Volume 1 was run in the Digest in 1915.

“The preceding volume dealt with the causes of the war. This one concerns the manner in which the conflict was begun, the last conversations of diplomats and statesmen, etc. ... There is something finely dramatic in his account of the memorable sessions of the Reichstag and the House of commons. ... The second part of the volume most readers will find of less interest. There is lengthy statement of the military organization of the warring powers and also of their naval strength. ... It cannot be said that the author displays improper prejudice for the Teutonic allies, but prolonged acquaintance with the German people has brought him thoroughly under the glamour of their achievements and their greatness. The German army is the exemplar and the pattern. ... There is lack of clear, trenchant, lucid generalization, and especially of interpretation, while the statistical comparisons might be better made in tables than by the narrative form in which they are expounded. In the third part there is a chapter on the mobilization of financial resources, interesting and especially good as regards Great Britain and Germany.” E: R. Turner

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:864 Jl ‘17 1400w (Review of v 2)

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 50w (Review of v 2)

“The book is written in a terse and lucid style, and its logical plan, combined with its clear and judicial manner of treatment, makes it a work of much popular appeal, although the painstaking care of the authors to make it comprehensive and accurate in its use of facts gives it scholarly authoritativeness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 220w (Review of v 2)

=Pittsburgh= 22:49 Ja ‘17 30w (Review of v 1-3)

“The publishers have done their part well by providing a volume which, if somewhat too large for comfortable reading, is handsomely printed and generously illustrated. ... ‘The great war,’ so far as issued, provides a full, clear, authentic view of the beginning of the conflict, and, while the work is intended for the general reader, historical students will find it useful for reference.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 27 ‘17 220w (Review of v 2)

=ALLEN, H. WARNER.= Unbroken line. il *$2 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1330)

“An illustrated survey of the French trenches from Switzerland to the North sea, by one of the British newspaper correspondents with the French armies in the field during the years 1915-16.” (R of Rs) “Under Mr Allen’s guidance, we are able to take a personally conducted tour along the line and remark the idiosyncrasies of its several sections. Except in the case of the defence of Nancy and the Somme offensive, he attempts no consecutive narrative of the fighting, but contents himself with illustrating military geography with graphic anecdotes of heroism and ingenuity. ... The book is brought up to date by a chapter describing the first ten weeks or so of the battle of the Somme—or rather of that part of the battle assigned to the French troops.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“Mr Allen had opportunities for observation accorded to perhaps no other press correspondent save Frederick Palmer. And the story he tells of his journey from Switzerland to the Channel along the ‘Wall of civilization’ is one of high inspiration and encouragement.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ‘17 700w

“Among the illustrations are many official photographs reproduced by permission of the French government.”

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 40w

“The reader derives a clear impression of the daily life and the temper of the French soldiers.”

+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 350w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p530 N 9 ‘16 650w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY.= Self-surveys by colleges and universities; with a referendum to college and university presidents. (Educational survey ser.) il $3 World bk. co. 378 17-29342

“To make it easier for American democracy to understand, and to shape for democracy’s ends, the higher education upon which it spends a half-billion dollars yearly, is one purpose of this book,” says the foreword. The work consists of “first-aid tests that will help a trustee, president, professor, parent, or student act as business doctor or efficiency engineer to his own college.” The author is an ardent advocate of the self-survey in preference to the survey by outside experts. He says, “The study of higher education which is most needed today is study by colleges themselves of themselves, and by each college of itself.” Contents: The survey movement in higher education; Procedure for a coöperative college survey; Relation of trustees to president and faculty; Executive and business efficiency; Faculty government; Extracurricular activities of students; Course of study; Instructional efficiency; Relation with college communities. Various “exhibits,” including the faculty questionnaire of the University of Wisconsin, are given in the appendix.

+ =El School J= 18:393 Ja ‘18 600w

+ =School R= 26:64 Ja ‘18 420w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY, and PEARSE, CARROLL GARDNER.= Self-surveys by teacher-training schools. (Educational survey ser.) il $2.25 World bk. co. 370.73 17-29341

In this work the authors advocate the plan of educational survey that was employed in a study of the eight normal schools of Wisconsin. This survey was carried out by the State board of public affairs, and in his introduction President Carroll G. Pearse, of the Milwaukee normal school, points out some of its advantages: “The study was neither framed nor carried on by any foundation or other private agency, nor was it conducted by a distant bureau, whose knowledge of the study and findings and whose influence on the methods of work and conclusions drawn could not be only nominal. The survey was coöperative. ... The survey was not hurried. ... The study was made by men who were familiar with the problems to be studied. ... The study was not only coöperative but also immediately and continuingly constructive.” Contents: Reasons for self-surveys; Pathfinding by Wisconsin’s normal schools; Steps in making a self-survey; Making self-surveys build as they go; Administration problems; Course-of-study problems; Supervision problems; Classroom instruction; Training department’s training; Extra-curricular activities of students; Technique of reporting surveys; General needs of teacher-training schools; Exhibits.

+ =El School J= 18:393 Ja ‘18 600w

“It cannot be doubted that this book in the hands of normal schools and college administrators will provide a powerful impetus for improvement of present methods of administering higher official work in this country.”

+ =School R= 26:64 Ja ‘18 830w

=ALLEN, WILLIAM HARVEY.=[2] Universal training for citizenship and public service. il *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 323 17-27906

Dr Allen who is director of the Institute for public service in New York believes that one of the great problems for all countries after the war will be how, while removing war’s wreckage, to guarantee the permanence of its benefits and to direct its momentum towards rebuilding what war has torn down. The purpose of his book is to formulate for lay students of public affairs certain minimum aims and steps which are within the reach of the general public. “In addition to listing minimum essentials that are necessary in training privates for citizenship, it discusses briefly other minimum essentials of training which citizens should require for drillmasters, for entering and remaining in public and semi-public service, and for the professions. Three other chapters indicate the country’s need for specialized training for parenthood, for public spirited use of special gifts and for creative imagination and devoted attention to the country’s upbuilding after the war.” (Publishers’ note)

“The somewhat arid title of this book scarcely suggests to the reader its really inspiring appeal. Replete with the latest ideas as to civic work, its discussion of the problems of citizenship that confronts us now, and will confront us after the war, is terse, vigorous, and helpful to a high degree.”

