The book review digest, volume 13, 1917 (part 7 of 10)
The author has written sketches of the lives of eleven women: Mary Lyon; Alice Freeman Palmer; Clara Barton; Frances E. Willard; Julia Ward Howe; Anna Howard Shaw; Mary Antin; Alice C. Fletcher; Mary Slessor; Marie Sklodowska Curie, Jane Addams. Writing of the work of these women, she says, “The service of the true woman is always ‘womanly.’ She gives something of the fostering care of the mother, whether it be as nurse, like Clara Barton; as teacher, like Mary Lyon and Alice Freeman Palmer; or as social helper, like Jane Addams. So it is that the service of these ‘heroines’ is that which only women could have given to the world.” Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and there are other illustrations.
“A timely book whose only fault is a happy one, a tendency to idealize.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w
“She makes an evident aim to avoid controversy regarding the comparative claims to greatness in each of her subjects. The style of narration is intimate and chatty.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 70w
=PARRISH, RANDALL.=[2] Devil’s own. il *$1.40 (2c) McClurg 17-28849
The time of the story is the year of the Black Hawk war, and that outbreak has a part in the climax of the tale. It is with one of the problems of slavery, however, that the plot is concerned. In journeying down the river, Lieutenant Knox falls in with Joe Kirby, the gambler. Kirby has been playing cards with Judge Beaucaire of Missouri and has taken from him his home and all his possessions, including his slaves. From Kirby himself, Lieutenant Knox learns that the gambler’s main motive is to gain possession of Rene Beaucaire, the girl reputed to be Judge Beaucaire’s daughter, altho in reality she is his granddaughter, the child of his son and a quadroon girl. Technically she is his slave. Moved by the tragic fate of this unknown girl, Knox sets out to save her; a task which involves the rescue also of Eloise Beaucaire, the judge’s real daughter.
“As is usual in Mr Parrish’s novels, the detail is conscientiously sketched, giving a vivid impression of the political and racial conditions in ‘Missury’ in 1832.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 28 ‘17 350w
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
“The story is tedious in the telling, despite the fact that it brims with exciting adventures and dreadful experiences. Its most interesting feature is the description of the hidden trail whereby slaves escaped to freedom in the days before the war.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 300w
“Tales of frontier and pioneer days will probably never lose their flavor with native Americans. The period was so dramatic a one in the history of the United States that it requires very little departure from established facts to make a story that stirs the imagination and arouses the liveliest interest from its first to last chapter.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 370w
=PARRY, THOMAS WOOD.= When Daddy was a boy. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little
A series of stories told by a father to his little son. They are sketches of boyhood on a Kentucky farm. Many of them are stories about animals. In others a black mammy and little negro playmates are introduced. One is a negro folk tale, included as typical of the many told to the author as a child.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 100w
“The fact that Daddy lived in a Kentucky home adds a delicious flavor. The book is well illustrated.”
+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Every one will like ‘When Daddy was a boy.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 120w
“The incidents are such as a child likes to hear, and the negroes are well portrayed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 80w
=PARSONS, CARL COPELAND.= Office organization and management. (Business administration, section 18) il $2.50 La Salle extension univ. 658 17-8877
The author’s aim has been to supply a broad view of all phases of office management. The work is based on observation of the principles employed in such offices as those of the National cloak and suit company, Sherwin-Williams company, National cash register company, and others. The author, who is now manager of the Shaw-Walker company of New York, was formerly lecturer in business administration at the University of Michigan. Contents; Organization; Laying out the office; Office employees; Office training; Rules and regulations; Discipline; Methods of payment; Promotions; Increasing efficiency; Suggestions and ideas; Esprit de corps; Vacations; Encouragement of savings; Making employees stockholders; Pension systems; Machinery of the office; etc. The volume is provided with various forms by way of illustration, is fully indexed, and made more useful as a text by the inclusion of test questions for students.
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
“By introducing many extracts from the manuals of business houses and by concerning himself entirely with the most practical problems of modern business, Carl C. Parsons makes his ‘Office organization and management’ a valuable piece of work. These things also make an intentionally technical work vastly more interesting than a purely theoretical discussion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 150w
=PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY.= Sube Cane. il *$1.35 Penn 17-13316
“The ten-years-old hero of ‘Sube Cane’ enjoys a series of adventures which Edward Bellamy Partridge relates for grown-ups. Sube’s escapades are very like those engaged in by other mischievous boys who have broken into fiction.” (Springf’d Republican) “‘Sube’ is ‘all boy.’ His is the ingenuity and ingenuousness of adolescence and those who have a furtive sympathy with the innate genius for mischief which characterizes youth will find a humor which does not tax their credulity or patience.” (Dial)
=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“An authentic story of boyhood.”
+ =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 110w
“The book is something on the ‘Penrod’ order; not perhaps so gifted with real humor, but certainly full of fun and comic incidents.”
+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w
“Sube is either less inventive, or the author sees him with a less humorous eye than Mr Tarkington’s, for his adventures arouse comparatively few smiles. But in spite of that, he is natural, and has little of the offensive precociousness often lavished upon boys whose activities form the basis of such a story.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 100w
=PATERNOSTER, GEORGE SIDNEY.= Great gift. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-28803
To Hugh Standish has come the crowning honor of his career. At forty-six he is to enter the British cabinet. But it is at this moment that he begins to realize the emptiness of his life. Love, home, family affection for the first time seem to him desirable. In Olive Ingstrom, a girl of twenty, he believes that he has found the fulfilment of his new ideal, and for a time he deludes himself, mistaking her respect and youthful admiration for love. Fortunately he comes to see the truth before two young lives have been blighted. The war menace is gathering at the story’s close, promising to Hugh new activities and opportunities for service.
“The business ethics of the hero, and his attitude to life generally, will not appeal to those whose outlook is more spiritual, but the fact that he recognized that he had missed the best in life ... will cause them to close the book with feelings of sympathy dominating those of criticism.”
+ — =Ath= p471 S ‘17 90w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“The book offers one of those English half-and-half politics and society novels for which Mrs Humphry Ward long ago set the standard. But Mr Paternoster does not follow Mrs Ward’s pattern. He has his own pattern, which is simpler than hers and has fewer of the trimmings of sentiment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 300w
“The hero is just a little too successful to be realistic. ... It is in the last third of the book, when war is about to break out ... that the novelist begins to show his power.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:90 Ag 4 ‘17 330w
=PATERSON, MRS ISABEL.= Magpie’s nest. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-9810
The author is a young Canadian novelist and this is the second book in which she pictures life in the big Canadian northwest. Hope Fielding, born on the prairies, demands that life give her happiness, and because she does not find it near at hand, she goes far in search of it. But the French have a saying that happiness is to be found in a magpie’s nest; because the magpie always builds out of reach. It is only when Hope has given up looking for it, that happiness overtakes her. One of the new and growing cities of Alberta is the scene of the greater part of the story, but at one time Hope’s quest takes her to Seattle, at another to New York.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 330w
“Isabel Paterson’s heroine reminds one of Owen Johnson’s ‘Salamander,’ a fact which will doubtless recommend the book to many.”
— =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 90w
“As in Mrs Paterson’s former novel, ‘The shadow riders,’ the scene of a part of the story is in the Canadian northwest, the descriptions of which are fresh and vivid. The book is remarkably well written, and holds the reader’s interest in spite of its reprehensible characters and very unpleasant situations.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 50w
“The latter part of the story is in obedience to the conventional requirement of a happy ending and is quite ordinary work. But the first two-thirds ring absolutely true, built from the storied memories of tense, full, eager, devouring youth. The vitality, the wonder, and the hope of immaturity are poured out for us.” M. A. Hopkins
+ — =Pub W= 91:1320 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“It shows a great advance on Miss Paterson’s previous novel ‘The shadow riders’; and, moreover, it is by no means devoid of humour.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 230w
=PATRI, ANGELO.= Schoolmaster of the great city. *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 371 17-13273
A piece of autobiography and a study of educational conditions as they exist in New York city today. The author came to America from Italy when a boy. He was eleven years old when he entered an American school, and ten years later, having been sent thru college by a father who earned two dollars a day, he came back to the city schools as a teacher. In time, after another interval spent in study, he passed on to a principalship. In this book he writes of his association with the schools, as pupil, as teacher and as principal. He shows how the humanizing touch has made itself felt in spite of the big unwieldy educational system and how school has been linked with community as the first step toward making a new and a better America.
“As interesting to the parent as to the teacher.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 80w
“Mr Patri’s honest and unpretentious book contains both wisdom and inspiration for every teacher and every parent, everywhere.” Clyde Furst
+ =Educ R= 54:516 D ‘17 1000w
“The author knows how to tell a story and when he has told it his point needs no further enforcing. The issues which are so sacred to the old education seem trivial in the face of the realities of present day requirements.”
+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 200w
“It has the rare gift of unfolding, without consciousness, the real character of an uncommon man.”
+ =Nation= 104:738 Je 21 ‘17 470w
“The simple anecdotes introduce you to real people. That is what makes the book interesting reading, even if you are not concerned with schools and with children. This is a human document, not a pedagogical treatise.” B. C. G.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 800w
“Mr Patri’s vision of what the public school should be and should do in American life, in city and country, in rich neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods alike, is an inspiring and an aspiring vision.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 480w
“His book has in it entertainment and valuable suggestions also.”
+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 90w
“Patri’s book has been compared to Jacob Riis’s portrayal of the lives of the common people in ‘How the other half lives.’ Like Riis, he sees the flaws of our social and educational systems more clearly because of his foreign birth. ... His work has been done in New York, but his experiments are of interest in all American cities. ... Mr Patri was given the principalship of school no. 45, in the Bronx, and he has made it into a model Gary school—one that is a real community center.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:73 Jl ‘17 2350w
“There is no theorizing or dogmatizing. You see the children and the mothers and the homes with his own eyes. You unravel the snarls and tangles with him. You marvel that the despised craft of teaching could be so dramatic, could call for such skill and talent. Schoolmasters like Mr Patri would make teaching the most important of professions, and education the finest of the arts.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 650w
=PATTERSON, AUSTIN MCDOWELL.= German-English dictionary for chemists. *$2 Wiley 540.3 17-6769
“The scope of the book is broader than the title would seem to indicate. It gives English meanings, not only of German words occurring in the literature of general and industrial chemistry, but includes words used in scientific and technical literature generally, as well as a good general German vocabulary.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Dr Patterson has filled what has long been an irritating lacuna in the average chemist’s library. ... The book should be eagerly welcomed by the steadily increasing number of young chemists in England and America and by those who, even if they have already a good working knowledge of the language, are occasionally at fault. The book is clearly printed, the German being in roman type.”
+ =Nature= 100:144 O 25 ‘17 220w
“‘The need of a book of this kind has been keenly felt by all scientific men.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 190w (Reprinted from India Rubber World My 1 ‘17)
“Dr Patterson has performed a public service in the compilation. ... His extended experience as editor of Chemical Abstracts has given him exceptional qualifications for such an undertaking and the work shows the same painstaking care which characterized his successful work as editor. ... The printing is good, the covers are flexible, and the size is suited to the coat pocket.” C: H. Herty
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:462 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry p422 Ap 1 ‘17)
“Includes valuable suggestions on nomenclature.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 20w
+ =Pratt= p14 Jl ‘17 20w
“Very useful to anyone who has occasion to read German scientific or technical books and periodicals.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 70w
“Since its appearance in January it has been in constant use in the office of ‘Chemical Abstracts,’ where translating work involving every phase of theoretical and applied chemistry is done and it has stood this test of completeness in such a way as to justify the confidence with which it is used.” E. J. Crane
+ =Science= n s 46:414 O 26 ‘17 510w
=PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Religious education of an American citizen. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 204 17-20853
This book is “an attempt by the emeritus professor of Christian morals at Harvard to analyze the various influences which direct and go to make up the religious training of the average American.” (Springf’d Republican) Chapter eleven, The conversion of militarism, is reminiscent of William James’ “Moral equivalent for war.” The last chapter deals with The place of Jesus Christ in a religious experience.
“In vain do we look for any definite statement by the author as to the nature of Christ. And if he wavers in this fundamental belief, what light or leading can be expected from him on the momentous question of ‘The religious education of an American citizen?’”
— =Cath World= 106:113 O ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w
“Some patent defects that one grieves so often to find in religious writers of prominence are an over-reliance on pretty verbosities, a habit of glib mosaic of biblical quotation designed to fit into modern problems (going back for its warrant to the infallibility of the scriptures), and a trait that naturally goes with the latter—an odd combination of sound and serious reflection with ramshackle logic. But there is plenty of meat in this book.”
+ — =Dial= 63:278 S 27 ‘17 350w
“The intimate and perplexing problems of the mind, in which faith, character and modern progress are factors, are dealt with helpfully. ... The chapter on the conversion of militarism is especially pertinent, but Dr Peabody almost seems to fall into the common failure to properly interpret Jesus Christ in relation to militarism. ... If we must have militarism a while longer, we wish that we might have the courage to possess it without torturing the teaching of Jesus to justify us.” L: A. Walker
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 300w
“An ideal work, the cream of long and rich experience.”
+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 90w
“Particularly helpful at this time is the chapter on ‘The conversion of militarism.’ Dr Peabody thinks the youth of America should be given constructive social work to fill the place which some would gladly see assigned permanently to military training. ... The book is written with distinction of thought and style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 250w
=PEABODY, JAMES.= Railway organization and management. 2v il LaSalle extension univ. 385 17-689
“This is one of a series of books on interstate commerce and railway traffic. Its purpose is to explain the functions of the various departments of the railway and the duties of the officers and employees. ... Naturally the greater part of the book consists of a detailed analysis of the three great divisions of railroad organization—operating, traffic, and accounting; but brief mention is made of the corporate organization and of certain miscellaneous departments, such as relief, pensions, publicity. Some little attention is given to the valuation work which has been forced upon the railroads by the federal government.” (Am Econ R) The author has been statistician for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railway.
“The arrangement of the book is somewhat faulty resulting in many needless repetitions. A fairly full index remedies this defect to some extent. There is also a noticeable lack of balance in the apportionment of space to the various topics. On the whole, however, the work affords the student of transportation and the layman a considerable amount of information concerning the organization and operation of a railway though it is too superficial to be of much use to a railroad man or to any one who desires an intimate knowledge of the subject.” C. W. Doten
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:121 Mr ‘17 250w
=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 60w
“No such complete list and description of railway positions has been put into any previous work. Elaborate charts show the relations of the officials to each other and guide the reader through the almost infinite complexities of the organization.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 28 ‘16 250w
=PEARS, SIR EDWIN.= Life of Abdul Hamid. il *$2 (1½c) Holt 17-31756
“A word of apology on my part may, perhaps, be expected for having included this sorry creature, Abdul Hamid, among the ‘Makers of the nineteenth century,’” writes Basil Williams in his General editor’s preface, continuing, “and yet as an influence on the political thought and action of Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as one who has handed down that evil influence to the Europe of this century, Abdul Hamid may justly lay claim to be included among those who have helped in large measure to make or mar the world into which we were born.” It is in much the same spirit that the author takes up the career of “the greatest of the destroyers of the Turkish empire.” Sir Edwin Pears is author also of “The fall of Constantinople” and “The destruction of the Greek empire.”
“An authoritative and popular history. The chapters are topical, which makes useful the chronological table of events at the end of the book. The author weaves into the history the part played by British diplomacy. His estimate of the Sultan’s character is interesting and well balanced.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18
=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 170w
“True, the result is a trifle disappointing, for Sir Edwin has treated his subject from a topical rather than a chronological standpoint, which frequently causes confusion and gives rise to the necessity for elaborate mental cross-referencing.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 520w
“Sir Edwin Pears has dealt with all these matters in a most competent fashion, and his book will be the standard biography of the worst of all the Sultans.”
+ =Spec= 119:717 D 15 ‘17 310w
“Abdul Hamid is the subject of just such an impartial, clear and comprehensive study as would be expected from a man of Sir Edwin Pears’s knowledge and profundity. If it is history more than it is biography, that fact is a natural consequence of the secrecy surrounding the life of the deposed emperor, and of the necessity of judging him by his public acts.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 1000w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p557 N 15 ‘17 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p592 D 6 ‘17 1750w
=PEARSE, PADRAIC H.= Collected works. il *7s 6d Maunsel, London 820.8
“Padraic Pearse was among the Irishmen executed after the outbreak in Dublin in the Easter of 1916. He was thirty-six years old; but already for twenty years and more he had been working for the Ireland that he saw in a vision. He learned the Gaelic language, and so well that, as ‘Padraic MacPiarais,’ he was able to write poems in it and plays and stories. At seventeen he founded the New Ireland society in Dublin. ... He edited the weekly organ of the Gaelic league. He conducted a secondary school as Gaelic in ‘atmosphere’ as he could make it.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The stories include the tale of “Iosagan” (Little Jesus), the mysterious, barefooted boy who came to play with the village boys, but disappeared when there were grown-ups about; of little Paraig, who used to play all alone at being a priest; of Brideen and her two dolls; of “The Dearg-Dool,” “in which the kindliest intentions seem hopelessly entangled with ancient doom”; of “The keening woman,” who came to London to plead with Queen Victoria on behalf of her son, imprisoned on suspicion of murder, etc. The plays all deal, directly or indirectly, with the history and politics of Ireland. The poems are filled with a confidence which contrasts strongly with the doubt expressed in the plays.
=Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 190w
“Those who look in the writings of Mr Pearse for that picturesque imagery which we are accustomed to find in the works of Irish authors will be disappointed, for there is little of it. There is a lack also of that humor, regarded as characteristically Irish, which by its piquant contrast adds poignancy to the homely tragedies of the Irish countryside.”
+ — =Spec= 119:272 S 15 ‘17 290w
“They are what literature ought to be. Their ‘literary’ beauty is patent, even in these English translations. ... They are very finely wrought; full of fancy, of passion, of tender humour; in the treatment of children they are rarely true and tender. But their special claim to notice is that they are the many times refined expression of their author’s spiritual life. ... To the seeker after literature, the purified and exalted expression of spiritual life, it matters not a jot whether the poet be politically right or wrong. He may be a rebel and a traitor; but, unless he be cowardly and mean of soul, his literature may be noble. And the literature left by Pearse is not the literature of a coward or a mean man. ... It is the more interesting because visionaries of this kind seldom have the power of expressing themselves through the art of letters.”
+ + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p319 Jl 5 ‘17 1850w
=PEARSON, CHARLES CHILTON.= Readjuster movement in Virginia. (Yale historical publications) *$2 (4½c) Yale univ. press 975.5 17-24995
The movement which has been made the subject of this work represented a reaction against reconstruction. The author says of the book, “It is a chapter in the history of Virginia, from the Civil war to the first administration of Grover Cleveland, in which some of the forces that moulded the present state are shown in their operation; and in the showing the ‘Readjuster’ claim to liberalism, democracy, and progress is tested and due record made of the achievements and solid worth of those who stood for conservatism, aristocracy, and scrupulous honesty.” (Preface) A “bibliographical note” of six pages precedes the index. The author is professor of political science in Wake Forest college, North Carolina.
“Politics make strange bedfellows. On this score the reviewer might find a little fault with the author. For the book, while it does refer to the national bearings of his subject, does not make clear enough the entanglements and commitments of this bastard Virginia party. ... There is a fairness in the book and an appreciation of the difficulties of politicians in steering the course of any given ship of state that promise well for the future writings of the author.”
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:417 Ja ‘18 950w
Reviewed by S. C. Mitchell
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:140 F ‘18 500w
“There is a long and bald array of facts and figures; however the book shows scholarly research, is carefully written, is well provided with notes and bibliography, and should have lasting historical value.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 30 ‘17 450w
=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Reveries of a schoolmaster. *$1 (2c) Scribner 814 17-9711
The author is State superintendent of public instruction in Ohio and has published books on “The evolution of the teacher,” “The high-school problem,” and other educational subjects. In this book he writes informally of the schoolmaster’s calling and of some of the problems of life in the light of his experience as a teacher. Homely analogies drawn from a country boyhood add an individual touch to the little essays. Among the subjects are: Retrospect; Lanterns; Complete living; Freedom; Things; Hoeing potatoes; Changing the mind; The point of view; Picnics; Make-believe; Story-telling.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17
+ =Boston= Transcript p13 Ap 7 ‘17 470w
“Thirty-one well-organized little essays, full of kindly, homely wisdom based on both reading and human experience. ... The book will be of especial interest to those who have to deal with young people, or to students themselves.”
+ =Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 50w
“Mr Francis B. Pearson has put much homely philosophy and the results of sound reflection in this little book.”
+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 30w
“In nearly all are one or more common sense suggestions on wise and tactful methods of boy training.”
+ =Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 40w
“They are generally sensible, they are occasionally witty; but they abound in stale anecdotes and trite quotations, and they are prone to ‘announce commonplaces as if they were discoveries.’ All these are, of course, besetting sins of teachers. It is probably better to talk over your pupils’ (or readers’) heads than to talk under their feet. The latter is Mr Pearson’s danger.”
+ — =Nation= 105:259 S 6 ‘17 140w
+ =School R= 25:303 Ap ‘17 10w
“Although the writer avoids technical cant and disclaims any assumption of authority, the morals of his parables are plain and enlightening. The critical reader, however, may find in Mr Pearson’s style blemishes which seriously mar the charm of the whole. Rather too often is the writer ingenuous, obtrusively rustic and facetious, which, in a book of this nature, may lead one to distrust the writer’s judgment.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 430w
=PEARSON, FRANCIS BAIL.= Vitalized school. *$1.40 Macmillan 370 17-4795
“The ‘vitalized school,’ according to Mr Pearson (who is state superintendent of public instruction in Ohio) is nothing but a school with a vitalized teacher in charge. In general, his book is an attempt to bring together some of the fundamental modern implications of teaching in a way that will induce teachers to incorporate them into the practice of their profession. ... It consists of a series of short treatises, aiming to be both practical and inspirational, on teaching as related to life: on ‘the teacher,’ ‘the child,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘the artist teacher,’ ‘the socialized recitation,’ ‘the school and the community,’ ‘a sense of humor,’ ‘poetry and life,’ ‘examinations,’ etc.”—Survey
=St Louis= 15:171 Je ‘17
“An inspirational rather than an informational book. ... The style throughout is free and easy and especially adapted to the teacher of little training and experience. The questions and exercises at the end of each chapter suggest that the author expects his work to be used both as a text and as a reading-circle book. In either of these capacities it would be more valuable for what it suggests than for what it contains.”
=School R= 25:461 Je ‘17 200w
“There is much that teachers, and other people, too, will do well to ponder. ... The book suffers somewhat from its sustained effort to treat broad, elusive, ‘inspirational’ subjects and relationships as if they were matter for exact exposition and could be stated as facts to be acquired rather than feelings to be aroused. Perhaps (though we doubt it) this is suited to the intended audience. Then, too, Mr Pearson makes a bad guess occasionally in his illustrations: such as when he quotes a statement that the first purpose of the schools at Gary is to make efficient workers for the mills.” W. D. L.
+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
=PEARSON, THOMAS GILBERT.= Bird study book. il *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 598.2 17-8225
This book is meant to serve as a guide to beginners in bird study. It is not a compendium of facts about birds and their habits. Facts are not lacking, but its primary purpose is to tell the student how to begin, where to look, and what to look for. There are chapters on: First acquaintance with the birds; The life about the nest: Domestic life of the birds; The migration of birds; The birds in winter; The economic value of birds; Civilization’s effect on the bird supply: The traffic in feathers; Bird-protective laws and their enforcement; Bird reservations; Making bird sanctuaries; Teaching bird study. There are illustrations from photographs and drawings. The author is secretary of the National association of Audubon societies.
=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
“Presents briefly much information that would be overwhelming in formidable scientific publications; and is intended to stimulate rather than to satisfy. Those who are disposed to cultivate an intelligent interest in the habits of their bird neighbors, will find the necessary help and inspiration for beginners in the matter here presented for their guidance.”
+ =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p69 My ‘17 30w
“The last chapter, Teaching bird study, will be of specific value to teachers, to whom, rather than to the novice in field study, the whole book will be of considerable general value.”
+ — =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 270w
=Pittsburgh= 22:414 My ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17
=PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN.= Secrets of polar travel. il *$2.50 (5c) Century 919.8 17-30385
A book devoted to what might be termed the technique of polar exploration. In his former book, “The north pole,” the author gave a brief summary of his methods. In this work he has elaborated that brief account, giving details of the system which, evolving gradually thru his years of endeavor, enabled him finally to reach the pole. Contents: Building a polar ship; Selecting men; Supplies and equipment; Ice navigation; Winter quarters; Polar clothing; Utilization of Eskimos and dogs; Utilizing the resources of the country; Sledge equipment; Sledge-traveling. In a brief conclusion, he touches on air travel as a possible means of arctic exploration.
=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“A notable book on arctic journeys ... by the man who is more competent than any other in the world to discuss the subject.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 150w
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 420w
“It presents the conclusions as to the best methods of exploration in polar regions which the author has worked out during his years of arctic journeyings, and presents them with such constant and varied illustration of incidents and facts and personal observations as to make the narrative far more interesting than the account of a single expedition.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 1100w
“It is a book for every explorer and every lover of high adventure.”
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 21 ‘18 360w
=PEASE, MARGARET.= Jean Jaurès, socialist and humanitarian; with an introd. by J. Ramsay Macdonald. *$1 (3½c) Huebsch. 17-26782
This book has been written to acquaint English readers with the socialist editor, author, orator and parliamentary leader whom J. Ramsay Macdonald, in his introduction, calls “the greatest democratic personal force in Europe—even in the world,” and who, after having spent the last day of his life in a vain effort to avert the war, was assassinated on July 31, 1914. Chapter 1 gives “a short sketch of the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaurès and the Dreyfus case, Socialist methods, “The new army,” and International peace, while giving Jaurès’s views and actions, necessarily also contribute much to the history of French socialism.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. A. Yeomans
=Am Pol Sci R= 12:154 F ‘18 170w
“This book is cursorily written and, though laudatory, is far from making out the ‘greatness’ of its hero. As is to be expected, many hoary old calumnies are brought forward against Catholicism. Yet in reality it is not Catholicism which Mrs Pease so bitterly attacks, but something quite other, that ancient and fanciful monster we had long since thought deceased, ‘the Romish church.’ That the authoress resurrects the word is sufficient comment on the intellectual quality of her book.”
— =Cath World= 106:395 D ‘17 520w
“Of particular interest at present is the discussion of the opinions of Jaurès on military policy.”
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w + =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 70w
“The French accused Jaurès, more particularly in his later years, of pro-German sympathies. ‘M. Jaurès, c’est l’Allemagne,’ wrote M. Charles Maurras about a fortnight before the war; and it has not unnaturally been assumed that this was the charge which loaded the pistol of the assassin. His firm article of faith was that the German ‘comrades’ did not want war, and that war might be prevented by the open-hearted appeal of a French socialist whom they trusted. ... Mrs Pease’s volume will help readers to understand his place in recent history, though her exposition of his ideas is more enthusiastic than critical.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 19 ‘16 870w
=PEASE, THEODORE CALVIN.= Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English great civil war. (Prize essays, 1915) $1.50 Am. hist. assn. 942.06 17-9688
“Dr Pease, of Illinois university, has made a careful study of the Leveller movement led by John Lilburne during the civil war. He emphasizes the Levellers’ demand for a supreme law which neither king nor Parliament could override, because in this respect they anticipated the founders of the American constitution. Dr Pease is unusually sympathetic towards Lilburne, though he does not vouch for the honesty of that clever but unattractive man, and sees that if the Levellers had shattered the discipline of the army Charles II would have come back in 1649 and crushed Presbyterians, Independents, and Levellers alike.”—Spec
“It is unfortunate that space limitations prevented the inclusion of the bibliography in full, for which many students of the period would have been very grateful. Finally, Mr Pease is quite right in his admission that his study is ‘avowedly sympathetic.’ Whatever the admirable qualities of Lilburne and his fellow-Levellers, however glad one may be that such doctrines as they advocated found voice, it still remains a question whether, in their own day, they helped or hindered real progress. It is to be hoped that Mr Pease will add to his excellent study a supplementary treatise on their relations to every-day affairs, apart from the realm of political theory. For such a study no one is so well qualified.” W. C. Abbott
+ =Am Hist R= 22:900 Jl ‘17 550w
“A very solid and valuable contribution to history and political science, and much the most detailed and thorough study we have of the political theory of probably the most interesting group in a most momentous period.” C. H. McIlwain
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:584 Ag ‘17 600w
“Reveals research work of value and importance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 9 ‘17 300w
“The book is written with strict attention to the rules of sound historical workmanship and embodies the result of patient research in materials of unquestioned trustworthiness.”
+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 220w
+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 130w
“Mr Pease includes in the volume a bibliography as painstaking and thorough as his text.”
* + =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 4200w
“This book, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize in European history in 1915, appears at a fortunate, or at least an appropriate, moment. It tells of a struggle between Moderates and Extremists in the course of a great revolution, and, though it would be very difficult to construct an historical parallel between events in England from 1647 to 1649 and events in Russia in 1917, there is a certain element of similarity in the applications of enthusiastic idealism to new conditions.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 1800w
=PEAT, HAROLD R.=[2] Private Peat. il *$1.50 (3c) Bobbs 940.91 17-29848
Private Peat is a Canadian soldier who experienced the whole gamut of war sensations from the thrill of enlistment to the loss of consciousness “out there” when he lay in the open two nights and a day before the stretcher bearers found him. His narrative is full of the grimness and humor of life in the trenches and behind the lines. But most of all he shows the soldier’s clear quality of courage to live because he must through an inferno of destruction and death, of murder and horror. Romance is a part of the story. The last chapter is written by the girl herself—a free lance of Fleet street—whose advertisement concerning a lost cousin was the beginning of a hospital acquaintance with the disabled private which ended in marriage after his return to Canada for discharge. The writer is on a successful lecture tour in America now.
“It is for the most part more serious than ‘Over the top,’ yet it also reflects the indomitable humor of the ‘Tommy’ and it is entertainingly written.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
“He gives a colorful, varied picture of life at the front in all its aspects.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 830w
“If a person has ever felt a strong desire to talk with one of the boys who has been in the thick of it on the western front, let him get ‘Private Peat.’” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 290w
=PEATTIE, ELIA (WILKINSON) (MRS ROBERT BURNS PEATTIE).= Newcomers. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 17-24275
This story for older girls has appeared as a serial in the Youth’s Companion. The Wardells come to Dalroy, Illinois, as strangers. Robert Wardell has been offered his first position as an engineer on the dam which is to be built on the Rock river. His mother and two sisters accompany him. Dalroy is a sorry enough looking town at first sight, but, resolved to make the best of it, the Wardells enter wholeheartedly into its life. The tact and sympathy of the mother and the kindness and high spirits of the young people make friends for them all and several blighted lives—like that of the old school teacher who has lost his position, and of the girl who is paying for her mother’s failings—are set in happier lines by their companionship. The touch of love interest blends unobtrusively into the narrative.
“A pleasant story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18
“A good love story for girls, lively, entertaining and with frequent touches of keen humor.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w
=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 70w
=PEDDIE, ROBERT ALEXANDER.= Outline of the history of printing. 2s 6d Grafton & co., London 655.1
The author is Cantor lecturer on the history of printing and librarian of the St Bride typographical library. This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of lectures delivered before the Royal society of arts in 1914. The first six chapters take up the history of printing by centuries, two chapters being given to The nineteenth century and after. Six chapters on the history of printing in colors follow.
“Mr Peddie’s volume—it reaches scarcely more than fifty pages—contains much in little about the printer and printing.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ‘17 820w
=PEIXOTTO, ERNEST CLIFFORD.= Revolutionary pilgrimage. il *$2.50 Scribner 973.3 17-28097
“To the many American people who never visit or think of their historic places this volume will be a picturesque lesson in American history. Starting in Boston, we are shown by pen and picture the important buildings and places connected with the War of the revolution. From Boston we are taken over pleasant roads to Lexington and Concord, then to Lake Champlain, Saratoga, New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington. One of the features of the book is that Mr Peixotto, by letter and document, lets many of the noted characters tell their own story. Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and Major André all recount their own adventures. ... The illustrations are in black and white from Mr Piexotto’s own hand.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w
“Will appeal to all patriotic Americans, especially those contemplating a motor trip a little out of the ordinary.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 40w
=PELLETT, FRANK CHAPMAN.= Our backdoor neighbors. il *$1.50 Abingdon press 590 17-30148
“These backdoor neighbors are the red tails and cooper hawks with a taste for chicken meat; ‘Foxy’ Squirrel, who likes any kind of table dainties; the screech owls, partial to mice; ... and many other little creatures not always received in polite society. ... The Naturalist, as Mr Pellett designates himself, lives in a modest Iowa farmhouse among surroundings which he has left ‘uncultivated’ to a degree deplored by his human neighbors. ... His story proves that he has had unlimited enjoyment from association with his backdoor neighbors. Quite regardless of propriety he pries into their most intimate and private affairs.”—Pub W
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:191 D ‘17 40w
“They will appeal to those who are either afraid of the over-technical ‘nature book’ or are skeptical of ‘nature faking.’ There is no trace of the latter in ‘Backdoor neighbors.’ It radiates sincerity nor is there any nauseating sentimentality.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 420w
“The stories are told in a way to hold the reader’s attention, and at the same time furnish facts of value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 60w
=PENNELL, ELIZABETH (ROBINS) (MRS JOSEPH PENNELL) (N. N., pseud.).= Lovers. *$1 Lippincott (Eng ed 17-26658)
“Like ‘Our house’ and ‘Nights,’ ‘The lovers’ is largely autobiographical, and like them it is written in Mrs Pennell’s own intimate manner that brings to its pages all the graces and imagination of fiction. Its action takes its beginning just outside the windows of Mrs Pennell’s own home in the heart of London, and although it carries us to the battlefields of France, her own part in the story and her commentary upon it adds to its persistent flavor of romance, and gives it a distinctive atmosphere of reality. ... As long ago as June, 1911, there appeared in the Century a short story by Mrs Pennell called ‘Les amoureux.’ It now forms, under title of ‘In the garret,’ the first chapter of the four chapters that make up ‘The lovers,’ for what Mrs Pennell thought was a complete story was merely its beginning.”—Boston Transcript
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
“One of the few enduring books that have come or that are to come out of the great conflict.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 1550w
“One of the few bits of real literature dealing with the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“‘The lovers’ is a book to bring the huge, wasteful tragedy of war strongly home to its readers.”
+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 420w
+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Because it is so simple, so tender, so human, so true, so absolutely of the stuff of life in wartime days, Mrs Pennell’s little tale deserves wide reading. The mere story of the story is a romance in itself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 600w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 40w
+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 30w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 120w
“Among the best descriptions known to us of life under training in England and of certain sides of life at the front. Harold Chapin’s are not so vivid, so perceptive, nor so thoughtful. And the consolation is the ‘splendidness’ of this artist, lover, mystic, who could keep the flame of his spirit burning through all the drudgery, horror, and filth in which he had chosen gallantly to pass his days for his soul’s sake. Mrs Pennell has done her work with fine judgment.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p232 My 17 ‘17 530w
=PENNELL, JOSEPH.= Joseph Pennell’s pictures of war work in England; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. il *$1.50 Lippincott 940.91 17-26395
“Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of munitions works, made by Mr Pennell with the permission of the British government, and accompanied by notes by the artist.” (Ath) “The drawings, etchings, and lithographs describe the activity of workshops, furnaces, forges, mine shafts, cranes, in time of war. The book really represents an apotheosis of machinery. Mere man is at a discount. When he does appear in these pages, he is but an elusive, fleeting figure.” (Outlook)
=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p54 Ja ‘17 50w
“These pictures are splendid, they are noble, they are victorious, they are inspired. The balance of light and shade, the sureness of the drawing, the keenness of observation betrayed by hundreds of valid details that have their due effect, make this book one of the most valuable documents of the great war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 380w
=Cleveland= p97 Jl ‘17 60w
“That is his interpretation of the present war—a battle of the mechanical genii which have been evolved by human ingenuity, now become our masters—and destroyers. This interpretation is borne out by the brusque words commenting upon each drawing. There is much in this volume which it would be well for every American to ponder.”
+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 200w
“There are fifty-one full-page reproductions of Mr Pennell’s sketches, and for each the briefest of descriptions in choice and impressive language, sometimes tinged with laughter, oftener with tears. Every picture accents the terrible grimness of war.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 8 ‘17 190w
“Mr Pennell has had exceptional facilities afforded him for obtaining these pictures. No such opportunity is available to the ordinary citizen, and next to the privilege of actually visiting the works themselves, no more effective means are available for obtaining a clear and vivid idea of all that is meant by the manufacture of munitions of war than that provided in this most interesting collection of drawings.” W. Ripper
+ =Nature= 98:385 Ja 18 ‘17 250w
“Something of that strange anthropomorphic life with which Hardy can imbue even an ordinary cross-road, over which dead autumn leaves are swirling as if caressingly Mr Pennell lets be conveyed through his sketches of these new and tireless industrial giants.”
+ =New Repub= 12:141 S 1 ‘17 330w
“Pennell’s book is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of the present war, inasmuch as he gets closer to the truth than the writers of most of the nationalist publications with which the market is flooded.” L. G.
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 430w
“That these industrial subjects should be identified with a world war is not an inspiration to him, for he puts himself on record as not believing in war.”
=N Y Times= 22:252 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
+ =R of Rs= 55:548 My ‘17 120w
“Mr Pennell works with such facility and industry that his drawings are open to the charge of superficiality. There is a sameness of emphasis and diffuseness of treatment which would not perhaps be observable in a smaller number of works.”
=Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 680w
=PENNY, FANNY EMILY (FARR) (MRS FRANK PENNY).= Love tangle. *$1.50 Dutton
A novel the scene of which is laid in southern India. “The wide divergence of oriental and English ideals in general is emphasized here in two particulars: in ethics the problem of a police official’s duty when one of his kinsmen is a prisoner; and in marriage the impossibility of courtship under the existing native etiquet, and the hazards of interracial unions. The story involves three couples, two English sisters, a judge and a soldier, and two young Indians educated in England and moving in the same set with the others, but oriental at heart.” (Springf’d Republican)
“The author of ‘A love tangle’ has written many romances of Anglo-Indian life. ... This one is a piece of amiable, feminine writing, relieved, for the occidental reader, by freshness of setting and motive.”
+ — =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 260w
=PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS DWIGHT HEALD PERKINS).=[2] Belgian twins. il *$1.25 (5½c) Houghton 17-29863
The author has made Belgium in the early days of the war the scene of her latest “twin” book. In the end Jan and Marie, the Belgian twins, find a haven in New York. The author says that the story is based on the actual experience of two children.
“Mrs Perkins has done well to introduce into the nursery some account of Belgian atrocities, not so gruesome that they will frighten the young reader, but sufficiently strong to leave a proper feeling in the minds of boys and girls regarding the unpardonable attack on a smaller country.”
+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 70w
“One reads real war history in the many things that happen to them. The author has made the most delightful sketches to illustrate the book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 60w
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 60w
=PERRY, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Community center activities. (Dept. of recreation) *35c Russell Sage foundation 371.6 17-1504
A handbook for community center directors. Its purpose is “to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them.” The material in the main body of the book is arranged under such headings as: Civic occasions; Educational occasions; Entertainments; Handicrafts; Mental contests; Neighborhood service; Physical activities; etc. Preceding this is a classified index in which the various activities suitable for stated spaces, assembly room, kindergarten, gymnasium, etc., are grouped together. At the close a number of sample programs are given.
“A suggestive handbook for parent-teacher associations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17
“The material is unusually well organized in this report, and the activities and suggested literature so arranged that the reader can quickly find the desired information.”
+ =El School J= 17:532 Mr ‘17 220w
“Should be of constant aid to social workers, teachers and others engaged in community organization.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 60w
“Probably the greatest obstacle to the rapid development of social centers is a lack of leaders who know how to make them go. The Department of recreation of the Russell Sage foundation has offered one big means of equipping workers in public-school social centers in this little service-manual and reference book of something over 100 pages.” R. N. Baldwin
+ =Survey= 38:175 My 19 ‘17 200w
=PERRY, L. DAY.= Seat weaving. il $1 Manual arts press 689 17-13349
An elementary text-book for manual training classes, fully illustrated, which explains the processes of weaving cane, rush, reed or splint seats for chairs and stools. The author is supervisor of manual training in Joliet, Illinois.
=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
“The clearly written directions are supplemented by seventy excellent photographs and line drawings.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Jl ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p27 O ‘17 10w
“Would also be a satisfactory guide to amateurs interested in this kind of work.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 50w
=PETERSON, ARTHUR.= Andvari’s ring. *$1.25 Putnam 811 16-25216
The story of Sigurd retold in blank verse. The narrative is marked by a few innovations. Sigurd is pictured as a Norse rover by sea as well as by land. The action is placed near the middle of the fifth century, and into the second part of the narrative, after the death of Sigurd, Attila the Hun is introduced.
“An old-fashioned poem well worth reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 380w
=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17 10w
=PETERSON, ARTHUR EVERETT, and EDWARDS, GEORGE WILLIAM.=[2] New York as an eighteenth century municipality. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) *$5 Longmans 352
“If it is well for the office boy turned bank president to remember his obscure beginnings, so it may be well for a community. New York is reminded in these two monographs that once ‘ye cytie’ found it necessary to proclaim that ‘every seaventh house in the darke time of the moon should cause a lanthorne and candle to be hung out on a pole every night,’ One reads of a municipal budget of $3,000 and a police department of eight men.” (New Repub) “Part 1 of the volume, prepared by Mr Peterson, carries the study up to 1731; Mr Edwards deals with the period running from 1731 to 1776.” (N Y Times)
“All the germs of municipal institutions are here competently examined and arranged, with not a little spice of humor in the selection of quotations.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 120w
=N Y Times= 23:21 Ja 20 ‘18 60w
“These minute and comprehensive accounts of the beginnings of a vast city might be called studies in evolution, so strikingly do they show how the municipal oak has grown from a tiny acorn. They will prove invaluable to students, but also entertaining to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 70w
=PETERSSON, C. E. W.= How to do business with Russia; with notes and additional chapters by W. Barnes Steveni. *$2.25 Pitman 382 17-28940
“This volume contains a summary of the experience and business methods of Mr C. E. W. Petersson, a merchant of Petrograd and Riga, who for many years successfully carried on a large trade in machinery and kindred goods with various Russian towns.” (Preface) The translator, W. Barnes Steveni, who has himself written several books on Russia, states that he has made “such additions and alterations as may cause the book to be of more value to British and American readers.” He says also, that while the Russian revolution will “modify considerably some of the questions dealt with in this work,” because the towns will change quickly, the “real Russia, which is mainly agricultural and pastoral, will alter but slowly” and therefore the hints of information here given will always be of value. Part 1 deals with “Russia as a field for business enterprise,” while part 2 gives “Hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia.” An appendix gives “Consular information and postal regulations.” The foreword is by Charles E. Musgrave, secretary to the London chamber of commerce. There is a map of Russia, but no index.
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p286 Je 14 ‘17 60w
=PETHERBRIDGE, F. R.= Fungoid and insect pests of the farm. (Cambridge farm institute) il *$1.25 Putnam 632 Agr16-1262
“The author tells us this book has been written for those who wish to acquire some practical knowledge of farm and garden pests. It naturally does not aim at dealing with all the numerous enemies which affect crops, but rather at giving an accurate account of some of the commoner forms.”—Nature
“It is a pity a great many more of the common pests were not included, especially amongst the arthropods, for then it would have been of very considerably greater value. The accounts also of many of the pests treated in the book are far too short to be really helpful.”
+ — =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 300w
“This little book is well printed and well illustrated but is not extensive enough as to the number of diseases and pests discussed to justify the title. It can hardly serve as a very general reference for farmers and market gardeners as the authors have hoped. ... As a short reading text or bulletin to familiarize the public with mycological methods and to indicate possible remedial measures for control of a few pests, it contains interesting matter. ... No mention is made of any diseases of small fruits or of orchard and shade trees and but slight attention is given to the commonest garden crops.” H. L. Bolley
+ — =Science= n s 45:191 F 23 ‘17 370w
=PFISTER, OSKAR ROBERT.= Psychoanalytic method; auth. tr. by Dr C: Rockwell Payne. il *$4 Moffat 130 17-4346
“Dr Pfister is a pastor and seminary teacher in Zurich and a disciple of Freud. His book includes the definition and history of psychoanalysis, discussions of its theory and technique, and reports of what he has accomplished by its use in cases of neurotic students. ... The conclusion gives summarized examples of the practical benefits of psychoanalysis and what education has to expect from it. ... There are introductions by Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall.”—N Y Times
“Pfister’s book is designed to equip educators with the knowledge necessary to enable them to carry on psychoanalytic treatment of subnormal pupils as well as to foresee and prevent later abnormalities, the causes of which are operative, even in the earlier years, and may be detected only by means of the psychoanalytic technique. ... It is almost the only one that has a practical application to human problems outside of therapeutic ones. ... A part of Pfister’s treatise points out the applications of the Freudian theory to literature, art and religion ... and shows how the creative artist, is saved from his art by being a neurotic.” Wilfrid Lay
=Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 840w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 530w
“A very technical presentation of psychoanalysis, used by Dr G. Stanley Hall as a textbook for his classes. The author’s method is to make a brief statement followed by a description of cases which illustrate his point.”
=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 40w
“The book, while nowhere rising to the brilliance of some of the Freudian writings themselves, is probably the most careful and inclusive presentation yet published in English of the results attained and the theories elaborated by Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect such works as Brill’s ‘Psychanalysis’ and Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the neuroses.’ Unfortunately, Dr Payne’s translation can claim only a moderate measure of success. The over-literalness of the renderings has given numerous passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasionally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to translate back to the German to arrive at the intended nuance of meaning.” E: Sapir
+ =Dial= 63:267 S 27 ‘17 2000w
“The 588 pages of this book show what has actually been done through this psychological method. They contain most inspiring suggestions for the physician, theologian, and the pedagogue. Dr Pfister has made a comprehensive study of all the analytic methods which have been developed from Freud’s original theories, and any one reading his work will get a fair idea of the whole stretch of this rapidly growing field of psycho-therapeutics.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:325 S 2 ‘17 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, comp. Selected articles on the income tax; with special reference to graduation and exemption. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 3d and enl ed *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 336.2 17-27760
For this third edition of the Debater’s handbook on income tax all the material of the second edition has been retained and the volume has been brought up to date by the addition of new articles and references. As the preface states, the new edition is timely, in view of pending legislation for an increased income tax as part of the war revenue bill. Two features of the proposed law, the graduation of the tax and the exemption of incomes under a certain amount have been given special attention. Material is also provided covering recent state legislation.
=PHELPS, EDITH M.=, ed. University debaters’ annual. *$1.80 Wilson, H. W. 808.5
Volume three of the University debaters’ annual contains the constructive and rebuttal speeches delivered in the intercollegiate debates of the following colleges and universities: Iowa, Ohio state, Coe, Oberlin, Western Reserve, Columbia and Chicago. The subjects debated are: Government ownership of railroads; Universal military service; Compulsory arbitration of railroad labor disputes; Chinese and Japanese immigration; Compulsory arbitration; Progressive inheritance tax. For each subject a brief and bibliography are provided. The book follows volumes one and two, edited by E. C. Mabie.
