The book review digest, volume 13, 1917 (part 8 of 10)
“Individually the chapters are of the utmost interest to the general reader; they give him compactly and authoritatively a sound idea of the scope and value of contemporary work in chemistry, physics, botany, geology, medicine, mathematics, and anthropology. ... Yet the present reviewer who is a journalist very anxious for the advancement of science and very eager to serve it if he can, turns from this book with an uncomfortable sense that scientific men have still to develop a definite policy with regard to schools and colleges and higher education. ... Against the strangle-grip of the classic-worshipping mandarins on our higher English education such a book as ‘Science and the nation’ scarcely fights at all.” H. G. Wells
+ — =Nature= 99:141 Ap 19 ‘17 1350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 110w
=Spec= 118:393 Mr 31 ‘17 170w
“The book opens with a contribution from Professor Pope to demonstrate that war on its present scale would have been impossible for Germany had not her chemists prepared the way. ... The feature common to nearly all the essays, but most clearly developed by Professor Bragg, is the insistence upon pure science, pursued for its own sake, as the fountain of all discovery, even in applied science. ... In addition to their discontent with the position of science in the economy of the nation, there are signs that the Cambridge essayists are not without some resentment at the treatment accorded to the scientific man himself, more at his lack of influence than as regards the actual rewards that he misses.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p135 Mr 22 ‘17 2000w
=SHACKLETON, ROBERT.=[2] Book of New York. il *$2.50 Penn 917.471 18-87
“Mr Shackleton is a trained observer of the picturesque and the historical, and in this volume he reveals a New York, or rather several New Yorks, that many life-long citizens of the poly-headed metropolis probably know little about. His book is at once historical, anecdotal, artistic, and informative in its appeal; above all, it seeks to capture the elusive spirit of the great city. The oldest houses and the newest palaces, the quaint corners and the splendid modern vistas, and the stories that lie behind them, all figure in Mr Shackleton’s narrative and in the many illustrations, from photographs and in pen-and-ink, which he has assembled. The photographs are reproduced in sepia and the pen-drawings are by Boyer.”—Lit D
=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 600w
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 100w
“Rather desultory, but always agreeable.”
+ — =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 40w
=SHARMAN, HENRY BURTON.=[2] Records of the life of Jesus. *$2.50 Assn. press 226 17-19831
A topical study of the actual career of Jesus whose first part makes comparative use of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke and whose second part is based on the gospel of John. “Dr Sharman describes this book as ‘a super-harmony of the gospels.’ The book is an ambitious and scholarly attempt to put the gospels in a new setting and, at the same time, to avoid, as far as possible, any dislocation or distortion of passages. It is unique in that it permits (by printing consecutive passages in Roman type) the continuous reading of each gospel. The synoptics have been harmonized, while the gospel of John is given by itself with the fullest possible cross reference to the synoptics. Passages which are similar but not actually parallel are given in foot-notes.” (Publishers’ note)
“Easily the best harmony of the gospels that has been published up to the present time. The book is admirable, both for reader and student.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 740w
=SHARP, HILDA M.= Stars in their courses. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-7812
“To be the child of an unhappy marriage is to be heavily handicapped at the very outset of that strange, unequal game we call life,” says the author. This was the fate of her hero, Patrick Yardley. When he was five years old, his mother disappeared out of his life, and his father, a very rich, self-made man, transferred to the child the bitter hatred engendered by the mother’s faithlessness. He teaches the boy to love money and then disinherits him, leaving his fortune to Patrick’s cousin. Patrick becomes a wanderer. An inherited passion for gambling is indulged in far places of the earth and wild stories of his way of life come back to England. His return, his meeting with the girl who is engaged to his cousin, and the discovery that his father had made a later will are events of the second half of the story. “The stars in their courses fought against Sisera,” seems to be the source of the title.
“It hardly creates the illusion of reality. Miss Sharp has an excellent plot in which inherited gambling instincts, blackmail, and accident play a perfectly legitimate part. Her characters too, except, in their speech, are true to type. She has a clever way of expressing her view of her characters that makes her work amusing, but her melodramatic dialogue all but ruins her best effects.”
– + =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 130w
“Somehow the author has made an interesting story even tho she has employed almost all the hackneyed situations known to fiction.”
+ — =Lit D= 54:1089 Ap 14 ‘17 200w
“Several of the minor characters in this oldfashioned story are well drawn.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:69 F 25 ‘17 300w
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 300w
=SHEAFFER, WILLIAM ADAM.=[2] Household accounting and economics. *65c Macmillan 657 17-3038
This practical work has chapters on: Personal accounts; Economics of the household; The family budget; How to keep the family accounts; How to open a bank account; Making payments by check; Envelope and card systems of keeping accounts; The household inventory and fire insurance protection, etc. The book is intended primarily as a text book for girls studying home economics, but the author points out that it furnishes valuable training for boys as well. It is also adapted to the use of the individual housekeeper or of clubs making a study of the subject. The author is head of the commercial department of West division high school, Milwaukee.
=A L A Bkl= 13:385 Je ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p 20 F ‘18 30w
“This book should be a welcome addition to the working library of the housekeeper.” J. S.
+ =St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 14w
=SHEAHAN, HENRY.= Volunteer Poilu. il *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 940.91 16-22442
A book written by an American serving in France. The author says that in writing the book it was his ambition to do for his comrades, the French private soldiers, what other books have done for the soldiers of other armies. Contents: The Rochambeau s’en va-t-en guerre; An unknown Paris in the night and rain; The great swathe of the lines; La forêt de Bois-le-Prêtre; The trenches in the “wood of death”; The Germans attack; The town in the trenches; Messieurs les poilus de la grande guerre; Preparing the defense of Verdun; The great days of Verdun.
“It is not only of trench life that this little volume treats: many other phases are illuminatingly touched upon. It is all admirably written and holds the attention closely.”
+ =Cath World= 104:696 F ‘17 200w
“Admirably written sketches giving an excellent interpretation of the French private soldier in the trench and in action.”
=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 18w
=Pittsburgh= 22:427 My ‘17 20w
+ =St Louis= 15:45 F ‘17 20w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:26 Ja ‘17 40w
=SHEARME, JOHN.= Lively recollections. il *1.50 (2c) Lane 17-16340
“The stories Canon Shearme tells of his boyhood days in Cornwall, his college days at Oxford, his early travels on the Continent, recreate the vanished Mid-Victorian life in delightful fashion. In the various towns to which, as curate, vicar and honorary canon, he was appointed, were among his neighbors and parishioners men famous in English politics, art and science, and his memories of them are particularly felicitous. In 1891, he was made vicar of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. At Osborne House, where he was often a dinner guest of Queen Victoria, and in whose chapel he sometimes preached, he met many royalties, whom he in turn makes known to us.”—Boston Transcript
“His sense of humor, never more keen than when he himself is the object; his happy gift as a raconteur; his fund of amusing anecdote combine to make his recollections exceptionally pleasing.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 300w
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 40w
“This unpretentious book of reminiscences is truly delightful. His pictures of famous personalities have a fine flavor. Among them are Gladstone, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth of Austria, Emperor Francis Joseph, Empress Eugenie, and Queen Victoria.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 100w
“Canon Shearme’s ‘recollections’ make very pleasant reading. The book is not long and it is quite light. We are all often asked to recommend such a book in these days, and the name is well worth remembering. His point of view is ... that of a scholar and a kindly, leisurely gentleman, who can talk to us very pleasantly about all sorts and conditions of people.”
+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 230w
“All through the volume there is the atmosphere of the Anglican church; and much of the author’s recollections has to do with church life and clerical haps and mishaps.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 9 ‘17 450w
=SHELFORD, ROBERT WALTER CAMPBELL.= Naturalist in Borneo. il *$5 Dutton 508.491 (Eng ed 17-15691)
“The author, who died in 1912, was curator of the Sarawak museum before settling down at the Oxford museum as assistant-curator under the guidance of Professor Poulton, who edits his book. It is apparent from the wide scope of his work, ranging from men and mammals to beetles, and from the vividness and exactitude of his observations, that Mr Shelford was a born naturalist, and would have done great things had he lived. As it is, the book is curiously interesting. ... The author’s numerous photographs are excellent.”—Spec
“Beside the interest of the manuscript, is that of the silent witness it bears to an unconquerable spirit which no physical ill could discourage, no amount of required personal effort could daunt. Unprefaced by the brief biography Dr Poulton of Oxford wrote, one would still feel the impulse of a rarely strong and appealing personality.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 700w
“Significant as are the facts gleaned from the author’s study of the vertebrata of Borneo, it is in the field of entomology that he exhibits most strikingly the specialized worker’s intimate knowledge.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
“A fascinating and unusual book, the work of a well-trained and thoughtful observer in many fields of science. He was specially keen on the problems of mimicry as a means of survival in the struggle for existence, and throughout the book, before we come to the special chapter on the subject, he supplies a host of observations on the odd habits of the world of life from animals to plants. Occasionally the dry and polysyllabic style of science may be a little technical for the reader, but the book as a whole is well and clearly written and free from the clumsiness which is too common among scientific writers. It is also well illustrated.”
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+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 100w
“At Kuching, in Sarawak, the Rajah Brooke established a museum which, it was wisely provided, was to be confined to Bornean subjects. With this limitation it has grown within its field to be an institution of great value; and it was as curator of the museum for some seven years that Mr Shelford gained his acquaintance with Bornean natural history. But the chief value of this book lies in its suggestiveness and biological speculations.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p17 Ja 11 ‘17 1100w
=SHELTON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Jumel mansion; being a full history of the house on Harlem Heights built by Roger Morris before the revolution; together with some account of its more notable occupants. il *$10 Houghton 974.7 17-216
“At the extreme upper end of Manhattan island, on a plot of land bounded by 160th and 162d streets, stands a historic building. It is known variously as the Roger Morris house, the Jumel mansion, and Washington’s headquarters, and it has been standing as a fine example of Georgian architecture since 1763. ... The records of this famous house and estate, with many biographical and personal records of its residents and others associated in one way or another with its history, have been gathered by Mr Shelton, its curator, and with many illustrations and facsimile plates and documents they have been made into a large quarto volume, stamped on the cover with a representation of the mansion. The book is appropriately entitled ‘The Jumel mansion,’ for that is its most popular designation and it is to the Jumels, and especially to Mme Jumel that it owes, in spite of its historical revolutionary significance, the greater part of its distinction.”—Boston Transcript
“By far the most striking historical contribution is the author’s excursus on the great fire of September, 1776, and the connection therein of Nathan Hale. The reviewer has observed no slips of consequence. One may question the proportion of space allotted to the law-suits and to the unsavory chronicles of the Bowen family.
The volume is well illustrated, and is a creditable and attractive addition to the list of works on famous American houses.” E. K. Alden
+ =Am Hist R= 22:909 Jl ‘17 480w
“Throughout the book forms a valuable contribution to American topographical history.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 6 ‘17 1200w
“The author has examined a countless number of manuscripts, letters, and records, and as a result has produced a thorough history of one of the best known historical landmarks of Manhattan.”
+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 250w
“A large and showy book on a trivial subject.”
=Nation= 104:605 My 17 ‘17 500w
“His book is charmingly written and most attractively presented.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 1800w
=SHEPARD, ODELL.=[2] Lonely flute. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-11821
“Only rarely does a poet succeed in catching the inner significance of his own verse and crystallizing that impression into a title for his book of verses. This is what in a high degree Mr Shepard has done in his little volume of carefully selected poems. Most of Mr Shepard’s verse is quite plainly divided into what has to do with California and what with New England. The New England note is, however, by far the more potent. We should not need the hint given us by the poems upon Concord, to realize the influence upon him of Emerson.”—Boston Transcript
“The few dates scattered through the book convince us that these poems cover a number of years and are the chosen best of the poet’s output during these years. It is verse of high restraint, reflecting from first to last a lofty poetic ideal and a steadfast struggle toward the ideal.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 1150w
Reviewed by Conrad Aiken
=Dial= 62:475 My 31 ‘17 630w
“There are many beautiful things in ‘A lonely flute’—high imagination, rich color, noble emotion. Mr Shepard is particularly successful when he writes of nature.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1512 My 19 ‘17 850w
“A refined and tranquil volume, of wavering promise.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:400 O 11 ‘17 150w
=SHEPARDSON, GEORGE DEFREES.= Telephone apparatus; an introduction to the development and theory. il *$3 Appleton 654.6 17-4036
The author says that, while numerous books on telephony have been published, there is “a paucity of systematic, historical, and theoretical treatment.” It is to meet this deficiency that his book has been prepared. “The book presumes that the reader has a working knowledge of algebra, trigonometry, calculus and physics, including the laws governing direct and alternating currents.” Part 1 is devoted to Speech sounds, receivers, transmitters; part 2 to Signaling equipment; Part 3 to Sources of electromotive force and protection. Part 4 is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced mathematical phases of the subject. The author is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
=A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18
=Cleveland= p79 Je ‘17 40w
“The wealth of references given to the technical literature in discussing the principles and modes of operation of telephone apparatus would justify the publication of this book without any regard to the matter contained in the text. The text is, moreover, well arranged and amply illustrated for the treatment of the subject.”
+ =Elec World= 69:380 F 24 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:40 Mr ‘17
“Also reviewed in the American City, March, 1917.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 100w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17 30w
+ =Science= n s 46:462 N 9 ‘17 420w
=SHEPHERD, WILLIAM GUNN.= Confessions of a war correspondent. il *$1 (3c) Harper 940.91 17-17737
Mr Shepherd, as reporter for the United press association, covered the fall of Antwerp, is credited with being the only newspaper correspondent who saw the first battle of Ypres, was with the Austrians at Przemysl, and has visited the British, German and Italian fronts. In this book, he does not describe battles, but gives us a picturesque narrative of a war correspondent’s daily life. In the chapter entitled “The forty-two-centimeter blue pencil,” he states the case for censorship. In the last chapter, There are worse things than slaughter, he tells of the “moral and mental disintegration that is caused by military service in individual cases.” Other interesting chapters are The free-lance and the faker and The psychology of retreats.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
“What Mr Shepherd does in this readable book is to ‘open the stage door and welcome his readers to the “behind-the-scenes” of war reporting.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 370w
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 70w
“Mr Shepherd’s story brings out well the three stages through which war correspondence has passed in the course of the present conflict, and he calls them the ‘free-lance days,’ the ‘dark ages,’ and the ‘stage of the new twentieth-century war correspondent.’ The book is an entertaining and apparently truthful account of a war reporter’s trials and triumphs.”
+ =Dial= 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 290w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:133 S ‘17 30w
“Those who have read Richard Harding Davis’s last story ‘The deserter,’ will be keenly interested to find in one chapter an account of the incidents on which the story was based. One [chapter] of particular interest tells about the spy mania that permeates Europe.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 320w
=Pittsburgh= 22:683 O ‘17 30w
“A spirited narrative of experiences.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:354 O ‘17 30w
=SHEPPARD, ALFRED TRESIDDER.= Quest Of Ledgar Dunstan. *$1.50 (1c) Appleton 17-21976
“This is the second volume in what may prove to be an extensive series about the same personage. In the earlier novel—‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’—we saw the boyhood of Dunstan, and followed him through the processes of growth and rebellion in the midst of a conventionally religious family. The present chronicle begins immediately after his marriage to Mary Beltinge of Beltinge. Dunstan, ‘of obscure middle-class origin, and a novelist whose name was just beginning to be known,’ ... lacks spine, effectiveness, precisely in the proportion that he does not lack a complacent self-sufficiency and a capacity for feeling, for suffering. It speedily becomes apparent to Mary that the marriage to Dunstan was a blunder, and in the course of their wedding trip in Brittany she coolly relinquishes him in favor of an American artist, one Lincoln, and virtually leaves the story. ... What concerns the novelist, thereafter, is to trace the progress of Dunstan’s despair, spiritual chastisement and final readjustment. ... For the really important business of the book, however, he introduces, and delineates at great length, an extraordinary character, a decayed genius who imagines himself the realization of the ancient idea of Anti-Christ.”—Boston Transcript
“Not the sort of novel to please vastly the casual story-reader. But obviously Mr Sheppard is not one of those novelists whose aim is popular success. He has achieved something finer and more difficult, for this book is an uncommonly subtle and well-sustained story of weak souls, and of the doctrines that brought one to destruction and the other to salvation.” F. I.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 29 ‘17 950w
=Dial= 63:532 N 22 ‘17 200w
“The description of the insane asylum might be effective were it not so intolerably long; the same comment applies to the account of Ledgar’s night of horror in the old curiosity shop. ... Mr Sheppard is not without talent, but it is swamped by his verbosity.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 230w
“Here is a remarkable novel, something quite outside the ordinary ruck of fiction, something different, distinctive, startling, thought-compelling, and cataclysmic. ... Mr Sheppard has evidently made a close study of various forms of mania, especially of religious mania, and his book is an impassioned plea for reform in our treatment of lunatics, which he asserts is the grossest scandal of our civilisation. ... We have had this kind of thing in fiction before, but never, perhaps, have we had so startling, so convincing, and so minute a study of the horror and ugliness of madhouse life.”
+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 950w
“An interesting and elaborate study of the personality of the hero.”
+ =Spec= 119:144 Ag 11 ‘17 40w
“If, in spite of many interesting passages, a book be devoid of beauty of diction, of force, of manners, proportion, and sobriety, can it be anything but a bad book? We are inclined to say that it cannot. But as, in exasperation, we pronounce this opinion, we find ourselves arrested by something. We recall the saying: ‘Who touches this book touches a man.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p296 Je 21 ‘17 480w
=SHEPPARD, ALFRED TRESIDDER.= Rise of Ledgar Dunstan. *$1.50 Appleton 16-22850
“This novel is of the type of J. D. Beresford’s ‘Early history of Jacob Stahl,’ following the life of its hero from boyhood to maturity. Ledgar Dunstan is a drifter, a somewhat spineless sort of person. Brought up very strictly by an austere Baptist father in a convention of ‘Thou shalt nots,’ he presently comes to London and finds himself without any code at all. He rejects that of his father and seems to lack sufficient energy and sufficient interest in living either to make or to adopt one for himself. Several persons leave him money, he is successful as a writer, and the book ends with a marriage into which he has slipped more because it was an easy and agreeable thing to do than for any other reason.”—N Y Times
“The book is ingenious and brilliant rather than sound and sincere.” H. W. Boynton
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“A chaotic vehement mist of ideas hangs over the entire story. Mr Sheppard is so much addicted to thinking in ink that ‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’ comes near to striding the border that separates fiction from philosophy. ... When the author chooses to narrate, he can, and in a most telling manner. He has accuracy of touch and sympathy and insight. He has an experience which he must have gained from a varied life, a breadth of view which approaches the universal, and above all the saving grace of humor which prevents him taking himself with too deadly a seriousness. Thus ‘The rise of Ledgar Dunstan’ has a character and it has promise of a better sequel.” J. P. M.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 13 ‘16 700w
– + =Cath World= 105:402 Je ‘17 200w
“Provides a good deal of material for the student of social conditions and not much for the lover of novel reading. ... We have here another example of the ‘literature of revolt,’ in which, however, the author wrestles with the question of religion in a constructive or positive way.” E: E. Hale
=Dial= 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 950w
“Frankly, it is a bit puzzling. Nevertheless, let us hope that the sequel may fulfil the promise of what seems to be the author’s first book. It is interesting and has merit.”
+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 280w
“His infancy, his boyhood, his younger manhood, are laid before us with that scrupulous (and ruthless) particularity which the ‘life’ novel prescribes. It is an admirable method, other things being equal—or rather, under one condition: that the human subject of our study shall be inherently worth our trouble. ... Ledgar Dunstan fails, in the present instalment of his story, to prove his worth for us.”
— =Nation= 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 300w
“Generally the reader has an irritating feeling that Ledgar Dunstan ought to be both real and interesting, and is neither. ... Could two-thirds of this book be removed, we would have a novel not unworthy of attention; it is in no way a cheap and tawdry book—but it is an amateurish one.”
— =NY Times= 21:548 D 10 ‘16 350w
“The author has just enough of ability in depicting character and in presenting incidents and lively talk to give hopes for his future as a novelist, but this volume is in itself about as bad as it can be as regards construction, development, and proportion.”
— =Outlook= 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 80w
“Mr Sheppard understands the formulas fairly well, and we concede to him perceptions and sympathies which, as is the case with most novelists, far outstrip his faculty for presentation. What he entirely fails to realize is the nature of the art of fiction. There can be no such thing as a novel without a purpose. ... A torrent of prattle devastates the book, and, as for the cracking of jokes, we are goaded, ravaged, desolated by them.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p548 N 16 ‘16 450w
=SHERMAN, STUART PRATT.= Matthew Arnold; how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-13963
One chapter is devoted to Matthew Arnold’s character and career, and the remainder of the book is then given up to a study of his work. “Matthew Arnold is a charming but not an altogether conciliatory writer,” says the author in beginning his first chapter. “If you disagree with him, he does not encourage you to believe that you may be in the right.” The literary study is divided into the following chapters: Poems of the personal life; Poems of the external world; Literary criticism; Education; Politics and society; Religion. The author is professor of English in the University of Illinois.
“A good volume for any small library needing a separate work.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17
“Professor Sherman approaches his task with a complete understanding of his subject, and in his brief volume he has written an exceptionally able and comprehensive introduction to a study of the work and influence of Matthew Arnold.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 1400w
“An excellent appreciation of [Arnold’s] ability as poet and literary critic.”
+ =Cath World= 105:830 S ‘17 550w
“The reader will turn from the book with a distinct impression of Matthew Arnold as a person, and with a pretty clear concept of what he considered it necessary to believe regarding poetry, education, politics, and religion—if one would see life and see it whole. ... It is, however, an invitation to substitute knowledge about Arnold for acquaintance with him. ... I am not finding fault with the content, style, or spirit of the book. My criticism goes deeper, or else is beside the mark. I object to the general theory upon which the book is based; I attack Mr Sherman’s method.” M. C. Otto
+ — =Dial= 62:516 Je 14 ‘17 1700w
“The author was braced by diligence both in the collecting of minor material and in the weaving of it into a predetermined disquisitive pattern to square with an inherently unsympathetic attitude toward the poet and essayist. But tho the verse quotations from Arnold are not always of the best, certain contributory information of real worth (as in ‘Literary criticism’) may, here and there, be culled from the 314 pages.”
=Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
“Usually books of the ‘how to know’ order consist of a mass of facts with directions for study but with little aid to real insight. This, however, provides a reader with a sound basis for both appreciation and criticism. This is the more effective because the biographical chapter at the beginning is a real introduction to the man himself.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 270w
“He does not point out with the vividness of the here and now just how Matthew Arnold reconstructs, just how his message renews itself with each generation.” E. B.
+ — =New Repub= 12:360 O 27 ‘17 1200w
=Pratt= p47 O ‘17 20w
“Mr Sherman has the gift of style. He says exactly what he wishes to say, without hurry, without circumlocution, without bungling. [He] does admirable justice to Arnold’s life as a record of noble and unselfish endeavor; the life of a man who preached everywhere the duty of perfecting our natures, moral, intellectual, aesthetic, social, and religious. The book may be heartily commended to those who wish to understand why Arnold is still an important influence in the world. Mr Sherman skilfully and judiciously expounds the very helpful idea that the interest and charm of Arnold’s essays lie far more in their extraordinary power to stimulate interest, curiosity, and the aesthetic sense, than in the correctness of his estimates. His best message, here as elsewhere, is moral and religious.” H: B. Hinckley
+ =Yale R= n s 7:218 O ‘17 750w
=SHERMAN, STUART PRATT.=[2] On contemporary literature. *$1.50 (2c) Holt 820.4 18-773
A collection of critical essays that have appeared in the Nation. The word contemporary is given a broad interpretation, admitting of the inclusion of Shakespeare. “Shakespeare is here,” says the author, “because I find him the most interesting and suggestive of living writers. His presence helps one to distinguish the values of his competitors. His humanism serves as a measure of the degrees of their naturalism.” Contents: The democracy of Mark Twain; The Utopian naturalism of H. G. Wells; The barbaric naturalism of Theodore Dreiser; The realism of Arnold Bennett; The aesthetic naturalism of George Moore; The skepticism of Anatole France; The exoticism of John Synge; The complacent Toryism of Alfred Austin; The aesthetic idealism of Henry James; The humanism of George Meredith; Shakespeare, our contemporary.
“Despite the limitations suggested by the titles, Professor Sherman gives a fairly complete view of each of his ten modern writers.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 D 22 ‘17 770w
“Mr Sherman really offers us many acute and many weighty pages; there is a subterranean stream of humor from whose half-hidden courses one may occasionally sip a gratefully saline draught; and his introduction, which is really the essence of the book, begins on a charming, captivating note, and rises toward the end, where the war enters, to a tone of noble gravity. Yet one finds a little too much deference, however cloaked, for our farther East, and an unwillingness to give recognition to the fact that this spinning world must change.” H: B. Fuller
– + =Dial= 64:105 Ja 31 ‘18 1450w
“The essence of Mr Sherman’s criticism is American correctness, that bloodless correctness to which New England has given its wintry flavor. It is correctness rampant that makes Mr Sherman’s crest different from the ordinary heraldry; and the main delectation of his book is its conservative call to arms. Mr Sherman preaches a forlorn gospel when he begs us to cower behind the moral life of the race to peer at art.” F. H.
— =New Repub= 13:318 Ja 12 ‘18 2100w
“We have said that Mr Sherman is thoughtful, but we do not stand sponsor for much of his thinking. Much of it is muddled, or is cast in such a mold that all sense of perspective is lost. We cannot escape the feeling that Mr Sherman as critic plays second fiddle to Mr Sherman as echo of literary and popular opinion.” F. J. K.
– + =N Y Call= p15 Ja 26 ‘18 1150w
“Mr Sherman is a literary critic primarily, with the insight and the equipment, the disinterestedness and the sympathy with which the literary critic must needs be endowed if his work is to win respect; and yet, so closely is literature related to life that Mr Sherman, in dealing with three of the novelists of the moment, is compelled to be a moralist. ... In these three papers [on Wells and Dreiser and Moore] inspired by one purpose he rises above the criticism of literature to the criticism of life itself.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 22:577 D 30 ‘17 1950w
+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 90w
“It is precisely this uncompromising attitude that becomes so irritating to those of us who happen to look upon contemporary letters with a more open mind and a more indulgent spirit. Professor Sherman, with his invaluable background of classicism ... is a qualified and much needed preceptor of public aesthetics. But not content with this, he appoints himself custodian of the public morals. ... It would be ungracious not to mention in conclusion the almost flawless appreciation of Henry James.” F: T. Cooper
– + =Pub W= 93:219 Ja 19 ‘18 950w
=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 210w
=SHERWOOD, MARGARET POLLOCK.= Familiar ways. *$1.25 (4c) Little 814 17-25113
Five of the fifteen essays in this volume appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, nine in Scribner’s Magazine, and one, “The comradeship of trees,” in the Vassar Alumnae Quarterly. “Our nearest,—and farthest,—neighbors” tells of the birds, and “The final packing” considers the luggage one may carry “through heaven’s gate.” Contents: The little house; Our Venetian lamp; House-cleaning; The vegetable self; The sabbatical year; It is well to be off with the old house before you are on with the new; Real estate; Our nearest,—and farthest,—neighbors; Plain country; Gardens, real and imagined; The comradeship of trees; Brother Fire; The threshold; Old trails; The final packing.
“Charmingly written, intimate essays.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17
“Only here and there as we browse among the books of a season do we find one that has this exquisite quality about it—this intimate, revealing manner of changing the common experience into something of significance for us. To those who care only for the surfaces of literature, this book will also possess a charm in its delicate, effervescing humor.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 1200w
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w
+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 50w
+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w
“No description can adequately indicate the charm and inspiration she puts into a few simple words. There are beauty and truth in her words, glorification of small duties, helps for the unavoidable burdens, and a spirit of comradeship and sympathy, for which we are all grateful.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 140w
“A chapter is better than a book full of this placidly charming but too frequently unideaed prose. The reader flags in the presence of revery that seldom brightens to the vividness of dream, and of a breath of poetical feeling that will not rise to a dream.”
+ — =Nation= 106:150 F 7 ‘18 350w
=SHESTOV, LEON.= Penultimate words, and other essays. *$1.25 (2½c) Luce, J: W. 891.7
Leon Shestov is a Russian critic and essayist. The essays in this volume are taken from his “Apotheosis of groundlessness” and “Beginnings and ends.” The longest essay is that on Tchekhov, which takes up 60 of the 225 pages. Contents: Anton Tchekhov; The gift of prophecy [study of Dostoevsky]; Penultimate words; The theory of knowledge.
“In his book, Shestov attacks many philosophers and authors, devoting articles of varying length to Hegel, Schopenhauer and others—a destructive criticism, for he gives us no discoverable positive philosophy of his own in the place of those destroyed.” Nellie Poorman
— =Dial= 62:482 My 31 ‘17 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 D 21 ‘16 100w
“Criticism with Shestov is not a hand-to-mouth business. He does not choose a subject and then begin to wonder what he can find to say about it. His criticism is philosophy expounded by means of a particular example, and rather hinted at than expounded. One feels that he has strong convictions, but is shy of proclaiming them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p40 Ja 25 ‘17 1300w
=SHIPLEY, ARTHUR EVERETT.= Studies in insect life, and other essays. il *$3.50 Dutton 504 (Eng ed SG17-225)
“Dr Shipley for many years has taken an active part in promoting, directing, and sharing in zoological investigations with an immediate economic bearing.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Contents: Insects and war; The honey-bee; Bombus, the humble-bee; On certain differences between wasps and bees; The romance of the depths of the sea; Sea fisheries; Sir John Murray: a great oceanographer; Grouse disease; Zoology in the time of Shakespeare; The revival of science in the 17th century; Hate.
“Essays as instructive as they are pleasing. ... The author is not afraid to introduce a touch of humour.”
=Ath= p99 F ‘17 50w
“Some of his sentences are remarkable for their entire lack of punctuation. Some of them are also extremely awkward, but on the whole it is lively reading and is a good book to put into the hands of a boy who likes the study of nature.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ‘17 530w
“They are all so written as to be intelligible to the lay reader and they are of more than passing interest.”
+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 260w
“The title is two-thirds inappropriate, and the addresses as written are of unequal value. ... The first and last essays, entitled respectively ‘Insects and war’ and ‘Hate,’ are the most original and the best written.”
+ — =Nation= 105:377 O 4 ‘17 450w
“It is Dr Shipley’s gift to write scientific essays artistically. ... He has humour and a light touch, and things are so interesting to himself that they become interesting to us. Not that we pretend to explain his style, which permits of luminous, dignified discourse on lice and fleas, as well as on fisheries and grouse.”
+ =Nature= 99:244 My 24 ‘17 400w
“The essay on ‘Hate’ is a discursive and rather superficial analysis of that emotion which makes good reading, but begins and ends nowhere in particular.”
=N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 420w
“He winds up with an amusing essay on ‘Hate.’”
+ =Spec= 118:342 Mr 17 ‘17 150w
“Three essays on bees and wasps probably arose from Dr Shipley’s part in stimulating inquiry into the Isle of Wight bee disease.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p100 Mr 1 ‘17 750w
=SHKLOVSKII, ISAAK VLADIMIROVICH (DIONEO, pseud.).= In far north-east Siberia; tr. by L. Edwards and Z. Shklovsky. il *$3 Macmillan 915.7 17-3732
“The present volume is an exceptionally interesting contribution to our knowledge of Siberia. The author passed four years in the Kolyma region of the province of Yakutsk, and the result is a book containing a remarkable amount of information concerning the customs and mode of existence of the Yakuts, Chooktchi, Lamouts, and other natives of that depressing country, where life is a ceaseless struggle with cold, famine, and disease.”—Ath
“The book contains much interesting matter relative to the hut-life and manners of these little-known races; and there are light touches.”
+ =Ath= p48 Ja ‘17 400w
“It corrects several prevalent errors of the anthropologists and ethnologists.”
+ =Dial= 62:446 My 17 ‘17 250w
“There are many illustrations of places, people, weapons, and native drawings, all of which add to the pleasure that any one must take in this volume, and the map of Yakutsk makes it easy to follow the text understandingly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 350w
“One of the most fascinating books of travel published for many a long day.” Bishop Frodsham
+ =Sat R= 122:626 D 30 ‘16 1200w
“It is a little-known book written by a Russian Jew who was apparently banished to the region described, and it was published about a quarter of a century ago. The author is a journalist who has won distinction by reporting affairs in England in the Russian press. ... ‘In far north-east Siberia’ should be studied by all students of Siberia and of ethnography generally. For it is unique in its details.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p631 D 28 ‘16 750w
=SHOREY, PAUL.= Assault on humanism. 60c Atlantic monthly 375 17-18361
These essays in defense of classical studies by Professor Shorey have been reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly to form the first volume in the series of “Atlantic monographs,” to be published by the Atlantic Monthly company.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
“Nothing could be less urbane, less rational and precise, than this strident polemic. ... The Atlantic has done a disservice in stirring the dead bones of this controversy to rattle again. ... Even the radical will regret that the polemics of the classical tradition should go out in so tasteless a splutter as this first of the Atlantic monographs.” Randolph Bourne
— =Dial= 63:148 Ag 30 ‘17 1500w
“The main virtue of Professor Shorey’s method is the consummate skill with which he carries the warfare into the camp of the enemy. Any one familiar with his powers of irony and sarcasm need not be told that he sets forth the illogical procedure and dishonest assumptions of the present-day pedagogues in a way to cause inextinguishable laughter on the slopes of Parnassus.”
=Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 100w
“A brilliant defense of the classics.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:693 O ‘17 20w
“Prof. Paul Shorey upholds the standard of sound learning and literary culture—qualities which are in need of defenders in a land where the half-educated are at present more aggressive than the educated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 30 ‘17 680w
=SHOWERMAN, GRANT.= Country child. il *$1.75 (2c) Century 17-28802
This book of sketches forms a companion volume to “A country chronicle,” published last year. The small boy, whose sensations and emotions the author is able to recreate so vividly thru a remarkable memory for little things, is younger in this book. In the beginning he is a little boy in dresses,—as you will remember, little boys used to wear dresses in those days. The first half of the book, “A country child,” is an account of those early years. The second part, “Barefoot boys,” describes school days and the beginning of boy friendships. Delightful bits of local color are provided in conversations with the friendly German hired-hand, who, a generation ago, was so important a feature of life in every Wisconsin farm home.
=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
“Never have the sights and sounds, the tastes and smells and tactile sensations of the farm been more realistically presented than in this book.”
+ =Dial= 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w
“Strong in charm and appeal. ... The reader in retrospect is led to write his own story in his mind, and so gets a double enjoyment out of the book.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 170w
“The continuous use of the present tense grows pretty monotonous before the end of this second book; and by monotony the pictorial effect of the method is well-nigh lost.”
+ — =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 250w
=N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 150w
+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w
“Prof. Showerman seems to have reproduced a child’s mind with photographic accuracy, and the result is a success which is scientific but principally—as also ostensibly—from the literary standpoint.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ‘17 250w
=SHULER, MARJORIE.= For rent—one pedestal. $1 (4c) National woman suffrage pub. 324.3 17-7811
In a series of letters to a friend, a young college woman describes her conversion to woman suffrage and her experiences as a suffrage worker. It all begins with her dismissal from her first position as a teacher for political reasons. Recognizing for the first time the relation between politics and woman’s work, she becomes an ardent worker for the cause, and the writes with spirit and humor of all the adventures that she meets as canvasser, street speaker, etc.
“Sometimes one has a faint suspicion that the story is a disguised text-book on how to make a suffrage speech, how to run mass meetings and street meetings, and convert farmers at fairs, and on methods of distributing literature and advertising the cause—the public biscuit-making incident, for instance. But the sugar-coating hides the pill quite successfully.”
=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 240w
=SHURTER, EDWIN DU BOIS.= How to debate. *$1.35 Harper 808.5 17-24074
“This book treats of the various ways of convincing and persuading men. While intended as a text-book for high schools and colleges, it is also adapted to the needs of the lawyer, the preacher, the teacher, the citizen: in short, to any one who is called upon—and who is not?—to urge the acceptance of his ideas upon a hearer, or to refute ideas offered in opposition thereto.” (Preface) The book is an outgrowth of the author’s former work, “Science and art of debate,” published in 1908. Contents: Introduction—The advantages of debate; The proposition; Analysis of the question; Proof; Evidence; Arguments—constructive; Argument—refutation; The brief; Persuasion; Methods in school and college debating. Questions for debate, a specimen debate, rules of parliamentary procedure, bibliographies, etc., are given in appendixes.
“An excellent treatise.”
+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 130w
“The bibliography is not up to date.”
+ — =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 60w
“Fifteen years of training students in the University of Texas to play the game have enabled the author to produce a very practical book. It is superior to its predecessors in that the old classic illustrations are supplemented by many modern instances showing that the old shifts still lead to success. ... But there is no evidence that the author is aware how much his theories have been modified by modern investigations in modern individual or social psychology.” C. R.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 140w
=SHURTER, EDWIN DUBOIS=, ed.[2] Winning declamations and how to speak them. $1.25 Noble, L. A. 808.5 17-6669
This collection of selections in prose and verse has been prepared by the professor of public speaking in the University of Texas, who says, “Practically every selection in this volume has been tried out in class work and in public contests. ... The declamations are intended for training the public speaker, and not the dramatic reader or mere entertainer.” The book is divided into two parts: For intermediate and grammar grades; and For high schools and colleges. An introduction discusses the art of public speaking and each selection is prefaced by brief suggestions for the speaker.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=SHUTE, HENRY AUGUSTUS.= Youth Plupy; or, The lad with a downy chin. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-23759
Plupy has figured in “The real diary of a real boy”; “Real boys”; “Plupy, the ‘real boy,’”; and “Misadventures of three good boys.” Judge Shute’s dedication reads as follows: “This book, which contains a fairly veracious account of the love affairs of a long-legged, gawky, sensitive, bashful, absurd, and ridiculous youth, is dedicated, with a sincere fellow-feeling, to all such youths. I see them daily passing my office. Their coat-sleeves are all-too-short, the legs of their trousers all-too-brief, their wrists and ankles, in startling contrast to their abnormally thin shanks and arms, seem over-developed. They are opulent in white eyelashes, blushes, mobile Adam’s-apples, affection, and honesty. Their voices are—well, beyond description. God bless them all.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“Capital reading—first-class for the fag-end of a weary day.”
+ =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 80w
“He is an entirely real boy and the various members of his family are real people.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 30w
“If the book seems to have been written for boys, one reader’s guess is that it will get a more sympathetic reading from a large number of men of mature years who will grin with personal reminiscence as Judge Shute holds the mirror for them as well as for himself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 200w
=SIDGWICK, CECILY (ULLMANN) (MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK).= Salt of the earth. *$1.40 Watt 17-20666
Brenda Müller, the heroine, was of German parentage, but English training and sympathies. She visited her relatives in Germany several times, and some of them visited the Müllers in England. This ended in her marriage to her cousin, Lothar Erdmann, a typical Prussian officer, settled in Berlin. Brenda was unhappy among Lothar’s relatives and friends, who thought themselves the “salt of the earth,” and her husband proved unfaithful, but though she realized that she had made a mistake, she stood ready to pay the price. When the war broke out and Lothar was called to the colors, he forced Brenda to remain with his parents in Berlin, but later she followed him to Belgium, and eventually escaped to her parents in London. Lothar also went to London to direct Zeppelin raids, and was shot as a spy.
“The English goodness and the German badness are exaggerated, so that the story is timely but lacks reality.”
– + =A L A Bkl= 14:62 N ‘17
“The novel is clever and readable, but we think that the patriotic feelings of the author have tempted her to colour too highly the characters of certain Germans introduced in the book. The uncle, in particular, is quite preternaturally objectionable.”
+ — =Ath= p482 O ‘16 100w
“The careful reading of this illuminating story is especially recommended to those American altruists who smugly assert that they are not at war with the German people, but only with the German government.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ‘17 830w
+ — =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w
“A chronicle of hate for Prussianism, well thought out and presented.”
+ =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 220w
“Brenda is a real person, intelligent, long suffering, striving to keep on decent terms with her husband’s impossible family. ... The descriptions are well done and vivid, the various members of the Erdmann tribe cleverly sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 610w
“In spite of the opportunities for sensationalism which the material offers, Mrs Sidgwick has told her story in a quiet and convincing way which makes for realism.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:1377 O 20 ‘17 480w
“Its action is so placed as to permit a frank exposé of the sinister activities of the Prussian military caste, and the poisonous effect of the propaganda of ‘welt politik’ upon the German masses. ... It is an entertaining story, narrated with spirit.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 550w
=SIGURJONSSON, JOHANN.= Modern Icelandic plays: Eyvind of the hills; The Hraun farm; tr. by Henninge Krohn Schanche. (Scandinavian classics, v. 6) $1.50 Am.-Scandinavian foundation 839.6 16-22079
“The author is introduced to the American public by the American-Scandinavian foundation as a representative of the renaissance of Icelandic literature. ... The stronger and later play, ‘Eyvind of the hills,’ is based on a romantic story of an eighteenth century outlaw who, having wearied of the loneliness of his mountain retreat, descends to the valleys and under an assumed name takes service as a farm hand. His mistress Halla, a well-to-do widow, falls in love with him; and rejecting the advances of Björn the bailiff, who has discovered that the supposed farm hand is the notorious outlaw, she flees to the mountains with her lover. ... The second piece, ‘The Hraun farm,’ is a modern story of pastoral Icelandic life; it has charm, but lacks the force and daring of ‘Eyvind of the hills.’”—Dial
=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p36 Mr ‘17 140w
“Though these plays were produced in Copenhagen, and though one of them was originally written in Danish, they are thoroughly Icelandic in setting and spirit. ... Both plays are notable for their spontaneity and freshness; the strong clear wind of the north blows through them. They deserve a wide reading in Mrs Schanche’s excellent translation.” H. E. Woodbridge
+ =Dial= 62:68 Ja 25 ‘17 300w
“Written in prose, ‘Eyvind of the hills’ has that utter simplicity of vibrant strength that marks great poetry.”
+ =Ind= 92:488 D 8 ‘17 260w
+ =Nation= 104:682 Je 7 ‘17 900w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:185 D ‘16
“‘Eyvind of the hills,’ which made its author famous, is a tragedy, written with much beauty and a fine simplicity. ... ‘The Hraun farm,’ is a charmingly written little idyll.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 200w
=SIMKHOVITCH, MARY MELINDA (KINGSBURY) (MRS VLADIMIR GREGORIEVITCH SIMKHOVITCH).= City worker’s world in America. (American social progress ser.) *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331.8 17-15550
The aim of this book by the director of Greenwich house, New York city, is to describe simply and briefly the main facts concerning the life of the industrial population of an American city. The term “industrial family” as used in her study, is applied to wage-workers whose family income ranges from $1,500 down to the minimum of subsistence below which the family becomes a public charge. The question to which she gives attention is: “How does this important group of workers live? Not only what are the incomes and expenditures of this group, but what values lie in this group that we cannot afford to lose from the social whole, and what is society already doing or failing to do to protect these values and develop them for the sake of us all?” Contents: The industrial family; Dwellings; Standard of living; Education; At work; Leisure; Health; Poverty; Politics; Religion.
“With the facts that are presented, all persons who have been interested in the life of the working people are fairly well acquainted, but the arrangement and the interpretation are frequently original, and the synthetic treatment is a real contribution to social literature. ... The book is full of clever phrasing and keen interpretation.” F. H. Streightoff
+ =Am Econ R= 7:906 D ‘17 290w
Reviewed by E. L. Talbert
+ =Am J Soc= 23:547 Ja ‘18 300w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17
“The chapter on ‘Polities’ is particularly trenchant, and deserves not only to be read but to be studied by every teacher of civic affairs. On the ever-recurring question as to why municipal reform so often receives a setback in the great cities of this country there is a great deal of illumination in this chapter.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:157 F ‘18 100w
“The author has made conscious effort to write objectively of the life of her neighbors. The book will be of special value to the increasing number of those interested in the exploration of the new paths of community development already being trod in city neighborhoods.” Francis Tyson
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:304 N ‘17 430w
“Those curious to know how the majority of their neighbors live will here find the loves, fears, joys and sorrows of the industrial family painted with a sympathy always vivid, yet refreshingly lacking in sentimentality.”
+ =Cath World= 106:264 N ‘17 350w
=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 40w
“To the lay reader this is an uncommonly enlightening and suggestive book. ... It is written with eyes wide open to all the good that is in the possession of the town laborer and it is not engaged in the propaganda of any panacea or particular reform.”
+ =Ind= 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 500w
“The attitude is one of warm-hearted intimacy with the class whose life is described, and considerable insight into that life is revealed. There is no doubt that the writer knows what she is talking about when she describes conditions.”
+ =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 260w
“Mrs Simkhovitch has imagination and fervor, as well as the power of creation. She has scored an indubitable success in bringing to bear on the subject a definite point of view, a well-formulated social ethics. She is on the borderline of socialism, but she will not take the next step.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 30 ‘17 1350w
=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 420w
“As a sketch of the right method of approach to community issues, it is a fresh and genuine contribution. To a great supporting circle of volunteers, contributors, kindred spirits, and to all the apprentices of social work, this book is among the few indispensable. Read with intervals of reflection, it will be like a professional course of the waters to many practiced members of the craft.” R. A. Woods
+ =Survey= 38:367 Jl 28 ‘17 1000w
=SIMMONS, WILLIAM HERBERT.=[2] Soap; its composition, manufacture, and properties. (Common commodities of commerce) il *85c (2c) Pitman 668 A17-1564
The author’s aim has been “to describe in as non-technical terms as possible, firstly, the relationship between fat, alkali, soap, and glycerine; secondly, the more important practical methods of soap manufacture; and, thirdly, the chief factors which determine the commercial value of soap.” (Preface) He points out that the use of glycerine in the manufacture of explosives has given rise to a new interest in its production and in its relations to fats and oils and the manufacture of soap. The final chapter is given to this subject.
=Pittsburgh= 22:759 N ‘17 40w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p420 Ag 30 ‘17 40w
=SIMONIS, H.= Street of ink. il *$3 Funk 072 17-17844
“H. Simonis, a director of the London Daily News, gives the public what is described as ‘an intimate history of journalism.’ Here, within the compass of 350-odd pages, are brief notes on about every daily and weekly paper of importance in England and on practically all of the principal [British] editors and publishers of today.”—Springf’d Republican
“A remarkably interesting and informing book. The writer’s fondness for illustrative anecdote contributes no little to the entertaining quality of his pages.”
+ — =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 190w
“Most entertaining and deftly drawn character sketches. The whole work teems with novel and captivating information imparted in a crisp, chatty style that makes it doubly readable.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 340w
“Such an encyclopedic effort, if successful, establishes naturally an excellent reference work. Mr Simonis’s effort is successful. He has a chapter on the press of France and the United States, another on ‘Some well known journals and journalists,’ one on ‘Old and new journalism.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 950w
=Pittsburgh= 22:772 N ‘17 50w
“Those who work for the press, on its literary or commercial side, know that the occupation is not so much of a mutual admiration society as Mr Simonis would have us believe, but they will read with amused interest his eulogistic notes on the various daily and weekly publications. He knows much more about the halfpenny papers and about their publishing and advertising staffs than about the weightier papers and the literary aspects of journalism as a whole. The numerous portraits in the book are, for the most part, not nearly so flattering as the letterpress.”
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 320w
“Mr Simonis’s aim is to eulogize rather than criticize. Yet within the limits that he has set to his subject, he is a commentator who is shrewd as well as amiable. The wisdom of experience crops out in a hundred observations. Also, his information, wherever separable from opinion, is accurate.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 18 ‘17 1350w
=SIMS, NEWELL LEROY.= Ultimate democracy and its making. *$1.50 (1½c) McClurg 321.8 17-13223
The author, who is professor of sociology and political science in the University of Florida, tells us that he has used much of the subjectmatter of this book in lectures delivered in and about New York city and in a classroom course. His purpose is to clarify “the meaning and aims of democracy.” He deals with ancient, modern, and “ultimate” democracy. “As conceived by him democracy is essentially a matter of equality, with liberty and fraternity as necessary expressions. It existed in the pioneer days of America, but has declined under the inequalities forced by our rapid industrial growth and under our wholesale welcoming of alien populations. This decline, he believes, is only temporary. Democracy will again come into its own when a program of four necessary changes has been fulfilled—economic equality; a eugenics to prevent inefficiency; a new type of sovereignty in which ‘the popular will causes the whole social organism to function for the good of all its parts’; and finally, ‘social equilibration,’ a process of so equalizing the various energies of the race that occasions for disturbances like wars between classes or nations will disappear.” (Survey)
“To the perennial discussion of democracy, what it is and what it means, the book is a useful and in some ways a noteworthy contribution.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:793 N ‘17 60w
“Professor Sims has written a thoughtful and spirited survey of significant tendencies and aspirations in American democracy.” L. P. F.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:301 N ‘17 260w
“It is asserted, but not proven, that the working classes of all countries are devouring economics, sociology, and philosophy—a fairly broad but unsupported statement.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 380w
“Professor Sims is well read in the moderns, notably Giddings, Croly, and Veblen. ... Few will read Giddings, Croly, or even Veblen all through, and here is a way to supply the deficiency. Professor Sims quotes excellently.”
=Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w
=Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 90w
“An expression of an aspiring but timid radicalism.” Max Lustig
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
+ =N Y Times= 22:436 O 28 ‘17 60w
“The mass of facts, figures, and sociological deductions brought together by Dr Sims from many sources evinces the fact that democracy is still in the making. The inferences he draws from the exhibit are misleading.”
