The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
Part 3 treats of the present utility of the beliefs in personal
immortality and in a personal God. The author is professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr college.
“The author presents a somewhat detailed study of the belief in God and a future life as it appears in primitive religions and in the modern world of educated men and women. The treatment is extremely suggestive and illuminating. The conclusion is that these beliefs, having in the minds of people today little or no relation to the conduct of life, may well be discarded in favor of more practical moral teachings. The book deserves careful reading on the part of all religious and social workers.” Irving King
+ =Am J Soc= 23:129 Jl ‘17 550w
“It is a pleasure to find, as one does in Leuba’s work, a really fresh presentation and something like an original point of view. Professor Leuba has put in his debt all those who have the welfare of religion at heart by showing them that the situation is really much more serious than most of them had supposed.” J. B. Pratt
+ =Am J Theol= 21:629 O ‘17 1650w
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p94 F ‘17 100w
“Rarely, if ever, has the distinction between two quite different conceptions of personal immortality been so successfully elaborated.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 150w
“There are few subjects as to which statistics can be more meaningless, and that is saying a great deal.”
— =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 40w
“The book is exceedingly interesting, but far from convincing, when one realizes that the conclusions are based merely upon questionnaires sent to interested persons of the college world.”
=Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
“The reader of this study can but be impressed with the fact that in this book is discussed with the fair spirit of critical inquiry a subject that in recent literature has been even unscrupulously handled.” J. R. Kantor
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:396 Ap ‘17 500w
=Nation= 104:496 Ap 26 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:41 Mr ‘17
=LEVI, N.= Jan Smuts; being a character sketch of Gen. the Hon. J. C. Smuts, K. C., M. L. A., minister of defence, Union of South Africa. il *$2.50 Longmans 17-15584
“General Smuts, leader of the British forces against the Germans in German Southeast Africa, has gone to England as a member of the British Imperial war cabinet. ... He is one of the really interesting personalities of this far-flung war. And in a book, written by a South African neighbor, presumably for South African readers in the first place, and then for Britons in general, the author of the present volume has offered a real contribution to the knowledge of the world at large. ‘Jan Smuts’ is, as the title page states, a character sketch rather than a biography. It is written with great simplicity, out of a heart-felt admiration, with the utmost sympathy and the most intimate knowledge both of the man himself and of the circumstance and the events of his life.”—N Y Times
“The work gives one the flavor of South Africa. It is not only the racy English idiom enlivened with fresh South African phrases, nor the imagination that loves to play with odd figures of speech drawn from the author’s own experience; it is the insight into the Boers, the sympathetic insight of a man who has seen a wider world only to estimate his own better. Few men in their lifetimes have been so fortunate in their biographers as General Smuts.” Wallace Notestein
+ =Am Hist R= 23:434 Ja ‘18 450w
+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 330w
“Seems to lack those picturesque features and that broader humanity with which we associate General Botha.”
+ — =Ind= 91:293 Ag 25 ‘17 150w
“It is exceedingly interesting. ... The last sentence is all the more interesting in connection with a statement quoted from A. G. Gardiner of the London Daily News that Jan Smuts is ‘the most considerable figure in Greater Britain.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 520w
“His biography is doubly worth while; it describes both an interesting individual character and the recent development of South African economic, social, and political conditions.”
+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 70w
* =Spec= 118:365 Mr 24 ‘17 1500w
“His style is dreadful. ... Yet Mr Levi has his merits. He is ingenuous and kindly. His knowledge of facts is accurate, his judgment of political opponents not usually overharsh, his reverence and affection for General Smuts himself very genuine and very obvious. His book, at least, comes pat to the moment. ... People in this country might do much worse than get it and read it. It will, at least help them to understand the elements of South African politics and the position of the Botha government.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 430w
=LEVINE, ISAAC DON.= Russian revolution. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 947 17-15056
This work by the foreign news editor of the New York Tribune has chapters devoted to: A century of struggle for freedom; Russian autocracy and the great war; Russian democracy and the great war; The birth of social Russia; The Duma and social Russia; The democratization of the army; The rule of Goremykin; The dark forces; Working for Prussianism; A traitor to democracy; The crisis; Rasputin and Protopopov; The revolution; The fall of czarism; The new Russia; The future. Summarizing the contents, the author says, “The first six chapters of this book give a general survey of the forces that underlay the revolution. The following six chapters deal with the events in the thirty months preceding it. The last four chapters cover the revolution proper and its possibilities.”
“Very interesting and compact.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17
=Ath= p530 O ‘17 200w
“A clear-cut and sober analysis.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
+ =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w
“It is a thrilling story and it is so well presented on the whole that one forgets the aberrations of the author’s English style.” N. H. D.
+ + — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 850w
“Presents information which is not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
+ =Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 150w
“Although he has leavened the mere literal record with competent and sometimes illuminating interpretation, Mr Levine does not attempt to give more than a hasty journalistic summary. Yet even in so slight a book the author is compelled to devote over two-thirds his space to an analysis of the governmental disorganization, chicanery and almost open treason which made the drama of March, 1917, inevitable.”
+ =New Repub= 12:56 Ag 11 ‘17 600w
“The book as a whole is fascinating. But one chapter of it, because of its unusual character, may be mentioned, that dealing with Rasputin.” Frank Macdonald
+ =N Y Call= p14 Jl 22 ‘17 600w
“Tells in crisp, journalistic style, and with a full sense of its amazingness, this latest romance of human freedom. The author draws from a full and deep knowledge of Russia; he is able to sum up the salient facts leading gradually and surely to the revolution without wasting time or losing the reader’s attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 1500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17 70w
+ =Pratt= p44 O ‘17 10w
“By all odds the most journalistic and vivid of the presentations of the motives and forces that are energizing the Russian national movement. ... Mr Levine’s terse and graphic narrative of Petrograd’s days of transition from absolutism to modern democracy can hardly be surpassed.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 250w
“Much of what he says should be common knowledge, and if it is not his book should help in making it so.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 100w
“The personalities of Sturmer, Rasputin, Protopopov, the Tsaritsa, and other pro-Germans are clearly brought out.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p413 Ag 30 ‘17 950w
=LEWIN, PERCY EVANS.= German road to the East. *$2.50 Doran 327.4 (Eng ed 17-9488)
“An account of the ‘Drang nach Osten’ and of Teutonic aims in the Near and Middle East. It discusses the political and economic causes which underlie the Eastern question, the problems of the Balkan states and Russia, the position of Persia and the probable result of British occupation of Bagdad.”—A L A Bkl
“Interesting in connection with Naumann’s ‘Central Europe’ (Booklist 13:247 My ‘17) and Gibbons’ ‘New map of Europe’ (Booklist 11:258 F ‘15). Well documented with a selected classed bibliography (8p).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17
“Mr Evans Lewin’s book lacks the personal knowledge and individual feeling that give originality to Sir Thomas Holdich’s writing. Its strongest feature is its bibliography, and, indeed, the whole book smells somewhat of the lamp; yet the standpoint from which it is written fatally deprives it of authority and permanence. A history of German penetration in the Near East would be an intensely interesting sociological study; but Mr Lewin is not writing a history, he is making out a case. ... There is a great deal of excellent geographical analysis and solid historical information in Mr Lewin’s book.”
– + =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 650w
“An excellent and painstaking study of the Berlin to Bagdad project, the fullest and perhaps best balanced account of Pan-Germanism, which has so far appeared.”
+ =Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 50w
“A scholarly and important contribution to the literature of the war and its causes.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 15 ‘17 750w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:60 Ap ‘17
“The study throughout is comprehensive and penetrating and authorities are given for all important statements.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 150w
“In this useful book Mr Lewin examines in detail the development of Germany’s ambitious designs on the Near East, typified in the phrase ‘from Berlin to Baghdad.’ Every one, we suppose, now understands the German desire to absorb the whole heritage of the ‘Sick man,’ but it is convenient to have the diplomatic and economic history of the German schemes during the last twenty years set forth in this readable form. Mr Lewin, we think, exaggerates English ignorance of pan-Germanism.”
+ — =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 250w
“Mr Lewin is already known by his useful volume on the Germans in Africa; he has many qualifications for the task he has undertaken; he has great industry and wide reading, and, in particular, has a very thorough understanding of British colonial aims and interests. This latter quality is shown in the volume before us; by far the most valuable chapters are those on Asia Minor, and particularly on Persia. ... While, therefore, the book is of great value as regards the events in Asia, for an explanation of the real influences and character of German policy at home it is inferior to other recent works such as those of Dr Rose, or Dr Prothero’s very useful pamphlet, ‘German policy before the war.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p482 O 12 ‘16 2000w
=LEWINSKI-CORWIN, EDWARD HENRY.= Political history of Poland. il $3 Polish book importing co., 83 2d av., N.Y. 943.8 17-19703
“The author has sketched the history of the Polish state from its early beginnings to its disintegration, and has followed the fortunes of its scattered remnants down to the present day. The chapter on The Polish question and the great war contains information on the Polish legions and on the present attitude of Polish patriots towards Russia, Germany, and Austria not easily obtainable elsewhere. ... Dr Lewinski-Corwin believes that a free and republican Russia will make the reconstruction of Poland, as an independent state, in confederation with Lithuania and Ruthenia, a political possibility.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17
“A chapter on the Polish legions and the attitude of the ‘patriots’ toward Austria, Germany and Russia is illuminating and gives information not easily accessible elsewhere.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
“The last two chapters, however,—dealing with ‘constitutional Russia and the Poles’ and ‘the Polish question and the great war,’—have decided value, not alone because they bring the story up to date, but because they show an unusually keen insight into the perplexities of the contemporary Polish problem.” F: A. Ogg
+ — =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 670w
=Lit D= 55:39 S 15 ‘17 280w
“Fully familiar with his subject. ... The interest of the volume is enhanced by numerous illustrations. ... The book might have gained in value by more careful proof-reading.”
+ — =Nation= 105:298 S 13 ‘17 240w
“A great deal of space is given to the many efforts of Poland to free itself from Russian serfdom.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:330 S 9 ‘17 370w
=Pittsburgh= 22:679 O ‘17
“If due allowance is made for these limitations, Dr Lewinski-Corwin’s book takes its place as the best and most authoritative brief history of Poland now on the market.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ — =Survey= 39:298 D 8 ‘17 800w
=LEWIS, BURDETTE GIBSON.= Offender and his relations to law and society. (Harper’s modern science ser.) il *$2 (1½c) Harper 364 17-10887
A work on prison reform and modern correctional methods by the Commissioner of correction for New York city. The book is made up of two parts, the first, Society and the offender, is a study of methods actually in use in various institutions. There are chapters on: The court and the offender; Classification of the offender; Probation and parole; The indeterminate sentence; Autocratic government and discipline; Other systems of government and discipline, etc. Part 2 deals with the prevention of crime and considers the different social forces which can be used to that end. There are several appendixes presenting interesting matter relating to prison practice, including among other items a Plan for the rational treatment of women convicted in the courts of the County of New York prepared by Katharine B. Davis.