=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:14 Ja ‘18 20w
=PHILLIPPS, LISLE MARCH.= Europe unbound. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 940.9 17-4205
Mr Phillipps is author of “Form and colour,” and other works on art. In the collection of essays in this book, he examines some of the fundamental causes of the war and the ideals that support the different fighting nations. He says, “My purpose has been to deal, however inadequately, not with the outward circumstances or immediate causes of the war, but with what I cannot help thinking are its real causes. I mean those slowly developing, intensely hostile, eternally incompatible philosophies of life of which the two opposing groups of the free and unfree nations of Europe are to-day the representatives.” Contents: Ideals of the war; Liberty; Liberty and Christianity; The Prussian ideal; The British empire; Empires past and present; The influence of France; Modern liberalism; Modern conservatism; The future.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17
“A book which shows more insight into the deeper issues of the war than any other, except Baron von Hügel’s ‘The German soul,’ that has appeared in England since 1914.”
+ =Ath= p143 Mr ‘17 1700w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 250w
“Contains an impressive revelation of what the English masses are thinking.”
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 70w
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:535 Jl ‘17 280w
“Where I think Mr Phillipps is profoundly right is in his vigorous insistence on the authoritarian character of the German state and its dangers to the liberty of Europe. We badly need a book that would point out exactly what principles are involved in the exercise of political authority.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:195 S 15 ‘17 1850w
“It is characteristic—inevitable—that he should have studied the war as he has studied art and politics—as the expression of the great spiritual forces in the life of men and nations. ... On the need in England for realization, for clear thinking, for wise speech, and for democratic growth Mr Phillipps insists throughout his book. The volume as a whole is, in its study of ideals and ambitions, of pertinent interest to American students of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:27 Ja 28 ‘17 1000w
“We commend the book especially to clergymen and teachers of the young.”
+ =Outlook= 116:161 My 23 ‘17 100w
=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 50w
“His conception and his presentation of the idea of liberty are noble and inspiring. ... He is a democrat who really trusts the people. ... However much readers may disagree with many of the author’s points of view, they would be dull of soul if they did not find these essays stimulating and purifying in a high degree.”
+ =Spec= 118:74 Ja 20 ‘17 3000w
“No part of his book will be read with more interest, and none is more valuable, than the frank criticism to which he submits not only the modern Conservative but also the modern Liberal party. Speaking as one who has done his part as a Liberal candidate for Parliament, he has the courage to say what innumerable men of all parties have thought.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p567 N 30 ‘16 1950w
=PHILLIPS, CHESTER ARTHUR.= Readings in money and banking. il *$2.10 Macmillan 332 16-19082
“Instead of taking a large number of selections merely illustrative of the principles involved and setting them down individually, Professor Phillips chose from different writers what seemed to him the best available discussions of the principles themselves, and these discussions with correlative descriptive matter he wove together into approximately complete chapters. Hence ... the book leaves the impression of an organized treatise.”—Am Econ R
“The reviewer believes that for class-room purposes the two books [Moulton: ‘Principles of money and banking’ and Phillips: ‘Readings in money and banking’] can be used with advantage to supplement each other. Outside of the class-room both would have to be used in connection with a good text.” E. E. Agger
+ =Am Econ R= 6:924 D ‘16 160w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17
“The chapters on the foreign banking systems are very opportune.” T: Conway, jr.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:172 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 21:591 D ‘16
+ =Pol Sci Q= 31:650 D ‘16 60w
+ =R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 20w
=PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM.= Susan Lenox, her fall and rise. 2v il *$2.50 (1c) Appleton 17-6327
This two-volume novel is a study of prostitution and of a woman who rose to success after enduring degradation in all of its forms. Susan, an illegitimate child, grows up in the home of an uncle in a middle-western town. Denied a normal life by the stain of her birth, she is thrown out into the world at the age of seventeen. Economic pressure forces her on to the streets. She makes several efforts later to earn a living in legitimate ways, but always comes back to the one profession that seems to offer satisfactory compensation. In the end, thru the aid of a distinguished playwright, she wins success as an actress.
“That Mr Phillips was sincere, I do not doubt, but that he had any intimate knowledge of the life of the young girls who fill our factories and our shops, I do not for a moment believe. ... The conclusion of the story is merely laughable. That a woman so sodden with vice, so soaked with whisky and at last with opium, should escape all its physical penalties, and, without previous apprenticeship, become, almost in a day, a famous actress, contradicts every human experience.” J. T. Gerould
— =Bellman= 22:385 Ap 7 ‘17 650w
“Based on uncompromising fact, stamped with an individuality that was in itself a hallmark of distinction, and illumined by an almost incomparable art, this story is invested with a significance that makes it a thing apart. ... Susan Lenox is more than a novel: it has a social, human and economic significance that lifts it to the high places.” I: F. Marcosson
+ =Bookm= 45:26 Mr ‘17 4300w
“Despite the attempts to prejudge Mr Phillips’s posthumous novel by frantic claims as to its high moral purpose and sincerity, it seems impossible for any unbiased reader of fiction to view it otherwise than as an extremely offensive addition to the literature of pornography. ... For Susan Lenox to have remained the acme of physical perfection after undergoing the horrors of the life that she deliberately sought and endured is impossible. Mr Phillips’s story may be realism, but it is certainly not reality.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 500w
“There is only one deadly charge to make against this story—it is an epic of feminine courage that required for its plausibility a consistent exaggeration of the difficulties of women in industry and a humorlessly romantic view of prostitution. ... Yet apart from these preposterous exaggerations, natural to a man who had no comedy, Susan Lenox is a story that moved and impressed this reader deeply. ... It is the great fortune of David Graham Phillips, if the enhancement of one’s memory is to be called fortunate, that the one big book he left unpublished was probably the best thing he ever did.” F. H.
=New Repub= 10:167 Mr 10 ‘17 1700w
“He is not merely less selective than Flaubert; he is positively less selective than Arnold Bennett. It is precisely because he tells us so much about everybody that might equally be true of anybody else that his narrative is never intense and sometimes exceedingly dull.”
— =N Y Sun= Ap 8 ‘17 580w
“It would have been much better for Mr Phillips’s reputation and the repute of American letters if it had never been published. ... It is false at its core. ... Susan Lenox is dragged through all the grime and the abominations of the underworld. Mr Phillips spares neither her nor the reader any of its revolting filth.”
— =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 900w
“For Susan had neither social consciousness nor social conscience. ... We are told briefly in the last two chapters that Susan succeeds as an actress. A man dies and leaves her his money and an interest in his plays. She uses the money to produce the plays and becomes a well-known star. Without the money and the influence of the dead man’s name, Susan would have been nothing. She lacked two essentials to success—a conscious and sustained purpose and a capacity for hard work.” M. K. Reely
— =Pub W= 91:588 F 17 ‘17 1000w
“A novel that will excite diverse opinions, but it is sincere, and its frank pictures of degradation are informed with ethical purpose—which is not often the case in such stories.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 550w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Banks of Colne (the nursery). *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13955
This is the fourth of Mr Phillpotts’ series of novels of British industry. A big nursery on the bank of the Colne gives the story its background, and there is some description also of the local oyster fisheries. Men and women more or less connected with these two industries are the characters of the story. They form a loosely-knit group, and so far as the story has plot, it concerns Peter Mistley, a landscape gardener at the gardens, and Aveline Brown, the woman he marries shortly after she has come to the town a stranger. Aveline was not free to marry, but this she does not tell Peter. Her attitude toward marriage is much the same as that of the two wandering vagabonds, William and Emma. She takes what is offered her of happiness and pays the price when the time comes without cringing. The war is in progress at the time, and more than one man of the story is claimed by it; Peter with the rest.
“Not one of Mr Phillpotts’ best works.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
“It contains one rather interesting character, the vagabond brother of the rich nurseryman and mayor of Colchester, though he, like his grave brother, is a platitudinarian. The style is that of one who has not merely swallowed the dictionary, but also bolted an encyclopædia.”
– + =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 140w
“‘The banks of Colne’ has not the atmosphere of its predecessors. There exists here no such close relation between the people and the soil, between their lives and their labors, as was to be found in ‘Brunel’s tower,’ in ‘Old Delabole’ or in ‘The green alleys.’ ... We do not mean thereby to imply that it is not a vital, a significant, a commanding piece of fiction. It is all these, for it is by Mr Phillpotts’s hand. ... Were all its other elements negligible, and they are not, we might read ‘The banks of Colne’ for joy of its style.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1650w
“As always, the women are alive and never stupid, however unmoral they may be.”
=Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 370w
“We used to accept him, perhaps, as a chronicler of ‘real life,’ an interpreter of character in the concrete. He is, rather, a teller of tales and a commentator upon human nature.”
=Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w
“A novel of maturity and even tone.”
+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 400w
“To us the book is the greatest piece of work Mr Phillpotts has yet written. ... Books like this will help America to understand the England of today in a way difficult to overestimate for its value to both nations.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 770w
+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
“The pacifist Quaker-woman and the young men who enlist are treated with equal sympathy. All through the eventful and moving story, which looks at love from many angles and gives (or rather, perhaps, carefully makes) room for thoughts of many minds on many topics, nothing is condemned but lack of sincerity and lack of faith.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p296 Je 21 ‘17 600w
=PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.= Plain song, 1914-1916. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 (Eng ed A17-1560)
“Through the thought of the poems—there are thirty-eight in the volume—two threads run: the first is abhorrence of what the German government has done, coupled with great pity, charity, a willingness to forgive, a scorn of being revenged upon, the German people; the second is the purpose of democracy in the world.”—N Y Times
“Mr Phillpotts has given us the war—one phase, and another, and still more—in living words.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 820w
“The title of this book is the least successful part of it. We can imagine nothing less plain and nothing more unlike song than the poems it contains. They are war pieces garbed in rich, luxuriant phraseology, in which Mr Phillpotts appears less as the poet than the publicist and the preacher, hymning in sonorous lines the praises of the navy, the New army, France, and so on, and scourging the crimes of Germany, and the folly of the pacifists with trenchant rhetoric.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 28 ‘17 70w
=PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES EVANGELUS.= Lights at dawn. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811 17-14981
Dr Phoutrides is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Harvard university. “The greater number of the poems were written before the present war. But in those written since, the war note is generally absent. The poem in ballad form, ‘Lord Kitchener,’ is one or the few exceptions.” (Boston Transcript) “The dawn from the west,” with which the volume opens, was written for the “Ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts,” and published under the title of “America, the restorer.” The longest poem in the book “Ktaadn and Morning Dew,” tells the old Indian legend of our Mt. Katahdin.
“Dr Phoutrides writes with a fine scholarliness. Yet the distinct classicism of his verse never halts spontaneity. Many forms are used—the lyric, however, principally. His use of blank verse is especially felicitous, the lines often possessing a veritable singing quality. ... This Hellenic poet exalts his own land and ours, above all that ‘freedom’ which crowns America.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 720w
=Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
=PICKERING, JOHN CLARK.= Engineering analysis of a mining share. *$1.50 McGraw 332.6 17-5157
“The considerations entering into the analysis of a mining venture have been instructively set forth by Mr Pickering. There is little doubt that the great mass of ‘investors’ in mining stocks do not analyze their purchases very sharply. Mr Pickering, for the sake of simplicity, applies his analysis to a single share, stating that obviously the analysis by shares is equivalent to the analysis of the whole property. He endeavors to follow a line of investigation based on data available to the average share-holder. The discussion is confined to gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc.”—Engin N
+ =Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 130w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p18 Ap ‘17 190w
“‘An interesting and a useful book. It would have been better if it had been edited carefully and if a wider reference had been made to other writings on the subject. ... His style is pleasant, his judgment appears sound, and his whole treatment of the subject is well worthy of an experienced engineer.’” T. A. R.
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Mining and Scientific Press p394 Mr 17 ‘17)
“Based on twelve years’ experience in the United States, South America, Mexico, Canada and Africa.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:522 Je ‘17 30w
=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Houghton 17-4313
Jerry, the young Irish hero, is one of the workers for an independent steel company when the story opens. He is doing well, supporting his mother and looking forward to marriage with his sweetheart, Nora Scanlan. But the independent company is swallowed up by a big corporation. A change of policy brings on a strike and Jerry finds himself out of a job. He also loses his sweetheart, for Nora doesn’t take kindly to adversity. Jerry and his mother move to the big city, taking with them the three orphaned children of one of Jerry’s fellow strikers. With this family to support, Jerry finds a place on the police force, studies law and is admitted to the bar. In the meantime Kate, the oldest of the three children, is growing up and helping Jerry to forget the fickle Nora.
=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17
“To read Mr Pier’s story is the equivalent of seeing the scenes of a motion-picture film flash before one’s eyes. ... The substance of ‘Jerry’ is essentially that of the popular story for boys that Mr Pier is an adept at writing. In style, in character, in incident, it is reminiscent of this literary form, and we are certain that his latest novel will appeal readily to the many young readers who have taken pleasure in ‘Grannis of the fifth’ and ‘The new boy.’ If it helps them across the bridge between fiction for children and novels for grownups, it will serve an excellent purpose.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 1050w
“A good, satisfying fairy tale, set in a would-be modern city, with make believe graft and police scandals and murders. ... It is not rubbish, though it is a bit hard to say why it is not rubbish. It has all the earmarks of trash, and yet it fills the soul with a sort of self-satisfaction that all is well and that all will turn out fine.” W. M. Feigenbaum
– + =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 330w
“A pleasant story, quite interesting and with some cleverly drawn characters.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 250w
“The story, which is told with spirit, is an appeal to young men to enter the fight for purer public service.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 200w
=PIER, ARTHUR STANWOOD.= Plattsburgers. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-23757
A story of the experiences of some college boys at Plattsburg. “Life at the Plattsburg camp is very different to-day from what it was during the period covered by this story. ... The training of the boys was less intensive than that to which the recruits at the later camps were subjected. Instead of being drilled in only the infantry branch of the service, they were given an opportunity to get at least a smattering of knowledge about other branches. This story is generally true to the conditions that existed at the first camp; in minor details the routine that it describes does not correspond with the routine followed at the subsequent camps.” (Preface) The story is reprinted from the Youth’s Companion.
=A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
“A clean-cut story of manly boys that will have much the same attraction for boys that the author’s St Timothy stories have.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 30w =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w
+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
=PINDAR, GEORGE N. and others.= Guide to the nature treasures of New York city. il *75c Scribner 507 17-5881
“A valuable and much needed manual entitled ‘Guide to the nature treasures of New York city’ has been prepared by George N. Pindar, Registrar of the American museum of natural history, with assistance from Mabel H. Pearson and G. Clyde Fisher. It deals with the collections in the American museum of natural history, the New York aquarium, The New York zoological park, the New York botanical garden, the Brooklyn museum, the Brooklyn botanical garden, and the Brooklyn children’s museum.”—N Y Times
=N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 120w
=Pratt= p13 Jl ‘17 30w
=PINKERTON, MRS KATHRENE SUTHERLAND (GEDNEY).= Woodcraft for women. (Outing handbooks) *80c (2½c) Outing pub. 796 17-9692
The author finds the explanation of the difference in the lure that the outdoors holds for men and women in their different childhood activities. Natural instincts suppressed in young girlhood demand stimulation and development in adult life if women are to know the joys of an active outdoor life. She says, “In this book there has been no endeavor to set forth a distinct type of woodsmanship for women only, but rather to show the possibilities of an art which can be made common to the sexes.” Contents: Woman and the out of doors; Woods clothing; Clothing—continued; Packs and accessories; Packing and portaging; Tents and camp making; Cooking utensils, fires, and foods; Cooking expedients; Paddling; Hunting and fishing; The winter woods; Going alone; Camp courtesy; The first time out; The spirit of the open.
“Gives practical advice to women on all sorts of questions. Has a suggestive chapter on ‘camp courtesy.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 80w
=PINTNER, RUDOLPH and PATERSON, DONALD GILDERSLEEVE.= Scale of performance tests. il *$2 Appleton 136.7 17-16883
A performance test is one which requires a response in action in place of the language response required in other intelligence tests. The work has grown directly out of attempts to grade deaf children, with whom the ordinary tests could not be used. The tests also meet the difficulty of dealing with foreign speaking children, since verbal directions are not essential. “The situation itself calls for some response without the necessity for any verbal instructions on the part of the examiner. ... Naturally in giving the test to hearing children the examiner will say something, but what he says is not essential for the understanding of the test.” (Introd.) The authors have assembled a group of tests of this kind and have attempted a standardization.
“The detailed description of the tests and the norms given make available and usable tests of a type that are much needed. Many workers who meet the difficult question of determining the mentality of those whose command of language is slight will value this work. The only drawback lies in the fact that most of the tests here included are so simple as to be significant only for individuals quite young in age.” A. F. Bronner
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:546 Ja ‘18 350w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 10w
“The programme is admirably carried through, with abundance of well-arranged tables and sufficient interpretation to show the bearing of the results and warn against sources of error.”
+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 290w
=El School J= 18:75 S ‘17 400w
Reviewed by F. N. Freeman
+ =El School J= 18:148 O ‘17 120w
=Int J Ethics= 28:284 Ja ‘18 130w
“The authors have done a service that their colleagues in mental measurement will not estimate lightly.” F. L. Wells
+ =J Philos= 15:134 F 28 ‘18 1200w
“A few of the tests partake of the nature of a puzzle and hence are tests, not of general intelligence, but of the peculiar ingenuity that works by intuition or a fortunate chance, rather than by reasoned judgment. However, the book will be of help in certain cases that are embarrassing to the tester. The volume includes some useful criticisms of the Binet scale, the Yerkes point scale and others.” Alexander Johnson
+ — =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 220w
=PIPER, EDWIN FORD.= Barbed wire, and other poems. $1.25 Midland press, Moorhead, Minn. 811
The awakening self-consciousness of the Middle West, which is just beginning to express itself in literature, has produced in Mr Piper a new poet and social historian. The first half of “Barbed wire, and other poems” is made up of short unconnected poems which, taken together, tell the story of the patient conquest of the prairie and interpret the spirit of the adventurous, land-hungry band that has traveled steadily westward across our country. The slow upbuilding of civilization in a new land is followed in such poems as “The movers,” “Dry bones,” “The sod house,” “The drought,” “The grasshoppers,” “The schoolmistress,” “Ten cents a bushel,” “Meanwhile,” “The church.” The second section of the book, “The neighborhood,” is given to longer narrative poems. Both groups are reprinted from the Midland: a magazine of the Middle West.
“Precisely what Robert Frost has done for New England Mr Piper has done for the West from Illinois to the foothills of the Rocky mountains. ... One cannot with too much emphasis lay stress upon the social value of Mr Piper’s poems, for with a most vivid use of the imaginative faculty he weaves for us the fabric of a community rising on the bare breast of nature. ... ‘Barbed wire and other poems,’ is a very unusual collection, an important and distinctive contribution to American poetry.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1450w
“He writes with vigor and freedom and the quality of this one book is such as to assure instant success. Nothing so eloquent on the personality of neighborhoods as ‘The banded’ has come from American poets. Yet he can forsake commonplace phraseology to write lines of pure flowing melody, and a lyric as delicate as ‘Moon worship.’”
+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 180w
=PLATNER, JOHN WINTHROP=, and others. Religious history of New England. (King’s chapel lectures 1914-1915, 1915-1916) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 277.4 17-15979
“A series of King’s chapel lectures delivered by eight men—each a representative of the communion about which he speaks. ... The story of the Congregationalists is told ... by Prof. John W. Platner. Geniality and humor enrich the pages in which Dean William W. Fenn describes the revolt of the Free Will Baptists and Christians against the standing order and the intellectual and academic counterpart of this popular movement which resulted in the founding of the Unitarian churches. Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the episcopate in hostile New England. The almost equally hostile reception met with by the Methodists ... is recounted in a painstaking and picturesque manner by Dr W. E. Huntington. President George E. Horr of the Newton theological institution treats the history of the Baptists. The position of the Quakers in New England is considered by Prof. Rufus M. Jones, that of the Universalists by Rev. John Coleman Adams, and that of the Swedenborgians by Dr William L. Worcester. The history of the Roman Catholics is omitted with regret, as it was impossible to secure for the lectures an historical narrative from a member of the Roman Catholic communion.”—Springf’d Republican
“Profitable as these surveys are, it is to be regretted that certain questions concerning this group life have not been more distinctly considered. How, for example, did the Calvinist system begin to lose its hold even in the days of its ablest and most vigorous exposition? The remarkable growth of the Baptists at the end of the eighteenth century is mentioned without explanation. If one asks how denominational organization came out of autonomous congregations, satisfaction is again denied.” F. A. Christie
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:415 Ja ‘18 590w
+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 300w
“The title of the volume indeed is hardly justified by its contents, for it contains denominational history only and not the general religious history of New England, except for the earliest days when there was nothing but Congregationalism there. Having filed this caveat it is only right to say that the limited purpose of the series is admirably fulfilled. The treatment of the several denominations, being in each case by an adherent, is sympathetic but as a rule entirely fair, and only now and then unduly laudatory.”
+ =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 900w
“So interwoven are religious and political ideas, and so large has been New England’s share in shaping American ideals, that this history is one of national interest. It is a history of the rise and progress of religious liberty. A single lapse from historical justice needs pointing out. The Quaker ranters persecuted by the Puritans were not, as any reader would infer, the same sort of people as the estimable Friends of to-day. The volume needs an index.”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 170w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 1250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 100w
“These lectures provide entertaining reading, and the English student will gain much knowledge set out with the warmth of feeling felt by men dealing with subjects dear to their hearts, but with no pride of sect or narrowness of outlook.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 O 11 ‘17 940w
=PLUCKNETT, FRANK.= Introduction to the theory and practice of boot and shoe manufacture. (Longmans’ technical handicraft ser.) il *$2 Longmans 685 A16-1147
“The author, who has had considerable experience in teaching this subject in England, states that the book is intended not only for technical students, but also for a ‘large circle of those who are interested in the rapid modern developments of the industry, and who have not the advantages of technical instruction.’ Scope is limited to the usual lines of work, omitting hand operations when the corresponding operations are more efficiently performed by a machine. There are chapters on the anatomy of the foot, foot measurements, lasts, and a comparison of English, French and American measurements.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:141 S ‘16
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p22 N ‘16 90w
=Pittsburgh= 22:519 Je ‘17
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w
=PLUMON, EUGÈNE.= Vade-mecum for the use of officers and interpreters in the present campaign, new and rev ed *75c Brentano’s 448 17-16324
“The result of actual work in interpreting for the British forces in France. Gives French words and phrases with their English equivalents arranged in the natural order of need under, marching order, from landing place to front, the field, the rear, tables of measures, money, distances, abbreviations, map signs, etc. Does not mark pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl
“Useful to the man who has even a slight knowledge of French.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17
=St Louis= 15:323 S ‘17
=POE, EDGAR ALLAN.=[2] Poems; ed. by Killis Campbell. il $1.50 Ginn 811 17-24169
“Professor Campbell is a member of the English faculty of the University of Texas and his study of Poe’s life and work has been long and enthusiastic. He has included in the volume all the poems collected by the poet himself or by his literary executor, Rufus S. Griswold, while in separate sections are several early poems and a dozen others of doubtful authenticity. The introductory section contains the story of Poe’s life, followed by a brief discussion of the text of his poems and of his habits of punctuation and revision. ... Through the body of the book Professor Campbell gives on each page the variant readings for the version he has selected. An important feature is afforded by the very copious notes filling nearly 200 pages which explain every obscurity of the text and set forth the details of composition, probability of source, and other matters of interest.”—N Y Times
=Boston Transcript= p7 O 27 ‘17 590w
“One need not accept all Professor Campbell’s judgment’s in detail to pronounce this new edition of the ‘Poems’ the most important contribution to Poe scholarship that has appeared for some years. Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is its sobriety and sanity. In the section of ‘The canon of Poe’s poems’ Professor Campbell treats a subject on which he has made valuable researches; and his brief comments on the poems doubtfully attributed to Poe are admirable. The résumé of opinion in ‘The clash of the critics with respect to Poe’s poems,’ though brief, is excellently presented.”
+ =Dial= 63:595 D 6 ‘17 330w
“A most scholarly edition. Perhaps the most notable feature of the book is the full use of references to the Poe literature, the volume of which will probably surprise even those who thought themselves well versed in this study.”
+ =Nation= 106:97 Ja 24 ‘18 250w
“A careful and scholarly work showing diligent research and discrimination.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:567 D 16 ‘17 260w
=POLLAK, GUSTAV.= House of Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg monarchy. 50c N.Y. Evening Post co., 20 Vesey st. 940.91 17-27945
The seven articles contained in this book were published in the New York Nation and the New York Evening Post between the dates of March 22 and July 5, 1917. To these papers the author has been a contributor since 1874 and 1881 respectively. He was born and educated in Vienna. Of the house of Hohenzollern he says: “Not all that can be said, and must justly be said, of Prussian leadership in the intellectual and material development of Germany can obscure the patent failure of the Hohenzollern dynasty.” Other titles are: Bismarck’s neglected policies; The vision of a Central Europe; Austria’s opportunity; The future of Bohemia; Hungary and the fall of Tisza; The Poles of Austria.
“Trenchant and vigorously-written little book.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:156 F ‘18 50w
=N Y Call= p14 S 16 ‘17 410w
=POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK.=[2] Commonwealth at war. *$2.25 (3c) Longmans 940.91 18-1123
Half of the papers that make up this book are reprinted from The Times [London] Literary Supplement. Others have appeared in the Contemporary Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals. Each article is dated so that the bearing of the time of writing on the views presented is made evident. The dates range from October, 1914 to August, 1917. The author is professor of English history in the University of London. Among other subjects he considers: Rumour and historical science in time of war; The length of wars; The freedom of the seas; The war and the British realms; British idealism and its cost in war; The growth of an imperial parliament: The temptation of peace; The prevention or war.
=Spec= 120:41 Ja 12 ‘18 160w
“One cannot logically complain that Prof. Pollard too often in this book writes as an advocate rather than a historian, for the articles were largely published to explain the British mind to itself; but it is fair to note that this attitude detracts from the permanent value of the book. The strongest chapter of the book is Prof. Pollard’s argument against a British imperial federation.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 7 ‘18 500w
“There might have been more appearance of unity in the contents if certain pages had been omitted or altered; but, as Professor Pollard, enunciating a canon of literary probity apt to be forgotten, says, ‘to modify the record of expressed opinion in the light of later events indicates a dishonest assertion of consistency or prescience, and is one of the most insidious forms of historical forgery.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p590 D 6 ‘17 1000w
=POLLARD, HUGH B. C.=[2] Story of Ypres. il *75c (5c) McBride 940.91 17-19406
“There is no name connected with the European war that will live longer in men’s minds than that of Ypres,” writes the author in beginning his story. He describes the two battles, illustrating his account with sketch maps. The pictures are by Thomas Derrick.
“The author graphically describes the flight of the population on both occasions, the latter being a terribly lurid picture, its horror increased by the then new German device of gas fumes.”
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 120w
“The condition of the famous cloth hall after each bombardment is well pictured in the pen and ink drawings of Thomas Derrick.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 150w
=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Northern diamonds. il *$1.25 (2c) Houghton 17-24854
This story, which appeared in the Youth’s Companion as a serial and its sequel, recounts the adventures of three Canadian boys on two trips into the north in search of diamonds. The first trip, taken in winter on skates and snow shoes, is successful. The boys find what they are in search of—a little sack of precious stones reported to be hidden in a deserted cabin. The stones prove to be of inferior value—but they are diamonds for all that, and the next journey is taken in hope of finding the source. This trip has a different, tho not a wholly disappointing, outcome.
“An exciting, well told adventure story for boys and girls about twelve or thirteen.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 40w
=N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 50w
=POLLOCK, FRANK LILLIE.= Wilderness honey. il *$1.25 (2c) Century 17-24398
A story for boys and girls. Alice, Bob and Carl Harman are three young Canadians dependent on their own resources. The general store that has been the family source of income for three generations no longer pays and the young people are faced with the necessity of selling out. Alice has already had some experience with bee keeping, and, hearing of a large apiary for sale in the northern part of the province, they decide to stake their all on this venture. The story of their plucky and successful fight against such enemies as timber wolves, bears, and an ill-natured squatter follows. The story was published in the Youth’s Companion.
=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18
=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w
“Excellent pictures are drawn of life in the wilderness, and of the methods of bee culture.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 130w
=POLLOCK, HESTER MCLEAN.= Our Minnesota; a history for children. il *$1.60 Dutton 977.6 17-11001
“After a brief survey of the beautiful land itself, a study of its copper-colored ‘first inhabitants,’ and of their memorials existing today, Miss Pollock tells how the English gained the land by exploration, colonization, war, purchase from the French and treaties with the Indians. Then follow the story of the explorers, French, English and Italian; Radisson and Grosvilliers, Du Luth and Father Hennepin, La Salle, Carver, Long, Beltrami and Nicollet. ... Transportation, education, mines, minerals, landmarks and famous men are in turn briefly studied.”—Boston Transcript
“The account of the development of its vast natural resources forms a marvelous record of which not only all Minnesotans but all Americans should be proud.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 270w
“The book is somewhat marred for the reviewer by the author’s naïve assumption that all the acts of the early pioneers were virtuous, and that the Indian was cruel and crafty in opposing the seizure of his land. Although the growth of industries is dwelt upon, no mention, as far as could be found, was made of the passing of the wonderful resources of the state, its virgin timber and its mines, into the hands of the few. On the whole, however, the book is an interesting and faithful presentation of the life story of Minnesota.” P. L. Benjamin
+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 370w
=POOLE, ERNEST.= His family. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-13623
A deep sense of the continuity of life, as it is handed on from generation to generation, pervades this thoughtful novel. Roger Gale, close on to sixty years old, living in the New York house that has been his home since his early marriage, tries to understand the new and bewildering currents of modern life as they are reflected in his three daughters. These three represent distinct types. Edith is the domestic and maternal woman, fiercely absorbed in her children. Deborah is the active woman, spending herself on social movements. Laura is the modern woman of society, living life gladly, throwing away old conventions and breaking into new paths, without fear and without regret. In each of them Roger sees his own life repeated. Each of the three has something of himself. It is the second daughter, Deborah, who is nearest to her father’s heart. With her passion for mothering the world at war with her instinct for personal motherhood, she is the most interesting study in this worth while book.
=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17
“The one story of this month, beyond doubt, is ‘His family.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:532 Jl ‘17 800w
“The most striking and appealing feature of the story is its absolute sincerity and plausibility. ... If English or French readers, or readers of any other nation, wish to gain an accurate knowledge of life as it is lived in an American family and an American community, they need only read Mr Poole’s novel.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 1550w
“Roger is not a sufficiently vivid personality to carry the burden of the book, and this defect will prevent it from making a permanent impression.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:540 Jl ‘17 250w
“Roger Gale is the finest old father of a family since Silas Lapham, of whom in many ways he reminds me. And the resemblance, or, if the resemblance is not as close as I think, the recollection is a compliment to Mr Poole. For Mr Howells is a master in the portrayal of elderly men.” J: Macy
+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 480w
“The book is bigger than the ordinary novel, more far-reaching in its meaning, more deeply rooted in human experiences.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 290w
“We find it happily difficult to put in the familiar measured terms our impression of such a book as this. In its mass, its solidity, its noble and simple contour, it rises like a shining peak above the high, and flat, plateaus of our ‘average workmanship.’”
+ =Nation= 104:680 Je 7 ‘17 1300w
“If Mr Poole were primarily an artist, writing a novel for the sake of giving such emotion as a work of art can convey, his insistence would not be nearly so great on his specific idea of the family. But the thing that seems to lead Mr Poole to write a novel is the same thing that led Zola to write novels—the desire to illustrate a large group-idea by the processes of fiction. It is really the way of the scientist as against the way of the artist. ... There is no ultimate recompense for the solemn theme that runs through ‘His family.’ Beginning with its pernicious enunciation on page 6, it comes back on pages 18, 25, 45, 85, 95, 118, 123, 149, 161, 196, 236, 268, 286, and heaven knows in how many other places—the theme that people live on in their children’s lives.” F. H.
=New Repub= 11:164 Je 9 ‘17 1450w
“A book full of truth, power and beauty.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 670w
“Told simply and sincerely, with careful craftsmanship, this book is worthy of the best traditions in American fiction. It touches on many vital problems of our modern life, but the problems are never emphasized at the expense of character.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:194 My 20 ‘17 1050w
“This book is chiefly to be prized as a picture of Mr Poole’s own soul. ... It rewards the best that one can bring to it. ... It has spiritual penetration and latitude and elevation. It is filled throughout with a deep and intimate consciousness of the reality of other souls.” Lawrence Gilman
+ =No Am= 205:943 Je ‘17 1500w
“A novel of admirable poise and of quiet but deep-lying social import.”
+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 200w
“Appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, v. 35-36, Sept. 1916-May 1917.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:510 Je ‘17 70w
+ =R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 270w
“Compared with ‘The harbor,’ ‘His family’ is analytical in even greater degree. It is not unjust to say that the second novel does not grip as did the first. It is perhaps more polished, and Mr Poole undoubtedly reveals a more pronounced grasp of the technique of the novel; but it lacks something of the enthusiasm, the vividness and the freshness of discovery which made ‘The harbor’ the immediate success it was. This is not to say, however, that ‘His family’ is not one of the notable novels of the season.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 1150w
=POOLEY, ANDREW MELVILLE.= Japan at the cross roads. *$3.50 (2½c) Dodd 952 (Eng ed 17-27871)
First hand facts about Japan brought together to delineate the real state of affairs in Japan and to indicate the forces which are at work moulding public opinion and the directions in which they are leading. Politics, finance, social conditions and religion are the interests that chiefly occupy the writer’s attention. “Mr Pooley pays tribute to the rapid progress Japan has made, and to the vigor and energy of her statesmanship, but he does not disguise his belief that radical improvement must be effected before Japan can claim of right a position as a first-class power. ... Mr Pooley’s discussion of Japan’s foreign relations, particularly those with the United States, will do much to clear up a lot of misinformation about this matter which exists in America.” (Publishers’ note)
“The cumulative effect of all the criticism in the book is considerable; and, even assuming that some of the shadows in Mr Pooley’s picture are as dark as he paints them, we doubt whether the present is the best time to draw up so unflattering an account, and so sweeping an indictment, of our allies.”
– + =Ath= p682 D ‘17 250w
“The author sums up the Japanese in a manner which clearly points out their weak as well as their strong characteristics.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 800w
“The book would gain somewhat if the author conceded more frequent summaries of his facts and more emphatic statements of his conclusions; these the reader must carefully elicit for himself. So comprehensive a study should have an index appended. But these minor faults are insignificant in Mr Pooley’s illuminating achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 610w
“His chapters on ‘Social conditions,’ and on Japanese methods in Korea and Formosa, deserve attention. He shows how the war has benefited Japanese industry.”
+ =Spec= 119:774 D 29 ‘17 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p543 N 8 ‘17 60w
=POORE, IDA MARGARET (GRAVES) lady.= Admiral’s wife in the making, 1860-1903. *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-20978)
“Lady Poore has written a very charming book on her girlhood and early married life, completing the autobiography which she began at the end, so to say, in her ‘Recollections of an admiral’s wife.’ The daughter of Dr Graves, Bishop of Limerick, she spent a happy youth in Dublin, Limerick, and County Kerry, with less happy intervals at an English school. She married in 1885, soon after Commander Poore had won great distinction by his work in the Nile expedition. ... As the wife of a naval officer with modest means, Lady Poore seems to have enjoyed life heartily in Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Alexandria, and other stations whither her husband was sent, as well as in France and Italy for periods of unemployment.”—Spec
“A sense of humour and an element of delightful frankness are two factors helping to make Lady Poore’s book very pleasant reading.”
+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w
“The spirit not only of a very gracious and plucky British gentlewoman infuses it, but the spirit of Britain itself.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 650w
“A few of these memoirs, a blessed few, are well worth reading, because their authors can write and ought to write. Among this last select class is Lady Poore.”
+ =Sat R= 123:343 Ap 14 ‘17 1850w
+ =Spec= 118:493 Ap 28 ‘17 240w
“This is a jolly book. It reads like the letter of an intimate friend who has snatched a spare moment to tell you the many things she has seen to interest her in her travels, because you are sure to understand the point of it all without expecting her to labour it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Ap 5 ‘17 1050w
=POORMAN, ALFRED PETER.= Applied mechanics. il *$2 McGraw 620.1 17-17214
“A knowledge of general physics and of the calculus is assumed for the study of this undergraduate text-book, which aims to develop basic principles in a way which the average student can easily follow. Two unusual features are claimed: (1), the extended use of the graphic method; (2), the large number of illustrative examples which have been solved in detail. Numerous practical problems with answers are also given. The author is associate professor of applied mechanics in Purdue university.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“The book is a fine example of effective, interest-arousing presentation. Instead of dealing with abstract principles, the strong psychological appeal of a single engineering problem is used. Some of the principles in which many graduates are especially weak have been given exceptionally clear and satisfactory treatment. The typographical work, the drawings and reproductions are also distinctly superior to previous standards.” J. P. J. Williams
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:131 Jl 19 ‘17 380w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p13 Jl ‘17 80w
=PORTER, ARTHUR KINGSLEY.= Lombard architecture. 4v v 1-3 ea *$12, v 4 *$15; set *$50 Yale univ. press 723 (17-9830)
Professor Porter describes his book as “a definite synthetic analysis of Lombard architecture.” Volume 1 traces its growth from its Byzantine beginnings in the sixth century to the end of the twelfth century. “More than half of this volume is given to the discussion of ornament and the arts accessory to architecture.” “Part 4 of volume 1 is given to iconography. Volumes 2 and 3 take up in detail the study of the multitudes of edifices which, often hidden away in remote villages and cities, have been up to now scarcely even a name and which, nevertheless, preserve precious remains, full of interest to the student of religion, of architecture and of other arts. These volumes are printed in a smaller type and are extraordinarily rich in legendary and historic lore.” (Boston Transcript) The fourth volume consists of a series of 244 plates with from two to ten half-tones each. The bibliography gives an idea of the author’s wide reading. “Only 750 copies are printed from type.”
“For the architect these superb volumes will be of the utmost importance; the general reader will find in them an enormous amount of information presented in a clear and fascinating style. The portfolio of illustrations, many of them from pictures taken with the magical telephotographic lens, will appeal to anyone who delights in rare views. The typography is faultless.” N. H. D.
+ + =Boston Transcript= p7 My 29 ‘17 1000w
“The amount of careful erudition, of often eloquent description, of sound judgment and accurate criticism is bewildering. The translations of justifying text in Latin and Italian must in themselves have taken months of labor; the searching out of authorities and the balancing of contrary views, resulting frequently in the rectification of dates and the discovery of unknown or wholly forgotten artists and architects, the knowledge of history involved and the breadth of architectural comprehension make the work of first importance.” N. H. D.
+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 230w
“Of that most important element in Lombard ornament, the grotesque, the author writes with convincing common sense.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 950w
“The most careful, scholarly, and learned work dealing with architecture that has thus far been produced in America. Only one criticism is possible, and that is on the presentation of the plates; these, which consist of a great mass of folio sheets, unbound, each containing four or five illustrations, bear numbers only, and the task of sorting them out as one reads, identifying them from a key sheet, and getting them back again into the box, is almost insuperable.” R. A. Cram
+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:420 Ja ‘18 3350w
=PORTER, MRS ELEANOR (HODGMAN) (ELEANOR STUART, pseud.).= Road to understanding. il *$1.40 (1c) Houghton 17-9250
The story opens with an unfortunate marriage. Helen and Burke were alike in one thing only; each was self-centered and spoiled. Attracted by Helen’s pretty face, Burke defied his father and gave up his home to marry her. Trouble followed shortly and a separation. Left with her baby daughter, Helen begins to think things out. She decides to make of herself the kind of woman Burke could respect. She is very ignorant but she is willing to learn. With the help of good friends, she does so. Many years pass and Betty, the daughter, is a grownup girl before the three are again brought together.
“Will be popular, specially with inexperienced girls.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17
“One or two situations which are well worked out make the book worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 60w
“The book is without doubt decidedly different from Mrs Porter’s previous work. ... As an artist Mrs Porter shows both more power and more restraint in this new novel.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w
“Of the light and shade and depth of true characterization she has hardly an inkling. She has that plentiful lack of humour which seems almost an asset with the best-buying public. ... We note that this preposterous story stands second to ‘Mr Britling’ upon the bestselling lists for April. It would be interesting to know how many readers of either can have endured the other.”
— =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 300w
“We find ourselves always objecting to the situations as more than improbable and to the characters as not consistent with themselves. Besides, life is short, and the road Mrs Porter’s heroine elects is unconscionably long. Still, the book is so well written and holds so much of truth that it must be ranked among the really good stories of the day, well worth the reading.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 500w
“Take it from a pessimist, this new book by Eleanor H. Porter will be among the six best sellers within a month and it really is much more of a book than ‘Pollyanna.’” Robert Lynd
=Pub W= 91:974 Mr 17 ‘17 250w
=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 20w
=PORTER, GENE (STRATTON) (MRS CHARLES DARWIN PORTER).= Friends in feathers. il *$3.50 (4c) Doubleday 598.2 17-15687
A revised and enlarged edition of “What I have done with birds,” published in 1907. It is primarily a book on bird photography. It is illustrated with the author’s own remarkable photographs and the text is made up largely of an account of experiences while obtaining these pictures.
=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17
“The illustrations, showing various birds never before photographed in their natural positions are uniquely fascinating.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w
“One of the most fascinating of bird books.”
+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w
“Though a student of bird-life would look in vain for any new observations of importance, and though the natural history to which the author frequently appeals is of a very thin quality, her work, nevertheless, is worthy of high praise for the excellence of many of her photographic studies; only a field student who is an adept with the camera can appreciate how fine some of these pictures really are.”
+ — =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 490w
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 80w
=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= Dormie one, and other golf stories. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-24401
A collection of golf stories, reprinted from Collier’s, Every Week, and other magazines. Contents: Alibi; If you don’t mind my telling you; The runner-up; The luck of the devil; The last round; If it interferes with business; Dormie one; “Consolation.” In the preface which he adds gratuitously the author touches on the difficulties involved in writing stories about golf. “I know of only one other sport,” he says, “which offers fewer possibilities for a red-blooded story of nerve and skill and stamina—and that’s billiards!”
“A collection of excellent stories. ... But good as they all are, well written technically, and often bubbling over with shrewd dialogue, we rather doubt their holding readers to whom the revered game of golf is an unknown quantity.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w
“This collection of tales, none of which is impossible (if indeed any is improbable), will be the joy of many a golfer second only to playing the game.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 300w
“The eight tales comprise a sort of anthology of the links; in deft plot construction, in sharp character sketching in every attribute that goes to the making of a good story, the author has succeeded admirably.” C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 100w
“You need not be necessarily a golfer to appreciate the stories, for though a golf course is invariably employed as a setting, there is in each story a perspicacious study of human temperaments, together with a literary finish, which gives it a value entirely independent of its eighteen-hole environment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:400 O 14 ‘17 750w
“They are so rich in human nature that the subject-matter is merely incidental.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w
=PORTER, HAROLD EVERETT (HOLWORTHY HALL, pseud.).= What he least expected. il *$1.50 (2c) Bobbs 17-8466
The hero is a young Harvard man who at the beginning of the story is down on his luck. The European war has just closed the New York Stock exchange and deprived him of his job. He answers a “help wanted” advertisement and after a rigid cross examination finds himself engaged at a high salary. What his work is to be remains a mystery. He is sent to one of the best hotels and told to wait further orders. The action begins almost immediately, following his introduction to two attractive girls. New York and Bermuda are the scenes of the story. “Help wanted,” was its title during serial publication in Collier’s.
=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17
“Mr Hall’s books and stories belong to the harmless group. ... The public is said to like love stories, real or false, hackneyed or original, and Mr Hall believes we must feed the public what we think it wants.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w
“Who says that grown-up Americans don’t believe in fairies?... Mr Holworthy Hall turns raw mythologic ore into the pure gold of that kind of installment novel which keeps its readers infantile.”
=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 180w
“The liveliest kind of a lively yarn, with all sorts of entanglements and cross-purposes that thoroughly accomplish their manifest destiny—which is to bewilder and interest the reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w
“The author always makes his characters talk easily and amusingly, but his plot is too complicated and unreal to rivet attention.”
– + =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 20w
“A love story which has married a detective story. The union has its points.” M. A. Hopkins
=Pub W= 91:972 Mr 17 ‘17 250w
“A light story which moves at a rapid pace, with a liberal sprinkling of colloquial slang and humor.”
=Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 150w
=POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.=[2] Lustra of Ezra Pound, with earlier poems. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-31072
The first book of Mr Pound’s poetry to appear in this country since 1912. The first group contains about eighty short pieces whose themes range from “The tea shop” to “The study in aesthetics.” In the second group are translations from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga. The last thirty are poems published before 1911.
“No one challenges the poet’s right to draw his materials from any source that he chooses. No one cares how far into the past he penetrates, so that he brings back something of beauty and value, something that he has revitalized and made his own. But when from these excursions into the antique he brings back chiefly what is inconsequent and often repulsive, one sees no particular reason for going so far afield for material.” J. B. Rittenhouse
– + =Bookm= 46:577 Ja ‘18 450w
“His poems are too complicated for hasty judgment. One must read—and read again a week later. They are ironical, jeering and intolerant, they are lonely, contemplative, searching, carefully formed and firmly living. Perhaps you hate Ezra Pound. He says many of us have the manner. Perhaps you like him, but whatever else you do you cannot ignore him. He has an individual fashion of saying things and he is without fear.” K. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 6 ‘16 700w
“Its range and variety are its most outstanding quality and its chief defect. The volume seems a catch-all for Pound’s slightest utterance. What makes this lust for print the more puzzling is the fact that Mr Pound has not only a critical but a selective gift. But ‘Lustra’ is something more than a haphazard and too inclusive collection; it is the record of a retreat, a gradual withdrawal from life.” L: Untermeyer
– + =Dial= 63:634 D 20 ‘17 980w
“In this book we have no signs of those graceful medieval verses that Mr Pound used to write so perfectly. Sometimes Mr Pound is so modern as to be incomprehensible.”
— =Lit D= 55:38 D 15 ‘17 140w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 630w
“‘Lustra’ does more than force the painful conclusion of deterioration: it reveals the actual process, the poems written before 1911 being separated from those composed later. Rarely is it possible to see in one book so sharp a line of cleavage, so complete a superiority of periods as Mr Pound lets us witness by his act of separation. Before 1911 life still stung Mr Pound.” M. T.
– + =New Repub= 13:352 Ja 19 ‘18 1300w
“The ‘Lustra’ is bookish; instead of revealing further heights or depths of existence, it bears the echoes of dead literature. Personally, I would rather have one of Arturo Giovanetti’s things, such as ‘The last nickel’ or ‘The walker,’ or one of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago poems than the whole volume called ‘Lustra,’ in spite of the embroidered gorgeousness of the Cathay translations, contained therein.” G: W. Cronyn
– + =N Y Call= p18 D 20 ‘17 750w
“The only healthy pages are entitled ‘Poems published before 1911.’”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘18 300w
“The form which Mr Pound has chosen gives brevity, and that is enough. The richness of content compensates for its looseness. But in Mr Pound’s original poems there is seldom this compensation. It is poetry made too easy. As you read it you feel as if you had tried to sneeze and failed. There is a titillation, the promise of something about to happen, but at the end nothing has happened, not even a well-turned verse. That is the fault we have to find with most of these poems; too little happens in them. When Mr Pound is serious there is promise in his seriousness.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 N 16 ‘16 900w
=POWELL, CHILTON LATHAM.= English domestic relations, 1487-1653. (Studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2½c) Columbia univ. press 392 17-11684
The author calls this “a study of matrimony and family life in theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the period,” and states in his preface that he has tried “to make the field of investigation within these limits as all-inclusive as possible.” “Four appendixes are added to the book, in the first of which a complete account is given for the first time of the divorce suit of Henry VIII, and in the second, a new conception of the married life of Milton and the cause of his famous divorce tracts is advanced.” (Am Hist R) There are fourteen pages of bibliography.
