mill. In the years following her act of rebellion the girl had gone

thru a bitter experience, but she had found healing at the hands of a Catholic sisterhood and with new courage had come out into the world with the hope of helping other girls. Not until she is employed in his mill does she discover that Hugh Barton is the man who had once saved her life in a crisis. The situation between these two is worked out against a background of industrial unrest, labor warring with capital, the independent manufacturer fighting for his life against the trust.

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

“Mr Richard Aumerle Maher marries his attractive working girl to the son of the millowner. As the publishers say, this does ‘bring the volume to a pleasing close,’ but I have a feeling that things do not happen so. The real strength of the novel is the dramatic picture of the industrial wars.” J: Macy

+ — =Dial= 63:112 Ag 16 ‘17 190w

“Like ‘The Shepherd of the North,’ by the same author, this is a tale of sentiment without being a tale of folly.”

+ =Nation= 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 280w

“If you start reading ‘Gold must be tried by fire’ you are compelled to finish it, although you are apt to wonder why you ever began it.”

=N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 370w

“There are tenseness and power in situation and treatment.”

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w

=MAHER, RICHARD AUMERLE.= While shepherds watched. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 244 17-28077

Father Maher has retold the story of the birth of Christ. Beginning in the early chapters with the annunciation and the visit to Elizabeth, he continues the story thru the journey to Bethlehem, the birth of the child and the visit of the wise men and shepherds, and closes with an interpretation of the meaning of this child’s birth to the world.

“A vivid interpretation of the Christ story suitable for the older and more thoughtful children and for adults.”

+ =Ind= 92:446 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Written with feeling and simplicity.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:564 D 16 ‘17 110w

=MAHIN, JOHN LEE.= Advertising; selling the consumer. 2d ed il *$2 (3c) Pub. by Doubleday for the Associated advertising clubs of the world 659 16-22121

“The author reviews the economic and social factors related to selling. He emphasizes the mediums and English of advertising rather than purely psychological principles. The power of personal salesmanship and the need of individual initiative are shown in relation to middleman and consumer. The present business organization from producer to distributor is seen to be that of profit yielding according as the group spirit is understood by the advertiser in telling his message.” (Ann Am Acad) “The work is based on lectures delivered before the School of commerce of Northwestern university, and for this new edition has been revised, with some new chapters substituted for old.” (N Y Times) The book was first published in 1914.

“This book is one of the few dynamic advertising books in the field at the present time.” H. W. H.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:231 S ‘17 90w

“An interesting feature of the book is the descriptive list of books for supplementary reading which follows each chapter.”

=N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 200w

=MAHONEY, HENRY CHARLES.= Sixteen months in four German prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben; chronicled by F: A. A. Talbot. il *$1.50 McBride 940.91 (Eng ed 17-7955)

“Mr Mahoney is, by profession, an expert in photography. At the outbreak of the war he was in Germany, with his camera, on his way to take up an interesting appointment in Warsaw. Unable to get into Russia, he tried to get back into Holland, but was denounced as a spy, arrested, taken to Wesel, and subjected to the formidable ordeal of a midnight secret trial. ... Mr Mahoney was able to establish his innocence. He was not formally acquitted, but the charge was not pressed, and he was interned in Sennelager. After a time he was released, but only to be re-arrested and sent to Ruhleben, whence he was eventually returned to England as an invalid, unfit for military service. And now he tells, with Mr Talbot’s collaboration, his long and exciting story.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“Altogether, the picture of ‘Prussian militarism’ exhibited by Mr Mahoney is a hideously repellent one, and his recital gives no evidence of exaggeration, either.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 1100w

“The book is more than a recital of a prisoner’s sufferings in Germany; it is a splendidly thrilling tale of heroism and adventure.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:478 N 18 ‘17 500w

=St Louis= 15:166 Je ‘17

“If anything more were needed to pillory Germany in the world’s opinion, this book would supply the deficiency. Mr Mahoney tells of the attempts of the American ambassador to mitigate the hardships of the English prisoners, and of the deceit practiced on him by the authorities. This chapter harmonizes with Mr Gerard’s own narrative.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ‘18 450w

“The chief interest, if not the chief merit, of Mr Mahoney’s book lies in the fact that he has told the truth about Sennelager, where things were done which have dug a formidable gulf between the British and German peoples, and about Major Bach, the infamous commandant of that camp. ... The evil fame of the unspeakable major has penetrated into every prison camp in Germany.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p51 F 1 ‘17 1100w

=MAHONEY, JOHN JOSEPH.= Standards in English. (School efficiency monographs) *90c World bk. 808 17-20535

A course of study in oral and written composition for elementary schools. The course was worked out in practice while the author, now principal of the State normal school at Lowell, Mass., was assistant superintendent of schools in Cambridge. Part 1 of the book consists of a discussion of the course; part 2 of an outline of work by grades.

“The movement for economy of time has nowhere been as well carried out in actual school practice as in Mr Mahoney’s ‘Standards in English.’ The style of the book is direct and non-technical and it should be put in the hands of elementary school teachers for the distinct improvement of oral and written work in English.”

+ =El School J= 18:231 N ‘17 470w

=MAINS, GEORGE PRESTON.= James Monroe Buckley. $1.50 Meth. bk. 17-22865

“By common consent, Dr J. M. Buckley, for more than thirty years editor of the New York Christian Advocate, has been and still is the accepted spokesman and leader of American Methodism. This fact alone might entitle him to the somewhat unusual honor of a biography published during his lifetime. ... The author treats his subject in separate chapters as editor, debater and parliamentarian, traveler, and author. Not the least interesting part of the record is the story of Dr Buckley’s triumph over physical handicaps that would have discouraged an ordinary man.”—R of Rs

“We consider the book of great value. Dr Buckley is a very remarkable man. ... This book was written for a purpose, but its purpose was not simply to interest and please. It will do both, but primarily it was meant to help. ... It not only reveals the greatness of this man, but the possible greatness of every normal man.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 1250w

+ =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 80w

“Dr Buckley’s personality is so compelling, his versatility in thought and expression so remarkable, and his proved ability in diverse fields of activity so well known, that thousands within and without the great Methodist fold will welcome the book that his colleague, Dr Mains, has felt impelled to write. The work is naturally eulogistic, but the author does not permit himself to abandon the judicial attitude.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 150w

=MAJOR, CLARE TREE.= How to develop your personality; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Tree. il *$1 (4c) Crowell 174 16-18755

The author is a graduate of the Academy of dramatic art of London, founded by Sir Herbert Tree, and many of the principles of that school are embodied in her book. The book is divided into four parts: Physical personality; Vocal personality; Self-expression; and Mental power.

“Very practical little text book. It is primarily intended for the actor, but there is very little in it which does not apply and cannot be used with profit by any man or woman.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 80w

“The author presents her teachings in a straightforward, sensible manner.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:106 Jl ‘17 110w

=MALORY, SIR THOMAS.=[2] Romance of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table; abridged by Alfred W: Pollard. il *$2.50 (1½c) Macmillan 398.2 17-28655

This abridgment of Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” has been made by Mr Pollard of the British museum, who had previously edited a complete edition of the work. With a scholar’s respect for a master work, the editor has refrained from revision, confining himself to the elimination of repetition. He says, “I have tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen, and though I know that I have cleared away some small timber that is fine stuff in itself, if the great trees stand out the better, the experiment may be forgiven.” A glossary is provided. Sixteen pictures in color and others in black and white are Arthur Rackham’s contribution to the book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:142 Ja ‘18

“The abridged edition, excellently illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is of distinctive literary worth and the book itself is most attractively bound.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“As the omitted matter is largely of a redundant character, the present edition will answer fully the requirements of readers in general.”

+ =Int Studio= 63:127 Ja ‘18 110w

“Young readers should welcome this judicious abridgment of Malory by a scholar who has feeling for the original, and who has weighed carefully what is best suited to boys and girls. The edition is beautifully printed, with illustrations in color—some of the best done by Rackham.”

+ =Lit D= 55:56 D 8 ‘17 100w

“Sir Thomas Malory himself would be hard to please were he dissatisfied with the fashion in which Arthur Rackham has chosen to limn his lords and ladies. The illustrator’s occasionally troublesome wealth of detail is here artistically consistent with the text.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 230w

“Mr Pollard has done his work well, and the old stories of Lancelot and Galahad, of Gawain and Tristram, and their fellow-knights will in this simpler form gain many new readers.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 130w

“The artist has given much thought and study to the costuming of the remote period, but in physiognomy Mr Rackham is not to be absolved from the charge of a tendency toward caricature. This defect in Mr Rackham’s art is rather serious. The book, however, makes an ornamental and valuable addition to one’s library. The scholar’s contribution gives it more than the usual importance of works of this type.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 630w

“Mr Pollard in abridging Malory has only done for young readers what most older readers have learned to do for themselves. And Mr Rackham seems to have been fortified by the greatness of the matter. His design has never before been so bold, his colour so rich and clear. His touches of comedy are adroit, his tragic sense more powerful than in any of his previous works.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 D 13 ‘17 220w

=MANGOLD, GEORGE BENJAMIN.= Challenge of Saint Louis. il 60c Missionary education movement 309.1 17-25094

“Starting out with a religious survey, Dr Mangold finds there are some 400 Christian churches, valued at some $15,000,000. He then wants to know what these churches do in connection with the 21,000 illiterates of the city; with that half of the children who do not finish the eighth grade; with the 10,000 children at work. ... Dr Mangold wants to know what the churches are doing to help remedy these and many other evils. He insists all through the book that the church has a duty to perform and that it cannot remain satisfied with mere lip service.” (Survey) Dr Mangold is director of the Saint Louis school of social economy and the book is intended for mission study classes.

“Mr Mangold, whose word in social economy is authoritative, discusses [these problems] with rare dispassionateness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17 10w

“Those who study it will not only learn that ‘something must be done,’ but why it must be done and what can and should be done. Dr Mangold has performed a good service, both as a sociologist and as a Christian.” Oscar Leonard

+ =Survey= 39:148 N 10 ‘17 430w

=MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.= Amarilly in love. il *$1.25 (2½c) Little 17-26657

This book is a sequel to “Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley.” “In Miss Maniates’s former story Amarilly helped to clean in a theatre, and was regularly engaged to keep in order the studio of Derry Phillips, artist, who took an interest in her and decided that she ought to be helped into better surroundings. But it was her energy and foresight and resource that ‘syndicated’ the family, so that every one earned something, and when they had pooled their earnings they were presently able to buy a little farm not too far from a town, and live in health and comfort and country plenty. There the reader finds them at the opening of this story. Amarilly, by the bounty of Derry Phillips, has been four years in college and is soon due to return home. A somewhat mysterious man has just bought the adjoining property, and the reader is for a time kept in doubt as to whether Amarilly is to be ‘in love’ with this man or with her benefactor, who is at work at his art in Paris.” (N Y Times)

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 100w

“Those who enjoyed reading of the adventures of ‘Amarilly of Clothes-Line alley’ will doubtless find pleasure in this ‘joyous record’ of her later experiences.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 220w

“The story is a slight little thing, but it is gay and breezy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 450w

=MANIATES, BELLE KANARIS.= Our next-door neighbors. il *$1.35 (3½c) Little 17-7455

A family of amazingly ill-behaved children are the center of interest in this story. A childless couple who know very little of the habits of the children of the species, watch with apprehension the arrival of the Polydores. Their apprehensions are more than justified. Father and mother Polydore, one literary, the other scientific, have little time to devote to their offspring, and when the two go off suddenly on an expedition to Chile, the five boys are left in the care of the Wades, who very reluctantly find themselves won over by the naughty but engaging youngsters.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:355 My ‘17

“An engaging little tale, having many of those qualities which made its predecessor, ‘Amarilly of Clothesline alley,’ so popular. It lacks, however, the former’s spontaneity.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 260w

“A ghost story, a love story, and the story of an eccentric and moneyed uncle are all worked into the texture of the lightly woven material, which forms altogether an amusing fabrication.”

+ =Dial= 62:247 Mr 22 ‘17 110w

+ =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 40w

“The tale would be amusing if it had some tinge of possibility, but it is exaggerated out of all relation to real life. ... The vivacious style of the book makes it pleasant reading, however, if one does not try to fancy its young barbarians in the world of actuality.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:90 Mr 11 ‘17 150w

“The children are not particularly attractive and the character portraiture generally is rather dim.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 170w

=MANTZ, HAROLD ELMER.= French criticism of American literature before 1850. (Columbia univ. studies in romance philology and literature) *$1.50 Columbia univ. press 810.4 17-12600

“In the following study an attempt is made to discover French opinion on the subject of American literature, from about the beginning of the nineteenth century to about the year 1850.” (Preface) In such early French criticism as exists the author finds a reflection of disappointment. The French had looked to the literature of the new republic for an expression of the ideals of liberty, and they found in it only an imitation of the traditions of English literature. French criticism thereafter ceased to notice American writers until Tocqueville wrote his “Démocratie en Amérique.” The quotations in the volume are in French, without translation.

“A graver defect in Mr Mantz’s study is that his ‘selection’ does not select some of the most important periodicals of the epoch. He has not included the famous Globe, that herald of cosmopolitan criticism, nor any authoritative newspaper of the class of the Journal des Débats. Some salient articles such as that of Balzac on Cooper (Revue Parisienne, 1840) receive no mention whatever.”

+ — =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 590w

“One or two first-rate minds hardly redeem the mediocrity and pretentiousness of much of the criticism which Mr Mantz reproduces here.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 30 ‘17 450w

=MARBURG, THEODORE.= League of nations. *50c (3c) Macmillan 341.1 17-29206

“This little book is a history of the movement in the United States to secure action by the United States and other nations, after this great world war, looking to the establishment of a League to enforce peace.” (Foreword) Mr Marburg was one of the originators of the movement and his purpose here is to describe the developments with which he has been connected. He calls his book “A chapter in the history of the movement,” and hopes to follow it later with a second volume. William H. Taft has written a foreword.

“A concise exposition of a movement toward the establishment of a durable world-at-peace. Its chief merit is its freedom from wordy explanations and extravagant forecasts, so common in many works on the subject.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 29 ‘17 160w

=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 30w

“Little need be said about this work, as it is practically nothing more than a restatement of the familiar aims of the league and its progress since war was declared. It may be taken as authoritative by those who consider the matter as one of particular importance.” Joshua Wanhope

– + =N Y Call= p14 D 29 ‘17 340w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Leonard Wood, prophet of preparedness. il *75c (8c) Lane 17-10224

The foreword says, “The most effective way of presenting any cause is in human terms, and, if possible, through the medium of a personality that exemplifies the larger principles involved. There was no need of extended search for a subject. General Wood literally incarnated both the letter and the spirit of preparedness. ... The story of his life, therefore, is offered as a human document in evidence of the great cause to which he has dedicated his courage and his character.” The material of the book appeared in a magazine article in Everybody’s, March, 1917.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:400 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 270w

“Can easily be read in an hour and is worth several.”

+ + =Ind= 90:215 Ap 28 ‘17 140w

“Although his book is written from the viewpoint of ardent admiration, Mr Marcosson has sufficiently restrained his enthusiasm to make his rapid survey of General Wood’s career a just and true appreciation of his service to the nation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:121 Ap 1 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 200w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= Rebirth of Russia. il *$1.25 (3½c) Lane 947 17-21674

The accomplished American journalist left London for Russia upon the news of the abdication of the Czar. He was greeted upon arrival as a representative of the new republic’s newest ally in the fight for freedom. The United States had gone to war with Germany between March 16 and April 7, while he travelled. In his first chapter, The long night, he tells of the pro-German forces in the Russian government which precipitated the revolution. The succeeding five chapters describe in vivid detail the scenes which were enacted while he was in England. These include the abdication of the Czar. Later he writes of what he himself saw and heard from such men as Kerensky, Prince Lvoff, etc., and tells of the labor unrest which followed the proclamation of the republic. The chapter on The revolution makers and the illustrations from photographs will be found of interest.

“Those who have followed these absorbing events in the press from day to day will be especially grateful for a more rationalized and consecutive account in book form than the daily press could possibly afford.” J. E. Conner

+ =Am Hist R= 23:435 Ja ‘18 460w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p419 Ag ‘17 80w

Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 100w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ‘17 550w

“‘The revolution in Petrograd’ might have been a more descriptive title, for Mr Marcosson gives the impression that the most of the action went on in the capital, whereas we know that it had an empire-wide effect. As it stands ‘The rebirth of Russia’ neither measures up to the demands of that momentous event nor completely records it.”

– + =Cath World= 106:394 D ‘17 380w

“There will be more complete and adequate accounts of the revolution when time has permitted the sifting of facts and documents, but this pioneer work is like the Russian revolution itself, vivid, tumultuous, rapid, impressionistic.”

+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 280w

“But it is a pity that Mr Marcosson deals so slightly, and slightingly, with two outstanding items of universal interest: the Council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates gets rather shabby treatment from him; one can only gather that he does not approve of it. And Rasputin—that strange, mysterious man is passed over with a few adjectives. Of tremendous interest are the sketches of Lvoff, Milyukoff, and of Guchkoff, and the other members of the provisional government.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 200w

“A first class piece of descriptive writing. The reader is taken through all the successive phases of the great overturn, down almost to the present time, and the narrative is, we think, one of the best pieces of work that Mr Marcosson has ever done.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 380w

“His book is disappointing, for it shows little of the touch of the first hand observer. ... But it has the virtue of giving a succinct, comprehensive account of the great event, with its preludes and its consequences for a short time afterward.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:289 Ag 5 ‘17 1250w

“An account somewhat summary in treatment, somewhat rhetorical in style, but informing and filled with significant or striking incidents.”

+ — =No Am= 206:798 N ‘17 590w

+ =Outlook= 117:65 S 12 ‘17 40w

“He does not dawdle over the sentimental aspects of the era, but loses none of its dramatic values.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w

=R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 6 ‘17 210w

“Until it is replaced by a more weighty and judicious history of the revolution—and that cannot be for many years—this little volume is a decidedly useful source of information on contemporary Russia.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 38:549 S 22 ‘17 170w

“Perhaps the most useful of Mr Marcosson’s chapters is that in which he gives us a sort of ‘Who’s who’ of the revolution. The names of many of the leaders are puzzlingly long, and the records of the greater number are familiar to few but their own countrymen.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Jl 26 ‘17 600w

=MARCOSSON, ISAAC FREDERICK.= War after the war. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 382 17-6755

Trade rivalry after the war is the theme of this book. “Peace will be as great a shock as war,” writes the author. “Hence the need of preparedness to meet the inevitable conflict for universal trade. We—as a nation—are as unready for this emergency as we are to meet the clash of actual physical combat. Commercial preparedness is as vital to the national well being as the training for arms.” Contents: The coming war; England awake; American business in France; The new France; Saving for victory; The price of glory; The man Lloyd George; From pedlar to premier.

“He has gained his facts at first hand in Europe, and gives two keen character sketches, one of William Morris Hughes, prime minister of Australia and his contribution to England’s awakening, and one of Lloyd-George in action.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

“Mr Marcosson wrote before the United States entered the war, and on the assumption that she would not be drawn in. But his major thesis is not notably affected by the change of circumstances. His argument is, on the whole, plausible. The danger of commercial isolation and decadence of the United States seems, however, exaggerated.”

+ — =Dial= 63:213 S 13 ‘17 450w

=Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 180w

“It is a fair enough warning for America to organize and nationalize her export trade. Mr Marcosson does good service in dramatizing that warning. But he does a better service in his popular Sunday newspaper supplement style of exposition of the intricate financial machinery underlying the war.”

=New Repub= 10:302 Ap 7 ‘17 400w

“Those who may dissent from Mr Marcosson’s views in this particular will assent to praise of the piquancy with which he puts his position before the reader.”

=N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:137 My ‘17 20w

“Marcosson sounds a timely warning to the United States as to the commercial self-reliance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 110w

“Mr Marcosson is most interesting when he deals with matters of finance, and it is significant that he renounces the theory of economic exhaustion which he previously held and is now convinced that ‘the extents to which financial credit can be expended in the countries at war seems to be almost without limit.’ that ‘man power—beef, not gold—will win.’” Nannie Young

=Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 200w

“The most notable portion of the book is his frank criticism of American business organization and methods.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p179 Ap 12 ‘17 500w

=MARGOLIS, MAX LEOPOLD.= Story of Bible translations. il 75c Jewish pub. 221 17-16188

“The author confines his work to the translations of the Hebrew scriptures. ... Additional chapters reveal the inherent difficulties of Bible translation and enumerate the various agencies for the circulation of the Scriptures.”—R of Rs

“Professor Margolis tells his story interestingly, in an easy, flowing style; he writes in a judicial and moderate spirit, with an evident desire of fairness, and if he lays more stress than is usual upon the work of Jewish scholars, it is because his little book is intended chiefly for Jews and aims to give the Jewish point of view. ... He appears to be unacquainted with the claim, made by Cardinal Gasquet, of a Catholic origin for the first translation of the Bible into English; nor does he know, apparently, the influence of the Douay version upon the authorized King James. His whole chapter on the age of the reformation is too much influenced by the traditional Protestant view.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:117 O ‘17 200w

“Special emphasis is laid upon the work that has been done by Jewish scholars from the days of Saadya, Rashi and David Kimhi down to the present time.”

=Ind= 92:67 O 6 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 110w

Marion, by the author of “Me.” il *$1.35 Watt

“Marion, one of the eleven children of an English artist settled in Hochelaga, the French quarter of Montreal, tells her own story. Endowed with beauty and brains, and not endowed with a single shred of discretion, nor with the apparently almost extinct quality that used to be known as womanly reserve, she fares forth into the world of Bohemia, to earn her bread as actress, artist’s assistant, model—any unconventional and hazardous thing that comes to hand. ... Marion passes through many compromising situations, thrilling adventures, hairbreadth escapes from both want and infamy.”—N Y Times

“That it is written with vivacity and skill needs not to be said to those who have enjoyed its predecessor. The dominant feeling, however, with which one closes the book is ‘the pity of it.’ ... The interest of the story is greatly enhanced by its profuse and unusually beautiful illustrations, every one of which has the rare merit of really illustrating the text.”

=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

“The most interesting portions of her revelations tell of her sensations as a model and of her rather lurid experiences in studios. ... There is no pretense at style in the book and little humor, as the author has been chiefly occupied in presenting a human document.” F. M. Holly

=Pub W= 90:2071 D 9 ‘16 430w

=MARKS, JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS.= Three Welsh plays. *$1 Little 812 17-7561

The first of these plays, “The merry, merry cuckoo,” gives a tender and touching little picture of the sympathetic devotion between a married pair who have lived long years together. The remaining two, “The deacon’s hat” and “Welsh honeymoon,” are comedies. The first was published in the Dramatist, and in the Metropolitan, and the third in Smart Set. All have been played in various places thruout the country, in little theatres, by drama societies, etc. The author was awarded one of the first prizes of the Welsh national theatre in 1911. Application for permission to produce the plays should be made to the author, in care of the publishers.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17

“She will do surer work than this, but her dialogue has emotional shading and her effects are subtle.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 90w

“They have been acted a number of times and proved their validity on the stage.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 180w

“Such folk plays as these of Jeannette Marks give the touch of life the play world needs.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 8 ‘17 200w

“Only a very blind critic could fail to see the excellent human quality of the plays contained in this volume, and only a very cold one could withhold admiration. Charm these plays have in abundance. It is a simple charm compounded of genuine feeling, childlike thinking, and quaint unaffected expression. The localism of the plays is novel and taking; the dialect is used with discretion, and is manifestly the speech of the heart. ... They are delightful to read and perhaps dramatic enough to hold an audience.”

+ =No Am= 205:630 Ap ‘17 750w

“For sheer loveliness, humor, and the revealing of eternal wisdom through human nature, these plays easily surpass most of the one-act plays offered to the public.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 11 ‘17 400w

=MARRIOTT, JOHN ARTHUR RANSOME.= Eastern question; an historical study in European diplomacy. *$5.50 (3c) Oxford 949.6 17-15969

The author, who is a fellow of Worcester college, Oxford, states that he knows of no other book “identical in scope and purpose” with his own. He aims to give a “systematic and continuous account of the origin and development of the Eastern question.” “There is an introductory outline, then after a chapter on the geography of the Balkans and its influence on the politics of the Near East, the history of the Ottoman empire is narrated, giving much space to Napoleon and Greek independence, until the Crimean war. A very full chapter is devoted to this war. ... The last six chapters deal with contemporary history.” (Boston Transcript) The last chapter covers the years 1914-16. There are three appendices and nine maps, one of these being an ethnological map of the Balkan peninsula. A list of authorities is appended to each chapter. Some of the material has been utilized for articles recently contributed to various English magazines.

“The few blemishes detract little from the great positive value of the book, which like much of the work of Englishmen succeeds remarkably well in preserving the true historical spirit in a time of warlike passions.” A. H. Lybyer

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:390 Ja ‘18 700w

“The author has supplied a real need in English historical literature. It comes at a very opportune time. It is the work of a genuine scholar, learned and free from conscious bias.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 580w

+ =Cath World= 106:388 D ‘17 450w

“One of the most illuminating chapters in this invaluable book is that entitled ‘Physics and politics,’ and future negotiators may take to heart the suggestions made at p. 33 that any settlement of Balkan affairs must originate from within.” Ernest Satow

* + =Eng Hist R= 32:435 Jl ‘17 1450w

“A clear, scholarly, and accurate account of Balkan problems.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 900w

“It is an able and scholarly book, such as we should expect from so well known a member of the Oxford school of modern history as Mr Marriott, and it brings together in an orderly narrative many episodes that lose their significance in the ordinary European histories.”

+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 220w

“It is a very small book for so large a subject; and, though it probably contains as much as the ordinary reader is likely to digest, and that in a digestible form, it still leaves room for a work based on exhaustive research. Mr Marriott has earned our thanks by giving us, at the cost of no slight labour, a study which has long been needed and should certainly be widely read.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p267 Je 7 ‘17 2000w

=MARSH, RICHARD.= The beetle. *$1.50 (1c) Putnam 17-3888

The story is told in the first person by four of the characters, a London clerk, a scientist, a young society woman, and a detective, each of whom in turn gives his own version. The mystery is well sustained thruout the four narratives. There is an element of hypnosis in it, and one of oriental magic, in addition to the element of sheer physical horror, the horror one instinctively feels of creeping things.

“This is an absorbing narrative of fantastic horrors that should be read only by those of unimpaired nervous system and then preferably in broad daylight.”

=Bellman= 22:279 Mr 10 ‘17 170w

“Is it a purely critical affectation to feel that these books are not good because they lack reality, because they do not try to convey the impression of life, but are content to give an idea or to tell a story?... Is it a dry-as-dust pedantry that says the idea is good or the story is good, but that the book is not good from the critical standpoint? I think not,—naturally.” E: E. Hale

— =Dial= 62:146 F 22 ‘17 700w

“Mr Marsh does not know how to create character; his young chemist is especially unconvincing. The attempts at humor are clumsy indeed; Mr Marsh ought not to bother his head about providing comic relief. He has a powerful imagination and he knows how to tell a story, and these powers have enabled him to write a book guaranteed to give an hour’s excitement to every one healthy enough occasionally to enjoy horror.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:52 F 11 ‘17 200w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Abington abbey. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-25863

“‘Abington abbey’ details in 388 leisurely pages, how the family of George Grafton, banker, moves from his London home and settles in the newly purchased Abington abbey, a delightful old country place. ... Mr Grafton is a rich widower, with three beautiful daughters, and a son at school. These, with the ‘Dragon,’ the girls’ governess, constitute the family.” (N Y Times) “The story as a whole cannot be satisfactorily summarized, for, although its sequence is uninterrupted and its events hang together closely, its effects are almost wholly atmospheric.” (Boston Transcript)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:490 D ‘17 470w

“It is an intimate revelation of the English temperament, the English tricks of thought, and the English way of living. ... Interwoven into the story is the personality of one of those clerical characters without whom no story of English life seems complete. ... And it is solely through the novelist’s account of this clergyman’s persistent interest in the affairs of his parishioners, of his determined intrusion into their home life, and of the quiet rebuffs that he met from the Graftons and others, that a humorous aspect is given to the novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 1200w

=Nation= 106:94 Ja 24 ‘18 600w

“It is almost startling to come across a book, published in 1917, which, for all reflection it gives of the time in which it was written, might have come from the pen of Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:412 O 21 ‘17 750w

=MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.= Upsidonia. *$1.50 (3c) Dodd 17-26182

Upsidonia is not pictured as a utopia; it is merely a country where everything usual to us is turned upside down. The poor are more highly respected than the rich, servants give orders to masters, prisons are places of comfort and luxurious ease. The story is told by a young Englishman who inadvertently wanders into this strange country. His first act is to toss sixpence to a beggar, who turns out to be a person of power and influence. Amazing complications follow.

=A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17

“The ingenuity of all this is unquestionable, its satiric import is at times easily discernible, but it is very obviously not the sort of fiction with which Mr Marshall is most thoroughly at home.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 1200w

“No one who read that superb story ‘Watermeads,’ would suspect Mr Marshall of so commonplace a mind as is revealed in this thoroughly uninteresting story of a fictitious country. ... It is a barren tale of unpleasant people, without humor or originality or reason.”

— =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 150w

“A breezy, amusing story, cleverly told, although not always quite up to the possibilities of its theme.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:33 F 4 ‘17 550w

“Mr Marshall’s latest book would make a delightful short story; or it might well serve as the foundation for a more complicated fantasy. But in forcing it to the fashion of a six-shilling novel Mr Marshall has doomed it to failure. ... There are, here and there in the book, touches of humour of a far finer kind especially in the solemn footnotes regarding the politics, customs, and literature of Upsidonia.”

– + =Spec= 116:24 Ja 1 ‘16 220w

=MARSHALL, HENRIETTA ELIZABETH.=[2] This country of ours. il *$2.50 (1c) Doran 973 17-31892

This is an English writer’s story of the United States, told for young people. It follows “Our island story,” “A history of France” and other similar works by the author. The contents are arranged as follows: Stories of explorers and pioneers; Stories of Virginia; Stories of New England; Stories of the middle and southern colonies; Stories of the French in America; Stories of the struggle for liberty; Stories of the United States under the Constitution. This final section brings the story down to the present time. There are ten illustrations in color by A. C. Michael.

“The book appears to be in the main historically accurate. It is noticeable that while the days of discovery and colonization receive very thorough treatment, the period following the Civil war is put into about forty pages—a condensation which gives the reader the impression of being out of proportion in a work of 612 pages.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 350w

=MARTIN, EDWARD SANDFORD.= Diary of a nation; the war and how we got into it. *$1.50 (1½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-28643

A brief record of the formation of American opinion for the student of the war who wishes to go back to the beginning of it and chronologically run thru the comment, from this side of the water, from August, 1914, to the time when the United States entered the conflict. The observations are selected from articles that appeared in Life and “are concerned with the war in Europe and with American politics as affected by it. By what processes of sympathy and indignation, thru what vicissitudes of diplomacy, delay and almost despair, we came after two years and a half to the breaking point with Germany, may be traced in a measure in the chapters.”

“Full of shrewd common sense.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 40w

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 40w

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 230w

“In calling attention to this inspiriting and aptly named volume we may recall what we said of the previous reprint of articles from New York Life. They stand for a type of editorial comment for which there is no parallel in British journalism—unconventional, colloquial, but trenchant and often intensely serious though appearing in what is nominally a comic paper.”

+ =Spec= 119:648 D 1 ‘17 1700w

=MARTIN, HELEN REIMENSNYDER (MRS FREDERIC C. MARTIN).= Those Fitzenbergers. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-7923

Little Liddy Fitzenberger had led a strangely isolated life. For some reason, unknown to her, no one in Virginsburg would associate with “those Fitzenbergers.” Her father, glum and morose, never speaks to her, and between her stepmother and herself there is open dislike. Her only friend is Elmer Wagenhorst, and Elmer insists that their meetings must be kept secret. The coming of the new minister and his wife to Virginsburg makes a big difference in the life of Liddy, and the time comes when she and Elmer find their positions reversed.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 420w

“We hardly blame the Pennsylvania Dutch for their dislike of Mrs Martin, for she pictures them as stupid, mean, unforgiving and immoral. ... The humor of the story is irresistible.”

=Cath World= 105:267 My ‘17 120w

“All these are very real people. There is, however, a trace of bitterness in the author’s characterization that the book would be better without. There must be more than a little humor in such a settlement as Virginsburg There always is. Mrs Martin too rarely shows her ability to catch its gleam.”

+ — =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 280w

“The dialect is true to type, and the story holds the reader’s interest to the end.”

+ =Ind= 90:86 Ap 7 ‘17 100w

“Each new novel by Mrs Martin shows distinct progress in fictional art, and this one excels most of her other books in the vitality of its plot, the variety of its characterization, and the briskness and humor with which its action moves. Mrs Martin is developing especially in her handling of conversation.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 400w

“The quaint talk is capitally rendered and the characterization is good; but the author in the latter part of the story yields to the temptation to make her now educated girl and boy talk too elegantly, while the plot becomes ridiculous.”

+ — =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w

=MARVIN, FRANCIS SYDNEY=, ed. Progress and history. *$3.75 Oxford 901 17-19164

“‘Progress and history’ is a series of essays arranged and edited by F. S. Marvin and published in 1916 and is a sequel to ‘The unity of western civilization,’ published the year before. It was originally a set of lectures given in Birmingham. Where the former collection aimed at a statical view of the permanent unifying factors that have held western civilization together, the present one exhibits a dynamical view of these forces in growth. The idea of progress covers the conception of increase of knowledge, increase of power, and ‘increase in our appreciation of the humanity of others. The first two thoughts, harmonized and directed by the third, may be taken to cover the whole field, and this volume to be merely a commentary upon them.’” (Nation) “The contributors are Mr L. P. Jacks. Mr Clutton Brock, Mr R. R. Marett, F. Melian Stawell, the Rev. H. J. Carlyle, Baron F. von Hügel, Mr A. E. Zimmern, Professor J. A. Smith, and the editor.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“It must attract the attention of the educated public not only by the present actuality of its appeal, but by the good and often brilliant style of the writers, and generally by their known competence to deal with the several subjects that fall to the share of each. Unfortunately, as in most works written in indefinite combination, the unity of purpose becomes less clear in some parts of the book (generally speaking, perhaps, in this case after the fifth essay), and the result is a certain nebulosity, which is not inconsistent with suggestiveness.” Alice Gardner

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:302 Ap ‘17 950w

“In ‘Moral progress,’ Dr L. P. Jacks abandons the historical mode of treatment. He gives a keen analysis of the notion of progress and of the flattering assumption that we are progressing morally. His essay is pure gold throughout, and no analysis can do it justice. But anyone who believes the things he sees daily in his newspapers should read it about once a week for his sanity’s sake.” F. C. S. Schiller

+ =Hibbert J= 15:511 Ap ‘17 2300w

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:138 O ‘17 310w

+ =Nation= 104:559 My 3 ‘17 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 28 ‘16 90w

“Throughout the book there is a kindred aim, with excusable differences as to detail in certain problems. And this aim is idealistic, spiritual, with all possible stress laid upon the factor of betterment.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 2300w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Locked chest; and The sweeps of ninety-eight. *$1.25 Macmillan 822 16-21746

Two of John Masefield’s early plays, written in 1905 and 1906. They were brought out in a limited edition in 1916 and are now issued as one of the volumes of the regular edition of Mr Masefield’s works. “The locked chest” is based on one of the Norse tales in the Laxdaelasaga. “The sweeps of ninety-eight” is a play of the Irish rebellion of 1798.

“Written with a considerable amount of humor, and though little likely to add to Mr Masefield’s fame, the plays are thoroughly readable and capable of presentation.”

+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 180w

“Both are one-act plays, vivid, dramatic, and with sharply drawn characters. ... ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ is of another Irish insurrection, and has Irish humor in its grim comedy. But ‘The locked chest’ is tense with emotion and tragedy, its simple action revealing long years of life, and supprest, unrecognized passions. Such a play stands forth like a Rodin figure, stripped of all unessentials.”

+ =Ind= 90:34 Ap 2 ‘17 100w

“Mr Masefield’s reputation as dramatist will not be enhanced by these two one-act plays.”

— =Nation= 105:296 S 13 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:185 D ‘16

“If ‘The sweeps of ninety-eight’ was signed Douglas Hyde it would be thought that this distinguished poet and Gaelic scholar had gained a new intensity of feeling and sense of dramatic construction. Surely Dr Hyde never wrote anything more Irish than this play of Mr Masefield’s.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:142 Ap 15 ‘17 520w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 14:438 D ‘16

“The little plays are pleasant reading. Incidentally they should appeal to amateurs in search of short, lively, actable pieces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 190w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lollingdon Downs, and other poems. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-10980

“Mr Masefield’s new volume contains more than fifty sonnets, forming a long cycle, but broken by a few interludes, descriptive, allegorical, dramatic, narrative, or lyrical.” (Spec) “The volume also contains a long narrative poem, ‘The blacksmith,’ a strange piece of fantastic imagining, a brief little war play, ‘The frontier,’ and several other immaterial verses not without pictorial appeal.” (N Y Times)

=Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 80w

“This volume has a singular and intriguing unity, a unity broken up by interludes and by a succession of changes in the angle of approach, and in time and place. ... It is panoramic, rich in perspective—passing all the way from lyric and reflective sonnets to terse poetic dialogues and narrative lyric almost ugly in its bareness. It would be idle to pretend that Mr Masefield is a philosopher. He is not intellectual except in the sense that he is tortured by an intellectual issue; he is neither subtle nor profound. But he feels this issue intensely, and even more than usual he strikes music and beauty from it.” Conrad Aiken

* + =Dial= 63:55 Jl 19 ‘17 1100w

“In ‘Lollingdon downs’ we ask for food, and he shares with us—his hunger. A powerful dramatic sketch of a tremulous and tingling imperial ‘Frontier’ is the best performance in this brief and rather baffling work.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 106:90 Ja 24 ‘18 170w

“By this very reason of the depth of the author’s thinking, there is a possibility that the verses in ‘Lollingdon Downs’ may not have the wide reach of his other volumes. Mr Masefield’s work now is all intellect purged of the more human and earthly appeal; it addresses itself primarily to those who appreciate the metaphysical in its superabundant and alluring aspects.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 400w

“His present volume is at once a withdrawal and an advance. ... There is no single piece here so good as his lines on his mother printed in the ‘Oxford book of English mystical verse.’ But he has largely laid aside those scenes of violence couched in defiantly bad language which seemed to be his favourite matter a while since.”

+ =Sat R= 123:412 My 5 ‘17 1100w

“The subject-matter of the sonnets reminds us alternately of Lucretius and FitzGerald’s paraphrase of Omar Khayyám—though the treatment lacks the composure of the one or the serenity of the other—and we cannot resist the conclusion that the difficulties of the task have been increased by the form adopted.”

=Spec= 118:614 Je 2 ‘17 500w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Lost endeavour. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan A17-398

An adventure story of the seventeenth century. Charles Harding, a school boy walking home from Deptford with one of the masters, a Spaniard known as “Little Theo,” is waylaid and kidnapped and put aboard a vessel bound for Virginia where he is to be sold into slavery. His companion meets a like fate but for a time their ways are separate. One goes to a life of hardship in Virginia, one to romantic and desperate adventure in the West Indies. When the two meet again they unite in an effort to establish a kingdom on one of the islands. This is the “lost endeavour” of the title, but it is no less a thrilling adventure for all that. The English edition of this book was published by Nelson in 1910.

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“The reader who could not warm to ‘Captain Margaret’ or to Masefield’s other experiments (too clearly experiments) in prose romance may find something more spontaneous and genuine here.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:312 My ‘17 450w

“John Masefield’s ‘Lost endeavour’ as a swashbuckling yarn is too poetic, too literary, for adolescents, and too lacking in all consideration that such a fact as woman’s existence might sometime conceivably enter into even the minds of pirates, for adults. Also, its Indians are too grotesque and its plot too plotless. But certain remarkable bits of characterization and certain flashes of pure poetry make it all as surely Masefield as any page of Kipling is surely Kipling.”

– + =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 80w

“Whatever advantage it may seek from costume and atmosphere is a minor affair; the narrative is well capable of standing on its own feet. ... The tale lacks the sort of ending to satisfy a boy’s heart—the Treasure Island ending; but whatever it loses thereby as a boy’s book it gains as a man’s book. It is very much that.”

+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 350w

“To have endued, as Mr Masefield has done, the threadbare romance of Aztec ruins and Indian magic with true romantic bigness and persuasiveness is a considerable triumph of the imagination. The chief quality of the thing—apart from its poetic realism as a sea story—is its extraordinary blending of the dreamlike with the actual. ... If this tale fails wholly to satisfy, its failure will not be due to any lack of power or artistry on Mr Masefield’s part, but to the reader’s feeling that a fictional power that is perhaps capable of producing results like those which Joseph Conrad achieves has been spent upon a rather flimsy theme.”

