded men at great risk. Contents: Training for the war; The bombing raid; “Over the top and give ‘em hell”; Shifted to the Somme; Wounded in action; A visit from the king.
“Told in the picturesque style of the better class of sporting writers, abounding in humorous, pathetic and thrilling incidents, the story is sure to gain large favor with those who wish to understand war as it is.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 280w
“A random set of reminiscences, a trifle wordy, but sincere.”
+ — =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 170w
“Though less comprehensive than Empey’s ‘Over the top,’ it deserves a place beside that genial chronicle, because of its absolute honesty, its utter realism, and its unabashed humor. There are several chapters devoted to his training as a bomb thrower. These pages are of particular interest and value because of the fact that the American troops in France are being specially trained for bombing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 550w
“Narrated in simple style by one who ‘don’t lay claim to being much of a writer,’ but who has a story to tell.”
+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 620w
=MCCLUNG, MRS NELLIE LETITIA (MOONEY).= Next of kin; those who wait and wonder. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-30691
Mrs McClung is an Alberta woman who, from the public platform thruout our states, is telling the story of Canada in suffrage and war. “Times like these” had its leader of the herd, Mike, who planted his feet firmly in the watering trough and kept the other cattle from drinking. Here was a clearly drawn prototype of the political leader who blocked women in their struggle for the ballot. “Next of kin” has a little no-breed hen, a philosopher with personality, in spite of frozen feet and lack of pedigree. “She went down to her death with a smile, hustling and cheerful to the last.” It is so with the throng of obscure war-mothers whose hearts are wrung as they see their young sons cheated out of boyhood to assume men’s burdens on distant battlefields, yet who heroically make the sacrifice. Pervading every page is the mother spirit, triumphant in giving “bread and blood as the sacrament of empire.”
“Gives a splendid idea of the effort which Canada has made, especially the women’s part.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18
“Several times this reaction of a woman to wartime conditions in Canada gives promise of some understanding of this conflict and the causes that underlie it, and of wars in general and their motivating forces. But no sooner are our hopes raised by such a suggestive flash than she plunges us down into the depths of sentimental maunderings.” C. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 20 ‘17 150w
“The book is a curious mixture of sound sense and nonsense, of wit and banality, of sympathetic understanding and sentimental sophistry. Withal it is marked by that sincerity which one finds in so many pseudo-public documents, such as the letters written by the farm women of the United States in response to a governmental inquiry. The sense of cheer which makes the interspersed verse reminiscent of that of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, should give it a large vogue; while the smoothness of the style and the simplicity of the stories can only serve to contribute further to its popularity.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 370w
=MCCLURE, SAMUEL SIDNEY.= Obstacles to peace. *$2 (1½c) Houghton 940.91 17-8588
The obstacles to peace are of two kinds, says the author. First there are the questions of territory, access to the sea, etc.; second, the states of mind of the peoples at war. Of the second he says, “I have tried to describe the extraordinary hatreds, contempts, and horrors that divide the warring nations; so I have given much space to the records of alleged atrocities. The most important single fact in Europe today is the feeling caused by belief in these records. This feeling constitutes the greatest single obstacle to peace.” The most important “obstacle” of the first group is Turkey. “The fate of Turkey is the issue of this war.” The author presents many original documents and writes from personal experience in the warring countries.
“Mr McClure also presents a summary which covers the crises of the decade that followed 1904 and appends a discussion of Anglo-German relations after 1912. From the historian’s point of view this is the most important portion of his work. The book is primarily designed for the general public, but every teacher of recent European history will be glad to have it on his shelves.” C: Seymour
+ =Am Hist R= 23:214 O ‘17 430w
=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“On the editorial side of this book, its most important quality is Mr McClure’s keen understanding of the fact that war is first of all a state of mind ... engendered, made possible and carried on by states of mind. ... A truer, more deeply fundamental thing was never said. And yet Mr McClure’s book is one of the very few books about the war in which this truth has been emphasised, and in which it is made the cornerstone of all argument.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Bookm= 45:321 My ‘17 1250w
“The Belgian invasion and atrocities have left Mr McClure under no illusion as to German procedure, and his most interesting comment bears upon the hypnotic national illustration of that people. This is perhaps the striking contribution which Mr McClure gives us in all his 500 pages.” B. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 450w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w
“Mr McClure has many faults. He is an incurable gossip. He writes with astonishing carelessness. He continually obtrudes his own personality into events where it has no place. But, again and again, he has some useful document to transcribe, some valuable fact to record; and for these alone his book would be worth reading. As an attempt at analyzing the real aims of the belligerents the book is a failure.” H. J. Laski
+ — =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 430w
“A war book which, in certain aspects, is one of the most deeply impressive works we have had on this greatest human drama.”
+ =Ind= 90:470 Je 9 ‘17 230w
+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 290w
“In respect of its contents this book is probably the book of the year in the field of the literature of the war.”
