The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
part 1, the author considers The forces that failed, examining some of
the agencies that broke down in 1914. Part 2 is devoted to an exposition of the principles and platform of the League to enforce peace. Part 3 is an examination of The creed of militarism, with a refutation of the militarist arguments. Endorsements of the League, etc., are given in an appendix. There is a bibliography and an index.
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“The author of this comprehensive discussion of the subject is a working member of the League and his book has had the examination and approval of several of its officials.” F. F. Kelly
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“An unusually thin mess of intellectual porridge. ... The book slides along from easy platitude to easy platitude, without any genuine criticism or even analysis of the idea it professes to expound.” Randolph Bourne
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“The book, tho rather diffuse in thought and arrangement, is nevertheless sound in principle, comprehensive, and well written. It should do much, especially in schools and colleges, to spread the idea that the coöperation of nations and not the competition of nations will alone insure eternal peace when the war ends.”
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“An excellent bibliography of books on the war and reconstruction is appended to a volume which does its admirable ‘bit’ towards making an old idea fresh and alive.”
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“Throughout the book, both in his exposition of the league’s proposals and in his discussion of conditions out of which it has grown and of opinions concerning those conditions, Mr Goldsmith never loses sight either of the ideal that is aimed at nor of the practical steps by which it can be attained.”
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“A ‘League to enforce peace’ ought to do much toward keeping us in intellectual equilibrium, not so much perhaps because of the startling or unusual in its pages as for the simplicity with which oft-expressed ideas are set forth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 480w
=GOLTZ, HORST VON DER.= My adventures as a German secret agent. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-29598
Chance slipped the young von der Goltz into the hands of the Prussian intelligence bureau and after years of shaping he was turned out a finished secret diplomatic agent. His adventures as secret agent in Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and England came to an abrupt end when England caught him and put him in prison. In this autobiographical volume he betrays Germany and divulges the entire structure and workings of her efficient spy system as it has been operative among the Allies. Of the United States he says: “Let me repeat again that Germany has installed in this country thousands of men, whose nationality and habits are such as to protect them from suspicion, who work silently and alone, because they know that their very lives depend upon their silence, and who are in communication with no central spy organization, for the very simple reason that no such organization exists. ... Eternal vigilance, here as elsewhere, is the price of security.”
“He makes an exciting tale, though it may be hard to believe everything he says, and most of the intrigues have already been exposed in the papers.”
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“Interesting as is Baron von der Goltz’s exposure of German character, it yet fails in the appeal to our sympathies that its author evidently intended. Like every German he supposes that the average human mind works as the German mind works. He builds the whole structure of his book about his ridiculous slander against the late Empress Frederick. The American is accordingly prepared to believe nothing. Nevertheless, the rest of the narrative rings true.”
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=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
“The volume is interesting, however the reader may regard it. If it is considered as fiction, it has its merits; and equally so if it is considered as fact.” Joshua Wanhope
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=GOODMAN, PAUL, and LEWIS, ARTHUR D.=, eds. Zionism; problems and views. *$1.50 Bloch 296 17-4978
“This book consists of twenty-three papers by as many Anglo-Jewish contributors, with an introduction by Dr Max Nordau, the present leader of the movement of Zionism. ... What the capacities of the Jews are for national life, what they have done in Palestine already, may be read in this book. It is a study of the Jews, full of information little known to the Gentile, which appeals at least to intellectual curiosity, and very considerably to the sympathies of all educated readers.”—Sat R
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=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Appeal of the nation. *75c (4½c) Pilgrim press 172 17-13744
Five patriotic addresses by the minister of Old South church, Boston. Contents: American freedom; The foreign-born American citizen; Christian and citizen; American loyalty; The nation and humanity.
“These lecture-sermons are as Christian as they are patriotic.”
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“Of the five stirring addresses that make Dr George A. Gordon’s ‘Appeal of the nation,’ all are worth reading, but that on our foreign-born citizens preaches an understanding sympathy that it were well if all native Americans could feel.”
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=GORDON, JAN.= Balkan freebooter. il *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-9486)
“‘A Balkan freebooter’ is a picturesque account, for whose truth the author vouches, of a Servian outlaw and comitaj whose career, still unfinished, is a compound of those of Robin Hood and Raffles. His name is Petko Moritch, and his biographer has had his story from Petko’s own lips, altering only the names of the principals, including Petko’s.”—Springf’d Republican
“The story of his eventful life rings with the romance that only truth, that strangest thing in the universe, is able to supply. It shows the fighting character of the modern Serb, who, like Petko, has tramped the plain of Kossovo, fleeing mountainwards, and by some miracle of survival, by some quality of superhuman strength, is winning his way back into freedom. Mr Gordon’s narrative is particularly timely and interesting.” R. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 600w
“A fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w
=GORDON, KATE.= Educational psychology. il *$1.35 (2c) Holt 370.1 17-25490
“The course of study which this book presents is designed for students of pedagogy in colleges and normal schools. It presupposes an elementary knowledge of psychology. In the earlier chapters ... a certain amount of child psychology has been included. ... In later chapters, as on memory and reasoning, the procedure of certain class experiments has been reported in some detail. ... The last three chapters take up some of the concrete questions of teaching in three quite dissimilar school subjects. They are intended to illustrate the way in which psychological applications can be made.” (Preface) The three subjects referred to are Language teaching, Drawing and Arithmetic. An eight-page list of references and an index complete the work. The author is assistant professor of psychology in the Carnegie institute of technology.
“While the book does present a rather useful collection of experimental facts with reference to certain phases of psychology as related to education, it is defective as a text in educational psychology because of its too great emphasis upon the psychological aspect of the subject, because of its style, which is unsuited to relatively immature students, and because of its uneven emphasis upon different topics.” F. N. Freeman
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=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= In the night. *$1.25 (3c) Longmans 17-29538
This detective story was planned by Lord Gorell in a base-hospital in France, and written during recovery at home. The author who has been irritated by writers of detective stories that do not take the reader into their confidence, states that in his tale, “every essential fact is related as it is discovered and readers are, as far as possible, given the eyes of the investigators and equal opportunities with them of arriving at the truth.” Sir Roger Penterton is found by his secretary, in the middle of the night, lying dead in the hall of his country home. The house is occupied by the dead man’s wife, their daughter, another young woman, the daughter’s most intimate friend, Sir Roger’s secretary, and the servants. Miss Temple, the friend, working on lines of her own, is able to give some assistance to Inspector Humblethorne. Various theories are developed to account for the crime, all of which prove wrong in the end when the mystery is finally solved.
“The author has worked out his theme ingeniously, developing various theories to account for the crime and find the guilty person, and finally, when he nears the end, providing a double climax of surprises before the mystery is finally solved.”
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+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 30w
“It is an exciting tale. It seems to be straightening itself out, and all of a sudden it is in a tangle again. During the short hour or two that the reading of it takes, the size of a shoe becomes of more importance than the Hindenburg line. We come back, blinking, to a world which we are grateful to the author for helping us to forget.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 300w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF).= In the world. *$2 (1½c) Century 17-21677
“A year after ‘My childhood’ comes ‘In the world,’ a record of Gorky’s experiences whose closing pages find him still a boy. It purports to relate the true story of his early life, and it does narrate with an extraordinary particularity the scenes he saw, the people he encountered and the events of which he was a part during a few of his boyhood years. He drifts hither and thither through Russia, inevitably returning again and again to the wonderful old grandmother with whom he first made us acquainted in ‘My childhood.’ He is a veritable jack-at-all-trades, becoming at intervals a shoe-store boy, an assistant in an ikon shop, an architect’s helper and a cook’s assistant on a Volga steamboat. And during the greater part of this period he read many books, and began to make attempts at the writing of prose and verse.” (Boston Transcript) The translation is by Mrs Gertrude M. Foakes.
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“The book contains many sayings embodying a deep-rooted philosophy of common life.”
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“He wrote fiction as if it were autobiography; he writes autobiography as if it were fiction. ... The result is essentially a novel, with himself as its hero.” E. F. E.
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“Everywhere in this, the second, volume of his life, one finds the shining virtues of brevity, concreteness, vigor—always unfailing vigor. That there is also a moving sincerity goes without saying, since Gorky is in the great Russian tradition. ... The volume gives us two or three years only of his life in the world. ... Thus it is still almost a child’s world in which we are moving—a world seen with that fascinating mixture of sophistication and simplicity which his genius made possible.” G: B. Donlin
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+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 340w
“It is difficult to understand wherein lies any fascination in these pages, which chronicle cruelty, brutality, and a life of coarse and often loathsome surroundings, but fascinating they are, grippingly interesting, brutally frank, and full of a faith in the Russian race.”
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“Out of the rubble of human existence his genius is building up one of the great life-stories in literature.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 13:26 N 3 ‘17 1200w
“There is much in the book that is terrible; there is no little beauty, too; and there is a vast amount of fascinating portraiture. Gorky’s grandmother is here again, with her strength, her idealism, her superstitions, her sympathy. ... The book is crowded with people, each sharply individualized, hauntingly alive, fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:743 N ‘17 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 440w
“It is a wonderfully penetrating piece of self-analysis. It displays every great literary quality except charm. But charm is lacking. One feels very sorry for the ugly duckling of the steppes whose mental fumblings are so elaborately portrayed; but one is never drawn to like him, and one never gets away from the painful impression of a world full of people whom it would be very unpleasant to associate with.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 O 25 ‘17 1050w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF); ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH; and SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV)=, eds. The shield; with a foreword by W: English Walling; tr. from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.25 (4c) Knopf 296 17-14798
The original work from which the selections translated for this volume are taken was published last year in Petrograd. It consists of studies, essays, stories and poems bearing on the Jewish problem in Russia. The editor of the English edition says, “In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicistic articles of the original collection. [It] contains practically all the various important studies and essays of the Russian ‘Shield,’ while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book.” Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, writing of Russia and the Jews; Leonid Andreyev, The first step; Paul Milyukov, The Jewish question in Russia; M. Bernatzky, The Jews and Russian economic life; Prince Paul Dolgorukov, The war and the status of the Jew; Fyodor Sologub, The fatherland for all. William English Walling in commending the book says that the rebirth in Russia cannot be understood apart from the Jewish problem.
“A truly remarkable revelation of the spirit and purpose of the best elements of that New Russia which is now in the making.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
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“The work is not a defense of the Jews,—praise be! ‘The shield’ has the historic interest of a great and noble document, not only because of the prominence of the contributors to the volume, but also because it is a voluntary and free recognition of human rights, a sort of Magna charta to all those who are downtrodden and humiliated.” L: S. Friedland
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 600w
“The viewpoint of the Russian educated class is nowhere so clearly presented as in ‘The shield,’ a volume published in Russia by the Society for the study of Jewish life (in which no Jews are allowed membership) and now offered in an English translation. ‘The shield’ is significant in that fifteen men of letters, publicists, and scientists unite in demanding the abrogation of Jewish disabilities in Russia.”
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+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 1150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 D 6 ‘17 80w
“Apart from the foreword, the book deserves recognition as a striking indication of the fact that before the revolution the leading Russian writers were overwhelmingly in favour of the total abolition of the shocking disabilities to which the Jews had long been subject in Russia. Unfortunately neither Mr Walling nor any one of the distinguished Russian editors has thought of informing us when the various articles that make up this little book were written. The book gives us no word as to the actual position today.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 13 ‘17 970w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$3.50 Macmillan 17-12487
The only memoir of Swinburne that had been published before the appearance of this volume was the sketch contributed by Mr Gosse to the “Dictionary of national biography” in 1912. This sketch has been used as the basis for this more complete work. Much new material has come to the author’s hands however, and he says, “My narrative is therefore not merely much fuller than it would have been in 1912, but in various respects more accurate.” Contents: Childhood—Eton (1837-1853); Oxford (1853-1859); Early life in London (1859-1865); “Atalanta in Calydon,” “Chastelard”; “Poems and ballads” (1866); Songs of the republic (1867-1870); The middle years (1870-1879); Putney (1879-1909); Personal characteristics. Additional letters are given in appendixes. The illustrations are worthy of special note.
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“Mr Gosse has written a discriminating and worthy biography of a great poet, and has created a strikingly vivid picture of one who might truthfully be described, without irreverence, as an illustrious oddity. ... The book is biography, not criticism; but we are given particulars relating to ‘Atalanta in Calydon,’ ‘Chastelard,’ ‘Poems and ballads,’ ‘Songs before sunrise,’ ‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ and much of Swinburne’s other work, which will be read with interest by every admirer of the poet.”
