The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
Part 1 is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the
metamorphosis of the land question into the rent question; of the equal right to land into the joint right to the rent of land, etc.” The authors represented in this progression are, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Patrick Edward Dove, Edwin Burgess, Sir John Macdonell, Henry George, Rev Edward McGlynn and Thomas G. Shearman. For each of these a biographical sketch with an estimate of the man’s importance to the single tax movement is provided. Part 2 has chapters on: A burdenless tax; Land; Taxation and housing, etc. The preface says, “While this volume is a revision and enlargement of ‘A single tax handbook for 1913,’ which it was thought might reappear at intervals, it is issued with the idea of permanence, as representing the best authorities, early and late, upon the development of the idea.”
“The book will prove a very useful single-tax document, and Mr Fillebrown has performed a real service to economists in calling attention to the need for a redistribution of emphasis in discussing certain aspects of the single tax. As is perhaps to be expected, where the material has been gathered from scattered sources, an occasional slip in statement has crept in.” R. M. Haig
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:894 D ‘17 350w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
=Ann Am Acad= 73:236 S ‘17 240w
“For a full exposition of the subject, we have seen few books equal to Mr Fillebrown’s latest effort.” Alexander MacKendrick
+ =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 1050w
“The second part of Mr Fillebrown’s book contains the kind of polemic for the single tax with which readers of his former publications, and of single-tax propaganda generally, are familiar. There is much in it that is plausible, much even that is sound; but there is also a great admixture of shallow assumption as well as an ignoring of vital difficulties.”
+ — =Nation= 104:656 My 31 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
=St Louis= 15:169 Je ‘17 30w
“Particularly interesting chapters are ‘The professors and the single tax,’ disclosing incidentally how much the professors are like the man in the street in missing the essential point of the doctrine, and ‘A catechism of natural taxation,’ carefully revised by the best authorities to meet the inquirer’s questions with the best possible answers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 380w
=FILSINGER, ERNST B.= Exporting to Latin America; with a foreword by Leo S. Rowe. *$3 Appleton 382 16-17440
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two qualities in Mr Filsinger’s book stand out as noteworthy: it is specific and it is comprehensive. When to this statement I add that it is distinctly a business man’s book, written by a business man who still has the student’s knack of covering a subject fully and expressing himself clearly, it may easily be understood that this is one of the best publications on Latin America that has been placed on the American market. ... Among the many writers on Latin American trade Mr Filsinger seems to be almost the discoverer of the effective work being done by the Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, to which he devotes considerable, but by no means excessive, space. ... It would certainly pay every prospective exporter to have a copy not in his library but on his desk for constant reference and study.” E. E. Pratt
* + =Am Econ R= 7:122 Mr ‘17 1050w
“An especially interesting chapter is that on Export commission houses and agents. ... Mr Filsinger’s outline of the function of the export commission house is followed with the chapter on Traveling salesmen, general and local agents, which is of particular interest to manufacturers desiring to market their product by direct representation overseas. This includes suggestions as to obtaining foreign agents by correspondence. ... This book is a valuable addition to a quite substantial bibliography developed by the painstaking work of Hough, Aughinbaugh and other students of Latin-American trade problems.” R. H. Patchin
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:227 My ‘17 650w
“Of unusual practical value is the appendix. This contains, besides other important information, a detailed description of each of the Latin American countries, including language, newspapers, currency, with American equivalents, weights and measures, postage, location, area, and physical characteristics, population, purchasing power, railways and transportation, resources, industries, mines, principal cities, best methods of canvassing the country and the articles most needed. In another part of the appendix he gives the typical advertising rates in Latin American export journals, the principal directories of the Latin American republics, and the principal banks of the large cities.”
+ =Nation= 104:369 Mr 29 ‘17 1350w
“Manufacturers and merchants anxious to discover and improve foreign trade opportunities will find of particular interest the chapters on Latin-American correspondence, Banking documents, Credits, Catalogues and quotations, Parcel post and mail order business, but the subjects covered extend to practically all the questions that business men are compelled to ask in advertising new lines.”
+ =New Repub= 11:167 Je 9 ‘17 400w
“The work of a man who is president of the Filsinger-Boette shoe company and consul of Costa Rica and Ecuador in St Louis, and who was formerly president and commissioner to Latin-America of the Latin-American foreign trade association. Incidentally Mr Filsinger is the husband of Sara Teasdale, the poet. ... The book is plainly the most valuable of its kind that has yet been published.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 23 ‘17 200w
=FINCK, HENRY THEOPHILUS.= Richard Strauss; the man and his works. il *$2.50 (3c) Little 17-26876
A carefully prepared life of the first great realist in music who “has done for programme music what Wagner did for the opera.” Besides the story of Strauss’s life and a number of reliable anecdotes, there is an estimate of his place in the history of music, and a full description, with critical comments, of his more important compositions including all the tone poems and operas which have been launched with so much interest and success. A sympathetic appreciation of “Richard Strauss: seer and idealist” is contributed by Percy Grainger who sees the inborn effortless greatness of a man who is a genius of the purely inspirational order.
“Stimulating to musicians who do understand Strauss; and, for mere bewildered music lovers who do not, it will serve to foster at least an ‘intelligent ignorance.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17
“This is a useful survey of the external facts touching the life and musical compositions of Richard Strauss. But it does not, on the whole, suggest that it has been a labor of love. Mr Finck makes it abundantly clear that his reason for writing the book was rather the fact that Strauss is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of living composers than that he himself considers him to be such. And the general tone of Mr Finck’s book is blasé, sometimes yawningly so.” E: Sapir
+ – — =Dial= 63:584 D 6 ‘17 1900w
“Not only the biggest but also the most interesting and the most valuable work on this composer yet produced in English. If the book contained only this sort of intensely personal dislike, paraded as an attempt to determine Strauss’s place in the history of music, it would be of small worth. But it contains a deal of more profitable matter.”
+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 350w
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 240w
“It is a big book in more senses than one. ... To be sure, all the thrice-familiar Finckian critical stigmata are present; his Wagner worship and the clamorous praise of Rubinstein, Grieg, Paderewski, Liszt, MacDowell, and Percy Grainger. ... Mr Finck’s musical enthusiasms are always exhilarating, and while his study of Strauss is not as significant as his ‘Life of Wagner’—the best biography in English—we must remember the difference in the career of the two men. Wagner’s life, like his music, was dramatic. The life thus far of Strauss has been almost commonplace.” J. G. Huneker
+ — =Nation= 105:462 O 25 ‘17 1550w
“This biography of Strauss the composer has the quality of sprightliness to an exceptional degree—partly, no doubt, because of its subject.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 150w
=FINDLATER, MARY, and FINDLATER, JANE HELEN.= Seen and heard before and after 1914. *$1.50 Dutton 17-26479
“There are six stories in this book—the stories of Scottish life that the Misses Findlater know so well how to tell—and the coming of the war divides them square in half. This in itself gives the book added value as a picture of the conflict’s far reactions. For the war came to the Scotch villages of the Highlands and changed the face of life for the village folk. And the things that were ‘seen and heard’ after Aug. 1, 1914, were very different from the Highland happenings of the hills and villages in the months before. ... The first story is of the wandering tinkers of the Highlands, and of the claim of their gypsy life upon all the tinker ‘clan.’ ... The second story is a strange bit of Highland pathos. ‘When Johnny comes marching home’ is a human little tale of a village ne’er-do-well, who lost his chance of manhood, but the second war story is full of whimsical humor and sweetness. Jane Findlater has written all the tales but one—the last, ‘Real estate,’ longer than most of the others, and rich in human understanding and charm.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17
“The stories are written with the same feeling for words and situations which has previously distinguished the work of these two authors. They show life within a very narrow radius, but the stamp of truth is on all they write.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 2 ‘17 1250w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 150w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 60w
“Jane Findlater’s writing has the charm of an older time. ... What we really get in ‘The little tinker’ is more like the scene of a Dutch master, incident and atmosphere and character projected upon a tiny canvas, with sympathy but without sentimentalism. The stories written after the war are less happy.”
+ =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w
“A lovable, human book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 300w
+ =Spec= 118:175 F 10 ‘17 1600w
“As always with these writers, it is not the story in itself but the shrewd and intuitive handling of its elements which gives marked individuality to the work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p572 N 30 ‘16 570w
=FIRTH, JOHN BENJAMIN.= Highways and byways in Nottinghamshire. (Highways and byways ser.) il *$2 Macmillan 914.2 (Eng ed 17-7460)
“To an excellent series this is a most readable addition. Mr Firth writes well and has accumulated a mass of curious information. The chapters on Nottingham and Newark and the parts they played on opposite sides in the civil war, the account of Southwell and its ancient minster, the elaborate description of the dukeries—Welbeck, Clumber, and Thoresby, all set in the remains of Sherwood Forest—are the chief features. Robin Hood is cautiously handled. Byron in poverty at Southwell and in transient splendour at Newstead is another picturesque figure.”—Spec
“Gives fewer descriptions of scenery than other books in this series.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:397 Je ‘17
+ =Dial= 62:531 Je 14 ‘17 130w
“The book is crammed with information, yet it is written with an ease and grace that any novelist might envy.”
+ =Nation= 104:373 Mr 29 ‘17 190w
“The book is profusely and beautifully illustrated, and the large-scale maps will be invaluable to the explorer of the byways of Nottinghamshire.”
+ =Nature= 99:4 Mr 1 ‘17 300w
“Especially interesting in its relation to several of the best-known families of England.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 40w
“There has scarcely been a better book in the series, and one can often dip into his ‘Nottinghamshire’ with pleasure and relief. It is a book to enjoy, and the hours given to it will not be wasted. Mr Griggs’s illustrations are often delightful too. Some of his drawings of domestic architecture—notably of old houses in the city of Nottingham—are very nearly as good as Prout, and we much like his Southwell minster, west front.”
+ =Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 150w
=Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 140w
“For Americans no other town of Nottinghamshire can have so great appeal as Scrooby. For Scrooby was the home of William Brewster, the Pilgrim father, and the little band of Brownists met usually at Brewster’s house. ... Mr Firth’s spirited pen traces the features of Nottinghamshire towns, and revives much entertaining local history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 1350w
“A book like this brings strongly home to the reader the tides of change which have helped to mould the most placid English landscapes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p53 F 1 ‘17 1300w
=FISH, ADA Z.= American Red cross text-book on home dietetics. il *$1 Blakiston 641.5 17-6350
“The author of ‘Home dietetics’ has emphasized the means of avoiding illness rather than the ways of catering to it. She has suggested very concisely the important principles involved in the cooking of food, and so far as possible has illustrated these principles by directions for the preparation of common articles of diet.”—Survey
=A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17
“A unique and valuable feature of the book is the emphasis placed on the importance of hygiene which should be observed in the handling of food to prevent the spread of disease.” L. H. G.
+ =Survey= 38:75 Ap 21 ‘17 120w
=FISHER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.= Francis Thompson; essays. il $1 (15c) Franklin pub. co., Canton, O. 821 17-17070
A short sketch of the life and an appreciation of the poetry of a rare spirit whose genius is the nacre covering the grains of hardship as a pearl was produced for poetry. While after years were kinder to him than the early period of cruel hardship, he was broken in health and died at the age of forty-eight. The late Benjamin Fisher was a sympathetic student of Thompson’s poetry and hoped thru his essays to interest many in the clear quality of Thompson’s poetical gifts.
“Students of Francis Thompson’s poetry will find interest in this attractively bound little book.”
+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 170w
“Of flowery and figurative language, this tiny book possesses real critical grasp, and has itself real beauties of phrase that make us curious to see that earlier work, ‘Life harmonies,’ praised of Alice Meynell.”
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w
=FISHER, DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) (MRS JOHN REDWOOD FISHER).= Understood Betsy. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 17-23050
“Betsy has been brought up from infancy by her Aunt Frances, a maiden lady past her first youth who has deluged the child with love and anxiety and determination to ‘understand’ her. And so at the age of nine she has been ‘understood’ into an anaemic, morbid, neurotic, egotistic condition that saps her rightful enjoyment of childhood and undermines the promise of useful womanhood. ... A sudden upheaval in Aunt Frances’s family makes it necessary for Betsy to be sent along to relatives who live on a farm in Vermont. And there life takes on a very different complexion. Nobody tries to ‘understand’ her, nobody pays attention to any of the things that caused Aunt Frances to cuddle and care for her as if she were an infant. Instead, they put responsibilities upon her for herself and others, expect her to amuse herself and in general to be an upstanding, self-reliant little girl.”—N Y Times
“Published in St Nicholas.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
“The one girls’ story of the season which seems to have the qualities that make for permanence—Miss Alcott’s qualities, say, of warm feeling, golden common sense, and ease and simplicity of style.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 120w
“Betsy is the concrete example of so much that Mrs Fisher has written on child training, that we are obliged once again to remark the skill with which a true story teller can reveal her morals while she is telling a thoroughly interesting story.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 1250w
“The book is intended primarily for children, but Mrs Fisher with her usual insight has touched upon a modern tendency in education with an irony that will be appreciated by their elders.”
+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
“It is a story for a child—or for the child-lover with many suggestions in child-development and training quite suited to a teacher.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 210w
“Dorothy Canfield is always extraordinarily likable, even if she has grown troublingly wistful, and doubtful about cities. ... Her wistfulness for pioneer conditions saps a necessary confidence in cities in a way her Montessori mother did not. But is it, after all, a book for children? Would it not be, of itself, just a little bit of an Aunt Frances?”
+ =New Repub= 12:166 S 8 ‘17 300w
“It has ostensibly been written for children, but we should be sorry for any adult who could not enjoy it. ... As a gift to a little nine or ten year old girl who reads easily, we cannot recommend anything more charming and worth while than ‘Understood Betsy.’” M. G. S.
+ + =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 340w
“This story about a little girl will be read with pleasure by people who are small and young, while people who are larger and older also will read it with pleasure combined, if they have humor and sense, with profit. ... The scene is that section of New England where Mrs Fisher has made her home for a number of years, and the people are the same sturdy Vermonters whom she has put into her short stories about ‘Hillsboro people.’ She interprets the New England character with truth and verve.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w
“A charming and entertaining little story.”
+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 170w
“As a story pure and simple, it is delightful, a mine of fun, wisdom and common sense.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 150w
“A most delightful narrative. The reader feels an impulsive affection for Aunt Abigail, Uncle Henry and Cousin Ann.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 230w
=FISHER, GEORGE JOHN, and BERRY, ELMER.= Physical effects of smoking; preliminary experimental studies. *$1 Assn. press 613 17-12837
Dr Fisher is connected with the International committee of the Y. M. C. A., and Professor Berry is professor of physiology in the International Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass. Professor Berry states that “the material here brought together represents an effort to secure definite experimental data regarding the effects of smoking,” that the work, covering researches conducted 1914-16, has been done as graduation theses under his direction, and that it is presented as “entirely preliminary and tentative.” The subjects were “normal, healthy, athletic fellows between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five.” The experimenters returned results remarkable for their uniformity and general consistency, showing that smoking raises the heart rate and blood pressure, that it markedly delays the return of the heart rate to normal after exercise, and that it impairs the neuro-muscular control as indicated by delicate finger exercises and gross muscular coordinations. There is a bibliography of eight pages.
=A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17
“With rare good judgment the authors refrain from conclusions, and rest their case upon a simple statement of recorded facts, not claiming infallibility but presenting their results so that the reader arrives at his own conclusions. The book is an excellent short story to put into the hands of school teachers and high-school boys.” Haven Emerson, M.D.
+ =Survey= 39:370 D 29 ‘17 400w
=FISHER, MARY.= The Treloars. *$1.35 (1c) Crowell 17-13953
“The scene is California. The Treloars, who live in the country near Berkeley, are a family of high cultivation and of warm humanity. The father is a brilliant man who has ceased to be a parson because he can no longer conform to the creed of the church. ... Hard by lives his friend, who is also a detached philosopher—of another school. Their chief recreation is in controversy. Treloar has three grown children. One of the daughters, Catherine, has brains enough only for the hard and selfish part of the modern feminist practice. Margaret, the other, is a woman of intellect and character. Her brother Dick holds the centre of her stage, and responds to her devotion. We meet her at the moment when Dick is about to try his fledgling wings at journalism. In the city he presently meets an enchantress, an actress of none too savoury past. The wrecking of his sister’s happiness and a luckless marriage are the result. He is released before the total crippling of his life, and after an illuminating experience [at] the war-front, achieves a real union with the girl he should have married in the first place; to Margaret also the chances of war have brought a fitting mate.”—Bookm
“A book of scope and power by a hand fresh at story-making. Readers who like swift action may find the conduct of the narrative too leisurely. By others, the digressions and discussions which fill so many of these pages may be regarded as the cream of the book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:209 O ‘17 370w
“What a godsend the war has been to lazy or unimaginative novelists! With it they can cut every Gordian knot.”
— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 140w
“The book’s fault is talk, tho much of it is Interesting enough and clever. But there is too much of it.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 O 27 ‘17 240w
“A book of uncommon flavor: to begin with, its style instead of falling in with modern fashions of briskness or nonchalance, takes its own time and goes its own way, with a faint suggestiveness, perhaps, of George Eliot rather than any later writer. It is the medium of an intelligence both sympathetic and scholarly, interpreting character in the light of present conditions.”
+ =Nation= 105:371 O 4 ‘17 350w
“‘The Treloars’ belongs to a class of novels written not because the author has a story to tell, but because he has views to ventilate, theories to expound, a fund of information of which to disburden himself. ... Although well written, showing wide reading, and expressing forcible opinions upon nearly all the subjects now agitating the public mind, ‘The Treloars’ does not take hold of the reader. The characters seem to have been created to hold long conversations upon every conceivable topic, ... while certain of the situations are almost amusing in their improbability.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w
=FISK, EUGENE LYMAN.= Alcohol. *$1 Funk 178 17-20843
“A non-scientific discussion for the general reader of the deleterious effect of alcohol. Divided into three parts, it discusses its relation to life insurance, to physiology, and human efficiency. Supplementary notes give views of Great Britain, Russia and France and the attitude of the American medical profession.” (A L A Bkl) The contents appeared first in the form of articles in the Atlantic Monthly.
=A L A Bkl= 14:73 D ‘17
“Modest and yet most important volume. It would be a good thing for America and the world if his pages could be carried in the knapsack of every soldier, at home and abroad, and studied by every citizen of our country.”
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 1 ‘17 280w
“It is too slight, too dogmatic, and too evidently written to maintain a theory.”
— =Outlook= 117:285 O 24 ‘17 60w
=FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN (MRS HARRISON GREY FISKE).= Mrs Fiske; her views on actors, acting, and the problems of production; recorded by Alexander Woolcott. il *$2 (6c) Century 792 17-29247
Witty, spontaneous, unconventional bits of theatre wisdom dropped over the tea cups by one of the foremost producers, directors and actresses of the present day and recorded out of the long memory of the dramatic critic of the New York Times. The seven chapters set forth Mrs Fiske’s theory of the theatre,—a theory which has been evolving thru years of honest, sincere progress towards the goal which the world has seen her brilliantly achieve. Deductions are interpolated with interesting comment on the portrayal of certain of her well known rôles. The book is full of inspiration and food for thought and study for young actors, while for the theatre goer who never misses a Fiske play it will serve as a review of her successes.
“Expensive for its value to the average library.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:118 Ja ‘18
“Mr Woolcott is an adept prompter; he usually sets the scene piquantly; fills the pauses neatly; gives Mrs Fiske her head, as it were, while his memory sits elastic in the saddle; and generally conducts himself as a beaming Boswell, save for a tendency to the simpering and airy phrases of literary and artistic youth at tea in the college across the Charles. As for Mrs Fiske herself, she courses through the conversations like Delilah in Milton’s chorus, ‘bedecked, ornate, and gay.’”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p12 O 24 ‘17 2800w
“No one could doubt the authenticity of these repeated conversations, for they are so consistent with her life and seem so possessed of her personality as to make one see the lift of her head, the whimsical light in her eye, and visualize the touch and gesture of her personality.”
+ =Lit D= 55:50 D 1 ‘17 170w
“Woolcott expresses the hope that some day Mrs Fiske will write her own book. It is here seconded, for it must be admitted that there is a feeling, especially in the opening chapters, that just when the actress is about to say something really vital, the writer interrupts her train of thought.” L: Gardy
+ — =NY Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 580w
“The book is full of interesting exposition, nuggets of wisdom, conclusions clearly thought out and forcibly presented. No one who is in the least interested in the theatre can fail to find the book fascinating and stimulating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 360w
+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w
“The public needs not be told that Mrs Fiske is no ordinary theatrical celebrity, and there will be general expectation that a book of her views, if authentically reproduced, will be an individual and entertaining book. It is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 550w
=FITCH, GEORGE.= Twenty-four; where I took them and what they did to me. il *$1.25 (5c) Little 17-1930
George Fitch once went to Europe with twenty-four girls, winners in a newspaper circulation contest, in his charge. As he puts it, “Some reporters go to war, some have to jump out of balloons in patent parachutes, and some have to take parties of young and beautiful girls to Europe. It’s all in the game.” In this book he has given his own humorous version of the expedition.
“Appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“As a ‘cheer-up’ story to amuse girls of sixteen, we recommend the book heartily. For older readers it is a little too thin, and the situation is a bit overworked. ... The end drags.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 120w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“Very amusing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:13 Ja 14 ‘17 300w
“The story emphasizes the loss sustained in the death of the kindly humorist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 200w
=FITZMAURICE, GEORGE.= Five plays. *$1.25 Little 822 (Eng ed 15-5685)
“‘Five plays,’ by George Fitzmaurice, the Irish folk-dramatist, carry one into the midst of life in the Irish countryside. They are ‘The pie-dish,’ the story of an old Irishman who worked twenty years molding a fine pie dish and died cursing God because he wouldn’t let him live long enough to finish it; ‘The country dressmaker,’ ‘The magic glasses,’ ‘The dandy dolls,’ and a strong play, ‘The moonlighter,’ which pictures the peculiar conditions that nurture violence and revolutions in Ireland. The scene is the period of the agrarian revolt. Peter Guerin, the leading character, is a splendid type of an old Fenian.” (R of Rs) The book was first published by Maunsel (London and Dublin) in 1914.
=A L A Bkl= 14:49 N ‘17
“Mr Fitzmaurice is a connecting link between the earlier and the later writers of the Irish dramatic movement. In his technique, he is a contemporary Irish dramatist; in his simpler point of view and freer imagination, he is a true son of the pioneers. His vivid dialogue and character-drawing surpass most contemporary work. For sheer beauty, either of thought or expression, he does not equal his predecessors. As a realist, he writes in the modern vein; as a fantast, in the spirit of the earlier men. ... These ‘Five plays’ justify the hope that, if only the Abbey theatre will cease trying to be a Hibernian branch of Drury Lane, it can still produce real Irish dramatists.” Williams Haynes
+ — =Dial= 63:208 S 13 ‘17 820w
+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17
“Fitzmaurice’s dialect has a richness of idiom that surpasses the familiar and monotonous Kiltartan, a gusty blowing freshness that is typically Irish, yet unlike that of Synge, or Colum, or the work of any other Irish folk-dramatist.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w
=FLANDRAU, GRACE HODGSON.= Cousin Julia. *$1.40 (1½c) Appleton 17-22295
This is the story of a family in a middle western town. “Cousin Julia,” wife of a successful business man, is a social climber with two beautiful daughters, Virginia and Louise. Virginia, the finer and cleverer of the two, is, though she herself is ignorant of the fact for many years, an adopted daughter. Other characters are Félix de Lorme, a French marquis, who marries Louise, but falls in love with Virginia; Tom Collingsworth, a rich and rather commonplace young business man, who is Virginia’s other lover; Frau von Ernst, Virginia’s elderly friend; and Bob Tillinghurst, in the United States diplomatic service, and his wife Violet.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
“A painstaking care for details of characterization distinguishes ‘Cousin Julia.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 700w
“Yet the book is more than readable; its charming pictures of the Middle West and its sardonic understanding of the Cinderella background of ‘les nouveaux’ help to point a shrewd moral.”