+ =No Am= 205:629 Ap ‘17 630w

“Masefield’s description of the old ship navigated by the pirates has the same vivid lyrical quality as his amazing description of a vessel in ‘Captain Margaret.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 280w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.=[2] Old front line. il *$1 (4c) Macmillan 940.91 17-27866

A description of “the old front line as it was when the battle of the Somme began.” It is written for days when the marks of the battlefield are gone, when “Centre Way, Peel Trench, Munster Alley, and these other paths to glory will be deep under the corn, and gleaners will sing at Dead Mule Corner.” The town of Albert is taken as the central point of reckoning distances. From Albert four roads lead to the battlefield of the Somme—one to Auchonvillers and Hébuterne, one to Authuille and Hamel, another to Pozières and a fourth to Fricourt and Maricourt. Mr Masefield locates the defenses of both the enemy and the Allies, going into details of boundaries, topography, places of greatest weakness and strength. To relieve the account of possible monotony there are poetic allusions to natural loveliness and dramatic references to the terror of the happenings along the Somme.

“A vivid piece of descriptive writing. It has the charm of a veteran’s reminiscence wherein the setting is hallowed by the action.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:161 F ‘18

“We could wish that Mr Masefield would visit the other scenes of momentous conflicts, and furnish the topographical data indispensable to a proper understanding of the military events.”

+ =Ath= p51 Ja ‘18 50w

“Nothing less than the endowment of poetic sensibility and the gift of a flexible style would have sufficed to make his narrative other than monotonous. But its interest is keen and continuous.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 750w

“More than any other writer, Mr Masefield has given us the feeling of the curious blind world of the trench fighter.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 170w

“With its well-chosen photographs and trench map, this admirable little book will be of permanent value.”

+ =Spec= 119:770 D 29 ‘17 120w

“His book, it need hardly be said, is not an ordinary guide. Its design is to be useful, and there are, indeed, signs of the task: a certain forced quietness and contraction of the style, broken by outbreaks and pulsations of language as a duty is passed: business first, and then Dalilah. We could not miss these excursions, for Dalilah is beautiful though a temptress; but sometimes we remember that she was not true.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 3 ‘18 1200w

=MASEFIELD, JOHN.= Poems. *$1.60 Macmillan 821 A17-1381

The eighteen poems in this collection, which is published with the consent of Mr Masefield, were selected by Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, and Willard Higley Durham, of the English department of the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university. The copyrights run from 1911 to 1916. Contents: A consecration; The everlasting mercy; Dauber; Biography; Cargoes; Sea fever; Spanish waters; An old song re-sung; The west wind; On Malvern hill; Fragments; Tewkesbury road; Sonnets; August, 1914.

“‘Dauber,’ ‘Biography,’ ‘Cargoes,’ ‘Fragments,’ ‘Tewkesbury road,’ ‘Spanish waters,’ ‘Sea fever,’ ‘The west wind’ and ‘An old song re-sung’ appeared in ‘Story of a round house’ (Booklist 9:330 Ap ‘13), ‘Consecration’ and ‘On Malvern hill’ appeared in ‘Salt water ballads’ (Booklist 10:314 Ap ‘14), ‘The everlasting mercy’ was published separately in 1912 by Macmillan at $1.25. All but one of the sonnets appeared in ‘Good Friday’ (Booklist 12:373 My ‘16).”

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

“From the wild, lawless, vulgar, often carelessly written narrative telling of the fight between Billy Myers and Saul Kane, to the last poem in the book, the elegiac stanzas of which, hinting at the changes brought about by the great war, are cast in the quiet dignity and mellifluous flow of Gray’s ‘Elegy,’ there is an immense advance in technique.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 360w

=Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 140w

“The ease of the procreation of books in our shifty era is illustrated in the selection from Mr Masefield’s poems. Apart from this useful glossary [a glossary of sea-terms], a clever student in an industrious afternoon, if he knew Masefield, could virtually have compiled this volume which has absorbed the convergent energies of three Ph.D.’s.” O. W. Firkins

— =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 110w

=MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY.= Four corners of the world. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 17-25588

This is a collection of twelve stories and one play, which have been copyrighted from 1909 to 1917. The play, “Under Bignor hill,” deals with the Roman occupation of England. Two stories, “One of them” and “Peiffer,” deal with the European war. Most of the others deal with murder, ghosts or suicide. “The crystal trench” tells how Mark Frobisher’s body was lost in a crevasse and how his wife saw the glacier yield it up after twenty-four years.

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“They are very enjoyable, these stories; and if writers like Conrad, Thomas Burke, and H. G. Dwight had not projected into the short story a quality that gives it vitality and endurance, we should perhaps be fully content with the temporary satisfaction to be got from ‘The four corners.’ According to the standard created by these writers, Mr Mason’s work is flat. According to the standard of the average, it is most excellently good.”

+ — =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 190w

“England has no more ingenious or versatile tale-maker than the author of ‘The four corners of the world.’ We do not imply that Mr Mason’s work is feebly imitative, but it is derivative and representative and, rarely, individual, rather than ever really original. There are no dull or ill-written stories in this volume, and they should satisfy that very large constituency which responds to the short story as a clever contrivance.”

+ — =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 220w

“All the stories are interesting and well written, even though no one of them is particularly remarkable.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:394 O 14 ‘17 650w

+ — =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 10w

“Among the grim stories ‘North of the tropic of Capricorn’ is very successful; the tragedy is vivid because not too much is said. ... Among the longer stories ‘Green paint’ is a successful venture into the realms of an undefined South American republic, governed by the unscrupulous and plausible strong man.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p476 O 4 ‘17 550w

=MASON, CHARLES FIELD.= Complete handbook for the sanitary troops of the U.S. army and navy, and national guard and naval militia. 4th ed rev il *$4 Wood 355 17-5986

“The fourth edition is stated to have been carefully revised and brought up-to-date, with considerable new material relating to nursing and pharmacy. Describes the organization of the sanitary troops in post and field, briefly outlines human anatomy and physiology, gives instruction in first aid and nursing, mess management and cooking, materia medica, pharmacy, post and camp sanitation, riding, packing and driving, minor surgery, and clerical work. Part 9, dealing with the army regulations and the Manual of the medical department, has been completely rewritten to agree with the latest editions of these documents.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) The work was first published in 1906 under the title “A complete handbook for the hospital corps.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Ap ‘17 80w

=St Louis= 15:328 S ‘17 10w

=MASON, WILLIAM PITT.= Water supply (considered principally from a sanitary standpoint). 4th ed rewritten il *$3.75 Wiley 628.1 16-24713

“For the present edition a large amount of the text has been entirely rewritten and suitable amount of new material added. The tables have been brought up to date and new photographs introduced. ... The chapter on Drinking water and disease has been strengthened by the addition of many pages devoted to typhoid fever. ... Newly developed methods of water purification, particularly processes aiming at disinfection, come in for consideration, as do certain newly found factors influencing natural purification in streams and stored waters. The use of chlorine ozone, ultra-violet light and copper sulphate receive attention. There is considerable discussion of various phases of the pollution of drinking water supplies and the care of watersheds.”—Science

=A L A Bkl= 13:460 Jl ‘17

=Engin N= 76:1181 D 21 ‘16 80w

+ =Engin Rec= 75:235 F 10 ‘17 150w

+ =Nation= 105:97 Jl 26 ‘17 800w

“Although this can not be called an exhaustive treatment of the subject it is one of the most interesting and suggestive treatises on water supplies published since the old book of the same title by Professor William Ripley Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute of technology.” G: C. Whipple

+ =Science= n s 45:240 Mr 9 ‘17 250w

=MASSEY, EDWARD.= Plots and playwrights. *$1 Little 812 17-23583

This comedy was originally produced at the “47 workshop,” Harvard university, under the direction of Prof. George P. Baker. It was afterwards produced by the Washington Square players, at the Comedy theatre, New York city, in 1917. In the prologue, Caspar Gay, the “dollar dramatist,” looking for an inspiration for his new play, meets Joseph Hastings, writer of short stories, who undertakes to show him drama on every floor of an Eleventh street lodging house. The three scenes in part 1 give these three dramatic episodes. In part 2, Gay and Hastings meet again. Gay tells Hastings that he has only found material for drama, but that it is material which can be turned into “a big Broadway success.” Then follows a “burlesque of a crook play, in which the characters of the three episodes take the parts.”

=MATHEWS, BASIL JOSEPH.= Paul the dauntless, the course of a great adventure. il *$2 Revell 220.9 17-58

“This admirable story of the life of St Paul has for its basis an accurate presentation of all it is possible to know about the life of the great apostle. ... Taking as the skeleton of his story the scanty facts known of Paul’s life and journeyings, Mr Mathews himself followed in the footsteps of all his wanderings, studying the scenes, the people, the life, not only as they are at present but as history describes them to have been in the early years of the Christian era.”—N Y Times

“Written in a spirited style and abounds in picturesque descriptions of scenery and thrilling adventure. A large number of illustrations in color as well as in black and white from drawings and photographs add interest to a very delightful and stimulating book.”

+ =Ind= 89:117 Ja 15 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16

“At once historically accurate and absorbingly interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:36 F 4 ‘17 300w

“Well worth reading. The author has covered much of the ground traversed by St Paul in his wonderful journeys, and has profited by the researches of Sir W. Ramsay and Principal George Adam Smith and other scholars, so that though his narrative is cast in a popular form with a good many imaginary conversations, it is solidly based on facts.”

+ =Spec= 117:738 D 9 ‘16 60w

=MATHEWS, MRS GERTRUDE (SINGLETON).= Treasure. il *$2 (4c) Holt 918 17-9241

A story of gold hunting in Dutch Guiana. The author has set it down as nearly as possible in the words of the man whose adventures she relates. He is a mining engineer who confesses that his first interest is not in metals. It is his love for the primitive and the wild life of the bush that takes him into out-of-the-way places. In the adventures recorded in this book he left Paramaribo to go into the interior in search of a mythical lost mine. His pictures of the tropical forest and stories of his native companions, together with the revelation of the attractive personality of the narrator, make it an unusual book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:398 Je ‘17

“The life of the ‘bush’ is well portrayed by a nature lover and it is a pity that a somewhat unique coinage of words mars the style.”

+ — =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“It is exceedingly interesting on several counts. It is an out-and-out story of a search for gold. It is full of curious happenings, strange places. Its few characters are delightfully alive. And the personality of the man himself, his love for beautiful things, and his power to make the bush live in his picture of it, are all unusual and vastly worth reading about.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 600w

=MATHEWS, JOHN MABRY.= Principles of American state administration. *$2.50 (1½c) Appleton 353.9 17-1515

A book based in part on college courses in state administration given at Princeton university and the University of Illinois and in part on researches carried on for the Efficiency and economy commission of Illinois. The author says, “No attempt has been made to describe exhaustively all of the multifarious activities and functions of the American states. ... The aim has been rather to select for description those services and functions which appear most to deserve attention, either because of their intrinsic importance or because of their suitability for illustrating the general principles of state administration.” Part 1, the introduction, discusses general principles; part 2 is devoted to The organization of the administration, with discussions of the duties and powers of the governor and other state officers; part 3 takes up The functions of the administration, including taxation, public health administration, etc. A conclusion considers the reorganization of state administration.

=Am Econ R= 7:419 Je ‘17 40w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“There is no single volume which brings together so much first-hand material concerning the structure and functions of the state executive departments. The facts are well-chosen and effectively presented. The treatment of the office of governor is especially detailed and judicious. The author necessarily treads frequently on controversial ground. His discussion of open questions is always suggestive, though it is not to be expected that the reader will accept all his conclusions.” A. N. Holcombe

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:346 My ‘17 630w

“This admirable description of the machinery and activity of state administration is the first separate treatment of the subject which has appeared. It sets a high standard for later works in this field. ... The author’s conclusions as to the modern tendencies in administration are sound and well reasoned. He offers also a goodly number of references for collateral reading and chooses these from works representing different standpoints. The reader is in this way given a broad view of state problems. There is a good concluding chapter on reorganization. ... The book deserves and should find a wide field of usefulness among the colleges and universities.” J. T. Young

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:238 My ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 31 ‘17 360w

=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 130w

“The book is written in clear, non-technical language and should be of use, not only to students of state government, but also to delegates who this year and next will be engaged in drawing up new constitutions.”

+ =Dial= 63:71 Jl 19 ‘17 250w

“A noteworthy production.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w

=Ind= 90:252 My 5 ‘17 140w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17 70w

+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 240w

=Pratt= p9 Jl ‘17 30w

“The entire work will be found helpful to legislative committees and other bodies interested in making the executive arms of our states more efficient.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 100w

=St Louis= 15:109 Ap ‘17 10w

“One of the commendable features of the work is the simple and understandable style which the author uses in setting forth the organization of the executive branches.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 16 ‘17 320w

=MATHEWS, SHAILER.= Spiritual interpretation of history. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 904 16-25174

“The William Belden Noble lectures in Harvard university for 1916 were delivered by Dean Shailer Mathews of the divinity school of the University of Chicago. His subject was ‘The spiritual interpretation of history.’ ... In the first lecture he considers views which more or less explicitly belittle or deny spiritual forces in history, and endeavors to show that they overlook or underestimate data for which a spiritual interpretation is demanded as a working hypothesis. In the remaining lectures up to the concluding one he attempts to show that a study not only of these data but of the historical process itself discovers a tendency which compels the recognition of spiritual forces, if not a spirit, in social development.”—Springf’d Republican

“The final lecture on the Spiritual opportunity in a period of reconstruction, though practically helpful, is less compelling than could be wished, and betrays the benumbing effect of trying to combine science and religion in one discussion.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:124 O ‘17 500w

“While the author surveys a large field in a small volume, the treatment is far from truncated. On the contrary, the style is lucid and attractive throughout; and the conclusions are based on an unusually rich and varied mastery of the field of human experience. The author shows fine justice and sanity in dealing with conflicting theories, each of which is given its due place in the synthesis of the whole.” J: E. Boodin

+ =Am J Theol= 21:624 O ‘17 1050w

=A L A Bkl= 13:308 Ap ‘17

=Bib World= 49:312 My ‘17 370w

“Professor Mathews’s rational tendency is a hybrid between Tennyson’s purpose which runs through the ages, and Spencer’s impersonal Unknown, Bergsons’s ‘élan vital,’ Hegel’s ‘weltgeist,’ and Lotze’s ‘purpose.’ The layman is merely confused by this metaphysical fog, while the theologian finds it too illusive to damn as heresy. But the man who is seeking an escape from the mechanistic conception of life and wishes to remain loyal to the scientific spirit of the time receives no genuine help from this doctrine.” V. T. Thayer

— =Dial= 63:200 S 13 ‘17 750w

“The well-balanced tone and insistence on practical efforts towards social ideals are commendable and ought to prove stimulating.” A. G.

+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:627 O ‘17 110w

“A valuable contribution toward the working out of a worthy philosophy of American life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 28 ‘17 700w

“These interesting and timely lectures strikingly exemplify the author’s remarkable facility for brilliant generalization.” G. T.

+ =Survey= 39:327 D 15 ‘17 280w

=MATHEWSON, CHRISTOPHER.= Second base Sloan. il *$1.35 (2c) Dodd 17-13076

The scene of Mr Mathewson’s latest baseball story is a small town in Pennsylvania. Here Wayne Sloan, from Georgia, with his loyal friend, Junius Brutus Bartow Tasker, and his dog Sam, finds himself stranded. Wayne, who is now forced to make his way in the world, is handicapped by lack of training. Back home he had been brought up to be a gentleman. But he has pluck, and, much to the horror of his faithful colored friend, who has strict ideas as to social propriety, is ready to accept anything that offers. Finally June is established as bell-boy in a hotel and Wayne finds a position in a freight office. From playing ball with the men in the railroad yards, he advances to a place on a Y. M. C. A. team, and ultimately is offered an opening in professional baseball. The advisability of entering on this career is very carefully weighed before the step is taken.

=Pratt= p51 O ‘17

=MATTHEWS, BRANDER.= These many years. *$3 (2½c) Scribner 17-25853

In this volume, Brander Matthews, critic, playwright, and professor of dramatic literature in Columbia university, who says that he “was born contented as well as cheerful,” tells the story of his life of almost sixty-five years, setting down “only the pleasanter memories.” The first chapter, The point of view, gives us some interesting reflections on autobiography. Some other chapters are: New York in the early seventies; Parisian memories; Early London memories (two chapters); and Criticism and fiction. In the last-mentioned chapter, Prof. Matthews expounds the underlying principle of the art of book-reviewing. There is no index.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18

“I fear that the author of ‘These many years’ has succumbed occasionally to the fallacy of assuming that the general reader was prepared to contribute to the consideration of his pages an exercise of visual imagination which is not necessitated by the facts set down. But the book, as a whole, is highly satisfactory.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 46:357 N ‘17 3000w

“Unending delight is to be found in every line of this delightful autobiography.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p4 Ja ‘18 80w

“If the reader is envious of the author’s fortune in knowing so many men of distinction, at least he may be glad that the privilege fell to a man who could write so charmingly about them.”

+ =Ind= 93:42 Ja 5 ‘18 600w

“‘These many years’ is every bit worth while reading.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 680w

“Mr Matthews has never lost the enthusiasm, the impressionability, the precipitancy, or the occasional tenacity of youth. These characteristics give the stamp of individuality to his pages.” J. R. Towse

+ =Nation= 105:639 D 6 ‘17 1100w

“Our autobiographer is first of all an American, then a New Yorker, then a cosmopolitan, but he is all these, and charmingly and convincingly, but least winningly a New Yorker. All the more because I say this, I must add that the chapters on New York literature and its members are of such unique value as to constitute an incomparable contribution to our literary history. It is such as no one could have written except one who was part of it and saw it all, and who with his greater love of literature still makes us realize that in New York it has always been not the superior but subordinate of journalism. That is saying it too rankly, and yet not unjustly.” W: D. Howells

+ =N Y Times= 22:405 O 21 ‘17 2450w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 117:640 D 19 ‘17 2200w

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 130w

“But the work is a worthy memorial of a useful literary career. It is modest and unpretending, and is redolent of that graciousness which the literary world of New York has now seemingly lost.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 1150w

“Good reading for the young aspirant in authorship, both for content and style.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 100w

=MAUPASSANT, HENRI RENÉ ALBERT GUY DE.= Second odd number; thirteen tales. *$1.25 (3½c) Harper 17-13186

Contents: Tony; Decorated; The colonel’s idea; The jewels; Fear; Two friends; Relics of the past; A question of diplomacy; Mademoiselle Perle; The madman; The home-coming; Passion; Grave-walkers. “The opening sketch of this volume, called ‘Tony,’ is quite noisome, and can amuse only the lovers of horseplay. ... ‘Two friends’ and ‘The colonel’s idea’ vividly record events and feelings of the German war of 1870, but they might have been the events and feelings of the German war of the present, they fit so well the facts now occurring.” (Introd.) Ten of the tales were translated by Charles Henry White and three by Virginia Watson. The introduction is by William Dean Howells.

“The translation is spirited but too much in the United States idiom.”

+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 80w

“‘The second odd number’ is bound to cause some disappointment. ... Three or four of the stories now given—‘The jewels,’ ‘Grave-walkers,’ ‘Passion,’ perhaps ‘Decorated’—may have been excluded from the earlier list because of the greater reluctance to deal frankly with sex matters, but most of them were probably omitted for other reasons as well. ... Perhaps the tale that in proportion and restraint comes nearest to ‘The necklace,’ ‘The coward,’ and ‘A piece of string’ is ‘Two friends.’”

+ — =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“The present ‘Odd number,’ issued by the same publisher, has been made to match the original as to color and size and the design of its back. It has even an amiable and slightly perfunctory introduction by Mr Howells. But of the thirteen tales only two or three are worthy to be placed among that first thirteen. ‘Two friends,’ ‘Relics of the past,’ and ‘Mademoiselle Perle’ are touched with human sympathy; the rest have the acrid flavor, the brutal or fleering tone of the unfortunate genius who, not soon enough for his own comfort, found his own way out of a despicable world.”

+ — =Nation= 104:632 My 24 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:109 Jl ‘17 30w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

=MAVOR, JAMES.= Government telephones. *$1 Moffat 384 16-24693

“In ‘Government telephones’ Prof. James Mavor of the University of Toronto gives a history and critical examination of the experience of Manitoba, Canada, with the public ownership and operation of the telephone system of the province. The early development of the service was promoted by the Bell company, beginning about thirty-five years ago. The government purchase was made in 1908 and Prof. Mavor contends that his thorough examination of the government’s work shows indubitably that the public ownership has been a practical failure.”—Ind

“One cannot but wish that he had outlined something of a constructive program. Beyond indicating faith in regulation and private ownership, and condemning public ownership, in general terms, he does not point a way out. And the Manitoba which he pictures needs help.” H. B. Vanderblue

=Am Econ R= 7:406 Je ‘17 730w

=A L A Bkl= 13:377 Je ‘17

“In view of the fact that he cites only the figures most favorable to his contention, and neglects to mention the others, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that he is more interested in making out his case against public ownership than in making known the whole truth. In short the book as a whole, regarded as an argument against public ownership, is unconvincing; but it is not without value as a record of certain mistakes which governmental telephone administrations, like private companies, would do well to avoid.” A. N. Holcombe

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:357 My ‘17 820w

“The study of this one experiment should prove enlightening to all who are personally or academically interested in the problems of state ownership.”

=Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 20w

“Although notably one-sided, the general impression created by the book is that, measured by business standards, government telephones in Manitoba were a failure. Whether there were any compensating advantages, such as are alleged by many to result from operating a postal service at a loss, the method of the author is not of the sort to show.”

=Engin News-Rec= 78:361 My 17 ‘17 280w

“Strangely enough, the author holds that these defects cannot be eradicated. They are necessary accompaniments of government ownership! A surprising induction without confirmation.”

=Ind= 90:297 My 12 ‘17 130w

“While written in an admirable style and well arranged, the book fails fully to convince the analytical reader.” W. J. Donald

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:954 N ‘17 490w

“Much has been written concerning the experiment of Manitoba in the public ownership of telephones, but Prof. James Mavor’s Government telephones’ is the most searching and complete analysis of the results. The confidence of the reader in the findings would be greater if it were not evident from several passages that the author on general principles is completely opposed to government conduct of industries.”

+ — =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 120w

=R of Rs= 55:220 F ‘17 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 28 ‘17 420w

=MAXWELL, CHARLES ROBERT.=[2] Observation of teaching. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (3c) Houghton 371 17-25130

This manual, an outgrowth of the author’s work as supervisor of the training school of the Whitewater (Wis.) normal school, is designed “for the use of students in training, for the use of teachers who are desirous of analyzing the various elements in the teaching process, and for the use of other persons who are interested in the observation of teachers at work.” (Preface) Contents: The nature of the problem; The purpose of observation; The value of observation; The teacher; The pupils; The lesson procedure; The development lesson; The drill lesson; The review lesson; The lesson for appreciation; Questioning; Class management; The physical features of the schoolroom.

“This book will be of most service to the prospective teachers in our normal schools and schools of education. It will be helpful to the supervisor in that it analyzes the qualities of teaching and the important aspects of school procedure that ought to be uppermost in the mind of the supervisor in his observation work.” H. O. Rugg

+ =El School J= 18:317 D ‘17 220w

=MAXWELL, CONSTANTIA.= Short history of Ireland. *80c (2c) Stokes 941.5

A short history of Ireland dealing mainly with political events. The author’s purpose has been “to present a clear and impartial account of the chief features of Irish history,” and she has purposely left social and economic questions, and matters of mythology and literature out of her scheme. Contents: Early Ireland; The Norman invasion and settlement; The decline of English power and advance of the Celts; The Tudor conquest and the plantation of Ulster; The rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian settlement; The war of the revolution; Ireland under the old colonial system—the period of Protestant ascendancy; Ireland since the Union. The volume is provided with maps and plans. The author is lecturer in history in Trinity college, Dublin.

“A convenient, not very sympathetic, introductory manual.”

+ — =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 60w

“The author doubtless has marked opinions on the many problems which have faced Ireland since it became a homogeneous nation, but she keeps them religiously to herself. One of the great merits of this history of Ireland is its absolute fairmindedness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:282 Jl 29 ‘17 500w

“Miss Maxwell’s book is, however, little more than a syllabus, and in such a work it is difficult to indicate the full meaning of every event. Again, too, her matter-of-factness becomes slightly arid.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 90w

=MAXWELL, WILLIAM MOREY.= If I were twenty-one; tips from a business veteran. il *$1.25 (3½c) Lippincott 658 17-29211

If you were twenty-one again and had life before you what would you do? This question is answered for the youth of the land, out of the experience, long and successful, of a man who sees the human and humorous side of things as well as the serious and problematic. There is moderation in his counsel. He avoids extremes. He advises a young man not to become a specialist. He believes that the future will demand all-around business men. If he were twenty-one again he would do a great deal of reading, would take counsel of men who have made a failure of life and would approach a career gradually, not taking a salaried position under twenty-five. Contents: If I started again; Finding your place in life; Self-esteem and self-confidence; Getting a job; Handling men; Employing men; The dishonesty of honest men; The amateur ad. writer; Writing a business letter; Do figures lie?

“Because Mr Maxwell’s volume is amusing, that fact does not prevent it from containing many neat little truths.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 420w

“Almost every page gives amusing and instructive anecdotes from the author’s experience, and the style is quite remarkable for a man who does not profess an overfondness for the literature the professors say we must read if we would write well. One can quite honestly tell any young beginner in business to study this book, even if he has to pawn his coat to get it.” Frank Fitt

+ =Pub W= 92:1385 O 20 ‘17 400w

“His book is full of suggestions, not in the shape of formal advice, of which a superabundance has already found its way into books designed for young and inexperienced business men, but in crisp, humorous paragraphs, the nub of which is likely to stick in the mind.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 160w

=MAY, MAX BENJAMIN.= Isaac Mayer Wise. il *$2 (2½c) Putnam 17-6906

The subject of this biography is called the founder of American Judaism. When he came to America in 1846 he found the Jews scattered and unorganized. Their religious life was “an intolerable imitation of that which existed in the old ghettos of Europe.” It seemed to him that if Judaism was to survive in America “it would be necessary not only to Americanize the Jew, but also his Judaism.” He made this his life work. His biography has been written by his grandson, Max B. May, judge of the Court of common pleas, Hamilton county, Ohio. The author has allowed Dr Wise to speak for himself as much as possible, quoting from his writings in The Occident, The Israelite, and other papers.

=A L A Bkl= 13:312 Ap ‘17

“What is significant, what really stands out in the whole biography, is how definitively the reform movement in Judaism is a social and political movement and how little it is a genuinely religious movement.”

+ =Dial= 62:251 Mr 22 ‘17 250w

“For American Hebrews, especially those who belong to the ‘Reformed’ school, the biography of this distinguished leader by his grandson will have intense interest. ... For the Gentile, on the other hand, there is less to attract him, so absorbed is the interest in things Jewish. Moreover, the din of arms and clash of conflict, the reiteration of the word attack, are so incessant that he might rise from its perusal with prejudice either created or intensified”

=Lit D= 54:917 Mr 31 ‘17 130w

“Judge May has refrained, purposely, from discussing Dr Wise as theologian and writer. Yet, there was need for such a work as Judge May has written. It portrays chiefly the personal side of Dr Wise, his descent and ascent; it depicts the heroic struggle of his career. It is not written in a cold, critical tone, but with warmth, con amore; and in the case of a man who was above all a great personality, this, no doubt, is the best means of approach and appreciation. ... The attractive form of the book, with four portraits of Dr Wise, will add to the pleasure of reading it.” H. G. Enelow

+ =N Y Times= 21:565 D 24 ‘16 1950w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 40w

=MAYO, KATHERINE.= Justice to all. il *$2.50 (2½ c) Putnam 353.9 17-6231

The author has written an account of the Pennsylvania State police. This force is organized to promote state-wide order, to give sparsely settled country districts the same police protection as that provided in large cities. The author cites many instances of services of this kind, but by far the larger portion of her book is given to the activities of the State police in mining communities in time of labor disturbances. Her many quotations show that from its beginning the organization has had the support of the press and the opposition of organized labor. Theodore Roosevelt writes an introduction to the book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:291 Ap ‘17

=Ath= p465 S ‘17 800w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 27 ‘17 950w

+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 120w

“At present Pennsylvania alone has a State police (in her case the word constabulary is a misnomer); the story of its work, which has carried admiration wherever known, is here told with accuracy, detail, and color.”

+ =Nation= 104:187 F 15 ‘17 1350w

“Not once in the book is the workers’ side of the case brought to light. Not once is the legal right of self-defence upheld. Not once is the inalienable right to protect one’s home recognized.” F: P. Burdick

=N Y Call= p1 F 4 ‘17 2500w

“Her account is so humanly interesting because she has written—and written well and eloquently—out of full knowledge.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:30 Ja 28 ‘17 700w

“A narrative recording the exploits of disciplined efficiency is always fascinating. This one is particularly so; some of the chapters of the book are hero-stories and some are first-rate detective stories. The book is aimed at the general reader: it is interesting enough to be read purely for pleasure; and it should exert a considerable influence.”

+ =No Am= 205:472 Mr ‘17 400w

=Pittsburgh= 22:215 Mr ‘17 70w

“Numerous vivid accounts of engagements between the police and criminals are given. ... Other descriptions pertain to the chasing and capture of murderers, the breaking up of the vicious black-hand gangs which terrorized the mining sections, the ridding of the countryside from Sunday ‘keg parties’ that generally wound up in crime, the disruption of the anarchistic ‘I. W. W.s’ when that sect attempted to put out of existence the United mine workers’ union.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 9 ‘17 600w

=The Times= [=London=] =Lit Sup= p400 Ag 23 ‘17 1000w

=MEAD, DANIEL WEBSTER.= Contracts, specifications and engineering relations. il *$3 McGraw 620.03 16-20301

“A complete outline of professional conduct in engineering relations from hunting a ‘job’ to drawing a contract is set forth in this work for the benefit of the college student. The book, however, has a much wider application than educating the engineering student, since it would seem that others besides undergraduates could pursue further the study of engineering contract preparation with benefit to themselves and their clients. ... The work is a good summary of technical literature on this subject to date, and contains an extensive bibliography, including many references to articles in current engineering journals.”—Engin News-Rec

“Comprehensive text-book.”

+ =Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 20w

“So far as the subject of contract writing is concerned, the book is to be preferred to any work published in recent years.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 330w

=Pittsburgh= 22:459 My ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Electric Railway Journal p674 Ap 7 ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:521 Je ‘17 40w

=MEADE, ALWYNE.= Modern gasworks practice; with an introductory note by Stanley H. Jones. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 665.7 17-21116

The author states that since no general work of reference covering modern gasworks practice exists, he has attempted to remedy the deficiency. He says, “It must be realized at the outset that so far as the principles and practice of modern gas-making are concerned no single individual can lay claim to omniscience. ... No pains have, however, been spared to develop the book essentially on the ideas of the practical man, whilst every precaution has been taken to avoid inaccuracies. ... Nearly every chapter has been submitted for suggestions to an expert in the particular branch with which it deals.” Among the subjects covered are: The planning and laying out of gasworks; Foundations, gasworks’ buildings, etc.; The horizontal retort bench; The control of horizontal retort settings; Vertical retorts and chamber ovens; Refractory materials; The mechanical handling of materials; Electrical plant in gas works; Gas-making and other coals. The author is lecturer in gas engineering and allied subjects to the London county council.

=MEANY, EDMOND STEPHEN=, ed. Mount Rainier, a record of exploration. il *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 917.97 16-23519

A collection of historical and scientific papers bearing on Mount Rainier, or, as some of the authors prefer, Mount Tacoma. Edmond S. Meany, the editor, is professor of history in the University of Washington and president of the Mountaineers. The first paper is a reprint of Captain George Vancouver’s account of his discovery of the mountain in 1792. Other papers of historical interest are: First approach to the mountain, 1833, by William Fraser Tolmie; First recorded trip through Naches pass, 1841, by Lieut. Robert E. Johnson; Tacoma and the Indian legend of Hamitchou, by Theodore Winthrop; First attempted ascent, 1857, by Lieut. A. V. Kautz; First successful ascent, 1870, by General Hazard Stevens. Later papers deal with the rocks, glaciers, flora, etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:22 O ‘17

“With admirable judgment all these reports and records of exploration and scientific study have been arranged chronologically. ... These collected papers, though written strictly from a scientific point of view, include much of popular interest. Especially attractive are the stories of the various successful ascents of the mountains.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 230w

+ =Dial= 62:447 My 17 ‘17 170w

+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 200w

=Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 300w

“When it is remembered that Mount Rainier national park is visited annually by increasing thousands of tourists, the far-reaching interest in such a book as this will be readily appreciated.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:196 My 20 ‘17 400w

“Especially replete with information concerning the origin of place names in the Mount Rainier region.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 80w

“A volume of great interest and value to every lover of adventure, or student of history. At the end of the book is a complete and very valuable list of the flora of Mt Rainier.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 280w

=MEARS, MADGE.= Candid courtship. *$1.40 (1½c) Lane 17-23340

“Joan Allison and Colin, her brother, who is a doctor, live in a boarding house. Another occupant, Stewart Austen, falls in love with Joan, and is refused when he proposes to marry her, on the ground of a bit of philandering he has committed in his youth, about which he tells her frankly. Colin, meanwhile, has succumbed to the friendliness of Val Carruthers, a tawdry, kindly light of love, married to a veterinary, who has been one of his patients. They decide to leave England together and, just as they are off, Colin leaves a note to this effect for his sister. Joan turns to Austen for help, they discover the couple’s destination, pursue them in a hired motor car, get lost in a fog and, after having been obliged to spend the night together in the car, they arrive early in the morning at a hotel—a most compromised pair. ... Austen offers to take all the blame for the episode, but Joan, whose viewpoint on the question has been reversed, refuses to do this and ends by proposing to him and being accepted.”—N Y Times

=Ath= p415 Ag ‘17 80w

“This is a very amusing little story and Miss Mears handles it for all the fun there is to be had. Her conversation is decidedly clever, her situations are funny, and her sense of comedy so good that she can make the most of her opportunities. Apparently she is well up on the thoughts and ideas of modern England—feminine England in particular—and the satire is as bright as it is good-natured.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:333 S 9 ‘17 500w

“The characters of both Colin and Austen, in different ways, lack the vigour and the knowledge which would have given balance to this careful study of young womanhood; they are figures not in a world of men but in a world of women.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Jl 12 ‘17 770w

“Mechanical World” pocket diary and year book for 1917. il 40c Norman, Remington co. 621.08

“In this, the thirtieth annual issue, several new features have been introduced. In particular, attention is directed to the section on Steam and the steam engine, which has been very largely re-written. ... New tables have been introduced giving dimensions of piston rings, governors, etc. ... A new section on The heat treatment of steel has been introduced. ... Many new illustrations have been introduced, while the book generally has been subjected to a thorough revision.” (Preface)

=Pittsburgh= 22:342 Ap ‘17 50w

=Power= 45:333 Mr 6 ‘17 80w

=MEEK, ALEXANDER.= Migrations of fish. il *$4.50 Longmans 597 F17-152

“Mr Meek has written a scholarly and exhaustive work on the migration of fish. As the director of the well-known Dove marine laboratory at Cullercoats, he has a first-hand acquaintance with the subject.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “An introduction treats of tides, tidal and ocean currents, geological changes, nomenclature, and the literature of the general subject. Then follow thirty-two chapters dealing with various groups of fishes, from lampreys and sharks to toad-fish and anglers. Finally, we have twenty pages of general considerations and conclusions.” (Nation)

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:298 Ap ‘17

“Handling in masterly fashion a subject of intense scientific interest and of vital commercial importance, Alexander Meek has spared no effort to elucidate every phase of the matter and to make the most of our present knowledge. His arrangement is clear and concise.”

+ =Nation= 104:246 Mr 1 ‘17 410w

“Notwithstanding what we have criticised as faults of commission or omission in this substantial work, it is one which no one interested in fishery science or desirous of an up-to-date grasp of some of the phenomena underlying practical fishery questions can afford to overlook.”

+ =Nature= 99:81 Mr 29 ‘17 900w

“The director of the Cullercoats marine laboratory has put together in this solid and valuable book all that is known as to the migrations and distribution of fish, taken class by class.”

+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w

“A mine of information and will be of the greatest use to all who are engaged in researches into the marine food supply of the nation. It is well illustrated, well written, and, whilst doing justice to other workers, shows a competent degree of criticism. It also has what all good books should have—a thoroughly good index.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p570 N 30 ‘16 540w

=MEEKER, JAMES EDWARD.= Life and poetry of James Thomson (B. V.). il *$1.75 Yale univ. press 17-7035

“This little book will bring nothing new to students of Thomson’s work, but it may well prove a useful introduction for those not fortunate enough to have secured Salt’s biography of the poet. Mr Meeker disclaims any ambitious purpose; he has made a compendium, largely from the studies of Salt and Dobell, now become rare. He adopts a rigid chronological order in the discussion of the poems, which he uses as an interpretative commentary of the biography. He quotes generously from the poems, and has chosen characteristic extracts from the letters and the journal cited by Salt.”—Dial

“Mr Meeker’s book is clearly and entertainingly written; and he did well in his account of such a life as Thomson’s to adopt the method, as he tells us, of ‘using his poems and his prose chronologically as a key to his inner development.’”

+ =Cath World= 106:253 N ‘17 750w

=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 110w

=Dial= 62:446 My 17 ‘17 250w

“Has the considerable merit of brevity and is written in a style perfectly clear though quite lacking in distinction. It brings out no new facts of the poet’s life, and, so far as mere biography goes, will not replace the works already published. Nor can it be said that the critical parts of Mr Meeker’s commentary rise much above the common-place.”

+ — =Nation= 104:373 Mr 29 ‘17 200w

“Despite the crudities of the book, the central figure stands out strongly, a figure strangely kin to our own Poe, and England’s dead youth, Chatterton; and as such it is worth while.”

+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17

“Of value for its appeal to general interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 5 ‘17 200w

=MEIGS, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.= Life of John Caldwell Calhoun. 2v il *$10 (3½c) Neale 17-24427

John C. Calhoun was born in 1782. He entered public life at an early age, coming into prominence in 1807 at the time of the “Leopard” and “Chesapeake” affair. He was a member of Congress during the War of 1812, and a strong advocate of relentless prosecution of the war. He became a dominant figure in the storm and stress period that followed, standing out staunchly against abolition and for states rights. His life all but spans the period between the Revolution and the Civil war, and any account of it must be a contribution to national history as well as to biography. The author has based his work on original sources, having access to many new letters and papers. Volume 2 contains the index.

“May be accepted as the long-desired complete and impartial life of the great nullifier.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:139 F ‘18 650w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 800w

“The powerful yet pathetic personality of Calhoun has never been so adequately portrayed as in the present biography. It is not only a history of the man, but one of his times.”

+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 60w

“Mr Meigs is a Pennsylvanian, born since Calhoun’s death and free from the prejudices of the long period during which controversies in which the South Carolinian was identified divided public opinion in this country. His work as a biographer has been scholarly and thorough to a degree, and as a record of the public career of the South’s greatest statesman, this volume leaves little to be desired.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 120w

=MEIKLE, WILMA.= Towards a sane feminism. *$1.25 (4c) McBride 396 (Eng ed 17-21128)

Miss Meikle’s argument is “that a dependent class must become economically influential before it can hope for political power” (Dial), therefore women should enter commerce and business on a large scale. Feminist leaders, and militant suffragists in particular, come in for much criticism, yet the author believes that “without the nomadic life of the suffragists a mentally healthy womanhood could hardly have been evolved from the mentally anæmic ‘lady’ of the last generation.” Political enfranchisement, however, is far less important than “the reformation of the domestic relations of women, of their relation to their husbands, and their relation to their children and their work.” Political freedom will follow upon economic freedom. “Economic independence is vitally necessary for women in order that the full beauty of home life may be secured.” Other factors that will help to secure this are early marriages, less rigid marriage laws, and state aid in bringing up children. The fundamental, ultimate problem is the problem of sex. It must be solved “by attempting to balance the fiercest claims of the body with the mind’s ultimately stronger hunger for romance.”

“Written for England but applicable in many of its ideas to women anywhere. Thought provoking and to many, irritation-provoking.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“There is a frankness throughout the book which leaves no unpleasant taste in the mouth even after the chapter in which sex is discussed.”

+ =Ath= p37 Ja ‘17 70w

“The author does not preach suffrage especially. Her attitude seems to be rather that of Lincoln toward abolition. If she can save women without getting a single vote she will do it. But she thinks that the vote will help her to gain her objects.” I. W. L.

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 530w

“Miss Meikle’s sharp and witty criticism is directed neither against men nor against the unawakened woman, but against feminist leaders and types and trends themselves. ... The family’s sacredness is undermined by her idea that ‘motherhood is one of the most casual of all relations.’ ... Her book is immensely capable and provocative. It is so novel in its scathing wit and its high good humor of irreverence that I can imagine it taken with some resentment by the more studious American feminists. Fortunately the discussion is of England, and there is admiring comment on women’s social and public achievements in the United States.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 63:103 Ag 16 ‘17 450w

“The criticisms of the Pankhurst psychology, and the snobbish, pretentious fraud of the higher education for women at the older universities, are admirable and much to the point. The style is clear and terse, with a graphic pictorial quality, but Wilma Meikle should beware of facile antitheses and off-hand dogmatism. She often sacrifices accuracy to effect.” F. W. S. Browne

+ — =Int J Ethics= 27:406 Ap ‘17 150w

“One wonders much where Miss Meikle obtained all of her remarkable assortment of misinformation about affairs in the United States.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 180w

=Pratt= p17 O ‘17 20w

“Her plea for restricting the size of the family is distinctly unpatriotic in such times as these, and her sneers at religion and good breeding in a chapter on ‘The Break-up of the lady’ are in the worst possible taste.”