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“Excellent as is his very careful and most interesting account of Swinburne’s life and character and work, there are in it here and there such evidences of personal bias and even of bitterness as are, at least, surprising. This is the more deplorable since there was no one so well equipped as Mr Gosse for the writing of a full and authoritative biography of Swinburne.” G. I. Colbron
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“The reader will receive from Mr Gosse’s biography a clear series of impressions of both Swinburne and his work. But it leaves so much unsaid, it refers so vaguely to so many significant episodes in Swinburne’s career, that the real and complete biography of him remains to be written.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 2250w
“Will probably remain the standard life of Swinburne.”
+ =Cath World= 106:259 N ‘17 600w
“An extraordinarily vivid and many-sided characterization, with some tantalizing reticences and many features of unique interest, such as the chapters on Swinburne as a parodist and as a poet of children.”
+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 80w
“Mr Gosse’s volume is chronological and anecdotal, there is hardly a page that is not enriched by some delightful incident or jest concerning Swinburne’s time and associates. ... The work speaks from the atmosphere of intimacy, and in that position one can sympathetically understand the instinctive ‘reticence, tact and diplomacy’ for which the English reviewers are so heartily praising him. But as an ‘authentication’ of the sacred legend the volume is not wholly successful. For, in spite of biographer and reviewers, Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first series of ‘Poems and ballads.’” B. I. Kinne
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“The biographer has succeeded in presenting a substantially truthful as well as a vivid picture. He succeeds in conveying the right impression, that is to say, the impression which seems to have been formed by nearly every one who knew Swinburne intimately, that he was a sort of ‘lusus naturæ.’ ... The record of his life which has now been given to us does not seem likely to be superseded.”
+ =Nation= 105:201 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w
“One of the most interesting volumes of biography to come from the presses in a long time. ... Mr Gosse’s attitude toward Theodore Watts-Dunton, with whom Swinburne spent the last thirty years of his life, seems unfair, at the very least.”
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“Mr Gosse’s ‘Life of Swinburne’ is a brilliant affair in which the results of long and careful study come out as easily as if he had been at no pains to delve here and there to clear up the difficulties which usually attend the careers of men of letters, and to put casual misconceptions straight. ... He has not found room to supply an estimate of Swinburne’s comparative place in literature, and particularly in the history of poetry, but his comments on the various poems as they pass under review are usually sound and always neat. The volume includes some excellent portraits.”
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“As a friend of thirty years’ standing, a poet, and an accomplished critic and man of letters, Mr Edmund Gosse comes to his difficult task with an equipment which raises high expectations, largely fulfilled by the result. He has given us an extremely interesting and skilful memoir of an extraordinary man, and though the limitations necessarily imposed on him prevent it from being a complete picture, it is not likely to be superseded for a good many years to come. These limitations are due to a regard for the living as well as the dead.”
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“A concrete, well-balanced portrait, the more entertaining for the judiciously selected anecdotes and incidents, and the more valuable for the authentic glimpses of contacts with other very interesting people.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 4 ‘17 1200w
“You cannot glance at this book without reading it through; and having read it you will wish to read the poems again. ... There is in his book that real reverence which does not fear to tell the affectionate truth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p169 Ap 12 ‘17 1500w
“Mr Gosse has condensed the last thirty years of the poet’s life into a single chapter, and has devoted the bulk of his volume to the years before 1879. He has made his hero a vital if not a very admirable figure. He has given us clear sight, though not always full sympathy. This vitality of portraiture is likely to be the abiding value of Mr Gosse’s book. Faults it has: it is quite too fragmentary to be a definite biography; it leaves too much unsaid; there are many passages in the life of the poet which are obviously glossed over.” C. B. Tinker
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=GOUDGE, HENRY LEIGHTON=, and others. Place of women in the church. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1.15 Young ch. 396 A17-1510
The American edition of a volume which was brought out in England and to which eight men and women have contributed chapters strongly opposing the right of women to exercise any official ministry in the churches. Contents: The teaching of St Paul as to the position of women; Ministrations of women in church; The ministry of women and the tradition of the church; The claim of the priesthood for women; The ordination of women; The medical ministry of women; The religious life for women; Younger women and the church.
“The longest and most important is from the pen of Canon Goudge, who deals with ‘The teaching of St Paul on the position of women.’ It is an instructive exposition of the Apostle’s teaching, but it scarcely does justice to the plea of those who urge that the Apostle’s arguments and directions deal with circumstances altogether different from those of the twentieth century. This volume will be welcomed by those who desire to know how it is proposed to meet the arguments of Canon Streeter and Miss Picton-Turberville and Mr Allworthy in which they plead for some extension, under proper safeguards, of the ministry of women in the church.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 540w
=GOUDIE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Steam turbines. il *$4 Longmans 621.1 17-14113
“A text-book for engineering students [which] describes clearly the various types of land and marine types now on the market (including the Ljungström); expounds the theory underlying design and action; gives calculations on consumption, efficiency, and the various sources of loss; and the design of typical turbines of the various classes, including a set of marine turbines of 18,000 shaft horse-power. The allied subjects of condensers and condensing plants, however, are not included. Clearly illustrated, also well supplied with mathematical and steam tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
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=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w
“‘Altogether this is an excellent treatise, well gotten up, and published at a very reasonable price, and although it is described as a text-book for engineering students, it should prove of great value to the marine engineer, to whom a knowledge of the steam turbine is becoming of increasing importance. We can recommend it with the utmost confidence.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ap ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Shipbuilding and Shipping Record F 22 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=GOUGH, GEORGE W.= Yeoman adventurer. il *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-26322
A tale of adventure in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Master Oliver Wheatman is a young Staffordshire farmer who, in spite of bookish tastes, yearns for a life of action. The fate that keeps him tied down to his ancestral acres, while his chum Jack Dobson goes off to fight for the king, seems most unkindly. Then the adventure for which he longs is brought into his life most unexpectedly with the advent of Mistress Margaret Waynflete, and he finds himself enlisted in the Jacobite cause. Exciting incidents follow thick and fast and Master Oliver, the yeoman turned soldier, has no longer cause to complain of inactivity, and when at the end, he returns to his home, he does not come alone.
=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
“The characters are all delightfully modern, both in speech and in action; consequently they are thoroughly lifelike, the bad as well as the good, instead of being mere puppets dressed in the costumes of 1745.”
+ =Ath= p195 Ap ‘16 80w
“The author has been unusually fortunate in the way in which he has succeeded in making the period real to his readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w
“Told with an unflagging zest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w
“A rather commonplace tale in which youth and beauty play the leading parts. ... As a narrative it is neither better nor worse than most of its sort.”
=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 90w
“A costume story, if you like, an affair of pleasant superficial illusion, but of illusion which, one feels, the author himself cheerfully and spontaneously shares.”
+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“An unusually good specimen of the old-fashioned semi-historical romance.”
+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w
“As this is a first novel and is of remarkable promise, we may perhaps be allowed to advise the author to avoid making use of ‘types’ in his characters, and to describe rather ‘hungering, thirsting men.’”
+ — =Spec= 116:555 Ap 29 ‘16 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
“Mr Gough is so intent on his tale that he has little time to spare for much artistry, but he keeps Oliver’s view-point steadily before him and merits a big share of the praise due to his hero’s robust and tireless efforts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Ap 6 ‘16 350w
=GOURVITCH, PAUL PENSAC.= How Germany does business. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 382 17-31429
An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits; Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc. The author writes with particular reference to the business relations of Germany and Russia. The book has a preface by Dr B. E. Shatsky, of Petrograd.
“It is written with a manifest prejudice against Germany, and hence cannot be taken as an entirely reliable survey of German business methods in foreign trade. ... This book should be of interest to American exporters. However much we may disagree with Germany’s motives in trade development and with certain of her export practices we acknowledge that she built up a remarkable foreign trade and we may profit by the adoption of many of the principles here briefly set forth.” H. T. Collings
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:102 Ja ‘18 710w
+ =New Repub= 13:258 D 29 ‘17 450w
“Outside of trifles which we dare say will be corrected in future editions, the work is on the whole well written, and both interesting and instructive.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 540w
“The author of ‘How Germany does business’ appears sometimes to be disingenuous—or, at least, if he is not that, he is either lacking in information (which seems improbable) or takes the complaisant view that whatever succeeds is right. ... Especially blind, ethically, is the opening chapter on the general question of Germany’s commercial expansion in recent years.”
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=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w
=GRABO, CARL HENRY.= Amateur philosopher. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 204 17-7480
“As introduction to his book the author says: ‘Because I believe the construction of a philosophy to be the chief end of man, I have made bold to write the following pages.’ ... ‘The amateur philosopher’ is the personal record of one man’s search for a philosophy of life in this present complex day. Dr Grabo was born and brought up in a middle western town, conservative, comfortable, orthodox. He was educated at an American college. He is now a professor in an American university. It is highly probable that thousands of Americans, reading his book, will chuckle or sigh over moments of what amounts to pure reminiscence from their own lives. ... The writer is old enough, too, to possess both perspective and tolerance, while he is essentially young in the sense of being, not an eager youth who thinks the world can be set right by the wish for upheaval, but an active, forward-thinking worker, ‘in the prime of life,’ in the world of today.”—N Y Times
“It has been criticized as being ‘destructive in tone, without the substitution of anything better.’”
=A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
“Most of the deep emotional experiences of life were unknown to him. And so the value of the book is in the author’s account of the way he found a place for the spiritual realities in his scheme of things.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 600w
+ =Cleveland= p66 My ‘17 80w
“His critique of the college is forceful and true. ... In these first chapters full of charm, Mr Grabo details his universal experience. Then suddenly, as if stung with modesty, he slips into an impersonal outline of his matured philosophy. The result is not happy.” R. B.
+ — =New Repub= 10:383 Ap 28 ‘17 450w
“It is in response to the average American’s need that his book is unique and valuable. ... In all the fourteen chapters of ‘The amateur philosopher’ there is not a word of dogmatism, intolerance, arrogance of thought or faith. The book is written with a freshness, a sanity, a sympathetic understanding of human need that give it a well-nigh universal quality.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 900w
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Reviewed by Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:592 F 17 ‘17 600w
“Mr Grabo is a trifle disappointing in that he fails to live up to his interesting title. Still for one unfamiliar with the terminology of philosophers, Mr Grabo’s book will be very welcome. His style is simple and clear.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 210w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= William Penn. il *$2.50 Stokes
“The present work, by the principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester, is adapted for the English reader; and no ‘Life’ in the usual sense has, so Mr Graham states, ever been written by an English Friend.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book comprises extracts from Penn’s voluminous writings, controversial and other; an interesting description of the trial of Penn and Mead at the Old Bailey, where the accused gloriously defended and asserted the liberties of Englishmen; an account of the foundation of Pennsylvania; a sketch of the enlightened system of government established in the province, and of Penn’s delightfully humane relations with the Indians; and many details of the anxieties, trials, and misfortunes which beset the founder in his later years.” (Ath) “It is not a book which represents original research, but it is a well-written, sympathetic biography, and one of moderate scope; with bibliography and many illustrations, notes about which are given in an appendix.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 290w
“Having access to all available material and possessing a strong biographical sense, the author has presented interestingly and concisely one of the best stories of the Quaker colonizer extant.” F. P. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 5 ‘17 780w
“In style the book is a trifle disconcerting, but it offers an ample reward to the reader that approaches it with an open mind.”
+ — =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 500w
“Mr Graham’s style is fluent and unpretentious. He arranges his narrative clearly and tells it vividly. He lets his hero speak for himself where possible, and where he has to summarize or assign motives, we have no doubt he correctly interprets Penn’s attitude.”
+ =Spec= 118:91 Jl 28 ‘17 1400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 My 24 ‘17 140w
“The writer, indeed, is at home with his reader and addresses to him many asides bearing upon the interests of the present hour, as for example upon the Society for psychical research and the maxims of George Bernard Shaw. But the interest of the book will centre for most readers in the account of the ‘Holy experiment’ in Pennsylvania, where an attempt was made to order a society on the generous and humane principles which Penn laid down.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 1500W
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Priest of the ideal. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 17-25855
A piece of fiction that has drawn largely upon the imagination of the writer rather than upon the world of facts. It represents the clash between modern material greed and early church mysticism. An American, representing a syndicate with some billions of dollars to spend, approaches the English in this state of mind: “As a result of the expense of war you English are now much poorer, we Americans are rich. You must be ready to sell certain things to raise money.” His hope is to buy out of England’s superfluity of castles, abbeys, monuments, historical buildings, etc., enough to serve as a much needed background for the new American race. In company with a wandering priest the American visits objects of his quest, learning meantime from the lips of this idealist that “there is nothing in England which has been outlived and which, therefore, could be sold or given away; that it was futile to covet the spiritual background of England, the only way to acquire material things that symbolize ideals is to fight for the ideals.”
