The book review digest, Volume 13, 1917
chapter 9, reprinted from an earlier essay on Goethe, are Professor
Thomas’s own. They are admirable.”
+ — =Nation= 105:721 D 27 ‘17 1750w
“It is possible now for an American scholar to put aside the trivial and ephemeral and concentrate attention on those aspects of Goethe’s life and work that ‘belong to the ages.’ That is what Professor Thomas has done in this volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:550 N ‘17 200w
=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Literary pilgrim in England. il *$3 Dodd 820.4 17-26883
A volume of literary essays. The studies of English men of letters are grouped geographically, but there has been no effort to link them together as objects of a “pilgrimage.” A few of the modern writers are included, and occasionally there is in the grouping a pleasant juxtaposition of the old and the new, as in the section on the west country, devoted to Herrick; Coleridge; and W. H. Hudson. Pictures in color and in monotone attractively illustrate the book.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
“As some of the biographies relate to Scotsmen and Scottish places, the title might have been ‘A literary pilgrim in Britain.’”
+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 90w
“Well-printed, artistically illustrated, entertainingly written, this book can be recommended for the pleasant employment of an idle hour.”
+ =Cath World= 106:689 F ‘18 100w
“The whole book, despite Mr Thomas’s pleasant vein of description and criticism, scarcely rises above the commonplace, if not the trite.”
– + =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w
+ — =Sat= R 124:510 D 22 ‘17 400w
“In the course of the studies Mr Thomas occasionally becomes the critic, and we can only say that we prefer him as pilgrim. Where, however, his sympathies are apparently unhampered, Mr Thomas pursues his pilgrimage and his criticism in a most attractive manner, of which the essays on John Clare and W. H. Hudson are two conspicuous examples.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup548 N 17 ‘17 230w
“Edward Thomas affords another instance of literary talent lost in the great war. This criticism, for all its unpretentiousness, is of the type that initiates new readers into the delights and consolations of books. It is full of meaning, utterly clear and concrete. There is hardly a blurred thought or impression in the whole work and there are no undiscerning judgments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 1100w
“Never perfunctory or conventional, but always saying what strikes him as the true or interesting or characteristic thing, Mr Thomas brings the very look of the fields and roads before us; he brings the poets, too; and no one will finish the book without a sense that he knows and respects the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p489 O 11 ‘17 1500w
=THOMAS, GEORGE CLIFFORD.= Practical book of outdoor rose growing for the home garden. il *$2 Lippincott 716 17-13518
“A new, enlarged edition at half price of the best manual on roses for the amateur as well as the rose-grower (Booklist 11:449). Growing directions and labels are excellent, also the lists of varieties. There are twenty halftones of bushes and sixteen beautiful color plates of varieties of roses.” (Wis Lib Bul) The first edition of this book was entered in the Digest in 1914.
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:155 My ‘17 50w
=THOMAS, W. BEACH.= With the British on the Somme. *6s Methuen, London 940.91
Part of the material in this book has already appeared in print. Mr Thomas emphasizes “to a great extent, the feats of the English soldier, the Cockney especially, as distinct from the Scot, the Irishman, or the Colonial.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:115 My ‘17 100w
“Mr Beach Thomas is one of the not too many newspaper correspondents who can write acceptably about the war. He does not indulge in gush or clap-trap. His well-knit narrative is profoundly dramatic.”
+ =Sat R= 123:346 Ap 14 ‘17 800w
“Mr Thomas has written a capital account of the battle of the Somme, sketching it in broad outlines, dwelling on some of the more picturesque episodes, but abstaining from any attempt at a formal history. He illustrates the rapid developments of modern warfare that came about during this battle.”
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 130w
“Mr Thomas has been wonderfully successful in conveying all the horror and the little glory of modern war. His wish was to give an idea of the war rather than to write a continuous narrative of the things which he experienced. ... The book will be a storehouse of information. It is vivid, modest, and judicial.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p146 Mr 29 ‘17 1150w
=THOMPSON, CARL DEAN.= Municipal ownership. *$1 (5c) Huebsch 352 17-14813
“A brief survey of the extent, rapid growth and the success of municipal ownership throughout the world, presenting the arguments against private ownership, the failure of regulation and the advantages of municipal ownership.” (Subtitle) The author argues that private ownership is wrong in theory, saying, “The private ownership of a public utility is fundamentally hostile to and inconsistent with the public welfare,” and he brings together evidence to show that it is unsatisfactory in practice. “Whatever else may be said against municipal ownership,” he says, “it is pretty hard to meet the argument drawn from practical experience.”
“Gives references to authorities.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17
“The writer’s method is to jumble together a medley of facts and figures which seem to favor his side of the argument, wholly neglecting all that may be said on the other. Some of the statistics are too antiquated to be of any value whatever, as for example those which have been so freely drawn from Professor Frank Parsons’ ‘City for the people,’ a book published more than sixteen years ago. Errors of statement are not infrequent, moreover, and the style of writing leaves much to be desired.”
— =Am Pol Sci= R 11:596 Ag ‘17 100w
“The chief contribution in this work is an adequate presentation of proof that regulation of public utilities is a complete failure and that private ownership of public utilities is the most important cause of corrupt government. The most serious omission is the failure to discuss how municipalities are to secure the funds to acquire their public utilities.” B: Marsh
– + =Ann Am Acad= 74:302 N ‘17 270w
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 50w
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 30w
“The author has produced a readable brief for municipal ownership—as thoroughly one-sided as a lawyer’s brief but more open to attack. Some, if not most, of the statistical and other data are old and some are taken third hand. An instance, possibly one of the worst, may be given ... to the effect that the rates charged by privately owned waterworks are 43 per cent. higher than those charged by publicly owned works. ... The author is using figures more than a quarter century old.”
— =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 200w
“Useful to the upholder of either side of the question.”
+ =Ind= 91:137 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“A distinctive contribution to socialist literature. ... There is too little evidence at times to support the most sweeping assertions of fact. ... Then, too, there are enough inaccuracies to arouse some suspicions. ... This little book is, after all, human and socialist (although the word socialism does not occur from one cover to the other), and it has its failings, both human and socialist. ... It lacks those painstaking, thorough, exhaustive qualities for which the academician has more time and less need than we. But it is invaluable for the facts it does contain and above all for its sturdy effort to speak out of concrete experience in a field where the Socialist needs it most.” Evans Clark
+ — =N Y Call= p14 My 27 ‘17 770w
=R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 70w
“Mr Thompson gives us a frankly one-sided presentation—the case for municipal ownership.” E: T. Hartman
+ — =Survey= 39:46 O 13 ‘17 130w
=THOMPSON, CLARENCE BERTRAND.= Theory and practice of scientific management. *$1.75 (3½c) Houghton 658.7 17-24295
During the past fifteen years the principles and methods of scientific management which were formulated and propagated by Frederick Winslow Taylor have been thoroughly tested. It is now Mr Thompson’s aim to survey the movement and make an appraisal of it. He devotes a chapter to “What scientific management is”; one to the originator of the movement, Frederick Winslow Taylor; while the body of the discussion deals with scientific management in practice, and some economic aspects of the movement. The results which are offered are derived from personal inspection of plants in twelve states where scientific management is in operation and from conferences with owners, managers and experts employed.
“A comprehensive study of history, methods and results.” I. C.
+ =St Louis= 16:15 Ja ‘18 20w
=THOMPSON, D’ARCY WENTWORTH.= On growth and form. il *$6.50 Putnam 18-1383
“In the author’s own words the purpose of his book is to show ‘that throughout the whole range of organic morphology there are innumerable phenomena of form which are not peculiar to living things, but which are more or less simple manifestations of ordinary physical laws.’ This thesis Professor Thompson elaborates in a most interesting manner, developing with the aid of our fuller knowledge of physical forces and of the conditions under which they act, the mode of study initiated by Borelli many years ago, and applied, more recently, with striking and suggestive results, to several forms of organic activity by Rhumbler, Leduc, Przibram, Macallum and others.”—Science
“It is clear and lucid, and deals with problems of enormous, often of surprising, interest—problems of science and problems of philosophy. The exposition is so admirable that no one need fear that the mathematics will obscure for him the philosophy, or the philosophy the science, or the science and philosophy the mathematics. The striking success and the amazing simplicity and beauty of the results will silence at once any sceptical doubt as to the utility of the method.” H. W. Carr
+ =Hibbert J= 15:697 Jl ‘17 2600w
“This book, at once substantial and stately, is to the credit of British science and an achievement for its distinguished author to be proud of. It is like one of Darwin’s books, well-considered, patiently wrought-out, learned, and cautious—a disclosure of the scientific spirit.” J. A. Thomson
+ — =Nature= 100:21 S 13 ‘17 1500w
“Professor Thompson’s style is marked by a clearness of expression which makes every page of interest and his book is one that may well be recommended as revealing food for thought and fields for investigation which have been too much neglected by students of morphology.” J. P. McM.
+ =Science= n s 46:513 N 23 ‘17 960w
“Though severely technical in appearance, this book is so well written and so full of interesting matter that it should not be monopolized by the specialists. It throws a new light on evolution.”
+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w
“An interesting and valuable book on a topic of enduring interest. Professor Thompson himself is careful to reiterate that he is propounding a method, advocating a principle rather than supplying a set of results which he expects the reader to accept. In this sense his book commands admiration and respect, and should stimulate a lively and productive interest in an aspect of zoology that has fallen into neglect.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p245 My 24 ‘17 860w
=THOMPSON, VANCE.= Woman. *$1.25 (3c) Dutton 396 17-7543
The author comes out fervently as a champion of the new woman in her fight for freedom. This rapidly advancing movement toward emancipation is the most important thing happening in the world today. All other problems “are of relative unimportance beside the overwhelming significance of this new fact: the rise of woman.” Women are freeing themselves from the over-specialization of sex; and this means the freeing of the race. “Woman cannot do her duty to the race unless she fulfills her duty to herself. The welfare of the race and the individual are as indissoluble as a word and its meaning; they are a bi-unity.” The author sketches rapidly the historical position of woman, then discusses the present-day significance of the woman movement.
=A L A Bkl= 14:114 Ja ‘18
“The frankest, truest, simplest and most compact exposition of the causes and the meaning of the feminist movement that has ever come to my attention. It is also the most entertaining. It is a picturesque and a provocative book—but it is not likely to provoke in any two people just the same feeling about it. Mr Thompson evidently believes in the feminist movement very earnestly and ardently. But his book, deeply searching and keenly discerning though it is in its discussion of most of the phases of the woman problem, grows evasive and even blind when it comes down to what is to-day the biggest and most difficult practical problem of the whole matter. And that is the economic status of married women.” F. F. Kelly
+ — =Bookm= 45:594 Ag ‘17 3000w
“Singularly clean, wholesome, upstanding, wind-swept, stimulating reading, much of which we cannot agree with, it is true, much of which will shock us, as it was meant to, all of which will quicken us. Superficially humorous, fundamentally serious and sincere, this book is a distinct contribution to the subject.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w
— =Cath World= 105:397 Je ‘17 630w
“On the text, ‘Life is a conspiracy against woman,’ he has built up a serious, sincere, and stimulating sermon.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 300w
“Mr Thompson’s book is not original in the sense of presenting new points in feminist thought. But it is unusual and challenging in its presentation.”
=N Y Times= 22:117 Ap 1 ‘17 400w
“A book every woman will want to read.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:557 My ‘17 130w
“Mr Thompson occasionally allows his forcefulness to degenerate into claptrap, and his stock of haphazard information into an obvious and boastful show of knowledge, neither of which can conceivably advance the cause for which he purports to be working.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 500w
=THOMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM.= Old man Savarin stories. il *$1.35 Doran 17-24211
“Stories of Canada and Canadians are rather rare among us. In these stories Mr Thomson has brought us a new acquaintance, and that a broad one, with the people who are our neighbors to the north. The stories—they are seventeen in number—cover a wide range of time and circumstance; and it is an interesting fact, to be noted at once, that they deal with Canadians as such, of French and Scotch and English descent; these are stories from Canada, not from any one class or of any one ancestry.”—N Y Times
“Not only are the stories interesting, but they embody an immense field of life.” J. E. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 1250w
“They vivify for us many a different kind of feeling in individual, party, type.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:366 S 30 ‘17 660w
=THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.= Through the year with Thoreau; sketches of nature from the writings of H: D: Thoreau; ed. by Herbert W. Gleason. il *$3 Houghton 818 17-22277
“The present volume is an endeavor ... to reproduce, with the aid of photographs, some of the outdoor scenes and natural phenomena in which he [Thoreau] delighted and which he has so graphically described. The series of views is limited, of necessity, but a sufficient number are given to illustrate Thoreau’s method of nature-study as well as to emphasize anew the accuracy and felicity of his nature-descriptions. It is hoped, also, that this combination of verbal and pictorial representation will stimulate to a wider apprehension and a more vivid realization of the beautiful in nature,—thus continuing in a measure, Thoreau’s self-appointed mission.” (Preface) The quotations from Thoreau, chosen largely, but not wholly, from the “Journals” are arranged, as the title suggests, to follow the changing seasons. The illustrations, selected from a large collection of photographs by Mr Gleason, are related intimately to the text, and include not only scenes associated with Thoreau, but studies of the plant and bird life described by him. Among them are remarkable pictures of the more delicate flowers, leaves and lichens, also of frost crystals.
“A good gift book for readers of Thoreau.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:51 N ‘17
“‘Through the year with Thoreau’ is at once a splendid memorial to that interpreter of nature, a credit to the Riverside Press as an example of beautiful bookmaking, and a satisfying further instance of the literary and artistic taste of the author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 31 ‘17 320w
“The illustrations are worthy of the poet-naturalist in that they include not merely the conventional landscapes and ‘pretty’ flowers, but less usual and less promising subjects, such as the skunk-cabbage, fungi, icicles under a bank, and the ‘sand-foliage’ produced by liquid mud on the snow in the railroad cut. Mr Gleason has put into his photographs as much of an artist’s individuality as the wielder of a camera can well do.”
+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 260w
“Quite beyond the average volume of gleanings. The extracts are each illustrated by uncommonly fine photographs, and the whole is an attractive bit of bookmaking.”
+ =Ind= 91:476 S 22 ‘17 100w
“Without illustration, Thoreau’s description of early morning fog from Nawshawtuct hill, is appreciably less clear and interesting. Again, Thoreau’s description of the flower-buds of mountain laurel—‘curiously folded in a ten-angled pyramidal form’—gains vastly through the picture. ... Its only serious defect is its brevity; in 135 pages it is scarcely possible to do more than make a humble beginning in the task of illustrating Thoreau’s descriptions of natural scenes and phenomena. Yet a much larger book would have been forbiddingly expensive.”
+ =Nation= 105:205 Ag 23 ‘17 180w
“Altogether a beautiful book.”
+ =Outlook= 116:660 Ag 29 ‘17 20w
+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 40w
=THORNDIKE, LYNN.= History of medieval Europe; under the editorship of James T. Shotwell. maps *$2.75 (1c) Houghton 940.1 17-24527
Professor Thorndike of Western Reserve university has prepared this history of Europe from the decline of the Roman empire to the opening of the sixteenth century for the college student and the general reader. The general plan of the work is “to treat medieval Europe as a whole and to hang the story upon a single thread, rather than to recount as distinct narratives the respective histories of the countries of modern Europe.” Special points to which he calls attention in the preface are these: he has given some attention to the states and racial groups of central and eastern Europe; he has given some prominence to economic and social conditions, omitting many minor details of political and military history; he has described the background of physical geography; he has referred frequently to source material and discussed its relative value; he has avoided fine print and footnotes and has made an unusually full index, designed “to serve somewhat the same purpose that a vocabulary does in the teaching of a language.” There is a brief list of “Guides in historical reading,” with supplementary lists at ends of the chapters.
“A capital textbook, well ordered and well balanced.”
+ =Educ R= 54:529 D ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 92:261 N 3 ‘17 60w
“The style escapes the rigid narrative baldness of the compressed history for the classroom, yet it does not sacrifice accuracy to vivacity. There is a nice balance between economic, social and political factors.”
+ =New Repub= 13:56 N 10 ‘17 140w
“The excellent feature about this book is that it uses events as a background for the study of institutions, principles and achievements, and thus places the chief emphasis on the intellectual content of history, rather than the framework.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 320w
=THORPE, FRANCIS NEWTON.=[2] Essentials of American constitutional law. *$1.75 Putnam 342.7
A volume intended to serve as a text-book in law schools, colleges and universities. It has been prepared by a member of the Pennsylvania bar who is professor of political science and constitutional law in the University of Pittsburgh. The chapter headings indicate the scope of the work. Contents: The supreme law; The law of legislative powers (2 chapters); The law of taxation; The law of commerce; The law of contracts and property; The law of the executive power; The law of the judicial power; The law of state comity, territories, and possession; The law of limitations; The law of fundamental rights; The law of citizenship; Appendix—Constitution of the United States and Cases cited.
