Volume 5 is devoted to Christian cooperation and world redemption and

consists of the reports of several special committees. Volume 6, prepared by Henry H. Meyer, deals with Cooperation in Christian education.

“As a record of proceedings the volumes are cumbered with much matter which is of little interest to the ordinary reader, or even to the student of social and ecclesiastical movements. Volume 5 carries the largest measure of value to the ordinary Christian worker and the church.” A. W. Anthony

+ — =Am J Theol= 21:623 O ‘17 500w

=A L A Bkl= 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Any comparison of the relative importance of the books would be unfair, for each has its own remarkable value. As unique and significant as any is the report on Christian education. The set makes a permanent contribution to the history of American Christianity.”

+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 200w

“The fourth volume [on Japan] is a very able and frank discussion of a delicate question.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 330w

“The second, third and fourth volumes contain a splendid summary of the peculiar problems facing the American church because of the war in Europe, and are a thrilling call to the proclamation of the gospel of peace.”

+ =Ind= 91:513 S 29 ‘17 240w

=FENOLLOSA, ERNEST FRANCISCO, and POUND, EZRA LOOMIS.= Noh; or, Accomplishment; a study of the classical stage of Japan. *$2.75 Knopf 895

This volume includes translations of fifteen examples of the “Noh” or classical drama of Japan, which arose in the fifteenth century of our era, came near to perishing at the revolution of 1868, and is now “the pride and pleasure of the cultivated element of Japan.” “In a prefatory note the English author states that the ‘vision and the plan’ are the late Ernest Fenollosa’s, that in the prose portion of the book he (Mr Ezra Pound) has ‘had but the part of literary executor,’ and that in the plays his work has been ‘that of translator who has found all the heavy work done for him, and who has had but the pleasure of arranging beauty into the words.’” (Ath) Mr Fenollosa, who served as Imperial commissioner of arts in Japan and was in close touch with Mr Umèwaka Minoru, the official hereditary master of Noh ceremonies in the Shogun’s household, contributes a concise essay on the origins and development of the Noh drama. “In the appendixes and elsewhere are numerous details concerning the care and selection of costumes, the masks used, and the like; and at the end of the book is an attempt to record some of the music of one of the plays.” (Ath)

=Ath= p100 F ‘17 250w

“Mr Pound, in his notes and comments, writes with his usual unceremonious directness. ... And as the volume is made by the Clarks, of Edinburgh, a ‘serious’ house, one notes, with gratification, an almost complete suppression of Mr Pound’s tendency toward typographical willfulnesses and eccentricities.” H: B. Fuller

=Dial= 63:209 S 13 ‘17 900w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:135 S ‘17 50w

“When we have read ‘Noh; or, Accomplishment,’ our first feeling is that of gratitude to Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound for bringing this remote but serious and beautiful art so close to us. On Fenollosa’s part it meant the devoted labor of more than twenty years. Ezra Pound has given a shorter term of labor, but he is one with Fenollosa in his loyalty to the spirit of ‘Noh.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:576 D 23 ‘17 850w

=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 100w

“A curious thing about the plays is their diction. We know not if it be because Mr Pound is steeped in the works of Maeterlinck, the school of Synge, and the poetry of Mr Yeats, but certain it is that in phraseology and dialogue they continually remind one of these authors. ... We in the West are not in a position, with the data available, to arrive at a full appreciation of ‘Noh.’ ... But we may gain some perception at least of the delicacy, the lofty idealism, and the noble hopefulness which are among the essential qualities of an art that, in Fenollosa’s words, ‘has been a purification of the Japanese soul for 400 years.’”

* =Sat R= 123:527 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“Mr Pound describes the Japanese classical drama as in form approaching most nearly to the Greek plays. But it is, we think, a very slight resemblance, and certainly in spirit and expression it is peculiarly individual. There is about it a simplicity such as is to be found in a Hans Andersen fairy-tale, a wealth of imagery reminding us of the Celtic drama, and again a dignity of imagination which is like nothing so much as some of the work of the Hebrew poets. ... Mr Pound’s translation is admirable in most respects, but we wish that he did not show a tendency to be influenced by the vocabulary of the Celtic drama.”