+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w

=ALTSCHUL, CHARLES.= American revolution in our school text-books; with an introd. by James T. Shotwell. *$1 Doran 973.07 17-25472

“The object of this informal study is ... to determine whether we are justified in thinking that the history text-books in use more than twenty years ago may have had a definite prejudicial influence on the minds of a considerable part of our population; and if so, to what extent the text-books in use at present promise a different result.” (Preface) “Applying a rather rigid formula, Mr Altschul praises (by implication) the school books that show the political conditions in England prior to the Revolution and indicate that the action of the British government was not supported by the people at large. He condemns (by implication) those that do not dwell on British political conditions prior to the Revolution and that do not enumerate and honor the eminent Englishmen who espoused the American cause.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Drawing his data from some ninety-three text-books, he establishes some significant results. The book is a compilation with a moral which Professor Shotwell draws in his excellent introduction.” C. H. Van Tyne

+ =Am Hist R= 23:403 Ja ‘18 600w

=A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

“Should be purchased by school superintendents from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., and used as a guide for the elimination of antiquated rubbish and the acquisition of such rare but procurable text-books as tell the story of our struggle with England in a presentation that is fair to both countries.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 330w

“We heartily recommend this whole book to the American public for perusal and thoughtful consideration. But in pointing out the significance of such a study as this, we must by no means lose sight of Mr Altschul’s fair-mindedness, his modesty, the complete absence from his book of anything that approaches the dogmatic. Nor should any mistake be permitted as to the object of his criticism; as we have said, he is not criticising American research, but American elementary school textbooks and it is not their accuracy with which he finds fault. He does not quarrel with the truth of their facts, but with their incompleteness—an incompleteness that makes for superficiality and prejudice, and that is responsible for an impression that is inaccurate, however correct the statement of narrow fact may be.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 1850w

=R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 90w

=Spec= 119:772 D 29 ‘17 550w

“Mr Altschul seems to favor a method of teaching history which should be deliberately friendly to the English, as the teaching of the past has been, it seems, deliberately unfriendly. But what is wanted is the truth—a critical, rather than sentimental view—and it is just a matter of common-sense pedagogy to determine at what age a child can adopt a critical view.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ‘17 600w

=ALTSHELER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER.= Rulers of the lakes. (French and Indian war ser.) il *$1.35 Appleton 17-24207

“This is a book for boys, full of Indian warfare, treachery, intrigue, skirmishes, narrow escapes, and portraying American history from the time of Braddock’s defeat at Fort Duquesne to the Colonists’ success at Lake George. The principal characters are young Robert Lennox and his Indian friend Tayoga, who make the journey through the wilderness, in the face of terrible danger, to warn Fort Refuge, and afterward do scout duty and hard fighting at Lake George and Lake Champlain.” (Lit D) “While it is linked up with the two preceding volumes, ‘The hunters of the hills’ and ‘The shadow of the north,’ by means of a common set of characters, the story is complete in itself, and may be enjoyed and understood independently of its companion tales.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Not important but readable.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:172 F ‘18

“Gives a picture of Iroquois life and warfare that is historically true.”

+ =Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 40w

“The description of life in the wilderness, of the intrigue and cunning necessary in dealing with the French and Indians, of repeated encounters where ultimate success depends on quick wit and wily cleverness, makes fascinating reading for youth.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 O 27 ‘17 160w

“Mr Altsheler draws some very vivid pictures of the struggle between the forces contending for the North American dominion; but the individual efforts of the daring trio will occasion the reader the livelier interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 260w

=ALVORD, CLARENCE WALWORTH.= Mississippi valley in British politics. 2v *$10 Clark, A. H. 973.2 16-23066

“In an exhaustive two volume study of ‘The Mississippi valley in British politics,’ Clarence Walworth Alvord recounts the various attempts made by the British government to settle and develop the vast territory between the Appalachian barrier and the Mississippi which came into its hands as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1769. In the opinion of the author the failure of the British to solve the problem of governing and settling this region was one of the leading causes of the American Revolution, and a far more important one than the riots and patriotic demonstrations in Boston and other cities on the Atlantic coast which bulk so large in our histories.”—Ind

“Able as is the political narrative yet the most interesting, illuminating chapters are those which discuss the rival capitalistic enterprises of land speculation and the fur trade (the only two lines open in the West to moneyed men), and the political manoeuvring of each for the right to exploit the great interior in its own interests.” A. C. Ford

+ =Am Econ R= 7:382 Je ‘17 800w

“Professor Alvord has himself published a study of the proclamation of 1763. ... And twenty years ago Professor Coffin gave us an excellent history of the Quebec act of 1774. But hitherto no one has attempted a comprehensive study of the many problems involved in the possession of the western territory, or of the British policy of dealing with these problems during the whole period from the Peace of Paris to the opening of the Revolution. ... The results of Professor Alvord’s labor constitute an important contribution to the literature of the American Revolution.” Carl Becker

* + =Am Hist R= 22:671 Ap ‘17 1600w

“Professor Alvord’s volumes will prove of interest to at least four groups of persons: students of the history and problems of colonial administration; ... persons interested in British political history; ... persons who seek a corrective on that treatment of pre-revolutionary American history which fixes the attention upon the performances of the ‘madding crowd’ of New York and Boston, to the exclusion of things transmontane. ... Finally, for students of western history the work has much illuminating interpretation.” F: A. Ogg

* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:349 My ‘17 650w

“These volumes contain a detailed, but rather dull and dryasdust narrative of the story of British misgovernment of North America in the eighteenth century. Ample bibliographies are included, as well as a good index.”

+ =Ath= p51 Ja ‘17 30w

“Professor Alvord makes out an excellent case, and in the two large volumes which contain the elaboration of his theory, he has brought to light a mass of historical material of surpassing interest and value, if not absolutely convincing. ... But apart from this question, these two volumes have a value of their own as a study of the development of the Mississippi valley which we have not found matched in any other similar compass. The historian, the economist, the student of affairs, will alike find in them material of incalculable value. The style is one to attract the reader, and the copious footnotes and citations afford opportunity to pursue the study of the subject still further.” G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 27 ‘16 1850w

“A splendid bibliography and a good index complete this scholarly inquiry.”