— =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 120w
=Pittsburgh= 22:830 D ‘17 110w
“A very readable book. ... The type of social stability which he hails as an ultimate solution is perilously akin, we cannot help thinking, to the pax Romana of old.” H: Neumann
+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 480w
=SINCLAIR, MAY.= Defence of idealism; some questions and conclusions. *$2 Macmillan 141 17-21850
“In this book the author, from the idealistic monist’s statement, deals with pragmatism; with humanism and pluralism generally; with the vitalism of M. Bergson, with Samuel Butler’s pan-psychism, and with the new realism of Mr. Bertrand Russell and others. A noteworthy chapter is devoted to the new mysticism; and there are highly appreciative commentaries upon the writings of Sir Rabindranath Tagore. ... The book has no index.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p518 O ‘17 100w
“One cannot say that the logic is always sound. No; not always sound, but always keen, vigorous, lively, readable.” M. C. Otto
+ — =Dial= 63:582 D 6 ‘17 1000w
“A robust sense of the inevitableness of individuality runs through the book from beginning to end, and is the most obvious thing in it. ... The sympathetic reader will probably not fail to discern something of the sense of ‘a spirit home at last’ in the warm appreciation of the higher mysticism, and of Tagore. ... From various indications, one traces in her discussion of the new realists the marks of its being an afterthought; it is a very brilliant sudden sally, rather than the outcome of years of study. And indeed, if one were forced to offer a criticism of the work as a whole, it would be just this: that the book is not, to all appearance, the ripe result of a life study. No doubt the brilliant author would grow tired of philosophy long before she had given a lifetime to it. And that is perhaps the world’s gain. But at the same time, as we feel compelled to think, it is philosophy’s loss.” J. W. Scott
* + – =Hibbert J= 16:336 Ja ‘18 2050w
“Written with a most refreshing ease and freedom from technicality. Professional students cannot fail to regard such a book as a gratifying proof of the vitality of philosophy in this country.”
+ — =Nature= 100:342 Ja 3 ‘18 460w
“The charm of the book must be felt, indeed, by every reader who has the smallest drop of philosophy in his nature, and this charm is not in the least inconsistent with rigorous logic. Miss Sinclair has perhaps written more entertainingly about philosophy than any one since Plato; she has triumphed in the most difficult domain of literary art.”
+ — =No Am= 206:952 D ‘17 1250w
=Outlook= 117:308 O 24 ‘17 120w
“A notable contribution to modern philosophic speculation, well planned, well written, and well thought.”
+ — =Spec= 119:388 O 13 ‘17 1050w
“Miss Sinclair brings to bear upon these abstract studies the same keenness of insight that characterizes her studies of men. She is now delineating ideas, not persons. The book is not systematic, and it is not constructive, but it presents ideas, particularly critical ideas, which will set students to thinking.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ‘17 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Ag 23 ‘17 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 6 ‘17 2150w
=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL.= King Coal. *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24400
What Upton Sinclair did for the stockyards in “The jungle,” he does for the unorganized coal mining camps in “King Coal.” There is a brief introduction by Georg Brandes, and a postscript of thirteen pages by the author giving his sources of information, etc. He tells us that most of the details of his picture were gathered in Colorado, which he visited three times during and just after the great coal strike of 1914-15. The greater part of the source material in print used was “sworn testimony, taken under government supervision.” The leading character in the book is Hal Warner, known as Joe Smith, a rich boy of twenty-one, still in college, who, as a result of arguments with an older brother as to the conditions in the coal mines, decides to work as a miner during his summer vacation that he may gain first-hand knowledge of the situation. He becomes first a mule tender and later a “buddy,” or miner’s helper. His rich and beautiful fiancée is lightly sketched in. “Red Mary,” a forceful young Irish girl at the camp, also falls in love with him, but the emotional is subordinated to the sociological interest in the story. “Joe” meets men of various nationalities, learns how the company has got into its clutch “all the legal, political and social safeguards of personal rights and social welfare”; and takes part in the fight for a check-weighman to guard against cheating, for various safety measures and for the right to form a union.
“It is not sensational, has some good characters ... and the whole is interesting and illuminating.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p596 N ‘17 140w
“‘King Coal’ is an absorbing story, as a story, and an exceedingly effective tract, as a tract. We do not doubt that its physical action is closely based on fact, but we do doubt whether, in making all his rich men fools or rascals, and all his poor men heroes or victims, he does not risk the defeat of his appeal to those of his audience who are unable to subscribe to the code of the screen.”
H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 190w
“Mr Sinclair is a born story-teller. He writes, to be sure, with a purpose, but he never lets this fact obtrude itself on the consciousness of the reader. His picture is so vivid, so full of color and breadth and movement, and so convincing that it has a value of its own quite apart from its propagandist purpose.” R. T. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1350w
+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 90w
“The novel-reader who chances to appreciate a really novel design in a work of fiction will like ‘King Coal’ both for its originality and its independence. The limitation of the book is its tendency to predetermination, its lack of curiosity and interest in keen ascertainments and differentiations, its apparent belief in formulas.” E. F. Wyatt
+ — =Dial= 63:587 D 6 ‘17 1300w
“None of the characters seems real, but is created by the author to illustrate his points or fill in the picture. But the underlying thought burns brightly and the author’s meaning is as clear as day. He has the power to interest, which always attends sincere purpose and thoughtful presentation.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 400w
“No reader of this record will doubt the honesty of the chronicler’s opinion or the accuracy of his chosen facts, or will fail to see that the facts have been chosen and assembled somewhat carefully, in the light of that opinion, to ‘compose’ as strongly and effectively as possible. ... This story has far more balance and restraint than the writer has hitherto mustered: ‘The jungle’ is a lurid tract by comparison. It is an absorbing narrative, and it contains at least one strong and living piece of characterization, in Mary Burke. ... But for the rest the writer’s animus is over-plain.”
– + =Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 650w
“Upton Sinclair slaps melodrama and sociology together so honestly as to make it easy for you to believe that ‘practically all the characters are real persons, and every incident which has social significance is not merely a true incident but a typical one.’ ... Yet ‘King Coal’ is an exceedingly vivacious narrative, boyishly sincere.” R. B.
+ — =New Repub= 12:359 O 27 ‘17 1400w
“Since ‘The jungle’ had its phenomenal success, Mr Sinclair has written nothing so good as this novel. The book presents a striking likeness to ‘The inner door’ by Alan Sullivan. Both deal with upper class men leading working class lives, and both portray their conversion. Of the two books, Mr Sinclair’s work rings truer.” D: P. Berenberg
+ — =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 430w
“Artistically, this new novel is a better piece of work than ‘The jungle,’ more compact, better constructed, with swifter, a more centralized purpose, while its picture of life in a great coal camp yields nothing to that portrayal of existence among the employes of the Chicago stock yards in vivid coloring, in understanding of racial types, and in the sincere and convincing quality of its setting. ... The introduction by Dr Georg Brandes is a distinct disappointment. At the least, the publishers of the book might have rectified its English.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 1200w
“So far as the manipulation of the vote is concerned, the documentary evidence given in an epilogue shows that Mr Sinclair is on strong ground. But viewed simply as a story it is vivid, exciting, and impressive.”
+ =Spec 119:681 D= 8 ‘17 630w
“The book is more than an exposure of certain outrageous industrial practices. It is an admirable study of human character and motives. For the most part the characters are genuine types.” J: A. Fitch
+ =Survey 39:257= D 1 ‘17 460w
“It is hard to interest oneself in his characters, for their actions are dictated to them by their creator for his own moral purpose. It is hard, too, to take Mr Sinclair’s facts as the basis for logical inferences, for they are mixed up inextricably with fiction—he insists on appealing to the mind and the emotions at once and the one appeal distracts attention from the other.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 O 11 ‘17 780w
=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Long journey. il *$1 (2c) Houghton 17-6324
The journey of a little band of German pilgrims to America is the theme of this story. From the village that has been sacked and left destitute by the French. John Conrad Weiser and his children start on the long journey to the new home where freedom and peace are promised to all. First there is the journey down the Rhine, then the long and hopeless wait in England for the ships that the English queen was to provide. To young Conrad, thirteen years old, this delay is almost unbearable after all his dreams of the new land. The sight on the London streets of three scarlet-blanketed Indians revives his hope, and it is indeed thru these new friends that the German immigrants are granted their wish, passage to America. Here there are more hardships to be undergone, until the final stage of the journey, along the Mohawk trail, brings them home.
“For upper-grade and high-school children.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:408 Je ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w
“The narrative is simple, pathetic, and human.”
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p52 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:378 O ‘17 30w
=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Martin Luther. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton 17-9137
Elsie Singmaster has written a popular life of Luther as a contribution to the literature of the four hundredth anniversary of the reformation. She says, “The volume contains no original material, but is intended to serve as an introduction to the longer, richer, and more scholarly records of a great life which abound and to the noble writings of the reformer himself.” Contents: Youth; Monk, teacher and preacher; The ninety-five theses and their effect; The primary works of the reformation and the diet of Worms; At the Wartburg and back in Wittenberg; Marriage and family life; The growing church; Last years and death.
“The author has used especially the work of Doctor H. E. Jacobs, Preserved Smith, and Heinrich Böhmer (p. 398) and quotes often from Luther’s own works.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 300w
— =Cath World= 105:258 My ‘17 500w
+ =Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 60w
“Tho one could wish made more vivid the daily life of the plain folk of whom Luther was one, yet here is a swift, clear account of the causes of the great struggle, of the events of Luther’s life and his lovable personality, all to be read almost at a sitting.”
+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 70w
“The familiar tale is told with intelligence and in a simple and straight-forward fashion.”
+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 50w
“Miss Singmaster is herself the daughter of a Lutheran clergyman, and is an accurate student of the literature of her subject.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 90w
“The book should be useful to those who have neither the time nor inclination to peruse the larger and heavier accounts of the German reformer’s career. It is really an excellent digest of them.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 120w
=SIZER, JAMES PEYTON.= Commercialization of leisure. (Present day problems ser.) *75c Badger, R: G. 790 17-11342
“This little essay calls attention to a serious problem in modern life,—serious despite its leisurely aspect. It brings forth the important consideration that amusement and recreation are among the prominent and essential affairs of men. Amusement has become a huge business. Leisure is in itself a value approaching the highest good. A successful democracy must make leisure possible for the largest numbers. It must provide ways of using leisure which will advance as well as content human beings. The statement made by Mr Sizer shows how far from such a condition the actual relation stands.”—Dial
=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w
“The organization of leisure and recreation by the community is ably pointed out as one of the essential duties of the true democratic state.”
+ =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 140w
“Mr J. P. Sizer wastes much fire on that perennial target, the Puritan, on the Y. M. C. A. and on other activities, but his description of present conditions and plans for improvement are sane and inspiring.”
+ — =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 40w
=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Topaz story book. (Jewel ser.) il *$1.50 Duffield 17-24878
Into this book have been gathered stories and legends of autumn, Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving. Indian myths, folktales from other lands, and modern stories and poems are included. The contents are arranged under the following headings: Autumn stories and legends; Among the trees; Woodland animals; Harvest fields; Cheerful chirpers; All Hallowe’en; A harvest of Thanksgiving stories. The frontispiece is by Maxfield Parrish.
=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18
“An excellent compilation. ... There is plenty of wholesome fare in it for both tots and shavers, and nothing, or next to nothing, of the artificial ‘dope’ too frequently offered as a substitute and successfully passed off in the confusion of the market-place,—as, for instance, in too much of the material in ‘John Martin’s annual,’ and in all elaborate commercial juvenilism, under whatever name.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 80w
+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 50w
=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= “Good-morning, Rosamond!” il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11791
Rosamond, the very young widow of an elderly and wealthy collector of antiques, was held in subjection by the two elderly servants who revered their master’s memory and who insisted that she do the same. On the morning of the day that Jemima and Amanda were called to their mother’s bedside, their mistress flew to her room, put on her gayest gown, dropped a courtesy before her reflection in the glass and said “Good-morning, Rosamond.” She was determined that this was to be her one wonderful day, and she was youthful enough to hope that her day might bring a fairy prince, altho where he was to come from in staid and settled Roseborough, was an unanswerable question. But strange things, of which the arrival of the desired young man was not the least surprising, were to happen during the twenty-four hours of Rosamond’s day.
“A sparkling, lightsome, exciting and charmingly written story.” E. Gates
+ =Books and Authors= Je ‘17 400w
“Perhaps the book may be described, with reservations and qualifications, as a Nova Scotian ‘Cranford.’ ... The setting is designedly, perseveringly idyllic, but the action tends to lapse from comedy to melodramatic farce. ... An independent system of illustrations by Thomas Fogarty will challenge attention.”
=Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 200w
“The story is told with consummate literary art. It is joyous and buoyant, scintillant and sarcastic, cynical and sympathetic.”
+ =Evening Ledger= [Philadelphia] My 5 ‘17 400w
“Constance Skinner, the poet of Indian life, has written a farce comedy in novel form.”
=Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w
“It is just a bit too preposterous to be as amusing as it might easily have been. It has been dramatized and, we fancy, is better as a play than a novel.”
=N Y Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 150w
“Miss Skinner tells a pleasing story of no importance, in the course of which she mildly satirizes life in a small community. The work is artificial and forced in places, but the dialog is bright and skilful.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 230w
=SKINNIDER, MARGARET.= Doing my bit for Ireland. il *$1 Century 941.5 17-16337
A spirited, frankly partizan account of the Dublin insurrection of 1916, by a school-teacher who took an active part in the rising, was wounded, but escaped imprisonment, and came, some months later, to America. An appendix of nearly fifty pages gives the street songs in vogue in Dublin at the time of the insurrection.
=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17
“One of the chief virtues of Miss Skinnider’s simple recital is that it makes the Irish revolutionists live for us, especially their executed leaders, so that the Irish question presents itself as an essentially human problem, and the rights of small nations changes from a battle cry to a demand for constructive thought.”
+ =Dial= 63:218 S 13 ‘17 250w
“A courageous, romantic, naïve story.”
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 70w
“A striking contribution not only to an understanding of the spirit which led to the Easter rebellion, but, since the writer is confessedly a suffragette, we think also to the strange and baffling spirit of the militant women. Neither so full nor so striking as other narratives lately published. The book is largely about the authoress herself, and its particular value lies in the glimpse it affords of the character of herself and her comrades in the cause. ... More than once she indicates that the stories of Belgian atrocities pale beside the work of the British during the terrible fortnight, but the examples afforded are not convincing.”
+ — =Nation= 105:150 Ag 9 ‘17 850w
“The little volume is intensely readable and well calculated to beguile an idle hour, though it hardly can be regarded as an authoritative narrative, the writer having, apparently, an overload of imagination and a rather scant supply of reasoning power.” Joshua Wanhope
– + =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 600w
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 130w
=SKRINE, JOHN HUNTLEY.= Survival of Jesus. *$2 Doran 232 17-14227
“In the twenty-six chapters of this book the author discusses the nature of the man Christ Jesus, the atonement, and the theology of the future. Regarding telepathy, or thought-transference, as a fact, a vera causa, he considers its bearing upon religion, and puts forward a hypothesis of faith-transference or ‘faith-conference.’ Briefly, this hypothesis is that ‘Jesus in the days of His flesh made atonement for men, His contemporaries, by the impartment to them of the life unto God through the medium of a telepathy of spirit.’” (Ath) The author is a clergyman of the Church of England.
=Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 100w
“The book is beautiful to those who think they understand it, vague to others, and charming in a way to most.”
+ – =Bib World= 50:256 O ‘17 130w
“The author of this striking book has done a brave thing, and many who may not be able to follow his guidance will be grateful for his boldness.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p292 Je 21 ‘17 1150w
=SLADEN, DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON.= Douglas romance. *$1.35 Brentano’s (Eng ed 16-19956)
“An historical novel of the present day, ‘The Douglas romance,’ derives its fantastic plot and its kaleidoscopic multitude of cleverly presented characters, men and women of unusual and interesting types, from those still fertile fields of romance, the theatrical world and the European war. It tells of the fortunes of the last heirs of the Scottish earldom of Douglas, the ultramodern descendants of the Black Douglas of ballad fame. ... The war is presented through the points of view of the heroine’s two lovers; one a hero of the trenches, the other the leader of a spectacular attack on a German stronghold. The vivid picture of London in war-time is not the least interesting part of the story.”—Boston Transcript
“Many aspects of theatrical life are shown, perhaps an unnecessary number of unpleasant ones. However, here as elsewhere throughout the book we are disposed to forgive much for the sake of the throng of characters of many types and classes.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 21 ‘16 270w
“The tale, from first to last, although lacking in subtle distinctions and delicacies, is interesting.”
+ — =N Y Times= 21:537 D 3 ‘16 260w
“Partly historical and partly romantic, with a dash of triviality. ... In the concluding chapters the author interjects some thrilling war pictures and scenes of heroism on the battlefield which saves the story from tedium.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 270w
=SLOCUM, STEPHEN ELMER.= Elements of hydraulics. 2d ed rev and enl il *$2.50 McGraw 621.2 17-1800
“In the second edition the author has revised his text and added much of value. In Part 1, ‘Pressure of water,’ is added a chapter on strength of pipes under internal pressure. ... In the second part, ‘Flow of water,’ the author has revised considerably the chapter dealing with weirs. ... The chapter on the influence of bends and elbows on the flow has also been rewritten and much new matter added. ... The older chapter on backwater has been eliminated entirely and new matter substituted. ... The chapter on turbines and their appurtenances was unusually good in the first edition, but the author has nevertheless revised it and added much new matter. The paragraphs on water hammer have been rewritten and a chapter on surge tanks added. As in the former edition, the last pages are in the form of an appendix containing tabulated hydraulic data. Two new tables have been added, one on the discharge from wood-stave pipe and the other on submerged weir coefficients, so that there are now 22 tables covering 35 pages.”—Engin Rec
“The appearance of Professor Slocum’s second edition in a few months after the appearance of the first edition seems to indicate the success of his idea, which was to break away from academic presentations of pure theory in order to secure the interest of the student and to visualize the abstractions that once were too exclusively dealt with.”
+ =Engin N= 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 160w
Reviewed by A. G. Hillberg
+ =Engin Rec= 75:234 F 10 ‘17 670w
=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Six major prophets. il *$1.50 Little 920 17-13229
A companion volume to “Major prophets of to-day.” “Whoever dies without recognizing the prophet of his time dies the death of a pagan,” says a Mohammedan proverb. To escape this fate, Mr Slosson selected the twelve men of his own time to whom the title of prophet seemed most aptly to apply. He has visited and interviewed each of them and made a study of their works. The results are set forth in these two volumes for the benefit of others. The six men of the second volume are, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton, F. C. S. Schiller, John Dewey and Rudolf Eucken. The original articles, which appeared in the Independent, have been amplified for book publication.
“Informal, good for study clubs. Annotated lists of suggested books.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 1250w
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 650w
+ =Ind= 91:71 Jl 14 ‘17 270w
“Probably the essay on Eucken would have been different in tone had it been written today. Mr Slosson has preferred to let it stand as he originally wrote it for the Independent, a sort of ante-bellum view of German philosophy. If the present book is sometimes less pungent in style than Mr Slosson’s earlier expositions, he has still accomplished his purpose. He can be informative without even skirting dulness.”
+ =New Repub= 11:116 My 26 ‘17 400w
“To a marked degree he succeeds in writing interestingly for those readers who have no need to be informed. His intention, he points out, is exposition rather than criticism. But much of very keen and readable criticism his book does contain.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:355 S 23 ‘17 1400w
“Sparkling and ingratiating essays. Each discussion is made more illuminating by a brief bibliographic commentary.” Algernon Tassin
+ =Pub W= 91:1321 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 120w
=SLOSSON, PRESTON WILLIAM.= Decline of the Chartist movement. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25227
“Mr Slosson’s title, ‘The decline of the Chartist movement,’ does not quite adequately describe his book. Such a title suggests a study of the movement only from the failure of the great petition of 1848. Mr Slosson’s best work, it is true, is of the years that followed the fiasco of the Kennington Common mass-meeting of 1848. But his story of the movement as a whole is singularly complete and quite comprehensive. ... Clearness both of statement and of reasoning are also obvious when Mr Slosson is discussing to what extent greatly improved industrial conditions after 1848 accounted for the disappearance of the Chartist movement, and again when he is examining the advantages, direct and indirect, that accrued to the wage-earning classes of England in the last half of the nineteenth century from the Chartist agitation of 1837-1854.”—Am Hist R
“Dr Slosson writes with a breadth of view and grasp not always found in doctoral theses.” H. E. Mills
+ =Am Econ R= 7:606 S ‘17 380w
“If there were no other book on Chartism in existence, Mr Slosson’s study would serve most students of English political movements of the nineteenth century. It certainly would serve to the full those students who are already familiar with industrial and social conditions in England from the American revolution to the first decade of Queen Victoria’s reign. Clearness of presentation is the characteristic of Mr Slosson’s work.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Hist R= 22:651 Ap ‘17 310w
“Particularly of value as regards the treatment of the causes which led to the decline of the movement, and for its examination of some of the distinctly beneficent results that indirectly accrued to the working classes in England from a movement that many students of English history are inclined to regard as a complete failure. If it had stood alone—if it had not been accompanied by Mr Rosenblatt’s book, and Mr Faulkner’s study of the attitude of the churches toward Chartism and also of the attitude of the Chartists towards the Established church—Mr Slosson’s well-written and admirably arranged monograph would have filled the hiatus in the literature of political movements in England in the nineteenth century that had existed for nearly sixty years.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w
“Mr Slosson’s history of Chartism will rank with the best contributions of American scholars to the literature of English political movement in the nineteenth century, and also with many of the best contributions to this literature from the pens of English historians.” E: Porritt
+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 200w
“The relation of the movement to industrial depression is analyzed ably and in detail by both Mr Rosenblatt and Mr Slosson. This analysis is by far the most satisfactory feature of their works.”
=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 140w
“On the whole, great accuracy and most scrupulous references to the sources mark all three volumes.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=SMART, WILLIAM.= Second thoughts of an economist; with a biographical sketch by T: Jones. *$1.40 Macmillan 330 16-15824
“In this little book, which marks the close of his most active and productive career, Professor Smart has undertaken a review of the salient facts of economic life as they appear when seen by the light of a warm enthusiasm for worthwhile living against the background of his more formal economics. He has returned to certain Ruskinian questionings and disparagings of industrialism and treats of these things with a freedom which he apparently felt one cannot exercise when one is preoccupied with being an economist. ... The book is, in fact, his philosophy of economic responsibility.”—J Pol Econ
“While noble in its tone aspiration, charming in its statement, and sound enough so far as it goes, it must be said that the book does not add to its author’s reputation.” H. E. Mills
+ =Am Econ R= 6:876 D ‘16 750w
+ =Ath= p318 Jl ‘16 1450w
“There is little in the book which was not pretty definitely present in his previous volumes. Its special interest consists in that it enables one to appreciate the influence of certain assumptions which controlled his thinking. ... The memoir seems to me exactly suitable and in place. All former students of Professor Smart will be grateful to Mr Jones for so admirable a sketch of one who was so kindly and so fascinating a man and probably also one of the very greatest teachers of economics the country ever produced.” M. W. Robieson
=Int J Ethics= 27:244 Ja ‘17 1650w
“Precisely because of this breadth of view, the book seems admirably adapted to introduce the subject of economics to beginners. Economic doctrines appear here vividly as very real things. Advanced readers will find its tone genially lucid rather than keenly penetrating, and humanitarian rather than iconoclastic.” J. M. Clark
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:402 Ap ‘17 900w
=Pratt= p8 Jl ‘17
=Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 450w
+ =Spec= 117:190 Ag 12 ‘16 430w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 15 ‘16 900w
=SMIDOVICH, VIKENTII VIKENT’EVICH (VIKENTY VERESÁEV, pseud.).= In the war; memoirs; tr. by Leo Wiener. (Slavic translations) *$2 (1c) Kennerley 947 17-12165
An account of the Russo-Japanese war by a Russian surgeon who accompanied the troops. The narrative opens with the announcement of war, and is carried on in the following chapters: On the way; In Mukden; The battle of Sha-ho; The great stand: October to November; The great stand: December to February; The Mukden engagement; On the Mandarin road; Wandering; In expectation of peace; Peace; Home again. The translator associates the author’s name with that of Vereshchágin as a depicter of the grimness of warfare, calling the book, “the most complete analysis of the ingloriousness of war yet obtained.”
“It is a revolting picture from first to last, with such a morbid insistence upon the known cruelties and the heedlessness to human suffering that one feels compelled to doubt, at times, the motive of the author. ... The judicious reader will reserve the right to question not only the author’s motive in some of the cases but also the truth of some of the happenings to which he gives credence.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w
“A vivid, artistically proportioned account written in the characteristically Russian spirit of patience and understanding. ‘No one but a Russian could have presented such a calm, dispassionate and utterly damning record of graft, incompetence and lack of morale. The book will serve to make the over-optimistic realize the magnitude of Russia’s problem in building up a democracy.’”
+ =Cleveland= p82 Je ‘17 80w
=Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w
“Veresaev is well known as the author of the ‘Memoirs of a physician’ and of many stories and essays. A realist of Tolstoy’s school, he succeeds in drawing gripping pictures in a sincere and reserved manner. As a physician, Veresaev had a rather limited field of observation, but even through his narrow prism he was able to behold an appalling picture of human masses being abused, neglected, demoralized, and senselessly slaughtered, through the whim, carelessness, greed, and ignorance of their superiors.”
+ =Nation= 105:227 Ag 30 ‘17 320w
“What war can do to even the greatest of men is shown here in a realism which would be merely revolting if it were not for the note of bitterness and irony that gives an undercurrent of clear criticism to the sluggish and sickening stream of war’s horror.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
=SMITH, ALICE RAVENEL HUGER, and SMITH, DANIEL ELLIOTT HUGER.= Dwelling houses of Charleston, South Carolina. il *$6 Lippincott 975.7 17-29203
“This book is the story of Charleston told in pictures of its houses and streets and in word-sketches of the interesting, historical, and personal incidents associated with them. In order to convey the quality of the place as a whole, the authors selected those houses which best showed the distinctive evolution of architecture in Charleston, with all its details in the way of fireplaces, paneling, doorways, and furniture. In so doing they have called up a vivid picture of old Charleston life, its history, and the ways of its people generations ago. There are, in all, 128 illustrations from drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith, from photographs, and from architectural drawings of Albert Simons.”—Lit D
“The book has evidently been compiled with care, it contains drawings and documents of great interest, yet somehow it conveys a sense of opportunities unfulfilled, of curiosities unrewarded. This is because it is not so intelligent and authoritative architecturally as it is historically.”
+ — =Dial= 63:590 D 6 ‘17 650w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:182 D ‘17 50w
“The very beautiful book about ‘The dwelling houses of Charleston’ carries between its covers a real treasure of interest, historical, biographical, and architectural.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 80w
+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 120w
“After all it is to architects and house lovers that his book will make its strongest appeal.” Ruth Stanley-Brown
+ =Pub W= 92:1386 O 20 ‘17 590w
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 120w
=SMITH, MRS BERTHA (WHITRIDGE).= Only a dog. il *$1 (10c) Dutton 940.91 17-5815
“Only a dog” is a little story of the war. The Irish terrier, who tells his own story, had had a happy home life with a French family until the Germans came. He escaped the fate that overtook his master’s family and found refuge with one of the British regiments. A kindly Tommy became his new master and to him the dog remains faithful even after death. A note says that the story is based on a true incident. The proceeds from the sale of the book are to be devoted to relief work.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 130w
+ =Cath World= 105:126 Ap ‘17 110w
“‘Only a dog,’ in its tenderness and its simplicity, is exquisite.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 400w
“By a Montreal writer.”
=Ontario Library Review= 1:121 My ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 20 ‘17 180w
=SMITH, EDGAR FAHS.= Life of Robert Hare, an American chemist (1781-1858). il *$5 (3c) Lippincott 17-18697
Robert Hare, inventor of the calorimotor and the oxyhydrogen blowpipe, who, “for half a century was considered an unimpeachable authority in chemical research” (Boston Transcript) was born in Philadelphia in 1781, and from 1818-1847 was professor of chemistry in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. This life is written by Provost Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, himself a chemist, for students of chemistry. The story is “told largely by Hare himself in a series of unpublished letters, and in other documents which were practically buried in forgotten journals and pamphlets.” (Preface) The frontispiece is a colored reproduction of the oil portrait of Hare in the University of Pennsylvania. There are four other illustrations.
Reviewed by W. D. Bancroft
+ =Am Hist R= 23:437 Ja ‘18 410w
“Through what the author terms the second period of Hare’s activity (1818-1847), the book is extremely technical, requiring advanced chemical knowledge for its complete comprehension.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 700w
=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w
=SMITH, ELVA SOPHRONIA=, comp. Mystery tales for boys and girls. il *$1.50 Lothrop 808.8 17-23758
Miss Smith of the Carnegie library of Pittsburgh has selected a number of the stories and poems of mystery that are suitable for older boys and girls. They are stories of “ghosts and haunted houses, hidden treasure and strange enchantment.” It is suggested that librarians and teachers will find the collection useful in meeting the demand for Hallowe’en stories. Among the selections are Poe’s “Gold-bug,” Lord Macaulay’s “Last buccaneer,” Keats’ “La belle dame sans merci,” Goethe’s “Erl-king,” Irving’s “The haunted house,” Scott’s “Alice Brand,” Coleridge’s “Ancient mariner” and Hawthorne’s “Gray champion.” Among more recent selections are a story by Selma Lagerlöf and a poem by Alfred Noyes.
“Good for Hallowe’en, an excellent collection for about the eighth grade.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 150w
“A combination of thrills and good literature.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 40w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w
“The selections are admirable, and boys and girls of a suitable age will find the book a most convenient means of acquainting themselves with some of the best imaginative writing in the English language.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w
=SMITH, EPHRAIM KIRBY.= To Mexico with Scott; letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to his wife; ed. by Emma Jerome Blackwood; with an introd. by R. M. Johnston. il *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 17-22326
“In the war between the United States and Mexico (1845-1847), which followed on the annexation to the States of Texas and the dispute with Mexico as to the boundary of the new state, Captain Kirby Smith fought first under General Taylor and then under General Scott. His letters ... provide a close chronicle of events, with here and there a note on the habits of the people or the scenery.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A valuable addition to the first-hand literature of the Mexican war. The reader of these, as of all other such documents, must ask himself here and there whether the writer was in a position to know the truth of what he believed and said, and by doing so will avoid accepting some errors.” J. H. Smith
+ =Am Hist R= 23:438 Ja ‘18 730w
“Good letters are the best of reading, and Captain Smith had the gift of letter writing. Now and then one gets a glimpse into the very depths of the soul of the man. Mr Johnston’s introduction is a valuable contribution to the book.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 460w
+ =Dial= 64:31 Ja 3 ‘18 210w
“The ‘Letters of Capt. Smith’ are full of interest and form an important sidelight of history. But they are unfortunate in their editor who has not proved himself a big enough man to keep his very questionable political ideas out of an historical work.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 12 ‘17 470w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 11 ‘17 80w
=SMITH, FRANK WEBSTER.= High school; with an introd. by J: Calvin Hanna. *$2 Sturgis & Walton 370.9 17-287
Believing that the high school is “the determining factor in American school life,” Mr Smith attempts to study the origins and tendencies of secondary education. “In the superintendence of public schools, in teaching and supervision in high school and academy, in the training of high school teachers in normal school and university department of education, and in supervision of and participation in the training of high school graduates for teaching in elementary schools, he has had opportunity to observe the work of the high school from various angles.” (Author’s preface) The first 292 pages cover the period from primitive times to the nineteenth century, including a chapter on “Jesus, teacher—new principles of education.” Two chapters are then given to the high school in the nineteenth century, one to the development of secondary education in the United States, and one to a review of the evolution of secondary education from different view points. The last three chapters treat of the high school of the twentieth century. A graphic summary is inserted just before the nine-page bibliography.
“The relation between the educational institution and the economic and social conditions is emphasized consistently, and there is brought together a wealth of illustrative material.”
+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 160w
+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 90w
=SMITH, SIR FREDERICK EDWIN.= Destruction of merchant ships under international law. *$1.75 Dutton 341.3 (Eng ed 17-17631)
“The British Attorney-General presents the perplexing question of merchant ships’ status in war time. He first discusses enemy merchantmen, and goes into the question of visit and search, seizure and destruction, examining the various points in the light of former decisions on similar cases. He then considers neutral merchantmen, and their position under the customary law. He bases his findings on the practice that obtained in the Russo-Japanese war, and was later modified by the discussion at the Second Hague conference, and the Declaration of London.”—Cath World
“Does much to clarify this very difficult problem, and gives a comprehensive, trustworthy basis for the many decisions that must be made at the close of the war.”
+ =Cath World= 106:112 O ‘17 130w
“In days when enemy ships are being fired upon in neutral waters, when new measures of naval warfare interfering with neutral rights are assumed to be legal in spite of unquestionable and unanimous authority directly to the contrary, when the rights of neutrals are entirely disregarded in the attempt of belligerents to exercise full military power, a book setting forth what was international law on one phase of belligerent operation, without considering the complications of the whole situation, is not very valuable; and when it is written by a man of the brilliance and standing of Sir Frederick Smith, one is inclined to regret the fact that more originality and vigor are not in evidence.”
– + =Nation= 105:222 Ag 30 ‘17 900w
=Pittsburgh= 22:836 D ‘17 40w
“It is well that there should be available such a sober and well-reasoned remembrancer of German sea crime as this little book, which the Attorney-General states is prepared largely from the notes of Dr Coleman Phillipson, who has already written admirably of the problems of international law arising out of modern warfare. ... There is no page which cannot be understood by the lay reader. ... It reduces a mass of international law almost to syllogistic form in language that is wholly free from pedantry and ambiguity.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p185 Ap 19 ‘17 570w
=SMITH, GERALD BIRNEY=, ed. Guide to the study of the Christian religion. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 207 16-24312
“A dozen scholars, all excellent authorities in their respective fields, have joined in producing this ‘Guide’ under the general editorship of Professor G. B. Smith of the University of Chicago. Their primary purpose has been, to help students to understand the meaning of the various aspects of education for the Christian ministry. They have also wished to help pastors to keep in sympathetic touch with the latest scholarship. But so largely has the Christian religion been shaped by its history, so largely must the explanation of its various features rest on historical study, that nearly two-thirds of the book is historical in character.” (Am Hist R) Among the contributors are Shailer Mathews, J. M. P. Smith, E. D. Burton, S. J. Case, F. A. Christie, and George Cross.
“May well be invaluable to many an historical professor or student. ... The statements are clear, comprehensive, and judicious. The successive essays are kept remarkably uniform in method and in texture. Frequent brief bibliographies at the end of sections—perhaps two hundred of them—describe the books most useful to readers of the classes for whom the manual is designed. The book is well conceived and well executed.”
+ =Am Hist R= 22:694 Ap ‘17 280w
“‘A remarkably comprehensive work, surveying almost the entire field of the material of the curriculum of the theological seminary and showing the present-day general situation in theological education.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17 (Reprinted from =Religious Education= 12:65 F ‘17)
“Of the thirteen authors ten of them are connected with the University of Chicago.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 450w
=SMITH, GRAFTON ELLIOT, and PEAR, TOM HATHERLEY.= Shell shock and its lessons. (Manchester univ. publications) *$1 Longmans 17-25982
“This brief book is described by the authors as a ‘simple non-technical exposition of the ascertained facts of that malady, or complex of maladies, for which we have adopted the official designation “Shell-shock.”’ ... The authors rely on data which came from France, Russia, and Germany, as well as our own army, and which fortify their own experiences and conclusions. They end with a chapter on the need for reform of the British attitude towards the treatment of mental disorder.”—Sat R
“Suggests methods for the treatment not only of this condition but of similar nervous conditions in time of peace. ... ‘The civilian should be offered the facilities for cure which have proved such a blessing to the war-stricken soldier.’”
=Nation= 105:276 S 6 ‘17 330w
“It would have been more accurate, we think, to have called it ‘war-shock,’ for the conditions described have been witnessed in cases that have not been to the front. The reviewer is scarcely in agreement with the authors, who adopt so wholeheartedly the exclusively emotional origin of shell-shock as against the physical origin. That shell-shock is entirely of psychic origin and can be overcome by psycho-therapeutics is too sweeping a statement.” Robert Armstrong-Jones
+ — =Nature= 100:1 S 6 ‘17 2050w
=Pittsburgh= 22:771 N ‘17 40w
“Though the book inevitably involves some knowledge of psychology, it is clearly written, and popular enough to refer to Sherlock Holmes, Bernard Shaw, and the author of ‘Erewhon,’ ... The various means of treatment are lucidly described, and the moral objections to psychological analysis are fairly considered. The corrections throughout the book of the casual views and suppositions of the public on mental cases of difficulty deserve a wide circulation.”
+ =Sat R= 124:70 Jl 28 ‘17 300w
=Spec= 118:40 Jl 14 ‘17 130w
“The authors do not agree with Dr Eder (of the Malta hospitals) and the extreme school of the psycho-analysts. Nor do they agree with the ‘materialistic’ school. They advocate the use of a common-sense combination of methods, and especially of persuasion by the physician and suggestion when the patient is in the waking state. Especially do they advocate a better education of the physician in psychology. The latter part of the book is devoted to this advocacy and to an indictment of our asylum system. The book is exceedingly interesting—and, best of all, optimistic. It is well written and quite untechnical.”
+ + — =Spec= 119:218 S 1 ‘17 1400w
Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour
=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 750w
“What the authors press for is clinics attached to general hospitals and to medical schools, to which patients in the early stages of mental disturbance may go without legal formalities and free from the stigma attached to an asylum. The Psychopathic hospital at Boston, Mass., and other similar institutions in the United States and elsewhere are quoted as examples to be followed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 180w
=SMITH, HARRY BRADLEY.= Establishing industrial schools; with an introd. by C: A. Prosser. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c Houghton 371.42 16-20752
“Concrete and practical methods of determining what sort of industrial and trade schools are needed in our large industrial communities are considered by Harry Bradley Smith, director of industrial education in the New York state college for teachers. ... While the greater part of the work is devoted to the problems of the survey for vocational education, the author with commendable foresight has included in addition a closing chapter full of information and suggestions as to the steps to be taken and the best ways of getting such things as a proper course of study, advisory committees and trade agreements.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17
“Contrives to be concise without being obscure, and matter-of-fact without being dry-as-dust.”
+ =Nation= 105:129 Ag 2 ‘17 230w
“The monograph is really a primer full of valuable information for any person interested in the new and difficult problem of getting the right kind of vocational education started in a community.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 140w
=SMITH, JAMES HALDANE.= Economic moralism. il *$1.75 Macmillan 330 17-14559
“This is an ‘essay on constructive economics’ which may interest those who concern themselves with theoretical or economic utopias. ‘Economic moralism’ is equally opposed to capitalism and to socialism. It demands on one hand that all individuals shall be assured equal opportunity by the state—the organized people—owning and working the land and industries, and asserts that rent, interest, and profit are usury and have no ethical justification; and, on the other hand, it vigorously opposes the socialist principle of free supply of the wants of the individual at the public expense. The ‘moralist’ principle is that of collecting from each individual the cost of what is actually supplied to him.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by E. L. Earp
=Am J Soc= 23:414 N ‘17 500w
“If all his book had been as interesting to us as is this chapter [on interest] we should have been hard put to it to find a limit to our notice. ... In his second part he outlines plans for initiating and carrying out what he terms ‘economic moralism.’ We find ourselves so little in sympathy with his idea of coercive action by the state that we admit difficulty in judging his proposals on their intrinsic merits.”
=Ath= p272 Je ‘16 1100w
“The book is characteristic of the present tendency of economic theory. It contains many original contributions in thought and is interesting and suggestive throughout.” R. W.
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 2 ‘17 600w
“No references are given for any passages quoted: and much later and better work both in ethics and in economics is hardly given the place one would expect. For surely Herbert Spencer is easily shown to be deficient, without the principles of ethics being more clear on that account. And a far graver deficiency in Mr Smith’s book is that the principles of ethics are neither stated nor proved.” C. D. Burns
— =Int J Ethics= 27:249 Ja ‘17 350w
“On the whole, the work is ingenious as well as serious, and will prove interesting and stimulating to anyone interested in the constructive literature of extreme radicalism. Many of the assumptions in regard to human nature, its capacities and adaptabilities, and the like, are of the usual socialistic type and will appeal to nonsocialists as unwarrantable in the absence of more proof than is offered.” F. H. Knight
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:99 Ja ‘18 600w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:106 Jl ‘16
“It is very creditable of him to think so hard; but he cannot make economic moralism intelligible.”
— =Sat R= 122:277 S 16 ‘16 500w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p226 My 11 ‘16 180w
=SMITH, JOHN TALBOT.= Parish theatre; a brief account of its rise, its present condition, and its prospects. *$1 Longmans 792 17-30252
A wide chasm exists between the damning of the theatre by Christians in 1850 and the staging of plays by church folk which led up to the branch of the amateur drama known as the parish theatre. The spanning of that chasm has been a part of the evolution that has developed a social conscience. In this small volume we are told specifically of the growth of the parish theatre, its aims and service. The parish play demands a parish hall, a pastor manager, or a substitute, the right kind of play and an audience. The institution to be built up must work “quietly and gaily in the shadow of the church towards the redemption of an art which commerce enslaves for the sake of profit, and the Puritan leaves in the gutter for the sake of righteousness!” A list of one hundred plays suitable for this kind of production is given.
“We predict a heavy demand for this practical and valuable little book. For a good many years Father Smith has been the foremost Catholic spokesman for the drama in America.”
+ =Cath World= 106:550 Ja ‘18 360w
=SMITH, JOHN THOMAS.= Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake. 2v il *$7.50 Lane 709.42 16-23956
Joseph Nollekens was a portrait-sculptor of the eighteenth century. He was born in 1737 and died in 1823. His biography written by his contemporary, John Thomas Smith, keeper of prints and drawings in the British museum, was published in 1828. Wilfred Whitten, who now edits the work, calls it “a great lucky-bag of detail for students of London topography and of the practice of the arts in London from Hogarth to Blake.” The author, he says, “is essentially a gossip.” His idea of literary form “is to let one thing lead to another, with unlimited licence to revert, to anticipate, and to go off at a tangent.” Eighty-five illustrations add to the interest of the two volumes.
“Appended to the biography is a volume of a similar type containing sketches of artists and other contemporaries. ... After the second edition, 1829, the book dropped out of sight until, in 1895, Edmund Gosse edited the portion of the book relating to Nollekens. The present edition, by Wilfred Whitten, covers the entire work and is enriched by very careful and very full notes.” J. T. Gerould
+ =Bellman= 22:274 Mr 10 ‘17 600w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 9 ‘16 800w
“He has left us a vivid picture of an interesting age. Nollekens and his friends have long been known to connoisseurs of art and literature. It is to introduce them to a wider circle of readers that the present handsome edition has been issued, an edition copiously illustrated with rare drawings of old London and with reproductions of water-colors and engravings of worthies of the period.”
=Dial= 62:29 Ja 11 ‘17 350w
“Service to the antiquarian interested in ‘old London’ and in the Europe of that age is uniquely rendered by the rich foot-notes of the edition, involving much patient research.”
+ =Lit D= 54:263 F 3 ‘17 350w
“The average reader will balk at the enormous quantity of oddities—literary, artistic, and personal—which Smith many years ago collected, and will question seriously whether, instead of two large volumes one small volume would not have been all that was needed of this material.”
=Outlook= 115:74 Ja 10 ‘17 100w
“Of interest to all who love the flavor of a past age. While it is written with a pleasant touch of formality, its character is primarily that of gossip, but it is gossip like Pepys’s, that never grows dull.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 18 ‘16 650w
=SMITH, JOSEPH SHUTER.= Trench warfare; a manual for officers and men. il *$1.50 (6c) Dutton 355 17-16322
“Lieutenant J. S. Smith is an American who enlisted at the beginning of the war with a Canadian regiment. He has been at the front ever since, and so has seen and taken an active part in the entire development of the trench system. Two years ago he was given a commission in the British army and is now fighting ‘somewhere in France’ as an officer in a famous British regiment. He describes with full technical detail the principles, rules, and methods for the location and construction of the three complete lines or systems of trenches that are called for by the new plan of warfare, explains methods of drainage, and the making of obstacles and entanglements. There are sections also upon bombs and bombing which classify and describe all the kinds of bombs that are used at the front, upon gas warfare, sniping, care of rifles, duties of an officer, prevention of frostbite and trench feet, and other matters.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:127 Jl 19 ‘17 340w
“There is so much of value to the student officer condensed within a small space, that we can but note the chapters, location of trenches, trench drainage, and training as of particular importance. ... Numerous diagrams are helpful by way of clearer explanation.”
+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 130w
“An admirable little manual for the men to whom trench warfare is as yet only a name.”
+ =New Repub= 12:140 S 1 ‘17 500w
“The work seems to be strictly a technical war manual, and no doubt has considerable value for that purpose, for if American soldiers do go into the trenches in any numbers, this information will prove most valuable in saving many lives that would otherwise be lost in discovering the most efficient trench methods.” J. W. D.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
“Although it is intended to be a practical handbook the non-military person who wants to know more about such matters as dugouts and revetments and grenades and tear bombs than it is possible to learn from the newspapers will find the book easy and interesting to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 480w
“The information contained in this work must sooner or later be mastered by every American officer and private who is to serve in France.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 80w
=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL.= Trivia. il *$1.25 (5½c) Doubleday 824 17-28834
A book of thoughts and impressions, inspired by sights and scenes in rural England and in London. Some of the brief essays and sketches, which run to little over a page in length, were privately printed at the Chiswick press in 1902; others have appeared in the New Statesman and the New Republic. The author is an American who has lived much abroad. He has also written a life of Sir Henry Wottan, a book of short stories about Oxford, and a volume on the English language for the Home university library.
“Little essays, often provoking, like scraps of good talk overheard and lost—they give one a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17
“I know of nothing since Lord Bacon quite like these ineffably dainty little paragraphs of gilded whim, these rainbow nuggets of wistful inquiry, these butterfly wings of fancy, these pointed sparklers of wit.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 1400w
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w
“Some of the little sketches are rather too ‘precious’; occasionally there is a veritable descent to flatness.”
+ — =Dial= 64:155 F 14 ‘18 220w
“Some of the numbers are in the nature of prose poems, somewhat in the manner of the vers-librettists, but better than the run of such things. ... It is a pretty book in form, sad and wise in its contents, and sometimes exquisite.”
+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 140w
=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Trout lore. il *$2 (5c) Stokes 799 17-10443
A series of papers on trout and trout fishing by the angling editor of Outdoor Life. The chapters were written originally for that magazine and are reprinted with slight revisions. The author says of the book, “This is primarily a popular description of the ways of the eastern brook trout, though nearly everything set down here as true of the eastern fish may roughly be applied to his western relatives.” Among the chapters are: A page of natural history; Nuptial dress and etiquette; Comparative merits of char and salmon trouts; Trout and the weather; Fly-fishing for trout; A dissertation upon the dry fly; Bait-fishing for trout; Trout of the little brooks; The trout of the lakes. There are twenty-four illustrations from photographs.
“Delightful illustrations from photographs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:13 O ‘17
“An interesting feature of the book is the classification of trout according to habitat. In the chapter on ‘The trout in the pan’ are some promising recipes for brook-side cooking that tempt to experiment this spring.”
+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 250w
“He writes with charm upon an old theme, and fearlessly raises many debatable questions.”
+ =Nation= 105:491 N 1 ‘17 270w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
“Readable even for the rank amateur.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 80w
=SMITH, WALTER ROBINSON.= Introduction to educational sociology. (Riverside textbooks in education) diags *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 370.1 17-14234
The author, who is professor of sociology and economics in the State normal school at Emporia, Kansas, approaches educational problems from a new point of view. He says that in the past education has been too much of an isolated institution. “In the past our schools have drawn their inspiration more largely from their own traditions than from their social environment.” Books on education have been written from the psychological and individual rather than from the social and sociological viewpoint. His aim in this book has been “to make a preliminary application of the uses to be made of the group unit in educational theory and practice.” The book is divided into two parts: Sociological foundations, and Educational applications. Selected references follow each chapter.
“The treatment is sane. The style is clear. A wide influence is predicted for the book.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 23:271 S ‘17 630w
“As a textbook in educational sociology it will fill a much-needed place in the training of teachers in the broader aspects of the educational problem.” J. P. Lichtenberger
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:305 N ‘17 310w
“Dr Smith’s book is the most conspicuous contribution to the literature of this subject that has yet appeared. If one were to offer a criticism it would be that the work lacks philosophy.” R. L. Finney
+ — =Educ R= 56:169 F ‘18 1000w
“It seems to us the best single book now available as a textbook in social education or educational sociology.”
+ =El School J= 18:74 S ‘17 290w
=Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 80w
“His sociological bibliography is not very extensive. ... The book has in it a great deal that is true and useful, and is well written, for the most part. Very likely it will help a number of educators to realize that education is not an isolated institution. But it does not drive compellingly to the point, as such a book must do, even though elementary, if it is going to attract attention to a novel point of view.”
+ — =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 430w
Reviewed by W. D. Lane
+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 600w
=SMUTS, JAN CHRISTIAAN.= War-time speeches; a compilation of public utterances in Great Britain. *75c (3c) Doran 940.91 17-23463
“As a former antagonist of those who are now its comrades in arms, General Smuts can criticize the British commonwealth—as he calls it in preference to empire—with something of detachment. ... Throughout his speeches he stresses the fact that Great Britain is a congeries of separate nations. He says the federal principle, as elaborated by us for instance, cannot work. Liberty and complete local sovereignty can alone hold the commonwealth together. Imperial conferences for foreign affairs, of an advisory order and preferably continuous, will bind each part of the commonwealth to every other part in a net light as air legally, constitutionally, yet tenacious as steel in actual practice.” (New Repub) These speeches were delivered in Great Britain in 1917 in connection with the session of the Imperial war cabinet and Imperial war conference.
“The speeches show the breadth and depth of view of General Smuts, but as reading matter some of the book is disappointing, because the repetition of expression which is often an asset in a speech is not so in printed form.”
+ — =Ath= p409 Ag ‘17 40w
“England has need to-day of a man of this type, one who is under the fringe of her robe, yet near enough the edge to feel and comprehend the just criticism of men on the outside. Smuts is direct, superbly logical, human and prophetic. That is a good deal to say of a man, but it is true in this case.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 5 ‘17 470w
“The tone of the speeches is admirably fair.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w
=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= The coming. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-24695
“Accepted at its surface value, ‘The coming’ is a portrayal of what might be expected to happen if the Second Advent were to take place to-day in England. The scene is an English village, very insular and stereotyped in customs and opinions. In this village is a young carpenter of scanty education and frail health—in fact an epileptic, and reputed to be of weak mind. He hears inner voices, and relates how the spirit of Goethe has visited him at night and asked him to join in prayer for stricken Germany. All this so shocks the good vicar of the village that he feels it his duty to take action ... and has the man committed as a dangerous lunatic. ... While shut up in the insane asylum, the new Messiah writes his message to the world in the form of a drama entitled, ‘The door,’ which is accepted enthusiastically by a little American Jew, the head of a syndicate of fifty theaters, who, after reading the manuscript, is so miraculously wrought upon that for the first time in his life he is indifferent to profit and loss. The play is a phenomenal success; it is translated into all the European tongues; it brings all nations successively to a realization of the error of their ways; the Nobel peace prize is awarded to the author, but when the commission arrives to confer it he is already dead.”—Pub W
=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“The opening scene, with its atmosphere of wonder, is more impressive than the later action, which is too neatly contrived, and, in its madhouse episodes, borders perilously upon the ridiculous.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 80w
“It is impossible to take ‘The coming’ seriously. ... It is an absurd commingling of farce and melodrama. It brings to the reader absolutely no conviction of its reality.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 1250w
“It is utterly unconvincing. The incidents are forced and strained, and the characters, who are vague throughout, seem mere lay-figures for the working of the plot. As a novel ‘The coming’ is an unsatisfying and unimportant performance, but as an indication of spiritual unrest it has significance.”
