Part 1 of this volume is a reprint of the open letter by M. Émile

Prüm, leader of the Catholic party of Luxembourg, to Herr Mathias Erzberger, member of the Reichstag and leader of the Catholic centre party of Germany. It was a protest against the invasion of Belgium and Luxembourg and was seized and prohibited in Germany. Part 2 is an account of The proceedings instituted against M. Prüm, and in an appendix there is a discussion of The evolution of the German Catholic centre.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 300w

=Cleveland= p85 Jl ‘17 80w

“Its peculiar interest to-day comes from its account of the evolution of the Centre party and the light it throws on the Centrist leader.”

+ =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 550w

“We recommend it to the perusal of any still unconvinced pro-German if his mind is open to consider a plain narrative of those facts which have converted a former pro-German into a vigorous opponent of German imperialism and all its works.”

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=PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE.= Bulletin. $15 (service basis) Wilson, H. W. (16-16611)

This is the second annual cumulation of the bulletins of the Public affairs information service, described as “a cooperative clearing house of public affairs information.” The work of the service is outlined in the preface. It is “not merely an information collecting and disseminating agency. Its primary aim is to be of concrete assistance in minimizing the task of the busy librarian, professor, social worker, business man, head of department or bureau. The service carries out its activities by means of the weekly bulletins, the bi-monthly cumulations and the annual number. It acts as agent for the distribution of both free material and material with a cost, desired by the cooperators. It extends the privilege of borrowing from the collection and supplies typewritten material for copying purposes. The Service may be freely used as an information bureau.” The annual volume consists of an alphabetical arrangement under subject headings of all the material (books, pamphlets, reports, magazine articles, etc.) indexed during the year.

=PÜCKLER-MUSKAU, HERMANN LUDWIG HEINRICH, fürst von.= Hints on landscape gardening; tr. by Bernhard Sickert and ed. by S: Parsons. il *$3.50 (8c) Houghton 710 17-19173

This volume, “which furnishes a natural sequence to ‘The art of landscape gardening,’ by Humphrey Repton [1907], is the second of a series of authoritative books to be brought out by the publishers,” says Mr John Nolen in his introductory note. In addition there is an introduction by the editor giving a sketch of Prince Pückler’s life and an estimate of the importance of his contributions to landscape art. The text itself consists of chapters on: The laying-out of a park; Size and extent; Enclosure; Grouping in general, and buildings; Parks and gardens; Concerning the laying-out of the lawns of parks, meadows, and gardens; Trees and shrubs and their grouping, and plantations in general; Roads and paths; Water; Islands; Rocks; Earthworks and esplanades; Maintenance; with a second part descriptive of Prince Pückler’s park in Muskau.

“Somewhat discursive but sound advice on the laying out of parks and estates.”

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“In an admirable introduction, Mr Parsons gives many delightful extracts from Prince Pückler’s letters, showing what a romantic old idealist he was. The book itself is a treasure for anyone who loves nature. It ought to have a powerful influence here in America, where city planning (of which he was an early advocate) and the laying out of parks as well as of great private estates are destined to become more and more a feature of our civilization.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 1300w

“The book is unique. It is to be hoped that the series will be continued—and that without so long an interval as has passed between the appearance of the first two volumes.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:752 O 18 ‘17 220w

“The author’s style, which has been closely followed by the translator, is poetic and original, and his method of treating the subject so near his heart removes it altogether from the region of dry and academic treatises.”

+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w

“The illustrations and maps are a notable feature of the volume.”

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=PURINTON, EDWARD EARLE.= Pétain, the prepared. il *50c (9c) Revell 17-26783

The author has written a brief sketch of General Pétain, who commanded the French at Verdun. The point of his story is that when General Pétain’s opportunity came to him at the age of sixty, he was ready to meet it, and the lesson the author draws from the story is given a wide application to American life. There is a one-page foreword by Major-General Leonard Wood.

=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17

“A book that can be read in less than an hour, containing a message of strength and cheer for all the years ahead, is surely worth reading. Such a book Mr Purinton has given us.”