+ =Cath World= 106:119 O ‘17 1900w

“There are few readers on this side of the Atlantic who will not have much to learn from Mr Alvord’s learned and thoughtful volumes. They are accompanied by some useful maps.” H. E. Egerton

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:299 Ap ‘17 950w

=Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 250w

“All that Professor Alvord has here written of the actual attempts to settle the western territory, of land-schemes and land-grants, of the activities of promoters, and of the migrations of restless wanderers and pioneers is of the greatest interest and value. ... If the fact be recognized that in this work we are dealing with only one aspect of a great and difficult problem, and are not to look on what it contains as a study of causes culminating in the American revolution, then we can freely accord to it the praise that it justly deserves.”

+ =Nation= 104:579 My 10 ‘17 1850w

=Pittsburgh= 22:323 Ap ‘17

“To most readers these volumes will give a wholly new conception of the attitude of Great Britain towards its American possessions during the decade preceding the Revolution. From public and private documents never before published, Professor Alvord shows that the ministry at London was far more deeply concerned than has generally been supposed with the fate of its western possessions in America.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:107 Ja ‘17 140w

=AMERICAN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION.= Good roads year-book, 1917. 6th annual ed $2 Am. highway assn. 625.7 (12-14988)

“The ‘Good roads year book’ for 1917 of the American highway association carefully summarizes, as usual, the progress of the last year in the improvement of roads in the commonwealths, our insular possessions, and Alaska. A new departure is to be found in two hundred pages devoted to papers upon those simple and non-technical features of highway construction and maintenance which a commissioner entrusted with the expenditure of road funds should know. There has been a demand for this from local road officials who have found that most of the treatises on roads are more useful to engineers than to the uninitiated. The American highway association has entered upon this work with enthusiasm, enlisting some fifty experts in it. The result is a veritable brief reference-book upon rural road building, applicable to the whole country.”—Nation

+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 170w

=AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.= City planning progress in the United States, 1917. il $2 Am. inst. of architects 710 17-15450

“Valuable service has been rendered by the production of this survey of city-planning effort—and lack of effort—in 233 cities and towns of the United States. Information obtained from authentic published reports or from signed reports by responsible authorities is presented for every city and town of 25,000 or less (1916 census estimates) and for some smaller places. The review for each city and town is a readable account of local city-planning activities, whether private, semi-public or public. Maps and halftones are freely used. A ‘Summary’ of four pages is devoted chiefly to progress at home and abroad in various lines during 1917. This is followed by four pages of city-planning references, by Theodora Kimball, Harvard university.” (Engin News-Rec) The compilation has been made by the Committee on town planning of the American institute of architects under the editorship of George B. Ford, city planner, to Newark and Jersey City, author of “Comprehensive city planning,” etc., assisted by Ralph F. Warner.

“In the revised and extended edition promised early in 1919 it is to be hoped that an attempt will be made to bring out clearly for each city just what has been accomplished in the realization of the reports and plans reviewed. Where nothing has been done, it would perhaps help the cause, both locally and generally, to say so instead of leaving the reader to draw his own conclusions. The need for more definiteness may well be illustrated by the case of Hartford, Conn.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 380w

=AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.= Teaching of government; report by the Committee on instruction, C: Groves Haines, chairman. *$1.10 Macmillan 353 16-23033

The report of a committee appointed in 1911 to investigate this subject. “Besides a very suggestive section on ‘Recent progress in the teaching of government,’ there are parts devoted to a report on the teaching of civics in secondary schools, the course of study, report on the teaching of political science in colleges and universities, and an appendix containing the report of state committees on the teaching of civics in elementary and secondary schools. ... The section on the course of study contains suggestions as to the subject-matter and methods of approach to the study of government in both the elementary and the secondary schools, and rather complete bibliographies on methods of teaching and books for both texts and references.” (School R)

=A L A Bkl= 13:287 Ap ‘17

“Teachers of government have waited long and patiently for this book. In some respects the book is likely to prove of service. On the other hand, its value is greatly impaired by the lack of orderliness in arrangement, by the inclusion of much that is of neither present-day interest nor usefulness, and by the complacent contempt for accuracy in matters of detail which the volume shows all too plainly. Within the twenty-odd pages of the bibliography, in fact, one may find excellent examples of nearly everything that a good bibliographer ought not to do.”

* – + =Nation= 104:314 Mr 15 ‘17 750w

“The report is of considerable value and is well worth a careful perusal by civics teachers in both junior and senior high schools.”

+ =School R= 25:293 Ap ‘17 450w

=AMES, JOSEPH BUSHNELL.= Under boy scout colors. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25246

Dale Tompkins, a newsboy out of school hours, has faithfully studied the boy scout handbook in the hope of some day becoming a real scout. A sudden emergency, in which a little boy’s life is at stake, finds Dale with the necessary knowledge and skill at his command. At many other times in the course of the story, the value of boy scout training is put to the test and in the final chapter the team work of the entire troop is called for in a crisis. The story has appeared serially in St Nicholas, and has been “approved by the Boy scouts of America.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:135 Ja ‘18

“A good and wholesome tale of its kind.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 190w

=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 50w

=ANDERSON, BENJAMIN MCALESTER.= Value of money. *$2.25 Macmillan 332 17-14066

“Those economists who are thinking vitally are using money as their approach to economic theorizing. Professor Anderson is among these. This book aims to show money as a function rather than an instrument of modern business life. Because it is functional, it is dynamic, changing under the influence of complex social forces and in turn being a factor in the change of these social forces. In a word, the author applies the concept of social value which he has outlined in a former treatise to the problem of money value. This necessitates the refutation of the quantity theory of money, marginal utility and other fundamental principles of orthodox analysis.” (Survey) The author is assistant professor of economics at Harvard university.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:112 Ja ‘18

“An important and rather technical discussion.”

