The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
part 3. The list of illustrations is a very long one. There is also a
considerable number of maps and plans scattered throughout the book. At the end of each chapter one finds a long list of questions. Following the last chapter is a list of important dates.” (School R) “The book is designed to furnish pupils in the sixth grade with a background for their imminent study of American history.” (Nation)
“The author, Miss Jennie Hall, of the Parker school of Chicago, has shown considerable skill both in selecting the incidents and figures on which to dwell and in making the narrative simple without making it dull or childish.”
+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 90w
“Generally speaking the make-up of the text is attractive, and the contents deal with concrete material well in the range of the understanding of the pupils for whom the book was written.” R M Tryon
+ — =School R= 25:684 N ‘17 180w
=HALL, JOHN LESSLIE.= English usage; studies in the history and uses of English words and phrases. *$1.50 Scott 420.4 17-14826
“A reference book for high school pupils or for teachers. Unlike similar books, it aims to give authorities on both sides, leaving the choice to the reader. It is a protest against the rigid rules of the purists in grammatical form.”—Ind
=Ind= 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 80w
“As a history of opinion on the chief disputed points of usage the book is valuable. Its value would have been increased if instead of statistical lists we had more often before us the passages in their context.”
– + =Nation= 105:261 S 6 ‘17 330w
“In reading the book, one feels less confident than before as to what ‘good usage’ really is, and also recognizes the danger of concluding that a wrong use of words by a good author makes good usage.”
+ =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:607 O ‘17 120w
=HALL, MAY EMERY.= Roger Williams. il *$1.25 (3c) Pilgrim press 17-24423
The story of Roger Williams forms a chapter in the history of the struggle for personal liberty in America, and the author has told it in a popular style that will be attractive to young people. She has based her account on recognized sources. There are several illustrations to add interest to the book.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
“Very brightly is the story written, delightfully fascinating and especially attractive in the naïve manner in which she rushes into the forum as a special pleader in behalf of her client. For Mrs Hall is confessedly an ardent and enthusiastic admirer of the character of Williams, so ardent and so enthusiastic that she fails to discern his undoubted failings.” E. J. C.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 850w
“His story is always worth retelling, and Mrs Hall’s volume is, in its way, a public educator. Issued at smaller cost, as one believes it might be, it would be an excellent work for reading in the schools.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 400w
=HALLER, WILLIAM.=[2] Early life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (1½c) Columbia univ. press 17-25840
The first portion of the life of a poet who has no adequate detailed biography. It covers the first twenty-nine years of Southey’s life: his boyhood at school and university; his reactions to literary and political movements in his youth; his early associations with Coleridge, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others; his share in attempting to establish a communistic society in America; his characteristics as a young man, poet, and man of letters; his connection with the “lake school” of poetry; and his settling down in what became his permanent home in Keswick.
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“Southey played so prominent a part in the intellectual and literary generation that sprang from the French revolution that a competent study of him has long been needed. That need is now being supplied. The mere bulk of his writings has frightened scholars. Yet the story of this man is not only worth the telling; it is rich in interest besides.”
+ =Dial= 64:73 Ja 17 ‘18 470w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 130w
=HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING=, ed. Balfour, Viviani and Joffre; their speeches and other public utterances in America. *$1.50 (1½c) Funk 940.91 17-24227
Mr Halsey has collected and arranged, with descriptive matter, as compiled from contemporary accounts, the speeches and other public utterances in America of Mr Balfour, M. Viviani and Marshal Joffre, together with those of Italian, Belgian and Russian commissioners during the great war. To these he has added an account of the arrival of the United States warships and soldiers in England and France under Admiral Sims and General Pershing. The period covered is April 21 to July 4, 1917. The material used was first published in the Congressional Record and Canadian parliamentary reports, the great American and Canadian dailies, the London Times and Morning Post, the Paris Temps and La Victoire, the Literary Digest, etc. The book has no index.
“Newspaper ‘clippings,’ it would seem, should hardly be given unedited to posterity. They could not include, in this case, much that was of importance concerning these visits; hence the record is neither complete nor accurate.” A. I. A.
– — =Am Hist R= 23:433 Ja ‘18 350w
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“Mr Halsey’s collection of the speeches of the commissioners is a useful work of reference rather than a readable book, for one must grant that the average of eloquence, despite the frequent ‘lift’ in M. Viviani’s addresses, is low, while the passages that are insignificant and that duplicate one another are very numerous indeed.”
+ — =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w
“Even a hasty reading of the book, however, creates two impressions which one ventures to believe will not later be unjustified by the results of complete investigation. The first is that Mr Balfour is a master of the shrewd, weighed phrase, a genius at resolving dangerous difficulties and at allaying any nascent suspicions. M. Viviani, on the other hand, is easily the most eloquent orator that we have heard in America for a generation.”
+ =New Repub= 13:355 Ja 19 ‘18 200w
=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 40w
+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 130w
=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Problems of the playwright. *$1.60 (2c) Holt 792 17-29336
A companion volume to “The theory of the theatre and studies in stage-craft” which the writer calls “a sort of suffix” to the earlier work. “In this book, the kaleidoscopic field of the contemporary drama is considered from various points of view,—that of the critic, the dramatist, the stage-director, the scenic artist, the manager, and the theatre-going public.” Among the chapters, a good many of which have had magazine publication, are: Contrast in the drama; Surprise in the drama; The troublesome last act; Strategy and tactics; Harmony in presentation; High comedy in America; The George M. Cohan school of playwrights; Yvette Guilbert; The magic of Mr Chesterton; Criticism and creation in the drama; A kiss for Cinderella; Dramatic talent and theatrical talent; Stevenson on the stage; The plays of Lord Dunsany; The mood of Maeterlinck; Euripides in New York; Romance and realism in the drama; The new stagecraft; The non-commercial drama; A democratic insurrection in the theatre; What is wrong with the American drama?
=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
“Mr Hamilton’s dominant characteristic as a dramatic critic is his desire always to go behind the specific example, often possessing only a fleeting interest, to the law which controlled it. ... His enthusiasm is cautiously controlled; and it is set free only when his head is convinced and his heart is touched. He does not allow his judgment to be unduly influenced by the vagaries of public opinion; and the ardent admirers of Mr Galsworthy’s plays and the uncritical worshippers at the shrine of Mr Shaw will probably be rudely shocked by the chilly analysis of the merits and demerits of these two favourites of the moment. ... Mr Hamilton’s criticism is consistently interesting because it has the support of knowledge and the savour of individuality.” Brander Matthews
+ =Bookm= 46:355 N ‘17 1300w
+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 20w
“He isn’t a radical in matters dramatic, and he isn’t a reactionary. He doesn’t champion the newer movements, nor does he evade condemning the older schools. The indecision is largely due to Mr Hamilton’s indefinite opinions, and also to his apparent refusal to trace a theme to his logical end. It is a good book with which to interest those who are not interested at all, but it will not appeal to students who have made some progress.” L: Gardy
– + =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 340w
“The title of Clayton Hamilton’s ‘Problems of the playwright’ is as unfortunate as it is alliterative, for the idea it suggests of the technical side of writing plays is much too narrow to cover the many and varied and suggestive discussions of the contemporary drama.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 220w
“For sheer power to entertain no other writer on stagecraft excels Clayton Hamilton.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w
“The book deals in general observations, but they are observations that are pertinent because they are fortified by knowledge, earnestness and critical sense. They are not, however, co-ordinated into a study. Mr Hamilton’s book has little unity of purpose, though a unity of spirit does pervade it.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 1100w
“Of interest to satisfy the reader’s curiosity as to the author’s opinion of certain plays or playwrights, rather than of value as dramatic criticism.”
+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 50w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Joan and the babies and I; being certain chapters from the autobiography of John Mainwaring, the novelist. il *$1 (6c) Little (Eng ed 16-15133)
A story which can be summed up in a few words. An Englishman, suffering from nerves and over-indulgence in self analysis, spends a summer on the Massachusetts coast. He makes friends on the beach with two small children, meets their mother, falls in love with her and marries her. It may be that the reason for existence of the book is explained in this sentence, “Being male I intended to follow the law of nature and be the dominating factor—a law which if adopted by American husbands would save many thoughtless women, over-burdened with freedom, from making epic fools of themselves.”
“There is a certain sentimental intimacy that some authors affect in relation to their characters that is more repulsive than the most outspoken language of your Fieldings or your Smolletts. ... Condemned by his own confession, he stands as an exemplar of that lack of reticence—or lack of frankness, it is hard to say which—that is the besetting sin of American literature.”
— =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 170w
“In spite of the domestic title of Mr Hamilton’s story, and the two delightfully natural children who usher in the first chapter, the little book is decidedly upsetting to a normally constituted mind. ... It contains some true sentiment and wise conclusions, but, great as are the faults of the present social system, it is more coherent, and certainly, less offensive to good taste than would be a society made up of Johns and Joans.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 270w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Scandal. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-23982
“Beatrix Vanderdyke was extraordinary rich, extraordinarily beautiful, extraordinarily charming, and extraordinarily foolish. ... Her habit of making night time visits to the studio of a rather vulgar portrait painter ... resulted in scandal. Beatrix’s family threatened her with banishment to a cottage in Maine, and to save herself from losing a New York season she declared that she had been secretly married to one of her acquaintances. This gentleman, being a good sport, accepted the challenge and determined to tame the willful Beatrix for the good of her soul. Follows the course of events to be expected in a novel beginning with this kind of a situation, including the usual bedroom scene and ending with the happy conclusion which the reader has long known was sure to come. In the meanwhile there is plenty of sparring between the hero and the more or less unclad heroine, a lady of doubtful antecedents endeavors to intervene, and an obliging fog undertakes the rôle of deus ex machina.”—N Y Times
“There is none of the preaching here which was to be found in ‘The blindness of virtue’ and which the title suggests we may be going to find. It is wholly an entertaining story with those touches of the unconventional with which Mr Hamilton knows so well how to deal.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 550w
“Need be taken no more seriously than the fashion-plates in a popular magazine. ... Those having a taste for the sort of stories usually told over the cigars, after the women have left the room, will enjoy this bit of journalese.”
– — =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 140w
“The novel has one character, Beatrix’s English companion, who is really quite like a human being.”
– — =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 270w
“Mr Hamilton fails to make his American characters convincing, but in the case of his heroine’s English duenna from Clapham he is more successful.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 270w
=HAMILTON, LORD ERNEST WILLIAM.= Soul of Ulster. *$1.25 Dutton 941.5 17-14524
“This volume by the author of ‘The first seven divisions’ is a concise history of Ulster as it affects the Irish question. Lord Ernest Hamilton shows what, in his opinion, is at the back of the demand for Home rule, and what would happen if it were granted.” (Ath) “The book falls into three parts—an historical retrospect, a survey of the situation at the present day, and a forecast of the future possibilities inherent in the Sinn Fein movement. The Ulster question treated historically is, in his view, bound up with the general ethics of colonization. ... Lord Ernest Hamilton writes as the advocate and champion of the Ulster Protestant colonist and the British garrison, and one may search his pages in vain for any indication of the emergence of the type of Young Ulsterman sketched in Mr St John Ervine’s book.” (Spec)
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
=Ath= p257 My ‘17 50w
“Lord Ernest possesses the pen of a ready writer, and is able to retain the reader’s interest from cover to cover. ... He writes from the point of view of the Ulster Unionist, and of his sincerity there can be no doubt. But his judgment and better feelings appear to have been warped by fear, so much so that his conception of Irish character is too black to be credited. ... ‘The soul of Ulster’ deserves to be read as a strong presentation of the Unionist case. Before difficulties can be overcome, they must be clearly seen. Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book skilfully indicates the difficulties of the Ulster problem.”
+ — =Ath= p344 Jl ‘17 750w
“Of that Irish and Catholic half of Ulster, Mr Hamilton knows nothing—or at best, only the worst! Prejudice and bigotry speak from his every page.”
– — =Cath World= 105:826 S ‘17 600w
“Of course ‘The Soul of Ulster’ is no more dispassionate than any Sinn Feiner argument. But it is well for us interested onlookers to see the other side of the perennial Irish question.”
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 60w
“They do give to the reader who has time to go through them vivid understanding of the difficulties to be encountered by those who would settle Irish affairs. ... It may be also that perusal of such books will do further good in this country. ... It has been to small purpose that some informed neither by Tories abroad nor from newspapers of immigrants in New York have pointed out that England has changed, that whatever the sins of the past she is anxious now to do honorable justice, that of late she has made much amends, and is prevented from settling the whole question partly because of circumstances pertaining to Irishmen and beyond her control. The slight and transient and narrow writings which are appearing more frequently as two Irish parties set forth their cause will make it, no doubt, much easier for people to comprehend what these difficulties are.”
* =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 750w
“It is quite likely that a good many people who do not know nearly as much about Ulster as Lord Ernest Hamilton evidently does will suspect him of prejudice. At any rate, his convictions are very definite and downright and they are expressed with simplicity and force.”
=N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 650w
“The great surprise of the book is the anticipation that the development of Sinn Feinism, of the origin and organization of which Lord Ernest Hamilton gives a very inadequate and perfunctory account, may provide a solution of the Irish question by its refusal to recognize a standardized religion, and by the consequent fusion of the races by intermarriage. ... His curious book is not conceived or executed in a judicial spirit, though it contains many wholesome truths and much sane criticism.”
=Spec= 118:541 My 12 ‘17 1450w
“Ordinarily we in the United States hear only one side of the Irish question. The other side of the picture is vividly, yet fairly, presented by Ernest W. Hamilton.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 350w
“Considering the vastness of the literature on Ireland, there is a remarkable dearth of books interpreting the viewpoint of Ulster. Captain Hamilton though he does not perform this service in any scientific spirit and does not assume a judicial attitude which could not be genuine, yet gives us valuable insight into the philosophy of his former constituents by rewriting Irish history as they see it.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 500w
“His book should be read by those who wish to get at a true comprehension of the uncompromising Ulsterman. Lord Ernest Hamilton, who was for some years M. P. for North Tyrone, is also the author of ‘The first seven divisions,’ and he writes lucidly and forcibly.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p167 Ap 5 ‘17 420w
=HAMILTON, LORD GEORGE FRANCIS.= Parliamentary reminiscences and reflections, 1868 to 1885. *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 17-12869)
“Lord George Hamilton was of the House of commons from 1868 to 1906. As son of the Duke of Abercorn, at one time lord-lieutenant of Ireland, he was of the governing class, a fact which accounts for the early age at which a place was found for him in the Disraeli administration of 1874-1880. He was then appointed under-secretary for India, with Salisbury as his chief. In 1878-1880 he was vice-president of the committee of council, practically minister for education. In the short-lived Conservative administration of 1885-1886 he was first lord of the admiralty. He resumed this office when the Unionist administration was formed in 1886, and held it until the Liberals came into power in 1892. From 1895 to 1903, when he retired from the cabinet, he was secretary for India. Only the years from 1868 to 1885 are covered by these reminiscences.”—Am Hist R
“For half a dozen reasons they are likely to be of service to students of British politics of the two decades that preceded the realignment of parties after 1886, when Gladstone had committed the Liberal party to Home rule for Ireland. ... Hamilton went to the India office in 1874, and in detailing his work there as under-secretary, he has written one of the best descriptions of the work of the office, and of its organization, that has ever been embodied in English political memoirs. One other value in these reminiscences has yet to be mentioned. There is more than once in these pages the most sweeping and strongly-worded indictment that has been written or uttered of the Manchester school of politics by any man in the front rank of English political life.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Hist R= 22:855 Jl ‘17 800w
“The author’s attitude is in strong opposition, to the ‘pacificist or Manchester school of politicians’; and conscientious objectors to military service receive small mercy at Lord George Hamilton’s hands. Indeed, there is a good deal of hard hitting in the book.”
=Ath= p50 Ja ‘17 130w
“Lord George is of the type of English public men who are dogged hard workers, and, no doubt, useful servants of the state, but who are little gifted with the pen, which they hold in a heavy hand. And these notes of events during twenty years of parliamentary experience contain little that is novel or exhilarating. ... Many personal characterizations occur in his pages, but few of them are penetrating or enlivening.”
— =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w
“One feature of these pages that calls for comment is that Disraeli appears throughout in a softened and unusually advantageous light, an accessible and kindly figure.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 600w
=R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 50w
“This book is disappointing. ... The historical chapters are a languid rechauffé of events which are, perhaps, too near for historical treatment, but which need not be (as they are) dull. ... Of personal anecdotes or intimate descriptions of Lord George Hamilton’s colleagues—Disraeli, Northcote, Hardy, Beach, Salisbury, Churchill—there are none. ... The really valuable chapter in the book is the last but one, in which Lord George Hamilton tells us of his doings at the Admiralty as first lord.”
– + =Sat R= 122:601 D 23 ‘16 850w
“The book is just what such a book should be; it is full of a simple and mellow wisdom; there is not an idea in it that is not practical and rational; and the political ideas are reinforced or illustrated by a flow of anecdotes which are in themselves a delightful entertainment.”
+ =Spec= 118:136 F 3 ‘17 1950w
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 D 14 ‘16 2000w
=HAMILTON, JOSEPH GRÉGOIRE DE ROULHAC, and HAMILTON, MARY THOMPSON (MRS J. G. DE R. HAMILTON).= Life of Robert E. Lee; for boys and girls. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-28464
“This book is written with the hope that through it the life and character of Lee may become more real to the generation of young Americans growing up.” (Preface) The authors express the further hope that the book may, by making clearer the purity of motive of Lee and those he represented, hasten the day when all sectional bitterness shall have disappeared. Among the books on which the authors have drawn as sources are: Jones’s “Life and letters of General Robert E. Lee”; “Recollections and letters of General Lee,” by R. E. Lee, jr.; and Bradford’s “Lee, the American.” There are four illustrations and an index.
“A wholesome book for reading by northern children.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 50w
+ =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 150w
“Full of Civil war incidents told from an unbiased standpoint. The character and outlook of the Confederate leader as presented here will appeal to young people.”
+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w
“Gen. Lee now belongs to the nation at large, not simply to the South, and the authors have written an enthusiastic as well as historically sound life of their hero. The book should be welcomed by young people all over the country, but it will be quite as interesting to many ‘grown-ups’ as well.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 150w
=HAMILTON, ROBERT W.= Belinda of the Red cross. il *$1.25 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-24969
“The heroine, born in America, is the granddaughter on one side of French and on the other of German ancestors. ... At the beginning of the story she is taking a nurse’s training in a big New York hospital in which one of the surgeons is a famous German, resident for ten years in this country. As she nears the end of her course of training a young aviator who has had a fall and smashed one shoulder is brought in. ... He is Belinda’s last patient, and they find each other mutually interesting. After graduation she decides to join the Red cross service in France, and the young aviator, although neither knows the other’s purpose, goes over to offer his services to the French army. ... Belinda works in the field hospitals and the aviator crosses the battle lines and finally they are both caught by the enemy. ... The two German cousins of Belinda play an important part in the action.”—N Y Times
“A thrilling war story.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 280w
“The incidents are highly improbable. The narrative may be found entertaining if the reader is not in a critical mood.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 180w
=HAMMER, SIMON CHRISTIAN.= William the Second. *$1.50 Houghton 17-26781
“The present volume is an English attempt at a calm, clear-cut analysis of the imperial psychology as disclosed by numerous speeches and contemporary German writings.”—R of Rs
“Author is an Englishman and his remarks are tinged with prejudice.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“Mr Hammer’s picture of the Kaiser will never win him a German decoration, but it bears more of the earmarks of truth than those we are accustomed to.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 280w
=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 90w
=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w
=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON, and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Town labourer, 1760-1832; the new civilisation. *$3.50 (3c) Longmans 330.9 17-22687
This volume is the first part of a study of the industrial revolution. It attempts to describe the general features of the new civilization, to picture the effect of the great social change which took place between 1780 and 1832 on the lives of the English working-class, and which turned them, according to the authors, into the “cannon-fodder of industry.” About half of the chapters deal with the material surroundings of “the new civilisation”—the “new town,” the conditions in mill, mine, and workshop, the administration of justice, the war on trade unions, the employment of children, etc., and the remainder “with the psychological conditions that resulted from them.” A table of dates and a list of chief authorities are appended. A second volume is to follow which “will give in detail the history of the work-people in various industries, with a full account of the disturbances known as the Luddite rising, and of those connected with the adventures of Oliver, the famous ‘agent provocateur.’” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
“An arresting and appalling picture.”
+ =Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 520w
“In their feeling for class attitudes, for the rationalizations that accompany the economic war, for the sinister manipulation of government by capital, the Hammonds have an intellectual tool which should be in the hands of every one who tries to write of this modern industrial era.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Dial= 63:642 D 20 ‘17 630w
“It is a book to be read by all who are concerned with present labour problems, and conditions of industrial life; for a full understanding of the purgatorial experiences of the working class in the critical years of this great social change is a key to its attitude to-day. The working class, like an oppressed nationality, has its memories.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:281 Ja ‘18 550w
“This book is valuable as an indisputable record of facts, unpleasant enough to our national self-satisfaction—our besetting sin, as Matthew Arnold declared. It would have been more valuable but for the obvious political bias of its authors, who skilfully heap the blame on the back of the Tory party. In truth, the aristocratic Whigs and the Nonconformist manufacturers and tradesmen were just as much to blame as the Tory government for the state of labour in the pre-reform era. ... This is not a mere squalid story of slum misery: it is not a sensational ‘film,’ striking the eyes and ‘gingering’ the emotion, but leaving the intellect unstirred. This tale of trouble sets one on inquiries innumerable, psychological, spiritual, moral, economic, political.”
* + + =Sat R= 124:169 S 1 ‘17 2250w
“The book is pleasant to read because of its literary art and mastery; the subject-matter is extremely gloomy. The misery admits of no denial, but we are not persuaded that Mr and Mrs Hammond have given the right values to the various causes when they enter upon explanations. There is something in the temper in which they write which strikes us as mistaken. ... But we must not express our partial agreement with their spirit at the expense of saying too little about the admirable skill and clearness with which they have presented their facts. They have written the best description of the conditions of the time that we have ever read.”
+ — =Spec= 119:60 Jl 21 ‘17 1550w
“Though the writing of social and industrial history in England has in recent years been carried to a very high point of literary accomplishment combined with careful use of original sources and sound interpretation by such writers as Gilbert Slater, the Webbs, and others, there has been no similar publication so vividly describing this vital period of change. ... In almost every chapter of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s work are lessons of our time. The attitude towards ‘the poor,’ for instance, was in many respects similar to that yet taken in this country towards the negro. The procedure in the case of strikes often seems to have resembled that now frequently in vogue to meet the real or imagined danger of the I. W. W.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 39:200 N 24 ‘17 1250w
“A companion volume to the important work which the authors published in 1911 on the ‘Village labourer’ during the same period.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p324 Jl 5 ‘17 50w
“A book that should be read by all who are concerned, however indirectly, with what is called ‘the labour problem.’ The story of the Industrial revolution has been told before, but the story of the Social revolution which accompanied it, has never yet received adequate treatment. ... The authors have helped towards a better understanding not only of the early nineteenth century but of some of the most obstinate problems of today.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p339 Jl 19 ‘17 1900w
=HAMMOND, MELVIN ORMOND.= Canadian confederation and its leaders. il *$2.50 (3½c) Doran 971 18-2512
Canadian confederation was perfected in 1867 and has now known a half century of history. It has seemed a fitting time therefore “to examine the part played by the leaders of that great day in the various provinces in bringing about the union.” This has been the object of the author, who has brought together studies of seventeen men, among them Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, William McDougall, Sir Alexander T. Galt, Sir George E. Cartier, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sir Charles Tupper, and others. The choice has been not wholly limited to those who worked for federation. Leaders of the opposition have been included. The book has an introductory chapter, Before confederation, and a closing chapter, Rounding out confederation, and ends with bibliography and index.
“Our author gives a close and searching analysis of the character and personality of each of his subjects.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w
=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 60w
=HANCOCK, HARRIE IRVING.= Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self. il *$1.75 (5½c) Putnam 613.7 17-25762
The man who sits at his desk all day and feels stale at night will find in these pages concise instructions for livening up. The exercises outlined are an antidote for physical slovenliness and mental dulness. They are simple leg, arm, trunk and head movements designed to produce in a short space of time poise, alertness, power. Illustrations of the model performances are from photographs which represent the nearest approach possible to a moving picture on a single plate and are, in consequence, easily followed.
“The plain, common-sense general advice and comment is of great value to any man or woman, and would add to efficiency.”
+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 100w
“Books on physical training are either manuals which most people will open only on doctor’s orders, or they are made more readable with the help of a good deal of matter not strictly relevant. The present volume is of the latter variety; it may be added that its ‘padding’ is interesting and contains many shrewd observations. A. B. Phelan’s synthetic photographs may be clever, but on the whole the diagrammatic illustrations of the old handbooks were easier to understand.” B. L.
+ — =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 330w
=HANDY, AMY LITTLEFIELD.= War food. il *75c (14c) Houghton 664 17-21110
Miss Handy describes practical and economical methods of keeping vegetables, fruits and meats, and urges the importance of preserving and storing perishable food. There is a chapter on “Canning without sugar.” The author hopes that the recipes will prove helpful to those who are trying to carry out Mr Hoover’s instructions.
“Miss Handy is explicit in her directions, which cover, we believe, a very wide field of possibilities in canning.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 110w
“A good little book to own.”
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 20w
“And it is a most valuable book. In the tersest and most practical fashion it sets forth the methods of drying, evaporating, canning, salting, and picking various articles, with special directions for each. And these methods are inexpensive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 480w
=Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 90w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 60w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms. *$1.50 (4c) Dutton 940.91 E17-249
A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive. The author writes of: “Kitchener’s army”; An experiment in democracy; Discipline and leadership; The religion of the inarticulate; The army and the universities: a study of educational values, etc. There is an introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.
“The author was killed in action in October, 1916.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“His interpretation limited to some slight degree by its immaturity, is so sweet with the highest spiritual idealism that the reader pauses and marvels.”
+ =Cath World= 105:544 Jl ‘17 220w
“The author treats the subject in a matter-of-fact way, which, by its very rarity, becomes effective.”
+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 130w
+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 40w
“Desperately sincere, openly the product of brave and unsophisticated youth. It is with a sort of reverence that one finishes a book so thoroughly imbued with the most promising of human tendencies, the wish to be justified on a constructive instead of on a destructive basis.” S. K. Toksvig
=New Repub= 10:sup18 Ap 21 ‘17 850w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 350w
“Where his book is novel is in its sincere and always thoughtful exposition of the philosophy and religion of the trenches, and the changes needed for effective Christianity at home.”
+ =Sat R= 121:sup2 Je 24 ‘16 300w
+ =Spec= 116:722 Je 10 ‘16 1200w
“A book of high spiritual idealism as well as a vivid picture of life in the trenches of Flanders.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 200w
“The war has given us no other book like this. It is worthy to stand beside Rupert Brooke’s sonnets as an expression of the spiritual attitude of England’s educated and gifted young men.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 60w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms: second series; with an introd. by J. St Loe Strachey. il *$1.50 (5½c) Dutton 17-17623
This collection of sketches, conversations and essays suggested by the war, written, with three exceptions, in France in 1916, were for the most part first printed in the Spectator. “The potentate,” written for the original volume of “A student in arms,” but not published on account of its likeness in subject to Barrie’s “Der tag,” is included here, as is also the essay entitled “Don’t worry.” In addition to these, the new volume contains a good deal of biographical matter: a sketch by Miss Hankey, the author’s sister, entitled “Something about ‘A student in arms’”; a fragment of autobiography entitled “My home and school,” and some notes on the autobiography.
=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“Like the first series, these sketches are the expression of a forthright idealism and give a version of the hopes, fears and beliefs of the men in the trenches, evidently not heightened for literary or humorous effect.”
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w
+ =Dial= 63:213 S 13 ‘17 270w
“The various papers, are not, it must be confessed, of permanent value as literature, but the total impression of this output by a young man of thirty-two, who died leading a charge which gained a few yards of trenches, is of the immense and irretrievable waste of war.”
+ — =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 260w
“We can’t measure, even approximately, how much ‘good’ these works will do, but we unhesitatingly affirm that they are exceedingly well worth reading.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 650w
“The general level of the book is not so high as was that of the first, but, nevertheless, it contains some very good things that are well worth reading. Moreover, in the first volume and also in this Donald Hankey revealed himself a personality so interesting and so lovable that the opportunity this ‘Second series’ gives to make acquaintance with the man behind the book will be welcomed.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:295 Ag 12 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w
“Here we shall prefer to dwell upon the fragments of biography and autobiography. The first thing we have to say is that, though they are so slight, they paint the true ‘Student in arms,’ and show how his life enforced the lessons of his writing. ... No one was ever less of a prig.”
+ =Spec= 118:589 My 26 ‘17 1750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 200w
“From Rugby he went to Woolwich; spent six years in the artillery; and retired with a view to entering the church after passing through Oxford. He never actually took orders, but shared the lives of the poor by making his home in Bermondsey, travelling steerage, and enlisting as a private when the war broke out. Thus he came to know the men in the ranks from within, without being so closely identified with them as not to recognize their idiosyncrasies as such. This may be one reason why his weary ‘Tommies’ are not in the least like the epigrammatic comedians of the picturesque writers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 880w
=HANNAY, DAVID.= Diaz. il *$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26317)
Two opinions exist regarding Porfirio Diaz: He was a great man and a beneficent ruler; he was an unmitigated tyrant and a curse to the country he ruled. The fact that he is included among the “Makers of the nineteenth century” indicates the attitude taken toward him in this book. The general editor, Basil Williams, says in his preface: “He is worthy of note by the student of the nineteenth century, since he brought his country to a more respectable prominence and to greater prosperity than it had enjoyed since its original conquest by the Spaniards.” The author says in conclusion: “He showed the world what was the utmost that his country was capable of doing in order to qualify itself to take its place among civilised and progressive states.” Mr Hannay is an English journalist and author of “The navy and sea-power.”
“Mr Hannay appears to be a man of talents, candor, and good sense, and his book, in addition to being readable, is worth reading; but it can hardly be described as well-proportioned, scholarly, or sound. ... As might be inferred, the author’s ‘bibliography’ is meagre and his index inadequate.” J. H. Smith
– + =Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 670w
“An authoritative, popular account.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17
“Mr Hannay’s narrative is animated, and well worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 130w
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w
“It is somewhat tedious and involved; the subject with its fascinating material, could have been made more interesting reading by one whose writing had more of the true charm of a real biographer.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:265 My ‘17 450w
+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 400w
“No dry and superficial statement of facts, but a most readable and enlightening story of Mexico and its people from 1854.”
+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 30w
=Lit D= 54:1080 Ap 14 ‘17 400w
“Mr Hannay has treated his interesting hero with a suitably light touch. He neither eulogizes nor condemns him. He presents facts of population and political development with the insight and sympathy of one who is thoroughly familiar with the winning as well as the repellent side of Spanish-America. Thus he frames Diaz in a Mexican frame, and not, as too many authors are inclined to do, in an American or European frame.”
+ =Nation= 105:461 O 25 ‘17 780w
“Commendable book which might be called ‘A political history of Mexico in the time of Diaz.’”
+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 100w
+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17
“How was it that Diaz, alone of all Mexican presidents, contrived to retain power for so long? This is the most interesting question raised by his career, and Mr Hannay answers it somewhat fully.”
+ =Spec= 119:190 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w
“A most scholarly and interesting book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 600w
“But the interest of this volume at the present time is by no means confined to the light it throws on Mexican conditions from the narrow point of view of anxious investors. This brings us to the main lesson of the history of Mexico and of the career of Diaz for the present generation. It should prove a wholesome corrective to those who believe that the world-war is going to be followed by the millennium and that in that blessed word democracy there has been discovered a universal formula for the perfecting of the world’s order.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p327 Jl 12 ‘17 1900w
=HANSCOM, ELIZABETH DEERING=, ed. Heart of the Puritan. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 974 17-29768
The writer takes exception with Mr George Edward Woodberry who has written “The heart of the Puritan is a closed book.” Miss Hanscom, professor of English at Smith college, has delved into many dusty tomes for material that refutes Mr Woodberry’s contention. She has brought together here excerpts from the letters and journals of Puritans and grouped them under the headings; Of the coming of godly men to these parts; Of Boston; Of affairs domestic and personal; Of matrimony; Of education; Of Indians; Of trade; Of travel; Of holidays; Of episcopacy; Of churches; Of prophecies and warnings; Of witchcraft, and Cor cordium. A valuable aid to the study of history and literature as well as to a study of religious temper in colonial times.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Miss Hanscom herself is something of a wit, as is shown by her ‘Praefatio’ and headings; we wish she had been pedant enough to have given the exact provenance of all her extracts. Such an appendix would not have marred her book, but would have added to its interest. Apart from that blemish, the book is excellent. It would be well if some of our smart youths who speak so patronizingly of the Puritans would read this volume of letters, and mark and inwardly digest.”
+ — =Nation= 105:697 D 20 ‘17 160w
“With loving care and a scholar’s sense of accuracy and fitness, Miss Hanscom has preserved the spellings of an age that scorned the arts of spelling, and the abbreviations with which that age larded its written discourse. She has supplied chapter and page headings that pique the reader’s curiosity. Her preface is delightfully self-effacing and appreciative; in fact, the editor’s touch throughout the volume is gracious and good-humoredly keen. The book is meant for reading (in spite of the difficult spellings) and very good reading it makes. Much of Miss Hanscom’s book is in light vein, but it all tends to inculcate that tolerant and respectful view of our New England past of which we are much in need.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 19 ‘17 990w
=HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).= Cleek’s government cases. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-5982
“Cleek of Scotland Yard,” “The riddle of the night,” and “Cleek, the man of the forty faces” are stories that have preceded this. Like the others, this one is made up of distinct episodes in which Cleek, the one time crook, now a detective, displays his skill, but there is a thread of narrative binding the whole together. In the first chapter Cleek finds that his old enemies, the Apaches, are still on his track. He is kidnapped, and after his rescue by his friend, Narkom of Scotland Yard, says, “This is but the first throw of the dice, old friend. ... This is but the beginning; the end, who shall say?”
“Mr Hanshew never lets the plot grow stale, and he does not leave his readers for even a few moments without excitement.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ‘17 150w
“Lovers of detective stories will find a good deal of entertainment in this new volume which tells of ‘Cleek’s government cases.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 330w
“The book compares unfavorably with the Cleek stories published heretofore.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w
=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (WILL N., pseud.).= Triumph. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-22297
“Two brothers form the central pivot of ‘The triumph,’ and one of them has made himself despised by his neighbors because he does not hold the conventional southern view of slavery. Andrew Merlin lives in the little town of Delbridge; his brother Thomas has a plantation some ten miles away and owns many slaves. Because of their opposing opinions, the brothers drift apart, and into Andrew’s immediate family trouble comes, for his wife and son feel keenly the ostracism to which they are subjected, while his daughter Anne is wholly on her father’s side. The war comes, Georgia is up in arms, Thomas Merlin enlists and becomes a Confederate brigadier general, but Andrew, because of his Union sympathies, and especially because he dares to free a slave who has been forced into his hand to pay a debt, is beset on all sides. He is forced to flee for his life, is overtaken by a band of Confederate bushwhackers, and succeeds in saving his life by a ruse. Enlisting in the Union army, he returns home before the end of the war, and by his injudicious behavior only succeeds in making himself more despised than ever.”—Boston Transcript
“It cannot be said that Mr Harben’s aristocrats are as ‘convincing’ as his commonalty; Anne Merlin and Arthur Preston are a singularly wooden pair of leading juveniles.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:207 O ‘17 420w
“Mr Harben’s pages contain more accurate knowledge of Georgia men and women, of the Georgia ways of living, of the Georgia passions, than could be revealed in a thousand formal historical narratives. ... In ‘The triumph’ Mr Harben goes back to the Civil war period. Many novels have been written about that era, but few of them have the strong equipoise that dominates its plot and its characters. It is a plea for neither side, it contains nothing of the polemic, it merely seeks to present life as Mr Harben found it in his native state during some five years of the strongest social, moral and political upheaval that could overwhelm a stricken people. ... Something of these Georgians is wholly of Georgia, but something is purely American, and something in them is akin to the peasant character of any country. They are spiritually of the same stuff as the denizens of Hardy’s Wessex, of Phillpotts’ Dartmoor or of Miss Jewett’s New England.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1550w
“He really has a good point to make, and he makes it in spite of the commonplace melodrama to which his plot lends itself.”
+ — =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 150w
“In withdrawing to the Civil war period, Mr Harben has abandoned that main asset of his and Mr Howells’s sort of realism, the thing seen and known at first hand. In consequence, he has not worked freely or spontaneously, and his product is too plainly a made affair. ... The ‘love-interest’ is of the most perfunctory sort.”
— =Nation= 105:316 S 20 ‘17 460w
“Mr Harben’s new novel contains many of the elements that make for real greatness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 580w
=HARDING, ALICE (MRS EDWARD HARDING).= Book of the peony. il *$6 (18c) Lippincott 716 17-13093
This is said to be the first book published on peony culture. It is made up of chapters on: An appreciation of the peony; The mythology, ancient and modern history of the peony; Best varieties and their characteristics; Extending the period of bloom; Purchasing; Where to plant and how to prepare the soil; Planting and cultivation; Propagation; The tree peony—description and history; Tree peonies: cultivation, propagation and best varieties; Various species of the peony. A valuable feature of the book is the “main list” of 125 varieties recommended for garden culture, with supplementary lists based on color. Twenty of the illustrations are in color and there are a number of good half-tone plates in addition.
“The format of this, the first book ever devoted to peonies alone, demands appreciation. Covers and typing are distinctive. While the many illustrations in color and in black-and-white, from photographs of peonies in various noted private gardens of the United States, are of a rare beauty vision alone can adequately disclose.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 500w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 60w
“Although a large bibliography on the peony is given, no other volume yet published appears to be so complete as this one. ... The two chapters on tree peonies present material new to many gardeners, and Professor H. H. Whetzel’s discussion of ‘Diseases of the peony’ represents the latest research.”
+ =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 180w
“Should help all flower-lovers to use it for landscape as well as floral value.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 22 ‘17 160w
+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 130w
+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 30w
“There is much sound advice for the amateur in the chapter on Purchasing. ... All of the practical chapters of the book are valuable because drawn from the personal experience of the author. It is a beautiful book and a distinct addition to gardening literature.” M. K. Reely
+ =Pub W= 91:1325 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 170w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 500w
=HARDING, LOUIS ALLEN, and WILLARD, ARTHUR CUTTS.= Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects. 3v v 2 il *$5 Wiley 690
=v 2= Power plants and refrigeration.
“The first volume of this important series was published a few months ago and dealt with the subject of heating and ventilation. The second volume, dealing exhaustively with steam plants and ice and refrigeration machinery, contains a large amount of theoretical and commercial data and discussions of their practical applications.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) “In order to make the volume more complete, several of the chapters appearing in volume 1 have been reprinted, including the chapters on Heat; Water, steam and air; and Fuels and combustion.” (Heating and Ventilating Magazine)
“As a reference book and a textbook for students it should be most valuable. The free use of manufacturers’ data adds much to the usefulness of this volume. ... There are several forms of boilers largely used by heating engineers not referred to in this volume or the preceding one.” D. D. Kimball
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 220w
“Special mention should be made of the chapter on ‘Chimneys for power boilers’ which is remarkably complete, and also the chapter on ‘Power plant piping.’”
+ =Heating and Ventilating Magazine= 14:51 Jl ‘17 350w
“Unusually well illustrated with line drawings and charts. Many practical problems are solved step by step.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 70w
“The authors will probably find that in the next printing it would be well to elaborate more upon the index. The excellent character of the book warrants doing so.”
+ — =Power= 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 770w
=HARDING, MRS RUTH GUTHRIE.= Lark went singing, and other poems; with an introd. by R: Burton. *$1 E. D. Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn. 811 16-24958
“This exquisite little volume of lyrics we owe to the gardening sympathies of Richard Burton. Anyone who noted, some years ago, the little slips of song by Ruth Guthrie Harding, rooted here and there in a magazine page, and had the power of discernment, knew they sprung from the seeds of poetry. There they might have withered and died; but this gardener came along and cultivated an indisputable gift of beauty and joy.”—Boston Transcript
“The quality is wistful, almost evanescent in the embodiment of simple moods and themes.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Bookm= 45:433 Je ‘17 210w
“Here is the whole poetic temperament in this poet, transmitting all that it touches. Every first and last dream, impression, mood, makes you aware of loveliness and nothing but loveliness. This does not mean that experience does not come into the poet’s recognition of life and reality, but coming naked she sends it forth clothed with fabrics of spiritual weaving. And this is recognized all the more deeply because of the intense lyrical note which is one of Mrs Harding’s most distinctive gifts as a poet.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 23 ‘16 850w
“A poet of true promise.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 104:523 My 3 ‘17 240w
=HARDING, SIDNEY TWITCHELL.=[2] Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. il *$2.50 McGraw 631 17-22587
“This book is a compilation of the fundamental principles and representative methods of the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems in the United States. ... In the first chapter the subject of general maintenance is treated extensively. ... In the second chapter the relative serviceability, length of life and needful precautionary measures in the maintenance of wooden, steel and concrete structures are discussed. ... The third chapter is given to the problem of organization, outlining and suggesting appropriate plans for systems of varying sizes and conditions based upon experiences so far available. The methods of delivering irrigation water are treated fully in the fourth chapter. ... The measurement of irrigation water is treated exhaustively in the fifth chapter. ... A chapter of fourteen pages is devoted to rules and regulations. ... The proper apportionment of construction and operation charges receives thorough study and analysis, and the results are summarized in a concluding article. ... The eighth chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of miscellaneous phases of irrigation operations. ... At the close a short chapter is given to the subject of accounts.”—Engin News-Rec
“This book is timely and useful. It presents in concentrated form a large range of information not elsewhere compiled and of special value to the student of irrigation engineering. It covers much of great value to the engineer or manager charged with construction, as well as operation and betterment, of irrigation works.” Andrew Weiss
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:938 N 15 ‘17 780w
“Practical rather than theoretical.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:756 N ‘17 30w
=HARDY, ARTHUR SHERBURNE.= No. 13, rue du Bon Diable. il *$1.35 (3½c) Houghton 17-28186
Mr Hardy has written a new kind of detective story, which begins by telling us just how M. Janvier was murdered, and keeps us intensely interested in the efforts of the detectives to arrive at a solution. M. Janvier is an old bachelor, devoted to his niece Corinne, for whom he has bought a pearl necklace as a birthday present, drawing 30,000 francs from the bank to pay for it. His murderer is finally discovered by M. Joly, the detective who figured in “Diane and her friends.”
“Very well written though not as absorbing as others by this author.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“Mr Hardy’s detective story is unusual in many ways. There are actually human characters in it, and a swiftly woven texture of motives, and charming bits of color, local and otherwise. ... In the make-up of the volume there is displayed a feeling for the quality of the text that is seldom found in any but the more expensive books.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 290w
“Mr Hardy’s style has the old distinction; his people are clear-cut as cameos; his psychology is never at fault.”
+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w
“Mr Hardy’s new book differs from the general run of detective stories in that he makes no attempt to mystify or to mislead the reader, but takes him into his confidence at once. The idea is a good one and has some novelty, but one feels that it could have been developed more cleverly and greater ingenuity been shown in the complications.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“The reader enjoys the skill with which the author creates the proper atmosphere for the affair and analyzes the psychology of the participants.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 250w
=HARDY, OSWALD HENRY.= In Greek seas, and other poems of travel. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-23683
Things of the spirit cannot be stifled even by the war, the author of this handful of verse asserts. The poems have been written during busy years and they have served as “a refuge from the engrossing calls of official life, and have served to keep alive memories of inspiring travel and of the earlier days when the great ages of Greece and Rome supplied a constant background of dream and happy thought.” There are two war poems in the group.
“Fluent and pleasing, several of the shorter pieces, such as ‘A mountain pansy’ and ‘The mountain pine,’ merit attention; and some of the lines in the poem which gives its title to the volume, as well as in the verses upon ‘The tomb of Columbus in Seville cathedral,’ are noteworthy and impressive.”
+ =Ath= p469 S ‘17 120w
“In the sense that the author who has travelled much records in verse the scenes he has visited and the impressions made upon him, the poems are inspired, but the inspiration is not transformed by an essentially poetic spirit. The results would have been much better recorded in prose, for they strike no emotional register.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 300w
=HARE, CHRISTOPHER, pseud. (MRS MARIAN ANDREWS).= Great emperor: Charles V, 1519-1558. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-18588
“This latest biographer of the emperor whose abdication of the throne of Spain was forced in the middle sixteenth century has little except good to write of his subject. The devotion to pious ends and aims, the grief of his devoted family and friends, his benefactions to the church, are all set forth in admiration, while his military glories are fully recounted.”—Boston Transcript
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17
“The story of Charles V., ... has long been recognized as full of fascination and wonder. Christopher Hare tells it with much historic detail, yet with a keen sense of its picturesque personal qualities, its romantic appeal. ... The book is readable and valuable for the ‘general public’ and for the student.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 1450w
“Whatever his bias, our author has succeeded in seeing his subject clearly and seeing it whole; he marshals his facts with certainty and skill, and his narrative runs smoothly from the first page to the last. In all its main features the book is a meritorious piece of work, the result of study and sane enthusiasm; there are excellent chapters on the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the two sketch maps at the beginning and end of the volume are helpful. Indeed, our only real ground of complaint is to be found in the fact that, with all his accumulated knowledge, Mr Hare does not appreciate the value of accuracy in minor matters.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p125 Mr 15 ‘17 950w
=HARE, WALTER BEN.=[2] White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays. il 75c Denison 812 17-24880
“The white Christmas” is a morality play in one act. One of the other plays in the collection is a dramatization of Dickens’ “Christmas carol.” The author says, “In these little plays I have tried to bring before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness, expressed by ‘good will toward men,’ and the inward joy wrought by kind acts. ... Some of the plays are filled with the spirit of fun and jollity that is always associated with Christmas merrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasize the spiritual blessings brought to the children of men on that first white Christmas night.” Both children and adults take part in the plays. They are meant to be acted and the necessary stage directions are provided.
“Mr Hare’s new volume of plays contains some amusement, but no superlative wit.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 270w
“They are ‘merry plays’ and the instructions for producing them are very complete.”
+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w
=HARGRAVE, JOHN.= At Suvla Bay. il *$1.50 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1486)
“For the most part Mr Hargrave writes of the Dardanelles campaign. He enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, going from an outdoor life spent mainly in sketching and writing, to the hardships of camp life. No one reading these notes could doubt that he has seen and experienced all of which he writes. ... The volume is liberally enlivened with the author’s delightful sketches of men and scenes.”—Boston Transcript
“Journalistic and conversational, told with a vivid sense of the picturesque, whether enjoying various types on the way or experiencing the horrors of the campaign itself.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“Mr Hargrave is the author of ‘Lonecraft’ and is a well known scout master, and his work as a scout has made it impossible that he should come to campaigning with the lack of adaptability to conditions which hindered so many of the enlisted men. For this reason, his first chapters describing the hard conditions endured by the soldiers at the beginning of the war have unusual weight.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:426 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17
=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Jan and her job. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 17-10199
Janet Ross goes out to India at the call of her younger sister, Fay. Broken in health and deserted by a husband who has proved faithless to a trust, Fay, with two little children dependent on her, calls for Jan. Her death leaves the children in Jan’s charge. She takes them back to England and with the help of a young friend, who insists on acting as nursemaid in cap and apron, brings them up. In India Jan has met Peter Ledgard, and shortly after her departure, Peter finds that he needs a vacation and asks for six months’ leave. The captivating little nursemaid has a love affair too. The story comes to an end with August, 1914.
“Appeared in the Delineator as ‘Jan her work and love.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“This capital story has vivacity, freshness, and humour.”
+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w
“A pleasant, conventional little story, easily and simply told.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 220w
+ =Spec= 118:464 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“The story does not depend on its plot. Its attractiveness lies in the portrayal of people who do their best to make the world a pleasanter place to live in. As little as possible is said about the disagreeable characters; the others are saved from insipidity by their foibles.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p128 Mr 15 ‘17 420w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w
=HARRIS, GARRARD.= Treasure of the land; how Alice won her way. il *$1.25 (1½c) Harper 17-22298
This story, by the author of “Joe, the book farmer,” tells how Alice Warren, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Henry, encouraged and helped by Miss Allen, the new district school teacher, transform the untidy farmhouse in which they live, learn to apply intelligence to the cultivation of the soil, and finally take prizes for their tomatoes and corn. Miss Allen sees that mere book study is almost valueless in such a farming community as that in which she is teaching, that the people “need first to be taught to live, to lighten the burdens upon themselves, and to give the women a chance.” She therefore interests the leading men in raising money for prizes, and gets government experts to organize the boy’s corn-club work and the tomato-club and canning work among the girls.
“An interesting, able novel, whose author shows unusual charm in telling a story and pointing an extremely delicate moral while so doing. He evidently knows life on dreary American farm lands and exactly how meagre is the outlook a girl has, who is brought up amid their desolation. Then too, Mr Harris writes excellent dialogue. It does stagger our intellect somewhat to read that the heroine has grown on one tenth of an acre, canned and sold as well, two thousand, one hundred and twenty-five tomatoes, in two pound cans, realizing eight cents per can.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 O 10 ‘17 350w
“Conveys a lesson of encouragement to the country girl who can see no prospect before her but a lifetime of drudgery, by showing what a scientific efficiency may accomplish when backed by earnest purpose.”
+ =Ind= 92:110 O 13 ‘17 50w
“Mr Harris’s practical story about what a few people were able to achieve in one small region in the Middle West ought to be a very great help to all earnest men and women and baffled young people who are trying to improve conditions in country districts.”
=N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w
=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= President Wilson; his problems and his policy. il *$1.75 Stokes 18-3535
This book “has been written by [an Englishman] to interpret President Wilson and his measures to English readers. It was published in England just before our declaration of a state of war with Germany, but the recent American edition includes the author’s account of the circumstances leading to the rupture. The book is semi-biographic. The main facts of the President’s nativity and education, of his professional and literary life, are outlined by way of prelude to the larger purpose of exhibiting his acts and motives as a statesman. ... At the conclusion of his book Mr Harris reproduces the President’s address to the Senate on January 21, 1917, and his second inaugural.”—Bookm
=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
“Clear and well-written.”
+ =Ath= p233 My ‘17 230w
+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 120w
“A very compact, well-balanced book. ... The impersonal temper in which with expert brevity the author has aligned and appraised the acts and objects of the President’s domestic policy will be gratifying to his readers on this side. From his ability to look at both sides of a question with admirable disinterestedness, Mr Harris has approached a more complete standard of interpreting the President than Professor Ford [in his volume on Woodrow Wilson] has succeeded in doing.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:201 O ‘17 2400w
“This volume is by an Englishman who says: ‘I cannot pretend to be entirely free from a certain pro-American bias, though I hope I have not allowed it to color what I have written.’ And it is true that the author is not so pro-American that he is blind to some of the blunders of his hero. American readers will find the book exceedingly interesting.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 550w
“What may appeal to most Americans as a fundamental error is his assumption that Mr Wilson is primarily an initiating leader. ... To interpret the public will seems to be his chosen ideal for a leader of democracy. To write successfully the life of such a man requires an intimate knowledge of the politics and politicians of his time. This knowledge Mr Harris admittedly lacks. ... Upon international questions Mr Wilson spoke for the people, and his purposes rather than those of our people may be read in those utterances. Mr Harris’s exposition of Wilson as president of humanity—to use the phrase of a hostile critic—is therefore more accurate and illuminating than his well-intentioned but inadequate presentation of Wilson as president of the United States.” D. R. Richberg
+ — =Dial= 63:342 O 11 ‘17 970w
“He does understand and appreciate the importance of those parts of the country that are not on the Atlantic seaboard in the creation and molding of national life. He is one of the very few European writers upon this country who have sensed that fact. ... The book will interest Americans primarily because it gives so clear and well-defined a view, from an English standpoint, of President Wilson and of his political policies and leadership. But they may well find it worth reading also because of its unprejudiced and accurate presentation of American history for the last five years and its résumé of Mr Wilson’s life. For the author has aimed at neither eulogy nor interpretation. He has been satisfied to present his facts as they are, and to allow his readers to form their own judgment. And that is something that, perhaps, no American writer could do at this time.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 1000w
=Spec= 118:517 My 5 ‘17 1800w
“An excellent short-order biography of Woodrow Wilson. But it is a book which any American of Mr Harris’s gifts and sympathies could have written. For the deeper illumination of ourselves, it is still necessary to go to Bryce.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p176 Ap 12 ‘17 780w
=HARRIS, WALTER STEWART.= Christian science and the ordinary man. *$1.50 Putnam 615.8 17-7038
The title-page describes this work as “a discussion of some of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy.” In his foreword the author adds, “This book, in addition to being a discussion of Christian science, is in part an attempt to set forth the essential true elements existing in some other beliefs, to the end that a starting point may be found for greater brotherhood among all churches and beliefs, a basis in Christ for the brotherhood of man.” Contents: A few preliminary thoughts; “Is God all?” Contradictions: Does matter have reality? Does evil have reality? Christ Jesus and the meaning of life; To church members.
“A sincere attempt to view Christian science from an impartial point of view.”
+ =Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 13w
=St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17
“The writer is a Presbyterian and has never been a member of any Christian science organization, but he finds that much of what he has written is so far in agreement with the views of Mrs Eddy that he would fail in his obligation of acknowledgment were he to speak of the views he expresses as his own. This accounts for the title of the book, which presents a modification of Christian science set out with an earnestness which does not destroy the author’s sense of humour.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w
=HART, EVANSTON IVES.= Virgil C. Hart: missionary statesman. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 17-13400
The subject of this biography was founder of the American and Canadian missions in central and west China. The foreword says, “Two great missions in China, of which Dr V. C. Hart was the founder, testify to the comprehensive insight he had of China’s needs, his recognition of her potential powers, and his appreciation of the forces which would free her from her age-long stagnation and lift her into new life and influence.” This story of his life is written by his son.
“This career was not only rich in achievement, but highly picturesque. The biographer, his son, has been able to portray it vividly.”
+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 90w
“A straightforward narrative of an unusually picturesque career.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 30w
=HARTMAN, LOUIS O.= Popular aspects of oriental religions. il *$1.35 Abingdon press 290 17-13234
“[This book] combines brief surveys of eastern faiths with brief descriptions of the countries where they have their strongholds. ... Mr Hartman makes no pretense at thoroughness, but he supplies a lively and informing account of the principal features of oriental religions and describes the scenes with which they are connected, including some of their sacred spots. He gives the results of his own observation and his reading in authoritative treatises. ... Mr Hartman has words of cordial admiration for the great world-religion of Buddha, and he also does full justice to the aggressive character of Mohammedanism.”—Springf’d Republican
“Remembering the method and purpose, it should be said that the book is written in an attractive literary style and is splendidly illustrated. It should inspire the beginner to delve deeper into the lore of the history of religions.” A. S. W.
+ =Am J Theol= 22:158 Ja ‘18 160w
“One of the very best chapters in the book is that on Zoroastrianism. ... The author is sympathetic but critical, nowhere condemning any of these religions in toto, but finding them inadequate in a progressive civilization. It is an excellent book for the busy person who wishes to know the teachings of these religions, and how these teachings work in practice.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 550w
“Numerous well chosen illustrations add to the interest of the narrative.”
+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
“An admirable, brief, popular statement of oriental religions. ... The author writes from the Christian point of view, but his spirit is not that of a partisan but of a lover of truth wherever it exists. It will be found especially valuable for those endeavoring to promote in our churches an intelligent interest in foreign missions.”
+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w
“Mr Hartman conducts his inquiry in the proper spirit of appreciation of the notable ethical and spiritual characteristics of eastern religions, but with an eye also to their defects. He takes a common-sense view of the problems of missionaries.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 470w
=HARVEY, ALEXANDER.= William Dean Howells; a study of the achievement of a literary artist. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 17-26889
Mr Harvey, who has held editorial positions on the New York Herald, the Literary Digest, and other papers, has been associate editor of Current Literature since 1905, and is the author of several other books, tells us in this volume some of his thoughts on Mr Howells and a great many of his thoughts on other subjects. This is not a life of Howells, whom Mr Harvey calls “the greatest living artist in the field of fiction who uses the English language,” but a “study of his achievements.” The author believes that the lack of appreciation of Howells in this country is due to the fact that American literary judgments are made in England, and that England has always underestimated Howells. Altho Mr Harvey ranks Howells so high, he tells us that “Howells is at the head of the sissy school of American literature” which is responsible for the “renascence of insipidity in Anglo-Saxon literature,” that his influence upon the short story has been “especially mischievous,” that he is “inadequate to the male factor in human experience,” and that were it not for his “intimacy with the soul and the circumstance of woman he could not have written his masterpieces.” To Howells’ women, therefore, a good deal of space is given. The chapter on “The Howells masterpiece” deals with “The rise of Silas Lapham.” The type of the page headlines in the book is pronouncedly unusual.
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“Nothing could be more preposterous than the attitude of Alexander Harvey towards literature in this volume. Nothing pleases him. He attacks everything. He begins with a hatred of the English, and this hatred is reiterated almost to his very last page. Although his theme is ostensibly Howells, he tells us very little about that writer. ... Another of Mr Harvey’s absurd objects of attack is the American book review. He declares that ‘a book review in an American newspaper is either a display of impertinence to an author or of ill-breeding to the public.’” E. F. E.
– — =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 860w
“An entertaining and keen, if rather pert study. The index is an alphabetical epitome of the author’s own philosophy rather than a key to the book.”
+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 90w
“The author’s text is not so much a book as a tirade, not so much a tirade as a miscellany, and not so much a miscellany as the preface to an index. ... Mr Harvey diverts even while he irritates; and often he is unsurpassably acute. We ask for bread and are given—by no means a stone, but, let us say, a cocktail.” H. T. Follett
— — + =Dial= 63:331 O 11 ‘17 1350w
+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 70w
“Mr Harvey selects important aspects of Mr Howells’s work for lively and assertive advocacy, but it is abundantly clear from the start that Mr Howells is his point of departure rather than his goal. ... An arduous task confronted Mr Harvey. ... It must be said that in being loosely oracular and discursive, instead of attentive, he has missed his hour.” Francis Hackett
— — + =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 2500w
“Such sheer insanity of prejudice is rarely expressed more bluntly. ... To deny the eminence of British achievements is the giddiest height of fatuity. ... There is a unique critical index at the end of the book which exhausts the reader and presumably the subject.” Max Lustig
— =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 1000w
“Occasionally you meet with an experience or a thing for which some particular word is the one fit and perfect definition. So with this book. For it the word egregious seems to have been exquisitely invented.”
— =N Y Times= 22:561 D 16 ‘17 880w
“People who admire Mr Howells’s art and intelligence will have little patience with this farrago of impertinences and irrelevancies.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 420w
=HASLETT, HARRIET HOLMES.= Dolores of the Sierra, and other one act plays. *$1.25 Elder 812 17-20676
A half dozen one-act plays, “bits of drama,” the author calls them, “fragments of the human life about you.” Some of them, “A modern menage” and “When love is blind” commend themselves for acting in the little-theater. The plays are: Dolores of the Sierra; The scoop; Undercurrents; A modern menage; The inventor; When love is blind.
“The promise in the plays of Harriet Holmes Haslett is not so clearly spoken. Her people are types rather than individuals; her plots are more commonplace; her action is too often switched by mere chance; her thought is less mature. She has, however, dexterity in dialogue and has learned to manipulate stage business.” Williams Haynes
– + =Dial= 63:587 D 6 ‘17 220w
=HASTINGS, FRANK SEYMOUR.=[2] Navigation. *75c Appleton 527 17-25796
The purpose of this book is to provide a short course explaining the principal problems met with in ordinary, everyday work at sea. The author is instructor in navigation on the U.S.S. “Granite State.” Contents: Chart sailing; Mean and apparent time; Compass error; Dead reckoning; Soundings; Corrected altitude; Latitude; Latitude by sun on meridian short rule; Longitude; Latitude by sun, ex-meridian; Chronometer reading; Stars and planets; General remarks.
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 60w
=HASTINGS, JAMES, and others=, eds.[2] Encyclopædia of religion and ethics. v 9 Mundas-Phrygians. *$7 Scribner 203 (8-35833)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1909; for reviews of v 8 see Annual for 1916.
+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 70w
“The work holds its place as one of the greatest and most useful reference works ever published. It has no competitor, as it has made a field for itself which is unique; and it is indispensable to the student of the mental and social sciences, as well as to him who is interested in philosophy and theology.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 1100w
+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 360w
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 80w
“This new volume maintains the standard of its predecessors.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
“Specially attractive contributions are grouped under the titles of ‘Ordeal’ and ‘Nature,’ while the less important subjects, whose number shows the wide field covered by the work, have been entrusted to experts, who inspire the confidence which is half the charm which the ordinary reader feels as he consults a work of this character.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 N 15 ‘17 1150w
=HAUSER, HENRI.= Germany’s commercial grip on the world; her business methods explained; tr. by Manfred Emanuel. *$1.65 Scribner 382 17-14560
“The aim of this work is essentially practical. It is an objective study of facts, not a scientific discussion of economic principles; and its purpose is to promote the future prosperity of France in two ways, a negative and a positive. The first is to avoid the German grip, and the second to apply the lessons to be learnt from German success. ... The most important lesson of all is that German success has in the main been earned by solid work. ... As for those who urge ‘war on Germany’s trade’ with the weapons of passion and force, they are merely talking nonsense. Professor Hauser brings out this lesson better than most writers on the same subject.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
=Ath= p96 P ‘17 60w
“Of interest to thoughtful business men, legislators and students of economic and current history.”
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 950w
=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17
“Professor Hauser’s book was written for Frenchmen, but it well deserves translation and the widest circulation. It is a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Germany, full of detailed information, acute deductions, and sound conclusions. ... Professor Hauser’s treatment is much more thorough than any hitherto attempted in English, and his conclusions are better informed and better balanced than the hasty and somewhat excited counsels pressed upon us here from various quarters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 900w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Wood and water friends. il *$1.25 (1½c) Crowell 590 18-2698
A selection from the author’s nature writings. Some of them are sketches from a childhood spent in a happy out-of-door environment, where the foundations were laid for the studies that have been continued even after the loss of eye-sight. The pictures are by Charles Copeland. The selections are arranged miscellaneously without table of contents or index.
