The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
book one of the most interesting products of the season.
+ =Springf’d= Republican p8 N 13 ‘17 1050w
“[His experiences] are depicted with a remarkable command of English idioms and American sense of humor.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 130w
=RAWLINGS, GERTRUDE BURFORD.= British museum library. il $1.25 (2½c) Wilson, H. W. 027.5 17-11000
The author says: “This essay traverses some of the ground covered by Edwards’s ‘Lives of the founders of the British museum,’ and the Reading-room manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print. But it has its own field, and adds a little here and there, I venture to hope, to the published history of our national library.” (Preface) The chapters take up: Steps toward a national library; The Cottonian library; The Sloane bequest; The early days of the British museum; Anthony Panizzi; Later days of the British museum; Recent history of the library; Accessions by gift, bequest or purchase; Accessions through the copyright acts; The catalogue; The subject index; Some treasures of the British museum library. The appendix gives lists of some of the official catalogs and other information.
+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘17 190w
=St Louis= 15:355 O ‘17 20w
+ =Sat R= 123:15 Ja 6 ‘17 900w
“An attractive and scholarly account of the rise and progress of the great library. ... Some of the principal treasures are well described.”
+ =Spec= 118:176 F 10 ‘17 100w
“Without being in any sense a guide the book provides readers with a brief and well-arranged survey of the contents of the national library and of the methods of obtaining access to them.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p6 Ja 4 ‘17 700w
=RAWLINSON, HUGH GEORGE.= Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome. il *$2.25 Putnam 930 (Eng ed 16-19470)
“Professor Rawlinson has chosen a romantic subject for his book, and, within the limits he has proposed to himself, has done justice to it. Academic India is at present very busy studying the records of the earliest periods of Indian civilization, and is discovering with just pride and pleasure that the Hindu culture had much in common with the origins of the polities of western nations. ... The old Hindus were certainly daring navigators, keen traders, and colonists in distant lands. They were skilled administrators, and possessed a copious literature dealing with all the affairs of men in organized society, and lacking only in historical accounts of their own doings. The suggestion is natural that the West may owe larger debts to India than have hitherto been recognized.”—Spec
“Needed only in large or special libraries.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17
“The author endeavours to give a succinct account of his subject, which has never been dealt with as a whole in any English work, although the material has been handled by a host of writers. ... The book is useful as a compendious summary, and probably may reach a second edition, when corrections such as those noted can be inserted. Others are needed.” V. A. S.
+ =Eng Hist R= 31:661 O ‘16 600w
“With much learning, but in a readable and agreeable style, Professor Rawlinson has pieced together our fragmentary knowledge from the foregoing and other sources. His volume is a handbook, not a compilation of original documents like the tomes of McCrindle. The extent of his citations and the account that he takes of recent studies in this by no means neglected field gives it, however, much value for reference purposes as well as for passing perusal.” E: P. Buffet
+ =J Philos= 14:442 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
“Those interested in the relations of East and West revived by the war will find Professor Rawlinson’s book a useful and entertaining guide to a necessary and picturesque background. ... The few errors in the book are due to the inaccessibility of a good library in India, where the author holds a chair in an Indian college.”
* + =Nation= 104:134 F 1 ‘17 950w
+ =Pratt= p41 Jl ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 10w
“Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian history. The book is an admirable continuation of its author’s excellent ‘Bactria: the history of a forgotten empire.’”
+ =Spec= 117:106 Jl 22 ‘16 430w
“If its facts were all known before, they were dispersed in a variety of books, and to bring them together into one cover is to do a service to a large number of people who would like to know the general results arrived at by research with regard to the relations of ancient India and the West, and who would be unable to consult the various books from which Professor Rawlinson draws.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p268 Je 8 ‘16 2000w
=REED, EDWARD BLISS.= Sea moods, and other poems. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-25111
A handful of verse, most of which is introspective reaction to the varying moods of the sea. The writer depicts the depression of fog, the exhilaration and tonic of the blue sea, the caprice of the sea and its freedom and romance. The writer for the time being is “fisherman, hunter, and sailor, playing with dreams by the sea.”
“These poems are well done, often very well done; the finish is complete, but they are illuminated from within. They have not the spontaneity, the abandon of an overflowing impulse. They tread a bit heavily their proper metres, overladen with a too literal expression rather than with the sense and emotion and imagination of the subject. The author rises to a higher perfection in verse than in poetry. Thus what we want is not verse about the sea, but the poetry of the sea.” W. S. B.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 300w
=Dial= 63:513 N 22 ‘17 30w
=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Memorial day, and other verse (original and translated). *75c De Wolfe & Fiske co., 20 Franklin st., Boston 811 17-23580
A little volume whose profits are to be devoted to the work of helping soldiers blinded in battle. It contains in the first part several patriotic pieces, among them “Your country and mine,” “The Harvard regiment,” “The Grand army passes” and “A Canadian trooper to his horse.” The second group is made up of lighter verse for children. The third division includes some well-known odes from Horace.
“Sincere and varied verse, unpretentious and pleasing.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 720w
“Miss Reed is not a poet of the highest flights, nor does she profess to be, but this book is thoroughly entertaining. Her expression is consciously confined; when she does write swingingly the results are less happy. Her verse is not free from faults of rhyme and meter. But the diversity of subject matter bears witness to breadth of mind.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 280w
=REED, HELEN LEAH.= Serbia: a sketch. il $1 (5c) Serbian distress fund, 555 Boylston st., Boston 949.7 17-59
A letter from the author says that the book “aims to give the average reader a clear and concise account of Serbian history from the earliest times, with some attention to the present war.” The headings for the five sections of the book are: Serbia: starting; Serbia: singing; Serbia: seaward; Serbians; Serbia: sighing. The book was written for the benefit of the Serbian distress fund, and was first put on sale at the Allied bazaar in Boston. All proceeds from the general sale of the book also go to the relief fund.
“The book will be useful to all interested in the causes of the war. Its sale will help the Serbian fund, and it is a pleasure to recommend it most heartily, as both well-written and generally accurate.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 16 ‘16 550w
“Useful, for all its slightness, for the information it gives and the sense of personality it manages to convey.”
+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
=REED, HOMER BLOSSER.= Morals of monopoly and competition. *$1.25 Banta pub. 338 17-13289
“The author is primarily concerned in describing the evolution now taking place in the business world, ‘one of the outstanding features of which is the change from private and competitive morality to public and co-operative morality.’ He first attempts to explain why private competitive morality has been found unsatisfactory, by a detailed account of its results under the practice of railroad discriminations in the case of the Standard oil company. Secondly, he describes the solutions proposed as evolved in the court decisions concerning railroad rebates and a fair rate of return for public-service companies. Thirdly, through a criticism of these decisions, he attempts to set forth the principles established to meet the new conditions. Then, turning from public callings to private callings, he follows a similar plan in the case of the large industrial corporations. ... The general conclusion is that industrial combinations which are doing business under the law of private callings ought to be regulated under the law of public callings.”—J Pol Econ
“The author predicts that the large industrial combinations will in the course of time come to be recognized as public service corporations, and will be subjected to regulation in much the same way that the railroads now are. But he does not make his point.” Eliot Jones
— =Am Econ R= 7:643 S ‘17 600w
“Students of business ethics will find the new book of interest as an outline of the changes which have taken place within a comparatively few years in that field. It explains the trend of the times, and is probably more or less prophetic of future changes in the matter of the regulation of business competition.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:134 Jl 28 ‘17 160w
=Int J Ethics= 27:534 Jl ‘17 160w
“Offers a clear and simple statement of the significant change that has occurred in our attitude towards ‘big business.’” B. H. Bode
+ =J Philos= 14:613 O 25 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by C. W. Wright
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:628 Je ‘17 570w
=REED, THOMAS HARRISON.= Form and functions of American government. il *$1.50 (1c) World bk. 353 16-24343
“This book is the result of nine years’ experience in teaching government and a lifelong interest in politics. It is intended primarily for that great majority of high-school pupils who go no farther on the road of formal education and aims to deal with the principles of governmental organization and activity in such a way as to be a suitable basis for the most thorough high-school course in preparation for citizenship.” (Preface) The book is divided into six parts, preceded by an introductory chapter on Government, and why we study it. The six parts take up: The background of American government; Parties and elections; State government; Local government; Government of the United States; The functions of government.
“The author has shown remarkable skill in being brief without being misleading. A most commendable feature is the evolutionary or organic viewpoint, which finds consistent expression throughout.” A. B. Hall
+ =Am J Soc= 23:267 S ‘17 410w
“Usefully illustrated; full bibliography at chapter-ends.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
“The subject is treated from an historical point of view, but in the main each topic is brought up to date and the views are progressive throughout. ... Several errors—of fact rather than interpretation—may be noted. ... This book was in press during a period of unprecedented federal legislation, so various facts concerning the Philippine government, preparedness, military and naval academies, and the income tax are already out of date. Also, the shipping board, the farm loan board, the tariff commission, prohibition of child labor, and the inheritance tax have come into existence since the book went to press. ... There is an excellent bibliography at the end of each chapter.” F. A. Magruder
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:164 F ‘17 800w
“An admirably stimulating text book.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 70w
“Teachers of civics who desire to make their instruction practical in the best sense of the word should not overlook this volume, for besides having the notable merit of definiteness Professor Reed’s volume is inclusive, well-proportioned, accurate, and readable.”
+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 120w
“The author of this handbook came to his task with a rather unusual equipment. A graduate of Harvard university and of the Harvard law school, he was successively a member of the bar of Massachusetts and of New York, and in 1908 was appointed to a professorship of government in the University of California. For six months in 1911 he held the office of executive secretary to Governor Johnson and in 1916 secured a leave of absence from the University to assume the duties of city manager of San José, Cal. His book, therefore, has a background of practical experience in governmental affairs.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w
“Among the many volumes recently put out on citizenship for school use, it is clearly one of the ablest, both in its careful preparation and clear writing. In its real appeal to the natural civic interests of the high-school student it stands alone.” R. N. Baldwin
+ =Survey= 37:616 F 24 ‘17 250w
=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on immigration. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) 2d ed *$1.25 (1c) Wilson, H. W. 325.73 17-6882
Changes in this second edition of the debaters’ handbook on immigration consist of: a revision of the bibliographies on European and Asiatic immigration, with the addition of references bringing them down to date; a revision of the section on The European war and immigration, with the addition of new reprints, and the addition of a group of references on Americanization.
=A L A Bkl= 13:366 My ‘17
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 40w
=REELY, MARY KATHARINE=, comp. Selected articles on minimum wage. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 331.2 17-6881
This volume is an outgrowth of a pamphlet issued in 1913 in the Abridged debaters’ handbook series. Like other volumes in the series it contains briefs, bibliographies and selected reprints presenting both sides of a debatable question. The explanatory note says, “An attempt has been made to choose wisely such articles as would present the question from many points of view, that of the employer, the trade unionist, the lawyer, the economist, the social worker, etc.” Among those who argue for the minimum wage are Margaret Dreier Robins, Florence Kelley, John A. Ryan, Walter Lippmann, Sidney Webb and Louis D Brandeis. Among those opposed are John Bates Clark, F. W. Taussig, J. Laurence Laughlin, Rome G. Brown and Helen Marot. The volume is indexed.
=A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 40w
“An excellent handbook giving all the latest data and discussion.”
+ =Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 20w
“The introduction, a brief sketch of the history of the minimum-wage movement, shows the compiler to be strongly in sympathy with it and to be capable of sharp criticism as regards its various phases; but the selection of articles is marked by impartiality as well as by good judgment. ... The 200 pages, including a bibliography and a good index, will be interesting and helpful not only to prospective debaters, but to the general reader desiring to get a fair impression of the considerations that have been brought to bear on this subject by representative thinkers and writers.”
+ =Nation= 104:556 My 3 ‘17 180w
“In her introduction to the volume the compiler makes a few very interesting observations. ... The literature on the subject is very extensive, and the compiler made use of the best that has been published. General bibliography as well as references to the material used, and a well arranged index, are included in the volume which makes it very convenient for the reader.” A. L. Trachtenberg
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 530w
=Pratt= p12 O ‘17
“In all cases the material is selected with impartiality and with obvious intent to do full justice to both sides of a question.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by Henrietta Walters
+ =Survey= 38:371 Jl 28 ‘17 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w
=REEMAN, EDMUND HENRY.= Do we need a new idea of God. *$1 (3c) Jacobs 211 17-18044
The Rev. Edmund H. Reeman is a Unitarian minister and is at present pastor of the First Unitarian church, at Trenton, N. J. He states in his preface that “there is need for a reinterpretation of life and a restatement of religious faith in the light of democratic outreach and impulse.” His book is an attempt to turn our “thoughts away from the old ideas of God as a king upon a monarch’s throne, the remote and transcendent creator and ruler of the world and life, to the thought of God as the God of all the struggle and outreach of life—the real Life-Force of the universe and the eternal toiler in the universe,—a God who needs our strength and grit and will and courage far more than He needs our tears and our penitence.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 20w
“This book makes good. ... There is a striking difference between this book and the most prominent current pronouncement on the same subject—H. G. Wells’s ‘God, the invisible king.’ Both books are good on the destructive side, with the balance decidedly in favor of Wells. Constructively, however, the British writer seems, in comparison, vague, truistic, naive, and dogmatic. ... Both writers conceive of God as finite, holding up men’s hands and being held up by them, but Mr Wells is vague in differentiating God from the Life Force and maintaining his personality, while Mr Reeman is perfectly clear in identifying the two and in giving the doctrine of divine immanence a modern pragmatic meaning.”
+ =Dial= 63:215 S 13 ‘17 600w
“Like many other dissatisfied souls, the author finds it much more easy to point out the inadequacy of the old than to lead into positive notions of the new, but his attempt is a worthy one.”
+ — =Ind= 92:301 N 10 ‘17 330w
“Much that the author says is well said, and has been said as well by leaders in scientific theology. ... Evidently he has not studied the New Testament, or seen its Revised version.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 130w
“This conception of God as the master spirit of struggle, the ‘eternal toiler’ of the universe, is shown to be in line with the facts of modern experience.”
=R of Rs= 56:330 S ‘17 120w
=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.=[2] Adventuress. il *$1.35 (2c) Harper 17-30121
Marshall Maddox, head of “Maddox munitions, incorporated,” is murdered and the model of the telautomaton, a wonderful war invention is stolen from his safe. Craig Kennedy, “scientific detective,” well known to Mr Reeve’s readers, is put in charge of the case. Several other members of the Maddox family enter into the story. The adventuress is Paquita, a little Mexican dancer in whom Marshall Maddox has been interested.
“From the very first page, where the story opens with the crack of a revolver shot, the reader is taken along through mystery, exciting adventures and deep-laid plots. The story is interesting from its many human aspects.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 310w
=N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 340w
=REEVE, ARTHUR BENJAMIN.= Treasure train. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-15286
A dozen stories, adventures of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, who, by means of chemical analysis or some curiously and delicately devised instrument, gets at the truth of a crime and rounds up the criminal. The crimes uncovered by his laboratory methods of investigation are of the subtlest order. Some involve the use of deadly toxins,—muscarin, digitalis, and abrin from the Hindu prayer-bean which resembles snake-venom. Some cases introduce deadly gas, deadly germs and dum-dummed poisoned bullets. For every mystery there is a quick and sure solution, the way to which comes spontaneously forth from the laboratory-trained mind of this calm, clear-headed detective.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 30w
“When one considers how closely the author follows the same general formula in constructing each story, the amount of variety in them is rather surprising.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:238 Je 24 ‘17 180w
=REEVES, FRANCIS BREWSTER.= Russia then and now, 1892-1917. il *$1.50 Putnam 914.7 17-13230
In 1892 the author was sent to Russia in charge of the cargo sent by the Philadelphia relief committee to the famine sufferers. In this book he gives an account of his mission, illustrating it with photographs taken at the time. To give contrasting descriptions of modern Russia, he quotes from the writings of others, including two articles by Margaret Wintringer on the abolition of vodka.
“The book takes on the nature of a pleasing memorial of a worthy charity and is hardly more than that.”
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 220w
“Mr Reeves has made a pleasant and appropriate memorial of an incident in the friendly relations that have long existed between the United States and Russia, but he leaves unsatisfied those readers who expect any analysis or interpretation of Russia, or the Russians, then or now.”
– + =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 180w
“It is in the appendix to the book that we find the most useful information concerning conditions in Russia since the war began and before the Czar’s abdication. This for the most part consists of extracts from newspaper articles by other hands, and gives a fairly complete basis for contemporary judgment. Of these articles the most valuable is the paper on ‘Russia’s future needs for capital,’ by Samuel McRoberts, vice president of the National city bank of New York city.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:221 Je 10 ‘17 350w
“The book contains nothing of consequence about Russia now, and the author saw, or at least realized very little about the bureaucracy of Russia then.”
=Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 80w
=REID, FORREST.= Spring song. *$1.40 (2c) Houghton 17-8741
Four of the Westons were ordinary children. First there was Edward, something of a fop, then Barbara, a trifle priggish, then Ann, always out of breath, but so warm-hearted and kind, and last, there was Jim, a jolly little boy with a fondness for riddles. It was Grif who was different. Grif sees and hears things of which the others are never aware. He is sensitive to influences that never touch his brothers and sisters. In this story he is brought to the verge of a mental and physical breakdown by contact with a morbid and unbalanced mind. The nature of Grif’s illness puzzles everyone, but his healing is finally brought about most simply and beautifully.
“The children are well drawn, but the book will have only a limited appeal.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 350w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 570w
“A heart-breaking little tale. ... And its poignancy lies in the fineness and restraint of feeling that differentiate it from the coarsely and slushily sentimental child-literature which so often appears to be ‘what the people want.’”
+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 450w
“Very moving and imaginative study of the most moving of all living things: childhood laid upon the rude sacrificial stone of adolescence, and quivering to its death.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The descriptions of the English countryside are very lovely, and the story holds the reader’s interest firmly from beginning to end. There is about it nothing slovenly or unfinished; the author has the artist’s instinct, the artist’s loving care, and the result is a book of distinction and charm.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:47 F 11 ‘17 400w
“More than half of Mr Forrest Reid’s story is a pure delight: the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. ... The story of the clouding of an innocent but highly strung mind is not as horrible as that of ‘The two magics’, but it is painful.”