+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 20w

“Seldom does a book developing such novelties show such signs of patient study. Almost too much attention has been given to details and to defense of his differences with the defenders of the orthodox ideas on these subjects.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:298 Ag 12 ‘17 1100w

“The book shows patient study and very thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject. It will surely stimulate interest and discussion. It is a contribution to a slowly forming body of opinion which would rewrite economic theory in terms of a sounder social psychology.” H. F. Grady

+ =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 250w

=ANDERSON, ISABEL (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Odd corners. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 910 17-28483

Traveling in the unusual way means necessarily getting a view of things from an unaccustomed angle. House-boating, for instance, on inland waters from New York to Key West promises something new in the way of travel sensations. The writer’s zig zag journeyings take her across the southern states to California, down into Mexico, across to the gulf, thence to Spain and Morocco, on to India, back to England, over the fiords of Norway into Russia, across Siberia to Japan and thence to China. The chapters on China give glimpses of court life, tell of visits to famous temples in Peking, to mounds and tombs of the ancestors, and intimately describe sensations that natives, streets, and buildings produce upon the tourist in Hankow, Nankin and Shanghai.

=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18

“This last journey [to Mexico] was undertaken while Diaz still ruled and her observations are superficial and wholly from the point of view of the private car in which she traveled.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:430 D ‘17 10w

“When the wife of a member of the American diplomatic corps undertakes to tell the reading public of some of the corners of the world she has seen, there is always a promise of something out of the ordinary. And when such a writer brings to the task the enthusiasm and freshness that belong to the writings of Mrs Larz Anderson, the promise is usually more than fulfilled.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 400w

=ANDERSON, ISABEL (PERKINS) (MRS LARZ ANDERSON).= Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines. (Spell ser.) il *$2.50 Page 919.69 16-23396

“Out of her personal observations and many historic sources Mrs Anderson has gathered the material for the writing of her third book of travel. ... She has gathered into her latest volume a vast fund of information about our Pacific possessions. She writes about the land and its people, about the historic and political conditions, and she introduces her readers to the great scenic beauty of these islands, and to the quaint customs of their inhabitants. ... No less entertaining than her sketches of Hawaiian life are her descriptions of the Philippines, and they are all visualized by a series of excellently reproduced photographic illustrations.”—Boston Transcript

“It has two good maps, one of the Hawaiian Islands, and one of the Philippines.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:263 Mr ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 25 ‘16 250w

+ =Dial= 62:150 F 22 ‘17 230w

=ANDERSON, PAUL LEWIS.= Pictorial photography; its principles and practice. il *$2.50 Lippincott 770 17-21825

“That there is a school of real photography in this country is evidenced in Mr Anderson’s ‘Pictorial photography,’ a handbook devoted almost wholly to the obtaining of beautiful, artistic effects in pictures made through the purely mechanical means of a camera and its accessories. ... ‘Pictorial photography’ is divided into five parts, Apparatus, Negative modification, Printing methods, Color and Miscellaneous. Its closing chapter on motion picture photography is a sane criticism of the admirable features and the faults of that important department of modern work with the camera.”—Boston Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“The illustrations in this book are revelations. They are free from the sharp decisiveness of the photograph we have known as a type, are rich in shadow and an occasional blur of mystery that lifts the product to a plane that is in essentials artistic.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 180w

=Cleveland= p136 D ‘17 10w

“A helpful manual, broad in scope but not too technical for the comprehension of the amateur.”

+ =Ind= 92:345 N 17 ‘17 120w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 30w

“This volume comes with a distinct field of usefulness, and will find the welcome it deserves from all who realize the finer possibilities of lens work. ... But with all his intimate and extraordinarily well-digested knowledge of technical possibilities, Mr Anderson persistently keeps before the mind of the reader, who is also a photographer, that there is something more needed to produce the perfect picture than merely perfection of technique and taste in composition.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 92:815 S 15 ‘17 500w

=ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.= Marching men. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-24209

This is not a novel of war, but of labor. “Beaut” McGregor, son of a miner, “huge, graceless of body, indolent of mind, untrained, uneducated, hating the world,” saw his fellow-countrymen as “a vast, disorganized, undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they know not what end,” and the idea came to him to teach these men to march rhythmically, shoulder to shoulder, until they should become “one giant body,” and a brain should grow in the giant they had made. As a boy McGregor worked in his mother’s bakery and afterwards in a stable in the mining town where he was brought up. Then he went to Chicago where he worked his way up in an apple warehouse, studied law, and won a reputation by defending a man wrongly accused of murder. This success gave him a chance to leave his class, but his sense of solidarity with the working-class prevailed, and he continued to struggle to “make an army out of labor by progress from the mere rhythm of marching to a rhythm of like-mindedness in society.” (New Repub) Three women influenced his life—the undertaker’s daughter in the mining town; Edith, the milliner who gave him her savings that he might study, and Margaret, daughter of a rich man and worker in a settlement.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 140w

“Naturally all brief characterizations are unfair, but I suppose ‘Marching men’ might be described as a pæan to order and (quite incidentally, I hope) a naked and somewhat febrile celebration of force. It is, in fact, too insistently, too stridently and remorselessly dedicated to the main theme to make a wholly satisfactory novel. ... Mr Anderson’s is surely the last word of anti-intellectualism; for the men who follow McGregor do not know why they are marching or whither. ... Marching satisfies a deep disposition. Very well, let them march, and trust to luck that the collectivist mind will emerge. To present a programme would be only to repeat the old intellectualist fallacy of the socialists and the organizers. ... Mr Anderson has the skill to make you feel the thick press of life in great cities.” G: B. Donlin

– + =Dial= 63:274 S 27 ‘17 1650w

=Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 600w

“The sensational and spectacular scheme by which this Pennsylvania miner aspires to evoke the solidarity of labor hardly succeeds in escaping the ludicrous. But ‘Marching men’ is not a literal novel. It has, indeed, its large element of the caveman piffle that played such a part in the romanticizations of Jack London, but outside this puerility, this day-dream of the male egoist, there is a great deal of inspiring symbolism in ‘Marching men.’ ... The chief fact about ‘Marching men’ is not its rhetoric, its grandiloquence. It is its apprehension of the great fictional theme of our generation, industrial America.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 12:249 S 29 ‘17 1500w

“Back of the new volume is a big idea, a strong purpose, a white light. It is obviously propaganda, interesting because it makes you thoughtful about the struggle that is going on here in Chicago and in all the labor centers of the land. ... Mr Anderson’s novel, while it compels one to read it to the end, is weak in many places. It savors too much of a preachment, and in the handling of the final chapters falls a bit flat.” J: N: Beffel