+ + =Nation= 105:38 Jl 12 ‘17 1950w
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 420w
“Perhaps the most conspicuous feature of the book is the emphasis which Mr McClure gives to the matter of Turkey. He found, and in this book he makes public for the first time, the details of the Anglo-Franco-German agreement of 1914 with regard to Asia Minor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
“A book of great historic value; a book for editors and librarians. ... The contrast between Georg Brandes’s ‘The world at war’ and S. S. McClure’s ‘Obstacles to peace’ is interesting and suggestive. Georg Brandes, the pacifist, gives us his conclusions without facts to support them; S. S. McClure gives us facts and leaves the reader to draw his own conclusion.”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 130w
“The book strives to be and is eminently fair, but the result is a stirring arraignment of Prussian militarism. This is trenchant in itself, and is also interesting because Mr McClure has been accused of pro-Germanism by certain sympathizers with the Allies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 330w
Reviewed by Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:554 S 22 ‘17 600w
“Its value is enhanced because it deals not only with these matters from the point of view of the Allies, but from time to time gives us some indication of the German point of view. Perhaps the most attractive chapters are those towards the end, dealing with France, and one entitled ‘Heroic voices.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 29 ‘17 1000w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 70w
=MCCLURE, WALLACE MITCHELL.= State constitution-making. $3 Marshall & B. 342.7 16-17760
“Though designed especially as a contribution to the problem of revising the state constitution in Tennessee, [this work] will nevertheless have a wider field of usefulness. Parts 1 and 3 give a history of constitutional development in Tennessee and a discussion of peculiar Tennessee problems, but part 2, entitled ‘Current thought and action upon constitutional problems,’ will be found serviceable by all students of state government. The author brings together in convenient form the state constitutional provisions on such subjects as elections, organization of state governments, the short ballot, the budget, municipal and county government, organization and procedure of the legislature, direct legislation by the electorate, etc.”—Pol Sci Q
=Cleveland= p131 N ‘16 70w
“Mr McClure’s effort is worthy of high praise. He presented to his fellow-citizens a history of constitution making in this country and an analysis of our federal and state constitutions which should have convinced them that the constitution of their own state was in sore need of revision.”
+ =Nation= 104:606 My 17 ‘17 370w
“He has succeeded admirably in concealing any partisan bias, if he has one, and has presented opposing views with a clarity and fairness that are greatly to be commended.”
+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:661 D ‘16 160w
“There is probably no other volume in print that contains so much of this material systematically digested and arranged.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 120w
=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.=[2] God’s meaning in life. *75c (3½c) Harper 231 17-25739
Man’s need of God is the central thought in this book of short essays. Especially, the author holds, is this need making itself felt at the present time. The chapter titles are: “Do we need God?” God and our ideals: God the great companion; God and regeneration; God—person or principle? Christ’s idea of God; Conversation with God; Can a “finite God” satisfy? The discovery of God.
“The book is small, a companion to the volume on Prayer and faith by the same author but its viewpoint is large and the benefits of its reading should be great. Dr McComb is well-known in Boston because of his work on psychotherapy while at Emmanuel church, and this book bears evidence of that training. Not that it expounds or even advocates the movement, but through the emphasis which is constantly laid on the definition of God as a Power.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 12 ‘18 350w
=MCCOMB, SAMUEL.= New life; the secret of happiness and power. *50c (3½c) Harper 248 17-5701
A series of essays on the spiritual life. The author finds the secret of modern unrest in the lack of spiritual satisfaction in individual lives. Social and civic activities, however worthy, do not fill the soul. A new attitude toward God that will bring man into harmony with His law is what is needed. Contents: The need of a new life; Should a man worry about his sins? The real meaning of sin; The need of conversion; Is conversion possible? Sudden versus gradual conversion; The regeneration of character; The power of the new life; The Christ ideal; The sociological value of the new life; The new life atoning and optimistic.
=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17
=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 20w
“The book is written in simple language, and is intended for the average reader. It will prove of great value to every pastor and social worker. Dr McComb writes in a happy, hopeful vein, and his discussion of these old questions is fresh and modern. The book has a positive message, but is undogmatic in its tone.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 110w
=MCCONNELL, JAMES R.= Flying for France with the American escadrille at Verdun. il *$1 (4½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-6754
The author of this little book went to France in 1915 to drive an ambulance. After some months in this service he resigned to join the flying corps. The book is made up of four chapters: Verdun; From Verdun to the Somme; Personal letters from Sergeant McConnell; How France trains pilot aviators.
=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“It is this note of a spiritual awakening which lifts Mr McConnell’s book out of the class of the adventure narrative.”
+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 110w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17
“It is a short book, of little more than 150 pages—and with large print and wide margins at that—but it has a deal of interesting matter in it. It is both exciting and informative. And its record is something of which, as Americans, we can all be proud.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:98 Mr 18 ‘17 250w
“Vivid and interesting account of the daily work of the American escadrille of the French flying corps, particularly over Verdun and on the Somme front.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:458 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering p141 Mr 1 ‘17)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 20w
“Not the least interesting portions of the little volume are the touching tributes which Sergeant McConnell pays to his comrades who fell before him.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:549 My ‘17 300w
“Written in simple, but gripping style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 130w
“Slight but very readable account.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w
=MCCORMICK, FREDERICK.= Menace of Japan. *$2 (2c) Little 327 17-9690
“When the determination of the immediate question of the future of Europe comes to conference, the fate of America’s interests and the future of the United States in the Pacific will be determined by Japan and the winners of the world war. ... The only hope for American honor, international justice, protection of commerce and trade, and other American interests in East Asia in future will be either the triumph of an European-American treaty coalition over Japanese-European Prussianism, or a triumph of the military forces of the United States over those of Japan, and a mastery in Washington in the management of foreign affairs.” These are some of the conclusions voiced in the final chapter, “Back to the guns.” “The sword, which Providence and Wisdom commend to China, they also commend to America,” is its last word. The author has been a journalist and war correspondent in the Far East since the Boxer uprising.
“A book which no thoughtful reader could for a moment take seriously.”
— =Am Hist R= 22:905 Jl ‘17 430w
– + =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“Distinguishing between fact and fiction in books upon the politics of the Far East is no easy task, even when the author cites his sources of information; in this book it becomes impossible, except to the expert student; for Mr McCormick informs us in his preface that ‘many things contained herein ... cannot be publicly ascribed to their sources ... many are simply extracts from my own journals and private records.’ The author’s rabid anti-Japanese bias casts suspicion, if not upon his facts, at least upon the soundness of his judgment. As the reader passes from one chapter to another he becomes convinced that he is in the presence of a propagandist, not a sober historical writer.”
– + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:593 Ag ‘17 530w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 730w
“Mr McCormick, although at times unjustifiably violent in his rhetoric, has without any doubt made out a clear case against Japanese diplomacy and our own inaction.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:249 My ‘17 1050w
“Many of his assertions are too sweeping, and his conclusions are sometimes palpably unsound. With due allowance for journalistic dash and patriotic fervor, his book can be read profitably. It contains a good deal of interesting information on the ins and outs of world diplomacy since the Russo-Japanese war. It is, however, almost wholly lacking in documentary citations, and the careful student will often be uncertain what to accept at face value and what to discount.” F: A. Ogg
– + =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 450w
=Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w
“The author was for years an Associated press correspondent in China, and in recent years he has been secretary of the Asiatic Institute. His personal acquaintance with the events he describes dates from the Boxer rebellion. His style is decidedly journalistic, but in places is commendably vivid. The book is essentially a study in imperialism. Whether the conclusions are sound is a question that admits of debate.”
=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 400w
“A thoroughly mischievous work. Mr McCormick’s judgment and language are not marked by diplomatic restraint, nor does he sift evidence with care or display profound knowledge of the complicated matters with which he deals.” H: R. Mussey
— =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 1750w
=MCCORMICK, HAROLD FOWLER.= Via pacis; how terms of peace can be automatically prepared while the war is still going on. 60c (9c) McClurg 940.91 17-5546
This suggestion for a means of determining peace terms was written in December, 1915, issued privately in July, 1916, and is now put forward for consideration by the public. The author asks that the belligerents “enunciate the objects for which they are fighting and place their peace terms in precise and concrete form in the hands of selected neutral countries—whose role would be, not that of mediators but of custodians and ‘transfer agents.’ The terms thus deposited could be changed periodically in accordance with the varying fortunes of the war, the resulting benefit being that each side could know at a given moment precisely what the other was demanding and could examine his own assets, chances and hopes accordingly.” (Foreword)
=Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 28 ‘17 420w
=MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH=, ed. To mother; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. il *$1 Houghton 821.08 17-13752
This “anthology of mother verse” is arranged under the headings: The young mother; Mothers of men; Christmas mother poems; Lullabies; The joy of motherhood; Old-fashioned mother poems; Sonnets on motherhood; Tributes to mothers. It includes poems by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Coventry Patmore, Eugene Field, Jane and Ann Taylor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and other English and American poets. Masefield’s “C. L. M.” and Henley’s “Matri dilectissimæ” are not included. There is an imaginative introduction by the editor, about a child and a garden; and indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors.
=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“The collection shows both discrimination and wide reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 160w
=Cleveland= p90 Jl ‘17 40w
“A collection of verse that contains neither the sentimental nor the banal, nor does it ever descend to doggerel however well intentioned. A book that one need not apologize for sending to anybody’s mother.”
+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w
=MCCULLOUGH, ERNEST.=[2] Practical structural design. il $2.50 U. P. C. bk. co. 624 17-29163
“A text and reference work for engineers, architects, builders, draftsmen and technical schools; especially adapted to the needs of self-tutored men.” (Sub-title) The book is an outgrowth of a series of articles that appeared in the numbers of Building Age from 1914 to 1916, with the title “Design of beams, girders and trusses.” Before writing the articles the author had used the subject matter in evening classes where it was presented to the type of “self-tutored” men for whom in particular the book is planned. Contents: External forces; Internal forces; Problems in design of beams; Girders and trusses; Joints and connections; Graphic statics; Columns and structures. The author is a member of the American society of civil engineers and is a licensed structural engineer and licensed architect of the State of Illinois.
“If in our college days one of us had dared to tell our professor of mechanics or structures that a really comprehensive text could have been written without the use of calculus or algebra, he would certainly have been classed with the heretics. The writer has always felt, however, that such a thing could be done and now his belief is realized in Mr McCullough’s admirable work. Although containing only 293 pages, it is difficult to find a phase of structural engineering such as is likely to be encountered in the city practice of a designing engineer which is not covered in a satisfactory manner.” W. S. Edge
+ + =Engin News-Rec= 80:128 Ja 17 ‘18 500w
=MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR.= Green fancy. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23981
Green fancy is a strange hidden house on the American border of Canada. In and around it royal personages, third-rate actors, a New York man of the world, a beautiful woman, an Irishman of fortune, an international crook, all play their parts in an exciting drama of European intrigue.
“The narrative gallops along at a rapid rate, with plenty of dramatic incidents and exciting situations, while the author garnishes characters, incidents, and narratives with touches of humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 290w
“It is a light romance, but the element of mystery is well sustained after the manner of such writers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 240w
=MACDONALD, ALLAN JOHN MACDONALD.= Trade politics and Christianity in Africa and the East; with an introd. by Harry Johnston. *$2 Longmans 266 16-22960
“This able book won the Maitland prize at Cambridge for an essay on the thesis, ‘Problems raised by the contact of the West with Africa and the East, and the part that Christianity can play in their solution’—one of the fundamental questions, that is, which confront the Empire and cannot be evaded. The chapters on the liquor traffic in West Africa and in Ceylon are very painful reading. ... Mr Macdonald discusses the difficult question of mixed marriages, and concludes that ‘the Eurasian, so long as he exists ... must be treated, if not as a social equal by the members of either dominant race, at least as a man and a brother in the great Christian community.’”—Spec
=A L A Bkl= 13:245 Mr ‘17
=Ath= p475 O ‘16 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
“Sir Harry Johnston, who is rated an authority on English colonial matters, contributes an interesting introduction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17 100w
“From first to last Mr Macdonald seeks after truth in such a temperate manner that his book will be read with pleasure even by those who will differ from some of his views.”
