Chapter 5 groups the general plant problems—handling materials,

keeping cleaned up, fire protection, proper steam and water lines, keeping a good boiler house, etc. The final chapter discusses calorimetry and photometry, and an appendix gives miscellaneous useful tables.”—Engin News-Rec

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17

“Simple and clear instructions for operating standard types of apparatus usually found in small or medium sized gas works.”

+ =Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 20w

“The growing use of manufactured-gas fuel in industrial plants and the increase in number of gas-works owned by manufacturing concerns have brought home to a wide circle of engineers outside the gas industry the lack of concise, easily read treatises on gas-works construction and operation. There has been of course the ‘catechism’ of the Gas institute, but this has not apparently been much utilized outside of the industry. Mr Russell’s book fills at least half the void, although not written with the industrial-plant engineers particularly in view.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:364 My 17 ‘17 180w

“It is stated that the operations described have all been successfully tried out upon a commercial scale. The most recent developments, however, in mechanical operation, mass carbonization, and water gas operation have been omitted.”

+ — =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 110w

=Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 40w

“Author is manager of the Emporia gas company.”

=Pratt= p20 Jl ‘17 50w

Russian court memoirs, 1914-16; with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war. il *$5 Dutton (12s 6d Jenkins, London) 947 (Eng ed 17-12739)

“The author writes as an avowed monarchist, and he completed his work long before the recent upheaval; but he was intensely alive to the dangers arising from the widespread belief in the existence of German influence in court circles, although he regarded the extent of that influence as being much exaggerated by popular rumour.” (Spec) “Among the topics discussed in the fifteen chapters that make up this volume are:—‘The Tsar and his family,’ ‘The Tsar and his generals,’ ‘The imperial court,’ ‘The Russian foreign office,’ ‘Society of Petrograd,’ ‘Russian women during the war,’ and ‘The press.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The book contains many good portraits.”

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 70w

“Filled with anecdotes, malicious and foolish, about the private life, public appearance, and toilette of these great ones. Gossip of this type collected and placed on the market enables us to gauge the intellect of the pseudonymous writer, and to ask with regret who are the members of the English public who appreciate the fare thus provided.”

— =Ath= p343 Jl ‘17 190w

Reviewed by Abraham Yarmolinsky

— =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 190w

“Some books are like the manna foddered to the Jews in the wilderness, good at night but spoilt the next day. Such is this anonymous book. The Russian revolution put it as completely out of date as if it had been written a hundred years ago.” N. H. D.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 650w

“The author makes us see why the Czarina was unpopular and how she has been misunderstood. As a court picture, the book is comprehensive; as a political prophecy it is of far less importance.”

+ — =Lit D= 55:39 S 29 ‘17 210w

“There is a good chapter on Russian women during the war. ... Our author claims that the Czar was in no way responsible for the war—that he did everything in his power to avert it. ... ‘Russian court memoirs’ is not a literary document. It is gossip, gossip that occasionally has a back-stairs flavor. As a journalistic report of a past era it is of intense interest. The book is sincere, faithfully told from the writer’s viewpoint—and the novelty of that viewpoint makes it all the more readable.”

+ — =NY Times= 22:396 O 14 ‘17 1150w

“There is a sympathetic sketch of the ex-Czar and his children, but the former Czarina is criticized for her association with wandering monks. The illustrations give added interest to these piquant pen sketches.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 200w

“He has a wealth of information and a good deal of pleasant anecdote about all the prominent figures in Petrograd society during the period he covers; but unfortunately his anonymity detracts, to some extent, from the value of his book as an historical document. We cannot give full credence to his version of the subtler influences at work beneath the surface of politics without knowing how much of what he says is genuine ‘inside’ knowledge, and how much is merely what was currently believed at the time.”

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 220w

“Whatever may be the author’s social or other position in Petrograd, the information at his or her disposal is by no means of the back-stair variety. Not its least agreeable feature is the absence of any tendency to dogmatize or to prophesy.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p147 Mr 29 ‘17 850w

Russian year-book, 1916; comp. and ed. by N. Peacock. *10s 6d Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 314.7

“The sixth issue of this standard work of reference. It contains much new matter of value in connexion with the war—a résumé of the economic condition of Russia since the beginning of the war; the new Customs tariff in full detail; the 1916 budget, and much else; with a diary of the war on the Russian front.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p626 D 21 ‘16 50w

=RUTLEDGE, MARICE, pseud.= Children of fate. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 17-9707