=THORPE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD.= Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe; a biographical sketch. *$2.50 Longmans 17-298
“The late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England. ... Roscoe achieved so much worldly success and made himself so prominent a figure in public life that he convinced the ruling class, at any rate, of the importance of the chemist, and the royal commissions on which he served and the societies in which he took an active part, especially the Society of chemical industry, did much to raise the status of chemistry as a subject of study and an aid to the manufacturer. ... This aspect of his long and useful life is well illustrated in the sympathetic memoir which his friend and fellow-worker, Sir Edward Thorpe, has written. Roscoe’s own reminiscences, published ten years ago, have of course a more personal interest. Sir Edward Thorpe has aimed rather at recording Roscoe’s official and scientific work, especially in connexion with the Victoria university, of which he became a professor in 1857, and for the sake of which he refused the virtual offer of the Oxford chair.”—Spec
+ =Ath= p555 N ‘16 500w
+ =Nature= 98:225 N 23 ‘16 700w
=Pittsburgh= 22:114 F ‘17 60w
=R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 5:60 F ‘17
“Germany was undoubtedly the Mecca of science to Roscoe up to the close of his life. ... In the few years before the war he had written in German papers of the educated classes, and imagined as many did that the difficulties between Germany and England would be met successfully by the abhorrence of war in the best minds. ... Sir Edward Thorpe remarks as to such appeals that there was a section—a not inconsiderable section—of the German public to whom they were not made in vain, as was manifested by the publication in Stuttgart of a remarkable article on ‘World supremacy of war’ written under the nom-de-plume of ‘Nostradamus.’ The part reprint of this article is one of the most interesting things in this memoir.”
+ =Sat R= 123:164 F 17 ‘17 600w
+ =Spec= 117:510 O 28 ‘16 550w
“There are several cases in which the chronological indications might have been more precise; and this defect is not compensated by the inadequate index, which might easily have been made more useful.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p533 N 9 ‘16 600w
=THURSTAN, VIOLETTA.=[2] Text book of war nursing. *$1.50 (3c) Putnam 610.7
The author of “Field hospital and flying column” and “The people who run” has prepared this book as a practical aid for nurses who expect to work near the front, where conditions and methods differ considerably from those prevailing in base hospitals at home. The work is a result of personal experience under Belgian, Russian and British military authorities. Part one consists of three general chapters on some of the features of war nursing. The four parts following are devoted to: The probationer in a military hospital; The sister in a military hospital; Notes on nursing in special cases; Infectious diseases. The appendix gives cooking recipes and table of French and English money.
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 90w
=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Enchantment. *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-13720
At her birth her father had dedicated her to the church. And true Catholic that he was, he felt the oath to be sacred. But as the child grew, the thought of his oath became more and more distasteful. For Patricia was his favorite of the four daughters. Then he made another bargain with the parish priest. He would give up his drink, and fond enough he was of that, if Patricia could be saved from her fate. The bargain was sealed, and for ten years John Desmond kept it. Then under stress he broke it, and saw the convent doors opening for his loved child. But another man steps in and, not without connivance from the father, outwits the authority that all but had its hands on Patricia.
“Well told, but the embroidery is merely wearisome.”
+ — =Ath= p254 My ‘17 70w
“A little story of original and engaging flavour.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:649 Ag ‘17 470w
“The solution of each problem is a surprise because it is the justice of Erin. ... There is neither logic nor syntax to the plot, but from first to last, there is not a dull moment.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 400w
“In view of Mr Thurston’s intimate acquaintance with the heart and mind of the Irish people, this novel, based upon what purports to be a phase of Irish Catholicism, can scarcely be regarded otherwise than deliberate and willful misrepresentation in both theme and treatment. The impious layman whom he presumes to call a ‘good Catholic’ is hardly more objectionable than the priest who is tacitly presented as typical. Such wretched travesties could not be set forth in good faith by any writer save one totally ignorant of the church, especially as she is found in Ireland. It is a disagreeable story, founded on a preposterous premise.”
— =Cath World= 105:686 Ag ‘17 180w
+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 70w
“Melodramatic from cover to cover, but has charming style and interesting characterizations. ... It is a tale for all those who ‘would not give a chapter of old Dumas for the whole boiling of the Zolas.’”
+ — =Dial= 63:73 Jl 19 ‘17 100w
“The situation, the events that follow, might have been set forth with all the dry and bitter negativism of a ‘House with the green shutters.’ ... Mr Thurston succeeds in investing it with all the glamour of romantic feeling, that is, with that mood of faith and delight in human nature which may so readily and so indeterminately, be dismissed as sentimentalism.”
+ =Nation= 105:69 Jl 19 ‘17 330w
“‘Enchantment’ is a readable tale, but it is far from being Mr Thurston’s best work. Both story and style are labored. And the manner that in its spontaneity and fitness helped to make so pretty a tale as ‘The city of beautiful nonsense’ popular is artificial and often clumsy here.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:206 My 27 ‘17 380w
“The literary cloak of pseudo-fairy lore is not gracefully worn, and there are incidents too disagreeable to make one care whether they are well or ill told.”
— =Outlook= 116:304 Je 20 ‘17 30w
“Nothing but romance, told with Irish charm, not to say humor, and the pull of an exciting yarn.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub= W 91:1315 Ap 21 ‘17 480w
“There are times when his pen fairly dances across the page, filling the senses with the spirit of youth and spring and joyousness, and swaying the mood of the reader to match his own.”
+ =Sat R= 123:sup4 My 19 ‘17 250w
“Would have made an excellent short story. ... But Mr Thurston gives us his story beribboned just as the mid-Victorian beribboned his screens and his picture-frames. It is padded out with unnecessary digressions about fairy stories and princes: and one very soon recognizes that these add nothing whatever to the effect and only provide Mr Thurston with an opportunity to display his pretty literary manner.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p155 Mr 29 ‘17 120w
=THURSTON, MABEL NELSON.= Sarah Ann. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 17-23979
“Sarah Ann is a tenement child who has grown up in one of the most crowded sections of New York city, and who has succeeded quite thoroughly in evading education. ... The story pictures the efforts of this little tenement girl to keep house and care for Bobby and her baby sister. The crucial moment of existence comes when she first meets the ‘Lady Cop’ who takes an interest in the child and ... finally brings her to the point of wishing to go to school and of entrusting her adored baby sister to a day nursery.”—Boston Transcript
“Pathos, humor, sentimentality.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“The charm of this little tale lies in its quaintness and its pathos.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 6 ‘17 250w
“A bright little tale in which humor and pathos, smiles and tears mingle in almost every sentence. ... The pathetic little figure of the child herself is drawn with tenderness and knowledge and a sure touch.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 280w
“The best part of the book is the author’s common-sense treatment of the problem of the disposal of Sarah Ann. Contrary to time-honored literary tradition, she is not bodily transported to a higher social sphere, but is left in Cherry alley.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 210w
=THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.= Education according to some modern masters. *$2 Platt & Peck, 354 4th av., N.Y. 370 16-23107
“The spiritual masters whose opinions upon education President Thwing has extracted and clearly interpreted in this book of his are Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mill, Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Goethe. ... There are serious problems regarding the adjustment of education to modern life, upon which the thought of the older thinkers sheds little light. To reread the passages of their writings which President Thwing has reproduced makes one feel, however, that they had the root of the matter in them.”—No Am
=A L A Bkl= 13:293 Ap ‘17
Reviewed by W: H. Kilpatrick
+ =Educ R= 55:166 F ‘18 650w
“The book will be appreciated for its continuity and systematic organization as well as for the excellent selection which has been made of the quoted material.”
+ =El School J= 18:156 O ‘17 420w
+ =Ind= 90:518 Je 16 ‘17 60w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:171 N ‘16
=N Y Times= 22:514 D 2 ‘17 70w
“The work is far more than a collection of pertinent quotations—though the quoted passages are numerous. In selecting the right passages from each writer, in connecting them in such a way as to show their relation to the whole thought of that writer upon education, and in independently summing up conclusions—a matter that requires critical judgment and real skill as a stylist—the author has performed a task as onerous and as profitable as that involved in producing an original treatise.”
+ =No Am= 205:471 Mr ‘17 600w
=Pratt= p16 O ‘17 30w
“The book aims to save education from what the author calls the peril of losing its human touch. It is his belief that such a discussion as he presents of the foregoing great humanists will do much to counteract the modern tendency of the overemphasis on technical means, methods, and conditions. The book can be spoken of as a humanistic source-book in modern education. For a reference book in a course in the history of modern education the chief value of the book will be found in the direct quotations and the author’s summary and concluding chapter.”
+ =School R= 25:613 O ‘17 140w
=THWING, CHARLES FRANKLIN.= Training of men for the world’s future. *$1.25 Platt & Peck 378 16-23108
“President Thwing of Western Reserve university develops his essay in three parts. Part 1 briefly depicts The destruction of the world, through the present war and lists the constructive forces by which men, after the war, can build the ‘Gentle-state’ out of the wastages of war. ... Part 2, The construction, the main body of the essay, outlines ways in which colleges and universities may affect, permanently and intimately, the family, the church, the government, business and literature, and hence aid in building the new world. ... The remaining twenty pages of this second part present six historical parallels in the development of religion and of education. ... Part 3, The university itself, opens with a three-page criticism of ‘the ecclesiastical and the academic priesthood,’ taken from F. S. Oliver’s ‘Ordeal by battle.’ ... In answer to this criticism, President Thwing states that the university seeks no unworthy influence but seeks to find and to teach the truth, which alone, incarnated, will reconstruct the world.”—Survey
“Functions which President Thwing foresees for the university are the training of men to a broad idealism, to a social and sociological individuality and to richness of personality. But greater than any of these functions he considers the inculcation of knowledge of international relationships.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 570w
“Mainly a summarization, sincere and often well-phrased, but containing little that is new, of the ways in which an institution of higher learning may serve the world.” W. E. Clark
+ — =Survey= 38:360 Jl 21 ‘17 670w
=TIETJENS, MRS EUNICE.=[2] Profiles from China. $1 R. F. Seymour, 410 S. Michigan av., Chicago 811 17-30910
“Among prose poems which deserve to be cherished are Mrs Tietjens’ ‘Profiles from China.’ The poems are distinguished first by their almost unfailing subjectivity. The writer nearly always interprets each sight in terms of her own reaction. We do not mean that it is autobiographical, but that Mrs Tietjens quickly establishes a close relation between herself and the reader. She sees dirty, crowded China with a quick eye, and puts it before us with its gods and beggars, walls, women and dandies, rickshas and camels.”—Dial
“All is portrayed with humor, fear, sympathy, pathos, irony, and imagination.”
+ =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 400w
“It is a book which is slight in bulk but in no other way. The author achieves a sort of bigness that is rare; she has gone to a country she did not understand, and she has come back bringing with her no pretense of omniscience but a still deeper, yet, somehow revealing bewilderment. It is good to know that among the many and various-voiced women poets to-day there is one who can write social criticism without ranting and who can feel pity without sentimentalizing. This blend of toughness and tenderness is revealed a dozen times in the volume.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Masses= 9:40 Ag ‘17 980w
“There is a staccato jerky quality that is more redolent of prose than of poetry. Yet there is always a clarity of interpretation, and a significant acceptance and rejection of materials that are artistic and noteworthy. The book is a sincere interpretation of the static East in terms of the more dynamic West.” Clement Wood
+ — =N Y Call= p15 Ja 5 ‘18 200w
=TILDEN, FREEMAN.= Second wind; the plain truth about going back to the land. *$1 (2½c) Huebsch 630 17-20658
“This is the record of one heroic soul, by name Alexander Hadlock, who in 1906 at the age of sixty-two with no money and no previous experience in farm work, went back to the soil. He had his black years; four winters of working out on others’ farms; five years before he had his own few acres and his ‘shack.’ He gradually and doggedly saved and learned and succeeded.”—New Repub
“A ‘back to the land’ story that is not concerned with friendly chickens or misunderstood pigs.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
“The purpose of the book is to show that the conditions of success under such circumstances are indomitable will, hard physical work, and the application of scientific methods, and that the principal and sufficing reward is the consciousness of worthy work well done.”
+ =Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 80w
“Written by one who evidently knows something about farming and is under no illusions as to the amount of hard work and, above all, intelligent work that successful farming demands. But whether the writer’s ‘Alexander Hadlock,’ who got his second wind at sixty-two and exchanged the professor’s chair for the farmer’s hoe is a real person or purely imaginary, it would be hard to say. Perhaps he is a little of both.”
+ — =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 300w
“There is something of heroism, something of good, hard, common sense, and a leavening of the strangely soothing love of animals and fields in ‘Second wind.’”
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 80w
“Mr Tilden is sympathetic towards the middle-aged city hunger for the soil, although he is merciless in knocking the romanticism from that vision.”
+ =New Repub= 12:198 S 15 ‘17 350w
“This book will be a gospel of successful farming to many. It is not, however, to be used as a guide in the arts of agriculture. It is too short for that. It is what its secondary title implies, ‘The plain truth about going back to the land.’” G: H. Hamilton
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 12 ‘17 350w
“It is an honest book, and it tells the whole story in terms of dollars and cents, measured rations, stone pulling, hard living, courageous persistence.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =Pub W= 92:812 S 15 ‘17 370w
“Mr Tilden tells the story well, so well that his art would command applause were it not that the reader is breathlessly saving his applause for the subject rather than the author of the story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 23 ‘17 680w
“The gloomy picture is relieved by a pictorial literary style that makes the book readable. ... Hadlock’s philosophy is sound and inspiring.” Bolton Hall
+ =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 250w
=TILDEN, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.= Chemical discovery and invention in the twentieth century. *$3.50 Dutton (*7s 6d Routledge and sons, London) 660 17-21524
“With a large measure of success, the author has essayed the difficult task of compiling a detailed, but as far as possible nontechnical account of the discoveries and inventions in physical, organic, inorganic, and applied chemistry since about the beginning of the present century. Some of the newest and most completely equipped teaching and technological laboratories are described. Modern discoveries receive consideration; and many of the latter-day applications of chemical science are discussed with great fullness. The concluding portion of the book is devoted to recent progress in organic chemistry, some of the most striking results (such as the additions to our knowledge of the proteins and sugars, and the production of synthetic perfumes, colouring agents, and drugs) being recounted at considerable length. The volume is illustrated with 150 figures, diagrams, and views; and there are portraits of eleven distinguished chemists and physicists, of whom biographical notices are supplied in the appendix.”—Ath
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:47 N ‘17
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“Sir William Tilden has filled his book with information so conveyed as to be clear to the non-technical reader.”
+ =Ath= p239 My ‘17 1000w
“Sir William Augustus Tilden, formerly president of the Institute of chemistry and also of the Chemical society, professor and dean in the Royal college of science, and emeritus professor in the Imperial college of science and technology, author of several important works on the philosophy and practice of chemistry, has at the age of seventy-five, produced a book of five hundred pages dealing in a popular style on the marvelous advance which this most practical of sciences has made up to the present time.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 13 ‘17 1400w
=Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 90w
“We congratulate the author on the production of a work as useful as it is accurate and interesting. The book is admirably got up and excellently illustrated, and constitutes a worthy and timely addition to popular chemical literature.”
+ =Nature= 99:121 Ap 12 ‘17 1750w
“A companion volume to Edward Cressy’s excellent work ‘Discoveries and inventions of the 20th century.’ Occasional formulae and molecular diagrams should not dissuade the general reader—the book is intended for him. A noteworthy book that should be in every public library.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p5 Ap ‘17 150w
“The economic problems generated by the war lend particular interest to the third section of the book, which deals with the modern applications of specialized portions of chemical knowledge to manufacture.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:313 Ag 26 ‘17 500w
=Pratt= p18 O ‘17 40w
“Sir William Tilden gives a good summary of modern chemical theories of matter, which is stiff reading, and some lighter chapters on various branches of chemical industry such as petrol dyes, drugs, rubber, cellulose, and explosives, with a brief concluding section on sugar and other organic substances. These chapters are informing, and illustrate the ever-increasing importance of the chemist in modern life.”
=Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
=TIPLADY, THOMAS.= Cross at the front; fragments from the trenches. *$1 (2½c) Revell 940.91
The author has been serving as a field chaplain with the British forces. Many of the chapters that make up his book are descriptive sketches, others are discussions of ethical and moral questions and considerations of the soldier’s attitude toward the church, the influence of the church after the war, etc.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 320w
“The tone of the book is hopeful, patriotic, and sincere.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 80w
“Through the entire book radiates wholesome feeling, love and trust and a manly and serviceable but not ecclesiastical faith.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘17 350w
=TISDALE, ALICE.= Pioneering where the world is old (Leaves from a Manchurian notebook). il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 915.18 17-26970
Sketches of life and travel in Manchuria. The author, who has been her husband’s companion wherever his business has taken him thruout the East, knows the country with the intimacy of one who has made her home there. In one of her chapters, “We become pioneer settlers.” she writes of the difficulties met with in establishing a home in an ancient temple. The book has been written largely for the joy of recounting happy adventures, but it may be worthy of more serious attention as throwing some light on the Far Eastern question, with reference to the relations of Japan and China. Parts of the work have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
=A L A Bkl= 14:126 Ja ‘18
“The practically minded reader may find much in it, but the imaginative will get more.”
+ =Ind= 93:372 Mr 2 ‘18 230w
“Her province is of the spirit, and her quest is as joyous as a child’s. The book was started ‘for the purpose of giving the breath of the open spaces to the stay-at-home vagabonds.’ This it does in a remarkable degree.”
+ =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 290w
=Outlook= 117:576 D 5 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 90w
=TODD, JOHN AITON.= Mechanism of exchange. *$2.25 (4c) Oxford 332 17-16572
The author is professor of economics in University college, Nottingham, England. He tells us in his preface to this “handbook of currency, banking and trade in peace and in war” that “the war has struck at the very roots of our whole business and financial system, by its devastating effects on our foreign trade, and therefore upon all the complicated financial machinery which has grown up round international trade, ... and that our internal monetary and financial system was involved in the breakdown of the foreign exchanges.” The natural result has been “a striking revival of interest in economic problems,” especially in questions of currency, banking and trade. The teaching of these subjects must therefore be brought up to date, which does not mean, according to our author, “an entire recasting of all previous teaching of economics,” but “a new presentation of the principles in conjunction with the altered conditions.” “Statistical information on the problems dealt with in the book has been collected in a series of appendices, with in every case the source of the information. These figures are at present necessarily very incomplete. ... At the end of each chapter references are given.” (Preface)
“Professor Todd’s well-planned and ably written text-book on money, exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon our experiences of finance in war time to illustrate or modify the theories prevailing in peace. His lucid account of the crisis at the outbreak of war is supplemented by many tables showing at a glance the financial history of these troubled years.”
+ =Spec= 119:40 Jl 14 ‘17 140w
“Professor Todd states in his preface that, ‘as a result of the war, economics has come into its own.’ On the particular subject that he is discussing this is certainly true; but unfortunately his exposition of it is such that it leaves the reader with a quite contrary impression. ... Like many other workers in this field, he has entangled himself in his problem by introducing the comparatively unimportant question of the quantity of gold. ... Though he thus tumbles over a factor in his problem which he introduced to his own undoing, he provides his reader with a mass of statistics and information which may help others to draw a sounder conclusion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 Je 21 ‘17 1050w
Told in the huts; the Y. M. C. A. gift book; with introd. by A. K. Yapp. il *$1.50 Stokes 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1798)
These stories and sketches of the war, together with a few poems, are contributed by British soldiers and war workers, and published for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. active service campaign among soldiers, sailors and munition workers. A four page reproduction of one of the numerous trench magazines is included. The book is illustrated in black and white, and in color by Cyrus Cuneo.
“The subjects of the stories vary widely. One element, however, they possess in common: a high valor and patriotism no suffering can daunt, no hardship can quench.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 330w
=TOLSTOI, ILYA, count.= Visions; tales from the Russian. il *$1.35 (3½c) Pond 17-15284
A volume of short stories and sketches by Count Ilya Tolstoi, who has been lecturing in America during the past winter. Five of them, The little nurse, War visions, An affair of honor, The scarlet bashlyks, and The little green stick, are stories of the war. The remaining four, Too late, One scoundrel less, Without a nose, and Cholera, are stories of Russian life in the days before the war.
“Count Ilya Tolstoi is a genuine poet; he has also his father’s gift for putting before the eyes whatever he wishes his readers to see. Read for instance the sketch entitled, ‘Without a nose’; it is horrible but it is marvellous; it might have been written by Count L. N. Tolstoi. Though the author is not a young man, there seems to be no reason why he should not yet accomplish great things in literature. These powerful stories and sketches have more than promise; they are little masterpieces.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 750w
+ =Dial= 62:527 Je 14 ‘17 330w
“Several of the tales are strongly suggestive of de Maupassant. ‘Without a nose’ has all of his concise and bitter irony, as ‘The little nurse’ might represent him in his mood of, as it were, reluctant sympathy. Stories like ‘Too late’ and ‘One scoundrel less,’ on the other hand, are full of generous emotion, the emotion of a Russian and a Tolstoy.”
=Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 420w
“If ‘Visions’ has not genius, the book has a quiet and genuine interest.”
+ =New Repub= 11:141 Je 2 ‘17 350w
+ =N Y Times= 22:134 Ap 15 ‘17 650w
=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 200w
=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.=[2] Diaries; v. 1, Youth; with a preface by C. Hagberg Wright. il *$2 Dutton (18-2499)
“Those readers who have familiarized themselves with only the later writings of Count Leo Tolstoy, must be prepared for a slight shock upon reading the intimate records of his earlier life in the ‘Diaries.’ The first volume of the series of three is now available in English translation, rendered from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth, and A. Sirnis. It covers the years from 1847 to 1852, and reveals the formative period of Tolstoy’s life. His jottings, like those of Emerson, deal with his thoughts rather than with his actions, and express cryptically many of the ideas which he afterward expanded into the philosophy of his mature years. The dualism of his nature is particularly manifest; flesh and spirit were ever at war.”—R of Rs
+ — =Ath= p598 N ‘17 400w
“The ‘Diaries’ constitute a human document of great interest and importance, taking their place with the ‘Confessions’ of St Augustine and Rousseau in the light they shed on the soul-struggle of a wealthy and occasionally dissipated young nobleman who early caught the gleam and began to seek for the truth. The translation is admirably performed.” N. H. D.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p 8 Ja 19 ‘18 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 1250w
=R of Rs= 57:221 F ‘18 240w
“It is no exaggeration to say that many equally interesting diaries could be collected from sixteen-year-old high-school girls. As for the editing, we should be inclined to pass it over in silence if the remainder of the diary could be expected to be as valueless as this.”
— =Sat R= 124:311 O 20 ‘17 460w
“The comparison that suggests itself unjustly but automatically to the reader of the present volume is with the diary of Samuel Pepys. We have here the same open confessions of weaknesses, vanities, and sins; the same engaging discursiveness; and the same frankness and honesty which, whatever opinion we might hold about the moral worth of the older writer, left us with no doubts about the genuine humanity of his book. The diary has been translated into vigorous and racy English, it has been elaborately indexed and annotated.”
+ =Spec= 119:sup471 N 3 ‘17 760w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p289 Je 21 ‘17 4700w
“The diaries now before us show that understanding was not wanting in the translator in a literal sense; his success is indeed greater than might have been expected in view of the rules by which he was bound to maintain the strictest accuracy—but possibly a keener sympathy with the ideas of the writer might produce a yet closer and more illuminating version of a ‘human document of exceptional interest and worth.’”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p470 O 4 ‘17 980w
=TOLSTOI, LEO NIKOLAIEVICH, count.= Journal; tr. by Rose Strunsky. *$2 (3c) Knopf (17-21353)
“It was Tolstoy’s wish that his friend and follower, V. G. Chertkov, who was perhaps nearer to him spiritually than any one else, should revise and arrange for publication after his death all his manuscripts and documents, including his journals. But his widow, the Countess Tolstoy, took possession of his journals and notebooks and placed them in the Moscow historical museum. ... Therefore Mr Chertkov can publish only the volumes of which he happened to have copies from the original. He possesses of these copies the volumes that cover, in addition to this section from 1895 to 1899, the succeeding years from 1900 to 1910 and will publish these later.” (N Y Times) The present volume of Tolstoi’s journal covers the period from October 28, 1895, to December, 1899. Omissions, made either by the censor, or on account of their intimate character, have been indicated. There is an introduction by Rose Strunsky. Appended are ninety pages of notes by V. G. Chertkov, and a short sketch of Tolstoi’s life in the nineties by Constantine Shokor-Trotsky, which includes a classified bibliography of Tolstoi’s writings from November, 1895 to 1899. There is a full index.
=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 70w
“A volume that will be valued by the lovers of fragmentary thought as they value the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, the ‘Journal intime’ of Amiel and the ‘Encheiridion’ of Epictetus. ... The voluminous notes by Chertkov form a veritable cyclopedia of contemporary biography and literature for they explain every proper name mentioned.”
=Ind= 92:67 O 6 ‘17 1000w
“The processes of his mental debates are exposed, and the key to his philosophy and theology is put into the reader’s hand.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 280w
“Here are recorded the incessant struggles of a mind bent on being absolutely honest with itself, longing to find the absolute moral basis for life. ... Miss Strunsky’s introduction sketches the influence of Tolstoy’s ideas upon the youth of Russia for the last generation.”
=N Y Times= 22:288 Ag 5 ‘17 1600w
“Abounds in expressions of sincere self-criticism. ‘Unclear’; ‘Nonsense’; ‘This seemed much clearer to me when I first thought it out’—comments such as these Tolstoi would not infrequently append to his entries, and all too often the stricture is just. Seldom does Tolstoi in this record lead us up to the heights of ethical vision; more often he conducts us through the dark chambers of his own mind. Yet in this very fact lies the value of the journal. Few of the sayings it contains are valuable as isolated truths, and the whole is scarcely more enlightening than discouraging to those who are in search of light and leading; yet the collection of Tolstoi’s day-to-day thoughts forms a vitally interesting document for the study of religious experience.”
+ — =No Am= 206:793 N ‘17 950w
=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:376 O ‘17 20w
“It is the belief of Miss Rose Strunsky that a reading of the diary will make clear the meaning of the Russian revolution. ... In so far as the revolution had its mainsprings in the intelligentsia, and it did so largely, according to as competent an authority as Tolstoy’s son, Miss Strunsky’s statement cannot be gainsaid. ... The translation is finished and made with great faithfulness to lucid interpretation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 7 ‘17 540w
=TOMPKINS, ELLEN WILKINS.= Enlightenment of Paulina. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-28187
The scene is laid partly in a town on the outskirts of Rochester, N.Y., and partly in the southern town of Middleborough. Paulina, daughter of a poor minister, after his death marries George Bull, whose secretary she has been, but who is personally distasteful to her, to secure a home and comfort for her mother. Mrs Sprague, however, does not live long to enjoy them. When later George Bull is imprisoned for theft, his wife, posing as a widow, goes to pay a long visit to her mother’s girlhood friend, Mrs Taliaferro, who has a charming daughter, Clyde. Paulina’s association with the kindly Middleborough people, most of all with the Rev. Mr Fellows who “in spite of his ministerial calling, was a creature of flesh and blood,” changes and develops her in many ways. The book also tells the story of Clyde Taliaferro’s love affairs, and of the devotion of Rosie, his brother’s widow, to George Bull.
“A story of original flavour and of sincere and varied characterisation.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:691 F ‘18 500w
“Beginning with a situation of unpleasant ‘realism,’ the reader is led by way of an atmosphere of southern village comedy and romance to a conclusion charactered with self-sacrifice and spiritual generosity. ... Aside from the main theme, the development of a woman’s character, the story has much individuality; its picture of the Middleborough elect is less concerned with their typical southern quaintnesses than with their essential quality.”
+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 440w
“One of those books which one reads with a feeling of regret—regret for what they might have been. For there is some good work in ‘The enlightenment of Paulina,’ but it is rendered almost null and futile by the author’s apparent lack of any sense of light and shade, any sense of what to eliminate.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 320w
=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS POTTLE).=[2] At the sign of the oldest house. il *$1.50 (4½c) Bobbs 17-30279
A wholesome, old fashioned story with a restraint in the love making little known to modern romance. The setting is “the oldest house in America,” where are gathered for the browsing appetite of tourists, curios, paintings and valuable antiques. The keeper of the place is a little, bent, old shell of a woman, to whom the personal conduct of groups among her treasures and the droning recital of their ownerships and famous points have become a dun-colored habit. In sharp contrast to her is the grandchild, Pansy, who comes unbidden and self announced, to touch every treasure with the gold of youth. Exuberant spirits, a keen joy of living, tireless love of hard work become valuable assets in this dead-and-buried atmosphere. The hero is half artist, half business man, who also deals in antiques and has built up a good business in reproducing old pieces. Some one has said the story is “as fragrant as a honeysuckle, as homelike as a gingham apron.”
“‘A pretty story,’ very slight.”
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“Not only does the book please while reading but it leaves a satisfied feeling after.”
+ =Ind= 92:604 D 29 ‘17 30w
“Mrs Tompkins has not made a contribution to literature; her characters do not grip your heart; nor do they help you to a better understanding of life—but the simple little story is full of charm and wholesomeness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:517 D 2 ‘17 290w
“A bread-and-butter romance, which leaves the reader cold. Throughout the book there is an atmosphere of unreality which the thoughtful reader, in these times of stern realities, resents. However, there is much that is charming.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 140w
=TORRENCE, RIDGELY.= Granny Maumee; The rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. *$1.50 Macmillan 812 17-24093
These three “plays for a negro theatre” were presented in New York city in the season of 1916-17. “‘Granny Maumee’ is a tragedy of race hate, witchcraft and family affection of such terrible intensity that few readers will be able to take pleasure in it. ‘The rider of dreams’ is in a softer key and somehow suggests the mingled realism and mysticism of the modern Irish drama. ‘Simon the Cyrenian’ is an allegory of the African race placed in a biblical setting.” (Ind)
=A L A Bkl= 14:122 Ja ‘18
=Cleveland= p122 N ‘17 140w
“The three plays are strangely reminiscent of the Irish plays. They have all the faults of the latter,—they are perhaps even a shade more loose and amateurish,—but they have about them the gracious honesty of a primitive people, a refreshing contrast to sophistication’s steelier, more intellectual truth. The negro theatre is a folk theatre and its plays are folk plays. They are chronicles of a simple, child-like people, full of naïve superstitious religion and rude poetry—and still within sound of the savage tom-tom. ... Mr Torrence does not plead for the black man and he does not apologize for him. He simply presents him, one feels truly, as he is.”
+ + — =Dial= 63:529 N 22 ‘17 840w
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 100w
“The two first of these one-act plays begin excellently. Then, to get the theatrical ‘punch,’ the first shrills off into melodrama with voodoo trimmings, and the second flats out into the distribution of rewards and punishments. The third is a nowise successful attempt to realize that ‘atmosphere’ that surrounded the crucifixion of the Christ. If the form of the opening lines of ‘Granny Maumee’ had been held, Mr Torrence would have given us a really worthy, almost great study of negro character.” F. M.
+ — =NY Call= p14 N 18 ‘17 360w
“The first dramatic valuation of the negro which in theme, character and situation approaches the actual psychology of negro life. ... The plays have the haunting wistfulness of primitive racial characteristics emerging in a foreign civilization and their philosophy is distinctly that of the negro.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w
=TOWERS, WALTER KELLOGG.= Masters of space. (Harper’s master inventors) il *$1.25 (2c) Harper 654 17-7207
This book tells “the story of how the thought of the world has been linked together by those modern wonders of science and of industry—the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, and most recently, the wireless telephone.” The book opens with an account of early methods of communicating thru space by means of signals. Chapters that follow take up: Forerunners of the telegraph; The achievement of Morse: Development of the telegraph system; The pioneer Atlantic cable; The birth of the telephone, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 21 ‘17 200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17
“Untechnical, simply written story.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p10 Ap ‘17 130w
“Good book for readers of high school age.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 40w
“History teachers will find valuable reference material in this volume. It will do good service in the upper elementary grades as well as in the high school. The paucity of such material has been a great handicap to history teachers in the past, for which reason this book will doubtless receive a hearty welcome.”
+ =School R= 25:612 O ‘17 280w
“A volume of 30 pages of much interest and considerable value, especially for the idea of grouping these kindred tales of long-distance message-sending.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 300w
=TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON.= Autumn loiterers. il *$1.25 (9½c) Doran 917.4 17-29815
“You will hardly believe that we were loiterers when I tell you that we were motorists,” writes the author. A leisurely journey thru the Berkshire hills, taken in company with a companionable friend and a six-year old motorcar, known as “Old Reliable,” is the subject of the sketches. They are reprinted from the Delineator, with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Mr Towne is a poet and an occasional bit of verse is slipped into the prose narrative.