+ =Sat R= 122:sup8 N 4 ‘16 1550w
“Sir Harry Johnston’s introduction is a remarkable tribute to the Christian missionary.”
=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 160w
“An extensive, detailed, and able review of labour and liquor problems in Africa, India and China.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p455 S 21 ‘16 140w
“While one may not be convinced by Mr Macdonald’s argument, and there are slips in his ethnological statements ... his book is valuable for its full and impartial account of the difficulties between Europeans and natives as they exist at the present moment.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p520 N 2 ‘16 1100w
=MACDONALD, GEORGE.= Evolution of coinage. (Cambridge manuals of science and literature) il *45c (1c) Putnam 332 17-8356
The introductory chapter gives in brief the early history of coinage. Subsequent chapters take up: Coinage and the state; The material of coinage; Form, and methods of production; Types; Legends; Dates, and marks of value; Key to the plates. Select bibliography and Index follow. Eight plates illustrate the volume.
“An account, admirably written and illustrated, of the development of coinage in its technical and general aspects. The economic history of the subject is not included in the author’s plan.” C. D.
+ =Am Econ R= 7:413 Je ‘17 50w
“It would be difficult to imagine a better introduction to numismatics.” H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:316 Ap ‘17 90w
“His illustrations are excellent.”
+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 100w
=MACDONALD, J. RAMSAY.= National defence. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 172.4
“In this small book Mr MacDonald concentrates his attention not on the peace problem of the moment or on post-war international policies, but on a criticism of ‘militarism’ as a principle and as a means of national defence. He does not, that is to say, here attack the war spirit and compulsory military service on humanitarian or sentimental grounds, but on grounds of national defence as the most likely means to promote what it is supposed to prevent; ‘created to give a sense of security and to defend, whereas its very existence keeps fear alive and adds to danger.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p106 F ‘17 130w
“A chapter on ‘A democratic Germany and peace’ is a significant warning to those who expect the Germans to translate military defeat into a pacific democracy. The Germans may rid themselves of their reigning house, as the French rid themselves of Napoleon III in 1871, without wishing to forget the war.” M. J.
=Int J Ethics= 27:529 Jl ‘17 430w
=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 50w
=Spec= 119:189 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 F 1 ‘17 100w
=MACDONALD, JAMES ALEXANDER.= North American idea. (Cole lectures for 1917) $1.25 Revell 18-273
“A course of lectures delivered in the early part of the present year under the auspices of the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn., by the editor of the Toronto Globe. ... The North American idea which the author sets forth, is a recognition of the law of the world’s good will as an infinite and immutable law of the ordered life of human society and as the law of the world’s good will. This law of good will never is broken. No more than the law of gravitation can ever be broken. The world’s good will is law for all nations. Its transgression makes inevitable Germany’s undoing. ... ‘Already the leaders of world-opinion, at all the battle fronts of the world’s mind have learned the truth of the Christ dictum in the realm of world politics, that no nation can live to itself or can die to itself alone.’ An internationalized world is to be the outcome of the present world conflict of ideas. North America must play her part in the great conflict of ideas. Her preparedness must be that of the American mind, consciousness and will. ‘Service is the measure of our civilization. Service for others is the keynote of our democracy.’”—Boston Transcript
“Dr Macdonald has gained an international reputation, which the present volume will surely enhance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 360w
=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 30w
=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 80w
“Of prominent importance is Dr Macdonald’s enlightening review of United States history, and that of the Dominion. Of the latter he exposes great ignorance among us. Startling is his exposure of General Bernhardi’s secret mission hither in 1913 to prepare Germans for mischief among us in the coming war.”
=Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 180w
“The reader is, perhaps, led to share the speaker’s zeal for democracy and internationalism. But as an exposition of North America’s attitude toward these greatest of causes the book is altogether inadequate. Comparatively little of the political achievement of either Canada or the United States is presented by the speaker.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 200w
=MCDOUGALL, GRACE.= Nurse at the war. il *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 940.91 17-20977
This is the story of the “F.A.N.Y. corps” in Flanders and France, told by the Scottish nurse who started the work in September, 1914. The corps has now over 50 members working in the zone of the armies, and a few more in a convalescent camp in the center of France. They are doing motor ambulance, first aid, base hospital, and convalescent canteen work.
“Here is one of the most modest books to have grown out of the war. The author’s name does not even appear upon the title page. ... Among the most inspiring parts of the narrative are those which tell of struggles against early official refusal to accept women’s service, when male prejudice and mistaken kindness prevented and delayed the entrance of woman to one of her truest and noblest fields of activity.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 300w
“‘Graphic’ the publishers term it, and the word is none too strong. Besides being graphic, it has an air of hurry that suits well the incidents that it relates. She does not parade horrors, but her buoyancy is so irrepressible that neither does she shrink from letting them appear in all their ghastliness.”
+ =Nation= 105:610 N 29 ‘17 190w
+ =N Y Times= 23:344 S 16 ‘17 90w
=MCDOWELL, WILLIAM FRASER.= Good ministers of Jesus Christ. (Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching) *$1.25 Abingdon press 251 17-15666
“Dr McDowell is a bishop in the Methodist church. ... [In this book] he divides the work of the Christian ministry into eight divisions, using the work of Christ as a basis and guide for these aspects. He terms them revelation, redemption, incarnation, reconciliation, rescue, conservation, co-operation and inspiration.”—Springf’d Republican
“The lectures have large-mindedness as to practical problems of religion and wisdom in dealing with men. Every page has suggestions for the preacher.” A. S. Hoyt
+ =Am J Theol= 21:633 O ‘17 340w
“Bishop McDowell is, in our judgment, strongest in his chapters on redemption and rescue. The terseness and beauty of the style is an outstanding feature of the lectures.”