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=PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL.= Lighthouses and lightships of the United States. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 656 17-13732

“This book is planned to cover, in a general and rather non-technical way, a description of the lighthouses, especially in the United States, and a history of their development.” (Preface) The author has felt it a “pleasant obligation” to bring these facts together, and he has tried to include “enough of the personal deeds of the men and women who serve humanity in the lighthouses and on the lighthouse vessels to show the fine spirit which pervades them.” Among the chapters are: Boston light and the colonial lights; The lighthouses under the United States government; Lights in the approaches to New York; Lights of the Florida reefs and the gulf coast; Lights of the Pacific coast and Alaska; Lights of the Great Lakes and the rivers; Lightships and lighthouse tenders; The light-keepers. The book is well illustrated.

“The lighthouse service may fairly be called a model of competent administration and scientific ingenuity in the general staff and of faithfulness, endurance, and helpfulness in the rank and file; and Mr Putnam’s exposition of its history, plant, equipment, operations, and personnel is also a model.”

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=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“The author of this valuable, fascinating and authoritative book is the United States Commissioner of lighthouses and he has the last word (up to June 30, 1916) on a subject of vital importance.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 1100w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 40w

“A story interesting to the engineer as a man and as a practitioner.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:563 S 20 ‘17 120w

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

+ =Lit D= 55:37 N 3 ‘17 290w

“The book is written for the general reader, but one wonders whether the author would not have been well advised to assume in such readers the ability and willingness to penetrate a little deeper into the scientific phases of the subject, even at the expense of considerable mental effort. A glance at the new Encyclopædia Britannica article on lighthouses, and especially its illustrations, will suggest that the author might have greatly enhanced the value of this volume without taking it in any respect out of the mental reach of the great majority of those who were likely to read it.”

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“While the great toil of the business machine necessary to maintain this work is not slighted, the romantic aspect of perpetual adventure with the sea fills this book with genuine thrills and recommends it to all classes of readers. The beautiful cuts of the lighthouses and life-saving stations past and present give vivid interest to this admirable record.”

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“Particularly entertaining are the chapters which tell of the difficulties between our own independent colonial lighthouse keepers and the early national government, and the one which gives memoirs and annals of sundry keepers, both men and women.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 3 ‘17 320w

=PYLE, JOSEPH GILPIN.= Life of James J. Hill. 2v il *$5 Doubleday 17-15184

“In the list of great railroad men whom this country has produced the name of James J. Hill will always stand as one of the greatest of them all. ... It is only a little more than a year since Mr Hill died, at the age of 78. ... Mr Pyle took up his task as biographer with the best equipment. For Mr Hill had chosen him some years before to write the story of his finished life, had turned over to him letters and diaries and other documents, and had talked much with him for the purpose of giving him a true picture of himself, his works, and his surrounding conditions in his early years. In a little prefatory note Mr Pyle says that the only instruction Mr Hill ever gave him concerning this prospective biography was this one sentence: ‘Make it plain and simple and true.’”—N Y Times

“Without displaying many of them, Mr Pyle has had access to the letters and diaries of Mr Hill, and has freely used autobiographic dictations. Only Dr Oberholtzer’s ‘Jay Cooke’ gives financial history for the railroads with equal detail and accuracy. The point of view of Mr Pyle is disappointing. Instead of allowing his evidence to tell its own story, he lays down dicta.” F: L. Paxson

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=Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 400w

“Altogether this is a book that is thoroughly worth reading both as the life-story of a successful worker of a truly American type and also as an example of what can be accomplished by honesty, unremitting endeavor, and high ideals.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 Ag 4 ‘17 920w

“Mr Pyle has made a book that is worth while, so far as it goes. He has contrived to make a clear statement of many abstruse matters connected with the making of the Great Northern railway, and as a ‘source-book’ his biography will stand. And, upon reflection, it is only fair to admit that to put a man like ‘Jim Hill’ on paper is a task much easier to criticise than to perform. But—could there not have been a few more anecdotes, say, in the appendix?”