– + =Cath World= 106:411 D ‘17 300w
“The least favorable thing that can be said about ‘The coming’ is that the personages in whom the ideas are embodied are not sufficiently specific and individual. ... The essential ideas are good, and at present it is real service to have presented them in an attractive way.” J: Macy
+ — =Dial= 63:345 O 11 ‘17 1450w
“Mr Snaith’s sincere and interesting novel is somewhat weakened by this serious misconception of the personality of the Messiah.”
+ — =Ind= 92:259 N 3 ‘17 340w
“Unluckily for the effect of the story, it is too patently ingenious. This is not a theme for cleverness. It is a theme of unfathomed possibilities, but one thing, at least, is clear: they will never be realized, or approach realization, by such means as Mr Snaith has at his command.”
— =Nation= 105:456 O 25 ‘17 340w
=New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 180w
“In so far as Mr Snaith is an iconoclast, he is delightful; his satiric portrayal of the vicar as a representative of modern society is the artistry of a skilled workman. The book is flimsily constructed and cumbersomely written. It has all the disadvantages of a mongrel religious essay-novel. The warp of theology and woof of novel produces a cloth neither commendable as an intellectual contribution, much less as a thing of beauty.” H. J. Szold
+ – =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 700w
“Written in a style delicate, subtle, often beautiful. ... The exceedingly difficult subject is handled with delicacy and considerable skill.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 1300w
“We should not quarrel, however, with anyone who chose to say that in this singular and touching book—that is in the main so shrewd, so witty, so astringent, so deeply pitiful, of so level a gaze, so true a vision—there are passages of an unpersuasiveness that are hard to forget.” Lawrence Gilman
+ — =No Am= 206:948 D ‘17 1350w
“As a piece of literary art the book is remarkable.”
+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 110w
“To many readers there are numerous incongruities which cross the boundary of irreverence—the epilepsy, the patronizing and ever-recurrent phrase, ‘He’s a dear fellow,’ the conception of Divinity in the role of a playwright. Furthermore there is a lack of inspiration verging upon the commonplace in the conversation of the central character, with the exception of his frequent quotations from the Bible. ... In conclusion, one wonders whether the author himself realized how very pro-German his special brand of pacifism sounds.” Calvin Winter
— =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 850w
=R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 350w
“Recognizing the difficulties of handling such a plot, one cannot deny that Mr Snaith has developed it with taste and restraint. The story does not, however, touch the high standards as a novel attained in the author’s previous stories. The influence on Mr Snaith of ‘The servant in the house’ and ‘The passing of the third floor back’ is apparent.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 500w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p516 O 25 ‘17 590w
=SNEATH, ELIAS HERSHEY=, and others. Religious training in the school and home. *$1.50 Macmillan 377 17-24241
This manual for parents and teachers has been written in connection with the preparation of the two series of books known as “The golden rule series” and “The king’s highway series.” It may be used independently however. It is based on a similar manual, “Moral training in the school and home,” six new chapters having been added, certain portions omitted, and the remainder revised. Chapters discussing the importance of religious training and considering aims and method are followed by others devoted to: The bodily life [2 chapters]; The intellectual life; The social life [6 chapters]; The economic life; The political life: The æsthetic life. Suggestions for the children’s reading follow each chapter and at the close there is a bibliography for teachers.
“The book is good, but not so good as one has a right to expect from the scholarship and experience of the authors.”
+ — =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 50w
“In a useful way it correlates what has been written and said on the subject in recent years.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w
=SNEDDEN, DAVID SAMUEL.= Problems of secondary education. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 379.17 17-4796
“The conflicts regarding educational aims, characteristic of much of the current discussion, center largely about the high school. Professor Snedden considers these in ‘Problems of secondary education,’ a series of twenty-five ‘letters’ to superintendents, college presidents, principals and teachers. The restatement of aims in terms of concrete purposes of obvious value to men and women living today, and the adaptation of materials and methods to the attainment of these aims, constitute the text of these articles.”—Ind
=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17
“Where Dr Snedden is critical, one follows him in hearty agreement. He touches, with a gentle pertinence that even high-school teachers should understand, these sterile attitudes and outworn notions that must be made over. It is only when he becomes dogmatic that one finds fault. Dr Snedden’s conviction of the necessity of separating cultural and vocational education will certainly be shared by few educational progressives.” Randolph Bourne
+ — =Dial= 62:303 Ap 5 ‘17 1350w
“The book will be of real service to those concerned with the readjustments taking place in our educational systems.”
+ =Ind= 90:253 My 5 ‘17 90w
=Nation= 104:543 My 3 ‘17 270w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p12 Jl ‘17 50w
“What we need at this juncture is a clear statement of the aims that underlie the changes that are taking place. Dr Snedden’s ‘Problems of secondary education’ is a forceful and comprehensive statement of these aims. Not the least interesting part of this book is the introduction by Mr Cubberley, editor of the ‘Riverside textbooks in education.’” F. W. Johnson
+ =School R= 25:370 My ‘17 1150w
Reviewed by W: A. Aery
+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 110w
=SNELL, ROY JUDSON.= Eskimo Robinson Crusoe. il *$1 (4½c) Little 17-28598
The story of Kituk, a little Eskimo lad, who is cast adrift on an ice floe. Kituk is the proud possessor of three Eskimo dogs, and he has also as a pet a white bear that he has tamed. These four animal friends are with him when he finds himself drifting out into Bering sea, and in all his adventures they are his faithful companions and helpers.
“Here is the note of extravagance that little people love rather than the air of truth. But with its amusing illustrations of animals in action it will please those for whom it is intended.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 50w
=SNORRI STURLUSON.= Prose Edda; tr. from the Icelandic, with an introd. by Arthur G. Brodeur. $1.50 Am.-Scandinavian foundation 839.6 16-22078
“‘The prose Edda’ is a Scandinavian classic [of the early thirteenth century], and one of the greatest. It has found a very skilful and sympathetic translator in Dr Brodeur. His version contains all of the ‘Gylfaginning’ and all of the Skaldskaparmal (the poesy of the skalds). It is the first translation in English which contains all of the second part. Dasent renders only the narrative passages of this portion.”—Nation
“The Library of Congress enters this book under Edda Snorri Sturlusonar.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17
“This should attract three classes of readers, students of Scandinavian history, myth and literature; lovers of folklore and the primitive simplicities in language and literature; and poets.”
+ =Ind= 89:118 Ja 15 ‘17 50w
“Not only in respect of completeness, but in respect of accuracy and spirit, Dr Brodeur’s translation ought to supersede the other English ones.”
+ =Nation= 104:683 Je 7 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:182 D ‘16
=SNOW, WILLIAM LEONARD=, ed. High school prize speaker. *90c Houghton 808.5 16-20119
A book of selections adapted for use as readings. The preface says that they are selections that have taken prizes at the J. Murray Kay prize-speaking contests held annually at the Brookline (Mass.) high school. Among them are such old favorites as “The death of Steerforth,” “My double and how he undid me,” “How ‘Ruby’ played,” and “Lasca.” Among the newer selections are Robert Haven Schauffler’s “Scum o’ the earth,” Alfred Noyes’ “The highwayman,” and stories by Myra Kelly, Jack London, Joseph C. Lincoln and others.
“The collection, as a whole, is judicious, being diversified, and combining things old and modern.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 120w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 90w
=SOLANO, E. JOHN=, ed. Field entrenchments; a manual of trench warfare based on official manuals. il *$1 National military pub. co. 355
This book reprinted from the second (1915) London edition, is said to have been “written by an engineer officer attached to the Imperial general staff,” who prefers to remain anonymous. It covers Spadework for riflemen; Hasty fire-cover; Fire-trenches; Communications; Concealment; Obstruction, and Shelters. There are eighty-seven illustrations.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
“Copious illustrations, diagrams, and plans clarify the text.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 150w
Soldier of France to his mother; letters from the trenches on the western front. $1 (2½c) McClurg 940.91 17-17991
An English edition of this work, translated by “V. M.,” was issued under the title “Letters of a soldier, 1914-1915,” with an introduction by A. Clutton-Brock. The translation for the American edition has been made by Theodore Stanton, who contributes an introduction, which is, he says, in part a paraphrase of the original French preface by André Chevrillon. The letters were written by a young French soldier who was in the war from its beginning up to April 6, 1915. Since that date he has been “missing.” An unusual spiritual comradeship existed between son and mother, and his letters to her reveal a soul sensitive to all the moods of nature and to loveliness in all forms. “Whatever happens, life has had beauty for me,” were his last written words.
=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
“These letters contain many passages and ideas of unusual beauty.”
+ =Ath= p412 Ag ‘17 110w
“Though pantheistic in its tenor, there is nevertheless a strong, earnest religious note in these letters. Though written from day to day in the trenches they nevertheless form a progressive whole like the stanzas of a poem. And exceptionally commendable is the translation of Mr Stanton. He has succeeded in carrying beauty from French into English, a task not always successful.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 470w
“Expressing the mental and spiritual reactions of a highly-strung nature, the letters are too abstract to be popular, but they form one of the most remarkable literary expressions of the war and are of the stuff which lasts.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 120w
“It must be a source of great comfort to the mother to feel that, after all, her son achieved in these letters something like complete artistic expression of his noble nature, to know of the wide recognition they have had in France, and to learn that now they are given in English to America, which needs their lesson and their inspiration.”
+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 380w
“Characterized by a grave and touching spirituality and an exceptionally deep filial affection.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:683 O ‘17 40w
“One feature of ‘Letters of a soldier’ is his adoration of his mother. ... He is, perhaps, typically French in his powers of artistic vision; but he is neither French nor English in the most striking side of his book. He belongs to the rare order of philosophers who can reach serenity in a world of horrors. ... He had got beyond the idea of personal success: ‘To a child in a game it is a fine thing to carry the flag; but for a man it is enough to know that the flag will yet be carried. And that is what every moment of great august Nature brings home to me!’ ... This is the most remarkable book of its kind we have seen lately.”
+ + =Sat R= 124:69 Jl 28 ‘17 440w
“All through his reasoning is different from that of the British soldier, though the results are the same. Mr Clutton-Brock says: ‘It would hardly be possible for any Englishman to ignore the war so resolutely, to refuse any kind of consent to it; or, if an Englishman were capable of such refusal, he would probably be a conscientious objector. We must romanticise things to some extent if we are to endure them; we must at least make jokes about them; but if a thing is bad to a Frenchman, it is altogether bad; and he will have no dealings with it. He may have to endure it; but he endures gravely and tensely with a sad Latin dignity, and so it is that this Frenchman endures the war from first to last.’ ... In the writer of these letters love of beauty passes insensibly into his religion. His power of wrapping himself round with serenity as with a cloak when he has gazed on a hill bathed in colour or on a flower growing in the mud is remarkable. If his religion is far from orthodox, it is real.”
+ =Spec= 119:117 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w
“All but two or three of the letters are addressed to his mother; and they are letters which, as Mr Clutton-Brock points out, no son would have been likely to write to his mother in any country but France. ... His letters tell very little of the actual operations of war. ... The interest of the book is independent of anything described or related. One reads it chiefly for the self-revelation of an unusual and fascinating personality. The writer is evidently one of the last men to whom soldiering would have appealed as a career. ... His natural outlook is almost as pacific as that of Mr Ramsay MacDonald.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p315 Jl 5 ‘17 630w
=SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV).= Created legend; auth. tr. by J: Cournos. *$1.35 Stokes 17-24700
“A powerful, deeply symbolical, and most original story, which has as a background the abortive Russian revolution of 1905. The hero is a poet with a vision of a less chaotic and more beautiful world than that in which he lives, and the heroine dreams of a day of freedom.” (Ath) “In this book many strange things come, now one and now another, into view. There are political meetings and riots, with hideous tales of Cossacks and official brutality; there is an attack upon the heroine by tramps; there are school inspections; there are spies, seedy villains, and many kinds of ruffians. There are mysterious children, of whom it would be futile to ask whether they are ‘alive’ or ‘dead’; there is a grove of Hellenic culture and nudity in a forest. ... The unity lies beneath the events and beneath the characters. It lies in the ideas, the philosophy ... for the yearning dreams of genius.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p47 Ja ‘17 60w
“Some will say, with the police captain of the story, that Sologub writes every-day pornography, masquerading under high-sounding names. But even those who make such a foolish judgment will discover that Sologub did create a picture of Russia and Russian life, the outlines of which not even time can soften or cause to fade.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:25 Ag 4 ‘17 1000w
“No greater contrast to ‘Tales of the revolution’ than ‘The created legend’ could be imagined. It is a symbolist novel; in it revolution is poetized, apotheosized, frequently, we regret to feel, sentimentalized. Many of the scenes in the tale are bathed in an atmosphere of delicate and clear beauty. Yet, every now and then we feel a decadence, a hint of decay, beneath the beauty. With all his fairy-tale simplicity, Sologub belongs to an older, a more sophisticated, a less healthful tradition than does Artzibashef.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 550w
“‘The created legend’ is a little unfortunate in other respects than its ugliness. In his introduction Mr John Cournos tells us that the ‘legend’ embraces more books than this that he has newly translated, and that the original title of this member of the series is ‘Drops of blood.’ Moreover, the Russian means not ‘the created legend,’ but ‘the legend in the course of creation.’ ... There is more of magic in Sologub’s touch, perhaps, than in that of any among the modern Russian novelists whose work is becoming known in England. If this novel sometimes hurts with deliberate brutality it does more than heal the injuries.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1000w
Some imagist poets, 1917; an annual anthology. *75c Houghton 821.08 (15-8258)
Six poets are again represented in the third annual volume of imagist verse: Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell. Amy Lowell’s contribution to the volume is the series known as “Lacquer prints,” adapted from the Japanese. John Gould Fletcher contributes a notable poem on Lincoln.
=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17
“In the ‘Imagist anthology’ the work might almost be interchangeable, and one closes the book with a purely composite sense of it. Not that the composite technique lacks its individuality, one has a distinct impression of imagism as a cult, but the majority of the poems might be signed by the same name for all the impression they convey of the personality, the differentiating self, of the writer.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:438 D ‘17 900w
“Richard Aldington has a finer group of poems in this year’s anthology than the other two; this is also true of the poems by John Gould Fletcher and F. S. Flint. ... Imagism is an art-method which, expressing substance according to the degree of talent in the poet, is, though a younger, an accepted member in the verse forms of poetry. The survival of the ‘Some imagist poets’ anthology to a third annual issue is a good proof of its importance and influence.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 14 ‘17 1350w
“The little group remains the same, whether in composition or in spirit. Nor is the offering of 1917 very different from that of 1916. ... The war is heard throughout the present volume: in Aldington’s ‘Field manœuvres,’ in Fletcher’s ‘Armies,’ a sombre yet vivid thing, and in Flint’s concern with ‘Searchlight’ and ‘Zeppelins.’” H: B. Fuller
+ — =Dial= 63:271 S 27 ‘17 850w
“I recommend in ‘Some imagist poets’ the courage of its brevity. For the rest, the work follows its type—oracular, crepuscular, spectacular.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 60w
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 100w
“Mr Fletcher’s ‘Lincoln’ and one Whistler-like impression of ‘Moonlight’ make his selections foremost in the book. H. D. and F. S. Flint are least interesting. H. D.’s ‘Pygmalion’ has thought, but it is weakly expressed. D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell have added little to their reputations. Lawrence in ‘Terra nuvo’ adding mysticism to an apparent trial at the Dantesque. Amy Lowell is quite disappointing.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 850w
=SOMMERS, CECIL.=[2] Temporary heroes, il *$1.25 (2c) Lane 940.91 17-27944
Letters from the western front to “The only ‘Phyllis,’” written “from all kinds of places, mostly unpleasant, in all weathers, chiefly rain, and at all sorts of odd times.” The period covered is from February, 1915, to July, 1916, and the grim happenings of those months, such of them as fall within the experience of this Scottish trooper, are none the less grim because of the punch which is put into the narrative. Neither rain, mud, plagues of the trenches, nor the crumpling up by shell fire can down his wit and sturdy courage. It is the invincible hero of Ypres and the Flanders front whom we see here; yet he, too, had a vulnerable heel. For we leave him after sixteen months taking sketchy account of passing days, on a Red cross barge able only to reiterate, “Isn’t it a terrible war?”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:163 F ‘18
“Of books about the war there have been many, but few as likable as this modest collection of letters. Mr Sommers possesses a keen sense of humor; no bit of comedy escapes him, and he relates all sorts of tales, and gives them many clever touches of his own. Even when the joke is at his own expense he enjoys it. Long before the book ends the reader has come to have a very genuine liking for this young writer, a liking which is enhanced by the delightfully comic little sketches with which he has illustrated his letters.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:543 D 9 ‘17 570w
“There is little unrelieved tragedy in the book. The letters would be far less significant than they are if the writer had not the sensibility to recognize the full horror of what is taking place, but he observes it from an angle which lets the horror be seen in quaint patterns.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 620w
=SONNECK, OSCAR GEORGE THEODORE.= Suum cuique; essays in music. *$2.50 Schirmer 780.4 17-406
Mr Sonneck is the editor of the Musical Quarterly (New York) and has been chief of the music division, Library of Congress, since 1902. “Among the topics treated by him in this volume of essays are ‘Music and progress,’ ‘MacDowell versus MacDowell,’ ‘A national conservatory: some pros and cons,’ ‘A survey of music in America,’ and ‘Signs of a new uplift in Italy’s musical life.’ Also included in this volume are several interesting biographical studies—‘The musical side of our first presidents,’ ‘Benjamin Franklin’s musical side,’ and ‘Was Richard Wagner a Jew?’”—R of Rs
“‘Suum cuique’ is not a particularly alluring title for a book of essays on music, but O. G. Sonneck knows how to hold the attention of all who open this volume.” H: T. Finck
+ =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 260w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17 50w
+ =R of Rs= 55:219 F ‘17 80w
=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Marlborough, and other poems. *$1 Putnam 821
The author was a young poet and soldier who was killed on the western front in 1916. “Poetry seems to have been the natural expression of his mind, yet he hardly sought this expression until the last year of his life. In a certain mystic quality his poems are comparable to the early work of W. B. Yeats; in intense love of the very soil of his country, to the sonnets of Rupert Brooke; and in fatalism and ardent, heroic realization of the values of life and death to our own young poet so lately dead, Alan Seeger.” (R of Rs)
“This volume, as it stands, will, like the volumes of Rupert Brooke, afford convincing demonstration of what England is sacrificing in this war,—lives that would have shaped the thought and feeling of our country in the first half of the present century. It will bear testimony also to the type of men who, when the bolt fell in August 1914, hesitated not in offering their services to the nation.” G. D. Hicks
+ =Hibbert J= 14:659 Ap ‘16 1200w
=Pratt= p33 Ja ‘17
“The poetic work of Charles Hamilton Sorley, late of Marlborough college and sometime captain in the Suffolk regiment, has the double appeal of beauty and of pathos. It is astonishing that a boy of eighteen should have written poetry of so high an order filled with such precocious maturity of thought.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:210 F ‘17 450w
“The six months that he spent in Germany before the war inspired him with respect and tolerance for our enemies. For the rest, we may note his intense love of Downland and of Marlborough. The later verses are unrevised, and often rough and halting in metre, but they have vision and an unaffected originality of imagery.”
+ =Spec= 116:661 My 27 ‘16 400w
“The third edition contains ‘illustrations in prose’ which Sorley’s friends will not like to miss. ... He was a careful letter-writer, and his letters, though they were probably written quickly, add materially to the value and dignity of this memorial volume.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 250w
=SOUINY-SEYDLITZ, LEONIE IDA PHILIPOVNA, baroness.= Russia of yesterday and to-morrow. il *$2 (3½c) Century 947 17-18377
“Baroness Souiny is by birth a Czech, a native of one of the Balkan States, and married a Russian baron and lived ever since in Russia until she came to America, soon after the beginning of the war.” (N Y Times) Her first chapter, Awakening Russia, and her last, Russia of to-morrow deal with the revolution of 1917, the difficulty of bringing the Russian peasants to a realization of what democracy means, and what the provisional government really is. Other chapters deal with: The military party; Aristocratic women in Russian life and politics; German influence in Russia; America and Russia; Russian art, dramatic literature and music, etc. That on America and Russia argues that “Russia and America have so much to give each other of ethical, spiritual and practical values that the alliance of which Russians dream and which the Americans once declined must come about.”
“More entertaining than authoritative.”
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“A leisurely, chatty, well-meaning but unreliable, woefully incoherent book.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
– + =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 190w
“The baroness’s style sometimes suggests that she is herself subject to German influences. Her spelling was certainly made in Germany. ... She has little but good to say of Grigorii Rasputin, who ‘brought back the Czar to his people and the people to the Czar.’ The book, with its comments on literature, art and music, its descriptions of travel, its many entertaining anecdotes and trivialities and its sixteen full-page illustrations is well worth reading, but it must be read with caution, for it abounds in questionable judgments.” N. H. D.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 800w
“Most interesting is the author’s reaction to the revolution. She makes it very plain that she has little faith in the lasting powers of the democracy. ... Among other word pictures is one of the monk, Gregory Rasputin. The Baroness sees him as a simple peasant, absolutely patriotic and religious, a ‘Russian Billy Sunday.’”
+ — =Dial= 63:214 S 13 ‘17 300w
=Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 120w
“There is grace, charm, picturesqueness and ease in the literary manner of this book, but the volume is crowded with equivocations, contradictions and half-thoughts. The author’s point of view concerning the temper of the people and the future of the republic is disappointingly feudal. Her prejudices cling to her like barnacles.” D: Rosenstein
– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 5 ‘17 2000w
“Her pages are very readable, but the more one reads, the more does one wonder, or doubt, if she is justified always in her generalizations. And those doubts increase when one reaches the chapters in which she deals with recent events and discovers her point of view.”
=N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 650w
“Possibly a little hectic, wordy, and hastily put together for the reader’s entire satisfaction.”
– + =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w
=Pittsburgh= 22:675 O ‘17 70w
“It is evident that the writer possesses an acquaintance with her people that is the fruit not only of long familiarity but also of intelligent study. In them she has faith.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 300w
=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria. il *$3 (3c) Stokes 299 17-4995
It is the author’s belief that this book will appeal particularly to the modern reader who loves the romance of antiquity. His aim has been “to provide not only a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, but to extract and present to the reader the treasures of romance latent in the subject, the peculiar richness of which has been recognized since the early days of archæological effort in Chaldea.” The book has eight color plates by Evelyn Paul and thirty-two other illustrations.
“The title of the volume is just a trifle misleading. Although most of the myths and legends of the Babylonians and Assyrians are rather fully presented, the book is after all more largely a discussion of the religion of these two peoples. The author has given his readers a fairly good presentation of that religion, but it is doubtful whether the book is one whit more interesting than many books in the field that are the work of specialists, and it was just this that the volume was intended to popularize. ... The book abounds in inaccuracies, hardly pardonable even in one who is not a specialist. The author has depended too largely upon older writings and upon men like Sayce and Hilprecht, neither of whom is particularly reliable. The black-and-white illustrations are good, but those in color by Evelyn Paul are neither artistic nor historically true.” T. J. Meek
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:459 Jl ‘17 730w
=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17
“Mr Spence, our leading authority on Mexican archaeology and mythology, has here given a popular account of the religion and mythology of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, a subject which he knows well. With the general reader in view, he has endeavoured, not to separate the gold of romance from the darker ore of antiquarian research, but to blend romance and knowledge. The result, with a theme so rich in enchantment, is a picturesque and fascinating book, that, if it does not add to knowledge, will add extensively to the band of readers interested in comparative religion and ancient history. ... There is a first-class index.”
+ =Ath= p583 D ‘16 130w
=SPENCER, HERBERT.= Man versus the state. *$2 (2c) Kennerley 301 16-23151
Mr Beale, the editor, has prepared this edition of Spencer’s essays for publication in the belief that they are particularly applicable to conditions in America at the present time. The essays, he says, were written by Spencer “to warn the English people against the blight of officialism.” The same danger of “over-legislation” and “over-administration” now exists in America, he believes. The essays are published with critical comments by prominent Americans, among them Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, E. H. Gary, Augustus P. Gardner, Nicholas Murray Butler and William Howard Taft.
=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘17 50w
“Particularly interesting are Elihu Root on ‘The new toryism’ and E. H. Gary on ‘Overlegislation.’ But it is no disparagement to any of these men to say that the clarity and dexterity in exposition that characterized Spencer put almost any man at a disadvantage whose writing is set side by side with these paragraphs dictated so long ago.”
+ =Nation= 104:166 F 8 ‘17 300w
“The underlying conception of this edition was an entirely admirable one; its execution has come very near to tragedy. ... Gathering about him in massed formation the heavy artillery of American conservatism—Mr Root, Dr Butler, Judge Gary, Mr Taft—Mr Beale has prefaced Spencer’s essays by a series of prose lyrics which, while they may gratify the few remaining adherents of the Spencerian philosophy, are otherwise valuable only as a somewhat inept expression of the ideals of the last age.” H. J. L.
— =New Repub= 10:142 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w
“For the man or woman who wishes to see clearly just what problems the United States is facing, and which must be worked out to our best national advantage, there is no better contribution to political thought than this volume of economic and sociological wisdom founded upon the broad philosophical foundation that ‘those forces that create and develop nations are not to be restricted by prohibitory acts of legislatures.’”
+ =R of Rs= 55:104 Ja ‘17 200w
=SPIEGEL VON UND ZU PECKELSHEIM, EDGAR, freiherr.= Adventures of the U-202; an actual narrative. *$1 (4c) Century 940.91 17-6334
The title-page tells us the author is commander of the U-202, and a copyright notice says that the book is published by arrangement with the New York World, but it is not stated whether the book is a translation or an original account, whether it was first written for German or for American readers. It gives an account of the routine on a German submarine, of the thrills and dangers encountered, of the methods of attacking enemy ships, of tracking them down or escaping from them, and finally describes the joyous homecoming of a U-boat crew.
“The author is possessed of complete knowledge of under-sea craft and its methods. His technical account of the U-boat in operation and of the life of those who man it, is worth reading.”
=Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 200w
“References to the hated English are sometimes unnecessarily vituperative, as was only natural. The book is decidedly out of the ordinary, and will arouse even the jaded reader of war narratives.” P. F. Bicknell
=Dial= 62:306 Ap 5 ‘17 120w
“Presents us with a ‘peculiar’ sea-faring psychology. It crops out in the bombastic manner of our dare-devil hero and his stage-strutting crew. Compare this stuff with the modest, straightforward narrative of a real sailor such as Captain König of the ‘Deutschland!’ The book does not bear a single German official endorsement.”
— =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
“An exciting and thoroughly interesting book. It has in it a good deal of out-and-out information about submarines and submarine warfare. And it gives its readers many a thrill. It has its place in the public’s war library.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:182 My 6 ‘17 300w
=SPINDLER, FRANK NICHOLAS.=[2] Sense of sight. *$1.25 Moffat 17-23764
“The aim of this volume is to tell the story of the wonderful power of vision in plain English and in a readable way, and yet keep true to the scientific facts and theories. There is a chapter on visual illusions, and another analyzing the visual type of mind. The book closes with a chapter on Hygiene of the eye and of vision.” (Boston Transcript) This volume is one of the new series “Our senses and what they mean to us.” One other volume has also been issued, “The sense of taste,” by H. L. Hollingworth and A. T. Poffenberger.
“Though elementary, the book is enlightening; though detailed, it is comprehensive.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 250w
“It rarely rises above meagre adequacy; and it is in a measure unfortunate that so important a subject fails of any distinctive handling. The arrangement of the chapters is admirable.”
– + =Dial= 64:116 Ja 31 ‘18 230w
“One is pleased to find so much useful information presented in comparatively few pages and couched in simple, popular language.” Medicus
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 200w
=SPINGARN, JOEL ELIAS.= Creative criticism: essays on the unity of genius and taste. *$1.20 (5½c) Holt 801 17-15179
The first essay in this book, The new criticism, was published in 1911, after its delivery as a lecture at Columbia university. It was regarded at that time as quite iconoclastic in its ruthless destruction of time-honored standards. Added to it in this volume are three other essays: Dramatic criticism and the theatre; Prose and verse; and Creative connoisseurship. A note on genius and taste, a reply to a criticism of the first essay by John Galsworthy, is given in an appendix.
=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17
“What Mr Spingarn fails lamentably and completely to realize is that the conception of the drama as ‘a creative art born in the brain of the playwright’ and as something inextricably concerned with theatres and actors are not irreconcilable at all.” F. I.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1400w
=Ind= 91:184 Ag 4 ‘17 100w
=N Y Times= 22:248 Jl 1 ‘17 980w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 180w
“Prof. Spingarn’s views should awaken as much debate on their reappearing as when first promulgated.”
=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 800w
“He demolishes more decayed and genteel traditions than the Victorians can justly be taxed with; and in the face of new realities his enthusiasm is so keen and clear-sighted that we wish that he would give us a few examples of the art besides this spirited defence of it. We wish indeed that he had written a longer book; for the subjects he deals with are very complex, and many of the interesting things that he says would be still more interesting if they were discussed more fully.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Je 7 ‘17 1100w
=SPRING, LEVERETT WILSON.= History of Williams college. il *$3 (4c) Houghton 378 17-15570
Professor Spring for twenty-three years held the chair of English literature at Williams college, and is now an emeritus professor. The opening of the college is described and the history is brought down to date, but “a detailed survey of the present administration is not attempted.” There are eighteen illustrations, nine of them pictures of college presidents, and nine appendixes, one of which gives “Williams volunteers, graduate and non-graduate, in the Civil war and their rank.”
“The general reader may find not a little to attract him in the descriptions of college life a century ago and in the biographical sketch of Mark Hopkins.”
+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 29 ‘17 270w
“It will hold its field alone, for no history of the college has appeared for many years, and its most exhaustive predecessor contains an intermixture of much historical matter upon Williamstown. The author has proportioned it in an unusual way. The history of the institution proper is held within bounds which leave abundant space for an account of the college life of the more eminent alumni of Williams, and to a certain extent of their later careers.”
+ =Nation= 105:435 O 18 ‘17 430w
“The author’s text might well have been more vivid.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:489 Jl 25 ‘17 110w
“A well-written and appropriately illustrated history. Any history of Williams must necessarily be largely given up to biographical sketches of personalities who as presidents and professors have built up the institution. Although always a small college, relatively speaking, Williams has, throughout its history, exerted an influence in the nation out of all proportion to its size.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 70w
“This is not a mere retelling of a story already twice told, but is an authoritative narrative, based upon painstaking researches, which have brought to light a considerable amount of new material having to do especially with the earlier years of the college. ... This well-proportioned, informing, and thoroughly readable book should be attractive to all interested in the early life of New England and in the history of American education.”
* + =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ‘17 1500w
=SPRUNT, JAMES.=[2] Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916. 2d ed $4 Rosa P. Chiles, 142 A st., N.E., Washington, D.C. 17-10368
A revised and enlarged edition of a work that was privately printed by the author in 1915.
“The additions, amounting to exactly one hundred pages of text, are supplemented by six rare maps and a thoroughly adequate index of forty-four pages. The most important additions are ‘Wilmington in the forties,’ eight papers by John MacLaurin which originally appeared in the local newspapers; three reports on Wilmington trade, 1815, 1843, 1872; the sketch, by Miss Rosa Pendleton Chiles, of the distinguished French scientist Alyre Raffeneau Delile, vice-consul in North Carolina (1802-1806); and an extended history of Wilmington churches.” (Am Hist R)
“The book’s most interesting chapter remains ‘Blockade running,’ slightly extended. This volume constitutes a contribution, of permanent value, to the historical literature, not only of North Carolina, but also of the United States.” Archibald Henderson
+ =Am Hist R= 23:217 O ‘17 250w
“The book is more even than a rarely complete local history. It is a valuable contribution to general history, giving as it does a summary—admirable in its terseness and clarity—of the events in one of the most historical sections of the United States from the time of its exploration and settlement down through the Civil war to the present. A Confederate himself, Mr Sprunt’s personal experience in ‘blockade running’ gives authority to his descriptions of that science. Sketches of the old plantations, of quaintly interesting social customs, of historic localities and individuals, add to the value as well as to the interest of a book, whose vast detail is carefully marshalled and clearly presented.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 11 ‘17 440w
+ =Lit D= 55:42 S 29 ‘17 110w
+ =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w
“Merely as a contribution to local history this volume is of more than ordinary importance, because of the unusual care that has been given to its preparation, and the excellent literary form in which it now appears.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 140w
=SQUIRE, JACK COLLINGS.= Tricks of the trade. *$1.25 Putnam 827 (Eng ed A17-1182)
“One of the most diverting books of parody in recent years. Its range is wide—from Pope to Davies—and almost as many styles of parodic writing are exhibited as there are styles of parodies. In the first half are ten imitations of the work of contemporary writers, mostly poets. In the second are ten duplex parodies.” (Dial) “Wordsworth rewrites ‘The everlasting mercy,’ Mr Masefield gives us his version of ‘Casabianca,’ Henry James revises the church catechism, Lord Byron takes liberties in the ‘Don Juan’ stanza with ‘The passing of Arthur,’ and, most brilliant of all, Gray rewrites his ‘Elegy’ in the cemetery of ‘Spoon River.’” (Spec)
+ =Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w
“These burlesques are frequently criticisms of no mean order.” Odell Shepard
+ =Dial= 63:20 Je 28 ‘17 350w
“Mr Squire has already proved himself a master of the art of travesty, and his ‘Tricks of the trade’ is a pure joy. For here we have no crude verbal mimicry, but an appropriation of the spirit of the original, with just that amount of exaggeration and perversion required to pillory its weakness. As a sustained ‘tour de force’ the burlesque on Mr Masefield, ‘the poet in the back streets,’ is perhaps the most deadly burlesque on the violence of the new ‘School of real human emotion’; but we are not so sure that the parody of Mr Belloc in his satirico-comic vein is not even cleverer, for it is a burlesque on a burlesque.”
+ =Spec= 118:339 Mr 17 ‘17 400w
“Although we may laugh we cannot deny that he tells us more about Mr Belloc, or Mr Wells, or Sir H. Newbolt than many serious and industrious articles where the gifts and failings of these writers are scrupulously weighed to an ounce. ... Of the parodies of modern writers, that of Mr Shaw seems to us the least successful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p112 Mr 8 ‘17 800w
=STACPOOLE, FLORENCE.=[2] Advice to women. *$1.25 Funk 618.2 17-12840
This work on “the care of the health before, during, and after confinement, with hints on the care of the new-born infant and an appendix on what to get ready for a baby” has been revised from the fifth London edition to conform to American practice, by Lydia E. Anderson, president of the state board of nurse examiners, University of the State of New York. Two interesting chapters tell what modern science has done to lessen danger and suffering in childbirth.
“The work of an Englishwoman high in rank as a teacher of health, and especially of obstetrics, is here supplemented by the revisionary service of an American woman equally deserving confidence. It is a book for women, by women, for the common welfare.”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 100w
=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= François Villon: his life and times, 1431-1463. *$2 Putnam (Eng ed 17-26321)
“My object is to present to you François Villon, one of the strangest figures in all literature, and one of the greatest of French poets,” says the author. His method is to study Villon, the man, thru his writings. “Villon,” he says, “had the magical power of turning himself into literature.” First, however, he describes the France of Villon’s day.
“There is appreciative literary criticism yet the book moves like a story. ... Mr Stacpoole published a translation of Villon’s poems in 1914.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17
=Ath= p51 Ja ‘17 80w
“Mr Stacpoole is as picturesque as his theme, as vigorous as the time he depicts, as romantic as his hero. We get a clear view of the fifteenth century in France from his pages, and as complete an understanding of Villon as is possible in the circumstances. If Villon still seems mythical when we close Mr Stacpoole’s book, it is because he will remain a character who is all the more appealing because of the glamour of romance that enshrouds him.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 1000w
“However much Mr Stacpoole may take from the French biographers in facts, the able criticisms are his own. ... Mr Stacpoole shows good critical taste in his estimate of the worth of the various ballads, and he includes good poetic translations of most of them, as well as free prose renderings of the legacies.” Nellie Poorman
* + =Dial= 62:307 Ap 5 ‘17 1300w
“Interest is added to Mr Stacpoole’s book by a series of very satisfying verse translations of some of Villon’s less-known poems.”
+ =Nation= 105:45 Jl 12 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 300w
“This book tells us nothing save that Mr Stacpoole admires Villon in so far as he understands him, but that he does not understand very much. Mr Stacpoole had the opportunity of performing a valuable service. He might have translated M. Champion’s volumes, and so given a work of profound scholarship and exquisite taste the larger public which it deserves. ... Mr Stacpoole would, we suppose, say that his book was not written for those who already knew Villon—that it was, in fact, ‘un oeuvre de vulgarisation.’ If so, it was superfluous.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p29 Ja 18 ‘17 750w
=STACPOOLE, HENRY DE VERE.= Sea plunder. *$1.30 (2½c) Lane 17-11465
Moral questions do not trouble Captain Blood and his friend Billy Harman. If the two German owners of the vessel Captain Blood commands want to cut a Pacific cable, that is their responsibility, not his. What the object of these two plotters really was is never learned, for the first message intercepted on the cut cable tells them that England and Germany are at war. As a matter of fact, they are not. This was one of the false alarms that preceded the real one of 1914. But for all that the message changed the course of this story. The second adventure of the book has to do with a wrecked Chinese ship, said to be carrying twenty thousand dollars in gold; the third takes the two adventurers back to the South seas.
=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17
+ =Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 90w
“We do not know, now that Jack London is gone, where to match Mr Stacpoole’s absolutely simple, straightforward, and forcible way of telling a story of outlandish adventure.”
+ =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 250w
“A better group of sea yarns, or of yarns better told would be hard to find. ... Along with the wisdom of his seafaring men Mr Stacpoole drops bits of his own, notably his accurate characterization of the attitude of Ireland toward England.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 450w
“Mr Stacpoole’s gift for telling a racy, thrilling adventure story is well established, and this product of his pen sustains his reputation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 350w
=STANARD, MARY MANN PAGE (NEWTON) (MRS WILLIAM GLOVER STANARD).= Colonial Virginia: its people and customs. il *$6 Lippincott 975.5 17-30734
“Historical and genealogical in character, this work is based neither upon history-books nor tradition, but upon sources that are not accessible to the ordinary reader—old diaries, old newspapers, and letters, shop-bills and inventories, and other documents throwing light on the personal and social life of the Virginians in colonial days. ... Mrs Stanard describes the relations between old Virginia and the mother country and the intricacies of Virginia class-relationships, and throws light upon hundreds of genealogical questions that have hitherto been in dispute.”—Lit D
“The labor of preparing so exhaustive a work as this must have been very great, and the author is to be commended for the excellent manner in which the interest is maintained to the very last.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ‘17 1300w
“Altogether the book is one that will appeal to every one who is curious about our historic past. The ways of our forebears and the interest of the book are heightened by the large number of illustrations it contains.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 150w
“This is a handsome, well-illustrated, well-planned, and comprehensive volume.”
+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 50w
“Mrs Stanard is known as an enthusiastic student of the Old dominion’s archives, and is the wife of William G. Stanard, secretary of the Virginia Historical society and editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 170w
“Although perhaps the book contains little that is new, it brings scattered material together in graphic compilation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 200w
=STANLEY, ELEANOR JULIAN (MRS JAMES LONG).= Twenty years at court. il *$4.50 Scribner (Eng ed 17-21843)
Eleanor Stanley, whose private letters are here collected by Mrs Steuart Erskine, was maid of honor to Queen Victoria from 1842 to 1862. “A very few letters have been put into the book which are not by Miss Stanley.” (Spec)
“Perhaps nothing could better witness the fascination of these letters and wide appeal than the fact that a second edition has so quickly followed their publication a year ago. ... Clearest of all the pictures she presents are those of the simple home life of the English royal family.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 180w
“No one, we think, will read them without enjoyment—it is difficult to say why. ‘It went off pretty flat,’ said Fanny Burney describing an evening spent in the Georgian court circle. Most evenings at the early Victorian court might be said, by these accounts, to have gone off very flat indeed, and yet Miss Eleanor Stanley makes us want to hear about them.”
* + =Spec= 118:18 Ja 6 ‘17 2100w
“Sprightly, revealing and readable. ... In her pictures of people in the spheres of court and diplomacy there is much covert sarcasm. ... As Miss Stanley grows older she discloses a greater interest in politics, and her notes on political events generally get to the nub of the matter with few wasted words.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 850w
“Miss Stanley’s letters are authentic. ... On the whole the editing is well done, with a number of useful little footnotes giving the names, titles, and dates of the numerous great people who are mentioned. The reader, however, may justly complain of the want of an index; of the want of any reference, or of anything more than the merest hint, with regard to many of the great events of the time; and of the absence of the necessary few words of explanation which would have rendered intelligible certain letters that the ordinary reader of to-day cannot fully understand. ... As a historical document the book is disappointing.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 D 28 ‘16 980w
=STANTON, STEPHEN BERRIEN.= Hidden happiness. *$1.25 (4c) Scribner 170.4 17-7478
The short essays of this volume have something of an Emersonian flavor. “Remember, all is law. It governs every little act of life—every success, every failure. Things happen according to principles which we can put ourselves in accord with and win, or go counter to and lose. Control then thy destiny by obedience to them. I have no wish other than that of the universe—why should I?” This quotation indicates very fairly the author’s attitude. He writes of: Joy’s neutrality; Ambition; The eternal bulwarks; Influence; Pros and cons of companionship; The trumpet of to-day; The marrow of existence; Ultimate economy; Letter and spirit, etc.
“The volume bristles with sane and sensible advice, with fine bits of figurative writing and with unforgettable epigrams.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 250w
“Aphorisms for sane and cheerful living. There is nothing original in Mr Stanton’s optimism or in his advice. But he states his confession of faith in the clearest and most vigorous terms.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 470w
+ =Outlook= 115:760 Ap 25 ‘17 130w
=STEEL, MRS FLORA ANNIE (WEBSTER).= Marmaduke. *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes (Eng ed 17-26885)
The scene of this melodramatic tale is laid in Scotland and the Crimea in the “forties” and “fifties.” The leading characters are “the sardonic old rake, Lord Drummuir, who marries a ballet-dancer and reduces her to respectability, who keeps his children in perpetual tremors by his evil temper; his gallant soldier son, the Hon. Marmaduke Muir, always hard up and always trying to get money out of the old man; Marrion Paul, a girl of noble mind but supposed humble origin, who loves Marmaduke from childhood and becomes his guardian angel, and the faithful soldier-servant of the hero, who cherishes a hopeless passion for the heroine and talks broad Scotch with mildly comical effect. ... The book includes a fire, a battle, a shipwreck, two sensational escapes from drowning, a frustrated elopement, a carriage accident, and a house of shame.” (Sat R)
=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18
“A very improbable and old-fashioned, but not altogether unentertaining novel.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w
=Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w
“Her first-hand knowledge of an eastern country, and a talent for describing men and places, give to such books as ‘On the face of the waters’ an interest which will outlast the author’s life. But ‘Marmaduke,’ is in a different category, being outside the sphere of personal experience. ... The habit, inveterate in both hero and heroine, of diving into seas and rivers from high places when they get the chance, with other features of this book, suggests the cinematograph.”
– + =Sat R= 124:30 Jl 14 ‘17 640w
“The story is not only Victorian in its setting, but its treatment recalls at times the exuberant sentiment of Smedley and the author of ‘Guy Livingstone.’”
+ — =Spec= 119:15 Jl 7 ‘17 500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 420w
“It is a tale that engages the interest, in spite of much inaccuracy, much infelicity, much worn coin in Mrs Steel’s English prose.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p310 Je 28 ‘17 300w
=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Going abroad overland; studies of places and people in the far West. il *$1.50 (3½ c) Putnam 917.8 17-5855
This book of travel is based on three journeys across the North American continent and back. The author, a Philadelphia clergyman, has written it “to acquaint the denizens of eastern districts with their neighbors, far removed but close allied, their fellow-citizens of the Far West.” Contents: Going abroad overland; Following the setting sun; The city of the holy faith; Grand Canyon, the Titan of chasms; A Sunday at Lake Tahoe; The city without a soul; In the land of the Dakotas; A week in Glacier national park, etc.
“Superior to the ordinary because of its keen observations, its accurate facts, its delightful style and its subtle humor.” G. F.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 750w
“Part of the book appeared in weekly instalments in the Philadelphia press.”
+ =Cleveland= p98 Jl ‘17 50w
“Unique among such volumes as have yet appeared of American travel articles. Each chapter describes a scene or city, the whole illustrated by many photogravures. Readers are shown that they can really travel, can see and know and feel places and people foreign to their previous experience—all without leaving North America.”
+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:30 F ‘17
“Not essential to small libraries but readable.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 80w
=STEINER, BERNARD CHRISTIAN.= Life of Henry Winter Davis. $1.50 Murphy, J: 16-14479
“Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865) is the last of the great congressional leaders of the Civil war period to find a biographer. ... The first three chapters, which are autobiographical, give an interesting picture of Davis’s boyhood and his life as a student at Kenyon college and at the University of Virginia. Dr Steiner himself covers the period from 1840 to 1865, treating in detail the various stages in his hero’s political career, as a Whig, a Know Nothing, a Constitutional Unionist and a Republican. New light is thrown upon a number of questions, especially upon the so-called Wade-Davis bill and the Wade-Davis manifesto, both of which, as Dr Steiner shows, were primarily the work of Davis and should more properly be described by the term Davis-Wade.”—Am Pol Sci R
“Should let in a strong light on some of the darkest places of politics in Maryland.” W: A. Dunning
=Am Hist R= 22:417 Ja ‘17 700w
“Dr Steiner’s book is extremely sympathetic. In fact, if there is any fault to be found at all, it would be that it is too sympathetic, or, in other words, that it is not sufficiently critical. ... When we consider, however, that the unfavorable aspects of Davis’s career have been fully represented by Nicolay and Hay, Gideon Welles, and others, we ought perhaps, after all, to be grateful for this excellent plea for the defense. ... All students of the Civil war and reconstruction will welcome the scholarly addition to the growing literature of that period.” W. R. Smith
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:167 F ‘17 550w
+ =Bul of Bibliography= 9:87 O ‘16 150w
=STEINER, EDWARD ALFRED.= My doctor dog. il *50c Revell 18-1116
“Over in the Carpathian mountains where Prof. Edward A. Steiner began his remarkable career, there is a strong belief among the peasants that certain dogs have the power of effecting cures where learned doctors are helpless. Dr Steiner—only he wasn’t wearing any title then, but was just a little curly-headed Hebrew lad—had such a dog. Perhaps he had forgotten it, or had overlooked its literary possibilities, until one day in a college settlement hospital in a city in America he came upon the same superstition, and it called up old memories. That evening around the fire-place in the college social room he told the story to the girls. Now he has told it again in book form as a tale within a tale.”—Springf’d Republican
“When the author forgets himself and his intrusive audience he gives a picture of the dirty, beautiful, simple village and its peasant population which is as engaging as it is convincing. But the frame of this picture is as distracting as it is foolishly ornate. After all, the story is the thing and not the story-teller’s sentimental associations or his ethical convictions.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 180w
“Lovers of dogs and of dog stories will make a mistake if they do not read this little volume.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 230w
=STEINER, JESSE FREDERICK.= Japanese invasion; a study in the psychology of interracial contacts. *$1.25 McClurg 325.7 17-7214
In his introduction Robert E. Park of the University of Chicago says, “This book is an attempt to study the phenomenon of race prejudice and national egotism, so far as it reveals itself in the relations of the Japanese and the Americans in this country, and to estimate the role it is likely to play in the future relations of the two countries. So far as I know, an investigation of precisely this nature has not hitherto been made.” The author, who spent seven years in Japan as a teacher in a mission college, writes of: Our first acquaintance with the Japanese; The Japanese attitude toward the West; The closing of the open door; The problem from the Japanese viewpoint; The Japanese “menace”; The isolation of Japanese in America; The reaction of the Japanese to American economic conditions; Organization and solidarity of Japanese immigrants; The problem of intermarriage; The Japanese in America as a race problem; The world significance of waking Asia. There is a bibliography of representative books and articles, followed by an index.
“This book is a very valuable contribution to the means for correctly estimating the present American-Japanese situation. The author displays a thorough knowledge of his subject and much skill and judgment in his handling of it.” H: P. Fairchild
+ =Am J Soc= 23:548 Ja ‘18 350w
“The work is well documented and has a fairly complete bibliography (14p.).”
=A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17
“The most valuable portions of Mr Steiner’s book are chapters discussing the attitude in various sections of the United States toward Japanese residents, the reaction of the Japanese to American economic conditions, the organization and solidarity of Japanese immigrants, and the problem of intermarriage.” F: A. Ogg
=Dial= 62:430 My 17 ‘17 1300w
“His treatment of the Californian situation is characteristic. He does not blame this government, state or national; he is interested in tracing and diagnosing a condition. He discusses the Japanese as human beings; not as the menacing abstractions which plague Californian imaginations. The last chapter, The significance of waking Asia, is a forceful and fitting close to an extraordinarily suggestive book.”
+ =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 540w
=New Repub= 11:117 My 26 ‘17 190w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 300w
“Sober, restrained, informing, useful.” H: R. Mussey
+ =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 870w
=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.=[2] America and the new epoch. *$1 (2c) Harper 330.9 16-21734
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Mr Steinmetz, who is by birth and training a German—of Prussia—eliminates, both in his historical surveys and in his study of America’s present condition and future possibilities, all consideration of spiritual forces. He interprets history, and therefore of course the present situation in the United States, solely in terms of material tendencies, material forces, material results.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:180 Ap ‘17 450w
“Dr Steinmetz has that rare and suggestive vision of the Socialist who is at the same time a great inventive engineer and an active officer in one of our most advanced and successful industrial corporations. He is personally engaged in fashioning the corporation out of which he hopes the industrial state will be built. His socialism might be called a ‘corporation syndicalism,’ for what he outlines is a union of huge corporations into whose hands will be entrusted the productive work of the nation.” R. S. Bourne
+ =Dial= 62:134 F 22 ‘17 440w
=Ind= 90:85 Ap 7 ‘17 180w
“The economic interpretation of history is pressed to its uttermost limits. Along with much that is bizarre, the book contains illuminating passages. The author is at his worst when he deals in historical generalizations, but when he touches more concrete matters he is not infrequently acute and penetrating.”