+ — =Spec= 118:48 Ja 13 ‘17 450w
“There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic height of ‘The spring song.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 380w
“There are a number of very amusing scenes in the book, and the children’s characters, especially Jim and Ann are delightfully drawn. ... But the author’s intentness on the pursuing nightmare robs the later part of the book of some balance, until Grif’s delusions appear real against a rather shadowy background.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p536 N 9 ‘16 400w
=REID, SIR GEORGE HOUSTON.= My reminiscences. il *16s Cassell & co., London
“Scottish by birth and ancestry, an emigrant to Australia in 1852, and later a successful barrister, prime minister of New South Wales, premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, first high commissioner for the commonwealth and now independent imperialist member of Parliament for St George’s, Hanover square, the author of this autobiography has had an active, eventful, and distinguished career, and has rendered many valuable public services. Much of the volume is concerned with Australian politics. ... The author relates several amusing incidents.”—Ath
+ =Ath= p313 Je ‘17 250w
“As a summary of leading figures and measures in Australia it is of value, but outside of politics it is dull.”
+ — =Sat R= 123:437 My 12 ‘17 500w
“Of Lord Kitchener he says: ‘When he spoke his words were few and distinct. Some thought him cold-hearted, and so he was when he was dealing with incompetents and offenders. But his was a warm heart, all the same. He was the only man in England who used to greet me with, “Hullo, old man!” I used to feel that such a greeting meant that he thought me fit for my job.’”
+ =Spec= 118:519 My 5 ‘17 1750w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Ap 26 ‘17 60w
“It contains too many technical and statistical passages to be read eagerly by the untraveled Englishman. It has no pretension to be a history of Australia; but it presupposes in the reader a considerable familiarity with that history, for it is mainly concerned with the mechanical progress of political measures and not with the physical and social conditions that made them opportune or expedient.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 My 3 ‘17 1100w
=REINHARDT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Lettering for draftsmen, engineers and students. 14th ed rev and enl il *$1 Van Nostrand 745 17-8375
“More than twenty years of use under all sorts of conditions have proved the value of Reinhardt’s ‘Lettering.’ ... In the preface to the first edition the author stated that, while there were then many books that dealt with ornamental lettering, there was none which treated the art ‘from a purely practical viewpoint.’ To make good so great a lack, he set forth simply and clearly a very practical method of producing most effective results in freehand lettering of working drawings. ... The present edition has been given ‘a more rounded aspect,’ to quote from the preface, by supplying such apparent omissions as an analysis of the Greek alphabet, methods of laying out and constructing titles and by adding some practice sheets.”—Engin News-Rec
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:153 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:463 My ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:176 Je ‘17
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:396 My ‘17 120w
=REISS, RODOLPHE ARCHIBALD.= Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion of Serbia; English tr. by F. S. Copeland. il 5s Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-20123)
“This is a translation of the report submitted to the Serbian government by Dr R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne. This material is said to have been gathered on the spot during the months of September, October, and November, 1914.”—R of Rs
=Ind= 88:284 N 13 ‘16 80w
=R of Rs= 54:573 N ‘16 40w
“The publication in this country of the work entitled ‘Austro-Hungarian atrocities’ is calculated to give a severe shock to those Englishmen who, whilst condemning and regretting Austrian policy, still preserve feelings of friendship towards the Austrians. It is a chronicle of horrors no less ghastly than that recorded by the responsible authorities of France, Great Britain, and Belgium who have inquired into the conduct pursued elsewhere by the ruthless and treaty-breaking ally of Austria.” [Earl of] Cromer
=Spec= 117:583 N 11 ‘16 2150w
=RELTON, HERBERT M.= Study in Christology; the problem of the relation of the two natures in the person of Christ. *$2.50 Macmillan 232
“In ‘A study in Christology’ Dr H. M. Relton sets out the various ways in which men have attempted to describe the person of Christ, giving prominence to a theory propounded by Leontius of Byzantium in the first half of the sixth century. His contribution to the Christological problem is found in the doctrine of the Enhypostasia. ... Leontius offered the theory that the human nature of Christ was not without hypostasis, but became hypostatic in the person of the Logos. ... Dr Relton sets out the implications of this way of accounting for the person of Christ, and pleads that it answers to the demands of modern thought more successfully than various recent theories. ... The second part of the treatise deals with the analysis of human nature in the light of modern psychology and the analysis of the divine nature as manifested in revelation. The author then considers the relationship between the human and the divine as revealed by religious experience, and shows how this helps us to penetrate deeper into the mystery of the person of Christ. The third division of the book considers various modern attempts at Christological reconstruction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Reviewed by James Moffat
+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 140w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17
“As we should expect in a thesis approved for the D.D. degree in the University of London, the work is a learned and technical study in theology; but the problems discussed are stated with precision and clearness, and no reader interested in the subject with which it deals need fear that he may not be able to follow with advantage the arguments of the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 Mr 22 ‘17 580w
=RENDALL, VERNON HORACE.= London nights of Belsize. *$1.40 (2½c) Lane 17-20181
This story deals with “the unraveling of mysteries and the detection of crime by the non-professional expert,” but “Christopher Belsize was much more than a criminal investigator. He was a millionaire, to begin with. He was also a scholar, deeply versed in oriental lore; a collector, bibliophile, and a purchaser of libraries, who kept his purchases dark; and, for the rest, a young man who loved to play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, and was possessed with a faculty of accurate and precise deduction which was indistinguishable from clairvoyance. He was recklessly generous, magnanimous, and (incidentally) benevolent. ... Being destitute of ordinary ambition, Christopher’s motive was rather the desire to ‘live dangerously.’ He asked for trouble, but he was so magnificently equipped that he seldom came to grief. Besides, on the advice of his eccentric uncle, he had practised revolver-shooting to good purpose, and—also on the advice of that mysterious relative—he had made a devoted slave of his body servant, Smith, an ex-burglar and pugilist.” (Spec)
+ — =Ath= p363 Jl ‘17 100w
“The good detective story is never out of style, but ‘The London nights of Belsize’ is even better than good, for it is different.”
+ =Dial= 63:593 D 6 ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 410w
“The author has a wit and originality of his own. His book is ingenious, imaginative, whimsical. Conceived on popular lines, it is written with the fastidious taste of a scholar.”
+ =Sat R= 123:504 Je 2 ‘17 650w
“‘Belsize as a commentator’ is a tour de force of ironic criticism at the expense of Sherlock Holmes. But, on the whole, we like him best when he is most irresponsible, as in the delightful extravaganza of ‘The young man and the “happy” shop’—an admirable satire on the gullibility of the reading public and the methods of reviewers; or ‘The post-prandial peculiars,’ in which Belsize, disguised as a working man, is entertained by a millionaire. ... Mr Rendall has proved that the charm of sensational fiction is greatly enhanced when the author possesses style, scholarship, and wit. The stories in themselves are not above the comprehension of the average reader, but the literary bravura of their presentation will attract an esoteric audience. In fine, Mr Vernon Rendall has killed two birds with one stone.”
+ + =Spec= 118:645 Je 9 ‘17 900w
“He becomes too much of the detective and too little of the adventurer and taster of life. ... Belsize is too good for the work to which Mr Rendall has put him, difficult and dangerous though that may have been.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 My 24 ‘17 460w
=RESSÉGUIER, ROGER MARIA HERMANN BERNARD, graf.= Francis Joseph and his court. il *$2.50 (2½c) Lane 17-30309
The author of the memoirs from which Mr Herbert Vivian has made selections is the son of Francis Joseph’s court chamberlain. His mother had been a lady in waiting to the Empress Sophia, mother of Francis Joseph, and some of her stories of earlier court life are embodied in these memoirs. The tragedy of Maximilian I and the mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph are among the subjects covered.
“Those who had previously retained any optimistic illusions about the high family of Hapsburgs, of which the Emperor Francis Joseph was the decorative head, are doomed to lose them after reading the data Mr Vivian has selected.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 21 ‘17 770w
+ =Outlook= 117:574 D 5 ‘17 70w
Retreat from Mons. *50c (4c) Houghton 940.91 17-19810
This brief but detailed and somewhat technical account of the “Retreat from Mons” is apparently the first of a series of little books on the Operations of the British army in the present war. Field-Marshal French, in his preface, points out that the demoralization which usually accompanies a retreat was conspicuous by its non-existence.
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“The author has been careful to put down as fact only what has been proved upon reliable authority to be true. In this way he leaves the controversy which rages concerning the early weeks of the war, to the controversial, and his summary of the facts will not be inconsistent with history as it is finally written.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p1 Ja ‘18 50w
“Beneath the superstructure of official facts one glimpses heroism and sacrifice the details of which will never be known, but which distinguish the retreat above many engagements that history will note more carefully.”
+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
“The semi-official little volume admits records are still clouded concerning the actions of Maroilles and Le Cateau.”
+ — =Ind= 91:352 S 1 ‘17 100w
“It is solely a military history and so makes no account of picturesque incidents or pathetic or tragic happenings.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 440w
=St Louis= 15:418 D ‘17 10w
=REY, JEAN ALEXANDRE.= Range of electric searchlight projectors; tr. by J. H. Johnson. il $4.50 Van Nostrand 623.731 ES17-91
The translator in his preface points out that there is no modern and original work in English treating the subject covered by this book. The present importance of the subject has induced him to make a translation of this French work for the benefit of English readers. The author’s introduction says, “I have endeavoured to sum up the methods for range measurement, and, with the assistance of much information not previously published, the solution of the problem if not entirely elucidated, is at least advanced from a practical point of view.” The subject is treated in two parts: Illumination by electric searchlight projectors; Range of electric searchlight projectors. The French bibliography is included and the work is indexed.
“The book will not be found particularly easy for the untechnical reader, but the charts and tables are of exceptional value, although their use is not always quite obvious without pretty careful study of the text. The volume is certainly a most timely one and should prove invaluable to students of artillery practice.”
+ — =Elec W= 70:1062 D 1 ‘17 570w
“Altogether this is a very valuable and practical book. ... Mr Johnson has done his work of translation well.”
+ — =Engineer= 124:59 Jl 20 ‘17 1400w
“The work will prove of great value to engineer officers.”
+ — =Nature= 99:402 Jl 19 ‘17 420w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 80w
=REYNOLDS, GERTRUDE M. (ROBINS) (MRS LOUIS BAILLIE REYNOLDS).= Castle to let. *$1.35 (1c) Doran 17-23550
A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story. Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a school friend. It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable disappearance of a party of guests. There are weird tales afloat of a dragon—and there is an old prophecy concerning a fair-haired dragon slayer that seems about to be fulfilled. These mysteries fascinate Camiola, and as she is mistress of her own fortune, she promptly leases the ancient mountain castle that has stood empty for years, invites to it a party of her friends, and starts to investigate the mystery. The fair-haired young guide who acts as her companion in her search begins shortly to have for Camiola a personal interest. She is amazed at herself, and ashamed—but all this, as it happens, is part of the working out of the prophecy.
“The book is well written, the descriptions of scenery are good, and there is plenty of interest in the characters.”
+ =Ath= p528 O ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 50w
“It is a book entirely of incident—a thriller for the movie-minded.”
+ — =Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 80w
“A delightfully romantic story.”
+ =Spec= 119:331 S 9 ‘17 30w
“Mrs Reynolds very skilfully balances the reader’s interest between the romance, which is of the conventionally unconventional sort, and the other elements of the situation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 170w
+ – =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 110w
=RHODES, JAMES EDWARD.= Workmen’s compensation. *$1.50 Macmillan 331.25 17-18174
“This book sets forth in a style which can be easily understood by any intelligent reader the development, in this country, of the movement for compensating workmen who suffer accident in industry. It describes also the basic principles underlying compensation insurance. Inasmuch as the problems resulting from industrial accidents arose in Europe much earlier than in this country, a summary is presented, at first, of the distinctive features of the English and German methods of handling the question. This is followed by a discussion of the development of the agitation in the United States, covering the first decade of the twentieth century. ... In the appendix is found an outline of the history of the movement which resulted in the laws of New York state, the standards for sound workmen’s compensation laws recommended by the American association for labor legislation, and a brief digest of the various laws in force in each state at the end of 1916. At the close of each chapter there is a list of references covering the literature upon the main topics discussed, and at the end of the volume is a general bibliography of ten pages.” (Nation) “The author is a claim examiner in the compensation and liability department of a large insurance company.” (R of Rs)
“The demand for a concise and logical account of the movement for workmen’s compensation, and of the principles involved, is not adequately met by this volume; though its excellent forward-looking spirit, its satisfactory index, and its pretty full bibliography combine with the presentation of much material of interest and value to offset in a large degree the defects noted.” L. D. Clark
* – + =Am Econ R= 17:908 D ‘17 1150w
“Because of the simple non-technical presentation of the subject the book is well suited both for the student who wants a general survey of the history and principles of workmen’s compensation without too much local and detailed study, and for the special student who needs a guide for further reading and research.” R. W: Foley
+ =Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 250w
“No better or more readable summary of the whole subject can be found anywhere than that which this volume places at the disposal of its readers.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:792 N ‘17 110w
“This book presents a careful statement of the background and fundamentals of compensation and of its present status in the United States which should be useful as a basis for more detailed study or for a general survey of the problem. Particularly valuable are the illustrative cases and the brief digest of the essential points of laws now in force.” R. H. B.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 74:297 N ‘17 110w
“The book will be found extremely useful by the reader who desires to get a fairly comprehensive knowledge of the essentials of workmen’s compensation. Chapter 6 on the constitutionality of compensation legislation is a good example of the author’s ability to present clearly within a brief compass all the important elements of a complex situation.”
+ =Cath World= 106:256 N ‘17 260w
=Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 30w
“The book is carefully documented in relation to legal decisions.”
+ =Ind= 92:109 O 13 ‘17 40w
Reviewed by E. S. Gray
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:1049 D ‘17 380w
“The book is a most timely contribution to the literature of workmen’s compensation, and will be welcomed by a wide range of readers, including business men, students, and teachers of insurance, and intelligent general readers, as well.”
+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 420w
“The book can be heartily recommended to any serious minded wage-worker who wants to get a clear idea of the possibilities of social legislation as demonstrated in one, perhaps narrow, branch of it.” R.
+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 700w
“One valuable chapter deals with the social aspects. This will appeal to the non-technical reader by its method of treatment.”
+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:441 O ‘17 150w
“Mr Rhodes takes an extremely broad subject and skilfully condenses it into compact form.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 360w
“Mr Rhodes has filled a timely need. ... However, in valuing his discussion of state and stock company insurance, the author’s insurance connections must be borne in mind.” Irene Sylvester
+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 300w
=RHODES, JAMES FORD.= History of the Civil war, 1861-1865. *$2.50 (1c) Macmillan 973.7 17-30046
Not a condensation of the author’s three volumes on the Civil war in his “History of the United States” but a fresh study which makes use of the large amount of material on that period which has come to light in recent years. Good maps and an index are included with the text.
“An excellent and readable history.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
“The student of war politics and of mid-century American diplomacy will find much to interest him in several of the chapters, for the volume is not, as its title might imply, a mere narrative of military operations. It is a discussion of national life in all its phases during a great and critical period of American history.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 100w
“Like its predecessors, it is unusually well provided with a list of the best authorities, an ample table of contents, and a very complete index. In general, Mr Rhodes’s historical work has the distinction of frequent citations from the sources interwoven with his text, and a style uniformly clear, dignified and familiar.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:592 Ja ‘18 1750w
“Dr Rhodes here and there writes of certain episodes in greater detail than before; but in other places his lack of such detail is disappointing.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 570w
“The necessity of compression in putting the history of the Civil war into a single volume has made impossible the extensive use of [the method employed in his larger work]. But the author’s notable faculty of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color of events, and the fact that he wrote out of a reservoir of knowledge of just such intimate revelations of the life of the time infuse his narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he writes.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:494 N 25 ‘17 1350w
“We now have in one volume of moderate compass, handsomely printed, a work on the Civil war which contains precisely what every American should know, presented with scholarship and yet always in readable style and manner.”
+ =Outlook= 117:653 D 19 ‘17 110w
“The author everywhere shows the most absolute impartiality. ... Mr Rhodes writes in his usual clear and pleasing style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 500w
=RICE, ALICE CALDWELL (HEGAN) (MRS CALE YOUNG RICE).= Calvary alley. il *$1.35 (1½c) Century 17-26784
Nance Molloy lived with Mr and Mrs Snawdor, her step-father and step-mother, in Calvary alley, near the cathedral. The book tells how she grew up, how she became successively a “finisher” of pants, a factory hand, a companion to an old lady, a chorus girl, a stenographer, and a trained nurse, and how she fell in love with one of the two men who cared most for her—Dan Lewis, the factory hand, and “Mac” Clarke, whose father owned the bottle factory. Two older men who influence her life are Uncle Jed, her self-appointed guardian, and old Mr Demorest, who played the violin and taught Nance to dance.