+ — =Nation= 105:344 S 27 ‘17 1400w

“Like most authorized biographies, Mr Pyle’s work suffers somewhat from the fact that it is all eulogium. Nevertheless, its value as the life story of one of our great nation builders is high and its interest unceasing. Young men just starting upon their careers ought to find in its pages inspiration and guidance. For, however much James J. Hill won for himself by his lifetime of work, the service he rendered his country was beyond valuation.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:237 Je 24 ‘17 1800w

“Excellent if sometimes a bit monotonously eulogistic biography, which, nevertheless, might well be in the hands of every young American.”

+ =Outlook= 116:521 Ag 1 ‘17 680w

=Pittsburgh= 22:671 O ‘17 70w

“Mr Pyle had a large subject and a wealth of material from which to select, and it probably seemed to him impossible to do justice to his theme in any smaller compass. Sometime, however, he should put this biography into about half the space at a popular price for popular consumption. It is well to have the larger work, although some parts of it seem needlessly long.”

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=PYM, THOMAS WENTWORTH, and GORDON, GEOFFREY.= Papers from Picardy. *$1.50 (3c) Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed War17-89)

Two English chaplains discuss some of the moral and spiritual aspects of war. “The papers owe their title to the fact that they were written, for the most part, during the fighting on the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916. They are, however, the result of experience gained not only there but in other parts of France, in Flanders, and in a soldiers’ hospital at home.” (Preface) In part 1, Rev. T. W. Pym writes of the following: Some considerations as to the varying effects of war on the individual; A commentary on the soldier’s attitude to war; A study in contrasts and in the influence of reaction; Discipline—and after? Something definite; Postscript: an epitome of war. In part 2, Rev. Geoffrey Gordon writes of: The chaplain’s dilemma; Some prisoners; Active service; Honour where honour is due; In a regimental aid post; What is truth? etc.

=A L A Bkl= 14:55 N ‘17

=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 80w

“Part 1, by T. W. Pym, seems a more broad-minded, charitable, and human document than part 2, but even that looks life’s problems fairly in the face and acknowledges the inefficiency of the modern church to meet the present needs of men. In the chapter ‘Something definite,’ we have the strongest possible exposition of the fallacies that nurture dissipation of all kinds. ‘Papers from Picardy’ has a more universal appeal and meaning than most books of the kind.”

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:133 S ‘17 80w

“Both authors are undeniably sincere and both have based their conclusions on facts that have come within their personal knowledge.”

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=QUICK, OLIVER CHASE.= Essays in orthodoxy. *$2 Macmillan 230 17-24306

“The author of these essays is chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury.” (Int J Ethics) “His aim in these chapters discussing leading doctrines of the Christian faith is not primarily apologetic. His position is that what is needed is elucidation in the face of misunderstanding. His presentations of the orthodox doctrines—those of the atonement, of justification by faith, and of the Holy Spirit—are treated not as dogmas based on authority or on scriptural texts, but as reasonable and necessary solutions of the problems of life.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“A book which has the two merits of steadiness and frankness in its Anglican outlook.” James Moffat

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=Int J Ethics= 27:543 Jl ‘17 130w

“The chapters upon ‘The Holy Spirit as witness and sanctifier’ contain not a little good counsel upon practical problems of belief and conduct; and they are written with a freshness that makes their perusal a pleasure. In his discussion of some articles of the creed Mr Quick is, we think, less successful.”

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“As a whole the book is certainly a singular illustration of the right method of presenting orthodoxy to a reflecting mind under the influence of the disintegrating tendencies of the day.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p639 D 28 ‘16 230w

“A book which is full of sound thought and always well expressed. ... These criticisms are offered just because the general argument of the book is so impressive, and is worked out with so much skill. Among the numerous theological discussions to which we have been invited lately this volume has a special claim to consideration.”

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=QUILLER-COUCH, SIR ARTHUR THOMAS.= Notes on Shakespeare’s workmanship. *$2 Holt 822.3 17-14157

The papers in this volume are revised from lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge. The author says: “They seek to discover, in some of Shakespeare’s plays, just what he was trying to do as a playwright. This has always seemed to me a sensible way of approaching him, and one worth reverting to from time to time. For it is no disparagement to the erudition and scholarship that have so piously been heaped about Shakespeare to say that we shall sometimes find it salutary to disengage our minds from it all, and recollect that the poet was a playwright.” The plays studied in the first group include Macbeth, Midsummer-night’s dream, Merchant of Venice, As you like it, and Hamlet. A second group comprises plays representative of Shakespeare’s later workmanship and includes Pericles, King Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The winter’s tale and The tempest.