“Perhaps the most valuable portions of Dr Powell’s book are the chapters describing and analyzing the domestic conduct book of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contemporary attitudes towards woman and the wider ranges of domestic literature. ... Such a careful and detailed study as Dr Powell’s should be sincerely welcomed by every student of the family. The fresh material it assembles and the painstaking way in which it traces the evolution of new ideas concerning marriage and divorce make it a genuine contribution to the growing body of literature on this subject.” Willystine Goodsell
+ =Am Hist R= 23:142 O ‘17 500w
“The author’s interests—and his style—are not literary, but the book will be useful to the student of literature as well as of social history.”
+ =Ath= p353 Jl ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 120w
“The performance is scarcely equal to the promise. The second half of the volume deals with the literature of the subject and, though the author discusses a number of important but little-known writings, this part of the work is scarcely more than a critical bibliography. The important part of the study comprises the first three chapters. ... The field was harvested a dozen years ago with some thoroughness by Professor Howard in his monumental ‘History of matrimonial institutions’; but Dr Powell has discovered several unused literary sources and has been able to correct Professor Howard’s conclusions on various important points.”
+ — =Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 370w
“It is included in the ‘Studies in English and comparative literature,’ but is of wider scope than most books so classified. There is a good deal here that will be of interest to the student of ‘kulturgeschichte’ or to the sociologist, for the author has very carefully assembled a good body of information respecting marriage and the family, from sources not ordinarily open to the non-expert in the period’s literature.”
+ =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 600w
“Dr Powell’s method, if it yields little to our actual knowledge, certainly gives a useful summary of contemporary opinion.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup547 N 17 ‘17 850w
=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Brothers in arms. *50c (7c) Houghton 940.91 17-17404
A tribute to the French, written on the occasion of the visit of the French mission to America by a well-known war correspondent who has marched with the armies of France, and who wishes those of his country-people who have not had the same opportunity as he of knowing the French “to understand what manner of men are these our brothers in arms.” He does for our relations with France what Captain Ian Hay Beith has done for our relations with England in “Getting together.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“The first twenty pages is fulsome in style. The writer is so eager to excel in description that his work becomes monotonous and devoid of interest. Beginning with the twenty-ninth page comes a change. Mr Powell swings into his best stride.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w
=Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 60w
“Might suitably serve as a memorial of the visit of Marshall Joffre and the other French commissioners to this country. Moreover, it is worth reading on its own account.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w
=POWELL, E. ALEXANDER.= Italy at war and the Allies in the west. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14525
This is the author’s third book on the war. “Fighting in Flanders” and “Vive la France” have preceded it. The first four chapters are devoted to Italy’s part. He says, “It is no exaggeration to say that not one American in a thousand has any adequate conception of what Italy is fighting for, nor any appreciation of the splendid part she is playing in the war.” Contents: The way to the war; Why Italy went to war; Fighting on the roof of Europe; The road to Trieste; With the Russians in Champagne; “They shall not pass”; “That contemptible little army”; With the Belgians on the Yser.
“More descriptive of actual fighting conditions and less of a political interpretation than Bainville (Booklist 13:442 Jl ‘17).”
=A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 90w
“He has a talent for collecting interesting scraps of information and adapting technical details of artillery or aviation to the comprehension of the uninitiated.”
+ =Dial= 63:212 S 13 ‘17 270w
“If his visits to the Champagne, Verdun and the Somme front are less impressive, it is because what is comprized within the title of his book, ‘Italy at war,’ today is the best first hand record of that war region.”
+ =Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 150w
“The chapter on ‘Why Italy went to war’ is of particular value. For that question is perhaps the one of the whole war concerning which Americans in general have felt most uncertainty and about which they had the least information.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 180w
=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w
=POWELL, OLA.= Successful canning and preserving. (Lippincott’s home manuals) il *$2 Lippincott 664 17-26659
This is a “practical handbook for schools, clubs and home use,” by an assistant in the home demonstration work of the United States Department of agriculture. It covers the history of scientific canning, the equipment, canning in tin and glass, the description of the processes necessary for canning fruits and vegetables, with suggestions for their use in the diet, the drying of fruits, vegetables and herbs, the preservation of meat, canning club organization, the business side of canning, teaching canning and related activities. Questions and bibliographies are given at the ends of the chapters. The appendix gives an “Address list of state institutions from which agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever act is directed” and an “Address list of firms furnishing supplies for canning and preserving.”
“The most complete manual to date, for a textbook or for scientific canning at home on a small or large scale.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
“The title does not do full justice to the extent and value of the information contained.”
+ =Cath World= 106:268 N ‘17 180w
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 50w
“With the help of many illustrations, proper preparation and equipment are presented. The unfortunate part of it is that few can afford such a complete and adequate paraphernalia as is here advised.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 26 ‘18 130w
“The author has done a remarkably thorough bit of work.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 210w
“The directions for each method are carefully given and the recipes varied.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 360w
=POWELL, MRS SOPHIA HILL (HULSIZER).= Children’s library; a dynamic factor in education; with an introd. by J: Cotton Dana. *$1.75 (2c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-13388
A discussion of the relation of the children’s library to the school from the modern educational point of view. As the author points out in her first chapter, the attitude of modern educators toward the place of books in the child’s early school life has undergone a change. She writes of: The place of books in education; Early libraries for children; The elementary-school library; The high-school library; The library resources of country children; Public library relations with public schools; The public library an integral part of the public education; The children’s room; The children’s librarian and her training; Aids to library work with children; Book selection; Some social aspects of library work with children. An extensive bibliography follows. John Cotton Dana in his introduction says, “A careful study of the relations of children’s reading to teachers, parents and librarians has long been needed, and this is precisely what Mrs Powell has given us.” The author is a graduate of the Pratt institute library school, and her library experience has included work in Cleveland and New York.
“This book is unexpectedly interesting and thought-provoking. An example of the critical method of the author is her discussion of the much-lauded children’s room, which, it appears upon careful examination, neither meets an otherwise unmet educational need nor does it properly meet a real recreational need. The last chapter, on ‘Some social aspects of library work with children,’ suggests a number of possibilities for the library in a wider social field.” F. F. Bernard
+ =Am J Soc= 23:276 S ‘17 720w
“Sensible, interesting, compact and inclusive—should be used in every library.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:422 Jl ‘17
“A book which all school administrators and those charged with instruction in English ought to read.”
+ =English Journal= 6:513 S ‘17 50w
“A study of its sane pages will help both teacher and librarian, and thereby, incidentally, the children.”
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
“Some well-considered and apparently sound conclusions concerning the place of reading in education and the use of cultural books in elementary schools are set forth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:338 S 9 ‘17 60w
“A revelation of the development and the possibilities of this educational agency. All who are interested in the possibilities of the library will find the entire book very helpful and the bibliographies highly useful.”
+ =Religious Education= 12:395 O ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:385 N ‘17 10w
“This book deserves the attention of all who direct the study of English in either elementary or high school.”
+ =School and Society= 5:711 Je 16 ‘17 90w
“The book under review will do much to unify the work of the public school and the public library. The book is certain to find an important place in all libraries as a general-reference book and as a text in library-training schools.”
+ =School R= 25:533 S ‘17 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 29 ‘17 220w
=POWERS, HARRY HUNTINGTON.=[2] America among the nations. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.73 18-669
In some sense a sequel to the work published a year ago, “The things men fight for.” The aim of the writer is to furnish an historic interpretation of our national character and our relation to other nations; to supply the “family point of view” from which America was obliged to look forth when she entered the war and so became a member of the European family. The first part of the text is devoted to a consideration of “America at home,” including among the chapters: The first Americans, The struggle for the Pacific; Despoiling the Latin, The break with tradition, The aftermath of Panama, and Pan-Americanism; the second part treats “America among the world powers,” with chapters on: The great powers, The Mongolian menace, Greater Japan, The unfeared Powers, The background of Europe, Germany, the storm centre, The storm area, The greatest empire, The great fellowship, and Forecast.
=PRATT, HENRY SHERRING.= Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects. il *$3.50 McClurg 592 16-17348
“As the author remarks in his preface, there has been no lack of manuals relating to the common insects, but hitherto a person wishing to identify animals of the other invertebrate groups has had to go to technical papers and treatises which, in many cases, have been inaccessible to all except specialists. Professor Pratt’s manual follows that of Leunis’s ‘Zoologie,’ a standard German work dealing with the animals of Europe; it is intended especially, for use in the eastern and central portions of the United States and Canada.”—N Y Times
“Needed only in large, school, and college libraries.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:338 My ‘17
“It will be a useful book for the reference shelves of biological laboratories, for general libraries, and for students of zoology. It does not replace special monographs.”
+ =Dial= 62:109 F 8 ‘17 200w
“There is a good glossary and a thorough index. The thousand-odd illustrations are all familiar line cuts of textbook style, well chosen and clearly reproduced. The faults are almost altogether those due to the condensation necessary to the limits of a single volume. The uncoated paper does away with extra weight. The most serious lack is the absence of all common names, except in the case of groups.”
+ — =Nation= 105:275 S 6 ‘17 430w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16
=N Y Times= 22:8 Ja 7 ‘17 80w
“The author is professor of biology in Haverford college.”
=St Louis= 15:12 Ja ‘17 9w
=PREEV, ZINOVY N.= Russian revolution and Who’s who in Russia. *2s Bale & Danielsson, London 947 (Eng ed 17-20023)
“This little book, by the editor of the Twentieth Century Russian and Anglo-Russian Review, contains first an account of the revolution (19pp.) and then a ‘Who’s who,’ not confined to persons but containing explanations of phrases like ‘Constitutional Democrats,’ ‘Intelligentsia,’ ‘Zemstvo union,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The brief biographies, beginning with the Tsaritsa, speak freely about the persons they deal with.”
=Sat R= 123:604 Je 30 ‘17 230w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p239 My 17 ‘17 40w
=PREVITÉ ORTON, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Outlines of medieval history. maps *$2.75 (2c) Putnam 940 (Eng ed 17-21845)
A history of medieval Europe, embracing the period from 895 to 1492 A.D. The author says, “In the choice of events to narrate I have been guided by their far-off results, rather than by their immediate éclat in their own time, and have tried to indicate how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.” Contents: The barbarian migrations; The Eastern empire and the Saracens; The fusion of races in western Europe; The development of feudalism; The papal monarchy; The East and the crusades; The fall of the Western empire and of the papal theocracy; France and England; The councils and the Italian renaissance; The East and the Turks; The despotic monarchies.
“Mr Orton fairly accomplishes his aim of indicating ‘how in the middle ages were accomplished the growth of modern man and the life and attitude to life of modern times.’ As this involves some loss of local colour and a style which, though clear and well balanced, is usually a little bare and restrained, the book will probably be more appreciated by older than younger students, but this must be accounted a defect of its quality.” J. T.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 280w
“This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with the fifteenth century. ... Mr Previté Orton has to deal with masses of facts and dates, but he writes very well and is full of ideas, so that his book is easy to read.”
+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 200w
“The want of a satisfactory guide to medieval history has long been felt. Hallam’s work is no longer adequate, and more recent books dealing with the subject do not cover the whole ground. Students have been thrown back, therefore, on treatises having a wider range, such as Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale,’ of which medieval history forms only a part. Mr Previté Orton’s ‘Outlines’ satisfies the conditions desired by giving within reasonable limits a comprehensive survey of the middle ages as a distinct historical subject. The success he has achieved in this difficult task is very great.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 1150w
=PRICE, CHARLES MATLACK.= Practical book of architecture. il *$6 Lippincott 720 16-24966
“The purpose of this handsomely made and compactly written volume is simple but very much worth while; to state in untechnical language the sources of our present day architecture. Not so much regarding the details of classic architecture as it appears in the Parthenon or the mysteries of Gothic architecture woven into a fabric like Notre Dame; but rather a clear statement of just what distinguishes classic and Gothic architecture respectively, how much of its ‘indicia’ are practically applicable to the needs of to-day. ... Most interesting perhaps are the two chapters on Native American architecture and on such special topics as ‘l’art nouveau’ and ‘modernist’ architecture, as well as the office building, modern hotel and railroad terminal. ... The second part of the book, ‘A practical guide to building,’ discusses sanely such questions for the prospective house builder as the selection of site, style and materials to be used, the choice of and relations with the architect, comparative costs of various styles and materials, and plans and interior details.”—Pub W
“A popular treatment of interest to those intending to build, to beginners in the study of architecture, and to the general reader. Covers the subject fully as an art and a science and yet may be understood by the layman. ... Has excellent illustrations, many of modern work.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:254 Mr ‘17
“The illustrations, 255 in number, are particularly good.”
+ =Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 90w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 300w
+ =Cath World= 105:836 S ‘17 210w
“The reader gets unusual delight from the illustrations, which are mainly chosen from well-known buildings in big cities, thereby making them more vital and understandable.”
+ =Lit D= 54:770 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
+ =N Y Times= 22:58 F 18 ‘17 200w
“Like Mr Talbot Hamlin’s book, which also appears at this time, Mr Price’s makes its own individual, educative appeal. Surely the man in the street as well as the trained critic should find much of practical value in such volumes.”
+ =Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:120 F ‘17 50w
“There has been no book on architecture before just like this one.” Fremont Rider
+ =Pub W= 91:211 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
=R of Rs= 55:218 F ‘17 90w
“Mr Price gives a great deal of extremely sound instruction and advice, and that with convincing point and clarity. Admirable theories or principles are eloquently argued or presented; but the unworthy, and even second-rate, examples with which he sometimes seeks to illustrate them, tend rather to damp one’s latent enthusiasm and to check one’s conversion. His English ‘typicals’ are for the most part peculiarly ill chosen and unfortunate.”
+ — =Spec= 119:14 Jl 7 ‘17 1700w
“A work which aims at and renders a service popular rather than professional. ... The public has been slow to realize that architecture is the one art from which it can not escape even if it desires to do so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 19 ‘16 450w
=PRICE, JULIUS MENDES.= Six months on the Italian front. il *$3.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-88)
“Mr Price’s book deals with the operations of the Italian army from the Stelvio to the Adriatic (1915-1916). Mr Price is the wellknown war artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News, and he had the privilege of following the Italian armies all along their five hundred miles long front in the period which might be rightly called preparatory in their hard war.” (Sat R) “He was actually present at the capture of Gorizia and Monfalcone in 1916.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 50w
“This book is wholly reportorial and free of discussions of international questions. ... The illustrations can be endorsed without quibbling as among the best of the war yet published, when the giving of true ensemble is considered. They are rich in minutely faithful sketches of the equipment of the Italian army, and frequently achieve marked excellence in their graphic portrayals of the troops of Cadorna scaling precipitous Alpine cliffs.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w
“It is journalistic and impressionistic in the bad sense. It is a pity to waste such excellent yellowish white thick paper and fine type, when the few really great books of the war are huddled into their cramped volumes with myopic print.”
— =New Repub= 13:224 D 22 ‘17 250w
“He makes particularly vivid, with both pencil and pen, the difficulties of warfare in the Alpine region.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 500w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w
“A very graphic and faithful description and comment.”
+ =Sat R= 123:413 My 5 ‘17 850w
“Mr Price is primarily an artist, not a journalist. ... He is quite frank about his qualifications as a war correspondent: an amateur at the game, knowing no Italian, not even enough to venture on an Italian phrase in his book without stumbling. ... There are a certain amount of tirades in this book against Austrian ‘frightfulness.’ ... This continual search for evidences of what we have learnt to call ‘kultur’ results often in the digging up of facts which, judged by any reasonable standard of a man accustomed to the necessities of modern warfare, are no more evidences of ‘frightfulness’ than our similar methods are evidences of excessive ‘humanity.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p188 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
=PRIESTLEY, HERBERT INGRAM.= José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain (1765-1771). il $3 (2c) Univ. of Cal. 906 A16-1488
José de Gálvez, visitor-general of New Spain, 1765-1771, and later appointed minister of the Indies, was, says the author “with the possible exception of the second Revillagigedo, the most able representative of the Spanish crown in New Spain during the eighteenth century. He certainly was the most competent minister of the Indies during the Bourbon régime.” This study is limited to his years of service as visitor-general, since it was in this period, the author points out, that he gained the practical knowledge that shaped his later policy as minister. The author is assistant curator of the Bancroft library, University of California, and the work is issued as one of the University of California publications in history.
“The author has made ample use of new sources from the archives of Spain and Mexico and, in addition, has made available in English much material already published in Spanish. The volume shows a vast amount of painstaking labor and is readable and interesting throughout. It is a valuable contribution to the study of Spanish colonial institutions.” R. R. Hill
+ =Am Hist R= 23:199 O ‘17 550w
“Mr Priestley’s description of the Spanish colonial system under Charles III is admirably complete.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:459 Jl ‘17 230w
“A sketch map that might profitably have contained more names, the instructions to Gálvez, a full bibliography, and adequate index complete the volume, and with ample footnotes make it a desirable contribution to Latin-American institutional history.”
+ =Nation= 105:490 N 1 ‘17 410w
“The book should have permanent value as a record of Mexican history and Spanish colonial administration.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 500w
=PRIESTMANN, EDMUND YERBURY.= With a B.-P. scout in Gallipoli; a record of the Belton bulldogs; with a foreword by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 2d ed il *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 17-21842
“This is a collection of letters written home by a scoutmaster serving as a subaltern who was killed in action in November, 1915. There is much humor in the book, and the author’s quick perception of the grotesque is evidenced by many of his drawings, which are reproduced in connection with the text.”—R of Rs
+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 140w
“A bubbling sense of humor characterizes them throughout and he has always a keen eye for interesting little incidents, whether comic, pathetic, or tragic, and a clever pen in describing them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 180w
+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w
“The little sketches of life on the bloody peninsula are written with a sureness that commends the book to a far larger audience than the intimate one for which they were intended.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 110w
“The racy, cheery letters home which make up this volume show the Boy scout ideal at its best. ... The book is full of clever humorous little drawings by Lieutenant Priestmann himself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 110w
=PRINCE, JANE.= Letters to a young housekeeper. *$1.35 (6c) Houghton 640 17-4601
Housekeeping ways and means are here discussed in the form of letters. The letters are in fact essays on the following subjects: Economy in the household; The budget; Servants; Maid of all work; Weekly cleaning; Family meals; Duties of servants; Behind the scenes at a dinner.
“The chapters on duties of servants and serving a dinner are specially good.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17
“Fortunate those women into whose possession this book comes. For not only is its friendly advice practical. Its spirit is that which lifts housekeeping into that highest of all womanly avocations—homemaking. There is about it, moreover, a delicious sense of personality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 300w
+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 50w
“This little volume contains facts—general and particular—on household economy and the household budget. ... and finally the vexing matter of a ‘dinner party.’ It is a readable and valuable book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 180w
“Even to the woman who has no servants and who may be disposed to class the book as useless in her circumstances, there is more or less of helpful suggestion in matters like table arrangements, how to sweep a room properly, etc. Type and binding add to the attractiveness and value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 200w
“The directions are detailed but explicit. A book which can be unreservedly recommended for every library.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 70w
=PRINGLE-PATTISON, ANDREW SETH (ANDREW SETH).= Idea of God in the light of recent philosophy. *$3.50 Oxford 201 17-24221
This volume is based upon the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1913. The author is professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In philosophy he is an idealist. “The twenty lectures are grouped in two series. Beginning with commentaries upon Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning natural religion,’ the author proceeds to discuss critically and fully the views of Kant, Ritschl, Locke, Berkeley, Comte, Spencer, William James, Bergson, Prof. Bosanquet, and many others.” (Ath) “Most of the chief points of metaphysics and ethics come under review.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Dr Pringle-Pattison concludes, among other things, that “for a metaphysic which has emancipated itself from physical categories, the ultimate conception of God is not that of a pre-existent creator but, as it is for religion, that of the eternal redeemer of the world.”
=Ath= p246 My ‘17 180w
“In the use he makes of the principles of continuity of process and the emergence of real differences, in his insistence on the reality of appearances and his account of the finite individual in relation to the Absolute, in his treatment of the idea of creation and his elucidation of teleology as a cosmic principle, Professor Pringle-Pattison has made an illuminating advance in the study and discussion of his subject.” R. Latta
+ =Hibbert J= 16:153 O ‘17 4850w
“The chief criticism upon Professor Pringle-Pattison’s work is rather the vagueness with which he almost invariably expounds his position. On the majority of the issues of contemporary philosophical controversy relevant to his subject it is well-nigh impossible to say exactly what his position is. ... In spite of these shortcomings Professor Pringle-Pattison’s book will be of considerable value to all interested in the perennial problem of the Divine and the human.”
+ — =Nation= 105:457 O 25 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:139 S ‘17 100w
“These lectures evince the new spirit gained by twentieth-century philosophy from biology.”
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 120w
“An able philosophic exposition of the fundamental tenet of Christianity. ... We may draw attention to his sensible and—if we may use the word—manly treatment of the problem of evil.”
+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 120w
“The reader will feel a deep delight in Prof. Pringle-Pattison’s ability to handle ideal clearly, in the breadth and eclecticism of his speculation, in his feeling for the realities of poetry, and in his determination to impart to philosophy a human and practical aspect as well as metaphysical consistency.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Pringle-Pattison’s volume will find readers in classes which in the so-called ages of faith would have turned away from it either because discussion of it seemed profanation or—what was more often the explanation of the mood of estrangement—because it was not for them a living, ever-present question. ... Each age desires its own ‘Théodicée,’ and ours is still unwritten. It will borrow, when it is composed, not a little from the pages of Dr Pringle-Pattison. ... We miss in this volume a certain unity of purpose. The author strays here and there according as the thought of the moment suggests. But, if too much a collection of episodes, the book is what it claims to be, constructive.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Ap 19 ‘17 2250w
=PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER.= German policy before the war. *$1 Dutton 327.43 (Eng ed 16-13631)
“An address given before the Royal historical society, Jan. 21, 1915. It is concerned (1) with the ideas and principles, the ambitions and motives which have produced in Germany a state of mind favorable to war; (2) with the historical events and the economic conditions which have strengthened this tendency; and (3) with the course of international politics which rendered an armed conflict difficult to avoid.” Condensed from introductory note—Pittsburgh
“Interesting but highly inconclusive is the author’s development of the militaristic theory of the state. ... In spite of its fairness of tone, the work bears the marks of special pleading, and is, as was perhaps inevitable, a partizan interpretation of history. ... The weakest point is the author’s failure to appreciate the German attitude toward the alliance with Austria.” R. H. Fife, jr.
– + =Am Hist R= 22:200 O ‘16 320w
=A L A Bkl= 13:261 Mr ‘17
+ — =Eng Hist R= 21:674 O ‘16 370w
“The introductory chapter contains the best brief statement we have seen of the development of German philosophic thought and teaching into potent ideas which are believed to influence Germans at present.”
+ =Nation= 103:444 N 9 ‘16 1150w
=N Y Times= 22:110 Mr 25 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 21:508 N ‘16 70w
“Where changing circumstances and personalities in power count for so much, it is impossible to assert positively that this or that policy was dominant at all times, and probably Mr Prothero, to prove his case, lays too much emphasis on the consistency of German intentions. He might have expanded his brief remarks upon the social and financial conditions inside Germany, and we should have welcomed his fuller views on some other points; for instance, the effects of Italy’s Tripolitan war. But he has certainly given us a concise and most readable and informing chapter of absorbing European history.”
+ =Spec= 117:160 Ag 5 ‘16 880w
“While the analysis as a whole is sound enough without being particularly new, it is open to weighty objection just at the points which seem most fatal to Mr Prothero’s ‘main thesis.’ That applies perhaps most of all to the treatment of the question of Morocco, and of Franco-German relations generally.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 My 25 ‘16 1100w
=PROUD, EMILY DOROTHEA.= Welfare work: employers’ experiments for improving working conditions in factories: with a foreword by D: Lloyd-George. *7s 6d Bell, London 331.8 (Eng ed 17-4011)
“An ably written volume, dealing with means of preserving the health and promoting the happiness of workers in factories. ‘Welfare work’ is defined as consisting of ‘voluntary efforts on the part of employers to improve, within the existing industrial system, the conditions of employment in their own factories.’ Factory welfare departments and the duties of a welfare secretary are described.”—Ath
“The treatment of the subject is practical and sympathetic. Especially interesting chapters are those dealing with the industrial environment, wages and hours, and incidental aids to welfare, such as the provision of baths, gymnasia, means of recreation, and the like.”
+ =Ath= p427 S ‘16 100w
“The matter is well and methodically arranged, with copious foot notes containing extracts from both American and English authorities, and has an excellent index. There is, however, no bibliography. This would have been a valuable addition. ... Together with Mr Lloyd-George we warmly commend this book to employers, factory superintendents, and to all members of the general public interested in the future and well being of their respective countries.” G. K. S.
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:250 Ja ‘17 600w
“Her book is by all odds the most complete and detailed exposition of the subject which has yet appeared.”
+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 210w
“The author is an Australian of wide experience in factory investigation both in Australia and England. At present she is connected with the British ministry of munitions.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:345 Ap ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17 10w
“Miss Proud is certainly moderate as a radical economist, dealing with things as they are, and trying to be a peacemaker in her chapters. But yet her radicalism shows itself, and takes her away from some questions of essential importance.”
+ — =Sat R= 122:229 S 2 ‘16 1350w
=Spec= 117:556 N 4 ‘16 130w
“The whole volume constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribution to a field where clarifying discussion is much needed.” H. R. Walter
=Survey= 37:671 Mr 10 ‘17 550w
“Her treatment of the subject is dispassionate and scientific without being cold or dry. The weakest point is the comparatively small range of observation which forms the basis of her study. It is confined to Australia, New Zealand, England, and Scotland. We congratulate Miss Proud on a pioneer book of high quality and real value.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Ag 31 ‘16 1250w
=PRÜM, ÉMILE.= Pan-Germanism versus Christendom; the conversion of a neutral; ed. and with comments by René Johannet. *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-15439
Part 1 of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic centre.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 80w
“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”
+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 550w
“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German imperialism and all its works.”
+ =Outlook= 116:198 My 30 ‘17 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 190w
=PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE.= Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)
This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor, social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, etc.) indexed during the year.
=PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von.= Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il *$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173
This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,” says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings; Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks, meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks; Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.
“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and estates.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18
“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1300w
“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between the appearance of the first two volumes.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:752 O 18 ‘17 220w
“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry and academic treatises.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w
“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:812 D ‘17 90w
=PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE.= Pétain, the prepared. il *50c (9c) Revell 17-26783
The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story is given a wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17
“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading. Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”
+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 1 ‘17 50w
=PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL.= Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732
“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers; Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well illustrated.
“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and personnel is also a model.”
+ =Am Hist R= 22:906 Jl ‘17 350w
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word (up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1100w
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w
“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:563 S 20 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 60w
+ =Lit D= 55:37 N 3 ‘17 290w
“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority of those who were likely to read it.”
+ — =Nation= 105:406 O 11 ‘17 950w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Jl ‘17 100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:663 O ‘17 10w
“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this admirable record.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 250w
“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 320w
=PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN.= Life of James J. Hill. 2v il *$5 Doubleday 17-15184
“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times
“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:196 O ‘17 650w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17
=Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 400w
“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting endeavor, and high ideals.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 Ag 4 ‘17 920w
“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a ‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”
+ — =Nation= 105:344 S 27 ‘17 1400w
“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he rendered his country was beyond valuation.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:237 Je 24 ‘17 1800w
“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography, which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young American.”
+ =Outlook= 116:521 Ag 1 ‘17 680w
=Pittsburgh= 22:671 O ‘17 70w
“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts of it seem needlessly long.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 1100w
=PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY.= Papers from Picardy. *$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)
Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part 1, Rev. T. W. Pym writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction; Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due; In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.
=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 80w
“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”
+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:133 S ‘17 80w
“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 80w
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=QUICK, OLIVER CHASE.= Essays in orthodoxy. *$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306
“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic. His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its Anglican outlook.” James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:677 Jl ‘17 150w
=Int J Ethics= 27:543 Jl ‘17 130w
“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr Quick is, we think, less successful.”
+ — =Spec= 118:518 My 5 ‘17 1350w
“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 230w
“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ... These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately this volume has a special claim to consideration.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p64 F 8 ‘17 1000w
=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS.= Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship. *$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157
The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.
“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 1500w
“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any Shakespeare lover.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 90w
“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the conversational flavor of their original form.”
+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 70w
“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is, of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest. We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”
+ — =Nation= 105:458 O 25 ‘17 1150w
“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote his plays.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 170w
=QUIN, MALCOLM.= Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism. *$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690
“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom. After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism, however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics
=Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 60w
“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns
+ — =Int J Ethics= 27:540 Jl ‘17 180w
“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer
+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 600w
=QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON=, ed. Representative American plays. il *$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225
“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country, that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting detail.” (R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s ‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell, Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)
“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:302 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 17 ‘17 620w
+ =Cath World= 105:106 Ap ‘17 300w
+ =Cleveland= p52 Ap ‘17 250w
“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s ‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s ‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better than curiosities.” Brander Matthews
* + =Educ R= 54:84 Je ‘17 300w
“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of industry minus judgment.”
+ =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 850w
“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R. E. Rogers
+ =New Repub= 10:sup10 Ap 21 ‘17 2000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:42 Mr ‘17 140w
=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w
“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:184 Je ‘17 20w
“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays, which will enable the student to follow the development of the American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the Drama league is promoting this year.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Drama League Monthly)
=QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON=, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il *$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356
This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are “The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 70w
“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are direct and simple.”
+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 60w
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=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA) princess.= Germany under three emperors. il *$4 Funk 943 17-30068
“This account of Prussian diplomacy makes public for the first time much information regarding the Kaiser, his two immediate predecessors, and their great minister, Prince Bismarck. The author tells us how the first emperor was influenced by the great chancellor in the upbuilding of the imperial German plan, how the Emperor Friedrich, who might have modified this plan considerably, was rendered impotent by disease, and how Bismarck, ignoring his wishes, set about instilling the doctrines of militarism into the willing mind of the heir apparent. The story, as it unfolds, shows how the pupil outran the master and how the present Kaiser at last dismissed his aging chancellor and took over control of affairs himself. All this, together with the plots and counterplots that brought Europe several times to the brink of war, is set forth.”—Lit D
=Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w
“Princess Radziwill is by birth a Russian and, after her marriage to a Pole, she lived much in Berlin. In both countries her associations were with the court and diplomatic circles, and she knew personally many of the men and women who made the history of Europe during Bismarck’s half century of public life. Her book, however, is in no sense the gossipy chronicle which that fact might imply, but a very capable getting together and interesting arrangement of the facts of Germany’s political history since the middle of the last century, told with the vivifying touch of personal contact.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p335 Jl 12 ‘17 90w
=RAE, HERBERT, pseud.= Maple leaves in Flanders fields. *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10673)
“In ‘Maple leaves in Flanders’ a Canadian soldier, who hides his identity under the nom de guerre of ‘Herbert Rae,’ gives a breezy description of the recruiting of a Canadian regiment dubbed by the author ‘The pompadours,’ and what the regiment has done in the war.” (N Y Times) Admiral Markham writes the introduction.
=N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 300w
“Written in an informal style, that is full of humor. ... The work is easy and delightful reading.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 21 ‘17 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 60w
=RAEMAEKERS, LOUIS.= Kultur in cartoons; with accompanying notes by well-known English writers. *$5 Century 940.91 17-31662
Louis Raemaekers is conceded to be the “only great genius who has been brought out by the war”; who is “worth two army corps to the cause of the Allies.” This is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ cartoons” published last year. To this cartoonist the war is not a “topic,” not a “subject for charity” but “a vivid, heartrending reality.” There are over a hundred drawings whose artistic appeal is subordinated to the appraisal of them as political documents and as historic records of crimes and barbarities “which the civilized world must not be permitted to forget lest the horrors of the past three years descend upon us again.” Each cartoon is faced with a paragraph of description and interpretation by an English writer.
+ =Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w
=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w
“There is little artistic finesse about Raemaekers’s work. His is of the blunt pencil rather than the Spencerian pen; yet force and action are added to his drawings in ratio to the thickness of his pencil. His vigor is crushing—well-nigh brutal. But his subjects demand the brutality he throws into his work. Despite this fact, however, he has light moments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 500w
=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Yukon trail; a tale of the North. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-13621
Gordon Elliot, an agent for the government, is sent to Alaska to investigate the valuable coal claims of Colby Macdonald. Macdonald is the big man of the North, and, while recognizing his brutality and ruthlessness, the North admires him and, in general, upholds him against the government. But Gordon Elliot comes representing a new order and a new social conscience which demands the conservation of natural resources in place of the reckless exploitation Macdonald stands for. The paths of the two men cross early. Elliot meets Macdonald on the boat going up. Sheba O’Neill is on the boat too, and the girl at once becomes a factor in the struggle.
=A L A= Bkl 14:28 O ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w
“It will be all the same to you whether you read this novel or any one of half a dozen of the same variety of the present season. It is a fairly plausible, well-planned yarn that clings to the traditions of its type and its setting.”
+ — =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 130w
“No one will question Mr Raine’s first-hand acquaintance with his ground and the zest with which he handles the theme, even if the rather narrow trail has been trodden frequently before.”
+ =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 170w
“The plot is put together in a workmanlike way, and contains plenty of incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 300w
“An echo of the famous Ballinger conservation scandal of several years ago is found in ‘The Yukon trail.’ ... It is a wholly entertaining tale which moves at a rapid, virile pace against a background of rugged mountains, wide spaces and untamed nature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 200w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w
=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: selections from his “Historie of the world,” letters and other writings; ed. with introds. and notes, by G. E. Hadow. il *$1.40 Oxford 900
“This book contains, besides extracts from the first edition of the ‘History’ (1614), as well as some of Raleigh’s letters to his wife and others, the text of ‘The last fight of the Revenge at sea,’ issued anonymously in 1591. A biographical introduction, followed by commentaries on the texts, and ample notes, will be found in the volume.”—Ath
=Ath= p257 My ‘17 60w
“The extracts from the ‘Historie’ show what Raleigh thought on many questions of military science and statesmanship—some of them analogous to questions before us to-day, such as Spain’s aim at securing the hegemony of Europe, the contrast between the English and Spanish treatment of native races, the Spanish method of spreading false reports of victories in neutral countries, the best means of repelling an attempted invasion of England, the futility of trusting to a river or a mountain-range to stop an army, the method of dealing with ambassadors who plot against the country to which they are accredited. ... Miss Hadow’s notes are rather meagre. A short glossary of words used in obsolete senses would have been useful to the general reader or the young student. ... Attention is not called to Raleigh’s interesting use of ‘Armado’ of a ship, and ‘Armada’ of a fleet. ... The book is beautifully produced. The word ‘ingentes’ is, however, misprinted on p. 102.” G. C. M. S.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:456 Jl ‘17 550w
“Miss Hadow and the Clarendon press have done a sound service to the cause of English history and English letters. ... They have made accessible the essential wisdom and the considered judgment of one of the keenest-edged spirits of Elizabethan times. ... The book has a peculiar interest for the Englishman to-day.”
+ =Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 1350w
“In this little book the indispensable part of Raleigh’s writing is preserved.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1750w
=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: “the shepherd of the ocean”; selections from his poetry and prose. il *50c Macmillan 820.8 16-25284
“The finest and most moving poetry and prose by Sir Walter Raleigh has been edited in particular for students of literature by Frank Cheney Hersey of Harvard college. ... The selections include, aside from the introductory sketch of his life, twenty-six selections, those popularly known and others difficult to find, such as The 21st book of the lost poem, ‘Cynthia,’ written in praise of Queen Elizabeth, pages from ‘The discovery of Guiana,’ ‘A relation of the Cadiz action,’ and ‘A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores.’ Portraits of Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville and cuts from old paintings and drawings illustrate this volume.”—R of Rs
+ =Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 50w
“A tercentenary offering. The selections are almost equally divided between Raleigh’s verse, in which he was always a gentleman, and his prose, in which he was not seldom a poet. In portions of the latter the editor has, wisely for the flavor’s sake, kept the old spelling. To include extracts from Raleigh’s trial was a happy stroke.”
+ =Nation= 104:546 My 3 ‘17 120w
+ =R of Rs= 55:214 F ‘17 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 150w
=RAMSOWER, HARRY CLIFFORD.= Equipment for the farm and the farmstead. (Country life education ser.) il *$2.25 Ginn 630 17-12148
The author, professor of agricultural engineering in the College of agriculture of the Ohio State university, has prepared this book primarily in the interests of “the farmer of the present who is seeking information as to ways and means of making his work easier and his burdens lighter.” The book is also adapted for use as a college text. The author points out that the subject is one which has been given little attention, since the agricultural colleges, experiment stations, etc., have been so largely concerned with crop yields and the improvement of live stock. He devotes chapters to: Some principles of mechanics; Transmission of power; Materials of construction; Cement and concrete; Laying out the farm; Farm fences; Farm buildings; The farmhouse, etc., with special chapters given up to the principal items of farm machinery, The plow, Seeding-machinery, Grain-binders, etc.
=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 120w
=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:821 D ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p24 O ‘17 10w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 60w
=RANDOLPH, THOMAS.= Poems and Amyntas; ed., with an introd., by J: J. Parry. il *$2 Yale univ. press 821 17-7487
“Professor Parry believes that there are external reasons for the oblivion that Randolph [1605-35] has suffered. ... One reason why he believes Randolph has been unread is that, after his death, his brother made the mistake of publishing all of his works which he could find together. For this reason the reader has to wade through even the school exercises of Randolph in order to discover his mature work. ... To remedy this, Professor Parry has reprinted about one-third of the extant works in this volume. He has tried in every sense to avoid the errors of Hazlitt. He has made no changes of his own in the text, relying in large part upon the fact that most of the readers of such a book would be those who were familiar with seventeenth century literature and able to read the early texts with no difficulty.”—Boston Transcript
“At the present time, it is too hard to find an edition of Thomas Randolph. He may be read only in rare early editions or in the faulty Hazlitt edition, which is itself long out of print. ... Professor Parry’s introduction to the volume will aid in making it of great interest to students.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17
“Randolph, like so many other of the earlier poets, would find his most enthusiastic readers in those under twenty. Their minds are more impressionable and they are not so apt to question. If you begin to question and criticise too deeply, it is a wasted task to read him. ‘Amyntas’ is juiceless, and scarcely repays reading. Dr Parry’s editorial work is finely done, and his introduction is a model.” Frank Macdonald
=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
=RANSOME, ARTHUR.= Old Peter’s Russian tales. il *$2 Stokes 17-26894
“The twenty-one stories in the book are such as Russian peasants tell their children and each other. ... The author says that the stories selected for this volume are ‘not for the learned nor indeed for grown-up people at all. No people who really like fairy stories ever grow up altogether. Their reading will convey some idea of the mental processes of the race inhabiting the broad plains and distant forests of half-mysterious Russia, and throw light on the Russian peasant’s interpretation of natural phenomena and the abode of his mythology.’ The principal illustrations are the work of a Russian artist, Dmitri Mitrokhin.”—Springf’d Republican
“Well told with humorous touches.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
“They seem every bit worth while in their folk-lore quality.”
+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 210w
“He tells his tales with the skill belonging to an experienced man of letters.”
+ =Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 140w
“The book is a unique contribution to the holiday output.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w
“The tales, though they are second-rate literary matter, should read aloud well. The feeling is that the author is having a pleasant relaxation.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 70w
=RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER.=[2] Theology for the social gospel. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 230 17-31090
An elaboration of four lectures delivered in 1917 on the Nathaniel W. Taylor foundation before the annual convocation of the Yale school of religion. The main proposition is that we have a social gospel and what we need is a systematic theology large enough to match it and vital enough to back it. In the first three chapters the author shows that a readjustment and expansion of theology, so that it will furnish an adequate intellectual basis for the social gospel, is necessary, feasible, desirable and legitimate. The remainder of the book offers concrete suggestions how some of the most important sections of doctrinal theology may be expanded and readjusted to make room for the religious conviction summed up in “the social gospel.”
“The book is brave and direct and gathers together in lucid statement much that has been thought out in theology in the past decade. It is a combination of beautiful thought, of keen insight and of one-sided and restricted views. The social aspect of the gospel has its all-important place, but other sides of the question need to be considered in a completely philosophical work.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 15 ‘18 420w
=RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI.= American in the making. *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-28804
The young Rumanian who writes this “life story of an immigrant” tells us that they who know only America cannot really know America, that “only from the humble immigrant” can they learn “just what America stands for in the family of nations.” And so he tells us his story from his boyhood in Vaslui, Rumania, to his sophomore year at the University of Missouri. Mr Ravage came over in 1900 and settled among his country-people in the “Little Rumania” of New York city. He began to earn his living as a peddler, and after working in a bar-room, and a sweatshop, he succeeded in educating himself sufficiently to enter the University of Missouri, though the sweatshop, he tells us, was his first university, and his fellow toilers there gave him the first stimulus towards reading books and the first introduction to radical thought. “Nothing in the way of thought-interest was too big or too heavy for this intelligentzia of the slums.” His first year in Columbia is a lonely one, save for one friend. He goes back to New York for his vacation and lives “through the last and bitterest episode in the romance of readjustment.” One year in Missouri has made him a stranger to the East side ghetto and when he goes back to college he finds that at last the barriers are down between him and his classmates—that he is no longer “a man without a country”—he is an American.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17
“Mr Ravage’s story of how he became an American and why the process took so long is of especial interest and value because he brings out the non-material reasons for the difficulties in the Americanising of our newly come peoples. He makes clear the mental and spiritual non-adjustments, the constant strong pull of the old world soul. And that is something which we, with our so different heritage, find it difficult to realise.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:330 N ‘17 450w
“But not as a portrayal of the Jewish spirit nor as a recognition of its leaven, not as a study in Americanization is this book primarily arresting. It is a remarkable sketch indeed of contacts between diverse cultures, but it is not alone an ethnological sketch; it is a picture of the life of the spirit, it is literature. In its ironic restraint and subtle interpretation the book is unsurpassed, it seems to me, in the literary art of this country.” E. C. Parsons
+ =Dial= 64:107 Ja 31 ‘18 2700w
“Gives the impression of being not only a more searching but a more honest account of the process of being Americanized than has been presented by any one else.”
+ =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 440w
“Mr Ravage’s story is full of spiritual adventure. Where have we a more illuminating picture of the motives, the pathos and the fantasy, that bring people from their remote countries to America?... Surely we have had nothing like this story of the assimilation of an eager, idealistic, floundering Rumanian youth into the light, hearty life of a mid-western state university. ... In such a career we see something vital being done to America by the immigrant, as well as something vigorous being done to the immigrant by America.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 14:30 F 2 ‘18 900w
“There is food for thought in ‘An American in the making.’ And always there is keen interest.”
+ =N Y Time=s 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 1350w
=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 50w
“The value of this autobiography lies in the fact that the author did achieve Americanization, and from this vantage point could look back over his heartrending struggles with an eye that fully appreciated what he had lost and gained. The humor and clear-sightedness of the author, to say nothing of the colorful and stimulating style, make the book one of the most interesting products of the season.”
+ =Springf’d= Republican p8 N 13 ‘17 1050w
“[His experiences] are depicted with a remarkable command of English idioms and American sense of humor.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 130w
=RAWLINGS, GERTRUDE BURFORD.= British museum library. il $1.25 (2½c) Wilson, H. W. 027.5 17-11000
The author says: “This essay traverses some of the ground covered by Edwards’s ‘Lives of the founders of the British museum,’ and the Reading-room manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print. But it has its own field, and adds a little here and there, I venture to hope, to the published history of our national library.” (Preface) The chapters take up: Steps toward a national library; The Cottonian library; The Sloane bequest; The early days of the British museum; Anthony Panizzi; Later days of the British museum; Recent history of the library; Accessions by gift, bequest or purchase; Accessions through the copyright acts; The catalogue; The subject index; Some treasures of the British museum library. The appendix gives lists of some of the official catalogs and other information.
+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘17 190w
=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 20w
+ =Sat R= 123:15 Ja 6 ‘17 900w
“An attractive and scholarly account of the rise and progress of the great library. ... Some of the principal treasures are well described.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 100w
“Without being in any sense a guide the book provides readers with a brief and well-arranged survey of the contents of the national library and of the methods of obtaining access to them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 700w
=RAWLINSON, HUGH GEORGE.= Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome. il *$2.25 Putnam 930 (Eng ed 16-19470)
“Professor Rawlinson has chosen a romantic subject for his book, and, within the limits he has proposed to himself, has done justice to it. Academic India is at present very busy studying the records of the earliest periods of Indian civilization, and is discovering with just pride and pleasure that the Hindu culture had much in common with the origins of the polities of western nations. ... The old Hindus were certainly daring navigators, keen traders, and colonists in distant lands. They were skilled administrators, and possessed a copious literature dealing with all the affairs of men in organized society, and lacking only in historical accounts of their own doings. The suggestion is natural that the West may owe larger debts to India than have hitherto been recognized.”—Spec
“Needed only in large or special libraries.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17
“The author endeavours to give a succinct account of his subject, which has never been dealt with as a whole in any English work, although the material has been handled by a host of writers. ... The book is useful as a compendious summary, and probably may reach a second edition, when corrections such as those noted can be inserted. Others are needed.” V. A. S.
+ =Eng Hist R= 31:661 O ‘16 600w
“With much learning, but in a readable and agreeable style, Professor Rawlinson has pieced together our fragmentary knowledge from the foregoing and other sources. His volume is a handbook, not a compilation of original documents like the tomes of McCrindle. The extent of his citations and the account that he takes of recent studies in this by no means neglected field gives it, however, much value for reference purposes as well as for passing perusal.” E: P. Buffet
+ =J Philos= 14:442 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
“Those interested in the relations of East and West revived by the war will find Professor Rawlinson’s book a useful and entertaining guide to a necessary and picturesque background. ... The few errors in the book are due to the inaccessibility of a good library in India, where the author holds a chair in an Indian college.”
* + =Nation= 104:134 F 1 ‘17 950w
+ =Pratt= p41 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 10w
“Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian history. The book is an admirable continuation of its author’s excellent ‘Bactria: the history of a forgotten empire.’”
+ =Spec= 117:106 Jl 22 ‘16 430w
“If its facts were all known before, they were dispersed in a variety of books, and to bring them together into one cover is to do a service to a large number of people who would like to know the general results arrived at by research with regard to the relations of ancient India and the West, and who would be unable to consult the various books from which Professor Rawlinson draws.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 8 ‘16 2000w
=REED, EDWARD BLISS.= Sea moods, and other poems. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-25111
A handful of verse, most of which is introspective reaction to the varying moods of the sea. The writer depicts the depression of fog, the exhilaration and tonic of the blue sea, the caprice of the sea and its freedom and romance. The writer for the time being is “fisherman, hunter, and sailor, playing with dreams by the sea.”