“We hardly think the author has hit upon the literary form appropriate to his idea or his own capacities.”
— =Ath= p596 N ‘17 80w
“In a sense, Mr Graham’s ‘priest of the ideal’ is merely another of those pseudo-Christs whom every modern novelist seems to feel free to create in his own image; and the action in which he is concerned is very tenuous and impalpable indeed.” H. W. Boynton
– — =Bookm= 46:600 Ja ‘18 700w
“In Mr Graham, there is a voice as fearless if not as exceptional as Tolstoy’s. His book is, in fact, a review of England through Russian eyes, in Russian terms.”
+ =Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 470w
“Some of the descriptions are well done, but the book as a whole is tiresome, and its religious mysticism is more than slightly touched with hysteria. There is not a single character in it who is real for an instant, and while there are a few interesting bits of comment, they are not numerous.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 370w
“The romance repays perusal if only for the exquisite delicacy of style and the high level of its spiritual perception.”
+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 60w
“The strength of the book lies, not in the actuality of its characters or in any exciting stir of incident, but in its handling of the vital problem which is ever present and never completely solved—the conduct of our daily lives. We have one very minor and incidental point to urge against Mr Graham before we finish: he owes it to himself to pay more attention to the rhythm of his style. Some of his most impressive passages are spoiled by the suggested lilt of a verse metre.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1500w
“In its sluggish, eventless speculativeness, it is a Russian kind of a book. Only a Russian would have done it far better. It is Mr Graham’s first novel—if, indeed, it can be classified as a novel—and, one believes, his first complete failure.”
– — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 700w
“A book into which the author has poured his thoughts and feelings as they came to him, with more care for their immediate expression than for the form of the whole. Yet the reader may fairly ask himself how much of his dissatisfaction—his sense of having looked up and not been fed, but swollen with wind and mist—may be due to some lack of time and opportunity which compelled Mr Graham to be careless of the whole. ... If it is inconsistent, self-contradictory, vague, and here and there (doubtless owing to that lack of time and opportunity at which we have hinted) nothing else than flabby, it is bright with beautiful thoughts and warm with a passion for beautiful living.”
+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 18’17 820w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Russia in 1916. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 914.7 17-6752
The author believes that the people of the two allied countries, Great Britain and Russia, should keep in touch with one another, and publishes this little book of impressions in the interests of a better understanding. He writes of: A journey to Ekaterina; The dark haven; The new Archangel; The cost of living; Life in the country; A Russian countess; Russian literature in 1916: Without vodka, beer, or wine, etc.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17
“There is neither insight nor foresight in this ‘little book of the hour.’” Abraham Yarmolinsky
– — =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 160w
“A slender volume of less than two hundred pages, but it reveals, as always in everything Mr Graham writes, the ability to understand Russia and a skill at making her understood by the people of other nations.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1350w
“The information contained is of precisely the sort that the average reader is most eager for.”
+ =Cath World= 105:536 Jl ‘17 470w
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
=Dial= 63:265 S 27 ‘17 500w
“Slight, but based on three seasons’ personal observations.”
+ =Ind= 90:269 My 12 ‘17 30w
“There is nevertheless much here which the practical reader will find of uncommon interest. The descriptions of Ekaterina and Archangel are admirable. The world has been waiting for just the kind of knowledge regarding Russia’s new Arctic port that Mr Graham gives us.”
+ =Nation= 104:430 Ap 12 ‘17 1550w
“Discount the politics and the war prophecies, and much that is genuinely revelatory and illuminating does emerge. ... His picture of the mood in which Russia accepts the war will endure. Even at the risk of displeasing the western political radicals Mr Graham should not be frightened from his attempts to convey to us the religious background of Russia. He can bring out the shadows and spiritual chiaroscuro of the thrilling panorama of revolution.” H. S.
+ — =New Repub= 11:165 Je 9 ‘17 950w
“When Stephen Graham splutters: ‘The Russia which Gorky attacks is just that which is spiritually interesting to us in England—the mystical and impractical Russia,’ he reveals himself a downright dilettante, an epicurean, an ‘intellectual’ gourmand.” D: Rosenstein
— =N Y Call= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:108 Mr 25 ‘17 850w
“An entertaining record of his experiences, although naturally it is hardly a work of permanent value.”
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 130w
=St Louis= 15:374 O ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 110w
“He belongs to that class of English writers who took it upon themselves to whitewash the Russian autocracy and so misrepresent all those who had fought against it for more than half a century. I do not believe that anybody cares to know now anything about the devotion of the Russian people to Czar Nicholas II, or about his angelic disposition and his artistic soul.” H.
— =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 420w
“Mr Graham’s style, often slipshod and careless, occasionally, under the inspiration of deep feeling, rises to a height of real beauty.” W: L. Phelps
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 200w
=GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE, and HARPER, HARRY.= Air power; naval, military, commercial, il *$3 Stokes 623.7 (Eng ed War17-85)
“The authors regard the greatest lesson of the war as being that in the future a nation which dominates the aerial highways will dominate also those of the land and sea, and that a dominion of the air must mean, ultimately, the dominion of the world. They illustrate this view in a series of chapters dealing with the war in the air, problems in construction, after-war policy, factors of safety (the phrase is used in more than the engineering sense), popularizing travel by air, laws of the air, and the commercial era of flight. They draw an alluring picture of the time when a man will be able to dine one evening in New York and the next in London, and when aerial excursions will be possible at rates which will put them within the reach of all.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“The programme outlined is scarcely ever outside the bounds of possibility, but views on aviation will have changed greatly long before the programme is completed.”
+ — =Nature= 99:481 Ag 16 ‘17 670w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Jl ‘17 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p192 Ap 19 ‘17 130w
=GRANT, ARTHUR.=[2] On the wings of the morning. *$2 Dutton 828
“Echoes of George Borrow, of Gilbert White, of Richard Jefferies sound forth from the pages of Mr Grant’s book of essays. As he journeys ‘On the wings of the morning’ into the heart of historic Britain he sees there the glory of her past and the beauty of her present. ... Every corner of the island whence has arisen a mighty empire contains its historic scenes, and in every hill and valley is to be found something quaint, something picturesque and something of alluring grandeur. Much of all this Mr Grant has witnessed and much of it he records in his book. And through it all runs an undercurrent of thought that reflects the spirit of the day in which it is written, that reveals how constantly in all our minds is the present fighting of Britain and her many Allies ‘for God and the right, for a world-peace that can only come through sacrifice.’”—Boston Transcript
“His book should be received with appreciation by those familiar with the places named and their literary associations, and attract many others to enjoy them.”
+ =Ath= p524 O ‘17 90w
“The linking of people with places, and of places with people, gives to Mr Grant’s essays one of their principal charms.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 1200w
=GRANT, MADISON.= Passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history, maps *$2 (4c) Scribner 572 16-22372
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The book contains much solid scientific and historical truth set forth with dignity and clearness, although often with a lack of coherence. It affords evidence of minute and careful study, even though the author never cites his authority for particular statements and supplies but a limited bibliography in the appendix. ... But the ‘Passing of the great race’ is not so much an objective scientific treatise as a carefully reasoned argument in support of preconceived convictions. ... The argument of the book must stand for what it is worth. To the present reviewer it is unconvincing, partly because it rests on debatable assumptions, partly because the method of the argument seems itself unsound. ... His determinations often rest on the most questionable evidence. ... Mr Grant’s book can hardly be regarded as an important contribution to historical science. Its dogmatic assurance and its partizanship impair its value to learning. Its main thesis is not established, and, in the present state of scholarship, is not capable of establishment. For guidance in matters relating to European race problems American students of history will continue to depend, as they have done for nearly twenty years, on Ripley’s solid and discriminating ‘Races of Europe.’” A. B. S.
– + =Am Hist R= 22:842 Jl ‘17 850w
“Brevity often forces a more dogmatic opinion than the author probably holds, but so many extreme statements are made that the reader often wonders what evidence there is. Little mention is made of other writers, and even in the bibliography the names of Ammon, Lapouge, Reibmayr, Schallmaier, who have advocated similar claims, and opponents like Finot and Novicow, are omitted. In spite of many defects the position of the author has much to commend it. The volume should be studied by all who are interested in the future of our own country and in democracy at large.” C. K.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 180w
“The migrations of the three races during different periods are illustrated by a series of striking maps.”
=Ath= p250 My ‘17 190w
“We had thought that this species of race ecstasy, this enthusiasm for laying stress on the racial basis of European history, with which the name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain is associated, was going out of fashion, even in Germany. But that a writer in democratic America should give currency to these doctrines is passing strange.”
— =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 650w
“Mr Madison Grant echoes the absurdities of Mr Houston Chamberlain.” H. M. Kallen
— =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 920w
“Mr Grant’s account of the distribution of the different races is interesting and no doubt as accurate as such speculations can be made, but the superstructure of theory and policy which he builds thereon must be judged by each reader for himself.”
– + =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 180w
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 160w
“We do not recall any other single work which presents, within the limited space of one volume, so comprehensive a survey of heredity, eugenics, racial characteristics, ruling dynasties, and the steady elimination of the unfit.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 450w
“Three brief chapters present a résumé of our knowledge of prehistoric man in the stone and bronze ages. It is interesting to note that the detailed treatment begins where Professor Osborn’s recent monumental work on ‘Men of the old stone age’ leaves off, and in certain ways may be regarded as directly supplemental. ... Slight reference is made to the European war, but the application of all the data which Mr Grant has assembled to the causes, psychology, and ultimate results of this conflict is plainly evident. This and the intelligent attention which is directed to the unparalleled mixing of races in our own country are the two most potent memories of a perusal of this volume. ... A bibliography and thorough index round out a volume of marked originality and considerable interest.”
+ =Nation= 104:466 Ap 19 ‘17 770w
=Nature= 99:502 Ag 23 ‘17 620w
“For our part, we should like to have the facts examined with much more care than Mr Grant has paid them before accepting his doleful predictions as true, or even probable.”
— =Spec= 119:385 O 13 ‘17 1550w
Reviewed by E. G. Balch
— =Survey= 39:262 D 1 ‘17 550w
“All that can be said of some of the statements brought forward by Mr Grant as scientific evidence of his thesis is that they are incorrect.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 My 3 ‘17 1450w
“Many readers will question Grant’s conclusions, and some will resent them. ... Yet his statement of the problem demands serious consideration, and his sketch of the development and expansion of the Nordic races is an excellent historical résumé. ... The whole lesson of biology is that America is seriously endangering her future by making fetishes of equality, democracy, and universal education. They are of great value, but only when they have good hereditary material upon which to work. The books of Morgan, Conklin, and Grant all show that we must drastically revise our immigration policy and must strive even more diligently to perpetuate the rapidly diminishing type of strong-willed idealists who have been the country’s chief leaders.” Ellsworth Huntington
+ =Yale R= n s 6:670 Ap ‘17 400w
=GRAY, VIOLET GORDON.=[2] Margery Morris. il *$1.25 (1½c) Penn 17-29733
Margery Morris, the young heroine of this story for girls, comes from California to spend a summer with her grandfather in a small Quaker village in New Jersey. An unknown boy cousin meets her at the train and tells her that her grandfather is away. Margery, who is something of a little snob, finds it necessary to adapt herself to the simple living of a plain old-fashioned farm house. She learns to like the two boys who call themselves her cousins; makes friends with two jolly girls, and only later learns that thru confusion of names she has come to visit in the wrong house. Other books in the series are promised.