“A delightful addition to Shakespeare criticism.”

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“Multitudes of books upon Shakespeare have been written, but we doubt if any of them contain as much undiluted common sense as is compressed by Sir Arthur into these pages.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ‘17 1500w

“It would not serve as a text for use with high school or college students but would enrich their knowledge and add to their interest if used as a supplement to their studies, and would delight any Shakespeare lover.”

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 90w

“The chapters are pleasantly written observations which retain the conversational flavor of their original form.”

+ =Dial= 63:468 N 8 ‘17 70w

“In the author’s discussion of these many-sided masterpieces there is, of course, a great deal that will provoke dissent. The assertion that there is no mystery in Hamlet’s character is a hard saying to digest. We prefer, however, to direct the attention of our readers to the fine critical analysis of ‘Macbeth.’”

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“Endowed as he is with ripe scholarship, as well as discriminating knowledge of a subject in which he has specialized for many years, Sir Arthur is quite sure of himself when he tells us how the poet wrote his plays.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 170w

=QUIN, MALCOLM.= Problem of human peace; studied from the standpoint of a scientific catholicism. *$1 Dutton 172.4 17-22690

“The author decides that a human peace can only come about through the operation of the modern mind. By an adequate scientific study of war this mind will realise that both causes and effects are hostile to that perfection in Christ which is the spiritual aim of Christendom. After a rapid elimination of alternatives Catholicism, which is said to include all that is best in eastern as well as western thought, is selected as the only antidote to the causes of war—a Catholicism, however, thoroughly overhauled by the modern mind, and then disseminated through the Roman organization. The peoples will thus be informed with the common national policy of perfection.”—Int J Ethics

=Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 60w

“The insistence laid on the part that the church might play in relation to peace is valuable.” C. D. Burns

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“The book should be read by thoughtful students of religious and social movements as an indication of ‘modernism’ inside as well as outside the Roman church.” A. G. Spencer

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=QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON=, ed. Representative American plays. il *$2.75 Century 812 ‘17-4225

“Twenty-five American plays, by the leading dramatists of the country, that show the development of the American drama from 1767 to the present time. Each play is prefaced by a short biographical sketch of the author, the cast of the first performance, and other interesting detail.” (R of Rs) “Opening with the first American tragedy, ‘The prince of Parthia’ (1767), and the first American comedy, ‘The contrast’ (1787), and including works of such early playwrights as William Dunlap, James Nelson Barker, Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Henry Boker, the collection includes ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ ‘Hazel Kirke,’ ‘The octoroon,’ Bronson Howard’s ‘Shenandoah,’ Gillette’s ‘Secret service,’ and even ‘Madame Butterfly’—here first published in dramatic form. ... As illustrations of contemporary tendencies in the theatre, the book includes plays by Clyde Fitch, Langdon Mitchell, Augustus Thomas, William Vaughn Moody, Percy MacKaye, Edward Sheldon and Rachel Crothers.” (Cath World)

“Presents in a convenient form material not otherwise easily accessible. Bibliography (8p.).”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:302 Ap ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 17 ‘17 620w

+ =Cath World= 105:106 Ap ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p52 Ap ‘17 250w

“If the three latest productions—those by Mr MacKaye, Mr Sheldon and Miss Crothers—had been omitted, space might have been found for Burk’s ‘Battle of Bunker Hill,’ for Mrs Bateman’s ‘Self,’ for Hurlbert’s ‘Americans in Paris,’ and for the plays in which Solon Shingle and Bardwell Slote are the salient figures. Otherwise the selection is excellent, even if the plays chosen are, many of them, little better than curiosities.” Brander Matthews

* + =Educ R= 54:84 Je ‘17 300w

“As valuable a single book for student use in the pursuit of American literature as has ever appeared. ... The material is ample and typical, the text is clear, the introductory matter is compact with discriminating information, and the whole is capped with a bibliography which is generous without being a wanton display of industry minus judgment.”