+ — =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 310w
“A book that ought to command the most serious study and thought of every economist in America.” C. M. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 18 ‘17 620w
“The book gains no little of its large value from this quality of personal testimony by a qualified observer who has experienced both systems. As such he has taken and presents a bird’s-eye view of world industries, and speaks industrially where all others are speaking in terms of politics, war, and diplomacy. It is a stimulating volume presenting points of view which ought not to be so novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:574 D 31 ‘16 800w
=STEINMETZ, CHARLES PROTEUS.= Theory and calculation of electric circuits. il *$3 McGraw 621.31 17-9822
“Doctor Steinmetz is America’s best known authority in the field of electrical mathematics. In revising his well known ‘Alternating current phenomena’ for the fifth edition, the great increase in size made it necessary to divide the work into three parts, of which the present work is the second. ‘In the following volume I have discussed the most important characteristics of the fundamental conception of electrical engineering, such as electric conduction, magnetism, wave shape, the meaning of reactance and similar terms, the problems of stability and instability of electric systems, etc., and have given a more extended application of the method of complex quantities, which the experience of these twenty years has shown to be the most powerful tool in dealing with alternating current phenomena.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:484 Jl ‘17 100w
“An authoritative treatise.”
+ =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 40w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 Ap ‘17 130w
=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17 30w
=STEMPEL, GUIDO HERMANN=, comp. and ed. Book of ballads, old and new. (English readings for schools) il 60c Holt 821.08 17-13306
These ballads are grouped under the headings: Old ballads; American ballads; New ballads. The four “American ballads” are reprinted from Lomax’s “Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads” (1910). The “new ballads” range from Campbell, Hood and Lady Nairne, to Kipling, Lowell, Masefield, Newbolt, Noyes, Whittier, etc. There is an introduction, mainly historical, followed by a “descriptive bibliography” of two pages. Appended are 102 pages of “notes and comment”; and a glossary.
“There are fewer of the old ballads, altho much the same ones as those chosen by Professor Hart [in his “English popular ballads,” 1916].”
=Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 90w
“The introduction treats vexed questions of origins fairly and clearly. It strikes us as distinctly the best introduction to the subject we have seen.”
+ =Nation= 105:263 S 6 ‘17 80w
=STEPHENS, HENRY MORSE, and BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE=, eds. Pacific ocean in history. *$4 (3c) Macmillan 904 17-5822
A volume containing papers and addresses presented at the Panama-Pacific historical congress held at San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto, California, July 19-23, 1915. A brief outline of the history and plan of the congress is given in the introduction. The body of the book is given up wholly to the papers and addresses of the general and special sessions. Among the subjects covered at some of the special sessions were: The Philippine Islands and their history as a part of the history of the Pacific ocean area; The north-western states, British Columbia, and Alaska in their relations with the Pacific ocean; Spanish-America and the Pacific ocean; Japan and Australasia. There is an index that seems to be unusually complete.
“Among the addresses those by H. Morse Stephens on the Conflict of European nations in the Pacific, by Rafael Altamira y Crevea on the Share of Spain in the history of the Pacific ocean, and by Theodore Roosevelt on the Panama canal are noteworthy. The paper by Professor Murakami, on Japan’s early attempts to establish commercial relations with Mexico, embodying his investigations in the archives of Spain, Italy, and Japan, is perhaps the most interesting of all the contributions.” W: R. Shepherd
+ =Am Hist R= 22:846 Jl ‘17 1000w
=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
“For its condensed summary of historical facts the book should be of use to students.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 70w
“The student of American history will find these papers of most absorbing interest.”
+ =Cath World= 105:399 Je ‘17 190w
“Much of the book is not of interest to the layman. But this is not true of the opening address of Professor Stephens, in which he discourses upon the conflict of European nations in the Pacific. His wide view of international relations of the past four hundred years may well enlarge the horizon of many a casual reader.”
+ =Dial= 63:646 D 20 ‘17 330w
“Sixteen of the twenty-nine contributions are by Californians—a fact which explains both the strength and the weakness of the volume. The unfortunate absence of South Americans, of Australians, and of Chinese, though some had been expected to appear, deprived the Congress and its printed record of any claim to represent the ‘Pacific ocean in history.’ Taken singly the average standard of the various papers is distinctly commendable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 1500w
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 120w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
“A useful service for those interested in world politics has been performed in the publication of the minutes and papers of the Panama-Pacific historical congress of 1915. ... All the strings of world diplomacy meet in the Pacific as they do nowhere else.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 750w
=STEPHENS, WINIFRED.= Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber); la grande Française; from Louis Philippe until 1917. il *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 18-1178)
“The founder and editor for twenty years of La Nouvelle Revue, the mistress of a political salon, and the friend through more than half a century of leaders of French life and thought, a passionate advocate of self-government and of nationalism, Madame Adam is one of the most notable women of the Europe of to-day. She is here presented to us by one who has written and lectured a good deal about France and French history, and who has had the advantage of Mme Adam’s personal acquaintance and interest in the present work. Her main authority, however, is, of course, Mme Adam’s seven volumes of ‘Souvenirs.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Of great interest, and particularly well worth reading at the present time.”
+ =Ath= p473 S ‘17 100w
=Outlook= 117:652 D 19 ‘17 120w
“A most comprehensive account of her varied and spectacular career.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:200 F ‘18 520w
“It was Madame Adam who first suggested and later engineered her country’s alliance with Russia.”
* =Sat R= 124:68 Jl 28 ‘17 1350w
“We are glad to see this interesting biography of Mme Adam, one of the most remarkable women of her time. She has played a considerable part in French journalism and politics from the days of the Second empire. She was the trusted friend of George Sand and Gambetta and many other eminent people, and she has been a protagonist of the woman’s movement in its largest sense, and of the Revanche for 1870, which is now at last to be realized. As founder and editor for twenty years of the Nouvelle Revue (1879-99), she did much to consolidate the Third republic and to stimulate that wonderful revival of French national spirit which has been manifested in this war.”
* + =Spec= 119:142 Ag 11 ‘17 1500w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Jl 5 ‘17 110w
“Mme Adam’s own ‘Souvenirs’ end with the year 1880, and though they stand as the main authority Miss Stephens’s book is primarily valuable as filling up the gap of nearly forty years; and here the author has had important aid from Mme Adam herself, from Sir Sidney Colvin, and from other contemporaries. The book is also to be welcomed because it is admirably written ... with a gaiety and zest not often to be found in such generous measure among biographers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 1100w
=STEPNIAK, pseud. (SERGIEI MIKHAILOVICH KRAVCHINSKII).= New convert; a drama in four acts; tr. from the Russian by T: B. Eyges. $1 Stratford co. 891.7 17-9135
A play of the early days of the Russian revolutionary movement. The author, says Prince Peter Kropotkin in his introduction, “was one of the pioneers who decided to ‘go to the people.’ Disguised as a laborer, he mingled among the peasants in the villages. At the beginning of the so-called ‘terrorist’ movement he was one of its pioneers and heroes.” In the play it is a young girl of good family who follows this course. Her father casts her off and disowns her, but his love for her is so great that when he finds her in danger, he takes her into his house and tries to shield her. In so doing he is himself won over to the Nihilist cause, becoming the new convert.
“It is unfortunate that the translation abounds in foreign English and in all kinds of blunders. With a modicum of proper editing, it would be a very actable and interesting play.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 300w
“It is well worth reading at this time as a first-hand document of the pioneer labor for Russian liberty. But, if the truth must be told, it is not likely that this play will add to Stepniak’s literary reputation. ... Yet there is much beauty in the play, a warm sympathy pervades the whole and that big simplicity which emanates from all of Russia’s great men. An hour with ‘The new convert’ will be well spent.” T: Seltzer
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 470w
=R of Rs= 56:102 Jl ‘17 80w
=STERN, MRS ELIZABETH GERTRUDE (LEVIN).= My mother and I. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 17-16442
A story of the Americanizing of a young Jewess, whose father, a rabbi, and whose self-sacrificing little mother, came from a small town in Russian Poland to the ghetto of a city in the Middle West. The one cellar room which was their first home, the girl’s days in the grammar and high school, her discovery of “Little women” in a rag shop, and later of the public library, are simply but vividly pictured. She wins a scholarship and works her way through college, only to find life in the ghetto insupportable; and to leave home to study settlement work in New York. There she meets her husband, and after the birth of their son, the old mother takes her first long trip in 25 years to see her daughter as “an American woman at the head of an American home” and to experience “an infinite loneliness” because she cannot understand the new ways and the new people. “And yet,” writes the daughter, “if I am truly part of America, it was mother, she who does not understand America, who made me so.” The introduction is by Theodore Roosevelt.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:649 Ag ‘17 440w
“The remarkable charm of the book lies in the daughter’s faithful picture of the mother and in her appreciation of what the Americanization of the foreign-born means in pain and separation.”
+ =Cleveland= p100 Jl ‘17 90w
“Describes the loftier and rarer aspect of immigration.”
+ =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 90w
+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 240w
“What affects one just a little unpleasantly is the predominance of pride over tears in the countenance of the narrator as she shakes from her feet the dust of her father’s house and goes to dwell forevermore in the tents of the Americans. The completeness of her break with the ghetto left some precious things behind.”
– + =Nation= 105:224 Ag 30 ‘17 880w
“The note struck in Mrs Stern’s book appears to be a more sincere one than that sounded by Miss Antin, because, though the narrative is a personal one, the reader is not oppressed by the ego of the writer.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 S 9 ‘17 280w
“The book is well worth while. Not only because of the picture it gives of the Americanized second generation, ... but also because of the excellent style. ... The best thing in the book is the beautifully tender portrayal of the relation between the mother and daughter, a relation which is at once an idyl and a tragedy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:255 Jl 8 ‘17 600w
=Pittsburgh= 22:744 N ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 10 ‘17 350w
“Perhaps an even more useful service of the book will be to open some blind young eyes to the true worth and value of their parents.” K. H. Claghorn
+ =Survey= 39:48 O 13 ‘17 330w
=STERN, FRANCES, and SPITZ, GERTRUDE T.= Food for the worker. *$1 Whitcomb & B. 613.2 17-13100
This book is devoted to the problem of how to provide sufficient nutritious food at a low cost. The authors say, “Our contribution towards answering the question is this series of menus, with food values and costs for a period of seven weeks.” The book is not adapted for use by the average untrained housewife in the type of family for which the menus are planned. It will be most useful in the hands of the visiting housekeeper or other social worker. In fact its preparation is due in part to the experience of one of the authors as a visiting housekeeper. Lafayette B. Mendel of Sheffield scientific school has written a foreword commending the book.
“Practical, usable, intelligently planned, for the aid of housewives catering on a working man’s income, and useful to the teacher, visiting housekeeper or social worker. Reprints ‘How to build a fireless cooker’ from Form 776 States relations service. Bibliography. (2p.).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p20 F ‘18 20w
+ =Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w
“Should fill a great need at the present time.” Graham Lusk
+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 170w
“A direct contribution to the literature of both social service and home economics. Presents in small compass clear and scientific material that will be invaluable for anyone who is responsible for the feeding of families who through force of circumstances must keep to a limited food allowance. ... A book for the trained worker, but the untrained may find in it much to shed light upon their pathways.” W. S. Gibbs
+ =Survey= 38:373 Jl 28 ‘17 180w
=STERNE, ELAINE.= Road of ambition. il *$1.35 (1c) Britton pub. 17-13078
Big Bill Matthews is foreman in a steel mill when the story opens. He is a newly elected governor at its close. But unlike many another man who has trod the road to ambition, he does not find achievement bitter, for Bill’s aim is always to help his fellow men, and his way is made bright by the love of the woman who had been the lady of his early dreams. When he first saw Daphne Van Steer, he had no thought of anything but worship from afar. Then came the success of his invention, his fortune, his education in the ways of the world at the hands of May Larrabee, and eventually his marriage with Daphne. For her it was not a marriage of love, in the beginning—that came later.
“Just the book for the reader who likes a story with plenty of thrills and a happy ending.”
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w
“Elaine Sterne has written the sort of story which we are glad to have from an American novelist. Such a story could have been written more effectively by a man, but one is willing to pass over certain feminisms in the discussion of business for the sake of the story itself, which is engrossing.”
+ — =Dial= 63:280 S 27 ‘17 200w
“A first novel, and a promising one. It is ambitious, faulty, of course, but interesting, with some well written, natural dialogue, and a dramatic quality which, as often happens in the work of novices—and of experienced writers, too—occasionally spills over the line which separates the dramatic from the merely melodramatic. The opening chapters are the best.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
=Pub W= 91:1318 Ap 21 ‘17 370w
=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= William and Williamina. il *$1.40 (2c) Appleton 17-25816
The heroine of this story, Williamina, a friendly little girl of ten, was found when a baby, by William Kirwin, in a rowboat, after a dreadful storm. Kirwin had gone to live in the country because of weak lungs, and, even when cured, seemed to have no desire to mix again with people. Williamina filled his life and he filled Williamina’s. Yet it was partly due to her that he finally returned to a busier and more conventional existence. Some of the other characters are: Helen Spafford, a school-teacher, who wants to try gardening; Mrs Macartney, who runs a chicken farm; Marietta White, who overworked at college and is taking an enforced rest; Imogene Grace Butters, the stout trained nurse; Mr Brewer, who has no use for “fool females”; Bob Brown, who is hurt in an automobile accident; Hunter Olney, the rich breakfast food man; and tall young Doctor Grey with his “shock of sandy hair.” There are three rather slight love affairs in the book, but the main interest centers in Williamina, who wishes that she and William “should always love each other and really belong to each other and live together happily forever and a day.”
“Williamina is amusing at times, and not quite so aggressively virtuous as some children in fiction.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 250w
=STETSON, JAMES FRANCIS LYNDE, and others.= Some legal phases of corporate financing, reorganization and regulation. *$2.75 Macmillan 338.8 17-7837
“A volume of addresses delivered in 1916 by recognized leaders of the legal profession at the instance of the Association of the bar of the city of New York, to audiences drawn from practicing lawyers. Mr Stetson contributes a lengthy paper concerning the preparation of corporate bonds, mortgages, collateral trusts and debenture indentures. ... Mr Byrne supplies an exceptionally valuable treatise on the foreclosure of railroad mortgages in the United States courts. ... Mr Cravath treats of the reorganization of corporations; bondholders’ and stockholders’ protective committees; reorganization committees; and the voluntary recapitalization of corporations. ... Mr Wickersham deals with the Sherman anti-trust law. ... Mr Montague writes about the Federal trade commission and the Clayton act. Mr Coleman and Mr Guthrie discuss the public service commissions.”—Ann Am Acad
“It deals with particular problems in the peculiarly narrow and intensive manner of legal procedure. This is its great merit, but it is also the reason why the broader economic aspects of the problems treated are either totally disregarded or else disposed of with only a few phrases. Yet within their field of legal literature most of these essays are remarkably comprehensive; in fact, several of them, notably Cravath’s on reorganizations, are certainly unrivaled in the sphere of legal finance.” A. S. Dewing
+ =Am Econ R= 7:645 S ‘17 1150w
“If the volume contained nothing but Mr Byrne’s treatise, it would still be an important addition to legal literature.” J: L. Sullivan
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:231 Jl ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 30w
“Although stated to be designed primarily for the practical guidance of practicing lawyers, [these addresses] will be of interest and value to students of corporation problems, the trust problem, and public utilities. The three on corporation problems are by far the most interesting to the economist. With the exception of the last address on public utilities, the other addresses tend to be mainly descriptive, with little analysis.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:756 Jl ‘17 500w
“If ‘a priori’ reasoning is a peculiar weakness of lawyers, there is no trace of it in the legal field ploughed through in the first three essays. The practical corporation lawyer ... begins with a very concrete picture of the result he wishes to attain. He draws upon a wide practical experience to point out the simplest and surest way of bringing the result about. Very different is the situation in the field of public law described in the remaining four essays. Here we are not yet out of the domain of dogma, of question-begging phrases, of concepts that bear the appearance of self-evident truths, but dissolve into meaningless verbiage when we try to apply them to flesh and blood.” G. C. Henderson
=New Repub= 11:192 Je 16 ‘17 1350w
=STEVENS, RUTH DAVIS, and STEVENS, DAVID HARRISON=,[2] eds. American patriotic prose and verse. *$1.25 McClurg 811.08 17-28105
The selections in this book are arranged chronologically to conform with the history of our country. In addition to this strictly historical material, selections suitable for the patriotic holidays are included. Each selection is accompanied by a brief note, giving biographical and other data.
“Chiefly valuable for its timeliness, and while it is not without certain historical examples of the kind, it would have been more suitable if chosen with greater care and judgment.” W. S. B.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 40w
=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 40w
=STEVENS, WILLIAM HARRISON SPRING.= Unfair competition; a study of certain practices, with some reference to the trust problem in the United States of America. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 338.8 17-9697
“‘Unfair competition’ is an expansion of the author’s two articles which originally appeared in the Political Science Quarterly for 1914. The new matter consists chiefly of added illustrations of cases of the different methods of unfair competition, the listing of a new heading called ‘Interference,’ and the expansion of the conclusion, where especial attention is given to the trust legislation of 1914 as it relates to this subject.” (J Pol Econ) “The text analyzes many types of unfair competition and gives the concrete and specific facts, as well as the principles involved. It is a valuable companion volume for the compilation by Davies.” (Int J Ethics)
“The chapter on ‘Exclusive arrangements’ is, in the writer’s opinion, the weakest chapter of the book, as these arrangements, while classified and considered separately, are adjudged equally objectionable. The book is replete with illustrations, is written in an interesting style, and will be welcomed by all interested in this important subject.” J. E. Hagerty
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:274 S ‘17 570w
=A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
“Dr Stevens has done a real public service by placing in convenient form an assembly of facts on this problem. The tone of the book is not that of an arraignment or accusation. The author shows neither indignation nor heat—he seeks in guarded language to establish the facts.” J. T. Young
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:783 N ‘17 450w
“It is patent that Stevens is not a proponent of large industrial combinations simply because they are large, and he carries the convictions of one who has investigated carefully the methods by which, fortunately or unfortunately, big business has grown. The logical soundness of some of his assertions is tinged by a super-vigilant search for recondite motives on the part of business; but he is not unfair.” Frank Parker
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 350w
+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 160w
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 50w
“The volume is sound and timely and is the best presentation of the topic available. While the conclusions of Dr Stevens appear sound, additional weight would have been given them had he tried to set forth and refute in more detail the arguments sometimes advanced to justify the various methods of competition which he condemns.” C. W. Wright
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:629 Je ‘17 250w
=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 11 ‘18 300w
=STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT.= King in Babylon. il *$1.50 (2c) Small 17-24692
“The story concerns a moving-picture producer and his determination to introduce imagination and art into his work. ... He built a plot about Henley’s lines, ‘I was a king in Babylon and you were a Christian slave.’ The production carried him and his company to Egypt, where a suitable setting was found in a royal tomb practically excavated by an American archaeologist. It is at this point that the seemingly supernatural enters the tale, giving an extraordinarily weird and gripping turn to the story.”—Dial
“The events are thrilling and well suggested, only the final act seems unreal.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18
“The author provides a rational explanation which is skillfully but not altogether convincingly worked out.”
+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 80w
“A thrilling story with a groundwork of common sense!... Instead of yielding to the easy trick of invoking the supernatural in order to gain his effect, the author skilfully erects a framework of logical explanation on which one may stand and enjoy the spectacular climax without danger of doing his intelligence injury.”
+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 180w
“Some readers may think the story rather long-drawn-out and tedious here and there. But it has the merit of originality in its treatment, if not in its main theme of reincarnation, and in general is of the thrilling stuff of which ‘best sellers’ are made.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:447 N 4 ‘17 610w
+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 30w
“Appeared in McClure’s Magazine, v. 49, May-Oct. 1917.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:751 N ‘17 20w
“But the air of mystery and suspense surrounding the reincarnation theory is sustained until the very close, where a wholly plausible clue brings us breathlessly but safely back to sunlight on terra-firma.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 280w
“Cleverly exploits the theory of reincarnation and blends the materialistic present with the mysteries and superstitions of antiquity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 300w
=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Little world apart. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-7457
A novel made up of little things. Applethwaite is a country parish that constitutes a little world in itself. The great lady of the neighborhood, the vicar and his family, the farm folk and the serving maids all have a place in the story, so that at its close one feels very well acquainted with all Applethwaite. Into this little world comes a strange woman from the world outside to make friends with the vicar’s family and start tongues a-wagging. In its ending there is a touch of sadness, but the sadness is tinged with hope. Victoria is queen at the time of the story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 170w
“One does not read of Applethwaite for the sake of its plot or plots, but for the sheer joy of tarrying and gossiping there. Like ‘Cranford’ and ‘Old Chester tales,’ ‘A little world apart’ is ‘rich in veined humanity.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 450w
“A most delightful account of life in a country village in, presumably, the ‘eighties’ of the last century. The character drawing is most delicately finished, and the author has a fresh and discriminating sense of humor.”
+ =Spec= 118:210 F 17 ‘17 30w
“The author has a happy faculty of characterization, and it is to be regretted that he did not have a stronger center for his story.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 140w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w
“Some very good character portraiture.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:222 Jl ‘17 40w
=STEVENSON, WILLIAM YORKE.= At the front in a flivver. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 940.91 17-25614
The preface tells us that the author left a newspaper position in Philadelphia in 1916 to offer his services to France as driver of an ambulance. “He kept a rough diary which, as the occasion offered, he forwarded to his people. ... These notes are here published almost as jotted down.” The scene of his experiences was in the neighborhood of the Somme.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“No heroics or exaggeration mar this simple humorous record.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 60w
“Freshly written.”
+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 300w
+ =N Y Times= 22:453 N 4 ‘17 570w
=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 50w
“A document the very robustness and downright sincerity of which are a real joy to those who honestly want to be made to see.” Philip Tillinghast
+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 200w
“A strong vein of humor adds many lightening touches to the narrative. But in spite of these there is nowhere a denial of the seriousness of the situation confronting the Allies in their fight with the enemy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 30 ‘17 520w
=STEWART, BASIL.= On collecting Japanese colour-prints; being an introduction to the study and collection of the colour-prints of the Ukiyoye school of Japan. il *$2 (9c) Dodd 761 17-26875
The author states that because most books on Japanese prints have apparently been written from the historical or artistic point of view, they are of little use to the inexperienced collector. He has, therefore, written this book primarily for the beginner, and refers the reader who wishes fuller information to Ficke’s “Chats on Japanese prints” or Von Seidlitz’s “History of Japanese colour-prints.” “Mr Stewart gives a brief survey of the history and production of prints, mentioning only the better-known artists. In the cases of Hokusai and Hiroshige the various series, states, and editions are enumerated.” (Dial) “The illustrations are from the author’s collection, and are in keeping with the scope of the book. Both the blocks and the text are printed in a brown ink.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) There is a chapter on Japanese chronology as applied to the dating of prints.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
“It is an artistic book and will prove useful to students.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 730w
“‘On collecting Japanese colour-prints’ is intended for the amateur who is starting a collection, and as such it is a satisfactory handbook.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 120w
“Will be found especially useful in the detection of forgeries, imitations, and reprints. The translations of the script and signatures upon the prints illustrated are a praiseworthy feature of this volume.”
+ =Int Studio= 63:85 D ‘17 110w
“Mr Stewart has not anything really new to tell us, though his information is usually accurate and his views sound.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 650w
=STILES, PAULINE.= New footprints in old places. il *$2 (2c) Elder 914.5 17-25821
It is to Italy, and in particular to Rome, where the author spent a winter, that the greater part of this book of travels is devoted. Her travels date back to 1913 and 1914, August, 1914 bringing them to a close. Contents: En route to Rome; First days in our Roman home; Rome—The mother of nations; Roman holidays; Rome and a new year; We travel in the south; Spring comes to Rome; Last Roman days; We become Parisians; Touraine and Belgium; We encounter London; War and England. There are eighteen illustrations.
“Travel books written in diary form are usually avoided by the experienced reader; this one, however, is exceptionally well done, and is quite charming both in the joyous enthusiasm of its descriptive matter and in the well-printed photographic illustration.”
+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 40w
“Miss Stiles is a good letter writer, and there is nothing stilted in her word pictures of the most familiar places. Add to that fact that she saw some places that are not in the beaten track, and had the privilege of being a guest in various Roman houses where the mere tourist never goes, and the charm of the book is enhanced. Typography, illustrations, binding, all combine to make this a travel book above the average.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 230w
=STILES, PERCY GOLDTHWAIT.= Human physiology; a text-book for high schools and colleges. il *$1.50 Saunders 612 16-15031
“The announcement in the preface, the ‘purpose is to present concisely the accepted facts with only a limited description of the experiments by which these facts have been established,’ gives an idea of the scope and nature of the book. ... Little of historical importance is mentioned, the omission being purposeful.”—Science
“The book before us is an excellent attempt to provide a text-book for high schools. But, good as it is as an elementary account of the present state of physiological science, it cannot be regarded as altogether successful. It is apt to be dull and didactic rather than stimulating. ... It would be an improvement if a part of the wealth of the book in facts were sacrificed for a more intensive treatment of some of them. ... The book is remarkably free from errors.” W. M. Bayliss
+ — =Nature= 99:101 Ap 5 ‘17 880w
“On the whole, the book fulfills its particular purpose better than any other with which I am familiar. Writing such a book is a particularly difficult task, and the author has succeeded better than most. There are many new diagrams of unusual clearness.” F. H. Pike
+ =Science= n s 45:482 My 18 ‘17 670w
=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J. S. OF DALE, pseud.).= Light of Provence. *$1.25 Putnam 812 17-14539
This dramatic poem pictures troubadour life and the French court in the thirteenth century. The foreword states that the drama is entirely historical, though the character of Douce is partly imaginary and Adelais is compounded of Adelaide, Countess of Burlatz and Ermengarde, Countess of Narbonne. It also lists the authorities on which the drama is based. Mr Stimson seems to have worked over it for sixteen years and then kept it by him for twenty-one more before publishing it.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
“The plot traverses troubadour life at its best. ... By far the best portion of the play is the best in which troubadour courtly love is described. ... Mr Stimson’s diction is always good,—at times it is exquisite. ... But the last portion of the poem is too sanguinary to harmonize with the opening scenes.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ‘17 290w
“‘The light of Provence’ is ‘a dramatic poem,’ not a poetic drama; and as for historical accuracy, none but a pedant will demand it when the author knows his subject so well as to give the profounder accuracy of spirit. That is the great merit of this poem. The author has so ‘soaked’ himself in old Provence that, externally, he sees it and makes his reader see it as vividly as if it were now before the eyes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p378 Ag 9 ‘17 870w
=STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (J.S. OF DALE, pseud.).= My story; being the memoirs of Benedict Arnold. il *$2 (1c) Scribner 17-28796
Author and publisher have given to this book every mark of a genuine autobiographical work, yet have made no pretense that it is other than a work of fiction. It purports to be the life story of Benedict Arnold, written by his own hand, with the purpose of justifying his career in the eyes of the British king. Events of his public and private life are closely followed. He is represented as a Tory by nature, an aristocrat with no understanding of the more democratic aims of the revolution. To see the colonies self governing under the British king, was from the beginning his ideal, and the alliance with the British which has branded him as traitor appears to have been partly motivated by a desire to bring about this end.
“There is artistic mastery in the way in which the bumptious assertions of loyalty to ‘my King’ are followed by apparently half-unconscious expressions of pride in the achievements of the Americans. ... Arnold’s love story is touched upon with a simple tenderness that adds to the tragedy of the whole. And the revelation of his gradual tempting is a masterly piece of work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:465 N 11 ‘17 800w
“Arnold’s nature is admirably portrayed.”
+ =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 120w
“Though presented in the guise of a novel, one of the most important as well as most graphic historical books of the year.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 1300w
=STIRLING, YATES.= Fundamentals of naval service. il *$2 (1c) Lippincott 359 17-13524
This book “has been prepared to serve as a manual to those of our citizens who are interested in the United States navy and who may choose to serve their country on the water. ... The great increases in the personnel of the navy must be supplied in part from our inland states, where the navy and its work is little known; to the citizens of those states this book gives in a single volume information on naval matters possible to obtain only by the reading of many different volumes.” (Preface) The following special chapters have been contributed to the volume: The naval aeroplane, by Lieut. Comm. H. C. Mustin; Electricity in the navy, by Lieut. Comm. C. S. McDowell; First aid and hygiene, by Dr Ralph Walker McDowell.
“Short bibliographies at the head of the five parts into which the book is divided.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p522 O ‘17 360w
“A comprehensive up-to-date handbook.”
+ =Ind= 90:311 My 19 ‘17 40w
“Thanks to its clear print and thin Japan paper, ‘Fundamentals of naval service,’ despite its 564 pages, is a handy volume. As a piece of book work it reflects credit on its publishers. Commander Stirling’s facts are beyond question, and may be accepted; his opinions are his own. In professional matters they are sound, but we cannot always agree with him in those not professional, as, e.g., his advocacy of ship subsidies.”
+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 160w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 100w
=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 50w
“The same excellent method by which Captain Andrews dealt with military affairs in a small volume, recently issued by the Lippincott Company, is followed in ‘Fundamentals of naval service,’ brought out by the same house.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w
“Read by and published with the approval of the United States navy department, in which the author is an officer.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 70w
=STOBART, MABEL ANNIE (BOULTON) (MRS ST CLAIR STOBART).= Flaming sword in Serbia and elsewhere. il *$1.75 Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-19162)
Mrs Stobart, who had spent four years “on the free veldt of the South African Transvaal,” returned to London and offered a Woman’s unit to the Belgian Red cross, went to Brussels and was captured, together with her husband, by the Germans, and condemned to death. They escaped to London, but were back in Belgium in three weeks. “Arriving in Antwerp three weeks before the bombardment Mrs Stobart lost all her hospital material there, offered her services to the French Red cross, established herself at Cherbourg, worked there for four months, and then, in February, 1915, resolved to volunteer for Serbia, starting from Liverpool on April 1. The unit numbered forty-five. ... Most of the book is devoted to this final adventure and its sequel: the terrible march over the Albanian mountains to Skutari and the sea—‘through snow, ice, boulders, unbroken forest, mud-holes, bridgeless rivers.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If we had to choose between ‘The Anabasis’ and Mrs Stobart’s ‘Diary of the Serbian retreat’ the vote would be preponderatingly in favor of the latter, not only as a piece of literature, but as an account of difficulties surmounted, of bravery unexcelled, of human agony described, of cheerfulness in the most depressing circumstances, of adaptability when there would seem to have been almost no escape, of feminine practicality that won the admiration of the most sceptical. Amid all the literature called forth by the Great war this epic account of the Katabasis of the Serbians and of the hospital unit conducted by Mrs Stobart will best deserve to be a classic in the millenniums to come. ... It is the most telling document against war that the war has produced, it shows the horror of it, and it shows the futility of it. ... The book sparkles with wit and has amusing passages, and it fills one with admiration for its stories of gallant deeds of heroism—not in the taking of life, but in saving life.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1200w
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 90w
“Her graphic narrative and observations come to us with the weight of the best authority.”
+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w
“Much more than the usual narrative of war relief work. Hating war and all its methods supremely, she has done not a little thinking about it, especially about woman’s relations with it. ... Mrs Stobart was the first woman in history to mobilize and command a field hospital in war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 400w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 70w
“Mrs St Clair Stobart has written an admirable book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p636 D 28 ‘16 750w
=STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN.= Poems; collected by Ina Coolbrith. il *$1.25 Lane 811 17-21944
Miss Coolbrith states in her Foreword that in 1909, at Stoddard’s death, she volunteered to edit his poems “inclusive of the volume of verse published in 1867,” together with all that had appeared since, on the understanding that Mr Stoddard “had himself collected and arranged them for this purpose.” No such book was found among his effects, and as the files of local magazines and newspapers have been largely destroyed in the San Francisco fire of 1906, and no clue existed to non-local publications in which they might have appeared, Miss Coolbrith’s task has been a long, difficult one. Some of the poems in the volume are on the South Seas which Stoddard so loved, and some are on California. The book opens with tributes in verse by Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, Thomas Walsh, and Ina Coolbrith. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.
“Forty years ago William Dean Howells said of Charles Warren Stoddard’s prose writings that they had in them ‘the very make of the tropic spray, which knows not if it be sea or sun.’ The same elusive charm, at once refreshing and languishing, opulently rich and inexpressibly delicate, characterizes Stoddard’s poetry. ... In these poems we catch glimpses of the inner man even more revealing than any given in his other books.”
+ =Cath World= 105:822 S ‘17 700w
“Miss Coolbrith was a co-worker with Stoddard and Bret Harte on the staff of The Overland Monthly, and, as she is, herself, a lyricist of unquestioned merit, and laureate of ‘The golden state,’ crowned at the recent exposition, she is well equipt to judge which poems of all that Stoddard wrote should be collected and preserved. The volume includes the best of his verse, the famous ‘Bells of San Gabriel,’ ‘Tamalpais’ and the sonnet ‘Yosemite.’”
+ =Ind= 92:66 O 8 ‘17 100w
“There is singularly little that is antiquated about these poems, though some of them were dated from the early 60’s. Stoddard was a supreme artist in verse as well as in prose, and was well in advance of his time in his entire sincerity and lack of literary pose.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 600w
=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Present-day Europe: its national states of mind. map *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-14686
This book, the author states, is not a story of current events, but a study of “the war psychology of the various European nations.” It covers England, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, the Balkan states, Turkey, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Portugal. The author believes that “the only satisfactory method of portraying thought and emotion is the use of direct evidence,” therefore, he has quoted freely from contemporary speeches, press-comment, pamphlets, etc. The narrative takes us to the opening months of 1917.
=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17
“Throughout his investigation Mr Stoddard seems to have preserved a scrupulously scientific attitude of mind. Indeed it is impossible to determine from his book whether his sympathies are with Germany or with the Entente. Those who wish an intelligent understanding of the problems that will arise around the international council table when the nations meet to settle the terms of peace will find ‘Present-day Europe’ both informative and suggestive.” R. T. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 1200w
“The value of such a study depends on the judgment with which the excerpts are selected. Mr Stoddard’s judgment is excellent.”
+ =Nation= 105:434 O 18 ‘17 260w
“An extremely valuable work, valuable because its subject matter is in itself new, and has not been treated in the ordinary run of war literature. Of course, such a subject is extremely difficult to handle, and its accuracy cannot be more than loosely guaranteed. It is an approximation, but an approximation under the circumstances is the only thing possible.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 17 ‘17 570w
“There is a powerful lesson in this volume, and it comes directly from the people themselves.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 500w
“Dr Stoddard’s book is most interesting not in those passages wherein the author attempts by means of numerous citations of conflicting views to body forth contemporary public opinion, but rather in the purely historical parts. ... The author seems unable to do what a writer in close spiritual contact with the nations concerned could certainly do—that is, to give his readers some sure clue to the nature and motives of the prevailing national feeling. The result is a confusing medley of views.”
— =No Am= 206:482 S ‘17 470w
“In the chapters dealing with the greater nations only natives are allowed to testify; thus in the chapter on England only Englishmen speak, and in the chapter on France only Frenchmen. Not all observers of the conditions precedent to the war, however, will agree with this author’s conclusion that ‘everywhere ... the spirit of unrest was setting the stage for the final catastrophe, and that the catastrophe was ‘inevitable.’”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p42 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 56:107 Jl ‘17 250w
=STONE, GILBERT.= England from the earliest times to the Great charter. (Great nations ser.) il *$3 Stokes 942 (Eng ed 17-26257)
“The present volume, which is the first of a series, treats of the history of England from earliest times to Magna carta. In this period the English race was being evolved, and the English constitution, as we to-day know it, was slowly struggling into being. The volume, indeed, is concerned with the birth of the English state.” (Preface) The work aims to treat of the social history of the English people as well as of political events. The method adopted has been to insert chapters dealing solely with the condition of literature, art and society in certain periods. A list of important dates and an index complete the work. A book by the author on “Wales” was published in 1915.
“A solid and authoritative piece of work, drawn largely from secondary sources. ... It is well illustrated and good for reference, but is not very readable.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17
“Mr Stone has chosen a fascinating and extensive period of great historical value; he treats it fully from various points of view, and the illustrations, which are plentiful and well selected, will be of great use to his readers.”
+ =Ath= p53 Ja ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:23 F ‘17
“Through the mazes of Anglo-Saxon history Mr Stone, like everybody else, follows the unfailing guidance of Mr Plummer. ... This is the only chapter in which his readers have reason to complain that he has failed to make use of recent advances in historical criticism. This part of the book is marked by a knowledge of Welsh history which few, if any, of Mr Stone’s rivals have possessed, and he is able to throw fresh light upon some obscure incidents and questions. ... He is, throughout, specially happy in his exposition of legal conditions and legal reforms, and these passages, and his chapters on manners and customs, are always fresh.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p620 D 21 ‘16 450w
=STONE, GILBERT=, ed. Women war workers. il $1.65 (3c) Crowell 940.91 (Eng ed 17-21956)
In her foreword to this book Lady Jellicoe says: “The truth is, this is not a ‘men’s war,’ as wars have been hitherto, but one in which both sexes must share the burdens and responsibilities.” In these accounts, contributed by representative workers among British women in the more important branches of war employment, we learn of work done in munitions, on the land, as postwomen, as bank clerks, as butcher-boys (“Delivering the goods”). The second part of the book, entitled “Works of mercy” discusses nursing at the front and in the V. A. D. (Volunteer aid detachments) hospitals, the cheering of the men by entertainments and constructive work for the disabled, etc., and welfare work among the women. Chapter 11 is a tribute to the women of Paris during the German advance and chapter 12 contains most valuable information on war organizations for the 600,000 new paid industrial women workers and the enormous army of volunteers. These last include those of Queen Mary’s needlework guild, those with the Vegetable products committee (whose 40,000 women volunteers supply the fleet and the naval hospitals with fresh vegetables), the workers at the Soldiers and Sailors buffet (at the Victoria railway station, London), and many others. The book lacks an index.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17
“The facts throughout should receive all possible publicity, though some of the deductions and thoughts regarding the future are rather superficial and shortsighted.”
+ — =Ath= p357 Jl ‘17 120w
“Employers of women, also, will gather from representative worker writers valuable hints for the preservation of their employees’ health and strength.”
+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 160w
“The women war-workers of England, from V.A.D. nurse to munition maker, have so often been held up in a semi-heroic pose that it is refreshing to have in a volume written by the women themselves, a purely human picture. A really eloquent, vivid, and closely knit description of nursing at the French front is given by Grace Ellison.”
+ =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 390w
“The book not only offers entertainment, but has value and interest as an offhand sketch of some of the results of the great war that may have consequences of the greatest social importance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 510w
+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 120w
=STONER, WINIFRED SACKVILLE.= Manual of natural education. il *$1 (2½c) Bobbs 370.1 16-20505
A note says that this book is meant to be used in connection with “Natural education” and “Facts in jingles.” It is a book of methods and devices. Among the chapters are: What is natural education; The natural education book shelf; How to use the natural educational tools; Training the physical part of the child’s trinity; Character building; Requirements for natural educational schools.
“A valuable book for parents and teachers, for the ideas are not only in line with those of other advocates of naturalism in education, such as Rousseau and Mrs Johnson of Fairhope, Ala., but are practical, although frequently expressed too concisely.”
+ =Cleveland= p149 D ‘16 50w
=Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 40w
“There is really nothing added here to what she said in her first book, nor, it may be added, has she given to the science of education anything new. ... This book should be read by all mothers and teachers, because they will get from it some of Mrs Stoner’s exuberant enthusiasm for the noblest work in the world—the proper upbringing of our children.” R. F. Zametkin
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 330w
=STOURM, RENÉ.= Budget; Thaddeus Plazinski, tr., Walter Flavius McCaleb, ed. (Institute for government research. Studies in administration) *$3.75 Pub. by Appleton for the Institute for government research 336.44 17-19729
“This is the second volume published for the Institute for government research, the first being ‘The financial administration of Great Britain.’” (Survey) The translation is from the seventh edition of “Le budget” (Paris, 1913). There is a foreword by the editor, who is dissatisfied with the translation; an introduction by Charles A. Beard, and an author’s preface. “The book is an extremely minute historical and critical study of the French budget system, with some consideration of the systems of other countries.” (Springf’d Republican) Two introductory chapters are on The budget and The budgetary prerogative. The author then divides the subject-matter into four parts: part 1, Preparation of the budget; part 2, Voting the budget; part 3, Execution of the budget; part 4, Control of the budget.
“The best book on the subject in English. This translation is better than the French original for American readers because of the careful editing and notes.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:146 F ‘18 300w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 50w
“No book has been more influential in bringing to their present high efficiency the financial systems of the western European nations. ... It will undoubtedly become a force in the gradual reshaping of public opinion on more wholesome lines.”
+ =Dial= 63:459 N 8 ‘17 400w
“The translator has performed his difficult task fairly well, while the editor has corrected a few mistakes made by the author in his description of American budgetary procedure.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:856 O ‘17 60w
+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 20w
“The editor of the series says in a frank and highly commendable foreword that he is not satisfied with the translation, and his judgment is borne out by an examination of the work. ... The very mass of details all but obscures the underlying principles, but the abstract and awkward translation may be partly responsible for this impression. ... In its present form, the work will be of little assistance to American political scholarship or to practical politics.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 150w
“For many years Stourm’s ‘Le Budget’ has been the standard work in this field. Those who teach public finance in our colleges will welcome it in English. ... Outside of academic circles it should be widely read because it contains the best account of the evolution of budgetary systems and sets forth in detail the problems encountered in France, many of which have been not unlike our own. The difficult tasks of translator and editor have been fairly well done.” H. A. Millis
+ =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 100w
=STRAHAN, SPEER, and O’DONNELL, CHARLES LEE=, comps. Notre Dame verse. *$1 Notre Dame book store, Notre Dame, Ind. 811.08
“Some of the best of the poetry that has been written in past years by the students of Notre Dame university has been gathered into a small volume by Speer Strahan and Charles L. O’Donnell, C. S. C., and published with the modest title ‘Notre Dame verse.’” (Lit D) “Some famous names are included in the list of contributors. Charles Warren Stoddard is here, with his inimitable ‘Lahaina,’ and his ‘Indiana’; Maurice Francis Egan with an exquisite sonnet, ‘An eventide’; Father Charles L. O’Donnell offers four beautiful selections, one a quatrain of the sort that the lamented Father Tabb was wont to write; Speer Strahan is also represented, whose verse is well known, ... and two or three others, perhaps not quite so familiar.” (Cath World)
“It is the spirit of the writings herein gathered that appeals; the uniform sense of high ideals, of nobility in aspiration that is refreshing.”
+ =Cath World= 106:262 N ‘17 270w
“It is an admirable collection.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1176 Ap 21 ‘17 360w
Straight road. il *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13077
The familiar story of the woman alone is retold in this novel. Callie Baird leaves her husband and goes out into the world to make a living for her child. Her marriage had been doomed to failure from the first, for it had been arranged by her mother after the ruthless breaking off of a boy and girl love affair. She meets both harshness and kindness at the hands of men and women. She comes into contact with more than one man who looks on her as legitimate prey, but she finds the other kind too, and finally there is a meeting with the old girlhood lover. This happens under dramatic circumstances, while Callie is working as a hop picker on a ranch owned by his father. The scene of the story is California and the events related in the closing chapters bear a close resemblance to occurrences at Wheatland a year or so ago.
“The anonymous novel which has been published serially in McClure’s Magazine has aroused considerable comment already. ... There is no doubt whatever that the magazine desires it to be understood that it is the record of actual experience. It is just as absolutely true that it is constructed with very apparent knowledge of novel construction. ... It is by no means a great story, but it is very strong in human interest. Its force comes from the frankness of the personal confession in it.” D. L. M.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 660w
“The story of the strike itself is told with conviction. And the woman’s experiences before she becomes a hop-picker, her struggles to earn a living and keep straight in a world dominated by the predatory male, seem to be real adventures and not special pleading. It is a book which any good craftsman would be willing to sign, and I cannot see the reason for anonymity.” J: Macy
+ — =Dial= 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 310w
“When the end of the book is nearly reached, there comes an interesting episode. This is Callie’s short experience as a hop-picker on the Las Palmas ranch.”
— =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 350w
“The principal characters are skilfully sketched and the heroine’s little boy is delightful. If the story is impressionistic and discursive, and the sex theme unpleasantly insistent, the incidents are well conceived, and the writing brisk and interesting.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 350w
=STRAUS, NATHAN.= Disease in milk; the remedy: pasteurization; the life work of Nathan Straus, by Lina Gutherz Straus. 2d ed, rev and enl il *$2.50 Dutton 614.3 17-13812
This book, first published privately some years ago, is now presented in a revised and enlarged edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Nathan Straus’s establishment of pasteurized milk stations for the poor children of New York city. It tells what pasteurization is and does, gives the history of the struggle for pure milk in New York city and state and in Chicago, of milk work in Europe and America, of Mr Straus’s work in Palestine, of his tuberculosis preventorium for children, etc. Reprints of addresses, articles and letters by Mr Straus in furtherance of pasteurization take up 196 pages. There are also formulas, tables of statistics, a discussion of how far contaminated milk is to blame for infantile paralysis, and a detailed description of how milk may be pasteurized at home. There are many illustrations.
+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 70w
“It offers a compilation of facts and observations upon the subject of diseases and milk and how to combat them which all who are interested privately or publicly in the milk supply will be glad to have.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:257 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“Altogether the book is an inspiring record of the courageous, persistent and successful fight waged by Mr Straus.” Franz Schneider, jr.
+ =Survey= 39:72 O 20 ‘17 130w
=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and NORSWORTHY, NAOMI.= How to teach. *$1.30 Macmillan 371 17-4794
“This book includes a comprehensive summary of the psychological facts and principles which underlie effective method, as well as a series of specific suggestions to be observed in teaching. The scope of the book is well represented by the following topics: ‘The work of the teacher,’ ‘Original nature,’ ‘Attention and interest in teaching,’ ‘The formation of habits,’ ‘How to memorize,’ ‘The teacher’s use of imagination,’ ‘How thinking may be stimulated,’ ‘Appreciation,’ ‘The meaning of play in education,’ ‘The significance of individual differences,’ ‘The development of moral social conduct,’ ‘Transfer of training types of classroom exercises,’ ‘How to study,’ and ‘Measuring the achievement of children.’ ... Practically every chapter contains illustrations based on actual classroom practices.”—El School J
=A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17
“This book is thoroughly colored by the experimental work and educational philosophy of Dewey and Thorndike. The point of view of the former is elaborated in the chapter on ‘Thinking,’ and of the latter in the chapters on ‘Original nature,’ ‘Habit formation,’ ‘Transfer of training,’ and school tests. The chapter on ‘Measuring the achievements of children’ can hardly be said to be a representative statement of the testing movement.”
+ =El School J= 17:530 Mr ‘17 450w
“The most thorough and systematic treatment of the problems of general methods which has appeared during the past year. On account of the psychological background, which many of its discussions presuppose, this book is much better adapted to the mature or experienced teacher than to the beginner. It merits, however, a prominent place in the working library of each teacher.”
+ =El School J= 17:756 Je ‘17 220w
=N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 170w
=STREET, GEORGE EDMUND.= Unpublished notes and reprinted papers. il *$2.25 (3½c) Hispanic soc. of Am.; for sale by Putnam 726 17-8606
George Edmund Street was an English architect, associated with Burne-Jones and William Morris. In her biographical introduction, Georgiana Goddard King speaks of him as “a man who died more than thirty years ago, who lived a Tory and a high churchman, who worked to revive Gothic architecture in England.” He traveled extensively, studying the architecture of France and Italy. It is with these travels that the papers and notes in the present volume deal. An appendix gives notes on churches of northern Germany.
“The whole volume will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the subject of Gothic architecture in Europe or in the work of Street himself.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 6 ‘17 750w
“This volume is virtually the only printed memorial of the man, who at the time of his death, thirty-five years ago, was hailed as the greatest of British architects, the designer of the great Courts of justice in London, and the foremost exponent of the movement for the revival of the Gothic architecture in England.”
=R of Rs= 55:215 F ‘17 100w
“The travel notes are of general interest though shot through with architectural comment that makes chief appeal to the profession and the ecclesiologist. It is a valuable book, but not a particularly popular one.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w
=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= American adventures. il *$3 (2c) Century 917.5 17-30047
In quite the same vein as “Abroad at home.” There is let loose in these pages something of the hero-worshipper, a good deal of the sage and poet and a preponderance of the traveler who has a keen scent for historical and literary associations. Those who go a-journeying with Mr Street will cover the principal cities from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi. Traditions, great men, great deeds, memorials, scenery, atmosphere—these are the matters that concern the writer as he hunts out the strong, deep-rooted city entity. A suggestive foreword which likens the relationship of the South and the North to that of a pretty, sensitive wife to a big strong, amiable if somewhat thick-skinned husband furnishes a novel thought.
“They are sympathetic, delightful descriptions, with much information entertainingly treated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“The book suffers a little from an excess of reportorial matter. As in his first book, Mr Street reveals a lively humour and a faculty for looking at old things from new angles. In one respect, however, ‘American adventures’ is not up to the standard of ‘Abroad at home.’ In the earlier book the author wrote as if he were thoroughly at home in the middle west, and enjoyed his visit there. The later volume gives one an impression that Mr Street was not so much at home in the South, that it was very new to him, and that he did not altogether understand it.” A. M. Chase
+ — =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 250w
“As guests of the southern states the collaborators in pen and pencil courteously draw a fair portrait, and, in consequence, ignore some very fundamental facts not to the credit of southern civilization. How much the ‘expense account’ of which Collier’s Weekly, with its known southern attitude, assumed a part, had to do in influencing this easy reportorial indifference, one can only guess.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 240w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
“In a little foreword written with exquisitely fine feeling he speaks of the North’s lack of understanding of the South and urges more consideration for the feelings of that region. Mr Morgan’s illustrations catch the spirit and charm of the scenes he portrays.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 250w
“The work of a trained observer and a clever artist who set out to ‘make a book.’ The result is lively, interesting, but somewhat ‘newspaperish.’ It is a good book for stay-at-home travelers who would like to go South for the winter but can’t.”