— =Spec= 117:sup686 D 2 ‘16 80w

=MELISH, JOHN HOWARD.= Franklin Spencer Spalding, man and bishop. il *$2.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-14393

Franklin Spencer Spalding, Bishop of Utah, died in 1914. This story of his life is written by the rector of Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn. The biography begins with an account of Frank Spalding’s boyhood. He was eight years old when his father was appointed missionary bishop of Colorado, and his early years were thus spent in surroundings similar to those which were to be the scenes of his manhood labors. Subsequent chapters are: Frank Spalding, Princeton ‘87; The choice of a profession; Theological student; Jarvis Hall days; The parish house; Spiritual growth; His approach to the social problem; Called to be a bishop; The church in Utah; Salt Lake City; Mormonism; Begging east and west; The church in the mining camp; The church and socialism; Man among men; Manoach.

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 60w

“In Mr Melish’s well told story of this earnest life we get no sectarianism and much discussion of the practical problems now before the church and before society, and much shrewd advice to the missionary.”

+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 70w

“A helpful book for college men considering the question of a life calling, for ministers affected with excessive prudence and laymen who do not appreciate the work of a true minister. Socialists will find the chapter on the church and socialism almost as illuminating, perhaps, as the average churchman.” L: A. Walker

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 400w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:744 N ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 40w

“The story of his life and work which Mr Melish has put together will help to preserve his memory and will prove inspiring to all who labor in hard places. It is also worthy of consideration as an answer to the overworked argument that the Episcopal church, cares little for social righteousness and those who labor with their hands.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 27 ‘17 950w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 380w

=MELVILLE, NORBERT JOHN.= Standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale; with the original questions, pictures and drawings; a uniform procedure and analysis. il *$2 Lippincott 371.9 17-13701

This standard method of testing juvenile mentality by the Binet-Simon scale is prepared by the director of the psychological laboratory, Philadelphia school of pedagogy, and is based on experiments conducted by the author in public schools in Philadelphia, and other cities. These investigations, which have involved the training of several hundred co-workers, have demonstrated the necessity and practicability of standardizing each detail of procedure. Some of the questions that are given attention for the first time are: “With what tests should the examiner begin? Which of two alternative questions should be first employed in a given case? Under what conditions may a test be repeated? By what precise standards shall we decide whether responses in such tests as the definitions should be credited at age six or age nine?” Part 1 is devoted to General procedure in gathering and analyzing the data; Part 2 to Uniform method of applying the Binet-Simon scale (Final revision by Binet and Simon, 1911). William Healy, of the Juvenile psychopathic institute of Chicago, writes an introduction for the work.

=Ath= p518 O ‘17 150w

“The standard method developed by the writer of this manual is well characterized as provisional.’ We should note, however, that at the same time it is the outcome of more detailed research and gives more adequate attention to details of mental testing than does any such manual which we have yet seen.”

+ =El School J= 17:689 My ‘17 300w

“Part 2 provides, in form convenient for use, all the printed materials necessary for the tests. This is in itself a distinct service to Binet test-users.” M. R. Trabue

+ =J Philos= 14:530 S 13 ‘17 500w

“It is essentially a guide to practice, and as such may be warmly recommended.”

+ =Nature= 100:103 O 11 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:93 Je ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:540 Je ‘17

“A very useful and practical work.” Alexander Johnson

+ =Survey= 39:260 D 1 ‘17 50w

=MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS.= Book of prefaces. *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 810.4 17-28839

The first two-thirds of this volume by the editor of the Smart Set discusses the work of Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, and James Huneker. The last third deals with Puritanism as a literary force. Here Mr Mencken discusses both the “Puritan impulse from within,” which “has been a dominating force in American life since the very beginning” and the “genesis and development” of the “Puritan authority from without”—the “organization of Puritanism upon a business and sporting basis.” Mr Mencken is out of sympathy with “this moral obsession,” as he calls it, which sets American literature “off sharply from all other literatures.”

“They abound in clever phrases and quick turns of thought.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:87 D ‘17

“Few have dared to suggest so clearly the exact ways in which the present-day Puritans have laid a numbing hand on art and the manner in which their work has been done.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 1100w

— =Nation= 105:593 N 29 ‘17 2350w

“He has all the raw material of the good critic—moral freedom, a passion for ideas and for literary beauty, vigor and pungency of phrase, considerable reference and knowledge. Why have these intellectual qualities and possessions been worked up only so partially into the finished attitude of criticism?” Randolph Bourne

– + =New Repub= 13:102 N 24 ‘17 1200w

“Here are vital appreciations, here are pungent bits of writing that interpret in terms of the classic realism, romanticism, naturalism, and what not, without the heavy professorial pedanticism.” F. J. K.

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 25 ‘17 1750w

“Mr Mencken is an intelligent man with a certain gift of phrase, and if he were content to be a critic, and not so often an apologist for the nasty, and if he only wrote in earnest, instead of being provocatively flippant and cynical, his mind might count in the critical councils of the hour. He writes entertainingly, but without special penetration, about Conrad. ... Mr Mencken does not merely rant against the Puritans. ... He does see that there was a moral elevation in Puritanism, though he apparently does not sympathize with a morality that subordinates the personality to a spiritual ideal—that, in other words, has the same aim as art. ... Pithy and nettling persiflage is the final judgment that one must pass on Mr Mencken’s book.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 850w

=MENZIES, AMY CHARLOTTE (BEWICKE) (MRS STUART MENZIES).= Memories discreet and indiscreet. il *$5 Dutton 17-30307

“This is a book of reminiscences of the interesting people whom the author met in the course of a wandering outdoor career as the wife of an army officer in India, Egypt, and England. She tells many new stories about celebrities as widely separated as Cardinal Manning and Lord Cardigan, Parnell, Father Stanton, Melton Prior, and Fred Burnaby; and she draws an unconventional sketch of a side of Lord Kitchener’s character not generally presented to the public. She gives, also, some fresh details of the famous ride to Kandahar and the Majuba Hill disaster, but serious information is not her forte.”—Spec

“An easy, intimate account of the life and achievements of those well-known to fame, told with a style and ease of manner that gratify our interest and curiosity.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 1 ‘17 190w

+ =R of Rs= 56:551 N ‘17 30w

“In her lighter moods she is always entertaining; she avoids malicious scandal, and leaves on the reader’s mind the impression of a very attractive personality, sweet-tempered, broad-minded, and unselfish, more devoted to living than to literature.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 170w

“The writer is a plucky, versatile, travelled woman; an entertaining conversationalist who writes as she talks.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p258 My 31 ‘17 980w

=MEREDITH, CHRISTABEL M.= Educational bearings of modern psychology. (Riverside educational monographs) *60c (2c) Houghton 370.1 17-715

This work by an Englishwoman, is an application of some of the principles of modern psychology to elementary education. The aim of the book is “to give a brief account of some portions of recent psychological work which have had and are likely to have a special influence on education. Part 1 is concerned mainly with genetic psychology: instincts, the growth of habit, and the effect of environment and suggestion. ... Part 2 is concerned with some special studies in educational psychology and in particular with experimental work.” (Preface) Dr Henry Suzzallo, in his introduction says, “The compass of the work is small, but a fine discrimination in choice and organization has made brevity a virtue unaccompanied by its usual shortcomings.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:242 Mr ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p108 S ‘17 20w

“Within her limits Mrs Meredith has done distinctly useful work, choosing her topics with discretion and treating them in a competent and serviceable way. ... The final chapter on adolescence contains wisdom for parents as well as for teachers.”

+ =Nature= 98:27 S 14 ‘16 200w

=Pratt= p16 O ‘17 20w

=MERINGTON, MARGUERITE.= More fairy tale plays. il *$1.50 Duffield 812 17-22672

A companion volume to “Fairy tale plays,” planned on the same lines. The author has chosen familiar fairy tales and made them into plays, introducing new characters as her plots demand. Contents: Puss in boots; The three bears; Hearts of gold, or, Lovely Mytlie; Hansel and Gretel. A fee is charged for the stage use of any of the plays.

“They contain very little action and hardly a line of sincere dialogue; its lines being farfetched and facetious talk,—most of it (thank Heaven) well over the heads or under the feet of children.” J: Walcott

— =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 120w

=Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 20w

“Teachers and parents eager for plays to give to children will find this volume, by a seasoned playwright, of great help.”

+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

“The book has nothing in common with its name. It is devoid of either imagination or play.” LaVergne Miller

— =N Y Call= p14 Ja 12 ‘18 200w

“The conversation, too, is in keeping and often witty, and the stage directions are definite enough to result in a satisfactory representation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 70w

=MERTON, HOLMES WHITTIER (YARMO VEDRA, pseud.).= How to choose the right vocation. *$1.50 Funk 174 17-14247

A book which “aims to meet—so far as it is possible to do so without expert personal counseling—the urgent need of individual guidance in choice of vocation.” The author discusses in turn the dominant abilities—construction, intuition, reason, form, color, number, attention, etc. With the analysis of these dominant characteristics is included discussion of what he calls “essential” and “supporting,” as well as consideration of “deterrent” abilities. Following the discussion in each case are a group of “self measuring questions” and a list of the professions and trades which demand the characteristics under discussion. Several hundred professions, arts, commercial enterprises and trades are included in these lists. In conclusion there is a chapter on “The great vocation”—agriculture. Mr Merton is a vocational counselor in New York city and author of “Descriptive mentality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 230w

“Its value is lessened by the lack of an index.”

+ — =Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 50w

“A curious, entertaining and doubtless useful compilation.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 40w

“It is an educational volume of the self-educational kind, sure to profit one if studied in a receptive mood.”

+ =Lit D= 55:43 N 3 ‘17 290w

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:125 Ag ‘17

“This overambitious attempt defeats its end by being so cumbersome that it is not convincing. It is doubtful whether any but those so intelligent as to need little guidance could guide themselves by this elaborate system. The book is worthy of study by vocational counselors for the suggestiveness of the questions and the descriptions of characteristics.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor

– + =School R= 26:61 Ja ‘18 150w

=MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS.= Horse; his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease. il *$1.50 (2c) McClurg 636.1 17-14155

A book on the breeding and care of horses. Earlier books by the author include “Dogs and men,” published in 1910, and “Road, track and stable,” published in 1912. Part 1 of this book treats of The breeding, training, and care of horses, part 2 of Diseases and injuries. A bibliography gives references to other books on the subject. The volume is well illustrated and is indexed.

=MERWIN, SAMUEL.= Temperamental Henry. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-24396

“‘Temperamental Henry,’ also sometimes known among his mates as ‘Henry the Ninth,’ is an eighteen-year-old youth who lives in a small Illinois town not far from Chicago. He holds the centre of the stage, but around him are grouped his ‘crowd’ of boys and girls, all of about his own age, while more or less importantly across the scene now and then crosses one of their elders. The author has turned his attention especially to Henry, and him has dissected and discussed and pictured, up and down, in and out, through all his waverings, irresponsible, sudden moods and absurdities, comedies and tragedies. It is a remarkable—and amusing—portrayal of the age of adolescence, comparable with, or, rather, a sort of chronological sequel to Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen,’ with which it will, inevitably, be compared.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w

“Henry strikes the reader as remarkably true. It is because he is so undoubtedly true to that temperamentality of youth, that the book possesses a meaning far in excess of the light story which it tells. The ability to bestow so complete a sense of reality upon a character must be acknowledged as fine art.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 3 ‘17 920w

“Mr Merwin takes his eighteen-year-old hero rather seriously, and makes one feel the near-tragedy as well as the humor, the romance as well as the banality, of that distressing period of emotional chaos termed adolescence.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w

“Both funny and pathetic.”

+ =Dial= 63:464 N 8 ‘17 80w

“Frankly, while we acknowledge that ‘boys will be boys’ and we love their foolish boyishness, we find ‘Henry the ninth’ a terrible strain on our credulity and are glad that our nineteen-year-old friends are not such gullible idiots.”

— =Lit D= 55:38 O 27 ‘17 230w

“The readers of the story, and they are sure to be many, will be glad to know that Mr Merwin purposes letting them follow Henry’s career as he grows older and becomes something more than an unlicked cub.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 550w

“We would hardly say that Merwin and Barrie were in the same class as writers, much as we like the American’s humor and realism. But they both, surely, have created and given the breath of life to one adolescent, temperamental boy. Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen’ was funny. And it had its moments of extremely clear insight into a boy’s mind. But ‘Temperamental Henry’ goes much deeper, as did ‘Sentimental Tommy.’ ... Probably the most human bit about the whole book is the dedication. ‘To Sam and John,’ it reads, ‘with sympathy.’ That is the whole point. ... The author understands.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 92:801 S 15 ‘17 450w

“A most entertaining tale.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 500w

=MERWIN, SAMUEL, and others.= Sturdy oak; theme by Mary Austin; the chapters collected and (very cautiously) ed. by Elizabeth Jordan. il *$1.40 (2½c) Holt 17-31033

A composite volume from the pen of fourteen prominent writers who, good suffragists that they are, donated their services to the cause. It is a lively story of one George Remington who, as the action begins, has just brought his bride to the old Remington place, and is launching upon a political campaign for the post of district attorney. One of the big issues upon which he must express an opinion is that of woman suffrage. He writes a flowery article for his town’s leading paper, containing the usual anti home-is-the-sanctuary, man-the-protector, woman-the-ministering-angel line of objection to enfranchising women. The suffragists fully aroused, organize and swing into one of those efficient campaigns for which they are noted. Their aim is not to defeat Remington so much as to teach him a necessary lesson. When two unprotected female relatives of the clinging-vine type swoop down upon him, when his adorable wife becomes a suffragist, when he is shown the wretched housing conditions of the factory district owned by comfortable, flabby-brained women who won’t shoulder responsibilities—the scales fall from his eyes. His victory is complete.

“A good story and a boost for woman suffrage.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18

“Though it is obviously a tour de force, it turns out to be no worse, if no better, than dozens of novels set adrift by the publishers each season. As a presentation of the ‘woman question,’ of which suffrage of course is only a phase, ‘The sturdy oak’ is absurd, even though it advances all the stock pros and demolishes all the stock cons. It is made to seem the more absurd by comparison with the new edition of ‘A woman of genius,’ by Mary Austin, the writer of chapter 13 of ‘The sturdy oak’ and the builder of its plot. Sound advice to the reading public would be: Buy ‘The sturdy oak’ for the sake of the cause and read ‘A woman of genius’ to find out what it is all about.”

– + =Dial= 64:117 Ja 31 ‘18 550w

“It isn’t as good, we believe, as any one of them could have done alone. A good suffrage tract, a not bad story, and an interesting study in comparative literary workmanship.”

+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 160w

“In the present instance all seriousness is there, all determination and intent to place the suffrage question on its broadly human instead of the usual limited sex basis. And it is done with deftness, with a few fine, old thrills, with delightful irony and some well-directed straight arm jolts.” F. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 18 ‘17 500w

“An exceedingly interesting story, and very amusing to boot. It is very far from being dogmatic. It is very clever indeed. And from beginning to end it is irresistibly readable. There are weaknesses and extravagances in the book. But the novel as a whole is excellent.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:458 N 11 ‘17 1050w

“Each chapter is the contribution of one author, but the theme is carried along so smoothly that the chapters link together without a hitch or suggestion of friction. The authors, too, subordinate to the central idea—propagandism, if you choose,—the mannerisms peculiar to their own individual styles.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 540w

=METCALFE, AGNES EDITH.= Woman’s effort: a chronicle of British women’s fifty years’ struggle for citizenship (1865-1914); with an introd. by Laurence Housman. il *$1.25 Longmans 324.3 (Eng ed 17-24667)

Miss Metcalfe has written a detailed account of the militant movement for the political emancipation of women in Great Britain and Ireland from 1906 to 1914, with a brief summary of preceding events, to which she devotes only twenty-six pages of her book. “For much of the history of the first thirty-five years or so of the Women’s suffrage movement the author acknowledges indebtedness to Miss Helen Blackburn’s book, ‘Women’s suffrage’ (1902). ... Interesting details are given of the later and most advanced manifestations of ‘militancy’; and the four trials for conspiracy which occurred between 1912 and 1914 are briefly described. The frontispiece and six other illustrations are reproductions of cartoons from Punch.” (Ath) There is a three-page Suffrage directory confined to British societies.

“The statement is fair and dispassionate, though the writer’s sympathy with the agitation is not concealed.”

=Ath= p357 Jl ‘17 200w

“Miss Metcalfe, as has been said, gives most of her space and emphasis to the ‘militant’ suffragists; she passes over, with very inadequate comment, the more statesmanlike work of the non-militant societies; there are many serious omissions, amounting almost to misrepresentation, on this side of the question. These omissions considerably detract from the value of what is otherwise a sound historical record of one of the least creditable phases by which ‘Freedom slowly broadens down’ in the good old Victorian fashion.”

+ — =Ath= p36 Ja ‘18 660w

“The author maintains a detached and judicial point of view and nowhere betrays her own convictions or sympathies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 120w

“Miss Metcalfe can hardly be called a dispassionate chronicler, but she may fairly claim to have compiled a narrative of what actually occurred.”

=Spec= 119:64 Jl 21 ‘17 90w

“The whole book is a typical illustration of suffragette psychology. ... Partisanship deprives the work of most of its value.”

* – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p389 Ag 16 ‘17 2150w

=MICKIEWICZ, ADAM.= Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania; tr. from the Polish by G: Rapall Noyes. *$2.25 Dutton 891.85

“This is the second translation of Mickiewicz’s best-known poem that has appeared in English, Miss Briggs having published a rendering in 1885. The poet wrote ‘Pan Tadeusz’ while he was exiled from his native country and living in Paris, where it was published in 1834.” (Ath) “‘Pan Tadeusz,’ the national poem of Poland, describes life in Lithuania at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It seems to have budded in the poet’s mind as a rustic idyll—the love of Thaddeus Soplica for Zosia Horeszko, daughter of an ancient house wronged by his own. ... As the poem took shape, however, the young lover and his private fortunes became dwarfed by the larger interests represented by his father, Jacek Soplica. Jacek is one of those full-blooded romantic figures whom writers of the period loved to create. In a fit of jealousy he had murdered the chief of the Horeszkos ... taking sides for this purpose with the Muscovites, the national enemy; and this misdoing of his, together with his remorse, supplies the framework of the poem. With the object of atoning for his crime, Jacek strives both to unite the Polish Montagues and Capulets in the persons of the young lovers and to free Poland from Muscovite oppression.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The lyrical movement in these passages is what chiefly reminds us that we are reading the translation of a poem, and not a regular prose romance. There is also an epical breadth about the narrative, and the fighting is described with Homeric realism.”

+ =Ath= p526 O ‘17 280w

“The two predominant characteristics of the poem are an intensity of feeling which sometimes lapses to sentimentality and again rises to lyric fervor, and a wonderful truth not only to the general impression but also to concrete facts of his experience.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 500w

“Mr Noyes has translated the poem into English prose, perhaps gaining for it thereby something in story interest while, except in form, he has lost little of its poetic values. His work has been done with admirable care and spirit and with signal success. The pictures of life reproduce with appealing fidelity the simple, tenderly portrayed details of the original, and also its intense feeling and quiet humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 510w

“The various elements are skilfully combined, but it is less as a story that the poem impresses the reader than as a series of richly coloured pictures of a vanished past.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p460 S 27 ‘17 950w

=MIDDLETON, EDGAR C.=[2] Way of the air. *$1 (2½c) Stokes 623.7 17-22331

“The idea of this little book is to give as clear and graphic a description of modern aviation as circumstances will permit. ... The writer’s chief endeavor in the opening chapters has been to help the young man who wishes to adopt ‘flying’ as a profession. Part 2 of the book is composed of a collection of incidents taken from the diary of an air pilot on active service somewhere in the north of France. They are given in their original form.” (Author’s note) Part of the material of the book is reprinted from the Daily Mail, Daily Express, and other English periodicals.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 270w

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 90w

=MIESSNER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.= Radiodynamics. il *$2 Van Nostrand 621.3 16-20751

“This is intended to provide a historical and technical description of the development of wirelessly controlled mechanisms, but is directed toward the military and non-technical scientific reader as well as toward the engineer. The book opens with a discussion of ‘wireless’ telegraphy. ... The central portion of the book gives some descriptive matter relating to various early attempts at wireless control of boats, airships and torpedoes, and the author then takes up in some detail the work of J. H. Hammond, jr. (whose assistant he was) in improving the military value of such devices. Various problems of interference prevention, relay operation, etc., are discussed and the author’s suggested solutions described.”—Elec World

=A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18

“Non-technical work describing much suggestive research. Not entirely reliable on the historical side.”

+ — =Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 13w

=Electrical News= N 1 ‘16

“Some ingenious proposals are brought forward, though the treatment is largely amateurish from the radio-engineering standpoint. ... In spite of its evident weaknesses, however, the reader is likely to find some information of interest in the descriptive chapters.”

=Elec World= 69:281 F 10 ‘17 200w

“B. F. Miessner, expert radio aide of the United States navy, has presented the subject clearly and concisely, assuming a considerable knowledge of electricity on the part of his reader.”

+ =Ind= 89:558 Mr 26 ‘17 40w

“The author has unnecessarily increased the bulk of his book by the introduction of a good deal of irrelevant matter, and by space given to elementary facts connected with wireless telegraphy which might quite well have been taken as familiar to any reader likely to be interested in it. Moreover, he has rather overestimated the importance of the early work of some American investigators, and done insufficient justice to that of European workers. He is not a safe guide on points of history or priority in relation to radio-telegraphic invention.” J. A. F.

+ — =Nature= 99:442 Ag 2 ‘17 800w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

“The book contains more information on this subject than can probably be found elsewhere by the general reader, and will give him, as well as the trained engineer, a brief history and exposition of the methods and some of the apparatus used in radio-dynamics to within comparatively few years. ... The subject matter is well planned and the diagrams clear and well rendered.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ja ‘17 150w (Reprinted from the Journal of the United States Artillery Nov-Dec ‘16)

=Scientific American= 115:537 D 9 ‘16 200w

=MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH.= Earliest man. *$1.50 Dutton 571 (Eng ed 17-7052)

“Mr Migeod’s essay, written in West Africa, is a thoughtful attempt to reconstruct the earliest stages in man’s evolution from the beast, with illustrations from the life of animals and natives in the tropical bush.” (Spec) “The advancement of proto-man to the dignity of homo primigenius is also considered, as are the first stages in the use of shelter, clothing, weapons, fire and cooking. The transition from eoliths to palæoliths, the origin of speech, and social organization, are dealt with in the later chapters.” (Ath)

“The tables of cranial capacities, localities, and chronology are useful for reference.”

+ =Ath= p429 S ‘16 170w

Reviewed by Archibald Henderson

+ =Bookm= 46:274 N ‘17 300w

“Some of Mr Migeod’s conceptions of the laws and causes of organic evolution will by no means commend themselves to those who are accustomed to approach the subject from a wider point of view, but the novelty of the circumstances in which his little book was written makes it stimulating and interesting.” A. S. W.

+ — =Nature= 98:189 N 9 ‘16 300w

=Spec= 119:385 O 13 ‘17 30w

=MILLAR, ANDREW.= Wheat and its products. (Pitman’s common commodities of commerce). il 85c (2½c) Pitman 664 17-4602

“A brief account of the principal cereal: where it is grown, and the modern method of producing wheaten flour.” (Subtitle) The author’s first purpose has been to write a book that will be of interest to the general reader; his second, to make it both interesting and useful to millers and “others connected with the breadstuffs industry.” Contents: The geography of wheat; Wheat analysis; Ancient milling; Silos; Wheat cleaning and conditioning; The break system; Machines used in the reduction system; The reduction system; Auxiliary appliances; Millstone milling; Corn exchanges. The discussion of milling processes seems to be limited to British practice.

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p22 N ‘16 70w

“Of interest to the general reader as well as interesting and useful to millers.”

+ =Pratt= p26 O ‘17 20w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 20w

=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Ladies must live. il *$1.25 (2½c) Century 17-24402

Mrs Miller once put to us the question “Are women people?” and answered it in the affirmative. About “ladies” her decision may be different, for in this story she pictures them as pirates high-handedly taking what they consider they need, whether at the game of cards or of marriage. Men, even a self-reliant western man, fall before the brilliance, charm, and ruthless acquisitiveness of the society “ladies” of Long Island and New York. Then, when the black flag seems to have conquered, love comes in.

“It is all preposterous if the reader approaches it equipped with the cool monocle of reason. But he ought not to do that: the famous glasses of rose colour are his proper tool.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:694 F ‘18 110w

“Were the dialogue a portrayal of character, the little book would have much artistic merit. Since its men and women, however, are types rather than individuals, one cannot expect delicately shaded conversations.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 27 ‘17 290w

“She seems to have drawn her characters from life rather than society journals and exhibits genuine wit in their handling.”

+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 50w

=Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 50w

“A far from plausible romance, but iridescent with the wit natural to the author.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 90w

“A book which one immediately forgets all about as soon as it is finished.” M. G. S.

— =N Y Call= p15 S 30 ‘17 270w

“Mrs Miller presents a satire on the ‘idle rich’ that is amusing, yet so improbable that it is essential to give in to her mood absolutely for the book to be convincing. The characters are drawn in keeping with the general type of the book. ... There is an abundance of smart talk, the persons of the novel glitter brightly, but ‘Ladies must live’ is not so good as ‘Come out of the kitchen.’”

– + =N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 220w

“The chief pirate of the tale is reformed by love—a regrettable concession to fiction convention. Thackeray’s ‘Becky Sharp’ didn’t reform!”

– + =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w

“A clever bit of work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 590w

=MILLER, ALICE (DUER) (MRS HENRY WISE MILLER).= Women are people! *75c Doran 817 17-8104

In her last book of suffrage verse, Mrs Miller asked the question which is answered affirmatively in the title of this new volume. “Women are people!” contains a collection of new poems, for the most part humorous, arranged in four groups: Treacherous texts; Our friends; Our friends the enemy; Unauthorized interviews. Many of them are reprinted from the New York Tribune.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17

“She proceeds through the sparkling pages of her book of poems to show how clever a woman writer can be.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 350w

+ =N Y Times= 22:234 Je 17 ‘17 280w

=MILLER, EDWIN LILLIE.= English literature. il *$1.60 Lippincott 820.9 17-18730

The author is principal of the Northwestern high school, Detroit, Michigan. He tells us that he has written this “introduction and guide to the best English books” to entertain rather than to instruct, and that he hopes his pages “will arouse curiosity about books and authors, will form the basis of class reports and discussions, and will incite people, in and out of school, to read books.” (Preface) The volume is in textbook form, with Questions and exercises and Suggested readings after each chapter. It brings the subject up to date, treating Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Bernard Shaw, Rupert Brooke and others. There is an appendix of a little over two pages giving “English history in stories, novels and plays,” and an outline map of Great Britain to be filled in by the student to form a literary map. The chapters on Milton, Bunyan, and Dryden are by Miss Helen M. Hard.

“Extraordinary opinions and commonplace verdicts upon English literature and its makers. ... He refers to a distinguished historian as Edgar Augustus Freeman, John Masefield is credited with writing ‘The tragedy of man,’ and Arnold Bennett with a novel called ‘Old wives’ tales.’” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 660w

“This is an excellent introduction to English literature. We have nothing but praise for it.”

+ =Cath World= 106:408 D ‘17 80w

“The book exhibits many of the points of a good textbook and not much besides, except a willingness to draw easy parallels between the things of yesterday and to-day. It also shows the tendency of the traditional textbook to degenerate into a bede-roll. But it offers many good suggestions for collateral reading in historical fiction. ... A later edition should point out that the ‘Prioress’ tale’ is not that of little Hugh of Lincoln, and that Sackville did not plan the ‘Mirror for magistrates.’”

+ — =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 140w

“An unusual feature is the space given to women writers. The book is obviously an expression of the author’s love of literature. ... There is not a dry page in the entire 597. The book is adequately illustrated and there are special pedagogical features in the way of questions and answers, charts, etc. While Mr Miller has written primarily for the high school boys and girls his book should prove intensely interesting to the general reader.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:44 S ‘17 170w

“Mr Miller’s ‘English literature’ is particularly strong in the number and quality of its quotations and selections from the ‘Great masterpieces.’ The critical comment is good in the main, though at times it seems more positive and final than is necessary for the guidance of the young.” E. E. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ — =School R= 25:609 O ‘17 110w

=MILLER, ELIZABETH YORK.= Blue aura. il *$1.35 (2½c) Clode, E: J. 17-24815

Dora Trelawny, a little dancer of the London music halls, is the heroine of this story. Dora is undisciplined, selfish, and vain. She marries Teddie Tyson of Tyson and Turco, acrobats, and the team becomes a trio, for a place for Dora is made in their act. Turco, who plays the clown, hides a noble and beautiful soul behind his ugly exterior appearance. He understands Dora and acts as the good angel in her life, finally meeting his own death in her behalf. Turco had possessed psychic powers to a certain degree, and it is thru his sacrifice that Dora attains to the “blue aura” he had predicted for her.

“A story of graceful and unaffected sentiment.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:492 D ‘17 90w

“Its principal claim on the reader’s interest is its capital character drawing, much force and delicacy being essential in depicting such a wild, yet lovable heroine as Dora.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 N 28 ‘17 240w

“‘The blue aura’ is a pretty story, of undisguised but unforced sentiment.”

+ =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 150w

“By what means the author contrives to write so commonplace a tale without lapsing into cheapness it is difficult to say.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 300w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 92:1374 O 20 ‘17 250w

=MILLER, FRANK EBENEZER.= Vocal art-science and its application. il *$2.50 Schirmer 784.9 17-3597

This book “is a comprehensive illustrated treatise on vocal matters written by Dr Frank E. Miller, long an authority on the subject. ... He believes that everyone can and should learn to sing, and advances a theory of certain pyramido-prismatic forces within the body comparable to those which produce light and energy. With scientific training these forces give us beautiful utterance both of the speaking and the singing voice. Exercises are given to guide the self-taught student, and over sixty illustrations assist the reader to a definite comprehension of the author’s vocal gospel. The introduction is by Gustav Kobbé.”—R of Rs

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17

=R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 140w

=MILLER, GEORGE AMOS.= China inside out. il *$1 (2c) Abingdon press 275.1 17-7538

In order to come close to the Chinese people in their daily lives, the author traveled about China on foot and by boat. “The life of the Chinese is his theme, what the people say, how they amuse themselves, what they have done to represent their ideals of religion, their occupations, their daily toil. ... Through these pages walk and speak the Chinese people, in terms of universal experience, testifying their response to the stimuli of the Christian gospel and western civilization.” (Introd.) Contents: The human Chinese; The gospel of health; The missionary at work; The Chinese church and its heroes; The leaven of life. The book is illustrated with line drawings made from photographs by the author.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 4 ‘17 250w

+ =Dial= 62:315 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:539 Je ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 30w

“It is a very readable book, because it seizes upon picturesquely typical scenes and events and narrates them from the viewpoint of a wide-awake outside observer.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 17 ‘17 250w

“Mr Miller writes of China from the point of view of Methodist missions in a sort of Billy Sunday vernacular. Very rightly he condemns hasty, ignorant and wholesale denunciations of missionaries, but at the same time seems rather to lay himself open to the retort that had he been longer in the Far East he might have been satisfied with a less absolutely sweeping denunciation of the mercantile communities of the treaty ports.” I. C. Hannah

=Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 70w

=MILLER, JOHN ORMSBY=, ed. New era in Canada. *$1.75 Dutton 971 17-28860

“A collection of sixteen essays by leading Canadians, each dealing with his or her own special subject, but all more or less concerned, directly or indirectly, to point out paths for the betterment of Canada after the war. ... The general editor is Dr J. O. Miller, principal of Ridley college, Ontario, who contributes one of the best essays in the book on ‘The better government of our cities.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 160w

“Two papers are by Leacock, and those who know him only as a jester and satirist will be surprised at the pessimism of the professor of political economy. ... Equally clear-sighted and vigorous is his concluding essay, ‘Our national organization for the war,’ which is being circulated in Canada almost as a ‘Tract for the times.’ He pricks the bubble of wartime prosperity and warns, like Cassandra, of coming ruin. Plain dealing is the note of all the essays. There is no flattery of popular prejudices, or of a foolish national pride.”

+ =Nation= 105:604 N 29 ‘17 920w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:126 Ag ‘17 120w

+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 30w

“Here are sixteen essays by fifteen different authors, some of whom write with a real sense of message; others appear to have been rather bored by the invitation to contribute. The warm friendliness that the volume before us displays for the United States should be keenly appreciated on this side of the international boundary.” I. C. Hannah

+ — =Survey= 39:446 Ja 19 ‘18 460w

“So much having been said—and it is due—in praise of the book, there is something to be said in the direction of criticism. In the first place, the thread of unity which runs through the book is a very slender thread. ... In the second place, no French-Canadian speaks in the book for the place of French Canada.”

* + – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Ag 2 ‘17 1700w

=MILLER, JOSEPH DANA=, ed. Single tax year book; the history, principles and application of the single tax philosophy. *$2.50 Single tax review pub. co., 150 Nassau st., N.Y. 336.2 17-28939

“Every five years the ‘Single tax year book’ presents an inventory of what has been accomplished by the movement for the taxation of land values. The quinquennial edition of 1917 contains a broad array of useful information for those who are interested in this subject. There is a bibliography of single tax literature, compiled by Arthur N. Young.” (Am Pol Sci R) “This volume, besides dealing with the relation of single tax to social problems, is replete with the history of the movement, citing the partial application of the principle in New Zealand, Australia, the South African republic, western Canada, Kiauchau, European and South American countries and in various sections of the United States. Of special interest to citizens of the New England states is the experience of Rhode Island.” (Springf’d Republican)

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 110w

=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w

“The volume is in every way an excellent one, comprehensive, explanatory and exceedingly well compiled.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 520w

“The book is an encyclopedia upon the subject.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 240w

=Pittsburgh= 22:691 O ‘17

=Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 310w

“It contains little that is new but much that has been widely scattered. Its publication reduces to a scant half dozen the books which one must read who desires a knowledge of the single tax philosophy, its history and its applications. This means that it will serve the movement well. The volume furnishes what is probably a very true cross-section of the movement today.” R. M. Haig

+ =Survey= 39:525 F 9 ‘18 630w

=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Boys’ book of canoeing and sailing. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 797 17-9127

This book by the editor of Field and Stream aims to tell ambitious boys not only how to handle boats but how to build them as well. It consists of three parts: Sailing and boat building; Canoeing and cruising; Motor boat management and construction. The book has many illustrations and there are working drawings to accompany the directions for building.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:454 Jl ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p11 Ap ‘17 100w

=Pratt= p32 O ‘17 30w

“In his published plans and suggestions for the building of boats Mr Miller has been careful to keep in mind the limitations of the average boy’s pocketbook and only the least expensive materials are considered.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:665 Je ‘17 170w

+ =St Louis= 15:378 O ‘17 20w

=MILLER, WARREN HASTINGS.= Rifles and shotguns; the art of rifle and shotgun shooting for big game and feathered game; with special chapters on military rifle shooting. il *$2 (3c) Doran 799 17-13239

A work by the editor of Field and Stream. Contents: Four centuries of firearms; Rifle mechanics; Rifle sights; Aiming at big game; Trigger release; Rifle targets; Two rifles for the poor man; The .22 rifle; The U.S. military rifle; Know your gun; The man’s game of trapshooting; Clay bird practice afield; Shotgun mechanics; Snap shooting; Cartridges and tables. The book is very fully illustrated.

+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 20w

“A useful treatise filled with not too technical information of value to the sportsman and, in less degree, to the intending soldier.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 270w

=MILLET, PHILIPPE.= Comrades in arms; tr. by Lady Frazer. *$1 (3c) Doran 940.91 (Eng ed 17-12511)

A book of war sketches translated from the French. The author says, “For a period of several months, in my capacity of liaison-officer attached to a British division, I was in a position to see the soldiers of the British empire and of France fighting side by side. From this moving multitude certain figures, grave or gay by turns, stood out in relief day by day. To my eyes they summed up, better than an abstract analysis, the distinctive features of the two nations in arms. I have here attempted to bring them together just as they were in reality.” There is an introduction by J. St Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.

=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“Spirited, humorous and sympathetic.”

+ =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 30w

+ =R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 70w

“We are delighted to see that Captain Philippe Millet’s charming book, ‘En liaison avec les Anglais,’ reviewed by us some three months ago, has been translated, and very well translated, by Lady Frazer. ... We desire to put up a signpost to the new version to let those who do not read French easily know how much pleasure and interest they will get from this brilliant and sympathetic study of the British army.”

+ =Spec= 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 700w

“Words of appreciation like this from a French soldier, who is military correspondent of the Paris Temps, and has himself been decorated for conspicuous bravery, should be relished by the Tommies.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 270w

=MILLIGAN, GEORGE.=[2] Expository value of the Revised version. *75c Scribner 220 A17-497

“The purpose of this little volume in ‘The short-course series’ is not to repeat the material that came from the pens of Trench, Ellicott, Lightfoot, and Westcott concerning the Revised version. ... The first part contains in the compass of twenty pages a brief history of the English translations of the Bible. Then follows a discussion, under negative and positive heads, of the practical use of the Revised version. The third section, about fifty pages, contains a concrete study of the doctrinal significance of the Revised version.”—Bib World

“There is need of a short discussion of the value of other versions of the Bible than the Authorized. This is admirably supplied in the present book. [In Section 3] Dr Milligan sets forth an array of interesting variations in translation which ought to bring freshness and strength into the preaching of any pastor who will follow out the study. This section of the book ought to have been more extensive.”

+ — =Bib World= 50:255 O ‘17 210w

“Does not omit the usual strong Protestant bias. The book is useful, but contains little that is noteworthy. Its scholarly author would have done better had he omitted the commonplace history which did not belong strictly to his subject, and expanded his real theme which is both interesting and important.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:553 Ja ‘18 140w

=St Louis= 15:318 S ‘17 10w

=MILLIKAN, ROBERT ANDREWS.=[2] Electron. (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il *$1.50 Univ. of Chicago press 537.1 17-22580

“The purpose of this volume is to present the evidence for the atomic structure of electricity, to describe some of the most significant properties of the elementary electrical unit, the electron, and to discuss the bearing of these properties upon the two most important problems of modern physics: the structure of the atom and the nature of electromagnetic radiation.” (Introd.) In order that the thread of discussion in the main body of the book need not be broken, mathematical proofs have been reserved for appendixes. The author is professor of physics in the University of Chicago, and the work is based largely on his own experiments in the Ryerson laboratory.

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 O ‘17 70w

=Pittsburgh= 22:816 D ‘17 60w

“Millikan’s beautiful investigations on the electronic charge and on the photo-electric effect are justly celebrated throughout the scientific world; they will undoubtedly become classical examples of the highest type of modern physical research. A description of such researches by their author is immensely valuable and will serve to stimulate scientific investigation as nothing else can.” H. A. W.

+ =Science= n s 47:44 Ja 11 ‘18 520w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 S 13 ‘17 700w

=MILLS, ENOS ABIJAH.= Your national parks. il *$2.50 (4c) Houghton 711 17-14711

This well illustrated volume provides a complete historical and descriptive guide to our national parks. The Hawaii national park is included, and one chapter is given up to the National parks of Canada. Another chapter is fittingly devoted to John Muir. A list of books, on national parks, including government publications, is provided, and there are several maps, reproduced by permission of the National park service of the Department of the interior. The Guide to national parks, prepared by Laurence F. Schmeckebier, gives detailed information for the tourist.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

Reviewed by LeRoy Jeffers

+ =Bookm= 46:213 O ‘17 770w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 380w

+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w

+ =Dial= 63:115 Ag 16 ‘17 320w

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“You can not wonder, after you read his pages and scan the photo-pictures with which they are illustrated, that Mr Mills asks: ‘Why not each year send thousands of school children through the national parks?’ If you love the west, you should read this tribute, whatever be your hunger to see that region once more. The book will do you good, even tho you must be hereafter a stay-at-home.”

+ =Lit D= 56:42 F 9 ‘18 430w

“No intelligent traveller who intends to visit the national parks should fail to read Muir as a spiritual preparation, but he will do well to avail himself of the more detailed information of Mills also.”