“These poems are well done, often very well done; the finish is complete, but they are illuminated from within. They have not the spontaneity, the abandon of an overflowing impulse. They tread a bit heavily their proper metres, overladen with a too literal expression rather than with the sense and emotion and imagination of the subject. The author rises to a higher perfection in verse than in poetry. Thus what we want is not verse about the sea, but the poetry of the sea.” W. S. B.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 300w
=Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 30w
=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Memorial day, and other verse (original and translated). *75c De Wolfe & Fiske co., 20 Franklin st., Boston 811 17-23580
A little volume whose profits are to be devoted to the work of helping soldiers blinded in battle. It contains in the first part several patriotic pieces, among them “Your country and mine,” “The Harvard regiment,” “The Grand army passes” and “A Canadian trooper to his horse.” The second group is made up of lighter verse for children. The third division includes some well-known odes from Horace.
“Sincere and varied verse, unpretentious and pleasing.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 720w
“Miss Reed is not a poet of the highest flights, nor does she profess to be, but this book is thoroughly entertaining. Her expression is consciously confined; when she does write swingingly the results are less happy. Her verse is not free from faults of rhyme and meter. But the diversity of subject matter bears witness to breadth of mind.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 280w
=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Serbia: a sketch. il $1 (5c) Serbian distress fund, 555 Boylston st., Boston 949.7 17-59
A letter from the author says that the book “aims to give the average reader a clear and concise account of Serbian history from the earliest times, with some attention to the present war.” The headings for the five sections of the book are: Serbia: starting; Serbia: singing; Serbia: seaward; Serbians; Serbia: sighing. The book was written for the benefit of the Serbian distress fund, and was first put on sale at the Allied bazaar in Boston. All proceeds from the general sale of the book also go to the relief fund.
“The book will be useful to all interested in the causes of the war. Its sale will help the Serbian fund, and it is a pleasure to recommend it most heartily, as both well-written and generally accurate.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 16 ‘16 550w
“Useful, for all its slightness, for the information it gives and the sense of personality it manages to convey.”
+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
=REED, HOMER BLOSSER.= Morals of monopoly and competition. *$1.25 Banta pub. 338 17-13289
“The author is primarily concerned in describing the evolution now taking place in the business world, ‘one of the outstanding features of which is the change from private and competitive morality to public and co-operative morality.’ He first attempts to explain why private competitive morality has been found unsatisfactory, by a detailed account of its results under the practice of railroad discriminations in the case of the Standard oil company. Secondly, he describes the solutions proposed as evolved in the court decisions concerning railroad rebates and a fair rate of return for public-service companies. Thirdly, through a criticism of these decisions, he attempts to set forth the principles established to meet the new conditions. Then, turning from public callings to private callings, he follows a similar plan in the case of the large industrial corporations. ... The general conclusion is that industrial combinations which are doing business under the law of private callings ought to be regulated under the law of public callings.”—J Pol Econ
“The author predicts that the large industrial combinations will in the course of time come to be recognized as public service corporations, and will be subjected to regulation in much the same way that the railroads now are. But he does not make his point.” Eliot Jones
— =Am Econ R= 7:643 S ‘17 600w
“Students of business ethics will find the new book of interest as an outline of the changes which have taken place within a comparatively few years in that field. It explains the trend of the times, and is probably more or less prophetic of future changes in the matter of the regulation of business competition.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 160w
=Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 160w
“Offers a clear and simple statement of the significant change that has occurred in our attitude towards ‘big business.’” B. H. Bode
+ =J Philos= 14:613 O 25 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by C. W. Wright
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:628 Je ‘17 570w
=REED, THOMAS HARRISON.= Form and functions of American government. il *$1.50 (1c) World bk. 353 16-24343
“This book is the result of nine years’ experience in teaching government and a lifelong interest in politics. It is intended primarily for that great majority of high-school pupils who go no farther on the road of formal education and aims to deal with the principles of governmental organization and activity in such a way as to be a suitable basis for the most thorough high-school course in preparation for citizenship.” (Preface) The book is divided into six parts, preceded by an introductory chapter on Government, and why we study it. The six parts take up: The background of American government; Parties and elections; State government; Local government; Government of the United States; The functions of government.
“The author has shown remarkable skill in being brief without being misleading. A most commendable feature is the evolutionary or organic viewpoint, which finds consistent expression throughout.” A. B. Hall
+ =Am J Soc= 23:267 S ‘17 410w
“Usefully illustrated; full bibliography at chapter-ends.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
“The subject is treated from an historical point of view, but in the main each topic is brought up to date and the views are progressive throughout. ... Several errors—of fact rather than interpretation—may be noted. ... This book was in press during a period of unprecedented federal legislation, so various facts concerning the Philippine government, preparedness, military and naval academies, and the income tax are already out of date. Also, the shipping board, the farm loan board, the tariff commission, prohibition of child labor, and the inheritance tax have come into existence since the book went to press. ... There is an excellent bibliography at the end of each chapter.” F. A. Magruder
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:164 F ‘17 800w
“An admirably stimulating text book.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 70w
“Teachers of civics who desire to make their instruction practical in the best sense of the word should not overlook this volume, for besides having the notable merit of definiteness Professor Reed’s volume is inclusive, well-proportioned, accurate, and readable.”
+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 120w
“The author of this handbook came to his task with a rather unusual equipment. A graduate of Harvard university and of the Harvard law school, he was successively a member of the bar of Massachusetts and of New York, and in 1908 was appointed to a professorship of government in the University of California. For six months in 1911 he held the office of executive secretary to Governor Johnson and in 1916 secured a leave of absence from the University to assume the duties of city manager of San José, Cal. His book, therefore, has a background of practical experience in governmental affairs.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w
“Among the many volumes recently put out on citizenship for school use, it is clearly one of the ablest, both in its careful preparation and clear writing. In its real appeal to the natural civic interests of the high-school student it stands alone.” R. N. Baldwin
+ =Survey= 37:616 F 24 ‘17 250w
=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on immigration. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 325.73 17-6882
Changes in this second edition of the debaters’ handbook on immigration consist of: a revision of the bibliographies on European and Asiatic immigration, with the addition of references bringing them down to date; a revision of the section on The European war and immigration, with the addition of new reprints, and the addition of a group of references on Americanization.
=A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 40w
=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on minimum wage. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 331.2 17-6881
This volume is an outgrowth of a pamphlet issued in 1913 in the Abridged debaters’ handbook series. Like other volumes in the series it contains briefs, bibliographies and selected reprints presenting both sides of a debatable question. The explanatory note says, “An attempt has been made to choose wisely such articles as would present the question from many points of view, that of the employer, the trade unionist, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, etc.” Among those who argue for the minimum wage are Margaret Dreier Robins, Florence Kelley, John A. Ryan, Walter Lippmann, Sidney Webb and Louis D Brandeis. Among those opposed are John Bates Clark, F. W. Taussig, J. Laurence Laughlin, Rome G. Brown and Helen Marot. The volume is indexed.
=A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 40w
“An excellent handbook giving all the latest data and discussion.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 20w
“The introduction, a brief sketch of the history of the minimum-wage movement, shows the compiler to be strongly in sympathy with it and to be capable of sharp criticism as regards its various phases; but the selection of articles is marked by impartiality as well as by good judgment. ... The 200 pages, including a bibliography and a good index, will be interesting and helpful not only to prospective debaters, but to the general reader desiring to get a fair impression of the considerations that have been brought to bear on this subject by representative thinkers and writers.”
+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 180w
“In her introduction to the volume the compiler makes a few very interesting observations. ... The literature on the subject is very extensive, and the compiler made use of the best that has been published. General bibliography as well as references to the material used, and a well arranged index, are included in the volume which makes it very convenient for the reader.” A. L. Trachtenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 530w
=Pratt= p12 O ‘17
“In all cases the material is selected with impartiality and with obvious intent to do full justice to both sides of a question.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Henrietta Walters
+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w
=REEMAN, EDMUND HENRY.= Do we need a new idea of God. *$1 (3c) Jacobs 211 17-18044
The Rev. Edmund H. Reeman is a Unitarian minister and is at present pastor of the First Unitarian church, at Trenton, N. J. He states in his preface that “there is need for a reinterpretation of life and a restatement of religious faith in the light of democratic outreach and impulse.” His book is an attempt to turn our “thoughts away from the old ideas of God as a king upon a monarch’s throne, the remote and transcendent creator and ruler of the world and life, to the thought of God as the God of all the struggle and outreach of life—the real Life-Force of the universe and the eternal toiler in the universe,—a God who needs our strength and grit and will and courage far more than He needs our tears and our penitence.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 20w
“This book makes good. ... There is a striking difference between this book and the most prominent current pronouncement on the same subject—H. G. Wells’s ‘God, the invisible king.’ Both books are good on the destructive side, with the balance decidedly in favor of Wells. Constructively, however, the British writer seems, in comparison, vague, truistic, naive, and dogmatic. ... Both writers conceive of God as finite, holding up men’s hands and being held up by them, but Mr Wells is vague in differentiating God from the Life Force and maintaining his personality, while Mr Reeman is perfectly clear in identifying the two and in giving the doctrine of divine immanence a modern pragmatic meaning.”
+ =Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 600w
“Like many other dissatisfied souls, the author finds it much more easy to point out the inadequacy of the old than to lead into positive notions of the new, but his attempt is a worthy one.”
+ — =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 330w
“Much that the author says is well said, and has been said as well by leaders in scientific theology. ... Evidently he has not studied the New Testament, or seen its Revised version.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 130w
“This conception of God as the master spirit of struggle, the ‘eternal toiler’ of the universe, is shown to be in line with the facts of modern experience.”
=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 120w
=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.=[2] Adventuress. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-30121
Marshall Maddox, head of “Maddox munitions, incorporated,” is murdered and the model of the telautomaton, a wonderful war invention is stolen from his safe. Craig Kennedy, “scientific detective,” well known to Mr Reeve’s readers, is put in charge of the case. Several other members of the Maddox family enter into the story. The adventuress is Paquita, a little Mexican dancer in whom Marshall Maddox has been interested.
“From the very first page, where the story opens with the crack of a revolver shot, the reader is taken along through mystery, exciting adventures and deep-laid plots. The story is interesting from its many human aspects.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 310w
=N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 340w
=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.= Treasure train. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-15286
A dozen stories, adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, who, by means of chemical analysis or some curiously and delicately devised instrument, gets at the truth of a crime and rounds up the criminal. The crimes uncovered by his laboratory methods of investigation are of the subtlest order. Some involve the use of deadly toxins,—muscarin, digitalis, and abrin from the Hindu prayer-bean which resembles snake-venom. Some cases introduce deadly gas, deadly germs and dum-dummed poisoned bullets. For every mystery there is a quick and sure solution, the way to which comes spontaneously forth from the laboratory-trained mind of this calm, clear-headed detective.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w
“When one considers how closely the author follows the same general formula in constructing each story, the amount of variety in them is rather surprising.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:238 Je 24 ‘17 180w
=REEVES, FRANCIS BREWSTER.= Russia then and now, 1892-1917. il *$1.50 Putnam 914.7 17-13230
In 1892 the author was sent to Russia in charge of the cargo sent by the Philadelphia relief committee to the famine sufferers. In this book he gives an account of his mission, illustrating it with photographs taken at the time. To give contrasting descriptions of modern Russia, he quotes from the writings of others, including two articles by Margaret Wintringer on the abolition of vodka.
“The book takes on the nature of a pleasing memorial of a worthy charity and is hardly more than that.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 220w
“Mr Reeves has made a pleasant and appropriate memorial of an incident in the friendly relations that have long existed between the United States and Russia, but he leaves unsatisfied those readers who expect any analysis or interpretation of Russia, or the Russians, then or now.”
– + =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 180w
“It is in the appendix to the book that we find the most useful information concerning conditions in Russia since the war began and before the Czar’s abdication. This for the most part consists of extracts from newspaper articles by other hands, and gives a fairly complete basis for contemporary judgment. Of these articles the most valuable is the paper on ‘Russia’s future needs for capital,’ by Samuel McRoberts, vice president of the National city bank of New York city.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 350w
“The book contains nothing of consequence about Russia now, and the author saw, or at least realized very little about the bureaucracy of Russia then.”
=Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 80w
=REID, FORREST.= Spring song. *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8741
Four of the Westons were ordinary children. First there was Edward, something of a fop, then Barbara, a trifle priggish, then Ann, always out of breath, but so warm-hearted and kind, and last, there was Jim, a jolly little boy with a fondness for riddles. It was Grif who was different. Grif sees and hears things of which the others are never aware. He is sensitive to influences that never touch his brothers and sisters. In this story he is brought to the verge of a mental and physical breakdown by contact with a morbid and unbalanced mind. The nature of Grif’s illness puzzles everyone, but his healing is finally brought about most simply and beautifully.
“The children are well drawn, but the book will have only a limited appeal.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 570w
“A heart-breaking little tale. ... And its poignancy lies in the fineness and restraint of feeling that differentiate it from the coarsely and slushily sentimental child-literature which so often appears to be ‘what the people want.’”
+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 450w
“Very moving and imaginative study of the most moving of all living things: childhood laid upon the rude sacrificial stone of adolescence, and quivering to its death.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The descriptions of the English countryside are very lovely, and the story holds the reader’s interest firmly from beginning to end. There is about it nothing slovenly or unfinished; the author has the artist’s instinct, the artist’s loving care, and the result is a book of distinction and charm.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 400w
“More than half of Mr Forrest Reid’s story is a pure delight: the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. ... The story of the clouding of an innocent but highly strung mind is not as horrible as that of ‘The two magics’, but it is painful.”
+ — =Spec= 118:48 Ja 13 ‘17 450w
“There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic height of ‘The spring song.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 380w
“There are a number of very amusing scenes in the book, and the children’s characters, especially Jim and Ann are delightfully drawn. ... But the author’s intentness on the pursuing nightmare robs the later part of the book of some balance, until Grif’s delusions appear real against a rather shadowy background.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p536 N 9 ‘16 400w
=REID, SIR GEORGE HOUSTON.= My reminiscences. il *16s Cassell & co., London
“Scottish by birth and ancestry, an emigrant to Australia in 1852, and later a successful barrister, prime minister of New South Wales, premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, first high commissioner for the commonwealth and now independent imperialist member of Parliament for St George’s, Hanover square, the author of this autobiography has had an active, eventful, and distinguished career, and has rendered many valuable public services. Much of the volume is concerned with Australian politics. ... The author relates several amusing incidents.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p313 Je ‘17 250w
“As a summary of leading figures and measures in Australia it is of value, but outside of politics it is dull.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:437 My 12 ‘17 500w
“Of Lord Kitchener he says: ‘When he spoke his words were few and distinct. Some thought him cold-hearted, and so he was when he was dealing with incompetents and offenders. But his was a warm heart, all the same. He was the only man in England who used to greet me with, “Hullo, old man!” I used to feel that such a greeting meant that he thought me fit for my job.’”
+ =Spec= 118:519 My 5 ‘17 1750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Ap 26 ‘17 60w
“It contains too many technical and statistical passages to be read eagerly by the untraveled Englishman. It has no pretension to be a history of Australia; but it presupposes in the reader a considerable familiarity with that history, for it is mainly concerned with the mechanical progress of political measures and not with the physical and social conditions that made them opportune or expedient.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1100w
=REINHARDT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students. 14th ed rev and enl il *$1 Van Nostrand 745 17-8375
“More than twenty years of use under all sorts of conditions have proved the value of Reinhardt’s ‘Lettering.’ ... In the preface to the first edition the author stated that, while there were then many books that dealt with ornamental lettering, there was none which treated the art ‘from a purely practical viewpoint.’ To make good so great a lack, he set forth simply and clearly a very practical method of producing most effective results in freehand lettering of working drawings. ... The present edition has been given ‘a more rounded aspect,’ to quote from the preface, by supplying such apparent omissions as an analysis of the Greek alphabet, methods of laying out and constructing titles and by adding some practice sheets.”—Engin News-Rec
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:463 My ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:396 My ‘17 120w
=REISS, RODOLPHE ARCHIBALD.= Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia; English tr. by F. S. Copeland. il 5s Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20123)
“This is a translation of the report submitted to the Serbian government by Dr R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne. This material is said to have been gathered on the spot during the months of September, October, and November, 1914.”—R of Rs
=Ind= 88:284 N 13 ‘16 80w
=R of Rs= 54:573 N ‘16 40w
“The publication in this country of the work entitled ‘Austro-Hungarian atrocities’ is calculated to give a severe shock to those Englishmen who, whilst condemning and regretting Austrian policy, still preserve feelings of friendship towards the Austrians. It is a chronicle of horrors no less ghastly than that recorded by the responsible authorities of France, Great Britain, and Belgium who have inquired into the conduct pursued elsewhere by the ruthless and treaty-breaking ally of Austria.” [Earl of] Cromer
=Spec= 117:583 N 11 ‘16 2150w
=RELTON, HERBERT M.= Study in Christology; the problem of the relation of the two natures in the person of Christ. *$2.50 Macmillan 232
“In ‘A study in Christology’ Dr H. M. Relton sets out the various ways in which men have attempted to describe the person of Christ, giving prominence to a theory propounded by Leontius of Byzantium in the first half of the sixth century. His contribution to the Christological problem is found in the doctrine of the Enhypostasia. ... Leontius offered the theory that the human nature of Christ was not without hypostasis, but became hypostatic in the person of the Logos. ... Dr Relton sets out the implications of this way of accounting for the person of Christ, and pleads that it answers to the demands of modern thought more successfully than various recent theories. ... The second part of the treatise deals with the analysis of human nature in the light of modern psychology and the analysis of the divine nature as manifested in revelation. The author then considers the relationship between the human and the divine as revealed by religious experience, and shows how this helps us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of the person of Christ. The third division of the book considers various modern attempts at Christological reconstruction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 140w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17
“As we should expect in a thesis approved for the D.D. degree in the University of London, the work is a learned and technical study in theology; but the problems discussed are stated with precision and clearness, and no reader interested in the subject with which it deals need fear that he may not be able to follow with advantage the arguments of the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 580w
=RENDALL, VERNON HORACE.= London nights of Belsize. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-20181
This story deals with “the unraveling of mysteries and the detection of crime by the non-professional expert,” but “Christopher Belsize was much more than a criminal investigator. He was a millionaire, to begin with. He was also a scholar, deeply versed in oriental lore; a collector, bibliophile, and a purchaser of libraries, who kept his purchases dark; and, for the rest, a young man who loved to play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, and was possessed with a faculty of accurate and precise deduction which was indistinguishable from clairvoyance. He was recklessly generous, magnanimous, and (incidentally) benevolent. ... Being destitute of ordinary ambition, Christopher’s motive was rather the desire to ‘live dangerously.’ He asked for trouble, but he was so magnificently equipped that he seldom came to grief. Besides, on the advice of his eccentric uncle, he had practised revolver-shooting to good purpose, and—also on the advice of that mysterious relative—he had made a devoted slave of his body servant, Smith, an ex-burglar and pugilist.” (Spec)
+ — =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The good detective story is never out of style, but ‘The London nights of Belsize’ is even better than good, for it is different.”
+ =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 410w
“The author has a wit and originality of his own. His book is ingenious, imaginative, whimsical. Conceived on popular lines, it is written with the fastidious taste of a scholar.”
+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 650w
“‘Belsize as a commentator’ is a tour de force of ironic criticism at the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But, on the whole, we like him best when he is most irresponsible, as in the delightful extravaganza of ‘The young man and the “happy” shop’—an admirable satire on the gullibility of the reading public and the methods of reviewers; or ‘The post-prandial peculiars,’ in which Belsize, disguised as a working man, is entertained by a millionaire. ... Mr Rendall has proved that the charm of sensational fiction is greatly enhanced when the author possesses style, scholarship, and wit. The stories in themselves are not above the comprehension of the average reader, but the literary bravura of their presentation will attract an esoteric audience. In fine, Mr Vernon Rendall has killed two birds with one stone.”
+ + =Spec= 118:645 Je 9 ‘17 900w
“He becomes too much of the detective and too little of the adventurer and taster of life. ... Belsize is too good for the work to which Mr Rendall has put him, difficult and dangerous though that may have been.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 460w
=RESSÉGUIER, ROGER MARIA HERMANN BERNARD, graf.= Francis Joseph and his court. il *$2.50 (2½c) Lane 17-30309
The author of the memoirs from which Mr Herbert Vivian has made selections is the son of Francis Joseph’s court chamberlain. His mother had been a lady in waiting to the Empress Sophia, mother of Francis Joseph, and some of her stories of earlier court life are embodied in these memoirs. The tragedy of Maximilian I and the mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph are among the subjects covered.
“Those who had previously retained any optimistic illusions about the high family of Hapsburgs, of which the Emperor Francis Joseph was the decorative head, are doomed to lose them after reading the data Mr Vivian has selected.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 770w
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 70w
Retreat from Mons. *50c (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-19810
This brief but detailed and somewhat technical account of the “Retreat from Mons” is apparently the first of a series of little books on the Operations of the British army in the present war. Field-Marshal French, in his preface, points out that the demoralization which usually accompanies a retreat was conspicuous by its non-existence.
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“The author has been careful to put down as fact only what has been proved upon reliable authority to be true. In this way he leaves the controversy which rages concerning the early weeks of the war, to the controversial, and his summary of the facts will not be inconsistent with history as it is finally written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w
“Beneath the superstructure of official facts one glimpses heroism and sacrifice the details of which will never be known, but which distinguish the retreat above many engagements that history will note more carefully.”
+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
“The semi-official little volume admits records are still clouded concerning the actions of Maroilles and Le Cateau.”
+ — =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 100w
“It is solely a military history and so makes no account of picturesque incidents or pathetic or tragic happenings.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 440w
=St Louis= 15:418 D ‘17 10w
=REY, JEAN ALEXANDRE.= Range of electric searchlight projectors; tr. by J. H. Johnson. il $4.50 Van Nostrand 623.731 ES17-91
The translator in his preface points out that there is no modern and original work in English treating the subject covered by this book. The present importance of the subject has induced him to make a translation of this French work for the benefit of English readers. The author’s introduction says, “I have endeavoured to sum up the methods for range measurement, and, with the assistance of much information not previously published, the solution of the problem if not entirely elucidated, is at least advanced from a practical point of view.” The subject is treated in two parts: Illumination by electric searchlight projectors; Range of electric searchlight projectors. The French bibliography is included and the work is indexed.
“The book will not be found particularly easy for the untechnical reader, but the charts and tables are of exceptional value, although their use is not always quite obvious without pretty careful study of the text. The volume is certainly a most timely one and should prove invaluable to students of artillery practice.”
+ — =Elec W= 70:1062 D 1 ‘17 570w
“Altogether this is a very valuable and practical book. ... Mr Johnson has done his work of translation well.”
+ — =Engineer= 124:59 Jl 20 ‘17 1400w
“The work will prove of great value to engineer officers.”
+ — =Nature= 99:402 Jl 19 ‘17 420w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 80w
=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Castle to let. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-23550
A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story. Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a school friend. It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable disappearance of a party of guests. There are weird tales afloat of a dragon—and there is an old prophecy concerning a fair-haired dragon slayer that seems about to be fulfilled. These mysteries fascinate Camiola, and as she is mistress of her own fortune, she promptly leases the ancient mountain castle that has stood empty for years, invites to it a party of her friends, and starts to investigate the mystery. The fair-haired young guide who acts as her companion in her search begins shortly to have for Camiola a personal interest. She is amazed at herself, and ashamed—but all this, as it happens, is part of the working out of the prophecy.
“The book is well written, the descriptions of scenery are good, and there is plenty of interest in the characters.”
+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“It is a book entirely of incident—a thriller for the movie-minded.”
+ — =Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 80w
“A delightfully romantic story.”
+ =Spec= 119:331 S 9 ‘17 30w
“Mrs Reynolds very skilfully balances the reader’s interest between the romance, which is of the conventionally unconventional sort, and the other elements of the situation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 170w
+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 110w
=RHODES, JAMES EDWARD.= Workmen’s compensation. *$1.50 Macmillan 331.25 17-18174
“This book sets forth in a style which can be easily understood by any intelligent reader the development, in this country, of the movement for compensating workmen who suffer accident in industry. It describes also the basic principles underlying compensation insurance. Inasmuch as the problems resulting from industrial accidents arose in Europe much earlier than in this country, a summary is presented, at first, of the distinctive features of the English and German methods of handling the question. This is followed by a discussion of the development of the agitation in the United States, covering the first decade of the twentieth century. ... In the appendix is found an outline of the history of the movement which resulted in the laws of New York state, the standards for sound workmen’s compensation laws recommended by the American association for labor legislation, and a brief digest of the various laws in force in each state at the end of 1916. At the close of each chapter there is a list of references covering the literature upon the main topics discussed, and at the end of the volume is a general bibliography of ten pages.” (Nation) “The author is a claim examiner in the compensation and liability department of a large insurance company.” (R of Rs)
“The demand for a concise and logical account of the movement for workmen’s compensation, and of the principles involved, is not adequately met by this volume; though its excellent forward-looking spirit, its satisfactory index, and its pretty full bibliography combine with the presentation of much material of interest and value to offset in a large degree the defects noted.” L. D. Clark
* – + =Am Econ R= 17:908 D ‘17 1150w
“Because of the simple non-technical presentation of the subject the book is well suited both for the student who wants a general survey of the history and principles of workmen’s compensation without too much local and detailed study, and for the special student who needs a guide for further reading and research.” R. W: Foley
+ =Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 250w
“No better or more readable summary of the whole subject can be found anywhere than that which this volume places at the disposal of its readers.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 110w
“This book presents a careful statement of the background and fundamentals of compensation and of its present status in the United States which should be useful as a basis for more detailed study or for a general survey of the problem. Particularly valuable are the illustrative cases and the brief digest of the essential points of laws now in force.” R. H. B.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 110w
“The book will be found extremely useful by the reader who desires to get a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the essentials of workmen’s compensation. Chapter 6 on the constitutionality of compensation legislation is a good example of the author’s ability to present clearly within a brief compass all the important elements of a complex situation.”
+ =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w
“The book is carefully documented in relation to legal decisions.”
+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 40w
Reviewed by E. S. Gray
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1049 D ‘17 380w
“The book is a most timely contribution to the literature of workmen’s compensation, and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers, including business men, students, and teachers of insurance, and intelligent general readers, as well.”
+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 420w
“The book can be heartily recommended to any serious minded wage-worker who wants to get a clear idea of the possibilities of social legislation as demonstrated in one, perhaps narrow, branch of it.” R.
+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 700w
“One valuable chapter deals with the social aspects. This will appeal to the non-technical reader by its method of treatment.”
+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 150w
“Mr Rhodes takes an extremely broad subject and skilfully condenses it into compact form.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“Mr Rhodes has filled a timely need. ... However, in valuing his discussion of state and stock company insurance, the author’s insurance connections must be borne in mind.” Irene Sylvester
+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 300w
=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the Civil war, 1861-1865. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 973.7 17-30046
Not a condensation of the author’s three volumes on the Civil war in his “History of the United States” but a fresh study which makes use of the large amount of material on that period which has come to light in recent years. Good maps and an index are included with the text.
“An excellent and readable history.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
“The student of war politics and of mid-century American diplomacy will find much to interest him in several of the chapters, for the volume is not, as its title might imply, a mere narrative of military operations. It is a discussion of national life in all its phases during a great and critical period of American history.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 100w
“Like its predecessors, it is unusually well provided with a list of the best authorities, an ample table of contents, and a very complete index. In general, Mr Rhodes’s historical work has the distinction of frequent citations from the sources interwoven with his text, and a style uniformly clear, dignified and familiar.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:592 Ja ‘18 1750w
“Dr Rhodes here and there writes of certain episodes in greater detail than before; but in other places his lack of such detail is disappointing.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 570w
“The necessity of compression in putting the history of the Civil war into a single volume has made impossible the extensive use of [the method employed in his larger work]. But the author’s notable faculty of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color of events, and the fact that he wrote out of a reservoir of knowledge of just such intimate revelations of the life of the time infuse his narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he writes.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:494 N 25 ‘17 1350w
“We now have in one volume of moderate compass, handsomely printed, a work on the Civil war which contains precisely what every American should know, presented with scholarship and yet always in readable style and manner.”
+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 110w
“The author everywhere shows the most absolute impartiality. ... Mr Rhodes writes in his usual clear and pleasing style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 500w
=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE).= Calvary alley. il *$1.35 (1½c) Century 17-26784
Nance Molloy lived with Mr and Mrs Snawdor, her step-father and step-mother, in Calvary alley, near the cathedral. The book tells how she grew up, how she became successively a “finisher” of pants, a factory hand, a companion to an old lady, a chorus girl, a stenographer, and a trained nurse, and how she fell in love with one of the two men who cared most for her—Dan Lewis, the factory hand, and “Mac” Clarke, whose father owned the bottle factory. Two older men who influence her life are Uncle Jed, her self-appointed guardian, and old Mr Demorest, who played the violin and taught Nance to dance.
“A pleasing story, with nice human touches that will make it popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w
“Not since Mrs Wiggs has Mrs Rice given us a book so rich in her warm humanity, her whimsicality and her catholic fondness for varieties of types as we find ‘Calvary alley.’ Yet it hints of bigger things than did Mrs Wiggs.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w
“The story is interesting, wholesome, and very likable.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 270w
“While ‘Calvary Alley’ has no very serious pretensions and is written in a light and entertaining style, it does sincerely reflect a certain phase of American life.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 F 9 ‘18 270w
“Mildly humorous, less crude, in its optimism than is most of its author’s work, and has quite a good deal of variety in its scenes and characters. Mrs Snawdor, Nancy’s stepmother, is a real and entertaining person.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 600w
“Once in a great while one runs across a truly vital heroine in fiction—a girl who lives and moves like a real being. Such a heroine is Nance Molloy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 360w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 130w
=RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Trails sunward. *$1.25 Century 811 17-10356
This new volume of poems has a brief preface in which Mr Rice discusses recent trends in poetry. “Never has poetry tried so hard to be prose as at the present time in America,” he says, and he adds that the apparent revival of interest in poetry may be of brief duration. “No poetic public will long give attention to a realism which makes the mistake, common to all shallow realism, of neglecting passion, imagination, charm and nearly all the permanent qualities of any true poetry.” Among the poems included in the collection are: The trail from the sea; The chant of the Colorado; Mountains in the Grand Canyon; Hafiz at forty; a group of Songs to A.H.R., and a group of “Metaphysical sonnets.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
=Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
“Even in our day Mr Rice has the eccentricity of writing like a gentleman. ... I rarely use the term ‘sublimity,’ yet in touches of ‘The foreseers,’ particularly in its cavern-set opening, I should say that Mr Rice had scaled that eminence.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 380w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 470w
“The years have increased his power to write exceptionally beautiful lyrics of perfect melody.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
“In a day of petty heresies, Mr Rice stands forth as a declared champion of orthodoxy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 200w
=RICE, GRANTLAND=, ed. Boys’ book of sports. il *$2 (1½c) Century 796 17-25763
The selections in this volume have been chosen “from the best sporting stories that St Nicholas has produced in the last twenty years.” They include descriptive articles, among them a series on baseball by Billy Evans, a special article on pitching by Christy Mathewson, articles on football by Parke H. Davis, golf by Francis Ouimet, and tennis by J. Parmly Paret. In addition there are short stories by Leslie W. Quirk, Ralph Henry Barbour and others.
=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18
“Boys of ten to any age will enjoy this collection.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 40w
“It is an encyclopedia, a treasury of outdoor tactics and accomplishment. Everything you want to know about things in the open, from fishing to aeroplaning, is here.”
+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by H. B. Nagler
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 290w
=RICE, GRANTLAND.=[2] Songs of the stalwart. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29998
The author who is known as a writer on outdoor sports appears in this book of poems in a new guise. Songs of somewhere back; Songs of courage; Songs of the off-trail; Songs of the game; and Songs above the drumfire, compose the contents. There is an appreciative foreword by Irvin S. Cobb.
“One would almost say that his art, simple, glowing and precise as it is, was altogether too fine for some of his themes and subjects; but this is not so, because nothing is too common for the spirit of poetry to light and reveal. This book is literature, an honor to the man who made it, and a delight to the reader who receives it. And Mr Rice stands quite alone in his achievement.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 430w
+ =Lit D= 55:30 D 22 ‘17 140w
“Irvin Cobb writes: ‘One of these days they are going to elect a successor to the late James Whitcomb Riley as the most typical writer of homely, gentle American verse. I have my candidate picked out. His name is Grantland Rice.’”
+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 130w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 11 ‘18 350w
=RICE, WILLIAM NORTH.= Return to faith, and other addresses. *75c Abingdon press 16-23597
“This slim little book, five addresses in all, taking title from the first, [does not present] the return to faith as due to many remarkable verifications in newly found records, of old traditions, nor to geological evidence that the biblical order of creation, interpreting a ‘day’ as this or that number of thousands of years, is now found scientific, nor to any similar finding of pseudo-scientific abracadabra. The return to faith is due to a belief in the man Jesus.”—Dial
“Dr Rice represents the higher religious convictions of most liberal Christians. His book is remarkable for the unconditional and intelligent acceptance of science with all its implications. There is no string either to his science or to his religion.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 240w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w
=RICHARD, PAUL.= To the nations. *$1 (8c) Pond 172.4 17-10558
This little book, translated from the French, with an introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, sets forth a view of the war as a conflict which the old social order is waging against itself. “The war has a purpose, even if the belligerents have none. It has a purpose to which none of them would care to attain, but which all will be forced to realize at last. This purpose is very simple: the old evil must be destroyed down to its root, the old foundations of the life of the people must be torn up, and replaced by the foundations of a better and truer civilization.” Revolutions are predicted for every country in Europe, altho the author hesitated to say which would be first. In the second part of the book he discusses the new ideals that must guide the reorganized nations.
=RICHARDS, H. GRAHAME.= Shadows. *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd
The novel ends under the shadow of the war, and the later chapters are in striking contrast to the peaceful scenes of the beginning. A quiet neighborhood in Wales is the setting. A small group of children, with Hilda and Gwaine Brennan and Ronald Clinton as its center, are the characters. Hilda is the beautiful one of the two, but Ronald never wavers in his devotion to Gwaine, his little comrade. There is a long separation, however, when, after a disagreement with his grandfather, he goes to London to earn his living as a writer. The war comes and he enlists as a private and the reconciliation with his grandfather and his return to Gwaine come only after the fierce and bitter experiences of the first months of the war. These scenes are made very real, and Hilda’s fate, a minor incident in the tragedy, helps bring home the far-reaching consequences of war.
“In later chapters of the book we have some of the most vivid descriptions of battle which have found their way into fiction. It is first hand description, we imagine.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 16 ‘17 250w
“One of those books which just fail to attain excellence—and only just. A few improvements and it would become a really notable novel. There is in it much of charm, of feeling, of human quality. ... But every now and then comes a false note, a note which jangles, jarring upon the reader’s every nerve.”
=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 500w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).=[2] Abigail Adams and her times. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-30245
“Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and hence the first mistress of the White House. But even if she had never had a part in official life, she was one of the most interesting women of her time and well deserves a biography. Mrs Richards tells the story of her childhood and later life from the diaries and letters that were written by her, and which deal with much of the real history of the period. Mrs Richards is a daughter of the late Julia Ward Howe.”—R of Rs
=Lit D= 56:35 Ja 12 ‘18 270w
+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 80w
“A fascinating story of colonial times; fascinating to those who are interested in the details which make up the major part of all human lives, but are absent from most histories. The author has shown both skill and discretion in keeping herself in the background and composing her story mostly of the diary of the husband and the letters of the wife. The biography is almost an autobiography.”
+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 80w
“The book is offered as of special interest to girls; it surely has the qualities of a successful appeal to a far larger constituency.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 1 ‘18 290w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Elizabeth Fry—the angel of the prisons. il *$1.25 Appleton 16-19822
“How Elizabeth Fry by the simplest beginnings wakened England at the commencement of the last century to the horrors of the prison system is told by Laura A. Richards in a short life written for girls. The ‘angel of the prisons’ was one of a noted family, the Gurneys of Earlham, ‘gay Quakers’ whose household of young folk was a merry one.” (Ind) “The book is largely composed of extracts from the journals of Elizabeth Fry and her sisters, which account for the vividness of the picture it gives.” (Survey)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:270 Mr ‘17
“The pleasant style of the connecting narrative and the vitality and humor of the original material will establish this biography as a rival of the author’s ‘Florence Nightingale’ in its interest for young people.”
+ =Cleveland= p160 D ‘16 50w
“An inspiring book.”
+ =Ind= 88:405 D 4 ‘16 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 14:441 D ‘16
“The utter inability of the reader to tell how much of this book is fact and how much is Mrs Richards’ is its chief defect. My guess is that it will entrance many a child and tell him absorbing things that he will not learn in his school history.” W. D. L.
+ — =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 230w
“A popular, entertainingly written biography, designed for young girls. It is, however, less suitable for the youthful than for the adult mind because of the introspective nature of Mrs Fry’s journals, and the unfamiliar people and customs to which there is frequent reference.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 30w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Pippin, a wandering flame. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-9251
“Pippin is, indeed, a queer name for a boy, but, inasmuch as he has never known any other, that is the only one he is called. His story is the unusual one of an orphan boy, brought up in the underworld, instructed in all its vices by expert teachers, and his ultimate imprisonment for three years. The larger part of the book is concerned mostly with Pippin after his release from prison, where he has gotten religion and ‘found the Lord.’ His genial personality, brought out by the humane and intelligent prison chaplain, and his beautiful singing voice win for him many kind, helpful friends and a lovely bride. The story ends just as it should, with Pippin and his bride sitting down with friends to a merry wedding breakfast.”—N Y Call
“Pleasant and harmless.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17
“Of Mrs Richards’s many charming stories none is more so than this. Its unquenchable optimism and sincerity warms one’s heart.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w
“While this book may be read and appreciated by adults, we feel reasonably sure that it will appeal greatly to thirteen or fourteen year old youngsters, who will follow the experiences and successes of the hero, Pippin, with much interest.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 190w
“The book is cheery and sweet without being sentimentalized. It is a ‘story,’ of course—not a piece of ‘gripping realism.’ But as a story it is wholesome and often unusual, and it is thoroughly readable.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 420w
“The spirit of moral uplift runs riot in ‘Pippin.’ The story is told in a partly illiterate jargon that frequently wearies the reader, and with an excess of sentimentality. But Pippin’s adventures have a measure of interest, and his optimism is engaging.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 280w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w
=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Pilgrimage: Backwater. *$1.35 Knopf
“In ‘Backwater’ Miss Dorothy Richardson continues the life story of a young English girl which she began in ‘Pointed roofs.’ Miriam Henderson was then—many years before the war—a teacher in a German school in Hanover. She is now home in England. She is just eighteen, ‘has put up her hair to-day’ in preparation for her career as a resident governess in a school for the daughters of gentlemen. ... Miriam’s is not a very large world, with its family of sisters, their chaff and slang and raptures, their music and books and friends and lovers. ... Nor is there much incident in it—the last gay little dance before the crash, the few weeks’ seaside holiday at Brighton, the visit to the Crystal palace on firework night, and the raw, noisy, suburban routine at Wordsworth house. ... Miss Richardson’s tacit but essential assumption is that life is an intensely real and rich, a desperately complex and wonderful, experience, however commonplace its circumstances may be.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Miss Richardson promises to be a writer of unusual power, a little too consciously clever, perhaps, but one to whom we may look for work of real value.”
+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w
“Our interest in the book, which is considerable, would be increased if it were more coherent. The author has a curious gift of vision, and it is this that makes her heroine real and attractive, in spite of whimsies. ... The author’s subtlety is over-strained now and again, but it includes some acute criticism of life.”
+ — =Sat R= 122:138 Ag 5 ‘16 320w
“This novel is a piece of the purest and, in a sense, barest impressionism. If in its steady obedience to its chosen truth it fails, as we think it will sometimes fail, to convince its readers of its verisimilitude, then so far that impressionism has defeated itself. ... But such systematic sincerity as Miss Richardson’s is a profound and affecting thing to share in.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p358 Jl 27 ‘16 500w
=RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL, pseud. (MRS JOHN G. ROBERTSON).= Fortunes of Richard Mahony. *$1.50 (1c) Holt 17-23332
“This is a study of a man of reserved, though lovable disposition. We first meet him as a storekeeper in Ballarat [Australia] during the gold craze. Later he makes a success as a doctor; and finally we leave him on his way to England, still in search of an environment suited to his character.” (Ath) “The English edition, issued by William Heinemann, who has evident and steadfast faith in this writer, indicates that Henry Handel Richardson is the author of ‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The getting of wisdom,’ and that ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is only the first novel in a series; Book 1 of ‘Australia Felix.’” (Bookm)
“Good descriptions of Australia sixty years ago.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p47 Ja ‘18 60w
“‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ are two books that discriminating readers should know, and ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ is a name that, long since known on the continent, through the various translations of ‘Maurice Guest,’ should not any longer be unknown to America.” Edna Kenton
+ =Bookm= 46:580 Ja ‘18 1850w
“The faults and merits of ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony,’ are so evenly balanced that it is not nearly so distinguished as if it were a little better or a little worse. ... There are few stories beyond those of the ‘Boy bush-ranger’ type which deal with life on the Ballarat goldfields in the ‘50s; so Mr Richardson’s treatment of this subject in the manner of the twentieth century realist is by no means unacceptable on the score of novelty. Richard Mahony is himself a creation to be proud of, a character but never a caricature.” J. F. S.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 700w
“As a satire, in historical perspective, on the pedestrian soul of the mid-Victorian young gentleman, it would be fairly amusing. But its author is not satirical.”
– + =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 480w
“It is a strictly realistic piece of work, conscientious, carefully wrought; of plot it has very little, and there is no very especial drama of character. ... They are real people who move through Mr Richardson’s pages, and the events which occur are simple and natural. ... It must be admitted that at the end one has the feeling of having traveled a long way without getting anywhere in particular. But the road has its attractions.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 480w
“The author reminds us again and again of the late William de Morgan, with his inconsequence, his eye for the apparently trivial that counts for so much in life, his flashes of humour, and his occasional fragments of excellent narrative. ... He shows wonderful insight into character, and he describes the Australian scenery and the rude conditions of those days as vividly as if, like Richard Mahony, he hated them. ... In Mahony’s circle Mr Richardson gives free rein to his comic sense.”
+ =Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 900w
“Takes one or two daring plunges into the slough of naturalism. These spots remain red on the memory of the reader in rather unpleasant contrast to the sleepy flatness of the rest of the tale. ... As a series of character sketches, ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is excellent. Indeed, Mr Richardson is often successful in arousing that sense of exasperation which is the test of good character drawing.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 530w
“Very long, never for a moment exciting, and continuously interesting. ... The novel gives the impression of a large grasp on life and a steady hand.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 480w
=RICHARDSON, ROBERT CHARLWOOD.= West Point. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 355.07 17-25795
This “intimate picture of the National military academy and of the life of the cadet” is by the late assistant professor of English at West Point, now a captain in the United States army. The first two chapters give a brief history of the academy. The appendix, which is reprinted from the Official register of the United States military academy, 1916, gives information relative to the appointment and admission of cadets. There is a foreword by Major-General Hugh L. Scott.
=ALA Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
“Mr Richardson does not give all his pages to war. The peculiar charm of life at West Point is not forgotten, and traditions and customs receive ample space. The beauty of the buildings, the loveliness of the setting, are competently handled. The illustrations are many and well chosen.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 450w
“Exactly the book for the boy seeking an appointment.”
+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 30w
=Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 100w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w
“This interpretation, drawn from the author’s own experience and from many conversations with cadets of to-day, is exceedingly well done, and makes the book valuable to all loyal Americans.”
+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 130w
“It is regrettable that the author makes no mention of the important contribution of West Point to engineering and scientific education. It is perhaps not generally known that for twenty-two years (1802-24), the Military academy was the only technical school in this country. ... Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals, lighthouses, and public buildings. ... A more intangible want will be felt in reading the book by those who know the academy well. ... The graduate will not quite feel that it breathes the living, exultant, fighting spirit of his Alma mater.” S. C. Godfrey, Major, Corps of engineers
+ — =Pub= W 92:813 S 15 ‘17 670w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 380w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Brown study. il *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 17-11704
The minister of a rich and aristocratic church, ordered to take a rest, does so in an out of the way corner of the city, where he can live in close neighborliness to the poor and lowly. The story tells of his life among his new friends, of his decision to remain with them, and of the choice a beautiful girl makes between her love for him and a worldly career.
=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17
“A pretty and measurably conventional romance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 110w
“The little story is told in rather a disjointed way, and lacks the charm and the suggestion of homelike, everyday life which made certain of Mrs Richmond’s books such pleasant reading. The whole thing seems forced. ... However, it has some agreeable touches.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Red Pepper’s patients; with an account of Anne Linton’s case in particular. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-24403
The masterful, quick-tempered, kindly, red-headed doctor who figured in “Red Pepper Burns” and “Mrs Red Pepper” has become the most popular physician and surgeon in a small suburban town. Some of the patients whose stories are interwoven with his are his old friend, Gardner Coolidge, a starving young Hungarian violinist; Anne Linton, the book-agent with hair to match “Red” Pepper’s own, who has a bad attack of typhoid fever, and about whom clings a mystery; Jordan King, badly hurt in an automobile accident; and “Red’s” old enemy, Dr Van Horn.
=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“As usual, Mrs Richmond makes all her people handsome and interesting and angelic, such paragons of beauty and behavior that they seem hardly to belong in the naughty world that most of us know.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 360w
“Romantic and likely to be popular.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 330w
“This is the third volume Mrs Richmond has devoted to the far-reaching services of the auburn-haired doctor, but as yet the tone of artificiality which so often appears when a single character is made the center of a series of stories is conspicuously absent.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 300w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Whistling mother. il *50c (11½c) Doubleday 17-22303
“Mrs Richmond puts her little tale into the mouth of a boy who has enlisted in the army. He tells in engaging boyish style just what happened when, having decided he must go, he left college, where he was in his junior year, and went home for twenty-four hours to say good-bye. ... And through all the trial of the visit home and the last good-by his mother was ‘a thorough sport.’ ... He was in the habit of calling her his ‘whistling mother’ because she could whistle ‘like a blackbird,’ and they had a whistling call for each other of which the music and the words form the heading of the little story.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w
“Exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 250w
“Artistically, it is the best thing Mrs Richmond has ever done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 220w
=RICHMOND, MARY ELLEN.= Social diagnosis. *$2 Russell Sage foundation 361 17-13224
This book for social workers is a study of methods of case work as applied by various charity organization societies. The author’s aim has been to make some advance toward a professional standard. She believes also that the methods devised in social work, as here set forth, will be of value in other fields, such as medicine, education and industry. Part 1 deals with Social evidence, with chapters on: Beginnings, The nature and uses of social evidence, Testimonial evidence, etc. Part 2 takes up The processes leading to diagnosis, considering The first interview, The family group, Outside sources, etc. Part 3 is devoted to Variations in the processes, with chapters given to certain special cases, the blind, the feebleminded, etc. Special tables have been prepared for the volume, and there is a bibliography and a good index.
“The questionnaires [part 3] represent the experiences of many experts and will probably set the standard for a great deal of such work in the future.” W. H. Heck
+ + =Am Econ R= 7:899 D ‘17 970w
“It is the only comprehensive textbook on social work in relation to the individual or family ever written. The book dignifies all social work and marks its first steps on the road to becoming a profession.” Amelia Sears
+ + =Am J Soc= 23:261 S ‘17 680w
“It should form the basis for intelligent study even in small communities and will be invaluable to the individual engaged in case work.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17
“Some workers would be spurred to greater efforts from reading this book. Others, and particularly beginners, might throw up their hands in despair. There is no case worker who could not be helped from the reading of this book. He will realize how far he still has to travel.” W: B. Bailey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:771 N ‘17 440w
“A valuable contribution to social literature. It is rich with suggestions but is too long drawn out. It could have been just as ‘meaty’ with fewer pages and certainly it would have been more readable and more read.” G. F.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 450w
=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 90w
“She has produced a book remarkable for the accuracy of the methods outlined for the social worker and for the detail and thoroughness with which she has gone into the subject of measurements in one phase of life,—the pathology of social adjustment.”