+ — =N Y Call= p14 N 11 ‘17 950w

“A disappointing book. For in the very beginning of it the descriptions of Coal Creek, the miners, and Norman McGregor’s hatred alike of the place and of the people, are sufficiently well done to lead the reader to expect a novel of possibly a trifle more than average interest and average merit.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 260w

=Pittsburgh= 22:748 N ‘17 50w

“Mr Anderson writes with an earnestness that cannot fail to awaken respect. Tho his characters occasionally—by no means always—sound a little more than human, his appreciation of the perversities of the social order—or disorder—and his sincere seeking for ‘the wherefore of the why,’ gain for this comparatively new author a sympathetic response.” Doris Webb

+ — =Pub W= 92:1372 O 20 ‘17 350w

=ANDREÄ, JOHANN VALENTIN.= Christianopolis; tr., with an historical introd., by Felix Emil Held. (Germanic literature and culture) il *$1.25 Oxford 321.07 16-14590

“Christianopolis, a translation from the Latin of Johann Valentin Andreae, portraying ‘an ideal state of the seventeenth century,’ is an important addition to utopian literature in the English language. Professor Held’s valuable introduction connects Christianopolis with the other utopias—Plato’s, More’s, Campanella’s City of the sun, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Samuel Gott’s Solyma—and with seventeenth century educational reforms. The text ranges quaintly over many of the rough realities and the fine ideals with which every people is still struggling.”—Survey

“The Latin original of this utopian sketch is very rare. It is just 270 years since Robert Boyle, in a letter to Samuel Hartlib, exprest the wish that an English version of it might be made. Such a version has now been made, and well made, by Assistant Professor Held of Miami university.”

+ =Educ R= 53:428 Ap ‘17 100w

“The introduction gives a conspectus of the literature on the whole subject, and will be useful for reference. It summarizes opinions, corrects errors, and rectifies ill-founded judgments. Dr Held doubtless overestimates his author, but the things for which Andreae may be regarded as noteworthy are properly specified, and a fair degree of probability is made out for the theses here propounded.”

+ =Nation= 104:375 Mr 29 ‘17 230w

“Dr Held’s translation of ‘Christianopolis’ is not only accurate, but it reads easily.” C. A. Williams

+ =School R= 24:710 N ‘16 180w

+ =Survey= 37:586 F 17 ‘17 180w

“The matter of his pages is admirable, but the manner it deserves is lacking. It is as the socialist who so long ago saw that the social question is a moral and religious one, as the promoter of educational and scientific reform, that he is important.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p341 Jl 19 ‘17 1350w

=ANDREYEV, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH.= Confessions of a little man during great days; tr. from the Russian by R. S. Townsend. *$1.35 Knopf 17-26393

“The book is just the quite shameless confession of a little clerk who gets no nearer the war than Petrograd, a futile, stupid, fussy, egoistic, but affectionate, sensitive, and somehow lovable little man of forty-five, with but one heroic quality, his honesty—at least to himself; he does not spare himself when he writes the diary that no one is to see. ... He wins your sympathy, from a fellow-feeling, and he keeps it, even when he is worrying about himself and his miserable digestion and his neglected state while his fine wife goes nursing, even when the smallness of his life makes him most ridiculous. ... Again when he decides to go to the front and serve with the ambulance you believe that he will go and somehow play his little part.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Registers his revolt against war, his gradual patriotic awakening and finally his desire to help. Will appeal to many Americans now entering upon similar experiences.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:448 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 220w

“Andreyev’s genius for analysis attains an intensity at times that is fairly hypnotic. ... But the analysis is not all. There are moments of great poetic freshness—pages of lyric beauty with accents exultant or despairing, as in the vivid pictures of springtime in Petrograd, or the moonlit city, still and mysterious and fearful, or the scene in the depot where the wounded soldiers arrive.”

+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 280w

=Pratt= p50 O ‘17 20w

“This diary of a non-combatant increasingly touched by war is one of the most remarkable books the war has produced.”

+ =Sat R= 123:207 Mr 3 ‘17 720w

“There is no purpose or propaganda here. All Andreyeff wants is to be honest, and he leaves you to make what you like of it. ... This honesty is what makes the book so absorbing, that and two other things; first, the extraordinary skill with which, in the simplest words, Andreyeff creates his little man and the splendid wife and the jolly children and the rest; and secondly, the fact that Ilya Petrovitch Dementev is a universal type. Even a brief, terrible description of how some women were tortured by Turks—Andreyeff’s one lapse into the ghastly—cannot altogether dismay you, for even here there is more pity than horror.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p92 F 22 ‘17 950w

=ANESAKI, MASAHARU.= Nichiren, the Buddhist prophet. il *$1.25 Harvard univ. press 294 16-17131

“This study is a kind of foreword to the author’s forthcoming work on the ‘Religious and moral development of the Japanese.’ The teachings and influence of Nichiren have played a large part in the present religious attitude of the Japanese nation. He has been called the ‘Nietzsche of Japan.’ ... His teachings, which unified religion and ethics, rescued pure Buddhism from the contamination of spurious beliefs and restored it to the purity of its original high ideals and to the worship of one Buddha (Buddha Sakya-muni), the Lord of the universe. To the restored purity of the Buddhist faith can be traced—at least in part—the great vitality of the Japanese nation.”—R of Rs

“This sketch, written under the inspiration of Professor Royce and his own experiences as professor of Japanese literature and life at Harvard, will help to an understanding of Japan.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:196 F ‘17

=Dial= 63:411 O 25 ‘17 200w

+ =Int J Ethics= 27:403 Ap ‘17 70w

“Though he never converted the rulers of the land he gathered a considerable following and founded a sect which is to-day enjoying a notable revival. Nichiren, moreover, was not only a preacher, but a writer of real power, and Dr Anesaki has wisely given us many extracts from the ‘prophet’s’ essays and letters.”

+ =Nation= 104:24 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

“This brief, clear exposition of Nichiren’s personality and teachings is a distinct contribution to the literature of religious psychology and a clearly cut portrait of a man western scholars will indeed be glad to know.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:105 Ja ‘17 270w

“The author is professor of the science of religion at the Imperial university of Tokio.”