+ =Nation= 105:17 Jl 5 ‘17 380w

“Comprehensive and valuable book, with more than five hundred pages of full and accurate information. ... Mr Schmeckebier’s ‘Guide,’ in the appendix, contains much valuable information for the tourist.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 90w

“The entire volume, with its pictures and maps, should be owned by every visitor to the parks.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:221 Ag ‘17 160w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 24 ‘17 480w

=MILLS, WALTER THOMAS.= Democracy or despotism. $1.25 International school of social economy, 2333 Haste St., Berkeley, Cal. 16-16745

“Mr Mills ... shows first that the United States is not a real democracy, pointing out the familiar conditions in industry and politics through which the popular will may be checked. The measures through which democracy is to be attained are universal political education; representation in legislative bodies of the economic interests of the people rather than of geographical divisions; social ownership and control of the means of production, transportation, and exchange; and the initiative, referendum, and recall. The ideal is a world democracy. The author’s position is essentially that of the organized socialist movement, although in some details he is in opposition to the position officially taken by the American Socialist party.”—Am Econ R

Reviewed by G. B. L. Arner

=Am Econ R= 7:435 Je ‘17 120w

=Int J Ethics= 27:269 Ja ‘17 80w

=MINER, MAUDE EMMA.= Slavery of prostitution; a plea for emancipation. *$1.50 Macmillan 176 16-22872

“Those who have known Maude Miner’s work as secretary of the Probation and protective association of New York will be especially interested in this summary of her many years’ experience in work for delinquent girls. The book is written from a personal rather than from a scientific point of view and for that reason is valuable as a supplement to the various treatises and reports of vice commissions that have been issued on the subject of prostitution. The author shows that prostitution is not an isolated evil that can be abolished by direct methods of attack. She discusses its relation to housing conditions, industrial maladjustment and lack of recreation facilities, as well as to evil companionship and mental defect.”—Ann Am Acad

“There is breadth of view, sanity, balance, a strong sense of social causation, a healthy but not blind optimism in all Miss Miner says. There seems reason only for praise for such a timely and admirable book.” H. E. Mills

+ =Am Econ R= 7:905 D ‘17 410w

“Of value to students, social workers, judges, and physicians.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:374 Je ‘17

“The fact that the book is popular in form, free from sordid details, and gives much space to a program of prevention, makes it especially useful for laymen who are interested in modern methods of prevention and correction of delinquency.” H. G.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:241 My ‘17 200w

=Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 50w

“Does more than merely relate facts; it correlates them to their causes on the one hand, and on the other to the social remedies to which we must look for the protection of girls from all forms of the exploitation which ends in their ruin. ... Miss Miner, bringing to her task the equipment of experience gained in her many years as probation officer in the Women’s night-court of New York feels that society’s obligation is a double one; to help out those who have been enmeshed in the slavery of prostitution and to prevent others from being caught in it.” Alice Henry

+ =Life and Labor= 7:28 F ‘17 700w

+ =Nation= 104:583 My 10 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17

“It is therefore a matter of grave moment to the public that the great theme ... should be freely and rationally discussed by one so well equipped as Miss Miner has been, both by scholarly research and years of probation work in the Night court.” Jane Addams

+ =St Louis= 15:49 F ‘17 40w

+ =Spec= 118:77 Ja 20 ‘17 130w

“This is an admirable book. It strikes exactly the right note. ... It is not a compilation of disagreeable revelations. It is not sentimental, nor salacious. ... There is definite information, but it is illuminated by a sympathetic understanding of what the general reader requires to know and what may be left for official reports.” E: T. Devine

+ =Survey= 37:154 N 11 ‘16 450w

=MINER, WILLIAM HARVEY.=[2] American Indians, north of Mexico. il *$1 (1c) Putnam 970.1 (Eng ed 17-27757)

The aim of the author has been to provide a brief popular account of the American Indian which should be at the same time authentic and comprehensive. He points out in his preface that it has been the lack of systematic arrangement rather than a dearth of material that has handicapped the student. Contents: Introduction; General facts; Indian sociology; The plains Indians; The Indians of the south-west; Indian mythology. These chapters are followed by notes, bibliography and index and there is a map showing principal linguistic families.

“Mr Miner has been well advised in his choice of authorities and has escaped most of the pitfalls into which other would-be popular writers frequently fall. It would have been better had the specific narratives been appended to the general discussion instead of being sandwiched into the middle of it. The former would also have been improved considerably by a chapter on material culture and economic life.” J: R. Swanton

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:436 Ja ‘18 450w

“There is a good bibliography, and the book may be commended as a satisfactory popular introduction to the study of a remarkable people.”

+ =Nature= 99:283 Je 7 ‘17 250w

=MITCHELL, JOHN AMES.= Drowsy. il *$1.50 (2c) Stokes 17-25378

This is a scientific fairy tale which is also a love story. Cyrus Alton, called “Drowsy,” who is only seven when we make his acquaintance, is the illegitimate son of an Italian singer and a young American doctor. Dr Alton settles with his boy in a little Massachusetts village where Cyrus makes friends with Ruth Heywood, the minister’s daughter. Cyrus has a strange faculty of knowing what people are going to say before they speak, and also of knowing the unuttered wishes of faraway friends. About half of the book deals with the grown-up Cyrus, who invents “a contrivance hardly bigger than a dinner-plate that generates electricity without machinery and has infinite power,” takes a voyage to the moon, where he finds enormous green diamonds, and starts for Mars but is recalled by Ruth, who has refused him but who finally sends a message out into space telling him that she has always really loved him.

“A fantastic tale which the author asserts is not a fairy story for it may come true. Drowsy is quite human, particularly in his youth in spite of his remarkable gifts.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“No task is more delicate and dangerous to a writer than the revelation of the future. Mr Mitchell strikes a very happy medium when he opens the door of the future for us in his latest novel. He is very clever about it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 530w

“It is a fanciful tale, a book of dreams, but sometimes dreams come true. Mr Mitchell charms and fascinates by his philosophical comments on human foibles and human achievements.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 240w

“The success of a tale of this kind does not depend upon whether equally marvelous things have actually taken place, but upon the author’s ability to convince us of the credibility of those he relates, during the time, at least, that we are reading his book. And in this ability—a somewhat rare one—Mr Mitchell is lacking.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:413 O 21 ‘17 260w

=MITCHELL, JULIA POST.= St Jean de Crèvecœur. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 Columbia univ. press 16-16336

St Jean de Crèvecoeur was a Frenchman who came to America before the Revolution, settled on a farm in New York state and wrote a book, “Letters from an American farmer,” which was brought out in London in 1782. After the close of the Revolution he went back to his native land, to return later as French consul, in which capacity he was instrumental in establishing the packet service between France and America. From historical collections in America and family records in France, Miss Mitchell has brought together material for an interesting biography.

=Ath= p255 My ‘17 90w

=Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 60w

“This doctoral dissertation is the evidence of a good many years of untiring research, and is therefore much less superficial or fragmentary than investigations by the late Robert de Crèvecœur, F. B. Sanborn, Mr Barton Blake, and others. ... New readers will hardly be drawn to Crèvecœur and his letters by this scholarly biography. Dr Mitchell’s stagnancy of style in her ‘Life’ of an author who was seldom wanting in a certain naïve vivacity, no doubt follows the purest German tradition, which is too generally, in American universities, the tradition of our scholarship also; but that authoritative theses are necessarily dull has been disproved to us again and again by the work of candidates for the French doctorate of letters.”

+ — =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 500w

“Well-written biography.”

+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 80w

“An important addition to the history of early Franco-American relations.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 13 ‘16 950w

“Miss Mitchell has told the world all that it is ever likely to know about Crèvecoeur, his life and his labours. But, after all, is the game quite worth the candle? If research of this kind is to be prosecuted it were surely as well to prosecute it with discrimination and a due sense of proportion. Applied to Crèvecoeur it appears to us to be a little overdone, even though, in itself, it is as well done as Miss Mitchell has done it.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p196 Ap 26 ‘17 920w

=MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH.= Cellar-house of Pervyse; a tale of uncommon things. il *$2.25 Oxford 940.91 17-13748

“‘The cellar-house of Pervyse’ describes one of the most romantic undertakings by women in the whole war. Mrs Knocker (now the Baroness T’Serclaes) and Miss Mairi Chisholm were members of a Red cross party which went to Belgium at the beginning of the war. Mrs Knocker had been trained as a nurse, but Miss Chisholm had not. They were, however, prepared to do anything, no matter how dangerous, that they might be allowed to do. For a time they helped in motor-ambulance work under conditions of unceasing peril. ... In spite of much disapproval and opposition, they established a ‘poste de secours’ in the village of Pervyse. Their theory was that a large proportion of seriously wounded men died of exhaustion through being hurried to the rear, and that many more lives might be saved if the wounded were treated first ‘for shock’ near the trenches, even though the dressing of their wounds might be insufficient in itself. This theory was brilliantly justified.”—Spec

“A valuable first-hand account of one of the most tragic phases of the war. Those who wish for ‘uninspired’ and thorough detail concerning Belgium and a part of her sufferings should read it carefully.”

+ =Ath= p601 D ‘16 30w

“A story utterly unlike any other narrative of the war in all its varied aspects.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 13 ‘17 1250w

“This volume, even after the hundreds of war books with all their details of horrors endured with courage, stands out as a wonderful record of brave and efficient service.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:9 Ja 14 ‘17 550w

+ =Pratt= p42 O ‘17 40w

“The photographs give a good idea of the scene of the desolation amid which the heroic pair worked, and of types of Belgian soldiers.”

+ =Sat R= 122:534 D 2 ‘16 550w

“A wonderful story of unflinching spirit and good-heartedness.”

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 250w

=MITTON, GERALDINE EDITH.= Lost cities of Ceylon. il *$3.50 Stokes 915.48 (Eng ed 17-12260)

“Out of India—as well as from Africa—there always comes something new. Most people at any rate will be surprised to learn from this well-written book that the remains of the ancient civilization of Ceylon, ranging in date from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200, are comparable in magnitude to the pyramids and temples of Egypt, and that the fragments of sculpture in the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa are superb in their vigour and grace. A glance at Miss Mitton’s excellent photographs will show that her enthusiasm is in no wise misplaced. Her book is based on the official reports of the experts who, at a trifling cost, have cleared the jungle from these wonderful old ruins and given them a new lease of life.”—Spec

“It is a book of one who has solved the difficulties of travel and who writes to make the way easy for others as well as to direct them to the more noteworthy sights of the island. For this reason it reads at times somewhat like the better class of guide book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 380w

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 120w

“Many travellers have lamented in the past the small number of available books describing the history and antiquities of Ceylon. Miss Mitton, therefore, supplies a real need, and she has written with care and with enthusiasm.” Bishop Frodsham

+ =Sat R= 122:554 D 9 ‘16 950w

+ =Spec= 117:sup610 N 18 ‘16 120w

“It is not easy to ‘place’ exactly Miss Mitton’s book. It is too practical and useful for a mere book of travels, a little too learned for a guide book, and not quite learned enough for a treatise on the ancient architecture of Ceylon. ... To the really intelligent traveller the book should be very useful indeed. What distinguishes this book from most others of its kind is that its author has a passionate—the word is no exaggeration—interest in the places which she describes. She skilfully mixes archæological description with history. ... She can usually be accepted as a safe guide, but she is sometimes, we think, carried away by her enthusiasm.”

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 N 2 ‘16 1000w

=MOKVELD, L.= German fury in Belgium; tr. by C. Thieme. *$1 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-22682

This book gives the experiences of a Netherland journalist during four months with the German army in Belgium. John Buchan in his preface calls it “an admirable piece of war-correspondence, which bears on every page the proofs of shrewd observation and a sincere love of truth and honest dealing.” Contents: On the way to Liège; In Liège and back to Maastricht; Round about Liège; Visé destroyed; a premeditated crime; Francs-tireurs? With the Flemings; Liège after the occupation; Louvain destroyed; Louvain under the mailed fist; Along the Meuse to Huy, Andenne, and Namur; From Maastricht to the French frontier: the destruction of Dinant; On the battle-fields; Round about Bilsen; During the siege of Antwerp; The ill-treatment of British wounded; On the Yser.

=A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“Of course Mr Mokveld’s book is not for those who shudder at the truth even when it is necessary to tell the truth for the sake of the betterment of mankind. It is, however, essential that the world should know the truth about Germany, and it cannot be better learned than through such books as this.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 730w

=Cath World= 105:694 Ag ‘17 70w

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 30w

“His account is calm and impartial.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 230w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 60w

=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 90w

=MONAHAN, MICHAEL.= New adventures. *$2 (3c) Doran 814 17-28176

Under the five headings: Mannahatta; Mannahatta II; Portraits and preferences; Realities and inventions; and Lagniappe, Mr Monahan chats about Newyorkitis; Old men for love; Balzac the artist; Bermuda; The circus; The age of safety, etc.

“One might ignore the author’s paragraphs about sex were they not so frequent and conspicuous. ... Omitting the lapses, and the banalities and frayed truisms that occasionally pop their smirking faces up there is much to give genuine pleasure in ‘New adventures.’ ... We find him a lover of mankind except for a slightly jaundiced view of women. He has found life good in the main.” H. S. Gorman

+ — =Bookm= 46:724 F ‘18 780w

“Genial reflections upon life and art. ... Mr Monahan gives us a diversion on all his pages, and on many of them a humorous thrill or an appealing shock.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 550w

“Especially interesting are the two chapters ‘Mannahatta’ and his artistic short stories, ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Yearnings.’”

+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 70w

“It is a book that can be read with pleasure and with some profit; at least it is never stodgy.”

+ =Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 140w

“Slight as its encouragement has been, until recent years, the American essay has developed a form and style and spirit of its own. And in all three of these things Mr Monahan’s essays are characteristically of our own product. They are brief and pithy, they have humor and grace and the genial spirit, and above all they are intensely interested in the swirling stream of present life.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 590w

“Mr Monahan writes with some frankness about streetwalkers, and elderly roués, and about miscellaneous other things. Unfortunately one is not sure that he is wholly untouched by the sex-mania which he deplores.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 140w

=MONROE, HARRIET, and HENDERSON, ALICE CORBIN=, eds. New poetry. *$1.75 Macmillan 821.08 17-7483

An anthology compiled by the editors of Poetry: a magazine of verse. An introductory discussion of the “new poetry” opens the volume. The editors say “It [the new poetry] is less vague, less verbose, less eloquent, than most poetry of the Victorian period and much work of earlier periods. It has set before itself an ideal of absolute simplicity and sincerity—an ideal which implies an individual, unstereotyped diction; and an individual, unstereotyped rhythm.” The poets who are writing today do not disregard tradition, “on the contrary, they follow the great tradition when they seek a vehicle suited to their own epoch and their own creative mood, and resolutely reject all others.” Poetry written before 1900 has not been included. One hundred poets are represented, among them: Conrad Aiken; Mary Aldis; Witter Bynner; Robert Frost; W. W. Gibson; Vachel Lindsay; Amy Lowell; Edgar Lee Masters; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; and Louis Untermeyer.

=A L A Bkl= 13:342 My ‘17

“The editors of Poetry have been cordial to all schools, and they offer the best of modern English verse in their new anthology. The result is of that rare company—a book to keep at hand.” K. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 800w

=Cath World= 105:263 My ‘17 870w

“A highly interesting volume, prefaced by a valuable essay interpreting the spirit and aim of the new movement as an attempt at ‘a concrete and immediate realization of life,’”

+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 70w

“It is fairly comprehensive as regards American poets, but makes lamentable omissions as regards the English. ... It seems almost as if Miss Monroe had a peculiar instinct for choosing a poet’s second-best. ... It is neither old nor new, good nor bad, selective nor comprehensive. ... The result is a disappointing half-success—a provoking half-failure.” Conrad Aiken

* – + =Dial= 62:389 My 3 ‘17 1250w

“To my mind the book is inexact, and its aim and claim, if I understand its declarations, is exactness.” O. W. Firkins

– + =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 580w

“It is only the indescribable gleam of the ‘true gold’ of poesy, that fairy magic beyond analysis of great verse, that can command the prize. And just this true gold it is which too often lacks in the volume Miss Monroe and Mrs Henderson have prepared.” M. T.

– + =New Repub= 12:307 O 13 ‘17 2500w

“Praiseworthy as are many of the inclusions, we cannot understand a mind that seeks to treat of the significant poetry of today and omits Giovannitti, Harry Kemp, Edwin Markham, Chesterton, Davies, Belloc, Lascelles Abercrombie, Irene McCleod, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, to mention only a few. There is a provincial smallness in the fact that three fourths of the poets included have poems selected which have appeared in Poetry. ... But, taking it all in all, it answers the purpose.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p12 Ap 27 ‘17 250w

“The chief criticism against the book, or rather against the poets of today as here they show themselves, is that four or five of the writers practically include the rest, and that out of the hundred some half dozen only are truly original. ... Yet this alikeness is not a result of imitation; rather it appears to be born of similarities of experience and culture and outlook. ... It is difficult to overestimate the need for just such a book. ... The volume is made more useful by the bibliography with which it concludes, where all the books published by the several authors are noted, as well as most of the magazines in which the poems quoted from serial publications appeared. The table of contents is particularly well arranged.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:81 Mr 11 ‘17 1550w

“Handsome but too indulgent volume.” Lawrence Gilman

=No Am= 205:781 My ‘17 1100w

=Pratt= p35 O ‘17 20w

“For the envisioning of the range of the ‘new poetry,’ and a comparison of its diversities, there is no other collection that compares with this anthology.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:437 Ap ‘17 450w

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17 10w

“The title aside, it is an admirable collection. ... There are exactly 101 names on the list, mostly of Americans. All the British writers represented in the two collections of Georgian poetry are allotted space, save for Mr Chesterton and James Elroy Flecker.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 23 ‘17 330w

“The best collection for the library needing a volume to represent the new school of poetry. ... From the viewpoint of merit, the emphasis is open to criticism: the greatest space is given to Ezra Pound, the next to Miss Monroe herself, then follow Masters and Sandburg.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:156 My ‘17 70w

“Surely at least one poem by Miss Letts and several by Irene McLeod and Lascelles Abercrombie should be found in this volume. What can be said of the standard of selection that omits Hodgson’s ‘Eve’ and ‘A song of honor?’ For this last poem we would willingly forego the seventeen pages—chiefly affectation—of Ezra Pound. ... No one concerned with modern thought and its expression can afford to neglect this book. If it is not full of what Herrick called poetic pillars, it offers many guide posts. The emotions and thoughts of many of the contributors to this anthology seem in solution; they have not crystallized. Here, then, are the young poets of America in the making, and if one could prophesy, the future of American verse might be read in these pages.” E: B. Reed

+ — =Yale R= n s 6:861 Jl ‘17 370w

=MONROE, WALTER SCOTT; DE VOSS, JAMES CLARENCE, and KELLY, FREDERICK JAMES.= Educational tests and measurements. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$1.50 Houghton 371 17-28093

During recent years many educational tests have been devised and put into practice. The purpose of the present work is to give “a clear and simple statement as to the nature of the different tests which have been evolved, their use, their reliability, what are the best standard scores so far arrived at, and, in particular, how to diagnose the results and apply remedial instruction.” (Editor’s introd.) The book is designed primarily for teachers. A preliminary discussion of The inaccuracy of present school marks is followed by chapters devoted to special school subjects: Arithmetic; Reading; Spelling; Handwriting; Language; High-school subjects. Following these are four chapters on: Statistical methods; The meaning of scores; The derivation of tests, and examinations; Use of standard tests in the supervision of instruction.

“The book provides the reader with very complete bibliographies and on the whole will fill a need which has been experienced by school men recently for a fairly complete compilation of the tests which are now available.”

+ =El School J= 18:230 N ‘17 550w

+ =School R= 25:691 N ‘17 550w (Same as El School J review)

=MONTAGUE, GILBERT HOLLAND.= Business competition and the law. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 338.8 17-8475

How everyday trade conditions are affected by the anti-trust laws is the subject of this book. The author is a lawyer who writes here for the practical business man. The book is based on articles that appeared in Printers’ Ink in 1915. Contents: Dangers of aggressive salesmanship; Letters that spell conspiracy; Getting your competitor’s business; Price-discriminations and price-manipulation; “Exclusive-dealer” agreements; The scope of patent protection; Some “tying-contract” traps; The problem of “price-cutting”; Why join a trade association? The book closes with a bibliography and list of authorities.

=A L A Bkl= 14:7 O ‘17

“The purpose in writing seems to be rather to induce terror than to produce light.” A. M. Kales

— =Am Pol Sci R= 11:591 Ag ‘17 360w

“It is phrased in a colloquial style and its manner of expression is simple and natural. What is more noteworthy, it represents lucid treatments of subjects of which the author has an intimate technical knowledge.” Frank Parker

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:295 N ‘17 350w

“In addition to being authoritative, ‘Business competition and the law,’ has been written in a style which will make interesting reading for business men in general.” R. C. V. A.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 28 ‘17 650w

“His book gives little evidence of an attempt to understand the new economic tendencies; it offers little encouragement to the group of industrial leaders who are trying to develop the newer laws of competition.”

— =Ind= 91:133 Jl 28 ‘17 110w

Reviewed by Eliot Jones

=J Pol Econ= 25:751 Jl ‘17 700w

=Nation= 105:269 S 6 ‘17 300w

“It may be doubted that men of business can find elsewhere a better guide through the mazes of the law regarding conspiracies in restraint of trade. The decisions can be found elsewhere, but not the bills of complaint, the charges to juries, the decrees by consent, with their reasons, and other proceedings difficult of access which Mr Montague cites in his discussions.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:298 Ag 12 ‘17 650w

“Does what such broad discussions of legal principles and precedents as William H. Taft’s admirable book, ‘The anti-trust act,’ do not accomplish: it shows in detail how the law bears upon small business as well as big business. ... Mr Montague has written a well-conceived and useful book—a book that may be read with profit not only by business men, but by all who wish to study the workings of a law that is also a public policy.”

+ =No Am= 205:805 My ‘17 850w

“He has done just what he meant to do, and just what hundreds of business men wanted him to do. But at the same time we do miss the broader spirit—the spirit that Edward N. Hurley has put into ‘Awakening of business.’ ... The excellent bibliography gives a summary of some sixty or so notable cases of collision with the Sherman and Clayton acts.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 91:976 Mr 17 ‘17 840w

=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 110w

=St Louis= 15:321 S ‘17

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 17 ‘17 330w

=MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT.= Twenty minutes of reality; an experience, with some illuminating letters concerning it. *75c (6½c) Dutton 248 17-10440

An essay printed anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1916 now appears under the author’s name. She describes an experience that came to her during convalescence after a serious illness, in which, with suddenly cleared vision, she seemed to sense for the first time the wonder and beauty and worth of life. With this little essay are printed a number of the letters called forth from others who had had similar revelations.

“The book will be helpful to those seeking a vital religious experience, and it will suggest means of comfort to those who mourn for their dead. ... The book will prove interesting to all, and of practical value to not a few.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 500w

“This pseudo-mysticism might be amusing were it not that the neurasthenics who give their experiences are devoid of all sense of humor.”

— =Cath World= 105:408 Je ‘17 110w

“Idealistically sound, and heartening at the same time, in these days of war this big little message is most timely.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 60w

“The book makes, altogether, a contribution to psychology of consequence and interest; and also it will induce in every thoughtful reader much speculation—and possibly experiment sometimes—as to the cause of such an experience and as to the possibility of making the condition described that of ordinary life.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 N 12 ‘17 200w

=MONTAGU-NATHAN, M.= Contemporary Russian composers. il *$2.50 Stokes 780.9 17-26884

“We can best describe the book by saying that it is a thoroughly successful effort to make good the author’s aim as defined in his introduction—that of showing modern Russian music to be, not a nine days’ wonder, but a genuine and fruitful contribution of abiding value to the youngest of the arts.” (Spec) “The works of Skriabin, Glazounov, Stravinsky, Rakhmaninov, Rebikov, Taneyev, Medtner, and other composers are discussed and criticized at some length. The first thirty-four pages of the volume are devoted to an interesting survey of Russian musical history.” (Ath)

=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

=Ath= p251 My ‘17 100w

+ =N Y Times= 22:479 N 18 ‘17 510w

=Pratt= p32 O ‘17 10w

“Mr Montagu-Nathan writes with intense sympathy, but he is far from being uncritical. ... His style is efficient, though somewhat laborious, and he is inclined to overload his comments with the ponderous jargon of modern art criticism; but he does not write for mere writing’s sake, he shows at times an agreeable sense of dry humour, and he excels in his judicial summaries.”

+ — =Spec= 118:366 Mr 24 ‘17 1450w

“He covers the ground well, and his book is in so far of real value. ... But he makes, it must be confessed, demands on the reader’s patience. The facts are wrapped up in a maze of words, the criticisms are both vague and long, and the style is repellent.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p139 Mr 22 ‘17 1200w

=MONTESSORI, MARIA.= Montessori elementary material; tr. from the Italian by Arthur Livingston. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

In this book the Montessori principles of education are applied to the needs of children above kindergarten age. It consists of seven parts, devoted to: Grammar; Reading; Arithmetic; Geometry; Drawing; Music; and Metrics. The English work is in part a translation and in part an adaptation of the original. So far as grammar is concerned an effort has been made to take account of differences between the two languages, and new illustrative material has been substituted. A number of the illustrations are from photographs taken in Montessori schools in operation in the United States.

“Here is a book which the average parent and teacher will really read. ... It is not at all certain, however, that the book as it stands quite meets the needs of American schools.” H. T. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

=MONTESSORI, MARIA.= Spontaneous activity in education; tr. from the Italian by Florence Simmonds. (Advanced Montessori method) il *$2 (2c) Stokes 371.4 (17-25133)

This work is a general discussion of all the principles that underlie Dr Montessori’s system of education. It consists of chapters on: A survey of the child’s life; A survey of modern education; My contribution to experimental science; The preparation of the teacher; Environment; Attention; Will; Intelligence; Imagination. The book is without an index, a lack partly supplied by an analytical table of contents.

“It covers much of the ground already gone over. Its contribution, then, to current educational literature is of no unusual value.” H. T. C.

– + =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 260w

=MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).= Anne’s house of dreams. il *$1.40 (1½c) Stokes 17-22301

This is the same Anne who was the heroine of “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea,” and the scene is still Prince Edward’s Island. Anne marries in the fourth chapter and goes to live in her “house of dreams” at Four Winds Harbour. The book brings in some of her old friends and a number of new ones.

=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17

=N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 350w

=MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD (MRS EVAN MACDONALD).= Watchman, and other poems. *$1.25 Stokes 811 17-30917

A volume of poems by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” and other popular stories. “The watchman,” from which the title of the book is taken, is a narrative poem, relating an incident at the time of the crucifixion. “Songs of the sea” and “Songs of the hills and woods” follow, and the remainder of the book is taken up with miscellaneous poems.

=MONTGOMERY, ROBERT HIESTER.= Income tax procedure, 1917. *$2.50 Ronald 336.2 17-2659

“This work, by its author’s own profession, is not a treatise on the income tax but rather a reference manual for the individual, company, or trustee who wishes authoritative guidance in the actual reporting of income as required by the amended income-tax law. The various provisions of the law are set forth under convenient headings; Treasury department rulings are cited; and the interpretations and criticisms of the author, who is both an attorney and an accountant, are appended.”—J Pol Econ

“The work will be helpful to those not familiar with the preparation of income tax returns, but it will not take the place of a lawyer and an accountant where the problems are complex. The author does not hesitate to uphold the law and related rulings where he deems them justifiable, nor to criticize where he thinks they are not what they should be. Most of the criticisms are well taken, but not all of them are expressed conservatively and judiciously.” R. G. Blakey

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:238 Jl ‘17 270w

+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 30w

“This book is, notwithstanding, a serviceable compilation, even though it hardly makes good Mr Montgomery’s hope that it will ‘answer about 98 out of 100 anxious questions.’”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:408 Ap ‘17 120w

“It seems probable that the taxation of incomes will continue for a long period; and until it ceases, or the law authorizing it is better understood, this work must be indispensable in the preparation of returns and to save needless overpayments. Its advice is definite and down to date.”

+ =Lit D= 54:570 Mr 3 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17 40w

“Mr Montgomery’s claim to distinction is that he does not hesitate to try both the makers and administrator of the law by the principles established by the courts.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:239 Je 24 ‘17 370w

“The author is a certified public accountant.”

=St Louis= 15:109 Ap ‘17 7w

=MOORE, CLIFFORD HERSCHEL.= Religious thought of the Greeks from Homer to the triumph of Christianity. *$1.75 Harvard univ. press 292 16-22750

“This volume is in the form of lectures. Eight lectures given before the Lowell institute in the autumn of 1914 are combined with material from a course delivered at the western colleges with which Harvard university maintains an annual exchange. ... Beginning with Homer and Hesiod the development of Greek religion is traced through more than a thousand years to the triumph of Christianity. In addition to a treatment of the better known periods of classical literature, there are chapters on Orphism, Pythagoreanism and the mysteries, on Oriental religions in the western half of the Roman empire, on Christianity, and on Christianity and paganism.”—Am Hist R

“It represents what, I venture to think, may properly be called the new humanism of classical ownership. Without attempting universality or completeness it offers a treatment of Greek religion which is at once interesting and significant. Teachers of the history of thought should welcome for their pupils such an excellent organization of the more important aspects of the subject, while classical students will profit by the philosophical insight with which it is treated.” W. G. Everett

+ =Am Hist R= 22:621 Ap ‘17 700w

=Ath= p302 Je ‘17 120w

“The essential lack of unity in the book and the inappropriateness of the title should be apparent from the chapter-headings in the table of contents when the book is first opened. But the reader becomes more convinced of these things and more regretful when he has discovered how ably and how successfully the author has handled his proper theme. The Protestant cult of the Old Testament has warped the conception of Christianity in the popular mind, and Professor Moore has done a real service in setting forth clearly and dispassionately the vast debt which Christianity owes to the enlightened thought of Greece and the West.” I. M. Linforth

+ — =Class Philol= 13:99 Ja ‘18 2650w

“The learning exhibited in the book is solid and unimaginative, the style too much that of the class-room, dull but informing.”

+ — =Dial= 63:467 N 8 ‘17 220w

Reviewed by James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:680 Jl ‘17 70w

“From more special, technical, partial, and possibly more brilliant presentations the reader who seeks instruction rather than a new thrill may sometimes turn with relief to this lucid, sober, well-proportioned exposition.”

+ =Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 230w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17

“The study is orderly and methodical, not perhaps brilliant or original, but a responsible volume, such as one can turn to with confidence, and a worthy and useful popularization of knowledge.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 19 ‘17 450w

=MOORE, EDWARD.= Studies in Dante, series 4. *$4.20 Oxford 851 17-19159

“This last contribution by the late Dr Moore to the study of Dante, which has been seen through the press by Dr Paget Toynbee, contains seven studies. Four are reprinted from periodicals: three—on ‘Dante’s theory of creation,’ an ‘Introduction to the study of the Paradiso.’ and ‘Sta. Lucia in the “Divina commedia”’—are now published for the first time. But the most important contribution, occupying nearly half the volume, consists in the ‘Textual criticism of the Convivio,’ giving Dr Moore’s reasons for emendations many of which were embodied ‘sub silentio’ in the 1904 text of the Oxford Dante.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =Ath= p199 Ap ‘17 80w

“For specialists the new and exhaustive treatise on the textual criticism of the ‘Convivio’—as that singular prose work should be called instead of ‘Convito’—will be of chief importance. More general interest attaches to the reprinted paper on Dante’s tomb at Ravenna.”

+ =Spec= 118:369 Mr 24 ‘17 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 15 ‘17 70w

“It is twenty-one years since the ‘first series’ of Dr Moore’s ‘Studies in Dante’ was issued, and each member of the succession, now closed by the present volume, has been an important event for scholars.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p124 Mr 15 ‘17 1350w

=MOORE, ERNEST CARROLL.=[2] Fifty years of American education. 80c Ginn 370.9 18-2690

The publishers issue this book as an anniversary memento of their own fifty years of activity in the educational field. Dr Moore sketches briefly the progress of education from 1867 to 1917, or from the close of the Civil war to the present. There are three chapters: We live in a period of change; Education at the end of the Civil war; Some changes since the Civil war. A brief bibliography, listing about fifteen titles, is added.

“Professor Moore has given us a thumb-nail sketch of this golden era—a sketch replete with facts and figures, and serving the very definite purpose of letting us know just how far we have advanced in an important field of human endeavor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 90w

+ =School R= 26:146 F ‘18 250w

“Dr Moore, whose work is concise and impartial, treats of the development of theory as well as the material progress during this period.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ‘18 130w

=MOORE, GEORGE.= Confessions of a young man. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s

“The ‘Confessions’ has long been known and liked; it is not likely to be forgotten. ... Mr Moore says that the book is ‘a sort of genesis; the seed of everything I have written since will be found therein.’ The present edition contains some songs and ballades written in French that belong with the period of the book, and which are well worth recovering.”—N Y Times

“There is very little that is durable about ‘The confessions of a young man.’ Mr Moore compares it to Rousseau. It is much more comparable with the work of George Sylvester Viereck. ... To improve with age a book should not have been written with an eye to the immediate audience in front. The trouble with the ‘Confessions’ is this preoccupation. ... About Degas and others of the Nouvelle Athènes, about Shelley and Gautier and Balzac and Pater, about Emma in the London boarding-house—George Moore continues to be engaging in this juvenescent book. But it remains the book of a man to whom art had not yet given the unity that he craved; and who did not quite understand or acknowledge his divided soul.” F. H.

— =New Repub= 10:300 Ap 7 ‘17 430w

“A 1917 person will have to overcome a strong distaste before he can get the good out of the ‘Confessions of a young man.’ ... Old vices are a thousand times worse than old virtues. George Moore had money and played the prodigal in Paris of the early 80’s, the Paris of Verlaine and Mallarmé. Homer and Chaucer are our contemporaries, Shakespeare belongs to yesterday, but the Paris of Verlaine and of Mallarmé is prehistoric.” W: E. Bohn

— =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 520w

“Probably no more vivid and entertaining set of sketches, impressions, adventures, understandings, and realizations of life lived in an environment with which Mrs Grundy has nothing in common, were ever written. ... Naturally these books are for sophisticated readers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 250w

=MOORE, GEORGE.= Lewis Seymour and some women. Uniform ed *$1.50 Brentano’s 17-3153

“In his preface to the new version of ‘A modern lover,’ which now bears the title of ‘Lewis Seymour and some women,’ Mr Moore tells how he did not revise this book, finding it to be, he exclaims, ‘jargon ... beyond hope of revision.’ Instead he rewrote it entirely, and the book is a new book, except for the plot, or anecdote. As Mr Moore describes it, ‘This anecdote was so true and beautiful that it carried a badly written book.’”—N Y Times

“It is written with all the consummate art, the seeming-careless carefulness, the ripe humor, the power in the depiction of character that have made Mr Moore a master, and the delight of every reader to whom these great qualities appeal. The story lends itself easily to Mr Moore’s genius.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 700w

“Of ‘A modern lover’ it may at least be said that it possessed the saving grace of youth. There was spring in it. The new novel, for all its fluent facile writing, has not the same fire. ... We can forgive the one, the other is not so pleasant a spectacle.”

— =Sat R= 123:322 Ap 7 ‘17 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 Mr 22 ‘17 180w

=MOORE, HARRY HASCALL.= Youth and the nation; a guide to service; with an introd. by S: McCune Lindsay. il *$1.25 (4c). Macmillan 174 17-19844

“This book is an attempt to arouse a wholesome interest among young men and older boys of college and high school age in modern social evils, to show them how men have combatted these evils and to suggest vocational opportunities in the warfare against them.” (Preface) In the October, 1917, number of the Educational Review the author, a professor in Reed college, presented the results of the investigation which led to the writing of this book. Questions put to 827 junior and senior high school boys brought home to him their ignorance of the modern problems of poverty, the social evil, and industrial unrest. Under the heading Enemies of the nation he discusses Disease, Feeblemindedness, Juvenile delinquency and crime, Commercialized prostitution, Child labor, Unemployment, The inequitable distribution of wealth, etc. As Defenders of the nation he lists the physician, teacher, lawyer, engineer, minister, forester, journalist, and others, and tells something of the lives of men who in these various fields have earned that title. In a final chapter the youth is called to action in the field of service. There is a brief selected list of books at the end.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“Five chapters, called ‘Defenders of the nation,’ contain short biographies of men who have achieved success in vocations. This is an original idea, well carried out.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 280w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 3 ‘17 130w

=MOORE, JOHN HOWARD.= Savage survivals. il $1 Kerr 170 16-923

“This book is an excellent presentation of the concepts of organic and social evolution adapted to the intelligence of children. The material was originally part of a series of lectures on ethics given in the Crane technical high school of Chicago. The important part played by the principle of selection among wild and domestic animals is shown, and the many apt illustrations of vestigial structures, vestigial instincts, and vestigial social forms serve to impress the young mind with the evolutionary concept of gradual change and continuity. The relatively modern idea of the vast period of prehistoric human evolution is well developed.”—Am J Soc

“It is doubtful whether the pedagogical value of Morgan’s anthropologically obsolete nine stages of society is sufficient to justify its use even in a popular work which in so many respects is admirably scientific.” F. S. Chapin

+ =Am J Soc= 22:693 Mr ‘17 160w

=Ind= 87:390 S 11 ‘16 50w

=MOORE, LESLIE.= Antony Gray,—gardener. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-11702

A sudden whim puts into the mind of Nicholas Danver the desire to see his last will and testament in operation. With the assistance of his friend Doctor Hilary, he becomes officially dead, and Antony Gray, his heir, is called home from South Africa to hear the conditions of the will. They are rather unusual, requiring that the young man shall live on the estate for one year as an undergardener. The fulfillment of this condition is made more difficult for Antony by the presence in the neighborhood of the woman he loves. At the crisis in affairs, Nicholas comes forward from his retirement to set matters straight.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“Charm, lightness, deft love-making, delightful descriptions of ‘the nice, fresh, cool, clean country’ are combined into a delicate pot pourri of a book.”

+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 60w

“A pleasant little story, rather nicely told, with some pretty descriptions of the English countryside and a delightful puppy named Josephus. Trix’s aunt is fairly amusing, and the tale as a whole will be found to provide very mild entertainment for an idle hour.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 250w

“The opening chapters promise a lively interest, but later the story becomes very tame.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 220w

=MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY.= Railway nationalization and the average citizen. *$1.35 Dutton 385 18-2686

“Canada is seriously concerned over the position of her railways—so seriously that she recently invoked the services of three eminent experts in railway finance and operation, to make a study of the situation and advise as to the future. This commission by a vote of two to one proposed an elaborate plan involving a trusteeship which seems to approach closely to the substance of government ownership without the form. William H. Moore, a vigorous opponent of government ownership, feeling that the ‘average citizen’ has been misled by the ‘platitudinarians’ and the ‘doctrinaires,’ contributes his attempt towards the education of the electorate in a book entitled ‘Railway nationalization and the average citizen.’ He states that he has been in railway service during the period under review. ... His interest lies mainly in the history of the Canadian Northern and its unfortunate financial experience.”—Nation

Reviewed by O. D. Skelton

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 12:144 F ‘18 400w

“He has written a tract rather than a convincing, well-balanced essay. His arguments from foreign experience are fragmentary and unsatisfactory.”

— =Nation= 105:572 N 22 ‘17 230w

“It is written so that the average citizen can understand, if he is open-minded, or rather so that he cannot misunderstand unless he is resolute to do so.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 800w

=MOOREHEAD, WARREN KING.= Stone ornaments used by Indians in the United States and Canada. il *$3.75 Andover press, Andover, Mass. 970.6 17-6240

“Since his boyhood days, Mr Moorehead has been an active student of everything pertaining to American archæology.” (Boston Transcript) In this book he describes “certain charm stones, gorgets, tubes, bird stones and problematical forms” (Sub-title), which were apparently used by the Indians as ornaments, amulets or charms. One chapter describes the author’s methods of study and classification. “There are nearly three hundred illustrations, an excellent index and full bibliography.” (Boston Transcript) “Arthur C. Parker, New York state archeologist, has contributed an excellent discussion, while Prof. Edward H. Williams, Jr., and Benjamin L. Miller have made a study of the problem of patina and weathering.” (N Y Times)

“Probably every museum in this country has some specimens of these ornaments and to study them and collate the information about them has required a prodigious amount of work which has been performed in the scholarly fashion characteristic of the author, making this volume invaluable to the student of archæology. Many of the specimens are not readily accessible and to have them thus listed is most helpful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 600w

+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 120w

=Lit D= 54:1429 My 12 ‘17 90w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

“Classification and minute study are Mr Moorehead’s field. As a collector and a statistician he is one of the finest in the archeological field. But when he attempts speculation, his imagination leads him often into strange paths. ... For one thing, however, Mr Moorehead deserves all praise. He has offered a complete and working classification for ornamental and problematical forms, illustrated by excellent pictures of specimens.”

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 500w

=MORAN, THOMAS FRANCIS.=[2] American presidents; their individualities and their contributions to American progress. *75c (3c) Crowell 923 17-25276

A chance remark to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt lacked the attributes of the “typical president of the United States” started the author on the inquiry that resulted in this little book. He has found that there is no “typical president,” and he aims to set forth the characteristics of each of our presidents in a way that will emphasize his individuality. The book consists of four chapters: From Washington to Jackson; From Jackson to Lincoln; From Lincoln to Wilson; The ethics of the presidential campaign. The author is professor of history and economics in Purdue university.

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 40w

“In showing up wherein some of our greatest men have failed to measure up to great heights, Dr Moran has produced a readable little book. His judgments in some cases have gone against popular impressions and traditions, which is a recommendation. But he is conventional enough to find some good to record of all of the presidents.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 29 ‘17 470w

“These sketches show well-balanced judgment, but they might with advantage have been somewhat more extended. It is impossible adequately to portray the character of a great political leader and discuss his relation to his age in a paragraph or two of comment.”