+ — =Dial= 63:353 O 11 ‘17 150w
“Written with sincerity. ... Interesting, principally because of the well-drawn figure of Julia. The Frenchman, Félix de Lorme, ‘an amateur of everything, of letters, of science, of love’ is also well done, and so is the small-natured and commonplace Louise. ... The picture of middle western society is amusingly presented.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
=FLEAGLE, FRED K.= Social problems in Porto Rico. $1 (3c) Heath 917.29 17-17543
A collection of data on the social problems of Porto Rico which the author brought together in the course of his work in rural sociology in the University of Porto Rico. Contents: Population; The jíbaro; Overpopulation; The family; Rural housing conditions; Woman and child labor; Industries; The land problem and unemployment; Poverty; Sickness and disease; Crime; Intemperance; Juvenile delinquents; Rural schools; The school and the community; Relation of the teacher to the community; Present-day rural school movements; Physical development and longevity.
=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 40w
“This book is a specific and not a general picture, and by no means an attractive one. But it satisfies a thirst for information that has been growing with those who hear constantly of the great poverty in Porto Rico. ... It may also assist some in a position to do so to set their shoulders to the task of amelioration—a task that needs more American shoulders.”
+ =Nation= 105:430 O 18 ‘17 1300w
+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 140w
“‘Social problems in Porto Rico’ is short and to the point, almost to the extent of being dogmatic. It is well worth reading.” S. B. Grubbs
+ =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 400w
=FLECKER, JAMES ELROY.= Collected poems. il *$2 Doubleday 821 17-26316
James Elroy Flecker was a young English poet who died in 1915. J. C. Squire, who was with him at Oxford has edited his poems, contributing a biographical introduction to the volume. He had published four books of verse: “The bridge of fire,” 1907; “Forty-two poems,” 1911; “The golden journey to Samarkand,” 1913; “The old ships,” 1915. It is from these volumes that the present collection is reprinted, with twenty new poems added. The poems are arranged in two groups, Juvenilia, and Later poems, and they follow roughly a chronological order.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:341 My ‘17
“It has been the fate, and perhaps the happy fate, of many English poets to die young. ... Great as was the promise of Middleton and Brooke, it is the death of Flecker that is perhaps our most grievous loss.”
+ =Ath= p527 N ‘16 1300w
=Boston Transcript= p7 F 24 ‘17 300w
“Poems of a young Englishman who died in 1915 at the age of thirty, and who belonged to the so-called Parnassian school—a group of seekers after perfection of form and the objective interpretation of beauty, represented in France by de Heredia and Leconte de Lisle.”
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 210w
“His achievement in verse is consistently high, but no single poem stands out as specially memorable.” Odell Shepard
+ =Dial= 63:19 Je 28 ‘17 180w
“He is almost the only upholder of art for art’s sake who can justify his practice to the unbeliever.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 450w
“His family was Austrian, and perhaps it was because of such affiliation that he was attracted to eastern romance. ... He did a thing more difficult than the bringing back of an eastern glamour—(the glamour is there in The ballad of Iskander, and The golden journey to Samarkand)—he brought into contemporary poetry metres that suggest and may actually be derived from oriental verse. ... Except James Clarence Mangan no other poet has been able to weave English into such exotic patterns.” Padraic Colum
* + =New Repub= 10:sup12 Ap 21 ‘17 1250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
“There are a hundred interesting aspects of the man and his work which space forbids us to attempt. Like Rupert Brooke, he greatened to the last.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:77 Mr 4 ‘17 850w
+ =Sat R= 122:485 N 18 ‘16 1400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 800w
“His achievement is unlikely to occupy the industrious commentator, or to become the esoteric nucleus of a learned society. If it live, it will be because beauty created in words cannot easily die.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p457 S 28 ‘16 3600w
=FLEMING, GUY.= Diplomat. *$1.50 Longmans
“A picture of early 19th-century social and political life as seen in the family of a Yorkshire squire rich in sons who follow various careers, and a daughter who becomes a countess. But Guy Fleming, a novelist of considerable gifts, concentrates mainly on the career of the fourth son, which culminates in a long residence in a foreign capital. Upon his journals the story is supposed to be based.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Written in the leisurely Trollope manner.”
+ =Dial= 62:482 My 31 ‘17 120w
=Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 40w
“There are sundry crimes, all vividly depicted, but leaving the reader disposed to wonder why it was worth while to write—and to write so well—a novel containing no character enlisting much sympathy and with but one scene that really touches the heart; a novel which, with all its merits, leaves the reader cold.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 70w
“Mr Fleming is so interesting that it is a pity his unweeded rhythmless style should make him so difficult to read.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 580w
=FLEMING, GUY.= Off with the old love; a war story. *$1.50 (2c) Longmans 17-21972
“Though toward the end the scene of the story is shifted to France, to the trenches, and the hospitals, it is at Ravenscroft [in England] that most of the action takes place, and very many of the numerous characters live. ... The plot is an intricate one, with a lost daughter, a murder, an elopement, and no less than three love stories, not to mention several past romances, to increase its complications.”—N Y Times
“There are touches of comedy and two or three amusing characters in the book ... while the author’s intermittent comments are usually clever, often pungent, sometimes satiric, and always entertaining. The quiet restrained style has a good deal of charm. ... There is too much of the pleasantness and placidity in the book; at the end, one feels that persons such as the author has drawn, placed in situations such as those in which he has chosen to place them, would have been a good deal less comfortable than his various characters finally were.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:303 Ag 19 ‘17 580w
“Mr Fleming makes all the people in his new book subject to a great variety of coincidences, and when it is all over one feels that they and their surroundings have been a good deal wrenched to make them fit his little stage. ... The war does little to influence the course of the plays except that it provides a fanciful background for a series of coincidences and a target at which Mr Fleming aims a number of rather inapposite and bitter sayings.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p316 Jl 5 ‘17 450w
=FLETCHER, ALFRED CHARLES BENSON.= From job to job around the world. il *$2 (3c) Dodd 910 17-25257
Mr Fletcher, a graduate of the University of California, tells in this book how he started with his fare paid from San Francisco to Honolulu and a five dollar gold piece in his pocket, and worked his way around the world in three years. He visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, and finally crossed the Atlantic to America. Mr Ralph J. Richardson, who was equally short of funds, was the author’s traveling companion on part of the trip, and took the photographs from which the book is illustrated. The narrative was originally published in the Wide World Magazine.
“A buoyant, high-spirited account of personal adventure, with graphic pictures of places and people. Illustrated with good photographs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“A very entertaining story he spins, not only about the world, or such considerable portions as he visited, but also about the calm assurance and readiness of American boys to make themselves at home in strange places and under remarkable conditions.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 90w
“His account of his adventures comes, in vivacity and shrewd observation and humorous description, a close second to Mark Twain’s Innocents abroad.’” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 520w
“Boyishly light-hearted but rather crude narrative.”
+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 70w
=N Y Evening Post= p1 O 13 ‘17 1800w
“Most of the traveling was done third class or steerage, a fact that affords interesting reading because so few American travelers choose to go in this fashion.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:430 D ‘17 10w
=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= New Pacific; British policy and German aims; with a preface by Viscount Bryce, and a foreword by the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes. *$3 Macmillan 325.3
“‘The new Pacific’ is an Australian’s review of British and German dealings in the Pacific ocean, a lucid exposure of German methods and German designs, a statement of Pacific problems present and future, and an account of some representative Britons who have shaped history in those southern seas. The author, Mr Brunsdon Fletcher, is a leading journalist in Australia, associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“In this volume, to which Lord Bryce and the Prime minister of Australia have contributed some introductory pages, the author gives a clear and interesting exposition of German policy and aims in the Pacific, and of the long-growing misgivings on the part of Australians respecting the aggressive tendencies of their German neighbours.”
+ =Ath= p247 My ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“His indictment of German aims amounts to very little. ... None the less, the book deserves the attention of American students of the whole political situation. The United States has large interests in the Pacific.”
+ — =Nation= 105:42 Jl 12 ‘17 750w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17
“We advise every one who wants to understand what Australia looks for in the terms of peace to read this book.”
+ =Spec= 118:590 My 26 ‘17 1300w
“Mr Brunsdon Fletcher has had access to first-hand information, written and oral, from the best sources; he has presented and arranged his facts with practised skill, grouping them round well-known characters; and the result is a book of singular interest and substantial value. ... If ‘The new Pacific’ had no other recommendation, it would be valuable as illustrating very forcibly and with much picturesqueness the great and much underrated influence which missionaries have had upon the onward movement of the British empire.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 2100w
=FLOURNOY, THÉODORE.= Philosophy of William James; auth. tr. by Edwin B. Holt and W: James, jr. il *$1.30 (3c) Holt 191 17-6639
The author of this interpretation of William James’s philosophy is a professor in the faculty of sciences at the University of Geneva. The book itself is based on lectures which, delivered in 1910, were intended, in a way, as a memorial. In his first chapter the author makes some interesting observations on the importance of James’s artistic temperament. “He was a born psychologist and a psychologist of genius precisely because of this artistic insight, which in him, by a rare exception, was combined with the exact scientific spirit.” The chapters that follow take up in turn: Early environment; Rejection of monism; Pragmatism; Radical empiricism; Pluralism; Tychism; Meliorism and moralism; Theism; The will to believe; Summary and conclusion. A review of “The varieties of religious experience,” from the Revue Philosophique, is reprinted in an appendix.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17
“This study of the philosophy of James is admitted by many to be the best that has been written upon the philosopher and is now translated into English by two men who personally and professionally are especially well fitted to be just both to James and to Professor Flournoy. ... It reminds us of the work of James himself in its very readable character.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 350w
“It is clearly and simply written and furnishes an admirable introduction to the study of William James—quite the best that we have seen. And it is, moreover, a book that will be read with equal pleasure and profit by those already familiar with his work.”
+ =Nation= 104:462 Ap 19 ‘17 1000w
“Written in so simple a style that even those unversed in philosophical technology need not feel doubtful concerning it.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 270w
=St Louis= 15:135 My ‘17 14w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 290w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Ag 9 ‘17 1750w
=FLOWERS, MONTAVILLE.= Japanese conquest of American opinion. *$1.50 (2c) Doran 325.7 17-3170
The author believes that the Japanese are carrying on a systematic campaign to win over American public opinion. The objects to be gained are: “The removal of restrictions on immigration; the rights of naturalisation, American citizenship, and of intermarriage with the white race; the overthrow of all anti-Asiatic land legislation in western states; the rapid acquisition of those lands; and all that follows.” The book is issued as a warning to America and as an offset to the writings of Sidney Gulick, H. A. Millis and others, deemed by the author vicious. The book consists of three parts: The Japanese problem; Forces and methods of the Japanese conquest; Bases of opinion, old and new.
“Will be useful in debate work.”
=Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 30w
“The temper of Mr Flowers is not altogether admirable. He is sometimes narrow and often vituperative; but he is, as we have noted, sincere and his contribution to the discussion of the ‘Japanese problem’ is worthy the careful attention of those who differ most widely from him.”
=N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 650w
“His discussion is valuable solely as a presentation of an extreme point of view held by a number which, it may be supposed, increases geometrically as the Pacific coast draws nearer.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 130w
“We have heard much of Mr Flowers and his diatribes against the Japanese and his dreadful arraignment of such men as Sidney L. Gulick, Hamilton Holt, the late H. W. Mabie, the present reviewer and others. ... The pith of Mr Flowers’ argument is in an outcry against amalgamation. His peculiar ideas as to philosophy, history and ethnology are largely his own. ... He should have furnished an index for students of his closely printed and rather bulky work, so rich in fallacies.” W: E. Griffis
— =Survey= 37:699 Mr 17 ‘17 200w
=FOERSTER, NORMAN, and PIERSON, WILLIAM WHATLEY=, eds. American ideals. *$1.25 Houghton 815 17-25284
Under the heads of Liberty and union, State and nation, American democracy, American foreign policy, and Foreign opinion of the United States, are brought together certain essays, addresses and state papers that express ideals of statesmen and of men of letters from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Alfred J. Balfour. The authors refer to the collection as “expressions of our national and international conscience” on ideals, policies and political tendencies of our country.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Ushered in by Mr Woodbury’s splendid sonnet, ‘Our first century,’ these selections challenge as well as inspire.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 270w
“The purpose of the volume is evident and praiseworthy. It might well be adopted as a school reader. But for the public at large, outside the schools, it is valuable, for it brings together the finest utterances on a theme of vital importance, many of them not easily accessible.” J. B. Landfield
+ =Educ R= 55:75 Ja ‘18 600w
“The selections are judiciously made and we believe that the book should prove useful in the inculcation of a thoughtful and intelligent patriotism among the rising generation.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 60w
=FOGARTY, KATE HAMMOND.= Story of Montana. il *$1 (1½c) Barnes 978.6 16-16737
This story of Montana was written “to meet the demand for a suitable textbook for schools, and also for the many lovers of Montana who wish to become familiar with the main facts of its early as well as present-day history without having to consult many separate volumes.” (Preface) The book is made up of ten chapters: Early explorers in Montana; The Indians; The fur trade; Visitors to the posts; The missionaries to the Indians; The first settlers; The soldiers in Montana; Development of the state; Transformation of the Indians; National problems in Montana. The national problems treated in this last chapter are Irrigation, Dry-land farming and Forestry.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 110w
“Intended as a text-book for the public schools, ‘The story of Montana’ also makes its appeal to the adult reader.”
+ =R of Rs= 54:683 D ‘16 50w
=FOOTE, JOHN TAINTOR.= Dumb-Bell of Brookfield. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-6535
“One need not be an enthusiast about hunting dogs or dogs in general to appreciate and thoroughly enjoy half a dozen stories, all related, that are grouped in this volume. Dumb-Bell appears first as a runt of a puppy, the son of the late champion setter, but so insignificant as to be ‘a stone despised by the builders, that is made the head of the corner.’ His anonymous triumph puts him instantly on the throne of his father, as told in the first story. Later chapters have to do partly with his own career and partly with his owners and other people and dogs at Brookfield.”—Springf’d Republican
“Full of pathos and humor, they show a complete understanding of dogs without making them in the least human. Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
“Somewhat out of the ordinary. Appeared in American Magazine.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 20w
=FOOTE, MRS MARY (HALLOCK).= Edith Bonham. *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 17-8582
The friendship between two women is the foundation of this story. One of them marries and goes out into the unknown West. (The time of the story is fully a generation ago.) Here the other, Edith Bonham, follows her some years later, intending to make her home there and to help in caring for her friend’s children. She arrives just in time to learn of Anne’s death. For the sake of the children, she remains, resolved to make up as best she can for their loss. She at first wholly misunderstands her friend’s husband, a quiet man of deep feeling and few words. But in time a sympathetic understanding breaks down the barriers and they are drawn together.
“Distinctly a woman’s book, one of the few which interpret the best American types.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17
“The reader may find himself (if not herself) in a rather impatient mood before all the misapprehensions and mystifications of a fairly simple situation are permitted to be cleared up. Mrs Foote’s style, as always, with its quiet clarity, offers grateful refreshment to ears which may be a trifle weary of the din and ‘punch’ of the current literary mode.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 45:648 Ag ‘17 350w
“Will probably be considered her most appealing novel. Mrs Foote writes with the method of the great novelists of an earlier generation. There is nothing of sketchiness in her literary product. Her characters are limned with delightful attention to details.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“A detailed leisurely story with a few excellent characterizations but with what seems to be a wilful and superfluous piling up of barriers between the two chief characters.”
+ — =Cleveland= p63 My ‘17 50w
“Mrs Foote is one of our veteran novelists and she knows her business. I ask, however, with due respect whether the book should not end on page 321, whether the postscript is not superfluous.” J: Macy
+ — =Dial= 63:113 Ag 16 ‘17 100w
“So much for the crude substance of the book: its merit lies elsewhere, in the quiet and sure rendering of that substance by a delicate womanly hand.”
+ =Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 500w
“The story has the human appeal and sure touch in dealing with life found always in Mrs Foote’s work.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 50w
For France; ed. by C: Hanson Towne. il *$2.50 Doubleday 940.91 17-29466
Tributes to France in story, poem and song, from the hearts of a notable group of America’s authors, painters, musicians, sculptors and actors. The offerings are all short, with a note of deep loyalty and affection for the people who from ‘76-‘83 sent us their money and their men under the leadership of their Lafayette and Rochambeau. The chapters, full of sympathy, and of the sense of debt we owe, have a heartening message for the heroic, dry-eyed patriots who have been shaken to the depths with sorrow; while for Americans they serve as a new spur to fight the harder for justice, humanity, liberty, democracy.
Reviewed by Albert Schinz
+ =Bookm= 46:292 N ‘17 150w
“While there is much repetition of sentiment in it, and while some of the writers are so emotional and temperamentally strung that they are unable to give vision to their words, there are, nevertheless, a number of notable and significant contributions. Such, for example, is Mr Owen Wister’s address in French. But from the standpoint of literary permanence the volume is sorely lacking.”
+ — =Ind= 92:561 D 22 ‘17 140w
“It is amazing simply as a collection of names, if nothing more. The volume strikes a lofty note as a work of art—art with a purpose, certainly. A peculiarly rich and beautiful tribute to France.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:476 N 18 ‘17 850w
“It appears to us that the theme has appealed to the writers and artists and that there is little or nothing in the volume that is not inspired by very genuine feeling.”
+ =Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 410w
For the right; essays and addresses by members of the “Fight for right movement.” *$1.50 Putnam (*5s T. Fisher Unwin, London) 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3139)
“A series of addresses, which were delivered at King’s college, London, to explain the principles for which the Allies are fighting and to show how they may be established in the life of nations when the peace settlement has been made. The aim of the Fight for right movement is to keep these ideals before the nation, and prevent it from being diverted by ‘minor questions of trade and territory and retaliation.’ The authors of the papers included in the present volume are Lord Bryce, Sir Henry Newbolt, Mr Maurice Hewlett, Mr Wilfrid Ward, Dr Robert Bridges, Dr L. P. Jacks, Prof. Gilbert Murray, Prof. Ramsay Muir, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr Philip Kerr, Mr A. F. Whyte, Mr H. Wickham Steed, the Rev. W. Temple, Evelyn Underbill, Mr Arthur Boutwood, and M. Painlevé.” (Ath) There is a three-page bibliography for Mr A. F. Whyte’s lecture, “The outlook of a good European.”
=Ath= p584 D ‘16 130w
“We, too, have learned, ever since the second of April last, how much harder is the task, how much greater is the sacrifice we have undertaken than we at first supposed. So it comes about that the words of this book, which were meant for England, seem made for us.”
+ =Nation= 105:228 Ag 30 ‘17 380w
“‘For the right’ would make uncomfortable reading for the German Chancellor; it would cause him to search his conscience. Our publicists, now busy with the stale and futile ‘barbarian’ whipper-up of public feeling, might learn from this even-tempered volume how to put democratic driving-force behind the complex realities of a liberal peace.”
+ =New Repub= 10:303 Ap 7 ‘17 400w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 130w
=FORBES, JOHN MAXWELL.= Doubloons—and the girl. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-10668
A tale of treasure hunting. The discovery of an old Spanish pirate’s chart has the usual effect on the imagination of the finders. No one who has a pirate’s chart in his possession can rest easy until he is aboard ship and on his way after the treasure. In this case the search party consists of two old men, one of them the captain, two young men, and one girl, the captain’s daughter. The mate, a one-eyed seaman who has discovered the purpose of the expedition, is the villain who all but destroys the success of the expedition. The island on which the treasure is buried is volcanic, and eruptions and earthquakes are added to mutiny to give color to the tale.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w
“The tale is related with some spirit, and is not unentertaining.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
“A lively, though conventional tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 200w
=FORBES, NEVILL.= Russian grammar. 2d ed rev and enl *$2 Oxford 491.7 17-13555
“Dr Forbes’s ‘Russian grammar’ is timely. ... Dr Forbes seems to have made a point of omitting those rules which, although accepted in standard grammars, are nevertheless subject to numerous exceptions. Russian grammar can safely undergo this process of simplification to a considerable extent. ... Perhaps the greatest difficulty presented by the Russian language lies in the aspects of the verb. ... The author’s treatment of this part of the subject is particularly thorough.”—Ath
“The book is intended for the use of students working with a teacher or those who, working alone, wish to learn to read. It seems to us admirably suited for its purpose. ... We believe that those who have already an elementary knowledge of the subject will find the ‘Grammar’ excellent.”
+ =Ath= 1915, 1:161 F 20 480w
“The interest in Russia that has grown up during the present war has produced a large number of grammars and handbooks to the Russian language. The fullest and most scientific of these books is Mr Nevill Forbes’s.”
+ =St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Modern Language Review)
=FORBES, NEVILL=, ed. Third Russian book. *$1 Oxford 491.7 (Eng ed 18-383)
A reader of selections, supplementing the language teaching of the “First Russian book” and the “Second Russian book.” “Four notable men of letters are represented in Mr Forbes’s ‘Third Russian book’: Aksakov, aristocrat, naturalist, sportsman, and author: Grigorovitch, painter, novelist, and art-critic; Herzen, philosopher, historian, reformer, and exile; and Saltykov, satirist. The text is clear, and plentifully provided with foot-notes.” (Ath)
=Ath= p305 Je ‘17 40w
“The notes are good, though somewhat needlessly full on the simpler passages and scanty on those more difficult; the vocabulary is adequate and carefully prepared. The weak point of the volume is in the choice of material. ... No one of the authors represented is of the very first rank, and of the five selections two are the opening chapters of novels. It is a model of neat, careful printing.”
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=FORBES, WALDO EMERSON.= Cycles of personal belief. *$1.25 (3c) Houghton 121 17-10884
The cycle of personal belief which the author traces comprises a process of illusion, disillusion, and reillusion. Disillusion cannot be permanent because of the soul’s craving for positive elements. “Thought, phoenix-like, begins perpetually to create new beliefs, to build, to affirm, and to renew the world.” But belief, after all, plays little practical part in our lives, for we discover that a perception of truth does not guarantee an obedience to truth. There is another cycle, growing out of experience, that follows the cycle of belief. The stages of this the author terms generation, degeneration and regeneration. But he does not imply that, even with regeneration, a permanent goal is reached: “Our moments of peace are given for the reception of new visions, and these, however gently the hint at first is given, are each and all incentive to action. Human life embosomed in paradise at one pole plunges into turmoil at the other. The struggle is not over, the problems are not solved.”
“Mr Waldo Emerson Forbes has succeeded in cultivating something of the style both of thought and of expression which one finds in the writings of the great essayist, his grandfather, whom his name brings to mind.”
+ =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=Pratt= p6 O ‘17 10w
+ =St Louis= 15:167 Je ‘17 10w
=FORD, SEWELL.= Wilt thou, Torchy. il *$1.35 (2c) Clode, E: J. 17-5451
Sewell Ford’s clever stories, told in the latest up-to-the-minute vernacular, seem to lose none of their popularity and Torchy is a hero who rivals Shorty McCabe in public favor. This book contains seventeen new stories, reprinted from Every Week. Torchy relates his own adventures, telling of his progress upward in the Corrugated trust company, and of his mishaps and final success in courtship under the keen and not encouraging eye of “Auntie.”