+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 70w
“Assuming that his hearers intended to enter the ministry of the Christian church, he has tried to show them in these eight lectures how they may become good ministers of Jesus Christ. He speaks as one who has had thorough training for and long experience in the Christian ministry.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 830w
“The style is clear and incisive, the substance rich with accumulated wisdom and instinct with passionate earnestness.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“In the long series of these annual lectures this last is inferior to none. It is characteristically inspirational and vitalizing.”
+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 140w
“The book is an interpretation of the ideals of Wesley’s followers in the light of modern needs and modern thought. ... It is interesting to note the many divergencies of thought from the very excellent series of lectures delivered on the same foundation [Lyman Beecher foundation, Yale university] in 1915, by President Hyde of Bowdoin college, entitled ‘The gospel of good will.’ The two series, read together, give one an admirably-balanced view of the religious needs of men and women to-day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 8 ‘17 400w
=MACE, ARTHUR C., and WINLOCK, HERBERT EUSTIS.= Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht. il *$10; pa *$8 Metropolitan museum of art 913.32 17-2044
“The first publication of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan museum is this handsome quarto volume by the assistant curators of the museum’s department of Egyptian art. The work of the expedition was begun in the winter of 1906-07 on the site of the pyramid-field of Lisht, which includes the pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senusert I, of the twelfth dynasty, with ‘royal’ cemeteries surrounding them. ... Text and drawings, photogravures and colored plates present and describe the site and the tomb, the clearing of the tomb, the coffins and canopic box, the jewelry, ceremonial staves, and pottery. Appendixes contain notes on the mummy, by Dr G. Elliott Smith, and an index of names of objects from the painted coffins. Mr Albert Morton Lythgoe, curator of the department of Egyptian art, is general editor of the publications of the expedition.”—Dial
“A careful index makes reference easy. And the book, a royal quarto, printed in clear large type, is a credit to the institution that made it possible and to the authors whose wealth of learning makes one gasp with astonishment.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 850w
+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 170w
“It will be seen that the volume under discussion is part of a large and comprehensive plan of archæological work, which neglects neither science nor the public, but has considered the needs of all with real scientific statesmanship. ... The jewelry, which is very fully presented in color plates, photographs, and drawings, makes the volume of importance to all students of the goldsmith’s art.”
+ =Nation= 105:95 Jl 26 ‘17 1500w
“Highly specialized as it is, the record contains a good deal of general interest, and may be read with enjoyment by a wider public than that concerned merely with the results of the archaeological expedition’s work. ... It need scarcely be pointed out that the plates which illustrate the great volume—there are thirty-five of them, as well as eighty-five ordinary figure illustrations—are of the finest.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 500w
=MCFADDEN, GERTRUDE VIOLET.= Honest lawyer. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-6331
A provincial neighborhood in Dorset a hundred years ago is the scene of this story. The hero is a young attorney who has just succeeded to his uncle’s practice. The heroine enters the tale in a most startling way, by sending a proposal of marriage to the lawyer-hero, who has never seen her. Just why beautiful, haughty and much sought after Quenride Chideock should have done this remains a mystery for some time. The answer involves a forged will, the foiling of a particularly black villain, a trial for felony, and a pardon obtained under unusual and romantic circumstances.
“Rather sensational tale.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w
“The events of the story are improbable, not to say impossible; it is romance pure and simple, wholly removed from realism. ... An adherent of Mr Howells is not likely to care for the strange incidents and unheard of situations of ‘The honest lawyer’; but to those who wish to be taken out of themselves into a wholly different world from any they have known, Miss McFadden’s ingenious and well-told story may be heartily commended.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:152 F 11 ‘17 200w
=MACFARLANE, ALEXANDER.= Lectures on ten British mathematicians of the nineteenth century. (Mathematical monographs, no. 17) il *$1.25 Wiley 925 16-14318
“This posthumous publication contains most interesting biographies of ten of the leading mathematicians of the nineteenth century in Great Britain, namely, of George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter. These sketches are a part of the lectures given by Dr Macfarlane at Lehigh university during the years 1901-04.”—Science
“Should appeal to all students of human nature. It is, however, of more special interest, because not only are the personalities drawn, but the work and achievements of these men are presented and discussed in considerable detail.”
+ =Engin N= 77:112 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
“The list is truly representative.” G. B. M.
+ =Nature= 99:221 My 17 ‘17 1700w
“The author’s personal acquaintance with some of these men, and with intimate friends of them, enabled him to add personal touches which will be relished by the reader. Particularly gratifying are the details about Boole and Kirkman, concerning whom little had previously appeared in print. The future historian of mathematics during the nineteenth century will find the booklet full of interesting material. ... Carelessness in the proof-reading is noticeable.” Florian Cajori
+ =Science= n s 45:88 Ja 26 ‘17 680w
=MACFARLANE, CHARLES.= Reminiscences of a literary life; with an introd. by J: F. Tattersall. *$3.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-19702)
“A man who met Shelley at Naples and introduced him to Pompeii, who saw Keats in Italy, who talked with Hartley Coleridge at Grasmere, and who knew all the London wits of George IV’s day is a very welcome acquaintance. Charles MacFarlane, whose reminiscences have been discovered in manuscript in a country bookshop, was a prolific author now forgotten save, perhaps, for his historical novel, ‘The camp of refuge,’ which may have inspired Kingsley’s ‘Hereward the Wake.’ In later life he had to seek refuge in the Charterhouse as a Poor brother, and there, before his death in 1858, he finished dictating the two stout quartos which he meant for his son as an heirloom—and probably for the public as well. The son, an Indian officer, died in 1872, and the memoirs have been preserved by some happy chance, to be published at last by the descendant of MacFarlane’s old friend, the John Murray of Byron’s time.”—Spec
“He is an extremely lucid chronicler of events and a caustic analyst of character. ... Among the many picturesque personalities brought by MacFarlane into his book is Thomas De Quincey, whom he handles without gloves. ... It seems altogether likely that these reminiscences were never completed, or that if they were the final volumes are lost or still undiscovered.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 1850w
“MacFarlane was a man of cultivated mind, was a fit associate of the varied personalities with whom he had contact. The chief value of his book lies in his reaction to those personalities. And along with his easy-going chatter about them goes an instinct for discerning the things which are characteristic, revealing.” Garland Greever
+ =Dial= 63:518 N 22 ‘17 1300w
“One of the most entertaining books of the sort published in many a day.”