“Though physically blind, Mr Hawkes has a wonderful way of making others see. The world is far richer for his book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 140w
“The stories are varied and will interest children and young people of different ages—some of them speak especially to younger folk, while others have a wider field of interest. There is much to commend in the book as an introduction to nature lore.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:501 N 25 ‘17 300w
“He has developed the happy faculty of telling nature stories that are sometimes true and always interesting. Even the fiction is based on truth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 150w
=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= On the headwaters of Peace river. il *$4 Scribner 917.11 17-28894
“The journey which Paul Leland Haworth took ‘On the headwaters of Peace river,’ a thousand-mile canoe trip in the northern wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, is not one that would be practicable for the ordinary traveler. ... Outfitting at Edmonton, and making his start, with one man, from Hansard, on the Fraser river, he followed the Crooked and the Parsnip rivers to the junction of the latter with the Finlay to make the mighty Peace river, and then went on up the Finlay and well into the country of the Quadicha river, where the author thinks they were the first white men to penetrate. The many beautiful and interesting pictures are from photographs taken by the author.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Mr Haworth’s story of his trip is peculiarly delightful because of his own zest in every experience and in every inspiring sight of mountain, glacier, forest, or noble river, and because of his faculty for having interesting experiences and meeting people who had had strange and varied contacts with life and nature and were willing to talk about them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w
“Will appeal to men who love rifle and canoe.”
+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w
=HAWTHORNE, HILDEGARDE.= Rambles in old college towns. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 378 17-29340
Graduates of the following colleges will take keen pleasure in a ramble with Miss Hawthorne to the brightest spot of bygone days: Jefferson’s college, William and Mary, Annapolis, Princeton, Yale, Brown university, Harvard, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst, Smith, Williams, Vassar, West Point and Cornell. It is of the buildings, the campus, the spirit and traditions of these time honored old places of learning that she writes. Of Cornell she quotes: “I don’t see but that, by and large, Cornell doesn’t pretty well express the whole of this country of ours, male and female, rich and poor, in most of its countless activities and interests. A great democratic university, wonderfully beautiful, magnificently situated, thoroughly alive. It’s tremendous!”
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Life past and present, scenes as they strike the eye and as they bring memories of bygone days, both of the colleges themselves and of their historic surroundings, appeal directly to Miss Hawthorne, and are made memorable to the reader. ... Miss Hawthorne’s description of Harvard is much too casual and perfunctory.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 650w
“The descriptions of buildings and of elms grow a trifle monotonous, if one reads the book in course, and will doubtless be the most enjoyable to the students and alumni of the institutions portrayed. There is more variety in the historical anecdotes.”
+ — =Dial= 63:534 N 22 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 110w
“It is the sort of thing for which Miss Hawthorne has a particularly happy faculty. Her mood responds sensitively to every appeal of landscape, tradition, human sentiment, the ever-lasting joyousness of youth, beauty of building or of setting. Her sense of humor is always keen and its expression genial and sunny.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 350w
=HAY, JOHN.= Complete poetical works. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
The poems are grouped under the headings: The Pike county ballads; Wanderlieder; New and old; Translations; Uncollected pieces. There is an index of titles and one of first lines. The introduction is by the author’s son, Clarence Leonard Hay. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 320w
“John Hay cannot be ranked among the greatest poets. ... But there have been few poets whose work maintained a more consistent average of excellence. He was always the competent master of his craft, alike in the delightful ‘Pike county ballads’ and in historical verse of classic dignity.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w
“Judged by exacting standards, Mr Hay’s poems are in the main more notable for rich thought and balanced human feeling than for the lyrical quality which creates the emotion of beauty. But their place in American letters is secure. Their importance, too, in American life is established because they reveal the true character of one who in the eyes of men was chiefly the statesman and diplomat.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 290w
=HAY, MARLEY FOTHERINGHAM.= Secrets of the submarine. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 623.8 17-24865
Mr Hay has for seventeen years devoted his time exclusively to the design and construction of submarines. “Touching but lightly on historical development or the technique of hull and engine design (subjects already treated by Burgoyne, Stirling, Hoar, and others), he discusses in clear and simple language the armament of the submarine and the functions of its various mechanisms. ... He describes the way in which these craft are maintained, operated, and fought; the special dangers to which they and their crews are exposed, and the devices by which it is sought to counteract those dangers. He indicates many of the problems connected with them which remain to be solved and he analyzes Germany’s building facilities.” (Nation)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“Just the book for the man who is looking for a vade mecum on the subject. It answers practically every possible question.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 300w
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“Besides giving America credit for the original invention by Holland, the author might also have mentioned Sperry’s gyroscopic compass, without which submarines could not navigate under water; Admiral Howell’s first employment of the gyroscope to make the torpedo run straight; and the heating of the air in the Whitehead torpedo to gain speed and distance, due to the late Walter N. Hill. The chapter on Submarine antidotes is not encouraging; that on the Sphere of the submarine is conservative, valuable, thoughtful.”
+ + — =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 300w
=N Y Times= 22:551 D 9 ‘17 70w
“Authentic, up-to-date information.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 50w
=HAYES, CARLTON (JOSEPH HUNTLEY).= Political and social history of modern Europe. 2v v 1 *$2; v 2 $2.25 Macmillan 940.5 16-16141
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“In the second volume interest centres in chapters 21-25, which set forth the ‘Social factors in recent European history, 1871-1914,’ and explain the special form these factors took in England, France, Germany, Russia, and the minor states during that time. ... In the sections on France in the eighteenth century, especially during the revolution, are statements which need revision.” H. E. Bourne
+ =Am Hist R= 22:638 Ap ‘17 920w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“The first volume offers an excellent summary of three centuries (1500-1815) in a volume of 597 pages; while the entire second volume of 767 pages is devoted to the period since 1815. The theory of the economic interpretation of history is, of course, accepted, but it is used with moderation. ... Interesting features are the very full discussion of the eastern question and the expansion of Europe into Asia, Africa, and America. ... Each volume has its own index and may be used separately.” W. R. Smith
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:355 My ‘17 270w
+ =Ath= p52 Ja ‘17 120w
“It is obvious that much which seems almost sacrosanct to the historical specialist must be omitted, but Mr Hayes has been singularly successful in providing a comprehensive, clear, and well-balanced sketch of the development of European politics and society during the last four centuries. There are of course slips, particularly in the sphere of domestic history. Mr Hayes’s maps are distinctly good, except that the map of the religious divisions of Europe in 1600 anticipates the plantation of Ulster and gives an Anglican hue to the lands of Tyrone and Tyrconnell. His genealogical and other tables are elaborate and careful, and his bibliographies almost too detailed; but he gives the impression, not too common, of having really read the books he recommends.” A. F. P.
+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:620 O ‘17 420w
+ =Ind= 89:270 F 12 ‘17 250w
“The bibliographies are excellent, so that the student has at once a manual and a guide to fuller reading.” J. W. T.
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:520 My ‘17 330w
“The central theme is the rise and evolution of the powerful middle class in society—the bourgeoisie—which has done more than all the other social classes put together to create the life and thought of the modern world. There are accordingly such excellent chapters as those on the Commercial revolution of the sixteenth century, Society in the eighteenth century, The industrial revolution, and Social factors, 1870-1914. ... It is an admirable book to ‘grind’ for knowledge.”
+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
=Pittsburgh= 22:425 My ‘17 50w
“Makes an excellent preparation for a study Of the causes and origin of the war.”
+ =Pratt= p41 Ap ‘17 20w
“Particular efforts are made to explain the various economic systems with respect to their merits and defects. Thus we have a description of humanism in the 16th century, the influence of socialism in the 20th; the colonization of the 17th century, contrasted with the partitions of Africa and the expansion in the Far East of more recent times.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 450w
=HAYES, DOREMUS ALMY.= John and his writings. (Biblical introduction ser.) *$1.75 Meth. bk. 226 17-6228
“An interpretation of the gospel, the letters, and the apocalypse of John the ‘beloved disciple,’ founded on the assumption that the John who wrote the five Johannine books was the Apostle John. Over against the tremendous logical structure of the Pauline gospel, Dr Hayes places the gospel according to John, as the doctrine of the church of the future, since it is founded and consummated in love. He regards the first epistle of John as better than any of the epistles of Paul. ‘John was a prophet; Paul an advocate. ... Paul’s epistles are treatises. ... John makes confident assertion of the truth,’”—R of Rs
“His style is clear and full of human touches that are fascinating in their suggestiveness. ... The discussion of the authorship of the fourth gospel is fair; the various views and their advocates are well and honorably represented. ... The bibliography is excellent, not being overloaded with technical works in foreign languages.”
+ =Bib World= 50:49 Jl ‘17 320w
“As an introduction to the Apostle John and his writings this volume is not only the latest, but the best with which we are acquainted. The bold and broad scholarship of the author is reënforced by a keen insight into human nature. ... Seldom can it be said of a work of introduction to a book of the Bible that it has not a dry or dull page in it; but just that can be said of this work.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 750w
“The book moves with persuasive eloquence and ample historical perspective and will prove a great satisfaction to Bible students if one excepts the chapters on the Apocalypse. Dr Hayes admits this book to be the most baffling in the Bible and contents himself with presenting a mass of learned opinion on the subject, clinging to certain literalisms that can be easily explained.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 180w
=HAYNES, WILLIAMS, and HARRISON, JOSEPH LEROY=, comps. Camp-fire verse. *$1.25 Duffield 811.08 17-25233
In his introduction to this anthology Stewart Edward White points out the change that came over out-door poetry in the period following the nineties, reflecting a change in our attitude to out-door life. In that early verse, he says, “you are apt to have been wearing ‘Lincoln green’ and a feather in your cap at that. But with Kipling’s ‘Feet of the young men’ as a sort of dividing line, later verse takes an entirely new attitude and you don your khaki.” In selecting poems for the volume the compilers have applied a double test: “We have tried to exclude all poems not conceived in the true spirit of the sportsman and to include no poems devoid of literary merit.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“This collection is unique and interesting, and is one which any lover of camp life may be glad to have on his shelves. Most of the pieces are by authors who are, to the present reviewer at least, unknown, and many of them are of the undistinguished sort that serve as space-fillers in the better sporting magazines.”
+ — =Dial= 63:529 N 22 ‘17 280w
“An amazingly good collection. An excellent index, both of first lines and of titles, with a table of contents listed according to the authors, makes any of the verses easy to find.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 390w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 260w
=HAYWARD, FRANK HERBERT.= Professionalism and originality; with an appendix of suggestions bearing on professional, administrative, and educational topics. *$1.75 (3½c) Open ct. 174 17-17528
Dr Hayward is a school inspector. “His book is a polemic against professionalism. The first part is a catalogue of the vices to which the professional spirit is heir; the second—in intention a study of the characteristics of the living man, i.e., of the original mind—is mainly concerned with the reception which such a mind finds in the world of professionals.” (Int J Ethics)
“There are many shrewd and thoughtful comments upon the existing order of things.”
+ =Ath= p245 My ‘17 70w
“Dr Hayward handles all professions with a fine impartiality. ... The book is important for its trenchant discussion of many questions which are sadly in need of airing.” H. J. W. H.
+ + — =Int J Ethics= 27:541 Jl ‘17 260w
“Dr Hayward obviously knows nothing at first hand of the legal profession, nor, we should suppose, of the clerical and medical professions. He takes all his accusations of the legal profession from a book ‘The lawyer: our old man of the sea,’ by Mr Durran.”
— =Sat R= 123:580 Je 23 ‘17 870w
“A high-strung and loosely co-ordinated attack on all kinds of what we in America call ‘stand-pattism.’ ... He undertakes no philosophical discussion of that law of life which demands of men that they continually make the effort to strike a balance between the old and the new.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
=HAYWARD, WILLIAM RICHART.= Money: what it is and how to use it. *80c (3c) Houghton 332 17-11581
The author is principal of the Curtis evening high school in New York city, and this work is a result of both teaching and business experience. Contents: What money is; Barter and primitive money; Development and use of metal money; The relation of money to progress; How money grows; How money is obtained; Keeping account of money; Substitutes for money; Banking; Stocks and bonds; Speculation; Exchange; Money for women; Travel; Buying; Receiving; Paying; Selling; Delivering; Collecting.
“It would make a most desirable textbook for junior high-school commercial courses. The author has been head of the commercial department of a large city high school, has had business experience of several years, has conducted a private business school, and has been editor of the Efficiency Society Journal. He has written into this book the practical outcome of his experience in contact with these different kinds of groups.”
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“Matters connected with the use and handling of money that the average person would need to know are briefly, simply and very clearly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 130w
=HAZARD, CAROLINE.= Yosemite, and other verse. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-11824
This book of poems by the ex-president of Wellesley college is made up of three parts. Part 1, California verse, contains the title piece and other poems of the far West, among them a sonnet sequence, “The Court of the ages,” written in San Francisco in 1915. The second part consists of miscellaneous poems, including a group of Hymns and anthems sung at Wellesley college. Part 3 is made up of five Studies in blank verse.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17
“The religious note, the deep undertone of faith which makes explainable all the sadder, darker sides of life, is always present. It is, we think, more characteristic than any other one element of the spiritual aspects of Miss Hazard’s achievement.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 1050w
=HAZELTINE, ALICE ISABEL=, ed. Library work with children. *$1.50 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-26973
Miss Hazeltine, compiler of this second volume in the series of “Classics of American librarianship,” is supervisor of children’s work in the St Louis public library. “The volume is an attempt to bring together in accessible form papers representing the growth and tendencies of forty years of library work with children. ... The papers chosen are primarily of historic rather than of present-day value, although many of them embody principles which govern the practice of today. ... Several different phases of children’s work are represented, although no attempt has been made to make the collection comprehensive. ... Book-selection for children has not been included except incidentally, since it is expected that this subject will be treated in another volume as part of the general subject of book-selection. In the same way, material on training for library work with children has been reserved for a volume on library training.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:110 Ja ‘18
“Parents who wish to know what the public service is doing for the good of every child will find this book inspiring. And librarians will find much useful matter in the suggestions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= Alsace-Lorraine under German rule. *$1.25 (2½c) Holt 943.44 17-30886
A brief, dependable account of the fate of Alsace-Lorraine since its annexation by the Germans at the end of the Franco-Prussian war. A preliminary chapter traces the history of mediaeval Alsace and Lorraine, thru later acquisition by France, the character of French rule for over two hundred years and the part the provinces took in the French revolution, the Napoleonic wars and the war which wrenched them from France. In the main body of the book are treated the German agitation for the conquest of Alsace-Lorraine, arguments for annexation in 1871, the remonstrance of the two provinces against it, the spirit and methods of German rule since annexation, and the resistance to the persistent attempts at Germanization. The writer is professor of history in Columbia university.
“An authoritative and readable study.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“By far the best short, yet actually sufficient, presentment of a question that is at the very heart of the present struggle for liberty. In it is to be found an unanswerable brief for France and a stern indictment of Berlin; for Berlin is now Germany.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 5 ‘17 470w
“This book can be depended upon as a complete popular discussion of one of the most important problems of the war.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 280w
“Professor Hazen’s new book offers the most complete and, basically, the most trustworthy treatment of the theme that has yet appeared in English. It is, however, not difficult to find many flaws in the new book. Historical, in the highest sense, the book is not, as it shows little of the fine balance and breadth of view which the reader expects from the author of ‘Europe since 1815.’ Rather does it bear frequent evidence of the heat which forged it, of haste, and even of confusion.”
+ – — =Nation= 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 450w
“The volume has been written with the intention of encouraging Americans and others to continue the strife until the liberation of Alsace-Lorraine is achieved, though, naturally, the author simply assumes that result as a certainty. But while this part is doubtful, the historical portion of the volume has a definite value.” Joshua Wanhope
– + =N Y Call= p15 N 18 ‘17 780w
“An excellent example of point of view and purpose in the presentation of historical facts. The book is not, properly speaking, a history; it is a footnote to history and a plea for the vindication of a principle. ... Professor Hazen writes simply and vigorously. He has not the timidity that seeks refuge in qualification and academic jargon. ... The book is inspiriting and informing, and leaves the reader with a forcible impression of the finality of the issue.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:558 D 16 ‘17 550w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= French revolution and Napoleon, maps *$2.50 (3½c) Holt 944.04 17-8744
The author has brought together in this volume the chapters from his “Modern European history” that deal with the French revolution and Napoleon. He has done this for the convenience of those who wish to review that period of history, as a means to a better understanding of our present crisis. The author says, “Between that period and our own not only are there points of interesting and suggestive comparison but there is also a distinct line of causation connecting the two.”
“A book outwardly attractive and charmingly written; it will probably be a popular text-book and, compared with other volumes of the same size, it will deserve to be popular. Tested by the ideal standard of what such a volume might be, it is more open to criticism. As to the incorrect statements of facts, while there are fewer than in the majority of school-texts dealing with this same period, there are still more than necessary, more than should be allowed to stand in a revised edition of the work. The connection between these periods and the present war is not made especially clear; it is treated very incidentally. Perhaps it could not be made clear in a work that ends with the Congress of Vienna; it might have been shown in two chapters on the great world development that has led to a world war.” F. M. Fling
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:149 O ‘17 750w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 250w
+ =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 570w
+ =Educ R= 54:96 Je ‘17 40w
“His ‘French revolution’ should really be read in conjunction with Carlyle’s. It is exactly the sort of clear, logical, accurate, historical background which these brilliant, literary pictures demand.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 240w
=Lit D= 54:1266 Ap 28 ‘17 680w
“The work of Professor Hazen is admirably done. He has a rare talent for the clear and compact statement of complex facts. His sense of historic perspective is just and his power of connected narrative is highly developed. His style is animated, simple and happily colored. His volume is generously illustrated with maps, mostly in color.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 450w
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“The author is professor of European history in Columbia university.”
=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17 10w
“Fundamentally a text-book. ... Prof Hazen leaves nothing to your background of information. ... But the book is splendidly and readably, one might almost say, ingratiatingly, thorough. ... On almost every one of its 350-odd pages Prof Hazen has displayed his truly remarkable gift for packing an immense amount of information—even dry information sometimes—into charming and spirited paragraphs.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 6 ‘17 800w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= Modern European history. (American historical ser.) il $1.75 (lc) Holt 940.9 17-6333
A history of Europe from the French revolution to the European war. The central theme of the book is the struggle for liberty. Two chapters on The old régime in Europe and The old régime in France furnish a background for the story that follows. The one chapter at the end devoted to the European war deals only with causes and the course of events up to the actual outbreak of the conflict. The author is professor of history in Columbia university and author of “Europe since 1815,” published in 1910. This work has been drawn on in writing the present book.
“Essentially a textbook, exceptionally well written, authoritative, and superior to others of its class.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“The book is invaluable to one who would follow the important events now occurring in Europe, in the light of the story of the past.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 460w
“As a textbook it will probably find its place in good high schools and in freshman courses in college rather than with more mature college classes. The first two hundred and fifty pages have been published separately in a library edition, without the illustrations, under the title, ‘French revolution and Napoleon.’”
+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
=Pittsburgh= 22:678 O ‘17 100w
“Clear maps set into the chapters which they represent. Profusely illustrated.”
+ =School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 20w
“For a course in European history since the French revolution there is probably no better text than Hazen’s ‘Modern European history.’” R. N. Tryon
+ =School R= 25:686 N ‘17 170w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER, and others.= Three peace congresses of the nineteenth century. *75c (4c) Harvard univ. press 341.1 17-13066
The papers on the Peace congresses of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin contained in this volume were written for the meeting of the American historical association held in Cincinnati in 1916. The congress of Vienna is treated by Charles Downer Hazen; The congress of Paris, by William Roscoe Thayer; The congress of Berlin, by Robert Howard Lord. In addition there is a paper on Claimants to Constantinople, by Archibald Cary Coolidge. The problem of Constantinople is pronounced by Henry Eldridge Bourne in his introduction “the most important single question to which the war must furnish an answer.”
“All the papers are interesting and suggestive. Mr Thayer’s alone is rather shabbily dressed so far as literary form is concerned and not exactly punctilious in its impartiality. Mr Coolidge’s article on ‘Claimants to Constantinople’ is a clear, well-balanced, and fair-minded, though appropriately brief, account of the most difficult question in the international relations of modern times. It deals mainly with the political aspects of the problem, and only incidentally with the economic.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:155 O ‘17 1150w
“Deals rather with the social side than with the political results of the negotiations, the personality of the plenipotentiaries than with their achievements. For those who wish to study the history of the questions involved in them, a useful bibliography is provided.” E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:626 O ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p13 O ‘17
“The basis of Russia’s claims apropos of current discussion about the fate of Constantinople is clearly stated.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 30w
=HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.= German chancellor and the outbreak of war. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
“This is, in effect, a supplement to the valuable analysis of the diplomatic negotiations immediately preceding the entry of Great Britain into the war which Mr Headlam issued in 1915 under the title ‘The history of twelve days.’ It includes additional evidence—from Germany—which has since become available, and is concerned mainly with events which intervened between the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29, and midnight on July 30. It challenges the view elaborated for the German public by the Chancellor that the act which made war inevitable was the Russian mobilization, and that for this mobilization Great Britain was really responsible. The five chapters are reprinted (with alterations and additions) from the Westminster Gazette.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p316 Je ‘17 170w
“In 1915 Mr Headlam completed his book, ‘The history of twelve days,’ which is still the best thing about the immediate causes of the war. Now, in this brief, clearly written volume, he has contributed one of the best supplementary things relating to the subject. It is marred in some places by small errors or too positive statement of that which should be conjecture, but in no essential part is the reasoning thereby affected.”
+ =Nation= 105:369 O 4 ‘17 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Ap 19 ‘17 110w
=HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.= The Issue. *$1 (3c) Houghton 940.91 17-4974
Four of the papers in this volume are reprinted from the Nineteenth Century and After and one from the Westminster Gazette. They are discussions of the various suggestions for peace that have come from Germany. The author says there are three issues involved in this war, the Atlantic, the Eastern, and the European. It is with the third, the predominance of Germany in Europe, that he is concerned. This is the great issue with which the war began and with which it will close. Contents: Two manifestoes: The party leaders; The German chancellor and peace; Prince Bülow on peace; Central Europe. Mr Headlam is author of a life of Bismarck.
“The appendixes contain translations of the manifestoes of the six industrial associations and of the German professors to the chancellor.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:362 My ‘17 90w
“The evidence of German policy adduced would perhaps have had even more weight with some if it had been allowed to speak for itself than accompanied as it is by the expression of Mr Headlam’s strong feeling.”
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 50w
=Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 50w
“Certainly he is thoroughly sane.”
+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 400w
“Of special value to American readers because it states clearly and concisely precisely what the aims of the Allies are in the great war.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 200w
=J Pol Econ= 25:1059 D ‘17 280w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 10:301 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 80w
“Mr J. W. Headlam is one of the sanest and best-informed of our critics of German policy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p619 D 21 ‘16 750w
=HEALY, WILLIAM.= Mental conflicts and misconduct. *$2.50 (3c) Little 136.7 17-9835
Mr Healy is director of the Psychopathic institute, in connection with the Juvenile court of Chicago, and author of “The individual delinquent.” This work on the part mental conflict plays in delinquency is an outgrowth of his experience. In general the conclusions arrived at conform to those of Freud, but the author is not a Freudian disciple. Acknowledgment is made to the psycho-analytic school for enlightenment, but the author’s studies have been followed independently, with no intention of proving any particular theory. The first four chapters are of a general nature, discussing principles, methods, etc. The main body of the book is given up to description and analysis of cases, arranged under such headings as: Conflicts accompanied by obsessive imagery; Conflicts causing impelling ideas; Criminal careers developed from conflicts; Conflict arising from sex experiences; Conflicts arising from secret sex knowledge; Conflicts concerning parentage, etc.
“His exposition of the methods of getting at the mental conflicts, as well as the method itself, is so simple that it obviates much of the occultism of some psycho-analysts. His reliance primarily upon the presentation of the facts of the clinic and the procedure therein makes it a work which must be made a starting-point by any future worker in the same field. It would seem that the cases could have been more carefully classified and presented more systematically. ... The genius of the author as shown in the application of this method of treatment to a class of juvenile offenders cannot be too highly commended.” T: H. Haines, M.D.
+ =Am J Soc= 23:259 S ‘17 560w
“Valuable to the eugenist, intelligent parent, teacher or physician. Too pathological for the general reader.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
“No writer in the field of criminological literature has done so much as has the author of this volume to analyze the causation underlying criminality. He has established psychological research as one of the most valuable approaches to the real understanding of the problem. This is the first rational explanation of that class of cases where the criminal confesses to impulses which he cannot explain. Dr Healy establishes the value of psycho-analysis as a genuine scientific procedure. The work is thoroughly scientific and of absorbing interest to all who are handling misconduct problems, especially those of adolescent children.” J. P. L.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:245 S ‘17 200w
“Forms a notable contribution to the group of writings, mostly of American origin, distinctive of the applied psychology of crime.”
+ =Dial= 63:219 S 13 ‘17 270w
“To one outside the Freudian fold this theory is unconvincing. The idea of mental conflict is ill-defined, and in the use made of the notion of repression lurk many doubtful assumptions. The sound suggestions given by the author for the treatment of these cases are in no way bound up with the theory of the mental mechanisms with which he connects them.”
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“Psychologically, the author’s case-material is of great interest, and the interpretation given, in terms of mental conflict, is likewise of considerable interest, though it does not appear to fit all the cases equally well.” R. S. Woodworth
+ — =Science= n s 46:461 N 9 ‘17 740w
“A work that must prove of absorbing interest to professional people, pastors, judges, court and institution officers, as well as parents and guardians of children. Dr Healy’s findings interpret much that has been hitherto misunderstood by those engaged in close study of delinquency.”
+ =Social Service Review= 5:25 Ap ‘17 100w
“The forty cases are very simply and attractively described and give a picture of an almost uniform pattern bringing home the havoc played in the child’s mind by the lottery of naïveté and partial information on sex topics to which the child is exposed. In contrast to the very direct and perhaps over-simple account of records, the general discussion goes at length into a fairly orthodox though somewhat simplified rendering of the Freudian system of interpretations, general principles, applications and methods, with many interesting and helpful discussions, with much evidence of sound experience.” Adolph Meyer
+ — =Survey= 38:421 Ag 11 ‘17 1700w
=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Life and literature. *$3.50 Dodd 804 17-31448
Professor John Erskine of Columbia university, editor of Hearn’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Appreciations of poetry,” is editor also of this third volume. The material which has been secured thru Hearn’s Japanese students is in substance the lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The volume contains critical comment which confirms Hearn lovers in their impression of his “noble and continuous discrimination, a sustained sympathy, day after day, year after year, towards good books of all sorts, whether contemporary or long published.” Some of the chapters are: On reading in relation to literature; On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Literary genius (a fragment); On modern English criticism, and the contemporary relations of English to French literature; The poetry of George Meredith; Note upon Rossetti’s prose; Note on some French romantics; Note upon an ugly subject; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon Tolstoi’s “Resurrection”; Some fairy literature; The most beautiful romance of the middle ages.
“Hearn has rendered a service alike to the West by his interpretations of the Japanese mind and to the East by his suggestive study of western literature, and he is certain that by their extraordinary quality they add something of great value to the body of English literary criticism, and that they stand among the best examples of this form of writing. Their remarkable feature is that they appeal to and contain much of value not merely to beginners in the study of English literature, but also to those who are anxious to amplify their knowledge of it.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 1200w
“But it all serves admirably for the high-school or university student in our own country, as well as for the older reader who enjoys being freshened up by a series of capable résumés. For matured Anglo-Saxons the most interesting of Hearn’s chapters are the first three, which deal with general opinions and which state his views on the reading and writing of literature—particularly the one in which he gives his ideas of composition.” H: B. Fuller
+ =Dial= 64:68 Ja 17 ‘18 900w
“This third volume is a bit more personal than its predecessors, personal in the sense of bespeaking more clearly the adventure of the critic’s taste. And it is of the utmost significance in the extraordinary quality of its interpretation, its literary criticism, not after the manner of the academic or journalistic schools of judgment, but from the point of view of the creative artist.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 900w
=HEATH, ARTHUR GEORGE.= Letters. *$1.25 Longmans 940.91 17-29759
“Arthur George Heath, fellow of New college, Oxford, and lieutenant in the Royal West Kent regiment, fell on the eighth of October, 1915, his twenty-eighth birthday. ... He applied for a commission a few days after the declaration of war, and threw himself whole-heartedly into the necessarily abhorrent task, to carry it through or to die at his post. Gentleness and humor, forgetfulness of self and thoughtfulness for those at home, with a scholar’s studiousness and earnestness, mark these letters from the field, mostly to the writer’s mother, now collected and prefaced with a warmly appreciative memoir by Professor Gilbert Murray, fellow Oxonian and fellow collegian of Heath’s.”—Dial
“The book takes its place beside similar memorials of Dixon Scott and Rupert Brooke and scores of others, as a sad reminder of high possibilities of achievement sacrificed without a murmur, and also of high actualities of achievement in a great cause.”
+ =Dial= 63:218 S 13 ‘17 220w
“There is something in the young Oxford don’s way of facing the facts of his life honestly, with no illusion of the imagination, yet with a steady and at times humorous desire to make the best of them, something in his sense of routine obligation, in the very absence of a transforming imagination, which makes one feel as if standing on the bedrock of truth.”
+ =Nation= 105:153 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
=HEATH, CARL.= Pacific settlement of international disputes. pa *1s Headley bros., London 341 (Eng ed 17-10174)
“This little book by a leading pacifist of advanced views is not a general dissertation but a collection of material; first giving in a concise form for reference the facts as to what has been done in the past by The Hague conventions, the Pacific convention, and International peace commissions; and then considering in order the new propositions for the prevention of war. The recommendations are on international lines. ... At the end of each chapter are references to a few modern books in which its subject is dealt with at greater length.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 80w
=Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p71 F 8 ‘17 150w
=HEINE, HEINRICH.= Poems. il *$2 Holt 831 17-10874
Louis Untermeyer has selected and translated three hundred and twenty-five of the poems of Heinrich Heine. These include not only the well-known “lieder,” but selections from “Die Nord see” and some of the poems from “Die Harz reise” series as well. The translator says, “I have endeavored, by the selections chosen, to show Heine’s lyrical power not only at its best but at its most characteristic. For this reason I have included many poems usually glossed over by his translators; poems that are trivial enough in themselves, but necessary to the series that contains them, and necessary also to a complete appreciation of Heine’s development.” The introduction is important as a piece of criticism, and in his translations Mr Untermeyer has endeavored to retain a quality too often lost in the English versions, the bitter flavor that is so characteristically Heine.
“The poems are translated into vivid English verse.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“Mr Untermeyer approaches Heine from three standpoints—that of the man, of the poet and of the paradox. He clears away at the very beginning much of the rubbish which has collected about the Heine tradition. His translation as a whole is not only satisfactory but deserves the highest praise for its faithfulness to both spirit and text and for the keenness with which he has made more clear the complex genius of Heine.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 1050w
“Heine’s simplicity is a trap for the unwary. That simplicity is the art that conceals art and can be reproduced only by one who is a poet in his own right, responsive to the same medium and claiming the same racial background. It took a Jewish poet to translate the Jewish poet. ... Comment on the volume would be inadequate without reference to Mr Untermeyer’s scholarly (not academic) preface which, except for its failure to praise the translator, constitutes the best possible review of the work.” B: W. Huebsch
+ =Dial= 62:399 My 3 ‘17 930w
“The book will give to those who do not read German a real knowledge of a great poet; it will please those who do read German because it is a true and faithful rendering; and it will take its place as something more than a translation, because, thanks to the introduction and the choice and arrangement of the poems it is an interpretative and critical essay.”
+ =Ind= 90:554 Je 23 ‘17 270w
“The result of Mr Untermeyer’s labor is not merely passing good, it is surpassingly excellent. His knowledge of German—as is evident from the beginning and becomes more so as one studies his translations—is intimate and fundamentally sound. His greatest attainment is that he has caught the spirit of Heine.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 550w
“Mr Untermeyer has unquestionably brought the reader who has no German closer to the source. If he has not quite succeeded in translating Heine the poet, he has succeeded very often in translating Heine the wit. ... Nevertheless, Mr Untermeyer’s volume is a little of a disappointment. One expected something more than a ‘libretto’ from a poet who takes his calling so seriously. It was really Heine the artist that we wanted.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ — =New Repub= 11:225 Je 23 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 30w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 230w
“His preface is especially illuminating. ... The defects of the book are small indeed, compared with its qualities. For the first time the English reader is furnished with a genuinely representative selection from Heine’s poems, so translated as to give not the apparent or superficial meaning, but their real significance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 680w
“It is too much to say that these translations keep Heine’s music. They do, however, fairly—at times brilliantly—present his poetic work and are a valuable addition to any library. The preface is unusually good, well worth publishing alone as a critical and interpretative essay on the great German Jew, whose words are immortal.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
“Except for its irony, it gives but little hope for any great revival of interest in Heine’s poetry. Heine was above all things musical, but this translation, while ingenious and true to the meaning of the original, does not make him remarkably sweet to the ear or appealing to one’s sense of rhythm in words.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 950w
Helen of Four Gates. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-16318
An anonymous story of the north country moors, by an Englishwoman said to have worked in a cotton mill for nearly the whole of the twenty years since she was eleven. Her grip upon the elemental in men and women, her uncanny imagination, her power of picturing cruelty and horror, and love unashamed, remind the reader of Eden Phillpotts, of Emily Brontë and of Edgar Allan Poe. An old and well-to-do farmer, Abel Mason, has never forgiven the sweetheart of his youth for casting him aside because of insanity in his family. After she and her husband have died, Abel adopts their daughter, Helen, whom he passes off as his own child in order to sate his longing for revenge upon her. When Helen falls in love with Martin, a lad working on the farm, Abel tells him that Helen carries the taint of insanity in her blood. Martin refuses either to marry Helen or to leave her, and for years the old man watches their sufferings with delight and invents new tortures until, by cunning schemes, he drives Martin from the farm and forces Helen into marriage with a tramp. The happy ending, though unexpected, is convincing, and does not leave the reader with a sense of anti-climax.
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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:94 S ‘17 450w
“‘Helen of Four Gates’ is an unusual novel. Its atmosphere is dark and morbid and its characters are nearly all abnormal. Nevertheless, the author has created in it a very real atmosphere of terror, and to some extent also of pity. The best work of the novelist is done in the creation of this terrifying monster, [Abel Mason]. For sheer stark horror his character finds few equals in recent fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 490w
“It is plain that in theme and treatment she has been, probably unconsciously, influenced by the writings of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Phillpotts: thus the very considerable powers of expression with which she pictures the rich loveliness of an English countryside in springtime throw into ironical and shocking relief the sins and miseries of the human element. The author has somewhat overshot the mark. The material seems at times to get out of hand, the characters are not always intelligible, and there are unnecessary uglinesses.”
– + =Cath World= 105:837 S ‘17 220w
“It is something more than a merely human struggle that the author has represented, consciously or not. It is the eternal struggle of all elemental, living things to maintain their birthright to freedom of expression in living terms. This is the truth that the ‘ex-mill-girl’ makes you feel. The dénouement is distinctly disappointing, below the level of the rest.” Ruth McIntire
+ — =Dial= 63:211 S 13 ‘17 900w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 480w
“It is all written with an imagination that shrinks from no horror, but is always able with sombre power to depict whatever height or depth of passion or suffering the characters rise or sink to. ... One closes the book with the conviction that ‘An ex-mill girl’ has brought a new note to current English fiction, a note that excels in sheer emotional power, in beauty of tone, in imagination, any voice that is now telling stories to the English-speaking peoples.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 870w
“It is crude, but it has a certain power and vigour which make it worth reading.”
– + =Spec= 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 30w
“In places the story is well nigh revolting, but in its dramatic tensity and insight into primitive human passions it attains a high degree of power.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 430w
“There is an intensity of emotion in ‘Helen of Four Gates’ a wild, desperate passion that excites while it oppresses the reader. You experience the same kind of sensation—though in a much stronger degree—that you have when you hold a wild bird in your hand.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 My 31 ‘17 530w
=HEMENWAY, HETTY.= Four days; the story of a war marriage. il *50c (4½c) Little 17-24973
This is a simply told story of a war marriage—the oft-enacted tale of the young Englishman who comes back from the horrors of the front to his quietly appointed English home with its circle of adoring relatives and his waiting girl bride. It is English in its quiet courage, pathetic in its telling of the stepping aside of the parents that those two might be all in all to each other during the short four days’ leave. It is real in its recording of the simple details and the last goodbye at the station where the two smiled back into each other’s eyes while a voice sounded behind them: “The average life of an officer in the Dardanelles is eleven days,” and above the singing of “Rule Britannia” shrilled the voice of a hunchback “I came that they might have Life.”
“Beautifully told, it holds in its small compass the essence of the tragedy of the war for all young lovers.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“A moving and unusually well written short story.”
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 40w
“The author is a young Boston woman, a protégée of Mrs Deland. It is a profoundly moving little story, told with an appreciation of the virtue of restraint that is noteworthy in a first book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 250w
“One of the best bits of work that we have had in this country since the war started.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 92:808 S 15 ‘17 250w
=HENDERSON, LAWRENCE JOSEPH.= Order of nature; an essay. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575 17-3165
“Evolution is studied from a new standpoint in ‘The order of nature.’ ... The author almost commits himself to the opinion that life is a necessary consequence of the earth’s physical and chemical constitution, an opinion which points to a hitherto unrecognized order existing among the properties of matter. As a setting for the problem the teleological principles of Aristotle and of the philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are sketched, and then the biological and evolutionary doctrines are briefly reviewed. ... The last chapters are given to a discussion of the unique properties of the three elements, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. And it is on the examination of the properties and activities of these elements that the author hopes to show the teleological order of the universe. A proof is not pretended.”—Nation
“Valuable and stimulating to readers with a knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and the researches of J. Willard Gibbs. For the large reference library.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
=Ath= p250 My ‘17 90w
=Dial= 63:528 N 22 ‘17 480w
“The adaptation of organic life to its environment has been a favorite theme. As a rule, the physical and chemical aspects of the problem have been neglected, and Professor Henderson, by calling attention to them, has started an investigation which will certainly be continued.”
+ =Nation= 104:739 Je 21 ‘17 250w
“It has come to be assumed that the reason why the physical and chemical environment appears to be specially fitted for life is simply that life has, by natural selection, been so moulded as to fit its environment. Against this conclusion the main chapters of the book are directed; and the argument is the more remarkable and original since the author accepts without question the theory of natural selection. His discussion of Spencer’s conception of evolution is perhaps specially luminous.” J. S. H.
+ =Nature= 100:262 D 6 ‘17 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 22:143 Ap 15 ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:327 S ‘17 10w
=HENDERSON, W. E. B.= Behind the thicket. *$1.50 Dutton
“This is a novel with a somewhat unusual theme, placed in a setting which is not unusual at all. The little English village of Wokeborough, near London, is not in the least unlike any number of small English towns. ... Michael is the leading character, a boy of six when the story begins, a young man when it closes. And it is the strange influence upon him of the woods which is the dominant theme of the novel, an influence which shows itself during his childhood and becomes stronger and stronger as the story progresses, ending at last in nymph-love and a tragedy understood only by the old Greek scholar who had been so fond of him always. ... Side by side with it, however, runs an interesting, realistic account of the relations of a mother and daughter, the conflict of two generations which failed to understand each other.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 330w
“Less delicately it treads the ground which Mr Forrest Reid touched recently in ‘The spring song.’”
+ — =Nation= 105:247 S 6 ‘17 270w
“The book is very well written, despite its author’s too great fondness for quotations, and some of the descriptions have in them more than a touch of poetry. If the difficulties inherent in the blending of the mystic, nature-worship theme with that of everyday life are not always entirely surmounted, the attempt is nevertheless a very interesting one.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 500w
=HENDRYX, JAMES B.= Gun-brand. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-13183
Perhaps it was a little inconsistent that a girl who “felt the irresistible call of the raw,” who languished in a civilized atmosphere should be obsessed with the idea of carrying the blessings of civilization to the Indian. Nevertheless the school that she is to establish gives the needed pretext for getting Chloe Elliston into the north, and that is all that matters. Once there her interest is divided between two men. Pierre Lapierre and Bob, called Brute, MacNair. Both are free traders and there is rivalry to the death between them. One is a dastard and knave, one an honest man, and, under his crude exterior, a gentleman. But Chloe makes the mistake of misjudging each and confusing the characters of the two. Blood flows freely before the tale is ended and the “raw” for which Chloe had yearned is hers in good measure.
=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17
“Mr Hendryx is a past master in the art of serving up fiction à la northwest. The subtler seasoning of plausibility and characterization are lacking in his handiwork, but the lover of such fiction will find it sufficiently wholesome and stimulating to be worth a hasty reading.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 200w
“The plot, which of course is the important matter in a book of this type, is sufficiently ingenious. ... Occasionally the author forgets to be grandiloquent, which is fortunate for the book. The story moves swiftly, and will probably please the kind of reader for whom it is written.”
=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ — =Pub W= 91:1317 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“The reader’s pleasure in ‘The gun brand’ will be in ratio to his credulity. The story is characteristic, but less spontaneous than Mr Hendryx’s earlier tales.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 320w
=HENNEBOIS, CHARLES.=[2] In German hands: the diary of a severely wounded prisoner; with a preface by Ernest Daudet. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 16-24983)
“Charles Hennebois was a volunteer in the French army, a poet-acquaintance of Daudet, and fell severely wounded on October 12, 1914, before Saint Michiel after only a few weeks of service. He was left lying uncared for between the lines until the 16th, when the Germans gathered him up, sent him to Metz, and amputated his leg—an operation which another German surgeon later told him was unnecessary. Moved from Metz to Montigny and later to Offenburg in Baden, M. Hennebois was the victim and witness of many German brutalities, and the book is practically the diary he kept during those months. ... Incapacitated for further service, this Frenchman was fortunate enough to be exchanged, and in July, 1915, he was once more back in his home in Toulouse.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“A striking exposition of German cruelty and oppression.”
+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 210w
“Something different from the usual ‘war book.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 370w
“He is a man of letters by profession, not a writer for this occasion only, and knows how to tell his story instead of merely blurting it out. His tone is scrupulously fair.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 N 2 ‘16 530w
=HENRY, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS.= Jesus and the Christian religion. *$3 (2c) Putnam 230 16-22324
In this day of religious questioning, thinks the author, “we cannot do better than to turn from disputation and go back to the fountain-head of Christianity, the life and teaching of Him we call our Lord and Master; to try to enter into His mind and gain an insight of the religion He believed in and lived by. The following pages are an attempt to bring before the reader some of the leading principles of that religion with the purpose and the hope of inducing him to make a thorough study of a subject until recently too much neglected—‘the truth as it is in Jesus,’ and not as it is in the churches or in the Letter-writers of the New Testament.” The trend of the author’s discussion all goes to show that the history of the Christian church has been one of deviation from the teachings of its founder. In this he finds the explanation of the weakness of the church in modern life. He quotes Lessing’s words, “After eighteen centuries of Christianity it is high time to go back to Christ.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16
“The argument is conducted on an extensive scale and with ability.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p131 Mr 15 ‘17 180w
=HERFORD, OLIVER (PETER SIMPLE, pseud.).= Confessions of a caricaturist. il *$1 Scribner 817 17-24407
This little volume consists of thirty-two caricatures, accompanied by Mr Herford’s verses, of Napoleon, Roosevelt, Pierpont Morgan, Arnold Bennett, Peter Dunne, St Paul, John D. Rockefeller, “F. W. Hohenzollern,” and others.
“Clever caricatures of famous men with an equally clever short rhyme for each picture.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“Here is an American humorist who can write and draw out of an abounding sense of fun, whose brain is fertile in conceits, and who is never insipid when his object is merely to provoke a smile. Best of all, when his purpose is satiric, his genial mood does not depart from him.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 750w
=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= Three black Pennys. *$1.50 Knopf 17-25287
“The story depicts characteristics in the Penny family. The first is the survival of a strain, appearing in widely separated generations, which had given the possessor the distinguishing title of ‘Black’ Penny; and the second—also an attribute of the strain—a black, scornful mood, an impatience at restraint and an egoistic, antisocial attitude toward life. The story is divided into three distinct parts, in each of which a ‘Black’ Penny moves upon the stage and contributes his share to the drama begun centuries earlier by the first embodiment of the foreign strain.”—Springf’d Republican
“Uncommon as this book [’Secret bread,’ by F. T. Jesse] is in mood and quality, as well as in fitness of style, we have two American novels of the season that may fairly be matched with it. One is Ernest Poole’s ‘His family,’ on which I have already said my enthusiastic say. The second is ‘The three black Pennys.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:487 D ‘17 900w
“Mr Hergesheimer is a master in his portrayal of the mind of man and the blind, not-understood, forces which urge him to what he does.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 1650w
“Contributing also to the ultimate failure of the work as a novel is a smaller flaw. The characters move in the setting as though it were a mere stage back-drop. The moods, the thoughts, the spirits of the various characters are in no way changed by those minute influences which make up so large a part of the mosaic of life. Memories of the exquisite blending of man and nature by such men as Meredith, Maupassant, and Flaubert flood into the reviewer’s mind. The virtue of the book is its psychology.” B. I. Kinne
+ – — =Dial= 63:643 D 20 ‘17 1250w
“We do not suggest the quality of the tale; how, in the artist’s hands, this material, which in outline will seem merely clever or sensational, assumes dignity and a kind of beauty such as, if we were to search for an analogue, might lead us to Hawthorne rather than elsewhere.”
+ =Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 400w
“In spite of the sting of its fine artistry, its adroit blend of high literary models, only fitfully and uncertainly does it touch creative height.” H. S.
+ — =New Repub= 12:334 O 20 ‘17 1050w
“Joseph Hergesheimer in this book has shown an exquisite mastery of prose form. The description of the modern iron furnace, for instance, is one of the finest word-paintings in recent fiction.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 640w
“He has here fashioned a novel out of distinctively American life on an original pattern, caught the very air and flavor of three widely separated epochs of our history.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:342 S 16 ‘17 1200w
“The chief weakness of the present volume is that while the connection between the several parts is plausible, you feel that there is no inexorable connection between cause and effect. In fact, his work would have lost nothing essential if he had given it to us in the form of three unrelated short stories.” Grant Hosmer
+ — =Pub W= 92:1378 O 20 ‘17 1000w
“He adopts an ambitious plan for a writer who has been before the reading public for so short a time, but he develops his theme with skill and notable success.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 480w
=HERING, CARL, and GETMAN, FREDERICK HUTTON.= Standard table of electrochemical equivalents and their derivatives. il *$2 (7c) Van Nostrand 541.37 17-20864
“The chief purpose of this publication is to serve as a reference book on account of the tables and other data given in it, and not as a treatise on electrochemistry in general; sufficient explanatory text has however been added to enable the data to be used for most purposes without the need of a further treatise on the subject.” (Preface) The table of electrochemical equivalents is based on one worked out by Mr Hering in 1903, but it has been entirely recalculated from the latest and best internationally adopted values, including the atomic weights for 1917. Glossary and index are provided at the end.
=HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART.= Audubon, the naturalist; a history of his life and time. 2v il *$7.50 (3½c) Appleton 17-29872
The discovery in France of a collection of fresh material bearing on Audubon’s ancestry and early life has enabled the author to write what may be called the first complete biography of the naturalist. Heretofore all that has been written on Audubon’s life has been based almost wholly on a brief sketch which he himself put together hastily in 1835, characterizing it as “a very imperfect account of my early life.” The new material supplements this fragmentary sketch and corrects it in many of its statements of fact. The two volume work, which is very fully illustrated, follows Audubon’s adventurous career in detail. The appendixes contain valuable matter, including the complete text of the French documents, some in the original, others in translation, and a bibliography, containing a fully annotated list of Audubon’s writings, biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana. Volume 2 contains the index for the complete work.
=A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
“One closes Mr Herrick’s notable book with a feeling of keen satisfaction over the pleasure it has afforded and of gratitude to the author for having written it. ... The scores of beautiful and most interesting illustrations also deserve mention.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 250w
“Combines scholarliness with a popular style and is enhanced by many fine illustrations.”
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 70w
“This work by the professor of biology in Western Reserve university, himself a well-known ornithologist, is the first thorough and authoritative biography of the great naturalist whose life was one of the most romantic in American history.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
“The volumes are beautifully printed and magnificently illustrated, many of the plates being reproductions in color of Audubon’s drawings. For the reader whose interest in Audubon is scientific the book is invaluable; the more general reader will find it a fascinating story of tremendous struggle and great achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:478 N 18 ‘17 1400w
+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 80w
“The present work gives from start to finish a sustained impression of a pioneer work. Even in the chapters that are necessarily based upon old, well-worked material, there is absolute freshness of treatment and point of view. ... As a crowning merit the work is equipped with an admirable bibliography.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 670w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 130w
=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Menace of peace. *$1 (6c) Kennerley 940.91 (Eng ed 17-13835)
This little book is directed against the “clamour for a peace that shall leave the causes of the war unknown, the embattled questions unanswered,” and argues that “a peace based upon a drawn battle between the Germanic powers and the Allies is nothing else than the capitulation of the world to Prussian might and mastery,” whereas the victory of the Allies “will lead to the banishment of war from our planet.” Mr Herron believes that peace without victory would be to the interest of the munition-makers, because Europe would then continue to arm for war, and to the interest of the Vatican because, if autocracy should perish in Germany, it would perish elsewhere, and “the Catholic power depends upon the subjection of the peoples.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 10w
“An eloquent appeal to the Allies to endure to the end and win a complete victory for the sake of the spiritual values of humanity.”
+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 30w
“The burden of Dr Herron’s adjuration is ‘Germania est delenda!’ He doesn’t put it in exactly these terms; calls it necessary chastisement, justice and things of that kind. ... It is written with all the powerful and graceful diction of which Dr Herron is an undoubted master. But we cannot in common honesty say that we are greatly impressed with it.” J. W.
+ – — =N Y Call= p14 Jl 8 ‘17 700w
“Few writers upon the subject have stated the case with such comprehensive understanding of its factors, implications, and possible consequences, such compactness of presentation, such sturdy basing of argument upon the democracy that is at stake and such noble utterance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 450w
“Written in the fiery eloquence of style and elegance of diction which have always characterized Dr Herron’s polemic writings. It has incidental interest as another vigorous expression of a well-known American socialist in direct opposition to the Socialist party’s policy of pacifism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 270w
=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace. il *$1.25 (5c) Kennerley 940.91 17-25519
The author of “The menace of peace,” a Socialist, has collected in this volume six papers in defense of President Wilson’s policy and against a premature peace. All except the first, which was originally printed in the New Age of London, and afterwards in Die Freie Zeitung of Bern, were written for continental European readers, and published from Dec. 31, 1916, to July 1, 1917. The papers have been “somewhat developed,” but stand substantially as written. “Each paper has had two or more translations into other languages, other countries, than that in which it was originally published.” (Explanations and dedication) The frontispiece pictures the bust of President Wilson modeled in 1916 by Jo Davidson. Contents: Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace; The man and the president; His initial effort; The pro-German morality of the pacifist; Pro-America; Appendix: an apologia.
=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
— =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 300w
“It is exceedingly difficult to adequately review a work of this kind, when one has not the viewpoint of the author, and especially when that viewpoint shifts.” J. W.
— =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 590w
“Americans ought to be thankful that so sturdy and understanding a fellow-countryman as Mr Herron lives in Europe and endeavors to interpret the mind of America to Europeans. Indeed, a good many Americans who have never been out of their own country will do well to read Mr Herron’s book and gain thereby a less superficial understanding of the policy of this government toward the world war during its first two years and upon other matters.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:359 S 23 ‘17 900w
=HERSEY, HAROLD.= Do’s and dont’s in the army for officers and privates; an introd. to military science. *50c (2½c) Britton pub. 355 17-24260
This small book, made to fit the pocket, has chapters on: The duties and deportment of officers; The duties and deportment of enlisted men; The officer’s equipment; An enlisted man’s equipment; Hygiene; Miscellaneous information; Discipline and morale. The author says that he has “merely endeavored to help the beginner find his way through the tortuous mass of detailed knowledge he must acquire—as well as furnish ready reference for the more experienced.”
=HESLER, LEXEMUEL RAY, and WHETZEL, HERBERT HICE.= Manual of fruit diseases. (Rural manuals) il *$2 Macmillan 632 17-9694
“Fruits are arranged alphabetically from apple to strawberry and under each the known diseases are grouped in order of importance. Symptoms of each disease are given, the cause described, and the best remedy suggested. Descriptions are popular; technical terms are all explained in a glossary. The final chapter is devoted to the preparation and application of fungicides. Short bibliographies given after each disease.” (A L A Bkl) The authors of this manual are the professor and the assistant professor of plant pathology in the New York State college of agriculture, Cornell university.
“This book with Slingerland’s ‘Manual of fruit insects’ (Booklist 11:205 Ja ‘15) forms a very practical guide for the doctoring of fruit trees.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17
“Discusses the subject from an essentially New England viewpoint, omitting from all consideration fruits and diseases that are of major interest in many states and nearly all that are of interest in our tropical possessions. The discussion of such diseases as are treated is in many instances from a local viewpoint rather than of a general nature. This is especially obvious in the treatment of such diseases as apple rust and pear blight. The illustrations are poor. ... Assuming a central New York viewpoint and interest, the book may be said to give a very complete presentation of what is known of fruit diseases, with valuable lists of references to original sources of information. It is, as the authors announce, the first American text to deal wholly with diseases of fruits, and here for the first time are brought together with comprehensive discussion many obscure and little-known diseases. The facts presented are well selected, and the book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of plant diseases.” F. L. Stevens
+ — =Bot Gaz= 64:254 S ‘17 240w
=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=HEUSSER, ALBERT HENRY.= Land of the prophets. il *$2.50 (3½c) Crowell 915.69 16-23378
The author’s advice to those who wish to visit Palestine is to “see Egypt first.” Our own home land, he says, is so attractive that Palestine suffers by comparison, but “after the burning yellow sands of the Sudan, Syria and Judea will seem to you, as to the Israelites of old, a ‘goodly land, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth.’” The author is a lecturer for the Department of education of New York city, and his chapters have much of the informality of the spoken lecture. Contents: Port Said to Beyrout; Damascus; Galilee; Nazareth and Samaria; Ancient Jerusalem; Round about Jerusalem; Jericho and Petra; Bethlehem and Jaffa. There are many illustrations from photographs and a map.
=HEWES, AMY.= Women as munition makers, and Munition workers in England and France, by Henriette R. Walter. *75c Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-28208
The first ninety-two pages of this book are given to a study, by Amy Hewes, professor of economics in Mt. Holyoke college and former secretary of the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, of conditions under which women were making munitions, in 1916, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Two articles giving the main results of the inquiry have already been published in advance of this report. ... The second of these articles, that dealing with the munition industry, was submitted in manuscript, in advance of publication, to officials of the Remington arms-union metallic cartridge company for their criticism. This procedure, customary in industrial investigations made by the Russell Sage foundation, was the more necessary in this case, because of the previous refusal of the company to give the Foundation the desired information. In the conferences which followed the reading of the manuscript, some statements were challenged, others verified, and additional material was obtained, especially regarding changes made after the field work of the investigation was completed. In response to the suggestion of the company that no study could be accurate which was not based on data obtained in the plant itself, the Foundation offered to make such a supplementary inquiry before publishing the report. This offer was refused.” (Introd.) The second section of the book (sixty-three pages) is by Henriette R. Walter, investigator for the Division of industrial studies of the Russell Sage foundation, who, under the caption “Munition workers in France and England,” summarizes reports issued by the British ministry of munitions. There is a bibliography of three pages.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
=Am J Soc= 23:531 Ja ‘18 370w
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Although Miss Hewes’s study is confined to the subject of women as munition-makers, its social and economic findings apply generally.” H. M. Kallen
* =Dial= 63:336 O 11 ‘17 1400w
=Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 80w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Thorgils. *$1.35 (3½c) Dodd 17-5127
Like “A lover’s tale” and “Frey and his wife” this is a Norse romance. It is the story of Thorgils of Iceland who sailed with Eric the Red and voyaged to Greenland, where he endured unnumbered hardships. Thorgils lacks the dash of some of Mr Hewlett’s other Norse heroes, notably that Gunnar who married the wife of Frey, but he is a man of might who wields great power by the force of his character.
=A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“Mr Hewlett seems to tell his tale without effort or self-consciousness, with a bare vigour which fits his theme; with hardly a trace of verbal archaism.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:209 Ap ‘17 430w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1350w
“An effect of virility and massive simplicity is produced with the art that is his own; yet the result is not all that we could ask from an author so gifted. It is at once too detached, and too harmonious with the stormy note of today. We feel we have almost a right to demand from Mr Hewlett that he either beguile our troubled eyes with a lovelier vision, or give us substance of hope and inspiration for the present.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:403 Je ‘17 220w
“There are no descriptions, or conversations, or character studies. That is certainly a very different sort of writing from ‘Richard Yea and Nay,’ or ‘The queen’s quair,’ and people nowadays will not like it so well. Yet, like it or not, the result is much the same; out of the book there emerges a pretty definite figure.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:189 Mr 8 ‘17 650w
“We seem to visualize the Norse people, their customs and picturesque life.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 180w
+ =Nation= 104:368 Mr 29 ‘17 380w
“A little saga of the northland, very perfect in its reticence and simplicity and human appeal.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 110w
“Those who like stories of adventure that deal with simple, hardy, brave men and women will find ‘Thorgils’ an entertaining tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:51 F 11 ‘17 350w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w
“With its lovemaking and fighting, its ship-building and sea sailing, the story makes a capital book for boys, who, unconscious of being instructed, might well be prepared by reading it for the reading of the saga stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p212 My 3 ‘17 370w
=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= In the wilderness. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-5984
Dion and Rosamund Leith spend the first months of their married life in Greece and when they return to England they bring with them something of the Greek spirit. In Rosamund, however, there is a touch of the ascetic. She had once contemplated a religious life, and after the birth of her son she bestows on him all the fervor and devotion of her nature. The tragedy of their life together comes after the death of this child. She holds the father responsible and turns from him. Another woman who has always loved Dion steps in at this crisis, but the danger of losing her husband awakens Rosamund. The later scenes of the story are laid in Constantinople.
+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 50w
“It runs to nearly six hundred black pages, perhaps four hundred of them frankly through the mire. Mr Hichens is a master of the portentous style. All of his virtuous parts are done in it and are, to tell the truth, pretty dull going: the first book of the present story, before we get comfortably into the mud, is deadly.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w
“If ‘In the wilderness,’ were shorter, it would unquestionably be more forcible. Its nearly six hundred closely printed pages have a lifelike story to tell and an important problem to solve, but their sum and substance could easily be compressed within a third of that space with no loss to either the story or the problem.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 1400w
“Now and again one has a sense of surfeit. The relentless analysis confuses and fatigues. ... Such, however, is the artfulness of Mr Hichens that one reads his book to the end and lays it down satisfied to have witnessed an achievement fine of its kind.” Alice Bishop
+ — =Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 670w
“It is a pitiful hero who is so absolutely at the mercy of any woman, bad or good. The novel, however, is worth reading for its marvelous descriptions of Athens, Olympia, Constantinople and a little cathedral town in England.”
+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w
“It exerts a definite and compelling fascination. The hours pass along as one reads, and time seems not to be. ... It is three years since Mr Hichens last gave a novel to the reading public; the present work has no note of hurry in it; it is ripe work, carefully finished and thoroughly felt.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 1500w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
“The most satisfying love story Robert Hichens has written.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“Written with all Mr Hichens’s usual subtlety and dexterity.”
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 90w
“The story commands the reader’s closest attention. Except for the ‘scarlet’ nature of Mrs Clarke, it is largely free from those hectic qualities which have marked several of Mr Hichens’s recent novels.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“The theme that Mr Robert Hichens has chosen is the egoism of the religious mystic, and he has developed it in a way to bring out his own talent for describing the East and for suggesting the occult.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 850w
=HIGGINS, SYDNEY HERBERT.= Dyeing in Germany and America; with notes on colour production. 2d ed *$1.75 Longmans 667.2 Agr17-505
“About thirty pages larger than the first edition which appeared in 1907 as ‘a report to the electors of the Gartside scholarship of the University of Manchester on the results of a tour in the United States of America and Germany in 1905-1906.’ Intended to give a general survey of dyeing and its allied industries in the two countries. The text has been changed slightly and three chapters have been added, German and English flannelettes, Instruction in dyeing, and a continuation of the chapter on Colour production.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:459 Jl ‘17
“The author has been for nine years demonstrator in the dyehouse of the Manchester school of technology and in addition works as chemist and manager.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 130w
“The author has gained much practical experience in dye and bleach works, the results of which are embodied in the new volume. This has added considerably to its value, particularly in the sections dealing with mercerisation and bleaching. ... The new edition of the book has been largely rewritten throughout, with great advantage. The concluding section deals with the future prospects of the dye-manufacturing industries in Britain, France, and the United States.” W. M. G.
+ =Nature= 99:303 Je 14 ‘17 530w
=HIGGINSON, MRS ELLA (RHOADS).= Alaska, the great country. new ed il *$2.50 Macmillan 917.98 17-12395
“Mrs Higginson’s notable book on ‘Alaska,’ first published nine years ago, has been revised, new material has been added, and the story of ‘the great country’ has been brought down to date. The body of the book, which deals with the scenic beauties, early history, native customs, resources, and the charm of the country, the author has not changed. But in a supplementary chapter she tells what has happened during the past ten years, and what is the present condition in railroad development, in commerce, mining, in the fishing and agricultural industries. ... The work has a map and half a hundred illustrations from photographs.”—N Y Times
“Anyone who has visited Alaska will appreciate the enthusiasm which colors every page of this delightful volume.”
+ =Cath World= 106:545 Ja ‘18 130w
“Mrs Higginson’s descriptions and her photographs of fir-tipped points, of swirling rapids, Eskimos in their parkas, and dog teams harnessed for their run across the frozen spaces, all make one long poignantly for bracing northern air and life among hardy, simple people.”
+ =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 260w
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 180w
“Although the material presented is rather unsystematically put together and the style of presentation rather disjointed and unliterary, the book contains such a vast amount of information that it has met with considerable favor, necessitating a number of reprintings. Unfortunately this ‘new edition with new matter’ is produced in the easier and less expensive way of reprinting from the old plates the body of the book and adding a chapter at the end. In this latter is thrown together in an even more formless manner than is employed in the body of the book and, in a way of presentation that is, from the literary point of view, decidedly crude, the necessary information about the development of the last ten years. The original index is reprinted, and thus the new material is not indexed.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 250w
=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= Rebuilding of Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Century 327.4 17-28774
Dr Hill, former university professor, has been minister to Switzerland and to the Netherlands, and ambassador to the German empire. In this book, based on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university, he argues that “the great war is a revolution against the alleged rights of arbitrary force, rendered necessary by the failure to reach the goal of a secure international organization by an evolutionary process”; that the war was caused by “economic imperialism”; that its main issue is “the right of people to dispose of themselves,” that no permanent peace can coexist with the old European idea of state sovereignty. Dr Hill tries to show that the real enemy to be destroyed is not “any particular form of mere state organization,” but this “dogma that the state is a licensed brigand.” Various forms of international organization are discussed, and the author concludes that while “a general international government” is neither possible nor desirable, we may reasonably expect the formation of “a strong, but limited, group of powers, each willing to sacrifice something of its own sovereignty for the purpose of insuring peace and equity.” The last chapter deals with “America’s interest in the new Europe.” Five chapters were in part printed in the Century Magazine for 1917.