“Will be popular.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
“Torchy is still the unique creation of Mr Ford’s brain and it is to be hoped that the advancing years will not materially change him, it being taken for granted that more of his delightfully humorous tales will soon be forthcoming to give pleasure to young and old.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 230w
+ =N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
Reviewed by E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 91:968 Mr 17 ‘17 450w
=FORDYCE, CLAUDE POWELL.= Touring afoot. (Outing handbooks) il *80c (3c) Outing pub. 796 17-4213
A three mile walk daily in the interests of health is the author’s advice, given in the first chapter. The man who has kept himself in trim thru this daily exercise will be ready for the longer tramps discussed in the remainder of the book. The author writes of: Hitting the trail; Going in “light”; Woods walking with a pack; Map reading; Packs and packing; Footwear; Efficient cruising shelters; Camp making; The outdoor bed question; Choosing the light weight mess kit; The ration list; Health hints for hikers; Winter travel afoot.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:218 Jl ‘17 50w
=FORNARO, CARLO DE.=[2] Modern purgatory. *$1.25 (4c) Kennerley 365 17-31926
“This book is a record of the prison experiences of Carlo de Fornaro, artist, writer, editor, revolutionary. It is a record of experiences in the famous Tombs prison, in New York city, and in the New York city penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island.” (Introd.) The offense against the laws of the state of New York on which the author was convicted was criminal libel against Diaz, then president of Mexico. If the reader does not see the relation between facts and consequences as set forth in the introduction, he must accept the situation as another evidence of the strange and wonderful ways of justice in our land. The book itself is a narrative of daily prison life told without bitterness and with only unspoken condemnation of a heartless and futile system.
“Mr Fornaro’s is not what the Puritan calls a pleasant book. But it possesses the rare degree of truth that one finds more often in Russian than in American writing. His is the most vivid, concrete description of the mediaeval survival in the heart of our modern cities, and the most realistic illustration of the need for such reform as Mr Osborne has instituted that has yet appeared.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 380w
“The book is interesting, but neither subtle nor detailed enough to rank as literature. He paints at all times with the artist’s love of a picture, never with the scientist’s love of accurate statement.” W. D. Lane
+ — =Survey= 39:469 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
=FORSTNER, GEORG GÜNTHER, freiherr von.= Journal of submarine commander von Forstner; tr. by Mrs Russell Codman. il *$1 (5½c) Houghton 940.91 18-8
This translation of the journal of a German submarine commander appears in book form with an introduction by John Hays Hammond, jr., who writes of “The challenge to naval supremacy.” In her foreword the translator says, “The following pages form an abridged translation of a book published in 1916 by freiherr von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. ... Many repetitions and trivial incidents have been omitted in this translation; but, in order to express the personality of the author, the rendering has been as literal as possible, and it shows the strange mixture of sentimentality and ferocity peculiar to the psychology of the Germans.” In part the work is a personal account, in part a technical description of the activities of a submarine. There are seven illustrations from photographs.
“Gives American readers a good opportunity to get the German conception of the deadly efficiency of their favorite sea weapon.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w
=FORSYTH, PETER TAYLOR.= Justification of God. (Studies in theology) *90c (1c) Scribner 231 17-9816
“Lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy” is the sub-title of this book, and the unfamiliar word is defined as “the attempt to adjust the ways of God to conscience.” Contents: Overture and outline; The expectations of popular religion and their fate; The problems: revelation and teleology; Metaphysic and redemption; What is redemption? Salvation theological but not systematic; The failure of the church as an international authority; Teleology acute in a theodicy; Philosophical theodicy; The eternal cruciality of the cross for destiny; Saving judgment; History and judgment; The conquest of time by eternity; Bibliography.
“It is a pity the book could not have been written in simpler style. To understand it will be far beyond the average layman, and parts of it will puzzle the theologian. Taken as a whole, however, the purpose of the author is clear and his reasoning conclusive.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 180w
=N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 50w
=FORTESCUE, GRANVILLE ROLAND.=[2] France bears the burden. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 940.91 17-30748
This book devoted to France and her part in the war consists of chapters on: The glory of France; Monsieur Poilu of Paris; Verdun, the battle epic; In the Argonne; In the stream of the Somme fighting; The business of war; The flying fighters; Thoughts on shrapnel and tanks; Who pays for the war? The burden France has borne. In a letter, reprinted as a foreword, M. André Tardieu says to the author: “That which, in my opinion, gives special value to your book on France in war time, is that you have not been content only to gather therein the excellent articles sent by you from Paris and the front to the Washington Post, but you also, from your observations and experiences, develop a picture of the whole subject. Yours is the work of the historian.” Major Fortescue is author of “At the front with three armies,” and other works.
“Full appreciation of France is revealed on every page of Mr Fortescue’s book. One might almost complain that his praise of France and her brave men implies a discrimination against the British and American troops.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 200w
“Much above the average level of the descriptive war books now appearing.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 320w
+ =Outlook= 118:32 Ja 2 ‘18 50w
=FOSDICK, HARRY EMERSON.= Challenge of the present crisis. *50c (3c) Assn. press 172.4 17-28192
A message for all who are asking these questions: In what mood shall a Christian, or for that matter an idealist of any kind, face the catastrophe? With what considerations and insights can he support his faith and hope? How can he harmonize his ideals with his necessities of action in a time of war? His answer gives reasons for accepting the present crisis as a challenge and concludes with: “The present war is an appalling commentary upon our failure to fulfil or even to acknowledge our obligations. We have seen our duty in too little terms; we have but dimly understood what the Master wanted of us. We are challenged to understand it now; the call is written in lines of fire on the map of the world; and we shall be renegade, indeed, if we do not now accept before it is too late the opportunity for international service which this war reveals.”
“A sane and thoughtful consideration of the relations of war and Christianity.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Shoestrings. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-6533
“It is concerned primarily with the ambitions and the adventures of J. Lester Tams, who began his career as a bundle boy in a San Francisco department store and after many years of struggle had achieved eminence as a floorwalker. ... Mr Tams’s purpose in life was to become a gentleman. To that end he toiled, to that end he studied—books of etiquette were the subjects of his mental effort, and to that end he had in sixteen years succeeded in saving the sum of $1,700. Then came a lucky plunge—a splashing bucket shop plunge, it was—in war stocks; and Mr Tams and every one else in Mrs Tams’s boarding house got rich.”—N Y Times
“Full of funny character sketches, and good for reading aloud. Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 120w
“Emphatically a tale to amuse an idle hour. And a most amusing tale it is.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
=FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK.= Foster’s pirate bridge; the latest development of auction bridge, with the full code of the official laws. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 795 17-4824
The aim of this book is “to set before the reader a complete description and exposition of the latest candidate for public favor in the realm of cards, without assuming on the reader’s part any previous knowledge of similar games, although it is naturally expected that the largest appeal will be to those who are already familiar with auction bridge. The author has endeavored to explain the logic of the bidding as clearly as possible, illustrating the more interesting situations by hands from actual play.” (Preface) The author is an authority who has issued a number of other works on bridge.
“The first book to describe this latest development of auction bridge.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17
“In addition to a clear setting-forth of this new development in auction and its laws, Mr Foster has included in ‘Pirate bridge’ many chapters of great use to all auction players, his skill at play and his ability to teach being equally well-established in the card-loving world.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 390w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:150 My ‘17 14w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 31 ‘17 130w
“Written with all the skill and thoroughness and lucidity of style which we should expect from one of the ‘old masters.’ ... Mr Foster, in his chapters on tactics, proves, we think, that the game contains some interesting new opportunities for cleverness alike in the declarations, the acceptances, and the play of the hand; but at the same time we also think that, in proportion to their offering themselves to the clever player only, they spoil the game, and make it distinctly inferior to auction for nine people out of ten.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p504 O 18 ‘17 1650w
=FOSTER, ROBERT FREDERICK=, ed. Hoyle up-to-date; the official rules of card games. *$1 (1c) Sully & Kleinteich 795 A17-393
This work was first copyrighted in 1897 and it has run thru many editions. The whist rules are by Walter H. Barney; the poker rules by David A. Curtis.
“Formerly published in paper binding at 25c, by the United States playing card company. While the paper is poor and the type small, it is useful as containing the official rules of all card games, revised to date.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:363 My ‘17
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:181 Je ‘17 10w
“While the new edition in the main is singularly complete, one fails to note in the discussion of stud poker the generally accepted rule that four-flush beats a pair, although otherwise the poker section presents an admirable survey of the American game.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 60w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT.= Argumentation and debating. rev ed *$1.40 Houghton 808.5 17-23795
A revised edition whose changes have been based upon suggestions from more than a hundred college teachers who have used the book as a textbook. “The aim of the revised edition is to present the essentials of argumentation and debating as simply as possible, following the order in which the difficulties arise in actual practice. The order is psychological rather than logical. The point of view is that of the student rather than that of the instructor.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“Fresh and timely illustrations bring the book down to date. Moreover, the Houghton Mifflin Co. has produced a book well-nigh mechanically perfect in form and appearance.” E. F. Guyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:611 O ‘17 50w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM TRUFANT.= Should students study? *50c (3c) Harper 378 17-9712
The president of Reed college questions the time-old assertion that it is the “college life” that counts. Is there any relation between a high grade of scholarship in college and success in after-life? He brings forward some interesting statistics that bear on the question. Contents: College life; Differences—east and west; College life and college studies; Promise and performance; Success in studies and in life; Genius as a substitute for study; Thinking by proxy; Should specialists specialize? Ultimately practical studies.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“It would be interesting to hear what so skilful a pleader as Mr Foster might say on the subject of adapting colleges more closely than now to the manifold needs of the time. But it would be unfair to imply that this book is not a stimulating one. It carries its points with force, and it is written in a style that is pungent and at times brilliant.”
+ =Dial= 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
“A telling little review, excellent to put in the hands of careless freshmen and indifferent parents.”
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:140 My ‘17 9w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 24 ‘17 500w
=FOWLER, HENRY THATCHER.= Origin and growth of the Hebrew religion. (Handbooks of ethics and religion) *$1 Univ. of Chicago press 296 16-25219
“A book written for the general student. The author says: ‘The present volume is designed to offer a guide for study rather than simply a new essay or treatise upon the history of Israel’s religion.’ The principal source book for this field of investigation is the Old Testament. He gives a very brief chronological outline of Hebrew history; and a similar outline of the Hebrew literature from the beginnings ‘before 1040 B. C.’ to the Mishnah, about 200 A. D. Preceding the text of each chapter are given the references to the biblical materials, and at the close of each chapter are given the names of books for supplementary reading.”—Boston Transcript
“The main themes of the book are allowed to stand out clearly so that they can be grasped without difficulty, and the summary at the close gathers up the results of the previous studies succinctly and forcibly. A definite impression is thus left upon the reader’s mind, and this is most desirable. This impression will enable him to proceed farther into biblical studies with a correct sense of direction.” Kemper Fullerton
+ =Am J Theol= 21:610 O ‘17 680w
“The present writer belongs to the progressive group, and has a vital sympathy for religious ideals and struggles of the true prophets of the Hebrews. ... For a clear and concise exposition and guide for the general student of Israel’s religion this is one of the best works published.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 28 ‘17 450w
“One of the best hand books on the subject for college classes or other groups of advanced Bible students. It is especially to be commended for its readableness and clear presentation of the various stages thru which the Old Testament religion advanced to its final expression in Judaism.”
+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w
“His discrimination between the higher and lower sides of Old Testament ideas enables him to express distinctly his sympathy with the better thought of the prophets and psalmists, and so to guide the student into an intelligent view of the development of the Israelitish conscience.”
+ =Nation= 105:725 D 27 ‘17 130w
“While Prof. Fowler applies the results of higher criticism and research he does it so wisely and unobtrusively that the story is enriched, instead of erased.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 270w
=FOWLER, NATHANIEL CLARK, jr.= Grasping opportunity. *75c (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 174 17-10888
“Mr Fowler has had considerable experience in training young people for positions in the business world, and in the course of his experience has analyzed the major reasons for success or failure. These he gives in his book, which is largely written in conversational form.”—Springf’d Republican
“Of value to inexperienced young people.”
+ =Cleveland= p76 Je ‘17 50w
“Admirable, straight-from-the-shoulder advice to young people who are, or are about to be associated with the business world.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 150w
=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Essays in brief for war-time. *90c Longmans 824 (Eng ed 17-13920)
“Papers, ‘nearly all written during the early stress of the battle at Verdun,’ dealing with topics as diverse as ‘Birds at the front in France,’ ‘An old-fashioned recreation,’ ‘Civis Germanus sum,’ and ‘Two ideal school-masters.’”—Ath
+ =Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 20w
“They are just what one wants for an odd half-hour. The first essay recalls old Fuller’s ‘Good thoughts in bad times,’ which he wrote to soothe his troubled spirit during the civil war; it ought to be reprinted now.”
+ =Spec= 117:589 N 11 ‘16 170w
“The essayist, with his mellow wisdom and kindly humor, is a master of his art.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p475 O 5 ‘16 1050w
=FOX, EDWARD LYELL.= New Gethsemane. il *60c (9c) McBride 17-25121
This is the story of Anhalt, the cobbler of Oberammergau and the Christus of the Passion play, who, believing it wrong to kill, refused to answer the call to the colors, and was shot. The episode is pure fiction. The story was first published in 1916 in the Woman’s World.
“An excellent little story for Christians who happen to be pacifists. It is fiction, of course, but exceedingly well used to point a moral and adorn a tale.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 320w
“It is regrettable that the author should deal so largely with Anhalt’s conduct, with the obvious action rather than with the complexities of Anhalt’s dreadful struggle with himself. It is a simple tale, told with the simplicity due rather to omission than to careful pruning.”
=N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 110w
=FOX, EDWARD LYELL.= Wilhelm Hohenzollern & co. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-15168
Mr Fox is an American newspaper correspondent and author of “Behind the scenes in warring Germany.” He has made three trips to Germany during the war and seems to have been afforded opportunity for gathering a good deal of information. He gives a gossipy account of the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and the men who surround them, followed by a chapter entitled “Inside the iron ring,” which deals with the supply of food and of materials needed in war industries, and a final chapter entitled “Why we are fighting Germany.” The chapter on “The Kaiser and the Big Three,” (Bethmann-Hollweg, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff) is of special interest at present.
“His book gains value more from the fact that his opportunity was unique than that his writing is good. It is not good; it is sensational, imaginative (to speak mildly), but amazingly interesting. ... In spite of his flights of fancy, his judgment of people is fairly correct. Much of what he says is a repetition of previous surmises and rumors and commonplace observations, but his outlook is in the main fresh and original.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 520w
“Character sketches, somewhat in Sunday supplement style. The author’s estimate of the Kaiser will seem to many to err on the side of leniency.”
+ — =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 50w
“All the way he is, or tries to be, the cool, calm, impartial investigator. And he is rewarded for this admirable attitude by having produced an admirable book.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 50w
=FOX, JOHN (WILLIAM).= In Happy Valley. il *$1.35 (5c) Scribner 17-25585
Ten short stories of the Kentucky mountaineers, six of which appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1917. Contents: The courtship of Allaphair; The compact of Christopher; The Lord’s own level; The Marquise of Queensberry; His last Christmas gift; The angel from Viper; The pope of the Big Sandy; The goddess of Happy Valley; The battle-prayer of Parson Small; The Christmas tree on Pigeon.
=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
“These are good stories and affecting stories, with the advantage of a quaint setting and atmosphere; they are, I suppose, less true to ‘life’ than to that wistful dream of life which is called sentiment.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 120w
“In these stories we have Mr Fox at his best.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 21 ‘17 510w
“The best story in the collection is ‘His last Christmas gift,’ a grim little masterpiece softened by a touch that almost brings tears. The other tales lack somewhat in compactness and unity, but there is enough interesting material, warmly and humanly presented, to make them all very good reading.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 100w
“The inspiration that he seemed to draw from those earlier days at the Gap, when the mountains were really what one imagines the mountains to be, is somewhat dimmed. But the point is that he sees below the surface into the real lives of his people, and that he enriches mere incident with the warmth that comes from an appreciation of the values from which it springs.”
+ — =Dial= 63:464 N 8 ‘17 280w
“Mr Fox knows how to capture the sometimes primitive instinct and passions of the hard-working, impoverished lives of the people of Happy Valley. Mr Fox has made these people lovable in this happy addition to his work.”
+ =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 400w
“It is his first book for some years and, altho collected from the magazines, a re-reading is merely like greeting old friends, not like being bored by tiresome acquaintances. You get much the same pleasure out of re-reading the story of the fight between Ham Cage and King Camp, refereed by the little school teacher according to what she could remember of the Marquis of Queensberry rules, that you do from re-reading a favorite bit of Thackeray.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 92:1376 O 20 ‘17 330w
“But whatever its tone, each story graphically pictures some phase of life, habit or scene in this well-nigh alien colony in the backwater of American life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 220w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES ANATOLE THIBAULT).= Human tragedy; a tr. by Alfred Allinson. il *$3 (11½c) Lane 17-29339
A holiday edition of the translation of a story contained in the series “Le puits de Sainte-Claire.” The translation was previously published in Chapman’s English edition of the Works of Anatole France, 1909. It is the story of Fra Giovanni, who, inspired by the example of St Francis, took the vows of poverty and lived “humble and despised, his soul a garden of flowers fenced about with walls.” As did Adam of old he eats of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil offered to him by the adversary. The evil spirit subtly appears in many guises, drawing his net tight about his victim until Giovanni cries out: “Thru you it is I suffer, and I love you. I love you because you are my misery and my pride, my joy and my sorrow, the splendour and the cruelty of things created, because you are desire and speculation, and because you have made me like unto yourself.” The story becomes a parable of the universal human tragedy of thought.
“The illustrations are extremely original and well suited to M. France’s deeply satirical imitation of a saint’s chronicle. It is a delectable book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 9 ‘18 400w
“Will probably be welcomed chiefly for the excellent English into which it has been rendered and for the interesting full-color illustrations by the Russian artist Michel Sevier, whose style suggests Bakst and the Moscow art theatre.”
+ =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 190w
“Besides the involved picturesque, and highly poetic thought and expression of Mr France, we have the unusual colored illustrations of Sevier, which are also mystical. They add much to the book’s attractiveness.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 160w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17
“This well-translated fanciful tale, superbly illustrated, shows Anatole France in a characteristic mood.”
+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 10w
“The volume may appeal to people of artistic temperament; both text and paintings are bizarre.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 110w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Vagabonding down the Andes. il *$4 (1½c) Century 918 17-25452
The author of “A vagabond journey around the world,” etc., spent four years traveling in Mexico, Central and South America. A considerable portion of this journey was made on foot. The present book deals with the author’s tramp down the ridge of the Andes to Buenos Aires. He tells us that his purpose “was primarily to study the ways of the common people,” that too many of the books on Latin America have whitewashed everything and that he is interested “only in giving as faithful a picture as possible.” He warns us that he has “taken for granted in the reader a certain basic knowledge of South America,” and also that “this is no tale of adventures.” The numerous illustrations are from photographs by the author and there is a map showing the route.
“Not so gay as his former books, but contains an immense amount of useful information.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Although the author refers to his journey as vagabonding and to himself as a vagabond, his book reveals him as a keen-eyed, observant traveller with a fund of dry Yankee humour and common sense. The volume therefore is not only a rare record of endurance and adventure in out-of-the-way places, but in addition is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Andes and the Andeans.” A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:334 N ‘17 450w
“Not a tale of adventure but unwhitewashed pictures of the fantastic everyday life of Latin Americans.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 8 ‘17 190w
“Franck’s books justify the day-to-day diary form; he is a master of detail, of local vignettes, of discriminate minutiæ. The photographs taken by this literary vagabond are excellent and appropriate to the text. The omission of an index is quite inexcusable, and reduces the value of the book to that derived from a mere casual reading.”
+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w
“The book makes a fine antidote to the top-hat, frock-coat style of grandiloquence about South America, favored by chambers of commerce and explorers who keep within a five minutes’ radius of the best hotels in Buenos Aires, Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 220w
“There are two particulars in which the volume might easily be improved; one is the addition of an index, the other is the omission of the illustrations, or most of them. They add little except bulk. Those who delight in real adventure will find it here in plenty. Those who want social information of a kind studiously omitted from most volumes will find much of it scattered through more than 600 pages.” F. M.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 D 2 ‘17 550w
“Mr Franck has written a book of immense value. The reader soon comes to trust his report of conditions, so far as he saw them. ... His reports of chance conversations alone are worth reading the book for.”
+ =N Y Sun= p6 O 6 ‘17 1350w
“A brilliant, colorful, enthralling story of adventure this volume is beyond doubt the most entertaining work on South America that has yet appeared in the English language—or in any other, for that matter.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:460 N 11 ‘17 1850w
“He tells, as charitably as possible, how he found the Latin American, and if in the telling many praiseworthy things are overshadowed by the less laudable, his impressions at least have the virtue of frankness.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:759 N ‘17 100w
“The present reviewer would not have missed this book for a whole week’s salary and he’s going to turn right around and read it again.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 92:810 S 15 ‘17 500w
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 150w
“A most entertaining book, full of color, adventure and incident.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:431 D ‘17 20w
“He has made a book full of interest, one filled with vivid pictures of life and scenery for which we are indebted to both his pen and his camera. Text and picture supplement each other admirably.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 1450w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Unwelcome man. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-2340
He was an unwelcome child. Born the fifth son in a family of eight, he was wanted by nobody. His father openly disliked him. His brothers and sisters never made a place for him. His mother, tho she loved him with a fierce maternal tenderness that tried to atone for her lack of joy at his birth, never understood him. He was a sensitive child, always conscious of his anomalous position in the family life. The story is a study of his childhood and youth. In college as in his home, he is out of place. He leaves before the end of his senior year to go into business, where he loses himself in the stream of mediocrity.
“The style of ‘The unwelcome man’, like its philosophy, is a thing to be consciously accepted or surmounted if one is to read the book at all. It is pretentious, formal, often inflated, sometimes turgid. ... The book with all its realism of scene and episode is less a story than a parable; and it is a parable based upon despair.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w
“The story naturally is not a happy one. Indeed, its situation of selfish introspection comes perilously near being wearisome if not actually depressing at times. But technically, as an analysis of character, it is distinctly admirable.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 13 ‘17 550w
“The vitality of Mr Frank’s conception is shown by the fact that it provides a concrete touchstone for most of the problems of our contemporary civilization. ... Is it a successful work of art? Rather an extremely interesting than a successful one.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ — =Dial= 62:244 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w
“Philosophizing pessimism.”
=Nation= 104:269 Mr 8 ‘17 450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17
“The book contains a good many ideas, is somewhat out of the ordinary, and has evidently been written for its own sake.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 410w
“An unusually able first novel by an author whom America should note carefully. American to the core, it challenges comparison with the work of such men as Theodore Dreiser and Ernest Poole. In fact, from its relentless realism, one easily guesses that Mr Frank is a close student of Dreiser—tho he has not copied that writer’s sexual obsession.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:204 Ja 20 ‘17 550w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 330w
=FRANKLIN, WILLIAM SUDDARDS, and MACNUTT, BARRY.= General physics; an elementary treatise on natural philosophy. il *$2.75 McGraw 530 17-7555
“The subtitle of this book is the key to the contents. It is intentionally a somewhat dilute philosophical discussion of those natural phenomena whose study we commonly include under ‘physics.’ ... The book runs the whole gamut of classical physics, covering mechanics, dynamics, hydraulics, heat, electricity, magnetism, light and sound. There is nothing particularly strange encountered, except in the discussion on thermodynamics, where great attention is paid to entropy.” (Engin N) “Little space is given to the atomic theory. There are excellent bibliographies and an explanatory chapter on mathematics.” (Ind)
“The authors endeavor to show that entropy is a measurable property of a substance and that the different values of such measured property, before and after a thermodynamic degeneration, measure the sweeping process. The authors’ approach is very acceptable indeed to people who have a considerable knowledge of physics and an inherent and sustained interest in the science, but it will be an extremely difficult, if not an impossible, task to try to make young students absorb this line of reasoning.”