+ =St Louis= 15:94 Mr ‘17 15w

“Undoubtedly the most complete history of the thoughts and acts of this remarkable man that has ever been published in the English language.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 330w

Annual of new poetry, 1917. *5s Constable & co., London 821.08

“Thirty pages, and more, of this volume are occupied by ‘dramatic reveries’ from Mr Gibson’s ‘Livelihood.’ Seven other poets are included. Two, Mr Davies and Mr Drinkwater, furnish barely twenty pages between them. There remain Mr Sturge Moore and Mr R. C. Trevelyan, who contribute each a single long poem, Mr Robert Frost, Mr Gordon Bottomley, and Mr Edward Eastaway.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=Ath= p309 Je ‘17 80w

“Perhaps the most interesting contributions to this volume are those by Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], whose poetic impulse was stimulated by the example of Robert Frost ... and who now lies dead on a French battlefield.” E: Garnett

=Atlan= 120:373 S ‘17 210w

“Mr Trevelyan’s drama is pretty enough but has none of the wit and brilliancy of his best work. ... Mr Gordon Bottomley contributes several beautiful little poems, all full of the pressure of life and death and of the greatness of to-day as coming out of yesterday and travelling to to-morrow. ... Mr Frost’s poems are just little bits of fact or incident which he has observed, sometimes more or less interesting, sometimes defiantly commonplace. ... Mr Eastaway is a real poet, with the truth in him. ... He has no instinct of selection. Several of his pieces here are not so much poems as notes out of which poems might have been made. But he has real imagination.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 29 ‘17 2000w

=APUKHTIN, ALEKSIEI NIKOLAEVICH.= From death to life; tr. from the original by R. Frank and E: Huybers. il 60c R. Frank, 15 E. 40th st., N.Y. 17-15469

“This first volume in the Gems of Russian literature series is a little book of sixty-odd pages containing a novelette by A. Apukhtin, Russian poet and novelist, who died in middle age a quarter of a century ago. The novelette might be called an essay in reincarnation, for it chronicles in the first person the thoughts and emotions of a man, a member of the Russian nobility, from the moment of his death until, on the day of his funeral, his individuality enters life again in the new-born infant of his wife’s maid. This brief shadow time is filled with intimations of previous existences which waver in and out through the dead man’s consciousness of what is going on around him, and it is ended by a passionate longing for life which fills him as his soul is born again into the body of the infant just entering the world.”—N Y Times

“The extravagance of the central idea in no way detracts from one’s enjoyment of the piece. The prose is simple and direct—and the images are poetic.”

+ =Dial= 63:282 S 27 ‘17 150w

“Such a trifle might seem memorable if stumbled on or more humbly presented, but for the first of a number of Gems of Russian literature it is scarce more glowing than artful glass.”

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“The eerie conceit is told with such simplicity and sincerity that it carries the air of absolute truth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:260 Jl 8 ‘17 300w

=ARCHER, WILLIAM=, comp. Gems (?) of German thought. *$1.25 Doubleday 940.91 17-15965

Extracts from over eighty books and pamphlets, of which the full titles and dates of publication are given in every instance, showing, “the dominant characteristics of German mentality,” and arranged under the headings: “Deutschland über alles”; German ambitions; War-worship; Ruthlessness; Machiavelism; England, France, and Belgium—especially England. Mr Archer states in his introduction that the great majority of the quotations are taken direct from the original sources, and adds that “it will be found by anyone who puts the matter to the test that in no case is there any unfairness in taking these brief extracts out of their context. The context is almost always an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance.” There is an “Index of books and pamphlets from which quotations are made,” and an “Index of authors,” with brief notes placing the different writers in the public life of Germany.

=A L A Bkl= 14:17 O ‘17

=Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 70w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:264 S 27 ‘17 1300w

=Nation= 105:153 Ag 9 ‘17 330w

“Mr Archer has done an important service, as ingenious as it is real, to the cause of truth and of sober realization of the fundamental causes of the great world war by the compilation of this volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:247 Jl 1 ‘17 870w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 140w

“It is unnecessary to insist upon Mr Archer’s qualifications for the task. As a literary and dramatic critic he has always been distinguished for independence, honesty, and a remarkable freedom from all insular bias. ... And his knowledge of continental literature is based upon first-hand acquaintance with the originals. The method he has adopted in this book is what might be expected from so well equipped and conscientious a writer.”

+ =Spec= 118:672 Je 16 ‘17 1700w

“They are meant to amuse us—as they do, except when we stop to reflect that a certain blindness in the German mind, which they exemplify, and which is much more a lack of humor than of humanity, has been a trait that helped to make the war possible.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w

=ARCHER, WILLIAM.= God and Mr Wells; a critical examination of “God, the invisible king.” *$1 Knopf (*1s 9d Watts & co., London) 201 17-24674

“Mr Archer is concerned about what the men of the future may think of Mr Wells, and accordingly writes what is certainly a witty and exhilarating, and the publisher calls a ‘complete and crushing,’ rejoinder. ... The critic’s point of view is that of the grave and respectful rationalist, who believes in the tendency of human progress towards good, but declines to be persuaded, by what he regards as ‘a mere system of nomenclature,’ into the belief that Mr Wells has found a new religion, a new God—in other words, the ‘key to the mystery of existence.’”—Ath

“As a literary effort, Mr Archer’s book is clearer, more humorous, and much more convincing than the book that evoked it. We say this without intending any adjudication on the issues at stake.”

=Ath= p406 Ag ‘17 130w

Reviewed by W: L. Phelps

* =Bookm= 46:723 F ‘18 950w

“Not much is left of Mr Wells’s glowingly imaginative creation after Mr Archer has devoted a hundred searching pages to its consideration but a large number of brightly colored shreds and tatters. Mr Archer has enjoyed himself very much in the making of them and the reader has equally enjoyed the process. But Mr Archer has not been simply destructive. As he goes along, and in a score or more of pages at the end, he modestly outlines a basis for man’s attitude toward the mystery of the universe and of himself that is austere almost to grimness but is simple, manful, and reasonable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 750w

=Pittsburgh= 22:769 N ‘17 80w

“In the latter part of his book Mr Archer extends his criticism from Mr Wells’s theology to Christian theology, and then he strikes us as no less ineffectual, because no less ignorant, and considerably less amusing, than Mr Wells when similarly engaged.”