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w
“An illuminating and forceful presentation of the war, regarded as a revolution against economic imperialism.”
+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 50w
“A very helpful exposition of the forces and conditions that have been prevailing in Europe and which must be taken into account when a definite plan for the reconstruction of civilization is undertaken after the war. The story is simple and direct, and the presentation is that of the trained scholar and publicist. The book deserves wide reading.”
+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 90w
“No man in America was probably better equipped than Dr Hill to treat the momentous topic discussed in this volume. ... He understood the German people and the German mind. He could analyze feelings and facts with rare intelligence and sure skill. He speaks, therefore, as one having authority.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 600w
“To the socialist reader the treatment of the subject will necessarily appear vague.” Joshua Wanhope
— =N Y Cal=l p19 D 15 ‘17 900w.
=HILL, JANET (MCKENZIE) (MRS BENJAMIN M. HILL).= Cakes, pastry and dessert dishes. il *$1.50 Little 641.5 17-24721
The editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine has added another to her already substantial list of cook-books. The publishers have given large, clear type and over sixty enticing illustrations reproduced from photographs. The index carries over 500 entries which include the old favorite cakes and desserts as well as many less-known ones.
“A tantalizing collection of recipes to be published in war times. However, it contains bran cookies as well as a twelve-egg torte. There are brief general directions at the head of each chapter which are useful and the recipes are easy to follow.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“A boon indeed to young and old planners of meals. Carefully indexed, attractively illustrated and admirably printed and bound, a most satisfactory production in every particular.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 110w
=R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 50w
“Since desserts are now reckoned among the luxuries of life in many households, the possessor of this book will be obliged to wait some time perhaps before she will feel that all the recipes may be added to her list of available favorites. This does not mean that all the recipes are unduly extravagant, for there are many of moderate cost.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 170w
=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical investigations; some personally-observed proofs of survival. *$2 (2½c) Doran 134 17-13827
Mr Hill has written other books on psychical research. He tells us: “at the beginning of my investigations, my prejudices and wishes were opposed to the conclusions which the facts gradually forced upon me. If I am now biased in favour of the belief in personal life after death, it is objective fact, not subjective preference, that has brought it about. And my judgments have not been hasty. I have worked at the subject for over eleven years.” (Preface) About one-half of the book is given up to verbatim reports of sittings with three different mediums, A. Wilkinson, Tom Tyrrell, and A. V. Peters. At one of the meetings with Mr Peters, occurred some of the incidents related by Sir Oliver Lodge in “Raymond.” Several chapters deal with the methods employed in psychical research. Other chapters deal with: Immortality; Home mediumship; Telepathy and survival; Psychical phenomena in earlier times; Pre-existence and the nature of the after-life; Psychical research and religion.
=N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 580w
“The special interest of this volume is to be found in the fact that it deals, not with alleged messages from important or well-known people, but with communications, or what profess to be communications, from very ordinary and very often rather dull types of deceased humanity. It is not a book from which any spicy or sensational quotations are to be drawn. Nevertheless, open-minded investigators will find it worth perusal.”
+ =Spec= 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 350w
“An investigator as careful and open-minded as Mr Hill is entitled to the opinion based upon his experience, and is justified in his endeavour to show that the conclusion to which his experience leads him, a decision in favour of the reality of spirit communications, is not incompatible with philosophy or religion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 29 ‘17 1000w
=HILL, MARION (HILL) (MRS CHARLES R. HILL).= McAllister’s grove. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-13950
“This new novel is a delightfully written little story of a girl, a man, and an orange grove. Laurie McAllister—full name, Annie Laurie—had saved a little bit of money; her aristocratic old grandfather and only living relative suffered greatly from the cold of New York winters, and the advertisements about Florida were most alluring. ... To Florida they went, she and her grandfather, who in Scotland was ‘The McAllister,’ and there she discovered that the grove was in an utterly forlorn and neglected condition, the trees having been starved for years. ... Though she soon learned that the number of ills to which flesh is heir are as nothing compared with those which are the natural inheritance of an orange grove, she struggled along, and while she would certainly have been beaten had it not been for Charles Roycroft and his chivalrous sacrifice, she won out at the end.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A story both cleverly conceived and cleverly told, with a refreshing spontaneity and sincerity.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 14 ‘17 420w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 60w
“An unusually well-written story which does not put too heavy a strain upon the reader’s credulity and which has a vivid charm by way of local color and much genuine humor.”
+ =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 120w
“The book contains an interesting account of the growing and packing of oranges.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:211 My 27 ‘17 400w
=HILL, WILLIAM ELY.= Among us mortals; pictures and legends by W: E. Hill; text by Franklin P. Adams. *$1 Houghton 817 17-30263
Mr Hill’s profession, so Franklin P. Adams says, is helping make the world safe from hypocrisy. The collection of drawings offered in this volume shows some of his best efforts in that direction. Mr Adams says in his “Preface to a preface,” “Hill is popular, by which I mean universal, because you think his pictures look like somebody you know, like Eddie, or Marjorie, or Aunt Em. But they don’t; they look like you. Or, if you prefer, like me.” When the reader finds himself, somewhere in the group, surely the great disillusioning comes. Perhaps one may be the lady laughing at a Ford joke, or one of the two faculty wives having the time of their lives pulling Mrs Prexy to pieces; or perhaps one may be the young man who makes an unfortunate break, or the artist who discovers that the only one of his pictures sold has been hung upside down. It is the sort of glass Cassius would be to Brutus—one that “reveals that of yourself which you yet know not of.”
“Unmistakably American.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18
“These drawings have attracted much attention in the New York Tribune, striking a new and very penetrating note in American caricature.”
+ =Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 60w
“Solving the problem of Yuletide—what to give for Christmas—is a difficult matter. ... ‘Among us mortals’ is the kind of book which can be sent to anybody with perfect safety. The wisest will laugh at Hill’s pictures and F. P. A.’s nonsense, and the foolish will take it seriously.” L. G.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 230w
=HILLS, RALPH WINCHESTER.= Machine drawing. (Industrial education ser.) il *$1 McGraw 744 17-19718
“‘Machine drawing’ is the title of a new book on this subject prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Ralph W. Hills, instructor in mechanical drawing. ‘The material in this volume is the first half of the instruction papers as developed and used by the extension division. ... The second volume will be devoted to the more specialized lines of work.’ The author avoids needless technicalities and begins at once with ‘real drawings.’”—School Arts Magazine
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17
“He pays no attention to perspective effects when sketching freehand, and but little to pleasing arrangement of sheet. It is a reliable guide to _mechanical_ drawing.”
+ — =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 160w
“‘The text and problems have been carefully prepared and arranged so as to develop speed, accuracy, neatness, and a knowledge of the best drafting room practices.’ The above quotation from the preface is thoroughly justified. Supplementing the chapters on principles and those on detail and assembly drawing there is one on Technical sketching that should prove valuable.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:228 Ja ‘18 130w
Hindu mind training; by an Anglo-Saxon mother; with an introd. by S. M. Mitra. *$3.50 Longmans 371.4 E17-302
“The author, dissatisfied with various western systems of mind training ... turned her attention to the ancient Hindu system of mind training, into which she was initiated by the writer of the introduction to her book. The system largely depends upon unconscious or preconscious cerebration. ... By a series of psychological questions and answers on subjectmatter previously narrated, the pupil’s mind is prepared, the author states, to receive facts, to interpret them correctly, to distinguish facts from opinions, to reason accurately, to differentiate between the logic of words and the logic of facts, and to make practical use of the information so gained. Character is in this way developed. The book contains many examples of this method of training receptive minds.” (Ath) “Mr Mitra is an Indian writer and teacher of much ability, whose works are well known to those who study Indian thought and politics. ... In an introduction he explains the advantage of the procedure, and also devotes some pages to a comparison between Hindu and Western philosophic thought while he appends, at the close of the book, an essay instituting a comparison between the analytic psychology in ancient Sanskrit literature with that to be found in La Rochefoucauld, under the title ‘Franco-Hindu psychological affinity.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 40w
“A careful perusal of the Hindu stories impressed upon the young in the course of an Anglo-Saxon Mother’s many trials will produce in most minds trained in philosophic thought a profound conviction that neither Hindu philosophy nor Hindu morality is suitable for inculcation in this country. The logical deductions are too divergent from our whole social and moral system. ... This book, if it cannot be regarded as an educational gospel, will do something to provoke interest in Indian moralities.”
=Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 420w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 F 1 ‘17 220w
=HINES, JOHN CHESTERFIELD (JACK HINES).= Blue streak. il *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-25860
Ten stories for young and old of ice bound Alaskan trails whose central figures are fearless, heroic, obedient wolf dogs. These malamutes have a sympathetic champion in the writer who tells of the kind of dog devotion that can lavish the love of a life time upon a supreme effort to save a master; or that can starve and die if need be, in the traces of duty. It is this sort of creature that hears his master exclaim, “What dog words are there that I can bark or howl long enough to proclaim what you are!” The half wild, half domesticated friend and servant of the lonely trapper and miner is well-nigh immortalized in these chapters that proclaim the blue streak in dog nature.
“All of them are vigorous human tales of the Yukon, and they are written obviously by a genuine lover of dogs. Boys will enjoy the adventurous aspect of these stories; and yet the best one of them all does not deal with adventures, but with a trial.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 230w
“The stories are convincingly written because they are not well written. If done in a facile style they would probably be accepted as merely entertaining. But the very faults of redundancy and sentimentalism and occasional failure of action are faults natural to a story-teller who is engaged rather in showing the bravery, beauty, and cleverness of his beloved thoroughbreds than in producing a finished tale.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w
“Mr Hines reveals himself a delightful story-teller. He does not waste words, but drives straight at the point he intends to illustrate.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 230w
=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Middle years. *$3.50 Houghton (*10s 6d Constable & co., London) (Eng ed 17-11336)
“‘Katharine Tynan’s’ earlier volume of reminiscences agreeably whetted the appetite of her readers for further memories, and this record of what she calls ‘the middle years’ eclipses its predecessor in the interest and variety of its contents. In it she describes the close of her girlhood in Dublin and some twenty years of married life spent in England before her return to Ireland shortly before the war. In a sense it is the story of an exile from Erin, because she was never Anglicized, Ireland remained the true home of her heart, and her most intimate friends were Irish or people with Irish affiliations. But though Irish to the core, a devout Roman Catholic, and an intense admirer of Parnell, she does not harbour any anti-English animosity.”—Spec
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 670w
“The real centres of interest are about the Meynells, Francis Thompson, and Lionel Johnson. ... And those to whom these names already mean much as the names of leaders in modern letters, will find that their affection deepens in proportion to their more intimate, familiar acquaintance with the objects of that affection.”
+ =Cath World= 105:535 Jl ‘17 600w
“Her record conveys the impression that she has been delightfully busy, tirelessly interested, and exuberantly happy. Her prime gifts, which richly flavor the volume, are her Celtic blood, her quick warm sympathies, her affection for almost all kinds of men and women and all kinds of flowers and pets.”
+ =Nation= 105:459 O 25 ‘17 680w
“Those who read ‘Twenty-five years: reminiscences’ were persuaded that Miss Tynan lives a most enviable life; those who read ‘The middle years’ will be convinced of it. It is a charmingly intimate talk with the author about all her friends, and unconsciously she conveys to us a very lovable portrait of her own cheery self.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:139 Ap 15 ‘17 1400w
“It is really as a novel, veraciously and graciously picturing life, that one reads ‘The middle years.’ The story is a true one, of course, but its spirit is more important than its facts. Even in the fuller portraits, what one thinks of is friendship and character, rather than the details of the picture.”
+ =No Am= 206:131 Jl ‘17 830w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 70w
“These chapters abound in generous and affectionate tributes to those who were near and dear to her, who shared her ideals, encouraged her in her work, and applauded her successes. Her early days in London brought her in contact with many remarkable people in the literary world, and the letters from Mr W. B. Yeats, from ‘Æ’ (Mr George Russell), from Francis Thompson, and from Mr George Wyndham would alone make the book cheap at double the price.”
+ =Spec= 118:272 Mr 3 ‘17 1900w
“Against Katharine Tynan herself the accusation of having substituted literature for life cannot be brought. One learns enough of the woman and the mother to see that her life has been full and very human. There is a mellowness about the last chapters that leaves one warmed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 D 7 ‘16 1100w
=HIRSCH, MRS CHARLOTTE (TELLER).= Diary of an expectant mother. il $1.25 (2½c) McClurg 618.2 17-12627
This is the story of a woman who wanted children but feared the months of waiting before the birth of her first child, and who did not know how to live hygienically under such conditions. In addition to much advice as to her personal life, the nursery, the baby’s outfit, etc., are considered. The book is exceedingly popular in style.
“As a volume for the perusal of other expectant mothers we can heartily recommend this work. It is not loaded with technicalities, and is in no sense a treatise on obstetrics and maternity generally, but rather a sane and excellent preventive against needless worry, while at the same time emphasizing the natural character of the episode of motherhood and recommending the simple, sensible course that should be pursued during the period.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 370w
=HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MARSHALL.=[2] Over Japan way. il *$2 (3c) Holt 915.2 17-31433
An informing, entertaining book about Japan, handsomely illustrated, which is made up of the impressions of an American tourist with eyes wide open. After six days of “monotonous blue” he lands and claims the reader for companion while he runs the gamut of first sensations, which he remarks, “are cause for grayer hair about the temples.” The rikisha, the tram, the bewildering sights thru “wide streets, narrow streets, narrower street, alleys barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow, dark places and still darker suggest treachery, ambush.” He tells about the inns and hotels, he visits schools from the kindergarten to the university, goes shopping, attends a play, beards a volcano, visits shrines and sacred places and touches the high spots of Japanese scenery. He records lightly his experiences and their play upon his emotions.
“The author writes in an intimate, conversational style. Everything is given with a running fire of humorous side remarks that entertain as well as instruct.”
+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 160w
“The quaint, genial, shrewdly humorous observations of Mr Hitchcock serve to make this an unusual book of travel. No attempt is made to pass over the submerged side of life as seen in the segregated parts of the large cities and in the daily grind of industry.”
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
“Despite obvious drawbacks, the author conveys a distinct and convincing impression of the Japanese scene. He is frankly an outsider and gives his views with some humor, appreciating that his sincerity is not to be confounded with the profundity of the research student.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 200w
“In text and illustration this latest book on Japan seems in some respects the best of the short accounts.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w
“Entertaining travel sketches embellished by a series of beautifully reproduced photographs.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 20w
“He has not added much to the substance of our knowledge about Japan, but he has written a book of travel sketches, in which impressions are expressed gracefully and ingratiatingly. There is a graphic touch in his words, and the reader is able to share the images and ideas in the author’s mind.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 370w
=HITSCHMANN, EDUARD.= Freud’s theories of the neuroses; auth. tr. by Dr C: R. Payne, with an introd. by Ernest Jones. *$2 Moffat 130 17-4719
“What may be called the orthodox or strict Freudian conception of neurotic conditions, briefly set forth by Hitschmann, holds that the neuroses originate in the sex life of the individual, the form of the nervous disturbance differing in accordance with the strain that the sex life has undergone. There are ‘true neurasthenia’ types resulting [from four causes]. ... Freud’s ‘psychoanalytic’ method of treating these conditions is explained and a chapter is devoted to his views regarding prophylaxis.” (Survey) “At the end of the book there is a useful chronological review of Freud’s works from 1893 to 1910, as well as a catalogue of Freudian literature in English.” (N Y Times)
“Hitschmann’s book is aimed primarily at physicians, although it is by far the most readable, and most clearly expressed of the three. [The other two referred to are Adler’s ‘Neurotic constitution,’ and Pfister’s ‘Psychoanalytic method’].” Wilfrid Lay
+ =Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 50w
“The translation, like all of Dr Payne’s translations, is accurate, lucid, and in excellent style.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:331 S 9 ‘17 320w
“An interpretation of Freud which adds little, either in reasoning or examples, to Freud’s own statement of his theories.”
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
Reviewed by R. S. Woodworth
=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 200w
=HOAR, ROGER SHERMAN.= Constitutional conventions. *$2 Little 342.7 17-16733
A collection of all of the available law and precedent relating to the nature, powers and limitations of constitutional conventions. The book has been prepared by a former state senator of Massachusetts who was a member of the commission to compile information and data for the use of the Massachusetts convention now in session. With authority and thoroughness the writer answers questions of this character: What gives validity to this method, so frequently used to amend our state constitutions? Is the convention, once launched, subject to either legislative, executive, judicial or even popular control? Is the convention bound by law, or even by the constitution? Can it control the other branches of the government? Can it create a new constitution, without submitting it to the people for ratification? All of these questions, and many more like them, are answered in this book, the only modern and up-to-date text-book on the subject.
“A reliable textbook on a subject which has seldom been treated at any length.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by J. Q. Dealey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:143 F ‘18 440w
=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 30w
“For the statesman, the lawyer, and the student of public affairs, even for the courts, indeed, there is a wealth of useful information within the covers of this book. He has not been altogether successful in keeping to the rôle of non-partisan. Between the lines it is easy to detect, in many instances, Mr Hoar’s own political leanings. His progressivism refuses to stay in the background. Yet this is, after all, a small blemish.”
+ — =Nation= 106:117 Ja 31 ‘18 400w
“Mr Hoar’s careful analysis of the various problems arising whenever a revision of a state’s fundamental law is undertaken, is applicable in every state, and will, no doubt, be the standard treatise for many years to come.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 220w
“The index is of special value. The author’s opportunity to produce such a work reliably has been a public advantage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 330w
=HOBHOUSE, LEONARD TRELAWNY.= Questions of war and peace. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-16727)
“There is, as might be expected from a thinker so able as Dr Hobhouse, much that is suggestive in these three papers, two of which—‘The soul of civilization’ (reprinted from the Contemporary Review) and ‘The hope of the world’—are in the form of dialogues. In the first the writer shows how he has come to regard the war as an inevitable clash between two separate civilizations, with two religions, and expresses his belief that there will result from it a more genuine feeling both about nationality and about public right. The second covers much ground—views of the war and its problems, of the conflict between freedom and state control, &c. ... The third paper gives the substance of an address at the National liberal club on January 18 [1916], of which the chief feature is the author’s plea that the existing alliance may form the basis of a much wider one, may point to ‘the ultimate ideal of internationalism at two or three removes.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“‘The hope of the world’ is especially interesting. ... One will go far to find a better brief of discussion of the militarist state, the prospects of democracy, the ‘laws’ of human society, and, in general, the ‘hope of the world,’”
+ =Nation= 104:48 Ja 11 ‘17 300w
=Nation= 105:297 S 13 ‘17 450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:187 D ‘16
“In these brilliant Platonic dialogues on current questions Professor L. T. Hobhouse, the Martin-White professor of sociology in the University of London, has provided us with a delightful entertainment. This can be safely said without committing ourselves to Mr Hobhouse’s conclusions. He handsomely admits that he was wrong in the past about Germany and that he misjudged Lord Grey of Fallodon’s policy.”
+ =Spec= 118:17 Ja 6 ‘17 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 29 ‘16 190w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Evolution of modern capitalism. il *$1.75 Scribner 331 17-13332
“In this revised edition of his well-known work the author has included a long supplementary chapter, the first part of which deals with industrial and commercial movements during the decade preceding the war. Some of the new economic facts and forces revealed by the experiences of the war, the problems they contain, and the tendencies they exhibit are then set forth, as a contribution towards a speculative forecast of capitalism in the early future.”—Ath
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 70w
=Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 330w
+ =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 930w
=HODGE, HAROLD.= In the wake of the war, parliament or imperial government? *$1.50 Lane 328 17-21846
“The late editor of the Saturday Review makes the same allegations about the impotence of the House of commons, the nullity of the rank and file of M.P.’s, etc., as raised such a storm of contradiction when they were made by Messrs Belloc and Chesterton in ‘The party system’ and ‘The servile state.’ He is concerned, however, less with the affairs of the United Kingdom than with the future of the empire; and he proposes to take imperial matters out of the hands of what is mistakenly called the Imperial Parliament, and put them under a separate and independent body. After considering various plans he concludes that, party government being a failure, the best solution would be for the crown ... to appoint a council of ten, five citizens of the Dominions, and five citizens of the United Kingdom. ... In order that it should reflect the will of the citizens of the empire, it should consult them by means of referenda.”—Ath
=Ath= p408 Ag ‘17 270w
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 580w
“‘In the wake of the war,’ is well written in point of style. ... Mr Hodge is sick of parties and believes they have had their day. ... We go gaily along the path of criticism with Mr Hodge. It is when he arrives at the unmapped region of reconstruction that we reluctantly part company. He proposes to strip Parliament of the powers and duties which make it interesting and respectable and to hand these over to an Imperial council of ten, nominated by the king, and armed with the referendum. To this scheme we object: (1) That Parliament will not allow itself to be stripped. (2) That the king cannot appoint anybody of his own motion. (3) That the referendum in Australia and in the United States (v. the Oregonian constitution) has been a failure. ... We think our author is mistaken in supposing that the Colonies would agree to the common management of imperial affairs.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:29 Jl 14 ‘17 950w
“Whatever scheme may be adopted for imperial government, it will certainly not be Mr Hodge’s.”
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=HODGES, GEORGE.= Religion in a world at war. *$1 (5½c) Macmillan 252 17-14691
Eight short sermons or essays on the relation of Christianity to war, and, more especially, to the present war, by the dean of the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Mass.
=A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 40w
“From the standpoint of practical homiletics, as a source of comfort or encouragement, or as a stimulus to action, Dean Hodge’s sermons on the war are rather unimpressive. As the reflection of a point of view they are significant. ... It is evident that Dean Hodges finds the whole subject of the war embarrassing and difficult. The effect of facing his difficulties frankly is, however, to give us a sane and courageous expression of what, it seems, must needs be the attitude of a Christian minister towards the war.”
+ — =Nation= 105:431 O 18 ‘17 550w
“The book really demands no review—it is little more than a collection of drab and conventional biblical paraphrases justifying America’s participation in the war.” Bertram Benedict
— =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 1350w
“This is a book for the nation. It clarifies and confirms our national confession, ‘In God we trust.’”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 60w
“A most stimulating book that can be read to mental, moral, and spiritual profit.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 150w
=HODGSON, RALPH.= Poems. *75c Macmillan 821 17-14542
This collection of twenty-five poems is a reprint of the verses which, before the war, used to appear at intervals in England in tiny booklets with mustard-colored paper covers and decorations, plain or colored, by Mr Lovat Fraser. The writer was recently awarded the Edward de Polignac prize.
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“There is in his verse a vein of blunt and unsophisticated enthusiasm for ideals.”
+ =Ath= p401 Ag ‘17 1100w
“Mr Hodgson has a place of his own among the minor poets of to-day. None writes more naturally; none has such an objective, simple, and direct style, or aims less at mere literary effects. His is the poetry, not of ideas, but of sights, sensations, raptures. In forms that appear artless because they are such excellent art, it is the spontaneous expression of the lyric ecstasy of life and action, and of the natural faith of one who joys in his being as a particle in a glorious universe, untroubled by the mystery of existence.”
+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 200w
“What gives Mr Hodgson his distinction is his subtle fancy which may be seen at the finest in ‘The song of honor,’ ‘The bull’ (which is a rather wonderful piece of realism) and ‘Babylon,’ as well as in some of the brief lyric catches where a single idea is caught like a bee in a flower. In the whole volume there are only twenty-five titles and in spite of the above-mentioned faults they will be prized by all lovers of poetry.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
+ =Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 170w
“Mr Hodgson is that rarity in these times, a poet of very small production, and of production on a uniformly high level. ... His chief value lies in what he has to say. There are two arts in poetry: the art of precisely saying what one has in mind; and, even more important (though less regarded), the art of excluding from one’s conception all that is not of pure value. It is particularly in this latter respect that Mr Hodgson excels. The most arresting feature of his work, however, is the fact that though he is essentially a lyric poet he is none the less essentially objective,—never, or seldom, speaking in his own voice, or developing, psychologically, any personal or dramatic viewpoint.” Conrad Aiken
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“There is not a page in this book that is not beautiful; to come upon a volume of this sort is a real pleasure to the critic wearied with much technically excellent, but commonplace perfunctory, verse. ... Most readers will agree with the London Nation in calling ‘Eve’ ‘the most fascinating poem of our time.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:32 Ag 11 ‘17 1400w
“Mr Hodgson is something of a blend of Davies’ naïveté and de la Mare’s melodic magic; he is less distinctive than either. ‘Eve’ has some undoubted elements of greatness; ‘The bull,’ the short ‘The mystery,’ ‘After,’ and other poems possess great beauty or some striking quality.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 200w
+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 170w
“That the original queer and charming booklets—original in every sense of the word—will always be treasured and preferred by those who possess them we take to be certain. But in the new volume the poems stand the test of collective and separate presentment well, and promise, it seems to us, to endure as long as anything of our time whether as a rounded achievement on a small scale or as earnest of larger things to come. ... It is the unfailing suggestion of vastness and the beyond, coupled with the insistently vivid realization of the present and the immediate, which gives Mr Hodgson’s work perhaps its most characteristic distinction.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 Je 14 ‘17 1450w
Hohenzollerns through German eyes. 1s Hutchinson, London 741
“The book consists of a series of cartoons, all dealing with the Kaiser and the Prussian royal family, selected from the well-known Munich comic paper Simplicissimus, from November, 1903 [March, 1906?] to May, 1914. The paper made it its main business to attack the imperial government, German militarist ideals, and clerical sycophancy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“To readers unfamiliar with the latitude in respect to criticism of the German emperor and his family permitted, at all events prior to the war, in some of the German satirical journals, this collection of cartoons will be a revelation.”
=Ath= p360 Jl ‘17 80w
“The paper [is] universally known for the excellence of its draughtsmen, amongst whom O. Gulbransson is perhaps the cleverest of all. ... It is rather surprising that material which gives such striking corroboration from the German side to much in our representation of the Kaiser and his entourage, should not have been brought before the British public till now. From the outbreak of the war Simplicissimus has been as strongly nationalist as before it was rebellious.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 500w
=HOLCOMBE, ARTHUR NORMAN.= State government in the United States. *$2.25 (1c) Macmillan 353.9 17-51
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“This will be useful as a reference work or text for advanced students.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“The work shows a careful study of the great mass of material and a systematic organization of the data, forming the most important single contribution thus far made to the whole subject.” J: A. Fairlie
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:344 My ‘17 650w
“An excellent survey of the whole field of state government, its history, tendencies and needs. There is less detail on the administrative side than in Mathews’ ‘Principles of American state administration,’ but the discussion of political reforms is much fuller.”
+ =Cleveland= p68 My ‘17 50w
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 60w
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w
+ =Ind= 90:252 My 5 ‘17 130w
“The tendency of modern reformers is to concentrate attention upon a single measure and to ignore its effect upon the general system of which it forms a part. Works such as this serve, with those who will attend to them, to check this tendency, and therein lies their special merit.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 14 ‘18 850w
“Very interesting, and by no means without instruction for ourselves, is Mr Holcombe’s account of the working of the party system and of the efforts made by the sovereign people to escape from the tyranny of the ‘machine.’ Of special value is the light which Mr Holcombe throws on the working of the most recent experiments in the initiative, referendum, and recall. The book is not light reading, though of absorbing interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Ap 5 ‘17 1800w
=HOLDICH, SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD.= Political frontiers and boundary making. *$3.25 Macmillan 320.1 16-23414
“It has been the lot of Sir Thomas Holdich to give practical consideration in many parts of the world to problems of boundary settlement. ... His present aim is governed by the fact that among the few writers who treat of this important subject he can find no authoritative opinion based on practical experience, no elementary work in which the stern needs of political discretion are shown to be at variance with the sentiments cherished by idealists. ... The sovereign purpose of a national frontier is to promote friendly relations between neighbour states by putting a definite edge to the territorial and political horizon of both; then trespass cannot be easy in a time of excitement, and secret planned aggression has natural difficulties to overcome before it can do harm to a peaceable country. Sir Thomas Holdich considers these conditions in boundary-making, and shows how they may be made real—or as real as human nature will permit them to be—in a statesmanly choice of a frontier.”—Sat R
“It is with the major premise that most readers of the volume will be tempted to quarrel. ... Apart from the particular theory upon which the volume rests there is much that is of value in the author’s description of the geographic features of boundary lines, and the chapters upon the delimitation of frontiers in Asia, Africa and South America will be read with particular interest.” C. G. Fenwick
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:354 My ‘17 450w
Reviewed by C. L. Jones
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:237 My ‘17 320w
“Sir Thomas Holdich has known these frontiers from their first formation in the seventies of last century, and is probably better qualified to write of them than any other man alive. The descriptions in his book will be of permanent importance, but the book ranges far from the Pamirs and Andes over broad fields of political theory and the European war, and here it will not go unchallenged.”
+ =Ath= p23 Ja ‘17 1600w
“The author, who served on the Afghan, Asmar, and Argentine-Chile Boundary commissions and was superintendent of frontier surveys of India, here speaks with authority on a theme of timely interest.”
+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 30w
“His book is easily the best discussion of its subject that exists in the English language. I can only hope that in a second edition it will be given the illustrative maps it so badly needs.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 62:96 F 8 ‘17 70w
“The great blemish in his book is the conspicuous absence of index and maps.”
+ — =Nation= 104:405 Ap 5 ‘17 1400w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:187 D ‘16 40w
=St Louis= 15:8 Ja ‘17
+ =Sat R= 122:350 O 7 ‘16 1300w
“A brave, a breezy, a timely, and a suitably optimistic book. ... His conclusions are extremely interesting, they are expressed in admirably clear and striking phrases, they are enlivened by vivid and captivating pictures of the wild hill tracts.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup529 N 4 ‘16 1000w
“He invariably approaches the subject of which he is a master without any marked political prepossessions. Sir Thomas Holdich is a geographer, and not a politician. Yet no frontier-maker can be indifferent to political considerations; and so he tells us that in dealing with problems of boundary settlement his object has been ‘to ensure peace and good will between contiguous peoples by putting a definite edge to the national political horizon, so as to limit unauthorized expansion and trespass.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 12 ‘16 1500w
=HOLDSWORTH, JOHN THOM.=[2] Money and banking. *$2.25 (1½c) Appleton 332 17-24253
The first edition of this work was published in 1914. Of the changes in the new edition, the author says, “the most significant, perhaps, are those involving clearings and collections, Federal reserve currency and foreign finance. ... The discussion of these changes and developments has been introduced with the least possible disturbance to the textual arrangement, but on nearly every page some revisions have been made; many sections have been rewritten, entire new sections have been added; and the last chapter, on the Federal reserve system, has been rewritten in the light of its development to date.” (Preface)
“The revision is well designed to render the book even more acceptable as a text than was the first edition three years ago.” C. A. P.
+ =Am Econ R= 7:882 D ‘17 170w
=R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 50w
=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Blue heron’s feather. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28759
A story of old New Netherland. Nicholas Tappan, silk merchant of Amsterdam, decides to send his son Peter to the new world in company with Derek Keeft, who is to act as superintendent of the vast estate recently acquired along the Hudson. Peter looks forward to new adventures and is not disappointed, for very shortly after his arrival, he is taken captive by Indians. Fortunately he had earlier won the friendship of Manawok, a young brave, who now intercedes for him. Peter learns Indian ways, and after his return to his own people takes a stand for justice and friendly relations toward the red men which results in an unbroken peace between the Dutch and the Mohawks.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 70w
“One of the most excellent stories of Indian days in the Colonies is that of ‘The blue heron’s feather.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 100w
=HOLLEY, HORACE.= Divinations and Creation. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-9237
Mr Holley’s small volume of post-impressionist poems called “Creation” was published in 1915. This group of poems is included as part 2 of this new book. Part 1 consists of an entirely new group, altho some of its individual poems have appeared in Poetry, the Smart Set, the Forum, the Masses and other magazines.
“Between vain sublimities Mr Horace Holley now and then achieves a quiet success. ‘The orchard’ is a specimen.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:245 S 6 ‘17 100w
“His first little book was passionately arresting. And now we find the same extraordinary individuality revealing itself in ‘Divinations,’ which, though it may lack much of the author’s earlier impassioned beauty shows a more constrained power and flexibility.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 450w
“Miss Harriet Monroe has selected three of these poems for her anthology of ‘new poetry,’ and W. S. Braithwaite has included ‘Cross patch’ and a sonnet, ‘The orchard,’ in his anthology for 1916.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:439 Ap ‘17 180w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.= Applied psychology. *$2.25 (3½c) Appleton 150 17-28082
Untechnical in treatment this volume, by two Columbia university men, offers to men and women of every walk of life assistance towards a dignified and prosperous existence. It is an efficient instrument in producing success in life. The discussions all aiming to assist in systematizing a field hitherto vague and unorganized, include the following chapters: Efficiency and applied psychology; Influence of heredity upon achievement; Family inheritance; Efficiency and learning; Influence of sex and age on efficiency; Environmental conditions [two chapters]; Work, rest, fatigue and sleep; Drugs and stimulants; Methods of applying psychology in special fields; Psychology and the executive; Psychology in the workshop; Psychology and the market; Psychology and the law; Psychology for the social worker; Psychology and medicine; Psychology and education; The future of applied psychology.
=Cleveland= p7 Ja ‘18 20w
“There is little evidence that Messrs Hollingworth and Poffenberger value highly any other kind than business success. We are rarely offered a more naïve revelation of psychological science serving as the handmaid of commercial exploitation.”
— =New Repub= 13:323 Ja 12 ‘18 620w
“For the social worker, teacher or parent the book should be valuable in presenting the latest scientific word on many modern problems. It is written very simply and is free from many technical terms.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 160w
“This new book is the best that has yet appeared in bringing the results of many experiments and excursions in this field within two covers.” F. A. Manny
+ =Survey= 39:267 D 1 ‘17 310w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.= Sense of taste. il *$1.25 Moffat 152 17-14044
“‘The sense of taste’ is a book of two hundred pages by two members of the faculty of Columbia university. It is one of a series in preparation by Moffat, Yard & Co., with the title ‘Our senses and what they mean to us.’ It is edited by G. Van N. Dearborn, who contributes an introduction to this volume, which is, as he truly says, ‘at once interesting and scientific up to the hour.’”—Nation
+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 200w
“While it does not purport to solve any of the riddles still presented by this sense, it gives an excellent summary of present knowledge, the writers who have done most to elucidate the subject being, with one exception, duly cited. The authors are more careful than their predecessors in not claiming for the sense of taste what belongs to the allied sense of smell.”
+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 400w
“This first volume in the new series presages an interesting and well-coordinated attempt to synthetize an exposition of the sensory apparatus and its psychologic reflexes.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 5 ‘17 300w
=HOLME, CHARLES=, ed. Art of the British empire overseas. (International studio. Special winter no., 1916-17) il *$3; pa *$2.50 Lane 759 17-15451
“Mr Holme has gathered reproductions of twenty-three pictures by eighteen Canadian artists (one being in color), forty by twenty Australian artists (three in color), twenty-nine by New Zealand painters (five in color), and twenty-three by South African painters. Each section has a brief account of the development of the artistic expression in these four quarters of the world and the outlook for the future. Mr Eric Brown, director of the National gallery of Canada; Mr James Ashton, a prominent painter of Australia; Mr E. A. S. Killick, secretary of the New Zealand academy of fine arts, and Mr Edward Roworth of Cape Town, speak with authority of their respective countries and give many interesting biographical details of the artists represented, besides pointing out the difficulties under which they labor.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 410w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 20w
=Ind= 92:488 D 8 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
=HOLME, CHARLES=, ed. Arts and crafts. (International Studio, Special number) il *$3; pa *$2.50 (6½c) Lane 740 17-6662
A review of the work executed by students in the leading art schools of Great Britain and Ireland. The London and the provincial schools of art are treated separately, the first by W. T. Whitley, the second by the head master or some other person connected with each school. The illustrations have been chosen to show many lines of work.
=A L A Bkl= 13:300 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 260w
“Especially useful to American supervisors and teachers. The pictures, to be sure, of work done by the students demonstrate no marked superiority over the output of American schools of similar scope; they show, indeed, a few things which a rigorous censor might have left out.”
+ — =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 140w
“The text is highly illuminating, enabling the reader to gain a clear idea of the activities of the schools and also the underlying intention governing these activities which is to develop home talent to a degree that will make unnecessary foreign importations of design. The chapters on the provincial schools are even more interesting than those given to the schools of London.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:85 Mr 11 ‘17 350w
“Of intense interest both to students and teachers in this country for purposes of comparison and the stimulation of effort.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:557 My ‘17 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 420w
“There is any amount of talent evident in the works illustrated in this book and a good deal of skill: but both seem aimless. The objects are produced rather for competitions between students than for human beings to use. They do not express the real tastes, the real values, of anyone in particular. Therefore, they are likely to fail economically no less than artistically.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 D 28 ‘16 650w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.=[2] Life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912. 2v il *$5 Dodd 17-30357
A full and well-rounded story so told that the great Unitarian divine “speaks for himself and thus reveals the fibre of his soul.” Rev. John Haynes Holmes, one of the foremost leaders of liberal thought of today, has found his task a thoroughly congenial one. Associated in the ministry with Dr Collyer, Mr Holmes says, “He was my colleague, my friend, my brother, my father in the spirit.” The materials used in the preparation of the biography include Dr Collyer’s autobiography; his own writings; autobiographical lectures; his letters; three scrap-books of newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets, programs, leaflets and newspapers and magazines covering periods of Dr Collyer’s career. The man whom Mr Holmes holds up to view is Robert Collyer “the blacksmith, preacher, lecturer, author, public leader, but always radiant of spirit, full of grace and truth, touched with the potency of love.”
“Dr Holmes, whose pages, although written in a more sentimental manner, also make, as do Mr Hale’s, a graphic portrayal of his subject and cause the very man himself to stand forth a vital, radiant being, discusses very interestingly Dr Collyer’s relation to his time and the reasons for his wide and potent influence.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:553 D 16 ‘17 500w
“It is hardly to be wondered at if the biographer, in the lawful enthusiasm of his task, may sometimes seem open to the charge of hero worship. At the same time one discovers, briefly, in the summary, that this idol had toes, if not feet of clay, which were usually well shod and covered from general gaze.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 31 ‘17 650w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Religion for to-day; various interpretations of the thought and practise of the new religion of our time. *$1.50 (1c) Dodd 252 17-5458
Thirteen addresses, delivered first as sermons in the Church of the Messiah, New York city, and elsewhere, make up this volume. Each has been selected, the author says, “because of its own especial character as a representative expression of radical thought on religious questions of the day.” In the first essay the essential characteristics of the religion of the future are summed up: it will be a scientific religion, doing away with the old antagonism between science and religion; it will be based on ethical values rather than on theological beliefs; it will stress social rather than individual morality. The last three sermons were preached shortly after the outbreak of the war and reflect the author’s uncompromising attitude on the subject of force.
=A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 480w
=Cleveland= p67 My ‘17 40w
“Every reader who is possessed of the social passion and who has seen the social vision will sit up at night to read this book and will go around lending it to his acquaintances. It is the real thing.” L: A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 480w
“Trenchantly, yet constructively critical in his attitude throughout, Dr Holmes strives to give enough of the other side which he criticizes to present it fairly if not fully. Especially incisive and conclusive are his social applications of religion to the conditions of life and labor which demand both its destructive and reconstructive power. Dr Holmes is an absolutist in his uncompromising stand for the ultimate ideal of peace as applicable to a world at war, but he fails to show how it could have been, or could be, applied by the peoples facing a war-rampant nation on a rapid march for world conquest.” G. T.
+ — =Survey= 39:264 D 1 ‘17 470w
=HOLT, ANDREW HALL.= Manual of field astronomy. il *$1.25 Wiley 522 17-866
“This textbook for use in civil engineering courses bases it principal claim upon conciseness, and yet completeness, in its treatment of fundamentals. On the whole, the object of the author has been obtained, and practising engineers who only occasionally have to make astronomical observations will find it especially helpful. The treatment of the ofttimes confusing conceptions of the measurement of time is given particular attention, with many illustrative problems solved in excellent form. ... The main text occupies about 76 pages, the appendices on spherical trigonometry and solar attachments for transits about 14 pages, tables about 12 pages, and the sample field notes 20 pages.” (Engin Rec) The author is instructor in civil engineering in the University of Iowa.
“Clearly and concisely written and much more complete than the usual college-student manual.”
+ =Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 90w
“The illustrations and diagrams are clear and well-conceived, the method of presenting the successive operations is logical and the sample field notes show just how best to avoid confusion and error in the important matter of records.”
+ =Engin Rec= 75:276 F 17 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:27 F ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ja ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:656 O ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17
=HOLT, LUCIUS HUDSON, and CHILTON, ALEXANDER WHEELER.=[2] History of Europe, from 1862 to 1914. *$2.60 (1½c) Macmillan 940.9 17-31435
A narrative of the chief events of European history from the beginning of Bismarck’s chancellorship to the outbreak of the great war in 1914. Thruout the narrative “emphasis has been laid upon those events which have affected international relations. The narrative of the domestic politics of the separate states has been curtailed, except where such politics had a distinct bearing upon the part which a state played in international affairs. The alliances and the conflict of interests which have brought about the present great war have been discussed in detail. The characters and methods of those statesmen who have had the greatest influence in international issues have been developed at length. It has been our plan thus to give the reader a conception of a true history of Europe rather than to present an aggregation of histories of the separate European states.” (Preface)
=HOLTZ, MATHILDE EDITH, and BEMIS, KATHARINE ISABEL.= Glacier national park; its trails and treasures. il *$2 (4c) Doran 978.6 17-14959
One may travel thru Glacier park on foot, on horseback, by automobile, or, to some extent, by motor boat. The authors of this guide chose the horseback way, but there is plenty of information in their book for those who prefer one of the other means of travel. The chapters are: Nature’s great play-ground; Hotels and chalets; On the Mount Henry trail; Trails and roads; The old Travois trail; Piegan pass—the flower pass; The flower fields of Glacier national park; Some mountain lakes; On glaciers; Types of tourists; A day with the Blackfeet; Some Blackfeet legends and Indian names; Blackfeet historical pictographs. The photographic illustrations are exceptionally good. There are end maps and an index.
“Personal, readable descriptions. Well illustrated and has a United States geological survey map.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 230w
“Taken all in all, the book and the park are bound to add to the emphasis of the slogan, so timely just now, ‘See America first.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 350w
=HOPKINS, TIGHE.= Romance of escapes; studies of some historic flights, with a personal commentary. il *$3 (3c) Houghton 940 (Eng ed 17-12964)
In an introductory chapter (Part 1), “On the art and mystery of escape,” the author reviews briefly many notable escapes. In Part 2, he selects some noteworthy escapes for description in detail, namely: the escapes of Casanova from the Inquisition; the Polish exile Pietrowski’s journey out of Siberia; the Irish midshipman O’Brien’s three exciting efforts to get out of a French prison in the days of Napoleon; the escape of Morgan of the Rough-riders in the Civil war; Haldane’s flight from Pretoria in the Boer war; Louis Napoleon’s flight from the fortress of Ham; the adventures of James Choyce “prisoner of war in two worlds”; Louvet’s 165 days run for life from the vengeance of Robespierre; the escape of the Empress Eugénie from Paris; the hazards of John Mitchell, Irish ‘forty-eighter, between Tasmania and San Francisco; and the adventures of De Buquoit, who claimed to be “the first man who broke the Bastille in 1709.”
“In Casanova’s and Buquoit’s accounts of their exploits the author considers that much may be regarded as apocryphal. The want of an index is a serious defect in a book of this kind.”
=Ath= p485 O ‘16 180w
“Mr Hopkins’s retelling of some famous episodes will interest young readers and old alike.”
=Spec= 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 150w
=HOPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN.=[2] Clammer and the submarine. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-25435
Adam and Eve, the clammers, are already well known to readers of the author’s other leisurely stories of the Massachusetts coast. They appear again in this story, which is complicated somewhat by the love affairs of their friends and by the approach of war. In the end Adam enlists in the navy.
“Not as spontaneous as the earlier works.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“Its author comes perilously near being a professional purveyor of sentiment. His Adam and Eve of the clam-beds become a trifle cloying. In the end Adam rouses himself from his amiable long-shore loitering and maundering, to enroll himself in the navy. But that act, also, he sentimentalizes.”
— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 250w
“Mr Hopkins’s original ‘clammers,’ Adam and Eve, are always pleasant to meet, and always a sense of humor and a spirit of refinement are in his stories. Adam’s awakening to patriotism and war service is true and fine.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 30w
“Mr Hopkins deserves a high place as a sentimental writer, using that term in its best sense. The present volume worthily sustains the author’s reputation and provokes a call for more.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 250w
=HORNBECK, STANLEY KUHL.=[2] Contemporary politics in the Far East. *$3 (2½c) Appleton 950 16-18764
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Professor Stanley K. Hornbeck has given us a really valuable study in the field of Far Eastern politics. He has rarely permitted his feelings to affect his judgment. For the period it covers, his book will win a place as a sound and useful work of reference.” P. J. Treat
* + =Am Hist R= 22:654 Ap ‘17 800w
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:958 N ‘17 600w
“He understands what so few writers on the Far East understand about Japan, that the greater half by far of her so-called aggression and imperialism is self-defence and exaggerated caution. ... Regarding China, particularly with respect to her domestic conditions, he is not so far-seeing. ... His book, in the best tradition of American liberalism, vigorous, realistic, hopeful, broadly planned, and trenchantly written, is the most serviceable contribution in recent years towards America’s proper understanding of her responsibilities in the Far East.”
+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 650w
“There have been hundreds of books about the Far East in which a few grains of fact have been blown on hot air blasts of personal opinion. Beside them Mr Hornbeck’s wealth of information and judicial, temperate attitude make a volume for which American readers should be grateful.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:169 Ap 29 ‘17 760w
“Dr Hornbeck has lived long enough in China to interpret her views to the West; he has not become so immersed in the current of politics as to forget his academic training or miss the sources of this current in the past.” F. W. Williams
+ =Yale R= n s 6:661 Ap ‘17 870w
=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Teacher as artist; an essay in education as an æsthetic process. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (7c) Houghton 371.1 17-5150
“In the following pages the first essay raises the question whether the art of teaching may in a measure become one of the fine arts, and answers in the affirmative, under certain conditions. What these conditions are the second essay attempts to set forth.” (Preface) Teaching is first tested by Professor Tufts’ definition of art: “Any activity or production involving intelligence and skill.” Next it is subjected to the test of fine art: “An activity or product of activity which has æsthetic value or (in the broadest sense of the term) is beautiful.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
“Two thoughtful, thought stimulating essays.”
+ =El School J= 17:533 Mr ‘17 20w
=Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
“The teacher can find in this book some fine inspiration, and the lay-reader can learn how much and how little, in his private moods, the teacher can think of himself and why.”
+ =Nation= 104:544 My 3 ‘17 330w
=Pratt= p11 ‘17 30w
“The chapter entitled ‘Shriving the inartistic teacher’ offers considerable food for thought.”
=School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 12w
=HORNER, WARREN MURDOCK.= Training for a life insurance agent. (Lippincott’s training ser.) il *$1.25 (7c) Lippincott 368 17-13557
“This book is written, primarily, for those directly interested in the life insurance business, but in a non-technical manner so that it may be of value to laymen, especially those interested in salesmanship.” (Introd.) The book is published in a series the aim of which is to help those “who want to find themselves,” and it sets forth the necessary qualifications and training for life insurance as a business, with a special chapter on The woman in life insurance. The author is general agent for the Provident life and trust company of Philadelphia in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas.
“Brief and vigorous suggestions for making a success of life insurance.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:408 Je ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
=Ind= 90:352 My 19 ‘17 40w
“The training of a life insurance agent is not the principal topic of the book in spite of its title. The early chapters explain the qualifications and personal characteristics necessary to success as an agent, but the remainder discuss methods of selling insurance and agency organization.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17 50w
=HORSCH, JOHN.= Menno Simons; his life, labors, and teachings. $1.25 John Horsch, Scottdale, Pa. 16-6143
A biography of Menno Simons, the 16th century religious leader from whom the Mennonite movement took its name. “That Mr Horsch had almost virgin soil to break is probably due to the fact that the material for a real biography of Menno is so slight. ... He has been compelled to devote most of his space to an account of Menno’s opinions and extracts from his writings. To this he has added refutations of many things falsely charged against Menno, most of them quite convincing; and discussions of the relation of Menno to other radical leaders of the time, like Melchior Hofmann and John of Leyden.”—Am Hist R
“This is a welcome addition to religious literature, since there is no other life of Menno available in any language. ... The historical value of the book is very considerable, the author’s diligence is exemplary, and a quantity of material has been brought together from various sources that has never before been printed in English. ... The author’s diligence and good sense are more in evidence than his literary skill. The book is unnecessarily jejune and dry, because of the great preponderance, in parts, of quotations from documents, the interest of which to a reader is in inverse ratio to their value to a student of history. It is to be feared that this quality will limit the numbers of readers unduly.” H: C. Vedder
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:699 Ap ‘17 400w
“The author is to be commended for the dispassion with which he sets forth events and issues which have been storm centers of controversy. As much may be said for the dignified manner in which he represses all hero-worship. One could wish that such a fine-spirited, well-balanced, and informing biography had found expression in style a little more polished and animated.” P. G. M.
+ — =Am J Theol= 22:150 Ja ‘18 460w
=HOTBLACK, KATE.= Chatham’s colonial policy. *$2.50 Dutton 616 17-8079
“Miss Hotblack’s thesis is a study of how Pitt attempted to make commerce flourish by war. ... The plan of the book has enabled her to give a very clear outline of Pitt’s policy. He is followed successively through the affairs of the African colonies, Canada, the West Indies, and so on, and the commercial side of his work as secretary for the Southern department is well brought out in four very interesting chapters. Similar treatment of the Northern department, over which Pitt’s control seems to have been as complete as over the Southern, and an important chapter on the Stamp act, complete a valuable piece of research. An appendix contains some hitherto unpublished letters.”—Ath
Reviewed by C. E. Fryer
=Am Pol Sci R= 12:133 F ‘18 400w
“Miss Hotblack has enabled the reader to form a much better judgment on the value of Pitt’s work than was possible before.”
* + – =Ath= p234 My ‘17 2000w
=Boston Transcript= p9 O 17 ‘17 600w
“Her book will be useful to all who want to know more of the motives and principles of the creator of British imperialism.”
+ =Spec= 118:729 Je 30 ‘17 1450w
=HOUGH, EMERSON.= Broken gate. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-21973
“Aurora Lane has been for twenty years the milliner and dressmaker of the village. ... Years before, unwed, she had borne a child; she had sent it away and had said that the infant had died. Pursuing her way quietly and modestly, and earning her scanty living by hard work, she had ever since lived in the village, generally ignored, but secretly respected and outwardly scorned by most of its people. But the child had not died, and when the story opens he has grown to a fine, vigorous young manhood and comes to the village to see his mother. She and her one friend, a crippled woman, have together saved and scrimped and educated the boy, while he has believed himself to be an orphan. He strikes a man on the street who insults his mother, soon after learns from her all the bitter truth, is arrested for assault, and for the next three days the town is in a ferment of excitement and unprecedented happenings. They reach their climax when a man is mysteriously killed, the boy is arrested for the murder, and a mob, seeking to lynch him, is foiled of its purpose and rushes to ravage his mother’s home.”—N Y Times
“It is modern and American enough in scene and detail, but begins with a fantastically improbable situation, and carries the reader’s credulity and sensibility from strain to strain.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 70w
“It is a fine opportunity for pathos, and the author may be counted on to make the most of it.”
— =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 90w
“It is realistic, small-town melodrama, swift and sharp in its movement, but, notwithstanding its many events crowding close upon one another’s heels, its interest is chiefly emotional. ... Although there is much in the story that the author has failed to make convincing, it has qualities of invention and construction that hold the interest.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 670w
“In ‘The broken gate’ Emerson Hough is no longer on the solid ground of historical fact. Consequently he flounders between melodrama and tragedy. ... The story hardly attains the standard set in Mr Hough’s preceding romances.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 320w
=HOUGH, EMERSON.= Man next door. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-4711
“Pyramus and Thisbe in the terms of Chicago’s North Side and the twentieth century, with the regrettable omission of the lion, is the theme of Mr Emerson Hough’s new novel. ... Curly, the ex-foreman of the Circle Arrow ranch, tells the story of Old Man Wright’s removal to Chicago, of the breaking-in of the fair Bonnie Bell Wright to millionaire row, of the building of the wall, and of the man on the other side thereof.”—Dial
“Told in cowboy dialect.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“Except for the fact that the story is told in an entertaining way, there is very little in the plot of Bonnie Bell’s attempt to make a place for herself in the best circles of Chicago which would attract the attention. ... The excitement lies really in the almost fatal attempts at diplomacy which Curly makes and the calamity which is barely averted.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 400w
“Untrue, insignificant, and generally uninteresting are the terms we must reluctantly attach to Mr Hough’s latest excursion in the realms of fiction.”
— =Dial= 62:247 Mr 22 ‘17 140w
=N Y Times= 22:63 F 25 ‘17 430w
Reviewed by F. M. Holly
=Pub W= 91:206 Ja 20 ‘17 320w
=HOUGHTON, BEATRICE YORK.= Shelleys of Georgia. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23649
“Captain Gabriel Shelley, his lovely young second wife Madge, and his beautiful daughter and only child Rose are ‘The Shelleys of Georgia’ of the title. The story is principally concerned with the love affairs of Rose, and with the innocent and successful plot by means of which she redeemed the man she had once loved, brought happiness to a much injured woman, and secured the future of a baby which but for her might have been a very unfortunate child indeed. The date of the tale is the time of the Spanish-American war.”—N Y Times
“The novel is entertaining if not very plausible, and presents a rather interesting scheme for the care of those children who for one reason or another become the especial wards of the state.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 220w
=HOWARD, KATHARINE.= Two plays, and a rhapsody. pa 60c Katharine Howard, Lee apartments, B and 9th st., San Diego, Cal. 812 17-65
The two plays are allegorical. In the first, The house of future, a series of thirteen brief scenes, the life of a woman who lives on in the lives of her children is pictured. In the house of life, two persons, a man and a woman, move thru the rooms of the house, tasting the experiences it offers and in the end coming out on the roof to find peace and quiet under the stars. The rhapsody describes the vision of a poet who has sought eternal youth.
“Mrs Howard’s inspirational works, ‘Eve’ and ‘The book of the serpent,’ are well known both in this country and in England, and a collection of poems of childhood, ‘The little god,’ has had generous appreciation. The two plays of her last volume in literary style are similar to her moyen-age play, ‘Candle flame.’ Over all of them there is a glamor, a rhythmic beauty peculiar to her poetic prose.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 150w
=HOWARD, MARGARET WILLET.= Practical cookbook. 72c (2c) Ginn 641.5 17-11592
“This book presents a rather large collection of tested and economical recipes, in such a manner as to show their relation to one another and to the whole question of balanced meals. ... The book has grown out of many years of classroom work, and the arrangement is designed, by omitting all unnecessary directions, to force the student to reason out the recipes for herself. But it is a cookbook, not a textbook, and laboratory directions and explanatory text are purposely omitted.” (Preface) The chapter headings will show the general arrangement: Water; Mineral salts; Starch; Sugar; Proteids; Fats and oils; Frozen desserts; Canning and preserving; Food for invalids; Unclassified recipes; Selection of food.
=HOWARD, WILLIAM LEE.= How to rest. *$1 (3c) Clode, E: J. 613.7 17-11348
This little book on “food for tired nerves and weary bodies” aims “to aid in the prevention of brain fatigue, body weariness and nervous exhaustion.” (Foreword) Dr Howard does not “deal with or refer to real diseases of the brain and nerves—organic troubles, [but tries] to point out the many little symptoms showing the necessity of brain rest and nerve nourishment.” (Foreword) There is a chapter on “How to prevent nervousness in children.”
=HOWE, FREDERIC CLEMSON.= High cost of living. *$1.50 Scribner 338.5 17-29210
“Early in the book, the reader is introduced to the outstanding facts bearing on the present problem—the rapid increase in the price of food, its stationary or decreasing gross production, the discouragement of farmers, the rural exodus, and the alarming relative increase in tenant-farming under conditions making for exhaustion of the soil, under-production and class division of society. ... The present emergency turns out to be no more than an accentuation under the stress of war of conditions brought about by causes which have long been operative in peace times. ... Some of Mr Howe’s recommendations are for organized collection and storage of farm produce under the control of state departments of markets and collective marketing; terminal markets owned by state or city, with adequate cold storage and refrigerator provision and public auctioneering under state control; local public abattoirs, municipalization of milk distribution or public milk-receiving stations delivering to local depots for retail sale over the counter, etc. ... All this is in addition to more fundamental changes which he advocates to free the access to land, such as land taxation, direction of immigrants, opening up of new farming areas, suppression of trading in futures and extension of rural credits.”—Survey
“Most valuable and timely work.” Archibald Henderson
* + =Bookm= 46:468 D ‘17 2800w
“Mr Howe has made one of the most important contributions to the subject ever offered. With his usual comprehensiveness he discusses with clearness and force every important phase of the situation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ‘17 210w
“The student and serious reader will find this book a mine of valuable information representing progressive legislation.”
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 300w
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
“Goes to the very root causes of the food crises. One does not need to be a student of economics to understand Mr Howe’s book.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:832 D ‘17 50w
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 580w
=HOWE, LUCIEN.= Universal military education and service; the Swiss system for the United States. 2d ed il *$1.25 (5c) Putnam 355.07
The first edition, issued in 1916, had chapters on: Why any preparation? What preparation is adequate? How shall we prepare? The Swiss and Australian systems; Military education already begun; Supposed disadvantages of universal military education; Advantages of universal military education to the nation; Advantages of universal military education to the individual; Military education—not training—of advantage to girls; But what if—? Conclusion. In the second edition brought out in 1917, there are no changes in the text. An appendix is added, bringing the book up to date.
=A L A Bkl= 13:244 Mr ‘17
“Whether one agrees with his opinions or not there is no gainsaying the fact that Mr Howe has expressed them with brevity, clearness and vigor.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p148 D ‘16 30w
“Dr Lucien Howe has some definite notions on preparedness and expresses them with emphasis and directness.”
=Educ R= 52:530 D ‘16 20w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:219 Mr ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 10w
=HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH=, ed. False Dmitri; a Russian romance and tragedy, described by British eyewitnesses, 1604-1612. il *$2.25 947 A17-978
“An extremely interesting collection of reprints from contemporary reports bearing on the social and political revolution which convulsed Russia from 1598 to 1613, i.e. from the extinction of the old dynasty founded by Ivan Kalitá (1328-1341) till the election of that of the Románovs. In this period Dmitri or Demetrius, who claimed to be the son of Ivan the Terrible by his fifth wife, and actually reigned as tsar from 1605 to 1606 and was a most enlightened ruler, played a principal part. The book really forms a sort of appendix to the authoress’s ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’”—Eng Hist R
“It is largely from narratives written by British residents in Moscow in the early years of the seventeenth century that her material is derived. These narratives are reproduced. While their archaic forms and methods of literary construction are somewhat taxing upon the patience of the modern reader, they do not fail to hold attention or to stir the reader’s emotions.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 18 ‘16 200w
“The collection has been ably arranged and edited, and contains some interesting contemporary portraits (incidentally, those of Boris Godunóv and Vasíli Shúiski are known to be purely fictitious) and illustrations, and forms a valuable addition to the growing number of books on Russian history.” N. F.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:152 Ja ‘17 200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
“Absorbingly interesting, a valuable book for the student.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 600w
=Spec= 117:242 Ag 26 ‘16 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p340 Jl 20 ‘16 1550w
=HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH.= Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners; legendary and historical. il *$2.50 Lippincott 947 17-15658
“‘Some Russian heroes, saints, and sinners’ supplies an interim study between legend and history. It would find its place between Mr Wilson’s song cycles and Mrs Howe’s earlier and more prosaic volume ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’ In our own life and literature the stories of Arthur and the Graal and Lancelot and Merlin, so little known to Russian readers, are of a legendary kind similar to the stories of Ilya Muromets and Sviatogor, which we are now beginning to know. ... Thus Mrs Howe gives Dmitri Donskoi, Alexander Nevski, Oleg the Wise, and other famous Russian characters and stories.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Bibliography (6p.).”
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The illustrations are rarely interesting. The quaint initial and tail pieces are from ancient Russian MSS. The plates are copies of famous historical paintings.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Howe’s easy style makes her history eminently readable, while detracting naught from the scholarship evident in every sketch. A lover of Russia’s past, she makes no attempt to condone the evils and excesses of Russia’s sinners, nor to exaggerate the saintliness of her spiritual leaders. This balance of scholarship and restraint makes the book a genuine contribution to the growing mass of books on Russia. She is especially happy in her studies of Ivan the Terrible, the Boyaryinia Morozov and the False Dimitri.”
+ =Cath World= 105:834 S ‘17 460w
“She has the gift of painting her characters with vividness, almost as if she had known them face to face.”
+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 280w
“Mrs Howe, a Russian woman married to an Englishman and resident now in England, has already given us two valuable books about her native land. ‘Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners’ is a study of permanent types in Russian character. The pictures of heroes, sinners, and saints are chronologically arranged.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:337 S 9 ‘17 650w
“Very readable book.”
+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p562 N 23 ‘16 60w
“The illustrative work being Russian is full of the Russian spirit, and helps immensely.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 400w
=HOXIE, ROBERT FRANKLIN.= Trade unionism in the United States; with an introd. by E. H. Downey. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 331.87 17-29740
A book on trade unions that “fills a gap long since recognized in the treatment of labor problems. It does for America what Webb’s ‘Industrial democracy’ does for England, and more, for it excels all treatises in its masterly analysis of the psychology of wage-earners, as seen in the policies and methods of unions. Furthermore, Hoxie’s classification of unions for the first time brings out scientifically the great difference in unions, permits one to see the very complex character of the labor problems and warns against those sweeping generalizations that pretend to offer simple solutions. This leads the author to build up a truly constructive method of dealing with all labor problems according to the actual conditions.” (J: R. Commons)
“As the first student of trade unionism who perceived that, besides varying in type as to organization or structure, labor groups have functional differences through which a clearer understanding of the phenomenon might be secured, the late Prof. Hoxie occupies a unique position in his particular ‘guild.’ A close study of the application of the theory inevitably clears thinking and results in a saner attitude toward the problem.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:132 Ja 17 ‘18 330w
“It seems clear that Professor Hoxie had not yet found time to think out trade-union method in terms of his leading principle. It remains to be seen whether the conception will bear fruit in other hands. Apart from this novel fundamental idea, the book is interesting and suggestive. The glimpses of Professor Hoxie’s method as a teacher are peculiarly attractive and will deepen the sense of loss suffered through his early death.”