+ =Engin N= 77:435 Mr 15 ‘17 350w
“An unusually good elementary textbook for colleges and technical schools. The authors have the power of clear, concise statement.”
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:335 Ap ‘17 40w
=FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS).= Household organization for war service. *$1 (8c) Putnam 640 17-14701
The author has written books on “Efficiency in the household,” “The reward of thrift,” etc. This small book offers a general discussion of the need for better household organization rather than specific suggestions or plans. A list of helpful books for the household is given at the close.
=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
“An excellent and timely little book.”
+ =Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 50w
“American housewives are so used to advice introduced by genial assurances of their ignorance, stupidity and selfishness that the laying of most national defects on their kitchen door stones will not in the least affect their appreciation of these very practical and suggestive pages.”
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 380w
“Many of these suggestions are as sensible and helpful in peace times as in war.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:331 S ‘17 20w
=FRANKS, THETTA (QUAY) (MRS ROBERT A. FRANKS).= Margin of happiness; the reward of thrift. il *$1.50 (3½c) Putnam 640 17-18488
“This book is the outcome of a series of informal talks which Mrs Franks gave before a large class of women in the Oranges, N. J., organized to study business methods of administering a household, intelligent and economic buying of food, its proper cooking, and the value to health of a balanced ration. [It aims] to set forth woman’s work in the household as a profession which ought to be prepared for as zealously as a man prepares for the profession which is to be his lifework and its duties discharged with as much satisfaction in the ability to do so efficiently and successfully. ... An appendix contains an account of the plan on which the classes mentioned above were carried on, an alphabetical ‘grocery list’ which gives concise information and advice as to each article, and a list of ‘helpful books.’”—N Y Times
=Am Econ R= 7:902 D ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 80w
“It is, in effect, a complete manual or guidebook for students on household subjects and written in a style adapted to students of all ages. To be the ideal housewife here described will make necessary cooperation on the part of husbands, for it involves a separate bank-account and a real business partnership.”
+ =Lit D= 55:53 D 1 ‘17 180w
“Mrs Franks writes with eloquence and with that knowledge of her theme that comes from much study, much thought, and much experience.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
“Of great use to all housekeepers and to every one who believes in thrift and in conserving the food supply of the nation.”
=R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 130w
“Similar in purpose to Frederick’s ‘The new housekeeping,’ but less definite in its information and covering a little different field.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 80w
=FREEMAN, JOHN.= Moderns; essays in literary criticism. *$1.75 Crowell 820.4 (Eng ed 17-26878)
Contents: George Bernard Shaw; H. G. Wells; Thomas Hardy; Maurice Maeterlinck; Henry James; Joseph Conrad; Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson; Robert Bridges.
“Discerning and readable, the usefulness of the compact discussions of the authors’ works is somewhat lessened because there is no index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“The author’s survey is acute and well-balanced, showing a sound general knowledge of his material and a well-defined individual standard of taste. His own style inclines to the parenthetical, enlivened with many well-turned phrases.”
=Ath= p43 Ja ‘17 80w
+ — =Ath= p85 F ‘17 350w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 25 ‘17 1150w
+ =Dial= 63:164 Ag 30 ‘17 300w
“In matters of form and style he is less acute than elsewhere—he speaks, for example, with undue contempt of Mr Shaw’s prose as prose and with extravagant admiration of Mr Hardy’s verse as verse; and he finds poetical felicities in Patmore and Robert Bridges which few will share with him. He is strong in his applications of common-sense and the emotions attendant upon it to the paradox, the bombast, and the sentimental flummery of our fashionable contemporaries. ... Mr Freeman is at his best and happiest in his recognitions of spiritual values.”
+ — =Nation= 105:296 S 13 ‘17 410w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 30w
=FREEMAN, MRS MARY ELEANOR (WILKINS), and KINGSLEY, MRS FLORENCE (MORSE).= Alabaster box. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-9348
“The people of Brookville, a characteristic little New England village, did not recognize how beautiful was the alabaster box when one came bearing it among them and wished to pour all its contents at their feet. ... Miss Lydia Orr is an appealing heroine whose unusual character is realized in a strong and vital but delicate portraiture. All the years of her girlhood she has fed her inner self upon the dream of going back to Brookville with plenty of money wherewith to repay to the villagers in one way or another the money they had once lost through her father. And at last it becomes possible. But she finds his memory so hated and all the villagers still dwelling so angrily upon the wrong he had done them that she has difficulty in carrying out her scheme.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“It is a pity that Mrs Freeman should lend her name and her left hand to work so shallow and perfunctory as this.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:93 S ‘17 380w
“Miss Wilkins needs to reëstablish her reputation after this. ‘An alabaster box’ will satisfy only those who do not know her past work. Except for those bits in it that signify a familiar skill that lingers in the memory, it is unworthy of the name it bears on its title-page. Certainly Miss Wilkins should henceforth get along without a collaborator.” E. F. E.
– + =H Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 1200w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 120w
“Two love stories add to the real interest we feel in very real fictional personalities. A healthy American story.”
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 110w
“Mrs Freeman’s delicate touch in the limning of character is often in evidence, especially in the portrayal of the heroine, but the general effect of the story is more suggestive of Mrs Kingsley’s work than of Mrs Freeman’s.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 420w
Reviewed by Frank O’Neil
+ =Pub W= 91:970 Mr 17 ‘17 520w
“The story is highly interesting, and the several characters are delightfully portrayed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 330w
“The moral is made palatable by the cleverly drawn village life and characters, and two stories of young love.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 50w
=FREESE, JOHN HENRY=, comp. New pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages; English-Russian. *$2 Dutton 491.7
“The dictionary is preceded by an introduction explaining the use of the prepositional prefixes and giving valuable lists of the nominal and adjectival suffixes; also by notes on the phonetic laws, the aspects and pronunciation, with a large-type picture of the alphabet.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“When a book represents a distinct advance over any previous work of similar character, it is not altogether pleasant to point out its weaker sides. This is emphatically true of ‘A new pocket dictionary of the English and Russian languages.’”
+ – — =Nation= 105:265 S 6 ‘17 370w
“Cheap, well-printed, and compendious.”
+ =Spec= 117:269 S 2 ‘16 120w
“Admirable in every respect. The dictionary is very full, and no important words seem to have been omitted; moreover, all parts of verbs which are at all different from the infinitive and all parts of nouns which are different from the nominative singular are given, an innovation for which novices will be extremely grateful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 13 ‘16 280w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= At Plattsburg. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13200
The daily life of a Plattsburg recruit is described in a series of letters. The preface states that the letters are based on personal experience and that the author’s purpose in writing them was to give a “general picture of the fun and work at a training camp.” But while based on fact the narrative is thrown into fiction form, with a bit of love interest added for good measure.
“Written with patriotic fervor and with a slight story and a vein of romance.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“The writer’s style is lively and entertaining.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 130w
“It is a play-time Plattsburg which Mr French has described so agreeably,—a Plattsburg already past,—a stepping-stone toward the universal American army, which in turn will do away with all such effervescences. That old Plattsburg was unique, and a unique success.”
+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 450w
+ =Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 100w
“It is what the ‘rookie’ does at Plattsburg, and perhaps even more, it is what Plattsburg does in the life and thought of the rookie, that gives the book not only its value but its charm. ... But perhaps its chief value lies in the specific following of the Plattsburg program from the camp’s assembly to its break up at the end of the famous hike. ... A book which many Americans will want to read just now.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:178 My 6 ‘17 730w
“Mr French puts into Private Godwin’s letters enough of the philosophy of preparedness as it unfolds to Plattsburg students to make the book as valuable from such an angle as it is interesting as a story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 500w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= Golden Eagle. il *$1.25 (3c) Century 17-24399
A book that will be popular with boys and girls who understand sail boats. The “Golden Eagle” is a trophy that goes to the winner of a boat race. Three young people, Howard Winslow, his sister Ruth, and Fred Barnes are tied for first place and a third race, which is to decide the matter, is pending when the trophy disappears. The search for it and its recovery, a rescue from a wrecked boat, and the great race itself are the main incidents of the story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:100 D ‘17
“It has a good ethical tone. The illustrations are appropriate.”
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 30w
“Allen French has proved himself ere this a popular writer of breezy stories for young folks, and ‘The Golden Eagle’ will increase his popularity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 140w
=FRENCH, ALLEN.= Hiding-places. *$1.35 (1½c) Scribner 17-8201
Great wealth of treasure lay hidden somewhere on the two farms. An old buccaneer ancestor, seventy years earlier, had taken this method of leaving his wealth to his descendants. In the form of precious gems, he had concealed it in various hiding places. His will gave faint clues and stated clearly that finders were to be keepers. In order that the finders should always be members of the family, it became imperative that trespassing should be forbidden, that hired labor should be dispensed with and that guests should be chosen with care. At the time of this story the farms are in the possession of two cousins. Not for forty years has there been any discovery of treasure. Then Binney Hartwell, son of one of the cousins, finds one of the hidden boxes. Unhappiness, ill-luck and family dissension follow, but the disclosure of the final hiding place restores harmony.
=A L A Bkl= 13:358 My ‘17
“A kind of romance which would be contemptible if it were done cheaply; but it is done very well indeed, with, for good measure, some touches of genuine characterisation—a thing which cannot fairly be demanded of the pure romancer.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:313 My ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 300w
“To say that the tale is exciting is to pay slight tribute to a novel containing so clever a plot and such excellent characterizations as those of the hero, his mother, and his cousin. Mr French has set out to write a story, but in accomplishing his end he has shown respect for his public and himself.”
+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 200w
“A good story, well contrived and well told, and it shows that its author, whose first novel it is, has the story-teller’s instinct.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 450w
“A tale worth reading.”
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 450w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w
=FRENCH, GEORGE.= How to advertise; a guide to designing, laying out, and composing advertisements; pub. for the Associated advertising clubs of the world. il *$2 (4c) Doubleday 659 17-6656
“The object of this book is to suggest how advertising may be made more effective by making it more attractive—giving it more ‘attention value.’” (Preface) Contents: What the advertisement must do; The personal equation; The human interest appeal; Advertising display; The appeal of the display; “What has art got to do with advertising?” What is art? The all-type advertisement; Type; The illustrated advertisement; Illustrations; The decorative advertisement; Decorations; Optics and the advertisement; The form of the advertisement; Getting the copy ready; Assembling the units; In conclusion. The book is well illustrated, with twenty-six halftone plates and numerous line drawings.
=A L A Bkl= 14:45 N ‘17
“Its general spirit is to develop the critical factor of the advertiser himself. The book will have a worthy place in every business man’s library.” H. W. H.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:231 S ‘17 160w
“What he says of advertising as a business force is both authoritative and helpful. The citation of concrete examples, good and bad, increases the book’s value.”
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17
“The author is editor of the Advertising News.”
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17 30w
“The book is meant for a particular class of readers rather than the public, but in its own field it is bound to rank high.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 250w
=FREUND, ERNST.= Standards of American legislation; an estimate of restrictive and constructive factors. *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 342.7 17-10698
“On its concrete side, the present work may be said to be a continuation of the standard treatise, ‘Police power,’ by the same author. It is an expansion of a series of lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university. ... The object sought ‘is to suggest the possibility of supplementing the established doctrine of constitutional law which enforces legislative norms through ex post facto review and negation, by a system of positive principles that should guide and control the making of statutes, and give a more definite meaning and content to the concept of due process of law.’” (Int J Ethics) The table of contents is followed by a summary of the contents. The introduction cites a number of cases that illustrate the changed attitude of the courts toward social legislation, and touches on the movement for judicial recall. The chapters then take up: Historic changes of policy and the modern concept of social legislation; The common law and public policy; The tasks and hazards of legislation; Constitutional provisions; Judicial doctrines; The meaning of principle in legislation; Constructive factors. The author is professor of jurisprudence and public law in the University of Chicago.
Reviewed by A. B. Hall
+ =Am J Soc= 23:540 Ja ‘18 1150w
“Professor Freund’s purpose is to estimate the factors by the aid of which a system of constructive principles of legislation may be built up. This purpose distinguishes his book at once from such an excellent treatise as Jethro Brown’s ‘The underlying principles of modern legislation,’ which deals, not with principles of legislation as Professor Freund defines the term, but with policy, and from Chester Lloyd Jones’s valuable ‘Statute law making in the United States,’ which deals exclusively with legislative practice.” A. N. Holcombe
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:580 Ag ‘17 620w
“A book which, in a lucid and uninvolved manner traces the development of the policies of modern legislation in the exercise of what must be recognized as ‘a political and not strictly judicial function.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 210w
“The field occupied by Professor Freund is a new one in nearly all its avenues of approach; and it is extremely fortunate that a writer of his wide professorial experience, and interest, in the subject, has undertaken to publish the results of his research and reflection. ... From the adverse side, we believe the title does not accurately represent the matters treated, and yet we would have great difficulty in suggesting another. The index is not altogether satisfactory. ... This defect is in part relieved by a chapter summary.” Albert Kocourek
* + — =Int J Ethics= 28:123 O ‘17 1600w
Reviewed by H. W. Ballantine
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1050 D ‘17 1000w
=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 28 ‘17 550w
“It stimulates thought and suggests further studies. It is a work which jurists and constitutional lawyers will read with profit; however, it will also interest the layman who appreciates the increasing importance of statute law.” E. E. Witte
+ =Survey= 39:45 O 13 ‘17 330w
=FREYTAG, GUSTAV.= Doctor Luther; tr. by G. C. L. Riemer. il *$1 (3c) Lutheran pub. soc. 16-16678
Freytag’s work on Martin Luther is one of his “Pictures of the German past,” five historical volumes written and published between 1859 and 1867. The work consists of four chapters: At the beginning of the 16th century; Struggles in the soul of a young man and his entrance into the monastery; Out of monastic confinement into battle; Doctor Luther. These are followed by biographic and geographic notes and a table of dates. A brief sketch of the author is included by way of preface.
+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 40w
From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *60c (2c) Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-3142)
The Dartmouth of the title is the British naval training college of that name. The young cadet whose story is told here was a boy of barely sixteen. His narrative was written while at home on sick leave in December, 1915, and has been edited for publication by his mother, who has made the necessary alterations in names of officers, ships, etc., leaving the boy’s story as nearly as possible as he wrote it. His experiences included rescue from death after his ship had been sunk.
+ =Cath World= 105:697 Ag ‘17 230w
+ =Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 50w
“Full of interest, simply but vividly told.”
+ =Nation= 104:412 Ap 5 ‘17 260w
“The reader cannot fail to note in the book the strange gradual maturity that came in that year to this child of fifteen. ‘From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles’ is one of the unique personal records from this war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 550w
=Pratt= p42 Ap ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 40w
“Make-up and binding very poor.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 50w
=FROTHINGHAM, EUGENIA BROOKS.= Way of the wind. *$1.40 (3c) Houghton 17-6326
An unusual love story, the theme of which is the attachment between an older woman and a man who is little more than a boy. Janet Eversly is past thirty when she first meets Edgar Chilworth, a boy in the early twenties. She is the guest of his sister in the New Hampshire hills, and it is Fanny Chilworth’s harshness in her treatment of the wayward, reckless youth that first draws Janet toward him. He is touched by Janet’s pity, and before they are aware, tenderness on the one side and gratitude on the other have merged into love. The situation is worked out slowly, with many failures on Edgar’s part and sorely-tried faith on Janet’s.
“Not necessary, seems to be founded on false psychology.”
— =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“The author has accomplished something very much worth while when she has drawn this portrait of Edgar Chilworth. ... On account of this character study the story is exceptionally praiseworthy as well as being psychologically interesting.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 950w
— =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 340w
=FROTHINGHAM, PAUL REVERE.= Confusion of tongues. *$1.25 Houghton 170 17-10441
“A volume of essay-sermons that deal not directly with the great war, but that touch various aspects of life affected by it. None of the discourses would be the same except for the colossal tragedy across the sea. They represent an attempt to ease a little the present mental strain, to restore the confidence of people, and to lead the mind back to the everlasting verities of life and duty. The title of the book is intended to symbolize the far-reaching effect of the European camps along the battlefront.” (Boston Transcript) “Contents: A confusion of tongues; The conduct of life; A motto; The little book; Making the best of things; How to choose; The ‘if’ and ‘though’ of faith; Extra pennies; The departure into Egypt; Unshaken things.” (N Y Br Lib News) The author has been the minister of the Arlington Street church (Unitarian), Boston, since 1900.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 170w
+ =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 150w
“There is something a little out of the ordinary in the quiet sanity of Paul Revere Frothingham’s volume of essay-sermons.”
+ =Nation= 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 80w
“Wholesome and helpful as these brief essays are in encouraging the cultivation of personal rectitude and hopefulness, they fall far short of measuring the shock which faith has suffered under the heel of war in Christendom.” G. T.
– + =Survey= 38:574 S 29 ‘17 140w
=FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY.= Hill-towns of France. il *$2.50 Dutton 914.4 17-30063
“This book is a story of wanderings among the picturesque hill-towns of France in times of peace. These hill-towns, the traveller-author tells us, are of four distinct types: first, the large town, commanded and protected by the turrets and massive towers of its walls and citadel; second, the feudal castle, the residence of some great lord about whose walls a straggling town has grown up; third, the fortified town, communal in character, which, governed by no over-lord and possessed of no castle, yet protects itself from invasion by fortifying its houses and its churches also; and fourth, the monastic hill-town, its defences built primarily to defend a shrine. ... In tracing the history of these four types of hill towns in France, the writer has traced the welding of these divergent strands into a united whole, which comprises the French nation of today.”—Boston Transcript
“A pleasant book, with fine illustrations of some of the most picturesque spots of France, such illustrations as would almost provide an excuse for dispensing with reading the text.” Albert Schinz
+ =Bookm= 46:292 N ‘17 230w
“The descriptive style of the narrative is picturesque and vigorous.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 320w
“Most of the articles are reprints of papers from former publications, but the collection makes a handy reference volume.”
+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 150w
“Her book furnishes a new viewpoint from which to approach France and French life and history.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 70w
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 100w
=FRYER, MRS JANE (EAYRE).= Mary Frances first aid book. (Mary Frances story instruction handbook ser.) il *$1 Winston 614 16-24933
“‘The Mary Frances first aid book,’ is a combination of story with information. ... It is printed in colors with fifty colored illustrations and has a ready reference list of ordinary accidents and illnesses, with approved home remedies, alphabetically arranged. ... The children who are the chief characters are entrusted with a group of doll patients on whom they practice what they learn about bandages and liniments, and the cure for burns and other injuries.”—Springf’d Republican
“Of use to smaller Camp fire girls.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:407 Je ‘17
“It is to be regretted that the author, a member of the New Jersey Women’s division, National preparedness association, has by much of her context infused the pages with the spirit of militarism and ‘flag waving.’ Otherwise the book has many valuable points and may be commended, especially for its illustrations and generally fine make-up.” M. G. S.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 120w
“At the present moment a practical first-aid book like this should be very popular.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 120w
=FUESS, CLAUDE MOORE.= Old New England school. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 373 17-13971
A history of Phillips academy, Andover, founded in 1778. Among the chapters are: A Puritan family; The founders; The founding of a school; An eighteenth-century pedagogue; The founding of Andover theological seminary; The School and the Hill in the mid-century; Student societies and enterprises; Some baseball stories; Football and its heroes; Phillips academy in the twentieth century. The volume is well illustrated.
“More feasible for libraries if it had been condensed and sold at half the price.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
“The mere fact that Oliver Wendell Holmes was there fitted for college, as we know from his own pen, is enough to make the academy and its history objects of unfailing interest.”
+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:296 Ag 25 ‘17 70w
“For those not directly interested in the academy it affords a glimpse into those pioneer days of American institutions of learning that were over full of history ‘in the making.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 600w
“The institution stands today as about the best known and perhaps without exception the most effectively equipped secondary school of America. ... We cannot avoid the feeling that Mr Fuess falls somewhat short of the proper degree of sympathy and understanding in dealing with the earlier history of the school, and especially with such a character as that of Principal Samuel H. Taylor. ... Aside from reservations which some may feel inclined to make on the point just mentioned, the author has done his work well and has written a chapter in the history of American education which should have a wide reading.”
+ =Nation= 105:68 Jl 19 ‘17 1250w
+ =N Y Times= 22:582 D 30 ‘17 340w
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17
“Much of what he has brought to light is of significance not merely as the record of a school but as New England social history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 14 ‘17 1100w
=FULLER, SIR BAMPFYLDE.= Man as he is; essays in a new psychology. *$2.50 Stokes 150 (Eng ed 17-13409)
“Retired from a distinguished career in India, Sir Bampfylde Fuller has devoted himself to psychological studies and has already published (in addition to two books on India) a work of value called ‘Life and human nature.’ He now gives us what may be called a contribution to the study of human impulses; for in these developing into rational choice and based on memory—the excellences of memory being the chief mark of man’s predominance over other animals—he finds the key to the human mind and conduct.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =Ath= p473 O ‘16 80w
“The first chapter, however, is too brief a statement of principles to form a really adequate introduction to the ambitiously planned inquiry.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:402 O 14 ‘17 500w
“His treatment of man in these essays is wholly as ‘the paragon of animals.’ Nothing turns on any specific difference, any spiritual element which distinguishes man from animal. But there is no tone of brutality in the book, no cynicism, no Nietzsche nonsense, and we mark frequently with a certain amusement the conventional and even commonplace morality which pervades its rigid realistic and positive analysis of man purely as a terrestrial creature.”
=Sat R= 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“The book contains much acute analysis based not only on reflection, but on a singularly wide acquaintance with men and affairs.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p491 O 12 ‘16 110w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 N 23 ‘16 1050w
=FULLER, HENRY BLAKE.= Lines long and short. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-4572
A volume of “biographical sketches in various rhythms.” Mr Fuller has told twenty stories in free verse, analyzing motives and exposing shams with something of the keen satire of the “Spoon River anthology” but with less of its sordidness. Some of the poems are reprinted from Poetry, the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic.
“Without Edgar Lee Masters’s power to burn to the quick with the caustic of satire, he has yet the trained, clear-seeing eyes of the psychologist, the sense of human values of the novelist, and his people are real and unforgettable. The man who put off living until life would have none of him, stands out in particular relief.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:439 D ‘17 110w
“Mr Fuller is more rhythmical than Mr Masters. But though he has a spice of cynicism, his work is tempered with wit, and while he makes fun not only of his subjects and of himself, he has something worth telling and not one of his ‘little stories’ lacks zest. They are well worth reading.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 7 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 60w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Dial= 62:300 Ap 5 ‘17 1200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
=FULTON, MAURICE GARLAND=, ed. Southern life in southern literature. il 80c Ginn 810.8 17-6667
Selections from southern literature, arranged in three parts: The old South in literature; Poetry of the Civil war; The new South in literature. The editor says, “My attempt has been not merely to show the value of literary effort in the South as absolute achievement but also to emphasize its importance as a record of southern life and character.” Essayists, poets, story writers and humorists are included. In selecting from recent novelists and story writers the author has limited himself, with one exception, “to the five pioneers in the new development of fiction in the eighties.” These are George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary N. Murfree, Thomas Nelson Page and James Lane Allen. The exception is O. Henry.