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
“Written in the same mood of pleasant intimacy and irresponsible self-enjoyment as ‘Abroad at home.’ ... The serious minded tourist, who purposes to cover conscientiously the orthodox ‘sights’ of each city he proposes visiting would do better to trust to the meagre help of the inadequate American Baedeker. Mr Street would inevitably leave this type of person so sadly full of disillusions. The reason is quite simple: what he describes is less what exists in any given place than what he happens to think he finds there—a large part of which he brings with him.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 400w
“Many of the papers have appeared serially in Collier’s, but they have been amplified considerably for the present publication. Chief in interest, perhaps, among the additions are the letters which were called out from the South, either in contradiction or commendation, after the first appearance of the work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 24 ‘17 760w
=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN=,[2] and others. Immortality. *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 218 17-31042
A companion volume to “Concerning prayer.” The title-page describes it as “an essay in discovery, co-ordinating scientific, psychical, and biblical research.” In the first two essays and the first section of the third the attempt is made to set out in logical sequence the main arguments for the belief in personal immortality. The rest of the third essay, and essays four to six deal with the nature of the after life, and discuss the meaning and value for modern thought, of conceptions like resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. Essays seven and eight estimate judicially the elements of truth and error in spiritualism and in the doctrine of reincarnation, more especially in relation to the claims made on its behalf by modern theosophy. The ninth essay is an epilogue to the whole collection.
=Ath= p42 Ja ‘18 90w
“The essays are unequal in value but, in the main, are fresh and stimulating. The best, as also the most philosophic, thing in the book is A. Clutton-Brock’s essay.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 28 ‘18 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 29 ‘17 200w
=STRONG, THERON GEORGE.= Joseph H. Choate. il *$3 (3½c) Dodd 17-28096
Mr Strong, who is the author of “Landmarks of a lawyer’s lifetime,” divides his volume of nearly 400 pages into four sections: The New Englander; The New Yorker; The lawyer; The ambassador. The book does not pretend to be “a complete biography of Mr Choate, much less an authorized biography, which would naturally refer to subjects, domestic and social, to which the author does not allude.” (Introductory note) Mr Strong has had access to very full scrapbooks containing clippings from English and American newspapers kept by Mr Choate when he was ambassador. Mr Choate also placed the beginning of his reminiscences, consisting of family history carried only to the date of his birth, in Mr Strong’s hands, and “in several conversations gave him valuable information.” The book contains a number of illustrations and is indexed.
“The author’s division of Mr Choate’s long and brilliant career into four phases, each of which he treats separately, helps the reader to appreciate the many-sided variety of his character and achievement.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:328 N ‘17 330w
=Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 1300w
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 40w
“Mr Choate preserved ‘scrap-books’ which he turned over to Mr Strong. The result is necessarily a somewhat scrappy work. Meanwhile, Mr Strong must be thanked for bringing out of his storehouse of personal recollections and of available records, things new and old to quicken remembrance of the man whose personality was too vivid ever to be brought to print.”
+ — =Nation= 105:489 N 1 ‘17 330w
“While Mr Strong disclaims the purpose of writing a biography of Mr Choate that would be either authoritative or complete, he has made a study that is full of interest, that covers fairly well the several phases of his many-sided life, and that had, in some of its features, the assistance and authority of Mr Choate himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:435 O 28 ‘17 970w
“Mr Strong’s book will prove to be a valuable contribution to Americans for one thing alone if for no other. It collects Mr Choate’s ambassadorial addresses. Nothing of the kind we know of in English literature is more charming. The volume is a credit to its subject and to its author.”
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 170w
“His life, though not an ‘official’ biography, and though containing numerous errors of facts, gives one a good idea of the man and the lawyer.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 320w
=STROUSE, SOLOMON, and PERRY, MAUDE ALICE.= Food for the sick. *$1.50 Saunders 613.2 17-28335
This manual for physician and patient has been compiled by an associate attending physician and a dietitian at the Michael Reese hospital in Chicago. The authors state that their own experience has been supplemented by free use of current literature in textbooks and magazines. They attribute the planning of the chapter on Diseases of the heart to Dr Sidney Strauss and the outlining of that on Diseases of the skin to Dr Phillip F. Shaffner. The need for the book would seem to them to rest in the fact that “many diseases in which food plays an important role in treatment do not progress favorably because of the inability of the patient to grasp in terms of the kitchen what the physician says in terms of the laboratory.” (Introd.) The plan of the book therefore is to enable the patient and the physician to work together by making clear to the patient the “why” and the “how” of the diet needed. Each chapter is devoted to a single subject and the disease or condition is discussed in such a way as to make plain the reasons for the dietary rules which follow. Complete details for the diet are then given, with instructions in preparing foods and many menus. The first chapter is devoted to a description of the normal use of food and to lessons in practical application of food tables in building any kind of special menus. About one-fifth of the text is given to the dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus.
=STRUTHERS, MRS LINA (ROGERS).= School nurse. il *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 371.7 17-24218
This book has been written for school nurses. It is not designed as a complete text book, but is full of helpful suggestions and directions. A reading of the first chapters suggests that it might fill a need in a wider field. Particularly, it seems that it might be of value to women’s clubs that promote civic movements in their communities. Contents: Introduction; History; Organization; Staff rules; Administration; State regulations; School clinic; Out-door classes; Diseases; Tuberculosis; Debilitated children; Common physical defects; Carious teeth; The school nurse; Card system of reports. The book is provided with various maps and charts but lacks an index. The author has served as superintendent of school nurses in New York city and in Toronto.
+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘18 40w
+ =Cleveland= p10 Ja ‘18 40w
=El School J= 18:234 N ‘17 520w
+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 70w
Reviewed by S. L. Jean
+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 420w
=STUART, FLORENCE PARTELLO.= Adventures of Piang, the Moro jungle boy. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25285
It has been the author’s purpose to do justice to the Moro, the highest type native to the Philippines. The volume is called “a book for old and young” and it is evidently her hope that in addition to the children who will enjoy the stories, many older people will read it for the information it contains. It is based on her own experience as a resident of the lower Philippines, supplemented with information from authoritative sources. The book is made up of ten short stories, some of which are reprinted from St Nicholas, What To Do, and Boys’ World. There are striking black and white illustrations by Ellsworth Young.
=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18
+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 50w
“These tales are packed full of information about the customs, beliefs and way of living of the Moros. ... And the adventures are quite exciting enough to rejoice the heart of any normal boy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 450w
“A book that will be valuable to readers of all ages. Boys, however, will especially appreciate the adventures of the lively young Moro. The illustrations are so telling and effective that they greatly add to the charm of this book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 150w
=STUCK, HUDSON.=[2] Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries; a narrative of summer travel in the interior of Alaska. il *$4.50 Scribner 917.98 17-30733
“This book of Archdeacon Stuck’s is quite complete in itself. But it is written as a supplement and complement, the author points out, to ‘Ten thousand miles with a dog sled,’ and the two volumes form a full survey of Alaskan travel through the year. The present volume is devoted to the Yukon voyages, and the second to the tributaries—‘side-streams,’ as the river men call them, though they are anything but mere ‘streams’ as we use the word. He writes of the Klondike rush for gold. He has a full account of the work of the Canadian northwest mounted police in the Yukon territory. He writes of the cities that grew up overnight in the ‘boom’ times, and of their fate. He tells us of the rivers themselves, their history. He has much to say of the Indians. He writes of the schools of Alaska, and of the teachers, and of ‘compulsory English’ for the Indians. His book has in it sociology and economics, history, description, personal experience, and narrative.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
“When a vigorous, widely traveled and broadly read man like Archdeacon Stuck writes about a subject with which he is thoroughly familiar by years of contact, the result reasonably may be a diverting book; but Bishop Stuck adds to these qualities the gift for picturesque phrase and original thought.” W. A. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 1150w
“‘Voyages on the Yukon and its tributaries’ is a notably interesting presentation, informative, never pedantic; rich in description, history, legend, yet never altogether objective, for it is tinged warmly throughout with the author’s personal experience, opinion, thought. It is in its personal quality that much of the absorbing charm of the book, as a piece of writing, lies.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 670w
“A thoroughly well made and extremely readable book.”
+ =Outlook= 117:615 D 12 ‘17 60w
=STUNTZ, HOMER CLYDE.= South American neighbors. 60c Missionary educ. movement 16-14106
“This book, although confessedly written ‘in the crowded hours of a busy year,’ accomplishes very well the purpose of the author, namely, to present for the use of mission-study classes the great problems lying before our missionaries in the South American field. ... Although necessarily brief and incomplete, the author very interestingly reviews the resources of South America, its fascinating history, the reasons for its slowness of development, some of the great missionary pioneers, and the outstanding problems of religion, education, and morals which are confronting statesmen and missionaries alike. He shows the inadequacy of the prevailing religion, and brings out clearly the paralyzing effects of the system of vast landed estates and the low position assigned to woman in society. He presents also some very interesting comparisons between North America and Latin America in history, purposes and life.”—Am J Theol
“He raises many questions, political, educational, industrial, religious—questions which many people have not realized, and which are yet deserving of careful study.” L. T. H.
+ =Am J Theol= 21:158 Ja ‘17 260w
“To those whose knowledge of South America is meager this little volume will serve as an excellent introduction. A good map and a select bibliography are given at the end of the volume.”
+ =Bib World= 49:185 Mr ‘17 80w
=Survey= 37:587 F 17 ‘17 40w
=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Random reflections of a grandmother. *$1 (5½c) Houghton 814 17-28913
A book of reflections and reminiscences from the pen of a woman who has just discovered that grandmothering is a distinct occupation. She is one of the modern up-to-date grandmothers, very different from the person who used to sit in the chimney corner with her knitting, with a soft white fichu over her shoulders and a priceless lace cap on her silvery hair. It worries the writer somewhat that she cannot live up to this picture, until it occurs to her that after all the modern grandchild wouldn’t care for that kind of a grandparent. The reflections touch on many subjects.
“She writes with the true valiant heartiness of the woman to whom the world is a place for courage and laughter.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 6 ‘17 1450w
“A book of whimsical humor, of gay comment, and bright and lovable criticism, a little book full of chuckles and common sense.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:462 N 11 ‘17 1000w
“There is a light touch for every chapter, and once or twice a paragraph that brings a catch to the voice if one is reading aloud. The book is well adapted for such reading and seems likely to receive it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 220w
=STURTEVANT, EDGAR HOWARD.= Linguistic change. *$1 (2c) Univ. of Chicago press 409
This book, which has grown out of lectures to the author’s students in Columbia university, is intended to serve as an introduction to the historical study of language. It consists of the following chapters: Introduction on the nature of language; Primary change of form; Secondary change of form; Change of meaning; Change in vocabulary; Change in syntax; Language and dialect; The trend of linguistic development.
“It is a pleasure to call attention to a thoroly sound book for use by university students who are taking seriously the study of philology and linguistics. ... We know of no better way for the student of linguistics to begin his acquaintance with that interesting subject than by mastering Professor Sturtevant’s book.”
+ =Educ R= 54:529 D ‘17 80w
=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Inner door. il *$1.35 Century 17-20669
“Sylvia Percival, twenty-two years old, is left sole owner of the Consumer’s rubber company. Charming, delicately bred, shrinking from all unpleasantness, Sylvia is quite content to leave affairs in the willing hands of Pethick, the capable but unscrupulous manager of ‘the works,’ and goes to France, to visit her cousins. On her return, she is to marry Kenneth Landon, whom she loves, and who loves her. Soon after Sylvia goes, Kenneth’s father loses everything, and young Landon suddenly finds himself penniless. His great idea then comes to him. He will go to work incognito in Sylvia’s factory. He will learn the secrets of ‘the works,’ and emerge at the end of the year, a friend of the operatives, and thus be able to help Sylvia more practically than he else could have done in that work of uplift he has no doubt she will be as anxious as he to carry on. He learns more quickly than he could otherwise have done, because of his friendship with Sohmer, the socialist leader and philosopher. He goes to board at the Sohmers. And here Greta comes into his life: Greta, whose vivid personality is the epitome of love’s need of ‘giving.’”—Adapted from Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“It is seldom that a novel presenting so keen a study of the eternal warfare between labor and capital has so poignant a romantic interest. Usually one or the other is sacrificed. ... The skill with which the story is wrought is admirable. ... Among the most effective bits of an always artistic method, are the contrasting descriptions and their subtle influence upon Sylvia, of the grim Canadian town, where her betrothed is waiting for her and the picturesque districts of the Riviera, into whose delights she and her Parisian cousins are initiated by the cosmopolitan of parts, Philippe Amaro.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 620w
“The weak point in execution is the character drawing. Sylvia is perhaps the most lifelike. Certainly, in spite of her open-eyed selfishness, she is a much less unpleasant character than Greta. Sohmer is simply unreal, either as a symbol or as a man. It is a pity such defects detract from what might have been a novel of considerable power.”
– + =Cath World= 106:410 D ‘17 400w
“The author has presented only the more obvious questions in the conflict between labor and capital, the more obvious conflict between real and fancied romance in the heart of his hero, and he has thrown about them a sentimental glamour that no amount of forceful writing can conceal. The book is a good example of the so-called better type of American novel with which the general reading public is wont to satisfy itself.”
+ — =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 140w
“The romance, which is depicted on a background of factory life, labor grievances, and strikes, seems artificial and unnatural.”
– + =Lit D= 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w
“‘The inner door’ is a door of revelation through which the youth of the story passes from good-humored acceptance of the world as a pleasant place to knowledge of it as a world of fellow-men. ... The story has no striking novelty of material.”
=Nation= 105:248 S 6 ‘17 210w
“Those writers about labor who have not themselves been laborers or in constant close touch with the labor movement invest their subject with a glamour quite absent to the accustomed eye. ‘The inner door’ offends deeply in this particular. ... The leader of the striking laborers is a type of man that never could be anything in a modern labor union but an eccentric ‘character,’ loved, perhaps, by his fellows, but never followed where serious issues are at stake. The hero ... is another impossible creation ... and his fiancée, the owner of the factory in which he works, is in every way his complement. ... The capitalists in the book are much better drawn than are their employés. Perhaps Mr Sullivan knows them better. ... His plot and incident are fairly well worked out.” D: P. Berenberg
– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 560w
“Although it is with Sohmer and his daughter that Mr Sullivan’s sympathies evidently lie, he has done much better work in his sketches of pretty, pleasure-hungry Sylvia, her relations, the Percivals, and the delightful old Comtesse.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 510w
=SUPPLE, EDWARD WATSON=, ed. Spanish reader of South American history; ed. with notes, exercises, and vocabulary. (Macmillan Spanish ser.) il *$1 Macmillan 468 17-2333
“The editor is instructor in Spanish in the Sheffield scientific school at Yale.” (St Louis) “This book contains selections from Latin-American authors dealing with episodes in their history, such as the death of Atahuallpa the Inca; the campaigns of Bolivar and San Martin, who drove out the Spaniard; and the sea fight off Iquique between the Peruvians and Chileans in 1879. The text is carefully annotated, with a vocabulary and maps.” (Spec)
=Ind= 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:325 S ‘17 10w
“Has clear maps and interesting illustrations.”
+ =School= R 25:303 Ap ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 90w
=SURETTE, THOMAS WHITNEY.= Music and life; a study of the relations between ourselves and music. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 780.4 17-11124
A collection of essays on music, reprinted in part from the Atlantic Monthly. The book as a whole makes a fine and vigorous plea that music be accepted as a part of life rather than one of its ornaments or decorations. In his conclusion the author sums up the matter: “The relation between music and life is an intimate and vital relation. Any person, young or old who does not sing and to whom music has no meaning, is by just so much a poorer person in all that goes to make life happy, joyous and significant. Any community which employs no form of musical expression is by just so much inarticulate and disorganized as a community. Any church that buys its music and never produces any of its own loses just so much in spiritual power.” Contents: What is music; Music for children; Public school music; Community music; The opera; The symphony (two chapters).
“The chapters on ‘Public school music’ and ‘Community music’ are noteworthy, and there is some helpful discussion of the possible influence of music upon American life.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17
=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w
=Cleveland= p125 N ‘17 60w
“Professor Surette is one of the most enthusiastic and successful leaders in the community music movement.”
=Ind= 90:595 Je 30 ‘17 40w
“He fails dismally in his attempt to prove that the German classical symphony is a coherent work of art instead of a mere suite of four incoherent pieces. There is a sensible chapter on opera, but by far the most valuable pages in this volume are concerned with Music for children, Public-school music, and Community singing. On these things Mr Surette speaks as an expert and an authority.” H: T. Finck
+ — =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 170w
=Ontario Library Review= 1:111 My ‘17 40w
“The chapter on music for children should interest all parents.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:177 Je ‘17
“He does not tear down without building up. Everywhere he offers remedial measures.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 4 ‘17 500w
=SUTHERLAND, SAMUEL JAMES.= Reserve officers’ handbook. il *$1.25 Houghton 355 17-18055
The author is a captain in the Twenty-third infantry, U.S.A., who has served as company commander at Plattsburg, as a member of the examining board for reserve officers, and as lecturer to applicants for commissions. He covers clearly and concisely administration and organization, small arms firing, field service regulations, topography, military law and miscellaneous topics, and reprints from the “Infantry drill regulations” of the United States army such extracts as are essential to the reserve officer, with corrections to January 9, 1917.
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:695 O ‘17 10w
=Pratt= p15 O ‘17 40w
“Clear and concise.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 20w
=SWANSON, MARGARET.= Needlecraft in the school. il *$1.50 Longmans 646 E17-742
This manual on needlecraft is divided into three sections. The first deals with sewing for children under 12 years and provides a section on boys’ sewing. Section 2 outlines work for those over 12 and includes millinery. Section 3 covers a course for the training college student. The work is very fully illustrated, with several full page pictures in color. Professor John Adams of the University of London writes an introduction in which he says, “A striking characteristic of the book is the appreciation of the child’s point of view. ... Students of Mr Macdougall’s ‘Social psychology’ will find in these pages many illustrations of the manipulation of instincts in the interests of education.”
“Stimulating in spite of possible criticism.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18
“Miss Swanson hails from the Glasgow school of art, where needlecraft flourishes as a vital force, and her name with that of Miss Macbeth of the same institution has already appeared on another of Messrs Longmans’ books on the subject, ‘Educational needlecraft,’ the scope of which is different from that of the present volume.”
+ =Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 400w
“It has 130 pages with large clearly rendered illustrations, six of which are in color. ... While some of the designs will not meet the approval of American taste, others will, and all are suggestive.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
“The wide range of subjects which may be grouped under the name ‘needlecraft,’ and their educational use, are here put before the reader in an interesting, we might well say an arresting, manner. ... This book will be of use to amateur teachers as well as to professional teachers and students.”
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w
=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$2 (4c) Putnam 17-13753
This volume is made up largely of extracts from the letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Mrs Disney Leith’s recollections of her cousin, amplified from an article that appeared in the Contemporary Review in 1910, serve as an introduction. The letters date from 1855 on, but are not arranged in strict chronological order, as the editor has endeavored to arrange them somewhat by subject, grouping together those relating to distinguished persons, foreign travel, his work, etc. Many of them are family letters addressed to his mother and sisters.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 1400w
“A first feeling of disappointment comes when one discovers, at page 38, that the recollections are finished. The disappointment is a compound of surprise at their short length and mild anger at their lack of interest. ... The remaining 218 pages are given to letters of little or no interest, which contain no particularly valuable references to people or events. The whole volume contains practically nothing that Mr Gosse has not presented in his recent biography.”
— =Dial= 63:275 S 27 ‘17 240w
=Ind= 92:64 O 6 ‘17 850w
+ =Nation= 105:206 Ag 23 ‘17 200w
“It is his devotion to his mother that seems to have been the sustained absorbing passion of his life. ... The Swinburne that Mrs Leith’s volume reveals is an altogether lovable sort of being, as different as possible from the traditional caricature that passes for a genuine portrait of the poet.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:240 Je 24 ‘17 1100w
“It seems as if the letters, in particular, had been selected partly with a view to counteracting any conception that the general public may still retain of Swinburne as a morbid, hyperaesthetic or extravagantly eccentric man. ... But if one is unaffected by the mythical and anecdotal view of Swinburne—if what one chiefly wants is greater insight into the poet’s art and his ways of thinking and feeling, the present volume may prove unsatisfying.”
+ — =No Am= 206:314 Ag ‘17 800w
“Where may one begin or stop in the attempt to convey some idea of the contents, the interest, and the charm of so wholly delightful a book?”
+ =Sat R= 123:392 Ap 28 ‘17 800w
“Mrs Disney Leith’s reminiscences of Swinburne in boyhood, and the letters to his mother and sisters extending over a period of nearly fifty years, form a most valuable supplement, and to a certain extent a corrective, to Mr Gosse’s memoir.”
+ =Spec= 118:491 Ap 28 ‘17 550w
“A very delightful volume and a necessary supplement to Edmund Gosse’s recent biography.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 1100w
“The letters, just because they are so unexpected, help us to understand him. He was a boy to the last.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 830w
“It is hardly fair to compare the personal recollections of Mrs Disney Leith with the work of an experienced biographer like Mr Gosse; but, if the blunt truth must be told, her account of the poet in his family relations is both thin and dull, and adds nothing to our knowledge. ... Under her cautious shears everything that might make the poet a vital figure is shorn away.” C. B. Tinker
— =Yale R= n s 7:195 O ‘17 850w
=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Posthumous poems; ed. by Edmund Gosse and T: James Wise. $2.50 P. R. Reynolds, 70 5th av., N.Y. 821 17-22667
“In his preface Mr Gosse tells us that the earliest of these poems was written in 1857, the latest in 1907. Among them are eleven Border ballads, written probably in the early ‘sixties,’ and these are the most interesting part of the book. Mr Gosse explains why they have not been published before. ... Mr Gosse prints the poem on The discovery of the North-west passage, with which Swinburne competed for the Newdigate in 1858, but did not win it. ... There is also a long ode to Mazzini which Mr Gosse proves to have been written early in 1857.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The remaining poems included in the collection reflect various aspects of Swinburne’s genius and character. None is devoid of interest, some are curious, and several are beautiful.” (Spec)
“There is much in this volume which lovers of English verse would not willingly have let die.”
+ =Ath= p362 Jl ‘17 150w
“The ballads, take them all in all, are interesting bits of work, and they alone would have made the volume worth publishing. Of the miscellaneous poems which occupy the rest of the volume, two or three are parodies, and one—‘Pope Celestin and Count Giordano’—is an extremely clever imitation of Robert Browning, not a parody, for there is no exaggeration in it, but a piece of good Browingesque work. ... Among the shorter pieces there are several of considerable charm, such as ‘Echo,’ ‘Evening by the sea,’ and ‘Æolus.’”
* + – =Nation= 105:345 S 27 ‘17 2350w
+ =Sat R= 124:sup4 Jl 7 ‘17 570w
+ =Spec= 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1350w
“There is no poem in the book as good as his best; but the ballads reveal a power in him which was not fully revealed even in ‘A Jacobite’s exile.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p295 Je 21 ‘17 1100w
=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= Chaste wife. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-3573
There are some very pleasant and amusing people in this novel of English life. Its underlying theme is serious, concerning as it does the problem of adjustment between married lovers. Stephen Moore had known hardships and privation. His home life had been unhappy and he had carried the burden of support for his brother and sister and a good-for-nothing father. He had struggled upward to a position of prominence as a journalist and critic when he married Priscilla. Priscilla’s life had been one of sunshine and ease. In Stephen’s love for her there was an element of worship and in his mood of grave wonder and exaltation, it does not occur to him to tell her of the one dark incident in his past. It is not such a very dark incident either, but to Priscilla, with her simple and austere code of morals, it seems so. Sympathy and affection, and a sincere willingness to understand, help to solve her problem.
+ =Bellman= 22:442 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Mr Swinnerton writes so close to life itself that in our memory of his book it is not the story as a whole that stands out, but rather scenes, details and characters that beckon us irresistibly. It is the people rather than what they do that absorbingly interest us.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 1150w
“Since the publication, a couple of years ago, of ‘The happy family,’ Frank Swinnerton has had a place on that comparatively brief list made up of the novelists who really count. This new story, however, is better than the earlier one, clever as that was.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 850w
=SWOPE, HERBERT BAYARD.= Inside the German empire, in the third year of the war. il *$2 (3c) Century 940.91 17-3466
A book based on a series of articles written for the New York World in 1916 during a three months’ stay in Germany. The author had visited Germany soon after the beginning of the war and he gives interesting contrasts between the two periods. At the time of the first visit the German motto was “Siegen” (conquer); now it is “Durchhalten” (stick it out). He does not predict an early peace. Germany may be able to “stick it out” for an indefinite time to come. He writes of: The four ways toward peace; The war’s objectives as Germany sees them; Liberalizing Germany; The spirit of the beleaguered empire; German hatred of America: its causes; The menace of the U-boat; Germany and the American president; Business behind the battle line; Captive Belgium and northern France, etc. In few books written on the war has neutrality been so admirably preserved.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:309 Ap ‘17
“Though many of his opinions must be discounted by the Russian revolution and America’s entry into the war, his book deserves thoughtful scrutiny.”
+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 150w
“In reading both Mr Swope and Mr Curtin one feels that they tell the public what in their opinion the public wants to know. The result is a somewhat onesided picture, though it is a fascinating one.”
+ — =Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 330w
“His conclusions about Belgium we must regard, at best, as hasty. But of Germany herself, Mr Swope is in a position to be well informed. ... Mr Swope has much to tell that is interesting and new to us—about public opinion, internal organization, the trends of political thought, and the probable leaders of the future. His point of view may not always be accurate in detail, but it is evident that he is a shrewd observer, and a fair judge of the signs of the times.” R. M.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 650w
“The tone of his writing is dispassionate and without bias.”
+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 80w
“It gives Americans a view of the German people, which in vision, lack of bias, and kindly feeling could hardly be surpassed.”
+ =Dial= 63:29 Je 28 ‘17 450w
“Questions, of immense interest to the rest of the world, are answered in this highly interesting, well-written volume by a trained American journalist.”
+ =Lit D= 54:418 F 17 ‘17 500w
“It has been many a day since the appearance of so vital an account of contemporary German life and thinking as Herbert Bayard Swope offers in his book. ... Most promising for the future is his conviction that the war will permanently liberalize German social and political conventions.”
+ =Nation= 104:244 Mr 1 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:30 F ‘17
“Always bearing in mind the presence of the censor—for the author made his notes during a residence in Germany undertaken for that very purpose—we have here the sanest and most reasonable appearing digest of conditions in the German empire that has yet been made public.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 F 18 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:18 Ja 21 ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:210 Mr ‘17 60w
“Some useful information, mingled with much that is doubtful, about the state of Germany during last autumn may be found in Mr Swope’s new book. ... Yet the book is of interest, especially as a warning that Germany is by no means exhausted or penitent and that the Allies have a very great deal more to do before they conquer.”
+ — =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 130w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 650w
“Conceiving that the office of a reporter is to report and not to judge, he diligently repeats what he has been told by Herr Zimmermann and others and gives us the official German picture of contemporary German conditions. There is no evidence that he has observed anything for himself, or even that he has read the German papers. From a file of Vorwärts, or even the Berliner Tageblatt, one could easily refute his propositions in detail. ... ‘Rich and poor,’ writes Mr Swope, ‘fare alike.’ That also is untrue. The Socialists arise and say so, giving chapter and verse for their statements, as often as the Reichstag and the Landtag meet.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p170 Ap 12 ‘17 580w
“Rather expensive for the small library considering that the conditions described are transitory.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
=SYMONS, ARTHUR.= Figures of several centuries. *$3 Dutton 804 17-13498
“The ‘figures’ in this collection of thoughtful and discriminative studies range from St Augustine to Baudelaire, from Villon and Donne to George Meredith and Sarojini Naidu, and from Flaubert and Ibsen to Charles Lamb and Emily Brontë.”—Ath
=A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17
“Mr Symons writes, as ever, with a deep sense of the seriousness of art as an expression of personality and the meaning of life, and with as deep a sense and appreciation of beauty. His devotion to beauty of style leads him astray sometimes in his relative appreciation of prose works and poetical works. Thus Ibsen and Whitman, in our opinion, scarce get their due in comparison with poets who were not their peers.”
+ =Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 110w
“Few things more acutely critical than the nine pages that he modestly calls ‘A note on the genius of Thomas Hardy’ are to be found in modern criticism. ... He gives us no less emphatic a view of the other writers. It is, however, no injustice to him to rest his case as a critic upon this brief glimpse of his insight into Hardy.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 1500w
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 40w
“Though Mr Symons is constantly bringing out books, none of the reviews and literary essays in the present one date within the past ten years; many of them are older than fifteen; one or two date back a quarter of a century; and some of them are early things recently—or less recently—retouched.”
=Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 250w
“His most unsympathetic essay treats of Ibsen. ... His most elaborate study is of the metrical accomplishments of Swinburne. The most subtle, penetrating, and intimate deals with John Donne.”
=Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 370w
“The reason why Mr Symons, one of the most sensitive among living critics, does not rank with the great critics, is easily found. His impressions are always recorded with exactness, and often with sober beauty. But they are the impressions of a critic who undervalues mere mind, who is not enough disturbed by its absence—see his essay on Swinburne—and who is deficient in moral insight—see the essay on Ibsen.” P. L.
+ — =New Repub= 10:379 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w
“It is eight years since the last publication in this country of a book by Arthur Symons. These random essays are not all of equal interest or value. But the book has in it much of loveliness, much of analysis, much of fine appreciation. It is to be welcomed heartily.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:233 Je 17 ‘17 500w
“In the study of Thomas Hardy, in a brief half-dozen pages, Symons has dissected and analyzed the novelist as story-teller, philosopher and psychologist in a piece of memorable and distinguished criticism.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 160w
+ =Sat R= 123:161 F 17 ‘17 1950w
“Sensitive Symons is, but not always sensible. At his best, when he is compact and restrained, he attains a combination of fresh insight and feeling expression that makes criticism a delight. In this collection he is often at his best. ... But Mr Symons in some of the later essays becomes the mere ‘enthusiast.’ And when he does he simply slops over.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 1200w
“These papers are for the most part short; but they are aimed so directly at the heart of the subject that in each case they seem to show us something we had missed before. And it is always done as the poet knows how to do it. ... Naturally we do not accept all that Mr Symons says; but we must consistently pay homage to the spirit in which he approaches these different writers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 D 21 ‘16 1800w
=SYMONS, ARTHUR.=[2] Tristan and Iseult. new ed *$1.25 Brentano’s 822 17-13960
“One of the oldest themes in literature engages the pen of Arthur Symons in his poetic drama, ‘Tristan and Iseult.’ The subject has been popular in all countries in all ages. It has appeared in Irish folk legends, in the English Arthurian cycle, and in the minnelieder of Gottfried von Strassburg.” (Springf’d Republican) The story is here presented as “a blank verse tragedy [in four acts] of the love triangle of Iseult of Brittany, Iseult of Ireland and Tristan the harper.” (Cleveland)
“The lines make an emotional appeal but are not equal in beauty to the prose of Symons’ essays.”
+ — =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w
“The finest piece of imaginative work that we have ever had from Arthur Symons. It has an enchantment that is hard to analyze. ‘Tristan and Iseult’ is ingenious and subtle; it is imaginative, too, and above all it has a personal soul.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:559 D 16 ‘17 930w
“Pleasant and skilful as is Mr Symons’s sensuous verse-making, neither emotionally nor in beauty of diction does the play attain the hights of which the theme is capable.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 220w
“In his effort to keep his characters ‘natural’ Mr Symons has robbed them of some Attic grandeur; in his respect for their grandeur he has robbed them of some Elizabethan humanity. For all that, he is too fine a critic and too subtle a craftsman in poetry not to have made a thing of beauty.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 D 20 ‘17 890w
=SYPHERD, WILBUR OWEN.= Bibliography on “English for engineers.” *25c Scott 620.7 16-15643
“[This is] a useful list of articles on technical writing arranged under such headings as the importance of good English, the teaching of English to engineering students, and the composition of various kinds of technical papers, reports, and contracts, with an appendix containing suggestions for the formation of a technical library. The bibliography does not pretend to be exhaustive; ... it does index a mass of material that the ordinary English teacher would have difficulty in finding.”—Nation
“The list of recommended engineering books includes no titles later than January, 1916. The compiler’s ‘Handbook of English for engineers’ (Scott, Foresman, 1913) is one of the best of its type.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:329 My ‘17
“In scope it is limited strictly to technical composition in the narrower sense, in which sense the word ‘English’ in the title is to be understood. Perhaps the most valuable sections are those referring to material on the use of technical terms and on the writing of specifications. ... If a second edition is called for, the compiler could add immensely to the value of the bibliography by including, with the same admirable organization, some scientific material such as that in the tentative, wholly unorganized, and yet valuable ‘Bibliography of scientific and technical writing,’ published February 1 by Professors Raymond, Atkinson, and Starbuck of the Iowa State college of agriculture.”
+ =Nation= 105:261 S 6 ‘17 320w
=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 40w
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=TABER, SUSAN.=[2] Optimist. *$1.30 (2c) Duffield 17-22703
Twelve short stories on modern themes. Contents: The optimist; Two feminists; The spoiled child; The sword; His brother’s story; The winter of her discontent; The patriot; Alethia; The wedding veil; A legacy; Easter morning; Alice in wonderland.
“The author has remarkable ability in setting forth the meaningful episodes in her characters’ lives. In her economical use of material, too, she is skilful, giving in considerably less than the usual space illuminating glimpses into the past and clever characterizations besides.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 100w
“Stories neither especially good especially poor in quality, make up this new volume by Susan Taber. Several of the tales are based upon rather clever ideas, but they are not very well developed.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w
=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Cycle of spring. *$1.25 Macmillan 891.4 17-6670
This play, which in its original Bengali was presented by the boys of the poet’s school at Bolpur, makes use of the device of a play within a play. A king who has just discovered his first gray hairs is overcome with the melancholy of old age. He neglects his affairs of state and chooses as his only companion a pundit who preaches the doctrine of resignation. Then a poet who sings the joy of life persuades him to witness a play he has written. This play is a merry allegory in which fleet-footed Youth pursues Old Age, unmasks him and finds him a sham. Age is only Youth disguised.
=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
“This reads throughout so obviously as a translation—we would almost say of the untranslatable—that it fails to give pleasure, and leaves but a vague impression. The translation of a mystical work calls specially for lucidity and exactness of phrase, and the translation of a poetical work also calls for dignity of style: this gives neither.”
— =Ath= p200 Ap ‘17 80w
“Like Tagore’s other plays, the volume contains many charming lyrics. It is pungent, too, with a growing spirit of irony; and one notes the passionate praise of activity, which is as essentially the Bengali poet’s message to the East, as contemplation and repose may be said to sum up his message to the West.”
+ =Cath World= 106:247 N ‘17 160w
“Charm and buoyancy the play undoubtedly had in the original, the reader feels, but also that the qualities were too elusive to catch and fix in an English translation.”
+ — =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 90w
“Tagore’s greatly overestimated wit, wisdom, mysticism, pleasantness, cast again their glamor. Considered as a play ‘The cycle’ lacks, however, complicating forces, and, therefore, development, characterization, interest, climax. It is chaotic art. Considered as poetry its lyrical interludes are mostly imperfect, meaningless, or prosy.”
— =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 160w
“I am not imperceptive of its cunning and winning ways; I am alive to something half-celestial in the daintiness, the sleekness, and the pliancy of its wavy and murmurous English. But my heart remains hard; I do not like books that put up their mouths to be kissed.” O. W. Firkins
— =Nation= 105:176 Ag 16 ‘17 290w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
— =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
“Not only do brightness and gayety inform the spirit of the book, but humor bubbles through it, and every now and then it sparkles with wit, wit that sometimes is sharply barbed for a thrust at some meanness in human nature.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:87 Mr 11 ‘17 500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:409 My ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 60w
“The Indian poet dramatist at his happiest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w
=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= My reminiscences. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 17-12485
This book does not pretend to be a complete biography. The author says, “It is as literary material that I offer my memory pictures. To take them as an attempt at autobiography would be a mistake. In such a view these reminiscences would appear useless as well as incomplete.” Most of the reminiscences are drawn from boyhood and early youth. The translator says that they were written and published in the author’s fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America in 1912.
=A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17
“Intrinsically interesting as a record of a life mostly passed amid surroundings unfamiliar to most European readers, and of the mental, moral, and literary development of a distinguished man, these reminiscences have an intrinsic charm, due to the felicitous lightness of the style—for which a share of the laurels must in fairness be awarded to the translator—and to the shrewd aphorisms and touches of gentle irony scattered over Sir Rabindranath’s pages.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 550w
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 150w
+ =Lit D= 54:2008 Je 30 ‘17 250w
“The book, though somewhat elusive in manner, presents an interesting picture of a boy’s life in a large household before European customs had encroached on the native manner. It permits one to understand also the sort of intellectual and moral atmosphere that enveloped the budding poet.”
+ =Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 470w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 130w
“If the book is not very illuminating to a critic, it is perhaps for the majority of persons the most surely rewarding of Tagore’s books, and it is capable of casting a spell upon the imagination even of those who care little for the author’s poetry. ... The whole narrative is marked not only by poetic qualities but by a spirit of kindness, gayety, and humor, the adequate expression of which in literature is as rare as are successful flights of fancy.”
+ =No Am= 206:135 Jl ‘17 600w
“Interesting, mystical, dreamy; but as a biography not satisfactory. One wants to know about Sir Rabindranath’s school and its methods, about his principles of education, his view of English civilization and the English people, his judgment on the relation of the English government to India; but on these subjects, the author is absolutely silent. The chief value of the book is as a self-revelation of an oriental mind.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w
+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 50w
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“The volume is the history of a mind which seems to us excessively self-centred in introspection. We think the translator might have added to the explanatory notes. Only towards the end of the book, does he come to that mystical revelation which lifts the cover of triviality from the everyday world and suppresses the ever imminent sense of self. To some the pages describing this experience will seem idle, mere dreams from the ivory gate; to others they will be the most significant in the book.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:67 Jl 28 ‘17 800w
“Well worth a place in literature. ... In the frankness of its self-revelation and the naïveté combined with the latent vigour of the style, it reminds us of Yoshio Markino’s ‘When I was a child’; but there the resemblance ends. ... It contains much to attract even those who are not interested in the psychological aspects of literature: quaint character sketches of teachers, friends, and fellow-students, vivid pictures of Indian habits and scenery, analyses of child mentality done with extraordinary insight and sympathy.”
+ =Spec= 119:191 Ag 25 ‘17 850w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p379 Ag 9 ‘17 2500w
=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Nationalism. *$1.25 (5½c) Macmillan 327 17-22891
“A nation, in the sense of the political and economic union of a people, is that aspect which a whole population assumes when organized for a mechanical purpose.” It is in this sense that Rabindranath Tagore finds the nation inimical to the good of humanity. India offers a concrete example of humanity suffering under the mechanical efficiency of the nation. His criticism is not directed against the British nation as such but against the ideal of the “western nation.” He distinguishes between the spirit of the West and the nation of the West. The spirit of the West has much to give to the East that would be willingly received. The “western nation” is held responsible for the world war. The first essay, Nationalism in the West was prepared for delivery as a lecture in the United States. Essays on Nationalism in Japan; Nationalism in India, and a poem: The sunset of the century, complete the contents.
“He has produced a thoughtful book, and one that western people will be the better for reading.”
+ =Ath= p522 O ‘17 220w
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 70w
=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 40w
“His lectures are well worth reading, but they do not furnish leadership.”
+ — =Outlook= 118:222 F 6 ‘18 140w
=Pittsburgh= 22:830 D ‘17 90w
“We need not perhaps take too serious a view of a poet’s whimsical and partly humorous incursion into a field with which he is not familiar.”
— =Spec= 119:386 O 13 ‘17 1400w
“If we do not think the poet’s view fair, we may allow that, from his standpoint it is explicable. ... As to immediate practical problems, the book does not give much guidance. ... It is enough that he indicates evils and dangers in the present system. It is for us to recognize those evils and dangers, and consider the way of salvation.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p435 S 13 ‘17 2200w
=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).= Personality. il *$1.35 (3c) Macmillan 891.4 17-13755
“The text is composed of half-a-dozen lectures in which is developed the idea of art as a spontaneous expression of personality, and of meditation as a passive surrender of the soul to the influx of the world.” (Nation) Sir Rabindranath also gives an account of his school for boys, and sets forth his views on woman, who will, he thinks, find her true place when we get a civilization based “upon spiritual ideals of reciprocity, and not upon economic ideals of efficiency.” Contents: What is art; The world of personality; The second birth; My school; Meditation; Woman. There are six full-page pictures of the author.
=A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17
“In a somewhat lighter vein than Sãdhanã and permeated with the same ideas of individualism, mysticism and optimism.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 30w
“Tagore is true to the mystical type. ... As an example of how differently the thing may be done, one turns to Samuel Butler’s argument in his ‘God the known and God the unknown.’ ... Butler’s little volume should be read with Tagore’s ‘The world of personality.’ ... The chapter entitled ‘The second birth’ is not only clear and coherent where the preceding chapter is muddled and topsy-turvy, but is a well-sustained study in place of a hodgepodge of dubious, more or less related observations.” M. C. Otto
+ — =Dial= 63:269 S 27 ‘17 1250w
“The reader who succeeds in entering at all into the spirit of these discussions will not fail to see that in all of them the author is saying something about where the true life of personality lies. His ruling conception is clearly not the familiar one. He is as far as possible from identifying personality with that in a man which is peculiar and exclusive. Personality is not that which breaks out in the foibles and eccentricities of an individual. ‘Living one’s own life in truth,’ Tagore says, ‘is living the life of all the world.’ And in that phrase we have pretty much the focus of his vision. The lectures are greatly taken up with the task of showing what is personal in man and in the universe. The universe is a person. It has a soul.” J. W. Scott
+ =Hibbert J= 16:160 O ‘17 2650w
=Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 50w
+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
=Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
=R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 150w
=St Louis= 15:373 O ‘17 30w
“The whole tenor of Tagore’s book is deeply religious, but everywhere he protests against formalism in religion, as against formalism in thought.”
=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 25 ‘17 450w
“Personality, if we can imagine it made the subject of an actual painting, as, let us say, motherhood has been, is here handled in Botticelli’s manner rather than in Murillo’s—as, primarily, an act of faith rather than as a piece of truth.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p259 My 31 ‘17 1450w
=TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH (RAVINDRANATHA THAKURA).=[2] Sacrifice, and other plays. *$1.50 Macmillan 891.4 17-28833
Includes the four new plays. Sanyasi or The ascetic, Malini, Sacrifice and The king and queen. The title play’s underlying theme is the wrong to life in slaying animals for sacrifice. When King Govinda beholds the grief of a beggar girl whose goat has been slain for sacrifice, he orders that no more blood be shed in the temple “from to-day forever.” Then priests rise up with the time worn sentiments on their lips, “That which has the sanction of ages, do you have the right to remove it?” and “He has defied you and me, all scriptures, all countries, all times.” The king typifies the spirit of knowledge and understanding fighting its way to freedom against superstition and blind faith.
“While the technic of these plays closely resembles that of the previous collection, the teachings are more forceful, and emerge from the philosophy of the East in sharp, definite outlines which are satisfying to the western mind.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 160w
=TAKEDA IZUMO.= Pine-tree (Matsu). il *$1.25 Duffield 895 16-25134
“The pine-tree,” the Japanese drama presented here, is a version of the play produced by the Washington Square players of New York city during the season of 1916-17 under the title “Bushido.” It is a play based on the Japanese ideal of loyalty. The play itself is preceded by a discussion of the Japanese theater by M. C. Marcus, with chapters on Some glimpses of old Japanese literature; The elements of Japanese drama; Early tragedy and comedy; Development of the drama; The classical period—Takeda Izumo and his “Pine-tree”; and Theatrical customs. The version of the play presented is an adaptation, not a translation.
“The genius of the Japanese dramatist triumphs. He has conceived the central situation with such vividness and power, he has shown us the passion of loyalty with such reality, that we accept for the moment the Japanese ethical doctrine alien as it is to our own.” H. E. Woodbridge
+ — =Dial= 62:67 Ja 25 ‘17 650w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:151 O ‘16
“It can safely be said that one of the greatest achievements in dramatic art for many years was the presentation by the Washington Square players of ‘Bushido,’ one act taken from a Japanese play by Takeda Izumo, a famous dramatist who lived during the first half of the eighteenth century. ... ‘The pine tree’ (Matzu), is another name for ‘Bushido.’ ... This little volume, with its artistic make up, consisting of a liberal sprinkling of Japanese drawings copied from the British museum, its illuminating and very readable essay on the Japanese drama and then the play itself makes a book really worth owning and reading many times.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 18 ‘17 400w
“The most interesting part of this little volume is the dissertation on Japanese literature and drama which it includes.”
+ =Outlook= 115:114 Ja 17 ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p31 Jl ‘17 10w
=TALBOT, NEVILLE STUART.= Thoughts on religion at the front. *80c Macmillan 17-18383
“Mr Talbot arrives at the conclusion that ‘on the whole there is not a great articulate revival of the Christian religion at the front.’ As one of the causes, he admits, as an Anglican, that ‘religion as taught by the Church of England has a feeble grip on the masses,’ and, taking a wider view, he does not think that ‘Christianity as at present expressed and presented to men in the church (in the wider sense of the word) is prima facie that which can win and possess them.’ Too much emphasis is laid on things not characteristically Christian; while the ecclesiasticism of ‘Catholic Christianity’ and the subjectivism of ‘Protestantism’ both interfere with the appeal of Christianity through the church.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p95 F ‘17 130w
“It contains barely a hundred pages of large type, but every page is full of matter. ... For Mr Talbot has a rare gift of insight and an unusual candour; and his study of the religion of the British soldier, officer and private, has given him an idea of the strength and weakness of British religion generally,”
+ =Spec= 118:543 My 12 ‘17 340w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 370w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A sincere and candid little book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 F 1 ‘17 230w
=TALBOT, WINTHROP=,[2] comp. and ed. Americanization. (Handbook ser.) *$1.50 Wilson, H. W. 325.7 18-1496
“This volume on Americanism and Americanization is offered as a means for further clarifying our national thought in regard to present vital problems.” (Explanatory note) The book consists of selected reprints, including both prose and poetry, arranged to form three parts: Principles of Americanism; Essentials of Americanization; Technic of race assimilation. In part 3 attention is given to the part played by school, home, library, labor union, etc, in the Americanization of the immigrant. A classified bibliography of forty pages is a feature of the volume.
“A useful book for any one interested in the problem of making a good, clean amalgam out of the heterogeneous contents of our racial melting-pot.”
+ =Outlook= 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 50w
“The editor has succeeded in elucidating by a sufficient number of quotations and extracts those phases of that process which just now hold public attention and permit of rapid progress in spite of war conditions.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 150w
=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= Life of Abraham Lincoln. new ed 2v il *$5 (2½c) Macmillan 17-25788
The scheme of things that made Lincoln a leader of democracy more than fifty years ago takes on new meaning and interest as we try to throw light on the scheme of things that has forced another great president into similar leadership. Especially timely, therefore, is the reappearance of this Lincoln biography, published first in 1900. A twenty-page preface points out the notable new material that has bean added to the collections of Lincolniana in the past seventeen years; and shows both that these recent contributions enlarge Lincoln and clear up our view of him and that, in putting down the strength and the weakness of him over and over again, we know him better and can judge him more fairly both as man and leader.
“In the present crisis of the nation I do not know any better biography, any better book, indeed, any more encouraging, more illuminating, than the story of the life of the greatest of all Americans. And no one has told that story in a better, more informing way than has Miss Tarbell.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:325 N ‘17 1100w
“The seventeen years since the first publication of this book have strengthened the verdict then given that it is one of the most vivid and authentic biographies ever written of ‘the first American.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
=Dial= 64:148 F 14 ‘18 1750w
“One of the most authoritative and reliable biographies of the martyred president. ... There is a report of what is known as the ‘Last speech,’ a most important contribution in itself.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 150w
“The twenty-page new preface which she writes for this edition is notable for its very able summing up of the influence which recent publications exert upon our conception of Lincoln and for its firm envisaging of Lincoln in the light of this new knowledge.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 500w
=TARLEAU, LISA YSAYE.= Inn of disenchantment. *$1.25 (8c) Houghton 814 17-24509
Contents: The princess and the dragon; The true story of Bluebeard; Facts; The eidolon; The new leaf; Cheering a lady; Sousa; Questions; Spring; Grand’ma Ninon; Psychical research; The irrational lady; These degenerate days; Magic advertisements; Arcadia.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
“Anyone cherishing the belief that a charming and perfect style should be the characteristic of the essay and taking up ‘The inn of disenchantment’ would find in the very first sentence some color for thinking that instead of being an inn of disenchantment it was a book of disenchantment. Yet that is the end of our censure. The fifteen essays are quite delightful. The humor is subtle.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 50w
+ =Nation= 105:724 D 27 ‘17 150w
“Fifteen little essays, ... written, nearly all of them, in a minor key. ... Disenchantment, the charm of the unattainable, life’s compromises—these form the bases of the themes. A delicate touch, a feeling for the values of words, makes them unusually attractive, though at times they become a little too precise.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 27 ‘17 200w
=TASHIRO, SHIRO.= Chemical sign of life. (Science ser.) il *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 577 17-8224
The author is instructor in physiological chemistry in the University of Chicago. “This little book by the inventor of the biometer tells of the discovery of a chemical method of distinguishing living from dead tissue and of measuring the quantity of life, and explains the modus operandi.” (Boston Transcript)
“Of great value to the student; the public in general will care only for results.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 S 12 ‘17 120w
+ =Nation= 104:561 My 3 ‘17 450w
+ =Nature= 100:186 N 8 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17 10w
=TATLOCK, JESSIE MAY.= Greek and Roman mythology. il *$1.50 Century 292 17-3155
“Miss Tatlock, the author of the present volume of mythology, is a teacher at Miss Spence’s school in New York City. Both for brevity and simplicity she has tried only to include the best-known and most attractive of the classical myths. In her index she makes mention of many which space has forbidden to her to include. In order that the student may be able to retain as much as possible of the subject, Miss Tatlock has tried to mention only the important names in telling the stories. Moreover by cross reference and reiteration she has striven to impress these names on the minds of readers, so that they will remain fixed.”—Boston Transcript
“In no way supplants Gayley as a comprehensive reference manual; but its simplicity of language, clearness of arrangement and distinctness of print make it especially attractive as a text book for the younger student and for the general public seeking a pleasant acquaintance with the subject. Both illustrations and quotations are taken entirely from Greek and Roman sources, and Greek names are used in preference to Roman. Thus it has more unity and is more Greek in feeling than Guerber, although gives more details.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:4 O ‘17
“In every way an admirable textbook for the use of students.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 190w
+ =Ind= 91:231 Ag 11 ‘17 60w
“Appendices give the pronunciation of names and a list of poems and dramas based on the myths. Ninety-nine illustrations add to the value. ... The publishers have used calendered paper throughout and provided a neat and substantial binding. The volume is valuable alike for classes and as a reference-book in the home for those who have no dictionary of mythology.”