+ =Dial= 63:458 N 8 ‘17 260w
“The author is remarkably successful in holding a proper balance between generalization and example. But it is a thousand pities that the most valuable of these examples are tucked away in pages of type so small that a considerable body of readers will probably skip them altogether. ... Miss Richmond has felt it best to exclude a study of the client’s religious life. She has felt that one could adequately diagnose and serve the needs of a human being without knowing just what his religion or irreligion means to him. In my opinion this is an impossible attempt.” R: C. Cabot
+ — =Ind= 91:348 S 1 ‘17 1000w
“With this book social welfare work has ceased to be a mere body of traditional practices and is in a way to become a science. Although it was written primarily for a special class of social workers, ‘Social diagnosis’ will interest every student of the social sciences who believes that sociology is ever to be anything more than a philosophy of history or an appanage of social psychology.” R. E. Park
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:952 N ‘17 960w
“No social worker who hopes to rise in the profession ought to be without this book; and no student of applied sociology should fail to pore over it.”
+ =Nation=104:717 Je 14 ‘17 330w
“Miss Richmond has given authoritative and exhaustive treatment to a vexed problem in its fundamental aspects.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w
“The book is nothing if not concrete, and in the preliminary fields to which it has confined itself it is exceedingly comprehensive.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 280w
“This is an admirable book, which deserves to be read and pondered far outside of the circle for which it was immediately intended.” Roscoe Pound
* + =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 1000w
“Every social worker in towns of 10,000 should either own it or be able to consult it in the library.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 60w
=RIDDELL, WALTER ALEXANDER.= Rise of ecclesiastical control in Quebec. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.75 Longmans 277.1 16-22304
“The book tells how the economic, ethnic, and political conditions which have prevailed in the province of Quebec led up to and made possible the strategic position of the Roman Catholic church in Canada. The aim of the author, to use his own words, is ‘to present sufficient source material to afford the general reader a basis upon which to form an adequate judgment of the sociological and historical origins in Quebec which have been responsible in a large part for the present racial situation in Canada as a whole ... and to show their relation to the growth of the church itself.’”—J Pol Econ
“The author has examined the marriage registers in more than eighteen hundred cases and finds that the colonists, so far as these records give indication, came with a fair degree of evenness from all over France. This is data which the historian of the future cannot afford to overlook. The real service of the book is performed in the last two chapters, where there is more attention to history and less to sociology. The early rise of church influence in the affairs of New France and its later decline during the first half of the eighteenth century are traced out with care and clearness. The position of the church when Quebec passed into British hands ... all these things are explained fully and with judicious temper. While Dr Riddell has used good materials, the tendency to be inaccurate in little things is a serious blemish.” W: B. Munro
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:720 Ap ‘17 650w
“This book throws much light on the present socio-political situation in Canada. The barrier that has grown up between the English- and French-speaking people, largely through the instrumentality of the church, promises to be one of the most serious control problems which the dominion government has to face.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:636 Je ‘17 500w
“Even in a field adorned by the brilliant pens of Parkman and Fiske the work before us must take a very high place from its sound scholarship, abundant references to authorities, and good writing. ... Dr Riddell’s book can never be ignored by any serious student of the history of this continent.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 280w
=RIDDELL, WILLIAM RENWICK.= Constitution of Canada in its history and practical working. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 342 17-15183
“An interesting study of the constitution of Canada in its historical and practical aspects. ... A full comparison of the Canadian constitution with that of the United States shows very clearly the differences between the two systems. The book is written with as little technical language as the nature of the study permits.” (Ontario Library Review) “Each of the four lectures has a full and valuable appendix, containing much material which the requirements of the lecture platform apparently prevented from being included in the body of the work.” (Springf’d Republican)
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
“So far as his own land is concerned the author is on sure ground; but his knowledge of constitutional law as administered by the courts in this country is by no means of the same high order.” W: B. Munro
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:781 N ‘17 480w
“The brevity of the book is such that only an outline of historical development is possible. Furthermore, the subject is treated with a nonlegal audience always in mind. The student of history and government, as well as the student of law, will gain little from the volume. Generalizations are indulged in with much freedom, and some are open to question.”
+ — =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 180w
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:109 My ‘17 50w
“Justice Riddell is to be thanked for his painstaking and highly simplified summary of Canada’s history and present government. It begins where the majority of educated Americans will find a beginning desirable—at very elementary facts. Students of jurisprudence will be particularly interested in Justice Riddell’s views on the decision of the Supreme court in the Dartmouth college case, which are quoted in full in an appendix.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 2 ‘17 830w
=RIDER, BERTHA CARR.= Greek house; its history and development from the Neolithic period to the Hellenistic age. il *$3.25 Putnam 722 16-24977
“The excavations of recent years in Crete, Asia Minor, Delos and other islands, and the Greek mainland, have brought to light a wealth of material for the study of house-planning in Greece both prehistoric and historic. Unfortunately, this material is least abundant for the period when we most of all desire it—the classical epoch of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the other hand, it is remarkably copious in the period which begins with the dawn of civilization in the Aegean, and ends on the threshold of the Homeric age. ... Miss Rider has endeavoured to embrace within her grasp the whole of this material, and to bridge the central gap by means of literary evidence.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =Dial= 61:482 N 30 ‘16 130w
“The chapter on Homeric palaces is of especial value to the student, with its discussion of Homeric terms and phrases.”
=Lit D= 54:204 Ja 27 ‘17 250w
“The principal value of the book lies not in its advocacy of a theory, but in the excellent summary which it presents of a large special literature, mostly scattered in periodicals. ... Miss Rider shows the specialist’s fondness for technical terms, which may occasionally prove an obstacle to the non-professional reader. On the whole, however, the book is extremely well written. ... We must register one protest—against the price of the book, which seems excessive for a volume of this size, illustrated only with line cuts.”
* + =Nation= 104:191 F 15 ‘17 600w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17
=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 20w
“By no possibility can it ever be a popular book; it is far too specialized and technical in its scope and treatment. ... There can be no question about the research and scholarship that have gone to its making. ... Miss Rider is doubtless writing for fellow archæologists as learned as herself—for the already converted, to whom her unadorned statements of fact will seem more excellent than any charm of style.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup607 N 18 ‘16 400w
“Her presentation of the facts is clear and accurate, and the plans with which her text is illustrated are well chosen, nothing essential being omitted.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 7 ‘16 850w
=RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.= Madame Prince. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-24204
Madame Prince is a dressmaker in a London suburb. She is a capable and level-headed business woman and the mother of four children. We are told something of her early struggles, but these are past when the story opens. The three girls are old enough to act as their mother’s assistants in the shop and Richard, the boy, is finishing school. The cares that meet Madame Prince as the story progresses are those of the mother of grown-up children, and they spring largely from the unconscious selfishness of youth. But there are joys that compensate.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17
“A superfluity of detail is noticeable, and there are some trivial incidents; but a bright tone predominates, and much of the book is true to life. The novel is amusing, and a good example of the author’s style.”
+ =Ath= p481 O ‘16 70w
“Quiet as the humor of the book is, it is also compelling.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 400w
“Mme Prince wins and holds the reader’s sympathy, holds it from the first page to the last. ... The story is related with a good deal of humor and charm. ... It is life as a very, very great number of people—the majority, perhaps—know it, which is portrayed so deftly and so veraciously in these pages.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 450w
“We see Madame Prince clearly, she is the mother woman existing only for her children. The children exist only for her, but in another sense; we do not see them clearly, because the author confines himself to describing such actions of theirs as throw light on the mother’s character, without confining himself further to such as are mutually consistent. ... Mr Pett Ridge has another bait in addition to his story, and that is his gift for writing crisp dialogue.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 400w
=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Militant America and Jesus Christ. *65c (8c) Houghton 172.4 17-31542
The author of “The Syrian Christ” has written this book to show that Jesus Christ would not have been a non-resistant in the present war. He says, “I do not so know Christ. I do not believe the New Testament presents such a hopelessly and helplessly neutral Christ.” Such pacific sentiments as “Blessed are the peacemakers” were the utterances of normal times and are no more to be taken as an expression of an attitude toward war than were the pacific sermons and baccalaureate addresses common in America a decade ago. These later authors have now been put to a test which Jesus was never called on to face, since no such crisis as the present arose in his day. The author feels that after an examination of other New Testament passages, “even a pacifist must see that while our gospel is a message of peace, it is not a message of helpless submission to rapacious aggressors.”
“A vigorous answer to those pacifists who seek to entrench themselves behind the teachings of Jesus.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 110w
“It bears eloquent evidence of the value of much in little. Mr Rihbany’s book is eloquent and convincing. If converts are possible, it will make them.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 1600w
“In his eagerness to make our divine Saviour the more human and the more understandable to others, Mr Rihbany appears to have thrown up a lot of Syrian dust through which it is not always easy to see clearly the Christ who is divine. His interpretation of Christ lacks authority; the Christ he pictures for his readers lacks authority. And of what use to soldiers or to anyone else, to men seeking the light, is a Christ who lacks authority, who cannot lead or command.”
— =Cath World= 106:687 F ‘18 160w
“One of the most convincing answers that has been made to the belief that Jesus was a pacifist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 360w
=RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.= Name of Old Glory. il *$1.25 Bobbs 811 17-17072
A collection of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems of patriotism, with an appreciation of the poet by Booth Tarkington. Only three of the twenty selections are in the familiar Indiana dialect—“The old man and Jim,” “Thoughts on the late war,” and “Decoration day on the place.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
=RILEY, W.= Way of the winepress. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam
“This is the story of the firm of Messrs Middleton, weavers, in a Yorkshire town and in a village of the Dales; but, though the vicissitudes of the business are vividly told as from a personal experience, yet the core of the chronicle is in the inner vicissitudes of David Middleton and those who by fate or his own impulse have been gathered round him. Chief amongst these are the story teller, Louis, and the slum girl, Victoria Smith, both of whom are characters well worth studying, and both form contrasts not only to each other but to the stern impetuosity of David. ... David, tender and even quixotic at heart, accepts every reverse as a direct discipline from God. ... ‘The way of the winepress’ must be passed unaided and alone, and no human counsel of affection dare soften it. Contrasted with this disciple of the wrath of God is the unorthodox disciple of the love of God, Truman, who opens the doors of learning to Louis and Victoria, and in the end opens the door of love to David.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The action takes place more than thirty years ago.
“‘The way of the winepress is the way of loving sacrifice,’ and it becomes, if the author is to be believed, a way of joy for all who tread it.”
=N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 270w
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:120 My ‘17 70w
“The background of the book, wherein a number of simple and some very delightful characters have their place, is full of reflection. The plot is small and at times almost oddly simple, but there is an unstrained human interest in the characters and their setting which gives to the whole some of that gentle dignity which the writer has found amongst the ample hills and woods and streams where his scenes are laid.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
=RINDER, FRANK=, comp. Royal Scottish academy, 1826-1916. il *42s Maclehose & sons, Glasgow 708.2
“The chief part of this massive volume consists of a complete list of works by Raeburn and by members (honorary included) and associates of the Royal Scottish academy exhibited between the years 1808 and 1916 at the exhibitions held by the institutions which preceded the academy and those of the academy itself from 1827 onwards, and in this list a special note is made of any works that have passed into public galleries. The list has been compiled under the direction of Mr Frank Rinder with the sanction of the president and council, and a narrative filling nearly a hundred pages, tracing the origin and development of the academy, is contributed by Mr W. D. McKay, one of its principal officers.” (Int Studio) Mr Rinder also contributes an essay.
“If Mr Rinder’s task does not evoke from the living all the gratitude which its accomplishment deserves, he may be sure that in years to come there will always be some who in profiting by his labours will not fail to acknowledge their indebtedness.”
=Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 300w
“It is a pity that this useful book could not have been produced in a more convenient form. A quarto of nearly 500 pages is difficult to handle.”
* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 600w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Altar of freedom. *50c (12c) Houghton 355.7 17-14707
An appeal to mothers to sacrifice their sons willingly on “the altar of freedom.” “Personal service,” the author says, “is not rolling bandages for the other woman’s son.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“She has herself been to the war countries and was allowed to see far more than most Americans have seen of what war has meant. ... She writes emphatically of the necessity of proper training for the soldier.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 250w
“Mary Roberts Rinehart writes whereof she knows when in ‘The altar of freedom’ she tells the mothers of this land why and how their sons must enter this war. One of her sons has gone, the other two will go if, when they are old enough, they are needed. She has seen the war close at hand and her unflinching words are born not of theory and imagination, but of facts.”
+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
“The book is very direct, very quiet, very moving. And it is simple and patriotic and brave.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 270w
“Article in the Saturday Evening Post April 21, but more usable in this little book form.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:213 Jl ‘17 50w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Bab: a sub-deb. il *$1.40 (2c) Doran 17-14952
Bab, the sub-debutante, tells her own story, describing most touchingly the sorrows of a girl whose family still looks on her as a child. Coming home for her Christmas holidays, Bab, who is seventeen, realizes the tragic position of a younger sister. She is snubbed and patronized, until, moved by desperation and a desire to make herself seem of importance, she invents a lover and a love affair, with violets addressed to herself and a photograph of an unknown young man to give a touch of reality to the fiction. The results are all that she desires, and more. This is the first episode of the book. There are five in all, including extracts from Bab’s diary.
“Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read a little at a time.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17
“An attempt to picture in a humorous manner the young American girl of the same age as Mr Tarkington’s hero. But it is not nearly so simple, so subtle or so true to life as its prototype, and the pleasant domestic charm of ‘Seventeen’ is absent from its pages. ... You feel the lack of a pleasant attitude.” J. F. S.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 470w
“The stilted English in which she expresses her ‘lofty thoughts’ while amusing lends a touch of artificiality to the stories.”
+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 70w
“This is a book that mothers and fathers of girls ought to read, for it will help to enlighten them. Also, they, and all others, will find it the most clever and amusing of all Mrs Rinehart’s books.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 670w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w
“A lively and often humorous, but artificial picture of the adolescent school girl.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 250w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Long live the king! il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-24814
This romantic tale reminds the reader both of Hope’s “Prisoner of Zenda” and of Mrs Burnett’s “Lost prince.” Prince Ferdinand William Otto, the ten year old hero, is a dear little boy, whose three great desires when he becomes king are that he may have a dog, that his cousin Hedwig may marry the man she loves, and that he, Ferdinand William Otto, may be “a good king like Abraham Lincoln.” The love interest in the story is supplied by the Princess Hedwig, Lieutenant Nikky Larisch, and Karl, king of Karnia. A mild revolutionary flavor is given by the “Committee of ten.”
“Exciting, wholesome and will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w
“The essential touch which makes the charm of the story lies in the character of the little Otto.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 630w
+ =Cath World= 106:552 Ja ‘18 130w
=Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 110w
“There has never been a better picture of the cruel contrast between court life and the heart of youth than this tale of a prince in a petty European monarchy who tries to extract a little boyish fun from a choking atmosphere of foreign intrigue, Nihilist conspiracy, ceremonious etiquet and cold-blooded statecraft. ... All of the characters of the book are real human beings.”
+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 340w
“It may be described as a Zenda story ‘with a difference.’ It lacks the usual conquering Anglo-Saxon, his nearest representative being a small American boy who inadvertently gives a happy turn to affairs at the critical moment. Here is a tale of humor as well as sentiment: towards the end it imposes a somewhat larger burden upon the good-humored credulity of the reader than the traffic need be called upon to bear.”
+ — =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 340w
“The tale is highly romantic, it possesses a complicated plot, there is much and constant action, and if there is little humor, its loss is made good by much sentiment. ... The author has written a story that is different from any of the others of that sort, and has made it plausible, interesting, and appealing. The figure of the Crown Prince is particularly appealing in its wistfulness, its lovableness, and its real manliness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 710w
“Otto is a natural and friendly chap even if he is a prince, and his adventures with his American boy acquaintance are jolly.”
+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w
“An engaging but rather pathetic story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 270w
=RIVES, HALLIE ERMINIE (MRS POST WHEELER).= Long lane’s turning. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-22567
Henry Sevier, the brilliant young southern lawyer, knew that his besetting sin was his dependence upon stimulants at times of crisis. Only one other knew this—Cameron Craig, the head of the liquor trust and Sevier’s rival for the hand of Echo Allen. Craig had another weapon—an old letter, the publication of which could bring scandal upon the Allen family. How Craig trades upon these two secrets and enmeshes Sevier in a net, how Sevier wins out both from his own weakness and the ruthlessness of his rival, is told in a series of vivid chapters.
“Published in the Red Book under title, ‘The heart of a man.’”
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
“Drink is the theme underlying the somewhat artificial structure of ‘The long lane’s turning.’ It is a story of romantic contrivance based upon the working out of a preconceived idea. ... Yet whatever flimsiness may be discerned in the plot there is none in the style.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:98 S ‘17 300w
“A melodramatic temperance novel, so far as its style and characterization are concerned. ... The story moves at a brisk pace, and is entertaining.”
=N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 220w
“Melodrama with a vengeance.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 290w
=ROBBINS, EDWARD J.=, comp. Universal drill manual. il *$1 Sherwood co. 355 17-16555
A complete résumé of the really necessary and important points which should be the common knowledge of every private, compiled from strictly official sources by a captain in the Major officers reserve corps, with illustrations from the same sources.
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 50w
=ROBERTSON, ERIC SUTHERLAND.= Bible’s prose epic of Eve and her sons. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 222 (Eng ed A17-80)
The author has made a study of those parts of Genesis attributed to the authorship of “J.” The opening of Genesis is the work of “P.” J’s narrative breaks in with the fourth verse of the second chapter. Mr Robertson says, “The writer known as J has a narrower outlook on the cosmos than P, but it is a more human, a more sunny outlook. This writer or editor is, like Herodotus, a gatherer of legends at old shrines.” The text of the “J” narrative is given in an appendix.
“What we know is that the book tells us what would have been Mr Robertson’s mind if he himself had written the ‘J’ document. And that is enough to make the book like a charming work of fiction.” G. LaP.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 900w
“On reading the book, one gets the impression that all this paraphernalia of scholarship is merely a passport to recommend the book to modern readers, while the author’s real interest lies in moralizing and exegesis of the time-honored variety which allows one to deduce anything under the sun from no matter what text.”
– + =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 500w
“There is no doubt that the book is very good reading, partly, we think, because Mr Robertson writes so very well. The story as he tells it reminds us very much of the Bible, partly again because of the identity of the names.”
=Spec= 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 650w
“Mr Robertson brings to bear on his task an alert and unconventional intelligence.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p323 Jl 6 ‘16 180w
“Literary criticism should welcome in this book an original, gallant, and successful attempt to turn to the account of poetry some of the results of scholarship in a field where it has been said science was destroying everything spiritual and inspiring. ... Mr Robertson brings out the inherent romance and the inherent primitive theology in these old tales. We get from his book a sense of geographical values which readers of the Bible too seldom feel. ... He has based his speculations upon sound scholarship.” G: M. Harper
+ =Yale R= n s 6:415 Ja ‘17 700w
=ROBERTSON, LIONEL, and O’DONNELL, THOMAS CLAY.= Healthful house. il $2 Good health pub. co. 640 17-16902
“The authors of this book have not confined themselves to details of hygiene and sanitation, as these terms are commonly understood. They have attempted rather to emphasize ‘the health importance of beautiful colors and beautiful lines and masses, beautiful wall and floor coverings, equally with fresh air and light—in short, to present to the reader a house that is healthful because it satisfies the demands of hygienic and esthetic sense alike.’”—R of Rs
“The discussion of interior fitments is sane and informative.”
+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 220w
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 70w
+ =St Louis= 15:369 O ‘17 20w
=ROBINSON, CYRIL EDWARD.= Days of Alkibiades; with a foreword by Prof. C. W. Oman. il *$1.50 Longmans 913.38 (Eng ed 17-26255)
“One of the criticisms most frequently made on the teaching of Greek and Latin is that it teaches the pupil to deal very cleverly with words, but tells him nothing about things. ... Mr Robinson’s book represents an attempt—and a surprisingly successful attempt—to provide the modern schoolboy and general reader with the background of things, for lack of which classical teaching in the past has so often been dull and dead. ... The result is a series of sketches of the various phases of Greek life which are not only lightly and charmingly written, but also embody on innumerable points of detail the result of the latest researches.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 13:311 Ap ‘17
“The book is an entertaining mixture of known facts and acknowledged romance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 250w
“The book reads like a romance. A boy will learn more from these sketches, as the author modestly styles them, than from many a ponderous, old-fashioned textbook.”
+ =Cath World= 105:410 Je ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w
“Gilds the pill of Greek antiquities more attractively, than does Bekker’s ‘Charikles’ or the ‘Alkibiades’ of C. H. Bromely. Out of actual or possible scenes from the life of Alcibiades he has composed a sequence of readable chapters that covers the chief topics of Athenian private and public life strung on a thread of story that adds interest without distracting the reader’s attention. ... Many of the descriptions are admirably clear and vivid. ... The illustrations based on the author’s sketches, whatever their artistic merits, are well adapted to the purpose of visualizing and schematizing precisely the information that the reader needs and the student may remember. They cannot, of course, take the place of the two-hundred and sixty-three authentic reproductions from the monuments in Professor Gulick’s ‘Greek antiquities.’ The book is one of the best companions to the reading of the Greek classics that we have met in many a day. It makes Greek life ‘seem real.’”
+ =Nation= 105:266 S 6 ‘17 500w
=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 40w
“He is sound in scholarship; he bases his scenes on actual events and anecdotes. ... His style is agreeable, but a little elaborate.”
+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 220w
“Our only serious criticism of his book is that, while unconventional in his scheme, he is almost too conscientious in the use of his material.”
* + =Spec= 117:478 O 21 ‘16 1100w
“Mr Robinson is not only a very careful and well-read scholar, but he has made the rare imaginative effort to realize his knowledge; and he has laid the reader under an additional obligation by being modest enough not to flaunt it. ... A volume like this is a challenge, not a ‘work of reference.’ The value of the book is enhanced by some skilful pieces of translation and a series of drawings.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 450w
=ROBINSON, EDGAR EUGENE, and WEST, VICTOR J.=[2] Foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917. *$1.75 Macmillan 327.73 17-31893
The aim of the authors has been “to present an account of the development of the policy followed by Woodrow Wilson in dealing with the foreign relations of the United States during the years 1913-1917, and to provide in convenient form the more important statements of the president and his secretaries of state in announcing and carrying forward that policy.” The authors point to a fuller understanding of the president’s policy to be gained from an examination of the earlier period of his administration and furnish ample excerpts from his speeches and messages. The three divisions of the subject treated are: The development of the policy; More important events in American foreign relations; More important utterances of the administration.
“The treatment of the subject is both comprehensive and detailed. It is also clearly reasoned and judicially presented. For the book is in no sense the work of uncritical, enthusiastic admiration. ... The book must be especially recommended to those casual readers and superficial thinkers who allow themselves to be unduly influenced by headlines in newspapers and the flippant comment of ‘the man in the street.’ The work deserves every praise, also, for the clear succinct logical manner in which its analytical discussion is carried on. Every help is afforded the reader for intelligent investigation of the subject.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:1 Ja 6 ‘18 1950w
“The work is an admirable piece of bookmaking, and its reference value is great.”
+ =Outlook= 118:114 Ja 16 ‘18 100w
=ROBINSON, EDWARD LEVI.= 1816-1916; one hundred years of savings banking. 50c Am. bankers’ assn. 332 17-13470
“This little volume, comprising twenty-nine pages of text and sixty pages of bibliography, has been prepared under the direction of the Savings bank section of the American bankers’ association. The text is written by Mr Edward L. Robinson, vice-president of a savings bank in Baltimore, and the bibliography prepared by Marian A. Glenn, librarian of the American bankers’ association [and Ina Clement]. ... The topics covered by the bibliography are as follows: Thrift and savings; Individual thrift; Domestic thrift; Evidences of thriftlessness; Economics of thrift; Industrial thrift; Business thrift; Banking thrift; National thrift; International thrift; Thrift agencies; Nation-wide thrift movement inaugurated to celebrate centennial anniversary of savings banks in America.”—J Pol Econ
“The volume is chiefly valuable for the extensive bibliography.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:760 Jl ‘17 160w
“This is a timely little book. The bibliography, covering the whole subject of thrift and a number of allied topics, is not altogether successful.” B. L.
+ — =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 360w
=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Merlin. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-8576
Mr Robinson has retold the story of Arthur, Merlin and Vivian, altering the outlines of the traditional tale very little, but reading new meanings into the situation. He has chosen for the time of his narrative, the eve of the downfall of Arthur’s court. Merlin, after the ten years spent with Vivian in Broceliande, has returned with the purpose of again lending Arthur his counsel, but in thinking out the problem he comes to see that he must turn back without seeing the king, leaving him to the fate he has prepared for himself.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“His people are as strongly individualized and speak as naturally as though their author had been putting them into a novel instead of into a narrative poem of mediæval setting. This brings their problems much closer to the reader. ... Mr Robinson has always deservedly been placed by critics among the few of our really great poets. He is a very complete master of his art.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 31 ‘17 550w
“On the whole, in spite of Mr Robinson’s literary power, we prefer the terrors of ‘mid-Victorian morality’ and the symbolism of the ‘Idylls of the king.’”
+ — =Cath World= 106:255 N ‘17 400w
“One must feel it was a malicious elf that suggested Arthurian romance as a subject for Mr Robinson’s pen. The subject is new to him, but his method and manner are unchanged. Subject and method do not harmonize. Upon a style which has shaped itself in the delineation of modern types of mind—complex, eccentric, intensely individualized—is laid the task of depicting certain very unmodern characters which throughout a long and august tradition have been treated as simple, conventional, naïve. The result, in less skilful hands, would have been burlesque. ... Mr Robinson resembles his own Merlin, who has much to say about what he has seen and known without giving much notion of what it is, and who seems to rely upon our remembrance that he has been impressive in other scenes.” Odell Shepard
– + =Dial= 63:339 O 11 ‘17 1500w
“It is pleasant to take up Merlin and read as one reads mere poetry. ... Mr Robinson in ‘Merlin’ has plainly felt his work in Tennyson’s quality. It is clear at once that the style, and often the quality, are very like Tennyson’s. In ‘Merlin’ there is more smoothness, more expected proportions, leisure and fluency [than in much of Mr Robinson’s] previous work and less of that effect of rather trenchant rhythm, of brusque acumen and passionate shrewdness, and of a kind of analytical excitement for the mind, that have made a distinguishing quality in his poetry.” S. Y.
+ =New Repub= 12:250 S 29 ‘17 1650w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:78 My ‘17
“It is not a great poem, though its failure is not intrinsic in its subject. The subject simply betrays more openly than a modern one certain defects in the author. He has neither the singing magic of the old school nor the swift, egotistic vitality of the new. He is a respectable poet, but he is heavy.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 490w
“The state of the modern world is subtly symbolized in this fine poem, which has amazing beauty of texture and ventures a new philosophy.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 90w
“Of all our modern writers, Mr Robinson most resembles Meredith, never in his technique or in his choice of subjects, but in the solidity of his work and in the sense of intellectual force. Much of our contemporary verse is painfully thin; here the foundations are dug deep. ... Each volume of Mr Robinson’s deepens the conviction that he is our foremost American poet.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 6:863 Jl ‘17 350w
=ROBINSON, HARRY PERRY.= Turning point; the battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-18381
“This account of the battle of the Somme is written by the official correspondent of the London Times. In preparing it he has used his dispatches to his paper as a basis, and so has made a consecutive narrative of the operations of the British troops in that action. He explains that he has made only incidental reference to the co-operation of the French troops because he was not sufficiently familiar with their share of the battle to write about it. His narrative covers the four and a half months from the 1st of July, 1916, to the middle of November.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
“Mr Robinson has here told the story of the British part in it as well as it has yet been done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 260w
“He strikes his own note, which is a more matter-of-fact note than that sounded by Mr Gibbs. ... He can tell either a plain or an exciting story lucidly, picturesquely, eloquently, and thrillingly when the need is; and where he has to speak of the larger issues, he judges soberly. ... The book is full of good stories in all veins, and will take its place as a most satisfactory popular history of one of the most important episodes of the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 700w
=ROBINSON, LAWRENCE EUGENE.= Domestic architecture. il *$1.50 Macmillan 728 17-12502
This book tells how to plan, build and furnish a house and how to arrange the grounds. It is illustrated with diagrams, gives a glossary of architectural terms, and at the end of each chapter, references for further reading.
=A L A Bkl= 13:437 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w
“A non-technical, well-balanced treatment.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 50w
“An elementary book, useful to those building or remodeling their own homes.”
+ =Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w
“This book has to do almost altogether with the simple, every-day things about the house, and its suggestions are meant as much for the owner and builder as for the professional architect.”
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 90w
=St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 10w
=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Plunder. il *$1.35 (2c) Bobbs 17-9706
The three richest men in the United States meet together in one room. One controls coal, one transportation, one the food supply. An agreement is drawn up and their signatures are added. A gust of wind flips the paper out of the window! By chance it falls first in
“The tale is more commonplace and not nearly so ingenious or interesting as are ‘Loot’ and ‘Plunder,’ but it is entertaining.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 320w
“A sensational story, exciting, but not as carefully wrought out as one or two of the author’s previous books.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 40w
“Mr Roche displays much intimacy with the technic of the track and the betting ring, and ingeniously bares the methods that may be employed in turning racing and betting into dishonest channels. Altogether, it is one of the best racing stories that have appeared in a long time.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 320w
=ROCKWELL, FREDERICK FRYE.= Around the year in the garden. il *$1.75 (1½c) Macmillan 635 17-24266
“A seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass.” (Sub-title) Altho the author begins with the first of January and follows the year around, week by week, he insists very strongly that gardening can not be done according to any such set scheme and warns the reader against following the directions of the book blindly. “Let the gardener, then, read this book with a diligent eye for such advice and suggestions as he can apply to his own problems; ... for the real work, like the profit there may be and the pleasure there is sure to be, must belong to the gardener, and cannot be put between the covers of a book.” (Introd.) The book is designed for the busy man and woman who garden in the spare time afforded between other occupations.
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w
“The clearest and most helpful kind of information for the busy man or woman who wants to get ready for next year’s gardening.”
+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 70w
=ROGERS, ALLEN=, ed. Elements of industrial chemistry. il *$3 Van Nostrand 660 16-23460
“This volume is an abridgment of a larger book entitled ‘Manual of industrial chemistry,’ a work which was written by forty eminent specialists in chemical engineering. In its almost 500 pages of text it covers widely, but perhaps not deeply, the whole field of industrial chemistry.”—Coal Age
=A L A Bkl= 13:277 Mr ‘17
“The book will be of value chiefly to those who have not affiliated themselves with any particular industry and who want a generalized view of the whole field.”
+ =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 350w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 30w
“The matter is descriptive and not detailed enough to be of value to the works chemist, but would be understandable to the average reader interested in the subject. ... Dr Rogers is in charge of industrial chemistry, Pratt institute, Brooklyn.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w
=ROGERS, ALLEN.= Laboratory guide of industrial chemistry. 2d ed il *$2 Van Nostrand 660 17-25806
“In presenting this thoroughly revised edition, the author has endeavored to make the laboratory experiments touch more closely upon present-day problems than was possible in the first edition. ... In many instances, it will be noticed that the methods are those in common use at the present time, and, whenever possible, actual factory practice has been followed.” (Preface) Contents: General processes; Inorganic preparations; Organic preparations; Dyeing of textile fibers; Pigments and lakes; Driers, varnishes, paints and stains; Soap and allied products; Leather manufacture; Wood fiber, pulp and paper; Useful data.
=ROGERS, JULIA ELLEN.= Trees worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 582 17-13206
The introduction is addressed directly to the beginner in tree study, for whom this book has been prepared. Part 1 is a discussion of The life of the trees, and the remainder of the book is devoted to descriptions for purposes of identification. There are sixteen illustrations in color and numerous others in black and white.
“A compromise between the author’s comprehensive ‘Tree book’ and her small ‘Tree Guide,’ recently published. Of a convenient size to carry about for purposes of identification.”
+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 200w
=ROGERS, LINDSAY.= America’s case against Germany. *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 17-19161
“A good, brief account of the origin and development of the controversy which became the immediate cause of war between the United States and Germany. The author furnishes in this book a chronological record of the Wilson policy. His method is narrative and explanatory, not critical or defensive. ... He treats the points of international law involved, briefly and untechnically, particularly with regard to the submarine as a new weapon, the status of armed merchant ships, the problem of munition exports, and the difference between the English and the German ‘blockade.’”—R of Rs
“Clear and non-technical, it explains many misjudged and misrepresented points at issue.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
“The author of this volume is convinced that there is a real need for the average loyal American to understand that the legal grounds of our contentions with Germany are as much of the code of international law as the moral grounds are of the ethical code of Christendom. ... The book is written in untechnical language, but the case is argued with the care of one who has mastered international law, and the result that our position is legally correct is fully proved.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 580w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w
=N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:764 N ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 110w
=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Hand of Fu-Manchu (Eng title, Si-Fan mysteries). *$1.35 (2c) McBride 17-14178
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie again take the field against the terrible Dr Fu-Manchu. They are enforced by the Scotland Yard police; he by the mysterious and far-reaching organization known as the Si-Fan. The field is London, from its foreign embassies to its lowest underworld. The weapons employed by the Asiatics in their machinations range from animal magnetism to the crudest of missiles. The peril that threatens is the wholesale slaughter of the white race and the domination of the world by the yellow. The book is the fourth of a series of which the first “The insidious Dr Fu-Manchu” was followed by “The yellow claw,” and “The return of Dr Fu-Manchu.”
“Of the experience they go through in these and other places, it would be unfair to give the reader even the faintest hint. Suffice it to say, that if he be a reader with a liking for thrills and able to put an extinguisher on his sense of probabilities, he will do well to choose a comfortable chair, make sure that there is plenty of oil in his lamp, and plunge forthwith into the mysterious occurrences and deadly perils brought about by ‘The hand of Fu-Manchu.’”
=N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 320w
“The story comprises a succession of episodes which could be easily adapted to a thrilling movie serial. ... The author is skilful in creating a state of suspense, even though neglectful of the rule that the miraculous should be fortified by plausibility.”
=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 250w
“The reader gallops through a number of rather inconsequent scenes in which poisonous flowers, kidnapped surgeons, hypnotic mandarins, marmosets, disguised assassins, treacherous Greeks, and secret passages play slightly unconvincing parts, aided largely by an easy incapacity on the part of the hero which is unrivalled by the most fatuous efforts of Dr Watson.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 120w
=ROLAND, pseud.= Future of militarism. *2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
(Eng ed 16-23382)
“In this volume ‘Roland’ counters Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle,’ a denunciation of British unpreparedness, by arguing that preparedness could have had but one of two immediate goals—either war against Germany or an alliance with her. From this he contends that preparedness for war must inevitably lead to war sooner or later ... and that the sole means to secure an enduring peace is a league of the allied nations to found among themselves an absolute pacifist policy, and until such time as Germany becomes sane enough to accept it whole-heartily, to enforce this policy upon her.”—Ind
=Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
“It does not clearly state its case or present its arguments. Instead, it heaps scorn and irony upon Mr Frederick Scott Oliver and turns what might be a reasonable and readable counter-argument into a silly and vituperative personal attack. ... Aside from the irrelevant question of one’s sympathy with them or with what he calls ‘the Oliverians,’ this book is good where the author states impersonally and coherently what he believes, and bad where he does not. Which is to say that a small part of ‘The failure of militarism’ is definite and readable.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:35 F 4 ‘17 550w
“We should have gladly parted with scores of controversial pages, not wanting in acrimony, for the fulfillment of that which the chapters ‘The way out of militarism’ and ‘The psychology of militarism’ promise but do not carry out. ... The whole book, or over-grown pamphlet, written with no small ability, leaves an impression of wasted or misapplied labour. ... ‘Roland’ can give us something better.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 S 28 ‘16 730w
=ROLFE, AMY LUCILE.= Interior decoration for the small home. il *$1.25 (5c) Macmillan 747 17-9832
A book on house decoration and furnishing for people of moderate means. The house planned by the professional decorator does not meet with the author’s approval, for it cannot have individuality, but she realizes that the amateur who is to do his own decorating must be guided by general principles and it is for him that this book has been prepared. There are chapters on: Walls and ceilings; Windows and their decorative treatment; The finishing of floors; Domestic rugs and carpets; A brief history of furniture; Modern period furniture and its use; Furniture of modern design, etc. The author is instructor in home economics in the University of Montana.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
“A simply schemed and simply expressed book like this, that is also sound, comprehensive and sufficiently detailed, should fall in fertile ground.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 20w
“A neat summary of such parts of several works on interior decoration as apply to the small house is the substance of Miss Rolfe’s unpretentious but useful little book. Her expositions read like college lectures revised for a larger audience. They will help to bring many middle-class Americans to the next plane of appreciation.”
+ =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 210w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:652 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 70w
=St Louis= 15:333 S ‘17 30w
“A good supplement to Quinn’s ‘Planning and furnishing the home’ and Daniels’ ‘Furnishing of a modest home.’ Good illustrations taken from Good Furniture.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 60w
=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Beethoven, tr. by B. Constance Hull. il *$1.50 (3½c) Holt 17-12724
“I do not give the name hero to those who have triumphed by infinite thought or by sheer physical strength—but only to those made great by goodness of heart,” says Romain Rolland, and it is in this spirit that he writes of Beethoven, “the most heroic soul in modern art.” The book includes in addition to M. Rolland’s account of Beethoven’s life, a selection from his letters, a copy of his will, and an analysis of his symphonies and sonatas made by A. Eaglefield Hull. There is also an introduction by Edward Carpenter.
“Contains a bibliography (10p.), a classification of pianoforte sonatas, and a complete list of Beethoven’s works (12p.).”
+ =A L A= Bkl 13:388 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 40w
“Altogether one of the most valuable works in music of the present year.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 350w
“The present volume is rather a disappointment; of its 244 pages only 54 are given to M. Rolland’s sketch of the composer’s life. As a character study it is far from satisfying, containing nothing new in fact or interpretation. ... The chief value of the book is as an introduction to the study of Beethoven, and in this respect the copy of his will, a selection of his letters, a bibliography, and the complete list of his compositions are useful.”
– + =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 150w
+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
+ — =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 90w
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
=New Repub= 11:57 My 12 ‘17 2600w
=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 30w
“The intimate quality of the work is unusual. Rolland brings us the living Beethoven. The philosophic basis of the musician’s life is brought out in order to explain his profound and spiritualized music.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 100w
“The title-page reveals its composite character, and an examination of its contents shows that M. Romain Rolland’s contribution only occupies about a quarter of the whole. This is his charmingly enthusiastic but somewhat uncritical essay on Beethoven, which has been competently translated by Miss B. Constance Hull. ... The new matter is thus confined to Dr. Eaglefield Hull’s analyses, which have the merit of brevity and sum up the outstanding qualities of some works pleasantly enough. Unfortunately the editor’s style is undistinguished, and at times not even grammatical.”
+ =Spec= 118:138 F 3 ‘17 1400w
“M. Rolland writes as a worshiper, but his worship is discreet. He paints a true picture, even though he leaves out details of Beethoven’s eccentricity, and the reader receives an inspiration from the glowing pages, and this in spite of infelicities in the translation, which, nevertheless, is not without spirit.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 400w
“We become absorbed in this book mainly because of the author’s driving power, the way he arrays his facts and uses them to impel his argument. ... The second half of the book consists of a Baedeker to the symphonies, sonatas, violin sonatas, and quartets. A good many points of interest are touched upon, and the writer has looked well round his subject. But as a plan it falls between two stools.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 750w
=ROLLINS, MONTGOMERY.= Village pest. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23754
This story of a lively boy of thirty years ago has many of the marks of autobiography, and the author tells us that the incidents are drawn from life. David is the young son of a United States senator and his time is divided between Washington and a New England village, either place affording him a fruitful field for mischief. David has two intimate friends, one a village boy, one a Washington chum who spends a joyous summer with him in New England. David has another friend, also, a yellow mongrel dog named Alfred.
“Founded on fact the escapades will amuse this generation of elders as much as they must have exasperated and entertained David’s elders.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ‘17 350w
“The pictures in ‘The village pest’ are almost as funny as the story itself. Young people will enjoy Montgomery Rollins’ account of David’s pranks.”
+ =Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 24w
“Although one rather wonders how his longsuffering parents managed to keep out of the insane asylum, David’s pranks are very amusing—to read about.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. weather men. (U.S. service ser.) il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 551 17-24855
This story, dealing with blizzard, tornado and flood, is not the least exciting of this series for boys. As the author truly says, “There is no battle greater than the battle with the weather, which is both our enemy and our ally.” The story opens with a Mississippi flood. Ross and Anton, two boy chums who barely escape from the dangers of the flood, become interested in the work of the weather bureau in forecasting storms and enlist as volunteer observers. Like some of the other books of the series this one is a call to service: “High, high in the atmosphere, is a world all unexplored, where no man can dwell; where, as yet, no human-made instrument has reached. This unknown world calls for explorers, it calls for adventure, it calls for daring and patient work.” It is the author’s hope that some of the boys who read the book will answer the call.
+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 50w
“The illustrations are authoritative photographs.”
+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 90w
“A story full of thrills and appealing interest told in a way to be of great educational value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 120w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Polar hunters. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-13187
This is the second volume in the Museum series. The author describes life within the Arctic circle and gives an account of Peary’s discovery of the pole. The boy hero, who is called Kood-shoo, appears at first to be an Eskimo. He has grown up as a member of the Smith Sound tribe, and his ways are their ways, but when the Peary expedition comes to the region, the white men recognize in the boy traits that are not characteristic of the Eskimo. Eventually the two “magics” in Kood-shoo’s possession lead to his identification.
=Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
“No boy can read the story without having his imagination fired.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 130w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.=[2] Wonder of war in the air. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 623.7 17-30275
“To give the boys of the United States a fair idea of what an aviator must learn, how an aviator must live, in what appalling perils an aviator must risk his life, to build up in our boys a still greater admiration for the men who hold the honor of the nation in their hands, and to urge the heroic and high-spirited young Americans to a higher love for their country and eagerness to serve it, is the aim and purpose of the author.” (Preface) As usual in his books, he has devised a story of more or less definite plot as a means for conveying his information.
“Packed with information, mostly accurate and brought down to within a very few months.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
“The author is doing a useful work by making his books accurately instructive as well as entertaining.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 160w
=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Life and art of William Merritt Chase. il *$4 Scribner 17-30892
“For many years before his death last year, William Merritt Chase was regarded as perhaps the most characteristic of American painters; and Miss Roof was appointed by him to write the story of his life. This she has done in cordial cooperation and with the assistance of the artist’s family. With the inclusion of many letters and personal reminiscences and much illustrative material she tells the romantic story of Chase’s discontented boyhood in the West, his escape to Paris, and apprenticeship to art, and his subsequent crowded and picturesque career in New York. The work contains an introduction by Alice Gerson Chase and many reproductions of the artist’s works.”—Lit D
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18
“Her book abounds in piquant anecdotes. Somewhere she speaks with scorn of the inadequacy of the literary man to understand art; this is perhaps a sort of boomerang; for her style is far from literary. The volume will be prized by all art-students and especially by those who remember the genial artist.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 1700W
“This authorized biography, therefore, is much more than the life of a man; it is in many ways a history of the American spirit in art during the last generation.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 170w
“Very entertaining and well balanced book. Its pleasant, straightforward style is not at all inconsistent with the fact that Mr Chase chose Miss Roof because she had a painter’s and not a writer’s attitude toward art.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:31 Ja 27 ‘18 1050w
“Though clogged with unimportant and unnecessary detail, the text will be read with interest for the sake of the pictures of the painter’s early struggles and later achievements. Some of the anecdotes relative to Chase’s experiences with Whistler are delicious.”
+ — =Outlook= 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 110w
“A sympathetic but hardly adequate biography. Though a considerably larger volume than the Inness, it fails to give as clear a picture of the man or as definite an idea of his art. The author was at one time a pupil, and she gives an interesting account of his methods of teaching.”
+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 880w
Rookie rhymes. il *75c Harper 811.08 17-25361
“A collection of rhymes, parodies, jingles and songs written by members of the 1st and 2d Provisional training regiments for officers, at Plattsburg, N. Y., during their encampment from May 15th to August 15th, 1917, accompanied by line drawings. ... About one-third of the verse is written to be sung to familiar tunes.”—R of Rs
“More pep than poetry is contained in this volume of songs and parodies. As the expression of the mental attitude of men torn away from the ordinary vocations of peace and in training for sanguinary conflict, it has a certain psychological interest. Two or three are real poems.” N. H. D.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 390w
“Interesting chiefly for their high spirits and fun.”
+ — =Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 60w
“The Plattsburg rhymes are, in the main, mediocre. ... A few of the verses, such as ‘The Plattsburg code’ rise distinctly out of the mediocre rut; but too often the motif is nothing more important than the relative superiority of company A over company B.” Clement Wood
— =NY Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 100w
“Well worth the attention of our army and navy students and their friends.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 420w
=Pittsburgh= 22:647 O ‘17
“As a bit of fun to drive away homesickness, it will undoubtedly find its way into many soldiers’ kits.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 90w
=ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.= Foes of our own household. *$1.50 (2½c) Doran 304 17-25965
Mr Roosevelt thinks that “in the long run we have less to fear from foes without than from foes within. The men who oppose preparedness in our military and our industrial life; the business or political corruptionist or reactionary and the reckless demagogue who is his nominal opponent; the man of wealth and greed who cares for nothing but profits, and the sinister creature who plays upon and inflames the passions of envy and violence: the hard materialist, the self-indulgent lover of ease and pleasure, and the silly sentimentalist—all these are the permanent foes of our own household.” (Foreword) Contents: The instant need; and the ultimate need; Must we be brayed in a mortar before our folly depart from us?; The children of the crucible; Washington and Lincoln; A square deal in law enforcement; Industrial justice; Social justice; Socialism versus social reform; The farmer; The word of Micah; The parasite woman; Birth reform. “Chapters 2, 7, 10 and 11 are based on articles that have appeared in the Metropolitan; chapter 8 on an article that has appeared in the Outlook; chapter 3 on a speech delivered on the Fourth of July last.” (Appendix A.) There are seven appendices. Appendix B is a letter urging that loyal Americans be not discriminated against because of their parentage; C deals with Mr Roosevelt’s speech concerning the East St Louis riots; D with the conscientious objector; while G gives the correspondence with the President and Secretary of war concerning Mr Roosevelt’s offer to raise a division for foreign service.