+ =School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 30w
“Should be an acceptable book for supplementary reading in any high school, but particularly in the South, where its historical element would naturally make the greatest appeal and would serve as an excellent approach to the book. As a whole, the book is well organized, satisfactory in the point of notes, both explanatory and biographical, and commendable for the selection of subject-matter.” E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:609 O ‘17 90w
=FURNISS, HENRY SANDERSON=, ed. Industrial outlook. *3s 6d Chatto & Windus, London (Eng ed 17-4219)
“A collection of nine essays, edited by the principal of Ruskin college, who speaks of ‘the control of industry’ as the keynote of the book, so far as it has one. ... The contributors are G. W. Daniels, lecturer on economics in the University of Manchester; H. Clay; J. R. Taylor, lecturer in the University of Leeds; W. Piercy and T. E. Gregory, both lecturers at the London school of economics; A. W. Ashby, assistant in the Institute for research in agricultural economics at Oxford; and W. H. Pringle. Assistance has been received in the preparation of the book from Professor E. Cannan and Mr A. E. Zimmern.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The writers have not a common point of view or a common terminology or a common way of approach. ... A book such as this cannot be judged as a book—each essay must be taken separately and judged for what it is in itself without reference to the rest. There are at least two essays which are really admirable; that of Mr Henry Clay on ‘The war and the status of the wage-earner,’ and that of Mr J. R. Taylor on ‘Labour organization.’ ... These two chapters should be read by everybody who really desires to understand the labour movement and the point of view of the trade unionist of to-day. Mr Ashby’s chapter on ‘The rural problem’ is also excellent, ... and should be an excellent tonic for all those who still have sentimental aspirations after the small holding or the peasant proprietor.”
+ — =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 780w
“Mr Taylor’s account of the new tendencies in trade unionism and the rise of the great industrial union, like the National union of railwaymen, as contrasted with the older craft unions, is especially interesting and valuable.”
+ =Spec= 119:193 Ag 25 ‘17 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 18 ‘17 170w
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=GADE, JOHN ALLYNE.= Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden. il *$3 (2½c) Houghton 16-22250
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Hitherto Voltaire’s ‘Charles XII,’ of unstated literary charm, and the late R. Nisbet Bain’s useful sketch in the Heroes of the nations series have been the only attempts to write, in a non-Scandinavian tongue, the story career of one of the most picturesque and striking figures in modern history. Now comes Mr Gade, ... who has assumed the role of translator of the contemporaneous manuscripts of one Carl Gustafson Klingspor, devoted follower and companion in arms of the king. While the ‘translator’ provides an index and a very considerable bibliography, abounding in Scandinavian titles, his manner of writing, his soaring enthusiasm, and his penchant for dramatic effect suggest the historical novelist rather than the orthodox historical biographer. ... Those who, in spite of the grim realities of the present conflict, still yearn for a true tale of military adventure, in the main well told, will welcome this book; but it still leaves the way open for an exhaustive critical biography. The volume is handsomely bound and printed, while of errors there are comparatively few, though 1588 should be 1688 (p. 22).” A. L. C.
=Am Hist R= 22:705 Ap ‘17 400w
“Charles XII of Sweden has ever furnished an inspiring theme to writers of the most different stamp—from the keen contemporary Voltaire to the manly and tender Verner V. Heidenstam in our own days. Mr John A. Gade has hit upon the device of writing a book purporting to be a translation of the manuscript of one Colonel Klingspor. ... In most other respects Mr Gade is credible enough, fortified and enlivened as his account is with the contemporary observations and anecdotes now accessible in a number of published journals of the Carolines. The recently published five volumes of memoirs of soldiers under Charles, edited by Quennerstadäd, seem to have been especially drawn upon. ... In but one respect does there appear to be uncertainty of planning. For whom in particular was this eloquent account written? For youths to be fired with a noble emulation of a great character, so one would judge from the general tone of the book, which lays the greatest stress on the Spartan virtues. But if so, why the salacious anecdotes, e.g., about August the Strong, told in contrast though they be?... The book is well illustrated with portraits and plates. There is one altogether unserviceable map.”
=Nation= 104:495 Ap 26 ‘17 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 26 ‘17 400w
=GAGER, CHARLES STUART.= Fundamentals of botany. il *$1.50 Blakiston 581 16-19673
“Gager’s text is evidently intended as a guide for an introductory, cultural course for college students, which shall at the same time serve as a foundational one for students who are to pursue the subject further. ... Part I (Introduction) deals with the organs of the cormophyte and the structure of the cell. Part 2 (The vegetative functions of plants) includes chapters on the loss of water, absorption of water, the path of liquids in the plant, nutrition, fermentation, respiration, growth, and adjustment to surroundings. ... The 26 chapters of part 3 (Structure and life histories) include discussions of the life histories of a considerable number of types, especially of the mosses, ferns, and flowering plants.”—Bot Gaz
“The book is abundantly illustrated with 434 figures, a good share of which are original drawings or halftones. While the appearance, for example, of such illustrations as figs. 127, 198, 263, and 286 is to be welcomed, the same cannot justly be said of some others.”
+ =Bot Gaz= 63:324 Ap ‘17 400w
“Excellent text-book by director of the Brooklyn botanic garden. Presents some original ideas in the teaching of botany. Very fully illustrated.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:41 Ja ‘17 20w
“It will be noted that although a physiologist in outlook, he has properly emphasized the historical and structural point of view so often and so deplorably neglected by the cultivators of disembodied plant physiology. The author obviously considers that living matter is to be studied ‘in vita’ rather than ‘in vitro’ (whether in glass models or merely in chemical glass-ware).” F. C. Jeffrey
+ =Science= n s 46:617 D 21 ‘17 750w
=GAINES, RUTH LOUISE, and READ, GEORGIA WILLIS.= Village shield. il *$1.50 (3½c) Dutton 17-13622
Florence Converse, editor of the “Little schoolmates” series, writes an introductory “Letter to the one who reads this book” in which she says that this present day story of Porfiria and Ramon is a story of “real Mexicans; not the fierce and noisy men who are fighting and quarreling among themselves and sometimes with us ... but the Indians of pure blood, descendants or successors of the Aztec people.” Translations and explanations of terms used in the text are not given in footnotes but in eight pages of “Notes” at the end of the story.
“Well illustrated with historic pictures taken from old books of travel. Will interest older children.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:29 O ‘17
“It is rich in local color and rather too rich in Spanish phrases inserted to enhance that color.”
+ — =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 40w
“It is a weaker and feminine story of the type popular in the Rover series, the Boy scout books, and the like. The illustrations, too, taken outright from Mexican books of travel of the early forties and fifties, are quite untrue to Mexican life today. And yet it is harmless enough, and might be absorbing to a child.” C. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 180w
“The story is told with skill. ... The illustrations, of which four are colored plates, deserve a word of mention because of their historic and artistic interest. The twelve full-page pictures are from famous books of travel in Mexico of more than half a century ago, while more than a score of tailpieces and medallions have been redrawn from the picture-writings of the Mexican Indians, some of them antedating the Spanish conquest.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:249 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“While written for children, has interest for the older reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 290w
=GAIRDNER, WILLIAM HENRY TEMPLE.= Egyptian colloquial Arabic; a conversation grammar and reader. il *12s 6d Heffer, Cambridge, England 492.7
“Mr Gairdner, of the Church missionary society, who is the superintendent of Arabic studies at the Cairo study centre, has done a great service ... by preparing this practical conversation grammar and reader of the spoken language of the people. He discards the Arabic symbols for a modified Roman alphabet.” (Spec) “He has endeavoured to apply to Egyptian Arabic some of the modern methods used in teaching languages. Disconnected sentences, verb conjugations and paradigms, and grammatical rules preceding each exercise, have been omitted. For the last-named Mr Gairdner has substituted leading questions, which will enable students themselves to deduce the grammar illustrated by the subject-matter of each section. An advocate of direct methods, Mr Gairdner from the outset uses Arabic as the medium of instruction; and he gives good reasons for the particular system of Romic symbols adopted. The book contains tables of Egyptian-Arabic sounds, and of the consonants, vowels, and diphthongs; exercises in sound-drill and practice in reading; and a vocabulary of the chief words occurring in the reader.” (Ath) Mr Gairdner has been assisted by Sheikh Kurayyim Sallam.
+ =Ath= p409 Ag ‘17 130w
“The book is, in its way, almost as epoch-making as that of Spitta; it shows, for all its modernity, very careful scholarship and it may be thoroughly recommended. The home-staying Arabist will probably get good results by combining it with Spitta’s ‘Contes Arabes.’”
+ =Nation= 105:491 N 1 ‘17 350w
+ =Spec= 118:94 Jl 28 ‘17 90w
=GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY.= Personal hygiene and physical training for women. 2d ed rev il *$2.25 (2c) Saunders 613 17-2511
For this second edition the chapter on Digestion and nutrition has been rewritten to bring it into conformity with present day knowledge of the nutritive value of foods, etc. Chapter 1 on The wisdom of physical efficiency has been revised to include the results of statistical studies made by the author. A section on dancing, with plates and description of simple steps, has been added.
=A L A Bkl= 13:273 Mr ‘17
=GALE, ZONA.= Daughter of the morning. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-28848
“Cosma Wakely was a village girl of twenty years, in speech, manner, and environment the antipodes of everything that culture stands for. Her story, told by herself, begins as ungrammatically and crudely as the character demands. But during a morning’s walk she meets a stranger whose talk with her changes at once all her personal ideals and her entire outlook upon life. Obeying the hint he has given her in regard to seeking wider horizons, she breaks her engagement with a country lover, and, taking with her the wife and child of a drunken brute, seeks employment in the city. There her great beauty subjects her to the usual peril from predacious man, but, saving herself by her quick wits, she soon enters a career of triumph, and is sent to school. ... She becomes secretary to the very man who first planted within her the seeds of ambition; and of course, of course—we easily guess the rest.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“‘A daughter of the morning’ must be set down as a ‘fact story,’ good enough for those that like their sociology, as well as their advertising, in tract form, but not to be considered from the viewpoint of fiction.”
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+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 50w
“The superficial philosophy and the weak love interest may appeal to the sentimental high school girl. But the note of protest against the sterility and lack of promise that country life offers to a girl redeems the book from many of its faults.”
– + =New Repub= 13:158 D 8 ‘17 100w
“All the details of this impossible story are as far removed from things as they are as is the history of its heroine. Miss Gale scores, in that, despite the unrealities of her tale, and its being somewhat overloaded with her theories, she has made it interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:517 D 2 ‘17 460w
“With the gentle simplicity and sincerity so characteristic of Miss Gale’s work, she has said here many fundamental truths. She has clothed them with a gently appealing human touch that will carry the lesson far.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Pub W= 92:1375 O 20 ‘17 460w
“As a novel the book holds its reader closely; as a novel with a purpose it is to be classed among the worth-while books of 1917.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 300w
=GALLATIN, ALBERT EUGENE.= Paul Manship; a critical essay on his sculpture and an iconography. il *$5 Lane 735 17-12503
“The future of sculpture [in America] at present lies in the hands of some half dozen acknowledged artists and many others who are gradually winning a reputation. One of the few who has gone ‘over the top’ although quite a young man, is Paul Manship. ... In clear, concise terms, the author has summed up the art of Manship and placed him where he belongs. That is an art in itself. Further than this the dainty little volume contains a very complete iconography, accompanied by eight full-page illustrations, thoroughly representative pieces of sculpture having been selected for the purpose.” (Int Studio) The book, which is of a few pages only other than the illustrations, was printed at the Merrymount press, Boston, in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies.
“The author is a past master in iconography, and employs a terse epigrammatic phraseology which clothes well his very individual views upon the artists of his choice.”
+ =Int Studio= 62:65 S ‘17 230w
=Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17
=GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN).= Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 176 17-14556
This book, which the author had had in mind for some time, has been written and published during the war, because she believes that it has a vital bearing on present conditions in England. On the one hand, she sees the need of building up the population of a decimated country, on the other, she sees women crowding into occupations that are inimical to motherhood. She says, “The object of my book is two-fold. First, to put forward a fresh plea for assigning that high value to motherhood in practice which at present it receives only in words. ... In the second place, I wish to set forth what seem to be the chief causes that hitherto have hindered motherhood and bound my sex from the full enjoyment of life; and to suggest that the reason ... is due to women’s own actions, to their absurdly wrong education and entire misunderstanding of the sexual life.” The four parts of the book following the Introduction, which treats of the effects of the war, are: The maternal instinct in the making; The primitive family; Motherhood and the relationships of the sexes; Sexual education. There is a bibliography of several pages at the close.
=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
“The whole book is an impassioned plea for enlightened motherhood, a reverence for and conservation of human life by women such as men and governments have never given it. It is a terrific indictment, not of the individual mother, but of the evils of civilisation.” Edna Kenton
+ =Bookm= 46:345 N ‘17 600w
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 70w
“She represents the older, motherly feminism with its rather self-conscious responsibility and its weakness in referring to criteria of biological science where only an artistic sense of personal relations should rule. Much unity and sanctity, the psychologists are discovering, could pass from the family without hurting it. Mrs Gallichan’s book moves too much in the realm of conventionalized emotions.” Randolph Bourne
+ — =Dial= 63:103 Ag 16 ‘17 450w
“In this new book she brings her very thorough equipment as a scholar and a thinker to bear upon the conditions which the world must face as the result of the effects of the great war upon the race. Her work, therefore, is very timely and, although it is written with reference only to the British Isles, almost all that she says is quite as applicable to the United States.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 550w
=Pittsburgh= 22:700 O ‘17 20w
“Child welfare workers who believe that ‘the welfare of the child is the one consideration that matters,’ will find much to interest them in this volume, especially the discussion of infant mortality, its relation to the employment of mothers and other prenatal conditions.” B. F. Johnson, M.D.
+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 370w
“Readers of it will find that on a good many sides of the question she has something cogent to say; but they will get a little impatient with the large amount of space devoted to the sex life of animals and of primitive man. The lessons of war are at the moment much more interesting than any theories drawn from biology or anthropology.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p300 Je 21 ‘17 550w
=GALLISHAW, JOHN, and LYNCH, WILLIAM.= Man in the ranks. *$1 (8c) Houghton 355 17-24714
This book of advice for new recruits is written by a soldier who was at Gallipoli in 1915 and a sergeant instructor of the Plattsburg training camp. The advice is given under the headings: Getting started right; The first days in camp; Marksmanship; Keeping fit; A successful soldier; A talk on personal conduct; Tips from the trenches. There is a list of “Things to remember not to forget.” A number of pages at the end are left blank to be used as a diary, and a place is provided for addresses.
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Beyond. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-22092
When “Gyp” Winton was flowering into womanhood she overheard it said that Major Winton, her straight-thinking, straight-riding guardian was indeed her father. That knowledge influenced her attitude toward the world of society she was about to enter. He had answered her question about it simply and directly: “Yes, Gyp; your mother and I loved each other.” To Gyp, then, honesty, her music, and love were the three things needful. Against her father’s wishes she married Fiorsen, the gifted, moody, intemperate, wholly selfish Swedish violinist, only to discover later that their union was founded on passion on his side and a mistaken infatuation on hers. With all her strength she tried to keep the bargain she had made, but when he broke his marriage vow and in a fit of ungovernable temper maltreated their child, she left him and went back to her father and that simpler outdoor life to which she had been bred. Dreading the English divorce court, she did not legally free herself, and, when later, Bryan Summerhay came into her life and won her passionate affection she gave herself to him, believing that to her had come such undying love as she had seen her father hold for the mother who had died at her child’s birth. The weight of the past and oncoming tragedy in the book is relieved only by Gyp’s love for her daughter and Major Winton’s unquestioned, unflinching devotion to them both.
“Mr Galsworthy’s latest novel is quite readable—and disappointing, because we expected something which we could strongly praise or severely criticize.”
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“Half concealed by his cold and reserved manner lurks, to put it frankly, the sex obsession of the sceptical bachelor.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 180w
“Although problems of sex have been utilized by Mr Galsworthy in the making of his novels, never before has he been so obsessed by them as in ‘Beyond.’ But for the graces of its style, ‘Beyond’ would be utterly negligible.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w
“Those who see in the story only a sensational appeal to our sexual emotions miss the theme. It is the gospel according to Browning. Stake everything and pocket your losses without whimpering. Stoicism is an old philosophy, often enough repeated in abstract terms. The novelist here has shown real people, dominated by passion, terribly hurt by it, then dominant over their sorrow, and not so small as to indulge in regrets. It is a superb piece of work.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 63:272 S 27 ‘17 1600w
“It is an inconclusive book, and for that reason lacks the greatness that compels the reader’s sympathy for the actors in the tragedy.”
+ — =Ind= 91:473 S 22 ‘17 160w
“Mr Galsworthy is not a treader in the gross and miry ways of sex; if he were, ‘The dark flower’ would have seemed to some of us a book less damnable. He is that more insidious influence, an eloquent and honest pleader from false premises.”
— =Nation= 105:292 S 13 ‘17 700w
“‘Beyond’ shows his usual firmness of structure and grace of style, but it adds nothing to his interpretation of life, does nothing to broaden or sweeten it.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 110w
“As a Galsworthy performance, a novel out of the man who wrote ‘The island Pharisees’ and ‘Fraternity’ and ‘Strife’ and ‘Justice’ and ‘The mob’ and ‘A commentary’ and ‘The silver box,’ it is one of the most extraordinary bits of degeneracy, literary degeneracy, that was ever exposed. It is more facile than his other stories. It is quick and neat and fluent. It is dramatic. But its texture shows a complacency and flabbiness so amazing that one who sees the dedication to Thomas Hardy is inclined to look the other way.” F. H.
— =New Repub= 12:194 S 15 ‘17 1750w
“Poor fare from the author of ‘Justice’ and the ‘Man of property.’ One leaves the book with a feeling of futility.” F. J. K.
— =N Y Call= p15 N 18 ‘17 950w
“The story carries the reader on by the tense interest of its conflict of souls, their struggles to harmonize themselves with one another, and the breaking out from the self-imposed bonds now of one and now of another.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:310 Ag 26 ‘17 1300w
“Of the essential indecency of Gyp’s course, its human and spiritual malfeasance, its blend of sentimentality and obtuseness, Mr Galsworthy reveals no consciousness. One has small affection for Fiorsen. But even the unlovable may justifiably resent betrayal; and it is our main quarrel with Mr Galsworthy that he seems to have no perception of the case that might be made out—that must be made out—for Fiorsen. Mr Galsworthy used to have a shrewd and vibrant sense of humor. It would not formerly have been easy to impeach him for artless banalities, for economy of thought, for undistinguished writing.” Lawrence Gilman
— =No Am= 206:628 O ‘17 1700w
“In quality and literary texture and in the apparently easy but really artful way in which the interest is sustained this novel has not been excelled by anything Mr Galsworthy has done. It is hard, however, to see what social conclusion is suggested or intended.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 150w
“The book is inferior to the author’s best work.”
— =Pittsburgh= 22:749 N ‘17 40w
“We confess to having been perfectly bored by Mr John Galsworthy’s last novel.”
— =Sat R= 124:208 S 15 ‘17 650w
“We wish that he would widen his view of life in his fiction as he has done in his plays, but we gladly recognize the high literary merit, the skilful construction, the play of humour and fancy, the adroit management of the chief situations in this new novel, which is in some respects the best that he has produced.”
+ — =Spec= 119:272 S 15 ‘17 520w
“In Mr Galsworthy’s new novel the people fill us with alarm, because they appear all more or less under the influence of the great narcotic and therefore not quite responsible for their actions. They have been out hunting all day for so many generations that they are now perpetually in this evening condition of physical well-being and spiritual simplicity. This of course, is an exaggeration, but some theory of the kind must be fabricated to explain this rather queer book, ‘Beyond.’”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Ag 30 ‘17 1450w
=GAMEWELL, MRS MARY NINDE (PORTER).= Gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai. il *$1.50 Revell 915.1 17-206
“‘The gateway to China’ is a descriptive work on Shanghai. The idea of a gateway comes from the investment of the city by France and Great Britain and the cosmopolitan character of its population. Each feature of the city’s history, from the time that Great Britain opened it as a port by treaty in 1842 to the present, passes in review. Police department, shops, schools, rickshas, streets, houses, hospitals, sanitation, press, factories, customs, present and ancient, are described from the standpoint of a resident rather than a visitor.”—Springf’d Republican
“An uncommonly vivid piece of descriptive writing.”
+ =Ind= 88:410 D 4 ‘16 70w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 130w
“The book is decidedly interesting and entertaining.” Gertrude Seymour
+ =Survey= 37:614 F 24 ‘17 250w
=GANONG, WILLIAM FRANCIS.= Textbook of botany for colleges. il *$2.50 Macmillan 580 17-22350
“The course outlined in this book is specifically designed as ‘an introductory course in botany,’ as ‘a part of a general education, and not as a preparation for a professional botanical career.’ ... Professor Ganong has not felt responsible for telling all known botanical facts about each topic discussed, since he has attempted rather to present major truths with enough morphological details to give a clear setting to the major truth.”—School R
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:295 Ap ‘17
+ =Bot Gaz= 63:323 Ap ‘17 300w
“Prof. Ganong’s treatment is somewhat unconventional. The text makes easy reading, and is facilitated by a large number of good figures; but there is sometimes a suggestion of scrappiness.”
+ =Nature= 99:261 My 31 ‘17 550w
“The book is an excellent contribution to our rapidly growing list of available texts for college botany and is the outcome of years of successful experience in teaching botany in a college [Smith] whose general courses in that science have become well known because of their effectiveness and attractiveness.” O. W. Caldwell
+ =School R= 24:778 D ‘16 600w
=GARDINER, ALFRED G. (ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH, pseud.).= Pebbles on the shore. (Wayfarer’s library) *50c Dutton 824
A series of essays first published in England. “Contents: On choosing a name; On letter-writing; On reading in bed; On cats and dogs; On seeing visions; On black sheep; The village and the war; On umbrella morals; On talking to one’s self; On Boswell and his miracle; On seeing ourselves; On the English spirit; On falling in love; On living again; On points of view; On the guinea stamp; On the dislike of lawyers; On the cheerfulness of the blind; On thoughts at fifty; On the philosophy of hats; On seeing London; On the intelligent golf ball; On a prisoner of war; On the world we live in; In praise of walking, etc.” (N Y Br Lib News)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p675 D ‘17 30w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 750w
+ =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:123 Ag ‘17
+ =Spec= 119:sup549 N 17 ‘17 30w
“He has a knack of being genially discursive without being trivial and of bringing a certain elevation of mind to bear upon his subject that shows his similarity to E. V. Lucas. The charm, the gentle modulated style is there. ... There is something to give pleasure on every page.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 20 ‘17 950w
“Papers by a writer who has to the full the gift of ‘causerie.’ ... Mr Brock’s excellent pen and ink and head and tail pieces are a great addition.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 40w
=GARDNER, LUCY=, ed. Hope for society; essays on social reconstruction after the war. *3s G. Bell & sons, London 330.4 (Eng ed 17-18995)
“These twelve essays were delivered as lectures at the Interdenominational summer school held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from June 24 to July 3, 1916. The Bishop of Oxford contributes an essay on ‘The hope for society.’; and there are papers by Mr J. St G. Heath (’The new social conscience as to use of income’), Mr J. A. Hobson (’Industrial and financial conditions after the war’), Mr C. Roden Buxton (’The land question after the war’), Sir Hugh Bell (’Trade-union regulations: the employer’s point of view’), Mrs Pethick Lawrence (’The new outlook of the woman’s movement’), Miss Margaret Bondfield (’The position of women in industry’), and others.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 130w
“Mr Christopher Turnor’s paper on the development of English life is especially valuable. On the social side, the papers contain many suggestions which deserve consideration in the reconstruction period.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 200w
“The real educational value of these lectures is that they do not deal solely with collective measures of amelioration. ... Mr Clutton Brock, in his denunciation of the trash of civilization passed off as art—‘hankering after Bondstreet’ he calls it—goes to the heart of the matter when, with silence as to big legislative measures, he says, ‘If you want to make anybody good, make yourself.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p278 Je 14 ‘17 1350w
=GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and ELLIS, OLIN O.= Junior Plattsburg manual. il *$1.50 Century 355 17-26655
The authors of the “Plattsburg manual,” captains in the United States infantry who were instructors in the Plattsburg training camp in 1916, have prepared this textbook on physical and military training for the use of the preparatory, public, and high schools of the United States. “Its further purpose is to assist in developing all young men of this country into good, efficient and patriotic citizens.” (Preface) Major-general John F. O’Ryan, chairman of the military training commission of the State of New York, draws attention in a foreword to the military and physical drill now legally required in the New York state schools and especially commends the clear style of the authors in setting forth the schools of the soldier, squads, and company, and the arrangement of the 250 illustrations by which it is shown how to do and how not to do the essential things. The chapter on Physical development can be of use to all. The chapters on Marching and camping and First aid to the injured with their practical directions will be widely read. The large type and clear printing are to be especially commended.