+ =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 270w
“Full of engaging details of the literati and dilettanti of the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as some well-known Italians and Anglo-Indians. ... Writing casually, MacFarlane was not always accurate.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:390 Ap 28 ‘17 1150w
“He hated Radicals, loathed Miss Martineau and De Quincey, and bore a seemingly justifiable grudge against Charles Knight, for whom he wrote ‘The pictorial history of England’ and other popular books; but there was no real malice in his nature. ... His meeting with Shelley fills the first, and best, chapter in the book. ... MacFarlane’s serious books are forgotten, but his reminiscences will be read and quoted for a long time to come.”
+ =Spec= 118:643 Je 9 ‘17 2300w
“He is as honest as a very determined and rather prejudiced old gentleman may be. Down go his likes and dislikes, all pat; and since he took care to know a good many of the interesting people in the first half of his century, writes about them honestly, and engagingly ‘gives himself away’ in so doing, his book is lively from start to finish.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Ap 5 ‘17 1750w
=MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLA (CANFIELD).= Boys and girls of many lands. il *$1.25 (3c) Crowell 17-25294
It is the author’s purpose to tell for American children something of the every day lives of boys and girls of other countries. A little African boy, Carl of Australia, Our playmates in Austria, Jaurez, a lad of the Amazon, A little maid of old Quebec, Boys and girls in China, are the titles of a few of the twenty and more chapters. There are sixteen illustrations from photographs. Mrs McFee is author of “Outlines, devices and recreations in United States geography,” “Studies in American and British literature,” and other books for school use.
=MACGILL, PATRICK.= Soldier songs. *$1 Dutton 821 17-20683
“In his third book of the war, Mr MacGill turns from prose to verse. As his ‘Songs of the dead end’ were written out of the life of his youth in Ireland, so these ‘Soldier songs’ are the lyrical expression of the sights and sounds he encountered a few years later in the midst of ‘war’s orgies of carnage.’ To him war has a charm, but it is merely the charm of adventure that adds to the joy of living and that gives him a theme for writing. ... In a dedicatory letter addressed to ‘My dear H. J.’—which initials undoubtedly represent his London publisher, Mr Herbert Jenkins—Mr MacGill responds to a request for information about the favorite songs of the soldier on active service.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
“In all these poems there is never absent that strong sense of the part played by nature in man’s life which is always conspicuous in Mr MacGill’s prose as well as in his verse. He responds eagerly and vigorously to the scenes amid which he is suddenly placed.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 26 ‘17 1600w
“The easy dialect of the trenches predominates, but in spite of this, literary quality is not lacking in many of the poems. ‘Marching’ and ‘Before the charge’ are fine bits of verse.”
+ =Cath World= 106:408 D ‘17 120w
=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 90w
=Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 60w
“Noteworthy for its hearty rhythm, its sturdy originality of phrasing, and for the courageous spirit which permeates it. By a strange paradox, this poet has found in battle the sanity of outlook not noticeable in the work he wrote in times of peace.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 Jl 7 ‘17 350w
“We recommend to all who look upon war as something worth all its ghastly horrors in the ‘purifying’ results it bestows on mankind the poems entitled ‘After the war,’ ‘Out yonder,’ ‘Red wine,’ ‘The return,’ ‘A vision,’ ‘The everyday of war,’ and particularly ‘Letters.’ Be it remembered that these poems are the testimony of a man who finds a justification for this war.” D: P. Berenberg
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 240w
“Like everything of MacGill’s, they are ‘different’ from anything else. They are, besides, a genuine contribution to the few specimens of real poetry produced by the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 620w
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w
“Make somewhat grim reading, but they are not as harsh as his prose, and now and again a note of unexpected and delicate tenderness is heard. ... It is indeed a signal proof of versatility that the trench poems written in the crudest slang and the reverent and dignified lines on the crucifix in Givenchy church should have come from the same pen.”
+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 70w
“Criticism of the songs as works of art, beyond allowing their metrical passability, would show them to fall between two stools, since they are not poetry on the one hand, not spontaneous expression of crude emotion, on the other.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 420w
“These songs seem perhaps more than any verse of so strictly ‘soldierly’ a type that has come from the trenches to bring home to us something that is really alive—to ‘get there,’ if the expression may be allowed—more truly and easily, and without a touch of jingling bravado.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 400w
=MACGRATH, HAROLD.= Luck of the Irish; a romance. il *$1.40 (1½c) Harper 17-25084
William Grogan, born in New York, thrown upon the streets at nine, a journeyman plumber at twenty-four, is the kind of hero who, like “the Hindu Yogi, could set his body grinding corn, take his soul out and go visiting with it.” For three years from his cellar shop window he had seen the same two shapely feet, sensibly shod, trip lightly by. Saturdays minus and the gap of July and August led him to the conclusion that she was a school teacher. He had never seen her face. “There were lots of homely women with pretty feet. He hadn’t many illusions left, this young philosopher of the soldering-iron, and he wanted to keep this one.” The wheel of fortune turns. A part of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is dumped into his lap. He puts himself aboard a ship for a trip around the world. The pair of feet is on the same boat. Mystery with plenty of treachery spices the story which must be left to the reader.