— =Spec= 118:92 Jl 28 ‘17 550w

“Mr Archer is, it seems, an agnostic, and the destructive force of his Scottish intellect makes havoc with Mr Wells’s confident and bustling attempt to discover a God in the universe.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 1 ‘17 910w

=ARMSTRONG, HAMILTON FISH=, ed.[2] Book of New York verse. il *$2.50 Putnam 811.08

An anthology of New York verse, fittingly introduced and concluded with selections from Walt Whitman and celebrating both the ancient glories and the modern beauties of the city. The early poems in the collection are arranged in order of events. We have: Verrazano in New York harbour; Hudson’s last voyage; Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant; When Broadway was a country road, etc. The later poems are arranged loosely by locality: Central park; Brooklyn bridge; Washington square; Broadway. Among the modern poets represented are Sara Teasdale, Chester Firkins, Dana Burnet, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, James Oppenheim, and Edward Arlington Robinson. There are over sixty illustrations, many of them from interesting old prints.

+ — =New Repub= 13:322 Ja 12 ‘18 210w

“In spite of its considerable bulk, this book of New York verse is hardly ever monotonous. The whole possession of the city’s past is suggested in the earlier pages, and no reader will leave them without a keen appreciation of Manhattan nomenclature.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:6 Ja 6 ‘18 620w

=ARNDT, WALTER TALLMADGE.= Emancipation of the American city. *$1.50 (2½c) Duffield 352 17-18177

“Home rule appears to the author to be the first step toward a solution of the many problems of the modern city. Not only is the achievement of this step necessary to enable the city to direct its affairs in its own interest, but it is indispensable to the training of its citizens in moral self-direction. Concentration of business and political responsibility through commission government (or its equivalent), the short ballot, separation of local from national political issues, the substitution of independent for partisan tickets, an adequate and irreproachable civil service, the regulation and curtailment of public-utility franchises, the rationalization and standardization of the finance methods of the city within the limits at least of solvency—these are some of the most important reforms explained and urged.” (Dial) There are seven appendices dealing with city charters, preferential voting, etc., and a two page bibliography.

“In not a few paragraphs the language, whether of criticism or of praise, is stronger than a dispassionate analysis of the facts would support. Nevertheless the book will make an effective appeal to those who like to drink their potions of reform propaganda with some ginger mixed in it.”

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:789 N ‘17 150w

“Careful and illuminating study of the principles underlying home rule.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 130w

“The viewpoint of the author is decidedly sane and progressive, and the book may be trusted to hold the interest of the average reader.”

+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 200w

“One of the best recent studies and discussions of American municipal government in the present age of reform.”

+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 100w

“It might be said that Mr Arndt has made available in the most readable way all the best thought of the intelligent business class and their unconscious academic allies on municipal government reform. ... Here, it seems to me, lies the value of the book for us. It is a compact and handy guide to recent useful political inventions, some of which it will pay us well to appropriate for our own purpose. There is, however, abundant evidence in this work of an utter failure to understand the heaviest burdens to which our cities have fallen heir.” Evans Clark

+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 14 ‘17 1150w

“One would have welcomed a more detailed account of the beginnings of municipal reform in this country, with some comment on the pioneers of the movement.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 160w

“The best field for the book is probably among those newly enfranchised women who desire a simple, straightforward account of current reform efforts as an aid in understanding public questions.” R. S. Childs

+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 180w

=ARNOLD, SARAH LOUISE.= Story of the Sargent industrial school at Beacon, New York, 1891-1916. il Sarah L. Arnold, Simmons college, Boston 640.7 A17-1514

An intimate account of the founding, growth and success of the Sargent industrial school at Beacon-on-Hudson. To establish a home school for girls, without an institutional aspect, where culture and refinement abound, where house-keeping and home-making are efficiently taught, where the community spirit is nourished—this was the original hope of the founder. She began her work in 1878 and from that time to the present has trained more than ten thousand girls. The program provides courses in sewing, dressmaking, embroidery, cooking, house-keeping, laundry work, physical training, singing and drawing. The influence of the school upon the community is a valuable aspect of Mrs Sargent’s success.

=ARNOLD, THOMAS JACKSON.= Early life and letters of General Thomas J. Jackson, “Stonewall” Jackson. il *$2 Revell 17-241

“From earliest childhood, Mr Arnold (who is a nephew of General Jackson) tells us, his memory is very clear as to the personal appearance of General Jackson, ‘and from that time forward I knew him quite well as a boy would know a man.’ ... In later years, Mr Arnold knew intimately General Jackson’s boyhood companions, and from them gathered much unpublished interesting information. In addition, he recently came into possession of more than one hundred letters from General Jackson’s private correspondence. Of all this material he has made good, judicious use, producing what seems to the reader to be a new, and certainly a true portrait of the famous Confederate chieftain.”—Lit D

“These evidences of Jackson’s growth and inner life are both enlightening and characteristic, although it must be said that they do not materially qualify the picture we have in Dabney’s ‘Life and campaigns’ or Henderson’s remarkable portrait of more recent years. Mr Arnold has done his part of the work well and acceptably, without parade or undue hero-worship.” W: E. Dodd

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:413 Ja ‘18 1150w

=A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 470w

“The domestic qualities of Stonewall Jackson are traced in a biography by his widow, the military qualities, in the standard biography by Henderson. Neither Mrs Jackson nor Henderson, however, was fully or accurately informed about the early life of the great soldier. Information regarding these formative years has been gathered carefully by Mr Thomas J. Arnold, Jackson’s nephew, and is now published. ... For those who would become thoroughly acquainted with either the exact details of Jackson’s life, or the fulness of his character, an acquaintance with Mr Arnold’s work is indispensable.”

+ =Dial= 62:250 Mr 22 ‘17 250w

“A somewhat new and very personal view of the Confederate leader.”

+ =Ind= 89:421 Mr 5 ‘17 160w

+ =Lit D= 54:260 F 3 ‘17 850w

=R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 80w

=ARONOVICI, CAROL.= Social survey. (Bu. for social research of the Seybert inst. of Philadelphia) il $1.25 (2½c) Harper press, 1012 Chancellor st., Philadelphia 309.1 16-17518

This work has been developed from a pamphlet that was published as Bulletin no. 20 of the department of social and public service of the American Unitarian association. Parts of the book have also appeared in newspapers and magazines. Its purpose is to suggest lines of inquiry for those contemplating a local survey. Contents: The meaning of the survey; General considerations; Character of the community; The city plan; Local government; Suffrage; Industry; Health; Leisure; Education; Welfare agencies; Crime; Statistical facts and the survey; Social legislation and the survey; The facts and the people; A social program. A list of Social agencies of national scope is given in an appendix and there is a bibliography of thirty-six pages.