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 550w
+ =Cath World= 106:543 Ja ‘18 350w
“Even when Mr Roosevelt’s mind is in a state of general conflagration, as it has been much of the time since 1908, it seems to continue more or less automatically its two-handed motions of balance and compensation. And so his new miscellany, ‘The foes of our own household’ falls easily into two parts. Just as one of them was written by a judicious, progressive, and patriotic Aristotelian, exactly in the same way the other was written by a wilful, angry, and furiously inequitable extremist.” S. P. Sherman
– + =Nation= 105:532 N 15 ‘17 5850w
“The foes of our own household are those who dare to differ from Colonel Roosevelt. And he verbally flays those foes with all the vocabulary—and it is by no means a small one—at his command. There are stripes here for everybody. For the pro-German, the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the ‘parasite woman’—meaning or, rather, including the one that won’t bear children—the radical, the socialist and the trusts.” Joshua Wanhope
— =NY Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 650w
“The diligence with which he berates the President and his advisers and the frequency with which he airs his own personal grievance bring vividly to mind the incessant fault-finding and the determined attempts to rouse anti-administration feeling of some of the men in public life during the Civil war. ... It is very much to be regretted that Colonel Roosevelt was not better advised than to give permanence to some of his criticisms. For they deal with crises left behind us, ... and their tendency is to foster and increase distrust and disapproval of the government’s conduct of the war. ... These blots are the greater pity because they mar a book that in its far greater part is intensely patriotic, devoted to the betterment of American life, helpful and important.”
=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 950w
=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 200w
“The book is vital with the unimpaired vigor and moral force of its distinguished author.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 270w
+ =Spec= 119:680 D 8 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Roosevelt’s opening chapters express a desire which can only be the interpreted as having for its object the militarization of mind and heart of the United States. ... His book is about as philosophic as a volcano—and only a little less picturesque.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 600w
“When Mr Roosevelt writes on a topic of actuality one always gets the exhilarating impression of a determined pugilist who has his opponent’s head in chancery and does not mean to stop pounding it until he has made the world a better place to live in. It is a prose style which suits the writer exactly.”
+ =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p536 N 8 ‘17 800w
=ROOT, ELIHU.= Latin America and the United States; col. and ed. by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. *$2.50 (2c) Harvard univ. press 308 17-16739
“The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this is one of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary of war, as Secretary of state, and as senator of the United States. ... These addresses are not arranged chronologically, but are classified in such a way that each volume contains addresses and speeches relating to a general subject and a common purpose.” (Introductory note) This volume contains the addresses delivered during Mr Root’s trip to South America and Mexico in 1906, and in the United States after his return. The addresses of welcome and congratulation accompanying Mr Root’s addresses have been translated from the language of the country in which they were delivered. The first 200 pages are devoted mainly to “after-dinner speeches and toasts or answers to toasts delivered at diplomatic meetings.” The more valuable part of the book is the last eighty pages given to “Addresses in the United States on Latin American relations,” delivered from 1893-1915, the last of these being the address of welcome before the Second Pan-American scientific congress. Mr Root’s South American speeches have been published by the government of the United States in an official volume.
=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
“Will be invaluable to the future historian who seeks to trace the origins of that fraternal spirit which has brought to our side in the war with Germany the great majority of our southern neighbors.”
+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 480w
=Nation= 106:94 Ja 24 ‘18 700w
+ =N Y Times= 22:582 D 30 ‘17 650w
“We must not forget that the invaluable spadework of Mr Root more than ten years ago was, to no small extent, the cause of the present harvest of goodwill and friendship between the two Americas. This book is one to be read and to be kept for reference. It contains in the speeches of Mr Root and in those of his South American hosts the distilled essence of that Pan-American sentiment which will be one of the greatest of peace-compelling forces in the future.”
=Spec= 119:328 S 29 ‘17 1000w
“The more substantial part of the volume is to be found in the last eighty pages or so, and in the form of addresses delivered in the United States. They do to some extent afford real help to the reader who may wish to learn what is meant by ‘Pan-Americanism.’ The term is not free from ambiguity. ... On the whole, an examination of Mr Root’s addresses confirms old doubts whether the only practical Pan-Americanism is not Pan-North Americanism.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p459 S 27 ‘17 650w
=ROOT, ELIHU.= Military and colonial policy of the United States. *$2 Harvard univ. press 355 17-414
“Mr Root was Secretary of war from Aug. 1, 1899, to Feb. 1, 1904; Secretary of state from July 1, 1905, to Jan. 27, 1909; United States Senator from New York from 1909 to 1915. The latest volume of his addresses and reports, edited by Mr Bacon and Mr Scott, covers his services in the cabinet of Mr McKinley and in that of Mr Roosevelt, the larger part being allotted to his work in connection with the Philippines and the reorganization of the army command.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17
“The editors have increased the value of the book by prefacing each article with a note giving its historical setting, and inserting relevant documents such as the protocols and treaties concluding the war with Spain, the instructions for the military government of the Philippines, the militia act of 1903, etc. There is also an index of some value.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:359 My ‘17 300w
“They record the activity, the originality and the constructive service of the most accomplished and devoted public servant that the American people have had since the death of Alexander Hamilton.”
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 100w
“A volume which is of direct pertinence to the problems of to-day.”
+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 230w
“No student of the history of the United States on the morrow of the Spanish war can ignore the contents of this most interesting volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:143 Ap 15 ‘17 700w
“Addresses and papers which should, and will serve as a reservoir of material for editorial writers and federal legislators.”
+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 80w
“It deserves, and we hope it may get, a wide reading throughout the British empire. Rarely have such official utterances had a higher political and even romantic interest. ... Perhaps the most thrilling and absorbing part of the tale modestly and quietly set forth in these official pages is that which deals with the disposal of Cuba. ... Mr Root’s admirably sensible and unanswerable defence of his Philippine administration may be commended to British rulers of India, from the secretary of state downwards.”
+ =Spec= 118:592 My 26 ‘17 1550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 130w
“The whole collection, when completed, will form a lasting monument to a statesman whose great qualities have long since gained him recognition, as far beyond the borders of his own country, as perhaps the most eminent of living American men of affairs. The present volume covers but part of his immense and varied activities, but it is the part which in the circumstances of the present time, is perhaps of the most vital interest to the American people and to the world at large.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 19 ‘17 2350w
=ROPER, DANIEL CALHOUN.= United States post office. il *$1.50 (2c) Funk 353 17-24056
Authoritatively sums up the history and present condition of the postal service of the United States and points out its potentiality for still greater service to our country and to mankind. Contents: Postal service and civilization; Colonial post offices in America; British control of the American post office; Early development of the Federal postal system; Rise of the modern postal system; United States postal history since 1847; The post offices; The network of post roads; The post office lobby; The workings of a post office; Railway mail service; How the farmer gets his mail; Collection and delivery in cities; Addresses; Postage and mail classification; Parcel post; Special services; Postal banking; Postal inspection and control; Policing the mails; World mail service; Economic utility of the post office; Foreign trade by post; Postal engineering; The human element; The post office department; Relation of the department to Congress and the people; Postal perspective; Comparative postal service; Philately.
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
“Mr Roper has succeeded in giving a readable history of the beginnings and expansion of postal facilities with a very clear explanation of the workings of the post office and interesting information as to the difficulties to be solved, such as would hardly be possible for an author without actual experience in postal administration. The bibliography is incomplete and faulty.” Lindsay Rogers
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 12:150 F ‘18 400w
“Mr Roper writes with the authority of four years’ experience as first assistant postmaster general (1913-16). His enthusiasm for his subject promises a good book, and the promise is fulfilled. Especially interesting are the chapters on the workings of the various departments of our postal service, as also the account of certain significant differences between our own system and those of Europe. A chapter entitled ‘Postal perspective’ presents a suggestive vista of possible future developments in our post-office department.”
+ =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 210w
“The information afforded should be at the command of every citizen.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 240w
=ROSENAU, MILTON JOSEPH.= Preventive medicine and hygiene; with chapters upon sewage and garbage, by G: C. Whipple; vital statistics, by J: W. Trask; mental hygiene, by T: W. Salmon. il *$6.50 Appleton 614 17-21957
“The third edition of Rosenau’s ‘Preventive medicine and hygiene’ may well be called a special or military edition, for it is obvious that it has been prepared to meet the needs of the present emergency. To the consideration of the fundamentals of hygiene have been added sections on military hygiene as follows: Examinations of recruits, Diseases of the soldier, Duties and organization of the sanitary corps, Sanitation of troops in camp and on the march, etc. In the discussion of the new diseases which have arisen in the present world war, the latest information is given concerning trench fever, trench foot, war nephritis, shell shock, and gas poisoning, while other diseases, as tuberculosis, meningitis, and the venereal diseases, are presented in the light of war conditions. The discussion of the newer diseases peculiar to war is accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography of the recent literature.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:143 Ja ‘18
“With this new section superimposed on the one thousand pages of the former editions ... the work becomes the most comprehensive, as it has always been the most authoritative, treatise on hygiene in the English language.”
+ =Nation= 105:434 O 18 ‘17 320w
+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 170w
=ROSENBAUM, SAMUEL.= Rule-making authority in the English supreme court; with an introd. preface by T. Willes Chitty. (Univ. of Penn. law school ser.) $3.50 Boston bk. 17-9474
“Delegation of the power to make the rules governing the trial of the cases brought before them to the judges of the supreme court working with members of the legal profession, has been a feature of British jurisprudence since 1875 and has been less thoroughly adopted in most of the British colonies. Mr Rosenbaum undertakes a description of the development of the rules now in force and of their content. ... There are frequent comparisons between English and American methods of rule making to the disadvantage of the latter though no analysis of these is presented.” (Am Pol Sci R) “Mr Rosenbaum’s conclusion is that the regulation of civil procedure should be entrusted to a professional body rather than to a well-intentioned but overworked legislature.” (Ann Am Acad) The contents of this book first appeared as articles in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, the Law Magazine and Review, and the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation.
“The material first appeared as articles in law magazines and the subsequent editing has not eliminated references to local conditions and practice justified only in the original publication.” C. L. Jones
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:590 Ag ‘17 420w
“Mr T. Willes Chitty of the Royal courts of justice, London, who writes the introduction, speaks in highest praise of the painstaking research and labor which the author has devoted to his task, and of ‘the practical, detailed, and accurate knowledge of our procedure which he has acquired’ and lays before his readers. This estimate by an English jurist is an estimate that can be taken at its face value, as it comes from one who is thoroughly familiar with the rules which Mr Rosenbaum describes and discusses.” C. L. King
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:239 S ‘17 140w
=ROSENBLATT, FRANK FERDINAND.= Chartist movement in its social and economic aspects. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25226
“The volume, which is introductory, summarizes the English radical movement previous to Chartism from the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, describes in detail the economic and political situation in England at the time of the origin of Chartism, sketches the careers, personalities, and beliefs of the leaders of the movement, traces its emergence from the existing political and economic conditions and its development until the end of the Newport riot in November, 1839. The war has delayed the completion of this study for the subsequent period.”—J Pol Econ
“There seems no particular reason for the qualifying phrase in its title since the political side of the movement is as much to the front as the social and economic. The preliminary chapters are inadequate and disappointing. In the opinion of the reviewer they should either have been made much more exhaustive or cut down to a few introductory paragraphs. The narrative chapters bring out clearly the conflicting attitudes of the ‘moral force’ and the ‘physical force’ factions. The work is thoroughly and impartially done; but one has a feeling that the material had not been well enough digested and assimilated to enable the author to write with breadth of view and sense of proportion.” H. E. Mills
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:605 S ‘17 330w
“It is a little over sixty years since a book wholly devoted to the history of the Chartist movement was issued from the English press; for not a single book on the subject has appeared in England since Gammage published his history in 1854. As far as it goes his study is, on the whole, a satisfactory piece of work. It is particularly so as regards the sketches of the leaders of the movement, and of the spirit in which they preached the gospel of revolt. He is less successful when he describes the political, industrial, and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement.” E: Porritt
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:649 Ap ‘17 580w
“His exposition of the causes behind the Chartist movement is marred in places by inexactness of statement, and a tendency to exaggeration in language out of harmony with a scholarly presentation of historical facts.” E: Porritt
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w
+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w
“Three ‘Ph. D.’ monographs on Chartism, together constituting volume 73 of Studies in history, economics and law present from different points of view a survey of a movement too much neglected by historians, especially by those of England and the United States. ... Dr Rosenblatt gives more attention than his fellow-authors to the narrative of events; so his essay serves well as an introduction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w
“An immense amount of information in a very readable form is packed into 244 pages.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 260w
=ROTHSCHILD, ALONZO.= “Honest Abe”; a study in integrity based on the early life of Abraham Lincoln. il *$2 (2½c) Houghton 17-25451
“The unique and comprehensive library of Lincolniana” which Mr Rothschild had collected, recently donated in his memory to the Widener library of Harvard university, evidences the thorough research and study which he gave to his chosen subject. Mr Robert Lincoln has been quoted as calling “Lincoln, master of men,” Mr Rothschild’s first book on Lincoln, the best book about his father he had read. “‘Honest Abe’ traces the development of Lincoln’s honesty as exhibited by his active life from childhood through his election to the Senate. An additional chapter, unfortunately cut off by the author’s sudden death, was to have been added. The work, however, is an entity as it stands. ... Two of the chapters are concerned with Lincoln as a lawyer; one, with Lincoln as a politician. ... Following the text is a short biography of the author written by his son.” (Boston Transcript) “A list of books cited” occupies eleven pages and is followed by thirty-eight pages of “Notes” in which there are frequent references to secondary authorities. The frontispiece is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken from a woodcut by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype owned by Mr Robert T. Lincoln.
=A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 300w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 800w
+ =Cath World= 106:693 F ‘18 230w
“An inspiring and absorbing book.”
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 50w
“That any new thing could be said about Lincoln seemed impossible until Mr Rothschild’s new volume appeared. Of Mr Lincoln’s honesty other biographies have told us, but in rather a passing way: here we have the fact set forth in clear detail, with an amazing array of proofs, from widely scattered sources, exciting wonder how they could all be obtained.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 1 ‘17 140w
+ =Nation= 105:723 D 27 ‘17 100w
“A unique method of treatment of Lincoln’s life and character.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 380w
=Pittsburgh= 22:803 D ‘17 40w
“The steadily running stream of anecdote finally becomes somewhat tiresome, yet the cumulative effect is undeniably impressive.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 390w
=ROWLES, WILLIAM F.= Garden under glass. il *$2 Lippincott 716.3 17-29979
“Mr Rowles gives the data of greenhouse construction, from cold frames and pits to the finished structure, illustrating his descriptions with many diagrams and drawings. ... He divides his subject into six sections: The construction of glass houses and frames; popular greenhouse plants; fruit under glass; vegetables under glass and greenhouse work. The concluding section holds miscellaneous data: the construction and use of amateur frames; the character of greenhouse pests and the best methods for their extermination; a ‘greenhouse calendar’; a glossary, etc.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 320w
“An excellent exposition of English greenhouse methods.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 40w
=ROXBURGH, RONALD FRANCIS.= International conventions and third states. *$2.50 Longmans 341.2 17-22005
This monograph is published as one of the Contributions to international law and diplomacy, edited by L. Oppenheim, who says that it deals with a problem that has never before been made the subject of thorough research. Authors of different nationalities have approached the subject with a biased viewpoint. “They take it for granted that the principles and rules of international law are to be construed and interpreted according to views upheld by their municipal law and their national jurisprudence.” Mr Roxburgh covers the subject in seven chapters: Introduction; Third parties and contracts in municipal law; The opinions of publicists; Treaties unfavorable to third states; Treaties beneficial to third states; The influence of custom: Exceptional cases. The work was prepared in the years 1913 and 1914, “in accordance with the rules governing the Whewell international law scholarships in the University of Cambridge,” but has since been revised and largely rewritten. A list of authorities referred to is included.
“It must be confessed that the author’s treatment of his subject is somewhat sketchy and not at all points conclusive. ... It might perhaps have been a better arrangement to have made the study of municipal law follow rather than precede the precedents of diplomatic practice. ... But these are minor points and they do not prevent us from agreeing with the learned editor that the author has ‘brought together a considerable amount of material, and that he has come to very valuable conclusions which require thorough examination and consideration.’” C. G. Fenwick
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:777 N ‘17 700w
“Excellent index.” F.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:626 O ‘17 150w
=RUGG, HAROLD ORDWAY.= Statistical methods applied to education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$2 Houghton 370 17-29584
A textbook for students of education in the quantitative study of school problems, prepared by an assistant professor of education in the University of Chicago. It has been written for the average school administrator limited in mathematical equipment. The writer believes that it is necessary to equip school men with a thorough-going knowledge of statistical methods as a background for discriminating use in improvement of their school practice. A preliminary chapter explains The use of statistical methods in education. Other chapters deal with collection and classification of educational facts and data, the method of averages, the measurement of variability, the frequency curve, the use of tabular and graphic methods in reporting school facts.
=El School J= 18:239 N ‘17 90w
“The bibliography is remarkably well chosen and annotated and covers a wide range of studies on school administration. Mr Rugg’s book is a real contribution to the science of education, and one ventures to prophesy that it will be found on the desk of every progressive school man in the country.” P. C. Stetson
+ =El School J= 18:314 D ‘17 1300w
=School R= 25:693 N ‘17 90w (Same as =El School J N= ‘17)
Reviewed by P. C. Stetson
+ =School R= 25:765 D ‘17 1300w (Same as =El School J D= ‘17)
=RUHL, ARTHUR BROWN.= White nights and other Russian impressions. il *$2 (4c) Scribner 914.7 17-13589
The first chapter, The road to Russia, gives Scandinavian impressions. The author tells how the people of Norway and Sweden look on the war, describes Stockholm on a sunny morning, and gives an account of a visit with Ellen Key. The Russian chapters that follow are: White nights; At the front; The Moscow art theatre; A look at the Duma; Russia’s war prisoners; A Russian cotton king; Down the Volga to Astrakhan; Volga refugees; Rumania learns what war is. There are over twenty photographic illustrations.
“Very well written and readable.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17
“Mr Ruhl is perhaps the best equipped, in sympathetic understanding, charm of style, and intellectual preparation, of the American journalists now in Russia. ... Throughout the trip Mr Ruhl keeps America in mind, and his contrasts and comparisons with life in our own land help to throw into relief the manners and customs of a foreign people.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 63:266 S 27 ‘17 650w
+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w
“His description of the strong pro-German feeling in Sweden as compared with the almost as strong pro-Ally sentiment in Norway and his glance at the causes for the difference will illuminate the situation in Scandinavia for many American readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:209 My 27 ‘17 670w
+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 70w
“Mr Ruhl is a skilled reporter, and here he has a worthy subject. His book makes no bid for permanency, but as a presentation of varied aspects of Russia it has not been bettered since the war started—praise which does not consist wholly in the fact that Russia has not been ‘written up’ so extensively as have most of her allies and enemies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
=RUMSEY, FRANCES.= Mr Cushing and Mlle du Chastel. *$1.40 (1c) Lane 17-11701
While one’s American instincts lead one to side with the American husband, it is a tribute to the author’s power that she more than once forces the reader to see the situation from the point of view of the French wife. After their marriage Paul Cushing brings Anne-Marie to his New York home. Clashes of temperament are inevitable. The husband’s ideals are more than once shocked by his wife’s insistence on exact materialistic interpretations. Her French bringing up has taught her to overlook what she considers the normal delinquencies of men; but she sees delinquencies where none have existed, and it is on this rock that their marriage breaks. The meeting of the two in Paris, after Anne-Marie, true to her code of conduct, has left her husband to live with another man, brings out definitely the absolute divergence of the two points of view.
“Well written with a limited appeal for sophisticated readers.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17
“Seldom have American and Parisian conflicting standards been more cleverly analyzed and contrasted than in this distinctively ‘international’ novel. Seldom have human emotions and values been more convincingly interpreted. ... The story is not for all. But to those who appreciate originality of ideas and perfection of artistry, its daring plot, the Gallic precision of its premises, its gracious diction and its pitiless logic will bring a unique pleasure.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 800w
“Worthy of respect and thoughtful perusal.”
+ =Dial= 64:77 Ja 17 ‘18 600w
“The people are carefully dissected and nonliving intelligences, not human beings.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Political ideals. *$1 (5c) Century 320.4 17-24663
Mr Russell examines our present political ideals, our economic system, the dangers of state socialism, and the proper limits of individual and of national freedom, and concludes that our institutions should lay stress on the creative rather than the possessive impulse in man, that there should be a diminution, if not a total abolition, of rent and interest, that “the state should be the sole recipient of economic rent, while private capitalistic enterprises should be replaced by selfgoverning combinations of those who actually do the work,” that there should be “autonomy within each politically important group, and a neutral authority for deciding questions involving relations between groups,” that “the whole realm of thought and opinion” should be free, but that “in all that concerns possession and the use of force, unrestrained liberty involves anarchy and injustice”; that “the boundaries of states should coincide as nearly as possible with the boundaries of nations,” but that the external relations of states should be decided by “some international instruments of government.” Contents: Political ideals; Capitalism and the wage system; Pitfalls in socialism; Individual liberty and public control; National independence and internationalism.
“A sane and succinct statement of the philosopher’s well known views for individual and community ideals. This is not a book of pacifism and will be stimulating to thoughtful readers in any community.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17
Reviewed by F. W. Coker
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:137 F ‘18 750w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 750w
“We feel that it is around the ideas expressed in this book that the younger generation will rally for a clear faith and a well-grounded hope. Mr Russell has expressed these ideas in his other books. But here they are organized into what is virtually a primer of revolutionary idealism, written with a passionate soberness that stirs the mind as deeply as it moves the heart.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Dial= 64:69 Ja 17 ‘18 550w
“Many will not accept the war convictions of this noted English philosopher; but they demand respect.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 460w
“Mr Russell’s keen dissection of the evils of modern industrialism and the obstacles to free thought is at least wholesomely disturbing, but we cannot discover in his vague constructive suggestions any well-thought-out plan that can be adjudged practically workable.”
– + =Nation= 105:459 O 25 ‘17 400w
“Mr Russell is almost a Socialist; but he eludes all attempts to pigeonhole him. The danger he sees in the socialist program is the loss of that very freedom for the individual which is the summum bonum for all thinkers. Mr Russell predicts that the result of the realization of the present socialist program would be the domination of officialdom and bureaucracy. The answer to the problem is: ‘Autonomy within each politically important group, and a neutral authority for deciding questions involving relations between groups.’ This, of course, is guild socialism, deprived of the anarchistic freedom of the different trades. Mr Russell’s position in the present world crisis must command attention from every Socialist who is open to intelligent and constructive criticism of the socialist movement.” Bertram Benedict
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 700w
“In ‘Political ideals’ we have Mr Russell at his best. He is still impractical, and he admits the fact. But he is seldom capricious to the point of irresponsibility. In his criticisms of the life of to-day a keen and almost unnaturally disinterested intellect achieves a happy union with ethical courage and the two qualities are fused in a style of the utmost poise and clarity. ... While not entirely friendly to the state, Mr Russell does not abolish the state. On the contrary, he holds that in economic matters the state should exercise wider control than at present; while granting to the individual greater freedom in thought, freedom, religion and ethical questions governed by individual conscience. ... He is a critic of socialism and syndicalism, but his own ideas of ownership and control do not take definite form in this book.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 1400w
“In simple language, the five essays contained in this slim volume give the author’s political credo, more fully developed in ‘Why men fight.’ The reconciliation of liberty with government to him is the chief problem in economic and political relationships which must be solved before the world can be made safe and at the same time open to every form of human advancement. ‘Political ideals’ will help the reader who sees all the ruin wrought by capitalism and the possessive motive in world politics, and yet is prevented by fear of the ‘servile state’ from embracing the doctrines of socialism. It gives no new political system, no visionary scheme of revolutionary change, but formulates the philosophic basis for a program of immediate and consecutive reform.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 300w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Why men fight; a method of abolishing the international duel (Eng title, Principles of social reconstruction). *$1.50 (2½c) Century 172.4 17-1513
In this new book Bertrand Russell makes a study of the springs of human conduct. Responsibility for the war is placed by one group of people on the wickedness of the Germans, by another on the tangles of diplomacy and the ambitions of governments. Both groups, Mr Russell thinks, fail to realize the extent to which war grows out of ordinary human nature. “War is accepted by men who are neither Germans nor diplomatists with a readiness, an acquiescence in untrue and inadequate reasons, which would not be possible if any deep repugnance to war were widespread in other nations or classes.” The springs of human activity are impulse and desire, and of these, thinks Mr Russell, impulse is the stronger force. The pacifists are defined by him as “men in whom some impulse to which war is hostile is strong enough to overcome the impulses that lead to war.” What is needed then is a social reconstruction that will set free those impulses that lead to life rather than death. There are chapters on The state; Property; Education; Marriage and the population question; Religion and the churches, etc. In the preface to the London edition the statement is made that the lectures were written in 1915, and delivered in the beginning of 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17
“A book which it is very difficult to review with fairness: it is a book by a big man, who cares intensely for intellectual freedom and has achieved a European reputation by his work in his own very abstract field, but it is at the same time a book by a man out of heart and out of temper with the world, written hastily, left (as the preface tells us) unrevised, and dealing with a subject on many aspects of which he is ignorant, and on which his training and temperament debar him from writing with real insight. Perhaps the best and most charitable thing to say about it is that it is unworthy of its author.”
— =Ath= p577 D ‘16 1600w
Reviewed by Nathaniel Pfeffer
=Bookm= 45:197 Ap ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 150w
“Particularly for Americans, it contains a warning and a programme, because America is in greatest danger from the evils it denounces, and nearest to attainment of the excellences it urges. It is a handbook for patriots whose concern is the soul of our country.” H. M. Kallen
+ =Dial= 62:233 Mr 22 ‘17 4000w
“The Honorable Bertrand Russell affords perhaps the most striking example in this generation of powerful intellect working in vacuo. ... In his volume entitled ‘Why men fight’ there is very much that is fine and splendid, but this is almost invariably accompanied by a lack of appreciation of the realities of human nature and of life.”
– + =Educ R= 54:98 Je ‘17 90w
“Like all that Mr Russell writes, these pages are full of stimulating suggestion, of vigorous criticism, and of fresh and original thinking. Yet I venture to predict—as it is, no doubt, safe to do in regard to any writer upon social questions just now—that if, in future years, when the passions of these stormy days are stilled, Mr Russell returns to the topics here discussed, he will handle many of them differently and from a wider point of view.” G. D. Hicks
* + =Hibbert J= 15:692 Jl ‘17 3050w
“His book remains a turning point in constructive social theory.” C. D. Burns
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:384 Ap ‘17 1300w
“In no other war book or peace book known to the present reviewer is there to be found so thoroughgoing an investigation of ‘the various influences, social and political,’ which explain why men fight.”
+ =Nation= 104:367 Mr 29 ‘17 1500w
“To read ‘Why men fight’ with any sympathy is to be entranced by the honesty, the concentration, the intelligence, the equilibrium of its author. ... While many of his criticisms are unsparing, none of them is devious or poisoned. The principles of democracy and liberty are frankly and utterly his principles. ... He understands perfectly well that the enemy has to be fought, as the fighting insect has to be crushed. ... Many passages in ‘Why men fight’ indicate that Mr Russell is neither omniscient nor entirely consistent. He seems to dispose of incompatibilities easily, and yet to demand radical changes.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 10:24 F 3 ‘17 2300w
“A much more solid piece of work than his previous book on ‘Justice in war time.’ Here he has his feet partly on the ground, and is seemingly much more inclined to examine the economic foundations of society.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 25 ‘17 1050w
“Much of his thinking is of a very radical complexion, although it is individual in its radicalism and is not to be labeled with any existing brand of reform.”
=N Y Times= 22:46 F 11 ‘17 500w
“Bertrand Russell is perhaps the greatest of England’s living thinkers. ... It is just because the impulse to fight which swept this country off its feet when the Maine was blown up, so easily becomes uncontrollable that this calm, clear voice from the midst of the conflict bears a particularly timely message for the United States.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:590 F 17 ‘17 800w
“Although Mr Bertrand Russell lives in a political solitude as lonesome as that of Coleridge’s ‘Ancient mariner,’ he is manifestly able, to a limited extent, to combine with other groups on the vivifying basis of a number of common hatreds. ... Mr Bertrand Russell has written a thoroughly mischievous book, and it is all the more mischievous because, being a cultivated man, he has at his service a felicitous literary style which may possess some attractions for the unwary minds of prejudiced partisans and loose thinkers.” [Earl of] Cromer
— =Spec= 117:702 D 2 ‘16 2250w
“Much that Mr Russell says in criticizing the social order will be accepted as true by the philosophical thinker, who will, however, see that Mr Russell has failed to do any constructive reasoning that might lead to improvement. ... Mr Russell’s book is written with his wellknown brilliancy and force, but one fears that few persons will be able to read it through with patience. Mr Russell is too individual to agree at all points with the ‘philosophical anarchists,’ but his reasoning runs in that direction.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“To have said these things now, to have given fearless and eloquent utterance to ideas vaguely formulated and uncoordinated in other minds, has given to Bertrand Russell an intellectual leadership which will win him crowns both of laurel and of thorn.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:45 Ap 14 ‘17 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p552 N 16 ‘16 80w
“In the chapter on war is matter for the meditation of the pacifist as well as the boisterous patriot. ... It is not a convincing book. The author has too many grievances with the social world as it is to be fair to it or wise, but it is a book to stir and stimulate and promote that ‘creative impulse’ which it extols.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 N 30 ‘16 650w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM (A. E., pseud.).= National being: some thoughts on an Irish polity. *$1.35 Macmillan 342 (Eng ed 16-22450)
“‘A. E.,’ the author of ‘The national being’ believes that Ireland must be free to work out a destiny for herself among the nations of the earth. He believes that it is possible for her to solve the problem, too, not necessarily by fire and sword—for small nations are seldom wise in taking up the sword—but by the more patient and effective method of making Ireland economically free. When that is accomplished, the political freedom will follow naturally and will mean more than the creation of a new Parliament of stupidity to replace the present body which rules Ireland. ... ‘A. E.’s’ plan for a commercially liberated Ireland begins with a scheme for co-operative production instead of the multifarious and futile competition that exists at present.”—Springf’d Republican
“Beautifully written and inspiring, even if he is somewhat inclined to idealize the situation.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17
“His ‘imaginative meditation on the state of Ireland’ is, indeed, addressed to youth. It breathes a note of confidence, of hope triumphant and undismayed, of spiritual adventure and high courage that only the ears of youth can catch. A. E.’s message is not to the politicians of to-day, but to the future nation-builders of Ireland.”
+ =Ath= p524 N ‘16 950w
“A suggestive and splendid vision of industrial energy and justice and a plan of universal service for the state.”
+ =Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 40w
“It is in truth a considered summation and codification, at times attaining to a noble eloquence, of the author’s social and political philosophy. ... The writer of this stimulating book has deserved well of his native land. ‘The national being’ is sure, even in the present, to realize the author’s modest hope that it may ‘provoke thought on fundamentals.’”
+ =Nation= 104:163 F 8 ‘17 700w
“We have had in the last two years half a hundred volumes on political organization. Of a certainty we have had few so penetrating or so wise.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 10:270 Mr 31 ‘17 1550w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17
“An outline of the author’s conception of a coöperative commonwealth in Ireland, and a summary of his social and political philosophy. His message implies the establishment of a communal control in agriculture and industry, with an aristocracy of intellect dominating politics and government.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:527 Je ‘17 43w
“We confess to leaving: ‘A. E.’s’ imaginative meditation about the character and future of the state of Ireland with more admiration for the beauty of the language in which it is set forth than for the practicability of its suggestions.”
=Spec= 117:446 O 14 ‘16 1050w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 8 ‘17 650w
“National safety can lie only in national harmony. By stressing and reiterating again and again this point, the author is driving home a lesson which may well be heeded also in other lands.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:549 S 22 ‘17 500w
“There is a class of writers, practical men, whose thought has grown out of experience, who are not only clear expounders but also leaders. Of these the Irish poet, painter, economist, and apostle of cooperation, known as ‘A. E.’ is one. ... He has written a simple, practical, wise, and cheering book. It stands out among the innumerable social books that stream from the presses like a gentle giant among a crowd of clamouring pygmies.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p459 S 28 ‘16 1000w
“The discussion of rural, agricultural, and labor problems have special reference to conditions in Ireland, but they are applicable in considerable degree to any country. It would be a pity if any serious student of these problems should be deprived of this remarkably stimulating and original work, which is notable for its literary quality.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 70w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM (A. E., pseud.), and others.= Irish home-rule convention. *50c (2c) Macmillan 941.5 17-24526
This book discusses the questions before the Irish convention now sitting in Cork. John Quinn first states his position regarding the European war, then considers the Sinn Fein and the Dublin insurrection, setting forth the English, American and Irish opinions of the insurrection and concluding with two short chapters on G. W. Russell and Sir Horace Plunkett. These seven chapters (ninety-four pages) are called on the title page (but not in the table of contents) “An American opinion.” Following Mr Quinn’s chapters, we have “Thoughts for a convention” (sixty-six pages), by George W. Russell (“A.E.”), who has here “put into shape for publication ideas and suggestions for an Irish settlement which had been discussed among a group whose members represented all extremes in Irish opinion. ... For the spirit, method of presentation and general arguments used, he alone is responsible.” (Note) Mr Russell does not believe in ‘dual government of Ireland by two houses of Parliament,’ but believes in a selfgoverning Ireland, in which Ulster should consent to play her part. The last part of the book consists of Sir Horace Plunkett’s “Defence of the convention” (twenty-three pages) delivered at Dundalk, June 25, 1917.
“John Quinn’s attitude is one of optimism throughout and his presentation of the facts involved is both clarifying and weighty in significance. ... The fundamentals suggested by Mr Russell cover all phases of Irish misunderstanding, and if they could be carried out would work wonders in that much-perplexed country.” H. S. Gorman
+ =Bookm= 46:331 N ‘17 1700w
“Every lover of Ireland will rejoice that brains so keen and spirits so well disposed and conciliatory are at work on the most difficult problem of the future constitution of the Irish nation.”
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“Three intelligent, illuminating, and hopeful views of the Irish question as it stands today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:544 D 9 ‘17 90w
“Mr George Russell and Sir Horace Plunkett have provided Irishmen with an opportunity to meet and work together on a plane above the region of official animosities. They have done in the economic life what the creators of the Irish literature have done in the sphere of art-given a common ground to distracted men. And because they have always been aware of the national scope of their work they are peculiarly fitted at this time to address their countrymen on behalf of national unity. The great hope for the future which waits upon the performance of the Home rule convention is that Ireland may have been informed and guided by the spirit which shines out in these appeals.” C: A. Bennett
+ =Yale R= n s 7:441 Ja ‘18 460w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM ERSKINE.= Arthur Henry Stanton: a memoir. il *$3.50 Longmans A17-1384
Father Stanton began his ministry more than half a century ago in St Albans, Holborn. “He was opposed to what is referred to as the Establishment, and in early manhood became a member of the Liberation society. The alliance between church and state was hateful to him. He devoted himself to the poor and outcast, and his methods showed a complete disregard of the scientific treatment demanded by social workers.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) He was not a scholar and never attained either worldly or ecclesiastical dignities, “yet he gained a reputation and wielded an influence such as can only be compared with that of the leaders of the early days of the Tractarian movement, Newman, Froude, Keble, and Pusey. For over fifty years he occupied a unique place in the English church, and this was due solely to the fact that he was himself. ... He figured prominently and as something of a firebrand in the bitterest and most acrimonious ritual disputes of the nineteenth century.” (Sat R) A man of narrow views, quick-tempered and combative, yet a broad humanity and tolerance governed his intercourse with his fellowmen.
“Has special interest because of the insight it affords into the history of the High Church movement in England since 1862.”
+ =Cath World= 106:260 N ‘17 270w
“If the Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell wrote his memoir for those who are personally familiar with Father Stanton’s ministry at St Albans, Holborn, or are otherwise deeply concerned in that union of Catholic sacramentalism and radical socialism which Father Stanton so fervidly represented, then the book is none too long; but for the ordinary reader, even for one who can find interest in a pretty strong dose of English ecclesiasticism, there is certainly three times too much of it.”
+ — =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 200w
“We have nothing but admiration for the way in which Mr Russell has compiled the biography. Who combines so curiously well as he the refinements and fastidiousness of the man of letters and the man of the world with the things that spiritually matter?... Wherever possible Mr Russell allows Father Stanton to speak for himself, and the copious extracts from letters, speeches, and sermons have been well selected to present a complete picture of the man.”
* + =Sat R= 123:480 My 26 ‘17 1100w
“A volume of engrossing interest, and a worthy memorial of a true servant of Christ and humanity.”
* + =Spec= 118:591 My 26 ‘17 2100w
“Mr Russell’s narrative is a plain and restrained statement, offering just what is necessary to set each period of Stanton’s life in its proper perspective, and the book gains in force through this absence of discursiveness and laudation.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p234 My 17 ‘17 1050w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM ERSKINE.= Politics and personalities, with other essays. *$2.25 Scribner 17-25966
“In his latest volume, Mr Russell’s range of subjects extends from Gladstone to ghosts, from casuistry to chivalry and from thrift to tyrannicide. ... Especially does Mr Russell find the nineteenth century prolific in demagogues. ... In his list of demagogues Mr Russell includes Henry Brougham, Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Randolph Churchill and Joseph Chamberlain, the last two being ‘the most consummate demagogues whom England has ever produced.’ And with such famous men in his list, he is certain that Lloyd-George will not be offended when he finds himself included in their company.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:158 F ‘18
“Not all, however, seem to us worth reproducing; and the best can be described in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s phrase about his own later essays as the wine squeezed out of the press after the first juice that runs of itself from the fruit.”
– + =Ath= p672 D ‘17 110w
=Boston Transcript= p9 O 17 ‘17 670w
=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 50w
“The book itself is thoroughly engaging. It is one of those comfortable books which one can take up at odd moments with the assurance that they will prove good moments—a book genial without loss of seriousness, thoughtful without being profound, and (grateful virtue) contemporary without being harrowing.”
+ =Dial= 63:644 D 20 ‘17 400w
“Mr G. W. E. Russell’s new book of essays is exceedingly good reading. Whether he writes of politics or persons, he is never dull; and whether he provokes us to argument, agreement, or only to a smile, he is excellent company.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup625 D 1 ‘17 1400w
“Like most of Mr Russell’s books, this new volume is rich in political principle and memory, in details about leading men of immediate past and in constitutional knowledge.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p524 N 1 ‘17 960w
=RUSSELL, WALTER MARVIN.= Operation of gas works. il *$2 McGraw 665.7 17-5554
“Mr Russell’s book ... deals with management and operation primarily and with apparatus and construction secondarily. ... First are presented organization and general management, both of plant and men. Then comes chemical control of product. One chapter is devoted to problems peculiar to coal-gas plants, another to water-gas production. Chapter 5 groups the general plant problems—handling materials, keeping cleaned up, fire protection, proper steam and water lines, keeping a good boiler house, etc. The final chapter discusses calorimetry and photometry, and an appendix gives miscellaneous useful tables.”—Engin News-Rec
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
“Simple and clear instructions for operating standard types of apparatus usually found in small or medium sized gas works.”
+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 20w
“The growing use of manufactured-gas fuel in industrial plants and the increase in number of gas-works owned by manufacturing concerns have brought home to a wide circle of engineers outside the gas industry the lack of concise, easily read treatises on gas-works construction and operation. There has been of course the ‘catechism’ of the Gas institute, but this has not apparently been much utilized outside of the industry. Mr Russell’s book fills at least half the void, although not written with the industrial-plant engineers particularly in view.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 180w
“It is stated that the operations described have all been successfully tried out upon a commercial scale. The most recent developments, however, in mechanical operation, mass carbonization, and water gas operation have been omitted.”
+ — =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 110w
=Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 40w
“Author is manager of the Emporia gas company.”
=Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 50w
Russian court memoirs, 1914-16; with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war. il *$5 Dutton (12s 6d Jenkins, London) 947 (Eng ed 17-12739)
“The author writes as an avowed monarchist, and he completed his work long before the recent upheaval; but he was intensely alive to the dangers arising from the widespread belief in the existence of German influence in court circles, although he regarded the extent of that influence as being much exaggerated by popular rumour.” (Spec) “Among the topics discussed in the fifteen chapters that make up this volume are:—‘The Tsar and his family,’ ‘The Tsar and his generals,’ ‘The imperial court,’ ‘The Russian foreign office,’ ‘Society of Petrograd,’ ‘Russian women during the war,’ and ‘The press.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The book contains many good portraits.”
=Ath= p257 My ‘17 70w
“Filled with anecdotes, malicious and foolish, about the private life, public appearance, and toilette of these great ones. Gossip of this type collected and placed on the market enables us to gauge the intellect of the pseudonymous writer, and to ask with regret who are the members of the English public who appreciate the fare thus provided.”
— =Ath= p343 Jl ‘17 190w
Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky
— =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 190w
“Some books are like the manna foddered to the Jews in the wilderness, good at night but spoilt the next day. Such is this anonymous book. The Russian revolution put it as completely out of date as if it had been written a hundred years ago.” N. H. D.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 650w
“The author makes us see why the Czarina was unpopular and how she has been misunderstood. As a court picture, the book is comprehensive; as a political prophecy it is of far less importance.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 210w
“There is a good chapter on Russian women during the war. ... Our author claims that the Czar was in no way responsible for the war—that he did everything in his power to avert it. ... ‘Russian court memoirs’ is not a literary document. It is gossip, gossip that occasionally has a back-stairs flavor. As a journalistic report of a past era it is of intense interest. The book is sincere, faithfully told from the writer’s viewpoint—and the novelty of that viewpoint makes it all the more readable.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1150w
“There is a sympathetic sketch of the ex-Czar and his children, but the former Czarina is criticized for her association with wandering monks. The illustrations give added interest to these piquant pen sketches.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 200w
“He has a wealth of information and a good deal of pleasant anecdote about all the prominent figures in Petrograd society during the period he covers; but unfortunately his anonymity detracts, to some extent, from the value of his book as an historical document. We cannot give full credence to his version of the subtler influences at work beneath the surface of politics without knowing how much of what he says is genuine ‘inside’ knowledge, and how much is merely what was currently believed at the time.”
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 220w
“Whatever may be the author’s social or other position in Petrograd, the information at his or her disposal is by no means of the back-stair variety. Not its least agreeable feature is the absence of any tendency to dogmatize or to prophesy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 850w
Russian year-book, 1916; comp. and ed. by N. Peacock. *10s 6d Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 314.7
“The sixth issue of this standard work of reference. It contains much new matter of value in connexion with the war—a résumé of the economic condition of Russia since the beginning of the war; the new Customs tariff in full detail; the 1916 budget, and much else; with a diary of the war on the Russian front.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 50w
=RUTLEDGE, MARICE, pseud.= Children of fate. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 17-9707
A story of the European war and of Paris in war time. Two lovers, a young French architect and an American girl, are separated by the first call to arms. Pierre, a high-strung, sensitive youth, finds the idea of killing loathsome. To nerve himself up to the task before him, he is forced to make himself believe that he is engaged in a war between good and evil, that he is battling for civilization. Natalie encourages his belief, but even at the moment of parting she has begun to doubt it, and as time goes on she comes to feel more and more that war cannot save civilization, that war cannot end war, that militarism is a hydra-headed monster, that if one of its heads, Germany, be cut off today, another will have grown up tomorrow. But of this she can say nothing to Pierre who depends on her encouragement. Their second parting, after he has been wounded, brings on a crisis in which the girl is forced to tell him the truth about herself and her convictions.
“One observes here the ‘certain condescension’ of complacent feminism toward the dull and errant male, and the somewhat shrill note of the special pleader. But whatever may be thought of this book in its character of tract or brief, its dignity and moving quality as a story are beyond question.” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:315 My ‘17 400w
“The book is a piece of passionate special pleading but is well worth reading as such and as a story.”
+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 170w
“This is a book of passionate sincerity, an honest plea, but a special plea; and it does not escape the partiality or even altogether the shrillness, of its order.”
=Nation= 104:490 Ap 26 ‘17 1150w
“This ardent pacifist lays the crime of war at the door of woman, holding that without her sanction the world would not have the deadly recurrent spectacle of the ‘maleness run riot’ (to use the phrase of another feminist), which is war.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 60w
— =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w
“While the book brings out vividly some of the more distressful phases of the great war, particularly as regards France, the very fact that France is fighting in defense of her life should preserve that country from the sentiments which the author put in the mouth of his heroine. ... The story is excellently and even powerfully written. It contains germs of thought that will flourish and grow stronger in more peaceful times.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 600w
=RUYSBROECK, JAN VAN.= Adornment of the spiritual marriage; The sparkling stone; The book of supreme truth; ed. with an introd. and notes by Evelyn Underhill. *$1.75 Dutton 242
“The manuscript of these papers was translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk-Dom. It presents three of the most important works of the great Flemish mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. He was born in 1273 at the village of Ruysbroeck, between Brussels and Hals, and lived during his entire life in his native province Brabant.” (R of Rs) “As in other works of this kind, the author is concerned with the qualities of the divine nature and with absorption of those qualities into the nature of the devout man. ... ‘Ecstatic absorption in God,’ says Miss Underhill, ‘formed only one side of Ruysbroeck’s religious life. True to his own doctrine of the “balanced career” of action and contemplation as the ideal of the Christian soul, his rapturous ascents toward divine reality were compensated by the eager and loving interest with which he turned toward the world of men.’” (Springf’d Republican)
“An excellent rendering into English of three of the finest writings of Jan of Ruysbroeck, which have never been fully accessible in our own language. Miss Underhill, in an admirable preface, touches on his life and times, and sums up his teaching with great clearness and insight. Ruysbroeck was one of the great constructive mystics who represent and sum up the spiritual knowledge of their own and other times, transfusing and co-ordinating, in the light of their own rich experience and personality, the universal vision of God and of man’s relation to Him. ... The translator has done a great service in opening out to us the experience and teachings of one of the most lofty and spiritual minds of the Christian era.” G. K. S.
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:135 O ‘17 700w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16
“For the student of spiritual philosophy this book is a treasure of undeniable worth.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 170w
=St Louis= 5:47 F ‘17
“Ruysbroeck is one of the better guides for the modern mystics.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 400w
=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Distributive justice; the right and wrong of our present distribution of wealth. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 331 16-22456
In this volume Father Ryan, author of “The living wage,” “discusses the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed, considering the moral aspects of distribution with reference to the four classes—landowners, capitalists, business men, and laborers. The rights and obligations of these four classes constitute the main subject of the work, while an effort is made to propose reforms that would remove the principal defects of the present system and bring about a larger measure of social justice.” (R of Rs)
“One might, perhaps, criticise other minor features of this excellent book, but such criticism would not detract from its great merit as a logical and lucid exposition of a most important subject, pervaded by a spirit of sweet reasonableness that charms even when it may not convince.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Am Econ R= 7:377 Je ‘17 1950w
=A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17
“One of the most important books that have appeared within the last decade. Many thoughtful Americans, already well acquainted with the socio-political theories and programs of socialists, of single-taxers, of syndicalists, and of classical economists, have been ignorant of the tendencies of Catholic social politics. Dr Ryan’s book is not a history of Catholic social politics—such a work is still to be written. Rather, it is a painstaking critique of the morality of private land-ownership and rent, of private capital and interest, of profits and wages; and its significance lies in the fact that the morality in question is the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic church and that the thoughtful American who reads it has no longer any excuse for being ignorant of the meaning of Catholic social politics.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:766 N ‘17 1750w
“Typical of his argument is an omission of any discussion of the population question, evidently upon the ground that numbers are not, or should not be, subject to human control. In fact, despite elaborate arguments, it is evident that the real questions at issue are all contained in his assumptions. The volume bears the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the church.” W. H. Hamilton
=Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 230w
=Ath= p38 Ja ‘17 160w
“Not merely the layman, but even more acutely, the student of ethics and moral theology has long desired a competent treatise on the Catholic doctrine of property, applying the traditional principles of our authorities to present day problems and conditions. ... Hence this volume is a very valuable contribution to our ethics library.”