“A pleasing story, with nice human touches that will make it popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:340 N ‘17 40w
“Not since Mrs Wiggs has Mrs Rice given us a book so rich in her warm humanity, her whimsicality and her catholic fondness for varieties of types as we find ‘Calvary alley.’ Yet it hints of bigger things than did Mrs Wiggs.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 1250w
“The story is interesting, wholesome, and very likable.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 270w
“While ‘Calvary Alley’ has no very serious pretensions and is written in a light and entertaining style, it does sincerely reflect a certain phase of American life.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p15 F 9 ‘18 270w
“Mildly humorous, less crude, in its optimism than is most of its author’s work, and has quite a good deal of variety in its scenes and characters. Mrs Snawdor, Nancy’s stepmother, is a real and entertaining person.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 600w
“Once in a great while one runs across a truly vital heroine in fiction—a girl who lives and moves like a real being. Such a heroine is Nance Molloy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 360w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 130w
=RICE, CALE YOUNG.= Trails sunward. *$1.25 Century 811 17-10356
This new volume of poems has a brief preface in which Mr Rice discusses recent trends in poetry. “Never has poetry tried so hard to be prose as at the present time in America,” he says, and he adds that the apparent revival of interest in poetry may be of brief duration. “No poetic public will long give attention to a realism which makes the mistake, common to all shallow realism, of neglecting passion, imagination, charm and nearly all the permanent qualities of any true poetry.” Among the poems included in the collection are: The trail from the sea; The chant of the Colorado; Mountains in the Grand Canyon; Hafiz at forty; a group of Songs to A.H.R., and a group of “Metaphysical sonnets.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:15 O ‘17
=Ind= 91:108 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
“Even in our day Mr Rice has the eccentricity of writing like a gentleman. ... I rarely use the term ‘sublimity,’ yet in touches of ‘The foreseers,’ particularly in its cavern-set opening, I should say that Mr Rice had scaled that eminence.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 105:401 O 11 ‘17 380w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 470w
“The years have increased his power to write exceptionally beautiful lyrics of perfect melody.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
“In a day of petty heresies, Mr Rice stands forth as a declared champion of orthodoxy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 200w
=RICE, GRANTLAND=, ed. Boys’ book of sports. il *$2 (1½c) Century 796 17-25763
The selections in this volume have been chosen “from the best sporting stories that St Nicholas has produced in the last twenty years.” They include descriptive articles, among them a series on baseball by Billy Evans, a special article on pitching by Christy Mathewson, articles on football by Parke H. Davis, golf by Francis Ouimet, and tennis by J. Parmly Paret. In addition there are short stories by Leslie W. Quirk, Ralph Henry Barbour and others.
=A L A Bkl= 14:174 F ‘18
“Boys of ten to any age will enjoy this collection.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 40w
“It is an encyclopedia, a treasury of outdoor tactics and accomplishment. Everything you want to know about things in the open, from fishing to aeroplaning, is here.”
+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 100w
Reviewed by H. B. Nagler
+ =N Y Call= p14 D 8 ‘17 290w
=RICE, GRANTLAND.=[2] Songs of the stalwart. *$1 Appleton 811 17-29998
The author who is known as a writer on outdoor sports appears in this book of poems in a new guise. Songs of somewhere back; Songs of courage; Songs of the off-trail; Songs of the game; and Songs above the drumfire, compose the contents. There is an appreciative foreword by Irvin S. Cobb.
“One would almost say that his art, simple, glowing and precise as it is, was altogether too fine for some of his themes and subjects; but this is not so, because nothing is too common for the spirit of poetry to light and reveal. This book is literature, an honor to the man who made it, and a delight to the reader who receives it. And Mr Rice stands quite alone in his achievement.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 430w
+ =Lit D= 55:30 D 22 ‘17 140w
“Irvin Cobb writes: ‘One of these days they are going to elect a successor to the late James Whitcomb Riley as the most typical writer of homely, gentle American verse. I have my candidate picked out. His name is Grantland Rice.’”
+ =R of Rs= 57:106 Ja ‘18 130w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 11 ‘18 350w
=RICE, WILLIAM NORTH.= Return to faith, and other addresses. *75c Abingdon press 16-23597
“This slim little book, five addresses in all, taking title from the first, [does not present] the return to faith as due to many remarkable verifications in newly found records, of old traditions, nor to geological evidence that the biblical order of creation, interpreting a ‘day’ as this or that number of thousands of years, is now found scientific, nor to any similar finding of pseudo-scientific abracadabra. The return to faith is due to a belief in the man Jesus.”—Dial
“Dr Rice represents the higher religious convictions of most liberal Christians. His book is remarkable for the unconditional and intelligent acceptance of science with all its implications. There is no string either to his science or to his religion.”
+ =Dial= 63:72 Jl 19 ‘17 240w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w
=RICHARD, PAUL.= To the nations. *$1 (8c) Pond 172.4 17-10558
This little book, translated from the French, with an introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, sets forth a view of the war as a conflict which the old social order is waging against itself. “The war has a purpose, even if the belligerents have none. It has a purpose to which none of them would care to attain, but which all will be forced to realize at last. This purpose is very simple: the old evil must be destroyed down to its root, the old foundations of the life of the people must be torn up, and replaced by the foundations of a better and truer civilization.” Revolutions are predicted for every country in Europe, altho the author hesitated to say which would be first. In the second part of the book he discusses the new ideals that must guide the reorganized nations.
=RICHARDS, H. GRAHAME.= Shadows. *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd
The novel ends under the shadow of the war, and the later chapters are in striking contrast to the peaceful scenes of the beginning. A quiet neighborhood in Wales is the setting. A small group of children, with Hilda and Gwaine Brennan and Ronald Clinton as its center, are the characters. Hilda is the beautiful one of the two, but Ronald never wavers in his devotion to Gwaine, his little comrade. There is a long separation, however, when, after a disagreement with his grandfather, he goes to London to earn his living as a writer. The war comes and he enlists as a private and the reconciliation with his grandfather and his return to Gwaine come only after the fierce and bitter experiences of the first months of the war. These scenes are made very real, and Hilda’s fate, a minor incident in the tragedy, helps bring home the far-reaching consequences of war.
“In later chapters of the book we have some of the most vivid descriptions of battle which have found their way into fiction. It is first hand description, we imagine.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 Je 16 ‘17 250w
“One of those books which just fail to attain excellence—and only just. A few improvements and it would become a really notable novel. There is in it much of charm, of feeling, of human quality. ... But every now and then comes a false note, a note which jangles, jarring upon the reader’s every nerve.”
=N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 500w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).=[2] Abigail Adams and her times. il *$1.35 Appleton 17-30245
“Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and hence the first mistress of the White House. But even if she had never had a part in official life, she was one of the most interesting women of her time and well deserves a biography. Mrs Richards tells the story of her childhood and later life from the diaries and letters that were written by her, and which deal with much of the real history of the period. Mrs Richards is a daughter of the late Julia Ward Howe.”—R of Rs
=Lit D= 56:35 Ja 12 ‘18 270w
+ =Lit D= 56:38 Ja 26 ‘18 80w
“A fascinating story of colonial times; fascinating to those who are interested in the details which make up the major part of all human lives, but are absent from most histories. The author has shown both skill and discretion in keeping herself in the background and composing her story mostly of the diary of the husband and the letters of the wife. The biography is almost an autobiography.”
+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 80w
=R of Rs= 57:100 Ja ‘18 80w
“The book is offered as of special interest to girls; it surely has the qualities of a successful appeal to a far larger constituency.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 1 ‘18 290w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Elizabeth Fry—the angel of the prisons. il *$1.25 Appleton 16-19822
“How Elizabeth Fry by the simplest beginnings wakened England at the commencement of the last century to the horrors of the prison system is told by Laura A. Richards in a short life written for girls. The ‘angel of the prisons’ was one of a noted family, the Gurneys of Earlham, ‘gay Quakers’ whose household of young folk was a merry one.” (Ind) “The book is largely composed of extracts from the journals of Elizabeth Fry and her sisters, which account for the vividness of the picture it gives.” (Survey)
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:270 Mr ‘17
“The pleasant style of the connecting narrative and the vitality and humor of the original material will establish this biography as a rival of the author’s ‘Florence Nightingale’ in its interest for young people.”
+ =Cleveland= p160 D ‘16 50w
“An inspiring book.”
+ =Ind= 88:405 D 4 ‘16 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:670 O ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 14:441 D ‘16
“The utter inability of the reader to tell how much of this book is fact and how much is Mrs Richards’ is its chief defect. My guess is that it will entrance many a child and tell him absorbing things that he will not learn in his school history.” W. D. L.
+ — =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 230w
“A popular, entertainingly written biography, designed for young girls. It is, however, less suitable for the youthful than for the adult mind because of the introspective nature of Mrs Fry’s journals, and the unfamiliar people and customs to which there is frequent reference.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:125 Ap ‘17 30w
=RICHARDS, MRS LAURA ELIZABETH (HOWE).= Pippin, a wandering flame. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-9251
“Pippin is, indeed, a queer name for a boy, but, inasmuch as he has never known any other, that is the only one he is called. His story is the unusual one of an orphan boy, brought up in the underworld, instructed in all its vices by expert teachers, and his ultimate imprisonment for three years. The larger part of the book is concerned mostly with Pippin after his release from prison, where he has gotten religion and ‘found the Lord.’ His genial personality, brought out by the humane and intelligent prison chaplain, and his beautiful singing voice win for him many kind, helpful friends and a lovely bride. The story ends just as it should, with Pippin and his bride sitting down with friends to a merry wedding breakfast.”—N Y Call
“Pleasant and harmless.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:406 Je ‘17
“Of Mrs Richards’s many charming stories none is more so than this. Its unquenchable optimism and sincerity warms one’s heart.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 280w
“While this book may be read and appreciated by adults, we feel reasonably sure that it will appeal greatly to thirteen or fourteen year old youngsters, who will follow the experiences and successes of the hero, Pippin, with much interest.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 190w
“The book is cheery and sweet without being sentimentalized. It is a ‘story,’ of course—not a piece of ‘gripping realism.’ But as a story it is wholesome and often unusual, and it is thoroughly readable.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 420w
“The spirit of moral uplift runs riot in ‘Pippin.’ The story is told in a partly illiterate jargon that frequently wearies the reader, and with an excess of sentimentality. But Pippin’s adventures have a measure of interest, and his optimism is engaging.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 280w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 70w
=RICHARDSON, DOROTHY M.= Pilgrimage: Backwater. *$1.35 Knopf
“In ‘Backwater’ Miss Dorothy Richardson continues the life story of a young English girl which she began in ‘Pointed roofs.’ Miriam Henderson was then—many years before the war—a teacher in a German school in Hanover. She is now home in England. She is just eighteen, ‘has put up her hair to-day’ in preparation for her career as a resident governess in a school for the daughters of gentlemen. ... Miriam’s is not a very large world, with its family of sisters, their chaff and slang and raptures, their music and books and friends and lovers. ... Nor is there much incident in it—the last gay little dance before the crash, the few weeks’ seaside holiday at Brighton, the visit to the Crystal palace on firework night, and the raw, noisy, suburban routine at Wordsworth house. ... Miss Richardson’s tacit but essential assumption is that life is an intensely real and rich, a desperately complex and wonderful, experience, however commonplace its circumstances may be.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Miss Richardson promises to be a writer of unusual power, a little too consciously clever, perhaps, but one to whom we may look for work of real value.”
+ =Dial= 62:483 My 31 ‘17 200w
“Our interest in the book, which is considerable, would be increased if it were more coherent. The author has a curious gift of vision, and it is this that makes her heroine real and attractive, in spite of whimsies. ... The author’s subtlety is over-strained now and again, but it includes some acute criticism of life.”
+ — =Sat R= 122:138 Ag 5 ‘16 320w
“This novel is a piece of the purest and, in a sense, barest impressionism. If in its steady obedience to its chosen truth it fails, as we think it will sometimes fail, to convince its readers of its verisimilitude, then so far that impressionism has defeated itself. ... But such systematic sincerity as Miss Richardson’s is a profound and affecting thing to share in.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p358 Jl 27 ‘16 500w
=RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL, pseud. (MRS JOHN G. ROBERTSON).= Fortunes of Richard Mahony. *$1.50 (1c) Holt 17-23332
“This is a study of a man of reserved, though lovable disposition. We first meet him as a storekeeper in Ballarat [Australia] during the gold craze. Later he makes a success as a doctor; and finally we leave him on his way to England, still in search of an environment suited to his character.” (Ath) “The English edition, issued by William Heinemann, who has evident and steadfast faith in this writer, indicates that Henry Handel Richardson is the author of ‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The getting of wisdom,’ and that ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is only the first novel in a series; Book 1 of ‘Australia Felix.’” (Bookm)
“Good descriptions of Australia sixty years ago.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:133 Ja ‘18
=Ath= p47 Ja ‘18 60w
“‘Maurice Guest’ and ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ are two books that discriminating readers should know, and ‘Henry Handel Richardson’ is a name that, long since known on the continent, through the various translations of ‘Maurice Guest,’ should not any longer be unknown to America.” Edna Kenton
+ =Bookm= 46:580 Ja ‘18 1850w
“The faults and merits of ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony,’ are so evenly balanced that it is not nearly so distinguished as if it were a little better or a little worse. ... There are few stories beyond those of the ‘Boy bush-ranger’ type which deal with life on the Ballarat goldfields in the ‘50s; so Mr Richardson’s treatment of this subject in the manner of the twentieth century realist is by no means unacceptable on the score of novelty. Richard Mahony is himself a creation to be proud of, a character but never a caricature.” J. F. S.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 O 3 ‘17 700w
“As a satire, in historical perspective, on the pedestrian soul of the mid-Victorian young gentleman, it would be fairly amusing. But its author is not satirical.”
– + =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 480w
“It is a strictly realistic piece of work, conscientious, carefully wrought; of plot it has very little, and there is no very especial drama of character. ... They are real people who move through Mr Richardson’s pages, and the events which occur are simple and natural. ... It must be admitted that at the end one has the feeling of having traveled a long way without getting anywhere in particular. But the road has its attractions.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:360 S 23 ‘17 480w
“The author reminds us again and again of the late William de Morgan, with his inconsequence, his eye for the apparently trivial that counts for so much in life, his flashes of humour, and his occasional fragments of excellent narrative. ... He shows wonderful insight into character, and he describes the Australian scenery and the rude conditions of those days as vividly as if, like Richard Mahony, he hated them. ... In Mahony’s circle Mr Richardson gives free rein to his comic sense.”
+ =Spec= 119:221 S 1 ‘17 900w
“Takes one or two daring plunges into the slough of naturalism. These spots remain red on the memory of the reader in rather unpleasant contrast to the sleepy flatness of the rest of the tale. ... As a series of character sketches, ‘The fortunes of Richard Mahony’ is excellent. Indeed, Mr Richardson is often successful in arousing that sense of exasperation which is the test of good character drawing.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 530w
“Very long, never for a moment exciting, and continuously interesting. ... The novel gives the impression of a large grasp on life and a steady hand.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p416 Ag 30 ‘17 480w
=RICHARDSON, ROBERT CHARLWOOD.= West Point. il *$2 (3c) Putnam 355.07 17-25795
This “intimate picture of the National military academy and of the life of the cadet” is by the late assistant professor of English at West Point, now a captain in the United States army. The first two chapters give a brief history of the academy. The appendix, which is reprinted from the Official register of the United States military academy, 1916, gives information relative to the appointment and admission of cadets. There is a foreword by Major-General Hugh L. Scott.
=ALA Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
“Mr Richardson does not give all his pages to war. The peculiar charm of life at West Point is not forgotten, and traditions and customs receive ample space. The beauty of the buildings, the loveliness of the setting, are competently handled. The illustrations are many and well chosen.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 450w
“Exactly the book for the boy seeking an appointment.”
+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 30w
=Ind= 92:61 O 6 ‘17 100w
=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 130w
“This interpretation, drawn from the author’s own experience and from many conversations with cadets of to-day, is exceedingly well done, and makes the book valuable to all loyal Americans.”
+ =Outlook= 117:476 N 21 ‘17 130w
“It is regrettable that the author makes no mention of the important contribution of West Point to engineering and scientific education. It is perhaps not generally known that for twenty-two years (1802-24), the Military academy was the only technical school in this country. ... Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals, lighthouses, and public buildings. ... A more intangible want will be felt in reading the book by those who know the academy well. ... The graduate will not quite feel that it breathes the living, exultant, fighting spirit of his Alma mater.” S. C. Godfrey, Major, Corps of engineers
+ — =Pub= W 92:813 S 15 ‘17 670w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 380w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Brown study. il *$1.25 (4c) Doubleday 17-11704
The minister of a rich and aristocratic church, ordered to take a rest, does so in an out of the way corner of the city, where he can live in close neighborliness to the poor and lowly. The story tells of his life among his new friends, of his decision to remain with them, and of the choice a beautiful girl makes between her love for him and a worldly career.
=A L A Bkl= 14:61 N ‘17
“A pretty and measurably conventional romance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 30 ‘17 110w
“The little story is told in rather a disjointed way, and lacks the charm and the suggestion of homelike, everyday life which made certain of Mrs Richmond’s books such pleasant reading. The whole thing seems forced. ... However, it has some agreeable touches.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Red Pepper’s patients; with an account of Anne Linton’s case in particular. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-24403
The masterful, quick-tempered, kindly, red-headed doctor who figured in “Red Pepper Burns” and “Mrs Red Pepper” has become the most popular physician and surgeon in a small suburban town. Some of the patients whose stories are interwoven with his are his old friend, Gardner Coolidge, a starving young Hungarian violinist; Anne Linton, the book-agent with hair to match “Red” Pepper’s own, who has a bad attack of typhoid fever, and about whom clings a mystery; Jordan King, badly hurt in an automobile accident; and “Red’s” old enemy, Dr Van Horn.
=A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 70w
“As usual, Mrs Richmond makes all her people handsome and interesting and angelic, such paragons of beauty and behavior that they seem hardly to belong in the naughty world that most of us know.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 360w
“Romantic and likely to be popular.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 330w
“This is the third volume Mrs Richmond has devoted to the far-reaching services of the auburn-haired doctor, but as yet the tone of artificiality which so often appears when a single character is made the center of a series of stories is conspicuously absent.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 9 ‘17 300w
=RICHMOND, GRACE LOUISE (SMITH) (MRS NELSON GUERNSEY RICHMOND).= Whistling mother. il *50c (11½c) Doubleday 17-22303
“Mrs Richmond puts her little tale into the mouth of a boy who has enlisted in the army. He tells in engaging boyish style just what happened when, having decided he must go, he left college, where he was in his junior year, and went home for twenty-four hours to say good-bye. ... And through all the trial of the visit home and the last good-by his mother was ‘a thorough sport.’ ... He was in the habit of calling her his ‘whistling mother’ because she could whistle ‘like a blackbird,’ and they had a whistling call for each other of which the music and the words form the heading of the little story.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 30w
“Exceedingly well written.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 250w
“Artistically, it is the best thing Mrs Richmond has ever done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 220w
=RICHMOND, MARY ELLEN.= Social diagnosis. *$2 Russell Sage foundation 361 17-13224
This book for social workers is a study of methods of case work as applied by various charity organization societies. The author’s aim has been to make some advance toward a professional standard. She believes also that the methods devised in social work, as here set forth, will be of value in other fields, such as medicine, education and industry. Part 1 deals with Social evidence, with chapters on: Beginnings, The nature and uses of social evidence, Testimonial evidence, etc. Part 2 takes up The processes leading to diagnosis, considering The first interview, The family group, Outside sources, etc. Part 3 is devoted to Variations in the processes, with chapters given to certain special cases, the blind, the feebleminded, etc. Special tables have been prepared for the volume, and there is a bibliography and a good index.