=N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 70w
=GREEN, JOHN RICHARD.= Short history of the English people; rev. and enl., with epilogue by Alice S. Green. maps *$2 Am. bk. 942 16-18300
“The present one-volume edition now given to the public contains all the material except the illustrations in the four-volume edition of 1887 and, in addition, some modifications in the history of Ireland which Mrs Green believes her husband would have incorporated had he been living. They are due to new material discovered in the last thirty-five years since the ‘Short history’ was published.”—Outlook
“The ‘Epilogue’ is a summary written with a fervid eloquence which makes it in its own way singularly attractive. But the fervour sometimes leaves the facts obscure; for instance, no one who did not know the sequence of events could extract the truth from the summary of the Crimean war; whilst an account of the mutiny which does not mention John Lawrence and has but a bare reference to his brother can only be described as a curiosity. The ‘Epilogue’ is not indeed a ‘history,’ and as a review it is written with a definite outlook, which if stimulating and suggestive, makes it hardly suitable for instruction to those who are not already fairly familiar with the facts.” A.
=Eng Hist R= 32:149 Ja ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 200w
“In the latest reprint Mrs J. R. Green has added an epilogue of one hundred and seventy-two pages covering the century from 1815 to 1914. A spirited sketch of the social changes and of the imperial and foreign problems which have confronted us, it is as dogmatic, as biassed, and almost as entertaining as J. R. Green’s own work, though he might not have given so much prominence to the so-called Celtic influence in British politics. He would certainly have described the causes of the war more clearly and more accurately, instead of veiling Germany’s direct responsibility for the conflict. An historian of the English people ought, we think, to be perfectly definite about this important matter. Mrs Green handles it gingerly, as if she doubted our good faith and our intense desire to keep the peace.”
=Spec= 117:348 S 23 ‘16 140w
“The keenest-eyed literary critic would find it difficult to determine from internal evidence where J. R. Green laid down the pen and Mrs Green has taken it up. There is the same picturesque style, the same gift of epigrammatic expression and faculty for seizing the essential detail, the same command of apt quotation, the same imaginative intuition, broad outlook on human affairs, and sympathy with national and democratic movements.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Ag 3 ‘16 600w
=GREEN, LILIAN (BAYLISS) (MRS ALBERT RANDOLPH GREEN).= Effective small home. il *$1.50 McBride 640 17-8603
The author was formerly editor of the Little house department of the Ladies’ Home Journal. To help those who live on small incomes and in small quarters is her aim in this book. Part 1 is personal. In it she writes of her own varied experiences in housekeeping. Part 2 is amplified from material prepared for the Ladies’ Home Journal, and has chapters on: Suggestions for furnishing, Lighting fixtures, The hanging of curtains, Floor coverings, etc. In addition there are appendixes giving suggestions for cleaning, recipes, etc. There is a short bibliography and an index.
“The book is full of personality, has some charm and many suggestive ideas. It makes a contribution in regard to the treatment of apartments and very small rooms. It contains no principles or standards by which to decorate, and is a record of ingenuity and taste rather than of principles and artistic standards.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17
“A practical book for young housekeepers of moderate means.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w
“A pleasantly personal tone pervades Mrs Green’s contribution.”
+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 10w
“The work points out many short cuts for women who are anxiously striving for beauty in the home.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ‘17 110w
=GREEN, MARY, pseud. (MRS MARIETTA [MCPHERSON] GREENOUGH).= Better meals for less money. *$1.25 Holt 641.5 17-13798
“It is the plan of this book,” says the author, “to include a variety of (1) recipes which require only a small amount of meat; (2) recipes for vegetable dishes which can take the place of meat; (3) recipes for the economical use of cereals, dairy products, and other common inexpensive foods; (4) recipes for breads, cakes, and desserts requiring only a small amount of butter and eggs; and (5) recipes for a few relishes, condiments, and other accessories which lend variety and interest.” The first chapter is devoted to General suggestions for economy.
“The general suggestions for economy are useful but the title is rather misleading as no meals are planned and the book is just another good cook book of selected recipes, well indexed, with an appendix which gives tables of weights and measures, temperature, caloric values, time tables for cooking and a list (2p.) of government publications on foods and cooking.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:412 Je ‘17 110w
=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 90w
“Not intended as a complete guide to cookery, this new book, so admirable in form and contents, presupposes an elementary knowledge of the care and preparation of food, and imparts much knowledge that is not elementary.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 120w
“Altogether this little book is indispensable for owners of small kitchens.”
+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 330w
“We have personally tested many of the recipes for salads and puddings and found them excellent. The author preaches a sort of sensible economy which the housewife can practice with much profit.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 40w
“The preface gives general suggestions for economy—the kind a sensible housewife can really practise.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 90w
“Another good point about the book is the binding, which is of the practical kind that may be handled without soiling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 14 ‘17 250w
=GREENE, CARLETON.= Wharves and piers; their design, construction and equipment. il *$3 McGraw 627 17-9604
“The book is frankly a catalog of standard designs. There appears little attempt to expand theory, but as a catalog, using that word in its best sense, there is little to be wished for. The main section, is devoted to the structure of the piers and wharves themselves. The following and less exhaustive part takes up the design of sheds for wharves and piers and a final and still less ambitious section is devoted to cargo-handling machinery. Finally, a number of detail costs afford some general information on that important subject.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w
“In no branch of engineering have there been so many strides forward in the past decade as in the design and construction of wharves and piers for harbors. ... In spite of this great advance, or perhaps because of it, the literature on the subject is most meager. Practically everything that can be found on recent wharf and pier construction must be sought in the files of technical magazines and society publications. Mr Greene has, therefore, done a considerable service for the profession in collecting the many types which appear in his new book.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:325 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
“The drawings, most of them dimensioned, are clearly executed.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ap ‘17 70w
“‘The subject of pile-driving has not been treated at length in this book.’”
=Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers p122 F ‘17)
=Pratt= p19 Jl ‘17 40w
=GREENE, FREDERICK STUART=, ed. Grim thirteen. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23978
Edward J. O’Brien, editor of “The best short stories of 1916,” in his introduction, tells us that six people, four writers, two critics and a publisher, talking over the short story became convinced that “a grim story, no matter whether it was a literary masterpiece or not, was hoodooed.” They then decided to select and publish in book form thirteen good stories that had been repeatedly rejected by American magazines. All of these stories were praised by editors who rejected them. Contents: The day of Daheimus, by Vance Thompson; Rain, by Dana Burnet; Old fags, by Stacy Aumonier; The head of his house, by Conrad Richter; The Abigail Sheriff memorial, by Vincent O’Sullivan; Easy, by Ethel Watts Mumford; The draw-keeper, by Wadsworth Camp; The razor of Pedro Dutel, by Richard Matthews Hallet; Knute Ericson’s celebration, by Robert Alexander Wason; The parcel, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; Back o’ the yards, by Will Levington Comfort and H. A. Sturtzel; The end of the game, by William Ashley Anderson; The black pool, by Frederick Stuart Greene.
“They form a protest against the commercial standards which have shown these writers that ‘some of their finest imaginative work could not achieve magazine publication without sensible modification.’ Not written for immature minds.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“Capt. Greene has proved all he has undertaken to prove and suggested very potent reasons for the freeing of our creative literature from the shackles at present imposed upon it.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 26 ‘18 1000w
“There is not one story in the volume that is mechanical, mediocre, or of the merely competent order that suffices for our monthly fiction. And what is similarly surprising is the distinguished style, the poetic perception, the high literary quality revealed in most of the rejected thirteen.” L: Untermeyer
+ — =Dial= 64:70 Ja 17 ‘18 1150w
“There is not a story with the indubitable touch of genius to lift it from the ‘grim’ to the tragic. Half of them are written in the same style, the American Magazine or, let us say, Saturday Evening Post style, and might have been written by the same brisk, ingenious hand.”
— =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 370w
“The circumstances under which the book is spun out at the public over the heads of the rejecting editors are an indictment of the magazine editors of the whole country. ... And it is a mighty good thing that somebody has had the spirit and the confidence in the American public to make such a test of its intelligence. ... Some of the thirteen stories reach a much higher level of literary quality than do others. For it is easy to see, with some of them, that gruesome theme or unhappy ending was not the sole reason for their untoward fate in magazine offices. But some of them are so true in their picturing of life, so fine in their artistry, and so high in their literary quality that one marvels at their continued rejection.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w
“In tone and atmosphere the stories must be classified with that grimly imaginative school of which Poe was the master. Still each plot is distinctly original. Each one is vivid, thrilling and direct, and many of them display a keen intuition and a sense of psychological values.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 360w
=GREENE, HARRY PLUNKET.= Pilot, and other stories. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan 16-22978
“Pilot,” the longest of the six stories in this book, is the story of a dog. Pilot is an English dog with a fondness for poaching, and his adventures are many and amusing. The remaining stories are about children and animals; among them there is one story for fishermen. Bight of the illustrations are in color.
+ =N Y Times= 22:41 F 4 ‘17 80w
“Our notice must not end without a few words of praise for the admirable illustrations of Mr H. J. Ford, so long and honourably associated with the fairy books of the late Andrew Lang. Here, however, he shows a range and versatility for which we were hardly prepared, and has collaborated with the author with most delightful results, whether his aim has been realistic, grotesque, or fantastic.”
+ =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 700w
“The story of his doings is so entertainingly and humorously told that the book should prove interesting to readers of all ages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 D 14 ‘16 350w
=GREENE, HOMER.= Flag. il *$1.25 (2c) Jacobs 17-22701
In a school-boy snowball battle, one of the two leaders wraps himself in the American flag as a means of protection in an assault, but his opponent, Penfield Butler, tears it from him and it is trampled and torn under their feet. Made to feel that his act was unpardonable, called “Benedict Arnold” by his companions, Penfield is forced to leave school. Thereafter he goes branded, is refused admission to the national guard, but finally takes part in the European war and thereby regains his good name.
“Marred by sentimentality.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:840 D ‘17 50w
“A wholesome story of military patriotism for boys told in a manly, straightforward style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 80w
=GREENE, KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM.= Little boy out of the wood, and other dream plays. *75c Lane 822 16-23242
A collection of fanciful little plays for reading. The titles are: The little boy out of the wood; Night watch; The poppy seller; The first Christmas eve; The vision splendid; The princess on the road; The two bad fairies. A note says, “Of the plays that form this book only one—‘The two bad fairies’—was written for a stage. The other six are dreams.”
“Recalling in the delicate allegory Olive Schreiner’s ‘Dreams’ comes ‘The little boy out of the wood.’ These are ‘dream plays,’ tragic and comic, and exquisite in workmanship.”
+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:21 F ‘17 30w
“Arranged for reading aloud.”
=R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 70w
=GREENOUGH, CHESTER NOYES, and HERSEY, FRANK WILSON CHENEY.= English composition. il *$1.40 Macmillan 808 17-15557
“Professor Greenough and Mr Hersey have prepared a most interesting text-book on ‘English composition,’ What they term ‘mechanics,’ that is troublesome points of grammar, punctuation, spelling are touched in short final chapters. The main chapters are on exposition, argument, description, narration, structure, with clear and suggestive discussion of the topics, and fine examples. The first chapter on gathering and weighing of material is especially to be noted, for it gives the pupil all sorts of practical, helpful hints that students must usually work out for themselves slowly at great waste of time or never work out at all.” (Ind) Dr Greenough is professor of English at Harvard university.
“Occasionally a volume appears which from its preface onward towers above the jumble of its competitors. Such a volume is this ‘English composition.’ The arrangement of the contents is unexceptionable. Better even than the arrangement, however, is the excellence of the presentation.”
+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 91:235 Ag 11 ‘17 100w
“If a criticism were to be made it would be that the authors treat composition as chiefly an exhibition of cleverness. They send a chiel out into the world notebook in hand and eye alert chiefly for the technical tricks of the trade. ... Beyond such technical matters a book on composition is perhaps not bound to go: within this field it would be difficult to find one that functions more efficiently; it makes one cast about at once for a sharp pencil. An interesting concession to the present interest in the spoken word, the book contains a rather prim little chapter on pronunciation.”
+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17
“The first work of its kind to bring the student ample descriptive extracts from famous writers illustrated with photographs of the actual scenes described by them.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 290w
=GREGOR, ELMER RUSSELL.= White Otter. il *$1.35 (2c) Appleton 17-8586
A sequel to “The red arrow.” White Otter is the young Sioux who was the hero of that tale. In this story he is again pitted against his tribal enemies, the Pawnees. In a great battle his grandfather, the Sioux chieftain, is taken prisoner and White Otter, following on the enemy’s trail, sets him free. It is a story of Indian life before the coming of the white man.