+ — =Spec= 118:543 My 12 ‘17 750w

“The uninitiated foreigner is enabled by Mr Pound’s mastery of beautiful diction to appreciate the alternately wistful and proud appeal of these ghostly masterpieces. ... Two points of cardinal interest are emphasized and driven home by this vivacious rendering of archaic compositions—their intense humanity and their indifference to realism.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p41 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w

=FERBER, EDNA.= Fanny herself. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-25431

Fanny Brandeis, like Miss Ferber’s Emma McChesney, was a successful business woman. Her mother, Molly Brandeis, who, after her husband’s death, ran Brandeis’ Bazaar in the little middle western town of Winnebago, was also a good business woman, but she died of pneumonia, brought on by overwork, when Fanny was twenty-four. Then Fanny, swayed by “a bitter sorrow, and ambition, and resentment” made up her mind to crush out sympathy and unselfishness and the artistic impulse in herself, and to mold herself into “a hard, keen-eyed resolute woman, whose godhead was to be success, and to whom success would mean money and position.” She went to work in the Haynes-Cooper mail order house, where she made good, and in a few years was earning her $10,000. Then she had to choose between a still greater business success with Michael Fenger, former manager of the Haynes-Cooper concern, and a chance to develop her talent as a cartoonist and to marry Clarence Heyl, who had loved her for years, and who did not see the real values of life in terms of cash. Other characters are Father Fitzpatrick, the Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove department of Haynes-Cooper; and Fanny’s brother, Theodore, the young violinist, to secure whose musical education Mrs Brandeis and her daughter had made such sacrifices. Emma McChesney also plays a very slight part in the story.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 70w

“An element in the story which we are seldom allowed to forget is the racial one. With all the recent emphasis upon the Jew in literature, it is hard to call to mind a story which so fully developed those distinctly higher attributes of the Jew. ... Fanny Brandeis becomes, as we read the story, something more than an individual character. She becomes typical of that slaying of the ideal for the material which is going on day after day in thousands of Fanny Brandeises all over the United States.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 1000w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 50w

“The most serious, extended and dignified of Miss Ferber’s books. Its first half, in particular, is quite the best work that the creator of Emma McChesney has done.”

+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 260w

=Nation= 105:431 O 18 ‘17 400w

“It is Molly Brandeis who, with the little town of Winnebago, Wis., makes this story of ‘Fanny herself’ worth while.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:380 O 7 ‘17 800w

“A notable advance in the author’s previous fiction work.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 70w

“Yet there were here and there discerning readers who failed to find in them [the Emma McChesney stories] a fulfilment of the promise offered in ‘Dawn O’Hara.’ For this reason there should be much rejoicing over Miss Ferber’s new volume and second novel. And the fact that she has produced her effects out of practically the same well-worn, almost shabby stage properties of her earlier stories, is perhaps the most conclusive evidence that she has this time arisen from mere talent to something containing a lurking spark of what, for lack of a better word one may call genius.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 93:208 Ja 19 ‘18 360w

“Fanny’s mother is a striking creation, and her personality goes a long way toward lifting the story above the commonplace.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w

=FERGUSON, JOHN DE LANCEY.= American literature in Spain. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 810 17-263

“Systematic study of the European reputations of American authors is a thing of recent date,” says the author. His purpose in this book is to make such a study with respect to Spain. The chief source of knowledge of American literature in Spain, he finds, has been France. There have been a few exceptions in which communication between the literatures of the two countries has been direct, notable among them the case of Irving, whose relations with Spain were personal. Another way of entry has been thru Spanish America. Chapters of the book are devoted to Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prescott, Emerson, Whitman. The bibliography is pronounced by the author the most important part of the work.

+ =Cath World= 105:107 Ap ‘17 350w

“Regarding his work as a dissertation for the doctorate, one is disposed to be severe upon this contribution to scholarship: it deals chiefly with the exuberant and bombastic opinions of men whose words are without value; it is devoid of philosophical conclusions; further, we do not recall reading a dissertation whose body was so compactly made up of quotation.”