+ — =Nation= 105:696 D 20 ‘17 340w
“It will be long before we have a better book to supersede it. For the qualities that distinguish Hoxie’s work are exceedingly rare in scholarship. Where other scholars strive earnestly to deal in certitudes, it was Hoxie’s zeal to preserve an open mind. His devotion to openmindedness is infectious.” Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 13:319 Ja 12 ‘18 1650w
“The value of a sympathetic attitude on the part of the investigator of an institution is seldom seen to greater advantage than in this important work, which will be indispensable to the student of labor conditions in America.”
+ =Outlook= 117:516 N 28 ‘17 80w
“Even though he did not live to see his studies brought out in book form, the work unquestionably stands out as one of the most complete treatises on trade unionism in this country.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 18 ‘18 470w
=HUARD, FRANCES (WILSON) (MME CHARLES HUARD).= My home in the field of mercy. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 17-29627
Mme Huard here continues the story told in “My home on the field of honour” by describing the transformation of the Château de Villiers into “Annex No. 7,” a hospital for French wounded. After “ten days of shoveling out and burying the filth” that had been her “most cherished possessions,” she was cheered by the arrival of Mme Guix, the nurse, the sergeant-infirmier and his four assistants. Then the sick and wounded began to come in. We are told “how they were taken care of, healed, amused, humored, and set to work according to their capacity”; (N Y Times) how the number of beds was increased from 45 to 120, and typhoid patients, some in the worst stages of the disease, were taken in, and how Mme Huard made the trip to Soissons, then under fire, to get tobacco for her patients from Mme Macherez, who risked her life for Soissons when the Germans entered it. The episode of ten-year-old Elvire, “mad with a terrible remembered experience and shrieking at the sight of a man in uniform,” stands out unforgettably, as does also the picture of Mme Huard, driving off to Paris to have her appendix removed, cheered on by her helpers “all standing on the steps waving a fond adieu, and for want of something more appropriate shrieking ‘Vive la France!’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“The book is rather carelessly written but interesting and dramatic.”
+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 60w
“Her book is a wonderful record.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
“A book that is breathlessly interesting, full of fun in spite of all the danger and the tragedy, lightened with the most delicious pen pictures of the French poilu in all sorts of situations. ... It is a book worth having written and deeply worth the reading. The illustrations by Charles Huard are exquisite drawings, vignettes of battle scenes, characters in the story, visions of France as she looks today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 1100w
=Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 90w
“Mme Huard does not dwell on unpleasant details. With an American sense of humor—for she is the daughter of Francis Wilson, the comedian—and with also a touch of dramatic sense, she lightens her book with the quaint sayings and doings of the people around her.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 550w
=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.= From the gulf to Ararat; an expedition through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. il *$3.50 Dutton 915 (Eng ed 17-9114)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The author has incidentally furnished us with a careful description of those regions in Mesopotamia and Persia that have been fought over by the British, Russian, Turkish, and German armies.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez
+ =Dial= 63:394 Oct 25 ‘17 1150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:539 D 9 ‘17 80w
=HUDSON, CHARLES BENJAMIN.= Royal outlaw. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-17619
This is the story of the early life of David, beginning with his flight from Saul, who tries to take David’s life, picturing his career as an outlaw, and ending with his coronation as king of Israel. The author has filled out the biblical outlines with incidents of his own imagination. “David is portrayed as a young man of quick temper and lightning decision, and as an extremely resourceful military commander.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Delightfully human book ... portrays an interesting period in Hebrew history with accuracy and sympathy. It is a nice combination of Bible facts and the author’s fancy, a spirited tale of adventure and romance charmingly written.”
+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately, the author appears to have felt that to accomplish his purpose he must eliminate from the incomparable romance its inner significance. The hand with which he has removed the veil of symbolism was curiously maladroit and lacking in ordinary veneration for a literary masterpiece.”
— =Cath World= 106:693 F ‘18 220w
+ — =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“A perfectly corking story, without a single moral or sign of a moral about it. It is human, and not only credible, but almost convincing. David is a hero after the heart of men and women. ... It will make a thrilling film.” L: A. Walker
+ + =N Y Call= p15 Jl 8 ‘17 340w
“As for adventures and perils and hairbreadth escapes and all manner of fighting, it would be hard to find more of them in any single novel that has been written in many a day. ... Humor enlivens the pages.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 620w
“A very interesting tale told with spirit and in close adherence to biblical facts. But the principal service it performs is to present David as a man with human passions as well as a writer of poetry.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Crystal age; with an introd. by Clifford Smyth. *$1.50 Dutton A17-174
“The crystal age” was published in the eighties. An edition was brought out in America in 1907 and was reviewed in the Digest at that time. The present revival of interest in W. H. Hudson has called for a reprint. “In ‘A crystal age,’ the author visits and describes for us a no man’s land. It may be England, it may be South America, it may be any other country on the face of the globe. Its people and incidents may be of the past, the present or the future. As he himself describes his story, he has written in it ‘a dream and picture of the human race in its forest period.’ ... Although the country and the people of ‘A crystal age’ are obviously of mythical origin, they are visualized none the less vividly by Mr Hudson. We see them as they are, and their manners and customs are explicitly described. Over and around them all, however, is thrown a romantic glamour that is wholly Mr Hudson’s own.” (Boston Transcript)
=A L A Bkl= 13:274 Mr ‘17
“After reading one of Hudson’s books one feels toward him a personal debt so great that one can discharge some small part of it only by handing on to others the news of what he is and does.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:84 Mr ‘17 850w
“It is of course easily discernible whence Mr Hudson drew his scheme for the social order of this strange gathering of men and women. A student of nature, he saw in the life of the bee a theme for the creation of a human community after their fashion, and he has therefore made ‘A crystal age’ a perfect analogy between the two. If we read it with that knowledge in view, we have a perfect scientific study; if we read it simply as a story, we have a narrative complete in substance and beautiful in form.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 1400w
“Hudson gives us ‘literary opium’ in its most delightful form, in words so musical that at times one almost forgets the sense.”
+ =Ind= 89:506 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“In the majority of Mr Hudson’s books—always excepting ‘Green mansions’—the naturalist seems more to the fore than the artist. Here the latter controls the former’s abundant wealth. Nature certainly serves as a well-known and well-loved background. ... Yet the striking thing is rather the artistic and dramatic unity of the volume: the unity of the story, which moves on, picking up anticipations, opening new vistas, down to its poignant close; and the consistency of the character development as seen in the invading Englishman, who quietly acquires a soul as the action progresses.”
+ =Nation= 104:340 Mr 22 ‘17 600w
“W. H. Hudson is one of the very great writers of English.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:575 D 31 ‘16 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 90w
+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w
“Has too little story, and is too leisurely and too visionary for most novel readers, but both the subject and the fine style of its writing will endear it to some, especially those who liked ‘Green mansions.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 80w
=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Idle days in Patagonia. il *$1.50 (2½c) Dutton 918.2 A17-394
The author went out to Patagonia to make a study of its bird life. An accident shortly after his arrival rendered him quite helpless for a time and limited the field of his researches. But out of the idle days which resulted from his change of plans grew these sketches, perhaps more intimate because of their narrower range. He writes of Life in Patagonia; Snow, and the quality of whiteness; Bird music in South America; Sight in savages, etc. The book was published some years ago by D. Appleton and company, but has been out of print.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:364 My ‘17
“Its charm, as in everything Mr Hudson writes, is varied, and it appeals to the reader through his understanding of nature, through his reflections upon the lives of men and beasts as he encounters them, through his many interpolated anecdotes, through his visualization of everything he sees, and through the grace of a remarkable and unpretentious English style. Its manner is no less attractive than its substance.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1000w
+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 140w
+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 140w
+ =Nation= 104:526 My 3 ‘17 1000w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 220w
“Full of exquisite prose-poetry, of careful observation, of keen, live interest in all the life of those ‘idle’ days.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 770w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“The total effect of the book is something the same as if John Burroughs and Joseph Conrad had collaborated—and in a field almost of Conrad’s choice.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 14 ‘17 900w
“The chapter which especially caught my attention in the ‘Idle days in Patagonia,’ as it probably has that of most readers of the book, was the thirteenth.” Arthur Colton
+ =Yale R= n s 6:856 Jl ‘17 1350w
=HUESTON, ETHEL.= Sunny slopes. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-22006
Excepting Connie, the daughters of the parsonage are now all married, and in this volume Connie finds her way through her literary ventures to a cowboy husband. Connie was always the “different” one of the family. But Connie’s affairs are only incidental to the main thread of the story which is concerned with gay little Carol, now the wife of a Presbyterian minister and his mainstay while he fights tuberculosis in New Mexico and Colorado. “It is in New Mexico that they see the ‘sunny slopes’ of the mesas and learn to fight the battle for cheerfulness, to keep in the sunshine and avoid the shadows.” (N Y Times)
“Simple, a trifle sentimental and will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 280w
“In spite of the story’s sad trend, it is the reverse of gloomy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 290w
=HUGHES, JAMES LAUGHLIN.= Training the children. *60c Barnes 173 17-10692
Seven brief chapters on the training of children thru self activity. Thruout, the author contrasts this new idea of training with the old idea of coercion and repression. He writes of: The child’s achieving tendencies; Training through doing; Negative and positive training; Coercion; The child’s need of freedom; The “bad” boy; Some common mistakes of the old training. The author was for many years chief inspector of schools in Toronto. He is author also of “Mistakes in teaching,” “Teaching to read,” etc.
“Here in a tiny volume, entirely within the means of any one, so far as cash or time value to be expended is concerned, we find just such a clear exposition of the eternal principles of education and the relative values of free activity and development contrasted with ‘the negative and coercive ideal’ of old times, as we long to inject into the consciousness of that great majority of adults who, as Dr Hughes aptly says, no longer defend harsh methods of disciplining children, but still retain their faith in the old ideal.” J. L. Hunt
+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 480w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= In a little town. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-8348
The author’s earlier books have been novels of city life. This is a book of small town stories. The author, however, staunchly protests against the idea that there is any essential difference between a big town and a small one. “A village is simply a quiet street in the big city of the world. Quaint, sweet happenings take place in the avenues most thronged, and desperate events come about in sleepy lanes. People are people, chance is chance.” The scene of the stories is close to the Mississippi. The titles are: Don’t you care! Pop; Baby talk; The mouth of the gift horse; The old folks at home; And this is marriage; The man that might have been; The happiest man in Ioway; Prayers; Pain; The beauty and the fool; The ghostly counselors; Daughters of Shiloh; “A” as in “father.”
“Clever, often amusing, and often keen.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“It is only that Mr Hughes is at times banal and even cheap in his style, and he is surely inexcusably flippant; it is that we must resent the lack of distinction in writing where the matter cries aloud for sincerity and dignity. The collection is much too good not to be very much better. As it stands, it is always thoroughly readable, and often extremely diverting.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 370w
“The promise is not fulfilled. The stories contain excellent material, hastily handled. These cheerful, ordinary, humanly vulgar folk fail to arouse interest because their creator writes of them but not for them. They are crude snapshots rather than artistic photographs. ‘And this is marriage’ strikes the highest note.”
– + =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 120w
“The effect is of artifice, of ‘well-made’ plots and character in the sense of the stage rather than of the art which interprets. In short, they are of the magazine formula, and of little account on other grounds.”
— =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 280w
“Mr Hughes’s collection of fourteen short stories all have their scenes laid in imaginary small towns in the region round about the city of Keokuk, Iowa, a region familiar to his youth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“Almost without exception the stories are diverting in high degree.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
“Not very cheerful on the whole, but well done.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= We can’t have everything. il *$1.50 (1c) Harper 17-22299
Kedzie Thropp came from a little Missouri town to visit New York with her parents. She ran away from them and began her career by getting a job in a candy-store. Later, she tried Greek dancing and the movies. Her first marriage venture was with Tommie Gilfoyle, an advertising man, her second with Jim Dyckman, one of the richest men in New York society, and her third with the Marquess of Strathdene. Kedzie, the social climber, greedy for all the material good that life can give, is contrasted with Charity Coe Cheever, a woman of assured position in society, who was also divorced and re-married.
“Kedzie is the one person in the story in whom we more or less believe. As for the others, the more strokes the artist puts into their portraits, the less clearly we see them. ... The truth is, Mr Hughes has again, in the thin disguise of a story-teller, taken the floor to have his say about something. ... The book is an argument in favour of tolerably easy divorce, with a laboriously arranged exhibit of what decent people may suffer under the present laws of New York state. If the believer could only have embodied his belief in his story! Unluckily, it is only too clear that his idea and not his people interests him.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:210 O ‘17 960w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 50w
“In the end the reader isn’t sure just who is married. The whole, in its sly sex-suggestiveness and apparent frankness about ostensibly vital problems, is quite characteristic of Rupert Hughes.”
— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 110w
“The book has a story to tell, but the narrator appears to be in at least two minds as to what it is all about. Under these conditions there can be no story pure and simple. At best it is a piece of satirical comedy in an elaborate New York setting; we recognize the scene, we marvel at the effectiveness of the lighting and authenticity of the costumes. Unluckily, we also recognize the plot and personæ, less as ‘from the life’ than as from the stockroom of recent fiction.”
– + =Nation= 105:370 O 4 ‘17 470w
“Kedzie is a Rupert Hughes version of a vampire, very beautiful, very modern, very resourceful and capable in adapting herself to surroundings and blooming out afresh with each new possibility of progress. The story comes down to the present and takes in the recent welcome of New York to the French mission.”
=N Y Times= 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 660w
“Rupert Hughes requires 637 closely printed pages to find the way to happiness for Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe. It could have been found by a shorter route and without sacrificing a single essential of the story. ... The author’s flow of satirical, and often flippant, humor, is more diverting than his exposé of odoriferous social morals, though, needless to say, this is done with Mr Hughes’s grasp of character and sense of atmosphere.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 300w
=HUGINS, ROLAND.= Possible peace; a forecast of world politics after the great war. *$1.25 (3½c) Century 327 16-23057
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
“A judicial and admirably dispassionate survey of the unfolding of recent European history, culminating in the war, with discussion of its significance for us and its possible influence upon our future.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:182 Ap ‘17 450w
=Ind= 89:320 F 19 ‘17 160w
“The author develops his theses with candor and intelligence. The book is not exactly inspiriting, but it is wholesome reading in an epoch in which partisan interpretations and pragmatic conclusions make up the bulk of the literature on international affairs.”
+ =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 350w
“His volume is one of the sanest that the war has produced and deserves to rank for its calm, judicial temper, its loyalty to truth, and its illuminative thought with G. Lowes Dickinson’s ‘European anarchy’ and Fried’s ‘Restoration of Europe,’ while not even Romain Rolland’s ‘Above the battle,’ although more passionate in its longing and more inspired in its utterance, is more earnestly and single-heartedly desirous of the ending of the war and the establishment of a more enlightened understanding of one another among the peoples of the earth. So clear and fair and free from all prejudice is Mr Hugins’s marshaling of the facts of recent history and so strictly just his interpretation that his book, along with that by Mr Dickinson—for the two admirably supplement each other—ought to be put on the supplementary reading courses of modern history classics in universities and colleges.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 530w
=HULL, ARTHUR EAGLEFIELD.=[2] Great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin. (Library of music and musicians.) il *$1.25 Dutton 17-11131
“Dr Eaglefield Hull devotes his book chiefly to an analysis of Scriabin’s works, both for the pianoforte and for orchestra. The pianoforte works comprise preludes, études, nocturnes, etc., a concerto and ten sonatas; the orchestral three symphonies, the ‘Poem of ecstasy’ and ‘Prometheus.’ There is a brief biography, preceded by the inevitable exposition of the musical awakening in Russia. ... The mystery of Scriabin’s new scales and new chords is expounded. ... In appendices are lists of his works, each with a brief descriptive paragraph. There is a list of Russian and other names.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
“The author’s style is often confused, and troublesome to the reader. The thought in a book is the test; and this volume comes off well in that respect.”
+ — =Ath= p588 D ‘16 320w
“Whether one reads to damn or praise, the value of Dr Hull’s commentary must be recognized.” Russell Ramsey
+ =Dial= 64:21 Ja 3 ‘18 1500w
“Dr Hull’s comments are intelligent, granting the point of view; and his book should be valuable to the followers of the new and to any who wish to know the new.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:479 N 18 ‘17 410w
“We are more grateful for the matter than for the manner of this book.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 N 30 ‘16 970w
=HUMPHREY, SETH KING.= Mankind. *$1.50 (4c) Scribner 575.6 17-24251
A treatise on racial values and the racial prospect. It presents the subject untechnically in its broad social aspect with a view to awakening in the lay reader an appreciation of the fundamental part played in human affairs by inborn racial quality. He examines racial tendencies as factors in human progress, views the race values of the countries at war, shows the necessity of a eugenic system at work in the world that shall effectively cut off the increase of downright human unfitness and forecasts an era when hereditary defects among enlightened peoples are wiped out as a preparatory period to one that shall legitimately insure adequate perpetuation of only superior inheritances.
“An interesting study, vigorous in expression and noteworthy for the laudable independence of the thinking.” Archibald Henderson
+ =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 650w
“This book overlooks entirely the economic interpretation of history, the influence of social heredity in calling out the potentialities which for all we know may lie dormant in every individual. The writer’s opinion of woman is influenced by his conception of her value as a means of transmitting a valuable trait down the family line. Other chapters on The nations at war, The immigration problem and The negro all show themselves tinged by dogmatism and the same narrow point of view.” A. E. Watson
— =Survey= 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 510w
=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).= Grail fire. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-8347
The story of a young man’s search for religious peace of mind. Francis Merwin is the son of a man who is an agnostic and a woman who is a strict Puritan. His mother’s narrow Protestantism seems to him barren and meaningless, and yet he demands something that his father, beauty-loving pagan that he is, cannot give him. In Eleanor Ramsey he finds a companion who sympathizes with him. Together they study the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, finding themselves repelled by its hard and fast dogmas, altho emotionally it seems to offer what they seek. Finally they discover the Catholic branch of the Episcopal church and in it find the answer to all their doubts and questions. Francis, altho his mother and father are both hurt by his choice, studies for the ministry. Eleanor remains true to him, even tho it seems for a time that his priestly ideals will demand the renunciation of personal happiness.
“‘Grail fire’ barely convinces. ... Those with tendencies towards mysticism will find the novel attractive. The average reader will be somewhat repelled because of its lack of vitality. Without question it is both carefully written and sincere in feeling.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 190w
“The author must be totally devoid of all sense of humor, for her description of Father Merwin’s first mass with his sweetheart acolyte, and his motley congregation of Jews, Italians and Irish is ludicrous in the extreme.”
— =Cath World= 105:263 My ‘17 200w
“A very charming, if somewhat illogical book. ... Although ‘Grail fire’ may be a bit too idealistic for the average mortal, we predict that all the sixteen-year-olds in the land will find it absolutely true to life.”
+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 170w
“Despite its theological thesis she has written a novel of vital human interest, which even a casual reader will hardly lay aside until the end is reached.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 380w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS W. DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Rubbish heap. *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-13182
A half French nephew who comes to disturb the Victorian propriety and solitude of two maiden aunts, and a little Irish waif brought home by a sea captain to be a companion to his wife, are characters in this story. Christopher, whose artistic tastes and temperament are so puzzling to Miss Augusta and Miss Jane, discovers little Mara and paints her against the background of the curio shop that is her home. The attic of this shop, with its heaped up treasure, proves the means of solving the mystery of the little girl, and shows that between her and Christopher there exists a strange relationship.
“A fairly pretty story tho not very convincing.”
– + =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 170w
=Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 200w
“An ingenious little story and well written, although the coincidences are too numerous to be altogether credible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w
=HUMPHREYS, FRANCIS LANDON.= Life and times of David Humphreys, 1752-1818. 2v il *$7.50 Putnam 17-8099
A biography that takes us back to the American revolution. David Humphreys, soldier, statesman, poet and manufacturer, was termed by one of his contemporaries the “belov’d of Washington.” “It may safely be said,” says the author, “that as it is impossible to write the life of Humphreys without including a large part of the life of Washington, so it is almost as impossible to write fully of the career of Washington without presenting, in large measure at least, the life of Humphreys.” The biography is based in part on the Humphreys and Washington correspondence, now in the manuscript department of the Library of Congress. As a manufacturer Humphreys has a present-day interest as founder of the woolen industry in this country.
“An extremely detailed biography; not a brilliant book, but a work which will be useful for reference. The illustrations and the index deserve a word of commendation.”
+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 120w
“A casual reader with endless time will find in them much of miscellaneous interest, and the scholar may make use of them by means of the excellent index. Except for one or two slips that may be chargeable to the printer the work seems accurate and scholarly.”
+ — =Dial= 63:462 N 8 ‘17 550w
“There is, in this varied and useful career, much that is typical of the lives men led in our heroic age. Perhaps for that reason the biographer has yielded to the temptation to be at times, out of the wealth of his material, a little superfluous in his account of well-known events. In spite of the attempt of the biographer to make him out a hero, Humphreys is most interesting as a representative man who deserved either a shorter or a more vivid biography than has fallen to his lot.”
+ — =Nation= 105:455 O 25 ‘17 1350w
“Although he has made considerable use of Colonel Humphreys’s correspondence with Washington which is preserved in the Library of Congress, the author has been somewhat sparing in direct quotation therefrom. Whenever he has done so it is very readable, especially the long reports to President Washington from Spain and Portugal.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 750w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 150w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 60w
“This biography is singularly opportune, and should find many readers on this side of the Atlantic.”
* + =Spec= 118:62 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w
“The book is well produced and illustrated, and is a useful contribution to American history, particularly that of the period from the close of the Revolution to the adoption of the present constitution. It is, however, too long; its contents could easily and better have been compressed into a single volume. Some of the text is much the same as can be found in an ordinary book of history, and many of Col. Humphreys’s letters have but faint interest for the reading public of to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 28 ‘17 650w
“A biography so constructed inevitably falls between the two stools of biography proper and what the French call ‘Mémoires pour servir.’ ‘It is to be noted,’ says the biographer, ‘that very little of Humphreys’s correspondence is published in these two volumes.’ And yet there is too much. His private correspondence is excellent—full of shrewd observation, terse description, and keen political insight. But his public correspondence belongs to a different category, that of history, not of biography.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p280 Je 14 ‘17 2050w
“Here is a subject for a valuable and interesting biography, and in its preparation there is evidence of persistent scholarship. The records are closely read. The background of historical events, doubtless, is drawn with fidelity to fact. And yet this biography is not interesting.” C: S. Brooks
– + =Yale R= n s 7:437 Ja ‘18 1000w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Unicorns. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner 814 17-25117
These thirty essays, copyrighted from 1906 to 1917, deal with Edward MacDowell, Remy de Gourmont, Artzibashef, Henry James, George Sand, Cézanne, Brahms, Huysmans, W. H. Mallock, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, George Moore, and Richard Wagner; also with such subjects as Style and rhythm in English prose; A synthesis of the seven arts; Pillow-land; Cross-currents in modern French literature; Violinists now and yesteryear; Prayers for the living, etc. The title essay, In praise of unicorns, takes the unicorn as “the symbol of fantasy and intellectual freedom.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p7 O 24 ‘17 750w
=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 50w
“It is all in the same manner, obligingly informative and genially casual. It has the compactness of pemmican. It is guaranteed by the authority of great names, and shows an agile intellect dovetailing epigrams. Mr Huneker has never escaped from the blight of cleverness that characterized the nineties. ... His great merit is that he has banished solemnity and cant; he talks about books because he loves them, and there isn’t an ounce of pedantry in his whole nature.” G: B. Donlin
+ — =Dial= 63:344 O 11 ‘17 1400w
“Would it be unkind to intimate that he is writing, or at least publishing, in 1917 and not in 1897, and that the world has grown, for terrible reasons, rather weary of trifling with morality?”
– + =Nation= 105:402 O 11 ‘17 980w
“After all that he has done for us, it seems a little ungrateful to be bored with ‘Unicorns.’ Mr Huneker remains a brilliant journalist, instead of developing into an American critic who would respond to the large currents and counter-currents with an individual competence of appreciation.” R. B.
– + =New Repub= 13:130 D 1 ‘17 830w
“Mr Huneker is always brilliant. He is always worth reading. But this collection of essays is more personal than anything else that he has done, and we are not sure that it is not more charming.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:416 O 21 ‘17 820w
“Mr Huneker is amiable, effervescent, always companionable, and in his disdainful talk about ‘conventional morality’ and the like shows none of the hauteur of the modern intellectual egoist who usually uses such phrases. For a time he was our most implacable ‘modern,’ but that distinction, no longer undivided, has passed to a less worthy and less likeable crew.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 19 ‘17 780w
=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.= Railroad problem. il $1.50 (2c) McClurg 385 17-10892
The railroad is characterized by the author as “the great sick man of the American business family.” He says, “Just at this time, owing to the extraordinary and abnormal prosperity that has come to the United States, largely because of the great war in Europe, he [the railroad] has rallied temporarily. But his illness continues, far too deep-seated to be thrown off in a moment. And the recent extraordinary legislation passed by Congress has done nothing to alleviate the condition of the sufferer. On the contrary, it has been a great aggravation.” In the author’s opinion great opportunities for development lie before the railroad system of the United States, and his purpose, after discussing the present situation and its causes, is to point out the course that it must follow if it is to continue as a privately owned institution. The problems of labor are given five chapters. Other chapters discuss: The railroad and national defense; The necessity of the railroad; Regulation. In part the material of the book has appeared in Collier’s, Every Week and the Saturday Evening Post.
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 30w
“The good red blood of human life runs all through the book. Even the serious student of the railroad problem may profit by its perusal, for it helps to humanize the whole situation.”
+ =Dial= 63:398 O 25 ‘17 200w
=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 40w
=HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK.= Revolt in Arabia. *75c (2c) Putnam 953 17-7479
A translation of articles that appeared in a Dutch newspaper in July, 1916. Announcement had just come of a revolt in Arabia against Turkish rule. Professor Hurgronje’s purpose was to supply the historical background for an understanding of such an event. The book has a foreword by Richard J. H. Gottheil of Columbia university, and a translation of the proclamation of the Shereef of Mecca is added as an appendix.
“This brief account of the revolt and of the general situation is admirably lucid, and so is the chapter explaining the impropriety, according to Mohammedan law, of the assumption of the title of Caliph by the Sultan of Turkey. It will help western readers to understand questions that are to most of them obscure.”
+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 100w
“Though we must agree with Prof. Snouck Hurgronje that the Sherifate of Mecca, acting alone, is a negligible quantity in the great war, Arabia, considered as a whole, can undoubtedly become an important factor in its course and its consequential bearing on Near Eastern problems.”
+ =Nation= 104:711 Je 14 ‘17 1600w
=N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 200w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w
“A most instructive little book. The author condemns the attempt of the Young Turks, under German influence, to revive the Caliphate, ‘playing with the fire of religious hate.’ He regards the Shereef’s revolt as ‘a master stroke,’ in reply to this pernicious scheme, which has happily failed in the great Mohammedan countries and is now rejected in Mecca itself.”
+ =Spec= 119:247 S 8 ‘17 1350w
“The author is professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden, Holland. As he also dwelt for some time in Mecca he has been able to get a good insight into the hopes and aspirations of the followers of the prophet. The little work is of value for the light it throws on one of the side issues of the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 90w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p377 Ag 9 ‘17 1350w
=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.=[2] Awakening of business. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 380 16-24342
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
“In popular, almost journalistic form, the newer point of view as to the relation between government and business is set forth. A valuable chapter on the work of the trade commission shows how the commission prevents law suits. The author is optimistic and singularly devoid of that fear of calamity from either foreign competition or government oppression which permeates the writings and addresses of the older school. His attention is taken up less with ‘grave perils’ than with means of strengthening and expanding business prosperity.” J. T. Y.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:236 Jl ‘17 250w
“This book by the former chairman of the Federal trade commission, exhibits those ideas which have given him nation-wide fame. But the careful thinker will not be able to avoid the inference that with all his apparent clearness of thought he has some of those heresies that have made Frank A. Vanderlip term us ‘a nation of economic illiterates.’ The author discusses the Sherman law in a sane way and explains the attitude of the Federal trade commission. At the close of the book the act under which the commission was formed and a part of the Clayton act are published. The book is interesting from cover to cover. Hurley’s meaning is always clear and his ideas always clever.”
+ — =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
=HURST, ARTHUR F.= Medical diseases of the war. *$1.75 Longmans 616
“Dr Hurst discusses certain common diseases in the war, such as trench fever, dysentery and paratyphoid, and shows how infections received at this time may linger and revive through many years in other forms.” (Survey) “The first chapter is devoted to the functional nervous disorders of which so many varieties have been met with during the war. Among these are classed cases of shell shock, neurasthenia, hysteria, and psychasthenia.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour
=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 80w
“It is a valuable addition to the medical literature of the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 4 ‘17 400w
=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Story of the Pullman car. il *$1.50 (6½c) McClurg 656 17-15079
The story of the Pullman car is told in the following chapters: The birth of railroad transportation; The evolution of the sleeping car; The rise of a great industry; The Pullman car in Europe; The survival of the fittest; The town of Pullman; Inventions and improvements; How the cars are made; The operation of the Pullman car. One aspect of the subject is not touched on, the labor disturbances that have attended the development of the industry. The illustrations, which include reproductions of cartoons made in the early days of the sleeping car, are interesting.
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“The majority of people know in a vague way about the town of Pullman and the immense size of this industry, and these exact details of the various inventions and improvements which bring about the comfort and luxury of present day travel make an interesting and instructive book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 12 ‘17 130w
=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:819 D ‘17 20w
=HUSIK, ISAAC.= History of mediaeval Jewish philosophy. *$3 (2c) Macmillan 181 16-21233
At the suggestion of the Jewish publication society the author has undertaken to write a “history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic philosophy in one volume—a history that will appeal alike to the scholar and the intelligent non-technical reader.” He points out that no such work exists in any language, and that in English, Jewish philosophy in general is barely touched. This work then seems to fill a gap in the history of philosophy. A general introduction is followed by chapters devoted to eighteen mediaeval philosophers. Bibliography, notes, list of Biblical and rabbinic passages, and index complete the book. The author is assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania.
“The author shows his ability to do pioneer work of this type by the skill with which he handles the obscure and intricate subtleties of his theme. He deals exhaustively with mediaeval Jewish rationalism but omits all reference to mysticism or the Kabbaka.”
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“Those familiar with the scattered, obscure, and unintelligible material with which Dr Husik had to cope, can best appreciate the value of his excellent work. He has transformed a literary chaos into a systematic presentation, accessible to the modern reader. His study of the texts is deep and thorough; and his clear, simple, and concise style stands in contrast with the obscure interpretations in German.” N. H. Adlerblum
+ — =J Philos= 15:22 Ja 3 ‘18 1600w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16
“Most scholarly and illuminating work.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 160w
“Dr Husik deliberately restricts his scope to the medieval Jewish rationalism. Within these limits Dr Husik has written a good book. ... He has the two qualifications necessary for his main task. He has a real control of the technique of metaphysics and an independent knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic materials. The skilful exercise of these qualifications has resulted in a notable addition to the history of philosophy.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 1150w
=HUTCHINGS, MRS EMILY GRANT.= Jap Herron; a novel written from the ouija board; with an introd. The coming of Jap Herron. il *$1.50 (3c) Kennerley 17-28757
The sponsors of this story, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola V. Hays, seem to be convinced that Mark Twain spelled out the tale to them on the ouija board. “Emily Grant Hutchings, who writes the introductory account of how it all happened, is from Hannibal, Mo., the home of Mark Twain’s boyhood, and in her the alleged spirit of the author seems to have put much confidence.” (N Y Times) “Jap Herron is the son of the local drunkard of a village somewhere in Missouri. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage ‘to another bum,’ Jap runs away and strays into Bloomtown and the printing office of the Herald. The editor, Ellis Hinton, has already worked and starved himself to the verge of consumption. ... Jap appoints himself assistant, which means chiefly the sharing of Hinton’s thankless toil and pitiful fare. The two become devoted to each other; a good third is added them in the son of the village skinflint, and, later, a fourth in the angelic middle-aged Flossy, who marries Hinton and mothers them all. It is Hinton’s dream that Jap shall grow up to be what he himself has wished to be, a power for righteousness in the community. Jap does: we leave him secure in the esteem and leadership of a rejuvenated Bloomtown.” (Bookm)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 520w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 90w
=Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 200w
“A good deal of the detail does ‘sound like Mark’—as an echo sounds like a voice. The ‘lay-out’ of the tale is natural enough, too, its setting in a little Missouri town, with the village printing office as its closer scene. But that is all. It is a tale of voluptuous domestic sentiment and pathos, with morbid emphasis (strange as coming from a freed spirit!) upon the pathos of death. ... It is a woman’s story of a notably ‘slushy’ type. Its roughness, its Twainish flavor, are external and occasional. Its people are unreal; when they do not remember to talk like Mark Twain, they talk like a best-seller.”
— =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 550w
“The story is short and snappy. ... There are spots of undoubted brilliance. The pathos is much in evidence, and there is a lot of slapstick comedy. ... At its worst, it could be called a decent parody of Mark Twain.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 230w
– + =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 500w
=HUTCHINSON, ROBERT H.= Socialism of New Zealand. *$1 New review pub. 335 16-14591
“Like Mr Walling, the author would apply the term ‘state capitalism’ to the social experiments of New Zealand; and says, with much truth, that they are designed largely for the benefit of the small farmers and shopkeepers, and that the result has been to entrench capitalism more strongly than ever in the affections of the middle class. The ‘Lib-Lab’ alliance, which controlled New Zealand politics for so many years under Ballance, Seddon, and Ward, has reached the limit of its power, and now the small farmers and capitalists, under the leadership of Massey and the so-called ‘Reform party,’ show reactionary tendencies, while the labor leaders and socialists are breaking away from the old entanglements to take a new and more radical path, where true progress lies. ... The experience of New Zealand, as Mr Hutchinson says, indicates the lines of development which the United States is likely to take in the near future.”—Am Econ R
“While this little book gives few unfamiliar facts about New Zealand, it is important in that it shows the point of view of a socialist who has spent a year or more in that country and who wishes to ‘dispel the prevalent idea that her progressive institutions have in any way solved the problems of capital and labor.’ ... Mr Hutchinson’s book is very readable, and shows an intimate knowledge of the subject. Here and there one might cavil at his argument.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ =Am Econ R= 7:176 Mr ‘17 370w
“The book is not a technical treatise, but a brief simple work for the general reader, and is both readable and instructive.” G. S. Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 22:414 N ‘16 430w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p5 Jl 18 ‘16 170w
=Survey= 37:673 Mr 10 ‘17 70w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Mag Pye. *$1.50 Appleton 17-4712
“This new story by the Baroness von Hutten is, first and foremost, a tale of mystery. There is the mystery of Mag’s mother, and the even greater mystery of Bettany’s disappearance, and several minor secrets connected more or less closely with these two principal ones. Victor Quest, the briefless, or almost briefless, barrister, learned about them all after a while, and it is Victor Quest who tells the story. ... Although the tale ends in the year 1916, the war is but lightly touched upon, with just a glimpse or two of the opinions of various persons as to the relations of England and Germany before August, 1914.”—N Y Times
“Told in a quiet, reflective manner with good characterizations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The novel is pleasing and wholesome.”
+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 60w
“A story of graceful humour and unforced sentiment, at its weakest where it bothers with plot.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 300w
“The novel stands in that host of good, but uninspired, middle-class English fiction.”
+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 100w
+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 280w
“As with De Morgan the apparently careless and haphazard manner of its telling veils an adroit and intricate method. ... It is a very graceful and skilful story.”
+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 340w
+ =N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 350w
“Not by any means the author’s best work. The plot is improbable and mechanical. Mag herself is a natural and charming girl.”
– + =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 280w
“The Baroness von Hutten is far too well trained a writer to drop into futility, but she is capable of unreality and of dullness. ... The story may satisfy the sentimental, but it is unconscionably long.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 15 ‘17 80w
=HYAMSON, ALBERT MONTEFIORE.= Palestine, the rebirth of an ancient people. il *$1.50 Knopf 915.69 17-23768
“A detailed presentation of the social, economic, and agricultural conditions in modern Palestine, accompanied by a brief survey of the history of the country since the time of Roman occupation. Palestine has long appeared to be a desert. ... The colonies established under the care of the Zionist movement have proved that Palestine is one of the richest agricultural and fruit-producing countries on the face of the globe. ... What Palestine needs, Mr Hyamson states, is, first, a new vitalized western population, secondly, roads, railways and harbors, and above all a wise, just and stable government. Since the sorry events of Turkish misrule following the war, the Jews of Palestine hope for local autonomy under the protection of a Protestant power that will see fair play between the different elements of the population.”—R of Rs
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 400w
“Mr Hyamson has done his task thoroughly. His book contains all the information necessary on the subject, handled with a nice sense of relative values in a style that is somewhat heavy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:462 N 11 ‘17 530w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 180w
“The unique interest of his work lies in the part concerned with modern Zionism and the actual work of colonisation and education which it has so far achieved.”
+ =Sat R= 124:151 Ag 25 ‘17 1500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 8 ‘18 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Ag 16 ‘17 2250w
=HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT.= Best man I know. *50c Macmillan 170 17-14119
President Hyde of Bowdoin college died on June 29, 1917. In this, his last book, he has condensed into ninety-five pages some forty-five treatises. “The best man Dr Hyde knows finds the roots of his being in ‘that will for the good of all which is the will of God,’ and from these roots various practical fruits are borne.” (Nation)
“It seems almost mystically appropriate that President Hyde’s last publication should be a message to the world describing ‘The best man I know,’ an ideal which many of the author’s friends and former pupils will think he not only depicted but exemplified. ... Dr Hyde had something very definite to say on each of his topics, and what he has written will make excellent food for reflection for men and women of every age.”
+ =Nation= 105:377 O 4 ‘17 270w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 90w
I
Information annual 1916; a continuous cyclopedia and digest of current events. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 031 (16-9777)
The second annual cumulation of the monthly numbers of Information. The Foreword says, “With the issue for January, 1917, Information passed into new ownership, tho remaining under the same editorial direction as heretofore. This change of ownership brought an enlarged size and a changed format—which will affect materially the bulk of the new annual volume. The present volume is, however, but slightly larger than that for 1915. The European war, as before, overshadows all other subjects.” The volume is a cyclopedia for the year 1916, bringing the latest cyclopedias up to date. Fremont Rider is general editor, and the work of compilation has been done by Elizabeth Webb.
“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious matter. A much larger number of topics are treated than in the excellent ‘American year book’ or ‘New international year book’; the annual has the nature of an edition of the index of the New York Times with brief text under each entry instead of reference to the newspaper files, though it is not so inclusive. Its defects are many and evident. It contains no information except that which appears in the news columns of the press, it is not well written, and it suffers much from incoherence.”
+ — =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
=INGPEN, ROGER.= Shelley in England; new facts and letters from the Shelley-Whitton papers. 2v il *$5 Houghton 17-9463
“Mr Ingpen is known already as the author of ‘The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ first published about eight years ago. ... Its first-hand offering of the real Shelley as limned by himself in his letters complemented Professor Dowden’s monumental biography and the two together gave what has been thought to be the definite depiction of the poet, his life, career, and character. But new material has been found which adds much of interest to the facts already known. ... Several interesting new facts are revealed, and some portions of Mary Shelley’s life in England are cleared up. Two letters written by Lord Byron and a number by Shelley and his relatives are printed for the first time. Legal documents recently unearthed establishing Shelley’s marriage to Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh and others concerning her suicide are here first published.”—N Y Times
“Not necessary in the average public library.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
+ =Bookm= 45:289 My ‘17 1000w
“His story is well known as one of the most romantic in all literary biography. It is told by Mr Ingpen in all its variety with little skill and with a straightforward marshalling of facts old and new. The two volumes contain many valuable additions to authentic Shelleyana, and in an appendix of almost one hundred pages are reprinted a series of documentary texts, and facsimile pages of Shelley’s note-books rescued from the boat that carried him to his death.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 1460w
“His work is too bulky for a supplement to Dowden’s and too scant for a successor. He deserves much credit, however, for assembling a variety of information which has been accumulated since Dowden’s time. He deserves still more credit for original contributions to our knowledge of Shelley.” Garland Greever
+ — =Dial= 62:521 Je 14 ‘17 1800w
+ =Lit D= 54:1425 My 12 ‘17 430w
“The object is frankly to complement the standard biographies (particularly Dowden’s). Manifestly the work must be judged on its own basis. Taken alone, it is incomplete and has the misfortune, so far as mere interest is concerned, of dealing largely with controversial and subordinate issues. But it is a scholarly and, for its own end, well-constructed narrative. By all odds the most important new matter presented by Mr Ingpen is a considerable series of letters that passed between William Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor) and the various members of the Shelley family.”
+ =Nation= 105:123 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
+ =N Y Times= 22:61 F 25 ‘17 1750w
=Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 100w
“The new material, of which Mr Ingpen makes a very workmanlike use, was discovered by the lawyers who succeeded to the business of Whitton, the solicitor of Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father.”
+ =Spec= 118:338 Mr 17 ‘17 1750w
“Here is a book which, on account of the scarcity of paper, has grown to the dimensions of a college dictionary. The publishers were forced to divide the sheets into two sizable volumes, which are now issued in uncut paper label style, and which, notwithstanding their weight, will be found very much worth while if you are a lover of Shelley and of the England of his day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 24 ‘17 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p115 Mr 8 ‘17 750w
“The book will be indispensable to the real student of Shelley, but it does not aim to be a self-sufficient biography for the general reader. The author has so rigorously ‘refrained from moralizing, or attempting any detailed criticism of Shelley’s literary work,’ that his narrative is at times colorless.” C. M. Lewis
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:433 Ja ‘18 760w
=INGRAM, ELEANOR MARIE.= Twice American. il *$1.35 (2c) Lippincott 17-28801
David Noel was called the “Twice-American” because Brazil, on account of services rendered the state, allowed him to become a Brazilian citizen without surrendering his United States citizenship. When David was a lonely, poverty-stricken boy of eleven, a little five-year-old girl gave him her white shoes to sell so that he could replace his own worn out ones. The money received for her shoes, gave him his start in life. He followed the sea for years, then settled in Brazil where he became rich and honored, a general and a statesman. The palace where he lived was known as the “House of the little shoes.” The latter part of the story deals with “Dom David’s” search for and courtship of his “lady of the little shoes,” about whom hangs a mystery; and with the treachery of Jacinto Meyer, his pro-German enemy. “Dom David’s” secretary, Nilo Valdez, and Corey Bruce, an American engineer, released from prison on parole, play prominent parts in the story.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 80w
“This novel is described as a romance, and if the word is another term for incredible narrative it has been given an apt name.”
— =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 340w
=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 220w
=INNESS, GEORGE, jr.= Life, art, and letters of George Inness; with an introd. by Elliott Daingerfield. il *$4 (7½c) Century 17-26890
America’s greatest landscape artist receives intimate and sympathetic treatment from the son who was his comrade and pupil. To write into these chapters the dynamic energy of his father’s studio hours and the quiet absorption of his out-of-door preparation has been a congenial task for the son. “He has given us a picture of his father, the man and his habits, and with this has told to us incident and story, many of them new, all reflecting most clearly the ingenuous nature of the man.” He attributes Inness’s great success to his honesty and simplicity. The volume is fully illustrated, there being many reproductions of Inness’s paintings.
“An interesting and very appealing picture of a great man. Reading his life cannot fail to give the Inness lover new reverence for his work and it must introduce many who may not know it.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17
“The book comes most opportunely at the present stage of our artistic development, and it ought to serve, in some measure, as a corrective for some of the fantastic, distorted, barren ideas concerning art that have sprung up and spread offensively during recent years.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 300w
“There is an interesting selection from Inness’s letters, throwing light on his religious opinions and on his own art and that of his contemporaries.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 120w
“The reader does not need to be a student or even a great lover of art in order to enjoy this vivid and intimate picture of the greatest of our landscape painters. The son who tells the story was his father’s pupil as well as congenial companion, and yet he is able to look at the artist’s work in a detached, impartial manner, and to describe it in a way to make the book very valuable to students.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 100w
International military digest annual, 1916. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 355 (17-14742)
“‘The international military digest’ summarizes the contents of eighty-odd periodicals on military science in fourteen languages. It is published monthly as a magazine and in this annual volume the material of the twelve separate issues is rearranged and re-grouped under common heads so as to make a complete, accessible record of the progress in each branch of military science during the year.”—Pub W
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w
“There isn’t six inches of superfluous matter in the six hundred and thirty pages of double column contents of this book. The type is clear and easy to read. Whether a man be in the regular army, a member of the Officers’ reserve corps, or merely one who is trying to follow the events of the war intelligently it is hard to see how he can afford to overlook this work.” A. B. Guernsey
+ =Pub W= 91:1322 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Mask. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-24816
The mask referred to in the title is the one which the author assumes that we all wear to hide our thought and feelings. Elsa, Alison and Gertrude Terry are the daughters of a father who is a clergyman and a mother who is “a dodger of real issues.” The girls lead a sheltered life in the town of Coningsboro, and grow up innocent and inexperienced. Alison inherits money from an aunt, marries a temperamental young author, Phil Howland, and goes with him to New York. Her husband proves to be selfish, lazy, a gambler, and neglectful of his wife. The way in which Alison bears everything, even the loss through Phil’s carelessness of her baby, how she succeeds as an author, how she remakes her husband, body and soul, form the main theme of this story of married life. The handling of one episode in the book between Alison and a friend of Phil’s recalls the descriptive powers of Mr Theodore Dreiser.
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
=N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 200w
=IRWIN, GRACE.= Brown-eyed Susan. il *75c Little book pub. 17-9254
Susan Yorke was a pretty little girl whose mother’s original ideas as to clothing her caused the child much suffering. The story carries Susan “through childhood to girlhood, through the normal school to her first position as teacher.” (Boston Transcript)
“‘Brown-eyed Susan’ is a pretty little story of everyday humanity. It will not have a reader who will not long to put it in the hands of at least one person of her acquaintance that some sensitive child may thereby be spared the ordeal of being conspicuously unlike her mates.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 200w
“The little volume, which is the first book of a young author, should be welcomed as enjoyable in itself, and as a pleasing promise of future work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:190 My 13 ‘17 200w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 17 ‘17 160w
=IRWIN, INEZ (HAYNES) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY IRWIN).= Lady of kingdoms. *$1.50 (1½c) Doran 17-25510
A village on Cape Cod is the scene of the early part of this story and two young women who have grown up in its repressive atmosphere are joint heroines. Both in the words of Matt Hallowell, the village philosopher, are “waste women.” Southward Drake is a beautiful, flashing girl who early exhausts the opportunities Shayneford offers. Her friend Hester Crowell is colorless and uninteresting, her latent qualities remaining undeveloped. A party of New Yorkers who spend a summer in camp in the neighborhood bring contact with the outer world. The two girls visit New York and are introduced to its many sidedness. Southward ultimately marries, and Hester, breaking through the barriers of reserve that have held her, deliberately chooses the difficult way of unmarried motherhood as the solution for her problem.
=N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 400w
=IRWIN, M. E. F.= Out of the house. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran (Eng ed 17-15549)
The time of this story is the nineteenth century, but little Carolin Pomfret, who is its heroine, is brought up in an atmosphere that belongs to the century preceding. Left an orphan at five, she comes to live with her relatives Great-aunt Catherine, who had been a belle of the Regency, Great-aunt Lucilla, and her elderly daughter Lavinia, and elderly Cousin James. She is brought up on family history, given family memoirs to read, and because the Pomfrets hold that no Pomfret should marry outside the family if it can be helped, she is all but married to one of them, her weak-willed cousin Antony. But fortunately a big man from Ireland appears in time to take her away, out of the house of Pomfret, to a new life, which altho it does not offer safety and security, yet promises something of freedom and joy.
“The tale as it is told is convincing and very charming.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 720w
“The book has finish and a certain dainty and deliberate artificiality, but the same things are described, the same ground gone over so often, that it presently becomes more than a little tedious, losing much of the charm it might otherwise have had.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
“The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.”
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH.= Pilgrims into folly: romantic excursions. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16317
The author of the “Letters of a Japanese schoolboy” here gives us seven short stories, mainly serious in character. “You can’t get away from your grandfather,” “What became of Deegan Folk?” and “He shot the bird of paradise” were published in McClure’s Magazine for April, 1914, February and September, 1915, respectively. Other copyrights are held by the Short Story press corporation and P. F. Collier & Son.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“Perhaps one can best recommend Mr Irwin’s first collection of short stories by saying that it is likely to give equal pleasure to the casual and to the analytical reader.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
“One story, ‘He shot the bird of paradise,’ stands out from the rest. It has subtlety and suspense, and is marred only by a touch of amateurishness—a criticism that applies to the entire volume. Mr Irwin is still a little uncertain of his powers, but the present book has definite promise.”
+ — =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 110w
“Mr Irwin’s versatility is nothing less than astonishing. ... The writer of ‘Random rhymes,’ etc., whose name is suggestive of smiles, presents in his new volume seven short stories, of which pathos, sometimes deepening into tragedy, is the most striking characteristic. They are told with exquisite art, and with a sincerity which makes even impossibilities, as in ‘The highest,’ credible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 110w
“The final tale, ‘The ideal gentleman,’ may be voted the best of the group. It is a pathetic story of a waiter’s efforts to make of his son a ‘gentleman’ in the English sense of the term.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
=IRWIN, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL IRWIN).= Latin at war. *$1.75 Appleton 940.91 17-26656
“Mr Irwin’s book on ‘The Latin at war’ makes a connecting link between the French and the Italian soldiers and nations. The first chapter, ‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the fighting men in the high Italian Alps. Afterward he returns to France and carries the reader with him along the French front, where he describes the work of the American ambulance service, and tells of his observations and experiences in the war-swept zone. In the last chapter there is perhaps the most comprehensive and accurate account of the French army, how it is formed, why it is democratic, what are its peculiar qualities, and whence they are derived that has been offered to American readers. The chapters dealing with the work of the Italian army are graphic and full of human interest.”—N Y Times
“A vivid, very readable account of the author’s experiences on the French and Italian fronts in 1916. Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 60w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 60w
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 70w
“The present book should be cut down to half its size. The author is a good observer, he has had excellent opportunities to see the French and Italian armies, and he paints some graphic scenes; but his pages are cluttered up with long descriptions of things that do not count.”
+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 500w
“No correspondent ‘at the front,’ during this war, has found more of human interest in his experiences than has Mr Irwin. He knows how to find it, and how to record it. His style is terse and graphic. He makes you visualize while you read, because he visualized while he wrote.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 S 15 ‘17 280w
“His pages may lack the charm of the first-hand narrative of poilu or ambulance driver, but they contain a good deal of intelligent reflection, and there is no bluff and not too much rhetoric.”
=Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“Mr Irwin has remained fundamentally American and naïve and curious to know what the whole thing means in human values to everyday men and women. He is not the professional war correspondent. His human values have remained steady—although convinced of the basic justice of the cause of the Allies, he has not maligned the enemy.”
+ =New Repub= 12:225 S 22 ‘17 650w
+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 60w
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 280w
=IZOR, ESTELLE PEEL.= Costume design and home planning. il 90c Atkinson, Mentzer & co. 646 16-17166
“The purpose of this volume is to help establish in the minds of girls ‘a sane sensible well-balanced attitude toward dress,’ and towards the home as ‘the vital center of all life’s activities.’ ... The book is the result of experience in teaching.”—School Arts Magazine
“Elementary enough for children to read.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:249 Mr ‘17
“The best book so far available on elementary costume design and home planning.”
+ =Cleveland= p155 D ‘16 60w
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17
“Well written, captivatingly illustrated. ... It is without doubt the best single volume for teachers who are required to teach costume design to junior high school pupils. It will prove helpful, however, to upper grammar and high school teachers everywhere who have to help young people to think seriously about their own personal relation to clothing and shelter.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:89 O ‘16 150w
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=JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR.= Turkey and the war. 6s T. Fisher Unwin, London
“The author begins by attempting to define the objective as distinguished from the subjective aims of the present war, the aims inherent in the situation. ... The destruction and partition of Turkey may be considered the real aim of the conflict because its accomplishment is essential to a durable peace. ... Discussing the various controversial points of the scheme of partitioning the empire, Mr Jabotinsky points out that the present Germano-Turkish alliance would imply the presumably independent Sultanate of Anatolia as the natural field for German commercial expansion, and that the policy of excluding Germany from any such natural expansion must inevitably lead to another war, especially if the proposed plan of an annexation of German markets in allied countries is carried through. He concludes by emphasizing the importance, for its psychological effect, of an allied conquest and military occupation of the great market represented by Asiatic Turkey,”—N Y Times
“M. Jabotinsky pins no faith on a self-controlled, self-directed or stable Ottoman kingdom. In his lucid and somewhat cynical book, brilliant in its exposition, he discloses the salient defect of Turkish rule, or rather of the Young Turks’ rule. ... It comes from a false theory of nationality.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:24 Ag 4 ‘17 1250w
“This essay by the military correspondent of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti represents some original thinking on the Eastern question. Briefly, it is a more than usually straightforward application of the ‘est delenda’ to the Ottoman empire, supported by a convincing series of facts and arguments.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 520w
=JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL.=[2] Life and letters of Stopford Brooke. 2v il *$4.75 Scribner 17-27957
“The facts of Brooke’s life are probably well known. Born in 1832, the son of a poor but well-born Irish clergyman, he was ordained in 1857, was curate at Kensington from 1859 to 1863, took the lease of St James’s chapel in 1865, and left the Church of England in 1880.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “From the moment of his leaving the church Brooke became formally what he had temperamentally been for many years, an independent. ... He was a preacher and a teacher, a poet and a lecturer, and he was interested in science and art, painting being among the joys and recreations of his later years. He wrote many books in addition to the little volume by which he is best known [“A primer of English literature”]. ... Dr Jacks’ biography is throughout a near view of the man in all his aspects. The biographer married Brooke’s daughter and he draws freely upon the letters which in themselves represent clearly the progress of the great preacher’s intellectual life.” (Boston Transcript)
+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘18 1750w
“To give us a self-revelation of Stopford Brooke is what Dr Jacks strives to do and succeeds in doing. Although he knew his subject so intimately, he practices self-effacement except where the personal recollections and the personal touch are necessary to color and emphasize his story.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 12 ‘17 1500w
“Well worth reading because of its faithful depiction of a sweet, wholesome and beautiful nature expressing itself in manifold activities through a long and busy life.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 780w
“An adequate and appreciative account.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 30w
“Fascinating volumes.”
+ =Sat R= 124:464 D 8 ‘17 1650w
“This biography has one quality at least which makes it very unlike the usual biography. It has the quality of growth. It is the record of the things that change rather than of the things that happen. The result is a book not of revelations or confessions in the usual sense, but of spiritual development which carries the art of biography a step further in the most interesting direction now open to it—that of psychology.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p581 N 29 ‘17 2050w
=JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE (SNOW).= Silverheels. il *$1 (4½c) Doran 17-30276
Silverheels is a gray horse. His young master, Bob Hughes, is a waif who has run away from the brutal farmer who has mistreated him, taking Silverheels, his one possession, with him. Silverheels is a wonderfully intelligent horse, and it is he who helps Bob find a home with kind people who turn out to be the boy’s own relatives. The story was published in St Nicholas in 1916.
=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w
“A nice human story of a horse who is much better than some humans and a first-class hero for a story.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:384 O 7 ‘17 30w
“Although this book is not written for the very youngest readers, they will enjoy it as well as those a little older.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 100w
=JACKSON, J. WILFRID.= Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture. (Manchester univ. Ethnological ser.) il *$2 Longmans 572
This book consists of a report of the preliminary survey in the field of research suggested by the title. It is made up of a reprint of four papers, first published in the Proceedings of the Manchester literary and philosophical society. The first of the four on The geographical distribution of the shell-purple industry, is concerned with the utilization of shells in the manufacture of the famous dye, “Tyrian purple.” Subsequent chapters take up Shell-trumpets and their distribution in the old and new world; The geographical distribution of the use of pearls and pearl-shell; The use of cowry-shells for the purposes of currency, amulets and charms. Additional data that has come to light since the first printing of the papers is given in appendixes. In his introduction G. Elliot Smith, dean of the faculty of medicine in Manchester university, discusses the magic properties attributed to shells. The book is provided with index, maps and other illustrations.
“Professor Elliot Smith and his colleagues, Mr Jackson and Mr Perry, cannot be praised too highly for their method. Admiration for Professor Elliot Smith’s ingenuity must not blind us to the extremely hazardous character of his theoretical affiliations.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:530 D 29 ‘17 1400w
“Professor Elliot Smith agrees with the author in thinking that so laborious an industry as the preparation of this purple from shell-fish could not have been invented in more than one district, and that its occurrence in eastern Asia and America points to a migration from the Mediterranean. It is a plausible theory, but it is not proved.”
+ — =Spec= 119:301 S 22 ‘17 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 20 ‘17 140w
“If there is some lack of arrangement, if the trees, not to mention the shrubs, do obscure the view of the wood, if the index whenever appealed to affords no clue, still we cannot but admire the diligence and wide reading of the author.”
+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 O 18 ‘17 1650w
=JACKSON, MARGARET TALBOT.= Museum: a manual of the housing and care of art collections. il *$1.75 (3c) Longmans 708 17-14148
“The object of this little book is to put before those interested in the administration of collections the result of several years of study of the museums of Europe and America. It cannot claim the distinction of bringing new ideas to a field where so many men of genius have long been working; it can only hope to call attention to the results of the constant experiments being made by those already in the field.” (Preface) The list of museums visited, given in an appendix, shows how extensive have been the author’s studies. Contents: The situation of the museum building; The architectural plan; Preparation for the collections; The formation of collections; The preparation of objects for exhibition; Official questions. The seven illustrations have been chosen to fit the text. The volume is without an index.
=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“As a pioneer in its field this study of the museum is a noteworthy book.”
+ =Dial= 64:74 Ja 17 ‘18 280w
“Nothing would more make for the education of those public-spirited laymen who are our museum trustees than a careful perusal of this volume.”
+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 100w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17 30w
“Save for its unforgivable crime of having no index, her book is extraordinarily good.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 N 29 ‘17 420w
=JACKSON, ORTON PORTER, and EVANS, FRANK EDGAR.=[2] Marvel book of American ships. il *$2.50 Stokes 359 17-31922
An informing revelation of the secrets of big ship building. The reader is taken to the ship yards and gets an inside idea of how undersea fighters, superdreadnoughts, all around battle ships, destroyers, sea liners, and all sorts of lesser craft are built. There are accounts of dramatic sea happenings such as sea battles, gun firing and signaling, deep-sea diving and certain tragedies of the seas. Notable features of the book are its more than 400 illustrations from photographs, the chart of the flags used, the signal code and the chart of funnel types and company flags by which ships can be recognized at a distance.
+ =N Y Times= 23:25 Ja 20 ‘18 110w
“A reliable informational book.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 140w
=JACKSON, SIR THOMAS GRAHAM, 1st bart.= Holiday in Umbria. il *$3 (7c) Holt 914.5 (Eng ed 17-21517)
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, who is architecturally responsible for the restoration and addition of so many of the beautiful buildings of the great English universities and public schools, has here given us a second book of travel. It is “a book of historical, architectural, and literary interest, originating in two visits, in 1881 and 1888, to a part of Italy comparatively unfamiliar to British travellers. Ancona, Rimini, Gubbio, Urbino, Pesaro, and other places are described; there is a particularly detailed account of the ducal palace at Urbino; and many pages are devoted to extracts from ‘Il cortegiano’ (’The courtier’), by Count Baldassare Castiglione, ambassador from Duke Guidobaldo I to King Henry VII. These excerpts present a pleasing picture of life at the ducal court.” (Ath)
“The book is very readable, and the illustrations are good.”
+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 100w
“The author’s contribution to the literature of travel is a valuable one.”
+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 120w
“One of the chief sources of information concerning this history is Castiglione’s ‘Il cortegiano,’ and an abstract of this forms the longest and not the least interesting chapter in Sir Thomas’s book, which is made additionally attractive by reproductions of some of his own sketches and a few photographs.”
+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 190w
“The book is beautifully produced and illustrated.”
+ =Library World= 19:273 Ap ‘17 130w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w
“Books of travel appeal to two classes of people—those who have seen, and those who plan to see. This one will interest especially the first class.”
+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 50w
“Distinction and insight are the leading characteristics of Sir Thomas Jackson’s contributions to the literature of his art, and they are not lacking in this volume. ... In describing the humours of the road he selects exactly the right sort of experience to lay before his readers; but in the historical scaffolding he raises around the cities and structures he went to see he is less happy.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1050w
=JACKSON, WILLIAM WALROND.= Ingram Bywater. *$3 Oxford 17-28095
This memoir of the Oxford scholar, Ingram Bywater—the undergraduate with Walter Pater at Queen’s, the fellow of Exeter, the college tutor and reader in Greek, and finally the successor to the chair of regius professor of Greek left vacant by the death of Professor Jowett—is written by an intimate friend and fellow Oxonian, the former rector of Exeter college. “Incidentally Dr Jackson tells us all that needs to be told about Bywater’s personal circumstances and surroundings. But essentially the book is a well-balanced appreciation of Bywater’s aims and achievements as a Hellenist of the best and most catholic type.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A biography which will be read with attentive interest by all who have at heart the intrinsic value of the scholar’s life. ... There is something sound and stimulating in the fellowship of one who seems never to have suffered from the disease so rife to-day among university men—the feeling of despondency over the value of scholarship in and for itself and over the intrinsic dignity of the scholar’s life.”
+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
“Those who do read the book can be assured, for two hours, at least, of a perfect haven of rest. It is a happily short book. It has the kind of virtues one associates with a good common-room at Oxford, half-a-dozen flashing epigrams, some good anecdotes about the incomparable Mark Pattison, and the heavy mellowness of old college port above it all.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:278 O 6 ‘17 1550w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir is written in choice, good English, but seems a little formal. Here it may be characteristic of his subject.”
+ =Sat R= 123:482 My 26 ‘17 1000w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir reveals Professor Bywater as an attractive human being and illustrates the permanent value of his scholarship.”
+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 140w
“An admirable little monograph on one of the most learned and brilliant Hellenists that modern Oxford has produced. ... We cannot doubt that all who have known Oxford and its academical life during the later decades of the last century and the first decade of this will heartily welcome the book and read it with keen appreciation. Dr Jackson is singularly well qualified for the task he has undertaken. He has produced a masterpiece of its kind.”
* + + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1850w
=JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK.= Castaways. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-2478
Mr Jacobs’s new story takes place half on land and half on sea. He has adopted one of the seven, or is it eleven? original plots as a starting point. A modest and unpretentious bank clerk of quiet tastes inherits a fortune. The diversion from type is furnished by Mr Jack Knight, an irresponsible and audacious young person who is not averse to using Mr Carstairs’s good fortune to further his own ends. His ends happen to concern the niece of Lady Penrose. Mr Carstairs is induced to buy a country house in Lady Penrose’s neighborhood where Mr Knight can be a frequent guest. Later Mr Carstairs is induced to charter a yacht and take the whole party, including Lady Penrose and her niece, Mr Knight and his friends, for a cruise. A prearranged mutiny which takes an amusing and unexpected turn brings on the climax.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17
“His fun turns invariably either on practical joking or its verbal counterpart of repartee. Perhaps that is why he is, as I believe, almost exclusively a man’s author. ... It is all good fun for the reader who likes the Jacobs kind of thing.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:98 Mr ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:205 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 D 7 ‘16 450w
=JACOBY, HAROLD.=[2] Navigation. il *$2.25 Macmillan 527 17-28810
The author has aimed to make this a book complete in itself, “so that it should be possible to navigate a ship in any ocean not very near the north or south pole without other books or tabular works, excepting only the nautical almanac for the year in which the voyage is made.” No formal mathematical and astronomical knowledge has been assumed on the part of the reader. The author is professor of astronomy in Columbia university. Contents: The fundamental problem of navigation; Dead reckoning without logarithms; Dead reckoning with logarithms; The compass; Coastwise navigation; The sextant; The nautical almanac; Older navigation methods; Newer navigation methods; A navigator’s day at sea.
“Useful for those who must study without a teacher and convenient for the advanced student.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
“Nothing more in the way of books is required by young navigators, who, doubtless, will welcome it as warmly as it deserves.”
+ =Nation= 105:670 D 13 ‘17 250w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 40w
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
=JAFFRAY, JULIA KIPPEN=, ed. Prison and the prisoner. il *$2.50 (6c) Little 365 17-31780
This symposium, to which fourteen specialists contribute, is edited by the secretary of the National committee on prisons and prison labor. In the discussions the point of view of the lawyer, the doctor, the psychiatrist, the social worker, the educator and the prison official is expressed, each contributing something to the new ideals of prison reform. Contents: The prisoner and the courts, by William H. Wadhams; The prisoner himself, by Bernard H. Glueck and Thomas W. Salmon; The prisoner—ward or slave? by Karl W. Kirchwey; The control over the prisoner, by George Gordon Battle and E. Stagg Whitin; Self-government by the prisoner, by Thomas Mott Osborne and E. Kent Hubbard; The prison officer, by Frederick A. Dorner; Industrial training for the prisoner, by Arthur D. Dean; The prisoner in the road camp, by Charles Henry Davis; The union man and the prisoner, by Collis Lovely; The man who comes out of prison, by R. J. Caldwell; The community center and the delinquent, by John Collier.
“The joint authors of the book place the emphasis rightly ‘not on the place from which the man has come but on that to which he is going.’” R M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 12 ‘17 670w
“A valuable and inspiring, if somewhat formless, work by a dozen authors with more or less expert knowledge as to our prisons.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 70w
“A more satisfactory book would have been produced if fewer writers had collaborated, those being left out who either have little to say or who haven’t stuck to their text.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 10 ‘18 470w
“The book obviously aims to meet with specific suggestions, in some instances with programs even, some of the pressing tasks set society by the man in prison. With a few striking successes it scores several dismal failures.” W. D. Lane
– + =Survey= 39:369 D 29 ‘17 800w
=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Arizona, the wonderland. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 979.1 17-29202
“The scope of the present work is set forth on the title page as follows: ‘The history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker.’ Fortunately the pages are large, so the above subtitle leaves also space for the announcement of a map and sixty plates of which twelve are in color.”—Springf’d Republican
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18
“A volume valuable as a record, as well as attractive to those in search of timely gift-books.” A. A. R.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 800w
“Too bulky for a guide book, too discursive for quick reference, the work nevertheless, makes pleasant and often informative reading.”
+ =Dial= 63:644 D 20 ‘17 350w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w
+ =Outlook= 117:518 N 28 ‘17 50w
“His style is so easy that the uninitiated will imagine that the book could almost write itself. But there is a vast amount of research behind this orderly parade of friars and cowboys, Indians and explorers and politicians.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 11 ‘17 520w
=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= Reclaiming the arid West. il *$3.50 (3½c) Dodd 631 17-31554
The author has written of the work of the United States reclamation service from the standpoint of the layman and homeseeker. In the early chapters he describes the work of the “army of peace,” which within the past twenty-five years has been carrying out the great plans conceived by Major John Wesley Powell. In the chapters that follow he takes up the projects, one at a time, tells something of the difficulties encountered, the engineering skill that surmounted them, and of the resulting opportunities offered to settlers. The story of the text is supplemented by very excellent photographic illustrations.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
=JAMES, HENRY.= Ivory tower. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-29022
Had it been finished, this work would have added one more to the author’s list of international novels. Graham Fielder is brought fresh from a European background to Newport, to be made the inheritor of his uncle’s millions. The story as it progressed was to have concerned itself with the young man’s reactions to the situation and to his new American environment. As it now stands the fragment has a claim to completeness in its unforgettable picture of the two old men, Mr Gaw and Mr Betterman, business rivals and enemies, each waiting for the death of the other. Appended to the three completed parts of the novel are the notes in which the author had amplified the idea of the book as it first took possession of him.
=Ath= p527 O ‘17 300w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:690 F ‘18 430w
“The texture of this story gives me the impression of a firmer and more precious weaving than in any of the novels of the master. The book is a fragment as it stands, but a glorious fragment.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 31 ‘17 1300w
“Artistically, the book reaches the high water mark of James’ genius.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 90w
“‘The ivory tower,’ if a great thing, is great in the smallest ways associable with its author. The story probes shrewdly into some aspects of our American social scene. But it belongs among such late and relatively little things as ‘The outcry’ and ‘The sacred fount,’ without the beguiling farce of the one or the uniquely confessional purpose of the other.” Wilson Follett
– + =Dial= 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w
“Not since 1909, when Ibsen’s preliminary studies made their appearance, has any book thrown such interesting light on the literary process.” Q. K.
+ =New Repub= 13:119 D 1 ‘17 1500w
“In the vast world tragedy this story must have seemed to its author trivial; and trivial it is, whether it seemed so to him or not. The style is full of unusual difficulties, even when compared with most of its author’s later works. Real characters there are, too—I have never seen a better presentation of that modern figure, known only too well in modern affluent homes, the trained nurse; but, on the whole, the failure to finish this story cannot be regarded as a literary disaster.” W: L. Phelps
– + =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w
“Yet it is worth while to persevere with Henry James’s tortuous sentences, clinched so often with a touch of slang as if the literary language had in the end failed him, for they build up, little by little, strange modern characters such as one does not find elsewhere in fiction.”
+ — =Spec= 119:299 S 22 ‘17 600w
“Impressive and interesting as are these posthumous fragments, their interest is immensely enhanced by the plans or schemes for their completion. They are things quite unique in literature, intimate glimpses into what Henry James has elsewhere called ‘the closed chamber of an artist’s meditations.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Middle years. *$1.25 Scribner 17-31066
“With this small volume, which brings us down to about the year 1870, the memories of Henry James break off. It is more fitting to say that they break off than that they come to an end, for although we are aware that we shall hear his voice no more, there is no hint of exhaustion or of leave-taking. ... We recognize, if not directly then by hearsay, the old world of London life which he brings out of the shades and sets tenderly and solidly before us as if his last gift were the most perfect and precious of the treasures hoarded in ‘the scented chest of our savings.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The volume is the third of Henry James’s reminiscences, following “A small boy and others,” 1913, and “Notes of a son and brother,” 1914.
“Unfortunately a mere fragment. Comprised in its pages, however, are some interesting recollections of George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and a few others, as well as memory-impressions of the London of mid-Victorian days.”
+ =Ath= p682 ‘17 50w
“I am glad it has been published, there are things in it one would on no account have missed, portraits in different scales of Swinburne, Renan, Browning, Lewes, George Eliot, Tennyson, Mrs Greville, Lady Waterford. But it makes me feel that Henry James took with him to England, as a young man of twenty-five, a state of mind which would have been forgivable if it had been temporary, and which lasted forever after.” P. L.
– + =New Repub= 13:254 D 29 ‘17 1400w
“Henry James is not at his best in the fragment called ‘The middle years.’ These few chapters were dictated in the autumn of 1914, when he was thinking of something else—the war. We ought to remember that they were never revised by the author, and that he dictated without notes. The book is a model of the publishers’ art, in its clear type, its dull paper, and its exquisite lightness.” W: L. Phelps
+ — =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w
=Outlook= 117:652 D 19 ‘17 70w
“A series of impressions or memories, which must have been a torture to write, as they seem to be dug out of the novelist’s memory by exquisite toil. ... We are far from saying that these impressions of a distinguished novelist are not worth giving to the world. But we think that they might have been conveyed in a simpler, more vivacious, and shorter form.”
– + =Sat R= 124:396 N 17 ‘17 210w
“It contains little or none of the personal gossip ordinarily to be found in books of reminiscences, but there are, instead, some unforgettable impressions of mid-Victorian worthies. ... Our only complaint against this ultimate fragment of his work is a complaint against the inevitabilities—that he did not live long enough to complete it.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup548 N 17 ‘17 880w
“He comes to his task with an indescribable air of one so charged and laden with precious stuff that he hardly knows how to divest himself of it all—where to find space to set down this and that, how to resist altogether the claims of some other gleaming object in the background; appearing so busy, so unwieldy with ponderous treasure that his dexterity in disposing of it, his consummate knowledge of how best to place each fragment, afford us the greatest delight that literature has had to offer for many a year. And this book of memories sounds to us like a superb act of thanksgiving.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 O 18 ‘17 3700w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Pictures and other passages from Henry James; comp. by Ruth Head. *$1 Stokes 813
“Henry James himself set the seal of his approval on Miss Head’s proposed plan of making an anthology from his writings, but did not live to see the completed work. It is divided into five chapters with sections under the headings: The seasons, Nationality, America, France and Paris, Switzerland, Italy, London, Country England, Country houses, Gardens and parks, The world of art, Interiors; Men, women, and their rooms, Passions; Portraits of women, character, feminine; Portraits of men, character, male; Moralities and aphorisms, Similes and metaphors.”—Boston Transcript
“The style of Henry James, building up complex impressions by minute sensitive touches, is more pictorial and more epigrammatic than one realizes until one has his portraits and pictures separated and individualized in such an anthology as this. ... The editor might with advantage have arranged his extracts chronologically, at least within the subsections.”
+ — =Ath= p542 N ‘16 100w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 1 ‘17 140w
=Pratt= p34 O ‘17
“Those who want to appreciate Henry James should read his books—there is no other way of appreciating an artist.”
– + =Sat R= 122:304 S 23 ‘16 310w
“This method of extracting representative passages and grouping them under headings enables the reader to appreciate at once the range and the limitations of Henry James’s genius. He is least happy when dealing with the primitive—the seasons, the passions, the countryside—and is seen at his best when writing of men and women, and the civilization they have made.”
+ =Spec= 117:554 N 4 ‘16 600w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Sense of the past. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 17-28794
One of two novels that remained incomplete at the death of the writer. The other is “The ivory tower.” The central character is a young American who, from the English branch of the family, inherits an old London house. He goes to England, seeks out his new possession, and shuts himself away from the world for a night while he wanders from room to room, yielding to the spell of the past that is cast about him. He sees himself in an old portrait of 1820. A compelling sense of the past slips him out of the year 1910 back into 1820. Comfortably at first, and then uneasily he reacts to the people and conditions of the world into which he is projected. He experiences the thrills and embarrassments of two successive love affairs. The story breaks off at the end of the first. But some seventy pages of notes reveal the plan of the writer, his deft scheme for extricating his hero and bringing him back to 1910 and to Aurora Coyne who sent this lover of hers from her for the sake of his development; who grows impatient at the time it takes and hurries to London to find out the cause.
=Ath= p527 O ‘17 130w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:690 F ‘18 190w
“One inevitably thinks of ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ and the dream life there so exquisitely portrayed, in reading ‘The sense of the past.’ In a sense, too, the story of Ralph Pendrel’s experience is a dream one, though Henry James has touched it with innumerable hints and suggestions of forces deeper and more measurable scientifically though more elusive.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 31 ‘17 1500w
“An exquisite fragment of a novel in James’ most matured style.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 70w
“It alters the shape, pushes out the bounds, of the whole Henry James world, adds a substantial figure to the sum of imaginings, achievements, beauties, perfections. ‘The sense of the past’ promised all the rich, full orchestral resonance of novels such as ‘The ambassadors’ and ‘The wings of the dove’; yet, in its entire dissimilarity from anything else that even James could have written, it is as isolated and self-sufficing as ‘The great good place’ or ‘The Madonna of the future’ or ‘The turn of the screw.’” Wilson Follett
+ + =Dial= 63:579 D 6 ‘17 1000w
“‘The sense of the past’ is undoubtedly a work of genius; the old inspiration came back abundantly for the swan song. The English style of ‘The sense of the past’ is a glory in itself, like a mediaeval bit of architecture; the result of quiet, leisurely, devoted, loving industry, founded on genius. Fragment though it be, it is an imperishable addition to the work of one of the great masters of English fiction.” W: L. Phelps
+ + =N Y Times= 22:537 D 9 ‘17 650w
=Sat R= 124:sup5 S 29 ‘17 1650w
“We can gather from the notes how Henry James wanted to complete it, but as the transition from 1910 to 1820 is not very satisfactorily contrived, we question whether the bringing back of the hero to his own time could have been an artistic success.”
+ — =Spec= 119:299 S 22 ‘17 600w
“How this passion is adumbrated and suggested, how it grows and glows to a brightness of almost insane intensity, is sufficiently given to us in this fragment to make us sadly aware of our loss of a complete masterpiece. It would surely have been, we feel, the greatest of ghost stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 S 6 ‘17 1000w
=JAMES, HERMAN GERLACH.= Municipal functions. (National municipal league ser.) *$2 (2c) Appleton 352 17-10893
“Municipal advance in a democracy can be achieved in only one way, namely, by the realization on the part of the citizenship of what should be the ideal of municipal government,” says the author. His book is addressed, not to city administrators, but to citizens. His purpose is to give “a simple but comprehensive survey of the whole field of municipal endeavor.” This is done in chapters on: The growth of municipal functions; Public safety; Public health; Public education; Public morals; Social welfare; City planning; Public works; Public utilities; Municipal ownership; Municipal finances—revenues; Municipal finances—debts, budget and accounting. The author is associate professor of government and director of the Bureau of municipal research at the University of Texas.
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“It is popular in style, practical in aim but scientific in method, and will give the general reader an excellent perspective of the modern problems of city government. Among the most important chapters are two entitled ‘Public morals’ and ‘Social welfare.’ As regards the saloon and liquor problem, he comes to the rather regrettable conclusion that this issue should be decided locally.”
+ =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w
“In one respect this work differs from most books of its class. The author approaches the discussion from the standpoint of the smaller community rather than the metropolis.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:322 S ‘17 10w
“Though perhaps not directly intended as a text-book, it has the special values of being fundamental and clear, so much required and so seldom found in text-books. For the beginner who would acquire the point of view of the municipal statesman there is probably nothing better. There is one disappointment in the book. The reader is left with the impression that the housing problem cannot be solved.” E: T. Hartman
+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 270w
=JAMES, WILLIAM.= On vital reserves. *50c (4c) Holt 131
A little volume containing two of the essays of William James, one reprinted from “Memories and studies,” one from “Talks to teachers on psychology.” The first, “The energies of men,” is a study of “the phenomena of second wind.” The second, “The gospel of relaxation,” is based on the Lange-James theory of the emotions, which sometimes expresses itself popularly in the statement that we are afraid because we run. We are a tense, nervous and over-strained people, argued Professor James, because by habit we assume attitudes of tensity. Our mental state is the result of our habit of life, not vice versa.
“The practical side of the Professor James’ books has always given them a wider public than is usually supposed to belong to the philosophical or psychological writer. In the two essays of this book he sums up the best ways in which young men and women—all men and women in fact—may realize their powers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 230w
“Both statements are models of expression. They deserve the wider circulation which, in this form, they promise to attain.”
+ =Dial= 62:406 My 3 ‘17 110w
+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:771 N ‘17 40w
“The gift of making psychology read like an adventure story came to William James as to few, if any others. His gingery essays ‘On vital reserves’ are therefore well worth the while of the Henry Holt company in re-publishing.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 27 ‘17 200w
=JAMISON, EVELYN MARY, and others.= Italy, mediaeval and modern; a history. (Histories of the belligerents ser.) *$2.90 (2c) Oxford 945 17-19811
The present volume, covering the period from the barbarian invasions to 1915, has been written to supply the need for a general sketch of Italian history which should serve as an introduction to more detailed studies. The authors “have devoted considerable space to political and ecclesiastical history ... have called attention to the more remarkable achievements of the Italian spirit in the fields of art and philosophy and science, and the historical conditions which made these achievements possible, [and] finally, have traced, so far as it is possible to do so in a textbook, the working of those instincts ... which from age to age promoted or retarded the cause of national unity.” (Preface) Appended are an eight-page bibliography, tables of genealogies, and a list of the popes.
“The appended lists of books, and other subsidiary matter, will be of great service to students; and the volume is well provided with maps. The index might with advantage have been fuller.”
+ — =Ath= p366 Jl ‘17 80w
“Of the quartet of authors to whom we are indebted for this rather uninspired but extremely learned, sound, and valuable history of Italy, the last-named, Professor Terry of Aberdeen university, is the best known. ... There should certainly have been a chapter or a section to deal with literature since Goldoni, with music since Palestrina, with sculpture since Canova, with the novel since Boccaccio. ... The book answers the question, Why Italy entered the war. The authors are true philosophers of motives.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 820w
“In Italy, more perhaps than in any other European country, the national history is interwoven with that of the church, and cannot be fairly presented unless church history receives its meed of studious attention and just judgment. These the authors of the present work have not seen fit to give it. Hence, while the work may have its partial uses as a reference book, it cannot be recommended as accurate, authoritative or comprehensive.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:267 N ‘17 160w
“It may be doubted, however, whether they are correct in the reasons which they tentatively assign for the Libyan war; their bibliography of this period is not up to date; and no adequate attempt is made to fill the greatest blank in Italian history—that since 1870.” W. M.
+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:616 O ‘17 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 50w
“A clear outline of the subject. ... Each period has been treated by its author with full knowledge, and with a sympathy that secures the interest of the reader. ... The story of the foundation of the kingdom apparently written by Professor Sanford Terry, is a brilliant piece of work.”
* + + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 My 31 ‘17 1600w
=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russian poets and poems. 2v v 1 *$3.50 Longmans 891.7 17-27782
This volume, to which Dr Jane Harrison of Newnham college contributes the preface, is by the author of “The Russians and their language.” “Madame Jarintzov first discusses the subject of Russian versification; and she compares the poverty of what she calls the ‘small squirrel’s wheel’ of English rhymes with the wealth of rhyming words in Russian. Many convincing examples are given in the introduction. For the most part biographically, but to some extent critically, the author then deals with the Russian poets I. A. Krylov, V. A. Jukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, A. V. Koltzov, M. Y. Lermontov, F. L. Tutchev, Alexei Tolstoy, N. Nekrasov, and A. A. Fet. Of their works Madame Jarintzov furnishes numerous examples, translated by herself; and in her renderings she, as a Russian, has endeavoured to carry over into English the Russian spirit, and, as far as possible, the Russian manner.” (Ath) “In a second volume it is intended to treat the modern poets in the same manner.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 140w
“A fairly good biographical and critical essay on Nekrassov will be found in Mme N. Jarintzov’s ‘Russian poets and poems.’ In spite of her theory, which we cannot take seriously, Mme Jarintzov succeeds in producing some good translations. Nevertheless, her experiment in rendering Russian poetry, ‘along new lines’ can hardly be considered successful.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
– + =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 320w
“These poets, Pushkin and Lermontov excepted, are almost unknown to the average English reader. ... Upon the difficulty of rendering the spirit and the rhythm of Russian verse in English Madame Jarintzov writes with feeling and eloquence as one who has herself attempted the impossible. Yet in a high degree she has attained to it. ... Her work forms a valuable link between two great literatures.”
* + – =Sat R= 124:88 Ag 4 ‘17 1800w
“We can bear witness to the accuracy of such of the versions as we have compared with the originals, and the Russian metres are reproduced with really astonishing success. Unfortunately we must add that the English reader knowing no Russian will too often be impressed by the queer un-English turns of phrase rather than by the poetic merit of the selected pieces.”
+ — =Spec= 119:331 S 29 ‘17 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Jl 19 ‘17 380w
“These poets use the same metres as we do, with some remarkable and pervading differences. To many Russians, even when they know our language well, English poetry does not seem to be poetry at all, because they miss the double rhymes. ... A second difference is the Russian avoidance of equivalent feet. ... Mme Jarintzov thinks it of capital importance to reproduce these peculiarities of her originals—the double rhymes and the exact syllabic correspondence. ... But she goes much farther than this; she attacks the established theory of translation.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Ag 2 ‘17 1850w
=JARINTZOV, NADINE.= Russians and their language; with a preface by Nevill Forbes. *$2.50 (6c) Kennerley 491.7 (Eng ed 17-10234)
The author is a Russian woman who has lived in England and who writes in English. It is her belief that much of the bewilderment experienced by the English reader on first attempting to read Russian literature in translation is due to differences in language. In her introduction she discusses some of the problems of pronunciation and transliteration. The remainder of the work represents an attempt “to show the national character of the Russians as reflected in their language.”
“Every time Madame Zharintsova publishes a book, she has a new way of spelling her own name. ... For the student of Russian there is much that is suggestive in this book. All the words used are given in an appendix in Russian with the proper accent. For those that love Russia there is much that is interpretive in her dispositions on slang and diminutive and word-play.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 800w
“A good deal in this book will doubtless mean little to one who knows nothing of the language; however, anyone interested in Russia may glean therein much of interest on its life, literature and psychology.”
+ — =Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 110w
“Books by amateurs in any subject are not likely to be marked by accuracy, proportion, or solid judgment, but they often express points of view and shrewd comments on details for which specialists may be grateful. All this is true of ‘The Russians and their language.’ The writer has no knowledge of phonetics, so that her chatter about Russian pronunciation and transliteration is of the sort that darkens counsel.”
– + =Nation= 105:265 S 6 ‘17 310w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:71 My ‘17
“One very interesting feature of this little study is the interpretation of Russian literature from an accurately balanced Russian standpoint. Readers who have taken the younger authors overseriously as typically Russian will be surprised to learn that an average Russian after speaking about them feels inclined to take a deep breath of fresh air.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 550w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:536 Je ‘17 60w
“The intelligent student of Russian will be fascinated by this clever book—the work of a Russian lady who knows English extremely well, and is therefore able to interpret with quite exceptional fidelity the character of the Russian language. ... Mme Jarintzov’s comments on the great authors are most illuminating, though all too brief, and her hints on pronunciation are invaluable.”
+ =Spec= 117:479 O 21 ‘16 160w
“There is a section on pronunciation and transliteration, but we do not think (and here Mr Nevill Forbes, who supplies a preface, seems to agree with us) that much light is thrown on either of these dark regions. Russian sounds can be learnt only from the living voice. ... The merits of the book, which are great, lie elsewhere. ... The author takes a large number of linguistic facts, and shows from them that the Russian language is a true reflection of the Russian character.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p414 Ag 31 ‘16 900w
=JASPER, MME.= Flemish system of poultry rearing. il *$1.50 Scribner 636.5
“The Belgian poultry-rearing industry has attained great dimensions; and in this volume Mme Jasper (who possessed at Tongres a large establishment for the breeding and management of poultry for table use) describes wherein Flemish methods excel those customary in England. The distinctive feature of the Flemish system is that the birds are sheltered from cold and damp, provided with plenty of air without any draught, kept in a mild and carefully regulated temperature, and put to sleep in a clean and spacious brooder.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p429 S ‘16 200w
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 117:417 O 7 ‘16 400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 D 14 ‘16 900w
=JASTROW, MORRIS.=[2] War and the Bagdad railway. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott 940.91 18-1122
A timely presentation of one of the most important single factors contributing to the present war. Because the full import of the railroad venture is made clear in the light of the history of Asia Minor, the author traces that history and its relation to the civilization of antiquity thru the period of Greek, Roman, Parthian and Arabic control down to the conquest by the Ottoman Turks. Then he proceeds with the story of the railroad thru which he follows the growth of hostile rivalry among European nations terminating in the great war. Step by step the writer follows the change in the project from a commercial scheme to a political one in which Germany ambitiously aims to get the mastery of the East. The solution offered is to throw open the road to the East but urges that its control be neither German nor British but international.
“Of all the books that have come to our notice, works dealing primarily with the problem of Bagdad, Professor Morris Jastrow’s ‘The war and the Bagdad railway’ with its illustrative map, is unquestionably the best.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 930w
+ =Lit D= 56:36 F 9 ‘18 1350w
“Professor Jastrow is hard to match for brevity and clearness, although he adds little that is new to the discussion of the present problem.” A. J.
+ — =New Repub= 13:257 D 29 ‘17 1000w
“Not from the patriots with their hands over their ears, nor from the pacifists with their hands over their eyes, but from such accurate thinkers as Dr Jastrow do we make the first patient beginnings in the unsnarling of the war problem. It is not easy these days to write as a student of history and not as a partisan, but it would be difficult to doubt the justice of Dr Jastrow’s claim to this position.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 93:215 Ja 19 ‘18 550w
“Professor Jastrow is a high authority in the field of Semitic languages. ... His studies of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia have been extended to an accurate knowledge of the present peoples and conditions. He has thus been able to give us a remarkable valuable account of the recent rivalries of the great European powers in Asiatic Turkey, and in his newest book he tells the story of the Bagdad railway more instructively for American readers than any other writer has yet done.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 170w
=JATAKAS.= Jataka tales; selected and ed., with introd. and notes, by H: T: Francis and E: J. Thomas. il *$2.50 (1½c) Putnam 398.3 (Eng ed 17-18045)
“Jataka tales” are Hindu folktales. They are commonly referred to as “Buddhist birth-stories,” but Mr Thomas in the introduction points out that their origin is pre-buddhistic. This introduction considers also the relation of the tales of those of Aesop. The aim of the editors has been to bring together the stories “of most interest, both intrinsically, and also from the point of view of the folklorist.” The translations are taken from the complete edition translated under the editorship of Prof. E. B. Cowell, Cambridge, 1895-1907.
“The Jataka stories included in the present collection exhibit many features of interest to the student of folk-lore; and at the same time the English renderings run so smoothly that readers who seek merely entertainment will find plenty of it here.”
+ =Ath= p95 F ‘17 150w
“From one point of view their work is of an encyclopædic character, from another it is thoroughly human composition. They have retold stories of the world’s childhood in such vigorous prose that the children upon whom the ends of the world are come will read with avidity what they have written.” Bishop Frodsham
+ =Sat R= 123:sup5 My 19 ‘17 520w
“Type and page are of excellent size, the editing is entirely trustworthy, and the illustrations are taken from the representations of the Jataka tales carved on the Stupa of Bharhut, discovered by Sir A. Cunningham in 1873 and dating from 250-200 B.C. ... To this day there is no book so beloved by humble eastern folk as this book. There is a mighty, enthusiastic audience for the recital of it at this very present in Ceylon. For us of the West it gives us glimpses of the permanent life of the people such as is seldom afforded us in other Indian literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1900w
=JEFFERSON, CHARLES EDWARD.= Land of enough; a Christmas story. *50c (9c) Crowell 17-24813
The moral lesson of this little book is effective because it is presented with a saving touch of humor that removes it from the “Sunday-school” type of story. Max and Madge never had enough of anything. Max always wanted more time to play, more time to sleep, more of something to eat. Madge wanted more clothes and more of a dozen other things that girls of seventeen do want. And it was quite in vain that her mother compared Madge’s wardrobe with her own when she was a girl, for, as the author says, “there are comparisons which are odious, and this is one of them.” And then suddenly the “Land of enough” is really achieved, and is found to be a quite barren country.
“An effective sermon on the Christmas spirit.”
+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 170w
+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 20w
=JEKYLL, GERTRUDE.= Annuals and biennials; with cultural notes by E. H. Jenkins. il *$3 Scribner 716 17-15076
“This addition to Miss Jekyll’s garden books, always acceptable to the aesthetic gardener, consists on pp. 57-156 of an alphabetical list, with description of culture, of the best annuals and biennials; following introductory chapters on various sides of the subject, including one by Mr Jenkins on ‘Raising annuals in green-house or frame.’ At the end is a chart of colour and height and a list of selections for various purposes and aspects. The book is fully illustrated by full-page photographs and some coloured plates.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 70w
+ =Spec= 118:49 Ja 13 ‘17 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 D 14 ‘16 90w
=JENKINS, BURRIS ATKINS.= Man in the street and religion. *$1.25 Revell 17-11447
“A stimulating and virile book by the chaplain of a regiment in the Missouri militia, who is also pastor of a church of 2000 members in Kansas City, and a keen sportsman. He believes everybody of all conditions and classes is religious, and he makes a series of appeals to this unconscious faith.”—Springf’d Republican
“An exceptionally readable and suggestive demonstration of the proposition that everyone is religious at heart, coupled with a delineation of the kind of Christianity which will appeal to the average man.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 70w
“The book is brightly written, and abounds in anecdote and quotation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 130w
=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Bindle; the story of a cheerful soul. *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 16-22980
Joseph Bindle is a furniture-mover by profession, a calling which is “fraught with many vicissitudes and hardships.” Of Bindle himself, we are told: “Two things in life he loved above all others, beer and humor (or, as he called it, his ‘little joke’); yet he permitted neither to interfere with the day’s work, save under very exceptional circumstances.” Of Mrs Bindle, her husband says, “She thinks too much o’ soap an’ ‘er soul to make an ‘owlin’ success o’ marriage.” The story consists of a series of episodes from the life of Bindle. Herbert Jenkins, the author, is the British publisher of that name.
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
+ =Ath= p480 O ‘16 120w
“Those who like Charlie Chaplin—and his popularity must have a very genuine foundation—will thoroughly appreciate Bindle. There is nothing illusive, nothing subtle, about his style of humor. It is as general in its appeal as was the earlier work of Mark Twain, and it possesses something of the same quality of humanness.”
=Bellman= 22:441 Ap 21 ‘17 230w
“The humor of the book is slap-stick comedy and sometimes it is too obviously planned, but parts of it are entertaining.”
=Ind= 90:299 My 12 ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 350w
=Sat R= 122:395 O 21 ‘16 150w
“For the most part very good fun.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 21 ‘16 300w
=JENKINS, HERBERT GEORGE.=[2] Night club. *5s Herbert Jenkins, London
“Bindle, ‘J. B.’ to his friends, was responsible for dignifying as The night club the weekly gatherings of several totally unlike men who had formed a habit of meeting in the flat of one of their number for a smoke, a drink and a yarn. ... A story being the principal business of the evenings, the author has ingeniously woven those that were told into a humorous account of several adventures of the members, their families and friends. ... The actors include principally, first and foremost Bindle; his wife and her brother, both afflicted with a peculiar sort of religion; Angell Herald, the publicity agent who dreamed that he had been asked by the prime minister to be minister of publicity; ‘The boy,’ who had won his D.S.O. early in the war, but who didn’t like to hear about it; Gimp, the actor, whose story was surprisingly better than he or his acting; the old general who considered it a privilege to talk to the men of the new army; and Miss Sallie, who did what the whole German navy had failed to do—tricked the British navy.”—Boston Transcript
“Bindle is the central figure, though he does not give his name to the book, and his genial shrewdness and candour win our appreciation as they did that of the very varied membership of the club.”
+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w
“The present volume is happily conceived in that it may be taken up and enjoyed in spare moments or read through at one sitting; in either case the reader will be filled with a sense of the warmth of its geniality and wit.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 5 ‘18 450w
“A large percentage of readers will close this volume with a sincere wish that they, too, might become members of ‘The night club.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:565 D 16 ‘17 500w
“The stories should amuse a larger circle; for they are unfailingly lively and show much fertility of idea.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 N 8 ‘17 100w
=JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.=[2] Trust problem; 4th ed., enl. and completely rev., with the collaboration of Walter E. Clark, diags *$2 (1c) Doubleday 338.8 17-28340
This so-called “Bible on industrial combinations,” by the director of the division of public affairs, New York university, becomes practically a new book in its fourth edition. “Some new chapters have been added. Chapter 1 on the Evolution of business, the very large additions made to Chapter 9 on Prices, Chapter 10 on Trusts and the working man, with the new facts that they contain, aid materially in the discussion of the economic principles involved. Chapter 12 on Industrial combinations in Europe gives us a basis of wide experience. The new chapters on State and federal trust legislation in the United States, and the one on Trusts and the federal court, showing the development of legislation during the last few years, likewise serve to strengthen the economic foundation of the discussions, since the course of legislation has, to a considerable degree, clearly been based upon the principles brought out in the theoretical discussions.” (Preface to fourth edition)
“In our judgment, no other single volume on the subject of industrial combinations, their development, structure, and problems, equals this one for compact information, breadth of view, and the variety of facts presented. The book bears evidence of careful planning and patient work, and is suggestive of the systematic and exhaustive work with which German scholars are credited.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 260w
+ =R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 70w
=JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA.= Street of the blank wall, and other stories (Eng title, Malvina of Brittany). *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 16-23590
The first story in this collection of six is a tale of mystery in which the real truth about a murder is brought to light fifteen years after its commitment. The second story “Malvina of Brittany,” the longest story in the book is also the lightest. Malvina is a fay or pixie transported from the pages of old English romance to modern Britain. Each of the four that follow, His evening out, The lesson, Sylvia of the letters, The fawn gloves, represents a different type of short story.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17
“Altogether, it is not a particularly rewarding volume.” F. I.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 Ap 14 ‘17 480w
“Mr Jerome writes with sincerity, with feeling for reality, with some insight into the deeper possibilities of life, with a feeling for what is lovely as well as of good report. And that sort of thing is in itself good, better, I should say, than a striving for virility.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:190 Mr 8 ‘17 250w
+ =N Y Times= 22:40 F 4 ‘17 550w
“The stories doubtless have been written at wide intervals and add little to Mr Jerome’s reputation.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 100w
“Most of these stories are written at greater length than is necessary, and part of what is superfluous is also irrelevant; we should infer, indeed, that Mr Jerome is too preoccupied with edification to take much thought for form. No such criticism, however, is applicable to ‘The fawn gloves.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 450w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Secret bread. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-20670
“The story tells how a bastard was elevated above his legitimate brethren, and surmounted his difficulties by the help of a fine-minded pastor; and in addition we have most graphic and intimate studies of [English] farming and the improvements that a progressive landowner introduces.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The abiding impression left by the book as a whole is of a large and sympathetic interpretation of human experience, though set in a minor key.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:486 D ‘17 600w
“‘Secret bread’ is a narrative at heart starkly chill. As a whole, it is undubitably powerful, with many pages of prose of the first rank.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 D 19 ‘17 330w
“It gratefully lacks the famous brilliancy of the ‘younger British school’ of novelists. It has solidity, not only in its portraiture, but in its embodiment of a truth, or, if you will, a moral, as contrasted with the expression of an ‘idea’ in the Wellsian sense. This is a book of rich texture, both in form and in substance.”
+ =Nation= 105:515 N 8 ‘17 580w
“The story is written with a wealth of detail and a great number and variety of characters. All the people in it, notwithstanding their strongly marked differences of social position and mental endowment are delineated with subtility and truth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 550w
“The author shows great sympathy for the very young and the old. ... A little reserve of force would have been more telling than the almost camera-like detail in which she prefers to indulge—detail that is sometimes wearying, and often coarse and offensive.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 300w
“The book is very generously planned, like the English novels of an earlier day. And now and then we find Miss Jesse straying a little too widely from her main theme.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p272 Je 7 ‘17 670w
=JOHNS, CECIL STARR.= With gold and steel. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-28765
A romance of France in the time of Henry of Navarre. The hero is François Le Pouldu who comes to Henry with a tale of treasure that he is ready to devote to the king’s service. On a lonely coast he has come upon a wrecked Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and arms. The king furnishes the outfit necessary for salvaging the cargo and François starts on his adventures. Denise de Marmont, sister of one of Henry’s enemies, early enters the tale to give it the required feminine element.
“We congratulate Mr Johns on his ability to get out of the beaten track of the average novel of sword and cloak into the field of fresh plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 14 ‘17 210w
“Those who like stirring, old-fashioned historical romance, served with something of the dignity and leisurely manner of the Stanley Weyman novels, will enjoy this story by Mr Johns. ... The characters all do a great deal of talking, but it is conversation that helps to carry on the story, which it does with brightness, vivacity, and humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:571 D 23 ‘17 330w
=JOHNS, ORRICK G.= Asphalt, and other poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811 17-13553
Mr Johns’s poem “Second avenue,” which was awarded a prize in a poetry contest a few years ago, is included in this collection of poems. The book takes its title from the group of street ballads with which it opens. The remaining groups that compose its contents are: Country rhymes; The city; Old youth; Three women; Ebb sand and stars.
“Nothing could afford a better illustration of the fact that poetry which addresses itself to current issues or social conditions will grow passé, like a last year’s garment, than the lack of interest which one feels now in a poem like ‘Second avenue.’ The same criticism applies to the opening section of ‘Asphalt,’ to the street ballads, in gutter dialect, through which Mr Johns hits off social conditions. ‘Country rhymes,’ whose title must not mislead one into thinking they are rustic verses, take one captive from the start. They are full of charm and whimsicality, but something much deeper is in them, too. ‘Asphalt’ demonstrates the fact that Mr Johns has versatility and a poetic gift of no common order.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ — =Bookm= 46:578 Ja ‘18 750w
“One could wish that he had omitted the dialect poems at the beginning of his book, but in reading many of the lyrics which compose the rest one experiences little but delight. Not only has Mr Johns a very seductive gift of melody, but at times he has what is rare among contemporary American poets, charm,—which is only one degree removed from magic.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 62:476 My 31 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17
“On the whole, ‘Country rhymes,’ and the section called ‘Old youth,’ contain the best poetry of the book, the other portions seeming to us not so much absolute achievement as clever experiment or good promise.”
=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 150w
“Has melodic freshness and contains much essential poesy.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 80w
“Orrick Johns reveals himself as a young poet of considerable individuality but little poetry.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 270w
=JOHNSON, BURGES.= Well of English and the bucket. *$1.25 (5½c) Little 808 17-26881
A collection of essays on the writing of English. The author is assistant professor of English at Vassar college and he writes from the point of view of one who has tried to break away from the stilted academic traditions in English teaching. Some of the essays are reprinted from Harper’s and the Century. Contents: The well of English and the bucket; Grammar, the bane of boyhood; Impression and expression; Essaying an essay; The right not to laugh; The everyday profanity of our best people; Ethics of the pen.
“Seven essays, written clearly, convincingly and with a touch of humor.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:79 D ‘17
“This writer is interesting; he puts old views freshly, he urges new ones with effect.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 280w
“The author is able not only to teach the students in his English classes how to write but he can give them good models from his own light, lucid and vigorous pen.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 380w
=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 70w
“‘The well of English and the bucket’ is a thoughtful piece of work with a very clever title. Its author has pondered much upon the educational and practical problems of writing without missing their difficulties, and, at the same time, without representing the situation as altogether hopeless.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 16 ‘17 250w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= New England; a human interest geographical reader. il *$1 Macmillan 917.4 17-8898
“The aim of the author is to furnish interesting and valuable supplementary reading material for the upper elementary grades. The facts are drawn from geology, nature, history, industry, biography, literature, legend, and humor, and are selected with the idea of entertaining and instructing the reader. The general plan of treatment is first to devote a few chapters to New England as a whole and then to treat each of the six states separately. In dealing with each state the plan is to devote a chapter or two to historical beginnings and the remainder to industries, natural scenery, and famous people and places. There are about two hundred well-selected illustrations.”—El School J
“Beautifully illustrated geographical reader. ... The author betrays his prejudice by absolute silence regarding all things Catholic.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:693 Ag ‘17 60w
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=Educ= 56:174 F ‘18 40w
“Outside of New England the book will be of little practical value as a supplementary reader. If such material is used in school, it should treat of the community in which it is studied. The great value of Mr Johnson’s book to communities outside of New England is to indicate the types of local material which can be utilized in a study of one’s near or immediate locality.”
=El School J= 17:773 Je ‘17 220w
“Thru all the descriptions runs a personal touch that appeals to children. The pictures are most helpful.”
+ =Ind= 91:229 Ag 11 ‘17 50w
“His methods are somewhat unique, and include a combination of the historical and the descriptive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 380w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.= Peril of Prussianism. *75c (1c) Putnam 940.91 17-22576
This is “the substance of an address delivered by the associate professor of physiography in Columbia university before the annual convention of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines on June 14, 1917.” (Foreword) His argument is that the American ideal and the Prussian ideal of government “are mutually antagonistic, and cannot long exist in the world side by side,” because the “very existence of the Prussian ideal depends upon an aggressive militarism.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 20w
“One of the most interesting features of the book is a series of historical maps showing the area controlled by the Hohenzollern dynasty in succeeding centuries, from the origin of the Brandenburg monarchy to the present day.”
+ =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 50w
“A vigorous indictment of Prussian methods.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 60w
=JOHNSON, DOUGLAS WILSON.=[2] Topography and strategy in the war. il *$1.75 (3c) Holt 940.91 17-27768
An analysis of the topography of each of the most important theaters of war, together with a summary of the principal campaigns, pointing out how military operations have been influenced by the surface features of the country. One object is to emphasize the relationship between inanimate nature and the science of war. Another is to place before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our allied troops. Good maps, diagrams and illustrations generously supplement the text.
“A remarkably suggestive book with few technical terms, which will need to be consulted by future historians of the war.”
+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 80w
=Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 40w
“An excellent beginning has been made in the treatment of this rather difficult subject and additional chapters will be demanded as new campaigns bring other regions within the area of active warfare.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 120w
=JOHNSON, JOSEPH ESREY, jr.= Blast-furnace construction in America. il *$4 McGraw 669.8 17-9602
“The author of ‘Blast furnace construction’ has been a student of the blast furnace on both the theoretical and the practical side for a number of years, and has given to the furnace-man many valuable and instructive papers bearing on the operation and control of this most complex of all metallurgical processes. The present volume deals fully with the construction of the furnace proper, from an early date up to the present time, and considers in detail all the adjuncts that play an important part in the production of pig iron.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“This comprehensive work, based partly upon investigations by the author, fills a long felt want in metallurgical literature. ... Of especial note is the chapter on the dry blast.”
=Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 50w
“The chapter on distribution of stock in the furnace proper is well worth the price of the book, as probably more troubles in blast-furnace operation are traceable to poor distribution than to all others combined. The chapter on washing and cleaning gas could well have been enlarged in scope. ... The intention to amplify this work by another on blast-furnace operation will be awaited with interest by the producers of pig iron and allied products.” C: E. Lehr
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:129 Jl 19 ‘17 300w
“There seems to be nothing of importance upon which Mr Johnson has not touched from the laying of the foundation to the last detail in the completion of a modern blast furnace. His book will be indispensable as a work of reference in every metallurgical establishment in the country.”
+ =Nation= 104:766 Je 28 ‘17 230w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Very useful work on arrangement and construction, and to some extent on mechanical features of operation. Not concerned with metallurgical problems. For this subject see Robert Forsythe’s ‘Blast furnace and the manufacture of pig iron,’ 1909.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:423 My ‘17 30w
“The series of articles on blast construction and operation which appeared in several numbers of Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, is a thorough covering of the subject in the compass allowed by the 405 pages utilized.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:456 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Blast Furnace and Steel Plant p190 Ap ‘17)
“Authoritative treatise.”
+ =Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:175 Je ‘17
=JOHNSON, LIONEL PIGOT.= Religious poems. *$1 Macmillan 821
“This selection from the most directly religious poems of the late Lionel Johnson has been made by Mr George F. Engelbach, and Mr Meynell contributes an appreciative and sympathetic preface to a volume which will be welcomed by many admirers of the poet.”—Ath
“‘Friends,’ ‘Winchester close,’ and ‘A dream of youth’ are specially appealing and sympathetic.”
+ =Ath= p44 Ja ‘17 60w
“Johnson’s poems, written after his admission into the Catholic church, are resonant with faith and tender with devotion. Nevertheless, there is not in them that ring of anguish, of personal need, of mystical rapture that arrests us in the poetry of Francis Thompson.”
+ =Cleveland= p75 Je ‘17 100w (Reprinted from the Dial)
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:62 Ap ‘17
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17
“It is, perhaps, a question whether these selected poems have not the effect of rendering somewhat too definitely a ruling temperament. ... Many might prefer to meet this singer’s most directly religious poems amid the lighter environment out of which they have been taken. Of the attractive quality of their nobility, fervour, and sincerity there can be no doubt. Only—they present the austere outlook on gifts of earthly joy.”
+ =Sat R= 123:577 Je 23 ‘17 900w
“A series of poems of personal aspiration, and a series devoted to the celebration of friendship both reveal a striking kinship of spirit with the religious verse of Digby Markworth Dolben, recently edited by Mr Bridges, and in both cases constitute the poet’s main contribution to the not very large body of English sacred poetry of a high order.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p66 F 8 ‘17 1050w
=JOHNSON, ROSSITER.= Fight for the Republic. il *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam 973.7 17-5857
The subtitle calls this “a narrative of the more noteworthy events in the War of secession, presenting the great contest in its dramatic aspects.” It does not aim to be a complete history of the Civil war. As the author defines his purpose, it is “to set forth clearly such of the greater events as either constituted turning-points or distinctly advanced or retarded the general movement toward the end.” There are a number of folding maps, and several portraits.
“In 1910 the author published ‘A history of the war of secession,’ the military chapters of which are now reprinted under a separate title. The present volume excludes practically everything except military history, and on this side presents little that is not found in the former volume. Students of the war period will find nothing new in ‘The fight for the Republic,’ while for those who are taking up the subject for the first time the book is not to be recommended because it is too one-sided.”
— =Am Hist R= 23:222 O ‘17 250w
“Facts are well backed up by figures. ... A valuable feature of the work is found in the illustrations. There are sketch maps of all the principal battlefields.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 380w
+ =Cath World= 105:409 Je ‘17 170w
“The limitations of the work are considerable. ... It is hardly possible to write, in this day, a valuable history of the Civil war without devoting some attention to the non-military aspects of the period, but for Mr Johnson these matters evidently have little interest. For one who wishes to get a brief description of a battle or a campaign as seen from the Union side, this work will serve well; but he who wishes to read understandingly of the fight for the Union must go elsewhere—for example, to Mr Rhodes—for a more comprehensive account.”
+ — =Dial= 62:318 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w
“It cannot be recommended to students familiar with the work of Burgess, Rhodes, Ropes, Wood and Edmunds and Formby, but will be useful to any one making a beginning in the field.”
=Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Rossiter Johnson has long been recognized as a historian who builds dramatically on a foundation of well-verified facts. This—his third important book on the Civil war in America—seems to leave little more to be said on a subject not easily exhausted.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 1500w
+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 100w
“The facts concerning the nation’s great struggle can always be portrayed in a new way, and that is what Rossiter Johnson has done.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 12 ‘17 220w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America and the great war for humanity and freedom, il *$1.50 (2c) Winston 940.91 17-17290
“Eight chapters of this book review the antecedents of the war, and the stories of the different states which entered the war in 1914. The six following chapters describe the war as fought in the different countries and upon the sea and in the air. Three chapters give the story of America’s relations with Germany while she tried to be neutral. Then follow some chapters which describe the resources, actual and potential, of the United States, discuss how modern wars are waged, etc. Among these are brief chapters on women and war work, universal military service, the Monroe doctrine, and the flag. The book is illustrated with photographs and maps.” (Boston Transcript) The author is honorary professor of the history of American foreign relations in New York university.
“The author has been for many years a student of American history, especially in its foreign relations, and he has carefully followed the progress of the war from the beginning. The results of his study have appeared in the Transcript and other papers, and now he has gathered them together in this volume which is one of the most enlightening which have appeared up to the present time.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 550w
“For those who like to have a popular ‘vade mecum’ of narrative, argument, and statistics, opening with the ‘Battle hymn of the Republic’ and closing with the ‘Star-spangled banner,’ the volume should prove serviceable. The hundred and more maps and illustrations are, as a rule, well executed.”
+ — =Nation= 105:322 S 20 ‘17 150w
“One of the important works of reference on the war. Of great timeliness to the student of current events.”
+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 110w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= America’s foreign relations. 2v il *$6 (2c) Century 327.73 16-9786
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Although rarely brilliant, the style is at all times clear, while some chapters, notably those on Hawaii, Samoa, and Far Eastern relations possess a fascination to be found only in really fine historical writing. ... The index is adequate; the book has neither footnotes nor bibliography. ... Most of the errors made by the author are of minor importance in themselves, but taken together perhaps show an uneven grasp upon all parts of the subject, and at times an inadequate background of political and constitutional history. ... Despite these and numerous other inaccuracies, and the limitations, from the scholarly viewpoint, imposed by its ‘popular’ character, Mr Johnson’s book is the most complete, most readable, and altogether the best account that has been given of America’s foreign relations.” Ralston Hayden
* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:156 F ‘17 1400w
“The book is readable, and at the same time weighty, and, on the whole, remarkably accurate and impartial. ... The determining factors of American foreign policy are presented to us, correctly, as governed not by theoretical but by practical considerations. It is this which will give it its peculiar value in educating American opinion. ... At the present time when it is of capital importance that the British public should realize what are the really determining motives of American policy, this book should be read by every one who is capable of understanding it. Mr Johnson’s account of America’s attitude from the beginning towards the question of ‘the freedom of the seas’ is, alone, of great educative value.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p62 F 8 ‘17 1550w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= The wanderers. *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 17-24277
From the woman of the tree-folk who discovered fire and the uses of the long stick, down thru the ages, Miss Johnston traces the progress, now forward, now back, of women. The cave woman who taught the wanderer man that it is good for two to be together, Gata of the long house, who disclosed the mystery of paternity, Vana who gave away the mother-right and established inheritance thru the male line, Lindane the Amazon, Myrina the courtesan, Valeria the Roman wife, and Alleda, the Goth who brought Christianity to her people, are some of the figures who stand out in the narrative, which, loosely constructed as it intentionally is, is held together by the thread that follows the gradual strengthening, refining and sweetening of the love tie that binds man and woman. The story approaches modern times only so far as the French revolution.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“An impressive departure from the author’s usual field.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 50w
“It is due to the really fine art of the author that she makes the reader become wholly interested in each of her nineteen sets of characters, though only the space of a single chapter is allotted to any one set of characters. Remembering that each one of these chapters has to be built up about some phase of the same subject, we gain some realization of the breadth and difficulty of the task. ... The book is unusual and only an author of the deep insight and the dramatic intensity of Miss Johnston could have made it so revealing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1250w
“The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest, without a sufficient disguise for its purpose to be successful. In other words, the artist in Miss Johnston has been pretty thoroughly stifled here by the feminist.”
— =Cath World= 106:400 D ‘17 280w
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w
“Miss Johnston’s new book shows the same primary weakness that we have found in all her work. This is the weakness of the long face. We suspect that Miss Johnston’s later work has bored a good many people who have approached it with the best intentions. It has no light and shade; it is all done with the down stroke. ‘The wanderers’ is uncommonly hard reading.”
— =Nation= 105:487 N 1 ‘17 450w
“It is a grindstone for the feminist axe. ... The love stories are in themselves typical and appealing, though on the whole monotonous and unvaried by any insight of the depths and chasms between lovers. This does not mean that there are no tragedies, but only that the attitude between lovers is that of lovers in a book—when they are happy it is as protagonists, and unhappy, as tragic exemplars. They exult in terms of uncritical idealism, and they die as badly.” J. L.
– + =New Repub= 13:289 Ja 5 ‘18 430w
“The idea is an interesting and a very ambitious one, and though the book as a whole would be more effective were it not so extremely long, many of the tales are interesting in themselves, containing color and a good deal of drama.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 550w
=Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w
“They preserve to an extraordinary degree the atmosphere and probable perspective of life of the periods they represent.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 90w
“The book is a fine piece of imaginative writing—a landmark in the season’s fiction—and enhances Miss Johnston’s already conspicuous position in American letters. ... It is a book for the discriminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 430w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= “Limpy,” the boy who felt neglected. il *$1.35 (2c) Little 17-7454
He had a good home, a kind father, a sympathetic mother and two brothers who did their best to be thoughtful, but he wasn’t happy. His nickname, “Limpy,” explained why, for he wore an ugly iron brace and couldn’t run or fight or play games like other boys. Then he made friends with an old Civil war soldier who had only one leg. Their common bond drew them together, and reassured by this new friend, Limpy found courage to go on bravely till the time came when a surgical operation cured his lameness and made him like other boys.
– + =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“Mr Johnston has achieved a task as delicate as difficult. He has disclosed the heart of a boy with a tenderness which has no trace of sentimentality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 24 ‘17 280w
“Huck Finn and Penrod have, between them, made all the other boys of fiction seem a little tame. Were it not for them, ‘Limpy’ would be a capital boy story. As it is, it runs a close second in places, although its hero exhibits something of the lamentable ‘glad’ mania that has recently affected all the little girls of fiction.”
+ =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 450w
“Unfortunately, the book lacks the humor that one associates with stories about boys; but its naturalness, both as to speech and action, goes far to compensate for this deficiency.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 300w
=JOIRE, PAUL MARTIAL JOSEPH.= Psychical and supernormal phenomena, their observation and experimentation. il *$3 (1½c) Stokes 134 (Eng ed 17-9817)
Dr Joire is a professor at the Psycho-physiological institute of France and president of the Société universelle d’études psychiques. “This book deals with such subjects as multiple personality, ‘motricity,’ haunted houses, telepathy, crystal-gazing, levitation, materialization, automatic writing, and the like. It is claimed that psychical phenomena have not, for the most part, been subjected to sufficiently serious observation and scientific analysis; and that their verification, though extremely difficult, is not impossible.” (Ath) The book is translated by Dudley Wright.
=Ath= p473 O ‘16 50w
“To the student of psychology this work should prove of some value. The subject, in its most elementary as well as advanced form, is here dealt with in a broad and comprehensive spirit, and the usual adverse criticisms of psychical phenomena, criticisms which in many cases, to the lay mind at least, seem only too well founded, are tackled by Dr Joire in an able and impartial manner.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 630w
=JONES, DANIEL.= English pronouncing dictionary (on strictly phonetic principles). (Dent’s modern language ser.) *$3 Dutton 423 A17-1345
“The object of this dictionary—it gives no definitions—is to record with as much accuracy as is necessary for practical linguistic purposes the pronunciation used in ordinary conversation by cultivated southern English people. ... The system used for representing pronunciation is that of the International phonetic association, which, in the opinion of the author, is the best as well as being the most widely used of the existing phonetic alphabets. ... Special features of this dictionary are the inclusion of proper names, all plurals of nouns, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives, and the inflected forms of verbs. ... The pronunciation is recorded of 49,690 words, exclusive of inflected forms.” (Springf’d Republican) The author is reader in phonetics in the University of London.
“Here is material for much warm-weather discussion, and to such disputants, of whom this topic counts its millions, there could be recommended no better guide than Mr Jones both for industry and accuracy in collecting his facts and for open-mindedness in the presentation of them. For, apart from a few striking dialectical peculiarities, such as the glide before r in hero and the like, the language which Mr Jones describes would pass as good and by no means peculiar English wherever educated people meet together.”
+ =Nation= 105:71 Jl 19 ‘17 620w
=N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:109 Jl ‘17 80w
Reviewed by W. H. Chesson
+ =Sat R= 123:551 Je 16 ‘17 1400w
“The book will be of much service to Americans as informing them of what is probably the best English usage as to the pronunciation of ordinary words and will be very illuminating to them on the pronunciation of English place names and on the English usage as to other proper names.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 450w
=JONES, EDGAR DEWITT.= Fairhope; the annals of a country church. il *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 17-16185
“Some of the names in this story of Kentucky country life may be disguised, but the annals are, evidently, history, not fiction. They cluster around a ‘meeting house’ of the denomination known as Disciples of Christ.” (N Y Times) “The protracted meetings, the student preachers, the wooing of one of them, the changing of the old order from the doctrinal champions to the modern minister expert in rural sociology, these and other phases of the parish annals are set forth.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Lifelike and wholly pleasant sketches.”
+ =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“Mr Jones has given more than a mere picture of Fairhope church and its people from ‘The days of controversy and debate’ half a century ago to the present time of broad toleration; he has lifted bodily for our behoof the very soil itself, with its characters, genuine and quaint, and the church which was their centre and soul.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 350w
“Just what Ian Maclaren did to put ‘Drumtochty’ on the map of Scotland, that has ‘David Westbrooke’ done for Fairhope. ... Half a century ago there were public doctrinal debates exciting almost as much interest as the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the political field. Some of these, one in particular, are described here.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 400w
=JONES, EDWARD DAVID.= Administration of industrial enterprises; with special reference to factory practice. il *$2 Longmans 658.7 16-24712
“In this volume the author first outlines the problem of equipment and then proceeds to discuss the formation of an administrative organization, the adjustment of the relations of labor and capital, and, finally, the process of mercantile distribution. The aim of the book is two-fold—to trace the application of the scientific method in industry and to point out the efficiency of an economic policy based upon welfare and service.”—R of Rs
“The proportions of the work are not perfect. Too much space is devoted to the highly technical subject of ‘layout of a manufacturing plant’ and not enough to modern aids to an enlightened administration. The treatment of cost accounting is far too meager and there is nothing at all on managerial statistics and the graphical presentation of facts. Nevertheless, the ground in general is covered with judgment and as thoroughly as a work of moderate size addressed to the general reader would permit. At the end of each chapter is a well-selected bibliography. Where the author most falls into error is in handling some of the technical features of scientific management.” C: W Mixter
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:630 S ‘17 530w
“A valuable, short, compact statement. Not as inspiring as Lewis’ ‘Getting the most out of business’ nor as analytical as Shaw’s ‘Approach to business problems.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:116 Ja ‘18
“Dr Jones has given us a well organized work. It is a straightforward, connected story. As a textbook, it ought to be well received, and as a part of a business man’s library, it should prove an asset.” Malcolm Keir
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:229 My ‘17 250w
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 480w
“Although the preface does not indicate it, this volume is better suited for use as a textbook than as a guide to executives of industrial plants. It covers too wide a range to touch more than lightly on the vital things that make for successful management. The man with executive problems to solve will need fuller treatment.”
=Engin News-Rec= 78:154 Ap 19 ‘17 90w
“Here are no abstract theories of business organization, but facts in profusion stated so professor alike may easily understand. ... Perhaps, in his enthusiasm for the subject, Professor Jones overemphasizes the results which will come from scientific management. After all, the human element must always remain as a large factor in business success.”
+ =Ind= 89:508 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“The necessary result of this enlargement of scope is, however, that the treatment of all the topics is very brief. Indeed, in some cases, the discussion is so slight as to make it a question whether much benefit can be derived by the student.”
=Nation= 104:557 My 3 ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17 70w
=Pratt= p28 O ‘17 30w
=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 70w
“Professor Jones has attacked this somewhat formidable task with considerable success.” E. B. Gowin
+ =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 150w
=JONES, FRANCIS P.=[2] History of the Sinn Fein movement and the Irish rebellion of 1916; with an introd. by J: W. Goff. il *$2 Kenedy 941.5 17-14796
“Mr Jones analyzes the English influences that have been at work in Ireland for many years. He shows the pernicious attempts to strengthen Ireland commercially and politically. In contrast to these influences he explains the Sinn Fein ideals, and traces out the gradual unification of discontent that culminated in the revolt of 1916. Of that unfortunate insurrection and its leaders, he gives a most intimate account, having gathered his material from personal contact with Pearce, Connolly, MacDonald and the other Sinn Fein leaders.”—Cath World
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“His presentation of the Irish problem is the most conclusive written in recent years, and contains a complete review of a period in Irish history that will grow in importance with the passing of time. No one who would know Ireland’s present position can afford to miss reading this scholarly work. In writing it Mr Jones has done a great service for Ireland and her people.”
+ =Cath World= 105:549 Jl ‘17 250w
=Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17
“The story of the Sinn Fein movement is dramatically told, and there is a running account of the various armed movements that accompanied it. All this is well done. There is not, however, sufficient notice taken of the Irish trade union movement, or the part it has played in reforming and extending the economic ideas of the Irish people.” Frank MacDonald
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Ap 29 ‘17 900w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
=JONES, JENKIN LLOYD.= Love for the battle-torn peoples. 75c Unity pub. 172.4 17-26179
“A series of popular sermon-studies, sketching rapidly the contributions made by each of the warring countries to civilization, which entitle them to the love of the American people. A new statement of the author’s well known faith in human brotherhood and internationalism.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:241 Mr ‘17
“A charming little volume.”
+ =Educ R= 54:208 S ‘17 40w
“The author has a wide knowledge of literature and a profound feeling for the great values of history and human life. He has also the gift of expression.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:267 Ja ‘17 60w
“No one will read Mr Jones’s book without feeling that some things have been included that he cannot and does not want to love and that even more has been omitted that one has learned to love. And yet it is fair to say that Mr Jones has more nearly succeeded in reaching an average possessing universal appeal than could have been thought possible before the idea was given a trial.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 11 ‘17 300w
=JONES, JOHN PRICE.= America entangled (Eng title, German spy in America). pa *50c Agnes C. Laut, 286 5th av., N.Y. 940.91 17-8589
“In the course of his work on the staff of the New York Sun Mr Jones has given a year to the close investigation of the subject [of the German spy in America]. ... Here we have a detailed exposure of the misdeeds of von Papen, von Igel, Koenig, Boy-Ed, Captain Franz von Rintelen, the ‘German arch-plotter,’ who was commissioned ‘to isolate commercial and financial America as a base of war supplies from Europe,’ Dr Heinrich F. Albert, Dumba, and the rest of the conspirators; the full story of the Lusitania, an account of Germany’s lobby in Congress, and of the change in the system when publicity became too strong. Mr Roosevelt contributes a foreword, and Mr Roger B. Wood an introduction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p476 S ‘17 200w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“Not only to Americans, however, but to all the belligerent countries, and above all to neutrals, will Mr Price Jones’s book be of service in warning them how the Kaiser makes war.”