“The questionnaires [part 3] represent the experiences of many experts and will probably set the standard for a great deal of such work in the future.” W. H. Heck
+ + =Am Econ R= 7:899 D ‘17 970w
“It is the only comprehensive textbook on social work in relation to the individual or family ever written. The book dignifies all social work and marks its first steps on the road to becoming a profession.” Amelia Sears
+ + =Am J Soc= 23:261 S ‘17 680w
“It should form the basis for intelligent study even in small communities and will be invaluable to the individual engaged in case work.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17
“Some workers would be spurred to greater efforts from reading this book. Others, and particularly beginners, might throw up their hands in despair. There is no case worker who could not be helped from the reading of this book. He will realize how far he still has to travel.” W: B. Bailey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:771 N ‘17 440w
“A valuable contribution to social literature. It is rich with suggestions but is too long drawn out. It could have been just as ‘meaty’ with fewer pages and certainly it would have been more readable and more read.” G. F.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 450w
=Cleveland= p93 Jl ‘17 90w
“She has produced a book remarkable for the accuracy of the methods outlined for the social worker and for the detail and thoroughness with which she has gone into the subject of measurements in one phase of life,—the pathology of social adjustment.”
+ =Dial= 63:458 N 8 ‘17 260w
“The author is remarkably successful in holding a proper balance between generalization and example. But it is a thousand pities that the most valuable of these examples are tucked away in pages of type so small that a considerable body of readers will probably skip them altogether. ... Miss Richmond has felt it best to exclude a study of the client’s religious life. She has felt that one could adequately diagnose and serve the needs of a human being without knowing just what his religion or irreligion means to him. In my opinion this is an impossible attempt.” R: C. Cabot
+ — =Ind= 91:348 S 1 ‘17 1000w
“With this book social welfare work has ceased to be a mere body of traditional practices and is in a way to become a science. Although it was written primarily for a special class of social workers, ‘Social diagnosis’ will interest every student of the social sciences who believes that sociology is ever to be anything more than a philosophy of history or an appanage of social psychology.” R. E. Park
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:952 N ‘17 960w
“No social worker who hopes to rise in the profession ought to be without this book; and no student of applied sociology should fail to pore over it.”
+ =Nation=104:717 Je 14 ‘17 330w
“Miss Richmond has given authoritative and exhaustive treatment to a vexed problem in its fundamental aspects.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:217 Je 3 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:688 O ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p12 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w
“The book is nothing if not concrete, and in the preliminary fields to which it has confined itself it is exceedingly comprehensive.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 4 ‘17 280w
“This is an admirable book, which deserves to be read and pondered far outside of the circle for which it was immediately intended.” Roscoe Pound
* + =Survey= 39:254 D 1 ‘17 1000w
“Every social worker in towns of 10,000 should either own it or be able to consult it in the library.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 60w
=RIDDELL, WALTER ALEXANDER.= Rise of ecclesiastical control in Quebec. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$1.75 Longmans 277.1 16-22304
“The book tells how the economic, ethnic, and political conditions which have prevailed in the province of Quebec led up to and made possible the strategic position of the Roman Catholic church in Canada. The aim of the author, to use his own words, is ‘to present sufficient source material to afford the general reader a basis upon which to form an adequate judgment of the sociological and historical origins in Quebec which have been responsible in a large part for the present racial situation in Canada as a whole ... and to show their relation to the growth of the church itself.’”—J Pol Econ
“The author has examined the marriage registers in more than eighteen hundred cases and finds that the colonists, so far as these records give indication, came with a fair degree of evenness from all over France. This is data which the historian of the future cannot afford to overlook. The real service of the book is performed in the last two chapters, where there is more attention to history and less to sociology. The early rise of church influence in the affairs of New France and its later decline during the first half of the eighteenth century are traced out with care and clearness. The position of the church when Quebec passed into British hands ... all these things are explained fully and with judicious temper. While Dr Riddell has used good materials, the tendency to be inaccurate in little things is a serious blemish.” W: B. Munro
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:720 Ap ‘17 650w
“This book throws much light on the present socio-political situation in Canada. The barrier that has grown up between the English- and French-speaking people, largely through the instrumentality of the church, promises to be one of the most serious control problems which the dominion government has to face.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:636 Je ‘17 500w
“Even in a field adorned by the brilliant pens of Parkman and Fiske the work before us must take a very high place from its sound scholarship, abundant references to authorities, and good writing. ... Dr Riddell’s book can never be ignored by any serious student of the history of this continent.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 280w
=RIDDELL, WILLIAM RENWICK.= Constitution of Canada in its history and practical working. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 342 17-15183
“An interesting study of the constitution of Canada in its historical and practical aspects. ... A full comparison of the Canadian constitution with that of the United States shows very clearly the differences between the two systems. The book is written with as little technical language as the nature of the study permits.” (Ontario Library Review) “Each of the four lectures has a full and valuable appendix, containing much material which the requirements of the lecture platform apparently prevented from being included in the body of the work.” (Springf’d Republican)
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
“So far as his own land is concerned the author is on sure ground; but his knowledge of constitutional law as administered by the courts in this country is by no means of the same high order.” W: B. Munro
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:781 N ‘17 480w
“The brevity of the book is such that only an outline of historical development is possible. Furthermore, the subject is treated with a nonlegal audience always in mind. The student of history and government, as well as the student of law, will gain little from the volume. Generalizations are indulged in with much freedom, and some are open to question.”
+ — =Dial= 63:276 S 27 ‘17 180w
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:109 My ‘17 50w
“Justice Riddell is to be thanked for his painstaking and highly simplified summary of Canada’s history and present government. It begins where the majority of educated Americans will find a beginning desirable—at very elementary facts. Students of jurisprudence will be particularly interested in Justice Riddell’s views on the decision of the Supreme court in the Dartmouth college case, which are quoted in full in an appendix.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 2 ‘17 830w
=RIDER, BERTHA CARR.= Greek house; its history and development from the Neolithic period to the Hellenistic age. il *$3.25 Putnam 722 16-24977
“The excavations of recent years in Crete, Asia Minor, Delos and other islands, and the Greek mainland, have brought to light a wealth of material for the study of house-planning in Greece both prehistoric and historic. Unfortunately, this material is least abundant for the period when we most of all desire it—the classical epoch of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the other hand, it is remarkably copious in the period which begins with the dawn of civilization in the Aegean, and ends on the threshold of the Homeric age. ... Miss Rider has endeavoured to embrace within her grasp the whole of this material, and to bridge the central gap by means of literary evidence.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ =Dial= 61:482 N 30 ‘16 130w
“The chapter on Homeric palaces is of especial value to the student, with its discussion of Homeric terms and phrases.”
=Lit D= 54:204 Ja 27 ‘17 250w
“The principal value of the book lies not in its advocacy of a theory, but in the excellent summary which it presents of a large special literature, mostly scattered in periodicals. ... Miss Rider shows the specialist’s fondness for technical terms, which may occasionally prove an obstacle to the non-professional reader. On the whole, however, the book is extremely well written. ... We must register one protest—against the price of the book, which seems excessive for a volume of this size, illustrated only with line cuts.”
* + =Nation= 104:191 F 15 ‘17 600w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:169 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:316 Ap ‘17
=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 20w
“By no possibility can it ever be a popular book; it is far too specialized and technical in its scope and treatment. ... There can be no question about the research and scholarship that have gone to its making. ... Miss Rider is doubtless writing for fellow archæologists as learned as herself—for the already converted, to whom her unadorned statements of fact will seem more excellent than any charm of style.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup607 N 18 ‘16 400w
“Her presentation of the facts is clear and accurate, and the plans with which her text is illustrated are well chosen, nothing essential being omitted.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p424 S 7 ‘16 850w
=RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.= Madame Prince. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 16-24204
Madame Prince is a dressmaker in a London suburb. She is a capable and level-headed business woman and the mother of four children. We are told something of her early struggles, but these are past when the story opens. The three girls are old enough to act as their mother’s assistants in the shop and Richard, the boy, is finishing school. The cares that meet Madame Prince as the story progresses are those of the mother of grown-up children, and they spring largely from the unconscious selfishness of youth. But there are joys that compensate.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17
“A superfluity of detail is noticeable, and there are some trivial incidents; but a bright tone predominates, and much of the book is true to life. The novel is amusing, and a good example of the author’s style.”
+ =Ath= p481 O ‘16 70w
“Quiet as the humor of the book is, it is also compelling.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 400w
“Mme Prince wins and holds the reader’s sympathy, holds it from the first page to the last. ... The story is related with a good deal of humor and charm. ... It is life as a very, very great number of people—the majority, perhaps—know it, which is portrayed so deftly and so veraciously in these pages.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:54 F 18 ‘17 450w
“We see Madame Prince clearly, she is the mother woman existing only for her children. The children exist only for her, but in another sense; we do not see them clearly, because the author confines himself to describing such actions of theirs as throw light on the mother’s character, without confining himself further to such as are mutually consistent. ... Mr Pett Ridge has another bait in addition to his story, and that is his gift for writing crisp dialogue.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p500 O 19 ‘16 400w
=RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE.=[2] Militant America and Jesus Christ. *65c (8c) Houghton 172.4 17-31542
The author of “The Syrian Christ” has written this book to show that Jesus Christ would not have been a non-resistant in the present war. He says, “I do not so know Christ. I do not believe the New Testament presents such a hopelessly and helplessly neutral Christ.” Such pacific sentiments as “Blessed are the peacemakers” were the utterances of normal times and are no more to be taken as an expression of an attitude toward war than were the pacific sermons and baccalaureate addresses common in America a decade ago. These later authors have now been put to a test which Jesus was never called on to face, since no such crisis as the present arose in his day. The author feels that after an examination of other New Testament passages, “even a pacifist must see that while our gospel is a message of peace, it is not a message of helpless submission to rapacious aggressors.”
“A vigorous answer to those pacifists who seek to entrench themselves behind the teachings of Jesus.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:162 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 15 ‘17 110w
“It bears eloquent evidence of the value of much in little. Mr Rihbany’s book is eloquent and convincing. If converts are possible, it will make them.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 1600w
“In his eagerness to make our divine Saviour the more human and the more understandable to others, Mr Rihbany appears to have thrown up a lot of Syrian dust through which it is not always easy to see clearly the Christ who is divine. His interpretation of Christ lacks authority; the Christ he pictures for his readers lacks authority. And of what use to soldiers or to anyone else, to men seeking the light, is a Christ who lacks authority, who cannot lead or command.”
— =Cath World= 106:687 F ‘18 160w
“One of the most convincing answers that has been made to the belief that Jesus was a pacifist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 360w
=RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.= Name of Old Glory. il *$1.25 Bobbs 811 17-17072
A collection of James Whitcomb Riley’s poems of patriotism, with an appreciation of the poet by Booth Tarkington. Only three of the twenty selections are in the familiar Indiana dialect—“The old man and Jim,” “Thoughts on the late war,” and “Decoration day on the place.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:108 Jl ‘17
=RILEY, W.= Way of the winepress. *$1.50 (2c) Putnam
“This is the story of the firm of Messrs Middleton, weavers, in a Yorkshire town and in a village of the Dales; but, though the vicissitudes of the business are vividly told as from a personal experience, yet the core of the chronicle is in the inner vicissitudes of David Middleton and those who by fate or his own impulse have been gathered round him. Chief amongst these are the story teller, Louis, and the slum girl, Victoria Smith, both of whom are characters well worth studying, and both form contrasts not only to each other but to the stern impetuosity of David. ... David, tender and even quixotic at heart, accepts every reverse as a direct discipline from God. ... ‘The way of the winepress’ must be passed unaided and alone, and no human counsel of affection dare soften it. Contrasted with this disciple of the wrath of God is the unorthodox disciple of the love of God, Truman, who opens the doors of learning to Louis and Victoria, and in the end opens the door of love to David.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The action takes place more than thirty years ago.
“‘The way of the winepress is the way of loving sacrifice,’ and it becomes, if the author is to be believed, a way of joy for all who tread it.”
=N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 270w
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:120 My ‘17 70w
“The background of the book, wherein a number of simple and some very delightful characters have their place, is full of reflection. The plot is small and at times almost oddly simple, but there is an unstrained human interest in the characters and their setting which gives to the whole some of that gentle dignity which the writer has found amongst the ample hills and woods and streams where his scenes are laid.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 500w
=RINDER, FRANK=, comp. Royal Scottish academy, 1826-1916. il *42s Maclehose & sons, Glasgow 708.2
“The chief part of this massive volume consists of a complete list of works by Raeburn and by members (honorary included) and associates of the Royal Scottish academy exhibited between the years 1808 and 1916 at the exhibitions held by the institutions which preceded the academy and those of the academy itself from 1827 onwards, and in this list a special note is made of any works that have passed into public galleries. The list has been compiled under the direction of Mr Frank Rinder with the sanction of the president and council, and a narrative filling nearly a hundred pages, tracing the origin and development of the academy, is contributed by Mr W. D. McKay, one of its principal officers.” (Int Studio) Mr Rinder also contributes an essay.
“If Mr Rinder’s task does not evoke from the living all the gratitude which its accomplishment deserves, he may be sure that in years to come there will always be some who in profiting by his labours will not fail to acknowledge their indebtedness.”
=Int Studio= 61:144 My ‘17 300w
“It is a pity that this useful book could not have been produced in a more convenient form. A quarto of nearly 500 pages is difficult to handle.”
* =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 Mr 8 ‘17 600w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Altar of freedom. *50c (12c) Houghton 355.7 17-14707
An appeal to mothers to sacrifice their sons willingly on “the altar of freedom.” “Personal service,” the author says, “is not rolling bandages for the other woman’s son.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“She has herself been to the war countries and was allowed to see far more than most Americans have seen of what war has meant. ... She writes emphatically of the necessity of proper training for the soldier.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 250w
“Mary Roberts Rinehart writes whereof she knows when in ‘The altar of freedom’ she tells the mothers of this land why and how their sons must enter this war. One of her sons has gone, the other two will go if, when they are old enough, they are needed. She has seen the war close at hand and her unflinching words are born not of theory and imagination, but of facts.”
+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 70w
“The book is very direct, very quiet, very moving. And it is simple and patriotic and brave.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 270w
“Article in the Saturday Evening Post April 21, but more usable in this little book form.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:213 Jl ‘17 50w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Bab: a sub-deb. il *$1.40 (2c) Doran 17-14952
Bab, the sub-debutante, tells her own story, describing most touchingly the sorrows of a girl whose family still looks on her as a child. Coming home for her Christmas holidays, Bab, who is seventeen, realizes the tragic position of a younger sister. She is snubbed and patronized, until, moved by desperation and a desire to make herself seem of importance, she invents a lover and a love affair, with violets addressed to herself and a photograph of an unknown young man to give a touch of reality to the fiction. The results are all that she desires, and more. This is the first episode of the book. There are five in all, including extracts from Bab’s diary.
“Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Read a little at a time.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:451 Jl ‘17
“An attempt to picture in a humorous manner the young American girl of the same age as Mr Tarkington’s hero. But it is not nearly so simple, so subtle or so true to life as its prototype, and the pleasant domestic charm of ‘Seventeen’ is absent from its pages. ... You feel the lack of a pleasant attitude.” J. F. S.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 470w
“The stilted English in which she expresses her ‘lofty thoughts’ while amusing lends a touch of artificiality to the stories.”
+ — =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w
+ =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 70w
“This is a book that mothers and fathers of girls ought to read, for it will help to enlighten them. Also, they, and all others, will find it the most clever and amusing of all Mrs Rinehart’s books.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:213 Je 3 ‘17 670w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w
“A lively and often humorous, but artificial picture of the adolescent school girl.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 250w
=RINEHART, MRS MARY (ROBERTS).= Long live the king! il *$1.50 (1c) Houghton 17-24814
This romantic tale reminds the reader both of Hope’s “Prisoner of Zenda” and of Mrs Burnett’s “Lost prince.” Prince Ferdinand William Otto, the ten year old hero, is a dear little boy, whose three great desires when he becomes king are that he may have a dog, that his cousin Hedwig may marry the man she loves, and that he, Ferdinand William Otto, may be “a good king like Abraham Lincoln.” The love interest in the story is supplied by the Princess Hedwig, Lieutenant Nikky Larisch, and Karl, king of Karnia. A mild revolutionary flavor is given by the “Committee of ten.”
“Exciting, wholesome and will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 40w
“The essential touch which makes the charm of the story lies in the character of the little Otto.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 24 ‘17 630w
+ =Cath World= 106:552 Ja ‘18 130w
=Dial= 63:598 D 6 ‘17 110w
“There has never been a better picture of the cruel contrast between court life and the heart of youth than this tale of a prince in a petty European monarchy who tries to extract a little boyish fun from a choking atmosphere of foreign intrigue, Nihilist conspiracy, ceremonious etiquet and cold-blooded statecraft. ... All of the characters of the book are real human beings.”
+ =Ind= 92:108 O 13 ‘17 340w
“It may be described as a Zenda story ‘with a difference.’ It lacks the usual conquering Anglo-Saxon, his nearest representative being a small American boy who inadvertently gives a happy turn to affairs at the critical moment. Here is a tale of humor as well as sentiment: towards the end it imposes a somewhat larger burden upon the good-humored credulity of the reader than the traffic need be called upon to bear.”
+ — =Nation= 105:486 N 1 ‘17 340w
“The tale is highly romantic, it possesses a complicated plot, there is much and constant action, and if there is little humor, its loss is made good by much sentiment. ... The author has written a story that is different from any of the others of that sort, and has made it plausible, interesting, and appealing. The figure of the Crown Prince is particularly appealing in its wistfulness, its lovableness, and its real manliness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:361 S 23 ‘17 710w
“Otto is a natural and friendly chap even if he is a prince, and his adventures with his American boy acquaintance are jolly.”