“The book is open to criticism because of the inadequate development of part 2 on the prevention of crime. The common-sense point of view, the thoroughly socialized legal attitude, and the new illustrative material from the author’s experience are the strong points.” E. S. Bogardus
+ — =Am J Soc= 23:553 Ja ‘18 180w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 550w
+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 60w
“Neither reactionary nor sentimental.”
+ =Ind= 91:292 Ag 25 ‘17 120w
“The great merit of this book is the humanity and intimacy, the familiarity of detail and truthfulness, with which it treats of four complicated aspects of society’s dealing with the wrongdoer.”
+ =Nation= 104:734 Je 21 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Lewis combines idealism with common sense. ... The volume is sound in its philosophy, shows in the author both a practical familiarity with present methods and an intelligent reading of history and is to be heartily commended to all those who are interested in the problem.”
+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:533 Je ‘17 100w
=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 20w
“It is refreshing to find an administrator so alive to the modern scientific study of the individual delinquent and to the need for individual treatment. Mr Lewis’s approach to his subject is for the most part liberal and scientific; his information goes far beyond the files of his own department. ... The book is not as fluent in style as Wines’ ‘Punishment and reformation,’ but it supersedes that volume for the student of penology today.” W. D. Lane
+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= Innocents. il *$1.25 (3c) Harper 17-24286
The author calls this “a story for lovers,” “a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry, and love old people and children.” (Introd.) It is the story of the later years of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, who, though they were born in New York city, and had lived there upward of sixty years, were “rustic as a meadow-ringed orchard.” After their daughter has married a prosperous druggist in a small New York town, “Father,” who has clerked for many years in Pilking’s shoestore on Sixth avenue, decides to give up his job, and, with the help of “Mother,” opens a tea-room in an old farm house on the cliffs at Grimsby Head, Cape Cod. Why the venture fails, how the old couple take to the open road and how they finally make a place, and that no mean one, for themselves in Lipsittsville, Indiana; instead of living with their eminently respectable daughter who is always trying to make them over, is sympathetically told by Mr Lewis.
“An entertaining and amusing variant of the typical love story.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“It is in spite of his ingenuity, not because of it, that the reader keeps on believing in Father and Mother, the devoted and the irrepressible.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 170w
“The characterization rings true, but the adventures, especially the long tramp from city to city, are pleasantly improbable.”
+ — =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w
“The facile smartness of phrases, the essential flimsiness, of Mr Lewis’s latest book presents a spectacle made all the sadder by the traces of a better self revealed in it.”
– + =Dial= 63:531 N 22 ‘17 550w
“We wonder if the publishers really agree with the notice-writer that the book is ‘a tender romance of an American Darby and Joan?’ Sentimental farce would come nearer the mark.”
— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 260w
“Preposterous but rather amusing story.”
+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 140w
“In some of his former stories Mr Lewis has shown a peculiar understanding of the gray, limited lives of the small work people of a big city and of the meaning to them of their possible pleasures, dreams, and temperamental expressions. In ‘The innocents’ he gives full rein to this faculty, with the result that the intimate and full-length picture of Mr and Mrs Seth Appleby, otherwise ‘Father’ and ‘Mother,’ is very touching, very charming, and so simple and true in all its essentials that even when the story is at its most audaciously romantic pitch it is still plausible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w
“The story as a whole is a delightful picture of mutual love and courage, that floats like a fresh breeze over the reader’s consciousness, jaded with the conventional romances of the day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 310w
=LEWIS, SINCLAIR.= The job. *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-6323
A story of modern business and of a woman’s place in business life. Una Golden, who comes from Panama, Pa., to New York, is an ordinary girl, with blond hair and eye-glasses. The story covers ten years of her life, from 1905 to 1915, from the age of twenty-five to thirty-five. In that time she studies at a “commercial college,” holds various jobs, and lives the life of a working girl, in boarding house, “home,” and light-housekeeping flat. Midway in this period she finds the job getting on her nerves, and takes the way of escape offered, marriage. But marriages made from that motive start with a handicap, and Una’s is a failure. She returns to the job with new resolution, determined to conquer. She does, becomes a successful business woman, and then begins to consider the possibility of a second marriage in which conflicting claims of home and a career are both to be satisfied.
“Some of the episodes of her unfortunate marriage may be considered too frank and sordid but they are not the main interest, while the story leaves one with more confidence in the women who are beginning to realize the possibilities of ‘the job.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17
“What justifies the book, in the end, is not its ‘idea,’ or its incidental cleverness, which is notable, but its portrait of a woman. Una Golden is—herself.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 405:316 My ‘17 750w
“To say that Mr Lewis’s novel is aggressively modern is not to say more than truth. It expresses the American spirit of this very day and hour.” E. F. E.
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w
=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 140w
“One may discern here a sermon preached, a plot more or less arranged. But there is no escaping the sincerity and originality of the central portrait. As a person, theories apart, Una Golden rings true.”
+ — =Nation= 104:433 Ap 12 ‘17 470w
“Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. ... He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos. He has kept the spotlight of the novelist on her without giving her a spotlight-life.” F. H.
+ — =New Repub= 10:234 Mr 24 ‘17 1250w
“The story of the girl who for one reason or another goes into business has been told many times; but very, very seldom indeed with even one-half the convincingness which this author has managed to give to his history of Una Golden. ... Sane, generous, well balanced, above all, real, it interprets by presenting this world as it is.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 1050w
“The story is a serious, if gloomy, study. It has no light phases. ... In its main details the story rings true, considering the character concerned, but it is unpleasant.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 My 27 ‘17 450w
“The story reads like a true one but is hardly pleasing enough to attract the ordinary novel-reader.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:126 Ap ‘17 70w
=LIBBY, WALTER.= Introduction to the history of science. il *$1.50 (2c) Houghton 509 17-8227
“This book is intended as a simple introduction, taking advantage of the interests of youth of from seventeen to twenty-two years or age (and their intellectual compeers) in order to direct their attention to the story of the development of the sciences. ... It is a psychological introduction, having the mental capacity of a certain class of readers always in view, rather than a logical introduction.” (Preface) Contents: Science and practical needs—Egypt and Babylonia; The influence of abstract thought—Greece: Aristotle; Scientific theory subordinated to application—Rome: Vitruvius; The continuity of science—the medieval church and the Arabs; The classification of the sciences—Francis Bacon; Scientific method—Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes; Coöperation in science—the Royal society, etc. The closing chapter is a discussion of science and democratic culture. The author is professor of the history of science in the Carnegie institute of technology, Pittsburgh.
“A little book on a big subject in excellent English. [The relations of science] to other fields of man’s life—education, war, religion, industry, travel, philosophy, art, ethics, and democracy—are well touched upon, and the closing chapter deals chiefly with Matthew Arnold and Nietzsche. It contains many interesting facts that will be new to most persons, and also a number of passages that set one thinking. Many history teachers might broaden their view of the past by perusing this volume.” Lynn Thorndike
+ + — =Am Hist R= 23:125 O ‘17 720w
=A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w
+ =Dial= 62:487 My 31 ‘17 600w
“Breathes on every page the tolerant, generous, objective spirit of science. But Dr Libby is no narrow champion of scientific as opposed to literary culture, and he recommends systematic teaching of the sciences in relation both to the daily work and to their historical and cultural antecedents.’ It is on account of its broadening and stimulating cultural influence that this fine work of Dr Libby’s is to be recommended. It should find a place, if not always in the curriculum, certainly in the library, of every high school, normal school, and college in the land.” Cephas Guillet
+ =Educ R= 54:192 S ‘17 600w
+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 80w
“We have long needed a systematically organized and clearly written history of science for the college student and the layman who is not taking active part in the development of any one of the sciences. Professor Libby’s new book is probably the first contribution in this field.”
+ =El School J= 17:610 Ap ‘17 350w
“Professor Libby has divided his purpose in such a way as to obscure and to break the thread of his subject. He, apparently, tries to compress into one small volume a résumé of the history of all the sciences from the earliest times. In addition to this almost hopeless task, he wishes to attract and to influence the youth by showing the nobility of science. He also wishes to exalt the national spirit, and he does it by devoting whole chapters to Franklin and Langley, which compels him to compress or to omit many of the really great achievements in science. As a textbook, the work is of value in spite of this confusion. In the first place, there are almost no others available, and in addition Professor Libby has been accurate and his style is readable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 500w
“One of the most effective pieces of scientific popularization it has ever been my good fortune to read. Prof. Libby has a power of presenting clearly ideas often difficult from their inherent abstractness that has rarely been equalled save by men of genius like Huxley and Galton. He has obviously an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and he has a singular success in communicating his enthusiasm. His book is, on the whole, conceived in admirable perspective. It has exactly the right amount of biographical material to give it the genuine touch of living personality.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:23 Ag 4 ‘17 2000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 130w
“With an undercurrent of philosophical speculation, the treatment is rather biographical, typical scientists being selected to illustrate the attitude and the methods of the scientists, as well as the principles developed and applied.” B. C. Gruenberg
+ =N Y Call= p15 S 16 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p19 Jl ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:361 O ‘17 40w
=LIDDELL, ROBERT SCOTLAND.= On the Russian front. il *8s 6d Simpkin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-15304)
“Mr Liddell saw the great Russian retreat of last summer in a double capacity: he was a member of the seventh group of Polish Red cross volunteers, and also the correspondent of the Sphere; that is to say, he took part in the events described in the book, and he recorded them before his impressions became blunted. ... It is a depressing story that Mr Liddell has to tell—a story of crippled men, of gutted buildings, and of refugees, flying one with his drawing-room suite on a cart, another with a couple of canaries in a cage, several with nothing but some potted plants. But the Russian soldier is not depressed; his comment is ‘Neechevo’—‘It is nothing.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16
“Every page in this book was written amid the routine of danger, a battle thundering quite close at hand, and a drama of mingled sweat and blood and dirt coming with the stricken, whose uncomplaining courage was an awful monotony of silent anguish.”
=Sat R= 122:299 S 23 ‘16 1200w
Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer
=Spec= 117:551 N 4 ‘16 1600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 6 ‘16 650w
=LIEBKNECHT, KARL PAUL AUGUST FRIEDRICH.= Militarism. *$1 (2c) Huebsch 172.4 17-26892
A fearless arraignment of autocracy which cost Liebknecht his freedom and resulted in the suppression of his book. It is a clear statement of the principles and convictions of the man who has so courageously led the struggle against militarism in Germany. He points out that militarism in its four-fold development is the offspring of capitalism; “militarism for abroad,” navalism, colonial militarism and “militarism for home.” He shows that all of the policies of the militaristic system serve the exploiting interests of the ruling classes of capitalism instead of furthering economic development in conformity with the duties and interests of civilization. Militarism obstructs class consciousness, turns the army into a handy, docile effective tool, while distorting the reason and narcotizing the soul. Thruout the discussion the point of view of the proletariat is kept—of the under-dog against whom the army is a weapon along the path of economic struggle.