— =Nation= 104:552 My 3 ‘17 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 450w

=FERNALD, ROBERT HEYWOOD, and ORROK, GEORGE ALEXANDER.= Engineering of power plants. il *$4 McGraw 621 16-24435

“To the worthy treatises on power-plant engineering of Gebhardt, Hutton, Hubbard and others, these eminent authors have added an equally worthy volume. The new book is of great interest to industrial-plant owners and engineers, as the treatment is both by description and discussion and introduces specific data at every turn. All kinds of power are touched on, though steam and internal-combustion plants are naturally given the most space.” (Engin News-Rec) Of the two authors, the first is professor of dynamical engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, the second is a consulting engineer in New York city.

“Useful in connection with Gebhardt (4th ed. Booklist 10:80 O ‘13) but will not replace that standard work.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:204 F ‘17

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:363 My 17 ‘17 70w

“Is a happy medium of practice and theory that has been greatly lacking in books of this nature. ... Does not cover details of design or operation of the different parts of power plant equipment ... but considers the power plant as a whole from the standpoint of economical power production.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:451 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from National Engineer p149 Ap ‘17)

=FERNAU, HERMANN.= Coming democracy. *$2 (2c) Button 940.91 17-24321

Herr Fernau, a German democrat and pacifist and author of “Because I am a German,” published the original German version of his present book in Berne, Switzerland, under the title “Durch!... zur demokratie,” before the Russian revolution and the entry of the United States into the war. “The whole of this new book is devoted to the thesis that war now, as always, springs from a false and perverted form of internal government—a form of government to which he gives the name of a ‘dynasty’; the form under which the whole welfare of the people is subordinated to a small ruling caste or family; external war has always been and will always remain the chief weapon by which the dynasty maintains authority over its own people, and the only means by which it can be overthrown is defeat in war.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Herr Fernau preaches “Germany for the Germans,” and hopes for a defeat of the German arms as the best way of realizing this. “For what would happen if we Germans emerged victorious from this war? Our victory would only mean a strengthening of the dynastic principle of arbitrary power all along the line. Those of us who bewail the political backwardness of our Fatherland must realize that a ‘German’ victory would prolong this backward condition for centuries. And not only Germany but the whole of Europe would have to suffer the consequences.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18

“He writes rather in anger than in sorrow; and, since he is a German, he would be more conciliating and convincing if he were less vehement and intemperate in his language.”

– + =Ath= p517 O ‘17 250w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w

“The author clearly shows what indeed only a native German could show, the very strong differences and opposition between the German people and their rulers.”

+ =Cath World= 106:389 D ‘17 400w

“He sincerely believes, in common with many Americans, that wars will cease with the disappearance of dynasties. If his book will enforce this illusion, its present value is questionable.” V. T. Thayer

— =Dial= 63:515 N 22 ‘17 1050w

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 130w

“There is little that is new, in these bitter and even cynical pages, for the reader who has kept moderately well abreast of the anti-German literature of the war. Moreover, destructive criticism, especially when forged in great heat, may easily go too far. Indeed, a reading of the book suggests the extremely useful service that would be rendered if some one who knows Germany and its people as well as Mr Fernau does would point out just what the Germans could do, under their existing constitution, to bring about the régime of popular government which President Wilson, for example, believes to be a prerequisite to peace.”

– + =Nation= 105:516 N 8 ‘17 330w

“Herr Fernau has given us a most remarkable work, a most powerful and convincing analysis of past German history.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w

“‘The coming democracy’ is an astounding book, so unexpected is it to find such clear, keen insight into German conditions, such fearless presentation of facts, such merciless, sardonic, biting humor in statements coming from a German source.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1050w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 90w

“For the most part, Fernau’s logic is inexorable, but here and there he is guilty of a curious fallacy, as when, for instance, he holds dynasties exclusively responsible for the horrors of war, and also declares that the ideal of fighting for a fatherland perished with the Greeks.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:229 S 22 ‘17 1050w

“Hermann Fernau is a true patriot, a passionate lover of the German people and of the old German fatherland. ... A considerable part of his book is given up to showing, as only a German brought up under the system can appreciate and show, how a small ambitious group of men may, by means of it, control absolutely the souls, minds, and bodies of a great nation. ... His analysis of the German constitution should be studied by those who still believe that the German people have any active share in the government of their country.”