+ — =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 70w

=MORETTI, ONORIO.= Notes on training; field artillery details. il *$2 Yale univ. press 355 17-16557

This material was prepared under the direction of Captain Robert M. Danford, professor of military science and tactics at Yale university, from notes kept by himself, Capt. E. L. Gruber, and Capt. Moretti while on duty as instructors in the course for non-commissioned officers at the School of fire for field artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. It was designed for the immediate use of the field artillery unit of the Reserve officers’ training corps at Yale. The contents include Map reading, Military sketches, Elementary field artillery gunnery, Firing data records, Communication, Scouts, couriers, and route markers, etc. The plates, for the most part, are from drawings made by Sergeant Ivar W. Wahren, Field artillery, on duty as assistant instructor at Yale university. Captain Danford draws particular attention in his preface to the “Principles of fire, part 6 chapter 2” concerning which he states that they are “those which were enunciated by the School of fire as the result of the most careful and comprehensive statistical studies. Their importance to field artillery men of all grades cannot be overestimated.” The three appendixes show Range tables, Common errors in firing, and Problems given at the School of fire. The book was issued in May, 1917 and reached a second printing in July.

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 Jl ‘17 100w

=MORGAN, JAMES MORRIS.= Recollections of a Rebel reefer. il *$3 Houghton 17-11810

“The author was a boy midshipman when the Civil war began. The most interesting period of his service under the confederacy was on the cruiser Georgia, mate to the famous Alabama. His adventures afterwards in the reconstruction period and as an officer in the Egyptian service are told with animation and gusto.”—Outlook

=A L A Bkl= 13:447 Jl ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 21 ‘17 1400w

=Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 60w

“His narrative is frank and relieved with humor, and the breadth of outlook it displays gives it value as a historical document.”

+ =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 300w

“Few men could possibly set down such a record of their activities as this book affords. Not every man would care to tell so freely all his escapades as Mr Morgan has told his. Taken as a whole, his story may not inspire the reader to nobler ambitions or a loftier purpose, but it is a positive change from the customary ‘Recollections’ and ‘Reminiscences’ that so many have written, and it reads almost like a romance.”

+ =Lit D= 55:33 S 1 ‘17 340w

“Mr Morgan here discloses a personality as interesting as the life adventures which he tells so well. The exaggerated sentiment which mars so many of the books relating to the South of this period is happily absent.”

+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 700w

“One of the best of recent books of reminiscence, because its narrative has spirit and a sense of humor.”

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:526 Je ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p45 O ‘17 40w

=R of Rs= 55:666 Je ‘17 100w

“Throughout Mr Morgan enlivens his book by witty anecdotes mostly concerning persons famous during the Civil war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 27 ‘17 520w

=MORGAN, JAMES OSCAR.= Field crops for the cotton-belt. (Rural textbook ser.) il *$1.75 Macmillan 633 17-2193

In this volume, planned as a college text, the author has endeavoured “to present clearly and accurately the science and art of field-crop production in the south. As the art of crop production is based primarily on the sciences of botany and chemistry, the aim has been to give to these subjects their proper application.” (Preface) Cotton and corn, the two leading crops of the south, have been given first and most extended attention. Other crops given consideration are oats, wheat, rye, barley, rice, the sorghums, sugar cane and the peanut. The book is illustrated and provided with an index. The author is professor of agronomy in the Agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.

=A L A Bkl= 14:11 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 30w

“Prof. Oscar Morgan’s contribution worthily upholds the reputation of the series, and is likely to be accepted as having a value considerably beyond the sphere of usefulness very possibly contemplated for it by its author. ... The book will be appreciated by cotton-growers throughout the world. In that light it is perhaps unfortunate that so much elementary science was thought necessary. The first principles of the physiology and chemistry of plant life might have been left to the lower school text-book. A glossary of terms would have got over any difficulty presumed to exist.”

+ — =Nature= 99:342 Je 28 ‘17 750w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:44 Mr ‘17

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17 120w

=MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT.= Critique of the theory of evolution; lectures delivered at Princeton university, February 24, March 1, 8, 15, 1916. (Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation) il *$1.50 (6c) Princeton univ. press 575 16-22585

This work by a professor of experimental zoology in Columbia university, is an examination of the older evidence on which the theory of evolution was based in the light of later evidence. In his preface he furnishes a synopsis of the contents of his book: “In the first lecture an attempt is made to put a new valuation on the traditional evidence for evolution. In the second lecture the most recent work on heredity is dealt with, for only characters that are inherited can become a part of the evolutionary process. In the third lecture the physical basis of heredity and the composition of the germ plasm stream are examined in the light of new observations; while in the fourth lecture the thesis is developed that chance variation combined with a property of living things to manifold themselves is the key note of modern evolutionary thought.”

“Scholarly yet popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:384 Je ‘17

“Very searching and illuminating exposition.”

+ =Educ R= 54:528 D ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w

“When we look to the present summary for some statement of what important progress in our conception and understanding of inheritance is to be reported, we are reluctantly driven to the conclusion that what Prof. Morgan calls ‘a satisfactory solution of the traditional problem of heredity’ is only a restatement of the problem in terms of invisible ‘factors’ associated with chromosomes. The existence of such ‘factors’ is not a new inference, but has been a feature of theories of inheritance both before and since Darwin’s treatment of the subject.” E. R. Lankester

* =Nature= 99:181 My 3 ‘17 1500w

Reviewed by A. E. Watson

+ =Survey= 38:422 Ag 11 ‘17 370w

“The illustrations are copious and very instructive, and are drawn very largely from flies.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p24 Ja 11 ‘17 60w

Reviewed by Ellsworth Huntington

=Yale R= n s 6:667 Ap ‘17 750w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Parnassus on wheels. *$1.25 (3½c) Doubleday 17-24508

“R. Mifflin is the ‘Professor’s’ name, and he has built a book-van in which he travels over the country, selling books to farmers and their families, to people in small towns, wherever he can get an audience and interest people in the joys of literature. ... But the little man ... has decided that he wants to sell his ‘Parnassus on wheels,’ and Helen McGill, housekeeper on a New England farm for her brother, who, from being a farmer has blossomed out into a David-graysonish kind of author, decides that she wants an adventure herself. So she buys the van and she and the ‘Professor’ ... set off together. He is going to ride with her for a day and show her how, and then he is going to Brooklyn to live for a while and write a book. The story is concerned almost wholly with their adventures, which are many and varied and entertaining.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:97 D ‘17

“It is graceful in style, light in substance, merry in its attitude towards life, and entertaining in every aspect of its plot and insight into character. It is both a story and an essay. ... It is real, yet it is fantastic; it is fantastic, yet it is real. And, best of all, it has an original idea in it that is carried just far enough.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 1400w

“A story of quaint and spicy flavors.”

+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 100w

“Mr Morley combines genuine understanding of the ‘bookish’ temperament with humor that is irresistible.”

+ =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 90w

“A delightfully absurd little book, whose quaint whimsies make excellent reading aloud for winter evenings.”

+ =Ind= 93:241 F 9 ‘18 40w

“A bit of true romantic comedy.”

+ =Nation= 106:118 Ja 31 ‘18 170w

“It is a droll, engaging story, but it is so much more than just a droll story that one needs to read it to find out how many other kinds of things a droll story can be at the same time.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 550w

+ =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 60w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 92:803 S 15 ‘17 270w

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 23 ‘17 500w

=MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON.= Songs for a little house. *$1.25 Doran 811 17-29993

Bayberry candles, A charm for our new fireplace, Six weeks old, Reading aloud, The milkman, The cedar chest, Washing the dishes, and The furnace are some of the “Songs for a little house” that constitute the first group of poems in this book and give it its title. “A handful of sonnets,” and a series of poems on the war, followed by a group of humorous verses, “Hay fever, and other literary pollen” complete the volume.

“‘Songs for a little house’ are very delightful and cheery and intimate; very simple, but fresh and bright and musical, in expression. In the other groups Mr Morley shows how versatile are his poetic gifts. He shows it in his themes and interests rather than in his style, though this has a distinction in spite of its common patterns that is full of charm. At trifling, in the light familiar vein, he is a rare performer. In the group of ‘Hay fever, and other literary pollen,’ he is in humorous and witty vein, quite the best of our younger poets who affect light verse.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 730w

“A home-book in every sense of the word. These poems of Mr Morley are written with a very delicate touch—simple and with an air of spontaneity that takes them direct to the heart.”

+ =Lit D= 55:61 D 8 ‘17 570w

=MORLEY, JOHN MORLEY, viscount.= Recollections. 2v *$7.50 (5c) Macmillan 17-29196

This is not a work of biography, for the author does not present intimate details of personal life, and a chronological order is not followed in the arrangement of material. The chapters that compose the two volumes are grouped into six books: The republic of letters; Public life; Three years in Ireland; Policies and persons; A short page in imperial history; A critical landmark. A short passage from the introduction will serve to indicate something of the temper of the work: “Much of my ground obviously involves others; deeply should I regret if a single page were found unfair, or likely to wound just sensibilities. More deeply still should I deplore it, if a single page or phase or passing mood of mine were either to dim the lamp of loyalty to reason, or to dishearten earnest and persistent zeal for wise politics, in younger readers with their lives before them.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18

“His book was bound to be in some degree an apologia, and I notice that more than one critic has condemned its complacency. My own disappointment is on other grounds. I had expected a full length autobiography, and what we have been given is at most a torso. ... Perhaps politicians will welcome what I regret. Yet I cannot help feeling that the book would have gained if it had been a little more intimate, and—though it is on the borders of blasphemy to ask this from Lord Morley—a little more indiscreet.”

+ — =Ath= p659 D ‘17 340w

“A book which contains a wealth of portraiture, wisdom, quiet wit, and what the public loves best of all—‘secret history.’ Here, assuredly, is both a book to praise and a man to praise.”

+ =Ath= p662 D ‘17 1300w

+ =Ath= p682 D ‘17 240w

“For an abstract and brief chronicle of the later nineteenth century times in all their British aspect, the reader of the future will unquestionably turn to these recollections of Lord Morley.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 8 ‘17 1700w

“Never has the intellectual beauty of the Victorian age been more truly and eloquently defined, ever has it been more brilliantly and sympathetically exemplified than by Viscount Morley’s ‘Recollections.’” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 64:16 Ja 3 ‘18 2700w

“One of those works that appear hardly oftener than once in a decade, books indispensable for all students of modern history and social life, and the public affairs of our own age.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 170w

“Writing with entire freedom of the political events in England of thirty years past, in which he played so worthy a part, Morley betrays no secrets, sets down no bitter verdicts. His serenity and restraint are out of the common. ... Only an occasional and incidental reference is made to the great struggle, and that without irritation or bitterness. Yet we cannot help thinking that Morley intended this work of his to have its significance as bearing on his attitude towards the war. Without directly condemning it, he sets forth the ideals of statesmanship which would have prevented it. It is a record of enlightened and consistent liberalism which he puts before his readers, leaving them to draw the moral.”

+ =Nation= 105:568 N 22 ‘17 1500w

“The book is essentially a simple one. There is absent from it the personal, eager fling of definiteness that made de Tocqueville’s ‘Memoirs’ the pleasantest of arm-chair comforts. It has nothing of the almost dazzling splendor that made of Meredith, to whom he gives some shining pages, a comet across the sky. It is the revelation of life in its two deepest interests that Lord Morley offers—what he has known of literature and of politics. It is the portrait of the world as it dawned upon the vision of one who gave his days to thought; and curiosity is stilled at the deliberate reservation.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:286 Ja 5 ‘18 2800w

“It is not too much to say that Lord Morley does not mention one prominent figure of his time—scarcely one person—without giving the reader a living picture of the man. What he has to say of Gladstone, especially of the failure of his last cabinet, is as vivid as it is valuable. ... As a piece of writing, ‘Recollections’ is charming—charming in the fine, large, literal sense of holding, pleasing, delighting, the reader’s mind.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:489 N 25 ‘17 1650w

=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 120w

“The outstanding work of its kind of the year.” Robert Lynd

+ =Pub W= 92:2028 D 8 ‘17 480w

“Lord Morley’s style as writer and speaker has the merits of clearness, point and logic. It is so plain as to be, if not bald, certainly cold, and it is unrelieved by wit or humour.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:417 N 24 ‘17 1250w

“His attitude has dignity, and frees the book from anything resembling party passion. ... Lord Morley’s book abounds in interest.”

+ =Spec= 119:568 N 17 ‘17 2500w

+ =Spec= 119:600 N 24 ‘17 2600w

“The quotations with which the work is embellished are only such as could come from one who had ‘taken all knowledge for his province.’ On every page there is substance to delight the thoughtful reader as well as to instruct him, for a very high quality of charm is attained in this chronicle of serious persons and serious events.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 3450w

“It is a book of immense interest, stimulus, even inspiration; not one of companionship, still less one of equality. There is more of ordinary humanity in two pages of Boswell or Lockhart than in these two large volumes. Lord Morley is no confessor. We get no weaknesses here except that of a somewhat complacent quality akin to vanity, which contemplates all his doings with a self-assured serenity of approval, but without which the book would have lost some of its best pages.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p561 N 22 ‘17 4400w

“In many libraries the work will have a very limited reading, but if possible it should be at the disposal of those few who will find in it food for thought and discussion and a better understanding of the British people and their problems.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 120w

=MORRIS, LLOYD R.= Celtic dawn; a survey of the renascence in Ireland, 1889-1916. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 820.9 17-4807

“‘The Celtic dawn’ is a study of the several movements which, although having their foundation in a single consciously expressed philosophy, have labored in widely varied fields to produce a new social synthesis in contemporary Ireland.” (Foreword) As the five movements of major importance the author names those which have been concerned with literature, with the drama, with the revival of Gaelic, with economic and social reform, and with political thought. These are treated in six chapters as follows: The forces at work; Critical theories of the renascence; Poetry of the renascence; The drama; The novel, folk-lore, and other prose; Movements for social and economic reform. The last chapter includes a treatment of the Sinn Fein and the rebellion of 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“His survey is the best proportioned, though not in detail the most complete, which we have yet received. ... There are, however, a few particulars in which the book might be improved. ... Mr Morris has failed to indicate the exact problems and the position of the Catholic church in relation to this movement. ... But of all these faults, which are, after all, only minor ones, the worst is the exasperating absence of a usable bibliography. Mr Morris is a good critic, of that we have no doubt, but scarcely a thorough and exact scholar.” Elbridge Colby

+ — =Bellman= 22:438 Ap 21 ‘17 650w

“Boyd’s ‘Ireland’s literary renascence’ is perhaps a better all around treatment, especially as the present volume is not provided with an index.”

=Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 110w

“Mr Morris is particularly happy in his characterizations of A. E. Synge, and James Stephens, but we miss that recent remarkable apparition James Joyce.”

+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 30w

“The last chapter is a sound and valuable piece of work and a most serviceable outline of the various movements in the social and political life of the last generation in Ireland.”

+ — =Nation= 105:74 Jl 19 ‘17 350w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“After dealing adequately with the fiction, the novel and folklore of the Gael, Mr Morris enters with the greatest intelligence into a discussion of the social and economic reforms undertaken in Ireland by Sir Horace Plunkett and ‘A. E.’ The guild organization inaugurated by Plunkett after his return from North America, and inspired by the agricultural banking reforms of Germany, has produced such prosperity and advancement in the country and village life that it may be said to have revolutionized Irish conditions and given new phases to the national political questions. ... ‘The Celtic dawn’ is a work for the shelves of every library that desires a statement of the latest and most significant movement in English literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:225 Je 10 ‘17 680w

=St Louis= 15:182 Je ‘17 10w

=MORRIS, LLOYD R.=, comp. Young idea. *$1.25 (4c) Duffield 810.4 17-13546

“An anthology of opinion concerning the spirit and aims of contemporary American literature.” When the plan of this book was formulated by the author, he sent out letters to representative writers among the younger generation of authors asking for opinions on the new movement in literature. A compilation of the replies received, with introductory and concluding essays by Mr Morris, make up this volume. Some of these replies are brief and of interest chiefly as expressions of personal opinion; others, of more extended length, constitute genuine contributions to criticism. Mr Morris has arranged the contents in five parts: The empiricists; The romanticists; The idealists; The pessimists; The traditionalists. The discussion has chiefly to do with the revival in poetry.

“Good for club papers.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:441 Jl ‘17

“The volume constitutes a criticism and interpretation of modern American poetry as it appears to its creators and furnishes the best basis for a comparative study of these poets of any book yet published.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 130w

“If you examine the various credos contributed by such poets as Miss Lowell, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Louis Untermeyer, Max Eastman, and Miss Monroe, you will hear them all repeating in one form or another the conviction that what chiefly marks off our period is the passion for emancipation. ... But the thing that strikes one as, after all, strangest about these various passionate confessions of faith is that there should be felt to be so pressing a need to defend the claims of truth on our attention. ... How much more persuasive is the innocence of the Russian, who never thinks of apologizing for telling the truth and has always regarded his everyday adventure as the stuff out of which to fashion the most profound and strangely beautiful creations of the modern mind.” G: B. Donlin

=Dial= 62:520 Je 14 ‘17 1150w

“‘The young idea’ represents a variety of revolutionary spirits. One is willing to grant that most of them would prefer to revolt by writing verse than by telling how they do it.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 15 ‘17 260w

=MORRIS, SIR MALCOLM ALEXANDER.= Nation’s health; the stamping out of venereal diseases. *$1.25 Funk 616.95 SG17-260

“As a member of the Royal commission, Sir Malcolm Morris has written this admirable little book to drive home the lessons of the report. He describes, the history and nature of venereal disease, showing incidentally that it is more prevalent in towns than in the country. He lays stress on the difficulties in the way of compulsory notification, and still more of compulsory treatment. He regards the old policy of regulation, still followed on the Continent, as a complete failure. ... In a final chapter he says some plain words on the increase of the plague caused by the war and the urgent need of dealing with it more thoroughly.”—Spec

“A very admirable little book, written by one who is thoroughly conversant with the subject and entitled to speak to the British public as a great authority. It would be well if copies could be seen in every library in the kingdom.” L. C. P.

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:460 My ‘17 40w (Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute sup p1 Mr ‘17)

+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 120w

“While it deals with conditions in England, it is almost equally applicable to our own situation in America, and will not only be useful to those who are directly interested in the public health problems of venereal disease, but will also be valuable to any reader who seeks a clear and simple statement of the facts.” J. H. Foster

+ =Survey= 39:326 D 15 ‘17 510w

“It is written with judgment and discretion, as well as with technical mastery of the subject. ... Sir Malcolm Morris has a chapter on ‘Spreading the light,’ which we view with considerable misgiving.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p44 Ja 25 ‘17 500w

=MORRISON, EDWARD, and BRUES, CHARLES THOMAS.= How to make the garden pay. *75c (2½c) Houghton 635 17-18831

A manual for the intensive cultivation of home vegetable gardens written to tell both novices and experienced gardeners how so to cultivate a small area as to increase as much as possible the home food-supply. The authors have had experience as home gardeners and Mr Brues is assistant professor of economic entomology at Harvard university. Contents: Right planning; Profitable methods; Alphabetical list of vegetables with directions; Insect enemies and diseases (Those of the cabbage take three pages of text). The appendix gives tables showing the Food value of fresh vegetables and other foods and dates for garden-planting, also a Home gardener’s calendar for the northern states. The book is indexed.

+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w

“An excellent, business-like, little handbook.”

+ =Ind= 91:110 Jl 21 ‘17 50w

“By far the most valuable little book on vegetable gardening for the novice as well as the more experienced that has come under our purview this season.” S.

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:665 O ‘17

+ =St Louis= 15:365 O ‘17 30w

“The garden novice can profit greatly by frequent consultation of this manual.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 160w

=MORSE, EDWARD LELAND CLARK.= Spanish-American life; a reader for students of modern Spanish. (Lake Spanish ser.) il *$1.25 Scott 468 17-12482

“A reader consisting mainly of extracts from Central and South American newspapers. Our southern neighbors are thus made to describe themselves. These selections are easy, well chosen, and interesting. The editor has travelled much in New Spain and observed closely. His attitude is as sympathetic as could be desired. The annotations are original and refreshingly unpedantic. The copious illustrations are taken mostly from Mr Morse’s own photographs.”—Nation

“No better presentation of South American civilization has yet appeared in textbook form.”

+ =Nation= 104:662 My 31 ‘17 90w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17 30w

=MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER.= Japan day by day, 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. il *$8 Houghton 915.2 17-28348

“Professor Edward S. Morse, the genial, ambidextrous director of the Peabody museum at Salem and expert curator of Japanese pottery at the Boston art museum, set out for Japan forty years ago for the sole purpose of studying brachiopods. ... The newly founded Imperial university of Tokio discovered this enthusiastic young fisherman hard at work and captured him. He was carried off triumphantly and made professor of zoölogy.” (Boston Transcript) He held this position “during a very interesting period in the early years of the transformation of Japan and witnessed some of the throes of the struggle of occidental and oriental ideals from the vantage-point of a government official, with an outlook from the capital city. It was, however, the daily life of the people, their quaint and curious and clever ways and devices, so different from our own, and their social customs and industrial methods which most interested him. ... This book is a narrative abstracted from his daily journal.” (Dial)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“It is a book of great enthusiasms and conveys a whole world of curious information not to be found in any guide-book.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 1800w

+ =Dial= 63:591 D 6 ‘17 350w

Reviewed by Poultney Bigelow

+ =Ind= 93:72 Ja 12 ‘18 970w

“The present work is encyclopedic in that it furnishes concrete information of the most intimate and detailed character on native life in Japan a generation ago, yet with all the interest of personal and connected narrative.”

+ =Lit D= 56:34 Ja 12 ‘18 400w

“With the multitude of thumb-nail sketches which form an integral part of the record, the general effect is that of a casual illustrated lecture—undeniably vivid in spots, but often disconcertingly abrupt in its transitions from subject to subject, and not infrequently naive in its generalizations.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:451 N 4 ‘17 1200w

“Mr Morse writes with adequate responsibility and in a scholarly spirit. His book is authoritative, detailed, comprehensive; it is also zestful, almost ‘larky.’”

+ =No Am= 206:959 D ‘17 500w

“A record in which the freshness of daily impression is preserved.”

+ =Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 110w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:824 D ‘17 80w

“The unique history of this inimitable record of a traveler’s impressions is suggestive of nothing so much as some rare old vintage which has mellowed for decades in the wood before being finally decanted to delight the palate of a younger generation. Yet, in a work dealing confessedly with the social conditions of a nation in a transition state, one wishes that either the author himself or perhaps some one better informed as to present day conditions in Japan, could have indicated on the one hand the customs which have passed away, and on the other those which still endure.” Calvin Winter

+ — =Pub W= 92:1381 O 20 ‘17 750w

=MORSE, FRANCES CLARY.=[2] Furniture of the olden time. new ed il *$6 Macmillan 749 17-27766

A new edition of a standard work that was first published in 1902. There are over a hundred and twenty new illustrations and a new chapter on “Doorways, mantels, and stairs.” There has also been added a glossary of terms employed by cabinet makers.

“A new edition of a standard work that has made itself almost indispensable to people of taste in matters of household equipment. This is a book to make the reader feel proud of the workers and workmanship of the old days.”

+ =Outlook= 118:68 Ja 2 ‘18 60w

“It is indispensable to the collector and has a special interest as well for the cabinet maker, the art student, and the student of domestic history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 100w

=MORTIMER, MAUD.= Green tent in Flanders. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 940.91 17-24525

These sketches from the war zone appear to be extracts from the daily record of a volunteer nurse. The author is an American woman who served for a time as an assistant in one of the field hospitals. With a somewhat milder and gentler pen, she draws pictures that are not so different from those of Ellen LaMotte in “The backwash of war.” Parts of the book have appeared in Everybody’s and other magazines.

“It is made vivid by the human touches in the glimpses of the poilus as they come and go and in the heroism or littleness of the nurses and doctors.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:54 N ‘17

“Of all the books on the war we have yet seen, this is by far the most appealing because of its fine quality of style, its restrained handling, and the intimate, sympathetic view it gives of human nature under the stress of terrible events.”

+ =Cath World= 106:390 D ‘17 370w

“The entries are fragmentary and the harrowing details of field hospital work continually intrude, but suffering, heroism and humor appeal to the author’s human side and she has the artist’s vision.”

+ =Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w

“The wounded soldiers who pass under Miss Mortimer’s care are portrayed with graphic, sympathetic touch, and the numerous anecdotes could only have been told by an acute observer with a sense for the picturesque.”

+ =Dial= 64:120 Ja 31 ‘18 90w

“All unconsciously, it would seem, she has struck an immortal chord vibrating thru the silence of mortality, and by it lifts her book out from its haunting shadows into that white light by which many may find faith restored and grief comforted.”

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 220w

“The artistic vision, the philosophic tendency of mind, and the quiet humor make it all as different from an ordinary chronicle of hospital service as a statue is different from a block of marble.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:463 N 11 ‘17 480w

“The author has illustrated her own book with little pen and ink sketches usually but not always serving as chapter headings, and quite as effective as more finished pictures.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 300w

=MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON.= Memoirs; ed. by Charles Wells Russell. il *$3 (3½c) Little 17-25282

In every war, says the introduction, there are figures which, “through intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action” raise themselves above their fellows and achieve a picturesqueness that is commonly associated with characters in fiction. Such a figure was Colonel Mosby, one of the most daring of the Confederate raiders. “In the South his dashing exploits made him one of the great heroes of the ‘lost cause.’ In the North he was painted as the blackest of redoubtable scoundrels.” Colonel Mosby, who lived to the age of eighty-five, had all but completed his memoirs before his death in 1916. These have now been edited for publication. After the war he became one of Grant’s personal friends, and the book closes with two chapters devoted to: My recollections of General Lee, and My recollections of General Grant.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

“The story as Mosby has written it is full of deep interest and one, in the reading, soon loses sight of the fact that this is the narrative of one who was doing his utmost to destroy our common country, and becomes absorbed in the delight of the narrative and the vigor of the telling.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 800w

“The narrative of the war is lucidly and interestingly written and his defense of General Stuart’s strategy is a valuable contribution to the military history of the times.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 80w

+ =Lit D= 55:45 O 13 ‘17 400w

“Colonel Mosby seems to have had almost as enjoyable a time in raiding the weak places in Lee’s inaccurate report of the Gettysburg campaign, in Longstreet’s Memoirs, and in the numerous biographies of Lee and other writings by his staff officers as he had during the war in descending upon the trains, camps, and cattle herds of the Union armies in Virginia. ... The lively narrative of Mosby’s own exploits sometimes fails to be sustained by other evidence.”

+ — =Nation= 106:147 F 7 ‘18 1150w

“A very valuable addition to Civil war literature. The only adverse criticism that can be made is that they contain rather too many quotations from official reports and family letters which have but a faint interest to the reader of to-day.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 1200w

=MOSES, MONTROSE JONAS.= American dramatist. new rev ed il *$1.75 Little 812 17-17744

“A second edition of ‘The American dramatist,’ has been revised and enlarged to contain a history of the progress of the motion-picture industry and the advance of American drama since 1910. Mr Moses presents the drama largely in its sociological aspects, and his character sketches of dramatists have a biological trend. ... Among the latter is a study of Percy MacKaye and his father, Steele MacKaye. There is a chapter on ‘little theaters.’ ... The closing chapter discusses the privileges and duties of the dramatic critic.” (R of Rs) A “Bibliography of the American dramatist” is found on pages [379]-394.

=A L A Bkl= 14:67 N ‘17

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

=Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 290w

“The author apparently thinks that his task of ‘revision’ is fulfilled by covering the six years that have passed since his work originally appeared with a number of extra chapters here and there. He seems to have left his original work almost untouched, and as the later chapters are not specifically indicated, we are often quite unable to tell whether the author is looking back from 1911 or from 1917. The result is a good deal of muddle. ... There is about ‘The American dramatist’ a lack of enthusiasm, an over-critical note that suggests a quite undue pessimism; a scarcity of constructive criticism.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 220w

“It is, all in all, an excellent book, yet it does not give enough attention to individual plays; gives too much attention to conventionalized ideas, and gives too little credit to ‘the movies,’ to the little theater and to those dramatists of excellent ‘moments,’ who by their very failures to construct model plays best exemplify the American drama’s real trend.”

+ — =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:443 O ‘17 150w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED.= Trench warfare. il $1.25 Banta pub. 355 17-17084

“Major Moss ... is a member of the United States army, and bases his handbook on private and official British publications which set forth the best methods, as developed by experience, of training and instructing officers and men in trench warfare. The first chapter, on ‘Tactical fortifications,’ deals with the work of making intrenchments and other field fortifications; the second taking up, under the heading, ‘The service of the trenches,’ such matters as routine of duty, billeting, sanitation, the different methods of offense and defense, and the responsibilities of the platoon commander. Other chapters deal with sniping, grenades and grenadiers, gas warfare, bayonet fighting, machine guns, and various features of the offensive. A complete set of questions for every chapter adds to the value of the book for purposes of instruction in training camps. It is very fully illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken at the front.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

“A good guide book for the soldier.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 100w

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 20w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Jl ‘17 60w

“Major Moss’s presentation of the methods of warfare that have been developed during the last three years is perhaps the most exhaustive that has been made.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 210w

=Pratt= p14 O ‘17 30w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Military training for boys; intended to develop body, character and patriotism. il 50c Banta 355.07 17-16556

This volume was prepared by two officers of the United States army, joint authors of “Self-helps for the citizen soldier,” for the use of the National school camp association. The purpose is defined as follows: “First, to give the boys of this country a clear idea of the part that military preparedness and training play in the life of a nation; second, to teach them some of the A.B.C.’s of military training; third, to make clear to the American youth that the drills and maneuvers of military training, while necessary, are only one side—the mechanical side—of the soldier’s work, and that the lessons of patriotism, loyalty, discipline, frugality, physical and moral sturdiness, self-reliance, self-control, determination and respect for the law, all of which enter into the training of a soldier, are qualities which will help them to be better citizens and more successful men in every walk of life, and that they may, every day of their lives, while training themselves for their work in life, at the same time, train themselves in the qualities which the soldier must have; fourth, to impress upon our boys the fact that in the future, as in the past, we must depend upon the citizenry of the country to defend it.” (Prefatory note)

=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 30w

=MOSS, JAMES ALFRED, and STEWART, MERCH BRADT.= Our flag and its message. *25c Lippincott 929.9 17-14035

This little booklet is by two officers of the United States army. “In the compass of less than thirty pages they give the story of ‘Old Glory,’ explain its symbolism and present in addition the President’s appeal for unity at the opening of hostilities between our country and Germany.” (Cath World) “America” and “The Star spangled banner” are printed in full.

=Boston Transcript= p16 S 26 ‘17 60w

“One of the most attractive leaflets we have seen among the host of such publications the war has brought forth.”

+ =Cath World= 105:846 S ‘17 90w

=MOULTON, FOREST RAY.= Introduction to astronomy. new and rev ed il *$2.25 Macmillan 520 16-23571

“The necessity for a new edition has given Dr Moulton an opportunity to rewrite his manual, with the addition of some new material and an altered organization. The first chapters in the new edition deal with the earth and its motions, and aim in general to ‘illustrate the care with which scientific theories are established,’ and the chapters on the sun and the evolution of the solar system follow the treatment of the moon, planets and comets.”—Springf’d Republican

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:276 Mr ‘17

+ =Ind= 30:382 My 26 ‘17 40w

“The popularity of Prof. Forest Ray Moulton’s ‘Introduction to astronomy’ is attested by the fact that there have been seven reprints since the first appearance of the textbook ten years ago. ... There are nearly 200 diagrams and photographic illustrations. Dr Moulton is professor of astronomy in the University of Chicago and research associate of the Carnegie institution of Washington.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 150w

=MOXCEY, MARY ELIZA.= Girlhood and character; introd. by G: A. Coe. (Manuals of religious education for parents and teachers) *$1.50 Abingdon press 173 16-23594

“For leaders, teachers, and parents of girls this is an analysis of the problems of adolescent girlhood, from the standpoints of physiology, psychology, and growth of character through formal and informal education. Divided into four parts, taking up the problem as the older generation sees it, early adolescence, middle, and later adolescence.”—A L A Bkl

“Has been criticized as bordering on sentimentalism and attempting too varied a field.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:374 Je ‘17

“The author makes clear that the moral education of the emotions begins not with prescribing or proscribing acts for young people, but in self-knowledge, reverence and control.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

“A full bibliography of books relating to girls and women is a valuable addition.”

+ =Ind= 89:559 Mr 26 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:700 O ‘17 40w

“Personal service rather than hearty cooperative endeavor becomes the character factor. This lack in the book is counterbalanced by the suggestive treatment of certain other points.” K. T.

+ =Survey= 38:289 Je 30 ‘17 200w

=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Ayesha”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (3c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-4203

The landing squad of the “Emden” was sent on shore at the Keeling Islands to destroy a wireless station. While they were so occupied, the “Emden” became engaged in action, and Lieutenant von Mücke with his men, unable to overtake her in their small motor boat, were left stranded. To stay on the island meant capture by the British, and taking possession of a small sailing vessel, a none too seaworthy craft, that lay in the harbor, they made their escape. This was the “Ayesha.” It is interesting to note that the Englishmen on the island, to whom the “sporting side of the situation” made an appeal, helped the Germans in their departure. As an exciting narrative the tale of their adventures is worthy of the commendation that the translator in her preface and Lieutenant Klein of the United States navy in his foreword give it.

=Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 80w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17

“It is interesting in the first place as a record of gallant and perilous adventure, in more ways than one a veritable wonder-voyage. And it is interesting as a personal narrative, for the gayety, humor, and briskness with which the story is told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:263 Jl 15 ‘17 170w

=Pittsburgh= 22:530 Je ‘17 70w

+ =St Louis= 15:134 My ‘17 10w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 13 ‘17 130w

=MÜCKE, HELLMUTH VON.= The “Emden”; tr. by Helene S. White. il *$1.25 (4c) Ritter & co. 940.91 17-13489

Kapitänleutnant von Mücke, first officer on board the Emden, gives an account of that ship’s adventures in the fall of 1914. News that Germany was at war with Russia and France was received on August 2, and the Emden, then in the Indian ocean, was immediately made ready for action. The first chapter contains a brief and positive statement of the causes of the war from the German point of view, but in the remainder of the book the author confines himself quite strictly to his narrative. As he has related in “The Ayesha,” he had gone ashore with the landing squad at the time of the Emden’s last fight, so he can only describe that event as witnessed from a distance.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:32 Jl 7 ‘17 350w

“If this were a primeval struggle, with no cables, wireless, or correspondents to keep the world informed of its minutest fluctuations; if only a few incidents rose out of the haze of rumor to stand clear in the light of fact, the Emden might then be the central theme of an Iliad in which its Capt. von Mücke was Achilles. Unfortunately the narrative, appearing as it did at about the time America declared war, cannot hope for as large an audience as it might have won in a better day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 270w

=MUIR, JOHN.= Cruise of the Corwin. il *$2.50 (5½c) Houghton 919.8 17-31765

When the “Thomas Corwin” put out from San Francisco in 1881 in search of the “Jeannette,” lost somewhere in the Arctic, John Muir, already distinguished for his glacial studies in the Sierra Nevada and Alaska, was a member of the expedition. The objective of the expedition was Wrangell Land, then unexplored, for which it was believed De Long of the “Jeannette” had been headed. In the introduction to this volume it is stated that “so far as known, the first human beings that ever stood upon the shores of this island were in Captain Hooper’s landing party, August 12, 1881, and John Muir was of the number.” A second relief expedition touched on the island shortly after, but between that time and the wreck of Steffánsson’s flagship the “Karluk,” in 1914, the region was unexplored. This gives to John Muir’s record a unique value. It was the first, and remains practically the only scientific account of this part of the arctic regions. A series of letters contributed to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, supplemented with extracts from his journal, forms the basis for this volume. It is edited by William Frederic Badè.

“Not as interesting as his other books to the general reader.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“A worthy and interesting supplement to his book of explorations in Alaska. ... It is by no means a dry and technical scientific treatise. While he observed and recorded scientific facts he was deeply interested in the human life around him, was keenly alive to the characteristics and ways of the Eskimos.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 600w

“The joy he found in the voyage and its experiences is evident on every page of his journal or his articles. The picture he gives of that desolate world and of its inhabitants, of the wild seas and the bitter weather or the glory of the short summer, is a picture vivid and compelling and human. The editor has done his work excellently, and has contributed a valuable introduction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:581 D 30 ‘17 1350w

“Every admirer of John Muir and every lover of Arctic adventure will rejoice in this book.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 60w

=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Expansion of Europe; the culmination of modern history. maps *$2 (3½c) Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-15578)

The author, who is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester, “surveys the origins and nature of the process by which, during the past four centuries, the world has been subjugated by European civilization; he discusses the relations of this process to the problems of the war, and endeavours to analyse the nature of the share in the work taken by the chief European peoples who have participated in it. The meaning and motives of imperialism are discussed, and the successive periods of European imperialism are considered in order of time: the period of ‘Iberian monopoly’; the period of Dutch, French, and English rivalry; the era of revolution, covering the severance of the American colonies from Britain, and the establishment of British rule in India; the period of the transformation of the British empire, 1815-78, and the growth of self-government in the colonies; the era of the world-states and the partition of Africa, 1878-1900; and the recent period, covering the campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan, the war with the Boers, and Germany’s ‘great challenge’ to the world.” (Ath) There are a number of serviceable black-and-white maps. “The essay was originally designed as one of a set of four, to be included under the general title ‘The culmination of modern history.’ Two of these have been already published under the title of ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’” (Preface)

“While it is perfectly obvious that in any account of the expansion of Europe the British empire must be accorded the largest share for both size and achievement, the tale could have been unfolded with much less national self-glorification. Perhaps it might have been desirable not to intimate quite so strongly that ‘force and fraud’ were characteristics of the modes of securing colonial territory by all European countries except Great Britain. ... The chapter on the transformation of the British empire between 1815 and 1878 is easily the best in the book. Here the reasons for the tolerant attitude that Great Britain adopted toward its colonies, and notably toward those of the self-governing type, are summarized with much skill and cogency.” W: R. Shepherd

– + =Am Hist R= 23:387 Ja ‘18 710w

=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17

=Ath= p366 Jl ‘17 170w

“A simply and clearly written essay, well put together, emphasizing the essentials of the subject and sparing the details. ... Prof. Muir’s brief account of the various modern empires—French, Russian, American, German, as well as our own—does not really do justice to their characteristics. ... Even such important facts as the reactionary change in French colonial policy in 1892 are not mentioned. ... The account of Italian and American colonial experiments is also very perfunctory.”

+ — =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 1150w

“The book may be read profitably by persons who desire a rapid résumé of the colonial and commercial rivalries of the great powers; more serious students will find it of little value.”

+ — =Dial= 63:460 N 8 ‘17 280w

— =Ind= 91:266 Ag 18 ‘17 50w

“Professor Muir’s historical survey is sound and full, yet without any unnecessary multiplicity of detail; but in the last stages, where the great challenge to the greatest of the new composite world states, the British empire, is dealt with there is a polemical note, and his references to America throughout are acid and grudging.” M. J.

+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 240w

=Lit D= 55:38 S 29 ‘17 380w

“It is to be regretted that the facts are presented with such a blend of national self-glorification, of small and unnecessary boastings, of bland superiority to the other nations of the world. ... Professor Muir is both at his best and his worst in writing about his own country. ... It is worthy of note that Professor Muir makes an evident effort to be entirely just to the point of view of Germany. It is impossible not to feel that he does not make that effort in writing of America.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 1000w

=Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 160w

=Pittsburgh= 22:765 N ‘17 60w

“We do not find quite the same freshness in the present work as in his ‘Nationalism and internationalism.’ Nevertheless the summary of the workings of a reasonable imperialistic spirit in ‘The expansion of Europe’ is a very lucid survey of the facts, and it has great instructive value.”