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Herr Liebknecht assails the past record of militarism socially, politically, economically, historically, and statistically, with true German thoroughness.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w
=Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 620w
+ =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 160w
“The book is chiefly of historical interest, since the world war is so changing world ideas. ... But the book is interesting and timely for the light it throws on the pre-war Germany and for the illumination it makes of the character of Karl Liebknecht.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 900w
“The fact that Dr Liebknecht’s ‘Militarism’ was suppressed and the author put in prison for his daring criticism of the German military system would assure it a cordial welcome in the United States even were the book not so abundantly able to stand on its own bottom. ... Yet be warned that Dr Liebknecht measures us along with other countries and finds us, well, not absolute perfection. He lists us and our methods along with other nations and their methods with a horrid impersonality that intimates that we are just like other folks.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 92:811 S 15 ‘17 850w
“While the book perhaps overemphasizes the part played by the class struggle in creating modern armaments, its words deserve the most careful heeding.” H: Neumann
+ — =Survey= 39:471 Ja 26 ‘18 630w
“Interesting at the present time, but not essential in small libraries.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:29 Ja ‘18 50w
=LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.= Uncollected letters; now first brought together by Gilbert A. Tracy; with an introd. by Ida M. Tarbell. il *$2.50 Houghton 17-28895
Three hundred letters which Lincoln wrote for the greater part from 1858 to 1861 most of which have never been published before. Tho many of them are brief each has the stamp of Lincoln individuality; and covering, as they do, a great range of interests they furnish a sidelight on the character of Lincoln which no student can overlook. There are legal letters, letters that bear upon the period when Lincoln was competing with Douglas for the senatorship, and letters that reflect his life and relations with friends, all of them giving ample illustration “of his cleverness, his fairness and continued zest in the political game.” The collector of the letters was a clerk in the War department from 1863 to 1868 during which time he grew to love and revere the great emancipator. “Mr Tracy has crowned his life long devotion to Abraham Lincoln with a noble gift to the people of the country.”
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 330w
“In spite of the scarcity of allusions to his domestic life it is profitable to get such glimpses as are revealed in the collection. ... It must be said that a considerable portion of these letters have no connection with the great service and life of Lincoln, but relate to commonplace and routine matters. Many are not worth preserving except for their autographs. It is regrettable that classification and topical headings are lacking, though the index is complete and satisfactory.” H. S. K.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w
“That many are inconsequential does not discount the value of the entire collection. As a whole they shed strong light upon Abraham Lincoln’s life.”
+ =Lit D= 55:43 D 1 ‘17 110w
+ =Nation= 105:569 N 22 ‘17 950w
“Many of the pieces are of little moment, except that, as Miss Tarbell says in her preface, ‘Nothing that he wrote is without importance’”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 1050w
+ — =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 110w
=LINCOLN, JOSEPH CROSBY (JOE LINCOLN, pseud.).= Extricating Obadiah. il *$1.50 (1½c) Appleton 17-25818
Cape Cod, of course. A simple story scheme that runs something like this: Obadiah Burgess inherits a house and twelve thousand in cash. He had formerly been a cabin boy and had gone to sea with Captain Noah Newcomb. At the time of his prosperity his old captain, now retired, is touring Cape Cod and is laid up for motor repairs in Obadiah’s town of Trumet. Obadiah had indulged in a good deal of talk about his wealth and excited the cupidity of a dealer in antiques who begins a systematic and apparently successful campaign to relieve Obadiah of his wealth. Worried, Obadiah appeals to his old friend. After the captain finds that about a dozen are taking part in weaving a net around Obadiah he turns to a task quite similar to putting together a picture puzzle. He lists his pieces, gets their number, and puts them together to the amazement of Obadiah and the discomfort of his culprits.
“Full of Cape Cod dialect and humor.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 50w
+ =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w
“The author’s versatility is equal to any difficulty and he evolves plots, inner plots, and counter-plots. He makes impossible and exaggerated facts seem quite plausible.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 29 ‘17 210w
“The simple little story is familiar and commonplace but it is a fairly entertaining tale, nevertheless.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:484 N 18 ‘17 270w
“Again we have racy dialogue, honest fun, and clever situations.”
+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 30w
“The plot is not a very heavy one, but who reads a Lincoln novel for the plot alone! One reads it for genial old tars like Captain Noah, for rascally old skinflints like Balaam Griggs, for Serepta Hatches, keeping tabs on how many times Mary Barstow’s beau calls, for salt water vocabularies, for glimpses of Cape Cod’s sandy marshes and for mental whiffs of stiff sea breezes.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 450w
“In the new story there is a well-sustained plot in addition to a new group of familiar character types. The story is in Mr Lincoln’s best vein, which spells unadulterated diversion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 350w
=LINCOLN, NATALIE SUMNER.= Nameless man. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-24163
“Beginning with an argument about the yellow peril, this novel of murder and intrigue attempts to prove its actuality. Between California and Washington, in diplomatic circles and social life, the mystery runs, implicating white men as well as Japanese. And mingled with the adventure of seeking the fomenter of plots and murderer of innocent men is the never-failing love interest, as troubled as it is true.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w
“Abundant thrills mark the progress of the tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 160w
“Although the facts as they are ultimately disclosed seem incredible, and the characters are stereotyped ones, the excitement of unraveling the tangled threads and of having the sport of detection keeps interest awake.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 170w
“If the reader dismisses the mischievous political innuendoes he may enjoy a diverting mystery tale.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 110w
=LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL.= Chinese nightingale, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-25832
The first collection of Mr Lindsay’s poems to appear since the “Congo” volume. There are five groups: The Chinese nightingale, awarded the Levinson prize in 1915, is alone in the first group; in the second are a half dozen poems under the heading, “America watching the war”; the third includes poems grouped under “America at war with Germany”; the fourth is a collection of “Tragedies, comedies and dreams”; while the fifth is a group of “Poem games” all of which have been successfully illustrated in pantomime. The aim of the poem game is to abolish orchestra and piano, replacing them with the natural meaning and cadences of English speech which, the author claims, can convey poetic ideas faster than musical feeling.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Whatever Vachel Lindsay does, one feels the sincerity and the strong native impulse back of it. He is a vitalising force in modern poetry, having at once the social vision and the knowledge that it cannot be realized apart from beauty. Technically he has widened the outposts of poetry, and we may look to him to annex a still wider demesne.” J. B. Rittenhouse
+ =Bookm= 46:576 Ja ‘18 590w
“It is disappointing to regard Mr Lindsay in ‘The Chinese nightingale and other poems,’ taking an attitude below the ‘Congo’ volume, and levelling, in the group, the ‘General William Booth’ column. ... In ‘America watching the war’ ‘The tale of the tiger tree’ finely illustrates the tapering of Mr Lindsay’s imaginative power into a mannerism; it is all here, the kind of incisive exploration in vision which Mr Lindsay takes to particularize a simple and impressive fact, but the kind of familiarity which envelopes it, takes away the thrill of emotion that we do feel in ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ and in the poems of the two earlier volumes. Mr Lindsay can never fail to be interesting, seductively arresting, exhilarating, in his own strange and individual way. ... The new art, or combination of arts, which Mr Lindsay has devised in ‘The poem games,’ is, apart from ‘The Chinese nightingale,’ the most interesting feature of this new book.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w
+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 90w
“Any admirer of Lindsay will observe with distrust this growing insistence on the sermonizing feature of his work.” L: Untermeyer
– + =Dial= 63:633 D 20 ‘17 1050w
“Of all the American poets to whom the epithet ‘modern’ has been applied Nicholas Vachel Lindsay has struck the most distinctively American note.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 D 15 ‘17 1000w
=New Repub= 13:353 Ja 19 ‘18 60w
“The book does not lift his place in American poetry; its crudities are more noticeable, as this is a third book; but the spontaneous soil-taste of some of the poems cannot be gainsaid, nor his ability to weave garments of fantastic wonder, to please childlike hearts forever.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 670w
“For beauty and vigor the title poem is unsurpassed in modern poetry.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 80w
=LINTIER, PAUL.= My .75; reminiscences of a gunner of a .75 m/m battery in 1914; from the French; with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard. *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-24670)
A dramatic story of France from the days of mobilization to the battles on the Aisne. The author, twenty-three at the time of his death, has not only furnished the world with a first hand account, clear and gripping, of the important events ending at the Marne and the Aisne but has prepared a human document which will show the ages to come the heroism of souls as they reacted to the stupendous demands of the field of honor. “The admirable patience, the great good humour, the intelligent cleverness and heroic devotion together with the plain, simple courage, all the deep-rooted, undreamed of qualities of the French race, are to be found within its covers, making it a monument to stoic virtue.” (Preface)
“It is the work of a fine, eager spirit and it is well done, clear, vivid, unpretentious. No one can deny that he had the gift of narration. But it is promise, not fulfilment, after all.” C. M. Francis
+ — =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 270w
“The book is an important document because the two qualities of the French race are here found, intellectual cleverness and simple courage.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 330w
“Amongst the appalling number of war books ‘My .75’ stands out. Plainness of language and matter of fact descriptions go to make the book distinctive.”
+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 100w
“There is pathos, romance, and history in the proper degree. There is just enough of each to make the work comprehensive. Paul Lintier has that fine combination of delicacy and strength, so characteristic of Balzac, De Musset, and Bordeaux. It is an exceptional book and should live in the hearts of those who love France and in the minds of those who love good literature.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 140w
“It is the work of an acutely observant and sensitive mind. On one page the author puts down horrors and outrages with downright realism; on another he reveals the power of rumour or the glory of a country luxuriant in natural beauty. ... The candour of the writer is remarkable.”