“Well illustrated.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:5 O ‘17
“Many excellent illustrations and diagrams make the directions in the text easy to follow.”
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 20w
=Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 110w
=N Y P L New Tech= Bks p14 Jl ‘17 20w
+ =N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:695 O ‘17 50w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 30w
=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Venture boys afloat; or, The wreck of the Fausta. il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 17-28657
Tom Ware, Dick Parker and Harry Nolan, three boys who live in a Hudson river town, are saving money to buy a motor boat. Their plan is to cruise up and down the river. But an invitation from Tom’s uncle, a seaman, takes them on a much more ambitious voyage, down the Atlantic coast. This trip is taken for pleasure, but in Tom’s heart is the hope that they may overtake his father’s wrecked schooner, the “Fausta,” now derelict somewhere in southern waters, and his hope is rewarded after an exciting race with a government derelict destroyer. Incidentally the boys learn something of American history. The book is the first of a series.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:498 D ‘17 80w
=N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 150w
=GARLAND, HAMLIN.= Son of the middle border. il *$1.60 Macmillan 17-22272
“‘A son of the middle border’ is Mr Garland’s view of himself and of the life he encountered along a vista that has seen one era after another of American progress give place to its successor. It is, moreover, a story of the advance of an American boy which is none the less miraculous because it has been repeated so often in our history. ... He was born in 1860 and his infancy and early childhood coincided with the most critical period in American history. His father, who had come to Wisconsin from Maine, after three years of work in Boston, enlisted in the Union army in 1863, and among the boy’s earliest recollections is the memory of his return. ... Scene after scene of his childhood, face after face out of a past rich in recollections, Mr Garland brings before us, as his father restlessly moved westward from Wisconsin to Minnesota, from Minnesota to Iowa, and from Iowa to Dakota. ... With his brother Franklin he went on his adventure into the east. ... This was in 1883, when Mr Garland was twenty-three years of age. His real invasion of Boston came a little later. ... For nearly ten years he was a Bostonian, winning his way against obstacles that would have daunted many a less ambitious young man. ... Finally he became a professional man of letters.”—Boston Transcript
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17
“So understanding and skilful a portrayal of characteristic spiritual values gives the book added importance, makes it a contribution to our social history that is well worth while. As autobiography, it is an original and distinctive piece of work and illustrates the possibilities of varied and unique treatment to be found in the writing of American biography.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:327 N ‘17 430w
“‘A son of the middle border’ has all the charm of the novels and short stories by Mr Garland and other writers which have depicted the valiant struggles of the ambitious boy who is able to look beyond the border of the world of his upbringing. ... Valuable and encouraging is his story, but it is more than that. It is a contribution to American autobiographical literature,” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1750w
“Mr Garland is unusually successful in his portraits of his father and mother. A notable memorial of a bygone phase of American life.”
+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 90w
“A biography must necessarily be a life seen thru a temperament and experiences that would have been a matter of course or even interesting to a ‘born farmer,’ or a biologist revolted the bookish lad whose tastes were cultural and never agricultural. And the man with a real love for the farm does not write books about it. With this reservation ‘A son of the middle border’ seems to us a great and a true book; a contribution to our annals of the settlement of our country.”
+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 830w
“There are hardly enough life and inspiration in the narrative to warrant its being so long, but its directness and honest purpose deserve a reading, altho it is a life much like many other lives.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 120w
+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 140w
“The autobiographer is a rarer bird than the novelist; and we believe that this record may take its place among the handful of American classics of its kind.”
+ — =Nation= 105:719 D 27 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Garland’s best work, like ‘Main-travelled roads,’ was built directly out of the stones of his autobiographical quarry. But how much more vivid and alluring is the quarry than the constructed short stories and novels. The inventive writer, after long struggling with stiff fictional forms, suddenly discovers himself as his own best artistic form and material and bursts out into the freshest of self-revelations, without self-consciousness and yet with an insight that makes silly the legend that the American has no talent for introspection and resents its expression.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 12:333 O 20 ‘17 2900w
“In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr Garland’s story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. ... As you read it you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.” W: D. Howells
+ =N Y Times= 22:309 Ag 26 ‘17 3200w
“Nothing could be more American than the mingling of practicality and idealism that is felt everywhere in the story. Nothing could be more wholesome in these times than the lesson of intellectual honesty and large sympathy which is implicit in it.”
+ =No Am= 206:796 N ‘17 480w
“An autobiography with the fascination of romance, and in a measure the form of fiction. ... It is a book well worth reading and rereading.”
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 60w
“Those who lived in rural Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas during those days will remark the striking fidelity of the picture. There were so many Garland families in the border movement of the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s of the last century!”
+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 140w
“Mr Garland has written a book deserving of a wide reading, and likely to get it by virtue of the style in which it is written. The narrative flows easily—a little diffusely, in fact—with a great fund of incidents, keen observations and incisive, albeit idealized portraits of character. Perhaps the best work in the last of those categories is the picture of his mother. She represents a memorable type of American womanhood—tender mother, brave, uncomplaining pioneer woman and splendid wife.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 3600w
=GARRISON, MRS THEODOSIA (PICKERING).= Dreamers, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-28183
This is a collection of lyrical poems previously printed in seventeen different periodicals. Seven Irish poems are given at the end of the book, under the title “Songs of himself.”
“The verse of Theodosia Garrison is restful; it is a retreat, a haven from the tumult of today’s singing. She invites you to partake of her quiet dreams and unpretentious fancies, much as a friend invites you to the hearthside to pass a tranquil evening. If one is not thrilled, one is at least soothed by her hospitality. Little by little you become aware of something in the experience that has a fineness and distinction of its own.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 630w
Reviewed by Conrad Aiken
— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“In her ‘Dreamers, and other poems’ Theodosia Garrison has given us some of her best work.”
+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 5 ‘18 200w
=GARVIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, ed. Canadian poets and poetry. il *$3 Stokes 811.08 17-10982
An anthology of Canadian verse with brief biographical sketches of the fifty-one authors represented. The editor says of these authors: “Many of their poems are indigenous to the soil,—vitally, healthfully Canadian; others are tinged with the legendary and mythical lore of older lands; but all are of Canada, inasmuch as the writers have lived in this country, and have been influenced by its history and atmosphere at a formative period of their lives.” Among those whose names are somewhat widely known outside their own country are: Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, William Henry Drummond, Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Arthur Stringer and Robert W. Service.
“About twenty of these poets are not included in the ‘Oxford book of Canadian verse’ (Booklist 10:385 Je ‘14), which includes the work of one hundred poets from earliest colonial days down to the present. Libraries having the ‘Oxford book’ will not need this unless there is special interest.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:390 Je ‘17
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17 140w
+ =N Y Times= 22:124 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=GATES, ELEANOR (MRS FREDERICK FERDINAND MOORE).= Apron-strings. *$1.35 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-29731
The two central figures in this story are Mrs Milo and her daughter Sue. Mrs Milo is the type of mother described by the author in a prefatory note: “The kind that does not plan for, or want, a child, but, having borne one, invariably takes the high air of martyrdom feeling that she has rendered the supreme service, and that, henceforth, nothing is too good for her.” Her demands on her daughter have kept the girl from marriage, and as a woman of forty-five, Sue is finding what satisfaction she can in mothering an orphanage. In the end she finds a more intimate happiness in adopting one of the children for her own.
“As a character study, built around the leading character, the book presents reasonable claim to favorable notice. Mrs Milo, the managing and domineering mother, is a real literary creation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 260w
“Miss Gates’s theme is an interesting one, but she treats it sentimentally and thereby fails to give it the effectiveness which is its due.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 470w
=GATES, HERBERT WRIGHT.=[2] Recreation and the church. (Principles and methods of religious education) il *$1 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 261 17-15665
There has been started a strong movement in the direction of making churches social centers. The experiments enlarged upon in this volume show the value of the wider use of churches. The writer who is director of religious education in the Brick church institute, Rochester, N.Y., contends that there is no more potent influence or favorable approach to the inner life of childhood and youth than is found in recreational interests and activities. He shows the religious educational value of play, shows how to go about studying the recreational needs of a community, offers a constructive recreational program, gives some typical church programs and devotes a chapter to equipment and organization.
=A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18
“A bibliography of play and recreation enhances the value of this very useful handbook, which cannot fail to increase the efficiency of educational and recreational workers in the church and elsewhere.” G. T.
+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 240w
=GAUTIER, JUDITH.= Memoirs of a white elephant; tr. from the French by S. A. B. Harvey. il *$1.50 (3½c) Duffield 16-23442
Judith Gautier, who was joint author with Pierre Loti of “The daughter of heaven,” is an authority on oriental lore. She has written this book for children, allowing “Iravata,” the white elephant, to tell his own story.
“Well told and unaffected.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:269 Mr ‘17
+ =Lit D= 53:1562 D 9 ‘16 100w
“The excellent illustrations are the work of L. H. Smith and S. B. Kite.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:102 Ja ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 160w
=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS.=[2] Shakespeare and the founders of liberty in America. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 822.3 18-3
The writer says: “In this period of conflict, the sternest that the world has known, when we have joined heart and hand with Great Britain, it may profit Americans to recall how essentially at one with Englishmen we have always been in everything that counts. That the speech, the poetry, of the race are ours and theirs in common, we know—they are Shakespeare. But that the institutions, the law and the liberty, the democracy administered by the fittest, are not only theirs and ours in common, but are derived from Shakespeare’s England, and are Shakespeare, too, we do not generally know or, if we have known, we do not always remember.” The chapter headings suggest how the writer has pursued his novel idea: The foundations of liberty in America; Shakespeare and the liberals of the Virginia company; The tempest and an unpublished letter from Virginia; The leader of the liberal movement—Sir Edwin Sandys; Richard Hooker and the principles of American liberty; Shakespeare’s views of the individual in relation to the state; Shakespeare and Hooker; The heritage in common: England, America, France; The meaning for us today.
“His association of Shakspeare with these ideas [suggested by chapter headings] of course takes it for granted that whenever any of his characters speak in the plays, there speak also the inmost thoughts and beliefs of the dramatist. This is a supposition too often made to prove that a dramatist or a poet is first of all a propagandist or a preacher when as a matter of fact he is neither. It overlooks the first principles of imaginative writing—that a poem, a play or a novel is a work written to present a certain phase of life in artistic form and not to promulgate a theory. If Shakspeare was preaching democracy in his plays then so much the less Shakspeare he. Despite the undoubted ingenuity and historical interest of Professor Gayley’s arguments there are many of us who will remain perfectly willing to look upon Shakspeare as a man who wrote his plays with no other thought than to have them receive the approval and applause of the Elizabethan public.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p11 D 12 ‘17 830w
=R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 90w
=GEARY, BLANCHE.= Handbook of the association cafeteria. il pa 50c Y.W.C.A. 642 17-20661
This handbook gives the purpose of a Y.W.C.A. cafeteria and outlines its organization, including committees, selection of premises, general equipment, staff and employees, menu, service and cleaning. It treats of business administration and under the heading Points in policy advises on such subjects as Emergency fund, Eight hour day, Outside business, etc. The book is compiled by those who know the needs of the workers whom the cafeteria is to serve and can detail clearly methods for meeting them.
=GEHRS, JOHN HENRY.= Productive agriculture. il *$1 Macmillan 630 17-14154
“The purpose of this book is to meet the need and the demand for a text that will standardize seventh- and eighth-grade agriculture. ... Topics relating to productive agriculture and not topics about agriculture are given chief consideration. ... The book contains a section of from four to eight chapters in length on each of the following big topics: ‘Farm crops,’ ‘Animal husbandry,’ ‘Soils,’ ‘Horticulture,’ and ‘Farm management.’ There is also a brief bibliography of material relating to each of these large topics. The laboratory exercises at the end of each chapter ... can be done with a minimum amount of schoolroom equipment, the farm itself furnishing the requisite laboratory.” (School R) The author is associate professor of agriculture of the Warrensburg State normal school, Warrensburg, Mo.
+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 16 ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17
“Anyone interested in texts in agriculture adapted to grades seven and eight or to the junior high school will be well paid for the time and effort required to give this book a careful consideration.”
+ =School R= 25:532 S ‘17 180w
=GEIKIE, SIR ARCHIBALD.= Birds of Shakespeare. il *$1.25 Macmillan 822.3 (Eng ed 17-13372)
“In this charming essay the veteran geologist collects Shakespeare’s references to birds, of which he names at least fifty species, and shows once more how intimate a knowledge of wild nature he had acquired in the woods and lanes of leafy Warwickshire.”—Spec
=Ath= p432 S ‘16 90w
“It is all that it claims to be, and will fill a vacant place on the shelves of those who do not possess Mr J. E. Harting’s standard work.”
+ =Nature= 98:147 O 28 ‘16 480w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:40 Mr ‘17
=Sat R= 123:sup10 Mr 31 ‘17 120w
“Twenty excellent woodcuts from Saunders’s ‘Manual of British birds’ illustrate the book.”
+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 70w
“This little book is enticing; one to be read by all who love either birds or Shakespeare or both.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 S 7 ‘16 1300w
=GEIL, WILLIAM EDGAR.= Adventures in the African jungle hunting pigmies. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-8202
This book for boys is one of the volumes of “The true adventure series.” The author is an explorer of note and the story is based on first-hand acquaintance with Africa. Billy Benson, a boy of about sixteen, accompanies his uncle on an exploring expedition into the heart of Africa. Their object is to discover a band of pigmies, supposed to inhabit a part of the jungle. Lions, leopards, elephants and other natives of the African forest play a part in their adventures. The young hero is refreshingly boyish. No feats of impossible prowess are attributed to him, and never does he outdo his uncle, the noted explorer, in sagacity or achievement.
=GENEVOIX, MAURICE.= ‘Neath Verdun; tr. by H. Grahame Richards. *$1.60 (2½c) Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-26253)
The author of this book was a second-year student at the École normale, Paris, in 1914. His book is a day-by-day account of the first months of the war, from August to October, 1914. Ernest Lavisse says in his introduction: “He supplies us with an invaluable picture of the war. In the first place, the writer is endowed with astonishing powers of observation; he sees all in a glance, he hears everything. The intense power of concentration he possesses enables him instantly to seize upon all essentials of a particular incident or scene, and so to harmonize them as to produce a picture true to life.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 250w
“His book is one of the real contributions of the war’s writing. For here, for us to read and learn from, is something of the war itself.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 600w
“Perhaps it is well that the ghastly side of the war should not be tucked away as though it did not exist. Horror is treated here with a French power of rhetoric and insistence.”
+ =Spec= 118:105 Ja 27 ‘17 150w
=GEORGE, HEREFORD BROOKE.= Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history. 5th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Oxford 929.7 16-22139
“The ‘Genealogical tables illustrative of modern history’ first published by the late Rev. Hereford B. George more than forty years ago have long acquired and deserved an established position as a work of reference. They now appear in a fifth edition, revised and enlarged by Mr J. R. H. Weaver. The enlargement consists mainly in the continuation of the reigning houses down to their last changes and the insertion of their younger members; there is also added a list of the presidents of the United States of America.”—Eng Hist R
“The size of the print and the general openness of the tables make them easy to consult and the book should enter upon a further career of usefulness.”
+ =Am Hist R= 22:435 Ja ‘17 200w
“The work of correction has been carefully done: we have looked for facts omitted in the earlier editions and have found them duly inserted. ... In the first three editions the tables were folded and mounted on guards, and the book was easy to handle; now that the tables are bound up flat and the book requires 2 ft. 8 in. of space to open out, it cannot be described as convenient for practical use.” R. L. P.
* + =Eng Hist R= 31:660 O ‘16 450w
=GEPHART, WILLIAM FRANKLIN.= Principles of insurance. 2v ea *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 368 17-2500
“A discussion of life and fire insurance offered for classroom use in schools and colleges. ... The author has had experience in the insurance business and in association with insurance organizations, as well as in teaching.” (R of Rs) “There are two volumes, devoted, respectively, to Life insurance and Fire insurance, the former replacing the author’s well-known earlier work, devoted mainly to life insurance, which has now been thoroughly revised, amplified, and brought down to date. The volume on fire insurance contains twelve chapters in which are treated such pertinent topics as the economics and business organization of fire insurance, hazards, rates and rating problems, the nature of the contract, adjustment of losses, fire protection, and the relation of the state to insurance.” (Nation)
“Mr Gephart has well met the problem. His book is simple and readable and yet broad, and adequate to give not only an understanding of the fundamental principles but a great deal of the practical business side. The book avoids a difficulty which sometimes occurs when those outside of the business attempt to write about it: namely, the difficulty of supporting theories which, for practical reasons, are unworkable. The arrangement is a little unfortunate.” W. M. Strong
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:670 S ‘17 1100w (Review of v 1)
“It would be too much to claim that the author has entirely mastered a subject of which the depths have by no means been sounded by those who spend their lives in the work or that all of his statements would pass without challenge from underwriters, but it is certain that he has written a clear, interesting, and admirably balanced study of the principles of fire insurance.” W. E. Mallalieu
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:672 S ‘17 900w (Review of v 2)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“The volume on life insurance is on the whole a contribution to the subject, the various topics being carefully arranged and the exposition clear. One may seriously object, however, to the issuance of a revised edition which does not follow the progress in the business in certain directions. The volume on fire insurance appears to possess certain serious defects as well as commendable features. The strongest criticism which can be advanced, viewing it in the light of a text, is its seeming lack of plan and arrangement of chapters. Prior to his work no adequate description of some of the more recent developments of the business was available. He has therefore rendered a service in producing a relatively up-to-date textbook. Secondly, he has incorporated to a greater degree than any other writer a discussion of fire insurance from the social viewpoint.” Robert Riegel
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:296 N ‘17 400w
“Though adapted to the purposes of the general reader, the business man, and the student, the volumes will, in all probability, find their chief use as textbooks, for which they seem excellently adapted. At the close of the various chapters are lists of references covering the main topics treated, and each volume contains a carefully selected general bibliography, including the standard works on both life and fire insurance.”
+ =Nation= 104:245 Mr 1 ‘17 230w
“Those seeking and those selling insurance would profit by this conservative statement of principles which fit the reader for his individual decision of moot points, which are frankly indicated and argued fairly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 180w
“Heretofore it has been difficult to obtain material on this subject in convenient form for educational purposes. Most of it has been confined to government documents, official reports of insurance companies, published addresses, and pamphlets.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 70w
“The author is professor of economics in Washington university.”
=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 9w
“There are interesting chapters on the economics, business organization and, last but not least, the immense historic development of the insurance business.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
=GÉRALDY, PAUL.= The war, Madame ...; tr. by Barton Blake. *75c (5c) Scribner 17-8886
This little story is merely an account of one day in the life of a French soldier who, after thirteen months of service, returns to Paris. His sensations on again finding himself in his loved city are described, and in conversations with two of his women friends scenes from the front are pictured.
“A lively, graceful, quite irresponsible and unreflecting narrative of a young soldier’s last day of leave in Paris before returning to the front to be killed.” C. M. Francis
+ =Bookm= 46:451 D ‘17 140w
“As we read his pages, we understand more clearly than ever before how it is possible for men to go through the ghastly struggle and not come out thoroughly embittered. ... This account seems to approach nearer to the probable mean of reality than any of the many war books that have already been written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 770w
“So different is it from the France and the Paris of which correspondents and returning war-workers of one sort or another have told us that, since it is written by a Frenchman, one marvels and wonders whether he is a better observer and a truer reporter than they.”
=N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:314 S 17 30w
=GERARD, JAMES WATSON.= My four years in Germany. il *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-25143
The late ambassador to the German imperial court has written this account of his four years experience to prove to America that “we are in this war because we were forced into it,” and that “unless Germany is beaten the whole world will be compelled to turn itself into an armed camp, until the German autocracy either brings every nation under its dominion or is forever wiped out as a form of government.” (Foreword) Mr Gerard tells us about the political system in Germany, German militarism, German commerce, the Kaiser, the Crown prince, and various high officials of the government, and about his own diplomatic work, though he is necessarily silent on many things connected with this work. Some of the chapters are: Psychology and causes which prepared the nation for war; At Kiel just before the war; Prisoners of war; War charities; and The German people in war. There are a number of illustrations and several facsimile reproductions of documents, among them one of the much discussed telegram which the Kaiser gave Ambassador Gerard for transmission to President Wilson. The material of the book has appeared in the Philadelphia Ledger and the New York American.
“One must remember that the author has written for a large audience. From this point of view, Mr Gerard’s light treatment is quite justified, as are also the journalistic, popular style, the frequent use of the personal pronoun, and perhaps even the reproductions of court invitations. For such a presentation will appeal to millions who would ignore a more formidable treatise. Unfortunately the mechanics of the book are poorly handled.” B. E. Schmitt
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:398 Ja ‘18 1650w
=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
“His book is a candid, unadorned, and convincing account of what has been going on in Germany during the war. His record is welcome in this permanent form.”
+ =Ath= p683 D ‘17 190w
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w
+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 140w
+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 230w
“From a literary point of view the book is a queer mixture, much of it the sort of thing that ordinary tourists turn out by the volume, part of diplomatic secrets of the highest importance which nobody else could have known. The book is poorly composed and carelessly revised, but that does not detract from its importance as a historical document of the first order.”
+ — =Ind= 92:486 D 8 ‘17 1250w
“It is in every respect an important historical document, despite the chatty and easy style in which it is written, and throws an illuminating light upon many dark places in European diplomacy and modes of thought. His book will furnish convincing proof, if any American still feels the need of proof, of the sinister intentions of the ruling powers in Germany, and of their utter disregard of all recognized conventions, ethical or political, in an effort to attain their ambitions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 27 ‘17 1800w
+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 250w
“We think the telling of this story was a service to the American people; and at a time when there is so much to be read that this is distinctly one of the books to be chosen. The description of German government and institutions is excellent; it would be difficult for the ordinary reader to find anywhere a better popular account. The most important chapters relate to diplomatic affairs, and to the attitude of Germany towards the American people.”
+ =Nation= 105:484 N 1 ‘17 1750w
“In Mr Gerard’s remarkable book there is an enlightening chapter which reveals, to some extent, how organised capital in Germany, aided by the state, is still seeking to dominate the world.” T. E. Thorpe
+ =Nature= 100:361 Ja 10 ‘18 1900w
“All this variety gives the book, inevitably, a certain scrappiness of effect, but vastly increases its interest and value as a report upon another nation. Its report, by necessity, is one of superficial observation. Mr Gerard nowhere makes pretense of profound study of the German people or their affairs.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:378 O 7 ‘17 1000w
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w
“Considering its source and timeliness, such a book would in any event have real significance, but there is a danger that the general reading public will seek that significance in the wrong place. The real value of what Mr Gerard has to tell us lies entirely aside from the personal equation. ... Spicy as this book is, it leaves a somewhat tantalizing impression that the author has reserved a good deal of his most piquant matter for publication some time in the dim future.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:1383 O 20 ‘17 600w
“The volume carries with it its own justification. ... There is a straightforward sincerity about this book that must impress all readers. While it condemns Germany, it does not appeal to the spirit of hatred.” A. S.