“There is magic in it. The title sounds the right note, interpreting the mood of the pages that follow.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 800w
“A choice little volume. Happily illustrated. The man who drove the car was Porter Emerson Browne, playwright and novelist.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 280w
=TOYNBEE, ARNOLD JOSEPH.= German terror in Belgium; an historical record. il $1 (3½c) Doran 940.91 17-14685
“The subject of this book is the treatment of the civil population in the countries overrun by the German armies during the first three months of the European war. The form of it is a connected narrative, based on the published documents and reproducing them by direct quotation or (for the sake of brevity) by reference. With the documents now published on both sides it is at last possible to present a clear narrative of what actually happened. ... The narrative has been arranged so as to follow separately the tracks of the different German armies or groups of armies which traversed different sectors of French and Belgian territory.” (Preface) There are three maps and numerous illustrations.
“It is noteworthy that, as the author remarks, the different testimonies fit together into a presentation of fact which is not open to disbelief.”
+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 120w
“A dispassionate continuous narrative.”
+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 30w
“No ‘fact’ is reported without abundant reference and counter-reference. The sources include among others the Bryce report, the appendices to the German White book, the reports of the Belgian and French commissions, Massart’s ‘Belgians under the German eagle,’ Paul Hocker’s ‘An der spitze meiner kompagnie,’ etc. Mr Toynbee assesses the conflicting evidence with notable fairness, so that the record is free of any of the hysteria of the ‘eyewitness’ stamp of excited journalist.”
+ =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 130w
“The impression is inescapable that the relation is in the main true. The damning indictment is strengthened by official German admissions of slaughter and destruction in many of the places through which they passed. And there can be no dismissing this sort of evidence as forgery.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 N 4 ‘17 420w
“Its material has all been co-ordinated from published documents and, therefore, its evidence cannot be frowned down or minimized in any way.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 130w
=R of Rs= 56:214 Ag ‘17 50w
“It is of real value that the enormous mass of material to be found in the Belgian reports, and also, of course, in the Bryce commission, should have been worked up by a skilled and scholarly writer into the form of a short and simple narrative. ... There is much talk now about war aims and peace conditions. For this country the primary war aim is, and must continue to be, not merely the expulsion of the Germans from Belgium, but the establishment of an authoritative court to inquire into the events which Mr Toynbee records.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 370w
=TRAIN, ARTHUR (CHENEY).=[2] World and Thomas Kelly. *$1.50 Scribner 17-29866
“Thomas Kelly is a young Bostonian, a son of ancient Massachusetts stock. But though one of his forebears has been a governor, and he himself is born in Back Bay, he grows up to find himself just without the pale of the socially elect. He grows up a snob, in the odor of snobbery. Three years of his life at Harvard are embittered by his quite natural exclusion from the fashionable and expensive clubs of that city of boys. In his fourth year, a fluke of athletic success brings him to the front, and proves him worthy of membership in one of these golden groups. But it all goes to Tom Kelly’s head, he takes to cards and drink, and barely pulls himself together sufficiently to save his diploma. His prowess at tennis gains him a summer in the millionaire household of one of his clubmates at Newport. He is supposed to be there for training before the national tournament; but when the test comes is quite too far out of condition to make more than a tolerable showing. But there are consolations: heiresses are abundant, ready to award themselves to his youth and good looks. How, after all, he escapes making a whole hopeless mess of his life, and sets his foot at least upon the first rung of the ladder of an honorable and useful career, is the substance of the latter part of the story.”—Nation
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:602 Ja ‘18 550w
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 540w
“Readers who were familiar with the Boston of thirty years ago may find here an extraordinarily faithful and, with all its humor, sympathetic record of that place and time and atmosphere.”
+ — =Nation= 106:44 Ja 10 ‘18 480w
“Mr Train, it would seem, intended his hero to have a good deal of charm, but for some reason has omitted to endow him with an atom of that most desirable quality. The first part of the novel is by all odds the best. The interest of the story—like its merit—steadily declines, until it reaches the vanishing point; which place it attains many pages in advance of the last chapter.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:475 N 18 ‘17 420w
“It is the strength of Mr Train’s story that he has portrayed the hero without sparing him, but it may be questioned whether the character is worth while.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 10 ‘18 420w
=TRAIN, ETHEL (KISSAM) (MRS ARTHUR [CHENEY] TRAIN).= Bringing out Barbara. *$1.25 (2½c) Scribner 17-10198
Seventeen, just thru preparatory school that probably had a finishing touch to it—the author does not say—Barbara West arrives home to enter upon all the bewildering preparations for her “coming out.” She is a natural, democratic girl, with simple tastes. After her four years of school girl life she finds the atmosphere of formal teas and dinners too stifling and the shallowness of social climbers too artificial for her inclinations that run to flowers, birds, sunshine and people who can tell the truth. How she manages to live thru her coming-out season and yet emerge unspoiled is a story that may be read with profit by all debutantes, and some mothers of debutantes as well.
“Exaggerated and rather hectic but written with considerable spirit.”
– + =Cleveland= p89 Jl ‘17 70w
+ — =Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 40w
=N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 200w
“The coldness and heartlessness of the family life of fashion and fortune worshipers is well brought out in this novelette.”
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 20w
“A pretty little romance, written with pleasant sentiment.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 250w
=TREAT, PAYSON JACKSON.=[2] Early diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan; 1853-1865. $2.50 Johns Hopkins press 327.73 17-28858
The Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history for 1917. The writer, professor of Far eastern history in Stanford university, offers the lectures as the first part of a study which will cover the whole period of Japanese-American diplomatic relations. The present volume takes up the story of American intercourse, and continues it thru the negotiation of the Perry and Harris treaties, thru the troublesome period of anti-foreign movements, to the Mikado’s sanction of the treaties in 1865 where the narrative ends.
=TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM.= Nothing matters, and other stories. *$1.60 Houghton 17-13222
“To his achievements as actor and manager Sir Herbert Tree adds, for the third time, that of authorship. ... Ten short stories, of which the first fills nearly a third of the space, comprise the collection. There is added also the presidential address delivered by Sir Herbert before the Birmingham Midland institute in 1915 on ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’ The book takes its title from the novelette that holds the initial place and tells the tragic tale of two friends and a woman. Some of the other stories are farcical, with a touch of the tragic in theme or dénouement. Ironic laughter runs through them all.”—N Y Times
+ =Ath= p103 F ‘17 50w
“While we are interested in the stories of this collection, for the majority the greatest attraction will lie in the essay with which the volume ends, ‘The importance of humor in tragedy.’” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 650w
+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 200w
+ — =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 280w
+ =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 240w
+ =Outlook= 115:758 Ap 25 ‘17 30w
“He has a gift for epigram, a wayward sardonic humour, and a strong sense of the macabre. Even where they are derivative his phrases are ingenious, as when he defines the genius of the courtier as ‘an infinite faculty of not being bored,’ or remarks that the Austrian officer ‘waltzes as the nightingale sings, because he has nothing else to do,’ or deprecates the habit observable in some people, ‘who are too apt to treat God as if He were a minor royalty.’”
+ =Spec= 118:140 F 3 ‘17 850w
“Perhaps only two of these tales appear as they would have appeared had Sir Herbert Tree been a professional and laborious writer instead of a brilliant and gracious amateur. But if the form of the stories speaks of the parergon, there is entertainment and to spare in them. Not the least part of it, by any means, is the constant bubble of smart phrases.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p18 Ja 11 ‘17 850w
=TREITSCHKE, HEINRICH GOTTHARD VON.= History of Germany in the nineteenth century; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul. 7v v 2 *$3.25 (1c) McBride 943 (16-759)
=v 2= Volume 1 of the English translation of Treitschke’s history was published in 1915. It dealt with the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the close of the War of liberation. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to The beginnings of the German federation, 1814-1819, with chapters on: The congress of Vienna; Belle Alliance (Waterloo); Mental currents of the first years of peace; Opening of the German Bundestag; Reconstruction of the Prussian state; South German constitutional struggles. As in volume 1, there is an introduction by William Harbutt Dawson.
Reviewed by M. S. Handman
* =Dial= 63:152 Ag 30 ‘17 1600w
“If it lacks the complete ecstasy of the author’s narrative of the War of liberation, it compensates in a measure by the tempered pride with which he discusses the spiritual achievements of Germany during the first years of peace. The translation by Eden and Cedar Paul continues to show the defects and qualities of the first volume—competence without elegance.”
+ — =Nation= 105:518 N 8 ‘17 260w
“It is important to remember that the ill fame Treitschke has acquired comes less from the ‘History’ than from the ‘Politics’; though the ignorant narrowness of the latter deserves whatever condemnation it may obtain. The ‘History’ is on a different plane. It is brilliant, it is eloquent, and even if it is not seldom inaccurate, it represents great erudition. That from which it seems to have inspired distrust is the fact that it was written to prove a theory. ... The ‘History’ is a household word in Germany, as Macaulay in England or Taine in France. And it is that deservedly. With all its faults, it is a fundamental book.” H. J. L.
=New Repub= 11:115 My 26 ‘17 1600w
“It is not true, but it is convincing. ... It is, in brief, the epic of Prussian absolutism. ... Yet it should none the less be read; for it has played and is playing a great part in the world’s affairs. And if it is not itself sound history it has at least done more than most books of its species to make history. Only, one should read Carl Schurz’s ‘Autobiography’ as well.” W. C. Abbott
=Yale R= n s 6:891 Jl ‘17 400w
=TREMLETT, MRS HORACE.= Giddy Mrs Goodyer. *$1.25 (1½c) Lane 17-11794
Over in Europe the war is raging, but the echoes of it that reach South Africa in this story are very faint. Little Mrs Goodyer comes down to the coast to visit friends. Once more accustomed to an easy way of life, she feels that she can never go back to the rough mining town in which her husband has kept her immured, and she decides to divorce him. Her friends refuse to have anything to do with the matter, a reputable lawyer tells her she has no case, but she persists and finds a lawyer who promises her the divorce, case or no case. She has got herself into a pretty tangle by the time the husband comes looking for her. To escape him and her troubles she sails for England. The husband engages passage on the same boat and a reconciliation is easily affected.
“The novel is amusing and smartly written, with a touch of cynicism, like a dash of paprika, to give it flavor. There is a good deal of clever character drawing.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w
=TROWARD, THOMAS.= Law and the word. *$1.50 (3½c) McBride 131 17-16437
The author, who died in 1916, was one of the leading exponents of New thought. This book is made up of a collection of his essays and is prefaced by an appreciative foreword by Paul Derrick. Contents: Some facts in nature; Some psychic experiences; Man’s place in the creative order; The law of wholeness; The soul of the subject; The promises; Death and immortality; Transferring the burden.
=Ath= p520 O ‘17 80w
=Outlook= 117:101 S 19 ‘17 110w
=Pittsburgh= 22:699 O ‘17 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 S 6 ‘17 220w
=TRYON, ROLLA MILTON.= Household manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860; a study in industrial history. *$2 Univ. of Chicago press 609 17-13932
“The book has been written by a historian and connects, throughout, the subject of household manufactures with the general economic and political history of the nation. ... The general plan of treatment involves a combination of the chronological and topical methods: For the colonial period ... the field has been covered with a very definite aim in view; the first, to determine and elucidate the various factors affecting household manufactures; the second, to connect these factors with real situations; the third, to consider the multifarious products of the family factory; and the fourth, to find evidences of the transfer from family to shop- and factory-made goods. The period from 1783 to 1810 has been treated chronologically with a view to showing influencing factors and amounts made, and topically for the purposes mentioned in three and four above. After 1810 the discussion has largely to do with the transition from home- to factory-made goods, and adapts itself admirably to a straightforward chronological treatment.” (El School J) This book has nineteen statistical tables and a bibliography of twenty pages. The author is assistant professor of the teaching of history in the University of Chicago.
“The book contains eight chapters of very unequal merit. ... It will be of value to the economic historian as a convenient and serviceable storehouse of data bearing on household manufacture. No other single volume known to the reviewer contains so much source material on the subject for the country as a whole. Unfortunately it is not well organized; it lacks proportion and emphasis, and is conspicuously weak in interpretation.” H. A. Wooster
* + – =Am Econ R= 7:848 D ‘17 1000w
“The technique of the book is admirable; the classified bibliography is the most complete yet published on the subject; a good index increases the value of the book for reference purposes. But the writer of economic history must do more than this. Only by the constant application of the principles of economic science can he give an adequate, well-reasoned explanation of a past industrial system, the causes of its origin and of its peculiar characteristics, and the reasons for its eventual decay and disappearance.” P. W. Bidwell
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:177 O ‘17 800w
“Carefully worked out, it connects the subject with the general economics and history work, and is useful as a reference book for history and household art and science teachers in high schools, normal schools and colleges. Good index.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:82 D ‘17
“Throughout the text are minutely worked out tables showing the growth or decline of these industries not only in the different states but in the counties which had the most influence on their status.”
+ =Cleveland= p123 N ‘17 60w
“The present demand for material in the history courses will be partially satisfied by Mr Tryon’s book. To teachers of household arts, especially of textiles, it should make a very definite and detailed contribution in the account which it supplies of one phase of their work as it was done in the home prior to the time of its taking over by the school.”
+ =El School J= 17:769 Je ‘17 670w
“Many tables give valuable statistical data.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 130w
“Intended for the use of students, but of no little interest to the general reader, who will find here many homely facts about the life of his ancestors.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:388 N ‘17 30w
“The author has indicated clearly the relation of household manufactures to the social, political, and general industrial life of the people. He has used extensively the census returns, reports of the treasury department, and the records of many state and local historical societies in the choice and selection of his material. The variety of topics that Professor Tryon discusses being considered, it seems extraordinary that he has been able to confine his treatment to one volume. This he has done because of the method of his treatment, which has been both topical and chronological. The book answers a long-felt need in the field of industrial history and merits the thoughtful consideration of all school authorities and teachers of history.” R. E. Jordan
+ =School R= 25:526 S ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 300w
“A very interesting study.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p394 Ag 16 ‘17 250w
=TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT.=[2] New reservation of time, and other articles. *$1.50 (3½c) Houghton 304 16-23788
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:303 Ap ‘17
“The impression a young man will get from this book is that to be institutionally responsible is to be intellectually suppressed and benumbed. Dr Tucker does not say this, but he gives the effect of a mind that has been a long time in prison, the implications of his philosophy are so radical and yet his thoughts move so stiffly in their harness. Here is a mind that has a driving radical force about it in any direction where it works openly and freely. Once discount the prison chill and you find Dr Tucker anything but a class-bound conservative. His pages, if brooded over by the ruling class with which one should have to identify him, would revolutionize our social order.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 12:111 Ag 25 ‘17 840w
“Dr Tucker exhibits the same restraint in the discussion of old-age compensation that he shows in the essays upon ‘Undergraduate scholarship’ and the war. In every case the reader will get a sense of the ‘intellectual austerity,’ as Dr Crothers once phrased it, of a thoughtful man with newly acquired time for thought. With America actively engaged in the war we can find an added interest in the essay on the ‘Ethical challenge of the war.’ Dr Tucker considers the war a contest between liberalism and reaction in which the United States is to play the part of keeping the issue always defined.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 19 ‘17 540w
=TUFTS, JAMES HAYDEN.=[2] Our democracy; its origins and its tasks. *$1.50 (1½c) Holt 321 17-27649
A book for the citizen and the prospective citizen who may want to know better what his country stands for. The writer devotes himself less to the machinery of our government than to the principles and ideas which the machinery is meant to serve. The book is divided into two parts: The beginnings of coöperation, order, and liberty, and Liberty, union, democracy in the new world.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:159 F ‘18 130w
“Excellent book ... in simple entertaining style.”
+ =Cleveland= p8 Ja ‘18 60w
=TURNER, ALFRED.= On falling in love, and other matters. il *$1.50 Dutton 824
“‘On falling in love and other matters’ contains twenty-seven little gossips in, one is tempted to say, Mr Francis Gribble’s boudoir—in other words, a quantity of very small talk about the amours of Byron, Burns, Keats, Shelley, etc., together with bits of innocent chit-chat on sundry literary topics. The frontispiece exhibits Lady Caroline Lamb in her page’s costume.”—Nation
“Although so much of the book is filled with well known facts and with old ideas, he infuses into it a tone of delicate sophistication, and quiet observation, which makes his essays pleasant if not inspiring reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ‘17 270w
“The love affairs of poets have a special interest for Mr Alfred Turner, ... while he also contributes a number of short and scholarly essays on a wider variety of themes, well calculated to hold the attention of any fairly well-read person. Such chapters as ‘A plea for the minor poet,’ ‘The poetry of new lands,’ and ‘The importance of the right word’ illustrate Mr Turner’s fondness for thought and expression that lie off the main highways of literature.”