+ =Lit D= 54:269 Ap 28 ‘17 280w
“There are many people who do not believe that children should be allowed to read these myths, because they are not considered as conducive to a high standard of morals. This book easily dispels such fears, for any boy or girl of high school age can read and enjoy all of the stories without any danger to his or her morals.” J. G. Glassberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 29 ‘17 600w
=N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 50w
“These versions of the most famous and interesting of the stories of Greek mythology are brief, simple and readable.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 40w
“The chief merit of this book, which places it above the Guerber and Gayley textbooks on mythology, is its unity. ... The appendixes are extremely valuable for general reference. The pictures of standard works of art are worthy of favorable comment.” Adaline Lincoln
+ =School R= 25:301 Ap ‘17 270w
=TAUBENHAUS, JACOB JOSEPH.= Culture and diseases of the sweet pea; with an introd. by Melville T. Cook. il *$1.75 Dutton 716 17-16080
“In the preface the announcement is made that this book is primarily intended to be a practical treatise for use by both growers of sweet peas and investigators. ... The first eighty-nine pages are devoted to explicit cultural directions which have been prepared for the author by specialists. The following ninety-five pages are given to a consideration of greenhouse and field troubles, including nine diseases of fungous origin, one of bacterial origin and a brief summary of the several insect pests. Due space is given in the closing chapters, in a clear, concise manner, to methods of prevention and control of these maladies.” (Science) “The author is a plant pathologist and physiologist in charge at the Experiment station of the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.” (R of Rs)
=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
Reviewed by M. T. Cook
+ =Bot Gaz= 65:194 F ‘18 160w
=Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 40w
“Prof. Melville T. Cook, of Rutgers college, commends the book as both practical and scientific, equally useful to the layman, the commercial grower and the scientist.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 100w
“The person of less than collegiate training would find himself hopelessly lost if he attempted to wade through certain paragraphs in this book. ... The book is well and amply illustrated, is unusually free from typographical errors and gives the impression of being condensed yet complete.” F. A. Wolf
+ + — =Science= n s 46:316 S 28 ‘17 350w
“The only book of its kind to which the amateur sweet-pea grower may turn for complete instructions on the growing and care of sweet peas.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ‘17 220w
=TAYLOR, A. H. E.= Future of the southern Slavs. *$3 (3c) Dodd 949.7 (Eng ed 17-29200)
“My object,” says the author, “has been to attempt to set forth the main features of the southern Slav problem as they exist to-day, and the solution at which we should aim. Of necessity, in discussing territorial questions I have assumed such a complete victory for the Allies as will result in the dismemberment of Austria.” (Preface) The book is made up of the following chapters: A plea for Serbia; A sketch of Serb history; The renascence of Serbia; The problem of the Adriatic; Proposed frontiers; Macedonia: the Serbo-Bulgarian treaty of 1912; The settlement with Bulgaria; The future southern Slav state; Some problems of the new state; The European importance of the southern Slavs. There is one large folding map.
=Ath= p531 O ‘17 120w
“This book is, in fact, a conclusive demonstration of the wisdom of the buffer state theory, an unanswerable argument for the fusion of the southern Slavs, whether in a federal, dual, or unitary state. It should be widely read. Mention must be made of the ethnographic map included in the volume by permission of the Jugoslav committee.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:508 D 2 ‘17 550w
“Mr Taylor discusses fully and frankly the problem of the eastern Adriatic, but, like a good many ardent friends of Serbia, he is far less sympathetic to Italy than he ought to be.”
+ — =Spec= 119:356 O 6 ‘17 1350w
“His chapter on this topic [Italy and Dalmatia] is interesting, well argued, and adequately fortified with historical analogies. ... One of the most valuable sections of Mr Taylor’s book is his sympathetic account of the death, dormancy, and resurrection of the Serbian people.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 O 11 ‘17 1650w
=TAYLOR, CHARLES FREMONT.= Conclusive peace; presenting the historically logical, and a feasible, plan of action for the coming peace conference, which will coordinate and harmonize Europe, and the world. 50c (1½c) Winston 341 17-4982
The author says, “In the past, treaties of peace have contained the seeds of future war because they have not provided means by which peace may lead to continued peace. Peace having been used in the preparation for war and in sowing the seeds of war, the natural and inevitable result was war. Such a peace has never been and cannot be conclusive. ... As long as the minds of Europe dwell on competitive national military power instead of on peaceful international cooperation for mutual benefit, there can be no conclusive peace.” His purpose in this book is to outline a plan for cooperation. Some of his practical suggestions are free access to the seas for all nations, a European commerce commission, a permanent international congress.
“Mr Taylor’s little book, however frankly amateurish in approach, does suggest that the average American can think about the war without overmuch affection or hostility for either side. It is neutral in the best sense. Yet it necessarily has the defects of such a virtue—while not doctrinaire, ‘A conclusive peace’ is a bit too impatient with the muddle of actual passions and hopes, too confident that the essential reasonableness of a harmonized Europe will of itself create harmony. But one genuinely constructive suggestion does emerge.”
+ — =New Repub= 50:55 F 10 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:9 Ja ‘17
“In the simple form in which Mr Taylor first presents the idea it is well worth considering, but he finally rides it rather fast and far and even overworks his imagination in providing it with detailed developments.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:35 F 4 ‘17 110w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w
=TAYLOR, CHARLES KEEN.=[2] Boys’ camp manual. il *$1.25 Century 355.7 17-22879
“A handbook of military and all-round training.” (Sub-title) Contents: Organization of camps and weekly-schedule; Establishing the camp; Physical training; Formal military drill; Signaling; Field and other exercises; Camp interests and special observations. The author is director of Camp Penn, under military-age camp near Plattsburgh.
=A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17
=TAYLOR, HANNIS.= Cicero, a sketch of his life and works. il *$3.50 McClurg 16-20121
“This new survey of the great Roman statesman’s career, written from the viewpoint of an American student of constitutions, ancient and modern, presents Cicero as the ideal defender of the Roman constitution, and the ‘embodiment of the departing spirit of Roman republicanism.’ Some of the chapter headings may serve to indicate the way in which Dr Taylor has grouped and marshalled his materials: Stoic philosophy and Roman law; Cicero’s Greek culture; The Roman bar in Cicero’s time; The Roman constitution; Cicero as leader of the Roman bar; Cicero as a statesman; Cicero and Pompey; Cicero and Cæsar; The duel to the death of Antony.”—R of Rs
“The most interesting chapters deal with the Roman constitution and the Roman bar in the height of its power. On the whole the life is written in too laudatory a strain, and Cicero’s influence on early Christian thought exaggerated. An excellent and complete anthology of Cicero’s most striking utterances concludes the volume.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 110w
“In dealing with Cicero as a man, Mr Taylor writes from an entirely sympathetic point of view, yielding in no particular to the Drumann-Mommsen assault, which is now very generally regarded as having injured the fame of two eminent German historians far more than that of Cicero. ... As ‘a commentary on the Roman constitution,’ the book is not adequate. ... The Ciceronian ‘anthology’ with which the book closes was a project so well worth while that it should have been based upon a very thorough and independent rereading of Cicero’s entire works. As it stands, much of the material has been picked up from secondary sources, with a certain amount of annoying and unnecessary repetition, and displaying various grades of skill, or want of skill, in translation.”
+ — =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 950w
+ =Lit D= 54:267 F 3 ‘17 700w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:182 D ‘16
=R of Rs= 54:681 D ‘16 100w
=TAYLOR, JAY LAIRD BURGESS.= Handbook for rangers and woodsmen. il *$2.50 Wiley 634.9 17-1185
This work, by a forest ranger in the United States forest service, is not to be considered an official publication, says the author. It has been prepared however with the permission of the Secretary of agriculture, who has given criticism and advice. Its object is “to serve as a guide for inexperienced men in woods work.” The author has had in mind the problems that confront the ranger in government, state or private employ, but he expresses the belief that the book may be of value to others whose work or recreation takes them into the woods. Contents: Equipment; Construction work; General field work; Live stock; Miscellaneous. Tables and other items of information are given in an appendix. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams, a glossary and an index. The book is of convenient pocket size.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:44 Mr ‘17
“‘This handbook is welcome as a most valuable addition to our forest literature, since it is believed that it will be of inestimable value to both those who are just starting in the profession and to the older men who want a reference work on the various practical subjects covered.’” R. C. B.
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:348 Ap ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of Forestry p124 Ja ‘17)
“‘Mr Taylor has prepared a useful handbook for those who are inexperienced in woodcraft, which was compiled after eight years of field work with the United States forest service. ... Numerous illustrations aid in giving an understanding of the text.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:467 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Forest Leaves p31 Ap ‘17)
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Cecilia of the pink roses. il *$1.25 (2½c) Doran 17-13951
Cecilia was born in a tenement and this is a story of her gradual ascent in social life and her natural sweet-heartedness through all the trials that the process involved. Her mother died of hardship and when, after her death, through his knowledge of bricks and a kindly priest’s knowledge of the world, her father made money, everything that would have been lavished upon the wife was showered upon the daughter. It was the priest who guided Cecilia through her difficulties from childhood to marriage, and in spite of the charm of the heroine, Father McGowan remains the outstanding character of the book.
“Not since the advent of Pollyanna have we found in fiction a little girl who seemed to promise so much in the way of popularity as does this little Cecilia. ... The story is essentially a love story. Everyone, including the hero, is in love with Cecilia from the first. ... Sympathy and humor run through the story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 460w
“Frankly sentimental books often disarm the worldly-wise by simple charm. Katharine Haviland Taylor has done this in her first book. Apart from minor faults—such as dragging the unwarned reader too suddenly from one scene to another, and frequent repetition of the same word in a paragraph—‘Cecilia of the pink roses’ is as sweet and fresh as the flowers themselves.”
+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 60w
=N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 200w
“This is the author’s first book, and while it is perhaps a bit overenthusiastic and somewhat loosely put together, it is pretty and entertaining in its picture of charming young girlhood.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 320w
=TAYLOR, WILLIAM THOMAS, and BRAYMER, DANIEL HARVEY.= American hydroelectric practice. il *$5 McGraw 621.34 17-15204
“More than one-half of the volume is taken up with electrical subjects. The hydraulic material is given in the first two chapters and in a few tables and diagrams. This hydraulic material, as stated in the preface, has been largely supplied by Mr Taylor. ... The work carries the subtitle, ‘A compilation of useful data and information on the design, construction and operation of hydro-electric systems from the penstocks to distribution lines,’ which well describes its scope. A considerable portion of the contents consists of articles which have appeared in technical journals, particularly descriptions of hydro-electric plants.”—Engin News-Rec
“A useful work of reference. ... A notable and commendable feature of the book is the entire absence of half-tone illustrations. Line drawings are used throughout, thus obviating the necessity of using paper with a highly glazed surface and showing clearly, in diagrams and cross-sections, what could not be presented so exactly and with sufficient detail in any other way.” Alfred Still
+ — =Electrical Review= 71:243 Ag 11 ‘17 500w
“The book suffers from the limitations of the second-hand nature of its contents and from its general plan. ... Difficulties arising from the use of borrowed material are noticeable. ... Much reliance should not be placed on the material in the book without independently checking its accuracy.” L: F. Moody
– + =Engin News-Rec= 79:323 Ag 16 ‘17 1450w
“Excellent bibliography.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:659 O ‘17 100w
=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER)=, comp. Answering voice; one hundred love lyrics by women. *$1.25 Houghton 811.08 17-25293
The author has collected here “the most beautiful love-lyrics written in English by women since the middle of the last century.” (Preface) Only two of the hundred lyrics included are of an earlier date—Lady Barnard’s “Auld Robin Gray” and Susanna Blamire’s “Siller crown.” No long poems are included, and no translations, and the compiler has avoided “poems in which the poet dramatized a man’s feelings rather than her own.” Some of the authors included are: Amy Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Moira O’Neill, Edith M. Thomas, Sarojini Naidu, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Harriet Monroe, Alice Meynell and Grace Fallow Norton. There is an index of first lines and an index of authors.
=A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17
“Miss Teasdale has not taken away the joy of discovery by giving us only poems already belonging to us. We are the richer by many lovely things unknown before, and while all anthologies have their heights and their levels, one wanders through this one with few disappointments and with an almost constant sense of charm and beauty.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ =Bookm= 46:441 D ‘17 870w
“No one has written better love songs than [the compiler] has in the past ten years, and so she brings to her task of selection a perfect understanding of the mood in all its various keys. Her very greatest service by virtue of her original ability is in purging the emotions of sentimentality, presenting only the pure gold of sentiment. ... Practically all the most important women writers of today are represented.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 110w
“The bulk of the selections is from the work of American women. Of these Edith Wharton’s sonnet beginning ‘Yet for one rounded moment I will be’ for intensity of feeling, intellectual strength, passionate color and poetic grace and beauty does not suffer when compared with the sonnets of Mrs Browning.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:515 D 2 ‘17 340w
“The anthology does not represent one school or one period to the exclusion of any other. One or two of the poems have plots or stories connected with them, but as a rule the verses are independent lyrics—lyrics abounding in images of purity and dependence. Unlike love poems written by men, they are singularly lacking in passion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 12 ‘17 290w
=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).= Love songs. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25236
“Besides new poems, this book contains lyrics taken from ‘Rivers to the sea,’ ‘Helen of Troy and other poems,’ and one or two from an earlier volume.” (Prefatory note) Some of the poems hitherto unpublished in book form appeared in Harper’s, Century, Scribner’s, Poetry, and other periodicals.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Here is the impulsive, wholly unconscious charm that belongs to everything Miss Teasdale writes. She is the Elizabethan of to-day; one of the purest and clearest voices in our poetic literature.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ =Bookm= 46:442 D ‘17 480w
“A gathering of her very best songs written to date. Love is illuminated in these songs as it has not been illuminated before by a single poet, in American poetry. Every mood is pure, whether it is joy or sorrow, yearning or denial; and the purity of emotion is fully matched by a golden simplicity of expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 1150w
+ =Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 60w
“A bookful of loveliness is this new volume of Sara Teasdale’s verse: new not in the sense that all the poems it contains are recent ones, but that it represents a lately gathered treasury of lyrics. They are characterized, as her work has always been, by a musical facility, strong imagery, and that note of mingled joy and pain which haunts the moments of love, whether in its inception, its fulfillment, or its loss.”
+ =Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 300w
+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 19 ‘18 450w
Reviewed by G: Cronyn
=N Y Call= p14 N 18 ‘17 710w
“Miss Teasdale writes from a compelling impulse; she does not mask it nor hide it, but utters it, and so it befalls that she speaks the secret word of us all. ... She is first, last, and always a singer. ... In the present volume, ‘Love songs,’ her best and most characteristic work is presented, since it is this theme which has chiefly inspired her.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:416 O 21 ‘17 1100w
“Miss Teasdale chooses verse forms that express her moods exactly. Generally the lines are short and simple, yet musical in the extreme. Ever in her love verse she is fundamentally a singer of the out of doors.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 15 ‘17 250w
=TEMPERLEY, HAROLD WILLIAM VAZEILLE.= History of Serbia. il *$4 Macmillan 949.7 (Eng ed 17-16315)
“Mr Temperley’s able conspectus of Serbian history begins with the coming of the Jugo-Slavs from their original home in the region of the Black sea, and around the Dniester and the Bug; includes an account of the Serbian mediæval empire; tells the sombre tale of Kossovo; describes the Turkish occupation; and relates some of the deeds of the Black George (Kara George) and Milosh Obrenovitch, which led to the expulsion of the Turks from Serbia. He concludes with a detailed review of the periods of Austro-Hungarian and Russophile influence, as well as of the thorny problems associated with Macedonia. The book ... contains a good bibliography.” (Ath) “Captain Temperley ends his narrative at the year 1910, thus omitting the Serbian triumphs of 1912 and 1913.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p314 Je ‘17 180w
“The main theme of this well-documented study is the effect of the revival of Serbian independence in the nineteenth century on the Balkan situation, and the attitude of the great powers toward the country.”
+ =Cleveland= p116 S ‘17 50w
“The book bristles with evidence of painstaking research; it is well documented; and it contains a select bibliography of very satisfactory proportions. Mr Temperley is a master of sound historical criticism.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:638 D 20 ‘17 460w
“The author has not entered into details, and deals very briefly indeed with the latter years of medieval Danubian Serbia, for which much might have been gleaned from Kritóboulos, the Imbrian biographer of Mohammed II, whom he omits from his excellent bibliography. But we can strongly recommend his book to all who desire to obtain a grasp of the salient facts in the evolution of the Serbian people. He abounds in admirable appreciations of Serbian national problems. ... A few errors of detail may be pointed out. The book contains three maps.” W: Miller
+ + — =Eng Hist R= 32:589 O ‘17 620w
“A brilliant recapitulation of brilliant deeds by a people who for more than a thousand years fought almost perpetually for [the nation’s] existence against rabid enemies. An interesting chapter is that on the Macedonian question. The book is one that every student of the Balkans, and Serbia in particular, will find invaluable.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 600w
“This history of Serbia is the work not only of a traveller but of a scholar. It is highly judicial in dealing with notoriously controversial subjects, and it embodies a good deal of diplomatic information acquired by careful research at the record office. It is an engrossing story of racial tenacity which Mr Temperley relates.”
+ =Spec= 118:671 Je 16 ‘17 1700w
“Should be read by all who desire to know something of the complexities of the Near Eastern question.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 Je 21 ‘17 2100w
=TEMPLE, WILLIAM.= Mens creatrix. *$2.50 Macmillan 201 17-28086
“The title is chosen in compliment to Bergson’s ‘Creative evolution.’ ... It does not indicate the full purpose of the book.” (Spec) “The plan of the volume may be briefly outlined. Part 1 deals with epistemological and metaphysical questions. Part 2 is a discussion of art, its meaning and value. Part 3 deals with the problem of conduct; while part 4 investigates the general nature of religion in its relation to science, art, and morality. The preceding four divisions constitute book 1. In book 2 the writer takes up the problem of revealed religion and finds in it the ultimate solution of the issues he has raised.” (Hibbert J)
“Covers a wide field, and discusses problems of a very varied kind. Mr Temple’s work is unequal: some of his discussions are suggestive and helpful in a high degree, while others are rapid, meagre, and disappointing. But even at his worst the author is never superficial and commonplace, and when at his best he is very vigorous and stimulating. The style is always clear, and the reader is never in doubt about the author’s meaning. ... Some of the most fresh and suggestive passages in the book will be found in the section on art. He is at his best in his chapter on ‘Tragedy,’ where he works out his principles in detail and enforces them with a wealth of illustrations.” G. Galloway
+ — =Hibbert J= 15:689 Jl ‘17 1850w
“Mr Temple has not exactly shown us that all roads of human speculation lead to the Anglican communion, but has shown, with great charm of style and lucidity of dialectic, how particular types of metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics may be made to form a symmetrical whole with Christian theology. ... He says many wise things by the way, especially in his chapter on education.” T. S. Eliot
=Int J Ethics= 27:542 Jl ‘17 400w
“Mr Temple modestly disclaims any pretension ‘to do for our day the work that St Thomas Aquinas did for his,’ but his thoughtful and suggestive study will be as helpful to readers perplexed by modern difficulties as was the ‘Summa’ of the learned Dominican to the mediaeval doubter. ... His discussion of ‘The problem of evil’ must be carefully read. In essence it is an expansion of the Pauline doctrine in the Epistle to the Romans; but Mr Temple brings a fresh mind to bear on the perplexing problem. ... It is difficult even to indicate in a review the merits of a book so closely reasoned, so full of striking ideas and happy phrases, and withal so devout and modest in tone.”
+ =Spec= 118:413 Ap 7 ‘17 2000w
=TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.= Dollars and cents. il *$1.35 (2½c) Shores 17-13188
Dan and Madge Hilyer are living on thirteen dollars a week when the story opens. Poverty had come upon them suddenly, and their prosperity, when it comes, is another of fortune’s quick changes. During the days of pinching economy it had been the wife who bore the brunt, and when sudden wealth comes, she cannot make the transition. At restaurants Madge figured up the cost of every dish. At the opera she could not enjoy the music for thinking of the price of seats. Taxi fares were to her a criminal extravagance. The result of this state of mind on her part, combined with her husband’s jealousy of Arthur Crewe, the old lover from whom she had once borrowed money, is marital unhappiness. A crisis is averted and harmony restored by the intervention of Arthur Crewe, who succeeds in bringing both husband and wife to a saner point of view.
“The situation is an interesting and a natural one; but unfortunately the author has seen fit to lay hold of it and, instead of developing it in a reasonable way, pulls it down to the level of melodrama.”
=N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 250w
“The action of the story is swift, almost breathless in passages. The novel is filled with ‘scenes’ which one mentally stages. The suspense is sustained until the very last page.” R. D. Moore
=Pub W= 91:1319 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“The story is interesting and the action is rapid and emotional.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 250w
=THETA=, pseud. War flying. *$1 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10196)
Letters written by a young officer, barely nineteen, of the Royal flying corps, to his home people during his period of training and later when in active service. The letters are prefaced by a parody on Kipling entitled “Ordered overseas,” and an introductory chapter entitled “The development of an idea.”
+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 150w
“It is not so much a book on flying as it is a revelation of character. The quiet pluck, the unconscious gallantry, the serene acceptance of a world in chaos, the humor with which this young Englishman views the clash of arms from aloft, are qualities which, as displayed in this book, help to explain England’s place in this war more clearly than any mere official documents can.”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 140w
+ =R of Rs= 56:107 Jl ‘17 50w
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 150w
=THOMAS, CALVIN.= Goethe. *$2 (2c) Holt 17-25237
Professor Thomas of Columbia university, whose edition of “Faust” has long been a standard college text, has written a biographical and critical study of Goethe. “Every scholar,” he says “has his own Dante, his own Shakspere, his own Goethe. This book presents my Goethe as I see him after nearly forty years of university teaching during which he has never been long out of my thoughts. ... But this is not the work of a hierophant or a panegyrist. ... What I have tried to do is to portray him faithfully in those larger aspects of his mind and art and life-work that make him so uniquely interesting.” The first chapters, about one half of the volume, sketch Goethe’s life. The remainder of the book is critical, with chapters devoted to: The philosopher; The evolutionist; The believer; The poet; The dramatist; The novelist; The critic; Faust. Bibliography, notes and index follow.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18
“On the whole it is just what any student of Goethe and of German literature would desire: clear, fair and entertaining. The occasional versions of poems or prose passages are excellently done.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 23 ‘18 750w
+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 110w
“No matter if a new biography of Goethe were published each month, there would still be a place for a book by Professor Thomas. ... But as a matter of fact, there was an urgent need for this particular work; for unless I am mistaken, there has been no important life of Goethe written in English since the year 1855, when the notable biography by G. H. Lewes appeared.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Dial= 63:451 N 8 ‘17 1600w
“A very thoughtful and sympathetic study.”
+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 100w
“What is most disappointing in Professor Thomas’s volume is his failure to appreciate Goethe’s importance as critic. ... With all its limitations, however, the book is scholarly, interesting, and provocative of thought. We take it that the metrical translations in chapter 9, reprinted from an earlier essay on Goethe, are Professor Thomas’s own. They are admirable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:721 D 27 ‘17 1750w
“It is possible now for an American scholar to put aside the trivial and ephemeral and concentrate attention on those aspects of Goethe’s life and work that ‘belong to the ages.’ That is what Professor Thomas has done in this volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 200w
=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Literary pilgrim in England. il *$3 Dodd 820.4 17-26883
A volume of literary essays. The studies of English men of letters are grouped geographically, but there has been no effort to link them together as objects of a “pilgrimage.” A few of the modern writers are included, and occasionally there is in the grouping a pleasant juxtaposition of the old and the new, as in the section on the west country, devoted to Herrick; Coleridge; and W. H. Hudson. Pictures in color and in monotone attractively illustrate the book.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
“As some of the biographies relate to Scotsmen and Scottish places, the title might have been ‘A literary pilgrim in Britain.’”
+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 90w
“Well-printed, artistically illustrated, entertainingly written, this book can be recommended for the pleasant employment of an idle hour.”
+ =Cath World= 106:689 F ‘18 100w
“The whole book, despite Mr Thomas’s pleasant vein of description and criticism, scarcely rises above the commonplace, if not the trite.”
– + =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w
+ — =Sat= R 124:510 D 22 ‘17 400w
“In the course of the studies Mr Thomas occasionally becomes the critic, and we can only say that we prefer him as pilgrim. Where, however, his sympathies are apparently unhampered, Mr Thomas pursues his pilgrimage and his criticism in a most attractive manner, of which the essays on John Clare and W. H. Hudson are two conspicuous examples.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup548 N 17 ‘17 230w
“Edward Thomas affords another instance of literary talent lost in the great war. This criticism, for all its unpretentiousness, is of the type that initiates new readers into the delights and consolations of books. It is full of meaning, utterly clear and concrete. There is hardly a blurred thought or impression in the whole work and there are no undiscerning judgments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 1100w
“Never perfunctory or conventional, but always saying what strikes him as the true or interesting or characteristic thing, Mr Thomas brings the very look of the fields and roads before us; he brings the poets, too; and no one will finish the book without a sense that he knows and respects the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p489 O 11 ‘17 1500w
=THOMAS, GEORGE CLIFFORD.= Practical book of outdoor rose growing for the home garden. il *$2 Lippincott 716 17-13518
“A new, enlarged edition at half price of the best manual on roses for the amateur as well as the rose-grower (Booklist 11:449). Growing directions and labels are excellent, also the lists of varieties. There are twenty halftones of bushes and sixteen beautiful color plates of varieties of roses.” (Wis Lib Bul) The first edition of this book was entered in the Digest in 1914.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 50w
=THOMAS, W. BEACH.= With the British on the Somme. *6s Methuen, London 940.91
Part of the material in this book has already appeared in print. Mr Thomas emphasizes “to a great extent, the feats of the English soldier, the Cockney especially, as distinct from the Scot, the Irishman, or the Colonial.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:115 My ‘17 100w
“Mr Beach Thomas is one of the not too many newspaper correspondents who can write acceptably about the war. He does not indulge in gush or clap-trap. His well-knit narrative is profoundly dramatic.”
+ =Sat R= 123:346 Ap 14 ‘17 800w
“Mr Thomas has written a capital account of the battle of the Somme, sketching it in broad outlines, dwelling on some of the more picturesque episodes, but abstaining from any attempt at a formal history. He illustrates the rapid developments of modern warfare that came about during this battle.”
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 130w
“Mr Thomas has been wonderfully successful in conveying all the horror and the little glory of modern war. His wish was to give an idea of the war rather than to write a continuous narrative of the things which he experienced. ... The book will be a storehouse of information. It is vivid, modest, and judicial.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p146 Mr 29 ‘17 1150w
=THOMPSON, CARL DEAN.= Municipal ownership. *$1 (5c) Huebsch 352 17-14813
“A brief survey of the extent, rapid growth and the success of municipal ownership throughout the world, presenting the arguments against private ownership, the failure of regulation and the advantages of municipal ownership.” (Subtitle) The author argues that private ownership is wrong in theory, saying, “The private ownership of a public utility is fundamentally hostile to and inconsistent with the public welfare,” and he brings together evidence to show that it is unsatisfactory in practice. “Whatever else may be said against municipal ownership,” he says, “it is pretty hard to meet the argument drawn from practical experience.”
“Gives references to authorities.”
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“The writer’s method is to jumble together a medley of facts and figures which seem to favor his side of the argument, wholly neglecting all that may be said on the other. Some of the statistics are too antiquated to be of any value whatever, as for example those which have been so freely drawn from Professor Frank Parsons’ ‘City for the people,’ a book published more than sixteen years ago. Errors of statement are not infrequent, moreover, and the style of writing leaves much to be desired.”
— =Am Pol Sci= R 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w
“The chief contribution in this work is an adequate presentation of proof that regulation of public utilities is a complete failure and that private ownership of public utilities is the most important cause of corrupt government. The most serious omission is the failure to discuss how municipalities are to secure the funds to acquire their public utilities.” B: Marsh
– + =Ann Am Acad= 74:302 N ‘17 270w
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 50w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 30w
“The author has produced a readable brief for municipal ownership—as thoroughly one-sided as a lawyer’s brief but more open to attack. Some, if not most, of the statistical and other data are old and some are taken third hand. An instance, possibly one of the worst, may be given ... to the effect that the rates charged by privately owned waterworks are 43 per cent. higher than those charged by publicly owned works. ... The author is using figures more than a quarter century old.”
— =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Useful to the upholder of either side of the question.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“A distinctive contribution to socialist literature. ... There is too little evidence at times to support the most sweeping assertions of fact. ... Then, too, there are enough inaccuracies to arouse some suspicions. ... This little book is, after all, human and socialist (although the word socialism does not occur from one cover to the other), and it has its failings, both human and socialist. ... It lacks those painstaking, thorough, exhaustive qualities for which the academician has more time and less need than we. But it is invaluable for the facts it does contain and above all for its sturdy effort to speak out of concrete experience in a field where the Socialist needs it most.” Evans Clark
+ — =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 770w
=R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 70w
“Mr Thompson gives us a frankly one-sided presentation—the case for municipal ownership.” E: T. Hartman
+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 130w
=THOMPSON, CLARENCE BERTRAND.= Theory and practice of scientific management. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 658.7 17-24295
During the past fifteen years the principles and methods of scientific management which were formulated and propagated by Frederick Winslow Taylor have been thoroughly tested. It is now Mr Thompson’s aim to survey the movement and make an appraisal of it. He devotes a chapter to “What scientific management is”; one to the originator of the movement, Frederick Winslow Taylor; while the body of the discussion deals with scientific management in practice, and some economic aspects of the movement. The results which are offered are derived from personal inspection of plants in twelve states where scientific management is in operation and from conferences with owners, managers and experts employed.
“A comprehensive study of history, methods and results.” I. C.
+ =St Louis= 16:15 Ja ‘18 20w
=THOMPSON, D’ARCY WENTWORTH.= On growth and form. il *$6.50 Putnam 18-1383
“In the author’s own words the purpose of his book is to show ‘that throughout the whole range of organic morphology there are innumerable phenomena of form which are not peculiar to living things, but which are more or less simple manifestations of ordinary physical laws.’ This thesis Professor Thompson elaborates in a most interesting manner, developing with the aid of our fuller knowledge of physical forces and of the conditions under which they act, the mode of study initiated by Borelli many years ago, and applied, more recently, with striking and suggestive results, to several forms of organic activity by Rhumbler, Leduc, Przibram, Macallum and others.”—Science
“It is clear and lucid, and deals with problems of enormous, often of surprising, interest—problems of science and problems of philosophy. The exposition is so admirable that no one need fear that the mathematics will obscure for him the philosophy, or the philosophy the science, or the science and philosophy the mathematics. The striking success and the amazing simplicity and beauty of the results will silence at once any sceptical doubt as to the utility of the method.” H. W. Carr
+ =Hibbert J= 15:697 Jl ‘17 2600w
“This book, at once substantial and stately, is to the credit of British science and an achievement for its distinguished author to be proud of. It is like one of Darwin’s books, well-considered, patiently wrought-out, learned, and cautious—a disclosure of the scientific spirit.” J. A. Thomson
+ — =Nature= 100:21 S 13 ‘17 1500w
“Professor Thompson’s style is marked by a clearness of expression which makes every page of interest and his book is one that may well be recommended as revealing food for thought and fields for investigation which have been too much neglected by students of morphology.” J. P. McM.
+ =Science= n s 46:513 N 23 ‘17 960w
“Though severely technical in appearance, this book is so well written and so full of interesting matter that it should not be monopolized by the specialists. It throws a new light on evolution.”
+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w
“An interesting and valuable book on a topic of enduring interest. Professor Thompson himself is careful to reiterate that he is propounding a method, advocating a principle rather than supplying a set of results which he expects the reader to accept. In this sense his book commands admiration and respect, and should stimulate a lively and productive interest in an aspect of zoology that has fallen into neglect.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p245 My 24 ‘17 860w
=THOMPSON, VANCE.= Woman. *$1.25 (3c) Dutton 396 17-7543
The author comes out fervently as a champion of the new woman in her fight for freedom. This rapidly advancing movement toward emancipation is the most important thing happening in the world today. All other problems “are of relative unimportance beside the overwhelming significance of this new fact: the rise of woman.” Women are freeing themselves from the over-specialization of sex; and this means the freeing of the race. “Woman cannot do her duty to the race unless she fulfills her duty to herself. The welfare of the race and the individual are as indissoluble as a word and its meaning; they are a bi-unity.” The author sketches rapidly the historical position of woman, then discusses the present-day significance of the woman movement.
=A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
“The frankest, truest, simplest and most compact exposition of the causes and the meaning of the feminist movement that has ever come to my attention. It is also the most entertaining. It is a picturesque and a provocative book—but it is not likely to provoke in any two people just the same feeling about it. Mr Thompson evidently believes in the feminist movement very earnestly and ardently. But his book, deeply searching and keenly discerning though it is in its discussion of most of the phases of the woman problem, grows evasive and even blind when it comes down to what is to-day the biggest and most difficult practical problem of the whole matter. And that is the economic status of married women.” F. F. Kelly
+ — =Bookm= 45:594 Ag ‘17 3000w
“Singularly clean, wholesome, upstanding, wind-swept, stimulating reading, much of which we cannot agree with, it is true, much of which will shock us, as it was meant to, all of which will quicken us. Superficially humorous, fundamentally serious and sincere, this book is a distinct contribution to the subject.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w
— =Cath World= 105:397 Je ‘17 630w
“On the text, ‘Life is a conspiracy against woman,’ he has built up a serious, sincere, and stimulating sermon.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 300w
“Mr Thompson’s book is not original in the sense of presenting new points in feminist thought. But it is unusual and challenging in its presentation.”
=N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 400w
“A book every woman will want to read.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:557 My ‘17 130w
“Mr Thompson occasionally allows his forcefulness to degenerate into claptrap, and his stock of haphazard information into an obvious and boastful show of knowledge, neither of which can conceivably advance the cause for which he purports to be working.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 500w
=THOMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM.= Old man Savarin stories. il *$1.35 Doran 17-24211
“Stories of Canada and Canadians are rather rare among us. In these stories Mr Thomson has brought us a new acquaintance, and that a broad one, with the people who are our neighbors to the north. The stories—they are seventeen in number—cover a wide range of time and circumstance; and it is an interesting fact, to be noted at once, that they deal with Canadians as such, of French and Scotch and English descent; these are stories from Canada, not from any one class or of any one ancestry.”—N Y Times
“Not only are the stories interesting, but they embody an immense field of life.” J. E. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 1250w
“They vivify for us many a different kind of feeling in individual, party, type.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 660w
=THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.= Through the year with Thoreau; sketches of nature from the writings of H: D: Thoreau; ed. by Herbert W. Gleason. il *$3 Houghton 818 17-22277
“The present volume is an endeavor ... to reproduce, with the aid of photographs, some of the outdoor scenes and natural phenomena in which he [Thoreau] delighted and which he has so graphically described. The series of views is limited, of necessity, but a sufficient number are given to illustrate Thoreau’s method of nature-study as well as to emphasize anew the accuracy and felicity of his nature-descriptions. It is hoped, also, that this combination of verbal and pictorial representation will stimulate to a wider apprehension and a more vivid realization of the beautiful in nature,—thus continuing in a measure, Thoreau’s self-appointed mission.” (Preface) The quotations from Thoreau, chosen largely, but not wholly, from the “Journals” are arranged, as the title suggests, to follow the changing seasons. The illustrations, selected from a large collection of photographs by Mr Gleason, are related intimately to the text, and include not only scenes associated with Thoreau, but studies of the plant and bird life described by him. Among them are remarkable pictures of the more delicate flowers, leaves and lichens, also of frost crystals.
“A good gift book for readers of Thoreau.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17
“‘Through the year with Thoreau’ is at once a splendid memorial to that interpreter of nature, a credit to the Riverside Press as an example of beautiful bookmaking, and a satisfying further instance of the literary and artistic taste of the author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w
“The illustrations are worthy of the poet-naturalist in that they include not merely the conventional landscapes and ‘pretty’ flowers, but less usual and less promising subjects, such as the skunk-cabbage, fungi, icicles under a bank, and the ‘sand-foliage’ produced by liquid mud on the snow in the railroad cut. Mr Gleason has put into his photographs as much of an artist’s individuality as the wielder of a camera can well do.”
+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 260w
“Quite beyond the average volume of gleanings. The extracts are each illustrated by uncommonly fine photographs, and the whole is an attractive bit of bookmaking.”
+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w
“Without illustration, Thoreau’s description of early morning fog from Nawshawtuct hill, is appreciably less clear and interesting. Again, Thoreau’s description of the flower-buds of mountain laurel—‘curiously folded in a ten-angled pyramidal form’—gains vastly through the picture. ... Its only serious defect is its brevity; in 135 pages it is scarcely possible to do more than make a humble beginning in the task of illustrating Thoreau’s descriptions of natural scenes and phenomena. Yet a much larger book would have been forbiddingly expensive.”
+ =Nation= 105:205 Ag 23 ‘17 180w
“Altogether a beautiful book.”
+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 40w
=THORNDIKE, LYNN.= History of medieval Europe; under the editorship of James T. Shotwell. maps *$2.75 (1c) Houghton 940.1 17-24527
Professor Thorndike of Western Reserve university has prepared this history of Europe from the decline of the Roman empire to the opening of the sixteenth century for the college student and the general reader. The general plan of the work is “to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of the countries of modern Europe.” Special points to which he calls attention in the preface are these: he has given some attention to the states and racial groups of central and eastern Europe; he has given some prominence to economic and social conditions, omitting many minor details of political and military history; he has described the background of physical geography; he has referred frequently to source material and discussed its relative value; he has avoided fine print and footnotes and has made an unusually full index, designed “to serve somewhat the same purpose that a vocabulary does in the teaching of a language.” There is a brief list of “Guides in historical reading,” with supplementary lists at ends of the chapters.
“A capital textbook, well ordered and well balanced.”
+ =Educ R= 54:529 D ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 92:261 N 3 ‘17 60w
“The style escapes the rigid narrative baldness of the compressed history for the classroom, yet it does not sacrifice accuracy to vivacity. There is a nice balance between economic, social and political factors.”
+ =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 140w
“The excellent feature about this book is that it uses events as a background for the study of institutions, principles and achievements, and thus places the chief emphasis on the intellectual content of history, rather than the framework.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w
=THORPE, FRANCIS NEWTON.=[2] Essentials of American constitutional law. *$1.75 Putnam 342.7
A volume intended to serve as a text-book in law schools, colleges and universities. It has been prepared by a member of the Pennsylvania bar who is professor of political science and constitutional law in the University of Pittsburgh. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work. Contents: The supreme law; The law of legislative powers (2 chapters); The law of taxation; The law of commerce; The law of contracts and property; The law of the executive power; The law of the judicial power; The law of state comity, territories, and possession; The law of limitations; The law of fundamental rights; The law of citizenship; Appendix—Constitution of the United States and Cases cited.
=THORPE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD.= Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe; a biographical sketch. *$2.50 Longmans 17-298
“The late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England. ... Roscoe achieved so much worldly success and made himself so prominent a figure in public life that he convinced the ruling class, at any rate, of the importance of the chemist, and the royal commissions on which he served and the societies in which he took an active part, especially the Society of chemical industry, did much to raise the status of chemistry as a subject of study and an aid to the manufacturer. ... This aspect of his long and useful life is well illustrated in the sympathetic memoir which his friend and fellow-worker, Sir Edward Thorpe, has written. Roscoe’s own reminiscences, published ten years ago, have of course a more personal interest. Sir Edward Thorpe has aimed rather at recording Roscoe’s official and scientific work, especially in connexion with the Victoria university, of which he became a professor in 1857, and for the sake of which he refused the virtual offer of the Oxford chair.”—Spec
+ =Ath= p555 N ‘16 500w
+ =Nature= 98:225 N 23 ‘16 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:114 F ‘17 60w
=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 5:60 F ‘17
“Germany was undoubtedly the Mecca of science to Roscoe up to the close of his life. ... In the few years before the war he had written in German papers of the educated classes, and imagined as many did that the difficulties between Germany and England would be met successfully by the abhorrence of war in the best minds. ... Sir Edward Thorpe remarks as to such appeals that there was a section—a not inconsiderable section—of the German public to whom they were not made in vain, as was manifested by the publication in Stuttgart of a remarkable article on ‘World supremacy of war’ written under the nom-de-plume of ‘Nostradamus.’ The part reprint of this article is one of the most interesting things in this memoir.”
+ =Sat R= 123:164 F 17 ‘17 600w
+ =Spec= 117:510 O 28 ‘16 550w
“There are several cases in which the chronological indications might have been more precise; and this defect is not compensated by the inadequate index, which might easily have been made more useful.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p533 N 9 ‘16 600w
=THURSTAN, VIOLETTA.=[2] Text book of war nursing. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 610.7
The author of “Field hospital and flying column” and “The people who run” has prepared this book as a practical aid for nurses who expect to work near the front, where conditions and methods differ considerably from those prevailing in base hospitals at home. The work is a result of personal experience under Belgian, Russian and British military authorities. Part one consists of three general chapters on some of the features of war nursing. The four parts following are devoted to: The probationer in a military hospital; The sister in a military hospital; Notes on nursing in special cases; Infectious diseases. The appendix gives cooking recipes and table of French and English money.
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 90w
=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Enchantment. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-13720
At her birth her father had dedicated her to the church. And true Catholic that he was, he felt the oath to be sacred. But as the child grew, the thought of his oath became more and more distasteful. For Patricia was his favorite of the four daughters. Then he made another bargain with the parish priest. He would give up his drink, and fond enough he was of that, if Patricia could be saved from her fate. The bargain was sealed, and for ten years John Desmond kept it. Then under stress he broke it, and saw the convent doors opening for his loved child. But another man steps in and, not without connivance from the father, outwits the authority that all but had its hands on Patricia.
“Well told, but the embroidery is merely wearisome.”
+ — =Ath= p254 My ‘17 70w
“A little story of original and engaging flavour.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:649 Ag ‘17 470w
“The solution of each problem is a surprise because it is the justice of Erin. ... There is neither logic nor syntax to the plot, but from first to last, there is not a dull moment.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 400w
“In view of Mr Thurston’s intimate acquaintance with the heart and mind of the Irish people, this novel, based upon what purports to be a phase of Irish Catholicism, can scarcely be regarded otherwise than deliberate and willful misrepresentation in both theme and treatment. The impious layman whom he presumes to call a ‘good Catholic’ is hardly more objectionable than the priest who is tacitly presented as typical. Such wretched travesties could not be set forth in good faith by any writer save one totally ignorant of the church, especially as she is found in Ireland. It is a disagreeable story, founded on a preposterous premise.”
— =Cath World= 105:686 Ag ‘17 180w
+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 70w
“Melodramatic from cover to cover, but has charming style and interesting characterizations. ... It is a tale for all those who ‘would not give a chapter of old Dumas for the whole boiling of the Zolas.’”
+ — =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 100w
“The situation, the events that follow, might have been set forth with all the dry and bitter negativism of a ‘House with the green shutters.’ ... Mr Thurston succeeds in investing it with all the glamour of romantic feeling, that is, with that mood of faith and delight in human nature which may so readily and so indeterminately, be dismissed as sentimentalism.”
+ =Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“‘Enchantment’ is a readable tale, but it is far from being Mr Thurston’s best work. Both story and style are labored. And the manner that in its spontaneity and fitness helped to make so pretty a tale as ‘The city of beautiful nonsense’ popular is artificial and often clumsy here.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 380w
“The literary cloak of pseudo-fairy lore is not gracefully worn, and there are incidents too disagreeable to make one care whether they are well or ill told.”
— =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 30w
“Nothing but romance, told with Irish charm, not to say humor, and the pull of an exciting yarn.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub= W 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 480w
“There are times when his pen fairly dances across the page, filling the senses with the spirit of youth and spring and joyousness, and swaying the mood of the reader to match his own.”
+ =Sat R= 123:sup4 My 19 ‘17 250w
“Would have made an excellent short story. ... But Mr Thurston gives us his story beribboned just as the mid-Victorian beribboned his screens and his picture-frames. It is padded out with unnecessary digressions about fairy stories and princes: and one very soon recognizes that these add nothing whatever to the effect and only provide Mr Thurston with an opportunity to display his pretty literary manner.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p155 Mr 29 ‘17 120w
=THURSTON, MABEL NELSON.= Sarah Ann. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 17-23979
“Sarah Ann is a tenement child who has grown up in one of the most crowded sections of New York city, and who has succeeded quite thoroughly in evading education. ... The story pictures the efforts of this little tenement girl to keep house and care for Bobby and her baby sister. The crucial moment of existence comes when she first meets the ‘Lady Cop’ who takes an interest in the child and ... finally brings her to the point of wishing to go to school and of entrusting her adored baby sister to a day nursery.”—Boston Transcript
“Pathos, humor, sentimentality.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“The charm of this little tale lies in its quaintness and its pathos.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 6 ‘17 250w
“A bright little tale in which humor and pathos, smiles and tears mingle in almost every sentence. ... The pathetic little figure of the child herself is drawn with tenderness and knowledge and a sure touch.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 280w
“The best part of the book is the author’s common-sense treatment of the problem of the disposal of Sarah Ann. Contrary to time-honored literary tradition, she is not bodily transported to a higher social sphere, but is left in Cherry alley.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 210w
=THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.= Education according to some modern masters. *$2 Platt & Peck, 354 4th av., N.Y. 370 16-23107
“The spiritual masters whose opinions upon education President Thwing has extracted and clearly interpreted in this book of his are Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mill, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Goethe. ... There are serious problems regarding the adjustment of education to modern life, upon which the thought of the older thinkers sheds little light. To reread the passages of their writings which President Thwing has reproduced makes one feel, however, that they had the root of the matter in them.”—No Am
=A L A Bkl= 13:293 Ap ‘17
Reviewed by W: H. Kilpatrick
+ =Educ R= 55:166 F ‘18 650w
“The book will be appreciated for its continuity and systematic organization as well as for the excellent selection which has been made of the quoted material.”
+ =El School J= 18:156 O ‘17 420w
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:171 N ‘16
=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w
“The work is far more than a collection of pertinent quotations—though the quoted passages are numerous. In selecting the right passages from each writer, in connecting them in such a way as to show their relation to the whole thought of that writer upon education, and in independently summing up conclusions—a matter that requires critical judgment and real skill as a stylist—the author has performed a task as onerous and as profitable as that involved in producing an original treatise.”
+ =No Am= 205:471 Mr ‘17 600w
=Pratt= p16 O ‘17 30w
“The book aims to save education from what the author calls the peril of losing its human touch. It is his belief that such a discussion as he presents of the foregoing great humanists will do much to counteract the modern tendency of the overemphasis on technical means, methods, and conditions. The book can be spoken of as a humanistic source-book in modern education. For a reference book in a course in the history of modern education the chief value of the book will be found in the direct quotations and the author’s summary and concluding chapter.”
+ =School R= 25:613 O ‘17 140w
=THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.= Training of men for the world’s future. *$1.25 Platt & Peck 378 16-23108
“President Thwing of Western Reserve university develops his essay in three parts. Part 1 briefly depicts The destruction of the world, through the present war and lists the constructive forces by which men, after the war, can build the ‘Gentle-state’ out of the wastages of war. ... Part 2, The construction, the main body of the essay, outlines ways in which colleges and universities may affect, permanently and intimately, the family, the church, the government, business and literature, and hence aid in building the new world. ... The remaining twenty pages of this second part present six historical parallels in the development of religion and of education. ... Part 3, The university itself, opens with a three-page criticism of ‘the ecclesiastical and the academic priesthood,’ taken from F. S. Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle.’ ... In answer to this criticism, President Thwing states that the university seeks no unworthy influence but seeks to find and to teach the truth, which alone, incarnated, will reconstruct the world.”—Survey
“Functions which President Thwing foresees for the university are the training of men to a broad idealism, to a social and sociological individuality and to richness of personality. But greater than any of these functions he considers the inculcation of knowledge of international relationships.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 570w
“Mainly a summarization, sincere and often well-phrased, but containing little that is new, of the ways in which an institution of higher learning may serve the world.” W. E. Clark
+ — =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 670w
=TIETJENS, MRS EUNICE.=[2] Profiles from China. $1 R. F. Seymour, 410 S. Michigan av., Chicago 811 17-30910
“Among prose poems which deserve to be cherished are Mrs Tietjens’ ‘Profiles from China.’ The poems are distinguished first by their almost unfailing subjectivity. The writer nearly always interprets each sight in terms of her own reaction. We do not mean that it is autobiographical, but that Mrs Tietjens quickly establishes a close relation between herself and the reader. She sees dirty, crowded China with a quick eye, and puts it before us with its gods and beggars, walls, women and dandies, rickshas and camels.”—Dial
“All is portrayed with humor, fear, sympathy, pathos, irony, and imagination.”
+ =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 400w
“It is a book which is slight in bulk but in no other way. The author achieves a sort of bigness that is rare; she has gone to a country she did not understand, and she has come back bringing with her no pretense of omniscience but a still deeper, yet, somehow revealing bewilderment. It is good to know that among the many and various-voiced women poets to-day there is one who can write social criticism without ranting and who can feel pity without sentimentalizing. This blend of toughness and tenderness is revealed a dozen times in the volume.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Masses= 9:40 Ag ‘17 980w
“There is a staccato jerky quality that is more redolent of prose than of poetry. Yet there is always a clarity of interpretation, and a significant acceptance and rejection of materials that are artistic and noteworthy. The book is a sincere interpretation of the static East in terms of the more dynamic West.” Clement Wood
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Ja 5 ‘18 200w
=TILDEN, FREEMAN.= Second wind; the plain truth about going back to the land. *$1 (2½c) Huebsch 630 17-20658
“This is the record of one heroic soul, by name Alexander Hadlock, who in 1906 at the age of sixty-two with no money and no previous experience in farm work, went back to the soil. He had his black years; four winters of working out on others’ farms; five years before he had his own few acres and his ‘shack.’ He gradually and doggedly saved and learned and succeeded.”—New Repub
“A ‘back to the land’ story that is not concerned with friendly chickens or misunderstood pigs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
“The purpose of the book is to show that the conditions of success under such circumstances are indomitable will, hard physical work, and the application of scientific methods, and that the principal and sufficing reward is the consciousness of worthy work well done.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 80w
“Written by one who evidently knows something about farming and is under no illusions as to the amount of hard work and, above all, intelligent work that successful farming demands. But whether the writer’s ‘Alexander Hadlock,’ who got his second wind at sixty-two and exchanged the professor’s chair for the farmer’s hoe is a real person or purely imaginary, it would be hard to say. Perhaps he is a little of both.”