A story of the European war and of Paris in war time. Two lovers, a young French architect and an American girl, are separated by the first call to arms. Pierre, a high-strung, sensitive youth, finds the idea of killing loathsome. To nerve himself up to the task before him, he is forced to make himself believe that he is engaged in a war between good and evil, that he is battling for civilization. Natalie encourages his belief, but even at the moment of parting she has begun to doubt it, and as time goes on she comes to feel more and more that war cannot save civilization, that war cannot end war, that militarism is a hydra-headed monster, that if one of its heads, Germany, be cut off today, another will have grown up tomorrow. But of this she can say nothing to Pierre who depends on her encouragement. Their second parting, after he has been wounded, brings on a crisis in which the girl is forced to tell him the truth about herself and her convictions.

“One observes here the ‘certain condescension’ of complacent feminism toward the dull and errant male, and the somewhat shrill note of the special pleader. But whatever may be thought of this book in its character of tract or brief, its dignity and moving quality as a story are beyond question.” H. W. Boynton

=Bookm= 45:315 My ‘17 400w

“The book is a piece of passionate special pleading but is well worth reading as such and as a story.”

+ =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 170w

“This is a book of passionate sincerity, an honest plea, but a special plea; and it does not escape the partiality or even altogether the shrillness, of its order.”

=Nation= 104:490 Ap 26 ‘17 1150w

“This ardent pacifist lays the crime of war at the door of woman, holding that without her sanction the world would not have the deadly recurrent spectacle of the ‘maleness run riot’ (to use the phrase of another feminist), which is war.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 60w

— =N Y Times= 22:172 Ap 29 ‘17 120w

“While the book brings out vividly some of the more distressful phases of the great war, particularly as regards France, the very fact that France is fighting in defense of her life should preserve that country from the sentiments which the author put in the mouth of his heroine. ... The story is excellently and even powerfully written. It contains germs of thought that will flourish and grow stronger in more peaceful times.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 600w

=RUYSBROECK, JAN VAN.= Adornment of the spiritual marriage; The sparkling stone; The book of supreme truth; ed. with an introd. and notes by Evelyn Underhill. *$1.75 Dutton 242

“The manuscript of these papers was translated from the Flemish by C. A. Wynschenk-Dom. It presents three of the most important works of the great Flemish mystic, John of Ruysbroeck. He was born in 1273 at the village of Ruysbroeck, between Brussels and Hals, and lived during his entire life in his native province Brabant.” (R of Rs) “As in other works of this kind, the author is concerned with the qualities of the divine nature and with absorption of those qualities into the nature of the devout man. ... ‘Ecstatic absorption in God,’ says Miss Underhill, ‘formed only one side of Ruysbroeck’s religious life. True to his own doctrine of the “balanced career” of action and contemplation as the ideal of the Christian soul, his rapturous ascents toward divine reality were compensated by the eager and loving interest with which he turned toward the world of men.’” (Springf’d Republican)

“An excellent rendering into English of three of the finest writings of Jan of Ruysbroeck, which have never been fully accessible in our own language. Miss Underhill, in an admirable preface, touches on his life and times, and sums up his teaching with great clearness and insight. Ruysbroeck was one of the great constructive mystics who represent and sum up the spiritual knowledge of their own and other times, transfusing and co-ordinating, in the light of their own rich experience and personality, the universal vision of God and of man’s relation to Him. ... The translator has done a great service in opening out to us the experience and teachings of one of the most lofty and spiritual minds of the Christian era.” G. K. S.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:135 O ‘17 700w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:156 O ‘16

“For the student of spiritual philosophy this book is a treasure of undeniable worth.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 170w

=St Louis= 5:47 F ‘17

“Ruysbroeck is one of the better guides for the modern mystics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 400w

=RYAN, JOHN AUGUSTINE.= Distributive justice; the right and wrong of our present distribution of wealth. *$1.50 (1c) Macmillan 331 16-22456

In this volume Father Ryan, author of “The living wage,” “discusses the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed, considering the moral aspects of distribution with reference to the four classes—landowners, capitalists, business men, and laborers. The rights and obligations of these four classes constitute the main subject of the work, while an effort is made to propose reforms that would remove the principal defects of the present system and bring about a larger measure of social justice.” (R of Rs)

“One might, perhaps, criticise other minor features of this excellent book, but such criticism would not detract from its great merit as a logical and lucid exposition of a most important subject, pervaded by a spirit of sweet reasonableness that charms even when it may not convince.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Am Econ R= 7:377 Je ‘17 1950w