+ =Nation= 104:547 My 3 ‘17 850w

“Professor Quinn in his collection of these twenty-five representative plays, carefully and unobtrusively edited, has thrown more light on the state of public taste along the Atlantic seaboard in the last century than could be acquired from any other sort of collection.” R. E. Rogers

+ =New Repub= 10:sup10 Ap 21 ‘17 2000w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:42 Mr ‘17 140w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 20w

“This is the first collection of its kind and its significance and value will recommend it to all classes of readers.”

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=St Louis= 15:184 Je ‘17 20w

“A convenient collection of twenty-five of the best American plays, which will enable the student to follow the development of the American drama, and makes possible that special study of it which the Drama league is promoting this year.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:157 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Drama League Monthly)

=QUINN, ELISABETH VERNON=, ed. Stokes’ wonder book of fairy tales. il *$2 (2c) Stokes 17-25356

This very beautifully illustrated volume contains a selection from the world’s best fairy tales, forty-two in number. An effort has been made to include all the most loved stories, among them Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-hood, Three bears, Snow-white, Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, Ugly duckling, Cinderella, and Rapunzel. In addition two modern tales have been given the distinction of inclusion. These are “The tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The story of little black Sambo,” two stories “which have established themselves permanently in children’s hearts.” The pictures are by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.

“The size will make it awkward for circulation but it is delightful for the children’s reading table, and for a gift book.”

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+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 70w

“The selection of stories seems judicious, and the texts used are direct and simple.”

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=RADZIWILL, CATHERINE (RZEWUSKA) princess.= Germany under three emperors. il *$4 Funk 943 17-30068

“This account of Prussian diplomacy makes public for the first time much information regarding the Kaiser, his two immediate predecessors, and their great minister, Prince Bismarck. The author tells us how the first emperor was influenced by the great chancellor in the upbuilding of the imperial German plan, how the Emperor Friedrich, who might have modified this plan considerably, was rendered impotent by disease, and how Bismarck, ignoring his wishes, set about instilling the doctrines of militarism into the willing mind of the heir apparent. The story, as it unfolds, shows how the pupil outran the master and how the present Kaiser at last dismissed his aging chancellor and took over control of affairs himself. All this, together with the plots and counterplots that brought Europe several times to the brink of war, is set forth.”—Lit D

=Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

“Princess Radziwill is by birth a Russian and, after her marriage to a Pole, she lived much in Berlin. In both countries her associations were with the court and diplomatic circles, and she knew personally many of the men and women who made the history of Europe during Bismarck’s half century of public life. Her book, however, is in no sense the gossipy chronicle which that fact might imply, but a very capable getting together and interesting arrangement of the facts of Germany’s political history since the middle of the last century, told with the vivifying touch of personal contact.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:14 Ja 13 ‘18 600w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p335 Jl 12 ‘17 90w

=RAE, HERBERT, pseud.= Maple leaves in Flanders fields. *$1.75 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-10673)

“In ‘Maple leaves in Flanders’ a Canadian soldier, who hides his identity under the nom de guerre of ‘Herbert Rae,’ gives a breezy description of the recruiting of a Canadian regiment dubbed by the author ‘The pompadours,’ and what the regiment has done in the war.” (N Y Times) Admiral Markham writes the introduction.

=N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 300w

“Written in an informal style, that is full of humor. ... The work is easy and delightful reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 21 ‘17 100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 N 2 ‘16 60w

=RAEMAEKERS, LOUIS.= Kultur in cartoons; with accompanying notes by well-known English writers. *$5 Century 940.91 17-31662

Louis Raemaekers is conceded to be the “only great genius who has been brought out by the war”; who is “worth two army corps to the cause of the Allies.” This is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ cartoons” published last year. To this cartoonist the war is not a “topic,” not a “subject for charity” but “a vivid, heartrending reality.” There are over a hundred drawings whose artistic appeal is subordinated to the appraisal of them as political documents and as historic records of crimes and barbarities “which the civilized world must not be permitted to forget lest the horrors of the past three years descend upon us again.” Each cartoon is faced with a paragraph of description and interpretation by an English writer.