=A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
=GREGOROVITSH, DIMITRY.= Fishermen. *$1.50 (1½c) McBride
Dimitry Gregorovitsh was a contemporary of Tourgeniev. Angelo S. Rappoport, in the introduction to this novel, says that he is rightly considered one of the best exponents of the life of the Russian working people. The present story, here translated into English for the first time, centers about the family of Glyeb Savinitsh, a fisherman. Vania, Glyeb’s youngest son, and Grishka, an adopted child, are boys of the same age who grow up together, sharing alike in the family fortunes. Indeed, in spite of his shortcomings, Grishka seems to hold first place in the affections of the father. Knowing that Dounia, the girl both young men come to love, has given herself to Grishka, Vania takes his foster brother’s place as conscript in the army. Grishka, left free, marries Dounia and wrecks her happiness as he does that of the family that has sheltered him. An evil influence in the story is that of Zakhar, a product of the factory system, which, at the time that the book was written, was only beginning to invade the rural villages of Russia.
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w
“Grigorovich lacked deep psychological insight; he was more of a careful landscapist and an ethnographic observer than a vivisector of the human soul. Only in exceptional cases did he succeed in depicting a boldly outstanding character, as, for instance; in the old fisherman Glyeb.”
+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 330w
“Though ‘The fishermen’ has a slightly oldfashioned air about it, it is an air of sentiment rather than of sentimentality, and gives to realism the balance necessary to save it from becoming naturalism. ‘The fishermen’ reminds one of George Sand’s pastoral tales; it possesses a charm which is not glamour and a truth which is not all ugliness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 600w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“The author stands only in the second or third rank of Russian literature, has no life-message as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy have, and the picture which he gives of Russian life is not distinctive. ... The patriarchal life of Glyeb’s family ought to be interesting, but one never gets into the midst of it, and evidently the author himself is an outsider, having only a partial sympathy. ... The translation is without charm, and if the author is prolix the translator emphasizes the defect.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p42 Ja 25 ‘17 850w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Wolf breed. il *$1.40 (2c) Dodd 17-25854
The North woods provide the setting of a tale of avarice, jealousy and passion among men who, for greed of gold or refuge from the law, collect there in strange ill-assortment. Among the habitues of a frontier settlement house is No Luck Drennen who had grown hard, cynical, and evil-minded thru loss of faith in men he had trusted. He knows where to find gold; others know that he knows. Drennen becomes suspicious that every body is trying to pry into his secret and wrest from him his prospects. He includes in his suspicions a southern girl who mysteriously appears at the settlement. Woman hater tho he be and sharp of tongue he finds a match in Ygerne Bellaire whose clever fencing wins the admiration and love of the “lone wolf.” Treachery and misunderstanding make their romance a difficult one but they find a way out to happiness.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 190w
“It may be summed up as a tale of red blood pumped up by machine.”
— =Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 90w
“The tale of these fights and entanglements, the thrill and the zest of it, is well told. It is like nothing so much as the novelization of one of the famous ballads of Robert W. Service.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 250w
“It is a lively and quite impossible tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 320w
=GREGORY, RICHARD ARMAN.= Discovery; or, The spirit and service of science. il *$1.75 Macmillan 504 (Eng ed A16-1381)
“The spirit in which men of science devote themselves to the investigation and understanding of nature, the results of their discoveries in the increase of man’s power—these are the themes of the book.” (Sat R) “In his references to the life and work of men like Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Huxley, Kelvin, and Pasteur, the author illustrates the spirit of the discoverer—his fanaticism for the sanctity of truth, his disinterestedness and impersonal detachment, his delight in his work, and his cautious yet alert recognition of the possibility of error. ... Much of the book is an eloquent commentary on the text: ‘The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.’” (Nature)
“The essays, twelve in number, are readable, concrete in their treatment, and meant for the layman.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:382 Je ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p149 D ‘16 40w
Reviewed by J. A. Thomson
+ =Nature= 97:438 Jl 27 ‘16 950w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:239 Mr ‘17
=Pratt= p15 Ap ‘17 20w
+ =Sat R= 122:89 Jl 22 ‘16 1000w
“The appearance of this book could not well have been more timely.” T. B. Robertson
+ =Science= n s 45:143 F 9 ‘17 300w
=GREW, EDWIN SHARPE, and others.= Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener; his life and work for the empire. 3v il *25s 6d Gresham pub. co., London
A life of Lord Kitchener complete in three volumes. “The first volume deals with Kitchener’s early years, his work in Palestine, and the Egyptian campaign. The second volume begins with the Fashoda incident, and then deals with the Boer war.” (Ath) “The third volume treats of the present war, of Lord Kitchener’s magnificent work in raising the new armies, and of his death in the ‘Hampshire’ on June 5th last.” (Spec)
“A useful and careful piece of work. ... At the same time we should welcome a little more biography and a little less history.”
+ =Ath= p599 D ‘16 70w (Review of v 1 and 2)
“Carefully written and contains a good deal of new matter.”
+ =Spec= 117:448 O 14 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
+ =Spec= 118:368 Mr 24 ‘17 70w (Review of v 2 and 3)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 21 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
“Cooperative biography is not an ideal arrangement, but in this case the chapters blend surprisingly well, and the whole narrative flows with an ease which makes it a pleasure to read throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 450w (Review of v 1 and 2)
=GREY, ZANE.= Wildfire. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-2028
Wildfire, an untamed red stallion, is the hero of this story. Lucy Bostil, the pride of her father’s heart and a girl who doesn’t know the meaning of fear, is its heroine. Lin Slone, who tracks Wildfire up from Utah and captures him, is the horse’s nominal owner, but Lucy is the real owner, for it is to her the beautiful wild horse gives his heart. Lucy rides him once in a race against her father’s favorite, Sage King. She rides him again in a race for life against prairie fire. It is an exciting story of the days when Colorado was less settled and civilized than it is today.
“More sensational than some of his other stories.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“The story would make an excellent foundation for a moving-picture scenario. But still, ‘Wildfire’ possesses certain virtues of its own—the virtue of being straight, clean, and exciting, and the virtue of lacking the psychological sickliness and the maunderings of much of our third-rate fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 17 ‘17 230w
“After one has followed the story even with intensity, it fades a little in the mind in the days that come after, while one still remembers the atmosphere of the book or the characters.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:105 F 8 ‘17 500w
“Will add nothing to the author’s reputation. It lacks the atmosphere of his early novels and falls short of their restrained power. It is a shallow and sensational story.”
— =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 350w
“It is not like other books. It’s a horse story and—actually—unique.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
“Compares favorably with Mr Grey’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 200w
=GRIBBLE, FRANCIS HENRY.= Women in war. *$2.75 Dutton 920.7 (Eng ed 16-23097)
“This book, so eminently topical, was yet written, Mr Gribble tells us, before the world-war was talked of. It is an interesting account of individual women or groups of women noted for deeds of bravery, adventurous exploits, or for some special association with war from the time of Boadicea to that of Florence Nightingale. In an epilogue, in which Mr Gribble endeavours to bring the record somewhat up to date, he tells us that he was interned in Germany, and has something to say of German women in war time. ... The epilogue also records the experiences of some of the women who have served in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies—‘no fewer than twenty of them in the Voluntary Ukraine legion alone’—and of the women doctors and nurses who went through the Serbian campaign.”—Spec
“Mr Gribble writes of Jeanne d’Arc in detail, and with an open mind attempts to give her a proper place in history, conceding neither to M. Anatole France that she was merely the tool of the clergy, nor to Andrew Lang that she was the great military leader he thought her. His searching desire for fairness toward Jeanne d’Arc gives one confidence in the author’s estimate of other women warriors with whose reputation the reviewer is less familiar.”
+ =Dial= 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 230w
“It sketches in a light superficial manner the heroic or eccentric doings of a motley group of thirty or forty women, ranging in point of time from Countess Matilda of Tuscany to Miss Edith Cavell. The only nexus among them all is that each was in some way connected with war, either leading it like Jeanne D’Arc, or in supposedly causing it like the Empress Eugénie, or in suffering from it like Lady Sale, or in some other more or less remote fashion.”
=Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 350w
“Mr Gribble has made for himself more or less of a reputation as an entertaining but superficial writer on some of the intimate phases of history, especially those connected, and too often scandalously, with women. In this book he has collected with great industry an immense amount of information about what specific women have done in war and in the influencing of countries or individuals in times of war and as companions of warriors.”
=N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 140w
“Reading Mr Gribble’s pages, one can hardly realize that they record historical facts. The stories that he relates have all the fascination of fiction.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 120w
+ =Spec= 117:632 N 18 ‘16 210w
Reviewed by L. A. Mead
=Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 N 9 ‘16 1000w
=GRIERSON, RONALD.= Some modern methods of ventilation. il *$3 Van Nostrand 697 17-12836
“The author’s expressed purpose is to present, in as simple and concise a form as possible, the general principles and practice of design of a modern ventilating plant. This is accomplished as fully as could be expected in a book of less than 200 pages. ... Although based upon English practice, it presents American practices more fully and correctly than any other British book on this subject known to the reviewer. Many of its 40 tables are from American authorities, and all are in accordance with the most modern practice. A similar statement would apply to the illustrations.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w
“Although the book will scarcely meet the needs of the student beginner in this subject, nor completely satisfy the needs of the well-informed engineer, yet it may well interest both and it is a desirable addition to any library on the subject of ventilation. The descriptions and definitions are models of conciseness and clearness. ... As a whole, the book appears to be the product of one who is thoroughly versed in the theory and practice of modern ventilating work.” D. D. Kimball
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:602 Je 21 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
“‘The author of this contribution to a literature which is admittedly scanty has not attempted an exhaustive theoretical treatise. He has sifted with a good deal of skill bred of intimate knowledge of the practical side of his subject. Moreover the plant, instruments and methods of which he treats are up-to-date and fairly comprehensive, so that the result is a satisfactory and useful statement of things as they are.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Ironmonger p186 Mr 24 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:518 Je ‘17
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Carpentry. il $1 Manual arts press 694 17-1599
“This is really the complete story of the building of a modern house, from surveying and staking out to hanging the windows and doors.”—School Arts Magazine
“A textbook for use by trade apprentices, students in vocational and trade schools and students of manual arts. It is a clear treatise on the every-day problems of the carpenter and house builder. As a textbook on carpentry, it meets every requirement of the student. No other publication has ever undertaken to cover the essentials of house building in a manner adapted for school use as this book on ‘Carpentry.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 100w (Reprinted from Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan p139 Mr ‘17)
“Author is an experienced carpenter and is chairman of the Manual arts department, University of Missouri. He has written several excellent elementary books on woodworking, which are recommended.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w
“There are more than 150 illustrations. It is a book for apprentices, trade school students, and anybody who wants to know how houses are built.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
“One of the best textbooks for students beginning a study of this subject.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor
+ =School R= 26:63 Ja ‘18 120w
=GRIFFITH, WILLIAM.= Loves and losses of Pierrot. il *$1 Shores 811 16-22429
“In his ‘Loves and losses of Pierrot,’ William Griffith again proves the validity of his poet-gifts and the great charm of a suggestive sketch-book manner of using the old meters. ... Aside from the origins of the Pierrot legend, there are many suggestions that Mr Griffith has gone deep into the study of eighteenth-century France.”—N Y Times
+ =Dial= 61:543 D 14 ‘16 90w
“A slender book of delicately alluring lyrics finely and gracefully wrought.”
+ =Ind= 89:235 F 5 ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 54:209 Ja 27 ‘17 130w
“‘Spring life and spring sadness,’ is Mr Le Gallienne’s deft characterization of these songs, and little more is to be said.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:55 F 18 ‘17 150w
=GRIMM, MINERVA E.=, comp. Translations of foreign novels: a selected list. (Useful reference ser.) *$1 Boston bk. 016.8
This bibliography aims to bring together in convenient form some of the translations of foreign fiction. The general arrangement is by language. French and German first, these being the largest divisions. Then follow in alphabetical order: Belgian; Chinese; Danish; Dutch; Egyptian; Flemish; Greek; Hungarian; Italian; Norwegian; Polish; Roumanian; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; Yiddish. Under each language there is an alphabetical arrangement by author. The title index is arranged alphabetically according to title, with the language designated after each author and with cross references from other titles for the same book. The list was originally compiled as a bibliography presented for graduation in the New York library school in 1914, and was brought up-to-date before publication. “Each book in the list was examined at the time of compilation. It was available either in the reference department, the circulation department, or in the Library school of the New York public library. Some of the earlier publications are probably out of print, but entries were made for every book in fair condition, with a reasonable length of life before it.” (Preface)
=GRISAR, HARTMANN.= Luther; authorized tr. from the German, by E. M. Lamond; ed. by Luigi Cappadelta. v 6 *$3.25 Herder 15-12670
The final volume of Father Grisar’s study of Luther comes from the press in the year of the 400th anniversary of the reformation. In conclusion the author says that his constant endeavor has been “to get as close as possible to the real Luther and not to present a painted or fictitious one.” The volume contains the index for the entire work.