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w
“A lively tale, the interest of which depends almost entirely upon its plot, and, though in the climax at Singapore it does seem as if the author might have managed to concoct a more plausible excuse for the delay which enabled William to arrive in the very nick of time, the story as a whole is amusing.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 430w
=MACHARG, WILLIAM, and BALMER, EDWIN.= Indian drum. il *$1.40 (1½c) Little 17-25511
It was an Indian superstition—that the drum, hidden somewhere in the woods at the northern end of Lake Michigan, tolled the passing of every soul lost on the lakes. Twenty years before, when the freighter “Miwaka” had gone down with all on board, the drum had beaten short. Twenty-five was the number of the lost, but the drum made the count twenty-four. And there were those who had waited many years for the return of a rescued man. The story opens with the disappearance of Benjamin Corvet of Chicago, veteran ship owner and best known man on the lakes. Coincident with this is the arrival in Chicago of young Alan Conrad of Kansas, who had been summoned by Corvet. Henry Spearman, youngest member of the firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, insists that the senior partner is dead, but Constance Sherrill refuses to be convinced and encourages Alan in his search for the missing man. The mystery shrouding Alan and his relationship to Corvet, together with the explanation of the connection between Corvet and Spearman and the lost “Miwaka” is cleared away with the wreck of Carferry 25, when the count of the Indian drum is again one beat short.
“An unusually good mystery story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
“The tale is clearly and pleasantly told, the characters acceptably real, and the solution eminently satisfactory.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 230w
“The plot is painstakingly worked out and the book is better written than most plot stories. The power and tragedy of the Great Lakes in time of storm form an impressive background.”
+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 70w
“The big scene on the lake steamer when the cars get loose recalls the place in ‘Ninety-three’ where the gun breaks loose between decks and begins to batter the ship to pieces. The incident is as thrilling as anything short of Flanders.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 370w
“The story, despite the obviousness of its dramatic struggle, is skilfully constructed, its air of mystery being well sustained.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 280w
=MACHEN, ARTHUR.= Terror. *$1.25 (3½c) McBride 17-25086
An ingenious mystery story, impossible, fantastic, yet with a moral that sets thoughtful people musing. Rural England which is the scene has a succession of strange deaths. Workers in munition factories, miners, farmers, tourists and laborers are stricken down, some apparently asphyxiated, others victims of inexplainable violence. The theory is suggested that the Germans, before the war, undermined the earth, and, from hidden vantage points, are making use of some deadly ray to destroy the people. In the end it is revealed that the terror had been due to a mute uprising of the brute creation against their human masters who, in descending to the plane of beasts to conduct warfare, had released their spiritual hold over the animal creation. The subjects revolted because their king abdicated his throne. Hatred is contagious. The animals under its spell turned on man to destroy him.
=A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18
“‘The terror’ is a pure tour de force in diabolism. With its haunting unreality, its many passages of real beauty, its passages of description of Welsh scenery, no little pleasure may be derived from its chapters.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 130w
=Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 60w
“Artfully does the story-teller establish his fiction upon an indubitable fact, fresh in every reader’s mind. The British were inactive; we all wondered why at the time, and here, says our deponent, with his crisp reporter’s air, is the answer.”
+ =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 550w
“The horrors that mark the animals’ sudden war upon mankind seem isolated from their cause, and do not convince one of any real terror at the root of them. In spite of the disappointment, and the defect of a good idea not vigorously carried out, ‘The terror’ is a distinguished book, and bears the mark of a strangely original mind.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:158 D 8 ‘17 150w
“The fancy is an excellent one, and on the whole well worked out, though, naturally, there are many things left unexplained, and some that do not hang very well together. But as ‘A tale of terror’ it certainly qualifies, and we should conjecture that the book has not been published in England, though it, no doubt, will be after the war.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 14 ‘17 530w
=N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 320w
“Daring, ingenious tale.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:808 D ‘17 50w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p70 F 8 ‘17 80w
=MACIVER, ROBERT MORRISON.= Community: a sociological study. *$3.75 (3c) Macmillan 301 17-17545
“A small portion of this work has already appeared in the Sociological Review and other quarters. The greater portion is concerned with what are believed by the author to be the fundamental laws of social development. Prof. Maciver declares that social science, in order to advance, must cease to be subject to the methods and formulæ of physical and biological science. It has a method of its own; and social relations cannot adequately be stated quantitatively, nor understood as expressions of quantitative laws. Of militarism the author remarks that it has been the enemy of modern social development, and that, if it cannot be overcome, ‘in all we do to build a greater civilization we are preparing greater offerings to the powers of destruction.’”—Ath
“This is easily the most notable book of the year in sociology. ... It is impossible to outline in a satisfactory manner the argument of a book so fertile in ideas. The only fair thing that the reviewer can do is to urge all interested in social science to read the book. It is far easier, however, to criticise the work, and in certain respects it deserves criticism. It is doubtful, for example, if the author has rendered sociology a service by adding another terminology to the many already in existence. ... Finally, Professor Maciver’s attempt to make psychology purely a subjective science, the science of ‘the knower’ (p. 60), and thereby divorce the social sciences quite entirely from it, will scarcely meet with approval on the part either of psychologists or of a large number of sociologists. These are, however, on the whole, minor defects in a work whose substantial value nearly all students of the social sciences will heartily recognize.” C: A. Ellwood
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:598 S ‘17 950w
“It strikes one as a serious omission that almost no reference is made to the contributions of earlier writers to the same theme. ... On the other hand, the author shows no particular familiarity with the sociological tradition. For that reason the terms used in this book are more or less improvised, consequently lacking in precision, and the whole volume is vague, thin, plausible, and innocuous.” R. E. Park
— =Am J Soc= 23:542 Ja ‘18 550w
Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 770w
“What makes Dr Maciver’s volume so helpful is the fact that it was written before the outbreak of war and is published unaltered. It is a masterly book, characterized by a firm grasp of principles, and it is about principles that we want clear thinking at the present time. ... The volume is refreshing in that it is neither doctrinaire nor dogmatic. The lack of pretension about the book does not, however, hide the fact that it is written with a thorough knowledge of the best work in modern psychology and philosophy.”