+ =Spec= 119:217 S 1 ‘17 1850w

“The book is one of the most important contributions to the literature of the war. The subject and matter, is, indeed, not new, but it is put in a new light. ... The translation is excellent.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p398 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w

=FERRI, ENRICO.= Criminal sociology. (Modern-criminal science ser.) *$5 Little 364 17-13931

This book by “the first of living criminal sociologists,” is divided into four parts: Data of criminal anthropology; Data of criminal statistics; Positive theory of penal responsibility; Practical reforms. “Signor Ferri, who belongs to the so-called positive school of criminology, is a scientific socialist; moreover, he utterly demolishes the orthodox theory of freedom of the will. He regards all crime as a social disease which must be treated as every other disease is treated: clinically. Mild forms need only a change of diet or environment with very little if any medicine of the law; the contagious cases must be isolated as we isolate smallpox and diphtheria until there is a perfect cure or until it is proved that there is no cure possible. He recognizes that many criminals are insane, hopelessly insane. His own belief is that the penalty of death is advisable in the instances where an insane criminal is dangerous to society; but that is immaterial. Protection of the community in which criminals are found is the one vital thing.” (Boston Transcript) The book, first published in Italian in 1880, is translated by Joseph I. Kelly and John Lisle; edited by William W. Smithers; and has introductions by Charles A. Ellwood and Quincy A. Myers.

“An important book for college and special reference libraries.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

“This volume gives one of the best pictures of the changes through which criminal sociology has passed in the last half century.” W: B. Bailey

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:772 N ‘17 240w

“No one today can make a pretense of familiarity with the modern sciences of criminology who has not read this work. If criticisms are to be made of the Italian school, they should be made on the basis of the ideas here set forth. The American institute has rendered a great service to English civilization by the translation of this book.” J. P. Lichtenberger

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:303 N ‘17 380w

“It may be that the author of this volume is (as certainly he makes it abundantly evident that he thinks he is) the greatest living authority on criminology, but he is so rambunctiously controversial that he overloads his treatise with a vast mass of perfectly unnecessary arguments directed against every person who has ever dared to enter this great field. ... It is much to be desired that a greatly shortened summary of Signor Ferri’s constructive philosophy of crime might be extricated from his bulky volume, eliminating entirely the controversial portions and leaving only the pure gold of his admirable doctrine, based on his actual observations.” N. H. D.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 1150w

“Enrico Ferri, is a positivist of the Italian school, who holds that crime is a biologic and social abnormality, produced in part at least by extra-social forces. ... His hatred of religion breathes on every page. ... We regret very much that the American institute cannot find American scholars to write on these topics objectively, instead of translating works nearly forty years old of anti-Christian bigots.”

— =Cath World= 105:548 Jl ‘17 300w

“This book still remains the most distinguished general contribution to the subject of criminology, though much of its data and some of its conclusions are now out of date.” L. L. Bernard

+ =Dial= 63:338 O 11 ‘17 1000w

+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 500w

=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 70w

“One of the most valuable volumes in a useful series. Ferri’s classification of criminals appears to us now somewhat overlapping and difficult to establish in given cases by practicable tests.” K. H. Claghorn

+ — =Survey= 39:47 O 13 ‘17 350w

=FETTER, FRANK ALBERT.= Economics. 2v v 2 *$1.75 Century 330

=v 2= Modern economic problems.