+ — =Dial= 63:535 N 22 ‘17 240w
“It is a good book for a somnolent lady resting her nerves in a hammock, with a box of bon-bons underneath the bough.”
=Nation= 104:763 Je 28 ‘17 80w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17 130w
“The author is editor of the London Evening Times. The first half of the book follows ... the love affairs of poets. But Mr. Turner handles his subject delicately and interestingly, and no one can complain that the author has been in search of scandal. His faculty for pleasant research and his knowledge of literature are better displayed in the subsequent chapters, in which, while his subjects are seemingly chosen at random, he writes unaffectedly and in a hearty manner that help to disabuse the newspaper reading public of the idea that there is something formidable and forbidding in the best authors.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 21 ‘17 270w
=TURNER, CHARLES CYRIL.= Aircraft of today; a popular account of the conquest of the air. il *$1.50 Lippincott 629.1 17-2690
“Beginning with a résumé of ancient allusions to flying, and some of the earlier experiments and projects, the author follows with chapters on the balloon; the first airships and aeroplanes; the aerial ocean, and navigation of the air; the principles of mechanical flight; the sensations experienced during ballooning and flying; learning to fly; the first years of flying; modern airship theory; the first use of aircraft in war; the developments of aerial fighting during the present war; and flying developments to come.”—Ath
“A popular, complete, well illustrated account of aircraft.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:386 Je ‘17
“A welcome and useful book.”
+ =Ath= p540 N ‘16 140w
“The author has been very successful in an attempt to concentrate the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space. Every page is full of facts, yet the book is quite readable and interesting. Much of the subject-matter will probably be new even to the great majority of experts.”
+ =Nature= 99:145 Ap 19 ‘17 900w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:318 Ap ‘17
“An appendix contains aviation world records, vocabulary of aeronautical terms, French technical terms, tables, and a bibliography. Author is a lieutenant in British service, and has written other books on aeronautics.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 90w
=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Peggy of Roundabout lane. il *$1.25 (2c) Macmillan 17-24817
Some of the characters from the author’s two earlier stories for girls, “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres,” reappear in this new book. The heroine is Peggy Callahan, who is called on to assume the duties of housekeeper while her mother goes to the hospital. Peggy doesn’t like housework and she had set her heart on winning a scholarship in school. Thru all her trials she has the sympathy and encouragement of her friend Anne Lewis. Peggy fails to gain the scholarship—but wins something better.
“An unusually wholesome and pleasant story. Close akin to the Alcott books.”
+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:441 O 28 ‘17 150w
=Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 20w
=TURQUET-MILNES, G.= Some modern Belgian writers. *$1 McBride 839.3 (Eng ed 18-26090)
“Beginning with a discussion of ‘The renascence of Belgian letters’ the writer proceeds to a series of outlines of the work of Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Rodenbach, Lemonnier, Eekhoud, Max Elskamp, Charles van Lerberghe, the Destrée brothers and Courouble, the whole being preceded with a brief prefatory note by Edmund Gosse.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
“Mr Turquet-Milnes relates the circumstances of the founding of La Jeune Belgique by Max Waller, and the gathering about him of a group of bold and original Belgian young men who brought new life to the literature of their country. ... Excellent survey of Belgian literature.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 15 ‘17 720w
=Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w
“Its chief virtue lies not so much in the consideration bestowed upon individual talent as in the synthetic treatment of the movement as a whole. Taken all together, this book is one of the most conscientious and sympathetic critical surveys I have read on any literature. Furthermore, the author writes in a style that is virile and positive, and has a command of his subject that is a joy in these days when every schoolteacher sets up shop as critic. He sees his men in relation to their environment, to the earth from which they sprang, and having both vision and scholarship, he is able to measure them with an eye that is unusually clear.” L: Galantiere
+ =Dial= 63:388 O 25 ‘17 1800w
“Instructive and intelligent little book for those who seek information on the subject.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 D 21 ‘16 40w
=TUTTLE, MRS FLORENCE GUERTIN.= Give my love to Maria. *$1 Abingdon press 17-12390
“Twelve short stories make up the pages of ‘Give my love to Maria.’ Several of these short stories won prizes offered by magazines [several years ago.]” (Springf’d Republican) “Contents: The story of the stories; Give my love to Maria; The French doll’s dowry; Idols of gold; As shown by the tape; Cupid at forty; A wingless victory; A successful failure; What doth it profit a man? Mademoiselle; Gentlemen unafraid; ‘Unto them a child.’” (N Y Br Lib News)
“Cleverness and insight they undoubtedly possess.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ‘17 340w
“Pleasing tales.”
+ =Dial= 62:443 My 17 ‘17 170w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 40w
“‘Give my love to Maria’ contains stories with excellent plots, but there is a crudeness in their execution.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:126 Ap 8 ‘17 280w
“The stories show originality and clearness, and some understanding of the human problem.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 70w
=TWOMBLY, FRANCIS DOANE, and DANA, JOHN COTTON=, comps. Romance of labor. il *55c (1c) Macmillan 16-23236
The compilers have selected “scenes from good novels depicting joy in work.” They say in their preface: “Young people are to-day more earnestly than ever before seeking for light to guide them to the places in the workshops of the world for which they are best fitted. Surely some of that light can be found in descriptions of those workshops written by writers of insight and imagination, like our novelists. Hence this book.” Among the selections are: The diver, from “Caleb West,” by F. Hopkinson Smith; Reclaiming the desert, from “The winning of Barbara Worth,” by Harold Bell Wright; Pottery, from “Brunel’s Tower,” by Eden Phillpotts; Cigar making, from “V. V’s eyes,” by Henry S. Harrison; The stock-yards, from “The jungle,” by Upton Sinclair; The cattle drive, from “Arizona nights,” by Stewart Edward White.
=A L A Bkl= 13:360 My ‘17
+ =Ind= 91:35 Jl 7 ‘17 50w
“An ingenious selection and arrangement of scenes from novels which picture the real work of the world in various industries.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 20w
=School R= 25:143 F ‘17 50w
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=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Theophanies; a book of verse. *$1.50 Dutton 821 17-5732
“Mystic and philosopher, both characters definitely clothe themselves in Miss Underhill’s verse. She has written most often upon mysticism, but the mysticism which reveals itself in her verse is not of the character which contents itself with symbols or the undefined, but always into the midst of her visions breaks the mood of questioning, and she falls to analyzing. ... Even melting into each other as they do the moods are distinctly separate in origin and remain through her poems quite distinguishable.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Ath= p479 O ‘16 50w
“Though there are passages of very pure poetry here, it is her thought rather than her manner of expressing it which remains with us.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 950w
“The poems on spiritual themes are not convincing, but ‘Any Englishwoman,’ altho it is a slight thing for so great a tragedy to inspire, seems to be as sincere as it is imaginative and well phrased.”
=Lit D= 54:714 Mr 17 ‘17 260w
“The austere note of distinction, restraint, and painstaking selection is its chief characteristic. ... That these poems will not appeal to the multitude is inevitable. They breathe and have their being in too fine an atmosphere for that. ... Despite popular criticism, in the proper meaning of the term, she is certainly not a mystic. Rather is she a rapt and adoring pantheist.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:241 Je 24 ‘17 380w
+ =R of Rs= 55:436 Ap ‘17 260w
+ =Spec= 118:339 Mr 17 ‘17 100w
“Mystic and mystical are terms that have long been in fashionable currency. ... Miss Evelyn Underhill has done more than any living English writer to redeem them and to clarify their true significance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p499 O 19 ‘16 900w
=UNDERWOOD, JOHN CURTIS.= War flames. *$1.35 Macmillan 811 17-12602
The poems of this book are for the most part long descriptive or narrative pieces in free verse, grouped by countries, Belgium, Germany, France, England, etc. In a prefatory note the author acknowledges indebtedness to various books, magazines and newspaper articles “from which material for many of his poems has been adapted directly, in part.”
“He ends, by sheer tireless weight of creative energy, in overwhelming the reader physically rather than emotionally. ... Such work is valuable for its influence on the poetic consciousness of the age rather than for itself. It is the material for new poetic coinage. At the same time it would be unfair to Mr Underwood not to admit that he has written a vivid and suggestive book, even if it is not entirely successful as poetry.” Conrad Aiken
+ — =Dial= 63:56 Jl 19 ‘17 420w
“Mr Underwood has made prose poems, each one a realistic picture or story of the meaning of the great war in individual lives. They are very bravely and beautifully written, conceived with the utmost gravity and sincerity of spirit. No war book has seemed to me to possess a greater dignity.”
+ =Ind= 91:513 S 29 ‘17 350w
=Pittsburgh= 22:647 O ‘17 10w
“There have been many books of war poems since 1914, but none so comprehensive, so athrill with the spirit that now animates America, the feeling that the cause of humanity and the divine principle of democracy are at stake, as ‘War flames.’ ... ‘The Marne,’ ‘The Lavoir,’ ‘Roads in France,’ and ‘Spring in Picardy’ touch the fount of the inspiration that gave the Marseillaise to Rouget de l’Isle.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 170w
=UNITED STATES. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION.= National service handbook. il gratis Committee on public information, Washington, D.C. 17-26652
“This book of two hundred and fifty pages is a highly condensed compendium of information. ... Some of the larger headings are the maintenance of standards of labor; welfare and philanthropic service at home; agencies for European war relief, the names and addresses of over a hundred being listed; religious organizations doing service; the capacities in which professional men and women can be of use; the financing of the war; the special impact of war on industry and commerce; agriculture and food supply; medical and nursing service—all this and more, besides full information as to the various lines of service in army, navy and aviation.”—New Repub
“The usefulness of the book for reference purposes in libraries and newspaper offices, and for any individual who has some service to offer and wishes to know where and how to present it can hardly be overestimated.” J. D.
+ =New Repub= 12:139 S 1 ‘17 440w
=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 40w
=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= These times. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-10978
The poems of this book are arranged in groups: The wave; Thirteen portraits; Havens; Dick [six poems for a child]; Battle-cries; Youth moralizes; Two rebels. Many of them are reprinted from magazines, The Century, Yale Review, The Masses, The Poetry Review, and others.
“Rich in feeling but poor in artistry. Even when most successful he needs to concentrate and purify his verse and eliminate the dross from his metal. His ideas are bold, but he is too apt to philosophize and divagate, and mar his pictures with hasty, random strokes and coarse metaphors.” E: Garnett
– + =Atlan= 120:368 S ‘17 270w
“Perhaps the most arresting quality of Mr Untermeyer’s work—the more so because it is so rare in our twentieth-century singers—is its complete objectivity. There is nothing of morbid introspection. ... His outlook is essentially clear and wholesome.” R. T. P.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 1650w
“Mr Untermeyer’s ease in Delphi is comparable to that of some other persons in Zion. He profits by the restraints of brevity and the stanza; in space and freedom he unbends. He has a pleasant, buoyant lyric movement, rising sometimes to high resonance as in ‘Poetry,’ and his possession of the art that curves and crisps an epigram is demonstrated in ‘Faith,’ ‘A portrait,’ and ‘An old maid.’” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:244 S 6 ‘17 420w
“One is grateful to Mr Untermeyer because he takes beauty into account, because he feels it, strives for it, and often, as he deserves, wins it for his own. For beauty too is grateful to Mr Untermeyer, one may fancy, and shines out through his work in many places. ... One trouble with Mr Untermeyer, indeed, is that he is not half enough content to be the good poet that he is. He is possessed of a gift and of a specialized, rather naïve philosophy of life, and his gift distinctly suffers for it. For life presents itself to him too much as being merely blind activity. ... Mr Untermeyer has fire, but it is not that which needs chastening. It is imagination he needs, the imagination of contemplation—the other half of poetry.” M. T.
– + =New Repub= 13:189 D 15 ‘17 1600w
“One section of the book, ‘Thirteen portraits,’ lives up to the promise of the former volume. ... Mr Untermeyer is at his happiest in the more formal rhymes. ... When we come to his attempts at polyrhythmic poetry, the less said the more charity.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 1150w
“Mr Untermeyer’s clearest claim as a poet lies rather in a certain gray, flickering, now-you-see-it-and-now-you-don’t quality of imagination that flashes here and there upon his pages. It is the quality which made him so good a translator of Heine; possibly it is what makes him so delightful a parodist of other poets.”
+ — =NY Times= 22:287 Ag 5 ‘17 1000w
“The book is longer than his previous volume, ‘Challenge’ and has greater variety of contents. ‘Thirteen portraits’ are the best work in the book, for they afford the author a display of his technical gifts, his easy satire and cleverness of phrase. ‘Eve’ and ‘Moses,’ two pretentious poems in blank verse, are less satisfactory than the lyrics, which are beautiful and most melodious.”
+ — =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 300w
“Mr Untermeyer has included too much in ‘These times.’ The best of his volume has his well-known qualities—a trenchant expression, an intolerance of social injustice, and an exhilaration in the force and beauty of nature, the strength and beauty of human affection. But there are poems here which are journalistic; that is, they interest us for the moment and we never return to them. ... The poet has grown intellectually since his first volume.” E: B. Reed
+ — =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 200w
=UPDEGRAFF, ALLAN.= Second youth; being, in the main, some account of the middle comedy in the life of a New York bachelor. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-12137
One can only believe that the rejuvenescence experienced by Roland Farwell Francis, somewhere between thirty and thirty-five, was in reality a first youth. Surely the deferential silk salesman as we first meet him, with his sideburns, gold-rimmed spectacles and black cutaway, had never been young. On Monday, March 13th, Mr Francis made an entry in his personal journal: “Noted another customer in particular to-day. Bought five yards of that new wild geranium.” Mr Francis had, as the note implies, noted other customers in particular, and he does not know at the time how very particular this one is to become, or that with the sale of five yards of the new wild geranium his youth is to begin. Mr Francis’s mild, but none the less amazing adventures will be followed with interest to their satisfactory close, when a feminine hand makes the final entry in the personal journal.
“Mr Updegraff’s first novel is so good that our first thought is one of wonder that he has kept us waiting all these years for it—years, to be sure, which have not been barren, for he has vitally aroused our interest by his poetry and his shorter fiction.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 1400w
“In America we have not enough of this sort of light-handed humor. There is a touch of farce in the postulated situation, which you have to grant and are very willing to grant. Once that is granted or accepted, you move along in a romantic adventure which is conducted in the true spirit of comedy. The material is of the quality that ought to make good plays.” J: Macy
+ =Dial= 63:114 Ag 16 ‘17 120w
“It is all absurd enough if you choose to make it so, but in the performance it has touches of characterization and serious feeling which keep it clear of the farcical and fairly entitle it to esteem as a bit of graceful and sympathetic human comedy.”
+ — =Nation= 105:179 Ag 16 ‘17 200w
“It is as comedy that the story will most appeal—refined comedy of character, situation and manner, delicately portrayed and never lacking in genuine appreciation of the very things that are the subjects of its humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:186 My 13 ‘17 600w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:751 N ‘17 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 350w
=USSHER, CLARENCE DOUGLAS, and KNAPP, GRACE HIGLEY.=[2] American physician in Turkey. il *$1.75 Houghton 17-27881
“Dr Ussher went to Turkey about twenty years ago as a medical missionary. The call was sudden and urgent, but as soon as he could transfer his medical practice he sailed from Boston in the early spring of 1898, reaching Constantinople in June. His earlier experience had included the course in a theological seminary in Philadelphia and therefore he was as well fitted, if not better, for missionary work than many who are called upon to serve in that direction in foreign lands. After a period of travel, Dr Ussher established a hospital, hiring a private house for the purpose and being forced to overcome many obstacles. The closing chapters of this book tell of the massacres and deportations in Van and other provinces of Turkey.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 12 ‘17 1000w
“Contains illuminating information with respect to the operation of the Turks in Armenia during the early months of the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:59 F 17 ‘18 70w
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w
“Deserves wide reading on several counts.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 19 ‘18 490w
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=VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY.= Fishpingle; a romance of the countryside. *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-15975
Fishpingle, butler to Sir Geoffrey Pomfret, is the leading character in this story. He stands in close relation to the family, and is involved in the love affairs of Alfred, the first footman, and Prudence, the still-room maid, and of Lionel, only son of Sir Geoffrey, and Joyce, the parson’s daughter. The author tells us in his preface that there is an “obvious purpose underlying the adventures and misadventures of the story.” This purpose is to picture the type of country squire who is a “true lover of the soil but helplessly ignorant of its potentialities,” and to make clear that this type of man is likely to become extinct unless he justifies his claim to existence by sticking to the land and concentrating his undivided energies upon it. The author’s comedy, “Fishpingle,” was produced at the Haymarket theater in 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 14:28 O ‘17
“Those familiar with the comedy seen at the Haymarket theatre may remember that the piece was reviewed at some length in the Athenæum for June, 1916. Mr Vachell now provides people who do not or cannot go to a theatre with the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a modern Admirable Crichton.”