+ =Ath= p235 My ‘17 1650w
=Ath= p248 My ‘17 150w
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w
“It suffers from a certain abstractness. Again and again one needs the apt illustration which will serve to drive home the point that has been made. It is a well-arranged book; and a student who is acquainted with the literature of which it is a part can read it with interest and profit. It is, indeed, here that its main value lies. It is nothing so much as an encyclopædia of the problems involved in the fact of human organization. ... It is permissible to suggest that future work of this kind will be the more useful and suggestive in so far as it is written from the standpoint of historical experience.” H. J. Laski
* + – =Dial= 62:517 Je 14 ‘17 1850w
“Dr Maciver has done valuable service not only in providing us with a summary analysis of acquired results, but also reminding the specialist of the immense value of a wide outlook. The author disarms criticism by acknowledging that the subject is too vast for any adequate survey to be made in the present state of our knowledge. On the whole Dr Maciver’s book is completely successful.” C. D. Burns
+ =Hibbert J= 16:175 O ‘17 680w
“Remarkable book—remarkable for the vigour, originality and precision of the views presented. ... Of the two appendices, A is a very masterly criticism of neo-Hegelian identification of the state with society. It is, perhaps, in this illuminating criticism of authorities such as Professor Bosanquet in this appendix and of M. Durkheim (p. 87), Mr William McDougall (p. 79) that Dr Maciver is at his best.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:292 Ja ‘18 340w
=Nation= 105:698 D 20 ‘17 340w
“We may express our gratitude for so able and suggestive a plea for the value and importance of individual human personality in the life of community, a plea more deeply significant against the background of present-day happenings.” W. L. S.
+ =Nature= 100:124 O 18 ‘17 1000w
“While there is no question that what he has written is of high ability, Mr Maciver has yet certain defects of outlook and method which detract from the value of his thought. His thesis is over-elaborated. ... What is more serious is the unreal atmosphere of the book. Again and again it becomes difficult to grasp the vital fact that of this community we are ourselves part. There is missing the apt historical illustration which would lend point to the argument. ... Not the least serious defect in Mr Maciver is his seeming ignorance of vital tracts of human experience which are essential to his theme. ... If this is for the most part a criticism that is adverse, it is because Mr Maciver has written what is an indispensable book.” H. J. L.
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=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 40w
“A very able and penetrating analysis of communal development in the broadest sense.”
+ =Spec= 119:331 S 29 ‘17 120w
“We needed this book badly. Of the thousands who lightly talk about ‘national reconstruction,’ how many question the issues involved? This book provides a real preparation for the task.” A. H. Burnett
+ — =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 540w
“This book, the work of a Canadian professor, is one of unmistakable originality. ... In precision of language, in accuracy of definition, in the expulsion of indefinite phraseology, Mr Maciver’s volume contrasts, to his advantage, with the bulk of sociological literature. Certain pages are in the best style of philosophical exposition. But Mr Maciver does not wholly escape the besetting sin of sociologists—diffuseness.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p194 Ap 26 ‘17 1500w
=MACKAY, CONSTANCE D’ARCY.= Little theatre in the United States. il *$2 (3c) Holt 792 17-29335
Aims to give a complete survey of one of the “newest, freest, most potent and democratic forces in the art of the American stage.” The author shows that the idea of little theatres came from Europe. In Paris in 1887 the first experiment was launched by André Antoine. In America the movement is new, dating from 1911-12. The “arch-foe of commercialism,” this great promoter of common interest has grown rapidly in America. The chapters describe the contributions and achievements of the more important little theatres of the United States and tell of the work going on in the laboratory theatres of the universities. There is also a word on the cost of little theatres, on repertory theatres, and on little theatres that have failed.
+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w
“A crisply written informational volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:107 Ja ‘18 480w
“The author has done little more than bring together trivial notes and opinions. ... And the information is frequently inaccurate.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 330w
“Meets a real need to satisfy requests for the history of the little-theater movement.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 80w
=MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY).= Journal of small things. *$1.35 (2c) Duffield 940.91 17-8206
The author writes of France in the early days of the war. The preface, by W. L. Courtney, says: “Those who have read Mrs Mackay’s book which she entitled ‘Accidentals,’ will know exactly what to expect from her new book ‘Journal of small things.’ Like the early one it consists of a series of little sketches more or less in the form of a diary, vignettes taken from a very individual angle of vision. ... The precise quality of them is that they are extremely individual and intimately concerned with the little things—episodes half observed, half forgotten, which cluster round a big tragedy.”
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+ =Ath= p106 F ‘17 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 570w
“The writer’s intense sympathy with the sufferings she records is unmarred by emotionalism, and permits her to produce an account objective enough to be valuable; and, although Mrs Mackay is apparently not a Catholic, the ‘Journal’ is full of a beautiful reverence for the religion of the French people.”
+ =Cath World= 105:838 S ‘17 250w
“This is the record of a spiritual development, and it is by far the most impressive, the most poignant which this reviewer has yet found in the mass of war literature. It is a volume to be read and reread, and always to be kept near at hand.”
+ + =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 230w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 40w
“It stays with one, with its heartache and its beauty; not for themselves and their lost homes, but over and over again—‘Sauvez la France.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 600w
+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w
+ =Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 190w