“The sixth volume of Prof. Grisar’s biography of the reformer displays, equally with the previous volumes, the author’s scholarship, industry, and endeavour to write with impartiality.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 50w
“The readers of these six volumes of Father Grisar must indeed recognize that he has written the most objective, the most thorough and most unprejudiced life of Luther.”
+ =Cath World= 106:247 N ‘17 600w
“As a Jesuit, the author has no sympathy for Luther, but he has spared no pains to state the facts about the reformer, and his general estimate of Luther’s character, especially in its mystical and its intolerant phases, is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 119:16 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Perhaps it is in the nature of the case impossible that a man who is so identified with the Roman system as an earnest and able Jesuit must needs be should be able to appreciate the motive force of its most deadly opponent. He is so absorbed in his psychological theories, and in minute points of historical accuracy, that he fails to grasp and to describe the great currents of Luther’s thought and action. Professor Grisar does not give a living history, but an elaborate and critical commentary on the history.”
* – + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p521 N 1 ‘17 3750w
=GRONER, AUGUSTA.= Joe Muller, detective; tr. by Grace Isabel Colbron. *$1.25 Duffield
“A little, mild-looking, meek-mannered, gentle-voiced man—and the best, most famous detective attached to the Secret service of the Austrian police; such is Joe Muller, the hero and principal figure in the five ingenious tales which make up this little book. The first and longest, a novelette, in fact, rather than a short story, is the one entitled ‘The lamp that went out.’ One of those murder cases which seem so simple and obvious, and are really so very complicated, is this tale of the man whose dead body was found in a lonely road.” (N Y Times) The other titles are: The case of the registered letter; The case of the pocket diary found in the snow; The case of the pool of blood in the pastor’s study; The case of the golden bullet.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:276 Jl 22 ‘17 230w
=GROSVENOR, JOHNSTON.= Strange stories of the great valley. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 17-12138
A story of the Ohio valley one hundred years ago. The young hero, Obadiah Holman, a New England boy, floats down the Ohio river, with his parents, to find a new home in Indiana. He meets and makes friends with many of the great men of the time and with one boy who was to become a great man, Abraham Lincoln. Of the incidents of the book, the author says, “They are almost true. ... In substance they are a faithful picture of the sort of adventures that helped pioneer lads of the great valley to grow into the full measure of men.”
“A really good, human book for children.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w
“Each story is complete in itself, but they fit together and are all the better for it; and Mr Grosvenor is a capital story teller.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 190w
=GROTIUS, HUGO.= Freedom of the seas; or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade. *$1 Oxford 341 16-10705
“A translation of Grotius’s famous treatise, one of the foundations and sources of international law. The book contains the Latin text of 1633, revised and an English translation by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, associate in Greek and Roman history, and Roman archaeology in the Johns Hopkins university. There is an introductory note by James Brown Scott, director of the division of international law of Carnegie endowment. Grotius’s treatise was naturally not altogether popular in England in the 17th century because he denied to any nation the right to claim large tracts of the open sea for its own particular use. The work was not, however, directed against England. It was written to make good the right of the Dutch to continue trading with the East Indies.”—Springf’d Republican
=Springf’d Republican= p6 O 15 ‘17 200w
“The work is singularly unsuggestive as to present or probable future controversies.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p86 F 22 ‘17 1250w
=GRUMBACH, S.=[2] Germany’s annexationist aims; tr., abbreviated and introduced by J. Ellis Barker. *$1.50 Dutton 327.43 17-29849
“Mr Barker is familiar with the politics, language, and literature of Germany, and held international rank as an authority in regard thereto before war began. In his introduction to this book he says that ‘Germany’s war-aims are not sufficiently known in this country’; and he proceeds to speak of ‘Herr S. Grumbach’s monumental volume. “Das annexionistische Deutschland,” published by Payot & Co., at Lausanne, in 1917,’ as affording the information not hitherto accessible here. To render it so has been his wish, as translator and abbreviator. It is his conviction, well based, as his numerous quotations and excerpts prove, that German annexationists, belonging to all classes of society, have formed almost boundless plans of conquest in Europe and on the continents beyond.’”—Lit D
=Ath= p671 D ‘17 110w
=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 100w
“On some points his book shows the result of haste in its compilation, but none the less it is a very useful piece of work, which should be widely known.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 N 1 ‘17 850w
=GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, and GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, jr.= Valuation, depreciation and the rate-base. diags *$4 Wiley 338 17-1339
“This volume is a notable addition to the small number of books that treat at all fully the subject of valuation and related problems. It contains an introductory discussion; carefully written definitions of many of the terms used; a statement of fundamental principles; a full discussion of the various matters that effect valuation and rate making; chapters relating to the value of real estate, water rights and reservoir and watershed lands; a special chapter by Carl Ewald Grunsky, jr., on the valuation of mines and oil properties ... tables giving the probable useful life of various articles and expectancy of life and remaining value upon a given theoretical basis; and a series of tables relating to compound interest, present worth, annuities, amortization and depreciation.”—Engin N
“Less a comprehensive and systematic discussion of valuation and rate making in accordance with present procedure than the presentation of particular views based on personal experience and study. There is commendable omission of numerous elementary commonplaces, but unfortunately particular points are uselessly repeated over and over and, in general, material, much of it irrelevant, is presented in a very disorganized fashion.” J: Bauer
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:634 S ‘17 1000w
+ =American Gas Engineering Journal= p302 Mr 24 ‘17
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 10w
“While, as indicated above, the book in some of its main features seems not to make recommendations along practical and progressive lines, it is the result of personal contact, long experience and much study of the valuation problem, has been written with much care and contains many valuable ideas, so that it should have a place in the library of all those interested in valuation.” F: P. Stearns
+ =Engin N= 77:434 Mr 15 ‘17 1100w
“Chapter 12, on the accounting system, is not up to date. ... The reviewer commends the book to the libraries of valuation men, not because it is a model of clearness, nor even because he thinks the depreciation problem is as desperately complex as the authors make it, but because the authors have painstakingly expounded a fair-minded theory about which valuation men should know something, and because they have presented some remarkably complete tables.” C. W. Stark
+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 850w
“This work on the valuation of utilities and mines contains little new material for most students of the subject. It is primarily an exposition of established practices in valuation without much critical appraisal of their soundness. Students beginning the study of valuation, however, will find the work a clear and helpful presentation of the subject.”
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:757 Jl ‘17 370w
“The book is not suited for popular reading, but has value for technicians. Its preparation marks a decided step in the regulation of utilities. We hear so much about it that it might be thought an old art. In fact, it is so new that it has hardly developed its science.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 220w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:336 Ap ‘17 50w
“The engineer or utility official ... will probably find the mathematical and tabular information of considerable value.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 170w (Reprinted from Electric Railway Journal p674 Ap 7 ‘17)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:822 D ‘17 20w
+ =Railway Review= p539 Ap 14 ‘17
=GRUNZEL, JOSEF.= Economic protectionism; ed. by Eugen von Philippovich. *$2.90 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23811)
“This volume is the first published by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace. ... The book covers a much wider range of topics than is ordinarily covered in books on the protective question. Not duties upon imports alone are considered, but also the regulation and manipulation of railway rates for the purpose of affording protection, and administrative measures which, though nominally for hygienic and sanitary purposes, in reality are designed to impede importation. Export duties naturally receive attention; and further, the import and export of capital, and immigration and emigration.”—Nation
Reviewed by A. L. Bishop
=Am Econ R= 7:659 S ‘17 600w
“The volume will be chiefly valuable as a general presentation of a subject, too much neglected by American writers, which is bound to attract greater attention in the immediate future. More particularly the second part will be useful, for few people realize the wide extent of the measures already adopted by various countries in carrying out this policy. But as a theoretical discussion of the economic soundness and political wisdom of the policy as a whole it is inadequate.” C. W. Wright
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:851 Jl ‘17 700w
“It has been strongly criticized for its protectionist bias.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“Its purpose is to survey the problem of protectionist policy as a whole, and summarize the results of the past research. The committee wisely committed this task to a scholar who believed in protection. The result is a most useful volume, although it throws little light on the problem of the causation of war.”
+ — =Ath= p22 Ja ‘17 1450w
“Professor Grunzel’s chief field of activity seems to be in the Austrian ministry of commerce, as adviser and administrator; and this accounts for the fulness of his information upon such concrete matters as were just referred to. No doubt it serves also to account for the general character of the present performance. The book is not such as would come from a scholar or from any one having capacity for intellectual discrimination. It is frankly, almost naïvely protectionist; indeed, exhibits protectionism in its vulgar form. The verdict, alas, must be that it is full of superficialities, question-begging phrases, muddy reasoning. ... As an intellectual performance, it is negligible. But as an indication of the ways, and purposes of the economic politician, it is of sad and portentous significance.”
— =Nation= 104:239 Mr 1 ‘17 1400w
=GUÉRARD, ALBERT LÉON.= Five masters of French romance. *$1.50 Scribner 843 17-26178
“The present volume is, in the main, independent of politics, though we do not overlook the introductory and concluding chapters—‘The twilight of a world,’ ‘Geniuses as cannon-fodder and survival of the unfittest,’ ‘Regeneration,’ and so on. The writers studied are Anatole France, primate of French literature; Pierre Loti, exotic representative of French Protestantism, ‘and on the surface the least Protestant of all’; Paul Bourget, ‘the most skilful technician’; Maurice Barrès, ‘defender of tradition’; and Romain Rolland, author of ‘one of the world’s classics.’”—Dial
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:257 Mr ‘17
“The criticism is sane, the argument popular, the substance interesting and the tone serious, while the style sparkles with a true French vivacity which has not had to suffer by translation. ... While it would be impossible to subscribe to every one of M. Guérard’s appreciations, he would be himself the first to disavow any such necessity.”
+ =Cath World= 104:694 F ‘17 350w
“Professor Guérard is a well-read man and he has written a useful book of a secondary sort. His book is, as his college lectures doubtless are, highly instructive to those who are not already well informed in the field traversed. His exposition of French novels and French culture is discreet and balanced, and his knowledge of American life, its standards, and limitations, adds to his conservatism in the present work. There is no heat or passion here, either for men or works or ideas, and the level style and equal temper of the essays make them all the more judicious and all the less inspiring.”
+ — =Dial= 62:113 F 8 ‘17 350w
+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y Times= 22:187 My 13 ‘17 920w
=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 100w
“Peculiarly circumstanced for interpreting to Americans the personal and literary characteristics of modern French authors is Albert Leon Guérard, a Frenchman born and bred, but now an American of more than ten years’ standing who is professor of French in the Rice institute, at Houston, Tex.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 350w
“He wants to be on the side of the heavy angel, sociology, yet he is by inclination a connoisseur of literature. ... He is so anxious to convince Texas that French yellow-backs are worthy of serious attention that he is a little unscrupulous as to the kind of attention he secures for them. Secretly convinced that they are to be judged as literature, he has not the courage of his conviction, and serves them up as documents of social history. Unsteadiness of aim makes a bad book, and Mr Guérard’s is not a good one. And yet it might have been had not the American conscience so much perturbed the French taste.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 21 ‘16 700w
“Useful for readers who wish short-cuts to a knowledge of these French writers and their novels, but are hardly equal to Miss Stephens’ ‘French novelists of today.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:156 My ‘17 70w
=GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT.= Heap o’ livin’. *$1.25 Reilly & B. 811 16-21963
“Mr Guest chooses the old familiar themes of domestic joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of life, the high hopes and the grievous disappointments common to our lot. ... This is by no means his first appearance in print, and to his old friends he needs no introduction. Let those who still have before them the pleasure of making his acquaintance try his quality in such poems of the present collection as ‘My creed,’ ‘Spring in the trenches,’ ‘The other fellow,’ ‘Father,’ and ‘Mother.’”—Dial
“Those who like Will Carleton and James Whitcomb Riley will not dislike Mr Guest.”