=Ath= p416 Ag ‘17 50w
“A bit of very British comedy based upon a rather flimsy and perfunctory mystery. It might make a good movie-play, and that is the best we can say for it.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w
“All that can be seriously commended in ‘Fishpingle,’ besides the title, is the attempt, rather half-hearted, to discuss in fictional terms the problem of the passing of England’s landed gentry. Beyond that, it is simply a conventionally cheerful story of the variety termed pleasant.”
– + =Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 90w
“A smooth piece of writing, the work of an expert but uninspired craftsman. The book is neither stupid not sensational. It is a novel for the middle-class mind.” Harry Salpeter
+ — =NY Call= p15 O 14 ‘17 1000w
“The tale is an interesting and a pleasant one, and it is told with a good deal of the charm that made ‘Quinneys’ so thoroughly delightful.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:322 S 2 ‘17 550w
“There are two delightful characters in this book—the old-time English country squire and his butler. ... Apart from these two characters the story is hardly equal to many of Mr Vachell’s previous admirable novels.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 70w
“Sounds a warning to English landholders that they must modernize their methods of farming on scientific lines, or be ‘scrapped.’ The serious note, however, is submerged in a charming story, in which the author creates another delightful character somewhat after the type of the quaint Quinney. But the serious note is not so completely hidden that the indictment of antiquated farming methods in England can not be readily discerned. The story ranks with the author’s best.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 350w
=VAIZEY, JESSIE (BELL) (MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY) (JESSIE MANSERGH).= Betty Trevor. il *$1.25 (2c) Putnam
A story for girls. Betty is an English girl, daughter of a busy London doctor, and one of a big family of brothers and sisters. The Trevors live in an old-fashioned house on Brompton square. At the opening of the story they are new to the neighborhood and are finding their chief amusement in inventing romantic life histories for their neighbors. One of these is the “Pampered Pet,” a young girl of Betty’s age who appears to have too many of the good things of the world. But on nearer acquaintance she proves to be anything but the little snob they have pictured her. As the young people grow older they accept responsibilities and find their places in life. It is one of those stories that are on the borderline between girls’ books and grown-up novels.
“It has more substance, better character drawing than is commonly found, a somewhat romantic plot and very real human interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 100w
“A clean, wholesome little volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:138 Ap 15 ‘17 200w
=VALLINGS, GABRIELLE.= Bindweed. *$1.50 (1c) Dodd (Eng ed 17-5403)
Eugénie Massini, a young girl with a beautiful voice, attracts the notice of Mme Périntot, a teacher of singing, who interests herself in the girl and offers to take her as a pupil. But she encounters the opposition of Eugénie’s aunt, a harsh peasant woman, who lives in fear that the girl may follow in the footsteps of a wayward mother. But, learning that the girl is already in danger from the attentions of Gaston Hypolite, an opera singer, she puts her under the wise care of Mme Périntot. Gaston, however, is not to be put off. He persists, with no other intention than that of making Eugénie his mistress. In the meantime the aunt, from long brooding on the girl’s possible fate, has gone insane. She attempts revenge on Gaston. From this experience he emerges a wiser man, and, having been won over to Eugénie’s own high conception of love, asks her hand in marriage.
“This new writer shows no mean power of characterization, inherited no doubt from her Kingsley ancestry. She can also create atmosphere and steep her readers in scenes from life. The development of her theme, on the other hand, reveals little deep truth and thought.”
+ — =Ath= p482 O ‘16 90w
“‘Pamela,’ warmed up in the French fashion and boiled down to one-fourth of its traditional length. ... The book promises no great distraction for those readers who care to have their authors look upon life neither through a rose- nor a yellow-tinted medium.”
— =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 90w
“The author is apparently familiar with certain phases of French life and her dialogue is often good, but lack of skill in the handling of the novel as a whole combines with its too great length to make it drag badly and fail to hold one’s interest.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:211 My 27 ‘17 420w
=VANDERBLUE, HOMER BEWS.= Railroad valuation. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays) *$1.50 Houghton 385 17-10693
A scientific study of one of the big problems before the Interstate commerce commission. It is not only a study in the economics of railroads but also a study in the economics of the distribution of income. Contents: Valuation and regulation; Physical valuation—“Cost of reproduction”—Land; Physical valuation—“Cost of reproduction”—Capital goods; Physical valuation—Unimpaired investment; The intangible elements of “fair value”; The return to the railroad; Bibliography; Index.
“Mr Vanderblue’s scientific study is a masterful resumé of varied, undigested, unassimilated, and discordant views and data, but it does not clear the atmosphere nor lift the smoke of battle.” A. M. Sakolski
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:632 S ‘17 800w
=A L A Bkl= 14:43 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p80 Je ‘17 20w
“This book deals perforce with many legal problems of the past, and Dr Vanderblue covers these phases in a clear and praiseworthy manner. The unfortunate point is that the entire work appears colorless. It is a pity that Dr Vanderblue has not given a more individual treatment embodying his own ideas on a subject so much in the public mind. The present work is rather on the order of a summary of what has been accomplished.”
+ — =Dial= 63:217 S 13 ‘17 350w
“The book is non-partisan in its attitude toward the problem, but highly technical and not to be recommended for popular reading.”
=Ind= 91:31 Jl 7 ‘17 130w
“The analysis of the principles of valuation for rate-making is the most complete, most closely reasoned, and altogether the best general exposition of the subject extant. The most important contribution of the work is its criticism of the practices of valuation. The author, however, radically overestimates the importance of the inevitable inaccuracy.” S. H. Slichter
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:98 Ja ‘18 500w
“An interesting and valuable piece of criticism of a destructive kind. ... The available material has been well digested and its presentation is lucid and concise. Nevertheless, we cannot but wish that the author had introduced his discussion of detail by a positive and constructive statement of fundamental principles.”
+ — =Nation= 104:657 My 31 ‘17 700w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17
=VAN DYKE, HENRY.= Fighting for peace. *$1.25 Scribner 940.91 17-30303
“Dr Van Dyke last spring resigned his position as minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg, which he had held for four years, in order to be free to come home and write for the enlightenment of his fellow-countrymen of the doings of Germany as he had seen and known them. This book is one of the results of that action. Parts of it have appeared in recent numbers of Scribner’s Magazine, but to these he has added chapters on the causes of the war and the kind of peace for which we are fighting.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:125 Ja ‘18
“No contribution to the literary or strictly informative output of the war has been read with keener interest.” F. P. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 930w
“There is not much that is new in Dr Van Dyke’s account of the coming and the conduct of the war, but what he tells of the things he saw himself—and he saw much—has the interest of personal experience and the weight of personal indictment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 700w
“To anyone who may be in doubt about the anomaly of fighting for peace we strongly recommend Dr Van Dyke’s volume.” A. O.
+ =Pub W= 92:2026 D 8 ‘17 440w
“Dr Van Dyke speaks with no uncertain note.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 30 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p51 Ja 31 ‘18 980w
=VAN DYKE, HENRY.= Red flower. *50c Scribner 811 17-31290
“Dr Van Dyke’s experience as minister to Holland made him as it were a spiritual eyewitness to the inner consciousness of the war on both sides, and what this little book presents is a kind of verse report of what he felt rather than saw. ... Slender as this collection is, it is well defined in grouping, and through ‘Premonition,’ ‘The trial by fire,’ ‘France and Belgium,’ ‘Interludes in Holland,’ to ‘Enter America,’ he strikes the salient notes of the war from its beginning to his return home in the spring of this year. The little book is a memorial of the poet’s experience with the effect of this war upon his spirit and lays stress upon those notes that have a moral and national righteousness in the conflict.”—Boston Transcript
=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 800w
+ =N Y Times= 23:39 F 3 ‘18 90w
“Some of the most melodious lyrics given us by Dr Van Dyke’s ripened and finely tempered poetic talent are in this little book. Notable among them are: ‘The bells of Malines,’ and ‘The Oxford thrushes.’”
+ =R of Rs= 57:105 Ja ‘18 100w
=VAN KLEECK, MARY.= Seasonal industry. il *$1.50 (3c) Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-14558
In her investigation of the millinery trade in New York city Miss Van Kleeck “has penetrated to the one all-effecting aspect of the industry—its ‘appalling irregularity.’ ... In view of the constant depression upon wages by unemployment, the keen competition of a trade attracting a tremendous supply of labor, and the unorganized state of the industry (some slight attempt to unionize the workers is now being made), Miss Van Kleeck urges public control of the industry through the establishment of a minimum wage board and describes the beneficial results of such a system in Victoria. Around the central fact of the seasonal character of the millinery trade Miss Van Kleeck groups many interesting and valuable details. ... Throughout the study, comments by the workers themselves and pictures of their struggle to make both ends meet illuminate ‘dry-as-dust’ statistics.” (Survey) There are many tables, four appendices, and a number of illustrations.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
=Am J Soc= 23:552 Ja ‘18 160w
=A L A Bkl= 14:152 F ‘18
“Miss Van Kleeck brings a point of view and a directness of attack to her field of study which make her conclusions convincing. Especially is this true of her demand for some sort of effective public regulation of the trade in the interest of the welfare of the workers.”
+ =Dial= 63:349 O 11 ‘17 170w
“Miss Van Kleeck’s exhaustive survey of enough facts to justify valid general conclusions becomes almost meticulous in its conscientiousness. Comparative tables and charts and median curves, all the technical instruments of the newer and more scientific method of sociological investigation, abound. ... The main outlines of the condition in the trade emerge with sharp enough emphasis to give the general reader a correct orientation. And for the special student there are the intricate and innumerable details. ... It is a real labor of love, the kind that is always distasteful to the easy theorizer. ‘A seasonal industry’ is a piece of first-class investigation and analysis.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:55 Ag 11 ‘17 900w
=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17
“Noteworthy for the amount of up-to-date information it contains regarding an industry of which comparatively little is known outside the ranks of the workers employed in it.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:440 O ‘17 50w
“Part of the study was begun as early as 1908, when the Committee on women’s work was connected with the Alliance employment bureau. Later when the committee became a department of the Russell Sage foundation it directed the inquiry into the millinery trade for the Factory investigating commission of New York. Although the material has apparently been brought down to date, the interviews with employers and employes were held between 1908 and 1912, and the payroll study was made in 1914. Delays in getting the data into print somewhat invalidate the use of the statistics for present quotation.” M. C.
+ — =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 820w
=VAN LOAN, CHARLES EMMETT.= Old man Curry. il *$1.35 (2c) Doran 17-25513
Stories about horses and horse racing make up this volume. The publishers announce that it is the first of a series by the author “dealing with the major sports of American life.” Old man Curry, a veteran horseman, with a faculty for adapting the wisdom of Solomon to his own ends, is the central character in the stories. Contents: Levelling with Elisha; Playing even for Obadiah; By a hair; The last chance; Sanguinary Jeremiah; Eliphaz, late Fairfax; The redemption handicap; A morning workout; Egyptian corn; The modern judgment of Solomon.
“Holds interest both because of the well depicted action of the race track, and the astute quaintness of the principal character. It is a story men will like.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:171 F ‘18
“They will find appreciation with devotees of the track and the paddock, as they have all the excitement and the dash of life on the turf.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 150w
=Cleveland= p3 Ja ‘18 60w
“Not since David Harum delighted his country-wide audience with the garnered wisdom of the rustic world have we had a hero whose talk was such a mosaic of wise saws.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:390 O 7 ‘17 200w
=VAN SCHAICK, GEORGE GRAY.= Top-floor idyl. il *$1.50 (1½c) Small 17-23651
“David Cole, who tells the story, is a middle-aged bachelor, a writer, quite content with his modest room on the top floor of Mrs Milliken’s boarding house, near Washington square, and his friendship for Frieda Long, an artist and a spinster, fat, good-heartedness personified. One day, however, it chances that the room across the hall from David’s is engaged by the young American widow of a French soldier killed in the battle of the Marne. Her baby arrives before it is expected, and David ... interests himself in the welfare of the young mother and her little Paul. ... Of course there is a love story, and everything comes out splendidly in the end.”—N Y Times
“Will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“Mr Van Schaick’s new novel is a sort of fairy tale with the ogres and witches left out. With a single exception every character in the book of any importance—the baby included—is as good as gold. Some of them are considerably better. ... Touches of fun do much to relieve its sentimentality.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 300w
=VAN TESLAAR, JAMES S.= When I was a boy in Roumania. (Children of other lands books) il *75c (3c) Lothrop 17-13431
After coming to America, the author studied in the University of California, completed a medical course, and is now a practicing physician. In this book he has written the story of his boyhood for American children. He writes of: How the Roumanians dress; Play time; Life in the hills; Taming the forces of nature; Out-of-door amusements; The Roumanian’s national pastime: dancing; Roumanian music, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 14:29 O ‘17
“Gives a clear picture of Roumanian national life.”
+ =Cleveland= p127 N ‘17 20w
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
+ =St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 30w
“This book, though written especially for the young, will give any reader an adequate idea of the habits, methods of study, amusements of the people of this once happy land.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 1 ‘17 110w
=VAN VALKENBURGH, AGNES=, comp. Selected articles on military training in schools and colleges, including military camps. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 355.07 17-9594
The material in this debaters’ handbook considers the question: “Resolved: That a system of compulsory military training in schools and colleges should be adopted by the United States.” It consists of brief, bibliography and selected reprints. In the section devoted to General discussion various plans for military training, including the Swiss and Australian systems are outlined. Affirmative and Negative discussion follows. At the close there is a small group of articles concerning military camps.
“A timely volume.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:334 My ‘17
“This book will prove of considerable value, as the compiler has introduced much of the wisest theory that has been expressed on both sides of the question.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 Ap 7 ‘17 250w
=Cleveland= p54 Ap ‘17 10w
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 30w
“The compiler has been commendably impartial.”
+ =Nation= 105:155 Ag 9 ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:327 Ap ‘17
“Topic leaves room for another book on the general question of compulsory military training and compulsory service. The London Nation can be drawn upon for eloquent arguments against conscription.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 60w
“Miss Van Valkenburgh’s selection of material covers a wide range, from publications of the United States war college to educational journals and soldier’s notes. It seems to be a trifle weak on suggestions of methods for getting the good of military training without the bad, that is, on a strong program of physical education.” W. D. L.
+ — =Survey= 38:372 Jl 28 ‘17 120w
“The section discussing military training camps will be specially useful.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 70w
=VAN VALKENBURGH, AGNES=, comp. Selected articles on national defense; v. 2, including compulsory military service. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 355.7 17-12949
“Volume one of ‘National defense,’ compiled by Corinne Bacon, was published in September, 1915, and was followed in January, 1916, by ‘Advance sheets’ of volume two. A small portion of the material in the ‘Advance sheets’ is reprinted here, notably the president’s message to Congress, December 7, 1915. ... The questions of aviation and submarine warfare are considered here only incidentally, and the allied topics of military training in schools and colleges and non-resistance are omitted altogether since handbooks have been published on these subjects. Since the question of compulsory military service is of especial interest at present, this phase of the subject has been selected for the brief.” (Explanatory note)
“Has a very complete and partly annotated bibliography (34p.).”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:378 Je ‘17
“Most useful.”
+ =Ind= 90:127 Ap 14 ‘17 30w
“A desirable addition to the table of readers who wish to hear both sides of a first-class social question and keep abreast of the deeper current of daily events.” W. E. K.
+ =Survey= 38:370 Jl 28 ‘17 190w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 50w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Interpreters and interpretations. *$1.50 (2c) Knopf 780.4 17-29869
A collection of papers by the author of “Music and bad manners” and “Music after the great war.” Some of them are reprinted from the Bellman, the Musical Quarterly, and other periodicals. The papers are divided into the two groups suggested by the title. The interpreters comprising the first group, are Olive Fremstad; Geraldine Farrar; Mary Garden; Feodor Chaliapine; Mariette Mazarin; Yvette Guilbert; and Waslav Nijinsky. Among the essays included as Interpretations are The problem of style in the production of opera; Notes on the “Armide” of Gluck; The importance of electrical picture concerts; Why music is unpopular. In “The great American composer,” another essay of the group, the author makes a spirited plea for appreciation of ragtime. In “Modern musical fiction,” he reviews recent novels on musical themes.
=Cleveland= p11 Ja ‘18 40w
“Mr Van Vechten’s most pronounced opinions seem to be on the favorable arena which the ‘movies’ offer for good symphonic programs, and on the duty of the American composer to build his art on the indigenous raciness of Irving Berlin rather than on the classic forms. He is no more explicit than the other critics, however, as to how the composer is to use this material. ... The proportion between scholarship and thought is not maintained. In the present book there might be more of the latter commodity.”