+ =Lit D= 55:49 D 8 ‘17 140w

=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w

“There is little artistic finesse about Raemaekers’s work. His is of the blunt pencil rather than the Spencerian pen; yet force and action are added to his drawings in ratio to the thickness of his pencil. His vigor is crushing—well-nigh brutal. But his subjects demand the brutality he throws into his work. Despite this fact, however, he has light moments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 500w

=RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.= Yukon trail; a tale of the North. il *$1.35 (2c) Houghton 17-13621

Gordon Elliot, an agent for the government, is sent to Alaska to investigate the valuable coal claims of Colby Macdonald. Macdonald is the big man of the North, and, while recognizing his brutality and ruthlessness, the North admires him and, in general, upholds him against the government. But Gordon Elliot comes representing a new order and a new social conscience which demands the conservation of natural resources in place of the reckless exploitation Macdonald stands for. The paths of the two men cross early. Elliot meets Macdonald on the boat going up. Sheba O’Neill is on the boat too, and the girl at once becomes a factor in the struggle.

=A L A= Bkl 14:28 O ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 50w

“It will be all the same to you whether you read this novel or any one of half a dozen of the same variety of the present season. It is a fairly plausible, well-planned yarn that clings to the traditions of its type and its setting.”

+ — =Dial= 63:118 Ag 16 ‘17 130w

“No one will question Mr Raine’s first-hand acquaintance with his ground and the zest with which he handles the theme, even if the rather narrow trail has been trodden frequently before.”

+ =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 170w

“The plot is put together in a workmanlike way, and contains plenty of incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:214 Je 3 ‘17 300w

“An echo of the famous Ballinger conservation scandal of several years ago is found in ‘The Yukon trail.’ ... It is a wholly entertaining tale which moves at a rapid, virile pace against a background of rugged mountains, wide spaces and untamed nature.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 200w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 60w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: selections from his “Historie of the world,” letters and other writings; ed. with introds. and notes, by G. E. Hadow. il *$1.40 Oxford 900

“This book contains, besides extracts from the first edition of the ‘History’ (1614), as well as some of Raleigh’s letters to his wife and others, the text of ‘The last fight of the Revenge at sea,’ issued anonymously in 1591. A biographical introduction, followed by commentaries on the texts, and ample notes, will be found in the volume.”—Ath

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 60w

“The extracts from the ‘Historie’ show what Raleigh thought on many questions of military science and statesmanship—some of them analogous to questions before us to-day, such as Spain’s aim at securing the hegemony of Europe, the contrast between the English and Spanish treatment of native races, the Spanish method of spreading false reports of victories in neutral countries, the best means of repelling an attempted invasion of England, the futility of trusting to a river or a mountain-range to stop an army, the method of dealing with ambassadors who plot against the country to which they are accredited. ... Miss Hadow’s notes are rather meagre. A short glossary of words used in obsolete senses would have been useful to the general reader or the young student. ... Attention is not called to Raleigh’s interesting use of ‘Armado’ of a ship, and ‘Armada’ of a fleet. ... The book is beautifully produced. The word ‘ingentes’ is, however, misprinted on p. 102.” G. C. M. S.

+ =Eng Hist R= 32:456 Jl ‘17 550w

“Miss Hadow and the Clarendon press have done a sound service to the cause of English history and English letters. ... They have made accessible the essential wisdom and the considered judgment of one of the keenest-edged spirits of Elizabethan times. ... The book has a peculiar interest for the Englishman to-day.”

+ =Spec= 118:644 Je 9 ‘17 1350w

“In this little book the indispensable part of Raleigh’s writing is preserved.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p127 Mr 15 ‘17 1750w

=RALEIGH, SIR WALTER.= Sir Walter Raleigh: “the shepherd of the ocean”; selections from his poetry and prose. il *50c Macmillan 820.8 16-25284

“The finest and most moving poetry and prose by Sir Walter Raleigh has been edited in particular for students of literature by Frank Cheney Hersey of Harvard college. ... The selections include, aside from the introductory sketch of his life, twenty-six selections, those popularly known and others difficult to find, such as The 21st book of the lost poem, ‘Cynthia,’ written in praise of Queen Elizabeth, pages from ‘The discovery of Guiana,’ ‘A relation of the Cadiz action,’ and ‘A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Azores.’ Portraits of Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville and cuts from old paintings and drawings illustrate this volume.”—R of Rs

+ =Cleveland= p64 My ‘17 50w

“A tercentenary offering. The selections are almost equally divided between Raleigh’s verse, in which he was always a gentleman, and his prose, in which he was not seldom a poet. In portions of the latter the editor has, wisely for the flavor’s sake, kept the old spelling. To include extracts from Raleigh’s trial was a happy stroke.”