=A L A Bkl= 13:246 Mr ‘17

“One of the most important books that have appeared within the last decade. Many thoughtful Americans, already well acquainted with the socio-political theories and programs of socialists, of single-taxers, of syndicalists, and of classical economists, have been ignorant of the tendencies of Catholic social politics. Dr Ryan’s book is not a history of Catholic social politics—such a work is still to be written. Rather, it is a painstaking critique of the morality of private land-ownership and rent, of private capital and interest, of profits and wages; and its significance lies in the fact that the morality in question is the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic church and that the thoughtful American who reads it has no longer any excuse for being ignorant of the meaning of Catholic social politics.” C. J. H. Hayes

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:766 N ‘17 1750w

“Typical of his argument is an omission of any discussion of the population question, evidently upon the ground that numbers are not, or should not be, subject to human control. In fact, despite elaborate arguments, it is evident that the real questions at issue are all contained in his assumptions. The volume bears the nihil obstat and imprimatur of the church.” W. H. Hamilton

=Ann Am Acad= 72:239 Jl ‘17 230w

=Ath= p38 Ja ‘17 160w

“Not merely the layman, but even more acutely, the student of ethics and moral theology has long desired a competent treatise on the Catholic doctrine of property, applying the traditional principles of our authorities to present day problems and conditions. ... Hence this volume is a very valuable contribution to our ethics library.”

+ =Cath World= 104:545 Ja ‘17 350w

“The author is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”

=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 80w

“The book is written from a Christian standpoint and makes use of the whole realm of literature bearing on the subject. ... And if it adds but little to the body of economic doctrine, but impregnates economic theory with an ethical ideal, it deserves most hearty commendation.”

+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 350w

“From the author of ‘The living wage’ one has learned to expect scholarship and sincerity, and sympathy for the tribulations of ordinary folks. Dr Ryan’s new book ‘Distributive justice,’ is nevertheless a genuine disappointment. The author has set himself the ungrateful task of demonstrating the justice of an industrial system and at the same time, the injustice of its operation.”

— =Ind= 90:435 Je 2 ‘17 220w

“In the main his views are those held by economists of liberal views. The essential elements of the present system of distribution—private ownership of land and capital—are defended against single taxers and socialists. The novel thing about Professor Ryan’s book is the unusual method by which he reaches his conclusions. Natural rights, chiefly as set forth by the Christian Fathers, form the base from which the argument proceeds, but there is a large admixture of purely economic considerations. The book will be useful as a careful résumé of the chief economic reforms which are at present under consideration. As a piece of philosophical inquiry it is curious rather than interesting.”

+ — =Nation= 105:269 S 6 ‘17 270

“The most comprehensive and dignified existing treatise on the ethics of economic reform.” A. S. J.

=N Y Br Lib= News 4:8 Ja ‘17

+ =New Repub= 10:79 F 17 ‘17 1050w

“Making use of Father Ryan’s favorite word, ‘justification,’ it may be said that his book affords ample justification to any person who succeeds in amassing property no matter what the human suffering was that the laborers endured.” Frank Macdonald

— =N Y Call= p14 F 11 ‘17 900w

“His book is solid, learned, well argued. His intent commands sympathy. Only the malicious and uncharitable could condemn or dissent without reserve. But after passing his four hundredth page he surmises that his readers will be ‘disappointed and dissatisfied’ that his labors have produced nothing better. His rules of justice and proposals for reform are confessedly complex, indefinite. ... It may be doubted whether books like these help progress much, for all their good intentions.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:65 F 25 ‘17 650w

=R of Rs= 55:108 Ja ‘17 90w

“John A. Ryan is associate professor of political science at the Catholic university of America.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 520w

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

=RYAN, MARAH ELLIS (MARTIN) (MRS S. ERWIN RYAN) (ELLIS MARTIN, pseud.).= Druid path. *$1.35 (1c) McClurg 17-4311

Six stories told in the spirit of old Irish legend. Only the last, a story of the recent revolution, is modern and in this also the author has succeeded in suggesting the atmosphere of the old tales of the heroes. The titles are: The druid path; The enchanting of Doirenn; Liadan and Kurithir; Dervail Nan Ciar; Randuff of Cumanac; The dark rose. The book has decorations and endpieces designed by Will Vreeland.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 250w

“It is unusual to find in an American writer the quality which distinguishes the work of Fiona Macleod, but the same poetic mysticism which haunts those imaginative tales is to be found in ‘The druid path.’ The author has infused her characters with such reality that they become living men and women, whose passions lay violent hold upon the reader. ... The publishers have produced a book which is typographically worthy of the exceptional literary merit of the stories.”