+ =Outlook= 117:184 O 3 ‘17 50w
“An engaging but rather pathetic story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 270w
=RIVES, HALLIE ERMINIE (MRS POST WHEELER).= Long lane’s turning. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-22567
Henry Sevier, the brilliant young southern lawyer, knew that his besetting sin was his dependence upon stimulants at times of crisis. Only one other knew this—Cameron Craig, the head of the liquor trust and Sevier’s rival for the hand of Echo Allen. Craig had another weapon—an old letter, the publication of which could bring scandal upon the Allen family. How Craig trades upon these two secrets and enmeshes Sevier in a net, how Sevier wins out both from his own weakness and the ruthlessness of his rival, is told in a series of vivid chapters.
“Published in the Red Book under title, ‘The heart of a man.’”
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
“Drink is the theme underlying the somewhat artificial structure of ‘The long lane’s turning.’ It is a story of romantic contrivance based upon the working out of a preconceived idea. ... Yet whatever flimsiness may be discerned in the plot there is none in the style.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:98 S ‘17 300w
“A melodramatic temperance novel, so far as its style and characterization are concerned. ... The story moves at a brisk pace, and is entertaining.”
=N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 220w
“Melodrama with a vengeance.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 290w
=ROBBINS, EDWARD J.=, comp. Universal drill manual. il *$1 Sherwood co. 355 17-16555
A complete résumé of the really necessary and important points which should be the common knowledge of every private, compiled from strictly official sources by a captain in the Major officers reserve corps, with illustrations from the same sources.
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p17 Jl ‘17 50w
=ROBERTSON, ERIC SUTHERLAND.= Bible’s prose epic of Eve and her sons. *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam 222 (Eng ed A17-80)
The author has made a study of those parts of Genesis attributed to the authorship of “J.” The opening of Genesis is the work of “P.” J’s narrative breaks in with the fourth verse of the second chapter. Mr Robertson says, “The writer known as J has a narrower outlook on the cosmos than P, but it is a more human, a more sunny outlook. This writer or editor is, like Herodotus, a gatherer of legends at old shrines.” The text of the “J” narrative is given in an appendix.
“What we know is that the book tells us what would have been Mr Robertson’s mind if he himself had written the ‘J’ document. And that is enough to make the book like a charming work of fiction.” G. LaP.
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 900w
“On reading the book, one gets the impression that all this paraphernalia of scholarship is merely a passport to recommend the book to modern readers, while the author’s real interest lies in moralizing and exegesis of the time-honored variety which allows one to deduce anything under the sun from no matter what text.”
– + =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 500w
“There is no doubt that the book is very good reading, partly, we think, because Mr Robertson writes so very well. The story as he tells it reminds us very much of the Bible, partly again because of the identity of the names.”
=Spec= 118:20 Ja 6 ‘17 650w
“Mr Robertson brings to bear on his task an alert and unconventional intelligence.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p323 Jl 6 ‘16 180w
“Literary criticism should welcome in this book an original, gallant, and successful attempt to turn to the account of poetry some of the results of scholarship in a field where it has been said science was destroying everything spiritual and inspiring. ... Mr Robertson brings out the inherent romance and the inherent primitive theology in these old tales. We get from his book a sense of geographical values which readers of the Bible too seldom feel. ... He has based his speculations upon sound scholarship.” G: M. Harper
+ =Yale R= n s 6:415 Ja ‘17 700w
=ROBERTSON, LIONEL, and O’DONNELL, THOMAS CLAY.= Healthful house. il $2 Good health pub. co. 640 17-16902
“The authors of this book have not confined themselves to details of hygiene and sanitation, as these terms are commonly understood. They have attempted rather to emphasize ‘the health importance of beautiful colors and beautiful lines and masses, beautiful wall and floor coverings, equally with fresh air and light—in short, to present to the reader a house that is healthful because it satisfies the demands of hygienic and esthetic sense alike.’”—R of Rs
“The discussion of interior fitments is sane and informative.”
+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 220w
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 70w
+ =St Louis= 15:369 O ‘17 20w
=ROBINSON, CYRIL EDWARD.= Days of Alkibiades; with a foreword by Prof. C. W. Oman. il *$1.50 Longmans 913.38 (Eng ed 17-26255)
“One of the criticisms most frequently made on the teaching of Greek and Latin is that it teaches the pupil to deal very cleverly with words, but tells him nothing about things. ... Mr Robinson’s book represents an attempt—and a surprisingly successful attempt—to provide the modern schoolboy and general reader with the background of things, for lack of which classical teaching in the past has so often been dull and dead. ... The result is a series of sketches of the various phases of Greek life which are not only lightly and charmingly written, but also embody on innumerable points of detail the result of the latest researches.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 13:311 Ap ‘17
“The book is an entertaining mixture of known facts and acknowledged romance.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 24 ‘17 250w
“The book reads like a romance. A boy will learn more from these sketches, as the author modestly styles them, than from many a ponderous, old-fashioned textbook.”
+ =Cath World= 105:410 Je ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 60w
“Gilds the pill of Greek antiquities more attractively, than does Bekker’s ‘Charikles’ or the ‘Alkibiades’ of C. H. Bromely. Out of actual or possible scenes from the life of Alcibiades he has composed a sequence of readable chapters that covers the chief topics of Athenian private and public life strung on a thread of story that adds interest without distracting the reader’s attention. ... Many of the descriptions are admirably clear and vivid. ... The illustrations based on the author’s sketches, whatever their artistic merits, are well adapted to the purpose of visualizing and schematizing precisely the information that the reader needs and the student may remember. They cannot, of course, take the place of the two-hundred and sixty-three authentic reproductions from the monuments in Professor Gulick’s ‘Greek antiquities.’ The book is one of the best companions to the reading of the Greek classics that we have met in many a day. It makes Greek life ‘seem real.’”
+ =Nation= 105:266 S 6 ‘17 500w
=Pratt= p32 Jl ‘17 40w
“He is sound in scholarship; he bases his scenes on actual events and anecdotes. ... His style is agreeable, but a little elaborate.”
+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 220w
“Our only serious criticism of his book is that, while unconventional in his scheme, he is almost too conscientious in the use of his material.”
* + =Spec= 117:478 O 21 ‘16 1100w
“Mr Robinson is not only a very careful and well-read scholar, but he has made the rare imaginative effort to realize his knowledge; and he has laid the reader under an additional obligation by being modest enough not to flaunt it. ... A volume like this is a challenge, not a ‘work of reference.’ The value of the book is enhanced by some skilful pieces of translation and a series of drawings.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 450w
=ROBINSON, EDGAR EUGENE, and WEST, VICTOR J.=[2] Foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917. *$1.75 Macmillan 327.73 17-31893
The aim of the authors has been “to present an account of the development of the policy followed by Woodrow Wilson in dealing with the foreign relations of the United States during the years 1913-1917, and to provide in convenient form the more important statements of the president and his secretaries of state in announcing and carrying forward that policy.” The authors point to a fuller understanding of the president’s policy to be gained from an examination of the earlier period of his administration and furnish ample excerpts from his speeches and messages. The three divisions of the subject treated are: The development of the policy; More important events in American foreign relations; More important utterances of the administration.
“The treatment of the subject is both comprehensive and detailed. It is also clearly reasoned and judicially presented. For the book is in no sense the work of uncritical, enthusiastic admiration. ... The book must be especially recommended to those casual readers and superficial thinkers who allow themselves to be unduly influenced by headlines in newspapers and the flippant comment of ‘the man in the street.’ The work deserves every praise, also, for the clear succinct logical manner in which its analytical discussion is carried on. Every help is afforded the reader for intelligent investigation of the subject.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:1 Ja 6 ‘18 1950w
“The work is an admirable piece of bookmaking, and its reference value is great.”
+ =Outlook= 118:114 Ja 16 ‘18 100w
=ROBINSON, EDWARD LEVI.= 1816-1916; one hundred years of savings banking. 50c Am. bankers’ assn. 332 17-13470
“This little volume, comprising twenty-nine pages of text and sixty pages of bibliography, has been prepared under the direction of the Savings bank section of the American bankers’ association. The text is written by Mr Edward L. Robinson, vice-president of a savings bank in Baltimore, and the bibliography prepared by Marian A. Glenn, librarian of the American bankers’ association [and Ina Clement]. ... The topics covered by the bibliography are as follows: Thrift and savings; Individual thrift; Domestic thrift; Evidences of thriftlessness; Economics of thrift; Industrial thrift; Business thrift; Banking thrift; National thrift; International thrift; Thrift agencies; Nation-wide thrift movement inaugurated to celebrate centennial anniversary of savings banks in America.”—J Pol Econ
“The volume is chiefly valuable for the extensive bibliography.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:760 Jl ‘17 160w
“This is a timely little book. The bibliography, covering the whole subject of thrift and a number of allied topics, is not altogether successful.” B. L.
+ — =Survey= 39:74 O 20 ‘17 360w
=ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON.= Merlin. *$1.25 Macmillan 811 17-8576
Mr Robinson has retold the story of Arthur, Merlin and Vivian, altering the outlines of the traditional tale very little, but reading new meanings into the situation. He has chosen for the time of his narrative, the eve of the downfall of Arthur’s court. Merlin, after the ten years spent with Vivian in Broceliande, has returned with the purpose of again lending Arthur his counsel, but in thinking out the problem he comes to see that he must turn back without seeing the king, leaving him to the fate he has prepared for himself.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“His people are as strongly individualized and speak as naturally as though their author had been putting them into a novel instead of into a narrative poem of mediæval setting. This brings their problems much closer to the reader. ... Mr Robinson has always deservedly been placed by critics among the few of our really great poets. He is a very complete master of his art.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 31 ‘17 550w
“On the whole, in spite of Mr Robinson’s literary power, we prefer the terrors of ‘mid-Victorian morality’ and the symbolism of the ‘Idylls of the king.’”
+ — =Cath World= 106:255 N ‘17 400w
“One must feel it was a malicious elf that suggested Arthurian romance as a subject for Mr Robinson’s pen. The subject is new to him, but his method and manner are unchanged. Subject and method do not harmonize. Upon a style which has shaped itself in the delineation of modern types of mind—complex, eccentric, intensely individualized—is laid the task of depicting certain very unmodern characters which throughout a long and august tradition have been treated as simple, conventional, naïve. The result, in less skilful hands, would have been burlesque. ... Mr Robinson resembles his own Merlin, who has much to say about what he has seen and known without giving much notion of what it is, and who seems to rely upon our remembrance that he has been impressive in other scenes.” Odell Shepard
– + =Dial= 63:339 O 11 ‘17 1500w
“It is pleasant to take up Merlin and read as one reads mere poetry. ... Mr Robinson in ‘Merlin’ has plainly felt his work in Tennyson’s quality. It is clear at once that the style, and often the quality, are very like Tennyson’s. In ‘Merlin’ there is more smoothness, more expected proportions, leisure and fluency [than in much of Mr Robinson’s] previous work and less of that effect of rather trenchant rhythm, of brusque acumen and passionate shrewdness, and of a kind of analytical excitement for the mind, that have made a distinguishing quality in his poetry.” S. Y.
+ =New Repub= 12:250 S 29 ‘17 1650w
=N Y Br Lib News= 5:78 My ‘17
“It is not a great poem, though its failure is not intrinsic in its subject. The subject simply betrays more openly than a modern one certain defects in the author. He has neither the singing magic of the old school nor the swift, egotistic vitality of the new. He is a respectable poet, but he is heavy.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 490w
“The state of the modern world is subtly symbolized in this fine poem, which has amazing beauty of texture and ventures a new philosophy.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 90w
“Of all our modern writers, Mr Robinson most resembles Meredith, never in his technique or in his choice of subjects, but in the solidity of his work and in the sense of intellectual force. Much of our contemporary verse is painfully thin; here the foundations are dug deep. ... Each volume of Mr Robinson’s deepens the conviction that he is our foremost American poet.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 6:863 Jl ‘17 350w
=ROBINSON, HARRY PERRY.= Turning point; the battle of the Somme. il *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 940.91 17-18381
“This account of the battle of the Somme is written by the official correspondent of the London Times. In preparing it he has used his dispatches to his paper as a basis, and so has made a consecutive narrative of the operations of the British troops in that action. He explains that he has made only incidental reference to the co-operation of the French troops because he was not sufficiently familiar with their share of the battle to write about it. His narrative covers the four and a half months from the 1st of July, 1916, to the middle of November.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
“Mr Robinson has here told the story of the British part in it as well as it has yet been done.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:399 O 14 ‘17 260w
“He strikes his own note, which is a more matter-of-fact note than that sounded by Mr Gibbs. ... He can tell either a plain or an exciting story lucidly, picturesquely, eloquently, and thrillingly when the need is; and where he has to speak of the larger issues, he judges soberly. ... The book is full of good stories in all veins, and will take its place as a most satisfactory popular history of one of the most important episodes of the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p208 My 3 ‘17 700w
=ROBINSON, LAWRENCE EUGENE.= Domestic architecture. il *$1.50 Macmillan 728 17-12502
This book tells how to plan, build and furnish a house and how to arrange the grounds. It is illustrated with diagrams, gives a glossary of architectural terms, and at the end of each chapter, references for further reading.
=A L A Bkl= 13:437 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w
“A non-technical, well-balanced treatment.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 50w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 50w
“An elementary book, useful to those building or remodeling their own homes.”
+ =Pratt= p29 O ‘17 10w
“This book has to do almost altogether with the simple, every-day things about the house, and its suggestions are meant as much for the owner and builder as for the professional architect.”
=R of Rs= 56:332 S ‘17 90w
=St Louis= 15:332 S ‘17 10w
=ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS.= Plunder. il *$1.35 (2c) Bobbs 17-9706
The three richest men in the United States meet together in one room. One controls coal, one transportation, one the food supply. An agreement is drawn up and their signatures are added. A gust of wind flips the paper out of the window! By chance it falls first in
“The tale is more commonplace and not nearly so ingenious or interesting as are ‘Loot’ and ‘Plunder,’ but it is entertaining.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:318 Ag 26 ‘17 320w
“A sensational story, exciting, but not as carefully wrought out as one or two of the author’s previous books.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:64 S 12 ‘17 40w
“Mr Roche displays much intimacy with the technic of the track and the betting ring, and ingeniously bares the methods that may be employed in turning racing and betting into dishonest channels. Altogether, it is one of the best racing stories that have appeared in a long time.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 320w
=ROCKWELL, FREDERICK FRYE.= Around the year in the garden. il *$1.75 (1½c) Macmillan 635 17-24266
“A seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass.” (Sub-title) Altho the author begins with the first of January and follows the year around, week by week, he insists very strongly that gardening can not be done according to any such set scheme and warns the reader against following the directions of the book blindly. “Let the gardener, then, read this book with a diligent eye for such advice and suggestions as he can apply to his own problems; ... for the real work, like the profit there may be and the pleasure there is sure to be, must belong to the gardener, and cannot be put between the covers of a book.” (Introd.) The book is designed for the busy man and woman who garden in the spare time afforded between other occupations.
=Cleveland= p124 N ‘17 10w
“The clearest and most helpful kind of information for the busy man or woman who wants to get ready for next year’s gardening.”
+ =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 70w
=ROGERS, ALLEN=, ed. Elements of industrial chemistry. il *$3 Van Nostrand 660 16-23460
“This volume is an abridgment of a larger book entitled ‘Manual of industrial chemistry,’ a work which was written by forty eminent specialists in chemical engineering. In its almost 500 pages of text it covers widely, but perhaps not deeply, the whole field of industrial chemistry.”—Coal Age
=A L A Bkl= 13:277 Mr ‘17
“The book will be of value chiefly to those who have not affiliated themselves with any particular industry and who want a generalized view of the whole field.”
+ =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 350w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 30w
“The matter is descriptive and not detailed enough to be of value to the works chemist, but would be understandable to the average reader interested in the subject. ... Dr Rogers is in charge of industrial chemistry, Pratt institute, Brooklyn.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 90w
=ROGERS, ALLEN.= Laboratory guide of industrial chemistry. 2d ed il *$2 Van Nostrand 660 17-25806
“In presenting this thoroughly revised edition, the author has endeavored to make the laboratory experiments touch more closely upon present-day problems than was possible in the first edition. ... In many instances, it will be noticed that the methods are those in common use at the present time, and, whenever possible, actual factory practice has been followed.” (Preface) Contents: General processes; Inorganic preparations; Organic preparations; Dyeing of textile fibers; Pigments and lakes; Driers, varnishes, paints and stains; Soap and allied products; Leather manufacture; Wood fiber, pulp and paper; Useful data.
=ROGERS, JULIA ELLEN.= Trees worth knowing. (Little nature lib.; Worth knowing ser.) il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday 582 17-13206
The introduction is addressed directly to the beginner in tree study, for whom this book has been prepared. Part 1 is a discussion of The life of the trees, and the remainder of the book is devoted to descriptions for purposes of identification. There are sixteen illustrations in color and numerous others in black and white.
“A compromise between the author’s comprehensive ‘Tree book’ and her small ‘Tree Guide,’ recently published. Of a convenient size to carry about for purposes of identification.”
+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:254 Jl 8 ‘17 200w
=ROGERS, LINDSAY.= America’s case against Germany. *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 17-19161
“A good, brief account of the origin and development of the controversy which became the immediate cause of war between the United States and Germany. The author furnishes in this book a chronological record of the Wilson policy. His method is narrative and explanatory, not critical or defensive. ... He treats the points of international law involved, briefly and untechnically, particularly with regard to the submarine as a new weapon, the status of armed merchant ships, the problem of munition exports, and the difference between the English and the German ‘blockade.’”—R of Rs
“Clear and non-technical, it explains many misjudged and misrepresented points at issue.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
“The author of this volume is convinced that there is a real need for the average loyal American to understand that the legal grounds of our contentions with Germany are as much of the code of international law as the moral grounds are of the ethical code of Christendom. ... The book is written in untechnical language, but the case is argued with the care of one who has mastered international law, and the result that our position is legally correct is fully proved.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 580w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w
=N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:764 N ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 110w
=ROHMER, SAX, pseud. (ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD).= Hand of Fu-Manchu (Eng title, Si-Fan mysteries). *$1.35 (2c) McBride 17-14178
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie again take the field against the terrible Dr Fu-Manchu. They are enforced by the Scotland Yard police; he by the mysterious and far-reaching organization known as the Si-Fan. The field is London, from its foreign embassies to its lowest underworld. The weapons employed by the Asiatics in their machinations range from animal magnetism to the crudest of missiles. The peril that threatens is the wholesale slaughter of the white race and the domination of the world by the yellow. The book is the fourth of a series of which the first “The insidious Dr Fu-Manchu” was followed by “The yellow claw,” and “The return of Dr Fu-Manchu.”