+ =Dial= 61:355 N 2 ‘16 200w
“Homespun poetry, full of health and vigor.”
+ =Lit D= 53:1727 D 30 ‘16 360w
“Inspiration may or may not lie between its covers; but love and good solid, spiritual fellowship for the common man are there.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 1 ‘17 250w
=GUEST, FLORA (BIGELOW) (MRS LIONEL GEORGE WILLIAM GUEST).= Cow and milk book. il *75c (3c) Lane 636 17-12845
A series of short, practical chapters on dairying by a woman who writes from personal experience in Canada. Emphasis is placed on cleanliness, careful inspection, etc. Among the subjects taken up are: Beef versus milk, The care of milk, The price of milk, Housing the cattle, Housing calves, To start a herd on economical lines, Advanced registry of cattle, How to choose a dairy cow, Stall-fed cows, Bedding, Watering the cattle.
“Will be found as helpful as the more scientific guides, most of which have the herd owner in mind.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 40w
“Mrs Lionel Guest was the daughter of the late John Bigelow. ... She has a successful dairy farm near Montreal which she superintends, and this little book offers the results of her own experience. It is thoroughly practical and deals with all the phases of the subject.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
=GUIMERÁ, ANGEL.= La pecadora (Daniela); a play in three acts; tr. by Wallace Gillpatrick. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *$1.25 Putnam 862 16-22623
For the English version of this play by the author of “Marta of the Lowlands,” we are indebted to Mexico City. The translator saw its first performance there in 1902 and, impressed with its merits, obtained permission from the author to translate it into English. The scene is in a little Spanish village. A great singer, after fifteen years of absence, has just returned to her childhood home. She is broken in health and her hopes of renewing her strength among well-loved scenes are frustrated by the suspicions of her old friends, and especially by the jealousy of the wife of her one-time sweetheart.
“Wallace Gillpatrick has translated ‘La pecadora’ and has brought over into English most if not all of the hot and fluid passion of the original. ... For acting purposes, at least with us, some of the scenes, notably the first half of the first act, would have to be condensed, but it makes easier reading as it stands, affording the opportunity to come slowly and surely under the spell of the emotions and the sensibilities of another race.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
“For sheer dramatic intensity the second act has been equalled by few plays in the past half century. ... Guimerá’s play should be accessible in the theater. It probably will not be. There is too much of the primitive and the true in it, and nothing whatever of the veiled sex appeal. ... As a reading play it is fascinating, and we fortunately have it in an admirable translation.” Frank Macdonald
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 850w
=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 160w
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Dynamic of manhood. *75c (3c) Assn. press; *$1 (4c) Doran 170 17-21790
Dr Gulick says that human desires, or hungers, may be divided into two classes: (1) those that seek some benefit for one’s self; and (2) those that seek some benefit for others. The first are stomach-hungers—or Hunger; the second are heart-hungers—or Love. It is with these “heart-hungers” that his book is concerned. Contents: The two major motives; Hunger for a friend; Hunger for woman; Hunger for children; Hunger for God. The two editions are printed from the same plates, altho that issued by the Association Press is in smaller form.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18
“His conclusions coincide with and add weight to the best thought of the day, from the viewpoint of religion as well as from that of science.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 100w
“The opening chapter on unsexed persons gives the book an excessively physiological keynote, and does not establish the author’s thesis. Dr Gulick has, however, an excellent chapter on the dangers of talking sexual subjects so as to arouse pruriency in children and his presentation of the ideal of romantic marriage is sincere and high-principled.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 150w
=GULLIVER, JULIA HENRIETTA.= Studies in democracy. *$1 (6c) Putnam 321.8 17-6232
Three addresses by the president of Rockford college for women. In the first, The essence of democracy, delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1915, the author expresses the belief that “the impulse toward expansion, which underlies the present world-upheaval, is the impulse toward the democratizing of Europe.” The second, The twentieth-century search for the Holy Grail, delivered before the State federation of women’s clubs in Rockford, Ill., in 1915, is a study of the work of American women along economic, civic and legislative lines. The third, The efficiency of democracy, a baccalaureate address of 1916, is given to a comparison of the methods of a democracy and an autocracy, as represented by the United States and Germany, with suggestions as to what each can learn from the other.
“While it contains nothing that is novel or striking, the book is interesting, cogent in its expression of ideas and possesses more literary merit than most brief discussions of its kind.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:366 My ‘17 80w
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:43 Mr ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 20w
“The fact that two of them are baccalaureate sermons may explain their limitations, for nothing seems to stultify original thought like the necessity of imparting it to June graduates.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 200w
=GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON.= Magna carta, and other addresses. *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 342.7 16-17474
The address on Magna carta which opens this volume was delivered before the Constitutional convention of the State of New York in 1915. The other addresses, also prepared for special occasions, are: The Mayflower compact; Constitutional morality; The eleventh amendment; Criticism of the courts; Graduated or progressive taxation; The duty of citizenship; Nominating conventions; Catholic parochial schools; The France-America committee of New York.
“Mr Guthrie’s addresses add very little to the discussion of the problems which they are concerned with, but they have their value as a statement of the conservative view by a learned and clear-thinking student and teacher of the law. The essay on ‘Magna carta’ is perhaps the least valuable of the entire collection. In this paper the author presents the older view of the content and purpose of this document, a view that has long since lost credit among English historians.”
=Dial= 62:112 F 8 ‘17 250w
“On every page there is to be found cogent argument, happy illustration and sound setting forth of vitally important legal and constitutional principles.”
+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 90w
“Mr Guthrie’s predilection for quasi-historical arguments prevents him from dealing with any issue on its merits. However, in the essay on the income tax, he shows his moral insight and social wisdom in his condemnation of a graduated income tax.” M. R. Cohen
– + =New Repub= 9:sup18 N 18 ‘16 800w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 12 ‘17 450w
=GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL.=[2] Church and state in England to the death of Queen Anne; with a preface by the Rev E. W. Watson. *$5 (3c) Longmans 274.2 17-27958
Dr Gwatkin did not live to revise his manuscript, and it is offered with some imperfections which the editors deemed presumptuous to tamper with. It is not a textbook for beginners but for “informed and intelligent students” who wish a survey of England’s secular and ecclesiastical development, in due coordination and proportion. A good index is provided.
“If, in consequence of the lamented author’s death, some portions of the book are not quite abreast of the most recent knowledge there is compensation in the broadminded and comprehensive treatment of the weighty theme to which Prof. Gwatkin wholeheartedly addressed himself.”
+ =Ath= p590 N ‘17 190w
“As a scamper through English history this posthumous work, edited by Dr E. W. Watson, is clever. Here and there we find shrewd remarks and phrases. But, whereas the modern historian strives painfully to be coldly neutral, Gwatkin’s bias was so vehement that he seldom troubles to argue, or even to be accurate.”
– + =Sat R= 124:465 D 8 ‘17 1500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 70w
“No references are given, but they are hardly to be expected in a compendium of facts which derives its interest from the personality of the author and the independence of his views. There is no lack of learning, and the book is wonderfully compressed. The character sketches are always interesting, and some of the generalizations on collateral subjects, like the remarks on English foreign policy on page 237, would do credit to a specialized monograph. No ecclesiastical historian has written with a broader outlook on the human side of English history.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 D 20 ‘17 1300w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Mrs Humphry Ward. (Writers of the day) *60c (3c) Holt 823 (Eng ed 18-1392)
This study of Mrs Humphry Ward is added to a series which already includes books on Anatole France, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others. It is Mrs Ward’s great and long continued popularity that draws critical attention to her work. As Mr Gwynne says, “Such a success as she has achieved and consolidated does not dictate to critical opinion, but it compels appraisement to be made.” Following the introduction, are chapters devoted to: “Robert Elsmere”; Novels of the general world: “Helbeck of Bannisdale” and “Eleanor”; Novels with a historical basis: “The case of Richard Meynell”; Later novels and general appreciation.
“Mr Gwynn takes the candid and reasonable view that the popularity of Mrs Humphry Ward justifies a critical attention which her books hardly deserve on mere literary grounds.”
+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w
“While he has apparently read Mrs Ward’s novels thoroughly, he has little understanding of their purpose. A serious mistake was made by the editor of the series in inviting him to contribute the study of Mrs Humphry Ward.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 650w
“At times his criticism is most caustic, more than is usually found in sketches of this character.” D. F. K.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 160w
“It is with unmixed joy that we greet this critical estimate of Mrs Humphry Ward, not because it is vital to have an estimate of Mrs Ward, but because in itself this little study is of unusual value. This critique is excellent from a critical point of view, and well worth reading for its own sake.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 440w
“It is a remarkably spirited and readable appreciation, even though one may not fully agree with the conclusions.”
+ — =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 80w
“Mr Gwynn shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic.”
+ =Spec= 119:529 N 10 ‘17 140w
“Mr Gwynn has not a few shrewd things to say as to Mrs Ward’s mental attitude. His opening pages seem to be imbued with the highly unintelligent view that there must be something suspicious about a large circulation. This leads him to impose upon the reader at the outset what seems to us a wholly unfair view of his subject, and one which he does not prove himself able to substantiate.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 470w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS, and TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE M.= Life of the Rt Hon Sir Charles W. Dilke. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan (Eng ed 17-29369)
“It may be expected that this ‘Life of Sir Charles Dilke’ will at once take its place among standard works of reference, for much of it records in his own words, from notes made day by day, the important events in British and European history of the second half of the nineteenth century in which he took a prominent part. ... Sir Charles Dilke’s activities were many-sided, and his biographers have tried to present a picture of the complete man. Sections are allotted to his lifelong efforts to improve the conditions of the working classes, his care for the rights of native races, and his literary work and interests; and Mr Spenser Wilkinson contributes the chapters describing the active part taken by Sir Charles Dilke in impressing upon the nation the necessity of preparations for imperial defence. In all the activities of the second half of his life Sir Charles had a devoted co-worker in Lady Dilke, and Miss Tuckwell has provided a delightful picture of happy home life.”—Ath
“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation. For in the realm of social politics Dilke established a new tradition. In the sphere of foreign policy or imperial policy, on questions relating to the army and navy, he undoubtedly possessed an almost unrivalled knowledge; but these matters were, in a sense, the stock-in-trade of all politicians. In the field of social politics, however, he stood alone—a pioneer.”
+ =Ath= p504 O ‘17 1900w
“The reader feels that he is a privileged spectator in the actual making of history, and is enabled to realize the personalities of the chief characters who directed the course of events.”
+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 480w
“His biographers appear to have magnified his strong and engaging qualities and minimized his failings, which is not an uncommon practice with biographers who are also loving friends. It is unfortunately to be noted that the publishers of this work found it necessary or desirable to give the book a fragile and mechanically poor binding.” H. S. K.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 900w
“There has been no English political biography so valuable as this since Lord Morley summarized an epoch in his life of Gladstone. ... From whatever angle this life is regarded it is a valuable supplement to what we already possess.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:320 Ja 12 ‘18 2450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 600w
“It is impossible to praise too highly the industry and tact with which Miss Tuckwell has discharged her task of compiling what will certainly rank as a great political biography. ... Miss Tuckwell’s comments are sparing and relevant; and while she obviously writes as a loving disciple, there is no indiscriminate or emotional eulogy.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 S 29 ‘17 1200w
“We cannot think of Sir Charles Dilke as a possible prime minister. ... Miss Tuckwell, however, has unquestionably shown that Sir Charles Dilke was a greater force in Liberal politics before 1885 than many people supposed.”
+ — =Spec= 119:327 S 29 ‘17 2050w
“It is for their spiritual quite as much as for their historical value that these volumes will take their place in English literature. ... We find, with some disappointment, in the passages dealing with labour questions a lack of that intimacy, that private estimation of personalities and tendencies, which is so fascinating in other chapters of the book.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p451 S 20 ‘17 1950w
=GWYNNE, WALKER.=[2] Primitive worship and prayer book; rationale, history, and doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American books. *$2.50 Longmans 264 17-15175
A study made timely by the work of revision of the prayer book in England, the United States and Canada. The writer traces the origin and development of Christian worship to the present form for English-speaking people. The second part of his work is devoted to a clear explanation of what the church teaches by means of the prayer book—by means of the formularies, traditional customs and interpretative scripture embodied in the prayer book. The book seeks an audience among students, general readers, teachers and candidates for Holy orders.