+ — =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 300w
“There is something of heroism, something of good, hard, common sense, and a leavening of the strangely soothing love of animals and fields in ‘Second wind.’”
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 80w
“Mr Tilden is sympathetic towards the middle-aged city hunger for the soil, although he is merciless in knocking the romanticism from that vision.”
+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 350w
“This book will be a gospel of successful farming to many. It is not, however, to be used as a guide in the arts of agriculture. It is too short for that. It is what its secondary title implies, ‘The plain truth about going back to the land.’” G: H. Hamilton
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 350w
“It is an honest book, and it tells the whole story in terms of dollars and cents, measured rations, stone pulling, hard living, courageous persistence.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =Pub W= 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w
“Mr Tilden tells the story well, so well that his art would command applause were it not that the reader is breathlessly saving his applause for the subject rather than the author of the story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 23 ‘17 680w
“The gloomy picture is relieved by a pictorial literary style that makes the book readable. ... Hadlock’s philosophy is sound and inspiring.” Bolton Hall
+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 250w
=TILDEN, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.= Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century. *$3.50 Dutton (*7s 6d Routledge and sons, London) 660 17-21524
“With a large measure of success, the author has essayed the difficult task of compiling a detailed, but as far as possible nontechnical account of the discoveries and inventions in physical, organic, inorganic, and applied chemistry since about the beginning of the present century. Some of the newest and most completely equipped teaching and technological laboratories are described. Modern discoveries receive consideration; and many of the latter-day applications of chemical science are discussed with great fullness. The concluding portion of the book is devoted to recent progress in organic chemistry, some of the most striking results (such as the additions to our knowledge of the proteins and sugars, and the production of synthetic perfumes, colouring agents, and drugs) being recounted at considerable length. The volume is illustrated with 150 figures, diagrams, and views; and there are portraits of eleven distinguished chemists and physicists, of whom biographical notices are supplied in the appendix.”—Ath
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
=Ath= p197 Ap ‘17 140w
“Sir William Tilden has filled his book with information so conveyed as to be clear to the non-technical reader.”
+ =Ath= p239 My ‘17 1000w
“Sir William Augustus Tilden, formerly president of the Institute of chemistry and also of the Chemical society, professor and dean in the Royal college of science, and emeritus professor in the Imperial college of science and technology, author of several important works on the philosophy and practice of chemistry, has at the age of seventy-five, produced a book of five hundred pages dealing in a popular style on the marvelous advance which this most practical of sciences has made up to the present time.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1400w
=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“We congratulate the author on the production of a work as useful as it is accurate and interesting. The book is admirably got up and excellently illustrated, and constitutes a worthy and timely addition to popular chemical literature.”
+ =Nature= 99:121 Ap 12 ‘17 1750w
“A companion volume to Edward Cressy’s excellent work ‘Discoveries and inventions of the 20th century.’ Occasional formulae and molecular diagrams should not dissuade the general reader—the book is intended for him. A noteworthy book that should be in every public library.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 150w
“The economic problems generated by the war lend particular interest to the third section of the book, which deals with the modern applications of specialized portions of chemical knowledge to manufacture.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 500w
=Pratt= p18 O ‘17 40w
“Sir William Tilden gives a good summary of modern chemical theories of matter, which is stiff reading, and some lighter chapters on various branches of chemical industry such as petrol dyes, drugs, rubber, cellulose, and explosives, with a brief concluding section on sugar and other organic substances. These chapters are informing, and illustrate the ever-increasing importance of the chemist in modern life.”
=Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
=TIPLADY, THOMAS.= Cross at the front; fragments from the trenches. *$1 (2½c) Revell 940.91
The author has been serving as a field chaplain with the British forces. Many of the chapters that make up his book are descriptive sketches, others are discussions of ethical and moral questions and considerations of the soldier’s attitude toward the church, the influence of the church after the war, etc.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 320w
“The tone of the book is hopeful, patriotic, and sincere.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w
“Through the entire book radiates wholesome feeling, love and trust and a manly and serviceable but not ecclesiastical faith.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 350w
=TISDALE, ALICE.= Pioneering where the world is old (Leaves from a Manchurian notebook). il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 915.18 17-26970
Sketches of life and travel in Manchuria. The author, who has been her husband’s companion wherever his business has taken him thruout the East, knows the country with the intimacy of one who has made her home there. In one of her chapters, “We become pioneer settlers.” she writes of the difficulties met with in establishing a home in an ancient temple. The book has been written largely for the joy of recounting happy adventures, but it may be worthy of more serious attention as throwing some light on the Far Eastern question, with reference to the relations of Japan and China. Parts of the work have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“The practically minded reader may find much in it, but the imaginative will get more.”
+ =Ind= 93:372 Mr 2 ‘18 230w
“Her province is of the spirit, and her quest is as joyous as a child’s. The book was started ‘for the purpose of giving the breath of the open spaces to the stay-at-home vagabonds.’ This it does in a remarkable degree.”
+ =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w
=Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 90w
=TODD, JOHN AITON.= Mechanism of exchange. *$2.25 (4c) Oxford 332 17-16572
The author is professor of economics in University college, Nottingham, England. He tells us in his preface to this “handbook of currency, banking and trade in peace and in war” that “the war has struck at the very roots of our whole business and financial system, by its devastating effects on our foreign trade, and therefore upon all the complicated financial machinery which has grown up round international trade, ... and that our internal monetary and financial system was involved in the breakdown of the foreign exchanges.” The natural result has been “a striking revival of interest in economic problems,” especially in questions of currency, banking and trade. The teaching of these subjects must therefore be brought up to date, which does not mean, according to our author, “an entire recasting of all previous teaching of economics,” but “a new presentation of the principles in conjunction with the altered conditions.” “Statistical information on the problems dealt with in the book has been collected in a series of appendices, with in every case the source of the information. These figures are at present necessarily very incomplete. ... At the end of each chapter references are given.” (Preface)
“Professor Todd’s well-planned and ably written text-book on money, exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon our experiences of finance in war time to illustrate or modify the theories prevailing in peace. His lucid account of the crisis at the outbreak of war is supplemented by many tables showing at a glance the financial history of these troubled years.”
+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 140w
“Professor Todd states in his preface that, ‘as a result of the war, economics has come into its own.’ On the particular subject that he is discussing this is certainly true; but unfortunately his exposition of it is such that it leaves the reader with a quite contrary impression. ... Like many other workers in this field, he has entangled himself in his problem by introducing the comparatively unimportant question of the quantity of gold. ... Though he thus tumbles over a factor in his problem which he introduced to his own undoing, he provides his reader with a mass of statistics and information which may help others to draw a sounder conclusion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
Told in the huts; the Y. M. C. A. gift book; with introd. by A. K. Yapp. il *$1.50 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1798)
These stories and sketches of the war, together with a few poems, are contributed by British soldiers and war workers, and published for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. active service campaign among soldiers, sailors and munition workers. A four page reproduction of one of the numerous trench magazines is included. The book is illustrated in black and white, and in color by Cyrus Cuneo.
“The subjects of the stories vary widely. One element, however, they possess in common: a high valor and patriotism no suffering can daunt, no hardship can quench.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w
=TOLSTOI, ILYA, count.= Visions; tales from the Russian. il *$1.35 (3½c) Pond 17-15284
A volume of short stories and sketches by Count Ilya Tolstoi, who has been lecturing in America during the past winter. Five of them, The little nurse, War visions, An affair of honor, The scarlet bashlyks, and The little green stick, are stories of the war. The remaining four, Too late, One scoundrel less, Without a nose, and Cholera, are stories of Russian life in the days before the war.
“Count Ilya Tolstoi is a genuine poet; he has also his father’s gift for putting before the eyes whatever he wishes his readers to see. Read for instance the sketch entitled, ‘Without a nose’; it is horrible but it is marvellous; it might have been written by Count L. N. Tolstoi. Though the author is not a young man, there seems to be no reason why he should not yet accomplish great things in literature. These powerful stories and sketches have more than promise; they are little masterpieces.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 750w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 330w
“Several of the tales are strongly suggestive of de Maupassant. ‘Without a nose’ has all of his concise and bitter irony, as ‘The little nurse’ might represent him in his mood of, as it were, reluctant sympathy. Stories like ‘Too late’ and ‘One scoundrel less,’ on the other hand, are full of generous emotion, the emotion of a Russian and a Tolstoy.”
=Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 420w
“If ‘Visions’ has not genius, the book has a quiet and genuine interest.”
+ =New Repub= 11:141 Je 2 ‘17 350w
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 650w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w
=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.=[2] Diaries; v. 1, Youth; with a preface by C. Hagberg Wright. il *$2 Dutton (18-2499)
“Those readers who have familiarized themselves with only the later writings of Count Leo Tolstoy, must be prepared for a slight shock upon reading the intimate records of his earlier life in the ‘Diaries.’ The first volume of the series of three is now available in English translation, rendered from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, and A. Sirnis. It covers the years from 1847 to 1852, and reveals the formative period of Tolstoy’s life. His jottings, like those of Emerson, deal with his thoughts rather than with his actions, and express cryptically many of the ideas which he afterward expanded into the philosophy of his mature years. The dualism of his nature is particularly manifest; flesh and spirit were ever at war.”—R of Rs
+ — =Ath= p598 N ‘17 400w
“The ‘Diaries’ constitute a human document of great interest and importance, taking their place with the ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine and Rousseau in the light they shed on the soul-struggle of a wealthy and occasionally dissipated young nobleman who early caught the gleam and began to seek for the truth. The translation is admirably performed.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p 8 Ja 19 ‘18 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 1250w
=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 240w
“It is no exaggeration to say that many equally interesting diaries could be collected from sixteen-year-old high-school girls. As for the editing, we should be inclined to pass it over in silence if the remainder of the diary could be expected to be as valueless as this.”
— =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 460w
“The comparison that suggests itself unjustly but automatically to the reader of the present volume is with the diary of Samuel Pepys. We have here the same open confessions of weaknesses, vanities, and sins; the same engaging discursiveness; and the same frankness and honesty which, whatever opinion we might hold about the moral worth of the older writer, left us with no doubts about the genuine humanity of his book. The diary has been translated into vigorous and racy English, it has been elaborately indexed and annotated.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup471 N 3 ‘17 760w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p289 Je 21 ‘17 4700w
“The diaries now before us show that understanding was not wanting in the translator in a literal sense; his success is indeed greater than might have been expected in view of the rules by which he was bound to maintain the strictest accuracy—but possibly a keener sympathy with the ideas of the writer might produce a yet closer and more illuminating version of a ‘human document of exceptional interest and worth.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 4 ‘17 980w
=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.= Journal; tr. by Rose Strunsky. *$2 (3c) Knopf (17-21353)
“It was Tolstoy’s wish that his friend and follower, V. G. Chertkov, who was perhaps nearer to him spiritually than any one else, should revise and arrange for publication after his death all his manuscripts and documents, including his journals. But his widow, the Countess Tolstoy, took possession of his journals and notebooks and placed them in the Moscow historical museum. ... Therefore Mr Chertkov can publish only the volumes of which he happened to have copies from the original. He possesses of these copies the volumes that cover, in addition to this section from 1895 to 1899, the succeeding years from 1900 to 1910 and will publish these later.” (N Y Times) The present volume of Tolstoi’s journal covers the period from October 28, 1895, to December, 1899. Omissions, made either by the censor, or on account of their intimate character, have been indicated. There is an introduction by Rose Strunsky. Appended are ninety pages of notes by V. G. Chertkov, and a short sketch of Tolstoi’s life in the nineties by Constantine Shokor-Trotsky, which includes a classified bibliography of Tolstoi’s writings from November, 1895 to 1899. There is a full index.
=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 70w
“A volume that will be valued by the lovers of fragmentary thought as they value the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, the ‘Journal intime’ of Amiel and the ‘Encheiridion’ of Epictetus. ... The voluminous notes by Chertkov form a veritable cyclopedia of contemporary biography and literature for they explain every proper name mentioned.”
=Ind= 92:67 O 6 ‘17 1000w
“The processes of his mental debates are exposed, and the key to his philosophy and theology is put into the reader’s hand.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w
“Here are recorded the incessant struggles of a mind bent on being absolutely honest with itself, longing to find the absolute moral basis for life. ... Miss Strunsky’s introduction sketches the influence of Tolstoy’s ideas upon the youth of Russia for the last generation.”
=N Y Times= 22:288 Ag 5 ‘17 1600w
“Abounds in expressions of sincere self-criticism. ‘Unclear’; ‘Nonsense’; ‘This seemed much clearer to me when I first thought it out’—comments such as these Tolstoi would not infrequently append to his entries, and all too often the stricture is just. Seldom does Tolstoi in this record lead us up to the heights of ethical vision; more often he conducts us through the dark chambers of his own mind. Yet in this very fact lies the value of the journal. Few of the sayings it contains are valuable as isolated truths, and the whole is scarcely more enlightening than discouraging to those who are in search of light and leading; yet the collection of Tolstoi’s day-to-day thoughts forms a vitally interesting document for the study of religious experience.”
+ — =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 950w
=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:376 O ‘17 20w
“It is the belief of Miss Rose Strunsky that a reading of the diary will make clear the meaning of the Russian revolution. ... In so far as the revolution had its mainsprings in the intelligentsia, and it did so largely, according to as competent an authority as Tolstoy’s son, Miss Strunsky’s statement cannot be gainsaid. ... The translation is finished and made with great faithfulness to lucid interpretation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 540w
=TOMPKINS, ELLEN WILKINS.= Enlightenment of Paulina. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-28187
The scene is laid partly in a town on the outskirts of Rochester, N.Y., and partly in the southern town of Middleborough. Paulina, daughter of a poor minister, after his death marries George Bull, whose secretary she has been, but who is personally distasteful to her, to secure a home and comfort for her mother. Mrs Sprague, however, does not live long to enjoy them. When later George Bull is imprisoned for theft, his wife, posing as a widow, goes to pay a long visit to her mother’s girlhood friend, Mrs Taliaferro, who has a charming daughter, Clyde. Paulina’s association with the kindly Middleborough people, most of all with the Rev. Mr Fellows who “in spite of his ministerial calling, was a creature of flesh and blood,” changes and develops her in many ways. The book also tells the story of Clyde Taliaferro’s love affairs, and of the devotion of Rosie, his brother’s widow, to George Bull.
“A story of original flavour and of sincere and varied characterisation.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 500w
“Beginning with a situation of unpleasant ‘realism,’ the reader is led by way of an atmosphere of southern village comedy and romance to a conclusion charactered with self-sacrifice and spiritual generosity. ... Aside from the main theme, the development of a woman’s character, the story has much individuality; its picture of the Middleborough elect is less concerned with their typical southern quaintnesses than with their essential quality.”
+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 440w
“One of those books which one reads with a feeling of regret—regret for what they might have been. For there is some good work in ‘The enlightenment of Paulina,’ but it is rendered almost null and futile by the author’s apparent lack of any sense of light and shade, any sense of what to eliminate.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 320w
=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS POTTLE).=[2] At the sign of the oldest house. il *$1.50 (4½c) Bobbs 17-30279
A wholesome, old fashioned story with a restraint in the love making little known to modern romance. The setting is “the oldest house in America,” where are gathered for the browsing appetite of tourists, curios, paintings and valuable antiques. The keeper of the place is a little, bent, old shell of a woman, to whom the personal conduct of groups among her treasures and the droning recital of their ownerships and famous points have become a dun-colored habit. In sharp contrast to her is the grandchild, Pansy, who comes unbidden and self announced, to touch every treasure with the gold of youth. Exuberant spirits, a keen joy of living, tireless love of hard work become valuable assets in this dead-and-buried atmosphere. The hero is half artist, half business man, who also deals in antiques and has built up a good business in reproducing old pieces. Some one has said the story is “as fragrant as a honeysuckle, as homelike as a gingham apron.”
“‘A pretty story,’ very slight.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“Not only does the book please while reading but it leaves a satisfied feeling after.”
+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 30w
“Mrs Tompkins has not made a contribution to literature; her characters do not grip your heart; nor do they help you to a better understanding of life—but the simple little story is full of charm and wholesomeness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:517 D 2 ‘17 290w
“A bread-and-butter romance, which leaves the reader cold. Throughout the book there is an atmosphere of unreality which the thoughtful reader, in these times of stern realities, resents. However, there is much that is charming.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 140w
=TORRENCE, RIDGELY.= Granny Maumee; The rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. *$1.50 Macmillan 812 17-24093
These three “plays for a negro theatre” were presented in New York city in the season of 1916-17. “‘Granny Maumee’ is a tragedy of race hate, witchcraft and family affection of such terrible intensity that few readers will be able to take pleasure in it. ‘The rider of dreams’ is in a softer key and somehow suggests the mingled realism and mysticism of the modern Irish drama. ‘Simon the Cyrenian’ is an allegory of the African race placed in a biblical setting.” (Ind)
=A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18
=Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 140w
“The three plays are strangely reminiscent of the Irish plays. They have all the faults of the latter,—they are perhaps even a shade more loose and amateurish,—but they have about them the gracious honesty of a primitive people, a refreshing contrast to sophistication’s steelier, more intellectual truth. The negro theatre is a folk theatre and its plays are folk plays. They are chronicles of a simple, child-like people, full of naïve superstitious religion and rude poetry—and still within sound of the savage tom-tom. ... Mr Torrence does not plead for the black man and he does not apologize for him. He simply presents him, one feels truly, as he is.”
+ + — =Dial= 63:529 N 22 ‘17 840w
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 100w
“The two first of these one-act plays begin excellently. Then, to get the theatrical ‘punch,’ the first shrills off into melodrama with voodoo trimmings, and the second flats out into the distribution of rewards and punishments. The third is a nowise successful attempt to realize that ‘atmosphere’ that surrounded the crucifixion of the Christ. If the form of the opening lines of ‘Granny Maumee’ had been held, Mr Torrence would have given us a really worthy, almost great study of negro character.” F. M.
+ — =NY Call= p14 N 18 ‘17 360w
“The first dramatic valuation of the negro which in theme, character and situation approaches the actual psychology of negro life. ... The plays have the haunting wistfulness of primitive racial characteristics emerging in a foreign civilization and their philosophy is distinctly that of the negro.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w
=TOWERS, WALTER KELLOGG.= Masters of space. (Harper’s master inventors) il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 654 17-7207
This book tells “the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and most recently, the wireless telephone.” The book opens with an account of early methods of communicating thru space by means of signals. Chapters that follow take up: Forerunners of the telegraph; The achievement of Morse: Development of the telegraph system; The pioneer Atlantic cable; The birth of the telephone, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Untechnical, simply written story.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p10 Ap ‘17 130w
“Good book for readers of high school age.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 40w
“History teachers will find valuable reference material in this volume. It will do good service in the upper elementary grades as well as in the high school. The paucity of such material has been a great handicap to history teachers in the past, for which reason this book will doubtless receive a hearty welcome.”
+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 280w
“A volume of 30 pages of much interest and considerable value, especially for the idea of grouping these kindred tales of long-distance message-sending.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 300w
=TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON.= Autumn loiterers. il *$1.25 (9½c) Doran 917.4 17-29815
“You will hardly believe that we were loiterers when I tell you that we were motorists,” writes the author. A leisurely journey thru the Berkshire hills, taken in company with a companionable friend and a six-year old motorcar, known as “Old Reliable,” is the subject of the sketches. They are reprinted from the Delineator, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Mr Towne is a poet and an occasional bit of verse is slipped into the prose narrative.
“There is magic in it. The title sounds the right note, interpreting the mood of the pages that follow.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 800w
“A choice little volume. Happily illustrated. The man who drove the car was Porter Emerson Browne, playwright and novelist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w
=TOYNBEE, ARNOLD JOSEPH.= German terror in Belgium; an historical record. il $1 (3½c) Doran 940.91 17-14685
“The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in the countries overrun by the German armies during the first three months of the European war. The form of it is a connected narrative, based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference. With the documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to present a clear narrative of what actually happened. ... The narrative has been arranged so as to follow separately the tracks of the different German armies or groups of armies which traversed different sectors of French and Belgian territory.” (Preface) There are three maps and numerous illustrations.
“It is noteworthy that, as the author remarks, the different testimonies fit together into a presentation of fact which is not open to disbelief.”
+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 120w
“A dispassionate continuous narrative.”
+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 30w
“No ‘fact’ is reported without abundant reference and counter-reference. The sources include among others the Bryce report, the appendices to the German White book, the reports of the Belgian and French commissions, Massart’s ‘Belgians under the German eagle,’ Paul Hocker’s ‘An der spitze meiner kompagnie,’ etc. Mr Toynbee assesses the conflicting evidence with notable fairness, so that the record is free of any of the hysteria of the ‘eyewitness’ stamp of excited journalist.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 130w
“The impression is inescapable that the relation is in the main true. The damning indictment is strengthened by official German admissions of slaughter and destruction in many of the places through which they passed. And there can be no dismissing this sort of evidence as forgery.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 420w
“Its material has all been co-ordinated from published documents and, therefore, its evidence cannot be frowned down or minimized in any way.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 130w
=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w
“It is of real value that the enormous mass of material to be found in the Belgian reports, and also, of course, in the Bryce commission, should have been worked up by a skilled and scholarly writer into the form of a short and simple narrative. ... There is much talk now about war aims and peace conditions. For this country the primary war aim is, and must continue to be, not merely the expulsion of the Germans from Belgium, but the establishment of an authoritative court to inquire into the events which Mr Toynbee records.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 370w
=TRAIN, ARTHUR (CHENEY).=[2] World and Thomas Kelly. *$1.50 Scribner 17-29866
“Thomas Kelly is a young Bostonian, a son of ancient Massachusetts stock. But though one of his forebears has been a governor, and he himself is born in Back Bay, he grows up to find himself just without the pale of the socially elect. He grows up a snob, in the odor of snobbery. Three years of his life at Harvard are embittered by his quite natural exclusion from the fashionable and expensive clubs of that city of boys. In his fourth year, a fluke of athletic success brings him to the front, and proves him worthy of membership in one of these golden groups. But it all goes to Tom Kelly’s head, he takes to cards and drink, and barely pulls himself together sufficiently to save his diploma. His prowess at tennis gains him a summer in the millionaire household of one of his clubmates at Newport. He is supposed to be there for training before the national tournament; but when the test comes is quite too far out of condition to make more than a tolerable showing. But there are consolations: heiresses are abundant, ready to award themselves to his youth and good looks. How, after all, he escapes making a whole hopeless mess of his life, and sets his foot at least upon the first rung of the ladder of an honorable and useful career, is the substance of the latter part of the story.”—Nation
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:602 Ja ‘18 550w
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 540w
“Readers who were familiar with the Boston of thirty years ago may find here an extraordinarily faithful and, with all its humor, sympathetic record of that place and time and atmosphere.”
+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 480w
“Mr Train, it would seem, intended his hero to have a good deal of charm, but for some reason has omitted to endow him with an atom of that most desirable quality. The first part of the novel is by all odds the best. The interest of the story—like its merit—steadily declines, until it reaches the vanishing point; which place it attains many pages in advance of the last chapter.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 420w
“It is the strength of Mr Train’s story that he has portrayed the hero without sparing him, but it may be questioned whether the character is worth while.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 420w
=TRAIN, ETHEL (KISSAM) (MRS ARTHUR [CHENEY] TRAIN).= Bringing out Barbara. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-10198
Seventeen, just thru preparatory school that probably had a finishing touch to it—the author does not say—Barbara West arrives home to enter upon all the bewildering preparations for her “coming out.” She is a natural, democratic girl, with simple tastes. After her four years of school girl life she finds the atmosphere of formal teas and dinners too stifling and the shallowness of social climbers too artificial for her inclinations that run to flowers, birds, sunshine and people who can tell the truth. How she manages to live thru her coming-out season and yet emerge unspoiled is a story that may be read with profit by all debutantes, and some mothers of debutantes as well.
“Exaggerated and rather hectic but written with considerable spirit.”
– + =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 70w
+ — =Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w
=N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 200w
“The coldness and heartlessness of the family life of fashion and fortune worshipers is well brought out in this novelette.”
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 20w
“A pretty little romance, written with pleasant sentiment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w
=TREAT, PAYSON JACKSON.=[2] Early diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan; 1853-1865. $2.50 Johns Hopkins press 327.73 17-28858
The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history for 1917. The writer, professor of Far eastern history in Stanford university, offers the lectures as the first part of a study which will cover the whole period of Japanese-American diplomatic relations. The present volume takes up the story of American intercourse, and continues it thru the negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, thru the troublesome period of anti-foreign movements, to the Mikado’s sanction of the treaties in 1865 where the narrative ends.
=TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM.= Nothing matters, and other stories. *$1.60 Houghton 17-13222
“To his achievements as actor and manager Sir Herbert Tree adds, for the third time, that of authorship. ... Ten short stories, of which the first fills nearly a third of the space, comprise the collection. There is added also the presidential address delivered by Sir Herbert before the Birmingham Midland institute in 1915 on ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’ The book takes its title from the novelette that holds the initial place and tells the tragic tale of two friends and a woman. Some of the other stories are farcical, with a touch of the tragic in theme or dénouement. Ironic laughter runs through them all.”—N Y Times
+ =Ath= p103 F ‘17 50w
“While we are interested in the stories of this collection, for the majority the greatest attraction will lie in the essay with which the volume ends, ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 650w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 200w
+ — =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 280w
+ =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 240w
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 30w
“He has a gift for epigram, a wayward sardonic humour, and a strong sense of the macabre. Even where they are derivative his phrases are ingenious, as when he defines the genius of the courtier as ‘an infinite faculty of not being bored,’ or remarks that the Austrian officer ‘waltzes as the nightingale sings, because he has nothing else to do,’ or deprecates the habit observable in some people, ‘who are too apt to treat God as if He were a minor royalty.’”
+ =Spec= 118:140 F 3 ‘17 850w
“Perhaps only two of these tales appear as they would have appeared had Sir Herbert Tree been a professional and laborious writer instead of a brilliant and gracious amateur. But if the form of the stories speaks of the parergon, there is entertainment and to spare in them. Not the least part of it, by any means, is the constant bubble of smart phrases.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p18 Ja 11 ‘17 850w
=TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH GOTTHARD VON.= History of Germany in the nineteenth century; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul. 7v v 2 *$3.25 (1c) McBride 943 (16-759)
=v 2= Volume 1 of the English translation of Treitschke’s history was published in 1915. It dealt with the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the close of the War of liberation. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to The beginnings of the German federation, 1814-1819, with chapters on: The congress of Vienna; Belle Alliance (Waterloo); Mental currents of the first years of peace; Opening of the German Bundestag; Reconstruction of the Prussian state; South German constitutional struggles. As in volume 1, there is an introduction by William Harbutt Dawson.
Reviewed by M. S. Handman
* =Dial= 63:152 Ag 30 ‘17 1600w
“If it lacks the complete ecstasy of the author’s narrative of the War of liberation, it compensates in a measure by the tempered pride with which he discusses the spiritual achievements of Germany during the first years of peace. The translation by Eden and Cedar Paul continues to show the defects and qualities of the first volume—competence without elegance.”
+ — =Nation= 105:518 N 8 ‘17 260w
“It is important to remember that the ill fame Treitschke has acquired comes less from the ‘History’ than from the ‘Politics’; though the ignorant narrowness of the latter deserves whatever condemnation it may obtain. The ‘History’ is on a different plane. It is brilliant, it is eloquent, and even if it is not seldom inaccurate, it represents great erudition. That from which it seems to have inspired distrust is the fact that it was written to prove a theory. ... The ‘History’ is a household word in Germany, as Macaulay in England or Taine in France. And it is that deservedly. With all its faults, it is a fundamental book.” H. J. L.
=New Repub= 11:115 My 26 ‘17 1600w
“It is not true, but it is convincing. ... It is, in brief, the epic of Prussian absolutism. ... Yet it should none the less be read; for it has played and is playing a great part in the world’s affairs. And if it is not itself sound history it has at least done more than most books of its species to make history. Only, one should read Carl Schurz’s ‘Autobiography’ as well.” W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 6:891 Jl ‘17 400w
=TREMLETT, MRS HORACE.= Giddy Mrs Goodyer. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-11794
Over in Europe the war is raging, but the echoes of it that reach South Africa in this story are very faint. Little Mrs Goodyer comes down to the coast to visit friends. Once more accustomed to an easy way of life, she feels that she can never go back to the rough mining town in which her husband has kept her immured, and she decides to divorce him. Her friends refuse to have anything to do with the matter, a reputable lawyer tells her she has no case, but she persists and finds a lawyer who promises her the divorce, case or no case. She has got herself into a pretty tangle by the time the husband comes looking for her. To escape him and her troubles she sails for England. The husband engages passage on the same boat and a reconciliation is easily affected.
“The novel is amusing and smartly written, with a touch of cynicism, like a dash of paprika, to give it flavor. There is a good deal of clever character drawing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w
=TROWARD, THOMAS.= Law and the word. *$1.50 (3½c) McBride 131 17-16437
The author, who died in 1916, was one of the leading exponents of New thought. This book is made up of a collection of his essays and is prefaced by an appreciative foreword by Paul Derrick. Contents: Some facts in nature; Some psychic experiences; Man’s place in the creative order; The law of wholeness; The soul of the subject; The promises; Death and immortality; Transferring the burden.
=Ath= p520 O ‘17 80w
=Outlook= 117:101 S 19 ‘17 110w
=Pittsburgh= 22:699 O ‘17 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 220w
=TRYON, ROLLA MILTON.= Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860; a study in industrial history. *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 609 17-13932
“The book has been written by a historian and connects, throughout, the subject of household manufactures with the general economic and political history of the nation. ... The general plan of treatment involves a combination of the chronological and topical methods: For the colonial period ... the field has been covered with a very definite aim in view; the first, to determine and elucidate the various factors affecting household manufactures; the second, to connect these factors with real situations; the third, to consider the multifarious products of the family factory; and the fourth, to find evidences of the transfer from family to shop- and factory-made goods. The period from 1783 to 1810 has been treated chronologically with a view to showing influencing factors and amounts made, and topically for the purposes mentioned in three and four above. After 1810 the discussion has largely to do with the transition from home- to factory-made goods, and adapts itself admirably to a straightforward chronological treatment.” (El School J) This book has nineteen statistical tables and a bibliography of twenty pages. The author is assistant professor of the teaching of history in the University of Chicago.
“The book contains eight chapters of very unequal merit. ... It will be of value to the economic historian as a convenient and serviceable storehouse of data bearing on household manufacture. No other single volume known to the reviewer contains so much source material on the subject for the country as a whole. Unfortunately it is not well organized; it lacks proportion and emphasis, and is conspicuously weak in interpretation.” H. A. Wooster
* + – =Am Econ R= 7:848 D ‘17 1000w
“The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer of economic history must do more than this. Only by the constant application of the principles of economic science can he give an adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the reasons for its eventual decay and disappearance.” P. W. Bidwell
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:177 O ‘17 800w
“Carefully worked out, it connects the subject with the general economics and history work, and is useful as a reference book for history and household art and science teachers in high schools, normal schools and colleges. Good index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17
“Throughout the text are minutely worked out tables showing the growth or decline of these industries not only in the different states but in the counties which had the most influence on their status.”
+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w
“The present demand for material in the history courses will be partially satisfied by Mr Tryon’s book. To teachers of household arts, especially of textiles, it should make a very definite and detailed contribution in the account which it supplies of one phase of their work as it was done in the home prior to the time of its taking over by the school.”
+ =El School J= 17:769 Je ‘17 670w
“Many tables give valuable statistical data.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w
“Intended for the use of students, but of no little interest to the general reader, who will find here many homely facts about the life of his ancestors.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w
“The author has indicated clearly the relation of household manufactures to the social, political, and general industrial life of the people. He has used extensively the census returns, reports of the treasury department, and the records of many state and local historical societies in the choice and selection of his material. The variety of topics that Professor Tryon discusses being considered, it seems extraordinary that he has been able to confine his treatment to one volume. This he has done because of the method of his treatment, which has been both topical and chronological. The book answers a long-felt need in the field of industrial history and merits the thoughtful consideration of all school authorities and teachers of history.” R. E. Jordan
+ =School R= 25:526 S ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 300w
“A very interesting study.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p394 Ag 16 ‘17 250w
=TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT.=[2] New reservation of time, and other articles. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 304 16-23788
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17
“The impression a young man will get from this book is that to be institutionally responsible is to be intellectually suppressed and benumbed. Dr Tucker does not say this, but he gives the effect of a mind that has been a long time in prison, the implications of his philosophy are so radical and yet his thoughts move so stiffly in their harness. Here is a mind that has a driving radical force about it in any direction where it works openly and freely. Once discount the prison chill and you find Dr Tucker anything but a class-bound conservative. His pages, if brooded over by the ruling class with which one should have to identify him, would revolutionize our social order.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 12:111 Ag 25 ‘17 840w
“Dr Tucker exhibits the same restraint in the discussion of old-age compensation that he shows in the essays upon ‘Undergraduate scholarship’ and the war. In every case the reader will get a sense of the ‘intellectual austerity,’ as Dr Crothers once phrased it, of a thoughtful man with newly acquired time for thought. With America actively engaged in the war we can find an added interest in the essay on the ‘Ethical challenge of the war.’ Dr Tucker considers the war a contest between liberalism and reaction in which the United States is to play the part of keeping the issue always defined.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 19 ‘17 540w
=TUFTS, JAMES HAYDEN.=[2] Our democracy; its origins and its tasks. *$1.50 (1½c) Holt 321 17-27649
A book for the citizen and the prospective citizen who may want to know better what his country stands for. The writer devotes himself less to the machinery of our government than to the principles and ideas which the machinery is meant to serve. The book is divided into two parts: The beginnings of coöperation, order, and liberty, and Liberty, union, democracy in the new world.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:159 F ‘18 130w
“Excellent book ... in simple entertaining style.”
+ =Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 60w
=TURNER, ALFRED.= On falling in love, and other matters. il *$1.50 Dutton 824
“‘On falling in love and other matters’ contains twenty-seven little gossips in, one is tempted to say, Mr Francis Gribble’s boudoir—in other words, a quantity of very small talk about the amours of Byron, Burns, Keats, Shelley, etc., together with bits of innocent chit-chat on sundry literary topics. The frontispiece exhibits Lady Caroline Lamb in her page’s costume.”—Nation
“Although so much of the book is filled with well known facts and with old ideas, he infuses into it a tone of delicate sophistication, and quiet observation, which makes his essays pleasant if not inspiring reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 270w
“The love affairs of poets have a special interest for Mr Alfred Turner, ... while he also contributes a number of short and scholarly essays on a wider variety of themes, well calculated to hold the attention of any fairly well-read person. Such chapters as ‘A plea for the minor poet,’ ‘The poetry of new lands,’ and ‘The importance of the right word’ illustrate Mr Turner’s fondness for thought and expression that lie off the main highways of literature.”
+ — =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 240w
“It is a good book for a somnolent lady resting her nerves in a hammock, with a box of bon-bons underneath the bough.”
=Nation= 104:763 Je 28 ‘17 80w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 130w
“The author is editor of the London Evening Times. The first half of the book follows ... the love affairs of poets. But Mr. Turner handles his subject delicately and interestingly, and no one can complain that the author has been in search of scandal. His faculty for pleasant research and his knowledge of literature are better displayed in the subsequent chapters, in which, while his subjects are seemingly chosen at random, he writes unaffectedly and in a hearty manner that help to disabuse the newspaper reading public of the idea that there is something formidable and forbidding in the best authors.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 21 ‘17 270w
=TURNER, CHARLES CYRIL.= Aircraft of today; a popular account of the conquest of the air. il *$1.50 Lippincott 629.1 17-2690
“Beginning with a résumé of ancient allusions to flying, and some of the earlier experiments and projects, the author follows with chapters on the balloon; the first airships and aeroplanes; the aerial ocean, and navigation of the air; the principles of mechanical flight; the sensations experienced during ballooning and flying; learning to fly; the first years of flying; modern airship theory; the first use of aircraft in war; the developments of aerial fighting during the present war; and flying developments to come.”—Ath
“A popular, complete, well illustrated account of aircraft.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17
“A welcome and useful book.”
+ =Ath= p540 N ‘16 140w
“The author has been very successful in an attempt to concentrate the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space. Every page is full of facts, yet the book is quite readable and interesting. Much of the subject-matter will probably be new even to the great majority of experts.”
+ =Nature= 99:145 Ap 19 ‘17 900w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:318 Ap ‘17
“An appendix contains aviation world records, vocabulary of aeronautical terms, French technical terms, tables, and a bibliography. Author is a lieutenant in British service, and has written other books on aeronautics.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Peggy of Roundabout lane. il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24817
Some of the characters from the author’s two earlier stories for girls, “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres,” reappear in this new book. The heroine is Peggy Callahan, who is called on to assume the duties of housekeeper while her mother goes to the hospital. Peggy doesn’t like housework and she had set her heart on winning a scholarship in school. Thru all her trials she has the sympathy and encouragement of her friend Anne Lewis. Peggy fails to gain the scholarship—but wins something better.
“An unusually wholesome and pleasant story. Close akin to the Alcott books.”
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 150w
=Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w
=TURQUET-MILNES, G.= Some modern Belgian writers. *$1 McBride 839.3 (Eng ed 18-26090)
“Beginning with a discussion of ‘The renascence of Belgian letters’ the writer proceeds to a series of outlines of the work of Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Rodenbach, Lemonnier, Eekhoud, Max Elskamp, Charles van Lerberghe, the Destrée brothers and Courouble, the whole being preceded with a brief prefatory note by Edmund Gosse.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
“Mr Turquet-Milnes relates the circumstances of the founding of La Jeune Belgique by Max Waller, and the gathering about him of a group of bold and original Belgian young men who brought new life to the literature of their country. ... Excellent survey of Belgian literature.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 15 ‘17 720w
=Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w
“Its chief virtue lies not so much in the consideration bestowed upon individual talent as in the synthetic treatment of the movement as a whole. Taken all together, this book is one of the most conscientious and sympathetic critical surveys I have read on any literature. Furthermore, the author writes in a style that is virile and positive, and has a command of his subject that is a joy in these days when every schoolteacher sets up shop as critic. He sees his men in relation to their environment, to the earth from which they sprang, and having both vision and scholarship, he is able to measure them with an eye that is unusually clear.” L: Galantiere
+ =Dial= 63:388 O 25 ‘17 1800w
“Instructive and intelligent little book for those who seek information on the subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 D 21 ‘16 40w
=TUTTLE, MRS FLORENCE GUERTIN.= Give my love to Maria. *$1 Abingdon press 17-12390
“Twelve short stories make up the pages of ‘Give my love to Maria.’ Several of these short stories won prizes offered by magazines [several years ago.]” (Springf’d Republican) “Contents: The story of the stories; Give my love to Maria; The French doll’s dowry; Idols of gold; As shown by the tape; Cupid at forty; A wingless victory; A successful failure; What doth it profit a man? Mademoiselle; Gentlemen unafraid; ‘Unto them a child.’” (N Y Br Lib News)
“Cleverness and insight they undoubtedly possess.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ‘17 340w
“Pleasing tales.”
+ =Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 40w
“‘Give my love to Maria’ contains stories with excellent plots, but there is a crudeness in their execution.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 280w
“The stories show originality and clearness, and some understanding of the human problem.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 70w
=TWOMBLY, FRANCIS DOANE, and DANA, JOHN COTTON=, comps. Romance of labor. il *55c (1c) Macmillan 16-23236
The compilers have selected “scenes from good novels depicting joy in work.” They say in their preface: “Young people are to-day more earnestly than ever before seeking for light to guide them to the places in the workshops of the world for which they are best fitted. Surely some of that light can be found in descriptions of those workshops written by writers of insight and imagination, like our novelists. Hence this book.” Among the selections are: The diver, from “Caleb West,” by F. Hopkinson Smith; Reclaiming the desert, from “The winning of Barbara Worth,” by Harold Bell Wright; Pottery, from “Brunel’s Tower,” by Eden Phillpotts; Cigar making, from “V. V’s eyes,” by Henry S. Harrison; The stock-yards, from “The jungle,” by Upton Sinclair; The cattle drive, from “Arizona nights,” by Stewart Edward White.
=A L A Bkl= 13:360 My ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
“An ingenious selection and arrangement of scenes from novels which picture the real work of the world in various industries.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 20w
=School R= 25:143 F ‘17 50w
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=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Theophanies; a book of verse. *$1.50 Dutton 821 17-5732
“Mystic and philosopher, both characters definitely clothe themselves in Miss Underhill’s verse. She has written most often upon mysticism, but the mysticism which reveals itself in her verse is not of the character which contents itself with symbols or the undefined, but always into the midst of her visions breaks the mood of questioning, and she falls to analyzing. ... Even melting into each other as they do the moods are distinctly separate in origin and remain through her poems quite distinguishable.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 50w
“Though there are passages of very pure poetry here, it is her thought rather than her manner of expressing it which remains with us.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 950w
“The poems on spiritual themes are not convincing, but ‘Any Englishwoman,’ altho it is a slight thing for so great a tragedy to inspire, seems to be as sincere as it is imaginative and well phrased.”
=Lit D= 54:714 Mr 17 ‘17 260w
“The austere note of distinction, restraint, and painstaking selection is its chief characteristic. ... That these poems will not appeal to the multitude is inevitable. They breathe and have their being in too fine an atmosphere for that. ... Despite popular criticism, in the proper meaning of the term, she is certainly not a mystic. Rather is she a rapt and adoring pantheist.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 380w
+ =R of Rs= 55:436 Ap ‘17 260w
+ =Spec= 118:339 Mr 17 ‘17 100w
“Mystic and mystical are terms that have long been in fashionable currency. ... Miss Evelyn Underhill has done more than any living English writer to redeem them and to clarify their true significance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p499 O 19 ‘16 900w
=UNDERWOOD, JOHN CURTIS.= War flames. *$1.35 Macmillan 811 17-12602
The poems of this book are for the most part long descriptive or narrative pieces in free verse, grouped by countries, Belgium, Germany, France, England, etc. In a prefatory note the author acknowledges indebtedness to various books, magazines and newspaper articles “from which material for many of his poems has been adapted directly, in part.”
“He ends, by sheer tireless weight of creative energy, in overwhelming the reader physically rather than emotionally. ... Such work is valuable for its influence on the poetic consciousness of the age rather than for itself. It is the material for new poetic coinage. At the same time it would be unfair to Mr Underwood not to admit that he has written a vivid and suggestive book, even if it is not entirely successful as poetry.” Conrad Aiken
+ — =Dial= 63:56 Jl 19 ‘17 420w
“Mr Underwood has made prose poems, each one a realistic picture or story of the meaning of the great war in individual lives. They are very bravely and beautifully written, conceived with the utmost gravity and sincerity of spirit. No war book has seemed to me to possess a greater dignity.”
+ =Ind= 91:513 S 29 ‘17 350w
=Pittsburgh= 22:647 O ‘17 10w
“There have been many books of war poems since 1914, but none so comprehensive, so athrill with the spirit that now animates America, the feeling that the cause of humanity and the divine principle of democracy are at stake, as ‘War flames.’ ... ‘The Marne,’ ‘The Lavoir,’ ‘Roads in France,’ and ‘Spring in Picardy’ touch the fount of the inspiration that gave the Marseillaise to Rouget de l’Isle.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 170w
=UNITED STATES. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION.= National service handbook. il gratis Committee on public information, Washington, D.C. 17-26652
“This book of two hundred and fifty pages is a highly condensed compendium of information. ... Some of the larger headings are the maintenance of standards of labor; welfare and philanthropic service at home; agencies for European war relief, the names and addresses of over a hundred being listed; religious organizations doing service; the capacities in which professional men and women can be of use; the financing of the war; the special impact of war on industry and commerce; agriculture and food supply; medical and nursing service—all this and more, besides full information as to the various lines of service in army, navy and aviation.”—New Repub
“The usefulness of the book for reference purposes in libraries and newspaper offices, and for any individual who has some service to offer and wishes to know where and how to present it can hardly be overestimated.” J. D.
+ =New Repub= 12:139 S 1 ‘17 440w
=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 40w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= These times. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-10978
The poems of this book are arranged in groups: The wave; Thirteen portraits; Havens; Dick [six poems for a child]; Battle-cries; Youth moralizes; Two rebels. Many of them are reprinted from magazines, The Century, Yale Review, The Masses, The Poetry Review, and others.
“Rich in feeling but poor in artistry. Even when most successful he needs to concentrate and purify his verse and eliminate the dross from his metal. His ideas are bold, but he is too apt to philosophize and divagate, and mar his pictures with hasty, random strokes and coarse metaphors.” E: Garnett
– + =Atlan= 120:368 S ‘17 270w
“Perhaps the most arresting quality of Mr Untermeyer’s work—the more so because it is so rare in our twentieth-century singers—is its complete objectivity. There is nothing of morbid introspection. ... His outlook is essentially clear and wholesome.” R. T. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Untermeyer’s ease in Delphi is comparable to that of some other persons in Zion. He profits by the restraints of brevity and the stanza; in space and freedom he unbends. He has a pleasant, buoyant lyric movement, rising sometimes to high resonance as in ‘Poetry,’ and his possession of the art that curves and crisps an epigram is demonstrated in ‘Faith,’ ‘A portrait,’ and ‘An old maid.’” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:244 S 6 ‘17 420w
“One is grateful to Mr Untermeyer because he takes beauty into account, because he feels it, strives for it, and often, as he deserves, wins it for his own. For beauty too is grateful to Mr Untermeyer, one may fancy, and shines out through his work in many places. ... One trouble with Mr Untermeyer, indeed, is that he is not half enough content to be the good poet that he is. He is possessed of a gift and of a specialized, rather naïve philosophy of life, and his gift distinctly suffers for it. For life presents itself to him too much as being merely blind activity. ... Mr Untermeyer has fire, but it is not that which needs chastening. It is imagination he needs, the imagination of contemplation—the other half of poetry.” M. T.
– + =New Repub= 13:189 D 15 ‘17 1600w
“One section of the book, ‘Thirteen portraits,’ lives up to the promise of the former volume. ... Mr Untermeyer is at his happiest in the more formal rhymes. ... When we come to his attempts at polyrhythmic poetry, the less said the more charity.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Untermeyer’s clearest claim as a poet lies rather in a certain gray, flickering, now-you-see-it-and-now-you-don’t quality of imagination that flashes here and there upon his pages. It is the quality which made him so good a translator of Heine; possibly it is what makes him so delightful a parodist of other poets.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 1000w
“The book is longer than his previous volume, ‘Challenge’ and has greater variety of contents. ‘Thirteen portraits’ are the best work in the book, for they afford the author a display of his technical gifts, his easy satire and cleverness of phrase. ‘Eve’ and ‘Moses,’ two pretentious poems in blank verse, are less satisfactory than the lyrics, which are beautiful and most melodious.”
+ — =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 300w
“Mr Untermeyer has included too much in ‘These times.’ The best of his volume has his well-known qualities—a trenchant expression, an intolerance of social injustice, and an exhilaration in the force and beauty of nature, the strength and beauty of human affection. But there are poems here which are journalistic; that is, they interest us for the moment and we never return to them. ... The poet has grown intellectually since his first volume.” E: B. Reed
+ — =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 200w
=UPDEGRAFF, ALLAN.= Second youth; being, in the main, some account of the middle comedy in the life of a New York bachelor. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-12137
One can only believe that the rejuvenescence experienced by Roland Farwell Francis, somewhere between thirty and thirty-five, was in reality a first youth. Surely the deferential silk salesman as we first meet him, with his sideburns, gold-rimmed spectacles and black cutaway, had never been young. On Monday, March 13th, Mr Francis made an entry in his personal journal: “Noted another customer in particular to-day. Bought five yards of that new wild geranium.” Mr Francis had, as the note implies, noted other customers in particular, and he does not know at the time how very particular this one is to become, or that with the sale of five yards of the new wild geranium his youth is to begin. Mr Francis’s mild, but none the less amazing adventures will be followed with interest to their satisfactory close, when a feminine hand makes the final entry in the personal journal.
“Mr Updegraff’s first novel is so good that our first thought is one of wonder that he has kept us waiting all these years for it—years, to be sure, which have not been barren, for he has vitally aroused our interest by his poetry and his shorter fiction.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 1400w
“In America we have not enough of this sort of light-handed humor. There is a touch of farce in the postulated situation, which you have to grant and are very willing to grant. Once that is granted or accepted, you move along in a romantic adventure which is conducted in the true spirit of comedy. The material is of the quality that ought to make good plays.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 63:114 Ag 16 ‘17 120w
“It is all absurd enough if you choose to make it so, but in the performance it has touches of characterization and serious feeling which keep it clear of the farcical and fairly entitle it to esteem as a bit of graceful and sympathetic human comedy.”
+ — =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 200w
“It is as comedy that the story will most appeal—refined comedy of character, situation and manner, delicately portrayed and never lacking in genuine appreciation of the very things that are the subjects of its humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 600w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:751 N ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
=USSHER, CLARENCE DOUGLAS, and KNAPP, GRACE HIGLEY.=[2] American physician in Turkey. il *$1.75 Houghton 17-27881
“Dr Ussher went to Turkey about twenty years ago as a medical missionary. The call was sudden and urgent, but as soon as he could transfer his medical practice he sailed from Boston in the early spring of 1898, reaching Constantinople in June. His earlier experience had included the course in a theological seminary in Philadelphia and therefore he was as well fitted, if not better, for missionary work than many who are called upon to serve in that direction in foreign lands. After a period of travel, Dr Ussher established a hospital, hiring a private house for the purpose and being forced to overcome many obstacles. The closing chapters of this book tell of the massacres and deportations in Van and other provinces of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 12 ‘17 1000w
“Contains illuminating information with respect to the operation of the Turks in Armenia during the early months of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:59 F 17 ‘18 70w
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w
“Deserves wide reading on several counts.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 19 ‘18 490w
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=VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY.= Fishpingle; a romance of the countryside. *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-15975
Fishpingle, butler to Sir Geoffrey Pomfret, is the leading character in this story. He stands in close relation to the family, and is involved in the love affairs of Alfred, the first footman, and Prudence, the still-room maid, and of Lionel, only son of Sir Geoffrey, and Joyce, the parson’s daughter. The author tells us in his preface that there is an “obvious purpose underlying the adventures and misadventures of the story.” This purpose is to picture the type of country squire who is a “true lover of the soil but helplessly ignorant of its potentialities,” and to make clear that this type of man is likely to become extinct unless he justifies his claim to existence by sticking to the land and concentrating his undivided energies upon it. The author’s comedy, “Fishpingle,” was produced at the Haymarket theater in 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
“Those familiar with the comedy seen at the Haymarket theatre may remember that the piece was reviewed at some length in the Athenæum for June, 1916. Mr Vachell now provides people who do not or cannot go to a theatre with the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a modern Admirable Crichton.”