+ =Spec= 119:298 S 22 ‘17 1650w
“A remarkable story, lucidly and effectively put together.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“Mr Jones’s story is the more deadly because it is supported throughout by documentary evidence, and is told in plain, straightforward language, little embellished by rhetoric.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p380 Ag 9 ‘17 1000w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= St Paul, the hero. il *$1 (3½c) Macmillan 225.9 17-10430
“This is the story of the life of St Paul, told with remarkable simplicity and especially designed for younger readers. ... The first chapter shows him as a boy ten years old, talking with his father about the meaning of the law; the last chapter gives us a picture of the heroic champion sealing his loyalty to the gospel by his death.”—Bib World
“The unfolding history is given in untechnical language, vividly and concretely. ... This short book ought to be of great value in Bible study. The pictures are unusual, being reproductions of steel engravings in the classical style. The maps are too fine to be legible.”
+ =Bib World= 50:128 Ag ‘17 160w
“St Paul’s life is so full of incident and so fascinating in detail that to write a long book about him would be far easier than a satisfactory short one; but Professor Jones, with the exactness of a scholar and with the quiet reverence of a Quaker, has produced a series of brief chapters that will convey to young people a very clear outline of the main story, while not exceeding the compass of their patience.”
+ =Cath World= 105:551 Jl ‘17 170w
“The well-known scholar succeeds in making the character of Paul interesting to the adolescent boy. ... The story is written so as to appeal to the youthful imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 110w
=JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR.= Spiritual ascent of man. *$1.50 Putnam 201 17-5700
In his introduction, A. L. Smith, master of Balliol college, says “This book aims at bringing the best philosophical thought of the time within the range of the ordinary reader.” As the author defines his purpose it is “to present some of the main problems of science, philosophy, and religion as these are dealt with by a number of the most prominent writers of our day.” The greatest weakness of the church in the past, he says, has been its failure “to give due heed to the various branches of knowledge in their bearings on religion.” Contents: The scope and limits of science; Matter and life; Body and mind; Intellect and intuition; The “is” and the “ought”; Values; The nature of spirit; The conception of God; Religion and Christianity; Conclusion.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 430w
=Dial= 63:536 N 22 ‘17 220w
+ =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 70w
“This book is clearly the fruit both of wide philosophical reading and of hard philosophical thought. ... It is certainly a book which all who have the cause of religion at heart would do well to read and ponder. The book appears at an opportune time. ... We whole-heartedly commend it.” J. T. Walley
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 720w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JORDAN, DAVID STARR.= Alsace-Lorraine; a study in conquest. *$1 (5c) Bobbs 943.4 17-6885
This work was written in 1913. It is based on a study made in Alsace-Lorraine at that time. Writing then, before the war, Dr Jordan compared Alsace to a cyclone center—the quiet place within the storm where there is no movement. Alsace was then the least war-like place in Europe. An Alsatian expression of opinion is quoted as typical: “War is the worst possible solution of our problems, because war is no solution. With war there is never a solution of any question. ... If France should gain Alsace by war, it would be only the beginning of another war, and so on without end.” Contents: The “nightmare of Europe”; The German point of view; Alsace-Lorraine as “Reichsland”: The French point of view; Nationalism. The material of the book appeared in part in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1914.
=A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“Brings very clearly to the foreground the evil results following Germany’s action in striving to absorb a people against their natural affiliation.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 55:445 Ap ‘17 70w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17 20w
“Prof. Jordan is eminently fair to both sides. The letters he quotes as having received from prominent Frenchmen and Germans on this thorny question form not the least interesting part of his readable and informing little book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 320w
“If the author is unable to forecast the best solution of the perplexing problem of Alsace-Lorraine, at least he brings sufficient evidence to show that many of those which have been proposed from time to time are utterly impracticable. ... The creation of a new ‘buffer’ state, though not advanced by Dr Jordan as ‘the’ solution, from an analysis of the material which he brings does stand out as at least the most promising approach to it.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:551 S 22 ‘17 1000w
=JORDAN, EDWIN OAKES.= Food poisoning. (Science ser.) il *$1 (3½c) Univ. of Chicago press 613.2 17-14054
The author is chairman of the department of hygiene and bacteriology of the University of Chicago. The introduction deals with the extent and kinds of food poisoning and articles of food most commonly connected with food poisoning. The author then considers: Sensitization to protein foods; Poisonous plants and animals; Mineral or organic poisons added to food; Food-borne pathogenic bacteria; Animal parasites; Poisonous products formed in food by bacteria and other micro-organisms; Poisoning of obscure or unknown nature.
=A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“Concise authoritative, non-technical summary of present-day knowledge.”
+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 600w
“The book is of value at any time, and of importance; but the coming food campaign should focus attention upon it as one of the books which, above the primer grade, lead thoughtful readers into the desired realization of certain physiological aspects of the three-meals-a-day routine.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 240w
=JÖRGENSEN, JOHANNES.= False witness. il *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 17-26259
A translation of a Danish work, “Klokke Roland.” The main part of the book is taken up with an examination of “Appeal to the civilized world” sent out by ninety-three German professors. The author examines their claims and brings evidence to prove them false. In addition the book contains miscellaneous chapters on German character and “kultur.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
“It is an interesting book, written in genuine and acknowledged sympathy with Belgium, and bears the marks of a craftsman.”
+ =Cath World= 105:694 Ag ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 80w
“It is the first authoritative expression of the Danish viewpoint—if one may go so far in generalizing—that we have had. And it should be welcomed here, as the comment of a neutral and a neighbor, upon the conduct of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:140 Ap 15 ‘17 430w
“No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deserves reading.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 120w
=JOYCE, JAMES.= Portrait of the artist as a young man. *$1.50 (2c) Huebsch 17-4707
The story of the childhood, boyhood and youth of a young Irishman. It is extremely subjective and at times difficult to follow in its intricate turnings and abrupt transitions. From babyhood onward, Stephen is a lonely soul. At an early age he is sent to a Jesuit school where, altho he is evidently popular with the boys, he seems more than ever alone. He lives a secret life and during adolescence falls prey to the temptations of sex that lie in wait for the young. The agony of his remorse, his fear of confession, and the peace and exaltation that follows it, are among the most vivid impressions the book gives. The Catholic influence is strong thruout his early life. At one time he is led to think that he has a “vocation,” but when the book leaves him at the beginning of early manhood, he is leaning toward agnosticism.
“The book has an irresistible effect of sharp, first-hand reality. But as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”
=Cath World= 105:395 Je ‘17 1100w
“Such a book would have been impossible forty years ago. Far from looking back with regret at the good old novelists of the nineteenth century (whom, besides, we need never lose), I believe that our fiction is immensely freer and richer than the fiction of our immediate forefathers.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:525 Je 14 ‘17 240w
“The book in many places is exceedingly coarse, so marring uncommon beauty, descriptive power and insight.”
– + =Ind= 90:256 My 5 ‘17 50w
“What thrusts itself forward is the naturalism.’ Apart from this, in spite of it, the book has a measure of force by virtue of its sincere intent and its unconquered though ingrowing and indeterminate idealism. Its hero (who surely discourses like nobody in nature) is to be an artist in words—for the sake of Ireland.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Nation= 104:403 Ap 5 ‘17 350w
“The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man.’”
— =Nation= 104:600 My 17 ‘17 500w
“One almost despairs of conveying it to the person who has conventionalized his idea of Ireland and modern Irish literature, yet there is a poignant Irish reality to be found in few existing plays and no preexistent novel, presented here with extraordinary candor and beauty and power. ... ‘A portrait of the artist as a young man’ is not entirely pleasant. But it has such beauty, such love of beauty, such intensity of feeling, such pathos, such candor, it goes beyond anything in English that reveals the inevitable malaise of serious youth. Many people will furiously resent his candor, whether about religion or nationalism or sex. But candor is a nobility in this instance.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 10:138 Mr 3 ‘17 1650w
“It is worth a great deal to the outside world to read of such events as are chronicled in ‘The portrait’ and ‘Dubliners.’ To see directly into the household and the heart of this sensitive young Irishman of the upper middle class is to be brought face to face with the social, political and religious forces which vex Ireland (and England, too, incidentally) daily.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 650w
“If we begin by complaining of the title of this book, it is only because it may turn some people away from it. Others may be put off by occasional improprieties; and it is useless to say that people ought not be put off by such things. They are; and we should like the book to have as many readers as possible.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JOYCE, THOMAS ATHOL.= Central American and West Indian archæology. il *$3.75 (5½c) Putnam 913.728 (Eng ed 16-17487)
The author calls this “an introduction to the archæology of the states of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies.” His aim has been to treat the archæology of these districts in a manner similar to that of his earlier books on Mexico and South America. He says: “The geographical area covered by the book is one which is still very imperfectly known from an archaeological point of view; the people inhabiting it in early times were not so highly developed, politically, as the Mexicans or the Peruvians, and the literature dealing with them is neither large nor easy of access. Still a summary of the known facts may be of use, if only in performing the function of a signpost for future investigators.”
“Summarizes in a scholarly way much material on excavations and discoveries of scientists that has heretofore been unavailable. Good illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:217 F ‘17
“Mr Joyce, who is an assistant in the department of ethnography in the British museum, has already written two earlier volumes on the archaeology of Mexico, Yucatan and the South American continent, including the exceptionally interesting study of early Aztec civilization. ... He has gathered many of the interesting traditions which have come down from pre-Colombian days. Since the conquest of Porto Rico by the United States much has been done by our Bureau of ethnology in the line of ethnological research in that and the adjoining smaller islands, some of the results of which are seen in Mr Joyce’s book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w
=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 30w
=Dial= 63:467 N 8 ‘17 120w
“The title well describes the book as an ‘introduction’ to the subject. As such it has good value. One feels, however, that the price set is high, considering the size of the volume.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:39 N 17 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 Mr 1 ‘17 1100w
=JUDD, CHARLES HUBBARD.=[2] Psychology, general introduction. 2d completely rev ed il *$1.80 Ginn 150 17-25595
A second edition largely rewritten. The writer points out the principal changes and elaborations: (1) “The present edition goes further than did the first in working out the doctrines of functional psychology, especially in so far as these use motor processes in explaining mental organization; (2) The doctrine of attitudes which was presented in the first edition has been much expanded; (3) The applications of psychology have been elaborated, especially through a new chapter on mental hygiene; (4) The view with regard to the importance of consciousness in evolution which was set forth in my paper before the American psychological association in 1909 has been adopted as a guiding principle in this volume. In keeping with this view, the chapter on volition has been wholly rewritten, and several earlier sections have been largely worked over.” The chapters only slightly modified are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, and 17.
“The significance of this revision for educators is enhanced by the fact that the author, for most of the ten years which have elapsed since the first edition, has been actively engaged in the teaching and administration of education. This has meant that the functional aspect of mental life, in which it is regarded as active, and doing something in the organism which it inhabits and in the world outside—this aspect which was already emphasized in the first edition is still more clearly defined in the additions which appear in the second edition. The student who is sufficiently mature to make applications of general principles for himself will gain profit from a study of the discussions of this book.” H. O. Rugg
+ =El School J= 18:312 D ‘17 400w
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY=, comp. Myths and legends of British North America. il *$1.50 (3½c) McClurg 398.2 17-11232
To her series of books of retold legends of American Indians, east and west, the author adds a volume of tales from the north. Among the tribes represented are the Haida, Eastern Eskimo, Wyandot, Cree, Bella Coola, Lillooet and Chilcotin. The author says, “Only authentic myths and legends have been used in the compilation of this volume. The leading authorities are the publications of the United States Bureau of ethnology, of the Jesup North Pacific expedition, of the Memoirs of the American Museum of natural history, as well as the ethnological publications of the Canadian Bureau of mines.” There are about twenty illustrations.
=A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“A large selection of well-executed cuts enhance the aesthetic appeal of the work. The author has, however, been less successful in her comments on some of these samples of Indian art. ... No justification can be found for the promiscuous arrangement of the myths of wholly heterogeneous provenience. ... A more judicious arrangement would have enhanced the value of the work immeasurably.” A. A. Goldenweiser
+ — =Bookm= 45:418 Je ‘17 650w
“They have an ethnological value as well as a picturesque interest.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 450w
“The purpose of the book seems to be the entertainment of young people, but even for this modest design the sketchiness of the material and lack of developed unity leaves it inadequate.”
— =Dial= 63:461 N 8 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
=JUDSON, KATHARINE BERRY.= Old Crow stories. il *$1.35 (4c) Little 17-24075
A book of animal stories selected from Indian folk lore. “Old Crow” is one of the characters in these tales, others are Raven, Grizzly and Coyote. How Raven brought the light, How Grizzly Bear stole the light; How Sun was made; When Real People were baked; How Coyote got his cunning; How Fire came to the Real People, are some of the titles. The pictures are by Charles Livingston Bull.
“She has retold these Indian myths of the beginnings of things in a spirited manner and in simple enough language for the little ones, yet without the condescending ‘talking down’ to which children instinctively object.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 270w
“They have a decided interest for older readers who recognize their ethnic and symbolic importance, while children will read them as the most delightful make-believe.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w
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=KAMBAN, GUTHMUNDUR.=[2] Hadda Padda; a drama in four acts; tr. by Sadie Luise Peller. (Borzoi plays, v) *$1 Knopf 839.6 17-30695
This play, translated from the Icelandic, was given its first production in Copenhagen in 1914. In spite of its difficult fourth act, which had made managers hesitate to attempt the play, it was an instant success. The other Scandinavian countries accepted it with equal enthusiasm and preparations for its presentation in Germany were only cut short by the war. It is a four-act tragedy on the theme of a proud woman’s betrayed love. Even in the pages of the printed play, Hrafnhild, called Hadda Padda, stands out as a very vital creation. In his drawing of her character and in the working out of the last act, the young dramatist reveals his northern heritage. There is an appreciative foreword by Georg Brandes.
=Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 70w
“The element of the death of Hadda Padda in this occasionally strong little drama is a weakness—not strength, not climax. It is one of the instances of avoidance, of seeking the easiest way out, both for dramatist and character. ... The play deserves success, for, in spite of common places worked out in a commonplace manner, and its artificiality, it goes far beyond the average run of plays, and it is really in a class quite outside our English works.” F. M.
+ — =N Y Call= p19 D 15 ‘17 600w
“Strikingly brilliant play.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w
=KARAPETOFF, VLADIMIR.= Engineering applications of higher mathematics. 5v ea *75c Wiley 620 (11-32468)
“‘This is not a book on calculus or analytic geometry, nor on engineering or any branch of it. It is intended to enable an engineer to make a better and more extended use of higher mathematics in his work.’ (Preface) Contents: v. 1. Problems on machine design; v. 2. Problems on hydraulics; v. 3. Problems on thermodynamics; v. 4. Problems on mechanics of materials; v. 5. Problems on electrical engineering.”—Cleveland
“The author has great skill in stating the application of basic principles and in leading students to advanced work without waste of time and energy.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:205 F ‘17
=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘17 60w
“The treatment is, on the whole, sound, though the diction is often rather loose. ... The mathematical work is not distinguished by neatness, and one finds awkward and cumbrous proofs where often quite simple methods are available. The author appears afraid of making undue demands on the knowledge of his readers, and when a real difficulty occurs contents himself with a reference to a textbook. These criticisms must not be taken to reflect on the competence of the author, whose aims, as recorded in his prefaces, are excellent.”
+ =Nature= 99:102 Ap 5 ‘17 380w
=KAWAKAMI, KIYOSHI KARL.= Japan in world politics. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 327.52 17-21929
Writing from Peking in 1917 the author of “American-Japanese relations” and “Asia at the door” tells us in his preface to this book that prior to 1901 he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic party in Japan. His experiences in America subsequent to that date caused him regretfully to turn from the socialism and trade unionism he met here because he found them to mean a brotherhood between western nations only. “I have come to the conclusion,” he says, “that socialism cannot be achieved until the relations between the East and the West are radically changed.” That such a change may mean the averting of the world catastrophe that the future centuries will otherwise see is his reason for this attempt to “serve mankind by removing some of the misunderstandings now casting a dark shadow upon the relationship of the two nations.” Most of the chapters of this book were originally published as separate articles in the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. Among the topics discussed are: The Japanese instinct of self-preservation; America’s issues with Japan; Is America preparing against Japan?; Land hunger: the background of the immigration question; Japanese immigration to America; The Pacific coast and the Japanese; The expatriation of the Japanese; The open door in China; Japan and America in China; Japan’s blunders in China; America and Japan in Korea; Japan and the Philippines; Japanese “designs” upon Mexico; America and the Anglo-Japanese alliance; America and German-Japanese relations; America and the Russo-Japanese entente.
“The author’s sympathies are with Japan in American-Japanese questions, though his presentation of his views is reasonable and sane. He feels that the Monroe doctrine is unjust to small overcrowded nations and that unhindered immigration is necessary for a permanent peace. He attempts to justify Japan in China and Korea and to allay suspicion of German-Japanese relations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
Reviewed by W. W. McLaren
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:777 N ‘17 300w
=Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 130w
“If he were writing from the patriotic Japanese standpoint, he would remember that Great Britain is the ally of Japan, and as such is to be treated with courtesy and respect. But all the allusions to ‘England’ throughout are as unpleasantly unfair as if they came from a ‘Zeitung,’ and are particularly regrettable at the present moment. If he were writing as a keen-witted American, he would know that the policy of the ‘open door’ enunciated by John Hay has always had British support.”
– + =Nation= 105:571 N 22 ‘17 520w
“The author declares that he was once a socialist. He abandoned socialism, however, when he began the study of the relations of Asia and Europe. This he tells us, is a chasm to be bridged before there can be any reasonable talk of socialism and internationalism. So Mr Kawakami sets about to state the problem. And he does it well.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 750w
“Not often does one find a discussion of Japanese and American relations that will compare with this little book in sanity, reasonableness, judicial temper, and ability to see the rights and wrongs of all sides of a question. As between America and Japan, he makes emphatic his conviction that the crux of the matter is the question of naturalization.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 950w
+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= John Galsworthy. (Writers of the day) il *60c (4c) Holt 823 A17-395
The author ranks Galsworthy higher as a dramatist than as a novelist. His strong points, craftsmanship and sense of form, stand out with distinctness in his plays, and his weakness in character drawing is not so evident. Types are more successful than individual characters on the stage. Furthermore Galsworthy is more successful in his plays than in his novels because most good plays are founded on a situation; most good novels on the development of a situation; “and development is not a characteristic of Galsworthy’s art.” Two chapters are devoted to the plays, two to the novels, one to the sketches, and a final chapter considers Galsworthy the artist.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17
“His admirers will like this essay and it may help those who demand that he be other than he is to understand and value one of the real artists of our time.”
+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 120w
=Nation= 104:687 Je 7 ‘17 220w
“A commonplace study of the cataloging type of John Galsworthy, placing emphasis upon his dramas rather than his novels, but taking one production after another in each field with impartial disregard of the demand of the ordinary reader for a measure of synthesis.”
— =Nation= 105:324 S 20 ‘17 430w
“A worthy successor to the other numbers of the series. And that is high praise. ... One is tempted to quote the book in detail, analyze its analyses. It is a pregnant and most excellent little volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 630w
“Not a brilliant or inspired but a good, discerning, level-headed and reasonably sympathetic study. ... One feels, however, that Miss Kaye-Smith over-praises Galsworthy’s power with words.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 1150w
“It goes simply and concisely through the several items of Mr Galsworthy’s work, with descriptive and clear thoughtful criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 N 16 ‘16 150w
=KEARY, CHARLES F.= Religious hours. *2s 6d Constable & co., London 821
“The title of this volume will suggest to many readers something in the vein of the ‘Christian year.’ But Mr Keary’s religion is not Keble’s. It is not orthodox, not even Christian, at all. In his prefatory note he says that the poems are chosen, out of a quantity of verse he had ready for publication, as more suited than others to ‘the gravity of the time’; and, he adds, ‘the title “religious” which I have given them is to be construed in this sense, the literary one; the sense in which Herrick often uses the word.’ ... The truth is that religion in Mr Keary’s use means not something fanciful which poets have invented, but what it actually meant for the world of Greece and Rome before the coming of Christianity.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Keary’s long and devoted service to fine letters is well summed up in this choice book, which, we hope, will not be passed by as if it were inferior hymnology.”
+ =Sat R= 123:208 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“A volume of grave pagan psalms and hymns of a true piety and a true imagination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 25 ‘17 1550w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Wayside flowers of summer. il *$1.35 Scribner 580 17-14079
“A study of the conspicuous herbaceous plants blooming upon our northern roadsides during the months of July and August.” (Subtitle) In the introduction the author adds, “The plants described in this volume are those that the wayfarer, starting out upon his summer vacation, will most likely meet if he goes on foot, or pass if he takes an auto, or see from the windows of his moving train; they are the ones that are part and parcel of summer life. ... In round numbers they vary from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty.” The botanical descriptions are based on Gray’s “Manual of botany,” seventh edition, and Britton’s “Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada.” The book is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and pictures in color.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p19 O ‘17.
“Of convenient size for the pocket, of good type for the eye, of generous illustration both in color and line drawings.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, EDITH.= Seven years at the Prussian court. il *$3 (3½c) Lane 943.08 (Eng ed 17-1178)
The author spent seven years in Germany as a companion in the household of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia, sister of the German empress. Like the many others of its kind, the book is made up of personal reminiscences and bits of gossip about royal personages. Among the chapters are: My early days at Potsdam; The princess Margarethe; Incognito visits to England; Servants in German royal households; The crown prince and princess; The days before the war, etc.
“Her knowledge of the Kaiser and his family is at best but second hand information.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 14 ‘17 400w
“There is frequently a bias in her manner of writing that makes one realize how difficult it is for the author to be fair toward her country’s enemies.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 80w
“Much entertaining gossip for those interested in the love affairs and dress bills of royalty is scattered over these rambling pages, but there is singularly little that is significant of anything beyond personal concerns. ... The frequent glimpses of the Kaiser, sometimes in his moods of testiness or of ruffled vanity, are the most enlivening feature of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 270w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:271 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
+ =Outlook= 115:625 Ap 4 ‘17 140w
=St Louis= 15:185 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:341 Mr 17 ‘17 150w
=KEEN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS.= Medical research and human welfare. il *$1.25 (4½c) Houghton 610.9 17-30712
This “record of personal experiences and observations during a professional life of fifty-seven years” formed the substance of the Colver lectures for 1917 at Brown university. Dr Keen is emeritus professor of surgery in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. His professional experience covers the period from the “old horribly fatal surgery of the Civil war” to the present. He has watched surgery emerge “from a septic purgatory into an aseptic paradise,” and he very briefly covers the marvelous changes that have taken place in this time. Among the subjects touched on are Bacteriology, Puerperal fever, Hydrophobia, Modern surgery, Syphilis, Smallpox, Cholera, Yellow fever, Malaria, Cancer, and Tuberculosis.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
“This record surpasses in interest the most thrilling detective story. ... It is the best possible answer to some of the claims of Christian science training.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 100w
“The readableness, the sagacity, and the persuasiveness of this book are to be found only by the careful perusal which it deserves.”
+ =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 90w
“[Written] in brilliant, scholarly, but quite untechnical style.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 240w
=KEENE, LOUIS.= “Crumps”; the plain story of a Canadian who went. il *$1.25 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-29600
The word “crumps” is trench slang for a bursting shell—“on account of the sound they make, a sort of cru-ump! noise as they explode.” The author is a young Canadian artist who writes of the early days of the war, illustrating his account with his own drawings. He touches lightly on war horrors in his text; but some of his pictures are very grim indeed. There is a very brief foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.
“Of life in the trenches the writer tells his story with light and cheerful spirit and yet not without full sense of duty and responsibility.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ‘17 600w
=Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 40w
“‘Crumps’ takes the whole thing a good deal as a college boy takes a big football game; it’s all something of a lark, a glorious great game, and even the horrors are touched on with a latent feeling that they are, in their own way, humorous.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:546 D 9 ‘17 1750w
“The chief interest, in fact, of the book is in its earlier chapters, which tell of things that other men have left largely unreported.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 690w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE, and CARNOY, ALBERT JOSEPH.= Indian [mythology]; Iranian [mythology]. (Mythology of all races) 13v v 6 il $6 (6c) Jones, Marshall 291 17-6787
The sixth volume of the Mythology of all races is made up of two books in one. The first part, Indian mythology, is by A. Berriedale Keith, regius professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Edinburgh university. The author has limited his subject by restricting the treatment as closely as possible to the mythology that is closely allied to religion in India. Part 2, Iranian mythology, is by Professor Albert J. Carnoy of the University of Louvain, now research professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He says, “The purpose of this essay is exactly set forth by its title: it is a reasonably complete account of what is mythological in Iranian traditions, but it is nothing more; since it is exclusively concerned with myths, all that is properly religious, historical, or archaeological has intentionally been omitted.” The illustrations of the volume are deserving of special mention. Among them are a number of fine color plates.
“Both accounts well fulfil their purpose as popular summaries; both will also prove valuable to specialists. The most satisfactory chapters of Keith are those on the Rig-Veda, the Brāhmanas, and the Epic. The chapter on Buddhism, the most difficult one to write, is the least satisfactory of all.” W. E. Clark
+ — =Am J Theol= 22:155 Ja ‘18 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:424 Jl ‘17
“This series promises to be one of the great monuments of the history of religions. It is impossible to enter into a discussion of each one of these volumes. It is enough to call attention to the admirable analysis of material, its readable style, the mass of notes and bibliography.”
+ =Bib World= 50:125 Ag ‘17 240w
“Professor Keith of Edinburgh university, the author of the volume, has already published the standard ‘Vedic index of names and subjects’ and appears as editor and translator of the Sankhayana and Aitareya and of the Taittiriya Samhita. ... This is the first time, however, that any authoritative work has been published in English on the history of Indian mythology. ... The Metropolitan museum of art allowed the color plates from the Persian manuscripts of the Shaknamah to be used for illustrations of the Iranian section.” D. L. M.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 850w
“Dr Keith has with infinite skill cut a swathe through what seems an inextricable tangle of mythological detail. He makes clear the development of philosophical ideas and yet preserves so much of the mythological drapery in which these ideas are clothed that the book possesses the double quality of scholarliness and fascination. By recognizing the close connection between mythology and religion, he has greatly enhanced, in my opinion, the interest of his subject.” H. A. Clarke
+ =Dial= 63:158 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w
“In clear presentation of matter, and in appropriateness of illustration this volume is superexcellent. For the last, some of the choicest of manuscript and book-decorations have been employed at large cost.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=Nation= 104:658 My 31 ‘17 1200w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 640w
=KEITH, KATHERINE.= Girl. *$1.35 (3c) Holt 17-3032
Chapters from this autobiography have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It gives a series of impressionistic pictures from a girl’s life from childhood up to her eighteenth year. As a little girl she is both mischievous and imaginative. She lives partly in a dream world and invents long and involved romances, of which a handsome actor and a western ranch are features, she herself playing the part of a boy. As she begins to grow up, the narrative seems more artificial and some of the incident and the mixing of the dates of certain known events give the impression that the whole is a piece of fiction.
“It is obvious that its writer has striven hard to write something strikingly original, and that she frequently makes the sad mistake of thinking that freakishness is identical with frankness, and that self-searchings and their public confession are as interesting to the reader as to herself. ... The confessions are too artificial to carry with them the convincing power of truth.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 10 ‘17 1050w
“It is a very interesting book. People perhaps will like to discuss its social significance,—as I have done. But it is chiefly worth while as a very definite rendering of an interesting conception,—rather a rare thing in art.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:71 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“Written with a curious detachment and objectivity rare in personal revelations.”
=Ind= 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 30w
“A book of ingrowing emotion, of strained and hectic self-consciousness, of feminism in its aimless and sterile phase. It is also consciously and deliberately ‘literary.’”
— =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 250w
“The story is no more chaotic than is life itself. One of its charms is its surprises.” J: N. Beffel
+ =N Y Call= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 950w
“The story is written with delicate art, its crisp, lucid style strikingly simple and its situations vividly realized. This is especially true of those portions of the book that deal with the childhood of the girl.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:24 Ja 21 ‘17 250w
“Semi-fictionalized reminiscence. ... It consists of a loose-strung series of incidents, anecdotes and self-revealments ... many of them exquisite in themselves and in their presentation; and the lot of them cumulatively meaningful in their feminine entirety.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:208 Mr ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Life, 1917)
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Sudden Jim. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6325
James Ashe, senior, was known as “Clothespin Jimmy.” It was a matter of disappointment to him that his son, Jim, in the twenty-eight years of his life had acquired no distinctive title. A man didn’t amount to much, in his opinion, who had done nothing to merit a descriptive name. That was one of the reasons that led him to go off to California leaving his clothespin factory in Jim’s charge. If there was anything in the younger man, he wanted to see it come out. In less than a week on his new job, the son had earned his title, “Sudden Jim.” The scene of the story is a small town in Michigan and local politics play a part in the action.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 500w
“He is a type loved by the average American.”
=Dial= 62:444 My 17 ‘17 120w
“A good book of its kind. It is amusing, brisk, swift moving, full of incident and surprise.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:99 Mr 18 ‘17 320w
“Mr Kelland cleverly sketches a group of local characters, whose colloquialisms and hard commonsense are a source of delight. It is a clever, rapid and diverting American story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 330w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Turn about Eleanor. il *$1.40 Bobbs 17-23983
“Half a dozen young people, three girls and three young men, all of them great friends and all but one pledged never to marry, decide to adopt a child and bring it up on the co-operative plan. A little girl of ten, Eleanor Hamlin, an orphan from Cape Cod, is chosen as the subject of this experiment, and the first twelve chapters tell of her experiences with her six volunteer parents, each of whom lives in a different way and has different ideas from any of the rest. Eleanor spends two months with first one and then another, until she has stayed with all six; they teach her a good deal, and to them she is a liberal education.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 100w
“Will attract the favorable attention of those who want an old-fashioned story about new-fashioned people. It is old-fashioned in this day of typewriter-made fiction because it is full of common sense and good workmanship. There is more than an amusing plot, there are real ideas in it, as well as flesh and blood and brain characters.”
+ =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“It is a bright little story and the cooperative parents are nicely sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:402 O 14 ‘17 250w
=KELLOGG, MRS CHARLOTTE.= Women of Belgium; turning tragedy to triumph. il *$1 (3c) Funk 940.91 17-12252
An account of relief work in Belgium, with special reference to what the Belgium women have been doing for themselves and their countrymen. Mrs Kellogg went to Belgium in July, 1916, as the one woman member of the Commission for Belgian relief. Herbert Hoover, on behalf of the Commission, says “We offer her little book as our, and Mrs Kellogg’s, tribute in admiration of them [Belgian women] and the inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.” All profits from the sale of the volume go to the relief work.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“A wonderful story of courage and heroism as splendid as any of the battlefield or trench.”
+ =Cath World= 106:105 O ‘17 200w
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w
“There are many angles of vision, of course, from which one may consider the conditions in Belgium, and Mrs Kellogg has elected to put her emphasis, not upon the source of the Belgian calamity, but rather upon the spiritual reaction of the women to the set of circumstances imposed upon them.”
+ =Dial= 63:277 S 27 ‘17 540w
+ =Ind= 91:74 Jl 14 ‘17 110w
“Her tale is moving to a degree. She has given to the world, in her description of the accomplishments of the 55,000 volunteer relief-workers, a remarkable picture of splendid courage and of the noble service of true human brotherhood and sisterhood.”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Kellogg’s restraint gives her book convincing value as a document.” E. S. S.
+ =New Repub= 11:253 Je 30 ‘17 480w
“The simplicity with which she writes makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service, the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more grandly.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 620w
=KELLOGG, LOUISE PHELPS=, ed. Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1669. (Original narratives of early American history) *$3 (2c) Scribner 973.2 17-6235
The author has brought together a group of the original narratives of the early French explorers of the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi. These narratives, as she says, are “full of the charm of brave deeds, of heroic endurance, of abiding enthusiasms, and of famous achievements.” Among them are records of the adventures and explorations of Nicolet, Radisson, Allouez, Marquette, Jolliet, La Salle and Tonty, and Duluth. Three facsimiles of old maps illustrate the volume.
“All of the narratives thus brought together are elsewhere printed, but not all are readily available, nor are all English versions complete or trustworthy. The Tonty memoir, here given in full, should prove useful to students of a wider field than that to which this volume is specially devoted. For all of the journals, Miss Kellogg’s abundant annotation is helpful. The clearly-penned introduction to each narrative not merely summarizes it, but informs the student of what printing it has already had, either in French or English, and makes plain the editor’s choice of text. Not the least interesting feature of the work is a facsimile of a contemporary map drawn to illustrate Marquette’s discoveries. The volume as a whole bespeaks scholarly care.”
+ =Am Hist R= 23:179 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17 + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 630w
+ =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 380w
“Although not by any means the most important of the series, it is in many respects the most interesting. The narrations of the early Frenchmen who traversed the Old Northwest possess a charm that will always appeal to the student of history.”
* + – =Nation= 104:762 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:428 My ‘17 100w
“It is a great convenience both to the historical student and to the general reader to have these materials arranged in a single volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 110w
=St Louis= 15:155 My ‘17
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN, and TAYLOR, ALONZO ENGLEBERT.= Food problem. *$1.25 (2½c) Macmillan 613.2 17-29573
The two authors are members of the United States food administration and the book has an introduction by Herbert Hoover. Part 1, devoted to The problem and the solution, has chapters on: The food situation of the western allies and the United States; Food administration; How England, France and Italy are controlling and saving food; Food control in Germany, and its lessons. Part 2, The technology of food use, has chapters on: The physiology of nutrition; The sociology of nutrition [two chapters]; Grain and alcohol. In conclusion there is a brief chapter on Patriotism and food.
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 29 ‘17 230w
“Their volume is so replete with facts and cogent, lucid reasoning that it is indispensable to all who write on this problem for newspapers and magazines. Particularly instructive, psychologically as well as economically, are the results of a study of conditions in Germany made in these pages.”
+ =Nation= 105:606 N 29 ‘17 1100w
“The present admirably clear book will make the patriotic reader rather painfully conscious of the enormous difficulties in our food situation.”
+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 450w
“The book is specially remarkable because of its comprehensiveness, the amount of space it covers in its two hundred-odd pages, and for the clarity of its discussion.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:493 N 25 ‘17 700w
“The second section of the book gives a popular exposition of the most widely adopted modern theory of nutrition such as every speaker and writer on food conservation should carefully study to guard him from pitfalls. Altogether, this section is full of new and revised judgments even for those, not specialists, who may claim a general acquaintance with the subject. The only item in the detailed recommendations to which the reviewer finds it difficult to assent is the advice to those of means to subsist as far as possible upon the ‘rare, expensive goods, delicacies, if you please,’ in order to release more of the cheaper foods for the poorer classes and for export.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 570w
=KELLY, RUSSELL ANTHONY.= Kelly of the Foreign legion. il *$1 (4½c) Kennerley 940.91 17-28641
“The first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters.” (Preface) The letters date from November 25, 1914 to June 15, 1915. After the engagement around Souchez on June 16 their writer was officially recorded as “missing.” Their helpfulness lies in their naturalness in the recording of daily happenings. The last chapter of the book gives an interesting history of the Foreign legion, dating its existence back to the fifth century under Clovis.
“One could wish nothing better for our boys ‘over there,’ and on the way, than that their records may be as honorable as that of ‘Kelly of the Foreign legion.’”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 22 ‘17 230w
“The book differs from many others of its kind in an apparent absence of emotion in the performance of a hated but inevitable task.”
+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 50w
=Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“That he enjoyed the experience is manifest in spite of his repeated assertions that war is asinine and his ridicule of the theory that war is grand. It is an interesting human document.”
+ =New Repub= 13:28 N 3 ‘17 140w
“Kelly makes the soldier’s life stand out vividly in these letters. The book is a good side light on the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 5 ‘17 220w
=KELSEY, CARL.=[2] Physical basis of society. *$2 (2c) Appleton 304 17-274
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Two things especially are worth noting about this book. One is the great mass of data which has been assembled. ... The second important feature of the book is that it symbolizes very markedly some of the newer tendencies in the development of sociology.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:600 S ‘17 500w
“The defects, as far as there are any, are essentially those which are related to the use of the survey method. The extensive character of the facts which are given would seem to justify more personal induction than one finds in the book. A few inaccuracies occur. ... A splendid and original service has been performed by Professor Kelsey in selecting, bringing together, organizing, and presenting in one volume such a fund of concrete material upon the physical bases of social progress. Students undertaking sociological studies, and the busy reader alike, will find the book of increasing usefulness.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:270 S ‘17 310w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:289 Ap ‘17
“From the writings of the specialists on geography, natural history, biology, ethnography and criminal anthropology, he has gleaned, arranged and intelligently interpreted experiments and observations not easily accessible to the student. The style is clear and interesting, the treatment concrete and summary, the attitude objective and the spirit impartial. The author shows open-mindedness and sound judgment, and, in dealing with controverted matters, takes pains to give the evidence on both sides.” E. A. R.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:240 My ‘17 220w
“A work that widely read would do much toward bridging the gap between the older generation and the new.”
+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 370w
“Dr Kelsey gives us little more than a compilation of the best thought of authorities on the subjects he discusses. If Dr Kelsey has anything original to tell us, it is only the most assiduous reader who will be able to find it. His two most original chapters are those wherein he discusses ‘Social institutions’ and ‘The nature of progress.’” Harry Salpeter
– + =N Y Call= p14 My 13 ‘17 650w
“The book gives all appearances of having been too hastily written, and thus furnishes grounds for the criticism that the work of sociologists is superficial. This is all the more deplorable because the general plan and logic of arrangement of the book are excellent.” F. S. Chapin
– + =Science= n s 46:215 Ag 31 ‘17 510w
Reviewed by Graham Taylor
=Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 210w
=KEMMERER, EDWIN WALTER.= Modern currency reforms. diags *$2.40 Macmillan 332 16-25102
“Beginning with the Indian monetary reform of 1893 five important currency adjustments have been consummated. The other four comprise those perfected in the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Straits Settlements, and Mexico—although some may doubt the efficacy of that of the last-named country. Professor Kemmerer has assembled data of these five reforms covering the conditions which preceded them, the causes, the plan of readjustment, and the results, presenting it in a volume of unusual value and interest to students of finance.” (Boston Transcript) “Professor Kemmerer was financial adviser to the Philippine government, and during that service drafted the currency legislation for the Straits Settlements. He had especial opportunities for information regarding the establishment of a new standard of value in Porto Rico.” (N Y Times)
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“Barring the title, the book is quite satisfactory, from table of contents to index, both inclusive. ... No man, surely, is better fitted than Professor Kemmerer to write such an account. The author himself made so much of the history here chronicled that his book must have for every reader an unusual quality of finality. ... Is not adapted to use as a textbook for American college classes.” G: R. Wicker
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:356 My ‘17 220w
“Professor Kemmerer needs no introduction to students of money and credit. His contributions in this field have been numerous and of a uniformly high order. He and Professor Irving Fisher are generally recognized as the two foremost exponents in the United States of the modern form of the ‘quantity theory’ of money value.” E. E. Agger
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 390w
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 50w
“Every day enhances the value of this work. ... It is safe to say that attempts at currency reform will play no small part in the finance of the coming years, and the laboratory experiences which Professor Kemmerer here describes will be of inestimable value to the world. To be sure, these experiences are related to fluctuating silver moneys, whereas the great problems of the future will relate to depreciated paper currencies. Yet a depreciated currency is a depreciated currency, whether it be metal or paper.”
+ =Nation= 105:92 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w
“No one wishing to be abreast in the state of the art and science can afford to be ignorant of these object lessons of how prices, taxes, wages, and contracts of indebtedness are affected by such reforms.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 180w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 100w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Rib of the man; a play of the new world in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of an afternoon in the fulness of days. il *$1.30 Harper 822 17-8757
The theme of Mr Kennedy’s play is the coming of a new day in which a new relation will be established between men and women and in which there will be no war. “If we depend upon war to end war, we are lost indeed,” says Diana Brand, “No! War will end by the advent of something mightier than itself! It is here, now! At the door!” The scene is an island in the Ægean, the time, toward the end of the European war. Scene and action are arranged to correspond somewhat with the situation in the Garden of Eden.
=A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“With all these elements which would seem to remove it far from any sense of reality, the dramatist does the seemingly impossible, and gives us actual people, doing real things in a natural way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 170w
=Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 110w
“Part of the dialog is witty; once or twice the plot of the play proper begins to sound very interesting. As for Diana, she is a very real and very wonderful woman, and deserves a better vehicle for her power, beauty and humor.”
– + =Ind= 92:489 D 8 ‘17 330w
“It will be caviare to the general and a stumbling block to some of his stanchest admirers. To the cynical and skeptical it will appear the work of a rhapsodical sentimentalist and visionary. Only those in sympathy with his sturdy apostolic faith will recognize the inspiring spirituality of his main themes, and even they will regret that high ideals, so eloquently and forcibly expressed, should be blurred by much that is extravagant or intemperate.” J. R. Towse
+ — =Nation= 104:608 My 17 ‘17 900w
“Had Mr Kennedy not enlisted the aid of symbolism that simplicity of his program might perhaps have been quarreled with, but he envelopes the issues in such allegorical vagueness that realistic standards are inapplicable.”
=New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 180w
“The fervor, humanitarian aspiration, glorious conception of a spirit-free world, loyalty to true art, occasionally beautiful turn of phrase and daring presentation do not rescue this play from frequent triviality and occasional overwhelming dullness. ... It will leave most readers merely indifferent.” Frank Macdonald
+ — =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 270w
“A vein of satire runs through it, for Mr Kennedy delights in satire, and the character study is delicately done. Of action the play has little; it moves in the realm of thought.”
=N Y Times= 22:162 Ap 22 ‘17 650w
“His people, save for his superman and superwoman with their conception of the new world, are all more or less caricatures, illustrative of present-day types. Indeed the superman and superwoman themselves are tremendously overdrawn, as they must perhaps be in an allegorical play, yet drawn for all that with force and feeling. They express radical doctrines. They utter lines that are ultra-modern, occasionally blasphemous—a compound of Wells and Shaw—and yet it is impossible to escape the lofty thought that animated the poet-dramatist in writing. ... The situations possess true dramatic forcefulness and the lines many times rise to genuine poetry.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 680w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER.= Social teachings of the prophets and Jesus. *$1.50 Scribner 220 17-12971
“The discovery that the great prophets and founders of Judaism and Christianity were above all else social teachers and reformers is rapidly revolutionising the study of the Bible,” says the author. “The Hebrew prophets and Jesus speak to us to-day more directly and convincingly than they did even to their contemporaries, for we are far more keenly alive to the importance of the social problems which they were seeking to solve. To appreciate fully the social principles which they laid down it is necessary first to become acquainted with the personality of each of these prophets and with the immediate political and social conditions with which they were dealing. Studied in the light of their historical background, these teachings can then be readily interpreted into universal terms and used as a solvent for the social problems of today.” In this paragraph both the purpose and method of Professor Kent’s book are summed up. It is divided into four parts, treating of: The social ideals of the pre-exilic prophets; The social ideals of the exilic and post-exilic prophets and sages; The social ideals of Jesus; The social ideals of Jesus’ followers. There is a five-page bibliography.
“Dr Kent’s conception of Jesus is well known from his earlier works, and reappears here with still sharper emphasis on the ‘social service’ aspects. ... The objections to this point of view hardly need recapitulating. All this is in no way meant to say that Dr Kent has not written very much of very great value. The weakness is a weakness often to be found in writings of the ‘social service’ school—a desire to obtain results too directly, a constant implication that the biblical teachers spoke with modern problems in modern phrasing ever before their minds. Good method requires that we determine the content of such teaching in the light of its own day. The appendix contains an excellent bibliography, an elaborate list of subjects for investigation and discussion, and a brief classified index of biblical passages.” B. S. Easton
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:470 Jl ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
“The book will not solve all present-day social problems by the teachings of the Bible. It is not intended to do this. It is meant primarily to be a source book; and when used as such it will be found to be a most excellent one.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 23 ‘17 500w
“It is not so much his social principles that are objectionable, which are one sided rather than false, but his implicit rejection of supernatural religion without which those principles have little force. Traditional Christianity is the most tremendous assertion ever made by man. It is worse than futile to hold, as does this writer, that it matters little or nothing whether it is true or not. That is the one thing that really does matter.”
– + =Cath World= 106:401 D ‘17 580w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 30w
“Will be of much assistance to Christian preachers and teachers.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 60w
“This is the work of a man saturated with the broader subject which includes that of the book. Those who are wondering what to teach advanced classes in a church school will find a good course in this college textbook.” L: A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 1 ‘17 150w
“Dr Kent, who is Woolsey professor of Biblical literature in Yale university, is well known to Bible students for his work in religious history and modern criticism. ... Dr Kent is in the main a conservative as regards social theory, but he seeks merely to arrange the social utterances and expand them as nearly as possible in accordance with their original meaning. The book is carefully compiled, and is a valuable and timely contribution to the Christian interpretation of modern social problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 210w
=KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT.= How to read. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 028 16-22768
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17
“This is a most suggestive book. It should lead many to realize the mental indigestion from which they suffer, and help them to order their reading so as to make it useful.”
+ =Ath= p248 My ‘17 30w
“Mr Kerfoot is the literary critic of Life; and he has brought into his essay that journal’s distinctive tone: the brilliant and piquant passing into the flippant, and occasionally degenerating into the slangy. But the principles for which he argues are old friends of psychology, applied to reading. ... The principles upon which Mr Kerfoot dwells are by no means new in themselves, but they may well be new to many. The author’s method is certainly novel.”
+ =Cath World= 105:121 Ap ‘17 420w
“There may have been a more fascinating exposition written in some language, at some time, on some subject, than Mr Kerfoot’s book; but one is permitted to doubt it.”
+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 430w
“It is all interesting, but we wish he had made some of his statements with more directness and fewer explanations.”
+ =Lit D= 54:569 Mr 3 ‘17 150w
“It is not a humorous book, but it sparkles from the first page at frequent intervals clear to 297. Going to such a school is delightfully rewarding if one will not expect the teacher to do it all. Reaction to the Kerfoot stimulus is not difficult, but it must be seriously experienced, not too much at once, if this book is to be a veritable ‘open sesame’ to literature.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 1 ‘17 350w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= In good company. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 920 17-15319
A volume of personal reminiscences of distinguished men. Five of the papers that compose the contents deal with Theodore Watts-Dunton. The other papers are: A. C. Swinburne; Lord Roberts; When Stephen Phillips read; Edward Whymper as I knew him; Oscar Wilde; S. J. Stone, the hymn-writer.
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 140w
“A miscellany of excellent personalia, somewhat inflated in manner but intimate in its revelations of the inner world of literary London.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 6 ‘17 370w
“Mr Kernahan’s book, like all good company, is stimulating and provocative. It is too often dull; it is marred by mysterious hints at things the author might tell an he would, and by a very wearisome and embarrassing—an almost servile—self-depreciation. And yet the glimpses that it affords of such ever-interesting figures as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde, and the mountaineer and scientist, Edward Whymper, who are the subjects of the best of the sketches, are amazingly lifelike.”
+ — =Dial= 63:347 O 11 ‘17 490w
“The Wilde essay has some things that had better have been left unsaid.”
+ — =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 250w
“Mr Kernahan, in his pictures of his friends, reveals his own stature—a man big enough to forget his own importance in a study and appreciation of his friends and fellow craftsmen.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 D 1 ‘17 280w
“This collection of ‘personal recollections’ superficially resembles but essentially differs from the abundant chirping books and articles about the celebrities of the day. It differs from them in containing a number of deliberately executed literary portraits, composed and finished with a clear consciousness that portrait painting is a fine art with a technique beyond the reaches of the cheerful chatterbox.”
+ =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 950w
“In his circle Mr Kernahan moves with appropriate kindliness and dignity and attentiveness. Of his three graces the best is undoubtedly the last. He has a fine faculty for remembering and recording what people actually said, or what sounds actual.” B. H.
+ =New Repub= 12:309 O 13 ‘17 650w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 100w
“He pays a fine tribute to Lord Roberts, in whose campaign for national service he took part. Like every one else who came into contact with that great man, Mr Kernahan was profoundly impressed with his courtesy, his patience, and his abounding energy.”
+ =Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 70w
“One of the most interesting because least familiar sketches in Mr Kernahan’s book is that of S. J. Stone, the hymn writer, author of ‘The church’s one foundation.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w
“We have enjoyed Mr Kernahan’s book so much that we find ourselves asking what the reason can be. ... He succeeds very singularly in making us feel that to all these men life was a rich and remarkable affair. ... The average person is chiefly struck by the eccentricities of the great; Mr Kernahan, on the other hand, bears witness to the fullness, sincerity, and passion with which great men live compared with lesser men.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1050w
=KERR, SOPHIE.= Blue envelope. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-5983
When she is nineteen, Leslie Brennan learns that she must earn her own living. It had been her father’s wish, her guardian informs her, that she adopt some gainful occupation and support herself for two years. The transition from a well-established social position in a small city to a business college and boarding house existence in New York is a sudden one but Leslie adapts herself to it. She finds a position with a red-haired, irascible chemist, and it is when her employer sends her to Washington with an important formula intended for the War office that exciting events begin for Leslie. It is thru them that she proves her mettle, learning at the same time how affairs stand between her and the red-haired chemist.
“Light, good for reading aloud, and has made a good ‘movie.’ Appeared in Woman’s Home Companion.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The story is told with vivacity and skill. A considerable fault is the not infrequently reviewed recital of happenings for the benefit of persons in the story not as well informed as the readers of the book.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 330w
+ =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
“There is a delightful vein of humor throughout the tale, and, while the pictures of difficulties encountered by working girls are vivid and serious, the story is quickly diverted to a more romantic and improbable course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 270w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 50w
=KERRUISH, JESSIE DOUGLAS.= Miss Haroun Al-Raschid. *$1.50 (1c) Doran 17-13954
“Rathia Jerningham, heroine and narrator of the tale, has led a very unusual kind of life. Her mother, Rathia Khan, of Abasside descent, having died when she was but a baby, her father married a courageous English lady who went with him on all his expeditions. It was often very dangerous, for Sir Horne Jerningham was a really great Assyriologist; as his daughter grew up, she shared his work and became herself an expert. But before this Lady Jerningham the second had also died, several years had been spent in England, and Rathia had a year in society before she returned to Asiatic Turkey, leaving her half-sister, Evelyn, and two brothers to be educated in England. The novel begins with the coming of this half-sister to Constantinople, whence she insists upon accompanying her father and Rathia to their home in Mosul. Through Kurdistan and Mesopotamia the story takes us into Armenian villages, among the Chaldean Christians, and into the hold of a Kurdish mountain chief. ... There is a love story interwoven with it all. ... The period is the early nineties, when Victoria was still on the throne of England, and the Armenian massacres were brewing.”—N Y Times
“The author apparently knows well the life of which she writes, for her novel contains an abundance of illuminating and interesting detail.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 650w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture of Mesopotamia given us by the author. The part of the book which deals with Assyriological excavations in the Land of the two rivers furnishes most timely reading, and incidentally affords much detailed information as to the conditions under which our troops are fighting in that theatre of war.”
+ — =Spec= 118:544 My 12 ‘17 80w
“An exceedingly well-told tale, full of color, excitement, and solid information. The last named is so smoothly merged with the element of fiction, however, that it never transcends the imaginative atmosphere surrounding the narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 460w
“Miss Kerruish’s story has won the first prize in her publishers’ thousand-guinea novel competition, and both the authoress and her judges are to be congratulated on a decision with which her readers will have good reason to agree.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p166 Ap 5 ‘17 790w
=KESTER, PAUL.= His own country. *$1.50 (1c) Bobbs 17-17972
“The plot of ‘His own country’ centres around the personality of Julius Cæsar Brent, whose blood is but one-eighth black. While still a boy he goes to Montreal, becomes in time a physician, marries twice, in each case a white woman. He has three children, a son and two daughters. In middle age the call of his native Virginia rings loud in his ears, and having acquired a competence, he purchases an old estate by correspondence and without revealing his identity as a former slave boy who once dwelt in a cabin in the very district of tidewater Virginia to which he returns. ... He is denied all social recognition. Against the appeal of his wife, he decides to remain, subjecting her and his children to a degrading humiliation even greater than his own. The months and the years pass. He becomes a national figure, lectures far and wide on the race question, heads a great movement to make the negroes a permanent political and financial power, and finally brings upon himself and two of his children the doom of death. A thousand and one details of his association with his fellow Virginians of both races add to the length and substance of the story, and numerous plots and counterplots in it increase its persistent sensationalism.”—Boston Transcript
“The book is long, rather unpleasant, and will have a limited appeal.”
— =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“The hand of the playwright betrays itself in the series of dramatic or melodramatic episodes upon which the story hinges. ... As a tract this book, prophesying as it does a great struggle to the death between the black race and the white, may do more harm than good; as a story, with all its touches of realism, it amounts to a skilful melodramatic contrivance on a great scale.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 45:647 Ag ‘17 800w
“His facts run away with him, and his imagination plays havoc with them. ... His story becomes a veritable chaos of ill-constructed incidents. It is the wildest sort of sensation. ... Its pictorial quality is unquestioned, its creation of both black and white character is remarkable in its truth to life, it contains many incidents strong in their realism, its dialogue abounds in shrewd human touches, but the story as a whole falls far short of reaching the dignity of its theme and of achieving the sincerity of the novelist’s purpose.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 800w
“As a novel, the story is interesting; as a psychological study and as a thought-provoking introduction to more serious consideration of the future of the colored race in America, it deserves attention. To offset the prolixity and occasional stiffness there is a sincere and wholesome study of conditions and atmosphere that cannot fail to impress the reader.”
+ — =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 110w
“We are all thinking first of the war. But we must not forget the problems of democracy facing us at home, and no one of these is more important than the problem of right and justice in our relations with the colored people. ... The story does not offer any solution for the race problem but it does present the tragic situation fairly and humanly.”
+ =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 280w
“Fully and strongly as the case for ‘the nigger’ is put by Brent in speech, it is all belied by Brent in action. He can go so far and no farther towards greatness, fails always to meet the supreme tests. ... This theory of his essential inferiority by reason of the ‘black drop’ in him emerges as the dubitable idea underlying this elaborate and, on the whole, melodramatic narrative.”
– + =Nation= 106:148 Ag 9 ‘17 700w
“Dr Brent is not a tragic figure, nor one that wins the reader’s sympathies. He is not even convincing. The whole story reads much as if Mr Kester meant it to be a warning of the dangers of negro progress.”
— =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 850w
“With very considerable talent, and with more than average knowledge of his subjectmatter, he has written a strange and wonderful melodrama, at times verging on power, at times so crude as to be scarcely tolerable.”
– + =No Am= 206:797 N ‘17 850w
“So far as it discusses race problems it would be a better book if the author showed evidence of the slightest knowledge about the effort made by Booker Washington, Hampton and Tuskegee, and their friends, North and South, black and white, to make a good man and a good citizen out of the negro. He seems to have the idea that the friends of the negro are chiefly occupied in advocating miscegenation and negro supremacy.”
– + =Outlook= 116:556 Ag 8 ‘17 200w
“Mr Kester is neither academic nor melodramatic. The ethics of the question are presented without weakening the dramatic and emotional elements inherent in the tale. It is a very long, but at no point, tedious book. ... which makes a deep impression on the reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w
=KETCHAM, EDWARD AUGUSTUS.= Fire insurance. $2.50 E: A: Ketcham, Madison, Wis. 368 16-11610
“The author has been for ten years an examiner in a state insurance department and his purpose in writing this book is stated to be ‘to place in convenient form the essential elements relating to the fire insurance business ... for the student.’ The following chapters occupy 218 of the 301 pages and constitute the important part of the book: History of fire insurance (two chapters), Rating of risks, Fire insurance accounting, and Examination of a fire insurance company.”—Am Econ R
“The book is almost wholly descriptive, with much detail in parts of it. The style is good, but there is a lack of unity and logical arrangement, each chapter reading as if it had been prepared as a paper or as an address. There is little discussion of the fundamental principles underlying fire insurance or of the concrete problems which arise in the conduct of the business. ... No index is provided; and this in a book lacking unity, and almost wholly descriptive in character, becomes a more than ordinarily serious defect.” W: F. Gephart
=Am Econ R= 6:934 D ‘16 800w
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 10w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.= Poems and parodies. *$1 Stokes 821 (Eng ed 17-17077)
The author, late professor of Irish economics in the National university of Ireland, was killed in France in 1916. This little book of his poems has an appreciative foreword by William Dawson. The poems themselves are grouped as: Personal; Early poems; Translations; Miscellaneous; Political; War poems.
“They are the reflection of a mind quick and free, rich in subtle ironies and tendernesses, but most frequently—since it was the mind of an Irish patriot—full of a brilliant indignation.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:393 D ‘17 340w
“Those who are interested in following the careers of the men who have made the big concern of their lives the political emancipation of Ireland will no doubt be interested in this volume, but it has no particular claim to one’s attention as straight poetry or parody though it is all quite clever.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 290w
“The charm and the finest quality of Kettle’s poems come out in the dreaming. He fought the Germans for a dream, as he had fought England for a dream; and however uncomfortable it may be for the politicians and rulers of the Empire when this power is expended upon politics, this heroic dreaming is the source of all good Irish literature.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 450w
=KETTLE, THOMAS MICHAEL.=[2] Ways of war; with a memoir by his wife, Mary S. Kettle. *$2.75 Scribner 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28917)
“Barrister-at-law, poet, literary stylist, patriotic Irishman, eloquent speaker, member of Parliament, journalist, professor of economics, and finally a soldier, giving up his life at Ginchy on Sept. 9, 1916, ‘at the post of honour, leading his men in a victorious charge,’ Kettle was a man of the loftiest ideals. ... The memoir by his wife is followed by a sequence of chapters which constitute the apologia of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer up his life in the war for the freedom of the world. The first section of the book, ‘Why Ireland fought,’ includes chapters upon ‘The bullying of Serbia’ and ‘The crime against Belgium.’ In the early days of the war Kettle was in Brussels, and had opportunities of visiting Termonde, Malines, and other places. A striking chapter of the book deals with the soldier-priests of France.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p507 O ‘17 970w
+ =Ath= p525 O ‘17 200w
“The book will help to fill a small and solitary shelf in the big library this world-conflict is creating; for it is rich in two of literature’s prime essentials, a lucid and beautiful style, and a fervor in expression that is well-nigh that of the mystic who is a zealot.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 15 ‘17 590w
“The volume is composed of various papers, all bearing the marks of a rare style and scholarship. There are pungent and vivid pages on the scenes he witnessed in Belgium, and on various phases of life at the front, a scathing study of Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Treitschke in ‘The gospel of the devil,’ while the ‘Rhapsody on rats’ is typical of Kettle’s racy wit.”
+ =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 470w
=New Repub= 13:256 D 29 ‘17 1850w
=N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 900w
“Read this book that you may receive comfort and confidence from the unquenchable spirit of the new France. Read the memoir, written simply and movingly by Kettle’s widow, that you may come to love the man for what he was and the country which begat him.”
+ =Spec= 119:297 S 22 ‘17 1300w
“The book contains some brilliant little sketches of life at the front.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p439 S 13 ‘17 860w
=KILMER, JOYCE.=, ed. Literature in the making. *$1.40 (3c) Harper 810.4 17-13416
Mr Kilmer reports interviews with a number of contemporary men and women of letters. He says in explanation of his purpose: “How eagerly would we read an interview with Francis Bacon on the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, or an interview with Oliver Goldsmith in which he gave his real opinion of Dr Johnson, Garrick, and Boswell! A century or so from now, some of the writers who in this book talk to the world may be the objects of curiosity as great.” Among the subjects discussed with various authors are: War stops literature—William Dean Howells; The joys of the poor—Kathleen Norris; National prosperity and art—Booth Tarkington; Romanticism and American humor—Montague Glass; Commercializing the sex instinct—Robert Herrick; Literature in the colleges—John Erskine; The new spirit in poetry—Amy Lowell. The interviews were written up first for the New York Times.
=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17
“Much sense and much nonsense will be found, as might be expected, in these interviews.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 480w
“A book of fascinating quality and wide appeal.”
+ =Cath World= 105:681 Ag ‘17 280w
“The titles of the interviews really promise more than the interviewer accomplished but some interesting things are said with point and humor.”
+ — =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 100w
Reviewed by G: B. Donlin
— =Dial= 62:519 Je 14 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 Ag 4 ‘17 180w
=Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 300w
“A genial, human, gratifying, and readable book. ... A brief biographical paragraph in the table of contents after each author’s name gives an outline of his life and work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 500w
=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 110w
“The interviews by Joyce Kilmer which have appeared in the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times may be said to have outlived their usefulness. The papers in collected form are a veritable hodge-podge. ... It must not be inferred that Mr Kilmer ‘writes down,’ that he is inept, or that he distorts; he is too good a newspaper man and too honest a writer for that. The papers were not intended to have permanent form, and that is why they appear to such disadvantage in it.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 280w
=KILMER, JOYCE.= Main street, and other poems. *$1 Doran 811 17-28181
Mr Kilmer is now an officer in America’s new army, and six of the twenty-eight poems in this volume are about the war. “The white ships and the red” deals with the Lusitania, while “The cathedral of Rheims” is from the French of Émile Verhaeren. Nearly half of the remaining poems deal with religious subjects.
“At his best he rises to a very noble achievement. The discipline of the sonnet is excellently medicinal for him: it belts him in where he might sag.” C. D. M.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1000w
“The volume just published brings its expected revelation of ‘growth.’ It is an advance over ‘Trees’ not in quantity—for it is still slim—but in the quality, that is to say, the variety of its verse. And its variousness proves Mr Kilmer not less but more a poet of ‘that little, infinite thing, the human heart.’”
+ =Cath World= 106:405 D ‘17 670w
“Facile verse with an aroma of medieval mysticism.”
+ =Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 110w
“The publisher tells us that Mr Kilmer has had, for a man still young, an astonishing varied career. Nevertheless, one could not guess it from Mr Kilmer’s book. Ideas, emotions, language, rhythms, all are oddly second-hand, as if they had been offered to him and blandly accepted.” Conrad Aiken
— =Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 400w
“That delicacy and charm that have characterized Mr Joyce Kilmer’s work in the past are found, with an added note of strong religious fervor, in his new volume of verse.”