+ =Sat R= 123:553 Je 16 ‘17 400w
=Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 100w
“His book should live, however, for a long, long time, because of its single truthfulness and sincerity, because of its vivid pictures of the French army in the early part of the war. The spirit shown by Lintier in his diary was the spirit of his comrades—of France. Every detail, no matter how ghastly, bears the stamp of truth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 300w
=LIPPINCOTT, HORACE MATHER.= Early Philadelphia; its people, life and progress. il *$6 Lippincott 974.8 17-28902
“This book endeavors to name and describe all the leading characters and the various social, financial, and patriotic organizations, giving portraits and reproductions of people and places, buildings and bridges and parks, in such a way as to offend none and please all, at least all whose names and interest are included. It is a sort of book of heraldry for all the substantial and socially fit of the present day. If you are a Philadelphian and have ancestors who counted in the city of Franklin, this book will give you name, business, and standing.” (Dial) “Mr Lippincott begins with a sketch of and tribute to the founder of the city and carries the record down to and beyond the middle eighteenth century.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Other little matters of this sort might be found, but so many errors have been contained in other books about the times (notably ‘Hugh Wynne’), concerning Quaker traits and local geography, that these seem trivial, and one gets a very fair picture of old scenes and manners from Mr Lippincott’s book. The style is clear and the selection of subjects well proportioned.” I: Sharpless
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:416 Ja ‘18 530w
+ — =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 350w
+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 60w
“Naturally and logically, a great part of the volume is devoted to a description of the Philadelphia Quakers. Other elements in the city’s growth receive due attention, and there is an interesting treatment of the German and Scotch-Irish migrations into what was then the wilderness.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:103 Ja ‘18 90w
“Mr Lippincott has not written a classic account of Philadelphia life. But his sketchy pages are readable and informing and are suitably flavored with quotations from contemporary documents.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 550w
=LIPPMANN, JULIE MATHILDE.= Mannequin. *$1.30 (3½c) Duffield 17-12389
A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this story. A rich and idle young woman is taken for one of the mannequins in a dressmaking establishment. The mistake is made by Mrs Jerome-Jarvis, an autocratic society leader, who had engaged the real mannequin as a companion on a yachting trip. Elizabeth Tiernan finds herself hustled without ceremony aboard the great lady’s yacht, and thinking it a joke that can be explained in the morning, she keeps silent. But by morning the joke has been carried beyond her control. She scents a mystery, and by making a few errors in judgment on her own account, adds to the confusion.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 200w
“This new book by the author of ‘Burkses’ Amy’ and ‘Martha-by-the-day’ is one of those tales which, being possessed of an utterly preposterous plot, require the lightest and deftest kind of handling. Such stories need wit, and debonair, irresponsible gayety; they must froth and sparkle, if they are not to be merely silly. And ‘The mannequin’ reminds one very much of lukewarm ginger ale—entirely flat and insipid.”
— =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 230w
“The situation develops into a hilarious farce, with ludicrous misunderstandings and cross purposes. The heroine is always charming and sprightly, and the story affords amusement.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 150w
=LIPSON, EPHRAIM.= Europe in the nineteenth century; an outline history. il *$2 Macmillan 940.9 (Eng ed 17-859)
“The author, already known by his ‘Introduction to the economic history of England: middle ages,’ now provides a history of Europe from the fall of Napoleon to the present time.” (Ath) “In the preface to the book now under review Mr Lipson lays claim to a certain originality, at least of presentment. He has, he says, ‘discarded the traditional method of writing European history from the standpoint of international politics in favour of a method of treatment which gives a concise and connected account—analytical rather than narrative—of the internal development of the chief European states after the fall of Napoleon.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The brevity of the book, as compared with other recent discussions of the same subject has been brought about by some notable omissions. Substantially no space is given to England or to minor states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries; the industrial revolution and, in general, the social and economic parts of the story, are given only slight attention—much less than in most of the later books; little emphasis is placed upon European history since 1870, except as connected with the outbreak of the war. ... An extremely pleasant characteristic of the book is the calm, historical temper with which Mr Lipson approached those parts of his subject that deal with the present war. ... As an example of the book-maker’s art, the volume reflects war conditions in the unsubstantial character of the binding. There are no bibliographies and the index is inadequate. The maps do not compare favorably with the best of recent publications on nineteenth-century Europe.” C: R. Lingley
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:852 Jl ‘17 650w
“Of particular importance are the chapters on ‘The reform movement in Russia, 1815-1916,’ and ‘The growth of the German empire, 1815-70.’ ... Mr Lipson gives a clear account of the achievement of the political unity of Italy. ... The maps in the volume can be commended. Altogether, Mr Lipson has produced a valuable summary of modern European history, treated in a somewhat novel manner.”
+ =Ath= p437 S ‘16 250w
“The chapter on the Balkan States will probably be the most valued by the ‘general readers’ for whom the book is intended.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:157 Ja ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
“From the point of view of the general reader one capital defect of Mr Lipson’s method is that it necessarily takes too much knowledge for granted. ... In general, apart from this defect, the chapters dealing with the internal developments of the states are clear and accurate, though following in the main conventional lines. ... His chapter on the Reform movement in Russia is particularly interesting, especially the account of the effects of the industrial revolution which followed the emancipation of the serfs and the introduction of railways. But here again the bias that makes him defend the Commune makes him less than fair to autocrats. ... Not all the chapters reach the high level of that on Russia. The least satisfactory perhaps is that on the Balkan States.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 5 ‘16 1300w
=LISTER, CHARLES ALFRED.= Charles Lister; letters and recollections. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-13304
“This volume, which serves as a memento to his son, Lord Ribblesdale has compiled out of letters written to his family and friends by Charles Lister, to which are added a memoir by the father, and recollections of the son by Sir Rennell Rodd, under whom the young man served in the British embassy at Rome before the war, and others. Charles Lister took part in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was wounded three times, and died from the effects of the last wound in August, 1915, at the age of 28. ... The letters begin five years before the opening of the war and relate his doings, observations, and thinking during a holiday in Germany, his two years of service at Rome with the British embassy, a trip to India and Constantinople, and then take up his experiences on the expedition to the Dardanelles. These last compose the bulk of the book.”—N Y Times
“Unusually readable letters.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:58 N ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 200w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 118:45 Ja 13 ‘17 1500w
“There is never a trace of the junker spirit, never a word about the glory of war. There is hardly any self-consciousness. The book is a continuous revelation of charm, high spirits and character: also of a young man’s alert-minded and fruitful reaction to the various phases of his experience in the 20th-century English world.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 1150w
“Lord Ribblesdale has done his work as editor with detachment and restraint. With abundance of material, he has managed to keep the book comparatively small and altogether interesting.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 4 ‘17 1150w
=LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO.= Song of the sirens. *$1 Putnam 811 17-11825
Ulysses is made the hero of this poem. In rhymed couplets and regular measure the author tells the story of the perilous passage of the Sirens’ rock, with Ulysses lashed to the mast and vainly demanding release from his unheeding seamen. One of these is singled out from the rest, the youngest and least of the rowers, who suffers in his master’s agony.
“The book stands out among this season’s volumes of verse as a work of much more than passing interest and value. It is unfortunate that none of our magazines had an editor sufficiently enlightened to discover ‘The song of the sirens’ and print it as a serial.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1861 Je 16 ‘17 750w
=LIVESAY, FLORENCE RANDAL=, tr. Songs of Ukraina; with Ruthenian poems. *$1.50 Dutton 891.7 17-26397
“This collection of the songs of the essentially poetic and musical ‘Little Russian’ people is divided into parts according to subject—Cossack songs, Wedding songs, etc., the longest section being Folk songs; and the poems by Fedkovich (1834-1888) having a place by themselves.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:392 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p543 N ‘16 60w
“The translations, though not ideal, are lively and spirited. It is a book which every lover of poetry will prize.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 800w
=Cleveland= p134 D ‘17 90w
“The translations into English are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 150w
“The translator is a Canadian—her home is in Winnipeg. ... These folk songs of the ‘forgotten kingdom of Ukraina’ have come down through singing centuries and hold in them the history of the most artistic of Slav people.”
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:112 My ‘17 60w
“The gloom and toil of the Russian peasant pervades these poems, and it must be said that in some cases they seem hampered by faulty translation.”
=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 40w
=LIVINGSTONE, RICHARD WINN.= Defence of classical education. *$1.40 (2c) Macmillan 375 (Eng ed 17-12623)
“A main contention, in this able defence of the humanities in education, is that a nation can be ‘scientific,’ though compulsory classics are the staple of its secondary education, and though the majority of its youth is trained in classical schools. Particulars are given to show that German secondary education is far more classical than ours. A caution is conveyed against the mistake of supposing that we are simply suffering from the predominant position of classics in our public schools, and that we have only to expel them in favour of physical science and modern languages ‘to be cured of all our ills.’ It is admitted by the author that we need more physical science in industry and elsewhere; but it is pointed out that our real weakness is a national indifference to knowledge. Cogent presentations of the case for Greek and the case for Latin are embodied in chaps. 3 and 4; and an effort is made later to combat the idea that the classics can be studied satisfactorily in translations. The last chapter contains suggestions for reforms.”—Ath
“The title of the book may, we fear, militate against its usefulness and have the tendency of warning off the general reader, who may regard it as the work of a specialist. ... ‘A defence of classical education’ is admirably adapted, by its absence of technicalities, its infectious enthusiasm, and its clear and graceful style, to appeal to that growing public which is ready to know more of this new learning.”
+ =Ath= p24 Ja ‘17 1050w
+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 170w
“This book is, unfortunately, based upon two misconceptions, both of which are common amongst classicists. ... The title of the book is a misnomer, for the work is not a defence of classical education at all. ... As a plea for the retention of classics in a general scheme of education, the book is excellent. Where Mr Livingstone is dealing with facts he is on safe ground, and the majority of the work is a ‘hymn of praise’ which is wholly admirable. His assumptions, however, are nearly always erroneous, and his conclusions illogical; one cannot help thinking that a little knowledge of scientific method would have saved him from many pitfalls.”
– + =Nature= 99:1 Mr 1 ‘17 900w
“The questions most frequently asked are these: Why should the classics have a place in our education? Why should they not be confined to a few specialists? Why should they not be entirely replaced by our own and other modern languages, literatures, and history? To these inquiries Mr Livingstone wisely devotes the greater part of his book. ... We are glad to see that Mr Livingstone ends with some excellent suggestions for reform in classical teaching, more attention to ‘realien,’ and less prominence for the purely linguistic side.”
+ =Sat R= 123:41 Ja 13 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Livingstone has written a charming book. The beauty and solid worth of the best Greek and Latin authors are admirably described in his main chapters. But while we sympathize heartily with his reverence for the classics, we cannot help remarking that he does not really face the question whether they can be read with profit in translations.”
+ =Spec= 118:174 F 10 ‘17 900w
“Among these fixed points which are emerging, the central one, and the most important, is the growing conviction that the aim of education is neither literary culture nor scientific acquirement, neither technical skill nor commercial aptitude, but the creation and diffusion of citizenship in its full sense. ... Mr Livingstone’s volume is a statement, satisfactory in its fullness, excellent in its sanity and moderation, of the reasons for holding that, here and now, the study of the classics has a necessary and important place in such an education.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p30 Ja 18 ‘17 2650w
=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Mary Slessor of Calabar: pioneer missionary. 6th ed il *$1.50 Doran 16-22663
“The heroine was a Scotch girl born amidst the humblest surroundings and conditions, which made her at fourteen and for fourteen years a millworker in the city of Dundee. ... From her early childhood she was interested in the missionary efforts along the old Calabar coast, and here from 1876 until her death in 1915 she carried on, often alone and in the midst of danger, a pioneer work for the reclamation of the savage tribes. This well written memoir, based chiefly upon her many letters, gives the reader a striking picture of the barbarous life and customs of the natives of Calabar and shows the uplifting power of civilization.”—Ind
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:350 My ‘17
=Cleveland= p106 Ag ‘16
“One of the most fascinating missionary biographies ever written. It has the romance of heroism and adventure, the vitality of vigorous achievement, the freshness of pioneering in a land of strange peoples and weird customs.”
+ =Ind= 88:327 N 20 ‘16 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:91 Je ‘16
“Has had the unusual experience for a biography—and especially that of a foreign missionary—of being among the ‘best sellers.’ In its first months it is already in its fourth edition, and well it may be, for rarely has a life been lived so full of romance, of heroism, and at the same time of absolute sincerity and simplicity.”