+ =Dial= 62:106 F 8 ‘17 250w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w

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=SABATINI, RAFAEL.= Snare. *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-29537

This novel pictures “an incident of Wellington’s campaign against the French in Portugal. Wellington was out to save Portugal, but there were traitors in high places secretly opposing his methods and playing the spy for the enemy. ... All depended on secrecy and unity of action. Suddenly the drunken blunder of a young English officer gives the plotters their chance to upset the delicate balance. Their influence causes the Portuguese council of regency to demand that the culprit be made a scapegoat. He is at large, and it falls to his brother-in-law, O’Moy, British adjutant-general at Lisbon, to promise that he shall be shot when taken.” (Bookm) The disentangling of the coil of circumstances developing from this situation occupies the remainder of this romantic narrative.

“Mr Sabatini shows his quality by giving his personæ enough characterisation to lift the performance from the early status of the cheap thriller to the celestial plane of romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 300w

“An absorbing and well-characterized romance.”

+ =Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 100w

“Swift-moving, picturesque, and well told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 300w

+ =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 70w

“Mr Sabatini vividly recreates local color and revivifies the distant scene. The characters are broadly sketched, particularly that of the ‘Iron duke.’ It is a story in which fact and fiction are delightfully blended and one that is entertaining in high degree from first to last.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 550w

“We sometimes forget how good a tale he has set forth in reflecting how much better it might become in the hands of a playwright of genius. It has all the essentials of a moving play.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p140 Mr 22 ‘17 600w

=SABIN, ALVAH MORTON.= Industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish. 2d ed thoroughly rev il *$3.50 Wiley 667 17-115

“The book opens with a section of definitions and brief fundamental descriptions, such as how varnish is made; what linoxyn is; what pigments and paints are. This is followed by a discussion of the history of paints and varnishes, introducing the original quotations, Greek and Latin, about the earliest processes. The author leads up to the technology of varnish by a discussion of linseed oil; after finishing with varnish, he runs off into japans, driers, rosin, shellac and the other spirit varnishes, cellulose and celluloid coatings, etc. There is after this a most informing section on paint. ... The rest of the book is devoted essentially to the engineering application of paints and varnishes and materials intended to serve the same purpose of protection or ornamentation.”—Engin N

=A L A Bkl= 13:278 Mr ‘17

“The man who reads for entertainment as well as instruction will appreciate this book. It is a technical work in the true sense of the word; but it is written with the rare style of a classical scholar, and humor is not lacking. It is labeled a second edition, but it is virtually a new book—due to the development of the art and the changed affiliations of the author—he is now a paint and not a varnish man.”

+ =Engin N= 77:437 Mr 15 ‘17 450w

=SACHER, HARRY=, ed. Zionism and the Jewish future. maps *$1 (1c) Macmillan 296 17-95

The purpose of this volume is to “set before English-speaking readers the meaning and achievement of Zionism.” The introduction to the volume is written by Dr Charles Weizmann, who says that the Jewish problem, while it has different aspects in different countries, is essentially the problem of “fitting into the modern world a national group which has survived from ancient times without the ordinary attributes of nationhood.” Among the contributions to the book are: A century of Jewish history, by H. Sacher; Anti-Semitism, by Albert M. Hyamson; The Hebrew revival, by Leon Simon; The history of Zionism, by R. Gottheil; The Jews and the economic development of Palestine, by S. Tolkowsky. The work was prepared in Great Britain but the authors represent several countries, including Palestine.

=A L A Bkl= 13:286 Ap ‘17

“A book written from the Zionistic viewpoint and frankly propagandist, but presenting an excellent brief summary of the movement today.”