+ =Lit D= 55:38 N 24 ‘17 1350w
“In singing quality and in the command of his medium this new collection, largely of lyrics and sonnets, is quite the best he has published. More marked in it also than in his former books, although it has always been one of his distinguishing qualities, is a certain friendly, human feeling.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:530 D 2 ‘17 360w
=KILNER, WALTER G., and MACELROY, ANDREW J.=[2] Cantonment manual; or, Facts for every soldier. il *$1 Appleton 355 17-31017
This book of “facts for every soldier,” prepared by two army officers, attempts to cover briefly the entire field of military training. Chapters are given to: Helpful hints for recruits, Setting-up exercises, Infantry drill, School of the squad, School of the company, Inspections and muster, Honors and salutes, Tent pitching, Signals and signaling, etc. The last chapter provides an “Easy road to French.” Miscellaneous matter, including music for the bugle calls, is given in an appendix. The book is indexed.
“Provides a great fund of practical information and advice.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 50w
=KIMBALL, MARIA (BRACE) (MRS JAMES P. KIMBALL).= Soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball. il *$1.50 (5c) Houghton 17-9244
The wide extent of Dr Kimball’s service as an army surgeon is indicated by the chapter titles: College and Civil war; Fort Buford—the frontier; The Yellowstone expedition; The Black hills and the Big Horn; The Thornburgh massacre; Texas—Europe—Texas; New Mexico—Santa Fé; New Mexico—Fort Wingate; Governor’s Island—the war with Spain. This memoir, prepared by his wife, is interestingly illustrated. There is an introduction by Major-General William C. Gorgas.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17
“The career of Surgeon Kimball is a distinct part of the history of the country, and a delightful sidelight on certain events that the historian, with mind intent on the high tops, does not and can not include.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 190w
+ =Nation= 105:539 N 15 ‘17 1400w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17
=KING, BASIL.= High heart. il *$1.50 (1½c) Harper 17-24285
“Alexandra Adare, who tells her own story, is a Canadian, well born, who had lived an easy life until her father’s death left her almost penniless. ... She was without a suitor of any kind when Mrs Rossiter, who before her marriage had been Miss Brokenshire, one of the extremely rich Brokenshires of New York and Newport, ... engaged her as nursery governess for her little daughter. Then, of course, Hugh Brokenshire, Mrs Rossiter’s brother, fell in love with Alix, and the family objected, especially J. Howard Brokenshire, the father, an autocrat with the worst possible manners. ... The relations of Alix with the various members of the Brokenshire family, especially with the redoubtable J. Howard and his beautiful young second wife, furnish the main part of the story.” (N Y Times) The war enters slightly into the latter part of the story.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The book has the interest of setting forth the different ways in which Canadians and Americans viewed the earlier stages of the great European conflict.”
+ =Ath= p680 D ‘17 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:338 N ‘17 130w
=Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 170w
“J. Howard Brokenshire is never anything but a wooden figure which moves as the author jerks the wires. But since this is true of every character in the novel, he does not thereby become exceptional.”
— — + =N Y Times= 22:354 S 23 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:750 N ‘17 40w
=Spec= 119:682 D 8 ‘17 20w
“A story to be read thoughtfully. It contains several striking characters—the elder Brokenshire, for example, and one or two minor persons. Its principal significance lies in comparing three branches of the English-speaking race—the native Britons, the Canadians, or ‘Colonials,’ and the people of the United States—and in setting forth the vast influence for peace and the good of humanity that will be evolved when all three come to realize that their fundamental moral principles are one and the same.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 900w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p542 N 8 ‘17 140w
=KING, BASIL.= Lifted veil. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-8203
The woman who came to Arthur Bainbridge’s study was heavily veiled. She told her story and went away. When she comes into his life again three years later he does not recognize her. Out of this situation rises the complication that gives the story its plot. Clorinda Gildersleeve thinks that the clergyman to whom she had gone as a sinner must know her. When he has learned to love her, she takes his love as an evidence of his divine forgiveness, and promises to marry him. The revelation comes to him later. He stands the test but it is when she learns that he has not, as she had supposed, known the truth from the beginning that the real barrier to their marriage is raised.
“The situations are tense and the discussions, though very carefully handled, will offend some readers both in their nature and in their conclusions. Appeared in McClure’s Magazine.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“In all its scenes ‘The lifted veil’ is very close to life. ... It offers a clear view of the experiences that confront us every day.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 450w
“A harmless book, carelessly constructed, somewhat verbose, and arriving nowhere in particular.”
— =Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 350w
“In substance the story, like its predecessors, is helplessly and not altogether wholesomely romantic, the old set illusion tricked out in the costume of the hour, and made palatable to Mr King’s large audience, we fear, rather as refined sex-melodrama than as anything else: a means of escape, not of access.”
— =Nation= 105:16 Jl 5 ‘17 180w
“Basil King’s new novel is in many ways quite the best that has come from his pen.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:94 Mr 18 ‘17 570w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 400w
=KING, DOUGALL MACDOUGALL.= Battle with tuberculosis and how to win it. il *$1.50 (2½c) Lippincott 616.2 17-25108
The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort. He has become convinced that many deaths from tuberculosis occur because the majority of patients do not “begin to comprehend the significance of the reasons underlying the only treatment that will bring success.” He has therefore written this “book for the patient and his friends” to set forth “the fundamental scientific facts which help to answer the patient’s constant inquiry—Why must I do this?” (Introd.) The appendix treats of disinfectants.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:81 D ‘17
“It is probably the first book ever written which turns the discussion of a dreaded malady into a military romance of thrilling interest. The book will bring hope and cheer to thousands of homes. It deserves a wide advertisement from pulpit and press and should be found in every public library in the land.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 190w
“He has written an unusually clear and helpful manual-at-arms for popular guidance. It is made clearer by the frequent use of simile, chiefly drawn from army life.”
+ =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 250w
+ =Nation= 105:672 D 13 ‘17 250w
“With the increasing number of books of a popular nature for tuberculosis patients and their families, Dr King’s book will have a certain amount of competition. His new and refreshing point of view, however, will help to stimulate flagging interest on the part of many tuberculosis patients and workers.” P. P. Jacobs
+ =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 250w
=KING, HENRY CHURCHILL.= Fundamental questions. *$1.50 (3½c) Macmillan 230 17-3741
The author’s aim is “to deal, in not too technical fashion, with some of the most fundamental questions, theoretical and practical, which are involved in the Christian view of God and the world.” Among these problems are: The question of suffering and sin; The question of prayer; The question of Christ; The question of life’s fundamental decision; The question of Christian unity; The question of Christianity as a world religion.
“The last chapter, ‘Citizens of a new civilization,’ is a thrilling statement of the universal meaning and claim of Christianity that must find an answer from anyone who is sensitive to the call to high and heroic duty. The climax of this chapter and therefore of the book is superb.”
+ =Bib World= 50:255 O ‘17 270w
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:678 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p7 Jl ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“A fine spirit and authentic vision mark ‘Fundamental questions’, by Henry Churchill King, the president of Oberlin college. ... President King writes with sympathy and penetration, and his words should be helpful to many who are perplexed at the trend of present-day life and the greatness of its problems.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=KINGMAN, HENRY.=[2] Faith of a middle-aged man. *$1.25 (2½c) Pilgrim press 240 17-25597
“A little book of reassurance for troubled times,” promises the author. It is for men and women, preoccupied with innumerable cares, that the message is given, men and women whose interest in the chapters “will not come from their wisdom but from the elemental heart-hunger that is common to us all.” The first part treats of “The ground of faith” in eight chapters: Life’s need of faith; The appeal of middle age; The years of attrition; Faith’s inner citadel; The life as a witness to the truth; The personality of Jesus; The witness of the life-stream; The place of the cross. The second part enlarges upon “The outlook of faith” in seven chapters: The fact of God; The divine outlook on man; The good fight; The discipline of pain; Overcoming under difficulties; The hope of everlasting life; The unending fellowship.
“The book is sure to find a place in more than current and ephemeral reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 120w
“The book is just what one might expect of Dr Kingman. Between the lines his friends can read autobiography, and are not disappointed in the courage and faith and fine manliness that speak out from a life where physique has failed to match aspiration, and success has been attained by stern heroism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 490w
=KINGSBURY, HELEN OVINGTON.= All aboard for Wonderland. il *$1.50 (4c) Moffat 18-1718
A story for younger children. Donald and Rose have spent a wonderful day in the city. Railway terminal, Christmas shops, Hippodrome and city streets have offered them a series of marvels, one after another. Tired and happy and a little bit sleepy, they sit waiting for their train and listening to the trainman’s voice: “Five forty express for Washington—all aboard.” And then: “Five fifty-nine express for India and the elephants—all aboard!” And immediately Donald and Rose find themselves all aboard and off for Wonderland. What follows is a dream story in which the real events of the day are made to blend fancifully into the dream. There are attractive illustrations, four of them in color, by Gertrude Alice Kay.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ — =Bookm= 46:495 D ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 100w
“The story is well conceived and entertainingly written, and the several illustrations in color add to its charm.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 100w
=KINGSLEY, FLORENCE (MORSE) (MRS CHARLES R. KINGSLEY).= Neighbors *$1.40 (2½c) Dodd 17-24704
The central character of this story is Miss Malvina Bennett, the village dressmaker of Innisfield. The reader is also introduced to Malvina’s rival, Mrs Hobbs, who puts out a sign “Madame Louise—Robes” and draws much of the village custom; to Mrs Hobbs’ son who longs to enlist in the English army; to Harry Schwartz, who works in the munitions factory under the name of Le Noir; and to Madeleine Desaye who has fled from France with her father, and with whom these two young men are in love. Miss Philura, now Mrs Reverend Pettibone, who has figured in other stories by Mrs Kingsley, reappears in this with a new baby.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“The characters are stereotyped ones, but the author has a faculty for making them charming. Perhaps the greatest drawback to one’s enjoyment of the book is the tiresome use of dialect.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 260w
“Mrs Kingsley’s new heroine, Malvina Bennett, village dressmaker in Innisfield, is just as pleasing in her own way as was Miss Philura.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 300w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Clothing and health. (Home-making ser.) il *65c Macmillan 646 16-18558
“‘Clothing and health’ treats of the elementary work in sewing, which precedes garment making. It also discusses the leading textile materials, telling where they are grown and how they are manufactured ready for use. The hygiene of clothing, the buying of material, the use of the commercial pattern and the care and repair of clothing are discussed in connection with the lessons on sewing and textiles.”—Springf’d Republican
=Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17
“A hundred and fifty illustrations enrich the text of this book of 300 pages, as excellent as its mate.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 50w
“For use in elementary schools, specially rural schools. ... Lessons and questions make it a useful textbook, or it can be used in the home.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:127 Ap ‘17 40w
=KINNE, HELEN, and COOLEY, ANNA MARIA.= Home and the family. (Home-making ser.) il *80c Macmillan 640 17-3475
“This is an elementary text book of home making, to be used as a supplementary reader, and source book. It describes the decoration and furnishing of a cottage at Pleasant Valley in a way that develops a strong desire to go and do likewise.”—School Arts Magazine
“Has a chapter with simple directions on how to care for ‘the most important member of the family,’ the baby, and one on right living and how to keep well. Good print and illustrations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Nature= 100:3 S 6 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17
“Four color plates and 185 other illustrations add to the attractiveness and to the value of this sensible volume.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Diversity of creatures. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 17-11707
A collection of stories and poems. A number of the stories have appeared in American magazines: “In the same boat,” in Harper’s Magazine, December, 1911; “In the presence,” in Everybody’s, March, 1912; “The vortex,” in Scribner’s Magazine, August, 1914; “Swept and garnished,” in the Century Magazine, January, 1915; and “Mary Postgate,” in the Century Magazine, September, 1915. There are fourteen stories and about an equal number of poems.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
“He has never shown himself a greater master of the art of story-telling, never combined creative imagination with more triumphant realism, or handled his own English prose with more ease, economy, and certainty of effect. The first of the fourteen, ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ is perhaps the finest short story of the future ever written.”
+ =Ath= p240 My ‘17 850w
+ =Ath= p254 My ‘17 180w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:537 Jl ‘17 330w
“Two of them, ‘Swept and garnished’ and ‘Mary Postgate,’ are products of the war, and that they reveal him at his best is evidence of his command of the vital facts of life. Both are grim.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 1600w
“In these stories Kipling presents the lamentable spectacle of the writer who has written himself out. From ‘As easy as A. B. C.,’ a wearisome, drawn-out, scientific tale in the early H. G. Wells manner, To ‘Mary Postgate,’ an account of the war’s reactive effect on two lonely women, he gives on the whole only meagre evidence of that power which in the eighteen-nineties made his name famous over the globe. The fourteen tales vary in merit, but by a curious grouping the poorest and dullest rank first, the last five stories are the best of the collection. There are two stories of practical jokes on a large scale—‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines.’ The last is the better, and has more than a little of the old rollicking humor of ‘Soldiers three.’ ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ is interesting in conception, but is drawn out to such impossible conclusions and to such an unconscionable length as to destroy its effect.”
– + =Cath World= 105:684 Ag ‘17 280w
“The best stories in this volume are Kipling all over. ... His old vigor of phrase is undiminished, both the vigor which is beauty and the vigor which is brutality.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 62:441 My 17 ‘17 950w
“Three stories stand out from the book sufficiently to assure them a place in the anthologies of the future, ‘As easy as A B C,’ ‘In the same boat,’ and ‘The village that voted the earth was flat.’”
+ =Ind= 90:350 My 19 ‘17 550w
+ — =Lit D= 54:1858 Je 16 ‘17 160w
=Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 550w
+ — =New Repub= 11:112 My 26 ‘17 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 22:177 My 6 ‘17 1100w
Reviewed by Fremont Rider
+ — =Pub W= 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“Only two of the stories actually deal with the war, and in them the author is at his best. They have restraint and dignity. There are no tricks or fireworks, but they are written with immense power and sincerity. In striking contrast to these are the two ‘comic’ stories, ‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘The horse marines,’ which are as bad as anything that Mr Kipling has done in the way of whipped-up humour.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
+ =Spec= 118:461 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
“‘The village that voted the earth was flat’ and ‘In the presence’ not only transcend the others in merit, but are also most characteristically Kiplingesque.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 770w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Ap 19 ‘17 750w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Sea warfare. *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 940.91 17-7953
“The fringes of the fleet,” printed earlier in a separate volume, is included here as the first of three parts. Parts 2 and 3 are Tales of “The trade” and Destroyers at Jutland. By “The trade” is meant the submarine service. A number of poems are included.
=A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“This collection of Mr Kipling’s recent articles exhibits his genius for vivid description of the almost indescribable, and his power of giving life to brute engines and physical energies, at its highest.”
+ =Ath= p601 D ‘16 50w
“Only one American writer has so far laid his finger on the secret by which Kipling may be understood. In a recent article Mr Will Irwin discussed the cleavage in the British race between Norman blood and Saxon—a cleavage that very few understand but that is very illuminating. Rudyard Kipling is clear Saxon. He sees and writes from the Saxon point of view. His Norman-blooded officers are seen from beneath. ... In his most recent book he has given us again the purely Saxon viewpoint, writing as a brother when he writes of Grimsby fishermen. On the other hand, his officers (and the navy with its rigorous caste rule is practically all Norman on the upper deck) are admirable at a little distance.”
+ =Dial= 62:358 Ap 19 ‘17 450w
+ — =Ind= 90:35 Ap 2 ‘17 370w
+ =N Y Times= 22:179 My 6 ‘17 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:529 Je ‘17 10w
“The ‘Destroyers at Jutland’ chapter furnishes the real interest of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 420w
“Have an atmosphere and flavor of their own; they sometimes seem tenuous and even confused, but their effect is cumulative, the significant though often slight incidents related remain in the memory, and we conclude, with the author, that ‘the navy is very old and very wise.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 70w
=KIRK, MRS ALICE GITCHELL.= Practical food economy. il *$1.25 Little 641 17-24175
Mrs Kirk offers this book as the direct result of eleven years lecturing on home economics and the teaching of all grades from kindergarten through the academic departments in cooking. Contents: Preparedness in the home; Meats; Bread; Milk; Conservation of fruits and vegetables; Use of fruits in season; Service first. Nutrition tables, Children’s menus, School lunches for children, A week-end vacation for mother, are some of the features of a book designed to put in operation Mr Hoover’s direction to “Eat plenty, wisely, and without waste.”
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“To the average housewife a definition of and a technical treatise on the familiar word ‘calorie,’ is not particularly illuminating. In this book Mrs Kirk has incorporated a generous list of examples representing approximately 100 calories and Professor Atwater’s nutrition table which shows the waste and fuel matter (measured in calories) of every food variety.”
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 120w
“Mrs Kirk’s technical knowledge is sufficient to enable her to find untechnical expression for it, and she robs calories of half their horror in her careful, practical explanations.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 200w
“Special attention is given to the elimination of waste in buying, preparation and cooking. Ways for co-operating with the Food administration are suggested. A special section deals with ‘understanding the gas range.’ An entire chapter is devoted to bread. Decidedly this is the book for all those wishing to become partners with Mr Hoover.” Cyra Thomas
+ =Pub W= 92:816 S 15 ‘17 420w
=R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 30w
“Another valuable point in this book is the amount of space devoted to the proper foods for children.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 100w
=KIRKPATRICK, MARION GREENLEAF.= Rural school from within. il *$1.28 (2c) Lippincott 379 17-19387
This book is largely autobiographical. The author tells the story of his teaching experience in a rural school in Kansas some twenty-five years ago. It is a very human story in which the characters of the young teacher, his pupils and the men and women of the community are revealed. With the ripe wisdom that has come from years spent with boys and girls, the author discusses some of the problems of education and discipline represented in that early experience. He is now specialist in education, division of college extension, Kansas State agricultural college.
“Those who have neither attended nor taught a rural school may get much local color and good advice, if they desire them, from this didactic but interesting narrative. The data on consolidation of country schools may appeal to more specialized readers. The proposed rural-school curriculum falls far short of the changes which present conditions demand.” L. L. Bernard
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:554 Ja ‘18 100w
“Shows a sympathetic insight into the rural school problem and should be a source of inspiration to those interested in rural education.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
“A constructive book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 150w
“The freshness of his approach to a discussion of these problems and of means of making progress towards their solution is the delightful quality of a loosely written book; a book humanly rather than intellectually original. ... His heart is plainly in what he writes, and his sympathy and first-hand experience are refreshing after books which make rural education a dehumanized affair of sociology and public administration. But to appreciate the homeliness of his book is not to forgive its poor organization and padded style.”
+ — =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“From the first paragraph to the last it is constructive.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 110w
“The spirit and tone of the book is sane and helpful and will help to inspire those who sincerely desire to render service to country people.” G: L. Roberts
+ =School R= 25:529 S ‘17 180w
=KITTREDGE, MABEL HYDE.= Home and its management. il *$1.50 (1½c) Century 640 17-13801
“A handbook in homemaking with three hundred inexpensive cooking receipts.” (Sub-title) Among the chapter titles are: The house itself; Kitchen; Dining-room; Living-room; Bedrooms; Plumbing; Useful facts for the homemaker; Laundry work; Marketing; Division of income; Foods and their value. The author is president of the Association of practical housekeeping centers in New York city and chairman of the New York school lunch committee. She has written several other books on housekeeping subjects.
“An amplification of the material contained in two previous books. ‘Practical home making’ and ‘Second course in home making.’ While addressed to school girls, the suggestions are helpful and practical for all inexperienced housekeepers.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“An authoritative volume.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 190w
“Miss Kittredge’s book begins at the beginning; it takes for granted exactly nothing at all. The youngest and most ignorant housekeeper will learn the fundamentals here. In its compass of less than 400 pages, it is a remarkably inclusive book. It will be of particular value to the young homemaker in a city apartment. It will be welcomed, too, by the woman of limited means.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:284 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“There are a great many suggestions about living conditions, such as a discussion of the treatment of servants, which hardly belong in a textbook for use in settlement or home-training classes. It seems almost a self-evident fact that the greatest need of the housekeeper at the present time is the ability to evaluate her time and to learn thereby how to maintain an efficient home with the least expenditure of effort. There is no attempt in Miss Kittredge’s book to even suggest this problem, and many of the methods of work that are given are unnecessarily time-consuming.” A. R. Hanna
– + =School R= 25:613 O ‘17 430w
“Even the most experienced housekeeper will be likely to find something new in this volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 150w
=KLEENE, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.= Profit and wages. *$1.25 (3c) Macmillan 331 17-100
A study in the distribution of income. Income is differentiated from general wealth as “wealth just produced or come into existence.” The author examines the various economic theories that have been put forth and then arrives at his own conclusions, which go back to doctrines of the classical school. Contents: Introduction; Böhm-Bawerk’s theory of interest; The time-preference theory; The abstinence theory; The productivity theory of interest; The essentials of a theory of profit and interest; The theory of wages—The supply of labor; The theory of wages—The demand for labor; Conclusion.
“A clear, well reasoned attempt to state and solve the problem of distribution in economics. Scholarly and highly theoretical, it complements, but does not replace, other works in this field.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:290 Ap ‘17
“The book is excellent in style and tone, and a perusal of its contents will be particularly useful to economists who have followed the subjective theorists into the wilderness of psychological determinations.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:365 My ‘17 150w
“Professor Kleene’s volume must be classified as a contribution to economic criticism. ... On its constructive side the book is fragmentary and lacks coherence. It doubtless will prove useful both to those who are insisting upon a return of theory to the problems and methods of classicism and to those who are demanding a newer institutional economics. If the book is far weaker as a constructive study than as a critical attack, the result is not evidence of personal weakness on the part of the author. Rather it affords testimony to the existing state of economic theory. In view of their problems it is unfortunate that both volumes reveal a lack of familiarity with the writings of the school of English economists who recently have been giving their attention to the subject of welfare, and who of all current theorists seem to be most fully conscious of what they are doing.” W. H. Hamilton
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 220w
“This is a theoretical analysis of the distribution of income, which the trained student may find very instructive, but which will never be read by the ordinary man of affairs.”
=Ind= 89:507 Mr 19 ‘17 90w
=N Y Times= 22:120 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=R of Rs= 55:443 Ap ‘17 40w
“The whole analysis is careful and well reasoned. It will interest everyone who is thinking in the field of economics.” H. F. G.
+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 250w
=KLEIN, ARTHUR JAY.= Intolerance in the reign of Elizabeth, queen of England. *$2 Houghton 274.2 17-4838
“This careful study (by the professor of history in Wheaton college, Norton, Massachusetts) of the religious and political animosities rife in the Elizabethan era shows, as the author remarks, that the great queen’s reign is ‘not altogether an encouraging field to the idealist seeking in the past for the first rays of the light of tolerance.’ Anglicans, Catholics, and Presbyterians contended, and intrigued against each other, with bitterness and persistence.” (Ath) “Mr Klein ... makes clear his belief that the comparative tolerance of the Anglican church was none of its choosing, but was imposed upon it for political reasons by the queen.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“If Professor Klein had called his book a brief sketch of ecclesiastical controversies during the reign of Elizabeth and had made no pretensions beyond a careful restatement of the conclusions already reached by competent scholars, the book could have been commended as vital, interesting, and for the most part accurate. But as a history of intolerance during the reign of Elizabeth—it must be said in all kindliness—the book possesses the remarkable deficiency of saying very little about it. ... The long bibliography and the acknowledgments in the preface raise expectations of a more extended study of manuscript and printed sources than the text substantiates, for the great majority of its details are supported abundantly by standard secondary authorities and the foot-notes are devoted mainly to Strype, the Parker society’s publications, and the State Papers, Domestic.” R. G. Usher
=Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 580w
+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 150w
“The bibliography is not critical, and evidences the author’s anti-Catholic prejudice. He warns his readers against accepting the statements of Catholic writers, but says nothing against unfair books like Bury’s ‘A history of freedom of thought.’ Again he is not aware of the utter unreliability of Sarpi’s history of Trent, nor does he apparently know that a new critical history of the Council is in course of publication.”
— =Cath World= 105:546 Jl ‘17 670w
+ — =Dial= 62:317 Ap 5 ‘17 300w
“The truth is that the intolerance of churches is an antiquated issue; it is the intolerance of states with which we fight to-day. ... To the question ‘When does persecution cease to be persecution?’ Mr Klein seems to provide the facile answer ‘When it is done by the state.’ ... The bibliography is portentous and indiscriminate, amounting to nearly a fifth of the text.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 1400w
=KLEIN, FÉLIX.= Hope in suffering; memories and reflections of a French army chaplain; tr. from the French ‘Les douleurs qui espèrent,’ by Gemma Bailey; with an introd. by Canon H. Scott Holland. *4s 6d Melrose, London 242
“It was the Abbé Klein, of the American hospital, Neuilly, Paris, who gave us the sad and moving little book ‘La guerre vue d’une ambulance’—translated under the title ‘Diary of a French army chaplain.’ The present little book has the same poignant note of single-mindedness; and it is not confined to ‘memories’ for about a third of it contains ‘Reflections’—on the problem of Evil, Grief, Atonement, ‘Lux in tenebris,’ &c.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p474 O ‘16 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:94 Je ‘17
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 19 ‘16 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Fifteen thousand useful phrases. *$1.60 Funk 808 17-30916
That this is a work for study rather than for reference is made clear in the author’s preface on How to use this book, in which he says, “The method used for building a large vocabulary has usually been confined to the study of single words. This has produced good results, but it is believed that eminently better results can be obtained from a careful study of words and expressions, as furnished in this book, where words can be examined in their context.” The phrases for study are arranged in eleven groups: Useful phrases; Significant phrases; Felicitous phrases; Impressive phrases; Prepositional phrases; Business phrases; Literary expressions; Striking similes; Conversational phrases; Public speaking phrases; Miscellaneous phrases. There is an introduction by Frank H. Vizetelly.
“A book of practical usefulness for the student, the writer and the public speaker.”
+ =Cath World= 106:414 D ‘17 50w
“Has great helpfulness for whoever is willing to use it according to Mr Kleiser’s plan.”
+ =Lit D= 56:46 F 9 ‘18 90w
=N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 70w
“While some of these selections seem ‘thwarted by fortune,’ one’s criticism must be ‘tempered by charity,’ and there is no doubt that a systematic study of these pages would greatly improve a deficient vocabulary.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:577 D 5 ‘17 80w
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.=[2] How to build mental power. il *$3 Funk 374 17-27883
A practical, constructive aid to mind-development. Each chapter constitutes a lesson. In order, one is taught how to develop concentration, a stock of ideas, orderliness of mind, power and use of words, clear thinking, intellectual force, habit of analysis, sound opinions, the use of the will, imagination and feeling, a retentive memory, conscience, power of intuition, breadth of mind and spirituality. The whole subject of mental culture is presented in a clear, simple manner that can be readily followed by an intelligent student at odd moments.
=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Talks on talking. *75c Funk 808.5 16-19827
“Both private and public speech are covered by these ‘Talks’ of Mr Kleiser. ... They refer to Talkers and talking, give Phrases for talkers, consider Talking in salesmanship, How to tell a story, How to speak in public, The dramatic element, Care of the throat, etc. It is worth while for every one to realize the value of an attractive voice, to avoid mannerisms, and to be natural, spontaneous, charming, to the largest possible degree. Mr Kleiser’s pages will help.”—Lit D
“Suggestive but not exhaustive.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:161 Ja ‘17
=Cleveland= p145 D ‘16 30w
“A new book on an old art, which can be taken in hand and read through in an hour or so, while the suggestions, if well remembered, may last a lifetime.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:171 N ‘16
+ =R of Rs= 54:685 D ‘16 50w
“The author was formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school.”
=St Louis= 15:10 Ja ‘17 12w
=Spec= 118:340 Mr 17 ‘17 300w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSON-SMITH)=, ed. Beautiful crochet on household linen. (Home art ser.) il *75c Stokes 746 17-26258
A companion volume to a work on knitting, showing how table cloths, curtain tops, towel ends, sideboard cloths, tea cosies, dressing table runners, and other items may be finished with crochet. The author says that special features of the book are suggestions for finishing cloths with a straight edge, and designs showing natural flowers in filet crochet.
=A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 10w
“Some of the patterns are effective, but we wish that the designers could find inspiration in conventional renaissance work, instead of trying to adapt the forms of natural flowers to such an unsuitable medium as flat crochet.”
+ =Spec= 116:635 My 20 ‘16 150w
=KLICKMANN, FLORA (MRS E. HENDERSONSMITH).= Flower-patch among the hills. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 828 17-26323
Flora Klickmann is editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine, an English publication, and author of a number of books on domestic art. In this volume she writes of a summer spent in an old English cottage in the hills overlooking the Wye. The book recalls “The garden of a commuter’s wife” and others of the kind in which amusing personal experiences, out-of-door descriptions and neighborly gossip are mingled.
=A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
“She has much that is quaint and amusing and picturesque to place before the reader of her narrative.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 7 ‘17 140w
“Will appeal to those in whom the love of gardens is an instinct. ... She writes best of what she loves best, and flowers rather than humanity are her happiest inspiration.”
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ =Spec= 116:726 Je 10 ‘16 60w
=KLINE, BURTON.= End of the flight. *$1.50 (1c) Lane 17-11708
Mrs Branstane, as unpleasant a woman as one could find in fiction or out of it, is named by her creator “one of the causeless catastrophes.” The scene of the story is Rossacre, typical of the smaller American cities. Rossacre boasts its social set and its social season. Of the former the Gaylands are the leaders, and it is in the Gayland home that Mrs Branstane occupies the modest position of housekeeper. But there is something sinister in her presence in the house and in her hold over Judge Gayland. He is the first of her victims. Others follow till she meets her match in Andrew Penning. Penning, who in time becomes judge in Gayland’s place, is in love with Annabel, Gayland’s daughter, and it is in her jealousy of the girl that Mrs Branstane oversteps herself and accomplishes her own ruin.
“Primarily a novel of character, of clashing temperaments and wills. Yet its best achievement and the highest promise it contains of the author’s future as a novelist—next, perhaps, to his unmistakable felicity of word and phrase—is his willingness to array his story in a healthy provincialism of scene and feeling, and his considerable ability to make his reader see that scene and share that feeling. In clarity of delineation of character and in sustained and unified effectiveness of its story of character clashing with character, this novel may leave something to be desired.” F. I.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 1250w
“The characters do not live, and the temptation to much skipping is irresistible. The book is better written than many which take a more compelling grasp of their readers.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 160w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
=KNIGHT, AUSTIN MELVIN.= Modern seamanship. 7th ed rev and enl il *$6.50 (2½c) Van Nostrand 656 17-11225
This work by Rear-Admiral Knight, first published in 1901, now appears in a seventh edition. A note says, “The present edition is designed to bring the work up to date as completely as possible. To this end, a large amount of new material has been added, much that was obsolete has been cut out, and about one-third of the remainder has been extensively revised or entirely rewritten.” The new edition is illustrated with 159 plates.
+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Lost little lady. il *$1.35 (2c) Century 17-25247
The scene of this story for young people is laid in New York at the time of the draft riots In 1863. Nora O’Neil rescues a strange little girl, somewhat younger than herself, from the mob. Nora is warm hearted and impetuous, and the great wealth which has come to her father and herself quite suddenly has not spoiled her. The opportunity to mother this little stranger is a golden one to lonely Nora and she hopes fervently that the child’s people will never be found. Her wish seems in a fair way to be gratified, for Bébée refuses to disclose anything about herself. The two girls become devotedly fond of one another, and, happily, the final solution of the mystery surrounding Bébée does not separate them.
“An entertaining tale.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17
“Dr and Mrs Knipe have a literary style which places their books far above the range of average juvenile literature.”
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w
“There is plenty of both plot and incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 50w
=KNIPE, EMILIE (BENSON) (MRS ALDEN ARTHUR KNIPE), and KNIPE, ALDEN ARTHUR.= Maid of old Manhattan. il *$1.25 (1½c) Macmillan 17-24856
A story of New Amsterdam under the rule of Peter Stuyvesant. Annetje, the maid of old Manhattan, had spent her early childhood with the Indians. She knows that they had loved and treasured her highly, for even after they have sent her to live with the white people, their protective watch over her continues. Of her parentage she knows nothing, but she has sometimes been made to feel that she is not Dutch like her companions. Twice it is given Annetje to warn the governor of impending danger. The first time, when an Indian attack threatens, she intercedes with her red friends and the town is saved. The second time her warning is not heeded. The English ships come and New Amsterdam becomes New York. But the ships bring to Annetje the secret of her birth, and Peter Stuyvesant, no longer the governor, sanctions his son Balthazar’s choice of a wife.
=A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 30w
+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 80w
“This is a novel whose simplicity and direct methods are its greatest charm. There is enough excitement to hold the reader’s attention, and enough of historical setting to give the simple story dignity. It is a wholesome and pleasing story.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 60w
“I think children from ten on will like it better than I do, because I tried it on them, and they voted it ‘great.’ And they will get a glimpse of old Manhattan at the time the British took it over, learn what they ate and what they wore, and some Dutch words, interesting because quite mysterious.” Maud Thompson
+ =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 270w
“A story with history, action, and interesting characters, well adapted as a gift for girls.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 15w
=KOBBÉ, GUSTAV.= All-of-a-sudden Carmen. il *$1.35 (3½c) Putnam 17-13315
The Metropolitan opera house is the scene of this story, and a little waif, left at the stage door, is the heroine. It is Yudels, the doorkeeper who, having picked her up, becomes her official father; but all of the company, from the prima donna down, help to mother her. She grows up amid the stage scenery. Stage properties are her playthings and she picks up the music of the operas as readily as she does the four languages spoken by the singers. Her favorite is always Carmen, the opera that was sung on the night of her arrival, and it is in Carmen that she makes her own first appearance on the stage.
“It is a pretty little story, light and improbable, but interesting.”
+ — =Lit D= 55:35 Ag 18 ‘17 140w
“The very slight plot is merely a thread on which to hang a detailed description of the world behind the scenes at the Metropolitan opera house, and of much of the mechanical ingenuity which goes to the production of grand opera. Singers whom all New York once flocked to hear are easily recognizable through the very thin disguises with which the author has cloaked them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w
“Famous opera stars of a generation ago cross the background of ‘All-of-a-sudden Carmen.’ ... It is a light story with a pleasant strain of sentimentality.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 210w
=KOBER, GEORGE MARTIN, and HANSON, WILLIAM CLINTON=, eds. Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene. il *$8 Blakiston 613.6 16-16701
“A collection of studies each by an expert in the particular subject. ... The essays are in three main groups. Part one discusses specific and systemic diseases of occupation; part two discusses first the cause and means of preventing occupational diseases, then the various occupations in which exposure to injurious conditions is involved. In part three there is a description of the unique Milan clinic for occupational diseases; then a discussion of statistics, their uses and their fallacies; and last, chapters that contain the latest study of legislation for the prevention of occupational disease; on the ‘rationale’ of making such diseases notifiable and including them in the records of vital statistics; on women’s and children’s work; and on administrative power and methods.”—Survey
=American Industries= p43 Mr ‘17
“Although the respective articles have been written by a large number of men, it is exceedingly gratifying to note the general tone of conservatism displayed throughout, especially in the medical discussions.” P. N: Leech
+ =Am J Soc= 23:265 S ‘17 400w
“It is a storehouse of knowledge and will be immensely useful to the teacher of economics and sociology, to the business man, and to insurance officials, as well as to those in charge of public health work or the care of the sick. It deserves a place in every college or public library.” Carl Kelsey
+ + =Ann Am Acad= 70:331 Mr ‘17 250w
+ + =Dial= 62:151 P 22 ‘17 450w
“Intelligent citizens who may wish to obtain light upon the subject will find in this book a great abundance of information.”
+ =Nation= 104:635 My 24 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16
“With editors and contributors of such caliber, the treatise produced is necessarily almost complete and authoritative. ... I believe one of the most important articles in the book is that written by Frederick S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university. It is entitled ‘Fatigue and occupation,’ and in a scientific and dispassionate way endeavors to prove the close relationship of fatigue to occupation ... and specifically of the effect of the length of the working day upon the health of the workers.” G: M. Price, M.D.
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 26 ‘16 800w
“The book is a valuable asset to industrial medical literature. The eminence of its collaborators ... is an indication of its authoritativeness and its classic character. Its range of subjects and the exhaustive references to the original sources at the end of each chapter make it invaluable as a reference work. While not the first American treatise upon the subject, it is the most comprehensive.” T. G. Miller
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p20 Ja ‘17 200w (Reprinted from Journal of the Franklin Institute D ‘16)
“A valuable asset to industrial medical literature. ... While not the first American treatise upon the subject it is the most comprehensive.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:42 Ja ‘17 50w (Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1916)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:339 Ap ‘17 100w
“The numerous bibliographies are valuable”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:418 My ‘17 60w
“Dr T. M. Legge’s section on arsenic poisoning is the best brief treatment of this subject known to the reviewer. ... The most serious problems of industrial life are accidents and tuberculosis, the industrial poisonings (except plumbism) being by comparison relatively unimportant. Accidents presumably fall outside the scope of this work but certainly industrial tuberculosis does not; yet dust removal and factory ventilation are scantily treated, while pages are devoted to rare intoxications, of interest only as medical curiosities. ... ‘Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene’ contains much material which will make it a valuable reference book for the specialist, but it is not likely to supplant either of the two earlier works [W. Gilman Thompson, ‘Occupational diseases,’ G. M. Price, ‘Modern factory’] each of which so well fills its special field.” C. E. A. Winslow
* + =Science= n s 45:260 Mr 16 ‘17 650w
“Basic data are presented with a simplicity, clearness, fulness and interest that at first conceal the magnitude of the completed task. The editors have appreciated the value of mechanical aids, such as heavy-faced type for headings, numbered divisions, paragraphs of moderate length and a good index.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 37:467 Ja 20 ‘17 450w
=KOCH, THEODORE WESLEY.= Book of Carnegie libraries. il *$3.50 (4c) Wilson, H. W. 022 17-27889
In 1907 Mr Koch, of the Library of Congress, issued a portfolio of pictures and plans of typical or notable Carnegie library buildings. This collection of plates is now reissued, together with an explanatory text, which the original work lacked. The book has an introduction by R. R. Bowker of the Publishers’ Weekly. In addition, there is a character sketch of Andrew Carnegie by Hamilton W. Mabie, reprinted from the Century, and a paper on Carnegie libraries and good reading, by Arthur E. Bostwick, of the St Louis public library. Mr Koch’s text consists of chapters on: Method of giving; Documents relating to the establishment of the New York city branches; The architecture of the Manhattan branches; Reaching the people; The Brooklyn branches; Eastern libraries; The public library of the District of Columbia; The South; Pittsburg; Ohio and Michigan; Wisconsin and the Middle West; Iowa and the farther West; The southwest and the Rocky mountain region; California; Library planning. Index to text, Index to plates, and List of plates follow.
=A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18
=N Y Times= 23:32 Ja 27 ‘18 50w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin-America. il *$4 (2½c) Century 980 17-14549
Mr Koebel, who has acted as special commissioner for South America for the London Sphere and Standard and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Encyclopedia of South America,” has written a number of books on the various South American states. “His ‘British exploits in South America’ covers a period of more than three hundred years. It opens with a picturesque account of the old English navigators and buccaneers who sailed the Spanish Main, and goes on to describe successively the work of the English and Irish Jesuits in the Spanish colonies, the British voyages of exploration in the eighteenth century, the development of British Guiana and the Falkland Islands, the exploits of the British in Brazil, the part taken by Englishmen in the wars of independence, the early relations of the English with the new republics, and the deeds of innumerable adventurous British travellers, traders, naturalists, and soldiers of fortune.” (Dial) Three aspects of British operations are emphasized: the large part played by capital, the exceptional ease with which the Englishmen took root in South America, and the fact that “almost all of the British achievements in South America have been the work of free lances.” The final chapter, “Today and tomorrow in South America,” is devoted mainly to a discussion of the commercial situation and outlook. Appended is a fifteen-page “Bibliography of modern works from 1870.”
“For the most part the present work is a compilation of extracts culled from contemporary accounts by British writers and pieced together into a somewhat disjointed narrative. The book is provided with illustrations more or less apt in reference and plan of insertion. The bibliography of works issued [since 1870] is not characterized by either accuracy or exhaustiveness, and lacks any sort of evaluation. That the works by Dawson and Scruggs should be mentioned twice, that Bourne’s treatise, along with numerous others of merit, is ignored, that the authorship of Helps’s volumes is ascribed to Oppenheim, and that a reprint of Humboldt’s account should be put down as a recent contribution, are defects not remedied by the inclusion of substantially all of Mr Koebel’s own books. Were Mr Koebel as familiar with the Spanish language and records as he is with those he actually uses, he would not have allowed so many errors and omissions to mar his pages.” W: R. Shepherd
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=A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“This is the book of an author full of his subject and evidently forms the result of many years of note-taking and much general and special reading. It is a permanent contribution not only to South American literature, but is also a noteworthy addition to the shelves of general romance and adventure.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 170w
“A series of portrait sketches drawn with such surety and finesse that in the brief space allotted to each, the personalities of the most famous of the British soldiers of fortune stand out with extraordinary vividness. ... In the concluding chapter, after having studied the ‘bright side’ of British trade in South America, the author, with an equal candor, examines the reasons for its decline, during the past few years. And they are those we of the United States should also heed.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 680w
“Mr W. H. Koebel—who, notwithstanding his German-sounding name, is a thoroughgoing Englishman ... speaks with authority on all matters pertaining to the contact of Europeans with Latin American resources, governments, and peoples. ... He gives evidence of an easy command of rich resources of memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and old books of travel and history: he has a keen sense of character, and his chapters make interesting reading.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:57 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w
“Since the author perforce must introduce ‘true blue’ British sea-dogs and buccaneers, one feels he has achieved a triumph in divesting them of the slightest suspicion of rum, and never exploding on his pages an improper swear word.”
=Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 490w
=Lit D= 55:43 N 17 ‘17 410w
“The author has an irritating habit of peppering his page with irrelevant marks of exclamation. He lapses at times into rank journalese. But all deductions made, Mr Koebel has brought together a great deal of widely scattered information on South America and presented it in a popular and readable fashion.”
+ — =Nation= 105:512 N 8 ‘17 1250w
“While much of the matter in Mr Koebel’s book will not be new to those who have been sufficiently interested in South America to read its history, there is a freshness in the author’s literary style that makes a relation of an old, or even threadbare, fact peculiarly his own. He is a born story-teller.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
“The recent, somewhat unsatisfactory position of British commerce in those countries as contrasted with the rapid advance made by Germany before the war is frankly discussed in this volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 140w
=KOEBEL, WILLIAM HENRY.= Paraguay. (South American ser.) il *$3.50 Scribner 918.9 (Eng ed 17-26318)
In addition to other books on individual South American countries, Mr Koebel has written a work on “South America,” published in 1913, and one on “The South Americans,” published in 1915. “He tells something of the romantic history of this smallest and least accessible of the South American republics. ... He describes the physical characteristics, the cities, the country in general, the people and their life, and devotes much attention to the resources and to the trade in cattle, timber, fruits, cereals.” (N Y Times)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17
“A verbose account of the land it describes in which one looks in vain for any real interpretation of the country. The book is largely a presentation of facts, more or less interesting. About two-thirds of the whole is history; the remaining third consists of chapters on various topics.” G. B. Roorbach
– + =Ann Am Acad= 73:232 S ‘17 190w
“Especially valuable and interesting for its detailed account of present-day conditions, a work for which the author is well fitted, as he has shown by several previous volumes in this series. ... The book is, indeed, a storehouse of all those up-to-date data desired by intending tourist or business man, or by the stay-at-home seeker after information.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:101 Mr 25 ‘17 180w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:424 My ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p42 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 200w
“Mr Koebel gives a really admirable description of the early history of the colony. ... One of the best chapters is the eighth, on ‘The Jesuit mission establishments.’ Mr Koebel treats the subject fairly and impartially. ... A highly prosperous future, if internal stability be maintained, almost certainly lies before this inland republic, but it is a prosperity of promise. Mr Koebel, drawing his information from official sources, undoubtedly paints a picture too roseate.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 15 ‘17 2050w
=KOHLER, MAX JAMES, and WOLF, SIMON.= Jewish disabilities in the Balkan states. $1.50 Am. Jewish hist. soc. 17-7956
“This paper, amplified from the form of its original reading before the society and fortified by voluminous foot-notes, is valuable chiefly because of its compact summary of the legislation now existing in Rumania to the detriment of the Jewish population of that country; and, in consequence, thus formulating the terms of the problem which will arise when the present war in Europe is ended. ... The contributions of the United States to this problem have been almost continuous, beginning a full half-century ago with Mr Seward’s note to Turkey. ... All of these efforts, however, as Mr Kohler shows, were instigated by one or another of the organizations designed to further the political and other progress of the Jewish race; but it is none the less to the credit of American statesmen that the spirit of our diplomacy so readily and generously responded to the appeal.”—Am Hist R
“Mr Kohler has marshalled a line of impressive precedents which point the way for American influence to make itself felt beneficently.” G: H. Moses
+ =Am Hist R= 22:708 Ap ‘17 400w
=Cleveland= p106 S ‘17 50w
“This volume constitutes one of the most important and valuable issues in the series of ‘Publications’ of this active society. ... Mr Kohler, the one author, is a prominent attorney and writer on historical and sociological topics of this city, Mr Wolf, the other collaborator, is the venerable champion of Jewish rights at Washington; for more than fifty years he has acted in support of the civil and religious rights of his brethren-in-faith at the national capital. ... The book is well printed, furnished with a comprehensive index, and conveniently bound.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:434 O 15 ‘16 700w
“Though primarily intended as a contribution to the literature on Jewish history and not written in a form which will attract the general reader, the present volume is likely to help in formulating the policy of this country concerning European reconstruction after the present war. Its scholarship and authority give it unusual weight as a brief for American intervention on behalf of the oppressed Jews in Rumania and other Balkan states.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 37:438 Ja 13 ‘17 600w
=KORNILOV, ALEKSANDER.= Modern Russian history; being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the age of Catherine the Great to the present. 2v maps *$5 Knopf 947 17-8743
“The material chiefly employed in this book by a Russian professor was originally used in his lecture courses at the Politecnicum of Peter the Great in Petrograd within the past two years. It embraces a sketch of Russia’s development as state and people down to the year 1866. The author does not attempt to trace the development of the various Russian nationalities, but aims to expand the history of the Russian people. It is not with Russia’s external history that he deals, but with its social, cultural and inner history. ... The study closes with the year 1890. But in a supplementary section, Mr Alexander S. Kaun, the translator, writes some complementary chapters, although he disclaims all thought of directly continuing M. Kornilov’s work.”—Boston Transcript
“Here is an excellent book on a subject about which there is little good literature in English, and it is made almost unreadable for us by the incompetence of the translator. The title is misleading. It promises a general history of Russia, but the work is almost confined to Russian institutions and political development in the last century and a half. Foreign relations and wars and expansion of territory are touched upon only in a casual and rather slipshod manner, and there are several errors in statement. Economic development comes out a little better, but not much, and there is nothing about such things as the progress of science, literature, or art. On its real topic the book is valuable. Being composed for Russians, it presupposes a certain knowledge of Russian history on the part of its readers. In short, Professor Kornilov’s work is a scholarly, judicious compendium of an important subject, but it is not likely to prove attractive to many American readers. The transliteration of Russian words is in the main good.” A. C. Coolidge
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:148 O ‘17 650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“It is likely to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of Russia more than any other single work which has appeared in English in late years.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 45:320 My ‘17 1000w
“Mr Kaun’s addition is pertinent and readable. He does not enter into a discussion of the causes of the present war, but he aims to show the prevailing attitude of the Russian intelligentzia towards it.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 31 ‘17 400w
“Admirably written and reliable. The print of the two volumes is too fine for the comfort of the reader.”
+ — =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 90w
“An outstanding work. Taking as its basis the best studies of Russian social and political development,—Kluchevsky’s ‘Survey of Russian history,’ and Miliukov’s ‘History of Russian culture,’—it is a lucid, dispassionate, discreetly documented and thoroughly reliable survey of the history of Russia in the nineteenth century.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 980w
“It is a book for the student, not heavy, but with no particular attempt to attract the casual reader. The full index makes it excellent for reference.”
+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“The author is radical-liberal in his attitude. Nowhere in English, so far as we know, can one find so clear, simple, and yet somewhat philosophic an account of the growth of liberalism and democracy in the great Slav empire. Professor Kornilov is one of the first to interpret adequately the influence of the Russian publicists and the Russian newspaper press in the formation of parties and policies. He has also a fairly good ethnological account of the various tribes and nationalities which make up the Russian state and which have become more or less Russified. Unfortunately the extreme gaucherie of the translator has filled the pages with hideous Teutonisms and some almost unintelligible phrases.”
+ + — =Nation= 105:267 S 6 ‘17 400w
“It is a relief to feel that one is at last in the presence of a socially-minded and conscientious historian, who is gifted with the ability to assemble and organize complex data, and endowed with the power to see events, institutions and human relations in perspective. ... I wish especially to call attention to our author’s lucid treatment of the peasant problem.” D: Rosenstein
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 17 ‘17 1100w
“The many tangled threads of Russian life and development are handled in a masterly way, making clear the growth of Russian liberalism through all its varied stages and manifestations. ... Professor Kornilov has the reputation of being a liberal, and therefore it is the more surprising to find his point of view entirely calm, cool, and detached. The hot heart of indignation does not beat in his literary breast, however much it may in his human frame. In that one respect his work seems somewhat defective, since it fails to give the reader an adequate idea in their true colors of Russian affairs and Russian life.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:103 Mr 25 ‘17 1000w
“Naturally of a special interest to us to-day are the concluding chapters, which are packed with interesting information in regard to the various dumas, the zemstvos, the workmen’s movement, and the conduct of the war with Germany.”
+ =Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 40w
Reviewed by R. Staughton
=Pub W= 91:1326 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
“For the first time, we now have an authoritative history of Russia, from the time of Catherine the Great to the third year of the great war.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 220w
=St Louis= 15:187 Je ‘17
“Professor Kornilov’s ‘Modern Russian history’ is an excellent book, and it ought to have an enormous circulation in America. Based on lectures to students, it is written in a clear, luminous style. This history, more than any other book I have read, enables one to understand the Russian revolution of the year 1917, and its prodigious importance. The concluding pages of the book, written by Mr Kaun, intentionally forsake the calm historical manner of Professor Kornilov.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:186 O ‘17 450w
=KREHBIEL, HENRY EDWARD.= Second book of operas; their histories, their plots and their music. il *$2 (3½c) Macmillan 782 17-7943
This book, devoted to some of the more recent developments in operatic music, supplements the author’s earlier “Book of operas.” Contents: Biblical operas; Bible stories in opera and oratorio; Rubinstein and his “Geistliche oper”; “Samson et Dalila”; “Die königin von Saba”; “Hérodiade”; “Lakmé”; “Pagliacci”; “Cavalleria rusticana”; The career of Mascagni; “Iris”: “Madama Butterfly”; “Der rosenkavalier”; “Königskinder”; “Boris Godounoff”; “Madame Sans-Gêne” and other operas by Giordano; Two operas by Wolf-Ferrari.
“Well written, authoritative, and has critical value.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17
“For the musician and student of music rather than for the average opera-goer.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 90w
“As in his earlier work, the free expression of his own preferences and aversions contributes to the enjoyment of the book. Portraits of composers and performers abound, and there are a few facsimiles of autograph scores.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Mr Krehbiel writes with learning and authority, but without pedantry, and in an easy and pleasant style. It must be added that at times his prejudices sit heavy upon him.”
+ — =Ind= 92:384 N 24 ‘17 180w
+ =Lit D= 54:1274 Ap 28 ‘17 120w
“One of the most refreshing things in this book is the enthusiasm for Humperdinck’s ‘Koenigskinder.’ Of particular interest also are the pages on Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly,’ in which the Japanese factors that enter into the texture of the score are made evident.” H: T. Finck
+ =Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 380w
=St Louis= 15:177 Je ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 19 ‘17 280w
=KROEGER, ALICE BERTHA.= Guide to the study and use of reference books; 3d ed., rev. throughout and much enl. by Isadore Gilbert Mudge. $2.50 A. L. A. 028.7 17-23822
“The third edition of the guide is based, in the main, upon the second edition, 1908, and the two supplements for 1909-10 and 1911-13, but the many changes in reference books and developments in reference work and teaching since 1908 have necessitated many changes from the earlier edition. The general plan and arrangement of the second edition have been followed and Miss Kroeger’s introduction has been kept intact except that one section, ‘How to study reference books,’ has been made slightly more detailed. The lists of reference books, however, have been changed very materially and the annotations have been rewritten and much extended, so that this latter feature of the guide is practically new throughout, only a few annotations having been carried over from the second edition, although somewhat more have been retained from the two supplements. Aside from the new annotation, the revision of the lists of reference books has consisted principally of (1) excision of older titles and editions now superseded by more recent material, (2) addition of new titles including not only the recent books listed in the two supplements and later titles through 1916, but also a very considerable number of earlier titles, principally foreign or more special works not hitherto included in the guide, and (3) the addition of some entirely new lists, such as those on Constitutions, International law, Romances, Historical source books, English public documents, etc. ... In general, information included goes through 1916, and does not cover changes, additions, etc., for 1917.” (Preface) Miss Mudge is reference librarian of Columbia university.
“A new edition of the guide, which is everywhere recognized as the foremost ‘guide to reference books,’ has been demanded by librarians in all parts of the country for the past five years, and the A. L. A. publishing board have been fortunate in securing for this important work the services of Miss Mudge, than whom there is no better judgment on the subject of reference books anywhere in the country. ... Absolutely necessary for all libraries making any pretensions at doing reference work, and recommended for purchase for all libraries having 5,000 volumes or more.”
+ =A L A Bkl= O ‘16
“The new guide lists over one and a half times as many titles as the old edition and the notes are much more critical and minutely descriptive.” M. E. H.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:243 O ‘17 210w
=KROPOTKIN, PETR ALEKSIEEVICH, kniaz.= Mutual aid: a factor in evolution. *$1.25 Knopf 301 A17-1635
A reprint of a work published in 1902. “At the beginning of the war in 1914, Prince Kropotkin determined to prepare a reprint of his ‘Mutual aid.’ He put it forth as evidence of his belief that the constructive forces of men are at work in spite of the destructive influences of the war, and that these will lead to a better understanding between men and eventually among the nations. In his discussion of the subject of mutual aid, he begins with the evidence of it to be found in animals, and he then proceeds by evolutionary stages through its aspects as found in the social lives of savages and barbarians, in the mediæval city, to its culmination in the modern state and community.” (Boston Transcript)
“As we read these pages it seems impossible that a man capable of such argument and discussion should have been imprisoned behind stone walls as a danger to his country. It was, however, not his country, but its autocrats that feared him and kept him in an exile that is now ended. Prince Kropotkin is at last free to return to Russia and to take part in the government that by his voice and his work he has succeeded in establishing.” E. P. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 11 ‘17 700w
=Dial= 64:32 Ja 3 ‘18 160w
“Those who are old enough to read, and to think seriously, should read this book. Those who are old enough to have read it already, should read it again.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 3 ‘17 670w
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 160w
“This sociological study of Prince Kropotkin’s, so full of the generosity and humaneness of the Russian temperament at its best, is in many ways valuable for its instruction, and will be found not lacking in inspiring qualities even by those who think it unduly neglectful of the egoistic instincts and who regard its conception of progress as one-sided; though, of course, the author might reply that individual achievement, such as Plimsoll represented, or Lord Shaftesbury, may be gained by the dedication of exceptional powers to the common good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ‘17 680w
=KRYSHANOVSKAYA, V. I.= Torch-bearers of Bohemia; tr. from the Russian by Juliet M. Soskice. *$1.40 (1½c) McBride 17-11467
This book by a modern Russian woman tells a story of medieval Bohemia. The time of the story spans the last years of John Hus, from 1401 to 1415. John Hus and Jerome of Prague are two dominant figures in the story, altho its plot is built about the figure of Rugena, a young girl betrothed from childhood to Count Vok of Waldstein. This betrothal is brought about by Bishop Brancaccio, in whom the corruption of the church of the time is exposed at its lowest depths. By lying and forgery he represents the marriage as the will of the girl’s father, whom he has murdered. The two reformers, Hus and Jerome, both play a part in the girl’s later history.
“The novel certainly deserves recognition, if only for the fact that it is perhaps the only work of fiction dealing with the period of John Hus. It has the romantic fascination of the past, and the English reader will find a familiar atmosphere in the book, owing to the excellent translation which has preserved the peculiarities of the epoch through a masterly use of old English and of the traditional methods of Scott and Reade. The author has been true to historical facts.”
+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 170w
“‘The torchbearers of Bohemia’ differs from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz only by greater condensation, a kinship that may be a distinction, but which fails to satisfy those whom modern Russian literature has trained to expect less of a surface treatment. ... Considered solely as a conventional historical novel, the book is vivid enough.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:87 Je ‘17
“The author has made the theme of this book a round denunciation of everything German in the great days of Hus. ... Miss (or Mme) Kryshanovskaya has done a tremendous amount of historical reading for the artistic and historical touches that lend an air of verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.” W. M. F.
— =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 300w
“In the light of the present situation in Russia, it is peculiarly interesting to note the fire and sympathy with which the struggle for national and religious liberty in Bohemia is depicted by a Russian writer. The splendid personality of John Hus dominates the volume, and gives us an illuminating portrait of that great martyr.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 380w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 N 2 ‘16 40w
=KUELLER, JO VAN AMMERS.= Young lion of Flanders; a tale of the terror of war; tr. by C. Thieme. il $1.50 Stokes (Eng ed 17-10166)
“The book tells what happened to a peaceful, well-to-do Belgian family, one of the daughters of which had married a German. The principal character, the ‘Young lion of Flanders’ himself, is sixteen-year-old Léon Casimir. An expert motor cyclist, he becomes a dispatch rider in the Belgian army, and distinguishes himself at Marbeke, winning the approbation of the hero-king, Albert of Belgium. He has more than one narrow escape from death, and is very nearly shot with a number of other prisoners.”—N Y Times
“It is told as much by suggestion as by direct description. For appalling as is its revelation of German ‘frightfulness’ and perfidy, it is remarkably restrained.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 440w
“It is not exclusively juvenile readers who will be held by this stirring story, of which the translation is exceptionally fluent and satisfactory.”
+ =Cath World= 106:548 Ja ‘18 310w
“Léon’s adventures will thrill young readers, but the sad and bitter tone of the book puts it into the adult class.”
+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“The story, the author tells us, was written that her own children might learn thru reading it the horror and futility of war. It seems more probable that the prowess of the boy Leon, and his thrilling adventures would appeal to the heart of youth as glorious.”
— =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“It is all quite dreadful enough—unbelievably dreadful, we would have thought it a few years ago. But in the light of our present knowledge we are inclined to feel that in his evident effort not to overstate the author has rather understated his case.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“The four pictures by Raemaekers with which it is illustrated are even more illuminating than the text.”
+ =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 30w
=KUENZLI, FREDERICK ARNOLD.= Right and duty; or, Citizen and soldier; Switzerland prepared and at peace a model for the United States. il $1 (2c) National defense inst., Tribune bldg., N.Y.; for sale by Stechert 355.7 16-25197
The author, a native of Switzerland now living in the United States and acting as assistant appraiser at the port of New York, describes the Swiss system of military training and urges its adoption in America. The text of the military constitution of the Swiss federation is given at the close of the book. There is neither table of contents nor index.
=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 10w
“The preparedness discussion has brought out a number of articles and books expository of the Swiss military system, but this interesting volume is perhaps the most comprehensive and most illuminating of them all.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 22 ‘17 400w
=K’UNG YUAN KU’SUH.= Judgment of the Orient. *60c (6c) Dutton 940.91 17-10431
“Some reflections on the great war made by a Chinese student and traveller, edited and rendered into colloquial English by Ambrose Pratt.” (Title-page) Brief observations as to the characteristics of the different peoples of Europe as they impressed him in his travels, are followed by the author’s discussion of the sex of nations. A nation, like a human being, has a soul, and the soul of the nation like that of the human being has sex. Germany has a female soul. He says, “The psychological genesis of the war between Germany and Europe is sexual. It is a war between the femininity of Germany and the masculinity of her neighbors—especially the masculinity of England.”
“Here is food for thought for the wisest.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 130w
“The opinions recorded have a rapier-like penetration and cannot fail to be a source of satisfaction to those who have the cause of the Allies at heart.”
+ =Dial= 62:153 F 22 ‘17 180w
“It is certainly an ungallant theory as regards woman. ... It is nevertheless an exceedingly curious and interesting speculation, and from the Chinese point of view, certainly does not lack arguments to support it.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 580w
=N Y Times= 22:28 Ja 28 ‘17 480w
“If, in the flood of foolish writing about the war, more nonsense has anywhere else been packed within the narrow limits of seventy-two small pages, it has not been the reviewer’s ill fortune to see the work.” H. R. M.
— =Survey= 38:174 My 19 ‘17 180w
=KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Rings for the finger. il *$6.50 (6½c) Lippincott 391 17-7933
Dr Kunz, author of “The curious lore of precious stones,” has prepared another valuable book drawing on his wide knowledge of jewels and ornaments. In this book he has treated of “Rings for the finger, from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.” (Title-page) The titles of the chapters are: The origin, purposes and methods of ring wearing; Forms of rings and materials of which they are made; Signet rings; Some interesting rings of history; Betrothal (engagement) rings, wedding (nuptial) rings, and love tokens; The religious use of rings; Magic and talismanic rings; Rings of healing; Ring making. There are 290 illustrations, some in color.
+ =Cath World= 105:125 Ap ‘17 100w
+ =Dial= 62:152 F 22 ‘17 120w
“In his registry of pretty ‘posies’ he revives delightfully a bit of seventeenth century sentimentality.”
+ =Ind= 90:37 Ap 2 ‘17 50w
“No review could indicate all the information in this exhaustive study of rings.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 250w
“The illustrations to the book are, from the point of view of reproduction, of exceptionally high quality, but they appear to have been selected a little at random.”
+ — =Nature= 99:522 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
“Will have permanent value as a reference book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w
“Contains bibliographical foot-notes.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 3w
“A veritable encyclopedia of fascinating lore. Reproductions of paintings of persons wearing rings are included in the 220 illustrations in color, double-tone, and line.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 150w
“The student and the collector will find the clear and well-arranged plates of great value, while other readers will look with interest at the reproductions of portraits showing the rings as they were actually worn by their owners.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup469 N 3 ‘17 1300w
“Dr Kunz has the vantage point of the Metropolitan museum of New York, with which he is connected, as an initial source for his studies and his rank as an authority on this and kindred subjects is now established.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 10 ‘17 250w
“Dr Kunz has drawn on the most diverse sources for his materials, and has brought together an extraordinary amount of curious learning. He has not, however, the gift of lucid order. ... If the reader tries to find a connected answer to any question that suggests itself, such as the development of the ring forms, he finds himself baffled by wealth of matter and insufficient method.”