+ =Outlook= 115:194 Ja 31 ‘17 2750w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 60w
=Pratt= p45 Ja ‘17
=LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM PRINGLE.= Story of Mary Slessor for young people; a true story of adventure, heroism and faith. il *$1 Doran 17-4476
“The natives of Africa knew the heroine of this true story by the name of ‘The white queen of Okoyong.’ Her real name is Mary Slessor, and this is her biography. It is written for children, and tells the whole life history of the brave Scottish missionary whom the Presbyterian church sent out to Africa in 1876. From that date until her death in 1914 Miss Slessor acted as friend, teacher, minister, doctor and officer of the law to the savages in the then uncharted wilds of Calabar.” (Boston Transcript) Mary Slessor is one of the “Heroines of service” about whom Mary R. Parkman writes in her book of that title.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:454 Jl ‘17
“This book ought to fire the imagination and direct the activities of boys and girls until they shall become in turn such workmen as Mary Slessor was in the realm of unselfish service.”
+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 90w
“The account throws many sidelights on African customs and institutions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 160w
=LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Red planet. *$1.50 (2c) Lane 17-26481
Grief-stricken with the sudden news of the death in action of his only son, Sir Anthony Fenimore turns to take his place as chairman of a war committee with the words: “The boy didn’t shirk his duty. Why should I?” This opening incident is the keynote of the book, which is a story of England in war-time, a story of high courage and of homes made desolate. It is told by Major Meredyth of the regular army who, invalided since the Boer war, could, at first, only watch those activities in which he longed to join. But, in the end, he, too, finds his place and can say: “I, too, am a man of the great war. I have lived in it, and worked in it, and suffered in it. So long as one’s soul is sound—that is the great matter.” His work had been the helping to keep sound the souls of those about him in the little south of England town in which he lived, and, in particular, to aid as only a brother officer could, Leonard Boyce, in his tragic struggle between his better and his lower nature. It is this struggle for self-mastery, fought out in South Africa, in England, in the trenches, that forms a background for the incidents of the book, and it is Betty Fairfax, type of all true women in the war, who gives charm and heart to the tale. Locke, the romancer, is no longer romancing. He is telling spiritual truth.
“Well written, full of good character sketches and will be popular. Appeared in Good Housekeeping.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 110w
“‘The white feather’ might have better suggested its central motive, for the chief figure in the action is an English officer with a lifelong strain of cowardice to fight down and conceal. ... A piece of clever claptrap. Any war might have served as the background.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:645 Ag ‘17 650w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 1300w
“Written with much skill, timely to the very minute, and full of human appeal. Mr Locke has succeeded, in his portrayal of Boyce, in giving a living character to literature. The conclusion is an artistic blunder, as well as distasteful from the moral point of view.”
+ — =Cath World= 106:110 O ‘17 600w
+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 110w
“It is the astonishing combination of the modern and the mid-Victorian that fascinates the reader of ‘The red planet.’ A well-ordered globe is Mr Locke’s, an England rubber-tired and ball-bearing, not the dusty and irresponsible country of Mr Britling. And we are not sure that Boyce is not one of the most virile men that Locke has ever drawn.”
+ =Dial= 63:162 Ag 30 ‘17 270w
“A thoroly interesting story crisply and entertainingly written.”
+ =Ind= 91:291 Ag 25 ‘17 400w
“For all its clever and amusing detail, there is little sincerity in this book: even the great war is used merely as an off-stage convenience for the development of an essentially commonplace and artificial plot.”
– + =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 450w
“We cannot even pretend to believe in these people. They are pallid and patriotic and dull. They do not really exist.”
— =New Repub= 12:82 Ag 18 ‘17 400w
“Mr Locke has always shown remarkable skill in making interesting, even heroic or lovable, figures out of most unpromising material, such as that of his ‘Beloved vagabond,’ and none of that skill deserts him as he unfolds this story through the pen and personality of Major Meredyth, almost helpless paralytic though his leading character is. ... We can come into touch with the struggle only through the spirit. But his spirit flames and mounts, and in it one sees the spirit of England.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:245 Jl 1 ‘17 1350w
“Mr Locke is always better in character rendering than in plot, and even more so than usual in this novel.”
+ — =Outlook= 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 170w
=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 50w
+ — =Sat R= 124:335 O 27 ‘17 500w
“Skilfully constructed and worked out to a dramatic close.”
+ =Spec= 119:330 S 29 ‘17 950w
“While presenting but a tiny corner of the war drama, he makes the reader feel the spirit and far-reaching effects of the struggle.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 600w
“It may be that recollections of ‘Lord Jim,’ and perhaps of ‘The four feathers,’ make Mr Locke’s analysis of Leonard Boyce seem a little confused and shallow.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p452 S 20 ‘17 600w
=LODGE, HENRY CABOT.= War addresses, 1915-1917. *$2.50 (3c) Houghton 308 17-14032
A collection of addresses made between 1915 and 1917. Among them are: Mexico, a speech delivered in the Senate, January 6, 1915; Force and peace, the Chancellor’s address at Union college, June 9, 1915; France, delivered before the Franco-American Republican club of Massachusetts, September 6, 1915; National defence, delivered before the National security league at Washington, January 22, 1916; Armed merchantmen, delivered in the Senate, February 18, 1916; The failure of the Executive to vindicate American rights, delivered in the Senate, February 24, 1917; and War with Germany, delivered in the Senate, April 4, 1917.
=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17
“Some of these addresses are of great interest and value to students of public affairs. All of them deal with topics of present day interest and all are of sufficient merit to warrant their preservation for readers of a future generation.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 90w
“All the attributes of a sound statesmanship based upon a thorough knowledge of the past, a clear understanding of the present and a prophetic insight into the future are to be found in the volume of Henry Cabot Lodge’s ‘War addresses, 1915-1917.’” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 26 ‘17 770w
+ =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 120w
“Naturally, Mr Lodge’s addresses in the Senate and elsewhere, during the years 1915-16, were those of a Republican senator criticizing a Democratic administration; and some of his criticisms were very keen. Yet even then, he was often in accord with President Wilson.”
+ =Lit D= 55:39 O 13 ‘17 450w
“Mr Lodge’s shift from advocacy of a league of nations to opposition, coming coincidentally with Mr Wilson’s new emphasis and the raising of the question as an immediate practical issue, is the most important fact that ‘War addresses’ records. ‘War addresses’ is an exceptional book for its directness. But it leaves the impression that Mr Lodge is progressive where progressiveness matters least, and reactionary where the opportunity for liberalism is most bright.” C. M.
+ — =New Repub= 13:221 D 22 ‘17 1500w
“There is a kind of luminous simplicity and earnestness in the statement of plain truths and sound ideals that hardly ever fails of its effect. This kind of eloquence is possessed in no small degree by Senator Lodge. ... The more controversial parts of the political speeches, too, will delight any not too unsympathetic reader who appreciates caustic criticism, subtle sarcasm, and argumentative skill.”
+ =No Am= 206:136 Jl ‘17 480w
=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 120w
=R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 80w
“The ‘War addresses’ are hardly important except as political documents—using political in the partisan sense. Of course Mr Lodge’s polished phrases give his speeches a superficial distinction which the oratory of the Senate frequently lacks. But no consistent application of principle is manifest in this collection and no fundamental policy besides the gaining of political advantage.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 2 ‘17 450w
=LOEB, JACQUES.= Organism as a whole. il *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 575 16-25201
Individual physiological processes are readily explained on a physiochemical basis, but how, from this point of view, is the fusion of individual processes into a harmonious whole to be accounted for? This is the problem to which Dr Loeb of the Rockefeller institute addresses himself in this volume. The book is based on his experiments in recent years and consists of chapters on: The specific difference between living and dead matter; The chemical basis of genus and species; Specificity in fertilization; Artificial parthenogenesis; Determinism in the formation of an organism from an egg; Regeneration; Determination of sex; Mendelian heredity and its mechanism; Animal instincts and tropisms; The influence of environment; Adaptation to environment; Evolution; Death and dissolution of the organism.
“Scientific and accurate in details and should be read by all individuals interested in a mechanistic philosophy of living things.”
+ =Nation= 104:494 Ap 26 ‘17 850w
+ =Pratt= p19 O ‘17 20w
“The volume is a valuable addition to the science series—a series in which so many subjects have been treated—and is one that will appeal strongly to anyone who has the rudiments of a zoological training.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Mr 30 ‘17 300w
“Gifted with strong scientific imagination, Professor Loeb is one of those who go on, making the most of the facts we have, imperfect though our comprehension be.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p461 S 27 ‘17 2200w
=LONDON, CHARMIAN KITTREDGE (MRS JACK LONDON).=[2] Our Hawaii. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 919.69 17-27941
A book that has grown out of the experiences of the Londons in the “little space of Paradise ... that is so beautiful and restful and green.” One of Mrs Jack London’s evident desires is that the journal, in addition to its descriptions of Hawaii, may reveal something of her late husband’s personality and manner of living. The journal covers a few months spent in Hawaii a decade ago and concludes with a résumé of experiences there in 1915-1916. Mrs London says, “I have tried to limn a picture of the charm of the Hawaiian Islander as he was, and of his becoming, together with the enchantment of his lofty isles and their abundant hospitality.” Maps and illustrations accompany the text.
“There are several reasons why ‘Our Hawaii’ is an exceedingly interesting book.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w
“Her desire to express the spirit of Hawaii in the written word has made her book in some places resemble the attempts of a schoolgirl intent on writing a theme full of ‘atmosphere.’ In spite of being badly written, the book derives some interest—though not much—from its exuberant impressions and also from the biographical facts revealed about the author’s husband.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 200w
=LONDON, JACK.= Human drift. il *$1.25 Macmillan 818 17-6354
A collection of miscellaneous papers and sketches reprinted from various magazines. The human drift is an essay on the movements and migrations of peoples in their search for food, and the rise and fall of races. Following this come four sketches drawn from Jack London’s own experiences on land and sea. The introduction written for “Two years before the mast” is reprinted, and the book closes with two short plays.
=A L A Bkl= 13:440 Jl ‘17
+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 430w
=Ind= 90:474 Je 9 ‘17 70w
+ =Nation= 104:583 My 10 ‘17 350w
“London has not attempted much in the dramatic field. A reading of the two sketches included in this volume is enough to show that, with all his power of dramatic description and narration, the dramatic form itself is beyond him.” D: P. Berenberg
=N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 430w
“Lovers of Mr London’s work will probably find him at his best and most individual self in the essay on ‘Small boat sailing,’ which will be a very enjoyable bit of writing for all devotees of that sport.”
=N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 300w
=St Louis= 15:151 My ‘17
“London voices no new thought in his philosophical sketch, ‘The human drift,’ but he does present old ideas in a new and vivid garb.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 740w
=LONDON, JACK.= Jerry of the Islands. il *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 17-12393
Jerry is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat engaged in “nigger-running,” the trade by means of which labor is supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan Jerry finds two gods worthy of a dog’s worship.