“The volume gives evidence of rather hasty composition. Its workmanship is distinctly inferior to the grade which the writer has maintained in special articles. Current platitudes too frequently appear as substitutes for clear thinking. ... The book gives little or no evidence of any utilization of the numerous reports of social surveys. A noticeable deficiency is the absence of even a brief résumé of the social survey movement. The merits, rather than the deficiencies, of the book are likely to impress the majority of its readers. The section on housing is an exceptionally good piece of work. Well-selected charts provide striking illustrations. ... The bibliography is of service not only for its representative enumeration of surveys, but also for the classified selection of books. There is, however, no acknowledgment of the author’s evident indebtedness to the ‘Bibliography of the social survey,’ published by the Department of surveys and exhibits of the Russell Sage foundation.” E. W. Burgess

=Am Econ= R 7:424 Je ‘17 420w

“Based on the author’s wide experience as director of the Bureau for social research, Philadelphia, this book furnishes a good, usable text for civic clubs and classes or communities which are contemplating a survey.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:243 Mr ‘17

“Closes with an excellent bibliography.”

+ =Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17 60w

“A useful introduction to the subject for the general reader, as well as a convenient manual of reference in regard to the important surveys already completed. The work is characterized thruout by an active appreciation of the value of facts as a guide to conduct, and of the value of vision in guiding research.”

+ =Ind= 90:217 Ap 28 ‘17 120w

“It is not a handbook for social surveyors, but it is a first-rate introduction for the average citizen to the problems of his community.” R. E. Park

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:752 Jl ‘17 270w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:131 F ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 14:428 D ‘16

=ARTSYBASHEV, MIKHAIL PETROVICH.= Tales of the revolution; tr. by Percy Pinkerton. *$1.50 (1½c) Huebsch 17-26653

There are five stories in this book: Sheviriof; The blood-stain; Morning shadows; Pasha Tumanof; The doctor. All are stories of men and women who sacrificed themselves for the revolution. It appears a hopeless cause, in which a few helpless individuals hurl themselves in futile rebellion against an invincible power, but the stories, dark as they are, will be read with a different feeling now, when it is known that the sacrifice was not in vain.

=A L A Bkl= 14:25 O ‘17

“Characterized for the most part by a grim realism.”

=Ath= p253 My ‘17 10w

“This writer never lays himself open to criticism on the ground of inconsistency or of producing horror merely for horror’s sake. The emotions that he describes are justified by the situations which produce them, and these in turn by his characters, who are undoubtedly real to his experience. ... Personally we read him with mingled feelings—a deep admiration for his power and a feeling of the futility of its expenditure.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 400w

“Artzibashef was a very young man when he wrote some of the stories in ‘Tales of the revolution,’ but they show little sign of immaturity. ... We may not like the Russia he shows us, we may even profess to disbelieve in its existence, yet he himself is the best proof that it does exist. It is a Russia that we must take into account in the present crisis, and in spite of Artzibashef’s black pessimism, by no means as a factor altogether evil. For it is an honest and a straightforward and an unsentimental Russia, and even in its hopelessness it keeps on striving.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

=ASH, SHOLOM.=[2] Mottke, the vagabond (Mottke ganef); tr. and ed. by Isaac Goldberg. *$1.50 (1½c) Luce, J: W. 17-30731

This novel, translated from the Yiddish, is a story of life in a Jewish village in Russian Poland and in the underworld of Warsaw. Mottke is born into an overcrowded household. His mother, who gave birth to a child each year, earned her living and that of her family by nursing other people’s children, her own being left to survive or die, as it happened. Mottke, who early shows a tenacious grasp on life, survives, to grow up an unkempt, unlettered lad, the terror of his village. At fourteen he had experienced all the sensations of life—except murder. And that follows not long after. In turn Mottke is a blower in a glass factory, a member of a troupe of wandering acrobats, and keeper of a brothel. He is torn between his love for two women, is moved to reform himself for the sake of one of them, is betrayed by her, and in the face of the other’s efforts to save him, gives himself up to defeat.

“The story has the usual characteristic of Russian literature, frankness, but also a certain wide humanity which makes it distinctive. In the great conflict of passions running through the book decency inevitably triumphs. The descriptions of Jewish life, told in nervous, vivid style are arresting.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 22 ‘17 780w

“The people throughout are well drawn, and the realism with which the life of the underworld is given makes it at once more pitiful and less alluring than most authors dare to present it. It is a sordid enough story, as far as its scenes go. Thieves, vagabonds, outcasts figure in it very largely. But they are not stereotyped, and therefore they have those moving qualities which belong to life in all its confusion of beauty and misery.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 1000w

=ASHBEE, CHARLES ROBERT.= American league to enforce peace; with an introd. by G. Lowes Dickinson. *2s 6d Allen & Unwin, London 341.1 17-24821

“Mr Ashbee, who was one of the few Englishmen present at the inauguration of the American League to enforce peace, interprets in this book the tendencies of modern American opinion; and emphasizes the significance of that movement, which passed almost unnoticed in England until President Wilson’s speech in June, 1916. Like Mr Brailsford and others, he considers the adhesion of America to a League of nations would bring this project into the sphere of practical politics; and he is alive to the value of the United States as a counter-weight in the European league; for the United States, within its own borders, is solving by fusion some problems of nationality.”—Int J Ethics

+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 90w

=Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 100w

“If Mr Ashbee does not later prove a true prophet, he has at any rate written a stimulating and incisive analysis of recent American public opinion towards international problems.”

+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 170w

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 80w

=ASHLEY, ROSCOE LEWIS.= New civics; a textbook for secondary schools. il *$1.20 Macmillan 353 17-11359

“Part 1 is devoted to the topic, ‘The citizen and society,’ and contains chapters on citizenship, the education of the citizen, the American nation, civic organization, and the American home and family.