+ =R of Rs= 56:528 N ‘17 800w
+ =Spec= 119:572 N 17 ‘17 170w
“The book is of more value from a historical viewpoint than as mere literature. The author has something to tell that the public wants to know and in such case substance takes precedence of form.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 800w
“To English readers the most interesting pages in the book will probably be those in which the ambassador relates his efforts to alleviate the lot of British prisoners.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 15 ‘17 950w
German deserter’s war experience; tr. by J. Koettgen. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 940.91 17-13674
The author is a German Socialist and anti-militarist, who after fourteen months of fighting in Belgium and France escaped into Holland and came to America. His story was first published in the New Yorker Volkszeitung. He describes the entry into Belgium, the advance and retreat at the Marne, the beginning of trench warfare, the famous Christmas truce, etc. The translator says, “The chief value of this soldier’s narrative lies in his destructive, annihilating criticism of the romance and fabled virtues of war.” The author, in concluding, says, “Today I have recovered sufficiently to take up again in the ranks of the American Socialists the fight against capitalism. ... A relentless struggle to the bitter end is necessary to show the ruling war-provoking caste who is the stronger, so that it no longer may be in the power of that class to provoke such a murderous war as that in which the working-class of Europe is now bleeding to death.”
“Written with a strong anti-militarist and socialist bias.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The writer’s deep hatred of war and all its works, not only the actual bloodshed and cruelty, but also the unnatural and humiliating relations of men to officers in the German army itself, speaks in every page. The whole story is told with the vividness that comes of recent deep and indelible impressions of soul-stirring experiences.”
+ =Dial= 63:401 O 25 ‘17 160w
“He accuses his officers of both deliberate cruelty and cowardice, giving instances in the advance on the Marne, and flight from it, to sustain his charges. This part of his book is an astounding revelation. He asserts on several occasions the men refused to obey orders to shoot wounded enemy soldiers and helpless civilians, and were more tortured than punished for such insubordination.”
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 200w
“It will rekindle our determination not to become swamped in the war to the point where we forget our chief purpose—not defeat of Germany so much as defeat of war as an institution. ... ‘A German deserter’s war experience,’ with its directness and almost clumsy sincerity, is a chastening and thrilling book for all of us, but it is as a symbol of revolt that one will not wish to forget it.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:193 Je 16 ‘17 1050w
“The volume is the output of a very keen observer, a man who kept his wits about him in every possible situation and was able to recount what he saw afterwards. ... The volume is one of the best descriptive works that we have yet seen on this subject. ... Much praise is due the translator, Comrade J. Koettgen, for a careful and yet spirited account of war as seen through the eyes of a Socialist participant.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 1050w
=N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 120w
=Pittsburgh= 22:681 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 40w
“The writer is a man of the people, a foreman miner, and tells his story straightforwardly, intelligently and without conscious art. ... Of widest interest are the detailed descriptions of the advance thru Belgium, the battle of the Marne and the retreat. There have been numerous accounts of these events by French witnesses and by newspaper men who have repeated the tales of participants, but, except for the official German account, this book is the first to come from that side.”
+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 150w
=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 80w
“Whether true or not—and the balance swings in favor of the affirmative, it is an absorbing story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 13 ‘17 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 D 6 ‘17 650w
=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Peter Sanders, retired. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-11709
When his gambling house in New York was closed down, Peter Sanders became a wanderer. He was a gentleman of quiet tastes, and a lover of books, with a leaning toward the classics. He meets adventures in various parts of Europe, but his inclinations call him back to America, even tho his return means the hiding of his identity under a false name. Accompanied by his faithful servant, Henry, he becomes familiar with corners of his native land before unknown to him. He makes new friends too and comes to think better of his fellow men than he had in the old days when he saw them only thru a gambler’s eyes. Finally when he is reinstated in New York, it is to find that he has become a new man and that the old ways no longer hold any charm for him.
“A leisurely tale ‘gay without vapidity and adventurous without sensationalism.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“What we assist at is a gradual change in point of view and emphasis rather than a radical change of character.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:410 Je ‘17 650w
“This Mr Silcox is a very credible old gentleman. ... The thing that is not quite believable is Peter Sanders. ... We feel sure that, although many a novelist has done worse, Mr Gerould could have done far better.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 300w
“Thoroughly to enjoy it, one should know that Mr Gerould is a college professor; his interest in ex-gamblers gains piquancy from this fact.”
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“The story (which is not, we suspect, without its foundation in fact) is in its way a romance, and long before we are done with him we have formed a proper romantic affection for its stout and aging hero.”
+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 350w
“The novel is written with a sense of irony which gives it a certain pungency.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w
“The story is well written and gently humorous. The resemblance of Mr Sanders to a noted New York gambler lately deceased is striking.”
+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 400w
=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Change of air. il *$1.25 Scribner 17-25861
“The book opens with a scene in the drawing rooms of Miss Cordelia Wheaton. Miss Wheaton, a rich woman, had a very large number of poor friends, and she had sent for them all to come to her house on a certain day. There they sit at the beginning of the first chapter; ‘and they waited, unprotesting; for they were all poor.’ At last, when the rooms are full, Miss Wheaton appears and makes the surprising announcement that she has decided to divide the greater part of her fortune among them at once, instead of doing it in her will. Each is to receive a certain sum—how much no one of the others will ever know. She carries out her plan, and the effect of this ‘windfall’ upon the lives and characters of some few of her beneficiaries, and ultimately upon Miss Wheaton herself, form the theme—or perhaps it would be better to say the themes—of the book.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“To Walter Leaven we owe the story’s rescue from bitter comedy to a finale of exquisite romance. It is his figure, treading devotedly towards its goal of self-realisation through self-devotion, that makes a story out of what might otherwise have been a mere group of satirical episodes.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 590w
+ =Nation= 105:695 D 20 ‘17 220w
“Though there are frequent fine penetrations in her account of people, and a sharp wit to clinch the penetration, she has a constant tendency to substitute the values of polite society for the values that a genuine artist would discern. Her bristling smartness, her complaisance, her snobbishness, are difficult traits to tolerate in a novelist of manners.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:223 D 22 ‘17 650w
“The book is very short, very clever, very cynical.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 800w
“A good story idea only moderately well carried out.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 50w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:749 N ‘17 30w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 280w
“It is all very brilliant, but one shudders to see life chiseled with such delicate scalpels and with so sure and unashamed a pagan touch.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 480w
=GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY.= Sex-hygiene; a talk to college boys. (Present day problems ser.) *60c (8c) Badger, R: G. 612.6 17-13326
“In 1911 there was given to Bowdoin college a fund the income of which was to be devoted to the instruction of the students in the proper relations of the sexes. As a part of this instruction the following lecture has been given to the freshman class of each succeeding year. It has been given, also, in a number of other institutions for the education of young men and boys.” (Preface) The lecturer is professor emeritus of surgery at Bowdoin college, and author of several standard medical books.
=Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 50w
“One of the most useful books of its kind. ... It is plain and direct and is without an excess of detail. ... Bowdoin college has announced that it is going to give a copy to every member of each freshman class from now on.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 130w
=GERSTENBERG, CHARLES W., and JOHNSON, WALTER SEELY.= Organization and control. (Modern business, v. 3) il Alexander Hamilton inst. 658 17-1816
“‘Organization and control’ deals not with the internal management and control of business units, but rather with the external organization and ownership of industrial enterprises and the control of their business policies. In other words, this is not a work on business management, but on the structure of the business unit. ... The book approaches the subject largely from the legal standpoint, although there is nothing of a technical legal nature in the content. ... The closing chapters deal with the questions growing out of concentration and combination in business. In them the author examines the causes that have led up to the present high degree of centralized control, traces the evolution of the ‘trust’ through the various forms which it has taken and outlines the advantages resulting from industrial consolidation. Illegal combinations are discussed and the book closes with a history of the law of monopolies and an analysis of recent legislation on the trust question.”—Am Econ R
“It presents the subject in a remarkably clear and readable manner, illuminates the material with a number of well-selected business forms, and arouses interest by suggestive questions on hypothetical corporate problems.” F. E. Armstrong
+ =Am Econ R= 7:648 S ‘17 380w
=Pratt= p23 Jl ‘17
=GERSTER, ARPAD GEYZA CHARLES.=[2] Recollections of a New York surgeon. il $3.50 Hoeber 17-29633
“Born in Hungary in 1848, Dr Gerster came to this country in 1873 and settled for practice in New York city. His family origin was Swiss and his forebears were sturdy peasants or burghers, who did not fail to do their part in freeing Europe from the feudal subjection to the Hapsburg and Burgundian overlords. ... He writes of the public service of his ancestors—of John Gerster of Kaufbeuren who held various offices in the Basel city government prior to 1532, when he was pensioned, of Ottmar Gerster, who commanded the peasant army in the war waged against Abbot Ulrich VIII of Sankt Gallen to gain liberation from the overlordship of the monastery. ... In 1866 Gerster entered the University of Vienna as a medical student. There he remained seven years and went through all the experiences of student life, including the duel requirements. ... His surgical practice in New York began in a very humble way, and for some years was confined to work among the very poor. Later he won renown and wealth. The closing section of his book is devoted to ‘diversions.’”—Boston Transcript
“And he writes delightfully of music, sketching, wood-carving and etching.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 650w
“Throughout the book there is evident a genial, eager personality whose keen interest in the world and all its people, in nature and all her manifestations, has filled the days of his life with enjoyment. Particularly wholesome reading will the book be for young medical students and practitioners.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 480w
=GIBBONS, MRS HELEN DAVENPORT (BROWN).= Red rugs of Tarsus. *$1.25 (3c) Century 956 17-10364
An account of the Armenian massacre of 1909. The author, with her husband, Herbert Adams Gibbons, was spending the year 1909 in Tarsus and teaching in a mission school. Since then she has tried to put the experience of that year out of her mind. “But,” she says, “recent events in Armenia brought it all back again. My indignation, and a sense of duty and of pity, transcended all personal feelings. I lived again that night in Tarsus, when we—seven defenseless women, our one foreign man ... and 4,800 Armenians waited our turn at the hands of the Kurds.” The story is told from the letters written at that time to her mother in America.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17
“She gives bright and humorous descriptions of her new experiences, which, however, soon cease to be merely amusing. The horror of an Armenian massacre converts the airy narrative into a grim recital of terrible deeds.”
+ =Dial= 62:447 My 17 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately many of these letters to Mrs Gibbons’ mother contain information which must have interested her mother greatly, but which will seem irrelevant to the public, or trivial, when thought of in relation to such great happenings.”
=Ind= 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 54:2006 Je 30 ‘17 150w
“A fine and significant book. ... Of the moments of her own peril Mrs Gibbons has written with a simplicity, almost an unconsciousness, that is magnificently fine and dramatic to read, now that it is all over, and she and her husband were saved. But the record as a whole, including those terrible hours with the rest, is one of stark, close, immediate realities, known and faced. The book will give the American reader food for more than one kind of thought.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 500w
“A very vital, realistic, graphic portrayal of one of the terrible tragedies of modern history.”
+ =Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:527 Je ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
“The deposition of Abdul Hamid and the triumph of the Young Turks occurred while the family was at Mersina, and the popular impression that the new régime was more tolerant is contradicted by what Mrs Gibbons writes of the early days of its intolerance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 450w
=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East; problems of peace. *$1 (3c) Century 940.91 17-21742
“These chapters were written as a series of articles for the Century Magazine. At the time of the Russian revolution and the intervention of the United States, the chapters on Poland and Constantinople had already been published and the others were in print.” (Foreword) Mr Gibbons treats some events in outline only, and makes references that assume the reader’s knowledge of modern European history. His chapters all deal with the wrongs of small nations, whom he shows to have been ill-treated by the Entente allies as well as by Germany, and with the way the small nations should be treated to secure a durable peace. Despite his “horrors and detestation of what Jews and Poles and Armenians and Belgians and Serbians are being made to suffer,” he does not think that the punishment of and a change in the political status of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary would prevent the renewal in the very near future of wrongs inflicted upon small and weak nations, but believes the formula for the readjustment of the world to be “government by the consent of the governed.” He therefore argues that the reconstituted Polish state must not be subject in any way to either Germany or Russia and that its boundaries must be determined by ethnological, economic and political, rather than historical, considerations; that Constantinople must be considered “in the light of principle and not as a pawn”; that the peace conference must prove the intention of Europe to put “local Mohammedan interests ahead of European interest in Mohammedan countries”; and that the Entente powers must “guarantee the Balkan peninsula to the Balkan peoples,” as otherwise “Germany will keep the hegemony in the Balkans that she has already won.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
“The book interprets for us the passionate racial desires for freedom, and the inalienable right to enjoy that freedom, of all the minor weaker states now in the whirlpool of war.” S. A.
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 410w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
“The author writes from long and intimate knowledge of eastern European politics, and his suggestions are worthy of the earnest attention of statesmen and diplomats.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 520w
=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w
“The attitude of the writer is rather that of a thoughtful observer than an incisive critic. He has no definite solution to offer for any of the problems which are sure to plague mankind after peace negotiations shall have begun.”
+ — =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 500w
“Mr Gibbons is the author of two recent and very valuable works, ‘The new map of Africa’ and ‘The new map of Europe.’ In the present work he departs from his special forte of describing what has happened in the way of territorial changes to suggest changes that may happen in the future. ... The value of the work consists far more in the information given regarding the past status of these countries than in what he suggests for the future. ... In his past work he was on sure ground, in this it is unavoidably different.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
“Mr Gibbons gives a lucid and vigorous presentation of the issues at stake in Poland and the Near East, pointing out that if the war is to continue in the character of a struggle for democracy against autocracy, the issues must be defined to meet the requirements of democracy. .... In his point of view he is accurately representative of American nationalism.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 540w
“A useful work of historical reference and suggestion. It should have an index.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 360w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 90w
“An important contribution to the literature on American foreign relations emphasizes that the principles of American policy concerning the Near East are fundamentally and necessarily different from those of our allies. ... The author sets right misled public opinion in this country concerning the nature of Panislamism and the Islam conception of the state.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:550 S 22 ‘17 720w
=GIBBONS, JAMES, cardinal.= Retrospect of fifty years. 2v *$2 (1½c) Murphy, J: 282 17-88
These two volumes contain a selection from the essays and sermons of Cardinal Gibbons. His introduction expresses the belief that they may be of historical importance as a record of the times in which he has lived. He says “I have lived a long time, and I have lived through a very critical time. Not only have I held office many years, but I have held office during a time of transition, when the old order was changed.” A large part of the first volume is devoted to the Vatican council (1869-1870), of which Cardinal Gibbons is the last surviving member. Other miscellaneous papers of general interest included in the two volumes are: The Knights of labor; The church and the republic; Irish immigration to the United States; Patriotism and politics; Will the American republic endure?
“The reader will not find in this book any aids to an exact knowledge of historic facts, nor will the non-Catholic find any arguments to persuade him to join the church, but he will feel that the country has been very fortunate to have had a man of broad sympathies, of generous temper, of great patience and Christian charity at the head of the Catholic church in America during the last fifty years.” H: D. Sedgwick
=Am Hist R= 22:887 Jl ‘17 1050w
“Of interest to both Catholics and Protestants alike.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:285 Ap ‘17
“He was already a priest during the Civil war, followed Abraham Lincoln’s body in procession when it was brought to Baltimore, and has been personally acquainted with most of the American presidents since Lincoln’s death.”
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 120w
“The essay on the Knights of labour is one of the most important, as the part played by Cardinal Gibbons in their behalf is one of his noblest achievements. ... In every essay, the character of the man is unconsciously made clear. And one arises from such reading with the conviction that this man is greater than any of his writings or deeds, and that such a man is one of the greatest assets of a nation or a church.” F. P. Lyons, C. S. P.
+ =Bookm= 45:193 Ap ‘17 1000w
“Many of the papers and addresses embraced in the ‘Retrospect’ deal with civic affairs. .... In these we get an ineffaceable impression of the distinguished author as the type of the militant citizen who rebukes the wrong and defends the right, and yet through all retains an unshakable faith in his country and its institutions which glows like a torch to guide all who call themselves Americans.”
+ =Cath World= 104:689 F ‘17 800w
+ =Lit D= 54:911 Mr 31 ‘17 950w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 80w
=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Secret witness. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-22296
“The author, in an explanatory final chapter, seems to claim that some evidence exists of the truth of the incidents described in the novel as preceding the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo. According to this theory, the German Kaiser and the Archduke had formed a secret alliance in which, after the death of Emperor Francis Joseph, they were to divide between them Austria, Serbia, Poland, and other territory, the Archduke to hold the eastern section and to found a dynasty through his children, whose right to succeed him was denied by Austria. The story gives an Austrian origin to the plot and assassination. The secret interview between the Kaiser and Archduke is overheard by a young Austrian countess and a young English diplomat who are in love with each other and who conceive it to be their duty to report the matter—one to the Austrian emperor, the other to the English ambassador. Out of this naturally come plots and counterplots and adventures of startling character.”—Outlook
=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 300w
“Not so skillfully written as Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle,’ but of similar interest.”
+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w
“A technically adroit, plausible and attractively written story.”
+ =New Repub= 12:226 S 22 ‘17 200w
“There is plenty of variety in the scenes which are laid in many and very different places, including a Turkish harem and an ancient, supposedly abandoned castle high up in the Tatra range of the Carpathians. ... A swift-moving, entertaining story with an ingenious plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 160w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“A second ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ in its headlong pace, picturesque situations, adventure and love interest.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w
=GIBBS, PHILIP.= Battles of the Somme. *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-3464
This is Mr Gibbs’s second war book. “The soul of the war” was written while he was a free-lance journalist in France and Belgium. He is now an officially accredited correspondent with the British armies in the field. In this book he has brought together articles written in the three months following July 1, 1916. He is one of the most brilliant men writing from the front. He kept close to the fighting forces, and makes the daily life of the men in action very vivid. There are two folding maps.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
“Mr Gibbs’s book is the war. ... The reader sees and senses the horror and the nastiness and the incredible folly of it all; but, shining through the sombreness, the glory of those golden lads who, knowing the war and hating it like the hell it is, went steadfastly forward into the flames with smiling eyes and a jest on their lips.” A. R. Dodd
+ =Bookm= 45:196 Ap ‘17 600w
“No man who writes from the front writes more sensitively than does Philip Gibbs. ... His best pictures are of men.” W. A. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 950w
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 140w
+ =Lit D= 54:1708 Je 2 ‘17 550w
+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“If Mr Gibbs can see the saving humors in the warring days, he can see the hideousness, too, and the fineness, and the tenderness that so often goes hand in hand with the heroism. It is because he can see all of these things—and makes us see them—that his book is so good.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 500w
+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 600w
“The two excellent maps appended to the book, while they fulfil the purpose of their insertion by recording the progress made in the early weeks of the battle, are of no use in following the present movement. The Germans have been backed clean off them.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 550w
“His record appeared from day to day, in either the Daily Telegraph or the Daily Chronicle. ... On the tanks Mr Gibbs speaks with a certain guarded enthusiasm. ... ‘If we had enough of them—and it would be a big number—trench warfare would go for ever and machine-gun redoubts would lose their terror.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 25 ‘17 700w
=GIBBS, WINIFRED STUART.= Minimum cost of living. *$1 Macmillan 331.83 17-10221
“This work is based on a methodical study of the food habits, as compared with the scientifically-estimated food requirements, of a number of New York families cared for by the Association for improving the condition of the poor; this study seems to have succeeded in multiplying the effectiveness of the money spent in relieving want, and as an unintentional byproduct food economies are suggested which are undoubtedly feasible on a larger scale. The contribution of the book to present needs lies in these statistics of food use and food needs.”—Springf’d Republican
“An accurate laboratory contribution to family budget literature, of use to every student of social conditions. Further, it demonstrates the practicability of using the family budget as a lever to raise the living standards both of dependent and of independent families, and will, therefore, be of service to every social worker.” W. E. Clark
+ =Am Econ R= 7:665 S ‘17 500w
Reviewed by Florence Nesbitt
=Am J Soc= 23:277 S ‘17 60w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“It must be kept in mind, however, in reading this book that the budgets given are not to be set up as standards for the cost of living. The clothing estimate is admittedly inadequate even when eked out by gifts of clothing from relations.” N. D. H.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:237 Jl ‘17 90w
“While primarily a book for charity visitors and district nurses, it should interest all social workers for it records with modesty a fine piece of constructive work to help families left without an adult male wage-earner, to spend their incomes wisely.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 60w
=Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:1059 D ‘17 60w
“Of peculiar interest, now that the war has given prominence to the question of food-economy.”
+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 360w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w
Reviewed by Graham Lusk
+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 230w
“The explanatory text is rather incoherently assembled, but there are enough figures in handy form to give the amateur economist a good working basis.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 3 ‘17 440w
“It gives concrete evidence for the philanthropist, the law-maker, and the employer regarding the now undeniable interrelation between human progress and the minimum wage.” L. B. Mendel
+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 200w
=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= War inventions and how they were invented. il *$1 Lippincott 355 (Eng ed 17-1948)
“An attractive book which answers a good many of the questions—about guns and shells and range-finding, for instance—which the layman is always asking himself or others equally ignorant.” (Spec) “Contents: How guns were invented; How guns were made to shoot straight; Guns that fire 1,000 shots per minute; Giant guns; What is an explosive? How shells were invented; How we came to make iron ships; Ships that go under the sea; Some questions about submarines; About the deadly torpedo; How torpedoes and mines are exploded; A very dangerous occupation; The eye of the submarine; Measuring the distance to the enemy; Ships that go up in the air; War in the air.” (Pittsburgh)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 80w
“Mr Gibson is not afraid to begin at the beginning and explain the very elements of gunnery and torpedo-work, and he has a clear and pleasant style.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 60w
=GIBSON, HUGH.= Journal from our legation in Belgium. il *$2.50 (2½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-29362
This volume is the private journal of the first secretary to the American legation in Brussels “jotted down hastily from day to day in odd moments, when more pressing duties would permit.” (Introd.) It runs from July 4 to December 31, 1914. Appended to it as a final chapter is an article on the case of Miss Cavell, which has appeared in the World’s Work. “Much material has been eliminated as of little interest. Other material of interest has been left out because it cannot be published at this time.” (Introd.) Most of the matter about the early history of the Commission for relief in Belgium has been eliminated, because Mr Gibson felt that his record of it was inadequate and knew that Dr Vernon Kellogg was to publish an authoritative account of the Commission’s work. There are numerous illustrations from photographs. Among these are portraits of Edith Cavell, Herbert C. Hoover and Cardinal Mercier. There is no index.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 100w
“This is one of the best books which the war has given us. The writing is not beautiful or fine, but the story is so surpassingly good that it never is tiresome or dull.”
+ =Nation= 105:665 D 13 ‘17 2350w
“What one gleans from this book, even more than the sensations of Belgium invaded—amplified as they are by numerous photographs and proclamations—is a pronounced impression of the Germany that invaded her, the Germans that went to make up that formidable force which Mr Gibson observes so sensibly, with such disintegrating critical gaze.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 13:101 N 24 ‘17 1750w
“In this long and absorbing record of early war days there is much to clear up perplexities and to give us new facts and new light on old knowledge. ... Simple, vivid, concrete, informative, it is to repeat, a book that every American ought to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:439 O 28 ‘17 1500w
“His knowledge of the mind and spirit of the invaded, coupled with his power to portray the Germans, renders his narrative unusually absorbing and convincing.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 80w
“This is one of those exceptionally privileged volumes which make the great mass of current war literature seem tame and commonplace.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 450w
“It forms a vivid and convincing story of what went on in Belgium during the first year of the war. It should be read by all who have any remaining doubts as to the spirit and intent of the German administration in Belgium.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 170w
“The poignant merit of this book consists, not in the novelty of the facts, which are but too familiar, but in the authority of the writer.”