=A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“As a protracted dog yarn, the story is quite pleasant reading.”
+ =Ath= p471 S ‘17 80w
“Jerry and his tale are more plainly fiction than that great dog story, ‘The call of the wild’; but what a story-teller this man was!” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 430w
“His knowledge of and sympathy with his subject is unbounded, and his imagination plays with all its customary vigor and variety over a multitude of scenes in which men as well as the dog hero have an important part. ... It is good, too, in his last novel to find Mr London a story-teller and not a propagandist.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ‘17 1300w
“While ‘Jerry’ is not in any sense one of London’s best works, it is yet worth reading.” D: P. Berenberg
– + =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 300w
“The story suffers a good deal from excess verbiage. ... This fault is at its worst and more discouraging in the early chapters, before the reader’s interest has been awakened. But if, by dint of hope and skipping, he goes on he will be well repaid.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:158 Ap 22 ‘17 630w
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w
“The book is effectively written in a way, yet tediously full of the traders’ variety of pigeon-English called bêche de mer, which serves as a medium between white man and black. The home-staying white of this country will find it not easy to understand.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:251 S 29 ‘17 530w
“In this last story of his Mr London has struck a new note. He has sought to express the gentler emotions—the love of the dog for the master and the love of the master for the dog.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 26 ‘17 700w
=LONDON, JACK.= Michael, brother of Jerry. il *$1.50 (1½c) Macmillan 17-29517
Like Jerry, Michael was a dog of the South seas, and like Jerry he could make himself quite as much at home on slippery decks as on dry land. Michael’s first master is Captain Kellar of the Solomon islands, but after he is stolen by Dag Daughtry he comes to love that none-too-honest, beer-drinking steward with all a dog’s devotion. It had been Daughtry’s intention to sell the dog, but having given much loving patience to his training, he finds that he cannot part with him. Circumstances, however, take Michael away from this considerate master and he falls into the hands of a noted animal trainer and enters the life that Jack London calls an animal hell. “Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world,” he writes in a foreword. Michael is rescued in time by Harley and Villa Kennan, but he is never the same dog again.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
“Jack London was the founder of a school of writers in fiction whose work will outlive his own, but which is not likely to catch the trick, the magnetism—call it what you will—that distinguishes his own above the rank and file.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 400w
“Red tears and bloody sweats!—these are the tributes Jack London loved to wring from the torn hearts (as it were) of his auditors. If the reader would put his finger on some special item in proof of this, let him read the description of the fight between Michael and a quite casual man which takes place after Michael has been rescued from the torment of the trained-animal world, and which is therefore clearly introduced on its own merits.”
– + =Nation= 105:666 D 13 ‘17 350w
“If the picture drawn by London of the training of animals for the circus and the stage is a true one, then the quicker we act to eliminate animal performances the better. It is to be hoped that ‘Michael’ has a wide circulation.” D. P. Berenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 380w
“It is, of course, scarcely necessary to say that much of this book is anything but pleasant reading. If, however, what it tells be indeed the truth, then it is reading which people should have forced upon them. Michael himself will appeal to all dog-lovers, and Dag Daughtry is well drawn.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:490 N 25 ‘17 1100w
=LONG, HAROLD C.= Plants poisonous to live stock. (Cambridge agricultural monographs) il *$2 (5c) Putnam 581.6 (Eng ed Agr17-863)
The author says, “As in the case of a previous volume ‘Common weeds of the farm and garden,’ the preparation of this handbook was undertaken because of the great lack of readily available and reliable information on the subject in English scientific literature.” An introductory chapter discusses such matters as What is a poisonous plant? Harm done by poisonous plants, etc. The remainder of the book is given up to descriptions of plants and of the symptoms of poisoning. There is a chapter devoted to Plants suspected of being poisonous and one to The effects of plants on milk.
“A handy work of reference in a subject on which the literature is remarkably scattered. The author has brought together many facts from numerous technical reports and journals, and the compilation will be of great value to those responsible for the care and treatment of animals.”
+ =Nature= 99:501 Ag 23 ‘17 430w
“Mr Long has filled a gap in scientific literature with a monograph which shows wide knowledge. The bibliography shows the extent of his gatherings.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup7 Jl 7 ‘17 110w
=LONG, WILLIAM JOSEPH.= Outlines of English and American literature. il $1.40 (1c) Ginn 820.9 17-14159
This “introduction to the chief writers of England and America, to the books they wrote, and to the times in which they lived,” is based on the author’s earlier works, “English literature” and “American literature.” It is a work however in which “the material, the viewpoint, the presentation of individual writers” are entirely new. The author’s aim here has been to relate literature to life. He says, “The only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality.” For each literary period a brief historical survey and a review of literary tendencies are given. These are followed by biographical sketches of authors and discussions of their principal works. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography.
“Histories of English literature and histories of American literature are many, but rarely if ever has the one subject been compressed within the pages of a single volume in a way to show their unity and alliance. Dr William J. Long has, however, done this with exceptional skill. ... Attractively printed and bound, illustrated with many portraits and scenes, Dr Long’s book gives incentive to a study of literature. It is elementary, to be sure, but it contains much that is profitably enlightening to readers who are fully acquainted with the subject.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 800w
“Excellent illustrations.”
+ =Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 70w
“Written with much vivacity and charm. The latter third of the book is given to an uncommonly well balanced review of American letters.”
+ =Ind= 91:230 Ag 11 ‘17 120w
“The opening chapters excellently combine a view of the development of the language along with an account of the literary monuments. There is no attempt to bring American literature into relation with English; we have frankly two volumes in one. The story does not come beyond Stevenson and Ruskin, and Howells is the only living American author treated at length.”
+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:610 O ‘17 70w
“William J. Long, the well-known nature writer, could be pardoned a few heresies, for the author discloses considerable freshness in his impressions and his style; but the book is too full of erroneous statements and erroneous judgments to be accepted as an introduction to English letters.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 25 ‘17 500w
=LONGACRE, LINDSAY BARTHOLOMEW.= Prophet of the Spirit. *75c Meth. bk. 224 17-23303
“The sub-title of this book is ‘A sketch of the character and work of Jeremiah.’ In his preface Professor Longacre says: ‘The following brief study of the prophet Jeremiah has been made in the belief that attention to the distinctions of time and circumstance leads to a discovery of God’s methods of self-revelation. The purpose has been to portray a man rather than to expound a book.’” (Boston Transcript) “A preliminary chapter on the literary history of the book leads to a study of ‘The man his neighbors knew,’ and with this key in our hands we pass through his various struggles with king and people, and no less with himself and his God, till we emerge to the clear sunshine of the New covenant of spirit and life.” (Bib World)
“An admirable little book. It is excellently written and well adapted to the purpose for which it was written. The prophet Jeremiah is made to appear like a real man working among his fellow-men.” J. M. P. S.
+ — =Am J Theol= 21:634 O ‘17 230w
+ =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 190w
“Professor Longacre’s conception of the character of Jeremiah is admirably carried out.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w
=LONGMAN, W.= Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers and book-makers. il *$2 (9½c) Longmans 737
The practice of issuing “tokens” in lieu of small change grew out of the scarcity of coins of small denominations. A “token” issued by a tradesman corresponded to a promise to pay the amount stamped on the face. The author, a collector of these curious examples of coinage, has brought together all the information he has at his command concerning tokens issued by booksellers and others connected with the book trade of the 18th century, including authors, publishers, engravers and paper makers.
“The descriptions of the various tokens are accompanied by interesting notes on the life and history of their issuers. These include notably Eaton, Spence, and others who suffered on behalf of the liberty of the press at the close of the eighteenth century.” E. T. L.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:317 Ap ‘17 100w
“A delightful account written by a collector who knows his subject. ... It may be recommended to collectors of tokens, and to those for whom the history of booksellers, printers, etc., is attractive, as well as to any one investigating political opinions of the period.”
+ =Nation= 104:636 My 24 ‘17 270w
+ =N Y Times= 22:116 Ap 1 ‘17 60w
=LONGSTAFF, FREDERICK V., and ATTERIDGE, A. HILLIARD.= Book of the machine gun. il *$3.50 Dodd 358 (Eng ed 17-7941)
This work by two British officers consists of chapters on: The evolution of the machine gun; Machine guns in battle: The evolution of machine gun tactics; Matériel; Machine guns in the British army; Machine guns in Germany and Austria; Machine guns in various foreign armies; Tactics; Training. In addition there are appendixes giving A bibliography of unofficial works; List of some British patents; and Extracts from Colonel Mayne’s works. At the close of the book, following the index, are grouped a series of illustrations, arranged chronologically to show the development of the machine gun.
=A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 30w
“Timely and complete.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
“Written with professional knowledge.”
+ =Pratt= p14 O ‘17 10w
=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ‘18 20w
“An authoritative work.”
+ =St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w
“So far as skill may be learned from a book, it may be learned from this volume.”
+ =Spec= 118:104 Ja 27 ‘17 350w
=LONGSTRETH, THOMAS MORRIS.= Adirondacks. il *$2.50 (3½c) Century 917.47 17-25281
“There are but two kinds of travelers; those who enjoy the road, and those who think they shall have enjoyment at the end of it. To the latter pass the time of day good-naturedly enough, but reserve the former for your company.” (Preface) So two friends walked, motored, canoed, climbed, sailed and camped in every part of New York state’s natural park. This volume is the outcome of their wanderings which in addition to generous guide-book material gives an account of the early settlement in the Adirondacks of Napoleon’s brothers, tells of the different Indian tribes and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the state’s conservation commission. The illustrations, reproduced photographs, show the grandeur and loveliness of the region at their best.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Written in a pleasant style and well illustrated.”
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w
“Mr Longstreth is not a Thoreau, but he is a first-rate observer and an amusing raconteur.”
+ =New Repub= 13:131 D 1 ‘17 90w
“Mr Longstreth is a schoolmaster who has occupied his holiday time for many seasons in open-air living and journeying. He has spent more than one summer in the Adirondacks. ... The result is a book that is at once the record of a jolly summer, a history and description of the Adirondacks, and a succinct guide to those who would learn of its beauties and enjoyments at first hand. Mr Longstreth’s leisurely style has real charm—a quality not always to be found in a book so full of information as this.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 710w
“Mr Longstreth’s book is most informal, sprightly, and vivacious, yet abounding in matter-of-fact detail of the sort most needed by the tourist.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 130w
=LORIMER, NORMA OCTAVIA.= By the waters of Africa; with introd. by Douglas Sladen. il *$3.50 Stokes 916.7 (Eng ed 17-31878)
“A woman traveler’s account of what is going on to-day in British East Africa—how the settlers and government officers live and go about, and how the country is being slowly developed. An interesting feature of the book is the description of the famous African lakes, Victoria Nyanza and Albert.”—R of Rs
“Perhaps the homeliness of home-letters adds to the charm of the book, which, in spite of its faults of style, does tell of the common things which a man would have never thought of describing.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 850w
“Great praise is due this lady who, in spite of many dangers, has done such remarkable exploring and given us such interesting information about it.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 370w
+ =R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 60w
“Miss Lorimer in her light-hearted pages from a diary gives perhaps a truer picture of daily life in these great colonies than we find in more serious works.”