+ — =Spec= 118:37 Jl 14 ‘17 1400w

“A scholarly and most readable essay. The point of view is aggressively British and the opportunity to do a patriotic bit by the writing has plainly appealed to the author, but this at least has not affected the clarity of his exposition or his excellent style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 580w

“The first 150 pages cover a survey of the expansion of Europe down to the year 1878. These are, as we should expect, well written, well arranged, the work of an experienced teacher and a competent historian; written as they could not but be, on the lines of Seeley’s ‘Expansion of England,’ they form a useful compendium or text-book. ... The chapters which deal with the events since 1878 are not on the level of his ordinary work. The arrangement is defective, there is a good deal of repetition. ... This is, we suggest, the key to the book; it is written too soon.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p254 My 31 ‘17 1600w

=MUIR, RAMSAY.= Nationalism and internationalism; the culmination of modern history. *$1.25 Houghton 940.5 (Eng ed 17-11913)

“The author’s object is to trace in broad outline the development of two of the most powerful factors in modern history, namely, the nationalist and internationalist movements.” (Ath) “He writes from the standpoint of one who sees a steady growth towards a reign of law in European relations; who believes in the necessity of organizing states on a national basis; and who finds in this kind of national system the sole basis for an international system.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The author is professor of modern history in the University of Manchester.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:429 Jl ‘17

=Ath= p539 N ‘16 70w

+ =Ath= p578 D ‘16 800w

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 20w

“These are not the only cases where Professor Muir obscures truth by his eagerness for broad conclusions. His theory of nationality, his interpretation of medieval cosmopolitanism are both of them brilliant pieces of journalism, but they are brilliant journalism only because they represent an unnatural simplification of complex facts. They take no account of exceptions, or else they regard them as easy jests. Professor Muir has written a book that is useful for the purposes of dinner-table conversation. But it is not profound enough in its acquaintance with the real issues at stake to be more that a skilful piece of political persiflage.” H. J. Laski

— =Dial= 62:472 My 31 ‘17 530w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:77 My ‘17

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:686 O ‘17 100w

+ =Pratt= p38 O ‘17 20w

=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17

+ =Spec= 117:809 D 23 ‘16 160w

“Professor Muir’s essay does not suffer from lack of balance, but it is distinctly marred by an overstatement of certain tendencies and an understatement of others which at times give his interpretations, seen at a distance, the color of extreme partisanship. ... This is the more regrettable because Professor Muir, in the same short volume, gives some definitions and leading lines of thought which are of surpassing interest and light up whole centuries of happenings with understanding.” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 38:74 Ap 21 ‘17 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 O 26 ‘16 120w

“Vigorous, eloquent, well-arranged pages. ... The book before us has, to begin with, one great merit. The author knows precisely what he wants to say, and he says it. ... It is a book which should be read by all who wish for a sane, virile, courageous, and clear-sighted interpretation of the issues of the great war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 N 2 ‘16 1100w

=MUKERJEE, RADHAKAMAL.= Foundations of Indian economics; with an introd. by Patrick Geddes. il *$3 Longmans 330

“The author, who has been a research student of Calcutta university, and who has for some time been investigating the economic organization of modern India, collects in this volume his scattered studies, and provides a comprehensive and useful survey of the conditions of production in that part of the British empire. The book sketches the economic influences of the Indian system of family, caste and religion, presents detailed studies of the principal cottage and village industries, describes the rural system of trade and credit, and discusses the future of the organization.” (Am Econ R) Professor Mukerjee believes that “India’s economic salvation lies not in bodily taking over the industrial system of the West, but in developing and modernizing her own industrial system which, because it fits the environment, will most assure a prosperous, progressive and contented population.” (Ann Am Acad)

“Will appeal to the interests of students of economic history as well as to those particularly concerned with the problems of modern India.” Clive Day

+ =Am Econ R= 7:613 S ‘17 220w

Reviewed by G. R. Roorbach

=Ann Am Acad= 73:237 S ‘17 330w

=Ath= p584 D ‘16 60w

“In order to readjust our knowledge of the Orient, books like Professor Mukerjee’s are extremely valuable. ... He is typical of the new school of Indian thinkers. ... The only defect in his book is the absence of a glossary for native names and expressions.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez

+ =Dial= 63:203 S 13 ‘17 1150w

“Professor Mukerjee has performed a great service in taking stock of the vestigial remains of India’s ancient economies as they survive to-day in the traditional arts and crafts preserved by the universal caste and guild systems. He is at considerable pains to show the effect of western institutions on these survivals. ... Most illuminating is the careful description and illustration of the various hereditary trades and their processes of production and distribution.”

+ =Nation= 105:99 Jl 26 ‘17 400w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:24 F ‘17

“The importance of Professor Mukerjee’s work lies in his ideas and proposals. ... The book is marred by the writer’s limitation of view. ... The great questions of protection (as against free imports), labour, and capital should have been more fully discussed. ... But his work will repay perusal to those concerned with Indian economics, as showing the views of an educated Indian, which many compatriots possibly share.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 D 7 ‘16 820w

=MULLER, ROBERT ENRIQUE.= United States navy. il $1 Rand 359 17-13461

“One hundred and forty-three reproductions of our superdreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, battleships, armored cruisers, and submarines, and life aboard them; also the work of laying mines, discharging torpedoes, etc. ... Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske furnishes a foreword.”—Wis Lib Bul

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:89 Je ‘17

“A convenient book for boys interested in the navy and those enlisting in its service.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:182 Je ‘17 50w

=MUNDAY, ALBERT H.= Eyes of the army and navy; practical aviation. il *$1.50 Harper 623.7 17-29812

A handbook on aviation. The author is a flight-lieutenant in the Royal naval air service, and his book is planned “to meet the requirements of the layman with a moderate education who wished to obtain a practical knowledge of flying and the fundamental principles of construction, aero-engines, and various other aeronautical subjects.” (Foreword) Contents: Aerial navigation; Theory of flight; Map-reading; Cross-country flying; Charts; Meteorology; Construction; The care and maintenance of aeroplanes; Aero engines; Aeroplane and airship instruments; Wireless telegraphy and semaphore; Aerial photography; Bombs and bomb-dropping; Night flying; Artillery observations from aircraft; Aerial fighting; Lighter than air; Medical supervision of aviators. An appendix gives definitions of terms and tables for the metric system.

=Pittsburgh= 22:814 D ‘17 20w

=MUNDY, TALBOT.=[2] Winds of the world. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-30041

“Here, by the author of ‘King, of the Khyber Rifles,’ a man who knows his India well, is a hair-raising tale of adventure, intrigue, peril, uncertainty, that centres in the loyalty of an Indian regiment and the failure of German ‘diplomacy.’ The chief of characters in the book are three: Kirby, the English colonel of a Sikh regiment; Risaldar-Major Ranjoor-Singh, whom Kirby trusts as he trusts himself; and Yasmini the dancer, to whom the winds of the world have whispered their secrets. ... With these three as chief characters, and a group of German ‘merchants’ weaving their web of plottings, the story runs its exciting course.”—N Y Times

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 12 ‘18 170w

“Kirby and the dancer the author has drawn in a conventional fashion, winning the reader’s attention by obvious means enough. But Ranjoor-Singh’s capture of our sympathy is more subtle; it is, as a piece of work, the best thing in the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:555 D 16 ‘17 320w

“There is abundant mystery and adventure in this lively tale, and the reader’s pleasure and entertainment is enhanced by the author’s humor.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 260w

=MURDOCH, W. G. BURN.= Modern whaling and bear hunting. il *$5 Lippincott 639

“In 1892 Mr Burn Murdoch took part in a whaling expedition to the Weddell sea in Antarctica. He went as an artist, but became so attracted by the fascinations of whale-fishing that he formed a small company, fitted out a motor-driven whaler in Norway—the ‘St Ebba’—and, accompanied by a Norse crew, ranged over northern and southern seas in pursuit of the dangerous but highly profitable Finner. This book tells us how he fared.”—Spec

“This is a story of actual adventure, even more vigorous and entertaining than any fiction could be. More than a hundred illustrations from drawings and photographs add greatly to the value and interest of the book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 250w

“The interesting personality of Mr Burn Murdoch is a welcome embellishment to the subject-matter of his book. On the practical side he is a genuine whaler, in the business for the profit which it offers, with a keen eye for efficient methods in its prosecution, and yet with that larger outlook that would have his own success only an element in the success of all. But he has also in his make-up a well-developed aesthetic element which finds in the sea something more than the whales which are to fill his oil vessels and thereby fatten his bank account.”

+ =Nation= 105:669 D 13 ‘17 900w

=R of Rs= 56:552 N ‘17 90w

“Mr Burn Murdoch’s descriptions are always effective, because of their simplicity and sincerity. His English is sometimes shaky, but we never fail to grasp his meaning. There could be no greater refreshment to the war-weary mind than the perusal of this book.”

+ =Spec= 119:526 N 10 ‘17 1650w

“Mr Burn Murdoch is by no means so easy to read as he well might be if he had taken a good model—say, for instance, Darwin’s ‘Cruise of the Beagle.’ It is a pity, because he knows his subject, which is good.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 13 ‘17 900w

=MURPHY, CHARLES JOSEPH.=[2] American Indian corn (maize); a cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food; rev. and ed. with additions of many new recipes and a foreword by Jeannette Young Norton. *75c Putnam 641.5 17-23804

“The data, gathered by Mr Murphy, formerly food commissioner of Nebraska, is even more valuable today when it was collected for the illumination of the great food convention, held in Paris in 1889. ... This edition holds many new recipes. And besides those for general use is a series suitable for invalids. Prefacing these rules for the making of ‘the very best foods’ from Indian corn is a brief history of its growth and use.”—Boston Transcript

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:156 F ‘18

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 330w

=Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 80w

=MURPHY, THOMAS DOWLER.= Oregon, the picturesque. (See America first ser.) il *$3.50 Page 917.95 17-28901

The sub-title calls this book a “book of rambles in the Oregon country and in the wilds of northern California; descriptive sketches and pictures of Crater and Klamath lakes, the Deschutes river canyon, the new Columbia highway, the Willamette and Rogue river valleys and the cities and towns of Oregon; also of the little-known lakes, rivers, mountains, and vast forests of northern California, to which is added a trip to the Yosemite and to the Roosevelt dam and the petrified forest of Arizona, by motor car.” (Library of Congress card)

=A L A Bkl= 14:164 F ‘18

“In addition to Mr Murphy’s text the reader has a map before him for guidance and a series of half-tone illustrations to justify the author’s enthusiasm over the scenic wonders he visits.” A. A. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 900w

“The author fails to invest the open road with the charm that it has in this region, while his portrayal of the major scenic marvels lacks the power of conveying even a modicum of the reactions produced by the originals.”

+ — =Dial= 64:71 Ja 17 ‘18 590w

=Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w

=MURRAY, ARTHUR MORDAUNT.= Fortnightly history of the war. maps *$3 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-16101)

“Not many serial criticisms of the war are worth republication, for most criticisms offered in reviews and newspapers fall out of date as information accumulates. Colonel A. M. Murray’s history of the war written month by month in the Fortnightly Review is, however, a distinct exception. It is true that he has amended and amplified his remarks, but in substance they remain. ... Sir Evelyn Wood in a short introduction expresses his admiration, and also his dissent on certain points.” (Spec) “The present volume takes us from the beginning of the war down to July 18, 1916.” (New Repub)

“The outstanding feature of this voluminous work is its really splendid set of seventy maps that illustrate, with a scrupulous detail, the campaigns and the battles in Europe, Asia and Africa. Colonel Murray writes with a soldierly regard of strategy and tactics. To our mind the French defence of Verdun and the antecedent epoch-making battle of the Marne deserve more analysis than he grants.” S. A.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 420w

“Colonel Murray has written an accurate, terse and shrewdly perceptive military history of the war during its first two bloody years.”

+ =New Repub= 13:156 D 8 ‘17 210w

“A very clear military exposition of events.”

+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 190w

“As it stands, it is, perhaps, more valuable as a history of the evolution of expert opinion than as a ‘précis’ of the military operations. The account of the operations of the Belgian army is very vague: and there are some notable omissions.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 D 7 ‘16 880w

=MURRAY, GILBERT.= Faith, war, and policy. *$1.25 (1c) Houghton 940.91 17-23769

These thirteen essays show the reaction of the mind of “a fairly representative English Liberal, standing just outside the circle of official politics” to the European war. “Beginning with ‘First thoughts on the war,’ an article printed in October, 1914, [in the Hibbert Journal] they come down through the three years of war, taking up various questions concerning it, and end with an address delivered March, 1917, before the Fight for right league on ‘The turmoil of war.’ Included is a section on ‘Ireland,’ in three parts, one on the Dublin insurrection, one on the execution of Casement, and a consideration of the future of Ireland written the middle of last March. Two of the papers deal with America in her relation to the war and to England, both of them preceding our entrance into the conflict.” (N Y Times) Several of the essays were first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, Contemporary Review, Westminster Gazette, etc. The essay entitled “How can war ever be right” was printed as Oxford pamphlet no. 18.

=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 100w

“Professor Murray’s book affords a wise and statesmanlike view of complicated problems, and not the least of its merits is the temperate spirit with which these problems are discussed.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:266 N ‘17 490w

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w

“What stands out most sharply and incongruously in the book is Professor Murray’s complaisance in transferring the problems raised by the war to the shoulders of those very diplomats and statesmen whose inadequacy is sufficiently demonstrated by the present débâcle. In discussing the British foreign office, Professor Murray adopts a tone which is nothing less than smug. This fatal complacency extends to everything British.”

– + =Dial= 64:30 Ja 3 ‘18 390w

“One of the most persuasive defenses of British foreign policy ever written. ... Gilbert Murray not only performs perfectly the easy task of showing the manifold fallacies of non-resistant pacifism but courageously ventures to discuss the most questionable phases of his case, such as the suppression of the Dublin revolt, British interference with neutral trade, and the secret diplomacy of the British foreign office.”

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 210w

“The sentiments of these utterances should get before the minds of all of us Americans, and in particular into the minds of those incomprehensibles who talk of ‘those blood-thirsty Europeans’ who will not compromise, or declare that none of the warring nations know what they are fighting about.”

+ =Nation= 105:408 O 11 ‘17 500w

“There is a Gilbert Murray writing in this volume who fulfills a high expectation. ... There are flashes throughout these pages of a personal intensity of experience. ... But his propaganda is not altogether a pleasant thing to contemplate. ... It is difficult not to be continually reminded in this volume of the poorer sorts of patriotism that make the chauvinist and the jingo. ... Mr Murray beats the German dog with the stick of self-righteousness, failing altogether to account for the less immediate and less nationalistic issues that now are emerging through the conflict, and that propose a revision of the whole structure of monarchical Europe rather than the redemption of the status quo from the nationalistic collision.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 12:138 S 1 ‘17 2000w

“It is not that the matter is not informative; its lack of backbone, its inconclusiveness is the most striking feature. In almost everything, this Liberal ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’ tells us that ‘much can be said on both sides,’ and to do him justice, he says it, and says it particularly well.” J. W.

– + =N Y Call= p14 S 23 ‘17 700w

=N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 560w

“Although many of the papers contained in this volume were written so early in the war as to have lost the appeal of timeliness, there is in the views expressed a permanent rightness that gives the book lasting importance.”

+ =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 720w

“Especially to be commended to students of ethical aspects of the war.”

+ =Outlook= 117:309 O 24 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 80w

“It was a little unfortunate that Gilbert Murray’s ‘Faith, war and policy’ should fall into the hands of an anti-English reviewer in the New Republic and an anti-Russian reviewer in the Evening Post. For their assaults on the book were not quite without prejudice. They hardly did justice to Prof. Murray’s fundamental liberalism. Yet for their irritation there is some excuse. Prof. Murray does claim a good deal for his country. ... He is too ready to put to the back of his mind a less liberal and lofty England, not many years in the past, and by no means suppressed in the present. ... Not all that he has to say about America will be pleasing to American readers. ... There is in the book much fine feeling and brilliant writing; though, as a whole, it is not above the status of controversial, perhaps one may even say, propagandist literature, however much it may be above the average level of that literature.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 19 ‘17 860w

“The finest testimony, perhaps, to the worth of the author’s political and moral philosophy is the fact that there is no great contrast between his reaction to war at the beginning and that after three years of it.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 38:573 S 29 ‘17 550w

=MUSPRATT, EDMUND KNOWLES.= My life and work. il *$2.50 (3c) Lane 17-3731

These memoirs cover a long period of time, the author having been born in 1833. He is the son of a manufacturing chemist of Liverpool and he has been closely associated with the public life of that city. As a young man he was sent to Germany to study with Liebig, and his German experiences and friendships are the subject of the early chapters. He visited the United States in the year of the centennial and devotes an interesting chapter to his impressions. Other chapters are concerned with travels on the Continent and with the men and women of note he has known.

+ =Ath= p238 My ‘17 1100w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 850w

“We gain a vivid impression of German university life and of the condition of German society in the early fifties of last century. It is not without its lights and shades. ... The book is written in a simple, unaffected manner, with no pretensions to literary style.” T. E. Thorpe

+ =Nature= 98:325 D 28 ‘16 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 60w

“Mr Muspratt is well known in Liverpool as a good citizen, with a keen interest in higher education, art, and other worthy causes. He is known more widely as a strong Liberal and Free Trader, and rendered much service to his party in the past by his ‘Financial reform almanack.’ At the age of eighty-three, he has written his reminiscences of a happy life, with notes on his travels, and his many friends will find the book interesting.”

+ =Spec= 117:774 D 16 ‘16 70w

“A book with something on every page to interest the humane reader. ... In these pages we hear of persons whom literature has made famous in the guise of fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 950w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 N 16 ‘16 230w

=MUSSON, BENNET.= Turn to the right. *$1.35 (3½c) Duffield 17-18357

A novelized version of the play by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard that had so great a run in New York last year. Without letting his widowed mother know, Joe Bascom had served time in Ossining for another’s guilt. Free again, but penniless, he arrives home to find his mother well caught in a snare spread for her by a respected deacon of the town. The deacon’s hold on her is thru a debt of a hundred and twenty-five dollars which Joe is trying desperately to raise when two fellow prisoners drop down upon him. They learn of Joe’s plight, make a journey to the deacon’s grocery, take the needed money from the safe, and give it to Joe without explaining the manner of getting. The deacon is paid, but the pals relieve him of the sum and put it back into his safe. One humorous situation follows another. On the serious side, the deacon’s plans are foiled, the pals “turn to the right,” a way is found for the mother to make her peach orchard pay handsomely, and there is more than the ordinary amount of marrying and living happily forever after.

“The transposition into book form of even the finest play is seldom successful. And the drama from which this novel was written was not of the class mentioned, no matter how ‘successful,’ may have been its run. The combined result is obvious.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 300w

“The little tale is of a somewhat sugary quality, but in justice to Mr Musson, the novelizer, it must be said that he has done his work nicely, and that the superabundance of sweetness in the whole is no fault of his. The plot has some dexterous twists which enable it to hold the reader’s interest.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 210w

“The transformation is done with greater care and skill than is generally found in work of this order. The story is sentimental, but contains enough colloquial humor to palliate the other element.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 140w

=MUTZENBERG, CHARLES GUSTAVUS.= Kentucky’s famous feuds and tragedies; authentic history of the world renowned vendettas of the dark and bloody ground. *$1.25 (2½c) Fenno 976.9 17-18067

The author has been at pains to discover the truth about some of the famous Kentucky feuds and to separate legend from authentic history. His investigations have led him to the conclusion that these long standing and tragic feuds have had their origin primarily in the failure of legal machinery. In addition to inefficient and corrupt officials, the lack of healthy moral sentiment, of proper education and religious training and the illicit trade in whisky are named as contributing causes. The clannish spirit of the mountaineers is accounted for by the fact of their descent from the highland clans of Scotland.

“His viewpoint is of course all very well if you care to look at everything from a restrictedly moral eminence. Few people who know the mountains probably will care for it, for it is strongly misrepresentative.” R. M.

— =Boston Transcript= p7 My 16 ‘17 550w

“Kentucky’s feuds are, in any large sense, over. ... Their history illuminates the character of the present-day ‘citizen’; it does not afford justifiable grounds for a polemic against his ancestors who made their own law and abode by it.”

=Dial= 63:352 O 11 ‘17 140w

“As a literary product, this volume has little to commend it. A needless multiplicity of detail, doubtless intended to give it weight as an indictment, swells it to burdensome proportions.”

— =Nation= 105:318 S 20 ‘17 850w

“While undoubtedly true in every particular, Mr Mutzenberg’s book in some places reminds one of a dime novel. It is a long record of lawless crimes, murders and outrages. Such a condition of affairs has almost passed away, and, it is to be hoped, will never return.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 29 ‘17 320w

=MYERS, GUSTAVUS.= History of Tammany Hall. 2d ed rev and enl *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 363 17-31564

“A history of Tammany Hall has long been wanted. There had been one, and only one, that we know of, issued some sixteen years ago. For the last few years it has been practically impossible to procure a copy, which gives color to the belief that the volume has been undergoing a quiet but effective suppression. At any rate, copies were always held at a high premium. But now the same work has been issued in a second edition, and the history brought down to the present day. ... The matter which was added to the work since its first appearance sixteen years ago is unusually full and complete.”—N Y Call

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:157 F ‘18 90w

“His book should be as useful to the college student of political science as to the voter.”

+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 100w

“The book is not a homily, but a sober recital of cold facts, which it behooves every one who would retain his faith in popular government to ponder deeply.”

+ — =Nation= 105:640 D 6 ‘17 480w

“Where the course of the organization became particularly spectacular, as under the leadership of ‘Boss’ Tweed, Croker, Murphy and others, the narrative is particularly copious, but eminently fair as a recital of fact. ... It is not a recital of ‘original sin’ or ‘inherent depravity,’ though most of the acts chronicled will of course bear that bourgeois interpretation. What we can perceive is the workings of ‘economic determinism,’ the constant struggles of an organization to adapt itself to its environment.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p15 N 4 ‘17 1700w

“Mr Myers, not being a politician, has gone at his job like a historian. He has gone to his sources, old newspapers, city hall records, not forgetting criminal court minutes, with no more partisan passion than would be expected of a man getting ready to write a history of the dynasty that built the pyramids.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 1950w

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=NADAL, EHRMAN SYME.= Virginian village, and other papers; together with some autobiographical notes. *$1.75 (2c) Macmillan 814 17-7187

The author has collected a number of papers and essays originally contributed to magazines. The one from which the book takes its title, “A Virginian mountain village,” appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1909. At the request of the publishers he has prefaced the whole with some autobiographical notes. “They say the book represents me as being in so many places and doing so many things that the effect upon the reader is confusing,” he explains. This autobiographical sketch, discursive and enriched with anecdotes, forms a pleasant introduction to the papers that follow. Among these are: Southern literature; A horse-fair pilgrimage; Impressions of Lincoln; Impressions of Lowell; Contrasts of English and American scenery; Cumberland Gap; Lincoln and Stanton; Virginia women.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

“Although so very much has been written of Lincoln, it still remains true that the impressions of Lincoln incorporated into this book are likely to be read with more interest than almost any of the other pages. Mr Nadal’s style is interesting and he presents his impressions so well that they are likely to be remembered.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 400w

+ =Lit D= 54:1084 Ap 14 ‘17 1000w

“Seldom indeed does one pick up a more seductive volume for an idle hour.”

+ =Nation= 104:603 My 17 ‘17 270w

“He laments that he spent so much of his youth sitting on a fence-rail looking at the landscape, but this occupation seems to have borne its literary fruit: he has a genial responsiveness to the moods of nature. Then he has humor, and what is even more essential to an essayist, a keen observation of men and manners which expresses itself in both portraiture and social analysis. The chapters that analyze southern society and literature are particularly interesting.” E. S. S.

+ =New Repub= 12:81 Ag 18 ‘17 1000w

+ =N Y Times= 22:137 Ap 15 ‘17 520w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 40w

+ =Pratt= p37 O ‘17 30w

“These papers of Mr Nadal’s have appeared in leading American magazines and newspapers, but are well worth reprinting. They make a charming, readable and informing volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 1050w

“A variety of reminiscent sketches, some of them charming in themselves, others of general interest. The author, though a Virginian born and bred, as a cosmopolitan of the outer world sees the South as it really was and is.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p391 Ag 16 ‘17 900w

=NAIDU, SAROJINI.= Broken wing; songs of love, death and destiny, 1915-1916. *$1.25 Lane 891.4 17-6890

“The bird of time” and “The golden threshold,” two earlier books of verse, have introduced this Hindu woman poet to western readers. The third volume is made up of poems grouped together as Songs of life and death, Memorial verses, The flowering year, The peacock-lute: songs for music, and The temple: a pilgrimage of love.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

“As a whole the volume shows that the Indian woman of to-day is conscious how large her share is destined to be in the guardianship and interpretation of the triune vision of love, faith, and patriotism.”

+ =Ath= p201 Ap ‘17 90w

“If we seek the material India in her verses we shall find it as truly as we do the India of the spirit. ... Her love songs are delicately beautiful. The rhythms are western, but the spirit is all of the east, a spirit of tropical intensities, mingling with brooding certainty of eternal things which is so truly eastern.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 800w

+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 130w

+ =Lit D= 54:1071 Ap 14 ‘17 480w

“Songs of love, death, and destiny. They are saturated with the magic of the East, exquisite in verbal beauty and eloquent with spiritual comprehension.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 80w

“It is the fourth division of Mrs Naidu’s book, her love songs, which perhaps best illustrates the difference between occidental and eastern verse. In these love songs she permits herself an abandonment that is truly oriental, and that to an Anglo-Saxon reader contrasts rather unpleasantly with the elevation of thought and charm of such poems as Mrs Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ‘17 450w

=NANDIKESVARA.= Mirror of gesture; tr. by Ananda Coomaraswamy and G. K. Duggirala. il *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 792

“This translation is based upon a Nagari transcript of the second Telugu edition of Nandikesvara’s ‘Abhinaya darpana.’ ... Among the gestures dealt with are movements of the head, the brows, and the hands. The last-named receive elaborate treatment. Numerous illustrations and a bibliography follow the text.”—Ath

“Will be useful as an introduction to Indian dramatic technique and to oriental acting in general.”

+ =Ath= p411 Ag ‘17 90w

=Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 360w

“The little book is dedicated ‘to all actors and actresses,’ but it will interest as well (or more) all students of the drama.”

+ =Nation= 104:716 Je 14 ‘17 570w

“Easy, graceful English. ... The translator would have helped us more if he had done two things, if he had supplied an index, and had commented on some one complete picture.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p199 Ap 26 ‘17 1100w

=NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN.= Mr George Jean Nathan presents. *$1.50 (2½c) Knopf 792 17-24680

A collection of papers on the theater. Mr Nathan is a dramatic critic in New York city, and plays recently produced on the New York stage give him the starting point for discursions on the art of the theater, play making and producing, the shortcomings of American audiences, etc. He is a very sophisticated person, with a cynical outlook and not much hope for the future of American drama, but for much of the sham and sentimentality of current theatrical production he offers an effective antidote. He writes of The Hawkshavian drama; The American music show; The commercial theatrical mismanager; The case for bad manners; America’s most intellectual actress, etc.

“A volume as gay and impudent as its title.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:348 N ‘17 320w

“A man cannot live—live exclusively and consciously—in a realm of unworthy make-believe without suffering for it; and Mr George Jean Nathan, in some of his phases, is calculated to cause regrets. He opens up some wonderful, sudden vistas for the playgoer, and shoots a number of penetrating epigrams; but his taste and discretion are not equal to his brilliancy.”

– + =Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 340w

“This is a book of serious criticism of the New York theatre. Mr Nathan is self-possessed, cynical, urbane, smart and sometimes flippant. He confounds one with his knowledge of the drama of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. He gives us facts running over. He loves to shatter legends. His book is refreshingly honest because refreshingly severe.”

+ =New Repub= 13:387 Ja 26 ‘18 230w

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 230w

National year book, 1917. maps 50c Hammond & co. 317.3

“A book of facts, figures and general information, together with a new and complete gazetteer of the United States and non-contiguous territories.” The book contains nearly 150 pages of useful information on miscellaneous subjects, with many statistical tables, maps, etc.

=Pittsburgh= 22:430 My ‘17

=NAUMANN, FRIEDRICH.= Central Europe; a tr. by Christabel M. Meredith from the original German. *$3 Knopf 327 17-8207

A translation of “Mittel-Europa,” a German work outlining a plan for a permanent union of the Central European nations. “The nucleus of the organization is to consist of the German empire and Austria-Hungary. To this nucleus will be added the Balkans, Turkey, and the present neutral states to the north of the empire. Thus a combination will be effected that comprises a great stretch of territory through the heart of Europe, binding the members together with ties of common interest. At the same time the enemies of the empire will be separated. The major part of the book is taken up with discussion of the difficulties in the way of a union of the empire and the dual monarchy. The author realizes that the sovereignty of each state must be preserved; and that that may be done, works out a scheme of joint commissions which shall carry out the wishes of the several governments. The tariff problem is recognized also.” (J Pol Econ)

+ =Am Econ R= 7:113 Mr ‘17 130w

“Important because it expresses imperial Germany’s political and economic claims with fervid enthusiasm, but with authority. Classed bibliography (17p.) of German and Austro-Hungarian books designed to further a mutual understanding: does not list translations.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:347 My ‘17

“The author, who is well known on the continent for various earlier books on political questions began his career as a Lutheran pastor and evangelist of socialism. He sprang into notice through several publications of radical propaganda, and entered journalism and politics. In the Reichstag, under the wing of the Liberal Socialist party, he has been long an exponent of Christian socialism and the world-wide mission of German kultur. In the present instance, Naumann does not view the war with the optimism of the German-American press. For him it is a cause of reflection.” R. W.

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 800w

=Cleveland= p58 Ap ‘17 70w

“His book, which has had the good fortune of finding a translator whose version reads like an English original, is indispensable to all who would form a concrete idea of the present working of the German mind, and it is a mine of information for everyone who wishes to gain an insight into the intricate problems of German economics and politics at the hand of a guide who has them at his fingers’ ends, and who is imbued with a living knowledge of German history.” Vindex

+ =Dial= 62:390 My 3 ‘17 2000w

“It should be read by all who want to see for themselves, rather than thru enemy glasses, just what Germany is striving for.”

+ =Ind= 90:592 Je 30 ‘17 1600w

“All the oratory and the enthusiasm that have marked his rise to his present position as one of the most-read political authors of Germany today have been brought by Herr Naumann to his present task.”

=J Pol Econ= 25:213 F ‘17 300w

“As a ‘formulation of current German thought’ the volume deserves the closest reading. And that reading will, by the way, illumine one of the Allies’ exprest conditions of peace—the partition of the Dual empire.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1430 My 12 ‘17 260w

“His book is really a long pamphlet summoning the people of middle Europe to union. It is argumentative, amiable, painfully tactful, shrewd, sentimental. It is skilful journalism, wheedling, exhorting, threatening, appealing to pride, to vanity, to historical tradition, to economic interest, to fear, to ambition. ... Naumann’s real effort is to establish the idea, rather than to solve the problem. ... The lesson for those of us who are, I think, justly suspicious of the mid-European project is fairly evident. Its most powerful support is external pressure. The more Central Europe is isolated and boycotted the easier will it be to create Mid-Europe.” W. L.

=New Repub= 9:357 Ja 27 ‘17 2650w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17

=N Y Times= 22:80 Mr 4 ‘17 450w

“It must be remembered that the economic questions inherent in the doctrine of ‘Central Europe’ come up automatically for some sort of settlement at the end of this year. Then the commercial treaties, not only between Germany and Austria-Hungary, but between Austria and Hungary, will lapse, and if there should merely be a continuance of the present arrangements so long as the war lasts there will nevertheless be indications of what the new economic policy is to be. ... It is not astonishing that Herr Naumann’s book should have made a deeper impression on Germany than any book of recent times. The author writes for everybody; he has enough learning and distinction to satisfy the well-educated and enough clearness and breeziness to attract the common mind. As an old Social Democrat, he understands how to make the most cunning kind of democratic appeal when he is in fact exalting Kaiserism.”

=Spec= 118:701 Je 23 ‘17 1250w

“The most famous book to which the war has given birth.”

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1650w

Reviewed by Bruno Lasker

=Survey= 38:359 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w

“Naumann says that he conceived the plan of his book in April, 1915. Fortune favored him in the great eastern offensive that followed; and his book had its great vogue in the full flood of success against Russia which encouraged Berlin to lose no time in opening fiscal negotiations with Austria and Hungary, and even attempting to ‘solve’ the problem of Poland. The English reader who now sees the book for the first time should bear the conditions of its production in mind.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Ag 10 ‘16 850w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 6:892 Jl ‘17 120w

=NEILL, ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND.= Dominie dismissed. *$1.25 (3c) McBride 828 E17-785

A sequel to “A dominie’s log.” The school master whose original experiments in education were described in that book is dismissed from his position and a representative of the old type of teacher is put in his place. The dismissed dominie goes to work on a near-by farm and watches his successor break down all that he has built up. A small group of the children, however, cling to him, and there are many delightful out-of-school conversations recorded. The educational questions discussed are pertinent to the times. The author warns against the danger of over-emphasis on technical education after the war, and, in a conversation with an American visitor, comments on some of our educational experiments.

“We may justly complain of the careless statements, the false premises, the disputable facts which mar the argument. These help to make Mr Neill’s views on education and sociology unconvincing. All the same, the reader can count on an extremely agreeable picture of school life in a Scottish village, uncompromising in its attitude, but absolutely without malice; and a handbook on socialism into the bargain.” J. F. S.

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 500w

+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 190w

“However we may dissent from many of the author’s opinions, he has written a most original and suggestive volume, filled with sayings racy and to the point: a humorous story as well as one packed with theories which make the reader ‘sit up.’”

=N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 570w

=NEILSON, WILLIAM ALLAN.= Robert Burns: how to know him. il *$1.50 Bobbs 17-13543

Chapters on: Biography; Inheritance: language and literature; Burns and Scottish song; Satires and epistles; Descriptive and narrative poetry, make up this study of Burns. The author wisely recognizes that the best way to know Burns is to read him and quotes over one hundred of the poems. The author is professor of English at Harvard university.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17

“He gives us an interesting and truthful sketch of the poet’s life.”

+ =Cath World= 105:841 S ‘17 380w

+ =Cleveland= p126 N ‘17 70w

“William Allan Neilson has a trifle too much subtlety and coolness in his method to ‘do’ Burns, the romantic poet, drinker, and lover, with any great amount of enthusiasm; it is Burns the Scotchman whom he really warms to.”

+ — =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 110w

“William Allan Neilson, to judge just from his ‘Burns, how to know him,’ is, first of all, a man of breadth, and only secondly a digger in booklore. Humor of word, as well as humor in a critical sense and understanding of the poet’s and the man’s heart, pervades these well-printed pages. A first class practical idea is that of the glossary. Properly limited to just the really troublesome Scottish dialect words it runs along the margins, instead of being tucked away off somewhere in the back of the book.”

+ =Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 510w

“Will delight every lover of poetry.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 1 ‘17 210w

“It is certainly saying nothing against the book to say that the firm impression it makes is mainly produced by the poems, well chosen and well arranged and, with the marginal glossary, easily read. Their effect, however, is reinforced by a skilful, compact biography, a clear, thoroughly informed chapter on Burns’s language and his literary antecedents, a running commentary on the selections, and a critical summary.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 400w

“An excellent introduction to Burns, giving a very sympathetic yet just view, both of the biographical and analytical sections.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:219 Jl ‘17 30w

“There is one perfectly obvious duty, a duty which cannot be too carefully performed, which Mr Neilson—like almost all his predecessors in the editing of Burns—has scanted. We refer to the elucidation of Burns’s dialect. Mr Neilson follows the method of the centenary edition of the poet. He gives fairly numerous glosses in the margin. He does this rather more freely than the centenary editors, and occasionally his gloss is more correct than theirs. Nevertheless he leaves a good deal undone which might easily have been done. The selections from Burns are very judiciously made, and give an exceptionally adequate idea of the poet’s quality and value.” H: B. Hinckley

+ — =Yale R= n s 7:220 O ‘17 650w

=NEKRASOV, NIKOLAI ALEXEIEVICH.= Who can be happy and free in Russia? tr. by Juliet M. Soskice; with an introd. by Dr D: Soskice. (World’s classics) *45c Oxford 891.7 17-23320

Nicholas Nekrassov was born in 1821 and died in 1877. In Russia he is called “the poet of the people’s sorrow” and in the introduction to this first English translation of his greatest work he is pronounced “the sole and rightful heir of his two great predecessors, Pushkin and Lermontov.” The prolog to the poem describes the meeting on the road of seven peasants who dispute over the question that forms the title, Who can be happy and free in Russia? One says only the priest, one says the landowner, another thinks the tsar’s chief adviser may be the happy man, while another declares that only the tsar himself has the right to freedom and happiness. To find the answer to their own question they wander about the country, and in the tale of their adventures we are given a picture of the tragedy and comedy, the sorrows and joys of Russian life.

“It will be very acceptable to English readers as the magnum opus of one of the foremost Russians of his time, ‘the poet of the people’s sorrow.’ The Oxford press deserves thanks for making such a work accessible at a price within the reach of every one.”

+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 80w

“It is a veritable peasant Odyssey. ... In spite of the fact that the English version of the poem does not preserve the peculiar musical and stylistic quality of the original, the translator has made every lover of good literature her debtor.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 170w

“No one is likely to forget Nekrassov who reads Juliet M. Soskice’s translation, the first into English, of ‘Who can be happy and free in Russia?’ ... No extracts can give more than a hazy notion of the freshness and abundance of Nekrassov’s pictures of Russian life. The poor verse of the translation cannot spoil them.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 11:163 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“It differs sharply from all other national epics. ... It might be the joint product of the Russian parallels of Burns, Villon, Synge; it is native, kin to the earth, endemic. It is full of simple vices and virtues, problems and passions; and this very simplicity makes it universal and of eternal importance.”

+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 520w

“Mrs Soskice’s metrical version, mostly in an easy unrhymed measure, is fluent and readable. Dr Soskice prefixes a short Life of the poet—a picturesque and attractive figure.”

+ =Spec= 118:594 My 26 ‘17 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Ap 12 ‘17 40w

“Nekrassov may now be claimed as chief and most beloved of Russian poets; popular and national, devotedly singing the sorrows and social wrongs of the humble multitude with such vigour and fire that his influence upon the youth of the last generation and of this is unbounded, and singing with such simplicity of concealed art that the poorest of schoolchildren learn page after page of him by heart.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p222 My 10 ‘17 2000w

“Full of vivid pictures of peasant life in village and country, this long poem, if taken in small doses, not more than a chapter at a time, is bound to produce a powerful impression.”

+ =Yale R= n s 7:188 O ‘17 70w

=NEVINS, JOSEPH ALLAN.= Illinois. (American college and university ser.) il *$2 (2c) Oxford 378 17-13973

“This is the first history of the University of Illinois, and the first volume on a state institution in Professor Krapp’s American college and university series.” (Nation) The author tells us in his preface that it has “seemed necessary to throw a much greater emphasis upon the record of the past than upon the tendencies or characteristics of the present, and that even in the four final chapters, nominally not historical at all, will be found much historical matter.” There are eight appendices.

“This book has a special significance only for those interested in the educational development of a middle western state. It contains more information than the other volumes in the series but lacks to a large degree the literary charm of most of its predecessors.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 9 ‘17 110w

“The book, pleasingly written, has also the more substantial merits of careful historical detail and a comprehensive grasp of its subject. It is a needed and useful contribution to our educational history.”

+ — =Dial= 63:530 N 22 ‘17 510w

“Portraying his alma mater with the insight of a son and the dispassionateness of a stranger, Mr Nevins has made a book, which, while of peculiar interest, no doubt, to Illinoisians, holds its subject steadily at the level of all who are concerned with higher public education. ... He seizes upon the development of the institution in relation to the state as the unique and commanding aspect of his subject, and he collects and arranges his material to illustrate it.”

+ =Nation= 105:226 Ag 30 ‘17 1200w

=NEVINSON, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE.=[2] Modern war; paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson; with an essay by P. G: Konody. *$3.50 McBride 940.91 17-8608

Mr Nevinson interprets the war thru the medium of one of the newer forms of art. He has found it “impossible to express the scenic and mechanical spirit of this twentieth century war with the languishing or obsolete symbolism of mediaeval or classic art.” “As you look at these paintings of Nevinson’s you reach a very obvious conclusion about modern war, namely that the individual soldier does not exist. All the actors on the scene, the soldiers serving the machine guns, or marching on in endless columns, the wounded writhing in pain, are not men but mannikins, gaunt conventionalized creatures, veritable slaves to routine and machines. ... The subject, for instance, of the painting of the field hospital ‘La patrie’ is not so much wounded soldiers as it is gestures of agony.” (Masses)

“The only way to reflect this war truthfully in all its baleful manifestations, is to intellectualize it, to sublimate it, as it were, to transform its macabre into organized graphic representation. It is only through symbols that man can play with infinitudes. Just because he has attacked the problem in this way, C. R. W. Nevinson has been one of the first to react creatively to the reality of modern war.” Carl Zigrosser

+ + =Masses= 9:32 S ‘17 820w

“Mr Nevinson is a cubist, though, as we understand from the essay introducing him, a cubist who wears his cubes with a difference. For ourselves, we should not care if he were ten times more the child of the T-square than he is so long as he can produce pictures like those we are criticizing.”

+ =Spec= 118:367 Mr 24 ‘17 1050w

“His pictures are pictures not because they represent what he has seen, but because they give us ocular experience of his emotions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p63 F 8 ‘17 900w

New manual of bayonet training and practical bayonet fighting. il *75c National military pub. co. 355

The publishers state that this little book is compiled from the regulations in force in the new armies of the Entente Allies, adopted at Plattsburg and other American camps. The first part “Bayonet training, 1916 (Provisional) gives reasons for and practical lessons in bayonet fighting.” The second part “Practical bayonet fighting” “does not purpose to be of assistance in training men for competition fighting, although it may be of some use for individual instruction, but it is hoped that it will be of service to officers and N. C. O.’s when training a squad or a company.” (Foreword)

=A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 70w

=NEW REPUBLIC.= New Republic book; selections from the first hundred issues. $1.50 Republic pub. co., 421 W. 21st st., N.Y. 320.4 17-4463

“Sixty-seven of the best articles which have appeared in the New Republic for the last two years are brought together in this convenient and attractive volume. According to the preface, ‘it is a collaboration and makes no attempt at complete unanimity or logical consistency. It aims to give in compact and available form a sample of the liberal opinion in the United States as expressed from 1914 to 1916 at the suggestion of events.’”—Am Pol Sci R

“Bound in boards; will not last.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:333 My ‘17

“As an aid in developing a responsible, well-informed public opinion ‘The New Republic book’ should render considerable service.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:364 My ‘17 150w

=Masses= 9:28 Ap ‘16 1600w

“‘The New Republic book’ shows physically, a tendency to go to pieces under close examination. ... ‘Spiritually’ it exhibits as much coherence as could fairly be expected in a numerous group of men and women animated by a desire to destroy ‘the old crusted folkways’ and to break up ‘the cake of intellectual custom.’ ... Their jaunty attitude towards the past—it is never au revoir but always adios—produces an exhilarating impression of timeliness. One with less spacious faith in the promise of the future might say—the timeliness of sailors who, to profit by a spanking breeze, throw the cargo overboard.”