“Of the experience they go through in these and other places, it would be unfair to give the reader even the faintest hint. Suffice it to say, that if he be a reader with a liking for thrills and able to put an extinguisher on his sense of probabilities, he will do well to choose a comfortable chair, make sure that there is plenty of oil in his lamp, and plunge forthwith into the mysterious occurrences and deadly perils brought about by ‘The hand of Fu-Manchu.’”
=N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 320w
“The story comprises a succession of episodes which could be easily adapted to a thrilling movie serial. ... The author is skilful in creating a state of suspense, even though neglectful of the rule that the miraculous should be fortified by plausibility.”
=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 250w
“The reader gallops through a number of rather inconsequent scenes in which poisonous flowers, kidnapped surgeons, hypnotic mandarins, marmosets, disguised assassins, treacherous Greeks, and secret passages play slightly unconvincing parts, aided largely by an easy incapacity on the part of the hero which is unrivalled by the most fatuous efforts of Dr Watson.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p238 My 17 ‘17 120w
=ROLAND, pseud.= Future of militarism. *2s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
(Eng ed 16-23382)
“In this volume ‘Roland’ counters Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle,’ a denunciation of British unpreparedness, by arguing that preparedness could have had but one of two immediate goals—either war against Germany or an alliance with her. From this he contends that preparedness for war must inevitably lead to war sooner or later ... and that the sole means to secure an enduring peace is a league of the allied nations to found among themselves an absolute pacifist policy, and until such time as Germany becomes sane enough to accept it whole-heartily, to enforce this policy upon her.”—Ind
=Ind= 91:109 Jl 21 ‘17 170w
“It does not clearly state its case or present its arguments. Instead, it heaps scorn and irony upon Mr Frederick Scott Oliver and turns what might be a reasonable and readable counter-argument into a silly and vituperative personal attack. ... Aside from the irrelevant question of one’s sympathy with them or with what he calls ‘the Oliverians,’ this book is good where the author states impersonally and coherently what he believes, and bad where he does not. Which is to say that a small part of ‘The failure of militarism’ is definite and readable.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:35 F 4 ‘17 550w
“We should have gladly parted with scores of controversial pages, not wanting in acrimony, for the fulfillment of that which the chapters ‘The way out of militarism’ and ‘The psychology of militarism’ promise but do not carry out. ... The whole book, or over-grown pamphlet, written with no small ability, leaves an impression of wasted or misapplied labour. ... ‘Roland’ can give us something better.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 S 28 ‘16 730w
=ROLFE, AMY LUCILE.= Interior decoration for the small home. il *$1.25 (5c) Macmillan 747 17-9832
A book on house decoration and furnishing for people of moderate means. The house planned by the professional decorator does not meet with the author’s approval, for it cannot have individuality, but she realizes that the amateur who is to do his own decorating must be guided by general principles and it is for him that this book has been prepared. There are chapters on: Walls and ceilings; Windows and their decorative treatment; The finishing of floors; Domestic rugs and carpets; A brief history of furniture; Modern period furniture and its use; Furniture of modern design, etc. The author is instructor in home economics in the University of Montana.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
“A simply schemed and simply expressed book like this, that is also sound, comprehensive and sufficiently detailed, should fall in fertile ground.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 20w
“A neat summary of such parts of several works on interior decoration as apply to the small house is the substance of Miss Rolfe’s unpretentious but useful little book. Her expositions read like college lectures revised for a larger audience. They will help to bring many middle-class Americans to the next plane of appreciation.”
+ =Nation= 105:607 N 29 ‘17 210w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:652 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 57:216 F ‘18 70w
=St Louis= 15:333 S ‘17 30w
“A good supplement to Quinn’s ‘Planning and furnishing the home’ and Daniels’ ‘Furnishing of a modest home.’ Good illustrations taken from Good Furniture.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 60w
=ROLLAND, ROMAIN.= Beethoven, tr. by B. Constance Hull. il *$1.50 (3½c) Holt 17-12724
“I do not give the name hero to those who have triumphed by infinite thought or by sheer physical strength—but only to those made great by goodness of heart,” says Romain Rolland, and it is in this spirit that he writes of Beethoven, “the most heroic soul in modern art.” The book includes in addition to M. Rolland’s account of Beethoven’s life, a selection from his letters, a copy of his will, and an analysis of his symphonies and sonatas made by A. Eaglefield Hull. There is also an introduction by Edward Carpenter.
“Contains a bibliography (10p.), a classification of pianoforte sonatas, and a complete list of Beethoven’s works (12p.).”
+ =A L A= Bkl 13:388 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 40w
“Altogether one of the most valuable works in music of the present year.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 350w
“The present volume is rather a disappointment; of its 244 pages only 54 are given to M. Rolland’s sketch of the composer’s life. As a character study it is far from satisfying, containing nothing new in fact or interpretation. ... The chief value of the book is as an introduction to the study of Beethoven, and in this respect the copy of his will, a selection of his letters, a bibliography, and the complete list of his compositions are useful.”
– + =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 150w
+ =Lit D= 54:1710 Je 2 ‘17 250w
Reviewed by H: T. Finck
+ — =Nation= 105:546 N 15 ‘17 90w
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
=New Repub= 11:57 My 12 ‘17 2600w
=Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 30w
“The intimate quality of the work is unusual. Rolland brings us the living Beethoven. The philosophic basis of the musician’s life is brought out in order to explain his profound and spiritualized music.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:445 O ‘17 100w
“The title-page reveals its composite character, and an examination of its contents shows that M. Romain Rolland’s contribution only occupies about a quarter of the whole. This is his charmingly enthusiastic but somewhat uncritical essay on Beethoven, which has been competently translated by Miss B. Constance Hull. ... The new matter is thus confined to Dr. Eaglefield Hull’s analyses, which have the merit of brevity and sum up the outstanding qualities of some works pleasantly enough. Unfortunately the editor’s style is undistinguished, and at times not even grammatical.”
+ =Spec= 118:138 F 3 ‘17 1400w
“M. Rolland writes as a worshiper, but his worship is discreet. He paints a true picture, even though he leaves out details of Beethoven’s eccentricity, and the reader receives an inspiration from the glowing pages, and this in spite of infelicities in the translation, which, nevertheless, is not without spirit.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 400w
“We become absorbed in this book mainly because of the author’s driving power, the way he arrays his facts and uses them to impel his argument. ... The second half of the book consists of a Baedeker to the symphonies, sonatas, violin sonatas, and quartets. A good many points of interest are touched upon, and the writer has looked well round his subject. But as a plan it falls between two stools.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 11 ‘17 750w
=ROLLINS, MONTGOMERY.= Village pest. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-23754
This story of a lively boy of thirty years ago has many of the marks of autobiography, and the author tells us that the incidents are drawn from life. David is the young son of a United States senator and his time is divided between Washington and a New England village, either place affording him a fruitful field for mischief. David has two intimate friends, one a village boy, one a Washington chum who spends a joyous summer with him in New England. David has another friend, also, a yellow mongrel dog named Alfred.
“Founded on fact the escapades will amuse this generation of elders as much as they must have exasperated and entertained David’s elders.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:98 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ‘17 350w
“The pictures in ‘The village pest’ are almost as funny as the story itself. Young people will enjoy Montgomery Rollins’ account of David’s pranks.”
+ =Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 24w
“Although one rather wonders how his longsuffering parents managed to keep out of the insane asylum, David’s pranks are very amusing—to read about.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Boy with the U.S. weather men. (U.S. service ser.) il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 551 17-24855
This story, dealing with blizzard, tornado and flood, is not the least exciting of this series for boys. As the author truly says, “There is no battle greater than the battle with the weather, which is both our enemy and our ally.” The story opens with a Mississippi flood. Ross and Anton, two boy chums who barely escape from the dangers of the flood, become interested in the work of the weather bureau in forecasting storms and enlist as volunteer observers. Like some of the other books of the series this one is a call to service: “High, high in the atmosphere, is a world all unexplored, where no man can dwell; where, as yet, no human-made instrument has reached. This unknown world calls for explorers, it calls for adventure, it calls for daring and patient work.” It is the author’s hope that some of the boys who read the book will answer the call.
+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 50w
“The illustrations are authoritative photographs.”
+ =Lit D= 55:57 D 8 ‘17 90w
“A story full of thrills and appealing interest told in a way to be of great educational value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 120w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Polar hunters. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 17-13187
This is the second volume in the Museum series. The author describes life within the Arctic circle and gives an account of Peary’s discovery of the pole. The boy hero, who is called Kood-shoo, appears at first to be an Eskimo. He has grown up as a member of the Smith Sound tribe, and his ways are their ways, but when the Peary expedition comes to the region, the white men recognize in the boy traits that are not characteristic of the Eskimo. Eventually the two “magics” in Kood-shoo’s possession lead to his identification.
=Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
“No boy can read the story without having his imagination fired.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 130w
=ROLT-WHEELER, FRANCIS WILLIAM.=[2] Wonder of war in the air. il *$1.35 (2c) Lothrop 623.7 17-30275
“To give the boys of the United States a fair idea of what an aviator must learn, how an aviator must live, in what appalling perils an aviator must risk his life, to build up in our boys a still greater admiration for the men who hold the honor of the nation in their hands, and to urge the heroic and high-spirited young Americans to a higher love for their country and eagerness to serve it, is the aim and purpose of the author.” (Preface) As usual in his books, he has devised a story of more or less definite plot as a means for conveying his information.
“Packed with information, mostly accurate and brought down to within a very few months.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
“The author is doing a useful work by making his books accurately instructive as well as entertaining.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 160w
=ROOF, KATHARINE METCALF.=[2] Life and art of William Merritt Chase. il *$4 Scribner 17-30892
“For many years before his death last year, William Merritt Chase was regarded as perhaps the most characteristic of American painters; and Miss Roof was appointed by him to write the story of his life. This she has done in cordial cooperation and with the assistance of the artist’s family. With the inclusion of many letters and personal reminiscences and much illustrative material she tells the romantic story of Chase’s discontented boyhood in the West, his escape to Paris, and apprenticeship to art, and his subsequent crowded and picturesque career in New York. The work contains an introduction by Alice Gerson Chase and many reproductions of the artist’s works.”—Lit D
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:167 F ‘18
“Her book abounds in piquant anecdotes. Somewhere she speaks with scorn of the inadequacy of the literary man to understand art; this is perhaps a sort of boomerang; for her style is far from literary. The volume will be prized by all art-students and especially by those who remember the genial artist.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 1700W
“This authorized biography, therefore, is much more than the life of a man; it is in many ways a history of the American spirit in art during the last generation.”
+ =Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 170w
“Very entertaining and well balanced book. Its pleasant, straightforward style is not at all inconsistent with the fact that Mr Chase chose Miss Roof because she had a painter’s and not a writer’s attitude toward art.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:31 Ja 27 ‘18 1050w
“Though clogged with unimportant and unnecessary detail, the text will be read with interest for the sake of the pictures of the painter’s early struggles and later achievements. Some of the anecdotes relative to Chase’s experiences with Whistler are delicious.”
+ — =Outlook= 118:194 Ja 30 ‘18 110w
“A sympathetic but hardly adequate biography. Though a considerably larger volume than the Inness, it fails to give as clear a picture of the man or as definite an idea of his art. The author was at one time a pupil, and she gives an interesting account of his methods of teaching.”
+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:31 Ja ‘18 880w
Rookie rhymes. il *75c Harper 811.08 17-25361
“A collection of rhymes, parodies, jingles and songs written by members of the 1st and 2d Provisional training regiments for officers, at Plattsburg, N. Y., during their encampment from May 15th to August 15th, 1917, accompanied by line drawings. ... About one-third of the verse is written to be sung to familiar tunes.”—R of Rs
“More pep than poetry is contained in this volume of songs and parodies. As the expression of the mental attitude of men torn away from the ordinary vocations of peace and in training for sanguinary conflict, it has a certain psychological interest. Two or three are real poems.” N. H. D.
– + =Boston Transcript= p8 N 17 ‘17 390w
“Interesting chiefly for their high spirits and fun.”
+ — =Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 60w
“The Plattsburg rhymes are, in the main, mediocre. ... A few of the verses, such as ‘The Plattsburg code’ rise distinctly out of the mediocre rut; but too often the motif is nothing more important than the relative superiority of company A over company B.” Clement Wood
— =NY Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 100w
“Well worth the attention of our army and navy students and their friends.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:371 S 30 ‘17 420w
=Pittsburgh= 22:647 O ‘17
“As a bit of fun to drive away homesickness, it will undoubtedly find its way into many soldiers’ kits.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 90w
=ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.= Foes of our own household. *$1.50 (2½c) Doran 304 17-25965
Mr Roosevelt thinks that “in the long run we have less to fear from foes without than from foes within. The men who oppose preparedness in our military and our industrial life; the business or political corruptionist or reactionary and the reckless demagogue who is his nominal opponent; the man of wealth and greed who cares for nothing but profits, and the sinister creature who plays upon and inflames the passions of envy and violence: the hard materialist, the self-indulgent lover of ease and pleasure, and the silly sentimentalist—all these are the permanent foes of our own household.” (Foreword) Contents: The instant need; and the ultimate need; Must we be brayed in a mortar before our folly depart from us?; The children of the crucible; Washington and Lincoln; A square deal in law enforcement; Industrial justice; Social justice; Socialism versus social reform; The farmer; The word of Micah; The parasite woman; Birth reform. “Chapters 2, 7, 10 and 11 are based on articles that have appeared in the Metropolitan; chapter 8 on an article that has appeared in the Outlook; chapter 3 on a speech delivered on the Fourth of July last.” (Appendix A.) There are seven appendices. Appendix B is a letter urging that loyal Americans be not discriminated against because of their parentage; C deals with Mr Roosevelt’s speech concerning the East St Louis riots; D with the conscientious objector; while G gives the correspondence with the President and Secretary of war concerning Mr Roosevelt’s offer to raise a division for foreign service.
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 550w
+ =Cath World= 106:543 Ja ‘18 350w
“Even when Mr Roosevelt’s mind is in a state of general conflagration, as it has been much of the time since 1908, it seems to continue more or less automatically its two-handed motions of balance and compensation. And so his new miscellany, ‘The foes of our own household’ falls easily into two parts. Just as one of them was written by a judicious, progressive, and patriotic Aristotelian, exactly in the same way the other was written by a wilful, angry, and furiously inequitable extremist.” S. P. Sherman
– + =Nation= 105:532 N 15 ‘17 5850w
“The foes of our own household are those who dare to differ from Colonel Roosevelt. And he verbally flays those foes with all the vocabulary—and it is by no means a small one—at his command. There are stripes here for everybody. For the pro-German, the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the ‘parasite woman’—meaning or, rather, including the one that won’t bear children—the radical, the socialist and the trusts.” Joshua Wanhope
— =NY Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 650w
“The diligence with which he berates the President and his advisers and the frequency with which he airs his own personal grievance bring vividly to mind the incessant fault-finding and the determined attempts to rouse anti-administration feeling of some of the men in public life during the Civil war. ... It is very much to be regretted that Colonel Roosevelt was not better advised than to give permanence to some of his criticisms. For they deal with crises left behind us, ... and their tendency is to foster and increase distrust and disapproval of the government’s conduct of the war. ... These blots are the greater pity because they mar a book that in its far greater part is intensely patriotic, devoted to the betterment of American life, helpful and important.”
=N Y Times= 22:379 O 7 ‘17 950w
=Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 200w
“The book is vital with the unimpaired vigor and moral force of its distinguished author.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 270w
+ =Spec= 119:680 D 8 ‘17 1700w
“Mr Roosevelt’s opening chapters express a desire which can only be the interpreted as having for its object the militarization of mind and heart of the United States. ... His book is about as philosophic as a volcano—and only a little less picturesque.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 26 ‘17 600w
“When Mr Roosevelt writes on a topic of actuality one always gets the exhilarating impression of a determined pugilist who has his opponent’s head in chancery and does not mean to stop pounding it until he has made the world a better place to live in. It is a prose style which suits the writer exactly.”
+ =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p536 N 8 ‘17 800w
=ROOT, ELIHU.= Latin America and the United States; col. and ed. by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. *$2.50 (2c) Harvard univ. press 308 17-16739
“The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this is one of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary of war, as Secretary of state, and as senator of the United States. ... These addresses are not arranged chronologically, but are classified in such a way that each volume contains addresses and speeches relating to a general subject and a common purpose.” (Introductory note) This volume contains the addresses delivered during Mr Root’s trip to South America and Mexico in 1906, and in the United States after his return. The addresses of welcome and congratulation accompanying Mr Root’s addresses have been translated from the language of the country in which they were delivered. The first 200 pages are devoted mainly to “after-dinner speeches and toasts or answers to toasts delivered at diplomatic meetings.” The more valuable part of the book is the last eighty pages given to “Addresses in the United States on Latin American relations,” delivered from 1893-1915, the last of these being the address of welcome before the Second Pan-American scientific congress. Mr Root’s South American speeches have been published by the government of the United States in an official volume.
=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
“Will be invaluable to the future historian who seeks to trace the origins of that fraternal spirit which has brought to our side in the war with Germany the great majority of our southern neighbors.”
+ =Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 480w
=Nation= 106:94 Ja 24 ‘18 700w
+ =N Y Times= 22:582 D 30 ‘17 650w
“We must not forget that the invaluable spadework of Mr Root more than ten years ago was, to no small extent, the cause of the present harvest of goodwill and friendship between the two Americas. This book is one to be read and to be kept for reference. It contains in the speeches of Mr Root and in those of his South American hosts the distilled essence of that Pan-American sentiment which will be one of the greatest of peace-compelling forces in the future.”