+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 20w

“Its editor is a distinguished British journalist; among the contributors to its pages are civil servants of the British government, Jewish religious leaders, and American college professors.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 62:60 Ja 25 ‘17 750w

+ =Ind= 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 60w

=Pittsburgh= 22:221 Mr ‘17 60w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

Reviewed by the Earl of Cromer

+ =Spec= 117:187 Ag 12 ‘16 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ‘16 400w

“Weak from the point of view of propaganda, strong as literary efforts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 S 21 ‘16 1700w

=SAFRONI-MIDDLETON=, A Vagabond’s Odyssey. il *$2.50 (1c) Dodd 910 (Eng ed 17-14533)

“This is another pleasantly written volume of unconventional travel, by the author of ‘Sailor and beachcomber,’ who describes it as the second instalment of his autobiography. The book is filled with variety, and brings before us with vividness and ‘sparkle’ some of the writer’s experiences and adventures in many lands—among them the United States, Samoa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Spain, and the south of France. During an earlier visit to Samoa the author became acquainted with Stevenson, of whom some reminiscences are included.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17

+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 130w

“This ‘Odyssey’ might have been written by a man who never stirred outside his study, so curiously unconvincing is the impression left on the reader’s mind. The moralizings, reflections, and would-be eloquent descriptions are shallow and tawdry.”

— =Nation= 105:611 N 29 ‘17 100w

“The South Seas made a vivid impression on the author, and the poet continually surges uppermost in him when he swings into one of his frequent descriptions of the land and its beauty. A valuable feature of Mr Safroni-Middleton’s book is found in its picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. It is neither long nor deep in analysis, but it is picturesque.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:369 S 30 ‘17 600w

“Mr Safroni-Middleton is rich in prejudices and one-sided views as well as good stories; but we can forgive him the former in view of the latter.”

+ =Sat R= 123:111 F 3 ‘17 1500w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p39 Ja 25 ‘17 1000w

Sainte Séductre; an inner view of the Boche at bay, by Exile X; American ed., rev. and ed., by R: Wilmer Rowan. *$1.25 Liberty pub. assn., 110 W. 40th st. N.Y. 17-16312

Sainte Séductre is a narrative in the form of a drama, with eight scenes or “Dialogues.” The scene is laid “somewhere in Germany,” at the headquarters of certain German commanders and in the huts of the starving Belgian and French exiles. “It revolves about a scheme originated by General von A—— to save Germany, already defeated, by the adoption of a pretended democratic form of government, which shall secure her friends among all the nations composing the final Council of peace.” (Boston Transcript)

“To bring about a better understanding of the internal conditions of Imperial Germany today; to bring especially to public opinion in the United States a warning too little heeded, if at all understood, and to emphasize that ‘at present it is the duty of every true American to acquaint himself thoroughly with each particular element of the “Teutonic peril”’ was this story of ‘Sainte Séductre’ translated, and revised to render it more compelling for American readers.” F. B.

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 880w

“It offers material which ought to be borne in mind in whatever discussions of peace the future may see. The book was written in the white heat of intellectual conviction, rather than passion.”

+ =Dial= 63:281 S 27 ‘17 250w

=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 130w

=SALES SERVICE COMPANY.=[2] Selling your services. *$1 (6c) Sales service co., 101 Park av., N.Y. 658 17-11356

Other titles for the book might be “How to secure a position,” or, more colloquially, “How to get a job.” The authors believe that, by following its suggestions, “the average man will improve his chances of getting a hearing and, finally, of securing the job for which he is best suited.” The chapters are very brief and each is devoted to some special item. Many sample letters of application are presented.

+ =Cleveland= p70 My ‘17 10w

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:604 Je 21 ‘17 120w

“Well worth the reading of anyone seeking a position.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:476 Mr 24 ‘17 60w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:464 My ‘17 60w

=SALTER, WILLIAM MACKINTIRE.= Nietzsche the thinker. *$3.50 (2c) Holt 193 17-25449

This book, by the author of “First steps in philosophy,” “Anarchy or government?” etc., is “a contribution to the understanding of Nietzsche.” Mr Salter limits himself to Nietzsche’s “fundamental points of view—noting only in passing or not at all his thoughts on education, his later views of art and music, his conception of woman, his interpretation of Christianity and attitude to religion.” (Preface) The book was in substance written before the present European war, and the author does not find Nietzsche “touching it in any special way” except as “a diagnostician of the general conditions which appear to have given birth to it.” Three introductory chapters cover Nietzsche’s relation to his time, his life and personal traits, some characteristics of his thinking, etc. The author then divides Nietzsche’s intellectual life into three periods, and considers it by period. Mr Salter believes that Nietzsche, far from reflecting the age, is “a force antagonistic to the dominant forces about us”; that “he has changed nothing, whether in thought or public policy”; and that “even in Germany ... his counsels and ideas have been far more disregarded than followed.” Nevertheless Mr Salter believes Nietzsche to be so important that perhaps in the near future “we shall be speaking of a pre-Nietzschean and a post-Nietzschean period in philosophical, and particularly in ethical and social analysis and speculation—and that those who have not made their reckoning with him will be as hopelessly out of date as those who have failed similarly with Kant.”