+ =Sat R= 124:506 D 22 ‘17 1300w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Livelihood; dramatic reveries. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-1621
Mr Gibson has brought together twenty of his recent poems. They are narratives of humble life, stories of men and women who, “in spite of everything,” have learned “to take their luck through life and find it good.” They bring out some of those imperishable qualities in human nature which neither hardship nor poverty nor war has power wholly to destroy.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p200 Ap ‘17 270w
“He is truly a poet of the people. ... To be a poet of the people, the people must understand you; they must do more, they must know you understand them.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w
“The muse of Mr Gibson drowses in ‘Livelihood.’ ... Equally unfortunate is the lapse of that faculty of enlargement which gave compass and vista to those low-life themes which cramp the unsympathetic or unimaginative mind. Comparatively speaking, the persons in ‘Livelihood’ are passive, and their sorrows oppress rather than excite us. Exceptions occur, or the volume would hardly be Mr Gibson’s. ‘The news’ is an affecting though dilated story, and ‘The old nail shop’ illustrates the resurgence of vigor.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
“Not that Gibson is faultless; he has at times a distressing tendency to take the phrase or word that comes first into his head; he does not always labor until he has secured the inevitable and creative phrase, as, for instance, Robert Frost usually does. But this does not detract from the beauty he often achieves, or his significance as a poet of labor.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 660w
“Very tender and gentle is Mr Gibson’s touch upon life in these poems, wherein he sees only the solemn glory in each humble soul and has no eyes for its baseness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 900w
+ =R of Rs= 55:211 F ‘17 50w
“Though these tales in verse are not poetry in the fullest and highest sense, though they are too merely individual and too photographic for that, yet they are what every one may well be grateful for. ... There is not a dull page in them; the book is a compound of constant cleverness, much sympathy, some imagination, scarcely any music of speech.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1300w
“The chief defect in the book is a want of the joy of life; there is a sombreness over it all; there is resignation rather than happiness. The chief delight of his men and women is in the remembering of past days. It may be that ‘Between the lines’ gives a clue to this: the shadow of the war has not yet fallen upon us.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 150w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Poems (1904-1917). il *$2.25 Macmillan 821 17-24679
The publishers state that “here is brought together in one volume all of Mr Gibson’s writings which he wishes to preserve.” Contents: Akra the slave; Stonefolds; Daily bread; Womenkind; Fires; Thoroughfares; Borderlands; Battle; Friends; Livelihood.
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“His work is simple, rough-hewn and frequently unbeautiful, but his sympathies penetrate to the innermost heart of humble life.”
+ =Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 60w
“It is, of course, too early to attempt a placing of Mr Gibson. For the present it is enough to say that he has developed a style peculiarly effective, and valuable too for its influence on contemporary poetry. Mr Gibson has clearly proved that poetry can deal with the commonplaces of daily life,—with the bitter and trivial and powerful and universal commonplaces of human consciousness,—and do it with force and beauty.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 63:453 N 8 ‘17 700w
“Such sketches of the individual soldier in the trenches as make up the section ‘Battle’ are so brief, so compact, so single in their purpose that every lyric suggests the flight of a bullet. And, like bullets, these war poems either hit altogether or not at all. They are all perfect; tho three or four of them are perfect failures. ... In war and peace alike, Gibson selects by preference the themes that are commonplace or even disagreeable and makes them splendid by revealing the heroism and kindliness which lie deep in the hearts of common folk.”
+ — =Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 250w
=Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 120w
“He has diction, but hardly phrase; he has passion, but hardly drama; he has humanity, but hardly character. He is concise, but is prodigal of concision. A master of point when he wills, he keeps that mastery in habitual abeyance. Yet so abounding, so dominating, are his diction, his passion, his humanity, that the negations, in the hour of contact, are scarcely credible or visible.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 106:89 Ja 24 ‘18 730w
“Wilfrid Wilson Gibson gets into these idylls the kindliness of the English folk. Through his work we see England, not as a great imperial system, but as a not too prosperous nationality where a laborious, poorly rewarded folk love their soil and love their kind.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 13:sup11 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“What he has done, here grouped together, makes him one of labor’s strongest voices; we are justly proud of him.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 650w
“Like Wordsworth, Mr Gibson has a plain, severe way of writing which degenerates only too often into aridity and baldness; ... like Wordsworth, too, he is almost exclusively interested in the lives of the simple and the poor. There, unfortunately, the resemblance stops.”
— =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 450w
=GIDDINGS, HOWARD ANDREW=, comp.[2] Handbook of military signaling. il *60c Appleton 623.7 17-28811
A revised edition of a handbook published in 1896 with the title “Instructions in military signaling.” The preface says, “The changes in codes and signaling systems have been so extensive that the handbook is in effect a new one. The signal codes, conventional signals, letter codes, emergency signals, etc., are taken from the Signal book, U.S. army, 1916.”
“Useful, compact little volume.”
+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 40w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:187 D ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 20w
=GILBERT, ARTHUR WITTER=, and others. Potato. (Rural science ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 635 17-10445
“The author states in his preface that the book is intended to give brief and practical suggestions on the growing, breeding and marketing of potatoes.” (Science) “Mr Dean is a grower of potatoes on a large scale and has studied the business of potato growing in all parts of the United States. His chapters in the book deal with the practical work of planting and cultivating, Dr Barrus’s with the diseases of the potato and how to treat them, and Dr Gilbert’s with the different varieties and what each needs in the way of soil and care.” (N Y Times)
“Unquestionably one of the most important agricultural books of the year.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:504 Je ‘17 60w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w
“Has the usual solid merits of the volumes in Professor Bailey’s Rural science series. Of timely value is the chapter on the problems of marketing and storage.”
+ =Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 130w
=Pratt= p21 Jl ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
“This publication, in addition to being up-to-date in its cultural directions, devotes considerably more attention to the subject of potato breeding than any of our preceding American treatises on the potato. ... The discussion of potato diseases and their control is clear and convincing and should prove very helpful to both the farmer and the student. A chapter on ‘Markets, marketing and storage’ is both suggestive and helpful, as is also that on the cost of growing potatoes.” W: Stuart
+ =Science= n s 45:462 My 11 ‘17 300w
=GILBERT, GEORGE HOLLEY.= Jesus for the men of today; when science aids religion. *$1 Doran 232 17-17183
“‘Jesus: for the men of today,’ by Prof. George H. Gilbert, is a life of Christ in story form. The main facts of the gospel narrative are made to live again amid the homely human surroundings of Galilee and Judea.”—Ind
“It reveals the human and lovely character of Jesus with the power of a poet’s interpretation; it discloses the soul of the writer as well, and the vision is most beautiful. The book must have been written originally more or less in blank verse or else the writer unconsciously pens prose that admits scanning.”
+ — =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 210w
“The ample historical and archeological knowledge of the author guarantee the accuracy of the picture, and the characters are sketched with the modern touches of realism.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 70w
=GILBERTSON, HENRY STIMSON.= County—the “dark continent” of American politics. $2 National short ballot organization 352 17-12496
“Since 1910, when the American political science association gave the county a place on the program of its annual meeting, a number of valuable studies of the county have been made. ... The work under review by H. S. Gilbertson, secretary of the New York short ballot organization, is the first attempt to set forth within the covers of a single book ‘the outlines of a very real and important “county problem.”’ The purpose of the work, as stated in the preface, is to stimulate a ‘much wider and more thorough research into the subject than has yet been attempted’ and ‘to throw a new light upon the “democratic experiment” in America.’ Within the first 119 pages the author presents his ‘indictment of the county.’ This is followed (86 pages) by a constructive program of county reform. An appendix of 77 pages contains a number of valuable constitutional and legislative documents relating to county government. ... A comprehensive bibliography and an adequate index enhance the value of the book.”—Am Pol Sci R
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
Reviewed by O. C. Hormell
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:587 Ag ‘17 650w
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 20w
“The political student and worker will find this book truly useful, the more so if he keep in mind how easy it is whenever a bad spot is found in officialdom to assault the governmental system.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p9 O ‘17 40w
“Since Mr Gilbertson began the inquiry, something has been done here and there towards untangling the county knot, for example, the work of the Public efficiency society of Cook county, Ill., the Westchester research bureau of New York, and the Tax association of Alameda county in California—and the results of his work justify a degree of optimism for the future.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 210w
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=GILMAN, STEPHEN.= Principles of accounting. $3 LaSalle extension univ. 657 16-15136
“‘Principles of accounting,’ for trained bookkeepers, is a complete discussion, made clearer by careful illustration, of the forms and values of accurate accounting in its modern meaning where the aim of the business man is not merely a balancing of accounts, but such a comparison of facts and values as will give him the truest estimate of his business transactions.”—Ind
“On the whole, it may be said that the book does not undertake to advance new theories but to present clearly the principles underlying the best accounting practice. The point of view is modern, the treatment comprehensive and usually adequate, and the style simple and clear. Effective use is made of charts, examples, problems, and summaries. ... The author’s acquaintance with accounting theory, however, is evidently not equalled by his knowledge of economic theory, else why say: ‘In a natural state, water may be obtained without effort; hence it has no utility?’” C. C. Huntington
+ =Am Econ R= 7:133 Mr ‘17 1500w
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 87:242 Ag 14 ‘16 60w
=GIRAULT, ARTHUR.= Colonial tariff policy of France; ed. by C: Gide. *$2.50 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23596)
“This is one of the two initial publications issued by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace; the other being Grunzel’s ‘Economic protectionism.’ ... The book gives a narrative and critical account of the colonial policy of France. A first part, comprising about half the contents, gives a historical sketch of that policy. The second and concluding part takes up the present colonies one by one—the small colonies, Indo-China, Madagascar and dependencies, West Africa, Equatorial Africa, Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco—and describes and discusses their present relations with the mother country.”—Am Econ R
“In style and arrangement it is a typical and creditable example of French scholarly work. It is fluently and clearly written, well arranged, supplied with convenient introductions and summaries; and there is a good index. The passages that involve criticism and reasoning are sensible, but cannot be said to show a thorough grasp of general economic theory or of the principles of international trade.” F. W. Taussig
+ =Am Econ R= 7:155 Mr ‘17 900w
“Professor Girault is at his best in the historical and descriptive parts of the work. A certain looseness and inconsistency characterizes his generalizations and his deductions as well as his reasoning as to the policy which France of to-day should pursue towards some of her colonies. ... The real merit of this work lies in the analysis of the causes of the colonial tariff policies under the changing governments of France and in a careful presentation of the effect of these policies upon the economic status of each colony; as such it forms an important contribution to the study of the subject.” Simon Litman
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:904 Jl ‘17 600w
Reviewed by R. S. MacElwee
=Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 470w
=St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 60w
“The severity and lucidity of the main argument, the incontrovertibility of the historical facts built into the exposition, and the wealth of the statistical evidence certainly establish its title to be a work of reference for historians, economists, and the public; but it would require more than one expert thoroughly to sift the premises and test the conclusions stated with moderation but with an impressive conviction by the author. Professor Girault is handling a subject the general principles of which he had worked out in his ‘Principles de colonisation et de legislation coloniale’; and he is careful to correlate the specific analysis of the French system with the wider principles of colonial policy in general. ... Professor Girault has provided the French delegates at the future conference with an indispensable dossier.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 Ja 25 ‘17 1900w
=GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART.= Speeches; descriptive index and bibliography; with a preface by Viscount Bryce. *12s 6d Methuen & co., London 308 (Eng ed 17-14978)
“Mr Bassett has compiled an invaluable supplement to Lord Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone,’ comprising an index to his speeches from June 3rd, 1833, to May 4th, 1897, and a bibliography of his writings. ... The index is briefly annotated and gives the length of each speech. Fourteen of the most notable orations are reprinted in full, with useful introductions by Mr Herbert Paul. They include his attack on Palmerston’s foreign policy (1850), his denunciation of the treaty of Berlin (1878), and his famous opening speech in the Midlothian campaign of 1879, expressing a detestation of the Turk. His first Budget speech and his speech introducing the first Home rule bill are of much historic interest.”—Spec
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 80w
+ =Spec= 118:417 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 N 30 ‘16 650w
=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.=[2] Beggar and king. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-29491
Contains among its best pieces “Masters of earth,” “Sure, it’s fun!” “The golden plover,” “Measure for measure,” and “April’s fool.” A handful among the sheaf are steeped in orientalism. Others sing loud and exultantly, drowning “sneers of humankind.” Some are war songs. One of the latter, “The new beatitude,” with a few strokes sets ruined Picardy and Poland before the eye, where “rasps through the reek this whisper raucous and low, Blessed are they which died a year ago!”
“Mr Glaenzer’s volume is somewhat of a disappointment. With a few exceptions the works he has chosen to include are of ordinary significance. It is his workmanship rather than theme or conception that does him the greater credit. ‘Sure, it’s fun!’ one of the recent flashing bits of verse brought forth by the war shows how well Mr Glaenzer can succeed in being poetical; and the charming poem ‘To a vireo’ ... proves that when he abandons himself to light moods he can sing effectively and graciously. It is when he strives to be more ambitious, to sound the vague and complex depths of human experience that he fails to satisfy and merely irritates the reader by producing clever workmanship.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 250w
“The workmanship is thorough, but the volume seems somewhat to lack the freshness that makes much of today’s poetry interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 140w
“He is thoroughly original in everything he writes, with the possible exception of lyrics which only in notable cases differ radically in the year 1917. Mr Glaenzer delights in cynicism. His lyrics are tinged and also tarnished by this trait. Try as he may to climb to the subjective hights of lyricists, there is always some repelling incident to make him slip. For this reason he never effervesces nor thrills with emotional ecstasy. The coquette amuses him. There is always some regret or failing in his theme to dull the brilliance of the glittering peak.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Inside the British Isles. *$2 (2c) Century 942.08 17-14222
A series of papers on Great Britain in wartime, arranged in four groups: Labor; Women; Ireland; Social studies, followed by a study of Lloyd-George and a conclusion. In concluding the author says, “I have sought to show the passing of England,—Little England, Old England,—the crumbling of its caste system, and the emergence of the England of John Bull and Cromwell’s soldiers from inarticulateness into power. And a yet greater thing has come—the advent of the new British commonwealth.” He adds further, “I am convinced that our own future is bound up with that of England, that together with England and France we can face the world with security, and gradually and painfully make the democratic principle prevail.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 280w
“The impression he creates is of a mind previously made up, and using only those facts which will support his thesis. ... In other words, Mr Gleason is a special pleader rather than a philosophic investigator, and it is only a philosophic investigator who could convincingly treat such a subject as that of the present book.”
— =Cath World= 106:261 N ‘17 510w
=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“Everyone is there—Mr Lansbury, Mr Zimmern, Mr Lionel Curtis, Mr Webb. Labels of identification are attached to them all. An ordinary Englishman like myself may again and again have real difficulty in recognizing some of the portraits. Mr Gleason works rapidly, and he is a little naïve. But his book has a real interim value as a cinematograph and it is extraordinarily pleasant reading.” H. J. Laski
=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 80w
“Contains uncommonly keen analyses of certain aspects of the national characteristics. Thus, his grasp on the Irish problem in relation to the gulf of feeling and sentiment separating the Irish from the English people goes true to the very bone of the difficulty.”
+ =Ind= 90:553 Je 23 ‘17 300w
“Mr Gleason writes with a rush and a whirl. He offers a minimum of specific data and a maximum of generalization. Yet we feel sure that no one will put down Mr Gleason’s book without a clear impression that England is today in revolution. His account is, beyond question, the most comprehensive and the most stimulating that has thus far appeared.”
+ — =Nation= 105:246 S 6 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Gleason is to be complimented in his piecing together of all the fragmentary information, heretofore available only from time to time in the hurriedly read columns of the press, and furnishing a fairly synthetic picture of all that has taken place. ... He is careful to tell us that ‘Marxian socialism’ is ‘obsolete.’ And this is the only thing in the volume that he doesn’t apparently know anything about.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 570w
“Sometimes one wonders if perhaps Mr Gleason in his enthusiasm exaggerates the importance of the changes he observes going on, thinks them significant of deeper forces than they represent, mistakes the temporary adjustment to suit temporary conditions for permanent evolution. ... Nevertheless, whether one agrees or not, the book has peculiar interest and high importance. ... But the volume contains a half dozen or more pages on ‘The new Americanism’ which might very well have been omitted because they are utterly irrelevant to the subject of the book and because they amazingly misunderstand and misinterpret facts and conditions in this country.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:674 O ‘17 30w
+ =Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w
“The advantage possessed by Arthur Gleason as an interpreter of English life for Americans is that he has a fresh and active mind and knows what aspects of England American readers would like to hear about. The disadvantage is that his familiarity with British affairs—if familiarity is the proper word—is apparently a very recent growth. ... Having a keen and alert eye and a facile habit of deduction, he seldom fails to be interesting, though he frequently does fail to be significant.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 1100w
“The primary value of this book to the student of contemporary events is its description of tendencies, accompanied in nearly all cases by sufficient evidence to allow the reader to judge for himself what amount of intended or unconscious exaggeration there may be in the predictions made.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 850w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Our part in the great war. il *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 940.91 17-13604
This book is made up of four sections. Section 1, Americans who helped, consists of accounts of relief work in France, based on the author’s experience with an ambulance corps. Section 2, Why some Americans are neutral, has chapters on: Neutrality: an interpretation of the Middle West; Social workers and the war; Forgetting the American tradition, etc. Section 3, The Germans that rose from the dead, is based largely on gleanings from German war diaries. Section 4, The peasants, is a series of sketches, drawn from the author’s experience in Belgium and France. In addition there are two letters in an appendix addressed To the reader and To neutral critics.
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p86 Jl ‘17 90w
+ =Dial= 63:349 O 11 ‘17 200w
“So rapidly have events moved that Mr Gleason’s book has become, in ways, somewhat out of date even by the day of its publication. And that is a pity, for it contains so much valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war and is written in a spirit so earnest and, in the best sense, so patriotic that the reading of it ought still to have a tonic effect.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 130w
=GLOVER, TERROT REAVELEY.= Jesus of history; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *$1 (1c) Assn. press 232 17-9479
This work was prepared for the British Student Christian movement and published in Great Britain by that organization. It is based, however, on lectures given in India in the winter of 1915-16 by the author, who is fellow of St John’s college, Cambridge, and university lecturer in ancient history. The aim of the book, the author says “is, after all, not to achieve a final presentment of the historical Jesus, but to suggest lines of study that will deepen our interest in him and our love of him.” Contents: The study of the gospels; Childhood and youth; The man and his mind; The teacher and the disciples; The teaching of Jesus upon God; Jesus and man; Jesus’ teaching upon sin; The choice of the cross; The Christian church in the Roman empire; Jesus in Christian thought.
=A L A Bkl= 13:424 Jl ‘17
+ =Bib World= 50:254 O ‘17 220w
“Will appeal to those who find experience and life a guide to the understanding of the gospels rather than technical theology.” James Moffatt
+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 100w
“The prolix and involved presentation, however, make the argument difficult to follow; and one lays down the work with a sigh of disappointment, at the little this eminent scholar has contributed to our knowledge or understanding of Jesus.”
– + =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 80w
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 190w
Reviewed by M. K. Reely
=Pub W= 91:1323 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
“In the foreword which the Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to this book he speaks of its author’s ‘rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.’ In saying that he expresses what every one will feel to be the chief distinction of the book.”
+ =Spec= 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 620w
“Dr Glover’s gifts of vivid description and graphic exposition have enabled him to provide a study of the central figure of the synoptic gospels which must evoke and retain the interest of even the least sympathetic readers. ... It is certainly unconventional and sometimes daring in its interpretations, but it is always reverent and full of the force of a man who has a strong personal grasp of what he believes to be ‘the fact of Christ.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p80 F 15 ‘17 500w
=GODFREY, THOMAS.= Prince of Parthia. il *$2.50 Little 812 17-14983
This book is a reprint of “the first tragedy ever composed by a native American and produced on the professional stage in the United States.” (R of Rs) It has heretofore been available only in the original edition of 1765, and “is now published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its production [in Philadelphia], without variation from the original, and accompanied by a biography and historical and critical introduction by Archibald Henderson.” (R of Rs) Only 550 copies were printed for sale.
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
=Bookm= 46:346 N ‘17 350w
“Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not even a poet of great promise; but he was remarkable for the number and the variety of the English masters whom he was able, at the age of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed appreciation if not originality. ... Many known facts go to show that his real importance in the history of eighteenth-century American literature has not been adequately recognized.”
=Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 500w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
“The tragedy has many passages of great beauty. ... This is the first adequate account of Thomas Godfrey, and one that presents a picture drawn from historical data, of the literary and cultural conditions of American society in Philadelphia and Wilmington 1750-67.”
=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 250w
=GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH.= Inspector-general; a comedy in five acts; tr. from the Russian by T: Seltzer. (Borzoi plays) *$1 Knopf 891.7 17-78
“In this satire (written in the third decade of the last century) Gogol takes you to a little town of provincial Russia and introduces you to conditions there. Great excitement prevails in the town; for news of the coming of a government inspector has reached the town officials, and they tremble at the prospect of an investigation. ... In their panic fear they take the first man who arrives in town for the dreaded ‘Revizor.’ He happens to be a penniless adventurer from Petrograd, and to him each of the local officials, from the governor down, comes to reveal the venality of the others. ... The play is an unsparing castigation of ‘official’ incompetence, dishonesty and baseness.”—N Y Call
“It is theatrical, it is obvious. ... But it is irresistible fun.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by L. S. Friedland
=N Y Call= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w
“A Russian critic writes: ‘Russia possesses only one comedy, “The inspector general.”’ This volume is a new and complete version of Gogol’s four-act play written in 1835, which, by holding up to ridicule the officials of a typical municipality, struck a definite blow at the tyrannous bureaucracy of the Russian government.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 50w
“Means very much more to the Russian than even ‘The school for scandal’ or ‘She stoops to conquer’ does to the English-speaking world. ... Also known by its more literal title of ‘The revizor.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 22 ‘17 70w
=GOLDMAN, MAYER C.= Public defender; a necessary factor in the administration of justice. *$1 (7c) Putnam 343 17-7209
The author bases his plea for the establishment of the office of public defender on two principles: “(1) That it is as much the function of the state to shield the innocent as to convict the guilty; (2) That the ‘presumption of innocence’ requires the state to defend as well as to prosecute accused persons.” He discusses the subject in eight chapters: The public defender idea; The injustice of the “assigned counsel” system; Public prosecution and prosecutors; Analysis of the public defender; The ancient conception of crime; Specific objections considered; Other remedies inadequate; The march of the movement. The author is a member of the New York bar and the book has a foreword by Justice Wesley O. Howard of the Appellate division, New York Supreme court.
“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’”
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 110w (Reprinted from American Law Review)
“A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.”
+ =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 330w
=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 160w
“The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 200w
=N Y Times= 22:386 O 7 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:769 N ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 80w
“The public defender idea has met opposition from bar associations, judges, newspapers and others who have believed that accused persons are sufficiently protected in our courts under existing safeguards. Meanwhile, it has won increasing attention from the public generally.” W. D. Lane
=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 520w
=GOLDSMITH, ROBERT.= League to enforce peace; with a special introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 341.1 17-6558
The “League to enforce peace,” organized in June, 1915, with ex-President Taft, A. Lawrence Lowell, and others as its promoters, is one of the associations that are trying to work out a practical program for the insurance of peace. A discussion of this program is the substance of the present work. It is divided into three parts. In