+ =Spec= 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 100w
“Unfortunately, she has accepted every piece of casual gossip about the history of the country without investigation. Those who will bear this in mind, and want merely an easily digested story of a woman’s experiences and adventures in both the towns and the back-veld of this amazingly interesting colony, will find Miss Lorimer an entertaining guide.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 450w
=LOTI, PIERRE, pseud. (LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD).= War; tr. from the French by Marjorie Laurie. *$1.25 (2c) Lippincott 940.91 17-18154
A book of war sketches written between August, 1914, and April, 1916. Among them are: Two poor little nestlings of Belgium; A gay little scene at the battle front; Another scene at the battle front; An evening at Ypres; At the general headquarters of the Belgian army; At Rheims: All-souls’ day with the armies at the front; At Soissons; Two Gorgon heads.
“The book is interesting throughout, and the translator’s share has been well done.”
+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 90w
=Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 60w
“In the perusal of this new volume by Loti, it is brought home to one again how inexplicably and beautifully his manner and matter are fused. He treats of the usual subjects, but in the atmosphere of this book, one sees everything bathed and refreshed.”
+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 330w
“In this book Pierre Loti is at his literary best, plus a tender genuine sympathy for his countrymen and their Belgian neighbors and a bitter scorn and hate for the German spirit that has outraged Belgium and France. Yet he seeks to maintain at least a mask of artistic restraint.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 15 ‘17 250w
“His pictures of the men in the trenches, the wounded, the refugees, etc., are indeed trivial and pallid compared with the narratives written by dozens of men who, before the conflict, were quite unknown to literature. The prevailing note is somewhat effeminate, strident, and hysterical.”
— =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 290w
“It is not a coherent book, it is episodic, a scrap-book, a hodge-podge of emotions, judgments, reports. And this constitutes the book’s special charm and value. It is a glimpse into the mind of a highly sensitive and perhaps overcivilized man who has been deeply shaken by the tragedy of his native land and all the world. ... This is the war’s book—the war has made use of the delicate and sensitive instrument that is the mind of the author of ‘Pêcheur d’Islande.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl I ‘17 470w
“Those familiar with his rather dreamy and saccharine descriptions of Turkey, Palestine, Japan, and the South Sea islands will be a little surprised, we think, at the comparative terseness of phrase in this volume. The descriptions are of war especially as it affects little children, the Sisters of Mercy, the wounded soldiers, and the exiled rulers.”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 110w
“M. Loti’s book by virtue of the almost feminine fineness of perception, the exquisiteness of imagery and the sympathetic tenderness by which his pages are graced, will make an impression on the reader’s memory. The only occasions on which Loti is unworthy of himself are when he permits himself bitter and scurrilous personal attacks upon the Kaiser and the Crown prince.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w
=LOUGH, WILLIAM HENRY.= Business finance. *$3 (1½c) Ronald 332 17-14250
“This book, as its name indicates, is concerned with the every-day financial problems of the private business concern. The point of view taken throughout is that of an organizer or financial manager of an enterprise. While the book deals primarily with business conditions and financial practice in the United States, it includes many references also to the experience and practice of other countries which may yield suggestions of value to American business men.” (Preface) The book is made up of five parts: Finance and business; Capital; Securing capital; Internal financial management; Financial abuses and involvements. The author is president of the Business training corporation, New York city. He is also author of a work on “Corporation finance.”
“Compactly conveyed information.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 40w
“A book which takes rank as one of the important accounting books of the year. Its subject is not new, of course, as it treats of problems which arise every day in private business concerns, but it is a pioneer work in that it is the first attempt we have seen to assemble and co-ordinate data relating to methods of financing business enterprises and from such data to deduce proper and scientific procedure. ... The chapter on financial standards is of decided interest in connection with the proposed statistical library to be established under the endowment fund of the American institute of accountants. ... Not the least interesting feature of this book is the manner in which Mr Lough has driven home his points by numerous illustrations taken from famous (or infamous?) failures in commercial history. Concrete instances are worth many pages of theory to clinch an argument.” W. H. L.
+ =Journal of Accountancy= 24:153 Ag ‘17 1100w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17 30w
=LOVAT-FRASER, JAMES ALEXANDER.= Henry Dundas, viscount Melville. il *$1.10 Putnam (Eng ed 17-13682)
“To portray a personality rather than to describe a political career, to delineate a character rather than to unfold a history, J. A. Lovat-Fraser has written a slender volume dealing with the life and activities of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.” (Boston Transcript) “The shrewd Scottish lawyer was for long the friend and chief colleague of the younger Pitt, ruled Scotland and India, managed the great war for some years, and was first lord of the admiralty till six months before Trafalgar.” (Spec)
“Mr Lovat-Fraser has written a discriminating and interesting biography of Dundas as a parliamentarian, as the holder of various offices of cabinet rank, and as a figure in social life in London and Edinburgh. But Dundas ranks with Newcastle and George III, as one of the three great political bosses of the eighteenth century; and despite Mr Lovat-Fraser’s book, we are still waiting for adequate studies of the methods and achievements of all these three bosses.” E: Porritt
* + – =Am Hist R= 23:212 O ‘17 520w
“To tell the full story of the life of Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville, is at present impossible. Numerous documents at the Public record office and in other quarters await investigation before a complete account of Melville’s career can be attempted. The author’s object, therefore, is, from the materials now available, ‘to delineate a character rather than unfold a history’; and he may fairly be said to have been successful.”
+ =Ath= p49 Ja ‘17 70w
“Mr Lovat-Fraser’s volume is a concise summary of his life, although it scarcely succeeds in presenting a character and personality rather than a political career.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 21 ‘17 880w
“J. A. Lovat-Fraser’s excellent description of parliamentary political corruption in Scotland in the eighteenth century explains how it was that Dundas was able to rise and then to hold such autocratic power north of the Tweed that he was commonly known as ‘King Harry the ninth.’”
+ =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w
“Mr Lovat-Fraser resents Mr Fortescue’s denunciations of Dundas as one of the worst war ministers we have ever had, but he attempts no definite reply to the charge, presumably because it cannot be disproved. Dundas believed in scattering small bodies of troops over the whole theatre of war—a policy which cost us dearly in blood and treasure, especially in the West Indies. In this respect, and in others, he was Pitt’s evil genius.”
=Spec= 117:810 D 23 ‘16 200w
=LOW, SIDNEY JAMES MARK.= Italy in the war. il *$1.75 Longmans 940.91 16-24919
“Our knowledge of Italy’s part in the war has been limited. We have the more reason, therefore, to welcome a book that holds the promise of a notable enlargement of that acquaintance and understanding. ... It outlines the history of the country, political and military, since August, 1914. It makes plain the hope of the Italy of the future. It presents the problems and the circumstance of Italy’s part in the world conflict. ... In his study of the progress of the war Mr Low not only points out the necessary differences between the Italian battle lines and methods of fighting and those in France and Flanders, but shows where the Italian strength has been and where its weakness, where its mistakes have been made and lessons learned, and describes in detail the various steps in the conflict.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:307 Ap ‘17
“More than the majority of war books his seems to offer worthwhile information.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
“So far, this is the most informing book from the Italian side.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 150w
“A comprehensive study of Italian conditions, strategy, fighting. ... An interesting feature of his book, too, is the information that Mr Low has to give us about Austria and the Austrian part in the war. ... The book is illustrated, too, with excellent photographs from the Italian headquarters photographic department.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:141 Ap 15 ‘17 500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p560 N 23 ‘16 380w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:124 Ap ‘17 40w
=LOWE, CORINNE MARTIN.= Confessions of a social secretary. il *$1.25 (1c) Harper 17-5813
Those who delight in reading of the private affairs of that limited section of the social body that is labeled Society will find much to interest them in this book. It gives what appears to be an honest account of the inner workings of the households of a society leader, including town house, country house and Newport cottage. There are details regarding the management of servants, the arrangement of house parties, the planning of dinners, etc. Society, if this be a true picture, must be a deadly dull affair! There is a slight thread of fiction in the story of the rich young girl who chose to marry a real man. The title of the serial publication of these confessions was “This is the life.”
“The book is written in a humorous, readable manner, with more than one touch of real character drawing and a moral in the futility of the life that strives for nothing better than social pre-eminence—and attains it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 170w
“One must be curious indeed about the doings of this set to be diverted by the detail of their domestic arrangements; these details Miss Lowe presents with photographic candor.”
=Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 230w
+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 170w
“Its thread of fiction is not without charm, but its interest and its conspicuousness alike are due to its authenticity. There is nothing fictitious about this record; the anecdotes are true stories; the people are real and may, with no great effort, be identified if one knows enough; the descriptions are photographic.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 400w
=LOWELL, AMY.= Tendencies in modern American poetry. il *$2.50 Macmillan 811 17-25828
Amy Lowell, herself a leading exponent of the new in poetry, writes of six fellow poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Robert Frost; Edgar Lee Masters; Carl Sandburg; “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher. In her preface Miss Lowell says, “What sets the poets of to-day apart from those of the Victorian era is an entire difference of outlook. Ideas believed to be fundamental have disappeared and given place to others. And as poetry is the expression of the heart of man, so it reflects this change to its smallest particle. It has been my endeavour in these essays to follow this evolution, in the movement as a whole, and also in the work of the particular poets who compose it. I have tried to show what has led each of these men to adopt the habit of mind which now characterizes him, why he has been forced out of one order into another; how his ideas have gradually taken form in his mind, and in what way he expresses this form in his work.” A bibliography of the works of the poets represented closes the book, and there is an interesting photogravure portrait of each.
“An excellent critical estimate.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 70w
“In her ‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ Miss Lowell is emphatically ‘there’; there in heart, mind, and spirit: there with her faith and her reasons for it; there with her polemical aptitudes and her full employment of them; on the spot, up to date, with her eye on the poetical clock, to the last second of the latest minute.” H: B. Fuller
+ — =Dial= 63:444 N 8 ‘17 1500w
“To meet the ordinary extraordinary ignorance about poets and poetry nothing could be more useful and valuable. When Miss Lowell is not busy with amateurish ethnology and ‘atavism’ and evolution and pseudo-science, she is one of the best expositors that modern poetry could have. And it is for her sympathetic exposition of the things she likes rather than her ineffectual announcement of a system and a touchstone that her book deserves to be read.” F. H.