“A year ago there appeared a book by Professor Fetter dealing with the broader economic principles of value and distribution. This is now followed by a volume entirely devoted to the treatment of practical problems which furnish concrete illustrations and applications of the principles developed in the earlier volume. These are grouped under the following heads: Resources and economic organization; Money and prices; Banking and insurance; Tariff and taxation; Problems of the wage system, and Problems of industrial organization. The two books are intended to cover a complete course in economics, but they are so arranged that they may be used separately.”—R of Rs

“The sentiment of the book is thoroughly modern and progressive, but the policies advocated are based upon scientific principles throughout rather than upon the popular reform policies of the hour. The wisdom of confining references to other works, and bibliographical material in general, to a separate manual, may be questioned. Many readers of the text will, presumably, never see the ‘Manual’ but still will need guidance to further study of those problems in which they are particularly interested.” W. I. K.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 230w

“The reviewer knows of no other economic text book where the application of principles to practical problems is more successfully made. The result is that much merely confusing descriptive material is eliminated, and what remains is solid and stimulating. From this point of view, the book will probably make a strong appeal to the teacher, to the student and to the general reader.” E. E. Agger

+ =Educ R= 54:90 Je ‘17 780w

“This work is, in a sense, a sequel to a book published by the same author a year ago. ... It will repay careful study because it dispels a number of popular fallacies and because, as has been said, it offers an excellent introduction to the more modern method of dealing with economic phenomena.”

+ =Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 180w

“Professor Fetter’s discussion is clear and well-informed, and his conclusions are temperate and suggestive.”

+ =Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 100w

=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 100w

=FICKE, ARTHUR DAVISON.= April elegy. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-12484

“An April elegy,” the poem that fills the first half of this book, is a verse narrative, telling the story of two lovers who fail ever to recapture the passionate beauty of their first meeting. The remainder of the book is taken up with three groups of poems: Seven Japanese paintings; Lyrics; Café sketches. Some of the poems have appeared in the Little Review, Poetry, Century, Midland, and other magazines.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17

“Unlike some of his fellow poets of the new school, however, Mr Ficke has a genuine gift of poetic expression; he has, too, a disciplined metrical skill that shows to advantage in his handling both of the ordered verse forms and of free verse; finally, he always has something to say and says it intelligibly. ... In all his work it is when Mr Ficke is most purely lyrical that he is most delightful.” R. T. T.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 1000w

“The poems mingle bald realism and free verse with imaginative and lyric beauty. In intellectual content, they are subtle and at times difficult of interpretation. Mr Ficke is best known from his ‘Sonnets of a portrait painter’ and as an interpreter of Japanese art.”

=Cleveland= p74 Je ‘17 80w

“The whole-hearted sentimentalism of ‘An April elegy’ will certainly recommend it to many, though scarcely to those readers whom Mr Ficke’s real powers and previous performance fit him to address.” Odell Shepard

– + =Dial= 63:341 O 11 ‘17 380w

“In eight sonnets of his new volume the proud and sombre note of Mr Ficke’s ‘Sonnets of a portrait-painter’ is audible in renewed vigor and beauty. Next in merit to these poems, I should place, I think, ‘Seven Japanese paintings.’ ‘An April elegy’ is equally unworthy of its associates and its parentage.” O. W. Firkins

+ – — =Nation= 105:245 S 6 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 60w

“Full of impassioned beauty, rich restraint, and romantic appeal.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 300w

+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 80w

“Verily, this is a book for a diverse public or for a single reader with very catholic taste. Mr Ficke at times reaches the Pierian hights of the old school, and at times approaches the gutter depths of much of the new.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 450w

=FIELD, CLIFTON COUTARD.= Retail buying. (Harper’s retail business ser.) *$1.25 (2½c) Harper 658 17-21788

The author, recently instructor in merchandizing in the University of Wisconsin, has also held positions with Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, and James McCreery & Co., of New York. His book aims to give “a simple and readable explanation of what is best to-day in buying principles and practice.” (Editor’s introd.) Contents: The merchant as a buyer; Merchandise; Buying practice; Stock systems.

“A book list of descriptive material issued by manufacturers will be suggestive to librarians who wish to build up a working trade collection.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 20w

“Gives many convenient hints as to kinds and qualities of commodities, especially in the clothing trades.”