+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p294 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
=KUPRIN, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH.= Bracelet of garnets, and other stories; with an introd. by W: Lyon Phelps. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-13619
In his selection of stories for this volume, Leo Pasvolsky has had the advice of the author. In a letter from Mr Kuprin, eight of the stories here translated were named as among those he considered “most successful.” “There is wholeness about Kuprin as a writer, which breathes of the strength and power of Russia herself,” writes Mr Pasvolsky. This quality, he says, is brought out best in the longer stories, of which “The bracelet of garnets,” is one. Another side of Kuprin’s art is shown in the very short story, also represented in the volume. In addition to the title story the book contains: The horse-thieves; The Jewess; Anathema; The Læstrygonians; An insult; The park of kings; An evening guest; A legend; Demir-Kayá; The garden of the Holy Virgin. The translator is editor of the Russian Review.
=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
“The book as a whole, however, while no less searching in its psychology and no less unsparing in its truth, than ‘The party’ and ‘The eternal husband,’ has an atmosphere of normality and restraint which make a stronger appeal to Anglo-Saxon minds.”
+ — =Ind= 93:151 Ja 26 ‘18 170w
“This cheerful note rings through all Kuprin’s works, and places him quite apart from his pessimistic contemporaries—Andreyev, Sologub, and Artsibashev. But he falls far behind them as an artist; he lacks their intensity and reserve. The excellent translation of Mr Pasvolsky does not redeem the platitudinousness of the allegories placed in the end of the book.”
+ — =Nation= 105:374 O 4 ‘17 350w
“Brilliant little studies in character or atmosphere, some compressed into half a dozen pages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
“Two volumes of collections of the short tales of one of the most eminent of living Russian novelists, Alexander Kuprin, have recently been translated, ‘A Slav soul’ and ‘The bracelet of garnets.’ Scarcely any duplication appears, although the biting satire, ‘Anathema,’ is seen in each volume. ‘The garden of the Holy Virgin,’ is a noble illustration of the poetic beauty of Kuprin’s style, when he deals with an exalted theme.” W: L. Phelps
+ =Yale R= n s 7:189 O ‘17 140w
=KUSER, JOHN DRYDEN.= Way to study birds. il *$1.25 Putnam 598.2 17-15688
A small book for beginners in bird study, meant to serve as a guide to the identification of the more common species. It is adapted to the vicinity of New York city. Part 1, Prerequisites, has chapters on: Method of study; Twelve abundant permanent residents; Note-keeping; How to use a key and learn five songs. Part 2 is devoted to the birds of summer, with chapters on: The fifteen most abundant summer residents; The fifteen next in abundance; Nests. Part 3 consists of two chapters on fall and spring bird study; Transients, and Migration data. Part 4 is devoted to winter, with chapters on Winter residents and Winter feeding. Part 5 gives supplementary data, including a bibliography. There are nine colored plates.
“Directions for keeping notes, recording migrations, and learning bird songs, a partial list of books and a note on preservation and propagation of our native birds widen the usefulness of this valuable ornithological primer.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 130w
“Despite the ever-increasing number of books designed to teach the beginner how to study birds, it is doubtful whether, after all, the short cuts are not, in the end, long cuts. The way is made easy—and unprofitable. This is in large measure true of ‘The way to study birds.’ With its nine plates, the book is, of course, no substitute for the amply illustrated manuals by Chester Reed and others.”
— =Nation= 105:130 Ag 2 ‘17 140w
“A bird book of convenient pocket size and of sufficient comprehensiveness to be of actual use.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:220 Ag ‘17 140w
“Arranged especially for the students of New York city and immediate neighborhood, but serves equally well for the southern New England states.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 200w
=KYNE, PETER BERNARD.= Webster—man’s man. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-25126
The hero of this romantic tale is a mining engineer, and the heroine, whom he first meets on a western railroad train, is the daughter of the former president of the Central American republic. The story is brim full of action, most of which takes place in the volcanic little republic, which is on the brink of a revolution.
“An extravagant yarn, lively and entertaining.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“‘Webster—man’s man,’ by Peter B. Kyne, belongs to the familiar and ever popular type of the soldier-of-fortune novel, with all the inevitable stage properties and situations in which the late Richard Harding Davis delighted. The surprising thing about the book is that in spite of this there is a freshness and a certain spontaneous sincerity that makes one forget the triteness of its theme. ... Its people are alive, individual, and intensely appealing.” Philip Tillinghast
+ — =Pub W= 92:807 S 15 ‘17 500w
“A rollicking story of love and adventure which, even in its most thrilling moments, preserves the humorous, devil-may-care atmosphere that characterizes it from the outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 200w
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=LAGERLÖF, SELMA OTTILIANA LOVISA.= Queens of Kungahälla, and other sketches; tr. by C. Field. *5s T. Werner Laurie, London
“‘The queens of Kungahälla’ is a cycle of episodes, woven together in a manner highly characteristic of Miss Lagerlöf; the English translation before us supplements it with six short tales which are quite independent. ... The most complete and characteristic is ‘Saint Catherine of Siena.’ ... ‘Old Agneta’ is a mysterious dream of lost souls, tortured with frost on a Norwegian glacier, whose sufferings are mitigated by the efforts of a solitary woman. ‘The fisherman’s ring’ is woven around a description of an Adriatic storm breaking over Venice. ‘The bird’s nest’ alone among these stories is mildly humorous; it describes how a pair of wagtails built a nest and hatched their young in the hand of a hermit who had made a vow not to shift his position. ‘God’s peace,’ which is a sort of appendix to the novel of ‘Jerusalem,’ recounts a terrific incident in the life and death of Ingmar Ingmarson.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An enchanting revel of fancy.”
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 30w
“Kungahälla is a locality unknown to the guide-books and, we think, to the historians. ... But Miss Lagerlöf gives her fiction such an air of reality that we hesitate to say that this city is wholly fabulous. ... The English reader of ‘The queens of Kungahälla’ will find himself constantly reminded of William Morris’s late prose romances. ... This arises from a similarity in the approach of both authors to the medieval civic life which attracted each of them. ... Miss Lagerlöf has greater vigour of narrative than her English precursor; she leads us more vividly on a more intoxicating revel of fancy, but her essential attitude to the middle ages is the same. She sees the scenes in pure and brilliant colour, like the miniatures in a Book of hours. ... Mr C. Field is often adequate and sometimes excellent, although his text would bear further revision.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
=LAJPAT RAYA.=[2] England’s debt to India; a historical narrative of Britain’s fiscal policy in India. *$2 Huebsch 330.954
A companion volume to the author’s “Young India” which reviewed British rule in India from the political standpoint. The present discussion is from the economic point of view, and is supported by the best British testimony, official and non-official. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work: A historical retrospect; India and the British industrial revolution; “Tribute” or “drain”; How India has helped England make her empire; The cotton industry of India; Shipbuilding, shipping, and minor occupations; Miscellaneous industrial, agricultural, and mining operations; Agriculture; Economic conditions of the people; Famines and their causes; Railways and irrigation; Education and literacy; Certain fallacies about the “prosperity of India” examined; Taxes and expenditure; Summary and conclusion.
“But, even granting all of the author’s statements and argument, passing over his unwillingness to recognize and give just appraisal to all that England has done for India, the fact remains that understanding of the great issues just now at stake and of loyalty to that civilization in which the future welfare of India as well as of the rest of the world is bound ought to have led Lajpat Raya to wait for the presentation of his plea until the greater issues, comprehensive of India’s own, are settled.”
— =N Y Times= 23:51 F 10 ‘18 600w
“This author’s manner is as eloquent as his matter is interesting. Readers may not agree with all his conclusions, but they will, we are sure, appreciate the wealth of information given concerning the economic conditions in India.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 120w
=LANCHESTER, FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Flying-machine from an engineering standpoint. diags *$3 (9c) Van Nostrand 629.1 (Eng ed 17-13807)
This book contains the James Forrest lecture which the author delivered before the Institution of civil engineers three months before the outbreak of war. It has been reprinted in more permanent form in answer to the many requests for copies. The author says, “Since the outbreak of war, from considerations of national secrecy, very little, indeed, of a technical character has been added to the stock of public information, and thus the position existing immediately prior to the war has become a matter of more permanent interest than the author anticipated at the time his lecture was prepared.” He has also added “A discussion concerning the theory of sustentation and expenditure of power in flight,” a paper presented at a meeting of the International engineering congress in San Francisco in 1915.
=Nature= 99:241 My 24 ‘17 1000w
“For a lengthy review see Engineering, April 6, 1917. Also reviewed in Automobile Engineer, Jan., 1917; Mechanical Engineer, Jan. 19, 1917.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Ap ‘17 110w
“An excellent, accurate and interesting lecture on the flying-machine for those familiar with the subject.” E. W. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:330 S ‘17 30w
=LANE, ANNA EICHBERG KING (MRS JOHN LANE).= War phases according to Maria. il *$1 (4c) Lane 17-6332
Two of these war phases are reprinted from “Maria again.” They are included here to make complete the record of Maria’s most noteworthy activities between 1914 and 1916. The subjects of the new sketches are: Zeppelin dangers; Maria’s political opinions; Maria on submarines; On the new equality; Cardboard friendship; War hens; Margarine and society; War notice. The book is cleverly illustrated by A. H. Fish.
“We do not find Maria more than moderately amusing.”
+ — =Ath= p596 D ‘16 30w
“Maria on the subject of everything under heaven from war hens to submarines is a genuine comedy character.”
+ =Dial= 62:148 F 22 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 300w
“A book not to be missed in these times.”
+ =Sat R= 123:42 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“Mrs Lane’s gifted satirical pen might more profitably be turned to other phases of society than those connected with Maria’s personality.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 450w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p574 N 30 ‘16 80w
=LANE, ROSE WILDER.= Henry Ford’s own story. il *$1 E. O. Jones, Forest Hills, N.Y.; for sale by Baker 17-2686
“The American public, says the writer of this book, has made a hero of the big business man. But Henry Ford, she adds, is not a big business man; he is a big man in business. She tells, in this book, the very simple and very interesting story of Henry Ford’s life, ‘how a farmer boy rose to the power that goes with many millions, yet never lost touch with humanity.’ ... Her record stops shortly after the outbreak of war; it does not include the peace party. But it tells in a good deal of detail about his wage scale and other experiments with his men.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17
“A very human book. If it were just plain fiction it could not interest one more. ... To read it is to get a new realization of what work means, what persistence will do, on what efficiency must build, and of the tremendous power in unselfish will.”
+ =Lit D= 55:45 Ag 4 ‘17 210w
“The platitudinousness and naïveté, the well meaning but sophomoric approach to a problem that are revealed in Mr Ford’s utterances on all subjects not relating to engineering are almost incredible. Such intellectual infantilism would be impossible any grown man in any other civilized country—as would Miss Lane’s ecstatic admiration of it. But the story of Henry Ford does not end there. Against his contempt for the amenities of life and the finer cultural satisfactions may be set his hatred of poverty and wretchedness. In that balance, who can say that the admiration of Miss Lane is misplaced?”
=New Repub= 10:384 Ap 28 ‘17 370w
“A most unusual piece of biography and exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:119 Ap 1 ‘17 180w
=Pittsburgh= 22:404 My ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
“Some day, as has been said, Mr Ford will have a real biography; before that time comes there will be plenty of studies, personal, economic, sociological. Miss Lane’s account is purely popular, colorful, newsy, and it portrays the man.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 13 ‘17 650w
“If sympathy with one’s subject is the sine qua non of biographers this should be the perfect biography. Miss Lane’s enthusiasm for her subject colors the entire book and surrounds him with a halo of glory.” Henrietta Walters
+ =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“Written in extremely popular and simple style, it is specially adapted to the uneducated or young reader.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 50w
=LANGE, DIETRICH.= Lure of the Mississippi. il *$1.25 (2½c) Lothrop 17-28332
During the period of the Civil war, Minnesota was the scene of several Indian uprisings, the Sioux seeing in the preoccupation of the white man with a war of his own, an opportunity to regain their lands. One of these outbreaks is described by Mr Lange in this story for boys. The young heroes are two southern boys who have come north with an uncle. Driven out by the Indians, they try to rejoin their parents in Vicksburg, traveling down the river with an old trapper and a friendly red man. Vicksburg is under siege and the boys find that they have exchanged one kind of danger for another. But in time they find their parents and the entire party makes a safe return journey to what is to be their permanent home on the northern prairies.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
=Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 30w
“Yet the story is not unduly melodramatic, but abounds in good pictures of life on the great river.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 140w
=LANGENHOVE, FERNAND VAN.= Growth of a legend. *$1.25 (2c) Putnam 940.91 16-25175
The “legend” of the title refers to the stories without foundation that are common in all countries in time of war. The author has examined some of these legends which have been current in Germany. He calls his book “a study based upon the German accounts of francs-tireurs and ‘atrocities’ in Belgium.” The work has been translated by E. B. Sherlock, and is published with a preface by J. Mark Baldwin.
+ =Ath= p259 My ‘17 180w
+ =Cleveland= p45 Mr ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 90:382 My 26 ‘17 60w
“Written to defend Belgium against unjust accusations, the book also gives the human background of many so-called German ‘atrocities’ which otherwise would seem inexplicable.”
+ =New Repub= 9:251 D 30 ‘16 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17
“M. van Langenhove writes with restraint and painstaking care of the sociological investigator. His book is marked by its absence of invective, of excited denial. ... The book is one of the valuable contributions to the library of war documents.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:3 Ja 7 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17
“A dispassionate work, compiled in the impartial spirit of scientific research. Rhetorical expressions of indignation are hardly to be found in its pages, though they abound in Mr Baldwin’s preface.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 Mr 22 ‘17 900w
=LANSBURY, GEORGE.= Your part in poverty. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 331 17-26891
George Lansbury is a member of the Church of England, the Church socialist league and the Independent labor party, has been for thirty years in active political life, and has served on the London county council and the Royal commission on the poor law. He writes this “appeal to men and women of the comfortable classes,” not from the point of view of an economist or a philanthropist but from that of an “ordinary person,” to make clear to them “what Labor asks and what, in his judgment, on Christian principles, Labor ought to have.” Mr Lansbury believes that land values should be taxed, that the wages and profit system should be abolished, that we must substitute cooperation for competition, and that the workers must “join together in great industrial unions or guilds, representative of particular industries.” After an introductory chapter, the subject is dealt with under five headings: Workmen; Women and children; Business; Churches; What we must do. There is a preface by the Bishop of Winchester.
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Specifically, we are exhorted to join the more advanced section of the working class movement, the section which aims at the complete control of the great industries by the workers in each industry. ... The difficulties which would confront such a system are lightly brushed aside by the author in a spirit of simple faith.”
— =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 350w
“There is broad charity in Mr Lansbury’s criticism of those who possess and an earnest appeal to the innate love of man for man. Even in his chapter on business, a sermon on the text, ‘business is business,’ he offers sympathy for the overwrought business man.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 320w
“No one who wishes to understand the labor movement in England can afford to miss this book; few who read it can fail to be captivated by its charm. It is not a program; it is not a treatise. It is simply the expression of an attitude to life which is growing rapidly in importance in every section of the English working classes.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:25 N 3 ‘17 1800w
“Mr Lansbury’s indictment of society, the church, and the state is confused, and his suggested remedies are very vaguely indicated. But we are impressed by the sincerity of his wondering indignation, and we feel that the book, at any rate, reflects the doubts and fears of many intelligent workmen.”
– + =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
“He seldom lets his feeling get the better of him. Consequently nearly all that he says has force. ... For the sake of symmetry in the argument Mr Lansbury ought perhaps to show that the ‘liberated’ working class—to use the word ‘liberate’ in the sense in which he uses it—would represent a higher standard of probity, self-restraint and disinterestedness than is exemplified by the prosperous elements in society to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 11 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Lansbury has written a penetrating statement. But it is written in such a kindly way that one must wonder at his moderation. He knows the poor and their problems, and he knows where the trouble lies. But he does not attack those who are responsible.”
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 430w
=LANUX, PIERRE DE.=[2] Young France and new America. *$1.25 Macmillan 327.73 17-31439
“Reflections of a Frenchman who spent the year 1917 in America. They deal with the present events and those from the near past, but their expression is first inspired by the thought of the near future, that is to say, the period that will begin when this war ends.” (Foreword) The writer sums up what the Franco-American co-operation will mean in the years to come, how the war has opened the way to a better understanding of each other and cemented loyalties. To the Frenchman who thought of the American as a millionaire pork dealer and the American who looked upon the Frenchman as a “fussy, nervous gentleman who wore a red ribbon in his buttonhole” the experiences of the past three years have been fraught with revelation.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 680w
“I think M. de Lanux writes about us with too obvious a will to be kind. What he says of America’s coming influence upon French art, literary and plastic, may be true or may be mistaken, but certainly, to my taste, it is written by too glad a hand. Other parts of his book, however, are wholly free from this taint.” P. L.
+ — =New Repub= 13:350 Ja 19 ‘18 1430w
“The author’s notably keen and understanding observations and conclusions in the United States show him to be a trustworthy student of life. Without doubt, M. de Lanux’s book will receive the attention and the interest it deserves. The people of this country are ready for its message and they will welcome both its spirit and its practical suggestions.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:540 D 9 ‘17 780w
=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 110w
“Told with an amplitude of apt quotation and with a charm which makes this contribution to the literature of foreign relationships a real source of inspiration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:526 F 9 ‘18 200w
=LARNER, RING W.= Gullible’s travels, etc. il *$1.25 (3c) Bobbs 17-5401
Perhaps the narrator in these five tales is the original Tired Business Man. His account of “Carmen” would seem to entitle him to that distinction. His second experience of opera is described in the next sketch, and in the third, from which the book takes its title, he relates experiences at Palm Beach. The two stories that follow are in like vein. First copyrighted by the Curtis publishing company.
=N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“Amusing but excessively slangy short stories.”
=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 6w
“Underneath the funny narratives of narrow views and man-handled English, there is a layer of shrewd common sense that punctures the provincialism of the snug middle class and the humbug of our so-called exclusive society. ... A broadly farcical volume.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w
=LASKI, HAROLD J.= Studies in the problem of sovereignty. *$2.50 Yale univ. press 320.1 17-8598
“The problem of sovereignty which Mr Laski discusses is whether the seat of authority in society is single or manifold. In other words, whether a sound political theory is monist or pluralist. He argues in favor of the pluralist view, and maintains that a society is a ‘person’ in reality, not merely by a legal fiction; for the law merely recognizes and regularizes a preëxistent fact. He supports this argument by an appeal to the evidence supplied by three ecclesiastical and religious movements in the nineteenth century in Great Britain—the Scottish disruption, the Oxford movement, and the Catholic revival—and by the careers of Le Maistre and Bismarck on the Continent.”—New Repub
“It is an example of painstaking and rather brilliant historical writing, and may justly be classed, both as regards the subject-matter with which it deals and its scholarly method of treatment, with the studies of Mr J. N. Figgis, and particularly his ‘From Gerson to Grotius’ and his ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... When Dr Laski leaves the field of history and enters upon a discussion of the nature of sovereignty he is less happy, and critics who will attribute to him an imperfect understanding of the real character of sovereignty are not likely to be wanting.” J. W. Garner
+ =Am Hist R= 22:844 Jl ‘17 2200w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“An important contribution to the literature of that brilliant school of political writers who are forging for us a new and more satisfactory theory of the nature of the state. It should be read especially in connection with Maitland’s classic introduction to Gierke’s ‘Political theories of the middle ages,’ and Figgis’s ‘Churches in the modern state.’ ... Not only does [Mr Laski’s doctrine] mean an abandonment, or at least a serious impairment of the theory of the sovereignty of the state, but it involves the revival of the eighteenth century doctrine of natural rights, now, however, attached to group-units instead of to individuals. Whether in every particular these ideas will withstand the effect of criticism, there is no doubt that they offer in some respects a much better explanation of contemporaneous political tendencies and movements than the Hegelian theory that the state is an all-inclusive metaphysical organism, which governs the practical politics of modern Germany.” W. J. Shepard
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:582 Ag ‘17 550w
“Throughout, the style is as incisive and clear as the temper is judicial, and everywhere sympathy is combined with a rare detachment.” C. H. McIlwain
+ =Dial= 62:436 My 17 ‘17 2700w
“The book is marked by a certain agreeable scholarship. This scholarship in respect to concrete historical happenings, is however, set in a philosophical frame which is most unbecoming and which must in all frankness be ascribed to the author’s very superficial knowledge of political theory and to his failure to understand or to appreciate some of the most fundamental distinctions of political science. Even if Mr Laski’s assumptions were not of this superficial character, his practical teaching would destroy itself thru its very absurdity.” N. M. B.
– + =Educ R= 54:513 D ‘17 1050w
“Mr Laski has done his part both in making clear his own tentative ideas and in presenting the historical data upon which they are based. This book, moreover, is not to be his last word on the subject.”
+ =Nation= 105:671 D 13 ‘17 280w
“Possibly he assumes at times too great a knowledge of the facts for American readers, and writes in an unduly allusive style, but to the mind of any one who comes from Oxford and has lived in its atmosphere, so permeated with the tradition of the Oxford movement and Catholic revival, the story seems excellently and sympathetically interpreted, for Oxford, though it gives an artificial mannerism which soon dies, gives also a real inspiration, which quickens as well as lives; and Mr Laski belongs, I think, to those whom Oxford has taught to see life whole, as well as to study it in detail.” K. L.
+ =New Repub= 11:25 My 5 ‘17 1650w
“The London Times, with visions of conscientious objectors rampant, finds much in the book that is ‘disreputable and even dangerous,’ and one cannot forbear to suggest that the Times is more agitated about the alleged disrepute of Mr Laski’s theories than their danger. But after the indispensable ‘word of warning’ has been meted out, one cannot fail to appreciate that the truth of Mr Laski’s reasoning overtops the danger.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 820w
“Mr Laski is an Englishman, but he bears a historic Polish name. He should study, from the point of view of that pragmatism to which he makes frequent appeal, the effects of the liberum veto in the old Polish constitution. It still has its defenders as the last word in the assertion of the moral liberty of the citizen. ... Though there is much in this volume which we consider disputable and even dangerous, there is also much that is sound and illuminating; and though his presentation of his subject is too often involved and obscure, it rarely fails to stimulate thought.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 My 17 ‘17 2250w
“He has given us a scholarly and invigorating historical review of the significant events and theories which he selects as background for his discussion. He has also given timely warning to us, as citizens, of the dangers of an implicit acceptance of a certain grim Hegelianism which has swept us unprotestingly on into the vortex of a great All which is more than ourselves.’” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 7:443 Ja ‘18 1250w
=LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT.= Development of China. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 951 17-8745
“Mighty changes are taking place in China. It is undergoing a transformation whose results no man can foresee. ... It is certain, however, that the outcome will profoundly affect the entire world. ... If Americans are not to blunder, if they are to make to the new China the unselfish contributions of which they are capable, if they are not to stumble into unnecessary conflict with Japan, if they are to share to the utmost in the trade and the industrial development of the new China, they must know her and must know her better than they do now.” (Introd.) The author, formerly of the College of Yale in China, has written this book for college students and for the general public. His aim has been to present in the light of modern scholarship a sketch of the essential facts of Chinese history and development and of the historical setting for its present-day problems.
“The characteristic feature of this book is successful condensation. ... The book is well written, well printed, and should prove very valuable for the purpose for which it is intended. It brings together within brief compass a variety of essential information which will greatly facilitate the work of classes in oriental history and contemporary politics. In producing this work Professor Latourette has rendered a distinct service both to student and to teacher.” S. K. Hornbeck
+ =Am Hist R= 22:857 Jl ‘17 670w
“Bibliography (7p.) with useful descriptive notes.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:444 Jl ‘17
“Will serve as a valuable textbook to the student of Chinese history. It should meet with even greater favor from that class of general readers who, without the drudgery of technicality and details, desire an unconventional introduction to the civilization of the Far East.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 250w
=Cath World= 105:400 Je ‘17 150w
“Perhaps a dozen brief histories of China are available in English. Some of them are hastily written and untrustworthy. Some are prejudiced. Some are overloaded with dynastic details. ... There is, therefore, a place for Mr Latourette’s ‘Development of China,’ which is carefully written, fair, and free from excessive technicalities.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 62:524 Je 14 ‘17 1050w
“Mr Latourette is the first writer of a serious work who has accurately set forth the character of the late Yuan Shi Kai. He has furnished also a readable statement of the progress of events since 1894. ... Those interested at all in the Far East will find the volume worth reading and rereading.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 Jl 14 ‘17 170w
“It furnishes a splendid background to just such a study as Professor Hornbeck’s. While lacking the vitality and the temperamental felicity of such life-long writers on China and her history as Giles, for instance, and Little and Martin, Mr Latourette does nevertheless cover the ground that these more rugged writers have covered before him; and he covers it with a precision and a scholarship that perfectly adapt his book to the college classrooms for which he has designed it. ... He further adds to the value of the book as a basis for instruction by a voluminous index and an extremely serviceable and well-chosen bibliography.”
+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 330w
“An introductory sketch like Mr Latourette’s, notable for the scholarly absence of inflation of facts, for its sense of proportion, and for the understanding it gives of the larger features of China’s development and of the historical setting of present-day problems, meets a real need.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 500w
“He is fair to the Japanese, fair to the British about the so-called opium war, fair to the missionaries and entirely appreciative of all that is best in China’s glorious past. By far the best part of his book is that which deals with present-day problems.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
=LAUCK, WILLIAM JETT, and SYDENSTRICKER, EDGAR.= Conditions of labor in American industries. *$1.75 Funk 331.8 17-13561
“The present volume is designed to meet a practical need for a compact collection of the results of the large number of investigations and studies of conditions under which the American wage-earner and his family work and live. It is presented merely as a summarization of the principal and fundamental facts that have been ascertained during the past decade and a half; it is not intended to be a critical discussion of those facts, or to be an argument in favor of or against any partizan conclusion, or any remedial program.” (Preface) These summaries are presented in nine chapters; The labor force; Wages and earnings; Loss in working time; Conditions causing irregular employment; Working conditions; The wage-earner’s family; Living conditions; The wage-earner’s health; The adequacy of wages and earnings. Mr Lauck is author with J. W. Jenks of a standard work on immigration. Mr Sydenstricker wrote one of the reports for the Commission on industrial relations.
“The statistical data presented—most of which was gathered for the United States Commission on industrial relations—are quite extensive. ... There is very little new material in the book. Its purpose, on the contrary, was to make easily available existing material, and this the authors have done in a painstaking manner. Particularly valuable are the discussions of unemployment, its causes and effects: family income; and the health of the worker. The chapter on working conditions is less satisfactory. It is unfortunate that so little attention is paid to unionism and collective bargaining. Perhaps the chief weakness of the book is the tendency to dogmatize from insufficient data.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:649 S ‘17 1150w
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:151 F ‘18
“The book is intelligently planned, is designed to answer those questions which so frequently arise in the mind of the legislator, the teacher, the general reader, and the newspaper editor. ... While replete with statistics, it is interesting throughout. It deserves careful study and a wide circle of readers.” J. T. Young
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:234 Jl ‘17 570w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w
=Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 220w
“A valuable reference book for educators, social workers, and all in any way engaged in handling employment problems.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Nathan Fine
=J Pol Econ= 25:851 O ‘17 760w
“No reflective business man, no thoughtful workingman, no social worker, no trade unionist, no student of industrial problems, can study the situation here revealed without realizing how fundamental to our national life these facts must be, and how thoroughly they deserve consideration.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 N 3 ‘17 430w
“To some extent the ‘American labor year book,’ published under the editorship of the present reviewer, attempted to accomplish the same purpose. The present volume is more inclusive. As a reference volume on present-day industrial conditions the book should prove valuable to those who have no opportunity to consult original sources.” Alexander Trachtenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 24 ‘17 430w
+ =N Y Times= 22:296 Ag 12 ‘17 650w
“The data are largely those relating to conditions between 1900 and 1914 or 1915, since which time many changes have taken place. These, however, are noted, and such facts as are obtainable concerning them are reviewed. The authors appear to have succeeded remarkably well in keeping up with a constantly and rapidly-moving procession of industrial events.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ‘17 870w
“The book is devoted, in the main, to an examination of the income of the American wage-earner and a consideration of its sufficiency. The chapters that deal with that subject are worth reading. One may not always agree with the conclusions—based as they are on statistics that are anywhere from four to sixteen years old and some of them questionable too—but the discussions are illuminating and the figures are the only ones we have. ... The book is full of little errors of varying degrees of importance, from misspelled names to misstatements of fact. Dates get mixed, words are omitted, pages at one point are incorrectly inserted. These are minor matters. But there are other errors that are more serious.” J: A. Fitch
+ — =Survey= 38:441 Ag 18 ‘17 600w
=LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH.= Heart of Her Highness. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-25586
A romance of Flanders in the fifteenth century. The heroine is Mary of Burgundy, orphaned daughter of Charles the Bold. With her young step-mother as her only sympathetic counselor, Mary is beset with many troubles. In her childhood she had been betrothed to the young son of the emperor of Germany, but the proposed alliance had all but been forgotten, and Louis of France wished to force a marriage with his son, while her own people urged a marriage equally distasteful. Mary herself has given her heart to an unknown youth, and while it looks for a time as tho love must be sacrificed to her country’s needs, the two claims are in the end discovered to be identical.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 70w
“Begins like a novel and ends like a fairy tale. There is more than one vivid passage; and if the dialogue is too conventional to be convincing, it is suggestive of those firelight stories that were always too good to be true.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:373 S 30 ‘17 230w
“Miss Laughlin is to be commended for telling her story in present-day English and avoiding the practice of some historical romancers of attempting to reproduce archaic forms of speech.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 220w
=LAUGHLIN, JAMES LAURENCE.= Latter-day problems. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 330.4 17-3490
The three last chapters of the first edition, dealing with money and banking, have been omitted from this revised edition. In their place the author has added five chapters on: Women and wealth; Monopoly of labor; Capitalism and social discontent; Business and democracy; Economic liberty. The omitted chapters may be included later in a volume dealing with monetary problems.
=A L A Bkl= 13:275 Mr ‘17
“The tone of Prof. Laughlin’s dismissal of the case for the working class makes a liberal suspect him. ... The best thing to be said for ‘Latter-day problems’ is that it makes a very creditable attempt to solve 20th century problems with 18th century formulæ.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 270w
=LAVIS, FRED.= Railway estimates, design, quantities and costs. il *$5 McGraw 625 17-14018
“The author, a special lecturer on railway engineering at Yale university, presents in one volume all that is necessary in estimating the probable cost of a proposed railway and the design of general features, together with a complete analysis of details not hitherto available in any single publication.” (Pittsburgh) “The book is more than a development of chapter 8 of the author’s ‘Railway location, surveys and estimates.’ It is an expansion of that chapter and a setting forth of the timely subject matter in a manner that carries weight and impresses the reader with the author’s broad and practical knowledge of the subject.” (Engin News-Rec)
“It is a pleasure to note that the author, in handling chapters 3 to 11 inclusive—the principal classified cost elements—has, as is his custom, confined himself to the practical illustrative essentials and avoided wordy expansions of irrelevant features. One would have been glad to find in the text three or four chapters instead of three or four pages on the subject of electrical operation and electrification of steam roads.” M. P. Paret
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:128 Jl 19 ‘17 580w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 50w
=LAY, WILFRID.= Man’s unconscious conflict; a popular exposition of psychoanalysis. *$1.50 (2c) Dodd 130 17-9481
The author offers an interpretation of Freud which will be more acceptable to American readers than many that have preceded it. He has adopted a nomenclature that is more in accordance with our common usage and modes of thought, thus eliminating much of the seeming offensiveness of the Freudian theories. The treatment is popular. His purpose is “to show the unconscious operating in every act of our lives, not merely in the actions ordinarily known as unconscious or automatic, but in that part of our activity to which we attribute the most vivid consciousness.” One important chapter, on a phase little touched on heretofore, deals with the application of psychoanalysis to education. The author suggests that most if not all the faults of the present system of instruction in schools is due to ignorance of the function of the unconscious.
“Fascinating and very practical book.” L. M. Field
+ =Bookm= 45:417 Je ‘17 550w
“Dr Lay, for all the qualities of his argument that look like prepossessions, lays out this difficult lore with a clarity, a charm and a high moral force, that point his book with every power to instruct and improve. No science is so immediately devoted to human service as psychology, no person with his own or society’s welfare at heart can afford to neglect it, and few writers have laid bare its main principles with happier effect than Dr Lay.” B. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 1000w
“A coherent and systematic account, in simple terms, of the fundamental principles and conceptions that are implied in the discoveries and hypotheses of Freud and his school. This is in itself no small achievement. ... It is a pity that Dr Lay still defers so much to the rather inconclusive and therapeutically as well as theoretically useless generalization of sex; that he underestimates, if he at all considers, the importance of the ‘self-regarding instinct’; and that he offers hasty prescriptions to teachers.”
+ — =Dial= 62:485 My 31 ‘17 230w
“It gives one a fair idea, in an easy and entertaining style, of what it is all about—and incidentally enables one to measure the depths of psychoanalytic credulity.”
+ — =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p7 O ‘17 50w
“Valuable book, which should be in the hands of all parents and educators.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 110w
=LAZARILLO DE TORMES.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. *$1.50 (4c) Kennerley 17-12486
This version of the first picaresque romance is “done out of the Castilian from R. Foulché-Delbosc’s restitution of the editio princeps, by Louis How.” (Sub-title) “The “Life” was probably in existence in some form or other, perhaps for some time, before 1554, the date from which our earliest editions reach us. But the numerous English editions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early nineteenth centuries are not widely current in these days, and they are all filtered through French translations.” (Dial) There is no plot. Lazarillo’s experiences with his many masters form a satire on society in sixteenth century Spain. After a prologue, the narrative proper is divided into seven treatises or chapters. “The first deals with the early life of Lazarillo and his peregrinations as guide of a blind beggar. In the next four he appears as the servant of a priest, an impoverished petty noble, a friar and a pardoner. In the sixth and seventh he serves a painter of tambourines, a chaplain and a constable, and finally becomes a town crier of Toledo, ... and settles down as the complacent husband of a maidservant of the archpriest of San Salvador parish. Most of the action passes in Toledo or in its immediate neighborhood.” (Introd.) The historical introduction of forty-four pages, and the notes, are by Charles Philip Wagner.
=Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 100w
“Mr How has attempted a literal version; he goes so far as frequently to sacrifice smooth English in his effort to keep the construction of the original. The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing, but too often the reader misses the craftsmanship of the anonymous author. The notes, by Mr Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to serious students of Spanish. Some of the latter will doubtless wish to quarrel with Mr How over a few of his renderings.”
+ — =Dial= 63:216 S 13 ‘17 290w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
“Should serve greatly to widen the circle of readers of the tale. We think such who come to it afresh will enjoy the series of anecdotes through which Lazarillo passes with the perfect effrontery of the mediæval rogue.”
+ =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 200w
=LEACOCK, STEPHEN BUTLER.=[2] Frenzied fiction. *$1.25 (2c) Lane 827 18-768
To “Nonsense novels,” “Further foolishness” and other humorous works, Mr Leacock now adds a work of “Frenzied fiction.” It opens with the author’s “revelations as a spy,” quite as solemnly ponderous and neither more nor less revelatory than many of the supposedly authentic confessions. Other pieces in the book are: Father Knickerbocker—a fantasy; The prophet in our midst; Personal adventures in the spirit world; The cave man as he is; The new education; Back from the land.
“The book is the work of a warmhearted and joyous spirit, a friendly, gentle soul that pokes good natured fun at our ridiculousness, our pretensions. He makes you like him and he makes you laugh. It is much.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 1500w
“This is Leacock at his best, and this best is better than others of his recent books. The fun is sly and penetrating; the burlesque quality is sustained; the writing is that of a humorist, not that of a mere jokesmith.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 40w
=LEAGUE TO ENFORCE PEACE.= Enforced peace; proceedings of the first annual national assemblage. 50c (1c) League to enforce peace 172.4 17-697
A volume containing the proceedings of the first annual national assemblage of the League to enforce peace, held in Washington, May 26-27, 1916. An introductory chapter is devoted to the organization of the League. Its principles and proposals are given in an appendix. Among the papers reprinted are: The League to enforce peace and the soul of the United States, by Edward A. Filene; The League program, preparedness, and ultimate reduction of armaments, by Hamilton Holt; Constitutionality of the proposals, by William H. Taft; The Monroe doctrine, by George Grafton Wilson; The European nations and the League program, by John Bates Clark; American labor and a constructive settlement of the war, by Samuel Gompers; American agriculture and the League to enforce peace, by Carl Vrooman.
=Cath World= 104:839 Mr ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p37 Mr ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:135 F ‘17
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 160w
=LEAMY, EDMUND STANISLAUS.= My ship, and other verses. *$1 Lane 811 17-30423
Many of the poems in this book were inspired by travel in far countries. The author is the son of an Irish patriot, and Katharine Tynan in her foreword says of him: “His father’s adventure was the one upon which so many have embarked, will embark—the great adventure for the Dark Rosaleen. The son’s adventure carries him over oceans and continents, but he has always the faithful, the untravelled heart that belongs by right to his father’s son.”
“Full of the spirit of youth and glowing with adventure.”
+ =Lit D= 55:62 D 8 ‘17 350w
“Mr Leamy sings sweetly his unaffected songs of gentle and kindly sentiment, old memories, wandering and the home-spirit, seen tenderly through mellowing mists of revery and dream.” M. T.
+ =New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 30w
“A collection of verse that seeks to translate the emotions aroused in the American by America herself.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 350w
=LE BAS, SIR HEDLEY FRANCIS=, ed. Lord Kitchener memorial book. il *$2.50 Doran (*3s 6d Hodder and Stoughton, London) (Eng ed 17-12259)
This record of Lord Kitchener’s life is largely pictorial, altho tributes by men who were his friends and associates are included, also a complete record of his own speeches made during the progress of the war. The profits from the sale of the book go to the Lord Kitchener national memorial fund, which is devoted to the relief of disabled soldiers.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 21 ‘17 450w
“This is not a biography, and yet in speech and picture it records the life of Kitchener from his boyhood until as field marshal his life ended.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 300w
“The volume’s first value is pictorial. The second value is personal.”
+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 190w
=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 110w
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 150w
=LE BLANC, MAURICE.= Golden triangle; the return of Arsène Lupin. il *$1.35 (1½c) Macaulay co. 17-2342
It is April, 1915, and Paris has her share of maimed soldiers. She also has still in her midst spies and plotters. It is around the efforts of one of these soldiers, Captain Patrice Belval, to free the woman he loves from the fate that threatens her that this story turns. But the plot is too intricate for the honest, impulsive captain to unravel. For “Little Mother Coralie” of the hospital wards is wife to the scoundrel financier, Essarès Bey, a Turk passing as an Egyptian and a naturalized Frenchman. The wealth of France is at stake. Therefore Arsène Lupin, under an assumed name, again appears upon the scene, and under his marvellous skill, the tangled web is made straight.
=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 40w
=Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 270w
“The entire atmosphere is always tense, but so confused at times that there is difficulty in determining just what is what and who is who. ... The characters of the story are well done.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 320w
“One flaw in the story I must point out. It contains too much crime. Does Le Blanc confuse us connoisseurs with drunkards of crime who must have their dose increased in size with each chapter?” M. A. Hopkins
+ — =Pub W= 92:806 S 15 ‘17 450w
“It must be acknowledged that the book is more entertaining before Arsène Lupin appears like a god out of the machine to smooth all difficulties in almost too easy a manner.”
=Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w
=LE BON, GUSTAVE.= Psychology of the great war; tr. by E. Andrews. *$3 Macmillan 940.91 (Eng ed 16-23099)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Only for libraries making a very complete collection of war material.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17
“The reader will find M. Le Bon’s argument saturated with loyalty, but not blindly; he will find running through it a sanity of comprehension that may lead to irrelevance but not to injustice; and he will observe a sincere objective intent. ... In view of the peculiarly meagre contributions that in any way illuminate the psychology of the war, and equally of the fact that so many writers admit and emphasize that the psychological causes are the significant ones, the essay of M. Le Bon attains an importance which his reputation presages and his performance confirms.” Joseph Jastrow
* + =Dial= 62:182 Mr 8 ‘17 1700w
“The title of this book does not convey a correct idea of its scope. It would probably be impossible for any living man to write a scientific psychology of the war, partly because psychology is not at present provided with the necessary principles and methods and partly because sufficient data are not yet available. ... This must not be taken to imply that the book is not valuable. It would be valuable if it were only as a collection of excerpts from newspapers, interviews, letters, and state papers. But it is more than this; it is an informing and stimulating book. I mean only that it is not what the author seemingly intends it to be, namely, an explanation of the war in terms of psychological laws. The author adds nothing in the present book to what he has already said on the collective mind.” R. B. Perry
+ — =J Philos= 14:527 S 13 ‘17 1400w
“What Gustave Le Bon writes is always worth reading. No man living knows more about the facts of social psychology, or builds more plausible hypotheses when facts are wanting. ... If the author could have written with scientific impartiality, he would have produced the most important rational work on the war that has yet appeared. Scientific impartiality, however, is not to be expected from a patriot whose country is agonizing under invasion. ... The scientific value of the first third of the book is sadly impaired by mystical contamination of rational conceptions.” A. S. J.
+ — =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 1450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:7 Ja ‘17
=LEDOUX, LOUIS VERNON.= George Edward Woodberry: a study of his poetry. (Contemporary American poet ser.) $1 Poetry review co., 12 Chauncy st., Cambridge, Mass. 811 17-18966
“An interesting biographical essay on this great modern New Englander, on the influences that have governed him and made his poetry what it is, thoughtful, philosophical, cultivated and also very acutely felt. The book includes a good bibliography of all of Mr Woodberry’s writings.” (Ind) Mr Ledoux is vice-president of a firm of mining engineers and has published several volumes of poetry.
=Ath= p469 S ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 90:553 Ja 23 ‘17 70w
+ =Lit D= 54:1787 Je 9 ‘17 620w
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 40w
=LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS.= Songs of peace. *3s 6d Jenkins, London 821
“Last July there fell, fighting for world freedom in the ranks of the Royal Inniskilling fusiliers, the Irish poet who more than any other of recent years has won for himself a unique place in Irish (and incidentally English) letters. ... His work was introduced to the world by Lord Dunsany, who wrote the foreword to ‘Songs of the fields,’ a friendly office which he has again performed for ‘Songs of peace,’ Ledwidge’s last book. ... The poems in the new volume are more self-revelatory than those of ‘Songs of the fields.’ ... The influence of outward events is shown, not only in the tone of the poems, but in the names of the sections into which the slender volume is divided—At home, In barracks, In camp, At sea, In Serbia, In Greece, In hospital in Egypt. Despite stirring times and deeds, the poet’s thoughts turn constantly to Ireland, and his song is most often of her. For this reason Lord Dunsany names the new volume ‘Songs of peace,’ ‘in spite of the circumstances under which they were written.’”—Boston Transcript
+ =Ath= p593 D ‘16 60w
“Ledwidge is before all else the poet of Irish landscape. ... Not only does he give the physical appearance of Ireland, but the true inwardness of her landscape—the color, the scent, and the sound of his beloved land, that the Gael may feel a catch in his breath as he reads, and find his brain flooded with many memories. ... As a poet of nature, Ledwidge has imaginative power linking him with the great poets of the past. ... Yet he is in no sense imitative, he belongs to his own day and has a personality of his own.” N. J. O’C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 1200w
+ =Pratt= p34 O ‘17 30w
“This is Mr Ledwidge’s second book, and it shows happily, if anyone doubted it, that his gifts and endowments are of the lasting order. He is a genuine poet; he raises common things above their commonness; he has the vision which perceives and makes beauty.”
+ =Sat R= 123:162 F 17 ‘17 520w
“Last week brought the news that the author of these ‘Songs of peace’ has been killed. ... No one can say what he would have been if he had lived. One cannot be confident about the promise of the queer tender beauty in these poems. ... But of the beauties there can be no doubt.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w
=LEE, JAMES MELVIN.=[2] History of American journalism. il *$3.50 Houghton 071 18-292
A comprehensive and authoritative history of American journalism prepared by the head of the New York university school of journalism. The text which runs through the following chapters is illustrated with reproductions of famous papers and cartoons: Precursors of American newspapers; The first American newspaper—the Boston News-Letter; Beginnings in colonies; Colonial period, 1704-1765; Revolutionary period, 1765-1783; Period of early republic, 1783-1812; First dailies and early party organs; Party press period, 1812-1832; Beginnings in states, 1783-1832; Beginnings of the penny press; Transition period, 1832-1841; Beginnings in states and territories, 1833-1873; Mexican war to Civil war period, 1846-1860; Civil war period, 1860-1865; Reconstruction period, 1865-1880; Period of financial readjustment, 1880-1900; Period of social readjustment, 1900-; Journalism of to-day.
“Unfortunately, Mr Lee thinks it necessary to belittle the work of his predecessor. Were Mr Lee’s own work absolutely flawless, this harsh judgment upon the work of his fellow journalist might be pardonable, but under the circumstances it seems peculiarly unnecessary and inconsiderate. The vast amount of information gathered by Mr Lee makes his volume undeniably of great value as a storehouse of facts. But as a history it contains many defects of arrangement and style. Its index is so incomplete as to be absolutely worthless.” E. F. E.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 1150w
“He has performed his task con amore, as his comprehensive work attests.”
+ =Lit D= 56:44 F 9 ‘18 370w
“A book of prime importance to all newspaper men who take an intelligent interest in their profession, of decided interest to the general reader on account of its lively style, and of real value to the student of American life because of its comprehensiveness and its presentation of the ethics as well as the annals of its subject.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 60w
=LEE, JENNETTE BARBOUR (PERRY) (MRS GERALD STANLEY LEE).= Green jacket. *$1.35 (2½c) Scribner 17-24273
This is an unusual kind of detective story. Millicent Newberry, a small woman with gray eyes and hair, who dresses in gray, and whom anyone passing in a crowd would not have noticed particularly, tired of detective work as done in Tom Corbin’s detective agency, because she came to see that “It isn’t commonsense to go on catching folks and locking them up forever, or for a little while—and then letting them run loose.” So she set up an agency of her own and took no cases except with a signed agreement that she should say what should be done with the criminal she caught. Milly solved the mystery of the Mason emeralds which had for two years baffled other detectives. It was her custom to knit when on a case, and the book takes its title from the green jacket she was knitting while she pondered on the mysterious disappearance of the emeralds.
=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
“This story of Millicent Newberry is largely a thing of atmosphere, for it is the subtler realm of atmosphere that Mrs Lee finds the surest way to make her heroine real to us.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1150w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w
“Altho the author leads the reader to expect miraculous sleuth work on the part of Millie Newberry, one is sadly disappointed. The story is rather well constructed but there is not sufficient suspense to hold the interest.”
– + =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 60w
+ =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w
+ =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 300w
=LEE, ROGER IRVING.= Health and disease; their determining factors. *$1.75 (1½c) Little 613 17-8216
The author is professor of hygiene at Harvard university and this book on preventive medicine is the outgrowth of lectures delivered to his classes. It is intended for the layman, whose duty it is to cooperate intelligently with health authorities in the prevention and control of disease. Dr Lee’s purpose is to give him a summary of the knowledge that has been gained by medical science, not omitting to point out the things that science has not yet learned and the fields that are still to be explored. There are chapters on: Heredity; Food; Air; The skin; Exercise and work; Light and the eyes; The hygiene of the teeth and the upper air passages; The hygiene of the mind and the nervous system; The communicable diseases; The air-borne diseases, etc. There is also a discussion of Occupational diseases and a chapter on The function of the board of health.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“Concise and easily readable. ... The volume constitutes a summary knowledge gained from scientific medicine in recent years, but there is an utter absence of technical matter so unwelcome to the layman.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 370w
+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w
“There is nothing in the nature of ‘every-man-his-own-physician’ about this book. On the contrary, the reader of books like this will be very likely to learn when to send for the physician. ... There is a good index and the book is well printed.”
+ =Ind= 90:515 Je 16 ‘17 200w
“Now, as never before, such a work may helpfully serve employers who would understand the wisdom and gain of solving the health problems of their employees. It may even assist medical practitioners who would like a summary of preventive remedies.”
+ =Lit D= 55:33 Jl 14 ‘17 370w
+ =R of Rs= 55:556 My ‘17 90w
“It is a misfortune to use this phrase [’The air-borne diseases’] in any sense. ... Specially to be commended are the chapters on Alcohol, tobacco and the habit-forming drugs and on the Venereal diseases and sex-hygiene. ... It is to be most cordially recommended to the lay reader and might find a useful place as a text in a general elementary college course in hygiene and sanitation, and should certainly be on the desk of every teacher of biology and hygiene.” C. M. Hilliard
+ =Science= n s 45:463 My 11 ‘17 350w
“Sane, comprehensive, interesting and up-to-the-minute. One feels that, at last, the subject is set upright, solid, and on its feet.” G. S.
+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 200w
=LEFEVRE, EDWIN.= To the last penny. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-10667
Tommy Leigh, newly graduated from college, is faced with the necessity of earning a living. Having grown up in the belief that his father is a rich man, the discovery that he must fend for himself comes as a shock. The severity of the blow, however, grows out of the suspicion that his father is not an honest man, that he has taken advantage of his position as a trusted bank employee to appropriate the funds that paid for his son’s education. Tommy’s first job takes him out to Dayton, Ohio, where he enters the employ of the Tecumseh Motor Company. The chief interest of the story is centered in Thompson, the head of this company and his business methods. At the end there is an adjustment between Tommy and his father and an explanation of the father’s motives.
“A good clean story. ... Appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A mechanical piece of work.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 40w
“The story has already appeared serially in one of the well-known weeklies and will be a welcome addition to the summer library of novels. ... It is a book to help one as well as to amuse him.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1857 Je 16 ‘17 220w
“Entertaining, and exceptionally ingenious.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 400w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 29 ‘17 270w
=LEGGE, THOMAS MORISON, and others.= Origin, symptoms, pathology, treatment and prophylaxis of toxic jaundice observed in munition workers. *$2.50 Longmans 615.9
“Since the war a new occupational disease has been listed in the British factory inspection reports and has been added to those for which compensation can be claimed under the law. This is toxic jaundice, a form of poisoning caused by contact with the explosive trinitrotoluol, or triton, or TNT, to give it all its names. ... In 1916 there were reported in Great Britain 181 cases of toxic jaundice—the severe form of TNT poisoning—with 52 deaths. Milder forms need not be certified, but they are said to number about 30 times as many (some 5,400). ... As our output of munitions increases, TNT poisoning will inevitably increase unless we adopt the means of prevention worked out in England. This book is a mine of interesting information concerning this new and important industrial disease.”—Survey
“While much of it is very technical and of value only to physicians, there is a great deal for the lay inspector or welfare worker.” Alice Hamilton
+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 350w
=LE GRAND, PHILIPPE E.= New Greek comedy; with an introd. by J: Williams White. *$4.50 Putnam 882 17-21776
“Professor Legrand’s ‘Daos, tableau de la comédie grecque pendant la période dite nouvelle’ appeared in 1910 and immediately commanded the favorable consideration of classical scholars. Now Mr James Loeb, who had already translated Decharme’s ‘Euripides and the spirit of his dramas’ (1905) and Croiset’s ‘Aristophanes and the political parties of Athens’ (1909), has put us still further in his debt by providing an English version of Legrand as the concluding member of a trilogy of French works dealing with the history of ancient drama. ... With the idea of securing the attention of a wider public, not a little which would be of interest primarily to specialists has been omitted in the present edition. The translator’s preface states that the selection of passages for omission was made by the French author and that the bulk has thus been reduced by almost one-third.”—Class J
“Between the author and the translator every effort has been made to recommend this book to the general reader without taking away any part of its accuracy or its importance to the scholastic world.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 900w
“One would be greatly mistaken if he concluded that the present version were rendered altogether suitable for the general reader, for Greek and Latin words, phrases, and sentences are left standing in the text with such frequency as to present a serious obstacle to all but the classically trained. ... It would have added considerably to the value of the book if the author or translator could have brought the bibliographical references quite up to date. ... I have tested the translation at numerous points and have found it uniformly accurate. ... The original edition had no index, but Professor Capps has supervised the compilation of an extensive index for the translation. ... The French edition was competently reviewed by Professor Prescott in Classical Philology, V (1910), 377ff.” R. C. Flickinger
+ =Class J= 13:77 O ‘17 1350w
“Although Legrand’s book is unquestionably the best available description of New comedy, it is at times tedious reading, in its English form, for the general student of literature. It is often unnecessarily profuse in arraying examples of a given phase of comedy; the French author’s style of exposition is sometimes clumsily mechanical; and in general a clear succinct statement of the essential features of content and form, described from the standpoint of a modern reader of ancient comedy, would serve much better the needs of the audience to whom Mr Loeb addresses his translation.” H: W. Prescott
+ — =Class Philol= 12:442 O ‘17 220w
“This book will be not only indispensable to the conscientious student of literary history, but of genuine interest to the intelligent general reader who might be repelled by the mass of technical material, wisely omitted in this case, which so many writers on classical subjects seem to think it ignominious to spare him.” E. D. Perry
+ =Educ R= 55:73 Ja ‘18 900w
“The ‘Daos’ of Prof. Legrand, which Mr Loeb now gives us in an excellent version, has not the characteristic French gift of brilliant generalisation. It is rather a book which appeals to the main trend of American scholarship, which is to gather up laboriously an infinite amount of small detail. ... It will be a bit stiff for the general reader who is in view, for it is thickly spread with the names of plays, which are usually fragments of plays, and dramatis personæ.”
+ =Sat R= 123:578 Je 23 ‘17 1350w
“M. Legrand is happy alike in his opportunity and in the use that he has made of it. ... To the general reader the omissions are no loss, while Mr Loeb’s English version shows that he himself is a master of the art which he has done so much to encourage.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p220 My 10 ‘17 2150w
=LEIGHOU, ROBERT BENJAMIN.= Chemistry of materials of the machine and building industries. il *$3 McGraw 660 17-11589
“A text-book for technical schools considering from the standpoint of the user the chemistry of water, fuels, refractory materials, iron and steel, nonferrous materials and alloys, foundry sands, building stones, lime and gypsum products, cement, clay and its products, paints, varnishes, lubricants, glue, rubber, insulating materials, etc.” (Cleveland) The author is associate professor of chemistry in the Carnegie institute of technology.
“The bibliographical footnotes and the lists of books and periodical references at the chapter endings make this an excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”
+ =Bul N Y Public Library= 21:483 Jl ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 50w
“There is a curious admixture of the scientific and the popular methods of treatment. The references are many and interesting, though it is to be doubted whether the technical student will be other than bewildered by their number, or the user of materials, seeking detailed information, will be less than exasperated by the glossing of facts indicated by their unceasing recurrence.”
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 78:603 Je 21 ‘17 150w
“Intended for students who have a knowledge of elementary general chemistry. ... An excellent reference for both the technical and the public library.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ap ‘17 90w
“Useful work, including a wide range of materials and giving concise information much of which is not easily available elsewhere.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17 90w
=Pratt= p23 O ‘17 40w
=LEONARD, MARY FINLEY.= Ways of Jane; a story with which the wise and prudent have no concern. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 17-8350
This is the story of Jane and her friends on Sycamore street and of certain other people who live in the more aristocratic Kenton place. Jane is seven years old and she lives with Angela, her aunt, who is young and lovely and who writes reviews of books to help with the family living. Jane has a part in the reviewing, too, placing large blue penciled R’s on the paper jacket of each book as it leaves Angela’s hands. Jane’s best friend is Miss Goldie, the little dressmaker who shares her belief in fairies and ogres. Her next best friend is David. David is a young man who lives in Kenton place, but Jane does not recognize class distinctions and this does not interfere with their friendship. There are other pleasant people in the story and before the end of it Jane’s faith in fairies, yes, and in ogres, too, is vindicated.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
“A very slight, rather pleasant and somewhat long-winded little story.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 140w
“Although Jane is a juvenile, the book is not.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 180w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 40w
=LEONARD, STERLING ANDRUS.= English composition as a social problem. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (2c) Houghton 808 17-5148
The idea that lies back of this monograph is expressed by Dr Suzzallo in his Editor’s introduction: “Most self-expression is for the purpose of social communication. We express ourselves in the presence of other people to gain appreciation or stimulation and to influence and control others. Our whole use of language has a social setting.” The author has worked out this idea in a plan for composition teaching in grades and high school. Four chapters discuss: The sources of composition projects in child-activities; The social group as an agent in expressional development; The organization of ideas; Evolution and attainment of expressional standards.
=A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17
“Stimulating, somewhat technical.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 My ‘17 70w
+ =Dial= 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 180w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:46 Mr ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:646 O ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 60w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:606 O ‘17 90w
=LESLIE, SHANE.= Celt and the world. *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940 17-7029
The present war is termed a Teutonic family split. The real point at issue is, Which of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic family shall rule the sea. The theme of the book is the relation of Celt and Teuton in history, with special reference of course to the relation of England and Ireland. Between Germany and Ireland, there can be little in common is the author’s conclusion. “The fortunes of Ireland are with the Anglo-Celtic empire, though the reactionary English element has by unwisdom obscured the path.” Contents: The Aryans and their religion; Celt and Teuton; The conversion of the Celt; The holy Aryan empire; The Aryan dispersion; A view of Irish history; The Teutonic family split.
“Not only from the standpoint of history is his book interesting, but he has built up an argument which is certainly thought-provoking.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 220w
“Though entertainingly written and abounding in literary charm, the study will prove a disappointment to most readers. They will naturally expect an illuminating study of the influence of one of the world’s great races on its general trend of events, but they will find instead an opportunist brief born of the present war.”
=Cleveland= p81 Je ‘17 80w (Reprinted from America)
“Pre-supposes a ‘well-read’ reader and a receptive mind. To many the sketch of Irish history will be the most interesting thing in the book; and the praise heaped upon the Celtic hero, Daniel O’Connell, will find few critics. Mr Leslie surely knows his subject.”
+ =Cath World= 105:823 S ‘17 340w
“An essay on European development from an unusual angle—from the angle of a student who remains rather aloof from the achievements of the two imperial branches of the Teutonic stock—the German and the Anglo-Saxon. Mr Leslie’s ideal of European union is one from which Europe seems to have decisively departed—a union under the presidency of pope and emperor. ... Now that the dominant Aryan people, the Teutonic, are wasting themselves in fratricidal conflict, the menace of Asia becomes more positive, more immediate. That is the thesis of ‘The Celt and the world.’” Padraic Colum
=Dial= 62:435 My 17 ‘17 900w
+ — =Nation= 105:73 Jl 19 ‘17 400w
“Both learned and brilliant—a rare combination today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 400w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w
Letters from a French hospital. *$1 (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-15442
A series of letters written to her people at home by an English girl nursing in France. They range in date from July 31, 1915 to September 17, 1916. For the most part they are concerned with the every day duties and routine of hospital service, but now and again there is a reflective sentence that reveals the writer’s character. “I never for a moment wanted the Boches to win, but I just can’t want them killed,” she writes. At another time she tells that she has just motored over to the Spanish frontier where she stood on the border and “looked longingly over into peace.”
“American women who are looking forward to hospital service during the war cannot fail to be interested in these unusual letters.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 30w
“The letters are an interesting revelation of all the unconscious little heroisms that are part of the daily life near any great fighting front.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 220w
“Pictures conditions similar to those described in ‘Mademoiselle Miss,’ and the writer displays many of the same qualities, which led to success despite her lack of training.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:185 Je ‘17 50w
=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Hallow-e’en, and poems of the war. *$1.25 Dutton 821
“Most of the war poetry has had in it more or less of the clangor of battle, the exaltation of spirit that fills the soldier at the firing line, the gay comradeship of the march. But these poems are mostly from the point of view of the home-staying ones and are full of the tender reverence of these for the soldier fighting and dying, of compassion for the bereaved at home, and of admiration for the courage with which they bear their losses and sorrows.”—N Y Times
“A somewhat different touch marks these war poems in comparison with most of the war poetry the last two or three years have brought forth—a touch that perhaps can be best described as the priestly touch of understanding and compassion and healing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 530w
“Contains many fine poems, several of which have received praise on previous publication in English magazines. ‘Hallow-e’en, 1915,’ ‘He prayed,’ and ‘The spires of Oxford,’ have a rare quality and deserve a place among the best expressions of the war spirit in poetry.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:105 Jl ‘17 50w
“Miss Letts never strikes a wrong note or plucks needlessly at our heartstrings, and if there is little gaiety in her new volume, there is no wantoning with sorrow.”
+ =Spec= 118:76 Ja 20 ‘17 200w
=LETTS, WINIFRED M.= Spires of Oxford, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 821 17-24170
“The majority of the poems in this volume were published in 1916 under the title ‘Hallow-e’en and poems of the war.’ The verdict of the public, as shown by continual requests for permission to republish, is that ‘The spires of Oxford’ is the most important poem in the volume—and therefore in issuing a new edition with several new poems, we bow to this verdict and give ‘The spires of Oxford’ its place in the forefront of the volume.” (Publishers’ note) Contents: Poems of the war; Ad mortuum; Miscellanea.
“They have a felicity of expression, variety, distinction, a touch of dramatic fervor and a genuineness of feeling which make them appealing.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“These war poems one may read through with responsive interest, but with no keen poignancy, except on one occasion. That exception is in the verses called ‘What reward?’ ... The poems in the other two groups of Miss Letts’s volume show her, I think, in a better poetic light. ... The work is always clear, sometimes vivid, always cleanly wrought.” W. S. B.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 500w
+ =Cath World= 106:402 D ‘17 90w
“Contains some poems on the war which we should be sorry to have missed.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w
“There are many noble war-poems in Miss Letts’s book, but the part of it which impresses us most is that containing poems personal in theme. Miss Letts’s chief claim—and a strong claim it is—upon the affections of those who care greatly for poetry is the group of poems called ‘Ad mortuum.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:34 O 6 ‘17 850w
“They are primarily poems—buoyant with beauty, full of fresh visions of loveliness, warm and human and sweet. The war poems are dignified and reveal an occasional flash of understanding that is all too unusual in war verse.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 470w
+ =N Y Times= 22:566 D 16 ‘17 230w
“The poem from which the book takes its title is an outstanding example of war verse, notable for its simplicity and feeling. ... Almost equally affecting is ‘Halloween, 1915.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 24 ‘17 280w
=LEUBA, JAMES HENRY.= Belief in God and immortality; a psychological, anthropological and statistical study. *$2 (2c) Sherman, French & co. 218 17-54
The author says, “In an earlier book [’A psychological study of religion,’ 1912] I have considered the origin, the nature, the function, and the future of the belief in what I have called ‘personal’ gods. The present volume is a similar study of the belief in personal immortality.” Part 1 treats of The two conceptions of immortality: their origins, their different characteristics and the attempted demonstration of the truth of the modern conception. This part also includes an examination of the studies of the Society of psychical research. Part 2 presents a statistical study of the belief in a personal God and in personal immortality in the United States.