+ — =New Repub= 13:52 N 10 ‘17 1800w
“The outstanding fault of the book lies in the fact that Miss Lowell has cast herself into double and conflicting rôles—those of critic and propagandist. It becomes a certainty that she is not looking at her subject from an unbiased standpoint, but, instead, that the book is written to bolster up the case for imagism.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p15 N 25 ‘17 1400w
“‘Tendencies in modern American poetry’ is a book that needed to be written, and it is doubtful if any one else in America besides Amy Lowell could have written it. She has brought to the task not only critical insight and independence of spirit, but a personal acquaintance with the poets she has discussed. This has served to enlarge her view, not to guide her judgments.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:481 N 18 ‘17 1900w
=LOWNDES, MARIE ADELAIDE (BELLOC) (MRS FREDERIC SAWREY-LOWNDES).= Lilla: a part of her life. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-10163
A story based on a possible situation growing out of the war. Lilla is a delicate, reticent woman whose marriage to Robert Singleton has been uneventful and colorless, altho not unhappy. Making her home with his people, she has found it necessary to repress her own personality until she hardly knows what strong emotion can mean. It is after the report of her husband’s death early in 1914, while she herself is taken up with war work, that she meets Dare Carteret. They are married a short five weeks after their first meeting. Lilla, to whom love had been unknown, has learned its meaning. Then in the midst of her great happiness Robert Singleton returns. The story closes with Lilla in France and with one of the two men involved in her tragedy starting out with Kitchener on his ill-fated voyage.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:404 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 1250w
“It is disappointing to find the introduction of characters wholly extraneous to the subject in hand and not even indirectly promoting the action, yet in whom the author attempts to create an interest by long explanations concerning their earlier lives.”
– + =Cath World= 106:106 O ‘17 550w
“There are many vivid pictures of London in war time, especially dramatic and thrilling being that of the first Zeppelin raid. The story moves quietly and rapidly, through emotional climaxes of many kinds that are always tense and gripping and incidents that would be bizarre against any but their fateful war background, to its tragic conclusion. But out of the mangled and smashed human happiness upon which it closes there rises the note of spiritual triumph.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 480w
“The book is ably and sincerely written, and there is a dignity in Mrs Belloc Lowndes’s handling of her characters which gives them both interest and stability.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 5 ‘16 350w
=LOYSON, PAUL HYACINTHE.= Gods in the battle; tr. from the French by Lady Frazer; with an introd. by H. G. Wells. *3s 6d Hodder & Stoughton, London 940.91 (Eng ed 17-25626)
The author is the son of Père Hyacinthe, the great preacher, and was, before the war, “a rational pacifist” and the editor of Les Droits de l’Homme. Since 1914, he has devoted himself to speaking and working in the cause of the Allies in France, England, Holland and elsewhere. “This collection of ‘Open letters’ to a great variety of persons appeared originally under the title ‘Étes-vous neutres devant le crime?’ A considerable portion of the book, however (104 pages), is devoted to ‘The Roman Rolland case’—appeals and criticisms and other matter connected with the attitude towards the war of M. Rolland, as shown in his ‘Above the battle’ and elsewhere. ‘Notes’ on the contents of the book at the end occupy 45 pages. Neither author nor translator receives any benefit from the sale of the volume; M. Loyson’s fees for the rights of translation has been given by him to the British Red cross fund.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 40w
“No Englishman could have written this book, but we must get our insular minds to realise that there is more than one way of doing a thing. The popular style of to-day in England rather tends to telegraphese than to sustained efforts of argument, irony, and rhetoric. ... M. Loyson fortifies his statements throughout with notes and references, especially regarding the case of M. Rolland. ... M. Rolland, on the evidence here set out at length, is clearly convicted of dodging and paltering.”
+ =Sat R= 123:503 Je 2 ‘17 680w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p107 Mr 1 ‘17 80w
“We do not write in M. Loyson’s manner, or, if we do, we do it ill. But M. Loyson does it well, for it is his natural way of expressing himself. He can make the grand gesture without becoming absurd. ... With all its fire it is never spiteful even against the German people. M. Loyson is still a pacifist and a gentleman. The translation is all the more successful because Lady Frazer, herself a Frenchwoman, has not tried to make it too English.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p123 Mr 15 ‘17 1000w
=LUCAS, SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD.= Beginnings of English overseas enterprise; a prelude to the empire. *$2.90 Oxford 382 17-20009
“There has been much study and writing on special periods in the history of the English chartered commercial companies, but almost no attempt to give a continuous narrative of the whole career of any one of them. The work of Sir Charles Lucas, which endeavors to tell the story of three of the earliest companies, is therefore a welcome and important contribution to the literature of the subject. These three are the Merchants of the staple, the Eastland merchants, and the Merchant adventurers. The first is perforce, for lack of materials, very brief, and the second a slight, almost an outline sketch; the work is therefore practically a history of the Merchant adventurers of England from their obscure origin in the Netherlands in the fourteenth century to their dissolution, after at least four centuries of continuous existence, at Hamburg in 1808.”—Am Hist R
“It is written with the ability and mastery of the trained historian.” E: P. Cheyney
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:381 Ja ‘18 890w
+ =Nation= 106:16 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w
“Their story as unfolded in Sir Charles Lucas’s concise but weighty monograph, is not only illuminating as regards the past but pregnant with lessons for the future after the war. The ‘Beginnings of English overseas enterprise’ is a real and important contribution to that history which is ‘philosophy teaching by examples.’”
+ =Spec= 118:38 Jl 14 ‘17 1050w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p317 Jl 5 ‘17 1900w
=LUCAS, ST JOHN WELLES LUCAS.= April folly. *$1.50 Dutton
“In ‘April folly’ Mr St John Lucas continues the story of Dennis Yorke which he began some years ago in ‘The first round.’ The central theme of the first part was the relation of Dennis, a wayward boy and an artist, to his father, ‘The Apostle of the respectable.’ This sequel begins with the funeral of Mr Yorke and the return of Dennis to his artistic friends in Chelsea,—Tellier, and Sandys, and others. Now that the death of his father has set him free to develop his musical genius Dennis’s artistic progress is great; but he is still very much in the making, serious with that immense seriousness of youth which Mr St John Lucas can describe so accurately and sympathetically, drawn one way by his art, another by the cold rectitude which he has inherited in the very fibres of his being.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Mr Lucas’s version has the merit of quietly humanising materials which have been so often merely galvanised for an easy public.” H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:646 Ag ‘17 530w
“After a decidedly well-told story, in progress, the reader suffers the anti-climax at the end with rebellion and dissatisfaction.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 170w
“A first-rate analysis of calf love in London Bohemia. The only difficulty lies in the comparative slimness of the subject; it does not draw out the novelist’s resources. The whole group of Chelsea musicians is well sketched and we should have preferred following their adventures rather than turning to the sordid, pathetic little tragedy to which the story finally devotes its course.”
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 170w
“His adventures in sex take us along none of those miry ways to which the bold young school have now wonted us. Nevertheless, they would have seemed desperate enough if we had been regaled with them at the time of their alleged occurrence, a quarter of a century ago. ... ‘Yes, but what of it?’ is the mood in which this kind of story, however nicely done, has a way of leaving us.”
=Nation= 105:178 Ag 16 ‘17 350w
“The musical and artistic environment in which this drama of human relationships is played out to its pathetic and ironic conclusion is delightfully sketched.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 450w
“Mr St John Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers, to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian verse and his graceful original poems. ... He avoids the monotony of uniform cleverness which marks the dialogue of some excellent novelists. He is judicious, too, in skating over thin ice, for you cannot write of Bohemia without touching on its squalid fringes as well as its hearty camaraderie. We may note in conclusion that while the story is written by an artist, with a lively sympathy for artistic ideals, he is so impartial in dealing with normal and even Philistine people that we come away with a heightened respect for them.”
+ =Spec= 117:418 O 7 ‘16 800w
“The story is told with a gentle penetration and judgment which give it charm; and the friends who are grouped together both in Chelsea and at Hampstead move and act with the pleasant ease of real companions; their comments on their arts are vivid and faithful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 430w
=LUEHRMANN, ADELE.= Other Brown. il *$1.35 Century 17-23048
“A story of dual personality ... [by the author of ‘The curious case of Marie Dupont’]. It adds to its psychological interest, a murder, a mine in Mexico and a love story ending in New York.”—Ind
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 50w
+ — =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w
“The story is unnecessarily complicated with endless twists and tangles. ... It is a mediocre story.” C. W.
— =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 110w
“‘The other Brown’ is well able to baffle and enthrall the most astute reader, and the personalities taking part in it are altogether charming.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 300w
“The author handles her plot with sufficient skill to keep the reader mystified—which is the only requirement of fiction of the sort. ... The conclusion is not entirely easy and natural.”
=Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 190w
=LUTZ, RUFUS ROLLA.= Wage earning and education. diags 50c (1c) Cleveland foundation. Survey committee; Russell Sage foundation 370.91 16-26854
This is a summary volume of the Cleveland survey series, presenting a synthesis of the results of the survey as a whole. Part 1 has chapters discussing some of the general phases of the subject, among them: The industrial education survey; Forecasting future probabilities; The wage earners of Cleveland; The future wage earners of Cleveland; Industrial training for boys in elementary schools; The junior high school; Trade training during the last years in school, etc. Part 2 is given up to summaries of the special reports.
“The risks of such an assumption of static social and economic conditions are already apparent. ... The experiences of the nations at war, as well as developments in older American communities, raise some doubts about the advisability of confining the vocational training of women to retail selling, to the sewing trades and to limited fields of the more mechanical forms of office work. The least satisfactory portion of the report is that dealing with vocational guidance and school placement.” Lucile Eaves
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:903 D ‘17 370w
=El School J= 17:525 Mr ‘17 600w
“The volume contains independent and illuminating comment. The chapter on vocational guidance is one of the sanest in the whole field.”
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
=LYNDE, FRANCIS.= Stranded in Arcady. il *$1.35 (3c) Scribner 17-14177
Neither Donald Prime nor Lucetta Millington knows how they happen to find themselves alone in the northern woods on the shore of an unknown lake. Each tells a story of preceding events that ends in haziness. That they have been separately drugged, kidnapped and left together in this lonely place is the only explanation. But the story has to do not so much with this mystery as with the adaptation of two sophisticated young people, one a novelist, the other a teacher of domestic science, to primitive conditions.
“Appeared in Scribner’s Magazine.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17
“Ingenious and unusual.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 160w
+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 100w
“There was a time when it seemed as though the author of ‘The honorable Senator Sage-Brush’ might intend to use his very marked gifts as a story teller for the serious presentation and interpretation of certain phases of our American life, but Mr Lynde has apparently decided instead to devote himself to a lighter kind of fiction. However, this little romance is interesting, amusing, and well written, and will prove a very pleasant means of whiling away a few idle hours.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 330w
“So well told that one is willing to forget mere improbability.”
+ =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 70w
+ =Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“This story is different from and less spontaneous than the bulk of Mr Lynde’s other work. Still the action is rapid and a spirit of comradeship and good nature pervades it.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 230w
=LYNDON, LAMAR.= Hydro-electric power. 2v il v 1 *$5; v 2 *$3.50 McGraw 621.31 16-23566
“The work, as may be inferred from the title is quite general in scope, covering both the hydraulic and electrical phases of design.