+ =Ind= 91:441 S 15 ‘17 60w

“The style is matter of fact, almost laconic. There is an element of stiffness and bluntness in it that appears to arise from lack of practice in writing. The discussion, however, is clear and usually simple. The real contribution in this book is to be found in part 3, entitled ‘Buying practice.’ It is just here that an undeveloped field was entered.” C. S. Duncan

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1053 D ‘17 1200w

=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 40w

“Instructive reading for any one connected with retail buying or selling.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w

=FIELD, LOUISE MAUNSELL.= Little gods laugh. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-23975

In this story of New York society Miss Field has given us a picture of the development of a high-minded young woman of good family, who, bred to position and ease, finds herself obliged to make her own way in the world. The refreshing side of the story is in its normality. Nita Wynne, through the interest of friends, uses and develops her natural abilities and though she, of course, loses leisure, she does not in any way lose her proper position. But her experiences do teach her to view life whole rather than from the narrow angle of her girlhood.

“The story is told with dignity and charm.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 150w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w

“There is some clever characterization, but that is not a sufficient excuse for the addition of one more novel to the already overlong list of American mediocrities.”

– + =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 50w

“It is a real achievement of the author that Nita is never a prig. In her most intolerant moments there is something likeable, and very human, about her. The characters and incidents of the book are interesting and its theme is thoroughly wholesome and sane.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 450w

Fifes and drums; a collection of poems of America at war. (Vigilantes books) *$1 Doran 811.08 17-18155

“The Vigilantes’ headquarters are in New York, its members are authors, artists and other professional workers, and its purposes are thus described: ‘To arouse the country to a realization of the importance of the problems confronting the American people. To awaken and cultivate in the youth of the country a sense of public service and an intelligent interest in citizenship and national problems. To work vigorously for preparedness, mental, moral, and physical.’” (Boston Transcript) “These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by the Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war.” (Foreword) Some of the contributors are Amelia Josephine Burr, Don Marquis, Clinton Scollard, Wallace Irwin, Edith M. Thomas, George E. Woodberry, Cale Young Rice, Theodosia Garrison, Percy MacKaye and Hermann Hagedorn.

“Their literary excellence is very high. It would be easy to forgive much under the circumstances, but there is nothing to forgive. ... To single out a single poem in any collection as superlatively the best is usually futile and an invitation to violent argument, but we have no reluctance to place Miss Garrison’s ‘April 2nd’ at the head.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1000w

“The whole anthology carries a glowing atmosphere of enthusiasm, every page breathing the wide range of high human emotion which is brought into being during the stress of wartime.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 260w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 180w

=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Some defects in English religion, and other sermons. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1 (3½c) Young ch. 252

The defects in English religion to which the author devotes the first four sermons in this book are Sentimentalism, Legalism, Cowardice, and Complacency. This series of sermons was preached in Grosvenor chapel, Mayfair, in August, 1916. Among the other sermons in the volume is a group on The mysteries of love, preached as a Lenten series.

“A master of the philosophic ideas of history, and equally at home with Bernard Shaw or Nietzsche and the significant movements of today in letters, Dr Figgis is a preacher of an unusual sort.”

+ =Sat R= 123:260 Mr 17 ‘17 370w

=FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE.= Will to freedom; or, The gospel of Nietzsche and the gospel of Christ. *$1.25 Scribner 193 17-15172

“Dr Figgis, who is a member of the Community of the Resurrection, a religious order of the Church of England, was invited to deliver the Gov. Bross lectures at Lake Forest university in Illinois in 1915, and made the German philosopher his subject.” (Springf’d Republican) “In the lectures he aims at correcting some prevalent misconceptions as to Nietzsche and his influence in Germany. The six lectures deal in turn with ‘Nietzsche the man,’ ‘The gospel of Nietzsche,’ ‘Nietzsche and Christianity,’ ‘Nietzsche’s originality,’ ‘The charm of Nietzsche,’ and ‘The danger and the significance of Nietzsche.’ In particular Dr Figgis insists that, unlike Stirner, Nietzsche did not teach egotism, but rather a religion of valour involving the sacrifice of immediate desire to an ideal of nobility; egotism being, indeed, in direct opposition to some of Nietzche’s most important principles, such as natural asceticism, the sacrifice of ages in order to speed the superman, the raising of the type of man. But while endeavouring to set before us a reconsideration of much of Nietzsche’s position in a more favourable light than the controversialists of recent years generally allow, Dr Figgis protests equally against those who argue that because Nietzsche in his later years held and loudly expressed anti-Russian views therefore modern Germany was not deeply influenced by him.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