=Ath= p416 Ag ‘17 50w
“A bit of very British comedy based upon a rather flimsy and perfunctory mystery. It might make a good movie-play, and that is the best we can say for it.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w
“All that can be seriously commended in ‘Fishpingle,’ besides the title, is the attempt, rather half-hearted, to discuss in fictional terms the problem of the passing of England’s landed gentry. Beyond that, it is simply a conventionally cheerful story of the variety termed pleasant.”
– + =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w
“A smooth piece of writing, the work of an expert but uninspired craftsman. The book is neither stupid not sensational. It is a novel for the middle-class mind.” Harry Salpeter
+ — =NY Call= p15 O 14 ‘17 1000w
“The tale is an interesting and a pleasant one, and it is told with a good deal of the charm that made ‘Quinneys’ so thoroughly delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 550w
“There are two delightful characters in this book—the old-time English country squire and his butler. ... Apart from these two characters the story is hardly equal to many of Mr Vachell’s previous admirable novels.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“Sounds a warning to English landholders that they must modernize their methods of farming on scientific lines, or be ‘scrapped.’ The serious note, however, is submerged in a charming story, in which the author creates another delightful character somewhat after the type of the quaint Quinney. But the serious note is not so completely hidden that the indictment of antiquated farming methods in England can not be readily discerned. The story ranks with the author’s best.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w
=VAIZEY, JESSIE (BELL) (MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY) (JESSIE MANSERGH).= Betty Trevor. il *$1.25 (2c) Putnam
A story for girls. Betty is an English girl, daughter of a busy London doctor, and one of a big family of brothers and sisters. The Trevors live in an old-fashioned house on Brompton square. At the opening of the story they are new to the neighborhood and are finding their chief amusement in inventing romantic life histories for their neighbors. One of these is the “Pampered Pet,” a young girl of Betty’s age who appears to have too many of the good things of the world. But on nearer acquaintance she proves to be anything but the little snob they have pictured her. As the young people grow older they accept responsibilities and find their places in life. It is one of those stories that are on the borderline between girls’ books and grown-up novels.
“It has more substance, better character drawing than is commonly found, a somewhat romantic plot and very real human interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 100w
“A clean, wholesome little volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
=VALLINGS, GABRIELLE.= Bindweed. *$1.50 (1c) Dodd (Eng ed 17-5403)
Eugénie Massini, a young girl with a beautiful voice, attracts the notice of Mme Périntot, a teacher of singing, who interests herself in the girl and offers to take her as a pupil. But she encounters the opposition of Eugénie’s aunt, a harsh peasant woman, who lives in fear that the girl may follow in the footsteps of a wayward mother. But, learning that the girl is already in danger from the attentions of Gaston Hypolite, an opera singer, she puts her under the wise care of Mme Périntot. Gaston, however, is not to be put off. He persists, with no other intention than that of making Eugénie his mistress. In the meantime the aunt, from long brooding on the girl’s possible fate, has gone insane. She attempts revenge on Gaston. From this experience he emerges a wiser man, and, having been won over to Eugénie’s own high conception of love, asks her hand in marriage.
“This new writer shows no mean power of characterization, inherited no doubt from her Kingsley ancestry. She can also create atmosphere and steep her readers in scenes from life. The development of her theme, on the other hand, reveals little deep truth and thought.”
+ — =Ath= p482 O ‘16 90w
“‘Pamela,’ warmed up in the French fashion and boiled down to one-fourth of its traditional length. ... The book promises no great distraction for those readers who care to have their authors look upon life neither through a rose- nor a yellow-tinted medium.”
— =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 90w
“The author is apparently familiar with certain phases of French life and her dialogue is often good, but lack of skill in the handling of the novel as a whole combines with its too great length to make it drag badly and fail to hold one’s interest.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:211 My 27 ‘17 420w
=VANDERBLUE, HOMER BEWS.= Railroad valuation. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays) *$1.50 Houghton 385 17-10693
A scientific study of one of the big problems before the Interstate commerce commission. It is not only a study in the economics of railroads but also a study in the economics of the distribution of income. Contents: Valuation and regulation; Physical valuation—“Cost of reproduction”—Land; Physical valuation—“Cost of reproduction”—Capital goods; Physical valuation—Unimpaired investment; The intangible elements of “fair value”; The return to the railroad; Bibliography; Index.
“Mr Vanderblue’s scientific study is a masterful resumé of varied, undigested, unassimilated, and discordant views and data, but it does not clear the atmosphere nor lift the smoke of battle.” A. M. Sakolski
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:632 S ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p80 Je ‘17 20w
“This book deals perforce with many legal problems of the past, and Dr Vanderblue covers these phases in a clear and praiseworthy manner. The unfortunate point is that the entire work appears colorless. It is a pity that Dr Vanderblue has not given a more individual treatment embodying his own ideas on a subject so much in the public mind. The present work is rather on the order of a summary of what has been accomplished.”
+ — =Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 350w
“The book is non-partisan in its attitude toward the problem, but highly technical and not to be recommended for popular reading.”
=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 130w
“The analysis of the principles of valuation for rate-making is the most complete, most closely reasoned, and altogether the best general exposition of the subject extant. The most important contribution of the work is its criticism of the practices of valuation. The author, however, radically overestimates the importance of the inevitable inaccuracy.” S. H. Slichter
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:98 Ja ‘18 500w
“An interesting and valuable piece of criticism of a destructive kind. ... The available material has been well digested and its presentation is lucid and concise. Nevertheless, we cannot but wish that the author had introduced his discussion of detail by a positive and constructive statement of fundamental principles.”
+ — =Nation= 104:657 My 31 ‘17 700w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17
=VAN DYKE, HENRY.= Fighting for peace. *$1.25 Scribner 940.91 17-30303
“Dr Van Dyke last spring resigned his position as minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg, which he had held for four years, in order to be free to come home and write for the enlightenment of his fellow-countrymen of the doings of Germany as he had seen and known them. This book is one of the results of that action. Parts of it have appeared in recent numbers of Scribner’s Magazine, but to these he has added chapters on the causes of the war and the kind of peace for which we are fighting.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18
“No contribution to the literary or strictly informative output of the war has been read with keener interest.” F. P. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 930w
“There is not much that is new in Dr Van Dyke’s account of the coming and the conduct of the war, but what he tells of the things he saw himself—and he saw much—has the interest of personal experience and the weight of personal indictment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 700w
“To anyone who may be in doubt about the anomaly of fighting for peace we strongly recommend Dr Van Dyke’s volume.” A. O.
+ =Pub W= 92:2026 D 8 ‘17 440w
“Dr Van Dyke speaks with no uncertain note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p51 Ja 31 ‘18 980w
=VAN DYKE, HENRY.= Red flower. *50c Scribner 811 17-31290
“Dr Van Dyke’s experience as minister to Holland made him as it were a spiritual eyewitness to the inner consciousness of the war on both sides, and what this little book presents is a kind of verse report of what he felt rather than saw. ... Slender as this collection is, it is well defined in grouping, and through ‘Premonition,’ ‘The trial by fire,’ ‘France and Belgium,’ ‘Interludes in Holland,’ to ‘Enter America,’ he strikes the salient notes of the war from its beginning to his return home in the spring of this year. The little book is a memorial of the poet’s experience with the effect of this war upon his spirit and lays stress upon those notes that have a moral and national righteousness in the conflict.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 800w
+ =N Y Times= 23:39 F 3 ‘18 90w
“Some of the most melodious lyrics given us by Dr Van Dyke’s ripened and finely tempered poetic talent are in this little book. Notable among them are: ‘The bells of Malines,’ and ‘The Oxford thrushes.’”
+ =R of Rs= 57:105 Ja ‘18 100w
=VAN KLEECK, MARY.= Seasonal industry. il *$1.50 (3c) Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-14558
In her investigation of the millinery trade in New York city Miss Van Kleeck “has penetrated to the one all-effecting aspect of the industry—its ‘appalling irregularity.’ ... In view of the constant depression upon wages by unemployment, the keen competition of a trade attracting a tremendous supply of labor, and the unorganized state of the industry (some slight attempt to unionize the workers is now being made), Miss Van Kleeck urges public control of the industry through the establishment of a minimum wage board and describes the beneficial results of such a system in Victoria. Around the central fact of the seasonal character of the millinery trade Miss Van Kleeck groups many interesting and valuable details. ... Throughout the study, comments by the workers themselves and pictures of their struggle to make both ends meet illuminate ‘dry-as-dust’ statistics.” (Survey) There are many tables, four appendices, and a number of illustrations.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
=Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 160w
=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18
“Miss Van Kleeck brings a point of view and a directness of attack to her field of study which make her conclusions convincing. Especially is this true of her demand for some sort of effective public regulation of the trade in the interest of the welfare of the workers.”
+ =Dial= 63:349 O 11 ‘17 170w
“Miss Van Kleeck’s exhaustive survey of enough facts to justify valid general conclusions becomes almost meticulous in its conscientiousness. Comparative tables and charts and median curves, all the technical instruments of the newer and more scientific method of sociological investigation, abound. ... The main outlines of the condition in the trade emerge with sharp enough emphasis to give the general reader a correct orientation. And for the special student there are the intricate and innumerable details. ... It is a real labor of love, the kind that is always distasteful to the easy theorizer. ‘A seasonal industry’ is a piece of first-class investigation and analysis.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:55 Ag 11 ‘17 900w
=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17
“Noteworthy for the amount of up-to-date information it contains regarding an industry of which comparatively little is known outside the ranks of the workers employed in it.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 50w
“Part of the study was begun as early as 1908, when the Committee on women’s work was connected with the Alliance employment bureau. Later when the committee became a department of the Russell Sage foundation it directed the inquiry into the millinery trade for the Factory investigating commission of New York. Although the material has apparently been brought down to date, the interviews with employers and employes were held between 1908 and 1912, and the payroll study was made in 1914. Delays in getting the data into print somewhat invalidate the use of the statistics for present quotation.” M. C.
+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 820w
=VAN LOAN, CHARLES EMMETT.= Old man Curry. il *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25513
Stories about horses and horse racing make up this volume. The publishers announce that it is the first of a series by the author “dealing with the major sports of American life.” Old man Curry, a veteran horseman, with a faculty for adapting the wisdom of Solomon to his own ends, is the central character in the stories. Contents: Levelling with Elisha; Playing even for Obadiah; By a hair; The last chance; Sanguinary Jeremiah; Eliphaz, late Fairfax; The redemption handicap; A morning workout; Egyptian corn; The modern judgment of Solomon.
“Holds interest both because of the well depicted action of the race track, and the astute quaintness of the principal character. It is a story men will like.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“They will find appreciation with devotees of the track and the paddock, as they have all the excitement and the dash of life on the turf.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 150w
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 60w
“Not since David Harum delighted his country-wide audience with the garnered wisdom of the rustic world have we had a hero whose talk was such a mosaic of wise saws.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:390 O 7 ‘17 200w
=VAN SCHAICK, GEORGE GRAY.= Top-floor idyl. il *$1.50 (1½c) Small 17-23651
“David Cole, who tells the story, is a middle-aged bachelor, a writer, quite content with his modest room on the top floor of Mrs Milliken’s boarding house, near Washington square, and his friendship for Frieda Long, an artist and a spinster, fat, good-heartedness personified. One day, however, it chances that the room across the hall from David’s is engaged by the young American widow of a French soldier killed in the battle of the Marne. Her baby arrives before it is expected, and David ... interests himself in the welfare of the young mother and her little Paul. ... Of course there is a love story, and everything comes out splendidly in the end.”—N Y Times
“Will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“Mr Van Schaick’s new novel is a sort of fairy tale with the ogres and witches left out. With a single exception every character in the book of any importance—the baby included—is as good as gold. Some of them are considerably better. ... Touches of fun do much to relieve its sentimentality.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 300w
=VAN TESLAAR, JAMES S.= When I was a boy in Roumania. (Children of other lands books) il *75c (3c) Lothrop 17-13431
After coming to America, the author studied in the University of California, completed a medical course, and is now a practicing physician. In this book he has written the story of his boyhood for American children. He writes of: How the Roumanians dress; Play time; Life in the hills; Taming the forces of nature; Out-of-door amusements; The Roumanian’s national pastime: dancing; Roumanian music, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 14:29 O ‘17
“Gives a clear picture of Roumanian national life.”
+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
+ =St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 30w
“This book, though written especially for the young, will give any reader an adequate idea of the habits, methods of study, amusements of the people of this once happy land.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 110w
=VAN VALKENBURGH, AGNES=, comp. Selected articles on military training in schools and colleges, including military camps. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 355.07 17-9594
The material in this debaters’ handbook considers the question: “Resolved: That a system of compulsory military training in schools and colleges should be adopted by the United States.” It consists of brief, bibliography and selected reprints. In the section devoted to General discussion various plans for military training, including the Swiss and Australian systems are outlined. Affirmative and Negative discussion follows. At the close there is a small group of articles concerning military camps.
“A timely volume.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
“This book will prove of considerable value, as the compiler has introduced much of the wisest theory that has been expressed on both sides of the question.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 10w
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 30w
“The compiler has been commendably impartial.”
+ =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:327 Ap ‘17
“Topic leaves room for another book on the general question of compulsory military training and compulsory service. The London Nation can be drawn upon for eloquent arguments against conscription.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 60w
“Miss Van Valkenburgh’s selection of material covers a wide range, from publications of the United States war college to educational journals and soldier’s notes. It seems to be a trifle weak on suggestions of methods for getting the good of military training without the bad, that is, on a strong program of physical education.” W. D. L.
+ — =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“The section discussing military training camps will be specially useful.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 70w
=VAN VALKENBURGH, AGNES=, comp. Selected articles on national defense; v. 2, including compulsory military service. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 355.7 17-12949
“Volume one of ‘National defense,’ compiled by Corinne Bacon, was published in September, 1915, and was followed in January, 1916, by ‘Advance sheets’ of volume two. A small portion of the material in the ‘Advance sheets’ is reprinted here, notably the president’s message to Congress, December 7, 1915. ... The questions of aviation and submarine warfare are considered here only incidentally, and the allied topics of military training in schools and colleges and non-resistance are omitted altogether since handbooks have been published on these subjects. Since the question of compulsory military service is of especial interest at present, this phase of the subject has been selected for the brief.” (Explanatory note)
“Has a very complete and partly annotated bibliography (34p.).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17
“Most useful.”
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 30w
“A desirable addition to the table of readers who wish to hear both sides of a first-class social question and keep abreast of the deeper current of daily events.” W. E. K.
+ =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 190w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 50w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Interpreters and interpretations. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 780.4 17-29869
A collection of papers by the author of “Music and bad manners” and “Music after the great war.” Some of them are reprinted from the Bellman, the Musical Quarterly, and other periodicals. The papers are divided into the two groups suggested by the title. The interpreters comprising the first group, are Olive Fremstad; Geraldine Farrar; Mary Garden; Feodor Chaliapine; Mariette Mazarin; Yvette Guilbert; and Waslav Nijinsky. Among the essays included as Interpretations are The problem of style in the production of opera; Notes on the “Armide” of Gluck; The importance of electrical picture concerts; Why music is unpopular. In “The great American composer,” another essay of the group, the author makes a spirited plea for appreciation of ragtime. In “Modern musical fiction,” he reviews recent novels on musical themes.
=Cleveland= p11 Ja ‘18 40w
“Mr Van Vechten’s most pronounced opinions seem to be on the favorable arena which the ‘movies’ offer for good symphonic programs, and on the duty of the American composer to build his art on the indigenous raciness of Irving Berlin rather than on the classic forms. He is no more explicit than the other critics, however, as to how the composer is to use this material. ... The proportion between scholarship and thought is not maintained. In the present book there might be more of the latter commodity.”
– + =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 180w
“All who enjoy a discussion of things and people musical from the human rather than the academic standpoint will find much to interest them in ‘Interpreters and interpretations.’” Lavergne Miller
+ =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 330w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Music and bad manners. *$1.50 Knopf 780.4 16-23824
“The title essay of this little volume is a running commentary on the personal peculiarities of certain great musicians. Of more permanent value is the chapter on ‘Spain and music,’ which is said to be the first attempt in English to classify and describe Spanish music and composers.” (R of Rs) Other papers are, Music for the movies, Wagner’s ideals, The bridge burners, A new principle in music, Leo Ornstein.
“Excellent essays in musical criticism, popular but scholarly, and distinguished by clarity and humor. The monograph on Spanish music is a specially valuable study in a little known field.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:208 F ‘17
“The description of Spanish dance music and dances is exceedingly interesting as well as enlightening, and the whole chapter has a distinct value in acquainting the reader with the musical progress of a musical people whose records are nowhere adequately presented in English. ... It is impossible to test the theories and suggestions in these essays by any chemistry or mechanics. Their soundness or unsoundness can only be eventually a matter of history. But the essayist has his eyes turned in a promising direction, and his views will meet the approval of many close students of modern music.” Russell Ramsey
+ =Dial= 62:21 Ja 11 ‘17 1650w
+ =Lit D= 54:567 Mr 3 ‘17 130w
“Carl Van Vechten is fundamentally and whole-heartedly progressive. ... One of his longest essays, and the one most interesting to the general reader and music lover, ‘The bridge burners,’ is largely a refutation of Richard Aldrich’s criticisms, published in the New York Times. ... Last in the series is a sketch of Leo Ornstein, which throws new light on the psychology of that remarkable genius.” La Vergne Miller
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 25 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:317 Ap ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:219 F ‘17 50w
=VANZYPE, GUSTAVE.= Mother Nature; Progress; two Belgian plays; tr. by Barrett H. Clark. *$1.25 Little 842 17-28823
There is an eight page introduction by the translator on Gustave Vanzype and the modern Belgian drama. In this Mr Clark states that “Vanzype believes that dramatists ought to use the stage as a pulpit.” “Mother Nature” (“La souveraine”) deals with the yearnings of a disappointed wife for motherhood. “Progress” (“Les étapes”) shows the struggle between succeeding generations; how the rising generation must always attack what the preceding generation seems to have established. It is the story of a family in which father, son-in-law, and grandson are all doctors. Both plays are said to have been successfully produced in Belgium.
“The first play is artificial; the second is much more moving and its theme seems to work out naturally in the conflict of characters and events.”
+ — =Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 100w
“Vanzype is said to be one of the most successful of his fellow-dramatists in depicting the character of the modern Belgian, and his plays, therefore, give an insight into the hearts and souls of the little nation whose heroism has won the admiration of the world.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 190w
=R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w
=VEATCH, ARTHUR CLIFFORD.= Quito to Bogotá. il *$3 Doran 918.6 17-15087
“In ‘Quito to Bogotá’ A. C. Veatch, who is a well-known British engineer, and the author of several books of travel, gives a narrative of a trip over the Andes from the capital of Ecuador to that of Colombia. His traveling companion was Lord Murray, a Scottish peer, who furnishes a readable introduction to the main work.”—N Y Times
“Holds more interest to the man planning an actual journey in the country or who is considering it as a field for commercial enterprise than to the arm chair traveler.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
“His is the careful study of a trained traveller, geographer and geologist, and it is prepared with a sympathetic touch that must please all lovers of these northern regions of South America.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 330w
“Its business basis doubtless explains the lack of personal element in the book, altho that, too, lies often in the personality of the writer. Long, technical, and comprehensive narrative.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 300w
“The author makes you see what meets his own eye, and you have the benefit of the deductions from what he sees in addition.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 500w
=Outlook= 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 100w
=VEBLEN, THORSTEIN B.= Inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 327 17-16855
Professor Veblen has extended the investigation into the nature of peace begun by Immanuel Kant “into a field of inquiry which in Kant’s time still lay over the horizon of the future.” He says “The intrinsic merits of peace at large, as against those of warlike enterprise, it should be said, do not here come in question. That question lies in the domain of preconceived opinion, so that for the purposes of this inquiry it will have no significance except as a matter to be inquired into; the main point of the inquiry being the nature, causes and consequences of such a preconception favoring peace, and the circumstances that make for a contrary preconception in favor of war.” Contents: Introductory: On the state and its relation to war and peace; On the nature and uses of patriotism; On the conditions of a lasting peace; Peace without honour; Peace and neutrality; Elimination of the unfit; Peace and the price system. In chapter 3, On the conditions of a lasting peace, the imperialistic aims of Germany and Japan are examined. In the next chapter, Peace without honour, the beneficial results of non-resistance as exemplified in China are discussed. In the last chapter the author comes to what is to him the heart of the matter, the menace to peace inherent in the capitalist system.
“Among books [dealing with the problem of readjustment after the war] there can be found few if any manifesting a deeper penetration or a more impartial treatment of the mode of securing a permanent peace and of the obstacles which lie in the way of it than this volume by Professor Veblen. It is a dispassionate, objective, and uncompromising treatment of a most important subject. It is written in an attractive style. Droll humor lights up a page now and then, and in the treatment of the foibles of men and nations there is the trenchant irony that is characteristic of the style Veblenesque.” I. W. Howerth
+ + — =Am J Soc= 23:408 N ‘17 2200w
=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“Mr Veblen’s manner of writing is symphonic; what he repeats is not repetition in the common sense of the word; no idea is quite the same after he has stated it twice or even three times. The theme may be the same, but the complex working out of the theme gives it the value of an entirely new composition. Above all there stands a masterly intellect, holding the various strands of fact and thought securely in its grasp and weaving them into patterns of compelling truth.” M. S. Handman
+ =Dial= 62:514 Je 14 ‘17 1700w
“Written in the author’s usual flowing and ironical style, always crisp though often wordy. The reader who has plenty of time will enjoy reading all that Mr Veblen has to say; the hurried reader will gather all that Mr Veblen means by skipping the last half of nearly every paragraph. ... Perhaps the most interesting thing in his book is the very definite set of peace terms which he proposes.”
=Nation= 105:14 Jl 5 ‘17 1100w
“Thorstein Veblen is an American, was graduated from an American university, in the ‘eighties, and has been teaching in American universities ever since. ... It is hard intellectual labor to read any of his books, and to skim him is impossible. ... This new book of his, finished February, 1917, is, so far as I know, the most momentous work in English on the encompassment of lasting peace. ... The recommendation of Mr Veblen is not merely the recommendation of a great philosopher of industrialism. It is not his relentless logic alone that elevates him. It is the democratic bias which ‘The nature of peace’ indicates.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 11:113 My 26 ‘17 2050w
“The work abounds in the peculiar quiet irony that marks many of his previous works, notably the famous ‘Theory of the leisure class.’ The reasoning is the dialectic method applied by Marx and other great socialist writers, and in this method Veblen is a past master.” J. W.
+ =N Y= Call p14 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“It is only when one reaches the final phase of Mr Veblen’s argument that one clearly perceives that the whole work is, in effect, a bitter criticism of the existing social order. Yet, at lowest, Mr Veblen’s analysis is clarifying and his warnings are well-timed.”
+ — =No Am= 206:633 O ‘17 1500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:701 O ‘17 40w
“It may be urged against his latest book that it is little more than an elaborate statement of orthodox socialism, and so perhaps it is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 1150w
“This book is written for the student; no concessions are made to the general reader in the way of index or manageable chapter-divisions. The compensation will be found in a lucidity of exposition, wealth of vocabulary and epigrammatic crispness which mark all Dr Veblen’s works. The book will do much to stimulate American and English readers to clearer thinking on the task now confronting world-statesmanship.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:554 S 22 ‘17 1050w
“We have seldom read a book written in a style so repellently ponderous.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 70w
=VENIZELOS, ELEUTHERIOS.= Greece in her true light; tr. by Socrates A. Xanthaky and Nicholas G: Sakellarios. $2 Sakellarios and Xanthaky, 56 W. 30th St., N.Y. 949.5 16-25135
The book consists of “a collection of speeches of M. Venizelos. These speeches of a man who is not only the greatest statesman of Greece, but one of the greatest statesmen of his generation, aim to express the policy and situation of Greece in the world war.” (Educ R) “For the greater part the work deals with the events of the past two years. We have in full the two memoranda of advice addressed by Mr Venizelos to King Constantine, and the expounding of his policy before the Greek parliament. Also an address drawn up by Venizelos and adopted by the people at Athens in August of the present year for presentation to the king. Well condensed chapters in the book tell of the public career of Venizelos, his share in the work for the union of his native island Crete with Greece, his part in national Greek politics, leading the reform movement in Athens, his statesmanship in making possible the alliance of the Balkan states, his share in the London conference after the war with Turkey, his work in preparing Greece for the second Balkan war and his representing Greece at the Bucharest conference after that war.” (Boston Transcript)
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“A human document of exceptional importance and fascinating interest. ... The translation has been excellently done.”
+ =Educ R= 54:422 N ‘17 80w
=VERDAVAINE, GEORGES.= Pictures of ruined Belgium; 72 pen and ink sketches drawn on the spot by L: Berden. *$3 (3½c) Lane 940.91 17-25516
Monsieur Verdavaine is art critic of the Independence Belge. “The text, printed in French and English on opposite pages, embodies the facts ascertained after careful investigation by official inquiry, and no attempt has been made to exaggerate them; and equally plain and straightforward is the story told by the illustrations, which consist of drawings made from photographs by Monsieur Berden, an architect by profession, who spent eighteen months in going from place to place gathering material for this record of German barbarity.” (Int Studio) The translation is by J. Lewis May. The book is dedicated to the relatives of Miss Cavell and Captain Fryatt.
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“A terrible book. It is like a new canto of the ‘Inferno.’ Every page contains a heart-clutching horror. There is no attempt at fine writing; it is a plain narrative of the campaign of frightfulness waged by the German general staff. The illustrations have a sort of kinship with the famous engravings of Piranesi. They have only one artistic fault, and that is that too many details are introduced. Mr May’s translation is admirable. It deserves to be read by all lovers of decency and fair play.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 710w
=Int Studio= 62:81 Ag ‘17 150w
“Beautiful and moving book.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 110w
+ =Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 40w
“To any one who remembers Louvain or Dinant, M. Berden’s admirable drawings of their ruins will be inexpressibly painful. M. Verdavaine’s narrative of the massacres and outrages committed by the Huns is as temperately phrased as any right-minded man could make it.”
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 170w
“M. Verdavaine drew from official records the story of those fateful weeks in 1914. If one lacks full measure of indignation, horror, or information as to the tragedy, it is here in abundance.”
+ =Springfield Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 200w
“For a simple, almost matter of fact narration of a series of crimes, this one can be recommended to the general reader. He will find in it plenty of murder, arson, and ingenious cruelty—things the Anglo-Saxon discusses without blushing; but M. Verdavaine, perhaps warned by his publisher, has almost entirely suppressed reference to sins against chastity, to sadistic manifestations, and to the perfectly authenticated orgies of filth indulged in by the invaders of Belgium and northern France. The charge is, therefore, not complete; but it is enough.” C: C. Clarke
+ =Yale R= n s 7:428 Ja ‘18 850w
=VERHAEREN, ÉMILE.= Afternoon; tr. by C: R. Murphy. *$1 Lane 841 17-7037
A translation of “Les heures d’aprés-midi.” Like the volume preceding it, “The sunlit hours,” it is a book of love songs. Love has come to its full maturity, fulfilling its early promise, as the midsummer garden, pictured in one after the other of the poems, fulfils the promise of spring.
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 60w
“Surely no translation will satisfy those who can appreciate the original. Take, for instance, this verse: ‘Je te regards, et tour les jours je te découvre.’ Mr Murphy renders Verhaeren quite literally: ‘And when I look at you I make discoveries,’ but the abyss that separates poetry from prose lies between the two. Still, frequently the translator catches the true rhythm of the original.”
+ — =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 250w
“This man adds another to the immortal line of great witnesses who emerge at intervals to abash our skepticism with fresh proofs that loftiness and ardor, that purity and rapture, may interfuse in a passion which they combine to ennoble.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 105:175 Ag 16 ‘17 240w
+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 50w
“Carried away by the impetuous flow of this thought and emotion, he can paint a picture with the care, restraint, and the precision of the Parnassians.” E: B. Reed
=Yale R= n s 6:860 Jl ‘17 400w
=VERHAEREN, ÉMILE.= Love poems; tr. by F. S. Flint. *$1.25 Houghton 841 17-17076
“The cycle is strung on the thread of a life’s long experience. ‘The shining hours,’ ‘The hours of afternoon,’ ‘The hours of evening,’ are the divisions into which the poems are grouped. ... The imagery of the cycle is that of the garden, loved, sheltered, beautiful, with its roses, its ponds, its lilies, the garden of the glowing summer, of the autumn, still loved when winter comes.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17
“In spite of the impressiveness, the fine rhetoric and dramatic force of the four poetical dramas, there is a charm about the verse of Verhaeren, which lingers longer and holds us more intensely than do the plays. A cycle of his love lyrics has been translated by Mr Flint, who also translated ‘Philip II.’” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 190w
“Translations in poetic prose of the author’s ‘Heures claires’ and ‘Les heures aprés midi,’ poems of serene and spiritualized beauty, picturing the joys of wedded love against the background of a beautiful garden. They have also appeared in the more satisfactory verse translations of Charles R. Murphy as ‘The sunlit hours’ and ‘Afternoon.’”
+ — =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w
“These poems are exquisite—not only in the sense of a fair jeweled loveliness, but in a tenderness, a depth, a universal beauty and reality that make the most-sought-for words about them seem but trivial things. How much music of phrasing may be lost in [the prose] translation, those of us who read them only in English cannot know; but the beauty of their expression, in word and in image, of deep and exquisite human feeling, is here in the English version.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 1000w
+ =St Louis= 15:335 S ‘17 20w
=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.= Book of camping. il *$1 (2c) Knopf 796 17-18605
Contents: Camps and camping; How and where to camp; Camp housekeeping; Trailing and tramping; How to trap and why; Emergency hints. The illustrations show forms of blazes, how to make moccasins, camp furniture, etc.
“Aims to supply the beginner’s need for a primer in woodcraft, and in the main it succeeds in its purpose. Especially valuable for its practical hints about camp sites, camp housekeeping, cooking, and accidents. To [the old woodsman] the directions for homemade traps and moccasins are reminiscent of the days when he really believed all that was set forth in Dan Beard’s ‘American boy’s handy book.’ This fault—the fault of telling how to make clumsy things that can better be bought—often gets into ‘how-to’ books.”
+ — =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 170w
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
“Up-to-date, practical book based on a wide knowledge of camping. Contains almost everything a camper would want to know.”
=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 19w
=St Louis= 15:372 O ‘17 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 50w
=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Book of the West Indies. il *$2.50 Dutton 917.29 17-29601
“Mr Verrill in his ‘Book of the West Indies’ has a chapter upon our lately acquired Virgin Islands. He is enthusiastic over the beauty and the fascination of these islands, their possibilities as health resorts and their future as producers of sugar cane and bay rum, and in commerce. His volume of nearly 500 pages is appropriately named ‘The book of the West Indies,’ for no such comprehensive and thoroughgoing account of the archipelago has hitherto been attempted. The author carries you from island to island, big and little alike, and describes the scenes, the people, the manners and customs, the climate, sandwiches in an outline of the history, tells of the commercial and industrial possibilities.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 70w
“It is a book that a traveler can use as a guide book, a man of business as a source of information and a general reader for the pure pleasure of its colorful and informative narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 260w
“The book is well worth while.”
+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 40w
“A good description of the Islands, with so much of history as is requisite to meet an intelligent traveler’s demands for information.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F 18 ‘20w
=VICKERS, LESLIE.= Training for the trenches; a practical handbook based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France. il *$1 (4c) Doran 355 17-17549
Captain Vickers is lecturer on trench warfare, Department of military service, Columbia university and late lieutenant of the Seaforth Highlanders. He states that he “intends this little book primarily for the use of those who are civilians in the process of becoming soldiers.” It includes chapters on: Health; Disease; Vermin; Protection of trenches: Artillery fire; Gas and liquid fire; The attack; Equipment for the field, etc. There are helpful full-page illustrations.
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w
“The book ought to be read by every American soldier, present and prospective, who crosses the ocean to fight for liberty. No man in preparation for that duty could be given a more useful gift or one that, provided its advice be heeded, would be more likely to increase his value as an efficient soldier.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 130w
=Pittsburgh= 22:697 O ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 20w
“A practical manual based upon personal experiences of the first two years of the war. Capt. Vickers devotes considerable space to the all-important question of health.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 5 ‘17 100w
=VINOGRADOV, PAVEL GAVRILOVICH.= Self government in Russia. *$1.25 Dutton 947 (Eng ed 16-12746)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The author, a Russian professor at Oxford, exiled for his liberal views, is an eminent authority on Russian institutions, and these lectures take on an added significance in view of recent events.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17
“Had we more generally known the facts given in this book, we should have understood how the revolution came about and why it was so orderly and effective.” S: N. Harper
+ =Dial= 63:23 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
“No living man has a firmer grasp upon the political history of the Russian people or could display greater skill in making it clear, within such brief compass, to English readers.”
+ =Nation= 104:194 F 15 ‘17 370w
“The announcement of a book, on Russia, by the versatile Russian scholar, who is also our leading authority on English legal and social history, may raise more expectation than it can well fulfil. For it is not a thorough treatise that the author of ‘Villainage in England’ has here attempted, but rather a few popular lectures aiming to give us a general outline of the great changes in the legal status of the Russian masses.”
+ =New Repub= 10:276 Mr 31 ‘17 380w
=VIVIAN, HERBERT.= Italy at war. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.91 17-21932
“Mr Vivian is an English traveller who happened to be in France on the Italian border at the outbreak of the war.” (Boston Transcript) “His book is a collection of thumbnail sketches of the Italian people in relation to the war, not an account of the campaigns of the Italian army. Thus he relates experiences before Italy decided to throw in her lot with the Allies; gives brief descriptions of the King, General Cadorna, and prominent politicians; and devotes short sections to the special qualities of the various kinds of troops in the Italian army, and incidents in some of the battles. The illustrations enable the reader to appreciate the enormous difficulties overcome by the Italians in their mountain offensive.” (Ath)
=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 100w
“The chapter entitled, ‘The preliminary war’ is an account of the work of the German spy system in Italy in the years of peace preceding the war. ... The author knows how to tell his story. Nothing worth while escapes him. His sense of humor is always in evidence when needed. He senses the significant things and describes them in an interesting way.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 670w
“This is a different sort of book from Mr Alexander Powell’s volume of the same name and approximately the same date of publication. The Italian people’s attitude to the great issues of the day is presented with the insight and the accuracy of one familiar with the ways of the common folk and speaking their language. Noteworthy is the author’s emphasis upon the too little suspected perpetration of Austrian atrocities. Frightfulness he shows to be not exclusively a Prussian product.”
+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 190w
“This volume of impressions has little in common with Mr Powell’s ‘Italy at war.’ Mr Vivian is noticeably lacking in the perspective of the war critic; but he is an earnest observer of the beauty and life of the new Italy. ... There is some justification for the uncomfortable feeling the author betrays of having chronicled too many trivialities.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 600w
=Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 70w
“His work is quite different from that of such observers of the conflict as Mr Julius Price and Mr Sidney Low. It conveys less information on great matters, but it is more intimate in tone, and also more amusing and the records of conversations with people of no importance are really convincing and entertaining. The picture of the thrilling days immediately preceding Italy’s entrance into the war is especially graphic.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p278 Je 14 ‘17 850w
=VIZETELLY, FRANK HORACE.= Desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced. (Standard desk-book ser.) $1.60 Funk 421 17-10175
“The title of this volume by the managing editor of the New standard dictionary ... is obviously taken from Phyfe’s earlier book in the same field. It is somewhat misleading, as the vocabulary includes many words that are not mispronounced, but differently pronounced. ... The publishers’ advertisement states that the book indicates the correct pronunciation of English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal names (Vizetelly is included), geographical names, and proper names of all kinds current in literature, science and the arts. Words which are likely to prove stumblingblocks are also included. A unique and valuable feature is the appending in many cases of orthoepic and historical notes or of quotations illustrating usage.” (Springf’d Republican) “In an entertaining preface the doctor pays respect in truly Shavian style to the self-satisfied class, both here and abroad, who know ‘that the pronunciation they have is the best which exists.’” (Lit D)
“A useful dictionary, presenting some original features. So far as our tests permit us to judge, the pronunciations indicated are, for the most part, such as would generally be accepted by English orthoepic authorities. ... In a deskbook, such as this, we doubt the usefulness of many of the references to obsolete forms of pronunciation adopted by Walker and other early lexicographers; and the employment of two keys to pronunciation is, we think, unnecessary and confusing. ... We disagree with some of the remarks in Dr Vizetelly’s introduction.”
+ =Ath= p306 Je ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 40w
“A careful study of his work should do much toward the standardizing of modern English pronunciation.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1268 Ap 28 ‘17 520w
“In the pronunciation, the preference of the leading dictionaries for nearly two hundred years are given. An indispensable addition to the slender collection of reference books which must be kept within easy reach. There is brief definition of hundreds of words but recently come into use in science and the arts. Dr Vizetelly has for many years been a foremost authority in English orthoepy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 460w
“Examination of the work will quickly prove its great value. The introductory material might well be printed and cast broadside in pamphlet form as an aid to the correction of the habit of slovenly speech.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 17 ‘17 500w
=VOGT, PAUL LEROY.= Introduction to rural sociology. il *$2.50 Appleton 630 17-18829
The author was formerly professor of rural economics and sociology in the Ohio state university, and is now superintendent of the department of rural work of the Methodist Episcopal church, and editor of “The church and country life.” Because over half of our rural population live in communities of less than 2,500, because the village is the “natural center of rural life,” because conditions in the country must be understood if the drift to the cities is to be adequately controlled, and because “the relation of the small community to the growth and ideals of the urban community makes an understanding of rural life and ideals imperative to the one responsible for leadership in urban life,” Mr Vogt has written this book. The field chosen covers rural life in the United States, and “particularly those conditions to be found in the great agricultural sections of the Central valley,” because in this area are to be found both the system of diversified agriculture and the intensive culture resulting from the increase of population. Six of the twenty-eight chapters are on the village, two on the rural church, two on rural health, two on farmers’ organizations, and one on the county fair. Questions, references, and topics for research have been added at the close of each chapter.
“We have here sociological materials, typical data, suggestively rich fields for further exploration—leads rather than actual veins; indications rather than fixed conclusions. Some of these data are original and thought-provoking as, for example, the chapters on Population movement and Rural morality. Some are not sufficient for generalization; notably, those dealing with the land question, tenancy and farmers’ organizations. The chapters on the village are a distinct contribution to sociological literature. The book is well written with a fresh, virile, optimistic pen. Because of its basis of fact, its general freedom from dogmatic statement, its constructive intent, its modest claims and its virility, this is the most valuable book dealing with rural sociology the reviewer has read.” A. E. Cance
+ =Am Econ R= 7:843 D ‘17 730w
“A real contribution to the literature on rural life. The author places the emphasis on the fundamental problems. The chapter on ‘Rural morality’ is a valuable contribution because it is based upon the author’s research studies. His data refute the generalized statements that have been made by writers who are not hampered by facts. His studies show that the open country is still morally cleaner than the village or city.” E. L. Holton
+ =Am J Soc= 23:417 N ‘17 430w
“Though based upon a thorough knowledge of rural life and problems, its chief value lies in its organization of material.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18
“Professor Vogt has attacked the problem from an angle not as yet popular in the study of the American farm. He has presented it as a series of relations and reactions influencing our entire national existence. It is important to the nation as well as to the farm that a high rural civilization be maintained, and that we understand the forces operative within it. Professor Vogt has set himself the task of meeting his subject in a purely scientific spirit. His appeal is almost defiantly to the brain alone.”
+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 310w
+ =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 520w
“Furnishes an enlightening array of information upon the improvement of farming methods, the labor question, the tenancy question, health, morality, politics, education, religion, and the general social structure of rural communities.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:831 D ‘17 60w
“The author has been at great pains to make his work as accurate and comprehensive as possible. In both respects he has succeeded admirably, and that, too, without becoming tedious. A feature of the book especially worthy of notice is the thorough discussion of the relation of the village to the life of the open country. The most important omission is the failure to discuss the eugenic problems of the rural population and to give more attention to the natural movements of population due to the varying birth rates and death rates in different groups and in different sections of the nation.” W. S. Thompson
+ — =Science= n s 46:24 Ja 4 ‘18 390w
“A somewhat laborious study of conditions in the rural communities of the West. ... Its generalizations outweigh its store of information, though one should add that its conclusions are sound enough.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 100w
“Professor Vogt has laid the foundation of a study of the village for which we have been waiting. ‘Rural sociology’ presents two methods of study of the material—analysis and idealization. Under the former method, for which the writer displays uncommon ability, is the treatment of the Land question, Means of communication, Farmers’ labor income, Health-physical, Health-mental, and the Church. ... The method of idealization is not so satisfactory. There are two final chapters, the first of which contains rare and new material on Rural morality and Social organization. ... The writer is a man with an open mind, a fine hand for details, a capacity of delicate weighing of evidence and the ability to present his conclusions without dogmatism and in inspiring completeness.” W. H. Wilson
+ + — =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 500w
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=WADDINGTON, MARY ALSOP (KING) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY WADDINGTON).= My war diary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 940.91 17-23949
Mme Waddington is the widow of a French statesman and ambassador, and author of “Letters of a diplomat’s wife” and other books on France and Italy. Her diary covers the period from August, 1914, to October, 1916, and tells of her activities during the war, of the German occupation of her château at Mareuil, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
“Vast as will be the accumulation of war literature when the great struggle is over, Madame Waddington’s contribution will occupy by right a place of distinction, as affording illumination of a unique character. The book is necessarily personal, yet it is most attractively free from any touch of self-importance.”
+ =Cath World= 106:697 F ‘18 140w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 70w
“An entertaining account of how the French aristocracy have fared during the war. The big Frenchmen of the war, the great statesmen and generals, do not appear to have been on Madame Waddington’s calling list. These today are of first interest.”
+ — =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w
“A volume which all friends of France as well as all who seek a knowledge of the inner facts of the war will turn to with eager interest.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w
“Mme. Waddington’s vantage point of observation, so to speak, is unusual; and with the charm and sincerity of her literary style we have had opportunity ere this to become acquainted.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 650w
“Her style is at once simple, easy, vivacious. She outlines her portraits and paints her pictures with appealing directness. ... Particularly notable are her tributes to Ambassador Herrick.”
+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 110w
“Mme Waddington by reason of her position in diplomatic life is well able to form some enlightening opinions as to the real motives of French statesmen, but her book is singularly free from such revelations. ... She tells her story with simplicity, and occasionally repeats, but she is to be thanked for not dwelling on the depressing side of events. ... Nothing especially new or significant of French life and thought is contributed by the book.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 320w
=WADDINGTON, SAMUEL.= Some views respecting a future life. *$1.25 (6½c) Lane 218 17-17191
“In this comely book, which is at once a personal statement and an anthology of what has been said on the question of immortality by sages and others, ancient and modern, Mr Waddington has written his ‘Religio poetæ.’ His own position, defined already in many sonnets and other poems, is the reasoned one of the agnostic.” (Ath) “The greater part of the book is devoted to a survey of what has been written upon the subject by modern philosophers, poets, and scientists. Shelley, Swinburne, Nordau, Haeckel, Huxley, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, Rossetti, Sir Oliver Lodge, F. W. H. Myers, Clough, Emerson are only a few of the many from whom he quotes or to whose beliefs he refers.” (N Y Times)
=Ath= p246 My ‘17 260w
=Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 580w
Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham
=Sat R= 123:370 Ap 21 ‘17 210w
=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Conquest. il *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd A17-1640
The hero of the story is a little gamin from Paris who begins his conquest of London at the age of ten. He passes from one odd job to another until he is taken on as a helper in a gymnasium. This chance occupation is the making of Bill Achat. He learns to reverence bodily perfection, becomes a boxer and finally a prize fighter, white champion of the world. He is introduced into London society, and the latter portions of the book are taken up with his love for Alexa Castlemayne. She is older than he and of a different social world, but they find their happiness in one another.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w
“There are good bits of characterization in ‘Conquest,’ and an authentic air of sophistication and interest regarding prize-fights and sporting-events surprising in the work of a woman author—even a British one.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 90w
“There is keen charm in the portions that show Bill fighting and lying for a roll, and kissing a maternal demi-mondaine for a franc. ... It is regrettable that Miss Wadsley does not keep to this pitch throughout, instead of falling into commonplace.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 300w
=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Possession. il *$1.35 (1c) Dodd 17-6113
An unusual friendship existed between the little girl of eight and the boy of eighteen. Both were friendless in London. Valérie’s father had deserted her unceremoniously. Blaise was a stranger, looking for work. So they adopted one another. This relationship lasted up to the time Val was seventeen. Then Blaise woke up and found that she was grown-up, that she was very beautiful, and that he loved her. For his own sake as well as her own, he sent her away to Paris. The separation proved disastrous, for Val too began to realize that she was grown-up. She meets another man, and marries him. The romance is short-lived and she turns back to Blaise for protection, but since she fails to tell him the truth, a strained situation results.
“It is rather a headlong tale; that is, told with enough swiftness and enough high coloring to make it seem, in a day of comparatively leisurely and detailed novel-writing, an uncommonly near approach to the good old ‘intense love-story.’ Along the way, Miss Wadsley has given the novel certain modulations and graciousnesses that will serve to redeem it, at least in part, for her more discriminating and experienced readers.” F. I.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 600w
“The earlier part of the book marks its writer as one of more than average talent and imagination. ... The novel remains, in spite of expectations unfulfilled, more than relatively good.”
+ — =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 250w
“While reading ‘Possession,’ we forget who or what we are, how or when the book is written, and live wholly in the life of Valérie Sarton.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=WÄGNER, WILHELM.= Asgard and the gods; adapted by M. W. Macdowall; and ed. by W. S. W. Anson. il *$2 Dutton 293
“A complete English account of the religious beliefs and superstitions of the old Northmen, myths and stories of the gods, of the creation of the world, of Odin the father of the gods, of the Ases, the Golden age, and on through all the splendid legends to Ragnarok, the ‘twilight of the gods.’” (R of Rs) This volume is a reprint of an edition first published in 1880 and again in 1882. There is an introduction which deals with what is known of the history of these legends.
+ =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 200w
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
“The digest of Dr Wägner’s original work is so excellent that for the new generation there is probably nothing better.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w
=WALDO, FULLERTON LEONARD.=[2] Good housing that pays. il $1 (5c) Harper press, 1012 Chancellor st., Philadelphia 331.8 17-28206
A study of the work of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia, from 1896 to 1917. The foreword says, “The pages that follow describe the effort of a thoughtful group of Philadelphians to provide cleanly homes and a healthy environment for families in modest circumstances or in self-respecting poverty. This effort has outgrown the stage of experiment, but it never will deny new light nor wholly abandon, however it may adapt, the ideals that are Octavia Hill’s own spiritual legacy.” A sketch of the life and work of Octavia Hill constitutes chapter 1. There are numerous pictures and plans. The by-laws of the association and various tables are given in an appendix, with the index following. “The story of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia is almost a history of the housing movement in that city, and shows the excellent work of women in this field.”
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“Live and interesting, with practical, frank detail on both the business and the human side, which will make the book of value to other workers.” E. W. Dinwiddie
+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 430w
=WALKER, HENRY FRANCIS BELL.= Doctor’s diary in Damaraland. il *$2.10 (4c) Longmans 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28629)
“The author of this book volunteered as a medical officer in General Botha’s force which, by its dashing strategy and its great physical endurance, conquered German South-west Africa between March and July, 1915. He does not give a formal history of the campaign, but describes his own experiences in the rear of the army, with an occasional illuminating note on the course of the fighting.”—Spec
=Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 250w
“All who wish to know the realities of war should read his very readable book. ... He has a good word for the Germans wherever it is deserved; and, generally, he extenuates nothing, makes no complaint, and sets down naught in malice. He deals only with what came under his own view, the grand tour of his own ambulance, not attempting to describe military movements or battles. His narrative is relieved by excellent descriptive touches, which make the God-forsaken country very real.”
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+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 430w
=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 60w
“Dr Walker is eminently observant and has a keen eye for military tactics as well as natural history and geology. He has provided a detailed map of one attack, but a larger one covering the range of country he went over would have been a useful addition to his book. ... The book is well printed and has a few good illustrations, but it ought to have had an index as well.”
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=Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 180w
“He is coldly fair to the Germans, giving instances of their cruelty, but allowing them whatever credit may be their due for establishing well-planned and well-organized towns in places where no one would want to live.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 950w
=WALKER, STUART.= Portmanteau plays. il *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-13266
Stuart Walker has been actor, stage manager and general director for Belasco. In 1914, he conceived the idea of the Portmanteau theater which has a small stage, simple scenery, and unique lighting effects. The present volume includes four of the plays given at this theater: The trimplet; Nevertheless; The medicine show; The six who pass while the lentils boil. There is a forty page introduction by Edward Hale Bierstadt, and an appendix giving “The repertory of the Portmanteau theater in the order of production.”
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“The little plays lack the beauty in strangeness of Lord Dunsany’s contributions to the Portmanteau répertoire but they are of distinct interest as a new art form based on a naïve convention.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 80w
“This book is more than a collection of highly diverting little plays. It is the record of an astonishing experiment in the American theatre.” H. K. M.
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=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17
“Of the four plays, ‘Six who pass while the lentils boil’ is undoubtedly the most successful from both a literary and a dramatic point of view.”
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“Mr Walker’s plays make very pleasant reading, but they do not portend any romantic renaissance. ... The novel settings that Mr Walker has devised for his charming playlets have probably much more to do with his success than any real desire on the part of the public for poetry and fantasy on the stage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 460w
=WALLACE, DAVID DUNCAN.= Government of England; national, local, and imperial. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 342.4 17-25776