+ =Nation= 104:546 My 3 ‘17 120w

+ =R of Rs= 55:214 F ‘17 180w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 26 ‘17 150w

=RAMSOWER, HARRY CLIFFORD.= Equipment for the farm and the farmstead. (Country life education ser.) il *$2.25 Ginn 630 17-12148

The author, professor of agricultural engineering in the College of agriculture of the Ohio State university, has prepared this book primarily in the interests of “the farmer of the present who is seeking information as to ways and means of making his work easier and his burdens lighter.” The book is also adapted for use as a college text. The author points out that the subject is one which has been given little attention, since the agricultural colleges, experiment stations, etc., have been so largely concerned with crop yields and the improvement of live stock. He devotes chapters to: Some principles of mechanics; Transmission of power; Materials of construction; Cement and concrete; Laying out the farm; Farm fences; Farm buildings; The farmhouse, etc., with special chapters given up to the principal items of farm machinery, The plow, Seeding-machinery, Grain-binders, etc.

=Agricultural Digest= 2:505 Je ‘17 120w

=A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:821 D ‘17 30w

=Pratt= p24 O ‘17 10w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Jl ‘17 60w

=RANDOLPH, THOMAS.= Poems and Amyntas; ed., with an introd., by J: J. Parry. il *$2 Yale univ. press 821 17-7487

“Professor Parry believes that there are external reasons for the oblivion that Randolph [1605-35] has suffered. ... One reason why he believes Randolph has been unread is that, after his death, his brother made the mistake of publishing all of his works which he could find together. For this reason the reader has to wade through even the school exercises of Randolph in order to discover his mature work. ... To remedy this, Professor Parry has reprinted about one-third of the extant works in this volume. He has tried in every sense to avoid the errors of Hazlitt. He has made no changes of his own in the text, relying in large part upon the fact that most of the readers of such a book would be those who were familiar with seventeenth century literature and able to read the early texts with no difficulty.”—Boston Transcript

“At the present time, it is too hard to find an edition of Thomas Randolph. He may be read only in rare early editions or in the faulty Hazlitt edition, which is itself long out of print. ... Professor Parry’s introduction to the volume will aid in making it of great interest to students.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p14 Ap 7 ‘17 500w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17

“Randolph, like so many other of the earlier poets, would find his most enthusiastic readers in those under twenty. Their minds are more impressionable and they are not so apt to question. If you begin to question and criticise too deeply, it is a wasted task to read him. ‘Amyntas’ is juiceless, and scarcely repays reading. Dr Parry’s editorial work is finely done, and his introduction is a model.” Frank Macdonald

=N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 200w

=RANSOME, ARTHUR.= Old Peter’s Russian tales. il *$2 Stokes 17-26894

“The twenty-one stories in the book are such as Russian peasants tell their children and each other. ... The author says that the stories selected for this volume are ‘not for the learned nor indeed for grown-up people at all. No people who really like fairy stories ever grow up altogether. Their reading will convey some idea of the mental processes of the race inhabiting the broad plains and distant forests of half-mysterious Russia, and throw light on the Russian peasant’s interpretation of natural phenomena and the abode of his mythology.’ The principal illustrations are the work of a Russian artist, Dmitri Mitrokhin.”—Springf’d Republican

“Well told with humorous touches.”

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“They seem every bit worth while in their folk-lore quality.”

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+ =N Y Times= 22:512 D 2 ‘17 210w

“He tells his tales with the skill belonging to an experienced man of letters.”