+ =Cath World= 104:545 Ja ‘17 350w
“The author is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”
=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 80w
“The book is written from a Christian standpoint and makes use of the whole realm of literature bearing on the subject. ... And if it adds but little to the body of economic doctrine, but impregnates economic theory with an ethical ideal, it deserves most hearty commendation.”
+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 350w
“From the author of ‘The living wage’ one has learned to expect scholarship and sincerity, and sympathy for the tribulations of ordinary folks. Dr Ryan’s new book ‘Distributive justice,’ is nevertheless a genuine disappointment. The author has set himself the ungrateful task of demonstrating the justice of an industrial system and at the same time, the injustice of its operation.”
— =Ind= 90:435 Je 2 ‘17 220w
“In the main his views are those held by economists of liberal views. The essential elements of the present system of distribution—private ownership of land and capital—are defended against single taxers and socialists. The novel thing about Professor Ryan’s book is the unusual method by which he reaches his conclusions. Natural rights, chiefly as set forth by the Christian Fathers, form the base from which the argument proceeds, but there is a large admixture of purely economic considerations. The book will be useful as a careful résumé of the chief economic reforms which are at present under consideration. As a piece of philosophical inquiry it is curious rather than interesting.”
+ — =Nation= 105:269 S 6 ‘17 270
“The most comprehensive and dignified existing treatise on the ethics of economic reform.” A. S. J.
=N Y Br Lib= News 4:8 Ja ‘17
+ =New Repub= 10:79 F 17 ‘17 1050w
“Making use of Father Ryan’s favorite word, ‘justification,’ it may be said that his book affords ample justification to any person who succeeds in amassing property no matter what the human suffering was that the laborers endured.” Frank Macdonald
— =N Y Call= p14 F 11 ‘17 900w
“His book is solid, learned, well argued. His intent commands sympathy. Only the malicious and uncharitable could condemn or dissent without reserve. But after passing his four hundredth page he surmises that his readers will be ‘disappointed and dissatisfied’ that his labors have produced nothing better. His rules of justice and proposals for reform are confessedly complex, indefinite. ... It may be doubted whether books like these help progress much, for all their good intentions.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:65 F 25 ‘17 650w
=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w
“John A. Ryan is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w
=RYAN, MARAH ELLIS (MARTIN) (MRS S. ERWIN RYAN) (ELLIS MARTIN, pseud.).= Druid path. *$1.35 (1c) McClurg 17-4311
Six stories told in the spirit of old Irish legend. Only the last, a story of the recent revolution, is modern and in this also the author has succeeded in suggesting the atmosphere of the old tales of the heroes. The titles are: The druid path; The enchanting of Doirenn; Liadan and Kurithir; Dervail Nan Ciar; Randuff of Cumanac; The dark rose. The book has decorations and endpieces designed by Will Vreeland.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w
“It is unusual to find in an American writer the quality which distinguishes the work of Fiona Macleod, but the same poetic mysticism which haunts those imaginative tales is to be found in ‘The druid path.’ The author has infused her characters with such reality that they become living men and women, whose passions lay violent hold upon the reader. ... The publishers have produced a book which is typographically worthy of the exceptional literary merit of the stories.”
+ =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 250w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w
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=SABATINI, RAFAEL.= Snare. *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-29537
This novel pictures “an incident of Wellington’s campaign against the French in Portugal. Wellington was out to save Portugal, but there were traitors in high places secretly opposing his methods and playing the spy for the enemy. ... All depended on secrecy and unity of action. Suddenly the drunken blunder of a young English officer gives the plotters their chance to upset the delicate balance. Their influence causes the Portuguese council of regency to demand that the culprit be made a scapegoat. He is at large, and it falls to his brother-in-law, O’Moy, British adjutant-general at Lisbon, to promise that he shall be shot when taken.” (Bookm) The disentangling of the coil of circumstances developing from this situation occupies the remainder of this romantic narrative.
“Mr Sabatini shows his quality by giving his personæ enough characterisation to lift the performance from the early status of the cheap thriller to the celestial plane of romance.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 300w
“An absorbing and well-characterized romance.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w
“Swift-moving, picturesque, and well told.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 300w
+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 70w
“Mr Sabatini vividly recreates local color and revivifies the distant scene. The characters are broadly sketched, particularly that of the ‘Iron duke.’ It is a story in which fact and fiction are delightfully blended and one that is entertaining in high degree from first to last.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 550w
“We sometimes forget how good a tale he has set forth in reflecting how much better it might become in the hands of a playwright of genius. It has all the essentials of a moving play.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 600w
=SABIN, ALVAH MORTON.= Industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish. 2d ed thoroughly rev il *$3.50 Wiley 667 17-115
“The book opens with a section of definitions and brief fundamental descriptions, such as how varnish is made; what linoxyn is; what pigments and paints are. This is followed by a discussion of the history of paints and varnishes, introducing the original quotations, Greek and Latin, about the earliest processes. The author leads up to the technology of varnish by a discussion of linseed oil; after finishing with varnish, he runs off into japans, driers, rosin, shellac and the other spirit varnishes, cellulose and celluloid coatings, etc. There is after this a most informing section on paint. ... The rest of the book is devoted essentially to the engineering application of paints and varnishes and materials intended to serve the same purpose of protection or ornamentation.”—Engin N
=A L A Bkl= 13:278 Mr ‘17
“The man who reads for entertainment as well as instruction will appreciate this book. It is a technical work in the true sense of the word; but it is written with the rare style of a classical scholar, and humor is not lacking. It is labeled a second edition, but it is virtually a new book—due to the development of the art and the changed affiliations of the author—he is now a paint and not a varnish man.”
+ =Engin N= 77:437 Mr 15 ‘17 450w
=SACHER, HARRY=, ed. Zionism and the Jewish future. maps *$1 (1c) Macmillan 296 17-95
The purpose of this volume is to “set before English-speaking readers the meaning and achievement of Zionism.” The introduction to the volume is written by Dr Charles Weizmann, who says that the Jewish problem, while it has different aspects in different countries, is essentially the problem of “fitting into the modern world a national group which has survived from ancient times without the ordinary attributes of nationhood.” Among the contributions to the book are: A century of Jewish history, by H. Sacher; Anti-Semitism, by Albert M. Hyamson; The Hebrew revival, by Leon Simon; The history of Zionism, by R. Gottheil; The Jews and the economic development of Palestine, by S. Tolkowsky. The work was prepared in Great Britain but the authors represent several countries, including Palestine.
=A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17
“A book written from the Zionistic viewpoint and frankly propagandist, but presenting an excellent brief summary of the movement today.”
+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 20w
“Its editor is a distinguished British journalist; among the contributors to its pages are civil servants of the British government, Jewish religious leaders, and American college professors.” H. M. Kallen
=Dial= 62:60 Ja 25 ‘17 750w
+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:221 Mr ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17
Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer
+ =Spec= 117:187 Ag 12 ‘16 1350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ‘16 400w
“Weak from the point of view of propaganda, strong as literary efforts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 S 21 ‘16 1700w
=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON=, A Vagabond’s Odyssey. il *$2.50 (1c) Dodd 910 (Eng ed 17-14533)
“This is another pleasantly written volume of unconventional travel, by the author of ‘Sailor and beachcomber,’ who describes it as the second instalment of his autobiography. The book is filled with variety, and brings before us with vividness and ‘sparkle’ some of the writer’s experiences and adventures in many lands—among them the United States, Samoa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Spain, and the south of France. During an earlier visit to Samoa the author became acquainted with Stevenson, of whom some reminiscences are included.”—Ath
=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 130w
“This ‘Odyssey’ might have been written by a man who never stirred outside his study, so curiously unconvincing is the impression left on the reader’s mind. The moralizings, reflections, and would-be eloquent descriptions are shallow and tawdry.”
— =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 100w
“The South Seas made a vivid impression on the author, and the poet continually surges uppermost in him when he swings into one of his frequent descriptions of the land and its beauty. A valuable feature of Mr Safroni-Middleton’s book is found in its picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. It is neither long nor deep in analysis, but it is picturesque.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:369 S 30 ‘17 600w
“Mr Safroni-Middleton is rich in prejudices and one-sided views as well as good stories; but we can forgive him the former in view of the latter.”
+ =Sat R= 123:111 F 3 ‘17 1500w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 25 ‘17 1000w
Sainte Séductre; an inner view of the Boche at bay, by Exile X; American ed., rev. and ed., by R: Wilmer Rowan. *$1.25 Liberty pub. assn., 110 W. 40th st. N.Y. 17-16312
Sainte Séductre is a narrative in the form of a drama, with eight scenes or “Dialogues.” The scene is laid “somewhere in Germany,” at the headquarters of certain German commanders and in the huts of the starving Belgian and French exiles. “It revolves about a scheme originated by General von A—— to save Germany, already defeated, by the adoption of a pretended democratic form of government, which shall secure her friends among all the nations composing the final Council of peace.” (Boston Transcript)
“To bring about a better understanding of the internal conditions of Imperial Germany today; to bring especially to public opinion in the United States a warning too little heeded, if at all understood, and to emphasize that ‘at present it is the duty of every true American to acquaint himself thoroughly with each particular element of the “Teutonic peril”’ was this story of ‘Sainte Séductre’ translated, and revised to render it more compelling for American readers.” F. B.
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 880w
“It offers material which ought to be borne in mind in whatever discussions of peace the future may see. The book was written in the white heat of intellectual conviction, rather than passion.”
+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 250w
=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 130w
=SALES SERVICE COMPANY.=[2] Selling your services. *$1 (6c) Sales service co., 101 Park av., N.Y. 658 17-11356
Other titles for the book might be “How to secure a position,” or, more colloquially, “How to get a job.” The authors believe that, by following its suggestions, “the average man will improve his chances of getting a hearing and, finally, of securing the job for which he is best suited.” The chapters are very brief and each is devoted to some special item. Many sample letters of application are presented.
+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 10w
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:604 Je 21 ‘17 120w
“Well worth the reading of anyone seeking a position.”
+ =Engin Rec= 75:476 Mr 24 ‘17 60w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 60w
=SALTER, WILLIAM MACKINTIRE.= Nietzsche the thinker. *$3.50 (2c) Holt 193 17-25449
This book, by the author of “First steps in philosophy,” “Anarchy or government?” etc., is “a contribution to the understanding of Nietzsche.” Mr Salter limits himself to Nietzsche’s “fundamental points of view—noting only in passing or not at all his thoughts on education, his later views of art and music, his conception of woman, his interpretation of Christianity and attitude to religion.” (Preface) The book was in substance written before the present European war, and the author does not find Nietzsche “touching it in any special way” except as “a diagnostician of the general conditions which appear to have given birth to it.” Three introductory chapters cover Nietzsche’s relation to his time, his life and personal traits, some characteristics of his thinking, etc. The author then divides Nietzsche’s intellectual life into three periods, and considers it by period. Mr Salter believes that Nietzsche, far from reflecting the age, is “a force antagonistic to the dominant forces about us”; that “he has changed nothing, whether in thought or public policy”; and that “even in Germany ... his counsels and ideas have been far more disregarded than followed.” Nevertheless Mr Salter believes Nietzsche to be so important that perhaps in the near future “we shall be speaking of a pre-Nietzschean and a post-Nietzschean period in philosophical, and particularly in ethical and social analysis and speculation—and that those who have not made their reckoning with him will be as hopelessly out of date as those who have failed similarly with Kant.”
“It is evidently the result of wide reading and deep study of his subject; but unfortunately the attempt, not merely to restate Nietzsche’s thoughts, ‘but to rethink them, using more or less my own language,’ is not helped by some clumsy construction and faulty punctuation.”
+ — =Ath= p41 Ja ‘18 70w
“Scholarly exposition of Nietzsche’s doctrines.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ — =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 60w
“Interpretations of Nietzsche are many, but usually they are nine parts comment to one of exposition, whereas Mr Salter effaces his own opinions and lets Nietzsche explain himself by placing in logical relation to each other the thoughts which Nietzsche sprinkled at random over his works.”
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 110w
“Mr Salter has done the English reading public a large service, for he has given them what is easily the best book in English and what will rank well among the best in other languages on a man, who before the war was much misunderstood and misrepresented and since the war has been flagrantly criticized and abused. ... In a way that may be said even to make further study and exposition unnecessary, at least for a long time, he has presented and explained the philosophy itself, but its importance as possibly contributing significantly to the philosophy of an era, and so its place in the history of philosophy, he has not duly considered.” A. H. Lloyd
+ — =J Philos= 15:103 F 14 ‘18 3450w
“Whatever merits the book may have must be dug for by studious readers who are more adept at these mystical numbers than we are. If Mr Salter has really intended a generalization, we can only regretfully say that he has not ‘got it across’ to us, though that may not be his fault, but our own stupidity. But for those who love interminable preaching there is surely here an inexhaustible mine from which to dig problematical nuggets of wisdom, which they can—if able—assort and assay for themselves.” J. W.
— =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 800w
=Outlook= 118:131 Ja 23 ‘18 730w
“It is—broadly speaking—an altogether new Nietzsche who emerges from the pages of this expository critique.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 110w
=SALTYKOV, MICHAEL EVGRAFOVICH (SHCHEDRIN, pseud.).= Family of noblemen; tr. by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.50 (1c) Boni & Liveright
“Saltykov, author of ‘A family of noblemen,’ famous in Europe as a satirist, is one of the very recent [Russian authors] to claim attention. ... This novel was published in 1880. ... It deals with the lives and fates of the members of a family of the small landed gentry of Russia through three generations, beginning before the abolition of serfdom and covering space of time of perhaps twenty-five years. ... Saltykov surveys the disintegration of a family upon which hereditary traits, weak wills, paucity of interests, and vodka work destruction.”—N Y Times
“Russia has produced few books of a greater psychological depth and a more intimate realism. Unless all signs fail Saltykov has come to stay in English literature.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 270w
“In many ways ‘A family of noblemen’ is a masterly piece of work, especially through the first half. In the latter part the author’s method falls below the artistic standard he has set in the first half.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 870w
=SAMSON, REBECCA MIDDLETON.= Schoolgirl allies. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23653
The title suggests a war book, but the scene of this story for girls is laid in the Belgium of old days. “Tad” and “Sherry,” two American girls become pupils in the Pensionnat Van Pelt in Brussels. Their schoolmates are girls from many countries, including France, Russia and the British Isles. Sherry tells the story of their new experiences, and tells it with all a schoolgirl’s zest and love for exaggeration and dramatic effect.
“It is good to be reminded that there were once happy days in Belgium. ... The few pictures make us wish for more.”
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 40w
“It is a long and interesting story, telling in detail the life of the girls of the pensionnat, so different from a school of the same class in this country.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 250w
“The two American girls, Adelaide and Sherida, are well portrayed, and the different foreign girls at the school are carefully differentiated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w
=SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN.= Life of Henry David Thoreau; including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 17-13644
Frank B. Sanborn was the last surviving member of the Concord group. His life of Thoreau was completed but shortly before his death in February, 1917. In his preface the author calls attention to the growing fame of Thoreau. “It now appears,” he says, “that a considerable part of the present fame of Concord in literature grows out of the life and writings of Henry Thoreau, whose writings had little circulation before his death in 1862.” There is more comment of this kind in the last chapter, where the author says, “My purpose in this volume has been to show how he coöperated in his own posthumous fame; how he built himself up in literature from boyhood, and that without becoming a pedant, or trying to form a school, or even a class. Along with this conception of him may go likewise what I personally feel, that there was a religious and a moral element in his nature which awaits the future for its full development.” Among the special chapters are two in which early essays are reprinted and others devoted to: Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen; Thoreau as man of letters and of affairs; Thoreau as author in prose and verse. A catalog of Thoreau’s library is given in one of the appendixes.
=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
“The extent of Mr Sanborn’s personal knowledge of Thoreau, his command of the resources of information about him, his possession of manuscripts and other records, placed ready at his hand a large amount of material for the making of a notable biography. But unfortunately Mr Sanborn possessed none of the skill of the biographer that would enable him to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of the progress of a man’s life. ... The result is, therefore, an excellent Thoreau biography in substance but not in form.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 1550w
“Sanborn had the gift that novelists envy, of presenting his hero living and real before the mind’s eye of his reader without blurring the figure by over-emphasis.”
+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 670w
“The volume is not well arranged and coherent, however, and the author’s style is stilted even in his lapses into familiar anecdote.”
+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 130w
“A feature of the book too important to be ignored is the illustrations, mostly reproductions of old family pictures, which to those who can interpret them are far better than pages of letterpress in giving an idea of the Thoreaus and their kin.” W: B. Cairns
+ — =Dial= 63:59 Jl 19 ‘17 1200w
+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w
=Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 290w
=Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 80w
“No one else could have done the work in just the easy, familiar, and reminiscent manner that marks it, and that gives it a peculiar value.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:205 My 27 ‘17 1950w
“As compared with earlier memoirs—with Salt’s ‘Life’ of Thoreau, with Channing’s ‘Thoreau, the poet naturalist,’ and even with Mr Sanborn’s first biography of Thoreau, published in 1882—this new ‘Life’ by the late Frank B. Sanborn justifies itself as a needed and definitive work. So thorough has been the search for records and manuscripts that it is unlikely that there will ever be further discoveries of importance. It is a little to be regretted, perhaps, that the ‘life’ as a whole is not more consecutively interesting; yet the materials contained in it, if presented rather dryly and with many digressions, are handled with skill and uniform good taste.”
* + — =No Am= 206:308 Ag ‘17 1650w
“Mr Sanborn’s posthumous contribution to the world’s knowledge of his friend will probably furnish his own surest claim to remembrance in the future. It will certainly be indispensable to the student and lover of the rarely individual man of genius whom it seeks to portray.”
+ =Outlook= 116:301 Je 20 ‘17 1100w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 90w
“Sanborn’s ‘Life’ is less satisfactory than Henry Salt’s, which has the virtue of proportion, emphasis, focus, definite purpose; is less satisfactory, in some respects, than the earlier book by Sanborn. Yet it is far from superfluous. Of little use to one who does not know Thoreau, it is a treasury of Thoreauisms to those who already know him well.” Norman Foerster
* + — =Yale R= n s 7:430 Ja ‘18 1400w
=SANBORN, HELEN JOSEPHINE.= Anne of Brittany. il *$2 Lothrop 17-25141
“A book which tells the life story of a duchess of Brittany who was twice crowned queen of France. Miss Sanborn, whose untimely death occurred while the book was in press, devoted much of her later life in securing knowledge of Anne of Brittany and her times. The introduction is by Professor Katherine Lee Bates, of Wellesley college. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations show us the Duchess Anne’s country and her famous castles.”—R of Rs
“The reader has a sense of personal intercourse, a quality as rare as it is uncommon in biography, and one whose appeal is irresistible.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 500w
“The descriptions of her gowns, jewels, and the quaint ceremonies and festivals of court and castle are very interesting, but it is the woman herself who absorbs the reader.”
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 90w
“Many illuminating glimpses of the age and the country are given in the course of the narrative.”
+ =Ind= 92:361 N 3 ‘17 40w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 60w
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 70w
=SANDAY, WILLIAM, and WILLIAMS, NORMAN POWELL.= Form and content in the Christian tradition. *$2 Longmans 230 17-14538
“‘Form and content in the Christian tradition’ is ‘a friendly discussion’ between W. Sanday, Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Oxford, and N. P. Williams, chaplain-fellow of Exeter college, Oxford. ... Both men write as members of the Church of England. This will lessen the appeal of the book to many American Protestants, for the reason that the Protestant sects do not accept the ecclesiastical tradition which has developed along with what may be called the religious tradition. Their Christianity is derived from the Bible, not from the church. But on the theological side Mr Williams, who states the traditional view, will have many supporters in the Protestant sects; as, on the other hand, will Dr Sanday, who stands for the liberal interpretation of scripture which has been growing in favor in the past half century.”—Springf’d Republican
Reviewed by E. A. Cook
* =Am J Theol= 22:145 Ja ‘18 1150w
“It is impossible, however, for an Anglican to defend the infallibility of a church which rests solely on the insecure foundation of private judgment or opinion. We can pardon Mr Williams his fling at ultramontanism and the inquisition in view of his strong though courteous indictment of modernism or rationalism in the Church of England of our day.”
=Cath World= 105:260 My ‘17 220w
“This will be a most interesting book not only to the student of theology, but to the student of human nature. ... The usefulness does not seem to us to lie in any results arrived at, but in the statement and restatement by each side of their principles; and hardly less in the exhibition of the temper of mind which accompanies those principles respectively.”
+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 320w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 5 ‘17 1550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 1050w
=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Egotism in German philosophy. *$1.50 Scribner 193
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The passages just transcribed and the other passages cited hardly do justice to the brilliancy, the incisiveness, and the cruelty of this remarkable book. ... The work is really too sketchy and too abstract and its tone too biting and passionate to carry the conviction that is due the truths it expresses. ... It should be supplemented with John Dewey’s ‘German philosophy and the war.’ The two together will give a fairly adequate idea of the influence of philosophic thinking on the motives and institutions of men.” H. M. Kallen
=Dial= 63:64 Jl 19 ‘17 920w
“Very suggestive but somewhat irritating book.” A. Fawkes
=Int J Ethics= 27:380 Ap ‘17 650w
“The author would have been wiser, if he had depicted the supposed English or French characteristics discovered in German philosophy as well as the supposed German characteristics discoverable in English or French philosophy, as it is really possible to do. ... Sometimes he is virtually passing judgment on non-German philosophy no less or even more severely than on German philosophy. ... For the qualities responsible for the condemnation are common to both, or are outweighing in non-German philosophy.” Kojoro Sugimori
=Int J Ethics= 27:381 Ap ‘17 1000w
“The argument is obscure, and scarcely convincing. Mr Santayana’s characterization of the German national genius is witty, apt, and irresistibly quotable. In the judgment of the present writer it is substantially true; as true, perhaps, as any such sweeping generalization can hope to be. Nevertheless, there are omissions and exaggerations in the account that are so obvious as to suggest caricature rather than criticism.” R. B. Perry
– + =J Philos= 14:637 N 8 ‘17 1150w
+ =Lit D= 54:776 Mr 17 ‘17 370w
“Dr Santayana has long enjoyed the distinction of being the Shaw of the philosophers, supremely skilful as an artificer of phrases and diabolically clever. In this book he surpasses himself. It is fairly dazzling. ... It is true that the author continually yields to the besetting sin of the clever writer in sacrificing accuracy on the altar of wit. ... The reader should study the sketches in the same spirit in which he would examine a volume of sketches by a clever cartoonist. If he reads the book in this fashion, not taking it too seriously, he will be highly entertained, if sometimes irritated. Questions of accuracy, of fidelity, are irrelevant. ... As a discussion of German philosophy, this book must not be taken seriously.”
=Nation= 104:339 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w
“The philosophical views of Prof. G. Santayana need to be taken into account in considering his new book. For the work, besides being a trenchant attack on German thought, must be regarded to some extent a polemic in behalf of a particular point of view. Prof. Santayana, like the man in the street, distrusts metaphysical idealism.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 1100w
=SAPPER, pseud.= No Man’s Land. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 17-23333
This book is by the author of “Michael Cassidy, sergeant” and “Men, women and guns.” Part 1, “The way to the land,” describes the experiences of an officer bound for the front; Part 2 “The land,” and Part 3 “Seed time,” are made up of seventeen stories and sketches telling us how the men in the trenches live, fight and die; in Part 4, “Harvest,” the author tells how British militarism has taught men the valuable lessons “of playing for the side and unselfishness,” but adds that “there must be some other method of teaching the lessons.” Some of the stories are grave, others gay. “Seed time,” the longest story in the book, describes the evolution of Reginald Simpkins, shopwalker, into an expert sniper. “‘The man trap’ relates how a too ingenious subaltern adapted a disused dug-out as a trap for over-curious Germans and caught in it his own general and colonel. ... ‘Bendigo Jones—his tree’ is a whimsical extravaganza on a post-impressionist sculptor, who, not having been exempted through the united efforts of his misguided friends, finds himself in the trenches.” (Spec)
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 400w
“Told with restraint and standing out from the average war fiction for their exceptional literary quality.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w
“It is grim, coarse, sentimental, beautiful, gay, solemn and trifling by turns, but, as a whole, undeniably convincing. ... You are half through the middle chapters before you realize how steadily all that has seemed careless and overdone is carrying on toward an overwhelming sense of the kind of soldier who is doing the fighting and paying the price. ‘No man’s land’ is a strange, ill-written, confused and vivid book, pulled out of the frightful turmoil of the present. It is not art, but material for art.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 750w
“‘Sapper’ prefers to present what he knows in the guise of fiction, and yet he often seems to come nearer to the truth than the precise reporter with his field-glasses and his notebook. ... As in most war fiction, humour predominates. The soldiers do not treat the war as a joke, but they are incurably light-hearted, and their laughter helps them to face things too deep for tears. ‘Sapper’ as a jester is typical of a very large class of soldier-authors, but his literary quality is exceptional.”
+ =Spec= 119:169 Ag 18 ‘17 950w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 5 ‘17 360w
“Will add to the reputation that ‘Sapper’ has already made for himself as a writer of war sketches. ... Unlike Mr Wells, who regards war as an affair primarily of the scientific management of aeroplanes and tanks, ‘Sapper’ teaches that it is upon the craving of the fighting man to kill, no matter what the cost to himself, that the issue depends; and where Mr Wells detects no bright spots but spurs in the officer of the old school, he sees the supreme quality—the power to persuade others to follow him willingly to this killing. ... Without glossing over the horrible, ‘Sapper’ employs the restraint which makes the imagination of the reader its ally. ... His English is crisp without being loose.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Ag 2 ‘17 520w
=SARGENT, PORTER EDWARD.= Handbook of American private schools; an annual publication. (Sargent’s handbook ser.) 3d ed il $2.50 P. E. Sargent, 50 Congress st., Boston 373
“The principal subjects considered are: Boys’ schools (arranged according to geographical position), military schools, girls’ schools, coeducational schools, schools and conservatories of music, schools of art, kindergarten training schools, schools of physical education, schools of expression and dramatic art, schools of the household arts, schools for the deficient, private schools of Canada, boys’ summer camps, girls’ summer camps. The editor supplies a bibliography of works in which principles are discussed. He also adds a list of newspapers and periodicals which treat more or less directly of educational subjects.”—Springf’d Republican
+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w
“The 1917 edition shows numerous traces of editorial revision, and, considering the inevitable limitations of such a handbook, will be found full of well-classified information. ... While it is impossible that all the information should be critical, the book is workmanlike in all respects and shows a praiseworthy degree of editorial ability.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19’17 180w
=SARKAR, BENOY KUMAR, and RAKSHIT, HEMENDRA KISHOR.= Folk-element in Hindu culture. *$5 Longmans 294 17-17531
Professor Sarkar’s “contribution to socio-religious studies in Hindu folk-institutions” “is based on a study of some of the folk-arts, folk-traditions, folk-songs, and folk-festivals of Bengal, and is mainly concerned with the relations between Shaiva-cum-Shâktaism and Buddhism, descriptive and historical, among the Bengali-speaking population of eastern India. Several chapters deal with the Gambhîrâ, Gâjan, and Sâhiyâtrâ festivities; others treat of diverse topics, such as physical austerities practised by the people, folk-dances in religious festivals, the socio-religious life of the people of Bengal under the Pâlas, the tantric lore of mediæval Buddhism, and Islam in popular Hinduism. The author arrives at some interesting conclusions, of which two of the most important are that ‘the masses and the folk have contributed to the making of Hindu culture in all its phases no less than the court and the classes,’ and that the caste-system ‘has never been a disintegrating factor in Hindu communal existence, and is most probably a very recent institution.’” (Ath) The author states that this work is to a certain extent complementary to his “Positive background of Hindu sociology.”
=Ath= p302 Je ‘17 200w
“It is a book for the specialist, and for him has unique value.”
=Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 300w
“Some inductions are questionable, but the work is to be commended if only for the mass of first-hand material here collected.”
+ — =Nation= 105:460 O 25 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:118 Ag ‘17
“This is a very interesting and valuable book, being, so far as we know, the first detailed and accurate description in English of one of the many and varied rural festivities in which ‘gods’ days,’ as it were, take the place in Bengal of saints’ days in rustic Europe. Mr Sarkar treats exhaustively and with much enthusiasm and humour, of the religious festivities known in different parts of Bengal as the Gamphīrā, the Gājan, or the Sāhi-yātrā; ceremonial.”
+ — =Spec= 119:39 Jl 14 ‘17 850w
“The scheme indicated in the title is too pretentious; the materials which give the book its value are not skilfully presented; and, as regards the religious songs, only an artist like Rabindranath Tagore could preserve the poetical fervour of the originals. At the same time it possesses some merits which make it a useful contribution to the study of popular religion in India, and it is provided with good indexes of subjects, names and references. It owes much of its value to a collection of notes contributed by Mr Haridas Palit. It would have been well if this information had been more largely used.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 17 ‘17 1400w
=SAROLEA, CHARLES.= French renascence, il *$2 Pott (*5s Unwin & Allen, London) 844 17-12613
“In an introduction flaming with love of liberty and love of France, Dr Sarolea outlines the story ... of the awakening of France, in 1914. ... It is of some of the lives, which woven into the fabric of the nation have become inseparable from it, of whom Dr Sarolea writes in these brief essays. ... The studies he presents are of Montaigne, between whom and Nietzsche the author points a most interesting analogy; Pascal, with whom Cardinal Newman is contrasted—‘the two greatest names perhaps in the religious literature of the modern world’; Madame de Maintenon, Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans; ... Rousseau; Marie Antoinette, ‘before the revolution’; Mirabeau, Robespierre, Napoleon—the ‘real Napoleon’ and ‘Napoleon the socialist’; Balzac, Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Bergson and Poincaré.” Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 530w
— =Cath World= 105:248 My ‘17 370w
“An agreeable but insubstantial collection of occasional articles and book reviews. ... Dr Sarolea writes a clear and fluent, though quite undistinguished style, but it seems a pity that he should permit himself such oddities as ‘impunately’ and ‘presigeotus.’ ... One is grateful for the plain speech concerning the ‘Germanomania’ of the years before the war. ‘Even estimable mediocrities like Eucken were proclaimed original thinkers’ is a specimen.”
+ — =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16
“These essays are exceedingly interesting and marked by genuine critical appreciation and discrimination. There is, for instance, matter of real novelty and value presented in the chapter on the private life of Napoleon I and in the one on Napoleon as a socialist.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 150w
“Decidedly anti-German in tone.” M. J.
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17 30w
“It seems a pity that Dr Sarolea, who wrote an excellent book on the Anglo-German problem, should have chosen to praise France in a volume which has rather a cheap air of paradox.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Ap 27 ‘16 650w
=SASTRI, K. S. RAMASWAMI.= Sir Rabindranath Tagore: his life, personality, and genius. $2.50 Brentano’s (Ganesh & co., Madras, India)
“A comprehensive biography of Rabindranath Tagore by a fellow countryman gives a more complete interpretation of his genius than it is perhaps possible for an English critic or biographer to undertake. Mr Sastri writes of Tagore’s artistic and spiritual ancestry, and of his share in the new Indian renaissance now going on, and observes that if the European renaissance was the release of the human spirit per se, that of India is the liberation of the human spirit that is in harmony with the divine, and that the genius of the great Bengali poet focalizes the gathering of the forces that will give new birth to liberty.”—R of Rs
“In spite of its flowery style, its endless repetition and triple padding of quotation, his book forms a real addition to our knowledge of Tagore and the mental life of India.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:68 F 25 ‘17 500w
“Without offense to the spirit and the labors of Mr Ernest Rhys, who has written an admirable life of the Hindu poet, Mr Sastri’s work is in several respects a more satisfying exposition of the genius of Tagore and will be of great assistance to the student of his teachings.”
+ =R of Rs= 54:670 D ‘16 400w
“The enthusiasm of the Madrasi author for the work and teaching of the national poet of Bengal is manifest on every page. ... But the value of the study is marred by diffuseness and frequent repetition. Quotations, relevant and irrelevant, abound, and are often taken from obscure writers.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Ag 10 ‘16 500w
=SATOW, SIR ERNEST MASON.= Guide to diplomatic practice. 2v *$9 Longmans 341.7 (Eng ed 17-14175)
This is the first of a series of Contributions to international law and diplomacy. L. Oppenheim, the general editor, says that the work is unique “with regard to the method of treatment of the subject, as well as the selection of the topics discussed and in the amount of original research which it embodies.” The book is meant to be of service alike to the international lawyer, the diplomatist and the student of history. “For this reason not only the legal side of diplomacy, but also its practical side had constantly to be kept in view, an outline of all the important congresses and conferences had to be included, and the different kinds of international compacts had to be treated in some detail.” Volume 1 consists of two parts, dealing with Diplomacy in general and Diplomatic agents. Volume 2 treats of International meetings and transactions, including chapters on Mediation and Arbitration. Lists of references are given in appendixes.
“A scholarly and exhaustive treatment.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17
“It contains chapters which no serious student of international law can afford to neglect. These volumes are marred by many misprints.” L. B. Evans
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:779 N ‘17 560w
“There are numerous guides diplomatiques and treatises on diplomatic law and practice in other languages but aside from Foster’s ‘Practice of diplomacy’ there is no other work in English which may be compared with this, either in its scope or purpose. It is packed with documentary and other illustrative material: specimen copies of letters of credence, full powers, instructions, extracts from notes, quotations from diplomatic manuals, etc., most of which are printed in the original language in which they were written, this on the principle that the attempt to translate them into English would in many cases impair their value.” J. W. Garner
+ + =Ann Am Acad= 73:240 S ‘17 550w
“These volumes, filled as they are with information upon subjects in reference to which there is a considerable amount of popular misconception, will not only be very valuable for reference, but also of interest to the general reader.”
+ =Ath= p249 My ‘17 200w
“A highly opportune, as well as in many respects remarkably interesting survey. ... The second volume is even more full of interest than the first; but it takes the historical reader over what is likely to be to him more familiar ground, a large portion of which has already been mapped out by previous writers and editors. I do not know why Sir Ernest Satow has not given a fuller list of collections of treaties, from the standard volumes of Koch and Schoell to the useful selection recently put together by Mr R. B. Mowat.” A. W. Ward
* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:418 Jl ‘17 5400w
“Sir Ernest Satow is one of the most distinguished English diplomatists of the last twenty-five years. He has had infinite experience, and unlimited opportunities for observation. He has written a guide to diplomatic practice which supersedes every previous work upon the subject. It is exact, it is exhaustive, it is scholarly.” H. J. L.
+ + =New Repub= 12:80 Ag 18 ‘17 1800w
+ =St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 50w
“Sir Ernest Satow has written a learned and interesting book. ... Here is a British ambassador revealing to the public the mysteries of diplomatic practice as if it were an ordinary calling and explaining in great detail the niceties of diplomatic etiquette. ... It will be evident that Sir Ernest Satow has no sympathy with the demand for the reform of our diplomatic service which has been heard of late.”
=Spec= 118:673 Je 16 ‘17 2200w
“His experiences as representative of this country at various courts enables him to speak with precision and authority upon points as to which the books are silent or indefinite. Of the existing treatises, some—for example, de Martens’s and Comte Garden’s—are carefully compiled. But they do not always faithfully record the practice of the present day, which has cast off something of the formalism of past times and has not escaped certain democratic influences.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1800w
=SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND).= Herself, himself and myself. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-25083
The scene is laid partly in America and partly in Ireland. “Herself,” Judith Drene, is the orphan daughter of a rich banker who, after losing most of his money, shot himself; “Myself,” Nora Kelley, is the Irish nurse who mothered her and brought her up; “Himself,” Dr John Fox, is the young Irish doctor, the “wise lad,” who came back from the war and married Judith in the ivy-covered church at Donegal.
“A simple, wholesome story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
“A book of sentiment undisguisedly, but of sentiment upon a higher plane, guarded and mellowed by true humour in contrast with that feminine ‘brightness’ which characterises the novel of the ‘glad’ sort.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 100w
“There is even in this earliest part of the book a delightful vein of humor mingling with the sadness.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 6 ‘18 600w
+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w
“Evidently intended for those who like an abundance of sugar in their fiction. ... The little tale is very much padded, but it has some dainty bits here and there. The first chapters, which deal with Judith’s childhood, are the best and quite prettily done. Later, the story grows monotonous.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 270w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 190w
=SCANDLIN, HORACE WINTHROP.= Wicked John Goode. il *$1 (3c) Doran 364 17-11002
Thomas Mott Osborne writes an introduction to this book and Rev. J. G. Hallimond of the Bowery mission adds a word at the end vouching for the truth of the story Mr Scandlin has told. It is the story of a criminal and his reformation. John Goode was incorrigible at the age of ten. At eleven he ran away from home, and at once began his career of crime. He became familiar with every sort of institution from a so-called protectory to Sing Sing. Thru the instrumentality of Mrs Booth, he was set free, but, having no sense of honor, broke parole. Finally he was reclaimed, but not, as Mr Osborne significantly points out, by any of the agencies provided by society. From each of these institutions he emerged a worse man than he went in. He is now said to be one of the workers in the mission to which he owes his regeneration.
“Nothing but hard, cold and sometimes cruel facts are here recorded, if we accept the testimony of the two authorities that flank the narrative. There is, moreover, an inherent evidence in the very graphic recital that John Goode, the ex-convict, is no imaginary person. The book is a stirring appeal to reform our reformatory institutions. ... The Bowery mission, through its spiritual and industrial methods, is doing a unique work, and that work is here sketched.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w
“Personally and socially, this is a suggestive and challenging book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 320w
=SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY.= Supernatural in modern English fiction. *$2 (2c) Putnam 823 17-28912
Dr Scarborough’s study covers the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the fiction of the last thirty years. For her beginnings she goes back to Horace Walpole, “the father of the terror novel.” His “Castle of Otranto,” with Mrs Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” shortly following, was the first of a long line. Modern masters of the supernatural include, among others, Henry James, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The author says, “I deal with ghosts and devils by and large, in an impressionistic way. I don’t know much about them; I have no learned theories of causation. I only love them, I only marvel at their infinite variety and am touched by their humanity, their likeness to mortals.” Contents: The Gothic romance; Later influences; Modern ghosts; The devil and his allies; Supernatural life; The supernatural in folk-tales; Supernatural science; Conclusion; Index. The bibliography, too long for inclusion in this volume, is to be published separately.
=Ath= p659 D ‘17 350w
“Able, comprehensive, and not seldom amusing survey. It is remarkable that there is no allusion to ‘A Christmas carol,’ though less notable works by Dickens are mentioned; and there might have been a reference to Marryat’s striking tale ‘The phantom ship.’”
+ — =Ath= p676 D ‘17 300w
“The last place one would look for a ‘bestseller’ would be among doctors’ theses; yet this book, which more than earned the degree of Doctor of philosophy at Columbia for its author, has such a general appeal that it may conceivably have a large sale.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Bookm= 46:611 Ja ‘18 700w
“Many names of many dealers in the supernatural appear and reappear in Dr Scarborough’s none too well ordered pages. We find references to Poe scattered through the book from its early to its later pages, and of this master of the weird and of many others it is impossible to gain a coherent understanding. ... She has made of her book a storehouse of treasure rather than a systematic history and study.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 950w
— =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 340w
“One of the few monographs in the field of literature which must have been a pleasure to write. ... The work is beautifully indexed, so that the reader can turn in an instant to his favorite horror.”
+ =Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 150w
“It is one of the most interesting and valuable features of Dr Scarborough’s book that it includes such a host of pertinent examples of supernaturalism of all kinds and that it gives in almost every case some real criticism of the work of the different writers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:467 N 11 ‘17 1800w
“Will prove entertaining and useful to the reader who wishes to go a-ghosting in the pages of novels.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 N 15 ‘17 50w
=SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN=, comp. and ed. Our flag in verse and prose. il *$1.50 Moffat 808.8 A17-959
“Poems, songs and prose extracts under the following heads: Spirit and significance; Old Glory’s history; In praise of Old Glory; Patriotism; Flags; A Flag day story (A man without a country, by E. E. Hale). Contains also an account by Francis Scott Key 3d of the writing of ‘The Star spangled banner,’ a history of the origin and development of the flag and directions for Flag day drills and exercises.”—Cleveland
“He tells the familiar Betsy Ross story without questioning in any way its authenticity. Mr Schauffler’s selections cover a wide range. ... All the familiar songs about the flag are here. ... Mr Schauffler’s book will be a good one to place in the hands of every school teacher and pupil.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 170w
=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17
“Contains the best that has been written in verse and prose to inspire patriotic devotion and to interpret the spirit and significance of the flag.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w
=SCHAYER, ERNEST RICHARD.= Good loser. *50c McKay 17-8204
“A tennis expert, out of the game permanently with a broken ankle, happens upon a small boy practising strokes against a barn. He lingers, keen with the discovery of budding talent, and trains the little fellow through the summer in the art and the ethics of the game, to be modest, honest and courageous. Then he enters Billy in the junior tournament in the White mountains and Billy makes good on his teaching and loses the championship by refusing to win on the judge’s error. Incidentally the teacher, and Billy’s father who is in business trouble, learn also how to be good losers.” (Springf’d Republican) The story appeared in the American Magazine, June, 1916.
“It is a short story, just a magazine article bound up in permanent form, but it has in quality what it lacks in quantity. And as for quantity, Mr Schayer tells his story, all that is necessary to tell, and stops. It is complete in its fifty-nine pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 170w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:128 Ap ‘17 20w
=SCHEFTEL, YETTA.=[2] Taxation of land value. *$2 Houghton 336.2 17-235
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The best part of Miss Scheftel’s work, in the judgment of the reviewer, is the careful and complete account of the complicated land taxes of Australasia, Germany, and Great Britain. Her chapters on the Australasian experience constitute the most comprehensive discussion of this topic that has been given. The account of the German taxes on ‘unearned increment’ is based upon a thorough study of both primary and secondary German sources, and is easily the best account in English. ... The chapter on Municipal taxation in western Canada is less satisfactory, inasmuch as that topic has been much more exhaustively covered in Professor Haig’s report for the New York city committee on taxation of 1916. A few loose statements of economic theory are found. The index is inadequate for nearly five hundred pages of condensed facts.” A. N. Young
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:415 Je ‘17 700w
“Scholarly and thorough, the best work on the subject, but needed only in large or special libraries.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17
“The newest and in many respects the best study of what is commonly known as the single tax. An excellent bibliography is appended.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w
“A judicious, well-balanced treatment of land-value taxation in those countries where the scheme has been chiefly tried. Study is also given to the fiscal, economic and social effects of such taxes. Although single taxers have generally welcomed the adoption of land-value taxation as a vindication of their doctrines, the author points out that ‘not only in method of assessment and levy, but also in their rationale great differences exist’ between the single tax and land-value taxes.” F. T. S.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:240 Jl ‘17 300w
“Miss Scheftel’s book is unquestionably an instance of work well done, and every reader will feel that it fully merited the $1,000 first prize awarded to it. Nor can there be any doubt that the contribution is one of real utility. What has been so laboriously brought together, and presented in such orderly and convenient shape, is a matter upon which many students of the land-tax question desire to be informed, and which is not easy of access in the scattered sources from which it has been gathered. The discussion, too, is not only intelligent, but thoroughly fair-minded.”
+ =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 600w
“The book is a veritable storehouse of information for those interested in the subject and a valuable help toward improvement in methods of taxation.”
+ =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 420w
=SCHEIFLEY, WILLIAM H.= Brieux and contemporary French society. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 842 17-28835
The author’s purpose is “to explain to American readers the social themes treated by Eugène Brieux in his dramas and their relation to French society.” In preparing the work, he has had two objects in view: “(1) a consideration of both the literary value and the purpose of each play of Brieux; (2) the testimony of other writers, either in critical or in creative work, regarding the conditions that gave rise to a particular play of Brieux and the extent to which it reflects the spirit of the time.” (Preface) The author considers it a matter for regret that American opinion of Brieux should so largely have been formed from “Damaged goods,” which he pronounces one of the dramatist’s poorest plays. Among the social problems to which special chapters are devoted are: The relation between parents and children; Charity, philanthropy, industrial beneficence; Marriage and the dowry; Divorce; Separation and the child; Venereal diseases. “Sincerity,” says the author in conclusion, “is Brieux’s predominant characteristic. ... Other good traits that stand out prominently in his dramas are faith, vigour, and courage.”
“Mr Scheifley does not put forward any pretensions to be a critic of letters; but he has a sound working estimate of the plays of Brieux.”
+ =Ath= p676 D ‘17 140w
=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 50w
“The American public owes a large debt of gratitude to Mr Scheifley for his scholarly and sympathetic treatment of Brieux. He has shown admirably Brieux’s sincerity and versatility, and amply justified, for American eyes, the place accorded to the author in his native land.” B: M. Woodbridge
+ =Dial= 64:67 Ja 17 ‘18 1000w
“This volume of appreciative criticism is an incentive toward a more intimate acquaintance with Eugène Brieux.”
+ =Lit D= 56:35 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 150w
“A comprehensive and detailed study.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 130w
“A sketch of French life which is well worth study. ... The book is, in the nature of things, superficial.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1450w
“An able and penetrating survey of the various questions of social and economic life in France as they are reflected in Brieux’s dramas.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ‘17 750w
“The book is marked by careful industry and attention given to the testimony of other writers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 110w
=SCHEVILL, FERDINAND.= Karl Bitter; a biography. il *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 17-16077
“In a thin volume of less than seventy text pages published under the auspices of the National sculpture society, the sculptor’s brother-in-law, Ferdinand Schevill tells ... the essentially romantic story of the young Austrian who, landing in New York in his twenty-second year with scarce a penny in his pocket, was, before three years had passed, executing the colossal scheme of sculpture upon the Administration building of the World’s fair at Chicago. He was killed by a reckless automobile driver before he had reached the age of forty-eight, having been director of sculpture at three expositions, a member of the Art commission of New York city, and twice president of the Sculpture society. Such a career is evidence enough of an unusual character as well as of unusual talents, and Mr Schevill makes us see the honesty, the energy, the tact, the great organizing ability, and the public spirit which accomplished so much—above all, he makes us see the intense Americanism of one who was an American by choice rather than by the accident of birth.”—Nation
“Remarkable by reason of the easy-flowing but at the same time stately and very formal style in which it is written. The career of Karl Bitter was a genuine romance. ... The biography contains a chronological list of his works and shows what an indefatigable worker he was.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 950w
“Fine typography, beautiful paper, and illustrations that tell their tale combine in this treasure for lovers of art and books. The story of Bitter’s life and labors is here told simply, but appreciatively, even tenderly.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 250w
“Of his talent the thirty-odd illustrations of his works give a fairer opportunity of judging than could be had by anything short of a pilgrimage to the sites of the originals. Decorative art is art in service, and the art of Karl Bitter was always undertaken in the true social spirit.”
+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w
=Pittsburgh= 22:752 N ‘17 70w
“Worth reading, not merely as a record of facts but as a vital presentation of a life of unusual potency. Forty good halftone illustrations, including two portraits, add to the charm of the volume, and increase its value as a book of reference in the realm of American sculpture.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 100w
=SCHIERBRAND, WOLF VON.= Austria-Hungary; the polyglot empire. il $3 (3½c) Stokes 943.6 17-25615
This book is written from the viewpoint of a man who has lived for four years in Austria, which he left only a few months ago, and who has a “sincere liking for and sympathy with the people of Austria-Hungary.” He claims “to be actuated by no conscious bias in dealing with the political, social and racial questions discussed.” He attempts “to afford the reader a sufficient outline of the process of growth and accretion active in creating the Austria-Hungary of today, of the natural resources of the land, and of the vital characteristics of the population; to point out the chief problems of the polyglot nation ... and to define the most feasible means of allaying or removing these difficulties, as these means have gradually shaped themselves in the minds of the thinking and potential elements of Austria-Hungary.” Nearly one-half of the book deals with the war or topics related to the war. A map is pasted on the inside of the back cover of the book.