=Spec= 119:328 S 29 ‘17 1000w
“The more substantial part of the volume is to be found in the last eighty pages or so, and in the form of addresses delivered in the United States. They do to some extent afford real help to the reader who may wish to learn what is meant by ‘Pan-Americanism.’ The term is not free from ambiguity. ... On the whole, an examination of Mr Root’s addresses confirms old doubts whether the only practical Pan-Americanism is not Pan-North Americanism.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p459 S 27 ‘17 650w
=ROOT, ELIHU.= Military and colonial policy of the United States. *$2 Harvard univ. press 355 17-414
“Mr Root was Secretary of war from Aug. 1, 1899, to Feb. 1, 1904; Secretary of state from July 1, 1905, to Jan. 27, 1909; United States Senator from New York from 1909 to 1915. The latest volume of his addresses and reports, edited by Mr Bacon and Mr Scott, covers his services in the cabinet of Mr McKinley and in that of Mr Roosevelt, the larger part being allotted to his work in connection with the Philippines and the reorganization of the army command.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17
“The editors have increased the value of the book by prefacing each article with a note giving its historical setting, and inserting relevant documents such as the protocols and treaties concluding the war with Spain, the instructions for the military government of the Philippines, the militia act of 1903, etc. There is also an index of some value.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:359 My ‘17 300w
“They record the activity, the originality and the constructive service of the most accomplished and devoted public servant that the American people have had since the death of Alexander Hamilton.”
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 100w
“A volume which is of direct pertinence to the problems of to-day.”
+ =Nation= 104:686 Je 7 ‘17 230w
“No student of the history of the United States on the morrow of the Spanish war can ignore the contents of this most interesting volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:143 Ap 15 ‘17 700w
“Addresses and papers which should, and will serve as a reservoir of material for editorial writers and federal legislators.”
+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 80w
“It deserves, and we hope it may get, a wide reading throughout the British empire. Rarely have such official utterances had a higher political and even romantic interest. ... Perhaps the most thrilling and absorbing part of the tale modestly and quietly set forth in these official pages is that which deals with the disposal of Cuba. ... Mr Root’s admirably sensible and unanswerable defence of his Philippine administration may be commended to British rulers of India, from the secretary of state downwards.”
+ =Spec= 118:592 My 26 ‘17 1550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 22 ‘17 130w
“The whole collection, when completed, will form a lasting monument to a statesman whose great qualities have long since gained him recognition, as far beyond the borders of his own country, as perhaps the most eminent of living American men of affairs. The present volume covers but part of his immense and varied activities, but it is the part which in the circumstances of the present time, is perhaps of the most vital interest to the American people and to the world at large.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 19 ‘17 2350w
=ROPER, DANIEL CALHOUN.= United States post office. il *$1.50 (2c) Funk 353 17-24056
Authoritatively sums up the history and present condition of the postal service of the United States and points out its potentiality for still greater service to our country and to mankind. Contents: Postal service and civilization; Colonial post offices in America; British control of the American post office; Early development of the Federal postal system; Rise of the modern postal system; United States postal history since 1847; The post offices; The network of post roads; The post office lobby; The workings of a post office; Railway mail service; How the farmer gets his mail; Collection and delivery in cities; Addresses; Postage and mail classification; Parcel post; Special services; Postal banking; Postal inspection and control; Policing the mails; World mail service; Economic utility of the post office; Foreign trade by post; Postal engineering; The human element; The post office department; Relation of the department to Congress and the people; Postal perspective; Comparative postal service; Philately.
=A L A Bkl= 14:77 D ‘17
“Mr Roper has succeeded in giving a readable history of the beginnings and expansion of postal facilities with a very clear explanation of the workings of the post office and interesting information as to the difficulties to be solved, such as would hardly be possible for an author without actual experience in postal administration. The bibliography is incomplete and faulty.” Lindsay Rogers
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 12:150 F ‘18 400w
“Mr Roper writes with the authority of four years’ experience as first assistant postmaster general (1913-16). His enthusiasm for his subject promises a good book, and the promise is fulfilled. Especially interesting are the chapters on the workings of the various departments of our postal service, as also the account of certain significant differences between our own system and those of Europe. A chapter entitled ‘Postal perspective’ presents a suggestive vista of possible future developments in our post-office department.”
+ =Dial= 63:596 D 6 ‘17 210w
“The information afforded should be at the command of every citizen.”
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 240w
=ROSENAU, MILTON JOSEPH.= Preventive medicine and hygiene; with chapters upon sewage and garbage, by G: C. Whipple; vital statistics, by J: W. Trask; mental hygiene, by T: W. Salmon. il *$6.50 Appleton 614 17-21957
“The third edition of Rosenau’s ‘Preventive medicine and hygiene’ may well be called a special or military edition, for it is obvious that it has been prepared to meet the needs of the present emergency. To the consideration of the fundamentals of hygiene have been added sections on military hygiene as follows: Examinations of recruits, Diseases of the soldier, Duties and organization of the sanitary corps, Sanitation of troops in camp and on the march, etc. In the discussion of the new diseases which have arisen in the present world war, the latest information is given concerning trench fever, trench foot, war nephritis, shell shock, and gas poisoning, while other diseases, as tuberculosis, meningitis, and the venereal diseases, are presented in the light of war conditions. The discussion of the newer diseases peculiar to war is accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography of the recent literature.”—Nation
=A L A Bkl= 14:143 Ja ‘18
“With this new section superimposed on the one thousand pages of the former editions ... the work becomes the most comprehensive, as it has always been the most authoritative, treatise on hygiene in the English language.”
+ =Nation= 105:434 O 18 ‘17 320w
+ =Survey= 39:171 N 17 ‘17 170w
=ROSENBAUM, SAMUEL.= Rule-making authority in the English supreme court; with an introd. preface by T. Willes Chitty. (Univ. of Penn. law school ser.) $3.50 Boston bk. 17-9474
“Delegation of the power to make the rules governing the trial of the cases brought before them to the judges of the supreme court working with members of the legal profession, has been a feature of British jurisprudence since 1875 and has been less thoroughly adopted in most of the British colonies. Mr Rosenbaum undertakes a description of the development of the rules now in force and of their content. ... There are frequent comparisons between English and American methods of rule making to the disadvantage of the latter though no analysis of these is presented.” (Am Pol Sci R) “Mr Rosenbaum’s conclusion is that the regulation of civil procedure should be entrusted to a professional body rather than to a well-intentioned but overworked legislature.” (Ann Am Acad) The contents of this book first appeared as articles in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, the Law Magazine and Review, and the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation.
“The material first appeared as articles in law magazines and the subsequent editing has not eliminated references to local conditions and practice justified only in the original publication.” C. L. Jones
=Am Pol Sci R= 11:590 Ag ‘17 420w
“Mr T. Willes Chitty of the Royal courts of justice, London, who writes the introduction, speaks in highest praise of the painstaking research and labor which the author has devoted to his task, and of ‘the practical, detailed, and accurate knowledge of our procedure which he has acquired’ and lays before his readers. This estimate by an English jurist is an estimate that can be taken at its face value, as it comes from one who is thoroughly familiar with the rules which Mr Rosenbaum describes and discusses.” C. L. King
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:239 S ‘17 140w
=ROSENBLATT, FRANK FERDINAND.= Chartist movement in its social and economic aspects. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 342.4 16-25226
“The volume, which is introductory, summarizes the English radical movement previous to Chartism from the beginning of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, describes in detail the economic and political situation in England at the time of the origin of Chartism, sketches the careers, personalities, and beliefs of the leaders of the movement, traces its emergence from the existing political and economic conditions and its development until the end of the Newport riot in November, 1839. The war has delayed the completion of this study for the subsequent period.”—J Pol Econ
“There seems no particular reason for the qualifying phrase in its title since the political side of the movement is as much to the front as the social and economic. The preliminary chapters are inadequate and disappointing. In the opinion of the reviewer they should either have been made much more exhaustive or cut down to a few introductory paragraphs. The narrative chapters bring out clearly the conflicting attitudes of the ‘moral force’ and the ‘physical force’ factions. The work is thoroughly and impartially done; but one has a feeling that the material had not been well enough digested and assimilated to enable the author to write with breadth of view and sense of proportion.” H. E. Mills
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:605 S ‘17 330w
“It is a little over sixty years since a book wholly devoted to the history of the Chartist movement was issued from the English press; for not a single book on the subject has appeared in England since Gammage published his history in 1854. As far as it goes his study is, on the whole, a satisfactory piece of work. It is particularly so as regards the sketches of the leaders of the movement, and of the spirit in which they preached the gospel of revolt. He is less successful when he describes the political, industrial, and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement.” E: Porritt
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:649 Ap ‘17 580w
“His exposition of the causes behind the Chartist movement is marred in places by inexactness of statement, and a tendency to exaggeration in language out of harmony with a scholarly presentation of historical facts.” E: Porritt
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:340 My ‘17 650w
+ =Ind= 89:232 F 5 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:635 Je ‘17 190w
“Three ‘Ph. D.’ monographs on Chartism, together constituting volume 73 of Studies in history, economics and law present from different points of view a survey of a movement too much neglected by historians, especially by those of England and the United States. ... Dr Rosenblatt gives more attention than his fellow-authors to the narrative of events; so his essay serves well as an introduction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w
“An immense amount of information in a very readable form is packed into 244 pages.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 38:288 Je 30 ‘17 260w
=ROTHSCHILD, ALONZO.= “Honest Abe”; a study in integrity based on the early life of Abraham Lincoln. il *$2 (2½c) Houghton 17-25451
“The unique and comprehensive library of Lincolniana” which Mr Rothschild had collected, recently donated in his memory to the Widener library of Harvard university, evidences the thorough research and study which he gave to his chosen subject. Mr Robert Lincoln has been quoted as calling “Lincoln, master of men,” Mr Rothschild’s first book on Lincoln, the best book about his father he had read. “‘Honest Abe’ traces the development of Lincoln’s honesty as exhibited by his active life from childhood through his election to the Senate. An additional chapter, unfortunately cut off by the author’s sudden death, was to have been added. The work, however, is an entity as it stands. ... Two of the chapters are concerned with Lincoln as a lawyer; one, with Lincoln as a politician. ... Following the text is a short biography of the author written by his son.” (Boston Transcript) “A list of books cited” occupies eleven pages and is followed by thirty-eight pages of “Notes” in which there are frequent references to secondary authorities. The frontispiece is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken from a woodcut by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype owned by Mr Robert T. Lincoln.
=A L A Bkl= 14:128 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:595 Ja ‘18 300w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 800w
+ =Cath World= 106:693 F ‘18 230w
“An inspiring and absorbing book.”
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 50w
“That any new thing could be said about Lincoln seemed impossible until Mr Rothschild’s new volume appeared. Of Mr Lincoln’s honesty other biographies have told us, but in rather a passing way: here we have the fact set forth in clear detail, with an amazing array of proofs, from widely scattered sources, exciting wonder how they could all be obtained.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 1 ‘17 140w
+ =Nation= 105:723 D 27 ‘17 100w
“A unique method of treatment of Lincoln’s life and character.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:445 N 4 ‘17 380w
=Pittsburgh= 22:803 D ‘17 40w
“The steadily running stream of anecdote finally becomes somewhat tiresome, yet the cumulative effect is undeniably impressive.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ‘17 390w
=ROWLES, WILLIAM F.= Garden under glass. il *$2 Lippincott 716.3 17-29979
“Mr Rowles gives the data of greenhouse construction, from cold frames and pits to the finished structure, illustrating his descriptions with many diagrams and drawings. ... He divides his subject into six sections: The construction of glass houses and frames; popular greenhouse plants; fruit under glass; vegetables under glass and greenhouse work. The concluding section holds miscellaneous data: the construction and use of amateur frames; the character of greenhouse pests and the best methods for their extermination; a ‘greenhouse calendar’; a glossary, etc.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 320w
“An excellent exposition of English greenhouse methods.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:449 N 4 ‘17 40w
=ROXBURGH, RONALD FRANCIS.= International conventions and third states. *$2.50 Longmans 341.2 17-22005
This monograph is published as one of the Contributions to international law and diplomacy, edited by L. Oppenheim, who says that it deals with a problem that has never before been made the subject of thorough research. Authors of different nationalities have approached the subject with a biased viewpoint. “They take it for granted that the principles and rules of international law are to be construed and interpreted according to views upheld by their municipal law and their national jurisprudence.” Mr Roxburgh covers the subject in seven chapters: Introduction; Third parties and contracts in municipal law; The opinions of publicists; Treaties unfavorable to third states; Treaties beneficial to third states; The influence of custom: Exceptional cases. The work was prepared in the years 1913 and 1914, “in accordance with the rules governing the Whewell international law scholarships in the University of Cambridge,” but has since been revised and largely rewritten. A list of authorities referred to is included.
“It must be confessed that the author’s treatment of his subject is somewhat sketchy and not at all points conclusive. ... It might perhaps have been a better arrangement to have made the study of municipal law follow rather than precede the precedents of diplomatic practice. ... But these are minor points and they do not prevent us from agreeing with the learned editor that the author has ‘brought together a considerable amount of material, and that he has come to very valuable conclusions which require thorough examination and consideration.’” C. G. Fenwick
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:777 N ‘17 700w
“Excellent index.” F.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:626 O ‘17 150w
=RUGG, HAROLD ORDWAY.= Statistical methods applied to education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$2 Houghton 370 17-29584
A textbook for students of education in the quantitative study of school problems, prepared by an assistant professor of education in the University of Chicago. It has been written for the average school administrator limited in mathematical equipment. The writer believes that it is necessary to equip school men with a thorough-going knowledge of statistical methods as a background for discriminating use in improvement of their school practice. A preliminary chapter explains The use of statistical methods in education. Other chapters deal with collection and classification of educational facts and data, the method of averages, the measurement of variability, the frequency curve, the use of tabular and graphic methods in reporting school facts.
=El School J= 18:239 N ‘17 90w
“The bibliography is remarkably well chosen and annotated and covers a wide range of studies on school administration. Mr Rugg’s book is a real contribution to the science of education, and one ventures to prophesy that it will be found on the desk of every progressive school man in the country.” P. C. Stetson
+ =El School J= 18:314 D ‘17 1300w
=School R= 25:693 N ‘17 90w (Same as =El School J N= ‘17)
Reviewed by P. C. Stetson
+ =School R= 25:765 D ‘17 1300w (Same as =El School J D= ‘17)
=RUHL, ARTHUR BROWN.= White nights and other Russian impressions. il *$2 (4c) Scribner 914.7 17-13589
The first chapter, The road to Russia, gives Scandinavian impressions. The author tells how the people of Norway and Sweden look on the war, describes Stockholm on a sunny morning, and gives an account of a visit with Ellen Key. The Russian chapters that follow are: White nights; At the front; The Moscow art theatre; A look at the Duma; Russia’s war prisoners; A Russian cotton king; Down the Volga to Astrakhan; Volga refugees; Rumania learns what war is. There are over twenty photographic illustrations.
“Very well written and readable.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17
“Mr Ruhl is perhaps the best equipped, in sympathetic understanding, charm of style, and intellectual preparation, of the American journalists now in Russia. ... Throughout the trip Mr Ruhl keeps America in mind, and his contrasts and comparisons with life in our own land help to throw into relief the manners and customs of a foreign people.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 63:266 S 27 ‘17 650w
+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 50w
“His description of the strong pro-German feeling in Sweden as compared with the almost as strong pro-Ally sentiment in Norway and his glance at the causes for the difference will illuminate the situation in Scandinavia for many American readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:209 My 27 ‘17 670w
+ =Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 70w
“Mr Ruhl is a skilled reporter, and here he has a worthy subject. His book makes no bid for permanency, but as a presentation of varied aspects of Russia it has not been bettered since the war started—praise which does not consist wholly in the fact that Russia has not been ‘written up’ so extensively as have most of her allies and enemies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ‘17 370w
=RUMSEY, FRANCES.= Mr Cushing and Mlle du Chastel. *$1.40 (1c) Lane 17-11701
While one’s American instincts lead one to side with the American husband, it is a tribute to the author’s power that she more than once forces the reader to see the situation from the point of view of the French wife. After their marriage Paul Cushing brings Anne-Marie to his New York home. Clashes of temperament are inevitable. The husband’s ideals are more than once shocked by his wife’s insistence on exact materialistic interpretations. Her French bringing up has taught her to overlook what she considers the normal delinquencies of men; but she sees delinquencies where none have existed, and it is on this rock that their marriage breaks. The meeting of the two in Paris, after Anne-Marie, true to her code of conduct, has left her husband to live with another man, brings out definitely the absolute divergence of the two points of view.
“Well written with a limited appeal for sophisticated readers.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:452 Jl ‘17
“Seldom have American and Parisian conflicting standards been more cleverly analyzed and contrasted than in this distinctively ‘international’ novel. Seldom have human emotions and values been more convincingly interpreted. ... The story is not for all. But to those who appreciate originality of ideas and perfection of artistry, its daring plot, the Gallic precision of its premises, its gracious diction and its pitiless logic will bring a unique pleasure.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 800w
“Worthy of respect and thoughtful perusal.”
+ =Dial= 64:77 Ja 17 ‘18 600w
“The people are carefully dissected and nonliving intelligences, not human beings.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:163 Ap 22 ‘17 300w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Political ideals. *$1 (5c) Century 320.4 17-24663
Mr Russell examines our present political ideals, our economic system, the dangers of state socialism, and the proper limits of individual and of national freedom, and concludes that our institutions should lay stress on the creative rather than the possessive impulse in man, that there should be a diminution, if not a total abolition, of rent and interest, that “the state should be the sole recipient of economic rent, while private capitalistic enterprises should be replaced by selfgoverning combinations of those who actually do the work,” that there should be “autonomy within each politically important group, and a neutral authority for deciding questions involving relations between groups,” that “the whole realm of thought and opinion” should be free, but that “in all that concerns possession and the use of force, unrestrained liberty involves anarchy and injustice”; that “the boundaries of states should coincide as nearly as possible with the boundaries of nations,” but that the external relations of states should be decided by “some international instruments of government.” Contents: Political ideals; Capitalism and the wage system; Pitfalls in socialism; Individual liberty and public control; National independence and internationalism.