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“The book is a unique contribution to the holiday output.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w

“The tales, though they are second-rate literary matter, should read aloud well. The feeling is that the author is having a pleasant relaxation.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 70w

=RAUSCHENBUSCH, WALTER.=[2] Theology for the social gospel. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 230 17-31090

An elaboration of four lectures delivered in 1917 on the Nathaniel W. Taylor foundation before the annual convocation of the Yale school of religion. The main proposition is that we have a social gospel and what we need is a systematic theology large enough to match it and vital enough to back it. In the first three chapters the author shows that a readjustment and expansion of theology, so that it will furnish an adequate intellectual basis for the social gospel, is necessary, feasible, desirable and legitimate. The remainder of the book offers concrete suggestions how some of the most important sections of doctrinal theology may be expanded and readjusted to make room for the religious conviction summed up in “the social gospel.”

“The book is brave and direct and gathers together in lucid statement much that has been thought out in theology in the past decade. It is a combination of beautiful thought, of keen insight and of one-sided and restricted views. The social aspect of the gospel has its all-important place, but other sides of the question need to be considered in a completely philosophical work.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 15 ‘18 420w

=RAVAGE, MARCUS ELI.= American in the making. *$1.40 (2c) Harper 17-28804

The young Rumanian who writes this “life story of an immigrant” tells us that they who know only America cannot really know America, that “only from the humble immigrant” can they learn “just what America stands for in the family of nations.” And so he tells us his story from his boyhood in Vaslui, Rumania, to his sophomore year at the University of Missouri. Mr Ravage came over in 1900 and settled among his country-people in the “Little Rumania” of New York city. He began to earn his living as a peddler, and after working in a bar-room, and a sweatshop, he succeeded in educating himself sufficiently to enter the University of Missouri, though the sweatshop, he tells us, was his first university, and his fellow toilers there gave him the first stimulus towards reading books and the first introduction to radical thought. “Nothing in the way of thought-interest was too big or too heavy for this intelligentzia of the slums.” His first year in Columbia is a lonely one, save for one friend. He goes back to New York for his vacation and lives “through the last and bitterest episode in the romance of readjustment.” One year in Missouri has made him a stranger to the East side ghetto and when he goes back to college he finds that at last the barriers are down between him and his classmates—that he is no longer “a man without a country”—he is an American.

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“Mr Ravage’s story of how he became an American and why the process took so long is of especial interest and value because he brings out the non-material reasons for the difficulties in the Americanising of our newly come peoples. He makes clear the mental and spiritual non-adjustments, the constant strong pull of the old world soul. And that is something which we, with our so different heritage, find it difficult to realise.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:330 N ‘17 450w

“But not as a portrayal of the Jewish spirit nor as a recognition of its leaven, not as a study in Americanization is this book primarily arresting. It is a remarkable sketch indeed of contacts between diverse cultures, but it is not alone an ethnological sketch; it is a picture of the life of the spirit, it is literature. In its ironic restraint and subtle interpretation the book is unsurpassed, it seems to me, in the literary art of this country.” E. C. Parsons

+ =Dial= 64:107 Ja 31 ‘18 2700w

“Gives the impression of being not only a more searching but a more honest account of the process of being Americanized than has been presented by any one else.”

+ =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 440w

“Mr Ravage’s story is full of spiritual adventure. Where have we a more illuminating picture of the motives, the pathos and the fantasy, that bring people from their remote countries to America?... Surely we have had nothing like this story of the assimilation of an eager, idealistic, floundering Rumanian youth into the light, hearty life of a mid-western state university. ... In such a career we see something vital being done to America by the immigrant, as well as something vigorous being done to the immigrant by America.” R. B.

+ =New Repub= 14:30 F 2 ‘18 900w

“There is food for thought in ‘An American in the making.’ And always there is keen interest.”

+ =N Y Time=s 23:11 Ja 13 ‘18 1350w

=Pittsburgh= 22:804 D ‘17 50w

“The value of this autobiography lies in the fact that the author did achieve Americanization, and from this vantage point could look back over his heartrending struggles with an eye that fully appreciated what he had lost and gained. The humor and clear-sightedness of the author, to say nothing of the colorful and stimulating style, make the