=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17
“The chapters contain the result of considerable reading in the modern literature on the subject, and show that the writer has the gift of interesting exposition.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 210w
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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= You are the hope of the world! *50c (5½c) Macmillan 172 17-23664
Mr Hagedorn appeals to the boys and girls of America, especially to those between the ages of ten and seventeen, to realize the responsibility laid upon their shoulders by the great war. He asks them to think squarely about their country, to realize that “democracy isn’t a success—yet,” that we are wasteful, materialistic, improvident and indifferent, and then to “create a tradition of alert citizenship, a tradition of public service.” “Your elder brothers will have to fight with guns. ... To you is given a work every bit as grand as dying for your country; and that is, living for the highest interests of your country! Those interests are the interests of democracy. If, therefore, you live for the highest interests of America, you live at the same time for the highest interests of the world. You are the hope of the world!”
=A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18
“Such a book as this cannot be reviewed. It must be read if its mission is to be understood. And all should read it, all Americans who know, who fear to know, or who are anxious to know what America stands for in this war.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w
“Mr Hagedorn has compiled all the patriotic persuasion that he can cram into 100 pages or so, and from a literary point of view, his appeal is well worth reading. It is curious to note how he traverses what ‘teacher’ told the boys and girls in school about the faultless democracy of Uncle Sam ... and how we have always been morally, ethically and spiritually right, and those who opposed us wrong.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“This appeal to patriotism is praiseworthy in Its musical simplicity of style, and the wholesome tenor of his arguments. ... If Mr Hagedorn can make this war teach the lesson of obligation and responsibility to our over-fed and under-worked youth, that will be one consolation left us.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 320w
=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Finished. il *$1.40 Longmans 17-24205
“That mighty African hunter and adventurer, Allan Quatermain, who has so often filled the roles of hero and narrator of H. Rider Haggard’s romances, is once more pressed into service in ‘Finished.’ ... While this story is complete in itself, it forms the concluding unit of a trilogy, of which ‘Marie’ and ‘Child of storm’ are the preceding numbers ... The story embodies the last episode in the wizard Zikali’s mysterious career; but to give it a proper setting, Mr Haggard recounts the events preceding the Zulu-British war of 1879, together with events in the early stages of the strife. Historical facts are, of course, suitably cloaked in romance, and arranged to the needs of the plot.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“Our old friend, Allan Quatermain tells this story. And he tells it well, even if some of the old glamour seems to be missing.”
+ — =Ath= p527 O ‘17 60w
“Thirty years have passed since we first heard of Allan Quatermain and he is as much alive today as ever. ... He is and will remain one of the dominant characters of English romantic fiction.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 1150w
“The council at the ‘Valley of bones’ is the most thrilling and picturesque part of a lively, exciting and readable narrative.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w
+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 150w
“A fascinating mixture of fact and fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 880w
“This latest volume, with its ominous title, ‘Finished,’ shows us two things clearly: One is that this particular type of romance of adventure, ... with its long-winded periods and utter lack of characterization in dialog needed a rich imagination that provided thrills in plenty and all the action required to sweep the reader along in a fascination that forgot the cumbersome writing; and the second thing is that Rider Haggard’s once so enviably rich and fertile imagination is, if not exactly finished, at least slowing down to an extent that necessitates a change of style to make his books acceptable.” G. I. Colbron
+ — =Pub W= 92:804 S 15 ‘17 570w
=R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 100w
“The author re-creates, as no other novelist can, the mysterious, legendary Africa of exploration days, and his stories, which are the outgrowth of a personal knowledge of African pioneering, convey a thrill and interest shared by few adventure tales of the present.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 320w
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 6 ‘17 570w
=HALASI, ÖDÖN.= Belgium under the German heel. *$1.50 Funk 940.91 17-21999
“M. Halasi, a well-known Hungarian writer, ‘succeeded in gaining the confidence of the German authorities and was allowed in 1916 to spend a few months in Belgium, being given unusual facilities for travelling and seeing everything within the occupied territory.’ The record of his experiences has been given to the anonymous translator, who has supplemented it by information conveyed by another Magyar, M. Ernö Lovass, who spent eighteen months in Belgium during the war.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is evident that Mr Halasi’s sympathies are with the Belgium people. ... He sketches the present condition of Antwerp, Louvain, Namur, Dinant, Liège, and Malines, in the order named, and tells to what extent they have suffered or escaped the horrors of war. He closes his book with a picture of Cardinal Mercier and his efforts on behalf of his fellow-countrymen.”
+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 350w
=Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 160w
“The description offers nothing sensational. The author apparently left Belgium before the time of the deportations; we have here nothing of the nature of the harrowing scenes described in M. Passelecq’s book.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 400w
=HALDANE, JOHN SCOTT.= Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathing. (Mrs Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 612 17-9380
“Four lectures dealing respectively with the regulation of breathing; the readjustment of regulation in acclimatization and disease; the regulation of the environment, internal and external; organic regulation as the essence of life—inadequacy of mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions.”—Cleveland
“Of interest to biologists, physiologists, philosophers, and physicians.”
+ =Cleveland= p94 Jl ‘17 50w
“Four addresses of dynamic interest, but from two very distinct points of view. The first three are predominantly physiological and technical rather than popular. ... The fourth lecture is of superlative interest, and is a masterly application of the facts of physiology to the modern theories of life.”
+ =Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 600w
“The special value of the book to students lies in the fact that the function of respiration is treated simply as one aspect of the activities of the organism as a whole, as a chapter in the unending series of adaptations, internal and external, which make up the life of an individual.” F. H. S.
+ =Nature= 100:241 N 29 ‘17 1050w
=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 50w
“From its detailed study of the processes connected with breathing under so many diverse conditions, the book will be of interest to physicians and physiologists. From its consideration of the conflicting theories of life from the standpoint primarily of breathing, it deserves a place on the shelf of the biologist and natural philosopher.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 700w
“Dr Haldane was invited by Yale university to give the Silliman lectures in 1915. At that time there were expectations about the duration of the war which made it natural that postponement of one year should be asked and granted. In 1916 it was determined to wait no longer, and the events of 1917 have fully justified the judgment. The lectures (on the ‘Physiology of breathing’) were delivered and are to appear in book form before long. But since they contained much that is technical, Dr Haldane gave also four public lectures on ‘points of more general interest,’ which are printed in the present volume. There is still enough of technicality left to make it hardish reading for the layman in places, but the reading is well worth while.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p364 Ag 2 ‘17 1750w
=HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, jr.=[2] Life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. 2v il ea *$5 (2c) Little 17-31921
Not a criticism, neither an estimate of the life of Edward Everett Hale, but a portrayal of his personal character and achievements. Making use of a vast amount of material including letters, diaries, day books, sermons, lectures and various contributions to literature the son of Dr Hale has followed the progress of his father’s career thru its nearly ninety years. After graduation from Harvard he spent a few years making up his mind what he would do; then turned to the ministry. Middle age found him a leading clergyman; a leader and organizer in and out of his especial denomination, full of ideas for public service; a man of letters who had ahead of him long, useful years before the American public. The spirit of the great American has been immortalized in the story that won him continuous fame, “A man without a country.”
“Books of this kind are as rare and as universal in their interest as the characters with which they deal.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
“A word of praise should go to Mr Hale not only for the painstaking care, fine discrimination and judicial mind with which he has done this work, but also for the excellent spirit of literary craftsmanship in which the whole work has been conceived and carried out. For it is what one might call, for lack of a better term, creative biography. He has used his materials as a sculptor would use clay, and out of them has made a clear and luminous figure which stands out from the pages, a real and authentic portrait of the man as he was. He has not even allowed his filial love to obscure or to gild or to make deceptively roseate what he felt to be the true lineaments of his subject or the true estimate of his character, his work, and his influence.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:553 D 16 ‘17 1600w
“We have had to wait eight years for this story of his life. It was worth waiting for. His son has written, or rather we should say edited, this life with reverencing candor—a combination rare in biographers.” Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 118:146 Ja 23 ‘18 2800w
“It is good to have this biography of vivid and vivifying life. It will bring closer to the man thousands of readers who have known his books and who may well wish to come, thru this biography, into more direct touch with his personality. The illustrations help toward this end.” R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 93:216 Ja 19 ‘18 850w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 210w
=HALL, BOLTON.= Thrift. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 304 17-2049
Education, the cooperative movement, intensive cultivation of the land and natural taxation are some of the subjects discussed in this book. The author does not write of thrift in the vein of Samuel Smiles. It is not a system of saving pennies that he advocates, but rather an organization of all one’s resources to the end that life may be enriched. He advocates efficiency, too, but it is not the machine-made efficiency of the experts.
=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Survey)
“Evidence of the up-to-date business promoter sticks out on almost every page. His is the clever, incisive, staccato style.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 330w
=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 150w
“It would not be just to imply that there aren’t some good things in this book. These good things might have been condensed into a pamphlet. There is chapter 13, for example, on ‘Institutional garden thrift.’ There is an interesting discussion of coöperatives; and another of taxation of land values. Mr Hall’s dissertation on prohibition appears to the reviewer to be partially misleading. Loose thinking characterizes it.” D: Rosenstein
– + =N Y Call= p15 Je 10 ‘17 770w
=Pittsburgh= 22:325 Ap ‘17 20w
“The best chapter preaches ‘thrift in happiness,’ and points the way to love without possession and to joy that is not dependent upon material success.”
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 110w
“Addressed to wage earners. A sensible discussion of personal efficiency, waste and extravagance, investments and practical success.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17 20w
“It is full of bright turns, but it is more than bright,—it is sensible and practical. ... The argument [about temperance], as far as it goes, is sound, but it doesn’t get far into the merits of the question. It is the shallowest part of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 330w
“How to become prosperous without petrifying in the process really is Mr Hall’s theme; and, though we may not agree with him in every detail of his plan, no one can read this little book without getting benefit from his warm human counsel.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 37:585 F 17 ‘17 180w
=HALL, GERTRUDE.= Aurora the magnificent. il *$1.40 (1c) Century 17-10200
Mrs Aurora Hawthorne and her friend Miss Estelle Madison drop on the little Anglo-American colony in Florence, determined to see and to spend and to enjoy. They, in particular Aurora, possess all the failings of the “typical” American abroad, but the Anglo-American colony, led by the American consul and his family, accept Aurora and Estelle without question. The reader can do no less, for there is something about them, particularly Aurora, that is compelling. The Fosses, the American consul’s family, are delightful, and worthy of a book all of themselves, but this story as it develops becomes more and more the story of Aurora and Gerald Fane, poor, over-wrought, artistic Gerald alternately moved by a desire to shake Aurora and an impulse to rest his tired head on her generous shoulder.
“Published in the Century.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:413 Je ‘17 550w
“The story is simple and comprehensible, the mystery untangling itself bit by bit, as mysteries really do. It is natural and not melodramatic; amusing and thoroughly readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 330w
+ =Cath World= 105:555 Jl ‘17 80w
“People who frankly enjoy love-mazes will like this story; it is written with grace and simplicity, and an honest insight into the thoughts and experiences with which most folk most of the time are engrossed. Those who yearn for light on the vaster perplexities of the human struggle en masse, might as well pass it by.”
=Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 230w
“Aurora is that rare thing in popular fiction, an individual, a new personality.”
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 130w
“The main thing, and the overwhelming thing, is our faith in Aurora’s greatness as a woman, in her adequacy for life, upon whatever terms it may challenge her. ... Our Aurora’s triumph over us and her Gerald is that we exult in her as she is.”
+ =Nation= 104:581 My 10 ‘17 470w
“The story is a very fine and generous comedy of Americanism abroad. There is no denying Aurora, or the wholesome elemental womanhood, the ripeness of character, that underlies her outrageous bloom.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The novel is clever and written with a good deal of charm, but the author has spread her slight plot over far too many pages.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 330w
“Reading ‘Aurora the magnificent’ is like taking a railway journey thru pleasant enough but rather uneventful country and all at once getting somewhere.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:973 Mr 17 ‘17 550w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Jesus, the Christ, in the light of psychology. 2v *$7.50 (2c) Doubleday 232 17-8497
A psychological study of Jesus is regarded by the author as the logical next step following the historical and critical research of recent years. The introduction says, “It is this step that the author attempts to take in this volume. ... He regards himself as a pioneer in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others, and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual Christ of the resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed, although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in Palestine, two thousand years ago.” It is Dr Hall’s hope that such a study may go far toward the reinterpretation of Christianity which is necessary if it is to remain a vital religion for the modern world.