– + =New Repub= 13:sup18 N 17 ‘17 180w
“All who enjoy a discussion of things and people musical from the human rather than the academic standpoint will find much to interest them in ‘Interpreters and interpretations.’” Lavergne Miller
+ =N Y Call= p15 D 29 ‘17 330w
=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Music and bad manners. *$1.50 Knopf 780.4 16-23824
“The title essay of this little volume is a running commentary on the personal peculiarities of certain great musicians. Of more permanent value is the chapter on ‘Spain and music,’ which is said to be the first attempt in English to classify and describe Spanish music and composers.” (R of Rs) Other papers are, Music for the movies, Wagner’s ideals, The bridge burners, A new principle in music, Leo Ornstein.
“Excellent essays in musical criticism, popular but scholarly, and distinguished by clarity and humor. The monograph on Spanish music is a specially valuable study in a little known field.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:208 F ‘17
“The description of Spanish dance music and dances is exceedingly interesting as well as enlightening, and the whole chapter has a distinct value in acquainting the reader with the musical progress of a musical people whose records are nowhere adequately presented in English. ... It is impossible to test the theories and suggestions in these essays by any chemistry or mechanics. Their soundness or unsoundness can only be eventually a matter of history. But the essayist has his eyes turned in a promising direction, and his views will meet the approval of many close students of modern music.” Russell Ramsey
+ =Dial= 62:21 Ja 11 ‘17 1650w
+ =Lit D= 54:567 Mr 3 ‘17 130w
“Carl Van Vechten is fundamentally and whole-heartedly progressive. ... One of his longest essays, and the one most interesting to the general reader and music lover, ‘The bridge burners,’ is largely a refutation of Richard Aldrich’s criticisms, published in the New York Times. ... Last in the series is a sketch of Leo Ornstein, which throws new light on the psychology of that remarkable genius.” La Vergne Miller
+ =N Y Call= p14 F 25 ‘17 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:317 Ap ‘17
+ =R of Rs= 55:219 F ‘17 50w
=VANZYPE, GUSTAVE.= Mother Nature; Progress; two Belgian plays; tr. by Barrett H. Clark. *$1.25 Little 842 17-28823
There is an eight page introduction by the translator on Gustave Vanzype and the modern Belgian drama. In this Mr Clark states that “Vanzype believes that dramatists ought to use the stage as a pulpit.” “Mother Nature” (“La souveraine”) deals with the yearnings of a disappointed wife for motherhood. “Progress” (“Les étapes”) shows the struggle between succeeding generations; how the rising generation must always attack what the preceding generation seems to have established. It is the story of a family in which father, son-in-law, and grandson are all doctors. Both plays are said to have been successfully produced in Belgium.
“The first play is artificial; the second is much more moving and its theme seems to work out naturally in the conflict of characters and events.”
+ — =Cleveland= p6 Ja ‘18 100w
“Vanzype is said to be one of the most successful of his fellow-dramatists in depicting the character of the modern Belgian, and his plays, therefore, give an insight into the hearts and souls of the little nation whose heroism has won the admiration of the world.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 190w
=R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 90w
=VEATCH, ARTHUR CLIFFORD.= Quito to Bogotá. il *$3 Doran 918.6 17-15087
“In ‘Quito to Bogotá’ A. C. Veatch, who is a well-known British engineer, and the author of several books of travel, gives a narrative of a trip over the Andes from the capital of Ecuador to that of Colombia. His traveling companion was Lord Murray, a Scottish peer, who furnishes a readable introduction to the main work.”—N Y Times
“Holds more interest to the man planning an actual journey in the country or who is considering it as a field for commercial enterprise than to the arm chair traveler.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:165 F ‘18
“His is the careful study of a trained traveller, geographer and geologist, and it is prepared with a sympathetic touch that must please all lovers of these northern regions of South America.” T: Walsh
+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 330w
“Its business basis doubtless explains the lack of personal element in the book, altho that, too, lies often in the personality of the writer. Long, technical, and comprehensive narrative.”
+ — =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 300w
“The author makes you see what meets his own eye, and you have the benefit of the deductions from what he sees in addition.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:312 Ag 26 ‘17 500w
=Outlook= 116:376 Jl 4 ‘17 100w
=VEBLEN, THORSTEIN B.= Inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 327 17-16855
Professor Veblen has extended the investigation into the nature of peace begun by Immanuel Kant “into a field of inquiry which in Kant’s time still lay over the horizon of the future.” He says “The intrinsic merits of peace at large, as against those of warlike enterprise, it should be said, do not here come in question. That question lies in the domain of preconceived opinion, so that for the purposes of this inquiry it will have no significance except as a matter to be inquired into; the main point of the inquiry being the nature, causes and consequences of such a preconception favoring peace, and the circumstances that make for a contrary preconception in favor of war.” Contents: Introductory: On the state and its relation to war and peace; On the nature and uses of patriotism; On the conditions of a lasting peace; Peace without honour; Peace and neutrality; Elimination of the unfit; Peace and the price system. In chapter 3, On the conditions of a lasting peace, the imperialistic aims of Germany and Japan are examined. In the next chapter, Peace without honour, the beneficial results of non-resistance as exemplified in China are discussed. In the last chapter the author comes to what is to him the heart of the matter, the menace to peace inherent in the capitalist system.
“Among books [dealing with the problem of readjustment after the war] there can be found few if any manifesting a deeper penetration or a more impartial treatment of the mode of securing a permanent peace and of the obstacles which lie in the way of it than this volume by Professor Veblen. It is a dispassionate, objective, and uncompromising treatment of a most important subject. It is written in an attractive style. Droll humor lights up a page now and then, and in the treatment of the foibles of men and nations there is the trenchant irony that is characteristic of the style Veblenesque.” I. W. Howerth
+ + — =Am J Soc= 23:408 N ‘17 2200w
=A L A Bkl= 14:40 N ‘17
=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“Mr Veblen’s manner of writing is symphonic; what he repeats is not repetition in the common sense of the word; no idea is quite the same after he has stated it twice or even three times. The theme may be the same, but the complex working out of the theme gives it the value of an entirely new composition. Above all there stands a masterly intellect, holding the various strands of fact and thought securely in its grasp and weaving them into patterns of compelling truth.” M. S. Handman
+ =Dial= 62:514 Je 14 ‘17 1700w
“Written in the author’s usual flowing and ironical style, always crisp though often wordy. The reader who has plenty of time will enjoy reading all that Mr Veblen has to say; the hurried reader will gather all that Mr Veblen means by skipping the last half of nearly every paragraph. ... Perhaps the most interesting thing in his book is the very definite set of peace terms which he proposes.”
=Nation= 105:14 Jl 5 ‘17 1100w
“Thorstein Veblen is an American, was graduated from an American university, in the ‘eighties, and has been teaching in American universities ever since. ... It is hard intellectual labor to read any of his books, and to skim him is impossible. ... This new book of his, finished February, 1917, is, so far as I know, the most momentous work in English on the encompassment of lasting peace. ... The recommendation of Mr Veblen is not merely the recommendation of a great philosopher of industrialism. It is not his relentless logic alone that elevates him. It is the democratic bias which ‘The nature of peace’ indicates.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 11:113 My 26 ‘17 2050w
“The work abounds in the peculiar quiet irony that marks many of his previous works, notably the famous ‘Theory of the leisure class.’ The reasoning is the dialectic method applied by Marx and other great socialist writers, and in this method Veblen is a past master.” J. W.
+ =N Y= Call p14 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“It is only when one reaches the final phase of Mr Veblen’s argument that one clearly perceives that the whole work is, in effect, a bitter criticism of the existing social order. Yet, at lowest, Mr Veblen’s analysis is clarifying and his warnings are well-timed.”
+ — =No Am= 206:633 O ‘17 1500w
=Pittsburgh= 22:701 O ‘17 40w
“It may be urged against his latest book that it is little more than an elaborate statement of orthodox socialism, and so perhaps it is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 1150w
“This book is written for the student; no concessions are made to the general reader in the way of index or manageable chapter-divisions. The compensation will be found in a lucidity of exposition, wealth of vocabulary and epigrammatic crispness which mark all Dr Veblen’s works. The book will do much to stimulate American and English readers to clearer thinking on the task now confronting world-statesmanship.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:554 S 22 ‘17 1050w
“We have seldom read a book written in a style so repellently ponderous.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 70w
=VENIZELOS, ELEUTHERIOS.= Greece in her true light; tr. by Socrates A. Xanthaky and Nicholas G: Sakellarios. $2 Sakellarios and Xanthaky, 56 W. 30th St., N.Y. 949.5 16-25135
The book consists of “a collection of speeches of M. Venizelos. These speeches of a man who is not only the greatest statesman of Greece, but one of the greatest statesmen of his generation, aim to express the policy and situation of Greece in the world war.” (Educ R) “For the greater part the work deals with the events of the past two years. We have in full the two memoranda of advice addressed by Mr Venizelos to King Constantine, and the expounding of his policy before the Greek parliament. Also an address drawn up by Venizelos and adopted by the people at Athens in August of the present year for presentation to the king. Well condensed chapters in the book tell of the public career of Venizelos, his share in the work for the union of his native island Crete with Greece, his part in national Greek politics, leading the reform movement in Athens, his statesmanship in making possible the alliance of the Balkan states, his share in the London conference after the war with Turkey, his work in preparing Greece for the second Balkan war and his representing Greece at the Bucharest conference after that war.” (Boston Transcript)
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 13 ‘17 350w
“A human document of exceptional importance and fascinating interest. ... The translation has been excellently done.”
+ =Educ R= 54:422 N ‘17 80w
=VERDAVAINE, GEORGES.= Pictures of ruined Belgium; 72 pen and ink sketches drawn on the spot by L: Berden. *$3 (3½c) Lane 940.91 17-25516
Monsieur Verdavaine is art critic of the Independence Belge. “The text, printed in French and English on opposite pages, embodies the facts ascertained after careful investigation by official inquiry, and no attempt has been made to exaggerate them; and equally plain and straightforward is the story told by the illustrations, which consist of drawings made from photographs by Monsieur Berden, an architect by profession, who spent eighteen months in going from place to place gathering material for this record of German barbarity.” (Int Studio) The translation is by J. Lewis May. The book is dedicated to the relatives of Miss Cavell and Captain Fryatt.
=A L A Bkl= 14:90 D ‘17
“A terrible book. It is like a new canto of the ‘Inferno.’ Every page contains a heart-clutching horror. There is no attempt at fine writing; it is a plain narrative of the campaign of frightfulness waged by the German general staff. The illustrations have a sort of kinship with the famous engravings of Piranesi. They have only one artistic fault, and that is that too many details are introduced. Mr May’s translation is admirable. It deserves to be read by all lovers of decency and fair play.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 26 ‘17 710w
=Int Studio= 62:81 Ag ‘17 150w
“Beautiful and moving book.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 110w
+ =Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w
=R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 40w
“To any one who remembers Louvain or Dinant, M. Berden’s admirable drawings of their ruins will be inexpressibly painful. M. Verdavaine’s narrative of the massacres and outrages committed by the Huns is as temperately phrased as any right-minded man could make it.”
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 170w
“M. Verdavaine drew from official records the story of those fateful weeks in 1914. If one lacks full measure of indignation, horror, or information as to the tragedy, it is here in abundance.”
+ =Springfield Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 200w
“For a simple, almost matter of fact narration of a series of crimes, this one can be recommended to the general reader. He will find in it plenty of murder, arson, and ingenious cruelty—things the Anglo-Saxon discusses without blushing; but M. Verdavaine, perhaps warned by his publisher, has almost entirely suppressed reference to sins against chastity, to sadistic manifestations, and to the perfectly authenticated orgies of filth indulged in by the invaders of Belgium and northern France. The charge is, therefore, not complete; but it is enough.” C: C. Clarke
+ =Yale R= n s 7:428 Ja ‘18 850w
=VERHAEREN, ÉMILE.= Afternoon; tr. by C: R. Murphy. *$1 Lane 841 17-7037
A translation of “Les heures d’aprés-midi.” Like the volume preceding it, “The sunlit hours,” it is a book of love songs. Love has come to its full maturity, fulfilling its early promise, as the midsummer garden, pictured in one after the other of the poems, fulfils the promise of spring.
+ =Cleveland= p65 My ‘17 60w
“Surely no translation will satisfy those who can appreciate the original. Take, for instance, this verse: ‘Je te regards, et tour les jours je te découvre.’ Mr Murphy renders Verhaeren quite literally: ‘And when I look at you I make discoveries,’ but the abyss that separates poetry from prose lies between the two. Still, frequently the translator catches the true rhythm of the original.”
+ — =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 250w
“This man adds another to the immortal line of great witnesses who emerge at intervals to abash our skepticism with fresh proofs that loftiness and ardor, that purity and rapture, may interfuse in a passion which they combine to ennoble.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 105:175 Ag 16 ‘17 240w
+ =R of Rs= 55:438 Ap ‘17 50w
“Carried away by the impetuous flow of this thought and emotion, he can paint a picture with the care, restraint, and the precision of the Parnassians.” E: B. Reed
=Yale R= n s 6:860 Jl ‘17 400w
=VERHAEREN, ÉMILE.= Love poems; tr. by F. S. Flint. *$1.25 Houghton 841 17-17076
“The cycle is strung on the thread of a life’s long experience. ‘The shining hours,’ ‘The hours of afternoon,’ ‘The hours of evening,’ are the divisions into which the poems are grouped. ... The imagery of the cycle is that of the garden, loved, sheltered, beautiful, with its roses, its ponds, its lilies, the garden of the glowing summer, of the autumn, still loved when winter comes.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 14:16 O ‘17
“In spite of the impressiveness, the fine rhetoric and dramatic force of the four poetical dramas, there is a charm about the verse of Verhaeren, which lingers longer and holds us more intensely than do the plays. A cycle of his love lyrics has been translated by Mr Flint, who also translated ‘Philip II.’” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 190w
“Translations in poetic prose of the author’s ‘Heures claires’ and ‘Les heures aprés midi,’ poems of serene and spiritualized beauty, picturing the joys of wedded love against the background of a beautiful garden. They have also appeared in the more satisfactory verse translations of Charles R. Murphy as ‘The sunlit hours’ and ‘Afternoon.’”
+ — =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w
“These poems are exquisite—not only in the sense of a fair jeweled loveliness, but in a tenderness, a depth, a universal beauty and reality that make the most-sought-for words about them seem but trivial things. How much music of phrasing may be lost in [the prose] translation, those of us who read them only in English cannot know; but the beauty of their expression, in word and in image, of deep and exquisite human feeling, is here in the English version.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:335 S 9 ‘17 1000w
+ =St Louis= 15:335 S ‘17 20w
=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.= Book of camping. il *$1 (2c) Knopf 796 17-18605
Contents: Camps and camping; How and where to camp; Camp housekeeping; Trailing and tramping; How to trap and why; Emergency hints. The illustrations show forms of blazes, how to make moccasins, camp furniture, etc.
“Aims to supply the beginner’s need for a primer in woodcraft, and in the main it succeeds in its purpose. Especially valuable for its practical hints about camp sites, camp housekeeping, cooking, and accidents. To [the old woodsman] the directions for homemade traps and moccasins are reminiscent of the days when he really believed all that was set forth in Dan Beard’s ‘American boy’s handy book.’ This fault—the fault of telling how to make clumsy things that can better be bought—often gets into ‘how-to’ books.”
+ — =Dial= 63:116 Ag 16 ‘17 170w
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
“Up-to-date, practical book based on a wide knowledge of camping. Contains almost everything a camper would want to know.”
=N J Lib Bul= p7 Ap ‘17 19w
=St Louis= 15:372 O ‘17 40w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 50w
=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Book of the West Indies. il *$2.50 Dutton 917.29 17-29601
“Mr Verrill in his ‘Book of the West Indies’ has a chapter upon our lately acquired Virgin Islands. He is enthusiastic over the beauty and the fascination of these islands, their possibilities as health resorts and their future as producers of sugar cane and bay rum, and in commerce. His volume of nearly 500 pages is appropriately named ‘The book of the West Indies,’ for no such comprehensive and thoroughgoing account of the archipelago has hitherto been attempted. The author carries you from island to island, big and little alike, and describes the scenes, the people, the manners and customs, the climate, sandwiches in an outline of the history, tells of the commercial and industrial possibilities.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by A. M. Chase
+ =Bookm= 46:335 N ‘17 70w
“It is a book that a traveler can use as a guide book, a man of business as a source of information and a general reader for the pure pleasure of its colorful and informative narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 260w
“The book is well worth while.”