“It is evidently the result of wide reading and deep study of his subject; but unfortunately the attempt, not merely to restate Nietzsche’s thoughts, ‘but to rethink them, using more or less my own language,’ is not helped by some clumsy construction and faulty punctuation.”

+ — =Ath= p41 Ja ‘18 70w

“Scholarly exposition of Nietzsche’s doctrines.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ — =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 60w

“Interpretations of Nietzsche are many, but usually they are nine parts comment to one of exposition, whereas Mr Salter effaces his own opinions and lets Nietzsche explain himself by placing in logical relation to each other the thoughts which Nietzsche sprinkled at random over his works.”

+ =Ind= 92:56 O 6 ‘17 110w

“Mr Salter has done the English reading public a large service, for he has given them what is easily the best book in English and what will rank well among the best in other languages on a man, who before the war was much misunderstood and misrepresented and since the war has been flagrantly criticized and abused. ... In a way that may be said even to make further study and exposition unnecessary, at least for a long time, he has presented and explained the philosophy itself, but its importance as possibly contributing significantly to the philosophy of an era, and so its place in the history of philosophy, he has not duly considered.” A. H. Lloyd

+ — =J Philos= 15:103 F 14 ‘18 3450w

“Whatever merits the book may have must be dug for by studious readers who are more adept at these mystical numbers than we are. If Mr Salter has really intended a generalization, we can only regretfully say that he has not ‘got it across’ to us, though that may not be his fault, but our own stupidity. But for those who love interminable preaching there is surely here an inexhaustible mine from which to dig problematical nuggets of wisdom, which they can—if able—assort and assay for themselves.” J. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 800w

=Outlook= 118:131 Ja 23 ‘18 730w

“It is—broadly speaking—an altogether new Nietzsche who emerges from the pages of this expository critique.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 110w

=SALTYKOV, MICHAEL EVGRAFOVICH (SHCHEDRIN, pseud.).= Family of noblemen; tr. by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.50 (1c) Boni & Liveright

“Saltykov, author of ‘A family of noblemen,’ famous in Europe as a satirist, is one of the very recent [Russian authors] to claim attention. ... This novel was published in 1880. ... It deals with the lives and fates of the members of a family of the small landed gentry of Russia through three generations, beginning before the abolition of serfdom and covering space of time of perhaps twenty-five years. ... Saltykov surveys the disintegration of a family upon which hereditary traits, weak wills, paucity of interests, and vodka work destruction.”—N Y Times

“Russia has produced few books of a greater psychological depth and a more intimate realism. Unless all signs fail Saltykov has come to stay in English literature.” Abraham Yarmolinsky

+ — =Bookm= 46:485 D ‘17 270w

“In many ways ‘A family of noblemen’ is a masterly piece of work, especially through the first half. In the latter part the author’s method falls below the artistic standard he has set in the first half.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:538 D 9 ‘17 870w

=SAMSON, REBECCA MIDDLETON.= Schoolgirl allies. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23653

The title suggests a war book, but the scene of this story for girls is laid in the Belgium of old days. “Tad” and “Sherry,” two American girls become pupils in the Pensionnat Van Pelt in Brussels. Their schoolmates are girls from many countries, including France, Russia and the British Isles. Sherry tells the story of their new experiences, and tells it with all a schoolgirl’s zest and love for exaggeration and dramatic effect.

“It is good to be reminded that there were once happy days in Belgium. ... The few pictures make us wish for more.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 40w

“It is a long and interesting story, telling in detail the life of the girls of the pensionnat, so different from a school of the same class in this country.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 250w

“The two American girls, Adelaide and Sherida, are well portrayed, and the different foreign girls at the school are carefully differentiated.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 130w

=SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN.= Life of Henry David Thoreau; including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends. il *$4 (3c) Houghton 17-13644

Frank B. Sanborn was the last surviving member of the Concord group. His life of Thoreau was completed but shortly before his death in February, 1917. In his preface the author calls attention to the growing fame of Thoreau. “It now appears,” he says, “that a considerable part of the present fame of Concord in literature grows out of the life and writings of Henry Thoreau, whose writings had little circulation before his death in 1862.” There is more comment of this kind in the last chapter, where the author says, “My purpose in this volume has been to show how he coöperated in his own posthumous fame; how he built himself up in literature from boyhood, and that without becoming a pedant, or trying to form a school, or even a class. Along with this conception of him may go likewise what I personally feel, that there was a religious and a moral element in his nature which awaits the future for its full development.” Among the special chapters are two in which early essays are reprinted and others devoted to: Thoreau as friend, neighbor, and citizen; Thoreau as man of letters and of affairs; Thoreau as author in prose and verse. A catalog of Thoreau’s library is given in one of the appendixes.