— =Nation= 104:410 Ap 5 ‘17 400w

“The solid political articles based on broadly democratic principles, and expressing a true aspiration after social progress and international security, have given a leading to many minds and became of much value in the recent political campaign. In the literary articles the paper has been less satisfactory.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 6 ‘17 250w

=NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED.= Newark anniversary poems; winners in the poetry competition. $1.25 Gomme 811.08 17-23312

This volume is published under the auspices of the Committee of one hundred on the 250th anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Newark, New Jersey, May to October, 1916. It includes introductory chapters on Newark, on “Early Puritan poetry,” on “Civic celebrations as a community force,” and “A plan for a national anthology of American poetry,” by Henry Wellington Wack, editor of the Newarker; the official “Celebration ode,” by Lyman Whitney Allen; the poetry of the Newark pageant and masque, by Thomas Wood Stevens; the thirteen Newark prize poems; and “Other Newark anniversary poems, grave and gay,” which appeared in the Newarker, the Committee’s official journal, published from November, 1915 to November, 1916, as a record of anniversary events. Appendices give biographies of prize winners, names of the Committee of one hundred, etc.

“The poetry included in this anthology of Newark is much above the average level of anniversary verse and forms a worthy tribute to the great city. Our chief criticism is that so many of the bards celebrant found it necessary to apologize for their task.”

+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 350w

“Competitions in the arts are noteworthy for the fact that little good work is produced by them. This rule was not broken in the Newark contest. Nine hundred entries were submitted, and of all those published in the collection at hand only one touches greatness. By a coincidence not often met with in competitions, this great poem was awarded first prize. We refer to Clement Woods’ ringing glorification, indictment and prophecy!” D: P. Berenberg

– + =N Y Call= p15 O 28 ‘17 460w

=NEWBERRY, PERRY.= Castaway Island. il *$1.75 (2c) Penn 17-23974

The Galapagos islands, cut by the equator, lie out from the coast of Equador. They have never had a native population, and altho the Panama canal has increased their value, they are still sparsely settled. The island on which Bob Trevlin and Jeffers Stimson are wrecked is quite uninhabited. Bob Trevlin is a young San Francisco boy who is about to take passage for home when he meets Stimson, a soldier of fortune. The two plan to travel together, but a tropical storm drives them out to sea. The island on which they are landed has no human inhabitants, but they find on it a strange collection of wild domestic animals, the descendants, they suppose, of the animals left by earlier colonists. Chickens, dogs, cows and horses are among these, and their re-domestication is one of the occupations of the two castaways. Their adventures on the island cover about six months and include very real perils.

“Brimful of exciting adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 40w

“It is a story full of interest. Attractive illustrations by F. A. Anderson, some of them in color, add much to the book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 120w

=NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY JOHN.= Book of the happy warrior. il *$1.75 (2c) Longmans 18-300

The author has retold some of the old heroic tales for boys, with two final chapters linking the past with the present. Contents: The song of Roland; Richard Cœur de Lion; St Louis, king of France; Robin Hood; Bertrand du Guesclin and the Black prince; News from Poitiers, 1356; France v. Gentlemen of England; The Chevalier Bayard; The old English school; Chivalry of to-day. The illustrations by Henry J. Ford include a frontispiece and several colored plates.

“A book of scholarship and charm by a lover of the classics of chivalry.”

+ =Ath sup= p688 D ‘17 220w

+ =Ath sup= p694 D ‘17 60w

“Good reading, particularly in these days, a book from which older as well as younger readers may get a thrill, is ‘The book of the happy warrior.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 460w

“He has a fine sense of the chivalries of the past as well as the present. He spares no pains with his excellent prose; he shuns alike the modern preciosity which spoils the old stories and the slipshod sentimentality which distorts virtue, a word which in older days meant the essential qualities of manhood. The title of the book in itself is a specimen of his felicitous taste.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup6 D 8 ‘17 540w

“Sir Henry Newbolt has written another excellent book for boys—and for their sisters too.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup473 N 3 ‘17 360w

“The stories are told in clear, simple language and as far as possible in that of the original chroniclers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 D 13 ‘17 460w

=NEWCOMER, ALPHONSO GERALD=, and others, eds. Three centuries of American poetry and prose. *$1.75 Scott 810.8 17-24531

A book of selections intended to meet the same need as that filled by “Twelve centuries of English poetry and prose.” In their selection of poetry the aim of the editors has been “to place between the covers of a single volume the greater part of what will remain permanent in American poetry from its beginnings down to the end of the first great production period in American literature.” With regard to prose, so comprehensive an aim was out of the question, but the editors say, “Whenever possible we have used wholes; when this was not possible we have made selections that would show the author’s purpose in the whole, and have above all tried to avoid the scrappiness and ineffectiveness of mere fragments.” Historically American literature is divided into two periods: the Colonial period and the National period, the latter closing about 1890. Chronological table, Index to notes and glossary, and Index to authors, titles and first lines are provided at the close.

=Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w

=NEWMAN, HORATIO HACKETT.= Biology of twins (mammals). (Univ. of Chicago science ser.) il *$1.25 Univ. of Chicago press 575 17-11116

“Dr Newman has made a serious study of the problem of twins among mammals—especially armadillos, which have a way of producing multiple offspring as a regular thing. He has also gathered up the results of other people’s studies and has presented them in a very interesting way. ... Newman’s studies introduce several new factors into the speculations and interpretations of the problems. ... The bulk of the book is devoted to the armadillos, first because the author has made an extensive study of this group of animals, and second because these studies furnish the largest mass of direct evidence on the problems.”—Ind

“Brief, concise résumé of present knowledge.”

+ =Cleveland= p79 Je ‘17 6w

“The book is necessarily technical in parts, but the portions of concern to the general reader only can be read by a judicious skipper with great interest.”

+ =Ind= 92:69 O 6 ‘17 400w

“The essential points obtained by investigators to date have been placed in a single small volume where, appearing in a not too technical dress, they are readily and conveniently available, not to zoologists alone, but to the thinking public in general.” H. H. W.

+ =Science= n s 46:486 N 16 ‘17 1450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 190w

Newspaper press directory and advertisers’ guide; seventy-second annual issue, 1917. *2s Mitchell, London 072

“This directory contains particulars of every newspaper, magazine, review, and periodical published in the United Kingdom and the British Isles; the newspaper map of the United Kingdom; the press of the British dominions overseas, the Indian empire, the continent of Europe, America, and the Far East; and a directory of the class papers and periodicals. During the past twelve months 69 newspapers suspended publication in the British Isles, and 165 increased their price. In view of such changes as these, it will be evident that the seventy-second annual edition of Messrs Mitchell’s well-known and valuable work of reference must be particularly useful and important. The volume contains special articles dealing with the trend of the modern press, the legal year in its relation to the press, the commercial opportunities offered by the overseas dominions, and other topics.”—Ath

+ =Ath= p245 My ‘17 110w

“The old-established trade record is a guide to the world’s press that we have always found to be accurate.”

+ =Spec= 118:465 Ap 21 ‘17 110w

=NEWTON, JOSEPH FORT.= Ambassador; City Temple sermons. *$1 Revell 252 17-293

“Dr Newton’s call to the City Temple, London, from his pastorate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has called general attention to him as a preacher. This volume contains fifteen sermons, eleven of which were preached at the City Temple while he was visiting there, before his final call and acceptance. The remaining sermons were delivered in America. The dominant note in the sermons preached in England is Christian good-will. The subjects are concerned with the Christian life and doctrine in their general relations, emphasizing the fundamental problems of God and the relations of men to Christ.”—Bib World

“He does not make his sermons from the last book he has read, but great books often give him his suggestion and point of contact and the most telling illustrations of truth. He is a fine example of what noble literature, especially poetry, may do for the preacher. The sermons speak especially to cultivated minds, yet through their simplicity and naturalness and humanness they make the universal appeal. Here is their real power.” A. S. Hoyt

+ =Am J Theol= 21:475 Jl ‘17 900w

“Dr Newton has a message for the age. It is strongly put, but there are too many blemishes in its form.”

+ — =Bib World= 49:314 My ‘17 250w

“Though the sermons deal with different themes, they have a unity of spirit, as they have one passion and purpose, to make vivid the truth as it is in Jesus, deeper than all dogmas, larger than all creeds, equal to every emergency, whether in peace or war.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 24 ‘17 180w

+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17

“It is hard to discover in them just what appealed to the audience in that great center of English nonconformity. They are hardly original in conception and at times are very discursive, being chiefly distinguished by an ornate rhetoric which garnishes many platitudes.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 4 ‘17 90w

=NEXÖ, MARTIN ANDERSEN.= Pelle the conqueror: daybreak; tr. from the Danish by Jessie Muir. *$1.50 (2c) Holt 17-16731

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:92 Mr ‘17 900w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1250w

“There is a simplicity and a steady focusing of the main issues in ‘Pelle.’ There is also—and this is one of the most admirable qualities of the book—a right proportion between the personal and the social; the two strands are kept going back and forth and wrought firmly into a unified design. I except the last volume, and it is curious to see how the pressure of social fact squeezes out there much of the reality. In the last volume there is a suggestion of externality. ... Taken all in all, ‘Pelle’ is a fine achievement in democratic art, the most satisfying novel of the labor movement that I have read.” G: B. Donlin

+ =Dial= 62:309 Ap 5 ‘17 1650w

“To this final volume is appended a note about the author by Professor Jespersen of the University of Copenhagen. It seems that Nexö was very little known in Denmark when the first part of ‘Pelle the conqueror’ appeared, some ten years ago. He was a teacher in Copenhagen who had done a little travelling and a little writing—chiefly some short stories which a few people had recognized as exceptional. Copenhagen was the place of his birth (1869); its circumstances were of the humblest. ... Such a work of imagination as this, with its deep humor, its deep humanity, brings home to us, as nothing else can, the artificial nature of those boundaries which language and custom set between one race and another. It is a book for the world; one cannot lay it down without a sense of quickened emotion and enlarged vision.”

+ =Nation= 104:241 Mr 1 ‘17 1250w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 150w

“To Nexö there are no reticences; there is nothing clean or unclean. Brought up himself in the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, and working, like his own Pelle, as a shoemaker’s apprentice on the secluded island of Bornholm, he relives that elemental life through this book. There is in him something of the old Rabelaisian flavor, which we are now far too sophisticated to get pleasantly from that old literature. He brings to our sympathy that rich, earthy, immemorial strain of sex and hunger and primitive necessities, gives it a modern embodiment that is all charm and sincere feeling. ... Surely ‘Pelle’ is one of the great novels of the world.” Randolph Bourne

+ + =New Repub= 10:sup8 Ap 21 ‘17 1700w

“The book is international; it might have been written of Berlin, or Naples or London, or Calumet, as well as of Copenhagen. We can recall no American labor novel which begins to have its sweep and effectiveness; ‘The jungle,’ perhaps, comes closest, although it did not make the differentiation which this book (and the progress of industry) has made between the unskilled and the skilled laborer. It may be that we have the answer here at hand; the subject is being considered by all Socialists and labor leaders. Whether or not the future development of the strife follows the main outlines mapped out in this book, the story will have played its large part in the result.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 Ap 1 ‘17 670w

“Side by side with Pelle is the portrait of his wife Ellen, a portrait of charm, which has a certain intimate symbolism which Mr Andersen Nexö handles with grace; and around them are the children and the old librarian Brun who are conceived with something of that simplicity which we associate with another Andersen, and which is the more lovable for that.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 800w

=NICHOLSON, DANIEL HOWARD SINCLAIR, and LEE, A. H. E.=, eds. Oxford book of English mystical verse. *$2.50 Oxford 821.08 17-17649

“From Richard Rolle of Hampole to Mr Harold E. Goad some 150 poets are represented, the most prominent being Herbert, Crashaw, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Francis Thompson, A. E. Waite, and Bliss Carman.” (Ath) There is an index of authors and one of first lines.

=Ath= p101 F ‘17 50w

“‘The Oxford book of English mystical verse’ maintains the standards set by its predecessors. ... The distribution of the poems in point of time is interesting. Five-sixths of them—more than five-sixths, if we count Blake among the nineteenth century poets—are the product of that nineteenth century which its own prophets denounced as materialistic and skeptical beyond all previous epochs, of this twentieth century which, we were told before the war, was wholly given over to fads and superficiality. ... The most remarkable feature of most of the poems in this collection is their clarity. Their mystical quality is due to elevation of thought, not to woolly-mindedness.” J. DeL. Ferguson

+ =Dial= 63:207 S 13 ‘17 900w

“In spite of laxities, however, the novelty of the enterprise gives the book a real value.” O. W. Firkins

+ — =Nation= 105:597 N 29 ‘17 90w

“When we come to Matthew Arnold we find some variations from his proper text, due, perhaps, to slips in transcribing or to the use of earlier editions. Whatever the reason, we expect to find a great poet in the form which he chose to be remembered. ... The editors have a deficient sense of proportion: that is clear. Their volume, well over 600 pages, includes some examples unworthy of preservation in a first-rate anthology. It might have been a smaller one, more definitely mystic, or, in view of its wide scope, they might have gathered for their posy some lasting flowers which are not of yesterday.”

– + =Sat R= 123:186 F 24 ‘17 1350w

“It will delight every poetry-lover. ... It is the modern men whose work we are most interested to see. To us, at present, the unexpected mysticism of the man of the world, the man of letters, the man of action, the unbeliever, even the sinner, is of the deepest interest—because it is along mystic lines that the religious world is now feeling after assurance. ... But when we have drunk the new wine we turn back to Vaughan and Donne and Crashaw and George Herbert and Traherne, and say: ‘The old is better.’ We are, however, not the less grateful to Mr Nicholson and Mr Lee for giving us to drink of the new also.”

+ =Spec= 118:303 Mr 10 ‘17 1400w

“A book in which a hundred or so poems, not all mystical but all fine and true, the work of poets, are buried in a wilderness of respectable religious verse which is only sometimes mysticism and hardly ever poetry.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p102 Mr 1 ‘17 900w

=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Madness of May. il *$1 (5c) Scribner 17-11468

Billy Deering is in a tight place, very much worried about himself and his future, when a picturesque stranger, introducing himself as R. Hood, takes possession of him. Much against his will at first, thinking his companion is either an escaped lunatic or a crook, young Mr Deering accompanies the stranger on what turns out to be a series of fantastic adventures in which a girl who calls herself Pierrette plays a part.

“Appeared in Collier’s Weekly.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of whimsy.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:408 Je ‘17 260w

“It is so absolutely incredible that the perfectly plausible explanation of the whole situation in the end is positively irritating to the unsuspicious reader, who has not cared to come out of clouds.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 150w

“It is just long enough to entertain a reader in the mood for a trifle that is not trash.”

+ =Cath World= 105:842 S ‘17 140w

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

“A trifle of delicious quality—a confection, if you will, of the purest and soundest materials.”

+ =Nation= 104:580 My 10 ‘17 400w

“A dainty, fluffy bit of most irresponsible foolery.”

=N Y Times= 22:226 Je 10 ‘17 230w

+ =Outlook= 116:32 My 2 ‘17 30w

“It’s just pure fun, and one only wishes the story were longer.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w

“Very light, improbable, and amusing.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 40w

=NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.= Reversible Santa Claus. il *$1 (6c) Houghton 17-28188

Billy the Hopper, ex-crook, is the hero of this Christmas story. The Hopper, now proprietor of a chicken farm, is leading a blameless life when temptation assails him in two-fold form. To make the matter worse, it is Christmas eve. One of his falls from grace results in the extraction of a bill-book from a fellow passenger’s pocket, an act of which he is heartily ashamed, for petty larceny is far below the level of his talents. The other slip is the stealing of an automobile. Out of this act grow complications. The machine has an occupant—a sleeping baby. It is while attempting to return the child to his parents that the Hopper is persuaded to play the part of a reversible Santa Claus, one who takes things away from people for their own good.

=A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18

“It is burlesque, its quite impossible action moves swiftly; to see it pass once across the screen may divert an idle hour.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 D 1 ‘17 320w

“‘A reversible Santa Claus,’ gives free scope to his humorous fancy. It would be preposterous if it did not concern a fairy world.”

+ =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 170w

“It is with relief that it is found to be a most diverting tale, its more or less necessary Yuletide cheer well mixed with real gayety and humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 350w

“Original and amusing.”

+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 180w

“Will hardly answer to the demand for a Christmas story, and is perhaps not worth the small library’s purchase.”

– + =Wis Lib Bul= 14:32 Ja ‘18 50w

=NICOLAS, RENÉ.= Campaign diary of a French officer; tr. by Katharine Babbitt. *$1.25 (3½c) Houghton 940.91 17-10365

A diary covering three months of the war, from February to May, 1915. The author says, “When I visited America recently I came to realize the widespread interest in the European war shown by the citizens of the new world. ... The many questions I have been asked, and the earnest attention accorded to my accounts of the war, are my excuse for publishing this journal. ... Except for a few trifling omissions, this book reproduces exactly the notes I took at the front. ... The story is a true one, lived and lived intensely. In this fact lies the little merit the work may posses.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:445 Jl ‘17

“The book is of especial interest in comparison with the more off-hand accounts of Ian Hay and the member of ‘Kitchener’s mob.’”

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 90w

“His book is everywhere simple, frank, humane. ... One cannot suppose that M. Nicolas’s experience or his fortitude is at all unusual. Such daily horrors must be the very stuff of life to thousands. To read of them, thus calmly set down, is to realize once more what an adaptable creature man is and to be filled with wonder that the mere threat of hell should have tortured his imagination for ages.”

+ =Dial= 62:404 My 3 ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 90:296 My 12 ‘17 120w

“He who would gain an idea, not only of what war means, but of what France means to those who love her, should read this book.”

+ =Outlook= 116:33 My 2 ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 55:551 My ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:315 S ‘17 30w

“For vividness it would be hard to match this brief story of the front, because it is a genuine diary. ... The printed book is quite as realistically thrilling as if it bore the scars of the original.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 250w

=NIEMEYER, NANNIE.= Stories for the history hour; from Augustus to Rolf. *$1.25 (2c) Dodd

“These stories are written solely for the purpose of being told,” says the author in her preface. “They are not intended for children’s reading, but for teachers’ telling. ... These are stories which I wished to tell, and of which I could find no satisfactory version. ... I have avoided all stories of which numerous good versions exist.” The author is an English woman and the stories are planned to fit courses of study in Great Britain. The period from 50 B.C. to 900 A.D. is covered. Contents: Augustus; Onesimus; Trajan; Pliny; Cornelius; Alaric; Geneviève; Clovis; Columba; Cuthbert; Sturmi; Charles the Great; Charles and Alcuin; Ingiald; Eudes; Rolf. A list of authorities is given at the end.

“There is, fortunately, a growing movement in the direction of giving history a meaning and interest for children such as cannot be compassed by formal lectures and text-books. A good example of the kind of thing that is being done, and done successfully, is ‘Stories for the history hour.’” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 170w

=NOBBS, GILBERT.= On the right of the British line. il *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 940.91 17-24723

Captain Nobbs was five weeks on the firing line on the Somme, four weeks mourned as dead, and three months a prisoner of war in Germany. He describes vividly how he planned the attack of his company under fire, brought his men into position, directed the charge, and fell, wounded in the head and blinded for life.

“One of the most moving of the personal accounts.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 70w

“This is not a great book. It is so unpretentious, indeed, that one wonders why one has finished it at a single sitting. But as a graphic, moving picture it will hold any reader.”

+ =Dial= 64:72 Ja 17 ‘18 240w

=Pittsburgh= 22:763 N ‘17 40w

“A simple and interesting personal narrative.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:417 D ‘17 20w

=NOBLE, EDWARD.= Outposts of the fleet. *60c Houghton 17-17081

“That heroes of the merchant marine should, as a rule, receive but scant recognition seems very unjust to Mr Edward Noble. ... To the ordinary perils of the deep are now added the risks and the terrors of war, as is vividly brought out in such tales as ‘Torpedoed’ and ‘Homeward with grain,’ which, with seven other short pieces, make up the contents of the book. Most, if not all, of these sea-yarns have already seen the light in various British journals. ... They are new to American readers.”—Dial

“Nine graphic short stories which show a keen insight into the character of the British seaman and a wide knowledge of his life. Printed on very poor paper.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“As full of the marine spirit as sea water is full of salt.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 13 ‘17 300w

+ =Dial= 63:400 O 25 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w

=R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 40w

Noontime messages in a college chapel. *$1.25 (4c) Pilgrim press 252 17-30764

Sixty-nine short addresses to young people by twenty-five well-known preachers of different denominations. The college is not named, but the preachers represented belong to Boston and its vicinity. Among them are: George H. Hodges, Charles F. Dole, Paul R. Frothingham, Daniel Evans, Samuel M. Crothers, and Raymond Calkins. The addresses are very brief and are in the nature of intimate talks.

“May be suggestive to ministers and leaders of religious organizations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18

“The thought itself, while sometimes brilliant and suggestive, is more often tame and commonplace.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 26 ‘18 110w

“All are characterized by freshness and insight.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 90w

=NORRIS, EDWIN MARK.= Story of Princeton. il *$2 (3c) Little 378 17-28880

This story of Princeton has been written by the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. It is based on well-known sources, and aims, in addition to giving the essential historical facts, “to present and preserve some of the more characteristic traditions and anecdotes that through two centuries have gathered about the name of Princeton.” (Preface) Contents: When we lived under the king; Princeton’s part in the making of the nation; The reign of terror; Depression and reconstruction; The great awakening; The university. The illustrations are from drawings by Lester G. Hornby.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 40w

=Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 50w

“The book tells its story well. It is indexed, and the drawings are numerous and good.”

+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 190w

“A worthy volume to set beside Arthur Stanwood Pier’s similar study of Harvard. The volume is for the undergraduate and the alumnus in business, not for the man who has a professional or otherwise strongly developed interest in higher education and academic history. It is simply a bright sketch, made possible by Professor Collins’s recent exhaustive book, and frank in its shortcomings.”

+ — =Nation= 105:642 D 6 ‘17 320w

“Mr Norris is particularly happy in depicting the great personalities among the presidents of bygone days.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:549 D 9 ‘17 320w

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 80w

=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 40w

“The only defect of his entertaining sketch of the university’s history is a tendency to gloss over some of the ‘intellectual’ battles—if they were wholly intellectual—that were waged over questions of policy. ... Mr Norris’s book as a whole is pleasant and unpretentiously informing.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 1050w

=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Martie, the unconquered. il *$1.35 (1c) Doubleday 17-22088

Martie Monroe, a girl of strong individuality and much ambition, brought up in a little California town, escaped from her family who economically and socially were on the down-hill grade, by marrying Wallace Bannister, a third-class actor. The Bannisters went to New York, where a son was born. As Wallace was constantly away, and failed to support his wife, she took charge of the boarding-house in which she lived. After her husband’s death, she returned to California to live in the old homestead with her father, her sister Lydia and her son Teddy, and to work in the Monroe public library. After she had accepted an offer of marriage from Clifford Frost, a leading citizen of Monroe about twice her age, John Dryden, who had known and loved her in New York, followed her to California; but Martie, being a Catholic, refused to marry Dryden because he was a divorced man, and, breaking her engagement to Frost, returned to New York to work in the office of a magazine for which she had written some successful articles. Her career is contrasted with that of her sister Sally, who married a poor boy and had four children whom she brought up on an allowance made her by “Dr Ben,” an old physician who believed in the endowment of motherhood.

“Published in the Pictorial Review.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:27 O ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 80w

“To touch unobtrusively and incidentally upon moral questions of the hour has been Mrs Norris’s object in the writing of all her novels, and never has she succeeded so well as in ‘Martie the unconquered.’ ... As a novel with its basis the problem of woman, it will make its strongest appeal because it is not a problem novel. ... There is little of the polemic in it, except as life itself is polemic. It contains much of reality and truth as they are faced by a young woman who is unable to remain amid the placid conditions of her birth. And best of all it is free from the morbid sentimentality that has too frequently obtruded itself into Mrs Norris’s other novels.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1650w

“The book is readable, and much of it is well written; but it fails to carry out the author’s evident intention to picture the triumph of a dauntless spirit over adverse conditions.”

– + =Cath World= 106:555 Ja ‘18 160w

“The author’s handling of character and her power of rendering the details of village life are worthy of attention. The picture of Malcolm Monroe’s household, dominated by the suspicions of a petty tyrant, is an excellent bit of domestic comedy. Bonestell’s drugstore, where the young folk of Monroe gather for pink sodas; the library steps where they meet and shyly depart on Sunday afternoon walks; the drab existence of New York boarding-houses and flats; the dull reality of the mediocre actor’s days and nights,—these scenes and this youth are part of our American life and they are sketched with a skill that is really notable.”

+ =Dial= 63:220 S 13 ‘17 170w

“Kathleen Norris is suffering the inevitable penalty of over-prolific production. ... If her tricks of manner grow a bit hackneyed, the basic idea on which she works will bear a great deal of repetition.”

– + =Ind= 93:240 F 9 ‘18 160w

“Somehow, as has happened before in Mrs Norris’s work, the story which began so clearly and simply as a record of human experience is gradually enfolded and finally smothered outright in a fog of sheer sentimentalism.”

– + =Nation= 105:541 N 15 ‘17 110w

“It is encouraging to find in a story that is frankly the story of a popular romancer so much of the actualistic and veracious. Nor is the attack on our earlier romantic aura tradition confined wholly to the background. Mrs Norris’ heroine struggles through her loves and early love’s mistakes to her fulness of womanhood and achievement, and there is not even the condescension of a mating-finish.”

+ =New Repub= 12:252 S 29 ‘17 190w

“The best-drawn figure in the book is Martie’s father, a fine and consistent portrait. He stands out, in his bigoted egotism, as one living personality among many vague shadows.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 180w

“Mrs Norris’s portrayals of character are always graphic, even where they are slight and superficial. Martie is perhaps the most real and vital of all her gallery of feminine portraits.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 670w

“There is close depiction of a rather narrow range of character. The story in workmanship is equal to the author’s best previous writing.”

+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 60w

“Martie must be regarded as one of Mrs Norris’s best characters.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 550w

=NORRIS, KATHLEEN (THOMPSON) (MRS CHARLES GILMAN NORRIS).= Undertow. il *$1.25 (3c) Doubleday 17-11464

The story of a married pair who hold together thru adversity only to find themselves drawn apart when prosperity comes to them. Bert and Nancy marry on twenty-five dollars a week. With careful economy they keep well and happy in the little four room apartment. Children come one after the other and Bert’s salary keeps pace with the growing needs of the family. When they have attained real financial independence they move to a fashionable suburb. Here they are drawn into the gay, idle life of the place. They live beyond their means and worry about appearances, but they so far retain their common sense that they can look on the calamity that releases them as a bit of good fortune.

“Copyright by the Curtis publishing company under the title ‘Holly court.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

+ =Cath World= 105:554 Jl ‘17 90w

“Even the characters hardly live. They move vaguely across the screen in the all-too well-known progress of their lives. If Mrs Norris wishes to do any more moral tales, she must make them more vivid and alive or her readers will fly for relief to the latest detective story.”

— =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 130w

“This book is a lantern of warning set on a rock pile.”

+ =Ind= 90:298 My 12 ‘17 50w

=Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 280w

“One wonders, indeed, if the author is not playing her characters false, in this [suburban] phase of their development, for the sake of the story she is weaving and the moral she desires her readers to get out of it.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:113 Ap 1 ‘17 400w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 91:969 Mr 17 ‘17 350w

“The story presents a sharp lesson in the useless extravagance so conspicuous in the American home. But the story is so well balanced that the moral is at no time unduly prominent. It is not long, but is well worth the reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 300w

“Interesting despite the heavily-accentuated moral.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w

=NORTHEND, MARY HARROD.=[2] Memories of old Salem. il *$4 Moffat 974.4 17-27755

“This book, while written in the form of a romantic tale, is designed chiefly to carry the reader back to the days when Salem was in its glory, the days when its ships sailed the seven seas and brought riches and fame to the ancient port. Miss Northend’s story hangs upon the discovery of a packet of love-letters hidden in the frame of an old picture, and by means of the narrative she skilfully conveys the spirit and the setting of the past.”—Lit D

“In both text and picture Miss Northend emphasizes those striking qualities that make Salem one of the most interesting American towns. The great grandmother, in telling the story, recreates the past with all its glamour.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 19 ‘17 1200w

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 130w

“Mrs Northend ingeniously contrived a readable narrative in which to embody an immense amount of information. The illustrations alone will be a treasure for any one interested in the life and arts of early New England.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:4 Ja 6 ‘18 260w

“This volume is eminently attractive, both in its physical and pictorial form and in the curious information about old times and old things in Salem.”

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 70w

“Whether or not this narrative is all that could be desired as an account of colonial manners and customs is by no means certain. Some readers, at all events, would prefer a larger amount of research, and a smaller admixture of personal sentiment. The pictures, however, are the real raison d’etre of the volume.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 330w

=NORTHRUP, EDWIN FITCH.= Laws of physical science; a reference book. *$2 Lippincott 530 17-13944

The author’s aim has been to compile a handbook containing a complete list of the general propositions or laws of science. He says, “We have chosen for a title, ‘Laws of physical science’ but many general propositions, theorems and mere statements of important facts have been included which perhaps, if strictly considered, could not be discriminated as laws. ... When such doubts existed, a policy of inclusion has been followed in preference to one of exclusion.” In all the book contains 480 general statements. These are classified into six groups: Mechanics; Hydrostatics, hydrodynamics and capillarity; Sound; Heat and physical chemistry; Electricity and magnetism; Light. Bibliography and index follow.

“The book is a valuable epitome, and should be of special service to students of physics, chemistry, and engineering.”

+ =Ath= p592 N ‘17 170w

“Dr Edwin P. Northrup of Princeton has done a very useful service in adding to existing reference books his ‘Laws of physical science.’”

+ =Educ R= 54:316 O ‘17 50w

“Students of engineering and the physical sciences have long needed a compact handbook of the established propositions of physical science. Dr Northrup has prepared just such a handbook. ... Each law is followed by one and in some cases by several references to easily accessible textbooks, standard treatises, etc., where detailed and systematic treatment is given of these propositions. This is not the least important contribution of the book.”

+ =El School J= 17:692 My ‘17 250w

“A judicious choice has been made from a large selection of authors, so that in each case the law might be given in its clearest and most exact form. The book is attractively got up.”

+ =Nation= 105:274 S 6 ‘17 70w

“In a book which so obviously fills a gap in our literature it is perhaps a little ungrateful to point out minor defects. The contrast between the thoroughness of the section devoted to current electricity and the incompleteness and lack of unity of some of the other sections is very marked.”

+ — =Nature= 100:265 D 6 ‘17 330w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17 10w

“Unique work of great value for quick reference. Wider in scope than title indicates.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:655 O ‘17 40w

“The demands of condensation have been met for the most part very successfully in statements which though compact are clear and correct. In a few instances, however, the statements should be revised. ... It is perhaps unfortunate that the author has chosen Rankine as his source for various thermodynamic statements, for with all his undoubted genius Rankine is not an easy guide to follow. ... But it is easy to be too critical; the author has successfully carried out his proposal and has done an important service.” A. L. Kimball

+ — =Science= n s 47:120 F 1 ‘18 700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 120w

=NORTON, MRS JEANNETTE YOUNG.= Mrs Norton’s cook-book; selecting, cooking, and serving for the home table. *$2.50 (1c) Putnam 641.5 17-11938

The author says, “I have tried to make this a cook book, pure and simple, avoiding all reference to, and rules of, chemistry, feeling that the pupils of the schools of domestic science have all such information. ... [and that] lay women would not ordinarily use such information if it were given.” A half dozen chapters of general information precede the chapters devoted to recipes. Special chapters are given to Invalid cookery, Nursery diet, Child cookery, Children’s parties, School luncheons, Camp cookery, etc.

“Recipes are concise but some of them are rather extravagant for the average housekeeper of these times. Would be a great help to tea shops, clubs, or even hotels. Good index.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:435 Jl ‘17

+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 40w

“Besides hundreds of recipes, there are chapters of general information most useful to the housekeeper.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p418 Ag 30 ‘17 50w

=NORWAY, MARY LOUISA (GADSDEN) (MRS HAMILTON NORWAY).= Sinn Fein rebellion as I saw it. il *2s Smith, Elder & co., London 941.5 (Eng ed A16-1424)

“The author is the wife of the Secretary for the Post office in Ireland, and in the letters here reprinted, which were written for family perusal, gives a good idea of the sudden terrors and anxieties of the rising. ‘H.’ at the beginning of the war, had obtained a military guard, armed, for the G. P. O. When the outbreak occurred it was there, but had no ammunition. It is a shocking story of folly and mismanagement. ... Evidence is offered of German assistance of the rebels.”—Sat R

“No literary merit is claimed for these letters, which were intended for family perusal only, but they convey a vivid idea of the events and the anxieties they aroused.”

+ =Ath= p485 O ‘16 60w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:425 My ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:24 Ja ‘17

=Sat R= 122:232 S 2 ‘16 160w

“A perfectly plain, straightforward narrative.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p375 Ag 10 ‘16 800w

=NOURSE, EDWIN GRISWOLD.= Agricultural economics. (Materials for the study of economics) *$2.75 (1c) Univ. of Chicago press 338 16-23032

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“Chapter 1, The emergence of the problem of agricultural economics, is disappointing. ... The best material on the history of American agriculture has not been utilized. ... The editor has kept well in the foreground the social aspect of such matters as the standard of living of the rural population and the defects of the labor force both in quality and quantity. In so doing he has justified his advocacy of the teaching of agricultural economics in every institution which aims to give a liberal education.” P. W. Bidwell

+ =Am Econ R= 7:387 Je ‘17 700w

“Should be a valuable help to teachers of undergraduate students, specially until the whole field is more fully developed. More complete and better edited than other books on this subject.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:245 Mr ‘17

“A more accurate title for this collection of valuable contributions would be ‘Source book of agricultural economics,’ since the author does not attempt to present what would commonly be looked upon as a textbook in the general principles of the subject.” J. L. C.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:300 N ‘17 120w

“A book significant at once of the trend of thought in this direction, and of the new technique of university instruction.”

+ =Ind= 89:421 Mr 5 ‘17 350w

“Where the problem under discussion is of a controversial nature, both sides of the case are carefully presented. But in some instances the author has failed to set forth important facts bearing upon his subject. That is, too little space has been given to certain topics. ... Professor Nourse has assembled some suggestive material. He has produced, as it were, a ‘comparative print’ which throws the searchlight of agricultural data on controversial points in economic theory—theory which has too often been developed without due regard for agricultural facts. In accomplishing his other aims he has not succeeded so well. His collection of materials can hardly be regarded as a first-class textbook. Nevertheless, it represents by far the best attempt that has yet been made to satisfy this need.” G: E. Putnam

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:308 Mr ‘17 1050w

=NOVIKOVA, OLGA ALEKSIEEVNA.= Russian memories; with an introd. by Stephen Graham. il *$3.50 Dutton (Eng ed 16-22949)

“People whose memory goes back to the eastern crisis of 1876-78 are not likely to have forgotten Mme Olga Novikoff, or the part that she played in the struggle between the Disraelians and the Gladstonians of that day. A Russian lady, handsome and clever, well connected and well backed, she captivated Mr Gladstone, and enlisted in support of her cause men so diverse as Carlyle, Tyndall, and W. T. Stead. ... Her new book, rather vaguely called ‘Russian memories,’ is partly a sketch of her past political activities, and partly a survey of certain aspects of Russia during recent years, of her politics home and foreign, and of the immediate situation.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:23 O ‘17

“These reminiscences of a very notable woman, who has numbered among her friends Gladstone, Kinglake (’Eothen’), Carlyle, Froude, Tyndall, W. T. Stead, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Verestschagin, and ‘Mark Twain,’ are opportune in their appearance. ... The volume is provided with a good index.”

=Ath= p548 N ‘16 200w

“That much-abused person who is commonly referred to as the future historian will probably consider this lady the last Mohican of Russian monarchism.” Abraham Yarmolinsky.

– + =Bookm= 46:483 D ‘17 180w

“It is a sincere analysis of the relations between Russia and England as she has observed them during the last fifty years. And the personality shown in her writing is one of great intelligence and charm.” R. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 630w

“The author has apparently spent little time on the ordered preparation of her book, but her manner of writing is invariably engaging and intelligent.”

+ — =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 420w

“Her ‘Russian memories’ contain little or nothing that is new or important. They suggest the garrulity and magnification of self which often goes with old age.”

— =Nation= 105:181 Ag 16 ‘17 180w

“Rightly is her book called a book of ‘Memories’; though sprightly, amusing, and entertaining, it is emphatically a book of the past.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 580w

“What the author says concerning such of her own countrymen as Dostoevsky, Verestchagin, and Skobelev is of particular moment to the student of Russian life.”

+ =Outlook= 116:451 Jl 18 ‘17 150w

“As she is an uncompromising champion of the old political regime in Russia, some of her observations, as touching czarism and Siberia for example, seem not a little wide of the mark.”

=Pittsburgh= 22:405 My ‘17 60w

“The ‘Holy Russia’ of Madame Novikoff seems almost as remote from the Russia of Miliukoff and Kerensky as the England of George III and Lord North from the Britain of Lloyd George.”

=R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w

“A vivacious and sufficiently self-revealing record of the activities of the most energetic of the unofficial promoters of the Anglo-Russian entente.”

+ =Spec= 117:509 O 28 ‘16 1450w

“Its publication in England antedated the great days of March, so that it must not be grouped with the rapidly-augmenting library that owes its genesis to the revolution.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 26 ‘17 670w

“This is not a very systematic book, nor is it easy to collect from it any consistent series of impressions. ... The later pages, it is true, deal with the present war, but many others go back a whole generation, so that, as there is no clear marking of the chronology, younger readers will be often perplexed as to the relative position of events.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p524 N 2 ‘16 670w

=NOXON, FRANK WRIGHT.= Are we capable of self-government? *$1.50 (2c) Harper 330.9 17-16073

The author considers the “national problems and policies affecting business, 1900-1916.” He “has not tried to answer the question which the title of the book propounds, but rather to review the nation’s recent legislative and bureaucratic strictures upon organized business, sometimes true to the fundamental principles of our government, sometimes ludicrously childish and inconsistent, yet, because the underlying purpose has been honest rather than vicious, making for general progress.” (Introd.) There is a chapter on “Backsliding in New England,” one on “The new era in railway regulation,” and one on “Organized labor and the law.” The introduction is by Harry A. Wheeler, first president of the Chamber of commerce of the United States.

Reviewed by L. E. Robinson

=Bookm= 46:268 N ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 600w

=Ind= 91:294 Ag 25 ‘17 100w

“The author’s study of the various movements will be of interest to Socialists in recalling some recent events. His conclusions will be found curious, for he often seems to go far in boldness of thought and utterance and to miss wholly underlying causes and actual social forces.” Frank Macdonald

– + =N Y Call= p14 Jl 29 ‘17 520w

“This economic interpretation of current affairs is stimulating in high degree. ... It is rather a book for men of business than students, and wherever women have the vote or wish to be qualified to vote or discuss men’s affairs with men, the book should have women readers.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 1000w

“While the title of the book might indicate a pessimistic tendency, the author really shows that our form of government is favorable to the growth of those factors which may by proper cooperation produce the best results in both business and political life.”

=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 100w

=NOYES, ALFRED.= Open boats. *50c (4½c) Stokes 940.91 17-13295

A book based on the narratives of those who have been sent out in open boats after the sinking of vessels by submarines. Mr Noyes has been at pains to gather together as many authentic records as possible. Contents: Open boats; Sea savagery; The unforeseen; A Prussian; Magnificoes and the dead. Two poems are printed by way of prolog and epilog.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“Mr Alfred Noyes touches a chord of response in his readers by his facility in rhythmic, picturesque utterance. This facility is often fatal to his excellence as a poet, but it adapts itself readily to the description of German frightfulness on the high seas, which is the subject of this little book of sketches.”

+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 130w

“The horror of submarine warfare is nowhere made more real than in these terse records, drawn from admiralty reports and from the accounts by survivors.”

=Ind= 90:311 My 19 ‘17 25w

=Pratt= p41 O ‘17 20w

“Mr Noyes has been out with the British trawlers and has personal knowledge of the sea perils that he describes.”