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
+ =Bookm= 46:726 F ‘18 2200w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 150w
“Although on the whole less useful than Geoffrey Drage’s well-known ‘Austria-Hungary,’ it has the advantage of being considerably more recent and more readable. The chief value of the work lies in the fact that it furnishes almost the only intimate account that we have of what has been going on in the Hapsburg dominions since the war began. The volume would gain greatly by being to some extent documented. Important information is given and interesting judgments are passed with no citation of sources, authorities, or other means of corroboration.” F: A. Ogg
+ — =Dial= 63:637 D 20 ‘17 950w
“A happy mean between the scholarly survey and the journalistic war book. It discusses the problems of the country with unusual completeness of scope and moderation of tone, but there is an attempt to interpret the soul as well as the body, to give the meaning of facts as well as the facts themselves.”
+ =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 750w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 380w
“Wolf von Schierbrand goes well with a little salt. He is an international journalist of repute, with the usual journalistic ambition to influence public sentiment, corrected more or less by the necessity of being interesting. But only an ill humored reader will grumble about it. Moreover, only an ill humored reader will be repelled by Wolf von Schierbrand’s German bias.” A. J.
+ — =New Repub= 13:351 Ja 19 ‘18 1600w
“No one who desires to know the people of Austria-Hungary as they seem to a person of another race with broad sympathies and cultivated human understanding can afford to ignore this instructive and eminently readable volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 500w
+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 110w
“The author may be congratulated for having produced a readable and interesting book, and one which should be welcomed by American readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 4 ‘17 390w
=SCHINDLER, KURT=, ed. Songs of the Russian people. pa $1 Ditson 784.8
“The lyrics, translated by Jane and Deems Taylor, are either set to the traditional melodies or to arrangements by modern composers, and are for mixed voices. Many of the ballads date back to mediæval times; all of them are sung to-day by the Russian peasants.”—Dial
“The translators seem to have kept as closely as possible to Russian feeling and diction.”
+ =Dial= 61:356 N 2 ‘16 350w
“Mr Schindler shows exactly the qualities an editor most needs. He has selected and discovered folk-songs and choruses almost unknown here, all of them of high quality. He has arranged and adapted freely, but we can trust his hand in whatever it does. He is at once musician and scholar and member of his own audience. When such an editor is found the publisher should grapple him to his soul.” H. K. M.
+ =New Repub= 7:258 Jl 8 ‘16 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:317 Ap ‘17 30w
=SCHMIDT, WALTER KARL.= Problems of the finishing room. il $5 Periodical pub. co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 698 16-16704
An “authoritative manual for those employed in the finishing of woods by means of fuming, staining, varnishing, enameling, lacquering, etc. [It] treats of the preparation of the woods and describes in detail the processes required for the various kinds of finish. Directions are given for the selection, preparation and testing of the stains, oils, varnishes, glues and other materials used in wood finishing, and miscellaneous information relating to the work.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ‘17 90w
“The author writes from large experience as chemist and finishing expert.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w
=SCHNITTKIND, HENRY THOMAS=, ed. Poets of the future. *$1 Stratford co. 811.08 (Eng ed 17-1047)
An anthology of college verse, selected from the undergraduate publications of sixty colleges. The preface says, “Our purpose in publishing this book, which will become an annual event, is two-fold. We want to encourage the best literature in the universities, and to show to the poetry lovers in this country what a wealth of gems of the purest ray has hitherto been inaccessible to the public.” In his introduction William Stanley Braithwaite expresses a belief that the anthology will have a deep interest for those unassociated with academic life, “for its expression flows from a deeper impulse, an impulse for the renewal of one’s fresh attachment with life at the source of dreams. In the poetry world it may well serve as the yearly spring of song.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
“The poetry that it contains fully justifies the effort expended upon the collection. Not a few of the pages of the book reveal more than one poet of the present that has astonished the reader with a note of deep maturity where at best a pleasant promise was expected. The selections have been made with unassuming catholicity.” I. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 1800w
“Less than one third of the poems are by college women, and the larger women’s colleges, Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, are not represented in the collection, although the literary periodicals of many of the smaller institutions, coeducational and otherwise, have been drawn upon for contributions.”
=Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 100w
“There is a freshness about the whole collection that is delightful.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 200w
=SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR.= Comedies of words, and other plays; Englished from the German with an introd. by Pierre Loving. *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 832 17-13750
The so-called “comedies of words” included in this volume are three: The hour of recognition; The big scene; The festival of Bacchus. To these are added two other plays: Literature and His helpmate. The three comedies of words were published in 1915 and represent, the preface states, the most recent product from Schnitzler’s pen. The translator says, “Though they will scarcely enhance his reputation to any great extent, they continue in the tradition of his best work.” “Literature,” a witty farce, written in 1901, has been played by the Washington Square players of New York city.
+ — =Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 80w
“A translation of Schnitzler’s “einakters” has a more than timely interest. For fifteen years he has been one of the most-followed teachers to a large school of playwrights who have been supplying the intimate playhouses of Europe with realistic short pieces, and recently his influence has been extended to the young American dramatists whose one-act plays are being presented in our own Little Theatres. ... The first thing to strike the reader of these plays is that the plot of every one has a sexual basis. Taken alone each situation is perfectly possible; taken as a collection they are unnatural. ... We miss ‘the average man.’ To comprehend this characteristic of his work we must remember that Schnitzler is a practising physician, a specialist in psychology, a student of Freud. He is so keenly interested in pathological psychology that the normal human being does not interest him at all.” W. Haynes
* + – =Dial= 63:63 Jl ‘17 900w
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“In the normal drama Schnitzler’s art is fragile, not to say fleeting; in the one-act play it is compact, serried, tingling, spicular. No lover of address can afford to neglect these virtuosities; if they share the leisurely retrospect of Ibsen in the snugness of their packing they rival the master himself. ... The final judgment on Schnitzler will hardly be altered by the succinct vigor of these masterly vignettes. He lacks body and he lacks soul. In Schnitzler passion has the tenuity of sentiment, and guilt has the tastelessness of innocence. The translation is plebeian, but not unreadable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:225 Ag 30 ‘17 760w
“Mr Loving’s translation is never very good, mediocre most of the time, now and then very bad. ... A reason for buying this English version is that the original ‘Komödie der worte’ (Berlin: S. Fischer, 1915) cannot now be had in this country, except by a lucky accident. The only copy I’ve been able to lay my hands on is in the reference department of the New York public library.” P. L.
+ — =New Repub= 11:308 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w
“Schnitzler is Freud turned dramatist. His great power consists in his building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers and momentary caprices.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 110w
“Mr Schnitzler keeps his literary fabric delicate, and his irony permits his readers to believe that he, too, is much amused by his characters, and is wisely refusing to idealize any of them, or to give them more importance than they deserve. The ‘littleness’ of the plays is thus justified to the artistic consciousness. The translation lacks elegance, but preserves the suggestiveness of the original dialog.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 230w
=SCHOLTZ, MOSES.= Sex problems of man in health and disease; a popular study in sex knowledge. *$1 Stewart & Kidd 612.6 16-15024
“Five-sixths of the book covers clearly, scientifically and accurately diseases of sex organs in man. A small part only is given to anatomy, physiology and sex hygiene.”—A L A Bkl
“Has a high moral tone—the author heartily disapproves of a double standard. Of use to parents, teachers and workers with boys.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17
“Written by one who has had wide experience in dealing with sex problems, it can be commended for its sanity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7 Mr 11 ‘17 150w
=SCHROEDER, THEODORE ALBERT.= Free speech for radicals. enl ed $1.50 (2½c) Free speech league 323 16-1728
“This edition of ‘Free speech for radicals’ has doubled its size and the added parts are the most important.” (Foreword) Among the additions are a chapter on Methods of constitutional construction, an account of the San Diego free speech fight, and a reprint of a section from the Final report of the Commission on industrial relations.
“This book might appropriately be entitled ‘Free speech for I. W. W.’s and anarchists,’ for on the whole it undertakes the defense of this ‘most despised of all classes.’ In general, the writer treats his subject in a dispassionate manner and the book makes interesting reading, but the reader frequently is challenged to make active rejoinders to the many sweeping conclusions.”
– + =J Pol Econ= 25:1055 D ‘17 950w
=Nation= 103:381 O 19 ‘16 150w
“It is, perhaps, needless to say to our Socialist and radical readers that the questions of free speech and free press will, during the war, assume a most tremendous importance as a subject of discussion, public and legal. And in this connection we might mention that the voluminous and careful works of Theodore Schroeder, a special student of this matter and others pertaining to it, are, perhaps, the best, most accurate and authoritative literature procurable.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 280w
=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17
“The book will chiefly interest students of anarchist and I. W. W. literature and development.”
=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 7 ‘16 70w
=SCHULER, PHILLIP F. E.= Australia in arms. il *12s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
This book deals with the formation of the Australian imperial expeditionary force, and their work in Egypt, on the Suez canal and at Gallipoli. The history is complete to the date of publication.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17
“A capital account of the part played at Anzac by the Australian imperial force.”
+ =Sat R= 123:484 My 26 ‘17 200w
“There have been many books written about the Gallipoli campaign. ... Some of them have been masterly, some of them hasty, and a few frankly inaccurate. So far none have purported to be thorough histories of the whole undertaking, nor does Mr Schuler make this claim for his book. ... The author contents himself with chronicling the campaign from the Australian point of view. ... The maps and illustrations are excellent and new.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 N 30 ‘16 1100w
=SCHULTZ, JAMES WILLARD.= Gold cache. il *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 17-24276
This book follows the author’s earlier stories, “With the Indians in the Rockies” and “On the war path.” Thomas Fox and his friend Pitamakan, with a third youth for companion, start southward on a search for gold. Lone Chief, who has come into Fort Benton with a handful of “buttons,” which prove to be twenty-dollar gold pieces, has started them on their way, saying that he had left four boxes of the supposedly valueless trinkets back in the pass, where he had accidentally come upon them. The quest takes the boys far down into the Apache country, and they have many adventures by the way.
“A good Indian story, well told, and possessing elements which will satisfy the normal boy’s taste for adventure in a wholesome manner.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 20w
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 70w
+ =Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 20w
=SCHWAB, CHARLES M.= Succeeding with what you have. il *50c (6c) Century 174 17-3316
A series of short papers reprinted from the American Magazine. Mr Schwab writes of: Thinking beyond your job; How men are appraised; Seizing your opportunities; The college man in business; What your employer expects; My twenty thousand partners; Men I have worked with; Woman’s part in man’s success.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 150w
+ =Cleveland= p67 My ‘17 40w
“Mr Schwab seems to have sized up what his normal readers want in the way of a ‘secret of success’ book and gives them maxims and hints well worth following.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 200w
=SCHWARZ, OSIAS L.= General types of superior men. *$2.50 Badger, R: G. 136 17-1805
“The writer is an immigrant from Rumania though evidently German by blood and tongue.” (Nation) His book is “a philosophico-psychological study of genius, talent and Philistinism in their bearings upon human society and its struggle for a better social order.” (Sub-title) “The point of view of the book is the need to society of both intellectual and moral geniuses.” (Springf’d Republican) There is a preface by Jack London, and an introductory letter by Dr Max Nordau.
“Jack London wrote of the book that it was ‘one of those immortal epoch-making works which appear only at very long intervals and which leave an indelible constructive impression in the mind of the world.’ Dr Nordau did not hesitate to declare that the work was ‘dogmatic, not scientific,’ that it contained statements which he, Nordau, ‘deemed dubious and that the analysis of hereditary influences in the formation of genius was hazy.’ The critic also doubted the author’s conviction that socialistic society would show none of the vices which the author pictured in civilized society.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 880w
“His control of English syntax is faulty. ... Beneath the radical prejudice and, it must be said, occasional naïve ignorance, one discerns an attitude not only introspective, but deeply reflective, a certain fine insight, and a genuine humanity, fairness struggling with prejudice.”
– + =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 250w
“The book is full of this sort of muddiness, and yet there is often, we willingly recognize, a striking suggestiveness. The chief merit of the book is in its passionate insistence on the imperativeness of making the most of really superior men.”
– + =Nature= 100:125 O 18 ‘17 340w
“It is a fine book for those fatigued minds that in the misty phrases of ‘social consciousness’ and the like try to disguise their basic terror before the individual intellect.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:27 N 3 ‘17 280w
=N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w
“It is vastly stimulating reading and much can be gathered from its torrential attack upon Philistinism. ... Mr Schwarz’s ideas would have been promulgated to better effect if the material had been divided between two or more volumes.”
+ — =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 200w
“An argument for socialism bolstered up with philosophical and ethical generalizations. ... Shows a certain amount of independent thinking ... but is scattering in aim, and extremely diffuse in expression.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 250w
=SCOLLARD, CLINTON.= Let the flag wave, and other verses written in wartime. 75c J. T. White & co., 70 5th av., N.Y.; for sale by Baker 811 17-17071
Among the “other verses” are: At the grave of Lawrence; America to her young men; Reeds of the Somme; Chant of the Hun; Mother England; and Kitchener of Khartum. The cream colored binding is not well suited to library use.
“In this sort of writing Mr Scollard’s high spirits and power to write convincingly stand him in good stead.”
+ =Lit D= 55:31 Jl 14 ‘17 700w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
=SCOTT, CHARLES ERNEST.= China from within; introd. by J. Ross Stevenson. il *$1.75 Revell 915.1 17-31762
“For many years a missionary of the Presbyterian church at Tsingtau, Dr Scott’s lectures delivered in the winter of 1914-15 at Princeton theological seminary have an authority sometimes lacking in the books recording the impressions and experiences of the ordinary traveller. For Dr Scott has not only journeyed over the greater part of China, including provinces seldom visited by aliens, but he has lived among the people, learning, as in no other way can be done their real life and the most pressing of their many needs. ... ‘An humble testimony by a student on the field to the ability and achievements of the Chinese,’ he himself calls his book.”—Boston Transcript
“His book is as interesting and valuable to the general reader as to those concerned with the problems of mission work.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 780w
“Little is said here about politics, revolutions or international relations. But real insight is given into the regenerative forces that are at work creating a manhood that some day will take high place in China’s development.”
+ =Ind= 93:200 F 2 ‘18 100w
“A careful study.”
+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 60w
“Dr Scott presents a body of material concerning the inner life of the Chinese such as can hardly be found in any other published book.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 40w
=SCOTT, DIXON.= Men of letters; with an introd. by Max Beerbohm. il *$2 (2c) Doran 820.4
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17
“One of the most serious losses due to the war has been the death of Dixon Scott. ... Scott was not merely an acute critic or interpreter, or that commonplace of to-day, the good impressionist. He was one of those who penetrate through the book into the mind of the author, and show how it works. Like Sainte-Beuve, he saturated himself so completely in the man he was studying that he endued his personality.”
+ =Ath= p85 F ‘17 1350w
“His judgments may challenge some readers: me they merely fascinate. ... I want a figure to intrigue my imagination, and Dixon Scott has offered me a gallery.” J. W. Linn
+ =Dial= 62:184 Mr 8 ‘17 950w
“Dixon Scott was an exceedingly clever young man, with a most remarkable specific literary talent. Reading his criticisms is like watching revolver practice by a crack shot: the explosiveness of the style and the swiftness of the devastation hide the monotony of the mood and method. His longest and most deeply felt effort was an essay on William Morris: his most elaborated, an essay on me. ... I have no space here to do more than point out the limitations of Dixon Scott’s view of art, and how the young literary voluptuary flourished at the expense of the critic of life. But I can guarantee the book as being not only frightfully smart in the wrong places, but, in the best of the right ones, as good as it is in the nature of the best journalistic criticism to be.” G. B. S.
* =New Repub= 10:78 F 17 ‘17 1900w
“Aesthetic excitement—that is his distinguishing note. ... It was Dixon Scott’s excellent gift that he could both brilliantly detect and unforgettably convey. ... Here is a genuine student of life: an observer both shrewd and sweet, gallant, full of charm and vigor; an interpreter of brilliant insight, of poetic imagination, of extraordinary craft. One is not easily reconciled to his sacrifice.” Lawrence Gilman
+ =No Am= 205:620 Ap ‘17 1450w
=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w
+ =Spec= 118:306 Mr 10 ‘17 60w
“To find a given writer’s medium, compare his normal with his sophisticated self, and complete the curve of variation from his theoretically possible achievement, is the task of criticism as it presents itself to Dixon Scott. The resulting method has the breathless fascination of hurdle-racing. One may disagree with his opinions and resent his premises, but one must recognize the dynamic energy of the thinking involved.” M. A. Jordan
+ + — =Yale R= n s 7:202 O ‘17 1300w
=SCOTT, MRS ELLEN (CORRIGAN).= Elizabeth Bess, “a little girl of the sixties.” il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24271
Perhaps it is for its picture of New England life in the years immediately following the Civil war that this book for girls will be most valued and for that reason many older people will enjoy it. Elizabeth Bess is a winsome little girl of five, who lives in a bewildering world of older brothers and sisters and other grown people. There is one older brother whom Elizabeth does not remember very well, for she was only a baby when he went to war and he has been “missing” since Gettysburg. Elizabeth Bess knows what missing means. She knows that it does not mean dead, or lost forever, and she persists in her faith in the face of all the grown-up discouragement, even after Howell’s mother and sweetheart are ready to give up hope. And Bess’s perseverance is rewarded by the missing brother’s return.
“A not over sentimentalized picture of the life of a charming little girl of the sixties. ... It is not written for children, though they would enjoy parts of the story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w
“A real little classic. Elizabeth Bess is a heroine in whom little readers and older ones may well be interested. She is a human child, with a quick tongue, a wide-awake mind, an intense interest in everything about her.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:548 D 9 ‘17 440w
=SCOTT, ERNEST.= Short history of Australia. maps *$1.25 Oxford 994 17-14803
“A handy, clear, and well-written history, skilfully adjusting the narrative to the limits of a small volume without rendering it unattractive; equipped with a great many useful maps; and at the end a bibliography for each chapter. Index 15 pages.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Prof. Ernest Scott occupies the chair of history in the University of Melbourne. His ‘Short history’ is a model of its kind. Based on firsthand knowledge of the sources, written in a clear, masculine style with an agreeable literary flavor, well proportioned, judicial in tone, equipped with such aids to the understanding as maps, plans, chronology, bibliography, and index, this admirable work will take its place at once as a prime authority on Australia.”
+ =Nation= 104:598 My 17 ‘17 1300w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 80w
=SCOTT, JAMES BROWN=, ed. Diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war; with an introd. 2v *$5 Oxford 940.91 16-18046
“Evidently it is the purpose of this work to furnish the student with the best and most comprehensive collection of the sources, but not to assist him further in the study of them, except that there is a large and excellent index. The documents are printed from the originals, when these are in English, and when in other languages from the official English translations. This collection is the most complete hitherto published, and contains besides the documents usually assembled the second ‘Austrian red book,’ concerning relations with Italy, most of the ‘Second Belgian gray book,’ the second ‘British blue book,’ relating to the rupture of relations with Turkey, the ‘Italian green book,’ and the second ‘Russian orange book,’ concerning relations with Turkey.”—Am Hist R
“Should be the standard collection on the subject for some time to come.” E: R. Turner
+ =Am Hist R= 22:657 Ap ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:530 Je ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 10w
“To the many books dealing with the outbreak of the war, the Carnegie Endowment for international peace has now added their contribution. For such a collection there is a real place. Some two years ago the British government, indeed, published a work similar in character, ‘Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war’; so far as it went that seemed fully to meet all requirements; the volumes before us, however, are larger in their scope in that they include material which has appeared since then; for instance, the ‘Second Belgian grey book’ and the new edition of the ‘German white book.’ ... On the whole, it seems to us that it would have been wiser if the Carnegie institute had undertaken more immediate responsibility for the revision of the various translations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p50 F 1 ‘17 850w
=SCOTT, JOHN REED.= Man in evening clothes. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-14179
In an amateur way, Colin Marjoribanks, an under-secretary of the British embassy in Washington, had been picking up valuable gems here and there, taking advantage of the carelessness of his women friends. From one he has obtained a fine pearl, from another an emerald necklace, from another several valuable rings. He is holding these until the time is safe for their disposal, when a professional jewel thief appears on the scene, “the man in evening clothes.” This unknown appears perfectly familiar with Colin’s little depredations and so holds him in his power. It is just at this time that the Hon. Patricia Packingham arrives from England, and the young secretary begins to see the error of his way. His efforts to get himself out of an awkward scrape come to a climax with a demand from the unknown thief that he act as a tool in robbing the British embassy. This forces confession, and forgiveness follows.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 380w
“The story is entertainingly written and sufficiently ingenious, while the picture of Washington society is amusing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 270w
“Stories of this trashy type do Mr Scott, who ordinarily is a diverting romancer, no credit.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 230w
=SCOTT, RHEA CLARKE.= Home labor saving devices. il *$1 Lippincott 643 17-8895
The author, who is a rural extension worker, gives directions for the making at home or in school of labor saving devices, for the kitchen, dining-room, porch, poultry house, dairy, etc. The appendix includes: Fundamentals in woodworking; Suggested list of tools; List of publications for supplementary reading (chiefly government documents).
=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 100w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:385 Je ‘17
=Ath= p523 O ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:71 My ‘17
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 210w
=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 30w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 50w
=SCOTT, WILLIAM BERRYMAN.= Theory of evolution. *$1 (2c) Macmillan 575 17-7196
This book, by the Blair professor of geology and palæontology in Princeton university, contains the Westbrook lectures delivered at the Wagner free institute of science, Philadelphia, in 1914. The author treats his subject with special reference to the evidence upon which the theory of evolution is founded. Contents: Present status of the question; Evidences for the theory—classification, domestication and comparative anatomy; Evidence from embryology and blood tests; Evidence from palæontology; Evidence from geographical distribution; Evidence from experiment—conclusion.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17
“The opening chapter gives a brief historical review of theories of evolution and a concise statement of the present status of the question. I have seen no better presentation of this body of data for both biologist and general reader than that given in this little book. My only criticism is that it is insufficiently illustrated, although the few illustrations used are well chosen.” H. H. Newman
+ =Bot Gaz= 63:325 Ap ‘17 130w
“The evidence for his thesis is presented honestly without forcing facts or ignoring flaws.”
+ =Cath World= 105:394 Je ‘17 280w
+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 60w
+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 40w
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 50w
“Then follows a chapter on evidences drawn from embryology, and also from the wholly unexpected field of blood-tests. This part of the volume will be of special interest to readers who have not kept themselves informed as to this remarkable advance in science. The chapter on evidence from palæontology maintains complete perspective, although there was some danger that the author’s studies in this particular direction might throw the sketch out of true.”
+ =Nation= 104:717 Je 14 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
“The layman in search of a summary of the present status of the theory of evolution will find in Professor Scott’s volume a straightforward, clear-cut and simple presentation of the most important single contribution to science in the nineteenth century. ... The book is valuable for its restraint and for the liberality of its view.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:414 My ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:327 S ‘17 10w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 270w
=SCOTT, WILLIAM ROBERT.=[2] Economic problems of peace after war; the W. Stanley Jevons lectures at University college, London, in 1917. *$1.40 (3½c) Putnam 304 (Eng ed 17-28670)
An indication of the course which progress may be expected to take after the war rather than a prediction of details. A study of emergency measures made “for the duration of the war” naturally gives rise to questions concerning the continuance of state and government control of activities, economic and industrial, after the war. Concerning commerce the writer reflects that warfare has extended into the third dimension and that it is possible, with the perfection of submarines and airships, commerce may do the same. But, he says, “there can be no single forecast of the future of commerce and industry in the first years of peace. ... It will take time to direct the new national spirit to industry and to utilize it to the full.” He believes that the economy practised during these days will become habitual; that the increased capital as a result of saving will aid in the reconstruction of industry when peace returns. Finally, he develops a new responsibility in industry. Industry is to be conceived not as an evolutionary process but as a problem, that of attaining a harmonious relation among men concerned in production.
“Professor Scott is more concerned to lay down broad principles than to attempt any very definite prediction of what the peace will bring us, and for that reason alone his book deserves attention.”
+ =Spec= 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 120w
“The author takes what seems to us to be a sane but cheerful view of the future. If he is sometimes a trifle prosy and occasionally a little obscure, he has the excuse of the traditions of the great science of which he is a distinguished exponent.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p314 Jl 5 ‘17 950w
=SCOVELL, CLINTON HOMER.= Cost accounting and burden application. *$2 Appleton 657 16-22873
“The principles and elements of cost are treated by Mr Scovell rather than any specific system of cost keeping. The determination and application of overhead charges or burden are given a prominent place. The five methods of applying burden are: Percentage on wages, percentage on labor and material, man-hour rates, old-machine rate, new-machine rate. ... Material and material cost with reference to the practice of machine shops are discussed in chapter 3. The succeeding chapter is on labor costs. The later chapters deal with cost accounting for special industries. ... The author states that every method and device mentioned in the book is in successful operation in some progressive industrial establishment.”—Engin N
“Probably the most important thing in the whole book, certainly the one about which there has been least written, is what the author calls ‘unearned burden.’ ... The work is to be recommended to managers, accountants, and students of cost accounting, chiefly for the fundamental principles discussed, and the very great number of suggestions offered.” M. M. FitzHugh
+ =Am Econ R= 7:137 Mr ‘17 850w
=A L A Bkl= 13:251 Mr ‘17
“The author would probably feel that his chief contribution lies in his treatment of unearned burden. ... The work at once is both scholarly and practical, and should rank high among the books in this country on the subject.” Spurgeon Bell
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:225 My ‘17 400w
=Engin N= 77:108 Ja 18 ‘17 300w
“Closely related to the absence of accounting forms is the lack of any adequate presentation of the relations between cost accounting and the general accounting system of the business making use of cost accounts. The book falls short of establishing completeness as a treatise on cost accounting by reason of the conscious emphasis upon the order method of production and the corresponding neglect of the process method and of the so called continuous industries. The book contains particularly good chapters upon unearned burden, interest as an element of cost, the verification of burden estimates, and the budget system.”
=J Pol Econ= 25:639 Je ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“Author is a specialist in industrial accounting. He is of the modern school. ... The book is not a systematic treatise, suitable for students, but is a logical discussion of general principles. ... It should be read by practical accountants who wish to be informed as to the latest and best theory of their profession.” W: Kent
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:465 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)
=R of Rs= 55:221 F ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 40w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:23 Ja ‘17 60w
=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.= Church and the hour; reflections of a socialist church woman. *$1 Dutton 261 17-10459
This book “attempts a reconciliation between the faith of the church and the ideals of social reform by showing the identity of the two. The author, who is a professor in Wellesley college, looks upon the church as primarily a social organization and social force, and believes that the more the corporate ideal is stressed the nearer the church is to fulfilling its task in society. As to socialism, the author asserts that it is incomplete and impotent unless it take account of the fact that man has a soul. Intensely individualistic Christianity and anti-Christian socialism are believed by Miss Scudder to be powerless half-truths.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 80w
“The great question is, Can a democratic society believe in the Christian God? The question is not settled, but it is one of the most important that we have before us to-day. Any intelligent discussion of it must be of value.” Ward Swain
=Dial= 62:523 Je 14 ‘17 900w
“Miss Scudder is less vague than most others who are lamenting the breakdown of Christianity with a sneer at the parson. Herself a Socialist, she has some ideas as to how the church might enforce principles of social justice and thus ensure international stability.”
+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 220w
=N Y Times= 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 370w
=Pratt= p8 O ‘17 10w
“Anyone who believes that socialism and Christian faith are antagonistic to each other will be interested in Miss Scudder’s argument in the chapter entitled ‘Two letters to The Masses.’ ... The book is well written though the material is at times somewhat fragmentary. Throughout the reader is attracted by the note of mysticism and the faith in humanity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 270w
“Both at its heights of social hope and its depths of religious idealism this volume lacks a practical hold on the unity of a human life. It fails to show just how the church, which cannot be regarded as a separate body, can yet be so separate from the people constituting it that it can dwell apart on a higher level while they themselves must so largely live and labor on the ‘lower range of the natural life.’” Graham Taylor
– + =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 650w
=SCUDDER, VIDA DUTTON.=[2] Le morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and its sources. *$3.50 Dutton 398.2 17-31449
“The author is professor of English literature in Wellesley college, and the book is the outcome of fifteen years of study with her college classes. The volume is concerned with Arthurian romances intimately connected with England and deals with the sequence leading up to the ‘Morte d’Arthur’ of Malory. The development of the romances through the centuries is studied, with now and then a glance at the form they took on the continent, the author constantly comparing the sources from which Malory drew with his own treatment of characters and incidents and constantly finding in the romances the reflection of life and thought, and feeling during mediaeval times. ... The first half of the book is devoted to a consideration of the sources from which Malory drew his material, but the second part takes up Malory’s work and after a chapter on the man and his book goes on to examine, discuss and interpret the various elements of his ‘Morte d’Arthur.’”—N Y Times
“She has made a brilliant contribution to the subject of mediaeval romance merely by the comprehensiveness with which she has surveyed the results of modern investigation, the thoroughness with which she has mastered and digested them and the very readable style in which she has presented her narrative. Her book is a work of fine scholarship, but it is also written in so interesting a manner that it deserves the popular reading for which it is intended.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 600w
“What she has done here is of permanent value and is presented with sincere literary effort.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 50w
=SEAMAN, MRS AUGUSTA HUIELL.= Girl next door. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24404
The author of “The boarded-up house” and “The sapphire signet” has written a new story for girls which now appears in book form after serial publication in St Nicholas. The old house next door appears to be deserted, for its shutters are always closed. Marcia and Janet, however, early discover that there are signs of life about it, and their interest, already aroused at the first hint of mystery, is intensified when they learn that the place shelters a young girl. When they succeed in making friends with Cecily they expect the puzzle to solve itself, but they are only more mystified, for Cecily herself does not know why she has been brought to live in the strange house. And, stranger still, Miss Benedict, its veiled mistress, does not know who Cecily is or from where she has come. Genuine love for Cecily takes the place of curiosity as the motive that drives the two girls on to the solution of the mystery.
“An entertaining mystery story for girls.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 20w
“As real a mystery story as ever was written for grown-ups.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 90w
=SEARS, CHARLES HATCH.= Edward Judson, interpreter of God. il $1 Am. Bapt. 17-14394
“One of his friends, the Rev. Charles H. Sears, has sketched the events and the motives of Dr Judson’s public life. Against the background of his childhood in Burma, his orphaned boyhood in America, and his life as student and teacher and pastor of a prosperous suburban church, stands out his heroic venture in founding an institutional church in downtown New York. Like his great father, Adoniram Judson, he had the spirit of the pioneer, and his was one of the first expressions of the social ministry of the modern city church for all sorts and conditions of men.”—Lit D
“Sympathetic portrayal of an unselfish life.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 160w
“This volume would have been of greater value to the public if its author had not been requested to treat Dr Judson’s life in its public rather than in its personal relations. For Dr Judson’s power was in his personality.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 300w
=Pratt= p44 Jl ‘17 20w
=SEDGWICK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, and TYLER, HARRY WALTER.=[2] Short history of science. il *$2.50 Macmillan 509 17-31086
Addressed to the student and the general reader this volume goes back to the origin of scientific knowledge, and of the scientific method which has not only revolutionized scientific study but has been widely applied to all kinds of human activity. The writers begin with the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Phoenicians whose monuments and inscriptions have furnished the material for the beginnings of scientific study. The development of the science of mathematics, astronomy and medicine and the contribution made by different nations occupies nine chapters. The second half of the text starts with the quickening influences of the age of discovery at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century and traces the progress of modern national, physical and mathematical science to the beginning of the twentieth century.
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 300w
“A vast subject is treated with breadth of view and keenness of insight in this book. It strikes a happy balance between the technical works that are meant for the special student and the works that deal so largely with abstract theories that they fail to grip the general reader. A good example of the work of specialists who know how to make their subject interesting to non-specialists.”
+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 9 ‘18 70w
=SEEBACH, JULIUS FREDERICK, and SEEBACH, MRS MARGARET REBECCA (HIMES).= Singing weaver, and other stories. il *$1 (2c) Lutheran pub. soc. 17-21643
These “hero tales” for young people have been brought together in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of the reformation. The authors say that they are true stories of some of the obscure, but none the less real heroes of that time. Contents: The singing weaver; Her little Bible; At the king’s bidding; The good little hen; Lady Philippine’s Easter gift; At the turn of the tide; His majesty’s potter; The price of a book; The courage of Grizel; The glorious return. The book has an effective frontispiece in color by Jessie Gillespie.
=SEEGER, ALAN.= Letters and diary. il *$1.25 (3c) Scribner 940.91 17-14031
Alan Seeger, the young American poet who, at the beginning of the war enlisted in the Foreign legion of France and died in a charge at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, tells of his service in the trenches, in the rear, and on the field, in fragments of a diary and in letters home and to the New York Sun, covering the period from September 27, 1914, to June 28, 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“It is for America as well as for France that these letters speak. They come to the public eye at a most propitious moment. ... Alan Seeger was a fore-runner of the hundreds of Americans who will join hands with France and with all the allies of France for the salvation of humanity.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1350w
=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 50w
“The greater portion of the book is ordinary, quite like the many books from the hands of mere journalists. There is another, smaller, but far more important part of the volume that is also disappointing, and in inverse ratio to its size; it is the part, or parts, where the poet does write and where, therefore, his philosophy of life appears. Alan Seeger was narrow-minded. Seeger’s [view] is so largely a mere expression of his emotions that, annoyance becomes the dominant reaction as one reads. He was tired of ordinary existence, that existence which demands the best powers of mind and soul. Victor Chapman, in his ‘letters from France,’ says: ‘Remember Alan Seeger was an appalling wreck before the war.’” B. I. Kinne
– + =Dial= 63:206 S 13 ‘17 1250w
“Perhaps nearer to literature than anything that has come to us from the trenches. ... His pages are extraordinarily vivid and human and yet curiously impersonal. There is hardly an anecdote, hardly a mention of an individual. Idiosyncrasies of character, incidents of trench life were not his interest and yet you live trench life with him, and you breathe the very spirit of the war.”
+ =Ind= 90:514 Je 16 ‘17 1000w
“The real interest of this little book is in the psychological conditions which threw this young American into the war and made him glory in his experiences.”
=Nation= 104:758 Je 28 ‘17 1350w
“Throughout the record there is manifest a grace of mind and character that is both touching in its appeal and prohibitive of false sentiment. Sad as it is, the book is inspiriting.”
+ =No Am= 206:137 Jl ‘17 650w
=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 20w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 13 ‘17 620w
=SEEGER, ALAN.= Poems: with an introd. by W: Archer. *$1.25 Scribner 811 16-24961
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“A large part of the poems in this volume can reasonably well stand on their strictly literary merits. ... We like to think that if Rupert Brooke had lived he would have eliminated from his final volume some of the unnecessary gaucheries of expression, as well as some of the unworthy compositions which were rushed into print under the impulse of the sudden fame brought about by his death. The same thought occurs in the case of Alan Seeger.” H. F. Armstrong
+ — =Dial= 62:243 Mr 22 ‘17 750w
+ =Ind= 89:270 F 12 ‘17 220w
“Of his artistic capacity there can be no question. At twenty-eight he was master of a rich and flexible technique which I hesitate to call exceptional only because in our dædal and prodigious age exceptions are turning into rules before our eyes. The strains are Lydian, Lydian even in the rifle-pits; and to his ideals, which include Sidney, Byron, Napoleon, and Roosevelt, I am impelled to add, as analogue if not as exemplar, Sardanapalus.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 104:710 Je 14 ‘17 270w
=Pittsburgh= 22:507 Je ‘17 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 120w
=SEELY, HERMAN GASTRELL.= Son of the city. il *$1.35 (2c) McClurg 17-25592
Sketches of boyhood, as maturity remembers it. Of stories of child life in the country there are many. The activities and interests of the city boy are more rarely pictured. But in this story of the city, apparently Chicago, the essential characteristics of boy nature are shown to vary little with the environment. Sport, love, and adventure are the matters that occupy this boy’s mind much as they did that of Tom Sawyer.
“The particular hero of Mr Seely’s telling holds the reader’s interest from start to finish.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 150w
“The book is strongly reminiscent of the sentiments which inspire Briggs’s cartoons. ... There are quite a few passages where action lags and interest wanes. But the chief charm, and one that pervades the volume, is that older than Aristotle—recognition. Youth comes back with all its fond impulsiveness and sudden bitternesses, but still vivid and happily refreshing.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 300w
=SEGAR, MARY G.=, comp. Some minor poems of the middle ages; glossary by Emmeline Paxton. *$1 Longmans 821 17-13422
“This is complementary to Miss Segar’s recent ‘Mediæval anthology,’ and should help to fill in the background against which the greater and better-known works stand out. ... Some of these pieces are widely known; others, and not least interesting, are unfamiliar. These do, as the preface claims, ‘Illustrate the mind and deeds of the time, and its manners and customs.’ Miss Segar writes an excellent introduction, and the glossary and notes smooth the way for any intelligent student.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 110w
+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 110w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
=SELLARS, ROY WOOD.= Essentials of philosophy. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 102 17-22306
This book, intended as an introduction to philosophy, concerns itself with those “general problems which confront all knowledge.” “He who has wrestled with these,” says the author, “can face the more empirical questions of the secondary philosophical subjects with equanimity.” He takes up first the problems of the theory of knowledge, second those of metaphysics or ontology. He says, “We shall, I believe, become convinced that the answer to ontological problems depends in a larger measure than has been acknowledged upon the answer given to epistemological problems. Only the final chapter will concern itself with values. The method we shall use may be called the genetic for want of a better name. ... The history of philosophy will always be kept subordinate to the main purpose, that of a clear and consistent statement of problems and their solutions, so far as solutions are realizable.” (Chapter 1) The author is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan.
=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w
“This book, in the opinion of the reviewer, is one of the most acceptable introductory texts that has come under his notice. It is well fitted to the needs of the beginner, and it admits of all necessary expansion on the part of the teacher. It should find wide acceptance as a text.” A. G. A. Balz
+ =J Philos= 14:668 N 22 ‘17 500w
=SELTZER, THOMAS=, comp and ed. Best Russian short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books) il *60c Boni & Liveright 17-20418
The compiler states that “the present volume is the most comprehensive anthology of the Russian short story in the English language. ... Korolenko’s ‘Shades’ and Andreyev’s ‘Lazarus’ first appeared in Current Opinion, and Artzybashev’s ‘The revolutionist’ in the Metropolitan Magazine.” (Introd.) Contents: The queen of spades, by A. S. Pushkin; The cloak, by N. V. Gogol; The district doctor, by I. S. Turgenev; The Christmas tree and the wedding, by F. M. Dostoyevsky; God sees the truth, but waits, by L. N. Tolstoy; How a muzhik fed two officials, by M. Y. Saltykov; The shades, a phantasy, by V. G. Korolenko; The signal, by V. N. Garshin; The darling, The bet, Vanka, by A. P. Chekhov; Hide and seek, by F. K. Sologub; Dethroned by I. N. Potapenko; The servant, by S. T. Semyonov; One autumn night, Her lover, by M. Gorky; Lazarus, by L. N. Andreyev; The revolutionist, by M. P. Artzybashev; The outrage, by A. I. Kuprin.
=SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON.= Preacher of Cedar Mountain; a tale of the open country. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-12957
The story opens with an account of Jim Hartigan’s boyhood in a little town in Ontario. This part of his life comes to an end with his conversion at a crude revival meeting. He goes west as a missionary preacher and finds his field in the Black hills. He finds, too, the right woman, the one whose loving wisdom guides his after life. In that day horse racing was looked on by Jim’s church as one of the deadly sins, but a love for horses is in his blood, and it was inevitable that he should be drawn to the sport that flourished on the frontier. A big race between soldiers and Indians is one of the features of the story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17
“Breathes a spirit of love of nature, and contains many beautiful word-pictures of landscapes.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:685 Ag ‘17 200w
– + =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“A vivid story.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 240w
“Mr Thompson Seton loses his distinction when he begins to write about human beings. ... Almost anybody might have written such a yarn; and it is perhaps to Mr Seton’s credit that he seems more interested in the horses than in the men and women of the story. ... But the author’s friends must hope that he will go back to his wolves and grizzlies.”
=Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 230w
“As a story of character development it is very interesting. And it is also unusual. For there is no sentimentality in the tale of Jim’s evolution, and the things that happen to him are full of concrete interest themselves.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:177 My 6 ‘17 650w
“We predict a wide popularity for this story.”
+ =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 90w
“One is not surprised to learn that a story of so much breadth and reality is for the most part historical, and many of its characters, including its hero, are drawn from life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 170w
=SETON, JULIA (MRS FRANKLIN WARREN SEARS).=[2] Destiny. *$1.35 (2c) Clode, E: J. 17-22566
A new thought novel which forestalls unsympathetic comment by claiming that “every book that is written has a meaning and a purpose; sometimes this meaning and purpose is plain; ... sometimes however, only God and the author really understand it.” The heroine is a young girl who is keen scented for a life of adventure. She grows irritable among the commonplaces of life with her country foster parents and her country lover. She longs for the world. Her opportunity comes, and with it encouragement to delve deep into all “sciences, psychologies, philosophies, and religions.” With the husband of her friend, who had opened the door to her new life, she enters the world beyond and “sees at work the laws of the inner relationship of spheres and consciousness.” Here the lay reader loses her, but soon finds her again as she emerges to the discovery that she is the soul mate of her friend’s husband. The reader is led to believe that the events swiftly following this development, the resistance, and final conquest, are wholly in keeping with the teachings of new thought.
“A highly moral book. And whatever it may lack, occasionally, in uniqueness of plot, or brilliancy of description and dialogue, is fully compensated for by its measureless compass of lofty spiritual values. To all disciples of new thought this last book of Dr Seton’s will be of singular interest.” D. F. G.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p10 O 6 ‘17 400w
“All the characters talk a very great deal, and the author indulges in unending dissertations.”
— =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 170w
“With all this wonderfully constructed background of the psychic, the hidden, the occult, Dr Seton has aroused in her readers a tense expectation. We proceed eagerly with the breathless hope of seeing Audrienne solve the mystery of life and love, disclose the secret which lies behind the beyond. It is frankly, therefore, a disappointment to be called upon to witness Dr St Elmo and our heroine clasped in each other’s arms amid the ‘deepest, darkest shrubbery,’ and to find the author herself commenting on the scene, ‘They had found all they had looked for; all they had longed for, far above the law of all mystical research.’” Joseph Mosher
— =Pub W= 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 650w
Seven years in Vienna (August, 1907—August, 1914); a record of intrigue. il *$1.50 Houghton 943.6 A17-1120
“Popular and gossipy, this traces the course of political events from 1907-1914 and the reason for Austria’s entrance into the war. Gives rather vivid characterizations of members of the royal family including the late emperor Francis Joseph and the murdered archduke and his wife, and describes many of the intrigues of the governing political party of Austria.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:396 Je ‘17
“Very early in his record of intrigue in the German and Austrian courts he reveals an intimate acquaintance with his subject and with the intricacies of court life and the people who direct and control it.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 780w
“What he or she has to say of the inner workings of government machinery is entertaining enough, but unsupported by any basis of authority.”
=Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 120w
“A farrago of backstairs tittle-tattle, newspaper clippings, and downright guesswork.”
— =Nation= 104:715 Je 14 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
“An interesting book, this, yet scarcely a valuable one. It is poorly written, poorly assembled, confused at times to a point of an inconsistency which is probably more apparent than real.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 1050w
=St Louis= 15:134 My ‘17 20w
=SEVERANCE, FRANK HAYWARD.= Old frontier of France. 2v il *$7.50 (2c) Dodd 974.7 17-13293
Drawing on records in the archives of France, Canada and the United States, the author has brought together a mass of material bearing on the history of the Niagara region and adjacent lakes under French control. The work is intended as an authentic historical record. The author says, “If I have seldom turned aside from the mere recording of events, to remark on the policies of the powers which were rivals in the region, or on the consequences of their conduct, it is because I have felt that the truest exposition of these ambitions of courts, these failures or achievements of ministries, lay in setting forth as simply and clearly as possible, the things that were done.” Volume 1 covers the period from the early explorations to about 1751. In volume 2 the historical record is carried to the surrender of Fort Niagara, with supplementary chapters on the career of Chabert. The volumes are well illustrated, with maps, plans and facsimiles.
“No one is so well qualified as Mr Severance to tell the story of this region. With its topography and later history he has long been familiar, and he has evidently spent years collecting material for this work, laying under contribution manuscript sources in the archives of Paris, London and Ottawa, contemporary newspapers and pamphlets and familiar printed collections like the ‘New York colonial documents.’ The result is a work for the specialist and not for the general reader, one which will be found to disclose new facts and sources of information rather than to change fundamentally the reader’s conception of the character of the men and events under consideration. Within these self-imposed limitations the book is one of great value.” A. H. Buffinton
+ =Am Hist R= 23:180 O ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18
“Mr Severance of the Buffalo historical society, and author of ‘Old trails on the Niagara frontier’ and other historical works, is fitted to write of the domination of the Niagara region by the French. ... His work presents an assemblage of historical facts which will be of inestimable value to the historian and the economist who deals with results as well as causes.” G. H. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Severance is painstaking and accurate, with an apparently vastly absorbent, orderly intellect, and if only he might have quickened his subject with a more human touch, the reviewer could accord him unstinted praise.”
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=SEVERN, ELIZABETH.=[2] Psychology of behaviour. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-31920
The writer is a practitioner of psychotherapy and mental science. From the metaphysical rather than biological, the idealistic and suggestive, rather than materialistic and positive point of view, she analyses human motives and needs. The chapter on “Self” offers encouragement to the self-depreciating individual for it sets a high value on each self as an entity whose quality and idiosyncrasies distinguish it from every other particle in the universe and render it an essential part of the whole. The culture of self “is the only path to liberation and high behaviour,” says the author.
=SEWARD, ALBERT CHARLES=, ed. Science and the nation; with an introd. by the Right Hon. Lord Moulton. *$1.50 Putnam 504 17-21369
Thirteen essays by Cambridge university graduates, on the importance of pure science and its relation to applied science. “Lord Moulton points the general moral in an introduction—namely, that the facts and methods of science should receive more attention in our schools and universities.” (Spec) “Contents: The national importance of chemistry, W. J. Pope; Physical research and the way of its application, W. H. Bragg; The modern science of metals, pure and applied, W. Rosenhain; Mathematics in relation to pure and applied science, E. W. Hobson; The science of botany and the art of intensive cultivation, F. W. Keeble; Science in forestry, W. Dawson; Systematized plant-breeding, R. H. Biffen; An agricultural war problem, T. B. Wood; Geology as an economic science, Herbert H. Thomas; Medicine and experimental science, F. Gowland Hopkins; The ‘specific treatment’ of disease, G. H. F. Nuttall; Flies and disease, G. S. Graham-Smith; The government of subject peoples, W. H. R. Rivers.” (N Y Br Lib News)
“Each essay is written by a master of his subject, and the claims of the various sciences to recognition are presented in a most attractive and reasonable manner. The writers are making a simple and direct appeal to the general and educated public. There is no undue exploitation of any one science; there is no attempt to minimize the importance of the humanities; on the contrary, there is an earnest appeal for a proper balance of these two branches of civilization.”
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