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

“The extent of Mr Sanborn’s personal knowledge of Thoreau, his command of the resources of information about him, his possession of manuscripts and other records, placed ready at his hand a large amount of material for the making of a notable biography. But unfortunately Mr Sanborn possessed none of the skill of the biographer that would enable him to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of the progress of a man’s life. ... The result is, therefore, an excellent Thoreau biography in substance but not in form.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 1550w

“Sanborn had the gift that novelists envy, of presenting his hero living and real before the mind’s eye of his reader without blurring the figure by over-emphasis.”

+ =Cath World= 106:398 D ‘17 670w

“The volume is not well arranged and coherent, however, and the author’s style is stilted even in his lapses into familiar anecdote.”

+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 130w

“A feature of the book too important to be ignored is the illustrations, mostly reproductions of old family pictures, which to those who can interpret them are far better than pages of letterpress in giving an idea of the Thoreaus and their kin.” W: B. Cairns

+ — =Dial= 63:59 Jl 19 ‘17 1200w

+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w

=Lit D= 55:34 S 29 ‘17 290w

=Nation= 105:545 N 15 ‘17 80w

“No one else could have done the work in just the easy, familiar, and reminiscent manner that marks it, and that gives it a peculiar value.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:205 My 27 ‘17 1950w

“As compared with earlier memoirs—with Salt’s ‘Life’ of Thoreau, with Channing’s ‘Thoreau, the poet naturalist,’ and even with Mr Sanborn’s first biography of Thoreau, published in 1882—this new ‘Life’ by the late Frank B. Sanborn justifies itself as a needed and definitive work. So thorough has been the search for records and manuscripts that it is unlikely that there will ever be further discoveries of importance. It is a little to be regretted, perhaps, that the ‘life’ as a whole is not more consecutively interesting; yet the materials contained in it, if presented rather dryly and with many digressions, are handled with skill and uniform good taste.”

* + — =No Am= 206:308 Ag ‘17 1650w

“Mr Sanborn’s posthumous contribution to the world’s knowledge of his friend will probably furnish his own surest claim to remembrance in the future. It will certainly be indispensable to the student and lover of the rarely individual man of genius whom it seeks to portray.”

+ =Outlook= 116:301 Je 20 ‘17 1100w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 90w

=Pratt= p49 O ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 90w

“Sanborn’s ‘Life’ is less satisfactory than Henry Salt’s, which has the virtue of proportion, emphasis, focus, definite purpose; is less satisfactory, in some respects, than the earlier book by Sanborn. Yet it is far from superfluous. Of little use to one who does not know Thoreau, it is a treasury of Thoreauisms to those who already know him well.” Norman Foerster

* + — =Yale R= n s 7:430 Ja ‘18 1400w

=SANBORN, HELEN JOSEPHINE.= Anne of Brittany. il *$2 Lothrop 17-25141

“A book which tells the life story of a duchess of Brittany who was twice crowned queen of France. Miss Sanborn, whose untimely death occurred while the book was in press, devoted much of her later life in securing knowledge of Anne of Brittany and her times. The introduction is by Professor Katherine Lee Bates, of Wellesley college. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations show us the Duchess Anne’s country and her famous castles.”—R of Rs

“The reader has a sense of personal intercourse, a quality as rare as it is uncommon in biography, and one whose appeal is irresistible.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 13 ‘17 500w

“The descriptions of her gowns, jewels, and the quaint ceremonies and festivals of court and castle are very interesting, but it is the woman herself who absorbs the reader.”

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 90w

“Many illuminating glimpses of the age and the country are given in the course of the narrative.”