+ =Outlook= 117:575 D 5 ‘17 40w
“A good description of the Islands, with so much of history as is requisite to meet an intelligent traveler’s demands for information.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F 18 ‘20w
=VICKERS, LESLIE.= Training for the trenches; a practical handbook based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France. il *$1 (4c) Doran 355 17-17549
Captain Vickers is lecturer on trench warfare, Department of military service, Columbia university and late lieutenant of the Seaforth Highlanders. He states that he “intends this little book primarily for the use of those who are civilians in the process of becoming soldiers.” It includes chapters on: Health; Disease; Vermin; Protection of trenches: Artillery fire; Gas and liquid fire; The attack; Equipment for the field, etc. There are helpful full-page illustrations.
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w
“The book ought to be read by every American soldier, present and prospective, who crosses the ocean to fight for liberty. No man in preparation for that duty could be given a more useful gift or one that, provided its advice be heeded, would be more likely to increase his value as an efficient soldier.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:264 Jl 15 ‘17 130w
=Pittsburgh= 22:697 O ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:359 O ‘17 20w
“A practical manual based upon personal experiences of the first two years of the war. Capt. Vickers devotes considerable space to the all-important question of health.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 5 ‘17 100w
=VINOGRADOV, PAVEL GAVRILOVICH.= Self government in Russia. *$1.25 Dutton 947 (Eng ed 16-12746)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The author, a Russian professor at Oxford, exiled for his liberal views, is an eminent authority on Russian institutions, and these lectures take on an added significance in view of recent events.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:348 My ‘17
“Had we more generally known the facts given in this book, we should have understood how the revolution came about and why it was so orderly and effective.” S: N. Harper
+ =Dial= 63:23 Je 28 ‘17 1050w
“No living man has a firmer grasp upon the political history of the Russian people or could display greater skill in making it clear, within such brief compass, to English readers.”
+ =Nation= 104:194 F 15 ‘17 370w
“The announcement of a book, on Russia, by the versatile Russian scholar, who is also our leading authority on English legal and social history, may raise more expectation than it can well fulfil. For it is not a thorough treatise that the author of ‘Villainage in England’ has here attempted, but rather a few popular lectures aiming to give us a general outline of the great changes in the legal status of the Russian masses.”
+ =New Repub= 10:276 Mr 31 ‘17 380w
=VIVIAN, HERBERT.= Italy at war. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.91 17-21932
“Mr Vivian is an English traveller who happened to be in France on the Italian border at the outbreak of the war.” (Boston Transcript) “His book is a collection of thumbnail sketches of the Italian people in relation to the war, not an account of the campaigns of the Italian army. Thus he relates experiences before Italy decided to throw in her lot with the Allies; gives brief descriptions of the King, General Cadorna, and prominent politicians; and devotes short sections to the special qualities of the various kinds of troops in the Italian army, and incidents in some of the battles. The illustrations enable the reader to appreciate the enormous difficulties overcome by the Italians in their mountain offensive.” (Ath)
=Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 100w
“The chapter entitled, ‘The preliminary war’ is an account of the work of the German spy system in Italy in the years of peace preceding the war. ... The author knows how to tell his story. Nothing worth while escapes him. His sense of humor is always in evidence when needed. He senses the significant things and describes them in an interesting way.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ‘17 670w
“This is a different sort of book from Mr Alexander Powell’s volume of the same name and approximately the same date of publication. The Italian people’s attitude to the great issues of the day is presented with the insight and the accuracy of one familiar with the ways of the common folk and speaking their language. Noteworthy is the author’s emphasis upon the too little suspected perpetration of Austrian atrocities. Frightfulness he shows to be not exclusively a Prussian product.”
+ =Dial= 63:399 O 25 ‘17 190w
“This volume of impressions has little in common with Mr Powell’s ‘Italy at war.’ Mr Vivian is noticeably lacking in the perspective of the war critic; but he is an earnest observer of the beauty and life of the new Italy. ... There is some justification for the uncomfortable feeling the author betrays of having chronicled too many trivialities.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:345 S 16 ‘17 600w
=Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 70w
“His work is quite different from that of such observers of the conflict as Mr Julius Price and Mr Sidney Low. It conveys less information on great matters, but it is more intimate in tone, and also more amusing and the records of conversations with people of no importance are really convincing and entertaining. The picture of the thrilling days immediately preceding Italy’s entrance into the war is especially graphic.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p278 Je 14 ‘17 850w
=VIZETELLY, FRANK HORACE.= Desk-book of twenty-five thousand words frequently mispronounced. (Standard desk-book ser.) $1.60 Funk 421 17-10175
“The title of this volume by the managing editor of the New standard dictionary ... is obviously taken from Phyfe’s earlier book in the same field. It is somewhat misleading, as the vocabulary includes many words that are not mispronounced, but differently pronounced. ... The publishers’ advertisement states that the book indicates the correct pronunciation of English words, foreign terms, Bible names, personal names (Vizetelly is included), geographical names, and proper names of all kinds current in literature, science and the arts. Words which are likely to prove stumblingblocks are also included. A unique and valuable feature is the appending in many cases of orthoepic and historical notes or of quotations illustrating usage.” (Springf’d Republican) “In an entertaining preface the doctor pays respect in truly Shavian style to the self-satisfied class, both here and abroad, who know ‘that the pronunciation they have is the best which exists.’” (Lit D)
“A useful dictionary, presenting some original features. So far as our tests permit us to judge, the pronunciations indicated are, for the most part, such as would generally be accepted by English orthoepic authorities. ... In a deskbook, such as this, we doubt the usefulness of many of the references to obsolete forms of pronunciation adopted by Walker and other early lexicographers; and the employment of two keys to pronunciation is, we think, unnecessary and confusing. ... We disagree with some of the remarks in Dr Vizetelly’s introduction.”
+ =Ath= p306 Je ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 90:353 My 19 ‘17 40w
“A careful study of his work should do much toward the standardizing of modern English pronunciation.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1268 Ap 28 ‘17 520w
“In the pronunciation, the preference of the leading dictionaries for nearly two hundred years are given. An indispensable addition to the slender collection of reference books which must be kept within easy reach. There is brief definition of hundreds of words but recently come into use in science and the arts. Dr Vizetelly has for many years been a foremost authority in English orthoepy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:461 N 11 ‘17 460w
“Examination of the work will quickly prove its great value. The introductory material might well be printed and cast broadside in pamphlet form as an aid to the correction of the habit of slovenly speech.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:331 S ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 17 ‘17 500w
=VOGT, PAUL LEROY.= Introduction to rural sociology. il *$2.50 Appleton 630 17-18829
The author was formerly professor of rural economics and sociology in the Ohio state university, and is now superintendent of the department of rural work of the Methodist Episcopal church, and editor of “The church and country life.” Because over half of our rural population live in communities of less than 2,500, because the village is the “natural center of rural life,” because conditions in the country must be understood if the drift to the cities is to be adequately controlled, and because “the relation of the small community to the growth and ideals of the urban community makes an understanding of rural life and ideals imperative to the one responsible for leadership in urban life,” Mr Vogt has written this book. The field chosen covers rural life in the United States, and “particularly those conditions to be found in the great agricultural sections of the Central valley,” because in this area are to be found both the system of diversified agriculture and the intensive culture resulting from the increase of population. Six of the twenty-eight chapters are on the village, two on the rural church, two on rural health, two on farmers’ organizations, and one on the county fair. Questions, references, and topics for research have been added at the close of each chapter.
“We have here sociological materials, typical data, suggestively rich fields for further exploration—leads rather than actual veins; indications rather than fixed conclusions. Some of these data are original and thought-provoking as, for example, the chapters on Population movement and Rural morality. Some are not sufficient for generalization; notably, those dealing with the land question, tenancy and farmers’ organizations. The chapters on the village are a distinct contribution to sociological literature. The book is well written with a fresh, virile, optimistic pen. Because of its basis of fact, its general freedom from dogmatic statement, its constructive intent, its modest claims and its virility, this is the most valuable book dealing with rural sociology the reviewer has read.” A. E. Cance
+ =Am Econ R= 7:843 D ‘17 730w
“A real contribution to the literature on rural life. The author places the emphasis on the fundamental problems. The chapter on ‘Rural morality’ is a valuable contribution because it is based upon the author’s research studies. His data refute the generalized statements that have been made by writers who are not hampered by facts. His studies show that the open country is still morally cleaner than the village or city.” E. L. Holton
+ =Am J Soc= 23:417 N ‘17 430w
“Though based upon a thorough knowledge of rural life and problems, its chief value lies in its organization of material.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:117 Ja ‘18
“Professor Vogt has attacked the problem from an angle not as yet popular in the study of the American farm. He has presented it as a series of relations and reactions influencing our entire national existence. It is important to the nation as well as to the farm that a high rural civilization be maintained, and that we understand the forces operative within it. Professor Vogt has set himself the task of meeting his subject in a purely scientific spirit. His appeal is almost defiantly to the brain alone.”
+ =Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 310w
+ =Nation= 105:271 S 6 ‘17 520w
“Furnishes an enlightening array of information upon the improvement of farming methods, the labor question, the tenancy question, health, morality, politics, education, religion, and the general social structure of rural communities.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:831 D ‘17 60w
“The author has been at great pains to make his work as accurate and comprehensive as possible. In both respects he has succeeded admirably, and that, too, without becoming tedious. A feature of the book especially worthy of notice is the thorough discussion of the relation of the village to the life of the open country. The most important omission is the failure to discuss the eugenic problems of the rural population and to give more attention to the natural movements of population due to the varying birth rates and death rates in different groups and in different sections of the nation.” W. S. Thompson
+ — =Science= n s 46:24 Ja 4 ‘18 390w
“A somewhat laborious study of conditions in the rural communities of the West. ... Its generalizations outweigh its store of information, though one should add that its conclusions are sound enough.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 100w
“Professor Vogt has laid the foundation of a study of the village for which we have been waiting. ‘Rural sociology’ presents two methods of study of the material—analysis and idealization. Under the former method, for which the writer displays uncommon ability, is the treatment of the Land question, Means of communication, Farmers’ labor income, Health-physical, Health-mental, and the Church. ... The method of idealization is not so satisfactory. There are two final chapters, the first of which contains rare and new material on Rural morality and Social organization. ... The writer is a man with an open mind, a fine hand for details, a capacity of delicate weighing of evidence and the ability to present his conclusions without dogmatism and in inspiring completeness.” W. H. Wilson
+ + — =Survey= 38:533 S 15 ‘17 500w
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=WADDINGTON, MARY ALSOP (KING) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY WADDINGTON).= My war diary. il *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 940.91 17-23949
Mme Waddington is the widow of a French statesman and ambassador, and author of “Letters of a diplomat’s wife” and other books on France and Italy. Her diary covers the period from August, 1914, to October, 1916, and tells of her activities during the war, of the German occupation of her château at Mareuil, etc.
=A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
“Vast as will be the accumulation of war literature when the great struggle is over, Madame Waddington’s contribution will occupy by right a place of distinction, as affording illumination of a unique character. The book is necessarily personal, yet it is most attractively free from any touch of self-importance.”
+ =Cath World= 106:697 F ‘18 140w
=Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 70w
“An entertaining account of how the French aristocracy have fared during the war. The big Frenchmen of the war, the great statesmen and generals, do not appear to have been on Madame Waddington’s calling list. These today are of first interest.”
+ — =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 130w
“A volume which all friends of France as well as all who seek a knowledge of the inner facts of the war will turn to with eager interest.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w
“Mme. Waddington’s vantage point of observation, so to speak, is unusual; and with the charm and sincerity of her literary style we have had opportunity ere this to become acquainted.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:573 D 23 ‘17 650w
“Her style is at once simple, easy, vivacious. She outlines her portraits and paints her pictures with appealing directness. ... Particularly notable are her tributes to Ambassador Herrick.”
+ =Outlook= 117:143 S 26 ‘17 110w
“Mme Waddington by reason of her position in diplomatic life is well able to form some enlightening opinions as to the real motives of French statesmen, but her book is singularly free from such revelations. ... She tells her story with simplicity, and occasionally repeats, but she is to be thanked for not dwelling on the depressing side of events. ... Nothing especially new or significant of French life and thought is contributed by the book.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 17 ‘17 320w
=WADDINGTON, SAMUEL.= Some views respecting a future life. *$1.25 (6½c) Lane 218 17-17191
“In this comely book, which is at once a personal statement and an anthology of what has been said on the question of immortality by sages and others, ancient and modern, Mr Waddington has written his ‘Religio poetæ.’ His own position, defined already in many sonnets and other poems, is the reasoned one of the agnostic.” (Ath) “The greater part of the book is devoted to a survey of what has been written upon the subject by modern philosophers, poets, and scientists. Shelley, Swinburne, Nordau, Haeckel, Huxley, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, Rossetti, Sir Oliver Lodge, F. W. H. Myers, Clough, Emerson are only a few of the many from whom he quotes or to whose beliefs he refers.” (N Y Times)
=Ath= p246 My ‘17 260w
=Ind= 91:514 S 29 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:305 Ag 19 ‘17 580w
Reviewed by Bishop Frodsham
=Sat R= 123:370 Ap 21 ‘17 210w
=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Conquest. il *$1.40 (1½c) Dodd A17-1640
The hero of the story is a little gamin from Paris who begins his conquest of London at the age of ten. He passes from one odd job to another until he is taken on as a helper in a gymnasium. This chance occupation is the making of Bill Achat. He learns to reverence bodily perfection, becomes a boxer and finally a prize fighter, white champion of the world. He is introduced into London society, and the latter portions of the book are taken up with his love for Alexa Castlemayne. She is older than he and of a different social world, but they find their happiness in one another.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 60w
“There are good bits of characterization in ‘Conquest,’ and an authentic air of sophistication and interest regarding prize-fights and sporting-events surprising in the work of a woman author—even a British one.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 90w
“There is keen charm in the portions that show Bill fighting and lying for a roll, and kissing a maternal demi-mondaine for a franc. ... It is regrettable that Miss Wadsley does not keep to this pitch throughout, instead of falling into commonplace.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:388 O 7 ‘17 300w
=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Possession. il *$1.35 (1c) Dodd 17-6113
An unusual friendship existed between the little girl of eight and the boy of eighteen. Both were friendless in London. Valérie’s father had deserted her unceremoniously. Blaise was a stranger, looking for work. So they adopted one another. This relationship lasted up to the time Val was seventeen. Then Blaise woke up and found that she was grown-up, that she was very beautiful, and that he loved her. For his own sake as well as her own, he sent her away to Paris. The separation proved disastrous, for Val too began to realize that she was grown-up. She meets another man, and marries him. The romance is short-lived and she turns back to Blaise for protection, but since she fails to tell him the truth, a strained situation results.
“It is rather a headlong tale; that is, told with enough swiftness and enough high coloring to make it seem, in a day of comparatively leisurely and detailed novel-writing, an uncommonly near approach to the good old ‘intense love-story.’ Along the way, Miss Wadsley has given the novel certain modulations and graciousnesses that will serve to redeem it, at least in part, for her more discriminating and experienced readers.” F. I.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 600w
“The earlier part of the book marks its writer as one of more than average talent and imagination. ... The novel remains, in spite of expectations unfulfilled, more than relatively good.”
+ — =Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 250w
“While reading ‘Possession,’ we forget who or what we are, how or when the book is written, and live wholly in the life of Valérie Sarton.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:89 Mr 11 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 350w
=WÄGNER, WILHELM.= Asgard and the gods; adapted by M. W. Macdowall; and ed. by W. S. W. Anson. il *$2 Dutton 293
“A complete English account of the religious beliefs and superstitions of the old Northmen, myths and stories of the gods, of the creation of the world, of Odin the father of the gods, of the Ases, the Golden age, and on through all the splendid legends to Ragnarok, the ‘twilight of the gods.’” (R of Rs) This volume is a reprint of an edition first published in 1880 and again in 1882. There is an introduction which deals with what is known of the history of these legends.
+ =Dial= 64:114 Ja 31 ‘18 200w
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
“The digest of Dr Wägner’s original work is so excellent that for the new generation there is probably nothing better.”
+ =Lit D= 55:41 N 3 ‘17 200w
+ =Outlook= 117:100 S 19 ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 90w
=WALDO, FULLERTON LEONARD.=[2] Good housing that pays. il $1 (5c) Harper press, 1012 Chancellor st., Philadelphia 331.8 17-28206
A study of the work of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia, from 1896 to 1917. The foreword says, “The pages that follow describe the effort of a thoughtful group of Philadelphians to provide cleanly homes and a healthy environment for families in modest circumstances or in self-respecting poverty. This effort has outgrown the stage of experiment, but it never will deny new light nor wholly abandon, however it may adapt, the ideals that are Octavia Hill’s own spiritual legacy.” A sketch of the life and work of Octavia Hill constitutes