=R of Rs= 55:669 Je ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 260w

“We wish Mr Noyes would more often leave the nail driven in without making assurance doubly sure by hitting it on the head a dozen times more. He has had presumably access to documents that are not published in the press, but we cannot think that he has succeeded in letting the survivors tell their own desperate story in their own vivid and unvarnished style.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p364 Ag 2 ‘17 400w

=NYBURG, SIDNEY LAUER.= Chosen people. *$1.40 (1½c) Lippincott 17-26391

Philip Graetz, a young rabbi, fresh from his studies, is called to minister to a wealthy Jewish congregation in Baltimore. Philip is an idealist, believing passionately in the unity of the Jewish people and in the power of the Hebrew religion to solve all problems. The wide gulf that exists between the people of his congregation and the poor Jews of the slums is brought home to him in a strike in the clothing trade, and the failure of “Jewish ethics” to solve the labor problem all but shatters his second ideal. Love brings a bitter experience to Philip too, for he learns to care deeply for a girl who is not of his own people, and is saved from sacrificing his chosen career only by her fine character and sense of values. An interesting character in the story is David Gordon, the self-made Russian-Jewish lawyer. He is a good foil for Philip, and the fact that they become friends promises well for the young dreamer’s future.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:405 Je ‘17

“In a rough sense this may be called a Jewish ‘Inside of the cup.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:317 My ‘17 650w

“A somewhat formal, slightly chaotic and altogether serious story. ... Although Mr Nyburg’s style is extraordinarily verbose, although he emphasizes trifles and is inclined to lengthy discussions of incidents, it is undeniable that in ‘The chosen people’ he has written a novel of exceptional quality.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 21 ‘17 950w

“I have seen few modern American stories so earnest, direct, free from palaver and sentimentality. ... The problems of the Jew in America are presented but not expounded.” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 62:358 Ap 19 ‘17 350w

“A book of notable sincerity and dignity, by a Jew who is proud of his race, and whose pride exacts much of that race; by an American also, who desires that American life may be strengthened and ennobled by her Jewish citizens.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 130w

“In delightful and reassuring contrast [to Cahan’s ‘Rise of David Levinsky’] is Mr Nyburg’s ‘The chosen people.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 80w

“Refreshing, because it contains none of the conventional sentimentality about the Jew found in the average novel about him. ... Any one who is in the least familiar with Jews will not fail to recognize the prototypes of Arthur Kahn, the cultured ‘cash register’; ... and Dr Philip Graetz, the cultured rabbi of this most fashionable congregation in the city of Baltimore.” Harry Salpeter

+ =N Y Call= p15 Je 24 ‘17 650w

“A brilliant piece of work. ... From first to last the book is exceptionally interesting. Detailed as it is, it never drags.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:102 Mr 25 ‘17 800w

“He writes with a simplicity and directness that give the impression of one who speaks with authority.” M. K. Reely

+ =Pub W= 91:969 Mr 17 ‘17 550w

“Mr Nyburg has written a keenly intelligent story which often penetrates the hypocrisies of society and shatters the platitudes and poses of conspicuous types. He has not conquered a penchant for theatrical climaxes, but the story ranks among the most substantial of the season’s fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 500w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 50w

=NYROP, KRISTOFFER.= Is war civilization? auth. tr. by H. G. Wright. *$1.25 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-30069)

A collection of papers on the war by a professor of romance philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. They appear to have been written at different times, but have been arranged in a logical sequence to conform with a definite plan: “The general introduction is followed by four chapters dealing with the devastation in Belgium and northern France, after which, by a natural succession, there come the manifesto of the ninety-three and the replies to the same. War of necessity leads to annexation, which in its turn involves tyranny, and some of the questions connected with this are dealt with in the next three chapters. The movement of the irredentists in Italy proves to what an extent the suppression of nationality produces explosive matter and so Italy’s attitude to the war has been made the object of special investigation. Finally, in a few brief sections, I have endeavoured to throw some light on the relations between war and religion, and war and languages, whilst in the last chapter I have drawn attention to that civitas Dei for the establishment of which all mankind ought harmoniously to unite.” (Preface)

+ =Ath= p531 O ‘17 160w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Ag 23 ‘17 110w

“If there were nothing more in the volume than the extracts which Professor Nyrop gathers together from authors little known here, all showing the persistency and boundless arrogance of the modern German, the book would be useful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 S 6 ‘17 500w

=NYSTROM, PAUL HENRY.= Retail store management. il $2 LaSalle extension univ. 658 17-6655

“This book is intended primarily as a textbook for students of the retailing process, and is general in character rather than descriptive of technical matters. The chief merchandising problems are presented clearly and concisely. The author realizes the need of giving to those engaged in retail business a broad view of the field, in order to counteract the narrowing tendencies of intensive routine work. The necessary theoretical matter is presented by means of illustrations taken from actual experiences of merchants. Reality without minute detail is the spirit of the work. Particular forms of retailing—chain stores, department stores, and so on—are not mentioned in the treatise. Location, organization, accounting, buying, sales, and pricing, the factors whose management means success or failure in any retail establishment, large or small, receive thorough treatment. House policies, especially with reference to direct dealings with customers and employees, are commented on. Several of the merchandising functions are illustrated by simple, well-organized charts, and a few carefully selected forms give hints of possible methods for controlling the work of the different functions.”—J Pol Econ

“‘Retail store management’ is closely related to the author’s other books, ‘Retail selling and store management’ (Appleton, 1914) and ‘The economics of retailing’ (Ronald press, 1915). Taken together, Dr Nystrom’s books constitute no small part of the recent useful literature of modern retailing. The Appleton text is bipartite and makes the three repetitive; the portions on store management should be transferred to the LaSalle text and the three texts would then have more or less exclusive fields.” R. B. Westerfield

+ =Am Econ R= 7:641 S ‘17 400w

“It is intensely matter-of-fact. And, in spite of its prosaic subject, it is interestingly written.” F. H. Hankins

+ =Am J Soc= 22:849 My ‘17 150w

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:640 Je ‘17 170w

“Dr Nystrom finds call for the course of instruction he lays down in ‘Retail store management’ in his conviction that a very large percentage of the three million and more Americans engaged in retail trade are incapable and inefficient. ... He strongly urges that everybody connected with retail trading should be fitted as well as possible for the work he is expected to perform. Study of Dr Nystrom’s book will tend to show the soundness of this view, while at the same time it will give a practical response to the need of knowledge and training the author so thoroughly demonstrates.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:130 Ap 8 ‘17 250w

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=OBERHOLTZER, ELLIS PAXSON.= History of the United States since the Civil war. 5v v 1 *$3.50 (4½c) Macmillan 973.8 (17-28462)

=v 1= 1865-8.

The first of a five-volume work whose title suggests the scope. This installment begins immediately after the assassination of Lincoln in 1865 and covers three years to the impeachment of Johnson. The social, economic, political and commercial development of those years is interpreted in terms corresponding to this generation’s needs. The writer puts to the period questions that have never been asked before because they are questions that have grown out of the conditions of modern progress. General headings: President Johnson; The South after the war; Congress in control; The triumphant North; Beyond the Mississippi; The Indians; War upon the president; Mexico, Ireland and Alaska.

“It is a storehouse of detail; every page carries the evidence of comprehensive and discriminating research. The author holds a judicial restraint upon his own views. He is expert in searching for the events and the views of those sharing in the making of history. Like Mr Rhodes’s Mr Oberholtzer’s vision of American achievement embraces more than politics.” L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:596 Ja ‘18 1150w

“Mr Oberholtzer writes with vigor and often with discrimination, in easy, flowing style, and he holds the attention of the reader with firmness.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 5 ‘17 450w

“The strong points of the present volume are its remarkable portrayals of life and conditions; its weak ones are those which must become more apparent as the succeeding instalments come out. Indirect discourse, quotations from racy contemporary sources, pen pictures of eminent men, must hold the reader’s interest for a while; but five volumes of this tend to confuse and weary, and one begins to wonder what it is all about. After all the historian must be more than a reporter.”

+ — =Nation= 105:636 D 6 ‘17 1650w

“What makes the book especially interesting is the attention given to the more picturesque and less well known phases of our achievement.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 500w

“Some readers will not altogether like the leanings of this work as to political questions; some will think the historian’s sense of proportion somewhat defective; but no one can deny that the author makes the past live again.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:514 N 28 ‘17 80w

“Mr Oberholtzer has faithfully studied the abundant sources of information concerning this period and his copious footnotes constitutes a valuable bibliography.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 11 ‘18 700w

=O’BRIEN, CHARLES.= Food preparedness for the United States. *60c (4c) Little 940.91 17-17192

“In September, 1916, the author went to Germany to study economic conditions, particularly those regarding food supply. ... This book is designed to point out to the individual some of the factors involved and the lessons to be learned from the experiences of the European belligerents, particularly Germany ... who, in rationing her people according to her available supplies, has done so on a basis that was outlined by scientific nutrition experts.” (Author’s foreword)

=Am Econ R= 7:848 D ‘17 50w

“Brief but interesting and suggestive.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“This little book should be sent broadcast over the land.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 490w

=Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w

“Though much of the advice has been already followed in the passage of the Food bill and the work of the Food administration, and some of the information has already been made clear, the volume contains a great deal that is still interesting, practical, and valuable for us all.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:767 N ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 190w

=St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 20w

“He is weakest in his comment on applied scientific nutrition.” Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 570w

=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON=, ed. Best short stories of 1916, and the Yearbook of the American short story. *$1.50 (1c) Small

This is the second volume of Mr O’Brien’s short story annual. Again he has selected twenty stories which in his judgment represent the best short stories of the year. First place is given to Richard Matthews Hallet’s “Making port,” a story reprinted from Every Week. In addition to the twenty stories reprinted, the volume contains the “Roll of honor” for 1916, a critical summary of fifty-two stories of the year, the rating of the magazines on the basis of the number of distinctive stories published, etc. Mr O’Brien finds the outlook for the American short story hopeful. He says: “Our artists are beginning to think of life wholly in terms of the individual, and to substitute the warmth of the individual in place of the generalised and sentimentalised types to which our American public has been so whole-heartedly accustomed.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:343 My ‘17

=Cath World= 105:257 My ‘17 250w

“I am not sure that Mr Edward O’Brien’s ‘Best short stories of the year’ will not contribute their own share to the progressive decline of the short-story in America, for he is creating standards which a real criticism should resolutely reject.” M. M. Colum

— =Dial= 62:345 Ap 19 ‘17 1300w

“In spite of the most honest intention, it is impossible to take this sort of book seriously. The reprinting of twenty stories, the summarizing of fifty more, and the sober printing of a roll of honor—Baedekerized up to three stars—presupposes the existence of fixed canons of literary judgment beyond either the will or the power of humankind to achieve.”

— =Nation= 104:548 My 3 ‘17 200w

“Whether or not one may differ with Mr O’Brien about any particular story in the collection, there is no room for any question about the excellence and value and representative quality of the collection as a whole.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:82 Mr 11 ‘17 730w

“For the first time in my life I have read twenty successive stories and enjoyed every one.” M. A. Hopkins

+ =Pub W= 91:583 F 17 ‘17 450w

=O’BRIEN, EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON.= White fountains; odes and lyrics. *$1 Small 811 17-11680

Mr O’Brien’s book of poetry is made up of two parts. The first contains two remarkable odes, “Flesh” and “Flower.” The second is a small collection of lyrics. In his odes, the poet has tried the experiment of adapting the form of the Gregorian plain chant to the demands of English verse.

“There has always been a quiet insistence about Mr O’Brien’s poetic work, which now confined within a volume, challenges the attention of all poetry lovers.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 750w

+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 90w

“The second ode is a mystic poem of serene beauty and deep significance. The first is more like Whitman’s ‘Children of Adam’ than anything else in American poetry which I have read, and it is marred by the same lack of humor, judgment, self-criticism. ... No more rarified and ethereal poetry is to be found than he has given us in the small group of lyrics at the end of his book. If, to the fine Celtic qualities already so clear in his verse, he could but add humour, restraint, poise, clarity—why then he would cease to be an Irish poet, and that is a thing not to be thought of.” Odell Shepard

+ — =Dial= 63:19 Je 28 ‘17 550w

“A number of very good short lyrics are included in the volume.”

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 40w

“The two odes, ‘Flesh’ and ‘Flower’ have certain flashes of splendor and an effortless beauty. The type arrangement, or line structure, used by Mr O’Brien lessens the poetic value to the average reader.”

+ — =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 130w

=O’BRIEN, PETER O’BRIEN, baron.= Reminiscences of the Right Hon. Lord O’Brien (of Kilfenora); ed. by his daughter Georgina O’Brien. *$2.50 Longmans 17-1646

“This book takes us over the long range from the Irish famine to the opening days of the great war. It introduces us to many personages who made history in those times. Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Earl Spencer, Monsignor Persico, Isaac Butt, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Lord Russell of Killowen, are some of the persons whom we meet in its pages. Those who are interested in Irish history come upon striking side-lights in the stirring period covered by Lord O’Brien’s life. ... His official conduct was characterized by great devotion to duty and courage in the midst of much unpopularity and numerous protests and threats. ... His career as prosecuting attorney for the crown brought him in later years the notable reward of appointment as lord chief justice for Ireland.”—Cath World

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:312 Ap ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 20 ‘17 350w

“The style of the book, the more considerable part of which is in the Judge’s own words—twenty-two chapters out of thirty-one—is marked by simplicity and directness. ... His daughter prepared the manuscript for publication, and added some chapters of her own which throw a new charm over the pages. ... A complete and useful index is given at the end of the volume.”

+ =Cath World= 104:692 F ‘17 300w

“It was a rather meagre record which Lord O’Brien left prepared at his death (in 1914), and its piecing out in this volume by his daughter adds little of real consequence. Politically, the most important part of the book is that relating to the Irish Invincibles. The pages are but rarely lighted up by Irish wit, though the reader is often told, somewhat exasperatingly, of amusing stories or clever reports which he is asked to take on faith.”

+ — =Nation= 104:81 Ja 18 ‘17 120w

“These reminiscences of Lord O’Brien are of the most importance for the years 1880 to 1888.”

+ =Sat R= 123:40 Ja 13 ‘17 1000w

“His reminiscences are pleasantly readable, and show why the Judge, with his humor and love of sport, was always popular in Ireland.”

+ =Spec= 117:sup610 N 18 ‘16 120w

“Even an enemy must be impressed by the kindliness and the honesty, the modesty and the courage, of the personality here revealed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 26 ‘16 1050w

=ODLING, WILLIAM.= Technic of versification. *4s 6d Parker & co., Oxford 426.2

“The greater part of this book is a selection of mostly well-known verses, classified according to the rhythmic character of the excerpts, and preceded by thirty pages of introductory notes and illustrations. Following the preface is a short list of some early works on versification to be found in the Bodleian library.”—Ath

“To those without facilities for a study of the longer treatise upon the art of versification, the present volume should be useful. The extracts chosen range in date from 1400 to 1913. The book has neither an index nor a table of contents.”

+ — =Ath= p585 D ‘16 90w

“One can scarcely be grateful for the writer’s seeming ignorance of the literature of the subject, or his indifference to the conventional use of technical terms. ... The terminology is often interesting, but certainly as often questionable.”

— =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 400w

“Professor Odling’s scansion is not always convincing, but his systematic analysis of our poetic forms will interest a good many people.”

+ — =Spec= 117:660 N 25 ‘16 60w

=OEMLER, MARIE CONWAY.= Slippy McGee; sometimes known as the Butterfly man. *$1.35 (1c) Century 17-13219

Slippy McGee, the cleverest crook in America, making his getaway on a freight train, falls and is terribly mangled. When he awakens he finds himself in the parish house of a little South Carolina town, crippled for life. His one piece of luggage, his burglar’s kit, has disappeared, and he does not know till long afterwards when an emergency calls for it, that the parish priest has hidden it inside the statue of St Stanislaus in the church. Father De Rancé’s interest in butterflies and moths is the instrument that saves the soul of Slippy McGee. But it is little Mary Virginia who points the way, suggesting that the slender, supple hands, the hands of the cleverest cracksman in America, be employed in mounting specimens. Slippy McGee thereafter becomes the Butterfly man. Only once does he take on his old character, and then it is in the interest of this same Mary Virginia. After that one occurrence the cracksman’s tools go back into the keeping of St Stanislaus, to stay.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“However she may choose to employ these conventions of the story-romancer’s art, it is notable that Mrs Oemler, herself a southerner, takes a vigorous fling at more than one shibboleth, notably that hollow convention of colonel-ism and ‘southern chivalry’ which story-tellers have been wont to handle so tenderly.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:409 Je ‘17 350w

“One of the pleasant novels of the year.”

+ =Ind= 91:188 Ag 4 ‘17 60w

“A certain freshness and gusto rescue the story from melodramatic and sentimental fatuity, and render it acceptable in its kind.”

+ =Nation= 104:736 Je 21 ‘17 330w

“Unmarred by so much as a single touch of mawkishness or cant, the story is related with sincerity and charm.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 500w

“In spite of melodrama the book is pleasant from beginning to end, and ‘Slippy McGee’ is a creation the reader does not forget.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 420w

Official register and directory of women’s clubs in America. v 19 il pa $2 H. M. Winslow. Shirley, Mass. 374.2

The preface states: “This is our nineteenth annual ‘Club register.’ The first appeared in 1898 and covered Massachusetts only. The next volume covered New England, and a little later we covered the whole country. ... This is the only directory in the world that covers all the federated clubs.” The text treats of the General federation of women’s clubs, listing officers, etc., then takes up clubs alphabetically by states and their cities giving the number of members and the name of the president of each club. The editor draws attention to the classified list of club lecturers and entertainers found at the end of the volume.

=OGDEN, GEORGE WASHINGTON.= Rustler of Wind River. il $1.30 (1½c) McClurg 17-10160

A fight between the cattle barons who had for years had control of the free ranges and the settlers who had come in to homestead the land is the basis of this story. To cover up the criminality of their proceedings, the cattle men had spread the rumor that the settlers were a band of rustlers and had branded Alan Macdonald, their leader, as a desperado and an outlaw. Saul Chadron had put a price on Macdonald’s head and his hired gunman was on the man’s trail. But at her first meeting with Macdonald, Frances Landcraft, daughter of the commander of the military post, knows that these tales are false, and she thereafter takes his part. Her judgment is vindicated, and the homesteaders’ cause is won.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17

“The characters hold together well and when the most original ones are presented together, as in the case of the leading cattle-baron and his murder-tool, the passage between them is strong in its conception and admirably phrased and described.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 210w

“A tale well worth the reading, not for its interest alone, but because of its historic value as a picture of the West in the days when might made right.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 160w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 250w

=OGDEN, HENRY ALEXANDER=, comp. Our flag and our songs. il *60c Clode, E: J. 929.9 17-22075

A brief account of the origin and history of the United States flag, together with eighteen patriotic and other well-known songs, ranging from “The star-spangled banner” to “My old Kentucky home” and “When this cruel war is over.” The songs are credited to their authors.

=OGG, FREDERIC AUSTIN.= Economic development of modern Europe. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 330.9 17-13473

Frederic Austin Ogg is associate professor of political science in the University of Wisconsin and author of “Social progress in contemporary Europe,” some chapters of which have been reproduced, with considerable modification, in the present volume. In deciding “what topics to include, and what space to allow to each, Professor Ogg followed these principles: to devote most of his attention to the nineteenth century, contenting himself with a summary sketch of preceding conditions; to omit from consideration the more technical aspects of economic history, such as public finance; and to confine himself in general to the history of three leading countries, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. ... Part 1. ‘Antecedents of nineteenth-century growth,’ occupies 114 pages. ... Part 2, ‘Agriculture, industry, and trade since 1815,’ pages 117-340, covers the development of production in the leading countries, with an added chapter on Russia; part 3, ‘Population and labour,’ pages 343-474, is devoted mainly to the organization and regulation of labor, and part 4, pages 477-641, treats of ‘Socialism and social insurance.’” (Am Econ R) There are bibliographies at the end of each chapter.

“He has read widely, uses his authorities with discrimination, selects and arranges his materials skilfully, and sets forth his product in good English. He is accurate. ... Altogether, his book offers the best survey known to the reviewer of the recent economic history of Europe.” Clive Day

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:608 S ‘17 580w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:429 Jl ‘17

Reviewed by Edgar Dawson

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:151 F ‘18 250w

“The best single volume on the subject. ... Professor Ogg has depended for the most part upon secondary sources and most of these are written in English. ... In the chapter on Russia there is not a single reference to a German authority, although that is the chief source of information for one who does not read Russian. The bibliographies at the end of each chapter ... have not received the same careful attention which the author gave to the text, for there are not infrequent errors in titles, in spelling, etc.” E. L. Bogart

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:237 S ‘17 450w

“Of especial interest are the chapters on socialism and on social insurance.”

+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w

“The book might almost serve as a complete history of Europe from the early eighteenth century to the outbreak of the great war.”

+ =Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 160w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 20w

=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w

“His narrative is, on the whole, clear and accurate, and his elaborate bibliographies will be useful to students of special topics. His remarks on the political activity of the German Socialists, written no doubt before the war, now require revision.”

+ =Spec= 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 110w

“The book will be found particularly useful as a reference source on the modern labor movement including the related politics, and the paternalistic enterprises chiefly concerning the working class. It gives much evidence of the author’s thorough study of the available data and scholarly fairness of presentation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ‘17 900w

“In many of the historical instances which it gives, this volume also brings surprisingly telling lessons for our own time. The bibliographical references accompanying each chapter are without serious omission and most useful to the student. The judgment exercised in selection and in the discussion of controversial subjects throughout the book is admirable.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 39:200 N 24 ‘17 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Jl 12 ‘17 80w

=OHIO COMPANY OF ASSOCIATES.= Minutes and proceedings of the Ohio company of associates; ed. by Archer Butler Hulbert. (Marietta college. Historical collections) $2.50 Marietta historical commission, Marietta college, Marietta, O. 977.1

“This is the first of a series of volumes which will contain original records, letters, etc., illustrating the settlement and development of southeastern Ohio. There is a long introduction by the editor treating of the origin of the Ohio company, the part taken in its formation by Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, and other leaders, the relation between the Ohio and Scioto companies, and a summary of the land, financial, and ‘paternalistic’ policies of the company. The text of the records covers the period from 1786 to December 21, 1789, and shows, in part, why New England influences were so important in this section. ... These records vividly illustrate the capitalistic as contrasted with the individualistic method of promoting the settlement and development of a new region.” (Am Hist R) “The work, when completed, will contain the name of probably every man of importance in the early annals of the state of Ohio. ... The records are presented as they appear in the writing of the various secretaries, in the large sheep-bound volumes presented to the college by William R. Putnam, the papers having been preserved carefully by the Putnam family.” (Boston Transcript) The editor is professor of American history in Marietta college, Ohio.

“The introduction as a whole is exceedingly well written, and for the first time adequately presents the story of the founding of the company and its influence. The form, appearance, and editing of the book are excellent. Historical students are fortunate in being assured that the editorship of this series is in such competent hands, and we shall look forward eagerly to the completion of a series that will contain one of the most important collections of sources for the study of this section of the west.” M. W. Jernegan

+ =Am Hist R= 23:188 O ‘17 600w

“Professor Hulbert devotes 137 pages to a succinct history of the Ohio company and the ‘Scioto right.’ While these subjects have been treated by previous writers, Professor Hulbert’s paper is such an admirable presentation of the theme, apart from its value as an introduction to the series, that no apology is necessary for its appearance. It gives the reader of the original documents a solid groundwork of information regarding the history of the company from its inception in the bounty land offers made by the Continental congress to prospective soldiers.” G. H. S.

* + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ‘17 700w

=OHLSON, HAROLD.= Dancing hours. *$1.25 (1c) Lane 17-2486

Jane Eastwood is the daughter of a deceased pawnbroker. A comfortable income, an unpleasant memory of her parent and a bundle of old letters are Jane’s inheritance. With the bundle of letters, she blackmails her way into society. Jane has red hair and she instantly becomes a popular success. She would have carried the affair off with perfect ease, but alas, the past has a way of not remaining the past. It intrudes itself into the present. But Jane has won the affection of her blackmailed patroness, and she finds another friend, too, who stands by her and sees her through.

“It is splendid to be able to bury oneself in a novel without the horrible suspicion that one is being ‘improved’ or imposed upon by some sugar-tongued propagandist. ‘The dancing hours’ pretends to be no more than a story, but what a story! Here is all the antiquated lumber of mysterious heroines, dashing and handsome villains, manly and long-suffering heroes, unexpected wealth, and happy endings.”

+ =Dial= 62:107 F 8 ‘17 150w

“The story begins well but becomes too preposterous to wear the garb of credibility. It has some clever bits, and the conversations are well sustained.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:75 Mr 4 ‘17 200w

+ =Spec= 118:141 F 3 ‘17 80w

=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Red Indian fairy book for the children’s own reading and for story-tellers. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 17-25283

Sixty-four stories from Indian folk legend have been chosen for this volume. As most of the stories are nature myths, they lend themselves readily to the arrangement by seasons which Miss Olcott has chosen. She says, “In choosing themes for these stories, a large body of folklore of many tribes has been gone over. In retelling, all that is coarse, fierce, and irrational has been eliminated as far as possible, and the moral and fanciful elements retained. The plots have been more closely constructed, and retold in the direct manner interesting to children. The character and spirit of the original stories have been carefully preserved.” The illustrations, including frontispiece in color, are by Frederick Richardson. Many of the stories have been printed in the Saturday Magazines of the New York Evening Post.

“Sixty-four stories delightfully told; they will interest any child of fairy tale age.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:101 D ‘17

“Miss Olcott has a real love and a real inspiration for her task. Her re-treatment of materials from the ‘Arabian nights’ more than justified itself. In the present book she has made a more distinct and original contribution to child-lore.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:494 D ‘17 310w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 50w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 330w

“Miss Olcott has added two valuable volumes to this season’s output of juvenile books. They should prove rich source-books for the professional story-teller. She is happy in maintaining that naïve simplicity which lies always at the basis of Indian legends.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w

=N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 70w

=OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.= Tales of the Persian genii. il *$2 (3½c) Houghton 17-29800

These stories from old Persian tales, adapted for boys and girls, are retold from authentic translations. One of these sources, “Tales of the genii; or, The delightful lessons of Horam the son of Asmar,” appeared in England in 1765, ran thru many editions, and formed part of the youthful library of Charles Dickens. Miss Olcott says, “All the stories have been recast with great freedom, and moulded into a continuous narrative; the aim being to keep them truly oriental and at the same time to preserve all the detail that will delight the imaginative modern boy and girl.” Each story has an ethical lesson, but in addition to their moral teaching, she believes they will foster a love of rich color and an appreciation of beautiful objects. The pictures are by Willy Pogány.

=A L A Bkl= 14:137 Ja ‘18

“The reteller of these oriental tales has gathered her material carefully, both in its fictional quality and in its atmospheric background. She has been greatly aided by the colorful imagination of the Hungarian artist, Willy Pogány.”

+ =Lit D= 55:54 D 8 ‘17 70w

=N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 70w

“The stories will prove very entertaining for they transport the reader to fragrant oriental gardens where many-colored birds and a thousand fountains make music all day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

=OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH.= Soul of the Russian revolution. il *$2.50 (2c) Holt 947 17-27862

In the year 1901-‘02 the author of this book was a student in the University of Kiev. He was one of 200 students who were sentenced to one year’s military service in punishment for political activity. In 1905-‘06 he took part in the thwarted revolutionary uprising. He is now in New York and has written this book in English for American readers. He has attempted to give a review of the movement as a whole and to show the character of the different elements concerned in the revolution. The first of the four parts which compose the work deals with Social forces. Part 2 covers the years 1905 and 1906, and the establishment of the Duma. Part 3 draws on Russian revolutionary literature as an aid to understanding the spirit of the movement. Part 4 covers the actual revolution of 1917 up to the formal abdication of the czar. The illustrations are taken from revolutionary periodicals, most of which were not allowed to circulate. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch contributes an introduction.

“A popular but scholarly study.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18

=Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 600w

“He is silent on hidden motivating forces which reveal the moral poignancy of the Russian struggle for the civilized world. The people, the soul and meaning of their revolt, are absent; what we have is the story of the industrial proletariat led and betrayed by a militant revolutionary minority. All Russian life is looked at from the vantage ground of party bias. The main value of Mr Olgin’s book consists in the clear exposition of the revolution of 1905 and the exposé of the ideology of the professional revolutionists.”

– + =Nation= 105:638 D 6 ‘17 1300w

“It is impossible to read him without gratitude for his clarity, his objectivity, his documentation; and impossible not to conclude from reading him that the first fact about Russia is still the Tsardom that has been deposed.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 13:220 D 22 ‘17 1450w

“Mr Olgin has succeeded wonderfully well in clarifying and defining for American readers, who really know very little about any other than superficial aspects of Russian affairs, the origin and significance of the many varied currents of influence and tendency that led revolution-ward. In the third section Mr Olgin does something that all readers of Russian literature will thank him for and makes a novel attempt to link Russian literature and Russian life.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 820w

“The author has true dramatic power.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w

“To trace the varied economic and political influences at work for all those centuries of Russia’s history was indeed an enormous task. No one man could hope to accomplish it completely, even to his own satisfaction, but we are not likely to see in our time a better résumé of this complicated subject than has been provided by this Russian journalist.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 220w

=OLIVER, SIR THOMAS.= Occupations from the social, hygienic and medical points of view. (Cambridge public health ser.) *$1.80 (5c) Putnam 613.6 (Eng ed 16-15036)

A book devoted to the relation of occupations to health. It has to do with conditions in England but will doubtless prove of value to all who are interested in similar problems in America. The work was begun before the war and problems rising out of war conditions are not touched on. The subjects covered are: The air we breathe; The air of factories, workshops and workrooms; Work, wages, efficiency and fatigue; The health and comfort of the worker; Occupation and age fitness; Choice of a career; Dusty occupations; Gases; The chemical trades; Injuries caused by electricity; The skin and occupation.

“It will prove valuable and interesting to public health workers, and will give much information to the general citizen who wants a bird’seye view of the subject.” Carl Kelsey

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 90w

“Although the book contains a mass of interesting information, the reader constantly receives the impression that he is being presented with a succession of disconnected and unrelated statements. No stress has been laid upon fundamental principles. ... The least satisfactory portions of the book are those dealing with the causation of fatigue, and with the action of gases on the body; these are not up to date. ... In spite of these defects the book contains much that is useful, especially in the chapters on factory hygiene and on dusty occupations, and although it cannot be recommended from a scientific point of view it may prove of value to the general reader.” F. A. B.

+ — =Nature= 97:377 Jl 6 ‘16 570w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:125 Ag ‘16

=Pratt= p23 Ja ‘17

+ =Sat R= 121:422 Ap 29 ‘16 1500w

=OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.= Anchorage. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-12956

“A cloistered romance,” a story of the Little sisters of the poor, and “Father Bernard’s parish,” a book presenting an unusual aspect of New York life, are the two novels by the author that precede this one. For her third book, she has chosen still another setting, a quiet country community in Georgia. The friendship between Paul Osborne and Harriet Sterling had flowed on quietly for many years. The man was a semi-invalid, shut out by his lameness from active participation in life. In his friend Harriet, he found companionship and the encouragement and mental stimulation his brilliant powers required. Harriet, on her part, found satisfaction in serving him, and if her heart asked for more than this, she gave no indication. This is the situation when Harriet’s young cousin Hilda comes to visit her. Hilda brings a new element into Paul’s life. She comes and goes, leaving bitterness behind her, but out of the bitterness grows wisdom and an understanding of the gift that had always lain ready at his hand.

=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17

“Miss Olmstead places her scene in Georgia, but her characters seem rather typically of New England. Many individual personages are admirably set out in the tale, so admirably that the reader is a little impatient they should be wasted on so trite a plot.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 150w

=Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 220w

“The young girl Hilda, the best-drawn character in the book, is very cleverly drawn indeed. ... Louisa, the middle-aged, commonsense spinster, is also cleverly sketched, and would be amusing if we did not hear quite so much about her. But Paul, around whose character and whose invalidism the entire story revolves, never becomes more than a lay figure.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:195 My 20 ‘17 450w

=ONIONS, BERTA RUCK (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Girls at his billet. il *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd 16-23626

The three of them, Evelyn, Nancy and Elizabeth, their ages ranging from eighteen to twenty-two, lived in what Elizabeth called “a God-forsaken village on the bleakest part of the east coast of England.” They lived with an elderly aunt and their lives were as bleak as the coast itself, for the village was devoid of men. Then comes the war and the establishment of a training camp in their midst and the billeting of a young officer in their very household. But what is one man among three girls! So two friends and fellow-officers are brought forward and in course of time (and not a very long time), there are three war-time engagements to be announced.

“Light, pleasant, and showing none of the horrible side of the war. Not as entertaining as her other books.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:356 My ‘17

“The novel is, of course, the lightest sort of whipped cream fiction, but few purveyors of that delicacy whip their cream to so dainty and airy a froth as does Berta Ruck. ... Moreover, she writes with a certain joyousness which is very attractive.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 350w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 50w

=ONIONS, BERTA RUCK (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).= Miss Million’s maid; a romance of love and fortune. il *$1.40 (1c) Dodd 15-21422

Miss Million’s maid is Miss Million’s former mistress, Beatrice Lovelace. When the little Cockney maid of all work inherits a fortune from an uncle who lived in America and leaves Aunt Anastasia Lovelace, Beatrice, who has tired of her aunt’s maxim, “Better no society than the wrong society,” runs away and persuades the highly embarrassed Miss Million to take her as lady’s maid. They go to the Hotel Cecil, lovers appear on the scene and many complications ensue.

=A L A Bkl= 14:170 F ‘18

“Mrs Onions treats the complications with ready humour and considerable freshness. Her characters are much more probable than her story.”

+ — =Ath= p244 My ‘16 50w

“Not so clever as certain of Berta Ruck’s novels, but pleasant and entertaining.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:468 N 11 ‘17 420w

“A very diverting and by no means unexciting story, which, considering the motif, loses nothing by the note of caricature which runs through the whole.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p203 Ap 27 ‘16 140w

Operation and tactical use of the Lewis automatic machine rifle; based on the experience of the European war. il *60c Van Nostrand 355 17-20406

This pocket manual, clearly printed and illustrated, has an introduction by Col. I. N. Lewis, U.S.A. (retired). Colonel Lewis says: “The descriptive text is full and accurate in detail, while the system of preliminary and practical field instruction as outlined follows closely that now employed at the various machine gun schools and special instruction camps in England and France. In our own service, the machine gun is as yet a new and untried weapon, and I therefore believe the general principles governing the present operation and tactical use on the great battlefield of Europe, as briefly presented herein, will be of interest to all officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of our army, navy and marine corps.”

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p16 Jl ‘17 50w

=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Cinema murder. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-15545

One likes Philip Romilly from the first and continues to like him thru all his checkered career; yet, all the time, one wonders if he really did murder his cousin back there under the bridge in England. When he takes passage for America he is traveling under Douglas Romilly’s name and wearing his clothes. Once arrived in New York, he adopts another name and begins a new life. On board ship he had made friends with Elizabeth Dalstan, the actress, who later produces his play. She is ready to go further to show her loyalty to him, and the question of his guilt is of no concern to her. Fortunately for their future happiness the one person in the world who knows the real truth about the occurrence under the bridge puts in an appearance at the most critical moment.

“His portrayal of stage life is as before, highly idealized and ultra romantic, and it brings to the reader all the glamour of the footlights that persists in the midst of those who know nothing of life behind the scenes. But realities are not Mr Oppenheim’s forte, and we are certain to like the stories he tells all the better because they are not.” A. A. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 380w

“Suggests that it does not pay to be too good in this world. The outcome of the story justifies the hero in his departure from rectitude.”

— =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 150w

“A swiftly moving story, so cleverly told that its weak spots are easily overlooked, with plenty of color and many effective contrasts.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 400w

“Not one of Mr Oppenheim’s best stories either in writing or construction. Few habitual readers of crime stories will fail to guess early in the tale, at least in a general way, the true outcome of the murder mystery.”

— =Outlook= 116:160 My 23 ‘17 39w

“It will be well for Mr Oppenheim, if he intends further to employ the American vernacular, to take a course in George Ade. ... The story is characteristic and therefore diverting.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w

=OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.= Hillman. il *$1.35 (1½c) Little 17-698

Mr Oppenheim has laid aside his preoccupation with international intrigues to tell a love story. Louise Maurel, a distinguished actress, motoring from Edinburgh to London, is stranded in the Cumberland hills. Her car breaks down and she is forced to accept the grudgingly offered hospitality of Stephen Strangewey for a night. Stephen Strangewey is a misogynist and he has brought up his younger brother in the creed that all women are to be despised. But John Strangewey is too human to resist the spell of Louise, and he follows her to London where he is caught up by the whirl of fashionable society. The author’s hand does not lose its skill when it turns to new themes and the reader is left in doubt as to the outcome to the last page.

+ =Ath= p103 F ‘17 60w

“Never before has Mr Oppenheim been more ingenious in the weaving of a plot, never before has he so skilfully led his hero and heroine through many dangers—in this case they are wholly moral dangers—with such logical success.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 3 ‘17 1300w

“There are, of course, two kinds of Oppenheim books—those that are the best of their kind and those that are not so good. ‘The hillman’ is one of the latter. Yet even so it will be read with unabated pleasure, and the reader will not be disturbed by questions of social science, nor, indeed, by questions of reality.” E: E. Hale

+ =Dial= 62:104 F 8 ‘17 750w

+ — =N Y Times= 22:5 Ja 7 ‘17 450w

“A new though quite successful departure on the part of the author.”

+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 20w

“Some of the minor characters are sprightly and amusing, and the hero is always virile.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 22 ‘17 40w

=OPPENHEIM, JAMES.= Book of self. *$1.50 Knopf 811 17-13552

“In ‘The book of self’ James Oppenheim tilts against the flesh and the devil in a series of poems that are put forth as intimately related to the struggle America is undergoing and from which a new national life shall emerge. The poems are divided into three sections: ‘Self,’ a revelation of a man’s life, his desires, ambitions, and hopes; ‘The song of life,’ a history of youth’s encounter with life, and ‘Creation,’ the drama of cosmic life unfolding through the individual life of man.”—R of Rs

“Greater restraint in production and a sharper focus of theme, to obviate the cosmic tendency of his mind,—these are necessary to the artistic side of Mr Oppenheim’s work; but we are not disposed to cavil at the poet who makes us think, nor who in his highest moments stirs us with something of the fire of Hebraic prophecy.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ — =Bookm= 46:439 D ‘17 360w

“There is in it something of the intense striving for truth of the scientist who will use every means of experiment to discover if his conclusions are trustworthy. With just such seriousness has Mr Oppenheim delved into the deeps of consciousness to learn the secrets of life.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1550w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:85 Je ‘17

“The book is a great, though an uneven, volume.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 230w

“Vigor is his characteristic mark—vigor of thought, vigor of phrase; and, though there are undoubtedly many who, like the present reviewer, totally disagree with his thought and his message, there can be no question as to the power with which that thought and that message are presented. ... Whitman is the antecedent from whom he chiefly derives—in his rhythm, his democracy, and his unfettered naturalism. Indeed, it is matter of regret to us that in this last respect he only too closely resembles his prototype, and that like him he too often permits his splendid powers to run in praise of a perilous and devouring animalism.”

=N Y Times= 22:207 My 27 ‘17 350w

“A remarkable and virile book that voices the under-currents of revolt and flings aloft the banners of the ultimate triumph of spirit over materialistic forces. The rhythmic quality of the poetry is inferior to ‘Songs for a new age,’ however, and more frequent melodic lines would improve the scaffolding that upholds the thought.”

+ — =R of Rs= 55:661 Je ‘17 140w

=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17

=ORCHARD, WILLIAM EDWIN.= Necessity of Christ. *$1.25 Dutton 232 17-13313

“The view propounded by Dr Orchard is that modernism in philosophy and religion confirms the position of Christ as held by the historic Christian faith; that He is shown to be necessary to thought, religion, Christianity, personality, society, and to God; and, lastly, that the application of the faith to modern problems is subversive of the old order of things—indeed, that the Athanasian creed, thought to be ‘the last bulwark of things as they are,’ has been found to ‘read more like the first charter of socialism.’”—Ath

=Ath= p474 O ‘16 80w

“Not since the days of the schoolmen has there been closer or more subtle reasoning in matters of theology and Christian relationships than is found in this little book. ... Orthodox in creed, fearless in criticism, constructive as well as iconoclastic, this diatribe will be sure to arouse thought even when it fails to command assent.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 100w

“The author is too vague and indefinite to be convincing, and his statement that the old evidences for the divinity of Christ are now presented in a way which only stimulates revolt, is unproved.”

– + =Cath World= 105:845 S ‘17 160w

=N Y Times= 22:171 Ap 29 ‘17 40w

“We greatly recommend this very original little book to those who are interested in modern theology.”

+ =Spec= 117:510 O 28 ‘16 400w

=ORCHARD, WILLIAM EDWIN.= Outlook for religion. *$1.50 Funk 17-31685

“Dr Orchard stands to-day at the head of the non-conformist pulpit of England. ... He thinks it necessary to face and state a calm and dispassionate diagnosis of present conditions in the church and the world. This diagnosis he undertakes, and then suggests the remedy for the condition he finds. The present volume has twelve chapters in three parts—The question of the hour, The cry of the times, and The hope of the age. The conditions are: skepticism and materialism overabundant, a confused and apathetic church, a Christianity that has wandered far from application to life of the Sermon on the Mount, and consequently has largely lost its power. Sectarianism is one of the outstanding evils to be abolished. Dr Orchard stands for ‘a social and international application of Christianity in a new catholicism.’”—Lit D

— =Ath= p345 Jl ‘17 1000w

“Dr Orchard’s writing is tense and highminded as ever.” James Moffat

+ =Hibbert J= 15:677 Jl ‘17 110w

+ =Ind= 92:110 O 13 ‘17 60w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 1 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:117 Ag ‘17

=ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA.=[2] Burrows of Michigan and the Republican party; a biography and a history. 2v il *$6 (3½c) Longmans 17-29460

The subject of this biography, who was born in 1837, entered national public life in 1872 when he was elected to Congress as a member of the House. In 1895 he was elected to the Senate, and represented his state in that body up to 1911. These two volumes are taken up almost wholly with his public career and his relation to his party. Four chapters of