Reviewed by W. C. A. Wallar

=Am J Theol= 22:150 Ja ‘18 650w

=A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p462 S ‘17 180w

“There may be, however, some doubt whether many who call themselves Christian would accept Dr Figgis’s statement that they ‘assert the will to freedom.’ That is the weakness of the book; for it is only too easy to make out that anything that is true or good is Christian.”

+ — =Ath= p508 O ‘17 550w

“For the reader who has not time for the writings of Nietzsche but who would like to know what it is all about, this is the book.”

+ =Bib World= 50:254 O ‘17 700w

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 30w

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w

“The discussion is pitched in a key so much lower than Nietzsche’s own writing, and is conducted in such obvious and pedestrian terms that the many quotations blaze across the page with a heat that seems almost to shrivel the unfortunate commentator. What Dr Figgis has done here is to make the common mistake of confusing a diagnosis with an ethics. The common mind seems unable to keep from confounding Nietzsche’s analysis of what is with his ideal of what ought to be. ... The book must be credited, however, with what is perhaps the best short sketch of Nietzsche’s life to be found in English.” Randolph Bourne

– + =Dial= 63:389 O 25 ‘17 1200w

“A book of real weight and of philosophic power.”

+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 100w

“The relation of Nietzsche to contemporary thought and particularly to Christianity, as well as to the prevailing ideals in Germany, is well brought out in Dr Figgis’ book.”

+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 380w

“His study of Nietzsche is able, fresh and sympathetic. Perhaps because he is under Nietzsche’s charm, he does not quite come to grips with his subject.” M. J.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:287 Ja ‘18 280w

“We can not praise too highly this exposition. It is unbiased, fair, and square. No debatable characterization of the subject lacks chapter and verse from Nietzsche’s writings.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 430w

“The title gives a sufficient intimation of Dr Figgis’s purpose, but one could wish that he had followed this purpose a little more tenaciously. As a matter of fact, the best part of the book is the exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy before the author enters upon his critical comparison.”

+ =Nation= 105:323 S 20 ‘17 350w

“It would be difficult for any Christian reviewer to excel Dr Figgis in combining just criticism of an iconoclastic atheist with so impartial an appreciation of his merits.”

+ =Outlook= 117:260 O 17 ‘17 160w

=Pittsburgh= 22:699 O ‘17 20w

=Pratt= p6 O ‘17

“Dr Figgis’s books have an unusual circulation, which they deserve. Christianity has few apologists of equal power, for he is not only learned in divinity, he is also an historian and a philosopher who keeps in touch with the spirit of his time. He knows the latest book of Mr Bernard Shaw as well as of the Modernists. ... Nietzsche is much more talked about than read, and Dr Figgis does well in adding to his lectures typical specimens of his writings and the views of the best critics on them.”

+ =Sat R= 124:188 S 8 ‘17 1300w

“The analysis Dr Figgis offers in these lectures is at once the most painstaking and the most convincing we have seen.”

+ =Spec= 119:270 S 15 ‘17 1450w

“Dr Figgis approaches his subject fairly and judiciously, though hardly with the freedom from preoccupation which is essential to a complete comprehension of Nietzsche. ... He devotes much space to the progress of Nietzschian ideas in modern German.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 650w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 170w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p388 Ag 16 ‘17 1450w

=FILLEBROWN, CHARLES BOWDOIN.= Principles of natural taxation; showing the origin and progress of plans for the payment of all public expenses from economic rent. il $1.50 McClurg 336.2 17-5160

Of part 1 of this book Mr Fillebrown is compiler; of part 2, author.