+ =Ind= 92:361 N 3 ‘17 40w

=Lit D= 55:51 D 8 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 70w

=SANDAY, WILLIAM, and WILLIAMS, NORMAN POWELL.= Form and content in the Christian tradition. *$2 Longmans 230 17-14538

“‘Form and content in the Christian tradition’ is ‘a friendly discussion’ between W. Sanday, Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Oxford, and N. P. Williams, chaplain-fellow of Exeter college, Oxford. ... Both men write as members of the Church of England. This will lessen the appeal of the book to many American Protestants, for the reason that the Protestant sects do not accept the ecclesiastical tradition which has developed along with what may be called the religious tradition. Their Christianity is derived from the Bible, not from the church. But on the theological side Mr Williams, who states the traditional view, will have many supporters in the Protestant sects; as, on the other hand, will Dr Sanday, who stands for the liberal interpretation of scripture which has been growing in favor in the past half century.”—Springf’d Republican

Reviewed by E. A. Cook

* =Am J Theol= 22:145 Ja ‘18 1150w

“It is impossible, however, for an Anglican to defend the infallibility of a church which rests solely on the insecure foundation of private judgment or opinion. We can pardon Mr Williams his fling at ultramontanism and the inquisition in view of his strong though courteous indictment of modernism or rationalism in the Church of England of our day.”

=Cath World= 105:260 My ‘17 220w

“This will be a most interesting book not only to the student of theology, but to the student of human nature. ... The usefulness does not seem to us to lie in any results arrived at, but in the statement and restatement by each side of their principles; and hardly less in the exhibition of the temper of mind which accompanies those principles respectively.”

+ =Spec= 118:209 F 17 ‘17 320w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 5 ‘17 1550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p8 Ja 4 ‘17 1050w

=SANTAYANA, GEORGE.= Egotism in German philosophy. *$1.50 Scribner 193

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The passages just transcribed and the other passages cited hardly do justice to the brilliancy, the incisiveness, and the cruelty of this remarkable book. ... The work is really too sketchy and too abstract and its tone too biting and passionate to carry the conviction that is due the truths it expresses. ... It should be supplemented with John Dewey’s ‘German philosophy and the war.’ The two together will give a fairly adequate idea of the influence of philosophic thinking on the motives and institutions of men.” H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:64 Jl 19 ‘17 920w

“Very suggestive but somewhat irritating book.” A. Fawkes

=Int J Ethics= 27:380 Ap ‘17 650w

“The author would have been wiser, if he had depicted the supposed English or French characteristics discovered in German philosophy as well as the supposed German characteristics discoverable in English or French philosophy, as it is really possible to do. ... Sometimes he is virtually passing judgment on non-German philosophy no less or even more severely than on German philosophy. ... For the qualities responsible for the condemnation are common to both, or are outweighing in non-German philosophy.” Kojoro Sugimori

=Int J Ethics= 27:381 Ap ‘17 1000w

“The argument is obscure, and scarcely convincing. Mr Santayana’s characterization of the German national genius is witty, apt, and irresistibly quotable. In the judgment of the present writer it is substantially true; as true, perhaps, as any such sweeping generalization can hope to be. Nevertheless, there are omissions and exaggerations in the account that are so obvious as to suggest caricature rather than criticism.” R. B. Perry

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+ =Lit D= 54:776 Mr 17 ‘17 370w

“Dr Santayana has long enjoyed the distinction of being the Shaw of the philosophers, supremely skilful as an artificer of phrases and diabolically clever. In this book he surpasses himself. It is fairly dazzling. ... It is true that the author continually yields to the besetting sin of the clever writer in sacrificing accuracy on the altar of wit. ... The reader should study the sketches in the same spirit in which he would examine a volume of sketches by a clever cartoonist. If he reads the book in this fashion, not taking it too seriously, he will be highly entertained, if sometimes irritated. Questions of accuracy, of fidelity, are irrelevant. ... As a discussion of German philosophy, this book must not be taken seriously.”

=Nation= 104:339 Mr 22 ‘17 1250w

“The philosophical views of Prof. G. Santayana need to be taken into account in considering his new book. For the work, besides being a trenchant attack on German thought, must be regarded to some extent a polemic in behalf of a particular point of view. Prof. Santayana, like the man in the street, distrusts metaphysical idealism.”

=Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 1100w

=SAPPER, pseud.= No Man’s Land. il *$1.25 (1½c) Doran 17-23333

This book is by the author of “Michael Cassidy, sergeant” and “Men, women and guns.” Part 1, “The way to the land,” describes the experiences of an officer bound for the front; Part 2 “The land,” and