“A sane and succinct statement of the philosopher’s well known views for individual and community ideals. This is not a book of pacifism and will be stimulating to thoughtful readers in any community.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17
Reviewed by F. W. Coker
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:137 F ‘18 750w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 750w
“We feel that it is around the ideas expressed in this book that the younger generation will rally for a clear faith and a well-grounded hope. Mr Russell has expressed these ideas in his other books. But here they are organized into what is virtually a primer of revolutionary idealism, written with a passionate soberness that stirs the mind as deeply as it moves the heart.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Dial= 64:69 Ja 17 ‘18 550w
“Many will not accept the war convictions of this noted English philosopher; but they demand respect.”
+ =Ind= 92:536 D 15 ‘17 460w
“Mr Russell’s keen dissection of the evils of modern industrialism and the obstacles to free thought is at least wholesomely disturbing, but we cannot discover in his vague constructive suggestions any well-thought-out plan that can be adjudged practically workable.”
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“Mr Russell is almost a Socialist; but he eludes all attempts to pigeonhole him. The danger he sees in the socialist program is the loss of that very freedom for the individual which is the summum bonum for all thinkers. Mr Russell predicts that the result of the realization of the present socialist program would be the domination of officialdom and bureaucracy. The answer to the problem is: ‘Autonomy within each politically important group, and a neutral authority for deciding questions involving relations between groups.’ This, of course, is guild socialism, deprived of the anarchistic freedom of the different trades. Mr Russell’s position in the present world crisis must command attention from every Socialist who is open to intelligent and constructive criticism of the socialist movement.” Bertram Benedict
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 7 ‘17 700w
“In ‘Political ideals’ we have Mr Russell at his best. He is still impractical, and he admits the fact. But he is seldom capricious to the point of irresponsibility. In his criticisms of the life of to-day a keen and almost unnaturally disinterested intellect achieves a happy union with ethical courage and the two qualities are fused in a style of the utmost poise and clarity. ... While not entirely friendly to the state, Mr Russell does not abolish the state. On the contrary, he holds that in economic matters the state should exercise wider control than at present; while granting to the individual greater freedom in thought, freedom, religion and ethical questions governed by individual conscience. ... He is a critic of socialism and syndicalism, but his own ideas of ownership and control do not take definite form in this book.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 1400w
“In simple language, the five essays contained in this slim volume give the author’s political credo, more fully developed in ‘Why men fight.’ The reconciliation of liberty with government to him is the chief problem in economic and political relationships which must be solved before the world can be made safe and at the same time open to every form of human advancement. ‘Political ideals’ will help the reader who sees all the ruin wrought by capitalism and the possessive motive in world politics, and yet is prevented by fear of the ‘servile state’ from embracing the doctrines of socialism. It gives no new political system, no visionary scheme of revolutionary change, but formulates the philosophic basis for a program of immediate and consecutive reform.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 39:202 N 24 ‘17 300w
=RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM.= Why men fight; a method of abolishing the international duel (Eng title, Principles of social reconstruction). *$1.50 (2½c) Century 172.4 17-1513
In this new book Bertrand Russell makes a study of the springs of human conduct. Responsibility for the war is placed by one group of people on the wickedness of the Germans, by another on the tangles of diplomacy and the ambitions of governments. Both groups, Mr Russell thinks, fail to realize the extent to which war grows out of ordinary human nature. “War is accepted by men who are neither Germans nor diplomatists with a readiness, an acquiescence in untrue and inadequate reasons, which would not be possible if any deep repugnance to war were widespread in other nations or classes.” The springs of human activity are impulse and desire, and of these, thinks Mr Russell, impulse is the stronger force. The pacifists are defined by him as “men in whom some impulse to which war is hostile is strong enough to overcome the impulses that lead to war.” What is needed then is a social reconstruction that will set free those impulses that lead to life rather than death. There are chapters on The state; Property; Education; Marriage and the population question; Religion and the churches, etc. In the preface to the London edition the statement is made that the lectures were written in 1915, and delivered in the beginning of 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:292 Ap ‘17
“A book which it is very difficult to review with fairness: it is a book by a big man, who cares intensely for intellectual freedom and has achieved a European reputation by his work in his own very abstract field, but it is at the same time a book by a man out of heart and out of temper with the world, written hastily, left (as the preface tells us) unrevised, and dealing with a subject on many aspects of which he is ignorant, and on which his training and temperament debar him from writing with real insight. Perhaps the best and most charitable thing to say about it is that it is unworthy of its author.”
— =Ath= p577 D ‘16 1600w
Reviewed by Nathaniel Pfeffer
=Bookm= 45:197 Ap ‘17 300w
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 150w
“Particularly for Americans, it contains a warning and a programme, because America is in greatest danger from the evils it denounces, and nearest to attainment of the excellences it urges. It is a handbook for patriots whose concern is the soul of our country.” H. M. Kallen
+ =Dial= 62:233 Mr 22 ‘17 4000w
“The Honorable Bertrand Russell affords perhaps the most striking example in this generation of powerful intellect working in vacuo. ... In his volume entitled ‘Why men fight’ there is very much that is fine and splendid, but this is almost invariably accompanied by a lack of appreciation of the realities of human nature and of life.”
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“Like all that Mr Russell writes, these pages are full of stimulating suggestion, of vigorous criticism, and of fresh and original thinking. Yet I venture to predict—as it is, no doubt, safe to do in regard to any writer upon social questions just now—that if, in future years, when the passions of these stormy days are stilled, Mr Russell returns to the topics here discussed, he will handle many of them differently and from a wider point of view.” G. D. Hicks
* + =Hibbert J= 15:692 Jl ‘17 3050w
“His book remains a turning point in constructive social theory.” C. D. Burns
+ =Int J Ethics= 27:384 Ap ‘17 1300w
“In no other war book or peace book known to the present reviewer is there to be found so thoroughgoing an investigation of ‘the various influences, social and political,’ which explain why men fight.”
+ =Nation= 104:367 Mr 29 ‘17 1500w
“To read ‘Why men fight’ with any sympathy is to be entranced by the honesty, the concentration, the intelligence, the equilibrium of its author. ... While many of his criticisms are unsparing, none of them is devious or poisoned. The principles of democracy and liberty are frankly and utterly his principles. ... He understands perfectly well that the enemy has to be fought, as the fighting insect has to be crushed. ... Many passages in ‘Why men fight’ indicate that Mr Russell is neither omniscient nor entirely consistent. He seems to dispose of incompatibilities easily, and yet to demand radical changes.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 10:24 F 3 ‘17 2300w
“A much more solid piece of work than his previous book on ‘Justice in war time.’ Here he has his feet partly on the ground, and is seemingly much more inclined to examine the economic foundations of society.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 25 ‘17 1050w
“Much of his thinking is of a very radical complexion, although it is individual in its radicalism and is not to be labeled with any existing brand of reform.”
=N Y Times= 22:46 F 11 ‘17 500w
“Bertrand Russell is perhaps the greatest of England’s living thinkers. ... It is just because the impulse to fight which swept this country off its feet when the Maine was blown up, so easily becomes uncontrollable that this calm, clear voice from the midst of the conflict bears a particularly timely message for the United States.” Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:590 F 17 ‘17 800w
“Although Mr Bertrand Russell lives in a political solitude as lonesome as that of Coleridge’s ‘Ancient mariner,’ he is manifestly able, to a limited extent, to combine with other groups on the vivifying basis of a number of common hatreds. ... Mr Bertrand Russell has written a thoroughly mischievous book, and it is all the more mischievous because, being a cultivated man, he has at his service a felicitous literary style which may possess some attractions for the unwary minds of prejudiced partisans and loose thinkers.” [Earl of] Cromer
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“Much that Mr Russell says in criticizing the social order will be accepted as true by the philosophical thinker, who will, however, see that Mr Russell has failed to do any constructive reasoning that might lead to improvement. ... Mr Russell’s book is written with his wellknown brilliancy and force, but one fears that few persons will be able to read it through with patience. Mr Russell is too individual to agree at all points with the ‘philosophical anarchists,’ but his reasoning runs in that direction.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 25 ‘17 500w
“To have said these things now, to have given fearless and eloquent utterance to ideas vaguely formulated and uncoordinated in other minds, has given to Bertrand Russell an intellectual leadership which will win him crowns both of laurel and of thorn.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:45 Ap 14 ‘17 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p552 N 16 ‘16 80w
“In the chapter on war is matter for the meditation of the pacifist as well as the boisterous patriot. ... It is not a convincing book. The author has too many grievances with the social world as it is to be fair to it or wise, but it is a book to stir and stimulate and promote that ‘creative impulse’ which it extols.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p566 N 30 ‘16 650w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM (A. E., pseud.).= National being: some thoughts on an Irish polity. *$1.35 Macmillan 342 (Eng ed 16-22450)
“‘A. E.,’ the author of ‘The national being’ believes that Ireland must be free to work out a destiny for herself among the nations of the earth. He believes that it is possible for her to solve the problem, too, not necessarily by fire and sword—for small nations are seldom wise in taking up the sword—but by the more patient and effective method of making Ireland economically free. When that is accomplished, the political freedom will follow naturally and will mean more than the creation of a new Parliament of stupidity to replace the present body which rules Ireland. ... ‘A. E.’s’ plan for a commercially liberated Ireland begins with a scheme for co-operative production instead of the multifarious and futile competition that exists at present.”—Springf’d Republican
“Beautifully written and inspiring, even if he is somewhat inclined to idealize the situation.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17
“His ‘imaginative meditation on the state of Ireland’ is, indeed, addressed to youth. It breathes a note of confidence, of hope triumphant and undismayed, of spiritual adventure and high courage that only the ears of youth can catch. A. E.’s message is not to the politicians of to-day, but to the future nation-builders of Ireland.”
+ =Ath= p524 N ‘16 950w
“A suggestive and splendid vision of industrial energy and justice and a plan of universal service for the state.”
+ =Ind= 90:469 Je 9 ‘17 40w
“It is in truth a considered summation and codification, at times attaining to a noble eloquence, of the author’s social and political philosophy. ... The writer of this stimulating book has deserved well of his native land. ‘The national being’ is sure, even in the present, to realize the author’s modest hope that it may ‘provoke thought on fundamentals.’”
+ =Nation= 104:163 F 8 ‘17 700w
“We have had in the last two years half a hundred volumes on political organization. Of a certainty we have had few so penetrating or so wise.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 10:270 Mr 31 ‘17 1550w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:8 Ja ‘17
“An outline of the author’s conception of a coöperative commonwealth in Ireland, and a summary of his social and political philosophy. His message implies the establishment of a communal control in agriculture and industry, with an aristocracy of intellect dominating politics and government.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:527 Je ‘17 43w
“We confess to leaving: ‘A. E.’s’ imaginative meditation about the character and future of the state of Ireland with more admiration for the beauty of the language in which it is set forth than for the practicability of its suggestions.”
=Spec= 117:446 O 14 ‘16 1050w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 8 ‘17 650w
“National safety can lie only in national harmony. By stressing and reiterating again and again this point, the author is driving home a lesson which may well be heeded also in other lands.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:549 S 22 ‘17 500w
“There is a class of writers, practical men, whose thought has grown out of experience, who are not only clear expounders but also leaders. Of these the Irish poet, painter, economist, and apostle of cooperation, known as ‘A. E.’ is one. ... He has written a simple, practical, wise, and cheering book. It stands out among the innumerable social books that stream from the presses like a gentle giant among a crowd of clamouring pygmies.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p459 S 28 ‘16 1000w
“The discussion of rural, agricultural, and labor problems have special reference to conditions in Ireland, but they are applicable in considerable degree to any country. It would be a pity if any serious student of these problems should be deprived of this remarkably stimulating and original work, which is notable for its literary quality.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 70w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM (A. E., pseud.), and others.= Irish home-rule convention. *50c (2c) Macmillan 941.5 17-24526
This book discusses the questions before the Irish convention now sitting in Cork. John Quinn first states his position regarding the European war, then considers the Sinn Fein and the Dublin insurrection, setting forth the English, American and Irish opinions of the insurrection and concluding with two short chapters on G. W. Russell and Sir Horace Plunkett. These seven chapters (ninety-four pages) are called on the title page (but not in the table of contents) “An American opinion.” Following Mr Quinn’s chapters, we have “Thoughts for a convention” (sixty-six pages), by George W. Russell (“A.E.”), who has here “put into shape for publication ideas and suggestions for an Irish settlement which had been discussed among a group whose members represented all extremes in Irish opinion. ... For the spirit, method of presentation and general arguments used, he alone is responsible.” (Note) Mr Russell does not believe in ‘dual government of Ireland by two houses of Parliament,’ but believes in a selfgoverning Ireland, in which Ulster should consent to play her part. The last part of the book consists of Sir Horace Plunkett’s “Defence of the convention” (twenty-three pages) delivered at Dundalk, June 25, 1917.
“John Quinn’s attitude is one of optimism throughout and his presentation of the facts involved is both clarifying and weighty in significance. ... The fundamentals suggested by Mr Russell cover all phases of Irish misunderstanding, and if they could be carried out would work wonders in that much-perplexed country.” H. S. Gorman
+ =Bookm= 46:331 N ‘17 1700w
“Every lover of Ireland will rejoice that brains so keen and spirits so well disposed and conciliatory are at work on the most difficult problem of the future constitution of the Irish nation.”
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“Three intelligent, illuminating, and hopeful views of the Irish question as it stands today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:544 D 9 ‘17 90w
“Mr George Russell and Sir Horace Plunkett have provided Irishmen with an opportunity to meet and work together on a plane above the region of official animosities. They have done in the economic life what the creators of the Irish literature have done in the sphere of art-given a common ground to distracted men. And because they have always been aware of the national scope of their work they are peculiarly fitted at this time to address their countrymen on behalf of national unity. The great hope for the future which waits upon the performance of the Home rule convention is that Ireland may have been informed and guided by the spirit which shines out in these appeals.” C: A. Bennett
+ =Yale R= n s 7:441 Ja ‘18 460w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM ERSKINE.= Arthur Henry Stanton: a memoir. il *$3.50 Longmans A17-1384
Father Stanton began his ministry more than half a century ago in St Albans, Holborn. “He was opposed to what is referred to as the Establishment, and in early manhood became a member of the Liberation society. The alliance between church and state was hateful to him. He devoted himself to the poor and outcast, and his methods showed a complete disregard of the scientific treatment demanded by social workers.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) He was not a scholar and never attained either worldly or ecclesiastical dignities, “yet he gained a reputation and wielded an influence such as can only be compared with that of the leaders of the early days of the Tractarian movement, Newman, Froude, Keble, and Pusey. For over fifty years he occupied a unique place in the English church, and this was due solely to the fact that he was himself. ... He figured prominently and as something of a firebrand in the bitterest and most acrimonious ritual disputes of the nineteenth century.” (Sat R) A man of narrow views, quick-tempered and combative, yet a broad humanity and tolerance governed his intercourse with his fellowmen.
“Has special interest because of the insight it affords into the history of the High Church movement in England since 1862.”
+ =Cath World= 106:260 N ‘17 270w
“If the Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell wrote his memoir for those who are personally familiar with Father Stanton’s ministry at St Albans, Holborn, or are otherwise deeply concerned in that union of Catholic sacramentalism and radical socialism which Father Stanton so fervidly represented, then the book is none too long; but for the ordinary reader, even for one who can find interest in a pretty strong dose of English ecclesiasticism, there is certainly three times too much of it.”
+ — =Nation= 105:152 Ag 9 ‘17 200w
“We have nothing but admiration for the way in which Mr Russell has compiled the biography. Who combines so curiously well as he the refinements and fastidiousness of the man of letters and the man of the world with the things that spiritually matter?... Wherever possible Mr Russell allows Father Stanton to speak for himself, and the copious extracts from letters, speeches, and sermons have been well selected to present a complete picture of the man.”
* + =Sat R= 123:480 My 26 ‘17 1100w
“A volume of engrossing interest, and a worthy memorial of a true servant of Christ and humanity.”
* + =Spec= 118:591 My 26 ‘17 2100w
“Mr Russell’s narrative is a plain and restrained statement, offering just what is necessary to set each period of Stanton’s life in its proper perspective, and the book gains in force through this absence of discursiveness and laudation.”
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p234 My 17 ‘17 1050w
=RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM ERSKINE.= Politics and personalities, with other essays. *$2.25 Scribner 17-25966
“In his latest volume, Mr Russell’s range of subjects extends from Gladstone to ghosts, from casuistry to chivalry and from thrift to tyrannicide. ... Especially does Mr Russell find the nineteenth century prolific in demagogues. ... In his list of demagogues Mr Russell includes Henry Brougham, Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Randolph Churchill and Joseph Chamberlain, the last two being ‘the most consummate demagogues whom England has ever produced.’ And with such famous men in his list, he is certain that Lloyd-George will not be offended when he finds himself included in their company.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:158 F ‘18
“Not all, however, seem to us worth reproducing; and the best can be described in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s phrase about his own later essays as the wine squeezed out of the press after the first juice that runs of itself from the fruit.”
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=Boston Transcript= p9 O 17 ‘17 670w
=Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 50w
“The book itself is thoroughly engaging. It is one of those comfortable books which one can take up at odd moments with the assurance that they will prove good moments—a book genial without loss of seriousness, thoughtful without being profound, and (grateful virtue) contemporary without being harrowing.”
+ =Dial= 63:644 D 20 ‘17 400w
“Mr G. W. E. Russell’s new book of essays is exceedingly good reading. Whether he writes of politics or persons, he is never dull; and whether he provokes us to argument, agreement, or only to a smile, he is excellent company.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup625 D 1 ‘17 1400w
“Like most of Mr Russell’s books, this new volume is rich in political principle and memory, in details about leading men of immediate past and in constitutional knowledge.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p524 N 1 ‘17 960w
=RUSSELL, WALTER MARVIN.= Operation of gas works. il *$2 McGraw 665.7 17-5554
“Mr Russell’s book ... deals with management and operation primarily and with apparatus and construction secondarily. ... First are presented organization and general management, both of plant and men. Then comes chemical control of product. One chapter is devoted to problems peculiar to coal-gas plants, another to water-gas production.